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AS IF EVERYONE KNOWS WTF AN S20 REMOTE BATCH IS.

The article doesn't define what an S20 remote batch is, nor does it link anywhere that may indicate just what the hell an S20 remote batch may be.

> We are confident we can produce a great remote batch.

I'm sure you are. Thank you.
To clarify: the shipment for Sweden was eventually released by France. This was clearly a snafu, but it was eventually resolved.
How far along is the S20 invites. Any acceptance email yet?
How far along is the S20 invites. Any acceptance email yet?
Exactly. Each of my apps has their own python runtime. Running on top of kubernetes.

Man in 2020 if you are SSHing between boxes and upgrading python by hand, you really should invest in some devops. Even 5 hours a week.....
They can demand but Trump won't answer subpoenas. Whatcha gonna do, the constitutional answer to a rogue president bucking congressional oversight is impeachment but the Senate already made it clear there's no possible act that could get them to convict.
A Ryzen CPU will expose 20 PCI-e 4.0 lanes to external devices. That's almost 3x as much I/O as 3 Thunderbolt 3 ports. A Threadripper will expose up to 72! Sounds like a downgrade to user-selectable I/O to me, not really a selling point.
UE4, Protobuf, and Yarn Spinner
> It's funny that the thing you think Seattle has going for it - low taxes - directly contributes to the issue of homelessness and half of your complaints.

We should reward non-productive people with other people's money?

You don't give the rat his meal until he completes the maze.
Only half from what I read [1]

[1] https://www.lyonmag.com/article/106690/quatre-millions-de-ma...
It's not really about "power" as a one-axis variable; I don't see even the most anti-government people in the US campaigning to reduce the government's nuclear weapons stockpile, and you don't get much more power than that.

It's about power without accountability.
Yes but it's not clear how to get it right.
This is why I was surprised there was so much push by Dems to invoke the DPA under the current admin: misuse was probable.
Thanks, I'll update that.
How is it a failure? When they were talking about Python 3 at PyCon 2008 and 2009, it was expected that the migration would take this long. Folks knew migrating would be long and hard, and that the approach would need to be revised.

It's only relatively recently that Python 3 passed a certain threshold that made deprecation of Python 2 something that could actually be executed upon. Had the growth been slower in the last five years I think the timeline would have been different.

If I was going to critique Python "failures" I think the bigger target for me would be the integration of async concepts into the platform and language. This could have been handled more smoothly and with better community cohesion, but most HNers only have a superficial understanding, i.e the GIL is bad and Python can't compete with Go.
I don't think you read my comment. I know that Windows 3.x were not based on NT. They were DOS shell extensions essential that could run DOS, but not as well as OS/2. Windows 3.11 didn't sell hardly at all, but everyone mentions it like it did. It is a common mistake.
Windows NT 3.1 was just something I forgot about. Windows 3.51 was the popular version. All this was before the internet as we knew it took off. People only had access to what was available in the book store or computer store, and online updates was usually for enterprise subscribers only.
https://apnews.com/727282bdead6489a8521059936375210/AP-FACT-...

> President Donald Trump likes to tell a story about the U.S. paying out billions of dollars to Iran as part of the multinational deal freezing its nuclear program and easing sanctions against it. What he doesn’t say is that most of that money was Iran’s to begin with. The rest relates to an old debt the U.S. had with Iran.
Distro maintainers will be patching security bugs for the foreseeable feature. Do you seriously think if there is a security bug found today Debian maintainers will be like "ah, though luck, I suppose people need to upgrade to py3"?..
Not even close.

Also, it takes pretty vivid imagination / stout obstinance to characterize vast majority of pre-existing libs/projects and almost all new project starts using new version as a "failure".

Bunch of whining and FUD does not equate to failure.
I was listening to some a podcast when oil first dropped and they were saying the issue is that a lot of the small producers are on leases and then may have to pump at a loss just to keep it and try to make it up later. Or burn everything they already spent. A lot went all in and levered up and are now stuck.

Additionally, if SA stops pumping, then Russia gets all their revenue (even if it is lower per barrel). It is a great big game of chicken.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments here. Especially not generic ideological ones, which amount to trolling.
That's why I distinguished McD's out of the comparison with "mid-priced."
>I see similarities to the protest in Israel's Tel Aviv main square from yesterday, in terms of social distancing.

Not seeing any myself given social distancing back then and now meant different things to people. Back then it would be some form of euphemism for - governmental cover up, which is not the go to definition we all know today when somebody says "social distancing".

What similarities other than both were protests are you seeing?
> It may very well be the case that covid 'crams' the deaths of people who would have died anyway into a short timeframe

You've highlighted the exact problem with your argument via this supposition.
>you can only take Lyft/Uber and it costs $100 each way to get to the store

Hard to follow this analogy
Saying this is unreadable is untrue. Also, I agree clear communication is important, but in this case it is highly trivial; if you don't know something that someone is referencing, a quick Google search immediately clarifies it. This is much like the fight couples have over keeping a toilet seat up or down: it doesn't really matter what you do or who does it. Because of that, you come across as querulous.

As an aside, I think that there are much more important factors to consider in regard to clarity and readability. I believe some of those are accurate articulation and logical tractability of ideas communicated.
Parallelism giveth, and concurrency taketh away.

Concurrency, as used by people who think hard about these things, is about what you do to keep a system coherent and balanced with parallel activities going on: the overhead of coordinating parallel activity that prevents you from getting ideal xN performance. This includes stuff you wouldn't need to do at all with one thread, and also stalls when coordinating access to shared resources.

It doesn't include useful work not done in parallel because it's inherently serial, or that is thrown away because it was unnecessarily done more than once. That all is the domain of Amdahl's law.
Excellent reality check "Lasers Are Not Magic" http://doc-ok.org/?p=1386

"Can I make a full-field-of-view AR or VR display by directly shining lasers into my eyes?" -- No.
Well put. That's been my feeling about all of this in a nutshell. Guido was a saint for putting up with all this as long as he did. Some people really need to get a grip.
Yep. It's totally terrible. Possibly even the worst. Don't move there- and if you are there, please leave!
And rt.live was made in collaboration with Mike Krieger.

For those who don't know, these are the two founders of Instagram.
Sure, I agree generally (which is part of why forking the language under the same name was a poor choice!). However, python.org has demonstrably zero interest in the Python 2 language and CPython runtime. So they can both say "see, there's no interest in community maintained Python 2" and also prevent that community from organizing itself under the name everyone uses at the same time.

IMO, Python 2 is a genericized trademark like Kleenex at this point.
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I've added an Atom feed now: https://til.simonwillison.net/til/feed.atom?_feed_title=Simo...

Implementation details here: https://github.com/simonw/til/compare/95d99f5bb7206948257195...
If that were true, wouldn't it be counterproductive to destabilize the rest of the region (Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Libya to name a few) at the same time? I think the stability or instability of the Middle East is a function of how the US leaches resources off of it; in that if destabilizing the region gives U.S. interests more $$$, then so be it, chaos be damned.
It's sort of crazy to make such a sweeping decision based on one case - especially when remote collaboration tools are improving on a quarterly basis.

Of course statements like this are just rationalizations - not arguments employed to arrive at objective conclusions.
That reminds me a lot of Lotus Improv (somewhat before my time) and one of my favourite tools, Quantrix Modeler. There are some more modern alternatives out there that take a similar approach — I just saved a model I’m editing on my iPad in XCubes, for example.
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Because giant codebase that would take effort++++ to do so for no perceived gain, with possible addition of new bugs.
Looks like they have found their new 'Watson' for the Ocean. At least this one probably does something useful. Everything IBM does using buzzwords seems to be to keep their consultancy business thriving and staying in the news.
The Great Pumpkin is sending them to rustbelt states and donor companies to setup for November. The exact where doesn't matter.
What kind of mental gymnastics does it take to willfully not understand what is happening here? Red hats scramble brains.
It's a typo, he meant porn
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YC S20 Remote Batch = YCombinator Summer 2020 Batch, remote. It's the same styling they've used for as long as I can recall. W21 will be the Winter 2021 batch, W20 was the W 2020 batch.
Why would safely and efficiently performing your job be dehumanizing?

I legitimately don’t see how it’s more dehumanizing than say, speech guidelines at retail or standards for how to use a tool in construction.

I pointed and called in a data center as we went through the checklist — because I wanted to do my job correctly, and used the best available technique to do so. That’s what being a professional others can depend on is: doing the silly technique so your work is correct.

I find embracing that much more liberating than being inefficient just so others might not judge my conduct from a position of ignorance. That strikes me as demeaning.
> Not even close.

What example would you point to as a bigger failure?
Most of Latin America's banks have banking systems on OS/2, maybe this project can get some traction with the spanish speaking demographic
You sound like you haven't competed for jobs very long
Gitlab isn't helped in public perception by proudly putting a precise calculation up front, especially while for years having totally off-base adjustments in there (I.e. suggesting people in the second-most expensive city in my country should get ~20 % less than people in a city with about half the actual CoL - although I believe someone realized that didn't make sense at some point). I'd also guess that to many, the difference when moving probably weighs more than salary when starting fresh.

And yes, I'd criticize my current employer too if they'd try to cut my salary for moving.
I see the drive to GraphQL from REST for some SAAS and think its a mistake.

I find REST is much easier to use - I read the docs and look at one or two examples then I can get started

GraphQL is a different story - Im hunting round the documentation to figure out the syntax and rules.

I much prefer REST
I would guess the downvotes are because you're saying that people who don't investigate the working conditions of everyone they interact with don't "have ethics", as if that were some kind of binary state.
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People tend towards corruption, power just enables that tendency. But not always the case and few examples of people in power throughout history who have been shining examples of showing us that it can be done right.
Lot’s of code is simply unmaintained. The guy that wrote it is gone, it’s still running fine so nobody is touching it. Businesses don’t want to take the risk and spend the money to upgrade it. Maybe you don’t realize the insane amount of code that is in this state!!
I think Plaid.
"Absolute power corrupts absolutely" - John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton
What others said, it's in the issues section of the Proton repo in GitHub. Sorry about that, I was on my phone and in a hurry so I couldn't add the links.
They've also been given more than enough guidance to prepare for a smooth upgrade.
The more likely scenario is that the government is inefficient and you have multiple agencies chasing the same issue and not talking to each other.
Wasn't the original timeline meant to be completed in 2014?
All sides, actually.

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/18/politics/us-sanctions-ven...
That's one of the reasons why spot prices are crashing: we've used up the supply of spare oil tankers to store the oil we're not using.
Can't do it under the "Python" trademark name, though.
less than lay person, but in your example

> "no evidence of cancer" and "evidence of no cancer" are very different things.

Why is it not as simple "no belongs to the word it precedes" ? like unary operator, ! (not), in typical computer languages.
I can relate to your story.
From my personal experience, opensource activity and/or personal projects would help you a lot.
There are at least three significant benefits of coding after work:

1) You get to choose what you code. That makes it a lot more fun.

2) It's super easier to find a good job once you have stuff you've built to show.

3) It's super easy to code consistently once you enjoy it (look point one)

One day I decided to do some coding in an area I care about and I've been doing so daily for almost 2 years now https://github.com/AdamZaczek
I don’t know why you’re being downvoted because very few people take the steps that actually reduce environmental damage such as not flying anywhere, living in small residences in dense urban areas, and dramatically reducing driving.

Which to me clearly show the truth of your comment. You can swap out all the plastic bags for cloth bags and buy a Tesla and spend an hour sorting your trash every week, but taking that flight for a honeymoon to Tahiti or living in a suburb and driving everywhere negates all of it and more.
i am sure every rule has exceptions.
I'm sorry to say I'm not the target audience for this (I've done a grand total of 7 paragraphs of K & R C, everything else is JIT or otherwise high level).

I will say it looks to have much nicer syntax than C without losing the ALGOL family feel.

Why have the type after the name if I might ask?
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Hi y'all, Pipedream engineer and co-founder here. We just rolled out a new core feature of the platform - event sources - and thought it'd be fun to show off how it works for RSS feeds.

Event sources let you treat an RSS feed like an event stream: Pipedream polls the feed for you, and exposes a REST API and private SSE stream for accessing new items from the feed.

You can also trigger a Pipedream workflow on new items. We built 12 example workflows (linked on the page) for doing all sorts of things with RSS feeds, for example:

- RSS to Email

- RSS to AWS EventBridge

- Run a Puppeteer script to take a screenshot of every new item in an RSS feed

- etc.

Give it a try and let us know if you have any feedback or suggested improvements!
Summer 2020. A lot of people who read HN are probably familiar with the style, so they seemed to have omitted a longform of the abbreviation. Other pages on the linked site call it "Summer 2020", "Winter 2020", etc.
I know nothing about the oil industry and would like to know if this news should be of any concern to the average citizen or if the majority might actually consider this as extremely welcome news as we should be looking to reduce our fossil fuel footprint anyway?
I think people will be surprised how well this works.

There are a lot of great startups that will be born in these times. Many of them will be "remote native" -- operated remotely, remote YC, and potentially tackling problems that have arisen due to the remote world we're living in.

After this crisis is over, some things will go back to normal, but a lot of the changes will endure to varying degrees.

I think people are used to the power of in-person connection and physical reality, and most of us are craving it. But an incredible amount can happen in digital reality, and we are only just beginning to scratch that surface.

At minimum it is an interesting and necessary experiment.
See: https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2019/python/
Many internal tools for one, platforms, etc. Hard to tell.

One industry example is https://vfxplatform.com/ - they just (this year) moved to Python3, but with some delays, from the site:

The move to Python 3 was delayed from CY2019 to CY2020 due to:

No supported combination of Qt 5.6, Python 3 and PySide 2 so Qt first needed to be upgraded.
Upgrade of both Qt and Python in the same year was too large a commitment for software vendors and large studios.
Python 3 in CY2020 is a firm commitment, it will be a required upgrade as Python 2 will no longer be supported beyond 2020. Software vendors are strongly encouraged to provide a tech preview release in 2019 to help studios with testing during their Python migration efforts.
I'm using the Dvorak Cmd-QWERTY layout in macOS. This changes the layout to QWERTY whilst the Cmd key is held so that keyboard shortcuts are mostly in the same physical place (because most are about easy hand movements rather than letter). JetBrains does not match this behaviour.
Nice reference. The discussion is mostly about SIR (for susceptible, infected and recovered) models but also with several generalizations to handle more details, e.g., losing immunity and getting infected again. A lot of this material goes back, say, to 1927.

First cut it appears that the differential equation I gave is an SIR model except with R = 0, i.e., once are a customer of FedEx then remain one.

At one point article finds the logistic curve as I did -- maybe for the same situation.

The article does touch on stochastic models, but I didn't see discussion of a Markov assumption or Poisson process for time to the next infection.

There is an unclear reference to operator spectral radius, and maybe that is related to the eigenvalues, vectors I mentioned.

Whatever, especially with the Wikipedia reference, it appears that we are a step or two beyond the OP.

The work I did and described here I did decades ago and is not at all related to the math of my startup now. So, here I was able to describe some of my old work, but I'm doing other things now.

For the differential equation I gave, the solution as I derived it needed only ordinary calculus and not the additional techniques of differential equations. I just did the derivation in a hurry at FedEx just as a little calculus exercise. I didn't consult a differential equations book. I discovered that the solution was the logistic curve only by accident years later.

The Wikipedia article is nice.
Even if you want to analyze it from a psychopathic economics perspective, it still makes sense to provide socialized housing and free mental health support to people who are homeless, because there is no other way they'll become "productive" again without that base.

Or you can view it as us paying for the negative externality of rising housing prices forcing people onto the streets from so many of us software engineers moving to the area.

Or you can view people experiencing homelessness as humans inherently worthy of dignity. No matter which way you view it though, your approach of letting them die in the streets is the wrong one.
All I'm interested in knowing about the near future and long term implications. Any articles/blogs/podcasts to quench my inquisitive mind?
Honestly I was just referring to the pictures :) I will edit it now to point out its the pictures. Thanks
Broadly, distros have been ripping out Python2 left and right in advance of 2020. Debian may have a longer support cycle than most and still have Python2 in stable or oldstable.
NYC bars close at 4am. Las Vegas bars don't close. I don't think there's much of an argument, really.
Maybe it is. I dunno, I'm not a virologist, so I don't have any way to predict how long this is actually likely to last.
To add to
kilo_bravo_3 8's comment: Almost all plastics, even non-BPA variants, have been found to leech synthetic estrogen https://www.npr.org/2011/03/02/134196209/study-most-plastics...
Based on what you are saying though, you lead me to believe that the NYTimes wants this behavior to occur, which I doubt.

If they want to paywall access to their site but adding a dot to the domain causes it to be bypassed, then it is misconfigured in some way, regardless of cookies.
You're commenting on Hacker News, a news forum run by Y Combinator. I think it's fair to assume the broad HN community knows that YC = Y Combinator, and from there that S20 means Summer 2020, and that batch means the set of startups funded by ycombinator. In that context remote should make sense, but the link explains that part.
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Is the name really an obstacle to organization?

And have the Python maintainers ever claimed that there's no interest in a community-maintained Python 2?
Ok, but put things in perspective. A musical greeting card is typically a $5-10 purchase. People presumably pay this money because they expect someone to get that much enjoyment out of it.

The amount of recyclable paper in a greeting card is probably worth about 1/100th of a cent, if that.

Maybe these costs seem irrelevant, but still -- they seem to be expecting people to bypass the card for a more recyclable one, when the recyclable value of a greeting card is so, so, SO tiny. The more realistic advice is, if you get one of these cards, don't try to recycle it, put it in the regular trash. It's not the end of the world. (and no, we aren't running out of space for landfills.... of all the environmental damage we are doing, modern landfills are one of the least significant)

At the end of the day, recycling is more to make people feel good than anything. Sure, aluminum recycling makes sense. Recycling large amounts of paper (like cardboard boxes) makes sense. But the majority of things that go in a recycling bin just need a bunch of people to pick through it, so they can eventually send it to the landfill.
In my work, it's software that offers a Python 2 module for scripting. I tried the naïve "upgrade" of copying the module into my Python 3 module library, but no dice. The software checked the version of Python, saw it wasn't 2.7.10 (yeah), and raised an error.
Not to detract from your point, but there was a lovely, decade-long period where coca tea leaf, packaged in tea bags, was readily available online, including from Amazon.

I miss that, because I have no interest in cocaine powder whatsoever, but coca tea is a nice change of pace from caffeine-based natural stimulants.

With respect to psilo(cy)bin, there's a product one can find sometimes called 'tootsie roll', which is a concentrate of the alkaloids mixed with chocolate and other confectionary ingredients. A simple alcohol extraction will do the trick, and ordinary acid-base workup can get whatever degree of purity is desired.

The phosphoryl group is somewhat delicate, which means what you end up with using acid-base is mostly psilocin. But no one actually cares about that ;)
Because theres a big difference between english and computer/query languages. You can deduce a lot from a query language, but not necessarily english.
Surprisingly few people are aware of this. Not just pallets, but 363 tons of cash. It boggles the mind.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/feb/08/usa.iraq1