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Perl 5. In what way do you think it won't continue to solve any needs just as it did before. It's obvious someone will support it, and it's not like "this will rob Perl 5 of new people and feature development" has been valid for a decade (there isn't much in the way of new feature development, it's all strangled by backwards compatibility), and it isn't drawing new people.

For the hundreds of thousands of lines of Perl 5 code at work, I expect we'll still be running Perl 5 a decade from now, and it will still be supported in maint mode by someone, if not the official Perl devs (but probably them, I suspect some will be fine just doing big fixes for the old code base).

For any new Perl project/environment, I'll just use Perl 7.
Weboob has applications like QFlatBoob, QHandjoob.

I love the idea of picking names that make people squirm if used in corporate setting.
This. I am from a mediocre country and had always admired how Americans defended freedom (specially freedom of speech and right to bear arms). But now they seem not to care anymore. Just throw all our freedoms out the window because China is spying on us.

Even in this forum, the general sentiment is that it should just be banned.
Fixed step Rk4 is really not very complex once you understand numerical integration. Not that you need it, plus it will be about 4x slower.
It's a great filter for those that care more about names than code.
The name of a struct ("struct foo", the tag is "foo").
Offhand there's also TypeScript, Dart, and CoffeeScript instead of javsScript (kinda, they do compile into it, but are conceptually distinct).

GP's point was that we're no longer in the situation where only one language is capable of doing what you want, so there's no "compelling reason" to use a particular one. You can pick the one you like instead of being compelled to a particular one.
Thanks! I had missed the reference to "decade" on initial reading.
If this is done half well, it will liberate the CPU cycles from tons of pointless JS.

Also, probably less reliant on analytics and third parties, unless they are baked into core APIs.
Both of you make excellent points.
I guess I'm jaded by the fact that VT (or e.g. VFFVX) has been almost flat for 2.5 years now.
A pure US investment would have fared better.

I'm pessimistic about bonds because of the debt bubble (gov debt, MBSs, CLOs, corporate bonds) and low yields.
Governments couldn't stomach higher rates, either.
In the big sell-off we have seen in March everything went down together margin-call style. I guess it did lower volatility, but it also provided little upside.

Euro yields are even negative.

I don't see how any of the countries possible exit strategies could be good for bonds.

Thanks for the links!
Yup, can agree on those points too.

> Obviously if you release something with an open source or FOSS license, then anyone is free to use it though. I'm against any kind of morality clause for free software.

Absolutely, it's the organisation /& community that needs to have the moral compass in proper order. In my optics it is about fostering the right sort of positive culture for use of a given tech rather than try to enforce it via totalitarian/legal means - the latter is bound to fail.
Read Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil. The book explores several ways that's already happening. Her main premise is that there's a feedback loop in many data-driven policies. You only get success results for the things that you try, and you only try the things you already think are likely to receive. As a result, algorithmic policies tend to reinforce the status quo.

Loan risk algorithms will favor people "similar to" those who have paid back loans before, a sample group biased towards people that banks have already loaned to before. As a result, a lot of the factors are biased towards "from a white upper-middle-class suburban background."

And recidivism estimators, which are used as jail sentencing guidelines in some places.

Screening algorithms for job resumes, and college applications.

Algorithms send police to where crimes are reported. Crimes are reported because the police are there to witness them. The area gets designated a high-crime area. Regular people are arrested more often because regular activity is suspicious in a high-crime area, affecting their future prospects. The higher arrest rate is used to justify this.

It's a continuous spectrum rather than a single point. But if I were to pick a single "point" where it became a self-fulling prophecy? 1994, due to the widespread passage of three-strikes laws.
> Maybe it will be like Facebook

Speaking about Facebook the website (separate from Instagram and WhatsApp), I'd give it 50/50 odds that a major decline in market position will start by 2030. If it doesn't happen, it will be attributed to very strategic leadership.
> You never watch output that goes by faster than you can read, unless you're actively watching movies through aalib or libcaca.

This is not true for me.

During development I often run programs that spew an enormous quantity of log output, and I'm watching to see if I notice a pattern in the output visually, or if it just looks normal. Either some critical or warning message in a different colour or boldface, or a shape to the messages that I'd recognise.

Although in principle I could use various output filters, grep etc., sometimes that's effort and I'd rather just run the thing and have it run quickly.

Also it's convenient to have all the output readily available if I do want to look at something that happened, as I can scroll to that place and look at pages of surrounding context in detail. If I use output filters, then I have to faff about re-running the program with different filters, or with all outputs enabled so I can step through everything around the event of interest.

Admittedly sometimes its better to output to a file and search the file, but sometimes visual output at 60Hz works quite well.

I have been known to skim manuals very fast as well. I guess in the era when man pages were everything, I got used to scrolling really fast to look for things of interest. It's interesting that a brain is able to recognise particular word-forms that flick by extremely fast, much faster than reading them. I've had people tell me they cannot do this, so I guess it's a learned skill.
Why isn't the tl;dr:

1. put 6 months of expenses in a high-yield savings account that is easily accessible + liquid in case of emergencies

2. max out tax-advantaged accounts. $19.5k/yr 401k + $6k/yr IRA. allocate into anything similar to a target date retirement fund with healthy exposure to US total market/probably light bonds depending on age

3. put the rest in a brokerage account, allocated in the same things your 401k + IRA are allocated in (target date retirement funds that track things similar to VOO/SPY/VTI/FZROX/etc.)
> To be clear, not a single Arab country wants to see an independent Palestinian state. Not a single one.

Is Liban an arab country?
I'm fine with the questions but I still think people are missing my point.

This is NOT for professional videos. The whole point is just regular people showcasing some small talent they might have hidden away and thru the algorithm you start to discover these amazingly talented regular people that the other platforms have failed.

If I want to see the celebs, brands or professionally shot content I have FaceGram/YouTube/Vimeo for that. This app is for the rest of us until the celebs/brands come in and inevitably ruin it. Hopefully by then, one of you HN folks will have built the next one.
(Note: I wake up a little later than I would normally. Due to COVID and working from home, my commute is effectively eliminated, so I get to sleep in a little bit later.)

Basically, I wake up at about 7:30am (pre-COVID, closer to 6am) and do the snooze thing until about 8am. Then I get out of bed and IMMEDIATELY put on my running gear. Only after I'm wearing my running gear do I go to the bathroom, drink some water, take meds, etc. Somewhere between 8:00-8:15am, I head out for a 5K run. I'm a moderate runner, so it takes me about 30 minutes to complete, in which case I'm back home by 8:45am, give or take a few minutes. I take the dog for a walk, then hop on the shower, and then I'm ready to roll for the day.

My productivity has skyrocketed since I started this routine. I'm no longer sleepily moseying through the morning half of the day. Instead, I'm energized and motivated. It stops becoming a matter of if I will work out and instead a matter of when, and if I do it first thing in the morning, then it's a matter of done and I don't have to think about exercise for the rest of the day. It's a huge weight off my shoulders. My health comes first, so I don't skip this ever.

The reason I put my running gear on first is because it feels really freakin' stupid to put on clothes and then take them off because... because i'm lazy? I always tell myself, "You put on the running gear already. All you have to do is step outside and go. If you decide not to, you have to take these clothes OFF, and how dumb will you feel then?" It never fails.
SARS-CoV-2 Superspreading Events Database
>Money is a renewable resource, but time is not.

Money is not renewable because you must spend time to obtain money.
They never monetized it despite Vine getting people to join Twitter.
I would certainly prefer a government that doesn't spend money on horrific things at all. It'd be great if I could pay my taxes without feeling dirty. I'm hopeful that maybe, with a lot of hard work and creativity, we'll manage to fix our democracy.

But in the meantime, I don't think there's anything morally wrong about legally reducing taxes and sending the money to charity instead. I'd even argue that, since privilege is an issue, we should expand this opportunity beyond the privileged few.
What did Merkel do when the US spied on her phone?
Depends, many times, specially in what concerns games, it limps along.
I am not a Perl person, but it does sound to me like a lot of this thread is is missing what's going on, yeah. They're not changing the language, they're just changing the runtime to use better, more modern defaults. I don't know if you would be able to put in "use unstrict" or something and get back the old behavior, but any actively-maintained code is probably using most of these newer defaults anyway.
> If the EU banned American big tech, they'd be set aback 20 years. Of course where would be a populist revolution.

Be more specific. I remember a time where dailymotion was mocking Youtube as a money blackhole due to its shitty tech. Lots of startups people in the US use are from Europe (Spotify). Lots of startups that exist in Europe don't even exist in the US, or don't get that much traction in the US (monzo, revolut, blablacar, thetrainline, toogoodtogo, etc.)

> And of course there's no point - what FB is doing is no different from what a EU-based FB would do.

there is so much wrong in this sentence. By being a US company FB is run much more differently. Control of information.
> They tried and failed in 2019.

That's because COVID-19 happened. :)

The Fed is buying up bonds: at some point they will mature and the US government will have to either (a) increases taxes to come up with the money to repay them (thus taking money out of circulation via the IRS), or (b) roll the debt forward by issuing new debt to pay the old debt.

Given that a few years ago the UK rolled forward some debt from the South Sea Bubble, Napoleonic Wars, WW1, etc, rolling forward debt is not as big a deal as most people think:

* https://www.theguardian.com/business/blog/2014/oct/31/paying...

* https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/28/world/that-debt-from-1720...
This package was removed from Debian.

See https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Debian-A... and https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=907199
You can certainly know multiple languages, but if you are involved deeper in the runtime and language design there is specific investment. I myself did a lot of PHP, went deep into the engine, nowadays do more with other languages where I can transfer some knowledge, but I guess even 5 years after writing my last relevant amounts of PHP I could jump in a consulting gig easily, while for other environments I have to spend more time preparing.
Completely agree; the scattershot approach is really only good as the basis of a clickbait blog post. They would have been better off spending two hours per day doing leetcode, then just a few technical interviews.

My last round, I refreshed my memory on algos and did a bunch of leetcode, had two onsites, got an offer from one.

I didn't "wander" into anything, but I did plan it out so my effort would be more effective.
Awesome project. I wish more smart devices offered a “run it locally on a Pi if you’re paranoid or a control freak.” I avoid IoT devices in general because I have no idea where the data is being stored, if it’s stored securely, or if it’s being sold. I prefer to manage this all myself.
The misdiagnosis problem isn't just a problem in the US, here in Israel, there's also a problem with misdiagnosis.

And our healthcare system is considered very good, and uses Single payer, etc.
You cannot know the limits of your vehicle and yourself, and operate safely within those limits if you do not know what those limits are. My driving style contributes to safer driving because I know when I might exceed the limits. As I mentioned, I adjust my driving style for conditions. If my driving was so egregious I would have a driving record.

Giving the insurance company more ways to judge me only enables them to charge me more, without my actual level of risk changing at all.
Didn't two of them just pay the third to give them access and helped "market" his services? I don't see why that should land them anything.
Well, it says "rising". When something costs 5% of what it would cost elsewhere you can decide it's worth producing it in China even if there are a ton of downsides.

It doesn't have to get to 100% before you decide the cons outweigh the pros, it just has to be less cheap.
I’m a big fan of boring. I like parking stuff in either Wealthfront or Vangaurd account, picking a diversified strategy, and leaving it alone.
No and many English variants suffer the same problems of US English first.
I think you underestimate the popularity and potential of TikTok and ByteDance at large.

It's like Facebook, maybe around 2010-2012, with enormous upward potential - they might even dethrone Facebook and their offerings in the coming years. For the core Facebook app, I wouldnt be surprised if they did that already in a couple of countries.
It will suck eventually, politics and boomers will arrive and ruin it.
Having a roach problem in my house doesn't mean I'm happy to invite termites as well.
> How exactly is this the case; I keep seeing attributions to these events that have no real basis or clear definitive metrics for doing it.

Sorry, what are you asking for metrics on? What are you asking, "how ... is this the case?" These things have verifiably started happening or have happened.

I really fail to see your point and am seeing enough watch words/phrases ("SJW", "Outrage Culture", etc.) where I feel like I"m being sealioned.
One of my mentors was recently diagnosed with prostate cancer due to an elevated PSA test. He is 76 years old. No symptoms. His father died of prostate cancer at the age of 96. The doctors scared him into treatment (the ol' if you don't do this you might die trick) and proceeded to irradiate his abdomen damaging his nerves and causing his legs to atrophe and his outcome on life to plummet. He's just now getting around to realizing that the doctors are the ones that hurt him and he has no intention of listening to them again.
Because healthcare isn't an elastic good with markets that observes the overly simplistic supply and demand model. It's the entire reason why pro-market capitalists are really bad at trying to solve this problem.
>Same beats. Same cadence. Same flow. Voices indistinguishableffrom each other.

This is how people used to talk about Hip Hop in the 90s. People familiar with Trap can easily distinguish between the different rappers and producers - just like people familiar with 90's Hip Hop could distinguish between Nas and Ghostface or DJ Premier and Pete Rock.

And, that's only Trap. There are still popular MC's and producers who operate outside of Trap.
My impression is that nobody bothers with the Go flags package and most people use the POSIX compatible pflag [1] library for argument parsing, usually via the awsome cobra [2] cli framework.

Or they just use viper [3] for both command line and general configuration handling. No point reinventing the wheel or trying to remember some weird non-standard quirks.

[1] https://github.com/spf13/pflag

[2] https://github.com/spf13/cobra

[3] https://github.com/spf13/viper
You would get a job and be fired right away from it.

"How did you find us?"

"From an app called QHandJoob"
I think this is a great idea. Something about the feel of applications that have deep interaction with web-based resources but also desktop-level control and precision over their interfaces inspires a lot of nostalgia and satisfaction for me. I guess my main examples are file sharing and the first desktop RSS reader + blogging app I used.

I get that those things are still around, but I think treating this as a systematic way of looking at the web and apps may help to recapture something that I think has been lost from user experience when everything moved to the web and phones.
(1) Naturopathic medicine by and large is pseudoscience and confirmation bias. Some people with cancer spontaneously go into remission. One study found 22% of breast cancers undergo spontaneous regression. [1] This includes people taking pseudoscientific treatments. People then point to the naturopathic medicines are the proximate cure, but in reality, it would have gone away with or without. This is why we have double-blind studies that account for this, and for the placebo effect -- which is super strong, and growing stronger as our faith in medicine grows.

(2) 'You embrasing the status quo, which is demonstrably killing people daily with poisons, and calling everything else "pseudoscience" is truly a deplorable stance.'

Chemotherapies are toxic treatments, and they are toxic in no small part because we are looking to kill off specific tissue. Unfortunately few chemotherapies are totally specific, and work is being done to improve them, including delivery mechanisms. Radiation treatments obviously also destroy tissue, but again, every effort is made to improve target specificity.

(3) "...we've ever forced onto people in the chase for the god mighty dollar."

In many countries, doctors are public servants, and the government run programs negotiate hard with pharma companies to knock down prices, instead of, you know, passing them on to the "customer."

(4) "The financial incentives of the pharmaceutical companies and the medical profession do not make them work for our benefit. A cure would be a huge loss of one of the largest money making schemes ever devised."

Far be it from me to support the crazy profiteering of big pharma, however, I think you'll see them finding ways to profit from one-off cures for chronic conditions like Sofosbuvir for Hep C. They'll just charge medical systems what its 'worth' in terms of how much a lifetime supply of Hep C treatments would cost -- minus a little so the system benefits over the status quo too. In this case, $84,000. Not to mention the company that developed it was acquired for $11 billion dollars by Gilead. [2] But of course quickly after others will follow. [3] This is why patents last 20 years.

(5) "There has been good research on cancer treatements that do not destroy the immune system, nor require poisoning. A cursory scan on sci-hub for medicinal mushrooms and cancer yeild a hundred hits [0] with much to learn from. Studies from 20 years ago showing how taking certain mushrooms while undergoing chemo and/or radiation can greatly reduce side effects and improve survival rates."

So does fasting, no mushrooms needed. [4] But in both your studies and mine it was the "poison" chemotherapy that was treating the cancer, not the mushrooms.

The really ingenious work being done these days is finding ways to point our immune system at cancer and letting it do the hard work for us.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_remission

[2] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-now-have-the-c...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/apr/12/non-profits-...

[4] https://osher.ucsf.edu/patient-care/integrative-medicine-res...
What is the link between medieval and modern antisemitism?
I feel like argh and plac preceded/inspired Click.

Also, it's not Python but in Nim there is https://github.com/c-blake/cligen which also does spellcheck/typo suggestions, and allows --kebab-case --camelCase or --snake_case for long options, among other bells & whistles.
Hydroxychloroquine is frequently used for malaria. It has shown no effectiveness with regard to coronavirus.
“Oh no, I can’t spread dangerous misinformation without consequence!”
Infrared Light Modulates Conductivity in Bilayer Graphene
I think all of OpenAI’s gym environments use Mujoco with rk4, but the engine supports both rk4 and semi implicit euler, and the default is actually Euler.

Seems like that is the default for almost all robot focused sims too, see some benchmarks here: https://leggedrobotics.github.io/SimBenchmark/
> By design everything in the justice system is transparent or its not admissible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
Gerd Gigerenzer is pretty good, and he has a few books.

There are also the "fact boxes" and "icon arrays" on this site: https://www.hardingcenter.de/en/early-detection-prostate-can...
The best thing about average advice is that the results are pretty much guaranteed. Someone who's asking a question like this lacks the skill to differentiate between better-than-average and worse-than-average advice. So giving them average advice with nearly-guaranteed average results is doing them a great service.
This article names, what I have had as a feeling for a long time: "Oh it created by Google … ah this will suck." Take whatever you want. GMail, YouTube, Google Search, Google's online office products (they are sooo soo basic, so that even the most basic used can handle it, with no way to unlock great functionality), Google Hangout, you name it. It all sucks. You are the product, a used and not a user.

Mostly the reason is probably, that this kind of software is only written with the most basic and common used in mind, not with the one, who wants to customize everything to their own personalized needs or a user, who does not require big corp to tell them "what they want". Google targets another group of people.

So I think the wording "crapware" pretty much covers it.

Of course ethical questions like the ones raised in the article … I guess they don't usually even enter the equation at Google.
Drawn-on-skin electronics offer breakthrough in wearable monitors
That's good retirement planning advice for normal situations. Having a $450k cash windfall adds a few wrinkles -- there are more investment options available (e.g. buy a house with cash), and the tax consequences of those various options can be very different.

I don't think most people need a financial advisor, but if I had a $450k pile of cash and I wanted to understand the tax consequences of various investments I would definitely pay for a consultation.
Sorry, I am not a native speaker.
What language are those slang in?
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One other thing, I recommended a robo over a manually rebalanced vti/bond split because they include some money in foreign indexes (increasing diversification), and auto-rebalance. Some also do fancy stuff like tax loss harvesting.

All of that complexity supposedly beats simple manual approaches by a percentage point or two (after tax).

Also, most robos are idiot proof.