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> Because I have a 1 million unique users video streaming service still running python 2.7, using a few servers.

Congratulations.

•How many servers 2, 5, 10?

•How many pure python libraries did you have to replace with a Cython extension after you realized that it cannot support your scale?

•How many external dependencies? How many of them did you replace after they were abandoned? Surely not all actively developed library are still using Python2.7.

> It is still maintained by one single person, and he is not a professional dev.

So he cannot upgrade the project to Python3.x along with all matching dependencies either, So the project stays with all bugs and vulnerabilities.

Not everyone would be happy with such a setup and aforementioned drawbacks, that's why I think the parent comment says Python is a trap at scale and I concur. I've faced issues at at scale (few hundred thousand) and there's no way a python project can meet that scale without relying upon Cython dependencies.

> A trap for your dream world were you suddenly get google size ?

So only Google size is a benchmark for scale? If I were to start a web project which has just 10 concurrent users I would choose Go because I know I can develop the entire project with little to no dependencies, it can scale to N users without touching the code and with the confidence that the number of servers required will be < than that of python.

I still use Python every day, for where it's good i.e. small scripts for personal use, prototyping algorithms. For professional products I use Python only as an Machine Learning endpoint(With all the bandages) because I have no other choice.
Yeah, I had exactly this problem before. I tried to wrap my head around how to actually do it geometrically, but thankfully had the much easier idea of just using the blend op.

This is super useful though! You don't always have the ability to change the blending op, or you could be rendering on top of something that might give you artifacts. Thankfully I was rendering something like this on a blank canvas.
Took a little while to find the magic words in there: https://github.com/wimpysworld/quickemu/blob/af26f41440d63a0...
Well, the .NET Foundation also holds the copyright and provides the CLA bots. But the great bulk of your point is correct.
> First, the government does force you to use USPS for some things.

The person you were replying to was referring to USPS's upcoming banking services, not their mail services.

> we all pay for USPS as taxpayers regardless of whether we use its ancillary services

We do not. USPS has its own books and does not receive taxpayer funds directly[1][2].

> To me these are both reasons for the government not to get into this business. If Walmart offers a lower price, whether that's a loss leader or not, it's great for consumers.

The problem is not that banking services are unavailable or that Walmart isn't offering them cheaply. It's that Walmart isn't guaranteed to continue to offer them cheaply, and it doesn't serve nearly as many rural places as post offices do.

There are post offices absolutely everywhere in the US. The same is not true of Walmarts.

> IMHO govt services make sense when private industry can't provide them effectively. That doesn't seem like the case here.

25% of Americans are underserved by banking as of a few years ago, so obviously something is wrong that the free market has not been able to solve[3]. Retail banking is not very profitable, so there isn't much incentive for existing banks to do a good job of it.

> I'm guessing they'll just ask for $1b more in funding the following year

Again, that's not how USPS works.

> And if check cashing seems like a good direction, should the government develop its own reward credit cards? Buy now, pay later? Crypto exchanges? Etc.

Ah, so we get to the "what about the slippery slope?!" part of the argument.

It's not black and white. We need to assess each case based on real data, not based on theory. No one is saying the government should compete in every industry just because it wants to cash checks for people who have been exploited by payday lenders.

We have nationalized libraries and schools, but somehow we haven't slipped down the slope to nationalized grocery stores. I think we'll be OK if USPS offers a very simple service that isn't far off from things they already do (like cashier's checks).

1. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/08/26/how-is-th...

2. https://facts.usps.com/top-facts/

3. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/08/25percent-of-us-households-a...
> This prize is more about making a political statement about society or its values more than anything and more than the other of the Nobel prizes, which are similar but less so.

The prize comes with money granted to the individuals and also the fame. If the committee wanted to make a statement they should stop giving prizes to people but only organizations for instance (which the committee does from time to time).
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Let's don't get ourselves lost in the maze of arguments here.

The big picture is, if you give the rescue team a good tool, their success rate will then increase, sometime by a big number.

There is a documentary about children missing in the woods called Missing 411 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEA9-mEOZtA). If you take look their search efforts, it is not hard to realize how many weight can be lifted by an automatic area scanning system.

In the documentary, the search and rescue team had to walk step by step doing almost blind searches. If you have an automatic system, you can just launch a scanning array of say 50 drones, very quickly the data will come in and provide indications on where the search effort should be prioritized.

Bottom line is, such system is better than the current (human manual search) one. If the technology can be properly developed and utilized, it can help save more lives.
One curious thing, is that compared to the prizes for science, the one for peace should be awarded based on the previous year.

If you read the original documents, all Nobel prizes where supposed to be given based on work in done the previous year. However it turns out that judging the value of anything in real time is hard, so all the prizes have been taking a longer and longer view.
The judgment talks about Cloudflare's services in terms of caching, speed, security and so on, but seems to ignore the vital service that Cloudflare provide to shady sites - anonymity.

This victory adds to the impression that Cloudflare is a safe front to present content that would be taken down if hosted directly.

We understand that a "Front organization" for criminal activity isn't something to tolerate in bricks & mortar businesses - why is it allowed on the internet?

So while I don't particularly care for the wrongs of copyright takedowns, Cloudflare (or other US-based edge networks) surely shouldn't become a bulletproof legal shield for any person or company who can hide their origin?

(and Cloudflare still extend their services to the booter sites from whose illegal activities they've sold protection from! But that's not important right now...)
Most of the value of gold is not due to those properties. Yet even for those properties, if you look close enough, it is shared hallucinations all the way down.

I think you'll also have a hard time explaining how "good conductivity" is fundamentally different from e.g. "resistance to tampering of historical records".
It does bring up a different question though.

There's now an obvious conflict of interest with regard to news sites reporting on Facebook. Their generalized antagonism towards Facebook, and the tech industry has a pretty clear root: they're getting outcompeted, thus the calls for regulation.
You may pay less tax but your employer will be paying employers NI contributions
The first time they did this with the hub tool, GitHub was only a few years old and many years away from any acquisition
What? Code of Conduct says stuff like, don't be mean to other people. It's a lot like: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm not sure how it works now, but a few years ago it was illegal to use more than one copy of Windows in this way (provided that you already have a purchased copy). If you wanted to have two instances, you had to purchase a second copy. I'm not sure what the relevant terms are for macOS now apart from the fact that in the old days VMware had an artificial block you need to remove in order to run Mac OS X. It would be interesting to know the current legal ramifications.
This reminds me of how farmers in the Middle ages did many things that lowered their expected crop yields but also improved their worst case scenario.

It does make sense if you are trying to minimize risk to use cheap disposable tools when times are good and reserve durable long-lasting tools for when times are bad.
Saw it used at a faang.
I haven't just cited it! I said I saw a screenshot. I don't have a date or whatever, but if someone has a date then I can download the ticks from that day and check it out.

Without a date I can't compare the short interest at Kraken to e.g. the $100,000,000 OI in USD-settled USDT futures at FTX today.
Not in my case. The article explains how the copyright transfer was executed.
Matched :) https://i.imgur.com/Hp354Qm.png
Not sure how common this is, but I've found my alertness doesn't really depend that much on how much sleep I get as long as I get enough. I can get anywhere from 6-10 hours sleep and feel extremely tired or extremely alert. For me my level of tiredness seems to depend more on my environment and behaviour during the day.

If I'm working, where I work is really important. Sitting somewhere with a lot of natural light and avoiding slouching makes a huge difference to my wakefulness.

Another thing that really helps me when I'm working is to getting up and do something else for 5-10 minutes every 1-2 hours. Normally that's just going to have a chat with my partner, but tidying the house a bit or doing some other chore also works. Basically just something to give my brain a rest while remaining active. Doing something passive, sitting, watching TV, etc just zone me out or make me tired.

Caffeine obviously helps for a boost, but I personally try to limit my caffeine use to 1-2 days a week and try to avoid using it in the few hours before I get up or before I go to bed. If you're anything like me chronic caffeine use will probably just shift your baseline and make you feel even worse when you're not using it. I like to use it when I need an edge.

I also try to avoid high carb meals in the day because I seem to be super sensitive to drossiness after having a meal with carbs. It's also why I like to eat dinner later these days and always have at least a small portion of carbs because it really helps me get ready for sleep in the evenings. Most days I'll do OMAD too, but I don't notice as much of a mental boost as some report.

I suspect most of this is common sense, but just sharing some things that work for me as someone who has struggled with tiredness from time to time.
It's more getting it wrong *frequently* enough, that people start ignoring it.
I know both sides of the argument.

There are anecdotal observations and theoretical arguments that support the vibration theory. But all aspects of it can be explained using less exotic models of ligand-receptor interaction. Proponents of the vibration theory are ignorant of those alternative explanations. The experimental evidence does not give a conclusive picture, either. Some experiments have clearly falsified aspects of the vibration theory, whereas the key experiments that support it suffer from systematic weaknesses.

Therefore, unless texperimental evidence appears that clearly supports that olfactory receptors perform electron-tunneling spectroscopy, I remain unconvinced.
it's my impression that professionals are business people lawyers doctors etc
Things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a software engineer
France started heavily taxing some rich people, and some of them like Gerard Depardieu promptly 'immigrated' to Belgium (A whole km outside France in his case). As far as I know, France did not suffer too much from this.

https://jonathanturley.org/2012/12/12/french-government-deno...
I’ve been plagued by mosquitoes ever since I quit smoking, I’ve found that heating a spoon with boiling water and pressing it against the bites for as long as you can stand the pain will swiftly deal with the itching. You have to be careful not to burn yourself though!
I wrote that it was backed by dollars and treasuries. You wrote that it wasn't backed solely by dollars. So we agree.
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Ah, thanks for the clarification. I misread one of his comments - 'I've been working in it' as 'I've been working on it', totally on me!
Gotcha! I misread a comment of yours and took it as you saying you worked on the product, not worked in it for your campaign.
Matched :) https://i.imgur.com/SGra99A.png
I always wondered how is it stealing if you (1) own a copy and, (2) Apple effectively stopped charging money for macOS.
No.

He participated in Russian marches some 20 years ago but kept his distance afterwards. FYI, ultra-nationalists outside of government structures were all jailed or killed since then, and the state nourishes similar sentiments in people much more successfully.

He is favoring the idea of abolishing free travel with poorer countries like Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, but this is pretty much in line with the politics of all other governments (US vs Mexico as opposed to US vs Canada).

Anything else is state propaganda trying to discredit him.
That's a good point. I guess those who already have cloudflare nameservers wouldn't have an issue with it unless there are some issues with transferring the domain to cloudflare which already acts as your reverse proxy.
Linux driver

>"Do not purchase this card, even as a joke."

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v3.1/source/drivers/net/3c5...
It's hardly trivial to accept dollars sir.
This presence is often an entry on a building directory and a registered agent willing to accept official papers (where that directory and that person serves as the registered agent for hundreds of companies).

It’s still costly, but you only need a fractional “employee” not employees plural in many cases.
Mathematicians like analytical approach. Technical problems like visualizing water can have many more solutions from all kinds of angles. Admonishing people for taking a creative approach is petty, in such as you lose the goal and make the means your goal.

I happen to be a technical artist, and the first rule of technical art is: cheat. If this upsets physicists and mathematicians, they completely miss the point of the entire endeavor.

Math and physics are merely tools to achieve the end result, not a goal unto themselves.
Free labor out of spite.
Maybe merchants don't want to pay 5% or whatever
Matched :) https://i.imgur.com/e2GoW4u.png
This is also why I prefer buying used items.
> The Nobel peace prize has had a long tendency of handing out awards short-sightedly for promises rather than solutions

And that is supposed to be a bad thing? If they only give out trophies for feats accomplished years ago that prize would be worthless decoration.
The whole point is that the prize offers acknowledgment and support. It is not magic, as you point out, but it does not have to be.
Improve web standards, build easier web publishing and subscription tooling (easy and pleasurable for non-IT people to use), create and propagate a desktop app toolkit at least as flexible and cros-platform as the web frontend stack is + a good cross-platform and preferably decentralized "app store".

This would require a lot of effort somebody has to fund however. I would expect governments to fund this if they recognized the seriousness of the problem. Governments already start taking climate change more and more seriously, this (web) problem is the next we face.

Perhaps if I were a person in the government in charge of this I would just pay the Qt company to make full (including the Qt Design Studio) modern Qt totally free for everybody to use (as HTML, CSS, JS and the browsers are) and keep developing it. It is more cross-platform and fast than Chrome, very powerful and is not limited to classic widgets but can also do any visually fancy stuff with ease. This way (after addressing the discoverability problem also) we could revert straight to the native app phase.
I still see this on a bunch of US news sites. At this point, I'm just assuming that corporate (at these sites/companies) decided the upgrade was not worth it, and it's easier/cheaper to just block European readers.
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As a non-Russian, can you explain why? Novaya Gazeta has been a persistent thorn in the Kremlin's side and many of its journalists like Politkovskaya have been assassinated.
> Kissinger could help to establish a ceasefire in Vietnam, but it feels like the things they did in Cambodia before that

Genuinely curious: what did I miss here? (I read up on Cambodia a few months ago.)
Companies were never supposed to pay taxes on their profits, they were supposed pay dividends which are then taxed as income. The desire to tax that profit twice (or 3 times if you count consumption tax) is what creates this whole mess, because you fundamentally can’t force a company to make a profit.

The outcome of trying is a tax system that only applies to SME.
You are exactly correct. It isn't necessary to drag GitHub or Microsoft into the conversation.

They aren't involved in this situation.
Ireland's status as tax haven for tech firms is ending
Is that an NDA you have to sign when you start to work at a company?
Explaining things is not that hard, and if you’re bad at it, you can get better with practice and by learning a few tricks. But explaining is mostly useless in the real world. What will get you ahead is, instead, the ability to be convincing. That is, to pry people loose from their existing beliefs, and nudge them to adopt beliefs of your choosing. This, perhaps surprisingly, does not involve explaining your beliefs and hoping other people see the error of their ways. People don’t work like that.

Also, the three-step structure he advocates is a bad idea, as described here (IIRC): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtIzMaLkCaM
> corporations are at their core, risk adverse.

I'm even experiencing this. And I'm a "normal" person by many accounts (graduated from uni, no crime, little experience, etc.).

I can't imagine how tough it must be for people that committed a crime in the past.
Global taxation.

US citizens pay tax on global earnings. Almost every other country in the world you do not.

Your tax rate for say a UK citizen if you shift from onshore to offshore goes from 40% to 0%. For a US, no change. If you are spending 10k/100k per year to maintain the strucures the motivation is not there for the US.

Philosophically this is interesting as they are taxing residents as well as citizenship, which has a right to residency at any time.
Was it illegal, or against a non-enforceable contract?
According to Samantha Power's memoirs and interview, Obama and the whole Obama administration felt the same. They felt just awkward.

Power, Samantha, The education of an idealist : a memoir, ISBN 978-0-06-295650-7

>In October of 2009, I awoke to a very different form of bad news: Barack Obama had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Less than a year into his presidency, Obama was receiving an award previously bestowed on Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

>When I relayed the news to Cass, he looked stricken, as if I had told him someone we knew had fallen ill. The choice seemed wildly premature, as well as a gift to Obama’s critics, who delighted in painting him as a cosmopolitan celebrity detached from the concerns of working-class Americans. But there was no getting around it: come December of 2009, Obama would travel to Norway to accept the most prestigious prize in the world.

>Jon Favreau and Ben Rhodes, Obama’s two gifted speechwriters, took on the difficult task of drafting the Nobel address. I popped into Jon’s tiny office on the first floor of the West Wing, and he told me that the President had decided to directly confront the awkwardness of receiving the prize so early in his presidency. He also wanted to frame the speech around the more profound irony of winning a peace prize at the very time he was deploying 30,000 additional soldiers to Afghanistan, augmenting the force of over 67,000 US troops already there.
I can't really understand the issue.

Analog sticks for gaming devices exist for some 20 years, without much problems.
Why are they having these issues now and why are they so unsolvable and persistent now?

If it's related to wear - calibration software is not that hard to do.
Nintendo had calibration options before in the Nintendo DS touchpad. So why not with the joycon controllers? But tbh. in 2021 there should be even more sophisticated ways, like automatic calibration.
WSL also stands for Wolf in Sheep's Livery.

I think it says something that this Wikipedia article has an entire long list of examples specifically about Microsoft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...

I live in a world where nearly every day I get emails from [insert tech provider] that they have altered this or that policy unilaterally, which they're entitled to do from their end, but I am not from my end.

In such a world, I am not going to hitch any business cart to a proprietary horse that is difficult to un-hitch from. Being personally annoyed is one thing, having your business jeopardized because you don't control your whole stack is ... something else.
These drones need to be able to do one thing:
- do not hit the tree (or ground)

And the things not to not hit are basically static. Year, Wind might move parts of them here and there, but you can just try to make sure to avoid them far enough. And we do not see if they can do event that.

Self driving cars on the other hand...
- avoid static objects (like trees, or houses)
- stay in lane
- detect and act on traffic signs and lights
- detect other moving object and predict where they will be in the near future
- watch for suddenly appearing lifeforms all around you, do not hit them!
- if you leave your lane, do so orderly
- do all that at speeds far over 40km/h

I think the "static objects" parts is not the hardest part on that list.RADAR/LIDAR are good at that. I imagine the "everything and everyone is moving in random directions" part makes things harder.
I'd be happy to make the decision myself. I wouldn't be happy if I learned on HN that I have N years to re-write X% of our production code before our language stops being supported.
Depends on why those unproductive hours are unproductive. My hypothesis is that human brain is just incapable of doing the sort of forced, focused work that modern work requires for more than a small number of hours. I.e. the hours worked are just not randomly productive or unproductive (like your casino analogue suggests), but you spend the productive hours and then you move into less productive mode, which could just as well be skipped completely.

A related question is does the working capacity "charge" over the course of one evening + sleeping or does it require more time? If the answer is "more time", as I suspect from the fact that most productive days of the week usually are after the weekend, a good strategy indeed would be to just do all the work we can do (which is maybe 10-20 hours) in two days and then recharge for five days.
Bitcoin Cash is probably the best option due to low fees. A stable coin would be ideal but Ethereum transaction fees are so high right now and likely will be for some time that unless the payments are large amounts it isn’t practical for commerce.
Enlighten me, please: just how is a Philippine journalist "important or politically advantageous" to the "Western elite"?
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