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This is interesting, but means very little to me as a heavy user of Docker.

I don't care about boot time. I care about 1) build time, and 2) ship time. In Docker, they are both fast for the same reason.

At the top of your Dockerfile you install all the heavy dependencies which take forever to download and build. As you get further down the file, you run the steps which tend to change more often. Typically the last step is installing the code itself, which changes with every release.

Because Docker is smart enough to cache each step as a layer, you don't pay the cost for rebuilding those dependencies each time. And yet, you get a bit-for-bit exact copy of your filesystem each time, as if you had installed everything from scratch. Then you can ship that image out to staging and production after you're done locally--and it only has to ship the layers that changed!

So this article somewhat misses the point. Docker (and its ilk) is still the best tool for fast-moving engineering teams--even if the boot time were much worse than what they measured.
At first I thought this was really insightful now it seems like just redefinition of meaning.

An analogy is an experiment where a scientist says "I can prove these two people have ESP and can pick the same #". He sits them in two separate rooms and has her first pick a number. He goes to the second room and has him pick a number. 17? No higher. 24? No higher. 52? No lower. 43? Yes exactly!!

"See, these two people both came up with the same number without any communication with each other. ESP!"

If they want to show this language learning is powerful, demonstrate that once trained it can now be applied to a third language without any new "adversarial feedback".

Or it reminds me of the fake "we can communicate faster than light via quantum entanglement" claims. But then the caveat comes that they can only figure out what the value of the bit of info they communicated was causally.
While we are imagining unlikely thing, I'm going to imagine there are instructions from aliens (yes, the same ones that actually built the pyramids, don't ya know) on how to build a faster than light drive.
I know people put high hopes into it, but WASM by itself does exactly nothing to improve the basic rendering model of browsers (CSS and it's various layout models). It just replaces JavaScript (which I have no problem with at all), making browsers even more complex. WebGL, OTOH, can be used from JavaScript without problems, including typed arrays and SIMD.

I was thinking more about ditching the browser entirely for apps. Because what WASM and WebGL do is just a very tiny subset of what's been possible for ages with plain old native languages and D3D/OGL. And why do we need a new bytecode format when basically all phones run on the ARM ISA? I guess I don't get why games should run in a web browser with all it's security and privacy issues.

But yeah, almost anything is better than HTML/CSS/JS for complex UIs.
>is a perfect example of code that is harder to read, harder to hold in one's head, and most importantly harder to modify.

It's both shorter and less expressive than the equivalent for loop. If you find it harder to read that says more about your familiarity with list and generator comprehensions.

>The most pythonic version (your set solution) has a bug

Not in lieu of a hard requirement for counting non-hashable items, it isn't.

It's faster as well as simpler: O(n) instead of O(n2). Unless you're counting lists of lists or something it makes no sense not to use it.

>I feel that one for loop inside another is fine. Everyone in every language can see it and know instantly what the run-time characteristics likely are, and what at each point it is doing. What's most important: if it ever seems to be broken, I can drop a debugger or a logger (maybe with a condition!) in at any point, with ease

Writing your code in a more verbose and complex way in order to satisfy your desire to put a debugger in is by far and away not the most important aspect of clean coding.
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The main part of this I object to is the repeal of estate taxes. I don't understand why they're doing it.
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Stents are an incredible piece of engineering, but probably are over-used (particularly in the USA). There are a few issues at play:

-Chest pain

-Artery narrowing

-Heart attack risk

They aren't the same, although there is correlation between each. The original idea behind stents was to stabilise vessels in the process of a heart attack. They are increasingly used in a preventative way - but the problem is there aren't very many or good tools to tell how at risk an individual is to a heart attack.

Another major problem (as the article mentions) is that stents improve the situation in one artery, but most patients that need a stent have atherosclerosis in multiple vessels. This likely explains why the chest pain remains.
How could such a thing happen? How do we prevent highly skilled individuals from producing great value for their societies and then receiving the benefits from that? 100% tax rate? That sounds incredibly draconian.

I'm not arguing that our current situation is ideal, or that we can't do a lot more to provide greater opportunity for all and raise the floor for everyone.

But complete "equality of outcome" seems to go against all of my understanding of the dynamics through which the universe actually unfolds over time. I can only imagine it as a very unstable state that is held in place through immense effort and force.
Another "blockchain without bitcoin" post. You can't have one without the other.
I think depends on the project, no? You first specify your dependencies, then provide a way to use the dependencies to build the end project.

If you don't have to specify the dependencies or the build process to the user, then you can get away with the build process not being well defined. Docker is a win for 'easy installation', but I wonder if it degrades the quality of projects which rely on it?
Suprised they're not largely machine readable given the geometric nature of cuneiform. You might have to aggressively guess some combinations as the components of hte symbols aren't always well separated but it seems easier than reading current alphabets/characters.

I did get in to cuneiform at one point in the past but the dictionary to translate was, IIRC, over £1k.

Any good links you can suggest for corpus of works that are likely to yield interesting output, and sources to aid in that?

What software is good for aiding such translation work?
No, they don't.

I have, plenty of times in the past, changed a class's implementation details in a way that results in fields being removed, without having to create a breaking change in the associated property getters and setters. All it took was changing their implementation to work with whatever the new thing was.
"With respect to your complaint that Cox intercepts and injects our own data in order to display alerts, etc, we note that browser alerts are a method Cox utilizes to bring customers’ attention to important information that may affect their Internet experience."

They'll also appear if you're nearing your data allowance or if their email service (that you probably don't use) is undergoing maintenance. When I last asked, there is no possible way to opt-out or disable these.
I choose the Volt over the Prime and I'm curious if you don't mind, what pulled you towards the Prime?
We need web browsers with good local & p2p indexing/search/bookmarking features.

Before I ever touch google, I want my search/address bar to look thoroughly through well organized, locally bookmarked content indexes.

The next stop before Google is indexes I've subscribed to. My friends, family, organizations, libraries, businesses, campaigns, wikipedia, etc.

After that, duckduckgo. If I haven't found it by then, google.

This kind of browser feature could make DAT/ipfs hypertext much more useful.
Real programmers store their source code on baked clay tablets.
Developing on the target is just so last century. Now that programmers have developed the IDE you'll have to pull them from their cold dead hands.
doc and xls were even worse than proprietary binary formats: they were raw memory dumps of unserialized internal data structures. This meant implementing a doc opener was basically the tantalizing task of implementing Word-the-engine itself.
Nor are people spending $30,000 on a vehicle showing particularly price sensitive behavior.

Lots of fine vehicles available for $15,000, $15,000 is an awful lot of gas (and you save on insurance and financing with a cheaper vehicle, so the lower maintenance on the electric isn't the only consideration).
Those will remain
As a Model 3 reservation holder, I was under the assumption that getting the EV credit was not a guarantee.
Charles Schwab checking is only available to US residents though -- if you're in a foreign country, you're out of luck.
There would probably be different standards for cars that you own vs. the equivalent of a cab or an Uber/Lyft type deal. I'd think the main fear wouldn't be that the car itself was unsafe to travel in (if they reach the point of becoming mainstream transportation), but that a car under someone else's control could be used nefariously. So I'd guess you'd want a fairly robust tracking/accountability system.
There's more mecury in the fish you eat and it's the methyl kind which sticks around for weeks. If you eat fruit, there's methanol naturally present which the body metabolizes into formaldehyde. I am willing to bet your kid gets a higher dosage of formaldehyde from the juices they drink then a vaccine.
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The solution to this is, and always has been, to buy equities. Put your wealth to work generating an income stream.
I disagree. Phasing out new production of C02 producing vehicles benefits everyone and by extension, failing to encourage it hurts everyone. This isn't a localized issue. It isn't like Texas (for instance) can produce as much carbon dioxide as they want, and it will only affect Texas.
If you are in the bay area head to the western side of the central valley a few hours south of San Jose in the Panoche and Tumey hills, or even better, to the White Mountains in East of the Sierra.
> It's telling a contributor that their contributions are worthless, cannot be fixed, and other ad-hominem angry insults that just fosters a macho, jockish atmosphere in Linux that has demonstrably alienated capable contributors.

Linux is a project of such a massive scale that Linus has to accept kernel commits from circles of trust in his developer community. If someone demonstrates that they don't understand the fundamental goals of the project, and their contributions are accepted largely based on trust, then yes, their contributions are effectively worthless.

They have to be moved to a further out circle and have their work filtered up through others, and you have to second guess every piece of work that they've contributed.
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I've been inside New Grange and up close to Stonehenge. By all means, if you're in the area they are must sees.

I just get more out of the research and you don't have to visit to get that.
Yeah! Pollution is a local problem! Definitely address it at the city level. Can we go further? Why not just have specific individuals who care about this funding the subsidies?

/s
I think that might be what parts of this upcoming release might contain:

https://www.amazon.com/C-Concurrency-Action-Anthony-Williams...
Does this use schema.org / og meta tags or are you trying to infer object types yourself
Way off topic, but have you actually tried to read them? I was able to get data off some ~25 year old 5.25" C64 diskettes a few months ago, encouraged by success with data recovery from some 3.5" diskettes a few months before that.
because... double taxation is unfair?
I cannot agree more. When one is used to thread and folding for email or usenet, the user experience of web mail/forum seems woefully inadequate.

When I first saw that gmail starts a new thread when you change a subject I did not believe it at first; I thought I have made a mistake in replying. Text-based clients of old (tin, pine, etc.) still outperform current monstrosities by a wide margin.
Are they replacing them, or are they just making everyone else work more for the same pay?

How much ramp-up will replacing them require? How will that impact their production rate?
It’s a ballsy move to compare the oil and gas industries to health. There is plenty to criticise about the way the US healthcare system is run, but do people really begrudge treating the two industries differently?
Interestingly the original search for these empty secret chambers in the pyramid helped an architect come up with one of the best theories on how it was built: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d83mn1yxCHc

Using a combination of an external ramp, up until the point of the King's chamber, then from there it used an internal ramp system that snaked around the edges.
They aren’t an option for the majority of Americans.
Yeah, thats just the point guys, the middle & middle upper classes lose their deductions and the rich lose the estate tax, it all comes out for the little guy right?

Wake up.
Very clean and easy to read, thanks for sharing. That code is amazingly illuminating.
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Agree. Instead of just educate, gp decided to present him/herself as a superior person for noticing this "obvious" insight
I don't understand why I should be taxed for dying... The state stealing any portion of my hard-earned and already-taxed wealth from my heirs is something I object to.
This is a long term investment for me so I don't plan on trying to time the market or cash out early. I fully expect to see Bitcoin rise above $10,000 in 1 year.
Yup, if you work or do business in the US, then you need USD. No trust necessary.
Yes, you can go in them. I've been in them. Though that was back in 1995.
The top tax rate is NOT going down. It remains at 39% under the proposal released by the House today.
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The more we learn about the Giza Pyramids, the more they look like some technological device. I highly doubt the common "understanding" that their designed use was a fancy mausoleum for dignitaries. I have no doubt they have been used for this purpose, but unlikely to be the original intent.
I think Grandmaster Flash said it best:

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Yes is similar to it in the regard that with both tools data from websites can be extracted.
Not being reliant on it would have a massive effect on the Middle East. Whatever stability they have now would go. That aspect would need a lot of care, and the West’s track record is not good.
Start publishing the videos with rsync?

Why do you care about him working more efficiently, anyway?
I'm pretty sure that Turing completeness and/or halting problem imply that you can't statically determine memory use of arbitrary code.

Doesn't mean you couldn't make an useful sub-turing language for resource limited use.

On a final note, nodemcu doesn't really execute "lua instructions", it executes normal machine code like everything else but it ships with lua interpreter/vm firmware.
Bingo. Which is why it's a quality not to have dependencies on any specific software when designing a format for longevity. XML has an absolute minimum of such dependencies, Open Document has only zip added to the mix, which is a format with tons of different and independent implementations, plenty of documentation for how to implement it - on top of being a fairly simple format to begin with.

SQLite for all it's significant qualities are none of that, and thus you shouldn't use it if designing for file format longevity.
I believe they also add a loss term corresponding to translating A to B using last iteration's model, then translating that B-sentence back to A and comparing to the original sentence.
One worry is that discrimination would come naturally with the next generation. A majority would never vote itself as second class citizens - but if traditional people weren't the majority then it's a possibility.
What a child. There's a difference between being direct and telling your co-collaborators that their opinions are "fucking idiocy."
Yes, those are cars for the wealthy. Most people cannot even afford a car. If they can, they’re probably not buying a new car. And, if they do buy a new car, they’re probably looking to spend close to $20,000.
And part of that is understanding when those perspectives are valuable and when they are irrelevant noise. I'd wager (but have no way of proving) that the quality of the Linux kernel has not been negatively impacted by a lack of people who get upset over word choice.

Culture ownership is a thing, and Linus and team were there first. Oncomers need to adapt, or go elsewhere. They certainly don't need to provide this constant distraction.
They are more like the 2nd/3rd car for the upper middle class. So many in the Bay Area are used just for commuting in EV lanes and charging at work by people who don't need the tax credit.
To me, picking up the kid is the tough part. How do you ensure that the kid finds and gets in the right car? That's a lot of burden to put on whatever adult is supervising the activity.
That author claims that tax exemptions aren't subsidies "according to Dictionary.com".
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When ancient civilizations looked up they saw gods.

What will happen to the minds and psyche of future generalizations when they look up and see nothing?
0.1% per day? Are you sure? That's a 3.5% fee per year! That's astonishingly high for any sort of custodian's fee.
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Money laundering is highly likely, as is flight capital. There's billions upon billions of dollars looking to exit from countries like China and Russia. This is kind of a type of money laundering since the goal is to evade capital controls and/or taxes at the sending or receiving end.
Li-Fi technology offers benefits in mobility, speed, cost, security
Or even just fuel taxes that are sufficient to maintain vehicle infrastructure.
Sure, but that is something they need to figure out. The world cannot wait on the middle east to stabilize... they don't exactly have a great track record of doing so either..
Patreon has cornered the market on funding projects which otherwise have not much revenue potential. I’ve been seeing more and more open source projects switching to that model. (The only bad thing about Patreon is no option for one-time contributions)
Why do we have to choose one over the other? Why can't we have high quality kernel code AND not alienating contributors?
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Are you sure about that?

Just because something is priced in a range that would be affordable to most professionals, liberals or conservatives, does not mean it isn't associated with the elite.

This toilet paper is made of gold... but do you think its the "elites" that are buying it?

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I know 4 people who purchased used Nissan Leaf's for under 10,000 with the tax credit in California. They all make over 6 figures. My conservative neighbor makes less than $60,000 per year, and has a truck that costs that much.
Buffett's got a famous bit of advice that you want to own businesses any fool can run, because sooner or later a fool will be running it. But that aside, he's certainly not going to ride an investment down if the CEO is damaging value and Buffett is unable to remove them.
>that a top spot cannot be purchased.

you can buy hn upvotes, which is the same as buying a top spot.
I'd absolutely, without hesitation, dump the volatile one. If it can appreciate by 15 times in a year, then, clearly it can fall to a 15th of its value just the same.

I need to know that I can pay my mortgage and buy food at the end of the week, so stability is paramount.
Is a program that has 100s of threads realistic?
Feels reminiscent also of CycleGAN (https://github.com/junyanz/CycleGAN)