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I've been a semantic CSS proponent for years, but I'm intrigued. CSS puts everything in a global namespace, which is an anti-pattern everywhere else. Most modern approaches have been moving towards limiting the scope of Cascading (CSS Module, Styled Components).

The semantic approach forces you to generalize your HTML up front and leads to over-engineering styles. Plus JS component libraries make refactoring across a project a lot simpler.
First class? Parcel uses Babel to transpile. Ugh. https://github.com/parcel-bundler/parcel/issues/954
The SEC needs to prove he made a “materially” false and misleading statement. The Supreme Court has defined a “material” fact for purposes of the securities laws to mean that there is:

> a substantial likelihood that the...fact would have been viewed by the reasonable investor as having significantly altered the “total mix” of information made available.

If a statement is an obvious joke, no reasonable investor could have viewed it as altering the mix of relevant information.
All they had to do was tweak some wording in 18 U.S.C. § 32 to cover reckless use of drones and other egregious behavior. See https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/32

But drones are hot so why not pass a complex bill with a complex mandate to satisfy regulators itching to pounce on drone hobbyists.

Frankly I assumed the behavior was already criminal under Federal law.[1] Anybody who thought it was okay to buzz airplanes is almost certainly not thinking about consequences.

[1] I'm not completely convinced it's not, FWIW, but I'm satisfied it's not covered by the above, which is the only relevant Federal criminal statute I could find. I'd bet it's already illegal in many states, though.
Which languages?
I'm not so sure, one of the other space companies could start poaching talent and there's no way they can continue the government contracts with a huge loss of critical staff.
>Electric cars are not yet mainstream, but when the become mainstream, they're going to look a lot more like a Chevy Volt than a Model S or Model 3.

Is your argument based on the form factor? Tesla's EV value proposition is based on the range of the battery pack, which blows the Leaf out of the water (the Volt is a hybrid). Switching to a smaller form factor (hatchback) would increase Tesla's range advantage.

How is putting an electric motor in a slightly different shape of car a more important accomplishment than making it run for 300 miles on a charge? The end-game car might look like a Chevy Volt on the outside, but under the hood it'll look more like a Tesla. Also, the cross-over SUV only replaced the station wagon as a way to exploit emissions regulations, which will no longer be relevant for EVs; see:

https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1107161_are-you-driving...

Also, as 'colordrops noted, the Roadster predates the Leaf and the Volt, and may have inspired automakers to compete with Tesla.
> IIRC the course was taught in Scheme at one time, but it switched to Python because it seemed easier for students to grasp the basics that way.

as explained in the interview, the course changed to python because the course itself changed. they basically killed off the old course and created new courses built around their new degree program structure. the new course hits a lot of different aspects of electrical, computer, and software engineering, many of which heavily use existing libraries, so they seemed to pick python for this.

in my opinion, they could have easily written libraries in another language, so i suspect there were some politics at MIT that lead to the decision to use python.
If a CEO of a publicly traded company expresses a belief in a short-side/journalism conspiracy, the board of that company should relieve that person of their duties right away. All such people in recent history have been paranoid cranks who drove their companies into the ground. See: Overstock

As for Tesla specifically, there is an overt and massive "conspiracy" on the part of the long side to cheer their share price. There are numerous online news outlets that are shameless boosters of Tesla. The idea that there's a big conspiracy between short sellers and journalists has no supporting evidence whatsoever.
I think they'll not play for defense, they'll play for a settlement of a big fine, that he'll pay personally, and only a fine. The primary risk is the ban from being CEO, and they can probably avoid that if the SEC is willing to treat it as a teaching moment for Elon.
In this context, Zizekian "ideology" is a set of beliefs or axioms that color how we perceive the world. It's just the medium through which we live our lives and exist our existences and engage with social structures. So in that sense, religion is one thing which would help to make up 'ideology'.

In the non-jargon common sense of ideology ("a system of ideas and ideals, especially one that forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy", thanks dictionary) you're broadly right.
FYI, repl.it has Python3, you just need to select Python3 and not Python.

As far as I know, the __qualname__ property was introduced in Python3.3, so obviously you wouldn't see it in any Python 2 version.
I appreciate the technical achievement. But I would have appreciated it even more if it had been a standalone company separated from the rest of Google. The products by themselves are benign, all that power concentrated in the hands of so few is not.
Well it also rarely goes to filing a lawsuit against the CEO... So I guess who knows, but if I was on the board I'd be reading the D&O insurance policy quite closely.
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He responded:

“This unjustified action by the SEC leaves me deeply saddened and disappointed. I have always taken action in the best interests of truth, transparency and investors. Integrity is the most important value in my life and the facts will show I never compromised this in any way.”

https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/27/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-respon...
Indeed, and the ipod had no wireless and less space than a nomad, it was lame.

Oh wait, while Malda was technically right, it turned music files mainstream, and the iPhone turned touchscreen phones mainstream
It's more of a parody of the Valley than the idea itself. Most of the aspects of the idea surround things like Tweeting, followers, et cetera.

I like the idea of a pipe! Perhaps makes more sense than a smart toilet.
Sorry, that kind of thinking is problematic. A person can't exactly change their EQ, so you shouldn't be so toxic about this.
You know what they say about stopped clocks...
The number one ranked one in the world for economics, actually.
>Why do you need my account? Why not use your own? We have plenty of our own accounts. We need you because no matter how many accounts we have internally, Facebook limits the amount we can spend per account. By working with people like you, we are able to scale our business.

Can somebody explain if this makes sense? Why are there limits on account spending?
Google's competition didn't force them to implement cross-service banning.
I agree, I Write SQL code all day long, can’t explain why, I have just always hated upper case, so never used it for SQL.
I also like the expressiveness of Postgres double quoted identifiers, so use these a lot in for auto generated app tables, reserving snake case for meta hand coded tables.
Sure, and Bull sells systems with far more than that. They're always highly specialized and cost $$$
what more could you want from website?

I guess once the site is less bloated, then the next step is less bloated content. Could that message have been reduced to the length of a Tweet?

And after that, unpublish it entirely - we'll see the site has changed when we see it.

Fewer websites with less content. Only the most interesting things. Who could argue against that?
This is great, the native await is amazing. IPython is one of the great tools in the Python ecosystem, if you're not using it already (or, gasp, using the standard `python` REPL) you should start. It blows anything else out of the water. Prompt-toolkit[1] is also really great if you're writing a REPL-like tool and just want easy IPython like widgets.

The %autoreload magic has been improved as well[2]. Great release overall!

1. https://github.com/jonathanslenders/python-prompt-toolkit

2. https://ipython.readthedocs.io/en/stable/whatsnew/version7.h...
The processors they're using appear to be well in excess of $10,000 each. To get 224 physical cores, you'd need to run them in a 8-CPU configuration, so you've got ~$100,000 invested just in the processors alone.

Memory is absurdly expensive right now, and I'd be shocked if 12TB of it cost any less than another $100,000.

You have to sign a multi-year reservation, and with a cost of $267,512.88 per year (as calculated from another comment in the thread), I assume their profit margins for the first year are nearly non-existent. However, over the course of the remaining two years of your reservation, they're making a great deal of money on each reservation.

So yea, I imagine someone could build something like this, but such an individual would need to have very deep pockets.
The last thing the internet needs...
I am just curious of the age group here.
I could grep the heck out of some log files on that.
Just as in f#, Python's lambdas can be bound to a name. There's no real difference between a def and a lambda. You're complaining about some distinction that doesn't exist. You didn't even try to discover whether it does before complaining about it.
And 802.1X is a thing as well, although it's not very widely used.
Van Rossum in https://python-history.blogspot.com/2009/04/origins-of-pytho... comments that "lambda" was likely the wrong choice for a name, saying "the choice of terminology had many unintended consequences. For instance, users familiar with functional languages expected the semantics of lambda to match that of other languages. As a result, they found Python’s implementation to be sorely lacking in advanced features."

Perhaps it would help if you didn't think of "lambda" as defining a lambda function, but something more prosaic like "defexpr", and that Python doesn't have lambda functions at all?

As to your experiments, you have found one of the many differences between Python 2 and Python 3.

After researching F# for about 10 minutes, perhaps you might think of Python 2 as being like OCaml and Python 3 being like F# - they are two instances of the same language family, with a mutually compatible language subset, but many incompatibilities.
Because the ad spends are fraudulent in nature? Just a guess.
That's a little outside of the specific question I was asking, so I feel like an addition is warranted; I'll try to return to the main topic where possible as well.

My outside knowledge is that a medical facility focuses on: diagnosis, confirmation of diagnosis, selection of treatment along with annotations about EXCEPTIONS to standard treatment, finally actual treatment. I'd like for doctors to focus more on the keen observation and decision parts and would not mind automated transcription of doctor / patient interactions to be reviewed and possibly have a summary forward (but not replacement of actual data) added by other staff. That might be an opportunity to hire/train other types of staff and gain experience in a more concrete way; much like the source article wants to make it easier for potential experts to grow in to a job.

If there's a typical outcome given an input it's important to document the decisions that affected the selection of non-generic courses of action - exceptions are things that should be known in the future. That's something that any worker should do.

The NTSB, as seen in a different recent hacker-news linked article, has excellent postmortems, even for incidents which only came close to being disastrous. A cascade of failures and lack of good decision processes seem to be the typical cause and review with recommendations on how to prevent them from occurring in the future is good. An honest mistake or poor circumstances for otherwise good people are worthy of overlooking and avoiding in the future. Lack of training can be identified and refresher courses or other supplementary training can improve the situation for everyone. Much like making sure someone is addressing problems in their job and growing to accommodate the required work.

Though there might be a bad fit for a job; either someone not able to do the expected work of an individual in that position, a job that's poorly defined and/or not broken up in to manageable units of work, or a worker that is a bad actor to some degree. All of those defects are situations that review and recommendations for remediation should address and resolve.

In your specific case, I believe having a single payer system would improve the outcome related to the above considerations. Affected individuals would still be covered by 'the system', good doctors would not be burdened by specific negative outcomes that happened to occur under their care, and bad workers of any type would be removed.

The actual outcome of individual patients shouldn't factor in to compensation. However addressing that in detail is clearly off the main topic.

I think it is both ethical and practical to recognize and classify cases that are bad fits for a given worker and to attempt to route them to someone that is a proper fit; while providing the best intermediate care and transition possible.

Also of note is that for a 'single payer' system the costs SHOULD be divorced from the actual treatment; though might be a considered criteria when a given standard of treatment is selected.
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HANA in memory database that can serve both OLTP and OLAP workloads with sub second response times. The cost of the server is dwarfed by the licence cost.
even at 1K per month it would add 36K doesn't change the equation much
I came from the context of data compression apps (worked on one). Before the Onavo acquisition FBs internet.org was on full blast. Made sense FB would want to incorporate compression with it. Looks like it was just a smoke screen.

Onavlo from the get-go looked like a data harvesting operation though. The app was clunky at best, the compression lacking.
The jury is still out regarding its ability to run Slack.
I think you're vastly underestimating the enormous pressures that will be put to bear on solving literally every other problem if it means even the possibility of eliminating a majority of the drivers entirely and their huge cost to the bottom line which in modern days is placed almost literally above all other aspects of the business even to the detriment of the fundamental service being provided as long as it's bearable by the market.
Sounds like human society. Makes you wonder whether or not we are just play things in a 'fish tank'?
Thanks for the numbers.

30% of delta-V but much more than 30% more fuel used (etc) since "compound interest" applies as you're using fuel to ship fuel out of orbit and then much of that fuel again to change your orbit to mars, etc.

Similarly, Napoleon came up against the limits of using horses to pack hay for horses invading Russia - compound interest; you can only do so much.

PS - that 30% assumes a path that I don't, and no solar power used to catapult oxygen off the moon. I'd go for a Lagrange point you're ignoring.

PPS - you've assumed Mars, not, say, near-earth asteroids or trojans with a very different, far lower delta-V. Vastly different problem.
i guess that is true in python3 but it is not in python 2.7.
So you want to say if you can understand, can discuss with engineer leeds, can make a decision and accept or decline a solutions to the problem which your company is making, you're not involved in the development work?
They're both network effects. The difference is that the relative value per node, to other nodes has changed. Disaster hits when the high-value nodes leave.

Networks are driven by positive feedback both going up and down. This sounds good, but isn't: the system and balance points are inherently unstable. Nothing succeeds like success, or fails like failure.
How do you instruct an iPhone or iPad to use VPN when you are not connected to your home Wi-Fi? I used their former Workflow automation app (now dubbed Shortcuts in iOS12) and it did allow reacting to such an event (going out of range of 1 or more wi-fi networks) but did not realize one of the possible actions was to be able to enable VPN.

Was that what you used? Or was it something else?
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Don't complain about design warts if you're using an old version. Python 2 is just a couple years from end-of-life, and that's after the support guarantee was extended.
My thumb and pointer finger went numb a year ago. For me, I'm pretty sure that most of the cause was due to problems in my shoulder, and not the hand itself. It's worth noting that strain on your neck and shoulder can cause "pinched nerves" which will result in numbness in your extremities.

Acupuncture, regular breaks away from the computer and exercise fixed my issues.
No, but if you accept the answer, you get $15.
I work on the formal verification of AI systems as well, but focusing on model-based reasoning systems rather than the model-free ML systems. What you've described is exactly what terrifies me most about ML in safety critical contexts: it can fail in a large number of ways, and predicting these ahead of time is generally intractable.

I like to think of it in terms of quantifiers: for most systems it's fine to say that there exists a set of representative tests that the system passes. For critical systems, you really want "for all" in there instead.

Fortunately the model-based systems are much easier to reason about, even if they suffer from difficulty modeling certain cases. For a model-free system I think the starting point would be to precisely state a correctness criterion that could be used as a decision procedure on the output of the model; the combined system would be "verified" to a certain degree. Unfortunately you can't guarantee that it would always be able to yield an answer (it might always give a bad one which was rejected) and, the more fundamental problem, one might reasonably expect that if you can express the correctness property to a sufficient level of detail that you can perform verification on it you might be able to write an easier-to-verify implementation that doesn't rely on ML.

This stuff is hard, yo.
I would suspect they are building their own HW for this, but this is speculation based on the fact that AWS is building DCs for the IC/Gov and as such are working to accommodate where that is heading, and addressing how the ICs/Gov would want control over such HW.
I thought that was Putin's motto.
Canaries.

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The first comment in the thread you link to says the Raspberry Pi connects to botnets and records all network traffic.
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Yeah the article has it correct. In the video on the article he opens with talking about the paper and said it came out in 2010. Maybe he first saw it then.

Part of Bitcoin/crypto success was due to the sketchiness of the Great Recession (Sept 15, 2008 the markets fell off a cliff and the paper came out two months later in November 2008) and fears of being tied to into a fiat nationalized currency.

I don't know if bitcoin/blockchain would have been as big a hit without coupling with the Great Recession, that at least gave bitcoin massive fuel. The Great Recession was 'good for bitcoin' as they say.
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Tesla is a marketing-driven company.
Yeah pressing on the area isn't so bad, but pull your fingers away quickly and oh Jesus!
I had appendicitis when I was 8. It ruptured during the visit to my GP, literally shit blood, rushed off to the hospital for an emergency appendectomy. Fun times!

I was in there for a few days. The kid in the bed next to me was hard case. Nurse comes to check on him and he goes "yeah I managed to get all the grass out of my cut, and now it's heaps better"

He'd pulled all his stitches out.
I don't have any analytics on my blog. Can you explain the benefit of GA over Piwik? What genuinely useful insights does GA give you (specifically for a personal blog) that Piwik does not? (I assume that the info from Piwik would be similar to what you get from computing stats from the web server access log.)
Salt them.
I know you're joking, but that operation is often disk-io bound, not cpu or memory bound... and the disk is still EBS, you'll not get much better performance on that than on an m5.xlarge I bet, unless you use a grep regex that needs to gobble lots of data into memory as part of the search.
Not to mention no one paid for the crimes of 2008.
I can agree that Musk's Mars mantra had its place when nobody was paying any attention but "Mars" meant something and "let's move to dead rocks" wouldn't have been appealling. It's nearing time to drop it, though, I suspect.
I really hate this idea of the grand visionary.

Which is amusing in the case of Musk. As I've said over and over, his approach is to find an industry where most or all of the hard, expensive fundamental R&D has already been done (and paid for) by someone else, and then start a company to incrementally improve it and promise vast cost reductions from economies of scale.

That's what SpaceX is. That's what Tesla is. There's not really staggering heart-breaking Copernican-revolution work being done at either company. They're just applying incremental improvement and economies of scale to problems where the hard fundamental work was already done. The idea that it requires some special sort of unbelievable genius to come up with that plan, or that it's impossible to do without this specific (alleged) genius, is baffling to me.
It's a trade-off: our way may be better for breaking in, but other ways are better for fostering long and satisfying careers.
>Lightning

The lightning network is a terrible workaround because it doesn't scale with users, which is a massive flaw:

- With lightning: 2 people can only send 200,000,000 transactions in 20-30 minutes.

- With lightning: 200,000,000 people can only send 2 transactions every 660 days.

Imagine if the population of the U.S. used lightning, then you would only get to buy anything twice every two years. Lightning is an overengineered, failed 3rd-party solution tacked on to a cryptocurrency (bitcoin) to solve a problem that other cryptocurrencies have already solved.
Exactly right! I keep my PayPal and primary, recovery email password outside of the vault. I can recover accounts and keep money safe(r) that way.

I have to remember three passwords (oh no!) and feel safer for it. It could all be in my head, though.
>So your web traffic might be to personal websites (mine is, too) - but we're a minority I guess

But then that would be an improved situation for the two of you, right? (And many others like you, including me.) So it would still make some difference to those who care.

The overall load on the web would still be higher than it could be, though, due to the bloat.

Small improvements should not necessarily be neglected or dismissed, though. Otherwise it becomes like a symptom of the original problem being discussed.