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Indeed inspirational article.
Fair point.

But convincing the entire population of the world to set their thermostat 1 degree higher during the summer months would have a 1000x multiple impact on a 40x shorter time scale than if every one of those people planted a tree.

The spirit of my comment is that in general people LOVE the path of least resistance.

Ask the average person about combatting climate change and their response is "plant more trees".

Because that's easy, shit you can pay the gardener to do it or donate $10 to a plant the tree collective and feel instant gratification with no sacrifice.

Vs the highest possible impact solution which is cutting personal consumption - even a little bit!
> They are not ambiguous if you have the whole file in your head.

They're not ambiguous period, python's `=` always performs a local declaration unless overridden via the keywords you mentioned.

> This is why there are keywords like "global" & "nonlocal".

It's the exact opposite of your statement: `global` and `nonlocal` indicate non-local bindings, because by default all bindings are local and you do not need to have "the whole file in your head".
Quite interesting. Are most actual social friends or people who were coincidentally in the same place at the same time as him? Like both get invited to a gala or whatever versus they visit each other’s homes or businesses on a personal level.
I want to understand your points more clearly.

> Laravels architecture works for one thing: web sites. And for that, you're better off using WordPress.

> Laravel is better than older frameworks, like say, code igniter but it still fights you every step of the way if you want to step outside the box.

Can you provide actual examples of where it "fights you every step of the way"?

> Web applications are not websites.

So can I infer that a building a web application with Laravel would be stepping "outside the box"?

If so, could you please give examples of how building a web application with Laravel "fights you every step of the way"?
I'm in Pittsburgh as well, but I don't think I'd agree on our public transit and airport being decent or having a big city feel. Our downtown is pretty much an industrial park, it's nearly a ghost town most evenings. Other areas like Lawrenceville, the Strip district, and the Mexican War Streets are nice, but they feel a bit inauthentic. The bus system is really lacking, it's something that should be light rail instead.
I hire people via upwork and freelancer to do a lot outsourced non-core tasks for my startup. One of the traits I look for is an immovable demand that 30-50% of a project be paid upfront.

It's a s* test that is a far better indicator of experience and competence than any flashy portfolio and ratings.
You could also blow up your stack as there is no requirement whatsoever that javascript implementations be tail-recursive.
Thanks! We're very happy to finally share the announcements.

We bet on GraphQL very early on, right after the initial specs came out, as their language was surprisingly similar to what we were working on. We have not looked back since then, as GraphQL growth is pretty impressive as the creation of GraphQL foundation.

We are considering supporting cypher because many people are actually quite used to it, it's an open specification, and would also help us make more "apples to apples" comparisons with other databases (hi, Neo4j!).

For now, though, we're focusing on providing native support for pure GraphQL (not only GraphQL+-) but we don't discard adding Cypher later on.

As for the pricing, this is for a cluster with 2 nodes (1 alphas + 1 zero) and includes support and access to enterprise features. This, actually, ends up being often more affordable than our competition (or so our customers have told us).

We believe it's time for Graph DBs to become the default storage system, in the same way people consider SQL and no-SQL options nowadays, so our target audience is much wider than just people interested on graph databases.

Lastly, regarding Mongo + Redis I was not aware of this so I'll be checking it out soon and then I can give you my opinion :)

Happy to continue the conversation on slack.dgraph.io or discuss.dgraph.io!
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> Wine emulator

Wine stands for "Wine Is Not an Emulator".
Every journalist is an activist for some point of view. An establishment-friendly bias is just as much a bias as anti-establishment bias. There’s nothing wrong with this—journalists are just people. But it’s dishonest to pretend that your own bias doesn’t exist and you are doing ‘objective journalism’ while other perspectives are ‘activist’.

An informed reader should understand the biases present in anything they read and weigh the arguments accordingly—pretending objectivity discourages this kind of responsibility and is very harmful to good-faith discourse.
> The Fiat 500e has been in production since 2013 (by Chrysler, in Mexico), but due to weird regulatory incentives, is only for sale in California and Oregon.

You mean, due to it being a compliance car only? Fiat actively discourages people from buying them - or at least the CEO does/did.

https://insideevs.com/news/353886/kbb-secures-amazing-deal-f...
Zero chance Mossad. Zero.

- MI6 had to have known of Price Andrew's association with Epstein. There's no way the Royal Family isn't on their grid.

- CIA & SS had to have known of Clinton's association with Epstein. Again, no way former Presidents are not under a tight CI net. No way.

- It was reported an expired Saudi passport was found in Epstein's safe; and it was also reported/speculated that Ehud Barak was caught in Epstein's web.

- After the 1987 Pollard affair Israel and the US came to an understanding Israel would not operate in the US. At risk was/is more than $3b in aid to Israel, access to US intel and a seat under the US security umbrella.

- Epstein appeared to be trafficking Russian women. No way this wasn't noticed by FSB.

"Best" case Epstein was operating independently for a time, blackmailing private businesspeople. "Worst" case he was operating on behalf of a foreign power (Saudi? Russia?). However, ultimately the US IC had to involve itself (see above) and it could be he was being run by several competing interests at once.

Highly unlikely anyone will ever know what really happened. Trial is about a year away. One wonders if he will still be alive.
VS Code is my primary experience with Electron and it performs incredibly well for me. So I don't really see what all of this fuss is about.
United Health Care, one of the largest private insurers in the US covers more lives than the Canadian Government and has every incentive to negotiate low prices.

This simple answer is satisfying to many who otherwise prefer single-payer plans, but doesn't really hold up to scrutiny
> Many satellites are visible to the naked eye; some even brighter than the stars. If you want to see them, heavens-above.org is a great place to find out when to look. https://heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=42830

Interesting link. Another interesting one is https://spotthestation.nasa.gov about the ISS, which is probably the most visible to the naked eye.
I guess the problem is less with race and more with region. Obviously a genetically diverse population is genetically diverse. You can be white and be genetically diverse, you can be black and be genetically diverse, you can be "mixed-race" and be genetically diverse.

But not every population is genetically diverse, and if intelligence is genetic, this could obviously manifest itself in an entire, non-genetically diverse population. Watson himself seems to be racist based on his later comments (where he did specifically mention black and white), but I think it is worth pointing out that his 2007 comments, for which he first earned the racist badge, made no mention of race. Rather, he said he was "inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa" because "all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours – whereas all the testing says not really".

He was not talking about African-Americans / black people in general there, but rather about Africa and Africans, which as a whole have been more genetically isolated than the rest of the world. Africa has always had a hotter climate (which many have argued is less evolutionarily selective for intelligence than colder climates) and worse nutrition due to less arable farmland. If intelligence is at all genetic, all of those factors could have a serious impact over 1000s of years on what the "baseline intelligence" is. Obviously regional IQ tests are not sufficient on their own to show that this is the case, but the argument itself is not inherently flawed. We just don't have the data to point in one direction or the other.

Claiming that race is a good indicator of such is flawed, as race and genetic diversity are not inextricably linked as the racists want to claim, as you have pointed out. But postulating that Africa as a region is less genetically intelligent due to a variety of evolutionary factors is not flawed in the same way.
> But that first comparison function is usually not what you want

All those functions implement the same comparison, the first is simply not including the similarly trivial implementation for eq:

def __eq__(self, other):
return self.a == other.a and self.b == other.b and self.c == other.c

> you want lexicographic ordering

Every word here makes sense but the objection makes none. What are you trying to say exactly?
I was a little sad when car2go pulled out of SD, it solved my last mile problem when I didn't have a car in San Diego.

I agree you can live in some places in SD and survive without a car, however you cannot really get to more than half of the places you want to get to. Most of the tech companies are up north, so working in tech you really need a car unless you are at one of the few shops downtown / Mission Valley.
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Track and Trace stops that within the US
> Most health insurance has a profit margin in the vicinity of 10%.

Well, that's partially because they're legally required to spend 80% of premiums on patient care.

The end result is that higher premiums mean higher profits out of that fixed percentage of margin they're permitted to skim, so they don't fight cost increases too much - until people outright stop being able to afford the premiums, increases in them benefit the insurer's bottom line.
"A screen was designed to hide emergency equipment with the joint aim of reducing women's anxieties and (through visual art) acting as a focal point of attention and distraction during labour, thus diminishing requirements for analgesia. Results demonstrated, in the presence of the screen, a statistically significant shortening of the duration of labour by 2.1h"

Uh, I don't have access to the full article, but was the control hiding the equipment with a blank screen or no screen at all?

Cause if the control was no screen at all, I don't think they were testing what they say they were testing:

"The significant clinical outcomes of this research provide the evidence of the value of integrating visual art into the environment of a labour and delivery room, improving the quality of the maternity service and potentially delivering real cost savings benefits to Hospitals."
This is a great read from Modern Treasury. One thing highlighted in this article that the industries not always talk about, is the concept of "Payment Ops". This is critical in FinServ organizations from my own experience. Any good and reliable payments infra is a function of technology, people, and process, and you need good tooling to streamline the whole workflow that involves engineering, finance, credit and compliance teams. Integrating with a payments API is only half of the definition of done.
Sure you've read the post? It's a Go tool with install shortcuts for Ruby and JS. It works with everything.
I bet filling hospitals with plants would work even better.
This is a one-sided hot-take. China is not the only reason it's so cheap. If you look at the history of solar and wind energy, the USA and Europe were absolutely crucial in innovation and cost cutting for the first few doublings of production. For instance, Germany was the biggest early-adopter of solar. Furthermore, the US has time and again been the innovators on the research-front, though we are ceding that ground more and more to EU and China today.

China has done some things very well, namely scaling up production massively and incentivizing via govt programs, both of which the USA has struggled to do. To say China is the only reason, that just ignores history.
Linking health care to taxes is a tremendously stupid idea. I wouldn't be surprised if lots of people who were already on employer provided health plans didn't even look at ACA options or were poorly served.

In America if you are really poor you are fucked if you claw your way up slightly you are barely better off or worse than when you started.

I'd bet dollars to donuts that the people you know on ACA plans aren't by most people's definition poor.
I had to look up “Karger-Thompson” to make sure, and came upon this: https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/coding-machines/

Dunno yet how it ends, but I'm just happy that someone writes fiction involving assembly instructions.
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This is true for most of the defense contractors I've worked for. It's one of the chief reasons I left that sector and eventually the US.
Hill climbing or simulated annealing would work fine, wouldn’t it? You are constantly looking for a goal that maximizes the number of times you can check.
Eleven dead and 5K people sent to hospitals in Japan due to heat-related issues
I moved to San Diego from the East Coast and used public transportation (trolley and bus) for over a year before I even got around to purchasing a car. It is absolutely possible, you just need to change the city's culture around cars, which your comment makes obvious. High-density housing is part of changing that culture. It increases demand for better public transit options and gets people comfortable and familiar with what living in an Actual Big City is like.

Frankly, San Diego has terrible civic planning and I suspect it comes from a combination of apathetic/uninformed citizenry and corruption w/r/t the real estate industry. But the problem is certainly not "too many people." There are many cities much larger than San Diego that have figured this problem out much better.
I don’t recall s300-s400 being deployed and fail though. It always was some very old system and the downed plane was hit by s200.
Why do people use shelter when they could just sleep outside? It's much less expensive, you know.
Public school is designed to teach a broad array of fundamental skills to a large audience. It's also an educational complex (industrial complex) in itself - a lot of people make a living in the public school space. Not just the visible people like your teachers or office staff, but custodians and district administrators, organizations and unions behind the scenes and all the logistics chains that sell all the goods the school consume. It's crazy huge and won't easily be changed which is why it doesn't change.

Even with that said, It's not designed for autodidacts. However, you should take away from school the skills on HOW TO LEARN. Then use those skills to teach yourself whatever you want. Public school serves as a base or platform, ie not the education to be achieved but the platform you use to then achieve want you want to learn.

It might also seem trivial that public school repeats or overlaps a lot of the same topics year over year, but this is to improve your comprehension. Think of it like watching your favorite movie, each time you watch it you notice something different. Each time you read, write, solve an equation, etc, you are increasing your efficiency and/or effectiveness to do those things better the next time, and next time, ad infinitum for life.

Fast forward both of the above, you're now in your career and able to out think, out maneuver your coworkers. If you start a business, you now can out think and out maneuver your competitors. It's far easier to change yourself by getting the skills you want out of school, then necessarily changing the school to give you those things.

Set goals, polish your lense, and put in the work - it all pays off later.
> The reason it even still exists today is because it was propped up by truly gigantic loans in the form of stock shares and VC capital

And those people are being rewarded for it..so what?

> Except he clearly isn't even able to do that.

Except he does. They optimize for cash flow, not income, and they're absolutely crushing it in that department.

Let me kindly refer you to Amazon's cash flow statement:

https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/amzn/financials/...

For more fun reading:
https://25iq.com/2014/04/26/a-dozen-things-i-have-learned-fr...

> Fourth, all of Bezos’s “wealth” is built

Bezos wealth is built by shareholders who invested in Amazon. What you're referring to is a moral and regulatory criticism, which frankly shouldn't be a criticism of Bezos himself but rather the people who govern his company and wealth.
Canada is not so hot on the idea.[1]

"The Canadian medicine supply is not sufficient to support both Canadian and U.S. consumers," the letter states. "The supply simply does not, and will not, exist within Canada to meet such demands."

[1]https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/american-demand-canad...
Where do I go from here: from a (perpetual)learner to a practitioner
At 40, I decided to take programming classes after stumbling across a question in quora that mentioned Python (it was the first time I heard about it as a programming language).
During my studies, I got very interested in NLP: So I read about it (NLTK). But the more I read, the more I realized I needed to cover other fields as well, in particular: statistics/probability, calculus, linear algebra.
The more I learn about NLP/ML/DL, the more I find new interesting things to learn.
At times, I feel lost and get discouraged, fearing that I won't have the time and energy to get into the NLP field.

Should I just stop and look for a job in NLP and learn on the job? Is there any chance I get a junior position?
Any insights, pieces of advice from people with similar experiences?

As a side note: my background is in linguistics and I started programming 4 years ago. I currently work as a front-end JS developer.
Thank you all!
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> George W Bush vastly expanded the use of executive orders. Libs like myself complained about that to no end.

> Then Obama came in and did it even more!

What are you basing that on? How are you arriving at either 1) W expanding the use of executive orders, or 2) Obama doing it even more?
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You're getting downvoted, but there was a similar issue in UK political circles. It's absolutely within the realm of possibility.
Trade unions is the specific kind of socialism, others were also invented but have never really taken off. One was direct partial ownership of means of productions, such as giving out diffuse controlling stock or equivalent, paying out dividends. The other was using bottom up small societies with representatives, essentially democratic, defined by bottom up hierarchical organization, which are not across trades (sounding like rebranded corporatism) but spatial - per city or area.

Both are vulnerable to being hijacked. Financial variant can be driven into the ground by others cutting corners or essentially exploiting workers - plain corporatism. The democratic bottom up variant shares the vulnerabilities vs demagoguery but makes it harder to counter, though also more expensive to pull off. Also does nothing against special interests or basic greed.

(USSR was actually etatist conservative bureaucracy rather than socialism.)
Anyone he blackmailed to make his millions should be distancing themselves.
Pizzagate was fiction and was easily debunked. The fact that there are actually bad people who do actual bad things doesn't suddenly validate made-up stories.
It saddens me that there are so many crooks in the world, and that many of them are technically proficient, and that the internet has turned into the perfect platform for crooks, liars, scumbags and cheats.

In 1994, a colleague and I, caught up in the excitement and promise of the Internet and HTML / browsers, gave two 1 hour University-wide lectures about the wonderful promise of what was to come. We made predictions that we thought bordered on crazy (like: one day you will see the things called URLs on buses!). But what we did not foresee is the stinking morass that much of the web has become.
Linux Gaming with Steam is actually quite nice these days. I spent about 3 years using an Ubuntu desktop for all my gaming at home. Most of the games I played installed via steam and worked great on Linux.

The only reason I switched back to a Windows Desktop was that there were just one or two games I specifically wanted to try, but couldn't install to Linux. And once I had switched back (and paid the price for Windows) there were no games that needed Linux, so no motivation to go back.
I think people understand very well that SoCal is designed for cars. That's why SoCal needs to change pretty dramatically, and this is part of that effort.
> this policy might not translate to the real world as intended.

Certainly there's no guarantees but it's not as if there is a lack of good examples of success of mixed-use zoning. NYC is a common example in the US but there's similar ones all over the world.

> More people will invariably mean more cars.

If you worked ~ten blocks away from where you lived, would you get in a car to get there (knowing that it would take about the same overall duration or longer via car)? Seems especially nice that you could count on favorable weather most of the time.
Milestones. As a freelancer I have insisted on payment after milestones and it never failed me. That and very strict "no pay, no work" ethics.

The point is: Even when "there is no money", getting someone on board takes time and effort. If that someone makes a credible threat to leave, more often than not suddenly there is money. If not: RUN.
Microsoft Office used a vaguely similar VM-based technique in the 90s, called P-Code. Cold functions in Office were compild to a space-efficient stack-based bytecode, minimizing how much native code had to be written and validated for each architecture. https://web.archive.org/web/20010222035711/http://msdn.micro...
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This is a perfect candidate for editing the title for accuracy on HN. I was absolutely shocked until I read past the clickbait headline.
I think people miss this because of the Sunken Cost Fallacy.

I've been freelancing 8 years and I can't imagine taking on a project without 50% upfront. The rare instances I missed that, I've lost money -- fortunately not more than a few thousand total.
Hey, balenaOS has been designed for long term deployment. As such, we have a read-only partition for the hostOS. We also have a second host partition so we can update the OS remotely and atomically. In general, we've tuned all sorts of elements in this direction as our customers really don't want to run around collecting sd cards from all over the world.