skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>By that I mean video evidence, financial transactions, text messages, emails, cell phones tower pings for location

Yes, you are right, the majority of criminal convictions at trial are based on physical evidence (of course 9 out of 10 cased do not go to trial). But none of that evidence comes in without a witness that can introduce it.

So perhaps not an eyewitness to the crime itself, but a mandatory witness to introduce the "hard evidence". So for example take any DUI, before any video of the suspect or breathalyzer evidence can be introduced the officer needs to testify to the facts of the initial stop, then a witness needs to introduce the breathalyzer (make, model, has is been calibrated regularly, is/was the officer properly trained, did the test results get handled through the proper chain of custody, etc...).

>Even in your example, the video is what identified the suspect and lead to arrest not eye witnesses.

A video can't be introduced without a witness (now they don't need an eyewitness to the events depicted on camera, the store manager/records custodian will generally get the video in, but a good defense attorney might get it thrown out, so the eyewitness to the abduction becomes the key evidence in the case itself).

This is why "red-light cameras" failed constitutionality tests in many cases, because many jurisdictions tried to introduce the video without a witness...which violates the defendant's right to cross examine.

Or take the OJ case...all the physical evidence in the world from bodied, to murder weapon, to bloody glove...and no conviction.
Natural language is high dimensional and hard to do convolutions with. That’s why you need dimensionalaty reducing embedding layers. There isn’t anything magical about symbols, their space just has less structure than simple numbers.
Only if self driving cars are legally required and expensive. If self driving cars are not legally required (ie because they are that much safer), or they are cheap people will continue to buy and own cars. The convenience of a personal car with your golf clubs in the trunk is worth it.

Don't forget that the self driving world you imagine is worse for the environment: all those cars going empty to a distant parking lot until you are done with work eat up a lot of energy.

If you want to solve environmental problems from cars invest in public transit. The biggest problem in modern cities is neighborhood designs that make public transit too slow. (you need to have a short walk to the stop, and then the vehicle not make many twists and turns along the way to where you want to be). Density is useful for transit, but suburbs already have the minimum density required, they lack the ability for transit to be fast though.
Much of google’s success is built on trust. People had to trust them a whole lot to sign up for most of their services at one point or another. Most employees I have met felt the company was very open, their ideas mattered and that they were working on something positive.

Maybe that much trust is naive but when your decisions can amount to things like censoring the internet for half the world it’s maybe not the best plan to just pull the trigger and tell everyone who works for you to just deal with it.
It would be less expensive but that isn't why we own cars. It would also be less expensive to buy cheap fuel efficient cars.

We buy these cars because we are buying flexibility and time. Even public transportation can take lots of extra time if you aren't in the center of dense service. With my car, I don't have to wait for an Uber, I don't have to plan, I can just go whenever and wherever I want. It also doesn't get exponentially more expensive if I want to go somewhere 1+ hours away. Obviously if you never leave a three block radius, a car would be pretty silly. I'm just trying to say car ownership isn't generally about cost.
>Try getting an old car past new emission standards.

Outside of California and a couple other states making a car pass emissions until it ages out of the emissions testing program at 15-25yr is not cost prohibitive.

>A tranny rebuild isn't cheap.

Transmission replacement is of similar cost and happens around the same mileage as a battery pack replacement.

>I don't know of any cars junked for lack of new car smell.

His point was that the people that buy new cars typically trade them in and buy another new one for reasons other than it being no longer economically viable to run.
669 commits in the last year... and asking if the project is dead?

I'm a bit confused here. Maybe the project is mismanaged, or there's some upstream issue with package distro, but it seems to be far from dead.
> it does is freeze the dependency tree using Pipfile.lock

sorry but what does freezing the dependency tree mean?
If there are no commits, maybe that means it is finished, stable, reliable?

I would like more projects to be without commits and just work.

I don't understand why there must always be new commits if everything already works.
Oh yeah, I remember browsing it back in the day. A friend touted it as some platform where your questions get answered by experts in that particular field. For a time it was cool - had NASA astronauts, computer scientists, famous politicians. But later it got filled with random no names and their sob stories, motivational self-help nonsense and just embellished factoids from history. It turned into a glorified r/askreddit
Transport-Related CO2 Emissions of the Tourism Sector
Biome. We no longer say ecosystem, we say "Biome".
Pretty good advice given here, will keep them in mind
>any even number can be divided by 2 until it reaches 1.

What do you mean by that?
> any even number can be divided by 2 until it reaches 1.

6 wants to have a word with you.
sounds like a really interesting investigation
Driving Product Management Performance
> I'm not mad, I don't think you're bad people, but the least y'all can do is be honest with us

how entitled can someone be, you have the source code, if you're not happy why not contributing yourself?

It is like some people don't realize most of these projects are other people working for free on their free time and giving that for free to anyone that feels like using it
The problem is the name, not the content. There are lots of guides, blogposts, etc which say “use pipenv, is awesome”. However, if one actually tries to do this, as the bug says, one gets a very old release with seemingly no chances for bugfixes, etc..

This means a bad experience for people who try to use it, and makes whole Python ecosystem feel a tiny bit worse too. Imagine a frustration of someone reading the blog post , spending all the time learning about system, using it, and then discovering bugs won’t ever get fixed!

It is very easy to fix by an author: just a small, 4 line commit to readme and website saying “the project is dead , go elsewhere”. This will allow people to move on - maybe to a fork, or to some other project which does similar thing.
What are you using now?

I’ve been an active member of various communities and forums over the years (excluding reddit), and I never actively left one. It was always just a realization I hadn’t been to the site (or really aging myself, BBS) in a year. Most of them where daily habits at one point.
> Python packaging in general is such a messy ecosystem

Not just messy. It’s probably worst in class.

I at least can’t come up with a single worse package-management story which I do know of.

Edit: I’m talking about platforms with actual package-management which sucks, not platforms with the absence of package-management all together.
would the car last as long as it lasts when you use it 5% of the time? From what I have heard its common to replace company fleets after 5 years or so...
Meanwhile, Poetry just announced 1.0: https://python-poetry.org/blog/announcing-poetry-1-0-0.html
People also think God made the earth in 6 days. What mass groups of people believe isn't indicative of Jack.
The "fewer moving parts" myth needs to die. IC engines themselves are extremely reliable, it's usually something else that finally kills an old car.

Just think about it: a very high mileage car does maybe 300 000 miles. At an average speed of 30 mph that's only 10 000 hours of running, or 420 days continuously. IC engines in generators, excavators, ships, trains, heck even in aircraft routinely do many many multiples of this before they are scrapped.

For any part on a vehicle, IC or EV, it's possible to make it last fifty thousand hours no problem. But value engineering is a thing, so companies will make stuff cheaper and cheaper until it lasts only for 10k hours, or maybe 2k for a "regular replacement part". There is absolutely no reason they won't do exactly the same value engineering on an EV car as an IC car.
OK so we're sidetracking here, but I have never seen anyone use "biome". Why change from "ecosystem"?
That quote gave me some serious creeping chills down my spine.
Because resumes aren't made by maintaining existing well-working software.
My blog is pretty off-beat (largely about snails but also some general life stuff), clean-ish, and self-hosted, so I hope you'll forgive the self-plug: http://liza.io
Our Perception of Nature Is Wrong
Did you choose the location of your house based on its proximity to the hospital?
Prefab cross-laminated timber (CLT) is a modern equivalent. It is suitable for highrise buildings (no concrete, all wood including elevator shafts, etc) and it is a carbon sink for as long as the housing stands.
> It would seem somewhere along the way we found ways to significantly reduce the number of women entering the profession.

In absolute numbers, the number of men entering computer science just grew faster, than the number of women. Don't forget that 50 years ago, there were fewer people in CS or programming than today.
Builders are generally not interested in being landlords.
It looks like 1.4k people have forked it. The question is, which fork do I use? The problem is not that the source is unable to be updated, the problem is how to you organize peoples' efforts under a trusted maintainer long term? How do I know which forking effort to trust?

My understanding is that that's kind of the point of groups like the "Python Packaging Authority". So if they're not going to merge pull requests and do maintenance on the project, that IS a problem, since they're supposed to be the official version right now.
It may be abandoned by everyone with release permissions.
Where's the app? How does my house rate?
Funny the YouTube video linked by the comic is gone.
AngelList: An index of all VC deals will work better than any VC fund
C/C++.
The kind of tank design that appeared in World War I. They were designed to cross the cratered wastelands and trenches created by the fighting. The crews fought from gun ports and mounted cannons/machineguns, rather than a rotating turret.

Examples:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_IV_tank
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_V_tank
Well, C/C++ dependencies are also a hell to reliably setup on different platforms.
The book's chapter 3 does not describe the current state of the art. I find it is useful only as a historic background up to a certain point in time (1969?).

However, from a practical standpoint, if one wants to want to implement a parser (for the purpose of a compiler) or attempt to use the book in order to try to save time deciding what is a good parser that does not suffer from algorithmic shortcomings, one is advised to look at more modern algorithms. Notably, anything with LR in its name, anything called PEG or packrat can be outright avoided if one values one's time.
They could use census block information. That’s generally higher resolution than zip code data.
Achieving SoC 2 Compliance
He talks about maintenance and making releases. Otherwise people will still deal with bugs in the "current" release that have been fixed in the master branch for a long time.
Founder went from giving out yoghurt to a running a global agency
Title and comments in that issue thread show that people misunderstand how the FOSS works. Maintainer is not 'the project', it's the current direction that shapes incoming pull requests.
Hey, that was me! What a pleasant surprise, you made my day. Have a good one yourself!
There was a pull request merged a month ago. Looking at the commit history it doesn't seem dead to me. It might be more accurate to call it "poorly managed" or "uncommunicative".
In fact, as far as I can tell Roma was already made (paid for by Participant Media), before the distribution rights were sold to Netflix.
For situations like this it would be very useful if there was a way to easily share or make use of PR:s and issues of forked repos. I mean it sounds quite unnecessarily labor intensive to just create a fork and start merging those PR:s?

That way the barrier for moving to a diffident fork would be lowered.
I have taken liberty with the overlong title - but the sub title is

"""If you miss the best-performing seed investment, you will eventually be outperformed by someone who blindly invests in every credible deal."""

I am assuming that AngelList is likely to offer some index to be bought into by investors and take a few percent of every company listing on Angel - which becomes some sort of ultra accelerater.
I don't wish death, which is why I walked to the bus stop. Because of the busy roads I had to cross (without any traffic control) I'm the one who has a death wish. 3000lbs of metal would protect the driver very well when I'm hit, but just ensures I die.
Because only one person can make a release. That’s exactly the complaint: people have been contributing, a lot.. but the maintainer won’t release the contribution.

How would you feel if your fixed the bug patch more than two years ago, your PR was accepted.. but users still do not have the fix?
https://colorsupplyyy.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avCGl2_6MQc
Just look at them and go "OK BOOMER".
Serious question, what does pipenv (and poetry) have over conda?
Want a Bigger Say on Corporate Behavior? Move Your Money
What if Google required signing in to search?
It’s also bad that “adult” devices eavesdrop in adults, but in theory adults can decide for themselves if they’re ok with it.

In practice, I suspect the average adult is as aware of how much their devices spy on them as they are of the terms and conditions of the products and services they use — a distant and meaningless theoretical that might as well be a work of fiction.
But the question of a counterexample (eventhough it probably doesn't exist) is interesting. Is there a number for which we don't know weather it is a counterexample because it would take too long to compute? I feel like any single counterexample you'd propose would be proven wrong pretty quickly.
Engines, transmission, emission systems / catalytic converters, timing belts... there are dozens of components in an ICE which start failing or performing badly around 80k-120k which contribute to maintenance fatigue at that point. When you start spending $3-5k per year making all these expensive repairs to an old ICE car it feels like throwing good money into a pit.

The other big item is the software in the car becomes slow, dated, and no longer inter-operates properly with the latest phones.

Both of these factors are significantly mitigated with an EV with OTA updates.

Particularly when the manufacturer makes their latest generation hardware field upgradable, you can buy a new MCU and slot it into a late-model car and get all the latest features and performance.

The Model 3 in particular has an esthetic which IMO is particularly timeless and will not feel dated in 10 or even 20 years.

No car is maintenance free. The question is predictability and TCO. If A) maintenance is predictable, B) TCO remains low, and C) performance is consistent, then people will hold onto their EVs for more miles than their ICE equivalents.
pip is not yet in the standard library. as opposed to venv.
You look at the issues list to see if this is the case.

This project has 313 open issues. No, everything’s does not already work.
Not just you.

My $0.02 is that it is a shift from ad-driven approaches (as in showing ads) to consensus shaping approaches that focus on data mining.

The huge quantities of bad actors -- idiots, assholes, paid trolls, blatant propagandists -- also requires mitigation.

We've had locks and walled gardens for hundreds of years, and human nature hasn't changed. No surprise the same thing is happening on the intrawebs.
Speaking as a maintainer of large open-source projects, I know what it's like to get stuck working on a release branch (which is sometimes just the `master` branch) that takes forever to become an official release. I'm not sure if that's the story here, but there have been a lot of commits since the last release, so maybe?

In any case, I strongly recommend publishing alpha/beta releases along the way, without the ceremony of an official release, so that folks can give feedback during the long months that fly by when you don't have nearly enough time to spend on the project.

Respect the needs of your conservative users by not publishing official releases until they're really ready, but trust your more engaged users to use whatever you have right now, and let you know what's working/broken, without judgment.
Not, necessarily. The question could also be, why are there so many men in STEM? Because, the perceived problem, some activists try to fix is, the ratio of women vs. men in STEM. The silent assumption is often, that a ration far away from 1:1 is an indicator for blatant sexism.
Reminds me of NYC's old Moving Day, when every lease in the city expired on May 1, 9:00am.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_Day_(New_York_City)
One for Car Talk!

Actually when I read the title, my first gut reaction was "Vapor Lock".
I want to know who made that comment, what a unit.
A.I. Is Making It Easier to Kill (You). Here’s How
The fading from the downvotes actually makes this comment amusing now. More so than before at least.
Yeah but, if I'm not mistaken, autopilot only works on highways. Self-driving in such an environment may be 'close' to a solved problem, but if we are talking about a service capable of picking people up at their door... yeah, I'm not convinced.

>I think AutoPilot will be a truly remarkable achievement — as in, approaching a watershed human achievement akin to spaceflight.

Just want to point out the irony in this statement. Ok sure, fully autonomous self driving may be a great technological achievement, but it will be an achievement that benefits rent-seeking corporations rather than humanity at large. Sure, the benefits of such a service could allow car-free living at a price cheaper than leasing/owning a car, but this is a benefit that will be reaped by those with means (middle class) while the poor will still be riding the bus or walking. It would also make investment in public transportation even less likely, which would actually result in a net benefit for all.
Similar, 65k, but still hanging on. I mod a couple small subs.

My observation is the worst aspect of monetization is on the communities themselves. For the first half, say, it was standard spectrum: some trolls and schmucks but for the most part regular folks with something to say. April Fools projects from the admins wowed us year after year at the creativity and cordiality.

Then came the ads and the apps, no picnic but down in the subs was a new problem: site policy. At some point, subs and posts were getting yanked or even altered by admins. Censorship, astroturfing, shilling, kowtowing to foreign investors, the whole political manipulation thing: you couldn't trust anybody's motivations anymore in a conversation. Most lately, the standard disney/youtube-ification has started.

I'm almost done, too.
>any even number can be divided by 2 until it reaches 1.

It's hard because this is wrong.

18 is an even number. 18/2 is 9. 9 can no longer be divided by 2 and is not one.
Soho Gift to Wall St.: A 3 1/2-Ton Bronze Bull (1989)
Speculation only, but the method of proof might, in its key step, only bound to ~200. This is a more meaningful result to present if your reader knows that 200 is a as good as 1 because it loses nothing and also highlights something about the bound produced.
Genius sues Google and LyricFind over allegedly stolen song lyrics
In this case, I probably choose a bad name for the report.
What name would better describe the community of people who are creating tools/products and also trying to make a living from it? I call those people makers as well, but I agree that this could be misleading.
Remember all those folks who said they were going to leave the U.S. if Trump won the 2016 elections? Yup, me neither.
> pipenv allows you to create, manage virtual environments(using venv) apart from managing requirements file(Pipfile) and an npm like locking mechanism, dependency graphs, dev dependencies and more.

Why on earth would anyone need all this to manage packages for their projects?

Are there any other programming languages whose package-management comes close to this level of intricacy and complexity?

“This project needs package X”

I mean how hard can that be to get right in a self-contained environment?

This whole story is just madness coupled deep denial and Stockholm-syndrome.
That's naive. Nobody goes to Google because they want to see ads. They go to search, or to read their mail or to get a map somewhere, or dozens of other things. All of those services are the things that users value, and ads are the tool for monetizing valuable services. You can't separate it that cleanly.
And when they wake up, they reach for coffee and red bull.
Does this apply to other solitary activities, like writing prose (majority women), painting and drawing, poetry, creating clothes & other fashion?
Curious as well. The thesaurus lists them as synonyms, though it appears there are some minor differences in meaning when used as scientific terms.
there are a couple of issues with "moving on", since the project is owned by pypa, it feels it should be the default for python projects, pipenv has a good idea, but in my opinion, a flawed implementation, and maybe all my issues are already resolved in those 600+ commits without release.

About the framing of the question, I think it's because of all the flame wars in the past when people criticized pipenv and maintainers took it a bit personal.
Offtopic: after copying a value, an unrelated emoji is added to a status message. E.g.: "copied ;-)", "copied ;-*" or "copied :unicorn:".

It seems confusing to me and I don't like it. But I see how it could boost engagement.

I wonder how many more emojis we need to see until a "emoji-block" browser plugin becomes mainstream.
That if you don't regularly commit or if there's no PipenvCon in Las Vegas, it's considered dead.
Quora is particularly annoying in this regard. I too refuse to sign in oftentimes when they force me to.

When a service puts its core usefulness behind an unnecessary login then they are forcing me to sign in, they are not making me want to. There is a key difference.
I am not being toxic just trying to add some insight. If I came off as such I apologize.
Microsoft Windows is not on the list because it had direct descendent upgrades. 95 to 98 to XP etc provided a smooth upgrade experience for the end-user.

Works and Office were completely different product lines, and Works was free for the vast majority of its users, while Office was obviously not. It's not apples to apples.

COBOL was not in Visual Studio for ~20 years. Someone in 1996 couldn't have just fired up Visual Studio for Cobol after it was deprecated back then.
reddit.com/r/[thread/.compact is also an alternative.
probably recording exact dependency versions, based on a loose requirements.txt and when it was built.

You may want this because you have a library that you shouldn't be pinning to the third decimal on a sem-ver package, but that you don't want to hiccup in CI due to a dot-release.

Or maybe you think a loose file your tooling can read, and a hyper-specific file your builder should read, is a better interface for a project.