skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although the incentives are a bit different when it comes to law enforcement, as in the US it's quite common for those who hold all of the discretionary authority in invoking the criminal justice system - prosecutors and sheriffs and Attorneys General - to be elected positions, and at the same time, the continued existence of their bailiwick in the same size and with the same funding requires a show of at least some evident criminal behavior that they're preventing, whether that actually corresponds to actual crimes or not is sometimes entirely incidental. Innocence Projects around the country have found a significant percentage of those freed by their efforts to not only have not committed a crime, but also no crime had taken place in the first place. Coercive plea bargaining makes actually going to trial to hold the state to its burden of proof an exceedingly rare practice. On some level it is a performative exchange and has always been. Criminal statutes are also written in ways that don't necessarily fit what we generally imagine a word means. A burglary in many states simply mean the commission of a felony while trespassing. A conspiracy requires usually no more than two participants, a meeting of minds, and a substantial step in preparation. Accidents in industrial sites are, in comparison, far more objective and far harder to game for various interests. Crime, on the other hand, really represents much more abstract sets of guidelines applied to alleged conduct and state of mind, and much easier to game in terms of numbers.
capitalism, fixing the problems created by capitalism.

it's the circle of life!
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> Ban dihydrogen dioxide.

Not quite.
That's the problem though. Other than companies founded by introverted nerds, most of the corporate world is led by extroverts who set the norm and it won't be working from home.
> This whole line of "what could go wrong!?" starts from a much deeper sickness in the way Americans view the criminal justice system

The sickness is in how the criminal justice system works. Jury trials are a rare edgecase, most detminations of guilt are made by DAs. For most people in this country, being arrested and charged means you will be pushed into a plea deal and those that fight for their innocence face retaliatory harsh charges and sentencing.
Yep, people keep conflating growth of the money supply should lead to rising CPI inflation. But money isn't neutral, you need to pay attention to the Cantillion Effect.

When money enters into the economy through the wealthy, they buy stocks and it gets trapped. You can track this trapped money by looking at the velocity. When you increase the money supply by dropping interest rates, its essentially given according to whom is already wealthy. So if interest rates drop, you should expect the money supply to rise, velocity to drop, and assets to rise, but CPI should barely be touched. Therefore the more wealth inequality you have, the less that money supply increases through interest rates affects the CPI.

The CPI tracks how the common person spends their money. On the other hand if you were to institute a UBI, this would barely touch the money supply, but the CPI would sky-rocket. Disentangle the two concepts.

I've built up an intuition that the money supply should match changes in productivity, and that if it doesn't it will eventually lead to problems. But it's also notable that the trend is extremely important. If you do match, everything should be fine and this can last forever. If the money supply rises faster than productivity, you see what we've seen these past 50 years since we've been off the gold standard, a huge surge in asset prices. And if productivity rises faster than the money supply, people flee assets and into money. This is called a Deflationary Spiral. But the opposite state is basically an Inflationary Spiral, with people unwilling to spend their assets.

Dalio in his "Explaining the Economic Machine" video talks about a "Beautiful Deleveraging". My thought currently is that such a thing isn't possible. If you wait for the debt to get so bad that you have to do something, you can't match productivity anymore. Therefore the only thing you are left to do is grow the money supply less than productivity. And that changes everything. Suddenly the trend is to money. And once the money managers work that out, they all rush out of assets and into cash. This triggers a crash. So it's the trend that dominates, and there is no way to balance the deleveraging.
“If we only capture 1% of the market...”
MeteorJS Releases v2.0
Various things start evaporating once you open (e.g. barnyard aromas can blow off), and something does seem to happen to the tannins - they get smoother.
Given a free choice, I chose the heavier argon. I'd seen it in use in an SF wine store where one could try fifty wines. (An obsessive friend showed me this store. I have better follow-through.)

It is said that CO2 can carbonate your wine. If you haven't experienced this, you're fine. I know no reason to actively prefer CO2 to argon, if one is making a free choice.
https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption

The amount of energy used by bitcoin is many zeros larger than any of the examples listed and is used by a group of people many zeros smaller than any of the demographics mentioned. This is a pretty easy case to argue objectively, particularly because there are alternatives to proof of work, but they aren't as sexy as running a server farm full of FPGAs, GPUs, and ASICs.
Plot twist : it's not an IT faculty.
I know how to code, Professors don't. I don't get paid enough to fix decades of errors. They had some smart people who created the code and they were smart enough to leave as soon as they got their degrees.
Just upgraded motioneye[1] Python 2 yesterday via pip, have been porting other smaller Python 2 projects to Python 3 for personal use for a while now.

But there are still large projects like motioneye where Python 3 port is WIP or not planned all.

[1]https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneye
I really don't know how it's going to lean. Of course some will remain remote, some will return to the office.

The reasons are multiple:

-Some people are unproductive when working from home (for a variety of reasons)

-Some managers want to see their charges (open office panopticons)

-Some people are more productive working from home.

Companies and managers will have to weigh the positives and negatives. I'm sure they have enough data to determine what makes sense for certain roles and individuals within those roles.

Companies will save on real estate by offloading that to your home. But on average they will lose productivity from most people.

Stanford is special in that as far as I know are short on space for parking and for offices, so they will likely nudge some to work from home where it makes sense. So of course they go on their own propaganda to get their people ready for the shift.
> It's kind of like a drug. I don't play any more video games - coding is my video game.

I feel the same way. I just make sure I take one full day off a week and play games or read. I can still get burned out, but it's generally short-lived.
I was on a team which used DynamoDB for their hottest data set. Which would trivially fit in RAM.
Win32 came with WinNT, so at least 25 years now.
For example, when proofreading writing, it's easier to catch mistakes when reading the document aloud and jotting down the needed edits on a printed copy of the document vs just reading it on the computer.

Or when doing something like data base schemas, drawing out a rough version of what you need so you have something basic to reference vs just a mental model.
No one will do it after support in the tools is killed off either. People will use the last versions of the tools from wherever they can get them, and workarounds for any issues that are discovered will become part of the folklore surrounding the code.
It's hard to get sick from my coworkers when I have literally not been face to face with them in months.
I have a deep suspicion that this is mostly about risk management. With just 50 employees, what you have is essentially a board of directors that have enormous leverage over you.
That is not what it is.
Unless you use your real name and really start mouthing off, this isn't really the kind of network the DA is going to start shooting off subpoenas to....unless you Enron...

You know what... Nevermind.
I generally agree with your statement (the version flip is scary), but that's a different complaint than GGPs, which was more that you couldn't incrementally migrate your source files. The version flip to Java N+1 can be scary and cause issues too (and sure, it's perhaps less likely to cause issues, but don't worry, they both do!)
I get chilling Gamay - Beaujolais is usually a fruity unoaked wine and maybe you don't like the grape perfume (Gamay is probably my least favourite grape); but chilling a good Burgundy is criminal.
Agreed, And the whole chicken farmer tangent only served to undermine the argument only served as a red herring for me. Should every small business with one customer be forced to merge?
From the tree docs:

> tree has originally been part of TensorFlow and is available as tf.nest.

The tf.nest docs can be found here and may be more useful for now: https://www.tensorflow.org/api_docs/python/tf/nest

I'm glad this is being moved out of TensorFlow. It's a really useful library on its own and I've found myself reaching for it on projects without wanting to import all of TensorFlow.
That would be way beyond my expertise, and the existing highlight reconstruction works plenty well as-is in most circumstances.
#2 is the biggest issue

Management and non-management have different subcultures. Managers need power meetings, lunch meetings, shoulder-taps, etc. They are tasked with watching you and making sure everyone is on task. Non-managers don't care about in-person other than for the socializing aspect (or maybe they want to get away from the house).

I think that non-management can work effectively remote most of the time (unless u need to be doing physical labor of some sort). I'm betting that studies are going to prove this out. However, it's not clear if _management_ can effectively function remotely. Management is heavily dependent on being both seen and heard and remote platforms make this harder not easier.

Many companies have 2 subcultures, the workers want remote and the management wants in-person. I think the conversation needs to be around how to get the managers to work remotely in order to succeed. This is a mind shift in how traditional management is done and will be much slower to adopt.
Wonder if they had to contend with missing letters in keyboards, there's some historical precedent for that.
Reverse osmosis is wasteful. The next goldmine is atmospheric water generation. The atmosphere is the largest untapped reservoir of clean water on Earth, and mother nature has already desalinated the water through evaporation. Far less energy intensive and wasteful to condense the atmosphere than clean water by R.O.
I'm always baffled by people who say this. I always carry one and use it constantly from opening packages to working on servers, and I'll frequently have people come ask to borrow it when they need a screwdriver or bottle opened or something.
You learned an important lesson about distributing software and business risk.

In my experiences trying to deploy software at scale (10^4~5), statically linked binaries are the only acceptable form of software.
I've certainly seen that, but it can be quite variable depending on the specific circumstances of a field, department, project, etc. My team hired a recent graduate, and he's completely up to date, to the point I'm the old dog learning new tricks from him.

Then I know someone who's a researcher at the university, and they have no funds to buy computers, so she provides her own and is quite incensed about it. And the money for refactoring and updating stuff is zero. For any lab equipment connected to a computer, the computer is as old as the equipment.

And then everything in between.

In my view the vast majority of scientists using Python are using it at a level where they could practically switch to Python 3 just by cleaning up their print statements.

And an amusing anecdote... by the time my thesis project was in full swing, the OS that I had been using (MS-DOS running hardware that I had built) was largely obsolete. But I sure as hell wasn't going to change horses in mid stream, so I persisted with the old stuff.
SonicWall says it was hacked using zero-days in its own products
There is a python3 branch, some issues around the topic and a PR [1] preparing for a transition.

[1]: https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneye/pull/1978
OP said the store contacted him, not LE.
Just started a new app using Python 2.7.19. Is switching to 3 worth it?
Amazon presses for in-person voting for unionization in the midst of a pandemic
Watch Dark Waters if you haven't, which tells the story of a lawyer who broke the case against Dupont producing forever chemicals in huge quantities long after the evidence was overwhelming they cause cancer, birth defects, endocrine disruption, and more.

Also read the Intercept series, The Teflon Toxin:
DuPont and the Chemistry of Deception: https://theintercept.com/2015/08/11/dupont-chemistry-decepti....

Other important pieces out there.

When the Senate questioned General Austin, today named Secretary of Defense, they asked him about forever chemicals because they've contaminated military bases so much.
I have written a commentary on this poem, that critiques it several lines at a time. I wrote this before knowing about this web site or this thread, so I may repeat some of the criticism provided here. The critique is 9 pages long, although this exaggerates its true length. There is plenty of white space in the document. Because it is so long, I assume it would be inappropriate for me to dump it into a thread entry, so I am providing a link to a PDF file on my Google Drive account. I hope this does not contravene any rules of the web site (I looked, but could not find any guidance on this). I would welcome any feedback you have to give. The link is: https://drive.google.com/file/d/18vVqYMs3dj6jMhAn1r7zmElly1B....
A Beautiful Mind was a great movie, congrats for participating in such a nice contribution to popular culture. Do you write on window glass? ;)
The interaction surface usually is just tip of the iceberg.

Here's a thread [0] regarding the complexity of Uber's iOS app.

Dan Luu made a far better case [1][2] for this than I could. Worth the read.

0: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1336890442768547845.html

1: http://danluu.com/sounds-easy/

2: https://twitter.com/danluu/status/782974159156502534?lang=en
"Single source of truth" is more meaningful than the overly simplistic "DRY".

If two things are _supposed_ to behave similarly, then not having duplicate code makes perfect sense.

If two things just _happen_ to behave similarly (at first), it may be a hasty generalisation to immediately refactor them to use the same code.
Many of these people are cheering for the Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 2021.

Turning your phone off or leaving it at home is already used to identify suspects.
Brave will sue you if you try to use its services with a different browser. https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1269890055822118912?s...
Here:

"At first, most users would run network nodes, but as the network grows beyond a certain point, it would be left more and more to specialists with server farms of specialized hardware. A server farm would only need to have one node on the network and the rest of the LAN connects with that one node."

- November, 2008

Here:

"The current system where every user is a network node is not the intended configuration for large scale. That would be like every Usenet user runs their own NNTP server. The design supports letting users just be users."

-July, 2010

Here:

"It would be nice to keep the [block chain] files small as long as we can.

The eventual solution will be to not care how big it gets.

But for now, while it’s still small, it’s nice to keep it small so new users can get going faster. When I eventually implement client-only mode, that won’t matter much anymore. (note to readers, "client-only mode" refers to SPV mode)"

- August, 2010

Here:

"The existing Visa credit card network processes about 15 million Internet purchases per day worldwide. Bitcoin can already scale much larger than that with existing hardware for a fraction of the cost. It never really hits a scale ceiling."

- in an email to Mike Hearn

Are you really unfamiliar with these, or think they're not worthy of your reader's attention?
I mean if everyone who used Chromium switched back to Chrome when they can’t sync to their google account anymore, why use Chromium at all? People who care enough to use the open source version deliberately probably won’t be sad to see this feature go. I know I never personally wanted to log into sync.
The TDD one I sort of half agree with.

Purism and zealoutry are rarely a good reaction to anything, but I've seen a lot of dodgy code that, if it had been written with at least testability in mind, or with a test first it wouldn't have been half as dodgy.
It sounds like you and your team are working on the same artifact and that your tasks are interrelated. That’s kind of a special case. At any given time our 3 engineers have maintenance tasks in flight on 4 or 5 distinct products.
New dinosaur might be the largest creature to ever roam Earth
The article does not describe the "too big to fail" risk where the central bank lets the commercial banks not pay their liabilities to the central bank.

"Market forces constrain lending because individual banks have to be able to lend profitably in a competitive market."

If interest rates are a limit on the ability of commercial banks to lend, and the central bank keeps interest rates artificially low, then that check on bank lending is useless. The only real limit is the number of people/companies/governments willing to take out cheap loans in dollars.

"Lending is also constrained because banks have to take steps to mitigate the risks associated with making additional loans. "

Not if they are too big to fail, the more loans the more profit and the risks are externalized. Even if they are not bailed out they can always just go bankrupt. If the "risks" are not something the individual bankers care about, this is no constraint on them; they see it as personally riskless. Who cares if the company folds in five years.

So it looks like the only meaningful limit on commercial banks is the third one:

"Regulatory policy acts as a constraint on banks’ activities in order to mitigate a build-up of risks that could pose a threat to the stability of the financial system."

However, banks can use regulatory capture and lobbying to be allowed to increase their loans (and hence profit) and ignore the risks. Again, the bankers individually may not care about the risks to the bank as long as they personally get wealthy.

All this used to work because bankers cared about doing the right thing and the company had a "self"-interest in continuing. I think that has changed for many bankers.
> ratio of retirees to working people is increasingly unsustainable.

I'd like to see the economic models that were used to calculate at what (estimated) point this becomes "unsustainable". Do you have a citation?

What percentage of the population has to be "elderly" or taking their pension? What is the minimum percentage of the population that needs to be in 'working age' years before it becomes a problem?

Unless there are models people are just throwing darts in making these statements. Show me that the math exists (even though I may not understand it as a layman). Pontificating is cheap.

Krugman in 1998:

> The purpose of this paper is to show that the liquidity trap is a real issue-that in a model that dots its microeconomic i's and crosses its intertemporal t's something that is very much like the Hicksian liquidity trap can indeed arise. Moreover, the conditions under which that trap emerges correspond, in at least a rough way, to some features of the real Japanese economy. To preview the conclusions briefly: in a country with poor long-run growth prospects—for example, because of unfavorable demographic trends […]

> In the model of sections 1-3, a liquidity trap will arise only if future productive capacity is actually lower than current capacity. Before loosening that constraint, we can ask why one might expect Japan's future capacity to be relatively low compared with today's. And the obvious answer is demography: Japan's combination of declining birth rate and lack of immigration apparently means a shrinking rather than growing labor force over the next several decades.

[…]

> Moving outside the formal model, the prospects for a liquidity trap also depend on investment demand. Here demography again comes into play: the prospective decline in the labor force reduces the expected return on investments.

* https://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/japans_trap.pdf
We're talking about federated/decentralized protocols that Pidgin serves as the type of client for, in a thread about why we don't see things like Pidgin on iOS.

Sorry, I misunderstood that.
What’s Missing from Howard Marks’ “Something of Value”
I anticipate a hybrid model where most deep work is from home, but certain weeks have employees gather, like for project kickoffs or critical junctures later in the process. Only problem with that is the lack of a stable routine.
It does say that there's a (hydrogen) fuel cell in it to convert the hydrogen back into energy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_cell?wprov=sfla1

They also say that it has pretty low efficiency, around maybe 50%.
This is pretty neat. I have a trading bot running on my raspberry pi, it also waters my plans every other day. It's pretty awesome to see such tiny devices be so incredibly powerful.
Per multiple doctors and an audiologist the best way to clean your ears easily is to just use warm water while showering and direct it down your ear canal with moderate water pressure. I used an irrigator for years, just with tap water, but the possibility of too much pressure always worried me. I struggle(d) with ear wax build-up in my teens but have been wax free for 2 decades now, so long as I am diligent about cleaning my ears.
750 ml has nothing to do with how much wine people are expected to drink at once; it's an artifact of glass-blowing. A typical medieval glass-blower's lungs allowed them to create bottles of 700-800 ml with a single long breath.
Yes there are, this[2] WIP PR is by the maintainer himself. It will be a while till the port is complete.

[2] https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneye/pull/1572
I am personally responsible for 100e1000 US dollar trade volume per day.

Taken with the above statement, >99.999% of all US dollar trade volume is fake. I guess USD must be a joke currency.
Graduate students are there to do research, not update old existing codebases. That's a part of the bargain, part in parcel with the low pay.
I predict you will be wrong.
This. To put it simply, they like Precise data, not Accurate data. They want a bunch of data-points saying one thing and couldn't care less if it's objectively the right target, not a bunch of data points saying a bunch of things, one of which is actually right.

Precision data gives them convictions and convictions give them promotions. As they say, any metric that becomes a target... This is why giving the police invasive surveillance tech is a terrible idea, they will only focus on the data that fits their narrative and discard the rest. The defense doesn't even need to know that any other data exists.
people can benefit from doing the wrong thing in any economic system, and therefore will. This is a problem of law and enforcement.
Definitely. Python 2 is EOL and will no longer be getting updates. The upgrade is easy, especially if you don't have much code written.
Go ahead, quit your job, move to the woods and live off the land.

What is your point?