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I sometimes fall into the trap of using pip to install dependencies and then things break after an os update. That is, my python version has changed from 3.8 to 3.9 and my dependencies are sitting in the wrong directory. I never know if I should use pip and requirements.txt or rely on Ubuntu's packaged versions.
It is a very simplistic, low-effort idea with no supporting argument. It does not take much thought to come up with reasons why society would not permit every single individual complete unrestricted domain over their property. Like, what if any of the actions you take on your property have an effect on your neighbors?
Build an “inverse river system“ along the highways to pump ocean water in from the coasts. Desal with just an overhang and collection/clearing system. Power it with nuclear or solar. This can’t be harder to do than the original highways.
The main risk I'd be worried about that people will engage in more risky behavior after the first but before the second dose.

It's a lot easier to hold out and skip some fun activities if there's a goal 4 (or rather 6) weeks ahead than if it's 8 (or rather 10) weeks.
Problems with Python
https://mobile.twitter.com/GodCloseMyEyes/status/14150291832...

Thread about the decay in general.
If you dig into importlib and try to write extensions for it then the underlying concepts of modules and packages will make a lot more sense.

For a project I was working on where you could dynamically call distributed tasks (we we're using ecs) I added a subclass of module and package that dynamically created package structures and modules from a database call.

So the new modules and packages would load from the database instead of from a python file and python the class would be dynamically generated to be something like albiet more advanced.

Class MyDistributedTask:
Def run(self, input, execution_engine=ecs):
Run task

So users of our package could import directly import their package_name.TaskName

And run it directly as long as they imported our package which contained a custom module loader to our db to discover.

Learned a ton about importing.
> Consciousness has, as yet, no empirical explanation.

Because nobody has a definition and when it turns out that computers can fit the definition people will move the goalposts.

The hard problem of consciousness is getting a priest to agree to a definition that a scientist can test. Because everything that touches the real world can probably be modelled with distressing accuracy by matrix multiplications and a little non-linearity.
Every possible test of intelligence, and everything that correlates with intelligence, all points toward the same conclusion that there is a link between race and intelligence.

IQ, income, education, crime rate, school achievement, quite literally every possible measure that you would expect to correlate with intelligence also correlates with race. This occurs even when you control for factors like income. The myth and the lie that there is no link is often said and never shown. The evidence is overwhelming and the burden of rejection is on the deniers at this point.
In Australia, property valuation is a regulated profession. We have state-run land registry departments that tell the tax office what value to assume for each piece of land for tax purposes. If you disagree with the valuation, you can pay for your own private one (from a registered valuer).

Local government taxes (“shire rates”) are indirectly based on “Gross Rental Value” (that is, if the rented out the property at market value, how much would you expect to receive per year?).

There is also land tax, which is based on undeveloped property value.

Most commercial leases have the tenant pay the rates & taxes. If you own a property with 10 equally-sized shops, and one of them is empty, then you by law must pay 1/10 of the rates & taxes (and any other outgoings, like repairs). You cannot split the outgoings nine ways. This acts as a vacancy disincentive.
Maybe, but slowing down enough to land is the problem.

To convert from a flyby to landing, you need to burn a lot of fuel, to slow down. To get that fuel to the destination, you need to bring it with you. Which means a much higher take off mass, which needs an even bigger rocket.

Mars has a very light atmosphere, which lets us aerobrake- slow down by hitting the atmosphere, that way you don't need any extra fuel. Europa's atmosphere is basically non-existent.
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My least favorite is that import ordering matters in some situations. Like if I just run "organize imports", all of a sudden dependency cycles pop up and everything is broken. Certainly a sign of things being misimported/misorganized, but stuff happens has systems grow fast. And solving these issues is always incredibly time consuming.

Unless anyone knows of magical tools to help solve import issues?
The point was about the castrated C++ dialect imposed by Google C++ style guide, which even goes against some of the C++ best practices as expressed by the C++ Core Guidelines.

In fact, AOSP has plenty of examples on how not to write C++ in this day and age.
Can only speak anecdotally, but…

A significant number of our friends and family moved since the start of COVID but they went in different directions. We’re all mid-to-late 30s working in tech, mostly, so this is in no way representative of all the people making moves.

Some people moved out of the city entirely. All of these people have good jobs with high pay but decided that this was their opportunity to get the big house in a different area. In all but one case, these were renters who bought when they moved. That last case was a family that sold their place for more than asking price in 7 days and then bought a new place.

Others were renters who bought in the city. This includes me and my wife as well as two of her siblings. We have a handful of friends who either bought or are trying to buy. We and everyone I know doing this identify as “city people” who just don’t want to leave and are using this as an opportunity to upgrade space and take advantage of the benefits of home ownership. Many of our friends who rent took the opportunity to find a bigger place at a better rate or strong armed their landlords to get better deals.

So the tldr here: in our group of friends, the people who left were those who wanted to leave anyway and didn’t have the opportunity until now. The people who stayed are those who grew up here and/or just want to stay in the city long term.
> Let’s leave aside the rather obvious possibilities for fraud: just think how many virtue points you could accumulate by persuading someone else to take your phone jogging with them while you tuck into takeaway pizza which you bought with means other than your smartphone

Not to worry, they're going to do away with those means soon enough.
Oh wow, this absolutely tracks with the impression I got.

Disgusting.
SLS is an enormous boondoggle.

People love to hate Musk, but without SpaceX and private space companies in general, we could forget about any significant progress in space activities. The price tag would be suffocating.

It is also an interesting example of "throwing money at a problem does not always buy you a better solution". People too often come to conclusion that if some system is defective (e.g. schooling), more money would automatically help. Not necessarily.
Agreed, but it is suggestive that this is within the realm of possibilities, no? Otherwise, something interesting would have to be happening where after the first shot you lose delta ~immunity in eight weeks, but after the second you ~do not?
For many people, finishing in the top of your class in highschool is challenging if you are capable but have had a relaitively difficult home life -- it requires broad spectrum high performance across years. Getting a good score on a single test is more achievable for some.

Now imagine the situation for a student with a poor family who finds themselves in a school mostly with students from wealthy families? The "top-%" metric would doubly harm them.

On the plus side, at least the top-% metric provides an incentive for students to attend 'worse' schools, which to the extent that students are benefited by mixing with more capable students, could help everyone.
It would be odd to change the contact that late, I would imagine. But it's an interesting possibility.

Still, Starship has a long way to go.
If a new tenant can afford triple the rent then they are (at least) 3x as productive. Why do you want to reward less productive businesses? Do you also enjoy working with coworkers who are have 1/3rd the productivity you?
It's certainly a lot better than Ruby's require which just executes code and alters global virtual machine state. Not too different from C's #include.

My favorite is Javascript's. Modules are objects containing functions and data, require returns such objects. Simple, elegant. Completely reifies the behind-the-scenes complexity of Python's import, making it easily understandable.
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> Would we not learn a lot more by landing on these moons?

Probably, but it's also a lot harder. Not only does it require more delta-V, you now need to design, build and test a lander in addition to a spacecraft, and you need to build everything to be able to operate in Jupiter's harsh radiation environment (Europa Clipper will only do fly-bys of Europa and spend most of its orbit further away from the high radiation environment).
I wonder what the discussion would be if the same study was posted but "in people who were vaccinated against Covid-19".
I'm a python readability approver at Google and I don't understand how the import system works
Clickbait title.

Subtitle:

> Even EVs that plug into dirty grids emit fewer greenhouse gases than gas-powered cars
The Cognitive deficits in people can be clearly see in most health scientists.
Always use absolute imports, do not use relative imports. Solves most problems. Also is recommended by pep8.

Skip the relative imports in the article. No need to read it entirely anymore ;-)
AKA the "long tailpipe" fallacy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_long_tailpipe

Plenty of hits for that search term, e.g.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/enriquedans/2018/08/19/myths-an...
Because they don’t care. The loan is collateralized and sold as a financial instrument and the bank is no longer involved. The loan holders should care but the loans are owned by hundreds or thousands of organizations and individuals who don’t have the mechanism to see what the underlying assets in their financial instruments are doing.

The movie “The Big Short” actually does a great job of showing this but for the 08 financial crisis.
Nice!

(One trick that I use for family photos is to use a delay of 1 second, to avoid the movement when I press the shutter. (It's not useful when there are kids. One second later they are in another room.))
Let me guess though, the margin is too small to contain said explanation?

(This is a reference to Fermat's Last Theorem in which Fermat confidently proclaimed in a margin of his book that he had a simple elegant proof which the margin was too small to contain)
I own a Quest 1, and I've got every bone to pick with Facebook imaginable.

However, the Oculus Passthrough implementation (and their 'guardian' feature, for that matter) is unparalleled. It's many times more dependable than the SteamVR safety features, and surprisingly low-latency. I'm not at all surprised that it's local.
The "problem" is that people get what they pay for. The majority of consumers prioritize cost, so they get price-optimized devices that are difficult or impossible to repair.

When you prioritize, e.g., reliability or ease of service, that problem goes away, but now stuff costs more. Worth it for commercial/industrial products, but it tanks the consumer market.

My Kitchen-Aid mixer has had its sacrificial plastic gear replaced a few times because I keep overloading it with bread dough. It was designed to be repairable. My cheap Walmart TV, OTOH, is in the garage awaiting the annual electronics scrap pickup because although I know what the problem is, for $200 (about what I paid for the mixer 20 years ago) it simply isn't worth my time fixing it when I can buy a better one for the same price.
I disagree. I think agricultural water is the perfect use case for a market. Perhaps this is just semantics, but I don’t think you can make an absolute water right; it’s scarce, and farmers are not guaranteed as much water as they want, nor are homeowners guaranteed a right to water their lawns in a drought. Markets are a good way of prioritizing allocation of scarce resources.

But I think it’s sensible to have a high-level allocation where first we make sure that there is enough water for people to drink, and if you want to call that your “water right” then I’m on board.

We also allocate a bunch of water to recreational and conservation/wildlife purposes, and again I wouldn’t want to auction off all of the national parks of course.

But within the (very large) remainder that we allocate to productive usages, I see no reason to get in the way of the invisible hand. If almonds are higher yield than alfalfa then we should not divert water from almonds to alfalfa. A liquid (pardon the pun) market would make these allocations more efficient.
Could also be referring to the cryptography library which added a Rust dependency, which caused pain for people running ansible, and other downstream users.
And that doesn't even factor in what also happens a lot in NYC, owners wanting to redevelop. Your building sits empty for a while, as horrible as it sounds, it can speed approvals that you might not get if they were full. Never miss an opportunity to take advantage of a crisis, and a crisis like the pandemic doesn't come along very often.

The fundamental problem is everyone wants in on the big money. No one really wants to serve the lower end. And the lower end would be upper middle class in some cases in a lot of other cities. Definitely all of it will concert to make parts of NYC the exclusive domain of the wealthy soon. (Actually, parts already are, I guess I mean more parts.)
There's a video (bleh) which appears to extract the hash and then use a pass-the-hash. I'm not clear on exactly what the preconditions are (are NTLMv1/v2 hashes still stored by default? Does PTH work with newer hashes? Etc) or if there's another way to escalate
The bank makes a loan based on what they think is likely to happen in the future, and you the borrow can influence that. You can say, I'm going to buy this commercial building in the highly desirable neighborhood, which has seen continuous growth for the past 10 years, and it will continue to grow for the next 10 years, so I can charge a rent of $X, which will support a loan payment of $Y, so you can safely give me $Y.

The problem arises when predictions about the future don't come true. Like a pandemic lowers the value of living in a city, so the amount of rent you can charge goes down. Do you admit that to the bank and let them change the terms of the loan (or have them foreclose), or do you pretend everything is fine, keep your asking rent high, and hope things turn around before the bank calls you?
But AGI might not imply consciousness.
This is technically a property tax.

I don't like most property taxes.

That said, an unoccupied tax makes sence now. I would throw residential apartments, homes, into the mix.

(Single owner properties would be exempt. Realestate investment trusts would be targeted with this tax, along with foreign investors--rich people whom are not citizens whom buy our land, and let it sit.)
Fun fact: you can overload the Python import system to work with other languages that you create.

I use this for my Python-based Lisp: https://github.com/shawwn/pymen/blob/ml/importer.py

import foo

checks for "foo.l", and if found, compiles it to foo.py on the fly and imports that instead.

It's so cursed. I love it.
I use this all the time for mocking / testing REST-ish services, since otherwise the test has to consume a port. Ports are limited in number, contended (eg. with real services or other tests), and may even be exposed to the public if your firewall is misconfigured.

On the client side of the test Curl makes this easy with CURLOPT_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH.

Agree with you about support in browsers.

Here's a fun and little known fact about Unix domain sockets on Linux: They have two independent SELinux labels. One is the regular label stored in the filesystem, and the other has to be set by the process creating the socket (using setsockcreatecon). On an system with SELinux enforcing and a decent security policy you usually have to set both. I just posted a patch for qemu to allow the second one to be set: https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-block/2021-07/msg...
I've heard that before and it's always been a difficult point of view for me to understand.

Could you perhaps describe how rich democracy that both uses and produces oil should behave if it were to be ⓐ not at all hypotcritical ⓑ unremarkably average ⓒ very hypocritical?

You may assume that the there's a spectrum of opinions among the voters on the relevant issues, and ideally that the country has a tradition of choosing policies that suit most voters rather than 50.01%.
What was the most popular TPM chip for many years had a broken RSA key generator. It produced private keys that could be cracked with $76 worth of computing power:

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/tpm-chipsets-...

https://crocs.fi.muni.cz/public/papers/rsa_ccs17

It is really hard to see this as anything other than a bugdoor.

My laptop has this TPM chip. I am really glad I never used it, and even went so far as to disable support for it when I built my coreboot image.

Products sold with the buzzword "trusted" are a magnet for this sort of garbage. They've painted a "please bugdoor me" target on their back. The only thing you can hope to trust is general-purpose computing devices, with a large market, that obey their owner. Unfortunately it is increasingly difficult to find those.
> Hedge funds and large corporations often seem like they have more power and often much more agility than governments.

They don’t. Hedge funds and corporations don’t have powers like eminent domain and men with guns authorized to use violence to enforce them.

The vacancy rates actually are a second order effect of the banking industry. You’d think landlords would reduce rents because some income is better than none. However commercial property is valued as a function of the rent, so reducing rents 20% could reduce the value of the property 20% too, potentially leaving the commercial mortgage underwater. But leaving it empty with a rent the market can’t bear keeps that from happening.

Therefore the correct solution is changing banking regulations to eliminate that perverse incentive, not to try an ad hoc fix at the city level which probably won’t work as intended.
Outside of monopoly rent seeking,
money is made of energy. That's what you're paying for when you buy something.
I assume you typoed and meant to ask “why aren’t” instead.

We aren’t because the Saturn V moon rocket (and related projects) were consuming over 4% of the US government’s budget, way more than even the SLS and definitely more than the Falcon Heavy.
I's mostly agree with this.

But I'd note for the OP that "complete rewrites" are not necessarily guaranteed failures. It depends how it's done and what the goals of the rewrite happen to be. The two types of rewrites I've seen be successful:

1. Ship of Theseus rewrites. This is where small modules/segments of code in the project are completely rewritten and integrated back into the whole. This has the advantage of being able to test the new code against existing data constantly, get user feedback, etc. Over time, the entire project has been rewritten, but the benefits (for the cost) have been proven at every step. And you get repeated buy-in from everyone involved from management down to end-users.

2. Massive change of requirements. One may argue (successfully) that this may not actually count as a rewrite as opposed to just being considered a new project. These are usually successful when the project being replaced is notoriously bad/complained about by end-users. But, the same concerns still exist: no benefits are seen until done, potential loss of functionality, new bugs, lost knowledge (read: edge cases not ported), etc.

Ship of Theseus rewrites are successful quiet often. The others... yeah, not so much. It's rare. But, it can happen.
Why can’t it be both? Could have a logarithmic scale, could have it increase by a fraction of a % of $(value - currentTax) so that it increases more slowly over time.

Not saying I agree with the underlying idea, just confused about why “increases ever month” necessarily means it cannot be “tied to the value of the property” in a `calculateTax(propValue, timeEmpty)` sort of way.
Probably not, but we should think if they "emerge" as a consequence of our doings.
I guess one way to phrase it would be "the ACLs on the registry files were always overly permissive, but nobody noticed until now because trying to read them the obvious way failed with 'file in use'"
That’s option #1 above. The problem is the instability of it as economic incentives continuously push you in the direction of increased consumption / changing public policy.
Claiming a language is bad such click-bait.
Even when it is valid, it basically will get a lot of attention from haters and fanboys.
It's not a title that leads to interesting discussion.
Did I miss some news about neofetch?
This is not supposed to be commentary on covid vaccines.

These are some of the people who has taken part in the very essential trials, that resulted vaccines being available to everyone, and has suffered the adverse effects for it.

We normally see these people as a statistics, a number, or a percentage on some CDC announcement. I think these people deserve to be seen and acknowledged in person, If not by the state and authorities, then at least by everyone who got the vaccine and is thankful for it.
There’s also the fact that we had a pandemic. Some cities had an empty storefront problem before the pandemic, sure. But a lot of places just gave up.
Probably not but a value system I imagine is. The interesting question is at what point do we have AI ethics for how to treat AI?
Yep, however a bit further down it says you can do this as a one time purchase and keep using Domestica, forever, but you won't get updates after your subscription expires. I should probably update the docs to emphasize that more. This is a side project of mine, hopefully someday I can make the self hosted version free or OSS.
Wow, thank you for this!! This is really fascinating.

Do you have a better link to the project specifically and/or the engineering system? I could not find any photos. The only thing I could find was this https://www.climatefoundation.org/uploads/3/0/2/0/30209783/m...
Regarding your concrete proposal - that seems like a purely free-market proposal that accepts that farmers should be able to capture all of the value from appreciation in their water rights over time. I imagine that would be politically difficult; at the other end of the spectrum is to say that the water rights should never have been sold and that it is a public good.

It’s not a matter of what I think ought to be the case or ought to have happened. It’s how to solve the problem at hand given the legal constraints that exist.

It’s possible those precedents could be overturned and open up the policy space, but given the current make up of the Supreme Court I think that’s unlikely to happen in the next few decades.
A slight lowering of altitude is an extreme understatement.