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If you have built something worth lasting 100 years, other people will help you ensure that it does. That reduces the concerns in this article considerably.

I think you're reasoning about this backwards. They don't worry about setting harder spending limits because the revenue continues to increase. If the revenue cut back, you call it "naive" to suppose that they could put 2 and 2 together and cut spending. So they should be fiscally conservative and think of the future when they expect themselves to be... profligate and short-sighted? Why?

You started this page in 2017. The revenue has continued to increase at as steady a pace as expenses. And an argument along the exact same lines as yours could have been made in 2009 or 2010 or 2011. Actually, your argument has gotten weaker -- expenses used to be higher than the previous fiscal year's revenue, but in recent years the growth has been much flatter.

There's no compelling reason to think that now is the time to act to make sure that it's not too late to act at some vague future point in time. Sure, something can't grow forever. Granted. But are we at 127 grains of rice or 131,071? How can you tell?

The people criticizing AMP are not necessarily the same people "loading up simple web pages with hundreds of scripts."

Google AMP is merely the next iteration of Google Sites.

The fact that metaflow works directly in Python piques my interest. I can lint it, I can test it, I can format it, I can easily extend it.

I've been hesitant to commit myself and my collaborators to yet another DSL -- and that's part of why I haven't seen much to offer in snakemake and nextflow.

It doesn't even make sense with the data being presented.

After we burn through our reserves, it seems likely that the next step for the WMF will be going into debt to support continued runaway spending

Um, the graph shows that the reserves are increasing every year. Money in exceeds money out year after year.

As a grad student I made a total $1,300 per month, but ten years later I'm spending that on just housing costs. So what?

Kind of disappointing to see that level of testing failure. A leap to assume there is something specifically strange about `666` without even trying `665`...

Were we in a "pre-truth" world a century ago?

I like the idea. The scrollbar jail bars are pretty jarring with regard to 'minimalist' sensibilities.

The tremendous majority of property crime, especially cyber, is opportunistic.

It should result in advertising content that is more personal and emotionally resonant

Exactly at the moment I read this, an auto-playing Volvo commercial started making noise just below that paragraph. Ugh. We're a long, long way from advertising putting "users" first.

Every time I've tried one of these non-JS versions, it gives me no evidence that it's working or progressing and just keeps setting up new comparisons for me to copy and paste the code. So I get tired of doing that and stop using whatever website is demanding it.

Both, but the similarities in the three can be striking regardless of ordering.

built-in! part of the standard library, for some reason

Well, as far as I can tell, the reason is that

Logo's turtle interface [...] is a convenient and intuitive way to describe graphics imperatively. It's great for kids.

:)

Do we, though?

A list comprehension is still a for loop. Using `for x in list` instead of `for i in len(list)` is a nice bit of sugar, but still a for loop.

That said, high-performance Python does generally discourage the use of loops in favor of vectorised operations.

PL/SQL is not SQL.

Actually launching? YAGNI. We can easily implement that if it ever comes up.

What?

This is cute. Creepypasta for grownups.

Sure, they exist. But pointing out that they exist is not "show me what I need to know to do what I do."

Instead, the next high-profile HN Haskell link will be the thousandth demo/intro/tutorial that yet again implements some core data structure.

Rather than showing how Haskell is great for working with databases.

Or working with Kafka.

Or integrating with AWS.

Or parsing text.

Or running microservices.

Or any of the other hundred things that I'm going to do a dozen times before I need to reimplement binary trees.

OK.

Well it doesn't help that people continue using ALL CAPS for SQL keywords as a preferred style. In this century.

Everything's just atoms, man.

My brain hurts!

The field doesn't look great. But in most corners there is serious concern, e.g., http://grumpy.skardhamar.no/2019/09/25/the-former-flagship-j...

From that post: "I do not have any solutions to the systemic problems here, but improvements should be easy. Criminology as a field has to improve in terms of making data available with full documentation and reproducible code. That would make errors detectable sooner."

Anyone not agreeing with this needs the boot.

"Not necessarily". The following comment was a very useful qualification.

For reference, I was a philosophy major, and at no point would I have considered myself qualified to opine on the quality of current philosophy. Similarly, a close friend who was a physics major has now completed a postdoc in a subfield and still hesitates to make sweeping statements about the state of "physics."

And lest anyone is left with the wrong impression, criminologists are not running much of anything in the administration of criminal justice in the United States.

Yes. He hasn't been editor in chief for long; the Crim editorship rotates around through top departments every few years. I wouldn't take his position as particularly determinative.

Shawn Bushway's take is probably most representative of the field. If we're going to be taken seriously (insert Arrested Development shot) we need to be able to deal with this.

Criminology has thus far mostly avoided the replication crisis, so there hasn't been much reckoning with sloppy research -- much less with a major figure in the field just making up data. And the co-author network here touches on several of the top programs, so there's plenty of drama.

A minor in Criminal Justice is not necessarily a useful point of reference for the field. Most undergraduate Criminal Justice degrees are geared more pragmatically toward training police, parole officers, and such. CJ majors (and certainly minors) can graduate without ever being in shouting distance of actual criminological research.

That's not to say that the field is without problems, but what you're describing is not well representative of what we're taking about when we talk about the journal Criminology.

Good ol' DI;s