> I [...] fit a hyperbolic model to each one independently
^ That's your problem right there.
Assuming a hyperbolic model would definitely result in some exuberant predictions but that's no reason to think it's correct.
The blog post contains no justification for that model (besides well it's a "function that hits infinity"). I can model the growth of my bank account the same way but that doesn't make it so. Unfortunately.
To me that's "what it does" whereas I'm wondering when it would be useful.
In other words, I can't think of a use case in industry or academia or daily life or whatever, where someone needs to prove that a file existed at a specific time
> don't want to have virtual environments and learn what the difference between pip, poetry and uv is
Oh come on, it's easy:
Does the project have a setup.py? if so, first run several other commands before you can run it. python -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate && pip install -e .
else does it have a requirements.txt? if so python -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate && pip install -r requirements.txt
else does it have a pyproject.toml? if so poetry install and then prefix all commands with poetry run ...
else does it have a pipfile? pipenv install and then prefix all commands with pipenv run ...
else does it have an environment.yml? if so conda env create -f environment.yml and then look inside the file and conda activate <environment_name>
else does it have a uv.ock? then uv sync (or uv pip install -e .) and then prefix commands with uv run.
My criticism is about how the dramatic language differs from the banal content of the article.
Titling it "The World Happiness Report Is a Sham" and calling it "beset with methodological problems", I would expect some more serious scientific malpractices, like data fabrication, calculation errors, sampling problems, p-hacking, etc., not "I think there are some problems with this variable".
The only problem the author points out is that he doesn't like the Cantril Ladder question.
I get it if you feel like that question falls short of representing your own personal concept of happiness, but that question is the standard in positive psychology research for measuring self reported subjective well being, and hardly enough to say the report is "beset with methodological problems".
> """
I'm strongly in favor of blocking post-install scripts by default. :+1:
This is a change that will have a painful adjustment period for our users, but I believe in ~1 year everyone will look back and be thankful we made it. It's nuts that a [pnpm|yarn|npm] install can run arbitrary code in the first place.
"""
There is actually a good reason not mentioned, not to name tools by their purpose:
- the purpose will change
Your "silicon-valley-bank-integrator" tool will eventually need to be updated to do something else.
Or your "login-page-config-service" tool may eventually do more than just logins.
Using gibberish or mythological names gives a nice memorable name that doesn't lead (or mislead) you to believe it does a particular thing which may or may not be correct anymore.
Sorry, I'm not familiar with the ULID spec. You seem to be, hence my asking. Are you saying monotonic/sequential ULIDs are just (or just as easily enumerated as) Base32-encoded integers?
Oh and yeah, I guess I do think lots of script / AI kiddies would be discouraged by, or fail to see an opportunity when presented with, something that does not look like the numbers they saw in school.
> If you need a sequential ID, just use an integer
Are monotonic/sequential ULIDs as easily enumerated as integers? It's the ease of enumerability that keeps a lot of folks away from using sequential integers as IDs