skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, flip the feature flag. You have a feature flag because there's multiple commits for the feature and it can't be enabled until it's complete. And since you're continuously deploying, even if you did have to look for a commit, it wouldn't be more than a day or two old.

Of course you wouldn't enable the feature all at once if at all possible. You'd do a canary first, sending a proportion of traffic. And your production system alerting would notice an elevated error rate on the canary and drain traffic to it, so you're not up in the middle of the night searching for a flag to flip or commit to roll back, at least not very often.
Our food tastes are turning salty and weird
Yes, don't we all hate it when people come into our job and tell us how to do it?

Parents love to think that because they have had one child (or maybe a couple), they know how to educate children writ large. Compounding that, most people went through the education system as students, so they believe they have insider knowledge as to how the system works. Usually their advice on how to fix the system is geared toward fixing the frustrations they personally felt as a student.

In reality, most people are only exposed to the education system as consumers, and therefore know next to nothing about how it actually works. Doesn't stop them from spouting off what they think they know on internet forums and blogs though. They enjoy pointing out what they see as problems, and are happy to offer quick fixes born in ignorance that have either already been tried and don't work, or don't solve the problem for reasons obvious to people currently working on it. Or better yet, the supposed problem isn't one at all, but a boogeyman that politicians are currently pushing to scare voters.

If you want to fix education, get into the mix and actually help. Sitting on the sidelines complaining isn't helping anyone. If your perspective about the education system is along the lines of "people who can't, teach", as seems to be in vogue these days, then you're really part of the problem.
The last time I bothered trying to make an Android app the SDK's emulator would not run on AMD CPUs and it seemed to have been deliberately crippled. Intel being the most obvious benefactor there.
Perhaps because there are so much regulations that also differ a lot from place to place. This makes economy of scales a lot harder, and stiffles innovating fast.
That's an interesting perspective.
I wonder then why pre-fabricated homes (e.g. https://www.profab.ca/en/) never really took off?
Checkout tangobuilder.com
It's like when the xbox 360 would request users to drink Mountain Dew verification cans to validate
> It's not just the cost; most people would, I think, be _embarrassed_ to be seen to be paying for attention.

I agree.

The Twitter tick had some cool when it was a mark of authenticity. Now it's a bit cringe.

The embarrassment factor might work better for Twitter if they offer an option similar to what LinkedIn does for paying users: Give the user the option to disable the blue tick on their account so other people don't know they are paying, while still having access to useful paid account features.

Like you I'd be more willing to pay a small amount for API access and useful features if I can do so quietly, without broadcasting the fact.
> personal indulgence has proven to be pandemic- and inflation-proof

Hand out $6 trillion, see what kind of weird stuff folks'll buy, right?
Both examples are silly and bad. Alameda County (Oakland) elected a tough on crime DA at about the same time as SF’s “reform” one and their crime rate increased more than SFs in that period.. there are no easy answers in policing or discipline.
And compared to electric car battery fires?
For me is the ability just to play mobile games in my PC, because I'm most of the time using it and not so much my phone, also because most of the games are casual you can easily multitask while playing, that's not easy to do it on mobile.
It is strange that no one has mentioned the excellent development application Pythonista. It is an entire Python IDE on the iPad and iPhone. You can even access your phone's sensors and write scripts using it.
Amazon’s electric Rivian vans have delivered 150M packages
> It is a highly profitable business and yet there are no startups involved in constructing building

It is very capital and labor intensive, and the margins aren't all that great [0]. It involves an asset class that has a slow-moving market. It also is very labor intensive with lots of local competition all over. Finally, financial instruments for investing in real estate construction already exist without venture funds.

Software is a completely different beast. You mention CAD and other secondary software, but finance is also a place where software is used extensively. The latter is so prevalent I was able to use a smaller language (Clojure) at two banking companies, one a startup and one established. The margins of software and the size of the markets for it attract VC money.

I do think there are places outside software for startups here, but it will be startups that are further up the value chain from the actual builders.

[0]: 17% now, 8% in 2021 - https://www.angi.com/articles/construction-overhead-profit.h...
Do you know why they choose the UAW? It seems a really strange fit.

The choice of what union to affiliate with, and selecting their rules is something that should have been done carefully, and with the needs of the membership in mind.
My first thought was "people that do the boring enough stuff comparable to watching paint drip/dry" so dunno whether name is all that good or not.

But I definitely acquired some skills in similar method, just doing something, hitting a snag and exploring some niche of debugging or code to get that tiny speck of knowledge while otherwise not knowing all that much about adjacent subjects.
I’m not sure archive.org will be there either. Institutions aren’t immortal
I think the moral of the story is that if you find yourself in that situation, you should repair or replace the jar instead of spending every day in a futile struggle to keep it full.

It's more useful to view resolve, moral continence, self-control as things that you do rather than things you have been granted.
Where does this end?

Are people with a pattern of disruptive, dysfunctional behavior allowed to be present in your workplace?

Is this something you would see as desirable to experience, for the same reasons you've given that children should experience it?
France and Economic Intelligence (2019)
A Republican Congress with a Republican President in 2004 enacted the federal law that makes it difficult for public schools to expel disruptive children.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDEA_2004

All a parent has to do is ask for an individualized education plan, IEP, and a public school will have to do a metric ton of cover your ass to be able to expel a child.

https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED495879.pdf
With the potential end of Q and A on stackoverflow to add signal to AI training, and future websites being output of AIs themselves, we will probably reach a local maximum in usefulness. What we have now might be ~~ as good as it gets.
EU is not an arbiter of which particular business it likes or doesn't like. It's not Russia.
in my experience, the overwork of the RAs wasn't being pushed by a ruthless taskmaster advisor. it was that students understood the hypercompetitive academic job market and knew that they had to build out their CV if they wanted to be lucky enough to get a postdoc once they defended.
So because some people can’t afford property we should control speech?
I particularly like the job they did with forward visibility on these. Much like USPS trucks; minimizing blind spots was an explicit goal. I wish all trucks and SUVs and such in my city were like that, with either low front ends or cab-over-engine designs with good visibility for pedestrians and cyclists, especially little ones.
We will know AGI is starting to exist when driverless cars are everywhere.
It isn't the parent's money!

Everyone in my area pays local taxes, whether they are parents or not, including businesses; the bulk of these local taxes are allocated to fund schools. Most of us don't want our taxes going to charter schools or religious schools, and I'm tired of entitled parents siphoning from the system and leaving everyone worse off. If you want to make changes, fix the rules under which schools operate and allow disruptive kids to be expelled.
That isn't immediately true, with enough fitting parameters you can capture the effect underlying behaviour without explicitly capturing it, or even without knowing it exists.

"With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk." - John von Neumann [0]

[0]: https://doi.org/10.1119%2F1.3254017
West of the Rockies, you’re on the air!
Yes, actually, after thoughts I suspect that wgntv.com is just using third party provider that operates in europe and asks wgntv.com to implement GDPR compliance or refuse traffic by contract.
> "usually by one's own exertions" does not fit contracting a disease or being infected.

In professional settings, terms get chosen for ability to reliably convey specific scenarios. I suspect that ability better determines their adoption, rather than how they might align with language norms of a particular decade.
Huh, my comment got flagged off. I guess I missed the clue train!
Chat bots built as Eliza clones are worse than useless. However a more concise ChatGPT hooked up to APIs to achieve customer service goals would be great. It operates in an abstract abductive semantic space that’s considerably more deep than most first level support can, especially those poor souls working from a different country with a different native language. I would assume most if not all companies would maintain second level and third level human support for the truly mindbendingly challenging inquiries, but those are a very small percentage of the total volume. For that 90%+ of the case volume a well contextualized, fine tuned, and vectordb’ed chatbot LLM of at least GPT4 capability is likely going to our perform almost all situations in almost all dimensions, including identifying situations for escalation to next level support.
From the article:

>Although about 2,000 people infected with malaria turn up in the US health care system every year, those cases are all linked to travel outside the US. Neither those involved in the Florida cases nor the Texas case had traveled. That means in both states, the infection was acquired within US borders.
>> We need to get over this concept of punishment only.

And replace it with what?
Ya tech people that talk about this generally seem to have little knowledge of the field and think it's ripe for innovation, then later figure out it's not.

If you think a house starts at the foundation, you've already missed half the battle. Lot subdivision is a massive amount of work and expense. You have utilizes and roads which in new construction takes around 2 years from concept to finish where I live.

Then when you lay a foundation and plumbing, which again takes a licened plumber to inspect before you put concrete on it. Then some time for concrete to set and dry before you can build on it.

Walls go up fast. Doesn't matter if it's wood, or where I live 3d printed concrete. What takes longer is services in the walls. Again plumbing, power, and possibly gas all requiring inspection. A builder inspector, city inspector, and many times the bank inspector will show up at this point. You still have a rough house that requires another month or two of finish work or more now.

Building off site and moving it in place has not worked well in practice, US new builds are typically huge. And even then moving finish work tends not to go well which requires massive amounts of time and labor to complete.
Yeah but if you don't have attached article the first thing I'm gonna think about is "sloppy" or "this person is into boring tasks like watching paint dry"
What you want already exists. There's already tons of places online you can go to get a huge dose of conspiracy theories and racism. Your needs are met. Some of us would like to have places where that doesn't happen.
tl;dr - only read the intro

> by the time you’re in your mid-teens, you’re probably as smart as you’re going to be – not as worldly or wise as you will be later, but the raw brainpower is mostly there. So you’ve got a four-year chunk during which you’re smart enough to learn anything a novice adult version of you could;

1. This presuppoess that "smart" is the essential ingredient for success. How about maturity/self-discipline? There is no way a 14 year old has the maturity of an 18 year old to deal with learning or doing difficult things.

2. IME a very significant problem that teens have learning is the "fixed mindset". When they are unable to do something right away, especially if they observe their peers can, most don't know how to put in the work to improve. In fact, they behave as if they cannot improve. Concealing one's inability to do something is very common.

The author does bring this up in "4F" but I don't feel like it addresses the problem very well. It postulates an ideal student who will connect with someone who is more motivated than them, but then not just ride their coattails. I don't even see that in the business world.
What made them like a student over another? Behavior? Ability?

How/why were students they liked rewarded? Teaching is a job, there are tests and many times grading is subjective.
The only factors I thought would come into play are.

1. How much the student tried, cared, or showed interest during class

2. The content of the test (answers-objective, writing-subjective)

3. If they were disruptive in class which normally led to 1 and 2 being negative

What unjustified reasons would a teacher have to show favoritism to a portion of students excluding rare situations like sexual relations and nepotism?

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"because instead of the school treating everyone like they were special and going to save the world"

How? When I was in school I went from class to class where the teacher would read material, show examples (i.e.) math, or have a class discussion. Do you mean they inflated grades? Then you wouldn't have done poorly in public school as you said.

If you mean they verbally told students they were doing good when they weren't why would they do that? Public school students have to take standardized test which are so important for the school that it's a common complaint that teachers only teach the test. If this is the case how does rewarding unworthy students benefit the teacher or school. Why would they do that?

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Your comment hit a nerve because it is very dense with political talking points.

- public school teachers are
corrupt (i.e.favoritism )

- public school teachers are bad at their job

- public school teachers are too soft and treat kids like snowflakes and this has a negative affect.
I have a bunch, but one of my favorite is a fish shell function that writes wip commits:

```

function w

#set --local staged (gs | cut -c1 | ag -v "\?" | string collect | string trim)
set --local staged (git status -s | grep "^[MADRCU]" | string collect | string trim)
if test -n "$staged"
#echo "something staged"
else
#echo "nothing staged"
git add .
end

if not string length -q -- "$argv"
gc -m 'WIP' -n
else
gc -m "$argv" -n
end

end

```

Lifesaver and timesaver.

I have one called `b` that creates a new branch and commits.

One called `poop` that pushes the current branch to GitHub and create a PR.

etc etc
It’s cringe that you think this is cringe.
Are you saying that because Google wont be invested in this and trying to figure out how to make money off it, that will be what kills it in the end? Seems right.
Everyone votes too. The government lacks empathy towards me by forcing me to have an equal vote with morons and criminals.

There are scenarios in life where we're all in this together and excising people for their inconvenience isn't what's best for society.

You don't just cast off disabled people into the void, for example. Unless you have a solution for where to put these problem public school kids that isn't juvenile detention, I don't want to hear it.
The actions people take are generally not a product of careful deliberation and certainly not always genuine reflections of their deepest desires.

Most of the time, people just do things without thinking too much about it and they do the things that are the "default mode" operations in the context in which they are operating.

It is not wise to look at actions people take and conclude that's what they really wanted to do.
At the very least you'd need to ask them about it.

There may be 100 reasons why they feel tied to a spot where they actually don't want so much to live in.
So let's try to really and truly improve the cities, make them walkable with green and blue spaces, easy public transport out to larger parks and reserves, etc.
> Before a child sets foot in kindergarten many inputs have already been happened.

That can also include environmental harms and lack of access to good food or medical care. Investing in neighborhoods that have been neglected and exploited can fix a lot of things and improve them for everyone in the area. Not being an easy fix doesn't mean it wouldn't be worthwhile. Clean up the neighborhoods, lift the the desperation and despair, and the drug dealers won't stick around anymore than they do anywhere else.
Somewhat unrelated, but blueskyweb.xyz is the ugliest domain name I've ever seen for a legitimate tech company. Feels like a spam domain.
It could be detected like so:

1. Give a sample of mechanical turk workers the same data to classify without telling them

2. Once submitted, look carefully at the ones they get wrong

3. If the turk worker gets similar ones wrong to other turk workers, they're probably not cheating

4. If the turk worker is frequently wrong on questions other turk workers all got right (e.g. if 99.9% of other workers got it right) then they've likely used AI to generate their answers and then fiddled around with a few afterwards to make it look human

That presumes they're fiddling with a few responses for the human touch. If they're submitting raw AI output that should be easily discoverable by running similar models against the same data (like detection of chess cheating compares games against moves form several engines, not just one).

I think that would work, unless everybody uses AI. If that latter were suspected, get a group to label data in person (where you can be 100% sure they can't cheat), then use those answers as the basis for comparison.
I wouldn’t say “shine”. Mobile games are mostly shitty ad ridden apps with in app purchases of coins and loot boxes targeting “whales”.
They depreciate in value like a car and have a stigma associated with the poor
I would like to have a programming language that also works as a logic, and doesn't use types to achieve that. Think equational reasoning, but with binders.
We know, but "<thing> for <platform>" usually implies that <thing> runs on <platform>, not the other way around.
Worst. Rant. Ever.

> Scary people hoovering up data - they will and do monetise it

> Is threads (Facebook) actually setting out to hoover that data? I doubt it

So Facebook is the noble player; Twitter, Google, Apple, TikTok the bad guys ... Mark Zuckerberg isnt going to buy you a horse for your efforts.

"they trust me, dumb fucks"
[BROUGHT TO YOU BY WINDOWS] Subsystem for X.
Hard to overstate how mosquitoes are the deadliest creature known to man: https://www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/stories/2019/world-deadlies...
I'll never understand people who think everyone should be like them. Humanity is about diversity, and I think that is worth celebrating. I'm perfectly happy being a private person blending into the background and only writing anonymous posts on HN.
I concur.
May also suggest Google to work on their "retied projects" archives directly, rather than repeat this cycle of wasted energy.

Waiting for Voice to die. I thought it would immediately follow gTalk.
I don't think you understood the comments above, but I definitely don't understand your point...

Compilers introduce bugs, yes. Compilers are code, and code can have bugs and regressions.

But the comments above make no mention of bugs are regressions. They said compiling php into machine code is "impossible."

Going form high level interfaces to lower level is the easy part. It's what all interprets and compilers do already.

Having different intermediate forms is also a very common practice. There is nothing special about php here. Except for maybe it's underserved reputation of being an obtuse language.
Yes and no. While staples of pantry items may be same or similar on a week to week basis, epicurean palates of many shoppers shift from week to week to embrace different recipes, diets and exploratory dishes for breakfast/lunch/dinner. What the balance of these unique ingredients pose impacts a subscription model. Coupled with most shoppers like to have the opportunity to pick the item(s) themselves which often times services like Amazon Fresh, Instacart, etc. do not yet do well. Finally, certain pantry items have various shelf and use life spans. Perhaps with an AI shopping tool, based on an individual's or family's needs this could be more efficient and profitable.
> What made them like a student over another? Behavior? Ability?

Between my experience and the data I would say it comes down to class and gender, but maybe in the reverse order.

In my primary school education, both public and private, there was a pervasive and often oppressive favoritism towards the girls in just about all situations.

We've been starting to see the results of this in the data for the last couple of decades where men have worse education outcomes by a sizable percentage.
Does a similar law exist in the USA?
The "public" dollars were already, literally, pulled from the people who would prefer to use them to choose a school at which to spend them.
The typical lifespan of a residential contractor is MUCH LESS than alternatives (commercial, industrial). This is mostly due to the difficult nature of constant-lowest-bid-acceptance — and no amount of change orders will make up for such an unrealistic bid.

At the end of the day, what you are building is typically a single individual's most valuable possession, and they have every right to nitpick poor build quality (which is endemic). A couple "bad make-up jobs" can end a contractor entirely, and usually quite suddenly (even in the middle of a project).

In my 20 years working residential, it was extremely rare to find a crew that didn't have a scheduling, drug, and attitude problem. Towards the end of my career ("retired" 2020) I began working primarily on 5000sqft homes thinking that this wealthier clientele might have less difficulties — turns out there's more.

ADVICE: invest in commercial/industrial tradeshops, because residential is "fly by night" in their much shorter existences.

SRC: Retired residential electrician (IBEW-trained).
I think you should use a more advanced LLM, and maybe add some prompts such as 'avoid turgid prose', 'make the plot interesting' etc.
What's the word for maps?

City map makers didn't want people to copy their hard work, so they'd add a short street or some other feature that doesn't actually exist in reality.
Also, if my kids are going to throw away my notebooks, who's going to be looking at my old blog posts?
Did you mean to say "The fridge that my house came in" perhaps?