skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My biggest problem with 3rd party feature flag setups is that I have high expectations for them and it is technically difficult to meet all of them:

- local/static access: it should not have to call out to a 3rd party server to get basic runtime config

- unused-flag detection: flags should have three reported states: never used, recently used, not recently used. These will be different from the user-controlled states of active, inactive, etc.

- sticky a/b testing: should follow the logged in user until the flag is removed

- integration with logger: I should be able to use it with my logger out of the box to report only relevant feature flags. Alternatively can provide a packed value of all relevant flags, would probably have to do flag state versioning.

- integration with linter: should warn me if flag has not recently been used or I used a flag in the code that is not in our database (alternatively, will upsert the flag automatically if it doesn’t exist)

- hashed flag names on frontend build: prevent the leakage of information, not a perfect solution, but I would want to avoid writing “top-secret-feature” where we can.

I fully acknowledge that a lot of solutions come close, but I haven’t looked at the current state of things in the last few years so it may have improved.
having worked with them for a few years, i'd say it's one of the most innovative library institutions and we (in the german speaking world and beyond) need them. they produced countless digital corpora and editions. largely historical of course, but high quality data.
I am afraid you are woefully confused. A good friend had $150k in debt from undergrad and $200k in additional debt from law school, and this was 10 years ago.
Because 911 is relatively simple and has been drilled into people since they were kids? I don't know man, I think being able to dial 911 is a lot simpler than being able to read your location off a map. Trying to find street names on google maps can be hard enough when my brain is working correctly.
I wonder if LIGO’s mirrors would be useful for testing this type of theory. They’re big, and if they couple classically to the massive objects around them, I would expect an effect that could be detectable.
That's too bad! The entire bargain with copyright is that creators are granted an exclusive period with their work in exchange for the work entering the public domain.

That's the deal.

It's a complete violation of the spirit of the copyright agreement to take advantage of the financially useful period of monopoly over the work, then use the remainder of the exclusive period to try and ensure the work cannot be archived and cannot enter the public domain.
> Ukraine is piss poor compared to Russia.

I fail to see the relevance of that. Sounds like cheap propaganda.

My point was clear: when Russia started it's invasion of Ukraine, one of the first things they did was to pillage the industrial areas of the regions they controlled to take away industrial equipment, including farm vehicles.

HN had a discussion on how John Deere kill switches were rendering Russia's pillaging useless as the stolen tractors were being remotely disabled once they were moved into Russia.

Industrial equipment, even old one, is often used extensively in spite of existing latest and greatest offers.
Just curious, what backup/replication/disaster recovery solution(s) are you running with that?
Luckily, science doesn't give a fuck what philosophy thinks. Our models of the solar system and space in general are very thorough, well tested, and we even know the circumstances in which they break down. We can reliably make predictions about the future using these models, and with high confidence. These predictions, time and again, come correct. Newtons laws have only held for the entire time we've known them, including in locations that are billions of miles away and completely divorced in the time dimension from our own.

Philosophy is great and all, but Newton gives you raw numbers that are then verified by reality. I'm going to rely on that instead of untestable breathless "but ACTUALLY" from people who provide no actionable insight into the universe.
Gay men often "took beards."

https://thewisdomdaily.com/are-you-a-beard/
I'm talking desktop screen to VR eye, with desktop streaming. So yes, that, plus simulator latency. I would think input latency should be pretty small.
The problem is they are both wrong. There are more than two options.
No, this is incorrect. The federal government is also the backstop for a majority of private student loans as well. https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/08121...
I think the solution is to just grant some money to schools and cap tuition costs. The current incentives are just so misaligned.

Its only half the problem because you'll still see inflated housing as well but at least its something.
> A package manager that [...] supports specifying dependency version in a configuration file

This is an anti-pattern common among modern programming ecosystems that they should ideally be moving away from—and ecosystems that are not already afflicted with this sort of thing shouldn't make the mistake of making it a milestone to aim for.

These versions listed in a text file that you refer to are nothing more than a way to route around one's own version control system (example: package.json and Git). The version control system should be used for version control—not text-file based hacks that end up being the source of unreproducibility. And to the extent that one's version control system can't be used because it doesn't do what you want, then that's something that should be fixed at the appropriate level (i.e. the version control system itself)—not with band-aids applied there, either.
You're right that state govs have definitely reduced funding in many places for public colleges. And although this started decades ago in some cases, it is significantly exacerbated by the size of loans that students can easily access (due directly to federal backing of such loans). Therefore, states can reduce spending on colleges with the knowledge that the colleges can easily increase tuition to make up the difference.
In Chrome, prefix with '?' to search Google instead of autocompleting.
What an excellent point. If it is addressed in the book, I don't remember.

If we actually accept that expansion increase in entropy, I do not know what could possibly compete with this.
I can see the potential, but I also got lost in the sidebar. The capability to include and query documents and notes is powerful and I liked the way in which you captured the summary of information. Appreciate the complementary credits because I burned a lot of them attempting to get it to do what I wanted it to. Would love some quick info around using indexes successfully, it is taking a lot of trial and error and when the AI begins to fall over itself I have to start clean, losing my cartridges. Just first experience, but I really feel that you are on-to something here. The composability is something unique.
Aren't GameCube games prone to weird issues and artefacts though?

For example, most emulated versions of Mario Sunshine (including the official Switch release!) show these little grey debug cubes in certain levels: https://tcrf.net/Super_Mario_Sunshine#Debug_Cubes
The zombie flags are a huge problem. Management is always pushing for feature completion and its done - behind a feature flag. The complication is now they never want to allow time to remove all the dead code paths later, which leaves you dependent on all sorts of potential things, imports, libraries maybe even connections. One day they inevitably find out something is "still in prod" and they get curious and don't understand why it's still there. Well, feature flags require more TCO, period. They don't want to give you more time though.
I like YADM for managing my dot files and expect that even if I switched to NixOS, I would keep using it because it works well and I have no complaints about it.
Death makes your credit score somewhat irrelevant.
I assure you that you're not going to reach the level of enterprise we're talking about there (where some sort of sharding strategy becomes important).

Basically - if you would run it on RDS, you can run it on Supabase
Another thing I noticed lately is a lot of iPhone games that were built in the early days like 2008 to 2014 and beyond even, get removed from the app store once the developer cannot maintain enough resources to update the code to the latest iOS version. I tried downloading a lot of games I fell in love with with in the early days of the app store but cannot. This is sad too.
> two time symmetries, using pulses of lasers that came in order but did not repeat

Like a timestamp? Or UUID?
Microarchitectural Attacks on Hardware RISC-V CPUs [pdf]
There is also a talk about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-c4C_L2PRQ
It's pretty simple. You basically have two suspended mirrors on wires and you shoot lasers at each mirror. Due to gravity there will be an interaction between the mirrors. There are then two things you can probe. First, the correlation between the two reflected lasers, and if you can achieve the extreme temperature requirements, entanglement between the two reflected lasers caused by the gravity. Now, the former doesn't really imply that gravity is quantum, it just shows that quantum correlations can be mediated by gravity, but this may also be true classically, however, the much more difficult to show entanglement would definitely require quantum gravity. The first step is still good though because no one has yet managed to demonstrate quantum correlations via gravity. The experiment would also have two mirrors two turn the laser beams into cavities, increasing the interaction strength. The setup would look a bit like this:

_ _
! !
---|-----| |-----|---

where | are mirrors, ! are suspension wires, and - is the laser beam
The Brand Asset is still going strong, for now. IBM'll burn through it soon enough.

I remember that acquihire like it was yesterday... I was sad to see my $RHT shares liquidated.
starting strength was designed by a high school football coach who was trying to make high school athletes stronger. its a terrible framework for the average joe who wants to look better with their shirt off.
That's the sort of provision that is effectively unenforced, and is hence null in practice. I expect most states do not know whether they own any IP from dissolved companies, nor will they prosecute anyone who "infringes" such rights.
There are two broad solutions to these kinds of problems: demand-side and supply-side. This article is another data point in exactly why demand-side solutions are short term if they work at all. More likely they don't work.

A supply-side solution to education would be to create more spaces in quality higher education and to make those places cheap or free by government subsidy, often with price controls on the receiving institution. This is largely how most of the developed world works.

A demand-side solution is to make something more accessible, which has the net effect of increasing demand. This almost always raises prices. It's no surprise that money backed by the government has increased prices. It's inevitable. Demand for high-quality college places still exceeds supply so those colleges can (and do) respond by increasing costs. Sometimes that extra money benefits the students through better facilities (eg a new library, better and/or more dorms, etc). Often however it's lost in subsidizing college sports, which most colleges lose money on, and inflating administrative costs. Division 1 football coaches make millions a year for a supposedly amateur (that's what one of the As in NCAA stands for) competition. That extra money makes those programs more expensive to run too through the same means.

We see the same problem in housing. Nearly all legislative efforts are demand-side (eg programs to help first homebuyers) where what we need is simply to increase housing supply by building more units, making more current units available or both. But that runs afoul of vested interests where our homes have become retirement accounts.

It's worth noting that many elite colleges are sitting on eye-watering endowments that could easily be used to pay for tuition but they largely don't do that (outside of a few programs for students from poorer backgrounds).

Pretty much all of this is by design. Post-WW2 there was a concerted campaign to charge for things that were once cheap or free including health care and education. This is nothing more than economic bondage, the developed world's equivalent of Pakistani brick kilns. A person saddled with debt is a compliant worker who will show up to work and not complain or fight for better working conditions. That's literally the point.

It's why the prison population is used as cheap labor. It's why most states like illegal immigration. It's why states are enacting child labor laws. My point is that all of this, including spiralling student debt, is a systemic problem.

Education should be free.
Now I read that Wall Street is creating CDO's based on these loans, like they (continue to) do on mortgages. Some people die "early" without paying back these loans, and sometimes, they will owe more than they took out. Given the mounting problems with the numbers here, it seems a whole generation of people in the middle of this bubble are going to go to the grave while still owing on these loans. What happens to these CDO's? Are we headed for a smaller "meltdown?"

I went to school from 87-91. I could already see the problem starting. I was hoping this bubble would burst before my own children went to school. Two of three have gone to public schools so far, and we've paid through the nose for it. We are pushing our third towards some sort of trade school.
That’s a shame because the rest of it was pretty insightful and descends into a deep hole of interesting hopelessness. I think you took things too seriously, they clearly are lark hunting - which is beautiful to watch because that’s where learning happens.
> The world doesn't need all media available at all times to everyone.

The world also doesn't need any more media created, the amount of good - no, great - media that I'd like to consume that already exists is vastly greater than the amount of time I have in my life to consume it.

Given that state of affairs, why do we even need any laws that encourage the production of new media?

I mean, I'm highly sympathetic to the situation of the starving artist, but I'm not at all sympathetic to the situation of his publisher. If copyright, and the creative industry, and all of its production of new works disappeared tomorrow, it would have no meaningful impact on my life.

The world doesn't need any more media created.
Medical school is education, and in the US it’s astronomically expensive (some people graduate with half a million dollars of debt).

Residency is more like on-the-job training (a hospital still makes money when a resident sees and treats you). It just takes longer to train a physician because there are human lives at stake.

Yes, teaching fellows and others in academia are often taken advantage of and work for free, but that doesn’t mean physicians are evil for getting paid during residency.
There already is tons of that. The issue is the "full range of schools" part. You can be from a family with a 400 credit score and combined income of $45k, and get loans to go to a $50k/yr university.

If the government is going to step in and provide direct funding, it will almost certainly only apply towards community colleges followed by local state schools.
I tried and found it even worse. Impenetrable language, worse documentation, less packages unless you use nixpkgs anyway...
How is that different from the current system?

People from low or mid-income families have access to scholarships and funding. Kids from ideal backgrounds don’t take out loans.

If you’re saying schools get a blank check via grants and scholarships, then I’m not seeing how that fixes the issue.

This problem feels super similar to the Us health care system. Those with blank checks for pre-negotiated prices (have health insurance), pay low healthcare costs, and those without pay insane prices. Overall everyone is paying insane prices.

Can you explain your reasoning more?
> how is it misleading?

Because the limit cited only applies to students whose parents can get (federal, direct, and capped only by the school’s estimate of costs) PLUS loans, and yet is characteized as a limit of the impact of federal subsidies on school costs.

A cap that only applies where another unlimited federal loan stream is available to the same student is, well, not a limit at all, when discussing federal impact on prices.
Solution: bundle a license for the original with purchases of the sequel.

Now it is on the market, so it can't be distributed for free.

You make money off people who think they just want the original. But you also get a copy of the sequel into their hands, and they might try it and like it.

True, it's not absolute freedom to sell things precisely how you want, but it seems like a pretty reasonable compromise to me.
My daughter just told me, "If you really stretch it, you can make what you post on social media true."

Alas, I must concede the point: upon actual cursory research, drinking distilled water is NOT a health risk.

(I was once admitted to hospital because of crazy electrolyte levels, while presenting other symptoms as well. Is long story. Perhaps it's time for me to stop worrying about potassium...)
I have no connection to my ancestors, that part of the family disappeared. I wish I could access my grandfather's WWII records, it would be a priceless link to the past.
Average medical school costs are ~230K.

Residency is not college, residents are practicing physicians that are providing considerable value to society and in many cases they are paid appallingly little for the amount that they work.
Exactly! I find myself writing out the same code with classes and functions to show this to folks. I still prefer using classes as it’s easier for me to see at a glance that constructor = DI/curry vs a function returning an object of functions or something. So a class is just a way to communicate a pattern.
No it's not. It's a state facilitated oligopoly situation, which is the ideal end state for any industry as part of capitalism short of a monopoly. Guaranteed high income for everybody involved and disruption essentially not possible.
> we allow no other lenders to do?

Well, because we don't technically allow debtors prison. It is an unsecured loan which are not really that common.
I'm not seeing it explicitly defined but I assume this is the standard asterisk: "In the United States" so I got curious what's happening elsewhere.

Average annual tuition in Canada in 2006: CAD $4,400. 2023: CAD $6,834. So I could see it also being in the ballpark of 710% since 1983 as well.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/542989/canadian-undergra...
That's how things used to be. It means that only rich people can go to college, because they are the only ones who can afford it. Prices can only come down so far. The college still has to pay professors and maintain facilities.

There needs to be a middle ground where we support poor but promising students in a way that doesn't inflate prices. I don't know what that solution is.
Ooh, in my hunt for a good scaler I did see some people working on light gun compatibility gadgets for modern TVs! No idea how well they work now, but hopefully they'll be perfected by the time the last CRT gives out.
This page is unreadable on mobile. Shame, as the topic is interesting.
I feel your pain.

This is what drove me to build an open source solution: https://featurevisor.com/
I tried using Google Bard, another LLM for learning Rust, and it had no awareness that solutions were specific to certain versions of software. So it would give me confidently wrong solutions for outdated versions of the software.
There are many things that the government doesn't guarantee loans for. Why is not-guaranteeing for higher education more of a racially disparate action than not-guaranteeing for e.g. vehicle loans?
Compulsory/statutory licensing would be one solution. As I understand it, that's what allows libraries to exist. Music on the radio (at least here in Sweden) is handled through collective licensing, which is nominally optional, but practically impossible to avoid if you want any radio money.

The incentive of exclusivity could be reasonably preserved by making the statutory license valid only after some amount of time has passed since release.
Or even simpler: 5 years and you can extend it twice. That’s it.
But it's not bad for everyone, because as I just pointed out, it provided a lot of women the ability to work and achieve financial stability on their own.

For unmarried women, there is no cost, only benefits.
Why not just make it free? Kids from not-ideal backgrounds can compete on merit alone. The way this Supreme Court intended?
I think this is the right path. Get the guts working right and stable, then make the useful thing usable. That last bit is by far the hardest, but trying to make something usable useful is impossible.
Could it be because in capitalism, the seller tries to take as much money as possible from buyer and the price is not related to expenses?

Let me give an example that can illustrate this: a typical mobile plan from Verizon in US costs $45/month and gives you 15 Gb of traffic. At the same time in Russia one can get 30 Gb for $9/month. Are expenses for maintaining a cell network 5 times higher in US? Unlikely. It is just customers in US are richer and are ok to pay more for the same service.

I don't know how this effect is called, but couldn't the same thing happen to education, land or housing costs? These are obviously things that everyone needs desperately so the seller will squeeze the maximum they can, and the price is unrelated to how much the lecturer earns or how much the bricks cost. The house will cost you almost all your life's earnings no matter where you live.
I hope to see the day where interest bearing loans are recognized by the rest of the world as the evil they are. Muslims and Jews know this fact quite well.
I ended up hand crafting my svg graphs for non.io for many of the same reasons. I originally was looking around at 3rd party libraries, but one of my goals with the site was to use as few external libraries as possible. I made an attempt at dynamically generating the svg points myself, and found it incredibly easy.

For context, here's the 22 lines of code it took to create a simple svg graph: https://github.com/jjcm/soci-frontend/blob/master/components...

And here's the final output: https://non.io/Animation-example
Reminiscent of a very interesting company I interviewed for last year called Cache DNA

https://www.cache-dna.com/

This is the future. I don't think it will look exactly like this, and I don't think it will be here any time soon, but I'm excited to see these advancements.

What Cache is doing presently is trying to do archival storage in DNA - it has a lot of potential to be cheaper, more energy efficient, and more redundant. But some of the processes still aren't there yet.
> it is simply the consequence of removing collapse of the wavefunction as an objective event from the picture. And if it turns out our observations wouldn't be changed by removing this feature, then perhaps it was an extraneous feature in the first place!

> What we observe as the collapse of a function is simply an artifact of being a conscious being that can only observe one value of the of the wavefunction at any particular moment.

If we simply assume that our observations are as if a wave function happened we can indeed have our Schrödinger cake and eat it too.