skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Feature flags can be checked dozens of times per request and often need the kind of queries (user is a member of group A and has an IP located in country B) which could be well served by a local SQLite - and feature flags have a tolerance for updates taking a few seconds (or longer) to roll out.

This doesn't sound right. A feature flag only requires checking if a request comes from a user that is in a specific feature group. This is a single key:value check.

The business logic lies in assigning a user to a specific feature group, which the simplest way means pre assigning the user and in the most complex cases takes place at app start/first request to dynamically control dialups.

Either way, it's a single key: value check where the key is user ID+feature ID, or session ID + feature ID.

I mean, I guess you can send a boat load of data to perform the same complex query over and over again. I suppose. But you need to not have invested any thought onto the issue and insisted in making things very hard for you, QAs, and users too. I mean, read your own description: why are you making the exact same complex query over and over and over again, multiple times in the same request? At most, do it once, cache the result, and from therein just do a key:value check. You can use sqlite for that if you'd like.
I'm not too sure, but I suspect that due to how they do group vs. individual message encryption, this might decrease forward secrecy somewhat.
I think you could argue people are buying them for longevity, and these measures increase their perceived longevity.

I know a lot of iPhone users who will only buy iPhones because of their longevity. They'll keep them for many generations, and they simply don't have faith in Android phone brands to keep up that long. Phones are large purchases, sometimes financed, like a car. So when it comes to buying, some consumers treat them like cars. They weight reliability and longevity very high, and they'll often buy slightly used phones. A generation or two old iPhone is really still top of the line.

A lot of that is marketing perception but there's also some truth to it.
X actually has both. But I've seen people call places "cesspools" even if one from a thousand members is considered "undesirable".

You probably should recalibrate your senses here, or you'll never find anything "balanced".

And just stating the obvious but your feed is built by the algorithm and the defaults which it shows have little weight after you find relevant people to you to follow
As in not paying out money yes. As in keeping costs low no...
#2 I think would only be relevant if someone were going to mass produce and sell the item. As 3D print DIY project, it's sufficient.
Sure, that can happen. OP wrote “secure a good academic job.” But I think lazy and unprepared students stretching their adolescence out on their parent’s dime, or on loans they will struggle to repay, offers a better explanation overall.

In my own field, programming, I have to work with expert beginners [1] who actively resist learning and mastery, and complain about the sometimes hard work and study needed. I don’t think that happens because employers try to make themselves look smart.

An anecdote to illustrate. Years ago I worked with a project manager who had a business degree from a good school. He mentioned it fairly often. He had no imagination and seemed stuck on GANTT charts. I bought a bookshelf from him, went to his house to pick it up. He offered to include the books he had in boxes in his garage. He told me he hadn’t read anything since college, over a decade before. Can’t blame his professors for that.

[1] https://daedtech.com/how-developers-stop-learning-rise-of-th...
Because there are clear symptoms of, for example, Dead Instagram and Dead Facebook with desperate algorithms serving pathetic LLM-generated sludge. The contagion spreads.
I’ve done something like this in large service ecosystems. It has two very unfortunate properties:

- if the actual performance deviates from the predicted (scored) performance, the system easily enters a degenerate bottlenecked state.

- and if that happens, the many internal queues make diagnosis, root causing, and confidence in a fix all exponentially worse.

Now you might assert that this will be applied in situations where scores are accurate and brown failures do not occur. Those aren’t the situations I deal with.
Radiation levels on Europa's surface are about 5 Sv in 24 hours, which is a massive dose; for reference, this is enough to kill 50% of humans exposed to it and make the survivors extremely ill.

It is also extremely cold (-171C mean) and near-vacuum (100 nanopascal).

If there is life in Europa and it bears any resemblance whatsoever to the biology we know, it simply couldn't exist on the surface. Even the hardiest single-celled organisms here, which have also had 4.5B years to evolve into uncontested niches, could barely survive a limited exposure to these factors.
"Scientists successfully combine 2 trending topics"
I'm actually slight disappointed that there isn't some bizarre explanation for why North Sea rigs have charging points - preparing for electric helicopters maybe? ;-)
Well, I'm not using the app, so... But that doesn't absolve someone of public ridicule or commentary.

MKBHD, who has been a huge proponent of privacy, asking for my LOCATION for a wallpaper app? You and I both know its for ad targeting, and happens whether you're paying a subscription or not.

Also, where in my original comment did I say anything about stealing the artwork?
Well, they are and they aren't.

The oak tree might grow by a few microns every day, and change in any number of other ways, but it remains an oak tree for all that. This isn't (just) a matter of words, but a matter of reality.

OTOH, if you burn the oak tree, it ceases to exist entirely.

If you say there is no unchanging entity underlying the tree's daily growth, then any predication about reality becomes impossible. All predication would be limited to the concepts we've created in our minds.
Sorry, when did I say anything about stealing the content?
Coincidentally, I noticed my blog’s first post¹ is from September 24, 2009, so yesterday it became exactly 15 years old.

I have taken great care to preserve all of the posts on my personal website, but unfortunately I don’t write new posts very often lately. I wonder if that’ll change.

[1]: https://dmitri.shuralyov.com/blog/1
It's the other way around. Money is finite and the curiosity we want to satisfy is infinite.
Thanks! Didn't see that update from him.
You're correct, I overlooked triggers. Though that may be a bridge too far for some folks, triggers are only really comfortable for folks who are deep on RDBMSes. For lots of app developers the ORM is the limit of the world.
> Those connectors are a fucking bear to plug in

The connectors themselves aren't usually the cause for the perceived difficulty of plugging in. It's instead the weight and flexibility of the cable. Try this: plug in a CCS connector at Electrify America, and then plug in a CCS connector at ChargePoint. The latter feels much heavier than the former. Yet both are CCS connectors. Even though the former is rated for 350kW and the latter usually only 125kW.

The CCS connector itself doesn't dictate what kind of cables manufacturers use and what kind of cooling. Tesla designs cables with less cooling and they replace them more often; other brands want long-lasting cables with fewer field visits so they add more cooling. And some brands use liquid cooled cables, others simply opt for thicker copper without liquid cooling. All of these have nothing to do with the connector.
He did not try to fix education but make himself more powerful; what does fix education even mean? Nice of a few people to demand we all march towards such high minded hallucinations like sheep.

Humanity has been here before and chosen to not point up the hierarchy and bow to what’s there; so sad a few rich CEOs are being demeaned for their meat suits invalid belief the rest of us give a specific fuck they exist

80% of the 1900s Fortune 500 are gone

Latin is not the dominant language

Americans don’t live by British idioms

Humanity will move on from Zuckerberg and everything he accomplishes; propping those guys up is like trying to preserve a fart; physics will diffuse social awareness Zuck existed and eventually reclaim his mush n goo. Humanity is a Ship of Theseus, always replacing planks due to generational churn; what a shock a new generation doesn’t find value in aging rich people who they can see hands on lacks life skills and is just engaged in managing wealth

<900k cops in the US, inclusive of local, county, state, federal. <600k politicians. The awful leadership in America is all thanks to tens of millions of adult members of the public who prostrate themselves before the rich.
Argos, a tool that makes visible the hidden patterns of retractions on science
> If you think it costs zero dollars and we can just say "the internet is our payments system" and call it a day... well, I don't know what to tell you.

If you can somehow manage draw this conclusion after reading my comment, then I'm not sure we're going to have a productive discussion.
> where you can't use a password manager (Such as a smart TV, games console, ...)

I just open my password manager on my phone and type it in. On these passwords, I am likely to avoid special characters, since they are a pain to type on these 'keyboards'
I created a issue at https://github.com/splitbrain/blogrng/issues/3 but until its implemented maybe use something like https://fetchrss.com/json
You have to be able to determine the quality yourself.

Find these things at actual boutique retail locations which are rather hard to find, or individual manufacturers direct to consumer website, and to find those... I don't know, it's not easy.
>time t can extend indefinitely

Isn't that generally what convergence means? At least in the math sense, we are talking about t at infinity, meaning that in any real world time limited application, there is always a gap.
If SCOTUS made the ruling, then the process worked as intended, even when the Cheveron deference was part of that process. Even when written by congress, not all laws that pass will pass judicial review.

> The current best course of action is how we got the the Interment of the Japanese Americans and Guantanamo Bay

The best course of action is also how Boar's Head products were recalled. How we decide to fix bridges before they fall. How we keep companies from forming monopolies. How we provide aide to states hit by hurricanes and wildfires. And so on...
OpenSocial v2? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSocial
I do, in fact. Unfortunately, the push for cashlessness has made this impractical in many places, and as mentioned elsewhere in this thread the cost of handling cash isn't zero, which means that direct transfers via a FedNow-like mechanism have the opportunity to reduce costs for everyone involved.
It's a fossil of its own. On the sign-in page:

> " This facility is currently under development (November 2005)."
That's why ideally game making is a collaborative activity -- if they make something with at least one other person, there's at least some communal appreciation for the effort.
I highly recommend Scratch! I wrote a post of the resources that my kid used. It's the lowest friction way I know of to get kids actually creating something fun, with a pretty fast fast feedback loop.

https://chrissvec.com/scratch-resources/

On there I recommend 2 excellent tutorial series by Digipen that got my kid started, and then a higher level "Scratcher" to follow who has excellent tutorials that are more advanced than the Digipen series.
Elon actually did everything to keep X online in Brazil, even to the point of recommending people to use VPN's after the authoritarian-seeming regime in the country forcibly blocked it, and going as far as to bully SpaceX which is an entirely separate company from X.

But of course someone will say "he blocked it" the same way they say he's actually on the side of Russia in the Ukro-Russian war even with his massive out-of-pocket Starlink donations to Ukraine. War is peace, truth doesn't matter to these people I guess.
Could have been
The Relative Insignificance of the Immunity Holding in Trump vs. United States
Unfortunately, I ended up cutting out a huge portion of the title. The original title of the article was:

> The Relative Insignificance of the Immunity Holding in Trump v. United States (and What Is Really Important in the Decision)
This is rude and unhelpful. Instead of bashing on someone you could learn to ask questions and continue the conversation
No, you don’t need ABM. See my earlier message about Apple Configurator.
Honestly? No. Not really. But I think that's a reflection of the kinds of things I search for and how/why I search. I'm rarely looking for an answer to a specific question (the kind of thing I might go to Gemini or ChatGPT for), but am typically just using Google as a short-cut to avoid having to memorize web addresses. It's like a higher layer above DNS. I just type a vague description of the site I want to go to in my browser's URL bar, let the Google search execute, and then click the link.

So yes, that implies that I typically browse by going mostly to sites that I already know I want to visit. And the handful of things that I do search for that are in "simple question" form, are things that Google does a pretty good job of answering anyway.

I do use LLM's (I pay for both Gemini and ChatGPT and run an Ollama server locally, just to illustrate) but that hasn't really affected the way I use Google.
There is no proof that Israel initiated the Pager attacks either.
I was curious how much of these benefits are just due to not being obese, but sounds like from article even accounting for that there are still increases in incidence of heart attacks and other serious ailments. Novo Nordisk just can't stop winning lol
Idk, did the butterfly keyboards scream quality to you?

Did it say "we care about quality so much that we've very carefully designed and built these, and tested them extensively to ensure that our customers have a quality experience"? No, it did not.

Not only that but there has been a refusal to acknowledge almost every single critical flaw in Apple's products and when they're finally pressured to do so, they brush it off.

This is just more culty bs.
> Increasing the conversion rate of online ads by 1% could make you very, very rich indeed.

I claim there is actually a rather easy way to do this (but it won't make you rich!).

The basic idea is rather simple: for each potential (ad/product, user) pair, ideally store two kinds of information:

- the estimated probability that the user will click on the ad and/or make a buying decision

- the confidence that you have in the correctness of this estimate

Then only show ads where, based on this data, the conversion rate will be high with a high probability.

Result: by only showing ads to those few people who very likely want to buy your product, you create an insanely high conversion rate, but you loose money because the ad will be shown to rather few people (possibly these are even people who don't actually have to get "convinced" to buy your product).

In other words: we just created an artificial example of Goodhart's law ("When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure") in action. What this lesson tells us is

- the "conversion rate" of an online ad is just a proxy for some entirely different business goal that you have

- the conversion rate can rather easily be manipulated
I'm an atheist, so I wouldn't consider myself an expert on their beliefs, but you don't appear to be either: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thou_shalt_not_kill
I wish more people were passionate about space, and we had more funding available. Because you list all these difficulties and I just think "well we better get started! Who do I vote for so we can get started?"
I haven't seen these problems on the Minneapolis Metro even riding at night, but if it is actually a problem, it seems like the solution is build out actual infrastructure to support the homeless community.

Which Minneapolis very much does not have right now despite the best efforts of one or two plucky underfunded nonprofits.

If your light rail cars are the best option people have, that's not an issue with the transit design, that's an issue with the rest of the infrastructure
> You're describing properly motivated people. Those people, properly motivated, have found ways to do the same without UBI.

Those two sets are not identical; many motivated people nonetheless do not have the resources to take a risk and still have something to fall back on, or to take a long time learning something that will not immediately pay off.
Yeah, but ChatGPT is much more dynamic. I learn better when I follow my interests. E.g. I am shown this piece of info, questions pop up in my mind that I want answers to before I can move on and it can go into a rabbit hole.

That actually was a problem for me in school, that even for subjects that I was interested in, I had trouble going by the exact order, so I started thinking about something else with no answers.

It has made studying or learning about new things so much more fun.
I kind of agree, I find it was never that easy to set up and use. I also found the documentation to be quite limited on specific points I wanted to know.

They showed of a JOOQ like Java API for Clojure once but as far as I can see, this was never released. That is crazy to me, using it amazingly well from Java and friends would seem to me to be an absolute no brainer. That alone made it basically impossible to be adopted. Going from SQL/JOOQ to Strings was just not gone happen.

They focused so much on Datomic Cloud, and that just isn't where most people are gone deploy. Specially in the age of Kubernetes and Docker. Its kind of crazy that there were not official Docker images and things like that.

So even while I love Datomic conceptually, and once you have it set up with Clojure its pretty awesome. I would hesitate to really use it for a larger project.

I would really love if NuBank simply open-sourced it.
> I (and most people) are unconvinced that legalization is the correct path for highly addictive drugs like opiates or amphetamines

But both of those have legitimate use cases and are on the legal market. The crucial part is getting the regulation right, which starts by getting rid of corruption in government agencies like the FDA that are supposed to do their job, so that criminals like the Sackler family can't market and sell them to everyone. These are all institutional challenges that governments need to tackle, but they're unrelated to how addictive a substance is. After all, we've been marketed and sold tobacco and alcohol for decades, which have done immeasurable levels of harm to our wellbeing. But it's possible to reach a place where we can all live with the personal decisions of one another, without becoming a nanny state. Whether or not most people agree with this hardly affects my opinion.

Anyway, it's clear that we disagree on some political points, and I don't want to steer this way off the original topic. Cheers!
I’d rather learn from the person who simply solved the problem than the person who made an unusable mess. I don’t know Josh and will pass on his blog.
The Watermelon Operator
Absolutely loved this.

Things I love about your blog:

- The fact that every post has links to the sourcecode!

- Open source

- No ads, no trackers, no popups

- I can tell you use this all the time. So I know you strive to make your content as good as possible _for you_. Which is a strong signal that it will also be good _for me_.

- I love the timeline (but wish they were done in a way that reflects scale, see user test video for more)

Here's my user test: https://news.pub/?try=https://www.youtube.com/embed/UF7fjvE_...
No we just laughed
People say stupid things all the time as well. It’s not inconceivable to brag about something that’s not true either as an act of defiance or for social reasons such as to get some respect, look important, or to be left alone.
Why So Few Matt Levines?
China-Linked Hackers Breach U.S. Internet Providers in New 'Salt Typhoon' Attack
> So more privacy by default is bad?

It's not more privacy, though. It's more tracking. Just because the word "privacy" appears in the title, does not make it so.

I blame Mozilla for the way this feature is presented.
>There's actually quite a big assumption in here -- namely, that the truth is constant over time and throughout space.

The current models include these assumptions for the same reason they include any other assumptions, because models where these assumptions aren't included don't do any better a job explaining any experimental results. If new experimental data shows these assumptions fail in some cases, then the models can be updated to handle them, same as any other failure has been handled in the past. (Granted each step becomes computationally more complex, so eventually we might hit a limit where it is too complex for a human to understand well enough to operate on.)
> as a deterrent

Do you have any sources supporting the claim that does actually deter anybody?
>What is that?

Your game needs sprites, so you could write code that loads the one graphics format you need at the 2 or 3 sizes you need. While doing that you decide it looks hacky so you add support for more formats, better scaling, ... suddenly you have gone from doing that one thing your game needs to something that supports everything every game on the planet might need but usually doesn't. By the time you have done that for every system in the game, you now have an "engine" but are burnt out on the project.
“On further reading, I realised that while mapping represents reality, it also affects how we construct this reality”

Isn’t this Sapir-Worff all over again? The obvious hazard is that the thesis flatters the ego of the specialist, by elevating their specialty above all others.

And more generally this reads like the product of an academic culture that has become insular and fallen in love with its own toolkit of jargon.
Visual Effects industry is really cool. 3d worlds applied to more than M&E as well (Omniverse, Unity, Unreal)
clojure.world – Crafting worlds with alien technology
Even more are being inspired by Suits
> I worry that if I add statistics to the blog it’ll change from an activity I perform for the activity’s sake, to an exercise in hunting clicks where I write for others instead of for myself.

If I ever finally find the motivation to start a blog, I think this is a key point. Vanity metrics would be demotivating.
I’m a product designer, so we tend to approach everything from first principles. Our aim is to keep as much complexity in code as possible, and only surface UI when it solves a problem for our users. We like using tools like Vercel and Supabase - so a lot of UI inspiration comes from the way they surface data views. The AI phase of the internet will likely be less UI focused, which allows for more integrated and simple design systems.
I don’t think you would loose access to academia, actually it is the opposite. Academia would invite you with open arms once you have funds and/or the data :)
> But why Datomic isn't more widely adopted is a huge mystery to me...

I've been hearing about Datomic on and off over the years, and I never saw a clear answer to the simple question: what is it? What does it do?

Instead I saw it most often mentioned as an example of a successful Clojure project, and now that's how I think of it. Seems like poor marketing/branding if there ever was intentional attempt at it.