skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course, you are building something that is much more powerful. If you intend every possible GraphQL operation to perform perfectly, it'll take more development effort. Though if you optimize for only the most likely cases, the effort is not much greater.
Probably because "Innovation Zones" popped up a few weeks after this article.
>And the only reason why it's not more massively used is because of the US's adherence that it's "terrorism".

I don’t think so. A system with clear record keeping, auditable by third parties, and subject to the judiciary is far better than below:

> Trust and extensive use of connections are the components that distinguish it from other remittance systems. Hawaladar networks are often based on membership in the same family, village, clan, or ethnic group, and cheating is punished by effective excommunication and "loss of honour"—leading to severe economic hardship.[3]

Technology has obviated the need for unnecessary levels of allegiance to your tribe, as required in the above system.
I hope they don’t find inspiration from the UAE cities... since those are built on the backs of migrant slaves.
I know. I just wanted a reality check on where erros originate from.
The product of multiple independent state machines is in effect a single state machine.
There does seem to be evidence that in-person schooling is not a substantial contributor to community transmission[0]. This link is just the first one for Google search results for query "evidence on opening schools."

That being said, I don't think you're expressing yourself well, or communicating with others well. What we saw in 2020 was a lot of lightly tested theories about what would and would not work, some being encouraged only to later be found to be incorrect. And the 2020 winter has been a complete flood of community transmission. So one approach might be to take a list of available actions to reduce transmission where possible, and hopefully cumulatively make a big difference, even if each action contributes a small amount.

We also know that educators are among Phase 1b for vaccine qualification, so we should be able to imagine that having a largely vaccinated population of teachers should improve both safety of opening schools physically, as well as the optics of doing so without putting our teachers at risk.

[0] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2775875
Alive 2007 is my absolute favourite. I often think that 2007 remixes are better then the originals.

I remember my mind was blown when i first heard #3 Television rules nation / Crescendolls, when it transition back to Television with a drop... absolute masterpiece of electro music
It doesn't have 100% nuclear or 100% renewables, that's why it's called an energy mix. Nuclear does play an important role as France has shown time and time again. Compare France's energy mix (70% nuclear, 2% coal) with Germany's (47% renewables, 30% coal). Shutting down nuclear almost always means burning fossil fuels. Remember, these are NPPs that have already been built and can continue to generate electricity for many years to come. Closing them down one reactor at a time can be easily done after renewable capacity is installed to compensate for the closures.

https://environmentalprogress.org/france
The sports analogy is not great, because tech companies can't trade engineers to fill a need, and there are no multi-year contracts, so any engineer can quit at any time.

There's also no hard industry-wide salary cap. With the salary cap, the best way to maximize your overall team performance is to get superstars under contract when they're young and underpaid, because a team can only afford a few veteran superstars. Also, sports teams have a hard roster limit, whereas big tech companies can hire as many employees as they like. The analogy breaks down in so many ways.
> gaming

I used to play HL 2 while listening to Discovery, I know, kinda weird, and now every time I hear songs from this album I have HL2 flashbacks. Somehow these are some of the most vivid memories I have, I can still see the screen and the in game scenes
wait Lollapalooza is a real event? I honestly thought the simpsons episode made fun of the music event scene
It’s an SOC. Unless you consider the CPU basically just the ALU and register file (a quite reasonable but long outdated position) it’s all the same power budget for the M series.
Hey, now. I'm in Texas. Our schools are open, and we are taking precautions.
Once Uniswap moves to Optimism sometime in the next few months, gas fee should drop drastically across the network
And for move to front, why not `a[..i+1].rotate_right(1);`, rather than moving to the back and then shifting everything?
With the spate of suicides, LA is learning the hard way that school is an important part of emotional development.
> The best part? They didn't even had to provide their name.

The mafia probably doesn't need your name for a loan, too. They'll find you anyway.

But maybe I'm all alone in finding this somewhat shady.
Never understood the hype around GraphQL.

You want to know how to halve your performance and responses/s on your service? add graphql.

All things that GraphQL claims to do can be implemented in RESTful services easily.

If you want specificity in your query fetching, just add query params or put them in the request body

If you want schema validations, there are many libraries that help you with that.

And if you want data from multiple resources from different endpoints, what exactly is stopping you from implementing that in REST?

Also, GraphQL has a steeper learning curve as opposed to REST.

never understood graphql. To me its just an abstract layer between the front end and back end, adding to the already complex stack.
People are a bit touchy about Jack the Ripper even today.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/sep/29/jack-th...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/jack-ripper-...

https://fyeahhistory.com/2020/09/08/jack-the-ripper-museum-r...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/11926093/Jack-... https://web.archive.org/web/20171117055654/https://www.teleg...
A kinder way to put it might be "SOAP with the benefit of hindsight."
It varies tremendously by school district. In Texas the average starting salary for teachers is $55k and goes up with experience.
I'm still not seeing how this addresses school bullying in particular. I only watched the trailer though.

I've heard all these things about the scandinavian school system before. Bullying never came up as a topic.
Same here, but the downside with this is the interviewer might not be too familiar with the candidate's language selection and therefore miss out on nuances about implementation details. It hasn't happened yet to me, but we do have golang here and I'm not familiar with it at all and am picking it up on my spare time.
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I saw Don Schlitz[0] perform "The Gambler" at The Grand Ole Opry[1] last year (juuust before Covid). He said something like "Yeah, Kenny Rogers did well with this song, but I can still go to the grocery store without being recognized, and I still get paid when they play it" (or something to that effect). Funny guy, and a great singer too.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Schlitz

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Ole_Opry
Isn't this sort of talk standard fair at school board and PTA meetings? At my locals, people talk and argue about crazy all the time. Parents shake their heads at one point or another then move on to the next topic. Nobody really runs to snitch on social media.
Where are you getting suicide statistics for LA from please?
> Brave (the browser) uses blockchain in their privacy protecting ad technology.

uBlock Origin works fine based on txt-files. Not sure how blockchain could improve this.
We must have read different articles.
Quoting...

>With respect to the raw numbers, underreporting is an enormous problem; differences in age distribution, too, make a very deep cut, and perhaps the models must further calibrate their weightings here.

They go on with the complex speculation about other causes, but obviously bad data is a huge driver of this anamoly. Bad data we can be sure of, the rest is speculative narrative.
When I looked into implementing GraphQL, it didn’t seem to require the data I was serving be a graph. I found the big difference with REST was that GQL allows the consumer to define the properties returned rather than having backend engineers have to think through every use case. It wasn’t enough of a killer feature to risk the timeline on that project, so my experience is limited.
It's been very open to this ending badly, the more you wish to pursue it. However, if you truly feel like you can reach an optimal outcome, you'll go for it anyway.

Know what you want. Do you want to get paid? Do you want to run it? Do you want to participate in the upside? It's only when you know what you want, can you determine if the deal is fair.

Before opening up the kimono, if you are interested in protecting yourself, you should try to get an NDA in place. It probably won't work, but it's worth a shot. It's also very likely this entire process will sour them on you and you on them. Best of luck!
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Do you mind sharing the company you were able to get funded thru SBA? I was aware of SBA, but didn't think SBA would fund a SaaS.
I see that you also went to college somewhere between 2004 and 2008
I think you have to figure it out with him because people on HN know nothing about your dad. I'd say ask him what he is going to do with that extra 40 hours first, find a field he is at least interested, and start from there.

For example I already know what I'm going to do after 20 years when I reach semi-retirement in late 50s. I'll probably start a retro video game streaming business and stream all those games from 55 years ago (that is from late 1980s and beyond if we count from 2040). I'll probably also start playing DND games seriously and stream that too if it's possible. I can also start publishing my own indie games and don't give a fuck about how much money I need to make becuase it is just fun to introduce some retro style games to young people then, many of whom have not been born yet.

But does this make sense to your father? I doubt.
This is an interesting interface for a sophisticated machine learning model. The user input is a moderately structured prompt (a line-delimited list of facts) and the output is text crafted for a particular medium (email).

This could be extended to support output for other mediums, such as Blog posts or social media updates.

It does drive me slightly crazy that this system JUST INJECTS NOISE. You provide it with concise, readable information. It dilutes that information with additional words and scaffolds it over complex sentence structure. The resulting email has a flourish, but takes more effort to read. It's an inverse document summarizer!

Perhaps there are benefits to this. Sometimes you want to make your reader invest a bit of effort in your message. I believe that can improve information retention. The email is also a generally-accepted human API. People might be more receptive to information presented as a letter than as a list.

The biggest benefit is probably on the author's side. This forces you to actually think about what you want to say. The input is basically an outline!

Paradoxically, I think Flowrite could improve communication by making authors and readers do MORE cognitive work rather than less.
I was surprised during the pandemic by the level of people complaining they couldn't bear to be around their own kids all day.
The example seems to indicate it could create issues.

It's conjuring, for example "after weeks of hard work" from thin air. There's nothing in the input to suggest that phrase makes contextual sense. Though perhaps the example isn't a real world one.
This is a really thoughtful examination of the problems with contemporary public schooling, thank you for posting it.

I do want to add that it's not necessary "dumb" kids who are ruining it. Just kids who don't want to be there, either because they don't want to participate or because they are bored, or because they aren't capable of sitting quietly for hours and hours, or they'd rather do something else, or whatever.
Numbers are going down because people aren’t clustering.

Until vaccination rates hit a tipping point, putting people back together now will create a spike.

I do not really get the concern? So it takes longer for Timmy or Alice to get to multiplication?
she did some amazing work with zero-7.
> It gives freedom to people, how is that bad?

That's just a slogan. The devil is in the details. To use an extreme example: Murder laws removes my freedom to kill random people; how is that good?
Blue Man Group is slightly different but I would not recognize any of them on the street either.
> Except that history has proven the plenty of crime organizations can fake those really well and pass undetected and maybe you missed it, but the authenticity of your passport or any ID document is proven and validated by the secure cryptographic element in the chip within it, not the fancy features in the plastic/paper of the document, that's why chipped passports are now the norm.

In any case, the forging scales much worse than just getting your hands on a database when you have to forge a physics document with decent security features. It’ll never be 100% secure, but then neither will be a virtual passport.

> Fancy physical documents without security chips are inherently less secure, not more.

All new and future identification documents will have a chip anyway. The baseline is not just a piece of paper.

You start from the premise that a physical document is trivial to forge, therefore it is not an improvement over a purely numerical one. But that’s circular logic. In reality, it is more difficult to steal, copy and re-sell a physical passport than a cryptographic key.
School boards don’t generally have a good reputation. Rust they are not focused on good education is a consistent component of that. Attending a few of yours could he enlightening if your city size is enough that the board members don’t have many personal relations with the parents and students.
> is worse that Covid

Statements like these are always interesting to me. Covid has killed half a million Americans in under a year. During that year, many parents are operating at reduced productivity, and their children are likely getting less out of their public education than usual. How do you compare these two statements to clarify that one is worse than the other? Obviously a known death toll is an easily identifiable bad thing. The other half of the equation is harder to quantify.

Some benefits include children being exposed to new forms of large group virtual communication. They are likely not well-adapted to them at this point - maturity and focus and motivation are all likely lacking, especially for rushed, poorly designed virtual systems. Then again, perhaps there will be a rubber band effect of refreshed engagement as children return to physical education in the year ahead.
These kinds of systems do allow for corruption of course [0].

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[0]: https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/1181845/rolls-r...
I've always wanted to try implementing something like this but the fear of trying to run database migrations over thousands of databases frightens me.
Don't forget the energy delta factor. Your home may be a gilded cage, but it's still a cage. Much like many other pack animals, kids are social creatures that need to burn through a significant amount of calories every day for optimal health and well-being.
Sorry, yes it was a week after this was published when Sisolak mentioned them first!
Special needs parent here. It's basically impossible to send your kids to a public school district without advocating for them constantly and understanding the special education laws. The kids with the most involved parents get the best services because they have the best advocates.
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Discussed two days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26208931 (54 points/86 comments)
Can it turn a well written email into a short list of facts? That seems more useful.
The n+1 problem has solutions though. The most well-known solutions may not suit your architecture, but please can we stop pretending they don't exist?

GraphQL has been public since June 2015, and there's been at least one solution to the n+1 problem (Dataloader) since September 2015. If you were using pure REST endpoints (just resources, no nesting/traversal) this is the exact problem you'd be punting over to the client to solve -- all that GraphQL is doing here is moving it back onto the server. The actual amount of work is the same, you just get faster response times.

Most implementations of GraphQL I've seen in different languages provide some variation on the Dataloader pattern. I'll fully concede it can be a hassle to set it up correctly, but it works.
Isn’t 409 if you’re trying to update an existing record (PUT) and not create a new record (POST)?

The ambiguity is probably why most people just use 400 and call it a day.
Just because something works doesn't make it a success (see Betamax, laser disc, steam powered cars etc.).
Well in the case I was describing it was just the same symptoms recurring. The reason they recurred so long is that the people who weren’t listening were focused on the symptoms and ignoring the root cause.
I guess this differs from place to place, but at my university (Oslo), we did all that..
Yep. Used to have some pretty awesome lineups too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Lollapalooza_lineups_b...
I love that HN has been calling blockchain a failure for 10 years now. I wish that I could make heads or tails of your arguments against it but you seem to just take the worst aspects of it to make a point.

The killer app is cash, everything else is a distraction. I think hn guys just happen to get paid a lot of money in a stable fiat currency so the system works great for you. Everyone else is looking for an alternative.
Dumb this down for me, because it's unclear how blockchain would solve the issues you bring up.
It's much more efficient to pre-filter candidates before they get in front of an FTE.
Yes. This sort for "trading" is a game and the second finisher is the first loser.

Thankfully there are more honorable examples for low-latency systems, like medicine, games, planes, rockets, communication systems :)
The great thing about GraphQL is that it's declarative and you have to write your own actual logic to define how the fetching of information works! It only does half the work SQL does! Everyone should switch to GraphQL ASAP!
For some reason I thought CoC just didn’t allow programs that lack a termination proof. Oops.

Ok, so the assumption I left out was, “for a turing complete language” or something like that (uh, in a sense in which “takes in a description of a Turing machine, an input to it, and a maximum number of steps, and runs the tm for up to that many steps” doesn’t count as turing complete)
Keeping kids home doesn't keep them safe. Except for those who already have severe medical conditions, school age children face virtually zero risk from COVID-19.
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> The 'Accept' header should determine the response type

Also, the HTTP decision diagram: https://github.com/for-GET/http-decision-diagram/tree/master...
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Not in the early days. The Soap in Soap Operas was because you never knew when the ad for the soap company sponsoring the show would show up. There wasn't a break, it was ", and then I used my XYZ soap to"... until you got to the "and" the audience didn't know the ad was coming.

The ad breaks came later as TV realized that the ad was forever part of the show and so they didn't get more money when the did a rerun.
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This is an odd conclusion considering that US school days are shorter than many other countries and that the US has fewer school days than many other countries.
I'm during my second play-through of Assassin's Creed Valhalla. So interesting to see this here. The game is not that historically accurate but the general feel and atmosphere is amazing.
Good idea to make it anonymous, that way you can swap out your friends when you get sick and tired of performing.
There's a head to head competitor already named Magic, are you aware of them?

https://magic.link/
GraphQL is far superior for development speed, API flexibility and extensibility, authorisation, discovery, testing, and less bugs.
Agreed, but all these little things are just a sign that the industry just does not give a shit about software. They could develop mechanisms to fund this stuff, pretty easily actually. But they don’t.

A couple of other weird inequities that I’ve found are:
1. It’s hard to get permission to spend money on software subscription based licenses since you won’t “have anything” at the end. However, it’s much easier to get funding for hardware with time based locks (e.g after 3 years the system will lock up and you have to pay them to unlock). The end result is the same, you can’t use the hardware after the time period is up, but for some reason the admin feels much more comfortable about it.

2. It’s hard get funding to hire someone to set up a service to transfer large amounts of data from different places. It’s much easier to hire someone to drive out to a bunch of places with a stack of hard drives and manually load the data on them, and drive back. Even if it’s 2x more expensive and would take longer. Why? Again my speculation is that the higher ups are just more comfortable with the latter strategy. They can picture the work being done in their head, so they know what they’re paying for.
If you have 10,000 engineers working at your company, it seems like a natural extension of wanting to create - first the optimum workplace and then have that spill over to "what would the optimum city look like?"

It's not just tech. I'm sure other large non tech companies have wanted to build cities for their employees. Think of companies who build a product that in new and developing the details - like Ford. They would also want to build a huge headquarters and in a way that spills over to the whole town.
More like sub-1 usec for high speed trading.
Hamburg build from 2008 on a new district, the HafenCity, a soulless place of concrete, expensive apartments, and chain stores. I recently thought about how great it would have been to try something radical new – like building everything with wood, fantastic public transport, and as little cars as possible.

My conclusion was that the only way that realistically could have happend was with subsidies from a billionaire who had some kind of grand vision. I hardly doubt that we'll see such a thing from the public sector anytime soon, be it from fiduciary duties or their general incompetence of doing any kind of big real estate development (at least here in Germany).

So from that angle, I welcome anyone with a vision for an utopian city.
Nope. Prediction markets always have a hard right bias. I have been doing this for years.
The main advantage I’ve found with GraphQL is the normalized cache in client libraries like Apollo or Relay. It allows components to just ask for the data and not worry about how it’s fetched/stored/updated. The secondary benefit is that _some_ (not all) of the data plumbing can be moved from the frontend code to the backend, which makes for faster apps. Beyond that, GraphQL is more of a hinderance than a help... its type system in particular is brain dead and easily the worst part of the entire experience (seriously, why _is_ there a difference between inputs and types? Why can’t you define input unions, or maps, or recursive structures?)

Is there any equivalent for the latter with swagger? Yes, you can do everything in there with custom redux middlewares or sagas/observables, but it’s more glue code you have to write and maintain.
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