skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading about how they trimmed meetings and had everyone question where their time is going is like wow, they weren’t doing this before? We are so cult like in our commitment to 9-5 that we make useless meetings and have the default be an hour long? That’s another benefit of the four day work week, companies will find that people will get the exact same amount of work done in less time because 25% of the 40 hours were wasted anyway.
I look forward to UBI making it more profitable to sell people the shit they already want, than try to farm up some new demand when there is already plenty.
Might be worth a "Show HN" of its own...
Rest in peace.

WP biography is not well balanced. It insists a lot on the last years of his life (90 year old caught in fake news swamps)

While swiping at his main life achievements.

-1 for WP.
The key insight here is that we still have schema. We have high-level object types and a first-class notion of a "reference" - we call it "link". Our other extension of the relational model is that every "row" must have a unique ID. Both things combined implement a graph or your types and a graph of your data as it's stored in the underlying tables. Everything is strictly typed and efficient.

But EdgeDB isn't ideal for storing loosely typed graph data, neo4j is built for that.
> But, as I'm suspecting you know, this would not constitute a reasonable accommodation.

I disagree. We agree on many of the same facts - better masks are important, as is ventilation - but not, apparently, the approaches those facts inform. The "as I'm suspecting you know" shit is rude; in this case, for example, some other countries (correctly) don't count cloth masks as legit. We should've done that, too, way back in 2020.

Re: South Africa, it's a young population, and being HIV+ alone doesn't make you inherently immunosuppressed if treated effectively - which SA is quite good at.
Keeping readjusting pricing and no knowing what a dollar is truly worth is a net loss for the people. It’s literally economics 101.
We sound like idiots because we treat businesspeople like idiots. We parrot a definition of tech debt we got from a blog post. The whole analogy to debt is a hand-wavy joke of a definition anyway. It's not debt, it's a liability that's depreciating the assets of the company intellectual property.

The only reason it looks like debt is because it compounds, which is ironically something people don't really focus on when discussing it with management. People don't want to look incompetent so they say "Feature X took 3x as long as it should have, because we had some tech debt". It's implied that the tech debt is resolved. But in most cases the reality is, the time was spent just working around the tech debt, and the tech debt is not resolved. And now you've entrenched even more workarounds and hacks that will make things worse. Compound interest baby.
Then, IMO, all those other companies are the ones people should be complaining about, not Apple. No employer should share employment details beyond "he worked here" with third parties for any reason.
> the first open source, graph-relational database

OrientDB?
If they can't tell the difference between an "associate" and a software engineer I'd say I dodge a bullet then.
> but if the alternative is to have shrinking GDP and massive unemployment, I would rather have some inflation.

This is the general problem with central banking.

Politicians and governments will ALWAYS take action to "save the economy", whether that is a small downturn or a big one. There's too much pressure to not use the magic money printer. Short term election cycles incentivize everyone to just fix the problem as fast as we can, future consequences be damned.

You can get away with it in the short term, but over a long enough time horizon, you start to run out of bullets, as all the real value has already been plundered.

The US Federal debt is currently $30 trillion USD. This is never getting balanced, ever. There's only one possible eventual outcome with this system.
I’d say not. Bad protocol that cost the carriers to use and no customer wants to pay for meet commercial reality would be more accurate.
Correction, which I can't do because it's been downvoted, POSTFIX only supports LATIN1, so I can't use Cockroach with it.
I have now removed that unrelated image.
When it starts to get really burdensome to keep your promises, the idea of breaking them gets really attractive. But that doesn't come for free. It costs credibility.

The cost of central banks breaking their inflation-control commitment when inflation starts running hot, is that the market starts pricing in their unwillingness to raise interest rates. This fuels a whole bunch of other inflation feedback loops, and then before you know it, the central bank wants to get inflation back under control again. But now nobody believes that they'll do what they say they're going to do, so they end up having to work twice as hard.

If your goal is stability, it's better to just keep your promises to begin with.
Your company has a different model than Twitter. Some companies need to measure Revenue, some Profit and some Growth - and many will switch which is the important one as they grow (or shrink).
I think it’s that a priori you would expect a hollow brain to have a far more drastic effect and not allow for a mostly normal adult life.
Inflation is the direct result of governments printing money like crazy to hide why they spend money like crazy and continue to be extremely inefficient and corrupt instead of cutting expenses and becoming more efficient and leaner. And it mainly affects the poorest in society. How can that be good?! Don't take my word for it: see what is happening in Argentina, Venezuela, Brazil, etc and then decide for yourself how "good" it is to live in a country with high inflation rates...
Try to do a live spin class if you're not sure. Barring that - ride a spin bike.

It's about as engaging as indoor cardio can be, but if indoor cardio is highly objectionable or boring for someone it's hard to get over that.
Do we really want any new technology to be “like email”? Email is basically useless now with all of the spam.
Guess Trump needs to come back.
(EdgeDB CTO here)

In a classic relational model everything is a tuple containing scalar values. Graph-relational extends the relational data model in three ways:

- every relation always has a global immutable key independent of data (explicit autoincrement keys aren't needed)

- this enables us to add a "reference type", which is essentially a pointer to some other record (i.e. a foreign key)

- attributes can be set-valued, so you can have nested collections in queries and in your data model.

This is what lets us do `Movie.actors.name` instead of a bunch of `JOINs`, because `actors` is declared as a set-valued reference type in the `Movie` relation.
> lopsided value prop

But that's not what CNIL is basing their decision on: "The CNIL concludes that transfers to the United States are currently not sufficiently regulated...Indeed, although Google has adopted additional measures to regulate data transfers in the context of the Google Analytics functionality, these are not sufficient to exclude the accessibility of this data for US intelligence services."

I probably don't understand the legal issues fully, but it seems the worry is that US intelligence services may be tapping the lines and databases of Google, may have agents working at Google as badged employees, or may be able to subpoena Google (or any US service provider). [for the record, I wouldn't doubt if all the above are true]

I don't see how Google Docs is less susceptible to Google tracking user activity (and by extension US intelligence).

> "CNIL recommends that these tools should only be used to produce anonymous statistical data"

So the tools are not anonymous because the request headers of the client are being logged and used to identify a session, along with what resources on the site were accessed in that session.

Any site operator has this data on their visitors.

CNIL doesn't want sites hosted in France to be making client-side calls to services provided by Google (whether analytics, fonts, etc) or theoretically any US-based service provider because the client request will be logged by that resource host and open to access by US law enforcement? Do I understand that correctly? What's the solution? A site builder can't let web clients make direct calls to any resources in the US? That seems... sweeping, profound, surprising, impactful. Have fun with that.
I will post random theories about the nature of the universe and I'll tweet that I'm expecting critiques from physicists about my theory.

Damn, should look good on a resume.
Tokio as in the rust Tokio runtime? You think that, because of tokio, rust became more bloated? Why?

I know rust, but I haven't used async apart from their tutorial, so I'm really curious about what are your thoughts about it.
Serverless Cloud Events without YAML
Nope. Cause you have growth, which gets new investors who bring in Money - if you can convince them your Growth numbers are good.
> iPhones hold value.

Really? How much? If you use your iPhone for two years, what would be the TCO?

> are usable much longer

Fairphone is supporting their devices for 5 years at a minimum. They promised 7 years for their latest model. And the Fairphone (who has the burden of promoting ethical manuafacturing, using only fair-sourced materials and fair pay to all their workers) still comes at less than half the price of the iPhone.

Or say that you don't care about ethics and you just want your devices to be as cheap as possible. You can buy "budget premium" Androids (Moto Gs, Nokia 6/7) that are very serviceable for less than €200. The Nokia I bought in end-2018 would still be in use today if I hadn't gone to /e/OS, so €180 bought 4 years of "phone". Economically speaking, there is no way that an Apple device can beat that.
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Why not do that sentiment analysis?
>Are you saying advertiser's influence is somehow making the fulfillment problem worse?

Yes.

>This kinda assumes our own thoughts and desires aren't influenced by outside factors (bad habits, intrusive thoughts, etc), and without advertisers input we are on our own jolly way.

It doesn't assume that. It just assumes we're influenced by everything else other than advertising.

>and without advertisers input we are on our own jolly way.

This however assumes that advertisers are beneficial correctives rather than accelerants of adverse behaviors.

Rather than building an encyclopedia where every positive and negative case is examined, I'm suggesting that you zoom out and think about the underlying incentives in a systematic way. Advertising is in the interest of the advertisers, not the consumers. You don't have to assume that consumers never make mistakes in seeking their own fulfillment.
This is something I learned to love with Snapchat. Instead of public posts, people just send stuff to you or the group. It's private, personal, and as you say, ad-free.
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30291538
Wouldn't current percentages depend more on how adaptive those particular genes are than what the starting percentage was? How many generations between then and now?
We do and no one uses it.

There is some truth to the classic HN post that "Twitter can be built in a weekend". A service / protocol that can distribute 280 character messages isn't really where the value is for a service like Twitter. It's 20% engineering, 80% recruiting the right users, retaining them, and getting them to engage on the platform.

Additionally, open protocols are way harder to evolve and are therefore less competitive with closed services. The only reason why email has stuck around as long as it has is because it locked everyone in with its network effect before commercial players figured out how to compete.

Additionally, email isn't really an open protocol in practice. Sure, it's spec'd, but in order to actually participate in the network you need to navigate a really complicated system of anti-spam reputation systems. This is why people just end up paying companies like Twilio to send email instead of running their own servers.

Overall, I don't think we should be looking to learn any lessons from email. It achieved market dominance in a time that doesn't look anything like the modern era, and is much more complex than most people realize.
> Watching the video someone else linked [1], the tail strike seems incredibly obvious.

I must be watching a different video, because that one shows a plane landing hard, not taking off.
> You haven't made any argument against this.

If the problem is supply chain constraints, inflation will be quite varied among the sectors. And this is true, with used cars leading the way at 41%.

If the problem is the money supply, inflation will be fairly even across the sectors. And while the sectoral components are quite different, they are becoming more similar over time.
I remember when Sencha came on the scene :) WebSocket's help for more efficient bidirectional comms and guarantee load-balanced process placement, but LiveView can also be used with long polling if folks have a hard requirement. We also have much better DOM apis for things like efficient diffing/patching that I'm sure you lacked back then. Were you keeping stateful "widgets" on the Java side or hydrating from client state for interactions?
This goes back in history to mention the 2008 financial crisis, but doesn't go far enough. Those who were around in the 70s remember stagflation - high inflation and high unemployment - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stagflation
The money doesn't run out for as long as your investors have faith.
Yes. I would suspect that a King Air owner is fairly likely to have sprung for something like Foreflight and a Stratus, at least, but in either case the A320 is likely to have had reasonably good information on the King Air's altitude and heading.
To learn that 2M is a good payout for finding a bug?
> The GDPR extends far beyond the US notion of PII.

That's a good thing. The US notion of PII is ridiculously naive.
> I need a nice hotel room.

Be very careful, because hotels are where the tourists are, and the places where where the tourists are are the places with a repetitive international “tourist” vibe. If you only have a short time to travel then hotels are OK.

I originally learnt this while “backpacking”: backpackers travel options and staying in accomodation intended for backpackers leads to a kind of internationalised backpacking culture experience that is completely disconnected from the culture you are visiting. Many backpackers had time, but used it poorly: budget constraints ekeing out their money for a longer time with lower benefit.

Even travelling in my own country, the early AirBnB experience was meeting people from other paths in life than my own, which is wonderful if you have the ability to share.

My current style of travelling is more on the edges, disconnected from backpacker style travelling and from hotel travelling, and spending my time more randomly. Planning trips generally draws you towards tourism experiences, because the information directed at you will lead you down the path of least resistance.
I actually found this useful the other day when I was shopping online on a bugged website. After I applied a filter, the loading spinner wouldn't go away, even after it had finished loading the filtered results.

I blocked the loading spinner element and the website worked perfectly after that.
> I feel like Twitter would be way better if people had different topics you could subscribe (or not) to.

All services would be better if they were more like Google+ (but didn't share name with a despised effort to crush pseudonyms and wasn't owned by a company that buried it as soon as they had been forced to iron out the wrinkles ;-)
You have to be clear if you're talking about Peloton as a financial investment or as a consumer product.

As a product - there's real value there. If it's been oversold as an investment, that's a different issue.

But millions of people are willing to pay $1000+ as an initial investment, then $40/month into perpetuity. With presumably good gross margin on both.

That's a good business
Thanks. If it has a bitter tone, it would come from my conviction that modern progressive politics are entirely backwards, and therefore regressive. How very typical is it that millions of men have nothing to live for, end up in the gutter, drink and die, and not one prominent feminist cares?

People have become experts in dodging and bending realities they dislike. When it rains outside they deny it, change the subject, or even redefine the meaning of the word rain.

But to me it still just rains. I'm a man and I know what is expected of me: utility. I have to deliver it and there's no safety net. Failing is not an option. It doesn't matter how I feel about it as it doesn't matter how I feel about the rain. Rain doesn't care, and the world doesn't care about men.
> ...not to mention their great record on LGBT rights in the past, I literally find it impossible to believe this.

It is a mistake to view all social issues as a monolith. In the US, the Women's Suffrage movement rather famously had a single-minded focus on getting white women the vote. Personally, I've met quite a few openly and unapologetically homophobic black people, as well as openly "I'm-not-racist-but"-anti-black gay people. That a company would try (and even succeed) along one axis and completely fail at another one isn't a surprise.

Concluding that this is a hit job assumes that Tesla is perfectly progressive (Musk is pretty vocally anti-progressive) both in its goals (company-level policies) and its actions (hierarchical manager-level fiefdoms). It sure sounds like individuals with enough evidence to make a case have a financial incentive to bring that evidence to the courts, though. I don't see that as a bad thing.
That money doesn’t go to the people that need it. It goes to fuel, shipping, taxes, etc. the person stalking the shelves gets nothing, the person that works at the gas station gets nothing, the person on fixed income gets nothing, and on and on. Inflation only helps the top and the bottom gets recked.
>I agree with being focused on production, as long as it's production driven by actual customer needs

this has always been an interesting question to me, because in theory companies like Facebook are worth hundreds of billions despite making many people miserable and actually lowering productivity by wasting time.

Basically part of the sin economy, things like gambling and drugs. All bring in lots of money but we'd arguably be better off without them. Facebook makes money by getting people addicted to their app by design.

Customers and markets aren't rational if the people are driven by addiction, in which case it would make sense for the government to intervene. China is doing this by incentivizing people to go into hard sciences like semiconductors instead of consumer software
I wonder if we 3-D scanned a PC laptop chassis and then machined a copy from an aluminum block using a CNC would give us a macbook-like chassis for a PC.
I don't know the details of the OpenSX70 boards; I just looked at the Polaroid chips :-)
DevSecOpsBizProj is prob more like it.

Hope you get a position in the future that pays you what you're worth.
Anything's possible, but I find it less plausible, given that "we know sex has some effects on behaviour" is weak evidence, and we have strong evidence that gender norms affect life choices in adults (such as female CS majors declining after computers became a "boy thing" in advertising).
Yes, this is virtually unused in Europe. People mostly use OTT messengers like WhatsApp, Signal etc.
a lot of people opine on adds have no idea what its like to run a business.

do you think big businesses want adds? they'd love to get rid of them. then no one could ever knock them out of their spot. They'd just rule by dominance and no one would ever know about the competition.

its not brain washing. advertising is no different than finding a mate, finding an employer, finding an employee.

what needs to stop is absolute narrow minded thought. thats what 'This business model really needs to stop.' is. like really, stop. the world isnt like you, what you propose is not feasible and is in fact harmful to almost everyone.

I dont want to pay for facebook, so I deal with adds. Also, quite a few times I saw things I really needed/wanted on facebook. it was beneficial. I don't want to view adds on youtube, so I pay for the premium service. vey few people are willing to do so, even when capable. but there is a key point here, CHOICE.

Stop this one way thinking and understand the world is more complex
If inflation were allowed to run a bit higher, it could deliver a long-overdue win for young people who have had to face a combination of stagnant wages and rising housing costs.

Inciting inflation to fix rising houses costs and stagnant wages is kinda crazy. It definitely won't help housing prices, and wages increases are almost always lag behind price increases.
In my experience: the FE engineering fields (web FE, Android, iOS) are probably (very slightly) less in demand than most others. I think that's primarily because: the technology has calcified (in a good way), and there's tons of bootcamps that churn out pretty high quality associate-level engineers which specialize in the FE world.

These bootcamps will also advertise as having covered backend stuff, but its very rarely in any level of depth beyond "spun up an express NodeJS app as a razor-thin layer in front of Firebase" or something; thirty minutes of interviewing will expose this gap, and they get hired on as a FE.

BE/DevOps is in higher demand, thus harder to find. DevOps is a weird one, because its a field that's extremely striated between platforms. Whereas a Java BE engineer could ramp up on NodeJS or whatever very quickly, an Azure specialist will take longer to match their skillset to AWS, not to mention the large body of individuals coming in with traditional linux server maintenance experience that will have a hard time matching their skillset to cloud-native serverless-like roles. It shouldn't stop a hire, but it does make finding well-matched qualified candidates more difficult.

Actually, I'll give props to a lot of the modern Azure skills DevOps peeps can develop; they're very big on their state-of-art being open source CNCF stuff; ex, Kubernetes, DAPR, KEDA, etc. So, a skillset there can transfer to a ton of places (including a GCP-esque shop, or even an AWS shop on less managed tooling). Glad to see some modernization/standardization in this space, but AWS is very antiquated and stuck in their ways.

Less from a hiring manager angle and more from an engineer angle: bonafide actual full stack devs are insanely valuable. Every once in a while you get a candidate that can apply to any role, but will apply to a specialized role; then they meet the engineering manager and the manager realizes, they're a candidate among a pool of candidates who are specialized enough for the role, but they also bring that full stack experience. Very few teams/roles are actually "100% backend" or "100% whatever"; the team may settle for someone who meets the job description, but will prefer breadth over depth, in nearly all cases.

Rarest quality: seniority. Not skill based. Just time, and more-so a demonstrable breadth of experience on a handful of projects, tech stacks, etc. Can't fake it. Can't stress how many roles we've posted at a Senior level, then settled for someone more mid-level because there's no-one. We're remote; competitive salary; small team; cool tech; cool product; maybe one in fifty candidates feels demonstrably senior.