skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Inflation doesn't exist as a policy to stiff wage earners. Inflation exists as a reality of a growing economy (more goods and services needs more money to cover them). The alternative is deflation, which would be extremely bad. So what we aim for, is low inflation. Which we've had for ~40 years. Low, controlled inflation is the vastly preferable alternative to any amount of deflation, so it's the side of the scale we target, giving a ~2% margin of error (~2% is the inflation level usually targeted by modern central banks).

What Krugman is talking about is that cutting wages is extremely hard for employers to do. Nobody wants to take a paycut. So what employers do instead, being put in the situation of needing to cut payroll, is eliminate entire positions. Which on the whole is worse than a paycut because of the destabilizing effect to the individual and society. So a positive side effect of inflation (not the main effect, a side effect), is that in the absence of pay raises, low inflation creates a constant mild paycut unless there is specifically a pay raise. It makes the economy more resilient.
In [3] it says "we are assessing the code complexity and performance of a simple IMDb-like website built with Loopback, TypeORM, Sequelize, Prisma, Hasura, Postgraphile, raw SQL, and EdgeDB" but then it goes on to only explain the results of the classic ORMs but not hasura, postgraphile and prisma. Are the full results available somewhere?

That classic ORMs are kinda slow is probably not a surprise to anyone, the others which either get to compile the full query or have a hand in controlling the schema are more interesting.

They also seem more similar to your product, running as a server and managing the schema, so most worth comparing.

Edit: The fact that "Raw SQL" ends up being a suboptimal query because of the node driver limitations, which then gives you "Way faster than even raw SQL!!!" graphs also leaves a weird taste. I guess if you are comparing programming language level solutions fair enough.
EdgeQL is designed to replace SQL, not graph query languages. Think of it as SQL getting a proper type system and GraphQL capabilities of reaching into deep relationships in an ergonomic way.
C++ is not nearly as productive a language for most programmers in the world as JavaScript. Qt is not a panacea, even for desktop apps. The condescending tone to web developers is very strange and not very nice.
This is the Internet, that might be asking a lot :)
Is it similar to this: https://eng.uber.com/logging ?
In this article, I don't see evidence for "environmentalists" being the ones block wind-power, sounds more like argument between levels of the French state [1]. But just as much, the mantle of environmentalist can be taken by anyone, notably just nimbys. There's not a copyright on the term. But it winds-up even worse when others point to these idiot uses of the term environmentalist and then try to push actually environmentally destructive projects.

https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy/news/french-wind-ene...
do you have plans to integrate with prisma? it's almost a DIRECT translation of how the query is expressed in Prisma compared to edgedb. Googling quickly, it seems there is a ticket already. I wonder if this could be a low hanging fruit and a great growth channel since prisma is very popular.

https://github.com/prisma/prisma/issues/10210
There are also some people that write FOSS software which has almost no commercial potential, and could only really exist as free software projects. For example, consider something like this Hacker New TUI app[0], great piece of software for fans of the terminal and likely could only exist as a FOSS project.

[0] https://github.com/aome510/hackernews-TUI
Yup, I've seen this a lot. This type of user basically operates like a script, they move through a memorized list of steps and when they can't go forward they simply throw an exception.
Now devs and social engineers are using FaceBook groups to covertly gather intel... I joined a local development (to my home) group and found out after answering development questions people posted that I was suddenly getting a lot of recruiter calls out of nowhere. Facebook apparently exposes contact info in the process, or perhaps the engineers cross-reference other sites as well. It makes the job easy for scammers too.

The convoluted ways in which people are gathering info on individuals is rampant in many Facebutt groups... There is way too much unsolicited spam and it grows every time I use an app or social site.

Makes me not want to log in at all a lot.
Show HN: GuideLab – in-app user guides for their entire journey
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Using GuideLab, you create in-app guides through a UI ("no code") which can then be shared with your users via a link special link over any platform: email, Zendesk, Intercom, in a KB, social media etc. As soon as a user clicks the link, they’re taken to your app and instantly see the guide.

There’s also our search widget that you can embed directly in your web app. A 'Help Guides' tab appears for the user, where they can search and view any guide you've created. In that way GuideLab is fundamentally different to other guiding software like AppCues or userpilot. They focus on opting users into guides based on cohorts/attributes whereas GuideLab lets users view guides when they need them most.

There’s a quick (<1m) video on the homepage (https://guidelab.io) walking you through how GuideLab works. If you have any other questions, or if there’s anything you’d love to see in this space, please share.
Your 'civil liberties' demand that I not shoot my gun at you is a violation of my right to bear arms. How dare you demand action from me to protect your rights? After all, my rights are right there in the constitution.
I am amazed that these stories from Tesla keep coming out

This does not happen to other corporations, with such frequency and seriousness.

Is there some sort of reporting bias here? Or is Tesla really a reprobate?
> Similar feelings towards those that want it in Microsoft Word format.

What's wrong with .docx format? You can create it using open source office software. In my experience most forms are smart enough to parse .docx just as well as the obsolete .doc.

Besides, what other formats do you want them to accept? PDF, sure, TXT, sure. It seems silly to avoid word documents.
This. So much this. Futhermore - does it all really matter that much when most of us are stuck with delivery managers screaming: FEATURE, FEATURE, FEATURE in our faces, such that there is never enough time to use any toolset in an optimal way.
I've always thought that the existence of the uncanny valley is interesting. For some reason, it was advantageous for us as a species to be creeped out and skeptical of things that looked very nearly human, but not human.

I'm sure that informed how early humans felt about neanderthals.
Great, thanks for the reply!
I believe an AirTag stops randomizing some broadcast identifier when it’s separated from its owner. The AirTag by itself has no location awareness. But when an iDevice sees the same separated AirTag at multiple locations it fires the alert.
> If they prove the language maybe they can implement a different backend.

This is very true and might happen in a far future.
But I do want most non-tracking cookies.

Still, the "please let us track" popups can be fixed by policy or law, and I hope they are.
Its done to split out clearly technically. Right is the specular component, left is excluding the specular component.

Right us basically if you shined a very bright light exactly from the angle of reflection. Left is more similar to if the scene had background lighting but not from the angle of reflection
> The idea especially in the US that there is some pre-colonial unspoiled nature that we could preserve or return to seems historically ignorant.

Who are you replying to here? Who's argued this?
I have done the exact migration you're considering. Or more accurately, in still in the process, but overall it's definitely been worth it.

Instead of thinking about it as a single migration, be a little easier on yourself. Even if all you do is start giving out your protonmail address starting now, Google will be reading a lot less of your emails.
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So long, powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle
Anybody have ideas on why the age divide on expectation + exploration vs. memorization seems so stark?

In my experience the top predictor of whether a person can use a computer to do what they intended to do is age. Not IQ, not other mechanical or technical competence, not education, not cultural background, not linguistic aptitude, not reading speed, not creativity, not engineering or product design experience... mainly age.

(with outliers of course)
Great job moving those goal posts when your original premise was called out.

What exactly do you want France to do in Niger to atone for their sins? Build infrastructure, fund businesses, make deals with their government? In other words, you want to solve colonialism with more colonialism?
Chinese characters are hard to learn even if you are Chinese. Places that use them have high illiteracy rates but many people learn how to "fake it".
I just sent Carl a heads-up about the reverb: https://twitter.com/binarynate/status/1491890009674244107
I do think some people feel productive writing more code, while others feel productive by finding ways to write less code (with the compiler mostly inferring and generating the error-prone and uncreative work).
When I was young I played a lot of Japanese games on the MSX like this: try stuff, see what happens, memorize, repeat as needed. I played through SD Snatcher and some other games like this.

Kids can have a lot of patience in a weird way like that. Today I'd probably give up after a few minutes.
// why the idea of total
Indefinitely provided their revenue is growing 50% year over year.

Once upon a time similar criticism was leveled at Amazon and Salesforce.
> It needs to be about minimizing total damage, even if it means damaging isolated areas intentionally.

I think that's an arithmetic everyone largely accepts, but they just don't want to be the specific ones paying the price while others seemingly get only the benefits. NIMBYism, if you will.
Ouch. Ambient sounds of the forest are a lot better than the modern equivalent of loud neighbors and drilling. He also seems to have forgotten that humans built fires. Caves have great sound insulation and I'm pretty sure our ancestors knew how to choose their caves.

I have spent years being a sleep deprived student because the dorms were super noisy with random parties and paper thin walls so I really can't relate to the implied utter comfortable sleeping habits of modern people. I'm sure there are people complaining about noise pollution in NY as well.

No one in my circle sleeps on an overpriced mattress. Mostly it's just the bed the place that we rent has. I never could connect with articles implying modern people live in these utterly comfortable utopias when it's really not the case. People are depressed. Especially males are doing horribly.
Mostly working in languages with strong type inference, I too find many type hints in Python a little bit verbose and unnecessary for a reader. Though thing is, without giving up on some features that make inference undecidable in general (like arbitrary subclassing), you're not going to get language that can both infer most types from code and do so in a way that actually gives you some interesting guarantees about it.

You mention that you're not interested in typechecking, but to be honest, why bother with restricted format of stuff from `typing` if you don't care about automatic processing of these? You could just as well emulate math notation with ASCII, use LaTeX or simply descriptions. Though at that point, are they actually more than a traditional documentation?
Suggestion engines are powerful too. When my son was just about 3, he could navigate YouTube from and arbitrary point to Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends or a particular garbage truck video.
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I'd love to see a workgroup to discuss social UX ideas with the goal of implementing a new type of social media experience. Even the FOSS, decentralized and federated implementations of social media are taking their queues from these terrible UX designs.
> They need to pass laws that protect US interests but for last 3 decades, they've sold the American worker's soul to the CCP & private-gov enterprise in China.

Companies are not blameless - it's a 2-step process. Lawmakers sold the American worker's soul to capital (companies), and the companies sold them on to China, with a fat markup.

The motivations are clear: politicians get donations and cushy jobs, the company executives get very rich due to increased short-term profits and increased valuations on the hope of establishing a foothold in a humongous growth market, China gets tech transfer, exports and a skilled workforce, and American workers get nothing, save perhaps a tiny sliver of company ownership through a 401k, if they are lucky to have one.
then wouldn't we find an advanced machine civilization???
I feel like Bill should be able to read a room....sure maybe this topic is pertinent, but half the population thinks he has colluded with pharmacy companies to inject micro chips in people.

I mean most sane people might still trust his expertise etc, but something tells me the memes are gonna be all over reddit about this, or in conspiracy posts.

Should've had it written under an alias then endorsed the book heavily, ironically that would get it more 'trust'... because of the current divides...
Best used with any of the following.

Slinky React:
https://slinky.dev

Laminar:
https://laminar.dev

Diode:
https://github.com/suzaku-io/diode

ZIO:
https://zio.dev
Security of zk rollups may be sufficient for a lot of activity - trading, DeFi, games, art, DAO/access tokens, escrow, crowdfunds, all the web3 stuff.

The L1 may eventually be a primary settlement layer for protocols like zkSync and StarkNet (and any other protocols and rollups built on Ethereum L1). At some point it may not be common for users to interact with L1—ie. users of Argent and Sequence wallets may only be holding assets on L2.

zkSTARK/SNARKs has pretty dramatically changed the L2 landscape and new direction seems to be moving away from optimistic rollups like in the OP. This is just my understanding, somebody please correct me if I’m wrong.
Yeah, humans have lived fine before fossil fuels so we can do it again, right?
Just kill half of them. And let 90% of the remaining population work in the fields like slaves. Easy /s
Recently I setup a Raspberry Pi Zero to work act as a network print server for an old Xerox printer. Everything from start to finish, including flashing the OS and the CUPS configuration, took just 1 hour.

The next step is to setup saned, the network service for SANE, to have it provide a wireless scanner service for the network.

While XSANE has always worked for me out of the box, the network version needs configuration that I've never done before. Hopefully it will be just as simple.
I know nothing about finances, but it says they have access to 1.8billion in cash/equivalents/securities.
So, for example, the arts have gone in the opposite direction. Play my recording of my song anywhere and you need to pay me. Make a song too similar to mine and pay me. Put my song in the background of your movie and pay me whenever the movie is on, (even if the TV was on mute or the viewer can't hear).

Royalties might be the opposite to open source ethically, but they'll let some developers get rich, for sure.
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Right. All I have to do is to stand up two complete copies of my full stack, and support both of them. There's no way that adds extra burden to me. My argument is completely invalid. Thanks for explaining that to me.
Wow. Can’t believe I missed that.
Is there anything restricting US companies from first transferring EU data to a country `A` with an adequacy decision and then transferring that data to the US (assuming `A` allows this)?
Ukraine tensions: Russia accused of sea blockade
Same here. I also want the removable SD card slot. Sony phones seem to be the only ones that fit the bill.
My PhD thesis focused on voice interface design for people with limited literacy skills. One of the most surprising discoveries for me was that menus and even lists of items aren’t natural concepts that exist outside of a context of literacy. Even for voice interfaces, a touch tone menu (“for X press 1, for Y press 2...”) was a lot harder to navigate than an equivalent voice-based menu (“would you like X, Y, or Z?”). As a side project during my final year of my thesis research, I wrote an iPhone app that unexpectedly propelled me into the world of entrepreneurship, so I ended up pursuing the startup life after I graduated. But this space is still fascinating to me.
That seems good. Someone could copy your business and spin up on the EU market. If its profitable its profitable and its no worry for you. If its not profitable then the EU market is not large enough to carry the product on its own. GDP of the US is around $25 trillion, and EU is around $18 trillion, and population wise there are around 300 million people in the US and 400 million people in the EU.

Might I ask you what kind of product your 1 man startup have?
Exactly, CashApp/RobinHood/Coinbase/Kraken are all bitcoin L2. Centralized and trusted, but L2 nonetheless.
I feel like someone smarter than me is going to point this out. But was this monopoly ever a reality? ie Microsoft, Amazon etc. Maybe the article gets into that too.

Regardless I like that the article represents a possible shift in public narrative. Even though I question the moral reasoning and long-term sustainability of shifts like this occurring with a (if not the) dominant motivation being tax avoision.
Absolutely. It may not be the career killer it used to be, but it will definitely slow your career growth.
I just checked where I live, and a monthly pass covering Wasserburg-Munich costs €63.10 for a slightly longer distance. £387 sounds weirdly expensive.
KoBold Metals Raises $192.5M to Use AI to Find Battery Mineral
Hey! Optimism's head of engineering here!

We're super greatful to saurik for writing up such a great analysis of what he found. If you want to hear some of our key takeaways as the maintainers of the network, you can check out our disclosure post here [1].

If you're wondering WTF Optimism is... we are building an optimistic rollup on top of ethereum. The basic idea is to de-couple blockchain computation from data availability and allow a new operator to exist called a sequencer which can accept transaction requests and submit the calldata to Ethereum Mainnet, but do the computation on Optimism Mainnet. There is an idea of a fault proof which means you can verify that the computation done on Optimism Mainnet followed the exact rules of the EVM, and you can prove this on Ethereum Mainnet. Our fault proof codebase, cannon, was built by another jailbreak legend (geohot) precisely with the goal of running Ethereum's battle-tested code and minimize the chances of bugs like this. It's some really cool stuff. If you're into compilers, VMs, and blockchains alike, check it out! [2]

The protocol is still in active development, it is not done yet, and that's exactly why we set up this bug bounty program. We think bug bounties matter, a lot, and we're proud to now become the record holders of the largest bug bounty payout in history, however we hope to very quickly be beaten by someone else. Developers like saurik, who we've gotten to know recently, are super important for this ecosystem to thrive. Building this stuff is hard, and we want the best hackers in the world to get rich breaking these protocols because if we succeed in this industry, this technology will be the backbone of the world's financial infrastructure — it needs to be secure. Everything we write is also MIT licensed and developed completely in the open.

Very happy to answer any questions, I'll check this thread for the rest of the day — AMA :)

Also, we are hiring! [3]

[1] https://optimismpbc.medium.com/disclosure-fixing-a-critical-...
[2] https://github.com/ethereum-optimism/cannon/
[3] https://boards.greenhouse.io/optimism
For as long as investors believe there is potential growth that can be turned into a profit in future.

It’s clear people believe that CloudFlare have a good chance of seriously competing with the “big” players. AWS has quarterly revenue of about $140B, CloudFlare at about $0.2B has a lot of potential growth ahead.

Their strategy is clearly to expand into more of the cloud services industry. There are a few missing pieces currently (VPS, Containers, Database servers) but I’m confident they have plans in those areas.

The interesting thing is that they are approaching each area thy go into with new ideas. Although I wouldn’t be surprised if we see them make some acquisitions at some point.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220209121544/https://www.latim...
I've used Twitter for almost 13 years (!!) and its ads are barely relevant to me. An example of Twitter missing the mark: my Twitter mute list includes a bunch of cryptocurrency keywords and yet Twitter still shows me cryptocurrency ads that include those muted words. I've explicitly told Twitter that I'm not interested in cryptocurrency, but they show the ads anyway. Perhaps Twitter still considers me in the target audience because I've proven that I what cryptocurrency is by muting those keywords.

In contrast, I joined Instagram just last year and use it very little, but its ads are much more (sometimes almost scarily) relevant to me. My wife is a big Instagram user, so perhaps Instagram has a shadow profile for our home IP address and I'm seeing ads personalized based on her activity (and thus peripherally relevant to me).
Host genomes for SARS-CoV-2 leaked into Antarctic soil sequencing data
I am an ignorant prick, and if the powers that be had chosen to exploit poor people mining uranium instead of poor people mining coal 40 years ago, we would have avoided billions of metric tons of CO2 and saved millions of poor peoples' lives.
I can't believe that I've been hacking C# for 20 years
France just had to turn off 3 of their rotting reactors[0] and they lowered their estimates for this year to 295-315 TWh[1]. They're desperate, it's election year and they failed to come up with a diversified energy plan for the future. Luckily the recent taxonomy decision may help to avoid sharp tax rises to finance this backward and hilariously expensive[2] strategy but those EU funds won't run forever. Expensive times coming up for the French taxpayers.

[0] https://then24.com/2022/02/08/three-nuclear-reactors-shut-do...

[1] https://www.edf.fr/sites/default/files/epresspack/2447/5c9aa...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/edf-announces-new-de...
+1. Why focus on earnings when revenue growth is high?? Obviously you don't want to go out of business and unit earnings need to be reasonable for when you shift from growth to extracting value but if people will fund it shoot for the moon. I'm a NET investor of course, big fan.
Their mandate is not for "full employment" but for "maximum sustainable employment". https://www.chicagofed.org/research/dual-mandate/dual-mandat...