skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are similarities with TAO and it's not a coincidence. Facebook engineers recognized that a better data abstraction and API was needed for productivity. EdgeDB follows the same logic.

> would I have to care about the Postgres schema, or is that abstracted away from me?

EdgeDB takes care of everything for you. You wouldn't know it's Postgres underneath unless we told you.
Yup Denmark recently open sourced a lot of their fiscal policy and it works pretty much like this. Really great idea
You may be under a misimpression of what's on topic here. Nothing has changed. HN has always been for posts that gratify intellectual curiosity, on literally any topic. Betty Davis is interesting because of her music, her story, and her historical significance.

Of course, no post gratifies everyone's curiosity—the front page is an amalgam of a lot of people's different tastes. If this topic isn't to yours, there are plenty of others to look at. If you'd please do that instead and refrain from posting unsubstantive comments, we'd appreciate it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It doesn't seem particularly coherent to me for a few reasons. To draw a hard line between human activity/habitat and nature seems artificial. A human settlement is not so different from a beaver dam of ant colony in many ways. The idea especially in the US that there is some pre-colonial unspoiled nature that we could preserve or return to seems historically ignorant. Native Americans were managing the land with fire in much of North America for at least 15k years and the whole place was a giant game park with archipelagos of agriculture and settlements. Early settlers remarked that upon arrival they could ride a horse through New England forests at a full gallop, which wouldn't be possible in a primeval/unmanaged forest. So redefining society away form managing nature would be a radical departure and it unclear what the end goal would even be. There is nothing to roll the clock back to really anywhere in the world, and even if you "re-wild" a lot of the continent it's not clear what you would get, it certainly wouldn't resemble the Americas of 1491 ecologically.

Mostly these folks seem like neo-malthusians who just hate people and civilization.

I'm all for increasing bio-diversity, pulling carbon out of the air, and cleaning up waste but I don't think any of that requires us to use drastically less energy. If anything we should aim to make energy so clean and cheap that those other things become cheap and easy.
Orientdb is also sql like syntax graph database with way more traction. So this is not the first attempt at this type of databases.
So eventually, we'll all just run a full copy of our stack in each of the 50 United States, plus the few extras for cities that have different laws, and then in each of the other 190 countries around the world?

Does that seem like a good balance of needs to you?
Why does a painting imply complex language?
<3 Mitch

I just love the delivery on "where did you get that camera??"
This one has always bothered me. I literally knew the people who were doing the hiring and they knew me. However, still had to jump through hoops. Got blocked by HR and they were not allowed to even interview me.
I think one problem you and the author are ignoring is the fact that Hegel's (un-)popularity varied at different times from country to country.

In Germany, for instance, Hegel was immensely popular just in the 1830s and 1840s, but soon became old-fashioned. This is visible in Marx's works: in his writings from the 1840s he's very critical of Hegel, while in his later texts became much more reverential, as to oppose the prevailing bourgeois mentality (in the preface of Capital, he complains it was fashionable to treat Hegel as a "dead dog" [1]).

But this is just Germany. In US & UK Hegel became popular only during the end of the XIX century (with the British Idealists and the St. Louis Hegelians). In Italy, his popularity dates to the early XX century (with Croce and Gentile). And in France I think he was never really popular.

[1]: https://www.marxists.org/subject/dialectics/marx-engels/capi...
I would disagree, in my experience HN has been pretty anti-crypto for a long time, starting with Bitcoin's announcement thread [1].

Personally, I think people are just tired, as a proponent I'm tired of arguing the same stuff over and over again, I can imagine the other side of that too. At this point, time will decide who's right and wrong, I think that what anyone of us thinks doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=599852
Furthermore, it's not clear they are doing a fantastic job building Hinkley Point in the UK. First, in the decade or decade and a half they're taking to build it, you could build so much renewable capacity.

Second, Hinkley Point only went ahead when it was guaranteed an outrageously high strike price, for the electricity it will output.
But...but...peoples' INMT protein makes 5-MeO-DMT out of a melatonin precursor in the pineal gland during sleep. Made alongside all-star proteins like aquaporin receptor 1 and cortisol-releasing hormone receptor 2.
@NYTimesWordplay: "Hi Wordlers! We are aware that your "current streak" has been reset today. Our Games team is currently investigating. Stay tuned for more #Wordle updates"

https://twitter.com/NYTimesWordplay/status/14918860733368033...
Uhm. What you had to do instead of ray casting in real time:

- build a graph of connectivity of all areas of the map OFFLINE

- make sure that graph also has information about disconnected components and never apply A* to points which are disconnected from each other

Do A* on that graph.
Disabled people tend to get fired preemptively, regardless of performance, when their disability is discovered. It's illegal but it happens all over the place: bosses see everyone with a medical problem as a potentially unrealiable time bomb. So they tend to have a lot of involuntary "job hopping". And, not surprisingly, it takes them longer to find new jobs after getting fucked over.

This can be concealed to some extent if people only put the years of employment on their resume. Which is why the resume portals ask for months. It's a way of figuring out if someone has a history of getting flagged for depression, anxiety, or long COVID and then PIP'd over it.
Many things in Vim can be a super power if you build the muscle memory.

I find di/yi (delete/yank inside) to be one of the most powerful.
> then technology needs a huge lobotomy!

Yes, it does. It really, really does. The absolutely human-toxic nature of most modern consumer tech ("You buy me, I feed you ads, and collect absolutely as much data as I can to improve the ads other people pay me to deliver to you!" model being the core complaint here) has done a huge amount of damage to humanity.

There are upsides, but we culturally seem horrible at actually evaluating things fairly. Always-on devices, constantly sending notifications, are just horrible to every aspect of humans - and the more we learn about just how horrible the are, the better the companies involved refine their ability to "drive their users nuts" for more eyeball-time to view ads, desired or not.

So, yes, if what you get out of my writings are that we should radically pull back on what consumer tech is and can do, you're evaluating my position quite accurately.
Cloudflare acquires Vectrix to expand Zero Trust SaaS security
It's (at least mostly) a diminutive for Elizabeth (or Elisabeth more recently) but Elizabeth has declined a lot in the past few decades. I'd also (very anecdotally) observe that diminutives like Liz have probably become more popular than Betty.
In fact there is a popular theory[1] that bird intelligence evolved because of the way their social structures work. Birds mate for life but they cheat. Every bird wants their partner to be loyal and itself to sex as many other birds as possible.

This means birds have to keep track of who can and can't see them cheat, who knows and who doesn't. There's even evidence that they rat each other out (2nd degree info) if they think there's a reward to be had. All of this requires immense intelligence, which happens to prove useful in other contexts.

There's also a bird species who does this with food caches. Easier to steal from others than to build their own so a plethora of deceptive tactics developed to ensure others can't see where you're storing those delicious nuts. Complete with fake caches, lying, and espionage.

[1] I learned about it in The Genius of Birds
Yep, and here's conclusion of this argument:

>Now, what if the only sleep available to you was modern sleep?

> 1. If you don’t sleep at all, you go crazy, because some amount of sleep is necessary.

> 2. If you sleep just enough to be awake during the day, you’ll be dreaming of getting a nap at the sight of a bed and will be distracted and sleepy all the time. Importantly, I claim, in this situation, the feeling of sleepiness does not mean that you should sleep more – it’s your brain being overpowered by a superstimulus while being bored.

3. I claim that if you sleep as much as you want, you’ll probably sleep too much and become more susceptible to depression. [by analogy to eating too much]

- And if you sleep way too much at once, you’ll be feeling terrible afterwards, however pleasant the sleep was.
Why I’ll Be Keeping My Shoes on in Your Shoeless Home
Back then, free APIs and mashups based on them were the hot thing. (Free geolocation resolvers, Google hat a free search API, Bing as well, FB had one, too, free weather forecasts APIs, etc., etc.) You couldn't be a trendy start-up without providing one. Things have changed a lot since.

PS: I keep a few selected apps from this era on my phone. Once a year I open them and admire them in their data-less beauty. (Favourite one: Partly Clouded) Let's call it software shinto.
>By default, at browser launch uBO waits for all filter lists to be loaded before unsuspending network activity so as to ensure web pages are properly filtered at launch.

Fun Fact: uBO might wait, but Chrome DGAF and will load pages without waiting for all extensions to properly load.
Someone who owns private airplanes and golf courses aren’t part of the “cultural elite”? Before Trump’s conversion to a populist in 2016, he was very much part of the cultural elite and spent most of his time hanging out with celebrities and Democrats.
Why haven't I been reading this kind of hemming and hawing over the lack of full employment for, oh, the last 50 years or so? The fed has a mandate for that too, but somehow when they didn't manage to achieve it, I never heard about how society is going to collapse any minute now. Only when poor people are making income gains. Strange.
I really thought that Tile would release some sort of fixed LoRa type antennae in popular areas (SF, LA, NYC) managed by them that would act as supplements to their app tracking which they knew was mediocre. I've never been able to successfully use Tile's tracking, and AirTags work great.

I think the Amazon Sidewalk has a lot of potential in this space as a viable alternative to the iDevice network apple has. Google should def release competition that can leverage their device network too, considering their comparable hardware penetration.
Forthcoming? Given that the last sign of live has been from 3 years ago in a space with already little movement GQL seems to be most likely dead.
Worth noting for those who don't click through to read the article that this is funk artist Betty Davis, not actress Bette Davis.
The five years is the issue, imho. As I sometime put it: this role needs someone who’s made a lot of mistakes on someone else’s dime.
> for example by covering the whole AirTags in superglue and foam to muffle all vibrations.

Which makes it larger, harder to hide, and easier to find. Go try - see how much foam it takes to reasonably muffle the beeper. It'll take a lot more than you think.
Still not sure how they plan to monotize on this.

Although I noticed the hamburger menu now has a list of `More NYT Games`
Running your own email server is pretty difficult but getting an email address somewhere doesn't seem to be a problem with the public anymore.

To answer "How to solve that problem?", I'd say don't worry a damn thing about Joe Public.
> Doesn't almost everyone see themselves as an environmentalist these days?

That is not a self evident claim. At least, most people do not belong to environmental advocacy groups. The largest one is the Sierra club, with 1% of the US population as members.
Can you bottle it?
> I know of a few people who LOVE their Peleton, I don't know of anybody who doesn't have one that wants one.

Bingo. The growth opportunities at this price point seem to be close to zero. Move the price point by a factor of 5, and maybe (maybe) that changes.

Meanwhile, you can pry my Racermate Computrainer from my cold, dead hands :)
fyi the word 'rice' in that context comes from a pretty bad pejorative.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_burner
https://textpaint.net
They should have done them one at a time. You can reasonably gaslight the client that way. I sometimes forget whether or not OK should be on the left or right of Cancel.
A junior engineer with some (but not too much) experience. Im not sure what exactly has been causing this lately but we have had serious issues at my current org as well as others that I help, finding junior engineers with 2-4 years of relevant experience. We run a fairly straight forward stack (postgres, python/node depending on the service, react front end), our packages are pretty competitive and we have not had a lot of (read basically none) good stuff come across the wire. Recently we have been inundated with resumes from boot camps, college kids, "self taught" people, and just people looking to change careers and expecting us to foot the bill to train them, none of them can hack it on even simple coding challenges or basic architecture questions. At this point ill take someone who can look at a common stack dump and have a fair idea of whats going wrong...

The best analogy I can think of is that we dont need Frank Gehry, but we need someone know knows the studs should be 16 inches apart, and all we are getting is people who know that 3 inch screws might be involved in the job but that is the only screw they have ever seen and the only screw they are comfortable using.
How on Earth did you conclude that I am underestimating the population size of European countries?

I enjoy communicating with all HN users, across the world.

If we each had to use only our own country's fork of HN, we wouldn't communicate with each other, and that would be a bad thing.
Because the reality is that the bulk of people complaining aren't established businesses who actually look at the pricing before buying but tiny startups and toy projects strapped for cash.

Sure it's highway robbery but they neatly segmented the market into the people who are and the people who don't and charged the former less.
This is no surprise to me.

My dad wrote batch files when I was a kid. 98.bat give a list of items numbered 1-15. 3.bat then took you to a games directory wherein 99.bat gave you another numbered list list of 30+ games to choose from.

I memorized nearly every number on both menus before I could read.
IIUC, the classes/instructors are the moat.
There is a difference between people complaining about other worker making comments and implementing racial segregation. Its hard to believe that a car plant in California was more racist then all those in the South.
We're working on a more comprehensive explanation of why EdgeDB isn't an ORM. Does EdgeDB do "object-relational mapping" under the hood — absolutely. The reason we try to distance ourselves from the category of ORMs is that the term "ORM" comes with a big bag of preconceptions that don't apply here.
EdgeDB has:

- Full schema model with indexing, constraints, defaults, computed properties, stored procedures

- A query language that replaces SQL. If there's something you can do in SQL that isn't possible in EdgeQL, it's a bug. Most ORMS provide some sort of language-specific API for writing queries and generating SQL under the hood—that's dramatically different than providing a new query language.

- A full type system, grammar, set of functions and operators, etc. A set theoretic basis for all expressions in EdgeQL. https://www.edgedb.com/docs/edgeql/sets

- A set of drivers for different languages that implement our binary protocol.

EdgeDB is a new abstraction built on a lower-level abstraction: Postgres. Both indubitably fit any reasonable definition of "database".
> Free software is an ethical stance, around which any number of business models may conceivably be constructed.

Genuine question: where are they?

Why do we get articles like the one in this thread, or maybe others like it, for example https://christine.website/blog/open-source-broken-2021-12-11 and https://staltz.com/software-below-the-poverty-line.html

Are we not just there yet, as an industry? Or are there models that work really nicely, but just haven't gotten popular enough?
In addition, even when fully logged in, having given a phone number, they censor the search function on the site. Not just the tweets you can post - the search - the tweets that they allow to be posted but you are not allowed to read.

This is abhorrent to me and led to me deleting my account after a dozen years of use and double digit thousands of followers.

If you won't let me read it, don't let it be posted.

I will no longer donate my writing and attention to censorship platforms.
Funny story from a school teacher:

One of the kids she has is determinedly illiterate (7 years old, pretty poor family background) but said kid, after "borrowing" one of the class iPads during lunch hour managed to search up a pile of pornography and got caught.

Teachers were somewhat perplexed how this kid who barely manages to write his own name searches up some fairly complicated terms. He did it by simply using the iPad speech recognition system.
In the end it is not very practical or special. Most things can be achieved better by traditional methods(SQL database).

And in general it has yet produce anything else than financial speculation and some marginal use cases. Not that traditional finance shouldn't step up and be cheaper.

Plus all of the interesting stuff like smart contracts is clearly riddled with issues and bugs. And on other hand the pure blockchain coins either aren't performant, competititve or just tend towards centralization by exchanges and online wallets.

Not to forget that it just isn't user friendly and errors are irrevocable. Which makes it horrible thing for your average citizen.
We fully manage the underlying SQL schema for you, it's abstracted away (which will allow us to pull some tricks when we eventually introduce live schema migrations).

I haven't worked at Facebook so I'm not super familiar with TAO, only heard about it from my friends. But sometimes I pitch EdgeDB as a database with which you don't need to build your own TAO at your company. we give you much more capabilities than a typical database.
Once I realized that vim can be used to process data from stdin and output it to stdout for another program...it changed the way I use unix environments forever.

Every time I am too lazy to cut or awk for a one-time bash script, I just use vim's visual mode.

Need a quick list of things to do or write a bash script to get shit done? "ls -l | vim -" is your friend.

Need to be more efficient in processing git bisects, patches or merges? Use a git alias for vimdiff.
Interbreeding did happen but it’s probably not true that Neanderthals got wholesale assimilated into Homo sapiens. More that there was some low level of interbreeding.

I recommend reading the book, and also I would not recommend dismissing a respected book in one sentence, but I will say that the argument is largely anthropological. that the millions of years of human existence without development into more advanced civilizations can best be explained by language and oral history. More specifically, the ability to think in abstract and communicate it to others.
I wonder if you have either of the known genetic mutations related to a shorter sleep duration. I understand it's pretty rare, but some percentage of the population have them and you might be one of the lucky few!
Polaroid even capitalized on this a bit – they produced a radio that ran on the batteries in spent film packs in the 1980s.
run a blog and connect with the Indieweb community.

Someone else mentioned Mastodon. If you don't want to run your own Mastodon server, but you have a WordPress site, use an ActivityPub plugin to connect with the wider network.
Very interesting article. I'll try that myself, could be a fun experiment. The parallel with fasting was surprising to me, though now it sounds obvious. Outside of whether or not the author is right about their theory, this calls for more rigorous science on sleep. The value of even a small chance of adding 1/2 hours to the life of people is immense.
Countries do not own their citizens. If they want their brainy citizens to stay, they should incentivize them.

The US is "allowed" to offer whatever it wants for people to move there.
I'm not sure I understand the problem -- you said you need a big truck to provide a service (haul your food, your mail, etc), which is totally fair, we all use things that were hauled around on trucks, you can't build a road by hauling in asphalt on a Prius. So if there's, say, a carbon tax on fuel, when fuel prices go up, everyone that uses fuel to provide service will see higher costs, so the providers will all increase their rates to make up for it. Many transportation providers already charge a fuel surcharge when oil prices go up.

Why would you start a civil war over it?

I'm sure that externalizing environmental costs is attractive, but that just ensures that no one is going to optimize for it.
Right on. fly.io is awesome.

I don't think tunneling is necessarily a great for hosting large-scale things or businesses that need to stay online 24/7. Self-hosted services for friends and family or maybe small communities seems like the best use case.

It's annoying but ok if your media server goes down once in a while.
Chronological posts were the one thing making tools like twitter useful. The ideal that you could follow someone and see their minute-to-minute thoughts was refreshing.

In the age of bots and schedules posts, fake accounts and marginal content/reposts are rampant. Twitter to me now feels like a "dead body" repost zone where the only thing that grabs attention are snuff clips and pr0n.

Their overhead from all the volume is probably stratospheric, and they're scrambling to stop the hemorrhage of expenses over innovating now, so it's probably gonna take an entirely different platform to recapture the classic dynamic that Twitter once had.