skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've used GraphQL professionally and felt it was great... if it matches your use case. Basically, if your data comprises various different types of entities which relate to each other, and clients are likely to want to pull back data on related entities ("give me these Xs and all the Ys which relate to them"), then GraphQL might make sense.

If there is any significant latency in accessing your backing data store, as is usually the case with a SQL database, then care is needed when implementing your GraphQL server. Naive implementations will have the N+1 problem (or the "N²+N+1" problem, etc) and will be slow.

I haven't found a GraphQL server library which I like, so I implemented my own. (I found an MIT-licensed query parser, which saved some work.)

It is designed to make no more than one SQL query for each branch node in the GraphQL query AST (assuming that each type of entity is stored in a single table). Running in production for a while now, works great, fast, was fun to write.
Hi, RevenueCat CEO here. Thanks for sharing honestly.

I dug into both tickets. A bunch of failures both in product and process on our part. Going to dig in more.
You can get a phd answering this question, something I do not have. What I have done is talk to such phd's - 5 years ago. I'm not giving more details because I don't remember more. I remember this much because it stood out to me as so non-obvious.
One significant thing here: this is a piece of technology which no one in the entire world, at any level of wealth, had a couple decades ago. But today a person in a relatively low-ranked job carrying orders out at Walmart... casually has this technology for fun.

This does not measure as a productivity improvement, but it’s pretty great.

Most non-positional goods are like this. You getting Airpods doesn't make mine any worse. Statistically, you getting Airpods makes mine better, because it increases the chances of there being more content I like.
I think Figma is the de-facto in SV - I haven't heard of any designer friends using Sketch since at least 2019
“don't need to know anything about it” is acceptable, but should not be encouraged.

It’s not like reading 10 bullet points on the subject is “diving deep” and making huge time investment.

It’s just getting the minimal context, so later on at least some keywords are known.
I think you're missing the point.

Perfect insulation doesn't help if you open the door?

If you're saying 'well with perfect insulation it doesn't matter if it has power' - well yeah. It doesn't matter if it has power. So you aren't wasting any either leaving it on.
I find this article somewhat meandering. It identifies that sheep exist and that they are drawn to the beaten path of what has already been done before. Then it tries to brand activism/wokeness as what sheep do in the footsteps of previous protests. It concludes that these sheep have to grow up from children into adults. Respecting 60's era authority seems to have been made analogous to adulthood. A question I have is what is this adult independence that the author wants? Is it to respect authority and institutions? Wouldn't that ironically be sheeplike too?

I think that this article is unable to sympathize with why youth are "sheeplike" in the first place. Within the context of stagnant wages for average Americans, it makes sense why sheep would be drawn to the same professions and schools as a "safe" ticket to a decent middle class life. Youth questioning whether authority and institutions are in their best interests seems like the reason why the protests existed in the first place. This problem has never been fully resolved, leading to the current woke activism. Wokeness can certainly be criticized but I think this is a weak angle to do so. It seems like to me that the worsening conditions for young people are directly leading to the more radical woke interpretations. (The article does tap into that the wokeness may not be in their best interests but I don't think a renewed respect for authority and institutions is what will be in their best interests either if they are already being failed by them.)
Possibly, but none that I'm aware of.
Interesting project! As for the market, do you guarantee a buyer? Also, what's the difference between Vantage selling our overprovisioned RIs vs us listing it to the marketplace directly?
From when I was a founder and ran into this, I was advised from my attorney in a simple phrase, pay them.

tldr; make sure you work at least a few hours that week and that generally forces your employers hand.

Some states have specific laws on the books so you should always check, but even if they don't there are already a set of federal laws protecting employees. Basic rule is exempt employees are to be paid for the jury time, though there are a few potential loopholes. The advice I was given though was just pay up as it isn't worth the headaches later.

The reality, if you work 1 hour during the entire week, from home or at the court house, or train ride in etc, you have provided services for your employer and are entitled to be paid. There are some thoughts (maybe rules) that state if you do no work during the week and take a full 5 days off that the employer can ask you to take PTO or go unpaid, but they cannot punish you in any way.

California likely has more detailed laws around this so I'd check just to know. I will say, when you are bootstrapped as I was and have someone gone for a week that isn't a nothing impact, it hurts. The reality is I could have likely gotten the employee free from jury duty because it was a hardship to the business (yes that is real), but to me that is just wrong and sends the wrong signal to everyone.

If you are working for a startup, it is likely they just don't know the laws and are trying to figure it out too, so I'd not be a jerk about it but also be up front. If they are a larger company, they likely know the rules and are trying to be less than fair and skirt their responsibilities to the system and to you.

obligatory, IANAL, just have paid a number of them over the years for professional advice.
I agree. It just leads to "Oh, IPFS? I tried that years ago, it was terrible. I don't recommend trying it."

What do you think firefox could have done to improve things?

And, as someone not well versed, is there any "killer demo" that uses IPFS currently?
"Trees in a big hole" is a wildly reductive take. The article already mentions "dense brush on the forest floor [standing] shoulder-high," which would easily be damaged by a flock of tourists. Plus you almost certainly have mosses, lichen, and fungi, likely a variety of insects, and even possibly some small vertebrates.

Don't miss the forest for the trees.
Or, film pieces of paper in succession, in a clear enough manner that they're still readable even when heavily compressed.
> It's a fantastic world to imagine

How so? Link? Many people have never seen an F# program.
Yes. Very slowly and inflexibly.
Congrats! I suggested it to my team while even in CLI stage as an alternative to skaffold
Until you want value-based fraud prevention layers like insurance. Keeping fixed fee would knock that out of alignment. But perhaps your point would be that should be some sort of opt-in higher SLA tier so the transaction layer fee is low but the insurance etc. add-on layers are variable.
Trust is one issue, another mah be perception. I know Microsoft has been embracing and extending open source recently, but I didn't know F# was open source. Even then, I still have the impression it's very much "Microsoft stack" and not worth investing energy in unless I'm doing "Microsoft stack" stuff.
https://docs.tilt.dev/skaffold.html#comparison
> I basically got a promotion out of it

What? Your contribution to your company was actually recognized? I've never heard of that happening before. Where do you live? I'm guessing it's not the USA.
Why Calculating is Better than Scheming (1987) [pdf]
You'd need a zeppelin sized bladder to lift a moderately sized farm vehicle. I think it would likely be impractical due to wind.

I think sets of 3 towers with cables between them so tools could be translated within their boundaries, kind of like a delta-style 3d printer, could work well.
Well, for the lazy, there's a nice summary here:

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?location...

I've pre-selected a few lines because the problem is supposed to exist on the data of rich countries. You can deselect them at the blue bar at the top of the page (it's not obvious).

I couldn't cut the data in any way that showed the issue ever existed. There is an half decade long decrease on the wealth of the poorer countries but nothing else on this graph.

Anyway, "productivity" isn't GDP per capta. It's close to the GDP divided by the total worked hours. The fact that the GDP per capta is increasing (I didn't expect this) really puts the productivity problem in an entirely new light.
Only one past discussion with comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13098598 - Dec 4, 2016 (24 comments)
The cliche of 'started in the mailroom' is expired by now but it was there for a reason. Businesses had a whole division whose job was to collect, shuffle, and deliver manila envelopes. Someone would come around with a push cart and drop them in the inbox.

Working in the mailroom was an entry-level, menial job, but one which rewarded intelligence and afforded a unique view into the function of the company.
Productivity has grown! But not for everyone, sadly.

Some people are now magnitudes more productive than they were before. But that requires an understanding of technology, and a drive for improving tools, process, and themselves. The people who can do this effectively are reaping the productivity benefits.

Sadly, not everyone is. Some people don't want to do it. Many don't have access to the the instruction that would allow them to unlock these productivity gains. Many productivity tools continue to suffer from usability issues, which limit who can harness them.

I'm an optimist. The past has show that eventually, most people can benefit from productivity gains. It takes time for tools to become easy enough for the majority to benefit from them. It's happening all around us.
At word "CORBA" the hair on my back lifted up. I hated that one with every fiber of my being 20 years ago when, on a job, I had to deal with it. I avoid it like plague after leaving there and I am so glad is a forgotten technology none uses anymore (maybe except some legacy projects, God have mercy on poor souls that have to do maintenance on those projects).
Has Mainframe Computing Inadvertently Started Its Own Culture War?
Better title: "I built a cyberdeck and used it as my computer for a month"

Non-video link: https://www.carterhurd.com/computers?pgid=irngk5za-51f23afb-...
Fun story. I showed up at my current company, and some frontend dev had convinced everyone that everything should be written in Elm. Their phone client, the frontend website, everything. Then, their lead dev left and so did the frontend dev. Lucky for me, only one part of one page actually made it to production. But this was around 9 months of multiple developers' time just flushed down the toilet. None of it was usable, none of it was worth learning Elm to finish.
New York City bids an official farewell to its last public pay phone
Maybe I'm remembering wrong but didn't the iPhone not have multitasking for apps for a long time as well. I recall that essentially the OS did something like a snapshot of every app when one switched.
Middleware won't work if you use "next export" to get a truly static site though, which is by far my preferred mode of operation whenever possible.

This is what I meant when I said "second-class citizen at best".
Firework Raises $150M in Funding Round Led by SoftBank
I’m continually jealous of the street view dataset and disappointed there’s no public/free alternative.

They provide API access but it’s very hamstrung and extremely expensive, making it essentially useless for anything except pulling up a single image of a location. It’s useless for any real mapping/localization/analysis project.
OH, i get it :)
Yeah that's my point. A normal rave is unlikely to be a superspreader event. A bathhouse orgy on the other hand is different.
Which LaTeX package are you using for old school D&D?
> The length of the mockery

Snarkiness, Mockery, Sarcasm are very strongly discouraged or outright “banned” depending on context. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21187460 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23482110

Your “replies” are not engaging, and it feels like you are mocking me with strawman shit I never said. That is very unpleasant, and nobody likes that. You have read an awful lot into sentences where I am just trying to be factual.

You have no idea what I think about VCs morally, so why are you responding with moral points?

For example: “To assume that venture capital exists without the primary motivation and purpose of making money is misleading at best and delusional more generally”. Who are you arguing against? Who assumes what? And “delusional” is an unpleasant flamebait word.

>> I admit my second comment wasn’t much better, sorry.

> Placing venture capitalists within some special class whose reasoning or motivations are beyond the understanding of most people is where I take umbrage

I mean, where is your reply even connected to what you quoted? Are you just baiting?

The quality of your two comments is extremely low in my opinion. Please, reread the guidelines (I do regularly), and try and learn to follow the unwritten standards the community follows.
The transaction limit and public-ness of transactions are implementation details of certain blockchains. There are blockchains with much better TPS, and blockchains where transactions are not public.
Ugh I had to do some work for the COBRA subsidy during COVID and to give you and idea how horrid this was, the frontend was an Access DB sourcing data from SAP.
I too love LaTeX but it's important to remember that the writing experience might be nice and elegant in LaTeX with the right stys and ShareLatex and whatnot, but the editing experience is decidedly not. Everyone who has used it in any serious form with page limits knows the stress of slowly varying their figure sizes and hoping it will squish into the limits.

Very honestly, part of the reason I don't bother with any new "LaTeX reimagined" projects is because either (a) they are written by LaTeX nonbelievers who don't understand the complexity of beautiful typesetting, or (b) I don't want to learn another markup+ language or mental model. The latter is increasingly annoying to me.

Out of curiosity, is LaTeX compilation benchmarked on the M1 processors? Is it better? Has anyone experimented with magic Raph Levien-style SIMD magic (a la stack monoid) compilation for LaTeX? I just want LaTeX but really really fast.
Medical record digitization seems to have had a neutral-to-negative impact on hospital efficiency. It's hard to believe since the alternative sounds mind-numbingly inefficient but there are tons of low-tech streamlined processes (like having a whiteboard in each patient's room) which are being undermined by having a constellation of disconnected staff all dumping information into Epic and not having time to read other entries.
10 bullet points on every conceivable computer-related topic is, well, a lot more than 10.
>The people behind Tether sell tethers for $1

This is the problem. I don't believe all the tethers were sold in exchange for $1. If Tether wasn't receiving $1 for every tether then everything else falls apart.
And dear God, mythic+ is so much fun, it's crazy. You and four randoms just blasting through easier keys, or struggling through harder ones.
I've been cobbling together crappy things to do similar things for robot kinematics a lot, this looks awesome, thank you!
You can also use BackBlaze B2 to push your own backups with whatever software will support it, similarly to how you'd use S3.
No. But it does mean not having a panic attack (not saying you are, just in general) and allowing psychopathic environmentalists to enforce ridiculous policy that, in aggregate, harms more than it helps. That nature evolves to give us a helping hand is an absolutely beautiful thing.
Generally they send a payment demand by registered mail or maybe a bailiff or two, not a tank division.

The military is useful to ensure property in general is still a thing (including ensuring people aren't rounded up and tortured by enemy soldiers hunting their crypto keys) but doesn't play much role in ensuring that people sell their labour to meet mortgage repayments.
I remember a similar solution that was marketed in a German mail order catalogue in late 1990s. It could have been Conrad, but I'm not 100% sure. I recall it being a USB peripheral, though. (Maybe I could find more about it in time...)
> refused to get on the phone

So your solution to this attitude is to insist more on meetings and phone calls ?

Did anyone ask that person why they came to hate getting on the phone that much ?
They would get another rolodex.
>I’ll be honest, I’m not sure what you mean about “/. depth”, but fair enough.

/. == slashdot.org noted in the last decade for shallow discussion, infighting and poor quality discourse.

Hence the "FTFY."

Not attempting to continue our disagreement, just clarifying my earlier post.

Have a good day!
Are you screensharing while recording? What tooling do you use to do this if so?

Also, any potential issues with Google having access to proprietary code? I know the chance of any human at Google interpreting your videos is near-zero but still
The Gödel Metric
An article about how word processors are superior to LaTeX by someone who has never written anything with LaTeX, not even finished a single paper.

It's like writing an article about how walking is much faster than cycling, because 'I tried cycling once and fell over, so clearly all those fetishists are wrong, the suckers'.
I had accidentally linked to one of its spinoff channels.

Here is the main channel:

https://www.youtube.com/c/HardresetInfo/videos
Well it will be from plastic once a hypothetical plastic-eating microbe makes it into the dump.

Also, what do you think CH3 breaks down into?
That's too long to fit in 80 chars (HN's limit) and should probably macroexpand DDG.

I've taken a crack at a shorter version. Thanks!
Wow, 2GB on a standard tape. For the time, that's incredibly efficient and cheap.
Here's a Kids in the Hall sketch I love:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C4TGGtPzBU
...About a document from 2015.
Google's Imagen: An Answer to OpenAI's DALL·E 2 for Text-to-Image Generation
In the early days, people would write imperative scripts to provision infrastructure, but once it's out there you can't just delete resources that you no longer want by deleting the relevant blocks from your script and re-running it--you had to delete them manually or write a "migration script". This was untenable.

Then some tools came out which let you use YAML or JSON to describe the desired state of the world, and some tool would diff that against the current state of the world to determine which resources to create, which to delete, and which to update. People started to conflate "YAML" with this sort of diffing tool and they conflated imperative programming languages with the legacy imperative scripting approach. Early infra-as-code vendors capitalized on the YAML=good/programs=bad myth and re-emphasized it by showing cute toy examples and passing off the simplicity as an effect of the YAML/etc rather than the inherent simplicity of the example.

Unfortunately, pure YAML/HCL/etc doesn't scale--you end up needing to reference resources from other resources (and/or attributes on those resources), and you end up needing to DRY up many repetitious blocks and so on. What you naturally want is to generate those static YAML configs from a programming language; however, IaC vendors had committed themselves to the "YAML = simple" brand so instead they started building half-assed programming language features into their YAML dialect (effectively using YAML to represent abstract syntax trees for the world's crappiest programming languages). Terraform and CloudFormation fall into this bucket.

I guess Helm looked at the landscape and decided it wasn't easy enough to generate syntactically invalid YAML blobs, and consequently decided to use text templates.

Eventually the industry caught on to the scam and demanded programming languages back, so we got CDKs which misunderstand the assignment in a different way. Rather than emitting YAML/etc that can be passed into a diff engine, you get some weird bindings that calls (and is called from) a node process (I can't tell what this node process actually does even after reading the docs).
Why are hot-swappable switches so important?

> I don't get who this product is for, other than maybe someone who has heard mechanical keyboards are cool but is daunted by doing any research into what mechanical keyboard options exist out there.

I like mechanical keyboards but I just don't care. What research do I possibly need to do?
merchant of record (like paddle)
But Terra did have collateral. Luna equal to 1 USD was burnt (more like locked) once a UST was minted.

The whole conceit of DAI is that instead of burning luna at a rate of $1 they would burn it at a rate of $1.5 , The mechanism is exactly the same! And it will fail in exactly the same way.
Are there any examples? I'd love to see such a YouTube video... :p
You are right, a better way to look at it would be that only the Democrat executive orders have been worthless since the federal private prison contracts that were already signed pre-Obama action (or signed during Trump admin) are not instantly dissolved by their executive action.
Tether is hardly decentralized and it blowing up will not have impact on the network. Who cares if a high-risk stablecoin crashing takes out the market price of ETH so long as the chain continues to fill blocks and protocols like DAI, RAI and USDC continue to operate as intended.

> Decentralization is not a goal of the modern financial system.

Many people in the world do want a broader range of options than “fiat in centralized digital bank.” Even the HN crowd sometimes praises cash and its peer-to-peer and censorship-resistance attributes.

The ability to have a smart contract perform operations like atomically and trustlessly swapping two assets without human oversight is interesting. Maybe not to you, but to many users and industries.
A stablecoin that was fully backed with dollar reserves would be fail-proof. The problem is such a stablecoin would also be unprofitable, because the issuer would have expenses but no revenue. The way they generate revenue is by investing part or all of their reserves in assets that generate a return. However, as soon as they do that, the stablecoin is no longer fail-proof because these investments are not risk-free.
I once carefully read his bio and accomplishments and have felt like a failure ever since.
That's too long to fit in 80 chars but I've taken a crack at a shorter version above. Thanks!
The earth is going to return petroleum to the biosphere, and humans are a part of that process. We are the bacteria that eats oil.

The utility of plastic as a material that is very durable is a temporary state of affairs. As more of these microbes evolve traits that allow them to metabolize it, the utility of plastic will wane. It's primary selling point, as well as it's primary detrimental trait, is it's ability to withstand decomposition.

Climate change due to carbon dioxide is a part of this process. Returning sequestered carbon to the carbon cycle necessarily causes disturbances in balance for a time. In the end, what you wind up with is more biomass, or more specifically, biomass that once existed that is now being reintroduced.