skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're missing is the time factor. Someone with infinitely more time to post on Hackernews will have their opinions amplified over people who are more casually interacting with the site.

The probably with people is that if see the same opinion X number of times they tend to believe it. Nobody is immune to it.
> smoke cigarettes instead of vape.

They want you to not smoke or vape.

It's not like you have to choose one or the other.
It’s not that the interviews themselves are so terrible. I’m just a bit tired of random people saying I’m not a good fit because I couldn’t answer a specific question to their satisfaction.

I’ve been a valuable member of the team at my current company, and have received a mix of raises and promotions. I’m inclined to believe I’d do equally well elsewhere, but I first have to prove in a few hours what the past few years apparently couldn’t…
Will be a feature of 3.0 in 6 months. We want to do it right and allow transparent integration with things like elastic, as well as allowing faceted search.
This reply has been deemed conspiracy theory by independent fact-checkers!
Kids don't vape because it tastes good, they vape because of the nicotine. Cigarettes taste really bad, kids don't smoke because of the taste of cigarettes either, they smoke because of the nicotine. The whole candy flavor attracting kids is just some more BS IMO, kinda like the whole "pot is a gateway drug" thing.

Also mint Nicorette taste pretty good.
I want to build local first software backed by EdgeDB. Similar to these tools:

- https://replicache.dev

- https://github.com/tantaman/conflict-free-sqlite

- https://aphrodite.sh

I wonder if EdgeDB provides any utilities to make this already perhaps? Or community has to build some kind of CRDT software that builds on top of EdgeDB that will do local syncing? Maybe that's planned to be tackled for 3.0?
Everything is bad for your body. At what level of danger do we start banning it (for adults)?

Is vaping safer than alcohol?
It's true, trends evolve.
I like the idea but it would be good if the recipes were tied to skills. It also doesn’t matter if you select a different level, you can still only pick the same things. It would also be good to select vegan or keto or gluten free to customize choices. The dishes seem very limited after starting, there’s nothing I don’t already know how to make. On the positive side I like that there’s no need to create an account to get started since I’ll probably delete this from my phone now that I’ve checked it out.
Maybe if you are working on game graphics for some post apocalyptic dystopia.
What is the technology stack for your app?
Honestly, I think all the talk of cows comes from the fossil fuel companies trying to distract people from doing anything. Much like the folks who say the US shouldn’t do anything because China emits more CO2 than the US does. Just delaying solutions so they can keep making more money.
It's a great one, Ivan, thank you for writing it! :)
We actually think recipes are mostly unimportant, but teaching the underlying principles are what's important. Measurements are more important for pastries but less important for stovetop/oven cooking.

The recipes we have right now are pretty easy for any English speaker to use. Our main content creator is from Australia, lives in Canada, and makes fun of the Imperial system all the time :)
Really nice! Please make one for their products graveyard, ie:

https://killedbygoogle.com/
"few people want to run for federal office already. The pay isn't great and it's hard work."

Is there any data to back that up? Because it seems to me like people are falling all over themselves and saying all kinds of crazy shit just to get into office. It looks to me like we have the opposite problem - certain kinds of people CRAVE this power and attention and will do anything to get it.
Pop is also a screen sharing/pairing tool, so the joke was great.
Chaos monkey is on the move again.
I would assume that it is legalese to put their minds at ease.
> You only want people as politicians because they feel it's their civic duty to serve their countrymen, not because it's a lucrative career.

Why? I mean you just say that as if it's some universal truth. I don't see how focusing on civic duty is any better as a way to find good candidates than optimizing for high achieving people looking for lucrative fields to work on. I don't know which would yield better results but none is better by default in my view unless you have some romantic view of what politics should be, rather than what it is, a job.
For the rust client, is there any plan to introduce a query builder and/or generated typing? Currently it feels very sqlx like which is ok for some, but I prefer to have a bit of typing.
Anecdote, but a few weeks ago I was on an Amtrak commuter train waiting to get off, and a bunch (half dozen) of smokers waiting near the exit with me unanimously agreed that smoking and vaping are comparably harmful, and some even went to say that vaping is worse.

Selection bias, though, and one of them claimed to be a 2-3 pack a day, for decades.
> Instagram crushed Snapchat almost instantly once it started doing filters/video.

I don’t find this to be true at all. My cohort of middle class Americans have all been using Snapchat since ~2014, and we’re still using it. More so, the HS-age baristas at the coffee shop I frequent DEFINITELY still Snap the day away.

I see Insta and SC as finding an awkward equilibrium, the the overlap of the daily stories functionality. Other than that, their core features are completely different. This is why both are still healthy.
And mRNA tech came from Europe? (seems like it came from USA to me) And isn't Pfizer an American company? You're talking about the German company right? Would they have been able to do without Pfizer backing them?
Theyre pretty easy to DIY. Just look up a video on youtube of some kid doing it. Thats actually a lot more dangerous because now you run the risk of them doing it improperly and having batteries explode.

None of the things you need to DIY a vape can be controlled because its all common of the shelf stuff used for many things.

The only thing you can control is nicotine. And i can also order it from china, and the chinese always forget to label the concentration correctly or mention it at all.

So, i think this wont stop kids, but might stop adults from switching to vaping. Because nicotine free vaping is impossible to effectively ban, trivial to DIY. And the nicotine part that you can try to control (e.g. india does) is only really interesting to existing smokers, but also: chinese labeling.

Last but not least, i'm not sure i would have ever went and gotten a prescription. Probably not. The extremely low barrier of entry and ~100x cheaper were important factors for me.
I really appreciate this reply from the other side. Seems like a rational response to incentives, even if as a potential coworker I don't like the outcomes.
WOW this is basically what I've been wanting to build! Bravo!
It doesn't need "encouraging" consuming nicotine to feel good is something humans have done for centuries. People like nicotine, same way they like drinking, like smoking week, or like eating a donut. None of those things are healthy, but humans like it and like the way it makes us feel. It isn't about encouraging it, it is about driving demand to safer pathways.
Punishing a country for a pandemic is deranged.

Ensuring the cause of the pandemic is understood and steps have been taken to greatly reduce the likely hood of it happening again is the opposite of deranged. Failing to do so is in fact deranged.
How much Brazilian beef do we eat in the US? I don't think any deforestation is done to raise beef in this country.
Stay in us-east-1, they provide Chaos Monkey for free. It's a feature.
Mail box theft is up, too: "Mail theft is on the rise nationally; so are check washing scams" ( https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/personalfinance/25-investiga... ).
Execline – an interpreter-less scripting language
Eh, I rarely get any of that spam. I constantly get spam from politicians begging for money.
Why is it an app only? When I cook and follow a recipe I use my laptop as the screen is bigger and I can more easily press the keys with dirty fingers than I can a touch screen.
Is there a way to browse a pinterest style view of all setups and click on the images to see more details? This is my first interaction and I’d love to scan through a lot at once to get ideas and drill down where it makes sense.
Truflation company: Dashboard displays real-time inflation figures for UK and US
Vaping is an effective tool, but it definitely ruins more people's lives (those who went from nothing to vaping) instead of helping them (people who went from cigarettes to vaping).

We could use even stricter rules (such as making vapes prescription products) to tilt it even more towards the "quitting" market.
So in your first post you state:

>We don't comment publicly on individual customers. This is an important part of customer privacy and we're serious about it.

But then you heavily imply that the user ("Many people who say...") is a liar? Bad look.

What does "human-powered support" even mean? Is this weasel speak for a chatbot or do you mean actual people replying to support claims?
Yeah, I'm also not a stripe customer, but it's not unusual for me to email a company, and get back a canned response to a tangentially related question I didn't ask. If I then reply and try to clarify what I meant, I get back exactly the same canned response.

I don't know whether it's a chatbot spitting out replies based on keyword matching, or whether it's a human with a "responses per hour" performance target which doesn't give them time to read the emails they're replying to, but either way it's very different from the "talking to a human" experience I'm used to from daily life.

(And it's not a case of a correct process coming to a result I don't enjoy, except in a very narrow sense. "I understand your request and the answer is no" would be an improvement over what I often get)
It's not just the cigarette companies. It's the tax revenue.

You can buy an supply of nicotine and glycol for a few hundred bucks and make your own vape juice for several years. It's healthier (So you pay less on medical bills), you pay thousands a less in taxes, and it devastates profits for cigarette companies. A lot of vested interests stand to lose a lot of money, so it's no surprise they have rolled out the anti-vaping propaganda on all fronts.
If I had to guess it would be dialectics. Though the texture dialectics has is substantially different from that of online discussion. Dialectic dialogue tends to have open-minded participants whereas on the internet, well, things tend to be the opposite.
This isn't Open-source. This is a (currently) publicly accessible API.
You and I did exactly the same thing. :)
Yeah I really want to use EdgeDB, but I need full text search somehow.

Options would be:

1. Somehow being able to query underlying postgresql database using traditional postgres FTS queries

2. Something like ZomboDB to bring the data into ElasticSearch or other like PGroonga

3. Ideally there would be some kind of FTS within EdgeDB so no need for another service
If they had good and justifiable reasons to search all the boxes they'd have told everyone back in 2021 when it happened. They didn't and they went fishing anyway because they knew they could get away with it.

Nobody will even get a slap on the wrist because the organization intentionally spreads responsibility so thin that it's "nobody's fault". The legislature and the courts permit the continued existence of this structure because some animals are more equal and this is a feature not a bug.
Neon raises 30M to build serverless Postgres
Though, to be fair, those could be scammers actually, I've never responded or confirmed that they are real.
Isn’t a debate by definition two sides trying to convince a 3rd party which side is correct. The sides involved in the debate will never back down.

A discussion on the other hand is when both sides just try to reach the “best” conclusion. Unfortunately all too many things are debates and not discussions…
It may be not of relevance in your model of the world, aka your mind.
It is of relevance in mine.

I'm interested in a social trend, which may or may not exist according to this Twitter message, by which pure subjective experience, qualia, has a lower degree of variation than in the past.
In short, is qualia of importance or not?
What makes minds prefer white noise lately?
Congrats to the team, looking forward to testing out the new changes! I'd love to see some examples on non-trivial schemas realized in EdgeQL for reference.
In my experience, most political groups these days are openly and deliberately unwelcoming to people who don't share their full set of policy preferences. If you talk to organizers, I think you'll find that polarized engagement is very much what they're hoping for.
In the same way you don't need a DBA to run a database, you don't need an MBA to run a business.
Three things are certain: death, taxes, and useless cloud status dashboards.
I think most of the recession talk is trying to drum up fears of 2007-2009. If we are in a recession, it's a pretty mild one. But that won't stop people from pretending that the sky is falling in order to motivate voters.
Ask HN: Why is the crypto market any different then the stock market?
I think it's exactly the same. If you think one is a Ponzi scheme, they both are.
yep, this is part of the class of games called "Idle games" or "incremental games"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incremental_game

Universal paperclips is a famous one: https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html
They push the other companies into recreating the change. They only get to monopolize the market if the other ones do not react.
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Chargebacks are a possibility with every single credit card transaction. Routine B2C transactions carry the possibility that a card number was used fraudulently, the product was never delivered, or the customer is otherwise unhappy. A one-time payment for a vehicle with a state-documented title carries none of those risks.
Our idea is that as a beginner/novice, trying to find the right free cooking video, and getting better through repeated trial and error,

is inferior to

knowing that you have trustworthy information, a path to improvement, and the ability to track your progress over time.

Re: meal service without delivery of ingredients...yes! That's basically what experienced home cooks already do. But there's a few steps before we get there. Here's the vision: https://parsnip.substack.com/p/vision-part-one
The voter roll includes your name, your address, DOB, and maybe a few other identifying points. Depends on the state.

Assuming you know all of those things, you could go vote as your neighbor. But there are strong incentives not to: if your neighbor votes either before or after you, the double-count will be noticed and audited. Your neighbor will be able to prove who they are, and you'll have walked into an incredibly easy-to-prove criminal charge. Similarly, for in person voting, you run the risk of being identified when you come in to vote the second time (presumably you aren't going to vote just once, since there's no point in the crime if it counts the same as your ordinary vote).

Adding photo IDs would not meaningfully change the security model here, but would give pollworkers pretext to exclude lawful voters ("you don't look enough like your picture").

Edit: and, to be clear: this all makes sense because studies have consistently shown individual voter fraud to be virtually nonexistent in the US.
When do you think it will be possible to migrate an existing Postgres database to EdgeDB?
Well, more than that:

> has no specific policies yet.

I would expect a party to have common goals, but seemingly right now they have none except some candyfloss words.

I guess we need to wait to hear what their goals are. I wish them well.
> The tobacco companies.

That's not really an answer. Do you have an actual example?
Looks like two Germans, one a Turkish immigrant.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/10/europe/biontech-pfizer-vaccin...
Contraceptives don’t kill or maim people.
Cool idea, I can see how this would be useful once you're dealing with more than a few invoices per month. For those like me that do indeed only send out a few a month, I've found the Numbers app on Mac to have a very nice invoice template that you can customize, fill out, and generate a professional-looking invoice from.
Another explanation is that these traditional media outlets were/are having a hard time economically, making it

a) easier/cheaper to buy them, and

b) more attractive for someone considering themselves a philantropist, given that they are by many considered to provide a vital service to society.

You're free to disagree, especially with that last bit of course. But assuming this view, "philantropists" buying news outlets is at least internally consistent without assuming malice.

Of course, whether or not someone like Bezos should be considered philantropic in his motivations is another matter entirely...
Sorry I meant to the level of accuracy they seem to have achieved. Which seems to be loosely flagging the location of bangs.
A filter for Pressure Cookers, adjustable by size, would be great.

Since buying a non-stick electric pressure cooker, I've gone from 95% takeout 5% cooking to the reverse. So incredibly easy to throw ingredients in and come back to multiple perfectly cooked meals.
The place was apparently owned by an extremely shady criminal who's on wire admitting to laundering millions of dollars for customers of his safe deposit boxes and a litany of other crimes;

https://www.thedailybeast.com/co-owner-of-shady-beverly-hill...

The business recently pled guilty to laundering for drug traffickers:

> The company admitted that it recruited drug traffickers as customers and used the illicit proceeds to run the business. It also acknowledged that people at the company sold cocaine, arranged drug deals at the store and instructed customers how to structure cash transactions to dodge currency reporting requirements.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-03-03/beverly-...
I'm going to start writing some case studies soon about how various companies use EdgeDB in prod. I'm sure we'll spot some interesting schemas and patterns to share :)
uhhh their privacy policy doesn't apply to disputes

https://stripe.com/privacy

it mostly applies to 'personal information'. it applies to transactions if they're 'end customer' transactions (customer's customer). And per 3d in the policy, 'consent' is a basis for data processing, so stripe could ask to comment publicly on the dispute, and then the customer could let them
Native iOS, native Android, and Firebase.

At this stage of a product, iteration speed matters more than anything else.
Just add water to activate a disposable paper battery
Is selling a van universally against the terms of service? Especially a cellphone shop van?

If it was just bad communication about what this specific business uses the card for, it seems like that should be resolvable without waiting out the chargeback period.
My memory is fuzzy, but I think it depends on faction. For zerg, your drones can turn into bases and drones come from bases.

Within a game, the "derivatives" start looping on themselves to keep the game balanced and interesting.
I think this is highly subjective and that every field has its own special hells. For example, in computational biology it's a lot easier to generate results (when things actually work) but conversely it's a lot harder to convince journals. The burden of proof required to publish is sometimes ridiculously high - I had a paper spend almost 3 years in review.
We have RDS and ECS issues in us-east-2
Automatically - we might have some built-in scripts in time for 3.0. You can migrate manually now by writing some sql/edgeql scripts.
True, and DARPA does some pretty cool stuff. Civilian 'ARPA how awesome would that be.
The benzoic acid is added to form a nicotine salt, which reduces the harshness for a given concentration (e.g. 12mg/ml of freebase nicotine will feel harsher than the same 12mg/ml* concentration of nicotine benzoate). I believe it also increases the absorption rate.

Juul's patent on this: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20150020824A1/en

* Considering only the mass of the nicotine portion.
I’ve hated Tom since the first time I read the series, which must be over 40 years ago now. I’ve hated him on every reread. Leaving him out of the films was one of my happiest moments.

Sooooo we exist…?
I am not particularly confused about the salary though I see how my comment point to that.

I am trying to assert that political machines require money. Taxpayer money is one avenue the stock market is another.

I am also saying that the money allocated, by taxpayer money, may not be enough. One way to alleviate this tension is investing in the stock market.

If I am not mistaken, if this ban passes, would they not also vote to increase their salaries? (I would think so, because a source of income was made illegal)
So, to conclude, I don't want to give more money to politicians. Let them make money in the stock market and actually enforce the laws already in place that governs their trades.
Lawyers take a Bar exam until they pass it and then never have to take it again. They just have to stay up-to-date/active with the associated Bar (so many hours of training a year; etc).

Real Engineers take a Fundamentals of Engineering exam followed by the Professional Engineering exam in their discipline/focus. Then Engineers have to stay with the associated Professional Society (so many hours of training a year; paying dues; etc).

In the Software industry we love using the title "Engineer", but we don't seem to want to put the work in to make it an actual engineering profession. There is a software PE exam and professional society in existence already (ACM) built and willing to be the professional society for software engineering. I would take the Software PE exam and pay my ACM member dues in a heartbeat if that meant never needing to do another leetcode or take home assignment or whiteboard exercise in an interview cycle. We have the tools to solve this, just not the will to solve it, it seems.
I think he is confusing it with "few people can realistically run for federal office already."

As you mentioned, people love power. But there is a very, very thin slice of the population that has the ability to run for a federal office.
I’m disappointed too, but my least favorite thing about the movies is how they made Aragorn so different. He was supposed to be kingly right from the start, taking Anduril from Rivendell and repeatedly shocking the hobbits with his kingliness. The movies made him this reluctant guy who doesn’t want to be king — where in the book he knows it’s his destiny and it makes him a total badass.

Also the fight scenes in the Fellowship.. they haven’t aged great for me. An elf, two men, and a dwarf can kill a hundred orcs? The battles in the book are awesome, but less of a one sided bloodbath. Aragorn cutting off a goblin’s head, which causes them to get freaked the fuck out and retreat. That’s way more believable than that these guys are super warriors who can take down an army when outnumbered 100:1.
Chaos Kong is the one that takes out whole regions. ;)
Yes, we want to have query builders for all languages. If you love Rust and have time to contribute we'd love some help. Figuring out a great QB Rust API might take some time.
So, on one side we have layoffs and freeze positions and on the other side we have this. This is odd.