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ec2instances.info maintainer. Other stuff: https://everettberry.com
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epberry··on Postico: A Modern PostgreSQL Client for the Mac
At most 5 connections and table filters disabled in the free version is a bit rough but yeah Postico is not bad. Also I'm heavily biased :)
epberry··on It’s fine, Rewind: Revert a migration without losing data
P.S. you can do the forward version of this, online schema changes, directly in the Arctype SQL GUI https://arctype.com/blog/changelog/planetscale-exports/. I imagine we'll have support for Rewind too in the future. Game changing feature.
epberry··on How to Pay Professional Maintainers
Railway is developing an interesting model for this, the open-source kickback https://railway.app/open-source-kickback
epberry··on MySQL now shows its thread names at OS level for better troubleshooting
I think to think of it as an interface, https://dbdb.io/browse?compatible=mysql

These days you have shiny companies like PlanetScale and SingleStore implementing the MySQL wire protocol.

epberry··on Endurance: Shackleton's lost ship is found in Antarctic
Incredible!! I read the book Endurance and it was absolutely riveting. There’s a particular passage where they describe the final boat journey rowing to the northern island that made me turn the heat up a little higher.
epberry··on Tell HN: Zelensky is blurring -not blanking- sensitive info in a video with Musk
> An April 2021 Bloomberg investigation found that AMI's Chief Content Officer Dylan Howard, National Enquirer editor James Robertson, and Andrea Simpson, an L.A.-based reporter for AMI all stated in federal court that Michael Sanchez was the sole source of all the information and compromising material they received during the investigation and that Saudi Arabia was not involved.

I guess it's up for debate and both things may be true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos_phone_hacking

epberry··on Tell HN: Zelensky is blurring -not blanking- sensitive info in a video with Musk
Bezos didn't get hacked. His girlfriend's brother leaked the texts.
epberry··on Ask HN: How does one go about bringing a hardware product to market?
The Bolt VC blog has a ton of good articles on this, e.g. https://blog.bolt.io/casper-glow/. Check out the 'Teardown' category for the best ones.
epberry··on Ask HN: How to track flying objects?
Agree. Kalman was designed for this use case (radar) and still performs admirably well for how simple it is.
epberry··on Show HN: Full text search on 630M US court cases
You can put 3 commas after your name to search for an exact match, eg brad knowles,,,
epberry··on Tipasa, Algeria’s ancient melting pot, faces an uncertain future
This is beautifully written thanks for sharing.
epberry··on How Einstein arrived at his theory of general relativity
Yes if you read the Walter Issacson book this is evident.
epberry··on Ask HN: Which open source versions of SaaS products would you like to see?
Beekeeper is pretty good. We’re also working on open sourcing our sql editor but it’s not ready yet.
epberry··on Ask HN: Which open source versions of SaaS products would you like to see?
https://cal.com
epberry··on The world of PostgreSQL wire compatibility
Ok that is my bad! Sorry I was curious as to the answer to the question in the * scaling cell in the original blog post and searched 'materialized scaling' and came across that. Regardless I am actually a user of Materialize and quite like it.
epberry··on The world of PostgreSQL wire compatibility
Well done. Couple of notes:

- YugabyteDB is currently on Postgres 11.2 with plans to keep upgrading.

- Cockroach is not pinned to any Postgres version so its compatibility is reliant on their implementation. Not a bad thing, just different than YB.

- Like you said Timescale is in lockstep with latest Postgres (14 at the time of this comment) https://blog.timescale.com/blog/massive-scale-for-time-serie...

- Materialize is not really focused on scaling because that is not really what it is for, https://materialize.com/blog-roadmap/

- I might consider moving Spanner to the Somewhat compatible category. Lack of stored procedures and triggers makes it not a drop in replacement for those moving from Oracle/MS SQL https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/reference/postgresql/o...

- For native Postgres scaling strategies, we could call attention to Crunchy Data or Percona

Very nice to lay this out and I pretty much agree with the labels and categories on here. I would be you will get some people reaching out since Postgres compatibility is something these vendors compete on.

epberry··on AbstractOps: The Scaling System for Your Company
Highly relevant demo for me. Nice job team.
epberry··on Apple removes Python 2.7 in macOS 12.3 beta
Great move. Next up: Ubuntu.
epberry··on Nature Neuroscience offers open access publishing for $11k per article
I’ve worked on a couple NSF grants and I believe this cost could be covered by the grant. Whether the granting institution is okay with this I don’t know but if I had to guess they probably see an $11K spend to distribute the results of the research in a (the?) prestigious journal as reasonable.

To me $11K seems pretty steep. But I might go for $5K to put Nature’s stamp on my work and have it open access.

epberry··on Former Uber Chief Security Officer to Face Wire Fraud Charges
Yes, according to LinkedIn
epberry··on Ask HN: How to learn about text editor architectures and implementations?
Here's 2 articles on building a SQL editor.

- https://arctype.com/blog/sql-query-editor-switch/

- https://arctype.com/blog/indexeddb-localstorage/

Disclaimer: I wrote the 2nd one. My general takeaway is that it gets interesting quickly as the amount of text edited increases.

epberry··on Optimizing Docker image size and why it matters
If you click ‘Pricing’ on the main site an error occurs just FYI.
epberry··on Before ‘Dune,’ Frank Herbert learned from native Americans
Now I’m halfway through Heretics and I believe the last 3 books would make an excellent dialogue-heavy anime. Very hard to see them as widely popular films.
epberry··on Ask HN: Best Engineering Blog Posts?
I work in the Database industry and have enjoyed these posts this year.

- https://arctype.com/blog/postgres-notify-for-real-time-dashb...

- https://heap.io/blog/speeding-up-postgresql-queries-with-par...

- https://blog.timescale.com/blog/how-postgresql-aggregation-w...

- https://blog.crunchydata.com/blog/understanding-postgres_fdw

epberry··on 2021 Letter
> The state has subjected scientists to the tender mercies of the US criminal justice system, usually for charges related to relatively unimportant issues implicating research integrity.

Does anyone know what this refers to? Is it prosecutions of Chinese researchers in the US?

epberry··on Before ‘Dune,’ Frank Herbert learned from native Americans
God Emperor was on and off for me but by the end I was looking forward to a reread. It has some truly startling ideas and a solid marching plot.
epberry··on Pioneer 3.0
I did this program and it's still paying dividends years later. Highly recommend if you (like me several years ago) are sitting in your dorm room reading HN and feel like you're outside the main silicon valley groups.
epberry··on Farewell, EC2-Other
Nice one. Things like EBS have always been a real pain to track down.
epberry··on Toyota owners have to pay $8/month to keep using their key fob for remote start
This feature does not prevent you from unlocking the car. Just pointing your key at your car outside your building and turning it on in the cold.
epberry··on Command palettes: how typing commands became the norm again
This is a great observation. In the end, the goal of a terminal usable by people and machines was folly. Machines can use the shell, humans can use the command prompt.
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