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by gwbas1c | 2025-10-01 16:31:36+00:00
OMG as I read this I became hyper-skeptical by the end.

Some points:

In general, in very tangible terms, what are the real benefits for choosing TigerBeetle over another distributed database? What are the target use cases? Most of the article is pontificating about academic details in a way that's putting the cart before the horse. (IE, all these details don't matter when a traditional database with traditional backups is "good enough" and comes with no technology risk.)

Who's using TigerBeetle? For what kind of applications?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45436926 states, "TigerBeetle doesn't support any auth". Poor security is an unprofessional oversight. For all the ambitious things TFA describes, it's shocking that they overlooked "secure by design."

The above-linked post is the only top-level post in this thread that claims real-world experience with TigerBeetle.

But, here are some quotes from the article that don't pass scrutiny:

> Traditional databases assume that if disks fail, they do so predictably with a nice error message. For example, even SQLite’s docs are clear that:

SQLite is a file on disk. It's not something that would work in the same space as TigerDB. Furthermore, this statement needs proof: Do you mean to say that Oracle, MSSQL, MariaDB, Postgress, ect, can't detect when a file is corrupted?

> All in all, you’re looking at 10-20 SQL queries back and forth, while holding row locks across the network roundtrip time, for each transaction.

These can often be solved with stored procedures. In this case, the problem lies somewhere between programmers implementing suboptimal solutions, and databases being too hard to work with.

> Instead of investing in the technology of 30 years ago – when the most popular relational databases today were built

Don't assume that because technology is old, that it's bad. New databases come with higher, not lower, risk.

> They say databases take a decade to build.

Prove it. No really, prove it.

> Biodigital jazz.

It seems like someone is getting so obsessed with the code that they're forgetting the purpose and use case.

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IMO:

Figure out the niche where TigerBeetle excels and traditional databases fall flat. Is it because your query model is easier to program with? Is it because, in a particular situation, TigerBeetle is more performant or cheaper? Is there a niche where existing databases corrupt data more than is tolerable.

Once TigerBeetle excels in a niche, expand outward. (This is the basic plan in "Crossing the Chasm." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_the_Chasm)

Otherwise, this smells like an academic exercise to experiment with different programming techniques, but with no tangible deliverable that has a demonstrated market.
by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF | 2025-10-01 16:31:51+00:00
I have never heard of a snippet manager until right now. (In good faith:) Where did you hear of them? Should I be following news somewhere else?

I see this one is popular and high on DDG: https://github.com/massCodeIO/massCode

But there's no screenshots or example usages, and it's not obvious to me how it works.

Is it like a local search engine you install? Is it an LSP? An LSP that's lighter than rust-analyzer could be useful for this kind of thing.

Edit: I searched for "What is a snippet manager" and DDG search returned a bunch of useless-looking listicles, but their AI actually told me and linked to an article explaining it: https://www.codiga.io/blog/code-snippet-definition/

Edit 2: I guess it's meant to be used as a VS Code extension. It might work as a standalone app but it would be a little unwieldy. I don't think my favorite text editor has a web view built in, so I couldn't install massCode in there
by citizenpaul | 2025-10-01 16:31:52+00:00
>I just don’t see this in the real world these days

Lol. Go to literally any bank. They all have a legion of accountant,analyists that's sole job is to maintain their little fiefdom of spreadsheets that only they understand.

If most people knew just how held together by string,tape and gum the banking industry is there would be a run on the banks.

There is also always some 75+yo part time guy that maintains some sort of critical system. He always says, "I want to retire but they keep throwing more money at me"
by yurivish | 2025-10-01 16:32:07+00:00
Your perspective tracks with mine. Without contracts, either specified in documentation or as static guarantees, it is hard or impossible to build robust programs.

In Julia it's almost as if every function is an interface, with (usually quite terse) documentation as its only semantic constraint. For example, here is the full documentation for `+`: https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/base/math/#Base.:+

I love Game Programming Patterns, by the way! Laughed out loud when I first saw the back cover.
by theideaofcoffee | 2025-10-01 16:32:11+00:00
This concern troll that everyone trots out when anyone brings up running their own gear is just exhausting. The hyperscalers have melted people’s brains to a point where they can’t even fathom running shit for themselves.

Yes, drives are going to fail. Yes, power supplies are going to burn out. Yes, god, you’re going to get new parts. Yes, you will have to actually talk to vendors.

Big. Deal. This shit is -not- hard.

For the amount of money you save by doing it like that, you should be clamoring to do it yourself. The concern trolling doesn’t make any sort of argument against it, it just makes you look lazy.
by grayhatter | 2025-10-01 16:32:39+00:00
I have asthma. The last time I had an asthma attack that was severe enough that it could have become fatal was when I was 8 at my friend's house with a few cats(*).

But, everyone gets short of breath some times. Everyone wakes up with the feeling of a congested chest occasionally. Everybody is limited in the exercises they can do by their lung capacity and exercise tolerance.

But because after working very diligently, by your logic, I don't have asthma. Because I can run, and rock climb, and do all the life stuff that I wanna do.

Except that logic is fucking stupid! Because when I got covid a few years back, I was using my rescue inhaler constantly because I could feel my lungs starting to close up, felt just like the asthma attacks I would get when I was younger. But because I learned to use the techniques and habits I built up when growing up, and I made sure it never progressed far enough towards an attack that needed medical intervention. I don't have asthma, right? I should have thrown away my inhaler years ago because I was never using it?

The culture of treating mental health by different rules, from outwardly physical health, is fucking stupid, and I can't wait for that meme to die!

And it's especially egregious when people use that meme to then weaponize it to exclude people from the groups with shared experiences, weaknesses, skills, and needs.

If you really feel the need to be exclusive, and tell other people that their experience is invalid, and demand that they preform their rock bottom for you, before you'll believe them. Might I suggest instead of telling other people that the way they describe their life is wrong, instead try adding the prefix subclinical. As in my asthma (through work and effort), is subclinical.

E.g. instead of being an asshole who says "that doesn't count as austism" you can say "most people who claim to be autistic are lucky subclinical". Then you still get to invalidate the experiences of others, But you do so in a way that's slightly less hostile and gaslighting.

(*): Does the time I was sick count as an attack? Had I ignored those symptoms, would it have gotten worse, would I have needed to visit the hospital? Would you still try to tell me that this is different because I was also sick, so everything else doesn't matter?
by graeme | 2025-10-01 16:32:43+00:00
>all we ever get about aphantasia is self-report, anecdote, self-assessment questionnaire, subjective impression.

Is there any other way to get information on what people see internally?

The idea that great artists, for example, don't have dramatically different visualization than people who report not seeing sharp images or images at all seems like the theory in need of proof.

You can't just say the evidence is subjective so you're right. The evidence only ever could be subjective.
by giantg2 | 2025-10-01 16:32:50+00:00
"Since you've decided to not disclose your autism at work, you'll be raw dogging it today and every other day. This seems marginally better than the alternative of being potentially passed over for promtotions or raises."

I was passed over without disclosure. When I did disclose, they tried to fire me. It would be great if they add a feature where you're told for a decade by peers, leads, and managers that you're at the next level, but never actually get there. Then they try firing you while the internal interviews give feedback about how you're likely overqualified for roles at your level. How's your mental health doing after that? The game should add a part about wanting to get hit by a bus during your commute so you cana avoid the torture.
by chrisco255 | 2025-10-01 16:32:57+00:00
> Old West Fest

For sure, there are things like Cheyenne Frontier Days though not sure that it really goes as far as the cosplaying that is seen in ren faires. People do dress in western clothes, although they're not necessarily acting out a part. Rodeos and western wear though are still fairly common in modern day America though.
by fellowniusmonk | 2025-10-01 16:33:09+00:00
If your core issue is with trying to quantify and observe others Qualia I think you're going to have a hard time.

I still have people tell me I must be faking my colorblindness, or just treat me like I'm blind. Normally teenagers, theory of mind is tough at that age.

I'm not sure nice or just a smidge of humility/uncertainty in expressing doubt.

Propagation of information pre-internet was so low people just couldn't easily triangulation on some of these things.

Fwiw I generally agree with you, my wife brought this up to me just in the last few years and I was like, oh I just thought this happened to everyone around 13 like a reverse Hook (the movie) thing.

But I can't paint or draw worth a damn sense then and she can freehand paint hyper realistic pictures. I don't see how she could do that without the imagination version of a stencil.

After I found out it wasn't a normal part of puberty I just figured it was brain damage acquired during the surgeries.

Also, from what I understand fMRI shows enough of a difference I'm inclined to believe the other people who say they were born that way.
by ajford | 2025-10-01 16:33:14+00:00
I interpreted it as more of "concepts" and not the word floating in space. That's closer to how I would describe my experience. With effort I can kinda force a static visualization but for lack of a better explanation it feels almost like a wireframe pre-render. Sounds similar to how you describe it.

Dreaming feel reminiscent to what an Audiobook feels like when thinking about the dream after waking up.
by ddxv | 2025-10-01 16:33:47+00:00
Same! Just tried Copilot heavily for a few days and the autocomplete is terribly slow and clunky.

Overall I do like VSCode better but Cursors blazing fast and intelligent autocomplete is awesome, will probably stick with Cursor.

Btw, I find the review / agent code stuff pretty bad on both. No idea how people get them working well.
by vlucas | 2025-10-01 16:33:52+00:00
This headline reminds me of a great movie made on this exact subject:

S1m0ne ("Simone", or "Simulation One") https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0258153

> A producer's film is endangered when his star walks off, so he decides to digitally create an actress to substitute for the star, becoming an overnight sensation that everyone thinks is a real person.
by ttfvjktesd | 2025-10-01 16:34:09+00:00
How about all the other infrastructure. Since you are obviously not using the cloud, you must have massive amounts of GPUs and operating systems. All of that has been working together, it's not just keep watching for the physical disks and all is set.

Don't get me wrong, I buy the actual numbers regarding hardware costs, but in addition to that presenting the rest as basically a one man show in terms of maintenance hours is the point where I'm very sceptical.
by 827a | 2025-10-01 16:34:58+00:00
The biggest part missing from the opposing side is: Their view is very much rooted in the pre-Cloud hardware infrastructure world, where you'd pay sysadmins a full salary to sit in a dark room to monitor these servers.

The reality nowadays is: the on-prem staff is covered in the colo fees, which is split between everyone coloing in the location and reasonably affordable. The software-level work above that has massively simplified over the past 15 years, and effectively rivals the volume of work it would take to run workloads in the cloud (do you think managing IAM and Terraform is free?)
by dscthrowaway | 2025-10-01 16:35:05+00:00
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by immibis | 2025-10-01 16:35:17+00:00
Very good point. There was something on the HN front page like this about self-hosted email, too.

I point out to people that AWS is between ten to one hundred times more expensive than a normal server. The response is "but what if I only need it to handle peak load three hours a day?" Then you still come out ahead with your own server.

We have multiple colo cages. We handle enough traffic - terabytes per second - that we'll never move those to cloud. Yet management always wants more cloud. While simultaneously complaining about how we're not making enough money.
by theturtle32 | 2025-10-01 16:35:19+00:00
For me, the best kind of "moat" (tbh I hate that word, since it specifically implies needing to design (...scheme...) and engineer some kind of user lock-in, which is inherently user-hostile) would be staying aggressively on the forefront of DX. More important than feature churn, making it polished and seamless and keeping a smile on my face as I work is the best kind of "moat."

It requires constant attention and vigilance, but that's better for everyone than having some kind of "moat" that lets them start coasting or worse— lets them start diverting focus to features that are relevant for their enterprise sales team but not for developers using the software.

Companies really should have to stay competitive on features and developer happiness. A moat by definition is anti-competitive.
by floundy | 2025-10-01 16:35:33+00:00
You're speaking of some idealized moderation system where tone and politeness is enforced, and human corruptibility does not entice moderators into censoring speech they disagree with? Yeah sure, I'd love to be there. It's just a rare thing to find on the modern web, and it's not guaranteed to last for any length of time.

The modern web example of your bar scenario is more like this: the bartender doesn't want to hear [opposing political/societal issue opinion] at the bar and starts kicking out everyone he disagrees with. The kicked out people go start their own bar. Now there's two neighboring bars, MAGABar and LibBar; customers are automatically filtered into attending either bar by an algorithm. If you say anything that the bartender disagrees with, you're permanently banned. The fun part is that you can be permanently banned from BOTH bars if your viewpoints don't fall in line 100% with what the bartender wants to hear.

Oh and you can't go to TechBar anymore either, the bartender heard you said something critical of furries at another bar, so now you're banned and not allowed to talk about computers.
by mtalantikite | 2025-10-01 16:35:35+00:00
The hack is there isn't really one thing, it's using multiple tools like I mentioned in my original comment.

If I were to start again with a new language I'd do 1) A full Assimil course 2) comprehensible input and 3) an iTalki tutor 3x per week. Anki is helpful too, so if you had time to add that in every day I'd do that as well.
by cosmicgadget | 2025-10-01 16:35:57+00:00
You seem to be interpreting assertions of fact as some sort of approval for the current state of things.

The commenter above is saying that ATCs by and large are probably not living paycheck to paycheck. He isn't saying that the shutdown is super neat.

Further up, I was clarifying that ATCs will get paid once the shutdown ends, which is a world of difference from the other way to interpret "they aren't getting paid". Likewise I am not making a value judgement about the situation, I am trying to be helpful.

Not everything is an argument.
by dchftcs | 2025-10-01 16:36:37+00:00
I simply don't use a headset or a webcam with my home Linux setup, because it's often been a hassle to deal with, and my work setup is separate. For screen-sharing type coding interviews, I have a perfectly functional remote SSH setup from my windows laptop, which took less time to setup than the last time I fiddled with a bad headset connection on Linux a long time ago. I find the "not using all of screen real estate" accusation to be strange as well, because usually screen-sharing is ergonomically limited to 1 screen, but people may usually work with two screens and not have developed habits to make 1 screen work.
by w10-1 | 2025-10-01 16:37:13+00:00
I like it when teachers (e.g., Grant Sanderson) are careful to explain when they are trying to convey an intuition to motivate and guide some complex math, because it orients you without tangling you in all the misunderstanding that would come from extending analogies or cross-cultural/discipline comparisons too far.

But when authors start slinging around Plato and Aristotle and especially Parmenides willy-nilly alongside modern principles, they're waving a red flag... Don't get me started!
by watwut | 2025-10-01 16:37:40+00:00
I mean ... if a junior can stonewall a progress on a meeting then seniors there somehow horribly failed the meeting moderation. I have literally never seen that, because you can just make meeting without them the next time

Second, I seriously doubt juniors ability to "sow discontent" among more experienced seniors. They can latch on existing discontent, but juniors are too low on hierarchy and seniors have too much of opinions for juniors to have much power there.
by dcminter | 2025-10-01 16:37:42+00:00
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by haswell | 2025-10-01 16:38:07+00:00
As someone with aphantasia, all I ever get from people who can visualize is self-report, anecdote, self-assessment, etc.

By definition, this will always be the case until we have a deep enough understanding of the brain to diagnostically assess this.

What I can assure you is that I cannot see/imagine with my mind, and that many other aspects of my life make sense given this limitation, e.g. when people describe their experience of reading books and mental world building, it’s entirely foreign to me. Or when my brother describes his ability to create mind palaces, manipulate visual concepts mentally as if he were using CAD software, etc. it seems preposterous.

But I have to take his word that it’s something he can actually do. Such is the nature of this subject.

Until I discovered the concept of aphantasia in my early 30s, I genuinely thought that people’s descriptions of “visualization” were just a figure of speech. It was mind blowing to learn that people actually see anything more than nothing at all, and a lifetime of experiences and confusion about what other people described about theirs suddenly made sense.
by jasonthorsness | 2025-10-01 16:38:14+00:00
I'm so much faster at typing than writing with pen or using a mobile keyboard - I have a hard time journaling because I get annoyed at the speed; but at the same time it seems weird sitting in front of a full computer setup to do it. Suffice to say, I have not been successful at maintaining a journal despite some false starts. Has anyone found a "sit in a chair and journal" input method that is fast?
by foxyv | 2025-10-01 16:38:18+00:00
Ray Bradbury's worst fears came true a long time ago.

The Pedestrian Short Story https://xpressenglish.com/wp-content/uploads/Stories/The-Ped...

Blind Man Arrested for Walking with Cane https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3UOccxRHCYw

Man Arrested for Walking Home in Snow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gawzO3afNKw
by immibis | 2025-10-01 16:38:23+00:00
Non-autistic people also get this. It's in your salarypayer's best interest to keep you thinking you're on the precipice of getting a raise (so you work harder), but without actually giving you one (so they don't have to pay up). This is just ordinary capitalist paperclip-maximization, and we need way more people to realize their employers are not their friends, and it's a simple exchange of money for work where at least one party employs people whose entire job is to shift the exchange rate in their favour while convincing you they aren't.
by bobbyprograms | 2025-10-01 16:38:41+00:00
Everyone is so mad it didn’t get a ticket too.

Americans are ridiculous. They are mad they get tickets and want it fair so google gets one too.

But if you’re pissed about getting tickets, then complain that we should change policy and not give tickets at all. Geez why do people want to see someone else suffer like them instead of vote to fix it so none of us suffer.
by dustanbower | 2025-10-01 16:38:48+00:00
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