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Show HN: SchemafreeSQL – Data, Fluid as Code
Hi HN, I'm Dean, the non-technical co-founder of SchemafreeSQL. We released our beta version about a year ago. You can see the HN Post here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30291592

Today I am pleased to announce our initial release of our hosted SFSQL offering.

A major concern from the HN Beta feedback we received was our longevity. Being a hosted database solution I can see why. We took that to heart and re-engineered our offering. We de-risked it by minimizing the amount of infrastructure under our management, fly.io manages customer's dedicated SFSQL endpoints, Aiven.io manages customer's dedicated databases across 5 clouds, our serverless offering is a managed AWS Aurora Serverless cluster, our in-house databases is managed by Planetscale.com, and Stripe handles subscriptions. The cost of these services are mostly on demand, bringing our monthly fixed cost to a very manageable level.

I highly recommend all these services.

We are boot strapping SFSQL for now. Our business model, how we make money, is simple. Our prices are higher than our costs. Just like all businesses, margins matter and because we incur the costs of these service and pass them on, our margins take a hit. We envision being more of an add-on to these service providers and others like them eventually. Our margins would increase and the total cost to our customers would decrease. In this model our pricing is purely value based.

"Data, Fluid as Code" is what we settled on after countless iterations. I believe it captures the "why" question, "why did we build this". SFSQL originally started out as an Object store for a online dev. environment we built in 2000. It has evolved over time. Its schemaless properties where added as we had a need to better handle user provided data structures and refactoring associated with many of our client projects.

Eric, the technical co-founder and creator of SFSQL, answered the "How" question in our HN beta post. For more in depth info on what's going on behind the scenes Eric is available via email support@schemafreesql.com, he is not available to respond here.

The demo apps were all built by me. Eric would like it known that he is not responsible for those codes bases, which are all available on GitHub. I built these apps while testing out SFSQL and seeing if we play nice with the various serverless platforms. Client solutions we have built with SFSQL are not available for public display so we went with these demo apps I built. The apps show how easy it is to hook up a back-end to a web app with SFSQL even by a non programmer like myself.

I hope you check out SFSQL. Try it for free, no sign-up required, and please leave us feedback https://schemafreesql.com/givefeedback_HN.html
Yes, but the problem is the 1 million is unlikely to be in cash. Here, it is in MBS issued at low interest rates and thus practically ~$500k if the security is sold right now.

Banks have a serious problem in their hands as they have to figure out a way to keep buying assets that they have to buy by law, while the Fed is going to keep increasing the interest rates via selling their MBS portfolio at a rate that makes "yesterday's treasury or MBS" the loser.

If action is not taken we haven't heard the end of this.
That's exactly what the bank did - they bought bonds. The type of bond they bought doesn't matter, what matters is that in a rising interest rate environment, the face value of the bonds fall and they are no longer producing higher yields than the saving account rates.

They didn't get greedy, they failed to anticipate the speed and amount that interest rates would rise.
A Messy Bedroom of Thoughts
Increase fines to a point where the estimated prosecution rate makes the expected value of breaking the law negative.

Directly punish executives, upper management, board members and large shareholders when their companies break the law rather than just fining the company. This could include fines, prohibitions from holding similar positions, and jail time.

Stop commoditizing ownership by prohibiting ownership of companies by non-participants. This last one would have the largest impact but is the least likely.
If I need to use Python why should I use this instead of Jax
Just because it’s the default doesn’t mean it’s the only option.

Another approach would be to integrate your zig code as a static library, and have your existing build system call out to zig’s build system just for that part of the build. Linking it to the rest of your code could then be performed by your existing build system, just as it would link any other library.

In practice, Zig is quite flexible.
To say the American people were full of Marxism in the 80s and 90s is completely made up. I would say today is closer to what he was taking about than the 80s every were.
There was no garlic in the soup. There are links to the twitter thread although most of the interesting tweets are shown in the article as well.
That's actually a good point. I bet it helps as a marking tool for his future investments too.

"He owns twitter, of course he knows what he's doing!"

"He owns a Lambo, of course he knows what he's doing!"
In theory it means he doesn't blame anyone or anything else.

In practice it's just a rhetoric figure
or the woman arrested for silently praying, in her head, while standing in front of an abortion clinic.

Hmm... Looks like this happened in the UK:

The video shows an officer asking Vaughan-Spruce if she was praying, to which she answers: “I might be praying in my head.”

She was charged Dec. 15 with four counts of breaking a Public Space Protection Order (PSPO) around the abortion facility. A PSPO is intended to stop antisocial behavior.

Source: https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/253187/woman-arreste...

The Public Spaces Protection Order is here:

https://www.bcpcouncil.gov.uk/Communities/PSPOs/Ophir-Road-a...

Some background on the protective order:

https://www.bcpcouncil.gov.uk/news-article.aspx?title=decisi...

So, they had so many problems that the local council put an order in place, with overwhelming public support. The woman then violated the order and even indicated that she was violating the order, by choice, all so she can play the victim.

Now it's being spun as "thought crime" so that they don't have to take responsibility for their abhorrent behavior and continue to pretend to be the ones who are victimized.
> you'll find the answers.

I think you perfectly understand that we are in disagreement about this, my point of view is that your "answers" are just fantasies about your idol without grounding into actual evidence.

What is your goal in this discussion?
You are 100% spot on. States are weakening worker and child protection laws around the country. Destroying oversight of child protection: no need to check that kids are at least 16 before they are hired in Arkansas. Ohio Reps want to let 14 year olds work year round until 9pm each day. Iowa wants to let 14 year olds work in meatpacking plants AND indemnify companies from liability if the child is injured or killed at work, isn't that just grand?

Minnesota trails with a bill to let 16 year olds work on construction sites. Do I hear 14? 13? How much for 12? Why any age at all? If a baby can swing a hammer, then what right does the man in Washington have to stop him? Is that baby not entitled to the sweat of his brow? I say YES! And if that baby should fall off a ladder dragging a square of tiles behind him, should the company not be protected from liability for it was that baby's own fault? I say YES, most emphatically! /s
OpenAI's Data Grab
> What I don't understand is why do banks work this way?

People don't want to lose their money to inflation, so banks are implicitly required to make up for that. Also, it's just too tempting for them not to use the money that is collecting dust.

Hopefully people will emerge from this with a better understanding of Bitcoin's advantage to normal fiat system, which is something that is severely lacking in discussions I see here in HN.
But your approach requires us to wait for something bad to happen to someone else before forming an opinion. Why exactly should people whose privacy has been violated have to be sacrificed further before any value is assigned to their privacy? We can use retroactive data to estimate the downside risk.
Emissions [The attention economy, rage and polarization]
That reminds me of a quote from John Gall:

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.
That is what all banks do.
>The past decade these three beliefs have grown in prevalence:

Uh what? That's news to me. Do you have any evidence of this?
The "some abuses make it worth scrapping the whole thing" thesis is just pure folly.

Two parallel possible spins on that:

"Restrict the government since otherwise people will abuse government power."

"Have a lot of rules and regulations since otherwise people will abuse individual liberties."

Both of these make just as much sense on paper to me. On one hand you have examples of government harassment; on the other hand you have people literally being willing to sell other people poison to make a buck.

The problem in both cases is the people, not the system.

I've come to the thinking that you have to build societal values from the bottom up. You aren't gonna lawyer your way to a perfect system if you are still fostering an environment that encourages people to ignore that system, resist it, and take advantage of each other.
what impact? you get no credit for what you do. The only people I would see trying to do that would be special interest groups/religions/cults that want their point of view to be reflected in chat results.
If you take two independent source datasets, A and B, and combine them (add, subtract, whatever) to produce C, then C is correlated to A and B, but A and B are uncorrelated.

So in the paper, there are two datasets D and E, and a third F. The noise in D and E are uncorrelated and the noise in F is correlated [edit: to D and E]. Clearly F is the result of combining D and E. The problem is that D is labeled "raw", E is labeled "final, clean result", and F is labeled "background". Thats... pretty damning. They took raw measurements, added them to a desired result, and claimed the result was "background".

Edit: to my mind, the biggest problem here isn't that an exciting new physics discovery is reversed. It's that so many people show little regard for truth. I'm not speaking to the parent of this post so much as to entire community. In the APS article it says that Rochester

> "'determined that there was no evidence that supported the concerns.' But the university has not made the remit of the investigations public and has not provided any rationale for the investigations or details on how they reached their conclusions."

In regards to clearly plagarized sections in his PhD thesis Rochester also said

> “Dr. Dias has taken responsibility for these errors and is working with his thesis advisor…to amend the thesis.”

Even one of the scientists who uncovered problems with the first 'discovery':

> “'Still, I don’t want to believe [the allegations] because it’s too serious,' Eremets says. He would prefer the field simply forget about the irreproducible CSH result and move on."
Bing Chat tries to provide citations. I often click on them.
Nice. I guess I should have tried googling it but I was convinced it was some kind of code.
"Don't it make my brown eyes^H^H^H^Hsoup blue."
I don't believe the bankruptcy clawback provisions you're referring to apply here, because this is an FDIC conservatorship/receivership, not a bankruptcy proceeding. I don't fully understand why this particular part of the processes differs, but I'd argue it's that it does unfortunate, as it incentivizes bank runs like this.

There is an extensive comparison of the two processes in [1]. Specifically:

> the Bankruptcy Code provides trustees the authority to avoid, that is, claw-back or reverse, certain transfers (subject to certain limitations52) made by debtors

> the FDIC as conservator or receiver may not avoid (i.e., reverse or claw-back) any property transfer pursuant to a qualified financial contract unless the transfer was performed with the "actual intent to hinder, delay, or defraud."

[1]: https://www.everycrsreport.com/reports/R40530.html
In my (lay) opinion, this is still evidence that he at least has some idea of what he's talking about and not all his suggestions to Elon are "pants on head dumb". I was never under the impression he actually suggested something the team had never thought of.
If they asked most of the fired people to come back you would have a point, but they just asked a small fraction of the fired people to come back. That doesn't seem unreasonable, you will make errors and it is good to admit when you made an error.

Would you think the whole ordeal was done better if they just refused to admit that any of the firings were in error? Nobody makes no mistakes when firing. There are many issues with the Twitter firings, but asking some of them to come back isn't a negative sign at all.
In Firefox you can set dom.event.contextmenu.enabled and dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled to false in about:config which will natively prevent most of this type of annoyance.
Deno has periodically had open github issues or ideas where there's possible paths but tied to Tokio & they seem to want to leave the door open for now. Just one tiny data point but I find it interesting.
It's not necessarily unreasonable to take some additional steps to protect your essential tools that would be very financially inconvenient to replace. What's "reasonable" of course depends on the details. But that doesn't necessarily mean suffering along with inferior products (computers, cameras) because you're afraid they'll get stolen or damaged (which insurance can mittigate against to some degree).
Your Bank Has Failed (2009)
I think you'll have better luck at https://old.reddit.com/r/scifi/ with "ID this story" in the title.
So it seems like they mismanaged their assets and their liabilities, taking on a lot of expensive deposits while investing at low yield.

What I don't get is all this pro-SVB, anti-VC sentiment, how "some VC's yelled fire in a crowded theater" and caused the poor bank to collapse. Isn't it just common sense though, to protect your money? The bank fucked up by doing risky reckless things, it got exacerbated because the customer base is not as diverse as a big bank - it's all startups that are subject to the same patterns, and SVB is not as big for the govt to bail out, so the bank customers did the only logical thing which is to withdraw your money before it disappears, yet they get lectured for doing that.

https://twitter.com/msuster/status/1634203251758469120

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/few-thoughts-svb-jeremy-solom...
Why are you assuming that no one will ever see it?
It’s pretty rough because those ‘you’re wrong’ videos are actually just as wrong as he was. The main issue is that these complicated topics are difficult to describe properly is a 20 min English video that has to be edited to be interesting.

How electricity propagates is really complicated topic involving 3D vector calculus, for the EM waves. Most people don’t do electronic circuits by evaluating the vector field, they use the model of electron flow and the elements model (capacitance, inductance, resistance, voltage etc).

Ultimately these models are difficult to understand and most people (including my lecturers) make mistakes explaining them.
Capital follows the state. The fact that capital also often guides the state is a flaw of the state. Capital is just people doing the job they were hired to do, often in a corporate framework, legally obliged to maximize profit and shareholder value. There’s definitely a feedback cycle, but the source of all control and governance is the guys with the guns and prisons.
That's actually a common misconception, that HIPAA infringements mean people are going to jail for a long time or something.

While infringements are taken seriously, and intentional infringement (e.g. looking up the records of a famous celebrity being treated in your hospital without reason to) results in hefty penalities, 99% sure this was a case of them using Google Analytics/Tag Manager and accidentally tagging stuff with protected PII fields. Yes, definitely a serious issue, but on my scale of "breaches I would be concerned about", this one would actually be relatively low.
It ceases to be private property when the sea eats it away. Everything below the high tide line is public property.[1]

[1] https://www.slc.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/2017-Publi...
I'm trying to understand how to read older 10-Ks and apply the capitalization of operating leases to those reports (converting property that is leased into capital to get an accurate estimate of the capital employed at the business) and with my background in IT and physics it is still a bit hard to follow (what I'm slow at is language, and really this is just learning a foreign language).
I'm not so sure of a concrete answer to that. However, what I think we may see is that the people who publish their non-AI content would do so if their content is so novel (or contradictory to the mainstream) that AI information sources would not yet behave as a substitute. The era where tons of people publish tons of crap online is already in decline, but particularly valuable content may still find a place online.

In an abstract sense, I can imagine someone wanting self help advice may actually not want it from an AI, but a human instead because the domain of that advice would be highly dependent on individual experience or opinion that AI couldn't reliably provide. There would be too much risk in an AI providing purely specious advice that doesn't apply to reality.

For instance, a generic AI available to the public probably will not provide you non-mainstream dietary advice. An AI giving dating advice may ultimately default to reductive "boomer" advice and be unwilling to give controversial advice based on real world experience that may be superior.

Though it may not be forever, humans still have the advantage of individual initiative and experience in the physical world. If anything about your life is extraordinary or if you're radical in any way, which describes a minority of the public, there may still be a place for their sort of content.
We need a reboot featuring crypto+AI.
Perl died with Perl 6. And there is no way to change that.
"The federal prison system is probably over 90% drug offenders. Most of them are about as smart as a salt lick, and the staff, from what I've seen, isn't much smarter. "

If you were looking for yet more proof to add to the pile that the fed was and is using anti-drug politics to throw anyone they want in prison.
It's hard to find a long-lasting show that doesn't devolve in the later seasons.

I remember binge watching _House MD_ in college, really liked the beginning, and felt disappointed as the characters grew increasingly comical and less nuanced in later seasons. It's still the same show, similar vibe, similar character if we view them as symbols of personality adjectives (the sarcastic are still sarcastic, the sympathetic still sympathetic), but somehow among those similarities, the subtleties died.

At some point of the show, every angle of romance, mystery, character growth has been investigated, and none of them can come to a resolution, because, well, the show has to go on. How do you raise the stake---which is usually how you hook the audience---when they know nothing the character does will ever come to a conclusion, anything they become can be reverted in the _next season_? In fact, even the changes that have already happened in earlier seasons can be rolled back. I think this is why, in later seasons, a common complaint is that the writers are undoing everything good about the show in the beginning.

Some shows sort of avert this by replacing the main character (e.g. _Doctor Who_) and effectively telling a different story in the same universe. Does it work? Maybe. But still, I've, generally speaking, grown quite reluctant to watch TV shows that are longer than 5 seasons since then.
I really hate stories that don’t end and resolve the main story arcs.

Clearly tv companies feel that if it cleanly ends then you won’t come back for more. It’s the opposite for me… if it does not cleanly end then I definitely won’t be back for more.
Insurance is not the only health care expense. Her level of illness indicates need for round-the-clock supervision, which could be satisfied by a nursing home at $10k per month, which would allow her husband to work. That’s a pretty miserable existence, so home health aids are more common, which augment the time family spends caring for the sick person. That can easily cost $5k/month or more to just cover enough time to hold a job, go to school, or just sleep most nights without worry.
The only thing better than a Miele is a Miele Professional. All the benefits of the household models but a lot faster. My PG8081 takes 36 minutes when it's full. That's when it's connected to 230 volts. My friend has the same model running on 380 volt, it takes 21 minutes. In both cases the machines are connected to hot water as solar water heating panels are installed.
The same tools don't work on windows either. Delve works well as a remote debugger against go on windows server though. Another fun one is go won't create dumps on panic on windows when GOTRACEBACK=crash is set.
Here's just a few:

https://youtu.be/0CBQI7cktMk

https://youtu.be/N5CNlMGcARA

https://youtu.be/gKNvLyxHTmg

https://youtu.be/IFXIGHOElrE
I have a genuine interest in the discussion. I, too, tried to be reasonable in my arguments.
> I think programmers find double-entry bookkeeping counterintuitive. It feels error-prone. In programming, you keep a single source of truth. Any time you copy the same data to two different places, one of them is always wrong.

Double-entry bookkeeping is creating of an audit-trail/error-evident data store; which is the purpose of the apparent duplication. But it can be viewed as a view of dataset reflecting a single source of truth, that documents value flows; every movement of value has a source and a sink, and the amount that moves from the source must equal the amount that moves to the sink. Losing the redundancy that allows error-checking of records, you could view each accounting transaction as a triple of (source, sink, amount).
John Gruber was saying this months ago, pointing out that Apple hasn’t had big cuts because they didn’t do this sort of vanity hiring.
Blind: Meta's layoff rumor March 14-16, cut ~1200 D1-D2-M1, M2 and most M0
LLMs are no different from us, because we modeled it after our brains.

These papers suggest we are just predicting the next word:

https://www.psycholinguistics.com/gerry_altmann/research/pap...

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/23273798.2020.18...

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1551-6709.2009...

https://www.earth.com/news/our-brains-are-constantly-working...
Soon, the only "content" will be the SEO optimization junk floating around and it will create more content using Chat GPT 4. It will be turtles all the way down.
> I wonder if I'm alone in this

Magic: The Gathering¹ alone has tens of millions of players². Plus all the other card games and board games (including digital variants).

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic:_The_Gathering

² https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/10/magic-the...
Which honestly was most SaaS products. My first internship was MVVM and killed my motivation to ever do web development.

9 years later my new work involves some react (barely 15% of the job tbh) and I really don't hate it as much.
And this chart paints an even different picture:

https://twitter.com/alistairmbarr/status/1634275645235793920