skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Relational databases have a much longer history of development, and much more engineering time has went into designing RDBMS. It is not a surprise that they are mature on more levels. By looking at the age of a product, you can get a sense of how mature RDBMS systems are compared to most GraphDB projects.

I assume you really like the RedisGraph, now if you think about how much time of development did the RedisGraph had, 5 years? For example, Postgres is 37 years old :D

Horizontal scaling is hard in GraphDBs due to the nature of how the graph is structured and how you interact with it. Jumping across different servers is expensive. This is not a trivial problem that requires a lot of work and investment that Graph-based engines didn't have time to receive.

When we come to the Cyhper, it is easy to shoot yourself in the foot; that is true. It takes time to get used to tricks with Cypher and to know how to use it properly.

Performance, ingress, memory usage, etc is very specific per each system architecture so it is hard to comment.

This brings me to the actual workload, GraphDB/Graph analytical engines, and Knowledge Graph solutions will have their place under the sun, the more complex the use-case the more value the products will bring.

Just look what Deep Mind is doing with GNN and graph tech today: https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/millions-of-new-materi...

But what Peter said it should not be used in simple use cases where the cost of ownership does not bring value because the underlying problem is fairly simple, and Postgres is Free after all.

Disclaimer: I work for Memgraph https://memgraph.com
Yeah, I never got that close access to one, unfortunately. I was a Dragon 32 kid, and only because my Dad bought me one cheap when they went bust.
I think this is probably the source of the whole debacle right here... Sam is pretty self righteous and self important and just seems to lack some subtle piece of social awareness, and I imagine that turns a lot of people off. That delusional optimism is probably the key to his financial success, too, in terms of having a propensity for taking risk.
I usually just use `watch` to run a command repeatedly every couple of seconds.
Yet the author of the article (and curl itself) seems to think it's a fork:

"With large invasive changes of this kind we can certainly hope that the team making it has invested time and spent serious effort on additional testing, both before release and ongoing."

"...since I can’t find the source code I cannot really get a grip of exactly how much and how invasive Microsoft has patched this."

It's not a patch of libcurl if they just implement a mostly compatible API from scratch.
Impressive.

Would you mind giving an overview of the marketing activities you perform?
Does that compile my local projects?
Doesn't work here (Firefox 115.2)

Paddle doesn't move.
Sure, but idiots are a thing and the intersection of the sets of libertarians who may believe that and idiots is hopefully empty but it may not be so such outsized power is best dealt with through a chain of command and accountability of sorts.
> I told it to he had passed away, it checked the internet

Are you sure it didn't just "believe" what you told it, the same way LLMs can be badgered into falsehoods?
And if a woman gets raped and then beaten to death its her fault because she was wearing sexy cloths.
I think the point was that the only reason burned fuel weighs nothing is because we throw out the waste into the atmosphere.
Edward Tufte critiques the original iPhone interface (2008) [video]
Do people ever call her Lill or Lilly (phonetically)?
It’s a light entertainment show. The host is an ex Cracked writer. It’s mean-spirited but very funny.
I see this as not polluting my OS (filesystem and processes) with bits and bobs I downloaded off the internet. The cargo cult is a clean, safe and warm space and I highly recommend it.
That's an incredible level of integration; having so many ADC's and DAC's with 20Gbps sampling rate all in a single package.
> Screw those journals with their peer-reviewed, yet irreproducible, papers without code or data.

Seriously! I've spent so many years exploring for solutions, finding them, but only getting a description and images of the framework they boast about. For anyone thinking it should be incumbent on me to turn that into code again, screw you. If their results are what they claim, there is no god damn reason why I should be expected to recreate the code they already made. If I were a major journal, I'd tell their asses, "No code. No data. No published paper bitches!". It really makes me question what their goal is. Apparently, it's not to further their field of research by making the tools their so proud of available for others. So what is it?

By the way, one way to frequently find the code is to find the names on the paper of the 3 most published researchers, go to their homepage, and you'll typically find them eagerly making their code and data available. It frequently won't be their university page, either. For years, it was always some sort Google Sites page. I guess to make sure they maintain a homepage that won't be taken down if they switch universities.
This is exactly what Murex shell does. It has lots of builtin tools for querying structured data (of varying formats) but also supports POSIX pipes for using existing tools like `jq` et al seamlessly too.

https://murex.rocks
The site seems to be totally broken at the moment (Firefox on Linux). It appears the main video (197.mp4, NS_BINDING_ABORTED) and their CSS framework (bulma.min.css, MOZILLA_PKIX_ERROR_SELF_SIGNED_CERT) don't load.
They were willing but failed, and mostly on account of not doing enough prepwork.
No, my linux machine doesn't have the option to blur backgrounds anywhere. I don't think they do it server-side. Also, not everyone wants it. I'm not a fan of it since it usually breaks down when multiple people are on the screen, even in the background.
There is "understand the other side of the debate" and then there is knee jerk insistence to both side everything.

Nuance and unbiased conversation would actually allowed for conclusion that someone could do a lot more harm then good. If you insist that powerful people needs to be always talked about in good terms and discussion of bad stuff needs to contain "balancing" good stuff, you are neither unbiased nor nuanced.
I think it is. The capitalization is like that because the project name is xCurl, with x. Maybe they should have called it eCurl?
I never owned a car, or a driver's license for that matter, so this is an honest question: Did you not realize this flaw during the test drive?
idk, it's true its interesting moment in tech history (either ai or just this silicon valley drama) and he wants to be appreciative of the team that supported him
I think the most popular solution for this is Google's mediapipe selfie segmentation: https://developers.google.com/mediapipe/solutions/vision/ima...

They definitely do it client side.

I just wish there was something more easily deployable to desktops as a C/Rust solution.
Leadership at companies everywhere act just like this without it resulting in quite the same levels of drama seen in this case. I'm not sure I buy the correlation.
I am not sure because, eh, I'm not using lower end devices, but it seems that the most reasonable way would be the browser to check for the capabilities declared by the graphics drivers and then decide if they offer the option of background blurring.

I don't think doing it server side would be cost efficient.
Wrapping it in Docker makes it harder to access your filesystem without some dedicated jailbreak.
I learned most of what I know from the 30x500 course by Amy Hoy/Alex Hillman, but the gist of it is reading and participating in forums, providing valuable advice, and writing articles that spread that advice further.
this is hacker level pedantry
I believe that they're relating the X in XCurl to eXtend.
Some of this is simply because until the latest sanctions, other Chinese chip designers could fab at TSMC at 7nm.

Also Huawei has a quite capable AI offerings:

https://e.huawei.com/en/products/computing/ascend
When in doubt, blame your customers for not wanting your product. He's a true libertarian free speech absolutist alright.
After the US supported a coup in 2014, installing a government and military structure that would help NATO push east (despite previous agreement) and later violate the Minsk agreements.

The world would be a better place if you stayed at home.
The bad news is that webdevs will ship the fiasco.
And yet, they continue to exist and no CEO of MS ever stepped down because of any of these.

And I predict that even if Microsoft is going to be caught again that it will be a non-event in terms of actual repercussions. If Nadella exits MS HQ in Seattle in handcuffs I would be most surprised.
I would argue the 2nd quote directly contradicts the idea that the policy is to just "prepare". From the article I got the sense in the "inevitability of the triumph of Marxism over capitalism", not necessarily that China will rise to be a power regardless of what it does.
Well except for that Hilux, right? I was in Spain recently,
but felt more like Alabama with all those tanked out Yodas everywhere. Same with Turkey.
Obvious question, why didn't they just implement the security features necessary? They could have contacted Daniel to get his cooperation.

Edit: Answer is in the comments. So they should have just implemented a wrapper ontop of libcurl. But I guess the real effort here is to promote WinHttp as a replacement for libcurl. And since the developer community at large is so used to libcurl they made a wrapper for WinHttp instead. Oh lord.
It does in the context of a border guard saying "continue", rather than taking you to a back room with a rubber glove.
Thank you, is there a way to select a different model? How does the model perform? Just general question if anyone else knows the answers while I try and clear space on my laptop ( why these things fill up so fast!)
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I think PG is very, very subtle when it comes to his writings about Sam and what you think is high praise may well be faint damnation.
news on Elon is toxic, but he's a runner up for richest man in the world and leads a couple most prominent companies in the world... there is a lot to take interest in
Sadly even old computers will being to break at some point. My Ford Focus is old enough to drink too and the central unit has become flaky, like numbers disappearing from the odometer and the speedometer going to 0 in mid route. The repair shop said those were dirty contacts, then the soldering, then they took it to a 3rd party... they didn't solve anything. The mechanics of the car are still good, but I feel like its time has come because now I'm not feeling confident of taking it for a long trip.
Does anybody run maddy (https://github.com/foxcpp/maddy) in production or for personal matters?
High Performance FastAPI ChatBot, Document Chat and Sales Tool
So in summary, this seems like it could be a security issue waiting to happen for games that use that xcurl lib from Microsoft, since it seems they don't keep up with upstream and will miss important patches.

How that improves "Microsoft security requirements" is beyond me, really.
> with the state of synapse, matrix.org, and the project in general, I wouldn't consider trying that for another 12-18 months. Or more.

Synapse is very stable these days, and relatively resource efficient. Matrix.org (both the server, website, spec and foundation) is in a good place too, as is (from my biased pov as project lead) the project in general.

> This is a huge "oopsie" to put it nicely

We simply don't have the people to do a good job of maintaining the Libera bridge. We tried to jump forwards on it with persistent connections to improve the experience on the Libera side; this caused a tonne of instability; we couldn't move back (given it would have also been seen as a backwards step); we didn't have the manpower to fix it rapidly either; so this is not remotely our preferred outcome. We ran the bridge for almost 8 years; it wasn't perfect; it wasn't a total disaster either; but in the end we overstretched ourselves and Libera pulled the plug.

> It feels like a massive loss for matrix (bad first impressions, negative impact on network effects, etc) and will undoubtedly be something that matrix detractors will point to for years.

Matrix has around 5M native active users based on the phonehome stats, of which ~22k were using the libera bridge. I agree that it's awful for early adopter geeks who love IRC, and I despair that it has happened. But I don't think the sky is falling either.

> Element X has been pleasantly satisfying lately. I'm curious if the team is deliberately taking a different strategy.

Yes, it's a very different strategy. Element isn't working on the legacy mobile apps at all any more (other than for security updates), and rather than being spread too thin over too many projects and codebases (Element Web, Element iOS & Element Android all had zero code in common other than libolm) instead the intention is for Element to focus on one primary codebase (matrix-rust-sdk + Element X and Element Web 'R') and nail it. Meanwhile we don't have the manpower to do a good job of other projects (e.g. Libera bridge, P2P Matrix, Third Room etc.) and so they are on hold for now.

I agree that with 20:20 hindsight this hasn't been the most efficient route to get to where we are today.
> Out of curiosity I asked ChatGpt 4 to write an obituary for him and it refused as it would insensitive or disrespectful.

I'm continuously astonished how people pay 20$ per-month to be lectured like that. I guess I shouldn't be by now...
They would care because it’s an overall indicator of economic health and might affect perception of interest rates, interest rates will affect their credit card bill, and any new loans.

It’s lot like they should watch it on a day to day level, but it’s part of basic financial literacy that every American worker should have.
Hm, not to be confused with the Linux Filesystem Hierarchy Standard: https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs.html

... which is referenced in hier(7) https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/hier.7.html

... which is itself referenced in file-hierarchy(7) https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/file... (which is the first place I look things up these days).
It's so childish, it's like agreeing you lost an argument but then going "no you".
Why food discount stickers may be a thing of the past
> "[C]alling this reaction 'blackmail'" isn't "a little over the top," it's petulant and incoherent.

It is compelling him to behave in an involuntary manner, thus coercion.

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

Advertisers are attempting to gain benefit via coercion, so it is extortion.

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

So far as we know, they are not threatening to air secrets, so it is not blackmail.

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

So it was a bad choice of language, but frankly it doesn't seem "incoherent," just off by a hair.

It also does not seem petulant, though telling advertisers to F themselves through that sneer of his certainly is.

> he keeps saying and promoting repulsive stuff

Yes, and the responses to him seem repulsive, too. Chicken? Egg? I don't care.
Ministries ordered to replace their instant messaging with Olvid
I doubt most players are doing that. It defeats the entire point of the game.
Qwen-72B and Qwen-1.8B
In a broad reading it could easily be just that.

Securities class contains stock

Stock = backed by the company balance sheet
Interleave().

Or if that's too long, int(), or leave()
At least Yaccarino will be able to show great proficiency at dealing with toddlers when Twitter finally crashes down. Every playschool will be happy to have her.
I wouldn't describe it as divisive but it does seem half the population has no idea that the other half has zero interest in football.
Here in Ireland, this is visible in road deaths, which have risen significantly this year, reversing a trend of low road deaths as a result of an enormously successful road safety campaign over the previous 30 years.

There's noticeably more serious accidents too, although the data won't be available until mid-2024 to confirm.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_road_traffic_acciden...
Consumer groups file complaint against Meta's unfair pay-or-consent model
I’m curious as to how this will go. If this succeeds, it seems big players will for each of their products have to choose whether to make it free or a paid product.

Or maybe, they would be allowed to have a free product and a paid “fewer ads” add-on? (Seems effectively the same to me, but psychologically moves the point where users make the choice)
Stripe is holding $200k with no explanation
Stripe is holding $200,000 in deposits with no explanation. I've contacted the support multiple times over the phone, email and chat. There is no pending verification for my account (last verification was 7 days ago, all documents submitted, verification completed).

Nobody knows what is going on and the support is telling me to wait.

The money I currently have can barely cover salaries, not to mention pending invoices.

The payout dates just keep getting postponed.

I understand it has to do with the spike in sales during Black Friday.

Literally, 1-2 days before BFCM I submitted an explanation, provided tracking numbers, bank statements to make sure the Stripe team would be informed of the spike in sales.

What is actually going on? Has anyone experienced this before, and if so, what can I do to make sure I receive my payouts?
He was responsible for the genocide of millions of Bengali Hindus, he supplied weapons and arms meant to kill us, knowing fully-well what its sole purpose was.

The only thing he was great at doing, was spilling innocent blood across the world.

[1](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_genocide)

[Nixon-Kissinger](https://youtu.be/bEytw5Zv0wc?si=P_tbwHcvsm1N8amP)
Well, maybe their substandard reliability has something to do with it..

https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-reliability-owner-s...
+1

I'd add it's easier to do B2B than regular employment, that will make your life easier as you will not carry the burden of figuring out taxes- your contractor will know better their circumstances like tax residence.
> If the point was the reduce the flow, why wouldn't you make a roundabout?

Roundabouts have far higher throughput than junctions with traffic lights.
I still think it’s funny how what used to be the location of user home directories, namely /usr, has been retconned to be where the majority of binaries are stored.
GDK is much more open nowadays (AIUI you can basically deploy stuff to your own Xbox by just signing few things online?), but you're basically right.

People are assuming this is meant to be a general-purpose, generic replacement; but it is quite narrowly focused on gamedev.
In urban areas, that is coming, but by banning/severely limiting car use in cities.
Extreme heat linked with uneven cognitive decline
This. At least Zoom does it client side and only if your client is fast enough.

https://support.zoom.com/hc/en/article?id=zm_kb&sysparm_arti...
Would be helpful if you could provide some more info about your business from the experience of past Stripe support threads here on HN
Perfectly on Fedora 39 on old ( and I mean old...) machines. This is actually shocking...shocking good...
Computer Bild Spiele #3 from 2004? Because that's where I got my copy.
It definitely had many of us interested and I'd read the book if it had reveals in it, but each to their own
The earnings from the sale will go toward paying back FTX creditors.
Assets totaling $873 million will come from FTX holdings in several trusts.
The bankruptcy court in Delaware approved the sale of around $873 million worth of trust assets held by the defunct crypto exchange FTX on November 29.

Assets totaling $873 million will come from FTX holdings in several trusts issued by Bitwise ($66 million), a custody service provider, and Grayscale Investments ($807 million). The entire assets mentioned in the court filing amount to $744 million. This is because the value number is as of October 25, 2023. Since then, the value of the assets has risen.
This discussion about art "in the style of" being stealing or exploitative hasn't started with AI. For quite some time there has been complaints of advertisements commissioning sound-alike tunes to avoid paying licensing. AI is only automating it and making it possible in an industrial scale.
How much do you have to spend on PM?
Interesting, every single car I've ever driven over here (Europe) has had that slider/knob, I'm pretty sure it's required by law. Newer cars with xenon headlights above a certain wattage must have self-leveling + headlight washers to be road legal.
I'm not aware of any of the big players rendering virtual backgrounds on the server. It's all client-side.

A couple years ago when I worked at Meta, I built the server bits for a demo that was a hybrid solution. The client did the segmentation as usual but instead of sending the final composite, it sent the raw alpha channel (i.e. the transparency mask) in addition to the video stream. The composite was then rendered on a server. This added an interesting level of flexibility to the composition, as you could change the background independently and move/scale the participant's masked video to adapt the layout on the fly. But I don't suppose it ever went into production.
What’s the root cause?

Unspeakable, unimaginable, impossible to write in a sentence on HN?

To me the root cause is that 2-ton metal bricks shouldn’t be propelled at 50 kph, much less 140 kph, by tired hairless apes with tired ape reflexes, ape kids in the backseat, listening to other apes on podcasts, or talking even hands free with ape friends or ape spouses.

We were never designed for this. It’s guaranteed to be a leading cause of death and life-changing injury, so long as we keep it up.

Is that unthinkable or unspeakable? I say it on HN all the time.
I think your vitriol is better directed at me (as Matrix project lead & founder) rather than Josh, whose role as MD for the Foundation is to ensure it gathers $ and distributes it as effectively as possible to support Matrix. The original post here is written by Josh because he took over diplomatics with Libera to give it a fresh start as an independent, given the breakdown in trust on both sides.

In terms of Matrix dying, killed by Element: I’m afraid rumours of Matrix's death are highly exaggerated. And Element spends its life helping Matrix come to life rather than death, for better or worse.

The reason the spec trails the implementation for months is precisely the same reason that the formal HTML5 spec trails the implementations for years. It's not some grand conspiracy that Mozilla ships CSS Flexbox behind a vendor prefix for years (decades?) ahead of the feature being finalised in the spec. Instead: the point is that you get to play with the spec change in the wild, prove that it works, iterate on the design, and then eventually propose it for merge into the spec itself.

Personally, I think this is one of the bits of Matrix that we've got right. The spec process doesn't evolve as fast as it could, but that might well be a feature (just like it's a feature that HTML5 moves slowly too, but doesn't stop folks experimenting all over the place on it). https://spec.matrix.org/proposals/ explains the full process and the workflow, in case you want to understand it.
How is changing a few words in a licence file courageous?
I personally find it sad to say but the US has a strong cultural dominance especially in the western world but also beyond that.
From car sizes to architecture styles.