skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rama is a meta-database that contains the generalized set of primitives that can be arranged to represent Datomic in principle. Which is just one of many possible arrangements.
I’m sorry that you’re ignorant of every single indigenous culture but that’s really not my problem

No matter, you’ll simply make the following argument: that might makes right because those indigenous cultures couldn’t stand up to the genocidal domination tactics of property based thought right?
I ran into it about a year ago with Verizon. No Dickinsons allowed! Sadly the only FTTH around, so I had to have support give me permission to have my name.

I can vaguely imagine how someone would _think_ its a good idea (it's not, to be clear) on a website where users might see other users' names, something like CRM SaaS. I can't understand how anyone would think that validating users' real names on a purely customer-facing website is a good idea. Maybe frustrated customers (can't imagine why) have names like FuckVerizon on their account?
I am extrapolating from the DEI stuff exposed by Ashley St Claire at United Airlines and I'm using this to target patronizing and dangerous DEI initiatives, not individuals.

Boeing should be held liable for hiring based on skin colour and orientation instead of merit, this risking lives.
There are numerous correction mechanisms, and other mechanisms that destroy malformed proteins and mRNA chains. Wikipedia claims one out of every 1000 to 100000 amino acids added to a forming protein is wrong. Each ribosome is proceeding to add amino acids to a chain at about 10 per second, and millions (or way more) proteins are being produced all the time.
But most contestants regained a lot of weight and metabolisms slowed relative to bodyweight and stayed slow long after regaining weight. The adaptation explains why they regained weight so fast. It's incontrovertible that the show was a failure for the majority of the contestants. this also agrees with the high failure rates of diets overall and why formerly fat people regain so fast . Biology screws you over and has the final say. This is why it took so long to develop GLP-1 weight loss drugs and why they are such a big deal, by at last giving people a leg-up in this often losing battle against the body.
You are making it complicated on purpose. It's actually pretty simple.

Did you take the airplane out, start it up, and take off? Like a modern, independent airplane? Or did you shoot it out of device first, because it wasn't able?

And not even particularly important, by the way. The last time this kind of argument was novel to me was in the mid-nineties at Slashdot.
Another time he's talking and typing at the same time, but says a different thing than he "types".
I've seen similar claims (social media is correlation and not causation) and it does seem plausible to me.

What I haven't seen so far (and it's possible this data exists, I'll admit to not exactly looking for it) is studies around parental consumption of social media and the impacts it has on their children.

IMO social media/advertising can have amplification effects by targeting parents.
Are farm subsidies capitalism? https://www.cato.org/briefing-paper/cutting-federal-farm-sub...
My intuition says that error rates are extremely low, but that errors are common - due to the incredible number of iterations that occur in a very short time period.
Its worth drawing attention to the awesome work pandas are doing building in support for arrow data types right now.

This actually means you can have zero copy swaps between polars, pandas and duckdb with very little runtime impact.

Definitely a big help if your using a non-pandas df library since the conversion to pandas when needed is now really cheap.
Having to use an extension would make me suspicious... I'd rather just open indexed sites in new tabs.
"the overprotection of children, the rise of “safetyism,” and the shouting down of speakers on university campuses when students deemed the speaker to be “harmful.”

The emphasis is mine. What does that to do with any of this? University students aren't children and, agree or disagree with the result, they are the ones with agency there.
"displaced person": I wasn't familiar with that term until I just Googled it, I'm sorry to hear that.

The concept of a supportive life coach / informal therapist is what I'm most excited about when it comes to the potential of AI. I recently added a feature along the same lines in my project (https://kindmind.com/) that I called "Kind AI".

I envision a future similar to what's portrayed in the movie, "Her", but it's a supportive coach speaking to you at any given time, encouraging you, telling you are good enough, and helping you identify and correct negative thinking patterns.
They are delusional and will defend the Apple trillion corp to the death for some reason. Actually, the reality is that they don't want to come to terms with it.

Because while Apple pretend to be operating in good faith, they have been hard at work to make sure nothing they do not approve of can be run on their hardware. No matter what some fools like to think.
There is a greedy money related part but it also has a lot to do with dystopian authoritarian views "I know better" that are very common among the boomers currently running Apple.

In french my mother would say that those peoples are "nigauds" (dense/thick) which I find pretty fitting.
> Khronos admited that they [...] ironicly rely on Microsoft's HLSL work as the main shader language to go alongside Vulkan.

So Cg ultimately prevailed over GLSL. Can't say that disappoints me.
Slack's Catch Up feature is like Tinder for your work messages
Thanks! This is custom styling and I've used styled-components.
Generally, hacking into a live system without permission is strictly illegal. Once you have discovered some surface level vulnerability you are legally obligated to stop, at a minimum. You can't just keep hacking and exploiting things that cross a certain, generally clear threshold, without permission. Intent definitely matters, but you can still end up in jail if a prosecutor has a hair up their ass and decides they have a good case against you.

I do agree, some of the time you need fireworks to get the right people's attention. You could argue there is some moral imperative there, but ethically you are in the wrong if you keep going. Just have to decide of the moral imperative outweighs clearly breaking the law in situations where you don't have permission.
I'd say it's fluff because the first half adds nothing you don't already know by that point, and the second half is a longwinded way to say 'he liked rebuses'.
> If you don't actually enjoy the the electronics part so much and just enjoy the psuedo-assembly aspect, then I'd recommend TIS100 or Shenzhen I/O.

(Shameless self-promotion, but I think it's relevant here...)

And if you've already beaten TIS-100, but would like an even more tedious assembly language experience, I put a (free) single-instruction (subleq) game on Steam: SIC-1

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2124440/SIC1/
FM radios are built into cars, hi-fi receivers etc. – things that people sometimes use for decades and more. Unlike for TVs, you also can't just add a set-top box to a car, for example.

That said, I don't understand what's so hard about just running both digital and analog in parallel for 20 or even 30 years. This would create an incentive to upgrade to the new, digital standard (better quality, more programming etc.) without outright cutting millions of people and their legacy devices off.

The US arguably did a better job transitioning to digital radio by using a digital system (HD radio) that seamlessly falls back to an analog AM or FM signal, and they have more constraints in terms of broadcast licensing restrictions than most other countries.
My first name (Sébastien) fits in latin1 (ISO-8859-1) and I still can't trust airlines websites to deal with it correctly, so I remove the (mandatory in French) diacritic. I don't know how people with names outside of that range navigate online. It's pretty appalling that we haven't fixed this yet.
RDS databases only allow alphanumic names -- no hyphens, underscores, spaces, etc. Even though it's a small thing, it's an absurdly bad user experience to have to enter the exact same name two or three times spelled differently just to set up some basic AWS infra.
It's decoupling the hardware from the software of the switch.

Historically, you buy a Cisco switch, you run IOS (or NX-OS).

You buy a Juniper switch, you run JunOS.

A company called Cumulus came around (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumulus_Networks) and changed a lot of that (they aren't solely responsible and there are other reasons why but they are very important here).

At the same time, instead of each switch vendor making their own chips, Broadcom started making generic chips which they would sell to anyone (Lookup Broadcom Trident), so, many switch vendors started using those instead of custom silicon.

At the same time, many people started talking about network as code and doing overlay networking things with control planes that didn't fit into the normal models for how these switches worked and were configured (configuration and routing changes which happen in milliseconds over custom protocols instead of ssh to switch and "configure, set route ..." etc etc).

The convergence of this was that the network hardware and network software got decoupled and commoditized. You could buy a Juniper OCX (the OCX line was specifically for this) and install Cisco NX-OS on it if you wanted.

Broadly this was a really good thing for the networking industry IMO.

Also, all of the above generally only applies to the what people refer to as switches (though they can and do route), and not routers (think BGP edge routers) proper (which can and do switch) and are broadly still custom silicon ASIC with much more bespoke and advanced feature sets and can only run the vendor's software.
Does this read like an ad to anyone else?
Such a poorly written article doesn't encourage me to use a brand new and untrusted database; if you can't write a clear article, why would I trust your database code?

This is a thinly veiled ad for Rama but the explanation for why it's so much "better" isn't clear and doesn't make much sense. I strongly urge the author to work with some who is a clear and concise technical writer to help with articles such as these.
A Thought Experiment About Seal Team 6 Goes Terribly, Terribly Wrong
Sure, but because of the transistor’s nonlinearity (cutoff and saturation regions, for mosfet at least), we get digital logic. Digital logic means that errors don’t accumulate, and that prevents complexity from infecting everything in the computer. We can put neat little abstraction boxes around parts of the SoC, and then do the same with our software.

Digital computers are only noisy compared to the simplest processes, like a low rate transmission line. Compared to biological or chemical processes, a digital computer is just ludicrously low-noise, because noise doesn’t propagate unless there is a major fault.
Still, there are securities that are tied to the price of Bitcoin, and whose prices would be influenced by news about Bitcoin ETFs, and which were arguably manipulated by this fake tweet. The most obvious examples would be … spot Bitcoin ETFs? Those don’t trade yet. Because the SEC hasn’t approved them. So the fake tweet couldn’t have manipulated them. But Bitcoin futures ETFs do trade, as does the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC), a pot of Bitcoins that hopes to convert into an ETF. I suppose you could have manipulated their prices with this tweet. The tweet went out after 4 p.m. so the stock market was closed, but the price of the ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF did in fact bounce around a bit in after-hours trading yesterday; it closed at $22.72 and spiked as high as $23.50 at 4:12 p.m., after the tweet. So, sure, securities fraud, fine.

Ummm..exchanges like Deribit have 24-7 crypto options trading.

Eh? If you bought Bitcoin at $48,000 upon seeing that tweet, and then sold it at $45,000 after realizing that the tweet was fake, I would love to hear from you. Why? Why not just wait?

ummm becase scam tweet decreases odds of approval
Considering how annoying SNMP is to use and how terrible the alternatives are, that would have been a very good use case.
Show HN: highlight.cool – add Medium-like highlights to your own blog
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As a reader, I've always enjoyed seeing the highlighted parts of Medium, but wasn't a fan of all the paywalls and that it only showed the top highlight. I'd love to see this feature on more blogs both as a way to be part of the community of readers, as well as give kudos to the writer for parts that I enjoyed reading.

I've tried to make it so that it gets out of your way as a reader and is only there when you want to see the highlights. It's also real-time which lets you see what other people are highlighting while you're reading, if that's your thing.

It's free for unlimited highlights and blogs, but will have a paid tier to remove branding and allow styling (still working on that!)

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I am convinced that this company is 1-man standing. The man made this whole thing up himself.
Not only that, but in order for the assembly process to work the modules must apparently be "fabricated to millimetre precision". At a certain point, wouldn't this inevitably mean that the QA process would result in some of the yield having to be discarded as unusable after it's manufactured? Seems like a lot of waste compared to conventional methods using (literally) run-of-the-mill lumber and someone's design expertise, though I guess the argument is that architectural expertise doesn't come cheap and using a "framework" scales better in that respect.
It ends up leading to "word-inflation" where you have to keep shouting louder, stretching the truth to be acknowledged. The word "racist" changing meaning over the last 30-40 years is a great example.
I’ve been dropping the apostrophe in my last name my entire life just to prevent from dealing with the headache it could potentially cause. Quite irritating, it feels as if my last name is being slowly changed by shoddy software
If someone has a mononym and a system needs two names, the accepted convention should be to use “The” as their first name.
> To your pet cat, the difference between you scrolling on your phone and you staring at the wall is nothing.

This stuck with me for a moment, and made me feel like scrolling was effectively doing nothing at all, which is sad and best and sick at worst.
Ink tanks are better but still not great. If the cartridge had the print head, at least you will replace both if there's a problem anywhere in the cartridge. If it doesn't, such as in all eco tanks, it can clog, especially if not used in a while.

Laser printers are just better. I can't think of a reason for inkjets anymore that's not niche.
Someone (I had thought it was MJD, but uncle GOOG is not pulling it up on his blog) once told a story about how software estimation was a bit like transfinite recursion on ordinal numbers: sometimes you have an estimate in ℕ, and it's possible to say "I'll be done in 5 days, give or take", but sometimes your estimate is above omega, and the best you can do is tell someone who asks "Right now, I don't know how long it'll take, but come back in 5 days (give or take) and then I can tell you".

(and it wasn't JDH, either: closest I get there is https://jdh.hamkins.org/transfinite-nim/ )
OpenAI's custom GPT Store is now open for business
It's a database optimization. Whenever you send funds that entire UTXO is destroyed and redistributed to new ones. Because of this you can easily calculate the current state of Bitcoin by only looking at the current UTXO set, and ignore all the old destroyed ones, instead of having to go back in history and see who sent what where.

It also allows for easier parallel processing because you can check many UTXO's in parallel without having some shared state they interacted with.

Only a few chains use this system - Bitcoin, Litecoin, Cardano, Fuel, maybe some others. Almost everything else uses an account based model, where everyone has an account balance, like how you'd imagine a blockchain whould work.
well yeah, because everything is so bespoke: plumbing, electrical, windows, doors, drywall, trimming. I hope to see some kind of evolution of housing where these things are not installed by skilled labor somehow.
The point I was making is that leftists gate-keep participation by requiring reading and self-acknowledges this. That seems at odds to the notion that leftists are spoon-fed. How do you reconcile this?
Both are protecting from anything outside of one's comfort zone.

What's next, shout down politicians you don't agree with? That's not how democratical societies work.
Which funds?
>If anyone has an idea for how to monetize yet another database client library, I'm all ears. I just need to eat, pay rent, and buy dog kibble

FWIW jOOQ's model worked great from a consumer/end-user point of view. I got to learn the whole library with no real strings attached, and then pay to adapt it/support it on Big Fucking Databases(TM) as projects required it. Their site and documentation is also quite pleasant.

In a way it feels like double-piggybacking: Microsoft, Oracle, et al. spend a lot on mindshare to make sure technical leads choose those respective stacks. Then the army of developers/consultants, required to get the promised ROI out of those stacks, inevitably have to go looking for tools. Be there to sell them the shovels. It helps if they are already familiar with it. (Free OSS adapters / "community" editions, etc., or even just very generous "evaluation" versions with no real effort to police use in a lab environment.)

Not sure how successful jOOQ has been financially, but considering they've been around for many years at this point, I have to imagine it's worked out well enough to pay for the lights and kibble?

The only other "dev tool" company I've enjoyed working with _more_ has been JetBrains. (The recent AI plugin not-withstanding.)
The actual device looks like the kind of toy smart phone you give a toddler for their toy box, and I genuinely don’t see a need for a new device.

The AI in the device could be installed on any smartphone surely?

Are they pitching the device to try and make their product seem more tangible and get buy-in from more people?
There is an increase of account takeovers due to insiders at telcos
Yes it was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31812259
Or more likely explanation for this phenomenon is that for Gen Z people:

1. Snapchat has relatively more people that they want to interact with.

2. The cost of learning a difficult UI is relatively low since they have more spare mental bandwidth since they aren't working full time, raising kids, etc.

So for a younger person, it's worth it to fight a bad UI to get to the social network, but for an older person the trade-off may not be worth it.
In all the companies I've worked at "event sourcing plus materialized views." has only ever caused intense confusion and resulted in more bugs and more downtime. The simpler solutions of either using MySQL or PostGres OR Redis/DynamoDB, all have worked better.

I genuinely believe we would all be better off if Martin Fowler's original article about Event Sourcing had never been written. IMO, it's a bad idea in 99% of cases.
They specifically say no, at the bottom of https://www.wikihouse.cc/product
The ironic thing with increase in GDP is that life becomes almost too easy. In the past the difficulty of life didn't require a person to have use as much willpower.

Easier life with things like plentiful food and entertainment options requires willpower to not over-indulge. A factory worker or subsistence farmer didn't have force themselves to exercise or worry about spending to much time watching TV. They had to work to not starve.
Pairdrop is faster than Airdrop, for me.
Seems like an overly broad definition. A pizza oven has inputs and outputs but you would probably struggle to find someone willing to call it a computer.
Note I said it wasn't clear that they meant to be, just that you can see how people (those downvoting) could read it that way. It was quite categorical, and "obsessive" has negative connotations.
>but I can report that Jerry Finn didn't produce The Red Hot Chili Pepper

He didnt but Rick Rubin did. And Rick Rubin produced a BUNCH of bands.

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

He 100% would fall into that "handful" of producers mentioned. Frankly Rick has been about as instrumental to the RHCP sound as some of the band members themselves, but it was Rick that was producing them from BSSM on and that is when RHCP blew up in the mainstream (George Clinton and a couple others did the earlier albums. )

Except the RHCP 2016 album the getaway, which was a Danger Mouse album. Rick came back with John for the latest 2 as well.

He actually has a pretty interesting podcast these days called broken record that started with him interviewing RHCP members (or at least that is when i picked it up).

Finally, I dont think rick was a producer manager and RHCP, at least, mostly had their own equipment short of mixers and sound boards etc. But they 100% used Ricks studio for a number of albums.
Rama PStates are globally readable but not globally writable. They are only writable from the topology that declares them. All code writing to PStates is thereby always in the exact same program.

Additionally, since PStates are not the source of truth – the depots (event logs) are – mistakes can be corrected via recompute from the source of truth.

"Alice's current location" would be done in Rama like this:

* Have a depot that receives new locations for people. The appended records would have three keys: userId, location, and timestamp. The depot is partitioned by userId.

* Have an ETL with a PState called $$currentLocation that's a map from userId to location.

* The ETL consumes the depot and update the PState as new data comes in.
A Connecticut reformer is shaking up utility regulation
100 percent faster means doubling the speed,just like a 100 percent salary increase means doubling the salary, or 100 percent car speed increase means doubling its speed.

Unless one uses a bit more esoteric definition of speed, in which a 50 percent of car speed increase, makes it go from 100 km/h to 200 km/h, such that it arrives in half the time.
Event-Sourcing is just a bad idea, period. It adds more complexity, more cognitive load, and results in more bugs and more downtime.
> OpenGL does not work with the imagined pipeline, because IIRC it cannot consume SPIRV bytecode.

What gave you that idea?

$ eglinfo -a gl -p wayland | grep spirv
GL_ARB_get_program_binary, GL_ARB_get_texture_sub_image, GL_ARB_gl_spirv,
GL_ARB_sparse_texture_clamp, GL_ARB_spirv_extensions,
GL_ARB_get_program_binary, GL_ARB_get_texture_sub_image, GL_ARB_gl_spirv,
GL_ARB_spirv_extensions, GL_ARB_stencil_texturing, GL_ARB_sync,

There it is: <https://registry.khronos.org/OpenGL/extensions/ARB/ARB_gl_sp...>. Not in OpenGL ES, though.
My favourite is when they stress the importance of typing the name exactly as it appears on the passport or on a debit card, then doesn't accept my name.

This is why I don't use Namecheap anymore fwiw. They used to accept 'ø', they redesigned their interface, I had to add a new debit card to my account, their new system didn't accept 'ø' yet told me to write the name "exactly as it is on the card". Customer service just told me to write a name that's not mine in the billing info; I moved to a different registrar instead.