skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like you've engineered a great way to manage complexity while using an RDBMS. A few things that Rama provides above this:

* Rama's indexing is much more flexible. For example, if you need to have a nested set with 100M elements, that's trivial. An index like that is common for a social graph (user ID -> set of follower IDs). If you need a time-series index split by granularity, that's equally as trivial (entity -> granularity -> time bucket -> stat).

* There are no restrictions on data types stored in Rama.

* Rama queries are exceptionally powerful. Real-time, on-demand, distributed queries across any or all of your indexes is trivial.

* Rama has deep and detailed telemetry across all aspects of an application built-in. This doesn't need to be separately built/managed.

* Deployment is also built-in. With your approach, an application update may span multiple systems – e.g. worker code, schema migrations – and this can be a non-trivial engineering task especially if you want zero downtime. Since Rama integrates computation and storage end-to-end, application launches, updates, and scaling are all just one-liners at the terminal.

* Rama is much more scalable.

This is looking at Rama from a feature point of view, and it's harder to express how much of a difference the lack of impedance mismatches makes when coding with Rama. That's something you learn through usage.

Rama is for the JVM, so any JVM language can be used with it. Currently we expose Java and Clojure APIs.
Your question is equivalent to asking the point of bitcoin (avoid centralization).
I don't get why Valve told the Portal 64 dev to take down the project because it depends on Nintendo's proprietary libraries.
Qualcomm's Push into Auto Chips Is on Track to Beat Sales Targets, CEO Amon Says
I started a new crypto cash back startup, need your feedbacks
my idea is simple, automatic cashback to the most loyal customers using the power of smart contracts.

it's just an MVP now, a simple presentation, and a "join waitlist" button.

I need your feedback guys, anything useful you know, I'll appreciate.
Me guessing (as somebody who is anti-crypto): they like how it returns ~50-100% year over year pretty much.

I swear I saw some super highly upvoted comments that read as normal + level-headed in r/CryptoCurrnecy that was like "if it goes from $45k -> $100k this year it isn't even that much"

Do you ever hear Warren Buffet saying "122% yearly returns are meh"?
A Common Misunderstanding
It also shut down over a year ago (9/1/22).
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Think about the (grossly simplified and somewhat questionable) historical availability of: electronic gates -> binary -> assembly -> C -> Python. Each of these steps as allowed one engineer to do the work of an entire team at the previous step.

And yet here we are: as technology has made engineers massively more productive, the need for engineers has gone up massively. Simply because the gains in productivity have made more projects doable.

So the question is not whether AI will make engineers more productive. The question is whether it will allow more projects to be undertaken. I don't have the answer to that question...
FTA:

"There are now 10 states with vaccination exemption rates over 5 percent, meaning that even if clinicians and health officials manage to vaccinate all non-exempt children, the state will not be able to reach the target of 95 percent coverage needed to curb the spread of disease on a population level. "

In addition to all the other shit going on, we're going to bring back measles at the very least. I wonder if Polio will come back.
JinaAI Launches the First Bilingual CH-EN Embedding Model with 8192 Token-Length
This of course depends on how high your bed frame is, and how thick thick your mattress (and potentially box spring) are.

22” is pretty typical for an end table next to a sofa. For someone with a relatively low height bed it might make sense as a bedside table too.
The expectation of producing high volumes of code in short cycles is a red flag.

Programming is not data entry. Programmers are not typists. Programmers make progress by creating building blocks that can be reused later. In 2024, many of those building blocks already exist in the form of libraries.

If there's no reusability, everything is a special case, there's duplicate code, your program maps 1:1 to your data... there is a good chance you have a problem creating abstractions. In that case, the junior is you, and you are not the right fit to be a mentor.

If you see a constant need to micromanage people, that is a symptom a highly insecure personality that is unsuitable for management, or trust issues, or poor recruiting skills, or poor delegation skills (matching the tasks to the wrong skills). All of those are signs that you may not be ready to be a manager. Micromanaging will just stress and demoralize your workforce.

If someone is unreliable enough to need a conversation every day, either you or that person should not work there. And if this is the case for every junior engineer in the team, and the situation persists for long periods of time, the likely reason is that the problem is you.
Almost any filter will handle cat hair. You probably want to find something with a washable pre-filter (usually a stretch fabric) so you don't waste the expensive actual filter.

If that's your only concern, a t-shirt over a box fan will probably do the job.
But how is that different to capitalism in general? Isn't every business on Earth doing product discovery for everyone else?
Not really.

Most people who are observant are well aware that there’s deep and enduring demand for ways to gamble and speculate.

It’s really easy to recognize Bitcoin filling that role like the neighborhood numbers game, pachinko, online poker, and tulip investing all have at various times in history.

We just don’t like it.
> Many also do not hold their own cash individually and entrust institutions.

Because literally the entire point of crypto is to not have to "entrust institution". Like the entire bitcoin protocol is built around the concept of trustlessness. If you're going to start "trusting institutions", you can do away with a huge part of the complexity (and gargantuan energy usage) of Bitcoin.
In many (likely most) cases the non-teaching positions listed in this survey are staff researchers servicing a grant.
If you want an actual transaction on the actual chain that can actually be spent then you need to pay the giant bitcoin transaction fee. Why would anyone put up with the extreme convoluted nonsense of the lightning network when they could use any other cryptocurrency and have almost no fees because they aren't constraining their block sizes to sell a second layer?

There is no technical reason to do this, it was purely a political propaganda based move.

Before you respond with "but disk" or "but network" or "but cpu" look at the actual bitcoin throughput (about 700KB every 10 minutes) and look at how much hard drive space you can buy for the cost of one transaction. Then realize that individuals don't even need to sync with the chain to use cryptocurrencies. This is a well worn road.
Until you did a high G manuever or was cruising at 45k feet and get hit with a solar flare then your arduino would be rendered useless or at least introduce so many errors the watchdog hw would shutdown your newly acquired paperweight.
Thank you for the clarification. I'm still a bit confused on how this replaces databases. Your write-up claims that this solution is a replacement for modern DB systems, but I've seen a need for all 4 transaction isolation levels among various systems that I've implemented for different clients. In essence, your solution provides a 'one size fits all' scenario and different isolation levels for different components which I don't see replacing databases...I'd say your solution more-in is a great and extremely efficient implementation of event-sourcing. Either way - good luck with your company and thanks once again for the clarification :)
why isn't the word "prejudice" used anymore?
Their website (in bio) looks relevant.
No! Absolutely not!

Proof of work is a form of money[0], with extraordinarily unequal distribution[1] in people willing to front the cost of spinning custom single-purpose mining silicon. A social media site that uses proof of work is equivalent to a social media site that is explicitly pay-to-play, where ordinary users will be censored for being too hashcash-poor to participate.

[0] That's why Bitcoin uses it

[1] That's the opposite of why Bitcoin uses it
My favorite part of the day is explaining to the "senior" dev I work with about how useEffect works.
Here you are, for random awesomeness: https://sharkle.com
Indeed I was, thanks for clarifying.
> Like needing to allocate a fixed amount of memory for your whole program upfront

Can I not do the normal virtual memory thing and allocate far more memory than I actually have hardware for?

> Or that there is some state you can not carry over even with that and if you try you can easily run into soundness issues.

I mean, fair... you're going to have to be careful what you save either way but making saving things the default does seem like more of a footgun.

> Or that the state saved might be "in between" operations in a very unexpected way and in turn unsound.

This applies even if you only use it for some structs? This whole mechanism seems like it would only be sound if it was only used after clean exits.
What you're missing is something can be criticized even if it fulfills some needs. Drugs, gambling, crimes all satisfy some people's needs but most people have negative view on them.
Pilots would need to be trained on the Chinese planes, which is super expensive.
I tried to make a makeshift filter, but it failed. I guess the box fan wasn't boxy enough. I'll try again, thank you!
I would be concerned if I was a proponent of bitcoin as a worthwhile cryptocurrency, but I'm not.
have a look at what people are using LLMs for at r/locallama and r/sillytavern.
Pretty significantly.

Before I switched to my current career, I was a PM at a pretty large software company that had a massive layoff in our US HQ and pivoted hiring almost entirely to Eastern Europe, Israel, and India in anticipation of this.

Nowadays we only hire a handful of strategic roles in the US - everything else R&D wise is abroad. Other peer companies in our sector did the same.

We had other considerations too (eg. Lack of RoI on US talent) but 174 was a driving factor
And many big forums (and immediately stuffed them full of keyword advertising)
Thank you for your effort in keeping the discussion healthy.

However my impression is that this thread is lower in the HN rankings compared to what I usually see for something this new and with this score and discussion.

Am I wrong in perceiving this? Can you please help me understand?
That's a tautology....

The aesthetic and industrial applications of gold are what makes it intrinsically valuable - that being the key distinction, and distinct from Bitcoin. If you ignore the useful aspects, of course it's no different from any useless thing.
The SEC had already approved prior ETFs, just not spot. The courts exist to enforce the law which the SEC were violating with their arbitrary approvals. It's really been a bit of a clown show by Gary. They even managed to lose the Ripple case which many had assumed the SEC would win, because unlike Bitcoin it's rather centralized and there was a good case to argue that those sales represented unregistered securities.

Then the best part yesterday with the hacked Twitter account, after both Gensler and the official SEC account had put out reminders to the public to enable 2FA for better security. Turns out they had not enabled 2FA and so the attacker was able to gain control. Absolute amateur hour.
Don't forget to factor in the thermal generators' owners abandoning their business way before you thought they would, decades before there's a viable replacement for on-demand power to run an advanced industrial economy.
I don’t see how fugues are fractal. Care to explain?
50 years to launch is a scam. I literally calculated rough trajectories using basic software (NASA EMTG) on how to get a probe out in the rough direction of proxima centuri now. A 50 year timeline on relatively simple things like this should be laughed out of the room. Even though Elon Musk is morally reprehensible now, his “unrealistic” schedules of 2 years may go over for moonshots but even twice the amount of time means the project is done in 4-5 years. Not some ridiculous 2 generation long schedule.
> Allowing the creation of a federal site to do free tax returns seems like it can only lead to the evaporation of their current customers. Who would pay them $150+ when you can just go to irs.gov/taxreturn (or whatever it is) and do it for free?

Again, you keep saying "allow", like they have a choice. They kinda don't. Congress got really pissed at them as did the public.

> The lobbying was the only thing preventing that, so the stopping of lobbying seems like it is entirely giving up on the market.

Honestly, I would say it's not the only thing preventing it. And they're not giving up on the market.
Right. So if the US gives China all the know-how for doing that manufacturing process, they'll be able to do it just fine, just like they've done for so many other manufacturing technologies the US happily and willingly exported to China.
> If life was a test, and we are rewarded based on that test. Would it be fair for god to intervene and remove the evil and sick?

An all-powerful god who creates subjects that are capable of failing a test of his own devising, even though he totally could make everyone adequate if he so chose, such a god is an evil sadist.

It'd be like making up rules for what constitutes an evil pixel in Conway's game of life and punishing those pixels for their transgressions. You controlled every parameter. Those pixels failed the test because you set them up for preordained failure.

The only way to square this away is to assume that god isn't unwilling to intervene, but is unable to.
The enforcement requirement is for Trademarks, not Copyright.
Fair on the gatekeeping, but on the other side, keep your mind too open and your brain will fall out.

> This is precisely the problem I’m pointing out.

This is, ironically, also the problem I’m pointing out. Why would I trust someone who doesn’t work in or on computers in computer security?

Arguing that once the promise is shown it’ll become super dangerous is essentially unfalsifiable. The same argument can be made for literally any new technology. I’d like to see reasonable chains of logic.
How do they deal with the corrosive effects of salt water? Or do they remove most of the salt before using?
https://archive.ph/E0Vog
Looks like these are the 11 tickers?

Bitwise (BITB)

ARK Invest/21Shares (ARKB)

Invesco Galaxy Bitcoin ETF (BTCO)

iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT)

VanEck Bitcoin Trust (HODL)

Franklin Bitcoin ETF (EZBC)

Fidelity Wise Origin Bitcoin Trust (FBTC)

WisdomTree Bitcoin Trust (BTCW)

Valkyrie Bitcoin Fund (BRRR)

Hashdex Bitcoin Futures ETF (DEFI)

Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC)
Maybe he can start by hiring nothing but 10x developers. Where do we find those? Should I start searching LinkedIn for "senior developers"? I feel like ABET has a system for this that every other industry uses.

Anyway, the point is that it seems you want to have your cake and eat it too.
Serious question: if you're building an application, why do you want this? It used to be a huge thing to build Apple, Windows, Motif, whatever apps closely in accordance with their interface guidelines and idioms, but for some reason on the web everyone seems to need an idiosyncratic, opinionated set of basic controls.
Nah, it's worse than playing to a drum machine

Because they take the song and quantise everything post recording
In the sub/tropics, usually there are only two seasons: wet and dry. During wet season, how much is PV production affected?
Probably also worth noting that the laser would have practical military uses.
good point, and yes, there are other variables. a big one is risk tolerance.

america was built by immigrants who all took a great risk getting there (with apologies to the native americans who were there first), so given equal conditions, a lot more people in america are willing to experiment.

as one consequence americans also have more rolemodels of successful risk-takers.

pretty much elsewhere in the world (at least western and asian countries that i have been to) taking a risk is considered something bad. the hackerspace in singapure has a sign that says: "this is singapures only kiasu free zone". kiasu means "extreme fear of losing", something prevalent in asian culture. european culture is better in that regard, but not much.

so yeah, despite the benefits, most people in europe are afraid to try.

also, as i mentioned, at least in germany people are complaining that the support is not enough.

they didn't have the experience to see the system working like i did. i am willing to take a risk because i have already experienced what will happen when i fail. most people don't have that advantage.

also, because of the lower risk tolerance it is much harder for startups in europe to get money. there are few investors and banks will only give you a credit if you have a proven business model.

most rich people in europe are rich because their families had been rich for centuries. it's almost all old money.
The tulip bubble is wildly misunderstood, it's actually quite an interesting story about the origin of futures contracts.

It lasted only a few months, there was no long term investing on tulips.
I used to love FreeTaxUSA, but switched because of integrations, specifically Robinhood and such. Does anyone know if they've made that integration or otherwise easier to import said data in the last few years?
Inb4 death’s end
It depends on how it's pitched. :)

If you went with something like "using caching to avoid hitting API limits" it sounds legit.

Whereas if you went with something like "getting around Company Foo's API rate limits" it sounds like you're exploiting a bug in their system.

If you did present the system as spoofing requests to subvert a rate limit / blacklist, as per:

#4, my presentation was about how I reverse engineered the Robinhood API, spoofed
requests to get around their “security”, and used two levels of caching (Redis and a
typical relational DB) to subvert rate limiting/IP blacklisting

... then that doesn't sound like the legit use case scenario. ;)

Your further follow up discussion makes it sound like you were just using a self-developed caching system though, and presented it terribly for the target audience.
Buddy, why on Earth are you still working there?
Clickbaitish title. Here is what they actually say:

"However, the real boon is the promise from Supernal that, at entry into service, the S-A2 will supposedly operate as quietly as a dishwasher
> democracies a private citizen can knowingly say false things about public figure

That is not true.

> Journalists can't usually knowingly publish falsehoods as news, but can as opinion

Also not true.

In the USA, journalists and private individuals have the same free speech rights and there no legal distinction between "opinion" and "news", it just matters if a reasonable person would see a statement of fact.
Impressive, isn’t it? They bootstrapped a stablecoin!

Edit: spelling
What is your plan for monetization? Places an ad in every fourth emoji slot?
That's cool. What do I do when I move every few years because I'm a renter and can't afford to own a home in this economy?
It is nearly free.
No, I believe it is the nature of web components that they can't be server rendered. I'm not talking about framework components like react, vue, etc.
No, it isn't that simple. When the work becomes more efficient, the programmer also becomes more valuable, which increases demand for the programmer.
It must be peak irony to write this on the topic of a Bitcoin ETF. None of the technology, all of the speculation.
I was referring to the capital gains tax you pay for selling BTC on an exchange. I was thinking specifically about Roth IRAs, where any gains are tax free, but a 401k or similar would work too.
There's a series of popular subreddits with similar names that I think made the terms more common.

https://www.reddit.com/r/submechanophobia/

https://www.reddit.com/r/thalassophobia/
Yep. The reason compact spaces are nice is because compactness lets you reduce something that's infinite to something that's finite.
Why is power so expensive in San Diego? Wiki tells me that most of San Diego is served by a separate utility (compared to SF bay area): San Diego Gas & Electric.
I just hope that FreeBSD prevails.
Do you mean a host alias in your SSH config (e.g. `Host your-github-alias` or configuring a subdomain in for the hostname in the config (e.g. `Hostname something-fake.github.com`)?
> Unlike every other attempt at electronic cash that came before it, Bitcoin also doesn't need the approval of any person, police force, legislative body, military, or government.

But then can't you see the irony of writing that sentence when the article title is literally "Spot Bitcoin ETF receives official approval from the SEC".

That's the thing that's so baffling to me - if you're saying BTC is so great that it doesn't need the support of government and social institutions, why the push so hard to get an ETF (multiple in fact!) when the rallying cry for crypto has always been "distributed, trustless currency".
This stuff is all covered thoroughly in our docs. This is a post about the complexity aspect of backend development and how those are addressed with Rama. It's not a thorough explanation of every aspect of Rama, since that would be extremely long. If you dig into Rama, you'll see that it's properties and guarantees are very strong.

And yes, Rama's queries are a massively superior approach. The need for complex query planners is a result of limitations in how you index data, oftentimes from the tension between normalization and denormalization. With Rama, it's easy to robustly materialize multiple views that are already in the shape needed for queries.

Check out our tutorial for a gentle introduction to Rama's concepts https://redplanetlabs.com/docs/~/tutorial1.html
Just mount a small accelerometer on them to tell when they're operating. There are plenty of cheap options on the market nowadays.
Watched a guy drop $7K on macs and ipads for the kinder a few weeks back. Seemed perfectly normal for the store table. Those kids will get VPs.

When you board a plane in March and if everyone in first class has one, then you’ll know you’re the dodo.
GBTC is becoming an ETF, so shortly the answer will be "nothing". But, currently it's not an ETF or equivalent because you can't redeem the shares of the ETF for the underlying asset. This has resulted in the price of GBTC diverging significantly from the price of bitcoin since you don't have that natural ability to arbitrage away and price differences with redemptions
I mean... did you not see how much some of the streamers make in pay outs from the leak a few years back? Some political comentators were pulling at least a million if I remember correctly. There's definitely some money being thrown around. Not sure if its all being thrown around incorrectly, but people definitely pay to watch streamers.

Just look up how much the highest paid streamers on Twitch make per month, and you'll see there's some value to it.
Probably, from my perspective (using a frontend framework) this doesn't sound too helpful though.