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100% agree with brasetvik! So much efforts put in it!

Postgres is not just a database, but "database OS"

Discovered it a few months ago, and going through its last year posts and videos.

Postgres ecosystem is clearly booming with all its extensions like pgvector, paradedb and many many amazing tools, and derived projects

All videos annotated and accompanied with summary article

https://pganalyze.com/blog

Just look at the past 3 episodes

- E118 https://pganalyze.com/blog/5mins-postgres-17-materialized-ct...

- E117 https://pganalyze.com/blog/5mins-postgres-planner-join-equiv...

- E116 https://pganalyze.com/blog/5mins-postgres-17-beta1

Scaling Postgres is a great too

- https://www.youtube.com/@ScalingPostgres/videos

- https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/

Postgres is eating the database world

https://medium.com/@fengruohang/postgres-is-eating-the-datab...

PG Feature Matrix https://www.postgresql.org/about/featurematrix/
The oil diagram is pretty misleading. Steps like "blending" or "fractionation" happen with olive oil[1]. Not to mention that a lot of "cheap" (i.e. grocery store) olive oil is heavily processed[1].

[1] https://exauoliveoil.com/blogs/olive-oil/how-extra-virgin-ol...

[2] https://seloolive.com/en-ca/blogs/olive-oil/are-cheap-extra-...
Yet in many cases it is. I've come across various systems where there is no "what you know" password only a "what you look like" password.
I hope people get that the above triple indirection was actually tongue in cheek - a self-referential and self-satirical pun of how to shoot yourself in the foot.

If HN had HTML I could have demonstrated the hover-over idea that I desribed, but then I respect HN's minimalism, and we all value the safety and absence of spam through not having HTML on here.
Sorry, I guess I didn't really mean to imply I was going to dissect everything line by line, but I can at least look to see if every package in there is directly open-source and if there are any packages that are being pulled in that are frequent security concerns.

ETA: I know I can technically do that with Ubuntu or Fedora or OpenSUSE as well, it's not like it's a secret which packages they include, but what I like about NixOS Minimal or Arch is that I have to explicitly add every package I want. There are transitive dependencies obviously, so there of course can still be stuff on my machine I'm not happy with, but I still think it's better.
> The movie isn't a literal adaption of the short story, but IMHO it is very true to the original.

I think it depends on what you mean. It takes the literal plot in a different direction—I think necessarily, because it'd be very hard to convey on film the important parts of the story without something like very heavy-handed voice-over. But I could go for the argument that it is true to the spirit and mood of the story. (Personally, I enjoyed it—it's by far my favorite Villeneuve's movies—and, as a huge Ted Chiang fan, I didn't feel cheated, but neither did I feel that I'd seen a very faithful adaptation.)
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>What's illegal about a low-tech (aka "dumb") electric car?

That it can't meet regulatory safety standards. E.g. drowsiness detection or crash detection to call emergency services mean that any car can not be "low tech" in any meaningful sense. So the best thing you can possibly get is a high tech car, where user facing technologies have been removed. Needlessly to say, the market for that is miniscule.
His stuff is amazing. The only one I've read so far that I haven't liked was the one on the virtual pets. That one seemed to go on forever.
For what it's worth, you can be beaten with a wrench until you cough up a password also. Obviously there is a difference, but it's worth considering and understanding that.
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You don't, but the convention in Haskell is that you do. The linters I used complain for example if you don't annotate.
As of now, I haven't ever needed to steal a bike back. I view it more as theft deterrent. They'll be less likely to be able sell it, and it makes the bike look like it's not as valuable.
I don't know of any setups which would support muxing in exactly the way I am thinking, but another interesting use case is if you have multiple incoming audio streams which you don't want to be mixed by the server -- potentially because they are end-to-end encrypted -- and so a single packet can contain the data from multiple streams. Doing end-to-end encrypted audio calls is finally becoming pretty widespread, and I could see Facebook being in a good position for their products to do custom muxing.
My favorite as well.
Are you sure there is only one solution to the set of max/min equations? I've been trying to solve the probabilistic tic-tac-toe since it was published, and I believe there are actually multiple solutions here.

In fact I'm not sure that given a board there exists a best solution. I.e. I suspect that for most boards and for most fixed strategies you can create a counter-strategy that outperforms the given strategy (but perhaps then loses to some other strategy).

My code looks completely different, but I suspect you can uncover alternate solutions if you mess with the binary search. For example replace `x = (a + b) / 2` with `x = (a + b) / 3`, or even better pick a random point between a and b.
If I understand the attack correctly:

Twitter followers were migrated, but anyone "following" using something like a crontab that retrieves a link based on the old Twitter name might be fooled.

Even that is apparently not to fringe to work for phishing.
Why would I want a chance with them anyway?
Not to mention that if you have any mesoamerican heritage your ancestors probably ate a lot of corn.
Russia's GDP (nominal and especially per capita) aren't very significant. I understand your concern but Russia departed less by choice and more because they had to.
Interesting I also enjoy these hobbies
"This is not an evil conspiracy. It’s simply the players in the market responding to incentives."

Leaving the fact that so many big food and ag companies are intertwined at the board level, at some point maybe the distinction becomes irrelevant.
Because if I already knew the answer then I wouldn't be asking the LLM?
How isn't "the West" shooting themselves in the feet with these sanctions when Russia is able to get the war stuff through Turkey/Kyrgyzstan etc when not able to buy and sell civilians stuff?

Also, the Dollar and Euro can have effect on the Russian economy and tracked for intelligence only if they are used.

I wonder if this will be considered a great blunder, looking back in few years.

Forcing worlds most energy and minerals rich country doing business with most industry rich country, what could go wrong?
The surprising link between narcissism and cognitive performance
Lots of layoffs over last few years. Stuck at a company with high pay that I loathe (bad leadership, focus, expecting do 2 peoples worth of work) and searching for a year plus with barely a nibble.

I feel guilty I’m a drag on the company but so hard to move in this market.

So just why I haven’t been that engaged and burnout. Maybe others have similar experience.
Why are they saying they don't need QA then?

Sure, you can use whatever appropriate manufacturing processes you want. But none of them can replace QA.
"A Canticle For Leibowitz"; "The Stranger"; "The Fall"; "Childhood's End"; "Riddley Walker"; "The Martian Chronicles"; "The Sea of Tranquillity"; "Animal Farm"; "Catch 22"; "The Catcher in the Rye"; "A Clockwork Orange"; "Dr. Strangelove"; "To Kill A Mockingbird"; "The Little Prince"; "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"; "Lord of the Flies"; "Charlotte's Web"; "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"; "All Quiet on the Western Front"; "The World According to Garp"; "Invisible Man"; "Flowers for Algernon"; "Sophie's Choice"; "The Road"; "All the Light We Cannot See"; "The Goldfinch"; "Atonement"; "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time"
The BMD is not as reliable as you may think, especially if we're dealing with multiple ICBMs on their way to the United States.
Given the enormous cost and that any project started today won’t supply any power for 20 years no commercial company is ever going to invest in it.
Just some thoughts on this:

1. Africans already use mobile banking services that don't even need a smartphone, via USSD[0]. This started almost 20 years ago[1]. Once you have a smartphone you can use loads of different banks, so you don't need Bitcoin for that.

2. This is probably true, yes.

3 and 4 - they seem to be the same point. Other currencies such as USD or GBP might be better value stores, given their relative security. But people in poverty aren't going to be buying Bitcoin or pounds, and if they are it's a gamble. Maybe middle classes, or people with mid-level government jobs who already have their Audi Q7, might a bit, it's true. But that's not a pro-poverty scenario.

Some off the cuff counterpoints are:

1. Getting your money out may be a problem. Banks are insured up to a value.

2. Where's my wallet? Just on my smartphone? In that case, if it breaks or I lose it, or it's stolen, I lose my money? Or in an exchange? In that case, it's not my coins, and any of numerous well-known failures[2] might mean I lose them forever.

3. And a meta point: people who like Bitcoin own Bitcoin. It's like talking to someone in a pyramid scheme. Of course Herbalife is the best way to lose weight. Of course Amway make the best cleaning products, Jeremy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unstructured_Supplementary_Ser...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Pesa

[2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-63704034
I'd pay for something if they actually cared about the product. They don't, so I don't. Instead, they're just bullying me and others to pay them. YouTube doesn't make any of the content, and they don't care about the UX except to funnel you into more ads. I'm not going to pay for that experience.
Most of my career as an algorithm designer has been to boil problems down to their abstract essence, categorizing what kind of problem it is, reading papers to find a solution and implementing it.

Unfortunately, ACM and IEEE are paywalled, as are many of the specialty journals for operations research and the like. Newer stuff is often on Arxiv, but the simple algorithms usually live in older papers that aren't.
please upload a picture of ur mum.
> hardware is either supported or not.

This reminds me of certain countries that define literacy as the ability to sign ones name.

Linux driver support for a large fraction of hardware is incomplete at best.
Compensating Compassion
"Nitrous oxide best oxide." -- Dominic Toretto
I'm sure even in this case, risking the air-frame of the bomber or friendlies on the ground below is not ideal. Bear in mind cruise missiles are usually launched from friendly territory.

Also, failures might reduce the accuracy of the missile, leading to potential civilian causalities.
> How isn't "the west" shooting themselves in the feet with these sanctions

Same way Britain wasn’t shooting itself in the foot blockading Nazi Germany, or the West by refusing to trade with the USSR.

> Forcing worlds most energy and minerals rich country doing business with most industry rich country, what could go wrong?

Post-Soviet Russia as an independent power has been an unmitigated disaster. China is America’s geopolitical rival, but at least it’s rational. Moscow as a Chinese suzerainty is likely a better configuration than it as a sovereign power.

(Also, it’s clear China isn’t willing to let its financial system be sanctioned simply to trade with the likes of Russia.)
living la dystopia
If i can look at a report that I've never seen before and tell something is very wrong with the numbers in less than a minute. What do you call the people that are familiar with the data just going along with the incorrect data?

Value extractors?
"Fake"? That's a disingenuous judgement. They're conceptual art.
None. We should have less entertainment. Watching TV is a waste of human potential.
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Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40621611
my comment was a response to the comment above, complaining about options and exercise windows offering options, not what you're talking about WRT secondary sales and corporate privacy. The reason we have options and all this weird stuff is indeed tax law. Private companies do not grant equity because it is generally extremely tax disadvantaged to both the employee and the company itself. For instance, the 90 day window is a consequence of ISOs to NQOs, which has a direct tax consequence. I'm not arguing that 90 day exercise window is absolutely better than 10 year exercise window, im just saying that everything is downstream from tax and corporate law.
excellent point. When all you have is a hammer everything becomes a nail.

Homes are already pre-fabricated to the largest possible extent.

Just printing walls out of concrete that won't even have great surface properties is a curiosity at best.
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Not surprising in the least bit. Aren't there a few other companies like this who have been busted for nearly the same thing (fraud)?

When i did a short stint in med-tech a few years back (late '21-mid '22), one of my colleagues did a deep dive into this sector and said that fraud was effectively the name of the game, and it was a pill mill by any other name that tried to make itself seem altruistic because it was helping so many who suffered from ADHD.

As an ADHD sufferer, it was so fucking sad to see people pretend to have the aliments I suffer from just so they could hyperfocus for days at a time.

Protip: even though non subscribers can't read the full article, non subscribers can listen to the full article.
God I love that line. I almost wish the story ended right there.
As I understand it: 1 and 2 are already done with phone minutes in many, many parts of the African continent. Should phone minutes be currency? probably not, but arguably it's better than Bitcoin, at least the value is easy to understand.

With bitcoin's volatility I'm not sure how you can believe #3 is even remotely true.

Bitcoin is a hard asset? What exactly is your definition of "Hard Asset"? As I think we are talking about very, very different things. Here is my definition for comparison: A hard asset refers to a tangible asset or resource with fundamental value. Think productive farm animals, vehicles, things of that nature.
As a Tolkien fan, I really like this change [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Túrin_Turambar
>> cruise missile dropped at altitude where a failure isn't a big deal.

If failure isn't a big deal, then the weapon should no have been used. An ALCM costs millions. The destruction it causes is part of a larger battle plan. Should it not work properly then friendly forces may die. Should it work properly then enemy forces may die. The effectiveness of such a weapon is never not a big deal.
It’s interesting that advanced geothermal energy is mentioned first in that sentence.

I honestly think geothermal is likely to be far more important than nuclear within a decade or so. If it can be shown that advanced geothermal can be done at a reasonable cost, you’ll likely get both the political power and engineering expertise of the oil and gas sector on board which will accelerate the pace of transition to clean energy faster than anything we’ve seen. And you won’t have the regulatory hurdles of nuclear energy.

The big question is if Quaise can demonstrate that they can actually “drill” several kilometres down at a reasonable cost. Even without that I think horizontal drilling will unlock many promising projects.

Regardless. Nuclear is dead. I’d encourage watching Tony Sebas presentations on renewable energy. Not many people think about what happens if renewable energy and battery tech continues to improve at its current pace. There’s basically very little chance that any other technology will be competitive. And no. We don’t need “base load”. That’s an outdated idea that relies on the assumption that we don’t decarbonise transportation and industry. You can’t drive your car with a nuclear reactor.

(I actually love nuclear energy. The physics is super interesting. But I don’t see how it could be relevant. Unless Helion Energy’s fusion reactor pans out. Not counting space of course. Can’t do advanced deep space projects without nuclear energy)
Why are these the only options?

Visit /r/overemployed on Reddit and you’ll find a large community of people teaching each other to do stuff like this so they can collect 2-3 full-time salaries.
Not OP, but I think the same concerns are present here as well. If anything, I would argue that they're magnified, since fingerprints are unique.

IMO, the issues surrounding biometrics stem from the fact that they define you, in a way that nothing else - not a name, not an address - can.
If you don't understand that rocket hardware needs QA, please stop talking about the subject. It is like a software engineer who believes that software should be shipped without any testing.

>You don't know me or what I would do if I were or were not involved in aerospace

True. I still hope that you are never involved in any aerospace or remotely safety critical project.
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Well, however bad it was, it has gotten really bad lately. I just close out of videos and YouTube now, which I guess is good. Luckily, more of the niche content and small-time channels (the sort of videos that made YouTube nice back in the day) don't get as many ads, but even those are getting flooded with ads more and more.
AIUI it's basically that the plan was similar to the PS2, where you have a "smart" CPU (Emotion Engine / Cell) and a "dumb" rasteriser (Graphic Synthesiser on PS2), with the Cell SPEs taking the role of the vector units on the EE for things like transform + lighting. But the rasteriser chip project failed.

Then they tried the 2 Cells and software rendering approach, to try and keep it as an "in house" solution.

Finally they went to Nvidia and we got the final Cell + RSX solution.
I wonder where Indian incompetence/lying falls on the Elon scale.
Check it out https://youtu.be/iOnSyQa3GTw?si=ox1ES-87vSfjqu78
https://archive.is/Maolv
Pointing out that a group of people generally lack perspective is insulting? Okay...

Yes, you can refer to me as a non-techie if you want. I don't find that offensive, but it would just be inaccurate. I am tech-adjacent.
For me Ted Chiang short stories are like a little trip in a story form. He's not the most rounded storyteller in atmosphere or dialogue and rich characters, but the central idea he's interested in exploring in each story often blows my mind, and that seems like his end goal, like breaking open the boxes we're stuck inside a little bit. He seems satisfied if he's able to reach that destination concisely.
See, they don't actually block anybody but themselves. The Russians simply get their stuff from others.
They should fix spam and search. These pointless meanderings will demolish shareholder value.

Google is the most vulnerable of the Mag 7 stocks.
New Leopard 2 Tank Packs a Big Cannon, Uncrewed Turret, Anti-Drone Defenses
I‘ve watched the video in the Readme a long time now and it‘s still selecting clothing, people, starships, planets, moons. I have no idea what the basketball part is. Chasing a ball with spaceships, Rocket League like?

A moment ago I reloaded by mistake and the video started anew. I‘m not going to watch it from scratch.

Show the proper game within the first 30 seconds!
I feel the same way, but I only have anecdotes from one company that I have stayed with for an unusually long time.

I feel like over the last year a lot of people around me have reached the point where they would naturally start looking around at other opportunities. But there just aren't that many opportunities around. So I suspect people are just hanging about, collecting a paycheque and waiting for the right time to bounce.
Which is unfortunately causing people's alarms to not work and the current recommendation is to deactivate said feature.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0kl4glp547o (bbc news article about it)
Out of the box, sure.

For windows you can usually download a binary from some 20 year old website and it'll work.
what is going on with this submodule URI? https://github.com/shell-pool/shpool/blob/v0.6.1/.gitmodules...

I'm guessing based on the Change-Id in its commit message <https://github.com/shell-pool/shpool/commit/6cef5782e358716a...> this was exported from some internal Google repo but for the rest of the world it makes $(git clone --recursive) real mad
Half of Soren Iverson's joke features are depressingly plausible and the other half are completely implausible but more compelling than any real "AI" product I've ever heard of.
I returned to buying albums when a few that I loved disappeared off Spotify one day. It's bad enough to pay month after month and never own anything but to go listen to a favorite and find it's gone? Unacceptable.

At my age I'll never average buying more than one album a month anyway, especially since you can usually hear it first on bandcamp or YouTube so it's not a gamble like the old record store days, so it isn't even more expensive
If you’re 10+ years late to discover it, best to leave that article in the drafts
Do you avoid going out in public? Are you never going to step foot in an airport? What is your threat model here? Because it's pretty trivial for anyone to get a 3d scan of your face without you realizing it.

This just sounds like textbook paranoia to me (as in, the actual dictionary definition as an illogical fear that impedes your normal life), because there's nothing reasonable about thinking FaceID is compromised to the point that you have increased your personal safety by not using it.
https://www.webmd.com/vaccines/covid-19-vaccine/news/2024022...
Agreed, we need a postscript from the author explaining that he set out to avoid drawing a comparison with chaotic systems, but after months of editing and tearing up handwritten drafts found himself arriving at one anyway.
I watched the movie first, found out who wrote it, and read the book it was in.

I did love a lot the short story, and kind of got mad at "Arrival" for some of the changes it makes to the story. But.
After several (SEVERAL) re watches of the movie, I got to "understand" what Villeneuve was about, and I fell in love with the movie as well.

It currently sits in probably my top 5 preferred movies to re watch (Being the others both Blade Runners, About Time & Notting Hill in no preferred order)
It definitely has a 404 response, though:

https://pillser.com/engineering/failure%20mode
China is gonna keep buying up Russia for pennies on the dollar. I wouldn't be shocked if we start seeing actual territory switch from Russia to China in the next few years.
it is a publicly-viewable, likely-duplicatable password that can never be changed.

Is this true? I mean, you can't really show an iPhone a photo of your face to unlock it, can you? Or are you thinking of a different attack vector?

My second objection is to the possibility of physical injury to me by someone that really wants to steal my credentials.

This possibility exists even if your creds are something you know. It also exists if your creds are something you have, and you happen to have them on your person.