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Re:Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance on Thursday October 29, 2026 @05:53PM (#50296649)
Crypto is a real-life honey pot for cryminals.
Re:The First Open-Source Agentic AI Physicist [video] on Monday March 16, 2026 @09:33AM (#47398813)
Yeah, it's essentially an "AI co-worker" module oriented towards physics research.
Re:The First Open-Source Agentic AI Physicist [video] on Sunday March 15, 2026 @08:46PM (#47393767)
Apologies for responding to my own post, but the site behind this:

https://www.psi.inc/

Re:Is America's jobs market nearing a cliff? on Sunday November 30, 2025 @08:49PM (#46102558)
A few observations:

1. I saw the same headline - the article stated that there were record SEASON sales, not Black Friday sales. The headline did not match the content of the article. 2. Record revenue, not necessarily record units sold. To be expected with inflation. 3. Savvy online shoppers may be bundling purchases to reduce shipping costs. Waiting for a seasonal sale to buy holiday gifts as well as detergent, snacks and underwear may be quite prudent.

Finally, increased sales revenue does not necessarily equate to more jobs. It can, but by no means does it have to.

Re:Life After Work on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @12:07PM (#45748786)
Consumers are needed for capitalism to work.
Re:Life After Work on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @11:57AM (#45748613)
Which is already happening. This is why stock buy-backs, IPO-less/private companies and private equity rule the future. This "wealth" will NOT come from government subsidies or UBI. It will stay where it is, with enough income doled out to the masses to keep the supply/demand economy chugging along.
Re:Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @11:24AM (#45748057)
Isn't it just a matter of having each consumer use their own offset? I mean if the queue table is sequentially or time-indexed, the consumer just provides a smaller/earlier key to accomplish the offset? (Maybe I'm missing something here?)
So, rather than Big Brother being government-imposed monitoring paid for by all taxpayers, the concerned citizenry is flipping the bill for the devices, network connectivity and electricity. Fascinating.
Re:Materialized views are obviously useful on Saturday August 23, 2025 @10:10PM (#45000711)
> (Technically speaking, if 100 people load the same page at the same time and the cache isn’t populated yet, then we’ll end up sending 100 queries to the database which isn’t amazing, but let’s just pretend we didn’t hear that.)

Isn't their tech to address that, like golang's "singleflight"?

Re:450× Faster Joins with Index Condition Pushdown on Saturday August 23, 2025 @10:02PM (#45000675)
Agreed. Isn't this precisely why key statistics (table statistics) are maintained in many DB systems? Essentially, always "push down" the predicate with the worst statistics and always execute (early) the predicates with high selectivity.

I'd be very surprised if virtually every RDBMS doesn't do this already.

Re:SQLite Transactions and Virtual Tables on Thursday April 17, 2025 @02:52PM (#43720744)
Interesting. But this uses mattn's go-sqlite3 package, which is CGO.

Is this a normal/expected requirement in modern GO?

Re:Ask HN: Why does ChatGPT image gen want pyxl.pro? on Thursday April 03, 2025 @12:30AM (#43564764)
Both, but much more chat-focused. I've created 20 or so images for various little home projects.
Re:Ask HN: Why does ChatGPT image gen want pyxl.pro? on Friday March 28, 2025 @11:19PM (#43512435)
Actually, I have to re-do this operation to get rid of it. Each time I reload my browser. Killed browser data and still same issue.

No idea what's going on here.

Re:Ask HN: Why does ChatGPT image gen want pyxl.pro? on Friday March 28, 2025 @11:13PM (#43512409)
I guess that. I have a paid account ($20/month flavor) and have the link saved. I just asked it to create an image of a landscape and it popped up this blocking request to use pyxl.pro

I found a work-around (see other comment)

Re:Ask HN: Why does ChatGPT image gen want pyxl.pro? on Friday March 28, 2025 @11:12PM (#43512397)
I managed to get rid of it (I was blocked by this) by clicking the "..." button in the input frame and choosing "Create image" which was prepended to my prompt.

No idea what happened there... I have a valid/paid account, no browser extensions... strange stuff.

Re:Doge Is Replacing Fired Workers with a Chatbot on Sunday March 09, 2025 @05:11PM (#43313877)
Why is Social Security always represented as an expense along with things like defense and administration? It is sourced from separate taxes and has no business in the US govt. budget.
Lost in all this... can someone ELI5?
Apologies, but this strikes me as a rather silly question. What I would keep in the event of a prolonged network outage would be of minimal significance.

What I'd really be concerned about would be our modern society. Purchasing food, water, fuel, clothes and other necessities would be near impossible. Supply chains would not just have problems, but literally fall apart. Money would stop moving.

If anything is "too big to fail" it would be the internet.

Re:Boston Dynamics Robot Atlas Goes Hands on [video] on Saturday November 02, 2024 @11:35PM (#42030997)
How long before someone can buy a robot to do a manual labor job for them? I mean, buy a robot and send it to some company to do a daily job where the company pays the robot owner for the use of the robot?

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