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Re:ScyllaDB – Why We're Moving to a Source Available License on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @11:59AM (#42509738)
Seems that ScyllaDB takes advantage of https://seastar.io that shards across cores. It seems to still be open source (for the moment, at least). Wonder if other projects could benefit from its ideas.
Re:ScyllaDB no longer open source on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @11:55AM (#42509702)
Seems that ScyllaDB takes advantage of https://seastar.io that shards across cores. It seems to still be open source (for the moment, at least). Wonder if other projects could benefit from its ideas.
Re:Hoarder: Self-hostable bookmark-everything app on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @11:55AM (#42503084)
Can this work for Chrome on Android? Does anyone have a recommendation for bookmarking and/or webclips on Android?
Re:Optimizing Ruby's JSON, Part 1 on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @05:41PM (#42456290)
Unrelated to json, but a Rails commit by you 2024-10-29: ActiveModel::Type::Integer#serialize 3.17x - 9.67x faster!

https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/70ca4ab91af15714cae4e8...

Re:Shrinking a Postgres Table on Thursday November 28, 2024 @11:23AM (#42266459)
Very clearly written, though storing files directly in the database (rather than just the filename/path) isn't necessarily the best idea, but I guess it works for them for now..
Re:Ray Kurzweil Still Says He Will Merge with A.I on Thursday July 04, 2024 @08:42PM (#40879106)
Will Kim Jong Un do this?
Re:Pipes: A spiritual successor to Yahoo Pipes on Sunday June 30, 2024 @11:47PM (#40842369)
I want to support this idea, though If you use their service it's free to play around with 3 feeds, but then it gets more pricey. Maybe worth it for some?https://www.pipes.digital/pricing
A canister of hydrogen in your car isn't exactly safe, either!!
Re:Ask HN: Is this a real device listening service? on Saturday September 30, 2023 @01:05PM (#37717422)
I saw a link to this company posted on X and wonder if it's authentic (it seems like it). It's a service that apparently listens on your devices for you to say keywords/phrases and sells that information to advertisers - who then target you with ads. Is this legal? It seems to claim it is.. Can anything be done about this? We need stronger privacy laws, it seems.
So this is obviously a big deal.. But I'm imagining a Black Mirror angle.. Will advertisers buy up some of your background space.. and pay for your intimate reaction data? They'll see how you react to everything in incredible detail. Will you be forced to wear these e.g.: while working and this could turn into some kind of surveillance apparatus with the data shared with your employer? Could interviews be done with these on and you'll be evaluated by AI?
The full discussion is on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw7BHDboARY&t=45s
An order of magnitude speedup for GPT-like models? Not sure why this story isn't bigger news..
>"How often do you have drugs or alcohol?"

>"What medication are you taking?"

Um.. Is this HIPAA compliant?

Nice work! Wish there was a site that held information on more than just cameras - expanded to all types of electronics, for instance.. seeing all the hardware from a manufacturer over time is so useful for making buying decisions.

EDIT: Ah cool, I see this: "OPD plans to expand our dataset to other product types." source: https://github.com/open-product-data/digital-cameras/commit/...

Re:Dpreview.com is coming to an end on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @01:08PM (#35249166)
dpreview had a great feature which is hard to find elsewhere: You could see at a glance at what date each manufacturer released each model of their hardware. This was so useful because you could then predict when new releases would come out and you'd get a sense of what was the cutting edge. At a glance you'd know which models were the "latest". I will miss this! Making sense of models of hardware from different makers is very time consuming.

Wondering if anyone knows an alternative site for this...

Paper here: "Codon: A Compiler for High-Performance Pythonic Applications and DSLs": https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3578360.3580275
Re:Poll: Would You Work for Elon? on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @09:58AM (#33624082)
I'd only work for him if he allowed remote work.
Re:MacBook Air M1 screen crack for no apparent reason on Monday August 15, 2022 @06:25PM (#32476272)
I know someone who put a square of gaffer's tape over their Macbook Pro's video camera (in theory to protect their privacy) and one day they lifted up the screen and it was cracked. It seemed like that little bit of tape might have been the culprit.
A follow-up thread where Randall Monroe (and others) choose their favorite one for a pet: https://twitter.com/xkcd/status/1553065747978543106
Re:American Airlines reserves 50 flying taxis on Monday July 18, 2022 @10:09AM (#32138570)
Does anyone know how American Airlines would actually use these? (The use case?)
Re:Kurt Vonnegut on the “shapes” of stories on Friday July 15, 2022 @11:38AM (#32109238)
Great choices. Welcome to the Monkey House is pretty great, too.
Re:I have no idea what to do with my life on Sunday April 17, 2022 @08:28PM (#31065954)
Though this may not work out very well in a Covid-inflicted world, one thing you could consider is traveling the world. You can pick up a Lonely Planet for a country that interests you and stay in modestly-priced hostels/hotels. It can be great to experience new cultures and meet other travelers. It can actually help you understand yourself and your own culture/values better. You can potentially do consulting gigs while you travel to help pay the bills.

Another thing you might try is to do something like a 10-day meditation course. You can find many places for this here: https://www.dhamma.org/en-US/index

Good luck to you!!

Re:I quit my job to make free web tools on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @08:39PM (#30368539)
Some code that might help with hexagons here: https://observablehq.com/@nrabinowitz/h3-tutorial-heatmap-re...
A direct link to where you can donate your voice here: https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/en

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