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Re:Show HN: My high school team's space probe on Sunday March 16, 2025 @07:36AM (#43378227)
Great project!!

Interesting that the largest section of the report is the last one called "Social Media outreach" to justify their choices.

His last transaction had to match the size of his ego.
Re:Why wordfreq will not be updated on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @01:27PM (#41582837)
The year 2021 is to wordfreq what 1945 was to carbon carbon-14 dating.

I guess the same way the scientists had to account for the bomb pulse in order to provide accurate carbon-14 dating, wordfreq would need a magic way to account for non human content.

Saying magic, because unfortunately it was much easier to detect nuclear testing in the atmosphere than to it will be to detect AI-generated content.

Re:Apple Mobile Processors Are Now Made in America. By TSMC on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @08:02AM (#41578654)
Knowing all the efforts that the US government has had to devote in order to push Apple to bring those jobs home, for other countries that do not have as much muscle as in financial and industrial leverage, their industrial future must look quite bleak.
Re:OpenAI – Application for US trademark "GPT" has failed on Thursday February 15, 2024 @04:28AM (#39380677)
Great. I hope they find a real name to their product, that would not be an acronym.

We can critic Google as much as we want, but at least it's a bit less weird to say "Hey Gemini" compared to "Hey GPT", when you know that GPT is actually something between an abstract concept and a code implementation.

Re:Someone is going to dim the sun, and it will be soon on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @03:07PM (#39362191)
Plot Twist:

- AI is not smart enough to take over humanity.

- But by playing god with geoengineering by having rain packed with sulfur on our crops, we are facing The Blight, like in Interstellar.

Re:Go 1.22 Release Notes on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @05:41AM (#39286887)
A good example of a Go project using embed to pack its html/css/js assets in a single binary is PocketBase:

https://github.com/pocketbase/pocketbase/blob/master/ui/embe...

Re:Show HN: WAYF – A Simple Scheduling App on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @09:15AM (#39190329)
All those are available in Rally, which is OSS. It is great that WAYF offers something completely bare bone without the features you are mentioning, IMHO.

https://rallly.co/

Re:Pocketbase: Open-source back end in one file on Sunday January 07, 2024 @11:36AM (#38902582)
It is the first time I see that "hook" pattern in a Go API backend: `hook.Hook` and `hook.TaggedHook`.

Where does it come from?

Why is it useful here?

What are the alternatives? Advantages/Drawbacks?

Is there an article somewhere, outside of the Pocketbase docs, presenting that pattern?

- https://github.com/pocketbase/pocketbase/blob/master/core/ap...

- https://github.com/pocketbase/pocketbase/tree/master/tools/h...

Re:Fly Postgres, Managed by Supabase on Saturday December 16, 2023 @04:11AM (#38662909)
I am particularly interested in a comparaison between this new one from Supabase/Fly and the one from Neon.
Re:Mastercard Should Stop Selling Our Data on Sunday October 15, 2023 @06:00PM (#37893805)
I forgot to update myself actually. Last month, they chose a brand name for the service: Wero.[0]

Here [1], it says:

> strong potential for "wero" to emerge as the leading wallet for the digital euro central bank digital currency (CBDC)

Great, but I am not sure about its potential to safeguard our privacy. One can hope maybe they wont sell our data to commercial entities.

[0]: https://www.epicompany.eu/european-payments-initiative-selec...

[1]: https://payments1connectingthedots.substack.com/p/new-kid-on...

Re:Mastercard Should Stop Selling Our Data on Sunday October 15, 2023 @05:48PM (#37893706)
The EU has something on the way called EPI for European Payment Initiative:

https://www.epicompany.eu/

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/paym/intro/news/html/ecb.mipnews23...