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Re:TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @09:46AM (#42711343)
sure, but it's a fact that millions have downloaded rednote in the past week. I think millions is "many"
Re:Distributed Transactions at Scale in Amazon DynamoDB on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @09:41AM (#42711285)
the only thing nosql means is that there are no relations. mongodb 8 and newer for example support schemas and validations, cascading checks, etc. dynamodb, more relevantly does also support a schema, and in fact you can't even create a table without defining one.
Re:Homomorphic Encryption in iOS 18 on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @09:40AM (#42711261)
are there really countries where the bank doesn't have a website you can use to do a transfer, but you could do it through an app?
Re:TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @08:54AM (#42710756)
but HN is centralized, so you agree if HN exceeds some arbitrary amount of users it should be banned? how ridiculous. tiktok is not any better or worse than facebook, youtube, or the mainstream media.
Re:TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @08:50AM (#42710709)
I'm not talking about the quality, I'm saying that red note has been getting a wave of downloads as tiktok gets closer to its imminent ban
Re:TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @08:47AM (#42710674)
why? you don't have to use them. should HN be banned?
Re:TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @08:39AM (#42710592)
what seems unlikely? it's simply a fact that many are going to the other app. as you said yourself, 10m+ downloads on play store, #1 on ios app store, etc.
Re:Distributed Transactions at Scale in Amazon DynamoDB on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @08:38AM (#42710583)
nosql does not imply no schema
Re:TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @08:33AM (#42710548)
Meanwhile many are going to another chinese app, RedNote.
Re:Homomorphic Encryption in iOS 18 on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @08:28AM (#42710516)
I'm curious what functions other than maybe depositing a check requires a banking app?
Re:Homomorphic Encryption in iOS 18 on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @08:15AM (#42710443)
why use a device by someone you don't trust? honestly don't get it. I'd use an open source android distro
Re:Homomorphic Encryption in iOS 18 on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @08:09AM (#42710411)
It doesn't really matter if they ask you or not, ultimately you have to trust them, and if you don't trust Apple, why would you even use an iPhone?
Re:Home Loss File System on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @07:57AM (#42710341)
strange comment - this should be a website that would presumably be hosting, where exactly?

the average person would not be able to make something even close to this sheet. where are they going to host it? do they have a domain? certs? do they even know how to write html? css?

Re:Distributed Transactions at Scale in Amazon DynamoDB on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @07:55AM (#42710328)
It doesn't really make any sense to use it locally - the whole point is that it's managed. If you just want a clustered key value store you could use Cassandra, Garnet, etc.
Re:I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @08:38AM (#42697032)
I'm glad we have different options available. I personally use Chrome, but it's good that Firefox exists too.
is there actually any evidence more money would fix public schools? Urban school districts as far as I know have more money than the suburbs and worse outcomes as reflected in standardized test scores.
Are residential tax exemptions also redirecting billions of taxpayer dollars to the "rich", by the same logic?
Re:Let's Quit X on Monday January 13, 2025 @01:19PM (#42686603)
why do people feel so strongly about this? presumably you're only engaging with those you follow, which is at your discretion. does it really matter what platform they're on?
there's always been a non-zero chance for collapse: black death, ww2, cold war, covid, etc.
what's wrong with fission?
I wonder if this means first-world nations will stop consuming, or will they continue to patronize the poorer countries?
Re:Kagi Search API on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @09:39AM (#42306518)
bing, which is the cheapest AFAIK
Re:Kagi Search API on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @09:37AM (#42306495)
laughably overpriced. if it were any other company this wouldn't be #1 at time of writing. brave, bing and google are an order of magnitude cheaper.

and honestly the quality between all of these search engines are basically the same.

Could you explain more on:

> The 2D content is overlaid on the WebGL view using CSS 3D transforms for a seamless integration with the 3D view.

Maybe a simple example of this with code?

Re:Is Python That Slow? on Friday November 22, 2024 @07:28AM (#42213283)
interestingly, my takeaway from this article is that Nodejs isn't actually as slow as I thought. I thought Rust would be at least two orders of magnitude faster. It's barely just one, for the OPs benchmark.

how can it be possible that nodejs is so fast, or that rust isn't multiple orders of magnitude faster (again, for the OPs benchmark it's about 8-10x faster in one case, and only twice as faster in another, which is much faster, but I expected it to be more like 100x faster).

is v8 really that fast? I'd be curious to see a multi threaded version of this implemented (some arbitrary multi-threaded benchmark). there I would hope that rust is multiple orders of magnitude faster, given that node is single threaded (with some caveats, of course as anyone who knows node knows). surely the rust written wasn't written optimally.

given how easy it is to write typescript compared to Rust and Python imho, maybe the JS community isn't as crazy as I thought

Re:Lessons from My First Exit on Thursday November 14, 2024 @07:32AM (#42135591)
interesting to reconcile this with calls to tax the rich. maybe we should be rewarding such effort after all? think about the tens of thousands of jobs created from people working at Google who'd make L3 or less at Google working twice as much...