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Soft deletion probably isn't worth it
The traditional soft deletion pattern using <code>deleted_at</code> columns leaks into code, curbs the usefulness of foreign keys, and makes data removal difficult. Luckily, there’s an alternative.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,153 posts.
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New method identifies the root causes of statistical outliers
Amazon ICML paper proposes information-theoretic measurement of quantitative causal contribution.
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A 100x Investment (2019)
comma.ai has raised $8.1 million, Zoox has raised $990 million. Cruise and Waymo have raised even more.
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We found no evidence that Bionic Reading has a positive effect on reading speed
Actually no, the results will probably not surprise you.
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Analyzing Indie Hacker Products with Verified Revenue
Indie Hackers is a wonderful community for founders, a vast ocean of shared knowledge and a place to showcase your product journey. A lot of people are sharing their products there along with the revenue, often verified by Stripe. We analyzed the available data to check how much revenue are those products making and…
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Get started with GPU Compute on the web
This post explores the experimental WebGPU API through examples and helps you get started with performing data-parallel computations using the GPU.
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Oracle is the #1 contributor to the core of Linux in 5.18
By the metric of
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Box86/Box64 vs. QEMU vs. FEX (Vs Rosetta2)
Comparing performances I decided to compare the performances of the OpenSource Linux Userspace Emulator that allows you to run x86/x86_64 apps on ARM linux. There are QEMU-user, FEX-emu and Box86/Box64. How to bench Linux userspace emulator Test will consist of the bench I already used a couple of time, and that can…
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An SPA Alternative
In this essay, Carson Gross explores alternatives to Single Page Applications (SPAs), advocating for an 'HTML-Centric' development approach. He highlights the drawbacks of SPA complexity and the benefits of embracing HTML as the core medium for web development, offering a simpler, more efficient way to build…
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FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be removed from app stores
According to the FCC commissioner, TikTok is a video app in "sheep's clothing", suggesting a wolf hides underneath those funny videos.
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Nutanix Objects violates MinIO’s open source license
Product updates, company news, and educational content on AI storage, object storage, data lakehouses, and cloud-native infrastructure from MinIO.
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The Home Computer Generation
A seemingly frightening realization regularly dawns on various pundits these days: Being a digital native doesn't automatically mean you're computer savvy. Due to a gradual transformation from general purpose tools to digital appliances, computers are now more than ever perceived as magical boxes by their users. Many…
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I Hacked My Car Guides: Creating Custom Firmware
Notice Note: As of 2022/10/25 the information in this series is slightly outdated. See Part 5 for more up to date information. I take no responsibility for any damages due to the information or steps provided on this site. The content is for educational purposes only. You modify your own car’s firmware at your…
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Thoughts on ML Engineering After a Year of My PhD
My personal website
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Glassdoor not so anonymous
A judge has ruled in favour of releasing anonymous user details posted on Glassdoor to billion-dollar NZ toy company, Zuru
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Film grain synthesis in AV1 (2019)
Description of the film grain synthesis algorithm in AV1. This page provides information on the film grain synthesis algorithm and links for further study
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Entire telecomm infrastructure of Iceland sold to private equity?
In October 2021, Ardian agreed to buy 100% of Míla, which controls the largest Icelandic telecoms network, from Síminn, the country’s privatized national telecoms operator. Read the interview with Orri Hauksson, CEO of Síminn, Daniel Von Der Schulenburg, Head of Infrastructure for Germany Ardian and Gonzague Boutry…
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New documents reveal scale of US Government’s cell phone location data tracking
Thousands of previously unreleased records illustrate how government agencies sidestep our Fourth Amendment rights.
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Learning Go as a Python Developer: The Good and the Bad
I've been thinking about supplementing another language to Python for some time – mainly to cope with areas Python struggles with, or is a pain to use (which I'll go over in a minute). I had used C/C++ some years ago, but don't want to go back to them. C
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Spf13 is leaving Google
I’m leaving my role as the Product Lead for the Go Language at Google. I’m super proud of everything the Go team has accomplished in the last six years, and …
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How did REST come to mean the opposite of REST?
In this article, Carson Gross explores how the term REST (Representational State Transfer) evolved to mean nearly the opposite of its original definition in modern web development. It traces how REST, originally defined by Roy Fielding to describe the web's architecture of hypermedia-driven interactions, came to be…
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What I learned trying to classify abortion access across the rich world
Rich countries are not monolithic. However, outside the US and a few microstates, they vary in a limited range.
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WordPerfect for UNIX (1992)
I found this interesting print-ad for WordPerfect for UNIX, apparently the best UNIX product of 1992! (Very) Belated congratulations Corel!
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My Poor Experience With Azure (or why I'm sticking with AWS)
AWS has a lot of haters. Lots of horror cases where people thought they were on the free account but ended up with a $20,000 bill. We are told Azure has a much better model. You have to manually move to a paid service. No surprise bills. Like AWS,
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RSS is back as an underpinning to SlackOps
RSS is the API they couldn't kill. It's back stronger than ever as an underpinning of SlackOps in many organizations.
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Crimes against transhumanity
(Disclaimer: I am a transhumanist skeptic these days, not to mention a singularity curmudgeon and a critic of Mars colonization, but I still find these ideas nice to chew on sometimes.)
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Implementing "seen by" functionality with Postgres
Different approaches for tracking visitor counts with PostgreSQL.
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Two Years and over 700 Websites Later
An exclusive membership for web pages weighing less than 1 megabyte.
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TV, or not TV: the story of our bike box (2019)
Our bikes kept getting damaged in transit. Our solution – print a giant TV on the side of the box. Here's how that one tiny decision made a huge impact.