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assfaceon Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns

> Just chiming in to say I don't care at all about accessibility

See Rawls 'Original Position' on why you should care: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_position

assfaceon The truth that haunts the Ramones: 'They sold more T-shirts than records'

Has anybody recently interviewed Ian Curtis to get his thoughts about their shirt sales?

assfaceon Show HN: Firebolt – The Productive React Framework

Bad name. Try again: https://www.firebolt.io/

assfaceon Best Databases for Python Projects in 2024

This list is useless. What are the salient aspects of Python programs versus other programming langs/environments (e.g., Javascript, C++) that imposes different demands on a database system?

The answer is 'nothing'. So just use Postgres.

assfaceon Texas professor fails entire class from graduating- claiming they used ChatGTP

This professor has a PhD in lactating pigs, not computer science / ai. He should stay in his lane:

https://inside.tamuc.edu/academics/cvsyllabi/cv/MummJared.pd...

assfaceon Show HN: CozoDB, Hybrid Relational-Graph-Vector Database

Is it called "CozoDB" or Cozo? Your README is inconsistent.

assfaceon Mariadb.com is dead, long live MariaDB.org

> Shades of Basho

Can you please explain? They just ran out of money. They never did a SPAC.

assfaceon PRQL: a simple, powerful, pipelined SQL replacement

> I'm wondering if it would be worth skipping the SQL layer and compiling straight to the execution plan level.

You have to join five tables in a query. What join order will you pick in your execution plan? Will you use the same ordering for different WHERE clause parameters? What if you add an index?

What you're proposing was tried in the 1970s (see CODASYL) and it was a terrible idea.

assfaceon Ask HN: Anyone here from the RethinkDB founding team? Why was it shutdown?

Stuff like this didn't help:

https://web.archive.org/web/20201204090050/https://twitter.c...

assfaceon Are you sure you want to use MMAP in your database management system? [pdf]

RavenDB's response to this paper: https://ayende.com/blog/196161-C/re-are-you-sure-you-want-to...

assfaceon Comparing ClickHouse to PostgreSQL and TimescaleDB for time-series data

Just ignore it.

assfaceon PostgreSQL 14

> maybe zheap will help?

According to Robert Haas, the zheap project is dead.

assfaceon Fake animal rescue videos have become a new frontier for animal abuse

Pig Rescues Baby Goat

https://youtube.com/watch?v=g7WjrvG1GMk

assfaceon Who Owns My Name?

> Pretty much every film based on real people and events takes liberties in service of narrative flow and drama.

Blood on the Blackboard: The Bart Simpson Story

https://youtu.be/02-U9fHefPI

assfaceon EdgeDB: EdgeQL

Everything you said sounds like Britton-Lee's database. What is new?

assfaceon EdgeDB: EdgeQL

> that aims to surpass SQL in querying power.

What makes your approach likely to succeed versus all previous attempts to supplant SQL in the last 40 years?

assfaceon Goldman seems to be running networking software from 2008

If this is shocking wait until you find out that a lot of banks still use IBM IMS. That's IBM's first database that they built for the government to track rocket parts for the Apollo moon mission.

assfaceon Amazon’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ series will cost at least $465M for first season

> the lack of compelling Christian art in general the past 50 or 60 years

What about all those Mel Gibson movies that you guys have?

assfaceon Bernie Madoff has died

Gold has material use. You can make things with it.

assfaceon Things I hate about PostgreSQL (2020)

> Rather than a query planner, an interesting approach would be to expose the more stable part of the internals with a new language and let people roll their own query plans.

Those that are ignorant of history are doomed to repeat it.

Go read Stonebraker's "What Goes Around Comes Around"

https://15721.courses.cs.cmu.edu/spring2020/papers/01-intro/...

assfaceon RethinkDB: why we failed (2017)

>The second one (mid 2000s) was a neat physical storage trick, which should have been a feature of a database system, not an excuse for building a new one.

Can you say what database this was? Akiban? SchoonerSQL?

assfaceon RethinkDB: why we failed (2017)

There is a reason why IBM still makes a lot of money on IMS.

assfaceon Umbra: an ACID-compliant database built for in-memory analytics speed

> The only somewhat recent new DB that comes to mind which had a really interesting model was RethinkDB

In what way was it interesting? It was a document DBMS that supported MVCC.

assfaceon Rxdb: A reactive database where you can subscribe to the result of a query

"Is RethinkDB dead?"

https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/6747#issuecomm...

TLDR: They are hoping to announce a revival in the near future.

assfaceon Bill Hader Channels Tom Cruise – DeepFake [video]

> 2. There will never be another generation (in the near future) like boomers who didn't grow up tech savvy

You're living in a bubble.

assfaceon Monte Carlo methods – Why it's a bad idea to go to the casino

> You can only spend so much money on drugs and sex.

Speak for yourself.

assfaceon TimescaleDB vs. InfluxDB: built differently for time-series data

Mike Freedman is extra legit. There were rumors that he was going to be the 11th member of Wu Tang to replace ODB (RIP).

assfaceon Thanksgiving Got Shorter After the 2016 Election, Study Says

I have zero tolerance for racism. My family voted for Trump and they say racist things. I don't need that in my life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

assfaceon Amazon Aurora Backtrack

AFAIK It uses the MySQL frontend with a heavily modified InnoDB engine that writes to their shared-disk storage.