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hdeshon Databases in 2024: A Year in Review

> The upcoming year is going to be the test of strength for many database startups. Nobody wants to be the next MariaDB Corporation,

The link for "MariaDB corporation" points to an empty image with white colour background. Can anyone explain the context here?

hdeshon Russ Cox is stepping down as the Go tech lead

> Basically, the Go team is a bunch of old white dudes, which already means the project is poorly managed from the start

This seems like a broad generalization. Can you please elaborate?

hdeshon Boeing to plead guilty to criminal fraud charge stemming from 737 MAX crashes

I wonder if the outcome would have been any different if the 737 MAX crashes had happened on the American soil and involved loss of American lives.

hdeshon Google Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2023 Results [pdf]

The median in 2021 was close to $300k as per this[0] source.

[0] https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights...

hdeshon Researchers have found a faster way to do integer linear programming

> This paper only has 2 authors.

So? I don't get the relevance of the author count.

hdeshon What a caste discrimination ban means for Americans

There's a survey done by Equality labs which is fundamental to this law and the one in Seattle city. Other scholars have argued[0] that this survey is flawed in many ways.

There was a case against Cisco systems for alleged caste-based discrimination, which also was often mentioned in such coverage in the past. It is noteworthy that the case was dropped. More details with legalese is here[1] and a piece by Hindu America Foundation (that opposes such bills) is here[2].

Not to say that caste is not an issue among Indians (in India), however using this survey as the ultimate truth and a source for creating laws does not seem wise.

[0] https://carnegieendowment.org/2021/06/09/social-realities-of...

[1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u0jxQY_cLti2XP3nEw0d9OBa...

[2] https://theprint.in/opinion/dismissal-of-cisco-case-proves-e...

hdeshon Data accidentally exposed by Microsoft AI researchers

On a lighter note - I saw a chat message that started with "Hey dude! How is it going". I'm disappointed that the response was not https://nohello.net/en/.

hdeshon Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing [video]

They might take a quick shower first. It was a long journey.

hdeshon Banks hit with millions in fines for using Signal and WhatsApp

Same in India.

hdeshon Alphabet Announces Second Quarter 2023 Results [pdf]

Maybe they watched it on a TV and do not have access to an ad blocker on the Youtube app on the TV.

hdeshon Aptos, our modern successor to Calibri

> He wanted Aptos to have the universal appeal of the late NPR newscaster Carl Kasell and the astute tone of The Late Show host Stephen Colbert.

What is this even supposed to mean? In the context of font design.

hdeshon UCLA professor refuses to cover for Dan Ariely in issue of data provenance

https://datacolada.org/109

hdeshon Indian government empowers itself to “fact check,” delete social media posts

Interestingly Germany has a similar law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Enforcement_Act). Based on a cursory read the Indian counterpart seems quite similar.

hdeshon Canadians think tipping is ‘getting out of control,’ new poll suggest

This is a future vision I can get behind.

hdeshon IBM Research's Vela Is an AI Supercomputer in the Cloud

Can you please explain what the fiasco about Watson is? I know Watson, but not the fiasco part.

hdeshon Mandatory DEI statements are becoming the norm in academic hiring

> They say that any candidate who does not discuss gender or race must be awarded low marks. The same goes for any earnest classical liberal who “explicitly states the intention to ignore the varying backgrounds of their students and ‘treat everyone the same’.”

What is wrong with treating everyone the same? Isn't that anti-racist by definition?

hdeshon Man worth $7.48B says Google should cut 28,000 more people after layoffs

> Of FAANG, only one company hasn't had major layoffs this year.

So far.

hdeshon Seven years on, what do we know about the disappearance of flight MH370? (2021)

Fantastic article.

Did the MH370 incident change anything about the communication systems used by modern aircrafts?

hdeshon Tech layoffs shock young workers, older people not so much

Grass is greener on the other side.

hdeshon Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022

Once you bidet you never go back to paper. I even carry a portable one when I travel.

hdeshon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2022)

Why is this comment being downvoted?

hdeshon Cash must be king, Italy PM Giorgia Meloni tells shoppers

Paywalled, but the text below was visible.

> Meloni, who was elected in September, is finalising her first budget, which is due to include a rule allowing shopkeepers and businesses to refuse cards and demand cash for payments up to €60.

I am really curious to know her justification for this move.

hdeshon An analysis of the new World Cup ball

Forza Juve!

hdeshon An offshore workforce is training Amazon’s warehouse-monitoring algorithms

> Indian interviewees said they earned 25,000 rupees ($306) per month on average, while the Costa Rican average was 514,000 colones ($843).

What explains the difference?

hdeshon Your Organization should run its own Mastodon server

> Maybe her tech team gives like 1/8 of a fuck

r/suspiciouslyspecific

hdeshon Your Organization should run its own Mastodon server

Maybe Mastodon already handles many of the following concerns. However I can imagine any organization would go through a series of questions before they start running their own server:

1. How much does it cost?

2. Who does it benefit?

3. Who takes the ownership of the deployment?

4. If something needs to be fixed with the deployment, who does that?

5. Why should I prefer this over say slack/teams, where I get support bundled in my contract?

6. What happens if someone puts up something nasty on the internal mastodon network? The legal department hates this one weird trick.

7. Does it create a headache for the HR department if people start violating their corporate code of conduct on the mastodon network?

Maybe I am pessimistic, but OP is probably being quite dreamy here.

hdeshon The first minute of every phone call is torture now

Perhaps your "in country" number was not circulated well enough in the spam networks in a duration of one month?

hdeshon ByteDance planned to use TikTok to surveil specific American citizens

Would some nation be bold enough to ban TikTok? India did it, but then India is at war with China, quite literally.

hdeshon Why most published research findings are false (2005)

Dang (pun intended), is there a trick to find all these similar articles?