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It depends on your task. In analytics where you need to scan lots of data points within few columns, then columnar storage is very much the best. But for transactional workloads wh…

What a fine story you tell! Let’s ignore all the political and socio economic dynamics driving the current trends. Squeeze people’s livelihood by rent seeking; pillage public resou…

They also care about networking and connections.

There is no guarantee that the asi would care about human beings at all. Personally, I can’t see why it would.

After all that has been revealed to us over the past 15 years, it is really disheartening to see people still thinking that setting a few toggles will prevent these companies from …

Funny that these are the same people that have been blasting the alarm on dangers of AI singularity. Now they cannot wait to put their tools in weapons.

La Bete (The Beast) by Bertrand Bonello was also quite on point I thought.

None of this prevents them from providing proper customer service that can resolve cases of false positives.

I think that is the wrong lesson to take away from the video. As the video emphasizes, DoF is a tool that can be used to achieve an intended effect in story telling. Main thrust of…

Being part of the team that achieved AGI first would be to write your name in history forever. That could mean more to people than money. Also 10m would be a drop in the bucket com…

He is asking a valid question. Experts on the issue also warn that there is no guarantee that what replaces the current regime would be any more amenable.

They are very similar; with various similar solutions at differing stages of maturity.

> At least my experience is that if you confront them with harsh enough reality, they basically fail to provide anything useful. When I started therapy, I felt the same way. But no…

I admire that you put yourself in dangers way for what you think was right. However it is really disingenuous to try frame a global conflict between super powers in terms of person…

You are advocating for giving in to the bully in the hopes that they will stop bothering you. The reality is that the bully will never stop, Russia’s aim is total annexation of Ukr…

I dont know which scenario is worse for a president, an experienced economist like him not understanding what he was endorsing or being part of the scam.

he didnt just retweet. even if he did, president of the country should be held to higher standards than your average influencer.

I guess you can look into Framework for laptops. Many appear to be satisfied with them on HN.

it used to be so that in order for a product to be called "dondurma" (ice cream) it had to have salep in it. all other regular ice cream had to be sold under the name "buz" (ice). …

it has a thick texture but it is not as chewy as mochi. on the other hand it is very pliable and has a distinct taste both due to use of salep.

As most things it is a balancing act. Children also need to socialize and learn to operate in a social setting independently from their parents. Day cares have an important role in…

Unless you come from a very religious background, many Turks don't care if their meat is halal or not.