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The Knowledge Graph Conference is currently happening in NYC and there's a bit of talk around KG assisting AI with various things like truth grounding (RAG) and Agentic development…

revisiting this question 9yrs later: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7491925 Very curious how people are thinking about RDF/semantic technologies these days after the initial …

which are active and in wide use?

didn't amazon buy out blazegraph? eg no more active open source effort?

md5/sha1 is useful because they're still used in UUID (rfc 4122) generation. obv not from a crypto standpoint but more from a unique (non-exploited) approach.

This is an interesting idea. If I want to personalize the urn to my company's uuid, would it be, urn:uuid:mycoid? can it be shorthanded to urn:mycoid?

are they stored as strings or 16byte blobs?

We are a large company and have many small systems with disparate key sets that we would like to standardized and would like to use UUIDs for the new global keyset. I have several …

Byrne's has had an interesting life to say the least. I followed him years back when he was on a mission to fight naked short selling & steven cohen. What a trip. That said, if you…

Hopefully I'm not the only one that thinks that prices for iphones are insane. I use a handful of apps (yelp, maps, mail, news, music, and (occasionally) browser) which are readily…

My wife is planning to do a bootcamp programming course. She's currently taking some prep course offered by the company and is progressing along doing various problems on a daily b…

had my first impossible burger this weekend. the patty itself was like 6oz and cost $15 just for the burger (no fries). i'm in NYC and even this is a bit high for the area. it was …

I think it's somewhat insidious in that it forces a confrontation between workers and customers and the benefit goes to the owners. it also gives the impression that the product (l…

I hope this doesn't come across as me trying to justify what happened but can anyone be explicitly about what laws were broken and who should have gone to jail? I know there was a …

The information was disseminated to all parties at the same time and they weren't in a "dark" period. I know several people are upset given their bet but I don't see this being any…

scientists tend to pursue these adventurists/esoteric opportunities to try and provide unique solutions that may have utility down the road.

there was a House episode where someone was diagnosed with naphthalene poisoning due to termites in the walls. so following occams beliefs, we could also have lots of termites in s…

My wife is sorta in this middle management space and looking to sharpen and maintain her tech skills. Not necessarily programming but talk sufficiently in depth about current trend…