dantiberian

The intention of OrioleDB is not to compete with Postgres, but to make Postgres better. We believe the right long-term home for OrioleDB is inside Postgres itself. Our north star is to upstream what’s necessary so that OrioleDB can eventually be part of the Postgres source tree, developed and maintained in the open alongside the rest of Postgres.

This seems like a good pattern, but of lower value for a SaaS app with many customers storing private data in your service. This is because the cache hit-rate for any particular company's data would be low. Is this an accurate assessment, or did I misunderstand something?

There are legitimate reasons for this, e.g. imagine an employee at a company that uses Office365 needing to set up an account for Google Adwords.

TOPS (Trillion Operations Per Second) is a meaningless score without including the precision. Are they INT4, INT8, INT16 or FP16? Microsoft's qualifications for a Copilot+ laptop require 40 TOPS at INT8: https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/21/qualcomm_windows_micr.... The new Snapdragon X Elite can do 45 TOPS at INT8.

Apple's M3 has 18 TOPS, and their M4 has 38 TOPS, but the M3 was measured at INT16 and the M4 at INT8: https://www.anandtech.com/show/21387/apple-announces-m4-soc-.... Cutting the precision in half lets you do ~twice the amount of work.

The Snapdragon is very impressive, but it's silly to see TOPS claims from companies repeated by journalists without adding some context.

Exposure to RCS from engineered stone causes silicosis typified by a faster onset and more rapid progression than that caused by RCS [Respirable crystalline silica] from other sources, including natural stone.

When engineered stone is processed, the dust generated contains higher levels of RCS, and that RCS has different physical and chemical properties that likely contribute to the more rapid and severe disease. There is also evidence to suggest that other components of engineered stone may contribute to the toxic effects of engineered stone dust, either alone or by exacerbating the effects of RCS.

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The increased risks posed by RCS from engineered stone, increased rate of silicosis diagnosis amongst engineered stone workers, and the faster and more severe disease progression amongst this group, combined with a multi-faceted failure of this industry to comply with the model WHS laws means that continued work with engineered stone poses an unacceptable risk to workers. The use of all engineered stone should be prohibited.

https://www.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/sites/default/files/202...

> A total of 12 successful prosecutions have been reported since 2021, with many related to the uncontrolled processing (dry cutting) of engineered stone materials

https://www.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/sites/default/files/202...

AWS docs are the opposite. They are often very long and verbose, but once you read the whole manual, you can be guaranteed to have a good understanding of the service.

My advice for the Google team would be that if you are ever writing documentation and ask yourself “does the customer really need to know about this?”, the answer should always be yes.

You can version the Terraform configuration, either in a public Git repository or in a Cloud Storage bucket. Use Object Versioning to version configurations in a storage bucket.

https://cloud.google.com/infrastructure-manager/docs/overvie...

Now, all Firefox users will be able to use custom formatters. They’re a very useful tool, I’d love to see more JavaScript projects adopt them.

The scholars first estimated the cumulative weight of New York’s buildings to be 1.68 trillion pounds, and then calculated the downward pressure these buildings exert on the mixture of clay, sand, and slit that make up most of the ground beneath the city’s streets.

Based on their model, New York experiences a “subsidence rate” (the technical term for sinking) of about one to two millimeters per year on average, though Lower Manhattan, as well as particular areas of Brooklyn and Queens, show a propensity for greater subsidence risk.

https://github.blog/changelog/2018-08-01-new-delay-public-ev...

Disclosure: I'm an ex-GitHub employee but was not involved in the secret scanning API.

Perhaps that was also part of Cloudflare’s mitigations here too but not mentioned.

> For both wired and wireless access, Google uses RADIUS servers to assign devices to an appropriate network, based on 802.1x authentication. We use dynamic, rather than static, VLAN assignment. This approach means that rather than relying on the switch/port static configuration, we use the RADIUS servers to inform the switch of the appropriate VLAN assignment for the authenticated device. Managed devices provide their certificate as part of this 802.1x handshake and are assigned to the unprivileged network, while unrecognized and unmanaged devices on the corporate network are assigned to a remediation or guest network. - https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...

Yes BeyondCorp does allow access to corporate resources outside of the intranet, but as part of a managed device + identity + network evaluation.

> Data transferred from an Amazon S3 bucket to any AWS service(s) within the same AWS Region as the S3 bucket (including to a different account in the same AWS Region).

https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/

https://anchor.fm/aviv-milner/episodes/The-Tether-Situation-... at 30:57

* Price of BTC/USDT ETH/USDT explodes as people try to exchange Tether to another liquid asset

* BTC and ETH start to drop on non-Tether exchanges as people sell and try to get out to fiat currency

* Tether collateralises futures contracts, when BTC/USDT spikes, some strange behaviour may happen in derivatives based on Tether.

* Tether allegedly is a meaningful percentage of the commercial paper market, if those assets are seized, it may affect that market.

* Some S&P500 companies have a lot of Tesla on their books. As BTC/USD drops, that would impact their stock price, and potentially the index overall.

* Some shadier crypto exchanges may go under or abscond with client funds in the confusion.

A lot of this could happen in a matter of minutes.

You could imagine a similar flight to safety happen if Tether was revealed to not have the reserves they claimed to and were unable to redeem client funds.

Fun times!