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Another +1 for ADBC

Destroy oil supply and there is a crisis in 12h. Destroy solar supply and there's a crisis in... 20 years? It'd actually be much sooner but the point is that it's much less urgent that oil.

I’m mostly talking from personal experience. I imagine an actual well powered study on this sort of thing would be hard to do, for similar reasons a lot of fitness / nutrition studies are not great. I agree that a good diverse full body routine would help mitigate injury risk vs a less diverse routine. Obviously diminishing returns but expanding outside of the weight room is IMO also helpful for injury prevention if not quality of life. Pertinent video: https://youtu.be/rb2DPHi39FU

Love this take!

Modern society is too narrow minded about what wealth means. To most people it means fancy watches, cars, homes, etc. To me wealth is about time and freedom. I can pick up the tab at dinner for a group of 12. I can afford to keep my 1972 Schwinn bicycle in tip top shape or my grandfather's jacket mended when it breaks. I can afford to rent forever if I want. I'll never work a job I don't like, I can just quit. I feel more wealthy this way than if I owned 3 lambos and had to work to make ends meet.

Having only read the abstract... the conclusion makes sense to me. I've operated under the assumption that volume is the most important factor for muscle growth as long as you're lifting something like 1/3 or more of your 1RM. So 12 reps with higher load or 25 reps with lower load are going to be similar volumes (or at least similar enough given the other factors that the two protocols give the same outcome).

This is what I've found after 15 years of working out and athletics. Think of it this way: doing the same thing over and over again is what is proven to lead to workplace injuries. Doing the same thing over and over again in the gym is no different.

I like to do a weight training as the consistent foundation, with a mix of heavy lifts, calisthenics, volume (bodybuilding) training and mobility training. Add in some yoga, rock climbing, biking, soccer. I feel this sort of mix balances movements out which helps with injury prevention and also makes sure you always have something active to do that you enjoy, which is definitely #1.

I use sheets of junk paper (e.g. stuff I got in the mail that is only printed on one side). I keep an "active" one that I cross stuff out from, etc. When I start a new one (about once a week) I go through the old one and port over any remaining items; most of the time I discard the whole thing since it's no longer relevant. If there are important items that are just too big to handle I'll transcribe it to my Calendar, Linear, Reminders app, etc.

To me this is a good balance of: - Writing things down is the major benefit for me, writing down on physical paper is even more helpful. - Forces me to garbage collect irrelevant stuff. - I don't need an app or even to buy paper really.

What’s your problem with nuclear waste? And what’s your solution to the waste produced by solar/wind?

Came here to say just this. I want this so bad! But I can’t run it on a cloud hosted Postgres…

Do they diversify? Is Nvidia buying VXUS?

I think the reality is that the engineers are competent but this was just not a priority they were given and they were not going to spend nights making this happen instead of hanging out with their kids.

I work for Pydantic. We make Logfire, a commercial OTEL backend. But we’ve made wrappers around the OTEL SDKs in various languages that simplify configuration and usage. They can be used with any OTEL compatible backend (although we’d love if you try our SaaS offering): - JavaScript / Typescript: https://github.com/pydantic/logfire-js - Rust: https://github.com/pydantic/logfire-rust - Python: https://github.com/pydantic/logfire

I work at Pydantic and while the future is obviously unpredictable I can vow for all of us in that we do not intend to ever start charging for any of our open source things. We’ve made a very clear delineation between what is free (pydantic, pydantic-ai, the logfire SDK, etc) and what is a paid product (the Logfire SaaS platform). Everything open source is liberally licensed such that no matter the fate of the company it can be forked. Even the logfire SDK, the thing most integrated to our commercial offering, speaks OTLP and hence you can point it at any other provider, basically no lock in.

I just wish we forced every new data center to be built with renewables or something. The marginal cost over a conventional data center can’t be that big compared to the total cost, and these companies can afford it. Maybe it can help advance the next generation of small modular nuclear reactors or something.

There is no spec. Personally I hope that the existing indexes (bloom filters, zone maps) get re-designed to fit into a paradigm where parquet itself has more first class support for multiple levels of indexes embedded in the file and conventions for how those common types. That is, start with Wild West and define specs as needed

From an open source projects perspective we’d want to disable this on our docs sites. We actually want those to be very discoverable by LLMs, during training or online usage.

I like the idea! I wish I could use git / PRs to do rounds of edits on legal documents instead of whatever Word’s track changes is.

Speaking of, could we start using version control for keeping track of laws and updating old laws? It seems to me like a much better system than randomly burying in a new law that it strikes out some text from an old law.

I would love to see these changes - or even some sort of blog post or extended documentation explaining rational. As is the docs are somewhat barren. I feel that there’s a lot of knowledge that folks like you have right now from all of the work that was done internally at Meta that would be best shared now before it is lost.

I agree. At risk of being totally off base because I have not been keeping up with the details of the legal matter it seems to me that the solution isn't to kill Google's core business but rather to force it to sell off some of these branches, with thought and strategy. E.g. one of the comments below pointed out that Google Flights competes with other sites / businesses. Seems like a good candidate to spin off: it could probably be a profitable business in it's own right. Android? Chrome? Idk about those: who / how are they going to be funded? Each piece needs to be analyzed and a deal needs to be struck that's not based on principles as much as it is on what is pragmatically the right balance that benefits people (the American people in particular) the most in the medium to long term.

I liked this article. My hot take lately has been that AI is like Excel / Word but deployed quicker. That can still cause some level of societal collapse if it displaces a large fraction of the workforce before it can retool and adapt , no AGI super intelligence required.

As someone who’s lived in Latin America this is something I try to point out to people in the US every chance I get. If you have hundreds of millions you can post up in some remote mansion and get things delivered but even then your staff might steal things, your kids are targets, etc. And for everyone else, even the 1%, it’s not going to be a fun life. I’d much rather pay some more taxes and know that everyone has a safety net and UBI so that a much smaller fraction (never zero) are going to be so desperate, drug dependent, etc to commit crimes, especially the harder core ones. If you’re in the top 1% and everyone else is poor and desperate you are going to lack connection, community and safety. That's not good. We are all happier in a more equal society.

I would gladly pay 75% taxes if they went to the right thing.

I’d rather be at the mean income wise in a society with low inequality than in the top percentile of a society that has large inequality. I’ve been both.

I can agree that overspending is not a good thing, but I don’t think the solution is cutting out public programs altogether, I think we should focus on making those programs efficient, eg not making them a charity for multinational corporations that are in great part owned by the very states we consider our “enemies”. Maybe we shouldn’t be lining the pockets of the oil and gas industry, big pharma, etc and instead be lining the pockets of the American people with value through education, opportunity, etc.

One of the devs working on Logfire here. Part of it was the level of support. Like Samuel said the ClickHouse folks were not receptive to bug reports. The Timescale team is leagues ahead in that sense, they’re super responsive and helpful. Ultimately one of the reasons for choosing DataFusion was that it’s much more approachable of a project and indeed we’ve already gotten tremendous bidirectional benefit: the DataFusion team has helped us figure out some complex bits and we’ve done significant upstream contributions. By the way, DataFusion is now the fastest single node query engine on ClickBench: https://datafusion.apache.org/blog/2024/11/18/datafusion-fas...

Another reason we use DataFusion is multi-tenancy: we found it was hard to use RLS and such to implement multi-tenancy. We’ve had much better luck with the extensibility of DataFusion.

Thanks!

Very cool! Any plans to offer more direct integrations with DataFusion, e.g. a `VertexReaderFactory`, hooks for pushdowns, etc?

I’d like to address a lot of the questions about self hosting: we do not currently have any way to self host, but we do plan on figuring that out eventually. Offering self hosting introduces challenges around updates, support, etc that we don’t want to slow us down while we refine the product to its initial state. We are cognizant of data restrictions and other factors that would require self hosting. That said, we don’t at this time plan on completely open sourcing the entire product. It would be more of a licensing setup. Of course this is all subject to change in the future based on feedback and product direction.

The most important thing is that you share with us WHY you want to self host. Is it compliance? What does that compliance mean (min/max data retention, right to be forgotten, data at rest needs to be geographically located or you have to own it, etc)? This will help us build the “right” kind of features in this area so that it works for you and your company.

Hi, I'm one of the developers of Logfire. We do support metrics! Our vision is a single pane of glass observability where you can easily go from metrics <-> traces both via correlation and by creating metrics/dashboards from traces.

We also support logging as an integrated concept into tracing (you can emit events without a duration that are just like a log but carry context of where they were emitted from relative to a trace).

Surely this should have been a risk accounted for and the shipment should have been diverted or cancelled? It’s not like the payload was unknown or the possibility of an attack was new?

I really don’t understand why we keep shipping through there. Yes, it will cause 2% (the number I found) inflation. We (US) have had worse. Many places survive (albeit with damage) 100% YoY inflation. Let’s just stop escalating conflicts for money, people’s lives and global peace are worth more than that.

But also: could you clarify what do you mean by private insurance? You can buy insurance from Blue Cross, Cigna, United, etc on healthcare.gov. It’s the same providers you get through your employer, the only difference is that it’s the government negotiating (kinda) and you choosing instead of your employer doing both.

Yes exactly. It’s a regulated market, but regulated by private companies.