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Article URL: https://www.glean.com/blog/glean-series-e-prompting-launch

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41502806

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Article URL: https://community.openhab.org/t/mmdev-a-jsr223-library-for-defining-all-your-items-and-rules-in-jython/158151

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41502803

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Fastmail is experiencing an outage (status page linked below): for me, neither the web inbox nor mobile app can refresh. It seems there was another outage just recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41387209

I only just started being a paid Fastmail user (with a custom domain and usage of their masked addresses) but am starting to have doubts about reliability (others echoed a similar sentiment in the linked thread). The worst part is I'm in the middle of communication with a new job I'm starting soon.

Does anyone have other recommendations for a paid email provider?

https://fastmailstatus.com/cm0wn7z8s000o91tbwl97un6e

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41502801

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Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/09/grieving-death-chimpanzees-thanatology/679750/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41502798

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The iPhone 16 was released at yesterday's Glowtime event. Here's a recap of the iPhone section of the event: The base model got a minor size improvement and thinner bezels, along with the A18 Chip, a new button for photos called the Capture Button and the Action Button. It has a 48-MP Camera.

The iPhone 16 Pro has the new A18 Pro chip, the same features as the base model and Dolby 4k 120FPS recording. It has blasted titanium edges instead if the previous brushes ones and a slightly larger size than the previous Pro model. It still has a 48MP camera.

The phones also have 5x telephoto zoom with slightly increasd battery, along with a new feature called Visual Intelligence. This allows Apple Intelligence to tell you about things using your camera.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41502772

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Article URL: https://tobikodata.com/making-sqlmesh-faster.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41502762

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Article URL: https://examine.com/articles/high-carb-high-satiety/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41502738

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It seems that parents should be required to activate this feature for their children.

Parents should be aware of their children's hearing health.

Do you think this will be the case?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41502104

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Hi HN - DBOS CEO here with the co-founders of DBOS, Peter (KraftyOne) and Qian (qianli_cs). The company started as a research project of Stanford and MIT, and Peter and Qian were advised by Mike Stonebreaker, the creator of Postgres, and Matei Zaharia, the creator of Spark. They believe so strongly in reliable, serverless compute that they started a company (with Mike) to bring it to the world!

Today we want to share our brand new Python library providing ultra-lightweight durable execution.

https://github.com/dbos-inc/dbos-transact-py

Durable execution means your program is resilient to any failure. If it is ever interrupted or crashes, all your workflows will automatically resume from the last completed step. If you want to see durable execution in action, check out this demo app:

https://demo-widget-store.cloud.dbos.dev/

Or if you’re like me and want to skip straight to the Python decorators in action, here’s the demo app’s backend – an online store with reliability and correctness in just 200 LOC: https://github.com/dbos-inc/dbos-demo-apps/blob/main/python/...

No matter how many times you try to crash it, it always resumes from exactly where it left off! And yes, that button really does crash the app.

Under the hood, this works by storing your program's execution state (which workflows are currently executing and which steps they've completed) in a Postgres database. So all you need to use it is a Postgres database to connect to—there's no need for a "workflow server." This approach is also incredibly fast, for example 25x faster than AWS Step Functions.

Some more cool features include:

* Scheduled jobs—run your workflows exactly-once per time interval, no more need for cron. * Exactly-once event processing—use workflows to process incoming events (for example, from a Kafka topic) exactly-once. No more need for complex code to avoid repeated processing * Observability—all workflows automatically emit OpenTelemetry traces.

Docs: https://docs.dbos.dev/

Examples: https://docs.dbos.dev/examples

We also have a webinar on Thursday where we will walk through the new library, you can sign up here: https://www.dbos.dev/webcast/dbos-transact-python

We'd love to hear what you think! We’ll be in the comments for the rest of the day to answer any questions you may have.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41502094

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Article URL: https://sherwood.news/markets/nvidia-earnings-revenue-profit-growth-bo-jackson-of-stock-market/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41502091

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The best reads I've found in this category consists mostly of interface guidelines from the 1990s and early 2000s.

Books like Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines and The Humane Interface. They're fun to read in a novel sense, but most of the information is not really applicable today.

Would be interesting to find any reads on thinking outside the WIMP (windows, icons, menus, pointer) perspective, but I guess it's way too niche.

Experimental, theoretical, philosopical etc. Anything of interest. Preferably traditional 2D interface environments.

Any modern looks on this, from this decade or so?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41502087

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Article URL: https://sreday.com/2024-london/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41502045

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Article URL: https://hbr.github.io/Lambda-Calculus/lam-simu/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41502034

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Article URL: https://github.com/expressjs/express/releases/tag/v5.0.0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41502030

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Article URL: https://ploomber.io/blog/docker-gen/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41502007

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Article URL: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/contra-deboer-on-temporal-copernicanism

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41502005

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Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/10/24240906/sony-ps5-pro-disc-drive-separate-price

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41502002

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Article URL: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/six-ideas-for-poland

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41501999

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Article URL: https://oxide.computer/podcasts/oxide-and-friends/2065190

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41501997

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Article URL: https://nalanj.dev/posts/safe-assignment/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41501996

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