Hacker News: electrum

Ending procurement and forced use of paper straws (2025)

electrum — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 23:19:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/ending-procurement-and-forced-use-of-paper-straws/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49851323

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

UK could force phone companies to add 'anti-theft protections'

electrum — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 21:10:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckqxvy98x578o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49760312

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by electrum in "Proposed Rule: Eliminating the Discretionary 60-Day Grace Period"

electrum — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:35:54 +0000

California employees who are discharged must be paid all wages due at the time of termination. (Labor Code § 201)

New comment by electrum in "Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2?"

electrum — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 03:45:09 +0000

> of course you had at least one floppy disk drive, how could you use a computer without one?

IBM PCs, even into the PS/2 days, would boot into Cassette BASIC if you didn't have a floppy drive or boot disk inserted: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_BASIC

My high school had the PS/2 Model 25 SX, introduced in 1992, without hard drives. All of the software ran off of a Novell NetWare file server, but required a bootable floppy disk. If you removed the floppy disk, they would boot into the built-in BASIC from the machine's ROM.

New comment by electrum in "Show HN: Stage – Putting humans back in control of code review"

electrum — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:03:53 +0000

Does Stage work for PRs that have multiple commits? These could be considered "stacked diffs", but in the same PR.

New comment by electrum in "Find SF parking cops"

electrum — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 06:31:55 +0000

According to https://www.sfmta.com/getting-around/drive-park/how-avoid-pa...

> During street sweeping hours, you may not park until the street has been physically swept.

New comment by electrum in "How to Use the Foreign Function API in Java 22 to Call C Libraries"

electrum — Thu, 09 May 2024 04:30:08 +0000

You might be able to use FILE_FLAG_DELETE_ON_CLOSE, but this would likely require calling the Windows API functions directly.

New comment by electrum in "Understanding Parquet, Iceberg and Data Lakehouses"

electrum — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 14:12:01 +0000

Trino no longer depends on Hadoop/Hive for any of its data lake connectors. Removing that dependency was a huge effort.

New comment by electrum in "Finding Java Thread Leaks with JDK Flight Recorder and a Bit of SQL"

electrum — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 22:02:17 +0000

Yeah, URL is from the first release of Java and should be avoided. You want to use URI instead.

New comment by electrum in "Meta just gave thousands of employees poor performance reviews"

electrum — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 08:28:07 +0000

tbgs is internal code search for Facebook: https://codesearchguide.org/story/facebook

New comment by electrum in "Owl: A toolkit for writing command-line user interfaces in Elixir"

electrum — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 21:52:51 +0000

JLine has a complete terminal library and includes a demo which is a full editor: https://github.com/jline/jline3

Leaving Facebook/Meta was the best thing we could do for the community

electrum — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 20:16:55 +0000

Article URL: https://trino.io/blog/2022/08/02/leaving-facebook-meta-best-for-trino.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32323746

Points: 212

# Comments: 62

Data Fabric vs. Data Mesh: What's the Difference?

electrum — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 16:55:29 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.starburst.io/data-fabric-vs.-data-mesh-whats-the-difference

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29267607

Points: 66

# Comments: 15

New comment by electrum in "New PostgreSQL Interface for Cloud Spanner"

electrum — Wed, 13 Oct 2021 03:30:02 +0000

Procedures are very useful to enforce business logic in the database, rather than in the application. It’s like putting a higher level application-specific API on top of your database schema.

For Cockroach, it could help substantially with latency for multi-statement transactions, since the procedure could be executed on a database node closest to the leaseholder for the data. Executing a multi-statement transaction on the client means incurring per-statement latency between the client and gateway node, and between the gateway node and the leaseholder.

Does the Data Mesh make data integration harder?

electrum — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 15:45:44 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.starburst.io/does-the-data-mesh-make-data-integration-harder

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28566820

Points: 29

# Comments: 1

New comment by electrum in "O.mg Cable"

electrum — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 19:13:15 +0000

$49 for the device and data: https://blues.io/

New comment by electrum in "Strict Tables – Column type constraints in SQLite - Draft"

electrum — Sat, 21 Aug 2021 20:17:57 +0000

The H2 embedded database has compatibility modes for other databases, which seems helpful for testing, but ends up being incompatible in various ways for anything non-trivial. You end up fighting the compatibility and skipping useful native features of the target database, while still not having confidence that the code works on the target database.

We now use the awesome Testcontainers library (available for multiple languages) that makes it easy to launch the real database in a Docker container. Testing applications against multiple databases is now trivial.

New comment by electrum in "PostGIS – Spatial and Geographic Objects for PostgreSQL"

electrum — Mon, 05 Apr 2021 09:20:17 +0000

The Bing Maps Tile System has a similar projection system: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/bingmaps/articles/bing-maps...

Data Mesh: The Answer to the Data Warehouse Hypocrisy

electrum — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 15:14:44 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.starburstdata.com/data-mesh-the-answer-to-the-data-warehouse-hypocrisy

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26581271

Points: 25

# Comments: 4

New comment by electrum in "Why is it so hard to see code from 5 minutes ago?"

electrum — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 07:20:58 +0000

This is part of the IntelliJ IDEA platform, so all of the JetBrains IDE products have it. I don’t use it often, since I normally rely on Git, but it’s saved me several times after I accidentally deleted a file or made a mistake with Git.