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New comment by travem in "IRS Tactics Against Meta Open a New Front in the Corporate Tax Fight"

travem — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:24:38 +0000

A different perspective is that tax policy is intended to also shape behavior. Raising taxes on behavior we want to disincentivize, and lowering it on behavior we want to incentivize. While I get the conceptual neatness argument, adhering to that undermines the ability to use tax policy as a tool of government.

New comment by travem in "AliSQL: Alibaba's open-source MySQL with vector and DuckDB engines"

travem — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 20:03:10 +0000

One option is TiDB. It has support for columnar data alongside row based data. However, it is MySQL compatible, but not based on MySQL code so not quite what you asked for.

New comment by travem in "Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch"

travem — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:19 +0000

I had the same issue, decided to remove Roku instead…

I used to have a Roku TV, plus a a few of the standalone Roku Ultras for my other (non-Roku) TVs. I got a full page advert when I started up the TV one day and started the process of replacing them all (I think it is when Roku were experimenting with that).

Over about a year I replaced them with Apple TVs* and the user experience is far better, plus the amount of tracking domains reported by Pi-hole dropped precipitously! The TVs don't have internet access at all, they are just driven via the HDMI port now.

* I replaced the Ultras first, and when the Roku TV eventually started acting laggy on the apps I replaced the Roku TV as well.

New comment by travem in "Building the largest known Kubernetes cluster"

travem — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 17:57:38 +0000

There are also distributed databases that use RAFT but can still scale while delivering distributed consensus don’t is not a challenge that can’t be solved. For example, TiDB handles millions of QPS while delivering ACID transactions, e.g. https://vivekbansal.substack.com/p/system-design-study-how-f...

New comment by travem in "JetKVM – Control any computer remotely"

travem — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 15:17:48 +0000

When I used to work in credit control and accounts receivable, the use of D-U-N-S numbers was how we tied a lot of this information together. It is similar to how SSN are used by credit rating agencies but for businesses and global (unlike the EIN).

New comment by travem in "Rules for creating good-looking user interfaces"

travem — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 04:20:40 +0000

I am not sure what is going on with that screen, but the whole page seems to be "vibrating" in a very distracting way, never encountered that on another site before!

It appears to be related to my display settings on Mac OS. When the text size for the display is set to the "Larger text" it shows this vibrating. When the text size is set to one of the smaller sizes the shaking/vibrating does not appear.

New comment by travem in "A message from Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to all company employees"

travem — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 23:31:13 +0000

The context in the related AP article shows that they were CEO of Cadence during the time when that company violated export control rules by selling certain technology to Chinese organizations linked to the Chinese military.

> According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Cadence, in July, agreed to plead guilty to resolve charges that it violated export controls rules to sell hardware and software to China’s National University of Defense Technology, which is linked to the Chinese military. Tan was the CEO of Cadence when the company violated the rules between 2015 and 2021.

https://apnews.com/article/intel-trump-cotton-yeary-tan-2061...

New comment by travem in "OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive"

travem — Wed, 21 May 2025 21:30:42 +0000

> It's also a hoot to just see LDS missionaries waiving their iPhones around with the Genesis Apple clearly visible.

To be fair, the LDS doctrine around the fruit from the Garden of Eden and the fall is quite different from the Catholic understanding, it’s seen as a necessary, even a good thing, in the overall plan.

New comment by travem in "Visiting – Epic"

travem — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 23:40:11 +0000

Surely the dairy capital is California? They out produce Wisconsin by a significant margin - https://wisconsinwatch.org/2023/02/does-wisconsin-produce-mo...

New comment by travem in "TiDB – cloud-native, distributed SQL database written in Go"

travem — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 00:34:19 +0000

I do want to clarify a few points, on the project page it does provide the following information:

> Distributed Transactions: TiDB uses a two-phase commit protocol to ensure ACID compliance, providing strong consistency. Transactions span multiple nodes, and TiDB's distributed nature ensures data correctness even in the presence of network partitions or node failures.

> High Availability: Built-in Raft consensus protocol ensures reliability and automated failover. Data is stored in multiple replicas, and transactions are committed only after writing to the majority of replicas, guaranteeing strong consistency and availability, even if some replicas fail. Geographic placement of replicas can be configured for different disaster tolerance levels.

See https://github.com/pingcap/tidb?tab=readme-ov-file#key-featu...

Correctness has been a focus for a long time for TiDB, including working on passing Jepsen Tests back in 2019, see https://www.pingcap.com/blog/tidb-passes-jepsen-test-for-sna... and https://jepsen.io/analyses/tidb-2.1.7

Disclosure: Employee of PingCAP the company behind TiDB

New comment by travem in "TiDB – cloud-native, distributed SQL database written in Go"

travem — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 00:31:00 +0000

Yes, corrected!

New comment by travem in "TiDB – cloud-native, distributed SQL database written in Go"

travem — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 00:30:53 +0000

Yes, I am still getting up to speed after a long break for Christmas and New Year!

New comment by travem in "TiDB – cloud-native, distributed SQL database written in Go"

travem — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 23:34:02 +0000

There are quite a few. Pinterest, LinkedIn, Plaid, Mercari, and Rakuten shared their experiences with TiDB at PingCAP's annual event last year (2024) - https://www.pingcap.com/htap-summit/.

In the previous event (2023) there were speakers from Airbnb, Databricks, Flipkart, PayPay, and others sharing their experiences as well - https://www.pingcap.com/htap-summit/sept-2023/

Disclosure: Employee of PingCAP the company behind TiDB

New comment by travem in "Why Companies Are Ditching the Cloud: The Rise of Cloud Repatriation"

travem — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 06:41:10 +0000

It may not be as popular but they do have Amazon WorkDocs

> Amazon WorkDocs is a document storage, collaboration, and sharing system. Amazon WorkDocs is fully managed, secure, and enterprise scale.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/workdocs/latest/developerguide/w...

New comment by travem in "US probes Tesla's Full Self-Driving software after fatal crash"

travem — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 17:41:07 +0000

> The answer is zero

If autopilot is 10x safer then preventing its use would lead to more preventable deaths and injuries than allowing it.

I agree that it should be regulated and incidents thoroughly investigated, however letting perfect be the enemy of good leads to stagnation and lack of practical improvement and greater injury to the population as a whole.

New comment by travem in "ESPN Faces Proposed Fine for Improper Use of Emergency Alert Tones"

travem — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 00:02:16 +0000

> ESPN has a history of noncompliance with the Commission’s EAS rules and was fined in 2015 and 2021 for EAS violations.

Sounds like the previous fines didn't sufficiently motivate the correct behavior unfortunately.

New comment by travem in "The Death of the Minivan"

travem — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 20:33:54 +0000

Model X is no where near as spacious inside as a minivan. I have had a couple of Odyssey’s and they are much more spacious, particularly for the third row seating.

I eventually moved to an Electric Vehicle (Kia EV9) that is quite roomy, but still smaller than the minivan inside.

Amazon Is a Broken Mess

travem — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 00:23:16 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/seanecom/status/1818352268770787372

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41115393

Points: 10

# Comments: 5

New comment by travem in "MicroMac, a Macintosh for under £5"

travem — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 21:23:46 +0000

You could check out the A500 mini, more of an emulator though - https://retrogames.biz/products/thea500-mini/

New comment by travem in "Researchers make a supercapacitor from water, cement, and carbon black"

travem — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 00:09:22 +0000

A lot of heating in the UK is gas (so wouldn't drive electricity consumption) and a lot of homes in the UK do not have AC (recent news reports suggest it is under 5% of the homes have it)