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by albertwang 1mo ago
ERCOT operates most of Texas’ grid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Reliability_Council_o...
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by albertwang 5mo ago
Here’s the spaceX announcement (non-paywalled): https://x.com/spacex/status/2046713419978453374
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by albertwang 5mo ago
SpaceX’s announcement (non paywalled): https://x.com/spacex/status/2046713419978453374
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by albertwang 8mo ago
great news, this looks great! is it just me, or do most of the english audio samples sound like anime voices?
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by albertwang 1y ago
Media commentary: https://venturebeat.com/ai/huaweis-new-open-source-technique...
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Talk like a graph: Encoding graphs for large language models(blog.research.google)
2 points by albertwang 3y ago|0 comments
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by albertwang 3y ago
http://archive.today/9HkLP
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American Airlines burying sawdust to combat climate change(wsj.com)
10 points by albertwang 3y ago|11 comments
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AWS debuts Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client device for virtual desktop access(aws.amazon.com)
51 points by albertwang 3y ago|16 comments
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Beaming Solar Energy from Space Gets a Step Closer(wsj.com)
2 points by albertwang 3y ago|0 comments
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by albertwang 5y ago
I definitely get your point, but over-generalized comments like these are also dangerous. Just as there are many MBAs who were or are veteran software developers, the HN community is large enough that there are many members who are profess
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by albertwang 5y ago
The Met has a video overview of the exhibition: https://youtube.com/watch?v=3CxZ2PrXQ1M https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2021/medici-p...
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by albertwang 5y ago
Sorry if it's a bit of an enterprisy-response, but please reach out! We are supporting some non-cloud commercial customers on a case-by-case basis. The reason for this is that we find the support and maintenance burden to be much hig
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by albertwang 5y ago
Exactly! Since most ELT tools (including Airbyte) support json + csv output formats, those work perfectly well with Materialize out-of-the-box. I'm playing around with Slack+Stripe Airbyte sources to try and come up with some fun das
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by albertwang 5y ago
As cirego mentioned, we (Materialize) have the TAIL operator, which was built to allow users to subscribe to changes: https://materialize.com/docs/sql/tail/
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by albertwang 6y ago
Nothing we can share publicly at the moment yet, but if you reach out and chat, we're more than happy to give you some numbers that I think will address what you're looking for!
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by albertwang 6y ago
Do you happen to have any examples of real-time queries or apps you would be interested in? Re: the second point — you’re right, Materialize has historically leveraged existing upstream systems (like Kafka) for things like persistence. But
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Lilly Alzheimer’s Drug Helped Patients in Small Trial(wsj.com)
1 points by albertwang 6y ago|2 comments
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by albertwang 6y ago
Donanemab slowed cognitive and functional decline of patients with mild Alzheimer’s by 32% compared with placebo Link to press release: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/lillys-donanemab-sl...
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by albertwang 6y ago
We’re very aware of ksqlDB. I would recommend this video from last week where Matthias talks about some of the strengths and weaknesses of ksql: https://youtu.be/KUQuegJ4do8
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by albertwang 6y ago
Here's a 15-minute introduction to Timely Dataflow by Frank, our co-founder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOnPmVf4YWo
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by albertwang 6y ago
As George points out above, we haven’t added our native persistence layer yet. Consistency guarantees are something we care a lot, so for many scenarios, we leverage the upstream datastore (often Kafka). But to answer your question, yes, ou
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Decoding the Peloton: From Voltages to “Cadence, Output, and Resistance”(ihaque.org)
6 points by albertwang 6y ago|0 comments
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Decoding the Peloton(ihaque.org)
1 points by albertwang 6y ago|0 comments
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by albertwang 6y ago
Materialize is a bit more of a lower-level technology, and less of a single "feature". I've included some example use cases built on top of Materialize in my other comment. In addition, while Materialize does support connecti
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by albertwang 6y ago
(Responding from the perspective of Materialize, the technology and company built on top of Differential Dataflow) Some examples we're seeing interest for: Building realtime, low-latency (< 10 sec) dashboards. The type of things wh
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by albertwang 6y ago
Out of (self-interested) curiosity, what are you referring to with the "nvme->timely dataflow on a laptop" reference? The closest benchmark I could find was the "FASTER State Management for Timely Dataflow" paper from
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Three great things about Rust for data-intensive computation(materialize.io)
12 points by albertwang 6y ago|1 comments
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by albertwang 6y ago
I'm a PM @ Materialize. Regarding the questions from the OP's link: #1 -- Postgres is built in C, while Timely/Differential (which underpin Materialize) are built in Rust. Materialize could be a Postgres extension at some p
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by albertwang 7y ago
Source appears to be here: https://github.com/StanfordSNR/gg Some more info linked here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16570548

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