solidangle

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Databricks raises $500M more, boosting valuation to $43B(techcrunch.com)
8 points by solidangle 3y ago|0 comments
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by solidangle 3y ago
This is my expectation as well. At CIDR this year there was a paper that presented an implementation of SQL/PGQ in DuckDB, and it outperforms Neo4J in a few selected benchmarks [1]. [1] https://www.cidrdb.org/cidr2023&#
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by solidangle 3y ago
> The ANN index IVF implemented in pgvector has very poor performance, with only around 50% recall. My understanding is that this mostly due to the default settings that pgvector uses (nprobes = 3) and not due to the usage of IVF. The re
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by solidangle 4y ago
This sounds like an interesting contrarian take. Would you care to elaborate?
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by solidangle 4y ago
But you don't have to write map-reduce jobs at all? You can just write SQL queries or Pandas programs, and they automatically get parallelized by Databricks. Databricks is a data warehouse (just like Snowflake). https://www.
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by solidangle 4y ago
TIS-100 brought back some of the same joy that I had when I began with programming many years ago. Since then programming has become boring for me, but the weird limitations of TIS-100 almost made it feel like I was starting fresh again. I
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by solidangle 5y ago
2-day delivery would be uncompetitive in The Netherlands. Next day delivery is the standard for webshops here, and most offer same day delivery as a paid upgrade when you either order before noon or live in a large city.
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by solidangle 5y ago
Wow, $14.99/month is a stark difference with the €2.99/month that they charge for a Prime subscription here in The Netherlands. I wonder if they will increase the subscription fee here to the same level once they reach the desired
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by solidangle 5y ago
For those wondering what the differences between Raft and Paxos are: I can highly recommend the following paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.05074 It presents Paxos similarly to how Raft was originally presented.
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by solidangle 5y ago
You might be interested in this paper [1] which presents Paxos in the same way as Raft is presented in the Raft paper. In my view it really illustrates that most of the simplicity of Raft comes from its excellent presentation and not necess
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by solidangle 5y ago
(Multi-)Paxos and Raft are incredibly similar. I would even argue that Raft is just a variant of Paxos in the same way that e.g. Fast Paxos and EPaxos are variants of Paxos. Most of the Raft algorithm is identical to the Paxos algorithm. Th
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by solidangle 5y ago
Netflix is also the most expensive service that I am subscribed to. Netflix is €14 and Amazon Prime is only €6. I basically only watch Netflix for a few of their originals (which are arguably aren't that great).
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by solidangle 5y ago
Does anyone know why this post is no longer present on the first page (or the second) despite racking up over 60 points in less than 30 minutes?
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by solidangle 5y ago
Dutch: honderdvijfenzeventig (hundred five and seventy)
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by solidangle 5y ago
When was the last time you used Databricks? You should definitely try it again. Their product offering has improved a lot in the past few years. > broad feature set My experience is that the feature sets of Snowflake and Databricks are v
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by solidangle 5y ago
Agreed! GCP should be broken up as well. It is incredibly unfair to third party services that Google is both supplying the platform and the competing services. This is probably a bigger problem on AWS though.
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by solidangle 5y ago
The post was edited to remove comments about hiring
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by solidangle 5y ago
The post was edited
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by solidangle 5y ago
Apple has filed a court case to block the publication of a report. Obviously the contents of the report will be discussed as part of the hearings. So if the hearings were public then the contents would become public as well, which would mak
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by solidangle 5y ago
Comparing Apache Beam with Stripe's API is unfair in my opinion. Apache Beam can be operated outside Google Cloud, but the Stripe API is only useful for Stripe customers (as mentioned by the author). I don't think it's weird
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Tabular(tabular.io)
1 points by solidangle 5y ago|0 comments
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Databricks raises $1.6B at $38B valuation as it blasts past $600M ARR(techcrunch.com)
1 points by solidangle 5y ago|0 comments
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by solidangle 5y ago
It could be, but it would be the size of a tennis ball. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28167058
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by solidangle 5y ago
``` if (node != next) { node = node->next; } ``` How does this work? Shouldn't this be ``` if (node != next) { node = next; } ```?
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by solidangle 5y ago
Hopefully the border tariff includes the CO2 cost of shipping. If the tariff is high enough then this might actually encourage local production, instead of shipping partially finished products 10 times around the world.
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by solidangle 5y ago
This is why I bought an iPhone 12. I had a Samsung Galaxy S8 before it and I was perfectly happy with it, except for the fact that it had reached the end of its scheduled security updates. The battery life was still good enough for my light
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by solidangle 6y ago
> As we expand the universe of software we wish to run on Fuchsia, we are encountering software that we wish to run on Fuchsia that we do not have the ability to recompile. For example, Android applications contain native code modules th
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Lakehouse: New Open Platforms That Unify Data Warehousing and Advanced Analytics [pdf](cidrdb.org)
36 points by solidangle 6y ago|9 comments
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by solidangle 7y ago
FWIW, I do think this project is really cool. I should have taken a little bit more time to write this comment, as it's overly negative right now.
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by solidangle 7y ago
> Blazing fast results I highly doubt this, given that the query engine is interpreted and non-vectorized. Queries are 10x to a 100x slower on a simple query, and 100x to 1000x slower on a query with large aggregations and joins without

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