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ambrood

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    Comment #43647087

    Congrats again micah! Also Iceberg catalog on R2 without needing to spin up additional services... lets gooooo

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    Comment #43640838

    > Maybe you mentioned it in your demo and I missed it, but how does this differ pasting the log messages to ChatGPT / Claude / another LLM? Is it mainly that yours can iterate over…

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    Show HN: LLM Based Spark Profiler

    Hey HN, Spark event logs run into 100s of MBs and offer a wealth of insight into your workloads but making sense of them has always been quite a bit prohibitive. We’ve recently bui…

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    Comment #42201265

    thanks for the feedback! the first version had a lot more detailed code but decided to go with linking to our GitHub than copying all the code. Wanted to illustrate the core touch …

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    Comment #41261784

    DataFusion is primarily a batch OLAP system, so we should be able to support hybrid workloads as well. And definitely agree with you re: Polars dev exp. That is something we are ai…

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    Comment #41260701

    we absolutely do, the library itself is designed to be extensible. we are currently working on adding webhooks as one of our sources. are there are any specific connectors/sources …

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    Comment #41260214

    while haven't checked out Fluvio yet, we are fans of Arroyo. regarding latter my understanding is that the team is going for a SQL first complete replacement for Flink. Denormalize…

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    Comment #41259520

    thanks @ztratar. would love to hear about your workloads at embra would be very helpful vis-a-vis the direction of our typescript experience. feel free to drop us an email: hello@d…

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    Comment #41259450

    this looks so clutch! curious if this was purpose built for the finance industry?

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    Comment #41258768

    thanks for the encouraging words @ethegwo. Tonbo looks very cool and potentially something we could use for our state backend (currently using RocksDB which we aren't that happy ab…

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    Show HN: Denormalized – Embeddable Stream Processing in Rust and DataFusion

    tl;dr we built an embeddable stream processing engine in Rust using apache DataFusion, check us out at https://github.com/probably-nothing-labs/denormalized Hey HN, We’d like to sh…

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    Comment #39366094

    have been playing this for sometime. quite addictive! ty @cpojer

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    Show HN: All I wanted was to grok some real-time data

    Hi HN, We are launching Denormalized (www.denormalized.io), a serverless real-time data platform built on Kafka and Pinot. We felt a bit burnt out by the sheer developer toil we fa…

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    Comment #37071369

    Again much of that is how the accounting for stock grants goes (most of it in company’s history) and not say, actual PNL incurred in incentives.

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    Comment #37071349

    you realise that much of it is stock grants right?

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    Comment #37071142

    perhaps update your priors at this point. Uber is a profitable company now.

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    Comment #37071130

    this isn’t the modus operandi. SOP is Uber will give you a call/leave a message. Also passengers pay you $20 or so for returning an item. Only situations where they will disable yo…

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    Comment #36704132

    lmao... figured it was radius reduction or somesuch. i ended up working on Winterfell (the service that managed automated radius reduction) at some point during my time there.

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    Comment #36703460

    the picture is from like 8 years ago.

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    Comment #36703271

    even for 2015 (when this was likely taken) Uber Eats would most certainly not have run from a single laptop. Core services like dispatch, matching, pricing etc in any case weren't …

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    Comment #34701951

    Have been playing around with this a bit lately and the OS integration is just really well done. Very nifty interface for shoving context from across your apps into ChatGPT.

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    Comment #32128875

    pre-IPO RSUs usually come with a double trigger. meaning you vest them monthly or quarterly etc but a liquidity event such as an IPO, is needed to actually "vest" them in a taxable…