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Great to see cost-effective alternatives to Cloudera and Databricks! We’ve spent three years building IOMETE, a self-hosted data lakehouse that combines Apache Iceberg and Spark, d…

Hypothesis: AI will first be convenient, then kill us. What does HN think? https://medium.com/@pietjandebruin/a-love-letter-to-ai-3b7843d2faec

LOL!

Just ran your comments - not just this comment - through ChatGPT and am passing along the feedback: As an AI language model, I do not have personal opinions or emotions. However, b…

The article doesn't claim that demand (or pricing) is inelastic in the data space. It makes the point that VC funding has inflated price levels across the board, similar to how col…

Not necessarily. Switching cost is an issue when the effort to switch is bigger than the potential benefits of switching (where benefit can be added functionality or lower costs). …

Netherlands is the 2nd largest exporter of agricultural products - behind the US -and it's 1/3 the size of Massachusetts...Sector is extremely innovative and productive. The Dutch …

[disclaimer: comment written by one of cofounders of iomete - a YC-backed startup - active in the same market as Snowflake] I think Snowflake is (still) expensive because it is a v…