Viewing profile — solidangle

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]…

> 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 u…

This sounds like an interesting contrarian take. Would you care to elaborate?

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 w…

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…

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 or…

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 …

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 …

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 …

(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 o…

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 a…

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?

Dutch: honderdvijfenzeventig (hundred five and seventy)

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 i…

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 b…

The post was edited to remove comments about hiring

The post was edited

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 th…

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 mentio…

It could be, but it would be the size of a tennis ball. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28167058

``` if (node != next) { node = node->next; } ``` How does this work? Shouldn't this be ``` if (node != next) { node = next; } ```?

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 finis…