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Hey HN, I built Lytics because other offerings don't let you compare dimensions (all functionality is crammed into a SPA) and I wanted segment-able click tracking with accurate hea…

In chrome it says "Loading assets, please wait..." and hangs. but it works for me in firefox

The scariest part of US internet dominance isn’t vendor lock-in, it’s executive branch chaos engineering.

I think the hardest part of estimation often gets glossed over: genuine technical unknowns. Not "we didn’t think hard enough," but cases where the work itself is exploratory.

Note taking is actually a big part of rocket science: Step 1. Take notes on rocket science Step 2. Discover and distill from notes the first principles that help decouple yourself …

I appreciate any feedback on this demo, as well as on the broader concept. There are many little areas I have in mind to tweak and improve the model training. My hope is to further…

I'm an IC and can't stand scrum. However I regularly work with teams that are steeped in it. It's not really an issue because I always choose my level of participation when working…

Because I'm in a zoom meeting while reading hacker news.

yes, was wondering about this too

This hits home. Great way to learn on a little risk free side project, where you can pivot on a whim. This is how I like to learn. Unfortunately at work we have SCRUM teams that pr…

This. I know many folks who have a 30min - hour commute each way (pre-pandmaic). If they lived a bit closer, and spent that time walking to/from work instead of driving, there you …

Wow yeah, this made my day! It's nice not waiting 10 seconds for a video I don't want to watch to auto start playing (just so I can stop it).

FTA- "We are aware of a bug in Chrome that is impacting how cookies are cleared on some first-party Google websites. We are investigating the issue, and plan to roll out a fix in t…

Does anyone know what javascript library they are using to generate the their sankey diagrams?

It's used everywhere in analytics applications and particularly noticeable at scale. For specific example- We use roaring bitmaps (also from Lemire) in an inverted index to make co…

Very cool! I love geeking out on analytics tech and look forward to studying its design further. My take as I see it so far (please correct me if I'm wrong)- * As a datapoint Pinot…

THIS. I believe if it goes bankrupt you at least get the taxes back. But not if the company keeps going as a zombie. You end up getting shorted by the company AND Uncle Sam here. T…

Hi HN! I just open sourced Genetic.js, hope you enjoy!

> How big is this dataset (what does each event consist of)? Standard clickstream data, maybe 50-ish parameters per event. > What sort of queries are you running? > How is the data…

I use spark a lot and my experience has been quite the opposite. The queries I run against spark are billions of events and results are sub-second. I could only speculate as to wha…