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by arnon 8y ago
There's no "This database beats that other database". There are a variety of use-cases, query profiles, workloads. There is no one-database-fits-all.
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by arnon 8y ago
I actually liked the squiggles. Also, once you've tried Whatsapp calls, Viber calls, Google calls... Skype is so much better.
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by arnon 8y ago
SQream | Tel Aviv, Israel | Full-Time ONSITE SQream is the company behind SQream DB, a GPU-accelerated data warehouse. We focus on building the fastest performing SQL data warehouse. SQream recently closed a B-round led by Alibaba Group, an
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A gentle introduction to hardware accelerated data processing(hackernoon.com)
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by arnon 8y ago
The parser is open source - https://github.com/JakeWheat/hssqlppp
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by arnon 8y ago
We built an SQL compiler in Haskell, and this has been our model from day 0 (back in 2010)... It's really easy to follow these rules with Haskell. We develop our syntax to be easily extensible. Being strongly and statically typed allow
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by arnon 8y ago
So, you pre-pay to get compute hours?
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IBM Power chips blur the lines to memory and accelerators(nextplatform.com)
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by arnon 8y ago
I suspect they might end up buying Starbucks
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by arnon 8y ago
I have 8GB of RAM, and I can't even open more than 10 tabs anymore, especially if one of them is Gmail and the other is Slack. I honestly find myself using quite a bit of Microsoft Edge, because it's just so much more efficient at
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by arnon 8y ago
We've been seeing this since the 60s. DC-10 promised it. L-1011 promised it ( https://www.psa-history.org/about_psa/aircraft/lockheed-l-10... ). 747 promised it ( https://vinepair.com/wine-blog&#
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by arnon 8y ago
A nice poem, and it may be true in some cases, but not a universal truth. When you're a telecom, and you have more than 40 million subscribers, a whiteboard may be a bit limiting.
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by arnon 8y ago
All the more reason to go distributed and parallel, and embrace simpler architectures that can support this. We've gotten complacent. Software keeps getting faster, despite bad coding - just because of the improvements in hardware.
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Ask HN: Best conference session speakers you've seen
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by arnon 8y ago
That's a great introduction to this world. As someone who extensively researches fares, I always find the routing codes and availability a bit overwhelming. I also agree with his closing arguments - always book directly from the airlin
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by arnon 8y ago
Well, "up to" is important here, right? GPUs are known to be able to speed up certain workloads, and can save a lot of money - by replacing distributed systems with a more compact GPU-enabled machine which can perform better for s
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by arnon 8y ago
Every new version of GCC breaks some kind of Boost related stuff for us. I haven't tested, but I'm going to assume it does.
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by arnon 9y ago
SEO works but actual focused content is better.
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by arnon 9y ago
I second that. Also, leverage.
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by arnon 9y ago
I wouldn't trust Marksblogg's tests. They focus on single-table "NYC Taxi" rides which don't represent most database use-cases. He also claims he takes the fastest runtime of the queries over several runs, which is
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by arnon 9y ago
There's also HSSQLPPP for Postgres, and it's written in Haskell https://github.com/JakeWheat/hssqlppp
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by arnon 9y ago
GPU databases have a higher latency, due to the need to copy data to and from the GPU. The data processed has to end up in the host RAM, to be sent to the client - it can't be sent directly from the GPU RAM. The GPU really only helps w
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by arnon 9y ago
I admire people who go through libraries and re-implement them, especially because I found Arrow (and Parquet) code very annoying to understand. The documentation doesn't cover the design decisions that the crew took, and what the conc
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Ask HN: What is the most egregious misuse of AI/ML marketing you've seen?
1 points by arnon 9y ago|0 comments
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by arnon 9y ago
Seeing as we develop a database, this would be perfect
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by arnon 9y ago
> "Cloud Spanner, in particular, provides external consistency, which provides all the benefits of strong consistency plus serializability." What Google call 'external consistency' is what's known by relational t
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NVLink Shines on Power9 for AI and HPC Tests(nextplatform.com)
2 points by arnon 9y ago|0 comments
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by arnon 9y ago
Thanks for this, will be useful for training future juniors!
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by arnon 9y ago
In general, most US airports are pretty bad, but I'll avoid Terminal 1 at JFK at whatever cost. It's by far the worst airport terminal I've been to in my life. I read this week that each of JFK's terminals is run as it&#
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“Most people could be immune to CRISPR”(technologyreview.com)
2 points by arnon 9y ago|0 comments

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