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by chrisjc 6y ago
> doesn't bode well for the long-term prospects of the service. Although i understand the strings that viacomm is pulling, I wonder if this is google's way of trying to shed users in preparation for service retirement.
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by chrisjc 6y ago
DWs like Snowflake certainly share some features you'll find in traditional RDBMSs, but I'm not sure I would classify it as one. https://www.quora.com/Is-Snowflake-a-RDBMS > That's what SQL is good for, wh
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by chrisjc 6y ago
> Why does SQL need to be turned into tables an views anyway? What problem is this solving? So that data is aggregated, summarized, cleansed, transformed, join, normalized, whatever before you query it. It's much cheaper, faster, et
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by chrisjc 6y ago
Sure, that's sufficient most of the time. However, there times when your view might span multiple tables and you want to ensure that full table scans aren't triggered before your view predicate is acted upon. This may also come do
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by chrisjc 6y ago
Any chance you could get into a little more detail about this framework? Sounds very interesting. Any reason you developed your framework instead of using a tool like dbt?
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by chrisjc 6y ago
> For data warehousing, create more views! Agreed, but... the problem with views are they aren't parameterizable. In effect they are static templates. Fortunately, modern data warehouses often provide user defined table functions th
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by chrisjc 6y ago
I think it's pretty safe to say that they always were in the process of developing their own. They never weren't. All this is going to do is accelerate those plans.
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by chrisjc 6y ago
From what I understand, it's not the mines that are the problem. In fact, China imports most of its rare earth materials. What they control is the refinement of these materials turning them from a raw form to something useable. I belie
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by chrisjc 6y ago
I remember that Fujitsu fabricated the SPARC processor, but what other semiconductors is Japan known for?
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by chrisjc 6y ago
I was wondering the same. Also wondering if a new fab was required in order to scale up for the potential new demand from Apple.
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by chrisjc 6y ago
> Same thing goes for chips, where only Taiwan and the US can manufacture current gen nodes. This view is rampant throughout this thread and I keep wondering why South Korea is omitted. I thought SK semiconductor tech was comparable the
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by chrisjc 6y ago
Spark is more than just a ML framework. It's extensively used for ETL, stream and batch processing, etc...
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by chrisjc 6y ago
Just switched from CVS to Walgreens for this exact reason. They were charging the insurance (and us for the uncovered amount) full prices for generic versions. And let me just clarify, the prescription bottle had the generic version on the
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by chrisjc 6y ago
If HN keeps recommending all these amazing podcasts that I've never heard of, I'm not going to have enough time in day to get through them... Thanks for the recommendation!
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by chrisjc 6y ago
Just occurred to me that a desalinization plant and sodium battery plant might be a good combination? Assuming brine could be used a source for sodium batteries being manufactured, it could be a good solution for all of the undesired byprod
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by chrisjc 6y ago
I've heard about approaches for manufacturing fuel on the Moon, but I can't imagine how you might manufacture it in earth's orbit. What are the leading ideas around this approach? edit: i know we can launch more fuel into orb
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by chrisjc 6y ago
This mirrors my experience with Airflow by another SaaS. Ended up getting rid of it when our Data Warehouse introduced tasks and stored procedures, since most of our work was ELT.
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by chrisjc 6y ago
Let's not pretend that you have to be a Chinese citizen, or even Chinese in order to spy for China. Or for any other country for that matter. https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/28/politics/harvard-professor
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by chrisjc 6y ago
> The term “共匪” is an insult that dates back to China’s Nationalist government, while “五毛,” (or “wu mao”) is a derogatory slang term > These phrases seem to have been accidentally added to YouTube’s comment filters, which automaticall
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by chrisjc 6y ago
"Presto is an open-source distributed SQL query engine optimized for low-latency, ad-hoc analysis of data. It supports the ANSI SQL standard, including complex queries, aggregations, joins, and window functions. Presto can process data
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by chrisjc 6y ago
Sad to hear this since I've been following Drill for a while. From what I understand Drill was based on the google Dremel paper, hence the name. https://research.google/pubs/pub36632/ Wondering if maybe Spark
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by chrisjc 6y ago
49 according to the project list page. Some of which are in attic, some in incubation. https://projects.apache.org/projects.html?category#big-data Were you looking for a single project for all your big-data needs?
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by chrisjc 6y ago
Every furniture store around here has been "going out of business" for the last 20 years. At least that's what I've gathered from their "everything must go", "50% off" fluorescent signs.
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by chrisjc 6y ago
> it seems to me that U.S. public sentiment has been shifting against the lockdowns recently - and not just among some fringe protester groups, but among all kinds of demographically and ideologically different groups Unfortunately, I&#x
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by chrisjc 7y ago
Not exactly arguing against your point, but there are distributed SQL engines that can run against multiple data-sources... Presto comes to mind. https://prestodb.io/
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by chrisjc 7y ago
> SQL is designed for rows of flat data. That is no longer exclusively the case. SQL is used in plenty of places to query nested and semi-structured data. In fact I use it on a daily basis. Eg: avro data in/from Kafka, "json&qu
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by chrisjc 7y ago
If you had to do it again today, what would you do? Especially interested in this part: > If you have realtime data ingestion, you will also have to build tooling to re-ingest older data that has changed or needed to be amended. This wil
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by chrisjc 7y ago
I believe TARP made a profit... Out of curiosity were profits privatized?
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by chrisjc 7y ago
Interesting note... Tencent owns QQ. QQ was originally called OICQ, Open ICQ. There was a great acquired episode on Tencent. https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/season-3-episode-10-tencent
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by chrisjc 7y ago
I understand that the initial funding was provided through the vision fund, and second round funding through the vision fund was shot down by vision fund members. As as a result, the second round funding was going to be provided by Softbank

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