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691.
by twoodfin 1y ago
This seems like valuable data, and I don’t like complaining about UX on hn but… I’m giving up. The tab layout and scrolling are effectively unusable on my iPhone.
692.
by twoodfin 1y ago
To be fair... the W3C at the time was only starting to recover from their fascination with all things XML and Semantic Web. To the extent a standards body has an innovation budget, theirs had been in serious deficit for a while. In the mean
693.
by twoodfin 1y ago
Low-latency databases are architected to be memory-bandwidth bound. SMT allows more connections to be generating more loads faster, utilizing more memory bandwidth. Think async or green threads, but for memory or branch misses rather than b
694.
by twoodfin 1y ago
That’s more than fair. In the system I’m most familiar with, however, the benefits of hyperthreading for throughput extend to the 50-70% utilization band where p99 latency is not stressed.
695.
by twoodfin 1y ago
For whatever it’s worth, operational database systems (many users/connections, unpredictable access patterns) are beneficiaries of modern hyperthreading. I’m familiar with one such system where the throughput benefit is ~15%, which is
696.
by twoodfin 1y ago
If you take the time to listen to this excellent interview, you will definitely be able to form your own opinion.
697.
by twoodfin 1y ago
I dunno: We’re well into the retirement years of the Boomers, and despite whatever drawdown they’re making, the market hasn’t been suffering; just the opposite.
698.
by twoodfin 1y ago
You forgot about Al Gore.
699.
by twoodfin 1y ago
“We’re not profitable even if we discount training costs.” and “Inference revenue significantly exceeds inference costs.” are not incompatible statements. So maybe only the first part of Sam’s comment was correct.
700.
by twoodfin 1y ago
The premise of this thread is that efficient markets and comparative advantage won’t leave even a large nation with enough of the right competitive local industries for national security or whatever objective. Thus to sustain those industri
701.
by twoodfin 1y ago
But why would we think Meta hadn’t assessed that particular risk?
702.
by twoodfin 1y ago
In all seriousness, that’s basically what the Soviets thought they were doing—and why—from (at least) 1945 on. It really didn’t work out, despite sometimes giving the appearance of a plausible alternative to the capitalist world.
703.
by twoodfin 1y ago
What happens if there’s a global pandemic next month and every industry experiences massive labor and supply chain disruption? It sucks for a while; the system is strong and adapts. I appreciate fabs are multi-year, massive capital investme
704.
by twoodfin 1y ago
This is too glib: If you imagine a world where every critical industry is replicated in every large nation, often inefficiently or inadequately, that’s a world where the average person is much, much poorer. And for what?
705.
by twoodfin 1y ago
It’s possible to commit crimes or civil infractions (fraud, for example) through speech without the speech itself being the criminal act. In the case of flag burning, unless the context is a general ban on burning anything, the content of t
706.
by twoodfin 1y ago
Almost all the major ways in which NT deviates from UNIX have strong cases as being architectural wins: - A well-defined HAL for portability - An object manager for unified resource lifecycle and governance - Asynchronous I/O by defaul
707.
by twoodfin 1y ago
The MIT Athena computer labs while I was there were 80% SPARC and 20% SGI. Despite whatever porting frameworks Microsoft had to glom on, IE for Solaris was still better than the pig Netscape was at that point.
708.
by twoodfin 1y ago
Ami Pro on OS/2 was my word processor of choice through most of high school. The intuitive layout controls and clean, focused interface spoiled me for life.
709.
by twoodfin 1y ago
It’s less about convenient syntax and more about simplifying the construction of abstractions. You could argue that the latter is the core drive to evolve the standard.
710.
by twoodfin 1y ago
Right, but what’s the ratio? Every interaction I’ve had with Gartner suggests the vast bulk of their analysis revenue comes from “clients” rather than vendors.
711.
by twoodfin 1y ago
This article implies that Gartner’s revenue stream comes primarily from vendors. Does anyone know if that’s true? Gartner calls that whole arm of the business “insights” and doesn’t break it down further in their SEC filings. I’d be surpris
712.
by twoodfin 1y ago
For this claim to work, you have to demonstrate why this time is different, why standards of living and disposable income have been rising in the West and all over the world for 50 years or more—all while technological progress was as fast
713.
by twoodfin 1y ago
FWIW, Apple leaves it up to the app developer to specify a quality-of-service for a particular execution context: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Pe...
714.
by twoodfin 1y ago
Sure, but their mainstream OS didn’t support the bulk of the 80386’s capabilities until late 1995 . That’s kind of insane if you think about it.
715.
by twoodfin 1y ago
OK, but at least from my perspective, the point of OTF’s is to allow ongoing interoperability between query and update engines. A “standard” getting semi-monthly updates via random Databricks-affiliated GitHub accounts doesn’t really fit th
716.
by twoodfin 1y ago
If I implement what’s described in the Delta Lake paper, will I be able to query and update arbitrary Delta Lake tables as populated by Databricks in 2025? (Would be genuinely excited if the answer is yes.)
717.
by twoodfin 1y ago
It’s kind of wild that neither IBM (who got beat to the hardware punch by Compaq) nor Microsoft (who targeted the NT effort at everything except x86) initially grokked how revolutionary the 80386 was: A “decent enough” 32-bit architecture
718.
by twoodfin 1y ago
The Iceberg spec is a model of clarity and simplicity compared to the (constantly in flux via Databricks commits…) Delta protocol spec: https://github.com/delta-io/delta/blob/master/PROTOCOL.md
719.
by twoodfin 1y ago
What I mean is that the SOM feature checklist was downstream of trying to sell “software components” as a means of turning development shops into “software factories” to an audience of PHB’s. CORBA had a ton of “technobabble”, too: It wasn’
720.
by twoodfin 1y ago
If they were trying to sell their environment to the PC programmer demographic, then their marketing was definitely mistargeted, but I never considered the utility was obvious to them rather than the whole thing being an academic exercise.

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