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I think this is a bit of a non issue. The UI is just that, a UI. Take it or leave it. If it makes your life easier, great. If not, nothing changes about how you use DuckDB.

There is always going to be some overlap between open source contributions and commercial interests but unless a real problem emerges like core features getting locked behind paywalls there is no real cause for concern. If that happens then sure let’s talk about it and raise the issue in a public forum. But for now it is just a nice convenience feature that some people (like me) will find useful.

Owning things is breaking things (and fixing it).

salesforce is a sales and marketing company first, tech company second. it's in their interest to create a ton of buzz and hype on whatever the current thing is and how they are that thing. Then they go on to sell a basic CRUD app that has to be customized by consultants.

that's been supported in striim since 2016

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3129292.3129294

I agree that it's not particularly surprising that if you try to trick an LLM with irrelevant text will make it perform worse.

I don't see this as an material limitation of LLMs but rather something that can be addressed at the application level to strip out irrelevant information.

Why is it a good candidate to disrupt? 1 year in, the “disruptor” would run into the exact same problems if they reach any meaningful scale or adoption.

Asking happy team members to review your company is no different than apps asking frequent users to review on the App Store.

Anecdotal but my wife actually likes that she’s fed such relevant ads on instagram and ends up researching and buying many of the products.

reminds me of this blog on streaming data to Parquet files and running queries on data in the native format.

https://pedram.substack.com/p/streaming-data-pipelines-with-...

I had a friend who actually took the “unlimited PTO” thing at face value when he was fresh out of college and joined a cool tech company. He was literally traveling every 2-3 weeks and bragging about it. He was let go for performance reasons within 6 months lol.

It could also be corruption caused by log-based database replication

Coinbase basically played by the rules, wanted to work with the SEC, takes public audits and a 1:1 ratio between liabilities and reserves in US dollars (not their own funny money tokens). And yet they were surpassed in # of users by growth hacking crypto gamesmen like SBF who wanted to drum up the largest possible liquidity pool to use however they pleased with no oversight or regulation.

FTX is a centralized (not DeFi) exchange that used their own coin as collateral and obfuscated their liquidity. This wouldn’t be possible in open decentralized exchanges that many in web3/crypto were advocating for. However SBF made it his mission to lobby regulation on DeFi and a blind eye to CeFi exchanges like his own.

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/morning-money/2022/10/2...

It’s a free cloud service. If you rely on someone else to host your compute/storage at no cost, prepare for getting little or very delayed support. Ask all the YouTube creators or Instagram users that had their accounts randomly shut off and had to do a lot of work to get it back. This isn’t specific to Oracle at all. Or try AWS and get a surprise $10k bill that they won’t refund.

Zoom and Netflix both lost 60-80% of their value in the last year and I don't see anyone declaring them dead. I don't work in crypto but I think there's a bit of a knee jerk reaction to seeing all the vaporware projects being wiped out (rightfully so). Consolidation and pruning of wasteful projects is good. If you feel like the work you're personally doing is positive, then don't worry about people dancing on the graves of LUNA and Celsius. ETH is still a legitimate technology with real use cases.

I wonder if a recession or bear market environment will quickly make this type of advice – that worked well for the 2010s boom – obsolete in a harsher climate. Might be hard to scale your go-to-market by depending on startups who don't want 'enterprise-ready' features to spend money on your product.

I guess all people with money have bootstrapped companies that launched mankind into space?

Maybe when the open source community successfully executes manned space missions, we can free ourselves from the tyranny of proprietary satellite technology…

+1. My tesla got side-swiped in November. The shop is estimating Mid-February (so probably March) for all parts to ship and labor to be completed.

"The failure modes are huge. Most notably, the Cheernobyl Absolute Exclusion Zone stands at 1000 square miles 35 years after the fact"

We can also talk about all the tragedies and catastrophic events related to commercial aviation. But no one in their right mind would propose that we stop or slow down the airline industry because of the 'failure modes'.

" simple enough to understand but realistic enough that the student can see the issue matters."

Exactly this.

My least favorite method of teaching is when they dive into a tutorial or example which has nothing to do with the actual problem.

E.g. when I was independently trying to learn how to code in high school (before my CS program in college), I was using some C++ book that started with a 'Hello World' program. I had no idea what the context for 'Hello World' was and why computer programs need to 'print' stuff. It was just a world of confusion. I remember working through it and not being satisfied at all. Why did I care that my terminal was telling me 'Hello World'?

On the other hand I had amazing CS professors in college who would introduce their course with the real-world problem its solving and the ideal end-state of mastering that area of coursework such as writing a programming language or creating optimal algorithms.

Clubhouse is fundamentally a poor user experience. Dropping into a live discussion mid-stream is a pretty inefficient way to consume content...takes about 10-15 minutes to understand the flow of the conversation.

Most of the clubhouse influencers treat it as a low-effort way to just start a channel and brain dump whatever's on their mind compared to curated/planned content that you see on Youtube or high quality blog posts. In fact that's how it was sold to marketers (low effort, high yield).

There’s no evidence that it’s more deadly at this time.

In the words of Derek Lowe...

“Many infectious pathogens, in fact, gradually evolve versus a given animal host to be more infectious and less virulent over time. Remember, it’s not the job of a virus to make people deathly ill: it’s the job of a virus to make more virus.”

If you run marketing to drive superficial vanity metrics like ad clicks, email opens, unique website visitors, then yes you're 'addicted to bad data' but more so just lack attention to detail and aren't good at your job.

If you run marketing to capture high-intent traffic, measure positive engagement with your content, and correlate those indicator metrics with product activation and monetization, then you're simply using data – even if it's partially flawed – to drive meaningful growth for your business.

3 columns. Left-most = maximizing TAM. Center = optimizing revenue. Right = maximizing revenue on strong fits.

I think the main takeaway was the influence on children. I don't think there's precedent for providing kids with constant access to dopamine-driven, socially adjacent experiences. At least with TV and video games, they're finite activities with time limits (hopefully).

Yet giving a pre-teen a phone where they're constantly being spammed with addictive content is dangerous. I can't even imagine all the psychological and developmental implications.

In terms of adults being addicted to apps and their data being used for ad-targeting...eh. User beware. I think we have bigger issues facing us.

Instead of treating interviews like an exam where you measure someone based on number of correct answers, use it to gauge their problem solving ability. Can the candidate articulate their thought process? Is there some evidence of strong fundamental knowledge/theory being applied naturally in that process?

As an interviewer, I don't really care if a candidate happened to know the answer to an algorithmic puzzle or has a deep knowledge of academic minutia. I want to know three things: can this person reliably and meaningfully solve technical problems, can they communicate their findings to the team, and finally – do they strive to learn the details or do they just skim/superficially solve problems? Obviously expertise in a job-relevant domain is great too - but I'd consider it a bonus; the difference between a senior and a junior/mid-level hire.

The author's suggestion of a 'trial period' of employment might also be one of the impractical, costly, infeasible ideas I've ever seen proposed.

So the candidate doesn't want to spend 1 hour on a coding interview because 'they don't have time.' The solution?

Spend a month on-boarding the candidate to your company (taking time from multiple team members), give them an implicitly high stakes work project while they get used to the new working environment and production codebase.

Meanwhile there's tension/friction because the company wants to quickly validate the temporary hire. If it's successful, okay proceed as an employee. If it's unsuccessful, it's a huge waste of everyone's time, a costly experiment for the company/team, and likely a very unpleasant 6 week long working engagement. Then the candidate will have to explain why they only lasted at their previous employer for 6 weeks in their next set of interviews.

> There are signs the exodus is finally happening. Silicon Valley, America’s signature hub of innovation, may never be the same.

I wouldn’t lump all of Silicon Valley in with San Francisco. The suburbs outside the city still enjoy a high quality of life.

Not to mention companies like Apple, Facebook, Google spent billions on long term leases in Silicon Valley. They will have their workers come back to the office when it’s safe.

It's still good to see such questions being raised in the community, especially when someone knowledgeable on the matter (such as yourself) has an educated response.

> Very low CD8 T-cell responses

Do we know if this is actually an issue? A lower CD8 t-cell response might be expected given it's an RNA vaccine.