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vgton Whistleblower drops 100 GB of Tesla secrets to German news site

I am not sure I agree with your assessment. Last time I was in a FSD Tesla, it repeatedly tried to run red lights and didn't know how to merge lanes on a freeway...

vgton Neeva acquired by Snowflake

Yes, efficacy of your argument

vgton Neeva acquired by Snowflake

don't disagree with what you said, but your Google Trends argument has a big asterisk against it - right in the page it says "This comparison contains both Search terms and Topics, which are measured differently. LEARN MORE"

vgton DuckDB 0.8

We at MotherDuck are huge supporters of DuckDB, and it's not a big secret that we're working on a managed DuckDB offering. Feel free to give us a ping to chat :)

vgton DuckDB: Querying JSON files as if they were tables

One of the major reasons we bet big on DuckDb at MotherDuck is due to the extendable nature of the code base, as demonstrated by the frequency of major improvements and additions.

vgton New Vehicle Safety Report Reveals Teslas Using Autopilot Are 10x Safer

I don't understand how this is possible. I recently rode in a Tesla with FSD engaged. In a span of 10 minutes it tried to run a red light, failed to change lanes, and failed to get off the freeway offramp. These were all vanilla scenarios with perfect San Diego weather and well-lit, well-labeled paths and signs.

Occam's razor in a situation where a hype man promised step-function improvements for well over a decade is that this is not an honest assessment or an assessment not based on honest data.

vgton Microsoft is now injecting full-size ads on Chrome website

My (Zwift) gaming PC is on Windows. The contrast to my work/hobby OSX is jarring. I am constantly bombarded with ads with opt-out tricks. It feels unclean to say the least.

The worst OSX gets is trying to get me to agree to iTunes ToS once a month without a way to turn it off.

vgton DuckDB – An in-process SQL OLAP database management system

DuckDB is such a breath of fresh air!

We at MotherDuck at working very closely with the DuckDB folks to build a DuckDB-based cloud service. I'm talking to various folks in the industry about the details in 1:1. Feel free to reach out to tino at motherduck.com.

(co-founder and head of Produck at MotherDuck)

vgton Big data is dead

Didn't know that Posthog is based on CH these days. Interesting!

vgton Big data is dead

done!

vgton Big data is dead

Shoot me a note and I'm happy to fill you in!

(PM at MotherDuck)

vgton Heart attacks on rise for 25-44 age group

Still waiting for Giuliani to release that hunter Biden laptop evidence he's been claiming in his possession

vgton Heart attacks on rise for 25-44 age group

What do you mean by "continuation of emergency use authentication??". They're all fully approved by the FDA by now [0]:

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseas...

vgton Binance says banking partner will stop processing SWIFT transfers under $100K

You must have missed the point.

If the goal is to reduce abortions, then the pro-life strategy is less effective than pro-choice.

vgton Binance says banking partner will stop processing SWIFT transfers under $100K

Are you aware that a secular scientific approach to sexual health results in far fewer abortions? Chiefly proper sex education and freely available contraceptives to minors.

vgton Apache Hudi vs. Delta Lake vs. Apache Iceberg Lakehouse Feature Comparison

Speaking from nearly a decade working on BigQuery, and a year working at Firebolt.

- Stability. It OOMS, your CTO mentioned that last week.

- It is not correct. I believe your team is aware of cases in which your very own benchmarks revealed Clickhouse to be incorrect.

- Scale. The distributed plan is broken and I'm not sure Clickhouse even has shuffle.

- SQL. It is very non-standard.

- Knobs. Lots of knobs that are poorly documented. It's unclear which are mandatory. You have to restart for most.

Don't get me wrong, I love open source, and I love what Clickhouse has done. I am not a fan of overselling. There are problems with Clickhouse. Trying to sell it as a superset of the modern CDW is not doing users any favors.

vgton Apache Hudi vs. Delta Lake vs. Apache Iceberg Lakehouse Feature Comparison

You're making a lot of assertions I am not sure I agree with:

> Data lakes are better for ML / AI workloads, cheaper, more flexible, and separate compute from storage. With a data warehouse, you need to share compute with other users. With data lakes you can attach an arbitrary number of computational clusters to the data.

- I am not sure it's any cheaper than BQ or Snowflake storage.

- Modern CDW separates compute from storage.

- I am not sure what you mean by "you need to share compute with others". Why?

- You can attach an arbitrary number of "clusters" in BQ and Snowflake as well.

Additionally, modern CDW provides a very high level of abstraction and a very high level of manageability. Their time travel and compaction actually work, and their storage systems are continuously optimized for optimal performance.

vgton Apache Hudi vs. Delta Lake vs. Apache Iceberg Lakehouse Feature Comparison

It would be good if you labeled your posts so as to reveal your bias.

I understand why folks want options. At the end of the day, folks want an easy to use, ALWAYS CORRECT stable database, with minimal well-documented predictable knobs, correct distributed execution plan, no OOMs, separation of storage and compute, and standard SQL, and Clickhouse struggles with all of the above.

(co-founder of MotherDuck)

vgton Parler’s Parent Company Laid Off Nearly All of Its Employees, Only Has 20 Left

So what do you see it as then? How would you characterize storming a government building with intent to maim (hang?) and being equipped to do so?

vgton Faster PostgresSQL to BigQuery Transfers

Federation is slow

(i was the pm for bigquery federation with gcs and cloudsql)

vgton Show HN: ClickHouse-local – a small tool for serverless data analytics

wonderful to hear! So any word on correctness or nah?

vgton Show HN: ClickHouse-local – a small tool for serverless data analytics

From my practical experience with ClickHouse, I saw OOMs as well, on load and on query. How confident are you that your chosen dataset is neutral?

vgton Show HN: ClickHouse-local – a small tool for serverless data analytics

This is, admittedly, the most unusual use of "serverless" I've ever heard of

vgton Show HN: ClickHouse-local – a small tool for serverless data analytics

Thanks, sounds like relative immaturity.

I did not catch you address correctness?

FWIW I have some experience with Clickhouse as I ran product at Firebolt and played a critical role in being more transparent about their foundations and giving credit where it is due. However, I do have some first hand experience with Clickhouse, which was jarring, considering my previous experience was with BigQuery.

vgton Show HN: ClickHouse-local – a small tool for serverless data analytics

I'd love to see evidence for some of these claims, like stability and testing. Would you also be able to comment on correctness?

(co-founder at MotherDuck)

vgton 75% of Covid ‘long haulers’ free of symptoms in 12 months: McMaster study

There's a good chance COVID trigger an autoimmune disease in me, and from what i gathered this autoimmune disease is on the rise last couple of years.

vgton Databases in 2022: A Year in Review

MotherDuck cofounder checking in.

Great post, and thanks for the call although i am skeptical of commodotization of OLAP systems thanks to the likes of substrait and velox. It'll take a lot of unwilling participants.

vgton Tesla used car price bubble pops, weighs on new car demand

Perhaps you should Google "Tesla brand damage" and see a plethora of brand professionals opining that this is exactly what's happening.

Here's one being quoted [0]

[0] https://www.carscoops.com/2022/12/tesla-investors-and-custom...

vgton Tesla used car price bubble pops, weighs on new car demand

https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/15/23512004/elon-musk-start...

https://time.com/6229960/twitter-bans-accounts-elon-musk-imp...

vgton Tesla used car price bubble pops, weighs on new car demand

Well he recently posted a meme suggesting that climate change, homosexuality, and vaccines are brainwashing liberals