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mostdataisnice | 2 years ago | on: Tesla removes parking sensors, the results are predictably terrible

What it comes down to is a strong, dogmatic belief at Tesla that vision will solve all problems. It's not aligned with reality unfortunately

mostdataisnice | 2 years ago | on: Show HN: A fully open-source (Apache 2.0)implementation of llama

This is the clearest example of an attention grab I have seen - it does nothing for commercial use of Llama unless they provide a version of the weights produced by them and not Facebook. (and they don't...they ask you to download them from Facebook's repo)

mostdataisnice | 3 years ago | on: Apache Hudi vs. Delta Lake vs. Apache Iceberg Lakehouse Feature Comparison

fwiw - the lead authors on that linked paper are all grad students not employed at Databricks. That being said, they're advised by Databricks people

mostdataisnice | 3 years ago | on: Who needs MLflow when you have SQLite?

As someone replied above, it's because SQL is just 1 backend and it's weird to expose an API that only works on 1 backend. Once you have many devs working together, you need a remote server. If you have a remote abstracted backend, it needs to have a unified API surface so the same client can talk to any backend. You might argue "This interface should be SQL", and to that I would say there are many file stores (like your local file system) that are not easy to control with SQL.

mostdataisnice | 3 years ago | on: Who needs MLflow when you have SQLite?

Where does the article say that?

mostdataisnice | 3 years ago | on: Who needs MLflow when you have SQLite?

SQLite is literally a backend for MLflow, so the argument being made really is that you should just use SQL when you can, which is kind of adjacent to any criticisms of MLflow

mostdataisnice | 3 years ago | on: Three areas where Google Search lags behind competitors: code, cooking, travel

Right - I think this is part of the "scaling" of the internet. Those of us (relatively small set of earlier heavy internet users) are forced to change as the product is built for the wider audience.

mostdataisnice | 3 years ago | on: Three areas where Google Search lags behind competitors: code, cooking, travel

This resonated a lot with me. Often if I'm learning a language and I see no one is doing what I'm querying for, I take a step back and try to ask a more basic question

mostdataisnice | 3 years ago | on: Three areas where Google Search lags behind competitors: code, cooking, travel

Another thing for us on HN to note. This is how most people ask questions. It is not just that the other way is wrong - it is also less common.

mostdataisnice | 3 years ago | on: Elon has decided not to join our board

It would be an unmitigated disaster to have this dude on the board - his decorum is totally unacceptable

mostdataisnice | 4 years ago | on: How I operated as a Staff engineer at Heroku (2020)

This is ridiculous - the most promising engineers are not always the best people managers.

mostdataisnice | 4 years ago | on: Apple AirTags draining battery of devices close by

It's not ridiculous at all - you don't get to reap the benefits of the network without participating.

mostdataisnice | 4 years ago | on: Google rewrites many page titles

I think what HN and the SWE community at large has just missed about Google over the last 10 years is that the product is being built for the masses. Most people would prefer if you just rewrote the title to what it actually was rather than having to take on the cognitive load of understanding what SEO even is.

mostdataisnice | 4 years ago | on: Error 404 (Not Found)

...and there's a reason for that. Automations to update the status page are rarely acceptable, since the status page statuses have legal and financial implications. Therefore, the IM usually has to update it (or tell someone to update it). But, realistically, when you get paged, you first need to figure out what exactly is wrong and at least a vague idea of why. Then, you need to tell someone to update the page. Then, it gets updated.

The status page will always lag the outage. It's not a conspiracy.

mostdataisnice | 4 years ago | on: Databricks response to Snowflake's accusation of lacking integrity

What fake benchmarks are you talking about?

mostdataisnice | 4 years ago | on: More details about the October 4 outage

I mean, sure? mumblemumble is still right though. If you're looking for a cynical reason for everything FB related, then, sure, it's true that a human error looks bad.

mostdataisnice | 4 years ago | on: Googlespeak – How Google limits thought about antitrust

This is just completely false - if you're working on a feature, you want a PR splash controlled by you, not a stream of silent leaks. PR begets other PR.

You're being super presumptuous by saying engineers shouldn't care about the PR around the feature they worked on, even if someone else is running the PR

mostdataisnice | 4 years ago | on: Welcoming our first riders in San Francisco

Delete the Waymo One app and reinstalling worked for me when I saw this bug.

mostdataisnice | 4 years ago | on: Welcoming our first riders in San Francisco

Also, I don't think we actually know what the end-of-life of Tesla vehicles is. They've not been mass produced for long enough.

mostdataisnice | 4 years ago | on: Waymo has lost its CEO and is still getting stymied by traffic cones

Underrated truth - have owned a Tesla for 5 years, and the number of stupid things that go wrong with it is incredibly high. It works like a phone...after a number of years, it takes forever to boot and has plethora of bugs. Random stuff breaks/falls off. We're going to see even more of this in 10 years, as the cars that were produced during the scaling period start falling apart. What sets automakers apart is that you can buy a used car after 10 years and expect it to still work.