Hacker News: albertwang

New comment by albertwang in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

albertwang — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:03:50 +0000

Here’s the spaceX announcement (non-paywalled): https://x.com/spacex/status/2046713419978453374

New comment by albertwang in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

albertwang — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:02:51 +0000

SpaceX’s announcement (non paywalled):

https://x.com/spacex/status/2046713419978453374

New comment by albertwang in "Qwen3-TTS family is now open sourced: Voice design, clone, and generation"

albertwang — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 15:30:41 +0000

great news, this looks great! is it just me, or do most of the english audio samples sound like anime voices?

New comment by albertwang in "Sinkhorn: Make LLMs even smaller through quantisation while maintaining accuracy"

albertwang — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 02:50:49 +0000

Media commentary: https://venturebeat.com/ai/huaweis-new-open-source-technique...

Talk like a graph: Encoding graphs for large language models

albertwang — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 01:10:51 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.research.google/2024/03/talk-like-graph-encoding-graphs-for.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39686939

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by albertwang in "American Airlines burying sawdust to combat climate change"

albertwang — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 13:37:49 +0000

http://archive.today/9HkLP

American Airlines burying sawdust to combat climate change

albertwang — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 13:35:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/us-news/climate-environment/sustainable-airline-sawdust-climate-6e2b40c5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38445529

Points: 10

# Comments: 11

AWS debuts Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client device for virtual desktop access

albertwang — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 03:41:31 +0000

Article URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-workspaces-thin-client/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38427781

Points: 51

# Comments: 16

Beaming Solar Energy from Space Gets a Step Closer

albertwang — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 03:47:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/articles/beaming-solar-energy-from-space-gets-a-step-closer-fc903658

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36399478

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by albertwang in "I'm Too Risk-Averse for Index Investing"

albertwang — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 16:27:52 +0000

I definitely get your point, but over-generalized comments like these are also dangerous.

Just as there are many MBAs who were or are veteran software developers, the HN community is large enough that there are many members who are professional investors.

New comment by albertwang in "The Medici as Artists Saw Them"

albertwang — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 22:41:37 +0000

The Met has a video overview of the exhibition:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=3CxZ2PrXQ1M

https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2021/medici-p...

New comment by albertwang in "Ask HN: Is there a way to efficiently subscribe to an SQL query for changes?"

albertwang — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 04:23:04 +0000

Sorry if it's a bit of an enterprisy-response, but please reach out! We are supporting some non-cloud commercial customers on a case-by-case basis. The reason for this is that we find the support and maintenance burden to be much higher with a non-cloud delivery model, which isn't always a great experience for either party. We also have a managed product (where the data plane resides in your environment) that may work, depending on your infra and security requirements.

Re: custom code -- our codebase is fully source-available and open to contributions, but the source+sink code going through some refactoring to make it more beginner-friendly. Depending on your consistency requirements, we also support Debezium and our own CDC format (https://materialize.com/docs/connect/materialize-cdc/) for folks who want to bring in their own data sources. (For quick prototypes, we also support csv/json/plaintext source types, as well as SQL INSERTs!)

New comment by albertwang in "Ask HN: Is there a way to efficiently subscribe to an SQL query for changes?"

albertwang — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 04:05:58 +0000

Exactly! Since most ELT tools (including Airbyte) support json + csv output formats, those work perfectly well with Materialize out-of-the-box. I'm playing around with Slack+Stripe Airbyte sources to try and come up with some fun dashboards to show off in Materialize as we speak.

New comment by albertwang in "Ask HN: Is there a way to efficiently subscribe to an SQL query for changes?"

albertwang — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 22:58:40 +0000

As cirego mentioned, we (Materialize) have the TAIL operator, which was built to allow users to subscribe to changes:

https://materialize.com/docs/sql/tail/

New comment by albertwang in "Introducing dbt + Materialize"

albertwang — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 22:54:32 +0000

Nothing we can share publicly at the moment yet, but if you reach out and chat, we're more than happy to give you some numbers that I think will address what you're looking for!

New comment by albertwang in "Why isn't differential dataflow more popular?"

albertwang — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 14:50:37 +0000

Do you happen to have any examples of real-time queries or apps you would be interested in?

Re: the second point — you’re right, Materialize has historically leveraged existing upstream systems (like Kafka) for things like persistence. But we also hear you loud and clear that not everyone wants to stand up Kafka :)

New comment by albertwang in "Lilly Alzheimer’s Drug Helped Patients in Small Trial"

albertwang — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 13:45:52 +0000

Donanemab slowed cognitive and functional decline of patients with mild Alzheimer’s by 32% compared with placebo

Link to press release: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/lillys-donanemab-sl...

Lilly Alzheimer’s Drug Helped Patients in Small Trial

albertwang — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 13:45:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/articles/lilly-alzheimers-drug-helped-patients-in-small-trial-11610364603

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25728765

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by albertwang in "Kafka Is Not a Database"

albertwang — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 17:02:46 +0000

We’re very aware of ksqlDB. I would recommend this video from last week where Matthias talks about some of the strengths and weaknesses of ksql: https://youtu.be/KUQuegJ4do8

New comment by albertwang in "Materialize Raises a $32M Series B"

albertwang — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 22:09:59 +0000

Here's a 15-minute introduction to Timely Dataflow by Frank, our co-founder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOnPmVf4YWo