Hacker News: capkutay

New comment by capkutay in "The DuckDB Local UI"

capkutay — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 18:23:44 +0000

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.

New comment by capkutay in "Ask for no, don't ask for yes (2022)"

capkutay — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 06:29:34 +0000

Owning things is breaking things (and fixing it).

New comment by capkutay in "Salesforce will hire no more software engineers in 2025, says Marc Benioff"

capkutay — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 07:47:02 +0000

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.

New comment by capkutay in "Show HN: BemiDB – Postgres read replica optimized for analytics"

capkutay — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 04:06:48 +0000

that's been supported in striim since 2016

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

New comment by capkutay in "Understanding the Limitations of Mathematical Reasoning in LLMs"

capkutay — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 22:43:34 +0000

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.

Microsoft Fabric: Should Databricks Be Worried?

capkutay — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 15:44:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.vantage.sh/blog/databricks-vs-microsoft-fabric-pricing-analysis

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37833600

Points: 4

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New comment by capkutay in "Layoffs push down scores on Glassdoor – how companies respond"

capkutay — Fri, 26 May 2023 11:45:26 +0000

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.

New comment by capkutay in "Who wants to be tracked?"

capkutay — Thu, 18 May 2023 16:06:16 +0000

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.

New comment by capkutay in "DuckDB – An in-process SQL OLAP database management system"

capkutay — Sat, 11 Feb 2023 05:26:27 +0000

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-...

New comment by capkutay in "Microsoft to lay off 11k employees"

capkutay — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 22:09:59 +0000

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.

New comment by capkutay in "A corrupt file led to the FAA ground stoppage – also found in backup system"

capkutay — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 07:54:40 +0000

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

New comment by capkutay in "Withdrawals from BlockFi continue to be paused"

capkutay — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 19:01:44 +0000

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.

New comment by capkutay in "FTX faces potential hack, sees mysterious outflows totaling more than $600M"

capkutay — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 08:09:42 +0000

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...

New comment by capkutay in "Oracle Suspended My Account"

capkutay — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 17:36:44 +0000

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.

New comment by capkutay in "Ask HN: Feel bad about working in crypto, what to do?"

capkutay — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 06:58:54 +0000

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.

New comment by capkutay in "You don’t need to be “enterprise-ready” or “scalable”"

capkutay — Tue, 31 May 2022 20:50:15 +0000

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.

New comment by capkutay in "Twitter re-examines Elon Musk’s bid, may be more receptive to a deal"

capkutay — Sun, 24 Apr 2022 23:33:23 +0000

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

New comment by capkutay in "Starlink Premium"

capkutay — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 03:06:23 +0000

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

New comment by capkutay in "2021-22 Tesla Model Y earns highest IIHS accolade"

capkutay — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 03:25:42 +0000

+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.

New comment by capkutay in "Is nuclear power our best bet against climate change?"

capkutay — Sun, 17 Oct 2021 19:32:07 +0000

"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'.