Hacker News: mostdataisnice

New comment by mostdataisnice in "Tesla removes parking sensors, the results are predictably terrible"

mostdataisnice — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 19:04:03 +0000

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

New comment by mostdataisnice in "Show HN: A fully open-source (Apache 2.0)implementation of llama"

mostdataisnice — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 00:59:54 +0000

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)

New comment by mostdataisnice in "Apache Hudi vs. Delta Lake vs. Apache Iceberg Lakehouse Feature Comparison"

mostdataisnice — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 22:34:21 +0000

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

New comment by mostdataisnice in "Who needs MLflow when you have SQLite?"

mostdataisnice — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 19:21:38 +0000

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.

New comment by mostdataisnice in "Who needs MLflow when you have SQLite?"

mostdataisnice — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 17:23:16 +0000

Where does the article say that?

New comment by mostdataisnice in "Who needs MLflow when you have SQLite?"

mostdataisnice — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 17:22:15 +0000

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

New comment by mostdataisnice in "Three areas where Google Search lags behind competitors: code, cooking, travel"

mostdataisnice — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 06:01:36 +0000

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.

New comment by mostdataisnice in "Three areas where Google Search lags behind competitors: code, cooking, travel"

mostdataisnice — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 22:59:57 +0000

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

New comment by mostdataisnice in "Three areas where Google Search lags behind competitors: code, cooking, travel"

mostdataisnice — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 22:58:09 +0000

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.

New comment by mostdataisnice in "Elon has decided not to join our board"

mostdataisnice — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 05:21:59 +0000

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

New comment by mostdataisnice in "How I operated as a Staff engineer at Heroku (2020)"

mostdataisnice — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 21:09:30 +0000

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

New comment by mostdataisnice in "Apple AirTags draining battery of devices close by"

mostdataisnice — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 23:04:30 +0000

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

New comment by mostdataisnice in "Google rewrites many page titles"

mostdataisnice — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 19:23:53 +0000

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.

New comment by mostdataisnice in "Error 404 (Not Found)"

mostdataisnice — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 18:37:47 +0000

...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.

New comment by mostdataisnice in "Databricks response to Snowflake's accusation of lacking integrity"

mostdataisnice — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 01:11:38 +0000

What fake benchmarks are you talking about?

New comment by mostdataisnice in "More details about the October 4 outage"

mostdataisnice — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 23:44:39 +0000

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.

New comment by mostdataisnice in "Googlespeak – How Google limits thought about antitrust"

mostdataisnice — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 05:45:21 +0000

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

New comment by mostdataisnice in "Welcoming our first riders in San Francisco"

mostdataisnice — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 17:16:20 +0000

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

New comment by mostdataisnice in "Welcoming our first riders in San Francisco"

mostdataisnice — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 17:12:32 +0000

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.

New comment by mostdataisnice in "Waymo has lost its CEO and is still getting stymied by traffic cones"

mostdataisnice — Sun, 22 Aug 2021 21:33:23 +0000

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.