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Readit Newsredwood commented on Sam Altman responds to Anthropic's "Ads are coming to AI. But not to Claude" ads twitter.com/sama/status/2... · Posted by u/PieUser
redwood commented on AliSQL: Alibaba's open-source MySQL with vector and DuckDB engines github.com/alibaba/AliSQL... · Posted by u/baotiao
redwood commented on AliSQL: Alibaba's open-source MySQL with vector and DuckDB engines github.com/alibaba/AliSQL... · Posted by u/baotiao
Wonder how DuckDB compares here to what TiDB did using Clickhouse instead
redwood commented on Launch HN: Modelence (YC S25) – App Builder with TypeScript / MongoDB Framework · Posted by u/eduardpi
To confirm I have the option to run essentially the whole stack on my own in my own hardware if I so choose? That's the ultimate unlock of Open Source trust and no lock-in. Makes it much easier for me to adopt you if you have that
redwood commented on AliSQL: Alibaba's open-source MySQL with vector and DuckDB engines github.com/alibaba/AliSQL... · Posted by u/baotiao
I don't think this is meaningfully HTAP, it's gluing together two completely different databases under a single interface. As far as I can tell, it doesn't provide transactional or consistency guarantees different than what you'd get with something like Materialize.
This isn't new either, people have been building OLAP storage engines into MySQL/Postgres for years, e.g., pg_ducklake and timescale.
Genuinely curious in what situation would you actually want transactional consistency in the same session as you are doing analytical or vector retrieval style use cases?
I might make the argument that paying the tax of delivering what you're arguing for has so many significant downsides in the end you'd have something you wouldn't really want anyway
redwood commented on Data centers in space makes no sense civai.org/blog/space-data... · Posted by u/ajyoon
I'd be curious to know simply how large the thermal radiator necessary to keep a typical GPU server cooled would be. Do they completely dwarf the server size? Can you do something with some esoteric material that is not particularly load-bearing but holds up well in space to get around some of these challenges?
redwood commented on Data centers in space makes no sense civai.org/blog/space-data... · Posted by u/ajyoon
To Steelman the topic, Musk’s whole alleged mission is to make humans a multi-planet species that can survive an earth killing event.
To that end, a small data center space isn’t about unit-economics, it’s a bigger mission. So the question we should consider is what can we put into space the further that mission. Can we put a meaningful sum of human knowledge out there for preservation? It sounds like “yes,” even if we can’t train ChatGPT models out there yet.
Sure but you could do that with a simple disc in space
redwood commented on Stonebraker on CAP theorem and Databases (2010) perspectives.mvdirona.com... · Posted by u/onurkanbkrc
redwood commented on Stonebraker on CAP theorem and Databases (2010) perspectives.mvdirona.com... · Posted by u/onurkanbkrc
This is why the winning disturbed systems optimize for CP. It's worth preserving consistency at the expense of rare availability losses particularly on cloud infrastructure
redwood commented on Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal iranintl.com/en/202601255... · Posted by u/mhb
You both have been breaking the site guidelines badly. We ban accounts that do that. Please don't do it again.
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Sorry. Thanks for reminding us not to water down the values of the site. I'll do better