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robertlacok commented on Databricks acquires Neon   databricks.com/blog/datab... · Posted by u/davidgomes
isignal · 4 months ago
Aren't the alternatives you mentioned - icerberg and duckdb - both storage solutions while spark is a way to express distributed compute? I'm a bit out of touch with this space, is there a newer way to express distributed compute?
robertlacok · 4 months ago
I think what many people are finding out is they don’t really need distributed processing. DuckDB on a single node can get you really far, and it’s much simpler.
robertlacok commented on Ask HN: What ist your AdBlock strategy?    · Posted by u/laserstrahl
robertlacok · 10 months ago
On a computer, just uBlock Origin and it works wonders.

Tangential question - what is the best solution for iPhone? On Androids you can use Firefox with uBlock, but it seems none of the Safari extensions on iPhone actually work, I tried some paid ones too. Brave seems to work decently well, but I have no idea why - if other browsers have some OS limitation, how does Brave go around it?

robertlacok commented on A search engine in 80 lines of Python   alexmolas.com/2024/02/05/... · Posted by u/alexmolas
karolist · 2 years ago
It's not the first time I saw an article posted and then an expert in the field comment on it rather quickly, I thought I may be missing something how other people use this site, had no negative intentions asking this and thanks for the answer ;)
robertlacok · 2 years ago
https://f5bot.com is a way to get an email notification when a keyword is mentioned
robertlacok commented on Lab Notebooks (2020)   sambleckley.com/writing/l... · Posted by u/momonga
robertlacok · 2 years ago
A huge downside of writing this down on paper is team collaboration. Imagine that instead this is kept in a tool like Notion which the entire team can access. At first this feels incredibly uncomfortable - your notes are there for everyone to see. However it’s a massive force multiplier because often the work is picked up by someone else later on, and instead of asking you they can self-serve. It’s pretty common that by the time they need it you would no longer be at the company.

I don’t have experience writing in a lab journal format, but for documents like growth experiments and how they worked, or RFCs, this is a godsend. It takes a lot of work to keep it tidy, but it’s worth it.

robertlacok commented on How to Move Your Google Photos   auckland.ac.nz/en/student... · Posted by u/Leftium
robertlacok · 2 years ago
There's an important thing that is easy to miss if you just use a Google Takeout for the export – your Shared albums will only contain pictures that you yourself added!

I went through this journey a few months ago, and it's pretty hard to catch because those albums will appear in the export, and they are not empty, so you don't expect that they are partial exports. The way to export them was going one by one in the regular Google Photos app, and downloading each album as a ZIP – that way you get pictures also from other contributors to that album.

Funnily enough, I also experienced some rate limiting and had to wait a few minutes after every 6-7 albums.

My end goal was importing the Takeout into Apple Photos library locally stored on my Mac. Some other steps I had to take were:

- Fixing the metadata [0] so they showed up with a correct date

- Importing albums first, and the "Stream" (a folder per year) second, because otherwise the deduplication would mean the pictures already in the stream wouldn't get added to an album.

[0] https://metadatafixer.com/

robertlacok commented on Annoying A/B testing mistakes   posthog.com/blog/ab-testi... · Posted by u/Twixes
throwaway084t95 · 2 years ago
That's not Simpson's Paradox. Simpson's Paradox is when the aggregate winner is different from the winner in each element of a partition, not just some of them
robertlacok · 2 years ago
Exactly.

On that topic – what do you do when you observe that in your test results? What's the right way to interpret the data?

robertlacok commented on Thunderbird Supernova Preview: The New Calendar Design   blog.thunderbird.net/2022... · Posted by u/HieronymusBosch
gombosg · 3 years ago
One advantage is that it supports displaying events from multiple Google accounts at the same time. :)
robertlacok · 3 years ago
You can always share your calendar from one account with another, and hide/show it in the right panel ;)
robertlacok commented on Acreom 1.0 – a lightweight Markdown editor with tasks for developers   acreom.com... · Posted by u/inferense
inferense · 3 years ago
Hi HN, founder of acreom here. After over a year of building, we're excited to drop the beta badge and introduce acreom 1.0.

The HN community was very helpful for us from the very beginning. We've recieved hundreds of signups on our google forms before writing the first line of code and a valuable feedback on our ideas throughout our beta.

We're building acreom to be the dev-first workflow tool you will love using, individually and later in the team. Today acreom is built to be your daily driver for capturing notes, breaking down development tasks, tracking progress and building a knowledge base.

acreom is built around the following fundemantal principles:

tight integration of markdown, tasks and calendar

capture-first organise-later interface

designed for keyboard

local-first

you can try it out in your browser without downloading anything.

if there's anything we can do better, pelase let us know.

we're also on producthunt [1] https://www.producthunt.com/posts/acreom-1-0

robertlacok · 3 years ago
Any way to integrate the tasks with Linear?
robertlacok commented on Python 3.11 vs 3.10 performance   github.com/faster-cpython... · Posted by u/hyperbovine
pineapplejuice · 3 years ago
Is there a website which tracks which of the major libraries; pandas, requests, django, etc support each major version? I remember there was one years ago for python 3.6? Been a long time!
robertlacok · 3 years ago
I think this is what you’re looking for: https://pyreadiness.org/3.11/
robertlacok commented on GitHub Code Search (Preview)   cs.github.com/about... · Posted by u/judge2020
vbezhenar · 3 years ago
I remember back in the there was code.google.com (or something like that) which allowed searching over repositories. I was assigned to creating firefox addon including native part with C++ and it was kind of daunting task, there were little documentation. This tool was indispensable for me, it allowed to quickly look at any API usage. I wouldn't be able to complete that project without it.

Since Google closed this project, I never used anything similar, but I think that I should be. I tried few times to use ordinary Github search, but it wasn't good enough to be useful. Hopefully this project will change it. Done properly it would be a very powerful tool.

What's not clear to me is whether that tool searches only on Github or on all repositories in the Internet? Hopefully it's the latter.

robertlacok · 3 years ago
Do you know https://grep.app? :)

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