The comments are pretty interesting. There was a discussion about how different they were trying to make the public image about their tech look compared to their actual usage - supposedly to entice more engineers to join.
I think its interesting to attach any company prominently to a database technology since theoretically there would be varied use cases across an org like uber which would likely want different technologies depending on those use cases. Of course they might just have 50 other articles like this for all the other tech they use.
Streaming video at Netflix's scale in the year 2010 was hard though?
I mean sure, it's a lot easier nowadays - but that's mostly down to cloud providers replacing half of the server-side challenge with a big bill and fiber making the last mile easier too.
You're massively underestimating the challenge of transferring these vast amounts of data without interrupting service for buffing etc that they had to solve back then
> The [Odin] platform supports 23 technologies, ranging from traditional online databases such as MySQL® and Cassandra® to advanced data platform technologies, including HDFS™, Presto™, and Kafka®.
I’ve installed 4 similar skylight lamps to the basement. Bought them on Amazon for 700$ each (had to replace 1 because it had uneven light). They make basement light much closer to ourdoor light and made basement very cozy and comfortable. I had depth space in the ceiling, but width of the lamp didn’t fit between joists - so could not push lamp all the way at the ceiling level. End up building nice boxing around lamp. So it was medium complexity project with great result.
I really miss StackOverflow Careers because they had exactly this feature - I enter my career details once and SO Careers allow me to generate nice CV in PDF format. Personally I’ve found couple great jobs though SO Careers, it is sad that SO decided to shutdown Careers business.
> I predict they'll produce another small phone in a few years. It'll sell well due to pent up demand, and someone will be declared a genius for selling 100M's of extra phones that year.
I’d wish this too. I’m afraid that Apple over the next few year would become more risk averse then ever before.
Also old Execs are leaving and retiring - so less people with hands on experience how to start new products VS keeping lights on.
Good luck. I’ve tried to replace battery in mine 12 mini last week - with no success. I had to leave my phone for 4 hours or several days (if they brake screen during battery replacement, they will wait for replacement phone to be shipped overnight). Also representative was convincing me to buy a new phone - saying that battery replacement won’t help much because new ios versions has features which high battery usages, while newer iphones has larger battery and hardware optimizations for these new features. I’m thinking about iPhone 16 now while keeping iPhone 12 mini as backup phone.
I've successfully have replaced batteries and displays in older iphones (mainly iphone 6). But with newer iphones opening the phone is more complex.
I've read online and heard from Apple Store representative that iPhone 12 (all models) has tendency to crack the screen when phone is opened for repair or battery replacement and in that case Apple Store would replace the hole phone (this is were multi day repair process).
So I would rather pay $90 to Apple that guarantees that I'll get a phone replacement in case when screen is broken during battery replacement. Without the phone I sill would be able to answer the cell calls from Apple Watch and with ipad over WiFi.
They would tell you and you would notice if your phone was replaced - it would have new serial and 2FA apps won't work on a new phone without reregistration.
Most likely it took them a week to get a new battery for replacement shipped.
Awesome. Does planetscale vector support multi node indices (like Milvus) and even further blob store index storage which can be separate from compute, allowing to pay for compute on demand when queries are run?
Definitely yes to the first: the index implementation is fully integrated with PlanetScale's sharding layer, so you can scale horizontally as much as you need. This works very well in practice: the sharding layer, Vitess, is extremely well battle tested with petabyte-sized clusters in production, and our vector indexes are like any other table on the cluster, so it really scales horizontally with very predictable performance.
As for separating storage and compute: we don't do that. One of our key sells here is that this is vector data fully integrated into your relational database with ACID semantics. Very hard to do separate storage and compute and keep this behavior!
I’m missing the app already. Somehow I’ve got highly addicted to the idea be click article summary feature of Artifact. There was something highly gratifying of scrolling through articles’ titles and getting bullet point summary and not scrolling and reading through gazzilion of ads and pop ups most of the articles have nowadays. Recommendation part was more subtle, but working for me - there few occasional that I’ve learn something useful or interesting to me…
I would be grateful if somebody would suggest apps or service with similar article summarization functionality on a tip of users’ fingers.
Facebook recently started to show me this nasal stent product
https://alaxousa.com/how-it-works/
Basically they sell expandable metal mesh tubes that are inserted though the nose and go down to throat when installed.
And they are rather expensive - $395 and according to FAQ last up to 18 months.
I’ll ask my ENT about these stents when I’ll visit them next time.
* Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL (2016) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26283348
* Upgrading Uber's MySQL Fleet https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41836748