albertwang

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Cofounder of Bearworks (https://bearworks.com/)

VP Product, Materialize (https://materialize.io/)

Co-founder of Perssist (https://www.perssist.com). Formerly at Datadog

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Comment · 2 months ago

ERCOT operates most of Texas’ grid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Reliability_Council_o...

Comment · 6 months ago

Here’s the spaceX announcement (non-paywalled): https://x.com/spacex/status/2046713419978453374

Comment · 6 months ago

SpaceX’s announcement (non paywalled):

https://x.com/spacex/status/2046713419978453374

Comment · 9 months ago

great news, this looks great! is it just me, or do most of the english audio samples sound like anime voices?

Comment · 1 year ago

Media commentary: https://venturebeat.com/ai/huaweis-new-open-source-technique...

Talk like a graph: Encoding graphs for large language models blog.research.google

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Comment · 2 years ago

http://archive.today/9HkLP

American Airlines burying sawdust to combat climate change wsj.com

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AWS debuts Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client device for virtual desktop access aws.amazon.com

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Beaming Solar Energy from Space Gets a Step Closer wsj.com

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Comment · 4 years ago

I definitely get your point, but over-generalized comments like these are also dangerous.

Just as there are many MBAs who were or are veteran software developers, the HN community is large enough that there are many members who are professional investors.

Comment · 5 years ago

The Met has a video overview of the exhibition:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=3CxZ2PrXQ1M

https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2021/medici-p...

Comment · 5 years ago

Sorry if it's a bit of an enterprisy-response, but please reach out! We are supporting some non-cloud commercial customers on a case-by-case basis. The reason for this is that we find the support and maintenance burden to be much higher with a non-cloud delivery model, which isn't always a great experience for either party. We also have a managed product (where the data plane resides in your environment) that may work, depending on your infra and security requirements.

Re: custom code -- our codebase is fully source-available and open to contributions, but the source+sink code going through some refactoring to make it more beginner-friendly. Depending on your consistency requirements, we also support Debezium and our own CDC format (https://materialize.com/docs/connect/materialize-cdc/) for folks who want to bring in their own data sources. (For quick prototypes, we also support csv/json/plaintext source types, as well as SQL INSERTs!)