winddude's comments

On: Show HN: BemiDB – Postgres read replica optimized for analytics

[winddude]

difference to something like duckdb?

[simlevesque → winddude]

> > Alternatives

> DuckDB:

> - Designed for OLAP use cases. Easy to run with a single binary.

> - Limited support in the data ecosystem (notebooks, BI tools, etc.). Requires manual data syncing and schema mapping for best performance.

[exAspArk → simlevesque]

^ This!

Here is the link that briefly describes pros and cons of different alternatives for analytics https://github.com/BemiHQ/BemiDB#alternatives

[polskibus → winddude]

How can you setup automatic replication from Postgresql to a duckdb instance?

[exAspArk → polskibus]

The most common approach is to read Postgres data in DuckDB https://duckdb.org/docs/extensions/postgres.html

On: Diabetes risk soars for adults who had a sweet tooth as kids

[winddude]

this is for type 2 diabetes, a VERY IMPORT distinction. So it probably just effects eating habits. <https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/oct/31/less-sugar-i...

On: ElasticSearch and many other repos are gone

[winddude]

unlikely, over the summer they announced that they were going to be more opensource, <https://www.elastic.co/blog/elasticsearch-is-open-source-aga...>

[xeraa → winddude]

It's a configuration error (sorry!). Also with thousands of forks this would be a pretty pointless operation. Once something is out (and that includes a license), you cannot just take it back — it will be there forever.

[I work for Elastic]

On: Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it's haunted

[winddude]

I had that one happen as well, after launching a project. I could even post in a messages to friends.

On: Do AI companies work?

[winddude]

probably why OpenAI wants to build there own 5gw nuclear plant.

On: DoNotPay has to pay $193K for falsely touting untested AI lawyer, FTC says

[winddude]

'''"None of the Service’s technologies has been trained on a comprehensive and current corpus of federal and state laws, regulations, and judicial decisions or on the application of those laws to fact patterns," the FTC found'''

Wow!! That seems so simple, and literally a few weeks to do in today's ecosystem, now thoroughly testing make take a little more time, but wow, I wonder if it was evening attempting to do RAG.

On: Llama 3.2: Revolutionizing edge AI and vision with open, customizable models

[winddude]

the vision models can also do tool calling according to the docs, but with text-only inputs, maybe that's what you meant ~ <https://www.llama.com/docs/model-cards-and-prompt-formats/ll...>

On: Finish Your Projects

[winddude]

Do you want to finish it or do you want to start something else? lol

but yea, I agree, which to do. My random take would be do the opposite of what you normally do... my scientific expertise on this, I've started ~100 projects in the last year, and mostly "finished" 3...

On: Project Hammer: reduce collusion in the Canadian grocery sector

[winddude]

or shopping carts in the store, need to cut down on the number of sorries.

[Scoundreller → winddude]

No idea why people do not follow standard traffic conventions for right of way with a shopping cart (or while walking in general)

[scohesc → Scoundreller]

It's honestly mindboggling.

You're moving a four-wheeled vehicle down an aisle, with enough room for 2, maybe 2.5 cart widths. Yet people decide to stop right in the center without considering that they might be blocking someone.

But I'm the jerk if I point it out.

People are so silly (myself included)

On: Project Hammer: reduce collusion in the Canadian grocery sector

[winddude]

Interesting idea, I'm also in Canada, I briefly looked at extracting grocery store price info, don't forget that prices from the same retailer can vary greatly by geo and even locations. Also several stores, in store prices don't match online prices (costco is the obvious example, but nearly every store has in store exclusives that don't hit online advertising).