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If you managed your own servers, you would still need some sort of endpoint security solution too tho…

So whats the alternative? Have no endpoint protection? Have nothing in place to warn you when malware ends up in your system?

(Just playing devils advocate. I hate Crowdstrike as much as anyone here :)

Wait, does this mean if all your machines had Windows and Crowdstike installed, and you had no backups off site, all your data would essentially be wiped out?

I dont understand? Linux servers dont need endpoint protection?

I venture the vast majority of servers with crowdstrike are linux

I would not assume they’re miserable because I probably would have the same reaction if I was them.

We have just been bombarded with so much technology and advancements in the past two decades that it really takes a lot to impress us. We’ve had ppl conputing, smartphones, electric cars, semi-autonomous driving, VR and ChatGPT. A tool that parses Parquet is very very low in the totem pole, compared to all the new tech everyone has been exposed to.

Add that to the fact that we’ve also been overpromised new shiny things that turn out to he disappointments (Google Wave, metaverse, blockchain, a lot of AI products) and its not surprising most people aren’t that impressed by lots of tech these days.

In comparison, 25 years ago, just seeing a webpage load in less than a second led to a Wow moment

And whats the false positive rate? Its good and dandy that you find most answers that are hallucinations but do you flag a significant % of answers that are not really hallucinations too? For instance, if a summarization doesnt use any sentences or even words from the original text, that doesnt necessarily mean its a hallucination. It could simply be a full paraphrased summary

I dont know if they are just casually using logos on their homepage but why the heck would Google (and even IBM) be using a product like this? Like… your entire future depends on getting this right and youre using a startup with 2-5 people to do this for you?!!

Make it make sense..

Wouldn’t having insights into the stack used by a company help with cross selling their monitoring suite? Example: if a company is committing code that is heavily involved with Redis, Datadog could come in and say “hey, need to monitor memory usage of your Redis clusters? We got a solution for that”

Just playing devils advocate

Can anyone tell me why someone would pay nosebleed prices for Gitlab when they could simply use Github? Like do they have some special use case that github doesn’t support? Do Gitlab customers just love giving away lots of money? Do they want to pay a premium just to feel “special”?

Like what am I missing?

I mean sure you can devote some time to building a decent GraphQL schema, but will it really be worth the time/effort/investment when you can hack a painless REST API that can do all those dead simple CRUD operations easily?

Everything you described from posting jobs to searching candidates are dead simple POST and GET requests. No need to overcomplicate things…

I am assuming your product is HockeyStack.

Why do you need Clickhouse? Why do you need to store 20 billion rows of data? Even if you do need to store that much, why isnt something like Postgres sufficient?

If you’re doing revenue attribution based on things like website visits, or activities, and only have hundreds of customers, then i imagine at worse you are processing a thousand events every few seconds? Mostly writes. Seems you can do something around caching events and bulk inserting to optimize things. Still think using Postgres is possible here. If you need to scale horizontally, you could shard based on customer ID too. If you need to do analytics on this data, Postgres should still be usable as long as you create the right indices

Kaggle always was a place to conpete in data science contests to me. I never associated it with anything else. If they did sell ML models they did a horrible job letting people know about it

They sell subscriptions to their products for teams and collaboration (dont ask me why its needed tho)

I’ve been doing search engine optimization, and trying to rank websites since Altavista, Google Panda, Penguin, exact match domain spam, etc since early 2000s and almost all pages of sites I’ve created have been indexed. So we can fight anecdata vs anecdata all day.

And i’m not even defending Google. They’re awful especially their recent decision to sell their domain biz to Squarespace. I hate Google as much as you. But whether Google is good or bad has nothing to do with this. Thats an emotional strawman

You’re the one making a nonchalant claim “nah op is right” unbacked by evidence, not me

If you think its such a huge obvious problem, i guess the obvious Q is why don’t you put your money where your mouth is and why aren’t you pursuing it? (Assuming you aren’t)

What value do they provide that you cant get from a provider like Crowdstrike?

What are some examples of new ideas that are old?

Also whether this data lake is worth the costs/effort. How does this data lake add value to the user experience? What is this “AI” stuff that this data lake enables?

For example, they mention search. But i imagine it is just searching only within your own docs. Which i presume should be fast and efficient if everything is sharded by user in Postgres.

The tech stuff is all fine and good, but if it adds no value, its just playing with technology for technology sakes

This x100 for me. I absolutely refuse to learn anything new but will go beyond to learn something if its absolutely necessary to solve a painful/interesting problem

They can and will probably respect it and still be able to have reddit results.

“User-agent: * Disallow: /“ in the `robots.txt` simply instructs all web crawlers not to crawl any pages on the website, not whether to show pages in search results. Of course new pages wont be shown if they cant be crawled if theres no other way you can get it..

But that line simply prevents crawlers that abide by robots.txt from retrieving the content of any pages.

But Google doesnt need to crawl Reddit anymore. Reddit is directly giving the data to them to serve to users! Bing, DDG and any other search engines now are basically forced to start paying Reddit. And presumably, the Reddit execs have calculated that future revenue will be more because of this.

Don’t be fooled: This isnt a “good for internet, morality” decision. Reddit is a public company now and has shareholders. They are doing this because it will equate to more $$$$

Bing is still indexing it. As is DDG. https://www.bing.com/search?q=reddit+travel&qs=n&form=QBRE&s...

Nope, Microsoft aren't idiots. If they gave away this API access for free, this would cannabalize Sales Navigator and their paid products

What are some examples of data theyre trying to use as input?

Thats actually a very good rate. 1% conversion rate is drastically different from a 1% response rate

What sort of skills does a sysadmin and DBA have that most engineers lack? Most engineers should know the basics of bash scripting, iptables, Unix logging, cron, systemd, etc. as well as SQL, debugging slow queries, optimizing them, backing up dbs, etc

Maybe im missing something but what is so strange about that? Once you stopped training them and thanked you, what else are they supposed to thank you for everyday?

Steins Gate

Out of all the processes/infrastructure ive had to manage in my career, Redis has been the simplest, and least hassle out of all of them. Even when you add Redis sentinel to the picture, it just does its job

I also want the answer to this question. Instinctually i want to say if you’re asking this Q it means you don’t need it (just like most people dont need Kubernetes/Snowflake/data lakes)