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Thanks for the clarification. I didn't see it in the article.

Interesting and well-written article. Thanks to the author for writing it. Replacing Spark with these single-machine tools seems to be on the hype, and Spark is not en vogue anymore.

The author ran Spark in Fabric, which has V-Order write enabled by default. DuckDB and Polars don't have this, as it's an MS proprietary algorithm. V-Order adds about 15% overhead to write, so it does change the result a bit.

The data sizes were bit on a large size, at least for the data amounts I see daily. There definitely are tables in the 10GB, 100GB, and even in 1TB size range, but most tables traveling through data pipelines are much smaller.

I had pinched ulnaris nerve in both elbows a few years ago. The symptoms were pretty much the same as you describe. It took two operations and more than a year to recover. The symptoms started to creep back this year, probably because I started to hit the keyboard more. Luckily I found a book about trigger points [1] and releasing the triceps trigger points, especially #3 removes the symptoms. The book is godsend; I've found help from it to so many other issues too.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Trigger-Point-Therapy-Workbook-Self-T...

One of the authors has responded to the comment:

> The Supplement section of the letter states that the study was conducted from February to October 2020. The year reported was an error; the study was conducted in 2021. The Journal is in the process of correcting this error.

And here's the missing reference:

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html

Quite the opposite. Covid is dangerous for elderly and people having severe medical condition, much, much less dangerous for young and healthy. Flu is more dangerous to young people than Covid.

Flu also causes hospitalizations in comparable amounts to Covid[1]. Note that we have a vaccine for flu, and it is still causing almost a million hospitalizations in bad seasons.

I can confirm this.

I got a really hard pneumonia few years ago. It took several days in hospital to find an antiobiotic which actually worked, and I was in pretty bad shape in ER when it finally started to work.

It took 10 weeks to recover back to work, and over a year before lungs were back to normal, confirmed by x-ray.

Pneumonia can be deadly, even for healthy young adult.

I read your entire comment history couple of weeks ago.

Great experience! Thank you for providing level headed and well articulated responses to the widely spread mass hysteria.

I also learned a lot, special thanks for pointing Thomas Howell's books. Reading now the 'A Conflict of Visions'.

And from the same report:

"However, these masks would provide the wearers little protection from microorganisms from others persons who are infected with respiratory diseases. As a result, we would not recommend the use of homemade face masks as a method of reducing transmission of infection from aerosols."

Completely agreed! Excess deaths are reaching all time lows in many European countries. Most of the excess deaths - as in Italy - were probably due to antibiotic resistance.

But this is something you can't say, not at least in HN. You have to agree and obey the official truth.

It is mind boggling how otherwise sensible people panicked and refuse the see the truth. I really hope vaccine would come soon, just to calm people down.

Exactly! But you are not allowed to say this.

I've found the same. It sounds great and applicable but could not find any practical application with real data.

Even when applied to large number of real companies' journal entries, the amount of false positives is overwhelming.

Thanks!

Do you have a link for the study or news article?

Not true. While it has been pretty rare for anyone to get fired over snooping other people's data, there has been several cases where it has been the basis of firing the employee. Especially the health care sector has been sensitive about snooping, see for example [1], article in Finnish.

[1] https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-7460193

The article seems to be from year 2016. Maybe it can be added to the headline.

Might be EU-thing, as the same applies to Finland. Banks also must provide basic payment card, and online banking for everyone.

https://www.finanssivalvonta.fi/en/Consumer-protection/quest...

This! In my hobby projects I start the development usually with Raspberry Pi as backend, even for db, as it forces to use resources efficiently and reveals problems fast. Only building/compiling is good to be done on fast machine.

And this reminds me of the documentation quality of Symbian around 2005-2007. I would highly recommend the author of the article the check it out, before lamenting Apple's documentation.

Negative reviews are also used put down competitors' products, blackmail free products or services, and in so many other ways that only humans can invent. The reviews are less reliable every passing year.

Some platforms have awakened to this, so they have rules or guides what to do when customer tries to blackmail free stuff with negative reviews. However, not all.

Here are some that I've enjoyed reading:

Steve Martin - Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

Kevin Mitnick - Ghost In The Wires

Kenneth Roman - The King of Madison Avenue: David Ogilvy and the Making of Modern Advertising

Walter Isaacson - Steve Jobs

Alan Deutschman - The Second Coming of Steve Jobs

James Wallace - Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire

Alice Schroeder - The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

Richard Branson - Losing My Virginity

In fact others seem to go just the opposite direction. For example Mercedes is reducing the amount of automation as it makes the change too slow [1].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/26/mercedes-...

I had a similar situation last November, when an over-eager Lufthansa check-in officer denied boarding the plane because I was using a Finnish national ID card. I was travelling from Finland to Croatia and the explanation was that Croatia had enabled passport checks on border and ID card is no passport.

No amount of explanation helped. I did have my passport with me and I showed it to this lady. Rest of the trip I used only the ID card.

Common theme seems to be, at least in Finland, that dealing with public agencies and authorities is just fine, but you can get to a trouble with private companies.

Best minds of our generation are trying to get more ads in front of people and trying to get more people to click on them.

It did work back in the day. Enough people had moral compass set in a way that they actually paid for software, even though paying was much more difficult then as it is today.

However, I think times and people have changed. Not paying for shareware software wouldn't be problem for most people today. Most wouldn't even consider paying unless they could not use the software without paying for it.