I'm going to fight tooth and nail when someone calls NYC unsafe, but it's going to be very difficult to argue against the store closings because of theft (as at least one factor).
I've personally witnessed three blatant thefts in the last few years from my local Duane Reade (that closed down in April). Every time the clerks are like "pretty sure that was the same guy from yesterday". It's never violent or scary. It's just like watching a fight between homeless people in a subway station -- you look, think that's odd, and move on.
I suspect it's not all shrinkage though. I imagine continued trends where we buy more and more things via online retailers like Amazon and the growth of online/by mail pharmacies has contributed too. CVS/Duane Reade are still opening new locations too, so it can't be all that bad.
Google opensourced Tensorflow because they believed it would help with the hiring process: if researchers could use the same framework to do their PhDs as Google used in their production systems, that was seen as an advantage.
Maybe that's Meta's play here? Maybe the idea is that the ecosystem around a model could be as valuable or more valuable than the model itself too, so an OSS model could benefit Meta a lot more by gaining more of the ecosystem mind share?
Or Maybe Yann LeCun is just a hippie that dreams of free love, hard drugs and open-source models?
As mentioned in the post, we've pushed Kafka to at least 700,000 events per second. We have room to push it to much more, but stay in tune for post 2 and 3 to see what we're doing instead.
Nothing in this move should affect contributions of Snakebite and Luigi. If anything, it will just make them easier to use with cloud environments in addition to bare metal.
With over 20K jobs/day, Hadoop will be a part of Spotify's data processing stack for quite a while. BigQuery is just a (awesome) piece of the full puzzle.
Browsing through the code, this looks a bit rough around the edges and untested. I'd wonder how it compares to similar packages for Spark, Hadoop or Flink. Lack of numbers and users make me wonder if it's anything more than someone's PhD project at CMU.
MR is actually growing at Google still and heavily used by legacy systems and experienced engineers.
Compared to newer frameworks like those described in the FlumeJava and MillWheel papers, MR's growth is flat.
This is also happening in the Hadoop ecosystem too: if you're writing JavaMR by hand, you're probably spending more time and writing less efficient jobs than what you might get by an optimized pig/hive job with tez under the hood. Or through something in the Cascading or Crunch family, which provides useful abstractions on top of MR or other execution engines.
Then there are also a lot of tools popping up that take some if the use cases that were shoehorned into MR which are more natural outside, like ML/iterative computation through Spark.
MR isn't dying inside or outside Google, it's just being abstracted away.
What is missed in the article and many of these comments is that Hadoop isn't always going the best tool for one job. It shines in its multitenancy- when many users are running many jobs-each developed in their favorite framework or language(bash/awk pipeline? No problem) running over datasets bigger than single machines can handle.
It also comes in handy when your dataset grows dramatically in size.
Then you're hardly using commodity hardware anymore. While jobs like that probably actually work on Hadoop, I'd imagine a problem like that might be better suited for specialized systems.
Sorry, I should have clarified that comment before posting it.
Many bands allow audience taping but I'm not aware of m?any that allow for commercial distribution of those recordings. If Spotify attempted to distribute those recordings against the bands' policies then it would probably piss off the bands.
That Danny Schmidt is pretty great stuff. You're right about Spotify's lack of content when it comes to stuff like this-- they have all his studio albums but are kind of weak when it comes to live stuff, they have one album. Archive.org definitely fills in this gap (I use it all the time for Dead shows).
I've heard the p2p stuff is going away on the desktop app, but you could easily get around it by using the webplayer or mobile app. AFAIK, there's no way to limit the upload speed in the current desktop implementation (in the app).
The content is generally pretty good but they depend on the artists/labels getting it into aggregators or making it available. Bootlegs won't be there because that would probably piss the bands off.
We've been using it on HDP2 for about a month now. Everything works fairly well and it was super easy to setup because of YARN (and the work the Spark team put in).
They have a widget on the Nest store (https://widgets.nest.com/en/calculator/widget) that estimates energy savings. According to that, a $250/year savings is possible in SF with electric heating and a house over 2000 square feet. Though, the range they provide probably means:
a) It is a historically cold year for a prolonged period of time
b) You set your heat to 80F all the time
With gas heating, it looks almost impossible to save $250... unless you're heating an NBA arena.
Yann deals with Machine Learning. His specialty (simplified) was pattern recognition in images (first handwriting then objects).
I'd imagine projects that group similar topics (i.e. these people are all in front of the Great Pyramids or these people are all taking pictures of their babies) which probably will help group/filter content
I've personally witnessed three blatant thefts in the last few years from my local Duane Reade (that closed down in April). Every time the clerks are like "pretty sure that was the same guy from yesterday". It's never violent or scary. It's just like watching a fight between homeless people in a subway station -- you look, think that's odd, and move on.
> Where in NY are these stores closing? 4 different pharmacies that have closed down since the pandemic just on my path to work, including two a stone's throw from the NY stock exchange. https://maps.app.goo.gl/fJcHCgjVacP5pEuHA https://maps.app.goo.gl/kmDXnjHruMCvS2CA6
I suspect it's not all shrinkage though. I imagine continued trends where we buy more and more things via online retailers like Amazon and the growth of online/by mail pharmacies has contributed too. CVS/Duane Reade are still opening new locations too, so it can't be all that bad.