tomwheeler

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Hi, Temporal employee here. Just want to confirm that Temporal Cloud can and does handle this scale, well beyond it, in fact.

As our CEO and co-founder Samar Abbas stated in the keynote at this year's Replay conference (https://youtu.be/BxEB7Y2U9oU?t=532), Temporal Cloud is currently handling 35 billion workflows per day. If you assume that each Workflow averages 10 actions, that translates to more than 10 trillion actions per month.

Later in that keynote, a VP from OpenAI talks about the scale at which they are using Temporal Cloud. That'll give you a sense of the volume for a single customer (obviously a very large one).

After those are used up, it moves to Devanagari, Hangul, Katakana, Hiragana, and then Kanji.

I can't speak for the specific case of Stripe, but it's fairly common for private companies to have a "tender offer" in which employees have the opportunity to sell some portion of their equity. This is often done in conjunction with a new investment round.

It's semantics, but the latest raise might have been a follow-on to Series M, not a new round (to be clear, I know nothing about their finances, just speaking from experience at another company).

Effectively infinite. Databricks is a good example. They're still private after 13 years and closed a Series L round last year. Stripe is similar.

Having been through an IPO before, it was good for employee liquidity, but bad for the culture and long-term success of the company.

As evidence, search for "How do I disable the 'beautify this slide' widget that keeps appearing in Google Slides?" The top results are a bunch of pages in support.google.com in which the weary support person says "You can't disable this" and closes the thread.

Here's one such example: https://support.google.com/docs/thread/416641585/how-to-hide...

the volumes of The Art of Computer Programming

I'd speculate that the number of people who own these outnumber the people who have actually read them by a pretty wide margin.

Aside from any downward trend attributable to LLMs, technical book sales were always lower than most people would have imagined.

I've known a few authors who published with O'Reilly and other major publishers and most told me that they made less than minimum wage in the end. There were other benefits, such as increased name recognition and credibility that let them charge more as consultants, but the direct proceeds from writing a technical book seldom paid off even two decades ago.

I can confirm this is true for Acura. I owned an Acura Legend and the same car was sold in Japan (well, the right-hand drive version) as the Honda Legend. I had seen pictures of them online in the 90s, but happened to see a Honda Legend in person when I was in Tokyo some years later.

One that doesn't seem to be listed is "overconfident fork" in which someone forks an existing project out of anger or hubris, but that fork never gains critical mass and eventually withers away.

The opposite is what happened with OpenSSH, Jenkins, and LibreOffice, in which the original project (SSH, Hudson, and OpenOffice) had the hubris but was quickly forgotten when the community moved on.

Yeah, when I was a kid you had to go to the AT&T store to get a phone.

I'd enjoy someone copying Steve Wozniak even more.

Seems to be a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48183579

Seems like the status quo to me. I'm a human and they block my legitimate access on multiple sites a day. I hate that they've inserted themselves as the unwanted guardians of the web, but I'm also stunned at how absolutely bad they are at it.

When I see one of their roadblocks pop up, I now just click the back button. Life is too short to spend it jumping through the stupid obstacles they've set up and fortunately there are plenty of great sites that don't use them.

The leftmost icon on my browser toolbar is the "kill sticky" bookmarklet (https://github.com/t-mart/kill-sticky). I grew tired of sites hiding the dismiss buttons or omitting them entirely, so anytime something pops up on the page, I instinctively click that. Works on the vast majority of sites.

If only there was AFM to read these days.

Right. It's self-indulgence by product managers and/or designers who think users are as interested in the software as they are.

Worse yet, sometimes these tours seem to be a band-aid for an unintuitive UX. If usability was the priority, I'd discover new features on my own.

I also own a W212 E-Class, which I purchased used a few years ago specifically because it's the ideal balance of features I care about (e.g., heated seats and the ability to play MP3 files) without most of the ones I hate (touchscreens and subscription services).

Despite being nearly a decade old at the time of purchase, it was in nearly perfect condition, well-maintained, had low mileage, and had already faced most of the depreciation it ever would.

How do the police pull over a driverless vehicle? Who hands over the license and registration? How do you get it to sign the ticket?

At least this one was significantly faster than Cloudflare and required no action on my part.

Back in January, I was debating whether to buy an M3 Ultra Mac Studio or waiting for the M5 version, which many believed would be announced two months later.

The 192GB M3 Ultra was on sale at the local Microcenter for $200 below what Apple's own site advertised. Since I knew the RAM shortage would significantly increase the price of the M5 Studio when (or if) it finally did come out, I decided to buy the M3. Time has shown that was the right decision.

Temporal employee here. I'm very surprised by your comment.

It's true that we recently had a Series D and that VC firms recognize the value of what we do. The Temporal Server software is 100% open source (MIT license: https://github.com/temporalio/temporal/blob/main/LICENSE). It's totally free and you don't even need to fill out a registration form, just download precompiled binaries from GitHub or clone the repo and build it yourself. You can self-host it anywhere you like, no restrictions on scale or commercial usage. We offer SaaS (Temporal Cloud), which customers can choose as an alternative self-hosting, based on their needs. The migration path is bi-directional, so not a trap by any definition.

Regarding AI, Temporal is widely used in that space, but that does not negate the thousands of other companies that use Temporal for other things (e.g., order management systems, customer onboarding, loan origination, money movement, cloud infrastructure management, and so on). In fact, our growth in the AI market came about because companies who were already using Temporal for other use cases realized that it also solved the problems they encountered in their AI projects.

And to your last point, we've made dozens of enhancements to the product (here's a small sample: https://temporal.io/blog/categories/product-news). I'd encourage you to follow the news from next week's Replay conference (https://replay.temporal.io/) because we'll be announcing many more.

Bots are now clearly joining the Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...) to hasten the demise of civil liberty.

Wouldn't Baltimore be the first Waymo market that actually gets snow?

No, we have them in St. Louis and it snows a few times per year here.

All of these tools ... will inevitably be subject to manipulation.

I have often wondered about the legality of such manipulation. As AI becomes used for increasingly important things, it becomes increasingly valuable to make a system serve the needs of someone other than its owner.

When I was a kid, I would often sit on my bed and stare at the wall. My Dad would walk by my room and ask if everything was ok. I would always say "yeah", since I was literally just thinking.

Me too. And all I wanted was a Pepsi.

I recently encountered `is_as BOOL` in an important table.

Sounds like a table designed by Forrest Gump.

Same here. Two decades ago, I was excited to install updates to commercial software I used because they fixed bugs and brought useful new features. These days I fear updates because they introduce new bugs, remove features I care about, and come with new anti-features that I actively do not want.

The macOS Tahoe release is a great example of this. I can't think of a single thing I prefer about it and could easily name ten things I hate about it.

Thank you, EU, for having the courage to pass the pro-consumer regulations that my own government lacks. Often, as happened when the iPhone got rid of the proprietary Lightning connector, the benefits extend well beyond your borders.