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most HN comment ever

by bilater 4y ago

sjcsjc 4y ago
Yes. Very Dropbox.
- Ozzie_osman 4y ago
  Not really. That famous Dropbox comment was questioning the value of the product while offering a more difficult way to get the same result. Commenter here is not questioning the value of any product, but offering a potentially simpler way of achieving the same thing.
  - EGreg 4y ago
    Very HN thread, I dig it
  - mrwnmonm 4y ago
    What is the famous Dropbox comment?
    - Ozzie_osman 4y ago
      https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
      - mrwnmonm 4y ago
        Thanks <3
  - theturtletalks 4y ago
    The DropBox comment was also “offering” a simpler way of storing data using rsync. The issue is that these guys solved a problem and are seeing the monetary benefit, but the first comment is explaining in tech jargon how to solve this problem “better”. Can’t that user just accept the end result is the same, but OP got there without in-depth knowledge of technology that can solve this faster?
    - Ozzie_osman 4y ago
      I personally think there's a difference between saying "I have qualms with this app" and questioning its usefulness as an app as well as its viability as a business (Dropbox comment) and someone offering an alternative/simpler way to achieve a cool result in a blog post (parent comment). The latter is useful for folks hoping to replicate the results (for instance, I now know I can use FAISS instead of having to go sign up for pinecone). OP seems to feel the same, they replied to parent.
asah 4y ago
had the same reaction to the jargon... ...but I said WTH, googled SBERT and followed my nose and got it installed in minutes on my Mac and they kindly included a cut/paste example of semantic search.
- williamcotton 4y ago
  SBERT Semantic Search: https://www.sbert.netexamples/applications/semantic-search/README.html https://www.sbert.netexamples/applications/semantic-search/R...
  - 698969 4y ago
    The link is missing a slash after the .net
    - recuter 4y ago
      https://www.sbert.net/examples/applications/semantic-search/README.html https://www.sbert.net/examples/applications/semantic-search/... (Dude you went to the trouble of pointing it out but didn't post a fixed one to save folks typing, you rascal :P )
- bilater 4y ago
  Agreed - will check it out as well. OK - I did check it out. Pretty cool. Some learnings: https://twitter.com/deepwhitman/status/1630091600465641474 https://twitter.com/deepwhitman/status/1630091600465641474
jamesblonde 4y ago
I appreciated (and understood) the comment. If i have a lot of data, it's cheaper and more efficient to build your own batch inference application and just use two well-known libraries (s-bert and the FAISS indexing library). That didn't occur to me. I come here for insights - and i got one here.

most HN comment ever

sjcsjc 4y ago

Yes. Very Dropbox.

Ozzie_osman 4y ago
Not really. That famous Dropbox comment was questioning the value of the product while offering a more difficult way to get the same result. Commenter here is not questioning the value of any product, but offering a potentially simpler way of achieving the same thing.
- EGreg 4y ago
  Very HN thread, I dig it
- mrwnmonm 4y ago
  What is the famous Dropbox comment?
  - Ozzie_osman 4y ago
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
    - mrwnmonm 4y ago
      Thanks <3
- theturtletalks 4y ago
  The DropBox comment was also “offering” a simpler way of storing data using rsync. The issue is that these guys solved a problem and are seeing the monetary benefit, but the first comment is explaining in tech jargon how to solve this problem “better”. Can’t that user just accept the end result is the same, but OP got there without in-depth knowledge of technology that can solve this faster?
  - Ozzie_osman 4y ago
    I personally think there's a difference between saying "I have qualms with this app" and questioning its usefulness as an app as well as its viability as a business (Dropbox comment) and someone offering an alternative/simpler way to achieve a cool result in a blog post (parent comment). The latter is useful for folks hoping to replicate the results (for instance, I now know I can use FAISS instead of having to go sign up for pinecone). OP seems to feel the same, they replied to parent.

asah 4y ago

had the same reaction to the jargon... ...but I said WTH, googled SBERT and followed my nose and got it installed in minutes on my Mac and they kindly included a cut/paste example of semantic search.

williamcotton 4y ago
SBERT Semantic Search: https://www.sbert.netexamples/applications/semantic-search/README.html https://www.sbert.netexamples/applications/semantic-search/R...
- 698969 4y ago
  The link is missing a slash after the .net
  - recuter 4y ago
    https://www.sbert.net/examples/applications/semantic-search/README.html https://www.sbert.net/examples/applications/semantic-search/... (Dude you went to the trouble of pointing it out but didn't post a fixed one to save folks typing, you rascal :P )
bilater 4y ago
Agreed - will check it out as well. OK - I did check it out. Pretty cool. Some learnings: https://twitter.com/deepwhitman/status/1630091600465641474 https://twitter.com/deepwhitman/status/1630091600465641474

jamesblonde 4y ago

I appreciated (and understood) the comment. If i have a lot of data, it's cheaper and more efficient to build your own batch inference application and just use two well-known libraries (s-bert and the FAISS indexing library). That didn't occur to me. I come here for insights - and i got one here.