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by heipei 5y ago
I'd be surprised if it was anything else, given that they started with a working vector search database and then added filtering in after the fact.
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by heipei 5y ago
Microsoft doesn’t send DMARC reports which made discovering delivery issues all the more problematic.
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by heipei 5y ago
Hashicorp Nomad
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by heipei 5y ago
What I like about Nomad is that it allows scheduling non-containerized workloads too. What it "does" for me is that it gives me a declarative language to specify the workloads, has a nice web UI to keep track of the workloads and
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by heipei 5y ago
Some more Open Source vector search engines for ANN: https://milvus.io/ https://vespa.ai/ https://vald.vdaas.org/ https://github.com/semi-technologies/weaviate https:
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by heipei 5y ago
I don't know when this was written, but MinIO does not have a great story (or really any story) around horizontal scalability. Yes, you can set it up in "distributed mode", but that is completely fixed at setup time and requi
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by heipei 5y ago
It's less true, but still very much true. In Germany for example, commuting via car unlocks tax incentives per extra kilometer traveled.
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by heipei 5y ago
I still use it daily since I find it so much easier to write and read than having my code littered with semicolons and braces, and it enforces correct whitespace. I do see its limitations, and I wish efforts to marry Coffeescript with Types
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by heipei 5y ago
In Germany, a non-compete can only be enforced for up to two years and pays 50% of the last salary (by law).
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by heipei 5y ago
Seconded. Every three months I get a little anxious about not running on one of the clouds that would let me scale more quickly (and also would let me do things like use Athena to go through a huge S3 bucket). But then I do a little math an
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by heipei 5y ago
Telegraf is the main reason I'm still running the Telegraf + InfluxDB + Grafana stack. I might have checked out TimescaleDB or others, but since Telegraf works great with InfluxDB and has all sorts of arcane collection plugins, mostly
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by heipei 5y ago
I use Grafana religiously every day, rely on it for metrics, long-term trends and alerting. I also use Telegraf with InfluxDB, but thanks to Grafana I've never had to write a single InfluxDB statement. Also: It's not just higher t
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by heipei 5y ago
I should have added that I'm German, and here the estate tax is only exempt on the first €500k for spouses and €400k for each child. And everything above is taxed between 25% and 50% depending on your income tax bracket. Real estate is
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by heipei 5y ago
I don't understand why so many people applaud hefty inheritance taxes, with some far-left voices demanding inheritance taxes well above 90% or even 100%. It feels to me like this is sending the signal to "use it or lose it".
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by heipei 5y ago
It's sad, the station wagon has gone out of favour in the US, and the minivan has gone out of favour in Europe, all that's left in both cases are stupid crossovers and SUVs. As a European I get envious when I read about all of the
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by heipei 5y ago
Glad they learned from their painful mistake and ditched the .so domain in favor of a .com.
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by heipei 5y ago
I consider neither Zoho nor Google Docs to be vendor lock-in since you can always download the documents as docx and continue working on them locally. I'm gonna give Zoho Writer a spin since Google Docs is missing some vital features f
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by heipei 5y ago
I haven't used the feature, but the way it's implemented feels overly complicated, especially for something like keyword search (and not similar-image-search). If they only use the Top10 categories in their feature vector for the
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by heipei 5y ago
I can understand how that sentence from someone not close to you, and without any further explanation can be distressing. What I imagine telling my kids is "This is the best time of your life, you can enjoy it because the things that s
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by heipei 5y ago
Zombie companies, but also zombie jobs (or the much-quoted "bullshit jobs") where I have the impression they only stick around because people say "eh, it's not the most cost-efficient measure, but since we're paying
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by heipei 5y ago
"Status Update, Monday: Our main domain was suspended / is being blocked for reasons unknown to us. Investigation is ongoing." That happened to notion (notion.so) for example.
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by heipei 5y ago
I am a German living in Germany and worked remotely for a US company for a few years before they set up a German subsidiary. I was employed by the US corporation (so no employer of record), had a bi-lingual work contract which included all
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by heipei 5y ago
Sorry, let's call it "regions" then, they have multiple DCs in different cities in Germany, but for latency purposes I would consider these part of one region.
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by heipei 5y ago
Huge fan of Hetzner, but dedicated servers do not invalidate the value proposition of the cloud. Ordering a server at Hetzner can take anywhere between a few minutes and a few days. Each server has a fixed setup cost of around the monthly r
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by heipei 5y ago
For what it's worth, if you want to run ElasticSearch on AWS I would always go with local-NVMe instances from the i3 family, this is also what AWS and Elasticsearch themselves recommend. 4x i3en.2xlarge (64GB / 5TB NVMe) at $449 &
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by heipei 5y ago
The sad story is you can't get anywhere close to this even with rented dedicated servers. As a German I'm happy that we have Hetzner and I use their services extensively. However if I wanted to start deploying things in the US or
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by heipei 5y ago
Appreciate the response. I wasn't trying to say this is grep, I fully understand that this is an inverted index which is way more interesting to build on top of S3. I merely wanted to say that by using S3 within AWS you always have the
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by heipei 5y ago
You could look at AWS Athena, especially if you only query infrequently and can wait a minute on the search results. There are some data layout patterns in your S3 bucket that you can use to optimize the search. Then you have true pay-per-u
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by heipei 5y ago
This looks really interesting, I wonder how they will monetize it though. As an aside, projects like these are what keep me wondering whether I should switch from cheaper but "dumb" object stores to AWS since on AWS you can use yo
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by heipei 5y ago
Let's try something fun and imagine Mighty (and similar RBI services) were the only browsers available when finally Google, Microsoft and Mozilla launch their own browsers. Imagine the headlines: "Run your own browser for free, fo

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