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Solving Multi-Tenancy in Vector Search Requires a Paradigm Shift(youtube.com)
1 points by shon 3y ago|0 comments
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by shon 3y ago
Godspeed Frank. Thanks for your service.
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by shon 3y ago
In that case, X.AI, powered by X/Twitter/Tesla data and possibly Facebook (both closed, and somewhat hard to crawl inside) have the largest moat.
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by shon 3y ago
Ed Newton-Rex, VP of Audio at Stability, is speaking about how this was built at The AI Conference in 2 weeks. https://aiconference.com
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by shon 3y ago
67 years later: https://aiconference.com
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by shon 3y ago
First off, figure out how you define best. Is it: Most pay? Most interesting work? Best work-life-balance? Best ratio of pay to work stress? Remote work? Fun workmates? As others have said, it often takes experience to really understand w
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by shon 3y ago
Also good to discuss. Not really an AI startup (I won't be applying myself) but I did make https://scotchwerks.com ;) Hopefully others are doing more interesting things!
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Ask HN: Who's Working on an AI Startup?
3 points by shon 3y ago|2 comments
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by shon 3y ago
I remember very well when the iMac was released. I was a fledgling IT Manager in SoCal and went to the local Fry’s Electronics to check out an iMac. It was the first time I had ever seen a line of people out the door with computers in their
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by shon 3y ago
This ^^
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by shon 3y ago
downvoted to hell lol
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by shon 3y ago
Awesome, looking forward to seeing you there!
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by shon 3y ago
Keep an eye on @shon twitter and @aiconference, I'm giving more away there this week. Always good to have more hackers in the room ;)
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by shon 3y ago
They did go fast! I'll be giving away a few more on Twitter later this week
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by shon 3y ago
Awesome, glad you got one!
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by shon 3y ago
* Shameless plug and a free ticket: Etienne Dilocker, The Co-founder/CTO of Weaviate and Ram Sriharsha, the VP of R&D at Pinecone are both presenting at The AI Conference. Lots of other smart people are presenting including Nazneen
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by shon 3y ago
Agreed. Not dumber, just building higher level stuff. The value of deeply understanding all 7 layers has diminished because generally things are standardized and work well so it’s not required. This frees up some calories to work on higher
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by shon 3y ago
It’s not. It’s one of the few things that hasn’t changed much and it’s operation is fairly straightforward. dig is a little confusing. It’s more capable but less straightforward than good old nslookup (which still works fine BTW). I think p
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by shon 3y ago
I disagree. Especially for business software. Unlike hobby software, where you could reasonably write everything from scratch just for fun, or say in write it in 6502 ASM which hasn’t changed at all for 50 years and won’t change in 50 more,
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by shon 3y ago
I was just thinking the same thing lol
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by shon 3y ago
Software margins are good, especially compared to physical things. However, the marginal cost is far from zero. It scales with # and variety of users. Today, all software comes with complex dependencies. Take for example any mobile app. App
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by shon 3y ago
Ahem… Darwin. Because of Darwin (iOS) and its derivatives, BSD probably powers 10-20% or more of all daily user hours logged on the planet.
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by shon 3y ago
Lol
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by shon 3y ago
That’s bananas. Thanks for the link!
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by shon 3y ago
Really? I disagree. Running a ubiquitous service that is good for users does not require that you allow every random person to scrape your site and incur that cost. You simply setup API deals with those who you want to have your data, those
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by shon 3y ago
Regarding the product, it was solid as in reliable, but stagnant. I don’t pretend to know all of the motivations behind the policy moves. That said, I’ve got some experience with scraping; got sued by LinkedIn in 2014. We were using AWS Spo
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by shon 3y ago
Totally agree with you. It was only a startup in the sense that it was still struggling to find profitability / solid market fit. As opposed to something like Amazon which grew and grew for nearly 20 years, always burning more cash tha
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by shon 3y ago
I have to disagree. If you honestly take the emotion and politics out of this and evaluate on merit alone, what do you think? Twitter wasn’t healthy before Musk bought it. It wasn’t a thriving business, it was a very old, very large startup
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by shon 3y ago
Not to be mean but… are we supposed to be surprised by this? It’s a jailed machine. The antithesis of a dev box.
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by shon 3y ago
I’ve found Anker’s small batteries to be of high quality. I own a Tesla Powerwall which works well and has nice integrated software and seemed like the best option without a heavy DIY lift as of a few years ago. Great to see competition her

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