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Location: Los Angeles Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No (for now) Technologies: Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Vespa and practically every DB under the sun. Language agnostic but the…

This behavior is pretty much the state of the American two party political system. For example, Democrats had countless attempts to make abortion a constitutional right, but if the…

I am working on a project that utilizes data from Hacker News. Wanted to share these insights, but wondering if I was able to share the content itself. The content are all the whoi…

I am working on a pet project that utilizes data from Hacker News. Wanted to share these insights in a git repo, but wondering if I was able to share the content itself. The conten…

Vector search is not exclusively in the domain of text search. There is always image/video search. But pre-filtering is important, since you want to reduce the set of items to be m…

Curious about the lack of Vespa, especially given the thoroughness of the article and its long-time reputation. OpenSearch is also missing, but perhaps it can be considered being l…

Great article. Well done. Have you considered adding an RSS feed for your content?

I spent 3 months in South Africa, primarily in Cape Town. Visted Mabu Vinyl, but sadly did not purchase anything (was backpacking, so traveling light). Owner was lovely. The docume…

That is what I assumed as well, until one day I got hit by a bug involving Extension Mechanisms for DNS (EDNS). Never knew it existed. All of a sudden DNS was failing and could not…

Not too far from the Remote Lounge was a Clockwork Orange themed bar named Korova Milk Bar around the same time.

Since Open Source has been established in the tech ethos for a while now, any deviation has been met with derision. It seems like the community has been more tolerant of these "ope…

Very true. Same height/length, and wider! https://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=12380&idPhone... Miss my Sony Xperia Compact. Would love to see that form factor again.

If anyone from posthog is reading this, please fix your RSS feed. The link actually points back to the blog homepage.

The overwhelming majority of users on most social networking sites are lurkers. Those lurkers did not vote. I would assuming the majority of users do not even know about the change…

Title comes from the reporting on Deadline, an industry site https://deadline.com/2023/05/wga-strike-scab-reporting-web-s...

That was pretty much my experience. Immigrant family and since I went to high school in Europe, I did not have much of a choice for university and ended up at CUNY. Worked evening …

I assumed it had something to do with the color and tried to find patterns. Turns out you need knowledge of the London Metro system. It would be nice if the title reflected that.

My personal definition of Big Data has always been when you gather/store data without having a planned use for it. Do we need this data? Don't know, let's just store it for now. Th…

"Warrior needs food badly" "Wizard is about to die"

There is a Slack group related to search at http://www.opensourceconnections.com/slack Great community. I would love to join something from the start, but now is not the right time…

There is some gamification like this at https://wandrer.earth/ I've been doing the same using Strava Heatmaps, cycling the Hollywood Hills. Lots of very steep dead-end streets. Can…

Links to actual content simply go back to https://angel.co/jobs . Wellfound is basically just a landing page at this point. When searching for a job, especially in a startup, I fou…

I worked at Ticketmaster when covid first hit. Since the beginning, management has always been positive and re-iterating that the cash reserves are substantial and the company can …