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If you're interested in this sort of thing with an SQL flavor, you may find the pgpdf PostgreSQL extension useful https://github.com/Florents-Tselai/pgpdf . It's basically an SQL w…

Except for the fact that big consultancies who receive most of the government contracts, have zero contribution to the open source ecosystem.

Technically yes, but they're used interchangeably nowdays. Plus, the official transcript mentions "Mytilene" so I wanted to follow that. Although I use Lesvos myself.

In 2021, during a visit to the Greek island of Mytilene, Pope Francis delivered one of the finest speeches I've ever read: > This great basin of water, the cradle of so many civili…

With $GEMINI_MODE=gemini-2.0-flash I also got some decent results for libraries like simonw/llm and pgcli. You can tell that because simonw writes quite heavily-documented code an …

It's decent enough. But you'd probably have to use a model like llama2, which may set your GPU on fire.

If you want to use Ollama to run local models, here’s a simple example: from ollama import chat, ChatResponse def call_llm(prompt, use_cache: bool = True, model="phi4") -> str: res…

Hi HN, I frequently work with Postgres & Python and toggle between multiple versions of each. In Postgres, I keep a separate installation for each project, but I don't like git sub…

It's also exciting that their code to actually reproduce these is also available. https://github.com/wccarleton/mesoneomalta

Hi HN, I run diofanti.org, a free, open-data platform that monitors government spending and operations in Greece. We transform raw public data into a tableau-like dashboard, provid…

I’ve been working on some projects with Greek-language data and have encountered some interesting challenges with RAG and LLMs. In an English-speaking universe, it's relatively str…

I'm working on spat https://github.com/Florents-Tselai/spat a Postgres extension. spat is a Redis-like in-memory data structure server embedded in Postgres. Data is stored in Postg…

I tend to agree. The OOP-all-the-things mantra created many problems; lots of books were printed (more than necessary), and lots of evangelists made their name on unnecessary abstr…

The "New World" is re-discovering what the Balkans / Southern Europe have been doing for decades.