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I'm a random dude on the Internet, but my partner completed her PhD at MIT. While there I knew and knew of a few PhD grads who worked at MIT in some non-tenure-track role (postdoc,…

Neat! > Right now, accessing my apps requires typing in the IP address of my machine (or Tailscale address) together with the app’s port number. You might try running Nginx as an a…

Maybe a more accurate take: Half-assed soft deletion definitely isn't worth it. If you're just going to throw in some deleted bool or deleted_at timestamp without thorough testing,…

Maybe out of touch. I've used them all (Mint, ynab, pocketsmith, buxfer, some google-sheets-based app, probably tried a dozen others). All of the auto-sync features had obvious bug…

I guess it comes down to the tradeoffs you're willing to accept for privacy. I personally find it quite sketchy that Plaid takes your username and password to your literal money an…

I've been using firefly over two years now. Data entry has not been been a problem: * Run the data-importer as a separate container. Takes maybe 20 minutes to configure correctly i…

Sadly he's not some kind of local hero. The area much prefers sports to academics. I studied CS there for undergrad and knew of him but rarely heard his name mentioned or celebrate…

Ah, totally misread it. Thanks.

...What? $10 x 1000 = $10k / month. $10k x 12 = $120k. That is a new grad software engineer salary in any US city. You'd pay more than that for a single dev with the devops and sec…

I've personally had some painful experiences with refreshing materialized views in Postgres. In particular, highly variable performance on read replicas that were receiving a refre…

Thanks for the feedback -- sorry I missed this a couple days ago! Had no clue it got posted to HN. FWIW, I've found GIN is a bit faster if you're just looking to filter. IIRC it wa…

Yeah it's a shame the concat_ws function doesn't quite work here. I've had success using Slick, an ORM-ish Scala library, to abstract away this tedious concatenation in app code.

Thanks for the feedback -- sorry I missed this a couple days ago! Had no clue it got posted to HN. I've deployed a solution that uses roughly this same method with multiple tables.…

> I think maybe one reason people shy away from things like Presto (and the above) is the uneven performance guarantees; waiting for an unoptimized Hadoop or Orcfile query by accid…

Looks neat, but wasn't this the promise of Presto? Presto didn't seem to really work out. From what I've seen it converged to a mostly analytical engine. It's still very useful, bu…

As we move more towards gitops, I see a lot of processes that could benefit from a simple UI. Example: modifying user permissions in a kubernetes cluster: 1. User requests permissi…

Does anyone know if there is a way to monitor sudden changes in planning behavior for a given query? For example, I'd like to monitor/alert on this kind of situation: I'm executing…

I wonder how many of those are "!g" queries? I've tried very hard to adopt duckduckgo but it just doesn't cut it, especially for technical topics.

Fantastic. Any write-ups or descriptions for how they made it happen?

Hi HN! Elastiknn is an Elasticsearch plugin that lets users store numerical vectors within documents and run exact and approximate nearest neighbor queries on them. It supports den…

Yep, I'm aware. The Lucene implementation seems early and slow-moving. Seems they are trying to create new storage formats and use graph-based search methods. OpenDistro wrapped a …

I'm working on an ANN plugin for Elasticsearch. All data is stored on disk, you automatically get horizontal/distributed scaling handled by ES, and you can combine ANN queries with…

I've found EFS enticing in theory but painfully slow and riddled with issues in practice. In the past I've tried it thinking "it's basically an EBS volume I can mount on > 1 EC2 in…