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This is very true but I think there is an incredibly long tail of people who "can't survive a terminal session" and I actually question if a terminal ui will win out long term.

Classic combination of errors: Having the feature table pivoted (with 200 feature1, feature2, etc columns) meant they had to do meta queries to system.columns to get all the featur…

We added Muvera to Weaviate recently https://weaviate.io/blog/muvera and also have a nice podcast on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSW5g1H4zoU . When looking at multi-vector /…

As someone living in Australia this law is ridiculous and basically outlaws a chunk of my childhood where I used forums, irc, and blogs. As a parent I do share concerns for short d…

I'd argue that the current business model is clear (pay subscription for chat or api) but the valuations are unclear. If open models continue to keep up and industry as a whole jus…

Hey @rvrs, I work on Weaviate and we are doing some improvements around increasing write throughput: 1. gRPC. Using gRPC to write vectors has had a really nice performance boost. I…

Adding a cross-encoder to your app means including pytorch/transformers and a model as a dependency. For people using OpenAI or Cohere embedding apis and lightweight infrastructure…

I work at Weaviate, a few comments on why we implemented hybrid search [1]. - Using two separate systems for traditional BM25 and vector search and keeping them in-sync is pretty d…

There are two reasons that self-hosted is expensive, both having no relation to real costs. 1. If you are self-hosting, you have now segmented yourself into the customer category w…

Does it work well with org-babel?

I'm not a fan of competitors creating benchmarks like this as when faced with any tuning decision, they will usually pick the one the makes their competitors slower. But anyway let…

My setup is the following: 1. Ubiquiti ER-X 2. Ubiquiti AP Lite x 2 (upstairs and downstairs) 3. Inbuilt Cat6 cabling in house The benefit of this approach is I get to use prosumer…

Great white sharks are so afraid of killer whales that they will leave a feeding area to them for over a year. The killer whales often kill a shark to only eat their liver. Evoluti…

If you want a small NAS in a similar form factor I'd recommend Helios64 5-bay NAS https://kobol.io/ . It is an Arm64 board runs mainline Armbian. Also comes with 2.5Gbit networking…

His supervisor published the hypocrite paper with the introduced vulnerabilities so they are far more linked than just both being at UMN.

With Pulsar vs Kafka, I don't see a huge argument between either one functionality wise as they have so much in common (distributed log, Java based, avoid copying memory, use Zooke…

Rather than waste time using one of the proprietary NAS systems like QNAP and Synology, why not support a system that runs and supports unmodified Linux and publishes full schemati…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGcwVYbkePs is very informative around the reasons for SMR and the problems around them.

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I'm really looking forward to what DHH can do with https://hey.com/ . My aim with an email provider is that I trust it. A non-bootstrapped company with a founder outspoken against …

By ”general English” I assume you are meaning American English?

I shudder at the idea of using USB connectors for important data. I have recently purchased a Kobol NAS https://kobol.io/ . It is amazing because it has the following features in a…

If I'm reading this right, does this mean that current Google AMP powered pages will now be able to impersonate the url of the original publisher site in Chrome provided the publis…

> Why do they keep marketing Ubuntu as a different OS? The is confusing to people who don't realize that it's literally just a customized Debian. Why do they keep marketing Debian …