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Re: Show HN: NNext.net – A Firebase-like managed vector storage for ML applications

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Post by loxias » Wed, Mar 03, 2021, 12:24 PM UTC

Every time I've needed something like this (3 times in my career, though none in the past 5 years) I've ended up having to implement it from scratch.

Depending on the topology of the data, different metrics are used and you can make different performance tradeoffs. And differing business use cases make it hard to find a one-size-fits-all. As I'm sure you're aware, there are dozens of fast ANN approaches, and the code implementing the ANN often is the tightest loop, making hard to be pluggable and performant.

TileDB is also quite interesting.

Best of luck though, I agree with you there's a "missing product" to be invented, I'm not sure this is exactly it, but I don't think I know any better.

Re: Show HN: NNext.net – A Firebase-like managed vector storage for ML applications

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Post by XCSme » Wed, Mar 03, 2021, 2:51 PM UTC

thegeekbin wrote: post #19

Not on topic for the actual product... but please remove that terrible scrolling behaviour. I hate when websites do this, it makes the user experience (imo) much worse to just "jump" sections if I try to scroll a tiny bit.

Strongly agree! I searched for "scroll" in this thread to see if anyone else is complaining, I hate it when websites overwrite the scroll behavior, it's like I lost my control over navigating the website.

Re: Show HN: NNext.net – A Firebase-like managed vector storage for ML applications

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Post by thegeekbin » Wed, Mar 03, 2021, 5:09 PM UTC

XCSme wrote: post #22

thegeekbin wrote: post #19

Not on topic for the actual product... but please remove that terrible scrolling behaviour. I hate when websites do this, it makes the user experience (imo) much worse to just "jump" sections if I try to scroll a tiny bit.

Strongly agree! I searched for "scroll" in this thread to see if anyone else is complaining, I hate it when websites overwrite the scroll behavior, it's like I lost my control over navigating the website.

It ends up becoming an instant droplist for me. If I can't navigate how I want, then I won't visit the site until it's resolved.

Re: Show HN: NNext.net – A Firebase-like managed vector storage for ML applications

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Post by hvidevold » Wed, Mar 03, 2021, 9:21 PM UTC

vladf wrote: post #8

I can't wait to see the vector DBs we're going to have 5 years from now when everyone needs to serve their embeddings. It's clearly early but frothy right now. Also check out this similar co I ran into: https://www.pinecone.io/ (the CEO, EL, has some classic sketches and feature hashing papers).

After reading this comment I made an image search engine for OpenGameArt using pinecone.io today: https://emh.lart.no/ogasearch/?imsi=dungeon%20crawl%20monste...