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by cfors 5mo ago
The spirit of this is correct, but a better approach to this is going for a walk with just your thoughts. Yes, that means no phone, no headphones, just you and your brain enjoying a walk. Let your mind wonder and be free.
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by cfors 8mo ago
The underlying C library interacts directly with the postgres query parser (therefore, Postgres source). So unless you rewrite postgres in Rust, you wouldn't be able to do that.
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by cfors 8mo ago
https://grugbrain.dev/ grug very elated find big brain developer Bob Nystrom redeem the big brain tribe and write excellent book on recursive descent: Crafting Interpreters book available online free, but grug highly rec
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by cfors 9mo ago
https://duckdb.org/docs/stable/core_extensions/vss It's not bad if you need something quick. I haven't had a large need of ANN in duckdb since it's doing more analytical/exploratory needs,
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by cfors 10mo ago
Just curious what the state of the art around filtered vector search results is? I took a quick look at the SPFresh paper and didn't see it specifically address filtering.
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by cfors 1y ago
In any API service, it's better to handle via dependency injection IMO. Instantiate all of your metadata once, and then send that logger down, so that anybody who uses that logger is guaranteed to have the right metadata... the time to
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by cfors 1y ago
Might be missing my argument here - I stated that there are workable solutions to this like you have pointed out. But ANN search is still a sledgehammer and building out hybrid solutions that help bridge the gap between this and traditional
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by cfors 1y ago
Sure they can handle the basic case of ANN. But ANN still doesn’t have good stories for lots of real-world problems. * filterable ANN, decomposes into prefiltering or postfiltering. * dynamic updates and versioning is still very difficult *
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by cfors 1y ago
I don't disagree that rock solid is a good choice, but there is a ton of innovation necessary for data stores. Especially in the context of embedding search, which this article is also trying to do. We need database that can efficientl
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by cfors 1y ago
The README is 100% just autogenerated by Claude. It looks like every README generated from these tools. Can’t speak for the code since I haven’t peaked into it
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by cfors 2y ago
While not strictly for RDBMS, I think this book is pretty close! https://www.databass.dev/
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by cfors 2y ago
Just wanted to say thank you for this article - I've read and shared this a few times over the years!
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by cfors 2y ago
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanthi. A fascinating memoir by a philosopher turned brain surgeon, facing a terminal cancer diagnosis. A person who spent their entire life pondering the morality of life being faced with their own ultimat
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by cfors 3y ago
My system’s programming teacher spent an entire week of a 12 week semester (3 classes) going over how to use gdb/vim for one of our projects. Still my favorite class and professor from my time at school.
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by cfors 3y ago
Can anybody speak to how Vespa compares to some other Vector Database solutions? Seems like there's so many options today
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by cfors 3y ago
Could also make a guess that the blackout has changed how their normal traffic patterns operate, causing some issues with autoscaling/hot partitions.
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by cfors 3y ago
I like this viewpoint when you are a small company searching for PMF and your entire backend can fit into a small DB. At one point you'll have to reckon with IO costs and storage once that is over and then you have no choice but to exp
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by cfors 4y ago
As somebody that has done both contracting and worked in tech, I hope this comment makes sense. Most homeowners (product managers) want the cheapest (fastest) thing that fixes (delivers) a working home (feature) to them. When given the opti
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by cfors 4y ago
I trust you have the numbers for this. And we can debate them until the world ends, but I think having a mental fallback that “yeah, some people suck” is valuable for your mental well being. Life’s too short to let the few negative people o
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by cfors 4y ago
> I find it more efficient to work in topic-scoped batches, so I can load context on a protocol and codebase once and use it to land multiple changes. This is my favorite way of writing software as well. My current gig has a ton of micro
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by cfors 4y ago
Lays off 20% of employees and the stock jumps 9% immediately. Really drives home a good message to all CEO's out there /s
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by cfors 4y ago
It would always be nonsensical unless you were running on the database you were targeting (or one that contained similar data distributions). However, with Postgres its pretty trivial to get a JSON format of the output if you needed a machi
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by cfors 4y ago
The feature requests (asks) that product wants to build - sorry for the confusion there.
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by cfors 4y ago
No disagreement here. I love a good monolith.
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by cfors 4y ago
Yep, there's a premium on making your architecture more cloudy. However, the best point for Use One Big Server is not necessarily running your big monolithic API server, but your database. Use One Big Database. Seriously. If you are a
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by cfors 4y ago
Came here to comment this, there's a ton of awesome stuff around Postgres that using RDS makes impossible. Kinda stinks, but I don't have the time/expertise to manage a Postgres Instance on EC2.
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by cfors 4y ago
Previous Discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25616593 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22443363
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by cfors 4y ago
High Scalability has some good articles around this. http://highscalability.com/all-time-favorites/
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by cfors 4y ago
Building a dashboard by clickety/clacking around is not a menial task, consistency across dashboards is a a core unit of observability to ensure x-functional teams can discuss issues across a common language/viewpoint, which is on
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by cfors 4y ago
Grafana alerts (before version 8) worked great. We use them, but the Grafana 8 alerting features are half-baked at best. * Grafana 8 alerts removed the Image Preview, which was extremely useful during issues. [0] * Grafana 8 alerts don&#x27

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