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by donretag 2y ago
Location: Los Angeles Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No (for now) Technologies: Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Vespa and practically every DB under the sun. Language agnostic but the bulk of my work has been in Java/Kotlin/Scala, Py
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by donretag 3y ago
This behavior is pretty much the state of the American two party political system. For example, Democrats had countless attempts to make abortion a constitutional right, but if they did, they could no longer count on using that subject for
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Ask HN: Hacker News content license and distribution
1 points by donretag 3y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Hacker News content license and distribution
1 points by donretag 3y ago|1 comments
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by donretag 3y ago
Vector search is not exclusively in the domain of text search. There is always image/video search. But pre-filtering is important, since you want to reduce the set of items to be matched on and it feels like Elasticsearch/OpenSear
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by donretag 3y ago
Curious about the lack of Vespa, especially given the thoroughness of the article and its long-time reputation. OpenSearch is also missing, but perhaps it can be considered being lumped in with Elasticsearch due to them both being based on
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by donretag 3y ago
Great article. Well done. Have you considered adding an RSS feed for your content?
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by donretag 3y ago
I spent 3 months in South Africa, primarily in Cape Town. Visted Mabu Vinyl, but sadly did not purchase anything (was backpacking, so traveling light). Owner was lovely. The documentary is not exaggerating the fact that Rodriguez was immens
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by donretag 3y ago
That is what I assumed as well, until one day I got hit by a bug involving Extension Mechanisms for DNS (EDNS). Never knew it existed. All of a sudden DNS was failing and could not understand why. Took me a long time to fix the issue.
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by donretag 3y ago
Not too far from the Remote Lounge was a Clockwork Orange themed bar named Korova Milk Bar around the same time.
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by donretag 3y ago
Since Open Source has been established in the tech ethos for a while now, any deviation has been met with derision. It seems like the community has been more tolerant of these "open" licenses as of late. While must of the hate for
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by donretag 3y ago
Very true. Same height/length, and wider! https://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=12380&idPhone... Miss my Sony Xperia Compact. Would love to see that form factor again.
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by donretag 3y ago
If anyone from posthog is reading this, please fix your RSS feed. The link actually points back to the blog homepage.
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by donretag 3y ago
The overwhelming majority of users on most social networking sites are lurkers. Those lurkers did not vote. I would assuming the majority of users do not even know about the changes or the blackout.
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by donretag 3y ago
Title comes from the reporting on Deadline, an industry site https://deadline.com/2023/05/wga-strike-scab-reporting-web-s...
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WGA Launches Scab Reporting Web Site Where Members Are Required to Report Names(wgacontract2023.org)
9 points by donretag 3y ago|3 comments
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by donretag 3y ago
That was pretty much my experience. Immigrant family and since I went to high school in Europe, I did not have much of a choice for university and ended up at CUNY. Worked evening in supermarkets for the first couple of years, then I was ab
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by donretag 3y ago
I assumed it had something to do with the color and tried to find patterns. Turns out you need knowledge of the London Metro system. It would be nice if the title reflected that.
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WGA Would Allow Artificial Intelligence in Scriptwriting(variety.com)
5 points by donretag 3y ago|1 comments
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by donretag 4y ago
My personal definition of Big Data has always been when you gather/store data without having a planned use for it. Do we need this data? Don't know, let's just store it for now. The article does allude to this definition when
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by donretag 4y ago
"Warrior needs food badly" "Wizard is about to die"
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by donretag 4y ago
There is a Slack group related to search at http://www.opensourceconnections.com/slack Great community. I would love to join something from the start, but now is not the right time.
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by donretag 4y ago
There is some gamification like this at https://wandrer.earth/ I've been doing the same using Strava Heatmaps, cycling the Hollywood Hills. Lots of very steep dead-end streets. Cannot just wing it since you never know
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by donretag 4y ago
Links to actual content simply go back to https://angel.co/jobs . Wellfound is basically just a landing page at this point. When searching for a job, especially in a startup, I found Angel List worthless. All primary results
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by donretag 4y ago
I worked at Ticketmaster when covid first hit. Since the beginning, management has always been positive and re-iterating that the cash reserves are substantial and the company can endure the loss of revenue. Then the first layoff hit. Same
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by donretag 4y ago
Yet both Netflix and Disney+ are introducing cheaper ad-supported tiers. Consumers want cheaper services, at the cost of advertising. Hacker News lives in a bubble of users that understand and value privacy, knows about browsers such as Bra
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by donretag 4y ago
Online applications are indeed ridiculously long, yet somehow, when a recruiter contacts you from LinkedIn or other method, they do not require any of this info. No formal resume, no references, nothing. A large part of the problem in the u
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by donretag 4y ago
I explicitly have on my profile that I am not interested in Amazon, but their recruiters still contact me. Recruiters still not read profile, it's basically spray and pray. That said, it's been a couple of weeks since I have heard
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by donretag 4y ago
https://archive.ph/VHiBT/
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by donretag 4y ago
Autocomplete requires CPU cycles for the lookup and "jump to definition" requires an index to be built somewhere (CPU again, but also mem/disk space). Modern computers can handle both efficiently nowadays, but not a simple ta

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