andrenotgiant
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Comment · 19 days ago
The "database on object storage" gang is really coming together.
Comment · 1 month ago
I think what we're seeing with every database company providing new full-text search capabilities is an example of AI coding productivity showing up in the real world.
It started with paradeDB and pg_search https://www.paradedb.com/blog/introducing-search
Timescale has pg_textsearch https://github.com/timescale/pg_textsearch
Neon and Databricks have Lakebase Search https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/oltp/projects/lakebase-se...
Now PlanetScale.
AFAIK all of these are implementations of the BM25 algorithm. You can just tell an agent to read about BM25 and implement it in your system of choice. Cool to see. Seems like there's still a lot of juice to be squeezed out of how it's architected and integrated into each system, but you can't help but wonder if this will lead to aggressive commodification
Comment · 2 months ago
slop
Comment · 2 months ago
Any data or public links you can share? That surprises me
Comment · 3 months ago
I think hate of plastics is an emergent form of elitism.
Upwardly mobile middle/upper class people who've sort of "maxed out" the amount of personal identity they can buy with regular plastic things can unlock a new level of identity by deciding that plastics are bad for them and eliminating plastics from their life, a process which conveniently requires buying a whole new set of things that distinguish them from their peers.
This is the only way I can explain how irrational and inconsistent plastic-haters behavior is. There is so much invisible plastic in their life that they don't seem to care about.
Comment · 4 months ago
Here's what I don't understand:
Part of the value of doing an ETL pipeline via streaming replication is you get the full history of data in a table. An SCD type 2 table where each row also has a valid_from and valid_to timestamp column.
How would someone do the same thing with this architecture?
Comment · 4 months ago
mostly true - but youtube has experimented with forcing a "loading state" for ad block users that was the same duration as the ads they would have watched. https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1l7b3c8/strange_lo...
Comment · 4 months ago
I have an imperfect "canary in the coalmine" test for whether/where the principled/idealist nerds have the power vs the mercenary/cynical nerds have the power:
Advertisers vs Ad Blockers - as long as the Ad Blockers are blocking the vast majority of junk, I feel like team principles is winning. Like they have more nerd power to outsmart the lesser nerds working on team mercenary.
But there are places like Facebook where that is not the case. And even in Youtube, team mercenaries has recently won some territory from team principles.
Comment · 4 months ago
FWIW the OP passes as 100% human in Pangram https://www.pangram.com/history/d33dcbcd-e82b-4ce0-bea5-e4ee...
Reddit is definitely overtaken with astroturf at this point. Especially in any subreddit where there is any kind of business interest in doing so.
Comment · 6 months ago
At this point are the inference-time crawlers of all the major LLMs reliably detectable?
Comment · 6 months ago
> you can build a crazy popular & successful product while violating all the traditional rules about “good” code
which has always been true
Comment · 7 months ago
There are lots of "mature" dawn redwood trees in Princeton NJ - particularly in a specific neighborhood built in the 50s.
It makes sense now that the species was discovered in the 40s
Comment · 7 months ago
sounds like it was good marketing