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 fundraising against the "enemy". Using Democrats as an example, both parties are guilty.
Readit Newsdonretag commented on Choosing vector database: a side-by-side comparison benchmark.vectorview.ai/v... · Posted by u/emilfroberg
Everyone I talk to who is building some vector db based thing sooner or later realizes they also care about the features of a full-text search engine.
They care about filtering, they care to some degree about direct lexical matches, they care about paging, getting groups / facet counts, etc.
Vectors, IMO, are just one feature that a regular search engine should have. IMO currently Vespa does the best job of this, though lately it seems Lucene (Elasticsearch and Opensearch) are really working hard to compete
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/OpenSearch are fairing better in this regard. Mixed scoring derived from both both sparse and dense calculations is also important, which is another strength of ES/OS.
donretag commented on Choosing vector database: a side-by-side comparison benchmark.vectorview.ai/v... · Posted by u/emilfroberg
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 Lucene. The products are starting to diverge, so would be nice to see, especially since it is open-source.
For the performance-based columns, would be also helpful to see which versions were tested. There is so much attention lately for vector databases, that they all are making great strides forward. The Lucene updates are notable.
donretag commented on I applied to 250 jobs and timed how long each one took careerfair.io/online-maze... · Posted by u/shsachdev
Great article. Well done. Have you considered adding an RSS feed for your content?
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 immensely popular in South Africa. Heard his music playing on iPods in bars, young 20 somethings that not only listened to him, but so did their parents.
The movie does exaggerate his disappearance. Rodriguez toured Australia, so he knew he had some popularity.
A few years later, I met the owner of Light in the Attic records, the reissue label that repressed Rodriguez's albums. They acquired the rights before the documentary, and even they were amazed at the popularity of his music after the movie. He told basically that Rodriguez paid for his house due to the sales.
donretag commented on Why is DNS still hard to learn? jvns.ca/blog/2023/07/28/w... · Posted by u/TangerineDream
It’s not. It’s one of the few things that hasn’t changed much and it’s operation is fairly straightforward.
dig is a little confusing. It’s more capable but less straightforward than good old nslookup (which still works fine BTW).
I think partly DNS and the core protocols may seem confusing to younger people in the industry because so much stuff “just works” now.
For example, today wifi routers “just work” right out of the box. In the early 2000s it would have taken a network engineer with knowledge of DNS, IP, Ethernet, RFC1918, actual routing protocols and whole bunch of other stuff to set something like that up and they’d have well known how it worked and why it was configured the way it was.
If you think DNS from a client can perspective is confusing, try configuring BIND ;-)
/OldNeckBeardRant
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.
donretag commented on Way ahead of its time: The Remote Lounge NYC (2013) docpop.org/2013/10/way-ah... · Posted by u/Ivoah
Very cool. I wish I could have visited. I miss wacky theme bars like this.
One of my favorite theme bars was a place in Mexico City called "Bang Bang" (closed down years ago).
It was Stanley Kubrick themed. There were little black and white TVs everywhere playing weird stuff. Then in the back was a replica 2001: A Space Odyssey bedroom; from the end of the movie. With a glowing white floor. Many people would pile into the bed to smoke, drink, and make out.
Not too far from the Remote Lounge was a Clockwork Orange themed bar named Korova Milk Bar around the same time.
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, Python, and some Typescript. AWS, NLP, LLM, Transformers.
Email: https://url.dev/m/xpQpdwn/
About me: experienced software engineer passionate about search technologies. Looking to break into proper machine learning (I have experience) and/or build something interesting/meaningful. Long-time backend developer, inexperienced in backend. Been navigating the startup space lately, but it is time to give up and focus on finding something permanent.