From consumer perspective, I’m actually not against this probably. Would be nice to have way to give more weight to reviews relevant to current product version. Old reviews are very confusing for consumers since they basically provide false information about the product.
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ingvar77 commented on AMP and why emails are not (and should never be) interactive buttondown.com/blog/whate... · Posted by u/maguay
I think it was a great idea, useful in many cases (confirmations, approvals, votes, unsubscribes, forms, up-to-date flights and bookings info etc etc. I for sure admire that I can accept meeting invites right inside email in Gmail.
Email must stay the same - it has HTML/text parts, these will stay same and can be accessed in 5 years.
If someone really wants to include dynamic info in email they will do anyway- either link to webpage or dynamic image.
ingvar77 commented on Ask HN: Why do message queue-based architectures seem less popular now? · Posted by u/alexhutcheson
A lot of great comments about overcomplicating architectures and using unnecessary tech but also you need to consider that almost any service you can use on aws will cost you less per month than a few hrs of development time.
ingvar77 commented on Ask HN: Why do message queue-based architectures seem less popular now? · Posted by u/alexhutcheson
I am under impression people are still actively using MQs but it’s just become a commodity and not as exciting as it was. I think two major cases - you need to do something asynchronous and in specific order.
Simple example from past project: in a workflow/process management app (task manager on steroids) there’s a group of tasks (branch) that can be completed by multiple people in any order. When all tasks are done we have to mark the whole branch as completed and move workflow further. Many instances of the workflow are running at same time. Logic is much simpler to implement when you process all task completions within same workflow instance in order, but from different instances in parallel. It’s also much easier to provide close to realtime experience to users - when user clicks on a checkbox task is shown completed instantly as well as other effects- next task becomes active, branch shown as completed, whole workflow is shown as completed etc.
ingvar77 commented on Systematically Improving Your RAG jxnl.co/writing/2024/05/2... · Posted by u/jxnlco
Why is there so much buzz about RAG?
Isn’t it basically a traditional search (either keyword based, vector based -embeddings have been around for years-, or a combination of both) where you take the top N results (usually not even full docs, but chunks due to context length limitations) and pass them to an LLM to regurgitate a response (hopefully without hallucinations), instead of simply listing the results right away? I think some implementations also ask the LLM to rewrite the user query to “capture the user intent”.
What I’m missing here? What makes it so useful?
The buzz is because it is really one of a most widely used new AI things, easily applicable to millions of businesses. Everyone has some large storage of unstructured data they want to search through and ask questions about - legal docs, candidates, books, articles.. At the same time it’s relatively straightforward to implement so it’s already tens or hundreds of startups / products pushing RAG agenda (all these “it seems easy but it’s not!”). Hopefully soon it will be added as a built in LLM feature - ability to upload own data for LLM to use. It also made many more developers aware of embeddings and vector search, which is great.
ingvar77 commented on Ask HN: How to manage phones and PCs for elderly parents? · Posted by u/thepuppet33r
We keep all our parents on iPhone + iPad combo. All of them are very heavy iPad users, sometimes it seems they spend 90% of their time reading something in iPad. Honestly, we do not have any issues to resolve at all, everything just works. My wife’s father used to be moderate Excel user for his small business needs, it was a challenge to convince him to try Google Sheets / Docs as alternative but he switched over time.
ingvar77 commented on The QR-code menu is being shown the door nytimes.com/2023/05/22/di... · Posted by u/thunderbong
Just letting you know, that here in Tbilisi (Georgia) it’s in every single restaurant and to be honest it’s awesome. You can see the latest version, pictures, you can pick the language. It’s a pity it’s not possible to order and pay. That would be awesome. I think paper menus are only needed in higher end places where you go for “experiences” and not to dinner