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nattaylor commented on AP to end its weekly book reviews dankennedy.net/2025/08/08... · Posted by u/thm
It's surprising to me that AP customer newspapers don't want book reviews to pad out their Sunday papers. Bookstores are opening more than closing in the US, and people love library apps like Libby, so you'd think they'd want reviews too. But I guess it's possible people are getting as many book recommendations as they can use from social media and TikTok and aren't interested in more detailed reviews.
It doesn't surprise me that people aren't seeking out book reviews on the AP website or app—I don't think AP is particularly associated with reviews, maybe deliberately because they've historically been read in local papers that don't emphasize the AP sourcing, so people wanting reviews from a national source probably go to NYT, WaPo, WSJ, the New Yorker, etc. first.
My read is that no customers will leave since they are much more interested in news coverage -- and this helps the AP focus more on news.
This is a tangent, but I wonder if they feel that they are just creating LLM training data and that few readers (even of Sunday papers) will actually read their reviews.
I wish there were some explain plans in either post, since I don't get what's going on.
If the query uses the index, then the on the fly tsvector rechecks are only on the matches and the benchmark queries have LIMIT 10, so few rechecks right?
Edit: yes but the query predicates have conditions on 2 gin indexes, so I guess the planner chooses to recheck all the matches for one index first even though it could avoid lots of work by rechecking row-wise
Is pre-training in FP8 new?
Also, 10M input token context is insane!
EDIT: https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Llama-3.1-405B is BF16 so yes, it seems training in FP8 is new.
nattaylor commented on Preview: Amazon S3 Tables and Lakehouse in DuckDB duckdb.org/2025/03/14/pre... · Posted by u/hn1986
Can someone Eli5 the difference between AWS S3 Tables and AWS SimpleDB?
S3 Tables is designed for storing and optimizing tabular data in S3 using Apache Iceberg, offering features like automatic optimization and fast query performance. SimpleDB is a NoSQL database service focused on providing simple indexing and querying capabilities without requiring a schema.
nattaylor commented on Show HN: In-Browser Graph RAG with Kuzu-WASM and WebLLM blog.kuzudb.com/post/kuzu... · Posted by u/sdht0
This is very cool. Kuzu has a ton of great blog content on all the ways they make Kuzu light and fast. WebLMM (or in the future chrome.ai.* etc) + embedded graph could make for some great UXes
At one time I thought I read that there was a project to embed Kuzu into DuckDB, but bringing a vector store natively into kuzu sounds even better.
nattaylor commented on · Posted by u/rabidonrails
500 errors for me
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