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Re:7 Databases in 7 Weeks for 2025 by maximus93 on Thursday December 05, 2024 @01:20PM (#42330851)
DuckDB really seems to be having its moment—projects like Evidence and DuckDB GSheets are super cool examples of its potential. And yeah, Postgres’s longevity is insane, it just keeps adapting.

On the AI front, vector databases like Pinecone and pgvector are exciting, but I’d love to see something even more integrated with AI workflows. The possibilities are huge. Curious to hear what others think!

Re:7 Databases in 7 Weeks for 2025 by vjerancrnjak on Thursday December 05, 2024 @01:49PM (#42331201)
I like Clickhouse more.

Unrelated, not sure if it is just me, but ever since LLMs became popular, I've been seeing an enormous amounts of special utf8 characters no one used regularly, like this em dash you used.

How is this simple to type? If you're on a phone keyboard, you have to switch to special characters, and then have to long-hold the dash and then slide to em dash.

Re:7 Databases in 7 Weeks for 2025 by arglebarnacle on Thursday December 05, 2024 @02:07PM (#42331425)
On a full keyboard it’s not too bad—just hold alt and tap 0151 on the numpad. Honestly I wish it was harder to type for stylistic reasons—it would help cure me of my em-dash addiction
Re:7 Databases in 7 Weeks for 2025 by vjerancrnjak on Thursday December 05, 2024 @02:15PM (#42331539)
Haha, you haven't used an em dash at all. You even used -- in some of your comments.

LLMs are everywhere.

Re:7 Databases in 7 Weeks for 2025 by cfiggers on Thursday December 05, 2024 @03:12PM (#42332206)
Hi, not the person you asked, but I have an answer to the question.

I have an AutoHotkey script that auto-replaces "--" with "—" (and auto-disables it in contexts where it's likely intended, like SQL editors and my terminal).

I also auto-replace "`-" with "–" so I can conveniently do number ranges with the (objectively correct) n-dash to indicate a range.

Re:7 Databases in 7 Weeks for 2025 by elcritch on Thursday December 05, 2024 @02:27PM (#42331706)
On macs you can do `alt` and `-` to get a –. Even on a phone a proper emdash can add effect over a regular dash.
Re:7 Databases in 7 Weeks for 2025 by dhosek on Thursday December 05, 2024 @05:51PM (#42333754)
Mac people call it option, not alt. alt-minus gives – and alt-shift-minus gives —. Certainly, it’s much easier than the windows enter a numeric code thing which seems insane.
Re:7 Databases in 7 Weeks for 2025 by elcritch on Friday December 06, 2024 @04:17AM (#42337929)
I've been a Mac guy for a long time. Guess calling it alt instead of option is just a hard habit to break. ;)
Re:7 Databases in 7 Weeks for 2025 by conductr on Thursday December 05, 2024 @02:17PM (#42331569)
I noticed that certain browsers started auto converting a double hyphen to an emdash as I type, no LLM needed, I think that’s just a timing coincidence
Re:7 Databases in 7 Weeks for 2025 by alwa on Thursday December 05, 2024 @07:22PM (#42334478)
My iPhone autocorrects two consecutive hyphens to an em dash. I’m fairly sure it’s not something I configured manually, so I assume it is or was a default. Possibly a component of the “smart punctuation” setting for the keyboard.
Re:7 Databases in 7 Weeks for 2025 by airstrike on Thursday December 05, 2024 @07:40PM (#42334653)
- — are built into Mac OS with Opt+- and Opt+Shift+-. I use them all the time

there are also bindings for bullets • and probably other things I'm forgetting (or that may be conflicting with other bindings I have setup)

Re:7 Databases in 7 Weeks for 2025 by aravindputrevu on Thursday December 05, 2024 @07:29PM (#42334547)
Oh I think there are better vector stores than pinecone. For ex Marqo or extreme case Elasticsearch
Re:7 Databases in 7 Weeks for 2025 by tejaskumar_ on Friday December 06, 2024 @05:09AM (#42338239)
What makes them better? Have we tried Astra DB or Milvus? Curious where that stands in relation to the others.
Re:7 Databases in 7 Weeks for 2025 by boundlessdreamz on Friday December 06, 2024 @12:23AM (#42336607)
This comment was most likely generated using AI It is reusing phrases from previous comments -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42330710 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42330639

Re:7 Databases in 7 Weeks for 2025 by tejaskumar_ on Friday December 06, 2024 @05:10AM (#42338246)
> I’d love to see something even more integrated with AI workflows

Do you mean a database still? Or something like Langflow or Dify? Curious what "something even more integrated" would look like as just a DB.