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Awesome, I love this .cpp trend! Thanks for your work!!
Will gemma2 be available through gemma.cpp? https://github.com/google/gemma.cpp
From the readme this may be interesting:

Event-based: if you can track it, you can charge for it;

I see this being useful for usage based pricing.

Re:Vector database is not a separate database category on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @08:57AM (#37751241)
Here is a SQLite extension that uses Faiss under the hood.

https://github.com/asg017/sqlite-vss

Not associated with the project, just love SQLite and find it very useful.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2023) on Monday October 02, 2023 @10:47PM (#37747369)
I think it is ok for you to post as long as you are straight forward about the equity only compensation and follow the post format ofc.

Not a moderator, but as a reader I would not mind.

Edit: typo

Re:Make Something Nobody Wants on Saturday September 23, 2023 @10:18AM (#37623438)
I think what you have experienced is very real. Code (and most forms of expression) are a way to externalize your state of mind.

I've seen it with my own emotional states but also with coworkers when they are going trough a rough time.

This is also why it is difficult to understand others ppl code. And it gets easier as you build a relation/get to know them better. The better you know someone, the easier and faster you can understand their code.

I feel like that is why coding standards, code reviews etc make a codebase more maintainable. You strip the code emotions away or at least reset it to a common level across the team.

Re:Make Something Nobody Wants on Saturday September 23, 2023 @10:09AM (#37623359)
This really resonates with me, I like the idea if product as container for emotions.

But I think the author misses one point here:

> I believe the real skill in making products isn’t some “making products” skill, but rather a skill in feeling your own subtle emotions.

I believe there are high emotional, highly empathetic people that can talk to other people, understand their emotions and create something for them.

This for me would be "making products skill". This is how you create products for things that you can't experience yourself directly.

Re:Vector database built for scalable similarity search on Saturday March 25, 2023 @11:40PM (#35310605)
That is great! I'll keep an eye.

I've been playing with this extension: https://github.com/asg017/sqlite-vss

Ask HN: General oncologist or related, what are your pain points?

Hello fellow medical hackers,This is JP, I'm the CTO of a non-profit startup[0] that creates tools to help cancer (for now plasma cell cancers) patients during their journey fighting their disease.We do everything from news, access to clinical trials, personal 1:1 coaching from other patients, education, financial resources, decision making tools, support groups etc.So far all of our tools have...

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Re:Cloudflare D1 open alpha release on Thursday November 17, 2022 @03:08PM (#33644891)
Here's a bet, in 5 years every major cloud provider will offer SQLite.

Specially the edge providers (official SQLite for wasm in the works.

Because the operational simplicity most developers will choose it for new apps.

Re:Spf13 is leaving Google on Monday July 18, 2022 @05:16PM (#32143857)
Wow, thanks for all those great contributions.

Looks like you have a good eye for picking good tech & teams to join and work with.

Any insights or things you saw in common?

Re:Ask HN: Should I learn Rust or Go? on Monday July 04, 2022 @09:16AM (#31976699)
I write JS 99.9% of the time.

I would definitely pick Rust as it is more different than JS.

Yes, there is a higher learning curve. But it will broaden your perception on programming languages.

As an added bonus, rust is very popular to create WASM stuff. So you can apply it to the JS world.

Happy 4th

There are cloud providers, I have personal experience using sendgrid.

For small scale / personal stuff you can use gmail's SMTP.

https://support.google.com/a/answer/176600?product_name=UnuF...

Firebase free tier, you can create an scheduled function that runs your python code and sends the email.

Super easy to deploy and it is set and forget.

I'm sure you can fit your use cade in the free tier.

Re:Ask HN: What's “The Edge”? on Sunday July 03, 2022 @07:20PM (#31971856)
It means having serving your users from the edge of the network, close to them.

Not necessarily tied to v8 isolates, for example fly.io and others let's you run any container on "The Edge".

I think CDNs were the original concept but the name evolved away from "content" to indicate that you can run your business logic too

Re:Cycling: Why Tunnels are Better than Bridges (2014) on Sunday June 26, 2022 @08:36AM (#31883365)
> "Tunnels offer protection from wind and rain."

Not sure about this one. Back home in Guadalajara Mexico a lot of tunnels get flooded during rain season. I'm talking about 6ft of water.

To be fair, even streets turn into rivers / pools.

Re:Show HN: Open-source Firebase Alternative? It's here on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @12:56PM (#31425027)
I'm developing an alternative using SQLite, focused on JavaScript developers productivity.

https://javascriptdb.com

Re:JSON and Virtual Columns in SQLite on Monday May 16, 2022 @04:46PM (#31402946)
You can rename it now, unless I'm missing something

https://www.sqlite.org/lang_altertable.html

Re:JSON and Virtual Columns in SQLite on Monday May 16, 2022 @10:21AM (#31397652)
Fair, but for objects like in the OP sample? Is there any advantage that justifies the extra steps?
Re:JSON and Virtual Columns in SQLite on Monday May 16, 2022 @10:14AM (#31397536)
What's the difference/advantage between defining the virtual column or creating the index directly like this:

CREATE INDEX test_idx ON events(JSON_EXTRACT(data, '$.someKey'));

Re:D1: Our SQL database on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @02:48PM (#31344153)
Any feedback on what do you find interesting would be awesome :) thanks!!
Re:D1: Our SQL database on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @12:29PM (#31342241)
If SQLite gets you excited, I'm building a firebase alternative based on sqlite. I'm betting hard on sqlite so this get's me super excited!!

https://javascriptdb.com

CF people around, I would love to chat, if anyone is interested please reach out at: [email protected]

I'll be applying to this beta for sure!

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