Show HN: CandleEmbed – A crate for generating text embeddings from HF models

I wanted to try out the new snowflake embedding model a few weeks ago in a personal project, and I couldn't find an easy "cargo add" way to do so.

By the time I got done implementing Candle's text embedding example for my needs, I realized it wouldn't take much more work to make it a crate.

Running on a 3090 and it's extremely fast. It generates the ~5k embeddings in MTEB's SCIFACT benchmark in 2-3m. CPU is very slow. I know this is not particularly impressive as Rust project, but this is my first crate and I enjoyed making something "user friendly" - even if I end up being the only user!