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They are not killing the vector database or vector search. They are killing the vector-primary storage layout.

The post itself says ANN becomes “just another” secondary index, and that v3 should make vector search faster along with text and regex.

“RIP, vector-primary index” would have been accurate. “RIP, vector database” is marketing.

I was an EM at Evernote through the first six months after the close (notifications team).

Left in May 2023, before they shut the US/Chile offices. The sequence was pretty consistent: cut every vendor they could (Zoom disappeared overnight), get to profitable on costs, then raise prices on lock-in.

Personal went from ~$70/year to $130 pretty fast.

The product is still alive; the company that built it is not. They were effective. It was also obvious early that most of us were not part of the long-term plan.

I wrote it up here:

https://alexkras.com/my-last-six-months-at-evernote-after-be...

I too keep setting Opus 4.6 manually in my daily work (when I am not using older Sonnet).

Fixed now, thank you.

Yes, author here. I was thinking about it more after the post.

I wonder if the harness has a bigger share of blame here than the model itself.

I seem to like using Opus 5 in the browsers a lot more... I.e. it was very helpful in fine-tuning my site after it went down due to HN traffic.

Thank you!

It did help eventually :)

Fixed now, I did use Opus 5 to help me fine tune it :)

Will probably follow up with another blog post about that soon.

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Whisper worked great on an old speech by Winston Churchill. Haven’t looked into the time limit.

API used and results can be found here: https://techtldr.com/transcribing-speech-to-text-with-python...

Edit: it may have been a different watchman, but same point still applies.

It’s been a few years, so perhaps it got addressed, but this library used to introduce a “memory leak” by design, by infinity storing pointers to files being watched.

It was a pain to isolate (https://techtldr.com/simple-guide-to-finding-a-javascript-me...)

Ultimately I ended up fixing it by writing my own version using native system calls available on Node.

The moral of the story, this library is great if you are building cross platform dev tool. It is not (at least wasn’t at the time) great for long lived processes that target only one type of operating system.

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Glad to see it trending again. I raised the same concern years ago, and was mostly ridiculed. Nothing has changed since then.

I’ve been using Google Drive integration to share photos securely, but Google just announced that this will be going away.

In addition I realized that Google strips out metadata from my files during conversion. Common sense, but not something I thought about before.

Time to switch. If anybody has good alternatives I am all ears.

https://www.alexkras.com/do-not-share-your-google-photos/

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He is clearly not a fan, just look through his comment history.

Nice!

Sorry, it came of stronger than I wanted to. I actually run into high CPU utilization shortly after I posted it. Haven't had it for a full year, may be something in later version got messed up. I did go away after refreshing FF though, so I do recommend trying it to see if it will fix things. I am routing for FF, but it's definitely not perfect.

I don't know what these commenters are talking about. I've been using FF on Mac for over a year now on 3 different Mac Machines. It's super fast, as good as Chrome. May be you need to reset it or something to get it working properly. The only issue I had with FF is Developer Tools, which are also have improved a lot with latest release, and continuing to improve.

Thank you, I added more context.

Amen

I agree, but damn, what a low bar though...

Amen

I don’t, but it’s not the reality. Reality is that 80% or more of companies (in my experience) rely on those types of questions for interviews.

I would say most do, which puts seniors at huge disadvantage.

I got to interview a lot of people in the past 2 years, and I noticed that new grads are REALLY good at solving Leetcode type of problems.

The expectation in the industry is that Senior people would be even better at it, because of their years of experience.

This,however, is not what I’ve seen on the ground. Most senior devs that I interviewed, who were clearly smart and experienced took much longer than new grads to solve most of the questions. Personally, I try not to hold it against them, if they can clear the bar, but I wonder how many other people do the same.

Also, I know in music they do blind interviews, were people perform behind a curtain to avoid any biases they might have (gender, race etc).

May be it’s time to do something similar in Software, since we already are prioritizing white board interviews above anything else?

Edit: I am not advocating for Leetcode types of questions. I do believe that most companies hire like this (including my current company, where I get minor if any say in hiring process). So just pointing out my observations regarding the status quo.

I think the 80/20 rule applies when it comes to mature products. 20% of redesign is useful and make products better. 80% are neutral at best, and breaking at worst.

If it’s not broken, don’t fix it.

https://www.alexkras.com/death-by-redesign/

Well said!!