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I ended up working for 2 years before I went to school, and it made a lot of things easier. When I graduated I was very certain that I wanted to go back to industry rather than go to academia. Definitely different jobs and skillsets.

I appreciate the quick responses. Sincerely, best of luck.

By the way, you've left the notiz.dev LICENSE file in your server code, probably you want to remove that.

https://github.com/tegonhq/tegon/blob/158b54af8d6f7cf4195c61...

Separately, there seems to be a ton of unused or broken or dead code sprinkled throughout — for instance, in the auth code, I can't tell if you're doing basic email/password auth or using Supertokens and a third-party login via Google. You have code for both and some routes seem dead or missing.

https://github.com/tegonhq/tegon/blob/158b54af8d6f7cf4195c61...

Also, I mentioned the lack of documentation for how to run Tegon locally because your docs are entirely insufficient. The main docs page is just a README template. https://github.com/tegonhq/tegon/tree/main/docs

The quickstart guide has a broken link to instructions on how to self-host https://github.com/tegonhq/tegon/blob/main/docs/quickstart.m...

The oss/local-setup guide is entirely empty https://github.com/tegonhq/tegon/blob/main/docs/oss/local-se...

The oss/deploy-tegon guide does not explain anything and the script it references seems out of date https://github.com/tegonhq/tegon/blob/main/docs/oss/deploy-t...

I'm done looking at this project. I strongly recommend hiring the best engineer you can find as quickly as you can.

Extremely anodyne — given that the author has maintained FreeDOS for longer than I've been alive, I was hoping for slightly more interesting ideas than "have a website and be nice to people." Not that I disagree with his advice!

Looks totally fine at first glance. I'm happily using https://github.com/gorilla/sessions to handle cookies right now — OP, is there any reason I should want to switch to your library instead?

Makes sense, thanks for answering.

Aside — the architecture diagrams on https://xeiaso.net/blog/xesite-v4/ are not displaying in-browser for me, but do transfer correctly and are viewable on my computer. Maybe another mime issue, as the network inspector shows them being transferred with type "octet-stream"?

Repro by visiting the URL in latest Firefox, Safari, or Chrome.

Maybe I missed it, but why are you embedding a zipfile of gzip streams rather than just embedding the static site's files with an `embed.FS` and serving from that?

What are the downsides of enforcing squash-merge to main?

I think a lot of new entrants to previously-well-explored spaces tend to label themselves as "modern" in order to signify that there is something new about their approach.

For instance, I have a migrations library that I descibre as "modern" because it is designed for a continuous deployment environment where you're automatically running migrations on container startup — there are tons of existing popular migrations libraries, but none of them work this way because they were written in the era that you'd manually run sql commands in prod. I say "modern" so that if anyone finds my library, they realize that it was created recently based on more recent dev/ops trends.

Maybe I should drop the "modern"? I do see a lot of people describe their code as "minimal" or "clean", which is pretty meaningless to me, so I get that "modern" could come across that way as well.

Maybe. Frankly this is a very impressive outcome that is attributable both to the Father's business and management practices, as well as the Son's business and management practices. No matter how good you are at running a web business, if you inherit a totally fucked business with poor practices, very unlikely you could engineer this outcome.

My condolences to the OP and I was happy to read such a well-written article describing a fantastic outcome for his father's company.

Enforce squash merging to main and move on with your life. Linear history on main, individual contributors can rebase and merge or format-patch or do whatever they want on their PR branches and it doesn’t matter. There are zero downsides to this approach.

One more thing you could do is put the real name of any human being with any track record of professionalism, anywhere on the website. Currently you're:

- commenting under a pseudonymous profile

- asking for emails by saying "please email me. contact at cyberscarecrow.com"

- describing yourself in your FAQ entry for "Who are you?" by writing "We are cyber security researchers, living in the UK. We built cyber scarecrow to run on our own computers and decided to share it for others to use it too."

I frequently use pseudonymous profiles for various things but they are NOT a good way to establish trust.

Buttondown https://buttondown.email/

Shoot, this is a good reminder that I need to update my zine's mailing list. I'll be switching to Buttondown, definitely the spiritual successor!

Has anyone here used this, or anything similar? This sounds phenomenal if it really works. Looks like “contact us” is the only way to try it or buy it right now, and the purported benefit (memorize facts up to the model training size, basically trillions of tokens of facts) is wild. I’d love to try a system running this way to understand the failure modes, like for instance how does it reliably infer which “facts” to use?

I have immense respect for the OP for writing up the story, and even more so for giving this preface. It's really useful to know what mistakes other people make, but can be quite embarrassing to tell others about mistakes you've made. Thanks, OP.

Great writeup, bookmarked for any future case where I run into a similar problem.

Not sure I fully understand Pigweed — is it basically an open-source reimplimentation of Google's developer experience for doing firmware development?

https://pigweed.dev/docs/overview.html

(If you're reading this, hello Keir!)

I agree. Thankfully, you don’t have to take them and you don’t have to give them!

JVector, the library that powers DataStax Astra vector search, now supports indexing larger-than-memory datasets by performing construction-related searches with compressed vectors. This means that the edge lists need to fit in memory, but the uncompressed vectors do not, which gives us enough headroom to index Wikipedia-en on a laptop.

It's interesting to note that JVector accomplishes this differently than how DiskANN described doing it. My understanding (based on the links below, but I didn't read the full diff in #244) is that JVector will incrementally compress the vectors it is using to construct the index; whereas DiskANN described partitioning the vectors into subsets small enough that indexes can be built in-memory using uncompressed vectors, building those indexes independently, and then merging the results into one larger index.

OP, have you done any quality comparisons between an index built with JVector using the PQ approach (small RAM machine) vs. an index built with JVector using the raw vectors during construction (big RAM machine)? I'd be curious to understand what this technique's impact is on the final search results.

I'd also be interested to know if any other vector stores support building indexes in limited memory using the partition-then-merge approach described by DiskANN.

Finally, it's been a while since I looked at this stuff, so if I mis-wrote or mis-understood please correct me!

- DiskANN: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3454287.3455520

- Anisotropic Vector Quantization (PQ Compression): https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.10396

- JVector/#168: How to support building larger-than-memory indexes https://github.com/jbellis/jvector/issues/168

- JVector/#244: Build indexes using compressed vectors https://github.com/jbellis/jvector/pull/244

No — most constraint checks are by default deferred until the end of the transaction, but you'd still need to check them, and without an index you'll still have to do a large scan.

See https://www.postgresql.org/docs/17/sql-set-constraints.html for more information regarding constraint checking.

If you're using Go, sqlboiler can do this for you in most common cases (e.g., fetch all the Users matching this filter, and for each User, fetch the related Company)

https://github.com/volatiletech/sqlboiler

Fair enough, congratulations on your launch and I hope you see continued success!

This is a Show HN, so I replied with my feedback. The author explicitly invited this, too, by writing:

Would love to hear what you think about it!

Updated my comment for clarification, agreed the extra copy is fun.

Also hi joe :^)

Strongly recommend updating your website to lead with some variation of "This is an offline iPhone app to help you calibrate your turntable's speed, all you need to do is play your records and the app will show you the current RPM" — wayyyyyyy too many words and other nonsense before I could figure out this is what it did.

Embed the demo video (the tweet you linked) too!

Looks great and if I still used records I would try it out! Congratulations on the launch.

EDIT: keep the rest of the writing if you'd like, I have no objection to it and I thought it was funny. But lead with what the app is and what it does!

I hear that, but this is fetching data from the Github graphql API the same way that the website does, so if you're getting slow responses from their servers this won't be any faster.

not sure how to contact you, but if you email me i'll follow up once i have something available for testing! (my email is in my bio)

Looks cool. A few thoughts:

- Why? Strongly suggest updating the README to explain why this is useful, or what kind of workflow makes this useful. Just a list of features isn't that compelling to me because I'm not sure I want it.

- Because this is a gh cli extension, and not a standalone program, searching is unfortunately going to be fairly slow. There doesn't seem to be any local caching or syncing of the Github data.

- Not really a user-impacting issue, just a fun fact: because the pagination is handled via Graphql's PageInfo support in their Graphql API, you'll never be able to page through more than 1000 results in a given response.

- Authors might consider linking to https://docs.github.com/en/search-github/searching-on-github in the README, it makes figuring out how to write a custom search a lot easier.

- I'm happy to see XDG_CONFIG_HOME support, but the authors should consider also checking for a config file in $RepoRoot/.config/gh-dash/ and $RepoRoot/.gh-dash/, so that a single config could be more easily shared by members of a team who all check out the same repository.

I'm working on something like this (customizable filter views for Github; quickly drill down into PRs by different authors, affecting different files, across multiple repos, filtered by regex search on the changed files / pr body / pr title / pr comments) but based in the browser, not a TUI. The primary goal of my project is to help engineering leaders understand what is actually getting shipped, and communicate that to other non-technical leaders. If anyone is interested in being a beta tester let me know, I'm hoping to have a release publicly available at the end of this week!

Yeah this is what I do to. The OP's approach is interesting but I think that using typescript/javascript/whatever to build your app, then "render" using a build step (like `vite build` or whatever) and embedding the resulting static bundles is the best of both worlds.

That said, the JS ecosystem is so weird that I totally understand the urge to bail entirely and do things in Go. But JS/TS and all the related frameworks really are decent if you pick a reasonable subset of them.