Hacker News: inertiatic

New comment by inertiatic in "Microsoft's 'unhackable' Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss'"

inertiatic — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:03:53 +0000

It's clear it means that there's a large overlap in titles and they are available in better quality on the PC platform?

New comment by inertiatic in "Claude's Cycles [pdf]"

inertiatic — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 01:06:02 +0000

>We now have a tool that can be useful in some narrow domains in some narrow cases.

I get being reserved about where this goes, but saying something like this is quite insane at this point.

New comment by inertiatic in "America, and probably the world, stands on a precipice"

inertiatic — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:44:56 +0000

>We are essentially offloading our moral responsibility to a black box that cannot be held accountable.

We already did it with companies, buddy!

New comment by inertiatic in "Scaling HNSWs"

inertiatic — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 20:13:58 +0000

Here you go https://github.com/apache/lucene/pull/656 - no need to do anything from the user side to trigger it as far as I know.

New comment by inertiatic in "Scaling HNSWs"

inertiatic — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 20:05:37 +0000

Lucene and ES implement a shortcut for filters that are restrictive enough. Since it's already optimized for figuring out if something falls into your filter set, you first determine the size of that. You traverse the HNSW normally, then if you have traversed more nodes than your filter set's cardinality, you just switch to brute forcing your filter set distance comparisons. So worst case scenario is you do 2x your filter set size vector distance operations. Quite neat.

New comment by inertiatic in "Sega mistakenly reveals sales numbers of popular games"

inertiatic — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 07:46:40 +0000

You know, humans pick up hobbies like cycling or running which they do consistently for years, listen to specific music genres or even electronic music which is mostly just a beat, hang up a painting they like in the living room and look at it for years and years, go out to their favorite place to eat consistently or cook the same passed down family recipe, and in so many other aspects avoid sudden changes, and you're surprised that for video games we enjoy the same formula repeatedly?

New comment by inertiatic in "Supabase raises $200M Series D at $2B valuation"

inertiatic — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 16:32:47 +0000

>An engineer starts at $200/hr

Starts?!

New comment by inertiatic in "Meilisearch – search engine API bringing AI-powered hybrid search"

inertiatic — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 15:42:31 +0000

>I'm still looking for a systematic approach to make a hybrid search (combined full-text with embedding vectors).

Start off with ES or Vespa, probably. ES is not hard at all to get started with, IMO.

Try RRF - see how far that gets you for your use case. If it's not where you want to be, time to get thinking about what you're trying to do. Maybe a score multiplication gets you where you want to be - you can do it in Vespa I think, but you have to hack around the inability to express exactly that in ES.

New comment by inertiatic in "Interviewing a software engineer who prepared with AI"

inertiatic — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 18:24:07 +0000

I don't know how this is something related to AI - you could polish and embellish your resume before LLMs too, I'm fairly sure. I guess this gets the clicks.

Not being to remember small details about certain projects is also perfectly fine for people who have worked for more than a couple of years. Unless you can discover a pattern of lying like the author supposedly did then I would just be perfectly fine moving on to another topic.

New comment by inertiatic in "The Llama 4 herd"

inertiatic — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 07:28:33 +0000

4.8b words on English Wikipedia. Knowledge cutoff of 6 months. A valid use case is to search across Wikipedia and ground your answers. Trivially proves that RAG is still needed.

New comment by inertiatic in "uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store"

inertiatic — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 17:58:17 +0000

I use Firefox as my main browser and it's not a viable alternative to Chrome if you have the very common usage pattern of keeping tens of tabs open.

New comment by inertiatic in "DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL"

inertiatic — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 22:00:58 +0000

>Interacting with this model is just supplying your data over to an adversary with unknown intents

Skynet?

New comment by inertiatic in "Elon Musk wanted an OpenAI for-profit"

inertiatic — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 10:29:12 +0000

People wait for things all the time and if it can take away the hassle or driving your kids somewhere, maintaining multiple vehicles for multiple family members etc. I'd bet that it does take off. Public transport doesn't solve groceries or other types of shopping though even in highly connected cities, especially for people with health problems or just aging ones.

New comment by inertiatic in "Xapian: Open source search engine library"

inertiatic — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 14:00:55 +0000

Lucene which is what ES builds upon is a library with bindings in languages other than Java, and it's Apache licensed.

New comment by inertiatic in "SearchGPT Prototype"

inertiatic — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 18:50:03 +0000

Didn't we have multiple open-weight frontier model announcements?

New comment by inertiatic in "You are what you love"

inertiatic — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 11:31:05 +0000

>I find it really challenging to talk with people who have completely separated their work from their emotional being. For me, work is part of life and it should be a meaningful one.

I like my work too but when I hear things like this it's so hard not to cringe because of how much of a place of privilege this comes from. Most jobs are things no one would want to do if they didn't need to survive, and that's fundamentally built into our society and economic system. Let them eat cake though.

New comment by inertiatic in "Qdrant, the Vector Search Database, raised $28M in a Series A round"

inertiatic — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 15:50:18 +0000

>Solved to the point that squeezing a bit more recall out of vector retrieval isn't the problem anymore.

I think this is a bit of a strawman. I don't think recall is the main point these systems are trying to sell us on, it's more about robustness and ease of use compared to building something inhouse or using a lower level library to build a system on top of it just for this small part of your overall project/product (be it RAG, search, whatever).

I guess Lucene-based solutions, while very mature overall in terms of engineering, lagged behind this functionality (out of caution, trying to build what's going to be long term useful) and are also perceived a bit too cumbersome. So these stores do make sense, I think. The core functionality is nothing too complex (at least HNSW), but hiding it behind a stable black box with just a few inputs and levers, has value for people that are likely to use these stores.

New comment by inertiatic in "Qdrant, the Vector Search Database, raised $28M in a Series A round"

inertiatic — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 15:06:56 +0000

I do, and it's very very rough around the edges to be honest. Lots of things broken, things are even breaking between releases suddenly in unexpected places. Or at least, I'm used to working with more robust data stores. If my work was more high stakes, I'd have already advocated for moving our vector search to something more robust. Thankfully it's not and I can just maintain what we're making with not too much stress, and enjoy seeing this OS project grow from a user perspective (haven't seen a data store go through this very initial phase in my career yet).

Support from the team is great however, and congrats to them for this round!

New comment by inertiatic in "European Remote Worker Index"

inertiatic — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 20:32:12 +0000

The fact that the stats that drive this could be weighted in any arbitrary way makes the overall rankings pretty worthless in my eyes. And looking at the top 10 vs bottom 10 kind of validates these thoughts. I would much rather live in most of the bottom ten than in the top ten, if we're talking long term.

New comment by inertiatic in "Framework 13 AMD 7040 Series: A Developer's First Impressions"

inertiatic — Sat, 14 Oct 2023 07:35:16 +0000

Brand new laptop so haven't got a chance to really get a good sense of an average. I think depending on the workload I got 9-12 hours thus far.