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Beefin··on Databases in 2024: A Year in Review
TL;DR SQL is king
Beefin··on Reverse Video Search
thought the same thing and wrote this: https://blog.mixpeek.com/dynamic-video-chunking-scene-detect...

which uses https://github.com/Breakthrough/PySceneDetect

under the hood i'm sure it's the same ffmpeg method ;)

Beefin··on Reverse Video Search
wdym?
Beefin··on Reverse Video Search
are they irrelevant?
Beefin··on CodeMic: A New Way to Talk About Code
i can imagine this being equally as useful for OSS products and newhire onboarding.
Beefin··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2024)
Mixpeek | Founding Engineer | New York, NY | ONSITE/HYBRID | $100-150k + Equity

We're building multimodal search infrastructure, think of it like an index for your S3 bucket. Looking for a full-stack founding engineer.

Stack: Python (FastAPI), React, AWS/GCP, PyTorch, dozens of ML models for computer vision/NLP

Beefin··on Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon
you understand Hezbollah and Hamas are different right? Lebanon is not Palestine and has no interest in Palestine. They are an Iranian proxy. Shows how little you know about the situation before sharing your slanderous views as fact.
Beefin··on Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon
my family was evacuated due to incessant rocket fire in the golan heights, hezzbollah has been firing indiscriminately since 10/8 do you have any alternative?
Beefin··on The Roman siege of Masada lasted just a few weeks, not several years
The average American has never used a cell phone I guess?

https://www.israel21c.org/made-in-israel-the-top-64-innovati...

Beefin··on The Roman siege of Masada lasted just a few weeks, not several years
Jewish land acquisition in Palestine before 1948 was often through legal purchases from Arab landowners.

However, not all left; those who remained within the borders of what became Israel after 1948 were granted citizenship.

If you're referring to the Nakba, Palestinian Arabs were instructed by their own leadership or neighboring Arab states to leave their homes temporarily to facilitate military operations against the newly declared state of Israel.

The displacement of Palestinians was a consequence of war, not solely a deliberate act by Jewish forces

Beefin··on The Roman siege of Masada lasted just a few weeks, not several years
see my comment that's getting downvoted, of all the singular religious majority states it has the lowest of that single majority. muslims hold the highest position in the land.

why do you believe zionism is at the expense of other religions?

Beefin··on The Roman siege of Masada lasted just a few weeks, not several years
correct, my point is op seems to carry an emotional burden with the word "zionism". which is really only explained by the recent (since 10/7) media cycles IMO.
Beefin··on The Roman siege of Masada lasted just a few weeks, not several years
i assume you've created a negative association with zionism (from the news?) but that is far from the case.

zionism is the belief that the jews have the right to live in their ancestral homeland (ancient judea), which is not at the expense of anyone else.

any jew that's gone on birthright visits Masada, it's a right of passage. the vast majority of jews around the world are zionist and believe israel is the original homeland of jews, which historically is true.

now if there's an argument to be made that there should be no religious centric nations, well then we should hold the christian and muslim majority states to the same standard, no?

Beefin··on Show HN: Semantic Image Rabbit Hole
Here's a brief technical writeup on how we built it: https://learn.mixpeek.com/ai-image-discovery/
Beefin··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2024)
Mixpeek | Remote USA | Full-Time | Founding Computer Vision Engineer

At Mixpeek, we are revolutionizing video intelligence. We're looking for a talented Computer Vision Engineer to join our team and play a pivotal role in fine-tuning video embedding and captioning models. Join us in building a fully managed search and analytics platform that delivers holistic video understanding.

email the founder ethan at mixpeek dot com

Beefin··on Show HN: Semantic Search of 1000 Top Movies of All Time
can you give an example of some queries that failed?
Beefin··on Show HN: Semantic Search of 1000 Top Movies of All Time
yeah theres millions of movie search by metadata (title, actors, even script) we're not doing that here... we've run movies through embedding models to capture the semantics and make them searchable. reproducible code: https://github.com/mixpeek/use-cases/tree/master/movie-trail...
Beefin··on Show HN: Semantic Search of 1000 Top Movies of All Time
these are movie trailer concepts, not titles or scenes. we ran the movies through a video embedding model: https://learn.mixpeek.com/vuse-v1-release/
Beefin··on Show HN: Revideo – Create Videos with Code
Hey this is really cool, we just launched our video embedding model: https://learn.mixpeek.com/vuse-v1-release/

I wonder if there's opportunities for collaboration. It seems we're the only cloud-agnostic video embedding model that allows users to own their embeddings.

Here's a reverse video search tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H92cEhG9uMI&ab_channel=Mixpe...

Beefin··on Trump Transcripts Full RAG Chatbot
Trump's court transcripts were just released, and they're massive—350 MB across 360 pages, packed with information that experts can dive into.

To help make sense of it all, we built a Q&A RAG chatbot using the extracted contents.

Want to learn how we built it? We used MongoDB's Hybrid Search, coupled with Jina AI's embedding models and OpenAI chatgpt-4-turbo. All orchestrated in a pre-built Mixpeek pipeline.

End-to-end tutorial on how we built it: https://learn.mixpeek.com/trump-court-transcripts-chatbot

Happy searching!

Beefin··on Show HN: Semantic Video Understanding
hey HN,

We're all NLP & CV engineers, and just launched what seems to be the first video embedding model: https://learn.mixpeek.com/vuse-v1-release/

here are some example semantic queries:

https://mixpeek.com/video?q=breaking+the+ice https://mixpeek.com/video?q=human+connection

as you can see, these are not literal queries they're colloquialisms. which can't be done with simple transcription/object detection models or even CLIP.

we deploy in our customers' VPC, and give you full control of the embeddings.

Beefin··on Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices
Israel's government administers several territories with different legal statuses for their inhabitants:

Israeli citizens, including Arabs, Jews, and others within the borders recognized internationally as Israel, all have the right to vote. Residents of East Jerusalem, mostly Palestinians, are typically offered permanent residency status but not citizenship. They have the right to apply for citizenship, though it involves a complex process. They can vote in local elections but not in national elections unless they become citizens. Inhabitants of the West Bank are not Israeli citizens and do not have the right to vote in Israeli national elections. They are subject to some Israeli military law and some laws set by the Palestinian Authority. Gaza Strip is governed by Hamas, and the inhabitants do not have rights to vote in Israeli elections. Israel does not have administrative control over Gaza but does control most of its borders, airspace, and maritime access.

Beefin··on Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices
justifying aggression? imagine the Paiute Indians started firing into the Vegas strip.
Beefin··on Social engineering takeovers of open source projects
what do you look for to prevent this?
Beefin··on Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices
for anyone reading and wondering what qatar's intentions are with their media arm, they're the largest foreign donor of US institutions: https://tikva.so/qatar

it's not coincidental that these are where all the protests are, and suddenly college students have access to thousands of $ of camping gear...

they're also aggressively anti israel/jew: https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-793560

they employ high journalistic standards for everything but israel.

Beefin··on Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices
its not a genocide by any definition.
Beefin··on Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices
AJ is far from bipartisan wrt to the conflict. they employ high journalistic standards for just about everything except israeli news, for that they become rapid dogs. example: https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-793560
Beefin··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2024)
Mixpeek | Infra/Full Stack/Founding Engineer | NYC, Onsite | $100k - $150k & .25% - 1% equity

problem: to build a RAG app, you first construct a data pipeline then evolve it for every ai advancement.

solution: configurable data replication pipelines, BYO containers and storage. we handle replication, inference, durability and consistency.

never think about vectors again.

If interested, email ethan@mixpeek.com

Beefin··on Burn After Wearing
I asked an LLM: "if there was infinite technology and no limitation on science or physics what would be the most ecological way to dispose of garbage" this was the response:

Complete Material Recovery: Every scrap of waste could be broken down at the molecular or atomic level and then reassembled into raw materials. This would be a perfect form of recycling where nothing is wasted, and materials are perpetually reused.

Energy Conversion: Garbage could be converted directly into clean energy through highly efficient processes, perhaps even approaching 100% energy conversion without any emissions or residues.

Biological Integration: Waste could be processed using engineered organisms or bio-systems that decompose or transform all types of waste into environmentally beneficial substances, like nutrients that support ecosystems rather than disrupt them.

Space Disposal: With no limitations, safe disposal methods could involve sending waste to the sun or other celestial bodies designed to safely contain or annihilate it without any impact on Earth or its environment.

is any company working on these solutions?

Beefin··on The Great Migration from MongoDB to PostgreSQL
mongodb is a fortune 100 company and blows through expectations every quarter. doc dbs are far from dead.
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