Exactly what I was looking for! Creating small, portable llm-powered tools begs for a lightweight vector database.

The other open source solution I found is sqlite-vec, which is still in alpha.

Hi, author here. Glad it helps. Any suggestions are welcome and appreciated.

I can confirm there are no school buses in Amsterdam. School kids do use the extensive public transport network to get to school on occasion.

From what I've seen in recent years, we don't have school buses in a lot of the US anymore, either. Now every school-aged kid has to be transported back and forth in a personal vehicle.

There's a rough Dutch equivalent encouragement "gas erop!" or "gas op die lolly!". Literally translated: "gas on it!" and "gas on that lollipop!".

Both imply that you should increase the throttle and go faster in the current bearing. I'm not sure where the lollipop comes from.

>I'm not sure where the lollipop comes from.

Look at the throttle lever(s) on a ship or a plane.

Are there any other phrases that you know with a similar meaning? I moved to NL a bit over a year ago and joined the local tafeltennis club. Often the other members will yell “Sneller!” At me because I play like a disabled oma. In this case, I know they are telling me to go faster, but I wonder if there are other phrases that are being tossed around that I’m missing out on? “Gas erop” sounds familiar. For context, my Dutch is between an A2 and B1.

I would say something like "hup!" (friendly) or "doorspelen, pannenkoek!" (less friendly, but would score you points).

Similar to "Giv'r!" along the lines of "Give 'er all you got!" in Canada.

This is actually even closer than you realise, in that "add oil" can also mean hitting the accelerator in a car

And there's "Now you're cooking with gas" from Bob Hope and the American Gas Association connection.

Indonesians also use "gas" as a word of encouragement.

Same in German with "gib Gas!", although we don't have the lollipop

A small inaccuracy: the South Sea Bubble was not the first speculation bubble. Tulip Mania took place almost a century earlier.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania

It's buried in the wikipedia article, but these stories of tulips being a giant society collapsing bubble "come from propaganda pamphlets published by Dutch Calvinists worried that the tulip-propelled consumerism boom would lead to societal decay."[1]

“There weren’t that many people involved and the economic repercussions were pretty minor,” Goldgar [author of "Tulipmania" and a professor of early modern history at King’s College London] says. “I couldn’t find anybody that went bankrupt. If there had been really a wholesale destruction of the economy as the myth suggests, that would’ve been a much harder thing to face.”[1]

[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/there-never-was-real-...

>the world’s first stock market crash

I don't know OPs full context but I would suggest prioritizing income safety over the uncertain outcomes of a startup career if I had no roof over my head.

Most customers don't want to pay for good customer support.

This answers the question of the article. What customers want is offloading responsibility without paying for it. There are many concierge level services at the premium end. Chatbots are an attempt at offering this type of luxury to the masses. And it may succeed.

From secondary sources I understand that customers could pay what they want for specialty coffee. Other articles were priced at a premium to subsidise this money losing endeavour. Turns out, people don't pay enough voluntarily to run a business.

I have the opposite experience. When people typically stick around for the majority of their career, there's no incentive to capture knowledge thoroughly. Onboarding time was noticeably longer because of it.

The ideal is almost certainly somewhere in the middle.

The people who have only been on the job a couple months are probably not truly onboarded themselves, hard for them to document what they don’t know.

And everyone new has to run to the lifers...which means that the new people never learn deeply...and always have to run back to the lifer.

It takes a loooong time to learn a system when you have this dynamic.

Why is it remarkable that the company is based in Amsterdam?

I live there. There's a decent but not great startup culture. The services infrastructure is fantastic and there are many massive multinationals based here.

I read this sentence as saying "outside the valley" more than saying that Amsterdam is a particularly surprising place.

I believe that "remarkable" was referring to Adyen getting and seeking little to no publicity compared to Stripe, yet having a higher market valuation, rather than its location in the Netherlands.

I don't see how you need some sort of health benefit as justification to enjoy psychedelics. Why not do it for its own sake?

Long-term negative effects?

You mean more or less severe than long-term negative effects of sugar or alchocol? And there is greater stigma for non-drinkers than for drinkers in our societies so go figure...

i am honestly slightly worried that in certain social circles, things will get to the point where not taking psychedelics carries a stigma.

i am guessing this is already the case in certain subcultures but I think there is a chance it could reach the mainstream in blue coastal cities.

I have friends that believe there is a moral obligation to take psychedelics to expand the mind and increase empathy. That’s a little extreme for me, though.

No, I don't.

As a relatively boring person, mucking about with the body chemistry is not preferred.

If the doctor says so, OK.