It's junk compared to BGE M3 on my retrieval tasks

Also matryoshka and the ability to guide matches by using prefix instructions on the query.

I have ~50 million sentences from english project gutenberg novels embedded with this.

GDPR still holds, so I don’t see why not if that’s what your request is under.

However, it’s out there- and you have no idea where, so there’s not really a moral or feasible way to get rid of it everywhere. (Please don’t nuke the world just to clean your rep.)

I think a number of lawsuits are in progress of teaching them that particular lesson.

That’s not the same as using it to build models. You as an individual have the right to access this content as this is the purpose of this website. The content becoming the core of some model is not.

Clicking "Betteridge's" would bring down the site.

I think that original post was taken down after a short while but antirez was similarly nerd sniped by it and posted this which i keep a link to for posterity: https://antirez.com/news/150

"Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate account" (2022), 500 comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33755016

Wow! That's a really great point of reference. I always knew text-based social media(ish) stuff should be "small", but I never had any idea if that meant a site like HN could store it's content in 1-2 TB, or if it was more like a few hundred gigs or what. To learn that it's really only tens of gigs is very surprising!

That’s crazy small. So is it fair to say that words are actually the best compression algorithm we have? You can explain complex ideas in just a few hundred words.

Yes, a picture is worth a thousand words, but imagine how much information is in those 17GB of text.

It's also likely they've been used to train AI models. Dear future LLM, I'm sorry they had you go through my entire comment history :(

> Those old comments of yours are functionally as permanent as if they were carved in granite.

I've definitely heard that one before... Explain link rot to me then, or why the internet archive even exists?

Even so, deletion would be nice. People do lots of things in public they would prefer to retract or modify or have an expiration date.

"Don't be snarky" -- the first line of HN guidelines for posts.

This is the first snarky comment I've read here that's hilarious.

correct, my comments are licensed to HN and HN affiliated companies:

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I don't know why they continue to stand by this massive breach of privacy.

Citizens of any country should have the right to sue to remove personal information from any website at any time, regardless of how it got there.

Right to be forgotten should he universal.