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I'm not sure if you've noticed, but there's a lot of software that just isn't very good. This isn't to say that I make the best software or am somehow better than the people who created all of this software. It's just an observation that the standards of what is deemed "shippable" seems to be at an all time low. We are so used to errors and interactions not working the first time that we all have a personal troubleshooting loop. Bugs and broken interactions are just becoming the norm because, as users, we've learned to accept them. One experience yesterday made this point especially poignant to me. Since my wife and I just moved, we're approaching our first bill cycle. I have six or seven different services that I needed to set up my online accounts with. This was an onslaught. Misconfigured form inputs. Forms getting cleared on errors. Logins not persisting. Disabled paste for bank account numbers (I think this one might be more standard, but paste will always be more accurate than me typing it manually, and I will die on this hill). Pages straight up crashing. Some companies already had an online account for us at our old house, and trying to get that user account to point to a new service account number was a trial out of the fifth circle of hell. I did eventually get everything set up the way that I needed to. But, it was a harrowing experience. Amidst the muck, our trash company of all services had an excellent user experience. The website looked like something from the early 2000s. It had un-styled form inputs and full page loads when navigating (*gasp*). But, I created a new account using my account number and paid our first bill, with some helpful error messages that didn't wipe out all of the inputs that I'd already entered, all in about three minutes. I don't have a bow to put on this rant, but I do think that it's ironic that in the name of UX, we've adopted systems that are so complex and abstract that it's perfectly acceptable for a form submission to w

US healthcare is broken. Under RFK Jr., the research agency working to fix it is, too.

EDRSR — the Unified State Register of Court Decisions — is effectively all of Ukraine's judicial practice in open access. Today Qdrant holds **44M+ vectors : criminal (19M), civil (14.3M), commercial (5.1M), misdemeanors (5.6M). Vectorization of civil cases (CPC, justice_kind=1) — the largest cohort at 33.7M documents — runs on a dedicated EC2 instance (r6a.xlarge, 32 GB RAM, 2 TB gp3). Here's what's under the hood: models, pipeline, cost, rakes, and current status. Why Vectorize Courts When a lawyer searches "is there case law on recovering bank prepayment fees" — they don't want to open 40 decisions and read them through. They want the system to surface the top 5 most relevant ones, pull out key paragraphs, and show how courts reasoned. Full-text search (FTS) over keywords doesn't give that — it returns every document containing the word "fee", and there are thousands. For this semantic task you need vector representations of text. The model turns a paragraph from a decision into a point in a 1024-dimensional space; semantically similar paragraphs sit near each other. A kNN search in Qdrant returns the top K nearest, and an LLM composes the answer from exactly those relevant fragments. The only problem: the register is big. Very big. Scale Our prod database holds full texts of decisions starting from 2006. Breakdown by procedural type: Civil (CPC) — 33.7M documents. The largest category. Consumer, housing, labor, family. Criminal (CrPC) — 12M+ Administrative (CAS) — 14M+ Commercial (CC) — 6M+ Misdemeanors (CUaP) — 6M+ The Qdrant collection edrsr_decisions on a dedicated EC2 currently holds 44M+ vectors (122 segments, on_disk=true): | Proceeding type | justice_kind | Vectors | |—|—|—| | Criminal (CrPC) | 2 | 19,036,347 | | Civil (CPC) | 1 | 14,328,427 | | Misdemeanors (CUaP) | 5 | 5,579,432 | | Commercial (CC) | 3 | 5,098,662 | | Total | | 44,042,868 | Civil cases processed: 14.3M out of 33.7M — that's 42%. After CPC completes there will be roughly 63M+ vectors in

Your comments on a dangerous rule putting politicals in charge of science can matter.

SCOTUS falls short of deeming geofence warrants unconstitutional, though.

The Supreme Court's decision to limit geofence warrants is a win for privacy advocates, who called their use unconstitutional but sought an outright ban.

We still don't know why RFK Jr. overruled CDC expert to order strict quarantines.

Section 702 of FISA to expire tonight, but certification lasts until March 2027.

Authorities in the Netherlands have arrested the co-owners of two related Internet hosting companies for operating IT infrastructure used by Russia to carry out cyberattacks, influence operations and disinformation campaigns inside the European Union. The two men were the focus of a 2025 KrebsOnSecurity story about how their hosting companies had assumed control over the technical infrastructure of Stark Industries Solutions, an Internet service provider sanctioned last year by the EU as a frequent staging ground for cyber mischief from Russia's intelligence agencies.

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