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6r17··on Instant database clones with PostgreSQL 18
Justifiably, there is 0 correlation between something written manually and quality - in fact I argue it's quiet the opposite since you were unable to process as much play and architecture to try & break, you have spent less time experimenting, and more time pushing your ego.
6r17··on Instant database clones with PostgreSQL 18
Your bias is that you think that because you can use a bike then my bike efforts are worthless. Considering that I often thrash out what I generate and I know I do not generate -> ship ; but have a quality process that validate my work by itself - the way I'm reaching my goals present no value to my public.

The reason this discussion is pathetic, is that it shifts the discussion from the main topic (here it was a database implementation) - to abide by a reactionary emotive emulation with no grace or eloquence - that is mostly driven by pop culture at this point with a justification mostly shaping your ego.

There is no point in putting yourself above someone else just to justify your behavior - in fact it only tells me what kind of person you were in the first place - and as I said, this is not the kind of attitude that i'm looking up to.

6r17··on Instant database clones with PostgreSQL 18
There was a recent wave of such comment on the rust subreddit - exactly in this shape "Oh you mean you built this with AI". This is highly toxic, lead to no discussion, and is literally drove by some dark thought from the commentator. I really hope HN will not jump on this bandwagon and will focus instead on creating cool stuff.

Everybody in the industry is vibecoding right now - the things that stick are due to sufficient quality being pushed on it. Having a pessimistic / judgmental surface reaction to everything as being "ai slop" is not something that I'm going to look forward in my behavior.

6r17··on I spent a week without IPv4 (2023)
I'm "niche" - but i had issues with Wireguard being able to connect me through ipv6 to a v4 - other than that i spent most of my time on v6 and as you said it just works
6r17··on Carolina Cloud – One third the cost of AWS for data science workloads
Something is really really off with the website I would suggest a remake of the front-end as unfortunately it seems to miss the mark. The product seems genuinely valuable so don't get lost in that crazy background thing - focus on what information should be delivered - outline the important stuff - rn it broke my browser and it feels like you don't have the right focus. I closed it and just don't want to be bothered engaging more with it otherwise than writing this stinky commentary unrelated to what you actually deliver. Keep up the great work it seems you have done the most !
6r17··on Elevated errors across many models
It seems resolved now (per the status-page) - i experienced a moment where the agent got stuck in the same error loop just to pop the result this time. Makes me wonder if there has been some kind of rule applied in order to automatically detect such failure occurring again - quiet inspiring work
6r17··on We built another object storage
I really need to properly study the CVEs instead of making some surface judgement tbh - might have to take a look at it again
6r17··on We built another object storage
Io-uring has it's fair amount of CVEs ; I'm wondering if people are checking these out ; because the goal is not to just make something fast ; but fast & secure. It's a little bit of a grey area in my opinion for prod on public machines. Anyone has a counter view on this I'm genuinely curious maybe i'm over cautious ?

ps : there are actually other faster and more secure options than io-uring but I won't spoil ;)

6r17··on From text to token: How tokenization pipelines work
I'm wondering if the english stopwords are not children of a forgotten declination that was forgotten from the language - ... ok so I had to check this out but I don't really have time to check more than with gemini - apparently - The word "the" is basically the sole survivor of a massive, complex table of declensions. In Old English, you could not just say "the." You had to choose the correct word based on gender, case, and number—exactly like you do in Polish today with ten, ta, to, tego, temu, tej, etc.

The Old English "The" (Definite Article) Case Masculine (Ten) Neuter (To) Feminine (Ta) Plural (Te) Nominative Se Þæt Sēo Þā Accusative Þone Þæt Þā Þā Genitive Þæs Þæs Þære Þāra Dative Þæm Þæm Þære Þæm Instrumental Þy Þy — —

I have read somewhere that polish was actually more precise language to be used with AI - I'm wondering if the idea of shortening words that apparently make no sense are not actually hurting it more - as noticed by the article though.

So I'm to wonder at this point - wouldn't it be worthy of exploring a tenser version of the language that might bridge that gap ? completely exploratory though I don't even know if that might be helpful idea other than being a toy

6r17··on Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools
I like to mock the current meta as being coca cola driven.
6r17··on Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?
We are in that era where most people don't know about software quality enough to have an influence that annihilates the hole market. This makes me think of the lemon market thing ; eg : if people are unable to know what product qualitative or bad - then everything collapses.
6r17··on Google Titans architecture, helping AI have long-term memory
Would this also allow to align it furthermore with user's prompt ? notably due to the surprise factor and how it may understand it ?
6r17··on Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business
At this point it's getting ridiculously easy to justify the acquisition of such manufactory - I wonder if there are existing players in other categories (be it hardware or even software) that are considering about trying to get into this field. I mean - I get it that someone like OVH may not have the caps yet to handle something like this - but I wouldn't be surprised if they could find a good company to partner with - same is for pretty much everywhere.

I'm really wondering about hardware as well but today's tech is surprising in it's scale and requirements - I wouldn't be surprised if we could do mid 70's tech as hobbyist today - but further than that...

6r17··on Await Is Not a Context Switch: Understanding Python's Coroutines vs. Tasks
For anyone somewhat interested in task & scheduling I highly recommend phil-op tutorial on building a kernel - there is a late branch on the github that specifically focus on asynchronous task - I implemented multi-core this week and it high a profound enlightenment on what the f* was actually going on. This is something Claude / Gemini helped me achieve so I didn't require me to spend nights on kernel debugging methodology & documentation ; Best experience I could get on async
6r17··on Ask HN: My family business runs on a 1993-era text-based-UI (TUI). Anybody else?
You can also buy a car, remove all it's part and do the road on feet. I'm not sure how the car was helpful to move across the roads but hei we have a car.
6r17··on When O3 is 2x slower than O2
tbh it's bit boring to get stuck on aesthetic of writing up something. It's a bit nauseous to see how this place is hostile to rust for no reason other than "it's not pretty". It's a joke at this point we could make caricature of HN viewpoint on rust. We get it, you don't like it.
6r17··on TruthWave – A platform for corporate whistleblowers
We all know how this ends lmao
6r17··on Benchmarking Postgres 17 vs. 18
typo *interpreting i guess ?
6r17··on Our modular, high-performance Merkle Tree library for Rust
There are use-cases outside of "crypto" for blockchain - notably for security related use-cases such as historization ; tough I concede that use-case can be handled with more standard technologies it is very fun to get into it and study such use as it may have properties that could be interesting. One has to have some time for this but to be frank it's not really something super hard to pull-off (Bc itself conceptually)
6r17··on Replacement.ai
The problem is that we do not share the same values at all and I do not envision this truly benefiting people neither making it something I envy or feel OK with. You can make the best fakes and make your best to remove activity from people - but ultimately this is going to lead to a deteriorated society, increased mental health issues, plenty of sad stories just so few people can be happy about it.

Ngl, if someone nuked all USA's servers and wipes out the all these bullshit i'm not convinced the world would be in a worst state right now.

Let AI be used by scientific research, development, helping people out. But if it's just to sit your smelly ideas down, you may even be right, but ultimately the form, intentions and result matter more than recklessly endangering everybody.

TBH I feel like the AI discourse around human replacement smell like hard-core psychopathic behavior - or the one of a drunken dude who's driving a car just happy.

You have 0 data concerning the result it would do on society - and I definitely prefer to live in a less technological world than a world that is full of people with psychosis.

So until we find how we can solve this bottleneck I have 0 sympathy for this kind of discourse.

6r17··on 4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence
Yes I do - for example ; any American that wishes to make a company in Europe will need to have a European voucher which is the owner of the service - so the money doesn't flow out of the country trough some UberMornonization app with $millions to ultimately do colonization.

There is 0 reason for us to let american suck away important infrastructure tools, benefits that goes with it, or even benefit from tax exemption trough the best company framework there can possibly exist.

I still haven't got an answer here - why is TikTok US owned ?

6r17··on 4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence
I *personally* have a freaking orchestrator, mail server, git server, faster than rocksdb DATABASE ENGINE, freaking world of warcraft and faster than NGINX for static. It's cute that you think you have the capabilities to imagine what Europe can or cannot do.
6r17··on 4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence
I personally think that FB, Uber, RBNB, Oracle, Google, Amazon, and literally every american SASS should be completely forbidden from Europe. Period no discussion at all. Given the state of current America, given the reactions even on this very post that do not see how Cambridge Analytics has damaged the entire world - yes, I think it would be safe to put a good 10 year ban on every US web tech. It would fasten up Europe and leave out the important decision to someone who can actually make a difference instead of being washed out by some reddit / twitter with fake russian bots. Let the economics just move away and make the decisions for people who are in a state of hypnosis instead of playing with mass control and then calling it "freedom".

Keep your american movies and social networks please. Btw why is TikTok banned in US?

6r17··on 4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence
This is not reddit. I do not understand how such low hanging opinions are on this. There have been publications and tons of enactments from both govs, research labs, companies just sucking out every social media.

It's not like we are not warning you, you have netflix, amazon, google, whatever you want - somehow pirating an American movie is an offense in Europe - but abiding by the same logic is not acceptable - same goes for Assange and Snowden - why the did we abide with American shenanigans if that's just one sided ?

And are you getting ready for the turn-over ? Because all it takes is some mad politicians - alternatives - and I'm not sure the status quo is going to last while AI is booming - more than that - people are increasingly hostile to US and it seems it's going to continue this way if the toddler attitude is kept over.

6r17··on Exploring PostgreSQL 18's new UUIDv7 support
Great read - short, effective ; I know what I learned. Very good job
6r17··on Why Is SQLite Coded In C
If I remember correctly most of SQLite "closed-source" leverage comes from the test-suite - which probably cannot transpose to another language as easily. Ultimately there are already other solutions coming up re-writing it in rust or go.
6r17··on Should I choose Ada, SPARK, or Rust over C/C++? (2024)
Do you feel the same is true for someone who does mainly rust nowadays ? I had the same feeling with rust & python ; If there are any patterns that help in other languages I'd definitely like to look them up
6r17··on 86 GB/s bitpacking with ARM SIMD (single thread)
I feel like I could learn a lot just studying this ; just a curiosity ; how do you know if stuff is within L1 cache or not ? Are there kernel fn for that ? or just trough benching ?
6r17··on ChatControl: EU wants to scan all private messages, even in encrypted apps
This has to be written in the constitution somehow ; it has to comes down to the values of everyone - and i believe a lot of education has to do with it. Currently people are simply not tilted by it as much - or not in a way comparable to other topics.
6r17··on Markov chains are the original language models
Would you say it's interesting to explore after spending much time on them ? Do you feel like one could make an use for it pragmatically within certain context or it's way too much of a toy where most of the time getting a service / coherent llm would ease-in the work ?
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