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The project includes automated tests and validation scripts to ensure its correctness and stability

LLMs love writing this type of stuff.

Yeah, asking LLMs how they works is generally not useful, however asking them about the signatures of the functions available to them (the tools they can call) works pretty well b/c those tools are described in the system prompt in a really detailed way.

I’m guessing what they mean is that the valuation is so inflated at this point that the high dollar amount more reflects the likelihood of acquisition or IPO in the near term rather than some sort of substantive demonstration of confidence in the company and its founders.

Only 5.52% of DAUs use more than one Space regularly.

Wow! That's the main feature for me.

No question that Ive is a legend, but I do think the fall of Humane (also ex-Apple) and the challenges at Meta, Apple, and Google in terms of VR/AR adoption (Meta Ray Ban, Apple Vision, Google Glasses and the new thing) are instructive here. The $6.5B almost feels like the largest ever aquihire.

AWS Aurora Postgres Serverless v2 has that capability, though it takes multiple seconds.

Most people working outside the network layer are not familiar with the basics of IPv6 and how it interops with v4 systems. In fact, I would bet that many AWS admins are not familiar with dualstack VPC configurations, for example. This product name communicates clearly to those users what the value prop is.

In fact, Cursor’s code completion isn’t much better than GitHub Copilot’s. They both use the same underlying models

Not sure that this is true. cursor agent mode is different from cursor code completion and cursor code completion is a legitimately novel model I believe.

There will probably be AI operating systems of some kind in the near future. I don't really know what that means, but whenever we get there I would really like there to be case law that forces monopolist OS developers to allow free trade when it comes to the application layer.

You are correct about compile time magic. Runtime magic is minimal (the code runs when and where you think it does). And yes, Starlight is a foot gun IMO. It takes a framework that is designed to be easily learned and makes it even easier to use, but at the expense of the learning.

Agree on Astro. It's great for documentation/blog sites but quite unopinionated so can easily be used for varied site structures. Unlike certain other frameworks, there is no magic in Astro. It generates very straightforward HTML.

Last thread from 2023: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38536778

I’m not the OP but DSQL has such limited Postgres compatibility that it is very unlikely to be compatible.

Whether you support Elon/DOGE or not, pretty wild to shred a $1T consumer brand like Elon has.

On-call attempts to re-enable the R2 Gateway service using our internal admin tooling, however this tooling was unavailable because it relies on R2.

It's comforting to see this happen to a big tech co!

This is one reason AWS Fargate is so good. No, it isn’t developer friendly, but it gives you performance that actually matches the CPU allocation while still abstracting the VMs.

This is a great article but one thing it doesn’t discuss is the importance of who the underlying cloud provider is. Many companies are pretty locked into AWS for better and for worse, regardless of whether they use things like lambda that are known for lock-in. Just the fact that you can use crunchydata, redis.com, and heroku is a reflection of being on AWS under the hood. Moving to something like fly.io or railway means introducing internet egress between your services.

Prisma definitely supports foreign key constraints. I think you mean joins which they only recently started supporting.

Yeah, you know the “open-source X alternative“ branding has gone too far when we get to this point. With that said, this seems cool as far as being built on Google app scripts.

Based on everything I’ve read I’m firmly in the camp that what MM is doing is a net negative for the WordPress community, and I don’t envy the employees at his company, but this site feels bad faith to me. Meaning, its goal seems to be to hurt his reputation generally more than it is to inform regarding specific issues.

At the end of the day, the fundamental dynamic here is human creativity. We are taking a tool, the LLM, and stretching it to its limit. That’s great, but that doesn’t mean we are close to AGI. It means we are AGI.

Yeah, I came here to say this. Hard to comprehend how someone could have a comms role at Intuit and not know basic principles like this. Only plausible explanation is that the CEO insisted on taking this approach even after the very likely Streisand effect outcome was explained.

Durable Objects have long term storage. They get hydrated from that storage, so in that sense, they can move to any Cloudflare DS. However, there is no API call to move a Durable Object. It has to have no connections and then gets recreated in the DS nearest to the next/first connection. Memory gets dropped when that happens, storage survives. (This is slightly out of date as they have some nuanced hibernation stuff that is recent).

1. Security — I much prefer to hand write APIs rather than using security rules (see recent Arc browser exploit, among many others). Firebase pro’s will call those skill issues, but idk if that really makes it less of an issue. 2. Lock-in - I’m fine with S3 and SQS where the lock in is pretty limited, but Firebase is a floor to ceiling commitment to Google Cloud. 3. Cost - if your app succeeds, you will find yourself investing lots of time moving cost sensitive workloads off of Firebase, though this only matters if you are worried about ‘good’ problems.

Behind the scenes, Firepad uses the Firebase Realtime Database for cloud data storage and synchronization.

I have no judgement for folks who choose to use Firebase, but I would never add it as even an indirect dependency in something I’m building.

Azure is the only major (or even minor) cloud provider refusing to build an S3 API. Strange to me, because Azure Cosmos DB supports Mongo and Cassandra at the API level, for example, so idk what is so offensive to them about S3 becoming the standard HTTP API for object storage.

I’m a fan of all these projects that are leveraging S3 to implement high availability / high scalability for traditionally sensitive stateful workloads.

Local caching is a key element of such architectures, otherwise S3 is too slow and expensive to query.

I think there is a fundamental difference between MMOGs and TikTok-style social media. I suspect the human brain has a relatively healthy reaction to creatively connecting with other humans via virtual worlds but a comparatively poor reaction to algorithmic feeds.

Yeah that’s the key question. To actually be competitive with Linear, etc. we need client side rendering and local caching. A basic create-react-app + React Query stack feels much better than GitHub due to the constant SSR for all routing.

Ent heavily uses joins

I’m specifically talking about this: https://github.com/ent/ent/issues/977.

Devs assume that the `With` methods are adding join clauses but that is not typically the case.

does support multi field indices

Composite primary keys are useful for reasons other than unique constraints and query speed. For example, CockroachDB uses the primary key to partition rows. Also, at scale, an extra multi-column index in addition to the primary key when the primary key alone could have sufficed can be a meaningful performance degradation.

not a Graph DB under the hood

No it is not, but because it has a graph ‘mindset’ and does support Gremlin, traditional SQL folks expecting a lightweight ORM (such as Drizzle in the JS world) may not have a good time.