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Remove the #m at end of the link. That's causing the redirect. Here is a cleaner link: https://xcancel.com/haider1/status/2073695124220006575

The ring buffers are in shared memory not kernel private. The ring buffers (submission and completion) are shared between kernel space and user space. User publishes requests via submission queue entries (updates tail of buffer while kernel reads head of the buffer), kernel shifts the submission queue buffer on its end and returns a completion queue event by publishing to completion buffer. User pulls from this buffer (specifically the head, kernel updates tail of buffer) in user space.

Pralaya happens after complete age of Brahma. That would be 100 Brahma years. Or 311.04 trillion human years. We are in the 51st year of Brahma.

Kali Yuga lifespan is 432,000 years. Of which we are 4000+ years into it. So that's another 428,000 years of hell on Earth.

You are already using Postgres in your setup so why not just use Postgres itself as metadata database? It is a much better setup than using Iceberg [1].

and it also ties to DuckDB land wherease with Iceberg many engines can query directly.

Ducklake can also be queried by many engines [2]. Though not as exhaustive as Iceberg.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PYLFx3FRfQ [2]: https://ducklake.select/docs/stable/#list-of-ducklake-client...

I don't think one needs to understand consciousness to know if something is conscious or not. Much the same as how one can tell if someone is alive or dead. Sure maybe one day we can figure out a proper scientific explanation for consciousness/life but there is no reason to negate what can be perceived and immediately obvious.

EDIT: I am only making a limited point on "understanding consciousness". Not extrapolating it to AI.

streams WAL changes straight into Apache Iceberg on S3, queryable from psql via an embedded DuckDB

Why not use Ducklake instead of Apache Iceberg? Wouldn't that simplify the architecture substantially?

Beautiful.

Thank you!

This is not just me saying it. The Uber president himself says it in the article.

so what did all those millions spent on developer salaries get them?

There was no doubt about what these developer salaries got them. It was to keep Uber stable and running in thousands of jurisdictions with varying rules/regulations.

The idea of using AI was (I hope) not just to replace developers for this purpose but to also ship features/products beyond what was already being offered. It has however not panned out as these CEOs/execs thought it would.

They can also justify spending time and money on new features that only 0.1% of customers might use because 0.1% of their customers is a very large number.

And what are those features exactly? Because even the President of Uber doesn't seem to know:

"“That link is not there yet, right? I think maybe implicitly there is more that is getting shipped, but it’s very hard to draw a line between one of those stats and, ‘Okay, now we’re actually producing 25 percent more useful consumer features,’” said Macdonald."

The budget allocated to AI for the year has been wiped out in 4 months.

I still get picked up by an Uber the same way. As an end user, nothing has changed for me.

So I wonder what the heck were all those billions of AI tokens burnt on that they extinguished it in just 4 months into the year?

Not reading this AI slop.

Isn't that always the case in the early stages of new technology adoption? It becomes less and less true as the new technology becomes more and more integrated.

Not true. Plenty go into the graveyard. At some point in time typewriters were everywhere. So were landline phones. Both were highly integrated into the system. They were replaced by much superior versions.

In the first few years after electric motors became a thing, one could have said the same thing. We would have just gone back to steam. If you tried to "do without them" now, society would collapse.

Yes but there is nothing to state that the current version of LLMs is equivalent to electric motors. We could very well be in the typewriter/landline phones stage. You would need even more iterations to get something that is equivalent to electric motors.

Even electric motors themselves underwent multiple iterations to become economically viable. Lot of wasteful overhead needed to be eliminated and parts re-engineered to make it more efficient before it could be truly adopted.

This specific psychosis is driven by peer pressure. If you are seeing everyone around you using tools to "enhance" their work, you wouldn't want to be "left behind". So it has permeated the entire ecosystem. The lucky ones are those who are outside this (or can afford to be outside this) and can see why it isn't working. You can't be inside it and hope to have any rationality. Everyone is competing on "I can figure it out better and quicker than you can if only I can get X to work".

AI slop.

Here's a solution off the top of my head: have a dedicate "info" button at the OS level. Holding the button disables normal interaction, highlights all inspectable elements, and allows you to click on each one for a description. Like "inspect element" in the browser.

This is a really cool idea. Agreed! Wish something like this actually existed.

Instead of product tours I like how AWS has little info/help buttons that are placed right next to every informational/actionable element on their dashboard. Totally unobtrusive. If you want to understand something on the dashboard that is not obvious at first, you can click on the info/help button that opens a side panel with a lot more information about that particular element (and any associated topics). Most of the time, you just know what you are dealing with (or can guess what that particular topic might mean and you will probably be right).

Reminds me of Ramanujan learning during sleep from Namagiri.

There are umpteen stories in Hindu scriptures of baby learning in the womb of the mother and how the expecting mother must only be exposed to good thoughts and a good environment for giving birth to an intelligent and well rounded child: stories of Abhimanyu (learning how to break the Chakravyuha formation in his womb while mother was learning it but his learning was incomplete when mother fell asleep during the lecture) and Prahlada (mother learning about Lord Vishnu against the wishes of her demon husband Hiranyakashyapu). Wonder if any studies have been done on this as well.

Providing a blackbox to the blackbox to reason. We are screwed

No you are not. Anyone who is actually senior knows vibe coding sucks ass.

Please stop contributing to slop/chasing trends and care more for your customers, who are your bread and butter (provided they stick around after this debacle).

Not at all surprising this happened. Stop vibe coding if you value your business/customers.

Every senior/principal developer worth his/her salt knows how bad AI still is when it comes to coding.

DO. NOT. BELIEVE. AI. CEOS.

Do not hand over control of your production data/services to AI. No matter how you might feel you are missing out. Your feelings are not > your customers.

Value your customers. They are your bread and butter. Not AI CEOs or AI bros who want to sell you shovels in this inane fake gold rush.

The blockade is like a nuclear bomb detonated on all countries. 30% of World's oil supply is at risk. Not to mention critical elements needed for semiconductor production. Even the US is suffering passively because of this. Only saving grace for US is to restore navigation in the straits. Quicker it does it the quicker we can stop hell that'll be unleashed on the World. You really don't want to be responsible for 30% of Earth starving and dying of hunger because critical fertilizers never reached the masses for food production.

So where is the air superiority over Iran? This only proves Palmer Luckey right. Future of warfare has changed drastically and all countries are taking notes from this War.

Great! Instead of solving actual problems we are seeing funding for stuff we don't need.

YC needs to go back to how it was. Choosing those who know what they are doing, and have been in the game for long and not blindly choose those who have graduated from tier-1 institutions. University degrees mean nothing at the end of the day.

And please stop investing in slop/wrappers. They do not solve World's problems.

I feel there has been complacency set into investing in general where investors are chasing quick money (first crypto and now AI slop) over solving hard/grueling problems that take a long time to fix but have huge returns down the line.

And we have a lot of tough problems that still need solving. AI won't magically fix that, despite being a great tool.

The only time I used Azure was for setting up Microsoft as a provider for authentication. Put me through a never-ending loop of asking for a Government of India issued document that was already submitted. Human support was non-existent. Decided never to use Azure in any product after that horrible experience.

If you cannot even get auth right I shudder to think what the rest of the product will be like to deal with should issues arise.

Isn't the meaning of milquetoast opposite to what you are probably trying to convey?

The problem is finding the needle in the haystack. When you can cheaply develop AI slop by the millions, good luck finding that one game where a human put blood, sweat and tears to realize their vision/dream. Even if you somehow have access to at-scale distribution, economics will ultimately always triumph everything else and more slop will be pushed because it makes economic sense.

It will take at least a full decade for people to realize the slop isn't helping, has made us all collectively mediocre and will seek out people with real specializations. By then I sure hope those who are specializing haven't lost the motivation to do great things and moved on to other fields.

So tired of AI slop! Please use the tech creatively. This is not it!

This probably only works properly in the developed countries. In developing countries like India we suffered through decades of "booth captures" [1] where armed gangs would take over a polling booth and cast votes for their political candidate at gun point. Villagers would be disallowed from casting their votes. In many instances, the polling booth itself would be set on fire, ensuring that those votes are never counted.

With EVMs the polling officer can just deactivate the machine (which stops the counting at that moment) making booth capturing pointless.

Not saying this is not possible in developed countries. It could very well happen sometime in the future where armed gangs take over polling booths (especially if the candidate in question is bound to lose due to corruption/scandal and needs to cling onto political power to prevent himself/herself from going to prison).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booth_capturing

Thank you! Please also make a separate Show HN for AI-generated/vibe-coded projects (specifically open-source projects) and queue any project that has a .claude/.codex (or whatever flavor of the month) into a slow queue automatically.

Apart from that, you have answered to a strawman. I said redistribute, not give to the government

You said: "let's just tax the hell out of AI companies and redistribute.". Only the Government has the power to tax. Question of redistribution does not even arise without first having the power to the coffers of the Company. Which you nor I have. Government CAN have if it wants to by either Nationalizing the Company or as you said "taxing the hell out of" the company. Please explain how you would go about taxing and redistributing without involving the Government?

In all seriousness without the government you would have no innovation and progress, because it's the public school system, functioning roads, research grants a stable and lawful society that allow you to do any kind of innovation.

These fall under the ambit of governance and hence why you have a Government. That's the only power Governments should have. Governments SHOULD NOT be managing private enterprises.

I think we are moving to an economy where the share of profits taken by capital becomes much larger than the one take from labor. If that happens then laborers will have very little discretionary income to fuel consumption and even capitalists will end up suffering. We can choose to redistribute now or wait for it to happen naturally, however that usually happens in a much more violent way, be it hyperinflation, famine, war or revolution.

Agreed. Which is why I was proposing private agreements in the first place (without involving a third-party like the Government which, more often than not, mismanages funds).