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Did they finally make a viable version of spanner for themselves?

Except that Mac ultra M3 they talk about is now only being sold in the 96 GB configuration. It’s no longer being sold in larger Ram configurations by Apple Apple because of the global RAM shortage. And you can not add memory after purchase because it’s integrated/soldered on.

Agreed on - it took a long time to get to the “so what is new here” vs the broader topic of distributed consensus. Stylistically would prefer more upfront “here is what is novel here”

TBH I’m doubtful of most people building their own crypto libs and distributed consensus implementations. But maybe cloudflare can pull it off. Good to see them pushing the state of distributed consensus.

Take aways:

* it’s not in prod yet. I suspect those many round trips are going to get expensive on median aka typical redistributed deployments. Curious to see how it goes once in the wild.

* they say it isn’t likely suitable for eg databases.

* they talk about formal verification, which is good and feels appropriate.

Looking forward to seeing more!

“In the building” the building happened to be their secure data centers, not their offices.

Feels like all the write ups that point out the short comings of eg Python for scientific computing.

Sure, except that once you have a community at critical mass around a reasonably good tool, that trumps most other things. Momentum builds. People write tutorials, explainers, better documentation, etc. it hits escape velocity.

Feels like Lean, with Terrance Tao as a strong proponent / cheerleader, is in that space.

Everyone who argues “but language X is better” … may not be wrong, but they are not making the argument that matters. Is it better than the thing everyone else knows and can use and has more people hours going into it to improve it?

Feels like a “worse is better” situation; or maybe “good and popular is good enough”.

PLG. Any article I have to search for an acronym and don’t find it - nope.

And a group has published an independent working implementation today, nice to see:

https://github.com/tonbistudio/turboquant-pytorch

Good post but link at the end is broken.

“”” For the full technical explanation with equations, proofs, and PyTorch pseudocode, see the companion post: TurboQuant: Near-Optimal Vector Quantization Without Looking at Your Data.“

And the lower precision float variants.

TLDR the recorded media isn’t end-to-end encrypted and they aren’t selling it but instead using it to train their own systems. What is new here?

Ditto - completely appeals to me. I’m good starting with mail.

I’m the opposite - I much prefer a structured query language (ahem) for this type of thing. If I’m looking at someone’s (ie my own 6 months later) script I much prefer to see the explicit structure being queried vs “why are we feeling for foo or grabbing the 5th field based on squashed spaces as the separater”.

Nice use of CEL too. Neat all around.

Yes only on that page, not the rest of his blog. Guessing he ansible’d it to redirect ;)

Neat idea à la regex golf.

But doesn’t seem to do enough shell escaping or correctly. Also seems underspecified, ie “find 5 lines starting with ‘the” doesn’t require a pipe to head -5.

I get what your saying but I think it’s not the best way to describe it - “GPL is property”? Hardly - it’s a societal common good that can be used by anyone interested in helping that common good.

Are parks “proprietary”? I can’t run my car dealership from one, so it’s …proprietary? No. So using the terminology of “proprietary” doesn’t do justice to what it actually is.

Lol I was hoping for that too

It’s the “no longer evil” marketing without actually proving that “no longer evil.com” is in fact … from from evil.

I was assuming that I could point the nest data stream & control UI to my own hosted thing on eg my local NAS or docker farm. That’s what I think would warrant the moniker “free from evil” in this kind of strong privacy preserving marketing.

Proposal - every new thing needs a “here are the systems we consider and rejected” entry. I can’t find one on the docs here.

Founders care to comment on if you evaluated if Tremor (https://github.com/tremor-rs/tremor-runtime) would suit what you needed?

Seems to me that the lists of features (and use of rust) have a high degree of overlap.

My first inclination too tbh.

And then I saw Npm references and thought “in JavaScript?!” But at least it’s typescript.

In TypeScript, interesting. Not the obvious choice IMO but trying to keep an open mind.

Was that because of team expertise or particular aspects of TS you thought suited the domain?

“Service Adverbs - like ‘route’ and ‘fanout’”

Grammarians are going to be big angry here. Ain’t an adverb in sight.

Upvoting the comment that the gitrepo would be way more self stand-alone if it had an intro of the DSL.

I’d argue we aren’t solving those inverse kinematics / kinetics via “number crunching” - but rather that our neuromuscular systems are analog. Which I don’t usually call that “number crunching” in the sense current computers … compute.

I can practically see it playing out now: there is some huge incident of some kind, in some system or service with an MCP component somewhere, with some elaborate post-mortem revealing that some MCP server somewhere screwed up

Already happening.

https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/atlassian-ai-agen...

Falling back to CPU only

Patient: “Doctor, it hurts when I do this.”

Doctor: “don’t do that”

The other thing is that Microsoft does not own the copyright for any of the code they used. Facing their work on code they don’t own the copyright to is incredibly messy from an IP point of view.

It’s why con contributor licenses agreements exist in most open source popular projects.

Please tell me you are at least aware that tremor exists and that you rebuilt it on purpose?

https://www.tremor.rs/

lol who is interested in this on hn?

I’m guessing lots of people who are on HN. I’ll go with - me for one. Guessing I’m not alone.

Remember - it’s a big world. Lots of POVs.

It was and always will be timsort-ly yours. iykyk.