maherbeg (u/maherbeg)

maherbeg commented on Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free riviantrackr.com/news/riv... · Posted by u/doctoboggan

ShakataGaNai · 19 days ago

Probably a lot of overlap in the venn diagram of people who would like the two things. Mostly the "Early Adopter" circle.

Also a lot of cars have a lot of limitations with comma.ai. Yes, you can install it on all sorts but there are limitations like: above 32mph, cannot resume from stop, cannot take tight corners, cannot do stop light detection, requires additional car upgrades/features, only known to support model year 2021. Etc.

Rivian supports everything, it has a customer base who LOVE technology, are willing to try new things, and ... have disposable income for a $1k extra gadget.

maherbeg · 19 days ago

a lot of the gen1 users will likely swap over to it though. They basically have dropped improvements for gen1 autonomy which is rug-pullish :(

maherbeg commented on Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig sinclairtarget.com/blog/2... · Posted by u/yurivish

Rikudou · a month ago

I think the Go part is missing a pretty important thing: the easiest concurrency model there is. Goroutines are one of the biggest reasons I even started with Go.

maherbeg · 25 days ago

One other thing I think it misses, is how easy it is to navigate a massive code base because everything looks the same. In a large team, this is crucial and I value the legibility over cleverness (I really dislike meta programming).

Really the only thing I found difficult is finding the concrete implementation of an interface when the interface is defined close to where it is, and when interfaces are duplicated everywhere.

maherbeg commented on OpenAI needs to raise at least $207B by 2030 ft.com/content/23e54a28-6... · Posted by u/akira_067

rvnx · a month ago

If OpenAI fails, they could potentially bring in their downfall the major cloud providers who invested in hardware for them, expecting that it would pay-off over time.

maherbeg · a month ago

I don't see a world where there is such a catastrophic failure, unless someone comes up with a significantly more efficient architecture.

We're barely scratching the surface of the utility of LLMs with today's models. They aren't more pervasive because of their costs today, but what happens if they drop another order of magnitude with the current capabilities?

maherbeg commented on Claude Opus 4.5 anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/adocomplete

maherbeg · a month ago

Ok, the victorian lock puzzle game is pretty damn cool way to showcase the capabilities of these models. I kinda want to start building similar puzzle games for models to solve.

maherbeg commented on A race condition in Aurora RDS hightouch.com/blog/uncove... · Posted by u/theanomaly

gtowey · 2 months ago

This article seems to indicate that manually triggered failovers will always fail if your application tries to maintain its normal write traffic during that process.

Not that I'm discounting the author's experience, but something doesn't quite add up:

- How is it possible that other users of Aurora aren't experiencing this issue basically all the time? How could AWS not know it exists?

- If they know, how is this not an urgent P0 issue for AWS? This seems like the most basic of basic usability features is 100% broken.

- Is there something more nuanced to the failure case here such as does this depend on transactions in-progress? I can see how maybe the failover is waiting for in-flight transactions to close and then maybe hits a timeout where it proceeds with the other part of the failover by accident. That could explain why it doesn't seem like the issue is more widespread.

maherbeg · 2 months ago

Yeah I agree, this seems like a pretty critical feature to the Aurora product itself. We saw a similar behavior recently where we had a connection pooler in between which indicates something wrong with how they propagate DNS changes during the failover. wtf aws

maherbeg commented on Helm 4.0 github.com/helm/helm/rele... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

phyrog · 2 months ago

Yeah, but then it is yet another layer of configuration slapped on top of the previous layer of configuration. That can't be the best solution, can it? Same thing for piping helm template through Kustomize.

maherbeg · 2 months ago

Yeah, this setup is both nice and insane. If you don't need much extra customization it's great. But I have a setup where I needed both postBuild and postRenderer's + actual kustomization layering and it was awful trying to figure out the order of execution to get the right final output.

In hindsight it would have been much faster to write the resources myself.

maherbeg commented on Radiant Computer radiant.computer... · Posted by u/beardicus

maherbeg · 2 months ago

Love ambitious projects like this!

I wonder why the Unix standard doesn't start dropping old syscalls and standards? Does it have to be strictly backwards compatible?

maherbeg commented on Replacing EBS and Rethinking Postgres Storage from First Principles tigerdata.com/blog/fluid-... · Posted by u/mfreed

maherbeg · 2 months ago

This has a similar flavor to xata.io's SimplyBlock based storage system * https://xata.io/blog/xata-postgres-with-data-branching-and-p... * https://www.simplyblock.io/

It's a great way to mix copy on write and effectively logical splitting of physical nodes. It's something I've wanted to build at a previous role.

maherbeg commented on Claude Code on the web anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/adocomplete

fragmede · 2 months ago

--dangerously-bypass-approvals-and-sandbox isn't enough for you?

maherbeg · 2 months ago

I don't want unlimited writes. I basically want to unlock nearly everything but approve writes in some scenarios.

maherbeg commented on Claude Code on the web anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/adocomplete

mmaunder · 2 months ago

Ah the tension between cybersecurity best practices and productivity is brutal right now.

maherbeg · 2 months ago

lol yeah, but mostly just want to allow more types of reads for getting context, and primarily for test running / linting etc. I shouldn't have to approve every invocation of `pytest` or `bazel test`.