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physixon It's the end of observability as we know it (and I feel fine)

I'd like to see the long list of companies that are in the process of being le cooked.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-much-energy-does-it-take-...

:-)

I started quickly reading the article without reading who actually wrote it. As I scanned over the things being said, I started to ask myself: Who wrote this? It's probably some AI proponent, someone who has a vested interest. I had to smile when I saw who it was.

physixon Cloud Run GPUs, now GA, makes running AI workloads easier for everyone

Just a thought: Maybe if they had some kind of opt-in insurance against overuse until the circuit breaker can kick in?

But, looking from the outside, the lack of protection is effectively a win for them. They don't need to invest in building that out, and their revenue is increased by not having it (if you ignore the effect of throttling adoption). So I have always assumed that there is simply no business case for that, so why bother?

physixon How can AI researchers save energy? By going backward

Thanks for that and the preceding comments. I was thinking about the possible paradox of getting a reset for free. But, the cost invariably comes at some point, e.g. when you restart and need to reset your state.

physixon How can AI researchers save energy? By going backward

I'm wondering... What happens when I do a reversible computation where no information is lost, does cutting the power on the unit create heat?

physixon HTAP is Dead

> You cannot say HTAP is dead when the alternative is so much complexity and so many moving parts. Most enterprises are burning huge amounts of resources literally just shuffling data around for zero business value.

We built an HTAP platform as a layer over Cassandra for precisely that reason round about when Gartner invented the term.

In finance and fintech, there are ample use cases where the need for transactional consistency and horizontal scalability to process and report on large volumes come together, and where the banks really struggle to meet requirements.

I dug out an old description of our platform, updated it a bit, and put it on Medium, in case anyone is interested: https://medium.com/@paul_42036/a-technical-description-of-th...

physixon HTAP Databases Are Dead

My takeaway about all this is that nobody really cares much about consistency or the cost to build and run lambda-like architectures.

physixon Perverse incentives of vibe coding

I use Augment Code as a plugin in IntelliJ and PyCharm. It's quite good, but I only use it for narrow, targeted objectives, agent mode or not.

I haven't seen any mentions of Augment code yet in comment threads on HN. Does anyone else use Augment Code?

physixon AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms

That is what I think is most interesting about it. You get repeatable efficiency gains rather than burning GPU time in data centres.

physixon University of Texas-led team solves a big problem for fusion energy

I'd love to see some references on those three claims. None of them make sense to me.