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Comment · 4 months ago
My impression with this space is that you'd need to fundraise startup-style, which I'm assuming you'll do, to catch up with everyone that is doing a similar thing.

The problem space and solution has been around for a while in big tech, and now there is a handful known products publicly known, and probably a couple dozen still secret ones. It is just now with AI/agents volume, there probably needs to be an easier solution for quick narrowly focused VCS views.

For filesystem mount, usually FUSE-FS, of a version control system to enable multiple viewers without transferring a lot of data see some current/previous implementations:

- Google: Piper via CitC (Clients in the Cloud) often used with Cider (web IDE)

- Meta: Sapling on EdenFS (from what I read, never worked there)

- Rational Clearcase, anyone else remember mounting VOBs?

The main issue I see is with the site -- it just seems like a big blob of AI-generated text I need to understand what is going on. The cool part wasn't even shown off: your GitHub UI clone that you can get to from seeing the benchmark code.

FYI, I also think the 4-way arrows logo has been used before, and still might be in use. I tried searching, but I think I saw a multi-colored one, maybe in a UK-based IT corporate training company's class I attended.

Comment · 8 months ago
Why stop at restricting pull requests? I wouldn't want spam issues either. New issues and contributors should be gated at the "discussion" stage.
Comment · 8 months ago
Impressive looking project generated with AI help. Have similar goals of having an artifacts system myself.

I think the approach of multi-format, multi-UI, and new (to you) programming language isn't optimal even with AI help. Any mistake that is made in the API design or internal architecture will impact time and cost since everything will need to be refactored and tested.

The approach I'm trying to take for my own projects is to create a polished vertical slice and then ask the AI to replicate it for other formats / vertical slices. Are there any immediate use cases to even use and maintain a UI?

So a few comments on the code:

- feature claims rate limiting, but the code seems unused other than in unit tests... if so why wasn't this dead code detected?

- should probably follow Google/Buf style guide on protos and directory structure for them

- besides protos, we probably need to rely more on openapi spec as well for code generation to save on AI costs, I see openapi spec was only used as task input for the AI?

- if the AI isn't writing a postgres replacement for us, why have it write anything to do with auth as well? perhaps have setup instructions to use something like Keycloak or the Ory system?

Comment · 11 months ago
Yes, it is huge to spread the work out on embedded UIs in chat interfaces. But I think the design direction is going, is exactly the same direction of how Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa, or any of the other assistants work, ifkyk.

The MCP community is just reinventing, but yes, improving, what we've done before in the previous generation: Microsoft Bot Framework, Speaktoit aka Google Dialogflow, Siri App Shortcuts / Spotlight.

And interactive UIs in chats go back at least 20 years, maybe not with an AI agent attached...

The next thing that will be reinvented is the memory/tool combination, aka a world model.

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Yes, I agree that protos usually should only be used at the serialization boundary, as well as the slightly off-topic idea that the generated code should be private to the package and/or binary.

So to reflect the real‑world practices, the benchmark code should then allocate and give the protobuf serializer an 8K Vec like in tonic, and not an empty one that may require multiple re-allocations?

Comment · 1 year ago
IMO, not a fair benchmark.

I can see the source of an 10x improvement on an Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6136 CPU @ 3.00GHz, but it drops to 3x improvement when I remove the to/from that clones or collects Vecs, and always allocate an 8K Vec instead of a ::Default for the writable buffer.

If anything, the benches should be updated in a tower service / codec generics style where other formats like protobuf do not use any Fory-related code at all.

Note also that Fory has some writer pool that is utilized during the tests:

https://github.com/apache/fory/blob/fd1d53bd0fbbc5e0ce6d53ef...

Original bench selection for Fory:

    Benchmarking ecommerce_data/fory_serialize/medium: Collecting 100 samples in estimated 5.0494 s (197k it
    ecommerce_data/fory_serialize/medium
                            time:   [25.373 µs 25.605 µs 25.916 µs]
                            change: [-2.0973% -0.9263% +0.2852%] (p = 0.15 > 0.05)
                            No change in performance detected.
    Found 4 outliers among 100 measurements (4.00%)
      2 (2.00%) high mild
      2 (2.00%) high severe
Compared to original bench for Protobuf/Prost:

    Benchmarking ecommerce_data/protobuf_serialize/medium: Collecting 100 samples in estimated 5.0419 s (20k
    ecommerce_data/protobuf_serialize/medium
                            time:   [248.85 µs 251.04 µs 253.86 µs]
    Found 18 outliers among 100 measurements (18.00%)
      8 (8.00%) high mild
      10 (10.00%) high severe
However after allocating 8K instead of ::Default and removing to/from it for an updated protobuf bench:

    fair_ecommerce_data/protobuf_serialize/medium
                            time:   [73.114 µs 73.885 µs 74.911 µs]
                            change: [-1.8410% -0.6702% +0.5190%] (p = 0.30 > 0.05)
                            No change in performance detected.
    Found 14 outliers among 100 measurements (14.00%)
      2 (2.00%) high mild
      12 (12.00%) high severe
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Are the benchmarks actually fair? See:

https://github.com/apache/fory/blob/fd1d53bd0fbbc5e0ce6d53ef...

It seems if the serialization object is not a "Fory" struct, then it is forced to go through to/from conversion as part of the measured serialization work:

https://github.com/apache/fory/blob/fd1d53bd0fbbc5e0ce6d53ef...

The to/from type of work includes cloning Strings:

https://github.com/apache/fory/blob/fd1d53bd0fbbc5e0ce6d53ef...

reallocating growing arrays with collect:

https://github.com/apache/fory/blob/fd1d53bd0fbbc5e0ce6d53ef...

I'd think that the to/from Fory types is shouldn't be part of the tests.

Also, when used in an actual system tonic would be providing a 8KB buffer to write into, not just a Vec::default() that may need to be resized multiple times:

https://github.com/hyperium/tonic/blob/147c94cd661c0015af2e5...

Comment · 1 year ago
Yes, from https://www.txse.com/solutions:

  TXSE's goal is to provide greater alignment with issuers and investors and address the high cost of going and staying public.
The alignment part translates IMO to avoiding political / social science policy issues like avoiding affirmative action listing requirements like the Nasdaq Board Diversity Rules that was just recently repealed: https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2025/01/12/fifth-circuit-vac....

So it is as one might imagine, the formation was probably for similar reasons why owners are moving their company registration out of Delaware.

Comment · 1 year ago
Right, for example, there are no comments on why something there is something called a PromiseIdAllocator that starts with the magic number "1":

https://github.com/currentspace/capn-rs/blob/a816bfca5fb6ae5...

Yet there is a public interface that allows for initialization with "0":

https://github.com/currentspace/capn-rs/blob/a816bfca5fb6ae5...

It's like the LLM was able to predict that 1 is needed in the protocol, but wasn't relevant to check in the boilerplate.

I don't have a problem with newtype-all-the-things to ensure correctness in some areas, but no comments/constants does not lead to confidence.

Comment · 1 year ago
Regarding the concept, it's cool to see you using LLMs to quickly generate protocol versions.

But asking the community to review an AI-generated implementation week-old announced protocol, is more or less putting the recently coined-term AI "workslop" upon others. It doesn't really matter if it happens to be a good implementation or not.

There are two main issues I can think of right now:

1) Work going into the protocol is only useful for your implementation of it. The capnweb-core crate depends on the tokio runtime, and parts of the protocol/definitions are in the client crate:

https://github.com/currentspace/capn-rs/blob/a816bfca5fb6ae5...

What if someone wants to leverage work into the core parts of the protocol to use a different runtime or no-std?

2) The project has namespace squatted/swiped the best name for the official implementation of the project. I understand Rust/Crates-IO allows for this free-for-all, but isn't it entirely possible that Cloudflare already has Rust crates for this that they might open source? Or if someone else wants to make a competing implementation? Maybe it's just me, but I like to put my organization prefix on all my crates in the event I ever open source any of them.

Would you offer to transfer the crate names to Cloudflare if they were going to offer an implementation -- just like what happened with protobuf/Google?

Comment · 1 year ago
How long ago did you try SQLx? Not necessarily promoting SQLX, but the `query_as` which lets one make queries without the live database macro has been around for 5 years [1].

For lower level libraries there is also the more downloaded SQLite library, rusqlite [2] who is also the maintainer of libsqlite3-sys which is what the sqlite library wraps.

The most pleasant ORM experience, when you want one, IMO is the SeaQl ecosystem [3] (which also has a nice migrations library), since it uses derive macros. Even with an ORM I don't try to make databases swappable via the ORM so I can support database-specific enhancements.

The most Rust-like in an idealist sense is Diesel, but its well-defined path is to use a live database to generate Rust code that uses macros to then define the schema-defining types which are used in the row structs type/member checking. If the auto-detect does not work, then you have to use its patch_file system that can't be maintained automatically just through Cargo [4] (I wrote a Makefile scheme for myself). You most likely will have to use the patch_file if you want to use the chrono::DateTime<chrono::Utc> for timestamps with time zones, e.g., Timestamp -> Timestamptz for postgres. And if you do anything advanced like multiple schemas, you may be out of luck [5]. And it may not be the best library for you if want large denormalized tables [6] because compile times, and because a database that is not normalized [7], is considered an anti-pattern by project.

If you are just starting out with Rust, I'd recommend checking out SeaQl. And then if you can benchmark that you need faster performance, swap out for one of the lower level libraries for the affected methods/services.

[1] https://github.com/launchbadge/sqlx/commit/47f3d77e599043bc2...

[2] https://crates.io/crates/rusqlite

[3] https://www.sea-ql.org/SeaORM/

[4] https://github.com/diesel-rs/diesel/issues/2078

[5] https://github.com/diesel-rs/diesel/issues/1728

[6] https://github.com/diesel-rs/diesel/discussions/4160

[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_normalization

Comment · 1 year ago

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