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SQLite WAL-reset database corruption bug

jzebedee — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 04:06:19 +0000

Article URL: https://sqlite.org/wal.html#walresetbug

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47421496

Points: 5

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New comment by jzebedee in "Big Data on the Cheapest MacBook"

jzebedee — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:42:48 +0000

Mins here being short for minutes, not minis.

New comment by jzebedee in "Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective"

jzebedee — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:04:59 +0000

This is highly location dependent with how unequal the US transit infrastructure is. It'd help to add your city for anecdotes to mean much.

New comment by jzebedee in "Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months"

jzebedee — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 19:40:39 +0000

If it surprises you, then you haven't paid attention to the blatantly unconstitutional actions of DHS in this administration. The purpose is terror and filling deportation quotas, not enforcing immigration law.

New comment by jzebedee in "Deep dive into Turso, the “SQLite rewrite in Rust”"

jzebedee — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:58:18 +0000

It's covered in the article. The full SQLite test suite isn't open source, so you (the third party) don't have the same confidence in your modifications as the SQLite team does.

New comment by jzebedee in "Allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15"

jzebedee — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 18:58:36 +0000

> Right now french people are obsessed with ecology and egalitarianism. Those who don't are not well seen in society, or left the country already.

While we're barreling toward climate catastrophe? That's not the criticism you think it is.

New comment by jzebedee in "Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%"

jzebedee — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 17:59:54 +0000

That's amazing. I just assumed the ad lists were volunteer maintained like a wiki. I'll be sure to use Easylist now that I know they're also advocating for users while punishing bad advertisers.

New comment by jzebedee in "OpenGitOps"

jzebedee — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 12:36:42 +0000

Interesting. I've used Pulumi but this is the first I've heard of Kusion.

From a quick look, it still requires all of the resource specification to be present in the AppConfiguration, and it's written in their own DSL called KCL. Is there more to the use case that I'm missing?

It seems like if I'm already specifying the details of the entire workload, I'd either use Terraform, where I probably already know the DSL, or Pulumi, where I could skip the DSLs entirely.

Cosmopolitan Python Bundler

jzebedee — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 19:10:29 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/metaist/cosmofy

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46424185

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by jzebedee in "Clair Obscur having its Indie Game Game Of The Year award stripped due to AI use"

jzebedee — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 08:58:39 +0000

"Mostly" is doing some heavy lifting there. Even if you don't see a problem with reams of copyleft code being ingested, you're not seeing the connection? Trusting the companies that happily pirated as many books as they could pull from Anna's Archive and as much art as they could slurp from DeviantArt, pixiv, and imageboards? The GP had the insight that this doesn't get called out when it's hidden, but that's the whole point. Laundering of other people's work at such a scale that it feels inevitable or impossible to stop is the tacit goal of the AI industry. We don't need to trip over ourselves glorifying the 'business model' of rampant illegality in the name of monopoly before regulations can catch up.

New comment by jzebedee in ".NET MAUI is coming to Linux and the browser"

jzebedee — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 05:15:48 +0000

> As far as I can tell, Windows 11 doesn't even have a toolkit with platform UI elements.

They do, it's called WinUI 3. It's barely used for all of the aforementioned.

New comment by jzebedee in "Noah, the Flood, Advertisements"

jzebedee — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 18:14:17 +0000

Actually, that doesn't clear it up for me at all. The age of useless invasive advertising is over because, why?

BettaFish – Public Opinion Sentiment Analysis Model

jzebedee — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 21:07:49 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/666ghj/BettaFish/blob/main/README-EN.md

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45804447

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Can We Fix Social Media? Testing Using Generative Social Simulation

jzebedee — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 14:41:20 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03385

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45747469

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by jzebedee in "Knowledge Is Worth Your Time"

jzebedee — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 07:33:04 +0000

It's an article that unintentionally reinforces the position it criticizes. Yes, knowledge is worth your time. But the author continuously conflates it with academia, before listing many, many reasons why that model is failing.

New comment by jzebedee in "What if tariffs?"

jzebedee — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 07:25:49 +0000

Immigrants, residents, citizens, protestors, journalists...

New comment by jzebedee in "Novo Nordisk's Canadian Mistake"

jzebedee — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 21:24:37 +0000

> Prof. Michael Hoffman from Toronto put me on to the Canadian Patent Database, where you can find that Novo did file a patent there for semaglutide. . .but the last time they paid the annual maintenance fee on it was 2018!

> You can even find a letter where their lawyers send a refund request for the 2017 maintenance fee ($250) because Novo apparently wanted some more time to see if they wanted to pay it.

> On the same date in 2019, the office sent a letter saying that “The fee payable to maintain the rights accorded by the above patent was not received by the prescribed due date. . .”

> By that time it was $450 with the late fee added, but that was apparently too much for Novo. They had a one year grace period to make it up, and apparently never did, so their patent lapsed in Canada. And as the Canadian authorities remind them, “Once a patent has lapsed it cannot be revived”.

Impressive failure for "the second-largest semaglutide market in the world."

New comment by jzebedee in "I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'"

jzebedee — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 14:44:09 +0000

The article never really addresses if it was a totally fake setup or a real crypto company scamming interviewees. Does "Symfa" exist? Does the "Chief Blockchain Officer"?

New comment by jzebedee in "You won't believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned"

jzebedee — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 06:40:15 +0000

Saving you the clickbait, since the title is in on the joke:

> The pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires.

> “Communication must be freed from the misguided thinking that corrupts it, from unfair competition and the degrading practice of so-called clickbait,” he said on Thursday.

New comment by jzebedee in "NeuTTS Air – On-device TTS model by Neuphonic"

jzebedee — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 21:13:52 +0000

It's good to see more open models approaching on-device inference. We need more stops on the fast<>good quality spectrum than just piper and VITS.

My first impressions of it:

* The cloning was decent at imitating voices, but the prosody is quite bad

* There's noticeable crackling in the GGUF models and the quality drop from base model to Q8 was significant

* Q4 models are apparently bugged on platforms outside of Linux

* The speed is nowhere near realtime even using all the latency reductions (Q4 backbone, pre-encoding, ONNX codec decoder), it was still lucky to hit a real-time factor of 4x

> Optimised for on-device deployment - provided in GGML format, ready to run on phones, laptops, or even Raspberry Pis

All of this testing was on a beefy 24 core AMD with 64GiB of RAM. There's no way this model would even come close to realtime on any Pi I know.