Some quick googling seems to indicate that Oakland's population also increased nearly 15% in the same time frame. And then, of course, COVID wreaked havoc on everyone in the early 2020s. Crime rates went up, but police staffing remained the same, so more opportunities for overtime?

edit: actually, it looks like Oakland froze police staffing completely in the wake of the George Floyd event, and then cut the OPD budget by $15 million and also reduced sworn officer staffing from 780 to 730. Eliminated 50 police officer jobs.

180,000,000 monthly active users

I believe this is wrong? USA is the largest oil producer in the world, and also one of the 5 largest oil exporters.

Ignoring that you can't reproduce the widespread adoption and mindshare OpenRouter has already built.

That's what Stripe is spending $7 billion on.

"Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer for non-trivial workloads?"

Because, as we can see from the comments so far, lots of people are going to say you don't need it for your blog that gets 10 hits a month.

I've personally never heard of anyone not using PGbouncer, or some connection pooling proxy, for reasonably concurrent workloads. PG's process-per-connection architecture almost requires it. Otherwise even a small connection storm will wreak havoc on your server.

Let's be honest, the US government can control basically any domain it wants. I doubt Montenegro is going to cause any problems for it.

After stuff like Chat Control I think they're obviously seeing a big demand for this kind of "internet safety" technology in Europe.

I haven't been impressed with any of Mistral's models. They obviously realized that they couldn't compete at the frontier so they decided to go for smaller focused models but even those have not been that good.

Well this whole article is about a company discovering a catastrophic corruption bug even though they were using it as designed.

I think the lesson is that if you're ever actually worried about concurrency then just don't use sqlite. We can see here that concurrency is hard and the bugs are old and deep.

This is especially impacting Indian tech workers in the US [0] since these are often the types of roles that InfoSys and other foreign tech consulting firms are staffing. The new $100,000 fee to sponsor an H1B visa has made it difficult to justify hiring foreign tech workers when most of the time they are just going to be using American LLMs to do their work anyway.

[0] https://thefederal.com/category/news/h1b-visa-indian-tech-wo...

What does it mean to "found" a Linux distro? Can you describe it?