Sean Kerner @TechJournalist

IT consultant, technology user, tinkerer and sometimes Klingon ; tips [email protected] news.techjournalist.dev online Joined July 2008

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alex @kostyniuk00

a day ago

rip elastic. i know that using tuple ids in the text map(removes one additional hop) is not the only optimization that led to such fantastic results, but just wondering why no one else made this, it looks obvious to use a direct pointer to the data on disk rather than create another map table. congrats to the team, i'll be using this for sure!

PlanetScale @PlanetScale

3 days ago

Today we introduce TIN: a powerful and reliable full-text search extension for Postgres. TIN works with complicated WHERE clauses, replication, backups, and maintains correct transaction visibility. It's also mind-blowingly fast.

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols @sjvn

a day ago

Why AI companies are really pumping the brakes on their models computerworld.com/article/422352… via @Computerworld & @sjvn #AI's big dogs say it's because frontier AI is advancing faster than they can test and secure it. True, but safety isn't their main motivation. Follow the money.

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Michael Malis @mmalisper

a day ago

Next, I asked Jev to estimate how many rows a given filter would match. Postgres would then use this data to plan the query. This ended up working pretty well. The queries that improved the most were queries where outside context gave a lot of information about how to execute the query. When querying the IMDB data, Postgres estimated 1 in 100,000 movies are sequels. Jev was much more accurate and estimated 1 in 100 were

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Sean Kerner @TechJournalist

a day ago

I've just burned through $100 of credit on @AnthropicAI Fable 5.1 for a gauntlet game dev effortlessly and I'm only about 1/10th of the way through... Yeah it's cheaper than building a full games studio - and paying ppl - but still...

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Dion Hinchcliffe @dhinchcliffe

a day ago

Mark my words: Confidential inference is going to become the vital bridge between enterprise AI demand + the ability of the hyperscalers to provide it in a way that makes public cloud AI services trustable, and therefore consumable. Lots of issues to work out, but this is the way.

Sean Kerner @TechJournalist

3 days ago

10 years ago I first wrote about Confidential Computing - a way to have hardware attestation to verify integrity and privacy. NOw @cohere is bringing the concept to AI in a form of confidential inference that is badly needed in an era where (some) labs use customer data to train

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Sean Kerner @TechJournalist

2 days ago

This is typical for PostgreSQL though.. stability is not a work in progress it’s a release goal

Craig Kerstiens @craigkerstiens

3 days ago

Postgres 19 was shaping up to be one of the biggest feature releases in years, now many of those features are reverted. A look at whats going on with Postgres 19: snowflake.com/en/blog/engine…

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Sean Kerner @TechJournalist

2 days ago

@cohere Hope there is a Kawai Leonard special edition

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CockroachDB @CockroachDB

2 days ago

Because people seem so excited by our new logo and the launch of Cockroach Continuum, we're giving away some swag. Like/repost the post below for your chance to win. 👇

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NASA Solar System @NASASolarSystem

3 days ago

The Moon’s got a big new crater! 🕳️ Spotted by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, the McGetchin crater formed when a rock as big as a six-story building crashed into the Moon. It’s 141 feet deep and wider than the length of two football fields.🪨💥🌕 go.nasa.gov/3TzHqUf

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Sean Kerner @TechJournalist

3 days ago

@CockroachDB What an epic shame - neat solid tech derailed by bad PR

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Joshua McKenty @jmckenty

3 days ago

The real genius of the AI business model was in the use of “token” as the unit of billing. How much work does a token do? It depends. How many tokens will this project take? All of them. Tokens are an ideal unit of metered billing, because they have no definite properties.

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Sean Kerner @TechJournalist

3 days ago

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Sean Kerner @TechJournalist

3 days ago

@CockroachDB yeah that's it....(unreal). Gr8 tech and I've written on it for years (your PR firm pooched me on it this time so I didn't) ..but that logo is a problem.

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Sean Kerner @TechJournalist

4 days ago

It's not graph, time-series or JSON but kinda sort feels them - @KeewanoX is a new type of database (apparently) for the agentic AI era. venturebeat.com/data/every-use… via @VentureBeat

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Sean Kerner @TechJournalist

4 days ago

Normally I wait till a 1.0 but this does look…interesting

Michael Malis @mmalisper

4 days ago

Introducing pgrust v0.3: the bug-smashing release. We evaluated pgrust v0.2 and v0.3 against the same held-out corpus: 164,000 test cases from 50 open-source projects. pgrust v0.2 diverged from Postgres on 1,454 cases. pgrust v0.3 diverged on 11. pgrust is 300x faster than

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Sean Kerner @TechJournalist

5 days ago

Not surprised. I am personally still responsible for some ancient Oracle and MySQL databases that will *never* be updated

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols @sjvn

5 days ago

97% of US database administrators are running obsolete programs zdnet.com/business/why-c… via @ZDNET & @sjvn Nearly all database professionals surveyed by Percona said their organizations still run database versions past their official end-of-life. Here's why

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Sean Kerner @TechJournalist

5 days ago

@nikitabase @neondatabase @supabase It does .. I just found it interesting that it is the same limit in a few spots. And hey you got to make $ at some point..