Azure rents HF at $8/hr, SkyPilot zeros egress, sqlite-utils 4.0 skips rollback
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sqlite-utils 4.0, now with database schema migrations simonwillison.net
This morning I released sqlite-utils 4.0 , the 124th release of that project and the first major version bump since 3.0 in November 2020. In addition to some small but significant breaking changes (described in this upgrade guide ), this version introduces three major features: database migrations , nested transactions (via a new db.atomic() method), and support for compound foreign keys . Database schema migrations using sqlite-utils Schema migrations define a sequence of changes to be made to…
sqlite-migrate 0.2 simonwillison.net
Release: sqlite-migrate 0.2 The version that retires the library, instead implementing a compatibility shim against the new sqlite-utils 4.0 dependency. Tags: sqlite-utils
sqlite-utils 4.0 simonwillison.net
Release: sqlite-utils 4.0 See sqlite-utils 4.0, now with database schema migrations for details. Tags: sqlite-utils
sqlite-utils 4.0rc4 simonwillison.net
Release: sqlite-utils 4.0rc4 The last RC before the 4.0 stable release. Mainly implements feedback from a detailed review by Claude Fable 5. Tags: sqlite-utils , claude-mythos-fable
Hugging Face Models on Foundry Managed Compute huggingface.co
Run AI workloads on any cloud, store on Hugging Face: zero-egress storage with SkyPilot huggingface.co
From Hugging Face to Amazon SageMaker Studio in one click huggingface.co
Hugging Face models now port into Amazon SageMaker Studio through a single button, skipping the manual environment setup that usually precedes fine-tuning or inference. The integration targets enterprise teams already on AWS who want faster access to the Hub’s open model catalog.
How AI could enable autonomous robot workers in workplaces—and maybe homes arstechnica.com
Researchers and founders at Boston Dynamics, Agility, and Physical Intelligence walk through how learned policies and physical AI are pushing robots past scripted tasks toward workplace and eventually domestic deployment. The piece surveys where autonomy still breaks down across industrial, surgical, and home settings.
github-code Web Component simonwillison.net
A new tag accepts any GitHub blob URL, rewrites it to raw.githubusercontent.com, and renders the specified line range with numbers. Willison built the whole component from a single prompt to GPT-5.5, including a live browser preview during iteration.
References
Julian Smiles (Medium) — Foundry Agent Service technical limitations medium.com
a simple ‘Hi’ response consumes upwards of 2,300 tokens due to background infrastructure for memory and plugin schemas that cannot be disabled or viewed by the user… managed compute is currently in preview, lacks a Service Level Agreement (SLA) and is explicitly not recommended for production workloads
TensorWave blog — MI300X in production tensorwave.com
real-world performance often settles between 37% and 66% of H100/H200 levels depending on the maturity of the ROCm software stack for specific kernels
Fireworks AI blog — Why GPUs on-demand fireworks.ai
Fireworks AI’s on-demand H100/H200 deployments are priced at $7.00 per hour… proprietary ‘FireAttention’ engine provides up to 350% higher capacity than standard self-hosted vLLM on identical hardware
Shahadil H. (Medium) — Malicious Hugging Face models medium.com
CVE-2026-4372, a critical flaw in the Transformers library that allowed malicious models to execute code via the config.json file even when trust_remote_code=False was set… simply using ‘safe’ weight formats like Safetensors does not eliminate all execution paths
Thunder Compute — Azure GPU instances guide thundercompute.com
a single H100 can cost over $12/hour [on standard Azure VM on-demand rates]… spot instances provide up to an 80% discount, though they carry a significant risk with only a 30-second eviction notice
ExploreAgentic — Bedrock vs SageMaker exploreagentic.ai
AWS Bedrock Marketplace now hosts 83+ Hugging Face models accessible via Bedrock’s high-level APIs but running on SageMaker JumpStart infrastructure
Akave — egress cost analysis akave.com
a 10TB training dataset in a multi-cloud configuration can incur roughly $4,000 per month in egress fees alone… bandwidth costs often exceed 20% of the total monthly spend
gaul.org — ‘s3fs tradeoffs’ talk gaul.org
goofys prioritizes ‘performance first and POSIX second’… s3fs frequently communicates with S3 to maintain full POSIX consistency, which introduces significant latency
r/aws — ‘Why is s3fs such a bad idea?’ reddit.com
using FUSE mounts for database files or heavy concurrent writes often leads to corruption or performance ‘monstrosities’
Last Week in AWS — ‘S3 is not a filesystem’ lastweekinaws.com
Mountpoint-S3 cannot modify existing files or handle certain common filesystem flags, often requiring developers to refactor their saving logic
Hugging Face — ‘From Files to Chunks’ (Xet) huggingface.co
Xet uses GearHash and UltraCDC… small edits to 50GB models only trigger the upload of modified 64KB chunks rather than entire files
LetsDataScience — independent coverage letsdatascience.com
The MOUNT mode requires glibc >= 2.34 and direct /dev/fuse access… making it incompatible with older Linux distributions like Ubuntu 20.04 or locked-down Kubernetes runtimes that use unprivileged containers
Hacker News discussion (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48791708) news.ycombinator.com
Constant prompting from mobile devices—even during social events—could lead to burnout and ‘half-assed solutions’ that lack deep focus.
AI Weekly summary of sqlite-utils 4.0rc1 aiweekly.co
Jeremy Howard (AnswerDotAI) created apsw-utils, a port of sqlite-utils built on APSW… arguing that Python 3.12+ changes to transaction handling are suboptimal compared to the ‘idiomatic’ behavior of the apsw library.
r/Python thread on database migrations reddit.com
The design of sqlite-utils is unique for explicitly avoiding ‘down’ migrations (rollbacks), under the philosophy that fixing errors with new ‘forward’ migrations is safer in production — this differs from yoyo and goose, which both provide robust rollback mechanisms.
sqlite-utils Python API docs (table.transform) sqlite-utils.datasette.io
Because the original table is dropped and replaced, any associated triggers, views, or indexes that are not explicitly recreated are lost during the process… developers must manually identify and restore these objects or use table.transform_sql().
Simon Willison — ‘Claude Fable 5 is relentlessly proactive’ simonwillison.net
Fable 5 is priced at $10 per million input and $50 per million output tokens… Willison reported spending over $110 in a single day of testing, leading him to develop a ‘subagent’ strategy to preserve his token allowance.
