I hope they realize Cloudflare opted them in to blocking LLMs.

Why single out Perplexity? Pretty much no crawler out there fetches robots.txt.

robots.txt is not a blocking mechanism; it's a hint to indicate which parts of a site might be of interest to indexing.

People started using robots.txt to lie and declare things like no part of their site is interesting, and so of course that gets ignored.

Do you ask for consent before you visit a website? If I told you, you personally, to stop visiting my blog, would you stop?

I think the point was: who can know by looking at it.

There should be a blog post to point to people who have a 1990s view of MySQL. It has changed a lot and has most of PostgreSQL's feature set while being faster and simpler to use for the average user.

As a person mostly using AI for everyday tasks and business-related research, it's very impressive how quickly they've progressed. I would consider all models before 2.0 totally unusable. Their web interface, however, is so much worse than that of the ChatGPT macOS app.

We provide some elements of ACID guarantees, but not full ACID compliance as traditionally defined in database systems:

Atomicity: Yes, for individual operations. Each key-value operation is atomic (it either completes fully or not at all).

Consistency: Partial. We ensure data validity through our conflict resolution strategies, but we don't support multi-key constraints or referential integrity.

Isolation: Limited. Operations on individual keys are isolated, but we don't provide transaction isolation levels across multiple keys.

Durability: Yes. Our persistence model allows for tunable durability guarantees with corresponding performance trade-offs.

So while we provide strong guarantees for individual operations, HPKV is not a full ACID-compliant database system. We've optimized for high-performance key-value operations with practical durability assurances rather than complete ACID semantics.

If floor a legitimate mathematical function?

I wish more services would become de-facto standards and there were many implementations of the same API. I'd love more (cheaper) DynamoDB compatible APIs.