skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having previously been on several managed PostgreSQL providers and now on AWS Aurora -- Aurora has been pretty great in terms of reliability and performance with large row counts and upsert performance.

However, Aurora isn't cheap and is at least ~80% of our monthly AWS bill. I wonder how it is cheaper than Heroku's previous offerings? Is it Aurora Serverless v2 or something like that to reduce cost? Aurora billing is largely around IOPS, and Heroku's pricing doesn't seem to reflect that.
Not to say that it is easy in absolute terms, but I'd argue that true/false'ing a statement, e.g. "humans should eat 1 rock a day" is a categorically easier problem than answering "What should humans eat"?

For fun/example I asked gpt3.5 "What percent of dieticians would suggest eating one rock a day is good for your health?" And got a pretty solid if wordy 'none'.
People started doing it in part because the airlines were taking outrageous times to get bags.

Ironically, that’s been very much improved. With Delta and Alaska now, it’s actually quite rare that I get to baggage claim and my bags are not already there.
I don't see this listed yet, so do the same thing you'd do at work: keep a prioritized backlog, and do project planning to decide what to work on next.

When you see an architectural defect, write it into your backlog, then flesh it out as part of grooming on your backlog for whether it's worth doing or not.

You might want to take a course/training on product or project management so you can practice switching hats
I remember reading somewhere that peasants who killed an enemy night would effectively be treated as war criminals. So you'd be fucked no matter what you do.
It blocks trackers and third party ads.
And I would like to add another reason:

* Fixing the bug will not add value to the various Fortune 500 Companies that control Linux.
Oh, noes... A post that has this in the second paragraph:

"I'll hope you, dear reader, will forgive me for making this a really personal post; a very large part of my life has been tied up with Krita, and it's going to show."

ended up in something "jmix" thought was "self-indulgent".
To be expected from a 30 year old laptop no?
Are you trying to say that the threat actor is just going up to firms they're trying to extort and telling them lies? Criminals just going around lying to people? Don't they know that's against the law?
I’m looking for a job right now and the website is more usable in incognito mode.

I think the trash they recommend is due to somebody’s bad recommendation algorithm similar to Amazon’s “you want another mattress?” problem.
I am really taken about the framing of the industrial risk, the risk of mistakes in design and implementation, as the "Boeing Problem"

We know how finantialisation of Boeing created its problems, that is well documented. If a SMR industry develops how can we mitigate those risks?

Boeing crashed two aeroplanes before it would even consider a problem existed. Then we saw the rot

Boeing were, we thought, the best of the best. How do we stop the same thing in a nuclear programme?
While that's useful, it also seems a bit like "For the next month, relatives will be visiting so my spouse won't be able to beat me."

When there's no good reason to believe the other party will actually change their ultimate goals, it's better to cut your losses and switch sooner.
No, that is a mistaken visualization that comes from embedding the donut in a higher space. No embedding is necessary, nor does anyone think the universe is embedded in anything larger.

Think about PacMan, or the old Asteroids game, where going off one end of the screen would put you on the other side. That's a donut. (The 4 corners of the screen make up the single hole*.) Which "side" is the inside? The question doesn't make sense.

*Edit: as rightly pointed out below, the location of the hole is an arbitrary choice that comes from trying to map the space to a sphere, and does not actually exist anywhere in the space itself.

An interesting experiment is this: imagine yourself existing in the space, which is otherwise empty. PacMan alone in the middle of the screen. Throw a stretchy rope to yourself, horizontally or vertically, catch the other end, and tie it together. Then walk around the space without turning the rope at all. Notice that no matter how you walk around, the rope will always be the same length. Now imagine the same thing on the surface of a sphere. Walking around makes the rope larger or smaller, and there's always a point you can walk to where the rope will completely collapse to a single point.
Double vision ? Is this when one sees with both eyes simultaneously ? =)
Isn't itemization extremely rare post Trump tax cuts?
When the news broke again of this change, I made yet another attempt to return to Firefox. Fortunately, I never returned. They’ve improved quite a bit in terms of resource usage and functionality, and I’m not looking back.
> startups prefer to work with these smaller companies despite free credits from larger players

Says who? My experience is the opposite - tending towards too much reliance on the main providers because of the credits
Hopefully the Pentagon won't be upset when China arms The Republic of Texas in its bid to be independent of the United States of America.

No country is invulnerable.
All storage/compute/networking etc. is handled snowflake side.

For various reasons, you're not getting to touch the actual DB bits.

You can, IIRC, use snowflake-hosted connectors to access external data though.

And there's a "data marketplace" of sorts where clients can publish/consume datasets.
A farmers market has a narrower selection than a supermarket, but you’d be healthier in the long run only shopping at the farmers market than going to the grocery store and being bombarded by processed garbage, even if you try to stick to the good aisles.

The problem with Reddit is that the worst of Reddit inevitably pollutes the best of Reddit. Better for your mental diet to avoid altogether.
I was caught by this surprise pricing once, so I'll explain: printing a boarding pass at the airport is €20, but that's only if you have checked in online beforehand.

But checking in in-person is €0 only if there's more than 2 hours left until the planned departure, it is €55 if there is less. So in practice, a lot of people end up paying €75 for something that's free when flying with other airlines.

In Ryanair's defence, they explain it on their site. But if you are booking via e.g. Kiwi.com, you will probably never visit Ryanair's site and you will miss this detail.
> the internet circa 1994 or we could be discussing bitcoin circa 2011.

People were clear about the value of both. SMTP by itself was already a clear value for business. The WWW itself was invented in 1989. Same for Bitcoin as the title of the original paper, "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
", explains it all. Some capabilities were not there yet, but it was mostly infrastructure and engineering issues (Acceptance was another issue for bitcoin).

LLMs generate tokens. The generation is governed by the models, but the model itself has no concept of usefulness or truth. Books are not enough to train them. The WWW has a lot of garbage informations. And natural language is insufficient to describe exact processes without formalizing it.

The fact is that the human mind can already do what the LLMs fans hope them to achieve. And we can transfer knowledge through media. Getting something done is mostly assembling the right people in a room, recursively. And we built tools to enhance productivity.

I believe that Microsoft and others are hoping that the general public will be ok with wrong results. But the fact is that all the capabilities exposed so far have an alternative and more deterministic process to achieve the same result. But it often requires learning or hiring a specialist and it's sad to see how many people are balking at that.
> The government investigation also looked at concerns
around a lack of transparency
by the airlines over the
final price of services when
booking online, and the
decision to block cash
payments at the airport for
additional services.

I just went through this a week ago and I was shocked RyanAir was doing this as I was sure this was not legal in the EU.
So the customer data is actually stored on Snowflakes AWS accounts?

What difference does it make what underlying storage / provider it uses then?

Also does that mean every data query to snowflake goes out/in to/from internet at egress/Ingress costs?
Yeah this. Also the plane tickets are so bloody cheap these days that the baggage doesn't hurt a bit.
It’s easy to make the opposite argument around declining mental facilities and less education for the oldest Americans who are the most likely to vote yet have increased insurance costs despite driving less.

Whites also vote more than Hispanics, are suggesting ignoring their issues is a good thing as well?

In the end, having out groups is inherently a bad thing no matter who makes them up.
To be honest, I still reference my paper copy of the Windows 1995 Interface Guidelines from time to time, when people propose new features for Krita. They are not always useful, but at least they don't change all the time.
> The only real constraint on what Brave will and will not do is their VC pressures to make money vs reputational damage. And reputational damage isn't all that expensive.

The VC's will be disappointed because Eich & co have said they will never exit through an IPO. They don't want to give up control like Google did.
“New efficiency gains” suggests a before and after. We are talking about china becoming more efficient from a previous state where they were less efficient. As circumstances refer to different times there is no contradiction.

What is a cobbler going to do with a bunch of shoes that will cost him more to make than it would cost to buy. What good would it do him to be able to consume his own products - are we still talking about a cobbler or have you somehow mixed in the notion of a nation state? Are you suggesting the cobblers consumption needs are met by his own production? Is he to eat his shoes?

Even if he was, he would still be better off buying them than making them.
Video hex display and camera recording...
Number of coal plants is irrelevant. It's a misinformation.

What matters is how much coal they do burn. Their coal plants have capacity factor under 50%. Chinese consumption of coal is roughly as ~10 years ago (82EJ vs 88EJ). That is what matters.

Coal plants are going to balance the grid, just like in Germany.
Maybe they do pay for it? It's not obvious they don't. (edit: they mention they do pay for it below)

I would have written a similar comment and I pay for Premium. I don't use any other Google service at this point, but I do have an account just for YouTube (I dig into the privacy settings to disable all the things I can).

It wasn't really that hard if you use Apple for almost everything and Fastmail for mail.

I use DuckDuckGo for search and occasional search again on Google, but that's becoming less relevant over time with LLMs (and generally reddit or youtube is the best place to search anyway for most things).
IMO AppImage fell short by not requiring upgrading support in all appimages. I don't want to have to monitor random sites for updates to my applications. So after trying to use them for a time I moved on. Currently experimenting with both flox and flatpaks as they both handle this aspect reasonably.
How many of the large systems in the world (civil infrastructure, bureaucracies, the internet, etc) don't involve a great deal of repurposing previously present systems for purposes beyond their original design intent? I don't think we're guaranteed to be stuck with hallucinating AI embedded in everything, but if something gets popular enough to work its way into a lot of tech stacks, it can easily persist well beyond the point where anyone designing things from the ground up would include it simply because it was already there.
Wasting perfectly good hardware like that is a shame.

I hate that companies are allowed to use just ever so slightly different designs of their products every generation.

We are over regulating SW companies, because it feels free, it's just a software.

Why can not we force the biggest HW developers to make sure that devices can share spare parts across generations AND preventing them from bricking perfectly good devices?
Why would China flood the US market? Their advantage is that they can make stuff cheaper. The USA is the wealthiest country in the world, and has one of the highest median selling prices for new cars. I don't think an $10-$15k basic small car would be a bestseller there.

If you are implying that the Chinese can make cars that can satisfy the upmarket needs of US consumers, and do it significantly cheaper, then that implies the US automakers are gouging their customers or are simply incompetent. In both cases, protecting them amounts to putting shareholder interest before the interest of the common people.
Even in Alaska, if you go to Anchorage you’d be well advised to take an Uber to a car rental place at least a couple of miles from the airport.

All sorts of BS, like “we have to phone your insurance company to verify your coverages” (at 11pm), or same with credit card, etc, to be “allowed” to waive their insurance. Oh, and the regular car you reserved, and several of them you can see on the lot? They’re unavailable. And the manager isn’t here to authorize a discount on a larger or premium vehicle. And so on.
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Ryanair doesn’t allow you to login online for printing tickets with just PNR - they require email for 2fa. Which you don’t get when booking via third party. Got caught by this while travelling with a party of 6. €120 down the drain. Third party sheds any responsibility.
> And big chunk of Israeli population has Russian/USSR origins.

Most of whom probably still remeber very well the moderate
Russian racism towards jews.

Also they probably would have stayed in Russia if they were happy with their government. Luckily Israel was one of the good ways to get out of the country if you had jewish roots.
Nice complainbrag.
Tiny fern has the largest genome of any organism
Around 30% by calories of seed oil in many oat milks. Was so surprised when I discovered this. It's in the ingredients list but they never even hint at this anywhere else.
You should be able to make a reactor with anything larger than a couple kg of material.

Maybe you can avoid a thorium reactor if that size from being a valuable target. I have little idea about the social risks of somebody using the material as poison, instead of explosive, but I suspect it's incredibly overblown currently. (Wannabe thieves are probably way more effective going after something else.)

But well, don't expect very small reactors to be efficient or cheap. They maybe could be cheap heat sources, but electricity generation and distribution are full of scale efficiencies.
"The Court Jester" movie didn't help dispel that myth ... ;)
Yeah. We need to do lots of low-level stuff, and things related to GPU have changed a lot from Qt to Qt.
True. Recently flew Alaska. They announced on speaker that if your bag didn’t come out within a certain time (I think it was 20min), you were entitled to some compensation or even the refund of the flight
The title should be updated to say they may refund, it's not official, as stated in the article. A bit misleading.

> A Spotify spokesperson declined to confirm to Ars if Spotify would offer full refunds to everyone who showed proof of purchase or if there were further requirements. The representative said that owners should contact Spotify via the above link about refunds.

> The email doesn't explicitly guarantee refunds, though...
> I recently got passports for my kids, and that was super easy to do as well and the passports came much faster than expected.

Interesting. I am currently renewing my and my spouse’s passports while also trying to get first time passports for my children and I couldn’t find the process more outdated and borderline kafkaesque. If you told me the website was built in 2003 and hasn’t been updated since then I would believe you.
I can only renew my passport by snail mailing everything including my existing passport. I can only get my kids a passport by physically taking them to an approved location for processing. I could not get an appointment for about a month at any location near me. As a bureaucrat myself, I just find this level of hoop jumping to be ridiculous.
Coinbase accuses the SEC of trying to destroy the crypto industry
Creative way to transfer a file.

Could just use a serial cable on one end, and USB->serial or parallel port cable that could transfer files with the software to allow file transfers easily.
From your link:

> We proxy these requests through Brave’s servers to reduce the amount of information sent to Google (for example, we remove your IP address) to protect against Google profiling or tracking you when using Safe Browsing.
Yeah it said "kill" instead of "save". Oops.
I don't know any of the job boards you've mentioned except levels.fyi.

And no, I don't scrape them.

You can have jobs with apply link URLs containing utm parameters in it. Even if you didn't scrape the website linked.

This will be fixed, though.
Not mentioned in the article is the fact that lorlatinib, original studied in the phase 3 CROWN trial, was used in frontline management of advanced ALK-mutated non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) [0]. Five-year data indicate a significant progression-free survival benefit, with 60% of patients free of progression. Even after 60.2 months of follow-up, the median progression-free survival has not yet been reached [1]. It is the durability of progression-free survival that are most impressive and surprising here. That said, only 4% to 8% of patients with NSCLC will have ALK mutations/rearrangements, so while amazing, this finding is not applicable to all patients [2].

[0] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2027187

[1] https://ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/JCO.24.00581

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7597761/
at least in the US they started asking people to pay for checked bags first, so the airlines caused this whole "rush for the overhead bins" problem.
Not to mention, most Americans work 245 days a year, but teachers 181 days a year.
Thanks! I've already started to work on it actually, I'll see to finish it up.
How about you ask people: Would you vote for bonds for a highway expansion that will not really make your commute better but will provide more accessible housing, bringing down housing prices, and thus allow you to have a bigger, nicer home for less money? (Even if you don't actually use the particular highway!)

If people are filling up the new lanes it's because they are getting value out of it. It's making people's lives better, even if the traffic doesn't go faster (though in many cases, it does).
8960 (net investment tax) is another form that only applies at 200k or more income.
Why do you think you’d notice if there was?
It's all the various deductions you can take, both above and below the line.

It is possible to do the same societal effect in other ways, but the US does a done at the federal level via taxes.

Go look sometimes at the list of things you can claim in various cases.

It's even more explicit when you look at business tax returns and schedules.
Nebula is such a streaming service. From what I understand, they are a subscription based company that has a profit share incentive for it's creators. Consequently, the creators skew toward educational-esque content.
I discovered this a couple years back, truly the worst. I don't know what kind of cynical cargo-culting fools are wasting resources, designing this junk and selling it to unsuspecting people who don't read the fine print.

I've been burned buying "name brand" stuff on Amazon too many times (counterfeit garbage drop shipped instead) so for anything Apple I go to an authorized Apple reseller, not ScAmazon.
I am slight surprised over this, but seems to follow what the US Does with these fines.

If it was up to me, all passengers for say the past 7 years will get a full refund of all their baggage fees + 100 EUR + 10% interest compounded per year.
So the grid operators are restricted, but power plant operators are free to set energy prices?
> Why does Brahman seek evidence for its existence in Buddhist Evidence?

What? The concept of Brahman predates Buddha by hundreds - thousands of years.

The Vedas are older than Buddha by 1-2 thousand years. Not sure what you mean here unless you are implying time travel.

Of course, I am going by standard scientific/historic dating and not relying on scriptures like you seem to do continuously through this thread.

1. Oldest Vedas: ~2000 BC
2. Latest Veda: ~900 BC
3. Buddha born: 563 BC

> This happens only when the other is the illegal occupier such as Hagia Sophia.

What do you mean?

https://www.history.com/topics/landmarks/angkor-wat#:~:text=....

> Originally dedicated to the Hindu god Vishnu, Angkor Wat became a Buddhist temple by the end of the 12th century.
Similar here. I was a huge Dropbox evangelist to almost everyone I knew. Then Dropbox limited free accounts to three devices. Then I started getting the emails, texts, and phone calls asking me why the thing I made them sign up wasn't working the way it always had from people who have no experience in the software industry and couldn't understand a company just taking features away from them.
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The bug is that the time displayed should be the local time of the area, an in particular the correct date for the DST change.

So the jump in shadows due to DST change in March should not be on the same day in Paris than in New-York.
At this point, I strongly urge you to think about what could possibly change your mind. Because if you can't think of anything, then that means that this opinion is not founded on reasoning.

The text LLMs produce is not just plausible in a "looks like human text" sense, as you'd very well know if you actually thought about it. When ChatGPT generates a fake library that looks correct, then the library must seem sensible to fool people. This can't be just a language trick anymore, it must have a similarity to the underlying structure of the problem space to look reasonable.
So lobbying?
Thanks, this is just the sort of information I was hoping for.
How the new head of one of the oldest universities organized a citation cartel
Careful how you swing that axe of relaxed zoning. Got me nearly kicked off my local town council. "Why can't that town two towns over build more apartments for our day laborers?" they all ask in unison.
IANAL but this is textbook unauthorized access of a computer as has been drilled into me in every boring corporate training I do for my security work and thus is "hacking".

Telling the judge "but I wasn't wearing my black hoodie while listening to K-pop while doing it!" is going to be about as effective as telling the judge the legal code can't be trusted because it's not backed by a CI/CD system adhering to Agile practices. (Which a non-trivial number of Hacker News posters probably think would work.)
Sure, but IDK how you'd send them on a mac without the software to do it?

Is there even an environment you can program in? Can Applescript on classic macos do serial stuff in any form?
I reckon with inflation this is going to get worse.

However, we have 2 options there:
a. raise the minimum to $150K but reduce jobs for people outside of the US to basically just a few if any
b. keep it at $100K (for now), and let the person adjust with salary ranges filters