skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Background: I am an engineer that has spent most of their career in energy - fossil fuels, nuclear and renewables - the whole shebang. I care deeply about climate change, and recognise the non-negotiable need of humanity for ever-increasing amounts of energy.)

Take it from me - I would absolutely love renewables to displace all other forms of energy. However, from an engineering point of view, I know this is simply not feasible without some strong developments in energy storage and distribution. With today's technology, nuclear is the only real threat to the hegemony of fossil fuels, and the only practical hope of reaching climate goals (let alone long-term energy security goals). I think the fossil fuel industry knows this, and so frame their anti-nuclear rhetoric as a renewables-vs-nuclear debate, backing renewables.

If I wore a tinfoil hat, I would say that a lot of the support for renewables (and hostility towards nuclear) was encouraged/stoked/funded by the fossil fuel lobby.

There's an interesting blog that catalogues cases where the fossil fuel industry has scratched on nuclear. If you're interested, I'll link it below.

https://atomicinsights.com/smoking-gun/

As for SMRs specifically, I think they have a lot of legs. Reactors that can be assembled (and serviced) in factories would go a long way to lowering the overall cost of the reactors (even accounting for the reduced energy-cost density of the individual reactors).

Questions welcome. I created an account just to give my two cents on a field to which I have dedicated my career.
You must be quite devastated that you have to take a few of those 200k dollars and hire a CPA. Try not to sigh so hard you run out of breath.
So, just to be clear because I found your link filled with a bit too much corporate speak:

1. The linked Hudson Rock post is explicitly claiming that the breaches at Ticketmaster and Santander Bank were caused by a Snowflake employee whose credentials were compromised.

2. This bullet point, "We did find evidence that similar to impacted customer accounts, the threat actor obtained personal credentials to and accessed a demo account owned by a former Snowflake employee. It did not contain sensitive data." (emphasis mine) says pretty clearly to me, then, that Snowflake believes the Hudson Rock account to be false.

So is that a correct understanding then?
Never Hertz again. Not to mention their recent "stolen car" debacle, Hertz pulled their own even shadier shit on me in Washington.

"Sorry, our security system was unable to verify you." No explanation of what that was, or meant, or what was being verified. Despite dozens of incident free rentals in the past, etc., no issues on my license, etc. "We are not going to be able to rent to you."

Hand over my credit card and start pulling up an Uber to go to a nearby Enterprise. "Fine, whatever, just put my refund back on this card."

"Sorry, prepaid rentals are non-refundable."

"I didn't get to rent anything, as you just pointed out."

Had to go to Corporate to reverse that one, was about 2 minutes from a chargeback.
incorrect. the intend is to have it be a project that is thriving, see the last 2 additional partnerships that landed as apach2 connectors: https://redpanda.com/blog/redpanda-connect w/ peerdb, and ockam.
I'd be more sympathetic to that view if Ryanair didn't

- Prohibit showing the QR code from a PDF on your phone (it has to be printed on physical paper, or you have to use the app instead)

- Make it intentionally hard/impossible to get your boarding pass bought from a third-party reseller into their first-party app

In other words, my "non-real issue" was entirely manufactured by Ryanair to extract more money from me (by frustrating third-party resellers without outright banning them in a way that makes them prone to competitive lawsuits)
His probably not. This is not accurate. He got all the models from OpenAI, Mistral, Stability and many more like Phi.

"We are below them, above them, around them. " -Satya on OpenAI
I think not charging for checked bags and some sort of friction for carry-on bags would be best.

Maybe checked bags are free, and people with carry-on bags board last (unless they have kids)
Heroku Postgres has always been priced on platform convenience with very high margins. It's been many years now so I don't remember the exact numbers, but I moved a few databases from Heroku to AWS and reduced my DB costs ~90% (magnitude ~900/mo --> ~100/mo) for roughly the same specs. They probably have a lot of margins to eat into before they need to adjust prices.
You're right that there are no (smooth) flat embeddings of a torus into 3-space.

To understand how a torus can be flat, it's best to replace the idea of folding with the idea of placing portals on edges. Start with a square and put portals between the north and south edges and between the left and right edges. Intuitively this is flat, and this intuition does indeed capture the mathematical notion that a torus is flat.
Outrageous predictions for 2024 by Danish bank Saxo (December 2023)
It seems like we need to trigger another import -- we only have 491 of their 1,000! But you can search Standard Ebooks books in Open Library. Here they are sorted by how many people have added them to their reading log: https://openlibrary.org/search?q=id_standard_ebooks%3A%2A&mo...

Or by rating: https://openlibrary.org/search?q=id_standard_ebooks%3A%2A&mo...

Or by first published! https://openlibrary.org/search?q=id_standard_ebooks%3A%2A&mo...

I created an issue to kick off another import: https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues/9372
Bad news for google. Sundar is dying inside
Yes, it's a currency glitch I'm looking to fix as soon as possible (when my little baby lets me have some free time). Thank you for raising this. I've deleted them in the meantime.
Isn’t that eye exercises?
> Another is a change to OpenAI's structure as a corporation. OpenAI has an unusual structure, with a for-profit corporation beholden to a nonprofit organization. The Information claims that Altman and his allies are seeking to convert it into either a traditional for-profit corporation or a benefit corporation known as a B-Corp. B-Corps allow corporations to have additional goals beyond shareholder interest, protecting them from certain kinds of shareholder lawsuits if they act for reasons beyond profits.

And the penny drops!
Stock didn't really move on this, but IMO this is a bearish signal for Apple--they're sitting on a ton of cash and can't catch up to OpenAI? Not even via acquisition? How far behind are their internal efforts?
I went on today to realize that the app is acting like this is my first time setting it up and started asking me to pay a subscription. Thank god I exported my data weeks before...I don't even want to imagine what other people are going through right now. I'm so angry and betrayed.
In theory. In practice, every piece of information you can get from a human has mountains of context around it which lets you gauge the reliability of the information.

A skilled motorcycle rider explaining how to take corners in a widely watched youtube video, with hundreds of comments confirming the advice and several recommended videos from other riders that basically say the same thing is an extremely strong positive signal.

The same answer gotten from a magic AI answer box is just as likely to be right as wrong, 50/50.
Can someone post a quick clickbait antidote for those of us stuck behind the paywall?
If a car does that then it's not safe to merge until after they've gotten ahead of you.
thank you, had to draft a few times to make sure it was appropriately subtle so only you could pick up on it
Fair enough. I've never taken one of those airlines.
For a lot of use cases, nothing beats « git push » and tada your app is deployed.
Most of the things in Spotify are done through the server. There are two major reasons why:

- customer-facing reason: Spotify Connect https://support.spotify.com/us/article/spotify-connect/ We have to be able to know which device you're playing on, show it in device pickers and even let you play stuff on devices not in the same network

- second major reason: most of the decisions of what to play cannot be made on the client. This has to do with licensing and related analytics. Even different types of devices will have different licensing applied to them. So to even simply say "play next song" you have to tell the server you're going to listen to a track. And that track might not be available for the specific combination of account/device/country/phase of moon which client has no way of knowing about.

Source: I work at Spotify, but I can't answer any questions about CarThing (didn't work on it, and it would be NDA anyway)
this... sounds like a good thing?
I switched to jmp.chat a few months ago and have been impressed.

You can even pay anonymously with crypto and have multiple numbers using a single app and billing account.
I do, as do several startups I advise.

Despite interesting competition, my feeling is that the Heroku of 2024 remains... Heroku.

I feel this way even though -- depending on how you segment -- the list of "interesting" competitors is quite long at this point: Render, Railway, Northflank, Fly.io, Vercel, DO App Platform, etc.
Didn’t Cuba invent a lung cancer vaccine in the 80s?
It really depends on the airport not so much the airline.
"To understand how the hack was carried out, the threat actor explains that they were able to sign into a Snowflake employee’s ServiceNow account using stolen credentials, thus bypassing OKTA which is located on lift.snowflake.com."

I'm unfamiliar with ServiceNow and their website seems to be just marketing bable.

Can someone explain the role of ServiceNow in this scenario and why it important?
I doubt they even care https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aquora.com+valid+Faceb...
my understanding is there are so many vulnerabilities when someone has physical device access that the security community essentially suggests you assume any device is compromised if you lost physical access
I think paper tickets should be always be free.

A better approach would be to offer an incentive for tickets on your phone (as long as it wasn't a data grab)
Thanks. I guess when people say "AI models" I've been mentally associating that with LLMs which seem like a new thing. :)
In Brazil too. There used to be plenty of space on the overhead bins, and people used to get in and out of the plane without any hush or messy corridors.
Which industry/country are you in, that it's not your experience?
Basically what spirit does is charge you $65 for a carry on but $60 for a checked bag. Fastest boarding/deboarding experience I’ve seen short of when you get to walk on the tarmac and access the plane from both ends.
I wonder if this is something VR headsets can eventually fix by putting things at a longer focal length?

Maybe instead of a 50” screen 24” away, a 500’ screen 240’ away.
I had some experiences with emacs that were like that. After 2 or 3 of those, I stopped bothering.
Yup. I think it was approximately 150€ when this happened to me.

There's even an entire second-order cottage industry benefiting from that practice: At the airport I was trying to board, there was a copyshop offering PDF printouts for 50 cent a page (yay) – except if the page is a boarding pass, for which the rate is then 10€.

Yes, they employ a person to specifically check what you're printing...
It's not "the thing I like", it's the better tradeoff. It's less complex and thus more secure (due to reduced API surface and fewer opportunities to make lookup mistakes or to mistakenly choose the wrong out of dozens of kinds of case-insensitive comparison in a security decision). It's also potentially faster, and more compatible with other Unixes.
Personally I dislike AppImages, Snap, Flatpack, Docker, etc. for one main reason:

If an app is so hard to distribute in any other way, that to me is a red flag that the app is not up to my quality standards or otherwise violates my sensibilities in some way. On my Linux desktop, I am very much in the camp of "that which exists without my knowledge exists without my consent".

(I fully recognize that I am extreme outlier in general, and perhaps a slight outlier among Linux users. Just offering one perspective, I make no claims that this it the correct perspective for most Linux users.)
I think this post is useful, since I had no idea Israel attacked a US ship and killed 34 crew members during the Six-day war. You seem to be engaged in astroturfing.
Moreover, if you arrive at the airport 3 hours before but spend one hour in the check-in queue, you will fall into the two hours time window and pay 50 EUR for effectively having the boarding pass printed.

A court in Vienna previously ruled against them, but they just ignore that everywhere else.
I just flew with Ryanair and yes, the fees for luggage etc are expensive, but if you don't take luggage and any extras they offer, they are amazing value. I hope the cheap airlines don't get overrun with fines because if not for them I'd barely see my parents.
This is what I came to comment about as well. In other words, it's just a tax without going to the legislature to implement the tax. It will only be levied when someone decides it's time to levy it again, so it's somewhat convenient.

The government didn't pay those heinous fees, yet they end up with the money? Like seriously, who does that make sense to other than corrupt bureaucrats? The obvious thing would be as you suggest to refund fees directly to those that were charged. Maybe then levy a fine on top of those refunds as a punishment that goes to the government just to add salt to the wound.
The demand for housing has nothing to do with highways.

Highways proscribe a particular way in which to build housing. Low density sprawl. Which results in horrible commutes people hate.

We don't need that. We need high density transit. Which results in high quality of life.

The reason housing isn't built is because cities abuse zoning laws. It's time for states to take back zoning regulations.
Lazy Dog (Bomb)
UniSuper's report and gcp's differ in this regard.
I posted this same article yesterday. I wonder why the HN dupe detector didn't pick this up.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40526554
Just curious, does Aurora scale down at all in price, i.e. if I have a test instance that's hardly ever used, does it ever end up being cheaper than a classic RDS instance?
What policy/legislation was undone to lead to that?
One of these predictions has already come to pass (https://www.home.saxo/content/articles/outrageous-prediction...). The bank of Japan abandoned yield curve controls in March (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/19/bank-of-japan-boj-march-2024...).
That sounds like a good idea. I think it would be a better idea to split up the Connect repo into separate repos for the Benthos core framework as MIT and the plugins as a new RPL license instead of a dual license repo. The dual license is very messy.

UPDATE: just watched the blobstream and realized there is exactly a repo called “redpanda-data/benthos” with the MIT components. Nice!
Does this mean Siri will catch up to Google Assistant? Or at least be somewhat useful?
To be fair, launching their own ChatGPT wouldn't be that much more interesting than leveraging OpenAI. What would be amazing is if they get a high-quality GPT model running locally on the device and integrate that with their services.
But that's not at all what happens.

Housing cost does not go down with highway construction.

No. It's making people's lives worse. They could have better lives with transit.
And are you hiring.
> things get suppressed here so easily

It could happen to anyone,[0] but there are a group of flag-happy folks here with a particular political leaning, and they outnumber the rest of us.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostrich_effect#Neuroscientific...
Breaches are not the same as giving away.
That's the rub with stereotypes and film when they insist on a lack of subtly for audiences that apparently can't handle or notice it. Perhaps it's acceptable for sitcoms where the characters are intentionally superficial, but generally it represents a demographic poorly to attribute unflattering attributes to a group, be it the flamboyant gay man or the unlucky, weak man.

Where I live in the US now, gay cis tend to be both widely-accepted and very common such that it's no longer a stressor in everyday situations. There are trans people including trans males, which are less common but exist in greater numbers with anxieties and reservations gay cis people had 20 years ago. Outside of the area, Christian white nationalist patriarchy is the norm.
No matter what society you live in, you will have to obey rules. There has never been a society where this is not the case, and there never will be one.

You can call that slavery if you want.
> If it is just one click, then most might actually do it. But I would not hold my breath.

*exactly*.

"You must tell us what you were doing at the time of the crash before submitting".

Uhh, I woke the computer up, logged back in and was greeted by this prompt.
Not sure what more you need; it is no secret that kernel code is written primarily by and for the benefit of corporate entities, and naturally they have priorities.

[I am not saying this as a bad thing; in fact, the GPL licenses are designed around this "fact of life" aiming to maximize the benefit for (all) the users and minimize control of a single powerful entity. I'd say the current state of affairs is amazing, considering the historical alternatives.]
Ah, Newpipe!
Ben Thompson of Stratechery raised a good question - why isn't Apple partnering with Microsoft instead of OpenAI? Microsoft has the weights, can provide the requisite infra, is in the process of derisking the OpenAI collaboration via defacto aquihires...

OpenAI is losing people, has a CEO with a mixed reputation, irritates a famous actress who beat Disney in court...
I cycle in the area but I value my life too much for that! Happy travels.
I'm aware of a much more efficient solution. Don't believe will ever be adopted, not at scale. Because threatens livelihoods of too many grifters with political power, haha.
I've flown a lot with Ryanair, Easyjet and Wizz Air, and apart from Wizz Air adding mysterious a "System surcharge" if you use an ad blocker (although I think they've stopped doing this), I don't mind the extra charges at all.

Surely if they ban cabin bag and seat charges, then the base fare is just going to go up for everyone?

Memes and jokes aside, I actually find Ryanair to be a better service a lot of the time compared to Easyjet and more transparent with pricing, even though Easyjet is almost always more expensive on the routes I fly.
If the goal is to fill some time with something mildly educational, it replaces the dopamine/serotonin hit all the same.
(as a continuation of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=troupo)

> how hard is it to just NOT delete its API hooks from the codebase.

Someone has to maintain that API. Not only on mobile, but also potentially on the server as well. Those "hooks" become a nuisance and a hindrance when services change or get deprecated. When data schemas get updated. When new data types get introduced etc.

And that's before we get into discussion about architecture, code quality etc.
OK now I know why some DB salesmen are calling me these days. Either Indeed or LinkedIn. I need to change my Indeed phone number to maybe a police station's.
This seems an important failure mode to me. I too have noticed gpt4 looping between a few different failure cases, in my case it was state transitions in js code. Explaining to it what it did wrong didn't help.
> Though none of the prolific thieves has been arrested yet,

why would they announce this without someone in custody?
Honestly, I think EVs are oversize RC cars. Their drivetrains are commodity tech. The Model 3's battery and overall drivetrain efficiency has improved by like 7-8% since its inception in 2017.

Tesla really nailed EVs the first time around, but they never had much of a technological moat besides fantastic promises.
Why exactly does Apple need to make their own AI? I would prefer if they focused their efforts on what they're already good at - making hardware and operating systems to run on top of it.
> By the same logic I use SponsorBlock when I can because despite paying the creator and paying YouTube the hardcoded sponsors are still present (plus it has uses outside skipping just ads anyways)

Got it. So you are fine with adblocking; your take comes down to practicality.

Debate aside, I appreciate your thoughtful response.
>People I’ve talked to feel the same way about Trump

You should tell them they're mistaken. He isn't being sidelined or kept off the ballot. That's a blatant lie that he is spreading himself. The case was supposed to happen last year until him and his lawyers used procedural tactics to delay it into this year. At any point he could have quietly chosen to settle, publicly declare innocence and then let the news pass just like he did with the Trump University case. But again, he chose not to for this one.
Apple has never been about moving fast in response to hype. Think about 3G, VR, foldable screens (apparently coming to iPads in a few years). They do things in their own time and somehow it works.
I am not seeing the margins in this $5/mo instance but I could be wrong!
> but IMO this is a bearish signal for Apple--they're sitting on a ton of cash and can't catch up to OpenAI?

Nobody has caught up to OpenAI, it's absurd to expect Apple to have done it simply because they have the cash.
They respect it when they submit it then, as every time I've used that function to see them update the query with quotes it comes back with different results. I've never cared to look at the search query in the URL, so maybe they also add and additional parameter that tells the back end specifically to obey the quotes on this resubmitting???? So at some point, the quotes aren't ignored
Hope we can turn this off
> when dairy has been a massively important staple of advanced societies for thousands of years

“Approximately 65 percent of the human population has a reduced ability to digest lactose after infancy. Lactase nonpersistence is most prevalent in people of East Asian descent, with 70 to 100 percent of people affected in these communities. Lactase nonpersistence is also very common in people of West African, Arab, Jewish, Greek, and Italian descent” [1].

Digesting cow’s milk relies on a new gene (<10,000 years old) that evolved in Northern Europe, East Africa and the Middle East [2]. Most adults—65 to 90%—have some degree of lactose intolerance. It’s simply untrue that dairy has been a staple of even a plurality of advanced civilisations over history.

[1] https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/condition/lactose-intoleran...

[2] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/lactose-toleranc...
> police in the United States and elsewhere were formed in the basis of law not to protect people but to protect property.

Be as that may (and as shitty as that is), this thread is about police forces utterly failing to protect property (or even attempt to).
I don't know anything about Snowflake or enterprise sales, but I'm wondering how that sales process works. A sales representative sets up a demo account. Then what, they load it with real customer data, with the customer's cooperation?

It seems like if a potential customer screws this up then they are wrong, but also, sales might be wrong to encourage them to share their data insecurely, and a sales process that encourages insecure sharing of enterprise data by potential customers might be bad company policy.

Perhaps doing it right would be tricky when it requires educating the customer. And it might get in the way of sales.
Totally on topic.