skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Copilot for Security – estimating the costs of ownership
Hello,

I'm asking for help with understanding how to estimate copilot for security costs? Does consumption of SCU depends on number of installed plugins, size of logs, number of prompts executing from prebuild promptbooks, something else? I monitor the SCU using it on the Usage Management page. It's still pretty unclear how total costs depends on "complexity" of environment.

Thanks for reply in advance
Hmm I am not transgender and I am quite sure of it so it's not everyone as you claim.
The amount it costs to run is irrelevant. The marginal cost of adding one user to a SaaS product is incredibly low, the marginal cost of allowing somebody to install your software product is almost $0, but I think we all understand that those factors aren’t what drives the pricing of the products.
I already think over the top positive comments are AI.
As a fellow runner, it really depends on where you are currently at to answer questions like this.

I think of myself as a pretty good runner, but doubt these shoes would benefit me in a meaningful way at this point.
> The analysis covering the period from mid-April 2023 to mid-April 2024 shows that the loss of nuclear power in Germany could be well compensated. Contrary to claims, the increase in imports was not due to a lack of generation capacity in Germany, but rather due to the favorable electricity generation prices of renewable power plants in the Alps and Scandinavia.

see sibling comments for access to the article.

also

> "In fact, electricity generation from nuclear power was replaced by renewable electricity generation. In the first year without nuclear power, around 270 TWh of renewable electricity was generated, 33 TWh more than in the same period last year. Our electricity mix is cleaner than ever before," explains Prof. Bruno Burger, who is responsible for Fraunhofer ISE's energy-charts data platform. Between April 2023 and April 2024, renewable energy accounted for 58.8 percent of the electrical load, the sum of net public electricity consumption and grid losses, in Germany.
Wrt homebrew not being endorsed by Apple, I want to point out that Apple's internal protocols have their engineers using it as the standard tool. I'm not sure what better endorsement there could be.
> a "capitalists being evil" problem and not an "regulators over-regulating" problem

¿Por que no los dos? A cartel enshrining itself into law is Regulatory Capture 101.
Agreed, Decker has that right feel to it to be a good reimplementation of HyperCard. I’m happy it exists, especially as a desktop app.
One of my favourite pages on the internet is https://ourworldindata.org/energy/country/germany . It suggests Germany's electricity production was at a 40 year low last year. And I've seen elsewhere that Germany is competing to have the highest cost electricity in the EU (possibly globally? I don't recall how they stack up globally).

That tinges the interpretation of this press release. It isn't all smiles and sunshine in the German electricity market.

EDIT In fact, you can add China to the graphs and note that OWID thinks China generates more electricity per-capita than Germany does as of last year. Who'd have thought that was possible 40 years ago!
Collins Aerospace pulls back from NASA spacesuit contract
Because PWAs are limited in more ways than practical to list here, just to name a few - the browser they run in, restricted by the availability and quality of internet connection, they're not sustainable as build tools don't even bother with backwards compatibility given the pace of evolution, practically no user control over a pwa "app" running in the browser.

Remember, PWAs exist as a work-around for gatekeepy OS vendors making it hard to create cross-platform apps. PWAs don't resolve anything - PWAs move the problem to the browser space, where (today at least) we only have closed, proprietary, very-much revenue-driven browser implementations. The related web standards have also largely been influenced by FAANGS as the likes of Google wanting to turn "the web as their webstore".
These reasons all make sense to me. I find most engineers who care about the health of a system want to address technical debt.

The problem is convincing leadership addressing technical debt is important. Neglecting maintenance runs rampant at my organization. Maintenance is often viewed as adding no value to the business so the work is constantly deprioritized.
The issue is a ton of companies already had Office subscriptions. Versus Teams being an added cost, so its a no brainer to just go "Well why the heck do we need Slack if we are getting Teams at no additional cost?" and now any startup in said space is competing against Office proper, which is a losing battle and a lot of added requirements to get your product off the ground.

If I were Microsoft I'd reconsider bundling Loop, since it's going to disrupt tools like Notion. I mean, why would I bother using Notion, if I can just use Loop? : - )
There's plenty of demand for doing ML just by calling OpenAI or similar APIs as more or less total black boxes. Probably moreso than for designing and training your own models. And even then it's mostly taking a pretrained model from huggingface and doing fine-tuning and prompt churn by trial and error.

E.g. doing or hosting state-of-the-art LLMs is more or less infeasible for many/most use cases. (Applying LLMs succesfully for many/most use cases is probaly fundamentally infeasible, but that doesn't mean you can't get paid doing them anyway.)
The bulleted list of what constitutes “ideal” is missing one of the most important types of questions: questions that aren’t answered by the knowledge set, but which seem like they should/might be.

This is where RAG systems consistently fall down. The end user, by definition, doesn’t know what you’ve got in your data. They won’t ask questions carefully cherry-picked from it. They’ll ask questions they need to know the answer to, and more often than you think, those answers won’t be in your data. You absolutely must know how your system behaves when they do that.
That stinks! At this point, it's not even internet access anymore!
+1. I'm less familiar with Frisco but its neighbor Plano is similar and has a comprehensive development plan for the next 20 years available online: https://planocompplan.org/DocumentCenter/View/1951/Executive...

Both are great places to live for families with kids.
"Maintenance" means hoping to maintain users.
Chinamen should amp their game. You can charge 30€ more on a shitty watch if it was "open-source". I have LilyGo T-Watch for 40€, and if it was waterproof, it would certainly to be only watch I ever need. https://github.com/timonoko/t-watch-2020-micropython-hacks
Generative AI Can't Cite Its Sources
the article states we imported renewables from the alps and scandinavia, and produced more renewables ourselves.

neither are silly.
The examples about law offices, and writers, is not wrong. This is happening. The article might be too long, or you might not like the style, but the concepts are correct.

While this somewhat seems like pitch for 'Cody', I don't think it is, it's just what the author is familiar with from his own company. Doesn't hide that it is a wrapper on other tools.

"Cody Pro lets you use both GPT-4o and Claude (and others), so you can spot-check all your work with another LLM."
I don't think the solution is less regulation. When you let the banks play fast and loose with the rules, they will. See 2008.

The real answer is an open source credit model. We don't need a black box. Let private industry handle the credit line qctivity reporting part like they do now and just feed that info into an open source model. Done.
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding you, but this seems to more-or-less read as,

"As a product manager myself, I believe that the use of an advantageous market position to strengthen vertical integration is a reasonable practice, so long as the bundle cost of the final product to the consumer remains the same."

The problem with this, and the reason we we anti monopoly laws in general, is that this practice can be self-reinforcing, and allows for the capture of an entire market, extinguishing all competition. This then allows pricing for the good on offer to be set at whatever arbitrary price the monopoly deems reasonable.
There's no explanation of what Nickel is. Even if I click the link, I get:

>Better configuration for less

>Write complex configurations. Modular, correct and boilerplate-free.

I still don't get what this is. Configuration for what? Is this an alternative to TOML/YAML?

From clicking three or four links deep into the Nickel documentation, I finally found an explanation that Nickel is a language for generating configuration files like YAML or TOML.

Either I'm super out of the loop or the authors need to do a better job of explaining what Nickel is from the beginning.
YouTube seeks record label deals for new AI music tools
https://archive.is/HjVkk
I also have Indian ancestry (and Dutch and Portuguese) and many other things.

With regard to India, and to some extent Sri Lanka, the worst lower castes had to fear from empires was that one oppressor would be replaced with another. They also got the opportunity to move and start elsewhere (as my fisher caste ancestors did, very successfully) where prejudices were weaker.

I would turn your question about Tamil labour in Sri Lanka around - why were they willing to leave their homes and go to another country to work for the British?

I did not say there everyone supported British rule, I said a large enough group did to make it viable. Minorities and oppressed groups were probably more likely to do so.

According to the books I have read on colonial Sri Lanka there was definitely support. It is also the only explanation of how a tiny number of British people could run the country (just as in India). Sometimes you would have one British civil servant in charge of a district, and the only British person in that district.

I recently read Leonard Woolf's biography (the second volume) and it is very illuminating on how things did work - and this is a work of a man who came to oppose the imperial project, so not biased in favour of it.
> Only one out of every ten prospective customers ends up taking out a mortgage, so higher prices fronted by mortgage bankers add up

I read this as for every ten customers who get to a point where they get their credit pulled, only one of them end up closing on the mortgage (ie buying a house). Could be due to shopping around, negotiations falling through, or the other millions of reasons you could end up wanting to buy a house but not close the transaction.
I was going to recomend that video. It has a good description of the technical details, but it uses a graphical representation to make it clear. But it's not a stupid graphical representation that hides all the details under flashy animations.
Only if there are clickable links in the footer/colophon.

For search results, tumblelogs etc it's fine (ideally you can create #links for sharing).
The surprising behavior of black holes in an expanding universe
Would You Clone Your Dog?
Not everything in the LCM collection is owned by LCM; some is on loan. Hope Christie's figures that out.
You've worked for startups and found issues. I've worked for three startups and concur - you work yourself to death chasing "the dream" that you realize is just a lottery ticket. The ones with the winning ticket then yammer on about "meritocracy." It's utter bullshit, as you've undoubtedly discovered.

You've worked for the "big names" and found disaster. Been there, done that, too! The problem with large companies is your voice gets drowned out. There's very little you can do to effect change. You're just pushing paper. Not very fulfilling.

I've been happiest at midsize companies. There's no single definition of "midsize" but here's a useful definition: they're big enough to be a serious contender in their market, but they're not the dominant player in their market. Those companies tend to provide the financial security of the "big names", yet want to hear your voice and your ideas as to how they can become the dominant player in their market. Best of both worlds kind of deal.

As far as creating software goes, I've been happiest in product development. Your software is part of a solution being sold to a client. A lot of engineering-oriented companies provide those kinds of opportunities and tend to have an engineering culture.

As far as making your own product, remember, people don't buy software - they buy solutions. If you can't succinctly identify your customer's problem, then they won't believe you have the solution. Period.

For others reading this, here's something else you should know from someone who's had a loooong career in this field: when the MBAs take over management, it's time to go. I know, I know, I'm painting with a broad brush BUT my experience has been, time and again, when they show up to your company your company is likely doomed. I've seen way too many companies doing just fine until the MBAs showed up. Just look at what's going on over at Boeing now. They're just one example of thousands.
Sorry, I meant as a response to your question. But point is, software at European non-software companies gets grouped in with IT. Treated as a support team rather than a revenue team, with salaries to match.
It's not. Unless you don't care about not being able to find where you were if you mistakenly scroll.
Hmm. I'll have to think more about that.

The problem I have is that "intuitive arguments" differ between people. What one person thinks is intuitively obviously true, another can think is intuitively obviously false.

I'll have to think about what I would be trying to say.

It's a good point ... it's now explicitly on my list.

Thank you.
Next.js Generative UI Simplified
Hey HN,

I'm sharing a new feature that I've added to NLUX:
React Server Component Adapter

If you’re working with Next.js, building conversation AI, and love tinkering with generative UI, this might be a game-changer for you.

Ref short demo on X

Feel free to share your feedback or ask questions.
Your insights are invaluable!

Happy coding!
23 hour bang up isn't uncommon in the UK, mostly just because the prisons are overcrowded and underfunded and it's easier to keep things under control with everyone locked in their cells most of the time.

There are legal minimums for how much time prisoners have to be allowed out of their cells but they're pretty low and not always followed
Perhaps ask Claude AI to help you with that? :)
Is it a wise choice though?

I feel like the market is saturated with machine learning. Everyone seems to be doing machine learning these days.
It's tough. When the Boston Computer Museum closed down a number of years back, its holdings were sold off and I don't think most of them were ever put on display. Admittedly, a lot was just random "old computers" at that point, but it costs money to display properly. No one is getting any real benefit from putting them in a Raiders of the Lost Ark warehouse someplace.

MIT ended up with the K&E slide rule collection at one point. Apparently they've merged it with a recent donation and it may be on display at their new facility but it pretty much sat in storage for years as far as I'm aware.
Life is just a giant story we tell ourselves. This is no different. Who knows what tomorrow's story will tell!
Weird, when I read a comment like yours all that pops into my head is "lazy" and "parasite". Hard work is its own reward.
Meanwhile we had significant protests over the ever expanding surface mines feeding those coal plants.
Hey there, thanks for your feedback. We're currently working on allowing people to work with different LLMs (private instances, different providers, etc). It'd probably be released next week :)

About privacy policy, so right now the main way to use the tool is to self-host the open source version. All of the data will stay in your environment. We plan on rolling out our Pro & Enterprise plans in the upcoming weeks/months and to create a more mature privacy policy. I hope that answer your question!

Regarding how it'd benefit support engineers - can you please elaborate a bit? Which areas do you think can be improved? Would love to hear your feedback.
There’s definitely going to be plenty of work in the area you’re describing, but I think it’s worth going in eyes-open and making sure you’re doing it for the right reason.

AI/ML is already becoming rapidly commoditised and the level you’re talking about is very infrastructure/platform orientated whereas all the real action (and potentially higher value stuff) is going to be happening an abstraction level or two above that.

It’s kind of like when electricity was invented. Do you want to become an engineer working on building the electricity grid (rapidly commoditised) or do you want to be the inventor/builder working on new things powered by this fancy new electricity?

The analogy isn’t perfect but I always think it’s worth carefully thinking about what level of abstraction you want to work at. Working in the infrastructure layer is definitely fun and rewarding. I would happily do that kind of work too. I love Devops. But like a lot of infrastructure level stuff it may not be where the “action” really is eventually.

But it depends what your motivations are too. “Do what you enjoy” is always a good way to set a general direction I think.

Just my two cents. I’m just an internet moron. I could be wrong.
Can’t tell if this is satire. Have you tried submitting a patch?
It could be handled with a government maintained database for orders of magnitude less resources. There should not be giant title insurance buildings in every city.
> Presumably billg is reading this thread already.

I would assume he's not wasting his time with HN. He's rich enough and well-known enough that I'd think he'd be able to get superior versions of everything HN can provide.
True. Only the fast ones do full page reloads now.
None. This is a statement of facts contradicting the parent post.
Using or thinking of "engagement" is the 8th deadly sin*. It just proves you're not thinking of the user's interests.

* sin count taken from the Iron Maiden song.
Gotcha and I can understand those views. Computing and computers are beautiful....the ad and spyware ridden world...not so much.
In my experience, HIIT is unbelievably effective but there is a bit of a tradeoff with this path.

If you can make yourself do proper HIIT regularly you will become batman but the mental barrier of intentionally making something "suck" as much as possible (and then some) is really tricky to get over. Even once you are "on the wagon" it's a difficult habit to maintain.

I find 30-60 minutes of moderate daily cardio to be much more approachable on a regular basis. It also feels more meditative to me than rushing through a 20 minute hellscape. I can sit down and write code for hours after getting off the rowing machine. After a CrossFit routine I just want to nap all day.
I'm sorry but this is a ridiculous and unrealistic stance. People die in wars. That's just a fact of life. I have sympathy for uninvolved civilians who don't want to be there. But war reporters know the risks and willingly enter warzones to report on them. Its just like reporting anything else dangerous. There is a risk you will die. There is a risk you will die in a tragic and preventable way too. Things could have been done differently but the footage is public now. Watch it yourself, they were walking with armed combatants and didn't look any different. There is no way the crew could have known they were reporters. The US military's ROE in GWOT was very restrictive for reasons just like this. But that doesn't mean its perfect. Arguing that nobody innocent should die is some kind of realistic standard reeks of an easy life and first world privilege.
Allen's will gave his entire estate over to a living trust. The trust documents are private, so nobody but the beneficiaries truly know what his wishes were. However, as far as I'm aware from reading press coverage of his estate, the instructions were basically to sell everything and give the money to certain specified charities rather than putting entities in place to continue operating his projects.
What do they think about paying much higher electricity bills than in most other EU countries?

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...
It's not the relatively clean nuclear you needed to replace it's the coal and gas. You effectively neutralized your renewable energy efforts by shutting down nuclear.
I'm not comfortable that this tool is able to make HTTP requests, IMO it ought to be completely offline and not perform network operations. I did a search for requests and found some results pushing to and pulling from a 'hub'. But I couldn't figure out what the hub refers to.
I think what parent actually means is that there are better solutions for it than insurance. E.g. a central registry of ownership and liens would probably solve 99% of the cases that you need insurance for. The insurance is a scam in the way that there are technical solutions that would obviate the need for this "service", but that solution is against the interests of the service providers. Very much like tax returns, which are a solved problem in many countries for the majority of the population because the authorities already have all the data they need. Most people should not need to faff around with them. In the US however, the tax return lobby is strong and effectively prevents the government from making it easy...
How did you all set this up? Any recommended resources?
Valuing hard work is not US exclusive, many eastern cultures pride themselves on hard work and contribution to community over self-centered obsession over rewards
Also, Singapore (as well as Zurich and Geneva) is where it is through plain fiscal dumping. Which won't work if everyone does it. It turns growth into a zero sum game, where you grow through sucking other's wealth.

Singapore and Switzerland are successful parasites.
> First they simply use less power than before.

Some numbers at:

* https://ourworldindata.org/energy/country/germany
Tell HN: Meta suspended my FB account because of a bug
My Facebook account was suspended due to what I believe is a bug.

I created a Facebook account on 06/07 using my Gmail: firstname.lastname@gmail.com. There are 1,000 people with my name, and many times, people have attempted to reset their passwords using firstnamelastname@gmail.com (you don't know nice feature from gmail). I decided to add that account as a secondary contact.

Years later, I created an Instagram account using my regular email with a dot.

Recently, somebody created an Instagram account with a random alphanumeric username. using my Gmail firstnamelastname@gmail.com. Somehow they manage to keep the account active without validating the email.

Meta automatically linked it to my Meta FB account, and they suspended that Instagram account for breaking the ToS. Subsequently, Meta decided to suspend my Facebook account as well.

They instructed me to log into my new Instagram account to appeal, but I don't have the password obviously. If I try to recover it, it says the account is not found. I unlinked that Instagram from my Meta Account Center, but it didn't change anything. Now, I don't have access to Facebook Business, Ad Center, and my Quest VR account is being deleted as well.

I only have access to the Meta Account Center and my original Instagram account, which, for some reason, still works.

I have 2FA, phone and Authenticator on the account, by the way.

I read the post about filling a small claims court complain, but although seems like an overkill, I am considering it.

Any of you guys had similar experience?
I'm taking a side here this is vile.
Apple makes stellar HW but their software is kinda meh.

Crippled ipadOS, lagging Safari, abysmal window management of macOS, total disaster of XCode, dumb Siri, degrading iTunes and iCloud isn't spotless either.