skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems to be €42.90:

https://docs.hetzner.com/robot/dedicated-server/network/10g-...

The monthly fee for the 10G Uplink is € 42.90 and includes the 10G NIC.

Traffic costs seem reasonable, at least to my thinking:

The included traffic volume for outgoing traffic is 20TB. There
is no bandwidth limitation. Overusage is billed with € 1/TB.
Incoming and internal traffic is unlimited.
It is not like gold...

I can hold gold. I can exchange it in a post war economy without internet. the industry actually consumes gold.
> Now with cards, why is the payment terminal not brought over at once?

Is it not? Is that another US thing?

In my experience in Europe, every waiter either has a card terminal with them or grabs one from the counter on their way to you. Smaller places might ask you to step to the counter if they only have one stationary terminal, but still, no waiting or handing your card to the waiter (!?!?) is involved.
Contextual ads wouldn’t require tracking as it’s just advertising based on the page context, ie a video about a videogame will have different ads than an article about remortgaging.

There should probably be laws in place to prevent advertising targeting children though, regardless of the advertising mechanism.
YouTube has stopped working in Russia
You could argue that landing on the Moon and even Mars is an unnecessary risk, or human spaceflight as a whole.

The whole moon programme and the space shuttle were extremely high risk by today's standards, but the moon programme was to prove that the US could beat the USSR, and the space shuttle was to transport spy satellites and build the ISS.

But Starliner should really be nearly zero risk with that small goal of docking and drop back home.
Code coverage exists. Shouldn't be hard at all to tune the parameters to get what you want. We have really good tools to reason about code programmatically - linters, analyzers, coverage, etc.
Once you have enough data points, from current usage, and these days every company is tracking EVERYTHING even eye movement if they could, it's just a matter of time. I do agree though that before we reach an AGI we have these agents who are really good in a defined mission (like code completion).

It's not even about LLMs IMHO. It's about letting a computer crunch many numbers and find a pattern in the results, in a quasi religious manner.
My hunch is that LLMs are nowhere near intelligent enough to make brilliant conceptual leaps. At least not anytime soon.

Where I think AI models might prove useful is in those cases where the problem is well defined, where formal methods can be used to validate the correctness of (partial) solutions, and where the search space is so large that work towards a proof is based on "vibes" or intuition. Vibes can be trained through reinforcement learning.

Some computer assisted proofs are already hundreds of pages or gigabytes long. I think it's a pretty safe bet that really long and convoluted proofs that can only be verified by computers will become more common.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-assisted_proof
Following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait the US imposed devastating sanctions on Saddam Hussein's regime that continued for over a decade until 9/11 was used as an excuse to topple a regime that really had nothing to do with 9/11 at all. Let's also remember that Saddam Hussein was a US creation, a foil against Iran. The US supplied weapons to Iraq to figh ta war with Iran that cost over a million lives. And why was Iran an enemy of the US? Because there was a revolution against the US puppet Shah regime after the US backed a coup against the democratically elected Iranian government in 1953.

So for a decade we got to see the impact of those sanctions and also get to look back at the aftermath. A report came out claiming that half a million children had died as a result of those sanctions. On 60 Minutes in 1996, then UN ambassador and later Secretary of State responded to this question [1]:

> “We have heard that half a million [Iraqi] children have died. I mean, that is more children than died in Hiroshima,” asked Stahl, “And, you know, is the price worth it?”

> “I think that is a very hard choice,” Albright answered, “but the price, we think, the price is worth it.”

Did the sanctions topple the regime? No. They almost never do. Arguably they played a role in ending the apartheid regime in South Africa but other than that, economic sanctions are simply used as a tool to punish our enemies without using a single soldier.

Roughly 8 million Venezuelans have fled in the last decade as the country has descended into chaos. It's a big part of why there's been a more than tenfold increase in people crossing the Darien Gap. Also responsible is US bribing countries in Central America to deny visas to likely refugees, forcing them to make this dangerous journey.

The sanctions on Venezuela have crushed the economy [2]. They have created the very refugee crisis that is now a domestic political issue. And it's not the leaders of Venezuela who suffer. It's people like this who risk death to try and have a better life.

You might say "Maduro is a bad guy". I'll put that up agains tth elong list of "bad guys" the US is entirely happy to support and work with: Augusto Pinochet, the Shah of Iran, Saddam Hussein, Ferdjinand Marcos, Pol Pot, Mohammed bin Salman, Benjamin Netanyahu.

This isn't a partisan issue either. Both politicla parties are pretty much united when it comes to US foreign policy. Sanctions on Venezuela have a history through the Bush, Obama, Trump and Biden administrations.

So if you read a story like this and have empathy for refugees fleeing chaos and violence or maybe you simply see the (completely made up) "border crisis" and don't understand what's going on, I would hope that you can see the direct connection between these migrants and the US policy that destabilized or destroyed the countries they're mostly coming from.

[1]: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/3/25/lets-remember-m...

[2]: https://www.wola.org/2020/10/new-report-us-sanctions-aggrava...
I should have clarified that I meant that it has trouble writing stories with bad endings unless you ask for them directly and specifically, which can be burdensome if you're trying to get it to write a story about something specific that would naturally have a sad ending.
So, are you ok with both, or ok with none?
> I'm glad they're simply turning C# into F#.

I'm not. I find F#s syntax much more pleasing and elegant, and I'm afraid F# will wither away when C# is a watered down version of it.
That isn’t my experience. We own a 15th C house which was originally a coaching inn beside the main road, which ran along the bottom of a hill.
It is already the case, more or less. Parents manage their children assets, including money, and children abilities to enter into contract is very limited. They can manipulate money, but only if they parents let them, and they usually do, because it would be crazy not to.

It changes nothing to the situation with ads. Ads for children actually target the parents, manipulating children so that they can in turn manipulate their parents. It can be terrible, for example by advertising for something fashionable to wear at school, too expensive for the child allowance, they expect their parents to buy it, because if they don't their kids may get bullied. Not giving children access to money won't solve this problem, quite the opposite actually, if it was their money, they could realize how overpriced the thing is and how much they could do by spending it elsewhere.
I think that would be a lot easier to target as an exploit than the engineering they would have already done to the broader solution of permissions

Especially if left unmonitored/updated
> He later became the 1st cosmonaut to fly on the US Space Shuttle:

Part of the reason NASA selected him is because he worked on the Soviet Buran project for a while.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_(spacecraft)
Can't we have some kind of a crypto scheme, which proves to the web site I am a good boy, without revealing my identity and without enabling the website to link my current visit to my previous visits or to visits on other websites?
Yes, but the people making those threats aren't the people who were killed. As you yourself say, they were civilians; and they certainly weren't in Manilla.
Remote Desktop Using RDP and VNC
> It would still be in the interests of the rich that everyone else got to use it.

Why though? More users? Economy is already moving to a free-to-pay model. You earn more catering to rich people than the middle class/poor. Look at hardware nVidia is earning more extracting money from the richest people buying 4090 and 4080 than from rest, and that's dwarfed by their AI offerings.

The way I see it, basically you earn money from whales, rich people and you toss breadcrumbs to the rest.
Interesting, has anyone been doing this? I.e. training/fine-tuning an LLM against an actual coding environment, as opposed to just tacking that later on as a separate "agentic" contruct?
Another interesting case with this is an instance I had with Google Assistant's AI summary feature for group chats. In the group chat, my mom said that my grandma was in the hospital and my sister said she was going to go visit her. In the AI summary, my grandma was on vacation and my sister was in the hospital. Completely useless.
My mind would be the source. This is actually one of my least confident comments; I was almost not going to post it. I consider putting a text together later.

Regardless—I've observed, to one example, a young girl I know wanting to buy horse toys to make YouTube horse videos with play & interest in horses being a side motive. The adults are proud of her basically being an instrument of marketing. On one hand, making your own video's at young age is of course something to be proud of and encouragement for children sounds healthy.

Yet this behaviour also has no principles outside "status games." Even knowing that girls of young age are particularly prone to socialization & conformity, one can compare this to "cool new toy everyone has" trope to notice that this dark evolution would be closer to "being a popular advertisement like everyone else" which partly the South Park movie Cred portrays aptly.
Very good point. For some types of problems maybe the answer is yes. For example porting. The reward function is testing it behaves the same in the new language as the old one. Tricky for apps with a gui but doesn't seem impossible.

The interesting kind of programming is the kind where I'm figuring out what I'm building as part of the process.

Maybe AI will soon be superhuman in all the situations where we know exactly what we want (win the game), but not in the areas we don't. I find that kind of cool.
> or which violence is normal behaviour

I hope the irony is not lost on you that dehumanisation correlates
very strongly with a propensity to violence.
We could also make it illegal to advertise to children at all. Wouldn't that be funny if all of us started clicking "I am below 18" :D
I don't know much about codecs, but why isn't the music separated its own audio track so one can turn it on/off themselves in the browser? I'm guessing the current codecs being used doesn't support it, but couldn't/shouldn't it?
Show HN: Scraping Structured Data with OpenAI
It's not trivial to get right but it sounds within reach, unlike “hallucinations” with general purpose LLM usage.
Is there some reason this is all focused around yes/no questions or a single statement? Is it like a standard format that all topics can be reworded to?

I'm wondering if this could this be used for something like comparing alternatives to solve a problem. In that case I'd expect the root to be a description of the problem, then alternatives, then pros-cons for those alternatives.

I'd never heard of this at all before despite searching, so I imagine there's a lot I don't know.
One thing I’ve wondered about is what the “gap” between current transformer-based LLMs and optimal sequence prediction looks like.

To clarify, current LLMs (without RLHF, etc.) have a very straightforward objective function during training, which is to minimize the cross-entropy of token prediction on the training data. If we assume that our training data is sampled from a population generated via a finite computable model, then Solomonoff induction achieves optimal sequence prediction.

Assuming we had an oracle that could perform SI (since it’s uncomputable), how different would conversations between GPT4 and SI be, given the same training data?

We know there would be at least a few notable differences. For example, we could give SI the first 100 digits of pi, and it would give us as many more digits as we wanted. Current transformer models cannot (directly) do this. We could also give SI a hash and ask for a string that hashes to that value. Clearly a lot of hard, formally-specified problems could be solved this way.

But how different would SI and GPT4 appear in response to everyday chit-chat? What if we ask the SI-based sequence predictor how to cure cancer? Is the “most probable” answer to that question, given its internet-scraped training data, an answer that humans find satisfying? Probably not, which is why AGI requires something beyond just optimal sequence prediction. It requires a really good objective function.

My first inclination for this human-oriented objective function is something like “maximize the probability of providing an answer that the user of the model finds satisfying”. But there is more than one user, so over which set of humans do we consider and with which aggregation (avg satisfaction, p99 satisfaction, etc.)?

So then I’m inclined to frame the problem in terms of well-being: “maximize aggregate human happiness over all time” or “minimize the maximum of human suffering over all time”. But each of these objective functions has notable flaws.

Karpathy seems to be hinting toward this in his post, but the selection of an overall optimal objective function for human purposes seems to be an incredibly difficult philosophical problem. There is no objective function I can think of for which I cannot also immediately think of flaws with it.
If flexibility and plasticity of thinking are age-related, couldn't prevention of ageing maintain that?

I think it's inevitable that such a change would cause big social upheavals. I find it highly ironic that those people who call this out as a negative often also call out how people living longer are change averse.

> I enjoy life but it's important to my enjoyment that there is a terminus.

Can I ask why, genuinely?

The fact that I will likely die sometime in the next 50 years doesn't make the evening out I have planned any better or worse. The band I'm going to see are getting older, but I'm going to see them because they're coming to my town and it'll be enjoyable. My eventual death has no bearing on it at all as far as I can tell.
I don’t think there’s anything particularly wrong with it. What is it that you think is misleading from this metric?
If you cut out humans, what's the point of the language? Just use a proper binary format, I hear protobuf is popular.
There are a surprisingly large number of people who believe that space doesn't exist and that all such expeditions are faked.

I sometimes wonder what goes through their heads when they read stories such as this one. What exactly is in it for Boeing, NASA and Space-X to fake all of this?
More and more German trains are not allowed to enter Switzerland
In actuality though, GPT would likely be correct on the democratic will of the people for the things you cited. It’s literally just the blended average of human knowledge. What’s more democratic than that?

Meanwhile, it seems the bigger risk for dictatorship is the current system where we put a tiny group of elites who condescendingly believe they’re smarter than the rest of us in charge (“you will take the bus with your 3 kids and groceries in hand and you will like it”).

This is how you get do-nothing social signaling policies for climate change (eg. Straws, bottle caps, grocery bags). Which make urban elites feel good about themselves but are ironically actively harmful towards getting the correct policies inacted (eg. Investment in nuclear).
Try Supermaven. Suggestions are much faster than any copilot, and it has the largest context of your project. A 1 million token context window. Also, you get access to GPT-4o, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and GPT-4 out of the box
Pov_pong_mouse: A mouse with a game of Pong running inside it's firmware
This is a local flaw that requires malicious software running on the users's machine. The malware can read the unlock key by pretending to be a web browser extension.

This is a reminder that no security is 100% and that it is an endless battle...
“A precise enough specification is already code”, which means we'll not run out of developers in the short term. But the day to day job is going to be very different, maybe as different as what we're doing now compared to writing machine code on punchcards.
Dumb American solutions to dumb American problems have already started invading my corner of Europe. Adyen card terminals, which I otherwise quite like, come with a tip selection screen by default and most places don't turn it off.

It turns a normal "you did your job and brought me a drink, I'll do my job and pay the price on the menu" interaction, where nobody even thought about tips, into "I have decided you don't deserve a bit of extra change and you will watch me press the NO button".

It's such a clear dark pattern, they could've just let you press the +10% button or pay immediately, but no, you have to press the zero tip button for the NFC coil to activate. </UnrelatedRant>
Hey thanks for the feedback!
The default budget on the home page does not have the add pocket/flow buttons, those are on the pages where you add your budgets are listed. But it totally makes sense to have them there as well, just added them! Thanks for noticing!

The naming is really hard, the where first called "nodes", but that was hard to understand for many. I habe to analyze this again, maybe you are onto something by just naming them income/expense/account/grouping etc.

The idea to take or send a percentage is very interesting, basically a generalization of how it currently works.

Really valuable feedback, thank you!
There is a circle with 10 nuclear stations that is erroneously located (on the map) in the Atlantic just south of West Africa. That should be in/near China.
> I wouldn't say it sucks. You just need to keep training it for as long as needed.

As that timeline can approach infinity, just adding extra training may not actually be a sufficient compromise.
Tagged unions are an implementation detail and are often not the optimal way to solve this problem.

Take Option<Infallible>, it's a ZST, not only is there no "tag" there isn't any data at all. In type theory this is fine, we added an empty type to the unit type, we got a unit type.
These people don’t have object permanence: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35448899
Yes, that would work.

"Dave, the cheapest meals for you this week are [LIST OF DINNERS]. Based on your preferred times, deliveries from Waitrose, Tesco and Sainburys are turning up at 7pm on Monday. Please check you still have the following staples in stock [EG pasta, tinned tomatoes etc]".
Nice! If it was a two seater, it does not legally qualify as an ultralight in the US, see FAR 103.1(a) [1]. Back in the day, some older ultralights were designed with a very wide seat ("loveseat"), that physically but not legally allowed the pilot to take a passenger. Not sure if that's the case here. If the aircraft actually had two distinct seats, one clearly intended for a passenger, then it may have been a homebuilt aircraft, registered in the "experimental" category (FAR 21.191). Just like ultralights, these also operate without a type certificate, but upon completion of the build, the builder needs to provide a bunch of logs / photos / etc. documenting the construction process for the FAA to approve the aircraft for flights. Because such aircraft are designed to be built/assembled mostly (51%) by regular people (not at the factory), they often look very basic, just like proper ultralights, but they can be heavier, faster, carry passengers, etc.

[1] https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-I/subchapter-F...
The French artist Marine, aka moonovermarine, has recently completed a beautiful series of 14 embroideries inspired by the video game "The Sentinel" (1986). This work of over two years looks fantastic, with a luminous atmosphere and a magnificent rendering of pixels. The color palette is faithful to the game's chromatic range of the ZX Spectrum version.
TW: Sexual abuse

For anyone on the outside, this appears to be an intensely rash decision. I can rest assured that Tim Peters found trauma in the experience of being suspended as the level of appropriate communication is never met, neither in this announcement, nor in Lukaz Langa's persistent references [1] [2] to rapists when discussing conduct on an internet forum.

I'm sure there are reasons to become a python core developer, but open hostility and defaulting to homogeneity have rarely been experienced as acceptance by me; they simply scale in ways easily implemented across a wide audience.

De-escalation and finding middle ground without validating harmful behavior do not scale well but then again, there has never been a capitalist movement behind finding a solution which works

1: https://discuss.python.org/t/how-can-we-better-support-neuro...

2: https://discuss.python.org/t/discussion-about-recent-coc-eve...
Consider the organization. If all steps are managed by the dev team expect to be ghosted. If there is a HR staff involved expect to receive a response.

Developers, despite everything they claim, are more likely to fear confrontation. Denying a person a job is highly confrontational even when exceptionally polite. On the other side of the table it will likely be viewed as an unnecessary inconvenience.

I try to think about this optimistically. I wouldn’t want to work with people who are cowardly about talking to people or expressing business concerns openly. If it’s how they behave during hiring it’s how they will behave at work.
Ideally, this Null Island should not exist on this map I think.

I guess I'll need to research all of them and put a sensible location for each. e.g. Kumharia should be in India, not on the Null Island. Will do once I have more time for this project
Teenage mental health crisis is web scale!
Analysis of Colorectal Cancer Reveals DNA Damage by Tobacco and Gut Bacteria
Sure. Keeping things to round figures for simplicity. :)

Lets say you buy a given Dell server for US$10k.

If you plan to run that server over (say) 5 years then you can effectively consider the hardware cost to be ~US$2k per year.

As a lot of enterprise flash drives are rated for 5 years, that's a decent baseline.
(and for the stuff I do, the drives are only lightly loaded so they'll last much longer)

Then it becomes a matter of comparing the yearly cost of your configuration to the Hetzner provided ones.

And if you're patient and know what you're doing (ie build your own servers), you can get some end-of-year model (and similar) servers with lots of memory and storage for "fairly" cheap compared to sticker price.
I've noticed it too but as an actual front-end dev I find it very frustrating because you can tell when someone's not a frontend! Then another not-frontend joins and it gets rewritten and again and again - might explain the cycle your seeing!
I think it's the same thing that makes people take on "support" roles on message forums for tech products (Microsoft, etc.). They're worse than bots, and I don't know what motivates them, but you will always find them.