skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've used NearlyFreeSpeech for years (as registrar & DNS), and I've loved their service. Their site is plain, and you just trade money for a plain, simple product, with basically 0 bullshit between you and that exchange. Their site is so refreshing in today's landscape of upsells and other corporate dark patterns.

The article implicates AWS, but AFAICT the other major cloud, GCP, behaves similarly. The docs for "budget alerts"[1] do call it out directly,

> Setting a budget does not automatically cap Google Cloud or Google Maps Platform usage or spending. Budgets trigger alerts to inform you of how your usage costs are trending over time. Budget alert emails might prompt you to take action to control your costs, but they don't automatically prevent the use or billing of your services when the budget amount or threshold rules are met or exceeded.

But still. But wait, you say, those docs go on to suggest,

> One option to automatically control spending is to use budget notifications to programmatically disable Cloud Billing on a project.

And the linked page states,

> Following the steps in this capping example doesn't guarantee that you won't spend more than your budget.

sigh "Over-Engineered Messes", TFA hits it on the nose.

There's also limiting API usage, but that's on requests … not on cost.

I avoid it all for personal stuff.

At work, we pipe all these cloud bills into a BigQuery account which then pipes into graphs in Grafana, which all tells us that engineers have no idea what the actual horsepower of 3 GHz * 32 cores is when they request a bajillion more cores.

It's probably also reasonably categorized as an "Over-Engineered Mess".

(We also import Azure's billing data, and boy do they make that obnoxious. CSV files dumping into a bucket, and they might go back & edit CSVs, or drop new ones, and if there is there a schema for those CSV files … I've yet to find it. Some columns you might think were guaranteed non-"" are not. Dates in American. Severely denormalized. Etc.)

[1]: https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/budgets
I spent a long weekend in Soulard to see Brittany Howard last year. Outside of the immediate mile radius of the neighborhood, my partner and I constantly asked ourselves “where the hell is everyone?”

Ive been everywhere in the US but the Dakotas and never seen a city of STL’s size feel so big yet so empty.
Someone generating dud/faked source code, examples of the algorithms and challenges, videos of gameplay, and an article... rather than just winning a game of Tetris 99 with the approach? That would be more work than the face value of the article, not less, so I don't buy that theory at all.

Plenty of games have both official bots and anti-cheat and player botting rules, the presence of one does not define what the presence of another will or won't be.
The battery life is probably not an issue in practice; the author estimates 5 hours per charge - assuming a very conservative 2000-cycle life for the pack, that's 10,000 hours of work, which is quite respectable.

Yes, a private owner might keep a tractor for decades, but probably not using it for hours every single day and definitely not without some pretty significant repairs; the cost of a new 200ah battery pack is nothing compared to a diesel engine rebuild.

I... Tend to suspect other parts on these things will be unacceptably worn long before the battery craps out.
AllenAI Tulu 3 405B available for chat and download
Not sure if this has been shared already, but AllenAI / Ai2 is a US-based nonprofit who are trying to build AIs as open-source and transparently as possible.

Their OLMO models have fully transparent training data. Their Tulu ones are as transparent as you can be building on top of Llama.
Earlier this week, they released their new 405B Parameter Tulu model for free online chat and download.

Chat: https://playground.allenai.org/

HuggingFace: https://huggingface.co/allenai/Llama-3.1-Tulu-3-405B
Policies do a great deal to determine elections - American political parties are more polarized by policy now than they've ever been. It only seems otherwise because there's a lot of people who don't consider opposition to their policy objectives legitimate, and thus diagnose it as cooked-brain syndrome rather than attempting to understand and compromise.
Sure. And a million programmers have all screamed out in horror when they realize that their single test passes, but fails when run as part of the whole suite. Test contamination is a hell paved with global variables.
Gotta love crypto people putting "looking smarter than you" over actually explaining what it is they mean. If you've got a point to make, don't just hint at it, say something and then we can have a discussion. This just makes you look petty and like you're only in it to stroke your own ego.
Thats white washing the whole opium den , not to put the industry into a lootbox. Silence just is the appropriate level of shame.
TCC doesn't do much optimization in turn, while commercial implementations of Lisp and Smalltalk are surely much larger than that.
We'll see.

They were tearing down statues and demanding public self-criticism a few years ago, but that was actually the other side.

Shutting down the universities and firing any professor who isn't politically correct is a couple of years in the future; Trump probably has to replace the accreditation system for the universities first. There isn't currently a mechanism for "sending down" suspected subversive thinkers except for deportation.

The Red Guards haven't been formed yet, though commuting the sentences of the ringleaders of the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys is a start. (You may not be aware of this, but the Red Guards were over 10 million people.)

The news media are still independent, for all that matters.

So are almost all of the police, although Trump has said he wants to bring them under his command.

So I don't think we're likely to see that kind of widespread mass killing in the next two or three years. The organizational infrastructure for doing it the traditional way, using hand tools, can't be built overnight. Vance's ally Anduril might be able to automate the process with AI-powered surveillance drones, but they won't have enough production capacity for at least three years.
Web page typo: pressed should be preseed
The worst case for a traffic spike on some hard-limited service is the service becoming unavailable. The worst case for a traffic spike on an unlimited service is financial calamity.
You really think American companies are playing that level of 3D chess? I see cookie banners on corporate sites that have no ads.
I can assure you, despite superificial anecdotes — nothing similar happens “all the time”. protestors will find their way in buildings, but they typically don’t show up, destroy barricades, get shot, plant explosives. And they certainly don’t do it right as they were attending a rally designed to stroke exactly this situation
The money doesn’t matter.

The goals don’t matter.

The people don’t matter.

The only thing that matters is how much regulatory red tape is involved.

My guess is that the paperwork will kill this. Read the announcement. Too much discussion about regulatory framework. In the US or China, all you need is some money and smart people. That’s a very low barrier to getting moving forward.
Show HN: Llmdog – lightweight TUI for prepping files for LLMs
llmdog – a lightweight TUI for prepping files for LLMs (recursive selection, .gitignore support, clipboard integration). https://github.com/doganarif/llmdog
not hiring in asia unfortunately at the moment
Thanks for the reply. A few days ago, I posted several comments explaining my own use of LLMs in translation and related issues in this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42894215#42895610

I didn’t say anything about translation memory tools, though, nor about maintaining vocabulary consistency. Those are not big issues in the type of translation I do now, though I recognize that they are important for many types of technical translation.

I actually don’t know how good LLMs are at maintaining vocabulary consistency even when they are provided with glossaries or translation histories. That deserves some testing.
The thing they have in exchange is millions of citizens that the entire globe doesn’t want to see starve to death and the US in particular doesn’t want to deal with mass amounts of illegal migrants when their economy collapses.
Ask HN: Should LLMs be all-knowing experts or rapid-learning minds?
Should we build LLMs like they're all-knowing experts of everything from programming languages to even neuroscience.

Is that really the right way to look at them? Or should it be made in such a way that they're so good at thinking, planning, and reasoning, with the unique capacity to learn and adapt incredibly fast - much like a fresh human brain?
The example given is de-CH and lb-LU - a counterexample for the neat scheme would require separate dialects of the same language within a single country e.g. 近畿方言.
How can anything ever be changed once 51% is abandoned?

I also think there will be a gold rush of hacking old wallets one day when the encryption is broken. Not sure if that will happen before or after btc failure though. You can’t upgrade security on lost wallets.
But read and write syscalls are used by the application to do I/O on the sockets before/after the encryption, which can be intercepted. Or you can attach uprobes directly to the TLS library's own functions.
The IMF are tough guys, countries do not want to owe them, but usually don't have better options. They don't give "loans" and impose rather strict policies on everything. https://actionaid.org/publications/2023/fifty-years-failure-...
https://archive.today/BAikQ
About ten years ago I did https://digthisvegas.com/ - I had a great time, definitely recommend.
Wow, I chose the wrong profession. $275k damn.
Yes, support for Go has been requested a few times and is on the roadmap!
What about maintenance? Is it something you can do locally?
It's still doxxing because these are not elected officials.

But then again... these are people outright breaking the law and I sure do want to know who's potentially tampering with my data. If the courts won't do it, someone has to put names and faces to this.
Just a few purple panels away from constructicon paint scheme.
Oh yeah, if you erase the fake electors, and the entire scheme by the presidents men to overturn the results, you can pretend that
who manages businesses that are owned by sole owners that pass away?

Who controls Stripe if the Collison brothers perish in a car crash ?
What do you think happens with the customer base, during that transition, exactly ? What happens to the jobs lost?

If i work all my life to give my kids a better future, who's to say that I can't do that ?
> This is reporting in the public interest.

This might be true, however...

> Nothing they revealed isn't available already as verifiable public information.

... collating publicly available information and publishing it in one place would still meet my definition of doxxing.

(In this case, the doxxing _might_ be entirely justified and be in the public interest. I don't know.)
Can’t wait till they patch it away and we lose the ability to investigate our own https traffic.
Enshittification at cloud providers guarantees that in order for some department to hit the numbers ownership demands, an ever increasing number of customers must get screwed with overage bills.
Musk and co held an X space last night to publicly discuss their gutting of USAID and more. They have actively publicized DOGE. The idea that this is a smokescreen is totally unfounded.

Have you considered that releasing these files is just fulfilling a campaign promise? Or that if a non-Trump admin had done this it would've been celebrated?
It's a failed economy with both BTC and USD, so...yes? I'm sure they would accept a BTC denominated bailout. Problem solved, right?
Thank you for the question. A few days ago, I posted several comments explaining my own use of LLMs in translation and related issues in this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42894215#42895610

I didn’t mention it there, but I have had quite a few discussions with professional translators about LLMs over the last two years. Their reactions and attitudes towards AI are definitely mixed, but I do know translators other than myself who are using LLMs productively as part of their translation process.
He is known to be a womanizer and to have used his fame to sleep with women, and may have fathered some illegitimate children.

But the most damning is that apparently the FBI has an audio recording of him laughing and even giving encouragement while another man rapes a woman in a hotel room.
I don’t own any btc. But I’m wondering why there is so much FUD about currency that doesn’t inflate.
Given the circumstances, I think hysteria is the only rational response. I wish the elected opposition party felt as strongly as Reddit does.
> Except, due to the takeover of workplaces by the best practices cult, instead of reasoning about tradeoffs on a case by case basis (which is the core of coding and software engineering), we ascribe a sort of morality to programming concepts.

You're just strawmanning here. Maybe some of the people who say that global variables should be avoided ("should be avoided" never means "absolutely can't be used ever", btw) are people who have experience working on large projects where the use of implicit state routinely makes code hard to reason about, causes concurrency issues and introduces many opportunities for bugs.

> There's also fewer stuff for say copilot to fill in incorrectly, increasing your ability to use AI.

That argument makes no sense to me. If some piece of code is relying on implicit global state to have been set, why would copilot be any better at figuring that out than if it had to pass the state as an argument, something which is clearly stated in the function signature?
Does China not end up running headlong into the problem of demographics? It’s a structural problem that the US isn’t really facing.

US: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_S...

China: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_China

That’s like a 1/3rd reduction in workforce.
I think there’s a big difference between “random FBI field agent decides to murder someone” and “FBI director asks his deputy to murder someone”. Attributing the murder to the FBI as an institution makes a lot more sense in the second case than in the first
Ok. But my point is many of the comments are attacking the idea of a stable currency - not btc.
Appreciate the thoughtful engagement. I work for a large, US-based investment firm. No relationship w/ High Flyer.

This isn’t a single model. Almost the entire leadership team around sama has left and almost certainly agrees with me on this. OpenAI’s business model is not sustainable.
No, USDS is an organization within the President's executive staff.

The constitutional requirement is that "Officers of the United States" need Senate confirmation unless Congress has provided otherwise. The precise contours of this have never been super well defined, but it doesn't sound like Musk is exercising sovereign power under his own authority, at least not yet.
I’d mostly agree with that. After sufficient years have passed. Name isn’t the only way to identify someone.
You dont have to imagine! Thats less than a sixth of a percent of the entire US federal budget :)
I write words for people and machines.

When writing for machines, it's usually via Ruby/Rails, and the standard b2b saas app. (You know, which does billions of transactions a day around the world)

I like words for machines, but I think my main value is words for people.

I keep thinking this makes me nearly unhirable, then encounter plausible evidence to the contrary.

I'm mostly into things about streets right now and it's maddening - I spend most of my time now talking to real estate developers, who knows nothing of software development, and I being another 3rd perspective not quite native to either - transportation norms from various spots of Asia, especially related to mopeds.

I'm an odd duck. Extremely/surprisingly fun to work with, sometimes, according to nearly everyone that has ever worked with me on anything.

The vast majority of coworkers by count would say I was a top notch co-voyager through this thing called 'the jira board' or 'the sprint '.

A few of the people I've worked with have both said nice things about me, and fired me, take these words with a grain of salt.

Mostly, i am willing to exchange pull requests merged and deployed for money. ('git push, git paid')

I will try to sneak in some other productive work too. Obsessed with Benjamin bloom's '2 sigma problem'.

I'd do 'things' to make 1/2 a developer take-home comp via GitHub sponsors making training data for developers inside of your codebase. On a team of at least 10, could easily earn my keep.

I live in Denver, USA. I ride a moped. I have a long running side project mapping an unbelievable amount of mobility data that I try to use to harrange land use/zoning/development/bank people to do different things with land in the USA.

It's all so screamingly boring.

If anyone does stuff with 'land', it's possible we could and should talk. Especially parking.

https://josh.works/mobility-data

https://josh.works/
- "Every blocking order must go through a U.S. court, requiring clear evidence, due process, and judicial oversight to ensure fair enforcement and prevent censorship. Courts must first verify that any site-blocking order does not interfere with access to lawful material before issuing an order."

I don't see how these could be feasible in practice. Two days ago there was a political advocacy piece about copyright on HN [0], and people in the discussion thread asked for a mirror because their country censored it. Broader point being, either you have to relax these professed legal protections beyond recognition, or you have an ineffective law.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42902385 ("Copyright reform is necessary for national security (annas-archive.org)")

(This is neither here nor there, but it's remarkable the Congressperson who wrote this internet-blocking bill is the same one who once named a bill after Aaron Swartz).
https://archive.ph/JsB5j

In effect outsourcing prison jobs overseas. It's for a price, you know.

And tariffs were about evil trade imbalance?

It's good when I say it's good and bad when I say it's bad.
The Trump-supporting Red Guards might be the Michigan Militia? Or the marchers at the disastrous "Unite the Right" rally? Those are tiny fringe groups orders of magnitude too weak to carry out a Cultural Revolution. Maybe the 1500 people who got pardoned for the January 6 riot?

You may not be aware of this, but the Red Guards were over 10 million people.
Have you tried posting a moderate opinion on /r/conservative?

Reddit is not a community, it's a collection of communities. Each may be an echo chamber, but it's an echo chamber in its own way.
> What most people want from concurrency (like computing the response to independent HTTP requests) can be done by separate processes

OS processes are way too heavyweight for many use cases.
Truth is, most web projects made today can run on a raspberry pi or mini PC and be just fine. If you have enough users that you need to scale to more machines, you'll be in a position to know what to do to handle it, or hire someone who does.
Location: Montreal, Canada

Remote: Yes

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Technologies:

Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes (k8s, EKS)
Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation
Serverless: AWS Lambda, Fargate

Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL,

Programming Languages: Python, TypeScript, JavaScript

Cloud Services: EC2, S3, RDS, CloudWatch,

CI/CD: GitHub Actions

Monitoring and Logging: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack

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DevOps Engineer with 5 years of combined experience in DevOps and Full-Stack development.
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Experienced with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, HELM), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and monitoring tools.

Eager to leverage my skills to build secure, scalable, and efficient systems.
They just added 11 BTCs to their reserves?
> My parents voted for Trump. To say the least this is causing friction.

So did my mom! Elon pushed her over the finish line.

> I have a little trouble believing people like Mike Flynn have their safety and best interests in mind.

I agree. But I think well-intentioned but ignorant moralists are even more dangerous. I’m shocked at how quickly the anti-imperialist left has flipped when State/the CIA put up some rainbow flags.

> This hardly strikes me as a democratic sentiment or one that has anything to do with Constitutional governance.

It’s orthogonal to constitutional governance. If someone isn’t politically accountable (either elected or a political appointee) then I’d rather they be competent than simply long-tenured.

> I seem to remember an anecdote from partition of Bengal about a goat getting its head stuck in a pot and the village headman’s preferred solution being to decapitate the goat.

We will find out.
Have to take out the enemy machine gun nests first before you take the citadel. Goodbye USAID/CIA.
Love the idea. Since this is a consumer product, making it clear you can try the product before buying is critical. I clicked on the paid plan option, created an account but then was surprised to see that I ended up in the product.

I'd consider a react framework for the UI, shadcn or similar. The overall vibe of the UI doesn't present as cutting edge or on par with other AI based products out there.

In the product, I'd bring the recommended prompts to the surface the user enters the AI prompting mode, rather than hiding them behind the "show prompt tips" button.

The line height on the diff view is a little short, the text is crowded.

Tooltips on the toolbar buttons would be very helpful. Also, creating some hierarchy in the toolbar by dividing into logical sections grouped by tool type would help. Font foratting, node types, etc.

Overall, great job, product itself works really well.
USAID mission is not about “aid”, is what finances overthrowing/influencing foreign governments: https://x.com/iammurphycolet/status/1886407439047614962
No - most cloud providers are postpaid, you use their services and then get a bill at the end of the month.

Making your payment method invalid doesn't absolve you of this debt and will just result in being sent to collections and/or sued if the total is large enough.
The problem is a currency which is also considered a precious good. It’s like using diamonds as the medium of exchange. Gold is far from the most valuable commodity, and silver even less so. So I think it means we should use some other crypto than BTC if we want to have it be a currency.
I agree 100% to use the lazy pronunciation. I'm a native speaker, and I don't think I've ever heard the formal except when talking to others who are trying to learn Cantonese.
Looking back, the plan box does show that it is a free trial, but it's not clear at first as my eyes skipped the text that was in the parenthesis.
>>One of the ways the president is limited is that the he can't authorize people to commit crimes. e.g. he couldn't instruct his AG to open an investigation into his political opponent under false pretenses in order to hurt his electoral chances. If the AG were to do that, it would be a crime. So the question isn't whether the president has authorized Musk to do something, but whether or not the president even has the power to do the thing he delegated.

ok, but since the investigative (FBI) and the prosecutorial (US Attorney) apparati are under the control of the executive, if the local USA goes along with Trump and against the law, the remedy is....what exactly?