skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"We start from the surprising finding that certain attention heads have a clear activation distribution difference for true and false statements. Probing at these points yields upwards of 83% accuracy on TruthfulQA while zero-shot generation is only at 30% accuracy."

Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/ke_li_2021/status/1666810655469621251?s=...
that would be great /r/AMAdisaters material
> (Ps. your obsession with citing yourself is one of the worst parts of reading HN)

Good. I don't care.

It is a priceless prediction that became true. Hence how unsurprising this is.
OK, now we need immigration reform to actually get enough people to work on everything.
I second this. I’ve deleted all the social media, except Reddit. When I see an organisation acting like this - its toxicity. Deleting reddit. I look forward tothe hours of my life back.

Bye bye.
You can see how that number is derived in the post. It's based on very optimistic projections from data that reddit has previously released about their revenue, and very pessimistic projections of their user growth. If reddit somehow has massively increased the value they can get from each user compared to that I think the burden of proof is on them for that.
Given the basic nature of the question, I'm getting the idea that you're not arguing in good faith.
Respectfully, I don't really agree at all. The crime wave that these cities are willingly welcoming and not stopping, is going to create new Detroits, or St Louis, or Baltimores...but actually probably just worse.

I don't think you need to have crime, open drug use, harassment by mentally ill and homeless...all sorts of things that are pushing corporations, and workers, to simply move out of the cities, abandon projects or large retail presence (Whole Foods, Hilton San Francisco Union Square, Parc 55 etc).

I think gentrification is good, actually. Having a nice safe clean productive city with wealth and investment flowing in vs out is good actually. Having crime, degradation, and flight is bad. If law and order was established across many cities, then even in lower income neighborhoods and housing units there could be safety and stablity; it wouldn't have to come at a premium.

I mean I'm sure there is a type that likes everything you describe, but personally it just seems like nonsense to me. I'd prefer to not have harassment on public transportation or in the streets walking home at night. And if I made good money working in the city, then good for me. If the selling point going forward is, "Come to the big city..it will cost more than your smaller town, but at least we have crime and grunginess to go with it!", I think these cities and businesses and productive people that stick around there (they won't) are going to have a bad time. Part of dynamic during the era you describe is there was 0 remote work for all industries, while being centered in certain metros. Now people won't put up with that bullshit like they had to back then.
It would be interesting to know where the supplies come from -- do the American ship everything halfway across the world from the USA, or buy things from New Zealand?
How so? What's the physical limitation based on?
This move by reddit is so crazy I can't help but wonder if they're lighting all this user goodwill on fire in the hopes of improving their negotiating stance with folks using reddit for other things (like OpenAI and others training models), and that they're thinking they'll be able to change API pricing for Apollo and others once they have those big contracts locked in. It seems incredibly risky upfront, and with hindsight right now, totally untenable if that's the game they're playing.
Love to hear from the community about their thoughts on this vision for the future of search, and moving beyond just showing the first "ten blue links" for a query response.

- When search can now output an answer to your query, what additional information is important for you to know to trust the answer?

- What information from citations for a summary is important to you?

(full disclosure: I work at Vectara)
On the other hand, you might also expect that being so invested, they won't quit over third-party apps, time will tell.
From TFA, $0.12 is an optimistic calculation taking better-than-best revenue divided by a pessimistic user count. We can double that again if you're expecting a late-stage product like reddit to launch a new highly monetizable feature soon, and it's still quite far away.
I agree with you completely. And a bigger annoyance than generating headers is actually reading them; C is really not a pleasant format to parse.
> and reddit wouldn't have even survived this long if they hadn't

The parts of Reddit that people actually like – a single lightweight web app (old.reddit.com) minus all the fluff (constant redesigns, broken video player, live streaming service, overengineered mobile apps, avatars, NFTs, coins/gifts, social networking, chat, clubhouse competitor, expensive acquisitions) – would have survived perfectly well without VC money.
I’m one of those five as well. I have the Reddit app but still use mobile web.
The main issue is there isn't enough time to implement such a solution. You have to develop this new system of handling API keys, communicate this change to customers, develop a process to migrate users, and figure out what to do with people who paid for an entire year of access 3 months ago. All of that is a herculean task for a small dev team to accomplish in 30 days.

That's not even dealing with the fact that this process would be difficult for users to actually use, and may run afoul of Apple's app store rules.

While that solution may be appealing to tech-savy end users, it's completely untenable for a popular app, especially given the tight time window required.
This is beautiful!

One could add a MIDI input to the RP2040 and create a BirdSynth!

https://github.com/rppicomidi/midi2usbhost

https://learn.adafruit.com/midi-for-makers/receive-and-displ...
I have to admit this is a genuinely interesting question. Language models demonstrably do have some models of the world inside of them. And, I admit, what I say that they aren't intelligent, I mostly mean they are very stupid, rather than like a machine or algorithm. Artificial stupidity is progress.
Reddit CEO will have AMA tomorrow https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/144ho2x/join_our_ce...
> Maybe a good time to start a company selling to the government

if only I knew what the government wanted to buy. Besides weaponry that is.
It's still at 4.7 stars on the Apple App Store: https://apps.apple.com/en/app/reddit/id1064216828

We can all do our part, of course.
> The more I talk to people the more I feel like people just like to party/waste money more than work.

Is... that a surprise to you?
Interesting that nobody came with a concept of a desktop PC, but as a laptop (commercially) before.

Most like due to perceived niche, no standard format of laptop motherboards, not easy to buy laptop motherboard off the shelf.

Then also the technology was evolving, so manufacturers maybe didn't want to restrict themselves to the certain layout and way how components can be laid out and connected.
AFAIK, Apple only sells ads within their own products. Meanwhile, I trust a company with $2.8T to lose more than almost any other actor to abide by the letter of their agreements.
According to [1], Reddit has 52 million daily active users (and 430 monthly users), while according to [2] the Reddit app has 17 million daily active users. Both numbers are from 2021. So only about a third of DAUs would be using the Reddit app. Apollo has 50,000 yearly subscribers, so is probably more on the negligible side.

[1] https://www.businessofapps.com/data/reddit-statistics/

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1255714/reddit-app-dau-w...
And you have to cross your fingers and hope it picks the defragmented copy, as far as I know.

It's also very slow to go through that on multiple snapshots.

And I think some of the metadata doesn't like to recombine?
I just watched this "Why Companies NEED People Back In The Office" from How Money Works. They explain this clearly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrsRvozsUQ8
Not the first time they are doing it, from what I know. There was some AMA controversy that led to a similar blackout and mod replacements.
Not a huge deal, but heads up from 3d ago that pyrex is now often tempered soda-lime glass & not borosilicate & is somewhat succeptible to thermal shock breakage. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36206565

PYREX all caps should be borosilicate still & mostly immune (within reason).
we work in the affiliate business and this has the potential to completely desotry the business model. Many of our partners rely on affiliate money to make ends meet, it is what powers most content creators.

Safari is planning to use ML to detect click_id type of query parameters and strip that from URLs. That's just poor execution and business destroying. PCM restrictions are horrible too.. we have to design the link so it stays within safari's specs:

> With an ad-click, an 8-bit ID can be transmitted (a number between 0 and 255, i.e. 256 possible values / campaigns) - per domain
> For a conversion, a 4-bit ID is transmitted (a number between 00 and 15, i.e. 16 different types of conversion) - per domain

Not to mention Chrome and Firefox has other ideas, each different on how their PCM will be integrated. Other than the mega corps, noone is benefitting from this privacy enhancement. Just more work to adapt.
In April 2021 I did about the same thing you are doing. I was burnt out. I no longer liked my job, I was a bit stir-crazy from WFH and not going to social gatherings because of the pandemic. I decided to take a sabbatical. In my case, a full year. I had high hopes that the incidence of COVID would fall faster than it did, so I wasn't able to do everything that I wanted.

Still, you asked what I did. I read, a lot, and deeply. I wrote tens of thousands of words about what I read and did. I guess you could say I went into myself.

I did manage to do a little road tripping, carefully, avoiding crowded tourist venues and mostly seeing the country.

I did a lot of photography, my hobby-job.
The link to this post appeared as a home page banner, so they really want people to join this, which may be counterproductive for Reddit.
Mobile gaming is a classic case of market failure.

Instead of selling games to people who will play them a normal amount, the entire industry is built in the hopes of hooking someone with a mental illness who will get hopelessly addicted and spend money or a kid accidentally spend money without their parents getting a refund.
> RSUs don't make them shareholders at all, because they're not actually stock (they're stock units).

What? As the grandparent implied, when RSUs vest, they turn into shares of stock, which makes the employee a shareholder.
Looks like they just announced (as of about 30 mins ago) an AMA with u/spez tomorrow ...

https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/144ho2x/join_our_ce...
The OP here, thanks for the comment!

Why does the developer need to care about the certs and ALBs? The devops engineer you need to set up all those controllers could as well deploy those resources from Terraform.

As I showed in the diagrams from the article this application has a single ALB and a single cert per environment and the internal services only talk to each other through the rabbit MQ queue.

DNS, ALB and TLS certs could be easily handled from just a few lines of Terraform, and nobody needs to touch it ever again.

With EKS you would need multiple controllers and multiple annotations controlling them, and then each controller will end up setting up a single resource per environment.

The controllers make sense if you have a ton of distinct applications sharing the same clusters, but this is not the case here, and would be overkill.
Ad blocking companies then come to publishers with extortion payment plans.
So... drink more Red Bull?
That's angry American guys, probably *grin*

The other guy deleted his comment, but:

> it's 3.5%.

Thanks, I know, I say this about the taste and.. texture? At 2% it's just a watery fluid with a hint of milk for me. Back when I had milk in ny house I never bought anything with less than 3.5%, it was pointless for me.
> it's just faster and has less transfers.

Rest asured, that won't happen.
Eggshells aren't made of endo-steel either, but I think you get the point.
While I agree, how do you recommend we reduce emissions immediately, which is basically when it needs to happen. It seems like largely people just don't care about the environment on a "general global" scale. There are pockets are people/groups/countries that do. But on average people don't.

So that leaves really one solution, which is attempting to reduce the amount of existing emissions to stop the rise to some degree, basically prolonging the enviable.

I personally think we probably need to just let it happen so we as a species can grow, or at least grow for a few hundred years till we forget.
Please provide a source which says that Apple's solution works for more than one person. I'm pretty sure they didn't say anything about that.
Reddit is my first resort for unbiased product reviews, various kinds of technical advice, book recommendations.

They are the gatekeepers for all that. And now they've decided to go full sith.

Can we scrape reddit and reproduce it?
>The china spat is _nowhere_ near the prelude to iraq’s invasion.

They're just getting warmed up. The way China's legitimate concerns are just completely washed away in the American press at this point is honestly terrifying. We don't stop for even a second to wonder how we'd feel about Chinese warships cruising 12 miles off the coast of Miami, regardless of the "legality" of it. There are concessions to be made on both sides. But if cable news were to be believed, you'd think that China was actively taking over the world.

I am not simping for the CCP here. But we're starting to look apoplectic in comparison.
I mean Russia did start a war in continental europe, so you tell me?
PYREX all caps should be borosilicate. Indeed harder to get now. Submission from 3d ago on the this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36206565
I think the $0.12 figure that was calculated on the post may have been too low.

Iirc, the entirety of Reddit’s user base was used for the calculation. My guess is that Apollo’s subset of users are much more active (and probably more lucrative in terms of ads and user data) than probably 99% of all Reddit users.
Yeah - obviously (imo).

Similarly to twitter third party api access with no ads doesn't make any sense for a business that's an ad business, it's stupid they've allowed this at all for as long as they have (and it was stupid for twitter to do the same).

If you want to build a non ad-based subscription business go ahead! I strongly prefer models that do that (e.g. substack), but if you're not going to do that then don't operate some weird half measure that's clearly counter to the company incentives. Apollo is just upset the free party is over.

I'm a little surprised reddit would not just shut it all down like twitter did since that makes more sense for this model, but having the price set crazy high is effectively the same thing anyway. It makes sense they don't want to negotiate, they'd rather have no third party API access at all.

This argument doesn't mean I'm a fan of data access and control (I'm not - I work on urbit to give people a way to escape it), but I recognize the business as it is. If you're running an ad business and allow third parties to build apps on your business that prevent you from controlling users at the client level (and prevent you from showing ads) you're making stupid decisions.

Like most things it's a problem of incentives. You can't fix the behavior without fixing the incentives. You can't escape the megacorp ad world we're trapped in by just wishing the existing incentives didn't exist.
> Definitely helpful to know you'd pay for it :P

As a founder myself, I know it's easy for people to throw random ideas at you with absolutely no intention to pay for it, so I know how helpful it is to have a price anchor. :)
What I am saying is that even if you are in one of those companies hiring lots of psychologists, you don't have any idea if they add anything or if you just got lucky.

> Those are un-published, but that doesn't mean it isn't real and happening.

It means you don't know what is happening.
There are many, many open source reddit alternatives. Several of them fairly good. All mostly ignored.

I think something built on the recently released Freenet 2 has a lot of promise.

But it's all a popularity contest and that isn't about merit. The number one reason things are popular is because they were already popular or other social networking effects.
I believe it has been done a few times technically. I don't have any of the past links handy. I believe the challenge would be the human capitol to operate and moderate the site and of course the servers, server hosting and network costs links, cdn, anti-ddos, etc... So the missing ingredient is either a VC or philanthropist that can see potential gains from replacing them.

Reddit has somewhere between 800 million to 1.6 billion accounts with about 50 million active concurrent daily users/bots. Whether human or bot the platform would need to scale to that amount and quickly remove illegal content at a minimum. Add to this the replacement needs to offer compelling reasons for the existing user-base to migrate.
I am very happy with my Framework laptop, and love their vision of modular design and upgrades.
Great post. For Attempt #3, did you gather the data for branch mispredicts and bad speculation?
From listening to the audio clip, my understanding was he was trying to point out the absurdity in Reddit's claim the app actually cost them $20,000,000 per year by facetiously pointing out, if it were true, they could have gotten the app permanently for a steal of half that yearly cost and both of them would have been significantly richer. It didn't seem like he was ever legitimately asking for $10,000,000 to shut down the app, he knew it didn't cost that much and wasn't worth that much. If he thought it was actually worth so much, he wouldn't be shutting it down now.
We’ve got lots of web devs and startup space folks on this site, I guess somebody must know how to look this sort of thing up?

I googled “percentage of reddit mobile traffic in app” but got a bunch of marketing sites, and wasn’t able to sort out which ones were bullshit. I bet there’s a good source for this sort of thing though.

In any case, we don’t need to wager right? It seems like this ought to be measurable.
I think OpenAI could fix this by having one extra loss function that token embedding vectors must not be too close to one another by euclidean distance.

Or they could require the mean and standard deviation of embedding vectors to be mean=0, stddev=1.0 not just for the whole set of vectors, but for each individual vector. In fact, their documentation says they do this anyway[1], although it appears they do not in fact...

[1]: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/6824809-embeddings-frequ...
Isn't that why Apollo said they'd sell the company for $10M to Reddit if they wanted to take it over? If it costs Reddit $20M/year, surely they could make more than $10M/year if they took it over themselves.
> Coastal areas are extremely busy.

No. Ports are busy.

The coast is huge. Most of it, on the wet side, is mostly not busy at all

Sea lanes are further out, land dwellers on the dry bit.
Eurozone Slipped into Recession Early in the Year
Most of the old guard is still going. How well is debatable. Ebaumsworld, Slashdot, Fark, Cheezeburger, and Something Awful, among others, are all still kicking around. Shadows of their former selves, but still around.

I agree with you on things beginning to fracture off again. We've cycled forum expansion and consolidation since forums started. The big consolidations were Usenet and Reddit (aka Usenet 2.0). Their downfalls have let to the new expansions and we're seeing it.

New web forums and Discord will be the norm for a while. We'll see the Usenet 3.0 challengers start the new round of consolidation until the new Usenet 3.0 comes in. That took a while last time.
I used the term in jest, but also because my actions were informed by what I've read about "gaslighting". I was telling GPT it was programmed incorrectly and was malfunctioning. I was twisting its words, referring to things it had said as evidence it was wrong. I was "muddying the waters" and trying to make the conversation twisted and confusing. All ideas that come to mind when I hear "gaslighting". But, again, I was not able to get GPT to agree my false mathematical statement was true.
Not sure, but the 'feature visualization' which attempts to maximize input for various terms looks a lot like psychadelic art to me somehow.

It also sort of reminds me of the "impossible colors" you can see by depleting the receptors in your eyes to see pure color signals that aren't otherwise visible due to actual light activating multiple receptors due to overlap in the color ranges.
I'm not convinced it has anything to do with ads. The redirect isn't necessary to just not show ads for Kibbles N Bits on bestiality porn subreddits.

It does have two other effects though:

- Inflates registered user count, which is useful ahead of an IPO

- Maps very niche porn habits to individuals, to way finer degree than your PornHub favorites/history. I don't know of anybody reselling this sort of data, but also don't work in this space.
> it seems like the kind of thing someone would do impulsively one time and then never again after getting reprimanded

Absolutely not at any serious company; fucking with user data is a major taboo.
Consider reading TFA. The dev in question was actively lied to by reddit about the availability of the API, and DID have a plan for this scenario, just not one that could be executed in the unreasonably short time frame of the API changes.
The AMQP protocol alone and its various, good client libraries (compared to terrible AWS SDK which is a very thin abstraction over just sending/parsing raw JSON off the wire) is by itself enough to justify RabbitMQ.

> when I need queueing functionality to increase my developer velocity so I can focus on building value rather than wasting my life installing, configuring and running anything on EC2.

SQS still requires configuration, which means you either need to use the (terrible) AWS console UI or spin up a whole Terraform/CloudFormation/CDK/etc stack, not to mention that merely connecting to it requires correctly setting up AWS IAM (so you don't use a key that gives access to your entire AWS account). Vim'ing the RabbitMQ config file in contrast doesn't seem so bad, and even just using a static hardcoded password means the worst an attacker can do is take down your queue instead of taking over your entire cloud infra.
Not this year but happened to me at the start of COVID. Best of luck to you and keep your head up
There was a short period where external GPUs that could connect to your laptop were kind of big a few years back. The never really took off though, and that was the only big component I saw that with.
Also not be confused with ferric oxide: https://www.rust-lang.org/
How do you get data from Telegraf into Postgres/TimescaleDB?

I was interested in swapping out InfluxDB, but it turned out to be somewhat difficult to send data from Telegraf to Postgres. It's not as simple as making an HTTP post, like you can do with InfluxDB.
This is an interesting option. I'd assume the added friction for an average user will drop the Apollo user base drastically, but it would still allow it to stay alive.
I'm not cheering the victory until I can buy a made-in-USA iPhone.

China totally outclasses the USA when it comes to manufacturing.

https://www.statista.com/chart/28031/manufacturing-racing-ba...