skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate the case for optimism, and I agree that as a species we can be quite clever. We can also fail to address important issues with simple and obvious fixes in ways that boggle the mind (e.g. getting vaccinated or wearing masks during COVID). Whereas I might have once thought that our ingenuity would rule the day, it seems like a functional society requires more than just technology.
Unless you use AWS :-)
I have a copy of VisiCalc on a 5¼" floppy that I can boot on a IBM 5155 'luggable'.

It is surprisingly 1-2-3 like. You can see that Lotus directly ripped off Dan conceptually. I don't have enough background to know if Lotus 1-2-3 implemented significant improvements over VisiCalc; I do think that Dan Bricklin was a visionary to see that a 'what-if?' analysis on a blackboard would be an incredible exercise in what came to be called a spreadsheet.

[The luggable boots a version of DOS that doesn't support sub-directories, so it is pre-2.0.]
He's saying:

"You are claiming that my app is costing you $20M a year in API calls. Just buy it from me for $10M. Then it's yours to shut down if you want, or modify, or whatever you want to do with it."

That's not a threat. At that point it seems like he didn't have any obligation to do anything, and was offering them a mutually beneficial deal. Reddit's cost go down by $20M a year, he gets paid, and everybody (except probably the apollo users) benefits.
why do you install it from snap? I'm using ubuntu and don't install from snap most of the time.
I really really wish someone would try tokenizing off of a phonetic representation rather than textual one. I think it would be interesting to compare the output
well, thanks for your confirmation, i suppose ^^
I found Regolith nice to use except for the configuration. It seems to split the configuration into a bunch of files rather than just a standard i3 config file.
The reason it's trending today is because of the phenomenon of Glitch Tokens. They thought all Glitch Tokens had been removed by GPT-4 but apparently one is still left. If you go down the rabbit hole on Glitch Tokens it gets ... really really weird.
Maybe I'm not cool enough, but how does this translate into an invite? I'm on tildes.net right now.
> China does seem to have clear eyes with it comes to world politics

You're hyping up Xi Jing Ping, who is considered an idiot in most elite circles including Putin, too much. One belt and one road is now considered a failure with Italy, the most prominent member, dropping out of it this year. Most of the countries that took on the debt are unable to pay it back, and China has had to forgive a lot of the loans recently. And no one has aligned US, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Philippines, India, Australia, Nato quite like China in recent years. The most recent focus in G7 was squarely on China.

> NAFTA

with respect to NAFTA, US manufacturing only consisted of 15% US economy in 1994 https://www.stlouisfed.org/en/on-the-economy/2017/april/us-m..., whereas Chinese manufacturing consisted 30% of China's economy today. Also, the difference is, the laborers in US manufacturing moved to other higher paying jobs, as a result, average income went from 25k to 30k in 2000. Whereas what we're seeing now with Chinese laborers is that they're moving back home to countryside to farm (< $1 a day)
Right, but the original statement that was meant to be the "threat" was "If you want to rip that band-aid off once. And have Apollo quiet down, you know, six months." where the wording lines up with "...it's quite loud in terms of its API usage".
It would seem so, but it is hard right now to parse what is fact and what is fiction so definitely look into it yourself. But I totally agree, pretty dim to think they can somehow talk their way out of this. People were upset before, the blackouts, etc. but now this has taken on another tone and I doubt it will cool off by tomorrow. Honestly, I am loving this schadenfreude!
Mods quitting en mass can destroy the whole website in days.
To be fair, I'm having trouble thinking of many examples of factories that might even be comparable. Auto and auto parts, obviously, are still big. But then I can't come in and say "tires" (included in the previous). What's even left?
Maybe not surprisingly, the real money in this field is in maintenance and ensuring uptime. The robots are cool to develop too but its really hard to get a job doing that directly unless you're a startup with funding from a VC or have an incredibly good resume, but there is a cottage industry of people (businesses or business units usually) that make lots of money maintaining deployed fleets and developing patches / augmentations for existing robotics.

I think its hard to break into in some respects, compared to other fields (you need some certifications iirc in addition to a degree) but my limited, anecdotal exposure suggests its quite interesting and lucrative.

That said, my sample size is small, and on the other end of the spectrum, I know a few folks who maintain complex CNC equipment and develop software for it (using a language I don't recongize, I think its proprietary) and while they make good money, its not better than you can make as a senior engineer at a reputable place as a web developer, for example.
The Gleason bound?

Instead of repeating yourself, can you link to some actual information?

still will win no matter how measure speed

Speed is measured with time. You can keep saying algorithmic complexity is speed, but that will never make it reality.

If you want to argue against heap sort, then you need to argue

That's not how it works. Other sorts take a fraction of the time. I showed you this already.

I'll let someone else calculate the big-O expressions again considering locality of reference, etc.

This was never about algorithmic complexity, that's something that you hallucinated. Not only that, but you do realize that other sorts have the same complexity as heap sort right? There a lot of ways to sort with n log n.

You are trying to argue something that isn't real to make a point that no one cares about and has nothing to do with this thread.
Well, we should go back to that, or something that is easier.
Why do you think Selig’s pricing justifications are worthless?
You can choose. Get it in the contract or don't sign.
Yes, my daughter (born several months prematurely) was given caffeine for a while. The nurses described it to me as "reminding her heart to keep beating and her lungs to keep working", since she was so premature that it wasn't something they were supposed to have to do without the mother's help yet.

My wife, who had gone through significant discomfort in order to cut off caffeine while pregnant (she was told otherwise the baby could be born already addicted to caffeine), was a bit exasperated when told that almost the first thing they did was give her daughter a caffeine IV. It was probably still the right thing for her to have done (so the caffeine IV had full affect), but I could sympathize with her position.
> This is subjective. He's basically saying he's willing to pay an amount that fit into his old, not well thought out business model, and it's up to Reddit to pay for the rest.

That's not what he said. He said that it's not feasible to transfer from the current pricing with 30 days notice.

That choice is entirely on Reddit, the situation did not demand such a short notice period. They could have smoothed it out but chose not to.

I find it strange to push the blame onto someone who was assured by Reddit of their intention to charge a reasonable price, and to work with 3rd parties on a flexible timeline for the introduction of the charges.

The worst I can say about the Apollo developer is that he believed Reddit were acting in good faith. Reddit on the other hand look like incompetent arseholes.
Then he recommended that person be let go.
>It is really astounding to see the CEO of Reddit being caught in a blatant lie

Spez was the person who got caught editing a users comment in the backend to make them seem like an asshole or otherwise change the public perception of a question and response

This is 100% in line with something I would expect from Spez (the CEO)
This is precisely what they thought they were doing.

They are thinking that there is "money on the table" without their ability to monetize their traffic...

As opposed to thinking of reddit as a fucking internet UTILITY -- they are doing the same VC / MBA bullshit as every single other tech company.
Why do you think you are replying to a human? :)
Source?

I see marriage rates falling by about 50% over the past decade. But this claim seems unlikely, or perhaps just badly skewed by the seasonality of things.
Our brains are stochastic parrots. It basically is.

To think otherwise invites mysticism.

> anthropomorphize something that isn't there.

With above as counterexample, you just don't know this.

I otherwise agree in that LLMs in their current form are highly unlikely to give rise to AGI, for many reasons.

But as it stands your argument lacks rigour and actively makes assumptions on matters that remain an open subject of experimental and scientific inquiry (hard problem of consciousness et al).

To emphasize, I want to close that the epistemic position we aught to take is that of uncertainty. We shouldn't be sure something is there, just as we shouldn't be sure something isn't there.

We as yet don't know enough to say one way or the other. That's the point I want to emphasize. Stay open minded until the relevant fields start making stronger claims.

You may find this leading theory on how our brains work interesting: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictive_coding
You're missing the part of science where you analyze the results, ask yourself why it isn't reproducible, maybe because of some other variables that changed, or variables that were unknown, then re-hypothesizing, creating new models, re-formulating the studies, and doing it all again until they are re-producible.

Since Psychology is about humans, and how they respond, then it is possible to have Psychology studies about Psychology studies, and study why humans are biased, why are studies biased, and control for those factors.

Because a subject is difficult doesn't mean toss it all out the window. "shucks this stuff is hard, darn, guess it's all BS".
I obviously don’t believe in capitalist philosophy but you’re joking if you think the market doesn’t consider ad-free users as a drain regardless of reality.

Which is what I’m trying to say: you’re framing the actions of Reddit’s CSuite in terms or morals and long term outlooks, which is not how the market will look at their ipo. At all.
I didn't say governments were always good at it. But every one of the East Asian tigers owes its first-world status to aggressive industrial policy. And despite France's issue with unemployment and immigration, you'd still rather be born there than almost any other nation on the planet. And I'd add, NASA is industrial policy. ARPA is industrial policy. University funding is industrial policy. Government-directed investment is responsible for a significant chunk of technological development since the dawn of... industrial policy.
isn't there a testing/"unstable" version that has the latest/greatest? I had heard it was roughly as stable as ubuntu...
I think, for one, it is important to note that Christian doesn't say "go quiet". He said "quiet down", and those carry different interpretable implications regardless of context (the latter having much less potential implied threat imo).

Second, listening to the actual audio, it doesn't sound like a threat at all, and it all cleared up right away.
Hmmm, a better inertial guidance system sounds awesome. But... why is this not a state secret?
What? A top spec 5 year old (2018) laptop should be plenty fast for most common desktop use.

I have a 2016 Dell latitude laying around with Debian 11 on it. It is plenty fast for most things. Even running virtual machines in virtual box with gaming (mostly older Windows games I run in a WinXP VM)
Because the semi clones are a full process reboot. Rebooting is an easier way to solve the problem of continuing to exist into the future.
Over a year ago, I switched to an M1 Max 14-inch as my main computer from an AMD Renoir equipped laptop running Fedora Silverblue with Pantheon. Previously used MacOS from Snow Leopard to Yosemite and very much liked it back then.

Everyone of course is going to have different experiences, but I continue to be disappointed how issue ridden MacOS Ventura has been for me. My Fedora laptop could run for weeks without the need for a reboot (honestly only necessary because I used Silverblue which is immutable), whereas my Macbook constantly has issues adjusting scaling when plugging in a monitor during sleep (necessitating logging out and in), or randomly failing to connect to any WiFi connection after waking up, requiring a full reboot around three times a week.

The settings app is appalling too, I genuinely am flabbergasted how sluggish (as in not loading settings pages for multiple seconds) it can be, especially considering the hardware. Very rarely, Xcode will try to open even though I set VSCode as the default for that file type, but this may be user error (though I don't see what else I can do beyond click that tick). Also, though this is more their design than a fault, I have become far to reliant on dnf via toolbox and whilst I am thankful for Homebrew, I can't stop feeling that a more integrated package manager would make MacOS more usable. Worst of all though is how MacOS handles USB peripherals. Upon plugging in, it should ask for confirmation, a good idea in theory. But for me, no matter the device (printer, usb drive, hub, display), this confirmation window only appears for a split second before disappearing. I then have to unplug and replug the cable about five times before, for some magic reason, the confirmation window stays upon permanently and I can actually interact with it. I tried a fresh install and spend a bit of time on the phone with customer support, neither helped. Simply cannot see MacOS as the choice for someone who needs to rely on their machine in this state.

I'm constantly testing the Asahi Fedora Remix[0] and cannot wait for that to be at a level where I can use it day-to-day. The hardware is amazing, but the software really needs to be improved.

[0] https://pagure.io/fedora-asahi/asahi-repos/tree/main
Hmm, I think there are probably areas where something like what you describe is true, but I don't think something like that is going on re startups in the US. From an attorney's perspective, most of the legal aspects to startups are pretty smooth and ironed out. Startup law is probably one of the more pleasant areas of law to deal with. And some startup lawyers do pretty well, but aside from the ability to invest in your clients (or join them as a GC), it's not known for being particularly lucrative. I.e. if you were a lawyer and your sole concern was making money from your practice, startup law is not the most obvious choice. But there is inherent complexity just because the system has to be able handle all the different types of scenarios that might come up.

That said, I have no doubt that there may be other areas of law or life that are the way they are due to factors like what you describe!
>i.e., I work at a toxic company with toxic management.
>Because those same people were speaking up regularly during in-person meetings and weren't being judged there.

Since there's far less lawyers on this site than devs (naturally), I'll chime in with my .02c. Face to face is king. Don't say anything you wouldn't want your mom, dog, or the news saying when you wake up tomorrow morning. And you'd be surprised the stuff that people will put into writing, even after repeated notice. Ever work in healthcare and have to deal with HIPAA? It's insane how flippantly I've seen patient info shared, like it's not the first thing drilled into you. It doesn't matter if you are Jesus reincarnate, I'm sure you have said some things you wouldn't want to be read out in court.
Never noticed any issues with snap, but truth be told I seldom use it for installing anything. If someone is unhappy with snap why use it? There is no requirement to use snap, usually you can get .deb from somewhere, you can find ppa, or install from source.
it doesn't matter, the 'bitter lesson' as coined by Rich Sutton is that stacking more layers with more parameters and compute and dataset size is going to swamp any kind of clever 'feature engineering' like trying to be clever about phonetic tokens. Karpathy for example just wants to go back to byte tokens.
Alcohol is a carcinogen, so if you’re optimizing for “living longer” you should take exactly 0 mL a day.

If you’re optimizing for living happier, on the other hand…
I don't think there is an easy way, so that's why I think this is will not be one of the key things to solve the climate crisis.
I setup an account a few days ago.

Make sure you use a bigger one I guess. The instance i chose wasnt one of the major ones, but did have traffic.

Its now down...not showing on the trackers either.

I am guessing its gone....dunno. Maybe it just crashed and whoever runs it hasnt fixed it or realized.

Similar to why i run my own email domain (but use workspace), i considered building an instance. But have had some reservations that I talked about here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36237285#36241849

If anything im more on the fence than ever.
Ah, that makes much more sense. But, it could be the case that reddit thinks someone will end up paying their outrageous fees, just not him. It doesn’t necessarily follow that they think Apollo is actually worth that much. Then again, if that’s the case it would be reasonable to work out some sort of discount that reflects the true value of the Apollo user base.
I dont think there is really anyone to blame.

Apps cost them money they could be making in advertising, So they want big money or will cut the apps off. If apps could offer more money than reddit thinks they could make without them, then everyone would be happy, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
A key element is moderation via automated tools using 3rd party access.

Imagine a free music festival with zero security. It would be chaos and the volunteer artists would stop performing.
Thanks for paying it forward
Captain Gulliver is genuinely an excellent name for a pelican!
Agreed. They pointed GPT-4 at the solution and GPT-4 found it. Still somewhat impressive, but not exactly the same.
It’s 140% clear from both the audio and the transcript that this whole buyout thing is a failed to land joke. And it is not even a problematic thing! Why would offering to sell their own app be a negative? The negative, threat part is from a misunderstood expression of “quiet down”, which was meant about the API calls.

But even from Christian’s voice.. I swear, should we start using /s in real life as well?!
As many people here write, with Latex, most of the technical issues are already resolved. A few other technical issues might arise due to Latex, but they are usually easy to deal with.

However, what remains are rules on page limit, number of words or similar restrictions. And in most cases, you try to fit as much content as possible into the template. So when changing the template, you either have more or less space, so either you would want to add more content, or you need to remove content. Even with the same number of pages and other things being similar as well, due do small differences in the template, it will not match up. That is what takes effort.

But for the aspect on space restrictions, I have heard actually the opposite argument: By having this limitation, you save the reading time of all your peers. Often, the work you did can actually be compressed into such short format. You might need to leave out some details (if you publish the source code and make it reproducible, people could anyway check for all details though, so not really a problem), but you can focus on the actual important part. So, by wasting some extra time and effort of the author, you save a lot of time and effort for all readers by having this restriction.

If your work really does not fit the space limitations, maybe a different conference or journal would anyway be the better fit.
It’s something so new and foreign that I’m deeply unsurprised that some feel it’s intelligent.

I personally don’t care one way or the other, whether it is or isn’t. What I care about is whether it’s useful.
I remember reading, admittedly in a couple of science-fiction books, that the estimated number of humans that have ever existed is about 100 billion. Was that estimate wildly exaggerated? Or has it been dramatically reduced in recent decades?
Thats why I instantly put these links into a service like
https://unshorten.me/ and then send/open them.

I use urlchecker [0] for this on my phone and have it set as my" browser" that way, every link i click on, I see a popup with the link and with one or two button presses I can remove the tracking parameters and/or unshorten it and then open it. Works like a charm.
May be to much friction for some, but I like it.

[0] https://www.f-droid.org/de/packages/com.trianguloy.urlchecke...
Is that a challenge? Because my mother in law just calls that Thursday.
And .compact is gone
Deploy 90 open-source web apps with one Docker command
> No one uses latex anymore

That is a very broad statement. Do you have any data to back it up?

Do you suggest that it was used in the past but that has changed? If so, why?
> Designed to reflect our diverse community of creators, visionaries, and storytellers, TikTok Sans complements the personality of our platform - from our roots in entertainment to inclusivity and self-expression.

This is top tier fart huffing.
No, they are allowing users to manipulate links. Also, this only happens in Private Browsing mode.
I haven't listened to the audio recording per se but that was my understanding, too, by reading this guy's written description of what happened.

Him and Spez (or whatever his name is) got together in a tense meeting on two opposing sides, there was a failure of communication (like in many such cases), things escalated for a bit after that but, in the end, I see that Spez recognised that he had understood things in an incorrect manner. That is I see no deliberate "lying" coming from the reddit CEO.
Since they brute forced all solution programs for this case anyway, Deepmind already admitted that they didn't even need to use AlphaDev in this particular case. GPT-4 being able to work it out is great, but it says nothing about the value of what the AlphaZero/Dev algorithm and the kinds of interesting problems you can solve with it.
> He said he could make the pricing work at half what reddit is asking, for $1.26/mo base API cost.

He said a much more reasonable thing would be to cut the price in half and give a 3 month transition period to make it "feasible for more developers, myself included."

> However in a perfect world I think lowering the price by half and providing a three month transition period to the paid API would make the transition feasible for more developers, myself included. These concessions seem minor and reasonable in the face of the changes.

What that would likely mean is removing as many API calls as possible and removing features as a result. Which means fewer users would want to pay for it.

> I was just spitballing that doubling his revenue would mean he could manage the price Reddit is asking (since he said he could make due with half).

Also, as a tidbit. His current subscription pricing is $5/mo for ultra.

If we want to take that as his revenue for an ongoing subscription to double (since API access is going to be monthly), then the app would be $10/mo or $120/yr.
Is there something like this but open source, maybe integrated with LangChain? Like a LangChain package registry or something.

Or maybe that's just pip and the Python registry. Is there a way to search for a certain tag or something and embed that search in a web page?

https://pypi.org/search/?q=LangChain