skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use my mouse a lot in the browser. I did use Vimperator (Vim mode for Firefox), but it’s just not necessary, since I type less in the browser than I read and click. For any coding or authoring, keyboard is king.

I’m sure the question is just, are you mostly ready to type a command, or mostly ready to click something.
It could be a counter action to the more recent criticisms of uptalk.
I absolutely (irrationally, I admit) despise comic sans from a purely personal aesthetic perspective but this does bug me less which is saying a lot.
Remember to enable Lockdown Mode on iOS devices, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36300410#36301058
I'm assuming 90% of these API requests are reads. Is there a reason Apollo couldn't develop an intermediate proxy server and cache all the responses for a short period of time? I assume that would cut the API usage significantly and potentially the cost.
This could be problematic if there’s an anvil in that cardboard box.

Just sayin’.
Google Chrome Hides WWW in the Address Bar (2019)
Except that doesn't work if every single third party app shuts down, which as far as I know is the case.

That's why I roll my eyes and gag in disgust a little when I hear Reddit management and their apologists somehow try to blame Christian for not negotiating in good faith. Even if that were true (which, to be clear, I don't believe it actually is, the opposite in fact), it just means that some other developer would step up if the pricing let them continue. The fact that every other app also shut down just proves that was the entire goal of these API pricing changes in the first place.
GPT3.5 has been undergoing constant improvements, this price decrease (and context length increase) is great news!

The main problem I see with people using GPT3.5 is they try and ask it to "write a short story about aliens" and then they get back a crap boring response that sounds like it was written by an AI that was asleep at the wheel.

Good creative prompts are long and detailed, and to get the best results you really need to be able to tune temperature / top_p. Even small changes to a 3 paragraph prompt can result in a dramatic changes in the output, and unless people are willing to play around with prompting, they won't get good results.

None of the prompt guides I've seen really cover pushing GPT3.5 to its limit, I've published one of my more complicated prompts[1] but getting GPT3.5 to output good responses in just this limited sense has taken a lot of work.

As for the longer context, output length is different than following instructions, especially for a lot of use cases, pushing more input tokens is of as much interest as having more output tokens.

From what I have explored, even at 4k context length, with a detailed prompt earlier instructions in the prompt are "forgotten" (or maybe just ignored). The blog post calls out better understanding of input text, but again, I hope that isn't orthogonal to following instructions!

Finally in regards to function outputs, I wonder if it is a second layer they are running on top of the initial model output. I have always had a challenge getting the model to output parsable responses, there is a definite trade off between written creativity and well formatted responses, and to some extent having a creative AI extend out the format I specify has been really nice because it has allowed me to add features I did not think of myself!

[1] https://github.com/devlinb/arcadia/blob/main/backend/src/rou...
I'm just not buying it.

I believe the US did it, because they're the only ones to gain anything from that.

No, I don't have evidence, but neither does this article. Plus the substack article is more plausible than this lame attempt of disinformation.
There's good writing and there's bad writing. Without getting into specific articles, if "Gonzo Journalism" or "New Journalism" is what it takes to inform some people, that's good journalism. It's like the Daily Show & Colbert Report. An old (2004) study [0] showed that Daily Show & Colbert Report viewers were the more knowledgeable about national and international affairs compared to people who consumed Google news, CNN or Fox News.

0 - https://archive.thinkprogress.org/survey-daily-show-colbert-...
What I've learned from Hacker News (archive)
> made it the official app

They did not. They bought it and killed it. Their home-grown application is built from scratch.
How to Create a Masterpiece
I'm not a webdev so I understand if this point is naive. The Apollo dev said the cost will be about 20x what Reddit pays for its user. Obviously Reddit needs and can maintain a competitive advantage by having a native app. So charging more per user for a 3rd party app is not unreasonable.

For the sake of simplicity let's say that reddit makes $1.00 per user per month that uses their app. Currently they make no money on third party apps. All third party app devs seem fine paying a price to use the API as that is standard practice for different websites. It seems like Reddit could have just charged them 3.00 Per user per month, so they get a healthy margin off of the third party apps. They would actually be making money off of third party apps, and if everyone used the third party app over the native one, then they would be making 3x what they would with users using the native one.

3x seems like a healthy enough margin for me, and they win whether we use their app or not. Devs like Apollo would have a lot more options for monetizing it's users at 3x Reddit's price per user than at 20x. Everyone seems to win. Instead they went with the move that is obviously intended to kill third party apps, and face major backlash from its most devoted users in a self own. The path seems simple to me but maybe that's why I'm not a CEO.
Libraries are also easy. Books are done, one dimensional pieces of linear writing. The text itself is the thing you care about.

Companies run on mental models that are occasionally partly solidified (and ultimately ossified) in a textual format.
I mean work without hickups, or other little annoying things.
HST berating the avarice, narcissism & decadence of others - indeed a classic vibes moment in time.
You are assuming it is fine to swap authentification hardware for incompatible parts? I guess this is from the spirit of "right t repair". While I get the idea in princple, I still think going dark is the best option you have if essential hardware was apparently tampered with. Find a back-alley smartphone shop which at least swaps your FP reader with compatible hardware. But if someone gained access to my phone, and put a piece of hardware in which is not recognized by the OS, I want it to stop right there. That doesn't feel like bricking, more like a security feature.
Actually only 30 pages text. Many, many references.
Comic Mono crashes my Eclipse on Linux Mint Cinnamon
What is considered a living wage to you? I'm honestly asking because that term is thrown around in the US, but no one can ever define a number.

In many large cities in the US the starting wage for a fast food worker can be $18+/hr. For someone working in an upscale restaurant can easily get hundreds per day in tips.
> > These three functions — bringing together securities orders for buyers and sellers, trading securities on behalf of others, and intermediating trades — are typically required to be separate due to conflicts of interest that emerge when one entity controls all of them.

and...

> The previous HN thread seemed to mainly be of the opinion that Coinbase wasn't registering the non-Bitcoin crypto, but that the problem was the SEC wasn't giving clear guidance on whether they needed to be.

See, this is why we need regulation. It's to deal with people like the HN crowd who will go up to the limit of the law with no consideration for ethics whatsoever.

A normal, ethical person would never run into the problem Coinbase has here. They'd see that the differing parts of their business had conflicts of interest which were pitting them against their own customers, and they'd do the right thing by splitting them up so that their customers are served. The law never has to get involved, because good people don't need the law to tell them to do the right thing.

But contrary to the end-stage capitalist beliefs of HN, corporations are not good people. Capitalism doesn't result in the best service for the lowest cost. If there's any way at all that corporations can make a profit by screwing over other people and getting away with it, they will, or someone else will. Without regulation to limit this, bad people bubble to the top. Coinbase has plenty of smart people who could have noticed the ethical problems here, but they didn't, because they didn't care. Coinbase has been successful monetarily because when they had a choice to do what's right or what's profitable, they chose to do what's profitable.

And as is typical of HN, the top comment identifies with the bad guys. The problem, in your eyes, isn't that what Coinbase did caused conflicts of interest which harm consumers. The problem, in your eyes, is that regulation wasn't clear enough for Coinbase to know exactly which conflicts of interest they could get away with. Like Coinbase, you're unconcerned with ethics, instead blaming regulators for getting in the way of the only thing you care about: profits.

This place has a serious problem.
If you click through that you actually have to go over here [0] eventually to ask for access, it's not automated AFAICT:

From your link:

> By creating an app, you agree to Reddit's Developer Terms and Data Api Terms. You must also register to use the API [1].

Which takes you to a page that says:

> When you are ready, you must register [0] in order to use the Reddit API. Select “I’m a Developer” and “I want to register to use the Reddit API.”

[0] https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/wiki/api#wiki_read_the_full_api_terms...
Short selling is supposed to help find the right price for an asset (see here for example: https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/012815/how-does-sho... )

Naked short selling is not encouraged (from the OP):

> Naked short selling is somewhere between unfortunate (if, say, a market maker does a short sale and can’t find borrow in time for normal settlement) and illegal (if a hedge fund shorts a stock without bothering to get a locate).
Do you mean letting users provide their own API key? Most people would probably stay within the free API limits-but I believe this is also a violation of the reddit TOS which strongly discourages using multiple oauth client IDs.
> Tags are superior because tags can model hierarchies

Tags are inferior because tags must be coerced into hierarchies.

Tags are inferior because they do not properly link hierarchies that they model without extensive software support (which is present for file directories by design, and absent for tags). I have yet to see a hierarchical tagging scheme work well when you need to do something like change a mid-level directory name (you end up having to re-write many tags, often without good software support for what you're trying to do)

Tags themselves are fine. It's a perfectly valid way to label data. It is not a good way to organize that data for human recall and reference.
They aren't "subscribing" to the platform: they're engaging with it via a premium toolset that is not provided by the platform. The platform benefits because the engagement, content creation, moderation, etc. that the users provide is the ONLY thing of value on the platform.
Finally! I’ve been getting the shakes waiting for next OpenAI release.

16k context with 3.5-turbo is huge. It’ll make all those dime a dozen document driven assistants a lot more useful.

I’m curious to see if people will figure out ways to hack functions to get more reliable structured JSON data out out of GPT without tons of examples, giving lots more context room to play with
Plus advertisers want a more trusted-loop to prevent or detect fraud.
I used to work at an Oracle shop, there was a woman sysadmin who taught me the arts of vendor management. You can get very good service from Oracle but you have to put pressure on them to get it.
The Swiss village that will pay you 60k euros to live there (2017)
That's my point. The definition of "correctness" depends on how the problem is stated. It's not correct if it doesn't solve the problem as defined.
I didn't realize anyone cared about that one since unlike webkit, it's not something people are forced to use with no alternatives.
TLDR:

Mathematically, you have three levers to create a masterpiece:

1. Increase your average: Get better.

2. Increase your variance: Try different things.

3. Increase your sample size: Try more times, churn more quantity.

Out of these three, the third lever is by far the best, because it’s the only one that acts on all three levers:

1. More quantity means you’re going to learn much faster by iterating, and you will improve your average quality. You move your distribution to the right. You improve.

2. More quantity means you’re going to try several things, different approaches, different disciplines. That will increase your variance.

3. More quantity means more shots on goal.

Unless you’re lucky, the only way to create a masterpiece is by churning stuff out.

…

The truth is that the most successful creators:

1. Create a ton. Most of what they do is mediocre or simply bad. But there are many gems in there. People only remember those.

2. Explore many genres.

3. Get better over time.

And nobody cares about their failures.
Tipping screens on touchscreen checkout/payment systems are an unfortunate tax on people who are afraid of social judgment or social conflict.

As tipping screens have become more common in retail/counter service through wider and wider usage of iPads as payment, and as suggested tipping amounts on the pre-selected options have increased, I have not started tipping any more at all than I ever did (20% on services where wait staff served our table but nothing for normal behind-a-counter transactions). I just learned to hunt down the zero percent button or the 'enter your own amount' button very quickly.
Can you expand? I thought updates required a restart no matter what platform or distro.
Thanks. Going to use this in my YC deck
is it really so hard to refrain from ad hominems and insults?
I'd rather not make it a winner take all arms race. We know that historically leads to sabatoge being the preferred tool of choice.

But sure, maybe it's better to set a floor for monetization, similar to how a YT channel needs 1000 subs to start being monetized. It's not valuable nor enticing for every user who posts something with 10 votes to collect 10 cents. Someone else did mention something about a $50 minimal withdrawal.
i agree, it's a bit weird. personally I'd use 0.5 rather than 50% to record the facts, and 50% to make a salient point/summary, since the latter is a higher level of abstraction (perhaps even anthropocentric)
I think they are mostly owners that are underwater on their mortgage.
I'm having a hard time understanding what your point is.

I'm always open to at least talking to anybody, whether or not they're ISIS members, Nazis, Communists, or (may Allah forgive me for even uttering this word) Canadian.

Talking is the road to peace. When words stop, there's only one thing that can possibly come next.
Based on the info that Reddit had disclosed earlier, it might be inaccurate today but it's not fair to say "completely made up" -- unless Reddit made it up.
Dating, education, and sex ratios
There is a very specific metric that is used to distinguish whether a beam of light/EM wave is "classical" or "quantum". The metric is called the second order correlation function, labelled g^(2).

If a EM wave has g^(2)>1 then experiments that demonstrate quantum phenomena cannot be successfully performed with this wave. Hence, the EM wave is called classical. Only if g^(2) < 1 can you start doing quantum stuff with it.

In this case, almost certainly the waves have g^(2) > 1.
A reminder that LLM transformers aren't humans, they don't learn the way humans learn.
Ultimately it's the nature of capitalism and it's something that's going to keep happening as rural areas vote for individuals that exacerbate the issue. Hospitals, doctors etc are going to move to where they can earn the most profit and rural towns are both not profitable enough and don't have the amenities that a high-earning profession would normally expect.

To fix this problem you would either need to accept that rural areas will need to be subsidized by urban tax payers or you would need to build a proper transportation system that allows for easy and quick movement between urban and rural areas.
Even if you do not remain in charge you could institute serious irrevocable voluntary liquidated damages clauses paid out to your customers for any misuse of their data. This would bind any future actions with serious financial penaltys. In addition, IANAL, but I think if the government wishes to appropriate the data there is a good chance they might be required to pay the penalty for making you violate your contract.
Ask HN: How does an LLM “know” to respond in the first place?
I put "know" in quotations because I know that's completely the wrong term here.

I've watched quite a few videos on LLMs and I get the essential aspects, such as:

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnA9DMvHtfI

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDiSFS-yHwk

I get the essential concepts, how a corpus of text becomes the model, parameter counts, fine tuning, all of the popularly discussed basic jargon.

What still has not been explained to me is... well, how does the LLM actually become interactive, in the sense that you can then prompt it and it spits back an answer. In other words, how does the LLM actually "know" it's supposed to spit back an answer in the first place?

I just can't grok what's happening here. If we were programming a database, the idea of structuring a database, writing to it, and reading from it just makes sense, because it's really just a series of imperative procedural steps that you're controlling.

But when you have an LLM model that's just sitting there with all of its black boxed data in a neural network... how does one then "tap into it" to force it to produce a response? What is that process called, what are the core concepts behind it? For whatever reason, this question is somehow impossible to Google.
I think a large part of it is about controlling the experience of reddit and providing guarantees about how ads get viewed. 3P apps have a very "old.reddit" experience where you only get things in your feed from your subs, with no suggestions. And you can force all posts to be collapsed instead of auto-expanded.

When you browse on the 1P Reddit app you no longer have a curated feed. It's filled with suggestions ("because you visited /r/place-you-dont-sub-to before posts"). And on top of that, controlling whether the view is condensed or as expanded cards does not affect ads. So you'll get a giant "he gets us" jesus ad that takes up half the screen - and if you do something like report an ad, say it's not for you (in my case, I selected something like "it's offensive"), you'll still get the same giant ad.

The Reddit experience they want me to have is not the Reddit experience I'm used to from the 3P apps, and I think that's why they're trying to kill them off. People that want a curated list of forums and a few memes/gifs aren't driving engagement as much as they'd like, so they tried to clone TikTok. And it sucks, so I'm gone after June 30th.
Finish your projects
This seems like a direct result of Plugins not hitting PMF -- rather than give API developers access to Plugins, give them the underpinnings to build Plugin-like experiences.

Love it!
Not a problem in practice. If you have a proprietary task, put it in a subprocess. That's how the voice system, which is from Vivox and not very good, works. If you have proprietary data, put it in a file read at startup.
I was amused to see yesterday that my comments the day previous that some, but not all, reddit mods are paid had been silently deleted. I didn't get a bot message, they were just.. gone.. So, the corporation is watching, or the mod that is a reddit employee in the sub deleted them.

I was also surprised to see yesterday that this same large sub I made them in was blacked out. Virtue-signalling? Throwing a bone to volunteer co-mods in the sub? Against the API changes? Who knows. Big mess now. Tech people don't like change, but when they get mad, wheels start turning.
Alternatives mega thread: https://0.0g.gg/?58ed6f6429ac61aa#DQse3Hh6Cr4pw6BFRGf7MeWgPY...

I'm currently using kbin. Waiting for Tildes to come out of beta.
Slashdot also has a metamoderation system where after you've had votes for a while you are asked to confirm if comments were "Funny, Insightful, Troll etc" which could then lead to people losing the ability to vote for a while for using the votes incorrectly.
Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout ‘will pass’
Related:

Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10020827 - Aug 2015 (139 comments)

Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems (2015) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20611539 - Aug 2019 (172 comments)
CDI is a slots company who happens to own some race tracks anymore. In around 2018 once they started with the "historical racing terminals" (slots), they shifted from caring about racing to the fat margins of slots-- an $8k slot machine with 10yr lifespan is more favorable to ongoing purses and horse industry expenses. Handle has been decreasing everywhere for years, so of course they will focus on gaming, instead.

They list "Live and historical wagering" as a line item-- comingling revenue to hide that parimutuel wagering continues to tank/shift towards their preferred/higher margin gaming business. Appendix of their 10-K shows $66MM revenue for all live/simulcast racing in 2022, vs $375MM for historical racing and $755MM for gaming.

If they don't get slot approval from the state legislatures, they just sell the property to be redeveloped, like Hollywood/Arlington/Calder.
The Problem with Splitting Parental Leave Down the Middle
Can I ask what makes you think tipping at fast food is expected? Has anyone in your life told you they think it's rude not to tip there or have you had any bad interactions with a worker when you tried to skip tipping?
Thanks. Hot coffee just came out of my nose.
I’ve been using the very similar Comic Code for several years, and it consistently sparks joy when I open my editor. Highly recommended. This looks marginally nicer and I’ll give it a go
If someone tried to do political journalism like Hunter S. Thompson today, they would struggle to find the same sort of characters, because the Internet has collectively made us much more cautious about and accountable for how we interact with others.

Present literary journalistic techniques critique through insinuation and juxtaposition. HST just had to go places and let people talk.
Being able to give the LLM an API surface to call against is really powerful.
> you conveniently leave out the positive benefits of these models that are causing people to promote them

We are holding it to a higher standard because this is going to be used by agencies with serious power over people's lives. It is not just to spit out, for example, a form rejection letter from a credit card.

And, nobody thinks that Microsoft wants to "screw" the government. But if something happens, the impact can be magnified significantly considering the reach and power of the state. I'm all for moving forward quickly with this tech, but there are a handful of spaces (government, medicine, aeronautics) where we need to be extremely deliberate.
I would be willing to put up a long bet against this possibility.
Apple announced that it will start to limit the usability of utm-tracking parameters in safari browsers Q4 2023 due to privacy concerns. Other industry leaders are expected to follow closely.
Sources Tell Me Some Messed Up Stuff Is Happening in Commercial Real Estate