skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Am I misunderstanding something or is there a glaring statistical error here? I think this analysis works if the matches are all between two players of truly identical skill that will roughly win 50% of the time against the other, but that's not really the case here. They attempt to do that by controlling for Elo but I'm decently sure that you could pick any two players of the same Elo on lichess and one will win the majority of games.

Now if we assume there is often a slightly better player in these games, the better player will more likely get into an advantageous position early in the game and win more often, but not entirely because they got into the more advantageous position. What I'm trying to say is that someone who is up a rook will win partially because they're up a rook and partially because they are likely a better player in the first place and will continue to play better than their opponent.

I think to do this study correctly you'd need to place new players in a random position drawn from the dataset and actually evaluate the win rate without the confounding factor of having gotten into that position in the first place.
Twitters architecture at the time was a textbook example of how not to build a large scale many-to-many social network. Maybe switching would've been worth it for them anyway, but the big thing they needed was fixing architectural choices they never should've made to start with.
No one is "stuck" or "resorting" to anything. It's an effort to improve tooling, performance, error reporting, and working with Ruby in general. We could maintain the status quo (which does indeed work) or we could improve it. If we don't improve the status quo, people call the language stagnant and outdated. If we do, it's considered a criticism of its maturity.

How many languages would even entertain such a contribution? How many languages are so tightly bound to their parser that writing a new one wouldn't even be workable? How many languages have user tooling that works extensively with parsed code snippets? How many languages have multiple implementations? Of those, how many are working together on an effort to share a common parser?

There's plenty of valid reasons to use something other than Ruby. An open source project that grew organically over 25 years deciding that it's time to pay down some technical debt and improve the ecosystem at the same time is probably not one of them.
mh, maybe I'm wrong but it does not touch all of CS, does it? System design, distributed systems, game theory ..
I'm not convinced that a tale about pre-hard-boiled eggs, from the land of pre-sliced bread, processed cheese, and reconstituted ham, really implies that it is Dutch food that is strange. (-:
A little bit of SMD work on a bank holiday Tuesday
Why would they reduce the price when they have a waiting list?
There are tons of articles about plain text editor data structures, but what about rich text editor data structures? Let's say i want to implement a text editor that can have bold, italic, underline, etc text but also be able to do automatic word breaking, align paragraph text to left/middle/right, insert images and/or other objects, have floating images and/or other objects around which the other (non floating) text/images/objects wrap, etc.

What would be the data structures for that? I can only think of trying to replicate something like the HTML DOM but i have a feeling something like Write for Windows 3.1 used a simpler data structure.
If the blackout is only for two days then they're right, but if they continue indefinitely it could force a change (reddit is currently unusable since all but one sub I enjoy is gone, if it was gone indefinitely then reddit would be indefinitely out of the picture for me).
> is a useful incentive for good, quick service

This is frequently said, but has anyone done any work to show that it's actually true? That tips work as an incentive for measurably better or improved service? Or to what degree it is true? Just wondering.

I have a lot of friends in the service industry and, like people in many other careers, beyond a particular baseline of compensation and satisfaction, it seems that good performance is as much about intrinsic motivations as it is about extrinsic factors. The best people often simply want to do a good job. If the tips or overall comp isn't satisfactory, they either find a different place to work or take additional shifts at another bar or restaurant.
> Just let people not answer it if they don’t want to.

hah, I tried making this argument for months, no years, after the decision was made - that they were banning the wrong thing. It's trivial (and a built in Reddit feature) to automatically hide posts after you vote them (up or down - you have full control) and there's even the hide button to hide posts you don't want to vote on. It would have been so easy (and made nearly everyone happy) to have the rule to be against bad faith answering questions. To encourage people to downvote and ignore questions you they want to answer. If nobody is answering or voting for the questions then people will stop asking them.

Well powerusers didn't want questions period (and I think some friends of the mods already had control of the question subreddit) so they punted questions off to a different subreddit.

The mods definitely get some enjoyment through trolling people and making the experience on the city subreddit miserable - most of them are extremely active in a shitposting subreddit that was specifically made for making fun of users in the city subreddit. The powerusers that were involved in the bad behavior own the shitposing subreddit too. It's a small sort of r/drama or r/subredditdrama for a local subreddit. If you make the "right" comments in the city subreddit (i.e. dunk on the "right" people) you get invited to mod the shitposting subreddit.

What's really needed is a public moderator log outlining what gets removed. I wouldn't care about things being removed that much if I had an option to see it. I really hate that they can remove things that _someone_ found interesting about the city and I can't see it at all because of arbitrary rules the moderators made.
TIP = To Insure Promptness. That is where it comes from. Nowadays, everyone expects a Tip and restaurants are getting cuter by adding those screens on payment devices.

I love to tip if I actually got a great service at a traditional sit down restaurant where a waiter actually takes care of my order and pays attention.

But getting tired of every food place trying to force us to pay Tips. Don't forget delivery charge if you order delivery AND then you still gotta pay that drive a Tip (expected to).
> Models and data sets will be open-sourced as well.
Very interesting positioning here: only enterprise and fully open source.

Also, €105M for a seed round is pretty eye-popping.
Plus, delivery services like Uber often have large discounts but tips seem to be priced based on the undiscounted value. Leading to cases of it proposing a $5 tip on an order I'm paying ~$15 for.
When folks speak hypothetically about speed, they almost always assume identical outputs. Which is pretty contrary to at least my experience, if not reality.

Apple is the worlds most valuable company, and they're first and fastest in essentially nothing. So it really depends on the market you're going after.

Anecdotally, (and backed by language learning research iirc), when learning is involved iterations are important. Learn a little, practice a little, get feedback a little, repeat frequently.

But afaik it all comes down to the cost of failure. Public iteration on your encryption algorithm that's guarding billions of dollars is probably a bad idea.
Yeah, this is probably better for a game like Go where evaluating raw point differentials is a common thing that professionals (and even strong amateurs) do.
> Did I get that wrong?

Yes. You can't just insert your own API key into the app of your choice.
Tipping in quite a few countries in the EU is effectively illegal when done in cash. When added to the bill, the tip is taxed with VAT, then it as to be added to the salary, the latter is a subject of income and social tax.

It's a form of tax evasion, yet I have never heard to have been an issue (prosecuted)
Isn't this always the way. Crowd source development and ideas to see what gains popularity, and then build those features into your thing or buy the 3rd party thing to rebrand as your thing. That's like startup culture 101
This is awesome. We were finding a lot of frustrating with 4k context being far too short to properly chunk documents.

In a worst case scenario, you have to assume that output is going to be the same length as input. That means useful context is actually half of the total context.

Add in a bit of fixed size for chunking/overlap (maybe ~500 tokens), suddenly you're looking at only 1k to 1.5k being reliably available for input. 16k context bumps that number up to 7.5k available for input. That's massive.
I guess my question is what do I do in a region where the minimum wage is quite high (CA) and there is no longer a tip-included-below-minimum-wage minimum wage?

Do I continue to tip even thought I now know my servers make a fair wage (and the bill often includes healthcare mandates etc.)?
The Planet Hollywood inside Disney World has about as much to do with the US as a whole as a restaurant outside the Vatican with menus in 12 languages has to do with Italy.
If one gave you a 10,000 page bibliography would you read all the sources? The same problem exists (long bibliographies) in human knowledge transfer. I’m suggesting this is an architectural issue, not a LLM problem per se. LLMs are not supposed to be AGI.
> Oddly, I'd argue that normalization is often the "simplification" that is not accurate to how things are.

Normalization is what makes sure that the data you are storing matches exactly the model you have for it. Without it there isn't any meaning to talk about data model.

If the real data actually doesn't match the model, then yes, your model is inaccurate. That means your software is also probably buggy, and that if you didn't normalize your data structure, you wouldn't even know about it.
I think they never put 8k into the playground?

Edit: I can call the api now with gpt-4-32k-0613
Thank you for the correction. I thought I had read it was part of the initial design consideration at one point, but reading about
it further again, I think the discovery that it helped dyslexic readers happened after the typeface was made public.

It is still an interesting aspect of the typeface that doesn't get much attention though, although there are other typefaces that also try to help with dyslexia.

If you are interested in design, I still recommend watching the talk when you have the time. It has been a while since I watched it, but the designer is well spoken.
I don't have a high-res screen (just 1280x800), so to me it's one of the most readable pages I've ever seen. Although curiously, it also looks great on the iPhone by default (which is high-res). I assume you're on some sort of 4K external monitor, but I wonder why it would look small there while reacting well on the phone?
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/are-we-the-baddies
"Assholes don't tip"

How so? I mean, when you go to restaurant there is some sort of the contract, that for paying X you get Y food. Why would anyone not willing to do anything more beyond this deal should be considered an asshole?

People work hard outside restaurants also, often harder, and they don't get tipped anything.
From a practical perspective, one should probably learn procedural/OOP first, it's the de-facto industry standard, and thus better for one's early career. Whether functional is "better" in the longer term, I won't get into here, only to say I have skepticism.
Many changes which I'd expect are commonly understood to be positive for society started with a small group of activists. Movements start small and public opinion doesn't change overnight. Sometimes public opinion needs a nudge from a small noteworthy action.

Had you ever discussed applying democratic values to the evaluation of the suitability of historical public statues spontaneously, before these actions made the news?
I do hope a good chunk of mods extend the blackouts indefinitely.
Kind of my point, should we be setting wages for people based on their lifestyle...or the other way around?
That's certainly fair, but you'd hope that out of the 2000 employees, at least some are in a position to evaluate decisions like that and explicitly calculate the PR risk of any decision. And they certainly should have taken it into account.
I went to Reddit, the page was black, so I just went somewhere else. I still don't see how this is going to motivate anyone to do anything.
Haystack creates as many data visualizations as you need for a flat monthly fee
As many graphs, maps, charts, and visualizations as you need. Static, animated, or interactive. All for one monthly fee.
I don't think this supports your point of "everyone" talking about doing this by hand. If anything this guy is an outlier.
Being fast and iterating reminds me so much of the EM algorithm.

Probably a bit of a stretch but still:

You start with an initial estimate of the hidden variables (solution), check what the consequences are by implementing it, and apply the knowledge about the right consequences to improve the solution.
Extending the blackout indefinitely has now become a coordinated action via /r/ModCoord (which is the also the source of the list of blacked out subreddits that people are using), with an optional "solidarity mode" that involves blacking out one day a week in perpetuity (which they're calling "Touch Grass Tuesdays"): https://old.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/148ks6u/indefinit...
See. They don't care at all. Just another day of internet outrage.
"1200 Elo players don't know how to take advantage of having the bishop pair."

How exactly does one take advantage of having a bishop pair? Why is that not obvious to players under 1200?
Believe it or not, actual deep introspection (meditation, mindfulness) will make you realize you are more like a stochastic parrot, not less like one.
In my opinion, business reviews on Google maps have replaced the need for any official standards. They also allow for the option of effectively having your own standards, rather than a single government mandated standard.
Did you buy the cards or lease the system?
Sounds like you know how to build PHP apps and didn't know how to build Ruby apps. That's fine, and a valid reason for you to pick what worked for you. I've had plenty of Ruby apps just run for years without additional work.
Related:

Comic Mono – a legible monospace font - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27488524 - June 2021 (51 comments)

Comic Mono - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25520510 - Dec 2020 (216 comments)
Less accessible compared to what?
As I predicted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36192312#36192983 they thing it's a blip on the radar and will soon pass and everybody would just consent to the new reality. The thought of their way not being the right way is not being considered and there would be no changes. They plan to just wait it out and count on redditors to fold and endure what they must. We'll see if they are right.
From Reddit's perspective overall this is a terrible idea, but from Huffman's perspective it's purely rational. If he has to walk this back it's probably not compatible with his continued tenure after all, the question of why this was done so hastily and rudely would inevitably undermine his leadership. If he just barrels ahead though, and prays that the addictions of mods and users are greater than their pride/desire to have a functional site, then he can possibly survive.

It's not as though there's a third choice, he can't realistically get rid of the mods and replace them, then expect that to not blow up in his face. He can't walk this back, and he's doubled down on libeling the dev of Apollo for example. "Stay the course and hope everyone just gets over it" is his best option, having already sunk into the quicksand.

IMO of course.
While most of the conversation is focused on “ohh restaurants pay less than minimum wage, therefore we should tip”. I think more of the conversation needs to happen on the side of “why do more people expect tips for just doing their bare minimum?”. Tips are showing up for things where employees are not paid less than minimum wage like bakeries, flower shops, clothing stores, fast food, ice cream shops etc.

The weirdest one was a bicycle shop where they charged me $120 before taxes for a “tune up” on a $500 bicycle and then presented me with the 20, 25 and 30% menu. I almost laughed out loud on this one.
> TIP = To Insure Promptness.

TIL. I'd never even thought about the possibility of it being an acronym..

Edit: Nevermind snopes says that isn't true https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/tip-sheet/
How to Navigate -1 to 0: Advice From the Experts
> Right this is a very exciting release but disappointing that there was no price reduction at all or rate limit increase for gpt-4

They are planning on reducing the pricing from $infinite to $current-listed (or, viewed another way, to increase the quota from 0 to current-listed) by clearing the waiting list.

This, obviously, doesn’t benefit (may even, competitively, hurt) those who already have GPT-4 access, but for everyone else, its a win.
> crew or passengers being taken hostage

Russia has been known to imprison Western civilians on trumped-up drug charges, then exchange them for hardcore criminals imprisoned in the US or elsewhere (the recent exchange of Brittney Griner, a basketball player arrested for having a bit of cannabis oil, for Viktor Bout, an arms dealer nicknamed the "Merchant of Death", comes to mind).

> Russia impounding/stealing the aircraft

Other countries are impounding Russians' yachts, I can see where the Russian government would see it as reasonable to impound planes in retaliation.
My best guess is that these abominations are made in order to adhere to some pre-made design that specified all the visual aspects without regard for the existing technology. If somebody gives you an export of a design made in Photoshop and says that you need to match it pixel for pixel, that design might not be readily implementable. Depending on the approvals needed, or the cost of hiring external designers, asking them to revisit the design in order to match the tech stack might be politically infeasible.

So instead of design being the intersection of form and function, design becomes entirely detached from the function.
> Seems like the entire cost of running the business and keeping people employed has been passed on to the customer.

This is all business everywhere (other than the trillions of dollars exchanged in corrupt government contracts).
The problem isn't that no one can create a Reddit clone, the problem is that no one can scale like Reddit and do it at continuous loss just to be dominant
Research supports the draconian narrative.

> The contribution of such deterrence measures (the "stick") offers more explanation for the decline in New York City crime than the improvement in the economy, the authors conclude.

https://www.nber.org/digest/jan03/what-reduced-crime-new-yor...
I don't understand it. You tell the gpt-4 session a function exists and supply the signature, but I don't see any URLs being defined on where the APIs live?

> 1. Call the model with functions and the user’s input

> 2. Use the model response to call your API

I don't get this part. Where do you tell it where the API lives?
I misremembered. The effect is that you don't get the "Restart required" message, but the implementation is that they just postpone applying the update until your next re-open.

> We also are not trying to force you to install updates before you can keep using Firefox. Firefox's update mechanism downloads updates while it is running and installs them at startup. ... In the case of Bug 1705217, the package manager updates Firefox's files on its own schedule that is outside of Firefox's control ... Firefox had no intention of forcing updates to be installed at an inconvenient time.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1761859
the problem is that he isn't doing it to show of his generosity, but that doing what he does is the way he gets the money in the first place. he is not independently wealthy and bragging about how he spends his money, but he figured out how he can earn money that allows him to give it to others.

so denying him publicity would deny him the very means to do good in the first place.

he gives some money to make more money

or he makes money in order to give money. in the end, what matters is how much money he keeps for himself and how much he gives away. it looks to me he is giving much more than he is keeping.
Depends on the “fast food” but generally, terminals have custom or no tipping buried in the interface after 25/20/18/15/10 or whatever the steps are.

I would be happy if 18 and 10 were the bottom options, depending on the place. It’s frankly not easy to even choose those.

Pre-pandemic, I tipped 20% for restaurants or delivery, and 10% to “restaurants” for pickup, if it was a restaurant with table service. I still mostly do that, but it’s often the lowest option these days. I do not appreciate there being a lowest tipping amount of 15% for fast casual. It is quite a bit of work to get to the 10. Depending on the exact place, it’s fuzzy if really that is appropriate or not, I really don’t think it’s appropriate for a restaurant without table service to be requesting a tip of 10% or higher for pickup, but here we are.
lmao are they trolling with the naming

https://www.cerebras.net/andromeda/
I don't understand why reddit didn't respond to the initial criticism by decreasing the pricing/demands and just slowly implementing what they want over time. Doing it all at once seemed like a silly move.
Well this is cringey.
> That said, some devs interpret "quick" to mean "sloppy", which is not correct.

Totally agree, but I've seen some devs completely melt when we need to go fast/iterate. For them, they really do produce sloppy work when they go too quickly. Many "big thinker" types are like this. Not defending it, just an observation.
Apollo implemented this as a feature last year in fact.
> 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.

Completely agree. We use gpt-3.5 in our feature and it works really well! After my blog post where I detail some of the issues [0] I got a lot of people asking me questions about how we got gpt-3.5 to "work well" because they found it wasn't working for them compared to gpt-4. Almost every time the reason is that they weren't really doing good prompting and expected the magic box to do some magic. The answer is...prompt engineering is actual work, and with some elbow grease you can really get gpt-3.5 to do a lot for you.

[0]: https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/hard-stuff-nobody-talks-about-...
US clean energy rollout continues to be hamstrung by grid challenges
Hans... they've got snoos on them.
"All" FP articles and "always" is probably broader a generalization than what you really mean. Can you share examples from the linked page that you see as smug?
> why couldn't the API just send a batch of ads to be served with the content

One word: control.
Also, "real" comic book fonts do exist: https://www.comicbookfonts.com/
what's your point? the users who care are the users who post the stuff that the others come to see. yeah the majority are lurkers, but they actually like the high quality content or they wouldn't be there. without the power users there's no site.
We tend to get better at the things we do often. Companies which have annual release cycles are almost always terrible at actually shipping software in my experience. One of my first goals in any new organization is improving iteration / feedback cycle speed.
Do MODs lose money during blackout. If no, what's the incentive to bring them back quickly?