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It's not about price. It's about implementation and lies.

30 days is not enough time for Christian (or any third party app fev) to build, test, and release a solution to collect payments on behalf of all his app's users for API access. Not to mention making things right with users who already payed for an extendes subscription for his app.

There are a few things Reddit could have done here.

1. Let third party app devs know about the upcoming change much earlier so they could prepare.

2. Extend the deadline.

3. Implement a BYOK system where users buy individual API keys directly from Reddit, then provide the keys to the third party apps for API access.

Instead Reddit lied to the devs about their API plans up until almost the last minute. Then they rolled out a plan they knew no major third party app could comply with in time. Then u/spez lied about Christian in a poor attempt to discredit him.

Reddit could have made their API work even at that huge price tag. But they didn't want to. They just wanted to drag everyone kicking and screaming to the official app.
You know, like lawyers that present motions full of made-up case law in court?

"In a cringe-inducing court hearing, a lawyer who relied on A.I. to craft a motion full of made-up case law said he “did not comprehend” that the chat bot could lead him astray." [1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/08/nyregion/lawyer-chatgpt-s...
The price going up was something in the original comment. I guess that isn’t even true and this whole conversation is pointless.
Function calling is a great feature. I've been using LLMs for function calls for the past few months and gpt-4 has worked great for this out of the box. Awesome to see both the models specifically trained for this.
Which is an insane number for an operation like Reddit. I wonder what those people do all day ?

I would have estimated Reddit to be 100 people max, and even that seems high.
Well, now it will be easier. Those poor sops who can't afford the new pricing are that much less on the road to compete with.
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Speaking about historically, that was implemented in Soviet Union, and I don't think it worked well. Though it certainly gave extra tools to the government to control the people.
i have no qualms with MrBeast's business model. using his youtube videos to raise money to help people in whichever way is certainly not a problem. most of the entertainment industry is doing a lot worse (by keeping the profits to themselves).

the question is not, who is doing more, but whether what anyone of us is doing has any lasting effects. so it matters how the money is used. most of what i have seen from MrBeast is giving random amounts of money to individuals, which sometimes can be helpful, but often only provides short term relief. his recent examples of paying for eye surgery or funding an orphanage are an improvement over that, and if that is where MrBeast's philanthropy is heading, then i am all for it.
It seems like this isn't very well known, but the design of Comic Sans is actually intended to help children with dyslexia. The creator of Comic Sans also talks about this in his lectures. Listening to him talk about the design of the typeface changed my perception of it.

Ref: Vincent Connare: Comic Sans is the Best Font in the World
https://youtu.be/xXdzBTeYZlE

Ref: https://www.nothingcomicaboutdyslexia.com/
My interpretation of 'take over' would be a majority of new server installs would be RISC-V based. There is a lead time for development, orders etc plus customers have to be content to switch to a new architecture. Amazon's Arm program started what 6ish years ago and they are at 20% installs (from my recollection).
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The big feature here is the function calls, as this is effectively a replacement for the "Tools" feature of Agents popularized by LangChain, except in theory much more efficient since it may not require an extra call to the API. In the case of LangChain which selects Tools and their functional outputs through JSON Markdown shennanigans (which often fails and causes ParsingErrors), this variant of ChatGPT appears to be finetuned for it so perhaps it'll be more reliable.

While developing a more-simple LangChain alternative (https://github.com/minimaxir/simpleaichat) I discovered a neat trick for allowing ChatGPT to select tools from a list reliably: put the list of tools into a numbered list, and force the model to return only a single number by using the logit_bias parameter: https://github.com/minimaxir/simpleaichat/blob/main/PROMPTS....

The slight price drop for ChatGPT inputs is of course welcome, since inputs are the bulk of the costs for longer conversations. A 4x context window at 2x the price is a good value too. The notes for the updated ChatGPT also say "more reliable steerability via the system message" which will also be huge if it works as advertised.
My wife and I have a whole pile of ordnance survey maps [0] for hiking. Nothing will replace it.
She was a Brownie [1] and we're doing similar stuff with our daughters (Geocaching is the big thing right now).

0. https://shop.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/maps/

1. https://www.girlguiding.org.uk/what-we-do/brownies/
The anime subreddit has a couple of million people on it and I still recognize lots of people who are active in the episode discussion threads. Depending on your own engagement, people might start to recognize you too, even if you don't post that much.
This is great. I wonder if the price decrease comes from the competition (on the side of anthropic and from local LLMs). If so, I guess we will have to wait for a general GPT-4 competitor to come along before we see price decreases there aswell. Right now it's quiet expensive. We are incorporating it in a new product in the education space and we have to be fairly conservative in rate limiting things so that the cost won't go out of hand.

I also wonder how much of an impact the new Nvidia HGX systems will have on the medium term infra cost on running these services and whether we will see some benefits from that.
RSS was basically this.

Usenet was good as well.
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Tipping no longer seems to be about rewarding good service. Tipping at starbucks, panda express or any other fast food joint didn't used to happen outside of a dollar or two into a tip jar. 15% was pretty normal for a sit down dinner where tables were bused, drinks were refilled and service was had...now the expecation is 15% or more when getting drive thru fast food which in some niche places can be as much as a sit down meal (Burgerville near me is an example where meals can easily exceed $15/person).
I wonder how the author thinks about this now, 8 years later.

Way back in 2016/2017 I saw this video on prototyping where the programmer whipped up a snake clone in around 4 minutes. I deliberately practised programming in this way: how fast can I go from idea to working prototype? Code style, organization, testing, best practices be damned: you have about how long it takes to run a load of laundry, how much can you get done?

I did this for a few months. I focused on games. I roughly tracked how much time it took to get from empty file to the first interaction with the game. I tried to focus my practice on getting to that first interaction. And the overall time I spent and how far I got with the idea.

The thing with going that fast is... the code sucks. You're not writing it for an audience, for your future self, to make it possible to extend and compose; when you want to go fast and prototype in this way you're deliberately not going to use this code for anything later on. You just want to get the idea out there to see, "is this even fun? Would it even work at all?"

... before you go ahead and spend the next 6 - 12 months spending your limited time on something. Because finding out your game isn't actually fun after all of that effort is demotivating.

In this sense speed is useful. It's useful in certain contexts when doing programming on the job. Especially at startups where the runway is limited and you don't know if you even have customers yet.

However!

Be prepared to throw it out. Once you find some traction for a feature or process; throw out the prototype/MVP code. Make sure it's cheap to do that: you can write software that is loosely coupled, you can write a better API that uses the MVP code underneath, write good tests against the new interface, remove the old code paths piece by piece, etc. If it's a core part of the product and there are customers for it get rid of that prototype/MVP code some how (it's easier to plan for this and not get too attached to the first iteration if you do it intentionally).
Oh sorry bud, I guess I shouldn't be upset that there's a forum that I saw tons of child porn on. And nazis. And trans-hating homophobes. I'm so sorry, I'll try to be better.

The guy has replied to every single one of my posts after I said I quit going to 4chan because of CP defending 4chan. A little odd considering my circumstances for leaving it. That shouldn't even remotely be a debate on why I left.
This is how a normal company behaves.

It is not how a pre-IPO company behaves

Incentives.
There's a universe of companies in adtech other than Google, etc, that advertisers leverage to tailor their shit and do the dirty work. Stuff like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlueKai that will suck up anything they can find and then help plug it into your other stuff.

How much plausible deniability of all of this stuff that can be happily plugged into the Google, etc, APIs and tools should we extend to the big players? I'm sure there are plenty of people at all those companies who know that the data connection integrations they provide aren't only getting first-party, originally-sourced data. Google's ad platform doesn't need to explicitly get their hands dirty tying all the threads together for you or maintain a singular massive database of everything, they just need to supply enough hooks to let all the OTHER companies do it. Which is probably good in that everyone's ad-hoc attempt is probably less-accurate than Google could do on their own... but all that data is still floating around and it all originally got connected to use to target ads in these systems.

EDIT: And if you extend it to the publishing arms (e.g. Youtube or MSN or whatever) than I'd bet many of the big players in ad serving have other departments that are running integrations with some of those data aggregation platforms. They know how the game works for sure.
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> Linking works like hard links in Unix, where the same note appears as a child of multiple different parents (added a command to find "orphans" in case you unlink it from everywhere).
> At this point I might not even bother adding tags.

What you described with hard links is exactly how I use tags, so that would satisfy my need for tags as an organizational tool.
> nuclear power plants might need to pay for someone to take the energy because they can not ramp fast enough.

Is this generally true?

The local Wikipedia says nuclear ramps up or down at 5%/min. This is faster than any other method of generation.

When prices recently went negative, it was on the news that they ramped down production at the nuclear power plants.
This sounds like every apple product, like Watson getting Sherlocked. Except reddit didn't even make Sherlock.
Reddit encouraged building on their API for over a decade. Reddit told Christian in January that there would be no big changes to the API this year if not for multiple years. Reddit told developers it had no plans to charge for it's API.

To call it a "free lunch" is pretty disrespectful IMHO, Christian worked hard on Apollo and it blows away the official app. Reddit benefits from 3rd party apps. Period. They don't want to admit that and they might not benefit as much as from 1st party but those users interact, create content, moderate subs, and more. Reddit went from "no charge, use the API" to "pay us a LOT of money and you have <30 days" with zero wiggle room.
Also "a blurry jpeg of the internet". LOL, all we need is "a series of tubes, not a truck" and we're set.

I think we are focusing on the model too much and miss the real hero - language. The corpus of text these models are trained on is a marvel of human creativity. This cultural artefact is the diff between primitive and modern humans. And it is the diff between a random initialisation and a trained GPT-4. Maybe the brain or the model don't matter, but what you train them on.

Even more, language is special. Ideas are self replicators, they have a lifecycle, they have evolutionary pressure to improve. Ideas travel a lot. No single human can recreate this knowledge, it is the result of massive search. I'd say more than 99% of human intelligence is based on applying ideas invented by someone else. So let's be more lenient on the parroting accusations. AIs can be smart if they get feedback, like AlphaZero, but without feedback they of course have to parrot.
I don't think apple ever officially claimed the trashcan mac pro could be rack mounted, those are kits provided by 3rd parties.

But the 2019 mac pro did have an official rack mount variant of the case.
> A synthetic alternative was later invented and has since been approved in Europe as an equivalent to the ingredient that requires horseshoe crabs. But in the U.S., the blood harvest isn't shrinking. It's growing.

Years ago I saw a poster at work about LAL harvesting that said the horseshoe crabs "could" be returned to live out their lives after the harvesting. I thought it was weasel wording then and hoped for a substitute. I'm glad someone finally made the substitute and it should replace all LAL use.
I've experienced plenty of beg buttons that don't do anything other than activate the crossing light when that direction next goes green for cars. But also plenty where pressing the button takes immediate steps for the pedestrian: if the direction is already green for cars, the walk sign is turned on; otherwise, the current cycle ends and any intermediate cycles proceed with minimum duration; non-dominant directions will have longer minimum cycle time if the pedestrian button has been pressed.

In my experience, if the intersection processes car traffic dynamically, it will also process pedestrian traffic dynamically, and generally favor pedestrians. If the intersection has static timing, it's not going to do anything different for pedestrians. I recall driving in Milwaukee near UWM two decades ago, every morning I could count on the lights showing exactly the same thing at the same time. If I left my apartment at the same time, I'd get the same sequence of missed or made lights. Most other places I've driven had car sensors (usually loops in the pavement, but cameras are cheaper and less maintenance now), so there's no schedule to be learned, although the behavior is predictable if you learn the cycles and observe the stimuli. (Although, sometimes sensors are broken or miswired; there was an intersection near one of my employers where the cyclist button was connected as an left turn lane occupancy sensor; resulting in consistently wrong behavior. it's also not uncommon for a disabled vehicle to be located above a loop, or sometimes a construction / utility vehicle to be parked above a loop; some control systems can adapt and filter that out, but many don't.)
This reads a little too high on the conspiracy meter but regulation in the spirit of GDPR would be welcome (in which automated decision making with no human input is unlawful).
Zeno! Since no one else has said it on this thread, thank you for your work on Dracula.
So what is it, governments are competent or not?
This is not a surprise considering the popularity of the Kardashians.
Exactly. Even in the AMA there were multiple third party devs saying they've been trying to reach out to Reddit's team to talk about signing the API agreement to continue using the service. Saying they haven't received a response in weeks.

This reeks of Reddit just not even wanting to do this at all. Call up the big devs so they can say "Oh well, we tried!" and the small devs that could afford the smaller-end costs just get ignored.
I guess everyone has a different way of building things. I think I would just find an e-reader that has a healthy modding community and rely on that.
That's a great argument for styling scollbars. If your OS has the best scrollbar, users in other OSs might appreciate being able to use it too.
I think you are making up your own yardstick and claiming it’s universally accepted.

One instance is that PCI lanes didn't exist when the term was conjured up therefore can’t be part of inherent definition.

The mac pro has 64 lanes acroos 6 slots. PCI-e external expansion is another 8 ports of expansion limited to 40 GB/s. Unfortunately the concept of lanes doesn't seem to exist for external PCI-e ports so its hard to judge if those would count as more lanes than a normal desktop.

The 20 year old workstation is to demonstrate that the slab form factor has been called a workstation from the beginning.
I've often wondered how effective a capitalist economy would be if it limited for-profit companies to no more than N employees or forced a revenue cap. The idea being that hard cutoffs would promote more competition.
This is not concentrated in only downtown, break ins and store robberies are happening across the entire city. I was there in March and market square and Union square were like something out of a mad max film. My friend who lives in the Marina of all places just left the city for good and had his car broken into multiple times as well as was hit by a car with a driver who was high on drugs. My brother visited golden gate park to ride his bike and when he got back his roof rack was broken by vandals trying to steal it(in broad daylight!). The mission and SOMA are also dangerous and I think really only the sunset is somewhat normal although thieves still target porch packages and break into cars there. I can't vouch for mission bay or Hayes valley so maybe not all parts are terrible but the good areas are not as safe as they used to be.
He is giving Reddit the most generous interpretations to avoid seeming like he has some grudge against them. He is firmly sitting at the negotiating table and not walking away. Far from naive, he seems quite scrupulous and careful. Spez is outmatched in this regard while acting carelessly, cluelessly, and impulsively.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34182803
Not just bricked but permanently and securely wiped, would be my preference.
> Individual rights have been recognized long before the founding of the United States, though.

Yes, and? Is it not true that we have progressively recognized more rights over time, often at the cost of blood? That our "rulers" do not and should not have de facto power over our lives to impede our movements, that they should not have power over what we choose to believe or decide with whom we may associate?

Furthermore, in none of the examples cited in the link you provided do the quarantine measures impact whole cities, states or nations, so I fail to see the relevance. Where quarantine measures were broad, they were widely recognized as shameful and discriminatory in retrospect (like imprisoning 30,000 prostitutes to stem venereal disease).

> This is impossible and irresponsible when you cannot accurately assess the risk.

Irresponsible? Do you think you have some responsibility to manage other people's lives for them? This really gets to the crux of the issue doesn't it, you think some people should have the right to make such decisions for others because those "others" aren't intelligent or well-informed enough to make these decisions for themselves. It's patriarchal, condescending and anti-democratic.

As for whether it's impossible, that's literally untrue. Sweden is proof by counterexample: they did exactly this and it turned out just fine. By the time the first lockdowns happened, we already had a reasonable assessment of the risks.

Instead the heavy-handed, duplicitous and authoritarian measures made the whole issue partisan, and so the US had one of the worst outcomes of all developed countries.

> The question of a draft is so unrelated I'm intentionally ignoring it.

Except it's not unrelated, it's just another example of curtailing civil liberties in the name of some ill-defined "collective good". People advocating for these positions simply take it as a given that their vision of the collective good needs no justification.
Which is fine. They don't have to be participants on the network if they don't like the terms of engagement.

Of course, this isn't about ads in and of themselves. It's about Reddit (and, to some degree, tech in general) having lost investor interest and Reddit being this close to bankruptcy, desperately hoping that these 3P clients will provide a stable cash infusion to keep the lights on. Ads alone aren't enough; at least not now with the financial hole they have dug for themselves.

Ultimately, Reddit is panicking and doesn't know where to get the money they need real soon. Their historic practice of another investment round isn't going to work this time. Likewise, slowly transitioning to a paid API, giving developers time adapt like Christian proposed, isn't going to work either as, at that pace, there won't be a Reddit by the time the transition is complete.
Reddit can very easily one sidedly reopen these subreddits, “fire” the mods, do whatever they want. It’s their platform and they have full admin powers over everything.

The Reddit users are literally using the only miniature tool to influence Reddit that is at their disposal: look elsewhere.
I generally tip no more than 15%. Seeing suggested tips come up when I pick up take out is too common. In the past I would robotically tap the lowest option but now I am trying to be more deliberate and discerning about it. I really can't afford to tip everyone for everything!
Is this a Government hallucinations or GPT hallucinations?

hard to tell sometimes...
My highly specialised sarcasm sensors (honed in the UK) suggest that this is not in fact your current deliberate strategy; that said, I have worked for so many groups and companies where that is exactly what happens, even if they think they're planning for something else to happen, and it's obvious to pretty much everyone involved that that is what is happening and will keep happening.
> If you create data anywhere, assume some govt will eventually get a copy

I have a hunch that we've been giving these agencies too much credit this whole time

Every time there's an unmitigated act of terror makes me think: the intelligence community is either malicious (a crazy rabbit hole to go down) or incompetent

And also there's the problem of searching, like finding a needle in an ocean
The good news is that everything else the US government suppressed really was outrageous lies that are only supported by racists, like the mRNA vaccines being completely ineffective and often fatal.
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I've been using it ever since I dropped mononoki. So, about 3 years ago. Looks great, and quite readable for me. More so than OP's.

I think that it's due to the really tall x-height, and the fact that letters sray 'in-line'. OP's 's' in particular goes terribly below baseline. Not sure if using the proper term here.
As they are accepting a JSON schema for the function calls, it is likely they are using token biasing based on the schema (using some kind of state machine that follows along with the tokens and only allows the next token to be a valid one given the grammar/schema). I have successfully implemented this for JSON Schema (limited subset) on llama.cpp. See also e.g. this implementation: https://github.com/1rgs/jsonformer
I hate seeing these guys succeed because everyone of their successes is a new day that AI becomes less accessible to the average person and more locked behind their APIs.