skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you actually offering people romantic paid for tropical getaways early on in dating to try to attract them? And does it work?

Cause that sounds more like some kind of old Hollywood romcom cliche than something a lot of women really want to have thrown at them to 'win them' in the past decade. But hey, I haven't tried it!
The story you're telling sounds like a you guys problem, not a Ruby or Rails problem. I've been building and running Rails apps since 2007 and have not experienced what you've described.

My current app runs on AWS ECS. Upgrades are largely just updating my Dockerfile or merging a pull request from Dependabot. We have pagerduty and it only goes off when a 3rd party API is down, usually resolving itself.
I agree, but what really drives their userbase numbers is the inane crap like r/AmItheAsshole and r/pics, and those mods are replaceable.
Tangential:

> Over the years, processors and C compilers have gotten much better using a couple of techniques. These include pipelining, inlining functions, and branch prediction. Unfortunately, the parsers generated by most parser generators make it difficult for any of these techniques to apply. Most generated parsers operate with a combination of jump tables and gotos, rendering some of the more advanced optimization techniques impotent. Because of this, generated parsers have a maximum performance cliff that is extremely difficult to overcome without significant effort.

Although generating parsers, and finite automata in general, using a table-based approach is common, it has long been recognized that using tables/data for this purpose (as opposed to generating executable source code directly) is not a good idea, precisely because it inhibits compiler optimizations. I think the current situation is simply a consequence of the fact that parsing abruptly stopped being sexy multiple decades ago.

Much better parser generators are possible, and LR, specifically, has much untapped potential left.
PE is more like a flock of buzzards, cleaning up the bodies at train wrecks. A very clever, malicious flock of buzzards - who've learned how to hack the switches & signals, to ensure an ample & growing supply of train wrecks.
With a good sales team, you can land customers who don’t see all the features they need, because you’re routinely delivering a solid if simple product that gets major new functionality a few times a year and if you just hold on we will get your feature to the top of the list.

Those paying customers are where your MRR comes from. Another case of perfect being the enemy of good.
I've been spending a lot of time figuring out how to make these GPT models successful at *editing* existing code. This is much more difficult than having them write brand new code.

So far, gpt-4 has been significantly better at editing code than gpt-3.5-turbo. This is for two reasons (which I previously discussed here [1]):

1. GPT-4's bigger context window lets it understand and edit larger codebases. The new 16k window for 3.5 might solve this problem.

2. GPT-4 is much better at following instructions about how to format code edits into a diff-like output format. Perhaps the improved instruction following will help 3.5 succeed here.

Essentially, 3.5 isn't capable of outputting any sort of diff-based edit format. The only thing it can reliably do is send back *all* of the code (say an entire source file) with the changes included. On the other hand, GPT-4 is capable of reliably outputting (some) diff-like formats.

So I'm very curious to see if the new 3.5 model solves both of these problems. I'll be running some benchmarks to find out!

[1] https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider#gpt-4-vs-gpt-35

EDIT: On point (2) above... early experiments with gpt-3.5-turbo-16k seem to indicate that it is NOT able to follow system prompt instructions to use a diff-like output format. Still need to try the new functions capability.
Private Equity is the most destructive and bad-faith-operating version of investing, in much the same way that Kim Jong Un is the most destructive and bad-faith-operating version of a politician. The capital that one would define as the "investment" is in fact just a viral delivery mechanism, so the parasite can infest the host, devour its innards, and leave its husk to dry up.
Perhaps the new swatting will just be people going to your house and yelling at the Amazon driver to get you banned.
> 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.

I think that's true at 2000+ but at my rating (500) it's just a comedy of blunders
Nice to see a cool looking cross platform editor written in Free Pascal with Lazarus. Pascal is a surprisingly expressive language.
The claim seems to be entirely about new loans, because the whole point of the supposed scheme is that the profit is coming from new loans that won't need to be paid back.

Raising money by issuing new shares wouldn't have anything to do with anything here.
As someone who programs for a few years, I really dig their scripting language. I am a huge fan of small scripts but always found bash scripting scary as it is quite unique. Googling a specific thing and seeing some awk solution is just scary for me (like regex was before I understood it). That's not bad but I prefer having easily maintainable code for a small script.

Nu's principles and influence from modern languages makes it easier for me. But be careful about it not having a 1.0 release. Often times things can break, but their docs always point out breaking changes.
My Latin is rusty, then it is perhaps "ad populum", attacking the people. In any case, you're not addressing the message.

"Ceterus paribus" yes, older people are more wise due to experience, but I have met 28 year olds which are much wiser than millions of old, insular, dumb 50-80 year olds.
2 days shows Reddit that the mods can organize. It's a warning shot.

Now, you can't entirely extrapolate from there to an indefinite blackout, but statements like this from the CEO seem like one of the best ways to make it more likely—especially given the average orneriness level of the stereotypical Redditor.
This could be bad or great depending on the use case.

- Bad: bottlenecked access to the CPU and its memory

- Good: Bypass the CPU on device to device transfer, in the style of NVidia's GPUDirect (https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/gpudirect-storage/)
There are clearly two genders, women and men.
All the other BS is made up, and nobody takes it seriously.
I'm betting on learning (both human and ML) being analogous to renormalization in QFT. Essentially, you are trying to explain a process in terms of imperfect patterns. With incoming data, you update both your patterns and your locations where these patterns occur at once.

There is some research into this https://phys.org/news/2022-05-renormalization-group-methods-...
> The fact that you can replicate coherent text from probabilistic analysis and modeling of a very large corpus does not mean that humans acquire and generate language the same way.

Also, the LLMs are cheating! They learned from us. It's entirely possible that you do need syntax/semantics/sapience to create the original corpus, but not to duplicate it.

Let's see an AlphaZero-style version of an LLM, that learns language from scratch and creates a semantically meaningful corpus of work all on its own. It's entirely possible that Chomsky's mechanisms are necessary to do so.
Isn't the base problem that commercial real estate is worth much less now than when the loans were taken out?

This is the same thing that happened to residential housing markets in the S&L and subprime mortage crises, right?
Very good question. Although from descriptions I've heard of Nostr, isn't that how relays work? Unfiltered content (and thus, potential liability) flowing through peoples' relays? If so then I guess we have Nostr as our guinea pig.
I see this theory a lot and I'm not so sure. The Reddit API makes things easier, but with this new pricing it makes way more sense for AI companies to go back to scraping.

But at the end of the day, AI companies aren't Reddit's users. Redditors don't have any reason to care about that, we have nothing to gain from Reddit charging AI companies for API access. So Reddit structing their response to AI in a way that completely dicks over so many users is never going to go over well. And it doesn't help that their CEO is acting like a petulant manchild the entire time.
> Models that are known for:

> 1. Lying about everything

> 2. Require human curation to procedure usable results, that will be biased because of that curation

> 3. Being extremely good at convincing people they should trust them

Finally, we automate politics!
For me its very strange argument.

So, basically, hungry people, or people in dire straits, or chronically ill people will not accept money that comes from porn? Why? Whats wrong with porn made by consent adults?

Please explain why you think its weird.
Nation* / U.S.
Instant Pot’s Slower Sales Tip Gadget Maker into Bankruptcy
Probably similar but the advantage of RISC-V is that it's open source.

AFAIK x86 is still dominating the data centers. There's a bit of ARM going on but wouldn't it make more sense to switch straight to RISC-V?
Toyota future EV plans include batteries with 900-mile range
did some back of the napkin math with what the apollo developer has said publicly. each user makes 10,000 api calls a month and there are 2 billion calls per month which means 200,000 MAU. Reddit has an MAU around 500m users.
What does the New Yorker have to do with this?
I agree, it's not garbage. It's designed and optimized to provide a primarily image/video experience, and focus the app more on the endless scrolling / low information density, skinner-box experience that has infected nearly all social media. The de-emphasis placed on comments and discussion is clear from the design. The app is indicative of the direction where Reddit would like to take the site.

Needless to say, there are many people (such as myself) who enjoy what Reddit is/was, and would prefer it to stay that way. Emphasis was not placed on posts themselves, but rather the discussion surrounding the posts. This design goal is clear in the layout of the old.reddit.com layout, which is optimized for information density, back and forth conversation, and parallel conversational threads (quite unique compared with modern social media apps).

So long as third-party apps and the old.reddit front-end exist, Reddit can still exist as a discussion-board focused site that (in the minds of some users) keeps the site unique. With the death of third-party apps, we are forced into the vision that Reddit has for the site instead. I'm sure that model gets more "engagement" (the skinner-box formula certainly makes a lot of money for other social media), but it also ruins what makes Reddit, Reddit.

Therefore for older users, it's not a matter of being "picky" that the app is "garbage". It's actually much worse than that. If the app was merely "garbage" there would be a holdout that the app could improve. Instead it's a fear that Reddit is changing the site dramatically to be more in line with modern social media. Those who like Reddit for being Reddit, and would rather Reddit stay Reddit than try to be Instagram/TikTok are obviously not happy with what they see as what Reddit is all about changing. There will be a similar outcry when old.reddit.com is inevitably sunsetted.

As a user who likes the old discussion board format of Reddit, I am obviously going to be unhappy when my personal favourite third party app (Sync in my case) dies. I don't need to doomscroll through skinner-box style feeds, getting a dopamine hit everytime a Twitter screenshot confirms my political biases, or strawmans opinions of those who believe differently than myself. Maybe I'll just go "touch grass" as the kids say these days.
I did indeed, no lies here haha.

However (and at risk of sounding hostile), can I ask what other cultures have you experienced?

All cultures have good and bad things, it’s not xenophobic or racist (I hope) that the Chinese have statistically better school conduct and order, while the Russians are impressively tough, the Spanish are very chill and relaxed, and many more examples.

As with all previous examples, Americans have many such qualities, but I wouldn’t have thought to say polite as one of them. Maybe for the Japanese. Hope it doesn’t offend anyone. At least around here Americans have more a fame of being loud-ish and sometimes a bit lacking in reading the room. It’s absolutely terrible but, have you watched Emily in Paris? Kind of like that.

I however understand you considering Americans polite if your other comparison is, for example, Egypt.

Just so it doesn’t offend anyone, here’s some qualities I associate with Americans. Creative, resourceful, fighters for freedom and their own personal rights (litigious too), despite the current political climate.
I think it is just your bubble. There is nobody who is divorced in my social bubble. Young and old, all manage it somehow. I am also a millennial.
In what sense are they “wrong”? You don’t agree with them. But theirs is the final word on the matter until a new court or new law comes around. The interpretation of the Bill of Rights has varied greatly over the last 250 years even though the words have stayed the same. The law isn’t based on our ideas of what it is, the law is based on what is enforced.
1. No Language model is yet even close to the scale of the human brain

2. Depending on what exactly you're trying to teach (perfect grammar, paragraphs of coherent text, basic reasoning), much less data is needed. https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.07759

3. Brains don't start at 0. Evolution, dna/rna etc. There's obviously some pre disposition for language learning in humans but that alone isn't enough ground for a "universal grammar"

4. We really do take in an enormous amount of data (not text specifically)
I think definitions of "a finished person" are being mismatched here. in my experience most people just want a partner that is a functional adult. Knows how to eat properly. Understands taxes. Can speak intelligently about cost of living topics like budgeting groceries and entertainment. Can drink moderately on a weeknight knowing they have to go to work the next day.

Edited to add: In my experience, if you don't date someone who "can adult", you will have to parent your partner, which doesn't go all that well if you're not kinky like that.
Ha! Thanks, I guess there aren't many "Vampire Battle Royale's"..

I didn't know it was shut down actually, hope you had fun with it. :)
Is ChatGPT the End of Programmers?
No. It’s made up, because whether you claim it’s 20x or 100x or -5x, you can’t defend any of those numbers because of incomplete info.
Yes. That's perfect. Except that the animal they're eating wasn't necessarily dying, it might have just been growing slowly.
I like that you put "fixing" in quotes. People are of two minds. They think they want some things while their revealed preferences are different. Id vs. ego, maybe. There's good things about relationships, but I don't think anyone ever got into committed relationships for fun; I think they were forced into them by their environment (finances, family). It's good not to be forced into them, but then you lose the good things to be found in them. But people want to have their cake and eat it, which doesn't make sense. So it's not a black and white thing; even to a singular person, the "fix" or the "problem" may seem both good and bad.

I'm skeptical about future generations though. If you frame "not having kids/serious relationships" as "bad", then I think things will continue to get "worse". :p There's nothing for future people to figure out; the incentives that were once in play will continue to erode. It's like expecting war deaths to decrease as weapons continue to grow in power.

UNLESS you're talking about the state growing people in pods. And generally going transhuman/posthuman (and post-"relationship" and post-"two people fucking"). I think that's the ultimate future, and it's way better than the setup we've had traditionally in all but romance and current Overton window.
Ohhh I love this suggestion. Great idea!
> When the next boycott comes, migration for many subreddits will be easier.

Which will be when all the third party apps stops working and people realize what hot garbage the official app is.
I'd say more like some slimy poison frog, toxic, nasty and only care about themselves while smearing themselves all over the place. Looks great from a distance tho.

Or, they are a self-aware trolley that eats run-over people after choosing to switch tracks to where a bunch of people are tied down.

I think more similar descriptions can be found, but as for what they really are: definitely not the economy immune system cleaning up the remains of dead companies. They are just predatory wealth hoarders. But it's all legal and I'm sure the people making lots of money don't emphatise with the rest of the humans, otherwise they might not be doing it.
Why is this forked from the original? The changes seem like things that could have been submitted as pull requests. If the original author rejected them then, sure, make a fork. But at least submit it first.
I certainly wouldn't say that a traditional LLM is conscious. Once an input falls off of a LLM's input buffer it ceases to have any effect on its output, the exact same way that a subliminal stimuli's effects are limited in a human brain. The size, in bytes, of a LLM's input buffer isn't all that far off from a human brain's input activations either. So strictly feed-forward neural networks aren't conscious in this sense but its easy to image that architectural changes might provide an analogue to what a humans' consciousness provides.
Like an Adam Neumann of pizza?
interesting point!
I understand US carriers and ISPs are the most guilty parties that are selling data to third parties. Maybe not intentionally, but we have seen in the past when third parties get access to user information hoarded by Big Tech for e.g. Cambridge Analytica.

Even the data that is collected by Facebook + Google, are mostly non consensual and we don't know what they do with it. Or it's like the classic gun to your head, to use our "free" services aka, if you don't pay for it, you are the customer.
Good point regarding potential negative equity, I hadn't considered that.
Hear me out. But maybe guys have discovered what women haven't. That higher education isn't the be all and end all to social status except to others who seek or have it. I have many friends who started working right out of high school in the trades. Now we have MOOCs, bootcamps, trades, and certifications. And the value of locking yourself out of the job market for 4 years while and paying 100s of thousands of dollars just doesn't feel as smart financially as it used to.
There's nothing about a crypto token that make the economics different though. That's the whole point. That's why law from 1930 is relevant. Crypto isn't economic innovation.
For me on latest iOS it does prompt the first time then it works every subsequent time without asking again
“If you watch all [the trailers], you know everything that’s going to happen in that movie. So how do moviegoers feel about that? There must be people, who, after watching all the trailers, don’t want to actually go see the movie.”

That's how I feel, I like watching trailers, but then I don't feel the need to actually watch a movie. Back when I had more free time I would watch 50 random trailers instead of going to cinema...
Mods are joining forces for an indefinite blackout https://www.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/148ks6u/indefinit...
The poster above specifies <20, so I'm talking about <20 year old women.
> Gensler doesn't make the rules.

He literally does.

Hence the "SEC Rulemaking Process." [1]

[1] https://www.sec.gov/oig/reportspubs/aboutoigaudit347finhtm
I don't know if it was PE change, but I remember the last time I went to Toys R Us. The whole shop was full of expensive garbage toys. I didn't buy anything and left feeling like someone had just tried to scam me.
China is not a third world country any longer. It's competing with the US and Xi is doing fine.

Tens of thousands of credit cards or phone numbers or whatever - why not, do you think that would be a problem for such a nation state actor
... or the hacking. They mention exploring the security implications.
I was being humorous, but also telling the truth!

I went straight from hobby programming to freelancing, so I've been "rediscovering" best practices the hard way.

I did actually intend to do things properly, but client asked "can it be done faster" and I thought "sure I'll just ship fast and then rewrite it later"... ha! Project became so unmaintainable, development ground to a halt. (I am doing the rewrite now...)

Turns out sometimes my job is to say "no."
My favorite part of this is the introduction of the now-iconic artist Ralph Steadman.

> Another problem was his habit of sketching people he met in the
various social situations I dragged him into--then giving them the
sketches. The results were always unfortunate. I warned him several
times about letting the subjects see his foul renderings, but for some
perverse reason he kept doing it. Consequently, he was regarded with
fear and loathing by nearly everyone who'd seen or even heard about
his work. He couldn't understand it. "It's sort of a joke," he kept
saying. "Why, in England it's quite normal. People don't take offense.
They understand that I'm just putting them on a bit."

"Fuck England," I said. "This is Middle America. These people regard
what you're doing to them as a brutal, bilious insult. Look what
happened last night. I thought my brother was going to tear your head
off."

Steadman shook his head sadly. "But I liked him. He struck me as a
very decent, straightforward sort."

"Look, Ralph," I said. "Let's not kid ourselves. That was a very
horrible drawing you gave him. It was the face of a monster. It got on
his nerves very badly." I shrugged. "Why in hell do you think we left
the restaurant so fast?"

"I thought it was because of the Mace," he said.

"What Mace?"

He grinned. "When you shot it at the headwaiter, don't you remember?"
"Hell, that was nothing," I said. "I missed him...and we were leaving,
anyway."

"But it got all over us," he said. "The room was full of that damn
gas. Your brother was sneezing was and his wife was crying. My eyes
hurt for two hours. I couldn't see to draw when we got back to the
motel."

"That's right," I said. "The stuff got on her leg, didn't it?"

"She was angry," he said.

---

Funny to consider that Steadman's visual aesthetic is even more identifiable than Hunter S. Thompson. The influence is everywhere!
Every api should have its own validation so I don't even see this as a problem.

What is returned from openai should be treated like any other user input.
Moderation is also the best part of Reddit. You just don't notice the moderation that's good—almost by definition.
Making more money in better jobs, in better towns, healthier, better lives.
More to the point, it's much better than delivering incomplete yet working products quickly and regularly, complete yet broken products quickly and regularly, complete and working products slowly and regularly or complete and working products quickly and irregularly.
This is a lot of words that don't explain at all why you think seeing a movie in a theater vs your home and playing a "new" vs "stale" video game are similar experiences. Based on the other comments, you seem to be solving for different conversational problems than me.

Good luck with the dragons or whatever!
Wordcels think LLMs imitate the human brain, when a shape rotator knows they really just imitate human language.
They also went from 700 employees to 2000 employees because they took VC money and have to grow grow grow. I'm sure one could make a sustainable business out of Reddit but nobody wants just a sustainable business.