skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Despite sharing a common prefix, GPT3.5 and GPT4 are completely different models. So, if you were hoping for a price drop on GPT4, the 3.5 drop might not be of any use to you
They want to IPO very soon. Don't have the luxury of rolling this out over a year plus.
Not sure if UCC filings have this information in them, but that's one place I'd look first.
Are there any countries which have the capabilities to spy on their citizenry that do not? I think there’s this idea of American exceptionalism, that spying on citizens is something that happens elsewhere but not in the good ‘ol US of A. But that’s probably more propaganda than fact.

The US gov has trampled on essentially every right we were taught about in 4th grade schoolhouse rock. They infiltrated and spied on Muslims in Minnesota [1] and before that had an entire program of spying on any activist at all. Before that they put entire races (Germans and Japanese) in internment camps and SCOTUS said it was fine. Hell, they even bombed people in Philadelphia.

My point is, exploiting the 3rd party doctrine to spy on Americans might be out of step with your conception of America and what you think it should be, but it’s not out of step with the historical reality of America.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/magazine/fbi-terrorism-te...
>Bot querying is a drop in the ocean compared to real people.

bot querying also doesn't make them any revenue, yet it is a common source of strain on the community. I imagine it also makes spam detection that much trickier. While there are some amazing bots (and ofc, automod) there are so many bots out there just to make noise. And reddit is already pretty noisy as is.
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They’ll just replace the mods if the popular subreddits go longer than 2 days.
I work in ad tech, the difficulty in serving ads isn't showing the ads (which can be pretty annoying in itself for advanced ad formats), it's collecting enough metrics consistently enough across platforms to convince the advertisers that fraud and brand safety aren't a concern.

Verification metrics for basic ads are things like: when was the ad shown, how much of the ad was visible, which parts (pixels and video timeline), what content was also visible while the ad was shown, clicks, bot/script/adblock detection, and whether the ad was on-target (age/gender/location of user).

Ideally, these metrics are also independently verified, so Reddit's tracking and the advertiser's own provided/preferred tracking (like DoubleClick Verification).

Typically the video player or ad renderer needs to be customized to collect these metrics and understand VPAID/VAST/VMAP/MRAID for how/when to show the ad and what tracking is needed. Plus support for mixing content and ad encoding formats.

It's basically an arms race to compete against Facebook/Google's ad serving and tracking capabilities and I'd say even most 1st party premium ad publishers with full time ad tech teams often have difficulty consistently passing verification convincingly enough. So it's understandable that Reddit has very low confidence in single developer apps being able to pass the ad verification bar, much less over API which isn't a well worn ad serving path.
That is horrible.

I have to say that in 40 years of dining out, I have never encountered any such behavior. I absolutely believe you went through it, but I tend to find Americans impressively polite on average.
Similar in the UK to be fair. Tables of 6+ often have a tip (10-15%) added as standard, though this is still "discretionary."
Coinbase wants the SEC to come up with a process for them to register with the SEC that's amenable to cryptocurrency, via a "petition for rulemaking"; https://www.sec.gov/rules/petitions/2022/petn4-789.pdf. (The SEC is, rightly IMO, saying "nah".)

Again, the point is that both Congress and the SEC make "the rules" around securities. Congress defined securities and gave the SEC the ability to write the rules for securities, with some specific requirements. The SEC's rules can't violate the various Acts of Congress, but they've still got quite a bit of rule-making power delegated to them.
My favorite one was this one time I went out in NYC for a pizza and a beer. The pizza was $24 for 2 slices (which tbh is a lot, especially in NYC) and the beer was $8. I gave the server a $50 and he didn’t come back with the change. And when I asked for the change, he made passive aggressive comments. The best part is that I still left a 10% tip and he came back asking if everything was alright, making a point to let me know the tip was less. My goodwill has long run out because it’s not just the businesses adding the pressure, the people in the service industry are behaving in a way where generous tips are expected for bad and rude service.
Works fine in Europe. Plus I pay the price I see on the menu, instead of 3 different taxes and service fees tacked on.
can someone help me understand what's the core of the issue is? is it because they are now charging for APIs which used to be free? i hope that's the not the issue because that's not a sustainable business. third party apps can grow revenue using Reddit's contents and Reddit don't see a penny from them.

if the issue is the amount Reddit charge per call, why can't those third party apps charge their users more based on the API charge? the whole thing seems bit immature from both sides.
> People already think restaurants are expensive, wait until they see restaurants that don't allow tipping.

Uhm, much of the rest of the world works without tipping, and it seems to work out just fine for everyone (even in the developed world). Tipping is a weird America thing, and it has made me mostly avoid full service restaurants...and now I'm being asked to tip at self service and take out places, ugh.
- The API is extremely cheap

- There are plenty of open source tools built on top if it (example list: https://github.com/heartly/awesome-writing-tools)

While I wish this work was open, they are both the best and cheapest option out there... by a mile.
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Oh, that's a fascinating question. My prediction is one of two things will happen:

1) His prediction will come true

2) The mods who set these subreddits private will discover that private is way more palatable, enjoyable, and easy to manage than public and will leave it there.

... at which point, either new subreddits come along to pick up the public (with the former subreddits slowly collapsing into an elite or old-guard) or Reddit will drift into irrelevance, replaced by some other public gathering location.
It says right in the first paragraph of your link that it was going to cost $20m per year, not per month.
they could but not in under 30 days.
Ah, I missed this part. ChatGPT response after you tell it a function call exists, it can decide whether or not to call it.

{
"id": "chatcmpl-123",
...
"choices": [{
"index": 0,
"message": {
"role": "assistant",
"content": null,
"function_call": {
"name": "get_current_weather",
"arguments": "{ \"location\": \"Boston, MA\"}"
}
},
"finish_reason": "function_call"
}]
}

Gotcha. This makes it so that instead of English, gpt-4 can basically spit out/decide when to make function calls now, got it. Thanks.

I wonder how scary this will get if people mistakenly trust it with anything more than a GET. Imagine not being able to trust the reliability of some of the parameters of POST / PUT / DELETE on some reports/internal databases, etc.
At some point, if they remain closed, Reddit will just take ownership of them, suspend the mods and reopen the reddits.

They will however need to do it carefully, probably after most others have folded and reopened, so as not to cause another blackout.

But ultimately it's their platform, they can do what they want. Maybe they will just have to start actually employing the mods, which may actually end up a net positive from this fiasco.
Because they sold their soul to Amazon for a quick buck and dipped.

That's the thing I feel a lot of these companies are overlooking.

Look at Notch. Made into a billionaire by selling Minecraft to Microsoft. Went off the deep end, now he has no passions and no joys other than starting arguments with people.

Tom, the guy that sold MySpace, got his 600 million and dipped, and now does whatever he wants to do, but the MySpace community was completely uprooted and decimated in the process, and millions of account with images and music and stories that could not be found anywhere else were "accidentally deleted" soon after, never to be recovered again.

That's what happens to companies that sell out. The soul is always a part of the deal, and it almost never recovers. Harley Davidson sold out in the late 60's but was bought back in the late 70s only to go public in the mid 80's and slowly decline into nostalgic mediocrity. Same with Jeep. When AMC sold out to Chrysler in the late 80s, the Jeep lost something in the process. They became even boxier than before if that was possible, and even though now they look pretty they are overpriced and soulless.

Maybe soul isn't some misty glowing orb of immortal value, but it is something that can only exist under certain circumstances. If it is lost it is essentially impossible to recover, and selling the body of the company that possesses such a soul is the best way to destroy it.
https://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/gerard-depardie...
Things usually work out of the box but not always. Might seem fine to you, but suppose you were choosing something else you don't understand fully. Maybe it's a used Mitsubishi with a CVT and you're told it's fine as long as you make sure the VIN is within a certain range, the recall work has been done, and the car computer has a certain software version. You can either get that or the Toyota that'll probably never have problems but is less efficient.

The thing is, like I said, Windows has gotten so annoying on its own that I don't want to deal with it ever again.
MS could always just not merge with Activision.
This is about Microsoft getting access to huge government datasets with which to further train the models, and the taxpayer paying them to do it.
> or the deal could be modified to suit the UK’s concerns.

The argument given by the UK's bureaucrats had something to do with cloud gaming. I guess they could make Activision's tittles available on competing cloud gaming platforms in the UK.
All RDNA2 GPUs and many Vega GPUs could use the same ISA (modulo bugs). Long ago, there was an assumption made that it was safer to treat each minor revision of the GPU hardware as having its own distinct ISA, so that if a hardware bug were found it could be addressed by the compiler without affecting the code generation for other hardware. In practice, this resulted in all but the flagship GPUs being ignored as libraries only ended up getting built for those GPUs in the official binary releases. And in source releases of the libraries, needlessly specific #ifdefs frequently broke compilation for all but the flagship ISAs.

There was an implicit assumption that just building for more ISAs was no big deal. That assumption was wrong, but the good news is that big improvements to compatibility can be made even for existing hardware just by more thoughtful handling of the GFX ISAs.

If you know what you're doing, it's possible to run ROCm on nearly all AMD GPUs. As I've been packaging the ROCm libraries for Debian, I've been enabling support for more hardware. Most GFX9 and GFX10 AMD GPUs should be supported in packages on Debian Experimental in the upcoming days. That said, it will need extensive testing on a wide variety of hardware before it's ready for general use. And we still have lots more libraries to package before all the apps that people care about will run on Debian.
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Read carefully. I said no such thing.
This seems great, but what does this mean for fine-tuning? Will we be able to fine-tune models prompted with function calls? Should we fine-tune models prompted with function calls? Depending on the complexity of the function-call/text-query pairs I think we may still want to...
I deleted my account - scrubbed all of my comments and content first - and I've always blocked ads on reddit anyway. A two day blackout won't do much unless it extends indefinitely, but actually hurt reddit in their bottom line and they might actually think twice.
I deleted my account last week. Based on the occasional check-ins, I actually think Reddit has more control over large subs than most people think. Despite a protesting, there's still enough content being made. Much of it with high comment engagement.

I feel like there's a chance that Reddit comes out from this proving that they're actually already moderating a bunch of content and volunteer mods have no leverage.
> I'm so sorry, I'll try to be better.

Thanks.

> That shouldn't even remotely be a debate on why I left.

Sure, you're the definitive source for why you left.

> there's a forum that I saw tons of child porn on.

It wasn't a forum for that though (I hope), it was a forum where people trolled others by posting it. Do you know someone put CP in the bitcoin blockchain?

And yeah, I use a no-images no-JS browser for a lot of things and 4chan would be one. I expect to be blocking 99% gore, but that last 1% is many things I'm also happy not seeing.

> I guess I shouldn't be upset

Upset at who, though? Upset at the people who enjoy an uncensored forum and have accepted that it'll be full of crap, or at the people who feel the need to poison it simply because someone else was enjoying themselves?

> trans-hating homophobes

Anonymous forums are actually one of the first places trans people were free to discuss themselves. You might (will) be flamed and trolled for it, but also engaged with. Reddit seems more free to be trans, except if you look at the forums there's always someone being banned for non-hateful things, such as being the wrong type of trans, or detrans. (Truscum vs Tucutes vs old-school Transexuals ...)
Not so silly if they are sure they'll crush the opposition. If they are convinced the boycotts are powerless, then the sooner they demonstrate it, the better.
That's what i meant, because Reddit still is running at loss not profit
I feel like maybe you mean this in good faith, but I think you might misunderstand Reddit. The site is moderated by volunteers (who this "extremely rich" company doesn't compensate) who help curate the information you then find useful. So perhaps when they feel the changes being made make their job harder (making unusable applications they use to assist in moderation and generally support due to the said big company's inability to make any progress on their asks), they withhold their help in keeping those communities moderated.
This is a cool project, I see it come up now and then. I've played with it in the past and have been impressed and I'm glad to see it's still being actively developed. I'll have to try it out again soon
Two recent conversations from this year.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35124056 (203 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33419944 (247 comments)
The problem is that Microsoft performed so poorly in the last generation of game consoles, that it is critical that they find a way to compete during this one if they plan to stay in this space for the next generation.

Hardware wise the XBox Series X is as good or better than the PS5 on virtually all counts. Their library of games is a very different story. These acquisitions are crucial to their strategy.

I don’t want to see a Sony monopoly for next generation. Before you say Nintendo, they chose a different path long ago and don’t directly compete with Sony. They instead rely on handheld gaming and quirky, fun hardware with an extremely valuable line of first party exclusives (Mario and Zelda mostly).
Leading up to the blackout, there were multiple threads on Reddit asking for alternatives to visit instead.

None of those threads received any non-joke replies.

The only thing that will make Reddit change course is serious competition. Probably not even that, since as long as the exodus happens after the IPO, it's the public that will be left holding the bag and not the investors.
The only thing they care about is bottom line, and this, "Huffman says the blackout hasn’t had “significant revenue impact”," is key.

To lose 95.8% of your site (judged by the 8467 out of 8838 subreddits gone dark) and not have a revenue impact at all raises some questions, primarily if there are any revenue streams based on usage, or only on monthly subscriptions and non-view-based ad contracts?
Anyone know how they pick who to invite off the waitlist for GPT 4? I've been on there for a while. My project is open source and I wonder if that is getting me deprioritized.
Besides the fact that all developers are divas...
It's either meant to kill 3rd party apps, or it's an impressive failure by Steve Huffman to create another revenue stream for Reddit.
More like most women don't find men who program interesting/fun.

or

Most men who program aren't "good with socializing" let alone "good with socializing with women".
What I don't understand is why they simply don't do what spotify does. Free acounts have to use the official spotify apps but paid accounts can use third party apps and apis as part of their subscription benefits. I would gladly pay for reddit gold monthly if I got to keep using my ad-free 3rd party client of my choice.
sounds like plan9's acme
My optimistic take: “All the data centers” are the Cloud hyperscalers, who are increasingly delivering value through PaaS/SaaS vs. raw VMs and IaaS.

They’re choosing the CPUs they like best, can turn over quickly if it’s worthwhile, and if the performance/economics of RISC-V are suitably appealing will do so.

I wonder how much of, say, S3’s infrastructure is running on Graviton?
Good luck finding hundreds of new mods.
/r/de, THE German sub has extended till Sunday.
After listening to the interview, I totally get what you mean—what a wonderful perspective on computers he has.
I honestly don’t know where to go for ML topics now. If anyone has any suggestions, please send them forward.
It is small on a 'normal' (24") 1920x1080 display. So nothing todo with high-res at all.
Ask HN: Has anyone gotten GPT4 to show sparks of AGI?
Microsoft researchers claim they believe it, I'm wondering if anyone on HN has specific examples they've seen themselves.

One interesting way could be trying to get GPT4 to output 'novel' information that only existed after their data cutoff (Sept 2021), maybe through logical or step by step prompting.
"Taking a risk" by definition means things may improve for you, but they can also get worse. Most people aren't in that great of a position in the first place, they don't want to fall even lower. Esp. since the lows are really low and the highs aren't really as high, and have a diminishing returns quality to them. As Jordan Peterson put it "you can only be so happy, but you can be 100% dead".
An IPO is the least of his concerns right now. It is clear they are on the verge of bankruptcy and are panicking, desperately trying to find some source of revenue to keep the lights on. In the past they would find more investors, but investors have had enough.
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Context:

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35598472

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35090387

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35080777
Exactly. Feels like a whiteboard.

I’ve been using the normal Comic Sans for 3-4 years now. I don’t mind the non-monospaced-ness.
They don't deserve to have the power to shut down sources of useful information because a company had a spat with some extremely rich app developers.

Why shouldn't the moderators have that power? They are the ones maintaining the subreddits they control. If the users don't like them having that power, they are free to move to a different subreddit with moderators they agree with. Nothing is stopping them.
>The inability to block ads I personally find offensive is the #1 reason I'll use a browser with ad block over a native app.

This is the main reason why apps exist in the first place. They remove the user agency that browsers provide.
He's already badmouthed Reddit's leadership. He's gotten into spats with spez a few times, calling him just short of a blatant liar.
Nice! Real life use case of these updates for my autonomous web scraping product:

- Bigger context window means less slicing and less calls for generating the web scrapers on the fly

- The functions will help to reliably build our data transformation steps (e.g. mapping different sources into the same structure)

- Way better unit economics
Mods aren’t paid, so no. There are mods based around commercial interests that might have some financial incentive—for example if you are an author and you moderate a subreddit for your books.
>Granted TNR hasn't worked at all

[citation neeeded]
> Presumably the people who used the subreddit would care.

Right, I mentioned that for r/AskHistorians and r/science. What about regional subreddits? Why in the world does a subreddit for Toronto need rules like no CN tower pictures, no questions, or no posts about crime? Why can't the only rule be the post has to do with the city?

Why do moderators want to go beyond moderating spam and insist on presenting us with a curated feed of what they feel like I should be consuming? Why can't they let upvotes, downvotes, and reports speak for themselves and use that information to make removal decisions?

Why are so many moderators of subreddits against public moderation logs?
0.9AU, 0.9C, 0.9 Parsecs, 0.9 miles, all make sense

half an AU, half the speed of light, half a parsec, half a mile, again fine

90% of an AU, 90% of the speed of light, 90% of a parsec, 90% of a mile. That sounds odd.
I was sad to see Bloodhunt end development. Thanks for your work on it!
> If absoultely needed, the most obvious way to ship hydrogen is as methane.

Methane has 2 problems: 1. it's a massive greenhouse gas if it leaks, 2. it requires CO2 to make, and in a decarbonized future that can only come from either biomass (limited) or DAC (expensive).

You would either want ammonia or methanol. Ammonia does not have any of these problems, but it's very toxic. Methanol has the CO2 problem as well, but it's a liquid, so it's easier to transport. Neither is perfect, but there are no perfect solutions.

Methane is the worst of all options. If you want a hydrocarbon, then usually methanol is what you want. And don't trust me on that, just look at what projects are actually planned out there. Plenty of green ammonia and green methanol projects, green methane is exotic at best, barely anyone wants to do that.
Thanks for explaining. My anecdotal experience is from talking to people in NM, which may be different than the dynamics you're describing. E.g., as rural agriculture has grown, the Rio Grande is dry for longer and longer periods when it used to flow year-around decades ago. Residential construction has also grown fast, with an emphasis on water-hungry non-native species.

>The only common thread in the western US is water and how there just isn't enough of it for cheap.

Isn't this specifically because agricultural water is disproportionately (severely) discounted? I.e., it is extremely cheap for agriculture, which drives them to use more water, especially on crops that wouldn't otherwise be well-suited to that climate. Which leads to non-agricultural water to disproportionately more costly. I've read on HN that 80% of water in the west is used for agriculture, which would seem to confirm this dynamic.
How long have you been doing this startup for?
It isn't irony at all.

Reddit gets almost zero revenue from the sub organizing it.

People aren't protesting Reddit in general, but a policy of reddit.
What do you think parrots think about this? Insulted.
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