skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reddit had years to make changes to the moderating situation. Any changes at all. Do you really think that they will start now instead of just cutting off their army of free mods and then wonder why things will go to shit even faster?
Yes, but why would such a system experience anything? I'm a died in the wool monist materialist but I can acknowledge that there is something tricky (at the very least) going on here.
Congresspeople represent their corporate masters.
I'm astounded that he was actually able to run a business pulling in $500,000 a year in subscriptions without ever having to pay the actual platform the users are "subscribing" to a dime. And he's been doing this for what? 8 years? No wonder he doesn't care about shutting it down. It was a free lunch the whole time.
Goldharber answers that - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/04/opinion/michael-goldhaber...
It's too much of a hassle for ordinary users, and probably requires to set up billing.

Reddit could easily change their terms in the future to prohibit.
Reddit's APIs are not user-based from what I can tell.
Equally, we never say "50% of a m/s" instead of "0.5m/s"

And notations like 0.9c are also quite commonly used for velocities close to the speed of light

(the LHC tends to use TeV more often as a unit, which corresponds to a certain velocity for protons, but they mainly care about the energy)

But using percentages with the speed of light makes some sense because it marks one end of an absolute scale, there is no way to go 1.1c or 2.5c. So using a percentage emphasises how close we are to the maximum value.

But the same doesn't apply to AU.
This essay seems inspired by this amazing episode of Hidden Brain, i strongly suggest take a listen if you find this subject interesting https://podcasts.apple.com/se/podcast/hidden-brain/id1028908...
Well, isn't it perhaps a bit of a chicken and egg problem? What came first? The bad habit of skimming a lot of low quality nonsense news or the fact that it meant so little to you that you can't really remember what you read later?

When I look at the traffic even from Hacker News you can kind of tell that most people who click on links even here, just spend a few seconds looking at your content and then disengage. Especially if you don't provide people with lots of pictures and "hooks" that allow people to engage more in some way. Give people a wall of text and they'll barely skim what you write.
> Americans ingrained need to be racist against everyone

Have you ever been anywhere in the world which you found less racist than the USA? (Bonus points if it actually has a substantial population and racial/ethnic mix to test that, and it's not just theoretical.)

A lot of places have hidden hatred of groups which acts like racial hate, but doesn't appear that way to people from the USA where the divide (black/white) was so stark and visible. Turks/Armenians, Shia/Sunni, etc.

The USA isn't perfect, but I can't think of anywhere else that I could so unreservedly recommend to anyone around the world. Not Canada, not Germany, maybe the UK, sorta Singapore if you're not certain races, etc, etc.
All uppercase texts looks bad in a way I don't know how to explain. There isn't enough space between letters and look like uppercase letter are flowing above lowercase. Lowercase text I can just scan and without reading and understand what's happening, but uppercase letters in word "PERFORMANCE ENVIRONMENT" look like they're two long letters I need to visually investigate text.

https://imgur.com/a/1IM2Vqn

See the spacing between ME and ams. Lowercase letter look more goofy, asymetrical.
What makes you think the people in the club aren't receiving therapy too?
cute: https://github.com/terranix/terranix-examples/blob/main/aws-...

Also: don't use static AWS creds, kids
You managed to address several premises that aren't actually present in the article.
Pretty big difference between users who open the site once a month to look at a meme someone sent them vs those who are online for multiple hours a day. The ones who use third party apps are more likely to be in the latter bucket, and the loss of revenue from them will be significant more than the bottom tier of users.
pareto principle: richest 20 percent consume 80 percent
If you like spins on Comic Sans, you may also enjoy:https://comicneue.com/
Having worked on a number of product email systems where you have an existing codebase, while not exactly intuitive this is basically exactly what I've wanted. You can easily code share environment-agnostic code with your frontend (Things like user-facing text formatting, localization, handling of commonly shaped API objects like users, generating links to specific pages.)

It also leans into a lot of email code best practices. Clear inputs and outputs and unidirectional data flow with React props, building reusable and composable components that work in all email clients without having to hand-rewrite table tags, and an easy way to inject test data or build out email templates before you have real data.

I've used react-email on one project now, and would happily re-use it in a future project where a team is amenable to having some TypeScript in their backend.

My one complaint / feature request is that it'd be really nice to have a way to basically "export" react-email into low or no dependency functions, since effectively all it's doing at the end of the day is providing you a function where you pass it an object, and it returns a string.
find did itself such a disservice with it's syntax.

find . -name 'somefile'

should have been just

find 'somefile'

Ie, defaulting to the current dir and default to find via name.
> Don’t forget his stint at Intel. I met him there and aside from his brilliance, the other thing that stuck out to me is how short he is.

I downvoted you because I have no idea how commenting on his height is significant to this discussion. In fact calling out a physical characteristic that is irrelevant is generally to make-fun. I'm not saying that's what you were doing here, but it's just totally irrelevant.
So the US government is now claiming that, no, it wasn’t them plus the Norwegians, it was actually the Ukrainians? And they’re really doubling down on this?

This would mean the US has sent nearly $100 billion to aid a country which attacked a NATO ally.
> Do you really think that they will start now instead of just cutting off their army of free mods

Better now than during a roadshow.
So who really did it?
The problem is the CVE score do work in most cases. A lot of organizations still prioritize updates based on their CVE score, and don't bother with updating unless it meets a certain threshold. If it doesn't meet that threshold, then they wait until their monthly patching cycle, or don't even bother updating ever at all.

Until that culture is fixed/adjusted, having a scoring mechanism that is easy enough for manager/executive type people to easily understand risk without any technical knowledge is important. Way easier to argue for an emergency patch/downtime that could cost money when there is a big scary 9 associated with it. And so if the scoring is off and not accurately representing risk, let's work to improve those scores, rather than getting rid of them.

Plus, there is a reason environmental scores exist in the CVSS mechanizm, as it allows for folks to adjust the CVE number to better fit their environment and specifications. I'd personally rather see more CVEs appear and be tracked quickly for easier referencing and discussing, with a slightly adjusted formula to better reflect severity.
What do people see becoming of the non commercial license on llama projects? How much is this type of work wed to using LlaMA?
If they find the appeal to authority useful, I'd grab them a copy of _Software Engineering at Google_ and leave them a bookmark in "Help Me Hide My Code".

You can find the text here:

https://abseil.io/resources/swe-book/html/ch02.html#help_me_...

(disclaimer: work there, but wasn't involved in the book at all)
Agree, but the parent comment was coming across as it's a "cut and run" situation.

For anyone curious about what he said on trying to run everything as a paid sub quickly:

> One option many have suggested is to simply increase the price of Apollo to offset costs. The issue here is that Apollo has approximately 50,000 yearly subscribers at the moment. On average they paid $10/year many months ago, a price I chose based on operating costs I had at the time (server fees, icon design, having a part-time server engineer). Those users are owed service as they already prepaid for a year, but starting July 1st will (in the best case scenario) cost an additional $1/month each in Reddit fees. That's $50,000 in sudden monthly fee that will start incurring in 30 days.

> So you see, even if I increase the price for new subscribers, I still have those many users to contend with. If I wait until their subscription expires, slowly month after month there will be less of them. First month $50,000, second month maybe $45,000, then $40,000, etc. until everything has expired, amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars. It would be cheaper to simply refund users.

> I hope you can recognize how that's an enormous amount of money to suddenly start incurring with 30 days notice. Even if I added 12,000 new subscribers at $5/month (an enormous feat given the short notice), after Apple's fees that would just be enough to break even.

> Going from a free API for 8 years to suddenly incurring massive costs is not something I can feasibly make work with only 30 days. That's a lot of users to migrate, plans to create, things to test, and to get through app review, and it's just not economically feasible. It's much cheaper for me to simply shut down.
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Who would have thought that domesticating a feral animal has consequences? lol
Awesome Magazine, thanks for sharing!
I thought it was pretty interesting
Placeiq is a third party data vendor that usually integrates with a demand side platform (dsp) like google’s dv360, the trade desk, xandr, etc. But you can use their data in other ways outside of dsps for things like measurement or maybe whatever the gov is doing.
Eureka Teams can now work effectively with large Kotlin and Java classes
It seems you don’t really see the power dynamics here. Reddit holds all the power: they have the API, they can shut anyone out of it, they can ask for it whatever they want, they could even re-open all closed subreddits and install new mods.

All the community and Apollo has is the power to say “Reddit, if you don’t play nice, we’ll walk away”.

To call that a blackmail requires some mental gymnastics.
> Not everything is like that

In fact, almost nothing that's actually _useful_ is. Anything that can be broken up into predictable low effort chunks is something that can be automated away.
We saw this before with Alien Blue, which was previously the top iOS app. Reddit bought it, promised to turn it into their official app, killed it, and released a version with fewer features and more bugs.

If Reddit buys Apollo, there's zero chance they let it operate independently. Christian gets a nice payout and all his users leave for the next best option. If I'm reddit I don't think I see that as being worth the cost that the app's userbase might be on paper just based on API cost.
Some subs held polls, and in every one that I saw, the strike was quite broadly popular. I think characterizing this as a few power mods throwing their toys out of the pram is unfair.
> Developers already pay Apple & Google 30% for the privilege of being in the app stores. Is it too much for the very service that is powering your entire app to ask for their own cut?

Mind you that price is just part of the problem - the 30-day to start charging, was just as bad. It's absurd and completely made to kill the 3PS. Maybe if they have maintained the price but gave time for apps to discuss/adapt/replan, they could have found other options.
They probably also didn't anticipate quite this extreme of a blowback.

The response to killing 3rd party apps outright would have likely been the same as this, but when they did their calculations they probably expected the response to this to be less extreme and opted for the "safer" choice.
> The problem is the average worker is more likely to blindly trust an "advanced chatbot"(from a layperson pov) than a random google result.

Why? Any who understands about Google or Wikipedia can understand about LLM.
You can download a model from a site like huggingface. Here is a list of models that can be used for inference:

https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceH4/open_llm_leaderb...

This user has some models already compiled for use with GGML (look for models with that in the name):

https://huggingface.co/TheBloke

Or if you want to convert your own model the llama.cpp repo has good instructions. Briefly it's `python3 convert.py <model>` - then if you are using a large parameter model you may need to quantize it to fit in memory `./quantize <source_model> <destination_name> <quantization>`
As somebody who works with legacy systems, it might take me a while to understand everything, but I think being able to experiment with different solutions rapidly is incredibly useful and has helped me zero in on the best possible solution considering the constraints. It also helps in understanding how the system works on a deeper level that often isn't possible just by reading code. Sometimes you just have to break things while implementing a possible solution.
No. A full graphical mouse-based user interface is what I am used to and fastest at. I am a fast typist, but I avoid typing. I drag and drop. My muscle memory is one hand on the mouse and the other hand over the modifiers and hot-keys.
> "comes with cost"

The point is the cost. There is a cost.
If you are hungry and living on the margin, then the cost could be great enough you will die, then that behavior gets weeded out. If you are already high status enough to not worry about the cost, then you have enough resources, and 'higher' status.

Think you are still thinking about the modern age, can you get a minimum wage job and completely ignore everyone and still survive? Maybe. Is that living?

It is only a recent development where there are plentiful resources where this is possible. There is some arguments that people have made, that the modern glut of resources does lead to behaviors like this, because there are no longer the consequences of dying.
And let me just say, reverse engineering the GQL API is a massive pain. From my tests they verify a ton of things or else you get rate limited or "trusted less" - order of headers, formatting of JSON being posted, someone even said they check the TLS handshake signatures. GQL specifically has become a massive burden for me working on Libreddit, and I probably am going to give up on GraphQL and just have instances provide their own API token. The good news is there might be ways to auto-retrieve these tokens. We'll have to see in 17 days.
A fast and efficient government will encourage smarter people to join the ranks and make it more competent. No good developer wants to work in an organization where builds take 8 hours overnight, in much the same way that no good bureaucrat wants to work in an organization where regulations take 8 years to change.
Even more egregious are those stupid "RemindMe!" bots which in a very ham-fisted way create noise for everyone except the one person triggering the bot (ironically, a 3rd party app would be way better suited at implementing this specific feature)
We don't understand consciousness as it pertains to the underlying question; knowing that brain activity can produce consciousness does not get us any closer to knowing that a matrix multiplication can't.
No serious physicist only considers String Theory. That's part of the point I was making. Really String Theory is only a guide used while we wait for something better and more testable to come along. Nothing is set in stone, they are just guides to being less wrong.
It's a very direct analogy about safety of money-like assets.

Sometimes things are not pocket change but also not worth insuring.

I don't think the advice to never have an uninsured balance is helpful to the question that was asked.
Wow, that's awful -- and an extreme outlier. Most plugins are free. And given under the hood Obsidian notes are just markdown files on the local filesystem, backups can be managed by git or TimeMachine or rsync or whatever else you might use on other directories. That's not to discredit your experience, just speaking up for the sake of others who might be unduly scared off.
The user experience of reddit is already poor unless you hide on old.reddit.com. I have no idea how anyone could sign off an interface like the new one, which is just appallingly slow even on relatively high-end hardware.
What about being tortured and raped by a man who enjoys your torture and wants to extend it for as long as he can? I'm sure it's happened within a mile of you sometime over the past week.

imo, the main difference between female violence and male violence is that female violence happens in an environment where on average, 75% of people are stronger than you, and 40% of people are so dominant over you physically that a fair fight would be suicide. Male violence is done by people who are stronger than 75% of people, and are dominant over 40% of those so strictly that they have no physical fear at all of them. The reason violence gets normed as male violence is because of how easy it is for males to practice it, not because there's a special type of girl violence. Throw weak men in a prison with strong men, and the weak men will turn to female violence to survive.
The entire style was an attempt to make beer that would not go bad while on long unrefrigerated journeys to India from England, using extra amounts of the alpha acids in hops as a preservative.
And your employer's payroll processing provider (ADP, et.al.) is selling your job history and compensation data.
Redditors I've seen: 1. They don't know what's going on with their favorite subreddit being taken offline. 2. They agree with the protest but couldn't care less if some person doesn't get free / cheap API. 3. They are actively angry that a Reddit neckbeard took their business, show, hobby page offline, unilaterally.

I could see this backfiring and spez preventing subreddits with a certain following from going private in the future.
> Just at a glance, and maybe I'm reading it wrong, but this appears to be issuing six requests every five seconds:

I don't believe any of these six operations make any calls to the Reddit API whatsoever. If that's correct, the fact that you raised this as a possible area to optimize indicates to me that you aren't qualified to make any judgments at all about what Apollo could or could not do to reduce its API usage.

> On March 14th, Apollo made nearly 1 billion requests against our API in a single day, triggered in part by our system outage. After the outage, Apollo started making 53% fewer calls per day. If the app can operate with half the daily request volume, can it operate with fewer?

Maybe I'm stupid but I'm not really following how this open-ended speculation indicates that it would be possible for them to operate under the new oppressive API pricing scheme without paying a single cent. Can you please clarify?
> For example, you work, you write on Hacker news, you have 3,000+ karma - no easy feat.

I'm procrastinating because my dayjob is boring. Isn't this what all people on HN do?

Edit: Implication, do you write for social status? You even have a bio and use your actual name.

> One way of measuring status would be whether you were pleased or disappointed by someone's reaction to something you did.

I laugh when i deliver some good burn. But that's not gaining social status, its just being mean.
>> vendors underreporting and underscoring their security issues

> So?

So he comprehensively refuted your point by explaining why
They probably did not negotiate in good faith. But....

I understand the API that the 3rd party apps interact with is powered by the legacy platform. The same platform that powers old reddit.

It doesn't seem like reddit are updating that platform anymore (I haven't noticed any major changes to old reddit in years), and I really don't think it has the ability to serve the same ads that the new reddit platform does. It would take a major refactor to either replicate the full API over to the new platform or otherwise feed ads back to it.

BTW, this also raises questions about how much longer reddit will keep old reddit running. It really looks like they are planning to retire the old platform all-together.
Even granting the rest of your argument, that math stops working for users who don’t use a particular app as their primary/only method to access reddit.

I use reddit 80% on the web, 10% on iOS and 10% on Android. I’m not going to pay reddit that full $2.50 (plus app store cut) for 10% of my usage twice. I’m just going to stop using reddit on mobile and stick to the web.

The “pay for reddit premium and get ad-free reddit plus unrestricted third-party app use” model makes more sense for users, for third party apps, and for reddit.
I can't take any claims about "the Nazis" seriously in CURRENT_YEAR because the label is thrown out so casually. I've seen some of the most commonplace and benign beliefs unironically labeled as Nazi to try and get a minor bit of political advantage.
Wow, looks like almost all of their tweets/comments are exhausting.
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. Reddit and Tumblr are my two biggest offenders that do not let me properly block particular ads - notably gambling and religion, but also those scam mobile games and other scammy nonsense. I get that they need to pay the bills, but I should have some level of control over what I see.
> It think OP means insurance in that they know how to use it well and can "fall back" to it if their current choice fails to meet their needs.

This is exactly what I meant.
I think that some LLMs (mainly just GPT-4) should be considered as refutations to the Stochastic Parrot idea, which was published in March 2021 and claims no LLM can have "any model of the world". It was a reasonable (though perhaps overconfident) paper for authors who had only used GPT-3 to publish, but there is now ample evidence of world modeling, including published academic evidence, for GPT-4. I think the following claim from the paper is also deeply incorrect and confused:

> an LM is a system for haphazardly stitching together sequences of linguistic forms it has observed in its vast training data, according to probabilistic information about how they combine, but without any reference to meaning: a stochastic parrot.

Next token prediction is a function of tokens/words, but that doesn't preclude that prediction depending on meaning, and the best predictions obviously do depend on meaning. It is not clear, at least to me, that next token prediction leads to any kind of upper bound on intelligence. It is always possible to incorporate more of the descriptions of the world obtained through the training data into your predictions to improve them.

But I think you've missed an important distinction. The stochastic parrot claim can be false, not because LLMs can or will ever feel or be conscious, but because they can (today) reason and solve novel problems (the capability is there, but it is unreliable). LLMs are not probabilistically regurgitating their training sets; they're applying the learning they took away from those training sets.

I think GPT-4 can reason today, but I don't think it can feel or is conscious, and I don't expect it to be capable of those things in its current architecture.
That does not describe the average /g/ thread at all.

Most boards are rather tame.

Also, I think most avid 4chan users have their filters set up in a way to get rid of most garbage simply by excluding posts with certain keywords.