skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh my god the banning questions thing is infuriating. Just let people not answer it if they don’t want to. Linking everybody to an FAQ from 4 years ago is not helpful. We don’t need more room for pictures of sunsets, and even if we did, nobody is paying per character.

My actual hope is that what comes out of this protest is that the majority of moderation is simply removed.

Forgive me for not shedding any tears because mods wont be able to stalk users using push shift anymore. The horror.
I was thinking the same. It could be true for higher ELO players being down a pawn is a good thing, since your opponent took the bait.
Hydrogen is needed for all kinds of industrial processes, but it is best generated at the point of use as needed, as storage and transport is too problematic. If absoultely needed, the most obvious way to ship hydrogen is as methane.

Synthesis of methane from water-sourced hydrogen and atmosphere-sourced CO2 is at present a good deal more expensive than fossil natural gas, but that's a somewhat artificial situation: natural gas production is heavily subsidized and many of the costs are externalized to the public (see global warming, air and water pollution, etc.). However, once accomplished you can just feed this renewable methane into the existing natural gas infrastructure, and get the hydrogen back as needed from well-understood processes, i.e. steam-methane reforming.
NuShell: A New Type of Shell
How do you conclude that any kind of intoxication leads to a reduction of brain cells?

And who wants to be productive 24/7? That just sounds miserable.
References to the Atom editor shouls be removed
Yep, and it's not even so much about the merits of these changes - though I am personally skeptical of them, it's that management has demonstrated no ability to sell these the community.

It's a private, for-profit company in a capitalist society. It's gonna have to do some unpopular things sometimes. What raises questions about leadership isn't so much that they're doing these unpopular things, but that they're doing so very poorly.

Good PR and good community management is critical to a social media business, especially when said business is 100% reliant on an absolutely gargantuan amount of volunteer labor. Reddit's leadership has demonstrated not only a lack of ability here, but practically an impressive anti-ability on this front.
Most posters use third party apps too. The people who use the official app treat it like About.com, not Instagram
> I think if it truly costs that much to use Reddit’s API, then maybe it’s on reddit to make their backend more efficient.

I am a bit skeptical that efficiency is part of the formula here. Reddit's running an entire company here, and I'm guessing that API call efficiency is only a small part of the cost (considering that they serve things that cost real money, like video).
You are assuming that him getting paid:

1.) alleviates all concerns of the other 3rd party apps
2.) alleviates bot concerns, moderator concerns, a11y concerns

3.) he has magic words that can whisk away the above

4.) that he has any leverage in the first place

It’s also bordering on willful ignorance to call that conversation blackmail.
> In other words, how does the LLM actually "know" it's supposed to spit back an answer in the first place?

Instruction tuning, as far as I can tell. The original "Alpaca" model took the LLaMA base and fine-tuned it with question-answer type content. From that, the generation went from prose-leaning to Q&A type responses.
It was mentioned in the article but probably a part of this is “standardization” of POS software and devices. Have seen up to 30% suggested tips before which is laughable. Receipts often have tip sections by default it seems.

My biggest qualm is when tax is included into the pre-defined tip denominations because it’s absurd but also messes with my mental math.

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"Mentally ill homeless" - have been there since Reagan deinstitutionalized the mentally ill and cut funding for mental illness. The problem has just only gotten worse over time. I remember friends going to San Francisco in the 90's and saying it was awful and they'd never go back.

All that to say, this problem has existed for decades. It doesn't explain the recent drop in foot traffic which is largely caused by people no longer going to the office. Getting around in SF isn't the easiest thing to do and if you don't have to go downtown then you're probably not going to. This scenario is playing out in downtowns all across America.
The 16k context window for gpt3.5 is exciting but unfortunately I think many of us were hoping for a gpt4 price drop!
I want to develop a new plugin for chatgpt and I've been on the wait-list for more than a month now. Are there any tricks or methods which can allow me to facilitate the process? I'd love to hear from people who have successfully developed a plugin for ChatGPT.

Thanks in advance.
As someone also building constrained decoders against JSON [1], I was hopeful to see the same but I note the following from their documentation:

The model can choose to call a function; if so, the content will be a stringified JSON object adhering to your custom schema (note: the model may generate invalid JSON or hallucinate parameters).

So sadly, it is just fine tuning. There's no hard biasing applied :(. You were so close, but so far OpenAI!

[1] https://github.com/newhouseb/clownfish

[2] https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/gpt/function-calling
Nikon Z9 Update Turns It into an Intelligent Camera Trap
15% waiting, haircuts

0% for non-services like taking my order at the counter and having to pick up a call-in

10% for everything else

I don’t care if you screw up or move the earth for me, that’s what you get. That’s what everyone gets. It’s made my life so much simpler.
> According to the benchmarks in the article, many are also doing better at low-cardinality data.

VQSort handles low cardinality quite well. Unfortunately only a few benchmarks in the article (not including that one) were re-run after our performance bug fix.

> it's very strange to compare to std::sort which does make some attempt to be adaptive.

We chose std::sort mainly because it seems to be widely used.

> But we all know why you're doing that. I suppose you'll keep your fingers in your ears regarding 32-bit radix sort

huh, I'm curious what's the background or context for this remark?
FYI I published a fast 32-bit radix sort in 2010: https://arxiv.org/abs/1008.2849
The trend has been towards less and less memory bandwidth per core, and we are often seeing servers bottlenecked on that.
I mean throwing out HTML and HTML attributes altogether and starting from scratch. It's time to evolve out of PostScript, Portable Document Format (PDF), SGML, HyperText Markup Language (HTML) + CSS + JavaScript, markdown, and move to a fuller open document standard that brings all the amazing features of the old formats without all the baggage and mistakes. Just get rid of the crappy stuff and focus on the good stuff.
Yeah, there was a system/OS/UI concept I came across years ago that I can't find anymore, but every document on your system is in one time-ordered stack/stream and then I guess you just have filters and such to manage random access.
This was a categorical statement about 20-somethings and as such isn't ad hominem. I would still say that if their advice was just as eloquently stated opposite.
I don't get tipping in the US.

To me the idea of a tip is basically as some sort of recognition of status. It feels like an aristocratic tradition of sorts - a recognition that the money is not much to the giver but is to the recipient. At least in proportion to the service rendered.

And it only makes sense for like, kind of personal favours with some sort of emotional connection where the person goes above and beyond.

When it comes to just like, literally giving money for everything ever, like buying a coffee, it just seems bizarre. If you're on the same level as someone else then tipping just seems weird.
I have now talked about not just 12 JavaScript frameworks that you can choose today to develop mobile apps in 2023 but also some of the popular web JS frameworks that can be used for mobile app bdevelopment. Any option you choose is a good choice. You just need to decide whether you want new, progressive, or old and secure.
I'm a bit surprised that Github isn't doing work on Ruby, since they're probably the largest RoR deployment
When the person taking my credit card at the drive thru hands me the little machine and tells me which button to push for 15, 18 or 20% tip...and watching me until I hand it back...yeah its expected.

In case you didn't see this story... https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/tipping-culture-eti... ...there is an attitude spreading that tipping is necessary.

https://viewfromthewing.com/austin-airport-shop-demands-tip-...

Oh...and the Burgerville union demanding that tips be pushed in the drive thru... https://www.coworker.org/petitions/we-demand-tips-in-the-dri...

Another article about it... https://thinkingoregon.org/2022/04/23/heres-a-tip-to-busines...
There are Show HN rules, as mtmail pointed out. The hard part is getting people to abide by them!

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Yes, but the "strike" is temporary, so there's no real sacrifice. That's the main reason I think this whole thing is silly.

Like any activism that actually accomplishes anything, it must be sustained and involve real sacrifice to work. This is just "raising awareness," which I guess it has done, but it's easy enough for Reddit to just batten down the hatches and wait for it to blow over, which it will.

It's no different than when you hear about A march planned for this or that cause.
The choices are not just "third party apps get a free lunch" or "third-party apps pay $millions". Even Selig admits there's a middle ground where API pricing is reasonable. Or maybe just restricted to Reddit Gold accounts. Or Reddit inserts must-show ads into API responses. Et cetera.

The point is there's a middle ground to be had, but rather than negotiating for an outcome both sides can live with, Reddit is just choking third-party apps (many of which provide tooling for moderating at scale or enable accessibility) to death.
...while announcing that it has managed to remorselessly squeeze even more blood out of its struggling victims.

/s?
That doesn't work for development but I agree that it's extremely useful for using Python projects.
He already reneged on the "contract" he had with users once before (and ignored support emails about it), so I don't believe him that this is some kind of legal requirement.
No one has to take power from renewable sources. They want to because it's the cheapest source of power at the time.

Obviously nuclear power is economically viable if you use price-fixing to make it economically viable, but that is a huge divergence from the way our economy normally operates.
Crazy how much bigger a lowercase l is than a lowercase m in order to fit into a single cell.
So do you think that anytime anyone ignores the social hierarchy they will be strangled?

Nobody is saying that social hierarchy doesn't ever matter, just that it can be largely ignored with minimal consequences.
librosa is a library. That means you need to learn to do Python development to be able to use it obviously.

This is the problem. People aren't even talking about the same thing. This thread started off as something about single file distributables and the only concrete example given is a library.
I hope that Reddit just purges the mods who are behind the protest and replaces them with new ones. It might cause those mods to engage in an activity that many of them seem to not have done in years: having conversations in spaces where they cannot just shut everyone else up by pushing a button.

I dislike the Reddit redesign and still use old.reddit.com, so I should be all in favor of free API access. However, there is almost nothing that could possibly get me to side with the mods, the people who have done more than anyone else to turn Reddit into the banal and censorious echo chamber that it is today.

In a war between Reddit and Reddit's mods, the Internet of actual open discussion wins.
I think the problem is that the people doing the scraping often disrespect the license as we saw with co-pilot
I say the parties are still the same, you just got old ;)
As a customer of startups, I really abhor this attitude. Especially when it lingers for years after the initial product launch. Which is shockingly common.

For example, partially complete features are often completely abandoned for years and years, because they're "good enough." Unfortunately, good enough, often means unhappy customers actively looking for new competitors.

One company in particular, I absolutely despise, because of this. They are pretty much only focused on releasing new features. The old features, while functional, are in desperate need of improvement. (In many very obvious ways.)

This particular company had a good IPO. Their stock then dropped 90%. I wonder why.
The CRUD IDE/Stacks of the late 90's were closer to the domain and that was a large reason for the productivity I used to see: more done with less key/mouse-strokes and less code. Web stacks make one waste time fiddling with janky stack parts & layers instead of domain logic, where it SHOULD be spent.

It's hard to match their productivity with current web stacks, often requiring specialists and/or big learning curves. (Sure, the 90's IDE's had their warts, but were getting better with time, until web murdered them. And I'll limit this to small-and-medium apps rather than enterprise/web-scale.)

It's usually assumed the features that made them productive are mutually exclusive with web-ness. I'm not convinced; the industry just stopped experimenting. What would help is a state-ful GUI markup standard so that GUI's don't have to be re-re-reinvented via HTML/DOM/JS, which is inherently ill-suited for rich CRUD GUIs.

Having your language/tools/standards being a close fit to the domain matters. It's why COBOL lives on despite being even older than me. I'm not saying we should mirror COBOL as-is, only that it still carries important lessons, including FDD: Fit the Damned Domain.
Yeah, lawyers can be negligent and lazy, too
I recommend Standard Notes https://standardnotes.com/.

You can access the notes from your phone and computer. The app is available for Linux, macOS, and Windows. The mobile apps is also available.

You can write notes offline. It will sync automatically when you are connected to the internet.
My goodwill for this stuff is rapidly running out. You've got the already inflated cost of the goods or services, then taxes, then whatever "local fees" are required, then the venue or restaurant adds on "service fees" on top of that...and then you're asked to tip, or to donate to a good cause, etc.

Lots of small businesses in our area have kept the "fair wage and wellness fee" they added during COVID times and there's a long paragraph of text on the bill that explains why it's important and how it's helping them pay staff, yadda yadda. Seems like the entire cost of running the business and keeping people employed has been passed on to the customer.

I enjoy a good meal and a good show, and I am happy to support local businesses. But a $5.25 latte and a $24 pizza and $14 for a salad that is only three pieces of lettuce or a $100 ticket that becomes $175 after fees...I'm starting to opt-out entirely.
If something isn't even wrong then it probably is just noise. In that case the best thing to do is downvote (if you have the karma, which your account does), chalk it up to the internet being wrong, and move on.
It's a weird argument to block Microsoft and Activision merging in the name of competition and be ok with leaving less competition in it's wake.
Why would Elon Musk care if he loses money on Twitter? His Tesla stake has gone up more in the past 4 weeks than the entire amount he personally spent on Twitter
Sort of like this (but without guessing the best move):

https://makotoe.github.io/guess-the-eval/
I often say this to my teenagers: "You don't get any credit for the homework you thought about handing in. Even if it's not perfect, the only way to get a mark is if you hand it in."

So true for work and side-projects as well.

(I needed this reminder myself as I have a blog post I've been noodling on for 12+ months. I just need to publish the damned thing!)
We've had package managers for like, 30 years?
YouTube and Twitch are different beast all together due to their costs. They also do revenue sharing for the content users provide, something reddit is not doing.

> I feel like Reddit is getting attacked despite being the company that is trying the hardest to make this work.

If they are genuinely trying to make this work, why did they only give 30 days notice for third party devs to figure this out? Seems to me their goal was to kill third party apps and that they have already succeeded.

> The standard approach is just to ban apps that compete with the in-house app.

Sure, but something being the norm doesn’t mean people like it. With reddit being how it was for so long and having a genuinely terrible default app, it’s no wonder they are getting flamed as much as they are. The way they have handled this on the PR side doesn’t help.

I think if reddit wanted this to actually work, the smart move would have been to allow users to pay for API access and use their token through the app of their choice. This would be more viable than the per-app basis they went with, which puts all the third party devs in an incredibly tough spot and effectively forced them all to shut down.
Mastodon could work like that if you would federate with every instance, except that there are a sizable amount of instances that cut ties with instances that don't do moderation because they tend to be filled with the most unpleasant people you don't want to interact with.

I'm in a small-ish instance with a great admin/mod team who's values align with mine and who judiciously eject people with bad vibes. (mostly nazi's and transphobes)

I feel no need to share a social network with people who hate my friends for who they are so the whole proposition of uncensored content doesn't appeal to me at all.
As an example, pretty much any recent Dell Inspiron, which happen to be quite serviceable too.

Such as https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/inspiron-15-lap... which is $530 at the moment but you can get it for cheaper during Black Friday. The manual may say up to 32GB but installing 64GB works just fine, as the CPU supports up to 64GB.

For $330, you can get an i5 Lenovo IdeaPad 14" today but it goes up to 36GB only because one of the 4GB RAMs is soldered https://www.microcenter.com/product/666315/lenovo-ideapad-3-...

You can install 64GB RAM to i3 laptops as well, which can be as low as ~$300, for example https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/inspiron-15-lap... is currently $350, but you can get a similar one for ~$200 during Black Friday.

64GB RAM in a laptop may cost a fortune in Apple-land, but it's pretty cheap to get for "normal" laptops.

(You can't upgrade RAM with Acer Swift 3, it's soldered.)
> Interestingly, the actual syntax tree and related structures/functions are generated from the config.yml file and the templates inside the bin directory.

That makes a lot of sense. ASTs tend to be a very dumb but fairly verbose data structure. And, in C in particular where everything is more verbose, there ends up being a ton of boilerplate in the AST nodes.

In a language like Ruby with a very rich syntax, you end up needed a ton of different AST nodes.

Generating those from a simple declarative format makes maintaining that much easier.
I didn't check, but I think their back-end already cached stuff somewhat; the dev open sourced it so you can take a look*

* https://github.com/christianselig/apollo-backend
Coherence is a function of time/length though. At a sufficiently short time interval, all waves are coherent. It's effectively a measure of the time (or equivalently distance) between phase shifts.

Since they're claiming to use interference, which only exists in coherent waves, I think it's safe to say in g(2)<1 for the scale they're utilizing interference at. Coherence is so inexorably linked to interference, it's measured using an interferometer.
Yes, I compared it with DigitalOcean and could see 2-3x difference! I too have faced unwanted bills from GCloud in the past.
> Even spez complaining about Christian recording the calls seems hollow when those recordings are what proved that spez was lying to the community.

It's like when a person complains that her husband looked at her phone, when by doing so he discovered she was cheating on him.* Where's the trust?

* Genders included for sentence readability, not to imply anything about women or men
The lowercase symbols are nice but ye god the uppercase Y and E are basically unchanged from Comic Sans MS and give me PTSD.
I love monaco and used it for years as my code font. I wish we had Chalkboard[1] mono tho!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalkboard_(typeface)
I think this is a suprisingly pleasant font, but PragmataPro is probably one of the best purchases I've ever made.
I see this statement a lot and have no idea how people come to this conclusion. I have a beefy 16k$ workstation with 2 4090s and I could barely run the LLAMA 65B model at a very slow pace. Let us say we do have the model weights to GPT-4 and GPT3.5, me as the average consumer I don't know how this helps me in any way. I need to shell at least 25k (possibly much more for GPT-4) before I can run these models for even inference, and even then it will be a slow, unpolished experience.

On the other hand OpenAI’s API makes things blazingly fast and dirt cheap to the average consumer. It honestly does feel like they have enabled the power of AI to be accessible to anyone with a laptop. If that requires fending off competition from Behemoths like Google, Meta by not releasing model weights then so be it. This critique would be more apt to Nvidia who are artificially increasing datacenter GPU prices thus pricing out the average consumer. OpenAI is doing the opposite.
Appollo main dev said he wanted 10M to “keep the app quiet”. I wouldn’t want to negotiate after that as well.
A lot of cool work! Congrats!
I'm sad that Carmack decided to (as I understand it) focus away from LLMs because they're "already getting enough eyes" -- it feels like he wants to make a novel paradigm shift kind of contribution, but his magic power has always seemed to me to be a capability of grasping a huge amount of technical depth in detail, and seeing past the easy local optima to the real essence of the computation being done, and finding ways to measure and squeeze everything out of that.

Carmack could possibly get us realtime networked stable diffusion text to video and video to video at high resolution, maybe even on phones. It will probably happen anyway, but it might take 5+ extra years, and there'll probably be a ton of stupid things we never fix.
The worst I've seen are subreddits focused around physical location like cities/colleges, you get a lot of what amounts to cyber-bullying of individuals (like students posting hateful memes of professors they don't like), and this can lead to a pretty toxic subreddit (even inciting violence) without close moderation.
But parent said to "nuke" the encryption key. :shrug:
No excuse for the Hunter Biden thing, but lab-leak theory has been covered quite extensively in the media & discussed all over the place since the start and hard for me to really see ivermectin stuff in any light other than conspiracy theory, you are theorizing that there is some very effective drug against Covid that others are 'conspiring' to prevent you from having.
Yes, 5 years seems crazily optimistic to me.

But this is Jim Keller and I’m a random internet guy.