skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But don’t say that the new pricing makes it impossible to build a third-party app. Because that’s not true. It would just require pricing apps so they’re more in-line with Reddit’s own offering.

perhaps that was the differentiator? willingness to sell for less than possible?

even then, the pricing was an issue in part due to how the pricing discussions were handled. this isn’t really just about the pricing.

so, sure, ignore all context save dollars, focus on making dollars, and you could have.

great?
South Essex became a key player in the horror film scene
No it doesn't lol. I've seen it just randomly not use a comma after one array element, for example.
Ultimately it boils down to lack of competition + enormous overheads due to regulation, legal & political risk and uncertainty.

The accidents were spectacular, even though they resulted in so very few deaths. For most people nuclear is effectively witchcraft, and selling fear is effective. The HBO series were so absurd yet so loved.
Doas is doa on Linux at least. Last I checked maybe 6 months ago the password timeout feature was still broke. You get asked for the password every single time you run doas even if it was just 2 seconds prior. Maddening. Apparently this has been the state for years now?
It forgets commas too
Loading docks are built to one specific height. If your trailer is low you will have to lift every package out of the trailer and onto the dock.
It’s pretty cool he referenced the HN community in the video
A lot less SUVs in Central and Eastern Europe than in North America. But yes, some of the pressure on limiting truck traffic through rural areas on Sundays (or on some roads in general) came from a large amount of fatal collisions involving trucks passing through, whereas ordinary car drivers drive more cautiously through these villages.
The concept is right on point though:

ChatGPT is excellent at writing "fluffy" pieces full of empathy, compassion, PR talk, politician speech, and any other wordy flavor you need.

As an engineer who is unable to produce such writing, this tool is quite helpful!
Another bit of worldly wisdom from (at least) Tom Magliozzi!

I wonder which of his marriages taught him that :)

* I mean this with all due respect. The world was a better place with Tom in it.
The Apple Vision Pro and the future of workspaces
A relatable stance on the future of workspaces, and where the Vision Pro went right (and wrong).
> but that alone does not suffice a monopoly

You're right.

CUDA is what does.
This is a good article. The amount of context switching I have to do day to day means my actual productivity is almost nothing.

4 to 8 meetings a day.

100+ emails

Teams and slack constantly going off

Yet I'm still supposed to produce actual quality code as well.

It's like trying to work in a mosh pit
> we used to have a zillion untrustworthy/unreliable individual "webmasters" owning those blogs

True enough, but the chance of many blog/forum owners all having a hissy fit at the same time - the equivalent of what has happened to Twitter with Musk or Reddit with Huffman - was infinitesimal. Also, because there were many, competition worked. Don't like one forum? Go to another, often on the same topic, and losing all the friends you knew on other forums was never even a possibility. Thanks to network effects, that hasn't been the case with the every-topic megasites. Returning to a more decentralized model won't solve everything, and will even (re)introduce a few other problems, but it's still more resilient especially with regard to crazy CEOs.
> “Nobody wants to cry for rich people and the 1 percent, but it is an odd, lonely world,” one of Flemings’ billionaire clients told me.

how lonely it is to be unable to hold the hand of another, since your hands are both already full, of money. tragic.
--Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit. Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. You should not be surprised at my saying, ‘You must be born again.’ The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”--
Yes, in fact the most successful social media companies do just that. Reddit doesn't seem to be aligning its interests with the interest of power users unlike other social media companies. Reddit is really putting itself in a position of getting what it pays for, which it doesn't pay for moderators while at the same time is taking their tools away and also seems to be insulting them too. Treating major contributors as slaves hasn't exactly been shown to be the key to social media riches but the alternative has. Different solutions work for different companies, but one way or the other you have to align your interests with your users - especially power users - or else you'll just limp along, which this would seem especially true for social media companies.
It's not that the person didn't show up for two weeks, though; they showed up but refused to actually do any work.
please summarize chapters 2 through 8

This really isn't related to search since it's "summarize this whole text" instead of any specific subset, but in general, I find the old ML advice of "how would a human expert do this task?" to be very helpful. This would be simple in a number of ways - consider two naive ones off the top of my head:

- Iterative: Read and summarize one `MAX_INPUT_TOKENS - SUMMARY_LENGTH` section at a time, adding to your summary as you go along. The sections could be meaningful like chapters, or just arbitrary sets of paragraphs, depending on the context.

- Intentful: Intuit a context-appropriate set of questions to ask about the text, use semantic search to find and summarize the answers to those, then clean up all the separate answers into one cohesive one.

If your summary is getting too long to consider at once for meta-summaries, just add more layers of the above algos. I.e. combine summaries in a bracket of sorts rather than adding on to a single heap, or search for the relevant parts of the summary to tweak based on a given block of new content.

Ultimately, yeah, one inference will only be able to understand as much information as it can fit in its context window. So if you want it to write a novel while holding every word in the novel up to that point in its head at once with equal weight, that's going to be hard. But

a) context windows are getting longer

b) I have never once seen fine-tuning give that level of context-specific accuracy - it is a language model after all, not a knowledge model! and

c) that's kinda a lot to ask. Could a human even do that?

Hope that rant has some interesting parts :)
After I wrote that, I wondered if Flyvbjerg had already written on nuclear plants. He has the world's biggest database of large projects, so he must have.

It turns out he has, and they're in the quadrant of "dumb scale-up."

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2101.11104.pdf
I also believe it. When you're focused on the best treatment it can feel like it takes too much effort to explain it well.
The main thing Reddit has that is not available elsewhere is a massive relatively unbiased backlog of discussions and community wikis covering topics like what are the best delis/restaurants/bars in city X or car recommendations, or how to find good deals on menswear, or almost any other thing imaginable, this is truly valuable and worth having in society.
This was a decentralized exchange. If you chose to run an open source program on your computer, you aren’t being manipulated. Hardest part about business is minding your own. Concern yourself less with what other people do with their own money.
I'm still on 17.X, so that probably explains the discrepancy here. I think I tried doing a major version bump a while back and things didn't compile so I put it on the backlog and forgot about it. It may be time to revisit before I get too far behind.
How? CUDA is a software API, any sufficiently motivated competitor could even legally re-impliment it for their hardware if they wanted to.
But I've been curious for the last week -- why isn't Reddit profitable anymore?

Did something change about ads since 2015 (likely) ?

Did their cloud costs go way up ? (possibly, since the redesign seems extremely slow and resource heavy, compared to the old site)
It’s Okay Not to Breastfeed(?)
> Kind of fascinating that the benefit here is not so much artificial intelligence as artificial empathy.

In their book "The Elephant in the Brain", Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson argue that a large subset of health care is already something like that: conspicuous caring with little benefits other than social signaling and feeling that one's being care for. [1]

[1]: https://johnathanbi.com/book-notes-summaries/notes-on-elepha...
My guilty secret is to use Excel for my quick and dirty GUIs. I wrote a library to make that easy if you know C++. https://github.com/xlladdins/xll.
People already know how to use Excel so I don't have to start from scratch
> but somehow learning imperative programming for a year "ruins" their ability to understand FP permanently?

No, it ruins their willingness to learn FP. Novices know they're learning a new subject and set their expectations appropriately. Experienced imperative programmers think they're learning another minor variation on C and get frustrated when it turns out many of their existing mental models don't transfer.
> None of these are my favorites but they’ll do for the time being. In the custom mappings chapter, you’ll learn how to create a custom key binding for the ultimate mid-range vertical motion.

Yeah, vim defaults are bad, so it'd be better to teach the improved keymap rather than wasting time learning the ones even author doesn't like and then learning how to remap them

It's a pity vim is so inflexible with keymaps that it ships with only one by default, making the step above harder

(also, "melodies" are chords, and the other ones are just combos)
I did watch it. Mehdi Hassan found two errors in the entire body of work: One acronym (Taibbi wrote CIS when it was supposed to be CISA), and one date that he got wrong.

Then he hammered Taibbi for an hour on those two errors, as if he were a career fraudster, instead of a lion of journalism.

Mehdi Hasan is a fraud, an establishment actor on a failing corporate propaganda news network no one takes seriously. A tool of his billionaire owners and of the Biden neocons.

Petty and desperate nonsense indeed.
You’re not reading and are reacting emotionally. I said farming happens when the 99% need the 1% to do all reproduction. If you want me to take your response seriously, I’d appreciate an apology.
This is silly and fake. Patient families are like this all the time. Just explain like a real big boy doctor
Is the hesitance for social norm/style reasons?

Similarly, i wouldn't wear it at a coffee shop. But i could see it coming into style at co-working spaces. It feels like a no brainer in hotel rooms and airbnb's.
My own usage is very close to yours.
> When a source was asked how certain they were… we were told, “100%”

That’s not good enough for you? /s
A follow-up study refuted that. https://phys.org/news/2022-12-phosphine-venus-isnt.html

edit:
A follow up to this follow up found that it had calibration errors and reported 3ppb on Venus. The original study however had 20ppb. https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.09852
> Moving text is great in vim but being embedded in the terminal means all the powers of the shell are one ! away as well that makes it faster to do things…

Quite true.

Also, partial buffer manipulation can be done with external programs via range constraints. For example, to reverse sort only the first 5 lines of in buffer, one can execute this ex[0] command:

:1,5 !sort -r

0 - https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ex&apropos=0&sekti...
Training anything resembling a current LLM from scratch is so far beyond the ability/capital of anyone using a site like this.

Facebook/Meta used 8,000 A100s to train LLaMA (for example).

If you’re doing anything with an LLM it’s fine-tuning and there’s a new approach nearly weekly to do it better, faster, cheaper, and easier on 24GB cards which can be had for less than $1000.

Same for inference.
This has been discussed a lot at the time, but it turned out to be an error.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Venus#Phosphine
The author has a good grasp of coherence but either ignores or fails to understand memory ordering.
Some of whom sue her, hehe.
I've used GCP Vertex AI for a specific task and the prompt was to generate a JSON response with keys specified and it does generate the result as JSON with said keys.
march 28. gpt-4 is much smarter
Oh this looks interesting, thanks for the recommendation.
This is the most confusing metaphor I've ever read lol. I thought tupperware parties were basically MLM scams from the days of yore. Are you implying that LLMs are a scam? Or that they'll end up being so popular that they fade into the general lexicon because of their ubiquity? Or just pointing out the under-appreciated fact that "LLM" is suspiciously close to "MLM"?
It's only been added to the OpenAI interface. Function calling is really useful when used with agents. To include that to agents would require some redesign as the tool instructions should be removed from the prompt templates in favor of function definitions in the API request. The response parsing code would also be affected.

I just hope they won't come up with yet another agent type.
The NVIDIA AI Red Team
“AI Red Teaming” has been thrown around a lot lately. Here’s the perspective of the NVIDIA AI Red Team. We’d love to hear your thoughts on this evolving discipline.
We have loitering laws that would then go to prevent homeless people from using those services during daylight hours. My library requires you to have a drivers license and prove you have an address within that city/town to be able to use it. So a homeless person without a DL, or who never had an address in that city would not be allowed access. And could be arrested for loitering for just existing near a library during daylight hours.
For desktops, a nice solution is to hook up the power led to the speaker connection. At some point, pc speakers stopped coming with cases as they did in the past. And power leds have been mostly useless for a long time.
> memetic fog

Yeah, that's the perfect phrase for it. SCP fan; or did you make that up?
> CaligulAI

I believe it's spelled "Caligulae" because it's first declension.

/Latin-joke
Should I be worried about this? How easy is it for someone to put a high-resolution video camera close enough to the power LED on my computer for this to be a problem?
Are you saying that it return only JSON before? I'm with the other commenters it was wildly variable and always at least said "Here is your response" which doesn't parse well.
>A lot less SUVs in Central and Eastern Europe than in North America.

Not really the point but thanks. Pretty sure a collision with any 2000lb metal shape isn't going to go well.

>some of the pressure on limiting truck traffic through rural areas on Sundays (or on some roads in general) came from a large amount of fatal collisions involving trucks passing through, whereas ordinary car drivers drive more cautiously through these villages.

If that was the point, then boy was that a terrible solution. Rather than fixing the root cause you have 'fixed' the problem 1/7 days of the week. The other 6/7 days of the week you have drivers coming through so bad at driving they banned driving one day out of the week.
https://archive.is/U49Q4
An H100 is about $30,000.
The LLM knows the “shape” of an answer or a pitch. It might make up facts as part of the output, but it excels at optimizing for the structure of things that humans appreciate.

Probably one of the more interesting aspects of LLMs.
>As we’ll see later, there may actually have been two jumps from animals to people at the market.

Mixing fact with speculation is never a great sign for an argument. Many people pushing the lab leak theory are doing this, but the people pushing against it don't need to start. If there were two spillovers, that needs a very good explanation, particularly because events like this tend to fall into the categories "one" and "many" — if there were two spillovers, why not three or four? Why not a whole gaggle of infected raccoon dogs?

> Based on number of visitors, Worobey estimated the odds at only 1 in 10,000 that the market would be the first superspreading event in Wuhan.

This is based on a location analysis of early cases around Wuhan. That doesn't imply that the first event was at the market, only near the market. In particular, the market is across the street from a railway station and one block away from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology Tongji Medical College Union Hospital. Huazhong University of Science and Technology is one of China's top ten universities and might have a pretty good hospital.
It's like some people don't understand Reddit. You get to choose what you want to follow, you can create a multireddit with a subset of them, you can create a new account and hide all the big subs to let the little ones filter through. The world was always your oyster and yet people act like it took subs going dark to do that, it didn't.

If someone says they only see crap on Reddit it's their own fault. It doesn't take a ton of effort to cultivate what you want.
Looks like you have a trigger, but no root cause (yet).
Doesn't matter anyway...revert and work it out later.
The root cause bug is still in there somewhere, waiting to be triggered another way...
> You guessed it, I'm talking about Rust, and when you're writing a kernel out of all things, Rust has infinite disadvantages and 0 advantages over C.

I don't think that's a defensible claim, nor that your evidence is compelling. Rust has some disadvantages vs C, certainly - I'd start with number of target hardware platforms, personally - but I doubt that they're meaningfully infinite. Likewise, rust certainly has more than 0 advantages over C; just making the most common memory errors harder to hit would be fairly compelling on its own (personally I like Pascal and Ada for that, but apparently Rust hit the popularity jackpot so oh well). As to rust having CVEs... sure, it's not perfect, but I have to notice that that page shows no more than a handful of vulnerabilities per year, while, say, Linux has had far more vulnerabilities, many of them caused by the exact memory errors that rust tries to fight.

There are legitimate arguments against rust (honestly, your initial claim of bloat sounds plausible), but unless I've missed something this isn't the one I would pick.
Is there a name for this 5 paragraph response format, that feels so intrinsic to chatGPT? (5 paragraphs: General empathy, specific, empathy, technical explanation, establishing trust, reassurance)

Is the style a result of the default rules that OpenAI is using? Or is it derived automatically from the material chatGPT was trained on?
That’s mostly true, but then one day you want to use an external filter, or a custom set of snippets that doesn’t suck at editing them, or make the next line align correctly after “(“ and there’s no plugin for that in your ide. And, more importantly, it’s a pita to create and publish one. It’s not better or worse, some people like off the shelf availability, some like local fine tuning. Would be nice to have a full union, but ides suck at local customization that wasn’t trivial or planned in advance.

Added: I hate both worlds now. Where’s an editor that is full of modern features and at the same time easily programmable?
Wow that brings me back. I remember being on AskReddit when it was relatively small (maybe a few hundred thousand subscribers).

My favorite contribution to that subreddit was one of the first logos. They held a contest and my submission was a drawing of Snoo with his bum facing the viewer with a dollar in between his cheeks. Ass Credit.

I can't believe people voted for it lol, but that was when the subreddit was a lot less serious.

You can still see the remnants of that work by going to old.reddit.com/r/askreddit: Hover over the Snoo's talking and wait for the tooltip.
It's always seemed like this tech regulation was thinly disguised protectionism, similar to and possibly copied from the Great Chinese Firewall.
the “wrong” was highly subjective.

gargoyles won’t care about how cringe something is. (which, using cringe is… pretty cringe.)

the screen in the front is awkward for someone that uses sunglasses as a shield. no need to deride the inverse. it can likely be configured.

not that apple did nothing wrong.

but maybe not so universally relatable.
> So it was always about money.

I'm more surprised that anyone thought it wasn't about money.

Reddit is a business. An unprofitable business. They have to do something to turn a profit eventually.
Do you people always have to overhype this shit?
If that terminally online person was vaccinated against covid, they were far less likely to die than the terminally online conspiracy of the week anti vax crowd.
> if you look at the investors[0] in Substack

FFS this is like claiming you are funded by BoA or JPM if your salary is deposited there.

They are literally paid by their subscribers, Substack is a mere payment & publication tool. Substack do not pay them.

Moreover w.r.t. Taibbi he has picked fights with his employers and quit at the first hint of them trying to influence his work. His credibility on that front is actually excellent and better than anyone at the NYT, for example (Who may be excellent but can't point to a history like that).
The Wirecutter has been accused of only selecting products that can be purchased via affiliate links IIRC: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29321923
Reddit was weakly profitable but now has done a ton of hiring in hopes of building a huge business and chasing the IPO money train.

They have 2000 employees now. They had fewer than 200 in 2015.
Well, I'm a dead man.
Hmm, it seems I misunderstood your point, then. I completely agree that the ending of The Good Place - or, rather, the choices that the characters make - is profoundly _wrong_. The assumption that "good things could become boring" is a consumerist one - assuming that we could simply "run out of good feelings", not recognizing that satisfaction can arise from creation, from socializing, from mental pursuits like mathematics or philosophy. So, yes, I'm totally in agreement with that article that the ending, while played touchingly, is philosophical nonsense.

But that doesn't seem to be what you were, or are, saying. If you issue is specifically with "an epicurean theme park of enlightenment and joy to span the stars", and not with the dramatized reaction to (against) it, then...I must say I still don't understand what the problem is. An experience which is _definitionally_ pleasant, fulfilling, and non-harmful (to self or others) is....well, it's capital-g Good, no?

> The real world is important. Real struggle against, and with, reality, nature and not just our fellow humans.

What is it about the real world that is more important, inherently, than "the experiences that arise from living in it"? If a "better" (I'm hand-waving the complexity of comparison, because it's assumed as part of the discussion) set of experiences can arise - with perfect certainty, no trade-offs, no utilitarian cheats, just "everything is better for everyone" - then, as the other commenter said, it would be abhorrent to deny it 'because of some philosophical quibble about a difference between “simulation” vs “reality”'.
Elon thinks they need it because they did not vacate it or break the lease. I don't think there are many tech companies that need a physical office in this day and age. That doesn't mean you can squat offices though.