skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apollo claimed to be more efficient in API use than the Reddit client and somehow the rate you quote make no sense. Polling for push notifications at that rate? If that is the case then the Api is insane.
Recently I was browsing through old threads where users showed off their personal websites and blogs. I wanted to find some inspiration for my own website.

What I found instead were about 3/4 dead links – even though the threads were all from the last 4-5 years. I found that quite sad, because people often talked with great passion about their websites and they sounded really cool. Also i LOVE those small, personal islands in the big, commercialized and in many ways centralized web.
Oh, I 100% agree. I just haven't seen another model come close. I'd love to hear someone tell me why.
And how exactly is the structure of the world transformed into a structure of language? Chomsky would say through a universal grammar, which is a framework through which you can set up ways to encode the structure in the world as words.
I think that we know what it isn’t, even if we can’t fully define what it is.
> I'm decently sure that you could pick any two players of the same Elo on lichess and one will win the majority of games.

Interesting hypothesis, but my intuition is that this effect is small. It should be easy to measure. Just take random matches, and study winrate when a player has beaten their opponent once before.
On the Slow Productivity of John Wick
I think that's ok. Without the contributing users the lurkers have nothing to lurk.
I doubt that matters. There were barely any women in my classes at a school with a mostly female student body. Now that I work in software, at a company which requires at least bachelor's degree, there are still very few women developers employed here.
What if property prices go down some places (e.g., my house) but not everywhere? This would be a pretty big problem for me, right? What if I needed to move to one of the regular places all of a sudden for work? Or is the idea that it’s better for the economy for me to be trapped until I can pay off my mortgage as like a penalty for choosing the wrong place without knowing they would conver the market according to OP’s plan?

I’m all for a healthier economy, don’t get me wrong. It’s just kind of annoying for people to treat my largest asset as some kind of externality. It’s super that you are so generous to burn your money to help everyone but I would prefer to explore solutions that don’t intentionally detonate one of the most important markets in our economy and one that I cannot reduce my exposure to because I am naturally less inclined to give things away.
doesn't this make LLM a dead end towards AGI and mostly just a neat specific trick?
No, a human being comparing your face to a picture is entirely unlike facial recognition. The cop matching your face will not remember you for an arbitrarily long time (or indefinitely), cannot transmit the memory of your face to other cops across space and time, does not catalogue what you are wearing, the delta between your actual face and the image, and all other manner of minutiae.

Cameras and automated systems are likewise fallible in entirely separate dimensions (personal bias, circumstantial factors): the camera does not get tired, but we place a certain unwarranted trust in black-box systems that fail in unexpected ways.

They are absolutely governance issues, but _augmented_ in scale by technological reach.
"Answers are subject to be filtered or manipulated according to a hidden set of rules by unknown corporate or government agendas"

When was the last time you tried to make a wiki edit on a popular page?
I’ve pushed back on previous discussions on here about PE because of lack of detail about wrong doings, however this article is excellent. “dividend recapitalization” seems absolutely insane for anyone running a business.
n=1 but I know at least one non-american who has stayed up late so that the submission coincides with this peak time
This part of the article:

"Well, you have to understand how their loans are structured. They are called “non-recourse.” What that means is if they stop paying the loan, and the bank gets the building back, the bank cannot sue them for the remainder of the loan. So they can just cleanly walk away with little to no cost.

What they are planning…is to walk away from any buildings where the loans are worth more it makes sense to pay or to refinance. En masse.*

Banks will take hundreds of billions to trillions of dollars in losses. And literally everyone knows the US government will have no choice but to bail them out, as usual."

Is talking about existing loans. If the loans are structured as described, then the commercial real estate company can walk away losing only the current buildings, while maintaining their cash reserves.

This part of the article is an allegation that needs backup, but if you could pull it off would make you an entrepreneur of the first class.

"Then, when the banks turn around and sell these properties for pennies on the dollar, these same property companies that caused the problem in the first place are going to buy better properties for cheaper and end up better off than they were before.*"
"AI" as we know it is hardly 6 months old now, just wait a while and it'll be grandma accessible.
I kind of like it, many of the large overpopulated subreddits are gone and more niche subreddits remain.

Reddit may have found a way to end the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
>Also, the LLMs are cheating!

No...they aren't. Humans aren't learning from thin air by any stretch of the imagination.
Exactly. High consistency + low investment, that's the perfect combo
Then what value are the moderators adding if what they do can be automated by a regex filter?
I've turned down interviews with several companies after finding out they were PE managed. If you need the job take it, but otherwise find something with hope. After looking them up on crunchbase or the public filings, a decline on sight policy on PE owned companies has saved me a lot of time and, I think, career suffering.
Not only that, if they really didn't want to kill 3rd party apps, they've had a week to say, "oh no! We see exactly how this is going to kill third party apps, let's iterate to try to fix it so that we don't do that", instead of doubling down on a feud with them.
I couldn't tell you the reason he was evasive about Ethereum's status in that line of questioning. But highlighting edge cases where there is room for debate while ignoring blatant examples actually at issue feels like motivated reasoning. Pointing to an example where Gensler was personally unwilling to make an assessment about a fact-specific question does not invalidate the reams of guidance that _do_ exist, and the law itself. The SEC is not your lawyer, your lawyer is.

Coinbase is not being sued for being an Ethereum exchange, they're being sued for

- operating an exchange, broker, and clearing agency for specific tokens that easily fail Howey (which their internal rating framework unambiguously found to be securities)

- offering and selling their own securities via their Staking program
You said "I don't believe women past their 20s are "too late in life" to be seeking a partner.". That means 30s. It's not too late, but certain risks are much higher.
Seems odd that nothing happens when you enter your email address on a login page that you don't really know what it's for. Then I realized that I received an email. Otherwise it's pretty neat.
FWIW the Tailwind implementation in react-email is not well done. The code double render React to static markup just to parse it into DOM then parse out the style and className attributes using a lot of regex https://github.com/resendlabs/react-email/blob/main/packages....

It's likely to be brittle and also very slow - slow enough to almost cause an incident when we tried to use it in production because emails were taking _seconds_ to render.
From the great "welcome to my meme page" on FB.
"In a renewable energy grid, batteries can handle about 80 percent of storage needs."

Why couldn't you just add 25% more batteries?
> I'm also more than welcome to just attempt to take over the existing subs, which is much more convenient for everyone involved.

Well, not everyone involved right? If I understand correctly, just the people who don't care about the people affected by the API cost increase.
Trump surrenders to federal custody; is booked ahead of arraignment
Every human alive is cheating, they learned from us!
Vince lives in Anguilla: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince_Cate
The parent comment you tried to explain was about A.I. Doomsday. If you think the A.I. will not cause doomsday I don't know why you are trying to "explain" it.
People training AI were already using CommonCrawl. There’s too many data sources to figure out each API. Everyone just downloads CC from AWS.
And clearly third-party apps are the source of their money troubles.
I'd love to see the winrate data for Stockfish against Stockfish, for each data set. To get a sense of what the objective winrate is.
Pratchett and Philosophy: The Tao of Sir Terry
Link is to a login page. Might be beneficial to link to an 'About Us' page before asking people to sign-in.

As for AI summaries. Best of luck, but no thank you.

Good luck with your project.
> At least investing has some economic forces that cause people to conserve resources and allocate them better than prior.

Not when the money is basically free, e.g. the last decade of money policy. PE has always been around, so why is it hated now? Probably the forces that would normally keep it in check, namely, a cost to capital and a competitive business environment (as opposed to monopolies and natural monopolies all over the place) haven't been present in the last decade.
Text is usually stored as tree either way in an editor, using a DOM-like approach might work well on top of the usual datastructures.

> with the DOM the selection can start from a node with node-specific subrange (e.g. character in a text node) and end with another node and both being very unrelated to each other

I'd just store the range as character indices, using those the right nodes in the tree can be accessed pretty quickly as needed.
https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/9l3ema/apollo_13...

> For some quick math, Apollo has well over 100K active users. The server polls Reddit approximately every 6 seconds, so that's 10 requests per minute per user, or 600 requests per hour per user (assuming they only have one account and one device). At 100,000+ users, that's in the realm of 60 million requests per hour that my server would have to handle, not to mention parsing the results, coordinating tokens, etc. I really can't do that for nothing, so the plan was to offer push notifications with a small fee associated to cover these ongoing server costs.

Yes, that's from 5 years ago. He repeats it 10 days ago in this video.

https://youtu.be/Ypwgu1BpaO0?t=1734 (closer to the actual timestamp, that gives context https://youtu.be/Ypwgu1BpaO0?t=1772 )

> I guess there's an analogy um the way Reddit notifications work just for your inbox like you got a message or something um they work in so far as if I the developer of the app want to um say make sure that you get that notification within 10 seconds I have to be checking Reddit every 10 seconds to go like is there anything new is there anything new? is there anything new? is there anything new? okay. There is okay I'll tell is there anything new and then just repeating that at nauseam so you can imagine if you get a message once a week I'm checking every 10 seconds and then once during that whole week I get that message and then I can send it to you um so 99.99 of those API calls were wasted so we've talked to Reddit like that my friend who works on my server um and myself and I've said like what would be so much better is if we could just kind of keep like a port open with Reddit and say like you just tell us when there's a notification ready and we'll beam it off we don't have to bug you all the time and it's logical right and that's how a lot of services do it it's like an event-based API and um that's just not something reddit's ever uh given us

Note the every 10 second call.

People are likely confusing the "app" with what is installed on the phone rather than the application being the entire system of front end and backend (likely using the same API client keys).
You know, i thought of the right response just now, browsing my flamewars two weeks later.

«Some degree» of agency is not even near sufficient identification of agency to synthesize it ex nihilo. There is no Axiom of Choice in real life, proof of existence is not proof of construction.
Github: "Am I a joke to you?"
I didn't say there is no upper limit. I disagreed that the 20s is the upper limit.
Thank you! It is like arguing that a human engaging in the creation of a landscape portrait using the traditional method of oil painting has been "refuted" by a computer generating vector graphics from statistical descriptions of the same scene. Both yield art but they are clearly different in interesting ways. Neither refutes or outmodes the other. Or maybe I'm wrong and actually trees have refuted mushrooms!
Tact is the difference between calling someone a shameless liar vs. calling them out on their lie.
> The SEC’s standard can be equally applied to anyone that purchased a baseball card hoping to flip it, where that unilaterally makes all shops and ebay to be unregistered securities exchanges in violation of Federal Securities laws no matter what the baseball card company did to ensure otherwise.

No; the baseball card market fails various bits of the Howey test. If you sold shares in a baseball card collection, that might be a security.

https://www.sec.gov/corpfin/framework-investment-contract-an...

> When a promoter, sponsor, or other third party (or affiliated group of third parties) (each, an "Active Participant" or "AP") provides essential managerial efforts that affect the success of the enterprise, and investors reasonably expect to derive profit from those efforts, then this prong of the test is met.

In the baseball card market, the card manufacturer could cease to exist without the success of the enterprise being impacted. (This is why BTC and ETH are currently being treated by the SEC as non-securities; the original creators of both could vanish without impacting the market for the coins, which is much less true for most coins.)
Has anyone seen speed differences with the new gpt-3.5-turbo-0613 model? I've been testing for the past hour and I'm getting responses in about a quarter of the time.
As long as the electrodes / membranes for the conversion to electricity are stable and cheap as well. There's a big downside with PEM electrodes requiring platinum and with their longevity and energy density relative to capex.
We're "millenial-ish" (in that, we're all between 25 to 40yrs old). I myself am not over 35 just yet.

> It’s a very different story if you try talking to people in their 20’s or younger.

Is it? We're old enough that half of us have kids, and some of us have teenaged kids (13-19yrs old), and they also have friends and such. It doesn't seem that different to me. (They're less willing to tolerate arbitrary BS, but otherwise, don't seem wildly different than we were at those ages)
A better and better parrot is still a parrot then?

(I’m agreeing with you basically)
It's troubling, but shouldn't be surprising. It's that old "a lie told enough times..." approach to corporate governance, and it's just the latest in a long line of "if I can break the rules without serious consequence long enough, I get to win" business plan. The players repeat "is NOT" every time someone points to the very easy to find rules and says "there it is" and the and uncritical torches and pitchfork mob get spun into a frenzy about the bad old SEC.
> the Internet has collectively made us much more cautious about and accountable for how we interact with others.

That's a pretty shocking claim. I'd say it's quite the opposite.
Old, old school solution: Nobody is stupid enough to buy the mountain of debt (junk bonds, whatever) - debt which will only be paid off if everything goes exactly perfect for many years to come.

Perhaps the SEC and DoJ should be considering fraud charges against the ratings agencies, investment banks, brokers, etc. who (in effect) represented that debt as worth ~100 cents on the dollar?
We did, at least once.
1. Measured how?
Leveraged buyouts. I’ve seen them explained like a mortgage, except that doesn’t work in my head either.
OK, so do I understand you correctly that you'd like to write a law that separates the good patents from the bad ones?

Tell us: is this a "good patent":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enfish,_LLC_v._Microsoft_Corp.

How about this?

https://patents.google.com/patent/US7818399B1/en?oq=us7%2c81...

Both of these are considered valid, post-Alice.
> As a former president he is allocated secret service for life

He has protection for life. The protection can also be extended to a prison wing. One would wager that it would actually be cheaper (less travel). There is no precedent in the USA but lots of heads of states have been imprisoned in Europe and they've managed to make it work.

Nobody is (or should be) above the law. Having a 4-year stint as a president is not a get out of jail free card for the rest of your life.
> I think the reality is upvoting/downvoting/reporting works perfectly fine in nearly every subreddit.

Would you be able to provide examples of where you believe this to be the case?
If you want people to show up, data shows these are the best meeting times
New blog: Our team at Boomerang (https://boomerangapp.com/) analyzed 3.5 million proposed meeting times, putting the conventional wisdom about the best ways to schedule meetings to the test. The results are surprising, and busted some common myths about the best days and times to schedule meetings.
Yeah, and all of that sounds totally reasonable until you have a working knowledge of lots of interactions between tons of real people you've actually spoken with and had connections with to learn how life actually works.

Your requirements per a "functional adult" are an example of people asking for too much because they have no practical understanding of reality:

Americans don't eat properly. The average American is overweight.[1]

Americans don't know anything about taxes.[2]

Americans don't understand cost of living. Barely anyone knows what the CPI-W is or how it differs from the CPI-U.

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/body-measurements.htm

[2]: https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/taxes/americans-dont-know...
The one login for multiple forums as nice but I wouIdn't mind it if they fold. But not HN. Today, I can just spin up a dedicated forum browser and save all the username-password there in isolation.
I got off all dating apps a couple years ago and I'm not going back. They're not optimized to help you find connection, but to extract value from you for shareholders through addiction and FOMO.

I changed my focus to meeting people IRL and my dating life is better than ever!
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i think it doesn't matter what is therapeutic and what is recreational. i think that's also not something the state can really decide, either? nor should it make this decision every time someone puts something into their body.

that we should just give people the capacity to do what they are going to do either way, safely properly and teach them how to reduce their self-harm and societal harm with what they are doing!
> Iceland is the only place in the world with universal swim literacy.

absolutely false, and I am getting tired of the constant Iceland propaganda their tourist industry wants you to believe
Wordcels? Shape rotator?
IME fast programmers are great at externalizing their QA
Matt Levine at Bloomberg has some very entertaining coverage of the whole mess. Recommended.
Does anyone know what type of api you'd use for this? I know AMD has Rocm for their dedicated GPUs but it's barely usable from what I've heard.
I am agreement with the author that Chomsky is overly negative about LLMs, but I don't think this is a strong refutation (admittedly I've only spent 20 minutes skimming the article). LLMs give us a lot of insight into how computers/algorithms can manipulate and understand language, but that still does not tell me how humans do it (I am open to the possibility that this is how humans do it, but that evidence is not presented here).

One of Chomsky's main arguments is the poverty of stimulus (children seem to learn language with relatively little input). Here is what the author has to say:

> Large language models essentially lay this issue [poverty of stimulus] to rest because they come with none of the constraints. Modern language models refute Chomsky’s approach to language that others have insisted are necessary, yet they capture almost all key phenomena. It will be important to see, however, how well they can do on human-sized datasets, but their ability to generalize to sentences out-side of their training set is auspicious for empiricism.

That doesn't look like a refutation to me yet. We still need to do that test, but that still just tells us how you can do it algorithmically.
That was brought up in a lot of discussions as something the users would be willing to do, but leadership so far has not been interested in engaging with those suggestions.
It's so much worse than that. "Laws should be exhaustively comprehensive" is a completely unworkable system. You cannot predict every possible combination of context and law, and attempting to do so would be literal combinatorics explosion.

People who push that kind of system know this, and want the system to be hamstrung by exactly that situation. They want a system that can only outlaw their new, explicitly harmful scheme after an entire game of politics in congress, such that they could prevent something becoming law by encouraging the already bad stonewalling in congress. They want government agencies to be so bound up by poorly written law that they cannot administrate at all.
No matter what the size is or the editor (Notepad/Sublime) the top of characters - [], {} and () seems to be cut off on Windows 11. Is it same for others?
It should incur some tax in that you took out debt with one entity, then another entity paid off your debt and it on its own. The PE has been paid the amount of the loan by the company they just bought as some kind of return
And you are lynching Negroes (А у вас негров линчуют)
I'm unconvinced.

The author seems to be stating that because llms have generated "interesting" statements that all of Chomsky's approaches are invalidated. This seems to assume that the llm isn't somehow incorporating Chomsky's generative grammar system into the model, which would be a very hard thing to prove.

Also, the author's stated proof contains flaws. Take for example page 16:

Generate ten other sentences like "colorless green ideas sleep furiously":
Purple fluffy clouds dream wildly.
Blue glittery unicorns jump excitedly.

The author claims that the llm has completed this task successfully, completely ignoring the example's pairwise incompatible terms (colorless green, and sleep furiously), and accepting that "purple fluffy" is equivalently meaningless. It is not, and the model has clearly failed.
Well, perhaps those celebs want "young sexy and easy-going" and not "highly educated, successful"? So it's a win-win?
And for that and possibly other reasons the USA controls where the technology can be exported. That said it’s not like you just buy the lithography machine and some technicians and now you’re competing on par with TSMC. There is serious additional engineering to use the machines in a fab.