skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cutting off 3rd party apps isn't a cost cutting move. It has two clear benefits - firstly they can push users into the officially supported apps where ads can be shown in a more controlled fashion and metrics on those ads can be gathered. Second, it removes the ability for other companies to programmatically gather Reddit's data - this is important in the context of large language models where investors are convinced that the data sets to train the models will be valuable.

The reason reddit is hard to monetize is actually quite simple, they don't know much about their users so they can't do the high value targeting other companies do, and they have a site where it's very difficult to insert adverts in what looks like an organic way. It's easy to scroll past an advert on instagram and not realise it's an advert, it's visually consistent, on reddit it sticks out like a sore thumb so they get CPS rates of a 90s banner ad - because that's what they're selling.
just bunch try hard dickfarts intent on ruining things for everyone.
> Redditors aren't as valuable to sell to because they are more likely to use ad blockers.

reddit's gone so mainstream I'm not sure if this is true anymore.
very nice, the small letter `i` however seems to be a little bit thin
Hilariously, the best explanations for how AI models like GPT work I got from GPT-4 itself!

There’s a lot of jargon and assumed shared knowledge in research papers that make them hard for a beginner to parse.

I’ve found GPT can “translate” and explain in context.

I know neither Python nor PyTorch, so I give it snippets and tell it to show me the Mathematica equivalent, which I can read.
UPDATE:

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Oh my, Crowley on HN. What is next, Castaneda? von Dreien?
Real life? There are so many conversations here, and elsewhere, that seem to imply people must have access to something like Reddit. But why? I mean spend your time doing what you want, but I stopped looking at Reddit regularly a long time ago and my life is much better for it.
I've been using the CAPS LOCK as both Control (on hold) and Escape (tap) for years now, and it's just wonderful. I even kept a similar setup when I built my Dactyl Manuform (one of the large thumb keys is both Control and Escape).
I'm glad that reddit not being profitable up until right now is being highlighted very well. So much for raising money from autocracies & then whining about dissent
Neither of them are 5-HT2b agonists, the cardiac effects of cisapride are due to inhibition of the cardiac HERG K+ channel, but apparently this does not seem to be as of an issue with prucalopride [1].

[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2036.2012...
So you say he fooled all the people with magic, and he waited on Satan's call?

> Someone asked why Crowley is perennially popular on HN.

Because people are waiting for a Marvel to take them to space.
It's not about speed, it's about ergonomics. Minimizing finger movement is a good thing.
WDired: Editable Dired Buffers
How do you change a file name in the built-in directory browser of a text editor? Well, just edit the text!
If they charged like $2/year/user for 3d party API access they'd be profitable and no one would be that outraged.

Their expenses are still absurd given that, from my perspective they've literally done no improvement to the product in the last 5 years or more. Just maintain the API, have some staff to run the servers, pay a few admins to support the mods and feature freeze Reddit the site as much as possible.

It's way crazier that Reddit has 2k employees than that Twitter had 4k or whatever.

Edited from $2/month/user to $2/year/user.
Yes, I think most of us (Reddit users) understand that Reddit needs to make money. But you cannot rollout a critical pivot like that one lying and destroying people that has help you grow and thinking your users are stupid.

That's were I put the limit with Twitter, and it's were I'm putting it with Reddit too.
Hosted on AWS, nice choice :-)
I am aware I can't win, so I used the opportunity to delete my account and apps and just quit for good.
You are right. However, that doesn't stop others from calling them activists. If you are on the so called "far right," then merely living out your values seem like activism to those who are opposed to you.
This is reminding me of when all the Vine power creators banded together and tried to make demands or they would "stop creating" and all it resulted in was Twitter deleting them and their entire website.

Don't be surprised if Reddit starts taking some pretty drastic action here on the grounds that they're violating one of the site's oldest rules which is "don't break Reddit".

Not saying it's good or bad, but just that this is almost definitely not going to go the way these people think it will.
Yeah, but it's not like it's built in to a product like Crunchyroll. There are separate tracking apps available for non-anime media as well.

There's also several sites for anime. I personally use Anilist. It even implements the same kind of activity grid that GitHub has for commits. https://anilist.co/user/Mailia/
Ask HN: Application Focussed AI Learning
I’m a senior leader with a technical background as an engineer and development manager. I build with React/Rails in my spare time but my current job is not at all technical.

My role is changing at my request to look at ways we as a business could apply AI. It’ll be exploratory, with 2 devs working under me to build prototypes and experiments.

I’m a big believer that a technical manager or leader should understand the technology, with bonus points for being able to build with it.

It’s worth saying that we don’t expect to be creating our own models, rather building on top of others’ using APIs, fine tuning, prompts, vector databases and similar.

There’s lots of good developer focussed learning. I’ll run through the basics there.

However I’d like to learn how businesses are applying AI and am seeking out how best to discover this.

I see MIT Sloan and other institutions have short courses that appear to offer what I’m looking for [1]. I have read that these executive education programs are outsourced, capitalising on the brand name, with content that sometimes doesn’t live up to their pedigree.

Any suggestions about where to look and how to learn about how businesses are applying AI?

[1] https://executive.mit.edu/course/artificial-intelligence/a056g00000URaa3AAD.html#tt-reviews-list
It's called the price-quality effect:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pricing_strategies#:~:text=Pri....
Magnesium supplements have laxative effects as long as they are not absorbed. More bioavailable forms of magnesium do not exhibit laxative effects in normal dosages.
It seems that navigation memory theory should imply not a hierarchical structure, but a wiki-like structure with many links. In a tree, there’s only one path to a given element, which is not the case in the physical world.
I think that part of the problem is companies/executives/manager who think that teams need to 'do' that in order to become high-performing rather than, as you stated, it's an indicator.

There needs to be a suitable environment, skills/training, support framework and everything else around to enable the team to become high-performance over time, that when starts showing that indicator.

Correlation not Causation.

All too often these are mixed by those who read the books that offer 'Acceleration' and think that enforcing these processes will somehow make the team fit.
> As a non-native English speaker,

> I understand the cultural reasons, but I regret the loss of linguistic clarity.

Have you thought about the fact that you're using ignorance of English to complain about a very specific anglophone piece of politics?
I highly recommend against runbooks. There should be no need for runbooks. Anything that can be identified down to a single solution should have an automated response.

What you should have is hintbooks. For each alert, have something that identifies why you made the alert. What dashboards to check, what logs to read, what else might be going wrong.
> His punctuation was fine. The book reads well. His words and sentences flow. I found it easily one of the most accessible.

No, this is a fair criticism.

It's true this is done for literary effect, but it does make it harder to read.

To quote McCarthy himself:

> James Joyce is a good model for punctuation. He keeps it to an absolute minimum. There’s no reason to blot the page up with weird little marks. I mean, if you write properly you shouldn’t have to punctuate.[1]

Whilst this might be true, his punctuation style is non-conventional and that does break our expectations making it harder to follow.

[1] https://www.openculture.com/2013/08/cormac-mccarthys-punctua...
Fidelity marked down its investment by 41% (you see similar numbers across tech), so I don't see the pump. What will make it interesting are the risk disclosures.
https://github.com/facebookresearch/ijepa
A note for people not familiar with the terminology - "functional connectivity" is a specific technical term that really just means temporal correlation between brain areas, as opposed to "structural connectivity" which refers to the actual neural pathways that are formed between brain areas. If you rephrase the headline as "Serotonin booster leads to increased correlation between activity in different brain areas" it maybe doesn't sound as exciting.
So's Lexapro for some people.

(Me. I'm some people.)
1/16th of what gallon? There's more than one.

e.g. US gallon != Imperial gallon.

The problem with stuff like cups, gallons, feet, etc. is that they don't travel.

They might kind of work in the US (and long as you're not using an appliance) but they don't work consistently anywhere else.
Turkish exports become more competitive

This is neither automatic, nor blanket. "Turkish exports" are a result of internal production of inputs, plus imports of inputs, followed by a "value add" phase, followed by exports. In many cases, the greatly increased cost of imported inputs meets or exceeds the export gains.

Also, the naïve view that currency deval is always beneficial to exports is simply untrue. It always complex and multifactor for each scenario and each country... and even each good. A better general rule: A modest, consistent devaluation of currency is good for your exports, as it allows enough time for your value add staged to find internally produced substitute inputs. If deval is very fast, few businesses can adapt fast enough. If deval is very slow, it is hard to notice the effect.
Gandi prices list starting July 13th 2023 [pdf]
Enough with the ChatGPT already.

If you didn't write it, don't post it.
Marxism is materialist, how is it predicated on occult or gnostic premises?
> Conversely, if a model starts generating text so good that it can be used to train new models, then that should give us confidence in the quality of that text.

It's seems the best one could hope for is that recycling generating text into new training data would be not detrimental. But it's really difficult for me to imagine how this would ever be useful. It seems this would imply that the LLM had somehow managed to expand the dimension of vector space spanned by the original training data. Which sounds either impossible or like the model became sentient.
Bisglycinate is supposed to have the highest bioavailability.
> They have trouble even making their french fries livestock-torture free

They haven't cooked their french fries in beef tallow since 1990.
Why? I would see the humour as lower value than understanding their line of reasoning. Sight unseen I would hazard you fall into the hands of bias, beyond Elvis on the moon bad.

I went to archive.is and yes.. my line of reasoning is in there with other stuff I hadn't thought about.

It bodes ill for our democracy that those who cannot pay — or choose not to — are left with whatever our broken information ecosystem manages to serve up, a crazy quilt that includes television news of diminishing ambition, social media, aggregation sites, partisan news and talk radio. Yes, a few ambitious nonprofit journalism outlets and quality digital news organizations remain, but they are hanging on by their fingernails.

It's worth reading.

Lydia Polgreen has been a New York Times Opinion columnist since 2022. She spent a decade as a correspondent for The Times in Africa and Asia, winning Polk and Livingston Awards for her coverage of ethnic cleansing in Darfur and resource conflicts in West Africa. She also served as editor in chief of HuffPost.
You got what I meant. Sorry, not a native speaker.
It's not that Godwin's law meant you lost the argument. Godwin's law was just an observation, that a common evil, is an easy thing to reduce someone who disagrees with you to. So you have to avoid doing that, if you want to be able to maintain any level of discourse.

That, of course, goes out the window when the person you're arguing with legitimately identifies as a Nazi.
It's not a good sign that capitalism is creeping into journalism.

When the flow of money gets to decide what your ink writes, the doom is already upon you. Now, there are those who proclaim that they get funding through crowdsourcing and don't accept money from corporate or politicians. But eventually, even they will be forced to bow down before the "path of least resistance" narrative for going against the populist opinion will bring down their revenues which they highly depend on.
> Hoffman continues to display a fundamental misunderstanding of what Reddit is.

hoffman founded reddit ... together with btw aaron swartz.
The one very weird thing that I am realising now is that , reddit feels really good due to blackout. I only get updates from my niche subs, no more rage, and I close the app after a few minutes. Its like i got back the old reddit inadvertently .
> just being more sneaky about user-hostile changes, they could have gotten away with anything. I mean, that's the playbook, isn't it?

Isn't that pretty much what Reddit was doing before spez came back as CEO, though? (Where being "sneaky" about user-hostile changes also included de-facto exempting the users they rely on most from them - their volunteer mods and, to some extent, their 'power' content contributors.) This screwup has all played out within a month or two - there were smaller controversies before, but nothing compares to this.
My instant pot (the “ultra” model) only draws a maximum of 700w. It’s very annoying that they seemingly cheaped out on the heating element, it makes it take way too long to get up to pressure.
What the Trump indictment can teach us about good writing
I understand the sentiment, because I hate this in other languages too. But somehow in Rust it works. Of course there is also bad documentation of the kind you describe, but that is a different problem.

Bridging the gap between a prosaic high level explaination (how do the parts work together?) and a fine grained explaination of each part (what does that part do?) can be a challenge. Rust solves this somewhat by allowing you to do module level documentation (that can essentially look like a blog post, only that the examples get checked when the code is tested) and it lets you link to different entites.

I would always prefer a well written blog post, if people were able to keep the examples working and the code up to date. But experience shows they are not.

I'd rather have generated documentation that is true than a blog post where half of the examples won't work, because nobody bothered to update the post after the code changed. The first might at times be barren if done badly, the latter is downright misleading.
Valuable and profitable for investors, or society ?

Because absolutely not both.
Imagine the return of /r/creepshots and /r/jailbait, but on defaults.
It's only worth that much to a company named Readme

It's worth that much to any business that wants readme.com and believes it to be worth 170k. You don't need to be called Readme to want that domain. There are plenty of tech companies that want vanity domains to point to parts of their offering. I can easily imagine Microsoft, Jetbrains, Atlassian, or Replit making an offer for it.

That said, by far the most likely way any company would acquire it would be as part of acquiring Readme as a whole. If you want to exit by selling (rather than IPOing) the value of your assets still plays a small part.
> Eventually mods will feel powerless because the execs won’t budge, and denying the community access to the subreddit will cause more problems than it appears to solve.

Frankly, the mods can just quit permanently. It’s an Internet forum, not life and death for them. There are so many other things that they could be doing with their time. Heck, I reckon it would be better for their mental and physical health in the long run if they quit doing internet janitor work and drop the perpetually online lifestyle - at least I believe that’s a requirement to effective moderate a fairly active subreddit.
Reddit was clearly selling itself to VCs as the next Facebook while not bothering to understand the culture of the content, moderators, and audience on their site. From what headlines I've seen about Reddit's acquisitions and marketing spend I get the impression they were a money furnace that deluded themselves into thinking they were innovating.

Now that the money printer is out of paper, investors are banging on the door, and the people on the other side of that door are panicking. It turns out a bunch of nerds and aficionados piping text through your servers does not equate to a hundred-billion-dollar business, and trying to force the issue will only make things worse.
> I think this article is written a bit like that cash register anecdote. There is no conclusion other than examples why you are this way. Why do you think you are like this?

Hints at the bottom, maybe: "There are Amazon affiliate links on this page."
>But, if you are making the string part of the entry, that would also require padding the string length to word boundaries so that the struct gets aligned.

It also makes deletion a far more complicated situation. You'd essentially be implementing your own allocator then.
I loved hacking Sinclair machines. I still have my first ever ZX Spectrum, complete with holes in the case and reset button mod.

The ZX printer brings back memories too. I remember naively printing the source code for a game I created only to come back later and find it completely faded and unreadable.
> Is there something counter-intuitive about reddit that makes it hard to monetize?

There is - it makes little sense to buy ads, when you can buy comments.

https://xkcd.com/1019/
With the TPMouse script, I implemented the activation shortcut as [LShift][RShift][C (trackball mode) / G (grid mode) / Q (quit)], which I felt had a nice balance between deliberateness and easy-to-reach (since you are using it with your hands on homerow).

Though because some keyboards have key rollover issues with using both Shifts, [Capslock][<modekey>] is also allowed as an alternative activation shortcut.

[0] https://github.com/EsportToys/TPMouse
It's a 12-D chess move to further trim costs. If they're fired for cause, no severance or unemployment!
Recent find from Hackernoon
I haven't exactly been quiet about my Georgist socioeconomic stances :)
What the hell are you talking about
JupyterCAD – A JupyterLab extension for 3D geometry modeling
Yeah, they would probably do very well with news agency revenues, but the investors want Google/Facebook revenues.
Strike breaking
I am very code literate, but depending on the size of the codebase and how much smoke and mirrors are used, I might take longer to grok how things are interconnected by reading the code than it would take me if someone gave an high level overview in a paragraph or two.
I think a different approach would work better at this point.

They need to stay up but use their subreddits to publicly plan Reddit "exits" for each community. Subreddits should start polls on where migrate to (discord, lemmy, mastodon, etc etc), and then start systematically cross posting anything posted to their subreddit to the new space, with comments turned off on the Reddit version.

The key in a negotiation is to have a crystal clear, realistic picture of the other party's constraints, motivations and ethical framework. In this case, it's clear Huffman has hard constraints around making Reddit profitable. He could easily do it by reducing headcount but that itself would defeat the purpose because it would devalue the IPO (who wants to buy a shrinking company?). He clearly has no moral or ethical compulsion here. So there isn't another option than to threaten what really matters to him: it has to be made real for Huffman that he's going to lose this if he doesn't budge. The only thing that will convince him is actually seeing users permanently leave.
That's OK, you don't have to subscribe to the ones with stupid content. Just subscribe to the ones with laser-focused content.
Would be amazing to see /r/news, /r/worldnews, /r/politics, et all, active without moderation.
Tesla Doesn’t See Higher-Volume Production for Semi Truck Until Late 2024
There was the time the CEO got caught editing users' comments critical of him.

https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/23/13739026/reddit-ceo-stev...
"you're out of swipes", then "oops, you missed a match", and "pay regularly and increasingly more to be even visible". Approaching in real life... my tolerance to being laughed off or ghosted is below zero. Can a man have any expectations and requirements these days?
I just think this is written by an AI. It just feels off somehow, yet I can't pinpoint it exactly.
There really should be some law or adage coined for this by now.

No one wants to hear GPT's opinion because it doesn't have one.
> It works better with antialiasing off

This is largely because it was specifically designed to be readable on low resolution screens without sub-pixel rendering (which wasn't a thing at the time as on a great many Windows machines you could only really rely on the standard 16 colour palette). It is also part of why other fonts with similar target aesthetics look much better in print and on more modern devices - techniques used to improve it for low resolution use have a detrimental effect when not using it that way.

> The main criticism is in its overuse.

The second is inappropriate use. It is still the better choice for child-hand-like writing if you are targeting 4-or-8-bit/pixel displays at 640*480 resolution (or not much more) on ~14 inch devices, but how many times is it actually used that way?
I'm the creator and mod of a sub with 25K users. A post was made by one of the users asking whether we should participate in the balckout. I didn't notice a single comment that said no. Apparently it's tough to get human beings to agree on anything.