skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is anyone else really curious what's going on at Reddit HQ right now? At the end of January they were confident that the API would never be priced and within 4 months they completely changed their minds. But what truly baffles me is that this honestly does not seem like a move to price out third party apps. They genuinely thought he would pay out. How exactly did they think that was happening?

Even if the pricing was reasonable, all communication with third party devs was through phone calls and pricing was discussed verbally. The RedReader app developer mentioned that he had to make rough calculations on paper to conclude that he'd have to pay close to a million dollars annually in fees[1]. There's no dashboard to show billing and API usage per client? How do they expect that will go when you're asking users to pay for your API? And especially in such a short time frame?

There's also the whole business of NSFW content on the API being not allowed for "law enforcement" reasons but reddit JUST recently pushed an update that allows uploading NSFW content on the website[2]. These moves make me feel that reddit might be trying to cash in on the porn and capture the OF market that's brewing within the site and keep it to their official apps and this might require age verification.

I'm not sure but it seems like the folks at reddit are actually floundering and not just making malicious moves. Their communication reeks of more than hostility. It seems to me more like desperation and a last ditch effort to do... something? Did their revenue numbers suddenly tank? Did they make some bad decisions and lost a lot of money? Did their ad buyers pull out suddenly? It's very possible we are watching the death throes of a website here

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/RedReader/comments/13ylk42/update_3...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/13evueo/bringing_i...
$0.24/1k calls isn't absurd (its expensive, yes, but only ~3x more than the rate for Imgur).

The issue is that Apollo was doing 600 calls per hour per user to push notifications with a less than 10 second window between "when it hits your mailbox" to "when it shows up on your iDevice".

When that 600 calls per hour per user gets billed at $0.24/1k calls it gets very expensive.

If those calls were done to the main application (not showing ads) at the same rate that the official application does, it would represent several million dollars of lost advertising revenue.

On the other hand, it represents a fairly consistent load on the servers that doesn't generate any revenue that can misbehave quite badly when there is an outage and per user rate limit information isn't reported back to encourage the push notification server to throttle itself a bit.
I mean the research is nice, but I don't think that just a degree is going to up your chances. As someone who is using these apps constantly, I don't have any hope of finding a long term partner on there.

I am on pretty much every app, except Tinder (Bumble, Hinge, okcupid, pof and even muzmatch (im south asian)). I have a bachelors, and I make good money. I've been told that I am a decent looking guy and I have quite a few hobbies. It's easy for me to make friends, so I don't think I fit the programmer stereotype.

I am on these apps with the explicit intention of finding a long term partner and I've made it clear, but it seems that >95% of people are there for flings, fwb or casual hookups.

I am starting to realize that dating apps are broken, if you are looking for a serious relationship - there's just no way you are going to find it on here.

The focus of the study has been on guys with higher education, and from what I've seen girls here are not that well educated. Perhaps this is a small city phenomenon (pop. 1.5 mil), but it's quite shocking to see this disparity (That's another topic).

Take this as you will, maybe it's just me venting or whatever, but it's tough out there and these apps are just not it.
Checkout the cocoa class for this: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/nsattri...
YouTube is lowering monetization thresholds for channels
A decade after Snowden's leak, and this still constitutes "news".
Why should we believe this person? It's hearsay of hearsay
> one can produce high quality training data with the LLM itself which the next iteration of that model can use. Rinse and repeat.

it may be higher quality, but far from perfection.

After many rinses and repeats dataset will accumulate significant amount of errors.
"More people are waiting until their 30s to settle down" is a wildly different claim than "women are asking too much."

If the dating pool looks a lot different after that decade that also suggests that a lot of people are still "settling down" earlier, too.

So is the claim that "women are asking for too much, and too late in life" based in 30something men who fucked around in their 20s not having grown up as much as the women during that decade or something?

I met my wife in my 30s, on an app even, I also found I had lost patience for women who acted like they were in their early or mid 20s still.
also a good demonstration of the "you can never please everyone, so it's not worth trying to" adage
This decision comes from the board of directors, not Huffman. Huffman's job here is to be the whipping boy for their decisions.
>You are simply so out of touch with reality that you believe that bakeries are only used to produce croissants for startup engineers

1. I do not think personal insults are appropriate here.

2. Bakery as a small business did not exist in most places and it’s not the same as a “village oven”, which by the way was not a thing in many agrarian cultures.

3. What do you know about the needs of the people in need? Have you ever interacted with a social worker as a receiver of care? And most importantly, what do you know about welfare system in Germany?
It is an empty page with a box to force you to sign up to continue. Why would anybody give you their e-mail without even knowing what you offer?

So far your offering has no value.
Wouldn't the government be taking an ownership stake in the banks at the banks' reduced market cap? How does the taxpayer lose out in this scenario?
> someone you picked with zero vetting

As opposed to the current state of affairs, where it is someone you didn't pick, also with zero vetting.
I don't hate it. It's actually really easy on the eyes.
The ads on old.reddit.com are less intrusive.
They don't support fine-tuning GPT-3.5 or GPT-4. https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/fine-tuning/what-mod...
Even worse if the mods just walked away. Reddit is completely beholden to them, but the mods aren't beholden to Reddit at all (except for imaginary internet points). The likes of Voat are a good example of what happens with lax moderation.
Calculus for Economists (2021)
All these things have their own kind of logic to them. It's possible to learn/train people/empathy. There's a lot of people who can't get themselves to believe that it's worth investing, in though. But people skills do come in handy, also when solving non-romantic problems at scale.
There are jobs for pretty much all established technologies. And if there aren't currently, there could be in the future. I primarily work on procedural & OO projects, but I disagree with your position. I've seen job postings for all sorts of things; Things that interest me, things that don't, things that are hot, things that are old hat, things that have an air of prestige, things that look like a coffee stain on your resume...
I think I could say that it's disgusting if you view it as a mafialike group getting ready to cause a financial shock for their own gain to the detriment of everyone else...

But that's a hyper specific view point that I doubt many hold, but I feel like that's the view the author has.
Paul Graham says remote work ‘does work initially'
That's not the disgusting part. It's the assumption by banks that they will be bailed out (by us) for their bad investments if the investments are large enough.
It's great that you provide operator overloads, but it's also nice to have names
I don't know, Twitter looks like its dying, and not slowly. They're hemorrhaging money (income is WAY down by all reports and it wasn't making money even before) and it seems like most reasonable people have left. Musk seems to be overseeing a pond that is getting smaller and more toxic by the day.
Who will they give the job to, and what will they pay them?
> Unfortunately, good enough, often means unhappy customers actively looking for new competitors.

Here's the thing though - it's your intuition that customers are unhappy, but the startup in question has actual data. It's entirely possible that a small group of people similar to you are unhappy but for a majority of the userbase the feature has gone as far as it needs to. Resources are scarce and priorities need to be changed, which sometimes means making hard decisions.
Forget LinPack and friends. Jack Dongarra is going to need to switch to the new metric for supercomputers—-kilograms of H100 GPUs—- about 3,300 give or take a few grams for this system.
>But has the market priced this in yet?

The market is currently on a blind bull run stampede because too many retail are short and holding puts or outright shorts. This was exacerbated few months back when Burry tweeted "SELL" and millions or retail traders straight out started shorting stocks and buying puts.

SPX and TSLA is running up for absolutely no reason beyond their wildest EPS just to bankrupt the retail. I suspect it will keep running for months until all the retail have either bought in to the bull run or died of trying to short the market.

When that happens is when the music stops for this game of musical chair.
Right now a large portion of Reddit is willing to jump the ship at all cost. You can't design for such events, i agree, but if you had a perfect reddit clone right now - people would flock even if there was no content. This is a digg moment. The problem is scaling up when there's demand, because people don't like lag and a half loaded tab. No one is stepping up as a Reddit successor because everyone know they have no pockets to scale to Reddit scale
Then again, it's not guaranteed she would appreciate you-but-five-years-earlier, and vice versa. A person probably undergoes a bit more character development than a VC firm does.
> The sheep are not going to visit in this scenario because a free-for-all is comfortable for the wolves and not for the sheep. I think this is pretty straightforward with a moment of thought.

Yes, of course. It did seem the clear intent behind your words. Arm the sheep and it may be a different matter, no? Or, as you say, the sheep could simply not show up if they don't like their odds. I'm really not making a value judgement on the situation, just saying that everyone is handed equal tools here.

> Here’s another thought: avowed Nazis are not, strictly speaking, stopped from participating in any pseudonymous forum, if they can keep their views on that subject to themselves. Why is this model less “open” or “egalitarian” than one where they’re allowed to barge into conversations and start spewing that stuff?

Well, the easy answer is that it's less open because it is moderated. Perhaps each is open in different, conflicting ways? I'm not really prepared to perform an analysis on the ethics of each, and please don't take my response as necessarily expressing a preference for the former. Insofar as I spend time on any social platform, it is mostly HN, and mostly because I find the conversation here generally more civil than elsewhere. So in practice, I do seem to express a preference for the latter.
You're correct if you hold the assumption that they actually care about the quality of the content.

I definitely don't think it's a good idea for Reddit to do that as it will eventually create a substandard product. However, I do think if the goal is "profits at all costs" and an IPO in the near future (which is what it clearly appears to be), replacing a large number of mods with literally anybody is a possible path forward.

Again, it's a horrible idea and I think it would cause irreparable harm to the platform down the line.
Some insist this is about making it so companies training LLMs aren't doing so with Reddit's data for free.

But I call bullshit. People training new AI models are using the API right now because it's free and easy, but as soon as that changes they will go back to good old fashioned web scraping.
Particle, wave, both or neither? Experiment challenges all we know about reality
That doesn't change anything I said earlier.

The worse and worse a marketplace does, the more and more the owner is forced to increase the bid-ask spread. Not everything is as efficiently run as the New York Stock Exchange. When you start getting to more obscure games and such, the bid ask spread balloon.

2023 is a different time than 2003. The used market is dying, and its dying because its dying, and the market is forced to make prices worse because its dying and that's causing worse prices to happen. Its a death cycle.

Now maybe with good management and good investment, Gamestop can try to stop this spiral by losing money on sales and trying to offer a smaller bid-ask spread. But the company is more aligned to the lotto-tickets they got from the memestonk APEs and is more interested in building a new internet store than fixing the fundamental marketplace issues.
There was an idea floating around here about users downvoting en masse as a form of protest. While this could certainly disrupt the algorithm and content quality, it wouldn't require a massive participation. However, identifying and banning accounts engaged in systematic downvoting would be quite straightforward. A more subversive approach could be to invert the system - upvote low quality posts and downvote high quality ones.
For me, the recent goings-on at Reddit have made me fully acknowledge that this is a fundamentally different Reddit from the one I first started visiting over a decade. Change is inevitable.
It therefore made it a surprisingly easy decision to uninstall the Reddit third-party apps (the devs who I am thankful to for making Reddit usable again) and I haven't missed it at all.
If they placed you at the top of the lower band, that sounds like a signal that they like you as a candidate but either want or have to avoid placing outside hires into type of role.

My current employer will generally hire ICs or Senior leadership from outside. The “inside baseball” of the company makes it difficult to succeed in middle management/team lead roles.

If the money is good you need to decide whether leading people is important to you. If it is, that’s ok, but this provably isn’t the right gig. If you don’t care, this might be a good role.
In the Android app, audio in GIFs (that have audio in the target link) have only infrequently worked for years.
And to support startups we invest in who need GPUs!
> How is this different from, say, Ethereum?

The House Financial Services Chairman asked Gensler (Head of SEC) point blank half a dozen times whether Ethereum was a security.

Half a dozen times, Gensler refused to answer. :/

https://youtu.be/VhA1dZXeao0
Putting aside the nonsense of "absolutely disgusting", this is incredibly vague and exceedingly implausible. Critiquing:

> They say the largest property companies in the US (they named names, I can’t) are raising huge amounts of money... if they stop paying the loan, and the bank gets the building back, the bank cannot sue them for the remainder of the loan.

For this reason, banks generally do not loan more than what the building is worth. Banks aren't dumb, they're not going to fall for something as obvious as this.

> 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.

Not really. They sure didn't bail out Lehman. And the owners of SVB lost all their equity. Bank owners do everything they possible can to avoid failing and being "bailed out".

> 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.

Properties are sold at auction or similar and go to the highest bidder. It's certainly not "pennies on the dollar".

In sum, none of this makes any sense.
Any plans to allow Svelte components as well?
They don't have a mechanism to easily find competent, committed mods. Incompetent mods will create evaporation of users.
It wasn't until they announced this that all the issues with accessibility came up either. They literally didn't think about it until now (because they didn't have to).

Also running a paid API service actually requires providing services to the third parties that are using them (like billing dashboards, etc).

I'm pretty sure they didn't really think this through entirely when they proposed it. Now that they kind of have a better idea of what they're getting into doubling down is just hubris.
Why would a bank give a "non-recourse" loan for commercial property? Doesn't make sense to me.
But if the bank fails, the bank owners get wiped out.
TypeStream – The fastest way of building Kafka apps
The under $200/month isn't a rate that anyone else can get.

https://api.imgur.com/#commercial takes us to https://rapidapi.com/imgur/api/imgur-9/pricing

The two plans there are $500/month for 7.5M requests and $10k/month for 150M requests.
We officially started in January
Sure, but the point is, they're doing it.
What’s the average age of people in your social group? I’m guessing over 35. It’s a very different story if you try talking to people in their 20’s or younger.
> Obvious (if politically impossible) fix - banks that go bust become U.S. Gov't. property.

the assets should become government property and administered long enough to sell off the assets to the market.

the bank itself should be dissolved as a legal business entity, with no protection for the executives
What alternate website can I tack onto a search to get an actual human's answer to a question that is otherwise only served by blogspam?
If I had a job at reddit, I'd be shopping my resume.
I agree, it would be a bad idea. But I also think it would take time for the average user to feel the negative effects of such a short-sighted decision. Enough time, perhaps, for an IPO and cash-out for the c-suite at reddit.
For reference, 93% of the responses there so far are for indefinite blackout, and only 7% are for weekly blackouts.
Here is the paper:

Self-Supervised Learning from Images with a Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture (https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.08243)
I agree, and I've wanted a grid of 1000+ cores for 25 years now, once I realized that the only bottleneck in computing is the bus between CPU and memory back in the late 90s. The only chip that comes even close to what I want for a reasonable price is Apple's M1 line, but they added GPU and AI cores which defeat the purpose.

The churn with GPUs and now AI cores is too much for me. I just can't waste time manually annotating the code I want to run concurrently, on GPU, on AI core, whatever. To me, it looks like everyone is putting 10-100 times more work into their code than what should be needed. I see the same pattern repeated with web development and the explosion of walled garden platforms for mobile and smart devices. So much work for so long for so few results.

Just give me a big dumb boring grid of cores and a self-parallelizing language to program them. Stuff like Julia/Clojure/MATLAB/Erlang/Go come close, but each have poison pills that make reaching the mainstream untenable. Someday I want to write a language that does what I need, but that day will likely never come, because every day is Quantum Leap for me, I just go to work to make rent, pushing the rock up that hill like Sisyphus, only to watch it roll down and have to start all over again. Inadequate tooling has come to totally dominate every aspect of my work, but there may never be time to write better stuff.
Under the Hood of Declarative UI Toolkits
"I am starting to realize that dating apps are broken, if you are looking for a serious relationship"

Dating apps are optimized for usage, not success. If you find a serious relationship, you stop using the app (Hopefully).

A dating app that helps you find a long term partner has failed to maximize your LTV
> since Reagan deinstitutionalized the mentally ill and cut funding

How long are we going to blame Reagan? Democrats have supermajority in California since 2011-12 ballot reforms, and hypermajority in SF. It's not for a lack of funding neither as SF has spent billions[1] so far.

So blaming it on Reagan and funding is just lazy and dishonest.

[1] 1.45B per https://abc7news.com/sf-homeless-plan-housing-all-san-franci...
Continuous Deployment at IMVU: Doing the impossible fifty times a day. (2009)
This shouldn't happen if you use pip to install packages, not conda.
Yeah, but you'd think reddit could pay for 1.5 engineers to get that smoother integration themselves.
> Not an expert, but my understanding is that the end of the last ice age led to an overall global average temperature change of +10°C.

Over what time period? 10°C in 10 million years is fine. In 10 years it would kill almost all life. The amount of change is inconsequential as long as the rate of change is small enough.
no it doesn't, I have barely even noticed there is a blackout because there is plenty of content from non blacked out subs. The only thing I've noticed is when I try to visit subreddits I like some of them are blacked out. A 2 day blackout does literally nothing, just virtue signaling
The Rebellion of the Over-Criticized Child
That's a pretty cynical take on startup culture, but I guess it deserves it
I think about this another way. If you're fast enough, you can afford to do the gardening you need to keep your codebase in a good way without having to schedule it all in. If you're fast enough, when doing data analysis, you earn the space to ask the next question, and the next, and to do a deeper analysis.

But... as a lead, I've struggled to train speed before. Some people I've worked with have had it, junior or senior, and some have not.

Has anyone had good experience helping others become faster at their work?
I remember your last post [0] on this. :)

I hope you get more replies this time. It's quite an interesting phenomenon. Personally, as a non-expert, I'm skeptical that such an obvious arbitrage opportunity would be unexploited, so I think there must be some mechanistic explanation for the divergence. My hypothesis is that it somehow reflects the delay in converting crypto bucks to fiat currency.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35991593
I have one from my sister-in-law, that she got from her (Israeli) partner's grandmother, which is a very traditional Israeli hummus recipe. That recipe is for stovetop and I adapted it to the instant pot.

The trick is to use baking soda when you cook the chickpeas in the instant pot, because it dissolves/softens the shells. Then you take them out and rinse thoroughly in water to get rid the baking soda taste, before slapping them into a food processor with tahini and whatever else.

Good quality tahini also makes a difference. Lots of north American brands have a wildly different taste than what's common in the middle east.
The problem with every such design is that the infrastructure layer takes up close to 100% of the development effort, hosting costs, maintenance costs and content liability while getting nothing in return. So why would anyone set up such a service?
I think 70%+ might not be the right proportion for all or most people in the US. It's hard for me to estimate, but irl conversations I've had mostly skew towards media, computers, and gossip. Gender dynamics is in there for sure, but I don't think it's what most people I've met want to talk about most of the time. It's kind of a depressing subject.