skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shopify wants you to play game to check for any Engineering roles, No thanks
It's not some hot take but exactly what the developer said in the interview. Continuing to provide service to users who have already paid would be too expensive, and so shutting the app down (and giving optional refunds) is the cheaper way out.
> it would charge devs over 20x what a user actually cost/were worth

This is Selig's estimate based on not much info. Numbers like "20x" are completely made up.
> So the US government is now claiming

No, this article is not based on claims by the US government. It’s based on claims by people who do not represent the government about the US government.

> And they’re really doubling down on this?

Well, no, they aren’t making the claim at all, so claiming they are doubling down are doubly wrong.
But the code populating and sending the email is rarely (ever?) Front end code
Depends entirely on your definition of "better deal". To me, yes, many many many apartments and condos are a "better deal".
True, but I don't dispute that in principle a lot of matrix multiplication could produce consciousness. I just suggest that an honest appraisal of brains and LLMs suggests little to no consciousness on the part of the latter.
If you got time for 48 pages.
You might claim that’s extortion, but it clearly isn’t blackmail, unless you think he’s got even more dirt on reddit that he hasn’t publicly revealed.
> Reddit can't force ads on any API users (except through the official app).

They absolutely could make ads part of the API that third party applications have to display.

There's a hundred things they could do if you assume they care about third-party applications, and don't specifically want to kill them.

I do think they want to kill them, actively, but even beyond that it's really clear they don't care.
Agree. Before subreddit mods voluntarily blacked out, the Apollo developer stated he would pay millions of dollars per year ($20M/year?) with the increased rates. It’s insane.

Reddit C-level executives suggested Apollo was poorly optimized or something. I think if it truly costs that much to use Reddit’s API, then maybe it’s on reddit to make their backend more efficient. If that’s not the case then it’s clearly just another case of corporate greed and pumping the numbers for the IPO.

I really hope the blackout is sustained for longer than 2 days. People need a break from social media and their echo chambers. Plus only 2 days of decreased user activity is nothing to Reddit.

It will stay relevant for 1-2 news cycles. C-level executives brush it off to board as “turbulence”. Then it’s back to business of extracting as much value from the users
That is a question, that can be answered with other questions, but then some questions have more questions that end up with other questions. It is a scenario made out of lots of questions.
Censorship of music and art was a bipartisan push.

My entire point was that the entire country was more conservative, a point I was demonstrating by showing a time when Democrats and Republicans joining hand in hand to censor music from black musicians. (They also tried to censor violent video games, and the entire internet!)

> Um... you do know that Tipper Gore was and still is an adamant leftist,

Look up https://www.politicalcompass.org/ specifically https://www.politicalcompass.org/analysis2

1 axis for left vs right makes no sense, especially when there are members of both dominant political parties who want to curtail liberties.

Politics as a team sport is stupid, don't vote based on single letter next to someone's name, vote for the individual policies a candidate supports.
Being blinded by hubris and taking a hard left off a cliff on a potentially profitable venture are not things I would consider "smart".

Saying it was "smart but handled poorly" is an excuse. It was a series of dumb moves because they did not see the actions they needed to take and in what order and on what timeframe to not capsize.
The US spends more and those things you mentioned are not at all educational in nature.
> Sure, but without those moderators there's not much of a site.

I believe moderators on Reddit like to think that they're that important and integral to the site functioning smoothly, but I think the reality is upvoting/downvoting/reporting works perfectly fine in nearly every subreddit.

The only time it doesn't work is in places like r/AskHistorians or r/science which require high quality comments much like this place. You might argue with no moderation the subreddit would turn into a cesspool of reposts and memes - but who really cares? If that's what people want and that's what people are upvoting then let it be. There's no reason to have editorial control over subreddits when the entire point of the subreddit is to have stupid conversations, memes, and jokes. If people keep upvoting and enjoying the same stupid memes and jokes why do moderators feel like they need to step in and disrupt what the people find enjoyable?
I am not really on i3 for speed, somehow the tiling concept just works for me. When coding and testing I think it saves a little bit of time arranging multiple console windows, editor and browser. It also might save me a bit of time when wrangling different side projects/trains of thought, I can just keep one set of windows open on a workspace and switch to another. Another thing, slightly related to getting actual work done, it removes the need to mentally keep track of the tab order of windows. I might remember what my last workspace was when switching spaces (got the option enabled to press the current workspace hotkey to go back).

Note I am also quite happy with using i3 for leisure, as in light browsing, gaming, watching movies and a little bit of console stuffs. In that "mode" I mostly use the mouse for scrolling the workspaces and window stacks, slow when compared to a proper hotkeying, but I have the time. Even in that mode I still have a rough "guideline" for workspace purposes (e.g. 0 is for email and other distractions, 6 for steam).
I've used quite a few different window managers (WM) in the past, and I'm mostly sticking to awesome today, which shares with i3 the benefit of being highly configurable (even scriptable), which undoubtedly makes me much faster at navigating my windows than any other WM…

The exact monitor / window / new program to run I want to look at is always exactly one keystroke away, an so are moving, resizing, bringing to top and so on.

This did not happen by just installing this WM, though. I've had to tailor it to my specific needs, and that's still an ongoing process, as needs change over time. The WM makes it possible, but there's still work on the user side.

Also, I feel like the (real) benefits can easily be dwarfed by the inefficiencies of what's in the windows you're dealing with. What's the point of being able to open an app without leaving the home row of your keyboard or instantly focus on the right app window if the first thing you need to do to use that app is to grab a mouse and click in ten difference places? You get most of the benefits of i3, awesome and other similar WMs when you combine them with keyboard-driven programs.
In the USA, the Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices has an (I think) reasonable requirements for crossing durations but almost no further recommendations about maximum wait times. This results in completely idiotic timing programs of the signals everywhere that encourage people to cross when cars have a green light. If you want to change it to be more pedestrian friendly, it can cost $20k+ because the signals are programmed in a 40 year old language that only a very small group of highly paid traffic engineers know how to write.
I legit use this font for work. It's a nice mono font.
Being a person of low social status and with no resources, suicide is a constant temptation. The article reads like a horror story on human nature and is a reminder for why I wish to be dead.
But now you have to subtract from the "plenty of people" those who are angered and disillusioned over Reddit's treatment of existing community mods and power users. You're whittling down the population of people who actually care about the subreddits they moderate and contribute to. So yeah, you could get them moderated, but the site would mostly go to garbage.

Reddit's triumph from the user perspective is that all of the content is driven by users, and those users are primarily made up of a small and passionate minority. The downfall of this fact from the business side is that Reddit as a company needs to appease those people because without their contributions, nobody would want to use the site.
Everything on OGA has a license attached. Just respect the appropriate licenses and you're fine.
From a DevOps perspective, speed is often the indicator that you're doing things right. If you integrate code quickly and often, if you deploy quickly and often, if you patch and upgrade software quickly and often, if you detect, diagnose and fix issues quickly and often, those are all indicators of a high-performing team. Quality isn't always correlated, but high-performing teams tend to care about quality, so it's not uncommon to add quality improvements to the list if you're doing everything else.
But these language models are implicitly trained on knowledge by being fed large amounts of factual text, which (I presume) allows it to generate text that is factual (statistically more frequently than hallucinating nonfactual information). So probably recent models (which were being trained around the time the parrots paper came out) are really implict knowledge models already. Obviously they don't have embodiment, and it's still unclear to me what level of true embodiment in the actual, real, physical world is required to make these models more than just "parrots".
> "According to a 2020 report by the U.S. Department of Education, 54% of adults in the United States have prose literacy below the 6th-grade level." And, nb, if you're a good reader and you're thinking "6th grade level, that's not so bad", your idea of what a "6th-grade level" looks like, is probably skewed way higher than what they mean.

To continue the entirety of the quote which makes it not seem quite as dammning:

"Literacy in the United States was categorized by the National Center for Education Statistics into different literacy levels, with 92% of American adults having at least "Level 1" literacy in 2019.[1] According to a 2020 report by the U.S. Department of Education, 54% of adults in the United States have prose literacy below the 6th-grade level.[2]

In many nations, the ability to read a simple sentence suffices as literacy, and was the previous standard for the U.S. The definition of literacy has changed greatly; the term is presently defined as the ability to use printed and written information to function in society, to achieve one's goals, and to develop one's knowledge and potential.[3]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_the_United_States
Apple's MPW was Apple's programming environment for a long time.

It's been a while, but I believe that it represented everything in a tree of n-character chunks (n = 6?). It was probably the first editor that I used that could open files of pretty much any length.
100%, I think the reasonable version of this is asking the carrier if a SPECIFIC device was in an area at a certain time. Meaning the police would have to collect the device IDs of all of those suspects and then could use cell phone data to confirm/refute an alibi
Is it though? If you wanted to teach humans so that they don't develop unfortunate beliefs, would it be a good approach to just keep them from reading material that you find objectionable?

If you read a book that you disagree with, or one that contains falsehoods and bad reasoning as far as you can tell, would that make you believe those things?
no it's not a good argument against government programs.

really the best way to improve everyones lives is by everyone paying their taxes and allow those taxes to be used to help anyone in need and fund infrastructure and improvements for everyone in society.

if we pool our resources we can create a better life for everyone. charities that rely on donations can only go so far, and they allow people to opt out of contributing their share. the betterment of our lives is not the responsibility of individuals who feel inclined to donate, but they are the responsibility of all of us as a community.

this is not about allowing people to say that by paying taxes they did their part and so they don't feel the need to donate, but rather, as a society it is our responsibility to ensure that everyones needs are met such that there is no need for any individual to keep making donations.

if our social net relies on donations then we have a social net that is not properly funded.
I read quite a bit of LW/ACX/etc though by no means do I keep up on all of it.

I'll add Against Empathy to my reading list (though working on House of Leaves at the moment, so give me a few months).

One of my general criticisms of strict EA folks (and EA is a wide spectrum from common sense to very strict interpretations) is that they get stuck in a loop of describing the internal motivations of others ("People volunteer for the fuzzies!") and then use their own description of that black box to dismiss it ("Fuzzies aren't worth much!"). That is a fundamentally flawed logic.

More than the obvious flaw there is a hidden one: the assumption that because the value of a thing is poorly described (the fuzzies) that it has little value or only soft value. Humans are feeling machines who sometimes engage in rationality - doing rationality more or better does not change that equation. Those who can't understand that are doomed to not be successful.
People on Reddit vastly overestimate how closely Reddit's opinion lines up with that of the general public.

If the last US Presidential election was held on Reddit, Bernie Sanders would have won in a landslide. He obviously did not.

When Netflix announced it was cracking down on password sharing, Reddit declared that this would be the final nail in their coffin. Instead, subscriptions skyrocketed.

Reddit power users are angry at spez and claim that this will be the end of the site, but the average Reddit user has maybe heard about all of this, and mostly doesn't care.
Takes somewhere between 48 hours and a week to generate the first invite codes, though. (Those are the two closest moments at which I checked before and after I had invites available)
What Developers Can Learn from Taylor Swift's Re-Recording Strategy
I'm not even sure what exactly you are misunderstanding, but this "proposal" doesn't fit the situation at all
what you're looking for is called diarization. almost all enterprise STTs do that, you can find individual libraries on GitHub too.

fine-tuning whisper is a nightmare, I don't know what the interviews are for, but again most enterprise STTs offer customization. you can add medical terminology.

---Google, Amazon and Nuance have medical models but either expensive or not available for personal projects.
Shameless plug: there's also Elvish (https://elv.sh) if you're interested in a shell with advanced programming features.
This isn't really true. More like static pages targeting a million different rendering engines with unbalanced feature support
Coastal biomedical labs are bleeding horseshoe crabs with little accountability
Thanks for pointing to that! I'm weirded out b/c this article from Bender in late May seemed so familiar. Here's a conversation from Feb in which a very similar argument is made, also using Thai text as an example:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34732971
Like real estate.
I know, but as it exists today, there’s real value to Apollo, the app. Doesn’t sound like it’s possible for Christian to continue to capture 100% of that value, but if I’m Reddit, I’m at least considering a low seven-digit acquisition and capturing x% of that value going forward.

That said, the Apollo business is a melting ice cube at the moment. It’s quite possible that 6/30 rolls around and Christian shuts it down and all that value is lost, but it would be rational in the meantime for Christian and Reddit to find a way to share it. Just gotta figure out that split, and this whole thing turns into a win-win.
Where do you account for opportunity cost and future growth/loss in these (also old and also imprecise) estimates?
Not as such it seems, neither have an electron they can donate. In fact under normal conditions ClF3 will dissociated into ClF + F2, also strong oxidizers on their own.

Maybe under special conditions they would react, but it seems they aren't able to rip each others electrons.
IMHO venvs are fine as an implementation detail, a building block for a slicker tool.

The annoyance with venvs is you have to create and activate them. In contrast for cargo (or stack or dotnet or yarn or pipenv or poetry), you just run the build tool in the project directory.

Another limitation of venv is it doesn't solve the problem of pinning a versions of Python, so you need another tool.
can you elaborate on that?
Certificates are usually public anyway, but the matching private keys aren't. CAs usually have them on hsm-devices only.
if you mean private keys are shared via email: keys from the CA-Certs, or just from the Certificates the CA signed?
for instance, getting a CA publicly into a browser is expensive and requires audits, so your experience makes me curious
It is inconsistent because spez has repeatedly said that 3P apps, Apollo in particular, are inefficient with their API usage which is preventing reddit from becoming profitable. It is their (thinly veiled) lie to justify the pricing because they think shutting down 3P apps and being caught lying at the same time is a better PR move than just shutting down 3P apps.
This isn't a question of taste.
The topic can't be trivialized to a choice between apples and oranges.
I actually reject your entire last message.
https://archive.ph/jl4oc
You want your whole phone bricked by an update when it worked before, even though they can just disable the fingerprint scanner instead?
This is nothing new. You don’t remember the Ellen Pao era?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit (see controversies section)
If you can automate away programming, there's some people who would like to give you a lot of money.
Isn't "it's comparatively slow" what people usually mean with "doesn't scale"? You can scale anything with enough hardware, but as you mentioned at some point is just becomes very expensive.
The sender will always have an advantage over the receiver. Generating bullshit is cheap.

Ability to interpret/summarize is limited by context size and time.

Document dumping is the social DoS.
why would anyone downvote this ? ffs
Yeah I don't like using find's predicate options, I often just do

find | grep somefile

because I can also use all the pattern syntax I use elsewhere in grep commands.
I was trying to explain ChatGPT to a non-technical person recently, and the perfect analogy struck me. ChatGPT is like those beggars who walk up to you and launch a long, complicated, but highly plausible story about why they need $10 from you instead of just the $1 you were going to give them when you saw them.
Show HN: Developer Toolkit
Similar to a styptic pencil - you may have seen used in boxing corners.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antihemorrhagic#Styptics
Maybe, but spaghetti jsx really sucks too.
I wouldn't say it was "free lunch" but it was definitely a benefit for him. He still had costs (Apple Dev Fee, Server Costs, Server Engineer Salary, Artists costs for the various icons.)
I watched the video, apparently they are targeting $1000-$2000, and said even $500 sounds interesting.

Maybe, just maybe a highly cut down version, 15 watt model could bring it down to RaspberryPi level price. $45. UsbC interface, if not x4 PCIe. Like, people buy it first, and decide what to do with it latter on. Guess I am going to far down the fantasy lane. ;)
> Some Blue LEDs contain sapphire, which is apparently macrostate entangleable.

I’ve studied quantum cryptography rather extensively, and I have no idea what you’re trying to say.

You could have a power LED that contains an actual magical quantum computer running attacker controlled software and with unlimited entanglement with the attacker, and it would not have a qualitatively greater ability to exfiltrate information to the attacker than a plain old LED would have. At best you would get a bandwidth increase by a small constant factor, improved tolerance to noise, and the ability to prevent anyone else from decoding the transmission.
Try to reduce the single points of failure in mission critical areas of one’s life.

Diversify one’s payment networks. Get a visa and Mastercard. Or Amex.
Do you really think reddit spends 2.50 monthly per user on their 430 million MAU?

That would mean 13 billion dollars in expenses yearly.
With Reddit and many other sites shutting down access to their APIs it is now more important than ever to release quality open-source conversational data. I worked with the author of FLAN, Shayne Longpre, to generate ~80GB of labeled FLAN dialog data. You can find the dataset here: https://huggingface.co/datasets/conceptofmind/flan_dialog_su...

This is a previous extension of his work to publicly release the FLAN collection: https://twitter.com/EnricoShippole/status/166175616624899686...

The dialog data is available on huggingface to download. It was processed at an extended context length of 8192. It contains relevant metadata such as Inputs, Targets, Task Source, and Task Name.

An additional FLAN Dialog submix dataset was also preprocessed for causal language modeling, fixing different encoding issues, and is available on huggingface to download: https://huggingface.co/datasets/conceptofmind/flan_dialog_su...

You can find the extended FLAN Zero-shot-only causal language modeling dataset on huggingface here: https://huggingface.co/datasets/conceptofmind/flan_dialog_zs...

You can find the extended FLAN Few-shot-only causal language modeling dataset on huggingface here:https://huggingface.co/datasets/conceptofmind/flan_dialog_fs...

Our work on an open reproduction of FLAN V2 and this conversational data release is all thanks to the generous sponsorship by CarperAI and StabilityAI.

You can find more information about CarperAI here: https://carper.ai/

And StabilityAI here: https://stability.ai/

A big thank you to Jason Phang from EleutherAI for helping build the dataset as well. You can find his Twitter here: https://twitter.com/zhansheng

You can find out more about Shayne Longrpe's work on FLAN here:https://twitter.com/ShayneRedford/status/1661734033720762368

You can find the original FLAN repository here: https://github.com/google-research/FLAN/tree/main/flan/v2#do...

Be sure to also read through Shayne Longpre's paper on the FLAN collection to get better insight into how the data was created:https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.13688

You can check out Shayne Longpre's new paper on building pre-training datasets here:https://twitter.com/ShayneRedford/status/1660670374206652419

This is not an official Google or StabilityAI product.

If you have any questions about the data be sure to reach out and ask! I will try to respond promptly.
There is also a great documentation on the topic (and CRDT) by /u/raphlinus: https://xi-editor.io/docs.html
No matter how you look at it, Reddit leadership massively screwed this up. When half your site goes offline for two days and the entire front page is calling for the CEO's head, it's obvious that they have lost touch. And since they aren't reversing course on this, you can assume even more user-hostile changes are coming in the near future.
yeah I never use BBEdit day to day but I have it installed in my drive for those times where I have to wrangle big files.
You're right, it's not the right word.
Collation order is not necessarily best for organizing. Many of us think spatially. Having related things near each other can be useful. Same with putting the most commonly used or most important things near the top.