skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Savage, but maybe fair. If one of Chomsky's underlying claims is indeed that language requires innate hard parsing rules and can't just be derived from probabilistic sampling of a bunch of data - that seems completely dead in the water.

It is entirely likely that the way we operate is probability-first, only deriving rules loosely after taking in lots of experiential data to speed up and simplify that initial fake-it-til-you-make-it understanding. The fact LLMs can get the quality we see using just this approach is a strong indicator that this method of understanding may be a fundamental approach of biological systems too.

(and if you're arguing this is unfair because humans created the language that's being used for probabilistic training - well, look at image models trained on photographs instead and tell me those aren't an example of extreme quality derived purely from mass-inferenced data. Rules-based architectures don't necessarily need apply.)

But honestly, this seems like a silly claim to begin with if it really was claimed. We have formal language theory complexity classes of probabilistic algorithms for a reason - they work! It shouldn't be surprising that the model can stretch down to the fundamentals too. Far fewer programmers (and linguists) were raised to think with these models than deterministic rules-based ones, but the field has been progressing alongside for decades, and now they get to play with powerful LLMs that take probabilistic inferencing to the extreme and will likely prove it works (very elegantly) for everything. This shouldn't be surprising in retrospect.

Chomsky may very well be right that there always exists some fundamental elegant formula underlying any phenomenon (or at least any language). But it's undeniable at this point that simplistic statistical approaches can be applied at scale to those phenomenon and derive highly-useful general models, which also will very likely converge upon the elegant formulas he envisioned. The two are intrinsically linked, neither inseparable.
But that's not what's happening.

They made a Gameboy game and now you're buying hamburgers.

If you're doing a 'vote with your wallet' thing to try to convince them to make more retro games that at least makes sense, even if id argue it's a little naive, but that's not even what were talking about. They made a videogame and now people are pledging to buy their hamburgers.
Reddit are already using AI for first-line moderation on their site-wide reports. It only reaches a human if there's an appeal.
Not unexpected, and he had a long life well used, but this is still such a loss to the world.

Personally, the Border Trilogy and The Road are among my most favourite novels.

RIP
The thought of listening to Despacito for a week straight is making me sweat
that is the Warren Buffet model.. who can complain? not everything goes that way.. congrats on the successful transition
Thank you for the pointer! I was actually not aware of this paper at all, which is why it was not included here (not sure how I missed it). I'll be sure to push a revision to the blog which mentions this paper.
The VSCode debugger works amazing with notebooks. I find it super useful all the time when I develop. Just install the Jupyter extensions and it should work
this is art of the $500bn project called NEOM
AMD and Intel are both making quad channel APUs akin to the M2 Pro.

https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-arrow-lake-p-with-320eu-gp...

(Sorry, I cannot find the AMD rumor link atm)

But TBH the hybrid design is less interesting than you think, just because nothing really takes advantage of it. Hence Intel canceled their datacenter APU in favor of a pure Falcon Shores GPU due to a lack of interest from customers.
They absolutely will, but I wouldn't expect those mods to actually be good mods. I've been in multiple subreddits where a new mod would be assigned because the current ones stopped being active and they'd wreck the subreddit. All posts require approval, sub topic changed, any criticism of the changes met with a permanent ban, etc.

For a company wanting to go public, having users banned from some of the most popular subs, the same subs that rely on said users to publish content, Reddit may as well have shot itself in the foot.

When the corp has relied on the good graces of users and mods to effectively run the site, both by providing the content AND moderating the content, any change to that status quo is going to be met with open hostility from the top 1% contributors.
> r/aww is literally just cute animals.

There is a social contract and moderator effort to make that happen. When that contract is broken and moderators are stretched thin, how long is that subreddit still going to be just cute animals?
Not open, but with Anthropic the limit is 100k now https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35904773
Amazon Flex?
> The mobile front end does about 345 calls/user/day

> The push notification server does 8640 calls/user/day (one call every 10 seconds).

I've seen you parroting this around in every thread, and don't understand why.

First of all, none of the math checks out with your theory. But I'll break down why. Here[0] he says Apollo has over 100k DAUs (I noticed you've also stopped using that link...). He also says

> 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.

> I also offer a completely free system that does not use a server so those who don't want to have to pay can have their device function as the server and use local notifications (which are slightly delayed as it uses Background Fetch and using the device uses more battery), but remote notifications necessitate a server.

> If there's nothing that can be done, Apollo won't be able to offer push notifications unfortunately.

He has stated here[1] that API pricing would cost him "almost $2m per month."

So let's check the math.

345 + 8640 API calls / user / day = 8985 / user / day

8,985 API calls x 100,000 users = 898,500,000 / day

Using the absolute average month of 30.4375 days:

30.4375 x 898,500,000 = 27,348,093,750 req / month (@ 100k users)

Or in API pricing $6,563,542.50 / month, which is almost 3x as much as he said it would cost.

> Note that it does a request every 10 seconds for each user. At the API rate that would be about $0.25 every 3 hours (for each user) to support it.

They only do that for each user, that has paid for and has an active Apollo Ultra ($5/mo) subscription. That's going to remove a significant chunk of users.

If you want to verify any of this for yourself, the backend code is also now fully readable[2]. But it looks like from their backend code, they do a maximum of 100 users[3] every 5 seconds[4].

Additionally, that's Reddit just being stupid not them. Reddit offers no alternative way to get real-time notifications from their API, and with the paid API won't as well.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/9l3ema/apollo_13...

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_w...

[2]: https://github.com/christianselig/apollo-backend

[3]: https://github.com/christianselig/apollo-backend/blob/b992d2...

[4]: https://github.com/christianselig/apollo-backend/blob/b992d2...
Only because I can use it anywhere that way, including on machines that I am not allowed to install things on. But if it works in vscode.dev then I am out of excuses, because you’re correct, it’s much much better in vscode.
Open-source AMD Radeon Vulkan driver to have ray tracing pipelines on by default
Might just be me, but I didn’t read the above comment as blaming Reagan but rather pointing out that widespread homelessness isn’t a new issue, and the absence of regular foot traffic in that particular neighborhood is a bigger contributor to its current state.
Multi Fabric Concept Boat
I really like you're idea! In fact, I like it so much that I've been working on something very similar at https://lurk.news. I don't have anything released yet though, congrats on getting yours out there, it works pretty well.

I've got a couple of minor bugs to report. The first (very small) bug is that I couldn't sign up with the email address of "accounts (at) lurk.news" because it says that it's invalid. The second bigger issue is that your YouTube search seems to be down? I tried some niche youtubers at first and then just searched for "mr beast" as a sanity check and it doesn't find him.

Are you using the services official API's to find and display content? For Lurk, I wrote an Electron app that opens up websites in the background and then parses the HTML to query for data, then presents that to the user as a unified feed. I figure with it all happening on each client device it'll be very hard for any given website to block it, and that way I can expose an extensions mechanism so that people can scrape whatever they want to get a unified feed of data.
Poor New York air quality likely through summer as Canadian wildfires continue
Is that the case? Wouldn't the mods by definition be the most passionate people about reddit, and therefore the sort of people who would most likely be upset about the recent changes? And therefore anyone who would potentially do the job of mod likely to also be upset by the changes?

If was working for Reddit I wouldn't take the assumption that these people can be easily replaced for granted.
Quotas in education is always a fun topic.
> Don’t hate the strategy of buying a business with debt, hate the players that execute it like assholes.

The purpose of a system is what it does. Players take whatever they can get away with, in this case a good old mafia bust-out, but laundered legal. In the shadowy world of PE, there’s even less transparency and accountability than the usual near-zero amount. I mean, you could just wait for the mob justice of a fully fledged revolution to do its magic but I think most of us would prefer toothful regulation.
Things I use mine for regularly:

- Hard-boiled eggs. Takes just 5 minutes. Not much time savings, but the eggs are consistently easy to peel and yes, I've tried it Serious Eats way too.

- Incubating yogurt. Makes a perfect batch of four mason jars worth every time.

- Risotto. Saves the 30 minutes of attending to rice where you slowly ladle in the broth.

- Black beans. Start from dry beans in a pinch, no soaking needed.
The questions it raises are almost more interesting then the game.

Why GBC? Did someone have a canceled but mostly finished mcdonalds game laying around since the late 90's and finally the right person at mcdonalds heard about it and got corporate to let them publish it as a marketing tie in?
Toast offline mode captures the credit cards and processes them later, no reason to turn away sales, it is just a hassle.
Impassioned people with domain experience, in many cases.

/r/videos, sure, that's got its own culture, history, known reposts, moderation style needs, etc. It will take some work to for a group of communications majors to figure out how to moderate it.

But /r/PLC, where I hung out frequently? You need reasonably intelligent electrical engineers to discern spammy press releases from interesting news! We don't work cheap, except when we work for free. Elite athletics, weird hobby niches, professional forums, on and on...Reddit's long tail, where much of the value was, relies on domain experts who were also good communicators. Those are hard people to find.

Stackexchange, love it or hate it, has the same thing going. Are you going to hire a pilot to mod the aviation stack, or a post-doc to moderate mathematics?
They're clearly joking.
I find it difficult to call any PC that has a CPU clock expressed in GHz retro / vintage. Even though I know PCs 20 years ago were already in that ballpark.
It's also the home of single region services...

IAM, Cloudfront ACM certs, etc
"In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6.
“What are you doing?”, asked Minsky.
“I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe” Sussman replied.
“Why is the net wired randomly?”, asked Minsky.
“I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play”, Sussman said.
Minsky then shut his eyes.
“Why do you close your eyes?”, Sussman asked his teacher.
“So that the room will be empty.”
At that moment, Sussman was enlightened."
If that happens, wouldn't the next obvious thought for the "rebelling" users be "spam and troll these subreddits as much as humanly posssible"?

And they'd be extra motivated too, since forcibly removing the mods would be seen as escalation of the conflict.
IIRC the APUs aren't exactly typical APUs with shared memory, but more a CPU with a few GPU cores attached, operating independently memory whise (but I might be wrong).
b-but muh five nines of reliability...
This will be good for reddit. Maybe they will manage to get rid of that group of moderators, and new subs will replace them. Reddit will find new mods and the renovation will be good for their audience

But first they have to make it easy for users to find alternative subreddits. Currently it s not even possible, their search sucks
Looks like they are finally working on a film version as of April 2023:

> it was announced in April 2023 that New Regency is set to produce a feature film based on the novel, with McCarthy and his son serving as executive producers and John Hillcoat serving as director.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Meridian
I mean, this particular thing is covered in various books and other kinds of "best practice" documentation. There isn't a particular reason why I, as a random commenter on HN, would be able to make a more convincing case for it. But it's also reasonable to question the stuff it says in books and best practices documentation - nobody wants to cargo cult everything, and a lot of what's been written is not right in my view - so to some extent I feel like people just have to get burned by things in order to internalize why certain advice is good. I don't find that answer satisfying, but I've been on both sides of it over and over again throughout my career, and this is as far as I've gotten toward a conclusion.
You know HN is run by a VC, right?
Please stop doing this. If you have personal experience to share that is valuable. If you are just cutting and pasting from an AI, anyone on HN can do that. It is no more helpful than copying a list of results from a search engine. Your HN contributions should be written by you, not a computer.
I have been a member of r/NASCAR for nearly a decade, and it's been a great place to gather with NASCAR fans outside of the stereotypical Facebook/Twitter crowd. Niche (ish?) sport/hobby/interest subs like that are going to suffer the most from reddit's potential downfall, as there isn't another viable, easily-accessible place for members of those communities to gather online.
> Some individuals, particularly those running Linux, follow a standard called XDG Base Directory Specification. While Murex does not adhere to this standard, instead conforming to the de facto standard defined by the past precedents of previous shells, in order to offer flexibility for those who do prefer the XDG specification Murex does support overriding its own default paths via special environmental variables.

no no no you're missing the point: on POSIX systems, go with XDG by default. cmon guys it's 2023 not 2003
I've often wondered why people use Reddit for stuff like this since the information and conversation management and organizational tools seem vastly inferior to most any pre-Reddit forum software.

My current working theory is largely that internet search is just broken. It's easier to search for subreddit once you're on Reddit than to wade out into the sea of SEO crap and try to find a live, reliable format on the broader web. Google+search+display ads at scale killed the web, now we're back to AOL.
I actually just wrote about this very thing. It's not just that it SEEMS less reliable, it absolutely is:

https://statusgator.com/blog/is-north-virginia-aws-region-th...
I can't quite tell if this comment is written by an LLM (and aided by a person) or the writing style is just so prolific that LLMs cant help but ape it.
I think it's because every sentence is pretty short.

These sentences end up being related, and should probably be just one paragraph.

The writing style seems to separate everything out, I can say this might be what gives the impression of a LLM gluing parts together!
> I don't think anyone was saying this. Some airlines plant trees. That doesn't make planting trees bad.
Ignore the “AI Guy”
Remember how self-driving cars were "imminent" (even in 2018) to the point that some companies (starts with a T, doesn't end with witter) were effectively selling it for a pretty steep premium to users? However there were ppl even back then saying it won't happen overnight and it will be really really hard.. if my memory serves me well they were mostly ignored or actively ridiculed.

Well, true self-driving is still isn't here as it turned out to be waaaaay harder than ppl (i.e. the optimistic experts working on it) ever thought. That is not to say progress in this space isn't amazing and ongoing. And it's not to say true self driving will never arrive.

Nonetheless.. Do you see any resemblance with today's generative AI craze? People pivoting their careers to become professional doom sayers envisioning mass unemployment and civilisational collapse (even extinction)? Ppl becoming AI experts and "AI guys" to tell us about this brave new world we are all about to face where Everything will be different. And they really mean Everything!!! With a capital E! Are you scared already?

While some genuine experts in this field think that LLMs are THE thing that will take us to AGI plenty of them think they are just stochastic parrots. Ppl in the latter camp don't make it to mainstream news and don't shout as loud as the doomsayers but they are there (as they were 5 or so years ago with self driving) and they might be right again..

Generally speaking, if you see a product or marketing person (or basically anyone without a PhD in ML) change roles to become an "AI guru" tweeting and posting every single day about the latest GPT tools and how you'll be replaced by a bot in a year, then maybe just ignore them..

Who knows.. Maybe displacing billions of workers will end up being pretty hard and it will take some time..
Fudge, I loved that guy and his work. I still remember how fun it was to binge The Road in a single day. I don't think I left my couch from the early morning on through to the late evening. Such a compelling and gripping writer.
Thanks,

Is there a toy conversational LLM on Github or elsewhere?

Something like: https://github.com/karpathy/nanoGPT
I look around my day to day world and ask, what do I see that says what I'm reading is true?
Comedy is not your forte.
All the Chinese datacenters.
I tend to ignore that when the ebook is the same price as the paperback edition.
This is basically an advertising platform for startups and the like, it has very little cost compared to similarly sized sites (as far as I can tell), I don't think it's very likely that it would change any time soon. Shame if it did though.
Breaking the muscle memory has been the hardest part for me. I don't have that much investment in Reddit succeeding and I'll be damned if I don't try to tap the app on my phone 3 or 4 times a day still, even after deleting.
That's pretty cool! Is this a new development or something that was reused from decades ago?
Proposing a struct syntax for Python
I recently bought their sous vide gadget and it seems pretty good. I wish it would remember its setting after erroring out, but that's very minor. It seems very accurate, within a degree.
This would be more elegant if there was a better way to do `&object.method(:method_name, …)`. Unbound method support has been around for a long time but converting a method call with arguments to a prod is still not simple to do… unless you start currying methods and writing obscure code.
I'm wondering if this post was inspired by the recent comic from SMBC:

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/clusivity
Megaplume of water vapor erupting on Enceladus caught by Webb Telescope
Or teach the spam filter to spam regular content and allow spam content
It's not just about income, but also your assets. From your description, I don't think it is wrong to call you rich, or at least above average net worth and income. Also, you making $135k solo is a much better situation than you+partner making $135k combined as might happen with the median college couple. You doing it solo means your partner can put all their time into...well..whatever they want.

I don't really see anything wrong with your reply, I was mostly replying to the person who was whining that you have to be rich to do it. But I do think, if you had less income and fewer assets you would need to go about doing what you did in a different way.
I would instead suggest The Craft of Text Editing <https://www.finseth.com/craft/>
My goal for my emacs config has always been to be able to just clone the git repo it's in, then, either start up emacs and let it self-bootstrap, or maybe run a Makefile or build script. I want that to work flawlessly on any system, with any software installed (subject to having the right version of emacs, of course), so I've spent a good amount of time working on a pseudo-hermetic build that works on random Linux distros and OSX. I don't use Windows much, but I think with WSL2, I could just run the Linux build these days.
The article states that the game was made by a member of the gbc homebrew community.
if this is confirmed and not isolated, that'll be it for me.
There's a surface-level and deeper-level answer here.

Surface-level: the API price hikes are at a glance meant to force out third-party Reddit interfaces. To speculate, this is aimed to funnel users to Reddit's official application. I can say that because the mobile website is getting crippled over time to "encourage" users to use the app.

Deeper-level: it is reflective of Reddit corporate's attitudes towards its users. They are gearing for an IPO, so they want to tell investors that they will be profitable (read: milk its users, monetize everything, remove convenient features if it will mean profits, etc.)
How does re-installing the OS from scratch every 6 months "eliminate most of the advanced threats"? The malware has up to 6 months to do its work. OS re-install may delete the malware, but the next visit to bad link may re-install the malware as well.
I guess I'll use the downtime to see what's new on Reddi... oh... yeah.
Any actual confirmation of this? Seems weird that Reddit wouldn't just wait one more day for the protests to fizzle out and everything to go back to normal. Forcibly taking over subs right now is only going to make the backlash even stronger.

But then again the leadership hasn't made a single correct decision throughout the whole saga, so this one wouldn't be too surprising either.
If by FP we mean Monads recurrence and no single drop of state, then yes.

If by FP we mean "Let's write our functions as pure (and leave IO as a magic box for time being)", then this is undeniably more straightforward then getting head deep into side effects that procedures can create, not to mention the entangled web of dependencies in OOP, and other messy stuff it promotes
website acting completely hostile to their users in the name of profit in a completely predictable manner? say it ain’t so
So I wonder how much was that the PE didn't feel like they were getting a large enough coupon (2017-19 rates) and wanted a quicker bankruptcy to redeploy their efforts? A rational corp would have refinanced the debt at 2021 rates.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/instant-brands-to-m...
As a friend told me when I missed the point of a story, "that's not the subtext, that's in the actual text."
Yup.

Did /anyone/ not see this coming?
To build a more lethal force, the Marine Corps needs a font for the 21st century