skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say this strongly depends on the kind of error and the quality of the application involved.

Like, if the error is something technical - something is upset and refuses to talk with the database now, that's something you can identify and handle with minimal instructions. I'm working on a side-project at work to automatically generate dashboards for these technical foundations of services in a central discoverable place. Or, is the error something functional? Like, payments from Suaheli aren't being taxed right. There, a generic on-call has no chance. But why the hell would this not be caught in tests, or emerge at night out of office ours, and outside of a planned maintenance if you need that?

And then you're getting to the quality and if your application is a humble workhorse or a feisty goat. With a lot of our systems, we've pushed it to the point so in doubt you can just restart an instance and it most likely will end up better. This makes on-call somewhat chill - in most cases, you just keep kicking the system one or two times overnight until more knowledgeable people come online in the morning and dump the problem in their lap. This includes out databases, just for the record.

On the other hand, I've worked also with enough systems which need like 15 steps to put them back together after a restart."Oh, you need to stop this first, then restart that, then run this jenkins job, then start this first thing, then run this other jenkins job - it'll fail, but that's normal, ..." In such a place, some kind of generic on-call would be impossible. until you get these systems under control.
CIA and Mossad-Linked [because they invested in the company, because it makes products that are interesting to them] being installed throughout [places of worship where people are rightfully worried about detecting mass shootings as early as possible] the US. FTFY
Yup, before all this nonsense I was voluntarily paying for Reddit premium to support Reddit. I had no interest in any of their premium features - Apollo already had no ads and that’s all I cared.
They very well could be. I'm knowledgeable enough to answer.

I also wonder how does it work with one-of-a-kind collectibles, such as old letters written by famous people, paintings, rare/unique coins, ..., and NFTs.
Depends. I've done embedded in high margin products like precision measuring equipment and semiconductors and low margin products like automotive or advertising electronics. Pay and software is mor or less the same, what varies is the amount of bureocracy, documentation and requirements engineering.

Getting good pay means you have to find a Fang with high margins on their HW like Apple or Nvidia or go HFT.
Very interesting comments in the thread, seems like a lot of people think Reddit can continue without the mods, new mods can be assigned, new subreddits can be created.
Yeah, while I understand and appreciate this effort, Reddit is actually seems better without some of the giant default subs. It's more like it was 10 years ago. The site has hardly been a ghost town over the past couple of days. Smaller more obscure subs are hitting the front page, which is interesting, and to me it illustrates that if the large ones were to shut down entirely, there'd be no shortage of content and other mods/communities happy to take their place.
So let's go with 5°C over 2000 years, or 1°C over 400 years. Do you see the difference between that, and our current change of 1°C over 100 years (and accelerating)?
Depending on which post you look at somewhere between 1% - 6%. But, the more important question is which users use Apollo (or other 3rd party tools).

The answer overwhelmingly is mods and content creators, the most important people to Reddit's success.
They definitely don't care, or at least Miguel got ignored.

Fusion 360 is so slow and bloated it's an embarrassment on Windows. Takes minutes just to start. Loading it in VMware is a joke (my best computer is Ubuntu). I was willing to put up with it for doing 3D board renderings, but no. Not for actual work.

I cannot open an app inside a badly written and slow program with excessive DRM with a subset of the features of the program I've used for 20 years. It's just not happening. I will switch to KiCAD first, it's not nearly as big and uninteresting a transition. If I made MCAD + ECAD stuff more, maybe, but seriously how many people do that. It's a dream. It's super cool when and if it works.

It's like VR though. It has three real use cases -- checking interferences, shifting component positions to address interferences, and making accurate panel cutouts. That's all I've found. The first two are simply enough handled with IDF. Or a STP export from KiCAD which works fine. And a panel cutout can be addressed with a STP export too.

It's cute, Fusion 360, in that it tries to be MCAD, ECAD, etc all in one place. It, like most things of that nature, does badly at all of them. Features should be optional, let me explore MCAD-ECAD integration when I decide it would be an advantage rather than because of software limitations.
Are knifes neutral because they can cut bread and kill? No, everybody loves knifes. Ok, perhaps love is a bit of a strong word, but people enjoy knifes and they are generally considered a thing for good.
Double-blind tested, of course.
Ahhhhhh! the MVP
Since I only use reddit logged in and having the user preference set to the old UI, the most effective way for me to go cold turkey is to logout. Any twitch response to back to reddit presents the newer layout and I'm instantly compelled to close the browser tab again.
"not your platform".

More Mastadons, please.
The memes that lay bare China's youth disillusionment
It's purely a numbers game. If the amount of revenue you'll achieve from less users gives you a more positive multi year outlook financially then losing the users is "worth it", especially if those users fall into cohorts that are less financially valuable. Unfortunately that includes people who take part in blackouts as they correlate highly with people who e.g. run adblockers, use third party apps, etc.
Honestly, I'm enjoying it. Most of my smaller subs are active. A couple of the bigger ones I'm subbed to are active without moderation, and people are saying they enjoy it more.

What I'm not seeing are all the bad news headlines, political gotchas, and click bait that make me frustrated.

I've just realized I should have unsubbed to most of these places a long time ago.
Prediction: post 2022 content will be presented as vintage pre 2023
Polls were held in many subreddits; if a subreddit is the community - which it is - then the will of the participants is the will of the community and those who communicate it.
That seems like a non-starter: The average person who wants a better smartphone experience is not going to jump through the hoops of registering their "own app" (which would be a lie) and then transcribing IDs/secrets into their phone.
It’s impressive how their CEO keeps shooting himself in the foot on this one, he could compromise a bit by at least expanding the deadline on the pricing changes, but instead he decides to provoke and double down.

The leaked internal memo, which is obvious that would leak (after all it is a 2,000 person company) is a clear provocation:

> We do anticipate many of them will come back by Wednesday, as many have said as much. While we knew this was coming, it is a challenge nevertheless and we have our work cut out for us.

> There’s a lot of noise with this one. Among the noisiest we’ve seen. Please know that our teams are on it, and like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass as well.

Source: https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/13/23759559/reddit-internal-...
Charge extra to fix AI created software.
Discrimination bigger concern from AI than human extinction, says EU
SRE vs. DevOps? Successful Platform Engineering Needs Both
Ah this takes me back to my first job. Medical start up, working on a very long term project that the company was completely unequipped to deliver. I was young and keen so didn't appreciate the context, I just did stuff.

For some reason, we hired an "architect" from a large Bank that used Java. He used to make proclamations like "we should write tests", but never actually got into more detail than that. One of his preachings was about aspect oriented programming and how it was going to be future. He did a talk on it, and I remember someone asking "what else does it apply to apart from logging and Auth?"...no answer.

Not long after, I left. 2 years there, probably over 15 engineers, I don't think we built anything close to a functioning software product.
And apparently they have so many employees the auditorium isn’t big enough anymore so there’s some spillover for all staff meetings
Stop looking at me, swan
Ah! Thanks for the detailed reply. It is so good to hear from someone who have passionately benefitted from their undergraduate courses and gets to use knowledge from that in real life.

Btw with 15-150 notes and slides do you have any book suggestion in mind that self learners can read alongside?

Note:- There are some leaked lectures from Brown's CS019, if you want to look, here: https://learnaifromscratch.github.io/software.html#org464eb9...
Many a modern individual has lost the community of 5 decades prior, a station occupied by the community church in many parts and more fixed abodes, and so strive beyond optimistic humanism to a thirst to believe in anything and anyone. Barking up the wrong tree when it is connecting with themselves and their neighbor that is missing and not depressive bibliomania, hypergrafia, or wandering the internet for flat earth conventions for connection conflated with meaning and sense of purpose.
I'd blame modern teaching material, because "they" is both singular and plural pronoun - just somewhat recently avoided in style guides.
Okay but I’m not clicking on Reddit links as part of the boycott, so why are we posting updates there?
"You Have Dollar, We Have Allah!" - Erdoğan

Erdoğan has invoked religion multiple times to justify his insistence on low interest rates (Islamic finance prohibits interest). I don't know whether it's a genuine belief but it's his stated one.
In this case, there's another office a couple of miles away. At least until Twitter gets evicted from there, too.
>This provides further evidence that prucalopride is having an effect in areas of the brain that improve cognitive function – both by increasing and reducing connectivity between specific brain regions as required.”

Altering the functional connectivity of the circuits is not necessarily correlated to "boosting" the memory.
> [...] especially if those users fall into cohorts that are less financially valuable

Maybe, but my guess is they also produce the majority of the content that other users come to Reddit to consume. So it's a dangerous game.
PE can bankrupt a company and still make a profit. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/05/private-eq...
Sounds like you're pretty much describing the original intent of HTML.
I'd be more impressed if the generated music had lyrics specified in the prompt. Still nice though.
If helping other people pleases you, I consider you a good person indeed! This is why egoism has bit of a strange connotation, because in this case, helping others is egoism.

I think egoism should just not be a bad word. Is a true altruist someone who helps others while hating it?

Egoism vs altruism is not bad vs good as is often presented in our culture. We consider someone who helps others while enjoying it of higher morale than the person who does it reluctantly. The first is an egoist, the latter is a true altruist, she sacrifices herself for others.

And it's logical, the most "good" is achieved in the case of helping others AND enjoying (dear I say "enriching") yourself in the process, win win for the social human with a rational self-interest and her peers.
Yeah it is the sad but true state of affairs. Bad for users is OK as long as it makes money. But without pleasing the people you sell to how do you compete?
do you know there's a difference between psychotherapy and psychiatry?
The cooccurrent frequency between text tokens in everything ever written is a limited statistical model of however language is used in humans.

It almost doesnt matter what your theory of language is --- any even plausible account will radically depart from the above statistical model. There isn't any theory of language which supposes it's an induction across text tokens.

The problem in this whole discussion is that we know what these statistical models are (models of association in text tokens) -- yet people completely ignore this in favour of saying "it works!".

Well "it works" is NOT an explanatory condition, indeed, it's a terrible one. If you took photographs of the night sky for long enough, you'd predict where all the stars are --- these photos do not employ a theory of gravity to achive these.

LLMs are just photographs of books.

There's a really egregious pseudoscience here that the hype-cycle completely suppresses: we know the statistical form of all ML models. We know that via this mechanism arbitrarily accurate predictions, given arbitrarily relevant data, can be made. We know that nothing in this mechanism is explanatory.

This is trivial. If you video tape everything and play it back you'll predict everything. Photographing things does not impart those photographs the properties of those things -- those serve as a limited assocative model.
Caching, managing object life times in IOC containers, input validation, are some common uses I've seen.
Well, I'm in Australia, and it's common here (too).

I suspect you'd find it's common in most English-speaking non-USA metric-embracing nation states.

It works fine spoken, too, because we could say 'imperial ton' or 'american ton' if we ever needed to refer to a specific, archaic, mostly abandoned unit of weight - which is, rounded down, effectively never.

FWIW we're taught to pronounce the word somewhere between 'ton' and 'tone', but, really, the context here is that all tonnes (or phonetic equivalent) are metric once you're outside the USA.

Re-purposing words - even 'only works in writing' (like we're using to communicate here) words - seems whatever the opposite of 'luxuriating in the massive potential breadth of language' might be called.

Specifically 'metric ton' I expect would be mildly offensive to everyone that uses metric, and doesn't want to disambiguate the pre-existing, and clearly more widely prevailing homophone of 'tonne'.
Question: how do you think the binding of isaac lets you mix and match so many abilities? The number of item/effect synergies is really striking in that game. Is it a series of decorators, or something AOP like?

My personal theory is it's something decorator like that involves modifying something like a struct which gets converted into game effects after all the modifiers run

This article just made me wonder about this again
So wouldn't increasing VAT (even temporarily) be a better way to combat high inflation?

Prices would rise directly, lowering purchasing power.
Although behaviour was/is unhinged, clearly their goal was first to market regardless of the risks, and it seems to be paying off
Poor mods, upset that Reddit is making it slightly more difficult for them to censor everyone who disagrees with them.
Very cool!

Did you have any conclusions?

I had a look at the page, couldnt see anything you'd written up :-)
* yeets
Point taken, the metaphor was not very appropriate (but again which metaphor is). Again to the argument: is it worth complaining people have lost the practice (I won't say "ability") of reading maps, an obsolete (as of today!) form of orientation? Did anything atrophy making them unable to (re)learn it when needed again? Because it's not like anyone was born with map-reading skills, or had a special gene for it, so I'd say whenever we'll need paper maps again we will handle it again just as well.
Hah, I brought this up here a few months ago and was quickly dismissed.

I wonder if opening GPT and DALLE to the public was partly intended to pollute subsequent data for anyone that gets into AI down the road. Suddenly a lot of publicly accessible data is worth less, leaving only players who've got a hoard of time-stamped data to compete with (like Google, Facebook). OpenAI almost certainly has the hashes of what it spits out too, so they'll be able to sort the wheat from the chaff for a while yet.

The market for data may be getting interesting.
I'm really interested in your RSS reader - is it open source or available anywhere?
I like boats, too.
> Finally, while I liked the article a lot, I disagree with the premise that projects _must_ be finished.

To be fair, the author admits that including maintenance, a project is never really finished.

Instead, he says that a project should be _published_. Preferrably, on GitHub :P
It doesn't even look half as bad as I imagined it would!

Looks like a good Friday font or for that codebase you despise opening, or a perfect prank for a developer who left their computer unlocked.
loss? It's been English usage since Chaucer. The "rule" that it shouldn't be singular came from the same people that changed English spellings because they wanted to show off their knowledge of Latin and Greek. All those difficult words that are irregular and don't make sense? Those people.
Tokenizers seem to be a massive pain in the neck if you are just calling into an API to use your model. The algorithm itself is non-trivial, and they need pretty sizable data to function: the vocabulary and the merges, which just sit there, using memory. I'm writing https://github.com/ryszard/agency in Go, and while there's a good library for the OpenAI tokenization, if you want a tokenizer for the HF models the best I found was a library calling HF's Rust implementation, which makes it horrible for distribution.

However, at some point I realized that I needed not really the tokens, but the token count, as my most important use was implementing a Token Buffer Memory (trim messages from the beginning in such a way that you never exceed a context size number of tokens). And in order to do that I don't need it to be exactly right, just mostly right, if I am ok with slightly suboptimal efficiency (keeping slightly less tokens than the model supports). So, I took files from Project Gutenberg, and compared the ratio of tokens I get using a proper tokenizer and just calling `strings.Split`, and it seems to be remarkably stable for a given model and language (multiply the length of the result of splitting on spaces by 1.55 for OpenAI and 1.7 for Claude, which leaves a tiny safety margin).

I'm not throwing shade at this project – just being able to call the tokenizer would've saved me a lot of time. But I hope that if I'm wrong about the estimates bring good enough some good person will point out the error of my ways :)
Beta Launch – Create your own stickers with AI
Hi HN! I'm Tony from Stipop (YC S21) and as a side project we created a tool where you can create your own sticker with AI and send the stickers on iMessage and WhatsApp.

If anyone's interested please have a go and share ideas and feedback! (https://sticky.cool)

Little bit of background:

We are a sticker platform with human creators and APIs that expand the sticker usage channels. With the new AI gen tools coming out, we thought we could help our users create their own stickers instead of solely relying on the creators - thus created this beta tool called Sticky.

Currently we are using the Open AI API (image gen) and you can remove background of the result images so you can use them more like the actual stickers. You can also download the stickers as image files from the website and use them on Slack, etc.

We are exploring ways to give sticker lovers and AI supporters more value.
Is Microsoft the practical owner of “Open”AI now? Are there any other big customers of OpenAI?

Anyway, I guess those Government agencies will get the unsanitized version of GPT, not the politically corrected one.
I'm curious how much of a hit reddit is taking on Google due to people bouncing back from locked subreddits.
> You puke out a solution(minimum viable product), without thought about optimisation. When that exists, you change hats and optimise.

So, you first implement bubble sort, and when that exists you scrap everything and implement quick sort.

Not sure if that'd be my preferred way of doing it.
I read the comments and many are in this vein: "Agreed, moderators with a power complex are the worst thing about this site. Don't even care about this API crap." Never realized mods were so disliked.

I thought the blackout sent a message+got coverage, but don't like subreddits extending it without consulting their users. I use reddit about 5-10 minutes/day so I don't care either way.
Honest question since I don't really know how reddit works: Why can't reddit just forcefully re-open the subs that have been taken private? Mods are using powers given to them by the platform and I don't get why they are not being stripped of (some of) those powers.
> over emphasizes the cost of platform transition while downplaying the operating burden of not modernizing.

Given that I work on the Ruby Infrastructure team at Shopify, I think I have a well informed view on both the cost of transitioning and the operating burden.
.site is run by radix. They run quite a few reasonably popular domain names (.tech, .space. .online etc). AFAIK their rules are entirely standard.
Around mid 2018 I was working on a personal project that absolutely needed a custom PCB.

KiCad 5 had just launched, and so I flipped a coin to decide if I should make it in Eagle or Kicad. I ended up choosing KiCad. Looking back five years later, I could not be happier.

Now almost on a monthly basis I hear about Fusion360 receiving some kind of update that strips features away in lieu of running them exclusively in the cloud, or they just arbitrarily change things and make it qualitatively worse for the end user by upselling them features. I don't want anything to do with that and so HP isn't getting a dime of my money.
Maybe finding a subreddits that fits with your interests and try not to argue and start fights while breaking the rules the mods set. Thats kind of the whole point of micro communities...
How much does it cost openai to pay Reddit to shutdown access to the worlds most comprehensive moderated conversational dataset?
It would be cool if the big 3p app developers would make their apps point to a configurable different API location, then people could set up their own docker scraper instances to provide the API for their app.

It could be an open-ish format, then you could potentially support alternate sites like HN as well.
You start with reification of some part of your system/codebase.
Once you have that, it's easy to adapt things. For example, in an OO context, once you've objectified your method call instance into an object that has reference to the caller, callee, parameters and the code to execute it's easy to log it, decide if the caller needs to be authorized aso...

The are some other considerations like when (compilation time, run time, ...)
It's a really interesting code organization strategy and the only problem I've experienced with it is that (for example decorators) introduce a static layering (the order of the decorators) that works against the inter-aspect dynamics.
For example, a call only needs to be logged if there is a necessity of authentication in a distributed context. In essence, you might not be able to have a static ordering that works for use cases. (security on top, or on the bottom ?)
It sounds like the novel idea was thinking to do that in the first place
Nothing that needs to be provided to you by others can be a "human right". Human rights are inherent to being human, hence the name. You do not have a human right to every nice-to-have service that you think ought to be government-funded. You have a better argument in the US that you have a human right to be provided with a gun.