skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My only contact with tipping in the US as a foreigner, was my only trip to the US. Florida theme parks back when I was a child, a decade ago. In particular, I remember going to Hollywood Planet, inside the Disneyworld Downtown.

The waiter kept making us eat “fast” by asking “dessert now?” unasked as we were still eating entrees.

When we paid he stayed there completely still, and my father asked “…so?”. And he said the tip was too little. Dad said “I tip what I want and your service was horrible anyway”.

He threw a literal tantrum and furiously ran into the kitchen, to never be seen again. We walked out after that.

It left a mark on me as the symbol of US tipping culture, due to the impact actually being on a situation causes vs reading about it.

Never has any of the sort happened anywhere else in my life.
Or nails. Lots of nails.
The average wage in Spain is 2268 EUR per month (very low compared to many places), though people in the service industry will earn less than that of course. In the villages a coffee is about EUR 1.50-1.80 and a set 3-course lunch is around EUR 11-13 (but more in the big cities).

There are a lot of cultural differences (obviously) but the cost of living is generally less overall. Cafes and restaurants here are often staffed by either younger people still studying (and usually living at home), or older people.

It isn't a route to riches by any stretch, but people get a set minimum wage which should be enough to afford rent/shopping without needing to be supplemented with tips. That said - life is hard and the cost of living is definitely going up here. You wouldn't earn hundreds of Euros in tips even in the best Spanish restaurants though.
Seems like the entire cost of running the business and keeping people employed has been passed on to the customer.

Is that not the only way it can work? Unless a business is being subsidised by someone as a hobby or Softbank is pouring money into it for it to be set on fire (more charitably in some kind of growth phase where they can stomach taking a loss for years), then the income from the customers surely has to cover the costs.
> Not according to the government, and they're the horse's mouth on this.

You seem to be referencing some specific statement that you didn't provide.

I'm guessing that you are confused about the phrase "independent agency". Or possibly you're remembering cases like Lucia v. SEC where certain SEC staff were (unsuccessfully) challenged as not conforming with the Article II appointments clause. The insulation of these sort of agencies from direct presidential oversight continues to be a source of debate in conservative legal circles, but where these agencies sit in the constitutional order is not remotely controversial. They're not part of the judiciary and they're not part of Congress so they can only be part of the executive.

> The executive branch also includes executive departments, independent agencies, and other boards, commissions, and committees.

https://www.usa.gov/branches-of-government

> The SEC is an independent federal agency

https://www.sec.gov/strategic-plan/about

QED.

More to the point, congress lacks the ability under the constitution to create government structures outside the three branches. The language establishing the SEC makes very clear that its structure conforms with how Article II defines the executive branch:

> There is hereby established a Securities and Exchange Commission (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Commission’) to be composed of five commissioners to be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/COMPS-1885/pdf/COMPS-188...

> he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law:

https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/article-2/

The SEC is established and appropriated by congress, staffed by people who receive government paychecks, led by presidential appointees, etc etc. I'd be interested to know whether you think it's either

- not part of the US government
- part of a different branch
- part of the US government outside a branch that the constitution specifies
The homepage needs to be the content. Without doing that you are gonna be dead in the water because only a small fraction of people are going to bother registering just to test the water.

Also look at how the current and past generations of forums grew up. Lots of time it was their site owner linking to the content on whatever site they are on...
If you refactor, how does that affect email searches including pre-refactor subject lines?
Speed matters when the thing being built is isolated.

If you're building a new feature/product whatever, and the business views that both as a standalone feature, but also as a stepping stone to support another product or feature then the code you get when writing quickly is going to slow you down in that next step.

Scale that up a few levels and you end up with 'enterprise code' that no one wants to touch for fear of breaking all the parts that depend on the pieces below it.

So write code quickly when its isolated and not planned for use in additional products, features, capabilities.

It is very difficult to convince management to prioritize tech debt and the only successful way is in the frame of enabling additional product capabilities.
> it’s actually 90% of the site offline at this point.

How did you determine this?
..and the change in their face when you press ZERO.
What would be the middle ground here? As I said I'm not sure inserting ads in the API would be feasible. And the quoted figure of 2.50$ per user per month would be reasonable to charge for a commercial user , I think. Yes, it would mean every apollo user would have to pay but that's the thing ; they are monetizing the app already. I'm not sure what would be more reasonable but I'm also sure that the timelines suck for commercial apps to figure it out. But it was still bound to happen, and to me I don't see what's the middle ground that the dev wants (less than 2.50$?).

Again though, I'm sure there are nuances here. But this is just a business negotiation between two businesses in this specific case. I don't really care about what's feasible for Apollo as a business, what matters more is how non commercial usage is dealt with. For now, and correct me if I'm wrong, the API limits will still be generous for individual users (so mods, etc). They just have to generate their own key. Did I get that wrong?
Would be very cool to see some pictures of the cluster; sounds like an impressive build!
How can you distinguish between "project is not important/forgotten and due to that, no issues are discovered" and "there are no issues, so it is forgotten"?
I've always been a good tipper (> 20% even before the pandemic), but I'm increasingly unwilling to do so. My argument is fairly simple. Tipping is a tax on decency. Decent people tip well. Assholes don't tip. And it's the decent people who get screwed.

I'd much rather a restaurant tack on a 20% or even 25% service fee that everyone, including the assholes, must pay rather than asking for tips and depending on my decency to compensate for the restaurant underpaying its employees, while allowing assholes to get away with contributing nothing.
“Touch Grass Tuesdays”: subreddits upgrading to weekly and indefinite blackouts
What are you thoughts here regarding functions:

I have some data I can pass in CSV format to the context and ask a question against that data. "Who are my best customers?" and pass in a CSV of the top 100 customers.

vs

I create a function that returns my best customers and call a ChatGPT function.

When would I use one or the other? The function call seems like it would be more accurate with better guardrails, but it does require me to know what questions my users will make beforehand.

Maybe that's the point, use functions when you know what kind of questions your users will make.
A factor is, that the user's of those apps overproportionally create content, which is later served to other users.

Most users come via Google or other ways to read some content. Only few participate actively. Earning less on those few users can be valuable overall.
Before the blackout, many subreddits hinted at extending the blackout indefinitely if Reddit is being adversarial.

This seems adversarial.
It doesn't. I added west because I've lived in several countries of Europe and I'm talking about those and some other hegemonic ones I know about. The ones usually lauded due to not knowing about them. I'm European.

In this site there's a trend to treat Europe as a monolithic entity and pretend it's awesome. Any criticism gets taken as "Americuns" being ignorant and europe is awesome.

In reality, I see a lot of unwillingness to accept the political reality and pretend "we are better than USA" via political apathy and coping.

People react negatively when you point out polítical facts they don't want to see. It's easier to look at USA with an air of superiority. This also happens the other way around, of course, but HN demographics make one more typical.
He was making a joke. If Reddit took a stressed joke attempting to defuse the situation a bit as a threat, it really makes the statement that their management or outreach team really does consist of mentally slow people who should experience a Musk-style firing.

Some people make jokes when they are stressed or anxious.
It doesn't respond, it merely continues the question. It has been trained in such a way that the continuation is an answer. It's a giant mechanical clockwork isnt it
There were no Intel Macs in the 90s though.
Reddit policy explicitly prohibits more than 10% of a user's submissions from being original content. The site is a link aggregator, not promotional show and tell, despite what people think.
Would you mind correcting your first comment please? It’s not a big deal but sometimes people stop reading deeper and they might continue to believe your mistake and misunderstand the history.
> This is like saying "We understand practically everything about airplanes, except how they stay in the air."

Even that is a sufficient level of understanding to correctly determine that a motorcycle is not an airplane.

While we might not have a complete picture of what consciousness entails, we can at least list some necessary conditions for it to arise. Any system that lacks those conditions can at least be proven to not be conscious.

With LLMs specifically, I think there is a very strong argument that they are not and cannot be conscious at all, regardless of how big of a corpus you throw at it or how many parameters it has. Emily Bender explains it well here:

https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/thought-experiment-in-t...
Emad from Stability estimates this at 4M/month.
https://twitter.com/emostaque/status/1668666509298745344
I engage with old.reddit.com in my browser a lot on my desktop. But their mobile app is just not enjoyable to me so I just won't be using Reddit on mobile anymore.

Maybe I'll build myself a nice little HTML-scrapper app for Reddit instead.
A tool for Obisidian which no has yet made: AI memory palace illustrations

There would be a simple system for rooms and the AI / program would edit them and things to them which when clicked on could lead to new "places"
> Seems like the entire cost of running the business and keeping people employed has been passed on to the customer.

Who else do you expect to pick up the tab?
> I am sorry to say this, but please be mindful of wearing Reddit gear in public. Some folks are really upset, and we don’t want you to be the object of their frustrations.

LoL
Are there actually enough people willing to do the mod job? I am only in one sub where everyone hates the mods, but even there I haven't seen any discussion of anyone becoming a mod. Maybe it's because mods delete insurrectionist posts. However, I cannot imagine many people want to do such a thankless and stressful job that pays nothing at all.
They do not work in most cases. They provide psychological comfort to enterprise IT teams, but so would a literal Ouija board, as long as you hid it from the people using them. Obviously, the "environmental score" component of a CVSS is an admission that the whole system is intellectually bankrupt.

I'd be interested if you could find a serious vulnerability researcher (say, anyone who has given a Black Hat talk or submitted a Usenix WOOT paper) who'd be willing to defend CVSS. My perception as an (erstwhile) practitioner is that CVSS is sort of an industrywide joke.
The video I linked specifically refutes much of your speculation. LTT included their data showing that the clickbait thumbnails improved viewership among their older-skewed audience.
Wages must be built into the costs, otherwise the owner maintains their margin subsidized by the customer through tips. Otherwise, the "true costs" are what the customer pays + tips. It's resort fees for services!
As I always tell my team: fast, cheap, good; pick three.
I’m not so sure. I think Huffman saw all the hype around ChatGPT, and how they trained their model on Reddit comments, and had a fantasy about charging AI companies high rates for future API usage. Apollo, et. al., were an afterthought, if consideration was given to them at all.
Agreed. My weight is down, my general health is up and my wallet is fatter.
What happened to Lara Logan, from respected reporter to conspiracy theories
I’m assuming this is visually just some racks in (probably) Azure data centers and is leased not owned.
McKenney: Parallel Programming: June 2023 Update
> Most well-funded cryptocurrency companies have passed audits.

This is true in practice but untrue in spirit. Any nonsense project can pass an audit by hiring an equally nonsense auditor.

> You aren't allowed to count "fraud cryptobros from miami creating an ICO" if you don't count "fraud fratbros from harvard/yale creating a hedge fund". And if you do count both, then you'll notice that the proportion of fraud is roughly the same everywhere, we just allow ourselves to notice it in some places more than others.

This is blatantly untrue. Yes, there are plenty of forms of fraud which occur in hedge funds, but the public is shielded from many of these, because the most obvious forms of fraud were recognized and regulated decades ago. There's practically no such protections around crypto, and as a result, a whole host of obvious scams have flourished.

If you talk to almost any crypto investor, most of them have been scammed at some point. The same is not true of investors in traditional markets.
Can you be more specific?

The nuclear guy from Germany didn’t make any particularly wild claims.

All the while the renewables guy in the middle from the UK ignored the elephants in the room:

- renewables as backed by gas peaking plants

- other than hydro, there is no grid storage

- hydrogen is difficult
Ruby-idiomatic pipe operator is Object#then. After a lot of design proposals and discussions it is more or less evident no solution other than method would integrate naturally with the rest of the code.
So it is just `arg.then{ third(_1)}.then{ second(_1)}.then{ first(_1)}`

Would've been a bit more concise with method references, almost introduced in 2.7, but alas.

(But, well, people tend to want "something that looks like operator, preferably something that looks exactly like |>" and reject every other possibility)
> They are pretty much only focused on releasing new features.

My guess is that behavior is NOT motivated by the theory "deliver early drafts with more smaller iterations", but is instead motivated by the theory "the people who decide to buy our products do it based on feature checklists, rather than quality of anything."

These are actually not even aligned theories. The "smaller iterations with early drafts" appraoch is best done with fewer features included, not more features that are incomplete.

Many markets incentivize companies to deliver crappy software, and it is frustrating, but not, I think the fault of an agile/iterative/deliver-early-and-often approach. If you can make the most money by delivering a giant feature list of crappily implemented poorly-thought out features that don't fit well together, you'll tend to do that, regardless of theory of project management.
Me too! Programming has never been as fun as it is nowadays.
Finally some good usage for AI.
I agree. There's a quote in that paper about how ML models can never access meaning (semantics of words) because they only see the form (syntax and letters) and the two are somehow completely divorced.

It's obvious nonsense. I can describe a new concept to you using only words and letters and you can understand it. Therefore you can build up knowledge using only syntax.

Nobody is saying that LLMs understand the layout of a bus or the feel of leather, but they understand that buses are vehicles with four wheels that transport people etc.

Face-slappingly poor philosophy.
Everyone buying a book expects to profit at least as much as the cost of the book from it
Seems like someone determined to finish the task his masters sent him to do.
Just price it in. The reaction to all the point of sale fees are transparent pricing laws which will just make the business have to calculate and track all of these silly fees, add them up and then display the final price to the consumer before they choose to buy it.
Disagree. There is far more to Twitch than just "video goes here." There's the chat system for one, which this doesn't solve for. An important part of streaming is the social aspect of it to many, in the chatroom. It's also a way for your fans to communicate back to you. Sure they can open up your stream in a browser and chat with you in a Discord, but you're talking about requiring 2 tools being open as opposed to one. And that's not even the worst part: the subscription/follower system. The goal for any greenfield streamer is to gain a follower base. These followers and concurrent viewers are what allows you to get a "subscription" button for people to pay you. Otherwise you're asking for donations via Patreon or something similar? However, if you're getting your subscription money via Patreon, you're missing out on potential boat loads of money from Twitch Prime subscribers, where every Twitch user that also has an Amazon Prime subscription can send you one free subscription per month; a LOT of Twitch streamers make a lot of additional money this way, at no additional cost to the viewer.

Things you're giving up as a greenfield streamer by rolling their own streaming platform:

* The beginning of a follower base on your destination platform (Twitch)

* A "single pane of glass" for viewing your stream, chatting with you and other viewers, and giving you subscription/donation money. This is a deal breaker for a non-negligible number of people, and your follower base might not grow as large or as quickly as you'd like.

* Twitch Prime subscription money.
I freaking love this sidebar design
Americans Say They Need $2.2M to Be Considered Wealthy
You're right on the money. It's all that, and more. Basically, Reddit going to a paid API isn't the big deal. It's the fact that, say, Apollo can pay Imgur under $200/month for all the API calls they need, but Reddit is demanding $20M/year, or ~$1.7M/month [0]. That's what tradespeople call their "fuck off" rate, i.e. the rate they'd quote someone when they don't actually want to do a job, but also don't want to come out and say they don't want to do it.

The TL;DR on this whole situation is that Reddit quoted Apollo and other 3rd party apps their "fuck off" rate, and now Reddit is all like surprised Pikachu face that people who depend on those apps are, well... fucking off.

[0]: https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/08/popular-third-party-reddit...

Edit: $20M/year, not per month.
> If you want to change it to be more pedestrian friendly, it can cost $20k+

Per set of lights?!
Yes (generally), but the $100 ticket would be better advertised as $175, and the $24 pizza should have been listed as $24 on the menu, not $16 (+10% tax, +$2 fair wage fee, +25% tip).

</european-pov>
You don't actually have to use every feature the language has, just use what you're comfortable with.
> would not plausibly have catastrophic results

This is what I was talking about with this:

> well we can't think of any reasons why it could go wrong

Sometimes smart people thinking about things really hard isn't enough. With such a complicated system, it seems likely that there would be some unforeseen results.
I do miss the 'select and execute', and 'everything is a shell' model of MPW. Definitely one of my favorite development environments.
Then an "average" person is certainly not someone who is able to download and run an LLM on their device.
Brandon Buckingham is a modern day Hunter S. Thompson. There are probably hundreds of other YouTubers doing similar things but we haven't heard about them yet because they are at the beginning of their career and Hunter is past the end.
It's an effective price drop for a smarter GPT-4 model, though, isn't it? A smarter and more steerable model for the same price?
It's not thankless or stressful if all you do is just enforce the overall corporation rules plus perhaps some locally agreed upon additional rules.

If people want to post sunsets and nobody is writing you emails to complain about it, then have at it. It's the voice of the people.
Too emotional of a topic.
What practical applications does set theory have? (2021)
> LLAMA 65B model at a very slow pace

How does it compare to GPT 3.5, or 4? I mean if you ask the same questions. Is it usable at all?

I tried the models that work with 4090 and they were completely useless for anything practical (code questions, etc.). Curiosities sure, but on Eliza level.
Yes, I was indeed agreeing with you.
In front of congress? Why?
Long-time user of the site, although currently taking a break:

I'd strongly disagree with that. Mods do an immense amount of work on Reddit just to keep their subreddits remotely on topic and not filled with constant reposts and spam. Also, they're the ones who actually deal with most of those reports - they don't get handled by magic or admins in most cases.

Unmoderated/absentee mod subreddits are frequently overrun by spam nonsense or taken completely off topic.

> 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?

Because then every subreddit becomes basically the same thing and you might as well just have a giant impossible to navigate pile of content that's at best vaguely related to what the place it was posted is supposed to be for.

A lot of users spend part of their time just scrolling their home page feed and part of their time looking at specific subreddits. When doing the former, they're (IMO) less inclined to vote on if it fits in the place it was posted or not, just on if they like it - they may not even notice what sub it was actually posted in.

But that can ruin the subreddit as a place for a specific type of content, which is the typically the reason they joined/followed that subreddit in the first place.
> ...yeah its expected.

Or, just this morning as I was getting coffee at a drive-through coffee stand, I handed my card to the person and she asked "How much would you like to leave as a tip. It's totally optional!"

This is abusing how human relations work. Saying "it's totally optional" in no way reduces the social and emotional pressure of this.

Although I did say "Nothing," because that's insane.

Interestingly, at a different coffee place I frequent, they never mention tips directly. They have a tip jar that is also labelled "If you want to put a tip on your card, just tell us!"

I tip them from time to time. But if you pressure me, either verbally or through those crazy-making POS keypads, you won't get a dime from me. And I'll be less likely to return. I'm fed up.