skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, what you said was, you think the world would be better off if 6.9B people were dead and you were one of the remaining 100M. And what I'm saying is, those two statements are not very different.
Compensation plays a big role in how fast I'm willing to get something done
I want a social site where you: Pay to sign up ($10.00), pay to upvote ($0.01 = 1 vote), get paid when your content is upvoted. There's no advertising system because everything is an ad.
Ethernet cards also used to run the LED off a transistor that keyed off of the data on the TX and RX lines which would reveal some of the bits as well.

I don’t recall how they fixed that, but it was a big deal at the time. Capacitor? Optical diode?

I believe I recall people using white-out or paint on the LEDs they couldn’t afford to replace.

Edit: if you think about it, wire protocols have error correction built in. Most of them don’t negotiate the amount to use, it’s baked into the spec. When you’re eavesdropping you lose signal to noise ratio. When the input signal is very clean, there’s plenty of SnR to spare. It’s easier to listen to a loud argument than a quiet conspiracy.
I really didn't see the issue with him asking reddit about acquisition. It's a fair exchange given the power dynamics at play, and Reddit taking that personally just speaks volumes to how immature and amateurish the management team is over there. This happens every day in the broader startup world and is how many M&A discussions start.
Use Yabai with SKHD. Configure if by telling ChatGPT to convert your i3 config to Yabai.
Germany does it very well. Until I make a turn, I do not wait at red lights more than once or twice.
> SSRIs do not result in anything resembling a "high".

In my experience taking sertraline, years ago, it actually did feel like a very mild sort of high. I remember noticing that colors seemed to have literally become brighter, and physical sensations were more pleasant in general. If it were possible to microdose MDMA, I imagine that might feel similar.
This was a fun writeup and I liked the continued references to the theme of the brittle internet. In particular, I found this amusing:

> We discovered that one of the maintainers of the .AI registry is a person named Vince.

I wonder if Vince lives in Nebraska: https://xkcd.com/2347/
It’s got a website with an up to date copyright year, and the most recent Mac App Store build was July 2021 adding support for Apple Silicon. So maybe not a lot of updates but it’s not flagging my abandonware senses like Colloquy is and there’s a 30 day trial so I can at least poke around and see if the App changes my feelings.

I’ll give it a shot. Thanks!
Based on what he said, it's clear that trying to run Apollo while servicing these users would cost him hundreds of thousands more than that with no guarantee that he'd be able to make up the difference over time. So he is just shutting down the business. Even if he's legally obligated to refund the users it's still cheaper than what it would cost in API fees.
What you describe is one of the jobs that most text is currently failing at. Writing isn't just about documenting every itty bitty detail in academic verbosity, but to introduce people to ideas using effective summaries. The vast majority of what's out there flat out fails at this for at least a few reasons; many people have a very scatterbrained writing style to begin with, many authoritative sources provide more verbosity than necessary for the target audience, and the rest is often SEO garbage that speaks for itself.

> More librarian than search engine. I cannot copy and paste and rely on the results but I can rely on that they point me in a good direction.

The same can be said of physical books, and most content should be written more like that in books than what the internet is currently selecting for.
> It's possible that people have moved to cities for jobs more than anything

It's not just possible, that's exactly why. The vast majority of people live in cities because of economics, not because they inherently prefer cities.
Once you have a knowledge base connected to the language model, it's no longer a Stochastic Parrot, but something else entirely. The point of the paper is that simply continuing to scale up LLMs will not produce understanding, because a pure LLM has no connection between form and meaning. That link can provided in other ways, though (multimodal models, robot embodiment).
This makes a lot more sense, thanks for elaborating.
Also, sunlight intercepted outside of earths footprint (e.g. further ahead, or behind, earths orbit around the sun) will receive/redirect light that otherwise wouldn't reach us.
At the moment, this is a theoretical attack using a known to be broken card. But it’s unlikely that this is the only card that is broken. And attacks only get better, never worse, until the theoretical attack graduates to a practical attack. Spectre and Meltdown were long considered theoretical attacks with no practical implications - until they no longer were.
Similar setup for me, works pretty well!
The only relation was that I personally used to use Johnny decimal to group my different projects, but then moved to the git repo namespace setup and no longer had a need for Johnny decimal. They aren't really substitutes so I understand your confusion!
The Prince was a hardheaded analysis of governance that was sponsored by a prince, so had to pretend that the prince was the hero. I think the same about Hobbes (or Spinoza or Descartes); with Protestantism came a huge and multiplying number of heresies from Catholic orthodoxy, and materialist atheists could write about rationality through extremely abstract metaphors that they referred to with Christian labels. The same applied to royalty, who were the intermediaries between God and man, and often the patrons of these secular scholars.

i.e. don't deny God, don't deny the King, and you can finally write about reality.
It really does not seem to me that Musk figured anything out. He is loosing both money and users at massive speed.
Why doesn't he get his users to get their own API keys?
Something I've been wondering—why couldn't the API just send a batch of ads to be served with the content? Since the apps need an authorized API key, if they don't cooperate in showing the ads then Reddit could simply threaten revocation.

Then users who want "premium" could pay for whatever feature Reddit-side to allow an ad-free experience, or they could even partner with the third party apps to offer it for a cut of the fee.

(This is assuming Reddit is negotiating in good faith, though that seems to be in question.)
Comic Sans is actually quite legible for its class and well-hinted. It works better with antialiasing off. The main criticism is in its overuse.
No, there is no way to make it profitable, even with charging. They said that they were going to charge him something like $20 million a year... there are 3 or 4 other similar apps.

Does anyone believe that even with $60 million a year, they'd become profitable?
> What are the obvious places to go from here and now?

Act like adults. Admit mistakes. Change policies. Rebuild trust through honest and prompt communications.
Reddit reported that they had 430 million monthly active users in 2019.

$500 million per year / 430 million users = $1.16 per user per year

$1.16 / 12 months = $0.10 per user per month.
It seems like they must have thought their best bet was driving out third-party apps altogether, and the best approach was to pull the band aid off as fast as possible
Here’s some tinfoil. Maybe OpenAI (or some other data hungry org) made a deal with Reddit to build up their data/training moat. Announcing this would have an even bigger backlash than what we’re currently seeing, and could explain why Reddit would shut down API access in such a hamfisted but plausibly deniable matter.

To substantiate this a bit, Microsoft already had a pre-existing relationship with Reddit since 2017 [1] to augment their capabilities with Bing and their “BI” tools. They could be leveraging that relationship to boost their investment in OpenAI.

[1] https://www.redditinc.com/blog/reddit-microsoft-power-bi-bin...
Yes if you look exactly at the early pandemic then Sweden did worse than its immediate neighbors (but not worse than the rest of the OECD countries). But the real measure of success in policy has to include the rest of the pandemic and its aftermath. The others caught up.
I know what consciousness "is." I'm experiencing it right now.
Every account of the universe is grounded in brute facts, for which there is no justification. That hardly means we can't claim to understand things. I would say we understand consciousness more or less in the same way we understand nuclear physics: we have a very compelling ontologically flavored justificatory framework which both allows prediction and makes theoretical sense. We know quantum field theory is not the right theory of the universe. We may never know the fundamental theory. But it would be ridiculous to say "we know nothing about how the nucleus works."
I really like the framing of "providing relief". I think it also makes sense to allow the definition of who experiences the relief to be flexible (e.g in some cases the audience that experiences relief might be developers, security engineering, sre, etc. not just customers...)
And the fact that it's stuck so well is what troubles me so much. The Securities Exchange Act is about a hundred years old and written in a way a laymen can understand the gist of it.

It's a security. Just because you called it something else doesn't mean there aren't laws or guidance on how to register it. They just don't want to.

Everyone into crypto parrots the "they won't give us guidance" line without even doing 5 minutes of research.
I'm not sure if ed25519 is constant-power on every architecture and implementation.

https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/985.pdf is an example of power analysis relying on ed25519's deterministic behavior.
The window navigation experience is very fast, but when you weigh in overall reliability, I’d take Yabai on Mac any day.
The crux of the problem for ETH is its first few months after launch where they indeed raised money. So ETH was a security at first (according to the Howey test) but now probably not anymore.
Just doing a basic google search shows me at least 4 plugins that interface with chat GPT. I personally don't use them because my workplace doesn't allow feeding our code to another companies backend.
It seems like the plan was always to kill the 3rd party apps, but not until their own app was feature competitive with the 3rd party ones.

But they ran into time limitations. They plan to IPO later this year and they want the 3rd party apps to be dead before then.
When it comes to business (corporate), you hear "do it right". But in reality that means "do it fast even if wrong". If mistakes are made, what happens depends upon management.

In most cases, I have seen people who do a project 100% correct, sometimes slightly slower get ignored.

Other people who get it done fast, even with many blaring mistakes, get rewarded. Usually the people who worked on it end up working 24/7 to get it fixed. That is looked upon by most managers as very good work.

If your projects go live without issues, it is usually forgotten, people who fix their own issues by putting in fixes after go-live by working 24 hours, get noticed and rewarded.
> without those moderators there's not much of a site

How many of those users would notice if Reddit swapped in paid moderators for the largest subs?
The citizens of China have suffered, but that doesn't really matter to the CCP. Covid has been great for strengthening their central government and all of the technology tools of suppression.
you can easily download llama weights by googling the ipfs link. it doesn't even seem to be illegal to do so, but IANAL
In your 20's and 30's you have more opportunity for making the big bucks. If you manage to rake it in, absolutely invest large amounts of it.

It is easy to think the money will always flow, and it is easier to grow into youthful spending habits. Sure treat yourself, but at the same time, start investing so you have something to live on once you exit this stage of life.
The way we treat pigs is truly blood curdling. If there were a god, the whole lot of us would be damned, I'm sure.
I mean… you experience stuff, right? "Qualia" is the word for that. We can tweak the definition, but I think it's pretty obvious that "subjective, conscious experience" [1] does in fact exist.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia
> the marketplace is loosely regulated in the U.S., which has no comprehensive national privacy law.

Well, except of course, the US constitution:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects
We're having great luck running Yolo 8 models on cheap intel n5105 boxes. 8gb ram, 256gb SSD, USB3 for ~$150... Ubuntu running ONNX gets us 600ms per frame. Not great, but good enough for now.
Burning of the Hooks: a close look at the current platform pyres
> At the scale of these third party apps that approach just wouldn't work.

Has there been any App Store apps that go with this approach?

As long as Reddit provides some API accessible to a non-logged in user on the web, there’s going to be a way to scrape it. If you push that scraping into the start of the app then it’s be distributed without any clear way of blocking it.

You could even have the app fetch “how to” updates from a a central site rather than pushing app updates so you don’t have to wait for App Store approvals to get around scraping updates.

We could call the end user’s program for accessing the site a “user agent” as it acts on behalf of the user to fetch and display the content that the user wants to see, in the manner the user wants to see it.
on the contrary i enjoyed a few subs.

This blackout led me to click on r/popular and .... the horror! i remembered how juvenile reddit is, it s not good

Reddit was clearly not designed as a website that would last for more than 5 years. Now it's all coming to bite them, stagnant communities, powertrippy moderators, impossible to contain etc etc. I m going to need some popcorn going forward
> De-normalize returns the true data to a format that is efficient for the system

How many times do I have to debunk this crap. Wrong. It's not that simple. Stop repeating this garbage.
It's funny when I design my own public apps, I'm careful about API usage.

I can only imagine what an app is like that was designed with no API limits whatsoever.

It's kind of amazing Reddit ever allowed this sort of no limits API usage - while at the same time Apollo charged their own users while enjoying zero infrastructure costs. What a steal.
But step 2 is to just "Make sure the buckets are unambiguously different."! How hard could that be? \s
The North American transition to digital TV also had another little oddity. Analog TV channel 6's audio signal was placed in such a way that some FM receivers (with analog tuners) could tune into its audio at the edge of the dial. A station that broadcast an analog TV signal on channel 6 in Chicago (to direct viewers to rescan/get a digital tuner) put music on the audio, and newer tuners have had the FM band extended to cover this signal. It's labeled "87.7" on digital tuners but if you tune it on an SDR it's actually 87.75 MHz.
This opinion may be unpopular, "gatekeeping" is good, at least to a certain degree. It essentially forces people to integrate. Now this can, of course, be really toxic, but on the other hand, it can help to preserve quality (and culture).
Most "communities" nowadays aren't gate kept, and they actively try to tear down gates and general entry barriers, maybe it should become more acceptable again to put barriers up for self-preservation.
Yes, thank you for the link! I should add that in Scott Kelly's book Endurance he detailed to what lengths they went to collect specimens (blood, urine, saliva, etc). The urine collection was quite challenging in microgravity.
I have the same question, but for Mac Mini M2 PRO (2023).

What is the lowest spec that will work iOS dev only, not as a primary machine. I guess 16GB will not work, so I listing the ones with 32GB only:

Apple Mac Mini M2 PRO (2023) 10C CPU 16C GPU/32GB/512 SSD
Apple Mac Mini M2 PRO (2023) 10C CPU 16C GPU/32GB/1TB SSD
Apple Mac Mini M2 PRO (2023) 10C CPU 16C GPU/32GB/1TB SSD
Apple Mac Mini M2 PRO (2023) 12C CPU 19C GPU/32GB/2TB SSD
Two-Stage Contrastive Whole Output Explaination (CWOX-2s)
> LLMs are not particularly good at arithmetic

I'm reminded of "Benny's Rules", where someone sat down with a "self-directed" 6th grader of high IQ who had been doing okay in math classes... but their success so far was actually based on painstakingly constructing somewhat-lexical rules about "math", mumbo-jumbo that had been just good enough to carry them through a lot of graded tests.

> Benny believed that the fraction 5/10 = 1.5 and 400/400 = 8.00, because he believed the rule was to add the numerator and denominator and then divide by the number represented by the highest place value. Benny was consistent and confident with this rule and it led him to believe things like 4/11 = 11/4 = 1.5.

> Benny converted decimals to fractions with the inverse of his fraction-to-decimal rule. If he needed to write 0.5 as a fraction, "it will be like this ... 3/2 or 2/3 or anything as long as it comes out with the answer 5, because you're adding them" (Erlwanger, 1973, p. 50).

[0] https://blog.mathed.net/2011/07/rysk-erlwangers-bennys-conce...
But if you have things like "color" or "configuration" of item normalized out so that the "shopping cart" is purely product ID listings, than that is just as inaccurate in other ways.

Here I would disagree. Normalization can not become inaccurate, you just keep getting rid of more and more redundancies the further you push your normalization efforts. If you have a product with different color options, then you probably need a two level model, one for the product and one for its variants. If you are selling computers and allow configuring them, it might become quite complex with different options for different aspects, there might be constraints like incompatible options or options that require others, the price might depend non-trivially on the different choices and so on. So in practice the complexity of really normalizing everything and then piecing everything back together in code is probably what will eventually stop you from going after the very last redundancies.
I have used Apl385 during a long time as my daily monospace font. It shares some features with such font (probably why I don't use it any longer!)
https://vfoley.xyz/lesser-known-coding-fonts/
LLMs clearly correctly solve a huge number of problems. Ambivalence about particular answers is not a dealbreaker. It doesn't take much imagination to see a number of patterns that are self-healing and shape-shifting in ways we have never seen before LLMs.
The guarantee there is a hell of a lot better for 3rd party apps that have to comply with reddit’s ToS than it is for web browsers.
> and Reddit can't force ads on any API users

Why not though? Seems really straightforward to serve ads over the API and enforce any display guidelines on third-party apps, since there are only a handful of significant apps anyway.
Imagine Marlboro stopped selling cigarettes, would everyone be nostalgically swooning over them like the comments here?

There's absolutely no metabolic process that alcohol helps where at least cigarettes' increase your IQ:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/will-a-nicotine-p...
I still struggle to believe it, but it does shed some light on previously-mysterious phenomena.

IIRC the high-school-graduate equivalent adult literacy rate from similar studies—as in, possessing reading skills that we hope a high school graduate would have, which basically equates to being able to read two moderate-length, moderate-complexity texts and understand them well enough to synthesize a description of their positions, and how they agree and differ—isn't much more than 20%. Four out of five people you encounter are going through life constantly struggling to understand WTF is happening or what they're supposed to do and getting by on a lot of guesswork, while all continually mis-communicating with one another. Really explains a lot.
I have some basic observational evidence that it does exist and presumably you do as well. I do suspect that we are thinking about it in some fundamentally wrong way, but I reserve judgment.
If things continue as they are with the Elites owning everything you won't have any civil liberties. And I think that's part of the person's point.
Just look at what's happening in the UK, they've basically outlawed the right to publicly protest.
Speed is underrated. I've worked on a lot of side projects and for a long time I couldn't get them done. I spent too long "perfecting" baseline things like folder structure (really) and overall system design. This made things slow-going and I tended to abandon them.

Over time, I started just hacking things together and shipping them, worrying less about perfecting those initial things. (I used YAGNI a lot in my decision-making.) What I learned is that there were so many more things I had to do and had to learn to do to ship. I could only get to those tasks and learn those skills by "skipping" through the earlier tasks. Working quickly helped.

I started thinking of projects as this vertical stack of work that you move up from bottom to top. If you could look holistically at absolutely everything you needed to do to ship a project, you could mark some as having a larger impact on the success of the project than others. Those are things that require more time and energy.

When you move slowly, you have a very small scope of the overall project, just stuff at the bottom, and predictions about the future. You may not really know what's ahead. If you go slowly and try to do everything perfectly down there, you spend a lot of energy on a small subset of tasks which may actually have smaller impact than something in the middle or towards the end.

Speed allows you to move through those early tasks move towards a more holistic view of the entire system so that you can determine which are high impact and which are not. You might need to double-back on an earlier task if you misjudged something as low-impact and ended up spending less time than you should on it, but at least you're not pouring energy into low-impact tasks on average.

It's not quite the same thing, but building a prototype is a good example of learning the end to end of a system without worrying too much about quality. It gives you an initial idea of what's possible and you use that to get a better picture of what's high and low impact in a project.
Both founders come from an open source background, so having some sort of open source component was very important to us.
The truth is that there are many, many niche communities where this is simply not true. Whole sections of reddit will die off due to lack of moderation and people will be forced to go elsewhere. This may not be a killing blow for reddit, but it will be devastating to the communities that it impacts.
It's impossible to know for sure how the userbase feels, but the attention has certainly made the situation known to a whole lot more than 0.01% of users. And most of the closures come with a lengthy explanation exactly why it's important and generally have comments praising the action.

The vocal dissenters certainly seem to be in the minority.
<1% of Reddit users make the content that provides value to the site. This 1% is disproportionately likely to know who spez is and care about his shenanigans. Even less perform the moderation tasks that keep the site running, and they basically all care about this change.
It's really not. Read the National Library of Thailand thought experiment to understand the difference. But this isn't saying that AGI is impossible, only that it can't come purely from LLMs, and that pure LLMs will remain stochastic parrots no matter how they are scaled up.