skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I figured I'd post this here because this is probably the most hilarious bit of the news yet. [1]

> Huffman said he saw Musk’s handling of Twitter, which Musk purchased last year, as an example for Reddit to follow.

> “Long story short, my takeaway from Twitter and Elon at Twitter is reaffirming that we can build a really good business in this space at our scale,” Huffman said.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/reddit-blackout-prote...
> you have to ask yourself why Reddit was so successful despite them

No you don’t. The answer is that Reddit started out more as a topsite system than a forum; then was subsidized by billionaire VCs to capture the old forum ecosystem. Per usual as soon as they captured the market they began to transform from what made them their name. It wasn’t like people left old forums for modern Reddit because it was a better system.
hahaha yeah, for real he's gone off the deep end at this point

> “If you’re a politician or a business owner, you are accountable to your constituents. So a politician needs to be elected, and a business owner can be fired by its shareholders,” he told NBC. “And I think, on Reddit, the analogy is closer to the landed gentry: The people who get there first get to stay there and pass it down to their descendants, and that is not democratic.”

Is anyone taking him aside and saying.. bro I don't know if anyone told you this but you invented Reddit and the way it's designed. If you wanted moderators to be democratically elected you would have implemented it that way from that start. You have repeatedly ignored users throughout the years who complain about unfair moderation. You throw your hands in the air and say moderators can run subreddits however they see fit. You tell them to create their own subreddits and run it how you want. Now that the moderators are running subreddits in a way you don't like you want moderators to be democratically elected? Why don't you make your own subreddits or invent a new class of subreddits that are administered by Reddit? You could promote your official subreddits over the unofficial ones and make it extremely difficult to run a community on your own. Hell, you could make the official Reddit subreddit API free and charge out the ass for self moderated subreddits. There are so many ways you can solve the problems you created for yourself. You've already fractured the entire community into two sides, why not just rip off the bandaid and fully embrace a two-tier subreddit system?
Not dumb at all. The participants are basically everyone in the market. Everyone buying and selling and speculating on the thing in question.

What they might be waiting on - imagine you have a business wanting to invest in something - new equipment maybe, or opening a new office. That requires capital expenditure. You might not have the free capital to be able to do that. However, if you can improve your cash position, that might be something which becomes available sooner, allowing you to grow more rapidly.

That requires that you're able to secure finance, which means you need someone to either buy something from you now, or to buy the promise of something for the future. In either case, you now have increased cash at bank, which lets you invest to generate returns (hopefully).

This is deeply rooted in the idea that money you have now is worth more than money you may have in the future.
I just signed up to a subscription via the web using Apple Pay. They automatically had my name and email address.
Since when does running a business mean you have to be a billionaire?

Do you think only businesses worth billions of dollars should exist? And all small and medium sized businesses shouldn’t?
Paraphrasing my response from a previous thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36331206) and having done some actual testing of the function calling feature, there's two things ChatGPT can now do:

1. You can input and/or output structured data from ChatGPT.

2. ChatGPT can select from a list of functions and their schema and use one (with "use" being telling the user to use said function and providing input parameters), or use none at all if not applicable.

#1 is the more interesting use case I suspect people will use and in my testing it's incredibly effective and stable. #2 is an extention of modern tooling, but nothing new and it's up in the air whether it's more robust; the demos OpenAI have aren't great in that aspect.

This article brushes it off but the actual user implementation of function selection is a pain in the ass (and also passing structured input data) that can't easily be explained in a tutorial, and like using LangChain it increases the information asymmetry for people getting into modern AI.

The actual process of having ChatGPT select from a discrete set of outputs is very simple in practice and it's incredibly annoying that people consider it to the the "killer app" of LangChain. I might have to accelerate my blog post on how to do it efficiently, but in practice it's just a simple, small prompt: https://github.com/minimaxir/simpleaichat/blob/main/PROMPTS....
After seeing an LLM do something like this, I've got to ask people who think that LLMs are just "stochastic parrots", "just predicting the next word", or are merely "a blurry jpeg of the web" to think about what's really going on here.
>Chess, for instance, was one such source of truth. Played a couple long games against evenly matched opponent(rated and everything). Made a complete ass of myself. Played easily 3-400 elo points below my usually level. And all the while thinking I was playing brilliantly and calculating deep lines, I was really just imagining lines that never worked. My working memory was terrible. Time management completely off.

As a supplemental anecdote, I won my first chess tournament at Manhattan Chess club in the early 1990s while dosed on a significant amount of mushrooms. Certainly the perception of time is an issue and I'm certain the results would have been different if the game had been shorter (as most games are these days), but in a 120 + 60 it wasn't an issue.
malicious compliance is the best kind of compliance
I guess I'm an idiot because I thought that was what it was supposed to be doing in the first place. All these examples such as making itineraries were just from stored data? That seems not very useful.
Pixel phones are partnerships with phone manufacturers. They sold off their in-house phone unit years ago.
Why didn't god just state that there were none after Abraham thought there were 50?
MS publishes Azure IP ranges[1] so it should be trivial to check if the attack originates from those or something else.

MS also has abuse contact exactly for this purpose[2]. I have no experience what their response is there, but probably worth a shot anyways.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=565...

[2] https://msrc.microsoft.com/report/abuse
https://github.com/ogrodnek/pyview
I was disappointed they went closedAI, but then they gave everyone GPT-3, and I could deal with the mental gymnastics: 'well at least everyone could use LLMs'.

Then I applied for GPT-4 API, twice, and never got it.

Apparently Chemistry and industrial engineering were not good enough purposes.

Keep the ClosedAI jokes coming folks, it wont matter, but I surely like knowing I'm not alone.
> Like how Reddit is fine with r/Superbowl deleting any post that isn't a picture of an owl.

Minor nitpick: I agree with the idea, but the deletion of any post that doesn't contain an owl on r/Superbowl isn't a ridiculous rule. The subreddit is dedicated to "superb owls" and not to anything else.
> Most developers still use a hypertext document viewer as the interface for most applications.

During the Dot-Com / Web 1.0 era, Javascript was an afterthought, and the naming after Java was a careless mistake.

In the 2000's decade, Google in its wisdom decided to make Javascript in the browser a first-priority effort, and they threw money at the best optimizing compiler engineers they could get their hands on.

This settled a long-running debate in the industry over how client/server computing would work, that is, do you keep the UI logic on the server or push it to the client (this goes all the way back to the async vs. "intelligent" terminal debate in the 80's).

The Web 2.0 / Cloud Computing era would not be what it is, except for Google deciding to make Chrome a first-class client platform, not just a trivial hypertext document viewer. The first thing people noticed was Google Maps, but that was just the tip of a much deeper iceberg.

Most of what you are complaining about came later. Web 2.0 begat social media, which turned into a new form of television (i.e., scrolling your IG feed to look at mindless T&A).

For a while I was optimistic about the gaming explosion fueling the development of GPU technology, but then that turned into Crypto and so-called "Web 3.0" so now we're back to cynical again. But I do like that the average affordable laptop these days will still have a strong onboard GPU, even if I only use it to play retro 80's video games using emulation. That still makes me happy.
Bizarre take. A plain gray box with the performance of a mac pro is incredibly appealing. Understated power is a very very popular aesthetic in luxury products.
My predictions for exactly how this will go down:

1) Reddit will see a profit bump due to everyone switching to the reddit app. But only the lurker community mostly.

2) About a year from now the numbers will start going in a bad direction.

3) About 6 months from now, Steve will use the bump to justify IPO at a higher than what it should be valuation.

4) IPO happens, suckers lose their money, Steve comes out massively rich.
I don't like it but Reddit will win in the end. Mods will he ousted and in a couple of years no one will remember this.

Why? Because network effects are stronger than outrage. The CEO is right in thinking he holds the winning hand because he controls the platform the network is built on.
It does when all the land in a country is privatized and people can’t sustain themselves without being coerced into an employer-employee agreement where the employer has all the leverage.
“Let them eat cake day!”
It keeps pretty well when kept cold and dry.
Gli hard disk meccanici sono ancora tra noi: come sono fatti e quali sono le cause di guasto più frequenti.
Exactly my point. It's possible but complicated.
The one goal of future contracts is for producers and consumers to be able to make deals before that production and consumption happens. Those are the primary dealers there, and I don't really remember where I got statistics, but AFAIK, they are about 10% of the volume.

On top of those primary deals, a lot of people pile up making bets on secondary deals. Those are the people going for "hey, a lot more farms are growing rice this year, I bet its price will fall". They are very welcome because they not only stabilize the prices on those markets, but they also provide short-term money to make the deals flow more homogeneously. Without them, making deals on those markets would be a profession by itself (as it was).

Now, there exist people making bets on the results of the bets of the secondary market. That is a different market. At some point it's clear that this becomes toxic, but nobody seems to agree on what point exactly.

> What about the crops they destroy because they would be less profitable?

You mean farmers getting bankrupt? You seem to be misunderstand, because the main reason farmers love the futures market is because it lowers their risks.

> How well will it work if we create unsustainable land that the farmers can no longer grow crops on?

Well, surely if you go and kill everybody, there will be nobody losing money on those markets.
Does Musk's loss of half his on-paper fortune change the "I calculated that with $3 million being an extremely comfortable retirement, he could retire 100,000 times. It's an absolutely obscene inequality." calculus meaningfully?

He can now retire comfortably 50,000 times. It's a good illustration of just how huge that fortune is, and how little someone needs that much money.
If moderators are the aristocracy, what does that make Huffman? The King?
can they get rid of the mods AND restore the api access?
So if you have API access, you can use these tools?
Not sure if you meant “money market” as it’s understood to be the market lending/borrowing for terms of less than a year, or if you were referring to fixed income markets in general.

Either way it’s hardly a waste of time or money, and banks make money not from “arbitrage shell games” but by matching buyers with sellers. Some people have money to lend and sone people have enterprises they need to fund.
Well it doesn't matter for this year, but it makes for a very different trajectory - there's no reasonable way that we net +600k temporary residents every year.
Unless it is air gapped, it is accessible.
Sounds like you want to flip the model upside down, all the mods would have to approve every post that jives with their POV in order to filter on them.

Now, break the rules and get your post deleted (or however it works there).
A forum is not an alternative to Reddit.

In forums, exposure of topics depends only on recency. While Reddit and the likes combine recency with community upvotes.

Upvotes are important and allow for automatic quality control as well as keeping important things up for more exposure, even if they are not the most recent.

Forums alone are no longer the best way to go.
Do you mean that it make you feel dehydrated? Or are you measuring your intake and output volume / body weight / urine spec grav / some other means of measuring your hydration status?

Certainly symptoms like dry mucous membranes or lightheadedness can be caused by mechanisms other than dehydration, and it would surprise me if sparkling water could cause symptomatic dehydration (as opposed to correcting it, since the main ingredient is water).
Funny, I was just looking him up (since The Doomsday Machine) was mentioned on another site.

Meanwhile, Kissinger is still alive (and recently turned 100).
Your bot didn't pass the Turing test.
Making Postgres 30 Percent Faster in Production
All they need is a profit bump so insiders can sell to suckers in the public market.
That text block is PEM. Putting PEM in a tag that says <pkcs12> is awfully strange (PKCS#12 is a binary format anyway). And are you saying there's a private key inside of the base64 data?

Or, oh no, please don't tell me that the PEM block contains PKCS#12?? A PEM CERTIFICATE block is supposed to contain a single DER-encoded certificate.
They should also not be allowed to make secret deals with companies to artificially boost said companies or to downrank non-paying competitors.

The problem is there's no accountability.

Sure, we can sue them, but for what damages? How do you account for the value of lost business opportunities caused by Yelp selling your honestly earned ranking spot on their website to your competitor?

The only way to prove they've done something wrong is to commit corporate espionage and get the proof yourself, which would then most likely invalidate the ability to use that evidence for revenge.
I still refuse to believe that there's a meaningful amount of people who ingest most of their water in a mixture with sugar.
I find it’s worth paying for, happy paying customer here.
Add Rust to your list. The Rust UI ecosystem is still very immature, but it has a tendency to implement things very well once they are implemented and the potential is huge.
A lot of people end up as neo-nazis or similar because they're anxiety-ridden losers who take refuge in cosmic narratives. Aggressive and violent ones need punching, but lot of them are confused and need a way to vent to a non-judgmental person. Moralistic approaches tend not to be very effective ime - horse, water etc..
Has an AI already been used to improve itself, or create another AI?

I think that's going to be a very near inflection point where we'll see exponential improvements with little human interaction. I'm not sure if that prospect is more exciting or scary.
I find the default way to work with nixos to be a lot easier to use compared to flakes. I am sure flakes are great and all but as with everything nix you can't just integrate it into your normal flow, you have to jump all in with it. I don't think that is a positive.
The most spectacular one I've seen in recent years was the Freenode takeover and subsequent implosion. But Reddit, like Freenode and Twitter before it, seems headed for the trust thermocline: https://twitter.com/garius/status/1588115310124539904
Interesting points.

In December, it was hard to imagine what a dumb AI could do and we were trying hard to make it smarter and more useful.

Today, I can see the concern. Not that it is intelligent and thinking, but that a runaway command could cause the AI to make something smarter. (Although, I still can barely use any GPT4 code, so I'm not going to panic)
> What does normalized mean here?

I don't want any police departments to have carte blanche on authorizing drone executions by land, sea or air. The Dallas PD didn't see itself as encumbered by any laws - so they could hypothetically use a UAV to drop explosives today. I would like legislation to prevent this from repeating - using a killerbot shouldn't be a field-decision, IMO.

We need clear rules of engagement. At the moment, police forces are adopting military equipment, but not discipline.
I would bet that the large majority of reddit users couldn't care less about the API stuff.
I deleted all my comments about 2 years ago.

I can confirm that they are back.

However I don't see them on my profile, which is even more sneaky and infuriating. It makes searching for them (to delete again) hard.
>First and foremost you need to stop talking about mathematics. This is why postmodernists are dangerous, you make grand proclamations about things you have no idea about.

If I really had "no idea" about this subject we would not even be having this discussion and you wouldn't have put so much effort into replying. I admit I am not an expert in pure math, but clearly I have learned enough to talk about it with you and to force you to engage with me.

In any case, you seem more interested here in "taking down" what you perceive as postmodernism than critically engaging with the idea that CFG is something that relies on axioms which create rigid structures of logic that are unable to be questioned as they make it difficult to explore areas of math that do not conform to them. You say that ZF-C is trivial but there are significant portions of mathematics research dedicated to finding proofs without the AC and seeing if the AC is even necessary in constructing any axiomatic system, which would have wide reaching implications. I am not confident that the CFG is something that can exist without the AC (but I cannot here prove it), I don't think the fact that someone built a computer which follows very specific rules of interpretation can interpret context-free grammar proves much of anything besides that someone in a certain social context constructed something that relies on that social context.

>>then 2+2 can easily equal 5

>This is literally just redefining what "=" means. It is a linguistic amiguity in mathematics that operators are "overloaded". Garbage tier argument.

It is not a "linguistic ambiguity," you never specified the context for your claim. The arrogance on display when we are discussing the fundamentals of mathematical reasoning that something as simple as 2+2=4 cannot be questioned or made non-trivial shows that you are committed to a worldview where its more important that things "make sense," than that we critically engaging with those things.

Look I am just learning about some areas of pure math recently (like Group Theory referenced above), but I know my set theory fairly well and there was a reason I was using group theory and not set-theory, since it seemed easier to express the notion of a possible algebra where a set containing integers could add to something other than another positive integer that was ordered such that one element (4) would always come as the result of the addition of 2+2. I don't know why I'd express it in a set-theoretical definition when that would clearly be more obtuse than describing it as a cyclic group. The number system is completely arbitrary and you treat it as some sort of holy writ! Don't say "2+2 always equals 4 except in unique circumstances which we all know about but don't question common sense," the core of pure math is questioning commonsensical ideas of what should be provable or possible.
Judging LLM-as-a-Judge with MT-Bench and Chatbot Arena
Join the programming.dev instance instead. It’s really nice and starting to become an active community.
is that right, are you saying the onus was on Abraham to do the legwork and locating of good men rather than God omnisciently evaluating the state of all the souls in the town and determining which side of the balance they landed on at that particular moment?

I don't think that's accurate, I just double checked and it's God who's doing the evaluating, there's lots of hits for "If I find...".
When it can be sufficiently monetized.
The Solar Chemical Composition
Johnson had escalated the war, created it really, from the Gulf of Tonkin 'crisis'. By 1968, the war had failed and at some level everyone knew that. Johnson was not running for re-election and Nixon had a 'secret plan' to end the war. Nixon ran on that and that's why he won handily. He even conspired with Anna Chennault to sabotage the peace talks and get the South Vietnamese to believe they'd get a better deal from Nixon.

After winning, Nixon continued the war even after Congress reversed the Gulf of Tonkin war powers resolution. He even signed that reversal but then cynically claimed the power to defend the troops and remained.
Commodities, homes, lands, water, minerals, etc (let’s call them real assets) can not inflated as freely as possible, the way money can be expanded/inflated. That’s the large source of speculation. This is why people borrow in order to acquire real assets.

Third world countries want to issue debt in American dollars, because no one wants to buy their bonds in their home currencies.
If we feel that analogy was necessary here... So it seem that present time seems to reward citizens of Sodom. Maybe God is different than the one from Genesis.
Maybe he owns the technology that powers reddit, but he does not control the community. Social media platforms have fallen before. Reddit only gained traction after Digg fell.
One example which is applicable to majority of the working population: in the UK at least the fixed-rate mortgages are priced off the Swap rates as that is how banks hedge them.
Yep, it's just a parameter.

https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/gpt/function-calling
How dare the moderators bite the hands that feed them!

And yet ironically, it's actually Reddit that is biting the hands that feed it. Without the moderators creating thriving communities for free, Reddit would be nothing but fake posts. And yet Reddit has the gall to compare the moderators to gentry. It's incredible.

And when Reddit goes IPO and the moderators get nothing... then I guess every investor and employee including Huffman and Ohanian can cash out and the community will just die a slow death because that's really the only end-game.
I get why farmers do it but what's the societal benefit of letting a rando like me buy and sell (i.e. make bets on) such contracts? Do farmers really prefer that random people do this?
Yet Kissinger is still free and walking about.
Isn’t it another quite important trait of this that one can manage millions of „processes“ on one machine which is outright impossible with most other systems? It puts a one machine setup for mid sized apps into the range of the possible.
It exists. Ditaa.