skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely.

> "personal" and "communal" seem opposed.

Sure. They always will be to some extent. I need to think of a better word. A healthy society is made from people being personal, as in expressing themselves, even if it is somewhat awkward or unattractive at times, because it leads to curiosity and life. Now it's all too easy to be a passive consumer, which is not really personal at all.

> Society functions better when "norms" are held across enough of the population, when there's shared experience.

I think it's even stronger than that - how can you have a society without norms? The role of older people is to maintain them, but now everyone has surrogate parents and grandparents.
HFT is mostly arbitrage, that's why they need the speed to reduce the risk. The rest of algo trading (and quant trading in general) tries to guess which way the market and individual securities will go based on market indicators and work over longer time horizons than HF traders work in. A simple example is that in low interest rate stocks will tend to outperform bonds, so the trade is to go long stocks and short bonds. Of course we expect that simple trades like this quickly be seen to be profitable and do more people do it and so the benefit of doing the trade versus just going long the market (beta) should eventually go down. So quants are always looking for other, more complicated trades as their current ones become less profitable.
EDIT: After trending #1 spot on the front page, this got removed it seems. Hopefully this gets resolved but I hope HN'ers had fun either way!

Hey HN!

Quick project to get my brains warmed up. Used GPT to generate layoff texts and DALL-E for the CEO images. The text generation took a bit of prompt-massaging to get it working as expected but not too long.

This is obviously meant to be satirical and not very useful. However, it got me thinking. To create something like this pre-GPT, it would have taken me 10s or 100s of contractors writing the texts. Now it's just me, one person.

It's common startup wisdom that to win your product has to 10x better than your competition. It sure does looks like LLM's are 10x-ing or 100x-ing the status quos, at least in certain areas.
This was true of almost all small to medium enterprise at some point. It isn't because it was kosher, it was because people at the time did stupid things. The meat-packing sector kosher or not was a hotbead of bad practices.

The garment trade in NY was so bad, it's why unions took off in the USA. All the recent fires in garment factories in the Indian sub continent are a re-capitulation of what caused militancy in the garment industry.

Thuggery is not uncommon in migrant communities. Strong migrants self-predate on marginalised people in their language and religion group. The Irish had this problem in spades, for years ("collecting" for Irish independance)

(writing because calling out the Kosher butchers in particular misses a point, and can be read as implying they were worse than other sectors because they were Kosher)
I think it would. There’s a degree of expertise required to create a good deepfake. Banning it will reduce the pool of professional deepfake artists which 1) drives up the price of deepfakes and 2) makes it harder to secure good ones. And since the effectiveness of a deepfake scam depends on the quality of the deepfake, fewer people will be scammed.
Sun’s original “enemy” was Digital Equipment Corporation, not the phone company.
I believe the subtle point being made is that the fear of AI here is that it will subvert out expectations of authenticity in order to sell us a product.

However influence culture already does this. Influencers represent identities fostered entirely for the purpose of convincing you to consume product.

You could make similar claims for the mountain of garbage writing that falls under the category of "content marketing". It's an attempt to create authentic information for the real reason of selling you a product.

The point being that influencers, content marketer and similar sophisticated advertising strategies already are artificial intelligence. Joe Rogan is a personality created to sell you products, most blogs are empty content designed to attract your attention just enough to convince you to trust them to sell a product.

The distinction between the real Joe Rogan selling you a product and an artificially generate Joe Rogan selling you a different product is only a concerning thing to people paying Joe Rogan to sell their product.

For the average consumer, they have already have been duped by AI for years now.
That’s all documented in the standard though. Why would you access errno any other way?
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34758525
Are there any books or fanfics and such that explores this theme more?
For anyone who hasn't seen his videos, Coffeezilla's (the guy who tweeted this) Youtube channel is fantastic: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFQMnBA3CS502aghlcr0_aw
And now the hard part; how do you ban "AI"? it's so vague, and the law has a hard time with vague concepts.

I'd like to ban "social media", but how do you define that in a way that kills what you want (eg twitter, facebook, /r/all) and preserves less detrimental forms of it (eg HN or old phpbb forums)
?

edit- Oh and furthermore, how do you deal with every country who decides to not ban it?
to be fair to the commenter you're replying to, they said it was an upside for Disney
Ask HN: How to make the most out of an educational business trip?
My manager asked me if I would like to go on a cross-country educational business trip. I told him it would be a great opportunity to learn. The team I would be visiting is much more experienced than we are, and I am also relatively new to the field so this is really a dream come true in terms of professional development.

However, this all comes with a bit of pressure. I would like to make the most out of this experience. I will only be there for a few weeks, so I want to learn as much as possible during that time. That means I need to hit the ground running and ask the right questions and do the right things. How can I make the most out of this trip?
Can AI be used to bridge the gap and help children, women and men who are struggling to break away from the shackles of modern slavery?
This kind of thing -- centralized action to shield and protect people from having their feelings/wallets/egos/etc., hurt always struck me as the complete opposite way to address things and yet it's always so popular. I understand governments want people to be as helpless as possible and reliant on the state controlling others in order to function so I see why it's pushed from the top down. I just don't see how it gets any traction.

People should have to learn not to be scammed rather than trying to ban scams. People should be taught that speech is not violence instead of trying to ban speech.

If this development is what it takes to finally empower people to not take their health and fitness advice from Joe Rogan and some other internet chumbo, I say it can't come soon enough. That a few additional people might fall for these things is a small price, and one I'm willing to pay.
Agree, this is the first time I've seen this term, although the author attributes it to Taleb.
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I have made a website recently, called Writero. It is an artificial intelligence trained assistant to write and create amazing, original and creative content and images 10X faster.
It's a pretty unnuanced criticism to complain that critics are just whiners. At the very least you could explain something he was wrong about instead of pointing at tone.

Obviously he's not a 'gullible mark' if he's actively seeking scammers to highlight on his channel, how is that confusing for you?
Building abstractions using higher-order functions
>But my theory is that the cell phone is iatrogenic for that purpose.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34762051

Just saw these back to back within an hour or two. I'm speed running baader-meinhof. Or maybe the poster found this article by searching for iatrogenic? Maybe something recently gave the word a spike in popularity? Google trends shows a flat line, and I assume this word is pretty rare. Just made me curious.

On topic: yeah I don't use a cellphone that much either.
Phenaki: Google’s AI that can synthesize realistic videos from text descriptions
Exactly. I'm not worried at all about fakes. I'm worried about people claiming fakes. If ChatGPT can perfectly imitate anyone's speech patterns, and you can fake someone's voice and video perfectly, everyone with power in the world basically gets out of everything. Evidence will be meaningless.
And yet I can’t just Google “how to build a Bomb at home” and click on the first result and get detailed instructions for how to be a little terrorist.
Going further, digital watermarking is the obvious solution to this problem. Signed hash of each frame attached to the video, signed by the authors private key. You can verify integrity and authenticity if you trust the key.

Key sharing is annoying but at least you have continuity in the same sense as normal “reputation” and Keybase showed us it’s possible to like PGP keys to social media accounts with decent usability.
Awesome website.

https://www.writero.art/
I agree in spirit but not in practice.

I used to think everybody using Matlab thinks like a programmer. The problem is that many people who use Matlab are something else first. Matlab is just the tool available to them that has a very specific set of functionality and a GUI to make it somewhat accessible. Octave is a great piece of software but I stopped championing for others after knowing enough scientists that just want to use a library for a minute that only works in Matlab because of some quirk or special function that doesn't exist in Octave.

Another reason this doesn't quite work in practice is the interview. Imagine, potential employer asks if you have ever used Matlab. Two potential responses here: 1) No, I've used octave though. 2) Yes.

Both are good answers but, convince me the typical employer wants to hear 1 over 2.
Saturation of markets picked up pace across the 2nd half of the 20th century. Postwar, with transistors, electronic goods went to saturation over decades. Since mobile phones, a localized saturation can happen in 1-2 years. The rate Americans bought washing machines and microwaves changed to the rate americans bought iPods and phones. White goods manufacturers stopped looking like profit machines.

Apple has a huge problem now: it's eating it's own market. Believing there is an endless belt of profit owning Apple shares is to ignore the risks of consumers changing their minds about "I need this years iPhone" and sales tanking. I read more people saying "my iPhone 12/13 is still fine" than I read people saying "I want to spend $1500 on an iPhone 15"

The cost of being Apple never gets better. They now have exposure to costs they didn't have in 2009. They will have exposure to more costs (s/w complexity, VLSI in-house) and they will have exposure to more market entrants. They are also at risk of supply chain dynamics which could erode profits multi-year if bad enough: imagine if TSMC's yield drops on complex must-have chips? It's force majeure stuff.

I certainly wish I'd bought apple in the 2000s or before. I would hesitate to assume its worth owning FAANG stock now, rather than other things (including EFT)

The long-term rate of return on investment across markets is 6-7% and being above that for periods is unusual and begs questions.
In what way are we not ready? If you don't have the necessary critical reasoning skills to doubt Joe Rogan telling you about complete bullshit, no one needs technology to trick you into a scam. If you have critical reasoning skills, it's pretty hard to convince you to part with your money. Who exactly does this scam target?
…which does not support Firefox sync to sync its (container)settings
Bookmark this page: https://news.ycombinator.com/active ("Most active current discussions", it's findable via "Lists" link in footer)
I love containers but I've started to phase out using this extension and preferring Temporary Containers for most of my use cases.
For example if I, as an individual, used leverage to trade on the market and some black swan even happens, not only would I lose the amount I invested, I could also end up in debt and have to sell my house or other assets to cover my obligations.

This is not true. The broker would try to liquidate your positions well before that happens. Failure to put up collateral means your position will be forcibly closed. It's called Maintenance Margin. The last thing the broker is going to allow is for its clients to incur a debt and be on the hook. The hedge fund instead will send you a letter that your money is gone. Same thing.
There are two books I have on my reading list which are supposed to address this in one way or another, both by the same author. Violence of Mind and Beyond OODA, by Varg Freeborn (https://vargfreeborn.com/podcasts/). I've started reading Violence of Mind, and it's been enough to motivate some life changes and deep thinking. Have not finished yet though, the author gave an ultimatum of sorts early in the book and I haven't quite come to grips with my answer yet.

Beyond OODA is probably closer to directly answering your question, though Violence of Mind appears to deal with concrete application of "orientation" to self-defense and violent confrontations as a "good guy". I think I recall hearing in a podcast Varg did that he actually talked with one of Boyd's colleagues when putting together Beyond OODA to learn more and make sure the content was spot on, which was a big motivation for my purchase of the book as I find OODA fascinating and the concept has been very influential in my life.

There is also this article that introduced OODA to me, and it goes fairly in-depth on the "orient" section: https://www.artofmanliness.com/character/behavior/ooda-loop/
The New (Old) Rules of Hollywood
Almost. We had a UI library on Android that was stuck on an alpha version of the library for three or so years after the library had shipped.

Upgrading the library broke many tests across the org, and no one wanted to own going in and getting each team to fix it. Eventually, the library had a v2 release, and people started to care about being able to use it.

Ultimately, they just forked the current release and appended a v2 to the package name.

Not the norm, but it happens. The monorepo works for Google, but I wouldn't recommend it for most organizations; we have a ton of custom tooling and headcount to keep things running smoothly.

From the mobile side, it makes it super easy for us to share code across the 50+ apps we have, manage vulnerabilities quicker, and collaborate easily across teams.
What freedoms are being disregarded? You're allowed to call it "the Ukraine" if you want, the callout is just that the country prefers otherwise.

This is like someone clarifying their name is pronounced "Marie" instead of "Mary". You are free to mispronounce their name still.

Or with non-English location names, like Piñar or Türkiye. Your rights to spell them "Pinar" or "Turkey" are not trampled in any way.
How can you practically use the internet when every second website wants you to setup your phone number for "security reasons", instead of just offering an RFC compatible 2FA mechanism?

Don't get me wrong, I am not using apps on my phone because they're a distraction I don't care much about, but there's this 2FA phone number barrier you cannot avoid without giving a foreign stranger or shady spam service all access to your accounts.

Also in regards of phone development I would argue that the Fairphone aims to be what google's project ara wanted to be.
I think the lesson to draw from bigorgs isn't what to as a smallorg, but what directions you can grow and what the pitfalls are on those roads.

Any smallorg probably wants a bare monorepo, git or what have you. If you grow to the point that becomes unwieldy, you can either invest in tooling the way Google has, or be prepared to split the repo into library and project repos in a way that makes sense for what your mediumorg has grown into.
It is by all accounts an excellent BS engine, it reminds me of interacting with scam artists mostly - which makes sense, most of those people use the same persistence / confidence strategy to get people to behave against their best interests. Whether that is selling fake insurance or fast talking a hoggie out of a sub shop.
Oh I'm ready. I assume everything on the 'net is a possible scam.
This is clearly correct. But even in a multi world, I've seen far more attempts at atomic commits than makes sense.

I'd love for it to be a strawman. But I do keep finding them.

You do get me to question what a mono repo is. I've never seen one that wasn't essentially an attempt at treating a company as a large project. Akin to a modular codebase with a single build. Could be a complicated build, mind you. Still, the goal has always been a full repository build.
I'd be very careful to categorically state what is true or isn't true on a topic that you may not quite be an expert in.

Brokers have no ability to liquidate a position on a company that declares bankruptcy after market hours. In fact, most major events happen during times when trading is either halted or the market is closed.

As sad as it is, there are people who have committed suicide over having a negative balance including this individual who carried a -$730,000 balance:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/technology/robinhood-risk...
In Flurly's blog post, Flurly said the legacy payouts used stripe connect and other methods. And from Stripe (Edwin's) reply above, it sounds like Edwin is implying that this particular situation did not use Stripe connect.
Well in my case I specifically mean hyper realistic deep fakes of people created without their consent.

Why is it the difficulties of regulating something brought up as if it means it prevents any action taken at all.

“Id like to ban murder but how do how do you define murder and ban the cases we want (murder) and allow the cases we do (self defense)? And what about countries who decide not to ban murder?”
AWS regularly lies about their status on their status page.

Instead, if you have an issue you think is an AWS specific issue and if you spend enough money with AWS, you have a TAM. You reach out to your TAM who can give you the real status under AWS NDA.
2023: Governments Scrutinize Open Source
Train Defect Detector
First, become a PDT (25k min to pattern day trade), meaning you can't execute more than 4 trades in a 5 business day time-period. So if you are serious, you have to get to that first... then realize that whatever broker you are using, they probably have an API.

I do raw api calls, but you have to be so very careful. You can do something wrong and totally, absolutely jack yourself up, so this way is only for the very brave, but I think it offers good opportunities to understand the markets better if you can stomach the extreme risk profile.

Check out https://algotrading101.com/learn/ for a good set of practical articles to give you some context. I wish I could still point to Quantopian, which is where I started my learning process on this, but it died.
Invalidating the metric after it becomes a target means that the metric is no longer an indicator of performance, so you have no guarantees that an increase in the metric results in an increase in performance.
Is there a reason to homeroll your accounting like this vs using one of the plain text accounting tools and their scripting interfaces?
The workaround I've used is to open slack.com in the Google container, etc. Not ideal, but it works.

In some cases though I do have to switch my default browser to Chrome, log in, then switch it back.
Drugs are expensive for the same reasons. Most of the people who want to do them still do, just at a higher price.

Regulation is fine, but prohibition rarely works.
It's interesting that you can't get it to assume that you are giving it truthful information. I've been in loops like this before with ChatGPT, and the only way to get it back on track is to start a new conversation and feed it the correct information on the first prompt.
That largely depends on the type of leverage used (not all individual margin loans have the same conditions). It's possible to get pretty good terms as an individual in some circumstances (mostly if the loans are smaller and personally guaranteed), mostly by getting loans without margin calls attached. If you own a home, you can trivially borrow against it to invest without the risk of a margin call.

It's all tradeoffs - the broader the conditions at which a bank can recall your margin, the cheaper the interest and lower personal guarantee requirements (some may not hold you personally liable for negative balances - check your T&Cs). Funds can obviously borrow more, and at lower interest rates because of that though. Obviously their loans will be wound up on the way down no matter what, because the bank can't get money out of a negative balance like they would an individual.

Funds also don't tend to all-in on three tech stocks, so the fact they are very exposed to volatility with that type of leverage is less of an issue.
I think this is the immense difficult with plausibly fake information. The target doesn't just need to be influencer did X. To follow the LTT example, maybe LTT says stay away from my product, so I do deep fakes to erode trust and viewership in LTT. And this moves the needle towards other channels that maybe aren't quite so critical, or willing to sell their souls with them VPN ad money.

And most people say they wouldn't fall for it, but for some things, you might not need to move the needle very far.
When you say it's "as much work" there's an assumption the code is still used. This was years ago, but when I was doing migrations at Google we sometimes had to deal with abandoned or understaffed and barely maintained code. (Sometimes by deleting it, but it can be unclear whether code by some other team is still useful.)

If you're not responsible for fixing downstream dependencies then you don't need to spend any time figuring that out.
This is like Jupyter notebooks for clojure with UI elements. Certainly helpful for small applications.

Jupyter seems to have community support for other languages though[1] including clojure, so it would be nice to see how that compares.

[1] https://github.com/jupyter/jupyter/wiki/Jupyter-kernels
Does it?

Did I miss something in the settings?
Probably can't Google it, no.

But there's a thousand other ways to get that exact info, even/especially online.
Not OC, but FWIW, making yourself the story and promoting it with incessant clickbait are two a pretty big red flags
Check out the TextBundle file format.

http://textbundle.org/

“The TextBundle file format aims to provide a more seamless user experience when exchanging plain text files, like Markdown or Fountain, between sandboxed applications.”

A bunch of apps support it. There’s a list of the front page of the website.
> There’s a degree of expertise required to create a good deepfake.

Here's the thing, you're almost most likely to be successful as a scammer with a poor deepfake with a good deepfake.

This is why so many scams are so unbelievable in their premise (Nigerian princes , UN Lottery, etc...). Falling for the premise is a good indicator that the leads they get will turn a profit because they indicate vulnerability.

This is partly why I don't think regulation would stop much of the scamming.
The commenter said "any upside *where* Disney...", which I took to mean "here's an example of an upside, where...".
Yep. They need something like this for Python period, not just Jupyter. Something I can just put on my boss' computer and tell him "load a script, change a number, hit run". No futzing around with environments.

Like qbasic.
Is it just me or did this look like some kid's high school CG project.

Drones? Fake looking. Laser? Fake looking. Marketing? Check.
From context, I assume Incentive Stock Options