skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMHO, GPT didn't do a particularly good rewrite.

The original first sentence is overly long and complex, and so is GPT's. The original obscures the meaning behind passive voice, and GPT added even more passive voice ("should be based on your intended use").

I'll give credit to GPT for eliminating the ambiguity around "discuss these," but the rest of the changes don't improve the clarity much for me.

I appreciate that GPT's feedback is free and instant, but you can make deeper fixes to your writing with a one-time exercise that will probably take 10-20 hours and cost a few hundred dollars. Consider hiring a freelance editor to review your work and identify anti-patterns in your writing. I did this a few years ago, and it substantially improved my writing.[0]

The anti-patterns I notice in this snippet:

* Omission of actors for verbs ("when deploying into the enterprise" - who's deploying?)

* Overloading sentences with complexity (first sentence is very long and has complex structure, complex wording)

* Packing together verbs in a confusing way ("comes to deciding how you structure", "depend on how you plan to use")

* Ambiguous pronouns ("which ones", "discuss these")

[0] https://mtlynch.io/editor/
The three reasons:
(1) Policymakers have tools to solve banking crises, and the bigger banks are much stronger
(2) The economy is in a much different place
(3) The magnitude of the problem is, so far, much smaller
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Most people with that viewpoint seem to be incredibly shortsighted, such as blaming or crediting the current president for things implemented in the last term that are finally creating an effect. This seems to be many Americans, sadly
Who is “they” in that context? Cloudflare? There was no CF or internet in the 30s, I don’t understand your comment.
The original principles behind crypto are sound.

If you're happy with your government; being able to know everything you spend your money on, being able to seize your assets, being able to freeze your bank accounts, being able to prevent you moving your money around, being able to invade your privacy to allow you to access your money, being able to control who you can and can't send your money to or receive money from... then crypto does probably seem like a scam and a ponzi scheme.

And, yes, of course, there are as many scammers and shitcoins out there as you can shake a stick at. Any "scheme" which can potentially generate cash will attract such people. Cryptocurrency is no different in this regard.

But, as I said, the basic concept is sound and something anyone who believes in personal freedom can get behind. And, if crypto is such a "bad thing", why are so many governments suddenly interested in developing their own digital currencies? It's almost like the whole "USA / Huawei, TikTok... etc." scenario all over again. This technology is evil.... up until "the man" invents his own version and takes control of it.
China has the death penalty, and executes vastly more people per year than the US (~800 vs a handful).

You can (and should) protest certain aspects of US foreign and military policy within the US. There is far less latitude for internal criticism within China. Just try bringing up e.g. the Uyghur genocide and see how far you get.
So pretty harmless (in context) itself. Might you have any sense for the waste product stream (from the NaOH and impurities in the real-world iron ore), and its major issues?
Mill scale is easily recycled in blast furnaces or direct reduction furnaces today... It isn't a way to turn a useless waste product into something valuable that it sounds like.
I think there's room for a feature here: for approved contacts, notify them I'm busy when they try to call or message and ask if they want to interrupt. I think some desktop IM apps had that some time ago, but I haven't seen it on popular mobile equivalents.
Aren't all those things already blocked/banned in China? (since 2009).

(I feel like a joke might be wooshing over my head here).
Is it really that bad now?

7 years ago or so I installed 32-bit Edubuntu (IIRC) on some old Atom netbooks for my little cousins, and it was very straightforward.

But back then there was more 32-bit support still.
Are used to != used to.
Unless all of those programmers work for financial institutions I don't see how that analogy follows

It's more like asking why patients think they know more about hospital processes when management is making (perceived) bad decisions that don't solve real problems

We are users of the service, not people who work within the financial system
Present other evidence then. If your entire claim is wrong, and it's not even close, it affects the point. There's many, many sources for numbers just like these. I've found none even coming close to your statement. If you based it on some solid evidence, present it. If you just completely made it up, admit it.

When your world view is made of false claims and feelings and you ignore actual evidence, don't be surprised when people that do prefer evidence won't believe you.
The Google Code Jam and other programming competitions motivated me and an entire generation to focus on programming as a fun pursuit and a healthy side of competition. While I'm very sad that it's gone, I'm very thankful to the Code Jam team for these 20 years of work put into competitions and in inspiring me into coding for fun.

If anybody here had any teenage students who are mildly interested in programming, I'd really recommend getting them into CodeForces or any of the few remaining competitions. They are more accessible than coding olympiads like IOI, and it's the perfect way to develop a programming muscle while being in contact with a community of peers.
> This absolutely isn’t how humans learn. Humans learn by doing.

That depends on both the subject and the person. Some learn better by understanding the fundamentals first. Some subjects (in CS/SE as well) might not even be approachable without it.
No, the mesh doesn’t block everything. In the case of using your rule of thumb (1/10th wavelength), it’ll reduce the signal strength by about 33db if my math is right.
reminds me of when i had an art student/architect from austria rent a room for the summer. he carried a pocket map book and a pen, and proudly referred to it as "my iphone."

what was cool was that at the end, he had an awesome souvenir for the trip, complete with geotags (scribbles on the maps), contacts (phone numbers on the margins) and memory triggers (spills and tears of the pages).
>It’s very, very simple.

It's not that simple. China has laws that US social media/search engine companies are not willing to follow but AFAICT TikTok abides by every US law that exists.
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A good strategy to not get to a "crisis" would be to keep increasing interest rates in order to squeeze the middle class and at the same time print trillions to provide liquidity to the big players like banks. In this way not only will you push wages down through constant layoffs, remove all the advantages that employees had for negotiation during the coronoa boom. But you also squeeze the middle class with huge inflation thus eroding all their savings and hope.
> Alice makes regular, extremely leveraged hedge purchases - perhaps even 100:1 or more - and just ignores the steady outflow of her premia.

If Alice wins after 10 bets, with 200:1 return, and she bets the same percent each time, the absolute best she can get is an 8x return on her initial bankroll.

> The issue (using your analogy) is that Bob is exposed to profound, unseen risks that are deeply discounted in the marketplace - he is "picking up nickels in front of a steamroller" as Taleb puts it.

For Bob to be "picking up nickels" that means Bob is getting ripped off on the things he's right about. If "right until you're wrong" involves tiny little rights and an enormous wrong, then sure it's not very appealing. But that needs to be stated explicitly. Without a qualifier, I expect "being right" to be at least coin flip odds. Because who cares if you can predict something that's 95% likely to happen?
Indeed, so at least in Australia they have penalty rates where you can get up to 2.5x normal pay rate for working on a public holiday for example.
I'm genuinely tempted to answer "The singularity happened".

A bit of an overstatement[0], but it's certainly the vibe.

The news is happening so fast now, I'm not even sure without looking it up if the second room temperature superconductor was last week or not, let alone whose latest AI is passing which exams or producing images that normal people share as they mistake them for photographs.

[0] especially as I don't like the term itself: https://kitsunesoftware.wordpress.com/2022/09/20/not-a-singu...
https://www.reddit.com/r/C_Programming/comments/120momf/a_lo...
I think HN should really have a GPT mode, where you see the first comment made by GPT on any article. This would be a good way for us to evaluate how serious this technology actually is/has become.
'Sparks of AGI' – Bombshell GPT-4 paper: proofs, leetcode, theory of mind
If you are for the people, you are always against the publishers.
Oh, I completely agree that what is called Agile is about as far away from the original manifesto as can be.

It could only really work in exploratory, high trust, high performing environments in my opinion. I've seen that rarely.

Contracts are pretty much in direct opposition to agile practices. Most organisations won't sign an open ended committment to get something without that being defined up front.

What companies call agile seems to be a synonym for faster releases, and faster time to market for the business. It is more agile from their perspective, just not for the practitioners!
There seems to be a lot of pro-congress sentiment ITT right now, which is worrying to me.

TikTok is a capitalist social media company that certaily deserves a lot of scrutiny, especially considering ties to China.

But if you think Congress did a good job here...then I don't know how we live in such wildly different worlds.
Asking that CEO "does TikTok access the home wifi network?" is such an incomplete question. Everyone of us would immediately ask a clarifying question: "do you mean: does tiktok access data on other devices in the network" or "does tiktok monitor traffic within the network".
These are legitimate questions, but to ask a completely idiotic question and then not let the man clarify is just embarassing.
Same thing with "Have you changed the source code?" WTF does this even mean??
It's as if I'd asked somebody "Have you eaten?", not have you eaten today, or have you ever eaten. Have you eaten. Yes the fucking source code has been changed. It's being changed all the time???

Please...Congress already had an opinion on this before the hearing ever started and congress made sure to ask deliberately unanswerable questions to hit the man with "Yes or no????" as soon as he opened his mouth.

I'm certainly not a fan of TikTok, but if you see this as anything other than the US congress trying to get a unprecedented ban of a foreign competitor, you are being naive.
150 million US americans use TikTok. They are too big, they can't be as easily controlled and most importantly: they make money that belongs to Meta, Google and all our other friendly data monsters.

Don't be silly, this is not about national security, the CCP or anything like that. It's about money, like always.
Is Google Analytics server side GDPR compliant?
Very good at "vectorizing" plain python code to pandas.

I just put code like using `for row in df:` and get idiomatic vectorized pandas

The challenge is not it knowing how to do, but understanding what you want to do.

Code plus explanation works very well for more complex things.
Feeds in yes, but how significant is it as an input cost? Would doubling the price of steel increase general inflation 0.1% or 10%?

(Even as a vague number; economics is never going to be my job).
People get sued and the sites might be hard to find for some, but I don't think buggy ROMs are really a thing. Buggy emulators maybe, but even then not for Pokémon Crystal.
> It's why it's on our currency - "e pluribus unum".

"United we stand, divided we fall."
I think their objections are deeper than that. I haven't used wordpress for ages, but they're talking about 'drag and drop builders' which I'd associate more with wix or Squarespace than wordpress.

Fundamentally, I think the issue is that it's very hard to achieve modularisation, especially via a gui, if the client doesn't understand or care about it.
In my view, the steel industry deliberately confuses arc furnaces (mostly used for recycling steel - effectively just melting it down) with making new steel in blast furnaces.

This lets them do things like claim "steel made in USA" when in fact the steel was made in China, then brought to the USA, melted in an arc furnace, and suddenly it's "made in USA"!

I suspect there are people chucking brand new steel into an arc furnace simply to change its origin country, and to take government subsidies for setting up new 'steel factories'. It also conveniently works around steel import tariffs - because you actually import 'scrap' steel, tariff free.
When people pull one post selected, cherry picked example to argue for a general trend, it baffles me. The proper way to do evidence on the pros/cons of a system is to take all evidence.

Yes there's outliers. But that's all they are. As ethics change, laws change, and vice versa. Neither exists or even is workable without the other. What is ethical in one time or place or situation changes, just like laws, and for the same reason- they're cultural constructs that evolve.

As to claiming ethics is superior to law, history is also filled with people having different ethics going outside the law and causing great harm, genocides, and wars. Ethics is not defined in any universal sense. One could argue every lawbreaker has different ethics than those not breaking laws.

Again, I prefer a society where people follow societally agreed upon laws over ones where everyone choose their own ethics and acts accordingly.
You could also imagine a battle over something that started with LLaMa, but fine-tuned it using a non-spare method (i.e. changed every single parameter) so it was very marginally altered in its behaviour.

Even if the base model is copyrightable (possibly a big if), there is a valid question of whether a new model which essentially optimised for something else, but used the base model as a computational shortcut to make it far cheaper to solve an optimisation problem, is still protected by the copyright holder of the base model.

Most of the barrier to creating large language models is the computational cost of training, not coming up with the training set data, so if fine-tuning gets around the copyright issues and allows for better FLOSS-licenced fine-tuned models, that would probably be a good thing (although maybe it will decrease the willingness of companies doing training to release models at all).
The fact that they publish this in the first place, is worrying, to say the least.

It's also quite true - the banking crisis won't be a repeat of 2008.

But, unlike 2008 which was fairly limited to (arguably huge) banking and residential mortgage sectors, this crisis will hit hard everywhere - valuations are still insane, the % of zombie companies is off the charts, inflation is everywhere, FED and governments have much less room to manoeuvre (contrary to what the article claims).

In the past 3 weeks, 3 fairly big US banks were seized by regulators, and a 166 year old Suisse bank was rescued.

My personal indicator for when the shit is really hitting the fan, is when Warren Buffett starts buying stuff.
I’m not using it at all. Until I can run it locally and guarantee my interactions with it are entirely private and under my control, I won’t touch it or related services. I’m constantly surprised to see people who talk so much about privacy and data protection using such systems. That said, when self hosting is an option I’m very excited to use it.
I'm normally not one for breathless excitement about AI advances, but this video breakdown of the 22 Mar paper Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence:
Early experiments with GPT-4[1] really surprised me as to the extent to which LLMs like GPT-4 have advanced. The paper shows that GPT-4 can use tools and assemble results into an answer, solve Leetcode mediums and even an IMO 2022 problem, generate full code for a video game based on a high-level description, and display a theory of mind (modeling what others are thinking). This is pretty amazing (and frankly frightening) progress.

[1] Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence:
Early experiments with GPT-4. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.12712.pdf
It's like how Zerohedge has predicted 7 of the last 2 recessions.
y u no host, great name
They likely (IANAL) had a much firmer legal footing in those cases.
There is an online JSON to lombok https://instantwebtools.net/json-to-java
How deep do you want to get? The benefits I think outweigh the downsides, we formed the modern world by advancing ideas.

But I share you sentiment, I don’t write, too many fights to win. There is a significant portion of the workforce who do not do anything except to try an take up the air in a conversation.

I don’t post on HN, often write out the comment, refresh the tab and move on because of what I see that will unfold. Sometimes things need to be said, but often it’s the things that are not said that paint the picture.
It's weird how people keep forgetting the US is the world's largest petrostate
Kinda? I (personally) read "democratizing" as intending to be for the benefit of many over the few. Bit duplicitous to preclude access to the means of production in that definition, "for many rather than the few (BUT, wait, the actual economic benefit and utility is still locked away for the few)".

But maybe "democratize" is starting to mean something similar to "open". All the good words.
“A cord of many strands is not easily broken” is literally Fascism.
Can you expand on that a bit? I don't think its true.
Yunohost has a firewall, fail2ban, user management, access management for its installed apps and documentation on the topic: https://yunohost.org/en/security
It's frowned on in HN and I don't think I've ever done it (writing a comment that's just praise) but I think this is just so cool and can't wait to try and make a 2D game with it. I think your idiosyncratic grammar is actually charming and the sign of a creative mind. Hope you don't let the negative comments get you down.
It's not a bait and switch, no matter how you spin it. It's a company, taking investment from many places, and having a board of directors. Only an idiot assumes that every piece of corporate structure exists infinitely. There is always chance any portion of the structure may change.

Being a minority investor doesn't give Musk God powers. And he resigned from the board by his own choice.
A narrower question: can we perhaps stop putting AGI and ChatGPT in the same paragraphs as if they are somehow relevant to each other? Intelligence has very little to do with a glorified Google search trained by statistical crunching of superhuman amounts of data; there is not even a chicken-sized trace of intelligence in ChatGPT that is not a reflection of the training set or of the embedded human-designed models it uses to mimicry problem solving and conversation.
Google Flex used to be Neverware's CloudReady until Google bought the company.

https://support.google.com/chromeosflex/answer/11513094

As a concrete example: I have a Thinkpad L440 which is certified for Flex and receives support until 2026. The L440 runs any Linux X86 distro fine (EFI or legacy Bios).
Imagine being so in tune with something you're creating you can forsee the future.
Thanks to news media and social media (often from foreign sources), Americans have fallen victim to culture war hullabaloo, which creates the perfect conditions for politicians to mismanage and loot a country.

Speaking as a Nigerian where our equivalent to culture war is tribalism, I really hope no one else falls for the BS culture war politicians use to divide the population and mask their incessant failings.
I think it is not, because ChatGPT has immediate widespread practical utility already

And this is just starting, most businesses are now trying figure out how can they use it, and monetize it

Crypto, NFTs, 5G, metaverse, AR, VR... are yet to prove their widespread high productivity increase
None of Musk's experience was brought to the table. He left the board, and even if he hadn't he's spread a bit thin by the rockets, the cars, the brain surgery, the civil-engineering-slash-personal-flamethrower, and the social media companies.
Same! Never even opened ChatGPT page nor used an AI bot.
FWIW, I'd go a bit stronger and say that, if you are running a service for other people, you aren't "self-hosting" anymore, you're just regular-old "hosting" at that point ;P.
> my friends and I have a massively western-masculine internal culture.

Sounds to me like you just have "teenage boy" culture.
Agree with the second part.

As for the first part - yes, it would count. Timing of things is impossible to predict of course. But being right in the first place, shouldn't be underestimated !

Let's take crypto as an example - one can predict it's going to 0, and one can say it will go to 1M$. Even though you don't know when, being right is the only chance you make something out of it.
Apparently you can anesthetize them with ethanol first, though I don't know how well that would scale.

https://www.science.org/content/article/how-put-octopus-slee...
Yeah let's just chuck it all in the bin unless it's 100% useful!
A war is about truth. Russia's truth is that Ukraine belongs to Russia. Ukraine's truth is that Ukraine belongs to Ukrainians.

The war's purpose is to determine who is wrong and who is left.

I do not think there is any way to be neutral at all in regards to Russia and Ukraine because any stance taken at all will support one sides victory or the others. Puff pieces about Zelensky are not meant to profess truth, they are meant to increase morale so troops fight better/more tenaciously, so battles can be won, so the war can be won.

Neutrality is not desired nor is it good.

Neutrality almost always supports the oppressors and neutrality is almost always implicit support for both the ideology of might makes right and the outcome of might makes right.

Fewer puff pieces on zelensky has the opportunity cost of fewer peices tearing down putins legitimacy. There can truly be no neutrality.

There is no neutrality to be found because both parties are not good faith actors attempting to reach consensus. If any parties are bad faith, there can be no neutrality because they don't have a desire to reach consensus, they have a desire to dominate.