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I only see 20 problems if I select React on clientside.dev. I see 10 on bfe.dev for specifically that key word. Yeah UI clientside.dev has it beat.

If you go to the system design section for bfe.dev those are some practical UI problems.

It would be far better if most of the meaty problems on clientside.dev weren't behind a paywall. You could just google every single one of those problems instead.
As with most things, this isn't really a technical challenge, it's a social one. The protocols you're describing already exist, more or less. No one uses them.
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That's not OSS. That's just some random permissive license.

OSS is "there is no tresspassing". It's as close to public domain as you can get with software (because public domain software has some weird caveats in the US from what I remember).
It would be neat if you could play small "MMO" games with the other passengers on the flight. Or just a chat room or Twitter clone. I suppose it wouldn't get used all that much.
Just to be clear, those are two different things. The Biden administration's response is using powers granted to the executive branch explicitly to save banks. The Swiss government seems to be modifying their laws to save CS (by getting it acquired).
The first 3 factors you mentioned are directly related to printing money, though.
Cliff, I just wanted to take a moment to say that The Cuckoo's Egg was formative in my youth and was definitely one of things that led me into getting into IT and programming. You just seem like such a nice, wonderful, fascinating human. Hope you have a great day!
The KGB, the Computer, and Me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGv5BqNL164
lol those are 2300 each! audio gear is nuts. there’s no way they’re 10 times better than my adam t5vs
>If you cannot distinguish spam from normal posts, this could even cause democracy to break.

You can distinguish however online accounts from real people and bots. That's easy and so cheap, i consider it it, essentially free. Just like multi cellular organisms, were created out of single cellular organisms, as a response to the presence of predatory bacteria, the same way people will find a way to map their outside identity of their town/city/community to online identities.

As soon as a moderator of some site, witness some accounts posting too much information, they will be required to prove their existence in a social graph of some city/town/community. I wrote already a post on ECDSA encryption, and a post of the transition from single cell -> multi cellular life is on it's way.
Except socks are more interesting because the manifold isn't flat.
It works fine in normal mode, albeit 1080p, but when you do multi monitors, essentially it is still using that same pixel density to render those 3 screens, so that's why text looks bad. single screen though, I use it all the time for code.
Tweet showing what the actual monotile looks like: https://twitter.com/cs_kaplan/status/1637996332475359232?s=2...
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I think it would have to have some code that tied those two fingerprints together... something like `fingerprint.identifyUser("jefc1111")` which would then store both of those fingerprints against your user id.
I imagine we'd have a similar level of services, and the same level of urgency to raise taxes.
A room, not a whole apartment. From what I read it costs around $3000 to $5000 to have it done professionally in the US (and one can do it himself). You then add acoustic treatment (with commercial or home made items) which is considerably cheaper.

I assume though that you're not expecting Abbey Road level soundproofing, just home-studio level, enough to not annoy the neighbords when monitoring/mixing at a reasonable volume at 2am.
The first iPhone had a 3.5" display.
I think I should have been more specific about "work".

I don't really attach any significance to employment in the sense of doing work directed by someone else to make profits for some business in order to get more money. It might be a personality trait, but I don't really want or need more money and I hate being told what to do.

However- I have a ton of ideas and side projects and musical and art projects I'm always working on, and those things aren't done for pay, but they are work in the sense that they required sustained, focused effort. And that's hard even if you love what you're doing. And it sure helps if what you are creating is something that other people will appreciate when it's done, and I fear that if an AI can generate something ten times better with no effort at all, then it might start feeling pointless to do all those things. Self motivation will sustain you for a while, but external validation helps a lot after a certain point.
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Are you definitely using GPT4? The normal chat.openai.com does not use GPT4.
whoa ..this is Cliff Stoll.

I'm still reading that yellow book The Cuckoo's Egg btw ..totally amazed me ..
Literally the comment below yours mentions GPU fingerprinting (0). Regardless of whether you won or lost the silicon lottery, you're different enough to be tracked.

(0) https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/researchers-u...
I just tried to turn on `resistFingerprinting` in Firefox and it meant that my zoom preference for HN got reset every time I opened a new page (I have it set to 120% by default). Anyone know why? Bug?
I guess we could hijack our browsers to lie about the parameters that are being collected at the fingerprinting, that would be far more convenient than disable JS etc.

EDIT: Or block the extraction
The problem with this: LaTeX (or actually TeX) typesetting is way better. It is hard to get all the spacing, kerning, hyphenation, etc., right so that the text looks good. There is no way a CSS-based solution comes close.
If you're forcing your user to get their own OpenAI account, you're pushing them away from your product, at least somewhat. IMO the integration needs to be seamless for the illusion of "we're providing value here, not just wrapping GPT" to hold.
Agreed about terrible air quality in winter. As to "great for cycling", I think it has a long way to go — there aren't that many bike lanes and there are parts of the city which are split by huge car-only high-traffic moats. But it isn't terrible either!
The biggest challenge facing CBDCs (Central Bank control of Digital Currencies) is that any laws or regulations concerning them can be changed at anytime, without the consent of the governed.

See Credit Suisse.
That's deeply frustrating. The FED's potential opposition about balance sheet control and reverse repo have clear weaknesses pointed out by the author you cite.
This website https://www.producthunt.com/posts/microapp use ChatGPT3 AI to generate code in less 60sec. #chatgpt #ai
Sorry I meant a low-pass filter - a filter that cuts out high-frequency sounds, like hisses and hard reverbs/echos
It seems to me that they may have inadvertently answered your question.

Q: "What happened to KISS?"

A: "It fell by the wayside when it began to be interpreted as a personal attack."
"sticky back plastic" usually :-)
Or they could just use a permissively licensed OS, like one of the BSDs. There's no need to use a proprietary OS in order to avoid the GPL, pretty much all the BSDs shun the use of GPL code and they offer similar abilities to Linux.

Generally, but have no direct knowledge of John Deere's situation, Linux is used because it's usually possible to have drivers which are already written for the various hardware which is desired in more embedded systems. Having to write or port something like a wi-fi driver to a different OS is very non-trivial but wi-fi is generally considered table-stakes now for lots of devices. So it saves significant cost and development time to choose Linux simply because you can get off the shelf drivers for your electrical design.
Not sure which shops, in what okay of the country you are talking about.

I am a resident of a small metro called. Bengaluru, where almost every shop run by a person who is under the age of 50 accepts UPI.

If I don't have exact change, my local bodega owner tells me to just UPI Maadi. (Ofcourse, it is anecdotal, and on occasion I have had to rustle up cash to pay the rare shopkeeper who doesn't have UPI yet).
Competition but also low price of entrance/ability to enter.

If raising capital for competitors is hard (see current financial situation) then even without a trust, the competing entities benefit from raising price as the demand is captive.

Competition by itself is not a solution. You need new competition. The current state of financing a new entrant is what needs to be looked at.
I would say for languages like bash haskell erlang 30% to 3x and doesn’t yet get in the way. It’s useful and acts as a muse when stuck with a cup-de-sac in terms of scarce human creativity
The thing to understand is that software is not useful in and of itself, it is only useful for automating or increasing the efficiency of some other endeavor.

If you imagine, say, a hotel, it has plumbing that makes the toilets flush, and an accounting department that pays the bills and stuff, but none of those are an important driver of how people choose their hotels. Upgrading the plumbing will not lead to more guests, but if the plumbing breaks, that can lead to a negative experience and needs to be fixed quickly by a competent plumber.

It's the same with software - you need to figure out what the actual end goal is (more sales? attract a new client? more reliability?), and then the productivity of the developers measures how their software changes contribute to that outcome.
That happy-go-lucky attitude is how people end up in the ground...
Delta's latest IFE is developed in-house and is actually quite nice. Their previous IFE (currently on most planes) is Panasonic.
That and comparable performance running locally. On r/MachineLearning there was just a post about running 7B Alpaca on Android mobile.
I find setting "happiness" as an explicit goal reduces my happiness.

A good book -- more mainstream than most of these comments -- is "Man's Search for Meaning" by Frankl. It has been listed as one of the ten most influential books in the US a few decades ago, although has fallen somewhat by the wayside in recent years. I believe the core thesis. It's worked well for me.

Leading a meaningful and purposeful life, having good relationships, helping people, doing interesting things, learning, and growing tends to be a more effective path to emotional well-being than searching for happiness.

To answer your question directly: My high-level goal is to leave the world a better place than I found it and to have a positive impact on the lives around me.
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This is a great idea. Matt Jaffee wins it for me - coffee sloth!
You don't want to be fingerprinted means default options for everything Firefox can do it on
Show HN: A spreadsheet tool that talks to your online store
Hey HN! I'm Tal, an engineer and founder of Mellow (https://www.playmellow.com) and I'm building a spreadsheet tool that talks to your online store.

Let's face it, spreadsheets are great! Microsoft Excel has been around for over 35 years and continues to be a vital tool for our economy (seriously, this cannot be understated). Spreadsheets are one piece of powerful, flexible, familiar, and cheap software (Google Sheets is free!). Problem is, that when it comes to managing a business, they can quickly become hard, manual, and mundane to maintain. Honestly, you've probably heard that pitch a thousand times. On the other hand, implementing an ERP system can be costly and time-consuming, often requiring significant investment and a complete overhaul of existing processes. For small businesses, this can be especially daunting.

That's why I'm building Mellow, a spreadsheet tool that has lite ERP capabilities and is focused on e-commerce. Mellow understands the value of spreadsheets and has no intention of persuading you to abandon them. Instead, it's designed to make them even better by automating and streamlining many of the manual processes that businesses typically handle through spreadsheets.

Mellow is a simple add-on for Google Sheets that lets you sync your spreadsheet to your online store. It provides a range of powerful features like bulk two-way sync, inventory control, and multi-channel support. Mellow also has a dedicated spreadsheet interface with native support for ecommerce business management.

The ultimate goal is to provide businesses with a spreadsheet-ERP hybrid that's fully compatible with Microsoft Excel. No complex implementation, no steep learning curve. Just plug it in, and you're good to go.

Currently supporting Shopify, WooCommerce, and eBay (alpha version) with more integrations are coming soon. Lots of work ahead, but I cannot be more excited about this.

I'm really happy we get to show this to you all (and scared), thank you for reading about it! Please me know your thoughts and questions in the comments.

Link to demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAzl4ymufWc
Link to website: https://www.playmellow.com
The dichotomy where many of these same corporations raise prices at levels greater than inflation, while doling out employee "COLA" raises at rates far less than inflation, is pretty stunning.
Thanks for the thoughtful response. What would this look like in something more complicated? In deep learning would this be something like “if you can get these neurons to fire more you can get a better output” and “you can increase these neurons firing by changing the inputs in this way”?

Also, I feel like this sounds a lot like generative AI, and explainability might not be necessary. Or maybe one could say that in the real world people want to have better assurance that things they do are based on a good underlying model. Images and text are easier to evaluate than predictive, speculative decisions about housing markets.
But not current web CSS, please. It manages to be simultaneously overcomplicated (including enabling fingerprinting) and really bad at laying out text (e.g. still no baseline grid). A ‘markdown web’ style sheet should be more like document processor's character/paragraph styles. It also needs to be easily overridden for accessibility or alternate presentation, particularly around size and colour (a markdown-like format should already be fine for screen readers without styling). Aside: FFS, web people, if you're setting colours at all, respect @prefers-color-scheme and do not use the inverse for code blocks.

There's also the million-markdowns problem, and markdown's HTML embedding. This being Tuesday, I'd start with djot (without embedding), but Wednesday I might go for asciidoc.
If someone says they have a disorder that isn’t Tourette’s but is a bit like Tourette’s I just can’t fathom why someone with no other knowledge of the situation would be intent on somehow “proving them wrong” and establishing that it is Tourette’s.

The link you posted establishes that Tourette’s is a tic disorder. The person says they have a tic disorder that isn’t Tourette’s. I’m perfectly happy to take them at their word about that.
My hunch is that following an instruction is a subset of text completion.

> How are you?

The most likely next word might be computed to be "I".

> How are you? I

Then, what's the word that's most likely to follow "How are you? I"? That might be "am"

> How are you? I am

...and what's the word that's most likely to follow "How are you? I am"?

BTW, I think it's helpful to put "Ask HN" before question posts. Makes it easier to find.
> It seems like Project Zero mistakenly thought that Google devices were already patched when they made their announcement ("affected Pixel devices have received a fix"). Whoops! Thanks for giving attackers a heads up.

Do you have a source for the fact that Pixel devices don't yet have a fix? The post we're commenting on is actually just blogspam, with its only real source being the initial project zero disclosure [0], which still asserts this to be the case...

[0] https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2023/03/multiple-inte...
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if I've been reading it correctly, the power of chatgpt is in the training and data, not necessarily the algorithm.

And I'm not sure if it's technically possible for one AI to train another AI with the same algorithm and have better performance. Although I could be wrong about any and everything. :-)
Yes hoping what ($gpt-4) they replace the codex “obsolete” models to ease their compute needs is half as good as current codex
I don’t believe that is true. Most technologies are incremental improvements on recombinations of existing tools and techniques. It seem likely to me that LLMs ability to map associations between concepts can result in humans using it to help invent new technology.

Have you personally used GPT-4 much?
It's by no means said that it's a form of insight that helped them. First, that's a self-reported quality, and self-reporting is very unreliable. Second, it's not the only effect that psychedelics have.
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It's a valid point, but do you know of any companies which meet this standard?

Perhaps if they were dealing with highly sensitive information then it makes sense to make those kinds of disclosures, but for novelty headshot generator app? I'm not sure it makes sense to require that level of detail or expect it.

But to your point, I hate uploading anything private or personal anywhere for this exact reason. Even if you trust the company has good intentions, you also have to trust every employee at the company with privileged access, that their cyber security is adequate, and that all of their infrastructure providers can all be trusted. And given that you basically have to assume your information could be misused regardless of the company's intent.
As was stated earlier, FreeBSD (or I'll add netbsd as well) certainly is a full fledged OS that would allow free redistribution of all the work without having GPL encumbrance, while allowing any sort of "remote telemetry" desired. And it's free free free, if you ignore that developing for it is possibly more time consuming since you'll want to limit your ecosystem to non-GPL code.

Nevertheless, if I were working through a product that involves "redistribution" of any of it, and I really didn't want to deal with any potential issues with compliance with the GNU requirements, I'd spec out that the whole product runs [free|net]BSD and runs only 3rd party apache/bsd/purchased licensed code/libraries. This isn't really even a difficult option.
Yes, $15/month is a little steep. SVG backgrounds are nice, but who needs so many for so much money...?
> Inb4 I need a psychedelic trip to break out of that psychic mold.

I literally feel like this could be the case for me. I'm unable to lucid dream because even if I go into it knowing it's going to be a dream, hell even if I go into a daydream, my brain will instantly realize it's seeing or experiencing something and assert that it's reality and there's no need to question it because it is certainly real.

It's so annoying because it affects more than just dreaming, it also makes it impossible for other people to convince me that any of my memories are even slightly embellished.
> Affinity Publisher

Didn't know Serif had made a third product. Be wary of them - Designer and Photo are both buggy minefields and their support forum is full of snobby jerks. Crashes have been reported and present for years, with little or no response from Serif. Their developers all seem either disgruntled or burnt out. Some of the employer review sites confirm this.

They're cheap but you certainly get what you pay for. Save often, back up often. I say this as an avid Designer user.
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i need this in my bathroom
Congrats Andy!

I tested and it looks okay (rated 5 stars). My challenge is: As an new GPT-developer, I want to test prompts like I did with the API (writing a system and assistant prompts). I would love to see this feature on an app.
So the business model there is: scanner + paper shredder + NFT = $$$?

How many people have taken you up on that offer? Unless it's a shitty/low-effort painting, it seems insane to me that anyone would destroy their artwork in exchange for an NFT of that same artwork.
For what it's worth, the Federal Circuit, the Eleventh Circuit, and the Seventh Circuit have heard cases dealing with the GPL or some other open source license, and they all understood the big picture and were fine with it. (the cases are Planetary Motion v. Techsplosion, Wallace v. IBM, and Jacobsen v. Katzer).
Looks highly inspired by my other product https://www.profilepicture.ai which I launched back in October.
Yes. Wall street has a grand tradition of people picking up pennies in front of various steamrollers and boasting about it during good times.
yeah man. for sure AI is gonna change roles and make some jobs redundant. But it will create replacement jobs, like literally every other technical advance in history.
You could consider doing more drugs.
You know, we don't have to release an AI that obsoletes a large number of people and creates previously unseen levels of unemployment and social unrest.
Part of it is that you see something somewhat like the prompt near relevant text.

For instance somebody posted the other day an example where they asked GPT-4 who wrote a snippet from the Stratechery blog and it replied (after a lot of boilerplate about the difficulty of the problem) "Ben Thompson".

Somewhere in the training data it saw something like "Author: Ben Thompson" close to a lot of text that uses words in a certain way and and it learned the conditional probability distribution for that.

That underlying "knowledge" is captured by the pre-training phase where it learns the statistical regularities of text.

The ability to access that knowledge through prompts and to have a personality, add boilerplate text, be helpful, and agreeable even when it refuses to write a Hitler speech are trained in a second stage using this technique

https://huggingface.co/blog/rlhf

that is, by seeing examples where somebody asks to identify the author of text it learns not only to access the knowledge it learned in pre-training the write way but to also sound equivocal about it, even though that problem is a baseball pitched right at the center of the box so far as it is concerned.
IMO, the money printed in the Trump admin, which TBF was > 50% of the recent spike in printing, was more justified because it was done in the initial response to COVID when the economic shutdown was necessary and stimulus action absolutely had to be taken. The Biden stimulus, which was passed in early 2021, was after the economy had mostly been reopened, and the remaining lockdowns were unnecessary and ineffective anyway. It was more of a political giveaway than an actual emergency response.

But make no mistake, a dollar printed under Trump was just as inflationary as one printed under Biden, even if it was more justified, and you are right that it should be brought up. IMO its even more important to mention the continuous policy of our government covering its deficits by printing money (QE as they call it) which was started under Bush in 2008 and has continued under every president since.
Absolutely correct.

We already know this is about self-driving cars. Passing a driver's test was already possible in 2015 or so, but SDCs clearly aren't ready for L5 deployment even today.

There are also a lot of excellent examples of failure modes in object detection benchmarks.

Tests, such as driver's tests or standardized exams, are designed for humans. They make a lot of entirely implicit assumptions about failure modes and gaps in knowledge that are uniquely human. Automated systems work differently. They don't fail in the same way that humans fail, and therefore need different benchmarks.

Designing good benchmarks that probe GPT systems for common failure modes and weaknesses is actually quite difficult. Much more difficult than designing or training these systems, IME.