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I'd strongly suggest reading the Guidelines (<https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html>), particularly regarding what's on and off-topic, and self-promotion.

The FAQ describes karma: <https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html>

Both are linked at the bottom of most HN pages.

As for linking a blog post: if it's relevant to HN, write it and submit the URL with the original title (editorialised titles in submissions is a big no-no).

About 3% of non-spam submissions hit the front page, so your odds are fairly low. Good stuff often does make it through eventually.
But a simulation could be a trial, involving a real drone.
Protecting against cosmic bitflips for example, relevant if you write software that ends up on airplanes/space crafts. Also if you just want resilient software that work even though hardware is starting to fail. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_error
Not in mice, but in stationary aircraft sitting on the tarmac - so even less useful than a study using mice.
Aside from copying and pasting, all I typed was:

Add a text input and button to this app that sets the currentImage cookie to the filename in the input and then sets the current image to that as well

And:

Great, now I'd like to add support for the ii and vi chords. We need to add the keyboard shortcuts for "2" and "6" so when these are pressed it correctly sets the chord name as well as updating the tablature

And:

The G and C are finished. Complete D, E and A

The cognitive load was significantly reduced to the point where I got through practicing Paul Simon’s America twice while waiting for the responses. And that’s not the easiest song to sing and play on acoustic guitar!

So instead of just having the updated labeling software, I got some practice in and retained some will power to label 1,500 images when it was completed!

But thanks for explaining to me that you know better than me about what saves me time and energy…
Swift includes its own Unicode data tables with the standard library since last year, so it’s now tied to the stdlib version rather than some other library that may or may not be updated on the system.
Thanks for the advice. By the way, how old are you?
That would require the travel policy for most employers to allow you to fly anything but coach
You could also start with filling your 'about' to let us know who you are and/or what you have to contribute. You could include a link to your blog there as well.
At altitude it's very cold, the shrews don't work well in the cold due to the same thing that makes them suitable for this experiment - they are very small, thus they lose heat to the environment easily. So, it's possible they freeze to death first. But yes, I imagine that if they survive the cold and aren't falling onto a hard surface (e.g. they land in grass, not a car park) they would survive.

For them other than the cold a drop from 1000 metres is the same as a drop from 10 metres.
Aand I just reloaded and it bounced around between cookie modal and nothing before letting me in without further interaction
I can tell you, you’re doing it wrong. I just erased a person and generative fill recreated accurate tire rims intertwined with foliage and side walk gutter appearing behind. It is aware of light, geometry and perspective in remarkable ways. It did in seconds what would have taken a trained human 15-20 minutes at the very least. Not only that, it gave me 3 options to choose from, two of which were great, one was good.

Last week, ChatGPT wrote me a WordPress plugin and we debugged it together and added a few features after my first description. Easily saved me an afternoon. Not only that, the experience of conversing with the machine, understanding what you requested and explaining why it did X, is transformative.
tl;dr - malicious state and private threat actors can at any time completely take over your iphone (root access) with an invisible iMessage without you having a practical chance to detect it besides scanning your iphone backup
Impressive feat. Honest question though —
What are the reasons to pay attention to BERT, when there is GPT4 for various use cases? Does it come down to cost, latency and privacy (vs using OpenAI API)?

Genuinely curious, if I am missing a compelling use case outside of those reasons.
No.

There no reason, particularly, to believe either that it does, or it would.

For openai to scramble and try to “catch up” with a competitor and make such a massive change in strategy would require someone to be offering an equivalent service (hosted inference) that was either orders of magnitude cheaper than their offering and just as good, or significantly better than it. Or legal compulsion.

This is none of those things. They won’t care.
Computer errors have killed entire families.
One of the powerful things about the stimulus is that it was undirected—that money (I no longer recall the precise amount per household—$1200? $2000? somewhere in there) was just given to every household in the US.
Yes but what is the FMECA case where software is a better domain to address this than hardware?
That GPT4 is degraded question
Following the long discussion as to whether GPT4 in ChatGPT is degraded. What seems to be occurring is that when you reached your limit previously you'd get a large notification saying that model has been switched.

They don't do that anymore and instead switch the model without notifying you or updating the default model notification at the start of the conversation.

So:

(a) it is degraded as it switches to 3.5-turbo

(b) it's evident in the speed of the inferences

(c) the quality drops as the context window is halved

(d) as you're notified of the change, it appears as if all is normal (as gpt4 is definitely faster than before), but in reality the instructions are followed less impressively and the context is lost faster

(e) this probably also accounts for the difference in experience across the comments as some people won't have hit the limit and been switched and some people will have switched.

No judgement on them doing this, but does explain the difference in experience.
No matter how many times you kill him, Quine rises from his tomb, his hand showing through the dirt to point at a rabbit.
> Nowadays I mostly work on Linux and Mac, and wonder why there's no equivalent project exist. Perhaps those Unix coders are satisfied enough with C...

I think a lot of the win32asm scene overlapped with defeating copy protection and making mods/cheats for games, not really Linux and Mac territory (at the time at least)
I love how one can make an example (gold coin) to illustrate an issue (debasement) to receive a long lesson about the example being incorrect instead of discussing the issue. I never said "gold is the solution", and in fact my example is about how governments historically debased gold coins.

An egyptian government can also "debase" grain. Just issue fake receipts for unexistent grain, and buy things with them at current prices. Suddenly, there are a lot of grain receipts circulating, so you expect prices to rise. The government can now blame the price rise to the merchants! They are the ones that are rising the prices, and that's all you can see.

On the example of the grain deflation, you don't have a "receipt in gold". You buy or sell grain, and that's it. Lets suppose a simple market that stores grain at a cost of 10% in a year. You sell grain on January for 100 ounces of gold, but if you try to re-buy the same amount of grain in December, it costs 110 ounces, or receive a 10% less grain for 100 ounces. As simple as that. Your 100 ounces of January didn't guarantee you the same amount of grain in December, because they are not a "receipt in gold for X amount of grain". Prices are a dynamic way of economic coordination to reflect whatever reality it may come. E.g. if half the silos burn through the year, grain prices will double to reflect that, and that's not inflation. But good luck reclaiming your clay receipt amount of grain.

The problem here is not the gold. The problem is issuing more money than people are demanding. There is nothing wrong with issuing money (e.g. in form of new credit) if people demands credit that they are paying sooner or later. The problem is the government creating new money with zero intention of paying it back, because that fuels inflation.

Deflation is not bad _per se_. We have deflation in computer or mobiles prices since forever: we know we can buy a cheaper computer in the future with the same specs than today, yet we don't hoard money instead of buying computers. We buy them when we really need them. Inflation creates an artificial urge to spend sooner than you want/need, because we know our today money won't buy the same in the future but less. That looks like a good thing on the surface ("the economy moves" they say), but it has a lot of bad consequences: erodes savings, consumption rises above our real needs, investment is more difficult because economic calculations are uncertain.

Historic inflations are well explained here: https://www.amazon.com/Forty-Centuries-Wage-Price-Controls/d..., where the authors collect a large number of inflation events in the last 4,000 years and show how every single government followed the same route: 1) debase the money, 2) expend their newly created money, 3) prices raise, 4) people complain, 5) government blames the merchants and creates laws to control prices and punish price raises 6) inflation persists.
I cannot think of a single common case where grapheme cluster count is important. If you want to print them aligned to a terminal - guess what, double width characters exist, so the only reliable way is to print them first, measure the cursor movement using escape sequences, calculate length and erase the originally printed data.

Even for limiting input field sizes byte count is much better, as otherwise you are opening up yourself for unicode denial of service. I think the game Minecraft has such an exploit where you can fit in absurd amounts of utf-8 data (to the point of data corruption in multiplayer games) since it's limited by visual length.

My personal favorite dealing with UTF-8: pretend it's ascii and assume everything above 128 is an alphabetic character. It just works. For 99% of use cases it doesn't matter if the content is emojis, families of emojis, or ancient sumerian scripts. You can parse JSON and most other formats this way without caring about code points at all. The trend of unicodizing everything was a mistake, just treat strings as bytes and parse them as utf-8 only when you really need it (like when building a text editor or a browser engine from scratch).
Never heard of a serious buffer overflow caused by _constant_ indices. Does it work with AT(arr, i), or only with AT(arr, 10)?
Apparently he was right about money being important:

> Officers said they would submit reports to the county attorney who, documents say, subsequently ordered a deputy to charge the men, which happened on Oct. 4.
>>Americans make up more than half of this drifting population ... the second biggest cohort come from the UK
>>Americans Mindi and Daryl Hirsch...the pair eventually put down roots in Lisbon

UK and UK, two of the strongest passports in the world. It becomes really easy to be a digital nomad when you can simply board a plane and land in most of the world and walk in because you have a powerful passport. Must be so good to not have to prepare for a visa 3 months in advance and submit a whole bunch of documents to have the privilege of visiting most countries.
I like it. On the other hand, for this amount of money (1000€) i can buy a Macbook Air M1 which is somewhat bigger but also much more usable.

So while i lust after such a tiny device, in real life i'm pretty happy with the more practical form factor dictated by the keyboard size.
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I think the problem is really that we need platforms such as reddit on the internet, they are kind of part of its essential infrastructure. But running any infrastructure under the profit maximization scheme will always end up in self destruction. They are making enough money, they can easily go on keeping the API open, but there is no such thing as a sustainable business, they are forced to make more profit than they made more last year.

But I think in truth they can do a lot before really destroying themselves, closing 3rd party apps is going to be barely noticable. In theory we could have some sort of decentralized dApp alternative, but since everyone working on that sort of stuff is a borderline criminal scam artist I don't see anything real will ever come out of this grift.
> “Indeed, in seminal work published in the BMJ in 2003, a systematic search by Smith and Pell for randomized clinical trials evaluating the efficacy of parachutes during gravitational challenge yielded no published studies.1 In part, our study was designed as a response to their call to (broken) arms in order to address this critical knowledge gap.”
Unfortunately I don't think it is.. Hence the post :)
Subsequently:

> Officers said they would submit reports to the county attorney who, documents say, subsequently ordered a deputy to charge the men, which happened on Oct. 4.
I’ve come to the recent conclusion that estimating is not so much hard, but uneconomical.

The amount of time/effort required to create a reliable estimate would probably double the cost of the completed project (ie, even after taking into account the overshoot on the informal estimate). The number of failed projects as a percentage of all projects would fall, but less projects would even start.

We conflate “can’t estimate” with “not willing to do all the work necessary to create an accurate estimate” because we know that it’s easier and more economical to just jump into the code, than it is to do a deep, formal analysis.

What’s really happening is that we are giving up accurate estimates to reduce overall cost.

Unfortunately, businesses only see the overshoot on time (which they incorrectly equate with project cost) and not the actual undershoot on budget relative to a project that has been fully planned.

(Note that I’m not really talking about waterfall. More “plan to build it twice, because you will anyway”)
> Arguably, one's aim early in life should be to find for oneself labor that is so characterized - boutique, internally motivated, and capable of ekeing out a profit.

This is a very modern and American take on work. Through history, work was despised and avoided whenever possible. Under that framework, the goal of the early life would be to find out a line of work which allows you to work as little as possible. Which is basically the goal of the FIRE movement.
Kotaku does not really belong on HN. They didn't even mention teddit or libreddit.
It really has caused a race to the bottom anywhere it becomes the primary business model. Everyone hates it but no one’s got a solve to get people paying for things once they are “free”.
To me it is increasingly critical to separate capitalism from free market. They have gone together for some time, but in the end capitalism aims to crush free market when it benefits the capital.

State is needed to stop too much consolidation from occurring and prevent monopolies where alternatives are sensible.
To the best of my knowledge that hasn't been tried. Among other things, fatal crashes typically occur at speeds over 2x those of car crashes. There's no meaningful ability to emergency brake before a crash, and many small airplanes don't have the weight budget to get the things that help you survive a crash, like crumple zones.

An airbag won't do much if you're still going to be squeezed between the engine and tail of the plane at 180 mph.
And even so, Postgres is closer to the spec than Oracle is. (Based on perusing https://modern-sql.com)
I had a Psion series 5mx and it was amazing. The keyboard was not quite big enough for me to touch type, but it was fast enough to take notes. The apps were extremely well made despite greyscale screen. Where I was, the most popular competitor were Palm devices. The larger screen and integrated keyboard made me feel like a king compared to those around me using Palm devices. I was sad to hear that Psion was pivoting to phone operating systems with Symbian and did not get a chance to try any of their other devices or form factors (Psion series 7, netPad, etc.)

Later I had a Blackberry Curve. It had the best keyboard and form factor for mobile typing I have ever used. The keys were smaller than the virtual ones on onscreen smartphone keyboards, but even today I prefer the physical buttons and cannot type as fast or as accurately as I could on the Curve.

Today I use an Android smartphone with Termux (https://termux.dev/en/) and occasionally bring along an external bluetooth keyboard if I plan to use it for more serious work. If there were a mainstream brand Android smartphone with an integrated physical keyboard, I would buy one immediately. There are a few off-brand smartphones with physical keyboards, but they are not well-maintained (typically running older versions of Android with few or no security updates) and some have questionable build quality and heritage (e.g. might come with factory-installed malware).
Well ... if you think about it the additional spending power was sitting somewhere right? People lost their jobs because other people weren't spending. The people who didn't spend, kept their money. Then the people who laid off workers, kept their money. The government added money to close the spending gap. It's a perfectly reasonable policy, HOWEVER I know that in Australia definitely (and probably in the US) it was very poorly allocated, so people and firms who really shouldn't have had any extra income were granted it and some others who really needed it, didn't get it.

On balance, increased government spending adds net financial assets to the private sector and increased taxation removes it.

So did the government need to just "tax back" the money it spent into the economy? Maybe in some ways, but certainly not from the people it gave it to and maybe not at all. BECAUSE during the time when there was a recession avoided by stimulus, the population also grew so there should have been some economic growth during that time anyway.

As such, probably, what should have happened is that the government should have done things to ensure that the (very few) parts of the economy that benefit wildly from lack of competition and dysfunctional markets (like food, energy and housing) didn't accumulate all of the growth that should have been more evenly spread around.

In Australia, we need the government to build roughly 100,000 public houses per year, and we need to dramatically increase net migration to achieve that; but since we're an economy dominated by religion, mining, finance, real estate and insurance that's unlikely to happen. We actually have a horrible housing crisis in this country because of the dramatic increase in single person households as a result of relationship breakdowns over covid and the tendency away from share housing in young people (who can afford it!), as well as an explosion in dwellings used only as short term rentals.

In the US you probably have many of the same problems. The inflation reduction act did some of the work to improve things but it took a while to get it through because Manchin and Sinema fucked the recovery for everyone (as Bernie said: "give us more democrats").

This is the best discussion on inflation I've seen:

https://www.levyinstitute.org/publications/is-it-time-for-ra...
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> How is it meaningfully different with respect to this question?

Humans can't be owned by corporations for one.
I didn't have a case on my Pixel 6 for almost a year. Now it has a cracked back. And a case. This phone seems engineered to be dropped. When I had an iPhone Mini, I didn't have a case and I never dropped it because the phone is actually ergonomic.
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Pure curiosity.. what evil could come from your work history being public or falling in the "wrong hands" whatever those may be?
This is merely a ownership problem. He took external photos (probably from ukrainian twitter or telegram sources) without attribution, plus external war logs from them. Not necessarily fake news, just unattributed and unchecked news.
I thought the point was that third party sites purposely didn’t want to show ads
Surely this work's result is indicative for commercial air travel. The vast, vast majority of passengers will leave the aeroplane when it is stationary and they will drop far less than half a meter when disembarking, circumstances in which the parachute was ineffective. So that's not the wrong question at all.

The ideal satire ought to bring up what we should do, ridiculing it. For example, the famous "A Modest Proposal" says that we shouldn't consider taxing the wealthy, particularly the people who make most money from Ireland while not even living there. It insists you couldn't even begin to tackle the problem with taxation or other measures, whereas eating babies would solve the problem entirely.
> hard to believe that US military personnel is trained to use "tactical" hand signals

This (closed fist) is not the signal in question. Discussed a bit later in the article is the very common (in western culture) raised palm signal, which apparently means "welcome" to an Iraqi.
That is good enough performance for the last-mile scenario where one has to use emulation to get something working.