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by jibal | 2025-10-08 04:33:42+00:00
I didn't "restate the premise", I said it was wrong, and added information. Since I wasn't present when the FIDE hammered out their rules, I don't know why they decided that upside down rooks can't be used as queens, and any speculation on my part would be no more authoritative than your own imagination.

I tried to be helpful and I got an aggressively hostile response. (And I see that the same happened to others here.) I won't make that mistake again.
by chii | 2025-10-08 04:34:08+00:00
those insiders could be choosing an action that affects the markets, or thru inaction, affect the markets.

The current insider trading rules only prohibit actions, and does not prevent inaction.

As an example, you could imagine that an insider were going to sell their portfolio of company issued shares, but because of insider info they have about a current project that would give rise to a price hike, they may choose to sell _later_ (or not to sell at all). This means the liquidity of the market is now less, and thus, raises the price vs the counterfactual world where said insider _did_ sell. All without revealing any information about the actual insider project.
by andrewflnr | 2025-10-08 04:34:17+00:00
They did get some of them. Functionally, chimps are pretty smart compared to almost anything but a human. Only if you define intelligence specifically as the gap between humans and chimps (or whatever other reference) can you say chimps didn't get any of the pieces. We can ask why humans have more of the pieces, but that's basically the same question as why any species diverges. So, some inscrutable combination of chance, path dependence, etc
by ArcHound | 2025-10-08 04:34:39+00:00
I think this is good advice, I'm adding it to my bag of tricks, thanks.

I have to ask a follow-up - there are cases, where the teams don't see any value in security at all, so they don't want anything that I'm selling. I think I know the answer to this one (namely, you need to build relationships with and convince the leads). But I am still looking for an alternative as the above is hard in all cases and impossible in some.
by cycomachead | 2025-10-08 04:35:06+00:00
I don't think complexity comes just from the number of tools, but the disparate things you "need" them to do. Redis, Vite, large CSS toolkits -- you're learning a bunch of large components.

I mean complexity comes from many places, but compared to the 'Unix philosophy' most of these tools are quite large. Obviously, there's quite a bit to learn about the way a *nix OS works, but if you treat tools as small and composable for simpler interfaces it helps a lot.

The web dev example of pub/sub is funny, because chances are if you're using Rails your primary DB (probably Postgres) already has a pub/sub system in or. Or you can just use any RDBMS for your job management system.
by egeozcan | 2025-10-08 04:35:50+00:00
I actually upvoted this. It's a well-argued comment, but I'm not convinced.

My sticking point is the word "terrorism" itself. Words are defined by how we collectively use and understand them, and the common understanding of terrorism involves bombs and bullets, not software and surveillance.

I get your logic, however. You're breaking down the definition into intimidation for political ends, and you're not wrong that coercive control is a form of violence. But the leap to calling it "terrorism" just doesn't work for me. It feels like you've reverse-engineered a justification for a word that, on its face, is hyperbolic in this context. It's an authoritarian nightmare, for sure, but it isn't terrorism.
by strogonoff | 2025-10-08 04:36:29+00:00
Businesses are naturally going to end up prioritizing the desires of the majority of their customers and for “free”, ad-supported[0] social media that isn’t their userbase.

I’d like to see Bluesky’s long-term business plan and what they will do when someone inevitably wants return on investment.

[0] Yes, this describes all of current social media, but it doesn’t have to be this way. This business model should not be legal: as long as there is one “free” social media platform, that is the platform that is going to be used, simply because even $1 is infinitely more than $0 and no one can compete with free.
by dapperdrake | 2025-10-08 04:37:02+00:00
Also: About every two orders of magnitude, the whole Geometry of the problem changes.

On the order of 100 people is very different from being on the order of 10,000 people.

There seems to have been an article on HN in the last few months that made a similar point related to building bridges of different lengths. About about every two orders of magnitude everything changed. A one inch bridge could be made out of spaghetti. A 2 yard bridge is different, a two mile bridge is different yet again. And a 100 mile bridge has to think about tectonics.
by intothewoods | 2025-10-08 04:38:07+00:00
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by andai | 2025-10-08 04:39:29+00:00
See also: SQLite: 35% Faster Than File System

https://sqlite.org/fasterthanfs.html

I think it might be a lot more than that, on Windows and macOS.

Edit: Yeah, 5x boost on Win10. I wish author had included XP for reference!

Edit 2: Author achieved 14x boost with a certain SQLite mode, over Windows 10.

> The third chart shows that reading blob content out of SQLite can be twice as fast as reading from individual files on disk for Mac and Android, and an amazing ten times faster for Windows.
by aeternum | 2025-10-08 04:39:47+00:00
How many of those attacks were successful? Russia has fairly advanced radar that is quite capable of picking up a plane like that. I think the more likely explanation is that it was incorrectly deemed not a threat or a minor threat.

700 miles is far more than the standard range of the A-20 (210nm). Is it possible they launched it from well within Russia thereby making it much less likely to be considered a threat?
by orwin | 2025-10-08 04:39:54+00:00
Sorry, but that's talk like that that cheapen the meaning of terrorism. Once you expand it to "targeting civilian or civilian infrastructure", already it's cheapened.

I agree with the expansion of meaning, but that mean nazi resistance was terrorism. Ukraine counterstrike on the crimea bridge/russian raffineries is terrorism. I do think it is, but now i do need to qualify terrorism before using the word.

If we expand to all kind of violence, not only physical, well any new policing laws is terrorism. Laws that increase poverty are terrorism, as poverty is an economic violence exerced by the society on its most frail. Taxation is violence too. I will need to add qualifiers each time i use terrorism, and that cheapen the meaning.

[edit] my la setnence cheapened my argument and could start a new side debate that doesn't interest me, i'm removing it.
by qingcharles | 2025-10-08 04:39:58+00:00
I've not bothered since switching from Win 10 LTSC to Win 11. Win 11 is definitely faster and better for everyday use in 2025, IMO.

I start with installing a Tiny11 build: https://ntdotdev.wordpress.com/2024/01/08/the-complete-tiny1...

Massgrave it to pro.

Then I debloat: https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat

And you end up with a super zippy install that I've had zero compatibility problems with over the last year.
by eviks | 2025-10-08 04:40:11+00:00
> laments that Windows 10's days are numbered

What do you think that means for the second person? EOL or Teams? Compare it to Sonoma vs Tahoe.

> Yet just above that is evidence that Windows 10 is already on its way out now.

For a different person for a different reason! which you keep conflating. If it's already out, why would you complain that its days are numbered compared to an OS that "sucks"???

> How will its days be numbered in years if there are problems with ecosystem support for it today?

Again, if you conflate different arguments into one, how are the days numbered instead of 0 if you believe these problems mean you have no days left / can't measure them in years?

> For the record, I...intend to stay on Windows 10 until I'm forced off of it

Exactly, you see, a different person has a different perspective on whether 10 is expired.
by throwaway173738 | 2025-10-08 04:40:39+00:00
I can extrapolate based on my toddler that a modern human dumped in the wild would invent language. He has made several phonemes that aren’t in the language we speak at home. And he’s clever enough that even though he’s never seen us stand on furniture, he still climbs drawers and chairs if there’s something he wants that’s out of reach. I think that tool use and language are borne of some innate drive that’s accelerated by culture.
by TheDong | 2025-10-08 04:41:25+00:00
It's a medical matter. If medical officials broadly agree that having a prosthetic limb gives someone better quality of life than having no limb, then yes, we should disfigure the human body by attaching a prosthetic.

Medical officials fairly broadly agree that gender-affirming care improves the quality of life of patients, and so of course it should be allowed.

It's disgusting to try and use the law to force medical professionals to give sub-par care for no good reason.

> How is it 'disgusting' to try to let someone live as they were born?

I assume you're opposed to cosmetic dental braces for children? Even though just like gender-affirming care, they can lead to better self-perception and better outcomes (but 'disfigure' the child by making their teeth more aligned with stereotypical norms)
by TranquilMarmot | 2025-10-08 04:41:47+00:00
We tried this as a bit of an experiment - not quite greenfield but a fork and modification of an existing project.

I was a solo dev going brrrr with no code review, using Cursor to make pretty sweeping changes and implement full features. I think because it was a fork I was able to go really fast because I could point the coding agent at existing patterns and say, "do this but different".

Occasionally I would test changes in staging but mostly would just promote them straight to production. I went on like that for ~3 months and the product ended up getting ~75k (daily!) users in that time with *no* outages or downtime (!!!)

It worked really well! Until I hit my scaling limit and we added more engineers to the team. A new hire on their second week on the job shipped a change that was also written with AI and caused a 7 hour outage before we realized something was wrong. I even *thoroughly reviewed the code* because I knew it was generated and I made a comment questioning the lines that caused the outage, but after we talked it over we decided it was fine and was only one tiny bit of a much larger change.

So I guess, AI will ship bugs but so will peer-reviewed code.
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by bigbrained124 | 2025-10-08 04:42:21+00:00
The only logical pathway is that some genetic mutation or plant-based hallucination allowed for lack of animalistic fear/true context generation within the brain. Understanding that bear/tiger/snake/etc won’t kill you in certain circumstances, means you can expend exponentially less calories and focus on building tools etc. It allows for rapid growth across the species in many areas.
by userbinator | 2025-10-08 04:43:42+00:00
and their x86 cpu's were of little value within that space

Intel could've attracted the entire retrocomputing community if they realised that the peripherals around x86 and the PC ecosystem were what got them to where they were in the first place, and made Galileo/Edison actually PC-compatible, but they ended up making a SoC with a 486DX+ core and mostly-incompatible peripherals (one would think they should've learned their lesson with the 80186/88...) and somehow convinced Microsoft to make a special version of Windows(!) for it despite a complete lack of any video output capabilities.

"WTF were they thinking!?" is the most concise summary of that fiasco.
by add-sub-mul-div | 2025-10-08 04:44:22+00:00
Another way of looking at it is that it's becoming not ubiquitous, but extinct. In streaming, an ad-skipping device is too customer friendly to be allowed to exist. Everything the tech industry recreates is more user-hostile and privacy-invading than its pre-existing counterpart. Cable didn't innovate unskippable commercials.
by ummonk | 2025-10-08 04:44:44+00:00
Thumb was originally fixed length yes, but Thumb-2 introduced 32-bit encoded instructions to complete the set, so it's now variable length encoded.

Likewise, RISC-V Compressed only provides compressed encodings of a subset of RISC-V instructions, so binaries that make use of RISC-V Compressed will be variable-length encoded, mixing 16-bit and 32-bit encoded instructions.
by acoard | 2025-10-08 04:45:55+00:00
There is none, it's the most respected/widely read conservative publication. Calling Rebel News the Breitbart equivalent is more fair.

CBC is definitely left wing[1], with a bias towards the liberal party (centre-left). Globe and Mail is centrist[0].

https://ground.news/interest/the-globe-and-mail

https://ground.news/interest/cbc-news
by lsy | 2025-10-08 04:46:03+00:00
I'm sure it's nearly an academic distinction, but:

> Basically, for any given region, we find its highest point and assume that there is a perfectly placed sibling peak of the same height that is mutually visible.

Shouldn't you always add 335km to the horizon distance to account for the possibility of Everest (i.e. a taller sibling peak) being on the other side of the horizon?
by bakugo | 2025-10-08 04:46:58+00:00
As I aluded to in my post, how expensive the AI is depends entirely on how complex and optimized is. Remember that the process of encoding and sending packets to a client and receiving/decoding/processing the client's packets in turn is completely skipped for bots.

Fortnite bots are very barebones and are only capable of performing a handful of simple tasks in repetitive ways. It's entirely plausible that the code responsible for governing their actions is fast enough to be less expensive than networking a real player.
by nopassrecover | 2025-10-08 04:48:03+00:00
> The price of something and the value of something were never expected to be the same

While I agree with you (quite firmly: it’s a great starting point to put on the table to challenge orthodoxy in this space), and think you’re agreeing with the parent comment, it is a fundamental tenet of mainstream economics and the political arguments of neoliberal (aka current mainstream) policy that [price == (market averaged) value], or at the very least [price ~= value].

Another interesting line of argument is to explore things that are valuable that don’t typically get a price: for example household labour, or love and friendship (at least directly: I’m sure a Friedman acolyte would reduce all relationships to exchange and reframe gifts and acts of love as investments).

As an aside for the parent comment: thanks for sharing this, it’s one of the top category of comments/quotes I’ve seen on HN in being useful, insightful, and challenging of conventional understanding in a way that improves understanding and future prediction.
by andai | 2025-10-08 04:49:30+00:00
A friend passed on to me the knowledge that the skill of "what were we just talking about" can be improved dramatically with effort. (Indeed even under the influence of certain substances which significantly impair short term memory!)

The secret? "Just try remembering a little harder."

I went from being totally crap at keeping track of conversations, to significantly above average, by just forcing myself to try and remember a little harder, every time I forgot what we were talking about.

(I don't know about other types of memory, but one proved Surprisingly Trainable.)
by alexchantavy | 2025-10-08 04:50:07+00:00
> It makes me want to move into something completely different like sales

Aaand that's startup founder life :)

Intense multitasking, needing to accept a lower engineering quality bar, and ignoring scale problems because you don't know if anyone will actually buy the thing you're building yet.

Engineering something that you know you'll redo in 1 month is very different from engineering something that you intend to last for 5+ years, but it's still a fun challenge picking the right tradeoffs and working under different constraints.
by Nevermark | 2025-10-08 04:50:22+00:00
Information characterizing a company’s value isn’t the same thing as information indicating a company’s value. There can be a lot of analysis and model building in between. And different models can behave very differently, even if their prediction strength is similar.

Information publicly available doesn’t mean anyone can process it all. Every actor is operating off a different subset of information.

Lots of intentionally low information investors (inhabitants of indexed funds) demand stock or supply stock, pushing prices in directions unrelated to value changes, due to index list changes and rebalancing events.

Investors, of all magnitudes of wealth, have unending personal or private idiosyncratic reasons for the timing of many investments or sales, besides individual asset return optimization.

The value of a stock rises and falls as its absolute expected return rises and falls relative to the changing returns of the rest of the entire market of investment vehicles. Everything impacts everything.

All these shifts happen over varying time frames.

Almost all relevant market facts are time varying, often with turbulence and ambiguity.

The fast moving investors most influential in setting prices, must model the whole market’s 2nd order and even 3rd order reactions (by similar actors) due to feedback effects and dynamics.

Sudden market wide changes trigger waves of low analysis buying and selling. Compounded by the higher order risk this creates to leverage, annuity responsibikities, hedging, and many other amplifiers of behavior.

The efficient market hypothesis is an interesting and enlightening thought experiment. A reduced dimension toy/sim market.

Not a credible model.

Not even if every single participant was frantically and relentlessly re-valuing and re-balancing at the margins to a firehose of comprehensive market information.
by maerch | 2025-10-08 04:50:35+00:00
> My experience is it often generates code that is subtlety incorrect. And I'll waste time debugging it.

> […]

> Or it'll help me debug my code and point out things I've missed.

I made both of these statements myself and later wondered why I had never connected them.

In the beginning, I used AI a lot to help me debug my own code, mostly through ChatGPT.

Later, I started using an AI agent that generated code, but it often didn’t work perfectly. I spent a lot of time trying to steer the AI to improve the output. Sometimes it worked, but other times it was just frustrating and felt like a waste of time.

At some point, I combined these two approaches: I cleared the context, told the AI that there was some code that wasn’t working as expected, and asked it to perform a root cause analysis, starting by trying to reproduce the issue. I was very surprised by how much better the agent became at finding and eventually fixing problems when I framed the task from this different perspective.

Now, I have commands in Claude Code for this and other due diligence tasks, and it’s been a long time since I last felt like I was wasting my time.
by ux266478 | 2025-10-08 04:50:41+00:00
I think perhaps it's my fault for how I worded that reply, but to clarify it has scarcely little to do with products at all. They don't matter. I sure hope you still can make your own tools to your hearts desire, but that's not going to fix anything and it never will. I'll emphasize I'm still confused at your first reply, which reads like a non-sequitur to me, and this second reply makes me think we're having wildly different conversations, so I think I'll just leave it at that.
by Rediscover | 2025-10-08 04:51:37+00:00
> ... vocal cord development ...

I've read, from a few separate sources that were not research papers, something similar that claimed the development was a result of existing in semi-aquatic environments such as home on land but swimming for food/safety. I neither agree or disagree (not my field, I don't possess appropriate background/information), but I do think of it when evolution of vocal cords is mentioned.

I don't recall the sources ATM, possibly something out of CoEvolution Quarterly or Bucky Fuller. Again, not research papers.
by simianpirate | 2025-10-08 04:52:30+00:00
I spent a lot of time in the medical imaging space... most of the owners of the businesses never understood that they were in the IT services / solutions space, and not just in the medical imaging space. The reason we did so well, was not just the diagnosis part, was but the IT services space and the platforms that were created by non-radiologists that also tried to learn what radiologists wanted to be more effective.
by vasco | 2025-10-08 04:52:55+00:00
Efficiency I get, self sufficiency I don't get. Self sufficiency is net terrible as impact to the globe. It's obvious that specialization+trade gives us much more efficiency, be it in raw material usage, power usage, you name it, to create whatever product. Even space usage requirements balloon if everyone wants to be self sufficient.

If people want to optimize for self sufficiency they will need to hoard more stuff, they will need to produce and duplicate a lot, use more land and for sure they won't have any good stuff like doctors with a surgery room.
by andai | 2025-10-08 04:53:26+00:00
Tangential but I was thinking recently how odd it is that nothing digital decays.

(Catastrophic loss aside, but that's not the same. It goes from pristine to gone in an instant.)

You open a file from decades ago and it's rendered exactly the same as something from this morning. There's no indication of staleness.

There's no natural pruning or decay. The whole thing begets endless hoarding.

In physical systems there's a natural friction, and it takes time/space/Energy to keep stuff. With digital it's the reverse.

My contacts list is 99% crap, half of it from decades ago.

90% is people I met once (e.g. to buy/sell something), then never again.

I've been wondering if every digital bit of info should have an expiration date. At which point it asks "is this still relevant?" and if not, self destructs.

Or at least renders old stuff as progressively more gross, inviting me to clean / remove it.