skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are right, the game could just be programmed to stop when one player is mated. The reason they didn't is, I think, to mimic the real life shogi play where the game ends when one player recognizes defeat.
what? campaign contributions are public information.
Why would you "neutralize" an entire embassy of employees, many of which are state department and not even CIA? Cuba, for example.

A far more prosaic explanation is that Russia plays dirty.

Is it that unrealistic to think a nation that sends "little green men" to carve off parts of sovereign nations, is above disruptive methods?
See Steve Perlman's efforts at making a cellular radio system that can focus a 'bubble' of cellular energy around the user.[1] Call 'pCell' or 'pRadio' in various press releases it basically is a MIMO setup that uses many cell towers to transmit a pre-distorted signal that converges into a power signal at a particular point in space. At the time it was announced I suggested it sounds like something that could be weaponized if you wanted to. Being able a turn a microwave on around a person without anyone nearby noticing anything is a pretty capable thing.

[1] https://patents.justia.com/patent/20080130790
Even back then some guy said, "I just can't get this sourdough to come out looking like anything but a frisbee", shelved the hobby, and forgot about it for 4,500 years.
No mention of the upload speed. If it's symmetrical this is not bad. If it's <30 mbps - I guess it's still better than nothing.
You say you’d decline 5m years of life. But have you been in love? How would your answer change if he/she was ready to live 5m years with you?
For the rare but critical manual SQL mod our common safety measure is to wrap every DELETE or UPDATE in BEGIN TRAN...ROLLBACK TRAN first. Run on test systems or snapshots multiple times, checking the result inside the transaction.

Finally, change ROLLBACK to COMMIT only when you are positive all is well.
que the toxic tort "operational exposure" claims. and there goes the CIA's budget.
https://www.cnet.com/news/hulu-ads-vs-no-ads-plan-should-you...

> However, there is one caveat: A few shows will still have ads, even on the ad-free plan, due to licensing issues. Hulu says the list is subject to change, but right now it includes the ABC shows Grey's Anatomy, Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and How to Get Away with Murder. It's also worth mentioning that Hulu with Live TV's ad-free option also shows ads with some on-demand titles.
As someone who suffers from infrequent migraines, I can attest to the fact that they are completely debilitating to me. That seems reason enough. I haven’t had the time to read this particular story but a recent one I did read claimed that this led to the retirement of a CIA officer.
Unless I'm misunderstanding your comment, it seems the old and new icons are just about the same size.
Thanks for the awesome review I appreciate it
That's entirely possible. This has been the case on every device I've owned, but those have mostly been Samsung phones (currently a Galaxy S20), so maybe Samsung is just bad at this.
I don’t think the CIA does diplomacy. It uses the role of a diplomat as a soft-front for getting intel. I highly doubt the CIA/USA is ignoring this matter.
Can confirm, we've been using Sketch since very early days, long before it was popular, and every single designer we have knows it like the back of their hand. We made the switch last year to Figma (just to test), and now it's 100% Figma.

Sketch is a great individual tool, but Figma is a great organizational tool.

For Sketch to write this means they don't plan on competing with Figma, I assume because it would likely put them behind multiple years in R&D.
I do the same thing. I also keep auto commit off and make sure the rows updated looks correct before committing the change.
Replacing battery in iPhone is very easy. It's stupid to replace the entire phone because of battery. iPhone is a good citizen in that regard. You can either do it yourself or ask any repair shop.
Also, if you are part of the target market for a product, it makes sense that you might be demographically targeted as well as mention the product in conversation.
This is a case for the courts. The article is completely one sided, and there’s no way to know whether or not some or much or most of the merchandise was counterfeit.

He does admit to ignoring up to 11 notices that his inventory would be destroyed if left unclaimed. He mentions conflicting dates for the notices but we’ve no way of knowing to make of that.

I don’t know what to say other that I read the piece with some interest and for all know it’s a work of fiction, but heh I clicked.
Isn't keep something that can be paid for by enterprise users? Have they killed off enterprise products like that before?
> rightful owners

When it's the original author or within a reasonable time frame of their publication the concept of rightful owners makes sense.

The idea of an essentially immortal non-living entity or a 5th generation niece/nephew being a rightful owner to a work is not a view I agree with. Society is the background that allows works to be created, at some point control over those expressions is ceded back to society.
Yes, if it is electromagnetic. A form of mosquito-netting that would create a Faraday cage would be similarly effective depending on where the source(s) were.

What is perhaps even more interesting, eddy currents on the boundaries of the cave could be used to indicate that you were being broadcast at.
Perhaps it's not that there's some property of physics that we don't understand, but some aspect of brain biology we don't understand. Perhaps exposure to electromagnetic fields of a certain type could cause progressive damage to the brain somehow. Obviously there's a lot of hysteria around "EM Sensitivity" but there seems to be something going on here and our knowledge of how the human brain works is still quite limited.
Ok great. Brb I'll be calling my congressman for my local pork needs to be amended to the next defense budget bill. While I'm at it i could use some extra barrels for shipping.

Most people do not have this purported easy access to Capitol Hill it is not trivial to get it done under a certa8n amount of fiscal influence. Please qualify your use of the word easy with numbers please, else its just empty words
Selling on Amazon is really hard. Just one fake product claim from a customer can make your seller account blocked. And because customer is always right, seller has to prove product validity.
Agreed. The adjusted icons are better only when compared to the terrible icons Google released. They are all pretty bad though.
I'm not to sure why you would like to associate Gmail very popular and Hang out....
...except unlike those CDs, the moment you unsubscribe, you'll lose access to everything.
Great job everyone!

NixOS is most up to date and top three in number of packages :0

That is amazing! I love the Nix community, so happy to be a part of it.
It is more expensive than Australian NBN connections. But given the problems with the NBN (such as those speeds not being available at all to many people), it will be a game changer if similar prices become available in Australia.
Oddly, I don't see death as something coming for me. Rather, I am heading towards it. No different than heading towards next month, in many ways. Just a time and an event that hasn't happened, yet. From today's point of view.
The merchants must navigate a largely automated,
guilty-until-proven-innocent process in which Amazon
serves as judge and jury. Their emails and calls can go
unanswered, or Amazon's replies are incomprehensible,
making sellers suspect they're at the mercy of
algorithms with little human oversight.

This is something our modern society was and is not ready for. Bureaucracy and the bureaucrats that administered it is a nightmare that society has known about and dealt with for a long time. But this is fully automated bureaucracy. Except instead of having well known rules or human bureaucrats we can confront.. we're now effectively at the mercy of a dice roll in the worst case. And no one can even confirm if the dice are even fair dice. In the best case you get to deal with a robot that can't even understand what you're saying.
Yeah, I'm tempted to say something like: it takes a while in your career before you figure out the enormous difference between companies who do engineering and design and companies who do design and engineering.
Strategic thinking and behavior during a pandemic [pdf]
> There are already open source versions for synthesis and PnR , and while functional they are very far off the 'terrible' EDA tools everyone rags on Xilinx for.

These "tools" have no target so no incentive to improve. To use them you have to basically push their results back into a Cadence/Synopsys/Mentor toolchain anyway, so you might as well stick to the supported toolchain.

> The reality is SystemVerilog is a huge language, and already an open standard yet no open source project supports it fully

Most commercial systems don't support it fully. And its not clear that SystemVerilog is that superior to VHDL. And, for quite a while, SystemVerilog wasn't open and had some fairly obnoxious patents surrounding it. I don't know when/if that has changed as I have been out of semiconductors for about 20 years now.

Icarus Verilog has been slowly supporting features from SystemVerilog but doesn't have a lot of manpower.

In general, the consolidation of the semiconductor industry and EDA has hurt open-source EDA improvements. There's not very much money coming from companies to fund EDA research. EDA startups can't really get venture funding since VC's all want to fund the next pile of viral social trashware. And anyone with good software skills left the semiconductor industry eons ago because the pay differential is ridiculous.
Gchat is terrible at this. It fires off an XHR request and then several seconds later it will change and scroll differently. The end result is that if I click faster than a few seconds and it hasn't loaded yet, what receives my click event will be the new thing that is now suddenly in the place where the old thing was. Then that new thing triggers XHR which takes a few seconds ... I long for simple and responsive, like I had more than 20 years ago with IRC.
Bill Binney is a crank who’s been out of intelligence for 20 years now.. read anything “technical” he’s published recently and you’ll see how out of touch he actually is.
Reminds me of an anecdote about a CTO that pulled the plug on their main production database while giving a tour to investors. He had complete confidence that the solutions they had in place would deal with the problem gracefully.

That's the kind of confidence I'd like to have some day.
People seem to only accept mass hysteria as a thing that happened in the middle ages. Anybody who doesn't believe that contagious fears can cause serious physical symptoms in relatively normal people should look at the endless semi-recent coverage and video of puking, shaking, crying, and fainting fentanyl cops. This was something that was so widespread in the US police (I don't know if it spread worldwide) that the fact that it was just hysteria is so embarrassing to a wide variety of authority figures that it just stopped being covered and was pushed into the memory hole.

The reason the media seized on and perpetuated it (the bizarre rumor that touching something that had been invisibly stained with fentanyl would make you deathly ill) at the time was a combination of the law-and-order right insisting that the drug war was still vitally important, and the liberal left's concern for drug users during the "opiate epidemic" needing more official protection and care lest they be exposed to these Chinese-poisoned drugs. It worked for both sides, so was reported endlessly, and induced people all over the country to somatize.

Now, we have an anti-"Russian" narrative that can be attached to this that makes both the Democratic Party left and warhawks happy. I put Russian in scare quotes, because it's clearly a revival of anticommunism without the communism. Russia, Cuba, China...

Political Morgellons.
I don't have time to explain in detail at the moment, but I recommend reading about the history of set theory and the problems that the introduction of ZFC was meant to solve. I think you'll agree that they were both important and have nothing to do with proof verification.

More generally, it's not clear to me why you necessarily want the language you use to rigorously investigate the foundations of mathematics to be the same one you use to do proof verification. ZFC – and set-theoretic approaches more broadly – facilitate proving things about mathematics (meta-mathematical theorems), and for that they are very useful. E.g., the strength of a theory is equivalent to the size of the cardinals it assumes, loosely speaking [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_cardinal
I was just cursing at my phone the other day for this happening!

It's not necessarily anything new for Google though. I remember for years on YouTube there would be a giant square ad to the right of YouTube videos that would pop in after a few seconds and push the recommended videos all down, so you'd frequently go to click a video and suddenly an ad pops under your cursor and you click that instead
How do sellers track down and get GTINs for this volume of apparel?
I typed it out instead of copy and pasting, it's driving me nuts.
Wireless power transfer is done through magnetic induction, which is well understood. The range on wireless power transfer is very small. If this was a targeted attack, the device would have to be within a short range and be targeted at this specific individual.

And ultimately, what for? This agent appears to have retained their memory but can no longer work in the field. Why would this one field agent be so important to debilitate in this way? What benefit would Russia get from it?

I get the motivation behind killing people (dead men tell no tales), but inflicting migraines just seems useless.
Cunningham's Law[0] in action. :)

0. https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law
Humans evolved to handle heat, we created tools to handle cold.
Anyone taking substantial doses of vitamin D (>2000IU daily) should probably be getting regular blood tests to monitor their vitamin D levels. Vitamin D can accumulate in fat and the liver.
Software engineers are more like creative staff (being a "creative" accountant is a negative!), one discovers value, the other transmutes it into cashflow, the incentive structure for both shouldn't be the same.

See also

https://iism.org/article/why-are-ceos-failing-software-engin...
As a counterpoint to this I hate it when data is treated like code. Need to create a new cost center? Raise a change request. Get an IP addressed added to a list in a firewall? CR. Bureaucracies thrive on this stuff.

Even worse when master data is hardcoded into applications. It still happens especially when a vendor can make an ongoing revenue stream from it.
> What percentage of coders do programming on a turing tape? Is this partial evidence that turing tapes are trash? Does that question even make sense?

ZFC should be more like machine code we actually use than turn tape concept which we don't. The fact that no one uses something higher level that compiles down to ZFC is disheartening.

As the FOM mailing list demonstrates, it's really about goal posts here.

For one camp, the goal posts are such that ZFC or many other things are equally good. ZFC by share age has the "large cardinal" advantage in that people have been grinding away at it longer.

For the other camp, large-cardinal-type research agendas aren't very interesting, and the goal posts are dramatically different.

I still think ZFC is trash, but I will admit my mistake in thinking other share my goal posts.

> The abstractions of category theory are useless in many areas of mathematics. For example, PDEs.

At the moment that is true.

But I think this is more due to the human concerns than the actually Math. Until Statistics overtook it, differential equalization were the most-applied branch of mathematics, which definitely influenced the culture around it. There is also the general algebraist---analyst cultural divergence.

I look forward to the day when the computer tools are so good they are used in those fields too. That should bridge the culture gap, and then we shall see what the math holds.
I appreciate that it's of interest to some people. So is the node figure you denigrated in your original post, though.
I don’t see any accusation that comingling is the cause of the problem. The seller didn’t deny that he sent the items with the quality complaints. The problem, according to Amazon, is the seller has dodgy receipts. Or according to the seller, the problem is Amazon is too hard on alleged counterfeiters.
"Its deeply patronizing to hear gate-keeping developers discuss when is 'no-code' acceptable..."

I think we're mostly emotionally responding to the patronizing implication in these sorts of articles that no-code is the future and what we do is so easy that it's going to be replaced by a pretty GUI and some colored bubbles.

Does anyone deny these tools have some uses? They sure do. But they also manifestly have some serious weaknesses, as discussed in the article, and I'd add others beside. They may get incrementally more useful in the near future, maybe even build a few billion-dollar companies, but the odds of them displacing any conventional code in the near future is basically zero; no matter how successful they may become, the net amount of "yes-code" programming work in the world is still going to go up.

I don't think a factory line worker should get a Real Language... I think it's that credulous journalists or companies with a marketing department ought to stop writing these "oh man, software engineers ought to watch out!" articles and instead focus on the actual capabilities and deliverables... which, frankly, end up obscured, oversold, and outright ignored when you try to pitch them as replacements for conventional software. Any startup in this space, I'd advise against positioning yourself that way... you're in for some angry customers.
I would put the date earlier, around 2007, leading up to the great recession. I'm basing that on the vibe of the city (San Francisco), and how it took a nose dive afterwards, and never recovered.
A company funds the creation of a piece of content, taking the risk that it will be worth enough to recoup both that content and all the rest of their portfolio of titles, most of which are worth approximately nothing. I see the moral claim they have on that, even 100 years later. I do not see what moral claim we have, at all.

Markets don't always work, but here's a place where they've worked exceptionally well. We are in a wonderland of available content. It has never been easier to find something great to watch or listen to. If Disney wants to charge me $100 to watch Steamboat Willie, what do I care? I'll just watch something better, and probably not pay anything for it.
Sure but then you have a targeting problem, which in the radio range is not trivial particularly when you've got intervening objects and no receiver providing feedback about signal strength.
Don’t forget that sellers agree to an arbitration clause, so a legal recourse in court is impossible.
I worked for company that helps sellers with selling on Amazon. I don't know, if the story is true, but it's totally consistent with my experience how Amazon treats sellers.
“ The spokeswoman said Amazon repeatedly asked Govani to provide evidence that the products sold were authentic but that the invoices he sent were either illegible or didn't match the records of the brand owners.”
BRB, gonna design a bullshit bot. It can effectively cut middle management by 60% or more. #profit
Visa’s Planned Purchase of Plaid Faces Antitrust Scrutiny at Justice Department
It’s absolutetly not very easy. I would say it’s very hard, indeed it requires a set of specialized tools.
When teaching the rudiments of programming to children -- like Scratch -- maybe.

In all cases, once again, "no code" doesn't make the programming go away, it just puts a visual skin on it that makes it prettier to look at but more difficult to manage over a system's lifecycle.

In the 1970s, secretaries at MIT used a version of Emacs -- Multics Emacs, which predated GNU Emacs -- to type up documents; and what's more, they automated common tasks with Emacs Lisp. They were only ever told they were customizing the editor, though, not programming it, so they could approach Lisp without fear.

The representation could be anything -- literally anything at all -- and as long as the end user doesn't believe they are doing "programmers' work" they will use it if it makes life less tedious.
>OnlyFans scammed me out of money by making me ‘subscribe’ to a user that I had no intention of subscribing to. Then I asked support to request a refund, only for them to say we don’t offer refunds under any circumstances

This is why PayPal is so popular with consumers. The Internet is full of shady businesses who will abuse your payment information. For all its issues from a business perspective, from a consumer perspective, PayPal's stance of the consumer is always right is a great thing.
Tin foil suits with bell bottom pants and afros + sideburns should be the first aid in such cases. Add some lightning rods headbands to the mix and this ultrasonic weapon is rendered incapable of any harm
> Yes Amazon (which is not based in Silicon Valley) made online shopping better. However, it is fundamentally just another middleman, and will not stand the test of time.

Personally, I think Amazon's legacy will be AWS rather than online shopping. More than anyone else they've turned computing power into a utility. Like electricity this has made whole new types of businesses possible.

Edit: Still reading the article and want to note I don't mean this as a crticism. I'm really enjoying this story.
I have had the issue myself, receiving the wrong article when buying through FBA. And the only option Amazon gives you is to return the article, instead of allowing you to receive the “correct” version of the article instead.
Sketch has had an integrated cloud sharing feature for awhile. You click two buttons in the app, and you have a shareable, comment-able page or prototype.

Figma’s first-mover advantage is significant, though.
And then you'll sign up for the competing service that has for all intents and purposes the same catalog, and get access to everything once again.

If you're, I guess, weird, you can just buy CDs the way we did in 1998. They're all still available! The bands would really like you to buy them! I'm genuinely not sure what the complaint is here. It seems to be that super-cheap, super-convenient music is available in addition to the CDs we were buying instead?
There are a lot of complaints about allegedly fake merchandise on Amazon and people asking for a crackdown. This is what the other side of that story looks like. The old solution of Amazon mostly ignoring the fakes and just compensating people who complain avoids this scenario.
Ask HN: What is the greatest accomplishment of the 21st century so far?
AliPay can be used at the German drug store chain "DM" as well.