skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I'm not interested in chess in general, I'm deeply curious how Carlsen (assuming good intent) could figure out Niemann was cheating.

The ideas I have right now would be:

1. To run each early game phase (up to, let's say 3-5 moves) through multiple AI engines and find selection that is:
- happening constantly in most of the engines
- don't have deviation in multiple rules (i.e. have stable consequence)
- aren't well known (that is, aren't well known plays described in literature)

From that probably I'd have some honeypot sequence that I could try to lure cheater out.

2. Find opponent's openings that are:
- Successful (i.e. usually winning)
- Not recommended by any AI engine whatsoever (so probably could be described as "lucky")
- Used often by opponent

...and try to get him into this exact opening seeing how it'll go.

Beyond discovery I find also immensely interesting how to deal with such knowledge. Exposing method would put it in statistical argument of outcome vs chance and would be super easy to walk around in the future. Proving it would true would be almost impossible as well. In the end the only route would be to push hard (exactly as Carlsen did) with a method defendable enough that if there's push-back it can be exposed to save oneself from disgrace.

I doubt we'll ever see resolution, but I find all of it amazing nonetheless.
I think we get that "goddamn years are going by" feeling with movies especially because they are connected to a specific year yet are disconnected from other memories (unless you brought your crush to one of them maybe)
The history of how Chromium got to such a dominant position is basically a history of Mozilla failing to see the next thing over the horizon.
A bell curve. That's it.

Is Hans Niemann cheating? Ken Regan is cheating people into calling him an expert.
Kind of makes me wonder what would those people say if we played them Bo Burnham's Welcome to The Internet from 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1BneeJTDcU
In general, prevention is the best thing you can do. I am a man, but I am also not an idiot, so I often think of my surroundings.

If I lived in the US, and could legally carry for self defense. I would, not because I think it would be the solution to every situation, but because I am very cautious and like to cover all my bases.

However gun ownership comes with additional responsibilities and if some people see a woman jogging with a gun on her hip, they might just decide that is a quick way to get an untainted gun.
The common factor in mass state murder is militant Facism. There's no right or left, there's a willingness to commit mass-murder and a violent takeover of the state. It's incontrovertible that democide was one of the worst forces of the 20th century, but bizarre and dangerous to associate it with some one-dimensional "left/right" projection of 21st century identity politics.

Pol Pot, Mao, Hitler - these are figureheads that became objects of popular worship. If Monarchies were a thing, they would have been monarchs. If Theocracies were a thing, they would have been theocrats. If corporations were a thing, they would have been admirable profiteers.

Violent self-righteousness is just that.
Really nice! I hadn't considered making the opaque car bodies out of circles too :).
The quality of the output is great! Kudos!

My favorite so far is Morpheus mode, something about moving "into" the glyphs as they fall makes me think of digital city under the rain.

https://rezmason.github.io/matrix/?version=morpheus
> The CEO famously called his users "dumb fucks"[1]

The sourcing for that claim is extremely poor. The Esquire article links to a Business Insider article from 2010, which in turn cites "anonymous sources" on a 2004 IM conversation:

> According to SAI sources, the following exchange is between a 19-year-old Mark Zuckerberg and a friend shortly after Mark launched The Facebook in his dorm room
tl;dr take an actual training class in self-defense. I did and I highly recommend it.

Please don't use nylon "knives" for self defence. A quick google will show you that they're advertised as "perfect for cakes and won't scratch your cookware" which also means they're not going to scratch an attacker either unless you're being attacked by the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.

Mace is better than nothing, but people hopped up on drugs aren't going to be immediately feeling that pain. If they're not on drugs, great! But its sort of like when you've tied a few on and go to Taco Bell, it's not immediately a bad idea. People who aren't feeling the pain still can be incapacitated by mace if you get it in their eyes, but otherwise, you need to use it before they close the distance. Once they're on you, everyone gets affected by Spicy Air, and if they're on drugs, you're probably hurting yourself just as much as you're hurting them.
I'm not a recruiter, but I was interviewing recently and I liked it when postings/recruiters expressed the fact that "Experience in X is a must", "We're language-agnostic but use JS frameworks", etc.

Verbiage like "Backend: Python, Kotlin, Java, Rails", etc was misleading because I couldn't tell what exactly they used in their day to day.
You may also be interested that the Git tip of the master branch of the GNU Hyperbole package has a nicely designed link interface for controlled playback of youtube videos, allowing for easy link creation as well. See the hsys-youtube.el file. This will be part if the next package release as well. For example, it can play just a particular span of a video from a start and end time.
Another thing that would make 1 happen even if they think they're not leaking information over different channels, is the software keyboard. GBoard is google's, and likely has some data collection in one way or another. Similarly, there's a lot of google-related services running with root privileges on stock android phones that could easily snoop on data from various apps. This effect is worsened by other android OEMs, like xiaomi or maybe even samsung, who ship their own invasive services on top.
I will quote you Fabiano Caruana, who said the following on September 22, after my previous comment:

“I would take Regan’s analysis with the large grain of salt, and the reason why is not because I have any insight into his algorithm or his methods, but because I know of a case of, a very high profile case, where with absolute certainty I can say that someone was cheating in an important event. And the person was investigated and was also exonerated based on Regan’s analysis. And I am certain that there was cheating. There is no doubt in my mind that this person was cheating and they got away with it.“

So this is one more example of an academic, who is so far away from reality and practice, that real experts just ignore his opinion.
I'm not sure a lot of these browsers have the resources to fork Chromium and stay "profitable" or whatever their goal is. Microsoft probably could but they gave up on Edge when it was pretty feature complete so I'm guessing that they would really prefer not to maintain a browser by themselves. I'd bet that most of the other Chromium-based browsers would not be capable of financially maintaining a serious fork where some fundamental internal APIs have been changed.
The fix was to remove a feature from the library. That's upstream. That would also break things relying on the feature, so those apps would need to be fixed. That's also upstream. In each case, upstream WILL have to fix it. It's up to the distro whether they want to do anything about it prior to upstream getting it done.
I'm curious why you used Firefox without ublock origin?
Amazing.

I, to this day, use a Digital Rain screensaver for Mac, and live wallpaper for Android ('Source Wall' on Google Play). Very happy to see this specific fandom still alive. Even after that godawful fourth movie.
I had guessed you were going to drop the ‘Nazis were socialist’ line, and there it is! The ‘National Socialist German Worker’s Party’ were about as socialist as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is democratic (that is, not at all…)
If we all had the Memex that Vannevar Bush proposed[1,1*], many of the losses we all discuss in these threads may have been avoided. We now have massive local storage, and should be able to freely share data by hosting our own stuff on our own machines. We could have done what the editor of the magazine implored us to do:

"As Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, Dr. Vannevar Bush has coordinated the activities of some six thousand leading American scientists in the application of science to warfare. In this significant article he holds up an incentive for scientists when the fighting has ceased. He urges that men of science should then turn to the massive task of making more accessible our bewildering store of knowledge. For years inventions have extended man's physical powers rather than the powers of his mind. Trip hammers that multiply the fists, microscopes that sharpen the eye, and engines of destruction and detection are new results, but not the end results, of modern science. Now, says Dr. Bush, instruments are at hand which, if properly developed, will give man access to and command over the inherited knowledge of the ages. The perfection of these pacific instruments should be the first objective of our scientists as they emerge from their war work. Like Emerson's famous address of 1837 on "The American Scholar," this paper by Dr. Bush calls for a new relationship between thinking man and the sum of our knowledge. — THE EDITOR"

We don't have that, and it makes me sad. We should fix this inadequacy, but there are now so many interests in the entrenched model that I think they would squash something that freely allows copying like a bug.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-m...

[1*] https://web.archive.org/web/20220301051333/https://www.theat...

[edits - quoted editor's introduction, revised/extended]
> Its more tax efficient to be paid via your own Ltd company instead of as a PAYE employee, especially when you get into the highest tax bracket, and so the government loses tax revenue.

That's not true. If you pay yourself from your company whether it is dividends or salary, you pay tax as everyone else. Sure if you decide to retain some money in your company, you only pay corporation tax, but as soon as you decide to pay the remainder yourself you will pay personal tax anyway.
That's how any business works!

It's completely pointless to do anything about this. Big consulting corporations do exactly the same thing, but are not being hounded by HMR.
L2 is a fragmented mess. There can only be a handful of solutions that must all be interoperable with each other. Honestly the number of L2 for Ethereum convinced me it is a deadend. Even bridging is a deadend. I have seen 6 wrapped versions of DAI on Solana. The crypto skeptics were right, you can fork cryptocurrency endlessly until it becomes difficult to agree on which chain is the right one.

Honestly either you do everything on L1 Ethereum or you do everything on L1 Solana(or Avalanche or any other scaling blockchain), there is no room for solutions in between.
In CA, which amounts to a good junk of the west coast, over half the forest acres are under the Fed's purview. AIUI that split of jurisdictions is a significant part of the problem.
This shouldn't be a win for genuine contractors but it very obviously is. Since the reforms that are being wound back were introduced there has been a huge chilling effect on the flexible labour market here because a huge proportion of larger clients are highly risk-averse and push all contractors into IR35/umbrella arrangements as a blanket policy.

Of course they aren't supposed to do that and they are supposed to assess each contract individually and there are supposed to be appeals processes if the IR35 status is then determined incorrectly. However we live in the real world and what is "supposed to" happen means very little.

The market for contractors today is a fraction of the size it used to be before the new rules came in. Typical rates in many parts of the market actually fell since the changes when logically several factors should have been pushing them up if the market was functioning properly. No doubt some part of that was getting rid of disguised employees because those people do exist. However the effect has been far too widespread and affected far too many genuinely independent workers and their clients as well.
What do you mean by "integrated indicators"? Don't cars have integrated indicators all over the world?
This is a cool project, but can someone help be understand the "necessity" to do this to connect older PCs with PCMCIA "without the need to maintain an old linksys router"?

Current wireless APs are backwards compatible to 802.11b and in some cases also 802.11a, usually covering every standard between that and whatever the new standard was when they hit the market. For example, this Netgear AP and router in its spec sheet says specifically "- Backwards compatible with 802.11a/b/
g/n/ac WiFi". It's just not on the main feature list that's shortened for marketing. https://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/RAX38/RAX38v2_DS...

So I get the idea of a faster network connection on PCMCIA, up to the point that the 486 can actually use it anyway. I understand the coolness factor and the fun of solving this puzzle. I just don't understand the stated need. It's a lot of work compared to just connecting. The bigger deal for me would be this old laptop and card speaking WEP rather than WPA3.
It's not good of course, and will have health repercussions.

But I remember that sitting around a campfire or in a hut with a fire going all your life is the way people lived for the first million years. And I hope we have some resilience to smoke.
I can't tell you what originated the aesthetic, but it's not Drive because some songs on its soundtrack were already part of the established aesthetic.

It's definitely one of the major works in that world, however.
Yes, it's due to Mozilla failing to keep up.

Possibly Google paying companies to bundle Chrome with their software installers had a part as well.

Perhaps putting a Chrome advertisement to the Google homepage and recommending an "upgrade" to all Google visitors played a part too. Maybe.
Yes, sorry about that. The lane switch planning is incredibly poor!
Can you point to any article where the local government is salivating over wanting to take over Disney? How does it possibly help the surrounding city?

There is a huge movement in the metro Atlanta area to either break off from the larger city or to incorporate county areas so they can have more local control. There is no movement to take over larger responsibilities by the taxpayers.
If only enough people believe, it will be brought to life!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinkerbell_effect
For simple matrix-like effects, I use

<canvas id="matrix" style="display:block; position: fixed; top: 0; left: 0; z-index: -100;"></canvas>
<script type="text/javascript">
var matrix = document.getElementById("matrix");
var matrix_ctx = matrix.getContext("2d");
var mletters = "01"
var font_size = 10;
matrix_ctx.font = font_size + "px arial";
matrix.height = window.innerHeight;
matrix.width = window.innerWidth;
var columns = Math.floor(matrix.width/font_size);
var lines = matrix.height/font_size;
var drops_reinit_threshold = 0.975; // lower value means more frequent reinit and therefore more drops
var drops_y = Array(columns).fill(1);
function draw()
{
matrix_ctx.fillStyle = "rgba(10, 10, 10, 0.04)"
matrix_ctx.fillRect(0, 0, matrix.width, matrix.height);
matrix_ctx.fillStyle = "#050"; // green text
for(var i = 0; i<columns; i++)
{
var letter = mletters[Math.floor(Math.random()*mletters.length)];
if (drops_y[i]*font_size <= matrix.height)
matrix_ctx.fillText(letter, i*font_size, drops_y[i]*font_size);
else if(Math.random() > drops_reinit_threshold)
drops_y[i] = 0;
drops_y[i]++;
}
}
for(var x = 0; x < 2*lines; x++) draw();
setInterval(draw, 35);
</script>
Fly.io makes infrastructure easy for developers
I would agree that Asia is a much better place to go to work on weight loss, but not because of food or sugar. They have the JSA, Roscosmos, and CNSA, whereas Europe only has the ESA.
Consider providing non-free software. This is one of my favorite examples of a non-free license: https://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/jsonevil
I don't like to presume :)
> Customers often ask me, why pour time into updates when what I have runs just fine? The answer is that a bug in your old version might assert itself at the worst possible time and force you to forego sleep for the next five days to recover

Why not do proper testing ? I know it's expensive. And when you have an OS as an init system is even difficult.
It is sad the the UNIX philosophy is dying being replaced with the Windows philosophy.
Trump weakened Ukraine? He was the first president to provide lethal aid to Ukraine after 2014. Obama refused to do that, supplying blankets instead.

Divided NATO? He was a strong voice calling for NATO members to live up to their obligations, particularly Germany. He warned Germany about becoming dependent on Putin for energy. This is not the actions of someone being divisive, but rather the actions of someone who cares enough to say the hard things.

Emboldened Putin? He was the only president to actually deter Putin. George Bush did not deter Putin, and Putin took a chunk of Georgia. Obama did not deter Putin, and Putin took a big chunk of Ukraine.

And when Putin took months to marshal a huge military combined force to attack Ukrain again, what did Biden do? He pulled out all US personnel, and pulled a Chicken Little routine. That, coupled with the catastrophically inept withdrawal from Afghanistan had to have been pretty inviting to Putin. How could he think otherwise?
I still dont understand why one would spend the time to switch to BSD.
Yep, we're the same with steaks and coffee. Buy a terrific cut of meat from the local butcher and cook via reverse searing or sous vide.

My family and I went through the coffee experimentation phase while living in Seattle. Prior to this we simply bought coffee from an assortment of shops or huts, narrowing which local vendors produced the most consistent quality cups. After calculating the costs, relative to the quality though, we swapped to trying various beans from local roasters and home brewing methods--some of which took considerably more time and effort than what's reasonable for a single cup.

Presently, we use a Moccamaster and purchase beans from a small-scale roaster on the West coast, even though we moved to the East coast. We swap bean type based on seasonality and try "new" beans to see if we want to rotate them into our normal lineup. Matches our lifestyle and provides consistency in quality. Maybe we're just becoming old and don't want to risk a bad cup from a vendor as well.

The wife still buys her pumpkin spice latte one-pump with soy milk once a year on the first day of fall.
Ok Moz if browsers are essential why are you complicit in making them even more complex all the time, and push for entire new runtimes such as WASM even? If browsers were commodity items, we'd see more innovation and participation then we do now. The same "gatekeeper" argument brought against OSs in the report also works against browsers which, with the exception of Safari, are produced by an unhealthy browser cartel.
It got its current name 2013. It was a merger 1998 of "Federal Ministry for Housing, Urban Development and Building" and the one responsible for transport. The urban development department was responsible for internet infrastructure not the transport one.
Several of my friends from India who immigrated to some of the bigger cities in the USA (New York, Chicago, LA) have had their first real-life encounters with criminals after being alive for 30+ years.

I last visited NYC in the mid-late 2000s. The second time I visited, I remember RNC convention was in Madison Square Garden, close to where I was staying, and there were a bunch of angry, but comparatively civil Democrats outside. The NYPD was handling things and it was extremely well managed. The last time I visited was around 2010, things weren't too different then either.

Compared to the scenes I see on TV and in videos these days - those days seem another era altogether. I watch the great Louis Rossman ride around on his bike and do livestreams quite often. The overall climate has become far more angry/violent, and the cities - particularly NYC, seem to have deteriorated extensively. Anecdotally, crime in general seems to have become a massive problem in US cities.
> Just because that the messages might be sent end-to-end encrypted from Sue to Joe does not mean Meta cannot read them.

No, that's precisely what End-to-End encryption means.
Is it ironic that I can read the article you posted because it's behind a paywall?
It is hard to over-state the impact that MV3 will have on the current extension landscape!

This move is a blatant attack from Google on power-users, always in the name of "security" and performance.
Previous threads from 2013 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5689971 and 2012 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3877880

If nothing has changed, I dislike that it is not upfront about the paywall that comes after you've spent some time on the very basics; it would be honest to disclose that before people start.
I know a few people who do this. They tend to value consistency and familiarity, I think - not just with coffee but with other areas of their life.

Theyll usually order the same drink every time they go.
Edit: Regan is rated 2372, he was born 1959 and his last tournament was in October 2012.
For most people, this will mean Ublock origin settings. For a smaller number of people, stripped down greybeard-approved browsers
Climate change science is super complicated.

Cigarettes was pretty clear pretty fast, they resorting to hiding the research, it was much more difficult to obfuscate it.
Being on the same network is not even necessary. Meta can still see who talked to whom at what time, and that would be sufficient to correlate the interests of both individuals.
It would have made sense that if 'employee for tax purpose' also meant 'employee for employment law purpose', so that the declaring someone inside IR35 would have significant consequences for the employer as well.
Virtual Threads: New Foundations for High-Scale Java Applications
What confuses me is that at the end of the day the challenge and response need to be sent over HTTP.

Why can’t you copy the response from the real device and “play” (not replay) it from a fake device?
Meta own the proprietary code running at either end of the encrypted pipe. Of course they can.
It's a shame this kind of thing is so hard to prove, otherwise it would be all over the media. People will write it off as 'coincidence'. "Perhaps you looked for or discussed it elsewhere".

What happened with Skype before was that Microsoft would ping any links from their servers, so it was really easy to prove it by generating a new web server, publishing it nowhere and then mentioning it in a chat. This caused some publicity and they stopped the practice. Skype didn't guarantee E2EE at that time though.

But perhaps you could do a similar 'clean room' excerise to prove it. I don't think they would break the E2E by the way but perhaps there is something calling home in the app itself.
It’s about food culture. When there is a long history, it is preserved.

American food culture is essentially industrial. I’m interested why that is, but I assume it’s because the pre-industrial revolution America food culture wasn't that well rooted.

A lot of Europeans drink nasty instant coffee though.