skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly what I thought. This is a view of employees as mindless drones whose only function is to make themselves busy. A very toxic management style. The advice that it is ok to be hated dogs the ditch further.

This is also an implicit permission to the employees to lie to the CTO. This is pretty standard narcissistic behavior, where your lies to employees are just doing business, while employees lying to the management is a grave offence that calls for job termination.
Could that not just be explained as nervousness? Not saying he didn't chest, but that's hardly evidence
$1000 per yr in actual op cost. $29000 p/y to pay the contracted company to say it's $30k.

Of course I'm exaggerating. But at the same time gov is not known for being efficient + effective.
While there is certainly no place an airmass is supposed to be, this framing makes it sound like the problem would go away if we just updated our expectations.

Do you think the problem would go away if we updated our expectations?
He may have a different opinion about gov't secrets after this - such as where troops are located, how many and what type of weapons they have.
This comment is completely absurd, emotionally manipulative, and a highly distorted picture of reality.

> Always saddens me

Typical emotional manipulation prevalent on here and other forums - "oh, the humanity!" "wouldn't someone think of the children?"

> under threat of persecution

Absurd hyperbole. The worst that can happen to you for the crime of theft in modern-day America is fines and jail time. No cutting off of hands or execution, like in the past.

> people who take the >2000 year old concept of a library into the digital age

People are taking the ancient concept of a library into the digital age - it just doesn't look like a normal library, because technology changes it. Saying "ok, now this book can be lent out an infinite number of times simultaneously" - that's nothing close to the translation of the concept of a library into the digital age. And this kind of piracy is, uh, more than that.

> Why can't everybody legally share and spread knowledge as they please?

You're perfectly free to do that! With some edge cases like classified information, you are perfectly free to share any knowledge that you wish.

You are not free to share specific literary works as you wish, because those literary works are products of the time and effort of individuals, which you have no right to.

But knowledge itself? Go for it. You want to communicate the fact that the area of a circle grows proportionally to the square of its radius? Nobody is stopping you. (paywalled journal articles are an entirely different issue, but only because most paywalled articles were written using taxpayer funding)
If he can't provide the evidence, he should stay quiet or tell people to stop bothering Niemann until he is able to. I mean, his intuition is obviously very good, but in the end a serious league can't go by the intuition of the best player and secret info.
Which is the point of SIMD. Several moves for the price of one.
> This will 100% require lying or being non-transparent at some point.

Are you ok with employees and reports reciprocating by lying to you as well.
And that's just the hardware drama. The software hate against Nvidia is partially unwarranted too - Nvidia's Wayland issues mostly boil down to GNOME's refusal to embrace EGLStreams, which got whipped up into a narrative that Nvidia was actively working to sabotage the Linux community. The reality is that desktop Linux isn't a market (I say this as an Nvidia/Linux user), and they have no obligation to cater to the <.5% of the desktop community begging for changes. Honestly, they'd get more respect for adding a kernel-mode driver to modern MacOS.

In the end, Nvidia is still a business. Putting any money towards supporting desktop Linux isn't going to have an adverse effect on their overall sales. We're just lucky that they patch in DLSS/ray tracing support to Linux games and software like Blender.
>You're job is to keep telling your reports that everything is on track no matter what everything else is just "rumors".

When you've been lied to enough you stop believing the lies, a leader who can't be relied on to tell the truth unless it's positive might as well not say anything at all or be there in the first place. Having to doubt and read between the lines for each and every message from leadership is a waste of my time and leads directly to me A) no longer caring and B) not trusting my leadership.

This kind of manipulation only works on stupid or inexperienced people.

There is a big difference between putting a hopeful spin and always fighting for the best outcome and straight up saying everything is fine until there's nothing left but ashes.
Another day, another Apple rant about the walled garden.

They know you wont leave, they know you'll put up with it.
I agree that this may be the point. Software changes, and being able to compile with latest libraries is somewhat of a minimum requirement.

To Apple's defense, are they supposed to wait until the app breaks, starts receiving many complaints from customers, before it triggers the review process for them (which they would be forced to look at as somewhat high priority) before they then take action to remove the offending app? That hurts the customer experience from their perspective.

Better for them to institute a policy preemptively addressing these issues (arbitrary as the timeframe may be).

And four hours is a good chunk of time, but what percent of time is it compared to the amount of time for the app to be designed and implemented in the first place?
Why would anyone consider brave to be a good choice of browser?
Wrong. I've stolen things (I'm sure you have too - theft can be really small!) does that mean I should be labeled a thief in perpetuity? Beyond that, does it mean that I should be publicly shamed for it?

Come on. You people need a heart.
To make things fair, both players will be encouraged to wear anal beads
There are two things that must be understood before making any judgement on this case:

1. It is solidly within the realm of possibility that a person who spends all his time devoted to succeeding in tournament chess would be able to devise a cheating method that cannot be easily detected by standard protocols

2. It is impossible to prove a negative, so it is impossible to disprove Magnus' claims

With these things being said, it is both possible that Hans didn't cheat and we'll never know for sure, or that he did cheat and we'll never know how. Given these facts, the most productive analysis would be to find just how unusual Hans' performance, both in the game and prior, really was.

A few things could be determined:

1. How many other high level players have a history of cheating? Have any players who have once cheated in a lower stakes match later been proven to have cheated in a higher stakes one?

2. Based on improvement per game played, how unusually rapid was Hans' development in the past 2 years? Are there other players which have progressed as rapidly as he has despite having progressed slower earlier in their careers?

3. Do all the engine correlation analyses that implicate Hans not fire warning signals when analysis any other game by confirmed non-cheaters? Do they signal cheating in a similar way when analyzing games of proven cheaters?
> I'd leave a company quickly if the CTO started lying about potential problems not being problems

Absolutely. In the case of someone saying a clear problem is not a problem, we have a few cases:

The first, they're lying to me, in that case they're dishonest and I dont want to work there, they're probably just covering it up to make some money and then move on when things fall apart.

The second, they're incompetent and actually don't realize it's a problem, why would I want to work for someone who's bad at their job.

Probably others but I can't think of them
All of those experiences are essentially unlivable without ublock origin.
A bunch of grandmasters have now talked about the psychological aspect of even just wondering if your opponent could possibly by cheating, and second guessing if a bad looking move by your opponent might actually be a brilliant engine line.

It seems that might even be enough for Hans as a 2675 rated player to get an edge against 2800+ player without even actually cheating
Nobody has access to alphazero as far as I know. Regardless, it is an interesting point. The TCEC has a ton of oddball engines, many probably open source, that are virtually unknown but are still far stronger than any human. Could make sense to choose one of those if you don't want to be caught.
Agreed - I really like OCaml. Unfortunately it isn't popular enough to get tons of ecosystem love, so I could never find the libraries I need. I'd be pretty happy if it got more popular. Maybe the new multicore work will help.
Yup, and piracy advocates make no distinction between the two - there's an argument "everyone deserves access to knowledge!" (ignoring the fact that everyone does have access to knowledge, just not specific literary renderings of it) and then they swap out "knowledge" for "any written work". Intellectual dishonesty.
Is a conviction evidence of a future crime? No, it isn't.
"a changing fixed rate" sounds like an oxymoron to my ears.
> This policy is just a way to clear out old, unpopular apps from the store

Except popularity doesn't correlate with utility when it comes to apps. Probably only addictive games and social network apps will pass whatever arbitrary threshold has been set.

This will harm any one off apps built to satisfy a niche purpose downloaded by a small set of users. Which Apple probably think are not important, like all of the little high street shops, except cumulatively they might affect a majority of users. Also if it's measured by "downloads" rather than "installed", then it could take out larger more widely used apps that are considered complete by both authors and users, but don't have enough daily new users to pop up on their radar as important enough... this is similar to the "maintenance" fallacy of NPM, where frequent patches = better, even though if your package is small and well written you should be making no patches as a sign of quality.
> simplicity always wins over complexity

S/he wrote on a hand shaped microprocessor/wireless transmitter connected to a billion servers via 7 layers of network protocol. Ultimately her taps on the micro capacitator infused glas surface resulted in light pulses through cross ocean cables encoding her (encrypted
) words carried to hundreds of people all over the world.
Keep blowing this horn. At the end of the day your manager and theirs all the way up to the CTO will still have no clue about the engineering side and you are going to have to make up the difference. It's the sad world we live in.
One thing about forths is that you can easily change that if you want.

The simplest way to handle this is by patching the old word to jump to the new definition. If it bothers you that that leaves junk around, you can write words that compact the dictionary.

Alternatively, if you have malloc/free, it’s easy to change the dictionary to be a list of pointers to malloced word definitions, and, when defining a word whose name matches that of an already existing word, to update that pointer to point to the new definition, and then cleanup the old definition by freeing its memory. That may fragment your heap, though, and may affect performance.
Fabi also said (during the same interview, I'm sure) that he doesn't think Hans cheated. Your last statement there is really misleading and even dishonest.
Dlang has an `is` operator and IIRC it is also used to test for void although my memory is hazy. Something like `is(X == void)`

https://dlang.org/spec/expression.html#is_expression
Exactly, and it's the climate change.

https://www.ucdavis.edu/climate/definitions/what-is-the-pola...
I haven't found any issues with expression, so far. I wouldn't use it to write a UI, but for writing networking code or automated tasks I find it perfectly suited to the task.

I appreciate it's error handling. It's burdensome, sure, but it presents almost no additional cognitive load when attempting to reason about control flow.

It essentially has no enums. However, it has a comfortable type system that can wrap primitive types, and you can define methods on those wrapped types. It's serviceable, but not elegant.

I have never been a fan of pattern matching outside of functional languages. The phenomenon I notice in languages that do have it, is the majority of uses cases seem to be a pattern match with two outcomes, one a Some() and the other a None(). It really seems like a more annoying way to write if {} else {}.

It has for, but it also has 'range.' It makes up for a lot.

It has nil pointers, which are just a "zero value." It's not uncommon to make it useful and safer in certain contexts. You can request a lookup in a map that is nil. You can ask for the length of a slice that is nil. You get sensible answers still. There are still footguns, but they're all single barrel.. which is _nicer_.

I don't need a perfect language. Good enough with low cognitive load and amazing cross-compile facilities I'll take any day of the week.
That doesn't scale down the skill level. At top level of just about any thing the difference between player is decided by few mistakes (by that I define less than optimal action).

If average player does 100 mistakes per match fixing 4 of them won't matter. But if great player makes 6, fixing even single one can be deciding
> In other words if there was some actual reason to do an update, like a security flaw or serious bug, she wouldn't have been able to readily do so.

(1) There wasn't.

(2) "After 4 hours of work to re-compile my app and 44 hours waiting in the review queue"

The biggest obstacle here isn't the developer, it's Apple.
I'm always completely fascinated by the change in language style between now and then. They're speaking the same English; it's not like a different dialect or anything. But the manner in which words are strung together is completely different and rather poetic sounding to my ears.

These women were, of course, citizens of the 20th century. But I assume they formed many of their speaking habits early in their lives during the 19th century.
Yes, that's the question that I wish she had tried to answer. What are the chances? Without checking for that pattern by other 2600+ GMs, we don't know the answer.
Now I'm imagining a Slugworth scenario where someone developed a cheating tool and offered it to Carlsen and he refused it, but suspects that Slugworth also offered it to Hans ...
> Hans is known to have cheated

Do you have a link to this? Proof that this player has cheated in the past would be the strongest evidence, I believe, he'd do so again.
Leela Zero is similar enough and available that the point stands.
Yeah, the challenge always seems to building privacy technologies that people are actually willing to pay for.

The one trove of public data that folks seem really eager to access in a metadata-private way seems to be blockchain data. As someone who was not really a blockchain person, I've been really pleasantly surprised by how much interest people in that field take in our tech. In the short run, we are definitely focused on this area.

I do think there are significant applications beyond that though: I am really personally excited by metadata-private messaging/email and sensitive datasets (financial data, medicine/health data, cybersecurity data).
I would argue for the same for a CSO (chief security officer).
I get it, but people calling themself Russian opposition today are oblivious to any shades of grey. For them, Lukyanenko is a vatnik (a popular ethno-political slur not unlike "redneck") and nazi, case closed. Same with his comrade SF writer Oleg Divov. There are no shades of grey in political twitter. If Lukyanenko dies tomorrow, it would be a loud celebration for Russian opposition, whatever is left of it - another Putin's rag quacked. Like they celebrated the death of Darya Dugina and posted ironic memes about that.

I could recommend them a Russian (or Ukrainian) writer or two who are likely sharing their world views today, but they just aren't the booky type in general. Why read more books when you get the knowledge of the current thing from Twitter. And the general life framework from Harry Potter. I don't even think you have to read that one to the end. Most of the memes like the magic hat are in the book one.

I would say that the low quality and race to the bottom in Russian opposition is one of the pillars that lets Putin remain in his chair uncontested. And they keep digging. They reproduce by managing to recruit a new generation of even worse youth.
Better yet, spend a long time writing a good quality book, with the expectation of making a modest sum for your efforts, then have people take it without paying you at all.

Substitute "book" for "any creative work" for bonus points.
> What are the chances?

We don't know! That's why this is an incomplete analysis. A comparison against other players of his caliber would answer that question.
This is idiotic. Practically nonsense
I wonder if the methods could be used for acoustic suppression of other things, like fans.

For example the foam used in the below one wouldn't be useful for a kitchen hood fan.

https://www.amazon.com/VIVOSUN-Noise-Reducer-Silencer-Inline...
That if/then is a counterfactual that deserves thought. I'm sure someone in Cupertino is tasked with measuring out the win/loss if MacOS goes full iOS. I wouldn't like that MacOS either, but that isn't relevant to a good decision.

Pro:
1. MS Office is basically completely a web app now. No binary install needed. iOS binaries are already present and optimized.
2. Adobe subscription software is not far behind and iOS versions are present.
3. Antivirus what? in the iOS model.
NB. You can install your own iOS shell (if it connects to something other than localhost).

Con:
1. Apple has a relatively small business selling FCP etc.
2. Apple has a larger business/ecosystem selling App Store shovels/lotto tickets that need dev environments.
3. Apple's high end use is a halo for lower end Mac sales. If restrictions cripple high end use and they lose the halo, then the aspirational crowd goes.
> Google is investing a lot in making websites run better on user computers, while protecting the users from malicious websites. This is a problem if you're trying to sell a browser. And an opportunity if you're trying to make a good website.

Google is also investing a lot into gulping up large chunks of the market too, they're investing heavily into spying on user behavior and collecting as much info as possible. All in the name of improving usability.

Not saying only Google is the culprit here, all big players do it. What I am pointing out is that a lot of these are really hurting the user in the name of making things better for the user.
This. It’s like how some people in here have built amazing intuition about where a bug in a system may be, even if it’s a system they haven’t written or designed themselves
> Also, clever cheating devices have been found in over the board chess competitions

The most convincing candidate for such a device I've seen is an Illuminati Thumper Pro hidden in Hans's shoe: https://illuminati-magic.com/products/thumper. If you watch the footage of him getting scanned before his match with Alireza (and, crucially, before Magnus announced he was dropping), there are a couple of subtle things that are consistent with this theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIulWkTHuu0:

1. He swallows (seemingly nervously) at 4 seconds shortly before his left shoe is scanned.

2. As the left shoe is being scanned, there are 2 beeping noises that at least to me, sound like they are coming from the wand, but are seemingly ignored by the wander. The same beeps do not repeat when his right shoe is scanned (that is, it's not just metal parts built into the shoes themselves). Two caveats to this part: First, I've heard differing opinions on whether the thumper will trigger metal detectors. Second, it's possible (even if unlikely IMO) that those beeps are not from that wand and it's just a coincidence that another wand or object beeped - since we can't see the wand in frame.

3. At 1:17 he starts nervously fidgeting with the credit card as the RF scanner gets close to his left foot and noticeably slows down when the scanner switches from his left foot to the right foot, and appears to stop completely as soon as the scanner is moving up away from his right foot. The RF scanner, to my understanding, would only detect devices that are actively transmitting which the thumper shouldn't need to do at all if Hans were using purely to receive engine moves/hints during the but the fact that it theoretically could transmit would explain why he'd be nervous about getting scanned anyway.

Of course none of these observations are proof but they sure look suspicious to me.
Other platforms don’t care if applications fingerprint the device without the user’s consent.

Closing off APIs that facilitate fingerprinting is just one of many incompatible changes Apple has been making.

Some other reasons are deprecating power hungry technologies and asking for more permissions to access private data.

These are changes that benefit users on a massive scale. Why shouldn’t a developer be expected to respect users needs?
He's trying to own up to his mistakes.
That's a bit too extreme, isn't it? The situation simply might change in one way or another.

A skilled replacement might just appear at some point or the parts of the executive level they're fearing the most might leave. I've never seen a company without any changes in management personell over a decade.
I do remember this thing called SIM-locking
I knew a guy who was a sales executive. He managed to bluff is way into getting hired as CTO, even though he was not technical. Figured he could just bone up on stuff as he went along.

I checked in on him maybe 6-9 months later. CTO no longer mentioned anywhere on his LinkedIn.

A CTO shouldn't necessarily be super technical, but they should understand technology in ways that maybe a regional sales director wouldn't. And don't get me wrong, he was a smart guy in his own way, but just not as smart as he was dead sure that he was.
> They successfully show that Niemann was playing many games with a high percentage of "engine perfect" moves, but they do not do enough to show that this is inconsistent with what top players usually do.

I thought the video very much did make that case. A single known cheating game had a 98% correlation (Sebastien Feller Paris 2010), other GMs have generally at most 75% average correlation. The analysis had more than half a dozen games with Niemann at 100% correlation. If that's cherry picking, it seems like there are a lot of cherries to pick.
Do you think it'd be possible to use your mesh network layer as a generalized network transport? e.g., I have ethernet, wifi, and BLE devices, and the BLE device is able to access the network and/or internet via one of the other two devices?
> Presumably the latter is required so there are simply enough newer reviews to indicate whether it's broken (lots of 1-star) or not. These seem like pretty reasonable indicators that it's still working.

You think App Store ratings and reviews are accurate?

They're incredibly easy to fake and buy. Scam artists are doing it all the time.