skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The interesting thing I learned about this is that the big names in chess all agree that they don't need to be told what move to make. In a recent interview Magnus Carlsen said:

> The people who get caught are those who cheat in a really obvious and stupid manner. The problem was that he [i.e., a player caught in 2016] was not good enough to see what would’ve made sense.

> Had I started cheating in a clever manner, I am convinced no one would notice. I would’ve just needed to cheat one or two times during the match, and I would not even need to be given moves, just the answer on which move was way better. Or, here there is a possibility of winning, and here you need to be more careful. That is all I would need in order to be almost invincible, which does frighten me.

So all you need is a buzz or maybe two - "caution" and "opportunity," "defense" and "offense" or whatever.

The difficult part is getting the game state to the device. In streamed games this can be done with a medium amount of trouble but in non-streamed OTB games you'd need the player or a confederate to be silently inputting moves for the engine to respond to. Not impossible but... difficult. Nevertheless, when the prizes are in the hundreds of thousands, people may try to find a way.
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Sorry, but it's more than a bug. it's blatant manipulation. you even acknowledge it as much just claim it is to fight extremists, but the truth is you neutered the platform in 2016
> It's customers who have shown they prefer those cheaper on the face of it options rather than those with much bigger up-front cost

I question the "much" - I'm sure the price difference isn't as big as those who are spying on us would have us believe (and coincidentally they are also keeping their costs secret).

But more importantly, how can you attribute this to "preference", when the hypothetical price difference is front and center, while the ads and spying are hidden, and there is not an equivalent TV without the ads and spying being sold next to the ad-infested one at an unsubsidized price?
> It really highlights how far tech has come

I remember seeing primitive Flash versions of Half-Life, Quake and Return to Castle Wolfenstein running in a browser ten or so years ago and I thought that was amazing.
We actually just got sensor support in the latest major version of Buttplug, so reading input from pressure sensors, kegelcizers, etc is now a possibility!
I worked for a big company in Louisville and we wrote .NET on Macs and deployed on Linux via Docker.
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Children today cannot even walk around their own neighborhood because they must be chauffeured by car since the urban environment is more and more suburban, and this makes them not even really understand the layout of even their immediate environment[0]. American children in particular are being robbed of a lot of experience with hands-on learning because of the parenting climate today.

[0] https://youtu.be/RrsL2n9q6d0?t=797
Free Internet via Kindle sim totally used to be a thing until they locked it down. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27999534
As you can see from the other replies, you are wrong to not love the locked-down Apple way of doing things from the bottom of your heart. Science has proven that people who are given options are less happy than those who never had options to begin with.

I too am in the wrong group, like you. I was finally talked into becoming an owner of an Apple device for the first time in my life about a year ago (an iPhone), and I have hated its interface with increasing passion every day since. I hate getting rid of electronics before the natural end of their lives, because I'm cheap and I'm environmental and I'm obstinate, but I may actually do it in this case.

But anyway it is all right, everything is all right, the struggle is nearly finished.

That feeling of absolute helplessness when trying to deal with any issue on your Apple device, you must embrace. It is by design. Your helpless feeling will some day be transformed into a warm feeling of being nannied, which will eventually feel maternal, and that will eventually become love.

We will win the victory over ourselves, and we will love Big Brother Apple.
Keep in mind, that's actually the wrong question.

The correct question is: Does Putin think that people who he things might stage a coup might be taking the Nordstream pipeline into account.

We are so many levels deep with this line of thinking, it gets really hard to reason about.

Oh, and it's less about what the the new ruler might offer to Europe, but how the new ruler is planning to get funding.
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My understanding is that it's a regulatory requirement, the Govt wants to know who specifically owns what SIM. If I remember right, this was introduced post 9/11. I may be spectacularly wrong on both fronts, though!
Optus are trying to contact everyone that's been impacted, and it sounds like it's only a small percentage of their total customer base. So at this stage you may be fine.
First, thank you to the poster for posting this - I haven't laughed this hard in a while.

Second - thank you to the person who actually made this. This is incredibly hilarious (just based on the project I'm gonna go ahead an assume they have an account here :) )

Lastly - I know that this is a joke project, but one thing I'm not understanding: how does the system read the current state of the chess board? The, er, Bluetooth/WiFi 'output' of the system is clear enough, but I'm not clear on how the current chess board is input into the system so that Stockfish can actually compute the next move.

(This is a semi-serious question - if you know I'd be curious to find out, but I'm not gonna lose sleep over this and I don't expect anyone else to waste time on it either :) )
Can you find any authoritative sources that claimed 90+% effectiveness? I'm not doubting you at all, but I don't trust my own memory of events and constructive conversations depend on concrete examples. Also, initial claims would have been on short-term evidence (long term didn't exist back then) and was before Delta/Omicron - the initial virus prevention rate may have been way higher.

My ask is for a scientific source that made that claim, not a politician promoting them. I totally agree the messaging was confusing, but public health is really really hard to do and it's not possible to message things perfectly, especially given the general environment in the US with 40% of the country unwilling to accept that a dangerous pandemic needed a response.
> We've taught Big Tech that the only way to 'innovate' is to perform profane moneymaking rituals at the expense of the end user, and the shareholders are always asking for more.

> The evil comes from perverse bureaucratic incentive..

I think you're entirely right. I have nothing else to add, other than that I've always thought this, it's not a new change of opinion.

I guess I don't see any conflict between my comment and yours?

Yes, I know that "Their job isn't 'press the big evil switch on MV3', but rather 'MV3's staging branch is failing tests, go fix it" -- I've worked in software my whole career too. :)

> so it leaves me kinda ruffled to see people blaming the engineers on HN of all places.

I also know that it isn't some nebulous cloud above which is where designs come from, but other employees. I also know, from experience, that if you're a valuable enough engineer within an org or a project, and you significantly oppose a proposed feature or change coming from the suits, it's not gonna happen. What are they gonna do, code it themselves?

> I can imagine some pinstriped upper-management prick at FAANG reading this thread in their penthouse and laughing their ass off.

Agree.
There's other reasons Russia could have done it too. Drive a wedge between Germany and a country that would have a more obvious reason of hating the pipeline like US or Poland, make sure rapid return of relations and trade is harder to dissuade inner circle from toppling Putin or pressuring him to back down, etc.

We still have no idea, no top officials have made any accusations or presented any evidence, and just guessing from motives seems like a crapshoot. What we do know is one country is on an unhinged escalatory path, they're my very tentative guess without knowing exactly why they'd do it.
up front: so much respect for you and your team. we use your platform every day, and it's overall great. I love how transparent your org generally is, and how inclusive of the community they are.

I maintain the digitalocean synapse marketplace image, and developed nekobot - a matrix chat bot - so when I speak, I really am coming from a place of love, respect, and genuine concern.

> Unsure which of Element’s investors you think would be pushing Matrix towards virtual worlds

protocol labs in particular is heavy on web3, and I think that the development of a metaverse centric system could be pandering to their enthusiasm. even subconsciously, using that project as a lever to say "look at what we have done for web3!" seems compelling from my point of view.

> selfserve moderation is coming soon, as are custom emoji

that's fantastic news, I can't wait to see it.

sometimes it's hard to resist cynicism when I see you folks engaging in tons of (what I perceive as) side projects and duplicated effort, while dealing with UX and operational issues that have been open for years.

thanks so much for responding, again :3
It's a bit ironic bringing a 7 hours of RTX 3090 run as a cost saving given that it's like 3KWh of electricity, which costs more than DALL-E's already outrageous prices.
Ok, so, sort of NSFW links ahead, but there's actually an open source project that does this.

The Nogasm is a pleasure denial project that uses pelvic floor contraction frequency, as sensed by pressure output in an air filled cavity, to prolong play.

https://github.com/nogasm/nogasm

There's even a upscale ESP32 based version of it called the Edge-O-Matic, complete with its own Flappy Bird implementation.

https://maustec.io/pages/edge-o-matic

Output from either of these devices could be used for that, though discerning between voluntary versus involuntary muscle contraction would be challenging.
Regwall / Dark patterns: <https://nitter.net/IDoTheThinking/status/1575192321301176321>
Hunting Hugo (1989)
In the proposed cheating scheme, you have an accomplice who reads the moves of the game as they're broadcast over the internet and then transmits the next move to you.
<https://yewtu.be/watch?v=AHkmEnl55jo>
lol, too late. Sorry Closed AI, no one cares.

Stable Diffusion and its tools are evolving like nothing I have seen before. It's been ages since its been this exciting in new tech.
I believe the idea is an audience accomplice enters the board moves for you.
I'm not going to take it as far as the author, but I will say that philosophy does seem to be particularly unique in organizing its entire subject matter essentially historically by thinker and around original texts, as opposed to the kind of modern taxonomy and conceptual vocabulary employed not just in other sciences, but even social sciences.

Philosophers throw around author-turned-into-adjective terms like Kantian, Hegelian, Aristotelian, Humean, Hobbesian, Benthamite, and so forth as frustratingly vague substitutions for the actual ideas meant. (Kant wrote a lot, which part are you referring to?) Intro biology and political science textbooks are all organized similarly with more or less the same content, while different intro philosophy textbooks often seem like they're covering different fields. (E.g. one author believes the main questions in philosophy are metaphysics and logic, while another gives most space to ethics and religion.) Why? Because there is no widely agreed-upon of what the really important issues in philosophy even are. (Just look at continental vs. analytic philosophy.) So in the absence of any kind of consensus organization/taxonomy and terminology to go with that, it all just reverts to... original texts and author surnames. It's organized by history.

(And even when modern thinkers try to come up with conceptual-sounding names, it turns into a confusing mess. Try to remember which one is "contractualism" and which one is "contractarianism". Or is there a difference between "morals" and "ethics"? Or why do some writers call it "utilitarianism" while others call it "consequentialism"? When you say "resentment", which author's usage of "ressentiment" are you actually referring to? I usually know the answers to these questions, but they sure are confusing when you're learning it as an undergrad. It's actually clearer if you say "Hobbesian" rather than "contractarian", or "Nietszchean" so I can understand which type of "resentment".)

Learning the history of philosophy is helpful... but it does seem somewhat strange that while you can learn math or biology without needing to learn the history or ever read a single "original historical text"... you can't learn philosophy without learning its history. And so that certainly leads to the question... should you be able to? Would that improve the study of philosophy?
Sooooooooo someone is actually implementing a Buttplug client in pure elisp.

I have a feeling that's gonna get posted here once it's done.
I think another upshot is that it ends up making all consumer products "lowest common denominator" consumer products. It's a vicious cycle:

Step 1: Company has a great product. Walmart begins stocking it nationwide, perhaps promoting it to increase their marketshare. That product's revenues explode, they expand, everything seems great.

Step 2 to N: Then Walmart threatens to pull from shelves unless they can meet the cost of $substituteGood. The company cuts costs to make it work. Rinse and repeat.

Step N+1: The product is no longer great.

This is exactly what has happened with Rubbermaid and with countless other consumer goods.
If the player was male, could the prostate gland be leveraged somehow? Personally, I think it'd be easier to make one's prostate twitch or "pulse" than to consciously control the pressure of their anal sphincter in a high-stress situation.
I think the original Half-Life used stencil shadows - I guess that was the most advanced option available in 1998? Counter-Strike on the other hand rendered a grey circle sprite under players (looked okay enough - approximated the vague shadow you get when under multiple light sources).
Suggestion: "Things Falling Apart" (after https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Things_Fall_Apart)
'Tis a thing of beauty!
They've used multibeam sonars among other types of sonars, without success.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOjVq5szAoU

The range of sonars is quite limited and the ocean is huge. There's really no point in searching unless you have a good starting point.
Modern audiences hate the idea of any kind of moral ambiguity in their heroes, and they would need to rewrite his backstory to no longer include deflowering maidens on their wedding night. So we'd have to rewrite his first encounter with Enkidu, too. Maybe Gilgamesh will save him from drowning, and make some painfully obvious foreshadowing comment in the process ("Gee, I sure hope I never get that close to the ocean floor again!")

While we're at it, we'd probably need to rewrite Enkidu's story, too, because the idea of a Sacred Prostitute sanitizing a wildman through several days and nights of continuous sex is sure to rile some puritan feathers.
Hang out in reddit.com/r/stablediffusion, people have posted workflows quite a bit.
Active Worlds! Wow!

I spent some time there like 20 years ago, thanks for the memories!
Trees bulking up and growing faster on excess CO2 in atmosphere, study suggests
Time to play chess in a Faraday Cage.
Cool. Thanks for the info!
Yeah but the point is how are you going to just look at disassembly and know there’s a Trojan?
Something well made, the function and form of which has proven the test of time. Buy your kid a baseball, not an apple watch.
In another time and space, we used to say, style trumps fashion.
Perhaps it crashed outside of the environment.
Can this be applied to Go moves too? Because when you gotta go, you gotta go.
There was a Black Mirror episode that almost went this far.
This must be high up there among peak HN moments.
Hi, those caches are available in parallel?

CircleCI's remote docker have a restriction that only one of jobs can access same remote docker enginge at a time. Say, a job A build an image, then job B, C try to use same remote docker, but only one of them have the cache.

Google Cloud Build have no cache at all.

I don't know about GitHub Actions.
Which I should really go add Buttfish too like, right now >.>
To play sounds from TV?
Stable Diffusion took its entire lunch, complete with plate.

No one is even talking about DALL-E anymore.
My email's in my profile :)
Did you read the article? Your link seems unrelated.
Lawyers likely make a large part of the organization too. At least compared to other similar size companies.
This might be a case of where a less efficient format provides greater end-user satisfaction
I found out about this because the author showed up to the buttplug.io discord server asking for testing help.
The flag is long gone, as Google removed it a few release after. I apologize if I didn't make it clear.
Nope, that's a language level feature. Your code will also fail at runtime. The IDE is just turning it on.
> It would be good to know more details of the hack itself.

Not much but there's this article from the ABC (Australian Public Service broadcaster) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-23/optus-rejects-claim-h...

QUOTE STARTS

"[They] wanted to make integrating systems easier, to satisfy two-factor authentication regulations from the industry watchdog, the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA)."

The process allegedly involved opening up the Optus customer identity database to other systems via what's known as an Application Programming Interface, with the assumption that the API would only be used by authorised company systems.

QUOTE ENDS

Also this one https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/23/cyberattack_optus/ although it's six days old.

This is a summary of the statements made by Optus https://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/optus_sept_2022_breach .

There's been some chatter on Twitter that at some point an Optus flack characterised the attack as "sophisticated" because the attackers "used Postman" so that's obviously caused a few laughs https://twitter.com/search?q=optus+postman+until%3A2022-10-0... .
aaaaand the cost will go back to the Optus customers.
You shouldn't keep your wages secret. Your boss wants you to, because they don't want you to find out you're being underpaid.
I hope the library has a flanged base.
Even better with Stable Diffusion at least you could run it locally.

Running software locally and using our desktop or portable supercomputers for something other than web browsing. What a novel concept. But how is this possible without cloud?
It's interesting how many people in the comments are against more transparency. It's almost like they have something to lose from this bill.
It's likely they still have to deal with law suits, at least until the judge rules on the fine print.

It wouldn't surprise me if they have legal/expert support for certain cases. The last thing you want is some dumb client losing a case that creates precedent which ruins your business model.
Decent overview. I learned a lot about this by reading "Venture Deals" by Brad Feld, which covered other things about preferred shares and how cap tables work, that helped me understand how to think about my stock options (e.g. just because I have X% of options doesn't mean that a sale of the company at $10M would mean I get X% of that -- as I naively thought many many years ago -- but it depends on the preferred shareholders and so on).

It's very complicated and the potential tax implications can be a little daunting and leave folks in the negative if not properly understood!
and they say Murphy was a pessimist!
There's no point in being paranoid about "privacy". Where's the perfect privacy? I have been with Fastmail for over 14 years now, and I didn't feel the need to abandon them for other "privacy toting email service providers like Proton and Tutanota". I welcome the Australian government to check my filter rules on how to manage inbox zero and an excellent spam filter. While they are at it, I would welcome if they have a tutorial on sieve filter rules. I'd be delighted if their technocrat helps me with managing my MX records a pain-free experience.
Ohio, Kentucky's neighbor to the north, also has a rich archaeological record. The Ohio Archaeological Society's journal is archived here: https://kb.osu.edu/handle/1811/55832 Fascinating read for anyone interested in this topic.
Portal Rendering style engines were invented in the early 90s. I think several people had roughly the same idea at the same time in academia, as well as industry.

Descent was based on a portal and cell renderer that used a unit cube with limited orientations as the cell. This let them simplify and pre tabulate some of the rendering math.

The PVS precalculation done for quake levels is effectively a portal renderer.

Unreal's software renderer needed portal rendering to limit overdraw, so the engine was based around it.
I think I remember an old game CD having screenshots of Prey from the 1990s - in .pcx format no less!
Seems like it would be pretty easy. Send a "dot" for three contractions each one second apart. Send a "dash" for three contractions each three seconds apart. It would be pretty slow, but it doesn't need to be fast.
It seems not too crazy to have a morse code format to input moves too, right? Knight C3 is just a few squeezes.
Rent vs. Buy
Actually even firefox is switching to V3 and deprecating V2, they are keeping request blocking (main problem with v3) but why are they just following google?
Mmmmm…. You’re very literal here.

It’s clear I mean fail more quickly and easily. Of course everything eventually ends.
As the owner of a PinePhone with the battery+keyboard...it's hot garbage at most of those.

Pass. I'll take a laptop.
They already know that major breaches of trust with Germany etc. have no effect. Why care now?
I've just spent the last 10 minutes going down the rabbit hole of various butt plug projects,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyMZBOQtmic

Who knew there would be a thriving community of butt plug hackers lmao.
I think they believed no one else could come out with something like what they had, plus some vanity/arrogance maybe.

Like back then when they held their GPT model from the public because "it could destroy the world" or some similarly deranged argument.

>the level of expertise in OpenAI's executive team would make them unlikely candidates to lose out strategically

Sure, to be honest they're making mistakes that even complete marketing noobs know to avoid. Anyway, it's nice to see others are eating their lunch and sharing it with us.
Every regulation can have good and bad consequences. I think what matters is that a government can measure the impact of a law, and react quickly if it does not have the intended consequences.