skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The match between alpha zero and stockfish was a PR stunt specifically because the match was partially fixed; Stockfish was run with unoptimal settings without an opening book.

AlphaGo and AlphaZero Go were a significant achievement. AlphaZero was just applying the same training process to western chess with a huge amount of compute, running it against stockfish on a handful CPUs with suspicious settings and making a big fuzz about the result.

There are good reasons to believe that the searching method and size of neural net employed in AlphaZero, while very strong for go, is just overkill for a game like chess, and that the conventional techniques are just a far better fit. The best reason is the almost total dominance of Stockfish since the PR stunt. Another is that chess is in a different complexity class than go, so it's only reasonable to expect that different algorithms will be superior in chess versus go.
A big one is mobile (and laptop roaming) support. IRC alternative is to either run a bouncer (excludes casual users) or to pay for something like IRCCloud.
Suppressing China won't make America great, but it will make America safer. From intellectual property theft, espionage, Human rights abuses against Chinese, American citizens, De-escalation of tension and threat in Asia, reduction in funding for despotic regimes, China is the single greatest threat to world peace.
Wiki entry. Interesting. We write Google Docs for everything. Never thought of using wiki for researchy/planning stuff. Wiki is for "We've thought about this, and this is everything we know"

Docs are for "This is what I'm planning. Here are our options. Add your comments to the sidebar". Once you've ironed out the kinks and implemented it and wait a few years for it to start slipping from your collective minds then you cobble together the remnants into a wiki.
In my experience old HDD floppies work quite fine really. But the ones made after 2000 failed en masse.
While some forums do lock information behind registration-barriers, it's rare, whereas every discord is locked behind a email+cell phone barrier. It's far, far worse for anyone who doesn't want to be part of your community or install an app just to be able to read the docs or download a patch or ask a question.
Thank you. I was using the mermaid live editor and did not find it compatible with timeline. Which is why I inquired the status.
What is DAWS
Sometimes I can't ask a question to a open source project because they decided to move everything to discord and lock it behind a account verification that needs a phone number I am not willing to put there (or rather don't have)

I literally use less promising products sometimes just because they not yet moved everything to discord
How do you know I'm not an AI?

"The good thing about the internet is that no one knows you're an AI!"
When I first read this headline, I assumed it must be referring to a long lost specification called “Standard-Definition Multimedia Interface” that pre-dated HDMI.
Completely agree. It's incredible that Atlassian haven't fixed it yet, since they will eventually be replaced if they don't. Makes me wonder what it will take for Atlassian to eventually be replaced, since the users affected by it are typically not the purchasers.
If the data ended up on someone else's system you need to assume they can store it. Pretty much every IRC client ever has the option to save logs, everything from channels to private messages. Assuming someone can't save conversations is not wise.
This was a big fad from around, and then rapidly died, as most users simply didn't care. Instead we got attempts at e.g. OpenID and similar, which rapidly converged on a handful of large identity providers who ended up dominating.

A large problem to encourage and retain a truly decentralised nature is usability. It must be as simple as allowing a site to authenticate you with Google or Facebook, as most users don't care enough to be willing to do more than that, including finding somewhere they trust to register something new.
> A piracy study that the EU commissioned in 2013 has been kept hidden for years, likely because it did not find statistical proven evidence that piracy impacts legitimate purchases.

Not "likely". "Because".
The way in which many young people engage with climate change is more religion than not. To be sure there is scientific consensus of our impact on the climate and over time we need to continue to transition to less polluting industries, but there's a vibe that is very much similar to church nuts.
Nice, but ... it's missing the only important button "Expand all" or is Expand by default broken in my Firefox?

"TypeError: event is undefined inject.js:371:9"
Back in the day I also used Miranda, a lightweight multiplatform messenger for Windows which I liked a lot. And later, Pidgin on Linux.

The status messages on ICQ and MSN were neat and anticipated Twitter for me.

What made it difficult for me was the added features of certain platforms. ICQ had little games and fancy emojis, and if somebody sent them to you you would miss it. I was really afraid to miss important social interactions :-). Also these apps didn't make the move to mobile, unfortunately.
Tree-sitter is going to be a lot slower to load: https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/issues/1942.

It's ok for things like editor but using it in a SSG for example is hard when just loading the syntaxes will take multiple times the time it takes to render the whole thing with a regex based highlighter.
> but old floppies from the 80s and early 90s are nearly indestructible

Not in my experience. Mine all failed.
I set the delay timer so it starts when I'm asleep and finished just as I wake.
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> There are modalities in communication where deletion is a feature and modalities where it isn't.

Fair. I think a good argument against my current position is the one made by the Black Mirror episode "The Entire History of You"[0]. In fact, I see at least two different strong points made by that episode:

- Everyone having an easily-accessible, high-fidelity, shareable record of the mundane things they saw, heard or said, stretching back years or decades, is something we might not handle well on an interpersonal level. Our cultures, habits and rules of behavior - hell, even default emotional programming - are all built on an implicit assumption that memories are ephemeral, internal, and not indexable. So e.g. any "he said, she said" argument suddenly becomes something else entirely, when either side can pull up a recording of what happened.

- Having such recordings creates a risk of someone wanting to force you to reveal them.

Thinking about that, I concede that having some conversations be ephemeral may be desirable, at least for as long as humans remain so immature that past behavior can be used as a weapon in future arguments.

EDIT to respond to your edits:

> "I'm not vibing with person A well rn, I don't like that they like <trivial thing a> and <trivial thing b>", which is relatively low-stakes, but essential to friendship.

Could you elaborate? I can't see how the ability to unsend messages would be helpful here. If anything, it feel like showing person A the door or giving them a slap in the face - a clear signal the relationship just dropped a few notches.

This reminds me of a case when I realized a certain person unfriended me on Facebook. I wasn't very close personally to that person, but we've spent years building a real-life community together, and we were (or I thought) at the very least good colleagues. I casually mentioned the Facebook thing to that person the next time I bumped into them, and they explained it away as "you know, I'm curating my Facebook friend list, every now and then I unfriend people I haven't talked to in a while; it's nothing personal". Well, it felt quite personal to me, and that explanation made me want to keep the relationship going even less.

> friend (call them A) realized that some new people joined a Discord server that used to be close friends, and so A deleted their selfie pics

Hm. That's a slightly different case though. The problem here is that the selfies weren't sent to people who joined afterwards; them having access to it is a decision made automatically by Discord. If the server was considered closer to a private conversation space, and not a public gallery, then I find it perfectly reasonable that person A wanted to remove those messages - they were trying to retroactively exercise control over who gets the message, something they should've been able to do before the fact.

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[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Entire_History_of_You
The writing was on the wall since a long time ago.
> In theory, with an eSIM it's even easier to swap in your old SIM because you don't have to deal with the physical SIM card. Especially so if you don't have the physical SIM because it's lost or whatever. In my experience it's super frustrating to have to wait for a new SIM to arrive in the mail because you lost it or the old one is faulty!

"Even easier" until eSIMs become commonplace or the default, and then manufacturers and OS vendors start locking things down. I'm guessing there are few, if any, regulations around eSIMs.

> eSIMs are a massive win when travelling, too. Instantly activate a data plan at cheap local rates in whatever country your travelling to, without having to first get your hands on a physical SIM...

Not without a data connection, you can't. Meanwhile in most of the world you can walk into any bodega and walk out a minute or two later with a SIM that pops into your phone. Hell, in damn near any country you can have a SIM in your phone before you've left the airport.

The push for eSIMs has little to do with "reducing parts counts" or thinner devices, and everything to do with carriers wanting more control over their customers now that they have to unlock people's phones, by law. Right now I can pop a SIM out of a damaged phone, pop it into a new phone. Or buy a temporary plan and swap SIMs when traveling, just by going into any corner market. Even in the US, you can get a SIM damn near anywhere. Supermarkets, convenience stores, bodegas, electronics stores, cell phone shops.

Mark my words, we'll start seeing eSIM transfer fees, locks, policies - all designed to keep people from participating in a free market for cell phone services. Probably mandatory app installation, too - and of course the apps will demand a ton of permissions for things like "fraud prevention", when really they just want to snarf even more of your data.
>I'm sure you are sarcastic here, because ...

Actually I was mostly surprised by the parent comment, I thought that even in the subset of just dishwashers they had at least three different sets of controls/menus/settings.

>I'm sorry but I'm 110% behind the OC, no Bosch decision maker EVER used those appliances.

Well, I would extend that to most other manufacturers, I believe each one needs to show "something new" at the annual fair, and since - after all - there is not much to invent anymore in a dishwasher or a microwave, they add (senseless) features in the UI that only - say - 1% of users will ever use, inconveniencing the 99% of them.
And yet they still support SMS. Coinbase CHOOSE to use that security mechanism because it is quick and easy for them to onboard new business. They could, quite easily, restrict access to other mechanisms.

Instead Coinbase have decided that it is a sufficiently secure form of identification by which they will assume authorization for payment initiation.

If this users SMS was hacked, then the user didnt authorise payment, and coinbase incorrectly assumed that it was based on their own lax security requirements.

If this was regulated in the same way as a Bank, an EMI or a PISP then Coinbase would definitely be at fault here. I hope the legal system sees it in the same way and this guys assets are returned.
That's clearly survivorship bias.

What you want to know is the probability of a small, independent, high quality provider remaining independent, high quality and not bankrupt.

It does seem to be rare in the tech space, especially in the US. Becoming one of the largest public corporations on earth is one way to do it, as you suggested, but the odds of that happening are miniscule.
Are they actually achieving anything for YouTube?

I'm not too bothered by Shorts, but I feel as though I'm much less likely to engage deeply with Shorts. Also, if they become a major part of the platform I'm much less likely to ever be able to justify upgrading to YouTube Premium.
AmpereAltra 32 core arm64 watercooled PC $2,800, Nvidia GPUs optional
On the topic of trusting surprising observations, I remember a quiz at school where almost everyone had the same failure mode.

First question: "read all the questions before answering"

Questions 2-99: Trivial but interestingly bizarre questions, like "draw a triangle with blue ink"

Question 100: "Now you have read all the questions, answer only questions 1 and 2"

I was very tempted to make the mistake everyone else made, and quite smug when I finished, sitting and watching as everyone else asked for ink and later on ink erasers.
Check this out: https://nina.chat/
Nina/Escargot are working to bring back Aim, AOL, ICQ, Yahoo Messenger and MSN messenger via a new opensource cross-chatting unified system.
With the home router+wifi market estimated to be USD 2070.43 million in 2022, I wouldn't say it's a tiny percentage of people, just people you know.
To be fair, I'm a human (I think) and I would also tell you off about hate speech if you asked me for a regex.
I think a Microsoft shill might choose a less suggestive name
It's great if they make it easy but it also gives them lots of control to make things difficult if they want to. With physical SIMs they don't have this option short of blacklisting unknown IMEIs which would cause them a huge support burden.

I like the idea of eSIM but this quick transfer should be mandatory, not an option.
Totally this. When a project decides to go down this route I start questioning their whole decision making and feel alienated as you say.

I can't even tell how often I stopped looking into something because it was too discord based.
this thread is hilarious as hell, best of luck op
Astrophysicists are extremely motivated to find alternatives to dark matter.

The "problem" is that the evidence for the existence of dark matter, what fraction of the universe it makes up, where it is, and some of its general properties (e.g., temperature) come from many different directions, and they point to the same conclusions.

Dark matter is a relatively simple postulate that explains a large number of disparate observations, from the relative abundances of different atomic elements to the amount of gravitational lensing in distant galaxy clusters.

It's not that astrophysicists are straining to make everything fit into the dark matter paradigm. It's that everything seems to fit into the paradigm very naturally. That's what overcomes the queasiness over dark matter having never been directly observed in a lab.
In case you weren't aware:

> The first mechanical dishwashing device was registered for a patent in 1850 in the United States by Joel Houghton

> The device was both slow and unreliable.

> Another patent was granted to L.A. Alexander in 1865

> Neither device was practical or widely accepted.

And finally

> The most successful of the hand-powered dishwashers was invented in 1886 by Josephine Cochrane together with mechanic George Butters

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dishwasher#History)

So yeah, all three invented the dishwasher it seems, but thanks to Josephine Cochrane (and Butters), we actually have a working and reliable dishwasher, something Joel Houghton was unable to build.

You're all right, in your own way.
You don't generally "take" lion's mane mushrooms, you just eat them. As they are tasty, and won't give you any trips, neither to the emergency room or to nirvana.

Edit: apparently this is a thing now, and this culinary treat is also a nootropic fad.
> That style has became ubiquitous for TED-style talks and most American non-fiction books (even technical ones).

Yes, you nailed it. This trend of books built upon a single idea backed by tons of anecdotal references is like intellectual junk food.
Well, I am sure you can come up with some definition of AGI that already fits the kind of models we have now. But let's stick to a definition that resembles what most people would agree upon about what AGI is, as vague a definition as this might be.

And "nothing is keeping this from becoming" is quite a confident prediction of the future, which you said nobody could make. Well, maybe not, but how can you be so sure? There might be fundamental issues with current ML that you just can't scale away.

Remember mechanical computers? They were improved upon for decades, but there was no chance at all they would ever reach the completeness and computing power of modern electronic computers. A new paradigm was needed for that, transistors had to be invented.

The same might apply to current approach to "AI" through ML. Maybe, maybe not. So let me pull an old quote for all of you who claim current ML can evolve into AGI: Show me the code. Show me the program capable of running AGI on hardware which is basically still just flipping transistors. Then I believe you.
>30 years ago the US might have been able to strangle Chinese industries in the cradle, instead we built them up and beat down our own working class. Now we want them to be less successful, but nothing will bring back our gutted industry or reverse their momentum - sanctions will just kill the USD, already badly weakened after irresponsible bandit-like actions have diminished international confidence in it's use as the currency of trade and value storage.

Finally, an anti-China poster here that is actually truthful in their dislike of China: economics. Everything is about economics. Everything else is basically propaganda to gear up for an economic fight.

There was a poster here who recently wrote something that I won't forget.

When an American company makes a breakthrough in something, news headlines are like "Company X makes a break through in fusion, paving way for cheap energy.". If a Chinese company makes the same breakthrough, headlines are like "It's alarming that China is leading in fusion research".
ChatSpot – HubSpot's GPT Chatbot
And https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-public-archive
Sounds similar to Keybase. A central platform which allowed the user to "verify" a few different platforms - Reddit, HackerNews, Twitter, etc.

It got acquired and promptly nosedived.... with users leaving faster than rats from a sinking ship.
I think the problem with observability/visibility/monitoring is: you need a good internal model of the domain to have any insight. When people see a aesthetically pleasing dashboard that makes sense to them, they think they have insight.

It should be the other way around, because once you have a good mental model, you can get the data you need without it being plated for you. But the presentation fools people into thinking they have insight, so they come to depend on the tools that generate this illusion of insight.

It's not too dissimilar from powerful people being cut off from reality by sycophants and yes-people. Or managers who say 'bring me solutions not problems'. Once you outsource filtering, you lose control.
I don't use my real phone number for foreign data selling companies so I use SMS verification services.

Your situation explains why my accounts always get suddenly banned after a while without information. You can't get around the number thing usually, but having a number that works is not enough appearantly
Straightforward enough:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf5iBbmas2w

... until it isn't:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec8Yx-Mp-5s

Linked more for your interest than to make any point - the derailmant issues in the second link weren't directly linked to automation, but we do have big train sets here in W.Australia.
As a non-american I had no prior knowledge of ERIC but this article is probably one of the worst I've read this year. I can't tell if it's supposed to be an opinion piece or just very biased. It leaves so many questions. Why would states take fringe far-right conspiracy nuts for their word? What's the issue with ERIC? What's the claim based on that it's impossible to replicate it?
Now you mention it, I will. I literally had no clue it could/would/might have such a feature, its interface is very simple compared to the Bosch I had before, so I never even thought to look for an STFU mode.
Just an observation: decades ago in industrial companies of some size it was the practice to move newly hired managers around systematically for (say) the first 5 years so they could see how the whole company worked.
Wow, I had an idea I might not have my own family but when you said it.. I wrote this last night, after I wrote it I calmed down and have slept the night since and it does not look so grim now. I might have put too much responsibility on my self. I believe you are right, I have to put my foot down. My mother has to continue working, I will pinch in. My sister will have to work when she studies and she might have to take out loans. My father would not have allowed that.

Besides that, my dad loved good expensive stuff. Honestly, I think I should take an example from him here. This is the third appartment he has bought. So after my mother receives compensation she should have four appartments without any debt. One is for them, one is for granma, one I guess will be sold/rented out and the fourth one is where I grew up but we let a family live there for free almost because the appartment is in a state(I have and will ask them to help my mother). Also, I have my own place. This I say because you mentioned useless trinkets.

It is sad, because he was supposed to be already home now and he did not manage to insure his life last time, also he was planning to do the whole medical check that could have saved his life if he had done it earlier..

Somebody aswell said this is not my responsibility, honestly I don’t want it to be. But I do want to help. And this post is about me not being grinded into dust. I don’t want to feel like I will just leave them because it is too much.
I wonder if it can express it's inner certainty, cognitive dissonance or deviation of expectations through language

"Answer the following questions as best you can. You have access to the following tools… If the result of the tool is different from your expectation please say so"

Thought: … !
There are silent dish washers out there, I have one, turn it on and there is just barely noticeable hum.
I'll see this as a good move only if it can be fully supported by FOSS operating systems, otherwise it becomes just another tool to lock in users to closed platforms.
This particular mistake is all the more infuriating because it comes from a precaution. Or trying to silence a compiler warning:

partialBlock = (unsigned int)(dataByteLen - i);

Where both `dataByteLen` and `i` where actually `size_t`.

Assuming this is close enough to C, what happens is that we're converting a difference between `size_t` into a mere `unsigned`, and since they're not the same sizes on 64-bit platforms this can give `partialBlock` the wrong value, and the whole thing then snowballs into a catastrophic error that is not trivial to test because it only happens with huge buffer sizes.

The biggest mistake here is having written `(unsigned int)` instead of `(size_t)`. But the reason it happened in the first place is because they tried to do the right thing: writing the cast as a precaution, even though the following would have worked:

partialBlock = dataByteLen - i;

I really can't fault them: because it was a difference it could theoretically yield a "negative" result, and therefore intuitively the type of a difference should be signed, so we should cast it back to unsigned to be crystal clear. I knew C was dangerous, but to be honest I didn't expect such a wicked mind game.

Now I'm going to have to take a look at my code.