skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Traditional chess engines excel at tactics. But most chess tactics are brute forceable, and traditional chess engines are normally brute force behemoths.

Large language models have tradtionally been very weak at brute force computing (just look at how bad they are at multiplicaion of large numbers). If it can somehow excel at something which typically involves computing power like chess tactics deep into a game well after a novel position has been reached, then put me down as impressed.
Let me guess, not doing great socially?
Yes, my point was the sophistication of Apollo guidance computer is a poor yard stick, although it may outshine the D-17B.
Clearly you're lying.
Well you jest but the benefit of a direct interface is how much faster it can be. Typing is slow. Chemical based signals from eyes to brain to muscle are slow. Moving the mouse and keyboard are slow. All those middlemen can be removed and we can speed things up at least 3-4 times.
> To be fair to WikiLeaks there is very little evidence that Russia had anything to do with the DNC hacks. The FBI never had access to the servers and the the whole Russia hacking narrative relies on the DNC's claim of "trust us when we said this is what happened".

This is just not true. The Senate Intelligence Committee had multiple sources of information to conclude with little doubt that it was Russia and that Putin personally authorized the operation. They cited an investigation which found data had been exfiltrated to US based servers known to have been leased in connection with the GRU.

And I get it, people that would typically frequent hn including myself want to see the specifics of that investigation and how that connection was made to the GRU. Obviously that would involve revealing intelligence sources, which isn’t going to happen. So yeah, of course you can choose to believe that everyone is lying about everything and that the Republican led committee chose to pass up an opportunity to embarrass and discredit the DCCC and DNC by telling the truth, but that seems a bit unlikely to me.
I heard shipping containers have been piling up at China’s ports and China exports are way down - with quite a few factory suspending operations. Supposedly the US stopped buying because inflation means people focus on the necessities like food.
I always thought the John Henry story was more about dignity, fighting for respect of a human being, and its ability to make that effort.

Neal Stephenson actually made that point in regard to AI-generated creative content: it's not coming from a human being. You're not communing with another mind, another human's lived experience. It's just noise from a machine.

https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2023/03/03/neal-stephenson-say...

I once read a book of American folklore, and another story that had some broader resonance was engineer Casey Jones. From the Disney cartoon you get the idea that he was just obsessed with not being late. But in reality the trains in this period were popular and overscheduled, and Casey Jones found his engine bearing down on another train that wasn't supposed to be in his path. Thinking the other train was full of people, Casey stayed in the engine trying desperately to stop the train. When they pulled his body from the wreckage, he had one hand on the warning whistle, and one hand on the brake. It turns out the other train was just empty boxcars. The implication is he died trying to save others. A very human thing to do.
This is a very good point— thank you.
Mark Zuckerberg: “Please Resign” (2010)
> Children even started wearing yellow safety vests to school all of a sudden

Ban cars around schools. Ironically, the danger to kids walking to school is other parents driving their kid to school (a bit stressed, over the limit and probably on their phone).
> My favorite thing he’s ever wrote.

Exactly the same for me.
It obviously doesn't prove anything.

However: History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes
The Association Agreement also included sections on political and security cooperation. More importantly, Ukraine was pretty evenly split on Maidan and the signing of the Association Agreement. [0] This split, also seen in elections was largely geographic. [1] Unsurprisingly, toppling the (democratically elected) president tore the country apart, and independent on which government you personally prefer, I think it is really hard to argue that Ukraine wasn't the victim of Big Power politics in this case.

[0] https://archive.kyivpost.com/article/content/ukraine-politic...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Ukrainian_parliamentary_e...
Because Hackers fans are all in their 40s and 50s, and a location like that would live or die based on its ability to attract the young, which it would not.
Security should never come as an after-thought.

This especially holds for complex systems with multiple stakeholders, like OSes.
Bind-mount, namespaces and cgroups are runtime properties, completely orthogonal to the problem Nix (the build system/package manager) is meant to solve. NixOS is the configuration layer on top that encodes those properties via systemd units, and that is where you'll find the concept of a "service" and where you can isolate the runtime parts of the system.
Risky Business is my favorite for security news. Quick, succinct, charming hosts.
I think we’re well within an era in which AI is only truly useful to people who know what they need the AI to do, and that is still an incredibly limited subset of the population. For that reason alone, learning to code isn’t a waste of time; you need to do it so you can tell an AI how to, or catch when it does it wrong. You won’t get far without that ability. You should even go deep into debugging and testing trenches because we'll still need an excellent grasp on how to do that properly for as long as I can imagine. AIs will make mistakes, and we will continue to as well.

I made ChatGPT generate some genuinely useful boilerplate for the Connect library by Buf, and that was totally neat, but I had to know which part of the documentation to prompt GPT with, which language to ask for, how the existing server and routing worked, the shape of the data I was working with, to specify what would be streaming and what wouldn’t, etc. I had to coerce it to make several corrections along the way, and actually hooking it all up and running it required a lot of knowledge and some mental/keyboard labour to get something running.

It worked and I’m stoked that I managed to make it useful, but that’s just it; I had to prime the system and adjust it along the way just so, otherwise it wouldn’t have been useful.

As Carmack suggests, this could be a perfectly useful tool, but what matters in the end is 1. Did it save time and 2. Did it deliver something better than or equivalent to what I could have done alone.

If it doesn’t satisfy at least both of those it’s not really relevant yet. And we’re very far from AI accomplishing that without significant assistance.

My takeaway is that as software devs we should learn to use these systems, we should try to leverage them to save time and improve quality, but I agree completely that in the end it only matters how much it improves the end result and how long it takes to deliver it. For that reason we still need to code well, we still need to understand our systems and tools well — that won’t change much. In fact, understanding how your AI works is an important aspect of understanding your tooling, and as such, knowing what you’re teaching it will require a great understanding of it as well as the subject matter.

I do think a certain class of development work could be mostly eliminated by tooling based on AI. Not the entire industry, though, and not in 10-15 years. Even so, I worry about the people essentially regurgitating code which text-based AIs will rapidly become capable of reproducing at massive scales. They will need to skill up.
Has to mean CS is facing eminent collapse right? Or maybe they’re just worried shareholders would reject in hope of a miracle since they dont suffer in the downside.
I dunno… who you spend time with can be quite clarifying.

It could be a similar story like ”I’m a product manager, and I know 100 ML engineers” — maybe that person should be a recruiter instead.
- Techmeme Ride Home (https://www.ridehome.info/show/techmeme-ride-home/)

- Brad and Will Made a Tech Pod (https://techpod.content.town/)

- Pivot (https://podcasts.voxmedia.com/show/pivot)

- The Vergecast (https://podcasts.voxmedia.com/show/the-vergecast)

- Decoder (https://podcasts.voxmedia.com/show/decoder-with-nilay-patel)

- Daily Tech News Show (https://dailytechnewsshow.com/)

- Hard Fork (Casey Newton of Platformer and Kevin Roose) (https://www.nytimes.com/column/hard-fork)

Going more specifically into Software

- Frontend Happy Hour (Ryan Burgess from Netflix and other smart SWEs/managers) (https://www.frontendhappyhour.com/)

- Screaming in the Cloud (Corey Quinn) (https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/screaming-in-the-cloud...)

- Syntax FM (https://syntax.fm/)
This is the problem with banking - they mess up, get bought buy a competitor to sweep the problem under the carpet and kick the can down. this reduces competitors in the marketplace. Eventually there is a state bailout
Well. If he just lied once, about being a pathological liar, then he's not a pathological liar.

He just made one very big lie.
How exactly does Lo-Fi music "introduce you to new concepts & subjects in an engaging, informed, & intelligent way"?
Not in Europe: https://c.tadst.com/gfx/1200x675/map--first-day-of-the-week....
It's not a "kids these days" thing. It's a modernity thing. The first person to make a lot of noise about this was Georges Herbert, a French physical educator who is regarded as the inventor of the military obstacle course, and who was broadly influential in shaping physical education programs, largely throughout Europe and the eastern block in the 20th century.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_H%C3%A9bert
- Randomly Typed (haven't seen a new episode come out in a while but these two Canadian guys are great!)
- Coding Blocks (I like their book club episodes a lot, specifically DDIA)
- Talk Python To Me
- Software Engineering Daily (most episodes that came out until 2020 or so are excellent and go to such depths that I haven't encountered from any other interviewer, quality of newer ones isn't consistent)
- Jane Street's Signals and Threads
- Techmeme Ride Home (tech news)
- Data Skeptic (data science)
Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness! Ashcans and unobtainable dollars! Children screaming under the stairways! Boys sobbing in armies! Old men weeping in the parks!

Moloch! Moloch! Nightmare of Moloch! Moloch the loveless! Mental Moloch! Moloch the heavy judger of men!

Moloch the incomprehensible prison! Moloch the crossbone soulless jailhouse and Congress of sorrows! Moloch whose buildings are judgment! Moloch the vast stone of war! Moloch the stunned governments!

Moloch whose mind is pure machinery! Moloch whose blood is running money! Moloch whose fingers are ten armies! Moloch whose breast is a cannibal dynamo! Moloch whose ear is a smoking tomb!

Moloch whose eyes are a thousand blind windows! Moloch whose skyscrapers stand in the long streets like endless Jehovahs! Moloch whose factories dream and croak in the fog! Moloch whose smoke-stacks and antennae crown the cities!

Moloch whose love is endless oil and stone! Moloch whose soul is electricity and banks! Moloch whose poverty is the specter of genius! Moloch whose fate is a cloud of sexless hydrogen! Moloch whose name is the Mind!

1954
"CoRecursive: Coding Stories" (from Adam Gordon Bell) is one of the Podcasts I look forward to the most. Incredible high production value, yet very personal and down to earth.

Probably one of the best episodes is the interview with Andreas Kling, the author of Serenity OS

https://corecursive.com/serenity-os-with-andreas-kling/
I built a demo a couple years ago doing something similar to this but the goal of the app was to give people guidance for doing music to confuse facial recognition by using standard face detection AI and put the thing in a magic mirror. This is neat though. I'll try it out, maybe it can make me less of a schlub.
the parable of talents is also way way up there.
Take a breath. Who said anything about whether one thing “makes up” for another?

Despite the harm that I believe they had a hand in doing to the US electoral process in 2016, I’d still accept that their contributions have been net positive over their history. It’s just a shame to expose war crimes then go out of your way to help elect a guy who gleefully pardons war criminals.
I had a materials science course as part of my ME undergrad. (And of course there was overlap in other courses.)

When I went to grad school for a Master's at an engineering school which, at the time, was small enough to not actually have formal departments, I studied a fair bit of mechanical engineering but actually did a materials science thesis.
People have looked very hard, and there is not a shred of evidence that Abagnale passed the Louisiana bar exam other than his own claims.
What I wanted to do was a film documentary. What stopped me was, there was no footage! Meaning, nobody at CERL, the PLATO lab at U Illinois, had filmed everything. Nobody was a movie camera nerd. Nobody captured all the historical events, or even just day to day meetings / demos. It wasn't that kind of lab: everyone was insanely focused on the work at hand, and the culture was never one to expend any cycles on documenting how things went along the way. So there's a paper record, but very little in the way of footage. And if you do a documentary feature film you need TONS TONS TONS of video and film footage.

I did consider a website but ugh, it limits the audience. It doesn't get into bookstores. It doesn't get on college syllabi. You gotta do a book. So I did a book.

As for big financial loss, I knew going into the project I'd never make back what I put into the project over ~30 years. I didn't care; that wasn't the goal. The goal was to capture the story while the criticial mass of key PLATO people were still alive, and then put that into print so the world would know about PLATO before it all disappeared--believe me, the Silicon Valley tech industry would be perfectly happy if PLATO had disappeared. It messes so much with their mythology, after all! So that was a big motivator. The book has done fairly well, actually, and continues to sell in hardcover, paperback, and audiobook editions.
Yes, I read the price was suggested as 0.25 CHF and then doubled to 0.50 CHF per share for the deal.
I love the Bloomberg headline. It does not say "... in Historic Deal to End the Credit Suisse Crisis." Instead, it says "... in Historic Deal to End Crisis." On the remote chance that you thought there might be some sort of global bank crisis, Bloomberg tells you that it is already ending. Since Bloomberg tries to manipulate people's perception so openly (most people do not read beyond the headline), this makes me even more worried. What else its out there that they don't want me to know?
Treated as an opportunity for criticism, it can be an effective learning tool, especially for developing your critical literacy. Think of it as a game where the point is to prove it wrong.
Depends on your definition of state. If you really want to dig into it:

The country, Germany, or a federal state like Bavaria, likely not directly but indirectly, due to how our tax system works. Different entities collect different taxes, but the cities and municipalities get a certain percentage of wage and sales tax for example. Often those taxes are not bound to be used for a certain purpose.

But also we have city-states liked Berlin or Hamburg, and those directly fund and maintain their playgrounds.
> And that's fine, because the CPI's job is to measure how prices have changed (ie. inflation), not wealth inequality.

Allow me to elaborate. Does it seem odd to you that "real wages" (i.e. inflation adjusted) have barely budged in decades, and even slowly increased? The wages aren't decreasing, despite people apparently being able to buy a nice house and live the American dream on a median wage up until around the early 90's.

The way CPI is calculated is that it surveys the median purchaser about their purchases (how much they bought and how much it cost). And as prices increase faster than wages, the median purchaser is spending a larger percentage of their paycheck on goods. More expensive purchasers / nicer goods are largely excluded from these surveys. For the last decade or so, it's probably pretty much all their money. That is NOT captured in CPI. They can only spend up to their entire paycheck, so inflation is limited to median wage growth. And then the hedonic adjustments can be used to help the government meet its targets ("when a measure becomes a target it no longer serves as an accurate measure").
Did company manipulate my Google review?
Four years ago, I left a tech company after working there for two years.

After leaving, I wrote an honest review of the company on Google.

My review received a large number of likes and was featured at the top of the company's page. And the review was there for 2 years

Recently, when I checked the company's Google page using an incognito window, I noticed that my review was no longer visible.

However, when I logged into my Google account and viewed the company's page, my review was still there and labeled as a "New Review".

The review was very clean having no offensive words, spam or voilates google review policy.

Iam now wondering whether Google manipulates reviews upon request from companies.
The deep ocean is the last unmapped frontier on Earth.
I love Oxide and Friends (and previously On The Metal, of course)

About systems programming and open source. The episodes go surprisingly deep and are still fast-paced and stream-of-consciousness with contributions from anybody who has something meaningful to say in their group call.
I hate the way the auto blocking is implemented.

There is no API to detect that auto blocking is enabled and manual intervention is needed.

You are forced to play a fake audio tag with sound and detect that it's event does not fire. This is impossible, so you do it with a timeout and throw your hands up.
What’s the reason of acquiring 9,88% instead of 10%?
How high would you make the arbitrary walls?
The Fed had to know that as they kept pushing, more serious stress would show up in the financial system as they went higher. This is exactly what they have been looking for. To the Fed this means what they have been doing is working (their goal has rather openly been to slow the US economy, and to a lesser extent the global economy, to bring down inflation via demand destruction). Nothing quite brings economic growth to a halt like a large banking crisis and the corresponding panic.
Not a great interview. For instance, after his answer about LLMs ".. we must be cognizant of their risks and limitations." the interviewer asks "What do you make of transhumanism?". Overall too many topics briefly touched upon like Babbage, Lady Ada, Quantum Computing without much substance.

Why did IBM not develop a Large Language Model?
Hardware whitelist removal on laptops. I think you can also put a small alpine image in your flash to boot from.
A lot of this is not a big surprise for those that are pilots. Aircraft design is has come a long way since the 40's.

It's very easy to get a plane off the around quickly that weighs less than 1300 pounds and has a 100 horsepower engine.

And for those that think getting your pilots license is insurmountable because of cost or medical issues, you can get a sport pilots license in as little as 20 hours of training with a drivers license as your medical to fly these aircraft. Limitations are one passenger, total weight of 1340 pounds, daytime good weather only, but you can still fly pretty much anywhere in the United States and Bahamas and to almost any airport, including Class B airspace and airports (read: largest airports in the country)

I'm pretty sure that I can get the light sport aircraft that I fly (Vashon Ranger) off the ground in a few hundred feet with full fuel (23 gallons) and a 170lb passenger on board and a decent headwind.
https://embedded.fm/ is the only one I really listen to.
> designing a system that can answer correctly

I think the solution is obvious: connect the computers to empirical
feedback devices and make them scientists. Humans hallucinate too if
they spend too much time in a sensory deprivation tank. Give the
computers sensory inputs and they will naturally become scientists.

> find consensus on trivial topics (are eggs good for you?) amongst
experts who study these matters day after day

Leaving aside the question of how reliable current soft science really
are, this is exactly the problem that these machines can help with, once
they have the data. Consider the modified form of the question: Are eggs
good for me? At this stage in my life? At this time of day? Given what
I ate for dinner last night? And millions of intricate details about my
medical history, and my family, and DNA, and "exposome", etc. (I worked
very briefly for a medical sensing startup, our chief Doctor would wax
lyrical about the possibilities for personalized medicine and nutrition--
once we have the data.)

> the public, who does not [study these matters], is left confused

To some extent, being able to do things without understanding how they
are carried out "under the hood" is a measure of the advancement of
civilization, eh? (But please don't mistake me as arguing in favor of
ignorance!)

> when there is no rationalization for answers given.

We can ask the computers to show their reasoning (soon, if not
now), we can ask them to summarize the current state of knowledge,
including the grey areas and disputes, eh?

> How many people ... are stuck ...

I think it's clear that these machines will rapidly become perfect
salesmen and perfect therapists. It's less clear to me what we will do
with that.

> We are very poorly equipped to be vetting answers from a fallible machine.

I don't think the machines will be fallible once we connect them to
sensory systems, but I do think that lots of people will try to do silly
"Dr. Evil" things like try to mass-program their subjects/citizens.
And I think lots of people will let them raise their children, that will
probably have mixed results.

> I’d rather we learn how to solve the more complex problems so that we can do it and understand it rather than take guesses at which of a number of generated options is correct.

Selecting from the options the computer generates is the only complex problem left, see "Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework" SRI Summary Report AFOSR-3223 by Douglas C. Engelbart, October 1962
https://dougengelbart.org/pubs/augment-3906.html
Optimistic take: this might drive innovation and bring down price of access for people with disabilities.
Off-grid living is a lie