skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He was undefeated for 10 years and you're rationalizing that he somehow isn't the best player because some other guy once lost in this format? And his undefeated streak over 10 years wasn't convincing enough for you?

That just... doesn't make sense.
I quit social media in 2012 (including FB properties like Whatsapp), but I'm still active on many forum/aggregator sites like Reddit and HN

Ten years in I def feel like I've cut myself off from the world in a significant way. I feel like my Boomer parents now, seeing local events advertised in traditional media instead of on Facebook or in some feed.

The _major_ upside is that I am pretty out of the loop with so much meme-based misinformation and influence. It's crazy to see what people are consuming daily.

I just really hope that VR doesn't go the same way. The 90s cyberpunk vision was you'd jack into this wild west and have access to everything. The current reality is that you're just getting another Marc Zuckerberg-esque curated reality. Thanks but no thanks.
Musk didn't "rot". What happened is basically he's a talented fraudster who can speak about being on a mission from God to save humanity and transition Earth to this or that and this attracts immense amount of interest from capital and talent to bootstrap a company.

When this company is built from the ground up around Musk, there's a protective layer between him and the company, so that his bombastic narcissism doesn't leak out or hurt the company's management too much.

But Twitter wasn't built from the ground up for him, it was an existing company, he fired the top managers, the board, and 80% of the company, and then kept tweeting through every mishap he makes. We all saw him for what he always was.

Truly some epic level "behind the curtain Wizard of Oz" story here. And behind the curtain is an asshole with a lot of brazen lies and little to show for it in term of personal capability.

He's an "aligner". If he fools enough investors and workers that he's doing something big, they give him his money and their time & effort to make it happen, and it happens. He's good at starting things, but terrible at continuing them.
Yes and:

One view is private vs public capitalism. USSR vs USA, respectively. Extreme wealth concentration at the expense of everyone else.

Both are anti-democratic.
It's funny you say that, but it was Linux that really got me to double down on actual piracy.

I tried to get a Netflix subscription. For a long while, nope. Wouldn't work.

Even now, Paramount streaming specifically excludes Linux. Theyll gladly take your money, though. Oh, and it works for chrome and android, of which the second is Linux.

The people who actually try to buy and pay distributors/creators get screwed time and again. I further refuse to take part in getting screwed again.

Or take the Microsoft Zune. Anyone who bought music there ended up buying void after they arbitrarily shut the auth servers down. Cause, uhh, Microsoft couldn't afford a few auth servers? And their sharing added in illegal DRM, especially if I was playing CC tracks that expressly forbid that. (And of course, the irony that MS is part of the business software alliance, with heavy draconian hands of licenses and copyright.... All the while pirating and breaking GPL with copilot. And you want US to respect you? QED: fuck off, MS)

There's the whole DVD debacle with deCSS.

Whereas with Linux and the FLOSS ecosystem, I do recognize that fellow creators are being ethical, and giving for the cost of "follow my license if you use code". And there's no spyware, DRM, or other harmful stuff. Sure, there's bad actors.... But those bad actors are usually companies like Microsoft who pilfer all our code for their benefit and profit (Copilot).

Tit for tat is the best game theory solution so far. And given how many times I've been screwed over by media companies arbitrarily revoking first-sale doctrine because it was really a rental... That means I'll "pierat" my media. I've paid enough. And I will help others free of charge do the same.

I guess to look at my views, it really is anti-commercial and pro-FLOSS. And having copyright rules different for the rest of us versus the big media also colors my judgement.

(And my last 3 projects were aGPL3, precisely to keep companies from _aaS my software without contributing back.)
We're making the same point.

I was pointing out the purposeful use of the word "popularized" over "invented" or "created" or "made up", as it's written in poor reproductions of this conspiracy theory, because the verbiage a popular way to discredit the entire point.
The goal for planes was not to mimic birds.
This site adds a nice message about reader mode on iOS+Safari. Anyone knows how this can be achieved?
Well, could you elaborate?

A fool points out other people's failings. A smarter person profits from them.
Latex math rendering would be awesome
> Just one or two cycle hardware innovation may make VR successful.

Yes, especially if you consider that now AI can create entire 3D worlds at near-zero cost ...
No, but see the consequence: the information is removed if the user or the company fail to defend it. That makes it a vector for people who have a lot of money they can waste.
If you don't understand something then you're in the perfect position to improve the docs. Others who are already familiar with the project may not think they need to document it, because they see it as simple.
> making critical acquisitions

like who/what?
I think you're spot on about the role of tips and inflation. The article brings up patrons saving on marked up alcoholic beverages, but fails to mention the rise in expected tip percentages driven by larger defaults in point-of-sale systems. Tips are effectively a premium paid to eat in a restaurant instead of getting the food to go, and it's only natural that fewer people will be willing to pay that premium as it increases and is introduced in types of restaurants where it wouldn't have traditionally been charged. Couple that with inflation dwarfing wage growth over the last two years, and people are only going to be more sensitive to price differences.
The US has been the sole superpower for more than 3 decades now. Its relationship to its allies are more like relationships with vassals, see geopolitical interactions with European countries, Japan, South Korea.
I noticed a few incidents of weird service as things reopened but not so much the unprofessionalism you describe as somehow failing to sell things to paying customers (eg arriving slightly early and asking for a drink and being told no because of some silly reason). But my memory of those things is failing so perhaps it’s happening less.
Given that a few people can master high-level math that is impenetrable to most, and programming itself is impenetrable to some people, it might be that some languages require minimal cognitive level to get into. That is, easy for some, challenging yet possible for others, and unlikely at all for others. But sometimes it sounds like struggling to learn something only takes place in school, and once we're out of high school it's just easy things thereafter.

The question of "useful" is good. Useful for what? There are lots of different needs and purposes in the world.
Trusted hart for RISC-V mobile security
> Instead, it looks like they are moving to demonize the Russians and the Chinese.

Moving to? You've just described the bipartisan position of the US for the past 20 - 40 years.
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Largely agree but your wording is interesting - ‘generally considered’, ‘staying out of politics publicly’.

I think that there has been a degree of constructive ambiguity in the past. No more and it’s 100% clear now that the King / Queen would rubber stamp even the most extreme legislation. With FPTP, weaknesses in Lords appointments system, no written constitution etc then that’s a big weakness.
Resonates. My approach to museums and exhibitions had previously been to meticulously explore every item, but this is impractical, anxiety inducing, and exhausting. Now I flow through stopping when something grabs my attention, unbothered by not catching every detail.
People will just stop using us based sites.
Besides being very useful, the X volumes helped O'Reilly & Associates grow, which was great for our field.

O'Reilly became famous for the "animal books", which were often indispensable bibles for a software technology.

Today, many of us will attack any problem via StackOverflow or Googling (or laundering open source with LLMs), framed as how to do a very particular something in a stack of software we understand maybe <1% about. (And sometimes we get certifications by studying for a test, as a way to promote our careers.)

But if we wanted to actually understand some level better, such that we don't have to ask as much "How do I do this specific thing, just tell me what to type?", but instead "How does this thing work conceptually, and what are the interfaces?", the documentation we need is usually poor and hard to discover, or nonexistent.

Example: At least one major cloud provider apparently has huge trouble keeping their documentation complete and accurate, and also generates a lot of noise of low-quality documents. (Maybe someone ran the numbers, and found that good docs isn't needed to attract and retain customers at this point of their market position, and poor docs means they sell more support contracts?)

Fortunately, there are still great technical books being published. (Example: if you're an experienced systems programmer wanting to use Rust, IMHO the first book you should read is the Blandy, et al. "Programming Rust" animal book from O'Reilly, and then keep it on your virtual bookshelf forever, for reference.)

I hope that "StackOverflow methodology" and LLMs don't further hurt the market for books and learning, and that we'll continue to see great books from O'Reilly and other publishers.
Are you saying that he isn't even in the conversation, or that it's too hard to push him past Kasparov, Fischer, and Capablanca relative to his peers?

(I can't reasonably put Morphy in this conversation, and I'm not sure anyone else has an argument.)
Those were simply easy examples, there are plenty of non oecd countries that have higher levels of wealth than Chile.

> GDP per capita is a very narrow indicator that does not come close to telling enough about the economic condition of a country.

In what was us GDP per capita deficient, and what criteria would you propose exactly?
$35-$42 an hour means absolutely nothing when median home prices are pushing past a million bucks in areas and you have no benefits like healthcare, retirement accounts, etc.
The Death of Downtown? [pdf]
I challenge you to write out what scenarios you think reducing market participants will solve. Historically it has 100% so far been highly illiquid markets with huge price spreads, which is terrible for both sellers and buyers.

What you’re suggesting means a farmer selling wheat futures for delivery a year from now needs to be at the market at the same time a bread maker is looking to buy wheat a year from now. That basically doesn’t happen because the bread maker doesn’t need that level of forward looking price stability.
That was already the case, but at least now some of it will become more useful.
Fixing a bug in NewsFlash and shaving a yak
This is why tasting should be at least blind.
What parts of the spectrum are affected by the dust?
I've been a strong advocate for VR since 2016. Over the last 6+ years I've managed to convince family and friends to all jump in and pickup VR, mostly the Quest 2.

What I can say is, the vast majority of them don't use their headset at all anymore. It sits on a shelf collecting dust, out of batteries, only to be picked up on the extremely rare occasion where they want to try it out again, and then after about 30-45 minutes they're done and it goes back on the shelf for another 3 months.

I've lost all hope for VR being anything other than a niche technology, and I am a member of this small group that finds it a fascinating and very fun technology. I'm willing to put up with the inconvenience and discomfort because the experiences are so much more visceral. But I have to now accept that for most people the experience isn't amazing enough to overcome the discomfort and hassle.

Most people will acknowledge that it's pretty cool in theory. If they could just flip a switch and be suddenly transported into their game world of course they'd do that every time v.s. playing on a flat monitor. Physical discomfort clunky controls and unintuitive interfaces, etc. all plague VR and make it only accessible to the most dedicated of fans.
> Why would the fanboys cry?

I imagine they cry and that's why they downvote me every time i dare to say something other than praise for our lord jesu ehm elon.
First thing I'd do, if I was Mr. Rich and thought I had whistleblower type material that could represent a risk to my freedom or safety, would be to call my mom and tell her all about it.
I wrote a Go library for postgres & redis that handles all caching automatically.

where all you do is input the queries your application needs and then it will automatically determine which columns are affected & do all caching / cache invalidation for you.

I have it to the point where due to Redis being able to push onto a list that only writes hit the database & it even will update the cache keys automatically so that after an insert or update the cache is still hot.
> Restaurants need to pay a lot more to attract workers

There's also been a large uptick in restaurants' costs in terms of raw materials.
That’s not how it works.
Some random contractor doesn’t know all the code names to all relevant projects.

You should ask yourself more often “is there a reason they did it they way they did” before offering smug suggestions.
Futures offer physical delivery. At least try to understand how the market works before you claim it’s pointless.
Tip nothing. Even if served. Others will tip more for your lack of tipping and things will even out.
I’m in the Bay Area. The math is close. Pre pandemic we’d do two plates, two coffees and a fifth item (side of bacon or a single pancake or something else). It was $17 for a plate, $5 for a coffee and a few bucks for the side. Came down to around $50-55 depending on whether we ordered the side.

The same plate now costs $27, coffee is $7 and the sides are also similarly up priced. And that moves the needle up on the taxes and tips. This is a proper brunch spot, so it’s not just eggs.
He didn't defect, he got stuck there.

> Observing that his U.S. passport had been cancelled, Russian authorities restricted him to the airport terminal. On August 1, after 39 days in the transit section, Snowden left the airport. He was granted temporary asylum in Russia for one year.

What would you do? Live in transit?
Thanks for sharing! I'm reading the docs but was curious to also hear some first-hand experiences..
Maybe I'm missing something but isn't it redundant to have both stack and frame pointers? Just use negative offsets from the frame pointer to address local variables.
I guess somehow I profit from these "failings" because I'm able to sell my expertise for more or less reasonable money and it seems like the qualified engineer shortages are gonna get worse so it's probable that my pay rate will increase.

Though I also see that there are some fundamental problems with the industry which make my experience less and less enjoyable and that makes me sad.

Also I enjoy sharing knowledge but I see that it's lot harder to do now, because the average level of a regular novice dropped too low.
How NASA Reinvented The Wheel
Yann LeCun just cannot accept the bitter lesson
I can’t click on your link because links in Ask HN question aren’t clickable. Please submit as an ordinary article.
Yeah, that’s my point - I have a small vinyl collection but it’s mostly jazz albums with vinyl specific masters. I haven’t noticed any special vinyl specific sound myself beyond whatever the engineers intentionally created but for whatever reason some albums get significantly different treatments for vinyl. I’m not sure if the better margins for the format pay for the remaster work or what - I’ve noticed some labels do SACD releases too. So I guess the format has charmed me after all, because I haven’t bought any SACDs :)

Funny enough there’s definitely some vinyl releases where the opposite occurred and they get a sloppy transfer or the label literally just presses an mp3 that already exists, especially now that they’re booming among people who won’t actually play them (or won’t play them on decent equipment.) So you can go out and potentially buy a vinyl record that just replays a digital master with poorer compression than what’s on streaming.

Definitely agree regarding everything else that comes with the package. I have the Myst box set because that game had such an impact on my life and it’s so well done with extra books, maps, etc.
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The specific quote given, however, is not from your link but from Pathways to Inequality: Between-District Segregation and Racial Disparities in School District Expenditures[0].

>From this table, we can see that on average, both Black and Latinx total per pupil expenditures exceed White total per pupil expenditures by $229.53 and $126.15, respectively.

That being the case it is possible that GP simply means to bring that one fact, that is, that minorities have more funding yet still do not achieve the same academic results (aside from asians), rather than as an endorsement of the rest of the article. In any event it is a point worth considering regardless of GP's intention.

[0]https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23328584198724...
It's a joke to say "I live in a picturesque place with no crime, but I'm going to move if I can't use my gas stove"
Who is removing your gas heat?
Congratulations to both players for providing us with so many decisive and interesting games! Particular congratulations to Ding!

I played in the US Chess Open in 1978, but I am not much of a player. I did write the shitty little Chess program that Apple distributed on the Apple II demo cassette tape.

Off topic, but I 100% support Magnus’s decision to do what he enjoys: playing in tournaments and not time spent preparing for world championship matches. Good for him understanding what is most important to him, and acting on it.
You brought evolution up. And women exiting the workforce was a modern, temporary convenience, primarily for the middle classes. The only thing genuinely new is that women and men now have exactly the same job opportunities (with only minimal exceptions).

https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1345/women-in-the-middl...

> women worked alongside men in the fields and in the medieval guilds as equals or near-equals.

> Throughout the Middle Ages, lower-class women were bakers, brewers, milkmaids, barmaids, artisans, weavers and, primarily, tenant farmers who worked alongside their husbands and children in the fields.

https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1136/women-in-ancient-c...

> Women of lower status, such as farmer's wives, were expected to work in the fields - especially in regions where rice was cultivated.

> Many women were forced into prostitution in times of drought or crop failure. Women worked in the home weaving silk and caring for the silkworms that produced it. Some were called upon, like men, to perform the labour service which acted as a form of taxation in many periods of ancient China, but this was only in exceptional circumstances. By the Song dynasty (960-1279 CE) women had more freedom and were running inns and acting as midwives amongst other professions.

https://www.worldhistory.org/article/623/women-in-ancient-eg...

> Women, therefore, were regularly employed as weavers, bakers, brewers, professional mourners, sandal-makers, launderers, basket weavers, cooks, waitresses, or as a "Mistress of the House," known today as an estate owner or property manager. Female brewers and launderers frequently supervised male workers.
VR will be huge for gaming and other more niche things, but AR will be what people use all day, every day in their lives. Meta is focused too much on VR when they are not a gaming company. They should be focused on AR. They will be playing catch up with Apple when Apple released their AR.
Mark “bet the company on HTML5” ten years ago and backed off later.

Things happen.

The problem is that Meta has too MUCH power.
Ah yes, the “detailed plan” is an off-the-cuff one-sentence reply to a random person on Twitter.
2-3x performance increase is not big?
Yeah pretty crazy what people care about. This guy seems to live in (according to them) beautiful place they seem to like, no crime, huge house (5,000 sqft is massive), and they are upset about natural gas. ???
c5 in game 9 by Nepo of the match against Carlsen was not a high variance play but just playing way below his level. All the commentators spotted it instantly.
Yes. When Donald Trump says something like "As we all know Sleepy Joe Biden eats babies for breakfast", reputable journalistic sources will print it, and will have a sentence somewhere down the line that says "According to the FBI, there is no evidence that Joe Biden consumes human flesh.

Likewise, when a tech C-suite exec makes vague references to macroeconomic conditions, a reputable journalist would include a sentence like "Although rising interest rates have dampened venture capitalist investment into new startups hurting the growth and creation of billion-dollar valuations, the Big Tech companies including Meta have demonstrated continued growth and record profits quarter after quarter, yet still chose to undertake a policy of layoffs self-referencing each other as justification."
There are many reasons why a landlord will either not get rich or get rich at a much slower pace than alternatives. Just to mention a few:

1. Buying in a bad neighborhood and things just get worse.
2. Tenant falling far behind for some reason then moving out.
3. Overpaying or over capitalizing.
4. While looking for a buyer or tenant, squatters or looters move in.

Please don't use terms like 'exploit' without specific details.

I prefer to be a tenant so that I have less worries, more freedom and more capital available for other investments.
I don't think anyone that cooks for themselves genuinely thinks this. E-stovetops are literally a joke, designed by and for adult-infants that eat microwaved soup from Trader Joe's, not for real people that make real, delicious food.