skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
8 flag bits is a lot though when we're trying to shave down 20-ish bytes! And we're only worried about the worst case scenario, so assume it's the last pawn in the list. Also you can have at least 10 pawns visibly at risk of en passant at once. If you base it on rank alone, you can have all 16 pawns in position at the same time, wasting 16 bits.

If you're going to explicitly store it, at least squeeze down to 4 bits to pick a specific pawn (and picking one visibly not at risk if no pawn is at risk).

But using clever piece rearrangements is a lot better than spending flag bits.
I hadn't actually seen a photo of the pixel watch before. Gotta say, I like the look of the Pixel watch more than the apple watch.

It reminds my of the Type 3 [0], but a little bit cheaper.

[0]: https://ressencewatches.com/pages/type-3
Apple has been doing the same thing since the Apple Watch launched. It was never a top story across the web.
It's actually a lot better. At least the two companies check and balance each other naturally. Not ideal, but better.

The big issue is if those two companies collude, but for storefronts there's less incentive than other industries.
What are some of the criticisms against Passmark scores? I maintain some documentation that cites them as a basis for recommending PCs for specialized applications, so if that's a bad idea it'd be good to know.
>Precise Find for Indoors.Comes with Ultra-wideband (UWB) ...

I was playing with the UWB on my Samsung S23 my cat was beside me. As I enabled it she jerked her head towards my phone. I know UWB is far beyond a cat's hearing range but whatever it was she instantly noticed it. No pain or anything she didn't run away but looked at it as if she could detect something.
It's ok. You'll live in a world controlled by AGI.
The wait is over.

https://electrek.co/2023/05/03/tesla-driver-dies-fatal-shoot...
Just pirate them. You've already paid for them, what's the harm?
Crazy how similar the commands are.
Zero Effort Private Key Compromise: Abusing SSH-Agent for Lateral Movement
What would you do differently if you decided to start a blog again?
If you were to start a new blog with your current knowledge, what would you do differently than what you did at first?
fascinating. the software landscape of egyptology is mostly a barren wasteland with a few superstars dotted around (Serge Rosmorduc stands out!)

good to see such fine work!
A deep dive on developer productivity metrics tends to lead to queueing theory. This is an area some developers know because of DORA and metrics such as MTTR or shorthands such as "do one merge per day". It turns out that knowing some queueing theory can be very helpful when talking about productivity metrics, kanban, ticket servicing, and more.

My notes on queueing theory for developers:

https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/queueing-theory
Fact checkers serve the establishment, they aren't doing it for you
> AC simplifies "harder to hit at all" and "harder to actually damage" into a single stat, which is frankly a positive.

Agreed. In practice, if you're shot while wearing a bulletproof vest, the bullet isn't penetrating the armor, but it's still doing concussive damage to your skin and organs-- you can even still die from internal bleeding. This varies by caliber, range, penetrative ability of the round, etc.

For D&D, this would be the difference between being shot by an arrow while wearing plated mail, versus taking a cannonball to the chest. The calculation needs to be "was the attack successful" and the technicalities handwaved away. You take damage from the arrow depending on whether it pierces a gap in the armor. You take damage from the cannonball depending on whether it hits you or misses.

> some developers truly believe that people want to sit around watching other people roll dice and do math for ages.

It's cheap and quick to do any number of calculations in CRPGs, but it's a snorefest when you bring that approach to IRL gatherings after everyone's been drinking. At that point you might as well try to play FATAL.
Article (French) https://pastes.io/kpdm5ymini

Article (English - Google Translate) https://pastes.io/r9zrxwnay1
There's certainly a standalone minecraft variant, with full modding capability as a first class citizen, modeled after `forge`, with an asset store modeled after `curseforge` or the `feed the beast launcher` of yesteryear.

Vanilla minecraft no longer appeals to me whereas the hardcore modpacks are ridiculously addictive. Think factorio meets minecraft.
This requires I log in with a Google account to read it. I decline.
Is there an easy way to determine what underlying game engine is used on Steam or the Apple Store?

I would love to track new releases for the next N months and see how it compares vs historical. Does utilization fall off a cliff?
This is going to be an issue for the Vision Pro. I am kind of surprised Apple hasn't stepped in and said this will not apply to Vision Pro apps or something.
That cat had one hell of a life before it died though.
> I feel like I've seen similar happen to Nintendo replicas

Nintendo is probably the most aggressive about this.
Unfortunately not likely since I already have hella arthritis (genetic, not degenerative) :P
Next step is to detect or forbid the use of a set of VPN providers at the ISP level. They already did it in 2009 for P2P file exchanges [0]

Anyway, the web is getting more and more restricted if you use a VPN and it is accelerating.

For example you just can't anymore:

- see the price of a product on Amazon,

- download most podcasts,

- or surprisingly, access https://forums.freebsd.org/

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HADOPI_law
I don't see myself using this in current form.

When I open it on mobile (Chrome on Android), what used to be the top 3 lines of text and take maybe 10% of the screen vertically now takes 80% of the screen and I need to scroll past that to see anything.

When I scroll past that the entire screen shows just 3 headlines...
It might be popular but in forums people generally advocate against since their tos has clauses for that, while there are seed box friendly hosts elsewhere
Again, these are your own rambling paraphrases, of course I don't need to 'back up' another user's comments.
M$... That aside, no a replica is not a problem unless it uses any actual IP like Steve or the actual Minecraft art.
>Why use a closed source tool and take on that risk when great open source ones exist?

in the case of servers: because open source servers literally can't support your scale of business. That's one of the few places where Open Source can never truly succeed: when you need a lot of hardware and the operating costs exceed any income coming in.

By that point it is a lot better to roll your own servers. But that is of course crazy expensive. Even other multibillion dollar corporations choose to leave some server management to places like Amazon/Microsoft.
Houses aren't computers or televisions, though.

They are built on land that is relatively scarce (in suburban areas, and the UK scarce full stop), zoned by local government, subject to the influence of regulations and unions etc.

House builders in the UK quite clearly hold back on (or try to corrupt their way out of) large developments that require them to build social housing, they seem to have slowed down building in response to threatened law changes around leaseholds (which are onerous and abusive), and they appear to hold back on smaller projects as leverage with local governments in discussions about the regulations that are stopping them taking on larger projects.

They are absolutely willing to build fewer houses than they could, and they tend to be rewarded for this with higher prices, because the barriers to entry in building houses at scale are really significant.
> I want to know when my cat leaves home

I keep dreaming up a very simple (ish) solution involving a never-obstructed camera at ingress points like a doorway where it can reliably track whether the cat is in our out of the house without relying on a hefty device they have to wear.
bitcoin is not apolitical. libertarians like it but it's ultimately a tool for everyone to use as they see fit
Counting crowds: HyperLogLog in simple terms
That's a good explanation, but problems with silently reducing quantity are:
- It attempts to trick the customer
- As a customer, it makes it harder to depend on your product or buy predictably (a box of cereal used to last me through the week, now suddenly it doesn't)
- It is now harder for me to comparison shop because I need to calculate cost per volume/weight
- It is often done at a rate higher than inflation

This site is great, people need more transparency and companies need to be called out
We use Blink cameras tied to the parents' house WiFi.
How Fires spread across Tokyo after quake 100 years ago
Very cool! And I thought running it on my 600 MHz K6-3+ was impressive. :)
I've seen people walk past news reporters with children. They even asked them questions about Santa Claus. Then they sold advertising to display before and after that event. Then they showed it to the public. What fine should we impose? 10%
in the uk we measure the price of a basket of goods, which includes quantity adjustment. So packaging size is irrelevant. https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/meth...

>The simplest form of direct adjustment is quantity adjustment, which is used when there is a permanent size change in an item.
A privacy violation is never minor.
Yeah, but LibreOffice is the perfect example on why people pass up on Open Source projects.
I can't seem to find that statement and the response to it. Could you link or copy/paste it?

Edit: Nevermind, I found it in his follow-up:

> Q: I guess you won’t be getting much work from DC in the future.

> Bill: I haven’t worked with DC for the more than two years since I handed in my final script for this new run of Fables. At that point I fired the lot of them and haven’t regretted it. Why spend my remaining years continuing to work with thugs and conmen?
It depends on the area. There are still areas in the United States where demand is still incredibly high, meaning homes sell above asking or 50+% more than 10 years ago

An example includes areas outside of the NYC metro area. Sure they aren't get peak pandemic prices but they are still getting crazy amounts of money for a home that was worth 50% less 10 years ago.
Could your cat perhaps have heard the sound of the whine of the electronic components? Maybe an interference with your phone and other electronics close by. Just a shot in the dark
This is Deepmind's first real attempt at a GPT-level LLM, isn't it? I'm very excited 1) to learn exactly how they've applied the MuZero framework to this problem and 2) to see how it performs. It could be underwhelming, or it could be a massive leap forward.
Tech workers demand high salaries despite hiring slowdown
Well misinformation wasn't my intention.
Everything you wrote paints a familiar picture: a company whose leadership made poor financial decisions over and over. I won't judge anyone for mourning the loss of their favorite corporate entity, but I personally find it hard to feel pity knowing that they dug their own grave.
We considered this option, and since we live in a remote countryside, we actually asked the neighbors around in few km radius. None knew anything. Mystery still unsolved. Happened only once.
Ah, that is super interesting! Also:

> In the studio, Stewart was "messing around with a walloping hi-hat sound", which he found in the free music software GarageBand, which is included in all Mac computers.
Exactly this. If you want to avoid being tracked, you should not use BigTech solutions. They are convenient though.
Interesting. Resistorjets seem to be all over the place.

There must be some simplicity factor that makes the circuits we use on the ground unfit to space. Because people build 3000K heaters all the time (usually arc-based, but also, a light-bulb is one).
If someone steals the Mona Lisa, who are they going to sell it to get cash?

Why would someone accept a stolen Mona Lisa as payment? How are they going to reliably turn it into cash?
Check out https://github.com/seemoo-lab/openhaystack
I don't know the context for the comment.

Have they not rescued more humans than 30 dogs rescued who assisted them?
I use Restic for personal backups and at work, but I thought I'd try Kopia to see if it'd be a good fit for my less techie relatives. This was about a year ago.

The UI didn't seem like a good fit for those who are less technical. I don't remember the specifics.

Does anyone have recommendations for backup services for the average user?
> which is itself an investment that they would be foolish (financially damaged by) a decision to break that trust.

Yup, Unity also had that same trust for 15 years. Never underestimate greed.
how are you going to be like "my anecdote is actually important" with an N of magnitude 100. long-term and wide-scale research and monitoring has tracked millions of birds and have used models to extrapolate to the billions. your comment means little more than nothing. have you considered you haven't seen the extent of what the roaming cat has killed? it won't always bring it back to you. and why is it that the non-bird animals aren't important? biodiversity reduction, not just birds. and you think that even if they are sick or injured catches that your cat isn't impacting the other animals? you realize other animals gotta eat? if they can't b/c your cat takes it, or worst infects it with a parasite by chomping on it, your local predators are gonna suffer.
In your opinion is it too high, lower or someone not understanding what it means to be in public?
>That’s how they get wealthy or stay wealthy in the first place.

Most wealthy people are born into it. [1]

[1] https://www.fool.com/the-ascent/personal-finance/articles/st...
Gergely Orosz has a very popular blog/newsletter and has posted on the McKinsey report.

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/author/gergely/

https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/measuring-develop...

https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/measuring-develop...
Dave Farley, Kent Beck and Gergely Orosz are hardly non-noteworthy people. Farley is best known as being a significant contributor to Continuous Delivery. Kent Beck was an initial signatory to the agile manifesto. Gergely Orosz has four books to his credit and has a significant following.

Farley didn't mock them - he had open contempt. Beck and Orosz wrote a great critique, but had no mocking involved.

But calling them ex-fintech is kind of like saying Marjorie Taylor Greene is an ex-CrossFit gym owner. While technically true, it's not the relevant accomplishment in most conversations.
Specifically, GM, who lobbied hard about this starting in the 60s
In the wake of the release of GPT4 there was so much pontificating about how Google was caught lacking and how its era of dominance was over. That definitely hasn't happened yet, and their broad and continuous release of AI-based products and features has been impressively nimble. Given their pioneering AI work, colossal user base, unfathomable data set, and world-scale computing resources, I would not bet against Google in anything related to AI.
The first week of US v. Google – Defaults are everything and nobody likes Bing
DeepMind discovers that AI large language models can optimize their own prompts
Interesting, I'm gonna check that out!
Shoe and boot manufacturers also do 6.
Sure looks like it based on concert images which is why I ask…
Using Janet as Database
This reminds me of a company my friend used to work for, Ketch [1]. Basically described their service as automation that fulfills this exact requirement on customers databases. Sounds like they were ahead of the game.

[1] https://www.ketch.com/
What an odd feel-good piece for cia.gov. I will put on my tinfoil hat and wait for the scandal to follow. CIA abusing dogs for <whatever>, news at 11, I presume.
Their license expired, so you need to check out the old version, I think it was 4th edition (they started with that), it based on the very long running comic Knights of the Dinner table, which is also amazing
"And the price gains are not universal. Median housing prices in the Austin metro fell 15% from May 2022 to May 2023"

Why do you think that happened? Demand was less than supply or the prices they were asking for were outrageous or they built to many homes.

Housing is a very tough area to analyze as a whole because of state rules regarding mortgages being assumable
rclone is way underrated and should be used by a lot more people. But the various UIs are still a bit technical. Though if I were writing backup software nowadays, I'd probably write a skin over rclone.
If it had to deal with BCD it was a hell indeed...
Looks good.
I hate how IOS does, especially with certificate pinning, so I cannot use my ad-block http mitmproxy to block ads in Apps.

EDIT: thanks for people clarifying that pinning is done by Apps and not by IOS.
When we as externals are at “if enough fines are issued it might start to shift behaviour” we’re very much dealing with a party for whom this is a mere inconvenience.
> I kinda feel bad for Unity.

I don't. They could have sold to Meta and didn't. If they didn't have a plan that didn't involve fucking their users, that's on them.
Evolution of AESA Radar Technology (2012)
> The name quantum in
quantum theory is related to the fact that in a separable Hilbert space, any set of
mutually orthonormal vectors is countable.

Pretty sure the name quantum comes from the fact that some physical phenomena (eg absorption spectrum) get discrete allowed values. That in principle has nothing to do with separability (eg you can come up with non separable spaces which have operators with discrete spectrum). In fact presenting things this way is pretty confusing since separable Hilbert spaces do support operators with continuous spectrum (which is not obvious!) As far as I know separability is mostly technical, and often added to make life a bit simpler, since it's pretty hard to come up with useful non separable Hilbert spaces.
> Luminaries in the field such as Demis Hassabis and Yann LeCun believe that AI can turbocharge scientific progress and lead to a golden age of discovery. Could they be right?... Such claims are worth examining, and may provide a useful counterbalance to fears about large-scale unemployment and killer robots.

But will we maintain control of the above-human-ability, autonomous AI systems these companies are racing to build? This is the AI control problem.

If not, then "AI can automate science" isn't much of a counterpoint or reason to be optimistic -- science may be automated, but not under any human's control and not for any human's benefit. In fact, if we're in this situation, the ability of AI systems to automate science is worse news than otherwise, in the same way that the invention of science by humans was bad (or at best, very mixed) news for the animals of Earth.
It's just the Economist. I wouldn't expect more from them.
Everyday uses for PVC water pipe
Did you know? You can use hieroglyphs right here, right now and pretty much everywhere else: 𓂺

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Egyptian_hieroglyphs
You actually gave a perfect example. Airbnb made it possible to create unregulated hotels across the world, and Airbnb got a cut of every booking. Brian Chesky, one of the founders, is worth almost $10 billion.

https://www.forbes.com/profile/brian-chesky/?sh=34a2068944d3
> They have /significant/ market leverage.

Not really. QCM is in a position of power here. Where _else_ is samsung/google/apple going to go? This is slowly changing, but QCM modems are still in a league of their own... and they know it.

> Apple cares about device longevity and quality, Google does not. It's market segmentation in action.

This is a tenuous point at best. Apple isn't exactly rushing to make repair of their devices easy / accessible which is essential for a product to have a long life. Google doesn't have a lot of say over what other OEMs do w/r/t their hardware support.

-----

My whole point is that it's not a happy/meaningless coincidence that as soon as an OEM moves away from QCM for the CPU, the promised support period grows.
UWB is RF, not sound, and your cat didn’t hear it. It could be that the app you were playing with also happened to play a sound in addition to turning on the radio, or possibly your radio happens to resonate at some audible frequency.

Consider that in the US, UWB is RF higher than 500MHz, and I’d be shocked if your phone’s speaker went all the way up to 20KHz, which is generally considered to be the upper limit of the human hearing range.
They provide replacement with ~reasonable prices, they only charge around 100$ for a "battery replacement" despite them replacing the whole watch.
Thanks for the feedback.

Yeah that is the tradeoff. Sites with great UX like https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ make the same tradeoff.

The good thing is that different people can use different UIs. Eg. people like you who prefer the density can use HN and others who prefer the readability and clickability can use FilterHN.
> You choose an FIFO key, e.g. order ID.

This is the part of the system that is doing most of the heavy lifting. Ex A, The struggles of Elasticsearch: https://archive.is/rm1UI
Sending to your phone via the cell network? That will be a lot of battery usage.

Sending to your phone via radio? If the phone is in range you don't need GPS. You can use UWB or an audible beeper to find the cat.
I've been happy with kopia for a while now...

But I probably ought to double check that restoring works :)
...

>> Xpra shows that it could also work over low latency links if you have latency hiding which the X supports but because it is asynchronous but - again - toolkits never bothered

>This is getting too technical, I don't think I'm qualified to discuss this. Though don't you mean high latency links?

Yes, of course.

>Xpra is basically a local X server that sends data with a protocol similar to VNC. It is quite similar to how Waypipe handles things. I may be wrong on this, but I think RDP may combine the best of both worlds? Dumb "vnc-like" connection by default, and make use of optimized implementations in the toolkits when available.

I do not think you will every get good client integration as good as X with dumb protocols and my experience with RDP was always relatively poor. Xpra uses its own protocol between two proxys but supports good integration so is different to a stupid screen scraping approach, but I think it could just work by doing the latency handling on the client and speaking directly to a remote X server using X. The reason that I believe that would be possible is that X is a very flexible remote buffer handling protocol. So caching of some image content and copying it around could all be done remotely controlled by the client. I started to implement something like this but then did not have time... But the flexibility and extend-ability of X is also the reason I think that throwing it away is completely unnecessary.
20 years ago, it made sense to prop up these manufacturers to support the domestic industry, but given the rise of the domestic EV industry (Tesla, Rivian etc), I'm not sure if it would still make sense for a strategic perspective.
Politically, it may still make sense, though.
Most of the products on the site appear to be candy/junk that shouldn’t be consumed in large quantities anyway. There is probably substantial social good being done by making the default portions of pringles and chocolate smaller.