skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It'd seem surprising to me if it had really learnt the generalization that knights move in an L-shaped fashion, especially since it's model of the board position seems to be more probabilistic than exact. We don't even know if it's representation of the board is spatial or not (e.g. that columns a & b are adjacent, or that rows 1 & 3 are two rows apart).

We also don't know what internal representations of the state of play it's using other than what the author has discovered via probes... Maybe it has other representations effectively representing where pieces are (or what they may do next) other than just the board position.

I'm guessing that it's just using all of it's learned representations to recognize patterns where, for example, Nf3 and Nh3 are both statistically likely, and has no spatial understanding of the relationship of these moves.

I guess one way to explore this would be to generate a controlled training set where each knight only ever makes a different subset of it's legal (up to) 8 moves depending on which square it is on. Will the model learn a generalization that all L-shaped moves are possible from any square, or will it memorize the different subset of moves that "are possible" from each individual square?
> Quitting smoking and becoming a runner in my 20s was transformative for many reasons, perhaps most of all by replacing regular feelings of shame with pride.

I have a loved one, a life-long smoker in their 60s, who is moving into a non-smoking residential complex. I feel some concern.

> I'd love to kick sugar for good.

And now we're onto my addiction. It ramped up after a new schedule shorted my sleep by 1-2 hours a night.
Back in 2007, I went to a surplus equipment sale at the University of Waterloo (they were a regular event where old systems were sold off cheaply). I bought a steel flight box that looked empty, but when I removed the bottom foam compartment, there were several transputer expansion boards (https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/the-transputer/transput...).

While I consider myself very well versed in the computing and supercomputing space from the 1990s onwards, I never heard of the transputer before then and used that opportunity to learn as much as I could from the plethora of books and documentation that the university library had on them.

I was shocked at the parallels between transputer design and modern supercomputer, SoC, and superscalar processor design principles that were in widespread use by 2007. The transputer was well ahead of its time. And while it never achieved fame and fortune, it seems to have certainly influenced many many other technologies that did.
How is that supposed to work? The toll free number on the back of my card just goes to some customer support line with 30+ minute wait times. There's absolutely no chance that a cashier is going through that for a typical transaction. Also, the whole point of this program is to make this less awkward for transgender people. Being deadnamed might be bad, but at least it's straightforward. The cardholder name matches the one on your government id, and the picture in the government id matches your face, done. I'm not sure how having mismatched names and having to call the bank is more pleasant.
> Personally, I doubt it would.

It will. In this example, publicly firing the guy who ordered Sleiman's termination can be construed as "American firing Hamas Sympathizer fired and sympathizer reinstated"

A culture war is a two way street. No reason to further fan the flames.
I really didn’t understand what an “addiction” was until I started smoking and subsequently tried (for years) to quit. Sure people say, “don’t do that, it’s addicting,” but most of what I heard was warnings about blackened lungs and cancer. I didn’t understand that smoking meant tremendous mood swings and irresistible cravings upon quitting.
That's unfortunately not possible everywhere, but purchasing things daily is necessary.
BirdWeather – a living library of bird vocalizations
There is already too much CO2 in seawater. Taking it from air will also reduce levels in water. If we stop adding new carbon from underground, in several thousand years levels should return to current normal, but this may be too long for our civilization.
This is also why a lot of recent films have absolutely tanked in viewership lately. Everything just seems like preaching and it can be difficult to watch even if you agree with the message.

I'm getting near middle aged and have started watching more of the 90s scifi (with some good modern shows as well) when I just want to escape for a bit. I just started rewatching Farscape again. What a bizarre/wild ride.
I just use Sublime Text for that. It opens immediately on all OSs
Whoops! I was mean HIPS, host intrusion prevention system.

I repeated the acronym mistake along all my comments, even in the one I wrote hours ago before notice yours.

Another user commented ptrace. Such comment is the one that should be shown as closer first answer, not SELinux.
I don’t think 3000 is superhuman though, it’s peak human as iirc magnus had an Elo of 3000 at one point
Xreal's new AR glasses are aimed at the Apple Vision Pro
Nice! I wouldn't worry too much. Once you start Hazen's course it will be impossible for you to stop :-D

That Bach course does seem quite interesting though, I'll check it out!
Ask HN: ML/NLP Ecosystems of Haskell, OCaml, Rust?
What are the respective ecosystems of these languages like for ML/NLP stuff? From what I can tell, the one with the most mature/active ecosystem is Rust. There is both Candle, a PyTorch equivalent, and a lib that (per my understanding) seeks to be 1:1 with the HuggingFace Python Transformers library (https://github.com/guillaume-be/rust-bert).

Haskell has HaskTorch, and OCaml has some OCaml thing that for some reason invokes PyTorch under the hood instead of just interfacing with the C++ deps directly. But it looks like there isn't support for doing things like replicating the Transformers library, and similarly maybe not a lot of support for issues and needs I haven't even run into yet (?)
Perhaps you could target the PanDoc AST for export (and import!). That’s probably the single most robust document conversion tool available. Plus it’s open source so you can get some force multiplication on all the edge cases.

Personally, I’d love to do contract management with a system like this. Each clause could be a block with its own version control history. Easy to query a subset of them into a spreadsheet or slide deck. Main challenge is that all the lawyers will want it in MSFT Word for tracking changes during negotiations, so need to seamlessly interoperate with .docx

https://pandoc.org/
I take issues with describing lies as hallucinations. For an LLM they’re no more or less a hallucination than generating something that’s correct.

LLMs have no sense for what is correct or not, therefor it cannot tell the truth or lie. It always hallucinates - sometimes those hallucinations match our factual understanding.
Okay. But the tolerance of sexism and racism shrinking doesn’t “expand their definitions”, unless you’re a snowflake.
> knowingly circumvent the intent by being minimally compliant. They can sue but it won’t go their way, and the government could move against them hard for willful non compliance.

In the eyes of the court, there's no "minimally compliant". If they are compliant, they are compliant.

If the agency keeps moving the goalposts to "clarify" intent because it was not sufficiently clear initially, that's on them, but it's also not a failing of Nvidia.
Traditionally, a program is a series of instructions. The program doesn't really act on its own.

Now, a program which is objective driven and can infer from new inputs might be something else.

Just like humans try to maximize the stability of their structures via a reward system. (it got slighty complex, faulty at times, or the tradeoff between work vs reward is not always in favor of work because we do not control every variable, hence procrastination for example, or addiction which is not a conscious process but neuro-chemically induced).
Lots of old stories about IBM requiring workers to wear nice blue suits and drive shiny new cars.

I think that mostly ended by the dotcom era though. As an intern in 2001, everybody there wore casual clothes just like at a startup.
Its probably because the firing decision was made/approved by committee and 100% by an individual. One can fire an employee but its harder to deconstruct a system.
People should not fear talking about it. But steer away from phrases like “by that logic” —- it’s neither convincing nor rational to seek a more-logical view on race. It is only embedded in social fabric and not found elsewhere.
> It's a bizarre concept that someone should have a "True Name" that's truer than their legally recorded name(s) and truer still than the names which they were given by their legal parents

Why use a name someone else gave you if you don’t like it anymore ? What prevents us from changing it ?
Very cool research.
On the topic of hydrogen deep underground: I'm not an expert, just a fascinated amateur, but I've been fascinated by the recent discovery that there is enormous amounts of hydrogen below the earth. In fact, this article mentions hydrogen forming by serpentinization, and says that the researchers were shocked to find so much hydrogen. Recent research indicates that hydrogen may exist deep in the earth from processes other than serpentinization as well. There are now a handful of companies working to extract this natural hydrogen to use as a source of green energy. Exciting stuff.

This is an excellent research overview on the topic of "natural" geologic hydrogen
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00128...

I've also compiled some of my own notes on that paper here which provide some summaries on the multiple fascinating sub-topics. (E.G. hydrogen may be a driver of earthquakes! And we may be able to use hydrogen samples to predict earthquakes! Some predict that there may be even more biomass under the earth driven by sources like hydrogen and methane than there is above ground!) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pnW4HRq6E2up0DhIoxjCyGS6...
Yeah, anyone who takes that 100% at face value is in for a rough time.

I believe the intention is to say “it’s ok to be out as gay/trans/whatever, or to express your culture through dress/hair/etc.”. But we have a sloganized sentiment that opens the door for a lot more than that.
If I were going to make a hard switch from apps I use (docs, sheets, todo, meet, ...), I would do so from the conviction I don't want vendor lock-in, and want to own my data. I like the concept. The Collection module seems powerful. Yet, I question the scalability - how long should users wait, for example, for a <tab> to be possible in a code block, in a notebook?

Since you're looking for feedback;
- support markdown where possible, and include links like Obsidian, include Unicode completion like Julia REPL. Point and click is nice, but shortcuts/common syntax is expected,
- support scripting via a modern language,
- let users write plugins for modules / modules.
If you have Powertoys installed, it has a utility to directly paste as plain text.
Well, right now, I'm more than happy to pay it because the existence and defense of Ukraine is worth way more to me than that money. I was just referring to the attitude that would arise from the public that was fatigued by conflicts prior to Ukraine. It's not that I oppose the existence of the military, especially not under the current circumstances. But I'm saying it was more than understandable how many would have viewed it only a few years ago. "Defending freedom" was just an empty tagline back then that lacked even a tenuous case.
With " HISP " I was mean " HIPS ", host intrusion prevention system.
How is that odd? As the job has become less desirable over time the candidate pool shrinks, so salaries and benefits have to rise in order to entice people to apply. It’s simple economics.
Racism existing does not excuse further racism, nor is racism addressed by further racism.
I’d settle for an AI job-listing-BS-interpreter.

Maybe, if it’s also trained on my experience. Then, it would say, No. the ad is referring to something else when they say ‘works well in a team’ and not your weekend CounterStrike LAN parties. Or, Yes, your twelve Python scripts does qualify you for a senior developer position at this lemonade stand. (Whatever)
I don't know if there is a quantum rng or just an inference machine that manages to recognize patterns within input data and can do some math sometimes.
No, matrix multiplication is the system humans use to make predictions about those things but it doesn’t describe their fundamental structure and there’s no reason to imply they do.
You're assuming they didn't try that. I wrote a blog post about a benchmark once, and posted on Reddit/HN, and everyone was like "clearly he should've tried X and Y" which I had, but didn't mention because I had mentioned many other things already which I thought were more interesting to mention... So, my advice is: try it before you accuse someone of not having done it properly. I can almost guarantee you'll find it's not better. If you find it's better, then at least you don't make a fool of yourself by suggesting inocuous changes. Performance is very surprising sometimes.
It doesn’t take the consumption of all trillions of possible game states to see a majority of possible ways a piece can move from one square to another.

Maybe I misread something as I only skimmed, but the pretty weak Elo would most definitely suggest a failure of intuiting rules.
But what does "act on its own" mean? If I give the program some randomness over its next action, is that "acting on its own"? When I'm at work, I act according to a series of instructions. Am I not acting on my own?

This is a very philosophical discussion, but if I had an infinitely-powerful computer and could simulate an entire universe based on a series of instructions (physical laws), would the beings in that universe that created societies not be "acting on their own"?
Windows Millennium
The idea is to create the least convoluted employment scheme conceivable. Convoluted employment schemes are exactly the problem that keeps people who can't handle their shit from working at all.
> Making it extra difficult to replace batteries

This seems counter to reality.

> Apple has completely redesigned the internals of the iPhone 14 to make it easier to repair. It is not at all visible from the outside, but this is a big deal. It’s the most significant design change to the iPhone in a long time.

https://www.ifixit.com/News/64865/iphone-14-teardown
A big factor in that “tinkeriness” of SPAs is how nearly every part of making an SPA well-behaved and pleasant to use falls almost entirely on the shoulders of the developer. Due to how little browsers provide on that front, well-behaved polished SPAs are very much not on the happy path or default. Even if you use the big popular libraries, special care must be taken to not build a product that’s a frustrating mess for users.

In comparison a server-side MPA will probably be at least decent to use unless the dev has been entirely careless, because that model better matches what browsers have been built for.

The takeaway is that for SPAs to be consistently good for both devs and users, browsers need to do the bulk of the heavy lifting and provide a “happy path”, largely eliminating the need for overwrought JS libraries that try to paper over browser inadequacies.
Perfect is the enemy of good.

Mastercard implement a local fix for the government-docs-has-wrong-name problem, that is available today. That's great! Now you can go and advocate to solve the government problem. And tbh, calling elected representatives is a much better use of our time than posting on this website.
Do they still sell parts? Do they still produce parts? Do they still sell new systems?
You're right, this is one of the reasons of the RSS sunset.

The solution is a cloud service, as mentioned on its site. It monitors really many sources for you and filters what is actually interesting to you and then notifies you.

It doesn't ask for any registration, the only authorization is needed just to prevent exploitation.

Consider you want to apply to a matching job announcement 1st, before others. Then updating every 6 hours may be not enough.
Linux isn't what it was - it's contributed to via a lot of companies with commercial interests. The open source developers who started doing it all for love are often doing it for money now. Certain features are desired, there's a way to do it, they do it.

The actual "customers" of linux now - the ones providing the money that employs people - aren't Linux enthusiasts but big companies. So it's absolutely obvious that their needs are "what matter".

It's ok. The rest of us can fork and "be irrelevant" in the same way Linux was irrelevant before it became popular.
It runs on L̶o̶t̶u̶s̶S̶c̶r̶i̶p̶t̶ JavaScript. Speaking of, Mitch Kapor's 1984 memo is turning 40 this year:

> With the formal commencement of the "Notes" project upon us, it
seemed appropriate to set down a few brief notions about the project, its scope, and its strategic importance to Lotus. This material should be regarded as more than highly confidential.

https://web.archive.org/web/20180225100127/http://www.kapor....

Also discussed previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13168969
Where I’m from (Southeast Asia), mostly in malls they will ask for your government ID along with your credit card.
Pretty sure the comedy is just a distraction from the real issue. Someone has to much time on their hands.

> I have gotten questions from HR - in terms of “How come Jad can do stand up but he can’t work in the office?”

Probably why the attacks on the clips are so weak. High up guy was being petty. But they couldn't fired him for not being in the office.
Disney backs down from 'Steamboat Willie' YouTube copyright claim
Visiting the Tank Museum is something I do when I go to England. I wish I could be there on Tiger Day and see it driving around. It's an amazing machine to see in person. Having four actual WW2 Shermans plus the Tiger in Fury made the movie so much more amazing; it's not a great movie, but the actual vehicles made it special.
Show HN: Written a blog and animated the steps to implement Transformers model
Corporate personhood is a thing in the US, and you are allowed to shutdown your company just fine.
I think there's a lot of potential in this idea! I've been pondering how to pull this off for a very long time.

My 5 minute test run:

- For documents, I couldn't figure out how to make anything but plain text. The keyboard shortcut Ctrl+/ doesn't work on my keyboard (no "/" key).

- For sheets, I couldn't figure out how to write a formula. And this isn't a really a spreadsheet, it's a database table, which is a related but distinct thing (more structure, but less freedom).
Good point, I guess they could also be Men In Black aliens too and I wouldn’t know that either.
> Synthetic knowledge refers to propositions or truths

of which LLMs have no way of determining

-> bullshit
Nice find, you can also do it like this:

System Preferences > iCloud > iCloud Drive ( Options ) > uncheck TextEdit.

Starting with macOS Ventura, it is System Settings > Internet Accounts > iCloud > iCloud Drive > Options > uncheck TextEdit.

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/61406/how-to-make-...
Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript. - Jeff Atwood
> the clerk looked at him with suspicion and questioned his card, which was still printed with the name he had used before transitioning

> A quarter of those surveyed say they have not changed their gender marker on their formal ID, discouraged by the expensive and time-consuming process

So you change your name on your card, while having a government ID with a different name. And that’s supposed to make things less suspicious?

I mean, and this is comical, but trans people change their identity, and credit cards from last century partly outsources their fraud prevention by having merchants verify said identity. Wouldn’t it be better to, you know, remove the part where merchants have to do that? How about I authenticate with the payment provider instead of some random store clerk? I don’t want the merchant to even see my name at all. Principle of least privilege.
Eating a banana by first breaking it in half, and then peeling the halves.
It's HTML4.01 with an actual dtd in the doctype, so "the latter".
The Battle of Bamber Bridge
Some accounts in the comments really care about what name is on my credit cards

Weird when compared with the tech ethos of anonymous internet transactions ( crypto for example)
Torvalds Speaks: Rust's Impact on the Linux Kernel
Ask HN: How to Handle Google Lockout Affecting Critical Services?
Last week, I was in the process of transitioning to a new email as my primary email. I had successfully set it up for important services like bank accounts and my Apple ID. I also established a recovery email, but I hadn't added a mobile number yet due to ongoing errors associated with my previous email.

Now, Google has completely locked me out, citing "suspicious activity.", and doesn't let me recover the account without phone number (which was never setup), and has no option to use the recovery email address which I had previously setup (pretty much for this exact scenario). I only had ever used my home Wi-Fi, or my phone's 5G to login to this particular account.

So far, I have used this account for:

Bank correspondences
My primary email ID
Setting up Tailscale

This lockout is particularly troubling as it disrupts access to several critical services. Has anyone here experienced a similar situation? How did you resolve it, and what steps can I take to regain access or prevent such issues in the future?

Any suggestions for other email providers?
>If someone says they feel unsafe, maybe we should default to believing them rather than minimising them. A tiny bit of compassion and empathy goes a long way.

Okay but surely you must agree that there are limits to how much we as a society should believe? Portraying yourself as being oppressed is an effective way to garner sympathy and resources from society, so people are incentivized to use language that makes their plight seem worse. That's not to say everyone making such claims are acting in bad faith, or even misrepresenting their internal feelings, but we can't take everyone's statements at face value either.
This is delightful!
> But what about all that lackluster driver support? WiFi drivers still on the 802.11g standard and all? Surely you can't be serious about it when Linux offers all that support out of the box, right? Wrong, actually. For starters, the drivers provided for the Pi's hardware are often half-assed proprietary blobs... I no longer think FreeBSD is really at fault if the driver support for the hardware is not helpful to begin with.

I installed FreeBSD on a raspberry pi a few years ago, and I don’t think I ever got WiFi working. No FreeBSD is not “at fault” for not being popular enough on the desktop to receive proprietary drivers, but as a user it sure is frustrating to struggle to get such a basic function working
I posted another comment above about recent discoveries that the Earth has enormous quantities of hydrogen deep underground which is constantly bubbling to the surface - and in fact, flowing all the way up to the upper atmosphere and even escaping into space (!). So this would indeed seem to provide a flux even deep underground. Understanding this geologic hydrogen cycle is a fascinating new field.
My ethical principles compel me to reject the use of passive voice in journalism and to identify those responsible.
Don't forget X's xeets!