skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So many books! Chess becomes all about remembering similar positions - practice and study to understand.
In the public domain, Lasker's Manual of Chess is a classic. I saw a study group use that as a textbook. Capablanca's Chess Fundamentals starts at a lower level, but sometimes leaves proofs to the reader - for instance, tells you to be ready to swap one advantage for another - which advantage, again?
John Watson cleared the bases with "Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy" and "Chess Strategy in Action", which simply dumbfounded the pundits when they came out. Between them, I prodded him with an email suggesting that understanding nuances in positions, and how small differences could lead to big changes was a key.
I haven't bought many chess books lately, but openings books are a dime a dozen and "Basic Chess Endings" is an updated and enduring classic.
“Code release coming soon”

Will this (and many others like it) ever be released?
US tech innovation dreams soured by changed R&D tax laws
The other advantage is this is a solid rocket that can shut be turned off.

That’s usually the major drawback to solid rockets.

(Apologies if that’s obvious)
The plane crashes had nothing to do with inspection. You could've inspected a 737max down to every single bolt back in 2017 and not have prevented the crashes that happened after that.
I'm not disagreeing, but I believe it is a better use of ones time to prioritize things that spark personal significance rather than attempting to quantify/compare meaningfulness universally.

I would never listen to someone who proposes reallocating high-level talent resources as an important and solvable problem where the solution is, tell those people their passions are a waste of time. I also don't believe this person understands the talent market as they quote the "Many of the most talented artists of our time work in advertising," nonsense. Yes their are smart people working in advertising, but it's no deeper than that. There are other spaces and industries that have more brilliant minds.

The truth is, you don't know with certainty if working on VR technology is more meaningful or not.
Project is deprecated in favour of the same developer's lexbor project[0].

[0]: https://github.com/lexbor/lexbor
This is great, I find your opinion hilarious.

Yeah, Windows 95 BSOD'd a lot; however the people developing it were doing it for the very first time, largely with single-digits of megabytes of memory to work with and with a CPU that not only contained bugs[0] but was so slow that every single operation would take milliseconds of wall time[1].

It's not comparable, it's almost to the level that rendering a character on my screen right now consumes more CPU cycles than the entire operating system would have done in a day.

PHP was good, actually, but it's borne of its time- it's easy to use 20:20 vision of history to say it's a bad design when fundamentally:

A) it solved problems

B) it was working with the best of human knowledge in language design at the time

C) it remains one of the most well optimised web languages to this day, even a variant from the era would easily outperform any django webapp, I'd put money on this.

We stand on the shoulders of giants, good abstractions and lessons from these periods are what make our software so robust today. We made it a lot slower though.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug

[1]: a 60Hz CPU executes an clock tick once every 16ms, Pentium 1 was the most popular CPU when Windows 95 released, and it had a clock speed of 60/66MHz; it was the first to be able to do two instructions per clock, meaning it had a best case scenario of 7.5ms assuming the 66MHz option was available.
> We initially focused this search on US studies, but due to a limited sample of these studies, we expanded the search

"Our data about US were so poor that we needed to add data from other continents"

> cats kill 1.3–4 billion birds each year in the U.S.

"But we still ended somehow with this bold and likeable value made with a mix of pure air, foreign data and statistical spice"

Another case of turd data polished to gold by the magic of science. People will repeat it for decades online.
Honestly Manna is a story about AI way before it's time, because it captures that most of the battle we see now, it isn't going to be about AI at all. But corporate datamining in order to dehumanize you.

I mean, this is OpenAI today "By using our product you are training our product to be you, please insert $$$ to avoid this scenario"
The orchestra at the siege of Leningrad and the theatre troupes in WW2 camps beg to differ.
I would imagine you have to be large enough for Microsoft to even entertain neogotiating with you.

If the majority of businesses (and employment, and communications) are small businesses.. where does that land?
That seems like a very reasonable law, but it's not consistent with what was linked above and what other commentators are saying really is "the law".

> You cannot use government materials in a way that implies endorsement by a government agency, official, or employee. For example, using a photo in your advertisement of a government official wearing or using your product is not permitted.

No exemption made for photos where the government official really did use your cowboy hat or starship! No exception for situations where the government really did endorse you as a service provider of rugged outdoor clothing, or manned space missions.

After all, if the situation was just "you aren't allowed to fraudulently claim the government used or endorsed your product, when they did no such thing" it would barely need mentioning.
wow it's crazy to see all the marketing babble that has evolved since we all just used adwords/adsense, doubleclick, web rings, and affiliate programs without really thinking about it in the early 00s and didn't have made up words for all these things nor did we think at all about targeting. The really fancy ones among us might say things like SEO, PPC, PPM, and ROI but that was about it
The even lower powered ESP8266 is used in countless WiFi smart plugs and bulbs.
Depends on who you ask.

I am glad that the observability sector has standardized on a common protocol but my god are the reference implementations lacking.
> I don't agree with you but I appreciate you providing me with comments like this to cite when I try to convince people "yes, FSF are really that maximalist; no, that's not a 90s relic they moved on from".

unless you make sure that gumby is speaking for the FSF, then that comment does not provide evidence that the FSF believe that. It's merely evidence that gumby does.

I don't understand why people are so quick to take somebody's personal opinion and ascribe it to whatever organization(s) they happen to belong to. This sort of fallacy is why we constantly have to suffer through the "I speak only for myself, not my organization" disclaimers
So no case law.

You've pointed me to two sections of the license, but neither directly says what you're claiming. Why don't you help us understand what your argument would be? I.e., explain how you would apply the rules in the license to the facts of iOS distribution to reach the conclusion that distribution on iOS is a per se violation?
How quaint of you to assume these are done by people.
This is plainly off topic.
>> He's only 5...

Wow, did not see that coming!

My nephew and I have a similar connection but he's 30, so my mental picture was way off.
At the risk of ranting.. yeah, it's pretty bad and I also remember how much I used to like it. It's one thing if it was only style changes, but the dumbing-down of much of the content also is pretty hard to miss. Banter, "fun" stories, piles of shameless fluff, the fan-service moving closer to social-media levels of pandering crap, the podcast-level of contempt for the time/intelligence of the viewership. I guess we all become what we hate. Today is actually a pretty good day for them, but above the fold it's still This week's news quiz separates the winners from the losers. Which will you be?, and the search term "Barbie" appears before "Boeing".
And they are both new accounts.
Well did you know that Firefox and Safari already got rid of third party cookies? And Google only delayed it due to various government intervention.
Rogue Amoeba's 2024 Status Report
hire airbus to inspect boeing, and hire boeing to inspect airbus?
Graph Galaxy 13 now supports GVPR
I'm not suggesting it's a way to go but there might have been some reasons companies hosted their own infrastructure (even at the cost).

They controlled the upgrades, and Microsoft for a long time couldn't even count how many copies of office, etc were being used because the software didn't phone home. That software is probably still running until it's updated to have telemetry added.
Ask HN: A newsletter that summarizes the most interesting, recent ML/AI papers?
I'm constantly looking into Arxiv for new AI/ML papers, research, but I would love if there was a newsletter with the most interesting ones, or a site that just used GPT to summarize what the new papers are about
The FAA is bad, but I would say the FDA is worse.

Any industry in which you have companies actually writing the text of the regulations used to oversee them is a recipe for disaster.

Sadly it usually takes a tragedy to highlight these egregious systems that exist in our country. We also need to get lobbyists out of Washington so that the real impactful work can begin to separate the government agencies from the companies they're meant to regulate.
Cool! Is there a video as well, then?
It’s just a bit more slow.
What's the difference to other fuels? Except for few plastic is actually much better...
No, I don't agree. There's more to life than money. In money terms, you may have wasted your time. Did you learn anything? Did you have fun? Not a total waste, then.

Look, you can make a side project into an obsession that eats your life. Don't do that. But for more reasonable levels of "side project", they have a place even if they never make any money.
Easier said then done. Inspecting planes is job that requires a lot of skill and knowledge. Most of those people aren't cheap and they tend to work for airplane companies that need their skills and can pay their salaries. Which in the US means Boeing basically employs all the best people for this.

IMHO, the system actually works just fine. Accidents are extremely rare and companies tend to learn from them.

A better fix would maybe be to just make it really expensive for Boeing to cut corners here and put mechanisms in place to verify that they aren't. And you could argue that is the case already. Their reputation suffered and it probably shows in their order books. So, I'm guessing they are very eager and well incentivized to move on from that.

And looking at the Airbus and Boeing stock price suggests that Boeing stock has never recovered from that. Both stocks went down a lot at the beginning of Covid. But the Airbus stock has basically recovered from that and Boeing hasn't.

Even the mere threat of regulators getting more strict is probably making investors really nervous. That could end up being more effective than any actual inspections.
The lack of 5Ghz in all their products is... surprising...

There are plenty of home users with 5Ghz only networks, which in turn means anyone designing an IoT device will get user complaints and returns from all these users.
> my god are the reference implementations lacking.

Can you share some of your experience, what do you mean by that? Are there edge cases causing problems, or major missing features? Easy or difficult to use?
The moral of the story is that a lot of humanity is just working for cash instead of anything useful, interesting, etc for humanity and even themselves. The basic needs and sometimes a bit beyond, still, quite worthless on any scale beyond your few m^2. Depressing, but it seems not improve with us all being better off.
I think part of the trouble many here are having is that they don't even understand why Scott goes to the party, or argues, or wants to convince people of his arguments.

Surely, if no one reading my comment here ever agrees with me, my life doesn't change for the worse at all. And if people do agree with me, again, my life doesn't change for the better. I'm mostly here to learn from you people, you sometimes say interesting things I am unaware of, or introduce interesting perspectives I might not have seen for myself.

I have noticed among humans though, that you argue and debate like this, because you're basically monkeys and monkeys do the social monkey thing. You're trying to achieve higher status by climbing above the other monkeys, whose status will lower (if only a little). This is not as entertaining as violent fights, but much less risky (at least in some cultures). You're posturing.

It has little appeal to me. I am unable to determine if it holds appeal for the rest of you, or if you just can't help yourselves.
Apollo project is generally considered to have cost $25 billion, not $5 billion. Still, if we consider 0.007 of GDP in modern numbers, that's 2.65 trillion (2023) * 0.007 --> $18 billion.

The fossil fuel industry receives $760 billion in subsidy. We're already spending more on energy; we're just spending it on the wrong energy.
It seems to be a non-issue to me. From my attorney a few months back:

"We follow the practice of major law firms in the venture space and do not include a spousal consent for the 83(b) election in community property states. We also confirmed with our tax counsel, and they confirmed our approach is advisable."

No one should lose sleep over it. Spouse didn't sign off on a $500 payment to buy restricted stock (early startup stock), so IRS will come down heavily on you for material harm --- will not stand in court!

My 2 cents anyway based on legal advice received.
Or, even more revolutionary, you can like things in bad taste and not give a crap what other people think about it!
Felis Catus doesn't have a native range in any meaningful manner, IMO. They are a global species like us, because of us. You can't put that cat back in the bag no matter the .22 cartridges you expend.
Debates aren't about arriving at the truth. They are rhetorical combat to 'win' an argument. Most people don't understand that.
I'm thinking they automatically fed in bulk images, asking for product description/title, and put the result straight into their product descriptions/titles.
Some of the images triggered the OpenAI guard rails.
I feel like you only see articles like this written by game developers. Something about making video games for a living makes you question the value of what you’re creating.
Perfetto: System profiling, app tracing and trace analysis
Because it’s simple to grasp, easy to write, well-suited to the fields in which it is used (things like first-class multidimensional arrays, native complex numbers, good auto-vectorisers, things like OpenMP…), and quite efficient.

It is quite interoperable (it’s easy to use anything that is callable from C).

It’s easy to archive some code and be sure that it’ll run in the foreseeable future.

Overall, it is a nice language to work with if you’re doing scientific computing. The rest of the world does not care much about its strengths.
As a maintainer and end-user, my answer to this is...yes and no. It's important to clarify that, stability - something mentioned in the article - has several major definitions:

- Stability in the specification

- Stability in semantic conventions

- Stability in the protocol representation

- Stability in SDKs that can generate data

- Stability in the Collector that can receive, process, and export that data

Unfortunately, for many people, they may interpret "stable" in one of those categories as "stable for everything", and then get really annoyed when they find their language doesn't actually have stable support (or any support!) for that concept.

What I'm most proud of in 2023 is all of the little things we made progress on with components that engineers have to materially deal with. On the website, we documented what feels like a million little things and clarified tons of concepts that people told us were confusing. Across all the SDKs, we fixed tons of little bugs, added more and more instrumentations, and completed the unsexy work to make metrics generation stable across most of our 11+ languages. The Collector added oodles and oodles of support for different data sources, and OTTL went from a neat component to a rock-solid general-purpose data transformation tool.

There's so much more work to do, but I'm really happy about the progress.
Sorry to pester, but here you go

https://www.ft.com/content/1588974e-db75-4a02-9aff-deb0b75ed...

Where is this for airbus?
I get that this is basically fraud and spam, but this should really highlight the dangers of letting an unattended LLM do anything for your company at all.
It can, and will, fuck up dramatically sooner or later.
European Convention on Human Rights
https://www.echr.coe.int/documents/d/echr/Convention_ENG
Why is burning plastic worse than the existing fuels? Pretty much all fuel mixes for rockets are nasty stuff.
Perhaps forced bankruptcy to personally pay back compensation to the Post Office. Follow the money the way they do with terrorists.
This is probably true, but not very helpful. We can shrug over historical curiosities, but in a lot of cases we have to make a decision.

Consider Linus Pauling's claim that you can prevent cancer with megadoses of vitamin C. It was never widely accepted, but Pauling is a titan of science with two Nobels and he wrote books with convincing-sounding arguments, so it's tempting to think maybe this is a case where the status quo is wrong (esp. if you have cancer).

I think that's the sort of thing Alexander is trying to navigate here - no matter how comfortable you get saying "I don't know", at the end of the day you need to take the vitamins or not take them.
> If I could implant a chip in my brain, and if people could control my brain with that chip, I would probably never allow it. But when that chip is outside of my brain in a device I keep in my pocket, why am I more willing to allow other entities to feed me stimuli?

This definition of "feeding you stimuli" seems extremely broad to me. Are you "allowing other entities to feed you stimuli" when you listen to the radio? When you see signs and billboards on the highway? When you are having a conversation? How could you live your life without allowing other entities to feed you stimuli? How are these examples different from what your phone is doing? (And don't say "notifications": you have far more control over which notifications you receive than which billboards you see.)

If I could implant a chip in my brain that allowed me to tune into any radio station I wanted and listen to it in my brain, I'd probably do that, assuming it's safe and actually under my control. I'm not seeing the dichotomy here.
Weirdly there are solid fuel rockets that can be turned on and off.

Electric solid propellants (ESPs) is the term apparently. I saw youtube video where some guy was fooling around with the some brand or another of this type.

see https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20190030421/downloads/20...
i'm surprised the solution here isn't... moving out of google cloud. that is terrible
The international double standard does not in fact exist. The two situations are not comparable. That observation does not exonerate Israel.
The waste product is brine. It's an extremely salty sludge that's toxic to marine life. In the same way that fresh water is "just" diluted seawater, but pumping millions of gallons of it into a coastal ecosystem would wipe it out.
More people need to appreciate that video games have been at the core of what drives computing technologies forward.
Agree, there being an open standard for instrumentation is a big win. Lots of work still needs to be done on showing more examples and making it more accessible to users & implementors.

One other key area is resources which can help get engineers/implementors to get organizational buy-in
I get where you're coming from but in 2024, solar is the cheapest source of power on earth, and wind is second-cheapest. Economics and survival are aligned for once, we just gotta actually build the new system and deprecate the old
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=I%27m+sorry+openai

man, there are a loooot.
here's the video of ESP's that I saw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHRyv7ARb5M
Clinical diagnostics, for example. Any time you take a blood test and send it off somewhere (Quest, LabCorp, etc.) to get assayed, chances are it goes to a self-regulated and self-inspected lab. These labs hire FDA certified "lab managers" as consultants or employees who are then responsible for all QA/QC procedures and certifying that the lab is capable of doing what they claim. They can be held criminally liable and have quite a bit of authority (a bit like professional engineers) but it's still a cozy employer-employee relationship.

The FDA steps in when something goes really bad but I've never seen them do official spot checks without cause.
Found some similar AI babble left in a negative google review the other day: https://imgur.com/a/20jLlg7

Unsure if it was from someone who had a real experience and used ChatGPT to help them word it, or if it was a nefarious actor (e.g. competitor) lazily bad-mouthing competition.
"Best minds of my generation" is a pretty specific phrase which appears in the Ginsberg quote and not in the Banksy one. I would argue that famous quote are more often related by structure than context. Most quotes about "the smell of <something> in the morning" are not about the Vietnam war, for example.
Yes, 802.11ax added all the technology required to allow subchannel slicing in both the time and frequency domains.

Lets say you had a 5ghz 8x8 160mhz AP (maximum allowable by spec): if all you had were 1x1 20mhz clients, you could theoretically have 64 different clients concurrently communicating with the AP without any real problems.

2.4ghz does not have 160mhz channels, but allows up to 40mhz. Ignoring the fact that 2.4ghz is incredibly congested, and you will never achieve peak performance, you can still achieve a theoretical maximum (again, with 1x1 20mhz clients) of 16 concurrent clients.

That said, I'm more interested in 802.11be: MIMO across bands. Instead of hard disabling 2.4ghz (which I 100% recommend all people do: this cures all Wifi ills; and if you have a building that eats 5ghz, either move or spam APs), the AP will dynamically use 2.4ghz as a possible MIMO band.

Theoretical maximum configuration of 802.11be is 40+160+320 (one 40mhz 2.4ghz channel, one 160mhz 5ghz channel, 1 320mhz 6ghz channel), and 802.11be devices will simultaneously communicate across all of them; maximum MIMO configuration has also been increased to 16.

In other words, the future is an AP that looks like a hedgehog, and has 10gbit port.
Napkin Ring Problem
There are a lot of them.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=OpenAI+use+policy
Indeed - the target of this device is lowish cost IoT.

Things like $20 "wifi doorbell"'s.

The esp8266 range is for ultra low cost wifi - things like $5 "wifi bulb"'s
My boss says we don't need any engineering managers. Is he right?
I've long believed this to be the reason that component-oriented software never went anywhere back in the 90's. You could make _some_ money selling components. But you could make _tons_ of money selling a walled-off set of pre-integrated components as an office suite.
Many firms beat the market spectacularly, and in many different ways. Berkshire Hathaway, Renaissance, Jane Street all have their niche and make fabulous returns. So the premise seems flawed, similar to asking "why do VCs invest in startups if 90% will go bust in a few years?" The 10% that compensate for the rest in a power law fashion.