skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While Tom Baker was the first Doctor I ever encountered, Peter Davison was always my Doctor. The Time Crash mini-episode was especially delightful to me because (a) David Tennant is married to Peter’s daughter and (2) he apparently has the same fondness for Davison out of the classic doctors.
Many different reasons:

1. The biggest one is probably that there is already so much interest and depth in regular chess. "Everyone" focuses on it, so that's what your friends know and where you can find competitions and community. This leads to a chicken-egg problem where it hard to kick it off. It's basically like another board game.

2. Some opening positions in Fischer chess are quite awkward: The pieces are on squares where it takes a while for them to come into proper play. This can make the opening phase quite unsatisfying to play. You need to make a lot of extra moves before you actually get into the interesting parts. It's not necessarily more "fun" to play this way than regular chess. There's also some positions which are much better for white (although it's on average more balanced I believe)

3. IMO, regular chess is easier for lower-rated players. The choice of openings don't matter so much (either way the game is decided by someone hanging a piece), and it's a lot easier to follow existing games. In Fischer chess it can be even harder to know "okay, what do I do?", while in regular chess there's both general principles and systems to follow. This means that most newer players keep being exposed to regular chess instead of Fischer chess.

> Wouldn't Fischer chess take the game to a whole new level, making it so that all the opening books are useless and the midgame requires much more improv?

Magnus Carlsen is promoting and advocating for Freestyle Chess (same game as Fischer chess, but with different name): https://www.freestyle-chess.com/. Maybe it'll take off.
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> Schröedinger [sic]

Schrödinger or Schroedinger: it is just you on HN <<https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22Schr%C3%B6edinger%22+site%3Anew...> who has used "öe", multiple times.

Boltzmann brains have nothing to do with Schrödinger: statistical mechanics works fully classically, and nobody treats Boltzmann brains in a quantum mechanical way because a Boltzmann brain is an unembodied ephemeral human brain. Natural human brains have a history of being warm and electrically noisy (any quantum features decohere faster than thought), while fluctuated-out-of-equilibrium human brains aren't around long enough to have their temperature measured, nor to produce much electrical noise.

A quantum-mechanical Boltzmann brain emerging from a gas of photons in (cold) equilibrium in which fluctuations take photons out of equilibrium and into the farrrr UV is going to be on the short-lived end of Boltzmann brains: things like annihilations and complicated decay chains will dissolve them away quickly. Which is the point. Boltzmann brains, unlike the bowl of petunias in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, should not have time to compose poetry.

Very hot thermal radiation is what destroys classical Boltzmann brains. They sort-of are a cool spot in an extremely violently hot bubble in an otherwise cold (colder than brains!) gas of almost everywhere uniform temperature.

> Yes I am familiar with the physics ...

> Quoting a university [physics] textbook on a philosophical argument

... which is philosophizing about actual physics ...

> is an interesting choice.

Well, what textbooks or other sources do you rely upon when philosophizing about fluctuation theory? What have you read or taught from?

> pop sci/undergrad classroom interpretations

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Looks useful and powerful. Nice work!
Trellis is very impressive (topology notwithstanding). I put some examples together of what Trellis can do, it's definitely better with angular type models (vehicles, etc.), but unsurprisingly can struggle a bit with more organic forms.

https://imgur.com/a/trellis-2d-3d-samples-eSWJhMj
I'm half South African and can do many of the different accents, notably Afrikaans, Cape Town (white and coloured) and black SA, they're all very different. I'm pretty sure most people think of Wickus v.d. Merwe from District 9, but that's not the only one!

I can also speak a bunch of other languages without accent so good luck for any AI to fit me in a box :P
The company that manufactured it is on the label. Oftentimes a Google search will show they’re partnering with Indian manufacturers.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

The Rise and Fall of Ashton-Tate - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36257178 - June 2023 (1 comment)

The Rise, Fall and Survival of Ashton-Tate's dBASE - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6426540 - Sept 2013 (25 comments)
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It's expensive and difficult to put a large door on the front or back of a plane, resulting in inefficiencies or maintenance headaches.

The planes that DO have them are almost always military planes not used for other things, or very large jumbos (search 747 cargo or C-5 galaxy).

Almost all other planes are optimized for passengers (the cargo space in even a largish jet may be too short to stand up in, for example).
The secret life of DNS packets (2019)
Depending on your definition of 'popular', Xerox Mesa & Cedar?
Algol-68?
There's degrees to it, regardless of them being 18 y/o, I assume he's not aware enough to emancipate, therefore, there's reasonable cause for the parents to act and block here (The parents may be aware enough to make the call, I guess that would fall under their responsability)

Him being at all on the spectrum means a bit less than the actual degree at which he is, I may be on it as well (Albeit slightly), had unrestricted internet access, and while I'm not confident on saying I would do it differently than what my parents did, I have many arguments for limiting some of it even for an aware and allistic kid

It's a large scale problem, I can't expect the parents to know the intricacies of everything on the internet, but I'd expect them to try and be aware of those parts their kid does take interest to a degree their competency allows

Regardless, while I've always considered this kind of chatbot something a child should be strictly kept away from, because you can't know when it will tell a child to do this, or to glue pizza for a less dramatic example

I'm okay with it not being marketable to children, but the steps neccessary to limit them further than that make me uneasy
FDA has trouble hiring inspectors due to requirement of advanced degree with low pay.

FDA has authority to fine factories but like most things right now, these drugs are only cheap source of medicine for many so Medicare/Medicaid is leaning not to cut it off.

Inspecting Foreign Factories is obviously much harder even cost aside because inspectors don't want to do it and the person spends almost 4-6 days traveling.
I always wanted to do a trio version of this with my brothers with me on double bass, one brother on banjo and the third on violin, but alas, my oldest brother died before it could move beyond just being a dream.
Interestingly, I have just announced the same idea:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42399469

Compare it
Making “social” social again: Announcing Mozi
Why do they load from a ramp to a cart at the same height? Why not ramp UP over a dump-style cart and just have the luggage fall into it?
In the three-letter agency soup, it's very possible another agency called them and said: you guys don't know who these are, and you will never know. But we know.
Mobile Surveillance Tool EagleMsgSpy Used by Chinese Law Enforcement
What would be useful as well is turning API's into spreadsheets
It would super cool if they eventually make this a part of the phone OS and all you would need to do is buy a headset and plug it in over USB-C. Same idea as Dex, different display form factor, but same computer.

Then with Android Auto, Dex, and XR, you would just need a single computer you can carry with you.

Seems like the end state for personal computing. Instead of buying separate computers, you buy human interface devices and plug them in over USB-C.
I've unintentionally melted enough plastic cookware- that I should probably move to metal anyways.
That isn't how most appreciate sports. People are hoping for the contenders to be at the top of their game towards the end of the championships. Nobody says "Hey, at least this has a human touch! I'm sick of basketball video games." if the NBA finals are relatively boring one year.

I think maybe "that was a absolutely horrible finish" got interpreted as saying that the win wasn't well earned. That's not how I saw it at all.
100% correct, but most of those, like the GP sadly, aren't really gonna pay attention.
he doesn't discuss financials, but that's my first and only question: how is this gonna be funded if it takes off?
So by your own comment there were thousands of companies that absolutely were still using rotation policies until they were blessed with your consultation.

Sounds like your doing the lord's work. Godspeed
Also an avid Dr. Who fan in the 1970s, growing up on Long Island and watching it on my black and white TV on Saturday mornings on PBS. I was the only kid I knew that watched it though. Having my own television (mostly used for my Atari 400 computer) helped me explore all the channels, leading me to PBS. I loved Dr. Who so much, I couldn't wait for Saturday morning. Then it was followed by all kinds of other shows nobody else I knew watched, one of them was Computer Chronicles. It was all so much better than watching cartoons.
Related Show HN (9 points, 73 days ago, 4 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41693218
"What can you say, this is what you get when you cut funding of these agencies over a 20+ year time period."

Actually, this is mostly an issue with process. Covid shutdowns caused a huge backlog. Offshore manufacturing gets notifications of planned visits versus unannounced visits for onshore facilities. Sure, every org will say it can do more with a bigger budget. But more money for inspectors will do little to retain them when some of the biggest complaints are the travel requirements leading to reduced work-life balance.
The vast majority of people in the world don't own any VR device as of today, and likely never will. I don't see there is a "be forced to" thing happening.
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You can seal woods (polyurethane, linseed oil, etc) and they take well to disinfectants (UV, povidone iodine, etc) and can be submerged in common commercial disinfectant washes.

It's just uncommon in a commercial kitchen because it costs 4-5x the price, depending on how many you want and how many you'll destroy from use over time. A cheap steel implement in a commercial kitchen will last 4-5x the lifetime of a wood one but that same wood implement will last just fine in a home kitchen.
RETROCMP, the site for restoration of classic computers
Why is that particularly surprising? If the planes were certified with a particular landing light, it's an awful lot of paperwork and STCs to change things out. Plus, you wouldn't just be swapping out the bulb - you'd have to swap out the entire reflector to keep the beam pattern sane. The retrofit LEDs on car headlights regularly demonstrate what happens when you change from a more or less point source of light on the central axis (the filament in an H4 bulb or some other similar type) to a source that's "not that," you get all sorts of weird focus and cutoff issues.

Also, consider icing conditions. Any modern airliner is rated for flight into known icing, which includes deicing equipment. A halogen landing light is self-deicing for the most part (airliner landing lights are hundreds of watts, some are closer to a thousand). It will happily keep ice buildup away from the lens, whereas a LED will need some other variety of deicing to keep it clear. This is one of the reasons I use halogen bulbs in my motorcycle - I ride year round, to include in ice and snow (Ural, so has a sidecar, I can drive the sidecar wheel too, it's totally fine in these conditions). A halogen bulb keeps the headlight nicely free of ice buildup. LEDs don't put out enough heat to solve that problem, and it doesn't take that much ice buildup to totally scramble the beam pattern off a good glass lens.

You can get LED retrofit landing lights for smaller planes, and the club I fly with has them - but they're also Cessnas not rated for flight into known icing, so "keeping ice off the landing lights" is not a particular design concern.

Anyway, it surprises me none that airliners are still using halogens for the most part.
Yeah, at best this is a deliberately mis-named proposal to get the state to gamble taxpayer dollars into speculative investments.
First, that’s because FSD is legally only L2 and thus legally you are required to pay attention. It has nothing to do with the engineering realities of the impact on improving safety.

When L5 becomes available then this becomes a different calculus. And it’s honestly questionable about how good the characterization actually is since Tesla’s L2 FSD seems to outperform Mercedes’s L3 and it’s more a matter of the liability the manufacturer is willing to take on vs objective measurements of quality.
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Get your own 1600 miles range black ops drone of your own then.
Microbial growth on wood is really only an issue when conditions are right -- namely, when the wood is wet for an extended period of time.

Washing wood utensils immediately after use, with some soap if needed, and drying quickly and completely, should eliminate 99%+ of the risk.
There's also a certain amount of tolerated variance in generic drug manufacture. Sometimes this isn't a big deal, but other times it can be a problem. For example, if my generic tizanidine (muscle relaxant) is 10-20% less or more effective, it's not really a big deal: I get a little sleepy or need to take an extra pill. When I was on duloxetine for nerve pain, though, I could feel the swings/differences in generics and it was a major problem.
> The hint function has been the most popular one in assassinating users

That's the effect of LeetCode on the field of software development.
Pay $4, install HamStudy on iOS or Android, and/or use the excellent HamStudy.org site for free, run through all the questions until you've been through them all and are consistently scoring 90% on the practice exams, then pay the $35 FCC registration fee plus $15 exam fee to take the exam online, supervised on camera by three already-licensed amateur radio volunteers who are looking forward to cheering your success.

Take the Technician exam to be legal for most of the stuff you can do with your handheld, or if you're feeling ambitious, hit the General one right after that (you can keep going in the same session at no extra charge, but you're just wasting everyone's time if you've not studied at all for the level you're attempting) which will also get you into most of HF (1.8 MHz - 30 MHz).

I eventually did all three (Amateur Extra) so that I could convert it into a full German license (even the German national radio club advised me, a non-German citizen, to do it that way)

Good luck!
Then I suppose nothing is free and the word should be removed from all language since this sort of hair splitting can be applied to everything lol
>absolutely were still using rotation policies

That is not what I said. In fact, that's the complete opposite of what I said! Here, I'll add some emphasis for you.

>"~90% or more of the companies we consult with do not have forced arbitrary password rotations ___when we start our engagement with them___"
On Windows, there https://github.com/petoncle/mousemaster which took inspiration from warpd.
This is an absurd analogy. How could you possibly make such a conclusion? What's your reasoning?
I remember those times well, particularly all the clones - i.e. Foxpro. Dbase was a great idea but I sure hated the language used. Paradox and Access were clearly superior.
Someone adding a critique to your argument is not an attack nor is it evidence of some belief system on the their part.
You even fixed their typo on "its".
> Maybe I am too reliant on my gmail account.

Ding ding ding!
So the FBI didn't actually say they were drones.

The FBI said public reports and eyewitnesses said they're drones.
Or a manual job: renew the certificate every Monday morning after grabbing your coffee.
It's the same thing. A brief explanation that assumes you know some term or have all the priors to deduce some meaning just creates a situation where we may have to apply the 10000 rule again. A thorough explanation on the other hand is more likely to help the reader be part of not only the 10k that get the commic today, but also the 10k that get some other fact (or several!) today.

Or to paraphrase the 10k alt text: saying "what idiot doesnt know the difference between kills and selectively kills" is so much more boring than telling them about it.
It does: https://docs.rs/rusqlite/latest/rusqlite/struct.Statement.ht...

Mucking about with SQL strings, to me, is akin to writing your own crypto: Don't. Unless you must (because, say, it doesn't exist yet.) Doing this is asking for security problems later. Trust that the SQLite team (or any other SQL engine) have more experience and have provided a correct interface. And if that interface isn't correct, don't just run off an make your own- contribute a fix so we can keep all the lessons learned together.
You make it sound like you can't use money to hire more inspectors so the burden is reduced.
> Tom Baker all the way…

The best, yes but William Hartnell defined the role and came up with the idea of regeneration if I remember correctly. It saddens me so many of those episodes are lost. I watched it on US public TV in the 80s, and I think even some of the episodes I watched then are gone.
Gamers Nexus did some power efficency numbers on this new card:

It was fine when playing games (windows), totally comparable to AMD/Nvidia,

https://youtu.be/JjdCkSsLYLk?si=pUDwsGkCuenr2Iol&t=1874

it did poorly at idle (30+ watts).
It's just a somewhat poetic way to describe the flavors you get when cooking with really high heat really fast. You can't get it on teflon because you're using temps 100+ degrees above what teflon can handle without decomposing.
mousemaster is a warpd-like, opensource, for Windows: https://github.com/petoncle/mousemaster
Who are the "other manufacturers"?

I don't see many companies interested in this area. Sony has almost given up, Pico has had some major setbacks, and you know what happened to Apple's Vision Pro. There will continue to be investment, but likely by the same big players. There just isn't a lot of money out there, and not many companies can afford this.

Honestly, if Zuckerberg is no longer Meta's boss, they may have already shut down Quest entirely.
> It is only valuable in the sense that it is a very limited resource.

That's exactly the point.
Many VR systems rely on IR light for controller tracking, but if the camera is doing hand tracking, it might filter it out.
“We’ve never been the party that was about checking boxes or identity politics, but the difference is we have women that are qualified to be chairs, and I don’t know why there wasn’t one who was able to become a chairperson of a committee.”

Why indeed.

The answer: because you are the party of checking boxes and identity politics. It's just that the box is labeled "male", and your identity has to be that.

"Identity politics" is dogwhistle for "My identity is important and yours isn't". When people who share an identity tell you they're going to decide based on "merit", you will discover that their identity is a merit, and you don't have it.

And since you're letting them be the only ones who can play "identity politics", you're not in the room when they're playing it. They tell you it's because you don't have enough merit, and all you can do is nod your head.

Meantime, the leopard goes looking for some more faces.
In 2015, I wrote the backend for a registration/ticketing/admission system for our (the company I work for) non-profit. They put on yearly galas in a far-off US state. The system utilized QR codes from printed and electronic tickets. The system was used once and royally failed due to connectivity issues. We relied on the venue's wi-fi and had cellular backup. It worked during on-site testing but failed once the crowds formed. Attendee's couldn't load their e-tickets and we couldn't get a response from the servers as tickets were scanned.

Props to you for getting everything working!
well said. I always wanted his scarf, and even had a go at building a K9 at one point. I still have my Dr Who 1st Annual tucked away somewhere, and a Lego tardis. Some of the relaunch story lines were good, Rose Tyler, and Clara Oswin Oswald, but Tom Baker will always be the hiding behind the sofa memory. Jelly bean anyone?
we've had this: cloudflare serving up pages on our own website saying we're bad and we're trying to phish our own customers

how did they come to this bogus conclusion? they took some obviously bunk report from a "security company" at face value

and it is super, super easy to trick the "security company" into sending a bogus report to cloudflare with any URL you wish

which is then instantly applied against you
The NFL Does Not Need to Fear Private Equity
I get what you mean, but look at it. It's horrible.
The backwards drivetrain/steering is kind of fascinating to consider. I'd love to see someone like Colin Furze or Stuff Made Here actually make one to try it out. What would it be like to ride a bike that steered by pivoting the back wheel?
I'm not gonna advertise them here. Next thing you know the wrong person takes an interest in this area of the internet and spoils it for the rest of us.

Trust me, I looked at the page of my provider just now and that's what they offer.
What about wireless? Wireless earbuds popular. People might find it a UX downgrade to need a cable running from their glasses to their phone in their pocket as they walk down the street (the demo shows AR navigation as someone walks down the street).
My question: What stops Intel or AMD from providing an opt-in weaker memory model?

Probably for the same reason Intel/AMD doesn't get rid of the rest of the cruft in x86-64, i.e. backwards compatibility. Additionally, there would be issues with Intel/AMD leveraging an optional weak memory model in their chips without compromising the performance of legacy TSO applications. They are probably better off making x86-64 perform best under TSO.
Silent threats: The hidden danger of machine identities
Same. I am afraid this won't go even as well as Wear OS watches or Android tablets.
Thank you!
This is really really useful
IT pros say hackers could compromise device supply chain, firmware security
Yep. Here's an easy-looking one, that lasted just under 2 centuries (quoting Wikipedia) -

> In number theory, Euler's conjecture is a disproved conjecture related to Fermat's Last Theorem. It was proposed by Leonhard Euler in 1769. It states that for all integers n and k greater than 1, if the sum of n many kth powers of positive integers is itself a kth power, then n is greater than or equal to k...

> ...

> Euler's conjecture was disproven by L. J. Lander and T. R. Parkin in 1966 when, through a direct computer search on a CDC 6600, they found a counterexample for k = 5.[3] This was published in a paper comprising just two sentences.[3]

> [3] - Lander, L. J.; Parkin, T. R. (1966). "Counterexample to Euler's conjecture on sums of like powers". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. ...