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> Fisher had said that he was seeking to complicate the game-- which is something that black wants to do, in general-- add uncertainty for both sides.

This is not something Black wants to do in matchplay chess in general. Usually he would be happy with a sterile draw and hope to take advantage of having an extra white in the remaining games.

Fischer, on the other hand, liked to play for a win in every game. And IIRC this match gave the defending champion draw odds, so the challenger had more incentive than normal to take risks, even in game 1.

Still, I generally agree with the analysis of Kasparov etc in this position. Fischer didn't miss the game continuation and he didn't assess the piece-down position as offering Black his share of winning chances. He more likely missed that after Bxh2 g3 h5 Ke2 h4 Kf3 h3 Kg4 Bg1 Kxh3 Bxf2 Bd2! White still traps the bishop.
Thank you, very kind!
Thank you for sharing this important perspective. You've raised valid ethical concerns about interview assistance tools in the hiring process that deserve serious consideration.

Real skills and capabilities will ultimately reveal themselves in actual work environments. The purpose of any interview assistance tool should be to help candidates better showcase their genuine abilities, not to mask fundamental skill deficiencies.

Effective hiring processes typically include multiple assessment stages—technical tests, practical projects, and team collaboration exercises—which are difficult to fake through simple "preparation." A robust recruitment system should be able to identify truly capable candidates.

In the long term, honestly representing one's actual abilities and fit is the most valuable approach for both companies and candidates. This ensures both parties can establish a satisfying working relationship and avoids the waste of time and resources you mentioned.

Your point reminds us that when developing and using such tools, we need to balance efficiency with integrity, ensuring they serve to help genuinely promising individuals present themselves well, rather than becoming instruments of deception.
Obnoxious is a bit harsh - I liked the feeling it gave to the article, found it very readable and I had no trouble discerning sentences, especially with how they were broken up into paragraphs.
why did the entire internet seemingly lose the ability to say the word "nothing" without adding "burger" to it since about 2 years ago?
> my interpretation is that AMD threw more R&D into this than Intel before shipping it to customers

AMD had the benefit of learning from Intel's mistakes in their first generation of AVX-512 chips. It seemed unfair to compare an Intel chip that's so old (albeit long-lasting due to Intel's scaling problems). Skylake-X chips were released in 2017! [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylake_(microarchitecture)#Hi...
The best model in the world is still basically a very stubborn, yet mediocre 16 year old with a memory the size of the internet.
A great nation can do two things at once. The problem is the unreformable oligarchy turning into a sour gilded age zhe moment the Soviets falteted. Cant have a democracy with what are nobleman at heart at the helm.
Love it!

I have heard it said that the essence of stage magic is the magician's willingness to exert implausibly large efforts in the preparation of the props.
Because there is too much money to be made. Thiel et al. stand to win too much to let it pass. It’s like with SpaceX: in theory Musk is all for smaller government, in practice he wants the government to serve him.

Representatives and senators get a lot of political credit for the military-industrial complex, as well.
Right. And also you can never take that threat seriously when Russia is using it while on the offensive, because following that logic you should let them do whatever they want because nukes.
Brit here. What freedom do you think I don’t have, that you as an American does?
We ran our whole platform, written in Rust, in the Cloudflare Workers. It was not a great experience. You need to use their SDK, with really interesting bugs that never got fixed (we always forked a version). It was pretty hard to test anything locally, you just had to deploy your code to their platform, which took time and made the feedback loop to take so much time it blocked us from delivering features fast enough.

And yes, you can test your local Rust code. It works nicely on your machine, but breaks with a really nasty error on their platform.

The target is `wasm32-unknown-unknown`, which allows you to use `fetch` as your only source of IO. Ok, their workers has a hacky socket implementation nowadays. Non-standard of course. And most of the ecosystem won't work really without forking everything and fixing the bugs by yourself.

We pivoted to a native Rust project. We still have one worker running in Cloudflare. We isolated that code from the workspace so that renovate updates will not touch it. You know, a random version upgrade might break the service...
If it was a non-nuclear conflict Russian would have been mowed down long time ago. The only reason why Russia is still in the game is defensive plans involving tactical nuclear weapons.
> a general property of cultures that are like Brazil's

Interesting take. Another such "superior" culture (or rather, superior military-industrial economy built on sustaining/managing conflict) exports mass policing technology to Brazil. https://idanlandau-com.translate.goog/2016/02/04/technologie... (in Hebrew: https://idanlandau.com/2016/02/04/technologies-of-oppression...)

...which is OP's point, that it needn't be zero sum, at least not from regional/global superpowers.
> But it also feels like a lot of VCs and AI companies have staked several hundreds of billions of dollars on that bet, and I’m still… I just don’t see why the inside players—that should (and probably do!) have more knowledge than me—see. Why are they dumping so much money into this bet?

I mean, see also, AR/VR/Metaverse. My suspicion is that, for the like of Google and Facebook, they have _so much money_ that the risk of being wrong on LLMs exceeds the risk of wasting a few hundred billion on LLMs. Even if Google et al don’t really think there’s anything much to LLMs, it’s arguably rational for them to pump the money in, in case they’re wrong.

That said, obviously this only works if you’re Google or similar, and you can take this line of reasoning too far (see Softbank).
> 1. What property of a fertilised egg enables it to compute uncomputable things?

The question is malformed. How can something compute an uncomputable thing?

> 2. If that property is a physical property, what prevents simulation of it?

Is P=NP?
That was solid. Nice way to handle a direct personal judgement!

Not your first rodeo.

Another way is to avoid absolutes and ultimatums as aggressively as one should avoid personal judgements.

Better phrased as: "we did our best to prevent this scenario from happening again.

Fact is it just could happen! Nobody likes that reality, and overall when we think about all this stuff, networked computing is a sad state of affairs..

Best to just be 100 percent real about it all, if you ask me.

At the very least people won't nail you on little things, which leaves you something you may trade on when a big thing happens.

And yeah, this is unsolicited and worth exactly what you paid. Was just sharing where I ended up on these things in case it helps
It’s a downstream patch.

Changes are recorded, then applied to the latest upstream version (Firefox) then packaged and sent as an update (LibreWolf)
It took a while, but Microsoft got it pretty much right with Windows Defender. It quietly made all other active scanners obsolete. It's just a question of how much effort they're willing to spend on a free product's infrastructure.
> Europe still produces more than 20% of its electric power from nuclear plants.

That's technically true, but France's representation is completely outsized in that, as the one country which went hard on nuclear it's got more than half the nuclear production of the continent: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

And that's being down 25% from its historical peaks because a significant fraction of the park was offline for unscheduled maintenance due to corrosion issues (I believe the park's been ramping back up and should be back to full).

IIRC France is the number 3 nuclear electricity producer on the planet behind the US and China.
You are aware that Trump has _not_ stopped this war right? He has floated certain some possible agreements with Ukraine, but his terms have not been agreeable to the Ukrainians. If Trump actually wants Ukraine to come to an agreement with the US, he'll have to come up with a deal that is acceptable to them.

So yeah up until now Trump has done _nothing_ to stop this war. He's really only proved to all the US' supposed allies, that the US is not trustworthy. At this point, Trump should just shut up and stop pretending like he's trying to reach some peace agreement. He should just stop sending funds to Ukraine as he obviously wants to do and just leave the discussion because he's really no longer relevant.
> “I actually don’t see a lot of downsides”

You do realize Russia has nuclear weapons and a leader who has already hinted at using them if necessary?
an american .. all the people that write good english gone to were russia ends?
As I said personal freedoms. Freedom of speech, right to bear arms off the top of my head. These may not be important to other countries so they may not feel their lose of them as anything important. Hence my statement we may in fact view freedom differently one from one another.
Librewolf is a Firefox fork with this crap removed.
I enjoy watching the Modern History TV YouTube channel, which does have some videos along those lines, like the medieval myth busting[1] one, if fashion could be a crime[2], or that they all had bad teeth[3].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViV6VmI9g0U

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmTXiVfas7Q

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcVwcvWePhU
Funny, if you mouse over the graph of transistor costs, they become free in 2005! Cool!
If Putin just rolled in and took a couple of the states of the USA, you think it would be a “stupid war” for the USA to defend itself?
Scrolling through I don’t see any good reason but bunch of nitpicks.

Yeah you can die of thousands cuts but I don’t believe you don’t get the same on GCP or AWS.
You're confusing the userland graphics libraries (Mesa) and the kernel drivers (nouveau etc). The kernel ones are all GPL.

The userland libraries are MIT because everything links to them, including propriety software.
How do you protect your self host against quantum risks?
>>The Europeans are not going to be willing to sacrifice their vast social programs for a massive defense build up.

I think you might be very surprised about that, countries on the eastern end of the EU look ready to make that trade without hesitation, as they were invaded by Russia in the past themselves and can understand the risks. Poland is already at 5% GDP spending on defence, and by all indications that number will only grow. That's war-like levels of spending.
This. Understand it all least to a level where you can make an effort vs risk/impact trade off. Ideally eliminate all low effort issues and mitigate high risk or high impact issues. But eliminating them all is not usually practical. And besides, most of the high impact/high effort application risk resides in design and not in warnings that come from logs or the compiler.
I assume the purpose of this post is to target[1] any AI looking at HN titles. Do we know of any tools affected by this?

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prompt_injection
Weak programmers do this to defend this group making crap software. I agree that defaults should be secure and maybe there should be request limit on admin, full access token - but then people will just create another token with full access and use it.
I wonder, giving the situation in the world, do you agree that Iran's and North Korea decision to develop weapon of mass destruction was the right idea in hindsight? Because the one who is weak gets bullied.
> One of the big misses from Firefox was being so late to Android.

Was 2011 "so late"? It was already there when Android 4 came out, still before Android gained a really significant market share (15%, same as Blackberry and half as much as Symbian at the time). Two years before that there were versions for Maemo too (which was much easier to port to), and Android versions used the same codebase at the time.
The expectation would be for the rich to pay their fair share of taxes and for the system to be for the people, by the people.
Honestly I don't get why people are hating this response so much.

Life is complex and vulnerabilities happen. They quickly contacted the reporter (instead of sending email to spam) and deployed a fix.

> we've fundamentally restructured our security practices to ensure this scenario can't recur

People in this thread seem furious about this one and I don't really know why. Other than needing to unpack some "enterprise" language, I view this as "we fixed some shit and got tests to notify us if it happens again".

To everyone saying "how can you be sure that it will NEVER happen", maybe because they removed all full-privileged admin tokens and are only using scoped tokens? This is a small misdirection, they aren't saying "vulnerabilities won't happen", but "exactly this one" won't.

So Dave, good job to your team for handling the issue decently. Quick patches and public disclosure are also more than welcome. One tip I'd learn from this is to use less "enterprise" language in security topics (or people will eat you in the comments).
Oh man, how many hours were lost because a managed identity could not be retrieved (400 Bad Request)…
So, supporting far right in all EU countries and being friends with Putin is what Washington is saying what US should do?
And the us has called for that and the sabotaged that with policies again and again. The military industrial complex doesn't want a thriving europe at arms. And the Russians supported every longterm self defeating movement. And they won, first in europe, then in the us, finally in this thread .
I'm already betting against that with my portfolio.
I feel bad for companies you try to join, your relationship with them is starting from questions how to cheat.
Ask HN: Little or even unknown website that you like to use?
There is a pretty good chance this set off the countdown to a war in Asia. Japan, SK, Taiwan, Philippines..... now KNOW that they cant rely on the US as an ally which means their only chance against Chinese hegemony is a nuclear weapon. Given that that will take some years while a weak US president is at the helm this is the window for China to invade Taiwan.
Think a lot of people here are missing the forest for the trees. We are witnessing the collapse of the unipolar world order that has brought relative freedom and prosperity to most of the world for the last three and a half decades.

I don’t know what comes next. No one does. But Europe needs a deep-rethink of a lot more than just defense if it wants to have any say in what the next world order is going to look like. Otherwise, we’re looking at four decades of less peace and less prosperity.
> It's about the US and Europe. They benefit massively

EU (germany) gets increasingly deindustrialised, to a big part due to energy costs associated with the war, and the related sanctions and sabotages. This war would not have even started if the previous US administration(s) had not pushed to that direction, europe was up to that point signing energy deals with Russia, they had no incentive for a full blown war. EU was following, and now they run around like headless chicken with no purpose, goal and prospects while Trump is basically trying to cash out of the situation. But I agree with you that, whatever this has to do with, the least is about Ukraine itself and democracy. Sadly we are never gonna move on from this false narrative until it is too late.
Because appeasing aggressors never works? I mean, we literally took the appeasement route when he annexed Crimea. A few years later and here we are. Guess what happens when we appease him now?

The term The West applies to those countries born out of European heritage which _assumed_ semi-direct lineage from the Graeco-Roman empires of Antiquity (notably the Late Antique split in the early church across Eastern/Western lines). Like all political terms it's in constant flux, but yes, today it largely means the superset of NATO + Five Eyes countries.

Vance's Munich speech and the Whitehoust confrontation yesterday confirms that the USA has turned its back on the west - you only have to see the reaction of world leaders to see that - outside of Orban, the only people congratulating Trump were Putin and Lavrov. Who could singlehandedly stop the war - right now - by pulling their troops out of a sovereign, democratic state.

Not sure what my age has to do with anything but I was bought up during the Cold War if that helps.
> but the reason why I don’t and probably will not donate to Mozilla ever again is that I have no idea what hare-brained acquisition they’ll do next.

You can't donate to Mozilla Corporation at all, which is the entity maintaining Firefox and running these acquisitions. You can only donate to the Mozilla Foundation, which funds other campaigns.
Kinda crazy but might actually work for continental flights over cooperative areas. Parachute the empty batteries down with some minimal steering mechanism to land them at regularly spaced depots, then ship them back to airports fully charged.

Turnaround time for planes is short enough that you’d need to do a battery-swap rather than a battery-charge anyway.
That’s not too much of a stretch. The standard model already has solved almost all of physics.

Only a few edge cases remain.
there's a $1 widget and a slightly better $10 widget.

if you're only buying 1 widget, you're correct that the price difference doesn't matter a whole lot.

but if you're buying 10 widgets, the total cost of $10 vs $100 starts to matter a bit more.

say you run a factory that makes and sells whatchamacallits, and each whatchamacallit contains 3 widgets as sub-components. that line item on your bill of materials can either be $3, or $30. that's not an insignificant difference at all.

for one-off personal usage, as a toy or a hobby - "slightly better for 10x the price" isn't a huge deal, as you say. for business usage it's a complete non-starter.

if there was a cloud provider that was slightly better than AWS, for 10x the price, would you use it? would you build a company on top of it?
I mean they’re just copying this model off the Russians.
They've not developed the suite for... between 15 and 20 years I believe; and Thunderbird for over 10 years. For the past several years, Thunderbird is back under the MZLA Technologies Corporation, but - it is funded by donations (and doing rather well in that respect it seems).

So - Firefox is the "only" thing they need to develop.
Reportedly they voted for him, because he was an actor who played good guys, so people expected him to stay away from big politics.
Besides all the good responses you already got demolishing this point of view, there's the direct benefit of testing all sorts of military equipment and strategies in an actual armed conflict. Even if you somehow ignore the massive human losses and the morality of the war with Russia invading a peaceful ally, the telemetry the US obtains is insane and well worth the money invested.
If only there were some way to change a tax code... Alas, no country has ever figured out how to do that!
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> Public safety issues

Everyone believes in the myth of "dark, dangerous alleways", but when you look at the crime distribution of almost any city, it's usually actually concentrated in the city centre. Which makes sense. Imagine you want to mug someone - would you stand in a place where you're alone and wait entire night for someone to pass by, or would you go in front of a bar, and wait ten minutes for someone who's too drunk to resist. I absolutely love walking around at night and I strongly prefer dark places without any people around me, and I feel much safer than when surrounded by people. Can't get robbed if there are no robbers around. Simple as that.

So far, I have had only one dangerous situation when being out in the city alone at night. There's a place I pass by where groups of people hang out - drinking, talking, listening to the music. Seemed like a lovely spot that lightened up the neighborhood, until one evening they decided to start shooting each other right when I was passing by.

BTW I really wish my city ran out of money for street lamps, because the fact that we need to keep everything lit 24/7 like a carnival is driving me crazy, and I can't wait to move to the countryside for this reason alone.
Turns out people really tune in when the world is on fire!
I think they realized this, and the only way Trump and JD Vance & team knew how to backtrack on it, was to behave like bullies and freeze Zelensky out. Since they are well known to be bullies already (but not always), this came sort of naturally.
A better engine or running the engine deeper will show 0.0 (or you need to show there are alternatives for White before 40... f4?!)

Though this may be a situation where the weaker engine is actually more helpful in assessing the practical situation: +0.7 is a better reflection of the relative chances in a human game than 0.0.
I wrote the article in a much simpler and "french to english" way, and asked the LLM to format it in a better english style. Looking at these comments I don't think I'll do it again. But it's also the only article that made so many reads and comments. What should I conclude ?
Ask HN: Any editor with semantic, not syntax, highlighting?
I've recently realized that the reason I seem unable to find a satisfactory syntax highlighting strategy, is that I don't really need any help to tell keywords from variables, strings from operators and so on, but rather to catch subtle mistakes like undefined functions or mispelled variable names. These all look like valid syntactic tokens, but are semantically wrong. To recognize such cases, a tool should understand where some word is declared/defined and where it is merely used, which is a task much more complex than what can be accomplished by any regex.

I wonder if any editor, or plugin for editor, but without having to invoke a real compiler, exists that can at least satisfy requirement #1 below. Bonus points if it can also satisfy requirements #2 and #3 (all examples are in C as the archetype of many similar constructs in other languages).

Requirement #1

Given this snippet, it should highlight control and conrtol in lines 1 and 2 with different styles:

foo() {
int control;
control = 1; // line 1
conrtol = 1; // line 2
}

Requirement #2

Given this snippet, it should highlight local ang global with different styles:

int global;
foo() {
int local;
local = 1; // line 3
global = 1; // line 4
}

Requirement #3

Given this snippet, it should highlight Type in a different style than aaa and ppp:

typedef int Type;
int aaa;
int *ppp;
...
return (Type) * (ppp); // line 5
return (aaa) * (aaa); // line 6
...

Note that lines 5 and 6 have exactly the same structure: not even tree-sitter recognizes that the first is a cast + dereference, while the second is a multiplication.
The free world needs a new leader.
I mean, if it was solely about renting machines, we’d all just use DigitalOcean, or EC2 on AWS.

People use things like RDS and EKS/GKE to avoid all the administrative overhead that comes with running these things in prod. The database or its underlying hardware has a problem at 1am? It’s Amazon engineers getting paged, not you (hopefully… assuming the fault hasnt materialised to operational impact yet)
Yeah but we could use a whole bunch of tech companies. There should be a visa program for entrepreneurs. That should be always the case but especially now.