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This link https://wismuth.com/chess/longest-game.html from the article talks about the 2014 changes (75-move rule and draw by 5-fold repetition) that make it no longer infinite.

New comment by erehweb in "If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?"

erehweb — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 08:11:10 +0000

Looking at the actual article, the people suggesting taxes on AI are American Nobel laureate Edmund Phelps, and Bill Gates, founder of MSFT. The Europeans suggest more general taxes on capital instead.

New comment by erehweb in "Eels are fish"

erehweb — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 12:01:30 +0000

See (listen?) also the Radiolab episode https://radiolab.org/podcast/slippery-mystery

Empty homes in England on rise, but not being used to solve housing shortage

erehweb — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 21:56:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3r413l5n57o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44966933

Points: 6

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New comment by erehweb in "An engineer's perspective on hiring"

erehweb — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 10:58:02 +0000

The OP thinks that candidates spending a lot of time on applications is OK, as long as the company shows respect by spending a lot of time themselves. I think this is mistaken - I care about how much time I have to spend, and am a lot less concerned about how much time the company takes.

There's a trade-off: if a company spends more time / requires more effort on an interview process, they can get a better signal on the candidate's abilities, but then they'll lose out on candidates who are unwilling / unable to commit this time. This might just be a hard trade-off in recruiting.

Publish or Perish: The Board Game of Academic Survival

erehweb — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 06:45:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.the-scientist.com/publish-or-perish-the-board-game-of-academic-survival-73133

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44834211

Points: 3

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New comment by erehweb in "The King and AI: A humanoid robot painted a picture of Charles. How did it do?"

erehweb — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 06:22:32 +0000

This is an interesting use of AI. If we just want to know what Charles III looks like, photography has solved that problem. So a portrait is interesting because it's saying something about him, rather than being a photo-faithful likeness. But what is the robot (or rather, the robot's programmer) trying to say here? Any ideas?

Making hard choices? Try thinking less

erehweb — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 16:03:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2025/06/03/nx-s1-5406260/a-surprising-trick-to-making-hard-choices-try-thinking-less

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44397861

Points: 3

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New comment by erehweb in "Congestion pricing in Manhattan is a predictable success"

erehweb — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 18:17:49 +0000

Trivially, the measure of how much it costs in dollars to drive into Manhattan along the affected routes has gone up. So there are likely some people who are worse off. It's rare to have a completely free lunch, but this one looks pretty cheap.

New comment by erehweb in ""Microsoft Locked My Account – I Lost 30 Years of Photos and Work""

erehweb — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 13:50:24 +0000

Number of people saying that you should just make sure you have backups. That's true, but there's still a role for government to play to prevent this sort of thing. We don't let companies sell poisonous food - why do we let them offer digital services that can be arbitrarily frozen?

New comment by erehweb in "Cows get GPS collars to stop them falling in river"

erehweb — Tue, 27 May 2025 20:39:07 +0000

We've heard of Chesterton's fence. This is a rare example of Chesterton's non-fence.

New comment by erehweb in "Sorry, grads: Entry-level tech jobs are getting wiped out"

erehweb — Thu, 22 May 2025 14:19:42 +0000

There are a number of industries where you may need experience to become more productive than AI, but nobody wants to hire you when AI is more productive in the first couple of years. Is there a good equilibrium for this, or does it end up with each company saying "We won't hire the juniors, just the experienced people" and then finding there aren't enough experienced people around?

The "Great Hesitation" that's making it harder to get a tech job

erehweb — Sun, 18 May 2025 14:15:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/tech-jobs-hiring-artifical-intelligence-35cd66b0

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New comment by erehweb in "How many chess games are possible?"

New comment by erehweb in "If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?"

New comment by erehweb in "Eels are fish"

Empty homes in England on rise, but not being used to solve housing shortage

New comment by erehweb in "An engineer's perspective on hiring"

Publish or Perish: The Board Game of Academic Survival

New comment by erehweb in "The King and AI: A humanoid robot painted a picture of Charles. How did it do?"

Making hard choices? Try thinking less

New comment by erehweb in "Congestion pricing in Manhattan is a predictable success"

New comment by erehweb in ""Microsoft Locked My Account – I Lost 30 Years of Photos and Work""

New comment by erehweb in "Cows get GPS collars to stop them falling in river"

New comment by erehweb in "Sorry, grads: Entry-level tech jobs are getting wiped out"

The "Great Hesitation" that's making it harder to get a tech job

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