skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is kind of what happened here since Carlsen had sort of won the tie-breaker already.
I'm a competitive Scrabble player, and to a lot of extent I agree with the development of intuition from blitz games. I probably played tens of thousands of 3-minute and fewer games online and although I am normally a very slow player in person, normally using up almost all of my time, playing blitz did and does help with play-finding, getting an intuition for when to play defense/offense, rapid anagramming, etc.
> A T-mobile family plan with unlimited data (throttled after 2GB) comes out to ~$25/month.

This may be a legacy plan; the only thing they seem to currently offer is $40/line/month for 4 lines ($70/month for one), but throttled at 50GB/month (not clear if this is by line or account), not 2GB/month.

It's a little cheaper than Fi list price at the level Bill Protection (essentially, unlimited with 15GB/line throttling threshold) kicks in ($160/4 lines with TMo vs $205 for Fi). But Fi does refund if you use less than 14 GB total, which may reduce the effective price depending on usage pattern.
It's nice to see that DynamoDB becomes truly serverless (although it lived under the serverless umbrella for a while) with this enhancement.

But I feel the on-demand mode should be best accompanied with the provisioned mode, which is the hybrid mode. So instead of using the laggy autoscaling to handle the burst traffic, using the on-demand capacity to serve that.

Disclosure: I work for Alibaba Cloud and use Alibaba Cloud Table Store which provides the hybrid mode ( https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/27291.htm )
VASP is likely to be top. I've not seen much use of abinit. Gromacs, charmm, and siesta don't use Fortran. See also cp2k, elk, quantum espresso, nwchem, and dl_poly, amongst others, which do, and are common. Gaussian is unfortunately common, and I think is Fortran. That's on top of important Fortran codes in ocean and meteorological modelling, and engineering. https://www.archer.ac.uk/status/codes/ has a lot of "other", partly because they don't log what actually runs with whatever is in the Cray compute node kernel which would do a similar job to audit, for instance.
Another simple mitigation would be the ability for one certificate to be signed by several CAs.

We could combined with some DNS records that states the policy for validating the certificate (stating the number of CAs to validate a given certificate).

It could be a huge improvement on security, and eliminating CAs as single point failures for the whole internet, at least for critical pieces of it.
Completely agree. Drawish behavior would likely increase with this policy, not decrease. Because it's incredibly hard at this level to beat a player that's explicitly playing for a draw.
Somebody downvoted you it seems. I think somebody maybe downvoting all my comments

Edit: seriously? Who hurt you
This is great for SaaS startups. Auto-scaling of DynamoDB never really worked as well as one would like: too fiddly and inadequately responsive.
> The truth is, blitz chess is not only insanely fun but extremely good training to develop intuition for slow chess.

I find that actually quite controversial - correlation does not imply causation. The general sentiment within the community is that the causation works from the other side i.e being good at slow leads to being good at blitz.

Here are some quotes you might find interesting:

"Playing rapid chess, one can lose the habit of concentrating for several hours in serious chess. That is why, if a player has big aims, he should limit his rapidplay in favour of serious chess." – Vladimir Kramnik

"He who analyses blitz is stupid." – Rashid Nezhmetdinov

"Blitz chess kills your ideas." – Bobby Fischer

"To be honest, I consider [bullet chess] a bit moronic, and therefore I never play it." – Vladimir Kramnik

"I play way too much blitz chess. It rots the brain just as surely as alcohol." – Nigel Short

"Blitz is simply a waste of time." – Vladimir Malakhov
Phoronix recently did some more in depth benchmarking and the system does indeed suck pretty badly in terms of PHP performance. And Apache. But they seem to be pretty good at things like calculating Mandlebrots or 7-Zip compression at least.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ec2-grav...
In Japan it is very common to destroy a house and build a new one on the land, construction is fast and zoning is very lax. A lot of old houses are sold for destruction and when I say old I mean 50 years, it is the normal way in Japan. The problem with those houses that the government offer is their location, it is usually remote places where there is no chance for gentrification like in Detroit which is still almost a million people city.

There is also a cultural difference, Japanese just keep their environment neat and clean, you need to see Japanese homeless tents to understand. In Japan mostly everybody are from the same culture and adhere to those unwritten rules. Homogenous society has certain advantages over diversity in contrast to what is hammered into our head continuously in the west for certain political reasons.
The law of unintended consequences will prevail as it does with most attmempts of man intervening in complex eco systems. This will more than likely not be serendipitous, but more of a drawback.

We have caused famines messing with little things like this. Just my 2 cents. I think it is a noble idea, I find it hard to believe that alphabet Inc is in it for all the reasons they state, but I will have to take them at face value.

There are other ways, the reason you don't see them is because they more than likely require too much work, too much change or don't turn a profit.
High frequencies are passively attenuated by the foam inside the earcups. It's the mid frequencies (speech, etc.) that survive both active and passive noise cancellation. Still, a high end pair of ANC headphones does a good job on speech/tv if you have some soft music playing through them.
It is more of a populist thing now which brings in donations hence their stance. In NL being against windmill parks was probably good for their funding even if it was bad for the longer term environment. People pay their contribution today, not in the future.
The Authorized Generic is a different product that's in direct competition with the Teva device, as I understand it.
Using a private blockchain has the same issue of trusting a third party. As soon as someone has control of who can write to the ledger, you need to trust them, period.
> Yes, as a non chess player I think of the game as two people each taking about 15 minutes per move.

Not even classical time controls play that way -- 15 minutes per move would rapidly lose you the match. Prepared openings come quite quickly, obviously, but most moves even beyond that are played within a very few minutes of each other, with time being saved to spend on a "deep-think" of 15-30 minutes on only one or two key moves.

Which makes sense. Classical time controls in this tournament were, counting the per move increments, 120 minutes per player for the first 40 moves. That means you need to average a move every 3 minutes over your first 40 (and in reality, they spend less than that most games, preferring to maintain a healthy cushion).

Rapid (not Blitz, they did not play any Blitz games) only drops that down to 45 seconds per move over the first 40. Since they tend to live closer to the margin in Rapid anyways vs Classical, this is even less of a drop than it might appear.

It's unquestionably less time to think, but not nearly as much as you're suggesting.
Agreed that QLDB makes sense for certain applications (voting). What is the purpose of a managed (centralized) blockchain? Can decentralized nodes nodes/parties be added to the network?

Disclaimer I am Ex-AWS and Ex-Amazon.
Isn't nationalism orthogonal to democracy? How are they opposed?
I made the mistake of sighing up for a trial of their business account, it wasn't a good fit.

I tried for _months_ to get them to stop emailing me. Different sales reps, various mailing lists, drip campaigns, I unsubscribed from them all but it kept coming. I eventually forwarded like 13 attempts at unsubscribing to their CEO with a plea to help and it stopped.
The purpose of a public library (at least in the US) is to provide services to the public. A large part of the public, especially who aren't otherwise occupied during the day, are young children.

Most libraries I've been to have a large section dedicated to kids books and activities, often with stuff animals, blocks, etc that kids can use for creative play.

There are usually also rooms that you can reserve for work or study, and tables out in the open that people can sit at to read or work.

Kids are loud and energetic. Usually older people enjoy the vitality they bring to a space. The main age group bothered by them are 20 and 30 somethings who don't have kids and aren't used to being around them.
I'm reasonably comfortable (though on a much lower level than you) playing blitz, because at least time management is in my control. bughouse was much more problematic, because much of the time one has is often spent sitting for developments on the other board, so one is forced to play much of the game at super bullet speeds.
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You are out of your mind.
How much time does your CPU spend waiting for IO during your typical tasks?
His books are a hoot too, definitely check them out if you like weird culture.
The point is that you never put it in an immutable store in the first place if there's a chance that it would need to be removed later.
>I'm actually very interested in hearing concrete ideas of what the unintended consequences could be and their cost, from actual experts.

Not all unintended consequences can be predicted let alone have a cost attached to them. In fact by definition unintended consequences are those we cannot forsee or prepare for in any meaningful way. Of course virtually any action has some unintended consequences but I think what the naysayers are saying in this case is that with something as complicated and untested as this, there is potential for massively negative unpredictable outcomes (maybe a new invasive species, maybe aedes aegypti perform some as yet unknown ecological function and their loss would be massively detrimental in ways we can't as yet predict etc), and there's some justification for that from human experience. This was the entire premise for movies like Jurassic park
Even getting a VM running that can properly support VB6 is a non-trivial exercise, especially if you want to properly adhere to Microsoft's licenses.
Why Waymo’s Fleet of Self-Driving Cars Is Finally Ready for Prime Time
Took me a while, but I think I figured it out!

At first this was pretty surprising to me, and I was pretty sure it must be a bug in the code. Well, I tried it myself and got the same results. :-)

After a few false starts, here's what I think is the probable explanation. Note that we're trying to approximate √3 by a fraction of the form (ad-bc)/(ac+bd). The closest fractions we get (among a, b, c, d below a given magnitude) could be either below or above √3.

Consider an angle of (π/3+ε). If you look tan(π/3+ε)-tan(π/3), it works out to be (tan(ε) + 3ε) / (1 - ε√3).
When ε is replaced by -ε, if you look at tan(π/3)-tan(π/3-ε), it works out to be (tan(ε) + 3ε) / (1 + ε√3).

For small ε, the former, namely (tan(ε) + 3ε) / (1 - ε√3), is larger than the latter, namely (tan(ε) + 3ε) / (1 + ε√3). (More generally, this boils down to the fact that the second derivative of tan(x) is positive.)

This means that it's easier (you're allowed a larger difference in the angle) to achieve a given closeness of the fraction (ad-bc)/(ac+bd) to √3 by picking the angle to be greater than π/3 (=60°) than if the angle is less than π/3.

For larger denominators, √3 becomes about as easy to approximate to a given closeness from below as from above (by fractions of the form (ad-bc)/(ac+bd)), but among roughly equally distant approximations, the ones from above are closer in angle than the ones from below.
Could this be a useful model to apply to analytics and tracking?

Selective sampling is already common (run X diagnostic 10% of the time). Could you say to a user of your application "Hey, we are tracking these X parameters, but applying Y degrees of uncertainty to your individual data."

I'm not pro-tracking by any means, but would this be a reasonable improvement to users' privacy without first needing to convince companies to stop all tracking wholesale?
How does this differ from Ceres?
I on on Fi and I love it.

Even just for US, coverage is great and rarely you will have any issues with reception.

When you travel internationally, it is fantastic experience and often you get fantastic speeds. My experience is with Europe and it was great.

While it might sound that it can be expensive, overall you really have great experience and it adjusts to your usage. It is transparent and easy to look how much you used.

The only thing that I would love to have (and not excessively pay for it) would be some kind of deal on hotspot access. If I could get a data card through them for lte device that I would getter better deal then $10/GB, I think that would be awesome.

Overall my experience mirrors other positive experiences.
Strength in faster time controls strongly fits overall strength.

Caruana knew he was the underdog in Tie-breaks, he had 12 chances to avoid that and he was unable to.

Carlsen could have pressed in game 12 but he knew he was much stronger in faster controls, why risk anything?

Using computer evals through the match, I felt that Carlsen was slightly stronger, and their head to head record suggests as much.
I have been trying to pay Netlify for about a year now. Their TIN still doesn't match their invoices and we a have been unable to pay. It's totally crazy to me.
> In 2015, the BBC reported that “Scotland Yard has spent about £10m providing a 24-hour guard at the Ecuadorean embassy in London since Wikileaks founder Julian Assange claimed asylum there,”

Except that guard was discontinued in October 2015[1] and it's pretty disingenuous to not mention that and leave the reader with the implication that it's still going on and therefore Manafort would necessarily have been spotted. Fudging such an obvious point as that makes me wonder what else has been fudged.

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/119266...
In Detroit some people - actually, Bill Pulte - are razing dwellings with an eye on redevelopment.

https://www.theblightauthority.com/
I missed this at the time, but yes -- that's the point, in comparison with NUMAlink or whatever it is now. (s/Ares/Aries/)
The Walmart thing is just PR. I doubt it's anything beyond a pilot and it's probably just a permissioned ledger, much like QLDB.
The intuition is as simple as it gets; r·e^{iθ} is the complex number with radius r and angle θ. pi is just the angle that puts you on the negative half of the real number line.

For why that identity holds, you do simple algebra on the non-simple Taylor series of those three functions (e^x, sin x, cos x). It is, to say the least, much less intuitive.
This is kind of a cop out IMO. There's got to be some entry point to gain visibility into the code, put a breakpoint there, run in debugger, single step/step over until you get the basic idea of how it flows.

I'm speaking from experience, I inherited a project based on TaxiAnytime, aka "Uber App Clone Source Code". What a complete clusterfuck, obviously written in as incomprehensible a style as possible to create attachment sales for customization.

In the PHP/Laravel code three widely used patterns stand out, the "single return statement pattern", which obviously creates the pyramid from hell. In every method. Add to that, the 700+ line methods. Everywhere. And the icing on the cake, I'm going to invent the term "WET" here to describe it. That means the opposite of DRY. Did I say three? WET has the knock-on effect of anti-encapsulation.

I set out to reverse those patterns where I needed to make changes. In about 2 months as a single man team, I had a handle on it and was extending the app. A team of 5 should be able to make short work of it if they can get over the NIH and YUK factors. And yes, beware the rewrite. Coding always seems like it is easy. Until you need a resilient functioning system.
I did - please bear witness while I work through my trauma. Variable names were actively obfuscatory, and their declarations were always many hundreds of lines distant from their use. And many weren't even used at all. Or some were assigned values that never got read or used for any purpose. In a language that generously provides many useful data types, booleans were being converted to strings so he could check whether it was equal to "true" (like t-r-u-e, the literal string). No generics: instead, arrays everywhere, even in cases where the number of items wasn't known ahead of time. (Just size it to 10,000 x 500 and hope you don't overrun. It eventually always did. So he would bump it up to 20,000 x 600 or something.) No modularity... everything just one big function. And if you need to do the same thing somewhere else, just copy the code over there. Oh but make subtle changes to it so that the two copy-pastas diverge from each other in subtle ways that could've easily been parametrized. Copy-pasta marinara over here, copy-pasta pesto over there. I could go on (and on), but in short, it sucked ass. I concur with others here that understanding the code (since it sucked ass anyway) ended up being something of a lower priority than understanding the business processes.

That was the key actually. At first I diligently tried to understand the code, refactor, rename, move things around... but at some point I crossed a bridge where I suddenly understood, this code is not an asset to be protected and cared for; it's a liability that sucks my time into it and creates not just low, but negative, productivity. And if I don't kill it now, it may suck other victims in. By that time I understood the business processes better and had better implementation ideas anyway, so I began "deleting with extreme prejudice" and rewriting. Even so, I still had to read and understand the code I was deleting or replacing, and was constantly thinking like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbr9akNELdc (Yep that's Airplane! and you probably won't recognize the actor who 28 years later would play hitman/bodyguard Mike Ehrmantraut on Breaking Bad.)

Eventually I re-did the important parts and let the rest fall by the wayside. I didn't attempt to duplicate all the functionality embodied in that mess. It took 2 years but I remember the day I finally deleted the last piece of shitcode. Management was behind me all the way, because they were aware of some of the issues with my predecessor, plus over time they've become content for some reason to kind of just take my advice about this and other things almost implicitly. So I was lucky in that way; I was free to tackle it how I saw fit. They didn't really have much choice anwyay though, for the kind of money I was making at the time! (not great)
My aspirations for Chess are pretty low these days (my estimated ELO max was around a mere 1500 over a decade ago when I played regularly..) but I'm curious how your web interface actually works to improve play and whether it would translate to other games. I've heard conflicting advice about the value of blitz games for Go as well, though the strongest person I've played in person (5dan amateur chinese) thought that I should think carefully about each move and take the time to do it, rather than bust out a bunch of games playing by intuition. Do you think your scheme for improving at rapid Chess would apply to Go's full 19x19 game?
Have you used input/output proxy logging shims in these situations? They've been so invaluable to be in finding those weird edge cases that come up in 'orphaned software' projects as well as 'ancient legacy platform' migrations ;)
The only counter-measure that works against polluting the polity with influence operations is earnestly educating people to be critical consumers of information. Why? Because one cannot empower government to counter-message influence operations without risking an abuse of power.

My son's middle school appears to be tackling this problem to some degree by teaching students to: (a) not accept 'facts' without multiple sources of information; (b) consider the perspective/bias of the story-teller in the sources you consume; and (c) understand that most messages are persuasion.
The parent is implying you'd buy them the property, not just move them and still have them sleep outside.
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Their ELOs are currently about the same but Carlsen is on that level(and higher) for a long time whereas Caruana and a few others have just come close.

I wouldn't be surprised if Carlsen would soon again have a comfortable lead on the ELO ladder. He was once at 2882.

I am however happy that he had such a worthy opponent in this tournament!
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Well I'm east Asian so I wont stick out like a white person. But no, you wont have any hard time. Whether you will be accepted as Japanese is another story.
" And when Verily needs to raise money to cover losses, they don't go to the bank, they don't sell shares, they go to Alphabet."

No.

The sub is totally independant: governance, liability, stock holders etc.

Alphabet just has to report the sub on it's balance sheet, but otherwise it's like owning stock.

Now, Alpha does have a deeper relationship with it's companies, but they are still independent.

Google does not share information, money, talent, office space or much else with most other Alpha companies, so they are essentially separate companies with little to do with on another.
Do you have any updated sources? This data is from 2013.
In America, there are Catholic retreats, some at retreat centers, some at monasteries or convents, some elsewhere; I assume that other Christian denominations have retreats, but don't know and have never enquired.

For that matter, the writer Patrick Leigh Fermor, who was not Catholic, wrote about going to stay for a short period at the Benedictine abbey of St. Wandrille, mostly to get away from distractions. You can find the account in https://www.nyrb.com/products/a-time-to-keep-silence.
What is the "cultural concept of 'chess'" then, and according to whose culture?
> And what makes you think gene editing won't be available to everyone? It seems like the sort of thing with an exponential cost curve. It will very rapidly become cheap and accessible to all.

The rich and already disproportionately powerful will get it and use it first (creating barriers to upward mobility and exacerbating class power divides), then will have every incentive (and even more disproportionate power than previously) to create barriers to access.

Similar to the reason that, 70+ years later, there are only a handful of nuclear weapons states.
FWIW, I bought my first house at 27, with a wife and child, and lived there for 13 years. Child grew up and moved out. Sold the single-family, bought a smaller TH, and assuming nothing major changes, we'll be here until we retire or beyond (I'm now 41, so ~25 years from now).
How much time will it take to find an alternative? If it takes an hour, you've spent way more than $60.
While you’re right that Free Mobile indeed had a big impact on prices in France, I’m pretty sure prices before Free were closer to 30-50 € euro a month and not 60-80.

With that said, data usage habits also did change between 2012 and now. I was happy with 500 Mo/month back in 2011. I would have trouble living with that now.
It's interesting to think that the goal of '..' was for navigation around the command line shell. Which is a tool that 95% of people developing software never really use, or use as a necessity (type one command and leave). It's really an interesting thought piece to consider that the idea of the '..' directory is as legacy as the headphone jack.