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I was #1 in a highly competitive game (with a lot of players). I was a top player (top 10, easily) in another game (highly competitive, but lower player count)

I was #1 in another field for a short period of time (related to computers, but not games) and then I was top in a third field (nothing to do with computers).

The third field has nothing to do with the first two.

The approach is the same. There is no magic, and I don't even believe in "talent".

You have to work, work hard and work concentrated and fix your weakest points. Everybody does the same and once you get sufficient mastery, you can see it for yourself. It's like lifting a veil. No magic, no geniuses, no special talents, only brute hard work with a lot of mistakes. If you are lucky, nobody will know you made them. If you are highly intelligent, you'll learn from the mistakes of others, so on average you'll stop making mistakes faster. That's the best you can hope for.

I'll talk a little bit about esports, since I am most familiar with that. Being #1 is not easy at all. I would compare it to regular sports and say it's very close, in terms of competitiveness.

Most people involved are objectively dumb, though, so I can't compare it to chess or something like math olympiad or math/physics PhD at a stacked university. So it's very similar to sports, where people are also generally dumb. So high intelligence is not a prerequisite for this thing.

I've also met dumb people in chess and math, so it's not a guarantee. But they can't be dumb and top in chess/math/physics in the same time. That I haven't met yet.

The approach to become #1 is the same for everyone in every field.

Fix the areas you are weak at, re-evaluate where you are weak, keep working at it, don't repeat mistakes, try to learn from other people's mistakes. Work focused, don't waste time, be honest. I see people putting thousands of hours into games, for example, and still end up being newbies. That's time wasted, that's not productive at all.

tldr once you become truly good, among the top, in any field, you will know the "secret" in how to become good/top in any other field. There are no special fields or even special people. People that are truly good in certain fields can become good in any other field, given enough time and assuming it makes sense for them (1.60m playing basketball will never be among the elite, that's just due to the nature of the game).

If someone is #1 (or top 10 or whatever) in any field, I want to hear your thoughts anonymously, since apparently you cant say this out loud.
As with other attempts at sparking discussions on the origin [1], I'm not a virologist, just a bystander whose curiosity was piqued by the proximity of the sole lab in all of China that's equipped to handle/research extremely infectious viruses and that of the outbreak.

My observations (all facts)

1. Proximity of outbreak to sole advanced virology lab in all of China, suspicious

2. Publications ( https://jvi.asm.org/content/82/4/1899 )from lab suggest they were dealing with CoVid-19 like viruses for a while.

3. State of China would strongly deny/cover-up the lab to be the cause of outbreak, even if that did happen. I'm not suggesting they engineered the virus, just suggesting that they were researching animals with the virus, and a freak case of violating safety protocol let to the virus leaking to the nearby seafood market. Again - attributing this to clumsiness, not malice

Given the above, I think an investigative journalist would find the circumstances fertile enough for a deep investigation. Given how hard it is to identify patient zero of the outbreak, I think journalists need to go down this path of investigation

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22424013
3 USD/month is possible, adding https://www.hetzner.com/cloud and https://www.scaleway.com/en/pricing/ to the list.

Below that price you might have to pay per year (it's not worth for them to have customer spending less, a single support email wipes their profit). Or you end up with an unreliable discount hoster. And my discount I mean a company that might not be profitable enough to continue https://www.zdnet.com/article/20-vps-providers-to-shut-down-...
> The next problem that people will run into is that because they can't reliably run multiple "things", they won't have a monitoring stack to tell them that certs aren't renewing.

Can you elaborate on this? I'm not sure I follow; there's nothing preventing people from using something like https://ohdear.app/ (or any other monitoring tool) with a self-contained solution like Caddy. In fact, I recommend that people do.
Thanks for the feedback. Quite some people noticed this. Due to the current layout - you can only properly view and work with it on desktop screen sizes. That is why I decided to put the popup there. What solution what you think would suit better? I am eager to improve it asap.
It doesn’t make sense because SwiftUI is a declarative language. I understand the confusion, since it uses Swift’s DSL feature and is tightly integrated with Swift, but it is distinct and has it’s own design that isn’t directly compatible with Swift’s imperative control flow constructs.

Now, you can argue that Apple should have created a new imperative Swift-integrated UI framework, and if they had, it would be a good criticism if all the normal Swift control-flow mechanisms weren’t available natively. But the author and you aren’t objecting to SwiftUI’s declarative nature.

BTW, If you manage to map all the kinds of loops, breaks, etc, into SwiftUI it isn’t declarative anymore. You’ve managed to go back from describing the UI in terms of “what” (declarative) to “how” (imperative).

Since the author expresses approval of the declarative nature of SwiftUI and complains about it, I know he’s confused.
Cities will have to smarter with reusing existing and purpose built stadiums and buildings. One cancellation will not kill the brand.
We use three fields to triage a bug. When the bug is create the PO/support team/Dev tries to the best of his knowledge to assess:

1. Severity - roughly defined as in the article

2. Occurrence - How probable will this bug happen in the field? How many users would be impacted? How much support will be needed for this issue?
Low - Only some very special workflows or mainly dev work impacted.
Medium - Some regular users.
High - Many regular users.

3. Reproducibility - How often will the bug occur when we follow the steps.
Low - Single occurrence or difficult to reproduce
Medium - Erratic behavior, thread problems
High - It will almost always happen.

Then a PO can set a prio and give the ticket the status "will not fix" or "to be analyzed". The dev team then takes the bug and does a time boxed (1 day max) first analysis and comes back with an effort estimate of how big the issue it's too fix. Then a PO can reprioritize and set the status to "to be fixed" or not.
I suspect that’s actually not a good indicator. What people say and how they act are not the same for this.

You may not be in the top 1%, but could still easily be in the top 10% - 20%. If the selection only happens in that range then I could see someone on the lower end of the top 10% being called “average” (if the selectors only consider the top % as the entire range).

For online dating the data doesn’t really agree with the prioritization on personality for initial contact. Though this is still highly variable depending on age and the city you’re in.
The weirdest form of racism is being prejudiced against groups that don't exist yet.
As of the middle of 2019 Google continued to be inundated with fake business listings, some of them are outright scams and fraudsters who harm consumers. All of them are intended to harm local businesses by making them invisible compared to the fake listings. I have not heard of Google finding a solution to this problem.

Some specific fields, like dentistry, seems to be flooded with SEO that is meant to prevent price comparison research. I'm no expert in ad fraud but I suspect the most polluted categories are the ones with very high click-through revenue.

While there are many things Google gets right, including fighting SEO where revenue is not much at stake, they have obvious perverse incentives to ignore these problems as well as the way fake reviews contribute to these problems.
Wow, that definitely looks like a good magit replica in VSCode.

As someone who suggests every git user to try out magit (without all of the Emacs stuff that others dislike) because it provides a great mental model on how git works, this is very useful to people who use VSCode.

Some suggestions:

* Looks like the command UI is enabled through the VSCode command bar(? I'm not sure of the name) much alike Helm, but I think that the popup window style used in magit allows much more discoverability - a UI similar to that would be preferable.

* Just using the name magit inside the plugin name might not be the best naming; A rebranding would be better I think.
2 weeks is a mild case. Severe cases last up to 6 weeks.
What benefits does this bring over the built in vscode git commands?
It is extradition. They demanded he be extradited to Sweden to question him. He suggested a questioning in the Ecuadorian embassy but they refused.
Under the radar tech jobs that are growing
Thanks @gerardnll for pointing it out. It is actually 4.99$. Was this a mistake or did you encounter this weird number rendered somewhere? In what environment did you encounter it?
GOG asks you to please not abuse its expansive new 30-day refund policy
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I enjoy thinking about an IoT world they envisioned being shutdown for 12 days.
I was going to pedantically point out his spelling error, but it seemed a bit over the top.
I'm surprised MS doesn't get into more trouble for this, especially after US v Microsoft. They only defense for MS is Edge isn't the dominant browser. Google's only defenses are freedom of speech, and no one's forcing you to go to Google properties.

Some of this is tricky, though. If you're Google in 2009, it's not unreasonable to tell IE6 users that their browser is a drag on the internet, and not in a way to drive users to Chrome--IE6 was just shit. Or if you're MS, Windows needs to ship with a browser, but what do you ship? Is there a setup option to switch to Chrome? How do you qualify to get on that list? What types of applications should this apply to? Did Windows Explorer unfairly kill Norton Commander? What about third-party solitaire developers?
... and journalists should be asking why is the UK government helping the US in trying to put a publisher like Assange on trial, rather than repealing the extradition request.
He's supposed to think the same way as them, of course.
I think it’s not for people who know CSS. It’s specifically for SPAs where site-wide changes are related to component changes and so having to change the html is not that different from changing the css.

I can not force myself to use something like this but I’ve been writing CSS for a long time.

I use BEM and predefined sets of colors and space values to ensure consistency and that’s efficient enough for me.
A few clones are okay from this point of view, an army of them is not.

But who cares about clones, engineered humans would be much more useful, potentially.
This essay presents a poor analogy. Saying "stop using Facebook" is not like saying "stop having sex" at all. It's more like saying "stop having sex in the department store."

That is, ceasing the use of social media does not mean ceasing to be social. Social media is merely one of a huge number of ways to socially engage with people.
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The book The House of the Scorpion has, as part of its premise, some ultra-rich drug lords who raise clones for organ replacements. (Seems like the right combination of rich and unscrupulous.) Most of those clones are injected with something to disable their brains at birth, with at least one exception.
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What is inventory financing and how to use it
Thanks for the feedback! Do you have more information on this for me? I do not see a reason why it should be against their ad policy. I am not aware of any ads that are driving traffic to it. Furthermore, the whole copy of the site clearly states that it is a previewer.
Whenever science proceeds in advance of experiment, it becomes religion.

When people's careers are dependent on others taking their ideas seriously, they will proselytize regardless of evidence or lack thereof.

I don't mind that people enjoy string theory. I do mind that we offer research positions into it, tenure, grants, and everything else that goes with it. And spend literally billions of dollars on equipment for ever more ambitious experiments that have turned up nothing.

The history of science shows that money spent on research is repaid to society many fold. However there is an element of prepared serendipity. Many small grants for many small lines of research are much more likely to produce useful results than a few mega-projects. If half of what we have spent on particle accelerators was spread out across fluid dynamics, condensed matter physics, and other areas where there are a lot of open questions that are amenable to experiment, how much greater would the returns have been?

If you doubt me, consider this. We spent around $5 billion on the LHC. Its signature success is the Higgs Boson. Which came out basically to what theory said, and measurements of which narrowed down a few parameters of the Standard Model. CERN is already laying plans for the successor, which will cost several times as much. There is nothing that has happened in the last 50 years which provides evidence that it will find any new particles.

How many people can intelligently describe what the Higgs boson is? An intelligent description should include what symmetry breaking is, what the Higgs boson has to do with it, and why the standard model has so many free parameters. Of those people, how many can actually explain what we have learned about the rest of the model from the research at the LHC? Of those people, how many can explain how this improved understanding affects any observable macro phenomena that affects technology?

Would it make sense to scrap the planned particle accelerator, and instead give $1 million to every person who actually understands the Standard Model and current research to devote their lives to something else? I admit that it sounds crazy. But I'd take an even money bet that we would both save money and see more useful returns on investment if we took that crazy course.
Apple does virtualization. They include a hypervisor in macOS. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/hypervisor
Several famous courts are or were historically attached to prisons in the UK, eg Lancaster Assizes which were connected to a prison inside Lancaster Castle and were frequently used for high security trials. The Old Bailey (the Central Criminal Court) is built in the former Newgate Prison.

I don't think this is anything to be concerned about - and I believe building courts attached to prisons where people are held pending arraignment or trial is common practice in many countries for the same practical reasons, including some which are arguably in the interests of the defendants (it facilitates a speedy trial for example and can offer them and their defence team better physical security where they might be widely hated eg terrorist suspects or high profile murder trials).
i believe (but may be mistaken) that this was a goal of mozilla's positron project -- an electron-compatible runtime that uses firefox instead of chromium, but shares most resources across all of the positron apps running on your system so that it's more like having multiple tabs open rather than having multiple distinct instances open.
I mean, look at how they framed the article...that this is a scandal because of Brexit...because Brexit is designed to hide corruption.

Even though the wheels started turning on all of this a few years ago. Even though the EU themselves only banned things in the last year.

Rather than jumping into the actual story, they used it to push an entirely unrelated political narrative. Worse still, a lot of folks are going to see those first two paragraphs and not read the rest of the article.
I think people that use utility CSS like this will never maintain anything they create. They'll just throw everything away and start over with another framework.
Yet. Wait until we figure out the way to prevent serious diseases.
Your comment is very reasonable and informative, please don't let the Hacker News anonymous downvote thoughtpolice mafia discourage you from posting comments to this site. They are the ones who should be getting banned.
Don't forget anti-lock brakes.
Read like a argument to go away from EC2 and into managed services

> Forrest Brazeal is an AWS Serverless Hero and enterprise architect who has led cloud adoption initiatives for companies ranging from startups to the Fortune 50.

Makes sense
I work very close to the Pittsburgh skinny building (commercial, not residential) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinny_Building. For some reason it gets a full street number, no 1/2 address at all.
Outside of governments making their own WMDs against international rules, the closest would have to be Aum Shinrikyo. Before their sarin attack in Tokyo, they also manufactured VX gas, recruited scientists from different fields, and conducted experiments in the Australian Outback. There is a more farfetched conspiracy that they used the remoteness to test a nuclear bomb ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banjawarn_Station ).
I'm not sure. I would expect that mature, older companies would be using less exotic tech on average: PHP, Java, C#, etc. Newer companies would be more likely to be using something more niche I think. It newer companies are more volatile, it may be that when funding dries up, the new company folks may have less tech overlap with the mature, older companies. I suspect this would have been more of an issue in 2009 and 2020. It felt like it was much more common to ask developers to be full stack specialists a decade ago. These days most jobs seems to expect one to know multiple languages regardless of what you're doing. Keep in mind 10 years ago I was a recruiter, and now I'm a developer, so my perspective then & now use different lenses.
>Reference counting is garbage collection.

Sorry you're right, I meant tracing garbage collection.

>Same UI issues can happen in reference counting with deeply nested data structures.

Only if done poorly. The difference is this is deterministic and therefore an issue you can control and avoid with ARC (albeit at a cost to overall performance). The point was that ARC doesn't have the potential for a uncontrollable random process kicking in, stopping your app and causing UI stutter as it cleans up memory, whereas tracing GC does.

A good comparison: http://developer-toolbox.blogspot.com/2017/12/garbage-collec...
This post reallly rubs me the wrong way.

"Do the extra security controls of a custom vpc outweigh the increased risk+complexity of configuring them for this app?" I do not agree with this attitude of thinking.

For tiny little hobby projects, sure. For something that is production-grade and user-facing I would certainly assemble that inside of a private network.

It's not that hard. If you are building production tech you are likely doing it within the confines of a configuration tool like Terraform anyway -- so do it right.
- the fear of human control over things I consider 'out of line'

- the potential emotions behind the existence of the clone (lost sibling, child) .. heavy
I think that's apt. Authoritarian governments are environments least able to prevent novel problems and least able to react to them with agility, but best able to coordinate state-scale responses.

But in this case we'll see. China's problems don't end if they successfully contain the outbreak to Wuhan. Eventually everyone else will get sick too and re-infect the chinese via other roads.
Secretive face-matching startup has customer list stolen
"Unfortunately, data breaches are part of life in the 21st century," Tor Ekeland, an attorney for Clearview, told The Daily Beast.
Let’s Define CSSv4
It's almost impossible for a single mad scientist to do it all on their own. Cloning requires tremendous amount of money and equipments.

Considering how socially unaccepted human cloning currently it, it'll most likely have to be a highly secretive government project
The boardgame can be great fun especially if people follow the rules.
Firefox does 'gah! your tab just crashed' on my amazon tabs at a rate of about 1 in every 4 times. Once it decides to do that on a particular tab, no amount of refresh or reopen, or restart-firefox fixes it.

I'm using Ubuntu 14.04, and this has been happening consistently for the last 5+ years.

Every. single. goshdarn. effing. firefox. release.

(sorry just wanted to vent. I've tried every solution I could find on askubuntu, stackoverflow, what not. Nothing fixes it. I know I should be filing a bug report, and/or upgrading my OS, but I don't have the time, patience to deal with that. I need to finish school first.).
The problem is you shouldn't be making that decision when you are already sick and you discover your insurance won't cover. Additionally the current healthcare market is not what I would call competitive. Only a handful of insurance companies have some kind of monopoly, not to mention how it's tied to having a job. All of this assumes that getting sick is a choice like driving a car.
Americans have sockets in the bathroom. And what is this 'education' thing you speak of?
But why? A clone would be their very own person who just happens to have an identical genome to another person.
> they would destroy the buildings surrounding the fire in an effort to contain it

Anecdota told by a Japanese friend: father used to be a volunteer fireman in his town. He really liked it, but not from the reasons you might expect. First, it was because there were frequent drinking gatherings. But also, during a fire in a house, the firemen would go inside and throw everything out (often destroying them in the process) to avoid the fire being fed. This includes the family ancestors shrine, which the father took a great pleasure to destroy (I think because of how sacred it is). He enjoyed that for years before his wife made him stop because she was fed up of him going home drunk.

Also, a some point in the year in Winter, volunteers firemen go in the street and shot aloud things I didn’t understand for as a tradition to warn the neighbors.
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Chrome was originally based on Webkit, and that's a fork of KHTML, so Google at least knows all about building on a competitor's platform.
I've been using it for a while now. I like it, but they're starting to get a little too pushy with their Brave Rewards program for my liking. But for now, it's great.
FBU = Fire Brigades Union
So do cigarettes, nominally-- they are one of the only legal stimulants on the market.
I can't get used to edge's lack of information on slow loading sites. No spinner, the url bar goes blank when you click on it, acts like it didn't even send the request yet.
They pop up from time to time on vintage clothing sellers in Japan:

https://www.ichiroya.com/item/list2/151397/
> killed 30 million people (HIV)

Over decades. Airborne viruses have the potential to large numbers of people in a matter of months.
I love how everyone who wins at monopoly acts like a right arse to the other people and it turns out it was just rolls of the dice that decided if they won... I certainly always feel like I deserve to have won.