skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Point taken, but to my taste it's quite disrespectful to refer to the best player in the world as just "Norwegian teen".
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Chess, like olympic sports, is weirdly nationalistic and a source of national pride. I'm not much of a history expert, but I suspect that was largely caused by the soviet union deciding that they would be the best at it.

As for not using his name, try and write the headline both mentioning his name, and his age. It's just clunky.
Wow, lots of scuttlebutt shilling going on lately. What's the status of "sameas" (multi-device identities) and off-chain feeds that allow for deletes/edits?

The former is a massive usability concern and the latter is (ironically) a privacy concern.

Also, why not use a ratchet system so a single leak doesn't make your whole archive of private messages go public?
I'm not a book person, so I can't help you with that.

I just started getting my hands dirty, I used https://guide.elm-lang.org/ IIRC.

Also make sure to checkout the slack channel, especially #beginners, it's very helpful.
Yes, on chess24.com with two matches every day and commentary from top players from now until May 3. Probably on other sites too but chess24 is hosting the event and typically has the highest-quality commentary.
Deal. The world will drive on the right hand side, and convert to using BS 1363 electrical plugs. See, we’re making progress already! :D
It doesn't for now, and doesn't really need to. Scala 3 isn't out yet, and when it is there will be a migration period (as always) while things will remain backwards compatible and libraries will remain cross compiled.

This book also explicitly skips over all the deep language esoterica, in order to focus on use cases. As a happy consequence, I expect ~all code samples to continue working unchanged in Scala 3 for the foreseeable future.
So now you trade reduced build times for increase in the amount of developer time for creating extra tests that check for type correctness and you increase the “build” time by having your build system run more tests?

And once you have type declaration that can “automatically” be checked - something has to run against the same code base to check the correctness of your code and you’re back to increasing your build time?
Deadly pathogens have escaped the lab over and over again (2019)
out-of-nowhere sports story

I’m more annoyed by the headline’s implication that Carlsen would find this defeat shocking. He wouldn’t. Magnus and Alireza have been acquainted for a few years now. They’ve played many times. Carlsen is fully aware of how strong his opponent is.
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Blockchain might be a relevant tool for a group of strangers to maintain books (a database) which cannot be easily tampered with (or it is virtually impossible). Prime example is sound money. But it could go beyond that. Say you can run a land registry or domain name system this way.
https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/magnus-carlsen...
Cool, but there are still on ton of limitations and basically no apps.

https://altstore.io/faq/

It's 2020, more than a decade after the iPhone was released, and 99.9%+ of users can still only use Apple's App Store.
Add to that: the speed of interaction. Even on Earth we have everything from Sloth to Hummingbird. How will we get along with Hummingbird aliens? Aliens that move and think at the speed of a Giant Sequoia?

Even a tiny mismatch could be disastrous. What if they perceived the world only slightly faster? We would speak at the very low end of their perception; our flickering lights and video images would drive them mad. We would appear slow and stupid in every personal interaction.
Related discussion earlier today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22909984

Previous related HN discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16877603 (2 years ago)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16273096 (2 years ago)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20828356 (8 months ago)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15890911 (2 years ago)
Kotlin is probably a better route if you're considering a non-Java JVM language. Its simple, has easy access to the Java ecosystem, and avoids the complexities of the scala FP purists.
I had one, no one read it. low numbers compared to effort made me stop writing in it.
I think that's the main problem. Everyone writes Scala differently. In Go pretty much everything is quite similar. In JavaScript people also write things differently, like any other language really, but in Scala it is compounded.

Is there a concrete example of the Python-like code vs the more complex ones? I appreciate the help.

I'm thinking what language next should I pick up. It is either OCaml or Scala.
This is a very interesting comment, applying equally well to Marc Andreesen’s recent “Time to Build”, which I thought was excellent, but his choice of daily work effectively describes the problem. There’s way too much risk and way too little reward in actual creative work versus social value extraction. Almost everybody who is successful at the former moves quickly to the latter.
You can’t tell the SPL from a YouTube video but you can clearly tell the silencer reduces the attack and sustain of the gunshot noise by a substantial degree. It also doesn’t echo as much.
Look at this from an outsiders perspective. React's marketing says "It's just javascript", but it's not.

I don't take issue with how React works, I take issue with how it's being presented to new users and outsiders.
I'm willing to trade my privacy for things I want. I don't want to know what kinds of diseases I'm coming in contact with every day. When a company starts invading my privacy without providing me with something I want I am likely to stop using them. Like I did with Facebook. Google was on thin ice before this. My next phone will likely be KaiOS powered.
Can anyone explain to me why this has gone to the moon and Vine died? To an uneducated observer such as myself, TikTok and Vine are basically the same. What separates TikTok?
difference here is track record.

go: tends to wait and implement something once the problem is understood. took 2 years after go maintainers decided to solve the dependency issues. and as of the latest release its finally been labelled production ready.

and honestly the proxy issues were not real. go modules was still optional. you could just turn it off.

python is how old now? couple decades? and it has only gotten worse over time.
The is also Oasis, which is web-based and runs whereever nodejs runs. It has ssb-server builtin, so you needn't run sbot/ssb-server yourself.

⌘ https://github.com/fraction/oasis

Under heavy development, but works well and is easy to use.
Interesting. Good to know.
Additionally, COVID-19 is a new disease and we have no data about the long term effects.

This is true anecdotal, but I’m following a cohort of 5 MD friends who all experienced “walking COVID” (aka reached the loss of smell symptom, but required no hospitalization).

This cohort is 35-45 and all previously highly athletic.

They are between +20 and +45 days from being “symptom free”. Not one of them can perform cardiac challenged activities.

I’ve heard things like “I get winded carrying groceries up the stairs” to “I cannot perform even a single push-up”.

So before we take this big risk of letting the virus “burn” through the population, shouldn’t we understand just a bit more?

Sure, maybe we’ll get lucky and the IFR will just be 2-10x flu.

But there are worrying signs of permanent heart, lung and kidney damage.

These costs will also stay with us long term.

Mortality isn’t the concern when dealing with an unknown virus.
More worried about them clamping down on non Indian people using it.
This story fails to take into account human nature, and our drive to do more than just sleeping all afternoon and getting drunk in the evening.
Just like the Japanese farmer?
So, it's just for illegal stuff?
My understanding is that there are variable lags up the chain, and some states don't report deaths for months. NYC as it happens is a relatively prompt reporter. Not sure if there is any public information locally before it's reported upwards, e.g. if you could send volunteers to county health offices.

This was discussed fairly widely recently when people were interpreting recent decline in year over year deaths as evidence that COVID responses were saving lives (e.g. less driving). But it was almost all just typical reporting lag.

Demonstrated by an animated graphic:
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/fxau85/the...
Oh wow, okay I'll take a look at the book then.
> I see virtually no leadership around the environment, which is why I work on it. It takes effort, but I find the rewards more than worth it.

Are there any people that you consider the least worst at it, even if they don't make the cut?

Are there any personal things you do that you could share in some detail, or any other good ideas you might have to improve the general situation?
Even though I live in a small town, my particular area isn't exactly suited for taking a small child for a walk unless you can reach the park ~4 minutes out from my place. Parks, however, are closed (because people regularly congregated in them and violated social distancing), and hefty fines are applied if you're seen in one. This limitation is scheduled to be lifted tomorrow, so we'll start taking our daughter out again.

So while technically, you can take a short walk (AFAIR 250 meters from home) and can take your pets and kids out for a walk, whether you actually can do it often depends on the specifics of your particular neighborhood.
It looks like the title has a typo. Is it slut or slurp?
Show HN: Browser extension to quickly inspect, pick colors, capture and more
Hi HN!, My name is Himanshu Mishra I would like to introduce you Hoverify, A browser extension that makes it super easy to inspect by just hovering over the element. If you are anything like me then you would often find yourself scrolling through the inspect window. Which gets worse with page size. So 6 months and an infinite cup of coffee later, Hoverify is the result with a bunch of features jammed together to make your web design a smooth experience.

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Toggle visibility of elements or remove an element from the page.
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Take a screenshot of the current tab or every tab with just one click.

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Hey, could the readme provide a list of how far along this project got (i.e. material types, object imports, textures, optimizations for collisions)?
Takes all kinds. Doesn't mean other people are wrong, that they make different choices to you.

And the story DID have that guy - the businessman!
Not any more. When I started three years ago, it was a mix of people doing things the old way and people with split accounts. Less than a year later, it went to all split accounts. Also, FWIW, the number of my coworkers who actively use "public Facebook" seems very small.
There are github actions to help out here. I use the todo "bot" that marks up todo comments you would create in PR's or otherwise into issues. You can for instance assign yourself/someone and change how you want it labelled.

https://github.com/marketplace/todo is one of them.
Korchnoi was still in the top 100 at the age of 76.

Of course "easily" is a vast exaggeration.
The "mortalscumbag" theme from oh-my-zsh show current path above the prompt line which is exactly what you want. Can't live without it! I enable it on every system I use.
The only country that is counting deads at people's homes and care facilities is Sweden and they have significantly higher fatality numbers than anyone else.

They also just started looking at increase in general deaths to see if any are related to corona. I think there will be a jump in the numbers soon.

(Since this will probably come up: Despite popular belief, Sweden _is_ under partial lockdown)
Anything you don't want to be at the whims of a central service shutting down/changing their policies/...?

Using a system centered around identity and immutable records for illegal things would be quite stupid.
I build tech enabled, innovative physical infrastructure solutions for buildings. People do want them. VCs, less so, unless it's as high margin as a photo sharing app, destructive and lucrative as consumable businesses like Kurig, etc.

Consumers don't know what they want until the possibilities are presented to them. VCs are literally the gate keepers of much innovative possibilty at the early phases of enterprises. It's not an issue with want, it's that making a quick buck for VCs doesn't come from capital intensive, long ROI cycle businesses. Other asset classes may be better about this but they tend to participate at less innovative stages.
Can you link to some of the studies and papers?
I want to make sure you know that this post is full of bizarre falsehoods. New York and Seattle definitely have ventilator shortages. California had a shortage and that federal reserve of ventilators netted us a small number of broken devices that had to be repaired. Lucky us, the State had a corporate partner that could do it.

I especially want to take issue with this falsehood:

> All three are in plentiful supply. Even in localised hotspots like New York problems are limited to a handful of hospitals.

ICU beds are definitely in short supply. It doesn't matter if a bed exists in another state, folks who need ICU beds aren't usually fit to travel. That's part of why their care is intensive.

But also, only large hospitals have significant ICU capacity. So saying it's only limited to hospitals that have ICU capacity seems very disingenuous to me. It's like saying, "There is no shortage of ICU beds at local clinics." That's true, because no one expects substantial ICU capacity at local clinics. If they had it, it'd be welcome right now.

> I've been reading about the near deserted state of most hospitals for over a week now. I don't understand where Marc is getting his information from if he isn't aware of this.

Where are you reading this? I have relatives in healthcare in NY. They do not relate your story to me.

> Vaccines can't be created for a virus that doesn't exist yet regardless of how many vague warnings there are, so this isn't remarkable: it's inevitable. As for therapies, that's what ventilators and CPAP are.

Who would CPAP machines be for? Why bring them up?

> Given the data appearing in a flood of new papers, showing that the virus is not dangerous enough to warrant current policy, no unusual rates of manufacturing scale-up will be required.

The medical literature is in fact saying the opposite. But now I'm morbidly fascinated what the "reopen the economy" and "it's just the flu" crowd are circulating as "scientific literature."

> Tax credits, quantitative easing, loan subsidies. The government has many ways to distribute money to people.

None of which are actually effective in the face of historic unemployment.

> In fact making medical masks is hard. It requires special materials and machines, the supply of which can't be rapidly scaled up.

Making masks which reduce individual aerosol dispersal is easy. N95 masks are harder. We definitely could scale them up rapidly if we wanted to. This is the territory where things like IP law do matter and do cost lives.
> Is there a concrete example of the Python-like code vs the more complex ones? I appreciate the help.

Haha this book is going to be 400 pages of concrete examples. It's not out yet, so you'll have to take my word for it for the next few weeks while the last round of reviews and editing are incorporated into the manuscript. If you're interested, put your email down and I'll let you know when it's ready!
Your use of. linebreaks.

And punctuation. Makes.

this really hard

To read.

Basically.
I have never had a schedule or a plan for my day and in fact bristle at those concepts as scary and painful sounding--I don't even have a fixed sleeping schedule!--and yet I seem productive enough working at home (and like, I have always worked from home; my father also worked from home: my entire world has always worked from home).
I’ve been using TablePlus for a while, its nice to have because it supports all the databases I use with no fuss, replaced a bunch of separate apps for Redis/PostgreSQL/MySQL/Cassandra.

Also comes as part of the deal if you have a Setapp subscription (https://setapp.com/ )

(And just to be clear, I’m not affilated with either company.)
In fact, it was Magnus himself (currently 29 years old, as of April 2020) who said his favorite chess player was himself, when he was around 23. That Magnus apparently saw things on the board that current (overwhelmingly dominant) Magnus can't any more. So even in chess there's a physical prime, just like in pretty much any other sport.
It's becoming a conservative media talking point (Tucker Carlson, Brit Hume):

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/09/coronavirus-co...
If anything it's nice to see some good press for Iran on an American site. I fully expect him to be retconned as "French teen" or "American teen" or whatever else once he gets his new federation.
Why are political leaders allowed to delete tweets?
There were many suggestions that Italy was over-counting because anyone who died WITH COVID-19 was counted as having died OF COVID-19.
War is bad for business, unless war is your business.
Agree as well! Best SQL IDE for Oracle/PostgreSQL. It uses the same IDE framework that eclipse use. So you can quickly get familiar with and even use the same shortcuts.
Thanks for your answer.

It is to protect against user errors. Your suggestion to check for a signature sounds what I'm looking for.
Wowzer. Now that's a challenging problem! Multiply the difficulty of speech recognition with the difficulty of self-driving cars, and maybe that's about how difficult it would be.

Lip reading is so dependant on context of the conversation. There are so many possible combination of words that could look the same from a lip reading perspective. Classic example is how "elephant shoe" looks like "I love you". Not only that, everyone's lips are different, generally females are easier to lip read, but then what if they have an accent? If english is their second language then that could spell trouble. Some people are mumblers and barely move their lips at all. Sometimes their lips are obscured with facial hair or they keep blocking the view or facing the wrong direction, etc..
Confused: How long did it take scientists to figure out, stone balls were used to hit things? Why didn't they simply ask Australian Aborigines? Oh they did, in 1912:

http://www.aboriginalculture.com.au/stone_tools3.html
On Discworld, at least, it is.
Germany and Austria have the instrument of short-time work where employees can reduce their working hours even to zero and the UI pays them their wage loss but they still remain employed.
Wow, this writeup tries really hard to pad out what is a relatively routine security advisory.

The title should be something like "use after free vulnerability in Google Chrome, with possible remote code execution"

In any event, any insight into whether this is exploitable without allowing the permission? Seems like the auditing effort should be focused heavily on code that runs without any particular permission.
Do you know the size of fraud departments at banks and payment providers, and the budgets going into fraud prevention every year? A bank card is as easily destructible as a smartphone is, but is far less secure, as we're sacrificing security for usability.
GnuNet sounds really cool. I've been reading about it. Are there any alpha versions of app implementations? Anything that a user can try at all yet?
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https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

They are making an effort in keep things updated. Of course, they depend on the official figures of every country or state that are not very accurate at the moment. The sources that they are using in any case are there too.
Thanks for this long and well-thought reply.

> First, I believe in our basic mission to make the world more open and connected

Real question: do you think the top management feels the same? In general, do you see a lot of cynicism in workers around you?

> You want evil companies? How about...

Not saying GOOG/FB were worse than others, but people and the MSM began to increasingly question their moral alignment in the past few years, which is why I'm asking.
Postico is a lot nicer to use, though. I still use it for PostgreSQL databases, even though I have TablePlus for everything else.
Could you elaborate on the mistakes made after 9/11? The ones that come to mind are the Patriot Act, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Are you seriously suggesting the trains are not economically practical?

China, India, Europe and the UK all would like to have a word with you.
This made my day! Wish you all the best and hope that this will materialize. Who needs skyscrapers and stuff (Marc is writing about) if you can have computational law?! In the meantime I will try to escape the country that will adopt such techniques the last: ol Germany
I would also really love to learn what SSBers have to say about this, these were my primary concerns after reading the spec.
Consumers are expert at detecting what has value for them. Putting the "correct" price on it means locating it on the can-pay / will-pay / will-pirate normal distribution of price vs profit chart you've seen .

If something saves me thousands of hours, I am not likely to both miss that fact and stay in business to be a customer for long.

Sellers have a harder problem figuring out what consumers value. The solutions to that are things like collecting useage data, eating your own dogfood or BYOC (be your own customer), outright feature requests, competitor's decisions ( which are market-proven value assignments) etc.

Also 0.xxx versions serve this purpose- it's partially a pre-market exploration of the value of features before a pricing / version segregation attempt is made .

There's just no way consumers doesn't know what they value when they use it or its not there.

There is a class of things which consumers dont' know they value because they've never had it to value in the first place (Pinterest, Instagram) but that's a different thing than assigning different values to different aggregates of established features.
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The unfortunate reality is that anyone who is claiming that at this point likely has made up their mind on this. We’ve got huge problems right now with media trust.
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I'm talking about the "it's better to force forgiveness than ask for permission" part, and they weren't in grey area - in a lot of places, they were doing plainly illegal business. I'm talking about their business model of "let's do illegal business and use deep pockets to keep regulators at bay, until we get enough public support to make ourselves invulnerable". Also known as totally unfair competition. I'm also talking about insurance and worker rights shenanigans, and a host of other sociopathic behaviors their management exhibited (all reported on in detail over the past years).

On top of that, cabs were awful in some cities in some places around the world. They worked well enough in others. Over here (Kraków area, Poland), we had private point-to-point transport companies that managed to change the law through a proper court process, like civilized people do.