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The following is a comment from this youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxKmO0SCNkc&lc=Ugw2taPKtZSpk...

From the video of the play, it doesn't look like Alireza threw a fit. Losing on time I'd be frustrated enough to whack the table. It is a tense moment. What seems unsportsmanlike is his interactions with the arbiter.

>I will add some additional information from the broadcast and what microphones picked up during the norwegian live coverage.

>After Alireza lost on time (he fumbled his king, not the bishop), he claimed that there was no mating material and that it should be a draw. There was then a pretty loud discussion at the table, when the arbiter ruled the game as a draw. Magnus claimed there was mating material on the board, the arbiter still ruled a draw. We could then hear Magnus say "Who's ruling is that? Is it yours?" since he thought the arbiter was influenced by Alireza. The head arbiter then came over and ruled a loss on time for Alireza since there was mating material on the board. They moved to the side, and the camera and microphones picked up a heated debate between the head arbiter and the Alireza team and they needed the rules explained to them. After a lot of fuzz, Alireza was shown the very clear rule that it is only a draw if there is "not mating material left by any means possible for Carlsen".

>Then Alireza changed his story and claimed that Carlsen spoke something in Norwegian and had disturbed him. The arbiter then said he should have stopped the clock and addressed it when it happened, and again Alireza claimed that this happened when there was 2 seconds left on the clock and it would be impossible. This was the second time he changed his story.

>The head arbiter ruled that he lost on time and if he had any concerns about Carlsens behaviour he should have adressed it at the table.

>Alireza and his team put in an official complaint, claiming that Carlsen said something in Norwegian and distrubed when Alireza had only seconds left on the clock.

>While the complaint was reviewed, the TV team showed the entire endgame. It shows Magnus spontaneously whisper a norwegian word when he blundered his C-pawn. Carlsen had at the time about 2-3 seconds on the clock, Alireza more than 8 and a completely winning position. If he wanted he had time to complain, but was winning on the board. They played for about 2 more minutes and Alireza fumbled pieces 3 times and lost a lot of time on the clock.

>It was only when he lost on time, all these excuses showed up. The jury overruled his complaint, and Alireza lost on time. He was extremely sympathetic in the interviews before this, but this circus after his loss was an embarassment for him and his team.
> Yes, but after the pandemic, wouldn't it be nice to be sure something like this is in place before we learn about a new virus? Wouldn't it be great if we kept this thing on forever, so it could be used retroactively after an outbreak has happened to trace it back and become even better at avoiding pandemics?

> Oh, and maybe this could also be used to avoid certain crimes such as terrorism?

> You know where this leads to.

Exactly, these capabilities won't go away. Today they are used for good but tomorrow? Not to invoke Godwin's Law but these contact tracing capabilities would have been a Nazi's wet dream.
In a casual conversation, or web forum, when the subject comes up, mention "piano lessons" and watch what happens.
As a Lombard I second this.

I always joke about the love-hate relationship between Italy and Germany (Italy and Germany in the broader sense, not only the actual countries) saying that this feeling has been here since the times of general Stilicho [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stilicho].
Towing materials from asteroid belts would require almost as much energy, and you would need some sort of megastructure for processing.

What I'm telling you is that there are hard limits that mean that our growth must slow down. There is a hard limit to how much energy we can harness from the earth, and a hard limit for how fast we can avoid this. Progress will have to slow down, a society based on endless exponential growth at short-term significant rates is untenable.
Billions seemed too long to me, at that point you're talking about tenths of the lifetime of the universe!
It’s actually online since the flash days, I try to contribute from time to time.
I haven't used Gimp in perhaps a decade, but I can't imagine a worse UI than Adobe. At home, I have a free PDF reader, but at work (...when I was going to work...), I had to use Adobe's PDF editor. (Not that I edit the PDFs, I mostly just read them; occasionally a highlighter would be nice.) Ugly huge icons that I don't need and which take up lots of space. And next to nothing in the menu, except ways to turn on icon bars at the top and/or side, hopelessly emsmallening the page I actually want to read.
I posted to a blog for a while. I didn't like the disorganized one-off isolated bits of content it produced. With enough content a word cloud could be useful but wasn't what I wanted to make.

Now I post to a personal GitBook site which is more of a personal wiki than a blog. I like the output. I wish I'd started this way from early in my online-era career. Each post aims to either be in story form, or a to-the-point how-to which I know I'll be referring to and trust.
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Proposing intermittent fasting as a cure for COVID-19 with no clinical research is dubious. This is the same as any other quack medicine.

Ironically carb consumption is important to maintain immune function in very active individuals.
I pointed out that letsencrypt does not compete in the same space with some providers and I get responses from internet freedom activists who don't want to acknowledge the fact. If shit is broken and doesn't work, you don't use it to make a point, you go fix it.
Coronavirus accelerates decline of slumping coal industry
> might chip in

Pun perhaps not intended, but good.
Mysteriously right after the Olympics were postponed.
Yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extracorporeal_membrane_oxygen...
No one has done a controlled study on this, so no one really knows. It ranges from zero to many.

The reason government and medical signaling on the subject has been so mixed is that it isn’t apparent they are very effective, especially the jury rigged cloth masks that people are using.
Yes. On one hand, I tire of numerous hot takes that start with "I'm not an epidemiologist, but..." which is followed by opinion un-anchored by practical experience and are coupled with a disregard for what has come before (community context). There are also a number of people in adjacent fields who are taking advantage of the situation to advance their careers.

On the other hand, I realize most experts carry the baggage of unrecognized assumptions in their toolkit, which need to be challenged (at the first principles level) by people outside the domain who don't carry the same baggage.

The ideal situation would be to leverage the expertise of both epidemiologists and non-epidemiologists on a common platform (that is not Twitter) and have them check and build on top each other's work.
Define "like". People haven't seen the exact scenario, but people - epidemiologists and others - have studied the Spanish Flu, and MERS, SARS, H1N1, seasonal flus, etc., which all have useful similarities.
Third, non-voting legislative house. 1 member for every 3500 citizens, geography agnostic; get 3499 of other interested citizens together and elect one of you to represent the group, for whatever policies or interests you care for. Members of this body are the only people who are allowed to meet with the Senate during four annual 6-week periods of sequestration. Outside lobbying by non-individuals is banned. Conversely, "legislative marketing" to the public by individually-controlled entities is banned.

In this way, the arms-length nature of the Senate and the existence of a body close to the public are restored, while disrupting the influence of entrenched, established interests.
Is there any way that the breaking of the Xlinix bitstream encryption opens the door to documenting and reverse engineering that bitstream in the same way that was done with Project IceStorm[0] for the Lattice iCE40 FPGAs?

[0] Project IceStorm - http://www.clifford.at/icestorm/
There are honest telcos - usually cooperatives or foundations rather than for-profit corporations.
As the system is described there’s no way to flip a switch.

Apple/Google could always push a software update that does all kinds of terrible things, but that has always been true and remains true with or without a contact tracing system. It’s a concerning possibility but has nothing at all to do with this system.
> You can chop your tree for half the energy use tomorrow, but not the next day and the next and the next and the next.

Why not? If we're talking decades rather than days, a combination of AI and solar power will eventually get us to the point where virtually no human effort is required at all.

Economic efficiency has nothing to do with energy efficiency, it's entirely about the efficiency of human inputs.

In fact, a significant amount of economic growth comes from learning how to accomplish the same tasks with less energy -- more fuel-efficient cars, lightbulbs, and so on.

Energy and thermodynamics have absolutely nothing to do with it.

There's no magical thinking here. You're just confused that you think economic growth requires greater energy usage. It doesn't. And I don't know where you've gotten the idea that it does.

And your link is misleading -- just because energy production has accompanied economic growth doesn't mean it always will, or that it does in every sector. It just means it's been the pattern so far, because energy is cheap. As soon as energy becomes more expensive, growth consists in using it even more efficiently and renewably.
why are digital companies impacted? i don't understand. do their customers have less $ to spend?
The way to protect secure hardware tokens is not bitstream encryption, it's tamper protection. You store the key material in SRAM that is erased when the device detects any attempt at manipulating.

If your Bitcoin Wallet or whatever token is affected by this, it was IMHO badly designed to begin with, since apparently it was relying on an AES-CBC bitstream encryption scheme. That should've been a red flag even if it wasn't broken.
To add to your point, Germany actually has a federalized system similar to what the United States has. A key difference in this specific scenario was that the United States didn't fully trust the federalized system for healthcare and disease prevention like the Germans did. Our CDC ended up owning the development, manufacturing, and distribution of test and therefore were able to tell doctors in all 50 states who could be tested and who couldn't. I think that this is a grossly inferior model and we should have instead allowed the states to have more money and therefore more control over creation of the tests.

I think that the big issue that was exposed was not lack of centralization but too much of it with the wrong organizations. A nation of 330 odd million is much harder to govern especially in a centralized manner.

an additional question I have is what do you think has been so awful about the United States response? From a pure numbers perspective I feel like the US isn't really doing badly from a per capita basis.

Nobody has run out of ventilators yet. Infection rates are below the 95% confidence interval of the original models. Just curious as to your perspective. Do you think that these numbers are due to bad models and luck or due to the fact that the population has largely adhered to social distancing?
That's because they intervened early with large scale testing, contact tracing, and social distancing.

The problem is contact tracing only works when the number of new infections is manageable, though. That's why it's so critical to react early and aggressively. Once it becomes unmanageable, the only solution is mass quarantines until the numbers are manageable again.

The best analogy is a fire. If it's just embers, one person can stomp it out. If you wait for it to become a forest fire, then it requires drastic measures.
Depending on the length of the trip, a vacation in Africa can be cheaper than one in America. Sure the flight will cost a bit more, but the vacation costs while there will likely be much cheaper than, say, staying at Disneyland.
> This will create new white blood cells. This will eliminate gut inflammation. It will reset your old immune system with a healthy new one.

How are you measuring these results?
Seek and see the value in all you do. Arrive early, stay late, and put in a little extra. Sticking with your degree will build muscles for harder times you will surely face in your life.

Universities are great places to build your network. You have access to all sorts of people that you could not meet otherwise. This is how people get to be president and stuff like that.

As others mentioned, having a degree, especially a technical one, will help you in many unseen ways throughout your life. For one, it certifies to others that you have a marketable skill, that you know what you are talking about. Another is when layoff time comes at jobs, the degree is an extra point in your favor. You also need your undergrad to go on to a masters, be that technical or business or law.

Start a side business, hobby, family....school, like work, will suck at times and be hard to keep grinding away at. From someone at the other end of the spectrum, both the night school and work grinding enabled more results in my life than I ever expected to achieve.
What exactly is the definition of astroturfed? If it implies spending lots of money then is there evidence of that here? A few Facebook groups (free) and a few hundred dollars in domain registrations and hosting. Are these protesters being bused to rallies? What would a true grassroots movement look like these days?
Mathematics and physics are memecomplices which allow us to study and consider the Platonic realm. There's no one single mathematics from a cultural perspective; consider where numerals, operators, and grouping come from. The notation is how we make sense of the abstract, non-physical aspects with our mere physical brains.

The "nearly" that I am exempting is for those things which are logically deduced from other things alone. While a person might reason incorrectly based on faulty premises, they are nonetheless using reason to do so, and applying it in a logical fashion (cf "formally formal" logic proofs). The right lesson to take away, I think, is that being logical, being consistent with empirical observations, and being uncontradicted by dialectic evidence, are three distinct things, and none of them are the truth, if the truth even exists.
It is expected that 70% of the population will get coronavirus then we will have herd immunity. The lock down is about stopping the healthcare systems getting overwhelmed (that will cause unnecessary deaths). That's the way I understand things.

The same number of deaths will occur are likely to occur in the long term unless Sweden's ICU beds get full.

If anyone has an alternative interpretation I am open to hearing it.
Yikes... yes.
Ask HN: Where do you find users for the User Observation Tool?
I'm planning to test an idea for a startup using YC's black.design tool where the first step is user observation: https://www.black.design/user-observation/

Any ideas where I can find a community willing to help each other in this aspect?

Thank you!
It's an optional feature, so I don't think so.
I have not seen a single useful model from professional epidemiologists so far -- at least nothing that would guide me better than "look at China and Italy and consider that it might also happen here."
Who's "they"? From an outside perspective (UK) everyone seems to be making it political - Trump especially so.
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I am not the first to point out that our issue is not the lack of resources, but the inability to direct them in a meaningful way. The idea that free-market dynamics will create the best resource allocation is just hard to believe. People will say that "well other system do we have!?" which to me is defeatist, assume the worst from human race kind of approach. There are people out there doing much research on coordination, new ways to have a democracy, novel voting systems (say, quadratic voting). We need to believe that we can do better.

A seminal article on the failure of the chaotic human coordination to-date is "Meditation on the Moloch". https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

Here's a passage I liked:

> Like all good mystical experiences, it happened in Vegas. I was standing on top of one of their many tall buildings, looking down at the city below, all lit up in the dark. If you’ve never been to Vegas, it is really impressive. Skyscrapers and lights in every variety strange and beautiful all clustered together. And I had two thoughts, crystal clear:

> It is glorious that we can create something like this.

> It is shameful that we did.

> Like, by what standard is building gigantic forty-story-high indoor replicas of Venice, Paris, Rome, Egypt, and Camelot side-by-side, filled with albino tigers, in the middle of the most inhospitable desert in North America, a remotely sane use of our civilization’s limited resources?
Btw, I find a lot about Scala to be interesting besides that it supports pure functional programming.

For me, Scala is much nicer for imperative/OOP than Java, in ways that aren't just skin deep.

https://medium.com/@ryanberckmans/why-i-like-scala-45e65cde3...
I was thinking the same thing. Exponentials are so sensitive to almost nothing at the beginning and then it is too late to react. The only solution to not be late in reacting is to over react.

I was correct in my predictions of the disease coming to North America and the stages it would entail but I was wrong about the timeline because so as it happened it happened so fast.
I think the two biggest factors leading to the decline of free culture as a movement were:

(1) Lessig (who coined the term "free culture" and helped found many related organizations) leaving the movement to focus on e.g. money in politics, and

(2) The absence of any big tent organization promoting free culture as a movement, rather than focusing narrowly on a specific topic e.g. licenses as Creative Commons does. I co-founded the now defunct Students for Free Culture, and we were trying to do this, but we were focused on the youth demographic. Nobody ever took up the banner for the world at large, and when SFC died it felt like that was kind of the end of evangelizing for free culture.
That presumes providing clean water is somebody else’s problem. It’s not.

Classic American culture is rooted in independence. I honestly don’t grasp the notion that “access to clean water” involves compelling others to make water clean & available cheap/free in large quantity; don’t ruin what water is commonly available, property rights apply, collect what flows/falls on your property ... otherwise it’s up to you to buy or acquire/purify for your own needs.

If an area does not have a suitable source, move. There is no right to live where you like and compel others to alleviate regional inadequacies.

“Access to clean water” is not appropriate where there isn’t any (which includes much of the US), or where water has been ruined beyond reasonable reclamation (Flint, Syracuse, etc).
I often transfer files from the computer to the phone using KDE Connect. Right-click on a file in Dolphin > send to device. Many KDE apps also have a similar share button. I don't know how it works in other desktop environments.
It will be fine as long as the medical system is prepped to handle surge/moving overflow smoothly/pulling in and sharing resources etc.
Remember most positives won't require hospitalization (~50% wont even show any symptoms, 40% will have mild symptoms). And compared to few months back readiness/awareness levels at hospitals is much higher.
I am bothered the animation does not include confidence intervals or error bars for the fit. The way these confidence intervals would shrink as more data points are available would tell a just as important part of the story.
I was a stay-at-home parent with a Y chromosome.

It was a deep and profound eye opener for me to (1) notice how most of the writing about the stuff I did all day was written specifically for people without Y chromosomes

but more importantly

(2) it made it much more clear to me what it must be like to be a woman who wants to be or is a part of a male-dominated field. Even though I was already aware of the concept of gendered literature as it pertains to a field of endeavor, wow, was it a totally different experience to have it apply directly to me and to my feelings. I used to be a bit cavalier about this - acknowledging that it was a real thing, but downplaying its significance.

No more. The kid is now 25, and we talk gender politics every other week :)
You can still imagine to do all this research Google paid upwards of $180M to it's employees.
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In 1980 I was sitting in a restaurant booth - the walless kind -- with Mom because the food was good and unambitious and the price reasonable since she was paying because I was still a kid. It was one of those, there's something on the menu that everyone will like kind of places.

An older couple sat in the next booth and the waitress came over to take their order. The gentleman inquired about the ham. "Is the ham salty?" and following a well-it's-ham response said "I don't like salty ham" and then there was more involving the lady ordering ham and finally the gentleman ordering ham, too.

It came to mind because when the check came the gentleman said "the ham was salty" but went on about how he didn't like salty ham and could only eat most of it. I have no idea about the tip and it was the days before online restaurant reviews so there wasn't that either.

A monastery is not a spa or a resort or a hotel. The care a care person provides is spiritual care. And even if though the ham was salty and the author doesn't like salty ham, the care person's "you'll live" was right. And if it the experience caused the author to delay their complaint for a year and half and to tone it's self-indulgence down then maybe they got something out of it beyond a rationalization for stiffing the waitresses' tip.

It also reminds me why "you could die" signs must be posted at the edge of cliffs.
I usually click 'fork' with the intention of making some minor change, and maybe committing it back.

90 percent of the time, that minor change either isn't suitable for being committed back to the project (it's badly hacked in, it's too specific to my usecase, etc.), Or the change ends up being harder to make or test than I had imagined, so I give up but don't bother deleting the fork.

That could explain the large number of forks and small number of PR's
I can vouch for lihaoyi. He is one of the more prolific people in the scala community writing top notch stuff. The best part about most of the stuff be writes is they are extremely ergonomic, even by scala standards. Look at either scala-tags or even better his parsing library. The parsing library is actialy so good you'll feel like finding more problems to solve. Its a breeeze to get started with (even in repl). Scala-tags also is amazing and has spawned other similar projects , one of which is laminar which is currently one of the top scala-js frameworks.

In fact I can probably say this for a lot of his work, anyone learning from him would probably learn a user centric way of library design.