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This boom, including Pogchamps, has been great.

First of all, chess has been unapproachable for a long time. You see grandmasters making this move instead of that and for a beginner there's absolutely zero chance you're going to understand why. Or you see something that looks good, a fork that you think wins material but the GM doesn't play it; you don't understand why it was bad.

Sure, you could go into analysis in Lichess but are you going to do that for every single game? Is that fun?

Nakamura, Hess and Botez have been doing a great job making it more approachable - at a level anyone can follow.

The coaching videos are great to watch, even if you're a slight bit stronger (I'm ~2000 blitz on Lichess). And some of the players - Voyboy in particular - have been getting significantly better over the course of the tournament. You can follow along, get better yourself, and discover the deeper and deeper levels of the game at a tractable pace, and that I think is the key to getting into a new hobby.

There's also always been a sense of elitism in chess. The opinion against Pogchamps here[1] shows that:

> "If Chess.com wanted to do a show with gamers and streamers, instead of presenting them as fools they should have been respected as the learners they are at chess."

Bull. A beginner is NOT a fool, and the only prerequisite to playing chess is knowing the rules.

[1] https://www.chesstech.org/2020/is-pogchamps-a-good-way-to-pr...
In cities, it seems reasonable. Bored kids with no supervision will go around breaking things for fun, especially if they think it's unoccupied and nobody will care.
Can someone who supports "let's hold internet platforms responsible for what their users do on their platform" explain how that's any different than "let's hold gun manufacturers responsible for what users do with their guns?"

I fail to see a difference between the two, and think both are untenable fantasies.
I've felt similar to you for a long time, but have recently (over the last year) had a fundamental shift. I'm loathe to ever recommend self-help books (I used to work in publishing, and I know how most of those books get written. Hint: Not by the author, and not based on real research.), but I'd really recommend picking up Atomic Habits.

The big aha moment for me was in the separation of systems and goals. I always struggled with the same kind of procrastination as you--if there was a pressing need, I'd rise to the occasion, but otherwise was content with the minimum--despite having large ambitions (am also strongly considering a PhD, weirdly enough). The book does a nice job of explaining goals as things that are distant, and so can really never be "pressing" or rewarding short term, whereas systems can have a pulling effect i.e. I don't have one singular side project with a schedule that I'm constantly failing to hit, I have a system in which I write code for fun for at least an hour each morning, during which time I let myself listen to new music and try random ideas while I have coffee.

I might not hit peak productivity, but I do it everyday because I enjoy it. I look forward to it when I wake up. The system pulls me in, and as a result, I'm actually way more productive overall.
One of my favorite aspects of this is the chat satirically treating Chess like any other game on Twitch:

- When's the next patch coming out?

- Nerf the queen, too strong

- Blundered a piece, intentionally feeding

- Queen h6 was mate, missed lethal
I think Sourceforge fell from grace because of underhanded tactics like hijacking projects and bundling adware no-one wanted with their downloads, then lying about it.

I never once thought "Sourceforge is boring". I thought they became villains.
Racially motivated murders, which the article is about, are hate crimes. As such, they are prosecuted as hate crimes in the UK.

The calculation I made was from official figures. A smaller percentage of a larger demographic can make up a large percentage of the total.

Even if you want to ignore every number except your 25%, those white victims of racially motivated hate crimes presumably exist, do they not?
I would not call awk an array language. Arrays are essential in awk, but it lacks array operations. For example, in an array language, you add two arrays a and b, element by element, with a+b, while in awk you need a loop. Moreover, you do not have direct map and reduce operations, and again you need loops.

As a fan of both awk and array languages, I think that an nsl-awk would be a really interesting project.
It's not a bad idea to do something like that (highlight the fact that there exist machine learning techniques besides deep learning) but the website is extemely heavy. It took a while for it to load in my browser and I still don't know exactly what it's doing because it's so impossibly slow. A faster implementation, or a small introduction that would describe the function of the application before actually running it would make this a lot better.
Concentrating on something for a long period is easy if it brings you fulfilment, therefore if you study what most interests you, you'll achieve excellent results.
> If our vocabulary can change our mindset, then maybe removing the master/slave dynamic can be a net positive, like removing the vocabulary of war from our daily interactions.

I'm not sure what you mean by "removing the vocabulary of war".

> But personally I don’t see a lot of downside in the attempt to better our world.

I see tons of downsides; people are losing their livelihoods over the mere appearance of impropriety defined by activist narratives. Putting so much weight into these types of things may unexpectedly cause us to view social justice in the hollow terms of performative things like word choice instead of actual equality, etc.
You seem to view "it promotes gambling" as a negative. I happen to think backgammon is a great game precisely for this reason.

The fundamental skill in backgammon is managing variance. Since there are many possible outcomes of the dice that you can't control, your job as a player is to put your checkers into position such that you're maximizing good outcomes and minimizing bad outcomes.

Yes, in any giving game, a poor player might roll very well and win that game, but over a large sample, the better player will absolutely dominate.

Backgammon also has the advantage over poker in the sense that it's still fun to play in the absence of gambling. Poker is dreadfully boring if no money is on the line.
A fact used to imply completely unsubstantiated facts.
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The first first-person shooter (2015)
But then you need to explain to a newcomer that you can have `int ptr;` (pointers to pointers)... It's pretty odd for someone coming from say, Python, Java, or JavaScript. (which, many go through years before realizing that pass by reference happens in their language too)
I've read that thread a few times and I see the people requesting the change doing so in a calm, reasonable manner. The only non-productive posts I see are from people who are vehemently and acerbically against it.
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I've just setup gitea on my home server, it lets me sidestep any issues like this and allows me to not contribute to the continued centralisation of a decentralised version control system. I think I'd like to see more people and projects go this way.
Yep [0], after been bought by Dice (they also drained off the Freshmeat and Slashdot communities around that time, then froze the former "as a result of low traffic levels").

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SourceForge#Controversies
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I don’t think you’re not motivated. For example, I feel the same when cooking. In fact, one of your motivators might be that you need to do things for others or else that task has no meaning.

I took an exam called career leader a while ago. Like one of those professional strengths, exams. It provided a good framework to think about this.

A few motivators the exam ranks you on are things like “prestige”, “altruism”, “autonomy”, “recognition”, “lifestyle”, “security” ..etc. you then get your results with which of those attributes you score highest on. Ultimately,I think it comes down to what you value more. You should then really question how what you do aligns with those motivators and optimize for the tasks that put your motivators ahead.

Here’s a sample report that has them all listed, and framed it better for me:
https://www.hec.ca/etudiants/soutien-ressources/gestion-carr...
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It goes against their interest, why would they do something that helps competing apps?
In general people who never suffered from this kind of profiling have a hard time understanding what's the problem. "I just called him a rapper". No, you just profiled someone who is sick and tired of being profiled. So the examples meant to convey the message better have to be a bit exaggerated.

Imagine calling every white, bald guy "a neo-nazi". A reasonable person who just didn't get the problem suddenly finds the heuristics explanation as no longer appropriate. An unreasonable person probably doesn't want to understand anyway so any effort is wasted on them.
isn't Google Contacts a digital Rolodex? What you're describing sounds like white pages.
Drawboard PDF, on windows platform.
I found it's experience better compare to other pdf readers.
Ease of use of annotation tool is one of highlighting feature.
There's been a topic recently on HN where an engineer was going into selling tech services. A lot of good advice there, including mine.
Because most of the time* an array name decays to a pointer to the first element of the array.

So when the array is declared

char alphabet[10] = {'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e'};

What the alphabet variable "holds" can be seen (this is not exactly true) as a pointer to the array.

Then when you do

alphabet_pointer = alphabet;

You just assign to alphabet_pointer the position in memory of the (first element of) alphabet.

Then alphabet_pointer can be dereferenced to access the content of the array (and not the address of a pointer to the array).

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* There are some situations where an array name is not considered as a pointer to the array. Notably &array gives you back the address of the array : &array == array.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17752978/exceptions-to-a...
Different rules lead to different ecosystems. My claim here is that, under anything-goes rules, some options I like having would probably go away.

And while I understand the temptation to complain about a 30% cut, it's not so obvious to me that sellers would make more money under anything-goes rules, in a lower-trust ecosystem.
The value of marketing degrees is mostly understand de fundamentals human/society behavior, as well as communication processes. It's boiled into sociology, psychology, anthropology, semiotics/semiology, etc.

Technical marketing (narrowing it down to digital) is pretty dumbed down these days, specially with setup wizards. So execution wise, any tutorial can get you up and running.

What you're executing on, that's a different subject, and I dare to say most people do it because it's "what marketing people do".

I tell you this as someone who was on CS and switched down the line to Marketing and Advertising degree - was painful coming from a sciences background, because of social sciences, yet I found both experiences great and such path gave me quite a unique understanding/perspective of the how the world, and how we, function/work/interact.

Plus a lot of things became extremely easier for me, while others struggled.

But I agree with you, I think OP should maybe try to find someone with marketing background to work together with and pick his brain/learn from him.
>"Cop" suddenly became a problematic word

Was it sudden? I mean black people have been being harassed and killed by cops for a long time. Is this only recently on your radar?
Get anxiety disorder. Seems to fear you into working.
With Reference to this: https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#mul...

3.1.3(b) Multiplatform Services: Apps that operate across multiple platforms may allow users to access content, subscriptions, or features they have acquired in your app on other platforms or your web site, including consumable items in multiplatform games, provided those items are also available as in-app purchases within the app.

Can i offer a differential pricing choice within my app. In other words if user buys on my 'website' the price is $100 and if user decides to make an in-app purchase, the price is, say, $130 (100 + 30% Apple Tax)?
The argument for giving money directly to businesses is that it makes the recovery easier. Many argue that we needed to give more money directly to businesses, that it was wrong to let unemployment get so high when we could just pay businesses to keep people on.
I am also Jewish, but people don't know unless I tell them 99% of the time. The only time I feel "different" is when from time to time people say incredibly anti Semitic things to me not realizing what my background is. It's usually near strangers and really jarring. This also happens with my sexuality (gay), so I've just sort of accepted it. I do code switch, I don't use any "jewish" words in random situations and I shift my natural speaking pitch down to sound "straight". It's been my reality for so long that it just automatically happens now. I think we are all different, but certain differences have a lot more stigma attached to them and it shapes the way you view and interact with the world. I also do not feel like I'm with my "people" in interest groups.
> Look at the amount of construction that is going on in China. That is what is physically possible. That sort of activity could be usefully replicated in the West.

OK: how?

The private sector isn't going to be doing it because it's not profitable enough. The public sector won't do it because people complain about the public debt.
They get a sizeable cut when they sell the phones. There's no need to let them have another 30% of whatever is done with that phone later on
Ask HN: Is DHH's constant shouting a marketing tactic?
Are you conflating Mac with iOS? You can run indie apps in Mac.
"It heavily skewed toward JavaScript and web development, but under-indexed a lot of backend and AI stuff.

And yet, it was cool as hell that everyone was on the EXACT same playing field and scoreboard."

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well it's "hacker news" so people around here will keep spinning around technological solutions patting the back of each other and wondering why is apple so shortsighted while they're so smart and all-seeing
The real problem here is that the App Store is a monopsony.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/monopsony.asp
Here you go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23475085
I have not, and never claimed I did. I said it looks good on paper. A number of sources have said it is startup friendly.

If the EU's laws are so burdensome, why is there a thriving startup ecosystem in the EU? I have read about EU's stances on hate speech, defamation, and libel (though I wouldn't call that hobby reading research), and I am fine with their stances.

I think we could use more hate speech protection, when I see reports that as much as 60% of the tweets in the current U.S. political conversations are done by biased bots.

And no, I am firmly against EARN IT and the other 230 attacks. We need internet legislation that is thoughtful, created by technical SME staffers and constitutional law SME staffers, not broad-brush legislation pandering to votes, FUD, or special interests.
There’s been a good number of responses to this very point over the last 24 hours. Here’s one from a journalist, Daniel Dale, whose perspective I really like because he’s Canadian, and therefore is less wrapped up emotionally in American politics.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/17/politics/fact-check-trump-oba...
Are you seriously saying this? Or because you love Apple so much that you are blind?

Their phones aren't free, they are some of the most expensive. Plus user doesn't have an alternative app store on iPhones.
Well lets see... oh that's odd, that meaningless term appears to have a real meaning https://debate.fandom.com/wiki/Kafka_Trap . Now why would you be willing to lie about that?

Seems it's a perfectly accepted logical fallacy; and the only people who deny it are the sjw crowd largely because it is such a favoured tactic within their ranks.
I have thoughts/daydreams/impulses that I used to dismiss as frivolous or unimportant. E.g. I love to research and read up on new synthesizers. I’m a bit obsessed. When I’m in a good coffee shop or am baking, I often daydream about having my own coffee shop. Now, this is not to say I should open a coffee shop and drop 10k on new synth gear. BUT... it’s worth investigating why these impulses occur. (Do I want to create? Make customers happy? ...) If I can tap into urges that occur spontaneously, then I can reframe and leverage those to motivate myself.
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Yeah, same, also you don't wanna be on a demo with the sales, GMs and VPs of all sorts and all of a sudden find yourself in the position to explain the 'cross-platform' problems they are having on their devices - seen that, it's ugly, thus you go with the LCD - thanks to jquery!
A woman who had a brain tumour suspected she had a brain tumour and sought diagnosis for it. Sure, the thought was of an unconventional nature, but it was still a thought she was having, despite her feeling that it was foreign in a way. Atavism of the bicameral mind?
I make and consume kefir every day. It's a lot less involved than this and has the same familiar tang that plain yogurt has.

I also notice a sense of well-being shortly after drinking it. I noticed this prior to learning that kefir is Turkish for "feel good".
If you're interested in comparing numbers, there's a great breakdown here:
https://www.drawdown.org/solutions/table-of-solutions

It doesn't compare exactly what you're asking but it feels relevant
You don't see the difference between "let's hold companies responsible for what people do as part of utilizing their services, while utilizing their services" and "let's hold companies responsible for what people do with an item they have purchased once entirely out of the supervision of that company, without any possible oversight or control"?

I can't hold a skateboard co. responsible for what people do with skateboards they've purchased. I can most certainly hold a skate park responsible for what happens in the skate park.
I think you’re really overestimating the integrity of historic media. The sober tendency of media to “fact check” has only been the case in the last few decades.

https://www.wired.com/story/journalism-isnt-dying-its-return...

The history of the printing press was fraught with exactly the kinds of concerns people appear to have with social media. In those days, you had politicians routinely troll political opponents, publish partisan screeds under pseudonyms, and openly advertise their own biases.

They were never regulated by law because the Constitution makes such regulation essentially impossible.
You know, the GGP is complaining about high government debt levels; you are complaining about low interest levels. That's not coherent.

I do agree that something is broken, but "debt is too high and interest is too low" is a bad problem statement.
Odd - it loads almost instantly on my phone (Chrome, Android).
That's great for you to choose to Apple approved apps. Doesn't mean you should prevent others from trusting other authorities.

And you don't think it's weird that you have to buy hardware to get the software you want?
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Is there reason to believe apps on Google Play Store are significantly less safe than apps on Apple's app store?

I think that Android provides the best of both worlds: gatekeeping on the official app store, and the option (with warnings) to install from other sources. I believe that families and enterprises can also disable third-party installs.
Your comment intrigued me, so I looked it up--I found it pretty interesting, so thanks for the inspiration.

Looks like one of the main factors is due to the soil acidity being similar to the pH of the plant roots. Also, while there is a ton of dead organic material in the soil, the high temperatures and precipitation causes it to decompose so rapidly that most of the nutrients are lost.

Finally, the clay particles in the soil are poor for trapping the minimal nutrients remaining from the decomposing material, and what is trapped is frequently washed away from the precipitation.
I'm not saying "aesthetic minimalism" is proper nomenclature, just that people are solving for that particular aesthetic slice when they pick their designs by generically extracting features from "functional / real minimalism" as you correctly pointed out. I think we're arguing the same thing, you just did it much more eloquently.
I've just posted extensively about that in a similar thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23531361
This is a genuinely hard problem that capitalism doesn't give any kind of easy answer to.

Obviously Apple is allowed to charge a fee. The App Store costs serious money to run -- to develop, maintain, support.

But when the App Store is the only place apps can be published for iOS, and more than half of worldwide mobile app revenue is made there, there's no competition.

Nobody else can go and create their own separate iOS App Store with lower commissions. But the kicker is, there is a real consumer benefit to that -- the entire iOS world is built on a premise of security and privacy that only comes from having everything locked down and controlled by Apple, from a secure enclave to approved apps.

There are really only two solutions here:

1) Legislation to define this as a special kind of monopoly situation (a new definition of monopoly, at least in the US) and create some kind of profit cap where Apple isn't allowed to charge more than x% over revenue. But which feels pretty icky -- the government stepping in to tell you you're not allowed to maximize profit like any other business. And what's the legal basis for deciding whether the "allowed profit" is 5% or 50%? 10% or 12%? 0% or 100%? You can invent an argument for any number you want, but ultimately it's entirely arbitrary.

2) Legislation to require Apple, Google, Microsoft, and all OS's generally to allow third-party fully-integrated app stores. But which will obviously do serious damage to the reputation of the iPhone (and mobile devices generally), when people start to associate them with buggy malware apps that drain your battery and use dark UX patterns to trick you into giving them all your location, microphone, etc. permissions.

But both seem pretty gross, totally non-market, government-intervention. But Apple's 30% cut is also pretty gross at this point.

It sucks there's just no obvious, elegant, good solution here.
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Are you asking me? Sure it could be, what's the problem with it? So many companies start fake outrages, he does it to the detriment of his own name and reputation, that's more honest.
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