skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chess is mainly about memory and recognizing patterns and implementing those patterns at that exact moment at the chessboard.

So I would definitely think there is correlation between chess and memory. There was a really good documentary about memory called How Does Your Memory Work. Highly recommended, you get to see a glimpse of the workings of Susan Polgar's brain. I might also confuse it with My Brilliant Brain from National Geographic :)

I remember seeing a live post-mortem analysis by Anish Giri. It was just astonishing how fast he can see combinations, yet also how deep those combinations are. And then on top of that throw in a sentence like "Oh, it is not new, it was played in 2006 as well, in that game between him and him". So really, fast thinking, slow thinking, and picking deep into your memory, all at once, seemingly without any effort. That is 2760 ELO for you :)
And that's fair, you can put the notary verification server in your hosts file so requests to it do not work and everything will work as before.

But for the vast majority of people, a system that warns them their software has been compromised will help keep things secure.

I mean I don't agree with them phoning home for every application startup; they could have implemented it like the https certificate system, where you have a database on your own system with signatures that the OS can check against. They can install the signature (or fetch it) on application installation / update, no additional phone home required. They could even put it in a secure enclave or whatever so that in theory, no malicious software can update it.
No, they really aren't. While there was a globe or two in different classrooms, most classes that needed maps of sorts had pull-down maps.

Once we reached middle and high school, most classes didn't have maps. If I were building a modern school, I might not put physical maps in any classroom equipped with modern projection tools and smart boards.
> The bitterness that flies around whenever Apple comes up around here is almost inexplicable.

or more specifically, not so much inexplicable (as actually I think it is quite predictable), but rather it is just exhausting.

I'm never going to buy a Windows computer. Period. I'm probably never going to switch to Linux either. I don't go around shouting my reasons why I won't, and I think most Apple users behave this way.

But for a certain segment of the non-Apple crowd, yelling consistently about their opinions is an odd recurrence.
As some other have mentioned, Rosetta uses AOT translation that contrasts with Microsoft's approach of emulation.

I think the contrast in approach here is motive, where I get the impression that Microsoft wanted developers to write ARM apps and publish them to its Store by making emulated programs less attractive by the virtue of poorer performance.

Apple on the other hand is keen to to get rid of Intel as quickly as they can, therefore they had to make the transition as seamless as possible.
Can you elaborate instead of just dropping a sharp comment?

I'm curious about what you mean.
The important ideas that made those companies get big wasn't what problem to solve but how to solve it. Google had PageRank and various other smart ways to make their search better than the competitors at the time. Facebook had better UX. Airbnb made renting out rooms ten times easier.

The important ideas here is in the realm of "how". And that realm is both ideas and execution. Ideas of how to execute?
Bluetooth and zoom is very unreliable on my work mac laptop as well.
WPGraphQL v1.0 – GraphQL API for WordPress
About the taking notes advice: Make it simple. Use normal paper.Buy color pens like this:
https://www.ebay.es/itm/153878354093
A clipboard:
https://www.ebay.es/itm/132927898467

Paper in infinitely flexible and cheap. I use tablets along with paper, but they are too expensive for note taking.

Unless you are a programmer, do not use things like roam research. It is too complex and too rigid.

If you want to create a new habit, it must be very simple and unsophisticated. Over time you will complicate things, but first you need to get used to the simple thing.

It is better to do something simple today that trying to do something so complex and perfect you never do.

I scan my papers with an automatic feeder scanner. I digitalize the strokes. I have a library that I can access remotely, but I started simple.

About the personalities, you can study this stuff, so you can identify fast if someone is agreeable or disagreeable, extrovert, introvert, sensory... if you have a company, it has an enormous utility.
Learn to Code Playing a Game
On the other hand, the state deciding that books being forcibly copied (without the owner’s permission) and all copies collected together, turned out to be a great idea:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria
As an indie game developper, I would like to argue it's not a developper desire but a player culture thing.

We've made a (probably bad, but that's not the point) first person shooter game last year and difficulty curve conception was a pain.

Initialy the game was aiming for the not-so-niche of hardcore fps player base and thus, clearly hard. As a VR game we attracted a lot of childrens and first time player players, who were overwhelmed.

We then added really easier game modes (and when i mean easier, i really mean 'you could litteraly walk thought the game for one or two minutes ignorings ennemis until you die'.

One of the recurring bad review (not the only one, the game have others problems) we had was the game was too easy, and looking for player stats, we could see video reviews of clearly seasonned fps player, rolling thought the easy mode for obvious reason and quitting after some time finding the game too easy without even trying the second diffulty setting on the 5 availables.

I'm sincerely curious as a developper to how we could improve things for our next try. We could have started the game on an harder difficulty by default, but we did not want to force a non veteran player to check 'mega-beginner-dumbed mode' on startup.

Another point we had and could explain hollow knight difficulty : it's impossible for a gamedevelopper to estimate difficulty on your own game when you work on it for over 2 years. Even if you are normally not very good on the genre You get insanely good at it pretty quickly.
I do wonder where Apple will go with the Mac Pro. I guess a lot depends on how well the existing model has been selling (which we don't know).
There's actually a simple explanation: the prices are insane, but someone is always willing to pay that much. So that's what the prices are.
> but the guards should have been there to monitor. The cameras should have been there to record/document.

Yes, but we know that guards do not monitor. We know cameras frequently aren't working.

> It's not the prevention I'm concerned about, it's the convenient lack of documentation/monitoring/etc.

You say "convenient", I say "sadly all too familiar".

> But how many cases as important as epstein, where he was being monitored via guards and camera, and being watched for suicide have both the guards and cameras fail?

Honestly loads. Fred West, Harold Shipman, were both notable serial killers who took their own lives when in prison. West murdered 12 people and was on remand. Shipman, who murdered over 200 people, had previously expressed suicidal intent and gave a reason for wanting to die.

> and the guards are sleeping and the cameras are not working?

You keep saying this, as if it's some kind of smoking gun. The thing I'm trying to tell you is that it's very common and that it's not in anyway surprising that a person, even a very high profile person, dies by suicide.
Since incubation period is 2-14 days (with a median of 5 days), we have requested that family members attending for Thanksgiving refrain from other social gatherings for 14 days prior. While this does not eliminate risk, it should reduce it to within a margin we are comfortable with.
Google Is Already Experimenting with WebP2 as Successor to WebP Image Format
You can add 'a parent' to your list.
Microsoft has revived the good old PowerToys as well. It now includes a FancyZones utility that allows to define zones that windows can automatically snap into while dragging them (while holding a key). It also has a setting to overwrite the Win+Arrow key functionality to move windows between these "fancy zones" instead.

Maybe this is interesting for you?

https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/releases
The Windows community reacted to similar behavior by Microsoft by creating several scripts and lists of servers being used to phone home. I guess something similar will be created for macOS although the actual packet filtering will have to be implemented on the router rather than the host.
> Apple doesn't give you a choice.

That is completely incorrect. You have the most important choice of all: Just don't buy Apple.

For everyone else, assume they've already made that choice and are very comfortable with Apple's strategy of curating everything on the machine, not because they are evil or control-freaks, but because they do genuinely want the platform as safe and high-quality as they can make it. Whether it works or not is perhaps a matter of opinion, but if it's not your opinion, move along. No need to spend the days fussing about things you don't own.
> The part about whether they should have been born or not, which was the ethical thing is what tears at me.

I gotta say... for me, this is close to murder. I realize these things are complicated but if it was a hybrid species, we might not know how close it was to us. It may have been close and it would absolutely be murder to kill a 100 day old child.

I think if it could potentially be murder you should just error on the side of caution.
You're not wrong. Difficulty is central to these games, and also IMO often overstated and/or misunderstood. At least in the Fromsoft titles you mentioned, pattern memorization is way more important than straight up twitch reflexes. I would bet good money that many players who have given up would find their groove if they just spent some more time on it.

All that said, I don't see why accessibility has to be a dirty word. Purposefully difficult game design does exclude players. For every inspiring story of someone completing a challenge while suffering from a disability, there are 10 more who completely miss out on what are - difficulty aside - genuinely interesting games. I personally know soulsborne fans who mainly like exploring the world, and for whom boss encounters are just a necessary evil.

That's honestly fair - these are rich worlds with interesting lore and a unique form for storytelling, so I totally get just enjoying the game(s) on those merits alone. It then follows that I think others who are similarly inclined but perhaps not quite as able should be able to enjoy the same experience.
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Using-a-NTFS-di...
>The big question though is why the company’s doing this. So far, it hasn’t said why Apple apps on Big Sur are exempt from firewalls and VPNs, but there are some theories.

I'm also genuinely curious, what is the main benefit of doing this and if it's done by design.
Honestly having attended some of these fundraisers, having donated to some fundraisers, and having donated a piece of artwork (and my only piece of art tbh) to a well-renowned museum in London, my honest opinion is that most of these places spend far more on organizing the fundraisers rather than paying for artwork and preservation. In most cases, the collectors themselves take on the costs of general preservation (we have to sign a contract explicitly stating the cases where the institutions are responsible for damage, idk how it works with larger donors), and the museums are just charged a one-time cost for the hosting infra, and then there are the recurring costs of maintaining the museum.

One issue I've noticed is that there are far too many scattered museums in a lot of places, mostly converted homes, churches and the like. Some of it might be ripe for consolidation.
Ubuntu Mate is great for old laptops.
Opt-out is not appropriate for privacy concerns, IMO, for two reasons.

1. Opt-out is not necessarily sticky. I don't have confidence that when I opt out, my preference will get rolled forward every time there's an update to the way the feature works. I have noticed this in the past with Facebook and Google.

2. What's good for the goose is good for the gander. If Apple needs to implement opt-out to placate sophisticated users who actually understand what the problem is, then what about the poor saps who don't really know why this is a bad thing in the first place?

If this is truly a "feature," let people decide for themselves at time of device setup whether they want to opt in.
> There's no comparison to how blacks were treated in America, we are not barbarians.

According to Wikipedia[1] (as I have no other sources at hand) gypsies have been slaves in Romania for most of the period since the Romanian Principalities' inception in the 13th, 14th century until 1864. I think 400+ years of indentured servitude and slavery paints Romania as quite barbaric. You should probably reconsider your biases.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Romania
Many recommendations from friends also don’t have my best interests at heart.

Here are reasons friends recommend things in my experience:

* They think I’ll like it (A++).
* They like it (When their default way of expressing enthusiasm for something is recommending it, one has to learn to not take it so literally. Also, I’m not discounting the opportunity for shared bonding over something that at least one of us enjoys though. Is this category of recommendation a symptom of having a weak theory of mind? I don’t know).
* Loyalty (they’ll recommend products by friends/associates/compatriots, irrespective of quality).
* Financial kickbacks/business connections. (Still can be useful).
* Pyramid schemes (almost no experience with this, thankfully. I guess the same as #4 but also creepier).
> Supply and demand doesn't really flesh out in the art world.

Yes, they do. It may be the case that demand in the art world defies the expectations of rational choice theory that demand will be a function of utility realized by the buyer if they are successful in the transaction, but prices are still driven by supply and demand.

> Lots of people get to wanted status simply because they knew the right folks or were lucky.

How demand is generated and whether or not it is rationally-grounded has no bearing on whether supply and demand “flesh out”.

> It isn't so much originality or that there wasn't a supply of art.

It's that art works that you consider adequate substitutes for each other are not considered adequate substitutes by a sufficient subset of buyers such that the availability of tons of generic art at cheap prices does not drive down the market-clearing price of less-available in-demand art.
It's all in our heads. Human species is obsessed with the opinions of others and they define us more than what we actually do. So ignoring downvotes (and upvotes!) is actually a good mental exercise.
It strains credulity to assume no malicious (i.e. data harvesting) intent. They are requiring millions of devices to phone home every time they open any application, rather than just pushing an update to a locally stored certificate blacklist when necessary.
I’m going to justify eating a donut by telling myself I’m keeping you warm.
You're telling me that you don't hold a developer responsible for the way he implements things, if he isn't the originator of the implementation?
> If this is truly a "feature," let people decide for themselves at time of device setup whether they want to opt in.

They may very well do this. On startup installation, macOS and iOS do have opt-in screens for certain things like analytics, improving Siri, stuff like that. With the introduction of this feature, I wouldn't be surprised if they add that as well.

It's easy to find fault in retrospect but it doesn't make sense to have opt-in screen for every conceivable feature. Apple's philosophy, which is wildly successful for most users, is to choose sensible defaults about how the OS works. When those are challenged, they expose them more explicitly, as they have done in the past. No company can easily predict if their defaults are going to cause a divide, so sometimes they have to be reactive on some features. Apple generally has a great track record of responding to criticisms like this and making things clearer for users.
A lot depends on Microsoft and my guess is they would prefer to offer Windows in the cloud for Apple users.
I'm not a fan, but it sure beats bad coffee when all you need is something warm.

In order to reduce my coffee consumption, I've also tried drinking just warm water. It seems the Chinese recommend it.
In most cases, I reckon it would be for the hell of it.

But in the reddit comments for the OP, the author of this article sheds some light:

> "Hey, author here! I chose to skip that part just because when I was researching our new API, I read so many posts just like that about how great GraphQL is. So I thought it might be more interesting to hear about some of the mechanics of executing the swap and making sure things didn’t go wrong in a production app."

> "But I will say that our previous API, while it worked well for years and enabled huge amounts of growth in our client codebases, was written in a language that was made up at OkCupid that came with our custom web server, so that’s one good reason to switch!"

https://www.reddit.com/r/reactjs/comments/jthwdz/moving_okcu...

I'm interested to see how large companies do these types of migrations, but for me, the more interesting story would've been how on earth some custom language was invented and used for a REST API and what they did to migrate _that_.
One of the questions I have is just how much of their relatively recently-gained process optimisation knowledge of e.g. 14+++ will be transferrable to future node shrinks, and, will this give them an IP edge over TSMC if they can get back on track with node shrinking?
Yeah, not blaming you at all for the common misconception. I'm just glad you got something out of my wall of text.

If you ever make the switch, definitely check out the Arch Linux wiki even if you never use Arch: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Default_applications
This isn't exactly a new idea though. This has been done in the past in the UK (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage_heater). And rollout of smart meters is already in progress.
Apparently only something like < 15% of gout cases are diet related.

Certainly can imagine other cases can be aggravated by diet choices.
Maleable/dynamic client contract (as in endpoint contract) specification. That's it.

Client A may want to retrieve the User type along with a collection of recent Searches and PageViewed results, all in one request to reduce chattiness.

Client B (or even Client A in a different workflow) might want to retrieve the User type alongside MatchedProfiles or whatever. Again in on request to reduce chattiness.

GraphQL allows for this kind of flexibility, whereas in REST you'll need to either get chatty with the APIs or build and maintain a large number of boilerplate endpoints.
> The other dimensions are not like this at all: your motion through the x dimension in space, for example, is completely independent of your motion through the y and z dimensions.

This reminds me of Quake (and many other games), where moving diagonally is faster than moving either forwards, as the game simply adds the two vector components independently based on which keys are pressed.

Of course we're very familiar with the motion through one dimension being dependent of the others. My car has a top speed, regardless if I'm driving north, northwest or whatever.

The weird thing about spacetime thus does not seem to be that we're racing through it at top speed, but rather that we can't slow down.
> a person feeling superior to you is more likely to mentor you instead of criticise you [...] Criticism more likely comes from people who -- for whatever reason -- feel inferior to you at that particular point in time.

That really is not something I would observe in practice.

It is tempting to think that they really feel inferior deep down or something like that, but it is pretty often not true. "He/she is just jealous" is just thing people say to make you feel good, but it is not based on reality.
The Precision 7750 supports Linux and supposedly has the same sound system as the XPS 17. Both are 17” laptops and share similar chassis. Finger print reader isn’t well supported. No gestures.

20 years ago I was convinced Linux would win on the desktop. But we still have the same problems decades later.
I’m a huge fan of lichess for playing and analysis but I think for tactics, it’s the one place it’s lacking, it’s always too easy for me for some reason and I go to chesstempo instead. Does anyone else experience this? By the way, when I say easy it’s for me that I’m an average player.
Anyone tried this on a raspberry pi? I currently use it as a media center but have only raspbian installed.
By that argument, if the intent was data harvesting, they wouldn't need to do this in real-time, they could also just periodically push a list of apps and launch dates/times without using the internet connection when an app is launched. That would certainly be a lot easier and a less expensive way to harvest data -- and it would also be more reliable since it could capture things that happen when offline. But that's not what they are doing.
I will disable it when it comes but I think it should be "opt-out" because otherwise the OS becomes insecure by default. And it will hurt majority of the people.
Apple can ask it on system start like Siri and analytics.
The fact they are on the same package means that the electrical signals have a lot less far to travel from memory to cpu, and therefore you don’t have the signal losses or interference from the board having to route memory lines externally.

As a result you would be able to drive a higher bandwidth because you don’t need to be as limiting with the transfer time of signals.
If you evaluate the complex function f(x)=z^n on the unit circle z=exp(it), you obtain cos(nt)+i sin(nt). Thus Fourier series are "just" Taylor series evaluated on the unit circle.
JITs usually mark +x pages -w again after they've written them for sanity, so watching in platform libc mprotect could do it, but you could also force them to be -w anyway and then maybe use the page fault handler. How much integration with the kernel does it have?
Anything you put "work" in to (like serious hobbies, sports etc.) can still be considered a hobby / leisure. Lots of competitive low end golfers, tennis players, basketball players etc.

I've found it one of the best outlets from work quite frankly, to have another committed side interest that requires dedication and commitment. You should try it :-)
I am Icelander and I grew up in a fishing town near Reykjavik. When I was a small child, my greatgranddad was still alive and my mother would call him aitona. Later I learned that it was a basque word and that he came from a basque family. Small world indeed!