skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suppose my point is, it just feels slightly patronising that the story is presented as this weird brain experiment when I don't think we bat an eyelid at the same upbringing for male players. This is (for better or worse) what it takes to reach 2700.

Also, do you categorise the gulf between Polgar and Hou Yifan as a ridiculous margin (about 50 Elo)? Obviously Polgar was better at her peak, stayed there longer, and clearly had a dedication to the game than Hou never seemed interested in, but I think on the level of natural talent they'd actually be close.
Don’t forget Apple’s revocation of an API to access OS level request headers (re: Little Snitch).

https://9to5mac.com/2020/11/15/apple-explains-addresses-mac-...

This was Apple’s last straw in my book. Yes they’re backtracking, but this wasn’t some extra miscellaneous data someone forgot to remove. Further it took a hail storm of PR (in the dev world) to push change.

Moving to Linux ecosystem, despite loosing the rather smooth Apple ecosystems
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Are they better off simply because they are colder climates?
I think it's worth keeping in mind that when Python got popular, there weren't options like Go or Node (or any other big player in server-side JS) that might hit different points on the performance versus ease of writing tradeoff. My understanding is that Python took off in a world where the other choices for languages were things like Perl and Java. Compared to Perl, Python does have a reputation of being much more readable, and compared to Java, it has the reputation of being much easier to write. People were attracted to the language initially for that, and then as the community grew, other benefits started appearing, like a rich ecosystem of third-party packages. Nowadays, other languages have appeared that offer different productivity tradeoffs, some with much better performance, so it's possible that Python won't be the first choice of as many people as before, but I don't think it's particularly surprising that people who have used it and been productive with it for years still continue to enjoy working in it. The experience of working in a language like Python hasn't actually gotten worse just because something like Go exists; it's just that some people who might have picked Go over Python 20 years ago picked Python back then because Go didn't exist yet.
Have you ever been in Sweden? Swedes practice social distancing in regular daily life. Also, it is a very introverted, borderline anti social type of society.

I had a couple of French co-workers that said it was very hard to form friendships outside work there (in Stockholm), while in the US (NYC) they had no problem.

Compare this to Italy, Spain, France, Greece, Albania, or other Mediterranean countries, which are polar opposite. People are friendlier, that talk to each other more, they hug, they kiss more.

If you go to smaller towns, you regularly see older people hanging out with each other, playing chess and socializing. You just don't see that in Sweden. I think this is one of the main reasons that some countries like Germany and Sweden are not fairing that bad, but the south gets hit harder.

Also, from my understanding, many folks in Sweden are practicing some form of social distancing, and many are working from home when they can. It is a 'voluntary' type of thing. Swedes tend to follow civi rules well in general, and are a homogeneous society, so I think that is contributing to the lower rates of transmission as well.

while the US attitude varies from wear a mask, to 'don't take my freedom away', i do what i want, type of attitude.

Ps. Here is what bus line looks like in Sweden (before the pandemic): https://i.redd.it/4q36jg5ofi831.jpg

Their culture just wants/respects people spaces more, and are more 'introverted' by nature. Swedes are friendly/polite, but not necessary 'warm'. And you can see with their social interactions as well. Hope that makes sense.

Good luck trying to replicate that type of distancing in most of the Europe or the US unless it is mandated (i.e. you will get kicked out of a store if you don't respect the line).
The piece seems to be arguing from a general principle. Repudiation is a feature of most secure messaging applications and it is a feature that should be introduced to GMail. This argument doesn't fully address how technologies are actually used today.

As far as I can tell, people who need repudiation are already using apps that have repudiation (eg Signal), because they know they are in a vulnerable position. The people who need repudiation already have it. So far we have seen DKIM authentication used against individuals in positions of power. With things as they are, cryptography is leveling the playing field by empowering the vulnerable while holding those in power responsible. If this situation or balance were to change perhaps it would make sense to rethink DKIM non-repudiation. I understand this is an opinionated/political take on cryptography that not everyone would share.
This is taken as a yearly number but looking at week over week numbers [1] Sweden did have excess deaths in March and April.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/world/coronav...
I used to work this way too but get fed up with keyboard and mouse buttons getting stuck in VMs making them go bananas when the system was under load. Really nice experience apart from that and the half-broken support for Retina displays.
Yep, vanity is the mark of the CTO who cares more about the elegance of their code, than the effectiveness of their business.

Funnily enough, the next company that hired the maintainer and went all in on Elm makes even less money than Prezi and has even less of a name-brand.
It is possible the harms of lockdowns have been understated or misrepresented. The data on lockdowns isn't black and white and the response to COVID is very 'political'.
See the original source: http://web.archive.org/web/20200819084001/http://nrg.cs.ucl....

This assumes that laser links are working which they are not currently.
Surviving Weed-Out Classes in Science May Be a State of Mind
>Apple is very clear when they decide a certain machine or generation of machines will not be eligible for an os upgrade.

Maybe they could make that clear for anyone buying an Intel based mac since we all know they are switching over to ARM CPUs. They won't though, they will still be selling Intel Macs for some time, knowing that they won't be supporting those macs through the useful lifetime of the hardware.
I don't know how I feel about it but I do think it's an interesting argument. The point of DKIM is, first and foremost, to fight spam. The non-repudiation aspect is, as far as I'm concerned, a side effect of DKIM, not a core feature.

The more I think about it the more I inch towards agreeing with TFA. If I need my email to be authenticated I can sign them with GPG. If the law enforcement needs to see if I did or did not send an email they can subpoena Google.

>Non-repudiation over time is a truly powerful property of DKIM'd email for a great many uses outside of blackmail.

Can you expand on this? I can't really come up with a use case that wouldn't be about associating somebody with an email they may want to distantiate themselves from.
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Love every thing in the video, love Kid Pix, love Jeffrey's works, they all inspired my a lot, and nice to meet you Prof. Craig!

Some takeaways from Kid Pix, on game design:

1) no "no fun zone" - a 3 year old accidentally hit the menu button and don't know how to go back? then at least the menu screen should be fun!

2) every button press and input should trigger some instant audio and visual treatment

3) everything inside a game, should be a game (like every tool in kid pix is a game on its own)
If the app is long running and forks, you may also want to look into gc.freeze() (added on 3.7) which will save you from copying the imports memory over time and make the GC shorter.
Honest question: If you're going to pick hello<randomName> as a name, why not pick one with a .com?
alter table addresses enable row level security;

However this article is insane because of the security nightmare of trusting all incoming queries
A small fraction of people have trouble absorbing it, another fraction don't handle the supplements well. Pretty rare however.

Have you tested your level in the winter? You may not need it.

I've been taking 5k a few times a week and haven't been sick longer than a day for perhaps a decade.
Interesting, thanks this clears some things up and gives me avenues for more research to understand what's up.

Sounds like claims under 1201 (circumventing technology) are actually really dangerous for the host, there is no safe harbor? At least not after you've received any notification at all?

All the more surprising that a host would be willing to disagree with a claimant and say "nah, we don't think you'd win in court." they are definitely risking their own liability, not just the customers.

As you say, Microsoft can afford to do this cause Microsoft has deep pockets and the ability to counter-strike. All the more reason we should actually be grateful to the for USING that power to defend in this case, right? (And ironically, that suggests that you will get the most protection hosted by a company that has the resources to stand up, which not all do. I am not a fan of that outcome either).

DMCA is still awful regardless of host of course.
My own personal theory is smoking. All the Mediterranean countries still smoke like chimneys.
When the SSD finally craps out you can get them swapped out via 3rd party repair.
afaics a write behind strategy means you will report a write as being complete before it has actually been written. This can result in terrific performance because your batching window is larger and you can amortize more (fewer?) iops. But it also means in the face of failure, clients could believe something was written which wasn't.

On the other hand, the storage device can fail so what does it even mean to have written the data? :)
I have a repo I hack on from time to time that purposely isn't in a domain I would ever try to sell as a commercial product. I sort of use it as a way to build up to eventually having a full blown commercial grade piece of software that I can then just pivot the domain into one I want to compete in and launch a product again. By that time it really would be a good few years working on it. Software really is a team sport. It's crazy how much effort it is to go it alone.
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Typo in the title? " to the Last the Years "
No offense taken!

Appreciate your feedback, it is probably due to the fact English is my second language.

I'll have a look at updating the website taking into consideration your comments!
First: I don't think Matthew Green "resorted" to anything. I think he chose the blackmail example because it's easy to understand on a personal level: we all use repudiatable protocols in other contexts (like Signal), so why wouldn't we want it on our emails?

Second: That's not how blackmail works. It's contingent on what the extorted party thinks, not the cryptographic integrity of the blackmail material. That's why mass blackmail spam campaigns (that DKIM fails to prevent, ironically enough) are remarkably effective. Publishing DKIM secret keys after their expiry doesn't magically prevent blackmail; it just removes one more tool from the blackmailer's toolbelt for instilling fear in the target.
> There is clearly a difference between persisting a media file to disk vs having it ephemeral in browser memory.

yes, at some point actual human intentions must come into play. you can't defend stuff like CP by saying "it's just some EM pulses, what's the big deal?". or "no I'm not invading your privacy with my IR camera, you are broadcasting in the IR spectrum!".

in this case the implementation does blur the line a little bit. what if the browser's memory gets swapped out to a page file on a (spinning) hard drive? even if the cache gets "deleted" after closing the tab, it might be quite a while before the sectors containing that protected sequence of bits get overwritten. is this infringement?
So you believe that your mind can withstand an entire industry that is specialized in manipulating you? They use these techniques because they work. And some part of it you cannot escape from even if you actively try.
Naive question: If the null hypothesis is that there is no difference, wouldn't that imply 95/30,000, p = 0.0031, putting the probability of observing less than 5 cases at a much more reasonable 1*10^(-14).
I got into AOE soon after it was released in 1997. Especially early on, when we didn’t know much, it provided a rich universe of interesting economic, tactical, and strategic problems to solve. I spent countless hours studying the game, practicing, competing, and hanging out on the MrFixit forum. I once played one AOE game after another nonstop for 33 hours. Like you and many others, I eventually concluded it was too much of a distraction and uninstalled it permanently in order to focus on other endeavors. That was about 18 years ago. It’s nice to see there are still plenty of people enjoying the game.
The obvious takeaway is lockdown doesn't work
There are two differences:

1: There is no way for the customer to tell that the phone number is not 100% organic. On Google, you can tell it's an ad (even if this is getting harder as Google disguises ads more and more).

2: Grubhub didn't place phone numbers on Yelp. Yelp has had phone numbers since day 1.

If Grubhub puts menus or something on Yelp and someone uses that to place an order more efficiently, then they would be adding some value. That still wouldn't justify charging a premium without telling/asking either party, but I would at least agree there is some value-add there (but only for customers who actually look at the GrubHub-provided menu before calling in).
Agree with everything with the exception of assuming that Windows updates are anything short of a dumpster fire full of dumpster fires.
Why is Roblox allowed to stream games on iOS?
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If you have a higher-IQ and don't mind some legwork, then use an open-source code revision solution.

If you entrust a corporation that is, by nature, more sympathetic to Hollywood/Media then brace yourselves to get caught in the churn.
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Somewhat related, although this is for a huge scale:

Adaptive process and memory management for Python web servers https://instagram-engineering.com/adaptive-process-and-memor...

Previously we used two per-worker thresholds to control respawn: reload-on-rss and evil-reload-on-rss.

...

However, since worker respawn is expensive (i.e. there are warm-up costs, LRU cache repopulation, etc..)

For a smaller scale, I always wondered if FastCGI being the "default" would have saved a lot of headaches. Your workers just get recycled automatically all the time.

If you can make your startup fast enough (and I think most apps can), then you can just let the OS do its job. Although it's true that Python can be really slow to start if you import many modules...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24683304
Here be dragons.

Many topics shouldn’t be political issues, and a vaccine is one of them. Some people have very little information and take absolute positions on things and try to spread their faith, but discussion here isn’t that.
Google backs two more Bay Area affordable housing projects
The Curta is the most famous, but there is a whole range of different designs: http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/mechanical_calculator...

Most of them are pretty cheap on Ebay, <$200 not including shipping. The Addiators in particular are simple, cheap and small.
This is something important that a lot of people miss when discussing unethical actions by corporations. It would be foolish from the perspective of Yelp or Google to not exploit the massive power differential here, so of course they will. It isn't a matter of morals, morals don't talk. Money does.

Competition, fairness, and freedom are not free, they have to be defended adaptively against stuff like this.
> Also, it is a very introverted, borderline anti social type of society.

This is just an ridiculously offensive stereotype. If you were in downtown Stockholm this weekend, you couldn't even tell there was a pandemic considering how many people there are one the streets.
First, the post is irksome, with the arguments for there not being a collapse in the near future being admittedly very hand-wavy for reasons other commentators here have described.

Second, while the post is irksome, Turchin's methodology is extremely shoddy. The fact that climatologic models (modeling an arguably slower-moving and certainly better-understood system than humans alone or in aggregate) require the use of sophisticated mathematics and intensive computer usage, as opposed to Turchin looking at large collections of historical data, determining patterns seemingly by eyeball, and predicting maybe a decade in advance without so much as a mention of a computer program to produce the prediction, is illustrative of the methodological shortfall.

Moreover, Turchin's original prediction was much vaguer than he or current media around him presents it:

"The next decade (i.e, the years around 2020) is likely to be a period of growing instability in the United States and western Europe, which could undermine the sort of scientific progress you describe in the Opinion collection of '2020 visions' " (source: https://www.nature.com/articles/463608a)

To call "growing instability" a vague prediction is an understatement. It could refer to civil war, democratic decline, crime rates, bad days at work, productivity drops, or any number of other things one could imagine. In this case, it refers primarily to protests against racism (the violent parts of which are comparatively rare and perpetrated mostly by a small number of opportunists) and secondarily to a long-running trend of political polarization, neither of which are particularly unheard of in recent memory. In both cases, these movements are overwhelmingly a problem in the US, with Europe looking calm in comparison. It is therefore somewhat likely that Turchin is not as much a Hari Seldman, or even a poor imitation thereof, as much as a John Edward: that is, he is a cold reader.
I upgraded yesterday and it got stuck for 90 min. MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2019); Machine is 6 months old. Progress bar stopped at 95% after an hour. Did a hard reboot and it finished immediately. Working fine now.
Please stop baitposting.
They're also about to tap into billions in FCC rural subsidies. If they can get subsidized pricing down to, say, $100 for equipment and $50/month they will have a lot of demand.
If it were a mutually negotiated contract, on equitable terms, then it would be a valid and very relevant point.

Yelp is not exactly known for fair negotiation.
I've got someone on my team who's a huge advocate for DDD, but can't explain it very well. So I've been diving into the literature on it, and I can absolutely +1 the "not dead-simple" bit.

Then again, it could just be the obscure terminology. Every time I read about it, I keep thinking "there's probably a much easier way to explain this" and it's frustrating. So much jargon.
Would you? Thanks, that would be great!

I feel like we are about to enter the variation on the prisoner's dilemma where we all get a massive benefit if at least 70% of us get the vaccine, but getting the vaccine has a cost (please roll a D20 to select your random side effect) so everyone has an incentive to be one of the shirkers.

I foresee things getting ugly as we collectively all get together to shame, bully and trick the shirkers into compliance.
What do you mean with "Resilient to Scan-The-World"?
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I'm not asking how the technical mechanism proves the messages may be legitimate. I'm asking how you could use that knowledge in the specific situation you outlined to accomplish anything productive.
Confirmed, I still get all my Safari updates on Mojave (10.14)
It's definitely all about what your goals are. If you haven't done this before, you probably won't know what it takes to get to certain levels(i.e. how much effort and time). Also, the distance of the language from your native language plays a key factor.

I have reached b2-c1 level myself in only 2 languages, plus b2 in a few more, and a2-b1 in a few more. Some languages I just want to be able to have basic interactions with to speak with a neighbor or a person I always see at a restaurant. Others, I have a personal connection to and want to get to a really high level. It all depends on what your goals are.

If you intend to study 3 languages at once, make sure you're very organized. You should track everything and have a plan for exactly what you intend to do in each language before your day starts. Also, realize that each language will move no more than 1/3 the speed that focusing on a single language would.

Final comment: if you've never learned another language before, I highly recommend to just take 3-6 months and dive into whichever one interests you the most.
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I stopped playing RTS entirely some years ago because of that.

I used to love RTS but...

1. Rushing is stupid, all RTS seemly suffer from allowing it even when devs attempt to curb that down, I remember in AOE for example people training on how to build towers on the enemy base in 2 minutes or how to win with villager rush. (also knew a guy that relentlessy tested ways to rise to the second age faster)

2. Singleplayer often the AI is super cheaty, after a while I got bored with that, because I couldn't use actual strategy to win, for example the match that made me realize that was when the last AI was on an island, I conquered the rest of the map, was careful in my usage of the market to stockpile all resources for myself and deny the AI... then whenever I attacked with the 200 unit limit, the AI defended itself successfully, after I got bored of hours stuck on this stalemate, I used cheats and found out the AI stripped the whole island bare but was still pumping units non-stop AND knew where I was going to attack, so they always had perfect defense.

3. Multiplayer is a matter of how fast you click and how good you are with pattern matching and some other training-related things, intelligence for example isn't that important, rote learning, time to practice, etc... that is.

So I concluded that basically multiplayer RTS is a huge timesink, and to me, unfun. And singleplayer RTS after the campaign is done is or too easy (because the AI is utterly dumb) or too hard (because the AI cheats), I never found out a difficulty I enjoyed playing against the AI.
I certainly could be wrong. What’s the case for repudiation? Is making blackmail harder really the cryptographer’s mail argument for why repudiation is a benefit?

I didn’t see a more convincing argument in the blog post. If there is a technical reason why repudiation is beneficial, I would be grateful for an explanation.
Email is used outside of countries with these kinds of protections. For example, I know someone who had an STI test in Thailand and the results did indeed come via email.

Even if this example is imperfect, it's really not that hard to imagine a scenario where some type of compromising information is sent to you. Perhaps even accidentally.
Yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_Macintosh
Hasn't anybody heard of loading the new OS on an external drive and dual-booting? (hold down Option key when powering up, you get to choose which OS you boot).

I've got a 10.15 MBP, and I'm going to cautiously investigate macOS 11 on an external SSD while retaining 10.15 on my internal drive. I can also boot 10.14 from an SD memory card to reproduce customer issues.