skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is akin to children wishing everyday was their birthday. Watching Juventus vs Man City for the 6th time in one year would get boring very quickly.

The reasons the later rounds in the champions league are so great is because the teams so rarely play each other, and also there's the outside chance that a team like Ajax will surprise you and beat one of the giants.

I agree that the ESL has only been postponed, but when it arrives I don't think it will be here to stay.
I could see an argument that ads for specific, chess-related products like Chessable courses would be welcome on Lichess, perhaps even as an opt-in so users can choose to support the site. I know Chessable is constantly introducing new courses and I don't always remember to check regularly. A banner that tells me of a new course I'm interested in would solve that. For me, at least, but I doubt I'm the only one.

I wish more sites would do ads without using ad networks. Communities like the chess world are small enough that all the providers know each other and could probably work together in a way that benefits everyone, including users.
I love lichess but before that (in mid 2000's) used to spend a lot of time on freechess.org. Not sure how popular it is now.
PowerQuery isn’t a replacement for excel though - it’s a data preprocessing tool for analysts.

It’s not going to replace functionality of core spreadsheet-based excel for accountants, for instance, who typically won’t have a use for PowerQuery as their data is structured differently.
> If Lichess decided to promote some chess books or software on their page to supplement their donations,

Why more? If donations are enough why ads?

"Advertising is the way we grant power to the machine" - said Samuel Butler in Erewhon (1872).

I'm thinking a lot about the nature of advertising. I guess, after all, it sells excess, stuff which shouldn't exist. It propels low quality, overproduction, unlimited and unnecessary growth. The pain-points of this current era.

Just take a look at our / tech / programming sector. We are well done without ads. I've never seen a Clojure or a CSS ad in my life, nor Atom, nor Linux. Nor Gmail, nor TakeShape, nor Vercel and the list is endless. Yet still using them and happy with them. And they are happy with me.

No ads work. In change, this market requires educated participants, not just blind consumers.
Ask HN: Is "Low Code" the new word for website builder?
“We would pick a book and then study together, like religious Jews studying the Hebrew Bible.“ Damn, I miss the days when I had the opportunity to actually do that. As a researcher, nowadays I’m forced to skim over many papers a day without having the time to actually study them and learn something deep about what the authors proposed. Anyone else thinks that the joy of creating/learning has been replaced by the need of constant output and technical literature feels really shallow nowadays?
Debezium is used for Change Data Capture, and created database changes event streams: https://debezium.io/documentation/reference/1.5/connectors/i...

It's not exactly what you're searching for, but might be worth a look.
Don't disagree but... "billions" not as much of money in general and I like the idea of potentially being multiplanetary despite how long it might take. Plan B

Sucks to think if everything we've achieved gets erased because it's all here.

Why not both
Seems to be nicely solved in Ruby as well! https://github.com/icalendar/icalendar . Just saying...
Get better at Googling
But that's not “how prices drop as you make more of something is the "learning curve"”.
I often wonder what would happen if Elon put all the energy he is into going to Mars into something that would radically change earth, like fusion energy.

The timescale where we need to leave earth is probably many zeroes from now. But earth needs help now.
If the prosecutor can get somebody to plead guilty before they are charged, then he doesn't even need to think about the value of the evidence--or, indeed, about whether the person actually did anything. A guilty plea is even better for his reputation than a conviction, because he can get lots of those done in a day.

Sure, somebody who looks prepared to lawyer up often won't be charged.
https://www.amazon.com/Eiffel-Language-PRENTICE-HALL-OBJECT-...

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https://www.eiffel.com/
As many here I wholeheartedly disagree with the argument made by the article. It might be one of many reasons but not the main one.

Another argumemt against the death sentence I haven't heard here:

I think the whole 'eye-for-an-eye'-principle of the justice system sets a negative example for the respective society and thus facilitates violence.

"It is okay to kill someone for a crime. Even the state does it. My reason is valid."

It lowers the bar for violence even further unnecessarily.

I did not fact check this. Its just a gut feeling.
Certificate pinning has already been deprecated as a standard, and no browser supports it anymore. Google may be doing something else for their own properties on Chrome, but that is unlikely and definitely not widely known.

Edit: After a few minutes of internet searching it turns out that while HPKP is deprecated Google does statically pin a set of certs into the Chrome build itself, their own sites presumably included.
There are other ways of shortening that gap without creating such a disconnection between teams and their respective leagues, such as salary caps, 51% fan ownership and proper financial regulations that aren't as much of a joke as FFP.

Besides which, the genesis of ESL has nothing to do with which teams play each other. It's because the bigger teams have dug themselves deep financial holes - to be fair to them partially due to the lack of things like a salary cap - that they want to get out of.

As others have said you're completely wrong in saying that "people don't want to watch a tiny team from nowhere vs a giant in UCL". I'm not saying that nobody does, but they're a very different kind of fan than the people who buy season tickets.
I argue that it’s not possible to determine the mime type of a file from its contents. For example the content could be malformed. An editor or IDE should still highlight it so the user can find the syntax error.

Of course, for some files it is possible. But we need the metadata for the other files.
So many of these old school industrial companies that are getting into IOT will have these issues. Who is building the Stripe for old school industrials going into IOT? I’m sure someone is building that Comoros.
As somebody living in Europe, I think it's a perspective you can have only if you live mostly in an English speaking world.

Up to 2015, my laptop was plagued with Python software (and others) crashing because they didn't handle unicode properly. Reading from my "Vidéos" directory, entering my first name, dealing with the "février" month in date parsing...

For the USA, things just work most of the time. For us, it's a nightmare. It's even worse because most software is produced by English speaking people that have your attitude, and are completely oblivious about the crashing bugs they introduce on a daily basis.

In Asia it's even more terrible.

And I've heard the people saying you can perfectly code unicode aware software in Python 2. Yes, you can, just like you can code memory safe code in C.

In fact, just teaching Python 2 is painful in Europe. The student write their name in a comment ? Crashes if you forget the encoding header. Using raw_input() with unicode to ask a question? Crashes. Reading bytes from an image file ? Get back a string object. Got garbage bytes in string object ? Silently concatenate with a valid string and produce garbage.
thank God we humans can do more than one thing at a time: keep earth loveable AND explore space.
I see it in the smartest people I know. I live in the Netherlands but I have a "CNN addicted" colleague. And I like to tease her and say things like: "You know people want to carry guns so the government does not have a monopoly on violence, so when you feel like you got a leader (as you do now [this was Trump era]) that really does not have the consent of the governed anymore, you may not be powerless." Sure, society changed, we can have a dialogue.." And it would just end with her almost frothing at the mouth about how she could never have dinner with a Republican. And than I would think that she is so intelligent, and a scientist, imagine how bad it is back in her home country. Or, maybe it has nothing to do with intelligence. Maybe it was also her way to feel even smarter, obviously there are so many stupid people that just don't see how it is. It's fascinating. And I see the echoes in Dutch colleagues as well, although they are not so worried about their country going to hell, so they are less emotional.
Going to mars and making the earth a better place are not mutually exclusive.
I was curious how this differs from Brython. https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/04/pyodide-bringing-the-scien... answers that: Pyodide is actual CPython compiled with emscripten, so you can build the existing ecosystem of native modules like NumPy and friends for Pyodide. Brython is a separate implementation.
That's a great example, thanks a lot!
When the sun becomes a red giant it will suck just as much.
Not hardly.

Some American sports teams clash every year and the buildup each year is still huge. We're talking powers in their respective sports that have played each other for almost 100 consecutive seasons, even at the collegiate level.
Texas vs. Oklahoma, Auburn vs. Alabama, Ohio State vs. Michigan... even when the teams are doing less than stellar, there's still a gigantic buildup and anticipation for these games because of the rivalries involved. Being on the same level and having that familiarity makes the games more fun to watch and it makes the teams more competitive with each other.
That the human reaction to achieving success is to stir up so much hatred, makes me want to leave this planet even sooner.
What do you mean by "accurate"? Compared to chess.com? FIDE? USCF? It really makes no sense comparing ratings between different pools. None of them are more accurate, they are just different.
Counterpoint: 37 extra minutes of sleep every night.
related ted talk on dopamine, the internet, and novelty seeking
https://youtu.be/wSF82AwSDiU
also related: the modern diet contains alot of calorically dense food, which means less stomach and intenstinal stretching, which means more ghrelin, which activates these novelty-seeking dopaminergic systems in the brain

as for the original question: a) as far as optimizing, I think that approaching the optimal state is less important than making improvements to a consistent performance ethic. Better to do something a little better every day than to miss days trying to do it better than everybody else. b) with information, I tend to focus on information that relates to a particular goal relevant to job performance or general wellbeing and then take notes on any new information and review prior notes relevant to the newest information in order to build an intuitive mental logical structure of the problem/goal and all of its moving parts. But since so few things are scientifically provable, I try to "bet" on certain things based on how more or less likely they are and an informal cost-benefit analysis
> Why not both

Because plan B takes way more effort than just avoiding the need for one.
The focus should be to support both initiatives, not bring the other down, or to make it seem like an otherwise undesirable endeavour. At least that's the way the site made me feel. Mars might suck, but we are going somewhere, regardless.
There's a difference between fulfilling work and drudgery in every domain.

I've worked a few very dehumanizing programming jobs where I didn't have any agency and just worked to someone else's instructions without any room for input. Some people enjoy programming against a clear specification but I don't think anyone really wants to be a code monkey[0].

I think managers and job creators (like those building products in this space) need to think carefully about the humans they create jobs for. Just because someone is willing to do a soul destroying job for some amount of money doesn't mean that the job's designer is freed from the duty to consider the impacts of the job itself. Jobs are, after all, not just a contract between inanimate objects but context of work for human beings - efficiency and economics can't be the only considerations.

Participation in building structures like these carries with it an ethical responsibility which can't be ignored - especially where the harms are so blatantly dehumanizing.

[0] - https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=code%20monke...
Europix Movies
Thank you for this post. Good luck.

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You can achieve high degrees of concentration, which is beneficial to the brain. Sitting on the sofa for hours watching a movie is also a great way to unwind after a long and exhausting day or week. Some films have an educational plot that serves to convey a specific message to the audience. You can choose from a variety of film genres to watch. Horror, action, humor, and adventure are only a few examples.
If you frequently need to switch between several git branches, pushb and popb are useful commands.

https://github.com/pwoolcoc/pushb
Most things should work fine. I do not have Word installed right now but if you want to do a test, try to paste some content in a basic editor like this one: https://www.tiptap.dev/examples/default/
I think a new space era could radically change the earth too. Nuclear Fusion is very hard, Elon isn't a magician.
Completely different issues, maybe. Notice that the major media outlets started pumping stories about racism right about the time of the occupy protests. This is how politically motivated segregation works in general - make the commoners fight each other instead of against their oppressors.
I recall an AMA on Reddit, where the founder said he is perfectly fune with his salary as long as LiChess stays free and he can continue doing what he loves.
It's ironic (though by this stage I don't think anyone can say surprising) that the drive to reach Mars has been producing technology that will help Earth. For example, advancements in renewables energy in the short term. But also in the long term, once we can dig up our resources from space rocks, we won't have to dig the earth up to do it.

I've never understood this assumption that focusing on one thing must necessarily always be to the detriment of another.
> Give me a better word that’s know to more people, I’d love to change it!

Thank you for being flexible :-)

Headless literally means "gui-less" (without a gui) and has had the same meaning since 1998 or so so it's probably not a good idea to reuse the word to mean something else in the same context.

I would go with either "style-less" (which is a bit awkward to say") or "effortless", which is better even if not totally accurate.

With "effortless" you fully capture how easy it is to use.

> With web artisans I wanted to point out it’s for people who really care about every detail.

You can keep artisan - it looks correct in this context.
He's already put in significant energy into making gasoline cars go away. Isn't that enough for one man?
Tesla pretty much spearheaded the switch to electric. A few years back all manufacturers treated electric as a gimmick.
Real banks are regulated and insured by government institutions like FDIC. If there were crypto exchanges with those properties, they’d be fine to trust too.

Current crypto exchanges are basically like holding your money in a gaming account in an offshore casino. The companies don’t submit themselves to anyone’s jurisdiction—so there’s no implied legal safety.
Hey Earth, guess how your scientists learned about the risk that CFCs posed to your ozone layer, just in time to solve it before it was totally destroyed?

- Your friends, Mars and Venus.
Sounds like this message is made by a really frustrated person.
I find it super awesome that we set foot on another desolate planet.
What’s the difference between “always” and “forever”? Do you think that’s a valid sticking point for people? I’m willing to rephrase as I don’t see a distinction that matters to any of my points.

> “Why Lichess will be free as long as it exists.”

Same problem. It’s built entirely on wishful thinking. Do you agree with all the choices you made when you were twenty? Do you agree with all of the choices you made after the first time you remember disagreeing with 20 year old you? What makes you think you aren’t going to disagree with half of what you think now?

Current you is going to have to win arguments with future you if you insist on any sort of concept or permanence. Especially since 75 year old you is going to think the concept of permanence is bullshit. If you’re not going to take any steps in that regard, or even plan to make them in the future, then you really don’t understand human nature very well, and probably not yourself either. That alone is worth some hours of quiet contemplation.
The help Earth needs is political, there is not much a single rich person can do. We already have the technology to radically improve our environmental impact.
I think OP means, why can't we try to thrive and achieve Mars colony, eventually evolving into its own culture. It might take building a Dyson sphere and whatnot and thousands of years. But it might be worth trying. But Mars is not a Planet B, where we go once we destroyed earth.
Interestingly, the fans were some of the harshest critics of this attempt. Personally, and I don't watch much football, the tale of a town-level team winning against a national champion (and that happens every once in a while) makes the sport better rather than worse.
I might have played 2000 games on lichess at this point. Everything from the ease of finding a game, to the smoothness of web and mobile clients, to features centred around analysing and improving your game are nearly flawless. Seeing this post about their commitment to keeping it that way thrills me.
As a swede and an introvert I feel the opposite whenever I'm visiting the US or some other country where people just can't seem to leave me alone.

I remember the first time I went to LA and people were walking up to me and started talking to me out of nowhere and I was like "what the hell is wrong with these people and why are they talking to me? I don't know them". I was so exhausted after two weeks that I basically stayed inside my apartment for a week when I got home to Sweden.
Damn Beer Glass
How many massive extinction events has the earth already gone through?
laydn posted a coat breakdown above that shows that the service costs more like $1,000/day to run, all in...
I’m sorry the free website hasn’t set up a trust for you.
I don’t like the closed-league concept, but to say that it means “we are no longer dealing with a competitive sport” is clearly not true. Are you going to tell me LeBron James is not practicing a competitive sport? Of course he is.

The “problem” with the closed-league concept is that it removes the hope, for supporters, that ”life will get better”. The football pyramid is the European version of the American Dream; turning the top competition in a closed league would be like amending the US constitution to introduce castes: everyone knows it wouldn’t be that different from the status quo, in terms of actual social mobility, but taking away for good the possibility would be an affront to the cultural fabric of society.
It's a free world. Mars rocks if we can capitalise it.
you can't save the planet with 'billions'. capitalism is by definition based on endlessly self-valorizing value
Tp be fair, Windows probably has over 80% marketshare outside HN.

I think VSCode started as a Windows exclusive, and it turned out that tons of devs were still on Windows.
> The only differentiator is screen size, RAM, and OS?

I think that's the point. Until now, buying a computer has always been focused on the CPU and RAM stats. If you wanted faster/bigger you had to spend more. With Apple's new strategy you almost don't even care about CPU/RAM stats. They are focusing on providing value in other ways; larger screen, lighter weight, different colors, more ports, etc. I think this is the biggest shift in computers in quite a while and makes it much more akin to purchasing a phone or tablet than specing out a computer.
I think the US government should start by reallocating their military budget. And end world hunger, while we're at it.
This has been solved since Common Lisp using resource managment macros and similar approaches used by modern lacks.

What Go defer lacks, is the ability like e.g. .NET with IDispose, where I can make of Roslyn Analyzers to break builds when I forget to call using on such resources.

Rust is a good option for kernel code and drivers, beyond that there is no point in throwing away the productivity of having a GC around.
Why not do both. We need to work on becoming a multiplanetary species too.
Having a literal moonshot as a goal does bring in useful technology on the road. Reusable rockets are one example.
Yes, this made me laugh. “No, no way there is any issue with decisiveness, identify politics, or generalization of groups. The only issue is in fact with group B.”
The pilot is supposed to steer the ship, but the captain is ultimately responsible for it.
Send Arnold to Mars and have him pull the lever.
This is great and all, but it struck me that only Microsoft could come up with phrases like "LAMBDA is available to members of the Insiders: Beta program" and "LAMBDA complements the March 2020 release of LET". It sounds like something someone might write in a parody press release on comp.lang.scheme 30 years ago.
Designed purely to pit people against one another, this is one of the most intentionally cynically, manipulative campaign against climate change that I've ever seen.

You can help discourage further such campaigns by making sure that they don't achieve their stated goals. E.g. to offset people who might be convinced by this drivel, I just went to the EnergyAustralia website, and opted my home and my business premises out of PureEnergy.
Eh, I think it will have had something to do with it - instant boycotts were happening for all involved teams in the U.K. by many of their fans.
Thanks for sharing.
I completely agree with you that from the three, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian, I find the Swedes to be the least open for spontaneous interaction and they definitely don't smile nearly as much as Danes.
I always wondered why is there such a difference between two nations that are so close...
I used to add the new release repos after kernel freeze, sometimes earlier. For the last many years I remember absolutely no breaking.

(Using Xfce, but also have KDE and Gnome installed too.)