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Always excited when chess pops up on HN once a month or so. As someone who picked it up as a hobby in December, I can attest that lichess is a great app and site for folks looking to get back into the game or get started (I’m also a premium chess.com member as I use both products).

For those of you thinking about picking up chess, I’d highly recommend watching the Chess Brah “Building Habits” series on YouTube. Watch the first five or so videos, and just start practicing those habits in rapid games (recommend 15 minute with 10 second increment on lichess, which shows up as 15+10). Embrace the losses, and just keep working on not hanging your pieces for free.

If you’re intimidated by playing other humans, you can try the “Maia 1” bot on Lichess. It’ll likely beat you up for a while if you’re a beginner, but it’s a bot designed to play more like a human, and it’ll help you get the reps to feel more comfortable playing other humans.

From there, just enjoy yourself. Chess can be frustrating because by design you always lose about 50% or your takes, but once you learn to accept the losses, it can be a great mental exercise to keep your brain sharp.
well, I'm not talking about some fringe blogs or twitter nobodies

https://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/publicatio...

>United Nations projections indicate that over the next 50 years, the populations of virtually all countries of Europe as well as Japan will face population decline and population ageing. The new challenges of declining and ageing populations will require comprehensive reassessments of many established policies and programmes, including those relating to international migration.

>Focusing on these two striking and critical population trends, the report considers replacement migration for eight low-fertility countries (France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Russian Federation, United Kingdom and United States) and two regions (Europe and the European Union). Replacement migration refers to the international migration that a country would need to offset population decline and population ageing resulting from low fertility and mortality rates.

>How is the presence of these kinds of articles any kind of argument or input into thinking about the matter?

well, I don't know about you, but I find it peculiar that the Venn diagram of 'entities who say that we need to have fewer children to reduce our carbon footprint' and 'entities who say we need unlimited mass migration to prevent our economy from collapsing due to our low birth rates' is just one circle
Thing is that distro packages rarely conflict with one another, and when they do they're produced by a single organization who has processes to manage the conflicts.

Mods are very often hooking the same functions or editing the same files, so you need patches for many combinations of mods. Mods are usually created by single authors who stop playing the game and there's no organization to take over maintenance or coordinate anything.
Thanks for the calm and reasonable response. Some of the comments here make me wonder how close people want to be to an ongoing incident? Inches? A foot? At a certain distance you're just in the way, 8 feet seems completely acceptable. Police are able to do their job without obstruction from onlookers, onlockers are close enough to see/record the police doing their job.
All within the scope and timeline of the Apollo program. OP means we haven't been back since then.
are we pretending that access to govt info and its subsequent quid-pro-quo is not a MSM dynamic basically everywhere?
I'm not sure of the exact details, but HN does have some feature whereby a new comment is displayed at the very top for a few minutes. I see this often when opening an active article. But there is definitely an early-mover advantage in terms of visibility.
It's called metrics or kpi.
You asked about the volunteers, not the paid staff. The vast, vast majority of contributions on eg wikipedia comes from unpaid contributors.
the goal is ease of use though, not serious analysis
> The one data point that is not specific to the incubator deal is the company description.
Pitchbook does not store or provide a time-varying description of the company. Instead, for each startup I have a current description of the firm, its product, and activities, independent of its health or status. I use this information in my analyses as a way to extract information about the company’s product and thus refer to this field as product information. A key assumption in this approach is that the descriptions found in Pitchbook do not evolve as a function of early-stage funding or late-stage success which would mechanically make the descriptions predictive. To the best of my knowledge the company descriptions available to me today are not systematically different from the descriptions available to early-stage investors when they would have been engaged in due diligence. Further, all results are robust to the exclusion of the product information.

This is a prime place to go looking for a leak of signal from the future that inflated the performance of the model.

It would be interesting to go look at Pitchbook's descriptions of successful and failed startups and see if these descriptions seem to leak any information about the later success or failure of the firm.
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>Smart contracts represent the first time in history when you can trust code to do what it says.

This is extremely, extremely wrong. The operators of the network can change the smart contract VM whenever they want. There's nothing magic about it, the VM is just implemented in some code that all of the executor nodes happen to agree on at any given moment in time. In practice they don't change it, but neither would you if you were running a financial database on top of SQL.

And besides, the worst issue in software development is unintended bugs made by programmers. No programmer I know would ever trust any non-trivial code to simply "do what it says" because there could be complex bugs lurking in there somewhere. Smart contracts can't do anything about that, practically speaking they make it much worse by making it difficult/expensive to change the smart contract. There is nothing revolutionary or powerful about them, the point of them is actually to make them weak and expensive on purpose so the executors can charge increasing gas fees.

Edit: I looked at that list of applications, almost all of them could be done better without smart contracts or even without computers. Those things are all thousands of years old. The only exception on that list is NFTs, but NFTs are an entirely bogus concept that are yet another version of a ponzi scheme.
You don't need to start right off with a 2kg pack.

You want about .5L of water per hour hiking. Throw in an extra bottle perhaps, better to have a little extra than not enough.

2kg of water is about 4 hours hiking. Maybe don't start right off with such a long hike.
> These mythical advanced Russian weapons are so well hidden and only kept for alien invasions

That's what Reagan would say, in fact, that's exactly what he said to justify his satellites, looks like they found some aliens since the US kept advancing their troops, i mean their vassals
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Lichess as an application is very impressive, and I use it frequently. The one thing that is somewhat more annoying is the way in which there is a (daily?) restart of the servers, causing strange behaviour in-game. For example, around the restart time, sometimes the restart warning falls away and it seems like you are waiting for the other player to make a move, when in fact you are disconnected.

Is there a reason why restarts happen this way and there isn't traffic draining between servers as they restart one at a time?
Not all companies store IP addresses. Or email addresses for that matter. And whether or not an email is PII depends on a lot of factors for your company but alone an email address is not legally PII.

>So basically everything uses pii even if it is only for bot and ddos protection

If I use Cloudflare for example, as DDoS mitigation, I am not storing PII, Cloudflare is and thus Cloudflare has to deal with the legalities of that.
Has anyone ever had an actual good experience with an auto dealer?
Sure. But otoh the car is idling for tens of minutes maybe and possibly no single part of the engine and exhaust system is gaining the needed temperatures to operate cleanly. This means more emissions, more wear and more stressed out neighbours. I'm sure about the last one at least.
I pre-ordered the 7th Edition a month before release and it still hasn't shipped. The demand for this new edition is nuts!
His point was going after newer and smaller companies is a joke when larger companies are basically getting away with murder, or more accurately doing nearly the same thing you're punishing smaller companies for doing (at a larger scale)
In the vast majority of cases recorded in the last two years, the escalation came from the side of the police, not the bystanders. If a police officer doesn’t like being yelled and recording while beating protestors or murdering minor criminals, perhaps they need to find other employment.
This is so misleading it's not even funny anymore.

The USA and Europe have both delegated most high CO2 footprint industries to the developing nations through globalisation. It wouldn't be going down if we hadn't.

The issue isn't the evil developing nations which want to get the same quality of life. That contributes too, obviously... but making it sound as if the developed world has already gotten on the right track is incredibly misguided
‘Hit the kill switch’: Uber used covert tech to thwart government raids
> This law defines it as 8, potentially giving you greater freedom.

No, this law establishes a new crime and penalty for being closer than 8 feet, without precluding enforcement under other laws:

" C. THIS SECTION DOES NOT ESTABLISH A RIGHT OR AUTHORIZE ANY PERSON TO MAKE A VIDEO RECORDING OF LAW ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITY. "

https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/2R/bills/HB2319S.pdf
You can try for yourself at https://model.energy/

If you add "Dispatchable 1", which is gas, and give it zero cost, but then put a limit on the total CO2 emission, you can get the optimal setup to get X% (X < 100) of a synthetic baseload source from wind/solar/batteries/hydrogen. Then take out hydrogen and look at the cost difference.
Seriously? We're many decades out on fusion, many less decades early on climate disruption, as well as fossil energy depletion. We're looking at one big gap that we knew precisely about since the 1970's, and still you have some faith left in what I'd call the cult of Progress? May I propose you notice the imagined world of spaceman futures matches fairly when with previous religious iterations of heavenly ideals?
Non paywalled link: https://archive.ph/pwXKm
I’ve always thought that this was an amazing project and I’ve enjoyed many many games on it, but I worry that she may not have put the proper precautions in place to protect her phylactery.
Are you saying that beginners should always be taught multiple languages? Why?
I don't know if this really qualifies as the same sort of thing, but I do recall hearing a story about cabbies somewhere in Asia:

A sociology professor I had assigned us a project to do something that would be "considered abnormal to the general public", and then document the results. He had mentioned over and over again to try and implement "as many safety measures as possible during planning". The professor went on to explain that the reason for harping on safety was such a big deal because a student of a previous class (decades before ridesharing) decided that their project would be to bring their personnel vehicle to where cabbies would line up. The student would instead offer rides to customers completely for free. I believe they even had a little sign they put on their window.

After this occurred two or three times, all of the cabbies completely boxed the students car in and called for the police to come. If I recall correctly, they were yelling, screaming, and honking at the student about how they were taking money out of their pockets. Some were accusing the student of taking customers to an undisclosed location and robbing them in order to get paid, while others were saying that doing this for free was essentially stealing from the cabbies, since the student didn't have a taxi permit.

I'm not sure if this was a matter of corruption as much as it was messing with/hurting people trying to make a living, but, I did think it was interesting that all of these different cabbies, from all of these rival taxi companies were all willing to work together spur of the moment, to stop someone who they couldn't possibly compete with. As I understand it, the depths of the rivalry between some of these companies ran pretty deep; it was shocking how willingly they all were to join up to crush this outside threat.
I haven't noticed any particular bias on Wikipedia, but I acknowledge that could be because it aligns with my own biases. Can you point out an example or two?
No, in Switzerland. Instead it managed to steal almost a billion USD from drivers in Switzerland alone and give others the "idea" they can break the law too.

Uber is the worst kind of business preying on the lower class claiming independence and freedom when it's the opposite and you are basically a working slave. It did everything possible to go around government worker protections.

[1] https://www.20min.ch/story/uber-soll-fahrern-eine-halbe-mill...
I agree. I would also recommend Daniel Naroditsky's speed run video series. He starts with new account and explains his ideas and thoughts as he progress to higher and higher elo.
"Requires" is problematic. Do the next N steps of the transition need to block on the availability of storage? No.

But, there's another angle to view this: political feasibility. People are dragging their feet. Why?

Well, what is the value proposition of switching to renewable energy? Right now, it's roughly, "Unfortunately, the reliability may be a downgrade, but saving the planet is definitely worth the sacrifice."

If you made a pie chart of people's reactions, there'd be a big wedge that says "I get it! I'm in!", another big wedge that says "eventually", and another big wedge that says "nope".

If cheap, effective energy storage were a solved problem (commercialized, proven in the field), then the value proposition would be, "Renewable energy will save the planet and also provide everything you're accustomed to right now." The pie chart would look better.

So, because political feasibility is required, decarbonization does sort of indirectly require storage.

Tangent: for this reason, I think we should give storage the same incentives that we give to solar and wind. Possibly even larger ones since solar and wind are pretty good now but storage still needs lots of work.
Running with no slack is the definition of every company on the planet, except FAANG where they are swimming in money. From a business standpoint it makes no sense to pay people to sit around doing nothing just in case someone comes by with an extremely non-critical issue.

Running a tight ship may not make everyone happy, but it does force people to prioritize what really needs to get done vs what’s not critical.
I agree Clinton actually has a fairly impressive record. But so did plenty of other people.

My point remains regardless: it is corrosive to democracy to let power consolidate in family power centres. Many kings and emperors of antiquity were very competent. And successful powerful families cultivated competency at ruling through elite education and patronage etc. But it was still a terrible form of government. Not the least because it becomes self-serving over time, but also because of its injustice: all the very competent people passed over because they did not have the right name or connections.

Having a healthy democracy (literally: "people's rule") requires us to explicitly counteract concentration of power in lineage systems, party bureaucracies, and corporate dominance. Of these family lineage is one of the easiest to spot.

Yes, we've always had this. No, it's not a good thing. And we need to actively counteract it, even if it means passing up very competent individuals.

I liked Herbert's books, I don't want to live in the Dune universe :-)
some past comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24036563
They are not your friends, but also they very rarely have even ability to care about internal processes of various departments. As in, your boss may need HR to supervise as he is trying to take disciplinary action against what he perceives as you not following internal rules.

But HR themselves wont check whether you do jira tickets or whether you do something else. For HR, IT is one of many departments with own set of rules that HR does not get to decide.
Summary: let's use plastics and rocket fuel so that we can keep using plastics and fossil fuels
Eventually something China made had to stick, surprising it took this long really.
Forget the reason for the change a minute, and focus on the outcomes. You've replaced a terrible set of local players with a handful of international mega players who I'd argue are just as crap as the ones you've displaced. There is still corruption in the sense that these platforms make the rules, and the drivers have basically no freedom to push back (baring some form of unionization).

All of this medallion nonsense can just as easily come back with Uber whenever they feel that competition has driven down prices too low. With a wink and a nudge, all the large players will play ball because they can.

As for what it is today, these companies still aren't profitable which means you're still living in a halo of speculative investment supporting you're current quality of service. The only viable remedy is to raise rates, which puts the service as a more expensive solution that could actually cost more than taxied ever did in the long run.
sees cloudflare as the repo owner

my interest is piqued, will be looking into this further, thanks!
This is an odd decision and invites some scrutiny. Even a small business website can get tested to make sure it works with Firefox. Surely, Apple has the resources to make a website work with Firefox. Is there any legitimate reason to be doing this?
Based on the geological record, negative feedbacks are extremely long-term. What we see several times is a small initial temperature boost caused by orbital variations, followed by massive carbon release, then eventual drawdown after millions of years due to things like rock erosion.

Some people have tried to make a big deal out of higher CO2 making plants grow faster, but plant growth is limited by lots of other things like nutrient availability, disease, and drought. A lot of forests are not doing well these days.
I want to buy an electronic chess board to play over the board but have each move sync to Lichess for later analysis. Wonder how feasible that is to do.
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> The other day, I found an error in that clicking on a paperback edition took me to a completely different book.

I also just found this except in the opposite direction. I wanted an ebook version of a paperback book. The publisher has paper and electronic versions of all of their books, but somehow clicking Kindle version of Book A is linked to a Kindle version of Book B... and apparently a Kindle version of Book A just isn't available on Amazon.

I ended up buying the ebook from the publisher's site directly, which came in mobi, epub, and pdf formats. I thought "oh, I'll just drop this into the Kindle app so my notes and highlights will sync across devices". I was shocked to discover that's not even really possible with a third party purchased ebook. Eventually I gave up on that and just used the PDF edition and made notes in highlights in Preview after the Kindle macOS app and Kindle iOS apps lost all of my notes and highlights trying to sync twice.
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I get an incredible value from search engines. Google even (their shopping and book search features are very helpful). But right now, I am liking paid search as the way forward. Kagi is doing pretty good things right now. I love how I can up the weight of certain domains so that their results come in at the top without having to add site:awesomesite.com at the end of every search string. In fact, I can have 20 sites that I trust a lot that show up pinned at the top of the search for every query. It's 10 bucks a month, but I find it valuable.
I spent a long time working in consulting where matrix management is a requirement since product teams spin and down every 6-12 months. It's a pretty solvable problem to have a tech lead per project and separate tech manager per person. Sometimes it's the same person, usually it isn't. You actually get a different perspective as a manager hearing about the drama of projects you aren't working on and you have a lot more discretion to seek project team transfers for reports that are struggling with their teams. Typically (but not always) the career managers were also tech leads on their own projects.
The problem of climate change is not one of generic 'overconsumption and waste' but of bringing greenhouse gas emissions to net zero. Most of the electricity, transport and industry currently dependent on fossil fuels can be greened. There are important exceptions, like aviation, and in those cases reducing consumption would be helpful. But for the most part it's a question of substitution, not reduction.

We are also living through an ecological crisis whose causes are far more entwined with over-consumption. But that's because it has causes additional to climate change.
Cool article. An excellent resource for grids of all kinds is Red Blob Games' site. It's mentioned in the article, but only with a link leading to a somewhat empty page and not this very useful one : https://www.redblobgames.com/grids/parts/
Uneasy co-incidence, that recently an Indian Uber competitor (named Ola) also had a report of lobbying efforts...

https://twitter.com/shrutisonal26/status/1544540603932758016

Edit: Apart from the tweets, the actual article is behind a paywall.
Related (-ish) is the free and open source Go server [1,2], OGS. A great community, and ad free. I've been playing there since the pandemic started; lately even some professional/tournament games were being hosted there.

[1] https://github.com/online-go
[2] https://online-go.com
We do have CLR, BEAM, HaLVM, and LLVM. Understanding the JVM translates to understanding similar architectures.
Why is this news? It's from 2014... We already knew all this. They even made a TV series about all this.
I think the API already exists since you can use the phone app (e.g.) to control charging. I haven't looked at this for some time but while the API isn't/wasn't open it's been reverse engineered and I think there's an ecosystem using those APIs (not for this purpose but for other purposes).

EDIT: I think in my location all that has to happen for demand to shift is for the power company (BC Hyrdo in this case) to offer different rates. They can do this statically or dynamically and one way or another things will shift. As a person I can figure out to charge my car or heat my house/water or whatnot for a lower cost. I don't think they care.
Bless you ants.

Blants. [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaI6kBVyu00 - Look Around You
Btw I'm being a bit coy about naming names but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabcharge#Findings_of_the_Taxi... has all the details of what i spoke about above in case any doubts how corrupt the taxi industry is (although absolutely no one has doubted that to be fair).
Seems to me to be good policy not to discuss anything about assassins' motives, names or show photos to avoid accidentally glorifying the act or encouraging others who want to get attention. Why is the silence assumed to be a cover up instead of proper media etiquette?