skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Far far below the lofty heights of Carlsen &co., I play a fair bit on Lichess. Sometimes I'll play someone with a similar ranking to myself and beat them and will earn 3 or 4 points. Then we'll have a re-match which I lose and they'll gain 12 or 15 points.
I just can't fathom how them beating me earns them more points than I earn from beating them --if we were on the same or similar rankings to start with. But it almost always seems to pan out this way.

Lichess works on a different system than professional ratings. It takes into account the RD (sort of a standard deviation on your rating). Playing against a player with a more stable rating will cause the rating to change more and vice-versa. Professional ratings are always assumed to be stable.

> I've also noticed that there doesn't seem to be any relation between the circumstances of a win and the points awarded. For example, shouldn't a win or draw when playing black earn more points than when playing white --given that white had the advantage of moving first?

This is something that is sometimes used as a tiebreaker in tournaments. Sort of an away goals rule, if you're familiar with soccer. But as far as ratings go, in the long run you're bound to play ~50% of the games with white and ~50% with black, so it smooths out itself.

> And what about the manner of victory? It seems there's no more ranking points to be gained from; snatching a victory where both players ended up down to a single pawn each and the winner just managed to queen one square ahead of the loser... than there are from completely decimating your opponent.

I'm sorry but this makes absolutely no sense. There are three results: Win - Loss - Draw, everything else is just discourse around the game.

Endgames are something players trade into, reducing to a won endgame is part of the skill involved in the game. Why would that count as less of a win?

Also, material is a pretty stupid way to determine how close a game was. Should I get less rating points because I won with a queen sac?
Life Is Good in America, Even by European Standards
A company near here runs shuttle services to the nearest train station during rush hour.

If that means you don't have to build a parking lot, or provide surveillance or insurance for thousands of cars, that can be worth it.
It's probably just a faculty asking the student to make a 360 with the webcam, according to what they did in my country.

That procedure is full of holes, though. There are so many ways to cheat when you don't take a test on-site, that it's not even funny. Those tests have to be performed with a computer on to begin with. I've heard that in some cases, there was testing software that would scan the computer too, similar to games' anti-cheat devices.

Schools first implemented that procedure in a hurry then stuck to it, and they thought they could violate privacy "a little" because states and countries themselves adopted exceptional laws that limited human rights. That felt wrong to me when it happened, and I am glad that at least a judge in the US confirmed it was wrong.
We have a bunch of users running Django apps here at Koyeb. They seems happy with the experience we provide
Hopefully this will successfully separate learning from certification, which will prevent learners from being punished because of cheaters.
You could have waited till Monday with this to co-launch with NASA :D

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Ex...
> I can't articulate specifically why but using typing in Python just feels like so much pain compared to other languages that have "opt-in" nominal typing syntax (PHP et al.).

Cognitive Load.
Personally, I'm fully capable of doing that, but even then, it's all entirely dependent on the graces of random VPS providers, it's another route I'd rather not go, I already find it repugnant that the Internet service itself is in the hands of private entities which are under no obligation to provide any specific quality of service (not an enforceable one anyway, as I cannot really chose whose running the actual network fabric, even if I can chose which "company" I pay the bill to). Geez, if water and power delivery was as unregulated as Internet delivery, we'd be like "well, it's mostly AC, maybe DC offset a few thousand volts, on sundays it's 10 hz slower, and it's somewhere in the range of 100 and 500 volts"
"Yeah, this is what we call water.. No, we don't support Hydrogen molecules, they're dangerous you see."

On top of that, most people don't care (don't know why they should) and don't have the ability to host this infrastructure themselves, and frankly, they shouldn't have to either..
"Humans don't like <thing> because they don't enjoy consuming it in some arbitrary quantity"? Really, that's your argument? I'm not capable of eating 1kg of bread, does that mean I don't like bread?

I "like" a thing when I get pleasure out of practicing/consuming it in some form.
I've looked on the website but can't find the answer... Can YaCy index SMB file shares?
> If one red cent of taxpayer money goes to it, the taxpayer should get it for free

And non taxpayers should not get it at all.
As a pianist I am not surprised. The keystrokes a TUI requires is like a piece of piano music. You can learn the required keystrokes pretty fast and play it very fast, reliable and unconscious.

Image a piano played by touchscreen or mouse.
This seems to be a webpage entirely made of buzzwords.

Store things cheaply, without blockchains or servers, so where is it stored? No infrastructure, so who is paying for it? Oh right if you click a little deeper, there's a cryptocurrency token issued on Ethereum you need to buy in order to buy credits to buy compute time in a marketplace of other people's machines.

Absolutely nothing interesting going on.
Lichess doesn't use ELO rating but a different rating system. And yes, I don't understand that difference either.

About white versus black, there is some consensus that after about 20 moves, white's advantage is gone. I doubt that statement is supported by statistics. I guess the rating just assumes everyone plays white and black just as often, so it will even out in the end. (edit) By the way, if you are strong with white and weak with black, how should your ELO rating be calculated? It is only one number, not two. Assuming an average seems fine with me.

And the way a win is made, those are for the beauty contests :)

A simple calculation for ELO is just to see it as both players placing a bet, the K factor is the amount of points in the jar. If the K factor is 25, you have 1600 ELO and I have 1400 ELO, you might put in the jar 16 points, while I put in 9 points. Winner takes the jar, on a draw it is plit in half. Difference between win and draw is always half the K factor. When both players have a different K factor, the calculation for both players will be different, it's not zero sum.
Yes, people writing unmaintainable code in Jupyter notebooks is a problem.

Personally, I start every notebook with

%load_ext autoreload
%autoreload 2

then develop production quality code in .py files.
I hate the tipping culture with a passion. I should not be responsible for paying your staff a living wage, that's your obligation.

I have no idea about what is expected for a tip every time I travel to the US. Don't get me started on "mandatory tips"
And you'll notice that despite being significantly poorer than even poor Americans, we don't riot and loot and burn buildings every time there is a political controversy.

Maybe you should.
Yep, I don't know enough about the interpreter under the hood but an interactive mode like a debugger where you can go back to a previous line, etc might be the solution. I doubt that's high on the priorities of the Python team though.
While it’s no longer mandatory, I can assure you RoHo infosec students still read this book, as I did :).
If mortality of seeds by fungus infection is more important than seed dispersal by mammals, then it makes sense to produce capsaicin. Since birds are likely better at dispersal than mammals (and don't have teeth) preventing mammals from eating chilli peppers might also be a beneficial side effect of the production of capsaicin, even if not the main reason for it.

Evolution just works on chance mutations and capsaicin is just what chilli peppers happened to start producing. Maybe if they happened to make penicillin instead they'd be better off, but they just do with what they have and that is capsaicin. They were just lucky that birds and humans tolerate capsaicin.
I would really use this for many of my projects!
For project A, I used Firebase which was great initially but eventually ran into the limitations well described in Stopa's essay.
For project B, I decided to write everything from scratch but the amount of work it required is crazy, and of course the result in quite brittle.
Emphasize however you want, I'm not the style police, I'm just arguing the choice to use emphasis rather than plainly state the facts is incongruous with the stated intention of the document and is an indicator that it has a different intention. I'm not saying they did it _wrong_ I'm saying that we can infer something from the choice _to do it_.
It's not about the electrical power use. It's about one market player taking out the air from the market by integrating the entire supply chain.
I think the commenter meant sending a specific function definition to the REPL, like in Common Lisp, Clojure, or F#'s REPLs, without re-evaluating the entire file, like how DrRacket does it. I think Racket has some functionality that allows it though, and I think the Racket Emacs mode supports it. I am not aware of how to do it with DrRacket.
https://academic.oup.com/california-scholarship-online/book/...

> This chapter shows that the right wing's essentialized construct of the Jew as criminal in the Weimar period was translated into policy and action in Germany after 1933. Until 1938, when the Nazis unequivocally embraced the guiding principle that “The Jew is outside the law,” they often took pains to charge individual Jews with specific crimes, usually focusing on technical aspects of tax laws and currency-exchange regulations. On the one hand, they sought to exploit the racist agenda and traditional anti-Semitic stereotypes. On the other, they wanted to give the impression that the Nazi State was simply zealous in applying the letter of the law.
They did go a bit hard on the existing phone's bit, tmobile guy at least used the word "aspiration" when mentioning it. I somehow doubt it, but maybe phone radio implementations are very forward looking on the standards?

In any case, late '23 never means '23. So maybe actual useful service in '25-'26 when the network, phones and sats are all ready.
Great! This is really useful.
> "I'm worried, I don't work well when tired"

Don't worry. You'll learn that your current definition of the word "tired" is wrong. Your current "tired" will become your new "okay", and I'm no I'm not joking.

However! You'll also learn that this attitude of "I need sleep to perform" is in your head, and be amazed at what you'll be able to do when you have to. You'll find that not having a choice in what you _have_ to do, works wonders for your definitions of "can" and "can not", because the next day you'll still be at work, and you'll still get things done. I also don't do well with little sleep, but here I am (still getting promoted).

To answer the title question more generally; it's night and day. I now understand how self-centred and egotistical I used to be. Of course the degree won't be the same for everyone, but I think there's still a certain level of egocentricity that anyone without a child can't escape.

Best advice I can give you is not to stress about a single thing. Statistically, it's much, much, more likely that it'll all work out. Worrying about the very small possibilities is too much when you're already over-tired, and it wouldn't do any good in any case.
When I was a grad student, my roommate had a name which didn't sound super common, but there were actually at least three grad students with the same first and last name at the same time; and two in the same department (let's call it Underwater Basket Weaving). My roommate (let's call him John A. Smith) kept getting in trouble because of this other person (let's call him John T. Smith). Once was when John T. Smith helped make an Onion-style parody paper that included sexual innuendo from a bunch of professors (including one on my roommate's thesis panel). Another was when John T. Smith ran up some sort of debt and didn't pay it, and the collections agency managed to find my roommate's information. He had a hard time convincing them that yes, there were indeed two John Smiths getting their PhD in Underwater Basket Weaving at the same time, and he was the wrong John Smith.
When posting I was hoping more people would chime in that worked with Holochain, hear about their experiences and impression. I know about Holochain mostly from people name-dropping it. There's a developer section, and it also has documentation on its concepts:

https://developer.holochain.org/concepts/
I don't know if it's related (but the goal is clearly the same : more transparency and state agency over money exchanges, probably genuine side bonus : less paperwork for everyone ) but France is currently rolling out mandatory digital invoicing.

Today when producing/receiving a bill (wish is mandatory and heavily regulated) either paper or digital form, you 'only' have it recorded and communicated to governement by your accountant.

very soon for all b2b related transaction, you will go through an official app and record directly on a state controlled database.

Related 'random' articles in english (I only have 'really' read official french ones) about it for background :

- https://edicomgroup.com/blog/status-of-b2b-electronic-invoic...
- https://www.storecove.com/blog/en/mandatory-e-invoicing-in-f...
Haha it's hilarious :) I could totally be that guy, first thing I thought after reading the BBC article was "eh, maybe I should grow my own mustard" :D
Shark livers are close to the size of the whole shark, and are full of fat, which the sharks rely on for flotation because they have no swim bladder like bony fish have.

To be clear, shark livers are so big because they have an extra job ours don't.
It just has to be a good joke.
Many countries have something close to that, actually. I've seen this used for various eGovernmnet-type services, although the UX isn't really different from any 2FA-authenticated service. But it allows you to perform some official legal acts online (filing taxes,...).
> Google et al. eliminated customer service

Google not choosing to provide customer service is not something either businesses or consumers should look forward to.
This is legitimately my tactic, and yet I still wonder why my dog attempts to eat things that cause him issues.

Maybe he has a better understanding of the risks and rewards than I gave him credit for.
Yes,in extreme cases psychological abuse can be worse than physical violence, but you kind of need to back up what you're talking about is such a case *.

Its sort of like if you said, beans are just as bad as being shot, then later clarified that you are talking about fatal food poisioning from bad beans. I mean, i guess technically fatal food poisioning is about as bad as being shot, but if you just say "beans are like being shot" without qualification, people are going to think that's a crazy statement, because it is.

* to be clear im talking hypothetically. I don't agree that "trans-activism" (whatever the fuck that means) is violence in any way shape or form.
I doubt there are many developers here who do anything with Blockchain development. Blockchain is pretty well shunned here, generally speaking, exceptions apply.
And for Ghidra https://github.com/cesena/ghidra2dwarf
Thanks for the well informed response! I had not yet heard of Bayh-Dole and you gave me some good googlin'.

In regards to your explanation in [2], that sucks - I kinda figured that's how things were but I sorta went around academia rather than through it so it's interesting to hear. Any hot ideas about how it could be fixed?
I was referring to the notebook-like "part" of the interface, where JupyterLab is a notebook interface with IDE-like components wrapped around it (file explorer, terminal etc).

The ObservableHQ interface, for instance, I'd classify as just a notebook interface. IE, individually manipulatable code-cells with a shared runtime.

And yea, JupyterLab is better than the classic IMO. But, until recently I'd say, the notebook part of the interface hasn't gotten much love at all, while there've been steps, due to popular demand it seems, to provide alternative UIs that strip away much of what they've added on top of the notebook (ie, simple mode, and now Jupyter Lite).

I haven't really got experience writing extensions in the old Jupyter notebook, and hardly any with JupyterLab, but my experience with JupyterLab was frustrating because it felt like they really killed the ability to implement small and hacky plugins like you could with with the old. This always struck me as a shame. A necessary one perhaps given what I presume is the increased power of their new framework. But it always felt like there was a mismatch between the complexity of the plugin framework (which is a full web-dev experience) and the base features of the "product", where customising my test-editor is now much easier AFACT.

What issues and questionable steps were you thinking of?
I loved keepass but I wanted to manage my passwords in the cli. Found out that pass exists, switched to it, and have been using it ever since.

I have my pass repo somewhere on the internet and the android/ios clients have been adequate for me.
But it doesn't confer "negative status". The solution to Americans jumping to the wrong conclusions about British institutions is for Americans to stop jumping to the wrong conclusions about British institutions, not for Brits to rename them along American lines. (And I say that as someone who would quite happily see the House of Lords replaced for reasons which have nothing to do with American understanding of it)

Anyway, it seems like the clickbait here is "British" and the article would have taken exactly the same angle if her title was Senator.
Style is context which should be considered to understand content, and without considering it our understanding of the content may be incomplete (as I argue is the case here). I make no claim that either is more important.

I would claim they did not write for more than one audience. I'd refer you to my other comments in this thread for that argument.
Elixir/Erlang are surely slower but the BEAM is a fantastic runtime and compensates with fault-tolerance and predictable performance. I know I prefer my server to be as responsive at 1 million connections as at 1 hundred.
Carbon dioxide detected around alien world for first time
I had someone punt this at me some years ago now, at the time I read through their material and couldn't make much sense of what the actual offering might be - it seemed that there were going to be chains of everything, everywhere, constantly, all somehow interconnected and syncing up with each other, and for whatever reason that was a good idea.

I see no reason to pay any more attention to this than any other cryptocurrency-related "Grand Vision", or even something like Urbit, until projects have been delivered using it which have useful capabilities that are just not possible without it.

(edit - and given the ICO was 4 years ago now... eh)
I would bet very strongly that nobody has, or ever will use this for a serious project or service. You walk into a room with something like the diagram below and you're just going to have people laughing in your face.

https://holo.host/wp-content/themes/holo/images/Diagram.png
It might matter when you take into account the impact that transportation of goods might have on our planet.
But what's today for me is yesterday in New Zealand and if I'm on the West Coast of the US or Hawaii then that can go on for a 'long time'? If I then go +1 then that's just going to end up in the same rat race / breakages.
Not convinced about that - first, spiciness is not a taste, because it affects the heat/pain receptors on your tongue rather than the taste buds. Of course, the sensitivity for spiciness varies a lot between individuals, and maybe it correlates with the sensitivity for taste. Second, it might be the other way around: people with diminished taste sensitivity appreciate spicy food because it adds some variety for them, but that doesn't mean people with normal or even heightened taste sensitivity can't appreciate spicy food.
Because the Magratheans can build the Earth in any shape ?
Anonaddy gives you unlimited aliases for free.

https://anonaddy.com/#pricing
Croatia as well, you can get a firstName-lastName.from.hr domain for free.
ah, that's unfortunate. I've been using this to host toy projects that don't (and probably never will) bring in any income. Does anyone know of a similar service with a free tier?
So comparing the US to specific aspects of specific countries in Europe makes it seem not so bad compared to Europe?

It's just kinda mocking our energy issues without highlighting the positive solutions that are in work as well. How about all the health care systems that didn't collapse and still don't make people poor. Other countries here also make fun of Germany. They definitely don't serve as a good example for 'europe' in that sense.

Weird article, dunno
Standard emacs with Auctex for me.
> If you go into having kids thinking "how can I experience as little disruption as possible?" you're going to find yourself angry and frustrated a lot of the time.

Every parent needs to hear this. I can't believe the number of people who think it's okay to get angry with their children for getting in the way of their lives.
"The obvious, yet clearly heartless way question to ask is, why should you care? In the first example, the kid is not yours."

I'm sorry, are you really asking why I wouldn't care about others in general? In some cases, it doesn't matter if I know them.
Extensible and performant proto3-compatible RPC Framework
Last time I had to take a certification test, I chose the test center over doing it remotely since I didn't want to install whatever spyware they wanted me to install on my work laptop.
> In this simulation. Magnus reached the rating in 1600 simulated trajectories out of 2000. If Magnus Carlsen continues showing the same performance as he did during the 2019 period, he has 80% chance of reaching 2900.
diarrhea and irritation of anus/emorrhoids
Is it not possible to go to a tournament and have it not affect your rank? Or is every tournament ranked all the time?
Great suggestions, thanks!

> You can always create an LLC in the US and work for it remotely. So your employer pays a contractor (your LLC), LLC pays you dividends. Talk to an accountant in Turkiye, but I doubt there will be any taxation difficulties with the foreign income. You can get an LLC in Turkiye as well, by the way.

I do already have an LLC, trying to give it more of a web presence now & add more projects to my GitHub account. As an aside, starting up a small solo business in Turkiye as a single foreigner is impossible. The requirements of immediately hiring 3 Turks makes it a non-starter as a solo consultant. It's funnier in that still can't work here legally, even owning a company, until I've hired some # of people. Also my company has to be owned like 50% or 49% by Turks.

Dubai, however, isn't my thing as a bisexual atheist who likes cold wet weather, beer and cannabis :)

Thanks!
At Firebase we sometimes pondered the feasibility of a SQL version, but the semantics of SQL seem littered with semantic footguns that don't lend themselves to offline, secure, scalable and event driven distributed applications. We know everybody wanted better query expressivity but delivering that in a mobile friendly, clienside, secure package was very difficult to see the path to.

tripletstore/datalog actually seems like a decent compromise between SQL and no-SQL that could actually work out! Awesome idea!