skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cloudflare isn't bad. As a matter of fact, Cloudflare is the best and most viable alternative to AWS - they are offering basic cloud services like alternatives to Lambda, S3, and KV DBs, but distributed across their own CDN rather than hosted in centralized data centers. You can argue (and I do) that this is the future of the cloud.

If you are even a little concerned about the power and influence that AWS, Microsoft, and Google have over modern application hosting services (such as cancelling people for disagreeing with the TechLords' pet political stances), you should be cheering Cloudflare on. They are scrappy competitors taking a very different approach, and offering a lot of value. Yes, they're several years behind AWS, but then, so is everyone else, and you can build real apps on the pieces they have available today.

I'll add that Cloudflare has consistently been among the most unbiased and most transparent cloud services providers out there. (For instance, their 1.1.1.1 DNS service is regularly audited by a third party with the reports posted for all to see that Cloudflare is indeed operating the service as they claim. That's a level of accountability I really don't see from other cloud services providers.)

Those who worry about Cloudflare and aren't fighting AWS tooth and nail have no real-world perspective. AWS is far more of a danger than Cloudflare could possibly be for many years to come, especially since they have proven they will pull services with no notice for political infractions. The only reason Cloudflare is controversial is becasue they do NOT do that without it being a very justified and measured response. (Even then, everyone has the right to speak freely on the net, IMO. Let even Nazis have hosting and speak their minds. Then we can ridicule them appropriately.)
Why so hostile in your comments? It's not a competition about being the fastest. If anything, it only shows immaturity on your part. Time spent setting up a project is negligible compared to other things surrounding it.

You're anyways missing my point. Nextjs isn't a silver bullet, nothing is. And that how long it takes to set up a project is a function of familiarity with the stack.

Edit: thanks for deleting all your personal attacks on me. But also remember, I'm not the one claiming to know everything here (as you wrote in your now deleted post), you're the one that critiqued OP.
Why do local compute when you can have a massive Kubernetes cluster in AWS running stockfish and every other engine in the world through an API call on a tiny ESP32 with ESP-NOW protocol to a nearby friend/spy? I/O is a few bytes and ESP32 has a ad-hoc network range of 50 feet or so. I joke about the Kubernetes part :-)
Russia has laser-guided weapons, which have been around for decades. GPS-guided artillery and rockets are relatively new. According to Wikipedia, they were developed because laser-guidance turned out to be too cumbersome in Afghanistan, where the Taliban might be too well concealed or too far away for convenient laser targeting. Perhaps drones and fancier features (e.g. top attack flight modes) make laser guidance more effective than before (presuming the Russian versions can benefit from such technologies), but M982 GPS-guided shells have a range of 25+ miles, and HIMARS GPS-guided rockets 50+ miles (up to 120), which provide huge advantages in distance in addition to not needing a laser designator on the target the entire time.
Not sure how long they have been doing this, but even if it was only one year, the fine is too small.
I'll amend my statement

It is easier to prove a positive since it requires only the "smoking gun" to be made apparent. It is much harder to disprove a negative because it requires hypothetical smoking gun that could have caused the effect (Han's beating of Magnus) to be disproven. Since we don't have a record of every electromagnetic and sonic wave which passed through the room the day Hans beat Magnus, disproving the cheating claim is likely impossible.
It kinda smacks of some deficit in the modern game. Consider a hypothetical chess player who does not cheat, never has cheated, but through some combination of the occasional atypical move or odd behavior, makes players think they are cheating.

They seem to be saying that such behavior can confer an advantage — that to seem to be cheating is itself cheating.

I say we carry on like normal. Either Niemann's success falls apart, he messes up and gets caught, or we find out he's actually onto something brilliant.
I am a bit surprised with all this commentary that no one has yet mentioned the two variants of Planck's constant - the original one in terms of cycles (turns, here) and the hBar=h/(2pi) that winds up being more common.

Questions like this ultimately have answers related to what formulas are most often deployed - more a sociological question than anything else.
Niemann, as black, equalized reasonably early on and then had a consistent lead against Magnus the entire game. Magnus did make mistakes in the game, but only after a near-perfect grind for 27 moves.

To be clear, I'm not saying this to make a claim that this is definitive proof of anything. I'm pointing out that the theory that Magnus simply blundered away the game doesn't hold water. Niemann had the advantage—as black no less—for essentially the entire game against someone who is widely known for being capable of grinding away nearly-perfectly for extensive periods of time.
Oh no.. the microprocessor stuff is purely a technical hobby, although it was what I specialized in undergrad EE, and I worked at Intel for 3 years right out of college. I have done FPGA designs, simulated designs in HDLs, and even a few really cool 74X digital logic based designs and implementations... and so many on paper experiments during occasional long boring meetings.

The interesting aspect of doing microprocessor designs is the journey from the ISA concept through the implementation, discovering along the way all of the fantastic mistakes you have made.

It really makes a better software engineer out of me.

Doing deeply technical hobbies has improved my view and skill in so many areas, as well as helped me understand areas that I really suck at... which there are plenty!
So hitting a 1/100 chance means he is cheating? 1% is slim, but far from impossible.
relative to what's coming; possibly
From the article:

'A statement from officials in that district on Monday strongly denied that they had banned the book series.

“The information published in this article is categorically false,” the district’s statement said while linking to a Business Insider interview with the founder of Girls Who Code which reported the ban. “This book series not been banned, and they remain available in our libraries.”'

According to some Amazon reviews about the books, there are statements about how there being fewer women coders than men is a social injustice, which is apparently why people are upset about the book series. But it seems like it's still easily obtainable if people really want to get it
At least Shell invented the sort named after him. In the sciences you have Stigler's Law (no scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigler%27s_law_of_eponymy
When I was younger, I spent many, many hours playing one particular video game. I became a “known cheater” at the game, despite never actually cheating (I’d cheated at other games in my early teens, but had since given up that lifestyle).

I can recall several players on discussion boards analysing my statistics and explaining how I was clearly cheating because it was impossible for a human to play like me. Humans, they said, just weren’t that accurate.

One cheat-detection algorithm even “caught” me one day, and I was promptly banned from that server. Confused about what had happened, I sought out the server documentation online so I could see what they had used to “detect” me. My crime, it turns out, was scoring too many kills per second.

I keep this in mind whenever I see another person accused of something similar. Sometimes people have just put in more effort and study than we choose to comprehend.
It's interesting speculation, I wouldn't say I was convinced but I did see what you meant.
I think this (tieing phones to sims and vice versa) is forbidden in EU.
Until it is proven that your opponent cheated you need to be more gracious in your defeat.
Loved it. Pretty sure it has rebranded as airdroid
> Chess engines aren't like car engines are to sprinting.

I think this is questionable. While we can understand the physical limitations of a human compared to an engine, we tend to alleviate the intellectual limitations. Just like an engine can deliver far more power than a human could ever do regardless of their training, a computer performs far more chess move computations than a human ever could, regardless of their training. It's just that our brain is biased toward alleviating computational cost, because we implicitly think "in the end, a human could as well play the same moves as a computer"

I do agree however on the premise that chess is a zombie sport, but I think it has more to do with the ease of cheating. If you consider cycling for example, there has also been cases of cheating with an electric engine inside the bike, and new cheating methods are likely to be developed faster detection procedures. And in this case "Bike engines are like car engines are to sprinting"
RDS and similar managed databases are over half of our total cloud bill at my place of work. Managed databases in general are really expensive.
1.3 is evaluated as more than a pawn, which is significant.
More importantly why did they stop making micro machines? They were my favorite toy as a kid.

(And why did my parents lose my collection)
I didn't see a single ad. I'm running uBlock Origin on Firefox.
As a user, there are two issues I could face from this type of culling. First, I keep older devices—maybe just for RSS or news apps or podcasts or in-car music or video players. Relatively simple, straightforward uses. If I have additional uses in mind, apps won't be available. Similarly, the same would be true for someone who wants to let a child use an older device for something like games.

The other issue is the number of iOS hiccups which can lead to support documents saying to reinstall the OS. Doing that will make older, removed apps unavailable after reinstallation of the OS if the user relies on iCloud backups. This risk necessitates iTunes backups to insure such apps remain available after reinstalling the OS.

I doubt a situation like this contradicts the overall value of the culling. But I do know it has an effect on me and there are some people—certainly, a small number—who will lose apps because of the shortcomings in iCloud backups.
I mean Mozilla refuses to implement WebSerial just like Apple. They’re both holding back functions just because “they” feel they get to define what we should do instead of us.
No, it means that the reality of catching cheaters in chess is fundamentally heuristic if you don't manage to catch them red-handed.

This accusation hits many of the heuristic high notes.

That doesn't mean he definitively cheated. But to me, with ~15 years of chess under my belt, it does make this accusation credible.
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is there any thinking on how many bits of information do you need to cheat, and how many can be communicated via thumper?

e.g. is the bit of information "move the knight" aka theres only about 4 bits of info, or is it "move the knight to E6" which is a good deal more bits, that could be lossy/error prone.

just on the surface of it, i dont see how this thing could give enough info but i suppose with a loooot of training you could improve the info transfer rate?
^ for context, sponaugle is CTO of Surescripts, LLC; a 500 employee SMB.

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/surescripts
It "doesn't come close to being true", so you post stuff that confirms what I said?

Only your last sentence presents an alternate definition, the rest confirms it or is close to it. And the astronomical definition is not an uncommon one.

I think you need to reread what I wrote and what you wrote.
To concede that cheating took place would mean that they had failed in their responsibility to stop it happening, and that somehow their method of detection only worked after the cheating was happening, rather than during or before.

For those two reasons, I think that any such "pretty adamant" statement can be discounted.
It is not possible to prove unless the Chess Federation subjects players to cavity search. I don't think the Chess Federation wants to set such an extreme precedent. So, the alternative is to exclude people who have admitted to cheating in the past. That's not wrong or immoral. Cheating is immoral. Losing some privileges goes with the territory and should be expected.
Yah and Hikaru was able to find games of his that were 100% too, fairly quickly: https://clips.twitch.tv/FaintCuteKumquatPhilosoraptor-hDvbAj...
An unscheduled outage does have a spectrum to it - on the low/bad end there's a reactor scram. No one wants that. But there's also this case, where corrosion was found that needed to be repaired sometime "soon". Scheduling that work almost a year in the future does not count against their reliability score.

It's important to note that the river/lake water does not get sent through the reactor. The distilled water used inside the reactor is closely monitored for it's quality to prevent corrosion. There are heat exchangers between the two systems. The corrosion repair was probably in one or more of the heat exchangers (you don't want leaks between the two systems) or in the outer loop cooling pumps & piping.

Reactors need a reliable source of water for cooling. The ones near me use man-made lakes where they control the water level to assure a good supply of water. Recreational boating and lake-home real estate is a side benefit. If we had a California-level drought where the lake levels could not be maintained, then yes the reactors would have to be shut down. But dropping water levels are something that can be estimated and graphed on a chart. A shutdown in this case is unexpected and yes probably would be considered to be unscheduled.

I'm not sure in France's case where water consumption by the reactor would threaten the ecosystem due to a hot and dry summer. Likely the reverse since the water supply wouldn't be reliable any more. So far as water consumption by the reactors - the majority of the water gets returned to the river. It's warmer when it returns and that can cause algae growth, but it can also make for some good fishing (bass, bluegill, etc). Some reactors have cooling towers that work by evaporation, and that water gets returned to nature as rain.
How is this even Zero Trust. Admittedly, there is no precise definition for ZT, but Cloudflare's solution seems to run counter to the idea of perimeter-less ZT philosophy. Instead of assuming that phones can be insecure and developing appropriate crypto based mechanisms, Cloudflare is proposing to bring the phone inside a 'trusted' network. Remember, ZT does not rely on trusted network.

Solutions like this will increase confusion and fragment the already 'interpretation led' as opposed to definition led ZT landscape.
There is still a difference in that doing this to a physical SIM requires the carrier going out of their way to integrate a check with the automated SIM setup process, whereas with eSIM such activation request would seem to be an inherent step of the process.

I do agree that cell protocols in general need to be reformed to get rid of static device identifiers like IMEI. I'd go even further and say that the tamper proof aspect of SIMs should be eliminated - the application processor can store the key to auth to the network, putting the user in control rather than suffering arbitrary top-down restrictions enforced by hardware they purportedly own. Though obviously that's a pipe dream while regulators continue to work for Ma Bell.
They never tell you who is actually being empowered and that’s your employer
Not sure where they went but they're back. My kid loves hot wheels and just graduated to micro machines (delayed due to choking risk lol). Not sure if they're back with any popularity, my kid is my only datapoint. Hot wheels on the other hand has a pretty entertaining netflix show. Season 1 was a claymation style and had wonderful voice acting. Season 2 is normal animation style you see everywhere now and a bit of a let down to me because S1 was hilarious but the kid didn't mind it.
With those papers kept unsealed, it should be easier for attorneys to get people back their stolen property. Amazing how easy this theft really was. A judge really signed off on the FBI randomly confiscating 1400 unknown safe deposit boxes!? It would be entertaining to hear Steve Lehto's and Marc Randazza's takes.
The whole point of an OS is to provide a stable API to use.
Mine too! They actually started making them again recently, I saw some at Target.
Was he fleeing? Yes.

Did he land in Russia? Yes.

QED: He fled to Russia. It might not have been his first choice, but it is what happened.
You don't need something that transmits if you're searching for bug-like devices or any general integrated circuits with a nonlinear junction detector:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonlinear_junction_detector

I am very far removed from anything related to Chess, but if they want to get serious about this they should hire people who specialize in the federal-contracting adjacent field of TSCM (technical surveillance countermeasures).

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=tscm+tech...

I also think that people putting a lot of focus into shoes or other clothing articles underestimate the motivation and capability of people to use the traditional "prison wallet" method of concealing things.
>Can someone ELI5 what Mozilla did to deserve this derision?

Mozilla told its core audience to go away.
this is really the only way (maybe not naked, but change into preapproved uniforms)
Netherland. I suspect it's pretty common across continental Europe.
Because we do not have the energy not inclination to enforce a universal visual language on others.
So what's the latest then w.r.t. "Chimerica"[1] ?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimerica
when you cross a certain level of complexity, the deterministic nature becomes a Turing tarpit of sorts: yes, it's "deterministic", but the number of factors affecting the behavior is so large and their interactions so complex that it might as well be "non-deterministic" -- it's impractical to reason about in detail.
Actually, folks usually just use gRPC or Yaegi in Go. You can write an SDK for your software that abstracts all of that away for the plugin developer.

See Terraform[0], Traefik[1], or OctoSQL[2].

Though I agree plugins would be welcome, especially for performance reasons, though also to be able to compile and load go code into a running go process (JIT-ish).

[0]: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform

[1]: https://github.com/traefik/traefik

[2]: https://github.com/cube2222/octosql

Disclaimer: author of OctoSQL
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it seems like that on a long enough timeline however, promising that legacy cruft will always keep crufting as it did before seems like a huge burden that leaks into your ability to deliver quality in your current offerings.

Sure there are old things that are good and "complete" but far more old stuff is just old and could well be burnt to the ground, except for the fact that you have some customer somewhere relying on its oddities and unintended behaviors as an essential feature of their integrations.
https://twitter.com/ben_finegold/status/1574506362658181120
House office votes to unionize in congressional first
We've had several generations of ASICs already, if TPUs etc aren't much superior to GPUs why would future ASICs be any better.
I really take issue with "settlements" of such a scale that don't equate to an admission of guilt. It's essentially buying a get of jail free card. If any individual were facing criminal charges, they would have to plea guilty before any easy-way-out is considered.

If it would have taken a billion dollars in legal fees to prove your innocence, I'm going to take a chance and suggest that these claims likely weren't "false".
Chess is, in a way, doomed. At this point cheating by a smart perpetrator is nearly impossible to detect.
- Miniature devices can even be implanted. You can probably already have a chess engine onboard your body.
- Accomplices of a cheater only need to transmit a few bits of information to be useful - making cheating cheap when audience is allowed.
- Statistical methods will not be able to detect a player increasing their apparent skill by a small margin (help with occasional moves, successively picking suggestions from a varied group of chess engines so that adherence to one engine cannot be proven)

Given this, we will be left with cheaters getting caught rarely through obvious slips in op-sec (device falls out, gets picked by a detector through unlucky occurrence)

or

We will be forever accusing people of cheating. They will deny it. We will ask them to explain why they made certain moves. They will fail to explain themselves sufficiently... Are we here yet?
Pandoc Markdown, but it's error messages aren't any better than LaTex
It's easy to cheat a statistic you create. It's quite hard to cheat a statistic where you don't know who will look when at which particular data points.
I am not a fan of new knobs like this. It reminds me of Java where you actually have to think about -xMx blah blah and setting it is a dark art. I would really prefer if we could somehow confer the memory limit from the container environment to go so this could be set intuitively at the container level without mucking about in the go GC internals.
Well, "modern" is relative. We just recently moved to C++11 :)

We do not use unique_ptr and to be honest I can find little to no use for it anywhere in our 600k lines of C++.
Does guest posting still work in 2023?
And yet the audience for chess engine tournaments is basically 0, while millions(?) watch human tournaments.
It should be profits plus executive compensation. Profits are too easily manipulated.
Tampering with evidence (of indeterminate varieties) ?
One of my high school teachers was a friend of his and it came up in class all the time. He supposed lost his fast-talking crown in a competition while he was still in his prime as Micromachine spox.
C++ Library, forgot the name, need to look.

NPM system is security abomination I agree. But I am not using it. I look at things from my own perspective. If 90% of the world programmers are bound to NPM ecosystem (doubt it) it is their problem. Not mine. I do not "import" half of the Internet for my "hello worlds".
I'm advocating for me, and users like me, not for the interests of a greedy corporation. I just want the things that I paid for to continue working. I don't want to re-buy things just so Apple can line their own pockets. I don't want to chase developers to provide updates, or if they have gone out of business, be stuck. I use technology as a tool to get stuff done. I don't need Apple to come and disable my investment in software.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/8/495
He hasn't been officially shown but that doesn't mean that someone in the know hasn't leaked it to him. He's deeply connected and respected in the chess world.

Further, even if he didn't see it people notice when GMs get bans as their accounts turn inactive (which they had in this case).
Moka pot coffee is its own thing. It is NOT the same as a good shot of espresso pulled from a proper espresso machine. I know people say this, but it's a different flavor profile even with the same beans and careful attention to grind. I really dislike it, in fact.

If I can't have a proper espresso, I'll drink pour over.