- Chess.com "present evidence in this report that Hans likely cheated online much more than his public statements suggest"
- "While Hans has had a record-setting and remarkable rise in rating
and strength, in our view there is a lack of concrete statistical evidence that he cheated in his game with Magnus or in any other over-the-board (“OTB”)—i.e., in-person—games."
> Due to a fire at one of our data centres, a few of our servers are down and may be down permanently. We are restoring these servers from backups and will enable puzzles and storm as soon as possible.
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> We hope that everyone who is dealing with the fire is safe, including the firefighters and everyone at OVH. <3.
I opened two tabs to relax tonight: Hacker News and Lichess. This was the top HN thread, and Lichess is having issues because of the fire.
I didn't know what OVH was before 10 minutes ago, but this seems really impactful. I hope everyone there is safe and that the immediate disaster gets resolved quickly.
Look them up, they're one of the biggest hosting providers in the world ( especially in France), and due to cheap prices are especially pop-up with smaller scale stuff.
Yeah, they scale down to their kimsufi line which used to have quite powerful dedicated servers for the price of basic VPSes from other providers.
e.g. They have a 4core, 16gb ram server for $22/mo which is 25% of what my preferred provider, Linode, charges.
Now, it comes with older consumer hardware (that one is a sandy bridge i5), and about as much support as the price tag suggests, as well as a dated management interface, but when I used to run a modded minecraft server as a college student, which needed excessive amounts of RAM and could be easily upset by load spikes on other clients, then it was a no-brainer, even if I would expect the modern-ish Xeons Linode uses to win on a core for core basis.
Dated? They're probably the only place that isn't $comedy "bare metal cloud" pricing that not only has an API for their $5/m servers but also the panel is a reasonably modern SPA that implements that API and uses OAuth for login
Yeah this is not at all what you use now. It's an Angular SPA.
It is still a mess of separate accounts, but you can use email addr to log in instead of random-numbers generated handle.
The OVHCloud US is completely separated for legal purposes, from what I remember. No account sharing, different staff, OVH EU cannot help you at all with US accounts.
Yes it changed. It was replaced by a more modern version a few years ago (but the transition was painful, as not everything was implemented in the new version when they started to deploy it).
I think playing "from position" is also broken? I was playing chess with my friend and we usually play "from position" but it wasn't working just now so we're playing standard instead. It might be an unrelated bug.
Do you have a source for this? The closest I got to was this book, "Mission Abroad" http://www.csms.se/upl/files/142648.pdf
where a standoff at a hospital in Bakovici was mentioned. Stewe Simson was quoted as Platoon Commander, but there was no mention of orders from higher ups nor ignoring orders.
Is there a way on Android/iPhone to both listen to a podcast and music at the same time? Unfortunately, earphone time is limited for me, and too often I choose one over the other at the expense of my learning, no prizes for guessing which...
I wonder if you could include all keystrokes like Ctrl-x in the screencast, maybe even a timeline of the keystrokes; I imagined it to be "running" along the screen like in Guitar hero. Nevertheless this is a great effort in distributing latent/implicit knowledge, which I think coding to be heavy on; for example, how would a terminal user know that Ctrl-R is reverse-search? (don't get me started on finding out about going back to a previous match...) I remember how I found out about Tab by accident... While being ignorant of these epistemes are not barriers, they do slow down/kills joy.
Most people who create Blender (a 3D graphics app) video tutorials use an addon that includes the keys they are typing on the screen. It is very useful, and would be interesting especially for emacs or Vim users who use a lot of bindings.
I can't stand video howtos. You can't skim a video, or search the text of a video. They seem especially irrelevant in the world of text editors. I'd rather read the keystrokes on a doc/webpage. You could even open it right in the editor.
I imagine one has to be extra careful to avoid spilling passwords and other secrets then. Probably best when it can be avoided by some technical means like ssh keys for git, etc.
No doubt. In the article she mentions having a “scene” in the broadcasting software she uses that just shows a “standby” screen (which reminded me of “We’re experiencing technical difficulties” cards that TV stations use). Still, I’d be paranoid!
personally I would avoid this unless I could tie it to a specific program (like Unity) -- if it just indiscriminately logs and shows keys you will probably end up revealing a password or some other sensitive info.
The keystroke tracker would be really nice. I know some IDEs store preferences in easy to parse formats like Json so I feel like exporting keyboard shortcuts to a tracker should be pretty painless
Compare this approach with Google's - github sticks to the git-compatible 'loose' repository format on vanilla filestorage, while google uses packs on top of their BigTable infrastructure, and requires changes to repo-access at the git-level [1].
Interesting how Github is sounding like Google and Amazon. They're probably hitting the scale where it makes sense to build internal APIs and infrastructure abstractions to support their operations, eg. Bigtable and S3. In fact, DGit sounds like another storage abstraction like Bigtable and S3, albeit limited - eg. a git repo must be stored fully on a single server (based on my cursory reading of github's description of DGit), but in Bigtable, data is split into tablets that comprise the table might be stored on different places, which would allow higher utilization of resources.
Apart from myself, anyone else hoping to see downloading straight into an S3 bucket? (Seeding from a bucket has been around for some time, you could imagine my disappointment when clicking the link)
There's a certain mindset under which a) most contests are boring, b) there exists a metagame over all contests, and c) that metagame so fascinating that success in it is interesting irrespective of the details of the underlying contests.
I don't necessarily subscribe to that values system, but part of me understands the attraction.
- Chess.com "present evidence in this report that Hans likely cheated online much more than his public statements suggest" - "While Hans has had a record-setting and remarkable rise in rating and strength, in our view there is a lack of concrete statistical evidence that he cheated in his game with Magnus or in any other over-the-board (“OTB”)—i.e., in-person—games."