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Lichess is truly on a class of its own. It delivers a better service than any of it’s alternatives (in my opinion), and it’s actually 100% free with no BS.

Funny enough, I’ve donated around $30 in total which is $30 more than I would’ve ever thought of spending on a chess site. Hats off to thibault and the open source community for creating such a wonderful gem.

It also doesn’t strike me as a sustainable model. Part of what makes European football so special is the rarity of the fixtures.

While I don’t have hope that UEFA or FIFA will successfully kill off the Super League, I have optimism that the players will. By the looks of it, it’s going to be up to them to unionize and prevent this from happening.

Given the fact that it's also down, I'd say yes

That’s not the text that’s concerning, it’s the first one: “Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard just ask”

> AaRR and aArr, byte swapped to little endian of course

Maybe my understanding of endianness is off but isn’t it AaRR -> RRAa?

You vastly underestimate the size of this demographic, which is exactly what the short-sellers of GameStop did.

When using Google, the amount of times I ended up clicking a different link just because a box above decided to load that very moment was unthinkable. That alone was a big enough of a reason to switch.

The creation of the internet is undoubtedly the biggest factor in this. It created a paradox in people's consumption of information. You not only had the ability to choose what to listen to, you could choose what not to listen.

Another ability the internet has allowed is the creation of communities based around the type of information they consumed which always creates echo-chambers like you pointed out.

It's because of this that many have lost sense of the realities of other people and manifests its own distorted reality.

Not to mention, you also have multi-billion dollar companies utilizing algorithms to keep you there as long as possible, further propagating this effect.

I think all of us know deep down that something about online advertising doesn’t seem right. I’m still surprised at how big of an industry it is given how ineffective it can be. To me it seems overvalued.

> which has been arguably the biggest event of 2020

Who’s arguing against that?

I started playing chess for the first time since summer 2019. I was rated 650 on Lichess. I got addicted and a year and a half later I’m 1800. I’m still addicted.

I remember learning about how Wolfenstein worked using ray-tracing and being absolutely mind blown upon discovering that in reality, those games were just 2D top down shooters shown in fake-3D.

It goes to show how creative we can get.

What exactly is the point of running an internal distro?

Got to visit it while it was still operational a few years back. It was absolutely unreal, and only then did I realize that I had played it in that exact area in BF4.

Really sad to see it suffered the same ironic fate as in the game.

According to [1], Android makes up 60% of the US smartphone market share; but you're comparing many different brands of phones, all of which use Android, to the iPhone which isn't exactly fair.

You can see that the iPhone is still has the largest smartphone market share in the US.

Also, bear in mind that Android phones thrive in less rich countries like Mexico [2] or the Philippines [3]. The price of the iPhone is perhaps the largest burden for these people, but I'm willing to speculate that if given the choice, most would favor iOS over Android.

[1]: https://www.counterpointresearch.com/us-market-smartphone-sh...

[2]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/867948/market-share-smar...

[3]: https://gs.statcounter.com/vendor-market-share/mobile/philip...

Couldn't agree with you more. For the first time in who knows how long, I can confidently say that we made a leap into a new generation of computer power. It's a huge step up from the small marginal improvements we've been seeing over the past few years.

Huh, this was the reason why my laptop was freezing every time. I thought it was the fact that my laptop got too old and so I wiped my laptop and installed Arch.

Same boat as you, but for some reason with the new MacOS update my computer kept getting the most random freezes to the point where I gave up and gave it a fresh Linux install. Haven’t looked back and I’m extremely happy with the work I’ve been putting into it.

> The HN crowd may seem fringe, but they are living in the future.

I really don’t think the HN community is at all representative of what the masses think about. Just like in any online community, it is easy to think that the thoughts of that community somewhat resemble that of most people when that simply isn’t true. HN’s base consists highly of developers who are up to date with most things in the technology industry.

The rest of the world doesn’t really care enough to compromise the comfort and reliability of Google’s suite, which lets be honest, outperforms its competition by a size-able margin, and does so with a “free” price tag.

People on HN have talked about de-googling for years and I have yet to see someone outside of the computer development scene do it (or even talk about it for that manner).

Civ V is where it's at

This is great, I think you should add a single-player mode though much like GoogleFeud.

It just isn’t the same, Scheme was such a wonderful educational language.

For the google search, I get better results by typing "shirt -stripes". Still not perfect, but it's better than the seemingly redundant 'without'.

This is brilliant, thank you!

I would love to see a proof of it if you happen to have it!

I find mathematics to be the most beautiful thing in the universe, because it is the only thing I can truly think of as being perfect in every way. Existing only as an abstract concept, it still manages to find its way into every single aspect of our lives.

Two completely remote civilizations will still have the same mathematics. Sure one may have a more developed understanding, but if both civs wondered about how to get the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle, they would both end up with Pythagoras' theorem. The only thing invented in math is our language and representation of such concepts.

Many people believe that mathematics becomes invented the further up you go like pure mathematics and I can understand why this perspective would come through, but take the example of G.H. Hardy who famously said “The Theory of Numbers has always been regarded as one of the most obviously useless branches of Pure Mathematics”. It could be argued at the time that these branches were simply invented mathematics because there was no practical application of it, but 30 years following his death came breakthroughs in cryptography. All of a sudden, this was no longer an invention. Calculus is not seen as an invention but a discovery because of all of its insane number of applications in physics and other areas.

Many areas of math that have yet to find practical use will always come under the scrutiny of being 'invented' but that simply isn't the case.

I firmly believe that all areas of mathematics are practical to the universe and its wonders (and therefore discovered), whether or not we can achieve a level to use such mathematics (or experience it) is a different matter.

I believe that at its core, mathematics is the universe. To say that we have invented it is arrogant and completely strives it of its beauty.