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Nice, great to see more open source efforts on Chess. GitHub is down and I can’t quite tell what is the need you are trying to address with this library.

I'm interested in well written CS papers that have immediate practical value for a generalist backend software engineer.

It's a very simple change, since the fundamentals of the game is still the same. It should take no more than a day to change the code and re-train the model.

For people with young kids this means no more nannies.

Are they going to deliver the lower quality videos with AV1?

Decoding is cheaper at low resolution.

AV1 Encoding is ready for prime time. However hardware decoder is mostly absent, which blocks adoption in mobile apps. (Dav1d is great, but consumes too much power on mobile devices)

Why would you use this instead of Google Hangout?

It’s interesting how it took so many years for such an obviously useful tool to emerge. I guess hosting this is finally getting cheap enough.

The tricky part is how to measure the perceived quality. With video there is VMAF but seems there has been no development on the image quality assessment.

Exception is a nightmare only if you use it as a general purpose control flow mechanism.

Quality doesn't really matter for the general audience, beyond some reasonable threshold. https://mux.com/blog/youtube-viewers-dont-care-about-video-q...

This seems not cheap to operate. What is the business model?

Thought Police caught in action.

Yes, this is a great start. Higher level abstractions can be introduced very gradually.

I suspect the test pilots represent the <1% of pilots who are 10x skillful as a typical pilot.

Great news. Both companies are really innovative and breaking new grounds in chess training. There is a lot other disciplines could learn from them.

GDPR is a huge win for user privacy. All these have been going on and getting worse for years and finally getting surfaced.

By the time you can tell imminent recession from Google Trends it's too late to do something about it.

It is local time zone. The commit log has time zone info.

There is always consequence. You only see the dramatic ones from outside.

Absolutely. I guess they want to avoid drawing attention to the full impact on businesses built on Google Cloud, before having a concerted effort across PR, Legal, Eng.

Then you are a much more valuable user to target ads on.

It's funny Triplelift was even bidding that much. Maybe some publishers have detected the issue before it was known and milked it with ad networks.

Using Kubernetes is a good start. It should be easy to migrate your server between EKS and GKE. However data is trickier to move around. So you won’t be immune from all global outages.

Agree that you need a balanced set of skills. However the advice in the article is pushing it too far.

Being a generalist is great in terms of broadening you career options, at an early stage anyway. But until you truly master something most of the higher tier opportunities remain closed to you.

These opportunities are much rarer and often not advertised. But the competition is also less intense and arbitrary. It is also in human nature to enjoy getting better at something. This path is actually not as hard as people think, and way more fun than keep picking up new mediocre skills.

My strategy as a parent: cultivate healthy hobbies with your kid. I taught chess to my daughter when she was 5. We play it together all the time, not only standard chess but also all kinds of variants (she invented a few fun variants herself). She goes to chess club every week and tournaments every couple of months. The iPad is loaded with dozens of chess apps, nothing else. Chess, together with other activities like art and sports take up most of her leisure time. There is no room left for the ads infested games and videos. We never have to tell her not to play or watch those. And she's having a great time anyway.

> "The app will take care of a lot of those pre-flight interactions"

It's easy to automate the happy path interactions. But it's impossible to enumerate and prepare for all the problems and particular situations the customers are in. (Anna Karenina Principle)

I guess their strategy is hope these problems doesn't happen that often and the consequence is not that severe.

The whole website is a treasure trove for learning about system design.

Spot on. News publishers have been suffering from declining ads revenue for years. They needed to pivot to something anyhow.