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> They didn’t find any instances of cheating after August 2020

They banned him after August 2020, and only reinstated him after a full confession the next year.

The fact that, after having being caught red handed in online for-prize tournaments and knowing he’s being monitored very closely online going forward, he suddenly starts rising at a world-historic pace (at an age this has never before happened at) at OTB tournaments suggests to me that having lost the ability to reliably cheat in one forum he turned his attention to another.

You understand that this whole discussion is about how chess.com detected this at the time and booted him, right? They appear to be doing a better job of detecting cheating than OTB tournaments, which doesn’t say to me “anybody can cheat by using a computer”

> Second, that it's common amongst the elite of the sport is huge. Either online chess is somewhat dead on arrival as a sport and was never taken seriously by many players (which makes sense to me given how integrated computer engines are in the sport) ... or the chess world needs to go through some sort of cultural revolution here.

Really? My takeaway is that chess.com is doing a better job of detecting cheaters than FIDE, who seem to have been asleep at the wheel with Niemann

> Fourth, the OTB cheating question still seems open and it seems plausible to me that a good chess player would cheat online for followers and income and entrance to tournaments and then use OTB as the real testing ground.

This seems wildly implausible to me. Niemann‘s OTB rise would be indicative of a not just significant but utterly world historic chess mind, head-and-shoulders above Fisher and head-shoulders-and-entire-torso above every other player in history. When led into uncharted territory by the world chess champion, Magnus indicated that Niemann seemed utterly and completely untroubled - and yet he’s, what, running stockfish in another window for $1000 prizes online and getting himself caught dozens of times? Why? Why take the risk against opponents he should beat in his sleep? These should have been sleepwalk games for this Fisher++ genius who’s totally untroubled by a 5 time world chess championship, but he’s for some reason making obviously weaker moves when not switching windows when his unaided moves shouldn’t have been screamingly weaker than the aided ones given his singularly extraordinary chess rise.

It beggars belief. His world historic rise in rating alone is ludicrously over the top. Kid’s an obvious fraud.

No, he said this:

> “I cheated on random games on Chess.com. I was confronted. I confessed. And this is the single biggest mistake of my life. And I am completely ashamed. I am telling the world because I don’t want misrepresentations and I don’t want rumours. I have never cheated in an over-the-board game. And other than when I was 12 years old I have never cheated in a tournament with prize money.”

This report identifies 3 separate tournaments with prize money in 2020 alone (2 SCC Grand Prix, and the Pro Chess League) that he appears to have cheated in, blatantly contradicting what he previously said.

> If he gets caught cheating on an online game, whether it is chess.com or counterstrike, who cares?

Chess.com isn’t the yahoo chess web app or whatever, there’s more at stake there than “gamerscore”. Some of these 100 games were in online tournaments for cash prizes.

Just because it wasn’t a FIDE run tournament doesn’t mean it doesn’t matter or that no one cares. The chess.com Pro Chess League they suggest he cheated in 12 games of had a $100,000 prize fund.

The overall fungibility of tax revenue is irrelevant to the criticism of the perverse incentives at play here.

Tying the payouts specifically to the police budget would mean that when the city's residents' policing service expectations failed to be met, one could point to that being a direct consequence of police actions costing them their own policing budget, increasing pressure on the public to do things like elect effective police oversight commissioners who will act to reign in their abuses and provide good value-for-cost policing.

The status quo instead disconnects the oversight from the consequences, leading to the quiet defunding of other services for political reasons (since it would require city counsels to constantly vote to cut police budgets in proportion to each damage award, rather than happening "neutrally" by centering the legal defense and payouts within the police budget to begin with).

This might be true if the lawsuit damages were paid out of police budgets, but in many instances this isn't the case – the lawsuits are paid out of a combination of municipal liability insurance claims and the general city budget, eg) https://abcnews.go.com/US/millions-lawsuit-settlements-hidde... or https://www.npr.org/2020/09/19/914170214/police-settlements-...

There's a broad disconnect between the police departments, their hiring and disciplinary practices, and the consequences of the lawsuits their actions generate.

Completely wrong. The 6th circuit's affirmation of the lower court's summary judgement was entirely based on the officers' entitlement to qualified immunity. Read the opinion yourself: https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca6/18... . That's the particular dispute that's heading to the Supreme Court. The municipal liability is unrelated to this amicus brief, which is entirely about the QI dispute.

> Using WiFi will probably add ~30-50ms of latency to your setup, which is bad, but also consider that both the PS5 and Xbox Series X have over 100ms of input lag alone.

This is absolute nonsense. Average end-to-end input-to-rendered-frame latency is half that at 60fps and more like a third of that in 120hz mode in Gears 5 on the Series X https://www.neogaf.com/threads/xbox-series-x-input-latency-r...

Lots of similar results abound. Here’s Multiverse on the PS5 averaging 31ms end-to-end latency at 60fps: https://twitter.com/noodalls/status/1552942081014132738

“100ms of input lag alone” (before the engine even has the input? c’mon mate) is a preposterous idea.

> For a 200-metre section, Dr Lauer calculates, there is about one chance in a trillion that it is duplicated anywhere on the 2.3bn kilometres of track currently laid around the world.

Uh, isn’t this the wrong calculation though? We don’t care about the chance of collision between a particular section and any other section, we care about the chance that any pair of sections collide. Birthday paradox stuff.

Impressively wrong in every single aspect

> I'm surprised they're both used, from that description it sounds like one would fall by the wayside, like cursive has in North America.

In practice, there are no less than 4 separate scripts that are used in Japanese: hiragana, katakana, kanji, and romaji, and some mix of all 4 can appear in the same sentence.

It's not so much analogous to cursive, which is a different "style" of writing the same "thing" – katakana and hiragana developed at different times for different groups and came to play different roles, and there are (usually) semantic implications to which are used.

Defector wrote a good story about trying to visit the deli last year https://defector.com/a-cnbc-reporter-ruined-my-lunch-plans-a...

edit: Apparently I missed the follow-up, in which he did get to try the cheesesteak https://defector.com/despite-stellar-cheesesteaks-hometown-d...

It strikes me as even more tenuous than that because you could just as easily say “ah well there were no zodiac murders post-D&D, so obviously role playing slakes rather than inflames the psychopathic mind” or something.

Does this circumstantial suggestion that a man was involved in the 1960s zodiac killings partially vindicate the critics of Dungeons & Dragons (first published 1974)?

I’m going to go with “no” and cite “the linear flow of time”.

I take your point but lol at the idea of 300 applicants for a remote dev position. If we saw 30 applicants all year is would be a miracle.

Could be. But the pre-launch rumours also claimed the 4080 was a 450 W product, and the 4090 is so niche (basically it’s the old Titan line) that it’s not worth handwringing about because it’s not targeted at normal consumers (for “I’d buy a > $1000 GPU for gaming” values of “normal”).

> A 4080 series card will demand a whopping 450 W,

No, that was just a rumour that was floating around. The 4080 16GB model is 340W TGP, the 12 GB is 285W TGP out of the box. The 3080 (10 GB) was 320W TGP, as a comparison point.

> They are every bit the problem that ICE cars are, it's just that the full environmental costs of the switchover have not been widely-recognized.

I think you’re confusing an environmental catastrophe with devastating consequences for specific people (and animals etc) in a contained location with a completely uncontained environmental catastrophe with devastating consequences for all life on this planet.

Just reducing cars’ impact to “devastating a number of specific contained locales” would be a monumental step forward.

> But at least they're honest about it.

They're really not though, insofar as they're framing "not caring" as "not political". It's very political to not care that you're handing money to someone who's anti-abortion (or pro-abortion) because it will get you some other thing, other issues be damned.

If they framed that as not caring that would be one thing, but framing it as "not political" assumes a level of abject stupidity in the people they're making that claim to that I'm disinclined to play along with.

> Eg. A coffee company gets involved in the politics around recyclable cups, labor laws, import taxes on coffee, etc. But they don't get involved with abortion...

The problem becomes that these things aren't cleanly separable and policy support is basically fungible; the anti-coffee-import-tax politician might oppose forcing almond growers in California to reduce water usage, or the pro crypto politician might be for federal anti-abortion measures. You can't earmark the money for some kinds of votes but not others; funding a politician's re-election gets you everything they vote for or nothing at all.

So it becomes not so much "no politics" as "the corporation's politics ahead of any other"; exacerbating drought conditions in California is "political" and not worth discussing even as the politician responsible for it is funded in order to obtain import-tax-free coffee, or banning abortion is considered an acceptable price to pay (and don't you dare bring up this consequence at work, for that would be "political") for pro-crypto policies.

I don't even necessarily object to companies saying "I accept that X happening is the cost of obtaining corporate goal Y", it's just ludicrously dishonest to pretend that involving themselves in politics isn't political and doesn't have political consequences beyond "crypto good".

Nevertheless it's very very easy to argue that Jeter is overrated if you stop evaluating with your eyes and dive into the metrics. He's got the lowest defensive WAR (-9.4) of any shortstop in the modern era – the objective outcomes of him playing in that position are quite literally worse than average, and worse than any other shortstop who played under Steinbrenner or in that media market (Didi Gregorius gets far less attention, but is a far better SS).

People rate him highly based on watching his spectacular, dramatic diving catches – forgetting that those dives are the product of him being badly positioned on the hit, and that a correctly-positioned player would simply make an unremarkable routine catch on the same hit.

Jeter's the baseball equivalent of the programmer who an Org is in love with for constantly spending nights and weekends fighting fires, failing to notice that it's the same person who's accidentally starting all of the fires to begin with.

One thing to keep in mind here is that there is a serious problem with the birthday paradox that impacts these DNA fishing expeditions and makes them both dangerous and very nearly useless.

Throwing any old DNA that comes into your hands into a huge database, with no prior expectation that the person whose DNA your searching is involved in a specific crime you're looking to compare them to but just to see if anything in there matches anything else in there, will turn up false positives with incredible regularity

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/09/dna_matching_..., https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/devlin_02_11.htm..., etc. DNA fishing expeditions are a terrible, terrible idea.

> Retraction: This post should be disregarded for now as in an attempt to reduce the problem I made a mistake and in fact, reduced it to something that is in fact (trivially) solvable. I will follow up with an replacement post that hopefully is more accurate.

I’ve got the extremely well regarded Sony WH-1000XM4s. Getting them to switch between devices is an absolute pain in the ass compared to Apple’s fairly seamless handoff.

The custom Bluetooth processor seems to be letting Apple solve a lot of pain points that every other Bluetooth headphone just makes you live with.

> What I find weird is claiming that Akka is unsustainable because it's open source

Akka is Open Source. Akka's authors feel that continuing the status quo is unsustainable.

Whether or not it's unsustainable because it's open source to some extent doesn't really matter – perhaps with enough elbow grease on their part they could drum up more community maintainers and make it both sustainable and continuously open source, but that would require putting in yet more uncompensated work on the hope that it might lower their burdens at some point down the road, and come with the issue that more volunteers mean more work trying to coordinate everyone.

Or they could just make it source available for the first 3 years and ask for money from the companies using it commercially – there's also no guarantee that this will work, but money will solve more problems in the short term, so I can understand why they made the choice they did.

> If they had to comply with local law in every area they operate

...then they would be on a level playing field with everybody else. The alternative ("we don't care for some of these laws in some places we operate, so we decline to follow them") is what is generally referred to as a criminal enterprise.

In addition to being too new, Scalable Matrix Extension is for Armv9 - the M1 and M2 are Armv8 architectures

That’s only “not a USB-C issue” if you fail to understand the central complaint about USB-C - that ports that support, say, video output (or input) are visually identical to ports that do not, and cables that can carry video are indistinguishable from those which only support USB 2, or those which only support charging at 15 W, or those that support charging at 100 W or or or. Thus the central question: is his phone failing to output video a failing of the phone? The dock? The cabling involved? Some combination of the above?

Everything looking the same with zero indication of what does what is the USB-C issue. The answer here might be “your phone doesn’t have that capability”, but the fact that you have to dive into the data sheets of everything involved including all of the cabling just to figure out what the hell the outcome is supposed to be versus the observed outcome is all completely absurd.

> Ok then: they have decided, and they decided not to take KF down.

Right, so what exactly is your point here? "Who gets to decide?" -- They do -- "Ok, that's what they decided".

We're all aware of who decided and what they decided. Decisions come with consequences, among them being criticized for your decision making.