skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, reckon you're right. Trouble is with the obesity epidemic and the huge increase in diabetes in recent years which one has the worse outcome? Do we switch back to sugar or continue to promote and use artificial sweeteners?

In the grand scheme of things perhaps artificial sweeteners are the lesser evil but it seems to me we've still no reasonable
- let alone definitive - handle on the facts. Determining that ought to be a top priority.

Another worrying aspect of this study is that media hype and scaremongering could likely be the result thus frighten off many who'd actually derive a net benefit from continuing to use artificial sweeteners. Given the past and ongoing controversy they generate, this would not come as unexpected.

It is why it's imperative that this study be either replicated or debunked by others ASAP. The current controversy has gone on long enough without it being made worse by this study.

Incidentally, I say that as a somewhat independent observer with few personal issues to grind. For example neither the consumption of sugar nor artificial sweeteners has been a large issue for me personally (and I hope it remains that way).

The reason is that I find the typical amount of sweetener (of any type but especially so artificial varieties) that is added to many commercial food products (especially drinks, colas, etc.) makes them far too sweet for my liking which means it's easy for me to consume much less of them. This puts me well below what food technologists call the sweetness bliss point which is the optimal or preferred sweetness level of a majority of consumers.

Whilst that fact is of no help to others, it seems to me that decreasing the bliss point ought to be an integral if not essential part of the effort to reduce the incidents of these health problems.

Over many years food manufacturers have deliberately increased the sweetness of their products to increase sales, ipso facto, this has increased the average bliss point. This is serious as lowering this satisfaction threshold will be very difficult to achieve in practice.

That the bliss point has increased over recent decades is in no doubt. For example, chocolate from a well-known manufacturer that's been around for well over a hundred years and that I once found enjoyable is now too sweet for me to eat.

Moreover, this is an actual increase in the
level of sweetness of the product and not just my perception of it having changed, as others have noticed the fact whether they like the increased sweetness or not.
It's a mix, but startups clearly skew prices higher.

Salaries gets higher too because of much corporate cash, there is this nasty infinite loop of inflation -> salaries -> inflation -> salaries.

This is why in the newspapers we occasionally see rants from the population that foreigners destroy the quality of life by pushing prices higher.

One cause is that there is a limited amount of space in Tallinn but high attractivity for IT foreigners (due to low taxes and high startup funding).

This means that good housing is though to find for a decent price (check kv.ee for example), and that there is not enough housing for everyone.

Not enough housing means lot of construction needed.

Lots of construction worldwide + scarce construction supply + abundance of money + lot of people = potential housing catastrophe.

Concretly, for example, I wanted to buy a reasonably priced house in the countryside (500K EUR for 160m2 / 1700sqft), and someone who sold his Pipedrive or Transferwise shares (I don't remember) came and offered over 100K more than the list price.
This is very broken (and I say that though I am also a startup guy, so I feel it's sad/wrong for the non-IT Estonians).

The city also have 50K to 80K refugees that came in a few months. Where do you host them ?

Well, you pay high price for rent.
If you're working for a SV tech firm, the vacation is comparable.

I had 5.5 weeks off per year. I took 5 weeks off in a row one time. People who replied to emails on vacation were laughed at ("don't they have a life beyond work?").
Shouldn't people who wish to attend an event also have the freedom to do so without someone standing next to them shouting abuse? Especially the case where people were mourning The Queen it seems rather misguided and insensitive.

There are a million-and-one ways to protest the monarchy; more than ever before. Seems narcissistic and petty to go and ruin other people's days. That's not "protesting", that's just being a twat.

For what it's worth, I'm not in favour of the monarchy, but we can be against the monarchy and maintain a baseline of kindness and respect.
It's a story, which is likely interesting to hackers, as it involves uber sending goons to one?
And it's not just games, this trend of moving code into data. I've been in several companies where their fundamental logic was a configuration interpreter, very complex, tied to a gigantic set of xml or json "configurations" which themselves had interdependent logic written as structure.

So when maybe the first iteration 20 years ago was all fun and giggles "look a monkey could edit a few knobs and it all moves around fine", today it's a tangled mess that an ever rotating set of new people build on top of with no validation tool, no formalized syntax, no ability to test nor explain the holistic logic of.

So, as you say, we end up running the thing and looking if the output makes sense, the code working more out of luck than engineering.
See issues 2 & 3.
How is it occams razor?

This person has been caught cheating in the past several times including for prize money tournament so it's much more likely they have cheated many other times and were not caught.

There are many ways you could cheat in a OTB match, most people don't understand how easy it would be, one of the ways you can tell someone is cheating is that they don't understand why their move was good, often computer lines are very unintuitive and moves sacrificing a piece without any positional or tactical compensation mean it has found an idea that requires calculating more moves ahead than any human can.

In the post game analysis hans gave, it was terrible, lines that he suggested often being 1 or 2 move blunders, not expanding on insanely complicated positions, but simply claiming "the chess speaks for itself" and misevaluating who is winning in many variations that were shown, often when deciding between two different lines how well you evaluate the end position is critical to picking the correct line.

I don't know if hans did cheat in this tournament, but if he didn't then he was quite actively giving the impression to the other players that he was, which has would give a huge psychological advantage, not because the opponent "can't concentrate on chess", but because if your opponent is offering you pawns or a piece for "free", in a game against a human you will take it, in a game against an engine taking it means you have already lost.
Utter rubbish. If you want to send kids to war, do it with your own.

Ukraine is neither in NATO, nor the EU. The best course of action is supporting it while it frees itself with its own means, which is what is happening.
This whole thing has been extremely ugly. At the core I think one thing needs to be stressed. An accusation of cheating in a game like chess is potentially career ending. It's an extremely heavy thing to throw at another player.

There seems to be no evidence that Niemann cheated OTB (his cheating as a 12-15 y/o online I do not take as evidence of anything, as a zoomer socialised on internet gaming he has the misfortune of having his misbehaviors better documented than older generations, it's to me comparable to famous esports players who used to cheat as kids online)

Magnus has not made a clear accusation but just withdrew and posted a meme insinuating cheating, which is awful because that ambiguity in itself creates drama. Any player should be presumed innocent until proven otherwise. World Champions should speak with clarity instead of trolling.

The online social media and twitch coverage of the event throws fuel on the fire by creating incentives to milk the entire thing for views, chess coverage degenerates more and more into internet gossip and drama, it's unbecoming for the game. Unlike most people I think the recent surge in popularity has not been good for the professionalism of the game.
>All of those are "actively involved".

You can argue they mean they need to be actively involved, but you quoted the term as if the law was explicit about it when it isn't. I don't see how keeping people away wouldn't be part of "questioning a suspicious person" and the "enforcing the law" is completely vague.

Admittedly, I also misquoted changing "Law Enforcement Activity" to "Police Activity," so I can see how mistakes happen.

Also, my simple gotcha might not work as the person filming would then also be the subject of police contact, meaning they could film.
Having issues now, site kinda works but super slow currently.
I openly love meetings. With a good, well-planned and thoughtful meeting, I can save myself and my team weeks of engineering work.
Just last week, by asking a simple question to the right person, we canned a heavy, ~2dev*sprint story for something a developer was able to achieve after the meeting with no code changes. The customer was thrilled.
> why are European and Korean companies so bad at attracting investments and making money.

- Taxes

- Bureacracy

- Smaller local markets (with less purchase power and more risk averse)

- Harder access to bigger markets (US, China)

- Extremely conservative local market VCs

- US VCs are unlikely to invest in EU/Korea unless the company is incorporating in Delaware or something equivalent.

- Talent is more risk averse, tends to prefer to stick around larger MAMAA companies or emigrate rather than risk running out of runway in a startup.
I'm seeing it too. That'd be lunchtime then.
Yep: https://github.onlineornot.com/

Edit: of course the uptime monitoring flicks back up the moment I post this...
SFC offers project membership to Sourceware
It was same last time site was down but a status showed that everything was working.
This does a reasonable job of explaining it, and uses the terms you'll want to look up for more information too. https://www.inverse.com/article/21386-corn-maze-lost-wall-fo...
Down here too
Anyone interested in trying this should check out the Inkplate. They’re recycled kindle screens that have a built-in microcontroller and Wi-Fi. All you need to add is a memory card flashed with the an OS image, no soldering or other parts needed.

https://inkplate.io/
It just hasn't been the same since von Kempelen cheated against the Habsburg Empress Maria Theresa with the Mechanical Turk in 1770.
I'll never understand people who try to chalk up inflation to one reason alone.
> that even math is chaotic.

Math chaos is actually a kind of order, just not the kind that is intuitively easy to grasp by humans.
First point sounds like image based development. I don't know how close Pharo comes to the other two.
appears so
See also https://inkplate.io/, which is a Wi-Fi-enabled display made from recycled Kindles (GitHub repo is here: https://github.com/e-radionicacom/Inkplate-6-hardware)

They also have a 9.7” version: https://www.crowdsupply.com/soldered/inkplate-10
The enduring allure of Choose Your Own Adventure books
This analogy is likely based on a pair of complimentary theories in criminology. The first is that criminals commit crimes in an area they know, so their activity is distributed close to home. The second theory essentially says “yeah, but not /too close/“ - and that criminals will leave a buffer zone around their home.

So, plot a torus with the center on the offenders home, and most crimes will occur on the disk. This would also work with the pattern a radial lawn sprinkler would make.

Unfortunately, while neat theories, the reproduction crisis is happening in criminology as well and I can’t find a good systemic review that says either theory is particularly good. But criminologists believe them, so the show isn’t that far off in those regards.
CS 188: Artificial Intelligence (UC Berkeley)
> (Curiously, my initial comment was also flagged and then rapidly unflagged around the same time, so I expect that blocking discussion of this topic is some hidden moderator action.)

It could just be because its a controversial topic as both flagging and unflagging (via vouching) is somthing regular users can do to some extend. Would be nice if there was a public moderation log though (including user flags/vouches).
Yup down again and status page is useless like last time https://www.githubstatus.com/ .
Don't some big chess players own a stake in chess.com?

Is part of the drama a kind of unbalance of power. Where those with power in the community exerts more influence and benefit more from their influence.

Could owning chess platforms be seen as a conflict of interest in a professional sporting frame of mind?
In other languages people use the facility equivalent to venv like the way most people breathe.

Pythoners have a sense of entitlement that they can just install everything into one big pot and it will all work. Python barely survived becoming an important language on the Linux platform because once the sense of entitlement of ‘just type Python’ made the migration to Python 3 take 10 years instead of 3.

Before Docker came along I would frequently have multiple installations of customer software running on machines, so long as you can set the file system paths and database connections it ‘just works’. But people didn’t have the discipline to this so we got Docker to turn the whole morning into one big coffee break.
Not completely down but many requests are timing out

Github uptime has been pretty bad in the last weeks.
I was expecting some really esoteric SQL used in that file but the most advanced query I see contains a subquery with a union. Does SQLite not support these basic features?
Inflation that's not to do with wages seems a different problem to me.

If gas or tomato prices are going up such that everything that uses gas or tomatoes goes up. You could say that's inflation because gas and tomatoes are so widely used.

Or you could just say it's a price signal. You need to use less gas/tomatoes as they are in short supply.

It doesn't seem to be as circular as the wage based inflation, where the higher wages and the higher costs are the same thing and recurse.
It definitely makes a lot of assumptions that I don't think hold true in practice. As you say, many world leaders would even want to have one another killed (as individuals with both motive and a lot of power to make it happen) and yet it doesn't happen very often. The practicalities of actually _using_ the digital cash, should you win, in a way that wouldn't point the finger at you are also not so simple.

It's an interesting thought experiment though. Would probably make for a cool novel!
Are you saying that it's possible that Carlsen cheated?
The water was really cold in the morning but the hot water heater was outside so would warm up enough to be somewhat bearable in the afternoon/evening. Not taking leisurely showers but not freezing to death.

Summer time it was impossible to take a cold shower which is where the problem came in, I’d save up enough to get the gas turned back on but the weather would warm up and I’d never get around to it before the money got spent on something else.
> Therefore, Ukraine's fate is sealed and the outcome is dictated by Russia's desires.

That is very far from the truth - please check the recent events. It is possible to fight against Russia, and it is in the best interest of the Europe and the collective west to do so.

For multiple decades Russia was using energy as a way to corrupt EU.

It was never only about Ukraine - occupation of Ukraine was always the first step. Baltic countries and Poland understand that very well, please listen to them. If Ukraine falls, Russia will invade Europe in a decade with Ukrainian military on its side.

Europe need to remove its dependence on the Russian gas completely for its own safety. Inflation is a very small price to pay compared to the alternative.
Yeah, there's no way this would lead to minimal government, the exact opposite would happen.
Switzerland considers jail sentences for those heating their homes unreasonably
Last last 2 times
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32749820
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32735734
In that case, I'd book it in 3 weeks in advance.
I have a hard time finding used because in the US, ebay and Facebook marketplace aggressively remove the listings.
That's a pretty weird statement, even if it's true when looking at any math textbook (1% is statements of things, 99% is proving those hold).

Mathematics is a scientific theory built on the most rigorous principles human minds could come up with, while striving for simplicity in the basic assumptions. The entire process of "math building", which permeats all the proofs, is what's useful in plenty other areas of life and science.

I.e. mathematical induction, the core tenet of plenty a proof, is basically function recursion in software development, and underlies all sorts of delegation in any complex undertaking (if I order a part for a machine from someone building those parts, I can trust it's the same as the one I am replacing).

Driving something down to a contradiction is used in many a decision everywhere.

And sure, results of applying these mathematical processes rigorously ensures that we can trust we can apply mathematical results (theorems and such) widely: it's not uncommon to apply processes from the proofs when using a theorem either.

And this is what ensures we can use the same process to add up 3 sheep and 2 sheep or 4 apples and 1 orange to get 5 sheep or 5 fruits. Or to calculate surface area of a circle. Or use integrals to get volumes of complex shapes. Etc.
VGA is incredibly easy to generate - you can do it via bitbanging (carefully turning on and off) GPIO pins on an Arduino [1], simply because the tolerances are insanely huge. A step above is SD-SDI [2], which uses less pins but has stricter requirements on timing, and equipment accepting SDI is usually only found in the professional-grade TV production space.

DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort or heaven forbid Thunderbolt are a hot mess - to generate a signal out of these without the usage of dedicated chips, you need a ton of logic and parts: output format negotiation, extremely strict timing requirements that completely rule out bitbanging, signal conditioning, specially shielded cables, shielded traces on the circuit board.

[1] https://hackaday.com/2014/06/10/640x480-vga-on-an-arduino/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_digital_interface
Power comes a) from another place in the European grid where it's sunny or windy, and/or b) storage. a) works decently well today, b) has room for improvement, but demand for storage is low, since we don't have a lot of surplus energy that we could put into storage. Right now it's pretty much always easier to turn down the fossil fuel plants when renewables are generating a lot, so that's what we do.
Just here to say thanks for this, it looks awesome and is well in my reading list :)
hahaha.. Put it on one of the latest AI algorithms and generate a meme! :D
It should also be stressed that Hans isn’t somebody who came in off the street and started beating MVL and Magnus out of the blue. He has been known in chess circles for the better part of a decade as a promising junior. It’s not as if people think he lacks the basic capacity to go toe to toe with the champ and stand a chance. It’s hardly like he pulled the wool over peoples eyes for this long. Like you said, cheating in OTB blitz isn’t viable.

He’s a high level grandmaster who happens to have a history of cheating.
I don't know, but assuming the answer is never I got response to my original question.

Apple is ahead in the amount of money they fleeced from US market, core fanbase satisfaction and CPU speeds.

That's not nothing.
An oil price cap is fundamentally little different to a ban.
They get the environment under control and remove the excuses that some Python ‘programmers’ have for always getting the job 80% done.
I think that considering Amazon, a company with independent business units in completely different business (retail and cloud computing) as an entity with a single personality is about as accurate as thinking everyone from the same country has the same personality.

It's not as if the small group of people at the top determine everything else about the company: they only hire the people directly below them, and their influence decreases the further down you go. I think the larger determinant of a company is the business it is in, since that determines at large what people the company is attractive to and which it tries to hire.
Office Space’s Forgotten Publicity Stunt
If russia could conquer ukraine by wanting it harder, I think they’d have tried that? Russia has stalled and began losing ground because their army isn’t very good, not because of some detail of russia’s desires
You're still just accounting for one or two variables. Which is pretty much how all discussions online go, so I'm not sure why I'm wasting my time.
I completely disagree
No, they don't. Try doing the math. You'll end up at single digit percentages of land used. You can easily do agriculture around wind turbines, so land use really is not problem at all.
It's not like the US doesn't have that, or at least California.

During Covid my friend got $4,000USD per month in unemployment for over a year. A relative of another friend immigrated from SE Asia and signed up for Medicaid when she arrived. Pretty much free healthcare.

If you get injured, you can qualify for SSI payments and healthcare. I mean, we have a "crisis" right now because of all the disable men who no longer work and live off of government payments.

I mean, you can argue that maybe the US isn't quite as generous as Europe, but it's not like there is no social safety net. The federal government spends 50% of tax revenue on social programs.
AFAIK, the only two good options these days are MPEG Dash (fMP4), or HLS.

Bento4 has tools for manipulating the containers depending on your needs, and its not difficult to setup, though you most likely will need to have a certificate and hosting infrastructure setup to allow the player to load the video (i.e. CORS).
I get that, but I have to say I also see merit in the position that maths is discovered, not invented. I'm currently doing some self-study into more rigorous mathematics and I do often get the feeling that some of the structures are just there, not human inventions made for human purposes.

I have recently been quite interested in the Cantor set, for example - hardly a useful tool...
How else is the Cisco executive team supposed to get paid?
I'm a holder of Russian passport, so no, I'm not a theoretician.

1) They block the whole-domain only in case of https which reminds you to turn-on the VPN. In case of http you could just have something like 404 response for particular page and you would never know that it's actually not 404, but ISP block (depends on ISP and DPI). So still https is preferable to be able to distinguish between two types of blocks.

2) They don't do "replace" in general, true, but for opposition resources they might be creative.

3) Most of hosters and content providers (if they don't have legal presence in Ru) don't care about legal orders from Russia (as well as from other third-world dictatorship regimes) until it's some real valid stuff to complain about.
We should link student loan forgiveness to national service
I was more thinking of more populated countries like the UK, but it's still a large part of the countryside.

>> That's before we include offshore wind, solar, geothermal, nuclear, hydro, and storage... Basically, you're spreading FUD.

Yeah, one of those is not like the other. Not sure how you slip nuclear in there given that Greens are against it. Storage isn't a solved problem either.
Oh I missed previous time.