skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a reddit comment where the poster recalled, how his parents would take the family on far away cities for vacation. The parents would then do parent things and the kids would just walk around the cities. In several different cities in several different vacations, he and and his sister would run into this kid. After a few times, the kid would run being freaked out, but the poster and his sister managed to "catch" him once, and introduced him to their parents. It turns out, the poster's parents knew the kid's parents, and at vacation times, the sets of parents would travel to the same location and partner swap with each other...
> QI is what prevents them from personally dragging everyone involved to court personally.

No it doesn't. The case will get thrown out on some other grounds when the officials sends in their report on why the permit was denied. Likewise, not responding to the lawsuit could result in a default judgement regardless of QI.

We can keep frivolous lawsuits by people pissed off with bureaucracy from happening while also allowing government officials to be sued for the actual economic damages they inflict on people.
You miss that 100 classical games OTB are an eternity, and 100 online blitz games are nothing.

And yes, while cheating online is shabby, hardly anyone took online chess seriously before the big money tournaments started during the pandemic.

And that the whole chess.com affair is a side show that is exploited for streamer content and clicks. The relevant issue is cheating or not cheating in the Sinquefield cup.
so let me get this straight, when elon musk says the elections they had now cannot be trusted, and calls for new elections with UN observers, so that the result should be trustworthy, he is really just trying to legitimize the "elections" they already held?

I can see I need a few words with my english teacher
> Do you think taking these things into account wasn’t part of his proposal?

I presume it was about as well thought-out as the original Twitter purchase offer.
A good example of unintended consequences is the proposed ban of US exports of gasoline. The intuition is that will boost supply in the US market, but that intuition fails for large chunks of the country. The East Coast is heavily dependent on imports due to a lack of pipeline capacity and US flagged ships (see Jones Act). So if exports are banned then international market prices go up, and East Coast imports become more expensive. Pockets located near refiners might get cheap gas but most of the population ends up worse off.
The government is sandbagging CPI figures in order to lower its obligations that are tied to the official inflation rate, like Social Security payments. This isn't some underworld conspiracy theory; look at some of the academic discussion around ShadowStats.

If we take home prices, comparing 2000 to 2019 (before the pandemic-related craziness in the real estate market took place), they went up by 85% in that time period[0], compared to 48.5% in the CPI[1].

[0]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ASPUS

[1]: https://www.minneapolisfed.org/about-us/monetary-policy/infl...
Because if you live elsewhere the positions are not available?
> no one complains about carrying those when going on a trip.

I kinda think "going on a trip" is a minority subset of the times when people bring charging gear with them. Regardless, I personally would find it a huge annoyance to have to carry a charging pad. Right now I just bring my laptop charger, and use it for both my laptop and (Android) phone. I don't want to bring a charging pad in addition.
It's a SaaS startup offering managed cache (like Elastic Cache). They have their own protocol but uses Pelikan-segcache as one of their backends.
There are some decently detailed responses to a similar question I saw earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33083784
Hmm, well, I consider "consumerism" to be more like buying things you don't need, which require a ton of resources, at massive scale.

To me, what you and I are discussing (buying a custom-built computer at small scale) is more like the artisan culture of Japan, where they are very efficient, and appreciate fine things that last a long time.

Anyways, I think you and I are probably more similar in our beliefs about the waste of consumerism than you might think.

Edit: Also, art is certainly somewhat wasteful (who needs a crystal flute!?), but at small scale I think art is necessary to help make the world a place where humans aren't just big ants, working constantly for an unattainable goal.
The thing that makes anything valuable, which is people who believe that it's valuable? Markets aren't rational.

Like I said, I'm not using recent past performance to try to make predictions. I'm more considering first principles et al.
IMO Dependabot is really dreadful at its job. Try Renovate - it's really brilliant, fast, flexible, supports properly binding PRs/MRs.
That's a question I was going to ask. Sure, not _every_ move is 5 min, but wouldn't a 5 min delay almost ensure any cheater would play mostly more than 5 min, each turn? (besides some simple moves, ofc)

Or is it that they only need to cheat at a few points where taking more than 5 min wouldn't be abnormal at all?
Wisk[0], backed by Kittyhawk and Boeing seems like they may have a more practical vehicle, and in some ways it is much further along.

Flight Chops has a great video[1] showing a bunch of details, including the addition of "Digital Flight Rules" to VFR and IFR. Though I do love Lilium's aircraft, it is definitely more of a sports car.

[0] https://wisk.aero

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrEeCp5xJj8
Excellent scenario. Except that a lot of the "algorithmic nudging", can be unethically intended by the creators of the algorithm or specifically tweaked/ overridden by humans in the chain to give the results they wanted.

After all, "who" is in charge or has access to the data? Maybe even an unknown individual or group, with their own agenda, and outside of Google's stated corporate goals or awareness.
Capital One is the only company I've ran across so far that wouldn't take on a developer with equivalent experience, or maybe the recruiter was badly misinformed.
>"So we teach some of every subject to every kid. That way no matter which path they end up following, they are as prepared for it as we can make them."

We tend to waste a lot of time teaching subjects which they're unlikely to use, and fail to teach them about the ones that they would really benefit from. A basic understanding of criminal and civil law, along with accounting and statistics would be extremely useful to almost everyone as individuals and as citizens. Music, history, and calculus are useful to some people, but not nearly as many.
I'm wary that this is a problematic articulation.

The government rarely if ever controls markets to the point where it causes material price increase for things.

The US government has not taken measures to materially affect the cost of goods imported from China, or gas, for example.

Yes, the Central Bank sometimes creates more liquidity than is required for a given economic cycle, but in most cases, this is due to economic calamity i.e. banking collapse, pandemic, war etc. in which case the resulting inflation is the 'accounting adjustment' made to accomodate for that 'external factor' (i.e. factor external to the regular economy).

A pandemic, banking failure, getting invaded etc. can be the result of government action (I mean, especially if the nation is 'choosing to go to war', as in Vietnam) but not necessarily.

Finally, and importantly, the Central Bank is not the 'government' rather, part of 'governance' - they are very different things and act for different reasons. If the 'government' did control the money printing we would all be in trouble!
It makes sense why they'd do this.

Given current energy density of batteries, electric planes are only useful on very short flights. If you can only operate out of airports (without vtol), the useful range of the airplane will be significantly reduced
Colour me stupid, but in a simple white vs. black comparison, wouldn't a VantaBlack-clad solar sail absorb more energy, so be more useful?

- ed I'm misunderestimating 'equal and opposite' photon reflections here, aren't I?
i'm starting to feel that REPL driven development can be bad for maintenance, when you have a REPL, you can write ridiculously compact and abstract code that is hard to understand just by reading it.
The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/mitochondria-is-the-powerhous...
using the FTP protocol
Coke Zero has caffeine in it, and a flavor some find pleasing.

While I can mostly get on board with the idea that it’s better to consume less processed foods and beverages, if I remember correctly there’s never been a human study that showed a causal relationship between consuming zero calorie sweeteners and negative health outcomes.

I’m on my own journey to optimize my diet, and eat less processed foods, but Diet Coke is something I’ll probably never cut out.
This is what I'm attempting to revive with Murfie/Crossies.

Right now, I'm dealing with unrelated problems with my warehouse so the service is only partly functional. In my opinion the basic model, with true ownership, should be completely legal under copyright law.
This is fascinating and exciting to me, to be honest. Like a lot of people around here I'm sure, I've spent a lot of time thinking about Twitter's influence on our society and I can't say it's positive. The degree to which politicians all now depend on it unquestioningly bothers me a lot. The way our adversaries use it to subvert us is worrying. What it does to people's health isn't good.

Musk is the one billionaire that I honestly believe thinks of humanity's best interests in the big picture, long term. He's clearly identified Twitter and social media in general as a challenge to be wrestled with. Just really glad about it tbh.
"The power to understand and predict the quantities of the world should not be restricted to those with a freakish knack for manipulating abstract symbols."

http://worrydream.com/KillMath/
What part of elected governments printing money and handing it out to large companies is the part where capitalism killed the environment?

We don't have capitalism as much as China isn't socialist or communist. We have corporate socialism with a tiny bread and circuses welfare state bolted on for optics. We have elected to annihilate our planet by decree.

It's not capitalism that people hate. It's humanity
99.9% for visible light does not mean 99.9% for all the solar light.

Most dielectric coatings absorb ultraviolet light so they reflect much less of the total solar light, most likely less than 90%.

Such a mirror with dielectric coatings would not be able to cool the object on which it is applied, unlike the paints which are discussed in the article, which are based on boron nitride, barium sulfate, calcium carbonate or fluorinated polymers, all of which do not absorb ultraviolet light.

The common white paints based on titanium white or zinc white also absorb ultraviolet light, so they cannot be used for cooling an object illuminated by the Sun.
Ah, nostalgia. Reminds me of my first Linux install, 1997, when I had to worry about the kernel destroying my display.
This project is exceptionally minor compared to all the public hacking tools that exist. Are you advocating to start censoring any tool that can be used for malicious purposes?
I read these the first time so far back that the extensive section (with the fold out pages) covering sorting on external tape drives was of interest to me. Over the intervening years I've gone back to these books many times to check on my understanding of subjects. (I've also bought and used all of his other books too: TeX, Concrete Mathematics, and other collected works.)

I worked as an OS Architect at IBM and then Chief Scientist at a very successful startup. Subjects like analysis of algorithms, memory management, optimizing disk access, search tries, random number generation, and many more found in TAOCP have all been useful in my professional life. I've had to give many technical presentations and to present my designs to committees of experts and CS professors. Knuth wasn't the only source of my preparation for this kind of work, but he was a very important source.

Are there better books on algorithms? Maybe. I also like the popular Introduction to Algorithms [1], Sedgwick's Algorithms [2], and Skeina's Algorithm Design Manual [3]. All of these are good and all of them sit on the shelf right next to Knuth's books. Depending on the subject, any one of these might have the best treatment. BTW, Sedgwick was a Ph.D. student of Knuth.

To keep up with the literature I also recommend a membership in the ACM with access to their digital library.

[1] Thomas H. Cormen , Charles E. Leiserson, et al. (2022), Introduction to algorithms, MIT Press.

[2] Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne, (2011), Algorithms, Addison-Wesley.

[3] Steven S. Skiena, (1997), The algorithm design manual, Springer.
Twitter makes $5B in revenue with -$0.5B in income. Musk would need to turn it into a profit machine to recoup some of his investment.

Per the annual report 2019[1] Twitter spent

- $1.8B in Cost of Revenue

- $1.2B in R&D

- $1.1B in Sales/Marketing

- $0.58B in Administration

- $0.76B in Litigation

Unlike other tech companies, it looks like a private Twitter can be profitable.

Elon could even do layoffs and move staff to cheaper locations like Europe. Salaries in States are much higher than they are in London/Ireland, for example[2].

[1]
https://s22.q4cdn.com/826641620/files/doc_financials/2021/ar...

[2] https://www.levels.fyi/companies/twitter/salaries/software-e...
taking care of a new born is a insanely stressful task. Add the stress to provide food and housing to your family, I can clearly see how this leads to substance abuse.
Here's a story from Reddit about someone using these systems during over-the-board play to cheat: https://www.reddit.com/r/BestofRedditorUpdates/comments/xigy...
Is there reason to believe it's not an issue on usb-c? On usb-c the terminals aren't exposed, so even if it did occur you wouldn't notice it.
> It's going to be 2023 or 2025 before anything like that happens,

Not necessarily. There is already a texas social media law, that does part of what the anti-censorship crowd wants. The appeals court upheld the law, and the supreme court has not struck it down yet.

That law, in 1 state alone, could have a huge effect on social media pretty soon, already.
“In the near future, once these features achieve performance parity to today’s vehicles”

Right... like how vision vehicles have parity with autopilot speeds and following distance? Oh wait they don't.

Vision-only vehicles are still limited to a max of 85mph and 2 car minimum following distance for autosteer while radar is 90mph and 1 car following distance.

Texas has 85mph highways. The two car following distance constantly leads to cars cutting in-between you and the car in front of you because the gap is so large.

edit:
Just to clarify, when it says "1 car length", the car adjusts the amount of space depending on speed. So its not literally just one car length.
I bought them on a whim and they just lay around for years. I gave them away to someone who thought they were interesting. The assembly language he invented added very little to his work.
Ironically once I studied a part of TAOCP dealing with parallel bit computation as I heard it would help with a Chip vendor I was applying to for a job. The end-of-day boss fight interview arrived with a puzzle I directly solved with my TAOCP knowledge. The result was they failed me on the interview. They said the job wouldn't stretch me. As the years have passed I wonder if what I should have said was "there's no way I could solve this but I know about it from TAOCP already so this is what you do ..."
A key problem with zediva was that they were only offering rentals, not ownership. Ownership of a particular copy gives you rights that you don't have when renting.
>we know that the economy is going down

No, we don't know that. If you do, you'll make quite the killing on the stock market.
I am not following the court oroceeding, and I am not a lawyer. So honest question, if one of the issues being at trial whether or not Musk reneged already, isn't an letter stating, basically, "never mind this whole trial, I'm willongbto honor the deal now", kind of not helping?
I know white clothing often contains "brighteners" which fluoresce, converting received UV light into visible wavelengths, so the resulting white is brighter than what is reflected in the visible spectrum.

I'm just curious what role that ever plays in paint, if this 98% reflectivity is a big deal, or if we already have white paint with over 100% because of brighteners.
> SQLite's reputation

This is the one.

If it were really about the proprietary test suite and fuzzer, then the manifesto should simply demand that SQLite developers release those proprietary tools. Instead they're demanding that SQLite accept a change of contributor policy and correspondingly change their code of conduct. They're wrestling for control of the brand, not merely some tools.

And yeah maybe they're after the money the SQLite Consortium gets too. But I think that's downstream from SQLite's brand recognition.
I would argue that saving money and personal financial planning uses calculus concepts, and that they are enhanced by formally knowing calculus. It makes questions like "how much money will i have after x years given my mortgage, income, and assets?" approachable. It isn't feasible for most people to hire a human financial planner, and i wouldn't want to use automated tools without understanding enough to be able to perform sanity checks.
You probably don't need to know how to compute a derivative, but there are tons of related concepts that are helpful for reasoning about systems in the world. You can always Google the chain rule, but having a general sense of the trend is often all you need.

For example, you don't have to remember how to derive it, but knowing that y'' = y is a positive feedback loop (exponential growth) but y'' = -y is a negative feedback loop (oscillating) is really useful in all sorts of common sense scenarios.

Learning is about concepts more than facts or algorithms.
> who with a current phone uses a cable to charge any more?

I think you may be living in a bubble.
The move was pretty obvious.
It seems like this be used to create multiple views for fine tuning Stable Diffusion (textual inversion), from a single image.
There are some other comments that probably described it better, but as an example: let's say inflation is negative. That means it is good to keep cash. What happens is everyone starts hoarding cash under their mattresses and there is no liquidity around to help exchange goods, and everything slows down.

With a small inflation, there is no incentive to hoard cash, and there is enough liquidity to make sure goods get exchanged without too much delay. At the end of the day that is what an economy is, exchanging goods.
The innocent people driving a truck and got blasted with 107 bullets?
Yeah, I seem to recall that before all this legal drama started the story was that Musk was buying Twitter to turn it into a platform for free speech. Assuming he hasn't changed his mind about that, the news cycle here is only just beginning.

Though on the positive side, I think I'll personally find a debate about free speech to be way more interesting than the current celebrity drama legal fight over contract law.
Then what about EU enforcing more energy efficient buildings and home appliances, electric vehicles and more?

EU is not a political organization, it is a political and economical union. If companies are left alone, they will never make a decision that does not benefit themselves. This is why we need EU, to make the decisions that benefit the planet and the people, thus leveling the field, so companies can compete within sane limits.
It was.

I was addressing the other part of your statement, however.
Well, that's where the report comes in. He has cheated several times as an adult too.
The issue is that calculus in itself with symbolic algebra is next to useless for average person. However intuitive concepts, like area under a curve, are not.
Wow, they are really torturing that metaphor.
I should have added that I've had similar experiences with (old school, untyped) python codebases - absent the esoteric programmers, which is not a small difference - although with python you tend to hit performance issues if your call stacks get too deep. Ironically the JVM performance lets you dig yourself into a gnarlier pit before you have to face up to it.
I really, really hate the Mercedes screens-everywhere cockpit approach, but I love their ultra-efficient approach to EVs.

Here's to hoping they sell an E-class size EV with base model C-class infotainment.
At least it wasn't Nintendo in charge of the naming, then it would be New ZigBee.
Cheat detection isn't done by only by move analysis, but by an extensive profiling of a person and games based on many factors beyond even just the moves. For instance one of the easiest ways to catch a weak player cheating is move times. Such a player will have no idea whether a move is trivial or works only due to an exceptionally precise and lengthy series of counter-intuitive calculations that no human could do without a significant think. And so they'll tend to rely both in approximately the same amount of time.

Even during the Carlsen-Niemann game it was meta-factors that initially clued Carlsen in. Niemann was playing without any significant effort or tension, in spite of playing in a game where he was outplaying the world champion. And after the game he was unable to explain his own ideas, proposed ideas that were simply losing, referenced games that did not exist, and was generally (relative to the class of player here) clueless. None of that final section is definitive proof of cheating to say the least, but it helps create a probabilistic profile of a player (and a game).

The point of this is that even a computer that played human-like (which I would argue will not happen for the distantly foreseeable future), would be just one factor among many in busting cheaters. I expect this is why Magnus was also initially reluctant to directly accuse him of cheating. He felt he was cheating based on the meta-factors and probably got folks more capable than himself to evaluate the technical factors, and when that also came up as a redflag - yeah, the dude's a cheater.
> The argument is that inflation always happens when there is fiat printing.

The whole point of fiat money is to print excessive amounts of it. It's attractive for governments because they can then spend money buying votes without having to raise taxes (though inflation is a tax). Meanwhile, they blame "speculators" and "profiteers" as scapegoats for the inflation.

> yet inflation was low throughout that period

The cumulative was a lot, and note that there was never any deflation.
You’re getting a lot of answers about how you don’t need calc to use things other people have made with calc. This turns the answer into “so that you can avoid weird mysticism about how the world works.”

If you don’t know how other people made the things you use, then 1) you’re pigeonholed into being totally dependent on them, and 2) you’re likely to get all sorts of weird beliefs about how the stuff you depend on works (like crystal healing/homeopathy/etc in the bio realm).
I'm skeptical of that claim since the rich hold more assets than dollars. To the extent inflation hurts the economy then your claim is true but that is a second order affect. All else equal, inflation can simply lead to asset inflation in which case the rich maintain their wealth.

In economics circles inflation is generally considered a tax on the poor who only hold cash and whose wages are slower to rise vs price inflation.
Plus it's still a sea of duplicates, so frustrating