Hacker News: altvali

New comment by altvali in "The irrational hungry judge effect revisited (2023)"

altvali — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 10:00:16 +0000

Lead was added to gasoline since the 1920s. The first clinical studies that showed it was toxic were in 1969. The first country to ban it completely was Japan in 1986 and the last was Algeria in 2021. For more than a decade, people could have made a similar claim to yours, "if such an effect were true, we would have banned it already". And they would have been wrong, the effect was true.

New comment by altvali in "10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023"

altvali — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 15:48:24 +0000

I'm not educated on the subject. Why can't Cuba import the fertilizer and build the machines? There are open source blueprints, like the Global Village Construction Set.

New comment by altvali in "YouTube's ad blocker crackdown escalates, aggravating users"

altvali — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 17:45:04 +0000

I caved in and bought Premium (currently in the free trial month). It greatly enhanced the experience on my phone as well, plus I do most of my learning on youtube, so given how valuable it is for me, I don't mind paying.

New comment by altvali in "South Korea adopts new law to join the international standard of age counting"

altvali — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 23:16:15 +0000

The article is interesting on its own, but giving it a clickbaity title goes against the HN guidelines.

New comment by altvali in "Poll: Do you get along with your parents?"

altvali — Fri, 19 May 2023 13:11:46 +0000

I got along well with my dad but not with my mom. Thanks, that approach seems the best course of action.

New comment by altvali in "Poll: Do you get along with your parents?"

altvali — Fri, 19 May 2023 11:44:54 +0000

My dad died two years ago and my mom is in a nursing home with Schizophrenia. What option should I pick, "no"?

New comment by altvali in "RNA repair mechanism discovered in humans"

altvali — Sat, 13 May 2023 23:53:14 +0000

Not the person you're replying to, but this is what I found after a quick google search:

Dr. Jeffrey Flier: https://twitter.com/jflier/status/1495909501211447305?s=21

Dr. Charles Brenner: https://twitter.com/CharlesMBrenner/status/14966040557993615...

Dr. Brad Stanfield: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAFnD27ffqE

New comment by altvali in "[dead]"

altvali — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 13:24:47 +0000

Judging by the names of the reviewers, the reviews are fake.

New comment by altvali in "Show HN: Domain Name Search with AI"

altvali — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 19:51:58 +0000

These are MUCH better than the ones I got for $50 from fiverr two years ago.

New comment by altvali in "Show HN: Pomodoro with friends"

altvali — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 20:50:37 +0000

Right now some people can send messages even during the pomodoro sessions, so it doesn't do what it advertises.

New comment by altvali in "Sitting and standing at work (2015)"

altvali — Sun, 17 Jul 2022 22:35:18 +0000

I doubt I can be productive at programming if I have to be interrupted every 20, 8 and 2 minutes to adjust my stance. Every time I tried that I failed. Should I keep trying?

New comment by altvali in "Ask HN: Does it make sense for people to have to solve problems in interviews?"

altvali — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 10:40:13 +0000

You're saying it doesn't make sense to solve problems in interviews, but you're not saying why.

It makes a lot of sense to solve problems in interviews, the interviewer gets to see your thought process and it prevents cheating by getting someone else to solve the problem. Furthermore, unlike talking about past projects, the interviewer can compare the answers of different candidates on the same problem.

New comment by altvali in "The most livable cities"

altvali — Sat, 25 Jun 2022 08:54:50 +0000

Yes, but of all the cities in Eastern Europe, it's the least livable. Even Baku is better.

New comment by altvali in "We think this cool study we found is flawed. Help us reproduce it"

altvali — Sun, 01 May 2022 10:11:17 +0000

The reason the trend line drops over 60 is that there are fewer people over 60 taking the test and thus, the questionable responses have a bigger influence. If you sample less from that cohort, it will be less likely that your sample is representative.

New comment by altvali in "AlphaCode as a dog speaking mediocre English"

altvali — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 00:32:45 +0000

Could you explain the reasoning behind your claim?

New comment by altvali in "The history of the end of poverty has just begun"

altvali — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 01:36:31 +0000

Can you elaborate? I'm interested to learn more.

New comment by altvali in "It takes $420k per year to run Lichess"

altvali — Sun, 16 Jan 2022 17:53:35 +0000

But can you request a computer analysis with fishnet anymore? I have a non-patron account and I can't find that option anywhere. Old forum posts seem to talk about it working by pressing Z and being limited, but when I press Z I get a message that it is disabled by default and a link to enable it. When pressing to enable, nothing happens.

New comment by altvali in "It takes $420k per year to run Lichess"

altvali — Sun, 16 Jan 2022 17:37:12 +0000

Except fishnet is used to analyze broadcasted games, puzzle discovery and others. Not used when analyzing your own games. You can easily test this by opening your task manager, monitoring your CPU usage, then opening a game you played on Lichess and toggling the aptly named "local evaluation". It's the toggle bar on the upper right, next to the text "Stockfish 14+ NNUE in local browser". You will see your CPU usage increase while the evaluation is on.

New comment by altvali in "It takes $420k per year to run Lichess"

altvali — Sun, 16 Jan 2022 17:14:43 +0000

As someone who is working on a similar project (a chess mmo) and looking to validate a business model in order to get funding, how are they covering the costs? The answer usually is "donations", but there are only 402 patrons on https://lichess.org/patron and Thibault said on twitter that the average donation is $8. That's $3216/mo, less than a tenth of monthly costs. Is the rest coming from the swag store? From coaches? How much do the donations surpass the costs? Lots of missing pieces from the revenue puzzle.

New comment by altvali in "It takes $420k per year to run Lichess"

altvali — Sun, 16 Jan 2022 16:54:48 +0000

You're downloading the engine from the Lichess server but the analysis is done on your computer, with your resources.