skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At a minimum: building the opening book alone will require human intervention.

When you build an opening book, you need to pick-and-choose which engines will self play. Will you build an opening book vs Stockfish? Komodo? LeelaZero?

If so, how will you generate these LeelaZero games? You'll have to build a computer (or rent one from AWS) to play these LeelaZero games. What are the time-controls of matches?

Self-play at 40-minutes + 15-second increment means that you'll only create a game every hour or so. Spend 30-days building databases at 40-minute + 15-second increment games, and you'll only reach ~720 games of analysis per month of preparation.

Self-play at 1-minutes + 0-second increment results in a game win/loss every 2-minutes (maximum), giving you 21600 generated opening book positions per month of analysis. But these 21600 games are of lower-quality.

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Spend 1-month building an anti-Stockfish database, an anti-LeelaZero database, an anti-Komodo database... and you're now 3-months into preparation and there's still Shredder, Johnny, and all other programs that may arrive at the contest.

Its not exactly as easy as you think it is. There's no algorithm that automatically builds the best opening book (or "counter" opening book) against your opponents. Its a human choice for what the computer will spend the next-3 months self-analyzing and self-playing.

Lets think about how to build anti-LeelaZero seriously. Which of these networks do you download as the LeelaZero representative? https://lczero.org/networks/

You don't have the time to build an anti-opening database for all of those networks.
He also did it on the backs of the same protesting working people, while cutting taxes on the rich - hence the protests.
Can random variables that almost surely solve equations be repaired?
Intel let reviewers go live with their Core i9 10980XE reviews half a day before Threadripper 3970X/3960X was able to go live (that was planned for a while) so that early reviewers wouldn't be able to compare it against the (superior) AMD offering. Linus just blurs the Threadripper benchmark values in the charts and tells you to watch the upcoming review...
I'm not sure people were hating on Gnome because of performance. Their overall design decision to pretend that v3 was somehow running on a tablet instead of a desktop is still pretty questionable.
Most recommend using 4%, although that's also considered too risky by many. On the flip side 3% is also seen as too conservative. Not being savvy with economics myself, I've personally chosen to use a happy average of 3.5%
It seems to be universal that basing people's career progression on metrics is harmful. People try to do this with engineers as a substitute for understanding what's happening on the ground and having an actual relationship. At best, metrics can raise a flag for you to ask empowering questions.
It could just as easily be a 5 considering the "bulb" isn't connected
That's pretty good training for adulthood, which is full of different spaces with different expectations.

There's a lot that your boss never need know...
World's first HIV positive sperm bank launched in effort to reduce stigma
Standard project development and bug fixing without requiring an excessive amount of mentoring?
That's a bit fuzzy. If you want to carry that argument further, replace employees with shareholders. Re the messaging you refer to, it's good PR and it would occur without employee activism.
The Afghan point stands, though it's a common misconception that the North Vietnamese were very poorly armed. The Viet Cong were an insurgency group, but North Vietnam had a traditional army which was relatively well equipped for the era. Including rocket artillery (BM-21), supersonic jet fighters (Mig-21s), surface to air missiles (SA-2), and main battle tanks (Type 59, among others). I definitely wouldn't put their weaponry in the same category as "pea shooters"
They became independent around 1918 and occupied in 1940. Plenty of the modern European nation-states emerged in 20th century, including Poland, Norway, Hungary.. would you dispute statehood of those?
I think the problem with music is that there is no "objectively good" music composition. It remains entirely subjective and all criteria that are used to differentiate between "bad" and "good" albums are highly subjective. (Maybe something like "originality" might be measurable in some way but even there it gets tricky really fast)

So music generation (similar to poetry) is imo a completely different problem space altogether.
I'd like to see them quantify/qualify what they mean by low and high-end. I would have considered low-end to be a dual core i3-class CPU with no dedicated graphics but by the time 20.10 is out I'd be more inclined to say a quad core is low-end. Obviously a Threadripper is high-end today and will be even higher-end next year, with 64 cores perhaps.
The parallelism in a transformer doesn't necessarily translate to less or faster compute. Each layer has to be computed in serial after the previous layer, and the computation of each attention head is quadratic in the size of of the input sequence. When used this way for language modeling, the transformer also has to be run step-by-step for inference, the parallelism that was a boon at training is no longer available.

The author doesn't do much absolute wall time comparison but does mention that only the adaptive transformer configuration trained in similar time on the single gpu.
Ask HN: What are some profitable businesses that came out of Show HN?
I'm pretty sure we can simply not put a price on our own exhaling. It doesn't have to be like (the opposite I guess) of Total Recall.
Basically, terrorism for freedom? I have hard time to find situation where it actually worked that way in the past.

If it would be that easy, ISIS would do it long time ago.
I worked for Apple for 6 years on iOS/macOS.

Like any job, there was the good, the bad and the ugly.

It would surprise most people how small the iOS/macOS org is, and how big your impact is. Your fresh code gets to run on hundreds of millions of devices, and whatever you worked on is designed by a best-in-class design team and marketed by a best-in-class marketing team.

Fresh out of school, I knew I wanted to join a startup/small company. The hiring manager at the time told me that Apple operated like a startup so there was nothing to worry about. In hindsight, joke's on me!

I didn't like was how compartmentalized the teams were: the engineers had close to 0 contact with the design and marketing teams, and specs were ferried over by upper management.

I also felt that I wasn't developing much as an engineer and as an individual, which is why I quit. Management would be more than happy to keep you working in your area of expertise without much incentive to let you develop other skills.

The software org has recently made changes to make switching teams easier. Previously, I could say that it was easier for an engineer to interview for and get a job at Google than to change teams at Apple.

For me, changing teams 2 years in was a strategic mistake, and boy do they make you pay for it.
You could also look into drawing hand-drawn diagrams by hand.
German murderer wins 'right to be forgotten'
Here's a link to the first volume, made available on the book's website:

http://newosxbook.com/MOXiI.pdf
E Ink just unveiled a new type of color e-paper
Amiga Game Development – Learn to Make Amiga Games Using Assembler
US births decline for fourth year in a row, CDC says
That’s true for all companies. Do you think that Facebook could take the “principled stand” of not putting their servers in countries with non democratically elected governments if any of those countries actually allowed FaceBook? Of course they can be principled about not putting their servers in China since FB isn’t allowed there anyway.
How reliable is Hetzner? Is there major downtime, enough bandwidth (Around 100Mbps minimum during congested times?)
Humans will lose in short distances but a well conditioned athlete can win in a 20+ mile distance over a horse.
It's ironic that Google got "lucky" because of its minimalistic approach back in the day. Now, it's just a huge mess.
> They won't respect you, but they need you anyway

Wait, what? Have you ever been an SRE at FAANG? I am currently an SRE at Google and I am absolutely well respected by everybody and compensated in the exact same band of my peers SWE at my level (L5 at ~400k TC), and the career growth opportunities are the exact same. In fact, I used to be an SWE and switched to SRE due to the challenges being more vibrant and better aligned to my interests.

All my friends who do SRE work at Facebook have a similar experience.
This project also blows up the size and it seems by much more than 33% on average. You'd safe some space by using base64.
Sometimes they do.

The most famous example I can think of is Microsoft heavily investing in Apple when Apple was just about at its low-point.
I don't agree having free Universities, nor having prohibitively expensive fees, is the solution. University education has to be paid, but affordable (and yes, I realize this is the catch -- defining "affordable"). But a "modern, first world indusrialized nation" like America should be able to assign a $ value to that variable, and make Uni education accessible.
It displays "Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)".
[citation needed]

Wind power is continuously upgrading due to more possibilities opening with higher turbines, as well as old sites being upgraded.

Offshore wind is just getting profitable without subsidies, it's just getting started.

Solar is fitting in anywhere and with still falling prices will get ever more cost competitive even at low insulation sites.

Storage technology is just getting started as well with many investments from the past 5-10 years now reaching maturity (low-cobalt, silicon, solid state, fuel cells...)

You're entitled to your opinion, but I'd be curious as to your sources.
I'd recommend you try it out anyhow, as a long time gnome user the performance increase in particular in 3.32 and 3.34 is very noticeable, I've learned just to ignore the drama that seems to accompany these projects.
Thank you. I think I sounded too pessimistic in the grandparent post but you saw where I was coming from.

There's always more work to do. On almost everything. As a former co-worker liked to say: If it wasn't hard, they wouldn't pay us to do it.
That's a really oversimplified view. The truth is beyond a certain point no amount of "theorizing" is enough to overcome the sheer computational power of programs. AlphaZero just took advantage of recent advances in neural networks and GPU hardware to achieve a better tradeoff between hard rules and heuristics than Stockfish. Both of them are probably Pareto efficient in some sense, and barring some insane undiscovered loophole in the rules of chess it's unlikely that any human can come close to beating them.
Oh, you got me - I'm a communist!!! Or a Putin sympathizer (I always mix up which one is the more pointed insult).

Anyways, that was taken outside of an interesting museum in Sevastopol. The entire bay there is pretty cool. You can take a boat tour around it. There's a bunch of old USSR ships in various levels of decay as well as some of the newer stuff (the main reason for the annexation was for control of this warm water port btw):

Museum of the Black Sea Fleet
Lenina St, 11, Sevastopol

https://maps.app.goo.gl/NmSHU6Tpnc4ZiUbw9

My favorite is the "secret" underground submarine base in Balaklava. Fascinating place that until recently was off limits to Westerners:

Voyenno-Istoricheskiy Muzey Fortifikatsionnykh Sooruzheniy
1 99000, Marmurova St, Sevastopol

https://maps.app.goo.gl/z7o7moKc8t4Fbch66
The number one cost of any distributed system is data movement.

Mobile phones are essentially leaf nodes in a huge distributed system, where they interact with "downstream dependencies", ie. the servers that provide all the functionality of their apps.

So it makes sense that moving data would use the most power.
I wish everyone believed this. It feels so inspiring to every generation of engineers.
Demystifying TypeScript and Webpack and Babel
And how they lack features to match what IDEs are capable of.

Given that James Gosling created XEmacs, my go-to editor back in the day, I think you will find this interview interesting, although most certainly it won't change your opinion.

https://thenewstack.io/a-conversation-with-the-creators-behi...
At some point a person who uses AI doesn't need to be a doctor anymore.
Ketamine is now being legally offered for treatment of depression in my city. Alcohol is far cheaper, however.
Would it? Popular music sees major paradigm shifts every few years, and AIs only really generate things based on observation of existing patterns, at least as far as I can tell.

As far as recent examples go, Lady Gaga and Lorde were major breaks from what was prevalent at the time they started releasing music, and then spawned artists trying to emulate them.
I wasn't sufficiently clear above: use of graphing software isn't the only way the students are asked to investigate curves: they're taught the methods you're describing too. I presume the idea is to allow a much larger number of curves to be investigated in a given time which sort of makes sense given that the exercise is a form ML training.

Disclaimer: I'm originally from the UK and well versed in "old school" approaches :)
ICE arrests 90 more students at fake university in Michigan
Not to be a jerk, but literally no one cares that you're a "pro" or that you're choosing not to use Gnome 3. Tens of thousands (likely more) people use Gnome-shell and have never heard of any of this "drama". I guess I'm curious, too, what software do you use if you avoid every single piece of tech that has ever been subject to contention about contribution credit? What a self-aggrandizing stance.
It's...not that easy to just get citizenship elsewhere. So no, I'm not free to leave.
It has paid off though as touchscreen devices have become a lot more common. The fact that one can now run a modern Linux desktop on an actual tablet is also pretty nifty.
You might very well have created the best anonymous email service out there, which will be used and cherished by many thousands of happy users who use it legally, ethically, morally, etc.

But then one day, you might get that one user, that one user, that just abuses all of that, and causes nightmarish legal problems...

So forewarned is forearmed, as they say...

Also, I would point out that your service is the only way to truly manage rogue emailers that don't respect unsubscribe requests. In other words, it has a very legitimate/lawful purpose other than mere privacy.

While rogue emailers might not exist so much in the U.S. due to laws, the rest of the world is open game -- there is no way (short of using your service!) to manage them appropriately.

If you should ever go to Court, that should be at least one of your arguments... basically ask the court/jury, "OK, well if a recipients email address can't be anonymized, then how else does someone manage spammers from other countries that get their real email address and keep mailing them from different addresses (and with different content) such that it bypasses their spam filter?" Simple answer: They can't! No one can! Done!

Disposable email addresses (for the recipient, when subscribing to various things on the Internet) are the only solution.

See, that's your legitimate/lawful purpose...

Anyway, wishing you luck!
Dropping jQuery is another big thing.
How does the drama affect you using the product? I use open source software everyday and have yet to have any open source drama in my life.
Magnus Carlsen should give this guy a call. Top chess GMs have been using computers for close to 20 years, particularly in the openings, and that was before AlphaZero. Myself, I never really enjoyed the TCEC games. They're full of disgusting engine lines which make no sense to humans. But AZ has some absolutely beautiful moves.

Still, computers are tools. I'm reminded of Richard Hamming, The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers. I think Lee Se-dol went in the opposite extreme away from numbers to entity. No, there's a middle ground, insight.
I think it's understandable that someone would be annoyed that work they've done gets attributed not just to someone else, but a for-profit company.
tldr: Guerrilla fighters have a long history of being successful.

Also to add, the US military is sworn to protect the constitution and not members of the political elite. So were this extremely unlikely scenario of revolution to arise, you would definitely see a division of factions even within the military (some pro gov, others pro people). I believe there has been sufficient evidence to believe this. American soldiers would have a hard time killing other Americans.
I agree with your point, but especially love the poetic way in which it is made. Very meta...
Hymen: Facts and Conceptions [pdf]
Intel rushed their new CPU's to come out before AMD's new CPU's.
So they can only compare these new intel CPU's to the older, slower AMD CPU's, making intel look better in comparison.
THIS is important BECAUSE its ALWAYS the first reviews that gets the most attention, they will be the first results in any search because they have more views.
and they can only compare to the old AMD stuff because its not out yet.
SO intel is trying to fool uninformed people, into thinking their stuff is better then it is, its a dirty tactic, because most people won't know the difference, they'll search for the intel CPU see the reviews showing how it performs against the old stuff and think its better then the current Threadripper.
basically what they always do, sneaky tactics to get more mindshare against their competition instead of making better products.

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Good argument and I'm sure it's going to be like that in some regards.
I think, though, that human intellect is a tool too and we're building a better one right now. So in your analogy we are the screwdriver and we're building electrical screwdrivers or something.
I don't think the "think creatively enough" is the issue. It's more of a lifestyle difference. Some people are happy with living off the $50k/yr they'd get from a 4% slice of $2m for the rest of their life. Some aren't. I'm in the "some aren't" group. The things I enjoy and the places I like being in require a lot more money.

So - it's not just a matter of if early retirement is for someone but also if they can enjoy the lifestyle they want with the savings they have. And, unless I had like $10m+ saved - I doubt I could fully enjoy the life I'd like to lead. And since I don't think $10m is just gonna land in my lap anytime soon - I'll continue to work to get to the lifestyle I enjoy.
Isn’t that generally the main benefit of using electron based apps? The ability to target both desktop and web?

We can bemoan the inefficiency of this, and how wasteful it is, but at the end of the day, it’s a very portable way of delivering applications.

I think VSCode is a huge success because of this model.
I think you could add the browser add-on SingleFile [1] to the list which allows you to annotate archive of webpages saved in HTML and is 100% free.

[1] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile
This is a really good post, thanks for sharing it. Algorithmic trading systems vary a lot and every shop have their own way of doing things.
This is not for everyone. Smart Phones are always looking for your attention to show you useless notifications and ads. So for most people it's so much easier and effective reading a physical book or Kindle.
There's some value in being able to change an equation then immediately see the result in curve shape or position. Basically the same model of curve families, linear transformations, we who are familiar with the subject already have in our brains but not yet present in these students.
A debugger like this (sort of) already exists for GPU work (but for Metal).

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/metal/shader_autho...

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2018/608/
It doesn't even need to be a weaker AI. If (human + stronger AI) can beat (stronger AI), then humans still provide value. For now.
>So there was a window between the 90's and today where a human player could have discarded the traditional measuring sticks of "trade-value" and beaten DeepBlue.

I have to disagree: even after the discoveries by Alpha Zero, the best chess players are not able to beat Stockfish. Stockfish is just too good at Brute forcing long tactical advantages. Playing really well positionally doesn't matter a lot if your opponent can look 30 moves into the future.
> I have hard time to find situation where it actually worked that way in the past.

US?
All nerds, find now positive about Facebook's privacy violation and give me minus
I think I am doing something seriously wrong then. My 2015 XPS 13 only lasts a couple of hours.
> A lithium fire takes hours and thousands of gallons of water to subside

Doesn't lithium react violently with water? Looking online, lithium creates hydrogen gas on contact with water. That seems like adding fuel to the fire. Makes sense that it takes a lot to extinguish a fire with fuel.
What you're suggesting would be amazing.

For what it's worth, the popular "Skim" PDF reader on OS X stores annotations in filesystem extended attributes, so the hash of the raw file data doesn't change (but of course this comes with the drawback of more limited interoperability with other tools).
It should be noted that 3.34 has also seen some work on moving stuff from JS to C. Notably animations are now far less dependent on the JS part, with better performance as a result.
This is difficult to describe, but when talking after removing the cork, my tongue feels "stronger" and moves with greater deliberation. I'm unsure what it would due for your jaw but you should certainly give it a try.
They Wanted to Save Their 119-Year-Old Village. So They Got Rid of It
Again, building an opening book does not take place at move decision time. Aside from that, there are several optimization techniques that you can apply to choose the hyperparameters appropriately, but once again, this has nothing to do with cyborg chess.
Education is not about Learning
>Neither art nor music are competitive activities.

They certainly are! Especially when money is on the line, and the best musicians, actors, and artists are extremely well compensated making their positions extraordinarily competitive.

>Good poetry is a wonderful thing, no matter the source.

Sure, but I think you neglect to consider the defeating feeling it would bring to dedicate your entire life to mastery of a subject only to be completely and utterly, hopelessly outclassed. Almost every such person is already hopelessly outclassed by someone in their field, but those people are so rare that they have tremendous exclusivity surrounding them. Compare that to the scenario of having any 12 year old with a smart phone being able to instantly produce a totally novel and dominate piece of artistic expression developed by an algorithm on their phone. Then recognize that in a world with that level of AI sophistication, there'd be very little of value that a human can even offer other humans at that point. It would be... not great to the psyche, economy, or society.
The distribution of the proprietary Steam client you can install on GNU/Linux systems ships a 32-bit Ubuntu runtime, I believe based on 12.04.
You're right about #3 - it would be hundreds of trillions, not thousands.