skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if Ye Zhaoying won over the other person with a higher win rate, that means she's better and can make it into the final on her own merits, no?

No. If the only bit of information you have is a single game, then yes, you'd be right to assume the victor was the better player. But in an iterated game, you can easily get into a state where regardless of the outcome of a single game you're still pretty confident that one player is better than the other. It would take many games to tip your estimate. But you don't have many games, you just have the one coming up. What you don't want to have happen is a minor fluke, causing the worse player (estimated win chance 25%) to move on to the finals where they're more likely to lose.

There could also be factors that cause the odds to not follow a simple ordering rule. It could be that player A will likely beat C, B will likely lose to C, and yet B will likely beat A, due to playstyle or something.

But the former thing is more likely what's going on. A beats C is 50% odds, B beats C is 30% odds, A beats B is 70% odds, you want A or B to win and they're playing next, followed by the winner playing against C. B winning can absolutely happen, but it sucks for you if it does.
There are billions of Linux systems in the world. They have a default. If you change the default for your own distribution, you're the oddball, and the fact that there are two different values for the default can itself be an issue. It's not possible to change the default everywhere and have everyone adopt your new default. The kernel developers are very careful not to make breaking changes.

Just the same, you can write your non-root server and arrange to be launched by a service manager that turns on the appropriate capability to allow it to bind low-numbered ports, but nothing else.
If you think the ancient Greeks also didn't press upon their contestants to win for the glory of their city state, then I'm not sure what to tell you.
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Remember when that hacker group showed screenshots of multiple stolen NVidia repositories with drivers source code and alledgedly detailed chip IP stuff?

Now China announces a powerful GPU.

https://videocardz.com/newz/hackers-now-demand-nvidia-should...

https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/08/25/china-launches-the-i...
To be clear, I'm not talking about you specifically, I'm talking about the media and online company response to her, at least that which is alledged in the article.
Sony had one of the best selling handhelds of all time with the PSP, and then they abandoned its successor (the Vita) almost immediately after launching it because they were scared of mobile gaming. They even hedged their bets by releasing the Xperia Play around the same time, which was a hybrid handheld/Android phone. They abandoned that too very quickly. So logically, in order to avoid throwing money away by creating niche handheld devices that nobody will buy they...make extremely niche and expensive handhelds that nobody buys (https://electronics.sony.com/c/mobile)
I think what he's trying to say is that ageism is real today, but things didn't used to be that way.
I haven't heard Musk complaining about copper before. Nickel yes, lithium yes but not copper. And China must have required huge amounts of copper (among other things) while they were building out all their cities. The price did go up a fair bit but there was no crisis.
I think "programming and tuning" will enable a deeper degree of expression, but just because people are not tuning the AI itself doesnt necessarily mean the creation with AI isn't a form of expression.

Ultimately, is "thinking" not simply prompting your own brain with information(often times natural language) and see what the output is and then we fine tune?

Maybe a question to ask is, can you express yourself if you are not creating the canvas/paint brush? Or, is the Lego creation a form of expression if you are not making the Lego pieces!?
AMD's data center chips are also getting the ban

https://www.reuters.com/technology/amd-says-us-told-it-stop-...
This is not it.
You are right that skin tone is a continuous spectrum. Dermatologists and skincare experts use something called Fitzpatrick Skin Types, which is a scale from 1-6, 1 being very light skin and 6 being very dark skin: https://www.healthline.com/health/beauty-skin-care/fitzpatri...

We have formulated our products with ingredients ideal for Fitzpatrick Skin Types 3-6 (medium to very dark skin).
I don't think this is convincing.

AlphaGo/MuZero are completely NN based and were so far ahead of the competition when they were developed they led to the whole wave of NN-for-eval that we seen now. And AlphaGo/MuZero doesn't compete in TCEC.

The chess community (especially the stockfish programming group) is very focused on improving their own system. I don't think the fact that is a the strongest system really means much - it's pretty clear they are leaving performance on the table. For example it wasn't until last year (!) that they moved to a GPU based training system.
AMD have been going for HPC and Nvidia AI, but hpc isn't that cool anymore.

Traditional hpc needs a general purpose machine, AI benefits much more from clever but immutable additional hardware.
Thanks, that's very comprehensive! I'll have to try finding some good podcasts.
Agree with the "what not to do" not being valuable (and that's most startups). You can read that in HN comments every day. Sure you can learn "I must not do X or my devs will feel shitty and leave", but what is the answer to "how can I keep my top performers happy and growing so they don't leave and instead make the company a rocketship?"

What I really want to know is how to make a buddying startup a high growth startup. And only a tiny amount of companies can give you that, and only if you are working in leadership roles.
The idea that China would become more liberal with trade and technology was the Nixon doctrine that set us on our current path. It failed. China has improved life for it's people dramatically but now it's an adversary to the West, not some beacon of human rights in the East.
One problem that's usually missed with these kinds of "black!", "no, white!" comment chains is that people are working in different environments with completely different points of reference to work from.

Front-end developers hear "no abstractions is bad!", and they don't take into account that something like React already provides an abstraction more powerful than all the abstractions put together in some other programming environments. Having a localised section of UI bundled with everything driving it in a single 20 line file is absolute light years ahead of the dumpster fire of the 2010 web, which in turn was probably light years ahead of whatever people were doing with IE and Netscape in the 90s.

So they do crap like separate into "logic" and "display" components, or they import 6 heavily abstracted libraries on top that give virtually no additional benefit and just add 8,000 lines of third party documentation to the already heavy cognitive burden other developers on the project have to understand the code.

Likewise even though I've never worked on one, I'm sure there's projects in more 'low level' environments where a single good functional abstraction could wipe out 200 lines of code in a flash, and the 3rd party libraries available are actual huge upgrades. If that's all you've ever worked on and you hear an (actual good) front end dev completely shithouse 3rd party libraries you'll likewise be as terrified of their advice as I am when I hear people talk about something being underabstracted.
Yes change it for the next 15 year. Anyway already there's a mitigation by CAP.
Perhaps the toxic culture goes all the way to the top. If no one lasts in the role little more than 6 months, on average, that's a red flag.
Self driving cars would be easy if all cars were self driving, all roads were designed for self driving cars, roads did not degrade, there are no pedestrians, no cyclists, trash or other obstructions could appear on the road, weather did not exist, and the sensory hardware could not get damaged or obstructed.
it’s so weird to me that mobile gaming is so big while the games are by and large complete and utter garbage.

is it the micro-transaction, loot box, gambling-lite style that sucks susceptible people in and milks them?
That’s why things go through QA.
And we still are; computers are designed, software is designed.

“AI” as we know it does not exist without humans pushing it forward; romantic notions our inventions are independently sentient depends on ignoring a whole lot.

For the same reason I can choose to not import a religion I can not import the idea these stupid things are “thinking” independently of humans, without justifying it as I don’t have to with religion as well.

All the constraints are defined by us. It’s not magic.
Ok, but there has been a LOT of massive progress in a week, as a community effect. Below are just the mindbending stories I didn’t see on HN front page.

Aesthetic dataset at heart of stability diffusion
https://laion.ai/blog/laion-aesthetics/

Basis of said dataset
https://github.com/JD-P/simulacra-aesthetic-captions

Latent space walk through studio Ghibli
https://youtu.be/nkliw2ue5ak

Automated Aesthetic optimization of prompts
https://twitter.com/omorfiamorphism/status/15646338541194772...

Fashion inpainting
https://twitter.com/karenxcheng/status/1564626773001719813

Prompt search engine
https://lexica.art/

Probably just missed them, but the point is that there is so much diverse innovation taking place right now in this MOT. It’s not just diverse reporting/opinion but diverse innovation.

Note: it is hard to search for this topic with “stability” as the keyword. I looked for stories in the past week and it gave me one small incomplete page.
Why S3? I don't have an aws account and don't ever plan on having one.

If you want to make git hosting easy, make a self-contained executable that requires nothing but a bare unix-like environment.
Reminds me of an old Apple ad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoxvLq0dFvw
Part of the problem IS google and their refusal to reinstate accounts once police cleared the accused:

> Mark asked if Mr. Hillard could tell Google that he was innocent so he could get his account back. “You have to talk to Google,” Mr. Hillard said, according to Mark. “There’s nothing I can do.” Mark appealed his case to Google again, providing the police report, but to no avail…

> A Google spokeswoman said the company stands by its decisions, even though law enforcement cleared the two men
Pace of work, expectations. I got a 2.ii. 79-82 and have worked non-stop including in academia. It's impossible to progress in academia beyond the trivial level without a PhD now. My dad was a full tenured head of department and professor with no PhD. (UK Professor, not US 'any teacher is a professor') -that was just becoming less likely. Now? its functionally impossible unless you have somebody magic like Musk doing a side-gig.

Your past is un-erasable. My time in Uni included many things I leave behind me. I can name-drop the UK comic who could have been "sent down" for keeping a York University duck in a cardboard box under his bed, which is luckily (for him) undocumented. Animal cruelty? he'd be in deep shit with the BBC. Or the politician's son arrested for minor dope offenses. Now? Its on tiktok forever. You really cannot progress in some fields (politics) if you enjoy university as much as I did.

My Uni experience was fully funded by the state. The state did not demand repayment, and arts was fine. Have fun. Now? the likelihood of a debt you can't service for a poor choice of subject is very real.

Truly it's NOT the same course. My field, comp sci, only existed as a part degree at the start of my course and was full degree by the end, we had 10 students and tutorials were 2-to-1 (2 students to one lecturer) and we complained it wasn't the oxbridge experience of 1-to-1. It's simply not comparable to the experience of learning in a modern university. The complexity of the field was tiny by comparison.

Eng lit was somewhat the same, still stuck in "modern means 17thC onwards but stops at 1871" but now, eng lit comes with trigger warnings. You can't read half the canon because it's racist or classist or sexist.

Also, the gigs were better. But I digress..

Some of it was "we were the top 10%" so it was already ordained we'd be future leaders. Now, 75% of the age group go to uni, and it means less for probably more work.

I respect any modern student. I would seriously doubt I would do well in a modern university context.

yes, much of the drink/drugs/partaaaaty was the same. And learning to cook. I would argue we paid less % of our stipend as rent, significantly less. I survived 3 years on unemployment benefits including having my rent paid over summer. I know students now who are functionally homeless and live in squalor out of a car and eat ramen every day.

TL;DR the expectations on the modern cohort ARE higher than most postwar 1950s/1960s/1970s graduates. Perhaps the modern cohort is closer to the post WW1 who had to live with not having fought and died, and had very high expectations placed on them (especially women)
Doubly down on the war is unlikely to produce a better outcome, for anyone.
Make your own Street View camera rig
Improving the Call Experience in Jami
Not really, but even if it was, what meaningful difference would it make? You can see the list if the terms in the article, and it's hard to deny that they are very political.
Oh I can intrinsically relate to what you're saying. I would love to see your project revived on Payload. If you need a hand, please do reach out on Discord!
I wish so to but it seems like our wonderful retail ~overlords~ giants are trying to find new and exciting ways to get us to buy as much cheaply produced goods from other countries rather than promote more expensive goods from at home.

As we have transitioned our economy from having careers to jobs and from owning to financing, the cheap stuff is all we can afford.

People still care but they just care more about surviving.
Doesn’t obesity put one at greater risk for basically everything? Or is Covid exceptionally harmful to the obese for some reason?
Because otherwise, you end up like Dropbox. You may be the market leader right now, but competitors will catch up (Google Drive and OneDrive in this case), and your core business will be obsolete or less valuable. You would have wished you spent the resources expanding into other areas (which is what Google is doing right now by investing outside of search).

For example, Kodak already faced bankruptcy as a photographic film company. They smartly moved to pharmaceutical manufacturing.

If mobile gaming and/or AR/VR became so big by now that no one uses dedicated handhelds, Nintendo would have lost out on a lot of money. That didn't end up to be the case, but no one knew that at the time.
What's profitable today isn't typically profitable in the future. The average lifespan of a company on the S&P500 is 18 years. The companies that survive long term often reinvent themselves repeatedly.

https://www.scrum.org/resources/how-predict-lifespan-company...
However, that requires doing an extra lookup for every write on the most active / real time table. It would be better to add an optional product_id to the account table, which then allows to have different rates for different products at the same time for each account. You really don't need a tier table, if you are always using multipliers to the base rate, and we could eliminate it unless we want to store tier types as well, that allow for other formulas beyond multipliers.

The account, tier, and product tables already take care of changing prices using timestamps, but I can see that you might offer a fixed rate to an account that spans a price change on the base rate. There is an entire facet to this which is not really about the db, but business logic - like whether we are going to change rates used for calculation based on time of use, time of account creation, time of rate tier activation, product base rate change - change that logic if it's a promo rate - etc. I am not totally sure that we need to go beyond what we have for the dbs to work with this business logic, it is better handled and enforced by the calculation classes.

I don't think calculations are ever that hard, because I presume you will have previously written and optimized lookups and calculations for all common to semi-common cases. I would also (obviously?) never calculate on the live server, but dump the db and calculate billing on an admin server. If the site is busy enough, I would have this entire db on an admin server, and just import the usage logging table from a simpler db on live. For live, you just need enough account and product info for authentication and logging.
People just want something mindless to pass the time. If it also triggers the gambling dopamine response, all the better.
the same thing could be said about ethereum and solana
This is extremely easy to solve even if it is the case as all it requires is to issue Nvidia with a license saying what they can do.
Is Cloudflare buying.... Hate offset credits? It's like buying carbon offsets for the carbon you emit. Except they are donating to offset the evil shit they protect?
1 and 0 are still 1 and 0 regardless of the base. Pi=10_pi since it's the base. 2 and 3 are still 2_pi and 3_pi since they are less than pi. Things get weird when you start going above pi. For example, the number 4 would be written 10.220122021..._pi because

1*pi^1 + 0*pi^0 + 2*pi^-1 + 2*pi^-2 + 0*pi^-3 + 1*pi^-4 + 2*pi^-5 + 2*pi^-6 + 0*pi^-7 + 2*pi^-8 + 1*pi^-9 + ... = 4

Kind of weird having integers that have to be written as infinite series.
Plenty of people have already explained my point. The analogy with rock-paper-scissors is not that it's "due to chance".

A player being "better" than another one is not a transitive property.

In many games, due to different play styles you can have A>B, B>C and C>A, just like in rock-paper-scissors.
The Patent Phrase Similarity Dataset
> if Ye Zhaoying won over the other person with a higher win rate, that means she's better

Do you think the better player always wins? What's your explanation for the world series being best of 7?
More people died during Mao's Great Leap Forward than all US wars combined since 1776, it's not even close.
Everything in competition is about time and effort. No one cares if they figure it out 20 years down the road. It literally won't matter at that point, because the US will have much better by then. The world may be a different place, etc. It's all about the now.
Most systems do tend to use different users for running services though; so while there's a single "human user", the multi-user support is being used quite a lot.
> Otherwise some user service can (inadvertently) take some port before a system service that was supposed to use that port started and cause completely preventable failure of the system service.

There are plenty of cases where a web server is just a reverse proxy to :8080 or some other non-privileged port that could potentially be taken over in such a manner.
How is this not just solved by issuing Nvidia a license?
Since we have Cold War II (with the hot war still not fought by NATO), we should expect similarities to Cold War I: bans on high-tech exports, classifying more stuff, even public lies in an attempt to misdirect the adversary (see [SDI]). Good thing if encryption is not declared munition as it was back then [W].

[SDI]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative

[W]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th...
It's fairly obvious that it's a contrived example, though, which means it's not much of a motivating example for fuzz testing. I'd think it'd help to have a non-obvious bug that's triggered by an unusual set of inputs; that would show the value of fuzz testing mich better. (Admittedly, this is easier said than done)

EDIT: I tried using fuzz testing to find the famous issue with integer overflows in binary search [1], but even when restricting the relevant type to uint8, a couple of minutes of fuzzing when running on gitpod.io didn't detect an issue. Repo is https://github.com/DylanSp/fuzzing-for-binary-search-overflo... if anyone wants to play around with it and see if they can get fuzzing to detect a problem. (Go doesn't panic on overflows; a different approach to creating the slice to search might reveal a logic error)

[1] https://ai.googleblog.com/2006/06/extra-extra-read-all-about...
That makes sense. Do you have any advice on finding local meetups?
From what I can tell, Canada is somewhere in between complete exclusionary and inclusionary rules wrt illegally obtained evidence.
Also applies to AMD: https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/Semiconductors/U.S.-ti...
It's carbon offsets for hate. And just like carbon credits, it's not really solving any problems. It's the minimum they could do that was literally not zero.
One more question: is support for non-node environments on the way? We use a bit of node but we're mostly JVM. Kotlin would be clutch, all good if it's not yet in the cards.
I believe the relevant point of comparison is not one of chance, but rather that the relationships involved are not transitive.
76.1 is 5 years less than males in Australia (females are another 4 years higher). Life expectancy increased in 2020/2021, as a side-effect of Covid measures, since there wasn't much actual Covid around. It will be interesting to see what happens now that Covid has been let loose.

https://www.abs.gov.au/media-centre/media-releases/life-expe...
Is this that big a deal? I dislike the Chinese Communist Party, but in sport players sacrifice wins and position for stronger teammates all the time. It's routine in F1 and the Tour de France.

The cases aren't entirely comparable. F1 drivers and Tour de France racers are highly compensated and they go into races knowing the strategy. Being compelled to lose against your will by your national organization sucks. On the other hand, I expect she went into the Chinese badminton team with some idea that this sort of thing might happen.
Another interesting one that's missing is Yotta (https://www.withyotta.com/), which was one of the earlier prize-linked savings account programs to launch after the "American Savings Promotion Act" passed a while back.

The core rate is only 0.2% or 0.4% APY, but the average effective APY is ~2%, and with good variance can be much higher. I've been tracking at ~2.32% since my account opened years ago.
Life expectancy is computed as if the model person lived all their life years this year. This means that when e.g. a new communicable disease appears which is more risky the first time one falls ill, its effect on life expectancy is outsized: we sum up the risk from getting that disease _for the first time_ over all years of life. A year later, we sum up delayed effects of getting it for the first time, etc. The article doesn't seem to address that at all.
I think the technically correct answer is that you shouldn't be trusting just a port anyway.
Taxing pollution is an effective means to reduce externalities of capitalist pollution. I.e. use market oriented solutions.
here's my first question (I have enough math background to cogitate or research this and find out the answer, but it'll just be another rabbithole, so let me just ask):

if anything to the zero power is 1, what does that mean for pi? pi to the 0 is 1? or pi to the 0 is "base ten 1 represented in base pi"?

asking because that page starts out stating that 0 is always 0 and 1 is always 1.
The dictatorship of the articulate
Why builders can’t build anymore
Instagram are the party one needs to get the attention of in this instance as they control the platform.