skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you’re curious about how we used ensembled weak learners to form a strong enough learner to kick the shit out of everyone except DoubleClick in AdTech, this is a decent start: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensemble_learning.

By the standards of AdTech, latent space stuff was pretty unproven when I left the game a few years ago.

Low-rank approximations were in some sense implicit in that, but were not at that time an explicit goal.

If I were doing an AdTech system from scratch I’d most likely reach for the kind of recommender systems that you’re alluding to sooner.

Sounds like you know your stuff :)
> making art is vastly more difficult than the huge majority of computer programming that is done

Art and programming are hard for different reasons.

The difference in the AI context is that a computer program has to do just about exactly whats asked of it to be useful, whereas a piece of art can go many ways and still be a piece of art. If you know what you want its quite hard to get DALL-E to produce that exactly (or it has been for me), but it still generates something that is very good looking.
Microsoft to start multi-year rollout of EU data localization offering
> By Chinese you mean Tencent? Tencent is south-african owned. @est

> Founded in 1998 with its headquarters in Shenzhen, China,...

> ...Tencent has been listed on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong since 2004.

> https://www.tencent.com/en-us/about.html#about-con-1
I like Nearlyfreespeech.net for stuff like this. For $1.50 per month, they let you easily host static HTML files. You don't have to learn about servers or routing or anything.

https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/services/pricing
Substack did already. They have very annoying subscribe modals, and when they pop up, I just close the site.
That worked, many thanks.
> Please, never ever throw away working kit. Someone will always take it…

Unless it's a CRT monitor. No one wants those.
Can you forget how to read?
When submitting an extension to the Chrome Web Store you’re asked for a written justification for why it needs to run against the sites/URLs specified in the manifest. I’m curious how closely anyone at Google examines these; if this is such a clear ToS violation then maybe it shouldn’t have been approved?

(Edit: I’m not asserting that it is in fact a violation, but that its having been approved suggests it didn’t seem like one to the Web Store folks, at least, and maybe Medium should have addressed this by trying to get it removed rather than banning the user.)
I'd be curious to know what percentage of Fortnite's playerbase has even heard of Unreal Tournament, let alone played it.
While there’s something to this, I don’t think people are properly calibrated on how bad a new disease can be. Like, it’s totally normal and reasonable for a new disease introduced into a population to kill 80%. It’s not super common but not super uncommon either. I guess what I’m saying is that permanent, brutal sequelae not seen in diseases which have reached equilibrium with the host population would be completely within the range of expectations.
> "This discovery will revolutionise the study of Sanskrit at a time when interest in the language is on the rise."

Why is the interest rising though?
Close also counts in computation, where we routinely handle infinite (or at least combinatorially effectively so) numbers of possible inputs with a few general rules and a finite ("almost no", to use a technical term) number of exceptions.
Well that screen capture is taken from a cinematic scene if I am correct. UE demonstrations are real-time playable environments.

Have you tested the Valley of the Ancients demo on your computer? You will see what I mean.
Old Valuations Die Hard
Depending on the model I'd take one!
> Dude, he also has a $70 million jet, which costs about as much as a yacht. Let's be honest here.

First, I am not your dude.

Second, please, read the comment before you respond. I addressed it.

$70M is a drop in the ocean when you are in tens of billions of dollars especially when it is your work tool that lets you move fast between locations and save couple of hours on each trip.
Okay, so, where is your evidence of this?
He clearly hasn't violated any of their written rules.

They should have some rules for themselves: "1. Don't become clowns."
Lawyers.

Lawyers are going to have a lot of fun$$ with the copyright/trademark violation flood that is coming (and not only for high profiles).
The more modern version is what Minecraft is doing: give people a server they can run, but also offer your own server hosting service. Any seven year old can buy a Minecraft Realm for their friends (if they get their parent's credit card), but you can also rent an instance from a number of other providers if you want something with more freedom (and mods) but still some hand-holding and a dashboard, or host it on your own hardware if that's your thing.
IDK, clicking reply and typing into a box sure seems easier than spinning up a domain for this comment.
Wetland emission and atmospheric sink changes explain methane growth in 2020
This is a pretty remarkably bitter and uncharitable take, given that Raku is the original intended successor of Perl, created by Perl's author, and sharing a lot of the "spirit" of Perl.

That ship sailed, I won't argue it, and I'm not personally invested in either "camp", but in a thread saying "Hey, Perl is actually a pretty cool language!", I think a short mention of Raku isn't worth this reaction.
These types of calculations tend to suffer from the "unknown unknowns" side of things. The number only includes "known unknowns".
> I think it's difficult to give full credit to macOS as being a true Unix workstation.

The FoxTrot comic strip referenced Mac OS X's "Unix underpinnings" back in 2002:

* https://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/2002/02/25

See also Tim O'Reilly (of tech book fame):

> O’Reilly suggested through his own anecdotal evidence that switching from other platforms to Mac OS X is a strong trend particularly for what he calls “alpha geeks” — people who are key decision-makers or influencers on technology development and policy. Many of these “alpha geeks” appear to be trading in Wintel iron with Linux installed on it for Mac OS X instead. And while many of them appear to be continuing to depend on Windows for work, they’re using Mac OS X on their own time or for special projects they would have used Linux boxes for, not too far in the past.

* https://www.macworld.com/article/155519/oreilly-7.html

It's been a 'selling point' for over twenty years now.
They're just pushing for people to switch from distutils to setuptools, which is also under the PyPA.
The military taught me that most things aren't personal. Unfortunately, most people seem to take most things very personally. I'm still struggling to find balance.
I saw someone selling something similar to your first link on my local Craigslist years ago. He wanted more than I was willing to spend.

There was also an SGI sever that was huge, loud, and had crazy power requirements. The price was cheap but power costs were way too much for a mortal to run.
That last para is an excellent solution!
It feels different when a game has a server and a client component. I can choose to airgap my ancient Macbook and never update it if I want to keep playing that particular game on that particular computer.

I can also play it on Linux, and Linux can run on Mac hardware.

All of that sounds like a pain in the ass, and if the game is not worth the trouble I'll just not go through the trouble. But I am the one who makes the choice, not the owner of some proprietary server.
The Workaholic Rich (2007)
> But I can also see a deluge of mediocre “content” taking over the internet

i’ve noticed this mediocrity decades ago when artists started using computers to create art. for me that’s when it went downhill.
They use VPN ig
Agreed. I played TF2 for a while, found the No Heroes servers, liked the community, paid the $4/month for an account. You got guaranteed slots and they had over a dozen servers for different maps. They used their own sound effects so if someone was stacking kills or whatever it would play announcer or musical clips. It was fun and added a bit of excitement. Of course you get to know the regulars, say hello and even make friends and chat on Steam. I've lost contact with all of them but its okay, what we had during the time it existed was nice.

After a while, like everything else I moved on and didn't play for years. One day I decided to install TF2 for kicks and in its place was a different game. I played for maybe 15 minutes, lost interest and uninstalled the game. I wanted to see what happened to No Heroes and found that they had closed up shop a year prior. I was saddened and honestly very turned off to the game which is why it was uninstalled.

Its because of this loss of community that I have ZERO interest in modern multiplayer gaming. Now its all about ranking so its just an Ego/dopamine boosting machine. I just wanna play a game and have fun. I could care less about rankings, they mean nothing.
Yes, I clearly remember him working with Mark on this one because he liked the idea of generating more efficient bytecode rather than more complex bytecode. Certainly not being a hinderance in this case.
> Because the motherboard has sata ports and I needed a cheap, low power dvr for my security cameras

How much power does it draw?
They could try and move he seats from the duff Soyuz into Crew Dragon if they have suitable fixing points and tools...
Sodium and sulphur are very cheap and easy to get, but not because of this.

Sulphur is a byproduct of lots of different industrial processes, usually oil refining.

Sodium is most commonly extracted from seawater.

Frequency of elements in Earth's crust is a pretty poor approximation for how easy they are to mine.
Musk threatens legal action against Twitter user who tracked his jet
Hello folks. I am the person who wrote that blog article.
I will be delighted if people might actually post their comments on the article itself!
I am fascinated that someone thought I was writing like "a children's book". I am also fascinated that someone said "It's very very weird. Also seems like they are making it all up based on their assumption of how the internals could fail. Kind of feels like SEO content to me."
I can promise you that when I write this blog, I never give even a moment's thought to SEO things.
My guess is that most readers of this "Hacker News" site would find other articles of mine to be interesting: https://blog.oppedahl.com/?cat=13 .
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the thrill of driving and racing. Some spirited driving on open highways is way different from stop and go traffic and long family road trips. In the end I still have a throttle lock on my 1050cc motorcycle though, it comes in handy when going on a long road trip.
Work-factor, most obviously.

Targeting and distribution as well. AI has the edge on individual creators here.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=7960

Guido discussing this recently on Lex Friedman's podcast. tl;dw, he is open to the idea, he thinks it will be painful, he isn't convinced the demand is high enough yet
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cf https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23612474

unfortunately the last link has rotted; it was supposed to link to a quote from Hitler's diary where he views failure to capture middle-eastern oil fields as implying his eventual loss.
Even if it didn't cost them any effort to do so, it would still compete against their other games while producing no revenue. For the majority of companies, that's enough reason not to bother.
I'm out of the loop, where can I find background information?
> require hours of refinement

Not disagreeing with your comment but this is not the case with Midjourney. Very little is needed to produce stunning images. But afaik they modify/enhance the prompts behind the screen
Criminal acts should be dealt with by the same laws that would get me (no relation to the railroad) if I blew up a bridge.
Nope.

Intellectual property concepts in their current form started to appear as soon as prints, so about the 15th century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_copyright#Early_dev...
So? Everyone keeps saying this over and over, but leaving out the most important part. In the same tweet he admitted it’s a direct threat to his personal safety! Can you comment on that part? Because it seems like people want, with Elon and other celebrities, to be put in harms way, in the name of keeping these doxxing accounts online. Which by the way are made by some college kid who probably doesn’t realize the ramifications of what he’s doing.
Domain Storytelling
GPS signals are being jammed in Russian cities
Somehow this gives me the sense that rss isn't coming back.
Since we are talking about how Epic was invested by Tencent, the same rule applies here:

https://www.ft.com/content/1270c7e4-95e4-406f-b712-c32341524...

South African internet group Naspers, Tencent’s biggest shareholder
These scientific advances in batteries are cool, but I don't take them as a specific indicator of what is coming. It is a numbers game, if there are 1000 scientific advances maybe 1 or 2 will survive the gauntlet and make it into manufacturing in the next 10 years.

It seems reasonable that there will be battery options that cost 50% as much and others that have 2x greater energy density in the near future. That seems great to me. Batteries will be viable and economical across most storage needs expect for aviation, shipping and seasonal grid storage.
Well if you read the description below the graph you'll get a little insight into the nuances between the models.

SSP1 - the 2nd place amongst GDP metrics - lowers poverty, reduces inequality, and helps the environment as well as improving health and education.

SSP5 - the 1st place - just bull rushes economic growth, but does little to reduce equality, and doesn't help health or the environment.

The broader sense of social well-being is maximised by SSP1. SSP5 is a short-term economic growth trend. Something shortsighted and ultimately very bad.

It's natural that investing into cheaper, more harmful resources, could benefit us more in the short term. But doesn't it make sense to go for the more beneficial long-term developments that will come down in cost with investment anyways? The earlier the better?

It's tempting to shoot for fossil fuels still, but scratch the surface and the benefits of developing sustainable resources is better now in a host of ways besides immediate economic growth, and better economically in the long run too once fossil fuels become scarcer and enviromental disasters damage industry.

Just look at recent issues like global instability's effect on energy import, and how our infrastructure can be impacted by small issues (shipping routes collapsing). Climate issues like flooding and rising sea levels, would dramatically imapct shiopping. And mass immigration from those disasters would increase likelihoods of wars that affect global trade.

Limiting the chances for these things to happen, at the cost of immediate GDP growth, is better for everyone.

It's a prisoner's dilemma between nations and currently everyone is playing to win only for themselves - and so everyone is losing.
Of course-- anyone with eyes can see that VC hustle culture is a grift.
Sure, but first off I never claimed they "make stock trading more open and visible" that was you putting words in my mouth. That being said, it does make it much more accessible to retail investors. Trading stocks without fees and more or less instantly is impossible without dark pools. We could do away with dark pools entirely, but it would mean going back to paying $9.99 for trades or whatever but somehow I expect the same people crying about dark pools wouldn't like that either.

Another aspect of dark pool hate is the idea that market impact can be reduced by selling through them as opposed to on market. If you're a speculator, this can be good or bad depending on the side of the trade you're on so probably evens out to a wash. If you're a long term investor, this is also a wash since you shouldn't be concerned about short term volatility (or lack thereof) of your investment.

What exactly do you take issue with when it comes to dark pools? what problems do you think they're causing that outweigh the very real benefits to market participants I listed?
I don't care about Epic specifically, but I do care about some other games that have been made dependent on central servers.

I don't want to the publishers of those other games seeing Epic get away with this, and thinking that they too can shut down necessary central servers.

How costly does the expected legal and PR fallout have to be, that publishers won't try to do this?
This wiki page has a surprising graph https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_elements_in_Earth...

The "rare earths" are actually just as common as Si. It just shows we won't be running out of them anytime soon, it's just a matter of finding ways to extract them.
Shift will switch modes but whether you need to shift to get out of latin or vice versa depends on the context. A legacy app will almost always default to "latin, shift to pinyin" while a modern app will almost always default to "pinyin, shift to latin" - exceptions for when the app is self-aware the other input makes more sense in the context. Examples of each respectively (on the current Windows 11 at least, not sure about others) is File Explorer and the Start Menu.

Regardless I don't consider this additional configuration anyways in the same way I don't consider holding shift to get capitals changing your input configuration but maybe that's just me.
> They are really mostly copying whatever they were trained on

People keep saying this without defining what exactly they mean. This is a technical topic, and it requires technical explanations. What do you think "mostly copying" means when you say it?

Because there isn't a shred of original pixel data reproduced from training data through to output data by any of the diffusion models. In fact there isn't enough data in the model weights to reproduce any images at all, without adding a random noise field.

> The benefits of allowing this will be had by a very small group of corporations and individuals

You are also grossly mistaken here. The benefits of heavily restricting this, will be had by a very small group of corporations and individuals. See, everyone currently comes around to "you should be able to copyright a style" as the solution to the "problem".

Okay - let's game this out. US Copyright lasts for the life of author plus 70 years. No copyright work today will enter public domain until I am dead, my children are dead, and probably my grandchildren as well. But copyright can be traded and sold. And unlike individuals, who do die, corporations as legal entities do not. And corporations can own copyright.

What is the probability that any particular artistic "style" - however you might define that (whole other topic really) - is truly unique? I mean, people don't generally invent a style on their own - they build it up from studying other sources, and come up with a mix. Whatever originality is in there is more a function of mutation of their ability to imitate styles then anything else - art students, for example, regularly will do studies of famous artists and intentionally try to copy their style as best they can. A huge amount of content tagged "Van Gough" in Stable Diffusion is actually Van Gough look-alikes, or content literally labelled "X in the style of Van Gough". It had nothing to do with them original man at all.

I mean, zero - by example - it's zero. There are no truly original art styles. Which means in a world with copyrightable art styles, all art styles eventually end up as a part of corporate owned styles. Or the opposite is also possible - maybe they all end up as public domain. But in both cases the answer is the same: if "style" becomes a copyrightable term, and AIs can reproduce it in some way which you can prove, then literal "prior art" of any particular style will invariably be an existing part of an AI dataset. Any new artist with a unique style will invariably be found to simply be 95% a blend of other known styles from an AI which has existed for centuries and been producing output constantly.

In the public domain world, we wind up approximately where we are now: every few decades old styles get new words keyed into them as people want to keep up with the times of some new rising artist who's captured a unique blend in the zeitgeist. In the corporate world though, the more likely one, Disney turns up with it's lawyers and says "we're taking 70% or we're taking it all".
Consider the compiler.

There’s an awful lot of analogy there, if you think about it.
"As an academic community, we are committed to a vision of inclusive debate and free and open inquiry."

Which has recently been revealed wasn't possible on Twitter, especially since 2016. Shadow banning, de-trending, and canceling accounts at the behest of government agencies such as the FBI purely on ideological grounds is not a culture of "inclusive debate". Some of it was warranted, much of it wasn't. This is no longer a conspiracy theory, it is fact.
And, considering what other PCs looked like at the time, they were beautiful machines! Everything else was just a beige box.
I absolutely love this, including the eventual output. However, the word "video" needs removing from almost every part of the article as it makes it really hard to parse given that "video" is an entirely different medium.
Weird. I still don’t see where that’s prohibited (so it can’t be facilitating a violation). The closest is when it talks about forging IP headers or using anonymous emails. Or accessing the site only via published interfaces.
He probably wrote an medium article on it. lol
But why, in an open protocol, spend engineering resources making it easier for them? I get why Big Tech does it: they need the .gov in their court when regulations come up in the legislature, and they want the fat .mil contracts. People hacking for fun in their spare time don't have the same motivations.
Anyone who knows about that offer knows that Elon offered money to take it down first. Why are you being deceptive about this?
It's also possible some of the writings have grammatical errors.
We need to adapt to climate change, rather than try and stop it, which is probably impossible.
Is there no new bnetd?
The Tesla heatpump does what all heatpumps do. Increase efficiency vs space heaters by about 3 times, depending on outside temperature.

It is tiny and light-weight though, I'll give them that.
With intelligent charging practices (which often come at the expense of stored energy) and temperature control, modern lithium cells asymptote to ~20% capacity loss and stay there for, well at least since the model S came out, still counting. Or that was the case a couple years ago when I looked into it. The difference in the battery life in a leaf vs a tesla is qualitative not quantitative. The motivation to make phone batteries last longer wasn't there at first until it provided negative press, now intelligent charging is fairly common in phones. Thermal management is harder.
Except they aren't copying it, but instead drawing inspiration from it. Which all humans have done forever.
Build Yo'own ChatGPT with OpenAI API and Gradio
Um, why? (As submitter.)

The linked item was posted within the past 24 hours. The referenced images also appear to be current so far as I can tell.

(I'd looked for a more substantial post or article without luck when submitting this.)
Headscale: Open-source, self-hosted Tailscale control server
At the time when “workstations” were phasing out the key thing was to have a GNU user land. I’ve disagreed with those folks plenty since but that shit was untouchable at the time.