skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Stockfish evaluation do not predict actual winrates"

I think Stockfish evaluation gives the best answer here because people do not sit and study that very starting position. If starting position was always set to be what stockfish said to have the highest chance, there would be much more theory written on that start position hence more winrate.
Apparently you missed the point. local needs to be the default. Not some magic incantation

In node

cd projectFoo
# do stuff, node uses packages local to projectFoo
cd ../projectBar
# do stuff, node uses packages local to projectBar

There is no "activation", the default is it just works.

Installing packages local to the project is also the default.
Blurays instead of DVD’s and I don’t share them with anyone.

So maybe sorta yes. I would be a lot easier with DVD’s though. I don’t want to be uploading 40+GB files constantly.
Can it make it pop? Because that was the #1 request I remember dealing with.
On rare occasion you can understand some thing well after you have had a few… learning experiences. And sometimes there are edge cases. My flute teacher was a phenomenal flute player and yet thought of herself as an oboist. But she admitted to me that she never played oboe professionally from fear of failure. She played both instruments at pro level and was a wonderful teacher. She just didn’t have it in her to play in an orchestra.
> For every deliverable GW of of solar you have have a GW of backup

That is utterly silly. Think.

You need only just enough backup generation capacity to fill a shortfall. In contrast, you overbuild solar and wind so you can charge up your storage while also satisfying peak load even under reduced yield.

You will never, ever charge storage from your backup generator: that would be beyond idiotic. So you need only a very strictly limited backup capacity, no matter how much renewable generation you have overbuilt. You will overbuild, because it is by far the cheapest way to get power, and you can sell the extra.

Wind and solar are variable, but not random: you know well ahead of time what they will produce, and whether and when your storage will run low. So, you can schedule a fuel delivery or a slice of transmission line capacity. You might charge storage from the transmission line if you are not producing enough excess, which will be cheaper than ordering in liquid fuel.

Your figures on transmission lines are badly dated. UK is building a transmission line to a solar farm in Africa, which is rather more than 300km away. (Siting a solar farm in the desert is also idiotic, but people who control money love the idea, so here we are.) China wants to build one to Chile, their antipodes; they figure on 50% loss, which is fine.

We will need a lot of power generation and transmission. Renewable generation is cheap and still getting cheaper fast. So it is obvious what to do: build that. Keep building that.

Diverting capital to nukes (or geo) would radically cut generation capacity. More expensive means, exactly, fewer watts per dollar. Fortunately nobody with money is dumb enough to buy a nuke, even with DoE doing their level best to sucker somebody on board.

If we are very, very lucky, civilization will not collapse before enough is built out.
Ask HN: Deepfake Video Compression?
I was thinking that rather than have a video of Michael Jackson reading from Hamlet (assuming such thing existed anyway), couldn't we have a video that comprised of: AI likeness of MJ, text of Hamlet scene, other instructions (lighting, etc), and the Deepfake model can recreate it?

Is this a viable future video compression method? Also, doesn't it violate or potentially violate some fundamental Shannon limits of entropy / compression / information content regarding the content? If no, how does it get around them?

Bigger picture...what's the relationship between Kolmogorov Complexity / Minimum Description Length, and Shannon Entropy fundamental limits on compression? It would seem there is a paradox there on one level, how is that paradox usually resolved conceptually?
The first I explicitly acknowledged by saying it varies by crypto. Both are irrelevant because similar can be said about normal money.

SWIFT is (a) not the only inter-bank system, and (b) is specifically for inter-bank exchanges (the "I" is for Interbank), so when a transaction is between two accounts in the same bank it doesn't need to touch SWIFT.

I have no idea how many cash transactions there are, but I think cash payments of just children's pocket money (let alone school dinner money) and even then just in the UK is by itself enough to exceed BTCs capacity.

I wonder if the Matutus in Nairobi are still cash, or if they're mostly MPESA now? Either way, they're probably also by themselves at least three times over the capacity limit for BTC.

Not that it matters much; while Lightning (and crypto) are technically intriguing, they're all fairly terrible for both practical and economic reasons. All the liquidity of shares, but with higher volatility and the fundamentals of a stock bubble.
If having a 6 month to years old image is fine for your use case then Google Earth is fine. There are many use cases where near real time is preferred and/or other sensors are preferred. We don't expect every consumer to have a near real tine satellite imagery need.
Yes, so this mumbo jumbo scaremongering about how poor AI researchers won’t be able to make the world a better place isn’t remotely accurate.

If copyright ends up being enforced, it’ll affect commercial deployment. We’re in for an inevitable paradigm shift soon anyway, so if we need any guardrails, we better install them before we open the floodgates.
If you want to be super pedantic then my description is perfectly in line with the definition of a secret, which can by definition be anything that is unknown, and you would only speculate about things that are unknown. Your example seems silly because we could culturally have the expectation that that is happening, even if it’s unsaid. But if you were to change the cultural context to say, somewhere that would be illegal, then it wouldn’t seem silly to describe that as a conspiracy at all.

However my point is that conspiracies are very common place, and a majority of the discussion/commentary about them would by definition be conspiracy theories. Stating this should really only be a casually observing a simple fact, but unfortunately it’s quite a controversial statement to make, because dismissing something as a conspiracy theory has become a mainstream technique for discrediting an idea/argument/person… without engaging with it on any level.
> Don’t you think that motivation to defend one’s employer would correlate with taking pride in one’s work?

No.
No. I get why. I'm just saying that it's morally equivalent to use copyrighted music to train AI generated music, as it is to use copyrighted art to generate art.

> Dance Diffusion is also built on datasets composed entirely of copyright-free and voluntarily provided music and audio samples. Because diffusion models are prone to memorization and overfitting, releasing a model trained on copyrighted data could potentially result in legal issues. In honoring the intellectual property of artists while also complying to the best of their ability with the often strict copyright standards of the music industry, keeping any kind of copyrighted material out of training data was a must.

Reads very different to any statement made by Hugginface or the LION database regarding stable diffusion, which do not mention the concept of an artist or artist work a single time.

And Hugginface are the only ones open about it. Midjourney and Dall-E and Imagen most assuredly doing the same for their black boxes.
That's tough when Jimmy is using copilot to generate code for his proprietary company codebase.

AI is just a tool, do you also sue the company that sold the paintbrush with which an infringing painting was made?
Dumb question, but wouldn't the filter just end up getting clogged instead?
Not turned on yet expected in late February as we go thru Quality control.
What's the problem with first doing the venv thing and then running pip?
America: A Nation of Small Towns (2020)
Does DuckDuckGo have any means to report abuse of their mail service?
I looked on DDG site to no avail.

Someone is using a duck.com email address to advertise products that help self assisted suicide. While I am completely supportive of freedom of choice also in that field, they should sell them in a less shady way where they can make sure the product can't end in the wrong hands, since they're essentially selling poison.
Been doing a lot with prompts lately. What people are calling "prompt engineering" I'd call "knowing what to even ask for and also asking for it in a clear manner". That was a valuable skill before computers and will continue to be one as AI progresses.

I've been pretty disappointed to introduce ChatGPT to people in jobs where it would be a game changer and they just don't know what to do with it. They ask it for not-useful things or useful things in a non-productive way. "here is some ad copy I wrote, write it better". Whether you're instructing a human, chatgpt, or AI god... that's just too vague of instructions.
#1 request of what, for what, requested by whom?
I actually just did something similar with whisper.cpp, and hooked it up to GPT-3 Davinci-3 via the API, and then the answer piped via Microsoft's text to speech. The mic I'm using is a cheap USB omni-mic designed for conference calls.
For anyone else wondering what an instability strip is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instability_strip
I’m pretty sure it works in vr now. Just not on mobile vr which would matter for meta.
> though I'm not sure anyone ever used an interactive theorem prover to show a conjecture they did not know was true

The Liquid Tensor Experiment [1] formalised a proof that the author himself found sufficiently complicated to have doubts about. And at a very different level, I myself began to formalise a proof [2] while it still had at least one hole in it. I was fortunate it turned out to be true!

[1] https://leanprover-community.github.io/blog/posts/lte-final/
[2] https://github.com/agjftucker/exists-unique
If Asimov had robopsychologists in his stories, why can't we in real life? Who wants to be the first Susan Calvin?
Nvidia already has a product that does this. It’s no more a violation of Shannon theory than neural audio codecs. All of these optimal compression models produce a string of length -sum(p log p). If you can come up with a better representation of likely events, that implies stronger assumptions on what the state space can actually be occupied by, and so you reduce the surprisal of individual observations, thereby reducing code length.
So has the EU as part of the digital single market changes in 2019 (The so-called Text and Data mining exceptions)
Editorialized title is editorialized.
If this is such an issue, why not have sloped roofs? (Just curious)
People focus too much on bandwidth, but latency is more important. Bandwidth has increased exponentially, but the speed of light has stayed the same for more than 10 years now.
Does whisper model support real time transcription?
And in ten years we'll replace Polars with the new library "Koalas".
Everyone's pushing IRL meetings though. Apart from tech, most industries are back at the office...
Has it? I mean, maybe the idea of people doing this as a long-time career has, but practically, I still find it a challenge to get those AIs to do exactly what I want. I've played around with Dreambooth-style extensions now, and that goes some way for some applications, and I'm excited to try OP's solution, but in my experience, it is still a bit of a limitation for working with those AIs right now.
This is pure awesome! It might be a bit of a stretch but I'm hoping the community is able to 3d model this much like the Curta Calculator. I'd really love to be able to 3d print and play with this
I just want to point about that sentence of "goal posts get shifted". In his book Test Driven Development by Example (2003), Kent Beck, on the preface, page X says: "Red-Write a little test that doesn't work, and perhaps doesn't even compile at first"

There is no goal post moving.

More likely, as we transmit information, we don't do it correctly, and knowledge/data gets lost. I found quite enlightening to always go back to the source.
> No gaudy LEDs either, just a plain case. I want it to be very stable and reliable and unobtrusive.

Good luck with that. https://chainsawsuit.krisstraub.com/20160223.shtml

Last time I was looking for a case, this was a real issue.
Read this while sitting on the couch next to my 8 year-old son. He’s gotten into Scratch and Python recently and seemed very impressed when I explained the gist of the article. Can’t help but wonder how different software development will be when he enters the workforce in 10-15 years… and everything else for that matter.
I recently worked on information extraction from 10K documents. GPT-3 needs about 7 days of operation in batch mode on one thread. It takes 40..70s to read one single document and report the extracted data. One MINUTE per page.

But I think you meant GPT-3 has seen many books during training, not during inference. You should know that training on millions of books is not the only way GPT-3 learns. It is just the foundation of its knowledge.

GPT-3 learns "in-context", that means it can learn a new word or a new task at first sight. It just needs a description or a few examples. This is the most powerful feature of GPT-3 - in-context learning. And when it comes to ICL, it is much like humans - only sees a few examples, not millions of books.

> “Do you ask for permission when you train your mind on copyrighted books?”

The nature of ICL is that it happens at prediction time. So GPT-3 would have to explicitly be instructed to learn a specific skill. Should it reject instructions if they are sourced from copyrighted books?
Can you elaborate please? This hasn’t been my experience whatsoever, curious what the issues have been
Were we talking specifically about corporate work? There's more to meetings or meetups than just your job.

That said, I think VR/AR may eventually be a way to enhance online work meetings. It doesn't seem like it's there yet overall, but eventually I could definitely see it working.
Chinese and Russian hypersonic capabilities are a money bell for American defence contractors. For cross-strait warfare, they’re irrelevant. (Conventional artillery dominates at that range.)
I’m not a crypto expert at all but I wouldn’t use Enigma as it exposes file structure which could be a potential vector for an attack afaik. Not sure how Enigma differs from CryFS[1] but at the glimpse the latter does the same across all major platforms but doesn’t expose a folder structure, has a security analysis, and in development for years.

[1]: https://www.cryfs.org/howitworks
Unfortunately, he got it wrong anyway.
1. People who use copyleft licenses do it because they know that the end result will be using a good license forever.

2. People using non-copyleft license just do it because public domain seems to have a complicated legal status across the world.
Man, I've been looking for something as accessible and free for years. Thanks!
> Less venture capital backed open source

> We all love free open source software. But when VCs get involved, it means they
> expect a huge monetary return. These things just don’t go together.

I am not sure what case study the author is thinking of that they are so hostile to the idea of cash flowing into OSS ?

I would like to see more money flowing toward open source creators and maintainers. It's terrible that companies use the OSS that's built on the backs of people that do not receive remuneration for their efforts.

PS: I really like the design and speed of the author's website. Inspired me to pickup Astro for next project.
Google has stolen data from pages and showed it without attribution on their search page: https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU05/20190716/109793/HHRG...
What is strange in it exactly?

I can’t speak for everyone, but personally I find that copyright can be used properly or abused, at both sides (holder/consumer). It doesn’t mean that copyright is bad, only particular caregories of claims and usage are. But abusing copyrighted material from millions of little creators at insanely automated scale is another level of evil, especially when they explicitly require consent for exactly this type of use.

worrying that requiring consent to train an AI model will inevitably lead to requiring consent to make handmade art that’s a little too similar to some other existing artwork

That’s the root of misunderstanding, afaict. We can agree that at-scale processing is bad and that fair use is still okay. A human with a pen (or a text editor) can’t damage copyright at scale by learning terabytes of material in few weeks and producing the same amount in hours, so they can be excluded from this. Humans who use AI can, so they’re a target.
For some reason that reminds me of this totally unrelated animation, "To Be" about teleportation from the 80s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocgFkHElzgQ
Oxygen: A micro-framework for programming web apps in Julia
> ceases to make Taiwan a strategic asset to the West since there are no more fab to defend

PRC control of Taiwan enables blockading Japan. It’s better strategy to turn Taiwan into China’s Afghanistan than abandon it because the fabs were blown. (One can also Werner von Braun Taiwan’s technical knowledge to the American homeland, thereby turning the entire endeavour into a Pyrrhic victory for Beijing.)
Even better title: tech giants don't want to pay copyright to small creators, but will easily be coherced to pay it to disney.
If her picture had been handed out to all the security officers, would that violate her privacy? The argument "it's super easy to add new faces" would also follow if they just handed out bits of paper to the staff.

If the software is being used in criminal cases then, that's bad. If it's being used the same way a picture in the local 7/11 is used to say "don't sell to this person." then it's not so bad.

If it's being used to track someone as they walk around town, then I think it falls into privacy.

In this story. The lawyer was warned. It's reasonable to assume if you're suing me, I don't want you in my house.
"Practical Electronics for Inventors" by Paul Scherz [0]. Not only does it have practical circuits it also has chapters on theory presented in such a way as to have me understand it.

I think many of the books I read in the past shied away from complex math, linear algebra, etc. whereas PEfI uses them as needed. "The Art of Electronics", for example, I found to be absolutely abysmal.

It's not an in depth book, it's pretty much a beginners book, but it's thorough and practical.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Fourt...
The second reason that the CPC taking back land a population that fled the communist revolution currently occupied is still just imperialism: it's an entirely different populace with entirely different identity.

Taiwanese identity as Taiwanese. An ROC takeover of PRC territory would be imperialism. Luckily nobody in Taiwan has any such ambutions (that the roc constitution claims PRC territory is a political hostage taking: xi jinping has threatened a trigger invasion if Taiwan changes its constitution, even to remove the given claim).

If your first language is Mandarin but you used the unexpected and uncommon example of the ROC taking over the PRC, why do you say "Mainland" instead of "PRC" or "China?"
Meet Aiko and Aiden

https://mayankvikash.in/posts/Meet-Codeword-s-AI-Inters-Aiko...
These guys were smart, delightful company, and a lot of fun. Some were my friends. Some remain in my pantheon of artists. I still sorely miss Keith Haring. They also flagrantly violated guidelines that would have kept them alive, like keeping it in your pants or at least not fucking every guy in the bathhouse bareback. This was the rule, not the exception. I watched this happen in terror when it was called GRIDS, then when it was called AIDS. These guys, I am sorry to say, almost always brought on their own gruesome and painful deaths.
neat story, but since when did nature branch out to publishing short stories? roots about the website 2000??

https://www.nature.com/nature/articles?type=futures&year=200...
I think it's the other way around: something with general intelligence, that is good at modelling others, is going to naturally wind up producing a(n imperfect) model of itself, en passant.
Not really.

Well they allow mining the data but nothing is said about the copyright of the collage output.
Dahala Khagrabari
I'm sure chatgpt would be of much less interest worldwide if it only spoke japanese.
Show HN: Hamsterbase 0.6.0 local-first,privacy first read-it-later app
If not, you could have published a proof that it was not.

I knew somebody whose PhD project was a proof that all objects X are in Y. After rather some time he found instead that there are no objects X. That proof was not considered PhD material, although it seems like it should have been.
Pretty sure the Fed "wants" to bring up unemployment. I.e. make wage inflation decrease. To put it another way, they want everyone to feel more poor so they spend less frivolously.
i’ve used https://www.genesiscloud.com/
It's belt tightening time. We had a good run.

In a few years everyone will forget again.

What's the exit pay looking like btw? Hopefully people are getting at least 3 months?
That is a common request when working with clients. They have a hard time describing what they want so end up asking to “make it pop”
This is the uncomfortable truth that no one on that side of the argument wants to address.

Also, the fact that Artistic Freedom is now under attack by artists. Not that long ago Artists hated the Music Industry and Corporations such as Disney for weaponizing Copyright law against Artistic Freedom. Now artists are utilizing that same tactic against other artists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artistic_freedom
At the time the data plan was a very useful feature. It worked globally without any additional costs for email. That's much like Google Fi today. I think that it was a major selling point. If BlackBerrys were sold without the plan than eventually it would need to compete with much cheaper devices. I think it is very similar to the model of iPod + iTunes at the time.
I would recommend just picking a project you find interesting, then learning whatever it takes to finish it. Doing that has helped me learn very quickly. Been programming for about 13 years now.
When I request new imagery my expectation is to have the copyright of the resulting image. Whilst I would have the need for high-resolution satellite images, I am not interested in acquiring licenses of any of them.
And the output!
Maybe but it could put their business logo anywhere!
> Ukraine and Russia share a common, ethnic, linguistic and cultural heritage.

Ukraine is the mix of Slavs and historic Russians (русичи) (from the town of Russia, now Old Russa, on Russia river, now Porussia river). "Russians" from Russian Federations are members of Russian orthodox church or citizens of Russian Federation. There was a split between "Polish" (Catholics) and "Russian" (Eastern Orthodox) members in Ukraine a few centuries ago.

> They also share a common political heritage with the name of the country meaning borderland (of Russia).

Nope. Ukraine is the original Russia, now called Kievan Rus by RF. "Ukraine" share same word root with such words as "ukryttia" (shelter), "ukriplennia" (reinforced structure). Modern equivalent world for "ukraine" is "ukripraion" (reinforced area of defense). Poland built multiple areas of defense ("ukraines") on their eastern border, so the whole area got name "Ukraine".

> In fact Ukraine was no more an independent country than Wales until about 30 years ago.

Bohdan Khmelnytskyi was Hetman of Ukraine since 1654, almost century before Russian Empire was created in 1721.