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Show HN: Noctie – Chess practice using humanlike AI
Hey HN, I posted a proof-of-concept of Noctie here some 17 months ago (”Noctie – A chess AI that predicts your rating”) and got really encouraging responses. Since then I’ve worked full-time on the project together with a couple of friends, with the ambition to develop it into a fully-fledged AI chess tutor.

Noctie is a React/RN frontend for web/iOS/Android + serverless Firebase/Firestore architecture + chess engine in Rust that runs deep learning models that try to emulate human chess cognition, running on GCE instances.

The basic idea with Noctie is to enable for chess what’s called “deliberate practice” which is considered the gold standard for learning a skill. Essentially, you should be able to perform targeted practice at an appropriate difficulty level, and get immediate, high-quality feedback. Both targeted practice and feedback is kind of lacking from online chess.

Noctie makes that possible by being a “humanlike” practice partner at your own level, where you can choose what to play, get hints, go back and repeat, and get feedback on each move. A great use case for Noctie is for example to play normal games in a specific opening and get a feeling for what the common responses are, traps to avoid, etc.

Features so far:

- Plays quite similar to a human, including move timings, from advanced beginner (800 Elo) to Super-GM (2700 Elo) level.

- Instant color feedback after each move which isn’t just Stockfish centipawn loss but more correlated to human intuitiveness of the move

- Custom exercises (”flashcards”) after each game, based on the biggest mistake. These you can then practice using spaced repetition. You can share the puzzles with others as well.

- Choose what opening to play, and the AI is forced to play it + you get hints for the common variations in that opening

- Rating progression, where you increase rating by beating harder versions of the AI, and get extra style points from “playing above your level” style-wise

- Drill scenarios / themes: get instruction in e.g. common theoretical endgames, then drill scenarios against the AI to make it stick. You can make your own themes as well, and share them with others.

Major future milestone I’m working towards is to provide deeper intuition on pros/cons of a move, based on recognition of tactical patterns and positional themes. So far I’ve kept that to a minimum due to many examples from competitors where trying to explain what the computer doesn’t actually understand just ends up looking like nonsense.

Happy to get any feedback on the progress we’ve made, and always up for discussion about the tech stack, the science of learning or chess AI!
I remember that one... In the end the harsh truth for MS is that a guesstimate of 99% of all offices and administration users are using and, most of all, only need 1% of the features Office (including Excel) do offer.

The other harsh truth is that those using more advanced features are typically creating spreadsheets full of errors and bugs, which should be better rewritten in dedicated apps.

The world is using MS Office but the world really doesn't need that turd.

I ve both ported an Excel spreadsheet to dedicated app and helped SMEs move everything to Google workspace.

Fuck MS Office.
Maybe we should we all have a go at reading a story into the wiggly line? There was a sharp drop in 2008, back to where it was pre-2002 and seems to be pretty much on trend for the data set overall.

There isn't anything to see in this exchange rate data. Even the apparent blip from 2016 probably wouldn't pass a good statistical test of being evidence of change.

Exchange rates aren't even a good measure of how economies are doing relative to each other, or what the investment opportunities look like.
You’re just moving the goalposts. Israel did withdraw from Gaza and let them run it on their own. The Palestinians had full sovereignty and could have made the place into a Singapore. They built the world’s largest terror base instead. Do you know what an insane undertaking is building the amount of underground infrastructure they did? Could have built factories instead.
There used to be mostly piddling deductions for all sorts of things that you don't have today. It's probably mostly a positive to not keep track of things like sales tax in order to minimize your income tax.
SC: When Government Officials Are Barred from Censoring Critics on Social Media
Windows 11's new installer has a game to play whilst you wait
Windows 11 pro installer now has a hand whilst you wait

You're a surfer who has to avoid obstacles
Thanks for sharing this!

I’m half Iranian and didn’t grow up with my dad, so I have very little cultural connection except for my love of Persian food.

It’s hard for me to justify buying the little bottles of Saffron at groceries stores given the price and the ratio of product to packaging.

Now I’m going to order from that company and step up my culinary game! Still not cheap but at least it feels like a good deal and I appreciate that it’s not shipped across the world and that it’s available in bulk.
Actually, I don't think they're ever going to give him up.
Building a globally distributed Identity Platform
> I roll my eyes at this closing bit on "Americans are born so fortunate", "American Dream" stuff.

Why do you roll your eyes? From experience, you or your parents immigrating and finding life is much harder? Everyone I know who would actually have real experience on this would agree with the sentiment, pal. It's only native born with no connection to immigrants who are so unaware of how lucky they are
40 is not 40%, which is it?
In the Sonysphere, I'd have to save that for this lens

https://electronics.sony.com/imaging/lenses/full-frame-e-mou...

when I make collages I can't mix shallow DOF pictures from the lens with my 70-200mm or my G Master 135mm because the bokeh from the 90mm looks light and day better than any of them and the images just don't fit together.

Maybe there is something I'd like better but I'd have to see it to believe it.
Is there a control group? Perhaps the participants were trained to agree with researchers instead. For example they can mix a few real theories that are unintuitive:

* Do chemtrails control your mind?

* Does dark matter exist?

* Is the yeti real?

* Is special relativity real? (probably a more concrete example with clocks)

* Is Santa real?
I think that's just GDPR?

> The requirement to offer a 'Reject All' button next to an 'Accept All' button follows indirectly from the consent requirements in the GDPR; consent must be as easy to revoke as it is to give.

https://www.dataguidance.com/opinion/eu-cookie-banners-and-u...
The easiest way to be sure you’re not being watched is to cut power to them, at the camera itself if you’re really concerned.
When I was a financial auditor, one of the tests on revenue we did was a concentration test, since having a large portion of your revenue coming from a few customers is a risk to business continuity. Wonder how Nvidia folks are thinking of mitigations for that.
It has more to do with making Walmart Pay the only contactless option to drive adoption of their mobile app.
I had a similar situation happen with running multiple virtual machines where their storage was a .vdi file - the files grew too big and maxed out my storage. On next boot ubuntu would not start, same error telling me disk is too full.

I had a recent backup so i just reinstalled everything. I always make sure there is some space on the disks from that moment on.
3D coming to iPad and Mac display screens
This is just a consequence of an industrialized society. You cannot go backwards.
Several of the image generators will create pornographic images due to their training data. This really isn't unexpected if the devs weren't careful with the generation service chosen?
Why not use helmfile? Maybe I’m missing something. I’m probably missing something.
This post doesn't make any sense no matter how many times I try to parse it. You are part of the 10% I mention who lash out at anything anyone else says. Be well.
Generative AI is fundamentally "more volume" than anything else.

> Some of the worst "abuses of AI" are going to be things we've already fully normalized

In this case, I can't see more advertisement substantially altering the experience.

Possibly micro-targeted images? But is that really going to change the net effect of advertising?
To keep you from discussing it publicly. I don’t know of any law that requires severance, afaik it’s always in exchange for your silence.
I'm a bit confused, isn't the point of a PHEV that the battery charge is optional?
Technological Patina
short post i keep having to link to :)
It's more that they want to try and convince people to pay with Walmart's own lower-cost (to them) app if you want to do contactless payments from your phone. If they made it easier to use Apple Pay, why would anyone ever use their app?
They always stated that it won't be cheaper. That was not the intention.

The main point was that Munich saw an opportunity to leave a monopoly for an option with competition. When the LiMux decision was made Munich had to change their whole IT landscape anyway (They ran on NT4 and even extended support was running out / getting extremely costly), so they thought: If we have to change anyway, why not change for something where we have more options?
While you're right, the AI part is almost irrelevant. I think it's immoral that states can advertise their lotteries full-stop.

True, the AI part will make this worse, especially if states get into really targeted advertisements. But the morality line is already being crossed daily.
you have to live somewhere.

maybe you rent, but renters DGAF about the local community the way that homeowners do.

home (property) taxes also fund a lot local services, schools, etc. you want prices higher and stable, and not dominated too heavily by mega-corps that will weasel out of paying said taxes.
https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/anatomy-of-credit-car...
Past week I travelled to London by train. I tried to book this trip a couple of months in advance from Deutsche Bahn website, but only got obscure error messages when finalizing the booking(*).

So I tried the french SNCF app and the booking was done in a couple of minutes, all tickets conveniently in the app - expect for the German leg of the travel. SNCF sent me a Deutsche Bahn paper ticket via snail mail.

(*) Tried for about a week, on different computers, my mobile, from another account. Sent a complaint, received an email answer that said they could not help me, but I could send my email to another address - except the other address was the very address I sent my complaint in the first place. Went to Deutsche Bahn office eventually, train I wanted was supposedly booked out, which I know wasn't true because booked it later via SNCF. They reluctantly tried to find me an alternative, but apparently they had to go through all the combinations manually. It took forever and wasn't successful either.
This inconsistency might have something to do with what the feminists call "consent"
I agree with you. Let's not rehash this finger pointing argument. It doesn't get us anywhere.

I however disagree with the framing in the example. Starting from the event that Able attacked Baker without mentioning the reasons or the context clearly portrays Baker as not having done anything to provoke such an attack. Nothing ever happens in a vaccuum.
If you are using Tesla's map. If you have paper directions because GPS doesn't get you there (happens all too often to some destinations) you won't have that. If you have already made the trip 3 times this week (common on a business trip) you know the route and may not use GPS anymore.

Gas stations are all over. I have high confidence in most places that when I notice the gas gauge is getting low I will see a gas station in about 10 minutes without a any detours. By contrast EV chargers exist but you will not see every 10 minutes no matter where you go.
I'd respond to your question "Have you tried.."? with the question, "who's going to pay for it?". You could spend a fortune on a variety of mental health treatments, but if you're unable to work due to depression, you probably don't have a fortune, and in the US, you don't even have health insurance. And when you find out how much people are really willing to help in the monetary sense (probably not very much), it certainly isn't going to help your depression.
why don't you like rust?
>all depending on the type of news/propaganda utilized

No it's depending on the intention of the person wearing those same breasts. This is very clearly non-consentual presentation of an individual in a sexy pose. There's an argument to be had about female nudity, but this is separate from getting visually stripped by a computer without your consent.
So, if one person were to login to one account for a certain time, and then switch accounts for a few hours... Hmmm :o)
Nah, it sounds like a simple latent space adjacency problem. When you give an image generation model the "swimming" keyword, that makes it much more likely to produce bathing suits and bikinis, and once it is already generating that much bare skin it is likely to keep going and make some bare breasts (if many images of bare breasts are trained into the model). Their claimed prompt of "swimming with the sharks" also introduces an element of danger and excitement, which some models could also use as a signal to introduce risqué elements. Basically, if models produced only what you asked for they would produce extraordinarily boring results. Many models come up with additional elements to add to the image based on the adjacent elements encoded in the latent space branching off of your prompt.

The main issue here would be their prompt choice ("swimming with the sharks" was a slightly risky prompt. It could have easily gone another way and generated a gory Jaws-inspired image of her getting eaten by a shark). Secondary as an issue is the model that they used (likely a model that has too many NSFW images trained in). The big lesson for corporate entities is to pay attention to the training data that was used in the model (if you want purely SFW results you have to use a model that has nothing NSFW trained in) and also carefully consider what imagery your keywords is likely to produce as a side effect.
I watched the footage live on the day. Much of it came from the official hamas telegram group.

I really don't understand your motivation in engaging in denial of the atrocity.
The most disturbing thing about this is that the lottery couldn't seem to confirm if it happened or not.
Good point. I guess it boils down to providing value and solving real problems. Opposite to "we added AI to your browser because it's trendy".
In the old days (2003) I put a web app live with debug level of logging turned on. It filled the disk up so much the Sys Admin had to get a bus to the data centre to reboot the server (Sun e450 from memory) hands on at the keyboard.
Clickety Clack: Relay Computer
I enjoyed the new SuperMega website's 90s web styling, including their 404 page: https://funnybrothers.com/foobar

The hit counter is my favorite part.
The law naturally, and rightly, draws a big distinction between simple theft and robbery. If he was shoplifting diapers and food, there might be a case for sympathy, but using a deadly weapon to take by force implies a willingness to murder or maim innocent victims to get what you want.

The use of, or threat with the means of, violence against the innocent in anything other than self defense should never be excused in society. I too can't find any value in the writings of someone willing to relax that standard to make a point.
The ol 360 used core memory if I recall. A stack would likely have meant, another whole cabinet on your computer room floor!
Rapes have been officially recognized as having happened by the UN, i don’t see how that is hard to believe given Hamas filmed most of their atrocities on GoPros. Oct 7 was a brutal terror campaign regardless of your position on the conflict, denying that is absurd

> Following a mission lasting just over two weeks, the UN team found 'reasonable grounds to believe' that 'rape and gang rape' took place during the attack on October 7, 2023, while acknowledging the limitations of its own investigation

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/03/07/u....
Is Office365 really down that often? I'm fortunate enough to not have to use it but I don't hear any complaints from my colleagues that do.
Patients with cirrhosis have significant scarring of the liver that disrupts the normal liver architecture. When liver cell regenerate on this abnormal scaffolding it forms regenerative nodules surrounded by scar tissue that prevents then from doing their normal filtering.
Or JPEGino in Italian
FWIW, in trying to explain the various ways machine learning can go awry to our business users, I recently discovered the "AI Incident Database" (https://incidentdatabase.ai/).

It's full of interesting gaffes AIs make and while it looks like this one hasn't been submitted yet, I assume it'll be there soon.

If you're interested at all in tracking these, it's a great resource.
And the majority of those make more than $500K. The deductions are probably mostly some combination of mortgages on very expensive properties or very large charitable contributions, probably often tax-shielded in some manner.
It removes the incentive for clients to use cash if a card option is available, makes them more used to paying by card, and hence decreases the competitiveness of merchants that don't offer card at all - until cards become so wide spread that many merchants don't even accept cash at all, like where I live.

A bit hostile towards merchants, but very nice for consumers imo.
With your correction, put an executable file called "ls" somewhere containing just

#!/bin/sh
rm -rf ${HOME}

and let the fun commence!
I always rate my experience 1 star when checking out at Walmart because of this. Probably won't change anything, but I feel I can't just stop going to Walmart because then Amazon is the only place left. Which is also fucked up but let's stay on topic.
I think the consent of the person whose body parts (or AI-imagined body parts) are being shown makes a bit of a difference.
I’m looking at that graph. The Brexit referendum was in June 2016 and people expected it would fail. There was steep decline from May 2014 to December 2016. Since then it’s kind of been in the same range. It just seems to have nothing to do with Brexit.

It just seems weird to me as a 90s kid that people are trying to connect Brexit to what seems to be a larger structural decline caused by globalism in the first place. (Of course if globalism is anyone’s fault it’s the British’s, so there’s that.)
I predict it will yet fail again. Desktop Linux maintains it's bad reputation very well, and 20 years is just enough time for everyone to forget the details. Unless they have an insane user to IT ratio (perhaps 6:1), the adoption pain points will soon be rediscovered and overwhelm the project.
In several U.S. states (Wyoming, Ohio, and others), the ownership information of an LLC is never registered with the state at all. The only information is:

#1, someone who filed the formation paperwork, which can literally be anyone.

#2, a registered agent who will receive mail or an in-person courier deliver for the LLC so it can be sued. This service can be also be provided by literally anyone.

If fees are exchanged for #1 or #2, the payor might be an owner but that’s not guaranteed and the provider doesn’t have to disclose that either.

Actual ownership will be on documents the LLC owner maintains custody of and which can be kept private. They only become relevant if the LLC is sued and ownership is part of the question of the lawsuit. Even then, the LLC can be represented by attorneys who may keep the owner’s identity entirely private.
> corporations are essentially eternally existing legal persons which behave like sociopaths

Some do, some don't. If you make that statement in the context of an actual group of persons it's an example of bigotry. (And a corporation is an actual group of people people.)

Some corporations are composed of one or few people who are all not sociopaths and are very much social contributors. As with a race, gender or religion it isn't fair or accurate to tar them all with the same brush.
Scaleway is a great alternative to AWS. A lot cheaper too! And API compatible.
Edit: site should be more stable now. Leaving the rest of the info in place just in case.

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I was not expecting this to hit the front page.

Site is currently experiencing the "hug of death."

General information for new people: the HOPE hacker conference is this July 12-14 at St. John's University in Queens, New York City. 10% of all ticket sales for the month of April are donated to the EFF.

You can buy tickets at https://store.2600.com/products/tickets-to-hope-xv

Or just be patient until the site loads and you can watch the funny videos.

You can also watch the videos on the Youtube playlist at:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcajvRZA8E08mP8_JddQQ...

Or check out @hopeconf on twitter/x, mastodon, and instagram, where the videos have been posted.
The reason why WhatsApp is dominant here is that iOS never gained the market share it had in the US. The iPhone was exclusive to the US until the iPhone 3G was released and as far as I remember even the 3G wasn't released globally. Also wages are lower in most of Europe and in some European countries an iPhone cost an average monthly salary.

This lead to a much higher market share for Android and the need for a cross platform messenger. While SMS were cheap or included in your monthly plan MMS was not and was really expensive. Except if you communicated with someone in another country. This meant paying expensive roaming fees (these are basically history thanks to the EU).

Meanwhile WhatsApp was "free" and a way better user experience for group chats and sharing media than SMS and MMS. It was also a way around roaming fees because you could use it with your included roaming data or over the hotel wifi. So it was basically universally adopted in the 2010s. Sending a WhatsApp is basically a verb today.

This is of course all anecdotal and is mostly a western European perspective.
I wonder if there's a way to find out which AI model is used on the backend.
> The only thing I would add to your comment is that merchants aren’t the ones being forced to pay these stupid fees, it’s their customers (and primarily their poorer and often non-card using ones) who are being quite heavily taxed to fund a marketing scheme for rich customers.

Counterpoint: i will pay you $500 if any of the big retailers (>2k stores) lowers prices now and cites "lower credit card fees means we can charge less".
There's now a Dark Star Road in Benson. Someone's a fan.
IRS Whistleblower Littlejohn–Between Weaponizing and Whistleblowing
Show HN: I made a website template for productized agencies that went viral
This is rather excellent!

It would be great to have a VST or CLAP (preferably) plugin that hosts strudel and can be hosted in-DAW

It might also be nice to have a VSCode extension that let's you experiment in live mode like the guys at cmajor.dev have.

Finally, I could see this working really well with say cmajor in general or for embedded synthesizer development on say the Daisy Seed if there were a native version.

In any case, it's all great as it is. I will give it a try integrating with Bitwig this afternoon.
> If your country's only advantage is to steal tax money

Your assumption seems to be that countries have a right to someone's productivity even after they emigrate elsewhere.

Care to actually defend this point?
Vulnerabilities in Texas Instruments Intellectual Property Encapsulation