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> The US military is not actually very good at war

How do you define "good" at war? By the time you've reached "war" as a solution, "good" really isn't on the table.

Pretty much the only way to be "good" at war is to be willing to kill every single person in the theatre--civilians included. You are "good" at war and "win" in that case--there is no enemy left.

We also have a word for that--genocide. And we view that very negatively for good reason.
Doesn't something like jemalloc basically give you this, but without pauses? Thread-local freelists for quick recycling of small allocations without synchronization.. funnily enough, jemalloc even uses some garbage collection mechanisms internally.
> I can live wherever I want, but I don't know where I want to live!

May I suggest picking up a outdoor hobby and living near a place that enables it.

Since winter is coming up. How about skiing and colorado. I promise you mountains will lift your sprits up, life problems seem so meaningless in mighty mountains.
What's the best way to change the incentivization of executive management to ensure focus on long term growth and benefit of all share-holders, not just the few in the know? Or is the way stock buybacks used the right thing to do in a time of cheap money?
This is awful. It's like brutalist architecture: unreadable, pointless, hideous, and masturbatory.
Have you managed before? Because after becoming a first-line manager, I grew a much, much greater appreciation for middle management.
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One aspect is the speed of evolution - as one species evolves, its competitors evolve just as much, making it difficult to dominate too much. This is a limitation that GM does not share - it can make genetic leaps in a few years that would be vanishingly unlikely to occur naturally, or would take millions of years. Other species could not keep up.

To illustrate with the previous example, insects evolve resistance to the chemical countermeasures that plants evolve. But give those countermeasures a GM kick, and insects won't be able to keep up. I'm sure eventually they would evolve something, but there could still be a huge crash in their population before that happens.
That was very clear thank you very much.
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I'd say it's nearly guaranteed to be just a ray tracer.

You can even see gray candies on the borders of the letters, due to anti-aliasing.
sorry for the late reply :) I write here: https://200wordsaday.com/writers/BasileSamel
"What butt-- oh they're blocked."
I believe he's referring to the philosophy of Julien de La Mettrie, though I don't know enough about that subject to say more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julien_Offray_de_La_Mettrie#Ph...
You are paid to be part of the problem, why would you understand it or even try? Its clear you dont want to.
> A lot of the time, it's actually difficult to find certain goods in stores here

I suspect the internet has made this worse. People used to go visit several stores to find less common items, so they sold eventually. Now they give up and go online.
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If users care about their own data the best thing they could do is to stop using smart phones and signing up to google, facebook, saas providers etc. etc. They would leak your data with the efficiency any pirate will be jealous of.
It's an abrasive phrasing of a legitimate and, if you zoom out, apparently sincere question. "Toxic" is an overstatement.
The studies concluded that it was effective at providing vitamin A as part of a well-balanced diet that wasn't overly reliant on rice. The controversy is over its effectiveness in severely malnourished kids whose diet is mostly rice, since there's reason to believe its effectiveness - and indeed that of supplementation in general - in providing vitamin A ia heavily dependant on the quality of the rest of the diet.

To put it bluntly, proponents of golden rice have been arguing that it's worthwhile because it's just not realistic for poor families to include vegetables in their diets because of expense and logistical difficulties, whilst pointing to a study in which the participants were fed meat (amongst other ingredients) along with their golden rice to prove it works.
Sounds like road to maturity problems. The key is to think, "are these issues solvable?" if they are it's only a matter of time. The next thing is when those things are fixed, does Julia offer something above and beyond what Python and R can do (easily). If the answer is for you, thne it's a matter of whether Julia provides value now for you.
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I wouldn’t have brought up the President here because he’s simply not relevant, but I would love to understand better the privilege of folks who can get away with “not caring” about the commander in chief.
Apple and Google will only be replaced when there is a disruptive innovation in the hardware form factor. Maybe AR goggles or something like that. As long as we stick with flat rectangular mobile devices there's just no room for other major competitors in the market.
i love remote work. i’ve done it for most of the last 12 years, and some of that time was spent traveling.

i hates most of my office years (the other 14). most offices had bad lighting, poor ergonomics, open office plans or low wall cubes, blasting AC, and always a few employees who loved to check voicemail over speakerphone.

regarding loneliness, i know some people who can be lonely in any situation. and then there are people like me who are rarely lonely, enjoy solitude, but also maintain a few long lasting and meaningful relationships.

perhaps the big difference between me and the author is age. spend a decade or more in sucky offices and remote work feels like heaven. i’ll work my ass off, 12+ hours a day, if i can choose where i work from day to day.
Bonding with people who you work together with for a common goal seems like the most natural thing in the world to me.

And I've never been "forced" to take or stay at a particular job.
> Do people in other professions have the same issues?

There are very few professions that have as much leeway as we do to begin with.
How? Romanian is not a Slavic language, I thought both of these are Slavic-rooted words.
:) That was hilarious. Hook is my new hero.
Well, it would be technically challenging, but it's where people surveillance is going. There are several versions of the problem:

1- For face f, is f a member of F_known? (From national ID cards etc.) Assume this gives an answer [0.0 - 1.0].

2- Is f a member of F_suspect? Where F_suspect is a database of face imagery associated with potentially illegal activity or refugee migration. Not that these faces could be from video surveillance (from a border region, train station, migrant camp) or scraped from war zone images e.g. jihadi propaganda, YouTube video of regime critics, talking politics on HN, video of protests in other countries, etc.

3- Not matching anything, and hence also requiring investigation.

All of these have errors, which generally go up as more people are added to the training database. Apparently some ethnicities (okay, black people) are often trained for poorly. This will likely result in 'over-servicing' of some ethnicities.

If local police get a hit for someone going through festival security and detain them on the basis of face recognition software, what is the legal basis for that? Police would say that they had 'intelligence' but can they explain the basis for it? Is this not essentially maintaining dossiers on people who have not committed any crime? They have no evidence a crime has been committed but instead they are essentially running a police checkpoint and saying "Papers!". These are the mechanisms of the Stasi.

One can argue that police should be able to detain those with outstanding warrants. I have no problem with that, except that when police take photos of citizens it is hard to know what is done with those photos. Ironclad legislation requiring they not leave the device or be stored on anything except ephemeral storage would be a good start, along with civil and criminal penalties for non compliance and direct individual responsibility and penalties for the chain of command.

Without a rigorous push back, America will become like China and the UK, where your face must be shown, and it will be recorded and tracked 24/7. Of course in America it will probably be via a company, and police forces will have a subscription, which lowers their fees the more faces the capture.
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I wrote a very incoherent sentence there. What restaurants have done is offload the risk of customers coming in to the establishment on to the employee by not paying them a full wage. This is fine in high throughput places, maybe, but many other places it means service workers are making below minimum wage.

So yes, always tip, and tip more if you liked the service.
How is government ownership of food patents worse than corporate ownership of them?
Seal script for Chinese already looks pretty similar[0]. Look at the 3rd and 6th one from the left.

[0] http://baby-pen.com.tw/index.php?route=product/product&produ...
There's probably some medical reason for vomiting blood, I don't think paranoia/other psychological causes could explain that.
Can I please have some links to unbiased reports with real world data on how much damage is attributed to the use of C vs other languages? Not from the entities you mentioned as they all have their own agenda. Otherwise what you say sounds more like unsubstantiated FUD.
I bought Betrayal at Krondor (the book) when it first came out. The author's foreword talks about the game in a fair bit of detail and also contains the "you couldn't afford me" quote mentioned in the article, along with backstory.
Sometimes you can do a deal for a smaller dollar value, less intense legal / financial hurdle. Get on the approved vendor list, receive income while you negotiate a larger more complicated approval process for a larger deal.
It[1] has a surprising large number of videos...[2]

Hmm, the documentation supports their creation.[3] "Encourage your community to create videos" as a way to raise awareness of a code analytics tool... I'd not thought of that.

[1] https://gource.io/ [2] https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=gource&sp=CAI%2... [3] https://github.com/acaudwell/Gource/wiki/Videos
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The comment it responded to can be read as trying to use credentials/his "claim to fame" to discredit the argument as being from someone who didn't understand what they are building on - additional credentials that this person might know what they are talking about seem like substance to me.
Wouldn’t Content Security Policy prevents the execution of inline script? Or have they not use CSP at all?
Your 1st, 2nd and 4th points seem to be fundamentally the same, which is compile time latency making interactive use slow. That's definitely a problem for a language trying to solve the two language problem of having high interactivity and high performance at the same time, and the compiler team [1] are now focusing on that issue on versions 1.4 and beyond hopefully it will get to the point where it isn't a problem anymore.

Documentation is always a problem (especially for smaller packages), but I don't feel I had more issue with Julia than other languages (with a few exceptions, some languages managed to have an exceptional culture in terms of great documentation). Most of the issues were due to the fact that Julia just got to 1.0 a year ago, and the breaking changes made so most documentation became outdated, but this will only become less of a problem since the language became stable.

Julia has one of the best REPL of any language I used, and thankfully I didn't meet with any problems with it. Might be a good idea to create an issue on the github.

[1] https://discourse.julialang.org/t/compiler-work-priorities/1...
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Why this infrastructure is so tightly coupled with CUDA? CUDA is very specific and closed APIs for NVidia hardware only. Programming languages should focus on more general primitives that might work on NVidia or TPUs or something else. PyTorch also has CUDA all over in its APIs and its frustrating to see such tight binding with closed one company API. Also take a look at OpenCL.
Let's hope it doesn't go the way of MPC: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21369210
Um, right. AFAICT Adam Smith was a principled free market thinker (the quote above only confirms it in my view), as opposed to the ones who only claim to be free-marketeers. I think you always have to distinguish between the actual free-market ideas vs the self-motivated people selectively using "free-market" buzzphrases for their own ends, where "free-market" can be substituted with almost any ideology you can think of. I felt the comment I was replying to conflated the two.
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Impossible with Aurora Serverless. Only VPC IPs can connect.
It was actually a balloon that carried the "satellite" aloft, which makes it something other than what you would believe a satellite to be.
Presumably the SIMs were anonymously bought/registered. There's no link to the user. If you knew the drug kingpin was using a particular sim/phone (IMSI/IEMI), you can track it, but that's like looking for a needle in a haystack (no intercepted texts/calls to go by).
The "honesty" factor is the key for me. Every event in a novel is under the control of the creator but that isn't so for role-playing games. It adds true significance to everything and makes gaming sessions truly engaging to watch. I've seen groups make it through months of hardship only to have a particularly bad dice roll or stupid choice kill them all and plunge the world into darkness. That kind of actual risk based on the cleverness of real people has a flavor that cannot be replicated in any traditional fiction medium.
I expected better reporting from Vice
Bad is an understatement.
She listed not wanting to do it anymore as one of the three ways she could fail.
It's ironic because many journalists usually rely on end-to-end encryption heavily to protect their own security in places hostile to them. VICE is a disgrace.
Vitamin A deficiency is also effectively combated by low cost supplements (which is why groups like the WHO focus on this as well as dietary solutions)[1]. Though people who talk about golden rice claim that they're very concerned about vitamin A deficiency, it's telling that they never talk about other much more successful efforts that have had great effect in combating this deficiency (this article is no exception). It seems like a lot of people have put reason aside and become enamored with the idea of a technological silver bullet.

Also worth pointing out that the problems with making golden rice viable have little to do with anti-GMO activists, and more with the problems in creating a viable product[2].

[1] https://data.unicef.org/topic/nutrition/vitamin-a-deficiency...
[2] https://source.wustl.edu/2016/06/genetically-modified-golden...
Expect nothing from VICE. Sensationalism is their specialty.
It's because CUDA performs better. It's not nice, but it's the situation we're living in. Particularly AMD support and performance are lot.
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This part of Blender's physics animation is deterministic, so you can get this effect by running the physics animation forward to the last frame; recolor the target candy; then go back to the start again. All Blender functions are exposed by a Python API.
Part of the answer is that mammals are three to seven orders of magnitude larger than amoeba. That comes with some advantages! Immune systems are super complicated, and can leverage the resources of a vast cooperating superorganism of cells.

That sort of thing has happened before though. Oxygen was originally a pollutant that caused the extinction of most species on the planet. This is sometimes called the Oxygen Holocaust (more commonly, the Great Oxidation Event https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event).
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Vitamin A supplements are a cheap and effective solution, and one that groups like the WHO have focused on[1]. They almost never come up when golden rice is discussed, because discussions of golden rice seem to be more about pushing on particular kind of tech than about discussing the best way to solve the problem.

[1] https://data.unicef.org/topic/nutrition/vitamin-a-deficiency...
Hey, it's like this in Washington too! Not a windmill in sight near Seattle, but head East and you'll see them grouped along mountain ridges by the dozen. It does seem very windy out there compared to the coast, though.

It's funny, people seem to dislike the windmills even as they house military firing ranges, hydroelectric dams, nuclear reactors, and similar on the same land. It's less funny that the government coerced people who were resistant to signing treaties or selling land to cede the Columbia River Valley for those things, but the wind turbines - those seem to really bother people.

In fairness, they do sort of remind me of Simon Stålenhag's art[0]. It's a little bit eerie how they loom in the distance and light up in unison at night.

[0]: http://conceptartworld.com/artists/simon-stalenhag/
This was my introduction to server-side web programming as a kid; I was helping develop a very early online store (Australia, 94/95) for a local tabletop gaming retailer in Oracle 7 (IIRC). As well as being my first foray into web programming, it was the first time I got my hands on a grown-up RDBMS, Windows NT (still 3.5.1), and Java (I wrote a tetris knockoff as an applet for the site also). I was very surprised to find that my experience writing ADA was actually going to be useful out in the real world :)

Now I feel old :)
there are specific benefits of cuda over opencl: see https://arxiv.org/vc/arxiv/papers/1005/1005.2581v1.pdf
It's nearly impossible to get a "moonshot" phone going that attempts to displace iOS or Android. Most of these projects failed because they went too big. Making a phone is hard enough, but reinventing an entire ecosystem is pretty much impossible.

In my opinion, what Purism and Pine64 are doing is the right approach. Make a low-volume device for an existing operating system, without an additional "platform" layer on top. There are enough privacy and tech enthusiasts to sustain a small-volume manufacturer if you can make a functional device and keep costs down (which admittedly is a difficult problem). It's similar to the current micro-laptops that are popping up, or e-ink tablets. There's not a ton of demand, but they aren't going bankrupt.
I’d love to have a copy of this data about my browsing history.

I naively thought it might be buried in Google Takeout somewhere, their facility for downloading all your data from Google.

I didn’t see it. Perhaps (1) it doesn’t legally belong to me; or (2) the fuzziness of the fingerprint allows for sufficient deniability that the adtracking data is actually tied to my Google account?

But I’ve certainly browsed other sites while having a Google cookie which is pretty unambiguously identifying me, so maybe they don’t literally just don’t have a log of which sites I’ve visited?

What adtech tracking data about me can I see?
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Ask HN: What is the most beautiful piece of code you've ever read?
Preferably an elegant snippet rather than an entire (well engineered) codebase.
OpenCL isn't in a good place. CUDA has become the industry standard.
Took a look briefly at the product. How do you maintain traceability between the test cases, requirements and various issues?
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Sure, I don't mind CUDA backend as first class citizen. I'm talking about having my code sprinkled with word "cuda" all over. Why can't I write my code that is bit more abstract and potentially compilable to different backends? That is, think about the primitives instead of tightly getting married to cuda forever. AMD performance might not be good today but how about 10 years later? How about using TPUs instead? or FPGAs (if someone creates backend for it)?
This takes up so much of my time as a founder... trying to determine where I should be hosting, what technologies (VPS, Serverless, SQL vs NoSQL, Azure vs AWS, etc) I should be using, etc. If I’m paying $20/mo to DigitalOcean would the bill be cheaper at Amazon? Would their extra technologies make me more effective? Does it even matter? Why don’t vendors have a list saying “if you need this, use that” for all their horribly named services that all overlap themselves?

Don’t get me started on email hosting. I don’t even know what’s possible in the email world so I’m 100% sure I’m overpaying but I don’t have the time to figure it out.
I see you know your Australian State/Federal public service well.
I wanted to check out BuySellAds but Ublock wouldn't let me.
Read most of Feists books back in the 90s. Picked up the PC version of the game. Always seemed to crash on me, one of the drawbacks of OTA updates that was missing from the CD-ROM era. Now Daggerfall...that was my jam.
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Well, one problem is that you're reading an NVIDIA marketing post on an NVIDIA blog talking in particular about the lowest levels of the stack targeting NVIDIA hardware. Higher level abstractions can and do just work across different hardware backends (not as well as we'd like, but we have some thoughts on how to improve that).
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In my experience, technical debt is much more about time-to-market minimization than it is about reducing costs. Here in Silicon Valley, raising capital is usually not the limiting factor. However, the spoils to be had by being first to Market are so great that they justify pushing a lot of pain into the future just to be the first to get the product out the door and get the first-mover advantage.

I've observed that often programmers in the trenches I don't really understand the dynamics of the business well enough to be trusted to make critical decisions regarding these trade-offs.
Yeah, I've had the court skip right over my time to respond, with the judge ruling in favor of his previous employer.

I have absolutely no faith left in the courts.
The same part then says:

> However there are now so many signs that Purism isn't competent enough to be trusted with a phone, much less our privacy, that I cannot in good conscience do business with them.

Do you really want a badly executed Linux phone? If it ends up with major security vulnerabilities, vendor spyware and other nasty stuff, it will only harm the idea of Linux phone itself.
Here is the project description because it took way too much navigation to find:

> deepstream is an open source server inspired by concepts behind financial trading technology. It allows clients and backend services to sync data, send messages and make rpcs at very high speed and scale.
I am not interested in a third party handling mail for me.
Yes, but is cuda going to keep its edge 10 years down the line? Do I want to hardcode my algorithms so tightly with today's cuda APIs? Can there be better more generic primitives that are agnostic of propitiatory cuda APIs but would support it as backend without too much perf hit?
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