skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ooof, yes, now I see where the $10K/day is coming from...

As I have demonstrated, I've really not much of a clue when it comes to AI, but do users really need 12Gb GPU RAM, 100% of the time? Maybe it's possible to use one GPU for multiple users?
Yea, that's why it's so important to remind people when these gee whiz tech articles come out that this is just literally war propaganda for a 100% illegal war.
Agreed, I think the article says "beware gruesome" because you normally don't expect a Twitter video to be of a dude that's been mangled by some flying knives into some horrible mess.
To add to that, there are so many problems with self-reported studies.

> They also asked parents to keep track of how long and how often they gave care to their child that involved physical contact, according to a press release.
If access to clean data was what set Renaissance apart, we'd most likely see other funds/firms do just as well or Renaissance's returns be much lower.

Market data services such as Reuters/Morning Star provide incredibly clean data at great convenience for anything you can imagine, even including astronomical data.

Its kind of like the Black-Scholes model. If it really was that simple and straightforward, everybody would be using it to make a ton of money.
Not too surprising that earliest experiences in life are going to color an individual's expectations of the world, and how to respond to it.

"consequences on the epigenome" as the article so charmingly puts it.
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It's not ignorance. Drone strikes are outright illegal under international law and quite frankly are unethical. Also they're extrajudicial killings when used against citizens.
Heh *Yahoo Groups, that is
I think this weapon is a direct hit kill vehicle, which isn't very common. In fact the ATA missiles are more like traditional HE munitions (like artillery shells), spraying fragments to kill the target.
It's also interesting how every thread involving russia, china, etc, someone always comments about trolls but doesn't provide specifics. It seems like a naked attempt at poisoning the well so that one side is prematurely smeared and only one side gets to speak. But I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. Which comment are you referring to? Specifics would be nice.
Most libc you'd care to use are going to include functions like dup3. If they don't, it's probably because the system call isn't available either.
It's likely something similar to how mechanical broadheads work. The blades are situated so that in flight they are held closed with a small plastic retaining ring but on impact with the target the blades cam open. It's very low-tech but very effective. Here's some slow-mo shots of mechanicals in action:

https://youtu.be/6dv1QySWQ6I

https://youtu.be/PZjEhk-CkKc
We'll see what you think of it when foreign countries start flying strike drones in the US.
Wait, I think I may have found a good explanation:

"A few months ago Brent Yorgey complained about a certain class of tutorials which present monads by explaining how monads are like burritos.

At first I thought the choice of burritos was only a facetious reference to the peculiar and sometimes strained analogies these tutorials make. But then I realized that monads are like burritos."

https://blog.plover.com/prog/burritos.html
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Modern bullets are not spheres because spherical projectiles don't want to fly straight, especially when you impart a bunch of spin on them first.
And what happens when the plane crashes
Atoms are mostly empty space too. Distance between electrons and the nucleus is substantially larger than the "size" of the nucleus.
why the heck, given the massive increase in productivity(?) during the last century, we have seen inflation, not deflation?

Because the money supply increased even faster than the goods & services supply.

Goods and services are traded in an economy, but finding a way to exchange A (ex: shoes) for B (ex: chicken nuggets) is such a chore that economic activity is limited. Money is a solution, like a hub city for air travel: the easiest way to guarantee a route between all pairs of nodes in the network. Trade shoes for money, then trade money for chicken nuggets. You're still trading shoes for nuggets, but now it's much easier, which helps everyone.

Everything gets priced in money (say, "dollars"), but if something is mispriced, arbitrage takes place. Buy an underpriced thing for a few dollars, trade it directly for an overpriced thing, then sell the overpriced thing for a lot of dollars. Money for nothin'. But once others catch on, they demand trade terms that give them the profit, changing prices until they can't be arbitraged.

So everything gets priced relative to everything else, and all prices can be expressed in "dollars".

If the maker of dollars decides to increase the supply by a factor of ten and no change in goods & services takes place, You have ten times as many dollars being offered for the SAME goods and services as before. Arbitrage will quickly push all prices to where the goods and services still have the same value relative to one another but their price relative to the dollar has changed by a factor of ten. Everything is "ten times as expensive" in dollars but not in terms of what people really need: other goods & services.

If you make the same number of generic shoes, twice as many generic electronic widgets, and ten times as many dollars, shoes will be traded for ten times as many dollars ("price" goes up 10x), and even widgets go up by 5x, because although productivity made 2x as many widgets, the number of dollars went up 10x.
The outrage is justified. Syria is on the other side of the world, and poses no threat to us. How many Americans can even locate it on a map?

Stated reason for involvment was chemical weapons attack--which is strongly reminiscent of Iraq's imaginary WMDs. To anyone who believes the official story on our involvement, I have a bridge to sell you.
I'm pretty sure Cloudflare would do this for nothing for .edu.
I've seen a lot of developers, especially developers with C backgrounds, reach for Makefiles when approaching Go development, and I think it's a harmful practice. So, I'd like to offer a respectful but firm rebuttal to this article. :)

I dislike using make(1) with Go for two reasons.

The first is that make was developed for building C projects, and therefore is oriented around that task. Building C projects is a lot different than building Go projects, and it involves stitching together a lot of pieces, with plenty of intermediate results.

make(1) has first class support for intermediate results, which are expressed as targets.

If you look at the article, the author has to use a workaround just to avoid this core feature of make(1).

The second reason I dislike using make(1) for Go projects is that it harms portability.

A Go project should only require the Go compiler to build successfully. Go projects that need make(1) to build will not work out of the box for Windows users, even though Go is fully supported on Windows. For me, this puts Makefiles into the "nonstarter" category, even though I do all of my own development work on Linux. There is just no reason to complicate things for people who don't have make(1) installed.

For code generation and other ancillary tasks, Go includes the 'go generate' facility. This feature was created specifically to free developers from depending on external build tools. (https://blog.golang.org/generate)

For producing several binaries for one project, use several different main packages in directories that are named what you want your binary to be.

Edit: corrected some terminology.
> "Adversarial interoperability" is what happens when you decide to abandon consent as a governing principle for interoperating, because it prevents progress.

Whose consent is needed?

Open source projects who grumble about amazon created a model where their consent was not required. This is where the ideals of open source don't meed the desires of the VCs paying for the work. It's possible to have a stable business supporting and serving open source but it is hard to do something to meed VC returns on investment with open source.

The problem is in the financial model and whose consent is required in that.

When it comes to finances things are a little different because the business model is different and so are the regulations. It's also not about open source but about data control.

There is the whole idea of interoperating, too. The financial organizations often do not see a benefit to their income by interoperating with their competitors.

It might be useful to look at how competitors can come together to collaborate in open source in a way that helps raise all those involved.
Good way to justify bad actions.
I've updated it to allow anonymous browsing. The github is also here if you want to self-host: https://github.com/spiffytech/LurkerForReddit

So far it just does read-only behavior, but in comparison to the Reddit mobile web app, it does enough network traffic to replicate the same view: (1) fetch the front page, (2) fetch your list of subscriptions.
It's a beautiful excerpt, thanks for sharing. Though I can't help but feel that the author's allegory fits a nebula better than "plain" space.
Actually he didn't even find that configuration. He just patented it so that others couldn't use it. That's the point.

I really don't get the Elon Musk hero narrative. It's actually the very reason that throws him off track, since any kind of valid criticism gets lost in noise. Tesla depends on a whole bunch of high precision components of older manufacturing companies that Tesla acquired.

The reason why Tesla does so well is a mixture of good consumer oriented product development and the collective ignorance of the old farts in the car industry who are all buddy buddy with their government subsidies to keep their old factories afloat. It's very hard to compare that with the Edison case.
Pierce's Types and Programming Languages is a phenomenal textbook. I'm almost done with my implementation of System F-omega (polymorphic lambda calculus with higher kinded types and type operators), featuring a full handwritten lexer/parser with helpful diagnostics.

My end goal is to use it as one phase of IR for a functional language compiler.
You'd think that, but you'd be missing the entirety of the left critique of capitalism and its power structures.
This war is painful for both sides nonsense is immoral as the only way it works is if you put ISIS on the same moral level as a coalition of western democracies. What would keep these weapons from being abused would be the ability to arrest these criminals. But since we can’t arrest them, killing their generals is the next best option. And killing their generals without risk to our soldiers is mind bogglingly better.
> and that code that needs to produce the exact same result

... is broken. "The same result" is a complicated question when floating point computations are involved. Even in an IEEE 754 environment, the compiler can easily cause non-bit-exact differences over time on the same chip.
Suggest removing the anchor from the link, as it drops you into the middle of the piece. That, or add “Type Rules” to the title.
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The original assumption, as far as I'm aware, was that Starlink being in such a low orbit wouldn't have these issues that previous satellites had.
... it's named Observatory Hill, in the middle of Cambridge Massachusetts, quite near to downtown Boston, because it has an observatory that used to work great before light pollution.
What part of my comment does that contradict?
It doesn't sound entirely unreasonable for a 3 developer company to use a monorepo. Most of the problems with monorepos usually happen when there are lots of engineers committing a lot. Either the SCM tool or build tools fail to keep up. I can't imagine either being a problem at your scale. Care to share more details?
This particularly consequence was so clearly predictable that it's hard to call it unintentional. It's a hard-to-avoid trade-off.

Jury's out on whether it was the right one.
Attachment theory is one of those things you shouldn't get into unless you're ready to see it in yourself.

// source: several years of therapy after that realisation
thank you.

I can't imagine how these same people would react if china started killing civilians in the US that they deemed to be terrorists through a secret process.
https://github.com/ssloy/tinyrenderer/wiki

This tutorial is super good for making a simple rasterizing renderer.

https://github.com/hatsunearu/tinyrendere-rs

I implemented some of it in rust!
this is an absolutely beautiful markdown implementation.
Oh yes I remember reading this wiki before. I just didn't remember what the company was called. I even tried to research it by googling "renaissance time series prediction," and still couldn't find it.

I don't understand why I was downvoted? I don't think there was enough context for anyone (who's not in the field) to know what you meant, and I thought it would be useful for people like myself to get clued in.
The best defense would be to ensure no one knows which car you're in. I think we can assume that these HVTs have already employed stringent RF security for themselves and their minions via battery removal and securing all devices in Faraday bags. Yet U.S. intelligence is somehow still able to track them. It must be quite unnerving.

I suspect some new techniques are being leveraged that are apparently having some success.
http://www.maps.org is a leading organisation in the use of MDMA to treat PTSD and other forms of trauma.
The page is still there on SourceForge, but no download. I found the Clover EFI bootloader by chance there, too, but it appears to load a UEFI environment from a legacy BIOS environment.

For the purposes of running Windows 7 on modern systems, we'd have to do the reverse, emulate a legacy BIOS environment from a UEFI system. XOM appears to fit this description, it simulates a legacy IBM BIOS on an Mac's EFI boot environment.

I only briefly Googled it earlier, but thanks for the ideas, rest assured, if I ever look into it and get Windows 7 running, I'll post about it.
Aerial bombardment of places known to be in use by civilians has been par for the course for most the 20th century and so far all of the 21st century. I think the ship has long sailed on death by remote control. The subject has been studied and the gap between the destruction a bomber pilot causes and how they feel about it is well documented.

What is new is the use of signals intelligence to choose whom to target in a non-combat zone. I think that's the novel piece that should horrify people.
This is what is so interesting about it to me. If I were Snowden, I would have been suicidal or at least extremely depressed seeing how I basically threw away my life without the public caring at all (were there any long term changes? Does the average global citizen care about government spying? Were the responsible government officials brought to justice?).

If no one cares about your sacrifice, then what's the point of making the sacrifice in the first place? I know this is a very negative point of view looking at the world, but it's something I've been spending a lot of time thinking about as I grow up (maybe it's a normal thing you realise when you're starting to change into a realist from an idealist as you mature).
That recent change in OpenBSD is indeed interesting, however, this doesn't have much to do with how go handles scheduling of goroutines, other than the fact that the words "go" or "syscall" appear in both places.
> developers who can code a quicksort in their sleep but still don't have the first clue about structuring code or data properly.

I don't understand this belief. Where does it come from? Junior engineers don't have the first clue about structuring code or data properly, whereas senior engineers do. Google's belief (probably) is that anyone able to quicksort in their sleep is either already good at the other stuff too, or is smart enough to pick it up over time. If they're wrong, companies will outhire and outcompete them eventually.
It should be important to note how some of these signature strikes are decided,

> In 2014, former CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden said in a public debate, “We kill people based on metadata.”

> According to multiple reports and leaks, death-by-metadata could be triggered, without even knowing the target’s name, if too many derogatory checks appear on their profile. “Armed military aged males” exhibiting suspicious behavior in the wrong place can become targets, as can someone “seen to be giving out orders.” Such mathematics-based assassinations have come to be known as “signature strikes.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/how-...
It seems like the sort of thing that should already be covered under existing property laws then.

I'm not really sure what the need is to create an entirely new concept called "ecocide" when you could just consider it destruction of property/theft/vandalism/whatever
So the gauntlet has been dropped and a new era ensues.
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Just to be clear...the war zone writes pieces that are almost universally positive towards the military and are often targeted at military porn type folks. They write for their audience...who love the military and want to know all the details about their cool toys so they can feel closer.

I'm unclear if you are referring the them specifically in your final paragraph, but if you are, you are way off base.
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Aha. It appears it was just skipped in the curriculum rather, http://people.math.gatech.edu/~cjankowski3/19f/m1553/webpage....
> History lost forever.

This is putting too much weight and responsibility on Wikipedia and this kind of thought only serves to build up the narcissistic Dunning-Kruger editors/contributors rather than label Wikipedia for what it is: crowd-sourced, with all the drawbacks and caveats thereof.

If there is a piece of history you think is important, capture it someplace else so that it isn't lost forever.
I despair at the government of Modi, and I wonder if there's a way to reverse the deliberate reopening of religious wounds.
Absolutely beautiful, thank you for sharing.

Are there functions which would map space to relatively smaller regions that could give us a different perspective on our universe? For instance, what would a starmap look like with each region of space scaled by its gravitational flux?
As opposed to the amazing world where the nation with the ability to field the biggest and best conventional force is the hegemon. I'm struggling to see the ethical difference.
That's not what sets Renaissance apart. Please don't add to the baseless speculation that gets tossed around about RenTech so often. Are you aware of just how many trading firms have access to phenomenally clean data?

It drives me nuts when I see words like "undoubtedly" thrown around so confidently this way. A new book comes out about Simons and Renaissance, it enters the financial zeitgeist for a little while, and now everyone is apparently an expert on the firm's differentiating competency.

For what it's worth, what you're saying is contradicted by Nick Patterson. He did not say that Renaissance had access to clean data no one else did. What he said is that in the early days, they spent almost all their time cleaning the data. In any case, that's table stakes these days. All successful quant firms spend time sourcing exceptional data and ensuring it's as polished as possible.
Sure fire way to make it to the top of psychology / sociology academia:

1) Go to Ivy school, get your phd, make all the key connections

2) Find something that makes intuitive sense to a highly educated person, and create a test that you claim measures it. Even better if it’s really fuzzy, like “ego depletion”. For example, call it “mood enhancement”. This is if your mood is elevated. The test would ask 20 questions about your current mood, like “Do I feel happy” and “I feel above-normal positive emotions”. These 20 questions will use 1 to 5 scale and provide a 100 point outcome.

3) Use your connections to get people in the academic industry to start promoting it and using it. Publish a paper showing what baseline is.

4) Now is your time to strike. Start making experiments that you anticipate would modify someone’s mood, like giving them a glass of wine before the test, or having them call their mother. Do control and experimental and see the boost to “mood enhancement”.

5) Publish paper after paper on your amazing discoveries of how to boost “mood enhancement”. Get others to cite your publications and make a cottage industry of “mood enhancement” research experts. More people, more papers, more funding - and you started it all with the key genesis “mood enhancement” paper!

6) Write books, go on NPR as a guest speaker, give speeches. You have quantified mood and determined how to boost it. “My research shows that a 7.2 percent increase in mood occurs when you call your mother before a big company presentation. It’s science!” You are now a public figure and can get tenure and big corporate speech bucks. The world has been forever changed by your mood enhancing research!
GBA is very well documented (gbatek). The DS seems to be as well, but it's much harder to work with. GBA is much easier, but still powerful enough to do non trivial things without having to do them all in assembly. Emulator support is superb. Hardware adapters that allow you to load ROMs have been around forever.

I'd say it's one of the best systems to get into on-the-metal Homebrew.
I was mostly lampooning the threat model implied by base-model Hyundai with 4-inch solid steel roof, but why can't an MQ-9 fire a KE weapon? Aren't they light and compact compared to the 500-pound munitions the MQ-9 is capable of delivering? People think "drone" and don't realize the MQ-9 is bigger than the A-10.
I don't understand why SpaceX is allowed to make this decision nearly unilaterally. This is so similar to how the modern tech companies treat data extraction: they find something unregulated and push until they get pushback.

This should have a been a worldwide consultation.
not high velocity, not high accuracy, but they can be effective. small prototypes capable of delivering a withering stream of BB's are well within the capabilities of the misguided teenager.
After having read Rizwan Virk's "The Simulation Hypothesis", and playing this amazing new game, I can say that AI-generated text adventure games are an important step on the road to the Simulation Point (the point at which it would be technologically possible for us to construct a simulation that is all-encompassing as the one in The Matrix).
It's my impression that the collateral damage was creating more terrorists. I'm not sure that just "death from above" of terrorists is the issue.
That would be wonderful. In the interim, let the pencil pushers and power grubbers kill one another rather than the manipulable youngins.
Why would you not be a fan of targeted assassinations? It appears to me to be the perfect way to prosecute a war while minimizing human suffering.
The phrase “black art” in the paper refers to a technical challenge which only experts can tame, via methods which aren’t widely known. It has zero to do with ‘black arts” in the sense of witchcraft. The blog post drifts between these meanings, possibly with poetic intention.
Agreed. That was my point. Not all twins under adoption are adopted, meaning there is nothing particularly invalidating about the twin study framework.
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Arbitrary code execution isn’t that big a deal when one of the features of the device is that it accepts a ram image over its synchronous serial port which is jumped into after being received.
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