skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's kind of funny because, on the one hand, yes, you need to be fast and have clever hacks.

On the other hand, your edge can be explained in very simple terms: in the article, their edge comes from the fact that they had a closer colo than other market participants. ITG made money by front running customers[0], cheaper financing means you can arb an ETF more aggressively than the other guy etc.

Like, there are straightforward mechanical reasons why you're making money. No amount of clever hacks can help you if you're at a structural speed, informational or cost disadvantage.

[0]: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-securities-regulation-itg...
I'm all for efficiency but if we are to progress as a civilization we need to find a way to not have power hold us back. We can get to a point where we have nearly unlimited power with minimal impact on the environment around us. That needs to happen as soon as possible.
> But for movies and TV? Where do I find the good stuff?

There’s a trove of incredible foreign movies and TV shows out there. Scandinavian and Asian (Korean in particular) content has a really good hit to miss ratio for me.

For examples, check out international film festival nominations and winners.
I have an "actual claim" in this thread, but because mine doesn't agree with your beliefs about LLMs being bad, you ironically claim it's my religion instead, lol.
Ironically, public transit (which congregation pricing encourages!) is way less segregated, at least in NYC. Subway cars into Manhattan are filled with everyone from low-income workers to high paid investment bankers. Moms with kids, elderly. Immigrants from all kinds of countries speaking many languages.
I think it's more accurate to say that PCIe link bandwidth matters when your VRAM capacity starts to become insufficient, a problem that Apple sidesteps. The key advantage of Apple's unified memory strategy isn't fast communication between CPU and GPU, but in granting the GPU access to a high-capacity memory pool (with some side benefits of giving the CPU access to GPU-like memory bandwidth).
Sounds to me like you've simply stopped trying.

When I was 20 I was a music snob into Aphex Twin and weird IDM. I thought all pop at the time was crap, like you seem to. But then I heard, I mean like really heard, "Bye Bye Bye" by *NSYNC and seriously that is a good song!

I'm 40 now and I think it got way better even since then. Pop is so varied now! I really don't think music as quirky and weird as, say, Billie Eilish would've made it to the top of the charts in the 90s. I'd say that music like hers (and many charting artists of her generation) is a testament to how broad and compelling pop music has become.

My generation thought their parents' music was shit, my parents' generation thought their parents' music was shit, and so on, all the way until at least the invention of Jazz. But the average Gen-Z'er thinks all the music is great! They invent new genres for every song, they wear Metallica t-shirts in 2023, and they mix 80s disco with 00's Brit rock like it's just what people do.

And don't forget there's an endless long tail of music out there. There are so many good musicians and plenty of them have a sufficiently fancy label deal to be on Spotify and the likes. And otherwise they're still on Soundcloud, Bandcamp and YouTube. It's worth a deep dive!
Also Lewis Mumford [1], Günther Anders [2], or if you want to go truly underground, Gilbert Simondon [3] [4] or Friedrich Kittler [5].

If there are thinkers who have been in the conceptual space of the 23rd century and beyond, Simondon was surely one. Also radically of the future and forgotten is FM-2030 [6] [7].

All in all, blowing up people is easy, blowing up antiquated concepts, grasping for the grounds of a new metaphysics, painstakingly implementing and debugging is the hard part.

Besides, to think that there even is such a thing called technology (as distinguished from what) is incredibly naive after following to conclusions systems such as the Grotthuss proton translocation mechanism driving motion in a F_0/F_1-ATP synthase rotation mechanism [8] [9].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Mumford

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCnther_Anders

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Simondon

[4] Gilbert Simondon - 'The Technical Object as Such', https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXDtG74hCL4

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Kittler

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM-2030

[7] Futurist FM-2030 Appears on CNN's Future Watch, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT__dTtX2ik

[8] Prof Levin, Prof Frasch (2022) Mitochondria, bioenergetics, information, electric fields, https://youtu.be/MEhrMR-Jaw0?t=3429

[9] 2021, Living Things Are Not (20th Century) Machines: Updating Mechanism Metaphors in Light of the Modern Science of Machine Behavior, https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2021.65072...
Intelligence agencies have certainly been using it, but I could imagine the military was a bit more cautious with it given how much more can go wrong and how much worse the PR would be.
Nothing was ever free. Even Usenet. Universities and Internet savvy corporations ran Usenet servers. That’s why it was free to the rest of us. I tried running a Usenet node in 1995 or so on a 486/33 getting a feed from UC Berkeley. Had to learn quickly about expiring posts and groups. Could not buy enough disk to keep up but it was fun and exciting in a stressful way for the few months it lasted.

Server<->Server communication requires technical chops to manage attacks at different levels of the protocol stack. So very few or no individuals today can run “news” servers. But organizations - that is entirely still possible. Most likely universities and companies that you might see represented at IETF meetings and protocol working groups.

Other than recreating the old Usenet, there is also the possibility of localized wireless (including LoRaWAN) communications networks. These could optional gateway to a global backbone even a UUCP-like store and forward one.

IMHO, the challenges are at least two fold - how to marshal the resources to sustain such a network and how to make it resilient against hostile attacks/deliberate blockage by gatekeeping
I have been replying to OP who literally said:

> A 23 months old human is generally less intelligent than a dog and has a consciousness vastly different from us. If the lives of people (and everyone else) got better from killing such a being, then why not?

So what is your point?

Is today "rationalist edgeloard"-day?
I don't understand why this is an article and why this shows up on hacker news at all. Other languages have been doing this for a long time as well. And there is no "secret" "kept" by anyone.
We had a similar thing happen with our company. Google had given a bigquery concurrent query limit extension to 300 queries. In January they removed the extension back down to 100 concurrent queries because they were introducing “query queues” that should cover the difference.

Unfortunately for us, query queues only affect spikes in concurrent queries and not overall throughput. We’ve been struggling with bigquery support ever since.
So "big money" caused Reddit to overcharge for API access? How? If this is bad for Reddit's valuation, "big money" should be demanding that they pull back. What do you know that Reddit's investors do not?
> paparazzi

That word refers to invasive photography and is totally irrelevant to the article that was shared.
How much money do freeways make directly? How about local roads? Last I checked local roads produce zero revenue. Should we get rid of them?
For the most part the new samples still sound like melodic nonsense — in all but one of the examples the melody doesn't fit properly with the chords underneath. It really does feel like the output of a music blender.

The style transfer is the most interesting bit IMO, as you get a sense of how it hears the source examples.

For example, when transferring the opening to the Bach Toccata all the new samples miss out the same passing note (the fifth note in the sequence). To a human ear that note is important, and could easily have been incorporated into the new samples, but it seemingly doesn't activate enough neurons for MusicGen to care.
No need to be ominous. Those topics are forever the high-noise, high-politics topics. It's not eyebrow-raising to find them in this kind of manifesto, or for somebody to disagree with them.
apologies for that, I'm rather new to the language I'm using for this site still, and I put it together rather fast, so there were loads of issues with it crashing, all fixed now I'm pretty sure
(tldr it was accidentally doing millions of requests a second, maxing out the server cpu and ram. even other services were crashing on it lol)
I would love to read that paper if you do decide to publicise it! 4chan mob dynamics never fail to make interesting (albeit often nasty) stories.
> I don't know how you can prove the existence of voluntary exchange in the real world.

You mean that in a "what is free will anyway" form? Or is there something definable that you contest?

> The "obvious" conclusions you can derive from a continuous neoclassical model make no sense the moment you add multiple goods because at that point you now need to run NP hard optimization algorithms to get an equivalent answer.

I don't think many economists would disagree with that equivalence. They seem to always hint very strongly at it, but never actually articulate it. Exactly why do you think it's a problem?

Overall, I have some strong criticism of modern economics. You seem to be bothered by the same kind of thing, but I can only sympathize with your complaint about continuous models.
Seemed to be completely OK, a driver who is on the safe side would have just done this exactly
Surely cherrypicked, but holy cow. Where will this end? Can you imagine what the HN front page will spit out in a few years?
It's not rudderless, there's just a large amount of angst surrounding AI/ML ranging from "more ways to feed the copyright trolls" to "what should I raise my kids to do for a starter career?" and a lot of interpolated points in between.

You're totally okay not feeling this angst. But so are the folks who do.
If you read the article, you'll see some interesting measurements on that topic.
Eh, from a 'different society', school stopped holding my hand going into adulthood and gave me far more freedom than any job has ever done so far. Most jobs had more in common with elementary school, trying to control most aspects. Only elementary school did the feedback loop far better.

None of that stopped procrastinating. Most people fill the excess time allotted regardless.
On the "X comments" text? That’s a `button` in code.
Charles Manson. Frank Rudolph Emmanuel Olson.
Them finding two completed bombs is not evidence that he planned to plant them.
> CIA FUD

I can't tell if you're being serious.
People react poorly to being told as much though.

And if it gets people into a saving monthly then perhaps it is not the worst of things
Your claim then seems to be that galkk is just plain lying? That seems uncharitable.
But it’s meta……
Sure, as long as you consider externalities like congestion. That would suggest charging for passage through congested areas (the subject of this thread), and subsidizing mass transit in congested areas.
Garage 56's Le Mans-Bound Nascar Camaro Is Officially Here
Ubuntu releases are, effectively, snapshots of Debian sid every 6 months. That's a pretty strong basis.
One of my biggest gripes about Macs is that their thermal engineers refuse to get off their high horses and build real cooling solutions that don't artifically limit the capabilities of an objectively performance-competitive CPU.

I don't care if it consumes 200 W of power. I don't care if the chassis needs to be thicker to accommodate a larger heatsink. I don't care if you need to run the fans at 100%. Just let me use the full power of the CPU created by the chip designers god dammit!
Mercedes has been shipping their L2 system since 2013, at least in Europe.
"when there is no war for a generation."

It isn't as if there was no war for a generation. The Russo-Japanese war in 1904-5 was precisely the kind of brutal industrial conflict that foreshadowed the horrors of WWI almost to a T.

But Western powers were mostly unwilling to learn from such a distant war, and lessons learnt by junior officers who observed the carnage closely weren't taken seriously enough.
Pretty much that. My bookshelves are not merely a collection of books, but they’re also an expression of myself. Many of the books I have, I can tell you where, when and why I bought them. Even books that I’ve let go for the sake of space still carry that memory with them. Not to mention that many of the books I own are not available as ebooks and likely never will be (a lot of my collection veers towards the esoteric and specialized).
The sad truth is the license of non-GPL Linux kernel modules is very rarely cared about nor enforced. There are ton of embedded devices that don't bother with the NVIDIA shim scheme but ship with straight proprietary .ko:s on the device.
And yet people in this internet age still go on shooting sprees and leave behind "manifestos".

My take away is that there are and always have been sick people. Citing lack of a megaphone shouldn't even be a sliver of rationale for a murderer's behavior.
The OP literally asked to "attack the ideas, not the man", and here you go attacking the ideas solely because of the kind of men who share it...

What do you mean by " it reads like something /pol/ or reddit would write "? Does Kaczynsky use tired cartoon memes? Does he accuse the left of insufficient weightlifting? Does he challenge them to a 1v1 in a Nintendo fighting game?

What part of his criticism do you actually find wrong?
I have never been able to accept any form of primitivism or reactionary ideology for many reasons.

Chief among them is this: if everything was so great in this imagined past, why are we here and why if we did go back and revive this past would we not end up right back here “repeating the grade” so to speak?

The second is that (as I hinted above) I am extremely skeptical of narratives that excessively glorify the past. I think it’s all a bunch of survivorship bias. Things often seem better in the past because we are experiencing only those cultural artifacts of the past that survived, which tend to be the most memorable or interesting.

Lastly, I have doubts about the very possibility of revisiting the past. The arrow of time is unidirectional. I can’t think of a way we could even attempt to return without an insanely totalitarian system that attempted to forcibly suppress modernity at incredible cost in human life and freedom. That would end up looking like the worst caricature of precisely the totalitarian tendencies of modernity that these authors often call out. Pol Pot is kind of an example from history of someone who tried to return a society to a pastoral mode of existence by force.

At their core these writers are critics, and I’ve come to see mere criticism of any form as broadly intellectually weak. It is far easier to criticize than it is to improve or fix things. Creation is infinitely more difficult than accusation or destruction.

All our significant problems must be very hard to solve or they would already be solved. If they seem simple it’s because we haven’t fully grasped their scope, which in most cases includes ourselves.

The reactionary is a particularly lazy kind of critic. They don’t even bother to propose an unworkable solution. That’s too much work for them. They just point back at an imagined past and blame people for having done things between then and now.
"very little European culture makes it into American culture"

LOL, I love Americans and America but seriously? Like what is already there is not enough :D
Despite the performance increase in the M2 Ultra I'm more swayed by the professional video and photo editors who say they are still pleased as punch with the performance of their M1 MacBook Pros and have no desire to upgrade.
That's overly reductive. Kaczynski's political views continued to evolve while in prison; his later writings are notably different in tone.
Look at is happening at this point, another additional failure mode, not seen in the links I posted before

https://youtu.be/WowhH_Xry9s?t=272

See how is confusing the speed limit for cars and trucks, and doing a sudden break. More precisely, at 5:12.

So if you have car driving behind you, not expecting the sudden break, this could cause an accident. They are joking with people lives.

Ethics matter in Software Engineering.
Virtually everyone who quotes Kaczynski is aware of his statements on the political Left, it's just that nobody takes that particular aspect very personal or seriously given that ecological anarchism, Kaczynski's position, has always been overwhelmingly a left-wing position.
Having a good time woth Trakt for discovery and rating. It has a very active app/plugin/webhook ecosystem and I've gotten some great recommendations from it by scrobbling via Plex and following a few people with similar preferences on there.
Melting the polar ice caps, killing most if not all life on Earth, is also wrong. While Ted overstepped his boundaries on a man-to-man basis, the argument can certainly be made that it's _more_ wrong to see the wreck of this sick society and where it leads (death to all Earthly life) and doing nothing to stop it.

I don't agree with Ted's actions that directly hurt other people (not random people by the way), but god damn he was hurting too. We should all feel the same pain he felt. The world would be better if we did, and maybe then we could kick our addiction to finite resources and short-term monkey-brain thinking.
The Dark Horse of WWDC 2023: Privacy Policies Finally Get Real
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD4xrnzKN1Y is a good exposition of his mathematical work for the non-mathematician.

His other work is better known, of course.
> This article, and people posting in this thread are saying that they own 100 or 200 things.

> I can't believe this at all.

> Either you guys are all just-moved-out kids, single and living in a single room, or we're defining "thing" differently.

I feel like the assumption in this is that people who are single and living in a single room are not "people", and shouldn't be posting about how much they own? My utility room contains a washer, a dryer, one bottle of Tide, and a paper bag for dryer lint. I'm not posting "people say they have 2000 square feet in their home, I can't believe this. Either you guys live in houses, or we're defining 'feet' differently".
Reddit Users Revolt
> or spice rack

I see you aren't counting the individual granules.
A lot of problems can be solved via better urban planning, but most of us have little control over that. What we do have control over leaves us with a couple of options, but we have hope that maybe our grandkids will have more choices.
This hits home as I am a case of "Bryan". 7 years of MUMPS,PSL experience as it was the first software developer job that I was offered. Always knew that I will need find a way to get out of it ...
Also of note:

NASCAR Garage 56 Wins Le Mans Pit Stop Challenge With a Floor Jack: https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a44109401/nascar-garage-56...

Watching [and Hearing] the Garage 56 NASCAR Camaro at Le Mans Will Have You Crying Bald Eagle Tears: https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a44116310/garage-56-nascar...
Why did the federal government have to sign off on this?

Assuming the tolls aren’t on federal highways, shouldn’t a state be free to decide where to enact tolls on its own roads?
Gary Greenberg's "In the Kingdom of the Unabomber"[1] is a pretty interesting write-up of the palace intrigue stuff surrounding Kaczynski while he was in prison, Greenberg also did a great interview with Errol Morris about it.[2]

[1]: best quality I can find right now: https://www.garygreenbergonline.com/media/unabomber_letter.p...

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECNsiK5MB-4&list=PLVmRJGCDzW...
MK ULTRA stopped in 1973 as far as I know. Claiming that Britney Spears’ mental issues are caused by this seems novel and I’ve never heard of this before. Do you have a news letter I can subscribe to to hear more of your insights?
Q: Whats the Relationship Between Transformer Network Size and Task Performance
I'm exploring the relationship between the number of parameters in Transformer networks and the range of tasks they can perform. Basically I would like to know that networks of these order of magnitude in size are capable of doing "X" type of tasks.
I also wonder what are capable of very small networks. Do you know any good sources, papers, or discussions about that.
Google probably held back because a good searchbot cannibalizes their search (which is constantly getting worse and worse for years now..)
You can stop using maximum-scale=1 in viewport meta tags now
Cool, thanks for mentioning it.
He’s really not coherent.

His premises aren’t grounded in reality, and his conclusions don’t follow logically from his premises. It’s also lacks humanity or empathy.

It’s an interesting read, because you can really see a broken mind at work, but there’s really not anything to learn from the ideas themselves. E.g., his mental model of “leftists” is truly bizarre. It would be funny except I know what it lead to.
I find their salaries posted really odd.

They offer $112,000 - $198,000 a year for this position, which requires some pretty wild math competency, electrical engineering, simulations experience, and security clearance:

https://jobs.lever.co/anduril/b78e5e78-f09f-4be8-995c-71ead3...

Or you can write React and TypeScript for $160,000 - $240,000 a year

https://jobs.lever.co/anduril/610cb495-bfd9-4a0c-8c55-a2756a...
Machine Learning. There are compilers like XLA, MLIR, TVM and others.
> professional use

I hate this terminology. How would anyone define "professional use"
I recently posted my first programming video after getting inspired by other fellow programmer youtubers

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PU75M0QkwTQ
It’s been years since I’ve read Industrial Society and its Future, but I remember it felt like the author was rationalizing his own emotional state into a philosophy supposedly explaining society. It contained many subjective ideas presented as hard fact, as well as some naive romanticization of pre-industrial societies.

He was right about one thing, though. No one would give his writings a second look if he wasn’t a terrorist. Even if the many copycat manifestos would be much worse.
Thanks, must read.
Driverless trains are actually a pretty new thing, being on tracks is not as set/forget as people assume.

If you mean "transportation where I'm not driving" then sure but taxis also fit that bill.
Sidenote, i wonder if EU requires you keep some information about a user. Ie hypothetically, given some arbitrary P2P setup, you might need to record users that need to be forgotten, any aliases they fall under, etc. Lest you risk publishing said "forgotten" content from another source that is broadcasting.

Worse yet if this publication is in a slightly tweaked format that your software doesn't recognize.
France most probably have their own imaging as is the case with many countries; NOAA in the US, OS in GB etc.
The Apple II launched 46 years ago today and helped to start the PC boom
Who wants to keep live bombs in their house? Obviously he was going to put them elsewhere. Which is what planting is.
> But it seems the efforts to actually restore the compatibility of some components with sysvinit is from devuan, not debian.

Don't blame Debian if the Debuan contributors fail to send their patches upstream.