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> I'd say that we should not fool ourselves in that the military operation in Gaza is Israel defending itself ("Israel's right to defend itself" is now a commonplace phrase) rather than avenging itself. You may think it is justified in doing so but it still is payback imho.

This is absolutely not the case. A few other people have written about why your numbered list makes this clear, but I want to take a different tack.

This war is costing Israel a lot. It's costing the lives of soldiers. It's hurting Israel's economy indirectly. It is directly very expensive. It's prolonging an ongoing situation which is very traumatic for many Israelis (rockets shot at them and having to go to bomb shelters).

Most importantly, many Israelis want to see the hostages released, and while there are many good arguments for why this war is helping to achieve that goal, there are many good arguments against the war if the purpose is to return hostages.

Despite all of the above, Israelis are in general very unified in wanting this war to continue until Hamas is destroyed. This includes many right-wing Israelis who may have nationalistic/territorial aspirations, but it also includes almost the entire Israeli left, who dislike the current government and hate Netanyahu and some members of his cabinet.

The reason everyone is willing to pay such a high price, and being for waging a war that is costing so much, is not just revenge. It's because Israelis truly feel, to their core, that Hamas has proven themselves to be an enemy that must be destroyed, otherwise Israelis are just never going to be safe again.
This is conjecture, not facts. Please provide some actual reason why one should see Al Jazeera as a non-serious source.

btw, the same was said about the Al Jazeera's reporting on the Iraq occupation, and it was equally false.
More like toys are being superseded by other forms of entertainment among the youth.
Ah, bad news, you cc'd legal@, which technically isn't directly emailing legal@. We have denied your claim and you will be shot from a rocket directly into the sun next Wednesday.
Conversely, how relevant do you think 2023 techniques will be at all in a hypothetical AGI future? Doesn't the relevance of these questions embed some pretty strong assumptions?
I don't doubt you used Googles app store to access the banks app (as would I), but it's not because of something Google forces you to do. It's because your bank put it there, and it's a very a convenient service for both you and your bank. Unlike the iPhone environment the bank had a choice in using the app store. They could have you side load it, or they could put it in an alternate app store, or hell they could open source it and use FDroid's app store.

It seems to me there is very little stopping there being a whole pile of competing Android app stores out there. Technically there's nothing stopping it in fact, as the existence of FDroid illustrates. It's purely a matter of convenience - which is the same thing that drives Chrome's dominance on Android despite there being better browsers available for free. The play store app is pre-installed and is almost a one stop stop for all the apps you could possibly want, so who is going to bother loading another app store?

Turns out that edge in convenience is enough to create an effective monopoly in app stores, for most people anyway.
There's basically this whole category of things that function best as a monopoly. For insurance, you want the pool to be as large as possible to amortize risk over. For distribution networks, you don't want two networks covering the same area.

When that happens, the most important thing is ensuring the monopoly is run well, for which strict regulations are a must. You must define a mission independent of profit seeking, requirements that must be met, and be able to hold people responsible if they fail to meet the requirements or succumb to excessive greed.

After that it's largely irrelevant whether the entity providing the monopoly service is private or public.
> derivative of acceleration

Was this intended literally? I'm skeptical that saying something so precise about a fuzzy metric like rate of innovation is warranted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerk_(physics)
That's not how HIPAA works. 23andme would be, or would not be, the covered entity, and the entity bound by HIPAA.
Could barely get a sense of what any of this meant from the shared link.

Went back a bit further/to the official site:

> MemoryCache is an experimental development project to turn a local desktop environment into an on-device AI agent.

Okayy...

And this from November

Introducing Memory Cache

https://memorycache.ai/developer-blog/2023/11/06/introducing...
The problem is, nobody cares if the can actually says Play-doh on the label. When kids become brand aware it matters what phone they get, not so much the brand of a toy gun. You can pump them full of commercials to sell stuff, but anyone can do so, and it doesn't matter what your brand used to be before they were born.
Nope. There are isolated reports which are of doctors in Gaza saying they have a seen burns that they estimate to be white phosphorus but (a) it's their guess it could be from any number of munitions/explosives (b) phosphorus used legally in flares could cause injuries if they fall unspent (c) Gaza doctors like everyone under Hamas rule cannot speak freely to press.

The reports from Lebonon are isolated incurred that are highly inclusive too. Plus this accusation is used as part of the anti-Israel "genocide" narative that Israel simply wants to harm Gazans/Palestinians civilians, but why on earth even according to this beer particular view would it use white phosphorus as a munition in Lebanon?
You know what? I was wrong, you're right. I thought this was a change to the core engine, but I looked again and see it's in the lisp. The user's ~/.emacs file can override this setting, so no hard fork is needed.
> If your mitigation doesn't stop any CVE that's being exploited right now in the wild, it's an academic exercise and not particularly useful IMO.

If your only metric of security is "fixed CVEs", then you're rewarding mistakes that were rectified later, and punishing proactive approach to security that actually makes fewer CVEs appear in the first place.

And Theo's reputation and influence on the security is evidence that what he does is more than just "academic exercise".
E.g. he created OpenSSH.

> The point of the thread is that the mitigation cost right now may be low (the "billing hours"), but it's paid in perpetuity by everyone else downstream - in complexity, performance, unexpected bugs, etc.

While that may or may not be the pattern in general, it is not a rule, and especially doesn't apply in OpenBSD development. OpenBSD is widely regarded as one of the cleanest and most robust (free software) codebases ever.
I guess I didn't get dicked too hard in my mid December layoff (a couple years back); they gave me a pro-rated yearly bonus so I only lost like 2 weeks of it. The severance wasn't too bad either so all in all I took my money and shut up like they wanted me to. As I say in all these comments, I just wish that healthcare access wasn't tied to an employer - that seems like the cruelest aspect of modern America. Get too sick to work (and I have a condition that I live with), and you can't get healthcare any more.
Seeing what happened on 7th of October one can understand why IDF is nervous about people getting close (500m is the official buffer zone as I understand) to the fence. Not implying that competition in number of knees shot is justified.
Especially the last paragraph sounda like pure entitlement, by the author, not the observed people. Something tells me, that Shostak was pretty happy with all the things modern society provided him with: an academic career, a roof over his head, ample food, the ability to travel, healzh care... And yet, he and Sahlins seem to be completely oblivious to what is necessary to provide all of that. Instead, they seem to look at some "noble primitives", see that thosep seem to live a simpler live, and glorify that. After said observation, they return to their offices, go grocery shoping, see a dentist and write papers and books about what they observed... It is almost ironic, isn't it?
Shut up and take my investment money for your bitcoi -- I mean, AI -- startup.
But the reason those incidents didn't become a lot worse was that the humans in the loop exercised sound judgment and common sense and had an ethical norm of not inadvertently causing a nuclear exchange. That's the GP's point: the risk is in what humans do, not what automated systems do. Even creating a situation where an automated system's wrong response is allowed to trigger a disastrous event because humans are taken out of the loop, is still a human decision; it won't happen unless humans who don't exercise sound judgment and common sense or who don't have proper ethical norms make such a disastrous decision.

My biggest takeaway from all the recent events surrounding AI, and in fact from the AI hype in general, including hype about the singularity, AI existential risk, etc., is that I see nobody in these areas who qualifies under the criteria I stated above: exercising sound judgment and common sense and having proper ethical norms.
Gallery of Fluid Motion Winners
> I read about things like WorldCoin and that people who go to startup parties jump at the chance to give away scans of their retinas

Is this actually happening, or is that just what the stories say?
Just because it came second, doesn't mean it's better. It was cheaper, and you can see where they cut corners to be cheaper. For me, if nothing else, the 16-bit stack and index registers in the 6800 make it hands down a better chip to program. But the 6502 was cheaper, sure, and some people probably like to spend all day thinking about what stuff to cram into the first 256 bytes to be performant.
So, competition then.
It means cold sweet investment cash, that's what it means.
> Sweet, let’s have a government that profiteers off providing their people with extremely addictive, life-destroying, undeniably harmful substances. I’m sure that’ll work out great and not be corrupted ever.

Did you miss the part where we were suggesting the government didn't make money off of this?
Already been done, I was one of the recipients of the 1984 tomato seeds and we planted, grew, and ate them...

https://parkseed.com/seeds-in-space/a/13/#:~:text=In%201984%....
You can use other allocators with musl. For example in Chimera Linux, musl uses the llvm scudo allocator instead of the default allocator packaged with musl libc.
To the extent that it is relevant to what I was replying to, you absolutely can opt out of "collecting info on what you watch and associating that with your google account for cross-marketing elsewhere on the web".

https://adssettings.google.com/partnerads
The comparison with 6502 is often made, for obvious reasons, but the 6800 is definitely more of a "real processor" feature-wise! The order of magnitude in price difference and radically different intended applications are of course why that is so.
the quote is missing what happened after the Platzpitz and later the older Letten train station were cleared: heroin use was decriminalised - not legalised - but only in controlled locations under supervision from medical staff and social workers. It seems that solution helped in multiple ways:
- no people using heroin on the streets
- no overdoses
- drug users became less criminal because they didn't need as much money to finance their use
- the medicalisation of heroin use made it less appealing to new users by removing the rebellious aspect
> These are completely rejected in the Palestinian street, but unfortunately they are officially and internationally recognized by the United Nations and supported by the United States of America.

To me a smoking gun here is that Biden's administration wants the Palestinian Authority to rule Gaza "after Hamas" (as an aside, I sincerely doubt Israel will be successful in destroying Hamas, but ofc even if they do there will just be a more radical group taking its place anyway); history shows pretty well that the US only installs a power when they know they will be a vassal/puppet of US interests. There's many examples but the most recent one is when we (I'm American) propped up the bogus Afghanistan "Government" only for it to instantly collapse and be replaced again by the Taliban the moment we withdrew.

Really hope there's a path forward that gives the Palestinians real autonomy and an end to the bloodshed. In reality, I expect this conflict to continue indefinitely and us to just continue supporting the occupation, which I find heartbreaking but my rational mind is convinced is the most likely outcome.
Hard to do when most of the middle east is run by autocratic regimes that either get military aid from the US or the US is their security guarantor. You have to seem Pro-Palestinian to please the masses but ultimately undermine the cause to please the US
So as soon as a company gets hacked once, all of their security measures get recategorized as security theater?
In the decades to come. Although if you asked me to predict the state of things in 100 years, my answer would be pretty much the same.

I mean, all predictions that far out are worthless, including this one. That said, extrapolating from what I know right now, I don't see a reason to think that there will be an AGI a hundred years from now. But it's entirely possible that some unknown advance will happen between now and then that would make me change my prediction.
you left out "Correct!"
"team of deep-tech generalists—the world’s very best, regardless of where they live, what school they went to, or any other meaningless surface feature."

How are you planning on hiring?
Who promised that AI could/would solve climate change or cancer? The focus at the moment is on the enterprise because that's where its current capabilities are useful.
I haven't seen any plausible indication of how they will manage what is called "ullage".

Putting propellers on electric motors inside the tanks, to make fluid circulate axially around the center line, would propel it to intakes on the circumference, with a growing bubble running down the center. Then they would not need to accelerate the vehicle throughout the process, which alternative seems wholly impractical.

It would require clever design of the anti-slosh baffles (never shown in cutaway diagrams) to be compatible with such circulation. It might be tricky to keep the whole tank from switching to tumbling end-over-end.
I remember when google labs used to do cool, exciting things.
Paying in equity still dilutes your stock price therefore increases your loan costs. Plus, you could just sell more stock otherwise.
Linux containers project. Foreshadowing of this move at https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/
That’s a fascinating perspective which I wasn’t aware of - locking of language localisation. Thanks for raising.
It’s multigenerational vendeta. Both sides have what to avenge for.

Three ways how piece can be achieved here:

- side a is wiped out

- side b is wiped out

- both sides turn the other cheek and shake hands.

Both sides know that, and neither of them believe in cheeky business.
I'm the developer of CfSh. AMA.
One could argue that someone who has published 3 breakthrough papers is more likely to publish a 4th simply because they must have deep understanding of the field to have published 3 breakthrough papers.

It is obviously not a guarantee, but as with many things in life, previous success does tend to favour future success.

Currently working at Google? It's more likely that you will work for Apple in the future compared to the average developer. Got good grades in physics, you will probably get good grades next term too when compared to your average class mate. Got a startup that focuses on some practical use of LLMs, much more likely to get funding than if it focuses on some practical use of Markov models.
A more direct way to limit the influence of cartels may be to start cutting funding for agencies like the DEA who are supposed to be stopping - not facilitating - the transfer of drugs into the US.

These are the same state-sponsored criminals who obtain evidence unlawfully then lie about it under oath as part of their evidence laundering schemes.

https://narco.news/articles/private-network
Damn, there's a lot of nonsense in that essay.

"Rationalists believed that Bayesian statistics and decision theory could de-bias human thinking and model the behaviour of godlike intelligences"

Lol
Microsoft is ending mainstream support of Hyper-V Server 2019 on January 9, 2024 and extended support will end on January 9, 2029. Hyper-V Server 2019 will be the last version of this product and Microsoft is encouraging customers to transition to Azure Stack HCI.
Plenty of Disney characters like Snow White or Cinderella have been public domain all the time without it hurting Disney.
I can empathize with this, and hope your family remains safe. But I'm afraid Netanyahu and Hamas are just tips of icebergs, and criticism at that level will not be even remotely sufficient to resolve the underlying issues. I'd love to be corrected, but it seems to me that _all_ religions (not only Judaism or Islam) are plagued by supremacist beliefs about their own ethnic group. At the ethnic group level, religion seems to be an evolutionary advantage if not a primary driving force of genetic success. But at the global, human level, it is often catastrophic. Religious apologists tend to paper over their (often subconscious?) supremacist fundamentals with moral teachings and utopian visions, but I think it's crucial that these beliefs are publicly examined and criticized on the global stage, "heresy" be damned. Would be curious to hear your thoughts.
I'm not sure how you are getting the citation data for Top 3, but LeCun must be close and he does not agree.
You, too, are wrong. From Canonical's actual announcement:

> Canonical has decided to change the default contributions to the LXD project to AGPLv3 to align with our standard license for server-side code. All Canonical contributions have been relicensed and are now under AGPLv3. Community contributions remain under Apache 2.0.
Indeed, the mask correction process that MOS came up with was really their killer advancement w.r.t. keeping design cost down, even considering the dramatically simpler 6502 core.
I don't think it's fair to say that Israeli moderates are the minority - though that entirely depends on what you mean by "Israeli moderates".

I think the majority do not have any "territorial ambition" and would usually happily agree to a two state solution peace agreement, including giving up the WB, as long as security to Israel was guaranteed.

We are very far from this being realistic because of a lack of leaders on both sides, and because the security guarantees are incredibly hard.
Sure and for every small and simple application there’s are hundreds of terrible apps. I actually think memory safety is a pretty poor measure (in my isolated world I rarely see C code).

I see plenty of php logic which is far more likely to be publicly exposed and generally of a terrible quality.
Seems shift in the focus of company from providing models to providing apps on top of models.

I wonder what's the reason, is it they reached some kind of "local" maximum where they couldn't improve the models anymore or is it related to funding
1, this is a human issue above all. One does not have to be Jewish or non-Jewish to recognize the extreme human toll being exacted on Gaza. When I see bombs collapse buildings of innocent residents, hospitals invaded with entire ICU units dying, mass starvation due to a blockade, and a death toll with over 40% being children; I think all of this warrants comparisons with industrial mass murder. Just because it is being termed “self-defense” or a “war” does not make it any less blameworthy. Let’s look at the real human loss here: it’s mostly innocent people in an urban area being killed, where a large percentage of the population is children.

2, the terming of hamas as a “fanatic death cult” appears quite an extreme label. Hamas is more comparable to a political party with political, social, and military wings. In fact, it’s quite clear that Hamas’s brands itself as part of the resistance against occupation; and the motives for recent attacks lie in the Israeli aggression committed against Palestinians in the West Bank this summer and seeking to release Palestinian prisoners, many who were children, women, and held without formal charges. Even comparing how many hostages who have been released talked about how they were treated by Hamas, with the way Palestinian prisoners were treated by Israeli captors, shows that Hamas is not merely a “fanatic death cult”, given they treated prisoners with a degree of humanity they didn’t need to.

It’s also unclear that removing Hamas will fix the situation; after all, before Hamas, the PLO was labeled terrorists and dealt with brutally. In a resistance situation, the occupying force will typically seek to discredit and derail any process that threatens its control.

3, a desire to end occupation must be one that can be accepted by the occupied people. None of the peace process deals appeared to be honest efforts from the Israeli camp because the ultimate end goal of the occupying force has been to take control of “greater Israel” without the people who are living there.

I would propose a way to move forward for Israel would be a one-state solution: to recognize Palestinians as equal people with human rights, give them citizenship in a democratic rule, and allow them to return to their land. All of this without any military occupations. Because it is clear that a two-state solution has been dead for quite a while, given the occupying force has no intentions to end its theft of land in the West Bank.
I’d love some site you can add things to, and people can simply upvote if they think it’s a noteworthy item. And then I can subscribe to a calendar for the top 100.
Mixing fuel and oxidizer is a good way to get a dramatic explosion. Good if you wanted the explosion, not so good if you wanted vehicle and tank to still exist afterward.
The Hollywood writers had some very good suggestions!
Is there somewhere I can read more about Debian slim? I see there's a bookworm-slim but it's not clear what's removed or how much smaller it is. I'm asking for Proxmox; been using Alpine containers because they are so small but wouldn't mind other options. Debian-12-standard is 126MB (alpine is 3.)
> The Biden admin is proposing AI regulation that will protect large companies from competition

Mostly, the Biden Administration is proposing a bunch of studies by different agencies of different areas, and some authorities for the government to take action regarding AI in some security-related areas. The concrete regulation mostly is envisioned to be drafted based on the studies, and the idea that it will be incumbent protective is mostly based on the fact that certain incumbents have been pretty nakedly tying safety concerns to proposals to pull up the ladder behind themselves. But the Administration is, at a minimum, resisting the lure of relying on those incumbents presentation of the facts and alternatives out of the gate, and also taking a more expansive view of safety and related concerns than the incumbents are proposing (expressly factoring in some of the issues that they have used "safety" concerns to distract from), so I think prejudging the orientation of the regulatory proposals that will follow on the study directives is premature.
Not trying to contest, just asking...

Brecht died in 1956, so +70 years (as per German law) would be end of 2026, right?
Smoking Causes Cancer
I don't think it matters. Even if within a hundred years an AI comes into existence that is smarter than humans and that humans can't control, that will only happen if humans make choices that make it happen. So the ultimate risk is still human choices and actions, and the only way to mitigate the risk is to figure out how to not have humans making such choices.