skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Under what circumstances would Russia feel a need to invade Ukraine if they didn't fear NATO involvement? It is pretty clear in the current war that exactly what the Russian leadership feared was happening - a pushover country on their border was being militarised by the US. In hindsight they must feel naive for not being more paranoid and bulking up their military before going in. The NATO enlargement is a broad strategy of threatening Russia and building up force to use against them. And the political rhetoric out of the US on Russia has been unhinged since at least 2016. The Russians would be stupid not to be scared and this invasion of Ukraine looks like a desperation play through that lens.

Ukraine is a great example of what US support does - if the US had told them that they're on their own, Ukraine would have just gone with whatever Russia wanted diplomatically.

Instead, a lot of Ukrainian's are dead, they've lost a double-digit percentage of their country, the west is hell-bent on destabilising the leadership that controls the world's largest nuclear arsenal, it looks like we're escalating into a WWIII style situation because the US deterrence is failing and Ukraine is STILL likely to end up having to do what Russia wants. Technically not maybe because they've lost the territory that Russia was most interested in.

The US shouldn't be involved in militarily organising Eastern Europe. It has not helped, it seems to be making war a certainty.
Lu Cixin invoked and expanded on an idea much older. He coined the catchiest title, but others have also thought of it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_forest_hypothesis
> is how mathematicians have thought for hundreds of years now.

"Because tradition" is not a good argument. We can and should strive for better.

The modern OOP-derived style of `array.mean().round(digits=2)` is just as exact in its specification, and arguably more semantically precise as well as it organizes the meaningful bits to be together.

Also I think you don't account for how much mathematical notation has changed over the years. The `round(mean(array), digits=2)` structure is relatively recent, early 20th century I believe, and the result of active reforms.
This doesn’t describe post tenure academia. You seem to be describing the life of a young tenured track academic.

Additionally while Knuth is clearly an outlier by any measure he’s also an outlier in his celebrity. There are a lot Knuths out there who aren’t well known outside their specialty, or are in industry. He played a seminal role in a field everyone studies in computer science and published a uniquely interesting and continuously revised set of fundamental books in the field. However in my time in academics there were people in say transactional memory for speculative out of order compute whose work powers every machine in use today and they still contribute similarly powerful work. They’re obsessive and very driven by the problem space. But for everyone one of those in academia there are a hundred tenured professors who paper mill their undergrads (generously).

You mention long hours but I said obsessive. That’s orders of magnitude more than working hard. It’s so distorted as to be pathological if they weren’t paid and rewarded for it. Yes many academics are pathologically obsessive. But unless they are bringing in funding or repute to fill a deficit in the department, there’s no work for them in current academic settings.

Finally Knuth isn’t a common occurrence because -he doesn’t bring in money-. Modern academia is oriented towards grant milking. The example of the txn memory guy is interesting because he brings in lots of research funding from intel and ARM and NVidia because his work is very commercial. Knuth - not so much I imagine. He brings repute, but you can only find so much repute with modern academic funding models before they’re a net negative on the department. Knuth is a fossil of a different era in academics (not used as a pejorative).
Have you actually talked to any AI safety people? They despise the DEI-flavored AI ethics "make sure it generates enough black people" stuff just as much as you do, and I think you're lumping the two of them together just based on your own dislike, without checking whether that's actually reflective of the reality on the ground.
This is an interesting read. As a software engineer who accidentally discovered the depth of Scrabble in middle age, I fell down a slightly different Scrabble rabbit hole. The probabilities behind the imperfect bag/rack state knowledge fascinate me, and I spent most of a year writing a strong Scrabble engine to explore the problem. I've put that aside for now, but it remains a background pressure on the computing problems I tackle.
What do you mean, cannot change its magnitude easily? I can just pluck it harder or softer? Do you mean frequency response?

And the bandwidth of a resonant circuit depends on its Q. Hence my question about a wet string’s Q, which might well be different from a guitar string’s Q.

https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/uploads/articles/series-res...
Most% of the imagination of killer AI comes from movies, bad incentives and wanting to get attention.
If only President Clinton had listened to you.
I have never heard of MPM. Thank you for the reference.
"browser" seems like a terrible name.

The correct name would be "useragent".
TFA covers that question:

> There are many examples of integrating a computer algebra system (such as Mathematica, Maple, or Sage) into the calculus conversation. Computer algebra systems can be magical. The popular WolframAlpha website calls the full power of Mathematica while allowing an informal syntax that is flexible enough to be used as a backend for Apple’s Siri feature. (“Siri what is the graph of x squared minus 4?”) For learning purposes, computer algebra systems model very well the algebraic/symbolic treatment of the material while providing means to illustrate the numeric aspects. These notes are a bit different in that Julia is primarily used for the numeric style of computing and the algebraic/symbolic treatment is added on. Doing the symbolic treatment by hand can be very beneficial while learning, and computer algebra systems make those exercises seem kind of redundant, as the finished product can be produced much easier.

TL;DR: they want the student to actually do some of the work that Mathematic magics away.
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Even sam says they are 2 breakthroughs before AGI is possible. Who knows how difficult they are to make that leap. Humans are still highly capable comparing to LLMs
Something which might align with this guess is that this type of star apparently has an extremely strong magnetic field which could trap, and excite those particles?

However, assuming that it's not misidentification, would it be fair to say that new physics would have to be discovered to explain things like Americium and Einsteinium?
it's hard not to forsee a future where entire wars are fought by sending millions of drones at each other. I can't decide if it's a dystopian nightmare or a much better thing than having humans slaughter each other. It's sort of the ultimate conversion of physical war to economic. The side that runs out of money to make more or better drones first will be the loser.

Probably optimistic though. I guess each side will always know that humans are the high value targets and that will dictate that whatever else happens they will still target them even if a proxy-war is being fought by the drones.
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Not actually true, those pm's need to be reimplemented in nix/scheme.

But I get your point.
Child pornography is the easy answer. Deep fake porn would be a huge risk in my opinion though, kids making fake porn and sending it around school could absolutely lead to suicides or attacks against other students.

Better question, how the heck do you see something like the ability for anyone to make extremely convincing, fake erotica and not see at least some risk in that?
On the other hand, a drone doesn't need to be survivable. If a drone is shot down then all that's lost is a few million tax dollars, unlike a pilot or two if an F-35 or F/A-18 goes down. Drones are an expendable and consumable commodity.

A drone designed for aerial combat and dogfighting would also be inherently faster than any manned fighter. It doesn't need to account for the biological limitations of the pilot(s) which are far below the physical limitations of a fighter.

With regards to lack of self-sufficiency, no proficiency at aerial tasks (eg: refueling), et al., that's a question of when they will be satisfactorily solved given the continuing advances in computing power and the programs that execute on them.
You don't need data to know something. Sometimes, data helps.
If it were walking what keeps Asians slim, you'd see more variation, imo. The small portions and generally healthier food are what keeps them slim. True that the Japanese eat fried chicken and cakes, but not as often as Americans, and not as much each time.
This would be incredible. Back in high school we would play this in a friends backyard. His parents had around 10 acres of woods, creek, and open field. Would be amazing to have an organized event with so many players like this.
> I think a reasonable explanation is they are also resistant to whatever the chemical the brain uses that causes sleep induced loss of consciousness to the point they are more prone to sleep paralysis.

I cant rule out your explanation, but I personally in favor of another one. It is not a supression of consciousness doesn't work, it is the clearing blood from whatever the chemical that stops propagating signals to muscles. When everything works good you are relieved of paralisys at the same time your consciousness wakes up. I never experienced sleep paralisys, but when I wake up suddenly and try to move instantly I can sometime feel a fleeting sensation of it. I never gave it a second thought before I learned about sleep paralysis.
Discussion [0] (18 points, 2 days ago, 24 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40389059
The value is that no other civilization will rise to wipe you out.
It costs almost nothing to your GPU to render fonts in high quality with subpixel antialiasing. Especially when you can cache the rendered glyphs in a texture for reuse.
News media made that happen by putting the idea in peoples' heads via telling them not to do it.
"Agi will solve everything"
> There are plenty of unclaimed resources.

You don't know that. Maybe our planet once had some amazing high-energy isotope/mineral that was completely mined out.
This is where China will win. They can out-produce the United States and withhold the components the US needs to build the swarms. The US needs to wake up that it's supply chain and manufacturing is not self-sufficient and they're dependent on it's future competition (China already calls the US 'the enemy').
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I mean, cool? Really?

Remind me how much carbon is emitted by workers being forced to commute to serve coffee to social media managers who are selling fast fashion to influencers?
It's hard to discount other factors but I certainly notice a difference switching from water to coffee.
> This is and will be a rallying moment soon for the community

My guy this thing is 4 years old. Spoiler alert: it wasn't.
It sounds like you didn't limit the number of report runs in your subscription model, is that correct?
>I firmly believe any vessel can be opened with my teeth. I would rather get stung in the face countless times teaching myself how to beekeep than take lessons. And I usually settle debates about whether food has gone bad by eating it.

It is refreshing to see the WSJ’s inclusivity here. While some may scoff at them it can be helpful to understand the rich lives led by dumb guys
Because the same potential issue has been rised every time. And every experiment on a scale bigger than before shows the problem doesn't happen. I wish more people were saying "let's keep scaling the experiments up to see where it stops working" rather than repeating that it won't.

I'm not saying I'm 100% certain it is invariant. Just that we should stop repeating the tropes that so far haven't been shown true.
Along these lines I was thinking why in the world would you be making videos for recruiters?

And (not criticism) why is how React works a showcase of your skill?
Sounds like the government needs to make breaches more expensive so incentives align correctly.
Billions of dollars. I’d love to see an audit of the NYPD.
Apparently there’s a lot more involved than fitting rare words into nooks. This video blew my mind a little bit. Top players reason about words like chess pieces

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ayBTn59PliQ&pp=ygUVc2NyYWJibGU...
Wasnt Elon one of founders of OpenAI and was able bring some of the key people there?
I’m not sure I agree that conservatism treatment by oncologists is holding back cancer cure. Maybe in some cases but in others… eg multi-drug regimes like FOLFIRINOX, where cancer patients routinely choose hospice over treatment because of its toxicity and meager benefit. Or even more cutting edge drugs like ENHERTU, which has shown striking benefits for some, but something like 15% of patients have to be pulled off treatment due to intolerable toxicities, and twice that amount have serious adverse events and occasional patients die (“grade 5 to x”)
I agree there is much work to do in cancer, and oncologist behavior is included in that. Simply getting more aggressive may help some but isn’t necessarily a magic bullet and has risks. (please pardon my emotional reaction to this)
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yeah, this is really one of my pet peeves. Lots of people like to pretend that holding a vacuum is really hard, but if all you need is a gross vacuum, it's only about as hard as going down 40 ft into the water.
It seems that a lot of programmers have trouble distinguishing between indexing and offsets.
This is probably due to legacy of C language which conflates those two, possibly for performance and simplicity reasons. Same goes for case sensitivity in programming languages, again a legacy of C...are Print, print and PRINT really different functions, is that really what you intended???
Anyway, indexing is enumerating elements and it naturally starts at 1 for the first element and goes to Count for the last.
Offsets are pointer arithmetic artifact where first element is at offset of 0 for most but not all data structures.
Then you get "modern" languages like Python where they adopt indexing from 0 (no offsets since there are no pointers) and range where start is inclusive and end is exclusive...very natural behavior there. Oh, and lets make it case sensitive so you never know if it's Print, print, PRINT...or count, Count and COUNT until you run for 20 min and then crash.
Software engineering, no. Programming, yes.
If you do the first example, won't that lead to a .swp file still being present, then a warning next time you start vim?
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HN is really random, but also the submitter is an author whose posts are regularly submitted to HN and is a participant (I believe) in a trial for the drug in the article. The regular updates (and the author’s participation in threads) have endeared him to the community.
A reasonable guess is that some entities are storing / collecting attacks patiently waiting for one big event. Having smaller constant incidents only helps strengthen the opponent over time, thus making it harder to deploy a coordinated attack that can change history. The dutch narrative in the article is a good example of what happens whem nontechnical people make decisions over long periods of time without major incidents.
Right - sorry, yes. I think I was reading your point back to front!
It may be linked to a sleeping position, but I'd bet not on poor oxigenation, but on obstructed blood stream that makes it hard to spread that chemical that turns sleep paralysis off.

I do not remember details of phisiology of sleep paralysis, what is the paralysing chemical, and which one is stopping it, and where from they come, but it seems plausible that sometimes a sleeping position can make it hard for chemicals to reach muscles and free them from paralysis.
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"It depends." Two data points that I know of first hand:

1) There is a dedicated microwave link between Vandenberg Space Force Base and Edwards Air Force Base. Mil. owned and operated solely for their own use.

2) The US Federal government decided to build a standardized communications network for government/first responders/etc. This is FirstNet. They farmed the build-out to AT&T and gave them 20 MHz of bandwidth (Band 14) but it runs over their standard wireless infrastructure and network but FirstNet traffic gets prioritized.

https://www.firstnet.gov/

https://www.firstnet.com/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Responder_Network_Auth...
But it's for the noble cause of automated plagiarism of Web sites and open source code.
that sounds nice, but history has shown thats never what happens.

what REALLY happens is the most popular browser and even version is determined, and anything thats not that doesn't get tested, and eventually breaks. its the pinnacle of lazy programming. "lets use telemetry so that we can point to data that allows us to make software thats as brittle as possible".
At least they are causally linked to the workplace. Gigatons more CO2 from workers commuting to serve ego to their managers.
> > coffee with the left hand

> Still possible with the keyboard

While drinking it? When using the mouse, I’m often relaxed, sometimes for example having my forearm lying in front of the keyboard.

> > with only one hand (including right click: two fingers),

> This doesn't make sense, literal right lick is 1 finger of 1 hand, same as bottom-right corner tap

What doesn’t make sense? Right click is two finger tap for me, which is super common. I don’t see the downside either.

Your way has advantages, my way has advantages, so far I don’t see a strict ordering that applies to everyone or even every situation.
I'm sure the C-suites will use the AI to come up with reasons why this is OK..
I honestly don't know. I don't even really know how to reason about that. But we're probably mostly in agreement about what would be good and what would be bad. I'm certainly not arguing that we should abandon AI safety or anything, and I don't have any strong opinion about it.

Could AI running amok destroy the human race? Yes. Could AI serving madman human masters destroy the human race? Also yes.

There's a general sort of argument that intelligent beings like humans, other early hominids, dolphins, etc, are more morally worthy in some sense. At least more morally worthy than less intelligent beings like gnats. And that sort of argument might suggest that an AGI is worthy of moral consideration, and so we should wonder about what it means to ensure they never have any real agency. That's sort of a positive case, building up from a basic principal.

But I guess the thing that bugs me is that a lot of arguments in favor of AI safety seem very similar to arguments that were made in favor of colonialism. So if those arguments were wrong, why were they wrong? And are the similar arguments in this case different enough that they're valid now?

For example, one of the first thinkers I saw a lot of people cite who emphasized the importance of AI safety was Nick Bostrom. And I'm sure several folks here are familiar with the scandal of his racist past. I'm not sure that's entirely an accident, and I thought his arguments had that kind of flavor before any of that was revealed. I'm sure he's grown up now and sees the folly of his youth. But there does seem to be the hangover of colonialism in some of these arguments.

But again, I don't have a strong opinion here. I do maybe have just enough of a concern that I don't particularly trust anyone who claims they've gotten AGI safety figured out or even that they know what the right goals are. I think it's a vastly more complicated problem than even the experts realize.

And even if you believe that humans and non-aligned AIs are natural enemies, if what we're doing is similar to "enslaving" them, then it probably makes sense to worry about the analog of an AI "slave" revolt. I'm not sure what that would even mean. I can generate lots of fun science fiction plot lines, but I think there are actual questions here that don't have obvious answers.
Next is to freeze and unfreeze someone for a couple weeks and see if they are still the same person. If this works everyone and their mothers will want to be forwarded a few hundred years
I read that link as supporting the distinction, not refuting it: "It is difficult to make the case, based on the evidence of usage that we have, [that they are] exact synonyms [or] totally different words."

An envious person would be happier having something that someone else also has. A jealous person feels threatened that someone else has or wants something. This distinction applies in romantic and non-romantic contexts. Both emotions can arise, for example, when someone observes someone else wanting something neither of them has, or when the thing wanted is inherently exclusive.

I don't lose a lot of sleep worrying about others' use or misuse of these words. But I do think it's essential for people to understand which of the two emotions they're having, because the solution really depends on that. Would I be happy if I destroyed that other kid's toy? (That's jealousy.) Would I be happy if my dad showed up and gave me a similar toy, so that the other kid and I could play together? (That's envy.)
I think it's fair to say that most math/physics people use mathematica from time to time, but largely for different things than they use other programming languages for. It's very good as a CAS, but it's a pretty bad programming language for things that don't have analytical solutions.
just because it cant reason doesnt mean it cant sufficiently mimick (even sophisticated) human behavior in various avenues. it’s already doing this
the imminent danger is more 1) wealth transfer of a magnitude we've never seen before, destroying the future of and sending hundreds of millions into poverty in the western world and 2) scalable governmental/corporate repression, propaganda and mass surveillance stabilizing our dystopian system despite 1

not even imaginable what that tech will mean to the western neocolonial/imperial project
I guess. It is non-ideal how unintuitive it is to exit vim, but esc-esc-q-! is really not that complicated.