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l33t233372··on Math That Goes on Forever but Never Repeats
One way of looking at things like this is from the perspective of so called Ramsey theory. Notions like syndenticity(the property of a set having bounded gaps), upper density(the lim-sup of the proportion of numbers in the set), thickness(the property of having arbitrarily large successive subsequences), etc. all capture different notions of this.

Edit: let’s not forget the rich theory involved in examining if sets/sequences contain arithmetic (or geometric) progressions! The well known Green-Tao theorem about primes containing arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions is one such result. In fact, the real Green-Tao theorem says that any set which has nonzero upper density with respect to the set of primes contains arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions.

l33t233372··on Everything you always wanted to know about mathematics (2013) [pdf]
It might, but it shouldn’t. There are 8 chapters and most of the content in the first 7 shows up in any run of the mill “Introduction to Higher Mathematics” or whatever that university decides to call their first actual math class, although occasionally combinatorics will replace number theory content.
l33t233372··on Meta AI announces Massive Multilingual Speech code, models for 1000+ languages
Imagine if we used them everyday for 500 years but tune all the languages to be ever so slightly similar each day until there is one language.
l33t233372··on Controlled burns can prevent wildfires; regulations make them nearly impossible
I’m not sure where you make the leap to “do not cause harm to any individuals.”

This thread is about managing and reducing harm in places where having “no harm” (whatever that means) isn’t an option.

l33t233372··on Baltimore sues Hyundai, Kia over spike in car thefts
I’m wondering if you can explicitly say what about including an immobilizer in the north American market inherently makes those vehicles less repairable than their immobilizer-equipped counterparts in other markets.
l33t233372··on Startups Are Scooping Up Big Tech’s Cast-Off Workers
I think they’re referring to the time after they leave to go work at a start up.
l33t233372··on Ask HN: What is new in algorithms and data structures these days?
Nonetheless it’s an example you asked for of a dataset with over a trillion entries.
l33t233372··on The D.E.N.N.I.S. system: Résumé tips for Senior Devs
I personally know a senior mechanical engineer who’s basically doing what other posts are complaining software engineers end up doing — managing and solving business problems.

I think this is more common than you’d think.

l33t233372··on Gpt4free repo given takedown notice by OpenAI
See for example, the group arrested for selling devices that allowed people to take control of their own Nintendo Switch systems[1].

Although, after digging into the story, it looks like they may have also operated an illicit app store containing cracked IPs, so that situation is a little murky.

[1] https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2023/04/nintendo-hacker-ga...

l33t233372··on Software firms across US facing tax bills that threaten survival
Where is the line?
l33t233372··on AWS staff spending ‘much of their time ’optimizing customers' clouds'
What are you saying by pointing out that they use the dotnet stack?

It’s interesting trivia to be sure, but I’m wondering if you were making a point with that

l33t233372··on What GPT-4 Does Is Less Like “Figuring Out” and More Like “Already Knowing”
It’s hard, because previously the only things that could create novel structures were humans, and humans certainly have intentionality and thought.
l33t233372··on What GPT-4 Does Is Less Like “Figuring Out” and More Like “Already Knowing”
> There is no believe no figure and no know here

I raise an issue with “no figure,” because that would mean that the model is unable to create novel structures and information. It certainly is able to do that.

l33t233372··on FBI is warning people against using public phone-charging stations
The attack involves placing a device between the cord and the wall.
l33t233372··on FBI is warning people against using public phone-charging stations
I think I recall such a thing happening at DEFCON. It was either that or USB sticks being handed out.
l33t233372··on I worked at Google for -10 days
It was my understanding we were talking about laws making companies want to hire from within at the expense of hiring people from “overseas”.

That is, I was under the impression we were discussing things that happened before the legal immigration process had began.

l33t233372··on People with severe mental illness have been failed by a dysfunctional system
> Mental illness is not a monolith and it does not present the same way for different people.

I agree. Of course it isn’t. However, saying that people affected by severe mental illness are able to think clearly and rationally is almost definitionally false.

If their ability to think clearly and rationally were not afflicted, they wouldn’t be experiencing a mental disorder.

Further, just saying that I have misunderstandings, am spreading FUD, and should stop commenting without yourself providing cogent reasons why I am mistaken helps nobody.

l33t233372··on I worked at Google for -10 days
I’m not sure why you are referring to the “land of the free,” as I was referring to laws of countries in general. Laws are nearly always created to benefit the country creating them.
l33t233372··on People with severe mental illness have been failed by a dysfunctional system
I’m not sure what you mean. Not being able to reason effectively is basically the definition of severe mental illness.
l33t233372··on People with severe mental illness have been failed by a dysfunctional system
> That too should result in us investingating why they refuse that housing

We’re talking about people with severe mental illness. They are not able to reason effectively and rationally.

l33t233372··on I worked at Google for -10 days
> Ban revoking offers only for overseas employees (who are hurt most by this). This will ensure that the hiring bar for overseas employees is set sky high and it will already be harder for them to compete

Laws are generally created to benefit people who are not described as “overseas”

l33t233372··on Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior
> It really can only get better here, not even kidding.

I think that’s pretty extreme hyperbole.

l33t233372··on To supercharge learning, look to play
Alternatively, they should just tell school boards and state legislatures that AI will allow children to learn at their own pace. Probably no faster way to put a total ban in motion than an appeal to toxic “anti-wokeism’ activism.
l33t233372··on Is RAM wiped before use in another LXC container?
Reducing the temperature of the RAM can be done to make a cold boot attack easier, but it’s not the origin of the name.

For more details, see the paper Lest We Remember.

l33t233372··on CAN Injection: Keyless car theft
Could you be more specific?

Military industrial complex?

l33t233372··on CAN Injection: Keyless car theft
I just find it hard to believe that someone could do this and not do other involved tasks.

Sure it’s technically _possible_ someone who is terrible at other tasks and isn’t very bright put this together…but I doubt it.

l33t233372··on Is RAM wiped before use in another LXC container?
I find that phrasing weird.

A cold boot attack relies on a cold boot of the system to evade kernel protections(as opposed to a warm boot where the kernel can zero memory.)

The name has nothing to do with reducing the temperature of the ram to extend the time it takes bytes to vanish in ram.

l33t233372··on Is RAM wiped before use in another LXC container?
I don’t understand why this would help prevent cold boot attacks.

Wouldn’t the memory need to bee free’d first for this to have any effect?

l33t233372··on Is RAM wiped before use in another LXC container?
Perhaps by using a can of compressed air[0].

[0] https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/sec08/tech/full_papers/h...

l33t233372··on Giving kids no autonomy at all has become a parenting norm
> Doubt it would ever work in the US because everywhere is just plain dangerous

What do you mean by this?

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