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limit499karmaon South Korean president declares martial law, parliament votes to lift it

Any realist assessment of the power structure in SK (in general, and much more so in the military) has to acknowledge the history and presence of US military in Korea.

limit499karmaon South Korean president declares martial law, parliament votes to lift it

Just Russia?

limit499karmaon 1/0 = 0 (2018)

The OP uses finite fields and fields are basically harmonic structures (think modular math). Assume the field is the numbers 0..n-1 MOD n. At (n-1) + 1 you will get n MOD n which is equivalent to 0 MOD n which is 0. Now assume n-1 approaches infinity; is 0 not ∞ ?

limit499karmaon Procedural knowledge in pretraining drives reasoning in large language models

There is a word for that: a 'recording'. There is no observer thus no observation.

limit499karmaon President Biden pardons his son Hunter Biden

Another reading would see this "lawfare" narrative as a device to fool the citizenry. Both sides know they will get pardoned but by having "lawfare" give the impression (to the impressionable and propagandized public) that we do not have in this nation a ruling class that protects its own and does as it pleases.

limit499karmaon Procedural knowledge in pretraining drives reasoning in large language models

> it observes

Observe implies sentience that, without question, a neural net simply does not possess. "It" certainly 'records', or more specifically it 'maps', but there is no observer in sight (npi).

> mimic

LLM's do not mimic. The magic is mathematical and happening in the high dimensional space. If there is intrinsic underlying pattern and semantic affinities between process X (used in training) and process Y (used in application), it is very likely that both share proximity, possibly form, in some dimensions of the high dimensional model.

limit499karmaon Honeycrisp apples went from marvel to mediocre

TIL "10 billion apples a year get picked by hand in the state of Washington".

Interview question: estimate number of pickers and number of trees.

limit499karmaon Honeycrisp apples went from marvel to mediocre

Something really off imho with a food writer that manages to insert foul matter vulgarity into food reviews. It's moved beyond cute into the 'wonder what ails this guy' territory.

limit499karmaon Engineers do not get to make startup mistakes when they build ledgers

Good to know. But does that also mean that e.g. splitting the full output to n 256 chunks would mean there is correlation between the chunks? (I always assumed one could grab any number of bits (from anywhere) in a cryptographic hash.)

limit499karmaon Engineers do not get to make startup mistakes when they build ledgers

? If I use something like Blake3 (which is super fast and emits gobs of good bits) and encode a node with say 512 bits of the hash, you are claiming that somehow I am vulnerable to tampering because the hash function is fast? What is the probable number of attempts to forge a document D' that hashes to the very same hash? And if the document in structured per a standard format, you have even less degrees of freedom in forging a fake. So yes, a Merkel tree definitely can provide very strong guarantees against tampering.

limit499karmaon Engineers do not get to make startup mistakes when they build ledgers

Theoretically they even have a better security environment (since it is internal and they control users, code base and network) so the consensus mechanism may not even require BFT.

limit499karmaon 9.5% of software engineers do virtually nothing: Ghost Engineers (0.1x-ers)

> Help us stop this insanity and participate in our research

The hyperbole here raised the possibility of OP being preparatory step for a sales pitch for a product.

limit499karmaon Show HN: Rill – Composable concurrency toolkit for Go

Is there an underlying assumption that the channels are containers and not streams?

limit499karmaon Writes large correct programs (2008)

Good SWE can do all 3. The three distinct skill sets are orthogonal to individuals' skills.

limit499karmaon Writes large correct programs (2008)

> how to organize software so that the complexity remains manageable as the size increases

So John is missing the role of software architect here. Science, art, and development - 3 roles. Not all visits to the stratosphere are misadventures.

limit499karmaon Elon Musk emails reveal OpenAI's history of struggles over money and power

Thanks!

limit499karmaon Everyone is capable of, and can benefit from, mathematical thinking

Leibniz wasn't saying that "rigorous thinking" is only available to mathematically trained or that Locke's reasoning was not "rigorous".

His critique of Locke was that one can not have a correct model of human understanding (or world model) based on purely philosophical means, and that the lack of exposure to certain aspects of modern mathematics (that was emerging at that time) was the basis of Locke's misunderstandings.

limit499karmaon Everyone is capable of, and can benefit from, mathematical thinking

> the provocative claim

Leibniz made that claim centuries ago in his critical remarks on John Locke's Essay on Human Understanding. Leibniz specifically said that Locke's lack of mathematical knowledge led him to (per Leibniz) his philosophical errors regarding the nature of 'substance'.

https://www.earlymoderntexts.com/assets/pdfs/leibniz1705book...

limit499karmaon AlphaQubit: AI to identify errors in Quantum Computers

what he actually said: "as long as the physical error probability ε is small enough" you can build a reliable system from unreliable parts.

So it remains for you to show that AI.ε ~= QC.ε since JvN proved the case for a system made of similar parts, that is vacuum tubes, with the same error probability.

(p.s. thanks for the link)

limit499karmaon How Google spent 15 years creating a culture of concealment

I was watching Kennedy's (RFKjr's daughter) interview with Tucker and she talked about her first day at work at C.I.A. and instructions on how to tag emails. She said there was a huge drop down and she was told to just set a default (which turns out is the highest possible security setting) "even for things like 'want to go get a coffee?'" Quite clever since that set of emails will be an enormous pile of mostly useless chit chat with other matter buried in the mess.

limit499karmaon Was it better when we were manufacturing consent?

I thought we were in some nth generation of the M.C. paradigm. Key feature today is manufacturing dissent, which is still narrative control.

The other day was reading an eye opener on the life of Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee and his (social) friends. So many journalists in US started in military intelligence. Worth digging deep on Ben Bradlee and friends and colleagues.

limit499karmaon Two undersea cables in Baltic Sea disrupted

Maybe he is an Israeli.

limit499karmaon Four dead in fire as Tesla doors fail to open after crash

I'm an oligarch an I'm o.k.

I break laws every single day ...

limit499karmaon I Don't Have LinkedIn

> free

But it is not "free" Jeff. That's the entire point - a gaming of our professional lives beyond "free c.v. hosting service".

> that everyone uses

I wonder how that happens. "Must use this 'free c.v. service' or Jeff and likeminded corporate drones will think you be 'odd' and 'not a cultural fit'".

limit499karmaon I Am Tired of AI

I'll take your statement that your conclusions are based on a 'depressed mind' at face value, since it is so self-defeating and places little faith in Human abilities. Your assumption that a person driven to write will "with a high degree of certainty" also mix up their work with a machine assistant can only be informed by your own self-assessment (after all how could you possibly know the mindset of every creative human out there?)

My optimistic and enthusiastic view of AI's role in Human development is that it will create selection pressures that will release the dormant psychological abilities of the species. Undoubtedly, wide-spread appearance of Psi abilities will be featured in this adjustment of the human super-organism to technologies of its own making.

Machines can't do Psi.

limit499karmaon OpenAI to remove non-profit control and give Sam Altman equity

He is an effective bullshit artist with no moral restraint and capital behind the scene promotes and pushes him and his type as they are the perfect match for their role as "captains" of "industry". The 'building' of these fronts is a collaborative effort, with definitive media element of which even HN is likely included.

limit499karmaon OpenAI to remove non-profit control and give Sam Altman equity

Excuse me but what sort of bullshit is this?

Anyone with sufficient intellectual power to grok building AI must be fully aware of the monetization value of the same. If you are navel gazing over AIG taking over humanity you must first step through the stage were capital and AI couple up.

So it is not too much to ask since others who also were aware of the inherent unwanted social distortions that was entirely predictable were relying on these individuals and "non-profit" organizations to actually live up to their claims.

As it is, it seems like a thinly disguised propaganda to recruit and benefit from altruistic and capable workers in the field to then have Sam Altman (and whoever is behind him $$$) to parachute and take over and say "oh well, you can'tn expect people to be truthful and have principles! What are ya, a chump?"

limit499karmaon OpenAI to become for-profit company

Reuters had the exclusive yesterday but somehow it never surfaced for long here:

"OpenAI to remove non-profit control and give Sam Altman equity"

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/o...

limit499karmaon Scheduling threads like Thomas Jefferson

I do not believe 'pipelining' and parallelism are interchangeable models and conflating them is a mistake. For example, consider a parallel processing system that in fact works strictly using a 'pipeline' of length 0, that is there is a hand-of from input to processing stage and processing of that input. And you can have n such parallel processing stages and voila 'parallelism'.

Pipelines are strictly processing stages where the 'production of the input' and processing on the inputs are not synchronized. For example, one sends n requests to via a pipeline protocol to a remote server without waiting for acks for each input from the server. There may only be one such processing pipeline (and thus no parallelism) while there is pipelining.

limit499karmaon Telegram will now hand over phone number and IP for criminal suspects

> Which government ... Whose standard

It depends entirely on where you land in your private jet.