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zmgsabst··on NTSB issues investigative update on B-767 runway excursion accident in Miami
I don’t think it’s required, but my friends who do flights for remote mining operations in SE Asia use the same concepts — so it really is pretty standard for commercial flying, even down to remote private operations.

A bad bump on a commercial plane can be hundreds of thousands to millions in damage + downtime + inspection/repairs. And tens or hundreds of millions if you wreck a big plane. Companies may be evil, but most would still prefer you waste $2k in go around fuel than $200k because you decided to set it down badly or $20M+ because you drove their plane off the runway.

zmgsabst··on Douglas Hofstadter: Analogy as the Core of Cognition [video]
You would conclude that storytelling is higher structures of some base unit, perhaps a few layers deep when considering features, eg:

narrative -> trope + theme -> memes

zmgsabst··on I have a theory that software drives people insane
Interpreting data is hard.

Eg, if you have a bunch of airplanes returning from a war, you might be tempted to armor the areas where they were hit. But you want to armor planes where the holes arent because those are the critical areas.

If you can read literal bullet holes backwards, hundred dimensional preference vectors say something, but we generally have no clue.

zmgsabst··on Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists
Icebergs are deep and visible.

Deep here is similar to “deep web”, ie, there is depth to the institutions beyond their apparent surface layers. The elites need a deep state because organizations are made of people — and the administrators of the fora where they give those speeches is a great example of people in the deep state.

zmgsabst··on Investing in mothers? The long-run impact of a universal child care
This doesn’t even show the family is better off economically — they only measure their earnings, but not lost labor while at home.
zmgsabst··on Investing in mothers? The long-run impact of a universal child care
Of course it has positive GDP on the parents: if two women each care for each others children rather than their own, GDP goes up even though the impact on both families is negative (due to lost travel time, as the mothers swap roles).
zmgsabst··on DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit Is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits
They route through all kinds of intermediaries that handle the banking by proxy — eg, as we saw in the Panama Papers and similar leaks.

Reporting $600 in CashApp isn’t about stopping cartels, terrorists, etc; it’s about harassing sex workers and street dealers, profiling side businesses, etc.

zmgsabst··on DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit Is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits
In practice, KYC does little to stop any of that — but does do a lot to enable mass surveillance and oppression.
zmgsabst··on DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit Is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits
I suspect the argument is more the particular KYC required by American law, eg, as long as your bank can identify you as a particular customer, they shouldn’t be required to collect certain information by law.

Though if I were going to rant, it would be about how constructive surveillance, such as requiring banks keep certain records and then claiming those records aren’t protected from search because they’re third party business records and not those of a private citizen, would be a much higher priority to fix.

zmgsabst··on Scientists observe Einstein's gravity in the quantum world
How do you synchronize the clocks and compute the measurement, without depending on the conclusion?

You run into a similar problem with Michelson-Morley: because the apparatus and the light both get distorted by any motion, you can’t even in principle detect the aether wind with interferometry. You need a non-comoving dynamic source, eg, LIGO with black hole collisions.

Their one-way experiments seem to require similar, ie, we can observe dynamics but cannot measure a static bias.

zmgsabst··on Shutting down our public encrypted DNS
I’m American — I just view politics through form rather than propaganda. Eg, the concept of “left vs right” arises from USSR propaganda distancing themselves from fascists, who believed in similar practices.

You should also respond to the substance of what I said, rather than engage in ad hominems.

zmgsabst··on Ask HN: Why don't we bring back old school OkCupid?
You also have a self-selection effect: users willing to fill out more involved surveys may pair with each other at a higher rate than the overall background.
zmgsabst··on Netherlands pulls gold out of the US
My understanding is that it’s on shelves in a shared vault and you relabel who owns that shelf/slot/bin.
zmgsabst··on Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem
I did an undergrad in math with a little research in number theory and recognized parts — eg, I myself worked through the proof for odd regular primes and that 37 is irregular, breaking the general case.

Wiles-Taylor-Wiles was the original proof by Andrew Wiles, and its corrections.

Galois representations is about vectors over Galois extensions, which are essentially adding roots to regular numbers (rationals, integers, etc). That ties into the Langlands program, which is a big area in number theory (that I don’t know much about).

Together with flat deformations and Frey curve, I think they’re talking about a topic in algebraic geometry as applied to number theory.

I also recognize the name Eisenstein from my time as an undergrad, though two decades out and not working in the field I’ve forgotten what his work on ideals implied here. Ideals are a well-known topic though, a sort of structure inside a ring (set with + and *) that is closed under operations — like evens in the integers are the 2Z ideal.

So I’d describe it as “sensible with an undergrad background”.

zmgsabst··on Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap
Joseki are akin to book openings in chess, eg, we routinely see players going 20+ moves entirely from AI prep.
zmgsabst··on Autistici/Inventati's main .org domain goes dark after US terrorism designation
There’s no assumptions.

We know he was killed by the John Brown Gun Club operating as “security” for CHAZ because they live streamed them shooting the vehicle, discovering he was still alive, and executing Antonio Mays Jr to the chilling words “Oh, you’re still alive?” before the gunshot that took his life.

Your argument we can’t count that as leftwing violence is as nonsense as saying we can’t count historic lynching as racial violence because the perpetrators weren’t convicted.

zmgsabst··on Autistici/Inventati's main .org domain goes dark after US terrorism designation
Imagine working this hard to defend child murder by your political allies, live-streamed on Twitch when they assassinated a black youth for joyriding on their turf.
zmgsabst··on U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective
They did — in the targeting database which wasn’t correctly updated with the new analysis.

That’s exactly the sort of bureaucratic mistake which gets exposed via wartime mishaps.

zmgsabst··on Autistici/Inventati's main .org domain goes dark after US terrorism designation
Antonio Mays Jr was killed on livestream by CHAZ security — and the crime scene tampered after to prevent conviction by CHAZ members.

Tyler Robinson is clearly leftwing, as evidenced by the message on the bullets and association with the leftwing trans militia his partner was a member of in Utah.

zmgsabst··on Autistici/Inventati's main .org domain goes dark after US terrorism designation
Who have they assassinated in the last 10 years?

We have leftwing examples from Charlie Kirk for speech to the live-streamed execution of Antonio Mays Jr for joyriding on leftwing militia turf.

zmgsabst··on U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective
Parler experienced a government coordinated shutdown across app stores and infrastructure providers like AWS.

I’m not sure what distinction you’re trying to make, when their infrastructure (AWS) was shut off due to the government labeling them terrorists due to some users (who Parler had banned) using the service.

zmgsabst··on U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective
I don’t think it was intended.

I think that when you’re bombing thousands of targets, a 0.1-1% targeting error rate leads to dozens of unintended collateral hits (and thousands of civilians dead) — and is among the many reasons wars are horrific.

zmgsabst··on Just the rumour of a bug is enough to find an exploit these days
I can’t comment on if it applies to your workflow, but one process I’ve used is to aggregate and land ~10 security patches at a time. Eg,

- grab a group of (related) bugs/defects/vulns

- fix them on a branch like bug-batch-XXX

- run that group through the verification, landing in main, CI/CD flow to amortize process cost

- repeat as needed to process backlog

My experience is that process often has irreducible time (eg, two days due to reviews by various parties); but that time slot can be shared between several bugs in a single PR — especially if you have several related to the same feature.

zmgsabst··on Black hole singularity is a surface not a point
Okay — you’re still not explaining what actually breaks, just repeating they could measure over and over.

Please say what you specifically believe is unphysical about the situation — what trajectory reaches the singularity in finite time and why specifically is that unphysical?

My understanding is that you have a cusp singularity that is actually an infinite spike, ie, distance to the singularity is unbounded; that is, no matter how small a circle/sphere around the singularity, you have an infinite diameter. And so you will need to be much more explicit about where the problem lies.

zmgsabst··on Black hole singularity is a surface not a point
Okay — why is it unphysical such a ball has unbounded curvature?
zmgsabst··on Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs
Desperation is no excuse for anti-social behavior.

I am calling out exactly that sentiment, because it removes the intelligence, agency, and morality from the people you’re discussing by reducing them to animals. You call them lessers and stop holding them to the same standard — and that so many did so here, despite poverty being unrelated, is precisely the evidence their motivation for doing so was racial stereotypes and not facts.

You see the same with, eg, excusing gangland violence as “poverty”, despite areas with much higher poverty (including foreign nations) not experiencing the same anti-social behavior.

zmgsabst··on Black hole singularity is a surface not a point
Why is it unphysical?
zmgsabst··on Python's pre-declared constants are kinda weird
> __name__ == "__main__"

What makes this weirder than other languages detecting if they’re an import or an invoked file?

zmgsabst··on Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs
They feel superior to those “lesser” humans, when denying them equal intelligence, agency, and morality.

They’re just getting off on being racist to the “savages who don’t know better”.

zmgsabst··on Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs
I enjoy when HN engages in overt racism like this — eg, denying peer agency and morality to SE Asians, due to the posters feeling above those “lessers”.

Paternalistic racism might as well be a central tenet of certain political movements — whose entire ideology is that certain humans are not fully equal as thinking moral agents in the world.

The new “scientific racism”.

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