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by sterlind 3y ago
Wikipedia has formulas for producing explosives. For example, TATP: > The most common route for nearly pure TATP is H2O2/acetone/HCl in 1:1:0.25 molar ratios, using 30% hydrogen peroxide. Why are you uncomfortable with an AI
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by sterlind 3y ago
For that matter, I don't know that any human besides myself is sentient. You could all be philosophical zombies. Science fundamentally can't answer this question, since sentience (i.e. experiencing qualia) is a subjective, first-p
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by sterlind 3y ago
No, but I'm also not driving hundreds of souls around near mach 1 strapped to 100k gallons of jet fuel. And when I've worked in government environments I had escorts watching my screen like a hawk the entire time. Not to mention t
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by sterlind 3y ago
Sounds like the Igneous playbook, from what I've heard. Immediately after launch they laid off a majority of the dev team, as they'd outlived their usefulness after completing the crunch. I interviewed there but fortunately declin
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by sterlind 3y ago
I can't tell if you're being ironic, but Git is already federated. Like, GitHub should be just another remote, and which remote happens to be the source of truth is a policy decision. The sticky part are the value-add, non-Git par
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by sterlind 3y ago
I was going to dispute your assertion, but instead ended up confirming it: https://uncovering-cicada.fandom.com/wiki/The_Leaked_Email Apparently the email I was thinking of where they describe their goals is, in fact,
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by sterlind 3y ago
Feels like Cicada 3301. Something about being hosted on Tor makes the puzzles feel spicy rather than an ordinary ARG. Are there any currently active?
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by sterlind 3y ago
Fantastic work, I was looking for something exactly like this. I do wish A1 didn't feel like getting thrown in the deep end - too often I don't know the words I need to respond and end up using the dictionary - but I get that this
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by sterlind 3y ago
isn't that how Xorg remoting used to work as well? the display server and client are separate, so whether the pipe was local or remote didn't matter. In principle, Wayland could do it too, I think, if there were a way to synchroni
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by sterlind 3y ago
No, it doesn't have to be dull. In fact, huge companies are more likely to have interesting technical problems than startups. The value of most startups is in their business plan, not their codebase. The code is just there to sketch ou
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by sterlind 3y ago
Nix can read JSON, there's a deserializer as one of the builtins you can call. So you can make a bridge where Nix reads your JSON and does something with it, and you can generate the JSON externally like you want. It's how things
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by sterlind 3y ago
I think it's because Datomic is most devs' only exposure to anything in the Prolog family, and rules (and especially recursion) aren't emphasized. Which is a shame, because Prolog, ASP and Datalog are phenomenally useful.
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by sterlind 3y ago
You can do a lot of damage by simply accessing data: blackmail, state or industrial espionage, insider trading, HIPPA violations, obtaining signing keys or passwords for lateral movement, etc. All those require additional intent, to be fair
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by sterlind 3y ago
what about the 2014 spectrum discussed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightning ?
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by sterlind 3y ago
which languages? I've just restored an Amiga 500 with Workbench 2.1 and I'd love to honor his memory.
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by sterlind 3y ago
the Spanish using guns and horses to topple the Aztec empire? and smallpox, but the guns and horses helped.
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by sterlind 3y ago
that makes sense. you're shadowbanned by the way, I had to vouch for your comment.
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by sterlind 3y ago
how does collapse work then?
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by sterlind 3y ago
You can't dismiss "think of the children" as a talking point when children are actually dying. This isn't FOSTA, this is an actual war with bullets and bombs and dead children on both sides. You should be thinking about
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by sterlind 3y ago
an O(N^2) algorithm could be useless, if it's a galactic algorithm: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_algorithm conversely, theoretically an O(N^100) algorithm could be practical if it's ~N^2 in practi
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by sterlind 3y ago
the program isn't the proof. you have to prove that the program always gives the correct answer, and works inside some time bound. what if, say, it generates the Collatz sequence as a subroutine? good luck proving that the program is p
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by sterlind 3y ago
if P=NP, could the question still be undecidable? as in, could there be an algorithm for 3SAT that, in practice, happens to be polynomial-time and correct, but there's no way to prove the algorithm's correctness and/or time c
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by sterlind 3y ago
haven't modern model architectures gotten better at avoiding this kind of overfitting? like obviously data quality is still very important, but my understanding is that dropout mitigates this by randomly cutting out these unwanted feat
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by sterlind 3y ago
He also wrote Unsong, a sprawling work of kabbalistic magical realism, full of deep references to Judaism and Christianity (and groan-inducing puns.) Highly recommend if you're a lapsed Catholic or a secular Jew.
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by sterlind 3y ago
I'm sure GM's lobbyists will keep Chinese EVs out of the US market with steep tariffs. I'm amazed they didn't succeed at locking Toyota out in the '80s.
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by sterlind 3y ago
Even though Ukraine isn't a NATO member, it's in NATO's interest to aid non-members. Article 5 is brittle - the smallest invasion of a member nation means calling a bluff on nuclear war. Ukraine stands between Russia and Arti
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by sterlind 3y ago
Your friends were able to purchase new machine guns? Not old ones that were grandfathered in, or modded to become semi-auto?
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by sterlind 3y ago
that's middlecase, isn't it? that's basically the system Cyrillic uses.
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by sterlind 3y ago
BUT THEN IF ALL-UPPERCASE WERE THE HISTORICAL DEFAULT, WHY DID MOST OF THE WESTERN WORLD SWITCH TO USING NEARLY ALL LOWERCASE? AND WHY DOES IT FEEL SO JARRING - EVEN RUDE - TO USE ALL CAPS?
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by sterlind 3y ago
You should consider adding IPD specifically to the HN guidelines. It's not mentioned. It seems you've sometimes considered it a kind of personal attack, but I certainly didn't intend it to be one here - I mentioned it out of

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