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> explosively formed penetrators that killed 196 US troops...

Well, it's a good thing Trump completely neutralized retaliatory action against US troops. /s


I’m not arguing for or against the merits of the recent strikes. I am disputing the notion that Iran’s anti-US stance is purely rhetoric for domestic consumption.

One of the arguments against limited strikes against the Iranians was that it would be simply stirring up the hornets nest and things spiraling out of control.


I agree. I was pointing out that these anti-US-troop actions by Iran were related to prior conflicts / actions by the US. There was unlikely any consideration to downstream reactions which will endanger our troops. Completely short-sighted warmongering.

15 years is a lot better than immediately resuming enrichment. Which happened as soon as Trump scrapped the previous agreement. It still took them 7+ years to get to where they are now. So, it would have been 22 years, not 15. Trump is a short-sighted fool.

Really no more dangerous than a 480v, 300A level 3 charger in the US. Both have enough to kill. It's not like you'd be less dead if a level 3 charger malfunctioned. They both require redundant monitoring hardware and female plugs on the hot end.

Doesn't being able to only handle a single layer of abstraction as long as it is well defined and isolated essentially mean it can't handle abstraction at all?

Aren't the layers the point of abstraction?


Also, regardless of the prompt they only get ~80% accuracy on coding benchmarks. So even with the absolute perfect prompt incantation, you can expect it to fail 1 out of 5 times.

It would be interesting to compare the iron nitride magnet sample with an just epoxy + iron filings. I would expect iron to have some area between the curves because iiuc iron is able to hold a magnetic charge.

I measured the pure iron powder as well. It shows no measurable area inside the BH curve, which at first seems incorrect since the textbook retentivity value for pure iron is fairly high. The textbook may be referring to a single iron magnetic domain. In a practical sample (even a solid piece of iron, let alone powder in epoxy), there are likely many magnetic domains that cancel each other out, and "soft iron" is used commercially for the very reason that is has extremely low retentivity in bulk.

> Mine is silent, I find it gross when you can hear someone's breath...

Hate to break it to you, but you're in for an upsetting aging process.

Also, your breath already isn't silent. Your brain attenuates the expected sounds, and our ears aren't nearly as sensitive as some microphones, especially microphone arrays.


> How would you reconcile this with the fact that SOTA models are only a few TB in size? Trained on exabytes of data, yet only a few TB in the end.

This is false. You are off by ~4 orders of magnitude by claiming these models are trained on exabytes of data. It is closer to 500TB of more curated data at most. Contrary to popular belief LLMs are not trained on "all of the data on the internet". I responded to another one of your posts that makes this false claim here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44283713


That was a sibling comment of the GP (sterilized mosquitos), the article itself is about a genetically engineered disease.

The article has mosquitos "releasing toxic proteins in their semen". Seems like the sterilization is a much better option. "We promise it's not toxic to humans" didn't turn out so well for RoundUp.


> By that choice, I am left to assume this person feels they are the better half which says a lot about them.

What a ridiculous assumption.

Maybe they consider themselves and their partner to be equal halves of a whole. You know, the definition of half.


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