<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: machina_ex_deus</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=machina_ex_deus</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:33:47 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=machina_ex_deus" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by machina_ex_deus in "OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Beware everyone working on ground breaking research, keep your research secret from openAI or they might spend 22$ million worth of tokens just to beat you to the finish line, while possibly abusing your user data for training.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 21:18:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49617207</link><dc:creator>machina_ex_deus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49617207</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49617207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by machina_ex_deus in "On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Possibly after being given the significant part of the solution from actual human researchers. Which they then bullied. And they beat them to the finish line only because they heard rumor and threw everything at the problem. It doesn't look good for openAI in any way. I see more reasons to avoid using them rather than use them from this story.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 20:44:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49616755</link><dc:creator>machina_ex_deus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49616755</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49616755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by machina_ex_deus in "Semiclassical Gravity Efficiently Solves NP-Complete Problems"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm not convinced. They aren't actually using the semiclassical Einstein equation, they are using some simplification they call Newton Schrodinger equation. They claim that this equation can lead to distinguish a state that's exponentially close to |0> from |0>. I don't follow their whole argument.<p>Anyway, I wouldn't be surprised if you could actually do hard computations with semiclassical Einstein equation, because they have strong self consistency - the expectation value of the stress energy tensor curves the metric, which in turn excites the quantum vacuum and causes expectation value of the stress energy tensor. But this isn't what they use in the paper. Nobody knows if this self consistency can be achieved in all configurations, and physicists working with semiclassical gravity usually do only one iteration of the self consistency.<p>If someone wanted to make semiclassical gravity into quantum gravity, he'll probably assume that gravity causes measurements, which would prevent these kinds of abuses where you have superposition you're probing via gravity while keeping it intact.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:33:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48570346</link><dc:creator>machina_ex_deus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48570346</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48570346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by machina_ex_deus in "North Korea Was Right About Nuclear Weapons"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You can't compare Iran with north Korea. Iran funds and supports terrorism all over the middle east. They regularly call for the destruction of Israel. If Iran wasn't ruled by aggressive violent religious fanatics it wouldn't be in danger.<p>North Korea didn't fund terrorism. North Korea isn't an aggressor. You cannot compare them at all.<p>Israel and the US were monitoring Iran nuclear development and Iran knew that. They wouldn't allow Iran to rush to nuclear without striking them first, like it had happened.<p>If you're a dictator and you want to learn the lesson from Iran, it isn't to get nuclear weapons. It's too not call for the destruction of Israel and the US and to not fund terrorism.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 23:20:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47330028</link><dc:creator>machina_ex_deus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47330028</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47330028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by machina_ex_deus in "How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In all objective measures of life quality, gaza was better off occupied by Israel, both compared with before 67 (Israel's occupation made Gaza prosper relative to when it was controlled by Egypt), and compared with after hamas took over and forced Israel to isolate gaza increasingly in order to deal with the terrorism from Gaza.<p>The only thing gaza didn't have under Israeli occupation was democratic election. And guess what, they didn't have that after the occupation stopped either. They don't have it in most Arabic countries either.</p>
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<p>My parent comment said :"the state of Israel has a policy of systematic rape, torture, mass incarceration, murder, and dehumanization of Palestinians at an industrial scale that's been in place for decades now."<p>How is that allowed while what I said isn't? My parent comment literally says the same thing. Your moderation is one sided. I didn't say anything that wasn't claimed by the other side.<p>I see far worse slurs about Israel and Jews here which remain unmoderated. And you won't even let me attack them back.</p>
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<p>That's bullshit. There's plenty of water in Gaza, as well as food. They get external aid all the time. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGTMN9mgKcc" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGTMN9mgKcc</a> Plenty of open restaurants in Gaza.<p>Even according to Hamas only 200 died out of starvation, and that number is disputed as well.<p>This is all Hamas propaganda that everyone believes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2025 10:43:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45274112</link><dc:creator>machina_ex_deus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45274112</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45274112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by machina_ex_deus in "Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's no murder of two million. There's at most, according to Hamas itself, 60,000 dead out of which 10,000 were hamas militants.
This is a regular ugly war.<p>If Israel wanted to kill two million, they could've done it already.<p>It seemingly doesn't matter how accurate Israel tried to be, they call genocide either way.</p>
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<p>Even according to Hamas own numbers, 60,000 Palestinians died, 200 from starvation. That's very low compared to real genocides. That's very low considering Israel killed an estimated 10,000 of Hamas soldiers. That's pretty good accuracy in all modern standards of war.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2025 22:00:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45268733</link><dc:creator>machina_ex_deus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45268733</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45268733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by machina_ex_deus in "AP Live: View from Gaza as Israel Begins Expanded Operation in Gaza City"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Tell my friend whose both parents were murdered in Nir Oz that Hamas isn't an existential threat. Hamas is an existential threat. We cannot live in peace while it exists. We're done tolerating Palestinian aggression. Hamas wasn't an existential threat when it was just rockets, but once they've crossed the border and assaulted our cities where we live they became an existential threat we cannot allow, even if the world screams genocide as we destroy them.<p>We're not here to win the victimhood competition. This isn't 9/11 where the U.S living peacefully wasn't threatened. If we don't eradicate this threat our cities will be assaulted again.<p>We're here to live in peace, and if that means eradicating hamas while there are heavy Palestinian casualties, so be it. That's the only option for us to live in peace. This is an existential war for Israel. There are relatively few casualties compared with what would've happened if Israel actually decided to genocide the Palestinians. We could've killed them all if we wanted, but we only fight Hamas as we must do. Eradicating Hamas is a daunting task. We're actually fighting selectively at the cost of our soldiers lives. If the intention was genocide the Palestinians would've been dead by now. The intention is to destroy Hamas at minimum causalities.</p>
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<p>I would never have this typo as I usually delete the copy constructor in heavy structures.</p>
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<p>First of all, kruskal coordinates show beyond doubt that the event horizon is just a regular null hypersurface that the observer wouldn't notice crossing locally. (Of course if you look around, at the moment of crossing into the event horizon you see everything else that was falling into it unfreeze and continue crossing).<p>If you want to take into account the evaporation of the black hole, then you should look at something like the vaidya metric. The mass function is a function of the ingoing Eddington coordinate v, which takes on a specific value when you cross the event horizon, and so you observe the black hole at a specific mass as you cross the event horizon. Contradicting your layman understanding of time dilation for the observer relative to the black hole.<p>Once you cross the horizon, the r coordinate becomes timelike, and so you are forced to move to decreasing r value just like a regular observer is forced to move to increasing t value. Your entire future, all your future light cone is within the black hole and it all  terminates at the singularity. Minewhile, the t coordinate is space like which is what gives you space like separation from the mess that had happened in the original gravitational collapse. You wouldn't be blasted by a frozen supernova like you have said.<p>You can kind of say the universe splits at the event horizon, the time like coordinate changes from t to r and the future of the black hole branch of the universe is permanently cut off from the rest of the universe.<p>In rotating and charged black holes  it is different, and you observe the evaporation of the black hole once you cross the Cauchy horizon. If the black hole is eternal (because someone kept feeding radiation to the black hole, maybe by reflecting the hawking radiation inwards), then you would in fact see timelike infinity as you reach the Cauchy horizon, so this time like infinity is quite physical. You would need to avoid being vaporized by blue shifted incoming radiation.</p>
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<p>Before invoking parallel universes, how about comparing the system to nature's mind-boggling number of particles in the macroscopic world?
A single gram contains 10^23=2^76 particles. Google's random circuit sampling experiment used only 67 qubits, Which is still order of magnitude below 76. I wonder why, the chip had 105 qubits and the error correction experiment used 101 qubits.<p>Did Google's experiment encounter problems when trying to run RCS on the full 105 qubits device?<p>Before saying that the computation invoked parallel universes, first I'd like to see that the computation couldn't be explained by the state being encoded classically by the state of the particles in the system.</p>
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<p>You learn a lot by what isn't mentioned. Willow had 101 qubits in the quantum error correction experiment, yet only mere 67 qubits in the random circuit sampling experiment. Why did they not test random circuit sampling with the full set of qubits? Maybe when turning on the full 101 set of qubits, qubits fidelity dropped.<p>Remember macroscopic objects have 10^23=2^76 particles, so until 76 qubits are reached and exceeded, I remain skeptical that the quantum system actually exploits an exponential Hilbert space, instead of the state being classically encoded by the particles somehow. I bet Google is struggling just at this threshold and they don't announce it.</p>
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<p>The fact that radial coordinate is timelike inside the event horizon doesn't change when you change coordinate systems. The radial direction remains timelike in kruskal coordinates. Direction being space like or time like is independent of coordinate system.</p>
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<p>I never said EH is a singularity. I said you could notice you're inside as your timelike coordinate becomes the radial coordinate. That's something you could easily notice if you look around, it would correspond to a shrinking universe, and our universe is expanding.<p>The "you won't notice crossing the event horizon" troupe is true only in a very local sense. If you move around and observe the geometry around you, you can definitely tell you're inside a black hole.</p>
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<p>The universe is not inside a black hole. Inside black holes the radial coordinate is time like, which is definitely not true in our universe, where the time coordinate is timelike, and the radial coordinate is space like.<p>Inside of black holes looks nothing like ordinary spacetime. Inside black hole, everything in your future is with decreasing radial coordinate, which means space is shrinking until you hit the singularity where radial coordinate is zero and you have no future.</p>
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<p>Love this game. I abused multiple tabs as a way to save the current game, as opening new tab copies the state of the game, and got to a high score of 150,000 (I could keep going, I didn't lose) and made a 4096 tile. Using multiple tabs to save the game when you get a good position makes it possible to play indefinitely. It's even more addictive when you can save the game because then it's not really over at game over.</p>
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<p>3k out of 300 million, so 1 in  10000.<p>1k out of 8 million is 1 out of 8000.<p>Every person in Israel knows someone who knows a victim personally. Think how deep this trauma is to Israel.</p>
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<p>Non gravity forces are quite linear and simple, the coupling with fermions is only through covariant derivative.<p>Gravity is extremely non linear, when you look at the expression for Ricci tensor, it is much more complicated than other forces.</p>
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