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French education budget also accounts for teacher pensions. I don't think that's the case for NY. So it's somewhat apples and oranges.

Large cities like Paris and Lyon have a good budget and amenities. You have to go outside the rich centers to see how schools are being failed. You can't look at Louis Le Grand and tell yourself the situation is fine.

The French government may want to invite researchers but it faces budget issues in research and education, and growing social unrest. The French language is also somewhat necessary to live in France. It can be a deterrent.

Eagerly recruiting doesn't translate to active recruitment imo, unfortunately. With the coming elections, it is even more tenuous.

Given how "western occult science" is just magical thinking and pseudo babble, it hardly fits on HN. Additionally, "western occult science" typically glosses over its 1920-1940s roots and branches. Wondering why...

>learn to code

This is the most tone deaf answer I've read in quite a while. Learning to code, and everything you listed isn't available or possible by most people in a timely manner.

The question was what can be done now, by novice people. Not by people who must first acquire years of tech knowledge.

It's not reinforcing your point to say that. Not everyone can do it. And it shouldn't preclude them from being safe.

This is equivalent to pointing at some ivory tower of safety and say: "git gud."

I do recall Trump not wanting to let go of that power, in it? It wasn't out of his own magnanimity that he stepped down. Checks and balances still worked, appallingly sure, but they still worked.

Not anymore.

This goes far beyond "nuclear proliferation." It's about medical, pathogen research. The Wuhan lab for coronavirus was also backed by the US to study such viruses.

Proliferation is also about vaccination and HIV prevention, etc. USAID et al. are among the most important programs in development and prevention worldwide. This is a tragedy chosen by a majority of Americans because what goes around comes around. COVID showed again that pandemics don't stop at borders.

One big issue is that industry jobs in some areas increasingly expect academic excellence in the shape of "publishing in top 3 conferences" for example.

I don't know where you get your statistics, but Russia's demographics is roughly 70% "ethnic russians," which amounts to about 100m people.

The main issue with this approach is that it doesn't help people who struggle financially or come from disfavorable backgrounds -- whom federal student loans aimed to help.

Some sets of circumstances don't favor score maximization on such tests, whereas being in a high income family favors prior access to education that help get those scores for instance. Ergo you'd not solve a better access to education that way.

Similarly, means testing for those slots also has negatives incentives. It's a hard issue to solve.

This is a retelling of a discussion between Peter Watts and a friend about climate change.

Peter Watts is better known for writing Blindsight, which I consider the best sci-fi novel of the past 20 years. I highly recommend it.

It's a rather clear example of how the concept of neutrality in addressing various, rather important, topics falls on its face.

The weather in the US can be wild compared to what Western Europe is used to. England doesn't have to deal with the same events.

That's a dumb argument. It's not like Qatari money is trying to buy the mathematical inverse of Israeli money in a game of tit-for-tat.

Though I personally agree with the core idea of this site, I'm always wary of political websites, mailing lists, projects, etc. that do not explicitly state who's working on them. People or orgs alike. Sure, it might be related to the person behind democracy.io (who's got a Github page), but it's not explicit.

The lack of "about" page or equivalent always make me squint. Some websites may require their maintainers to value anonymity, but it's not a given.

> hm, and how do you feel about Qatar sponsoring higher education in the US?

Focusing on international interference by one state does not reduce the blame that can be thrown at another. There's no limited reserve of blame that requires to be cleverly distributed. The undemocratic influence over public institutions by lobbies, like Qatar's (see Qatargate in Europe) or Israeli-linked ones alike and many more, are the death of our societies.

For those scratching their heads, this is the personal page (blog? fan-mail publication? It's hard to put a pin on it) of Kelley L. Ross, PhD, a Chicago School libertarian who's miffed at the left.

The is a breadth of literature on the topic. I recommend the excellent survey by Baoyuan wu on the topic (mathematical perspective) [1]. For IRL demonstrations, existing cases will of course be rarer, bu they are not impossible as with attacks on Alpaca-7b [2]

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.09457 [2] https://poison-llm.github.io/

The law is not code. Equating hope with the intention of the law is a poor way to think about it. The law is to protect users against opaque companies and to enable them making informed choices.

If companies act maliciously to contort around the law and force users back to making uninformed choices, it is the companies' fault and not the law's. Companies could have followed the interpretation of the law unobstrusively. But they didn't.

Invoking "reality," semanticking a position, do not make Graham's position justified. Neither does it make the blog wrong.

The blog clearly works from the actual outcome lense. It's repeated. Several times. The companies could just not track.

The actual outcome is that they do want to track, and use adversarial patterns and malicious compliance to twist your arm and "force consent."

Paul Graham is still wrong.

Given the limited framerate of the device, I wonder whether running videos comes with latency that makes listening to them impossible.

It's expected that E-ink would demolish video quality, but does it has an incidence on sound if you want to listen to a video on the metro line?

Oh, no, they are gaining in popularity. France has had an explosion of American trucks since 2-3 years.

This is quite the recent removal then. I recall browsing a US government website around the start of the covid pandemic where one could check your entry and exit record.

They are dedicated high-risk investment vehicles.

Think of them as research centers in search of grants. People investing in them accept a short/medium/long term loss, betting that it will turn a large profit if it works (i.e. if one entity wins over the problem of noise).

High risk and reward.

Unfortunate but unsurprising, given all the discussions and suspicions that the [recent] power struggle at OpenAI was about conflict of interests. This deal goes back to 2019, so it can only throw more oil on the fire about what's been happening since.

Coming from a non-American perspective here, which sometimes leaves me perplexed on the weird, sometimes toxic if not dangerous, state of American politics.

The article's content read as overly inflammatory for what amounts to basically students organizing a mailing campaign with a green-orange-red color code where, as far as I can see, the word blacklist is never used. Chalk it up to a few overzealous students banging pots at their teachers' door, which has turned nasty at some institutions in the past mind you, but the article is making a mound out of little.

I've checked what the website is, and it's just the right-wing journal of the campus [1]. Gotta drive the clicks.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stanford_Review

I don't have the ability to downvote yet but I can pitch in an explanation:

Setting China as an outlier that does reshoring/industrial planning at the expense of the [American] worker is a politic fantasy. It forgets that reshoring is a global phenomenon also found in democracies [1] that is rather the result of a more uncertain world where logistics change with the success and wanning of political favors and alliances.

[1] https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/french-foreign-policy/econ...

You could, you know, just listen to it.

Don't worry, the "morally poor" also exist in rich(er) circles. Wealth just buys the sheep's clothing.

Halfway in, this reads like yet another home run after his last year's video on NFTs. Just exposing fraud, manipulation, and tragedy -- in three-hour monuments.