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by Sol- 4y ago
It desired, I feel like it would be in the power of governments to regulate the use of high-performance accelerators to slow AI progress significantly. Training a large language model is no small feat, taking months or years of continuous d
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by Sol- 4y ago
Given the weak accuracy - which is of course understandable given the difficulty of the task - this mostly seems like a fig leaf that lets them pretend to do something about the potential problems of AI generated text becoming more and more
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by Sol- 4y ago
Man, a Chinese-American war would be a great tragedy. Think about how many problems there are on earth and how a beneficial cooperation of these two powers would be in solving them. Climate change alone would need that, just for China'
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by Sol- 4y ago
A common story you hear is that Chinese vaccines are less effective and that they also do not want to rely on Western vaccines in turn. What I don't quite understand is why they couldn't just create some joint venture with a Weste
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by Sol- 4y ago
Hasn't Microsoft experimented with disabling the JIT for security reasons?[1] Doesn't have much relevance for Python at the moment, but I'm just mentioning it to underline that a modern JIT can be very complex thing and keepi
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by Sol- 4y ago
Very interesting. It's good to be often reminded how things pop culture representations of historical times can present something that I as a layman would consider plausible (pig rolling in the mud in a medieval town? checks out!), but
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by Sol- 4y ago
Very interesting information as context, thanks for that.
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by Sol- 4y ago
Looking forward to 200 year old heads of state, so that the status quo changes even less than it does with the gerontocracy we already have.
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by Sol- 4y ago
Seems like a stretch to justify meat eating with species preservation. Maybe in 100 years you can bring up this argument when plant- and lab-based substitutes are widely available and the cows are at the brink of extinction. But at this poi
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by Sol- 4y ago
Interesting, thanks. Will give it a try!
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by Sol- 4y ago
Thanks for the reply and the pointers, very helpful!
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by Sol- 4y ago
We have some people in our company that use tools like Graphite to implement this pattern on top of Github and I don't know if I'm a big fan. Maybe just a matter of developer discipline, but in my experience people tend to create
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by Sol- 4y ago
So you claim that reviewing books requires no skill or that this skill is not correlated with being a prestigious author?
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by Sol- 4y ago
On the contrary, Twitter is going to be saddled with some debt that will be used to finance the takeover. But perhaps this doesn't matter to Musk.
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by Sol- 4y ago
Kind of weird to sink such a significant chunk of his wealth into a toy for his libertarian whims (where it's hard to tell how serious he even is about them), but I such squandering of wealth is nothing new for billionaires. Guess this
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by Sol- 4y ago
China may arguably have done a better job at the collective response to the virus than the west at the start of the pandemic (though with measures that probably wouldn't been seen as acceptable in liberal countries). So there they migh
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by Sol- 5y ago
I think the last 2-3 years it has somewhat stagnated (for example [1]), driven by conservative politicians fishing for votes with NIMBY policies (while at the same time increasing dependence on Russian imports). Hopefully the new government
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by Sol- 5y ago
It's win-win for them, no? A weak Russia isolated from the west means cheap resources for China. And the West focusing on the conflict and spending resources in Europe draws attention away from China in Asia. Seems like it's their
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by Sol- 5y ago
20 years the west and in particularly countries like Germany have deescalated and let assassinations and annexations by Russia slide in favor of having good relationships with Putin. He has no interest in deescalation, except maybe having a
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by Sol- 5y ago
If they go for demilitarization and not joining the EU, the rest of Ukraine will just get annexed a few years later when Russia has regrouped. But perhaps that's all they can hope for.
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by Sol- 5y ago
Would be nice if the EU sped up the accession of whatever is left of Ukraine after this war, if only to protect it from further Russian imperialism. That said, I sadly doubt Ukraine will survive this ordeal.
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by Sol- 5y ago
I don't know why gas heating is so prevalent in parts of Europe historically, I guess fossil fuels were just the cheapest way of heating compared to electricity. Google says that in Canada also much heating is gas or oil based, so perh
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by Sol- 5y ago
Most of e.g. Germany's gas consumption is from heating, not electricity. So nuclear plays a minor role, though admittedly even needing just 10% less gas might be the difference of being able to procure what you need from non-Russian su
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by Sol- 5y ago
Well, the article is behind a paywall. Since HN tolerates such articles (and has no culture of expecting OP to provide a way around the paywall apparently), I feel like it's somewhat the fault of HN here. Nothing encourages discussion
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by Sol- 5y ago
Interesting, didn't even know you can cut files from a zip in that Windows zip file viewer. I would have thought it's some read-only filesystem like viewing a mounted CD or so. In that context I wonder if you could cut from rewrit
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by Sol- 5y ago
Very intersting year for climate court cases. The German constitutional court recently issued a similar ruling, which caused quite the stir: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/29/historic-germa...
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by Sol- 5y ago
Yeah, if only he had been more scientifically rigorous about his inhumane experiments, then this all would have been perfectly acceptable.
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by Sol- 6y ago
To what extend does authenticity matter anyway? Does the seller actually have to prove that he owns the image? After all, they aren't selling the image, they are just selling a cryptographically signed hash of the image. That's al
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by Sol- 6y ago
Might be outdated, since he talks about clotting generally but the agency in charge of halting the vaccinations mentions a specific rare complication today [1]: > accumulation of a special form of very rare cerebral vein thrombosis (sinu
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by Sol- 6y ago
> Clubhouse is far better suited than podcasts to discuss events as they are happening, or immediately afterwards Seems like an anti-feature. Why would I want to listen to half-informed takes on current events which will be outdated soon

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