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by alecco 2y ago
Remember that time when The Economist did a dumb article about your country or your area of expertise. These are the same people writing again about something they have no clue about. For clicks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by alecco 2y ago
Good luck going past 40 in tech.
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by alecco 2y ago
I'm foreign so I don't care much about american politics. I hope HN doesn't become reddit. So I flagged. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Hacker News Guidelines What to Submit On-Topic:
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by alecco 2y ago
Good point.
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by alecco 2y ago
It is an important variable. But a more realistic picture needs to factor in: 1. median IQ 2. skills 3. future unfunded liabilities (welfare, pensions, public health, etc) China has demographics collapse like the West but they ha
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by alecco 2y ago
Japanese carmakers are going to become irrelevant [1] unless there's a major change. But that's very unlikely due to: 1. Supply chains and key raw materials mostly controlled by China 2. Japan's demographic collapse 3
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by alecco 2y ago
China is investing a lot in "AI hospitals".
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by alecco 2y ago
There is a lot of unpublished work on how to train models. A lot of work is cleaning up the data or making synthetic data. This the secret sauce. It was demonstrated by TinyStories and Phi-X and now the recent work on small data for math re
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by alecco 2y ago
Did everybody already forget only a month ago it was revealed Chinese hackers had access to US Treasury computers including US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen 's own? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles&#x2F
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by alecco 2y ago
I agree but what does this have to do with this specific article?
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by alecco 2y ago
Is it? Good luck loading large models over PCIe 4.0. Or running things over multiple cards. And it has older HBM2e which is ~2x slower than H100 HBM3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Bandwidth_Memory#HBM2E "N5,
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by alecco 2y ago
Latin was used for centuries after the Roman empire was gone. The West is de-industrializing very fast. And a good chunk of the services side is switching to India and other cheaper countries and AI. The West is in its last legs. The final
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by alecco 2y ago
The problem is confusing the collapse of the Western civilization and civilization per se. China is very happy to pick up the pieces. In spite of their cultural weaknesses, on this point they do teach and learn how to do everything from scr
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by alecco 2y ago
Agreed. Also, why do they need to discuss it here? There are plenty of threads on reddit with 97 million active users. HN is orders of magnitude smaller. It would be like posting politics threads on r/programming or r/startups. As
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Performance Benefits of Using Huge Pages for Code (2022)(easyperf.net)
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by alecco 2y ago
This money would be better spent in producing good training data. But quality datasets don't generate the same administrative overhead or consulting fees.
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by alecco 2y ago
Europe: Deepmind. But if you mean EU, practically nobody. A lot of talent would just move to US for a 3x salary and smaller income tax on it.
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by alecco 2y ago
tl;dr Chinese mafia operation from Dubai with 1k call centre pitching Crypto scams. With a woman half Turkish, half Ukrainian doing video calls to the victims.
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by alecco 2y ago
Few people would spend $6k to run a model locally on CPU. But lower it to $2k and you might get some sweet affiliate link commissions. And make it fuzzy so they don't get it is running so quantized it probably is useless.
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by alecco 2y ago
This is a lame me-too page to make money with affiliate links. The actual specs were in the linked original tweet. So, IMHO, it is affiliate link spam.
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by alecco 2y ago
https://archive.ph/TaAP0 The EU sometimes does a thing the right way. But only sometimes, sadly.
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Temu, Shein and Amazon to be liable in EU for 'unsafe' or 'illegal' goods(ft.com)
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Affiliate link spam.
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by alecco 2y ago
Last week there were plenty of prompt tricks like speaking in h4x0r. And this is like two years old. How is this at the HN front page?
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by alecco 2y ago
> We believe they have access to around 50,000 Hopper GPUs, which is not the same as 50,000 H100, as some have claimed." Source: trust me bro, an affected Silicon Valley AI CEO said so. > As history shows, a small well-funded and
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by alecco 2y ago
> I'm cool with this. The FBI purged my city and state of rampant corruption That's all nice until they finish the job and start looking for ways to stay employed.
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by alecco 2y ago
Microsoft is go-to tech for normies . As the world grows they get more users. A lot of companies in China are 100% Microsoft, for example.
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by alecco 2y ago
I don't buy that. Allegedly Google lost to OpenAI because the compute resources were allocated evenly and then each team shared to other teams. So it became a popularity contest instead of meritocratic allocation. And then Pichai tried
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Deepmind's Gemini 2.0 Flash better at reasoning and 200x cheaper than O1(twitter.com)
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by alecco 2y ago
And those 3rd party Deepseek inference prices are without low level optimized code, AFAIK.

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