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by hnfong 9mo ago
Pro tip: call it a "law of nature" and people will somehow stop pestering you about the why. I think in a couple decades people will call this the Law of Emergent Intelligence or whatever -- shove sufficient data into a plausible
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by hnfong 9mo ago
There is the autistic spectrum, and there is understanding of people and psychology. Autistic people might have a hard time understanding people, but it's not like everyone else is magically super knowledgable about human psychology an
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by hnfong 9mo ago
Even putting aside issue of geopolitics, it's quite baffling to me that every country besides China and Russia are paying ~0.2% "sales tax" to corporate America.
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by hnfong 9mo ago
Yeah and the actual strawman I tried to point out was assuming that a random person held a very specific belief of how Lai came to be imprisoned and that it was justified. I mean, originally you only complained about the hyperbole and lack
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by hnfong 9mo ago
Much of Hong Kong was under a 99 year lease. Which is why the Brits had to hand it back in 1997 when the lease expired. Sure, it was a lease from the Qing dynasty which doesn't exist any more, but still.
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by hnfong 9mo ago
Nice strawman. Where's your nuance?
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by hnfong 9mo ago
Congratulations on figuring out why foreign intervention does not work in general!
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by hnfong 9mo ago
I have a maxed out M3 Ultra. It runs quantized large open Chinese models pretty well. It's slow-ish, but since I don't use them very frequently, most of the time is waiting to the model to load from disk to RAM. There are benchmar
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by hnfong 9mo ago
r/locallamma/ is not entirely Nvidia. You have a point that at scale everybody except maybe Google is using Nvidia. But r/locallama is not your evidence of that, unless you apply your priors, filter out all the hardware that
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by hnfong 9mo ago
> Heck look at /r/locallama/ There is a reason its entirely Nvidia. That's simply not true. NVidia may be relatively popular, but people use all sorts of hardware there. Just a random couple of recent self-reported ha
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by hnfong 9mo ago
Egotistical would be to reject the new tools in principle and be a less efficient developer. But really, most of us who personally feel sad about the work being replaced by LLMs can still act reasonable, use the new tooling at work like a g
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by hnfong 9mo ago
There's a dissonance between the claim that it's "independent of the political bodies" and "held to account by respective legislative bodies". Are the legislative bodies not political? In the sense of aren&#x27
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by hnfong 9mo ago
There's a slippery slope version of your argument where your ISP is responsible for censoring content that your government does not like. I mean, I thought that was basically already the law in the UK. I can see practical differences
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by hnfong 9mo ago
I think I understand what the author is trying to say. We miss thinking "hard" about the small details. Maybe "hard" isn't the right adjective, but we all know the process of coding isn't just typing stuff whil
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by hnfong 9mo ago
Hi Nathan, long time no see! :) (Not sure if you remember or recognize me from this handle. I was with Chaak on the words.hk project . Also Jon spoke highly of you for helping with the tough problems on the fonts :D )
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by hnfong 9mo ago
"Taiwanese lectures Hong Konger about Hong Kong" is a recurring meme on Threads among local Hong Kongers. I didn't expect I'd experience one here. I mean, I know I am supposed to refute your point with rational points, b
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by hnfong 9mo ago
You're absolutely right in theory and in linguistics. The issue is that among the more common languages that people (outside of language nerds) tend to learn, what I said still holds true for the average learner who's there to lea
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by hnfong 9mo ago
Cantonese is "hard" mainly for two reasons- 1. tones, and generally the gatekeeping of some Cantonese communities towards people who haven't gotten the tones completely right 2. the lack of learning materials relative to the
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by hnfong 9mo ago
[Let's simulate the discussion for old times sake.] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
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by hnfong 9mo ago
That's the GP's point. At this stage it's the kettle calling the pot black.
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by hnfong 9mo ago
2019... the timing of the article is impeccable. Pretty sure more than 3.5% of the people in Hong Kong was protesting a couple weeks after the article came out. It took the CCP about two years and a COVID lockdown to get things under contro
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by hnfong 9mo ago
Developing in Hong Kong has been much harder and expensive than before. The high speed rail that connected Hong Kong to the mainland system was (IIRC) the most expensive rail project per kilometer. (They did it anyway since it was a nationa
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by hnfong 10mo ago
Interesting. Do you have the link? I'm kinda interested in the subject (see eg. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46247266 )
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by hnfong 10mo ago
> Up until now, no business has been built on tools and technology that no one understands. I expect that will continue. Big claims here. Did brewers and bakers up to the middle ages understand fermentation and how yeasts work?
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by hnfong 10mo ago
I wouldn't say it's a mistake. Distributed algorithms that depend on wall clock time generally give better guarantees. Usually you want these guarantees. The downside is of course you need to keep accurate time. In the cases you d
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by hnfong 10mo ago
The curious thing about the article is that, it's definitely premature optimization for smaller databases, but when the database gets to the scale where these optimizations start to matter, you actually don't want to do what they
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by hnfong 10mo ago
Ints as pk would be quicker for joins etc though.
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by hnfong 11mo ago
I don't think causal scope is what makes a virtual candle virtual. If I make a button that lights the candle, and another button that puts it off, and I press those buttons, then the virtual candle is causally connected to our physical
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by hnfong 11mo ago
Right, but doesn't your argument imply that the only "real" consciousness is mine? I'm not against this conclusion ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie ) but it doesn't seem to
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by hnfong 11mo ago
Note that "nearly all" isn't "all". I have some side project that require rendering of very uncommon CJK characters, and Unifont does not display them as expected. (For that project, I used https://kamich

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