danrocks
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He's been charged in so many places that I am curious to know where he'll be deported to.
> I have no idea how it will slow down. Someone just figured out how to reduce the cost of building a multi million dollar model to around $600. That was supposed to take another decade.
I don't think this is accurate. The Stanford team used LLaMA as base model and added a smaller model on top of it - training the joint model using data (generated from ChatGPT) is what cost $600. Nobody trained a GPT-like model from scratch for $600 - this experiment took advantage of the millions of USD used to train the larger models.
If history shows anything is that Vietnam will defeat any other country. US, China, France, etc. they are simply invincible.
Does it matter if they'll stay in the UK? It does not. What matters is that they felt persecuted at home and fled.
This is some serious bullshit. I always take care of discussing the argument and not the person in HN comments, but you are a special case. Hundreds of comments always shilling for whatever the CPP policy of the day is. Now an openly racist post I'll be glad to report once I finish responding to.
> Mainlanders I know in HK find the new mix PRC/HK mix more preferable than UK/HK
Obviously they do - they get to bring hot money from the mainland, buy up whatever they want in HK, without competition from locals and/or internationals who left because they were ruthlessly persecuted by a fascist government.
> Local nativism still exists but less overt than pre NSL.
If by "less overt" you mean "silenced by a human rights-violating law that the UN has continuously asked to repel, then sure, it's "less overt".
> reality is PRC now has an abundance of talent who are much more deserving of living/running HK than most HKers who were merely privileged
Good old racism. Nice.
> Ultimately HK "culture" is the result of undue privilege enforced by 2 systems that benefit locals and expats instead of 1B+ PRC nationals
HK CULTURE is the result of thousands of years building it up and hundreds of years mixing other cultures and nationalities together to form a melting pot.
> there's nothing particularly deserving about a person born and raised in HK anymore
"Fuck these people, let's flood this with a billion people from an alien culture forcibly because they're 'undeserving'.
HN can ban me, but I'll say it: you are a racist, propaganda-eating, ethnofascist piece of shit.
What exactly is that that you take exception with? Classifying Colombia as a narco-state? Just because the cartels were (mostly) destroyed it doesn't mean narcotraficantes don't have incredible influence on the Colombian state. The Gulf Clan is a very powerful organization.
Y no, no soy colombiano pero mi familia si lo es. Soy de otro narco-state.
Reducing consumption of drugs in general due to mass spreading of fear of instant death from laced coke could be one.
Also there's money in selling Fentanyl.
> If you bought mixed drugs from your dealer, you'd probably not do business with them again and would warn people away from them.
Dead customers can't return anyway.
Somehow criminals are never mentioned in these arguments.
Agree in parts but behind this argument there is an assumption that legal drugs would cause the market for illegal drugs to collapse entirely. Has not happened with alcohol (between 14 and 23% of alcohol sold in the US is illegal).
Adderall (fake or legit) is heavily sold illegally and their lacing with Fentanyl is a massive problem already.
One of the favorite conspiracy theories of mine is that Fentanyl is a secret government project designed to scare the shit out of drug users so they stop using due to the fear of contamination.
I appreciate the humor! I'd also argue that Singapore does "war on drugs" pretty well.
> The idea of hardcore legalization is the ultimate outcome of capitalism without morality or awareness of consequences.
Don't know if I buy this. In general, parties pushing for legalization fall more on the left side of the political spectrum. I can also appreciated that libertarians on the far-right think the same (shoehorn theory?) but on the right this is a fringe opinion, unlike in the left.
I would love to see this assertion distilled further.
Potentially, yes. But that case would only be good against poor _execution_ of the war on drugs, not the _concept_ that drugs need to be dealt with as if we were in a war. Activists seem to oppose the concept, which is where I disagree.
Having lived in Asia (low drug problems) and Latin America (drug-dominated hellhole) I much prefer the way drugs (and dealers) are dealt with in Asia than in Latam. The idea that waging war on drugs is a bad one sounds like a nut idea from out-of-touch people who have never been to a narco-state like Brazil, Mexico, or Colombia.
I see what you did there.
Sure. Does that justify it being the best option for every development task? This is what I am puzzled by.
If that was the only premise ("C-like performance, etc.") then I can understand. What I don't is that there seems to be no use case for which Rust isn't good. That is the part that bothers me.
I am asking genuinely, without implying anything and/or being sarcastic: why is the HN community so obsessed with Rust? It seems to show up on every programming-related thread and most times mentioned as a Swiss knife of a language, suitable for every task, from UI to firmware development - a departure from the more traditional view of certain languages being best for certain tasks.
I get the benefits of the language and would like to see it succeed, but real-world adoption seems to be way below what's imagined here, and the "good for every task" posts give it kind of a cultish vibe that makes me look away.
"And standing here tonight, I'm afraid that I don't hear a thing. Just...silence"
Worse: may lead to liability as well. "but Tinder said it was secure due to bg checks!"
It's most likely an operation run from China with cover from the NK government.
I’m not, and don’t call me Shirley.
I wonder what is going to come first: fusion or Linux on the desktop. /s
Isn’t this part of the plot of Danish series Kingdom Hospital? I always laughed my ass off at the sheer hatred the lead doctor has for the Danes. [0]
0 - https://youtu.be/YlTukY9fV9Y
> Correctness will go from a binary pass/fail to a probability
Excellent point. The pervasiveness of neural nets will require engineers (and really, everyone) to start thinking more probabilistically and establish acceptability thresholds instead of certainty. It's the way of the future.
Anybody able to beat the interest rate on the car loan plus depreciation rate consistently year over year should probably start their own hedge fund.