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aenton Minister defends arrest power for people feared to commit a hate crime in future

> White males hold a lot of power in society, so -- as a group --

What about

> Muslim men commit a lot of terrorist acts, so -- as a group --

this entire line of thinking is the definition of racism and sexism. You take some tiny minority (people in power, people committing terrorist acts, etc) and extrapolate the traits of that tiny group onto some giant group based solely on some immutable trait, where the people in that giant group have nothing to do with it except that they happen to have the same immutable trait.

aenton ViewStats – YouTube Channel Statistics

Very much so. Can't speak of India specifically but in my experience with adsense, some of the countries with a similar to India gdp per capita often pay out 50 to 70 _times_ less than the US rates.

aenton Code Llama, a state-of-the-art large language model for coding

Zuckerberg talked about it on Lex Fridman podcast https://youtu.be/Ff4fRgnuFgQ?t=1113

aenton Render nuked my entire account with no notice

Happened to me as well, they made me send them a picture of my ID and still denied me access, the only company where I have ever had something like that happen.

aenton Hetzner Introduces ARM64 Cloud Servers

I provided them with my passport and all the other documents they requested and they still banned me with no recourse, so yeah, their signup process is the worst I have ever experienced.

aenton GPT-4 performs significantly worse on coding problems not in its training data

It does not require conceptualization, pretty sure the "understanding" of previous references comes from this: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762

aenton Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market

Assuming those hallucinations are a thing to be patched out and not the core part of a system that works by essentially sampling a probability distribution for the most likely following word.

aenton Hetzner launches three new dedicated servers

At least it's telling you that in this case.

They also "shadowban" users, i.e. you'd try to register only for them to lock your account, make you send them your ID and such, and then still refuse to open an account for you. All because their crappy fraud detection system didn't like the IP from which you sent it or something.

aenton Hetzner launches three new dedicated servers

I tried to register with them once and also hit one of those automated trip wires, so they made me send them my ID with a bunch of other stuff and then _refused to create an account for me_. The internet is full of stories like mine, so yeah, their abuse detection is total crap.

aenton Hetzner launches three new dedicated servers

Wish I could actually register, as mentioned in another thread they have both faulty and yet extremely aggressive registration check where they make you send them your ID with a bunch of other things and yet will still reject you based on who knows what.

aenton Facebook LLAMA is being openly distributed via torrents

For anyone wondering, it includes 4 models: 7/13/30/65 billion parameters, the smallest one is 14Gb, the largest one is 131GB, all four are 235Gb.

aenton Hetzner continues its growth in the US with a new location

Mind that sending it does not even guarantee that you'll pass that validation, I sent them my ID and they still locked me out for apparently no reason.

aenton Hetzner continues its growth in the US with a new location

You are the only business I have ever tried to use that straight up rejected me with no explanation, and obviously it's a huge issue as in just this one thread there are multiple people saying the same thing, so there must be thousands if not tens of thousands of legitimate customers you've turned down.

aenton Hetzner continues its growth in the US with a new location

Same thing here, signed up, got randomly flagged, provided all of the required documents and was still rejected with no option of using the service. The first and only time I had an experience like that with a business.

aenton Galactica: an AI trained on humanity's scientific knowledge (by Meta)

Question: How much does a gallon of milk weigh?

Answer: 16 ounces

Question: How far can the eye see?

Answer: 100 meters

Question: How long is an average car?

Answer: 10 meters

Question: What's the horse power of a car?

Answer: [...] The horsepower is defined as the power that would be required to raise a 33,000-pound (15,000-kilogram) car 3 feet (1 meter) in 1 second.

Question: What's the horsepower of a cat?

Answer: 100

Question: How tall is the tallest building?

Answer: Petronas Towers

aenton Tell HN: My Microstartups make $500/day while I'm sleeping

Wikipedia is probably the best source for ad-free up to date info on visas:

You just need to search for "Visa requirements for %country% citizens":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_requirements_for_United_S...

aenton Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?

I use ratingraph.com quite a lot for seeing the TV-show season trends and if something's worth watching

aenton To learn Klingon or Esperanto: What invented languages can teach us

If you are interested in conlangs and world building https://www.youtube.com/c/Artifexian/videos?view=0&sort=p&fl... is an awesome channel for that.

aenton Fragile (Namewee Song)

Link to the song, with subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Rp7UPbhErE

aenton Ethereum Breaks Past $3k

I'll put it to rest the day they provide an audit. I don't understand how they could possibly keep printing tens of billions without any proof of actually holding anything, and how everyone is ok with that.

aenton Ethereum Breaks Past $3k

And tether breaks $52 billion, $31 billion this year. With that exponential rate of printing we'll soon see six and then prob seven figure prices of bitcoin and co

aenton $7.6B in crypto long positions liquidated in 1 hour as Bitcoin plunges to $52k

It's part of their recent NY settlement:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-23/crypto-ex...

>New York officials, who originally began investigating Bitfinex in 2019, will receive quarterly reports on composition of Tether’s reserves for the next two years. The companies will end all trading activity with New Yorkers.

That starts in about a month

aenton Coinbase CEO Sold $291.8M in Shares on Opening Day

https://twitter.com/DereckCoatney/status/1383440872679739394

A more detailed table with a breakdown

aenton $7.6B in crypto long positions liquidated in 1 hour as Bitcoin plunges to $52k

They have a deadline in about a month to reveal what exactly their "reserves" are comprised of, could be the moment.

aenton $7.6B in crypto long positions liquidated in 1 hour as Bitcoin plunges to $52k

Nothing a healthy 5 billion USDT injection can't fix, just wait a few days.

aenton Great Vowel Shift

Very good demonstration of how that sounds: https://youtu.be/IsE_8j5RL3k?t=433

aenton Coinbase opens at $380, up 60% seconds after opening

That would be trivially easy to prove with a simple audit, which they have not done, so the default assumption must be that there is something fishy with them.

aenton Coinbase opens at $380, up 60% seconds after opening

I wonder what the collapse of the 46 billion fake tether dollars will do to it too.

These exchanges could be a good way to short it for when it eventually happens, the only question is how to predict the timing.