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Wrote a little 300 word essay on this, and I was prepared to add the comment until i realized it does not really matter. The situaton(or at least my opinion/response) can be explained in a simple phrase: Good, 10-20 years of failed policies get you this. Especially everything post 2015. Not 'happy' per se at this analysis/realization, but the fact is that Germany and Europe (or at least the western big european powers, wink) reaped what they sow: detrimental policies NOT willed by the european citizens.

>The problem is that AVX-512 isn’t a singular instruction set.

Sure, but the bigger and (imo) the actual problem is that avx-512 was never popular enough(until now i guess), adopted in the eyes of the consumers buying hardware. Intel pioneered it somewhat prematurely: just like their octane they tried to make it work (so fast) they forgot people actually need some time to adopt.[Key point: adoption based on needs, which was lower because virtually no dev adopted avx-512 for the masses to 'need' it]

In this case avx-512 is a thing that can benefit way more people than the "octane" audience(I'm giving this example because octane died somewhat similarly to how intel abandoned avx-512). Right now AMD ironically steers the avx-512 ship: because what matters most is if many people can get their hands on it: that drives software adoption and importance to devs. Intel should humbly come back to avx-512 now that AMD seems to (hopefully) steadily but surely put avx-512 in all their chips.

> Google: "Look, we're capable, but just beta-test this sh&t so we can make a product that will definitely overshadow our little contribution, okay? We need the product, we need the money. You'll get a nice little badge on your profile to signal your interest with your peers. This is open and responsible AI."

Respectfully, nobody gives a f&ck. The actual way you do it is at least publish a paper(or butchered code) or make the product accessible to all.(Or to a number of people that scales proportionally with your claims of greatness). You cannot do either of those? Well that smells of trying to be opportunistic, doesn't it? If i recall, OpenAI in it's infancy with the GPT* family at least published some papers (which Google also used to do, by the way), then they built upon that to eventually release a product. Yes the product was never free at the beginning nor very publicized, because it wasn't advertised to be the holy grail of anything. To sum up my opinion on this matter: you can never truly scale and innovate with >only releasing a lobotomized product< or >only releasing a paper with no visible applications<. You need a little balance between sparking interest and satisfying the hype you give about the product(if any).*

Sure they do. Let the modern experts tell us the proper diet we've been apparently doing wrong for tens if not hundreds of thousands of years. A little note: pretty sure all of those were not only rolled back but found that 'modern' diets are harmful: what a surprise.

I invite you to eat the bugs and stop bothering other people what to eat. Likewise, the "food pyramid" popularized from the 1990s has been factually wrong and even harmful to males especially, and only recent studies which have been analyzing the problem for 5-10+ years have been able to 'uncover' this.

People are kidding themselves if they don't understand that >most< of the 'eat the bugs' and 'stop animal suffering' aren't schemes and attempts (make no mistake, of the rich and the 'elite') to transition industries because we(as in the west) have been losing the industry apparatus, especially the food one. Does not mean there are no 'legitimate' movements or people who actually care, but most of them don't, they're just made to believe they do. Same goes for the green push, oh but here come the downvotes...

Tiktok, reddit, twitch? (de facto a social media platform) Yes, of course: just look at their disastrous policies, especially the ones lately implemented.(In the case of the first 2, imo their entire design is somewhat made to implode sooner or later)

As for Twitter? Not really. It might go the facebook route of slowly stagnating and becoming used by "platform loyalists" or something, but from what i've seen this is not the case. A lot of the usage is lower on Twitter because Tiktok exists.[The obvious reasons: zoomers, low attention span, video preference, etc] And let's be honest: decentralized/federated platforms are nowhere near ready for usage by the masses, from a technical POV.

Funnily enough if you were to ask me pre-2022 or even pre-2020 which platform will die first: i would have said Twitter, but Elon, like it or not, somehow salvaged it(for the moment at least). Reddit is probably the first to die[their platform design really isn't unique, essentially], Tiktok in the next 3 years tops: whether organically or not[it's really irrelevant, because even most of their "organic" traffic is arguably mostly inorganic due to their own immoral practices). Obviously i ignored dinosaurs in agony like Facebook and Instagram: they're just big and decay slowly.

> Is morality declining?

"People believe [...] last few centuries. "

I'm sorry but is this what morality is resumed to: being moral is not killing, raping or extreme forms of violence?

> "On average, modern humans treat each other far better than their forebears ever did—which is not what one would expect if honesty, kindness, niceness and goodness had been decreasing steadily, year after year, for millennia."

In my humble, uneducated and unqualified opinion, this is a false or at least an incomplete equivalence. You can be "more moral" today by this definition because you're not killing/raping people(i.e not doing extreme things) but can be less moral in day-to-day(average behavior) life by behaving less nicely (i.e the rest of the spectrum, -[extreme things]). This is not even accounting for the >good< things that one does, which is (imo) less common, on average, today.

> "Although there are no similarly [...] measures of such things."

And here lies the problem. On average humans are definitely "more moral" in the sense that they're not doing extreme bad things, so the "upper bound" of "bad behavior" has decreased for most. (A little caveat: as your "average human", because we're still definitely raping, killing, torturing , etc. but with a smaller # of humans). However, you have to taken into account where does the "lowest bound" of "nice behavior" is, or at leas where it's average is. You cannot seriously claim that day-to-day etiquette and good manners are as good as they were in certain periods in the past. The problem is that variance of behavior is harder to quantify due to increased population.

Ultimately this is a problem of viewing morality as a 0-sum game or not: is the moral spectrum between [behaving neutrally] - [extreme bad behavior] or is it [positive behavior] - [behaving neutrally] - [extreme bad behavior] ? This is also a cultural POV issue, because one would assume in the west(mainly Christian world) the spectrum would be the latter. So by having the more "complete" spectrum of including positive behavior, one would definitely say morality is declining, like many people do.

Kaku's last book I've read and enjoyed was The Future of the Mind. However for the last ~5-7 years he often assumed what I call a toxic position in science: anything that's not canonical or "peer-approved" must be wrong, sometimes without even going into the disproving attempts. Then comes the unnecessary and really disgusting alarming when it comes to climate & AI. I respect him as a scientist, especially from a historic POV, but he dabbled to much into politics and popsci, and I for one was one of those people who looked at Kaku especially because he was not part of the cringy, popsci group.

Here's the biggest and most important reason (besides the obvious ones like grids, energy, etc.): most people >cannot< afford an EV compared to say, a SH good(and often better) vehicle. EVs are not even competitive to their equivalent fossil-based cars that are new.

Idealists should often take their heads out of their asses and understand most people don't have their privilege, ironically the most privileged ones screech about privilege while ignoring their own. Go ahead and tell developing countries to switch to EV-only, setting them back at least 10 years in terms of industry and economic growth.

Plenty of other countries, especially western european ones, have since ~2015 introduced legislation (which later was either not/rarely enforced or walked back upon, though not removed) in which a person is presumed guilty until proven innocent for all kinds of 'hate speech', especially online.

I'm not sure if you're trolling by calling such shifts in society merely conspiracy theories. If it happened like 1-10 times, sure. But that's not the case, and since then euroskepticism was on the rise, only until ~2020 when covid came and suddenly everybody fell in line and forget we even had other (bigger) problems in our society than merely a flu-tier virus.

Note: I have not read the entirety of the thread as per i don't really care, only saw the part of a presumed legal document where you can be detained upon mere suspicions of wrongthought/wrongsay, which reminded me of similar legislation that passed in my country (& not only).

Weird way to say people can't afford animal-based products because of inflation and straight out stupid (current & upcoming) EU regulations, but yeah it's definitely 'the vegan trend', lmao.

I think it's a pretty clear-cut view forward from the turkish position: deny Sweden's ascension to NATO unless they give up all PKK members, which should be feasible since they (only) recently declared it to be the terrorist organization it is. It's really shameful that they did not do this until recently, so Turkey denying them previously is not surprising and actually understandable. What i want to add is that this position is gonna be taken by turkey regardless of whether Erdogan wins the next elections, which i'm very doubtful of ( remember he campaigned on earthquake preventions, which given recent events will hurt him politically).

Sweden will do what i've mentioned because they cannot afford not to.

Your argument would be valid if catholicism or christianity in general would either grow or remain the same througout the western masses, which is not true. The only places in the world where christianity is growing is asia (most noticeably) and probably africa but there's less data for that.

You're right in saying this is mostly common to the american society(which itself propagated to the rest of the world), but I'm doubtful about the implied cause of organized religion. At least in europe this has not been the case for what, a century?

This thread almost has all the good resources out there, however a good book I haven't seen mentioned is "Hands-on Booting" [ISBN-10: 1484258894]. It does not go into deep technicalities but if you want a good overall picture(how the microsoft bootloader works and how especially grub works) it's definitely beginner-friendly in my opinion.

Rest in bytes zippy. Yes I used it since forever and w/ an adblocker. I wouldn't mind turning off the adblocker for such good(no throttling usually) and free services if they wouldn't have >intrusive< ads that make the web experience cancerous.

Instead of having popups just put "normal" ads on the sides if you really need it. Sadly the web trend went for the popup or other malicious ads (imitating legitimate buttons/other elements from a page) which makes users like me use an adblocker shamelessly.

SumatraPDF is great, only wish it had 2 more things: Dark mode(or 'invert' mode, really) and a working Linux binary (I know about wine, still...).

Some might not like this answer but the best course of action is still some sun exposure. As for the actual answer, someone correct me if I'm wrong but there there are multiple 'variants' of vit. D and the vast majority of "vit D" supplements most likely don't include the complete formula (which is arguably the best way in order to also assimilate it "fully"). The daily recommended dose is fine unless you're deficient.

No, and regulations are some kind of a problem because they give people the false sense of security. People should not use things they don't trust. Yes proving something is false(/does not happen) is hard, but that's one more reason why critical services should be selected carefully, obviously if one cares deeply about things like privacy and security.

There's a little dichotomy here. If you try to control the population as a whole "head-on" you'd get decent backlash, especially in countries where such moves have been rejected.[Anecdotally i can speak only for EE] However if you try to convince the masses at an individual level, (i.e a bottom-> top approach) you can have more success, assuming you do this in a paced manner and not rush the tyranny (because that would be obvious). Nowadays the latter approach 'works' because most people have low attention span and such grifts go mostly unnoticed, or at least enforced with pretexts like security, protect the kids, etc.

The gov. vs the individual is an uneven fight. The same cannot be said about the gov. vs the people.

"You will own nothing and you will be happy."

The reality will actually be worse than that, because happiness won't come if games/shows/media/any product or service/ will be sh*t.

I really hope AMD cleans up and invests some money into their software stack. Granted it's really hard to catch up to Nvidia, but I think it's doable in ~5 years. The barrier to entry into rocm compared to cuda is pretty high, and even accounting for the fact that things got better in the last years. AMD has potent hardware for AI/ML (see instinct), they just don't have it in the consumer space. However one of the key factors of getting adoption in the consumer space is the fore-mentioned software stack, which I recall was a pain to setup. The fact that they're going FOSS for rocm shows promise in this regard.

UK legislators are really something out of this world. In October I will have 10Gbps for 2 years, I can't even remember when I got 1gbps. The reason you get such services (and in my case for dirt cheap) is because of competition, not because you mandate it.

Just a dumb idea to impose this thinking it will somehow improve the situation overnight. Sadly again I'm not surprised given the location in question.

You're right, but in the grand scheme of things whataboutism is irrelevant. As per some analysis in a paper of this on android & iOS (the name of which i don't recall, but can search for it), the main difference between the collection is not that big: Google collects more quantity whereas Apple collects every kind of data, but not as frequently.

People talked as if Apple did not and would not ever do such things, which was obviously false. Both companies profit by the fact that we keep pointing fingers in this sadistic duopoly and not look at the actual issue of privacy. I wished people showed more interest when in was more "fashionable" to talk of such issues, but back when snowden/assange/smaller individuals did it, the discussion always ended up with ad homiminems and irrelevant points directed to the messenger. The only difference between back then & now are the perpetrators: it used to be the governments, nowadays is companies (and governments colluding with them, which is arguably worse as corporations cannot be as easily held accountable).

( Which it already has, just not officially. )

The comeback has been happening for at least a decade, depending on the region you might aswell say 2 or even 3.

Sadly enough only alarmist messages hit the news these days, which really should be the headline here.

Feel free to leave and don't let the door stop you on the way out.

Most of the so-called Twitter 'exodus' are people unhappy with the decision that Twitter will host different opinions from what Twitter used to in the past ~decade. And that's fine, but signalling your disapproval based on unfounded perceptions and speculations is disingenuous BECAUSE those same people used to champion everything about diversity and inclusivity. That's pretty hypocritical if nothing else.

In some cases virtualization can affect performance. Mind you last time I checked this to be the case was around 2017-2018. I don't know about the situation right now (though I wouldn't be surprised if it would still apply in some workloads).

Another garbage idea out of Brussels. Given the fact that we're lacking in the system engineering space for more than a decade, this will only curb some of the decent innovations people have began expanding upon in the last couple of years. (See the various talks & ideas from usenix for example, amongst other events)

On the "bright side", this will realistically be impossible to enforce. Any national court who deems such industry important will probably use a local constitutional amendment to reinforce that CODE easily falls under freedom of expression, just like any other craft.

EU showing once again how desperate it is for money. Let's strangle out all our industries until nobody can make anything anymore: See agriculture, energy, manufacturing, and "now" even a bigger range of the IT spectrum.

Both Twitter and Facebook have already been declared and used as "public forums" not only in US legal cases but also in other western ones. The only issue with S230 is that companies abuse(d, some still do) the platform & publisher status, without transparency. Full transparency will probably never be achieved realistically speaking (it is[or should be] a matter of transparency towards the end user - the user of the forum - , not towards the government), so the only sensible thing to do is take away the ability of the platforms to modify/erase in anyway content from the end users, IF the said platform is legally considered a "public forum". Who considers that and issues like "is any new-comer entitled to such status" is the next headache in this whole ordeal,because it will probably constitute new bureaucracy. The fine line will always be between companies and the government since both are different entities. However, imo, 1A should precede both in priority, otherwise it's the start of blurring the said lines & the decline of american society.(See China: de facto a fascist regime)

Pretty sure more than that re/joined since twitter's acquisition was confirmed. If you count the numbers since this whole ordeal began months ago, I'd say it's a pretty low chance Twitter is gonna "die" or get "tumblr"'d. They began stagnating years ago but this is at least gonna drag it for years to come. If Musk plays it right it might even grow (assuming meta's endeavors stay the same).

Sadly Nature, AS & other historically-respected journals have became political for some years now. It's kind of sad but that happens when you put money above everything else, including integrity and scientific principles.