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xorfishon DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X

This is still quite a bit away from the performance that deepseek gets on their H800. In their DSpark paper they report a throughput of 15k tokens/s/gpu. The MI300 should be able to compete with the H800 so there are probably still quite a few optimizations that can be made.

xorfishon US startup Substrate announces chipmaking tool that it says will rival ASML

GDP growth per capita adjusted for cost of living hasn't been that different between the US and the EU for the past 35 years:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-per-capita-worldbank?...

xorfishon Electric vehicle battery prices are falling faster than expected

If the US were serious about road safety, they would change the roads and streets to be more safe and tax 1500+ kg vehicles into oblivion.

xorfishon Why Does America Provide More Space for Storing Cars Than Housing People?

Suburbs are highly subsidized. The quality of life only seems to outcompete cities because the quality of life in cities is lowered by the car centric culture.

If you want to know how good the QoL in a city can be, you need to visit a European city that is not car centric.

xorfishon More green spaces linked to slower biological aging

Cars are generally not a mode of transport that makes sense in a city. There are some exceptions, but the vast majority of transportation in a city should be by foot, bicycle or public transport.

xorfishon If You Double-Park and You’re Rich, Should You Pay a Higher Fine?

Car dependence imposes a huge cost on the poor. With good public transportation and bicycle infrastructure, poor people wouldn't need a car.

Reducing car dependence is a good thing for the poor.

xorfishon If You Double-Park and You’re Rich, Should You Pay a Higher Fine?

That is how you get to the current state of car dependence in the US.

Parking costs a lot. It should not be subsidized.

xorfishon Biggest companies in the world by market value 2022

xorfishon Meta wants EU users to apply for permission to opt out of data collection

That is the case, but banning it just for a few weeks will change that without much disruption. Most people are aware that Signal exist and switch the moment WhatsApp stops working.

xorfishon Reassessing relative temporal lobe size in anthropoids and modern humans

Why is finding that we are not that different from other mammals degrading and disrespectful?

xorfishon Ask HN: Why do many CS graduates lack foundational knowledge?

> Is anyone, anywhere doing that?

You can do it in Switzerland:

https://www.berufsberatung.ch/dyn/show/1900?id=7671

xorfishon Joint statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC

You still have to pay the interest on the loan.

If your bond 10y bond you bought two years ago pays 1.5% and you need to take on a loan at 3.5% for 8 years to be liquid, then you are still around 16% in the red. You will find that this is also roughly what the market will discount the bonds.

xorfishon Joint statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC

No, that is not true.

Selling the bonds now at their current valuation or taking on debt and hold them to maturity lead to roughly equivalent outcomes.

The MtM losses are real.

xorfishon Joint statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC

> So the obvious and sensible thing to do is have the government lend money to cover the time until the bonds mature, in addition to using the FDIC's money which did not come from public funds.

The cost of the loans should be in the same ballpark as the losses on the long term bonds.

xorfishon Amsterdam supermarket offers free groceries, life coach to struggling families

Over 80% of the US population lives in urban areas.

xorfishon Crypto exchange Kraken to shut staking service, pay $30M fine in SEC settlement

Changes in money supply are not the same as inflation or deflation.

xorfishon Does watching pornography cause erectile dysfunction?

> which often cause, or share causes with, pornography consumption.

I doubt there is substantial evidence for this statement.

xorfishon Beyond Meat is struggling, and the plant-based meat industry worries

https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets

If everyone were to switch to a vegan diet, global agriculture land use would be reduced by 75%.

xorfishon An autistic man was surfing the internet on his dad’s sofa, then the FBI arrived

I think it is wrong to value the well-being of some humans more than others.

xorfishon An autistic man was surfing the internet on his dad’s sofa, then the FBI arrived

Which could have also been achieved by telling him not to and that it is wrong or if that doesn't work banning the use of social media.

He seems to be able to follow rules very good.

xorfishon An autistic man was surfing the internet on his dad’s sofa, then the FBI arrived

Of course humans change. A state machine can also change state. Doesn't mean that a state machine has control over their behavior.

xorfishon An autistic man was surfing the internet on his dad’s sofa, then the FBI arrived

> Perhaps the better conclusion is that "free will" is merely our ability to alter our own biochemical state

But isn't our ability to alter our own biochemical state dependent on our current biochemical state?

xorfishon An autistic man was surfing the internet on his dad’s sofa, then the FBI arrived

Not at all.

xorfishon An autistic man was surfing the internet on his dad’s sofa, then the FBI arrived

> Philosophers have been talking about justice and morality for æons, something so small isn’t going to turn our thoughts on justice on their head.

Yes, but now neuroscientists show light on how our brain works.

> we are saying that you have a duty to control your behavior.

My point is that humans are not "in control" of their behavior.

xorfishon An autistic man was surfing the internet on his dad’s sofa, then the FBI arrived

Society also has to ensure, that this is done in a way that causes him as little harm as possible. It clearly failed here.

xorfishon An autistic man was surfing the internet on his dad’s sofa, then the FBI arrived

At the very core of criminal justice rests an assumption, that is false.

> The concept of criminal justice rests on the fundamental principle that we are responsible for our own behavior.

Human behavior is the result of lots of factors, none of which they have control over. evolution, culture, prenatal environment, uprising and more shape human behavior and what they want and need. This is true for good as well as bad behavior.

xorfishon An autistic man was surfing the internet on his dad’s sofa, then the FBI arrived

> What a horrible thing to do. His autism shouldn't give him a pass.

You do understand that he doesn't understand that this is a horrible thing to do?

xorfishon The good delusion: has effective altruism broken bad?

I think this is fitting in that context:

Schindler's List | "I Didn't Do Enough"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9vj2Wf57rQ

In the end, nearly everyone values their life higher than the life of others. The more distant that the "others" are the less we value them.

xorfishon The good delusion: has effective altruism broken bad?

EA and Longtermism are not the same thing.

xorfishon Wild mammal biomass has declined by 85% since the rise of humans

We have also learned quite a bit about animals and their capacity to suffer.

Sorry to break it to you, but humans just aren't that special.