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- Comment on Germany's Federal Cartel Office warns Amazon that its marketplace retailer price controls likely violate national and EU laws, in its preliminary assessment 2 days ago:
Amazon is an absolute scumbag company, they don’t pay taxes and they shit all over their workers, and fight unions tooth and nail.
I have no idea how people can buy at Amazon, that stands for everything Trump and Musk stands for.
Just fucking stop using Amazon if you value democracy. Pay an extra dollar and buy somewhere else. - Comment on Germany's Federal Cartel Office warns Amazon that its marketplace retailer price controls likely violate national and EU laws, in its preliminary assessment 3 days ago:
Don’t use Amazon!
- Comment on public services of an entire german state switches from Microsoft to open source (Libreoffice, Linux, Nextcloud, Thunderbird) 3 days ago:
They had already moved it, so Munich didn’t have to switch back for that.
But yes I bet it was a factor as in corruption. - Comment on public services of an entire german state switches from Microsoft to open source (Libreoffice, Linux, Nextcloud, Thunderbird) 3 days ago:
Fingers crossed that this will be an indisputable success.
Allegedly a similar project in Munich went really really well, but was shut down when the right wing came into power.
For some reason the right wing of Munich doesn’t like freedom. 🙄 - Comment on China's first 6nm GPU boots up, targets performance parity with RTX 4060 4 days ago:
what would be the purpose to hide it?
To avoid further retaliations from USA that might prevent their progress.
And to not disclose industry secrets.I am probably on the pessimistic side and you maybe on the optimistic
True, I’m an optimist on their behalf, because China has done such impressive progress already, but I also know this is way harder than sending a man to the moon.
I agree 100% about restricting the tech is a huge mistake, and yes physics are indeed the same everywhere.
Hopefully when China figures it out, consumers everywhere will benefit. The Political implications however, is an open question. - Comment on Germany Is Using AI to Erase Pro-Palestinian Speech 4 days ago:
I’m quoting from the article.
- Comment on Germany Is Using AI to Erase Pro-Palestinian Speech 4 days ago:
“masked individuals” entered a university building and caused "property damage
www.washingtonpost.com/…/eu-israel-gaza-war/
BRUSSELS — A rare rebuke of Israel by Germany this week underscored Europe’s growing willingness to pressure the Netanyahu government over its siege and bombardment of the Gaza Strip, which is testing the tolerance of some of Israel’s staunchest allies.
Germany’s tone with Israel is getting harsher
Obviously it’s not illegal to criticize Israel.
- Comment on Germany Is Using AI to Erase Pro-Palestinian Speech 4 days ago:
I admit that is very bad, but I doubt you can’t criticize Israels war crimes and oppression and illegal settlements in Gaza.
- Comment on China's first 6nm GPU boots up, targets performance parity with RTX 4060 5 days ago:
AFAIK Canon has a process (nano imprint) that competes with EUV too, maybe not as advanced as ASML.
When I say China will have a competitive EUV system within 5 years, I don’t mean competitive in how advanced it is compared to the best ASML has to offer like the new NA process TSMC hasn’t even decided to buy yet.
But an EUV that allows a production process that will be competitive down to just below 2nm. Meaning competitive with the EUV process TSMC is currently using.
Depending on how much China is investing in this, they could be working on different processes in parallel.
Obviously anything as hard as this with a 5 year time span is very uncertain, we recently saw how bad things went for Intel with their 10nm process, being both multiple years delayed, and on top of that pretty bad when they finally announced it was ready.As I stated next year would be very fast, but in reality we don’t know how close they are. Your claim that they would advertise it is speculation. What would be the purpose of that?
China is already competitive in 8 out of 10 key industries, and since China is prevented from even using western parts for chip making or even just buying the chips, they are pulling ressources to catch up. China will do this because they have massive talent mass and ressources, and because they have to.
- Comment on Germany Is Using AI to Erase Pro-Palestinian Speech 5 days ago:
I’m pretty sure this article is one big lie,
the school soon faced political pressure from Israeli ambassador Ron Prosor
This sounds like complete bullshit, the Israeli ambassador has zero power over a school, and outside interference would be regarded as intolerable.
and Berlin’s conservative mayor Kai Wegner, who demanded that its leadership “cancel the event
This does not sound right at all, this would be a major attack on freedom of speech, which is protected in Germany not only by German law but also by EU requirement to observe human rights.
The university then did call off the talk, vaguely citing “security concerns.”
There is no way a school would just give in to such pressure. If true this would be a huge scandal in Germany.
- Comment on China's first 6nm GPU boots up, targets performance parity with RTX 4060 5 days ago:
Yes 5nm should be ready this year, and allegedly Huawei is planning a 3nm product to be produced by SMIC already next year!
That’s a very bold schedule, but maybe they expect to have something close to ASML EUV soon? - Comment on Why doesn't Nvidia have more competition? 5 days ago:
AFAIK the competition is mostly AMD, but AMD is not near Nvidia in popularity for AI or in datacenters in general, even if they may be offering reasonable value.
AMD is not nearly giving the competition to Nvidia they do to Intel. They are working on it, and I think they can take some marketshare. But for now AMD has sold mostly based on Nvidia not having allocated enough production to satisfy the market. - Comment on Why doesn't Nvidia have more competition? 5 days ago:
It’s funny how the article asks the question, but completely fails to answer it.
Nvidia discovered there was a demand for compute in datacenters that could be met with powerful GPU’s, and they were quick to respond to it, and they had the resources to focus on it strongly, because of their huge success and high profitability in the GPU market.
AMD also saw the market, and wanted to pursue it, but just over a decade ago where it began to clearly show the high potential for profitability, AMD was near bankrupt, and was very hard pressed to finance developments on GPU and compute in datacenters. AMD really tried the best they could, and was moderately successful from a technology perspective, but Nvidia already had a head start, and the proprietary development system CUDA was already an established standard that was very hard to penetrate.
Intel simply fumbled the ball from start to finish. After a decade of trying to push ARM down from having the mobile crown by far, investing billions or actually the equivalent of ARM’s total revenue. They never managed to catch up to ARM despite they had the better production process at the time. This was the main focus of Intel, and Intel believed that GPU would never be more than a niche product. So when intel tried to compete on compute for datacenters, they tried to do it with X86 chips, One of their most bold efforts was to build a monstrosity of a cluster of Celeron chips, which of course performed laughably bad compared to Nvidia! Because as it turns out, the way forward at least for now, is indeed the massively parralel compute capability of a GPU, which Nvidia has refined for decades, only with (inferior) competition from AMD.
But despite the lack of competition, Nvidia did not slow down, in fact with increased profits, they only grew bolder in their efforts. Making it even harder to catch up.
Now AMD has had more money to compete for a while, and they do have some decent compute units, but Nvidia remains ahead and the CUDA problem is still there, so for AMD to really compete with Nvidia, they have to be better to attract customers. That’s a very tall order against Nvidia that simply seems to never stop progressing. So the only other option for AMD is to sell a bit cheaper. Which I suppose they have to.
AMD and Intel were the obvious competitors, everybody else is coming from even further behind. But if I had to make a bet, it would be on Huawei. Huawei has some crazy good developers, and Trump is basically forcing them to figure it out themselves, because he is blocking Huawei from using both AMD and Nvidia AI chips. And the chips will probably be made by Chinese SMIC, because they are also prevented from using advanced production in the west, most notably TSMC. China will prevail, because it’s become a national project, and they have a massive talent mass, so nothing can stop it now.
IMO USA would clearly have been better off allowing China to use American chips. Now China will soon compete directly on that too.
- Comment on China's first 6nm GPU boots up, targets performance parity with RTX 4060 5 days ago:
I agree, if this could make good GPU’s more affordable, that would be great.
- Comment on You Can’t Make an Omelette without Exploding Several Billion Dollars’ Worth of Eggs 5 days ago:
Maybe there are IDK. But the thing with the angle shown, you can see it’s a textbook Hitler NAZI heil. Where he slams his chest with a closed fist first, and then makes a powerful stretch to the heil gesture.
It simply doesn’t get any more textbook fully complete Hitler gesture than that, but I don’t think he does it again with the 2nd heil. - Comment on You Can’t Make an Omelette without Exploding Several Billion Dollars’ Worth of Eggs 5 days ago:
You can clearly see it’s not a Tesla, because there are no gaps, and the doors line up pretty well.
- Comment on China's first 6nm GPU boots up, targets performance parity with RTX 4060 6 days ago:
Isn’t GAA one of the most advanced types?
If they can really do this next year, there is no doubt China must have their own EUV lights.So 6nm for example might just be a slightly refined 7nm node.
Absolutely true but AFAIK SMIC usually make their numbers comparable to TSMC. Even Intel changed their numbering to follow TSMC, and SAMSUNG and TSMC have always been close in their numbering.
- Comment on China's first 6nm GPU boots up, targets performance parity with RTX 4060 6 days ago:
WTF!? OK they had the 7nm process for more than a year now, but 6nm without EUV?
I’m not an expert, but it seems to me that when China cracks EUV, which they allegedly are getting close to, then SMIC will progress fast to even better processes.
China is making very good progress, especially considering they cannot use any western equipment. Everything has to be home grown!
- Comment on Generative AI's most prominent skeptic doubles down 1 week ago:
AGI is artificial GENERAL intelligence, it is not the same as generative AI.
en.wikipedia.org/…/Generative_artificial_intellig…
GAI: is a subfield of artificial intelligence that uses generative models to produce text, images, videos, or other forms of data.en.wikipedia.org/…/Artificial_general_intelligenc…
(AGI)—sometimes called human‑level intelligence AI—is a type of artificial intelligence that would match or surpass human capabilities across virtually all cognitive tasks
- Comment on First-of-its-kind wind turbine can power multiple households with just one spin of its massive blades: 'It will play a key role' 1 week ago:
37 m/s
That’s 133 km/h! That’s fast, imagine the pull on the rotor, and then combined with the pressure from the wind.
It’s also funny the rotation is faster than the wind speed, because cutout is at 31 m/s.
I know that when sailing with old fashioned sail, you can also sail faster than the wind speed. Still it’s a bit curious.
It’s also impressive IMO that they can build it to last 30 years. - Comment on Scientific conferences are leaving the United States amid border fears 1 week ago:
This happened last time Trump was president too.
Except this time it’s way quicker, and probably way more urgent.
This time it’s not just because USA is unpopular, there are people who simply don’t want to take the risk.
Exactly the same as for tourism, which AFAIK has dropped almost 30%. - Comment on First-of-its-kind wind turbine can power multiple households with just one spin of its massive blades: 'It will play a key role' 1 week ago:
The Turbine is the Vestas V236-15.0 MW.
When the entire wind farm, all 64 turbines, is up and running, it will produce 960 megawatts
Wow that’s a lot!!
The Rotor diameter is 236m!
www.vestas.com/en/energy-solutions/…/V236-15MWengineered for a lifespan of 30 years.
It’s crazy how huge modern wind turbines are.
- Comment on Is it OK to leave device chargers plugged in all the time? An expert explains 1 week ago:
In EU they are not allowed to consume more than 0.5 Watt. And this regulation has been in force since 2008.
Since mostly everybody design for that, I expect this norm also benefit other countries. So this is not really an issue, unless you are in a country without such regulation, and you buy some cheap off brand charger.…europa.eu/…/standby-networked-standby-and-mode_e…
Since the standby power is so low, the wear is most likely insignificant too.
Having an idle unit that uses 0.5 Watt on constantly for a month, consumes about 1/3 kWh, but since this regulation has been in force since 2008, I suspect idle is improved further for most devices. 0.5 is a maximum allowed value, and most would prefer to stay below that to not get into trouble. - Comment on What's the deal the miracles jesus chose to do? 1 week ago:
That’s strange, because the old pope was. I thought he was supposed to be the one defining catholicism more than anybody else.
- Comment on What's the deal the miracles jesus chose to do? 1 week ago:
only two key events of the biblical story of Jesus’s life are widely accepted as historical, based on the criterion of embarrassment, namely his baptism by John the Baptist and his crucifixion by the order of Pontius Pilate.
Except there is no historical evidence of these events.
The only evidence there is, is that John the Baptist is an actual historical figure, and there exist AFAIK a reference to Pontius Pilate, although his position is unclear. But the events are NOT documented and neither is Jesus.The historicity of Jesus is a concept driven by Christians that have undertaken the biggest accumulated search in history spanning 1800 years, to document the existence of Jesus, and they have turned op NOTHING!!! Just the Mormon church alone has spend massive amounts of resources on this for more than a century. Obviously the Catholic church is by far in the lead, since they are both the oldest and most wealthy of all.
There are at least fourteen independent sources for the historicity of Jesus from multiple authors
No there are not, not a single one is contemporary, and not a single one is first hand or even has a reliable source. This is required to be considered reliable historical evidence.
It may sound convincing on the surface, until you dig into it, and find out it’s all hear say, and it’s all created AFTER Christianity became a thing.
Also evidence for the existence of Jesus is just about the most faked historical/archeological thing there is. Because it creates fame like nothing else, and churches are willing to pay enormous sums to get their hand on it.I’m an atheist, but a historical Jesus almost certainly did exist.
You didn’t investigate enough.
This is a long piece, but it’s easier than doing the research yourself:
www.atheists.org/activism/…/did-jesus-exist/ - Comment on What's the deal the miracles jesus chose to do? 1 week ago:
GandalfNo but that’s because Lord of the Rings is way more consistent than the Bible is.
- Comment on AI could already be conscious. Are we ready for it? 1 week ago:
Isn’t Skinner a relic that is mostly irrelevant by now?
I remember reading about him 25 years ago and writing a paper on it, and I seem to remember he was way way off on consciousness. Even by the standards back then. - Comment on What's the deal the miracles jesus chose to do? 1 week ago:
That sounds like a cool priest, but unfortunately Catholicism is still against gay marriage, meaning they are still discriminating.
- Comment on What's the deal the miracles jesus chose to do? 1 week ago:
There is no evidence Jesus ever existed.
- Comment on AI could already be conscious. Are we ready for it? 1 week ago:
the weight of evidence indicates that humans are not unique in possessing the neurological substrates that generate consciousness.
I 100% agree with that statement, and I’ve been saying that for 30 years. Consciousness is NOT unique to humans.
That idea seems to me to mostly stem from religion.But I still don’t see this paper really doing much in DEFINING Consciousness, it’s more defining what it isn’t.