Given people grew animals for eating for centuries and generally were more cruel to them then we are , I doubt.
Those people were a lot more desperate for food than we were too, though.
Readit NewsNineStarPoint commented on Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer? civileats.com/2025/02/18/... · Posted by u/greenie_beans
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Do you not the know the Second Foundation?
The second foundation was also made by Harry Seldon though, there wasn't a completely separate force that attempted to change history using his research.
>At this point Meta doesn't even worry about these news and specially right now that it is trying to please the current adminstration
You may not agree with the current administration, but they won the popular vote. What would you rather them do, defy the current administration? Sounds pretty anti-democratic to me. Am I missing a deeper principle here or is it just a matter of "companies should do what I think is right"?
I would rather companies do whatever they thought was best with no regards to the current administration, unless forced by law to take some action. Large companies feeling like they need to take actions to please the current President is not great.
NineStarPoint commented on AMD now has more compute on the top 500 than Nvidia nextplatform.com/2024/11/... · Posted by u/rbanffy
You're off by three orders of magnitude.
My point of reference is that back in undergrad (~10-15 years ago), I recall a class assignment where we had to optimize matrix multiplication on a CPU; typical good parallel implementations achieved about 100-130 gigaflops (on a... Nehalem or Westmere Xeon, I think?).
You are 100% correct, I lost a full prefix of performance there. Edited my message.
Which does make the clusters a fair bit less impressive, but also a lot more sensibly sized.
NineStarPoint commented on AMD now has more compute on the top 500 than Nvidia nextplatform.com/2024/11/... · Posted by u/rbanffy
But how will AMD or anyone else push in? CUDA is actually a whole virtualization layer on top of the hardware and isn't easily replicable, Nvidia has been at it for 17 years.
You are right, eventually something's gotta give. The path for this next leg isn't yet apparent to me.
P.s. how much is an exaflop or petaflop, and how significant is it? The numbers thrown around in this article don't mean anything to me. Is this new cluster way more powerful than the last top?
A high grade consumer gpu a (a 4090) is about 80 teraflops. So rounding up to 100, an exaflop is about 10,000 consumer grade cards worth of compute, and a petaflop is about 10.
Which doesn’t help with understanding how much more impressive these are than the last clusters, but does to me at least put the amount of compute these clusters have into focus.
Do we find prime numbers slower than one every four years? I would have thought we find newer bigger ones more quickly than that.
The goal of this project is not only to say the big number, but to say the big number before we discover the next bigger number.
It took 6 years between the last largest prime number and the most recent.
The two gaps before that were each only 1 year though.
So depends on how lucky you think you’ll get.
NineStarPoint commented on U.S. border surveillance towers have always been broken eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10... · Posted by u/gslin
The fact that the boarder is huge does not mean that monitoring it is not necessary or that it is impossible. The fact that tunnels exist doesn't either. We have the technology to detect tunnels and tunneling.
The fact that people sneak past at busy check points doesn't
make the situation not worth trying to address.
Every area where a person could cross can and should be monitored. Walls, cameras, drones, satellites, sensors, and guards are all valid tools for border protection. The question just comes down to where and how they are deployed and maintained.
> The bigger question though is whether other approaches besides just trying to catch and stop people could be better.
No one so far has managed to come up with an anything better. Have you?
I’ve always thought the real answer was to stop the businesses from hiring people. Make an actually useful national ID system that employers can use to identify if someone is allowed to work in the US, and then come down like the hammer of god on anyone found to be employing people under the table.
People come here for economic opportunity. Remove the opportunity for people who enter without permission, and they stop coming. And that sort of solution deals with more than just border crossings.
Fair enough, but then I want a way to penalize publishers for abusing clickbait. There is no "unread" button, and there is no way to unsubscribe to advertisement-based sites.
Even on sites that have a "Like / Don't like" button, my understanding is that clicking "Don't like" is a form of "engagement", that the suggestion algorithm are going to reward.
Give me a button that says "this article was a scam", and have the publisher give the advertisement money back. Of better yet, give the advertisement money to charity / public services / whatever.
Take a cut of the money being transfered, charge the publishers for being able to get a "clickbait free" green mark if they implement the scheme.
Track the kind of articles that generate the most clickbait-angry comment. Sell back the data.
There might a business model.
I doubt there’s a business model there because who is going to opt in to a scheme that loses them money?
What could work is social media giving people an easy button to block links to specific websites from appearing in their feed, or something along those lines. It’s a nice user feature, and having every clickbait article be a chance someone will choose to never see your website again could actually reign in some of the nonsense.
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> I don't know anyone who has been denied a job or an opportunity because of those issues.
How would they know? I suspect there's some selection bias at play here because it might not be legal to discriminate on this basis.
> (...) because they have a piecing or like to take naked photos.
That's a strawman. The discussion doesn't concern people who "like to take naked photos"; it concerns people who do it for money. Depending on your values, that can be a significant difference.
Firing someone for having tattoos or having done sex work is completely legal in almost all US states. Generally speaking, the only things private employers can’t discriminate based on is things intrinsic to who the person is (race, sexuality, non-relevant disability), and religion. Past choices are completely legal to fire someone for, even if it has nothing to do with the job at hand.
NineStarPoint commented on Inside the "3 billion people" national public data breach troyhunt.com/inside-the-3... · Posted by u/bubblehack3r
Anything the average SSN holder should be doing proactively?
You could freeze your credit, it you wanted to be careful. Realistically though, you should have already been monitoring to check if unexpected things were being done in your name. I’ve presumed that all our SSNs have been out there for years now due to one hack or another, that this hack just makes it indisputable doesn’t change much.