Cyph0n

Not that straightforward. Similar to CPUs and other HW, there are errata and interop quirks between devices.

There are also tight time budgets (basically SLAs) that must be met along with memory considerations (both in SW and on the NPU/HBM), not to mention how the device needs to respond to load and various failure scenarios.

I worked at Cisco on one of the IOS-XR teams. It’s way more complex than you think it is.

This whole thing sounds like a deluded vanity project birthed in an ivory tower.

> because right now I see about a thousand times more criticism leveled at Israel than at North Korea

Is the criticism of Israel from the people, or from Western govs and media outlets (i.e., the establishment, the centers of actual power)? And isn’t the outrage logical given the nature of the atrocities being committed by Israel right now? And pray tell: which Western countries are sanctioning Israel?

On the other hand, NK is vilified by the Western establishment, i.e. by the holders of power, but on a more background level. It isn’t the topic du jour right now, but NK is ever present as a big bad evil. Propaganda helps maintain this image in the West, even when NK isn’t present in the news cycle. And it is sanctioned to hell and back.

And even if it is “right”, it does not mean that it is completely right, nor does it mean that the propaganda isn’t doing its job effectively even if you don’t realize it.

Anyhow, I think this thread is deep enough, so I will stop here.

I see the outrage, but I don’t see it at the level of NK, at least not in Western media or governments.

I meant the faux concern over NK is evergreen unlike some other causes such as the ones I mentioned.

As soon as (if ever) NK joins the fold of Western-aligned liberal states, the media machine will spin up and it will cease to be maligned, and you will move on to the next bogeyman.

I would be less snarky if the faux concern didn’t just last as long as the media tells you to. Most recently, there was a period where Myanmar and the Uyghurs were in vogue, but not anymore. NK is more evergreen it seems.

Setting aside the genocide, it is particularly funny at a time when Western governments are oppressing their own by crushing dissent on Israel, but I don’t see the same outrage there.

Well, looking at the way NK is demonized, you would think it was on a genocidal rampage, invading neighboring countries, and eliminating heads of sovereign states in pursuit of its Greater NK project.

Not to mention X and Xs.

Only replying to you since everyone else is making the same points.

I follow a religion with similar edicts (not Christian). I also understand the contributions made by Christianity in this area. But the fact of the matter is that religion was ultimately unable to force actual widespread change on the ground, especially not in secularized European states.

At the end of the day, the only true religion that industrialists and capitalists understand is money. Only unions were able to speak their language at a very large scale, and this is the language they ultimately had to listen to :)

Did religious edict also eliminate child labor, give us more humane working hours, and establish labor laws? Or was that because of unions?

Okay, what about spoonfeeding the records? If they got access to part 1/N, why did that not entail full access to the data? Otherwise they wouldn’t even be able to chunk it in the first place, no?

Andor is in a league of its own imo. Once in a generation kind of show.

But it is similar to Fallout in that it was able to break out of its universe. Andor is enjoyable even if one hates Star Wars; Fallout is enjoyable even if you dislike gaming.

I have yet to see LLMs do well “autonomously” on anything that doesn’t fall into any of these 3 buckets:

1. well specified

2. well tested (which is a form of spec)

3. represented in the training set (i.e. not built on a corpus of human developed examples)

For example, a lot of the compiler porting efforts fall into all 3 buckets: compilers are well specified (there is a set of valid inputs and an expected behavior), they are typically well tested, and as a bonus, in a way that is implementation agnostic thanks to the clean interface (think: integration vs unit tests), and are very well represented in the training set.

As the FFmpeg devs like to say: if you don’t like how OSS volunteers do things, send patches or money, or just fork (off).

Love the confidence and complete lack of acknowledgement of the initial fuck up.