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The new tensor cores significantly speed up prompt processing. Up to 3x faster per the marketing information.

Despite all this I am a permanent DST fan. However I’ll be happy with permanent anything over the current madness

Can you let me name sub-areas? In some places there are unincorporated towns which aren’t showing on the map and aren’t nameable but locals would recognize and like to rename them. My entire county has 1 official city but lots of smaller areas.


I rendered this map from the OSM source with some filters so some locations could be excluded. Anyway, I can manually add any locations. Please write to me via the contact form with a list of locations to add


Very true. The trueness to the original text is lacking in KJV, which is the major argument against that translation. It is more written to be old English proper prose than meaningfully translated. Modern translations like ESV are much closer to source, although hard to read compared against others like NIV and NLT which are written for comprehension.


Hmm I’ve always heard that the KJV isn’t perfect but it is closer to the ESV than the NIV. These three charts suggest this[1]. I do know there are places where the KJV isn’t faithful to the sources, such as in the use of the word Easter for Passover in Acts 12:4.

It is a pretty translation, but harder to follow in my experience. I only use the KJV when talking with other denominations because it is more readily accepted than my favorite (NASB85).

[1] https://www.chapter3min.org/bible-translations-comparison-ch...


Oh interesting I thought KJV was more like NIV. Looks like it’s closer to meaning than I assumed. Nice article.


Why does Discord allow a server for a botnet owner?


There's servers where they just hang out, but which themselves are legitimate. Cybersecurity related ones etc. You can ban them and they'll just switch to another account within a minute. Occasionally discord or a server owner does, but everyone knows its pointless. There's probably other servers that are mostly used by cybercriminals, maybe command-and-control backups, and security researchers may stumble upon these when taking some malware apart, join them, and end up getting in contact with the owner.

In general I don't think law enforcement wants discord to take these down or ban them. These guys would have no problem to just make some IRC servers or whatever to hang out on instead, which would be much harder to surveil for law enforcement - compared to discord just forwarding them everything said by those accounts and on those servers.


Discord has a lot of terrible servers. This is one of the reasons they were not trusted when they came out and wanted to do identity verification. They already have a lot of information yet fail to do meaningful enforcement at scale.


Only a couple years ago the outrage was that Discord was too eagerly banning servers and users.

I know several people whose Discord accounts were banned because they participated in a server that later had some talk of illegal activities in one of the channels. There are similar stories all over Reddit.


If a Walmart has ~100 people in it and wants to get rid of 4 shoplifters but really sucks at selecting them well then the likely result is 4 normal people are very upset while all of the shoplifters are still there.

In the same scenario, even if Walmart is right about who they ejected 75% of the time then they still have ~1 shoplifter remaining and ~1 very upset person.

Even in an ideal world where Walmart is right about ejection 100% of the time it doesn't mean they start receiving 0 new shoplifters either, it just means the number of people wrongly made upset is 0.

Discord's problem (on both ends) lies in lack of depth in investigating bans. It takes resources to review when someone shouldn't be banned and it takes resources to make sure you ban everybody. Putting too low of resources into banning just means that both sides of the scale manage to get tipped in the wring direction at the same time.


Two things can be true at once. They can ban normal things too much and ban bad things too little.


Ever tried to ban a botnet owner from a service they want to use?

It’s basically impossible. They have money, IPs, identities, anything you could possibly want to evade.


It would be pretty funny if the age verification stuff blocked some of these folks.


Discord age verification is only for content filters, adult-themed servers, and a few other features.

They aren’t requiring age verification for everyone to join servers and chat. The headlines and panic really got away from the actual story.


They are rich in regard to the tools needed to abuse services haha.


If you just look at the messages in those kinds of discords. It's blatant. They aren't even trying to hide it.


Why wouldn't they? There are Discord servers about anything you can imagine and also what you can't or don't want to image. As long as they don't start disrupting their infra Discord couldn't care less.

Also, how would you even go about classifying them as botnet operators?


I imagine because banning these things is both whack-a-mole and like finding a needle in a hay stack.


botnet owners don't typically come forwards and say they are trying to run a botnet, so there may be some difficulty in detecting them there.


A MAU is a MAU... They likely use relatively little computing capability while making numbers look really good...


botnet owners dying typically come forwards and say they are trying to run a botnet, so there may be some difficulty there.


Walmart has a toggle explicitly for product review emails. I have toggled it off. I still get weekly review emails. I now make it my mission to give 1 star to every product they email me about with a note that their unsubscribe is broken.

Once, their CSR “escalated” my issue, but I never heard back. If you work in Walmart engineering, please fix the review unsubscribe.


If anyone ever prompts me for a review or leaves a "rebate for review" card in the box, they get 1 star.


Walmart should also fix where someone can create an account with someone else's email address (no email address validation).


Roughly how much does it cost to run one of the popular benchmarks? Are we talking $1,000, $10,000, or $100k?


Oh it's more time that's the issue - each benchmark takes 1-3 hours ish to run on 8 GPUs, so running on all quants per model release can be quite painful.

Assume AWS spot say $20/hr B200 for 8 GPUs, then $20 ish per quant, so assuming benchmark is on BF16, 8bit, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 bits then 7 ish tests so $140 per model ish to $420 ish/hr. Time wise 7 hours to 1 day ish.

We could run them after a model release which might work as well.

This is also on 1 benchmark.


It’s because the higher you are in the chain of corporate command, the less time you have to dedicate to each task. You end up with shorter answers to every note because you wouldn’t have time to reply to all notes and do the strategic things you need to do, otherwise.

As an individual contributor on a team, you may have to interface at most with 30 people on a weekly basis. As a second line leader you may have 150 people under your purview, and another 50 outsiders you have to talk to. You can’t scale the amount of time you have, so you scale the amount of time you spend on replies.


Using the example from the article: "K let circle back nxt week bout it . thnks"

I'm not buying your argument. The amount of additional time that it would have taken to write that same message with proper grammar and spelling is minuscule.


typed on a phone, so unlikely to have been at the office.


You have to deliberately turn off autocorrection on most phones


I hare auto correct. It ducks me over all the time.


I'm not sure that's a literal quote from their boss. It seems to be an illustrative example, probably exaggerated.


That depends on your typing ability. My mother only looks up at the end of the sentence to see if she hit all the right keys.


The boss was following Strunk & White's advice to omit needless letters.


You must be referring to the abridged Strnk n Wyt


Shorter answers don't necessitate terrible grammar. Maybe it's because my mom was a teacher and I had good grammar drilled into me, but I feel like it shows respect for the people you're communicating with.


> respect for the people you're communicating with

That is exactly why executive grammar is so bad.


That doesn't explain the "punctuating with multiple cryface emojis".


Incredible. I’m going to try this. Everyone at work codes to ZSH so I am always manually translating their snippets when I paste them in.


Sadly Reddit hasn’t been meaningfully replaced yet. It’s a place filled with of censorship, power hungry mods, arbitrary rules, and groupthink to the extreme. I long for an alternative. Something civil like HN and community like Reddit.


I miss the decentralized web and phpBB forums. If you didn't like one community, it was super easy to find one you did.


Lemmy is a federated reddit-like community that anyone can host themselves. Here's one of the top servers:

https://lemmy.world/communities?listingType=All&sort=TopMont...


A lot of traditional forums are still active. :)

Just the hype seeking people left to Discord and Reddit to be able to lament about how these new places are awful and crying about phpBB and vbuletin being dead.


Traditional forums may not have grown as much as social media, but they’re definitely still alive and vibrant.

And honestly, higher quality conversations and community than Reddit and discord.


Must have just been the ones I liked that died. Will have to go looking


We'll see how the future unfolds. Until then, I have plenty of other things to do. And I bet you do too :P


Such as it is I can’t think of any other forum even close to Reddit. HN is civil because of solid moderation and “censorship”.


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