I wish they'd spend less time giving awards and more time producing an actual specification for Project GNU so we can actually measure when it will be feature-complete.
Following up on Anthropic's Project Vend [0] and given the rising popularity of Vending-Bench[1], it's actually quite likely that by the time an AI is deemed to possess consciousness, it will have already been tested in a vending machine.
You can thank them properly by submitting a comment on this matter and add your voice to the chorus so the proposed ruling gets shoved right back into the orifice it was pulled from.
Facebook is filled with billions of people I have no reason to speak to, ergo its network effects for me are zero, and its value to me is zero. Other services have similar zero or negative value, and hence I don't use them either. As much as some around here would like to believe that network effects are a moat that effectively allow social media to be immortal, experience has shown that not to be the case. Facebook is dying a slow, lingering death. It is not the place you go to find trendsetters and people of import, but, at best, to go check up on grandma. Facebook will die when grandma finally kicks the bucket and there isn't anyone to replace her because they're all on Discord.
Then how about SoftBank[1]... are they irrational? Or Michael Burry[2] who shorted Nvidia and Palantir before concluding the market is once against being irrational and selling his positions and closing his hedge fund... is he irrational?
The people in a position to know are telling you something: This is a Bubble, and they're getting the hell out while they're ahead. You should do the same.
Burry was underwater on that trade though and likely did it to avoid some paperwork revealing positions. He folded because he can't time it, if he was confident he was right he wouldn't have folded and we'd have another movie about him.
Softbank sold all of Nvidia in 2019. Look how that turned out for them.
> SoftBank’s Vision Fund was an early backer of Nvidia, reportedly amassing a $4 billion stake in 2017 before selling all of its holdings in January 2019. Despite its latest sale, SoftBank’s business interests remain heavily intertwined with Nvidia’s.
Further, ″[SoftBank] made a point of saying that it wasn’t any view on NVIDIA. ... At the end of the day, they are using the money to invest in other AI related companies,” he said.
Make of that what you will, but asking "are they irrational?" needs to answer with more than just "Softbank sold all of Nvidia again."
Linux system calls WERE 80h. If your code is still using an interrupt to access kernel functions then you've got problems. Syscall exists for the simple reason that interrupts are expensive.
x86-64 introduced a `syscall` instruction to allow syscalls with a lower overhead than going through interrupts. I don't know any reason to prefer `int 80h` over `syscall` when the latter is available. For documentation, see for example https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/syscall
While AMD syscall or Intel sysenter can provide a much higher performance than the old "int" instructions, both syscall and sysenter have been designed very badly, as explained by Linus himself in many places. It is extremely easy to use them in ways that do not work correctly, because of subtle bugs.
It is actually quite puzzling why both the Intel designers and the AMD designers have been so incompetent in specifying a "syscall" instruction, when such instructions, but well designed, had been included in many other CPU ISAs for many decades.
When not using an established operating system, where the implementation for "syscall" has been tested for many years and hopefully all bugs have been removed, there may be a reason to use the "int" instruction to transition into the privileged mode, because it is relatively foolproof and it requires a minimum amount of code to be handled.
Now Intel has specified FRED, a new mechanism for handling interrupts, exceptions and system calls, which does not have any of the defects of "int", "syscall" and "sysenter".
The first CPU implementing FRED should be Intel Panther Lake, to be launched by the end of this year, but surprisingly, recently when Intel has made a presentation providing information about Panther Lake no word was said about FRED, even if this is expected to be the greatest innovation of Panther Lake.
I hope that the Panther Lake implementation of FRED is not buggy, which could have made Intel to disable it and postpone its introduction to a future CPU, like they have done many times in the past. For instance, the "sysenter" instruction was intended to be introduced in Intel Pentium Pro, by the end of 1995, but because of bugs it was disabled and not documented until Pentium II, in mid 1997, where it finally worked.
Great! If this is so, then you should be able to prove that UK citizens are using crypto to purchase their services and that 4chan is expressly aware of this fact. I'm sure this proof will be forthcoming presently...
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