Hacker News: danrocks

New comment by danrocks in "Perennial rice: Plant once, harvest again and again"

danrocks — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 17:38:22 +0000

probably sandwich race a than better

New comment by danrocks in "Do Kwon arrested in Montenegro: Interior Minister"

danrocks — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 15:42:13 +0000

I'm sure Singapore and the US would like to have a word as well.

New comment by danrocks in "Do Kwon arrested in Montenegro: Interior Minister"

danrocks — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 15:05:21 +0000

He's been charged in so many places that I am curious to know where he'll be deported to.

New comment by danrocks in "The case for slowing down AI"

danrocks — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 01:16:35 +0000

> I have no idea how it will slow down. Someone just figured out how to reduce the cost of building a multi million dollar model to around $600. That was supposed to take another decade.

I don't think this is accurate. The Stanford team used LLaMA as base model and added a smaller model on top of it - training the joint model using data (generated from ChatGPT) is what cost $600. Nobody trained a GPT-like model from scratch for $600 - this experiment took advantage of the millions of USD used to train the larger models.

New comment by danrocks in "Leaving China"

danrocks — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 00:48:25 +0000

If history shows anything is that Vietnam will defeat any other country. US, China, France, etc. they are simply invincible.

New comment by danrocks in "Leaving China"

danrocks — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 00:37:36 +0000

Does it matter if they'll stay in the UK? It does not. What matters is that they felt persecuted at home and fled.

New comment by danrocks in "Cocaine production reaches record levels as new trafficking hubs emerge"

danrocks — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 17:33:52 +0000

What exactly is that that you take exception with? Classifying Colombia as a narco-state? Just because the cartels were (mostly) destroyed it doesn't mean narcotraficantes don't have incredible influence on the Colombian state. The Gulf Clan is a very powerful organization.

Y no, no soy colombiano pero mi familia si lo es. Soy de otro narco-state.

New comment by danrocks in "Cocaine production reaches record levels as new trafficking hubs emerge"

danrocks — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 17:14:27 +0000

Reducing consumption of drugs in general due to mass spreading of fear of instant death from laced coke could be one.

Also there's money in selling Fentanyl.

New comment by danrocks in "Cocaine production reaches record levels as new trafficking hubs emerge"

danrocks — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 17:12:15 +0000

> If you bought mixed drugs from your dealer, you'd probably not do business with them again and would warn people away from them.

Dead customers can't return anyway.

New comment by danrocks in "Cocaine production reaches record levels as new trafficking hubs emerge"

danrocks — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 17:07:48 +0000

Somehow criminals are never mentioned in these arguments.

New comment by danrocks in "Cocaine production reaches record levels as new trafficking hubs emerge"

danrocks — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 17:07:25 +0000

Agree in parts but behind this argument there is an assumption that legal drugs would cause the market for illegal drugs to collapse entirely. Has not happened with alcohol (between 14 and 23% of alcohol sold in the US is illegal).

Adderall (fake or legit) is heavily sold illegally and their lacing with Fentanyl is a massive problem already.

New comment by danrocks in "Cocaine production reaches record levels as new trafficking hubs emerge"

danrocks — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 16:50:31 +0000

One of the favorite conspiracy theories of mine is that Fentanyl is a secret government project designed to scare the shit out of drug users so they stop using due to the fear of contamination.

New comment by danrocks in "Cocaine production reaches record levels as new trafficking hubs emerge"

danrocks — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 16:48:20 +0000

I appreciate the humor! I'd also argue that Singapore does "war on drugs" pretty well.

New comment by danrocks in "Cocaine production reaches record levels as new trafficking hubs emerge"

danrocks — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 16:47:53 +0000

> The idea of hardcore legalization is the ultimate outcome of capitalism without morality or awareness of consequences.

Don't know if I buy this. In general, parties pushing for legalization fall more on the left side of the political spectrum. I can also appreciated that libertarians on the far-right think the same (shoehorn theory?) but on the right this is a fringe opinion, unlike in the left.

New comment by danrocks in "Cocaine production reaches record levels as new trafficking hubs emerge"

danrocks — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 16:45:35 +0000

I would love to see this assertion distilled further.

New comment by danrocks in "Cocaine production reaches record levels as new trafficking hubs emerge"

danrocks — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 16:41:44 +0000

Potentially, yes. But that case would only be good against poor _execution_ of the war on drugs, not the _concept_ that drugs need to be dealt with as if we were in a war. Activists seem to oppose the concept, which is where I disagree.

New comment by danrocks in "Cocaine production reaches record levels as new trafficking hubs emerge"

danrocks — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 16:32:07 +0000

Having lived in Asia (low drug problems) and Latin America (drug-dominated hellhole) I much prefer the way drugs (and dealers) are dealt with in Asia than in Latam. The idea that waging war on drugs is a bad one sounds like a nut idea from out-of-touch people who have never been to a narco-state like Brazil, Mexico, or Colombia.

New comment by danrocks in "Rust – Are We Game Yet?"

danrocks — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 17:49:01 +0000

I see what you did there.

New comment by danrocks in "Rust – Are We Game Yet?"

danrocks — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 17:08:33 +0000

Sure. Does that justify it being the best option for every development task? This is what I am puzzled by.

New comment by danrocks in "Rust – Are We Game Yet?"

danrocks — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 17:02:45 +0000

If that was the only premise ("C-like performance, etc.") then I can understand. What I don't is that there seems to be no use case for which Rust isn't good. That is the part that bothers me.