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Your bio looks exactly as I imagined.

> Optane

Optane really died before LLMs went big. I was at an enterprise using a TON of them, often for SAP HANA workloads.

> AMD have... turned out some decent gaming graphics cards and fine server CPUs but little else.

I'm on a AMD desktop, using an AMD gpu, next to a gaming console using an AMD CPU and GPU, making large DC purchasing decisions where intel hasn't even shown up as a factor.

bits worth mentioning:

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Customers will instead scan a QR code from the bank's app at participating ATMs to access their money. This means users will need to be able to unlock their phone and log in to the bank app, as well as know their account PIN, to make withdrawals, adding more layers of security compared with cash cards that require just a PIN.

The app will also be the only way for customers to manage deposits. Users will not be able to log in to Emut's website through personal computers or other devices, as a further defense in case information is leaked in a cyberattack.

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archive link: https://archive.is/1lbzx

There are hundreds, maybe thousands of papers on this exact topic. I left a note from the paper mentioning this very thing.

It's up to you to explore this topic for yourself, if you choose.

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Studies in nonhuman animals and younger human populations (infants/children) offer converging evidence that sex differences in empathy have phylogenetic and ontogenetic roots in biology and are not merely cultural byproducts driven by socialization. We review how these differences may have arisen in response to males' and females' different roles throughout evolution. Examinations of the neurobiological underpinnings of empathy reveal important quantitative gender differences in the basic networks involved in affective and cognitive forms of empathy, as well as a qualitative divergence between the sexes in how emotional information is integrated to support decision making processes.

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from: Empathy: gender effects in brain and behavior

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25236781/

They're state actors performing hybrid warfare.

These things happen in (hybrid) war.

> Thankfully most hospitals and research institutions in the states are smart enough to reject cloud-based solutions for this exact reason.

I have some news for you. If a hospital WAN goes down, most of them are in deep shit

Most wars are fought by men, yes.

> Are you suggesting boys are less empathetic than girls?

Let me leave this for you:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33846514/

Girls exhibit greater empathy than boys following a minor accident Joyce F Benenson et al. Sci Rep. 2021.

ABSTRACT

Hundreds of studies find that girls and women report feeling greater empathy than boys and men in response to adverse events befalling others.

[...]

These behavioral results suggest that an adverse event produces different subjective experiences in females than males that motivate objectively different behaviors, consistent with findings from self-report measures of empathy.

Isn't this something apple has been in legal trouble over?

Yep, "Batterygate"

https://www.npr.org/2020/11/18/936268845/apple-agrees-to-pay...

You may be overestimating the empathy capacity of most 13yr old boys.

> "whoever has the most money to throw at lawyers wins".

100%. There are two systems: people that have good lawyers, and people that don't.

> He what now?

Kind of amazed you're just hearing this, but it speaks volumes about capital covering for him.

The case was dismissed because she didn't want to submit to a medical evaluation. This is extremely common for chronic rape victims.

https://www.thenerve.news/p/sam-altman-annie-altman-sexual-a...

This would definitely only happen in certain locales.

When was the last time you were a 13yr old boy and had even heard the phrase "psychological resilience"?

This was about a middle school kid choosing their instrument for band class, in their case they played through high school.

Banks don't run on laptops, so probably that one

Nah they've been "out of fashion" for 5+ years, and in that time AMD took their datacenter crown, which was also encroached on by various ARM hyperscaler systems.

Yep, normally fished indoors, and blown / sucked / pulled through underground (or above ground) conduit outside.

Maybe, but they would not be legally allowed to release the guide without using that term.

> My spouse and I have a rule that if we think a discussion is going to be emotionally charged, we have it over text in different rooms.

I've done this myself with my wife and I.

> It sounds autistic

Well, I'm autistic, and she has a very high traumatic intelligence. She reads my body language, expressions, movements more than what I say, and those are very easy to misinterpret or overinterpret. And she says things... but it's not actually what she means. By us writing/typing things out, we're able to communicate without stray signals creating noise.

> Dinosaurs contributed an infinitesimal fraction of the biomass that is needed for the fossil fuel reserves.

So... dino juice! Thanks! :)

> Is AI changing the game where more people want bare metal and GPUs with proprietor drivers?

Yes, for GPU workloads or just raw container orchestration platforms. Or gaming!

> Fedora on a server? No thanks.

Fedora's pokemon evolution turns it into RHEL, with not much change.

> How many of these additional proprietary drivers are needed on cloud servers, which are based on popular hardware configurations?

A lot of those are running on bespoke hardware specific to the hyperscaler.

>What is keeping people on Ubuntu instead of just using Debian?

1. It uses much newer packages and people want shiny

2. It was marketed as one of the easiest to use linux distributions maybe 15yr ago or whatever, so a lot of new people and then tutorials went to it because newer software and features just worked.

3. What is keeping them on it now? Familiarity. Inertia.

>why not software folks?

Because they'll just offshore you

> I know, people will blame the Russians, but seems not super productive for them to do such mundane sabotage

It is staggering to me the difference in people that come to HN.

This is one of the thousands of ways a hybrid war is fought!

>A lot of turmoil between Europe and Russia+the us lately. That's my guess.

Attacking power plants, grocery stores, sending drones into multiple countries over and over, setting up gun/dead-drops in German forests, sabotaging warehouses and factories, etc wasn't enough?

The hybrid war goes DEEP and has been happening for a long time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_sabotage_operations_in...

Probably a central company that manages maintenance and preventative maintenance and uses them for monitoring and control. Taking them offline would probably cause more failures, and much higher costs in tech labor, tech travel, etc.

> Not officially at war (or even cyberwar) but... are we at war?

Have been for a few years now.