SirHumphrey

Nuclear ship propulsion is not a new technology so I have no doubt they will succeed. But where this will and all previous attempts have (see: N.S. Savannah) failed is that ports do not want to accept such ships, because of environmental and insurance issues.

At least in my experience poorly. As a reference I speak one of the smaller European languages and what is interesting that newer models tend to do worse, but what all of them struggle with and is very hard to control using prompting is tone.

Formal language in American English is very friendly, very sweet, to an extent that my language is not. Any piece of text therefore sounds like a psychopath is trying to manipulate you.

Well, you could already do, sort of. Even the best stocked library in the world has it's limits and even the largest printed encyclopedia cannot reach anywhere near the breath of information on Wikipedia and no technical library has as many articles as PubMed.

We switched from techno optimism to techno pessimism - for some good reasons - nevertheless internet brought to the table revolutionary capabilities not only for evil but also for good.

This seems depressingly common in universities. I know of a case where someone discovered anyone with a university account (so students, etc.) can edit DNS, and the IT tried to file charges until the head of CS department intervened.

It annoys me immensely that all provided grid storage statistics are in MW, not MWh.

The only statistics that speak about capacity brag that California- one of the leaders in grid storage deployment- can store nearly a third of solar generation in February (which represents only a third of the energy production) on a sub-day time scale.

I used to use tiling window managers on macOS and in the end it got a bit tiring that after every update something broke. It seems like all of them are fighting the system in some very brittle ways.

In the end I just learned some shortcuts that Apple provides for moving windows around. I still much prefer working on Linux, but this is at least usable and i do not have to fix it that often.

And a lot of dev boards you will use as a hobbyist even include level shifters on the board, so you will have a 5V pin.

Sure, but we are talking about a Toyota so there is (at least in my experience) not that much maintenance to begin with.

I prefer to also hear other people’s opinion about an article as a sort of a peer review.

A bit ironic though because the CEO of Boing during their best years was William McPherson Allen, a lawyer.

But then choking is not the only health emergency when having people around is a plus. Even active people sometimes suffer from heart attacks and having someone being there doing chest compressions or at least calling for help leads to quite difficult health outcomes versus being found hours later. Same goes for strokes…

I wounder how long would they last if they would have to do browser engine development themselves.

Until Ladybird is ready (which may take years) for all the Mozilla’s scandals there is not a lot better around.

Because that is literally happening. I did a bit of work developing some radiological models and sample size for healthy vs malignant is usually 4 to 1. Then you modify the error function so that it makes malignants more significant (you are quite often working with datasets as low as 500 images, so 80/20 training validation split means you are left with 80 examples of malignant) which means that as soon as you take a realistic sample where one specific condition maybe appears in 1/100 or 1/1000 the false positives make your model practically useless.

Of course SOTA models are much better, but getting medical data is quite difficult and expensive so there is not a lot of them.

Sure, I wouldn’t want the Linux foundation or other pieces of critical FOSS infrastructure to be routed via Cloudflair. But if I am setting up a web shop for somebody they usually care much more about someone at least pretending to be doing something about a ddos they got hit with that the decentralised internet.

To quote Raytheon “Morals are cool but 90k/year sounds a lot cooler”.

From the part of the Europe where I am from power lines are rarely buried, however fiber is universally buried so I haven’t even considered it could not be.

They aren’t buried? Or do the roots tear the fibre?

As for why graphene uses graphene uses pixels - their FAQ does a good job explaining. As for why google keeps the bootloader opened and maintains (until recently) good enough device-tree support- I would guess mostly historical reasons? Before becoming as mainstream as they are now nexus and pixel phones used to be in part android development devices and certain creature comforts stuck. This seems to be souring though, so some of the people there may be in talks with an OEM for a graphene os specific device[1].

[1]: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/23886-partnership-between-g...

It's an overtly American perspective - perspective of a nation perpetually terrified of repeating the downfall of the Roman Republic.

In reality long periods of political instability make people quite happy to trade freedoms for peace.

One should not forget the reason for this growth though - the issues with privacy and users' control of devices on windows go back at least a decade, but most of this time nobody cared. It was only when Microsoft locked a lot of old computers out of Windows 11, Windows 11 proved a buggy slow mess, the google search results went down the toilet and the amount of adds on YouTube increased several times did people start to talk about "de-googling" and moving to Linux.

People are switching to Linux now because it works better. The privacy is still a nice-to-have bonus.

In some sense of the word “manufacturing” china has several thousand years of experience in silk production. It also has - and had for much of it’s history - a stable government overseeing a high order society. The situation makes a lot more sense if we stop thinking about “the rise” of china and more “return to the historical norm”. There are a lot of other countries with cheap labour and governments desiring to industrialise that have achieved nothing like china did.

They do sell risc development boards- i hope that either that becomes mature or a more efficient arm soc becomes an option.

What does it matter if they have understanding of the underlying language or not? Heck, do humans even have the "understanding of the underlying language". What does that even mean?

It's a model. It either predicts usefully or not. How it works is mostly irrelevant.

Most of the value I got from google was just becoming aware that something exists. LLM-s do far better in this regard. Once I know something exists it's usually easy enough to use traditional search to find official documentation or a more reputable source.

Kinematics is deceptively hard and at least evolutionary took a lot longer to develop than language. Low wage physical labor seems easy only because humans are naturally very good at it, and this took millions of years to develop.

The number of edge cases when you are dealing with physical world is several order of magnitudes higher than when dealing with text only and the spacial reasoning capabilities of the current crop of MLLMs are not nearly as good at it as required. And this doesn't even take in to account that now you are dealing with hardware and hardware is expensive. Expensive enough, that even on the manufacturing lines (a more predictable environment than let's say landscaping) automation sometimes doesn't make economic sense.

But Apple ARM chips currently represent most of the laptop and desktop computer market share for ARM processors. Sure, Linux in embedded and semi-embedded capacity works perfectly well with almost all ARM (and even RISC-V) processors, but I doubt most of the people here will be switching to raspberry pi as the daily driver anytime soon.

Hopefully either Asahi support improves in the near future or Snapdragon X Elite support in Linux becomes a bit better.

I played with ebook generation a bunch and find that (at least for English text) around 1B is needed to get something usable emotionally (Chatterbox is 0.5B, Orpheus is 3B).

Reading works of early computer scientists (mathematicians?) like Ada Lovelace or Alan Turing it seems to me that they would be a lot less surprised than some current observers. The idea of artificial mind comes up a lot and they weren't witness to 30 years of slow and uninspiring NLP developments.

All these jobs are more who you know not what you know. The social network of these people is often an integral part of the work, so they are in a sense much safer than programmers, accountants and artists.

Because this is something to do and solving real problems is way more annoying.

If you work on a smaller cluster in a research institution where in silico work represents only a small portion of the research output the management of the cluster will sometimes be subcontracted out to the general IT support shop. There an administrator - usually with not nearly enough experience will start receiving support requests from users with decades of unix experience which take hours of research to solve. Unable or unwilling (and because inactivity will look bad in the next meeting of department heads) the technician will start working on some "security" matter (so it sounds urgent and important). And this is how elimination of login nodes, cutting internet access to compute nodes, elimination of switches in the offices because they pose security risks (one might be able to connect an additional devices to the network) and implementation of 2FA on pubkey only login servers come in to existence.

Most of the cluster operators are wonderful. But a bad one can make a cluster significantly less useful.

But border checks in the EU are a bit more relaxed. Sometimes they just wave you through - other times you just show your government id (which in many EU countries you are required to carry at all times) and they maybe check the car boot.

The border is still very much open.