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hovering_noxon Backups Aren't Simple

I like to use ZFS snapshots of running systems and then create and upload the backup from them via the excellent Borgmatic. (I know you can't depend on snapshots for databases and similar, but it's worked until now™.)

hovering_noxon Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class model that runs on a phone

Mixture of Experts is absolutely not what they're describing. MoE has to be one of the most misleadingly named things ever. It's completely confusing as to what it actually is.

hovering_noxon The "Mad Men" in 4K on HBO Max Debacle

Although Stargate SG-1 (1997) was filmed in 16:9 from the outset, earlier seasons were broadcast in 4:3.

hovering_noxon Iroh-blobs

I tried to use Iroh but had a few problems.

It uses a third server to facilitate initial p2p connections but I keep loosing/fail to connect to this server. I don't know if it's because of many restarts during development or something else.

Windows Defender nukes this from orbit, making it nearly impossible to ship to clients in a trusting fashion. But I guess any program which punches through the firewall is suspect.

hovering_noxon Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels

Most Germans would view that as a positive thing. Pushing for nuclear power at this point would be utterly stupid.

hovering_noxon Marines now have an official drone-fighting handbook

lol

hovering_noxon University of Texas-led team solves a big problem for fusion energy

Nobody is building commercial plants any time soon; it's still in the experimental phase, with new discoveries happening almost every month.

I see it similarly to the difference between a car with a combustion engine and an electric one. Combustion engines are fully developed. We're reaching the maximum possible performance and utilisation. It's a dead end. However, with electric cars, for example, new battery development is far from over. E.g sodium batteries.

And just off the top of my head, in fusion, the discovery of better electromagnets, as happened a while back, can quadruple energy output.It's not a dead end, and writing it off would be short-sighted.

hovering_noxon Veloren – Voxel action-adventure role-playing

I hate it so much. Every time I read it, all I can think is "that's a typo."

hovering_noxon Moving away from US cloud services

https://tuta.com/

hovering_noxon Nixiesearch: Running Lucene over S3, and why we're building a new search engine

I would say here: Features

https://quickwit.io/docs/overview/introduction#key-features

hovering_noxon Germany gets informal EU go-ahead to support gas-fired power, sources say

Ah yes, let's solely blame the party for the shut down the previous government ordered.

hovering_noxon Llama 3-V: Matching GPT4-V with a 100x smaller model and 500 dollars

I think CogVLM2 is even better than Intern at OCR (my usecase is extracting information from an invoice)

hovering_noxon Llama3 implemented from scratch

>I personally don't really mind that bit of capitalization that English does. German is much worse.

You misspelled 'better'.

hovering_noxon Is artificial consciousness achievable? Lessons from the human brain

ROFL

hovering_noxon Is artificial consciousness achievable? Lessons from the human brain

Congratulations, you have just invented large language models.

hovering_noxon Llama3 implemented from scratch

Why can the author only write in all lowercase?

hovering_noxon Mistral AI Launches New 8x22B MOE Model

8x7 had 46B or so.

hovering_noxon What I think about when I edit (2019)

> “He laughed with a booming abandon that made the whole restaurant turn around and look.”

Don't the people in the restaurant actually turn around in this sentence, whereas they didn't in the original, because it's just describing a kind of loudness with an example?

> “He laughed with the kind of booming abandon that makes the whole restaurant turn around and look.”

hovering_noxon Kagi Search – Paywalled articles indicator and improved weather widget

I feel like people are sleeping on Kagi FastGPT, its their amazing search combined with their summariser and a llm model that gives me the answers directly without having to search myself.

https://kagi.com/fastgpt

hovering_noxon Steam Deck OLED

If you mean gambling in Counter Strike, at least it's not explicitly aimed at children.

hovering_noxon Thunderbird 115.4.0

hovering_noxon Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

>user tracking

You can use Google anonymously but you have to log in and leave your payment data with Kagi.

EDIT: apparently they accept crypto

hovering_noxon Huazhong University demonstrates LK-99 diamagnetism

When the magnet is moved below the flake, the flake stands up, meaning it is being repelled. This is the case for every magnetic material, but what they do in the video is flipping the magnet around so that poles are reversed, a normal magnet would be attracted = flake flat on the surface but instead it is also standing up. This shows that the material is a diamagnet at least = it always creates an inverted magnetic field to the magnet.

So here's why this could be big: Not all diamagnets are SC but all SC materials are diamagnets.

hovering_noxon Huazhong University demonstrates LK-99 diamagnetism

Basically, just push more and more electricity into a coil of superconductive wire. Because the wire has no resistance, the electricity just loops around forever.

hovering_noxon Superconductor news: What’s claimed, and how strong the evidence seems to be

Much of the power consumed, and heat dissipated, by conventional processors comes from moving information between logic elements rather than the actual logic operations. Because superconductors have zero electrical resistance, little energy is required to move bits within the processor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_computing#Fund...

hovering_noxon Superconductor news: What’s claimed, and how strong the evidence seems to be

Here's a few from the top of my head:

- A global power net. No solar power during the night? Just produce it on the other side of the planet.

- A superconducting computer. Less resistance when pushing bits around = 500x less power consumption.

- A Superconducting magnetic battery. Store power indefinitely with high efficiency.

hovering_noxon GPT-4 details leaked?

There is a mod for Skyrim where someone piped together multiple AI models. It goes like this: You speak into your microphone and ask a NPC something. This gets transcribed (voice to text) by Whisper AI. This transcript gets send to eg. GPT-4 with a pre-prompt engineered to give background, current information and the "personality" for the NPC you are talking to. The output of this gets piped back to a Text-to-Speech solution like eleven-labs with the original NPC voice.

hovering_noxon Why does nuclear power plant construction cost so much?

People also seem to forget that the power plants have to be removed after their lifecycle. The safe decommission of a nuclear power plant takes decades and costs billions again.

hovering_noxon Show HN: Image background removal without annoying subscriptions

On their Privacy Policy under Image Processing Records

https://pixian.ai/policies/privacy

hovering_noxon Show HN: Image background removal without annoying subscriptions

>Retention

>Records not associated with an account are deleted or anonymized within a year of creation. Image processing records associated with an account are retained indefinitely.

>We retain them on your behalf so that you can view and download them as you wish, and to provide customer support.

Thank you, but no thank you.