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fulafel

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Energy Strategy: The Road Not Taken? (1976)

energyhistory.yale.edu
3 points·by fulafel·27 giorni fa·1 comments

Pipelight

pipelight.dev
3 points·by fulafel·2 mesi fa·0 comments

Porting microgpt to Futhark, Part I

kmjn.org
2 points·by fulafel·2 mesi fa·0 comments

X.1095 – Entity authentication service for pet animals using telebiometrics

itu.int
1 points·by fulafel·3 mesi fa·0 comments

Next-Token Predictor Is an AI's Job, Not Its Species

astralcodexten.com
1 points·by fulafel·4 mesi fa·0 comments

comments

fulafel
·12 ore fa·discuss
For many use cases you'll do fine without the libvirt tower of babel, with just the qemu/kvm cli.
fulafel
·l’altro ieri·discuss
A dedicated server is a bunch of risk and skilled administration work compared to using a container platform or serverless. Many more people have been pwned by consequences of neglected server administration than managed serverless/container platform VM escapes.
fulafel
·l’altro ieri·discuss
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fulafel
·l’altro ieri·discuss
Fortunately there are also many other memory safe languages to choose from.
fulafel
·4 giorni fa·discuss
EU's leadership doesn't have much power that way, the EU is a thin layer on the countries.

In the US the federal government has much more power but nobody is attributing the term good fortunes of the AI industry to the recent federal policy there. (There's long term stuff that does make a difference in hoovering up the global R&D talent and concentrating capital, but that's a different kettle)

EU budget is about 1% of the GDP of the countries (from https://commission.europa.eu/topics/budget_en)

There's very little betting on any particular AI models going on by the commission/EP. The Pleias article claims a 2020 eurocrat whitepaper determined how things go, but that's fantastical.
fulafel
·4 giorni fa·discuss
I get where you're coming from but I'd argue the kvm group is still better even when you automatically give all human users membership. You can then have less-privileged accounts for service roles, for example nginx doesn't need kvm acccess.
fulafel
·4 giorni fa·discuss
Depends on your setup, you can have per-app permissions too. Flatpak, snap etc do this for desktop apps, Android does it, containerized server apps do it. But of course if it turns out you're running malware, you're going to have problems when it transpires that you've delegated something valuable to it, even if it doesn't break out of its permission set.
fulafel
·4 giorni fa·discuss
Linux controls access using configurable file permissions, so this has a false premise. The better question is doesn't RHEL really use a kvm group to limit access like other distributions? If so, why?
fulafel
·6 giorni fa·discuss
The others above USA are tiny countries. USA is at 14, Saudi Arabia at 20, EU at 5, China at 9. The reductions in absolute tonnage for USA are big because there's a lot of low hanging fruit left. And it's partly a petrostate.
fulafel
·8 giorni fa·discuss
Argument against: The system can't guarantee the message queue receives it, if the transaction is considered finished after the outbox commit.

Scenario: The system turns out to have a data dependent bug that prevents that message from being received by the message broker.
fulafel
·11 giorni fa·discuss
BeOS was marketed, there was an attempt. But it was a harder sell. Plan 9 on the other hand was was kept as a research project only and was restrictively licensed in the 90s when it was actively developed.
fulafel
·12 giorni fa·discuss
I looked it up: 512 GB/s for the two node AMD cluster, Macbook Pro with M5 CPU has 153 GB/s. But you can get faster Macs with M5 Pro or M5 Max.
fulafel
·13 giorni fa·discuss
https://ai-2027.com/ has the following scenario predicted for mid-2026:

"[CCP General Secretary] finally commits fully to the big AI push he had previously tried to avoid. He sets in motion the nationalization of Chinese AI research"

Seem they only got the country wrong.
fulafel
·13 giorni fa·discuss
Kind of.. but at the same time:

A nation state will fail at most things, because there's no budget, and there's commercial pressure, democratic pressure etc.

One of the few things to make it work is lack of competition. Iran: they have a nuclear program because they can't buy what they want from the market.
fulafel
·13 giorni fa·discuss
How are the memory bandwidths specs of Macbooks vs this?
fulafel
·14 giorni fa·discuss
Also you've been able to run container images in Lambda for some years now.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/images-create.h...
fulafel
·16 giorni fa·discuss
Current accelerators (TPUs, various onchip NPUs) are something close to this. Systolic array is the estabilished computer architecture term for flowing data from computation to computation without the overhead of a register file or von Neumann bottleneck.
fulafel
·16 giorni fa·discuss
Free market would of course allow bootleg DVD sales, state regulation that gives monopoly rights restrict it.

In the context of LLMs, monopoly rights haven't been created (yet anyway).

Fun fact: for a period the US (or american colonies) didn't have copyright but Europe did, so people could copy and sell English (and other) books for free.
fulafel
·16 giorni fa·discuss
Weights are just data a server, so we don't know outsiders have access (either via breakin or arrangement).
fulafel
·17 giorni fa·discuss
If you look at various ways to slice the voters and look for over 50% leave voters you get arbitrarily many "people with X attribute" factors. Being in England, having lower education, being white, each age group over 45, being christian, etc etc. But it's misleading towards those groups as well, since it's usually just somewhat over 50% so it's misleading to characterise those groups of people through this.