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China's CXMT Is Set to Challenge DRAM Incumbents

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3 points·by ma2kx·14 gün önce·0 comments

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ma2kx
·14 gün önce·discuss
The "companions" page is really disturbing. Two dozen of slightly different animated avatars doing exactly the same gestures while starring at you.
ma2kx
·17 gün önce·discuss
I would say that depends of the company's legal form. If you have an "AG" or "GmbH" you get double taxed anyway, one time the company and than again your salary. So if you have an Estonian equevilant of a GmbH/AG your company will get taxed by Estonia and your salary by Germany. The Estonian E-Residency Website at least confirms my assumption but in case of Germany I could be very well wrong of course...

https://www.e-resident.gov.ee/understanding-cross-border-tax...
ma2kx
·18 gün önce·discuss
Yes, I see scaling as the biggest problem. Instead of developing one service for potentially 7 billion users, you're building 10 services for maybe 1 to 10 million users each. It would probably come down to patching together open-source solutions like Keycloak, Immich, FreeTube, Flarum, etc. I find atproto, on which Bluesky/Eurosky are based, particularly interesting.

I'm not so sure whether bullying is really a big problem. In such a regional environment, it makes little sense to appear "anonymous." You might not want your name and address publicly available, but if you comment on the popular parties and clubs, neighborhood happenings, etc., people who know you in real life will naturally recognize you. Ultimately, it comes down to how the local population operates.
ma2kx
·18 gün önce·discuss
What keeps going through my mind regarding this topic is that we have Instagram for pictures, YouTube for videos, Reddit as a forum, Twitter/Bsky as a microblogging service, and so on. But what if we focused on locality again? What if each city/region had its own virtual meeting place for pictures, videos, forums, microblogging, and so forth? I don't mean a "super app" that simply divides things regionally, but rather that each regional center builds its own Hangout.

I realize that this sounds fantastical, and I don't know how something like that could be implemented in the current situation. It's more the idea that while Facebook and similar platforms allow us to see content from people all over the world, we completely miss out on what's happening in our own local area.
ma2kx
·23 gün önce·discuss
Is this also a some kind of a Trojan/malware attack?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48594733

https://pypi.org/project/prylint/

> A Rust reimplementation of pylint that produces byte-for-byte identical output — 15–2300× faster (median ~85×).

> prylint is not "inspired by" pylint. [...] Where pylint has bugs, prylint reproduces them. Where pylint crashes, prylint reports the same crash message.
ma2kx
·23 gün önce·discuss
> A Rust reimplementation of pylint that produces byte-for-byte identical output — 15–2300× faster (median ~85×).

> prylint is not "inspired by" pylint. [...] Where pylint has bugs, prylint reproduces them. Where pylint crashes, prylint reports the same crash message.

This looks very strange to me. There's no paper or explanation as to why the output should be identical to the real Pylint. Looking at GitHub, all the commits are by Claude, and otherwise, adamraudonis doesn't seem to have any connection to anyone else.

I don't want to accuse anyone of anything unjustly, but this post seems more like a kind of malware SEO. Is this project legit?
ma2kx
·23 gün önce·discuss
It's funny that most countries not even have an E-ID for their human citizen yet Estonia provides them already for AI agents.
ma2kx
·23 gün önce·discuss
Thats just stupid.

- Why should I run it on local hardware when there are already about a dozen US provider available?

- To compare the token usage per task with GLM 5.1 is worthless when GLM 5.1 is unable to do the task.

- Not even z.ai itself runs the model with BF16 weights.

- I couldn't care less how good the model is at drawing a pelican on a bicycle.
ma2kx
·25 gün önce·discuss
Look at it the other way: What did Musk get last Friday? $75B from the SpaceX IPO.

It's almost like giving a toddler $100 in the toy department and seeing what happens next.
ma2kx
·25 gün önce·discuss
I usually forget about my coffee anyway until it's cold.
ma2kx
·30 gün önce·discuss
Meta allowed an LLM to change users email address for a password reset.

Funny times are ahead...
ma2kx
·30 gün önce·discuss
At least he learnt not to provide an LLM presumably unrestricted access to his AWS account.
ma2kx
·geçen ay·discuss
I would say you Americans are more into gambling while in Europe fan violence is a bigger topic. Like just last week, after PSG won the Champions League title, there were cars burning in Paris:

https://apnews.com/article/psg-arsenal-paris-budapest-champi...
ma2kx
·geçen ay·discuss
I don't think the unstructured format directly contributes to the playing strength but rather attracts more player to play in a local club. Even in the town where I life with less than 100'000 people there are 10 clubs, 168 teams and nearly 3000 (mostly semi-professional) soccer player. Of course not all of them are young anymore but extrapolate this numbers to the population of a country it becomes a huge talent pool available for the major clubs.

And compared to the US there is a far more dense competition as any state has its own national league and on top are the Champions, Europe and Conference league. So every major soccer team plays in a national and a europene league at the same time and thus the players get of course much more routine.

But hey, we suck at baseball and basketball.
ma2kx
·geçen ay·discuss
They don't even implement their logic gates within the normal game mechanics but with scripting some bit-goats in the editor. So the AoE2 Engine is just a graphical representation of their script.

But my favorite is this one: "Corollary 1 (AoE II is Turing-Complete). Let I be an instance of AoE II with two players p0, p1. Assume p0 has two markets, a town centre, a trade cart, six villagers, and five farms; while p1 has a scout unit and only attacks p0’s buildings. Then if I has no time or size limits and the terrain allows for buildings everywhere, the game session in I is Turing-complete."

Why being so explicit about the setup with no further explanation? Isn't it anymore turing complete with seven villagers and six farms? Is it even possible that a player can trade with himself?
ma2kx
·geçen ay·discuss
All I see is some confusing talk about bit-goats and a player who attacks with his scout while the other trades and builds new buildings. Why does it matter that there is an infinite gold supply if the logic is scripted with bit-goats in the editor anyway? I mean if they mechanic is turing complete thats completely unrelated to how you can script with the editor.
ma2kx
·geçen ay·discuss
Sure, but I don't talk with my coding agent about politics. And its something different to avoid a topic and to deceptively implement a backdoor.
ma2kx
·geçen ay·discuss
Okay, but I don't think Kiriakou would explicitly admit if the US spied specifically on Israel.

I think at most we get a indirect "confession" like Andrew Bustamante gave in some podcasts like here, where he answers to the question if the US spies on the Mossad that everybody spies on everybody and than distract to the case were the US was caught spying on (it's ally) Germany: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZklvHVsaT4

PS: I guess at the end you didn't spy until you were caught spying.
ma2kx
·geçen ay·discuss
Kiriakou also stated several times that the Mossad was known to casually try to recruit CIA agents:

https://youtu.be/R7OWqAgGzwA?t=163
ma2kx
·geçen ay·discuss
I guess Google implements more / stronger guard rails than Alibaba and thus confuses these small models. At least this was my impression with Gemma3 models where it often said that the image contains some nudity / sex scenes and therefore it cannot give a description of the image. Never understood the point of this behavior....