skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're not the only ones on that track:

https://tsubame-bhb.co.jp/en/

But I do think the name NitroVolt is a little unfortunate because there is also a much more speculative (TRL 3) methodology in development which dispenses with fuel altogether to perform the reaction:

N2 + 12 OH- >> 2 NO3- + 6 H2O + 10 e-

...effectively producing nitrate directly from nitrogen with electricity. So I clicked expecting to see that, but it's still years to decades away.
Stupid question - why not just protect cables with anchored mines? Of course, publicly declaring the minefields.
One problem I had today with alias is that I cannot run, e.g. `timeout 10 my_alias` where `my_alias` is the alias. Does anyone know if this is possible to achieve with an alias?
Thiel is remarkably spot-on about a lot of things. He seems to be early in on every major economic, political and cultural trend.
Are there examples of non-spaghetti react out in the wild?
> Saying quaternions require thinking in 4 dimensions seems like a lie with no proof.

How could one even subject a statement like that to proof? If you insist that you thought about quaternions without thinking in 4D, and the author insists that you're just so used to thinking in 4D that you didn't even notice it, then who's to arbitrate that dispute?

(I'm sensitive to these issues because I'm a mathematician of the "visualizing 4D is just visualizing n dimensions and setting n = 4" variety, so I have no idea when I'm particularly thinking in 4, or any other specific number, of dimensions ….)
That's a really nice way to visualize how modern human knowledge is extended through scientific efforts. Thanks for sharing! (thanks also to the GP who introduced the concept)
You are just bought into the propaganda. It's unfortunate but there is no point to a real discussion with someone as bought in as you.
Citibank's $81 Trillion Error
All evidence points to the spying profits to not be returned to the user via lower prices.
That's the current "international order", represented by the UN security council. Borders stay where they are, except for: nuclear powers get to invade whoever they want, WITHOUT using nuclear weapons (and other nuclear powers get to support the invaded country with non-nuclear weapons). Exceptions can be granted by the UN security council, taking the veto system into account (so not for Ukraine)

It doesn't matter what I propose or not, this is the only international order we have, and the best one that has ever existed. And yes, I will agree with what Einstein said, namely that he's extremely disappointed in it.
> Regardless of your feelings about Elon, what would the strategic implications for the US vs Russia and China be minus SpaceX?

I don’t give a rat. I don’t need or want America to be the numba one nation ever. Doesn’t matter to me. I’d rather the USA take care of its citizens.

> Imagine California without Silicon Valley and you imagine it without billionaires.

This sounds like heaven.
i don't know about your city, but doesn't happen in any in the uk.
Good point, I forgot about that. Maybe it just got really delayed in production.
I live in Sweden, our culture does not require anyone to be having fun.

Lagom; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagom
Maybe .1% of tasks need this RAM, why are they charging so much?
Honest feedback request: how can I be more explicit when noting a fact without connotation or judgment?
Russia has been waging a hybrid warfare campaign against Europe for a while now. Of course Europe is still in denial.
Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence therefore it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations & collisions of her friendships, or enmities.

Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, Rivalship, Interest, Humour or Caprice?
I don't think the problem with Thiel is a lack of intelligence. Stupid people don't usually become a menace on a national (or indeed now, global) scale. May terrorize their household or maybe close neighbours, but don't have lots of reach beyond that.
I don't have a problem with billionaires per se, but I do have a problem with them being able to spend unlimited amounts of money to influence politics and undermine our very system of government.
Folks give mimes a hard time. Too many haters! I think they are honest and pure, distilling all the noise into simple form and function.

And, you never hear one complaining.
> NFS originally stood for "No File Security"

I often heard a different "F" word in that acronym in place of "File".
Here's some shorter reporting for you if that's what you want:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/a-timeline-of-cultlike-z...

https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/02/15/northern-california-z...
Guantanamo bay man. That’s a camp. They tortured people using something called extraordinary rendition.

Civilization is the same everywhere. Utopia can’t exist because of fundamental aspects of human nature.

I think the real difference between the US and China is that the US is sort of delusional. They hide the truth of themselves and live under a mirage of moral idealism while Chinese people are fully aware of the moral issues with their own government.

A good example is you. You’re well aware of Guantanamo bay and extraordinary rendition. Your delusion just prevents you from thinking about it.
Comparison between Mailcow and Mox:

Mailcow (from https://docs.mailcow.email/getstarted/prerequisite-system/#m...):

A single SOGo worker can acquire ~350 MiB RAM before it gets purged. The more ActiveSync connections you plan to use, the more RAM you will need. A default configuration spawns 20 workers.
*RAM usage examples*
A company with 15 phones (EAS enabled) and about 50 concurrent IMAP connections should plan 16 GiB RAM.
6 GiB RAM + 1 GiB swap are fine for most private installations while 8 GiB RAM are recommended for ~5 to 10 users.

Mox:

I checked with htop, and my Mox process currently takes <100 MB.
It's not soldered, it's _on the package_ with the SoC.
Because we don't care to anymore. We don't want to be world policeman anymore. Take care of your problems yourself.
Not sure what this is tweaking (I'll check) but this does not seem to affect the described behaviour.. PgUp/Down does nothing - with and without shift - and mousewheel still just scrolls thru shell comand history and I need to use Ctrl-B ] to get into session output history..
yes, I've done basically this, but... gee is `foo` an alias or... did I upgrade it to a function?

and maybe it's in neither my `functions` nor `aliases` file. Maybe it's in my `scm` file, or ... Oh!

I remember, it's in my `prompt` file because I add SCM info to my prompt and this function injects the segment of the SCM url I'm after into my PS1 variable...
zsh for me

~ ▸ which k

k: aliased to kubectl
This is something I've never seen. `which` (at least on the hosts I currently have access to) is its own binary `/usr/bin/which` and unrelated to the shell and its aliases or abbreviations.

`type` is a builtin on both fish and bash though, and does resolve aliases.

[edit] TIL: `zsh` has its own `which`.
to me, it sounds like a made up scenario. Are there actually any such cases of printers being destroyed by third party ink? Even then, you could say the warranty is void if the printer is damaged because of the ink rather than across the board. But it sounds like just navelgazing "what ifs" to me rather than a practical concern
I guess it may be possible that a printer exploit could be used to then exploit devices using it to print but yeah that's probably stretching it.
New Concurrency Stuff with 6.1
You know that memory can be "easily" de-soldered and soldered at home?

The issue is availability of chips and most likely you have to know which components to change so the new memory is recognised. For instance that could be changing a resistor to different value or bridging certain pads.
Maybe the "Enterprise-grade" printer that costs twice as much and doesn't do the annoying things. Like how Enterprise versions of Windows let you disable certain stuff.
Is this a matter of replacing remote sensing with a commercial provider?
Memes are a key tool for extremist communities and conspiracy theories
819GB/s bandwidth...

what's the point of 512GB RAM for LLMs on this Mac Studio if the speed is painfully slow?

it's as if Apple doesn't want to compete with Nvidia... this is really disappointing in a Mac Studio. FYI: M2 Ultra already has 800GB/s bandwidth
I find VS Code to be unmanageable for anything beyond a medium sized project. Maybe the LSPs I use are to be blamed, but I find nvim less problematic in this regard.
He makes noises about 'saving money' but that's just his publicist.

He's about removing oversight, erasing safeguards, circumventing obstacles to rich people's unrestricted exploitation of America.

In that light, everything makes sense.
So weird they released the Mac Studio with an M4 Max and M3 Ultra.

Why? They have too many M3 chips on stock?
Unwise. You don't want to bring it to the basilisk's attention that you know about the basilisk, just in case this lot are right ;)
Leon has tons of influence unfortunately all over, so yes it’s tantamount to interference. South African citizen shouldn’t have any say in politics outside of South Africa.
that was “bitter lesson” in action.

for example there are clever ways of rewarding all the steps of a reasoning process to train a network to “think”. but deepseek found these don’t work as well as much simpler yes/no feedback on examples of reasoning.
Rockstor: Open-source multi-arch NAS Built on OpenSUSE
For those preferring text, transcript at:

<https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/opinion/ezra-klein-podcas...>

Archive: <https://archive.is/274q9>
That's commercial email. Of course you get flagged for spam. Use a service for that kind of thing.

Personal/private/family email can be easily self-hosted. You just need to know a few things to get it set up properly.
You can say the same about GPU clock speed as well…
"low quality substitute" and "effortless" are value judgements on your behalf. Many made similar judgements about DAWs and VSTs. And that is your right. But not everyone sees it in the same way - for some generative models are opening up a new world of possibilities.

I agree that the slot machine pull of current models is tedious and boring. I look forward to models/systems which better facilitate more creative control, directed exploration and iterative refinement.
This is exactly why I asked for credible sources. This man never got any jail time (even a cursory search of the article you linked shows that), if anything this stunt made his youtube career take off.

"Meechan was sentenced to a fine of £800, with no prison sentence." i mean his video probably made more money than that...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/count-dankula-na...
I regret to inform you that war does in fact happen. In fact it happens quite frequently
Probably on package at best
Those videos are amplified by russian bots, but it doesn't make them any less true.
A lot of Russian men did flee, but they no longer conscript, while Ukraine still does. And Ukraine forces men into vans to send them to the frontlines. Russia just keeps increasing the pay.

Ukraine had to close borders to men because so many were trying to flee. Millions of Ukrainians sought refuge throughout Europe.
I'd rather be the guy worried about guys like Thiel than the one who spent the last ten years scared of college kids and "culture."

But yeah, to be neither sounds nice too!
It is exactly the opposite. Every computer architecture in production addresses memory in the powers of two.

SI has no business in memory size nomenclature as it is not derived from fundamental physical units. The whole klownbyte change was pushed through by hard drive marketers in 1990s.
The thing is that people like Thiel are actually quite smart. The problem is that people really overrate “smartness”. Smart people are often dumb as hell.
And what was happening then? In 1916 a socialist got 6% of the vote for president (by 1920 he was in prison, but still got 3% of the vote). You had the green corn rebellion, 1919 bombings, Seattle general strike of 1919, Boston police strike, steel and coal strikes, Palmer raids, first red scare. Then the 1924 immigration act and creation of the US border patrol (echoes of today), cutting off most European immigration. Then up to 1932 and the Bonus Army and sut down strikes and New Deal overwhelmingly affirmed in the 1936 election.

There was the same amount of inequality a century ago in the US, so what happened at that time.
Sorry to nitpick but it isn't "Nethanyahu's war" in Gaza any more than it is "Zelenskyy's war" in Ukraine.
To be fair, Java Swing was my first GUI programming experience, and is still the best I had. For Desktop, fast iteration, no budget, and works anywhere, it's basically Swing or Electron.
It's not in denial, rather Kissinger's problem seem to not have been solved.

Henry Kissinger: "Who do I call if I want to call Europe?"

The irony of Trump being in power is that this might just happen during his term. I really hope so.
I am in no way a “car guy” but I’ve always thought that the early to mid 1980s BMWs were beautiful. I don’t have the kind of budget (or garage space) to own a car that isn’t a daily driver, but if I did I think I’d look for a 1980s 3 or 5 series.
https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1992ASPC...26..599W

This is why.
It depends on who wins the war and on which terms. Examples: after a surrender you better have to buy anything from the winner at the price made by the winner. After a stalemate you buy somewhere else.
Lots of AI HW is focused on RAM (512GB!). I have a cost-sensitive application that needs speed (300+ TOPS), but only 1GB of RAM. Are there any HW companies focused on that space?
Like all intel/amd integrated graphics that use the systems ram as vram?
React + Docusaurus

Netlify & Cloudflare

D3

Python (to generate Markdown files)
Very secure, too. You get all the insecurity of automated use of PGP combined with the insecurity of using email protocols.
Yeah, or just leaving whatever it is you're trying to learn for your subconscious to process while you do other stuff.

I've found myself having a lot easier time to learn difficult new concepts by (somewhat counterintuitively) stop trying to learn it for a week or two, then come back to it, and suddenly it's a lot easier to grasp, even if I haven't consciously thought about it since I left it.
If I said anything which is wrong then I would be sorry, but I didn't so I apologize for nothing. The conversation was destined to go as I outlined, so I short circuited it.

If you think my comment constitutes an apology for the attention whoring researchers and/or their PR departments do, you're mistaken. My comment is a weary moan about the repetitive nature of internet discourse.
This is a "we never went to the moon" type of conspiracy, to many things would have to fit perfectly for it to make sense

It's much more likely that he his completely incompetent and inapt, espacially if he gets his advices from Musk and Vance
Please don't use AI images in JOSM
The narrower the niche, the more you can charge.
Function Calling Guide: Gemini 2.0 Flash
Too bad it lacks even the streaming mode SVE2 found in M4 cores. If only Apple would provide a full SVE2 implementation to put pressure on ARM to make it non-optional so AArch64 isn't effectively restricted to NEON for SIMD.
Calling everything that doesn't paint Ukraine in a good light "Russian propaganda" is tiring.

Any forced conscription is immoral. Do you think forcing American men to go and die in Vietnam was morally just?
Having that power is inseparable from being a billionaire
Agreed the mechanism is just practical and robust engineering.

The only problem is the closed source drivers that could use it at any time.
??? The previous argument was on the pace of boom and bust cycles. This argument is on their existence.

We don't even have the same kinds of boom and bust cycles. There is no dustbowl, and we've recovered from incredible calamites well compared to the disasters in the past. Spain hasn't ended up destroying its entire wealth by finding too much wealth for example.

I'm making the mistake of getting into detail with a point that is so out of bounds, its in "not even wrong" territory.
It's really unfortunate that GPUs aren't fully customizable daughterboards, isn't it.
True, but I think that the author did not mean this as a real useful example.

At least for myself, the main benefit of aliases is not to abbreviate the command name, but to change the default command-line options.

I strongly dislike the default command-line options of most UNIX utilities, e.g. cp, mv, rm and the like, so I never invoke them directly, but only through aliases that use what I consider to be the correct default options (for instance I consider that the default for any kind of copy command must be to make an exact copy of the source, instead of losing any part of the original information).
A server with 512GB of high-bandwidth GPU addressable RAM in a server is probably a six figure expenditure. If memory is your constrain, this is absolutely the server for you.

(sorry, should have specified that the NPU and GPU cores need to access that ram and have reasonable performance). I specified it above, but people didn't read that :-)
It's only true for proprietary software, which actively prevents users from studying it. Especially when the trust in company plunges due to the enshittification, https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/26/ursula-franklin/ and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43243075
> right up until that happens the community mantra will be: what we have right now is perfect.

Where is this mantra emanating from, exactly? Go officially became community driven in 2017. If the community didn't seek this, nobody, especially not the core team, would be working on it. Actions certainly do not support your idea.

> there are still a lot of holdouts who argue it wasn’t necessary.

Of course. Obviously it isn't necessary, or even beneficial, for all programming problems. The software industry is quite broad and developers are working on all kinds of different things. One is only going to speak from their own experience. It is all they know. And I expect error handling is contentious in much the same way because of it being something that crosses many different types of programming areas in different ways.

In fact, despite what may seem contrary to what I said earlier, there are classes of of software problems where you do think about errors differently. For example, letting the program close with a message and letting a human deal with whatever went wrong is a perfect solution to many error-related problems and language constructs that make that easy is wonderful. In those cases the fancy error handling semantics are quite appreciated.

Naturally, my assertion that something like "if err != nil" being the best we've got comes from the type of software I normally find myself needing to write. If you work on different types of problems, you're bound to have a different perspective. Expecting to find agreement here is much like expecting basketball players and baseball players to find agreement about what kind of ball they should share. But there is no need to.
They update the Studio to M3 Ultra now, so M4 Ultra can presumably go directly into the Mac Pro at WWDC? Interesting timing. Maybe they'll change the form factor of the Mac Pro, too?

Additionally, I would assume this is a very low-volume product, so it being on N3B isn't a dealbreaker. At the same time, these chips must be very expensive to make, so tying them with luxury-priced RAM makes some kind of sense.
These people hear a big number going to a person they are told to hate and automatically think it's fraud and waste. Simply put, anything I don't agree with is bad and needs to be cut. That's the whole philosophy.
>I had read somewhere that the interposer that enabled this for the M1 chips where not available.

With all my love and respect for "Apple rumors" writers; this was always "I read five blogposts about CPU design and now I'm an expert!" territory.

The speculation was based on the M3 Maxes die shots not having the interposer visible, which... implies basically nothing whether that _could have_ been supported in an M3 Ultra configuration; as evidenced by the announcement today.
Jeff Bezos brings Amazon work culture to Blue Origin
because that's how much its worth
Well, no, when someone says "I think A", the onus is on them to try to prove A true. And in trying to do so, you might have found out why A is false.
Yeah VRAM option is good (if it performs well), just sad we'd have to drop 10K to access it tied to a prev gen M3 when they'll likely have M5 by the end of the year.

Hard to drop that much cash on an outdated chip.
Very much agree. No worries, I'm open to criticism, and I think politicians should be too! I don't quite agree with all of Bernie's points here, but the campaign financing in particular stood out to me.
It's almost like, in some way, he's part of a shadowy cabal of people who are making these things happen by spending money through Super-PACs and influencers to spread ideas.
I thought so too when they launched the M1, but I soon got corrected.

The memory bus is the same as for modules, it's just very short. The higher end SoCs have more memory bandwidth because the bus is wider (i.e. more modules in parallel).

You could blame DDR5 (who thought having a speed negotiation that can go over a minute at boot is a good idea?), but I blame the obsession with thin and the ability to overcharge your customers.

> I've never seen a GPU with replaceable RAM

I still have one :) It's an ISA Trident TVGA 8900 that I personally upgraded from 512k VRAM to one full megabyte!!!
seriously why do people get so mad that a rapper can't release such classics like "Mein Kampf mixtapes" or "A Nazi goes to Afrika" in the country that birthed the guy who destroyed the world. (I know why they get mad)
Exactly. How hard would it have been to include the two words "gum arabic" in the title in the first place?
Because the minority that needs that much RAM can't work without it.

In the media composing world they use huge orchestral templates with hundreds and hundreds of tracks with millions of samples loaded into memory.
> What always surprises me is how "sleep" is the ingredient I need here. Yes repetition helps. But space out the repetition with sleep and "woah! i get it!" is often uttered.

I really relate to this. In fact, a lot of times, when working on a difficult problem, I’ll intentionally go take a nap when I feel stuck, and more often than not, I’ll wake up feeling like the problem is much easier than I thought before my nap. I can’t explain why it works so well—it just does!
A beefy GPU which can't hold models in VRAM is of very limited use. You'll see 16 GB of VRAM on gamer Nvidia cards, the RTX 5090 being an exception with 32 GB VRAM. The professional cards have around 96 GB of VRAM.

The thing with these Apple chips is that they have unified memory, where CPU and GPU use the same memory chips, which means that you can load huge models into RAM (no longer VRAM, because that doesn't exist on those devices). And while Apple's integrated GPU isn't as powerful as an Nvidia GPU, it is powerful enough for non-professional workloads and has the huge benefit of access to lots of memory.
I think the answer is because they can ( there is a market for it ). The benefit to a crazy person like me that with this addition, I might be able to grab 128gb version at a lower price.