sigmoid10

Compared to x86, which is wholly owned by an American duopoly and needs licensing to produce legally, boosting RISC-V is a major step towards chip independence for Europe. With the current state of the US it almost seems a necessity. The only downside here is that it didn't happen sooner.

All models are inherently biased by their creators, intentionally and unintentionally. The only thing we can do to mitigate this, is to keep the models and the ecosystem as open and as interchangeable as possible. This must be the prime directive for humanity right now if we don't want to fall into some silicon valley tech mogul cultist dystopia. SamA and Dario work directly against that future. They are therefore the most imminent threat to humanity.

>the people holding the bag saw their money find its way to the pockets of those who got rich

This is the key issue. Crypto by itself created little to no actual additional value. Especially when it devolved into just another centralized currency with less government oversight. So the whole thing was a zero-sum game. People only got rich because they made others poor.

>Estimated total impact: ~$6.3B, with ~$3B frozen on-chain so far, in coordination with our blockchain partners

I always find it amusing to read this. Why would you even bother with a decentralized currency that can move freely across the globe when some centralized institutions can always interfere in the way legacy banks used to do with your money? Either they are misguiding you about the core value of their product or their ability to execute traditional interventions in cases of theft. You can't have the conveniences of both at the same time.

Basically the question for any executable code (or even just any data) that you let on your machine and which did not go through independent vetting processes. The question you need to ask is if the benefit (getting rid of an annoying popup) is worth the risk of a distribution method that is trivial to compromise.

With the current admin, this will never get pursued by the feds.

It has already become irrelevant to anyone paying attention. Raw scores at published benchmarks mean next to nothing in modern use. They are either gamed to hell or unsolved to the point where differences can be explained by randomness. Speed, cost per token, tokens per task and hallucination levels are the useful axes you can compare along these days if you're not doing scientific frontier level research.

Huggingface chose not to pursue legal action under computer fraud laws this time, but I'm sure one day they will sting a hornets nest with this behaviour. They will get sued into oblivion and then we will probably see common law emerge to hold AI users accountable. Or not, in which case all hell will break lose.

You can do so and that's fine, but it doesn't change the fact that it's stupid to buy a crazy expensive GPU and then only run it in a limited way because of some personal preference in an unrelated field.

Everything that runs with such a major performance decrease will also run fine on a cheap phone. If this is your normal use case that's fine, but it simply means you also didn't need such a powerful Iphone in the first place. It's like buying an RTX5090 and then playing 2048 in a browser and saying you don't understand why people always install Nvidia drivers.

Breaking is not the issue (at least most of the time), but the performance loss is everywhere.

This is an important distinction. Quantum mechanics as a framework is the correct description of reality as far as we can measure (excluding some loopholes like superdeterminism). This is as close to the foundation or "god" or whatever you want to call it as it gets. If you look at specific quantum model descriptions (like the Schrödinger equation), we know they are not complete. Even relativistic Schrödinger or the Dirac equation are still not the full picture, because we don't fully understand how gravity fits into this on short length scales. But the current principles like Bell's theorem exist independently with all their implications on reality and they will not go away, no matter what else we discover.

I guess you don't browse any modern webpages? Otherwise I can't explain your perspective. You basically lose up to 95% of performance in anything remotely resembling a JS heavy web app. So it would run the same as on a cheap Android phone.

These are still 1-click, not zero click. So the best protection you can have is not opening unknown files that were sent to you. That being said, lockdown mode blocks all sorts of message attachments. From the videos it look like they are using pdfs in the messaging vector, which would get blocked too. So you would be safe-ish. But lockdown mode is so restrictive that it doesn't really make sense for most users. Or at least it doesn't make sense to buy a $1500 phone and then limit yourself to something you could have gotten for $50.

Like what? And how do you get something that you want out of somebody who doesn't care or understand what you want? He may see you like a fat gorilla asking Einstein to fetch more bananas. Or maybe you can't even hold his attention long enough to formulate your desires. Most people have never interacted with this kind of Autism. In any result oriented environment where the results are governed by others, this person is essentially worthless to you.

>Otherwise it can be manipulated by mitm or a bad actor with the keys.

That is not true. Or at least there are no known attack vectors. Modern privacy coins would not work otherwise.

That's the easy part. These people succeed almost by default. But they are pretty rare. The rest will have to compartmentalize.

You don't get to "know" people that way though if you're not at least somewhat socially functional. Having a contact on linkedin who's hiring doesn't really count in that scenario.

It was an explanation for why we see this allegedly insane behaviour. History is full of stuff that we consider ridiculously unsafe today with the benefit of hindsight. But people were not that different. They just didn't know better.

Usually, any functioning government that wants their country to keep existing would never let normal people anywhere close to such a remote. You wouldn't want your nuclear power plant to be accessible like a music festival either. But governments are slow and people were also allowed to freely buy and own uranium as late as the 1970s.

Have you ever tried to hire such a person? I can guarantee you it is not as easy as you might think to get something useful out of them. Normal smart people simply can't deal with others who have severe Asperger's (or any Autism spectrum disorder for that matter). The only place I could see for those people is in a back room in some university where they get to research whatever they want with no teaching duty. But these positions are ultra-rare and you basically have to be super accomplished before you are even considered.

You could say being good at 1 and 2 with people who are worse than you at 3 is basically a guarantee to success in almost any field. That's the kind of person who diffuses to the top, even if they are just slightly above average at 3.

I've seen people like this before. The problem is not the job market, which merely happens to be fucked as well right now. But with a summa cum laude degree from Rice and a PhD from Princeton you usually knock at any big firm remotely interested in STEM and you will at least land an interview with someone important. There is only one reason you can fail from that point: You're a complete social inept. A double PhD from Oxford will not save you if you can't hold a conversation. This stuff doesn't matter that much in school, but it is absolute paramount in the real world. To quote the late Professor Winston from MIT: Your success in life will be determined by three things,

1. Your ability to speak.

2. Your ability to write.

3. Your ability to think.

- in that order! If you suck at social communication, you basically have to be an era-defining genius like Newton in the thinking department if you want to make it. And even he almost didn't get his most famous work published if Halley (yes, the guy from the comet) hadn't seen beyond his social quirks and realized his genius.

I agree that convincing the public is another issue. But on a technical level, these problems are solved. See e.g. this implementation: https://github.com/vocdoni/davinci-paper

>I.e., you can have a paperless blockchain solution IFF you abandon vote secrecy. That is a very tough to swallow pill.

This is false. I know this is a common thought here on HN because some formerly popular youtuber did a video about this that was regularly reposted here, but he was wrong in theory back then and it is wrong in practice today. Secrecy and anonymity and verifiability are no longer mutually exclusive as anyone who is well versed in modern cryptography will be able to tell you.

People said the exact same thing about relanding a rocket booster or a daily driver capable EV or about a satellite network large enough to provide low latency high speed internet everywhere on earth. Dude doesn't attract near-infinite investor money because of his looks or his way of talking, but because he actually got things to happen that normal people couldn't even imagine.

I used to watch the Nascar Racers cartoon as a kid. If you haven't, the premise is basically Nascar-like cars but with rocket boosters going around crazy tracks with loopings etc. I unironically believe Elon Musk was motivated by this cartoon. The booster placement looks identical. If we can get something like this in real life, I'd watch it for sure.

The full aerodynamics package version (aka the flying car) is invite only and apparently mostly for show. But the basic suction fan and gas thrusters version for acceleration will definitely make people go crazy on race tracks. Imagine a Top Fuel dragster-like acceleration in a car that can go more than 1000ft. Heck, if they set up a real league with this, it might get me back into watching motorsports for the first time in a decade.

Most studies are actually done by having people just write down what they eat (or even just take a photo) in an app. This stuff is trivial. Applying a dermaroller and scalp products correctly at home is pretty complicated by comparison.

Apart from straight up buying TSMC's or Samsung's fabs I don't see a way of building a vertically integrated high-end chip supply chain for Apple. At least not on timeframes measured below a decade. And on those time frames the current supply issues will probably be resolved by companies who put all their effort into it instead of just tweaking their bottom line.