seems just gossip. Couldn’t have the patience to wade through until a policy difference between Xi and anyone else in Chinese establishment was mentioned. What are the policy differences being explored?
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humanspiral@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private CompanyEnglish
2·6 days agoThe iss is an experiment rather than a commercially justifyable operation. While spacex aims to achieve 200$/kg launch costs, that means 17c/kwh just in launch costs. Space solar and radiator panels are in the $1000/m2 cost.
humanspiral@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private CompanyEnglish
2·7 days agoVery expensive solar and radiative panels. Need 3x radiator area to solar. Also need to launch them
humanspiral@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private CompanyEnglish
271·7 days agoSpace solar panels and datacenters is pure fraud. Merger is purely to ruin one established company with revenue, mostly government funded, with an anchor to sink it, but help mecha hitler control skynet.
humanspiral@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.zip•US | SpaceX seeks FCC nod for solar-powered satellite data centers for AIEnglish
2·9 days agoThis is pure impossibility of ever working relative to soal batteries and hydrogen production on earth. As long as a jurisdiction will permit it.
humanspiral@lemmy.cato
Solarpunk@slrpnk.net•Technology Connections - You are being misled about renewable energy technology.
3·9 days agoRenewables transition needs new distribution. Electric grid system in US especially and west in general has extremely poor supply chain for new transformers. If there is an effort in transmission/distribution expansion, an H2 economy is very competitive to electricity. Delivery by truck is feasible for rural homes. If new electric transmission costs 10c/kwh (existing national average charge is about 8c/kwh), then a $2/kg delivery charge is competitive. Pipelines would be 20c/kg, equivalent to 1c/kwh transmission charges.
Policy supports extortionist monopolists with incumbent climate terrorist fuels, and structurally made to stay that way, until we agree on whether war on Minnesotans is good or bad, and can move on to examining structural corruption issues.
humanspiral@lemmy.cato
Solarpunk@slrpnk.net•Technology Connections - You are being misled about renewable energy technology.
7·10 days agoIt’s the power of a voting class. Origins are geopolitics of 70s oil crisis. Then vote buying of rural areas. Most of the legislative giveaways were titled “clean air something”. There is a food security argument for grains (livestock is a food battery, and ethanol is surplus monetization)
There is a high oil-related cost portion of corn farming. Close to $300 of the $650/acre is fertilizer ($225), tractor fuel, pesticides. The last 4 years of corn farming losses is also during low NG price. The minimal profit before rent-equivalence can go negative at higher NG price, because ethanol is only blended into gasoline when gasoline is expensive, and then corn only bought for cheap when it is not. The US always has a high oil price policy, and geopolitical insecurity to achieve it. Weapons-oil industry is deep state establishment pushing for war and higher oil prices, and more corn helps, and politicians are rewarded with larger bribery war chests.
Energy insecurity for Americans comes from relying on geopolitical manipulated energy subscription to live/operate. Farmers need export markets, which makes it good for them for US to not be hated by all of their markets. US oligarchy is also invested in high electricity prices/profits for incumbents. Datacenter bubble is ideal oligarchism alliance with tech.
The point of my post is that farming/rural areas can be weaned from the oil oligarchy voting block. Much cleaner air argument. Genuine energy security that comes from 0 reliance on future geopolitics/supply chains. Better corn prices if some corn farmers switch to solar. Lower oil prices if less of it is wasted on farming and cars. Lower electricity prices and abundance to fund whatever skynet priority to better kill us all, but without us going broke first.
humanspiral@lemmy.cato
Solarpunk@slrpnk.net•Technology Connections - You are being misled about renewable energy technology.
5·10 days agoty. corrected. original said 630kwh/year
humanspiral@lemmy.cato
Solarpunk@slrpnk.net•Technology Connections - You are being misled about renewable energy technology.
41·11 days agoAlso if making a fuel (that is also key input for local fertilizer production for neighbour farmers) is important, H2 electrolysis at 5c/kwh input makes $3.50/kg H2. equivalent to above 17.5c/kwh EV charging, excluding the battery charger losses. It is 10x cheaper to move by pipe than it is to move electricity by wire, while also doubling as storage, and even better home energy applications by using waste heat for free hot water. H2 has same 2.4x advantage over ethanol cost, but you can produce an unlimited amount to sell to places that need more energy seasonally, or to blast stuff into space.
humanspiral@lemmy.cato
Solarpunk@slrpnk.net•Technology Connections - You are being misled about renewable energy technology.
291·10 days agoundersells the advantage of solar over corn ethanol land use by a lot. At least 2x. Excluding high energy/equipment cost of fermenting ethanol, overstating mileage, and understating EV mileage. The point of ethanol is purely to pay farmers for useless work, but they can make far more with less work from solar. Corn farmers in US have lost money for 4 consecutive years. Excluding land costs, their costs is $650/acre/year, excluding their time/labour. Cashflow per acre $97 @ $4/bushel. At 2.5 hours/day for $30/hour, profit before rent-equivalent drops to $22/acre
In Nebraska, solar costs $1/watt to install (before recent permitting BS). China costs $0.50/w (no tariffs, cheaper construction services/equipment). An acre in Nebraska can hold 400kw of solar, and produce 630k kwh/year (edit: correction). It breaks even at 5c/kwh with 5% financing of whole installation (with system paid off in 25 years, even though it keeps producing) including $4000 O&M costs (high, because its washing dust and leaves 1-2 times per week). Every 1c/kwh revenue higher is $6300/acre profit,
Since ethanol is just a gift to farmers/rural land owners. Giving them 2%/financing rate as the gift and 4c/kwh in revenue is the same profit per acre, and at 5c/kwh, massively higher ($6300) profit. For US car drivers, instead of paying $0.12/mile (a 25mpg gasoline car will use 5.4 gallons ethanol/100 miles at $2.20/gallon). 18c/kwh charging for EV means $0.05/mile. Massive cost reduction already, but tariffs and other BS removal can provide significantly more value for farmers and drivers.
humanspiral@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft lost $357 billion in market cap as stock plunged most since 2020English
2·11 days agoWanting to sell to China just means that demand isn’t exceeding supply, or maybe even that they have access to more supply that they’d use if they could sell to China, which is a massive market. Or even if they don’t have any excess supply, higher demand means they can set higher prices and still expect to sell all inventory.
Nvidia has to sell to a Chinese buyer for 25% more than a US buyer would pay to have equivalent profit. It’s certainly possible that China is willing to pay more than that difference, but US private sector is supposed to be in desperation mode for skynet, in addition to having direct white house access of lobbying against China for mere trinkets in tribute. MSFT and others have the power to tell whitehouse/other republicans that they want to buy the H200s instead, and amplify warmongering BS as the reason. They just don’t want to buy them.
Like the US car companies wanting to sell cars in China doesn’t imply that they are unable to sell cars in the US, it just means they want to sell cars to China and the US.
US car companies are not supply constrained, including some of them with factories in China, and aren’t prohibited from selling all of their cars there if they were competitive. Nvidia has not been making H200s recently. It has astronomical record inventory levels (likely H200s based on lobbying win). Thier H20 cards that they sold to China the last 2 years, are the best value inference cards on ebay from China, but Americans were not allowed to buy them directly. Since about half of Nvidia GPUs are assembled in China, they have 0 problem with black market access to them, and massive secret Singapore customers of Nvidia are likely them directly profiting from Chinese black market with payment to Nvidia instead of pilferage of GPUs. I get that B200s B300s are better value/FLOP than H200s, but H200s could be priced to Americans/colonies on the same/similar $/flop, and if US/MSFT was really supply constrained, they’d buy or lobby government to force Nvidia to sell them at good $/flop. The Nvidia corruption is also likely to create new H200 production making newer GPUs “scarcer”
humanspiral@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft lost $357 billion in market cap as stock plunged most since 2020English
13·11 days agoMicrosoft’s finance chief, Amy Hood, argued that the cloud result could have been higher if it had allocated more data center infrastructure to customers rather than prioritizing its in-house needs.
This is 98% chance a lie. Refusing azure clients wasn’t happening. They are saying the dedicated GPUs to copilot 365/windows/bing, but they would just slow tokens/second delivery or raise prices if they were constrained. Open AI/copilot service is flattening out is the far more likely explanation, and China/Anthropic/Google gaining share is apparent with frontend and LLM innovation.
That said, windows 11 copilot is going at about 7tps on simple queries about its QOS, and slow service of paid models could impact azure. In Nov 25, they did drop big customer volume discounts. There were big price increases earlier in the year, so growth was in part pricing growth, and likely a drop in usage volume from previous quarter, or at least very stable. The AI frenzy, mostly openAI/msft/oracle/coreweave block of absurdly impossible capacity growth depends on keeping up with supposedly massive (token) demand growth. There are still a lot of free alternatives in the space, and app download figures usually accompany free promotional usage of latest breakthrough model (sora2 was free use on release. kilo code this week has free Kimi K2.5. Other coding tools have fully free or generous free tiers)
Overall, this, and highly promotional industry, means its very hard for datacenter/LLMs to meet the hype. Deepseek 4 is hyped as a big leap forward, to be released in a couple of weeks. Everything AI boom is likely a lie, and Nvidia bribing Trump to sell H200s to China, at 25% export tariff, is proof of incapacity or unwillingness of US industry to deploy them.
humanspiral@lemmy.cato
Programming@programming.dev•Cursor is better at marketing than coding
5·13 days agothis week‑long autonomous browser experiment consumed in the order of 10-20 trillion tokens
at $60/m, that is $600M to $1.2B in full price cost, but 1/4 this is current standard pricing. Still, even if a buggy piece of shit, a 1-3m line code project in a week is impressive. OTOH, netscape 1.0 cost $4M to develop, with the advantage of working (though other advantage that it was your web page’s fault for not working).
They set a very challenging experiment. There is a reason for chromium being a popular base for a browser. The more interesting experiment result is if it is ever usable. Are the bugs solvable by AI.
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humanspiral@lemmy.caOPto
Technology@lemmy.ml•Anthropic CEO important, but evil, essay: The adolescence of technology.
21·14 days agoHe is correctly describing warnings for AI. Just within a demonic evil reality, which he is eager to assist.
humanspiral@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•RAM Prices Got You Down? Try DDR3. Seriously!English
21·15 days ago100%. I did get a 32gb mini pc this summer. win 11 is not as stable as win 10 on ddr3, mostly sleep/monitor issues. and 780m on ddr5 is about the same for gaming as 1660s on ddr3. Don’t chase gaming frame rates until prices get more reasonable. If you somehow don’t have a PC more recent than ddr3, then it’s not time to get into gaming, but upgrading cpu/gpu and an extra 16gb ram is likely the better value compared to new system.
humanspiral@lemmy.cato
pics@lemmy.world•This is America. Do not let this image be forgotten.
6·16 days agoHe is clearly slippin in the photo, though… obvious reference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYOjWnS4cMY
humanspiral@lemmy.cato
Progressive Politics@lemmy.world•America is rotting, with or without Trump
52·16 days agoWell 8 years is a Trump hire. 10 years, is a “Obama is a secret Muslim Kenyan that must be stopped to make Mexico pay for the wall” hire.
humanspiral@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on itEnglish
1·19 days agoNot sure what your point is. Oligarchist or Zionist supremacism has no influence on US democracy? No politician supports warmongering? Where is the crap?



For my language, J, I can’t get autocomplete.
Even though J is a functional language (on extreme end), it also supports fortran/verbose python style, which LLMs will write. I don’t have the problem of understanding the code it generates, and it provides useful boilerplate, with perhaps too many intermediate variables, but with the advantage that it tends to be more readable.
Instead of code complete, I get to use the generation to copy and paste into shorter performant tacit code. What is bad, is that the models lose all understanding of the code transformation, and don’t understand J’s threading model. The changes I make means it loses all reasoning ability about the code, and to refactor anything later. Excessive comments helps, including using comments as places to fix/generate code sections.
So, I get the warning about “code you don’t understand” (but that can still happen later with code you write), and comment system helps. The other thing he got wrong is “prompt complexity/coaxing”. It is actually never necessary to add “You are a senior software…”. Doing so only changes the explanation level for any modern model, and opencode type tools don’t or separate off the explanation section.
LLM’s still have extreme flaws, but article didn’t resonate on the big ones, for me.