Most of the problems we have with online security, privacy, tracking, etc., are the result of the rapid, irresponsible and sometimes infantile expansion of capabilities of the simple web browser.
Canvas? Resolutions? Sound drivers? web-usb ?!
We’re giving up something very valuable when we “improve” html or “enhance” the browser.
I think I might want to move that forward a tiny bit...to maybe 2000 ~ 2005; but no further...but i get your point, and you're NOT wrong!
> Most of the problems we have with online security, privacy, tracking, etc., are the result of the rapid, irresponsible and sometimes infantile expansion of capabilities of the simple web browser.
While I am so impressed by some functions that modern web browsers can do, and how creative some people can get...I'm with you!
> Canvas? Resolutions? Sound drivers? web-usb ?!
Like 20% of the cool - and i'll add advanced - functions that modern browsers can achieve is really impressive! But, i think they *should* only be used for like 20% (or the minority) use cases...Whereas the rest of 80% functionality should be as basic as hell! A browser started as a document viewer, and we've strayed soooo far from that! And worse, since everybody wants to put apps into the browser, now browsers have to become the "operating system" for everything. If things ran smooth and simple, and every web page was not full of 500MB worth of crap, then maybe a browser as an operating system for most functions might be ok...but, nope. That's not the reality we live in. People keep jamming in all sorts of functions into the browser - because they can - so, things will continue to deteriorate. We can fight to backtrack this reality, or create an alternative (perhaps retro sort of) reality - e.g. Gemini capsules, neuvo BBS, etc., or we can opt out and go offline as much as possible. Lately, I've been dabbling tons more in the latter 2, and I feel much happier.
Are you getting takedown requests from people who don’t understand how DNS works, or… are they actually suggesting that your particular DNS server filter particular results?
Depending on whether we model the data linearly or exponentially (like the famous Tohoku University study that found everyone in Japan will be named Sato by 2531)...
The US may reach the 100% Boy Name Ronin-ification anywhere between 2057 or 10,327 AD.
"... I think this may have to do with rural stores having essentially consumer-grade internet routers connected to ..."
It has to do with refrigerators reachable on the Internet.
If the refrigerators were not reachable on the Internet, none of this fragility would exist.
The fragility of refrigerators reachable on the Internet was demonstrated just a few weeks ago. These refrigerators were left connected to the Internet.
This lack of discernment and misunderstanding of risks and fragility will not be solved with a better router or a different uplink.
The entire reason they are put on the Internet is to allow for remote control. What problem would it solve to allow remote monitoring of refrigerator data without control?
Because then you can monitor it, and then call someone at the store to change the settings. Or go into the store to fix the one that isn't doing what's expected. You can still get alerts, diagnostics and data.
I mean, what happens when a compressor or other physical part goes out? You can't fix that remotely anyways. You might still want remote monitoring for that kind of situation.
I'm not in perishable food so what do I know.. But organization wide food safety measurements are probably more important than the average process BS.. Performing a full heat cycling of a freezer while no one is present to confirm the correct device OTOH sounds idiotic.
At the very least the system should pull configuration info from a trusted source at predefined times instead of being available for it to be pushed at any time.
“ Or, are you saying this is a tactical move from a higher level (Chinese gov interests)?”
What country produces all of the ASICs used in contemporary bitcoin mining?
The faster we get to a good enough open model, the sooner it gets burned to hardware, and the sooner the transition to (relatively) low tech, low margin, high volume cards to run it on …
You're not going to make money buying a new 14nm bitcoin miner, and that is where the China foundries are for cost effective silicon. They're great at 28nm+ and good at 22nm pricing.
Most new design modern sub 7nm ASICs are made in Taiwan/Korea by TSMC and SLSI. That is where miners are profitable.
Go bet on it @=^D It's not speculation, it's what they sell to the world and build processors for globally available Huawei/Honor phones. It's not a secret.
If they had a solution to get to >90% yields on sub 5nm they'd be doing it now.
They don't, even the 7-10nm isn't there. Best hope is they get to buy the entire world's supply of EUV in 2027, then they install all of them, then they bring them up, then they build processes around them and make masks, then they ramp the yield on 3-4nm by copying exact TSMC.
The hilarious thing is that TSMC couldn't do this at a new fab in Taiwan, with full access to equipment, supply chain, and people. So, nope.
Thinking on, I agree 1-2 years was too optimistic. Even if they have the tech right now already, building a fab itself within 2 years is tight, but I think doable. Maybe not at full capacity but at least functioning. It's possible they can start building the fab infra in parallel with acquiring EUV tech speculatively to speed it up.
Like the other person said, within 4-5 years is more reasonable.
give them 4-5 years, given the amount of knowledge leak between China, Taiwan and South Korea and the amount of research budget put in replacing ASML tools, it's gonna come faster than we expect for sure.
From that point onwards, we'll buy Chinese hardware or be left behind
To steel man the argument, I think that there really is a Moore's Cliff coming. I don't think that resolution is going to matter as much, although process/design knowledge will still be a huge barrier. I don't see even 10A being as big a node as 14A or 2nm. Too many things fall apart all at once, and the cyclical nature of semi will raise it's bloody head above the industry as the AI trade bursts. So many $10Bs will be spent and margins will plummet... again, just in time for China to catch up.
Already, the big capabilities are becoming multi-layer/die integration. Whether it's BSPDN, stacked die, optical interconnects, etc it won't be as simple as Denard scaling. It will be dependent on experience and supply chains, which are harder to transfer than equipment or IP.
I do think the market for inference will drive a lot of innovation, and a lot of that will be at larger nodes. A single reticle die masked ROM with CIM can do 7B at 6nm. At 2-3nm you can do 27-32B which is a single expert or router. At that point there's not much reason to shrink for AI since it's mostly 1-hot die per token (except for the router). Update the parameters every 3-6mo when a new frontier comes out, and take the cost/power savings to the bank.
That’s part of the equation but there’s almost certainly interest in the open models guiding information trends for the interests of the Chinese government as well. So not only to help their economy in a variety of ways, but to help undermine the US AI efforts in the process and put them finger on the scale of what models ultimately do output.
I don't do these kind of tasks but I imagine that in the 'pi' harness I could just instruct the model to use command line pdf/latex manipulation tools to create all manner of document outputs ...
Most of the problems we have with online security, privacy, tracking, etc., are the result of the rapid, irresponsible and sometimes infantile expansion of capabilities of the simple web browser.
Canvas? Resolutions? Sound drivers? web-usb ?!
We’re giving up something very valuable when we “improve” html or “enhance” the browser.
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