One of these devices for approximately $100 would sell all day long.

Is there a service to get on a FOUP with a group of people? I know for example of Tiny Tape Out [1], but I'm wondering where you might explore for larger designs.

[1] https://tinytapeout.com/

What kind of order of magnitude of cost are we talking about?

What are the next steps - is there some service to cut the wafer and put into a package for you?

^ Encase the link also responds with this for you:

    Access Denied

    You don't have permission to access "http://www.marketscreener.com/news/us-private-credit-defaults-hit-record-9-2-in-2025-fitch-says-ce7e5fd8df8fff2d" on this server.

A large business is estimated to use 50MWh at £14,706 a year [2]. It'll cost in excess of £300k per year just to run electricity, not that the grid has that in spare capacity [3]. It's completely in contrast to their green energy campaign.

Then, they don't even have any kind of contract actually in place:

> Asked about the terms of the contract that Nscale had signed to build the supercomputer by the end of this year, the government did not reply directly. Instead, it said that Nscale’s entire $2.5bn investment was “not a formal contract, rather an intention to commit capital”, and “may well include equipment and capital funding”.

There's not enough serious capital invested to get this off of the ground (or even to break ground seemingly). And then there are basic questions, like:

1. Why would build a data center that is supposed to create tonnes of jobs, in a location where it costs a lot to employ people?

2. Why would you outsource your data center if you live in the US or EU, when there are better options available locally? These data centers sure as hell won't be used by British companies because the government are crushing them with tax.

3. The energy cost is far too high compared to locations with nuclear or hydro electricity generation.

This whole thing stinks. I think it's a complete and utter lie.

[1] https://uk.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/how-much-doe...

[2] https://www.moneysupermarket.com/gas-and-electricity/busines...

[3] https://watt-logic.com/2025/01/09/blackouts-near-miss-in-tig...

Today - Parsing a website's HTML (lots of pages, lots of links) to update an RSS feed that accepts filters. Rather than manually checking a website and losing track of what I have or haven't reviewed, the idea is to feed it into an RSS aggregator.

I was talking somebody through Bayesian updates the other day. The problem is that if you mess up any part of it, in any way, then the result can be completely garbage. Meanwhile, if you throw some neural network at the problem, it can much better handle noise.

> Deep learning’s convenience advantage is the same phenomenon at larger scale. Why specify a prior when you can train on a million examples? Why model uncertainty when you can just make the network bigger? The answers to these questions are good answers, but they require you to care about things the market doesn’t always reward.

The answer seems simple to me - sometimes getting an answer is not enough, and you need to understand how an answer was reached. In the age of hallucinations, one can appreciate approaches where hallucinations are impossible.

470k crashes in a single week, and this is under-reported! I bet the number of crashes is far higher. My snap Firefox on Ubuntu would lock-up, forcing me to kill it from the system monitor, and this was never reported as a crash.

Once upon a time I wrote software for safety critical systems in C/C++, where the code was deployed and expected to work for 10 years (or more) and interact with systems not built yet. Our system could lose power at any time (no battery) and we would have at best 1ms warning.

Even if Firefox moves to Rust, it will not resolve these issues. 5% of their crashes could be coming from resource exhaustion, likely mostly RAM - why is this not being checked prior to allocation? 5% of their crashes could be resolved tomorrow if they just checked how much RAM was available prior to trying to allocate it. That accounts for ~23k crashes a week. Madness.

With the RAM shortages and 8GB looking like it will remain the entry laptop norm, we need to start thinking more carefully about how software is developed.

This is truly crazy. Random companies interacting on this level with children is far from ideal.

> Please, gov.uk introduce a gov ID verification service? I could trust that, -ish, I have worked with public sector clients several times...

I don't like the idea of governments collecting this sort of data either.

I'm the sort of person that either rejects the cookies, or will use another site entirely to avoid some weird dark-pattern cookie trickery. I don't like the idea of any particular service getting more information than they should.

Siting there I realized, we were not the real target. It is the young people that are growing up conditioned to press accept, enter any details asked of them, and to not value their personal data. Sadly, the damage is already done.

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[1] https://huggingface.co/models?pipeline_tag=image-to-3d

> Before the mid 1700s, there was no such thing as standardized spelling.

It felt like it was become more Germanic, and that appears true:

> The farther back you go, the more the familiar Latinate layer of English is stripped away, revealing the Germanic core underneath: a language that looks to modern eyes more like German or Icelandic than anything we’d call English.

Bare in mind, this would have been used to stop the Epstein images of the former Prince Andrew from being viewed [1].

> Platforms that do not do so would potentially face fines of 10 percent of "qualifying worldwide income" or have their services blocked in the UK.

Why on earth would it be 10% of their world wide income and not their UK-based income? These politicians really think they have more power than they really do.

> The amendment follows outrage over the Elon Musk-owned chatbot Grok's willingness to generate nude or sexualized images of people, mainly women and girls, which forced a climbdown earlier this year.

The AI didn't just randomly generate NSFW content, it did it at the request of the user. Remember, there was no interest in removing the CP content from Twitter prior to Musk buying it, and then they all moved to Mastodon / BlueSky where they now share that content.

> The government said: "Plans are currently being considered by Ofcom for these kinds of images to be treated with the same severity as child sexual abuse and terrorism content, digitally marking them so that any time someone tries to repost them, they will be automatically taken down."

Ofcom simply doesn't have this kind of power. 4chan are showing as much [2]. This is simply massive overreach by the UK government, and I would advise tech giants to stop complying.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g5490xmkeo

[2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz6ejedj59no

Seems to be getting the hug of death.

It doesn't seem to be hammering the NTP server 30 times a second.