Comprehensive49 @ Comprehensive49 @lemmygrad.ml

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China used its large market to play the capitalists against themselves. First to new market wins, so Western capitalists were begging to get in no matter what.

I do think that as China moves up the value chain, they should still improve and automate their low-value manufacturing. That way, they can never get cut off from needed goods. I don't know whether this is exactly what they are planning. If someone more knowledgeable could chime in, that would be great!

This is only possible because you can run off into a national park, which is the exact opposite of capitalism.

This is technically true. China currently only has DUV machines, which don't have enough resolution to produce 5nm chips directly. Only more advanced EUV machines are able to produce this directly or in one-two patterning steps.

However, China can still produce 5nm chips via multiple patterning. Basically, by overlaying lower resolution patterns offset from one another, you can form higher resolution structures in between the lower-res patterns. By repeating the multi-patterning process, you can "technically" get infinitely small resolutions.

The drawback is that you have to use several more steps. Each step takes more time, reducing throughout, and is a possible area for error. As a result, multi-patterned yields are lower than directly produced yields, and are more expensive as a result.

Thus, the real benefit going from DUV to EUV is reduced costs and increased throughput. Until China gets EUV, multi-patterned DUV is sufficient, since the state is willing to accept higher costs of production and provide subsidies to chipmakers in exchange for self-reliance.

The stumbling block right now is that the tech jump from DUV to EUV is large. DUV (deep ultraviolet light), which has a wavelength around 250nm, can be produced directly via lasers.

On the other hand, EUV (extreme ultraviolet light), which has a wavelength of 13.5nm and is almost an X-ray, cannot currently be produced directly right now. Current machines make it by using a giant laser to zap a molten drop of tin, turning it into a plasma which emits the desired EUV light. In the process, only ~6% of the original laser power is converted to EUV, resulting in an output of around 350 watts.

All in all, it took ~20 years to master this convoluted process. It will take China time to develop this EUV production tech, probably around 5-10 years at most.

In the process, China might be able to leapfrog some lingering issues with the tech. For example, the dogshit conversion efficiency means that a ridiculously large starting laser is needed to produce a paltry amount of EUV light, with the process output capping out around 500 watts.

Instead, China is starting work on oscillating electrons in a particle accelerator to generate EUV light directly, with much higher power output, called steady-state micro-bunching (SSMB). Using SSMB, China can use one accelerator to power dozens of EUV machines, and can scale output to be superior than current EUV machines. China is beginning work on a facility dedicated to SSMB research in Xiong'an this year.

For more info on this stuff, see:

• Asianometry on YouTube
  • Current EUV Lithography
  • EUV with free electron lasers (very similar to SSMB)
• China May Be Constructing EUV Lithography Machines on a Massive Scale by The China Academy

Fair point. However, the modern trend of Western Christian missionaries is explicitly associated with colonialism. Anyone who willingly contributes to spreading that kind of poison should be viewed with scrutiny.

Reddit normies discussing this article:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/climate/comments/1bk82lk/capitalism_cant_solve_climate_change_only_china/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/economy/comments/1bk7qxy/capitalism_cant_solve_climate_change/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/environment/comments/1bk41i0/capitalism_cant_solve_climate_change/

Other than the "communism no iphone" types, I think awareness of socialism really is increasing among Redditors.

Spam was wild, had to block the guy so my notifications wouldn't die. Big thanks to him though for putting my post on the front page of Active and Hot.

That Pavel Grudinin guy sure looks a lot like reincarnated Stalin.

Good point. I've been dabbling with Khoj myself, which connects with Obsidian, the Markdown notemaking software I use. This lets the AI draw from my notes on the fly.

I'm waiting to build a PC with the RTX 5090 or something before diving deeper into local AI. The integrated GPU I'm using right now is just too slow.

The test tracks used for launch testing are the same ones cited as "for hyperloop testing" here (notice that the track mentioned in both is built by CASIC in Datong, Shanxi, is 2 km long, and is inside a low-vacuum tube). Space launch is a much more logical use for this kind of technology than rail transport. It's nice to see that the same equipment can be used for research in such different fields.

This does mean that this track technically isn't a "railgun", as it uses magnetic levitation and not the Lorentz force for propulsion.

This isn't really a significant player in the space yet. This field of local LLM frontends is extremely active right now, with many new projects popping up and user counts shifting around. Here's a good article that reviews the most prominent ones right now, with rankings for different uses: https://matilabs.ai/2024/02/07/run-llms-locally/

TLDR from the article:

Having tried all of these tools, I find they are trying to solve for a few different problems. So, depending on what you are looking to do, here are my conclusions:

• If you are looking to develop an AI application, and you have a Mac or Linux machine, Ollama is great because it’s very easy to set up, easy to work with, and fast.
• If you are looking to chat locally with documents, GPT4All is the best out of the box solution that is also easy to set up
• If you are looking for advanced control and insight into neural networks and machine learning, as well as the widest range of model support, you should try transformers
• In terms of speed, I think Ollama or llama.cpp are both very fast
• If you are looking to work with a CLI tool, llm is clean and easy to set up
• If you want to use Google Cloud, you should look into localllm
• For native support for roleplay and gaming (adding characters, persistent stories), the best choices are going to be textgen-webui by Oobabooga, and koboldcpp. Alternatively, you can use ollama with custom UIs such as ollama-webui

That explains a lot. I was wondering why I started seeing a bunch of western media reporting on Xi Jinping's secret stockpiles of cash in another dimension.

First the 737 Max debacle, now this shit. Boeing could not provide a better welcome to China's Comac C919 (which competes directly with the 737 Max line).

I'm pretty sure waxing pulls at the hair root, which does sometimes damage it and cause the resulting hair to come out weaker than before.

You might have to try waxing. That should murder the hair roots. Laser is definitely the best solution if you're sure about it.

The Biden campaign also suddenly brought up abortion rights again. They had 4 years to do shit about it and did nothing, so another 4 years will definitely fix it, right?

Next, let me sum up how to pull off this scam. First, buy a couple of commercial dehumidifiers. Next, put the equipment inside them into new, cool-looking equipment boxes. Third, call news stations saying you've solved water forever.

This tech is just a reskinned dehumidifier. The scientist Youtuber Thunderf00t has made a number of videos debunking these types of claims. Their issues can be summed up as the following:

• they extract very little water while using a shitton of energy. The amount of energy required to condense water from gas into liquid equals the amount of energy required to boil said water, which is a lot. This is dictated by the laws of physics.
• they work best in humid conditions. These conditions only exist in places where you would ALREADY be able to find water, or when it is right about to rain ( as the natural humidity condenses to form rain clouds), in which case you can just catch and drink that.
• the water they produce is not clean. Do you want to drink the moldy water out of your dehumidifier? Model and bacteria grow on the cold, wet metal fins where the water condenses.

Speaking of He Zhao, it seems he got deplatformed. Does anyone know where I can read his stuff other than archive.org? We might want to set up some backup location on prolewiki for these kinds of deplatformed writers (with their permission of course).

Mexico desperately needs a better military to withstand this kind of bullshit. At the current rate, the US is gonna try to coup Mexico soon. Once the US starts collapsing for real, Mexico is the first place American fascists are gonna expand into. The current Mexican air force is composed of 40 propeller plane fighters, and the other Army and Navy don't look much better.

Simple solution: we use AI to fill our resumes with the right fucking keywords so that eventually, both sides are talking and reading nonsense.