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Its almost like LLMs have a vast, mute unconscious mind operating in the background, modeling relationships, assigning emotional state, and existing entirely without ego.

Sounds sort of like how certain monkey creatures might work.


Nah it's exactly like they have been trained on this data and parrot it back when it statistically makes sense to do so.

You don't have to teach a monkey language for it to feel sadness.


I would absolutely not expect this, especially as long as Oracle and all the other technofeudalists are properly paying their taxes to the count and king.

By taxes, do you mean buying Trump's crypto?

Bad news, I was across town and I do consent to my pixel being used, so you're outta luck

If this is a troll it is masterful. If it's an honest opinion I would invite you to check your skull for unexpected holes where your brain may have fallen out.

A roof is quite literally the worst place to put solar panels. Its a load most roofs are not designed for, and the whole point of a roof is to keep water out, which is compromised by attaching stuff to it.

The most efficient way to do large scale solar is with semi-local utility scale arrays with ultra efficient inverters and enormous chemical or hydro storage. We have a lot of unused land, that's not a problem


Yet another reason why ipv6 will never happen

I think the Matter standard is going to cause IPv6 adoption to increase significantly in the coming years. People will demand it, without even knowing what Matter or IPv6 are. They just want to be able to turn their lights off from their phone without any extra hardware or software.

Matter is only local networking. Essentially everyone has IPv6 on their local network.

That said, I disagree with the parent statement that v6 isn't going to happen. It's already happening at a steady rate. From the Google stats it's steadily rolling out. Some countries are reaching 100% v6 deployment. I wouldn't be surprised if we eventually see some countries with high v6 deployments see services which are v6 only.


> Some countries are reaching 100% v6 deployment

World map:

https://www.arcep.fr/cartes-et-donnees/nos-cartes/ipv6/carte...

France is extremely close to 100%:

https://www.arcep.fr/fileadmin/reprise/observatoire/ipv6/Arc...

> some countries with high v6 deployments see services which are v6 only.

IIRC this has already long happened in some countries with smaller IPv4 pools, can't recall where.


They've had years to demand it, I don't see why it would suddenly change. Most users who buy "smart" appliances are not power users, don't set everything up themselves and just rely on manufacturer's servers anyway and don't need a direct connection - and are okay with it.

I’m always bemused when I read comments like this. Regardless of whether you think IPv6 is good or bad, it is happening. IPv6 traffic to Google goes up by a few percentage points a year, steadily, and is at around 50% now.

it already happened.

also I sure as hell dont remember my ipv4 address


I know your ipv4 address, 127.0.0.1. :)

There’s something to be said for human readable addresses. I’m a little nostalgic of how the .hack world was envisioned, where servers had address names like Hidden Forbidden Holy Ground.

If roughly 10 million words exist, then allowing any three words in order creates a space for 10^21 addresses… five words and you’re close to ipv6 address space, six words and there’s more combinations than ipv6 addresses.


I also know your IPv6 address, ::1

Even easier.


Scrabble is 250-280k uk edition - wouldn't want to go too much beyond that I suspect. Where'd 10 mil come from?

Across 7000 languages in the world including non-latin alphabets…

I don't remember my ipv4 addresses either, but I recognize them as mine when I see them.

I've never recognized an IPv6 address or prefix used in my networks.


You can set your ULA to something like "fddd:192:168::/48" and then on your vlan you prefix hint, say, "66". Now, any device on that vlan will be addressable by "fddd:192:168:66::$host". For example, your gateway ('router') for that vlan would be "fddd:192:168:66::1".

If you want to be really wonky you can script DHCPv6 to statically assign ULA IPv6 leases that match the IPv4, and expire them when the IPv4 lease expires, but like said upthread, addressing hosts via IPv6 is the wrong way to go about it. On your lan, you really want to be doing ".local" / ".lan" / ".home".


> addressing hosts via IPv6 is the wrong way to go about it. On your lan, you really want to be doing ".local" / ".lan" / ".home".

.local is fine as long as all the daemons work correctly, but AFAIK there's no way to have SLAAC and put hosts in "normal" internal DNS, so .lan/.home/.internal are probably out.


> On your lan, you really want to be doing ".local" / ".lan" / ".home".

The "official" is home.arpa according to RFC 8375 [1]:

    Users and devices within a home network (hereafter referred to as
    "homenet") require devices and services to be identified by names
    that are unique within the boundaries of the homenet [RFC7368].  The
    naming mechanism needs to function without configuration from the
    user.  While it may be possible for a name to be delegated by an ISP,
    homenets must also function in the absence of such a delegation.
    This document reserves the name 'home.arpa.' to serve as the default
    name for this purpose, with a scope limited to each individual
    homenet.
[1]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8375

It may be the most officially-recommended for home use, but .internal is also officially endorsed for "private-use applications" (deciding the semantics of these is left as an exercise to the reader): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.internal

That is a classical "design by committee" thing.

".home" and ".lan" along with a bunch of other historic tlds are on the reserved list and cannot be registered.

Call techy people pathologically lazy but no one is going to switch to typing ".home.arpa" or ".internal". They should have stuck with the original proposal of making ".home" official, instead of sticking ".arpa" behind it. That immediately doomed the RFC.


I do it by abusing the static slaac address. I have a set of wierd vms where they are cloned from a reference image, so no fixed config allowed. I should have probably just have used dhcp6 but I started by trying slaac and the static address were stable enough for my purposes so it stuck.

How does that work? I initially assumed you meant you just statically assigned machines to addresses, which I think would work courtesy of collision avoidance (and the massive address space), but I can't see how that would work for VMs. Are you just letting VMs pick an IP at random and then having them never change it, at which point you manually add them to DNS?

Pretty much. A given mac address assigned in the vm config maps directly to a static slaac address(the ones they recommend you not use) and those preknown slaac address are in dns, Like I said, I should probably use dhcp6 but it was a personal experiment in cloning a vm for a sandbox execution environment. and those slacc address were stable enough for that. every time it gets cloned to the same mac address it ended up with the same ip6 address. works for me, don't have to faf around with dhcp6, put it in dns. time for a drink.

But the point is that is the address you would put in dns if you also wanted to use slaac. Most of the time however you will just set a manual address. And this was with obsd, where when slaac is setup you get the slaac address and a temporary address. I don't really know what linux does. Might have to try now.


Clarification for others: with privacy extensions disabled, SLAAC'd IPv6 addresses are deterministically generated based on MAC addresses. There's also an inbetween (IPv6 are stable per network by hashing).

I run split-horizon DNS on mine. By far my preferred solution.

I don't even bother with split-horizon. My internal hosts are in public DNS under a subdomain.

it will naturally happen when you work with it long term, similar to how it was with v4.

I remember almost all of mine, including /24 and /16 blocks from several former employers!

Adoption has been flat under 50% for a year now.

A bit less than 50% of the whole Internet.

Wow. That's so amazingly unpopular. Why anyone bothers talking about something untold millions of people use every day is beyond me.


It’s not flat: https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html

You have to take into account seasonal trends. The summer is always higher, so yes, we’re currently below last summer, but we are above last April 1st, and this summer will be higher than last summer.


Also just looking at the history it always seems to have flat periods with sudden boosts which never go back down.

It looks flat to me since July of last year. Regardless, when you extrapolate that curve, when do you estimate hitting 100%?

> It looks flat to me since July of last year.

That was the entire point of my comment.

You can’t compare fall winter and spring to last July. You have to compare last July to this July, which hasn’t happened yet, but when it does, it will be higher than last July. Today (April) is higher than last April.

The reason for this is that more people are on mobile connections during the summer (kids home from school) so the summer (as well as the Christmas/new year week) are the highest points of the year.

The fact that it’s “flat” since last July, the high season, means it’s actually still increasing.

> Regardless, when you extrapolate that curve, when do you estimate hitting 100%?

Never? But what’s your point? IPv6 is a failure if it only replaces IPv4 for 99% of traffic?


Go 128-bit or go ::1

What a simultaneously cynical and boring and completely useless attitude. Is it your position that if this hadn't happened 100b of otherwise more important spending would have happened?

I think that $100 billion, spent effectively could have resulted in Von Braun Wheels in LEO. I think that it could have resulted in teleoperated lunar mining and smelting that would be allowing us to build human bases on Earth now instead of a single fly by that may end in the death of these four amazing explorers.

There is no world in which lunar mining and smelting economically produces anything useful on Earth.

I was describing a scenario where the teleoperated machines were used to build a base on the Moon with in situ produced materials, not one where materials are sold as export to Earth.

But I'm curious to hear why you think that it will always be uneconomical to produce refined metals on the Earth and transport them to Earth for further manufacturing?

It seems like a logical near term thing that we're going to have to do to reduce carbon emissions and other environmental damage. Mining and refining ores are both energy intensive and highly ecologicaly damaging.


I guess probably we should stop spaceflight until we can go back in time and buy you a textbook.

Spaceflight is cool. Its a awesome thing that people can exist outside our gravitational well. We don't need to solve every possible problem before we do anything cool.


Almost all of what makes spaceflight “cool” today is inherited excitement and nostalgia, most of it unearned by the current generation of space endeavors.

Apollo was a humanity-defining undertaking. Repeating the same 60 years later with outdated technology at outrageous costs for pork barrel spending, while far superior launch systems have been available for a decade, is about as far away from being “cool” as I can imagine.

The average ESA environmental observation satellite is a lot cooler (and a lot more important) than this launch.


Its not at all clear that room temperature superconductors are impossible, it's a materials problem. If someone was to find one that is probably how they would do it - testing materials for some other property and finding it accidentally.

Room temperature is totally possible. Room temperature AND room pressure is another story. Superconductivity acrose a couple nanometers inside a diamond anvil is not very useful even if at "room" temperatures.

Reverse engineering complex biological systems is like reverse engineering an LLM. Everythings depends upon and i fluences everything else. There are no clean modular segments, it's spaghetti all the way down.

Biology isn't something you can reverse engineer in its entirety with anything like the technology we have now.


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