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Nobody is building commercial plants any time soon; it's still in the experimental phase, with new discoveries happening almost every month.

I see it similarly to the difference between a car with a combustion engine and an electric one. Combustion engines are fully developed. We're reaching the maximum possible performance and utilisation. It's a dead end. However, with electric cars, for example, new battery development is far from over. E.g sodium batteries.

And just off the top of my head, in fusion, the discovery of better electromagnets, as happened a while back, can quadruple energy output.It's not a dead end, and writing it off would be short-sighted.


They are building a commercial plant right now, and it will come online in the next 10 years. https://news.mit.edu/2024/commonwealth-fusion-systems-unveil...

Unless I missed something they haven’t even completed their technology demonstrator (planned for 2026). No construction has taken place in 2025.

I hate it so much. Every time I read it, all I can think is "that's a typo."


If I remember correctly it actually is a typo. Someone typed "verloren" wrong and thought it was a good name for the game. The story behind names is often not so glamorous.


I kinda hate many current game names, I prefer this. Otherwise, making a current_year name is easy: noun adjective: noun. How about "Dark Kingdom: Multitude"?


*adjective noun: adjective, obviously

The first two usually make some sense together, the third one is where it gets creative / random.


I didn't even spot the missing "r" until I read this comment. Now I feel you.



Second Tuta. Their feature list might be limited when compared to Proton or Fastmail, but their core email service is solid.


It's an alternative to Proton because it doesn't support open standards (like IMAP), but it has the same problem - vendor lock-in.



Ah yes, let's solely blame the party for the shut down the previous government ordered.


The shut down was decided on in 2000 under Schröder's Red-Green government. All following decision where just on how fast the shutdown had to happen.


I think CogVLM2 is even better than Intern at OCR (my usecase is extracting information from an invoice)


After some superficial testing I with bad quality scans you can find on kaggle I can not confirm that. CogVLM2 refuses to handle scans that InternVL-V1.5 still can comprehend.


ROFL


Congratulations, you have just invented large language models.


Why can the author only write in all lowercase?


At least they use punctuation. We've recently had a project on HN where the author used only lower cases and no punctuation because they equated it to being chained by the system.


The fight against capitalism spares no letter.


rip cormac mccarthy


It's your problem only.


Seeing Anya (the girl pointing at pictures), I'd guess the author is partial to Japanese culture. As their writing system does not have a concept of upper/lower case, he might just have determined that they are superfluous. Or he is simply an eccentric. Though I guess this is one of the things that some folks will not care and others getting hung up mightily.

I personally don't really mind that bit of capitalization that English does. German is much worse.


Their twitter indicate Amsterdam, I just think they are an anime fan.

And they are not alone.

https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1792261360430293176


It's to drive engagement by getting people to comment on it.


I remember back in the IRC days many people wrote all lowercase. Seems like smartphone keyboards, which autocapitalize, have changed that trend.


>I personally don't really mind that bit of capitalization that English does. German is much worse.

You misspelled 'better'.


d u xpct hbrw spkr twrt nnglsh lk ths?


Not quite the same. Capitalization doesn't add much to languages written with the Latin alphabet. THE ROMANS ONLY VVROTE VVITH CAPITAL LETTERS.

But the Greeks added vowels to the alphabet because Indo-European languages rely a lot on vowels (as opposed to Semitic languages which are easy to understand without vowels).


I think you mispelled that slightly:

> d' 'ou 'xp'ct h'br'w sp''k'rs t' wr't' 'n 'ngl'sh l'k' th's?


Because Sam Altman does it and he is rich, so...


Where? His blog looks normal


Just look at his Twitter: https://x.com/sama

And no, Twitter is no excuse to type like an illiterate teenager.

And I will bet you someone edits his blogs to not look like that.


"illiterate"

Do you think using capitals at the beginning of a sentence aids comprehension?

I view punctuation and spelling rules as a way to maximize comprehension (akin to having a linting standard). In non formal writing, I don't see any harm in avoiding capitalization (at least it doesn't seem to me to help understanding / reading speed, etc at all).


It's like people typing "K" instead of "OK". It's disrespectful to the reader, suggesting that the reader is not important enough to warrant typing an extra letter.

One would expect Altman to know how to use the SHIFT key when running a massive business, but, hey - once you achieve escape velocity from society, you don't have to live by its norms or grammar rules.

I can assure you that it would cost most people people here a promotion or a raise if they did this at work.


By the way, I went through his Twitter - Altman was writing normally in 2022: https://x.com/sama/status/1505264452857331714

Then, I guess, he decided, he was too important to follow grammar rules.


Creative writing + Hyperfocused autistic obsession = The Anime Guide to Neural Networks and Large Language Models.


Too poor to fix their shift key


You got two of them


this is the answer lol


Author is probably young, that's how gen-z are these days, if they dont have autocorrect on, the whole text will be in lowercase.

Also it looks more casual and authentic, less LLM generated


It's the cool thing to do now...


That makes me laugh. I remember when it was the cool thing to do on Usenet.


The treatment of the English language on TikTok is giving the late Yahoo Answers a run for its money.


2024 is the year that most of us are collectively growing out of the early social media era all-lowercase thing, but everyone hasn't gotten the memo yet.


so more people comment on the hn post and it will rank higher in the algo

such as your comment and my comment!


This comment is unsubstantial and provides no value. Why do you care about this?


And why can't the author pass its text into a LLM and simply ask: "plz fix frist word of each paragraf by using an uppercase letter k txh bye".

A just question.


do you wanna be cool or not?


He probably thinks it's cool. Common on Twitter these days.


Sam Altman does it too


this comment made me go back to the project page. i haven't even noticed that fact while reading it for the first time. strange.


shift key busted


because it annoys HN commenters


the nitpicking in this thread is incredible lmao


8x7 had 46B or so.


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