same, I’d love computers to actually start getting cheap

loads fine for me, here’s the text:

China Achieves Mass Production Breakthrough with 360TB Glass Hard Drives Researchers at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) have achieved small-scale mass production of glass-based hard drives, a breakthrough that could transform enterprise cold data storage. Each glass disc can store a staggering 360 terabytes of data across 400 stacked layers, using laser “carving” technology that writes data into the internal structure of the glass medium.

China Achieves Mass Production Breakthrough with 360TB Glass Hard Drives

Researchers at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) have achieved small-scale mass production of glass-based hard drives, a breakthrough that could transform enterprise cold data storage. Each glass disc can store a staggering 360 terabytes of data across 400 stacked layers, using laser “carving” technology that writes data into the internal structure of the glass medium.

The technology, developed in collaboration with Wuhan-based startup YiYao Technology, uses femtosecond laser pulses to create microscopic modifications within glass discs, effectively encoding data in three dimensions. The 400-layer stacking capability represents a quantum leap in storage density compared to traditional magnetic hard drives or even solid-state drives.

Performance specifications reveal both the technology’s strengths and current limitations. Write speeds range between 8 and 10 MB/s, while read speeds reach 50 to 200 MB/s. The drives are write-once media — data cannot be erased or rewritten once stored — making them unsuitable for active storage workloads but ideal for archival and cold storage applications.

YiYao Technology was founded in Wuhan and has attracted top talent from the global optical storage community. Notably, a former chief researcher from Microsoft’s Project Silica has joined the company as co-founder, bringing invaluable expertise in glass-based data storage — a field Microsoft has researched for years but has yet to commercialize at scale.

The target market for these glass drives is enterprise cold data storage, a segment currently dominated by magnetic tape. Tape storage, while inexpensive, suffers from slow access times, mechanical degradation, and limited lifespan. Glass storage offers several compelling advantages: exceptional durability (glass discs are resistant to water, electromagnetic fields, and extreme temperatures), extremely long data retention measured in centuries rather than decades, and higher storage density per physical volume.

“If you think about data centers that need to store petabytes of archival data for regulatory compliance or historical preservation, glass storage is a game-changer,” said an industry expert familiar with the technology. “The write-once nature is actually a feature for cold storage — it guarantees data integrity over time without risk of accidental deletion or corruption.”

The HUST and YiYao team are now working to scale production volumes and improve write speeds. While the current 8-10 MB/s write rate is acceptable for archival workflows, faster writing would open additional use cases. The long-term vision includes competing not just with tape but with traditional hard drives for certain nearline storage applications.

China’s glass storage breakthrough represents a rare convergence of academic research, industry talent, and manufacturing capability — and it positions YiYao Technology at the forefront of what could be the next generation of data storage infrastructure.

A perfect RAID setup does not exi…

Not really, I just used an example of the kind of fuckery that would be possible given that people do ask llms for medical advise. Whether they should or not is a separate question.

I do photography, and I like to keep the original RAW photos from the camera. So, this sort of thing would be perfect for me. I don’t really need fast write access, since I just want to back the photos up and it’s not time sensitive.

Yes, the model reflects the biases already baked into the training data., and the pidgin example is almost certainly the model regurgitating classist, racist patterns from its corpus, not a developer explicitly telling it to mock villagers. However, the broader point here is reagarding systemic inequality showing up in AI output.

The intentional claim is based on the fact that Claude straight up refused to answer certain factual questions for users who identified as Iranian or Russian, while cheerfully answering the same questions for Americans. That can’t be hand waved away as a statistical correlation between dialect and knowledge. That’s a hard refusal trigger almost certainly put there by safety/alignment tuning, RLHF filters, or some geopolitical compliance rules nobody knows about. Someone decided that users from those countries shouldn’t get those answers.

So there are two different things happening. One is that the model has passive bias where it learns toxic associations from training data. But the other is active gating where the model is instructed, directly or indirectly, to withhold information based on user demographics. The refusal case clearly shows that there is deliberate choice in whom the model will give answers to.

And the most important aspect of all this is that we cannot reliably know what the reason for a particular behavior is because closed models make it impossible to tell which mechanism is at work. Hence why open and inspectable models are the only way to audit this stuff. The prescription of openness and local control makes sense regardless of whether the harm is passive or active.

AMD’s 3D V-Cache, which is what I assume you’re thinking of, is a clever but limited optimization that stacks memory on top of existing logic to give you more cache. Meanwhile, Huawei’s Tau Scaling Law is a total rethinking of chip design where you actually fold the logic circuits themselves into multiple active layers to shrink the physical distance signals have to travel. This is a much bigger deal because it attacks the fundamental bottleneck of signal propagation delay rather than memory latency. The key advantage of Tau is that it does not require cutting edge EUV lithography to keep advancing transistor density. Huawei claims they can achieve 1.4nm equivalent densities by 2031 using older process nodes just by stacking logic vertically. AMD still needs TSMC’s smallest transistors to stay competitive, but Tau architecture uses 3D folding to bypass the need for smaller transistors altogether.

I mean they’re not sentient lmfao, they’re fundamentally incapable of caring about anything.

You do realize Reuters has a strong western bias as well?

they’re the stenographers for the rich

That’s not what I’m saying at all. The first step to my perspective is to consider the framing they’re using and to think why they want to push a particular narrative. Nowhere did I say anything about assuming they’re being truthful. Although, in most cases western media uses more sophisticated techniques for distorting information than outright lying. It will be omission of facts, framing, and so on. This is an excellent book dissecting how US propaganda actually works. https://november8ph.ca/psychological-warfare-in-the-strategy-of-imperialism-v-l-artemov/

And you should also widen your media diet to include non western sources. These will have different biases and framings which you can contrast with what western media reports.

If we discarded every source that had a liberal or capitalist slant, we would effectively have to stop reading 99% of Western media, and we’d be blinding ourselves to the narrative of the ruling class. We are adults with functioning brains and the capacity for critical analysis. We should be able to read a piece of liberal slop, identify the ideological framing, strip it away, and analyze the material conditions they are reporting on or trying to obscure.

You need to read the Wall Street Journal because it is the mouthpiece of the ruling class that tells you exactly what capital is thinking, what they are afraid of, and how they are strategizing to protect their interests. You cannot effectively dismantle an argument if you refuse to understand its internal structure and logic.

Running away from information because it doesn’t align with their worldview is what liberals do when they retreat into their MSNBC bubbles. We should be secure enough in our own position to read sources we abhor, understand them, and approach their claims from a position of knowledge. Ruthless criticism of all that exists includes reading sources like the wsj.

Ah yes, me a famously rich person.

That’s not hyperbole by the way, the military in the south is literally under US command. In September 1945, the US Army Military Government in Korea (USAMGIK) took over the southern half of the peninsula. It ruled for three full years, outlawed local people’s committees, and kept using the old Japanese colonial bureaucracy. That is a textbook military occupation. When the Korean War broke out in 1950, the US provided 90 percent of all combat forces and placed the South Korean military under the operational control of an American general. There weren’t even any elections under the occupation until the late 80s. It was a literal dictatorship.

That control has never truly gone away. Today, South Korea is under de facto US military occupation. The US runs Camp Humphreys, the largest overseas US base on the planet, with its own postal service and currency. More importantly, the US controlled Combined Forces Command holds wartime operational control over the entire South Korean military. If fighting resumes, Seoul’s army does not answer to Seoul, but to a four star American general. And a US dominated UN Command still publicly dictates what South Korea’s parliament can legislate near the DMZ.

Under the current Combined Forces Command structure, if war breaks out tomorrow, every South Korean soldier would automatically answer to an American commander without Seoul’s consent. It is a 70‑year‑old military subordination that the US has repeatedly delayed transferring. As of May 2026, the US insists on “conditions‑based” transfer and opposes a “politically convenient” timeline. South Korea’s president himself is pushing back against this delay. A foreign general holding final command over a sovereign nation’s military in wartime is, by any definition, continuing military occupation.

so edgy

Exactly, this is something most people in the west don’t seem to grasp. Putin is as pro western as it gets in Russia, and the main criticism of him is that he’s not pursuing the war hard enough. If he somehow did get ousted, it’s almost certain that he’d be replaced by somebody far more hardline.

Yeah not sure what large constitutes here, if it’s something that you can write to local storage then it’s very easy to do.

The article literally answers this:

At the anode outlet, the high-purity carbon dioxide generated by the reaction is captured in situ and catalytically converted into valuable chemical feedstocks such as synthesis gas or mineralised into compounds like sodium bicarbonate.

I present exhibit A

https://www.wsj.com/articles/russias-turn-to-its-asian-past-1530889247