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by ksec | 2025-04-08 15:14:29+00:00
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Single Thread Efficiency (Oryon Mobile)- Bilbili

There seems to a reviewer on bilbili (S White Database) who reviewed Single Thread power consumption/efficiency for the Qualcomm Oryon core using Geekbench 6.

https://imgur.com/a/vqtIWz0

The Oryon core scores 3261 while consuming 7.6W of power.

Dimensity scores 2901 while consuming 7.9W of power.

A18 pro scores 3568 while consuming 6.6W of power.

Looking at the graph, it seems that at an iso power of 7.6W, Oryon has a ~15% performance advantage over the Cortex X925.

At iso performance, Oryon matches Dimensity’s score while using ~2.5-3 less watts of power.

Compared to the A18 pro, Apple seems to retain a sizable P/W lead. 540.6 points/W (A18 Pro) compared to 429.07 points/W (Oryon). Translates to a 25% P/W advantage.

Looking at iso power however, the gap closes, Apple retains a 15% lead over the Oryon core.

Unable to compare iso performance since A18 pro has a single data point, but considering the lead over Dimensity is similar, it is likely Apple is similarly 30-40% more efficient at iso performance.

Impressive showing by Qualcomm.

Metric D9400 8 Elite A18 Pro

Geekbench 6 ST 2901 3261 3568

Clock speed 3.63 GHz 4.32 GHz 4.04 GHz

Power consumption 7.9W 7.6W 6.6W

P-core Area 3.2 mm² 2.2 mm² 2.9 mm²

Performance-per-clock 799 770 883

Performance-per-watt 367 429 540

Performance-per-area 906 1482 1230

PPC : Apple > Mediatek > Qualcomm.

PPW : Apple > Qualcomm > Mediatek.

PPA : Qualcomm > Apple > Mediatek.

Apple and Qualcomm only includes L1 as L2 are shared.

Mediatek includes L2.
by aenvoker | 2025-04-08 15:14:38+00:00
Having used lots of different image generators, so far the only one with a sense of humor has been Dall-e3.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dalle2/s/khb5XuNFdl

There’s probably some sort of connection to ChatGPT in there. But, I don’t know enough about how it works.
by leephillips | 2025-04-08 15:14:41+00:00
I subscribe to https://kagi.com/. I use search to find expert and authoritative sources of information with human authors who can be held responsible for their contents, and that I can cite in my own work. I’m not interested in the output of a copy-paste machine that steals others’ work, makes things up, and spits out prose worse than a politician’s.
by jermaustin1 | 2025-04-08 15:14:50+00:00
How long did it take to oxygenate the planet though? Millions of years, billions?

How long did it take to spew enough carbon into the atmosphere to create acid rain? How long did it take to clear cut most of the wester European forests?

No one thinks the earth was perfectly harmonious before man, but in the last 200k years (0.0004% of the earth's age), we have DEFINITELY left a mark that no other life form before had. In the last 200 years, we've probably done more harm than all other life forms before as well (but that I'm less confident about).
by devinbhushan | 2025-04-08 15:14:53+00:00
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by runjake | 2025-04-08 15:14:55+00:00
The EKG stress test portion was fun.

"We want you to run until you feel tired." (I forget their exact wording, but that's the spirit)

"Uhm, we're going to be here for hours."

"OK, get it up to 145bpm and then stop whenever you want."

"I never get up to 145 bpm!"

"We'll get you up to 145 bpm".

And indeed they did. An aside: their treadmill goes steeper than mine at home does. :-P
by matt3210 | 2025-04-08 15:15:58+00:00
One thing jumps out about the person who noticed the AI was wrong on things they were familiar with. It's like when ELon Musk talks about rockets. I don't know about rockets so I take his word for it. When Elon Must talked about software it was obvious he has no idea what he's doing. So when the AI generates something I know nothing about, it looks productive but when it's generating things for which I'm familiar I know its full of shit.
by another-dave | 2025-04-08 15:15:59+00:00
I'd agree with limiting copyrights but would do it based on money earned rather than time, so something like when you make $X million, the work becomes public domain.

As a specific example — _A Game of Thrones_ was released in 1996. It picked up awards early on but only became a NYT best seller in 2011, just before the TV show aired.

It would feel harsh for an author to loose all their copyright because their work was a "slow burn" and 5 years have elapsed but they've made little to no money on it.
by fzeroracer | 2025-04-08 15:16:08+00:00
> Also, the ability to work under pressure is valuable skill. If you have a candidate that fails to perform when being in a room with someone else, I doubt you can argue that that's your hiring decision when other candidates are able to perform in similar circumstances.

I'm curious, as a software engineer when was the last time you've seriously worked under pressure? Like, 'do this thing now or you're fired/the company goes under' and so forth? The kind of snap pressure that interviews can push on you.

I haven't been under significant pressure in the past 10 or so years of software engineering. Not when on live ops diagnosing why our server is failing to work in prod, not when identifying critical client crashes.
by whimsicalism | 2025-04-08 15:16:22+00:00
i wish i was not sympathetic to those arguments - and i used to not be, but then i actually worked in the federal government. perhaps local governments can efficiently provision services but the feds are handicapped in so many different ways it would be quite challenging to untangle.

realistically, the workforce that was hired around sorting through hundreds of thousands of bureaucratic paper documents in the 70s/80s is not the same workforce that can really build new products and the feds are mostly the former.
by djrj477dhsnv | 2025-04-08 15:16:49+00:00
Huh? What stereotype? It was an honest question that I haven't heard a good answer for how black market payments will work as societies go cashless.

In the US, it seems that 3rd party systems like Venmo are lightly monitored when it comes to payments for minor crimes. But I imagine that would change when there is a single government controlled payment system with total transparency.
My MacBook Pro repair on hold "because we need more information."
by garyrob | 2025-04-08 15:17:04+00:00
I sent my MacBook Pro to Apple for repair, and it arrived there yesterday morning. Since then, a whole day now, it's been in a status of "Our technicians have put your repair on hold because we need more information." I asked about it via Apple's chat support, and they could give me no more information than that.

I must admit I'm a bit worried that the information they need may have to do with getting parts from China in the presence of tariffs!
by Fraterkes | 2025-04-08 15:17:45+00:00
You are again just thinking from the perspective of a manager: Yes, if these ai jobs need to be filled, artists will be the people filling them. But from the artists perspective there are fewer jobs, and the jobs that do remain are less fulfilling. So: from the perspective of a large part of the workforce it is completely true and rational to say that ai at their job has mostly downsides.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-04-08 15:18:03+00:00
> So when the AI generates something I know nothing about, it looks productive but when it's generating things for which I'm familiar I know its full of shit.

This is why when you hear people talk about how great it is at producing X, our takeaway should be "this person is not an expert at X, and their opinions can be disregarded"

They are telling on themselves that they are not experts at the thing they think the AI is doing a great job at
by turtlesdown11 | 2025-04-08 15:18:08+00:00
Quit the hyperbole.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IPMAN

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/global-manufacturing-scor...

> Manufacturing constitutes 27 percent of China’s overall national output, which accounts for 20 percent of the world’s manufacturing output. In the United States, it represents 12 percent of the nation’s output and 18 percent of the world’s capacity. In Japan, manufacturing is 19 percent of the country’s national output and 10 percent of the world total. Overall, China, the United States, and Japan comprise 48 percent of the world’s manufacturing output.
by runjake | 2025-04-08 15:18:14+00:00
My PR is ~3:40, but to do that, I dropped a lot of weight (~30 lbs) and did a lot of dedicated training with a, let's say, reputable marathon coach.

3:40 is slow by "serious layperson" marathon standards, but it was about the max I could get with my at the time 40-ish yo body and ~6 months of serious training, starting from a solid baseline.

I am slow, so my average marathon normally hovers around 4:00.

I am not fast by any measure, but I do have ridiculous endurance.
by veesahni | 2025-04-08 15:18:17+00:00
My son has been learning to code. Today he’s releasing v2 of his math battle game, The Gamey Game. He’s excited to share it with you all!

The Gamey Game v2: https://www.armaansahni.com/game-v2

He’s also written a blog post about how he made this game: https://www.armaansahni.com/how-i-took-the-gamey-game-to-the...

He originally released v1 of the game a few months ago and got great feedback from this community. A big thank you for the feedback, it led to some great conversations and provided a ton of motivation for him to keep moving forward.

v2 was built using HTML, JS, CSS. All written by hand in VSCode. No frameworks, no build steps. He made all the graphics himself and also recorded all the audio.

Note that both parents are programmers so he has lots of hints and guidance along the way. He also leverages Google Gemini to answer coding questions (syntax, how to do something, etc), but the LLM isn’t coding for him and it isn’t available to him directly in his editor.

For the blog post, we talked about the target audience and came up with an outline. He then dictated his blog post directly into Google Docs. Finally, we went through a few rounds of feedback/edits (for more clarity, more words, etc).

Other links:

v1 Game Link: https://www.armaansahni.com/game

v1 Blog Post: https://www.armaansahni.com/how-i-coded-a-game-using-ai/

v1 Discussion Thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42312121
by 999900000999 | 2025-04-08 15:18:40+00:00
>In one such case, Xiaotian Liu, a doctoral candidate studying computer science at Dartmouth College and a Chinese citizen, received an email from school administrators on Friday that the Department of Homeland Security had terminated his student status,

Welp. For decades the US has been a top educational destination. I found myself dating amazing girls from all over the world in college. It was fun.

No more. No one in their right mind is going to want to study here. You spend in holy amount of money to attend, all to risk getting randomly indefinitely detained.

Way to ruin our soft power for the next 50 years. When the children of world leaders are lining up to attend our top schools, that's a good thing.

But the elites of the future are going to study elsewhere. This is also a shadow attack on academia which owes much of its revenue to international students.

Make America Stupid Again!
by hwillis | 2025-04-08 15:19:00+00:00
> My brother is an extremely skilled machinist, the sort who could build machine tools if he had the resources.

Machine tools are not designed by extremely skilled machinists, they are designed by engineers. Machinists do not know how frames deflect or resonant modes or overconstraint or the other things that are critical in machine tool design. Machine tools are inherently dynamic systems where moving cutters cause feedback into the system. Being able to make something accurate under static conditions is very different.
by hocuspocus | 2025-04-08 15:19:06+00:00
Fees are always paid by consumers in one way or another...

That said the EEA capped interchange with the explicit goal of making these fees painless to business owners, i.e. similar to the actual cost of handling cash, and we have PSPs charging as little as 0.5~0.7%.

While adoption is indeed slower than in developing countries since people are used to card payments (rather debit than credit by the way), the popularity of mobile wallets such as Swish, Vipps, BLIK, ... is actually pretty significant in a good number of countries, and at the same time, an increasing portion of the population uses Apple/Google/Samsung/... Pay and doesn't care about the physical card anymore. Given that the EU has forced Apple to open up its NFC payment feature, we can perfectly imagine a pan-European federated payment scheme take off in the near future, using EPI/Wero in the Eurozone and interoperable local players outside.
by nfriedly | 2025-04-08 15:19:28+00:00
I didn't realize their margins were under 10% on some of their models. They seemed pricey enough in comparison to some of their competitors that I just assumed they had healthy margins across the range.

Economies of scale are a real thing, I hope Framework gets there.

(FWIW, I have a 7640U FW13 and I'm a pretty big fan of it.)
by some-guy | 2025-04-08 15:19:51+00:00
I always assumed game development would be one of the most impacted by AI hype, for better or worse. With game development there’s a much higher threshold for subjectivity and “incorrectness”.

I’m in a Fortune 500 software company and we are also being pushed AI down our throats, even though so far it has only been useful for small development tasks. However our tolerance for incorrectness is much, much lower—and many skip levels are already realizing this.
by marcusb | 2025-04-08 15:20:13+00:00
Related:

* Framework temporarily pausing some laptop sales in the US due to tariffs(https://fosstodon.org/@frameworkcomputer/114297967333461078) 170 points|leotravis10|15 hours ago|34 comments

* Framework "temporarily pausing" some laptop sales because of new tariffs(https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/04/framework-temporaril...) 19 points|pbui|16 hours ago|4 comments

* Framework pauses US sales of some laptops due to tariffs(https://bsky.app/profile/frame.work/post/3lmajsf6uws2p) 56 points|m-hodges|17 hours ago|0 comments

* Framework pausing sales of certain laptop models due to tariffs(https://twitter.com/FrameworkPuter/status/190930422507239438...) 11 points|jljljl|17 hours ago|0 comments
by eadmund | 2025-04-08 15:20:17+00:00
It took a truly colossal amount of human time and effort to build AI systems. It takes significant amount of energy to run those AI systems.

I don’t see any meaningful difference at all between the system of a human, a computer and a corpus of images producing new images, and the system of a human, a paintbrush, an easel, a canvas and a corpus of images producing new images. Emphasis on the new — copying is still copying, and still controlled by copyrights.
by hansmayer | 2025-04-08 15:20:24+00:00
> " Image generation is likely to be very disruptive in ways we don’t understand right now. " Is anyone getting tired of these formulations ? When a tech is disruptive, we know it immediately. Uber was disruptive. AirBnB, Gmail, Amazon, even Facebook at one point. You just knew it, nobody was writing long essays trying to justify those products. Robots generating statistically median images is impressive, but not disruptive at all. If something is "likely" to be "disruptive", but in ways "we don't understand yet", how can the claim even be made? What is it based on? If we do not understand it yet, how can we understand if it is "likely to be disruptive".
by bengarney | 2025-04-08 15:20:36+00:00
I would not expect much, but you'd have to measure to be sure.

If you actually have a million of something you're better off writing a custom manager thing to handle the bulk of the work anyway. For instance, if you're doing a brick building game where users might place a million bricks - maybe you want each brick to be an Actor for certain use cases, but you'd want to centralize all the collision, rendering, update logic. (This is what I did on a project with this exact use case and it worked nicely.)
by lovich | 2025-04-08 15:20:50+00:00
>If you do this you are creating a rod for your own back: You need management to see the failures & the time it takes to fix them, otherwise they will assume everything is fine & wonderful with their new toy & proceed with their plan to inflict it on everyone, oblivious to the true costs + benefits.

If at every company I work for, my manager's average 7-8 months in their role as _my_ manager, and I am switching jobs every 2-3 years because companies would rather rehire their entire staff than give out raises that are even a portion of the market growth, why would I care?

Not that the market is currently in that state, but that's how a large portion of tech companies were operating for the past decade. Long term consequences don't matter because there are no longer term relationships.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-04-08 15:21:02+00:00
Faster is not a smart metric to judge a programmer by.

"more code faster" is not a good thing, it has never been a good thing

I'm not worried about pro AI workers ruining their codebases at their jobs

I'm worried about pro AI coworkers ruining my job by shitting up the codebases I have to work in
by wiether | 2025-04-08 15:21:08+00:00
I know iDeal because I had to implement it for a customer a few years back, but that's the first time I hear about EPI

After looking to see what it is about, I can tell you that even though I have accounts in three of the "Founding Shareholders", I never heard of it, they never pushed it to me and I only saw references to Wero in one of their app, but I had to look closely for it.

So I have doubts regarding you statement about "it should become the standard in the EU"
by stevensu | 2025-04-08 15:21:46+00:00
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by mjr00 | 2025-04-08 15:22:15+00:00
Yeah. Nobody seriously commits to it because fundamentally the idea of EU countries quickly moving off American tech services is as flawed as the idea of American manufacturers quickly moving to production in domestic factories:

* There's no existing infrastructure. OVH and Hetzner are great for smaller projects and businesses, but no serious enterprises and governments are using them, as far as I know. There's no real alternatives to Android, iOS and Windows. (Sorry, folks; not the year of the Linux desktop quite yet.)

* It's expensive and time-consuming. The on-prem to cloud migration took decades for most (and is still ongoing for many!); even if a viable alternative existed right now, migrating from AWS to a domestic cloud service is a 5+ year project that distracts from other initiatives.

* Compounding on the above, business leaders still largely expect this to be a one-time event, believing there's low likelihood this policy would last past 2028. You're not going to see much beyond research and planning for at least 4 years, before anyone commits to investing hundreds of millions in a massive tech migration.

* Besides all that, where do you actually move to, specifically? You can say "the EU," but given the rise of populism in the region, are you confident enough to bet $500m that there won't be a "Gexit", "Frexit" or "Swexit"? Is every country in the EU going to make their own Amazon-scale cloud provider and Windows-scale operating system? Seems unrealistic.

The most realistic outcome is that MS, Meta, and Alphabet all continue to push region-specific data residency for their cloud platforms and OS'es, so customers are more insulated against foreign policy changes... and charge European customers more for the trouble.
by memset | 2025-04-08 15:22:28+00:00
I interned at IBM writing mainframe software in 2008 or so. One thing I remember them saying - there used to be TV commercials - that a single mainframe could replace a rooms worth of commodity hardware.

I would have assumed that someone would have started a cloud provider with Linux VMs running on mainframes instead of racks of pizza boxes. What was missing - are the economics of mainframes really that bad?
by yojo | 2025-04-08 15:23:19+00:00
Tech is the obvious one, but there are lots of less obvious ones, like designing the things that are manufactured elsewhere.

It turns out production of most goods is commoditized and a race to the bottom (assuming free trade), so if you want margins that can support high salaries, you have to move up the value chain (read: services).

If we keep tariffs high enough for long enough, we will bring back manufacturing jobs. They will not be high paying unless unions artificially constrain labor supply. The cost of everything will be higher (relative to people’s incomes), implying a lower standard of living.

tl;dr: If we want to withdraw from the world economy we mostly can, but don’t expect to have as nice of a life afterward.
by runjake | 2025-04-08 15:23:25+00:00
I didn't know what knock-out certificates were, so here's an edited excerpt from Claude:

"Knock-out certificates (also called "turbo certificates" or "barrier options") are leveraged financial derivatives popular in Europe, particularly in Germany, Switzerland, and France. They're structured products that allow investors to speculate on the price movements of an underlying asset with leverage.

...

They have a built-in "knock-out barrier" - if the price of the underlying asset reaches or crosses this predetermined level, the certificate immediately expires and becomes worthless or is redeemed at a minimal residual value."
by throw0101c | 2025-04-08 15:23:29+00:00
See related ten-minute video, "How Private Equity Bankrupted Fire Departments":

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvW-RtTRm8w

Also "As Wall Street Chases Profits, Fire Departments Have Paid the Price":

* https://archive.is/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/us/fir...
by cashsterling | 2025-04-08 15:23:35+00:00
I graduated in ChemE in southern California in 1999 when there was a major downturn in the job market. One or two big chemical engineering design firms closed their SoCal offices flooding the market with qualified chemE's, aerospace companies were consolidating, etc.

Some of my school colleagues got good jobs at refineries and whatnot... but they were the fortunate ones. It took me 12 months to land my first "I made it" engineering job with a good salary. In the interim, I worked hourly jobs making between 13-18 USD an hour.

Don't let the current job market deflate you. You are young, intelligent, and you have a degree from MIT... you are going to be fine.