skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Use an M3 Max to render in Corona or even Keyshot. Try to work in Fusion360 on an even moderately featured design. It goes nuclear fast.
So, like a human, then?
To be fair, that's going to happen with most non-ruggedized laptops.
I think this might be the most cynical thing I’ve read on the Internet. Congrats.
Finally I did a brief description for my quantum computing simulator. It was on GitHub already for quite some time.
I ordered one from Cliff 4-5 years ago and the whole process was delightful start to finish.. It looks like he has even added more stuff to the package since I did!

The bottle itself is only part of the whole experience. :-)
Direct link:

https://corbettreport.com/flashback-inqtel/
AMD stops certifying monitors, TVs under 144 Hz for FreeSync
Antarctic Explorers Wrote Cute, Funny Stories to Hide Dangerous Stunts
I have to wonder whether there is ever a point that can be reached where people in general realise that any stuff one does online is at risk. Private info, finance, cash, sharing of personal information, health info, etc is all better done the old fashioned way - in person.

I personally don't mind doing things offline - eg literally going to a bank do de-risk.. but this becomes an impossibility if there are no banks to bank at.

Anyway, I really think 'real life' needs a revival, but this isn't in corporate interests. I can't see that this won't happen, as it seems that AI will render anything on screens a potential false representation and therefore as untrustworthy.
It's difficult to really compare.

One particular example would be generating an image of a cloud. There are billions of such images in existence, but you could also use a model to generate one, which would take several orders of magnitude more energy than just using your search engine of choice to find one of the billions.

In general though, people tend to reach for convenience so I expect the energy usage to increase rather than decrease due to the demand created by the "ease" of AI.

On the other hand, if humanity because productive such that we "solve" energy than the point ends up being moot, since any energy increase will be offset by the invention of nuclear cold fusion, or other such things.
An obsessed insect hunter: The creepy-crawly origins of daylight savings
Isn’t this more a problem of running inference for closed-source AI services? Considering we have open models that are now within throwing distance of GPT-4, it would make sense to do those workloads outside data centers running a single service (or even on people’s devices). Of course training still requires lots of resources, but that doesn’t have to happen nearly as frequently.
Well, I prefer to avoid it, whatever it's called.
Yeah, I'm not holding out much hope, but I'm an AIO guy and I have zero interest in putting a tall Mac Mini on my desk. I ended up adding a 32" TV as a second monitor and it's good enough.
LLMs are a small subset of AI.

In the long term, GPUs won't be used to accelerate LLMs.
I mostly agree, but once you understand it, a new frustration emerges: "why can't I just do X on this graph?"
This is the same PR campaign that was being used against crypto.

You need to wonder why someone is trying to pull the heart strings of those concerned about the environment. Who would benefit from getting the greenies mobilized against AI? Who wants to shift the conversation to concerns around the consumption of AI and why?
I think with the global warming becoming more and more of an emergency, the "long" term might be an issue, it's time we don't have
If you go to those people and tell them you have pain and you need to know which muscles to strengthen and which muscles to stretch, whether to rest or work out or get an x-ray, etc. they tell you to go to a physical therapist. But you need a referral for a physical therapist, so you have to go to a primary care physician first. All they do is throw drugs at you so you basically have to lie about taking the drugs because no I don't need painkillers I need answers, and then you can finally get your referral and go to the physical therapist who can help.

I've had this experience once and my wife has had it thrice (different doctors, different injuries).

By asking primary care physicians to gatekeep drugs, we're introducing a bias where when you walk in the door they assume you're after drugs. I don't have a solution for how best to gatekeep drugs, I just wish I could find a doctor who was unencumbered by that task so they could focus on healthcare instead.
You have misinterpreted the argument.
The balls are missing to enable making connections to inner balls in a board with fewer layers.

The outer balls take up space and so block the traces from inner balls. By strategically removing some of the outer balls, you create channels that can be used for routing taxes from the inner balls.
"Modem" stands for "modulator-demodulator" and it is there to convert the TCP/IP traffic in your house to some sort of non-TCP/IP connection that goes to your ISP. In case of cable provider, I believe the outgoing protocol is called DOCSIS, and in case of a telephone provider it could be ADSL/VDSL etc. (Historically some also used ATM above the physical layer.) The modem is there to do that translation.

With fiber, there is TCP/IP traffic within your house and TCP/IP traffic to your ISP. There is no translation to do, so no translator device (modem) is needed. The only thing needed is a physical layer conversion, from 0s and 1s as voltage over copper, to (exactly same) 0s and 1s as light over fiber. This conversion (not "translation") could be done by a stand-alone ONT (a rather uncomplicated, or could I say "trivial" device), but there are several router boxes that have fiber connections — either built-in (on board) or as plug-in modules.

Different ISPs have different offerings, but as you might imagine not many people want to manage their own router. My ISP has provided me with a free ONT which goes into my router, to which I connect my WiFi access points, all of which I manage myself.
That's fair. I learnt my lesson and have a shock-absorbing case now.
That energy is still being consumed if it’s happening on device. It’s just more spread out, and potentially less efficient.
Along with your 4D woolly jumpers
I always see people switch from Linux to Windows only because WSL exists. But Powershell is a legitimately good shell (imo, better than bash or zsh). The main complaint I hear about it is that the command names can be verbose, which always struck me as an odd complaint from people who type for a living.

But that can be mitigated by aliases and tab-autocomplete. I usually start typing the verb ("Start-", "Get-", "Convert") and then just tab through the nearest results. Windows Terminal also has pretty good auto-suggestions from your history so commands I run frequently get remembered.

You've also got all of .Net at your disposal; I've created cmdlets that connect to a postgres database for debugging purposes

But what I like most of all about Powershell is that everything is properly typed instead of dealing with streams of bytes. I noticed when I worked in a company with mostly macbooks that most of the engineers weren't really doing the unix "pipe-everything-into-different-commands" philosophy, but were mostly just putting log files into jq and then running all of their queries with jq's language. With powershell, you can convert json (or csv, or yaml with plugins) into a native structured format and then do your queries directly in powershell instead of relying on third party tools

It took some getting used to, but I can't imagine going back to bash or zsh now
A great piece of writing.
I know it sounds crazy but sometimes people are genuinely worried about climate change and the environment. Not everything is astroturfing.
same. both are trolls, but the government trying to steal tiktok is insane.
There is no alternate history timeline where Elon and his army of insecure, raging manchildren didn't suck up all the oxygen in the room so I guess we'll never know how much better things could have been.
There's an exception to this rule if the underlying network does not go wrong.

In particular, if the "network" is something local to one machine, pcie or some cross-chip fabric thing, where the failure modes of the "network" are the box falls over, then RPC works as one might hope. You don't have to mangle functions to take account of extra network errors because there are none.

The specific use case I'm interested in is heterogenous compute on shared memory machines. Code running on a GPU can call `int rc = fprintf(stderr, "oh dear");` and have no idea whether that runs code on a CPU or not. Code running on a CPU can call some linear algebra function and either run it locally or on a GPU, unobservable to the caller.

That is a good trick. It does make for an interesting debugging experience where you lose track of where code is executing.

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There's a less esoteric application in the area of the OP for pure functions where you don't need the result immediately. That goes something like:

1. Call the function and get back a promise or similar. All runs locally, no failures

2. Something in the background maybe does the work for you

3. Ask for the result. If it's not available yet, do the work locally

That has the same zero failure modes property because it'll ultimately run all the work locally if the network offloading never works out. It only really makes sense if the functions can be called multiple times (e.g. locally and remote at the same time) without doing harm, i.e. pure functions. It costs latency and gains throughput. For some batch computation work that is great.
Sounds like some company out there is trying to position themselves to get their share of the hard-to-believe 7 trillion AI chip investment!
I mean that's great but honestly if you're a PhD or postdoc, being told that working in a call centre is better for you is hardly an encouraging thought. In fact, it would bring great shame to most people from their families.
I'm not sure what you mean. BERT has transformer architecture and has a size comparable to GPT-2. Did you have some other model in mind? Or are you trying to draw a distinction between billion and million param models?
> I wonder if Google will still support ChromeOS in a decade, whereas I have more confidence in MacOS.

No need to wonder, Chromebooks get a decade of updates nowadays (previously Google delivered on 8 years of updates). And Chromebooks are used in plenty of companies too, so they won't backpedal on that. Plus they heavily use them internally.
If an AlphaZero like of AI replaces the need for copyrighted data there will no be more excuses.
Update on String Templates (JEP 459)
and what has all of the crypto power usage lead to aside from wealth accumulation? did any of the other use cases pan out?
Florida publishes the identity of people charged with a crime, as I understand. This is what has cause the phenomenon of "Florida man" headlines.
The article covers this:

> So how does a prison laptop end up on eBay?

> The laptop that Zhang bought came from a state whose corrections department contracts with a Milwaukee-based nonprofit to dispose of its old laptops. But instead of recycling the devices, the organization resold them, selling out of 100 Securebooks after Zhang’s post went viral.
Doesn't Google (as they are mentioned in the article) makes vast use of renewable energy?
It would be great if everyone could be as comfortable with idle time as you are, but Jesus, why be such a prick about it?
So far google is faster than DALL-E for example, we are saved - for now
I own a Toyota Hybrid (2021 Camry, which I love), and have never even seen a BYD vehicle (in person)...

But with entry-level pricing at less than half of Toyota's least-expensive products, BYD is surely better than halfway "more advanced than Toyota's."

Price point is such an important thing when delivering any product, and if a BYD vehicle lasts even half as long as a Toyota, I'd purchase one.
The consumption is real, so no need for a campaign.

At least AI is more useful than crypto currencies but if we mainly get more spam text and fake images the energy costs aren't worth it.
Exchanges have buildings and money also wasted on executives as well as theft from customers.
How does temperature tolerance scale with shrinking transistor sizes?
Because crypto was extremely wasteful for electricity, and AI is following the same route.

Since a lot of power is still dirty, high energy usage should be curbed.

On the flip side, restricting energy usage impacts homes significantly more than businesses and creates poverty.

Look at the UK for energy poverty examples.
Don't forget about tires and batteries, my fellow non sequitur =D
The rate of efficiency optimizations that have occurred in the open source community over the past two years I think call that into question. Services like OpenAI and Anthropic have the highest performing models, but since we have no ideas about what they really are or how they do inference, we can’t say that they’re necessarily more efficient than open source. In fact, people doing things in walled gardens, motivated by maximizing market share, subsidized by big players, are more likely to be doing things inefficiently than research being done out in the open.
It all comes down to cost. These BGA chips have pins under the device unlike older packages like QFP or DIP. The pattern of missing pins is designed so it a fewer signal layers to bring out all the sigal connections in a typical PCB process. Devices with full grids would need more layers or tighter tolerances.

The appeal of STM32MP1 is you can put DDR momery with the chip on a 4 layer board. ST even provides the layout.
The Canon RF backfocus distance is short enough that you can get a tilt/shift adapter that lets you just chuck a medium format lens on the camera. Pretty slick.
Elon hears "His Master's Voice"

Elon Musk has a strong economic dependence on China through Tesla factories. Musk may be mentally unstable, but he is never so manic or angry that he lashes against China, or speaks ill of them. He speaks for them on many occasions.

Similar to Ray Dalio. When Dalio went all in to China with his investments, his opinions became hostages of the Chinese. When things turned sour, struggled to get rid of his China bet while speaking very positively of Chinese leadership.

Disney and Hollywood celebrities are in similar situation. No matter how bleeding right human rights activities they are, money is still stronger and staying silent on Chinese human rights is their choice. Chinese market is just too big.
It's not really about the speed of getting something, rather energy necessary. Inherently searching for discrete things that are already indexed properly (a large one time cost) will always be faster than inferencing a XXB parameter model.

There are contrived examples one could conjure where using AI is slower but ultimately uses less energy than due to the complexity involved, since searching is well, searching preexisting things. If you need something new and you're not good at searching it might require less time and compute in the end to just ask a model than potentially wasting days, weeks or years flailing about.
We co-sleep with the babies/kids, so caveats apply.

If you do a deeper dive into the research literature, the finding ends up being that it's fine to co-sleep if you are completely sober. No nyquil, no pot, no booze, no caffeine, no nicotine, nothing. If you put those in you and then the baby in the bed, then you start getting injuries and deaths.

So, obviously, the recommendation then has to be that you do not co-sleep. Because people are real dumb, and even more so when you've only had 4 hours of sleep in the last month. I've had other parents tell me that pot isn't a drug (its a medicine!) and really mean it. That since a MD prescribed them ambien, they can take it while breastfeeding and co-sleeping. The kids of those people are the ones the 'no co-sleeping' recommendation is meant for.

If you're totally 100% sober, it's fine for mom and baby to co-sleep.
If I was your neighboring countries, I would absolutely not let you “care for yourselves”. That puts my border at risk. Nothing is in a vacuum.
I wish I new any good ones. Using CMake myself.
The new Lexus GX would like to have a word with you. It is no better than my Highlander.

The reason is price. They keep the price low by skimping on interior plushness while keeping the mechanicals reliable.
FIX is old and really not great. Some exchanges are trying to move, or have moved, to things like SBE which is a zero-copy binary format. Of course it also improves performance dramatically. So maybe that's not the best example :-)
> incarcerated folks

AKA "prisoners". If only we could find a way to harness all these euphemism treadmills for electricity generation, then that might provide an actual social benefit
Yeah, it threatens the livelihoods of the people who are moreso ‘in charge’ of what is classified dystopian vs basic economics. Go figure.
Maybe it's viable with a high f number as the problem of the body shadowing the sensor will be less.
I am an ethnic European who lived in China for several years and now live in Taiwan. I speak and read Chinese at a level good enough for casual conversations, doing banking/rent/etc and getting by in the workplace, but I am far from an expert.

The accent and dialect is mutually intelligible on both sides of the strait, but there is a fair bit of vocabulary and some pronunciations that clearly mark you as having learned in one place or the other. Think of it as the difference between British and American English.

The bigger difference in my opinion is simplified versus traditional. It is possible to learn one and read the other, but having lived almost 2 years in Taiwan now I still find a wall of text in traditional a lot harder to digest. Personally I think simplified is more legible, especially on low res screens or at a distance, but it's unlikely to change over here for political reasons.

Taiwan is probably a fine place to learn Chinese as a beginner. It's easier to "cheat" due to the English language resources available in the community, but if you make an effort I'm sure you can immerse yourself.
Which they didn't need to do in such a disrupting manner. Story
There has not been such a thing as an "Obscene Energy Denand" for half a century, especially not for something that has a chance to turn out to be the most impactful labor-saving technology since the electromechanical computer. The US has the blueprint [1] to step-increase electrical generation at a lower bound of five times, with zero environmental impact, and continue growing for many generations longer than the world population is expected to increase, sitting on the shelf collecting dust for whenever it decides to use it.

In light of this, articles with this sort of headline are just scaremongering nonsense. McCarthy didn't tolerate this intentional ignorance [2], so we shouldn't, either.

[1] https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1212086

[2] http://jmc.stanford.edu/commentary/progress/nuclear-faq.html
Folks (n.)

“persons," Middle English, plural of folk (n.). Colloquial sense of "people of one's family" is from 1715. In Old English in plural use it meant only "peoples, nations."

https://www.etymonline.com/word/folks#etymonline_v_33264
The fact that XML External Entity Processing is a category of vulnerability indicates how wrong your comment is. There's a lot of things wrong with XML, mostly that it's hugely complicated and a nightmare to write parsers for. JSON won because all of that complexity wasn't in it nor needed.
> cheap 1000km EV

As in it goes that far on a single charge? That seems like a lot of batteries, and a lot of charging power if you can't keep it topped off at home.

Is there any particular reason to expect such a thing to be cheaper than something just using a bottle of liquid hydrocarbons for energy?
> Bitcoin mining now consumes a hundred and forty-five billion kilowatt-hours of electricity per year..producing that electricity results in eighty-one million tons of CO2

How do they even calculate it? I heard that bitcoin mining isn't profitable using fossil fuels. The average reward earned per kwh is something like 5 cents.
And the line between the two is blurred now with MCU running at hundreds of MHz. The STM32H7 is has more IPC than the original Raspberry Pi.
"Even the wiki says so"?

Wikipedia itself says that no one should rely on it as a source. It is not a source.
In what world is the Air's performance not reasonable? I have an M1 Air with 16GB of RAM and I've never felt like it was lagging behind me. It's my main computer which means it's used for work and every nerdy experiment I might run.

The best part is I can do all of that shit all day long on the battery and the laptop is super easy to move/carry around.

With no modifications or extra effort any thermal throttling I've ever encountered hasn't been noticeable.

When the M1 Air first came out there were the breathless articles about thermal throttling. It's only something that will come up with extended periods of high CPU usage.

I've tried to get my Air to thermally throttle and have only been able to do so doing 3D renders or running local LLMs for long periods (over an hour in my testing). Even long compiles don't really stress the CPU so much it throttles noticeably.

The simple solution in that case was a $20 laptop stand with a fan off Amazon.

If your use case is 100% CPU usage all the time either don't get an Air or get a cheap laptop stand with a built-in fan. If your Air isn't your CI/CD build machine or part of a render farm it'll be just fine.
https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/cleanenergy/

> From 2010 to 2022, we signed more than 80 agreements totaling approximately 10 GW of clean energy generation capacity—the equivalent of more than 31 million solar panels. Now, as we enter our third decade of climate action, we’ve set a goal to run on 24/7 carbon-free energy on every grid where we operate by 2030, aiming to procure clean energy to meet our electricity needs, every hour of every day, within every grid where we operate. Achieving this will also increase the impact of our clean energy procurement on the decarbonization of the grids that serve us.
Boeing: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
114C is the CPU temperature, we have no idea what the surface temperature of the MBA is.

These types of safety considerations are normally bread and butter considerations to any electronics manufacturer - there are plenty of guidelines and standards for them to reference and test to.

That said, the safety limits are that - safety limits. They are not necessarily comfortable. I think the safety limits for continuously held metal parts (so a MBA laptop) is like 55C. I think the rough guideline on "comfortable" is usually considered sub 40C.
My prediction: the advance of tech by AI will far surpasse what it consume in energy.

To look at the energy consumption of current model is extremely short sighted. If AI create a new material, a new solar cell, advance fusion reactor is all of humanity that jump forward.

Furthermore new generation of AI accelerators and new algorithms will improve efficiency by order of magnitute, it's still early days.
On Frontier and when it was previously Verizon I have only used my own router plugged into ONT via Ethernet cable. This has been 11 years now.
The energy usage to run these models can be drastically reduced through optimising and pruning near-zero weights.

If you’re an engineer like Carmack, I can imagine this is a problem that would be fruitful to tackle.

We are back at saving computation to get real world difference in performance and energy usage.
Agreed. We have a marketing strategy and SEO is just a part of it. I asked only about SEO since I found SEO to be the most opaque and hardest to calculate ROI on.
Pretty sure Loony Tunes cartoons ended with "That's all folks". Was the Obama era 1930-1969?