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From reviews I've seen, the M3 Air doesn't burn your lap as much as x86 laptops with active cooling, at least in sustained gaming workloads.

> During the game, the surface temperatures of the laptop certainly got warmer, though never uncomfortably hot. Many gaming laptops I’ve reviewed get much hotter (and louder, of course) during games. Looking at you, Razer Blade.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/macbook-air-m3-gamin...
I spoke with a manager and a co-worker how hard it would be to switch to another project.
They told me it happens at times, but not to count on it.
That’s not an answer because type checking only protects against that class of errors. But you can have a logic bug in your upgrade code `if (old state) { buggy implementation of old compat } else { implementation for new state }` (or `convert(old state) -> new state` if the conversion is external). If you transparently just run the old code instead, then you’re not actually transferring state seamlessly and you run into the choice of “run N versions of code vs terminate sessions” when you have long running sessions. In any case, I think you start to run into real constraints and it’s not clear to me how Erlang solves these with it’s “2 simultaneous versions of the code only”.
"with zero environmental impact"

I disagree, because 1. I live close to a former Uranium Mining site

https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/what-are-health-and-environm...

2. Chernobyl

I live in the fallout area and mushrooms and boar meat is still contaminated 37 years later. Over 1000 km away from the plant.
Hash rate divided by average ASIC hash rate gives you number of machines.

You multiply this number by the power consumption of the ASIC and divide it by average emissions for that amount of energy.
Can a moderator please change the title? As it stands, it looks like the M3 MacBook Air is 33% slower than the M2 MacBook Pro, since that's the natural point of comparison when nothing else is specified.

The HN title should be changed to reflect the fact that it's 33% slower than the MacBook Pro.
You are thinking of Liquid Robotics[0]. I always found it interesting that they used a Java implementation of MapReduce to do their substantial onboard data processing, which seemed very much at odds with the other issue of being extremely power constrained.

[0] https://www.liquid-robotics.com
EU regulators show be noted for once. Because the US regulators are on their second siesta.
Likely related to? As in you pulled this idea from thin air and pop science reading? Electricity prices are mostly political. Fossil has been heavily subsidised throughout its lifetime, as has nuclear. French prices are lower because their energy producer has 70 billion in debts, backed by the French state, in order not to pass the true price of nuclear on to consumers.

Hydrogen is not used yet, because we don't have enough renewables to have significant overproduction. For now storage is not needed.

Truly this is a topic where everyone feels comfortable to throw in strong opinions without having even the slightest idea of how any of it works.
Note that this future, as well as requiring insane amounts of super cheap electricity, also requires someone to figure out cheap direct air capture of CO2. Nobody is even remotely close to that yet.
So the (over dramatic) decision was made by someone with little knowledge but with power and probably responsibility.

That happens too often in this world.
I remember that! (On my uncle's 286+Hercules PC).
Where are the copyright lawsuits, then?
> I-Soon and Chinese police are investigating how the files were leaked

Well, I can tell you that. They were hacked by a competitor after loosing a goverment contract to i-soon.

I guess I'm on some kind of list now...
A couple years ago I happened to be sitting around a group of energy investors and academics when nuclear energy came up. Their unanimous understanding was that building nuclear plants had become simply too expensive to do either safely or within regulations. Was common knowledge to them it sounded like.
The cyberattacks which used the Marble framework were limited to those where a payload was delivered. Marble is comparable to mailing a bomb and putting a fake return address on the package.

For data exfiltration, which is like robbing a bank vault, you'll need more than a fake address. It's orders of magnitude more difficult to cover your tracks, and you only need to leave one clue behind to undo all that work.
I mean it probably depends on a bunch of details, you probably wanna use a video conferencing tool which uses hardware accelerated video encoding and decoding.
the archive is of the paywall notice; that's been happening with wsj
I am surprised that using non profit status to build a business and transferring/converting to for profit down the line isn’t considered a form of tax evasion.
I was just reading the other day about the history of x-ray crystallography, and how the Fourier transforms that were the domain of the supercomputers of the 1940's-1950's were, prior to that, months-long labors of human calculators [0]. It's a provocative history! I wonder what aspects of present life will seem, in hindsight, to have been "Sisyphean" labors—once they're no longer needed.

[0] https://journals.iucr.org/a/issues/2008/01/00/sc5015/ ("Busting out of crystallography's Sisyphean prison: from pencil and paper to structure solving at the press of a button[...]")
That is what we have been rolling out to cloud-native developers as well, they get to choose etc, but when you don't need to run a local Kubernetes cluster with heavy tools, but instead can do something with a container, some FaaS simulation etc. you're pretty much golden with the 24GB configuration. Even 16GB used to be plenty, but with the GPU zero-copy sharing and the runtimes eating a bit more memory, the extra couple of GB do really make a difference.

The amazing thing is that with this iteration, you're really leaving practically all Intels behind (at least Alder Lake and earlier) as you're either just as productive, or more productive, but without the heat, power draw or constant charging.
> At least AI is more useful than crypto currencies

Here is a “radical” idea for you. Let markets decide what energy is useful for or not!

Obviously there can be rules and regulations around how clean energy is and pollution, but the absolutely last thing the world needs is governments regulating what energy use is “good” or “bad”, unless you are itching to live in serious dystopian future.
Don't all dresses transform over time?

Eventually 100% of all possible dresses will transform into dust.
It all highly depends on what you're doing. For image generation, AI is quite cheap.

Here's an estimation: Video card uses 200W for around 8-10 seconds to generate an image. Let's say 10. That's 6 images/minute, 360 images/hour, 1800 images per kwh.

At 0.20 Euro/kwh in Europe (so not really cheap), an image costs 0.00011 Euro to generate.

Let's say we're further doing a boring brute force approach of choosing the best image out of 100. This puts our costs at 1 cent per final image.

This IMO compares extremely favorably to almost all alternatives. Drawing by hand for hours, using paints or inks, using good paper, etc, will easily cost more than 1 cent per picture.

And AI can be done purely on renewables, while inks, paints and paper have ecological costs.
Ha, I did this when I was prepping for the LSAT. It was useful to see if I was missing questions I knew I didn’t know well, or if I was missing questions that I thought I had nailed.
Shutting Down My Startup
> If you liked this project, consider giving the repository a star ! I am trying to get to 75 stars to be added to homebrew

I hate that that's a metric.
My first ARM Mac was an M1 mini with 8 GB of RAM and it worked great, I just wouldn’t want to run VMs on it. You’d be surprised by the performance.
Replacement timelines for cars are way longer, around 7-10 years, and way more money. I don't think this is comparable
You'd think a presidential candidate calling an American corporation a "true enemy of the people" would get more attention but apparently it's been semi-normalised.
> a bit much for something that sits in your lap

Here's a review that tested sustained gaming workloads on the M3 Air.

> During the game, the surface temperatures of the laptop certainly got warmer, though never uncomfortably hot. Many gaming laptops I’ve reviewed get much hotter (and louder, of course) during games. Looking at you, Razer Blade.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/macbook-air-m3-gamin...
So the next logical step is to turn the humans into batteries and let the AI handle the Earth, right?
That’s fine, you just give up the right to complain about cost of living when you’re driving around a leased BMW
Yeah, I’m not too worried about the tag/metadata part. WordPress/Yoast is great. Wasn’t sure about the backlink building efforts they’re doing for us.
>Uranium

Please google Thorium and Minor Actinide Incineration.

>Chernobyl

The manifest incompetencies of a literal Communist government are none of the US' concern.
I seem to remember that a long time ago, a single 2.5Gbit fibre was split across 32-64-128 households. The GPON’s job was thus to only decrypt the traffic meant for your connection.

It may be wrong information, or it may be completed outdated and irrelevant, but I remember that this was a reason why it was difficult to use your own ONT.

But seeing as the ONT is just a reframing/medium converter, I’m not sure I’d care enough, as long as the one provided by the ISP is reliable and performs well (those old black Alcatel ones were terrible).
It's like these news outlets have only one script that they apply to everything they see.

Having AI consume some energy is, in my opinion, very different than people speculating on bitcoin burning coal faster than most countries.
+1, my primary concern with AI is people misusing it. This is far more important than any “AI will become too powerful and evil” alignment delusion.
When doing back of the envelope calculations like this, it is helpful to look at the raw materials cost that goes into the capex figures.

For example, in transformers there is a lot of steel and copper. You likely won't reduce their costs much unless you figure out how to build them with less steel and copper.

But in electrical inverters, there is only a little steel and copper, and the rest of the cost is in fairly specialized silicon, software, and high design costs. There big cost reductions are probably possible at scale - perhaps to just 1% of today's inverter costs.

Now remember that whatever you're building needs to compete not with today's system, but in a hypothetical future with those optimized inverters.
I forget where I first heard this, but whenever someone uses the word "folks", you can often replace that word with the word "idiots" and get the actual underlying meaning of the speaker.

Now not all speakers using it mean it that way, but it's a lazy word to use to group people, and the othering of people it implies seems to equally apply. The condescending tone really shines through.

If you intend on continuing to use this word to address people, know that at least some of us are making this conversion in our heads at all times.
Yup that's right.

Also a pet peeve of mine, people constantly screwed up the units. "10 SWEs" is rate (cost per time), same as "10 TB of RAM", but "SWE-years" is cost (ie dollars). Many design documents use these inconsistently.
"Blame it on the X"

X: Russians
Chinese
Iran
(current US enemy)
Captain Jean-Luc Picard pondering a thorny problem with the Klingons: "Computer, think for me."
Finding more detailed information has been annoying.

From https://www.dezeen.com/2024/02/09/4d-knit-dress-mit-ministry... it says that the heat shrinking material is nylon, while the rest of the yarn is a viscose + polyester blend.
https://archive.is/njsSX
I've been on AT&T's internet for several decades (going back to ISDN), and although my current fiber internet service shows no device rental fee, for many years before that, I had a monthly "Internet Equipment Fee" of $7. This was for the 2Wire 3801HGV router (the AT&T specific model).
> never uncomfortably hot

Well, that's like "never uncomfortably loud" for video card fans. In the eye of the beholder.
The argument is that you can't say activity A increases or decreases net energy demand without modeling whether there are activities B, C, D, ... whose energy demands will decrease if activity A happens. The implication is that AI may save more energy than it consumes.

One made up possibility: maybe you can spend some energy on AI to optimize a supply chain, and that saves 50x as much energy every year after the supply chain is optimized.

The driving example was just that: an example. Driving obviously consumes energy, but what if, for example, you're a home energy efficiency contractor, and you're driving to a job to insulate a house, and that's going to lead to a net decrease in energy much greater than the energy you consumed to get there.
> you can google for threat actor attribution.

I've had a interesting life. I'm a expert in not getting "attributed" if you will. No need.

> Private companies do this work as well as governments.

It's mostly private snake oil vendors.

Famously the FBI used a conclusion a private company, hired by a presidential campaign made, as a pretext to engage in surveillance on their primary opponents campaign a few elections ago. They did no forensics themselves. They didn't even get the full report and what they got was heavily redacted![0]

[0]https://consortiumnews.com/2019/06/17/fbi-never-saw-crowdstr...
Human habitation and influence on the landscape in the Amazon seems far more extensive in scope and duration than previously thought, based on recent discoveries.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Amazon+mounds+archaeology&t=ffip&i...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Amazon+australasian+dna&t=ffip&ia=...

The significance of the second link is ancient peoples further north and in other parts of the Americas don’t share this genetic link, indicating a longer timeline of human habitation in the region than previously thought.
Indeed, it is practically impossible today. If only there was some way to change a regulation in a day...
Worked at a PBM. Interesting factoid.

The FreeStyle Libre 3 has a lower ongoing out of pocket cost for people who just need diagnotic monitoring but no integration with a pump. Dexcom , however, offered rebates that made it cheaper in initial outlay by the PBM to get people using, then left them paying the higher upkeep costs for functionality they may never need.

Something to keep in mind. Your insurer doesn't optimize for you. They optimize for them.
I never said it was equal. But it’s plenty to make cross country trips 5 years ago and it’s a correction to the ludicrous claim of “no charging infrastructure”
Is there any evidence to base this prediction on, or is this just a hunch? So far I've only seen questionable outcome.
That’s what I heard, too, but I couldn’t tell whether they’re delivering good results on the backlink side. The only metric I see is the domain authority score, but I also heard it’s quite easy to game that. How do you usually tell the backlink building is on track?
Fascinating. So the police hold some level of discretion on its release then?
Happy owner of an Acme Klein bottle here. I can confirm it has made me taller, more successful, and more attractive to all of the groups of people I wish to be attractive to.

... that or it's a fun conversation piece on my shelf. Perhaps both! =)
Unfortunately our current culture is significantly infected with the anti-humanism.

If we have a future where governments decide what is good energy vs bad energy use instead of clean or dirty energy production, then we will really enter a deep new dark age of human civilization.
If stochastic spacetime explains the rotation curves exactly without black matter, then how black matter can't exist at the same time?
It's been an "emergency" for 50 years
The article makes no point about XML at all, it's really "don't invent languages, unless it's your last hope".
That sounds like the story behind SpaceX: Musk being told rockets were too expensive.
Sounds like something that ought to be nationalized.
Both, depending on the desires of customers, but it's currently leaning towards high-end hardware/software. A broad-market randomness-as-a-service offering is coming this month.
> 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.

Anything you do offline is at risk too.

> Private info, finance, cash, sharing of personal information, health info, etc is all better done the old fashioned way - in person.

Finance is better done the old fashioned way? You think trading stocks where you send a check and then your broker sends you back a stock certificate is better? You think communication by smoke signal is better?

> Anyway, I really think 'real life' needs a revival, but this isn't in corporate interests.

What does it matter to 'corporate interests' when 'real life' is dominated by corporate interests as well?

You must think we should go back to batch programming with punch cards? Lets get rid of hospitals and go back to blood letting. Old fashioned medicine. It seems like you are saying something but you really are saying nothing.
Used to, just as I imagine some other jobs were secure in the economy 100 years ago.

I personally don’t know what impact AI will have on the job market, but is is not going to be an overnight revolution.
Is It Time for You to Set Up Tailscale ACLs?
Do you use folks naturally, or do you use it because you've been told people is offensive? In neither of those cases is the OP asking you to modify your natural speech; he is fine with the first case, and in the second case he is telling you not to modify your speech based on what others have said about it!

If you naturally use it because you genuinely believe people is offensive, then he's absolutely telling you to modify your speech, but that is because he thinks you are wrong and you are the problem and he directly disagrees with you and he's not shy about it, which I think is fine. There's no pretence at neutrality there, and if you are neutral then he's not saying what you think.
Induced demand though. I've never painted but I sure have generated a bunch of images.
This is exactly correct, and only a tiny fraction of the immense amount of hand calculation and clerical work computers replaced in short order.

(Well, long order, actually. Short order once the technology ripened on its like fifth iteration)
We live in a time of wild guesses.
No one is stopping you from discarding all those sentimental things in your own life.
A bit presumptuous to lecture others on it.

Maybe cloning the exact tree is silly, but replacing it is absolutely not. This was a valuable tourist site, and just like anything of value, you replace it when lost.

You would replace your shoes or car keys if you lost them, right?
It depends on what you need the image for. If you just want to see what a cloud looks like, then yes Google is far faster. If you need to find an image that isn't encumbered by copyright that you can use for your presentation or blog post, it is much slower.
The whole argument of the GP is that you shouldn’t expect much of these machines, meaning the kind of tests the article made are moot.

So which one is it? Is it a device with great performance, or not? It’slike people say „these things have great performance“, then somebody comes along to run some test saying „these machines throttle like crazy if you tax them, they have poor performance“, and then the the first group comes along saying „you expect too much“.

I guess they have great performance, as long as you don’t need it?
BGW320 is what I got a year and a half ago, a single box.
I nearly skipped this site because of your comment, but I'm glad I didn't. Indeed very cynical.
I was talking about TOR being anonymous not just torrents over TOR, just ask the Silk Road guy who had his IP leak afaik
Due to NACS these cars will be compatible within the year:

Audi, BMW, Ford, GM, Honda, Hyundai, Kia, Mazda, Mercedes, Nissan, Rivian, should I go on?
Ok let’s have a balanced conversation about it. AI saves a massive amount of environmental footprint in what it can achieve that would otherwise need to be done by a human process or would be too complicated to be done by a human and so the resulting waste is written off.

For a concrete example, because my company helped build this, there’s power plants in the USA wasting less electricity because AI is better able to combine data to predict demand. This is megawatts per day that never needs to be generated because of software running on a couple graphics cards in a server rack using a few hundred watts.
> Well google cloud can't power genocide, so what is your problem?

There is a book every technologist should read: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

As the proverb says, those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
There are reasons to want your own modem, to avoid overpaying via rental fees, for example, but what security or privacy do you imagine you're getting by buying your own modem?

You're literally plugging it into their network and they can see everything that goes on the pipe whether they are on the LAN side of it or the Cable side.

There's a stronger privacy argument for using your own WiFi access point though.
Culture has been trending visual for a while. There's been growing demand, this is just a cheaper supply.
[dupe]

Some more discussion on official post:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39641953

And here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39648170
When I had the delight of ordering my ACME Klein Bottle, Cliff was kind enough to take it on a brief (if disappointingly 3-dimentional) tour of his home, and provide much appreciated updates on the state of his garden as viewed through the manifold. It warms my heart to see folks make time for silly little twists on what, in today's age, has become a rather cold and sterile shopping experience.

I have grand plans to eventually "fill" my klein bottle with a swirling potion solution, but those are stalled due to a lack of time and a lack of a suitable magnet array to get said potion swirling on its own. (The self-intersection foils attempts to use standard magnetic stirring sticks.) I'll post pictures if I succeed.
> We already had INI, XML/XPATH/XSD.

INI is not a defined language. TOML is the most popular attempt to define it.

XML doesn't really encode the same information as YAML and JSON. (It encodes more, but what is important, it encodes it differently.)

Exchanging your things on the left with your things on the right is guaranteed to make a day turn bad.
Because the xPON ONT was provisioned to setup ethernet over PON for you, which in turn was used to setup PPPoE session to actual internet.
That's not an artificial intelligence problem, that is a coworker intelligence problem.
I see, thanks to clarify.
I really wish all the effective accelerationists would effectively accelerate themselves to Mars so the rest of us can clean up their mess without continued fuckery.
I mean, he called the press the enemy of the people numerous times when he was in office. It's just Trump being Trump.