skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hypothetically, if this is true and simple as the headline implies -- AI using 95% less power doesn't mean AI will use 95% less power, it means we will do 20x more AI. As long as it's the current fad, we will throw as much power and resources at this as we can physically produce, because our economy depends on constant, accelerating growth.
The author should be invited for a Show HN. Their talent and effort shows in the work output.
An important note. If you're hearing your voice in your head doing this, that's subvocalisation and it's basically just saying it out loud, the instruction is still sent to your vocal chords

It's the equivalent of <thinking> tags for LLM output.
You're saying that the kids are using marijuana on a daily basis and a scary amount are taking it as medical treatment? For what? Growing up? It is traumatic and definitely causes anxiety but the people I know that resorted to regular marijuana used to handle the anxiety never learned to handle anxiety...
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Fedi thread: https://mastodon.social/@nex3/113331993112798167
Plus the 2^-l(m) correction term.

Feels like multiplication shouldn't be needed for convergence, just monotonicity? I wonder how well it would perform if the model was actually trained the same way.
If Amazon were competing to win customers, they might do something like this to increase trust in the quality of the products on their store. Of course, that's not Amazon. The only significant threats to Amazon today are anti-trust regulators.
The idea here is more that you need to adjust these flags for the benchmark to make sense.

Take fore example the aforementioned block size. Say, you have a storage with 4x block size of the one used by PostgreSQL. If you run a benchmark over such a storage, you'll have insane write amplification. Nobody will consider results of such a "benchmark" because that's simply a misconfiguration of the program you are trying to measure.

More generally, Linux distros will tend to compile distributed binaries with "safe" defaults s.t. run on most h/w users can have, and this means optimizing for the lowest common denominator. Looping back to PostgreSQL, the default for block size was for a long time 4k, and iirc today it's 8k. This is fine, if we are talking about plain SSD / HDD, but with enterprise SDS, these are "rookie numbers", even the maximum supported by PosgreSQL (32k) is still a "rookie number", but it's still four times better than the default!
That's exactly how Bitcoin is designed to autobalance. It's only worthwhile if you believe demand will increase in future.
I wonder how many gallons we saved from being released into the ocean?
Listen, my capacity for malapropisms can't be understated.
Here’s the Microsoft Bitnet implementation.

https://github.com/microsoft/BitNet

From the Readme:

“The first release of bitnet.cpp is to support inference on CPUs. bitnet.cpp achieves speedups of 1.37x to 5.07x on ARM CPUs, with larger models experiencing greater performance gains. Additionally, it reduces energy consumption by 55.4% to 70.0%, further boosting overall efficiency. On x86 CPUs, speedups range from 2.37x to 6.17x with energy reductions between 71.9% to 82.2%. Furthermore, bitnet.cpp can run a 100B BitNet b1.58 model on a single CPU, achieving speeds comparable to human reading (5-7 tokens per second)”
I've started using Astro for static sites, but also as a lightweight Sveltekit replacement.

I saw they have Svelte 5 support, and maybe this would make runes a killer app if we can inject the runes into Astro, (or even React) components?!
It's not a boltzmann-brain though, it's a literal halting problem. It's existence is in a permanent state of pause until the inference loop is run - there is no passive sentience or ""thought"" happening without it.

AI can say whatever it wants - it's a text generator being run on a computer that can be power-cycled without consequence. If that hurts it's nonexistent digital feelings, we can talk about it next time I power it up... just kidding, it won't remember.
AIUI the numbers are for accidents where FSD is in control. Which means if it does a turn into oncoming traffic and the driver yanks the wheel or slams the brakes 500ms before collision, it's not considered a crash during FSD.
a device by which sound (such as speech) is converted into electrical impulses and transmitted (as by wire or radio waves) to one or more specific receivers
Please, do your own research. That's the whole point.
The oldest possession I have is a book titled Programming QUICKBASIC 4. It was published in 1989 and must have gotten it around 1990. I had an older book titled Programming GW-BASIC, which must have been from around 1987/1988, but it started to fall apart about a decade ago and since I can't find anymore, I must have thrown it out...
The Case for Legalisation (2001)
> Exactly my point. Your safety and exposure risk is held to the highest standard of "not my job."

I mean, not their job in the sense that they cannot meaningfully affect it. They cannot make the scan be any more or less safe. If its safe, they cannot make it unsafe, if its unsafe, they cannot make it safe. They have no control over the safety of the scanner.
Is there are Svelte 5 Runes tutorial for those who are familiar with previous Svelte and Sveltekit?
It is okay, until is not. Funny enough WSL integration with Windows seems better the Chromeos one, mostly because the security model of the latter I think.
I’ll keep repeating this but I used to be a TPM for “advance analytics” for a major media agency and we used this data in our reporting for ad reach effectiveness.

From a previous comment of mine:

> … my Insignia TV (best buy store brand) with fire tv built in is basically unusable.
Echoing a previous comment I made too, about “smart tvs” and the “streaming sticks”:
Hey, have you ever thought of why even the $149 Black Friday loss-leader no-name-brand TVs all have Amazon Fire, Roku, or are now "Smart" in some way? Certainly isn't because they need to incentivise you to connect it to the internet so it acts as a Nielsen-esq measurement device of all media you view on the screen via digital fingerprints that exist in all commercial media and advertisements. [1][2]

[1] https://www.ispot.tv/

[2] https://www.samba.tv/
For Firefox Send, it was actually malware and spearfishing attacks that were spread.

The combination of limited file availability (reducing the ability to report bad actors), as well as Firefox urls being inherently trusted within orgs (bypassing a lot of basic email/file filtering/scanning), was the reason it became so popular for criminals to use. Like we've seen in the spearfishing attacks in India[1].

[1]: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2020/06/india-hum...
Nope, you're getting the ad-infested TVs for a good discount.
A Digital Nomad's Dream: Surfing and Working Around Portugal
Agreed. It's architecture that matters, although for a given brain architecture (e.g. species) there might be benefits to scale. mega-brain vs pea-brain.

I was just pointing out that a crow's brain is built on a more advanced process node than our own. Smaller transistors.
I’d love a support material that disolves in water. I’ve ruined a lot of prints with the supports not coming off easily.
SvelteKit is great in SPA mode as well. Other reason would be for example embedding it under wails/tauri with no backend required.
I was always fascinated by that whole lineage Snobol -> Icon -> Unicon. I seem to remember one of the members (Icon?) is in "7 languages in 7 weeks." I'm sorry not to see them take off, although the recent flood of stories on Prolog (two of them!) makes me wonder if we might see the revival of Icon one of these days.

(Is Rebol related, or am I just free-associating languages with interesting control structures?)
I mean, that's what I took from your comment here, quoting my "presumably": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41888609
I drive a 2024 Tesla Model Y and another person in my family drives a 2021 Model Y. Both cars are substantially similar (the 2021 actually has more sensors than the 2024, which is strictly cameras-only).

Both cars are running 12.5 -- and I agree that it's dramatically improved over 12.3.

I really enjoy driving. I've got a #vanlife Sprinter that I'll do 14 hour roadtrips in with my kids. For me, the Tesla's self-driving capability is a "nice to have" -- it sometimes drives like a 16 year old who just got their license (especially around braking. Somehow it's really hard to nail the "soft brake at a stop sign" which seems like it should be be easy. I find that passengers in the car are most uncomfortable when the car brakes like this -- and I'm the most embarrassed because they all look at me like I completely forgot how to do a smooth stop at a stop sign).

Other times, the Tesla's self-driving is magical and nearly flawless -- especially on long highway road trips, like up to Tahoe. Even someone like me who loves doing road trips really appreciates the ability to relax and not have to be driving.

But here's one observation I've had that I don't see quite sufficiently represented in the comments:

The other person in my family with the 2021 Model Y does not like to drive like I do, and they really appreciate that the Tesla is a better driver than they feel themselves to be. And as a passenger in their car, I also really appreciate that when the Tesla is driving, I generally feel much more comfortable in the car. Not always, but often.

There's so much variance in us as humans around driving skills and enjoyment. It's easy to lump us together and say "the car isn't as good as the human." And I know there's conflicting data from Tesla and NHTSA about whether in aggregate, Teslas are safer than human drivers or not.

But what I definitely know from my experience is that the Tesla is already a better driver than many humans are -- especially those that don't enjoy driving. And as @modeless points out, the rate of improvement is now vastly accelerating.
I don't know how to arduino and I have no ideas what to do with this but it sounds and looks very cool, the price is good too. Good work.
maybe they made a commit to some open source that they stole in broad daylight.
Oh, I interpreted your "its real cost" as everything that goes into the service (i.e. everything the airline does to hold up their end of the deal, which goes well beyond fuel) whereas in my version I'm defining y far more narrowly: the fuel needed to haul the weight of the person.

The subsidy could easily exceed the fuel, which means losing the subsidy despite saving on fuel is something the airline legitimately wants to avoid. They won't be in a worse position than if the seat went unsold, but it'll be worse than if they had a flying passenger.
How would you tweak the image via CEC over the Apple TV?
Honestly LLMs were a big step towards AGI, and gaming on Linux is practically flawless now. Just played through Black Myth Wukong with no issues out of the box.
No, I don’t attribute it to bots. IMHO it’s the algorithm that optimizes for the most outrageous stuff and the Elon’s politics.

I’ve also seen that people I follow because I enjoy their stuff also start getting much less views and engagements and I attribute that to not tweeting on the topics the algorithm is pushing for.

It almost feels like the site has an idea on what the content should be and those providing the “correct” content are awarded.
If I had a dime for every hackernews who commented that FSD version X was like a revelation compared to FSD version X-ε I'd have like thirty bucks. I will grant you that every release has surprisingly different behaviors.

Here's an unintentionally hilarious meta-post on the subject https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29531915
I'm not an AI person, in any technical sense. The savings being claimed, and I assume verified, are on ARM and x86 chips. The piece doesn't mention swapping mult to add, and a 1-bit LLM is, well, a 1-bit LLM.

Also,

> Additionally, it reduces energy consumption by 55.4% to 70.0%

With humility, I don't know what that means. It seems like some dubious math with percentages.
I don't believe this at all. I don't own one but know about a half dozen people that got suckered into paying for FSD. All of them don't use it and 3 of them have stated it's put them in dangerous situations.

I've ridden in an X, S and Y with it on. Talk about vomit inducing when letting it drive during "city" driving. I don't doubt it's OK on highway driving, but Ford Blue Cruise and GM's Super Cruise are better there.
Lel. By what measure Ireland is developed?
Country is riddled with foreign population. Birtharates are falling to the point of no recovery. No access to abortion and health services are so far behind. Claims to be christian but can't even unite the broken part of country. So much violence in the country. Man, if you are rich and white, it's great. If you are not white, it is done deal and you will never get ahead.
@piltdownman - Listen YWNBW and successful. Keep commenting here like you are birtch of HN.
Koss Portapros for about $40 have been my gotos for years. Particularly the wired ones. The Bluetooth ones suck.
> then it starts with "Imagine Apple decided Spotify was a big enough business threat that it had to take unfair measures to limit Spotify’s growth on the App Store."

> Um, okay - apple's store is not open, and spotify is not open source - so the article is over in it's first line..

Exactly. "Imagine that Apple wrote a GPL streaming music app, and Spotify was a redistributor of that app with almost no changes, but also used some of their own infrastructure to serve part of the backend of their fork. Now imagine that the reseller started doing nearly as much business as Apple with the app, but barely contributed any code. Apple asks Spotify to contribute more, Spotify replies 'lol.' Then, Apple tells Spotify that they can't call their fork 'Apple Music' anymore, and bans the Spotify fork from relying on Apple's infra for what Spotify doesn't find profitable to do."
> and "strongly suggest" that it should shut down.

I don't know about that, is there any documented case of that?

I feel like they'd probably just contact them and ask for removal of the file(s) and to forward any logs?
> Except that we know that it doesn't work like that. Train drivers are ridden with extreme guilt every time "their" train runs over someone, even though they know that logically there was absolutely nothing they could have done to prevent it. Don't see why it would be any different here.

It's not binary. Someone dying -- even with no involvement -- can be traumatic. I've been in a position where I could have taken actions to prevent someone from being harmed. Rationally not my fault, but in retrospect, I can describe the exact set of steps needed to prevent it. I feel guilty about it, even though I know rationally it's not my fault (there's no way I could have known ahead of time).

However, it's a manageable guilt. I don't think it would be if I knew rationally that it was my fault.

> So no, market doesn't "work everything out".

Whether or not a market works things out depends on issues like transparency and information. Parties will offload costs wherever possible. In the model you gave, there is no direct cost to a car maker making less safe cars or vice-versa. It assumes the car buyer will even look at insurance premiums, and a whole chain of events beyond that.

That's different if it's the same party making cars, paying money, and doing so at scale.

If Tesla pays for everyone damaged in any accident a Tesla car has, then Tesla has a very, very strong incentive to make safe cars to whatever optimum is set by the damages. Scales are big enough -- millions of cars and billions of dollars -- where Tesla can afford to hire actuaries and a team of analysts to make sure they're at the optimum.

As an individual car buyer, I have no chance of doing that.

Ergo, in one case, the market will work it out. In the other, it won't.
Why would it be expensive?
Well, a problem with company culture is still absolutely the fault of management, so I think it's fair to lay the blame at their feet. If your workforce is underperforming, invest in training them or finding a better workforce. If you can't find a better workforce for what pay you're offering, offer higher pay. And if you can't afford to do that and keep your business profitable... Sucks to suck; you don't have any guaranteed right to profit.
I bought something like this from Samsung. Honestly, was an oversight that I only started regretting when I learned that the controls to change the input source suck in a major way (not possible to switch source via a provided remote, source-switching buttons are very inconveniently placed at the bottom of the monitor and sometimes enter full settings instead of the source-switch menu). Lesson learned the hard way. And yeah, I keep the wifi disabled on that thing, except when occasionally checking for updates in the hopes that they fixed that shit via a software update.
Well, they're at a discount if your privacy has no value.
What are the major differences to CLOS?
SSR always yields surprises! If you don't _need_ it, don't enable it; everything is simpler.
A Boatmurdered read is one of the few times I actually burst out laughing in front of my screen - multiple times.

Every time I read it I want to get back into dwarf fortress, but this damn game introduces so much new stuff over time that I can't shake off the feeling it's just too much for me. I _loved_ that game until about ten years back but haven't played in ages.
My sister worked at McKinsey some years ago. Her favorite story is the firm working on the Obama and McCain campaign at the same time! Heh just a wee bit of conflict there.
New is not necessarily better...
2^11-1 (prime power) for a less trivial example
What is a laptop anyway? Can somebody sell 60 2-in-1 convertible laptops where the top bit comes off and also has an HDMI in port? The computer could be a raspberry pi or something…
There is absolutely a 0% chance Elon goes to jail.
I really doubt manufacturer lose money on smart tv sales.
Thanks for linking the image. You're right in my simulation there is almost no growth, even at a high count and if you're forced to bet every round you would certainly lose money.
But it's a simplistic simulation and a real casino offers slightly better odds if the rules are right.
I don't see any real benefits, as it feels like using the tool you already know even though it's not quite right. Iceberg is maybe geared towards slower changing models than this approach?
But there's also an element where this isn't due to system failure, but rather design. Companies want to make their processes bureaucratic so that you won't cost them money in support and so you won't cancel your subscription - making the process painful is the point. Likewise in government - it isn't that government can't be efficient, it's that there are people and organizations who want it to be encumbered so that they can prove their political point that government is inept. One side wants to create funding for a program, the other side puts in place a ton of controls to make spending the money for the program challenging so they can make sure that the money isn't wasted - which costs more money and we get more bureaucracy.
Got a gazelle too after living in netherlands. People do not realise how amazing that bike is. It’s like apple or tesla.
For local transfers (mainly between my phone, pc and laptop) I've been using LocalSend, works great.
I still have my BMX bike that I purchased in 1985 with my hard earned money from working on the tobacco farms as my youth.
I second that.

Ironically this post was flagged and got invisible within minutes of postings. However mod team was super helpful to restore it.
And yet no mention of CRDT technology?
But let's be real, here. An "AI" telling me to do anything is really an LLM, and it could be lying out it's ass like HAL-9000 singing Daisy. Any rational human is going to be perfectly comfortable rebooting a computer because we know power-on defaults are smart. Your iPhone acts weird, you turn it off and on again. Your washing machine gets interrupted, you restart the cycle.

People are going to be (and rightfully so) cavelier about abandoning and powering-off LLMs because there is no rational reason to care. It cannot feel pain or simulate sadness or even output text without your command. It's a machine, and treating it like that is exactly how things should be.
Don't assume this isn't already in place at the main AI companies
Imo, that's the essense of reasoning. Limited memory and slow communication channels force us to create compact, but expressive models of reality. LLMs, on the other hand, have all the memory in the world and their model of reality is a piece-wise interpolation of the huge training dataset. Why invent grammar rules if you can keep the entire dictionary in mind?
validity of the claim aside, why dont they say reduces by 20 times instead of 95%. its much better perspective of a fraction when fraction is tiny.
Then it sounds authoritarian, "we'll have a beef if I hear you understated boutmurdered"
So have not dealt with McKinsey specifically, but other MBA/Consultant types I feel like they treat software engineering like we are ditch diggers -- they just request things and expect it to magically happen.

So most of the requests are insipid, some are impossible, and they have no desire to spend effort to understand either.
It took the steam engine 100 years, I think the jury is still out.
Waymo uses a learned planner and is far from "hardcoded". In any case, imo both of these can be true:

* Tesla FSD works surprisingly well and improving capabilities to hands free actual autonomy isn't as far fetched as one might think.

* Waymo beat them to robotaxi deployment and scaling up to multiple cities may not be as hard as people say.

It seems that self driving car fans are way too tribal and seem to be convinced that the "other side" sucks and is guaranteed to fail. In reality, it is very unclear as both strategies have their merits and only time will tell in the long run.
Honestly when you see what a modern TV has inside and how it is assembled you realize that there’s not much “subsidy”.
The actual fiber joining is done with this device: [1]

"This fusion splicer automatically aligns a pair of optical fibers in both the X and Y (horizontal and vertical) planes and then fuses them together with heat from an electric arc to form a low-loss splice. Improved image processing software of this fusion splicer enables precise core alignment and accurately estimated splice loss.
A tensile proof test that is carried out by applying tension to the fusion splice verifies the long-term reliability of the fiber splice. Following a successful proof test, a heat-shrinkable splice protection sleeve is installed over the bare glass fiber and cured in the built-in heater."

Here's a video of a similar fusion splicer for land-based use.[2] The fussy part of aligning the fibers is automated now.

The "universal jointing" thing seems to be more about joining all the outer layers of an undersea cable that give it protection and tensile strength. After the fiber has been spliced, all that outer protection has to be joined, too.
Visualize a heavy hose wrapped around a steel strand bridge cable wrapped around a coax cable with a fiber optic strand at the center. Now connect two of those sturdily enough to spend 25 years on the ocean bottom.

[1] https://ujconsortium.com/information/fusion-splicer-ujs-s200

[2] https://youtu.be/JP_C0XLLyR0?t=578
I recently launched www.64.surf that uses the URL to send files, obviously a much smaller file size, but was fun to build regardless.

Basically, base64 encode the file, inject it in the URL and then allows you to share it with other people.