I managed to get around ~7W idle on a 2024 dgpu/igpu laptop, with room to further optimize. From my limited casual checks (nowhere near proper benchmark), it's better than windows.
But yes it's an area that still requires tweaking, which is a cost I don't want to incur. Also just within this year I got a regression (later fixed) because of a bug in nvidia-open driver so it stopped going into low power state giving me a toaster on the go. These are still very obscure to root cause and fix.
Kudos to the high velocity action. Given it has to at least go through decision makers, finance and legal, I bet they made the decision almost immediately.
Curious how we would solve this class of wealth distribution problem in the future. All these critical libraries supply chain hit the bottom line of tech companies directly, but to extrapolate, all knowledge / work creators who used to live a comfortable living now have all their hard work scrapped by aggregators. Yeah I understand the genie is out of the bottle, all that and there will be (is?) systemic change to viable businesses. But people still have to live during the transition. It's also in the best interest of these aggregators, who's there to feed them new free works if it's no longer viable?
As much as we meme about it internally, one of my favourite things about AWS was the leadership principles. I always worried I've became cult like biased. Seeing how these converge to similar great ideas is a relief.
IMO the most common denominator among all these is trust, in order for many of these to work. From policy setting at strategic level, hiring, to tactical process refinement, the invariant must always be building an environment and culture of trust. Which isn't trivial to scale.
Most of the time I find the pros of not mutating variables out weight any potential memory / performance gain, of course it depends on what you're doing, but I find it rare other than perhaps scientific related code.
Blog author company's runner detects anomalies in them, but we shouldn't need a product for this.
Detecting outbound network connection during an npm install is quite cheap to implement in 2025. I think it comes down to tenant and incentives, if security is placed as first priority as it should, for any computing service and in particular for supply chain like package management, this would be built in.
One thing that comes to mind that would make it a months long deabte is the potential breakage of many packages. In that case as a first step just make an eye catching summary post install, with gradual push to totally restriction with something like a strict mode, we've done this before.
Which, reminds me of another long standing issue with node ecosystem toolings, information overload. It's easy to bombard devs with thesis character count then blame them for eventually getting fatigue and not reading the output. It takes effort to summarize what's most important with layered expansion of detail level, show some.
Trust is hard, it all comes down to trust no matter what you do. The more general idea is sandboxed build, it doesn't eliminate all problems but one class.
Given the 2.1kg after detaching the graphic module and the seemingly large battery capacity for on the go sessions, it's so close to a laptop that fits all my use cases.
Although from what I've read 8GB of VRAM seems insufficiently near-future proof, so I've always been eyeing 5070ti+ laptops. I wonder if there's any technical blocker that prevents offering 5070ti or the amd equivalent.
Whatever is making plain HTTP requests in 2025 should be a cause of concern. Wouldn't it be nice to have a low resource daemon watching for common pitfalls alerting users so we eliminate or minimise classes of problems like this?
I think lots of windows antivirus come with features like this? Perhaps with vast crystalized kno eledge nowadays we can afford to create OSS system level package that offers some level of protection.
If they use any form of filtering / evaluation along the line of STAR, the positive way you chose to deal with it plus the outcome of it being a top post on HN should score you half the position already, good luck :)
This honor system mostly worked at scale because interests align, which seems to be no longer the case.
Does information no longer wants to be free now? Maybe internet, just like social media was just a social experiment at the end, albeit a successful one. Thanks GenAI.
Can the Terms of Service of individual content creators leverage a "death of a thousand cuts" model to produce a legal honeypot which would require organizations like Perplexity to be bound up in 10s of thousands of conciliation court cases?
Big Tech has hidden behind ToS for years. Now, it seems as though it only works for them, but not against. It seems as though this would be easy to orchestrate and prove forcing these companies into a legal nightmare or risk insolvent business stature due to the high load of cases filed against.
Why couldn't something like this be used to flip the table? A conciliation brigading, of sorts.
Because lawyers are expensive and big tech companies have lots of them. Because it takes a ton of time and effort to sue someone. Because you need to show standing, which means you need to be able to demonstrate you lost something of value by their actions. Because the power imbalance is heavily weighted towards a corporation. Because the way to deal with such things should be legislation and not court decisions. And lots more reasons...
That's exactly why I said conciliation court. None of what you've outlined is required nor is it expensive. But, for each case, the defendant is still required to show up.
I've successfully used conciliation court against large corporations in the past which is why I question it here.
And while this should be able to be handled via legislation it won't be. Beyond that a workaround could force that to happen.
Sorry, I had never heard that term before. You would still have to show standing though. How would you try to prove that their violating your TOS cost you money?
Is it not viable to produce a work of art and say that this is free for humans, but not for bots and cannot be used for training and said violation cost X?
Again, I can't copy and distribute a game Microsoft rents to me. But if I do I can be found held accountable for a ridiculous amount of money. If it's my work of art the terms can dictate who doesn't need to pay and who does. If an LLM is consuming my work of art and now distributing it within their user base how is that not the same?
These are arguments you would tell the judge. And the judge would almost certainly tell you 'this is the wrong venue for that. You are in small claims. I need an itemized list of monetary damages you have suffered before I can make a judgement.'
But yes it's an area that still requires tweaking, which is a cost I don't want to incur. Also just within this year I got a regression (later fixed) because of a bug in nvidia-open driver so it stopped going into low power state giving me a toaster on the go. These are still very obscure to root cause and fix.
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