I didn't realize level 1 gave me 11 (eleven) walls at first. I thought it stood for II = roman 2. Maybe use a font that makes the difference between 1 and I clearer.
Readit NewsI've often wondered what would happen if we _taxed_ advertising [0]. The same rationale applies: it'll never work, and it'll never even be tested, but I agree, it was fun to think about.
[0]: https://matthewsinclair.com/blog/0177-what-if-we-taxed-adver...
You're forgetting a very important problem: hard to implement. Sugar in drinks and CO2 emissions are easily measured. The definition of what's an ad is much harder.
croemer commented on Shipping at Inference-Speed steipete.me/posts/2025/sh... · Posted by u/xngbuilds
So he's spent $51k on tokens in 3 months to build what exactly? Tools to enable you to spend more money on tokens?
Quick math on the environmental impact of this assuming 18.35Wh/1000 tokens:
Total energy: 4.73GWh, equivalent of powering 450 average US homes annually
Carbon footprint: ~1822 metric tons of CO2, equivalent of driving 4.56 million miles in a gas powered car
Water consumption: 4.5 million litres, recommended daily water intake for 4000 people for a full year
Yet they're on twitter bragging...
What's the source for the energy per token? I guess this? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/09/open-ai-c...
18Wh/1000t is on the high end of estimates. But even if it's 10x less I agree this is pretty crazy usage.
croemer commented on Stop Forwarding Errors, Start Designing Them fast.github.io/blog/stop-... · Posted by u/andylokandy
croemer commented on Stop Forwarding Errors, Start Designing Them fast.github.io/blog/stop-... · Posted by u/andylokandy
I'm pretty sure an LLM will be able to handle an instruction such as:
"Wherever exceptions are thrown, add as much contextual information to the exceptions as possible. Use class RichException<Exception> to store the extra information". Etc. etc.
Sure, but writing and maintaining such instructions is also work. And not something one thinks about usually until the debugging session with insufficient errors.
croemer commented on Eurostar AI vulnerability: When a chatbot goes off the rails pentestpartners.com/secur... · Posted by u/speckx
croemer commented on Eurostar AI vulnerability: When a chatbot goes off the rails pentestpartners.com/secur... · Posted by u/speckx
I happily did not detect strong signs of LLM writing. Fun read, thanks!
croemer commented on Stop Forwarding Errors, Start Designing Them fast.github.io/blog/stop-... · Posted by u/andylokandy
That is a normal, run of the mill sentence.
I can't prove it of course but I stand by it.
Everything on the left thereof was then without power for multiple days as this was a single point of failure.
See thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46487404