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sxp commented on In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses technologyreview.com/2025... · Posted by u/jeffbee

foofoo55 · 7 days ago

> Since a human uses ~100W of power, the .24Watt-hours of energy > for an AI prompt is about 40human-seconds of energy.

.24 Watt-hours is 864 Watts for one second, so a 100W human takes ~9 seconds for that output.

sxp · 7 days ago

You're right. It's clear I should have had an LLM write my comment rather than do it myself before a cup of coffee. I've already spent an order of magnitude more energy thinking about this article compared to an LLM.

Also, since I live a first-world life style which consumes multiple KW of power, I've probably consumed multiple orders of magnitude energy more than an LLM on this topic.

sxp commented on In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses technologyreview.com/2025... · Posted by u/jeffbee

sxp · 7 days ago

Since a human uses ~100W of power, the .24Watt-hours of energy for an AI prompt is about 40human-seconds [Edit: 9human-seconds] of energy.

And unlike the human who spent multiple hours writing that article, an LLM would have linked to the original study: https://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/measuring_the_envi...

[ETA] Extending on these numbers a bit, a mean human uses 1.25KW of power (Kardashev Level .7 / 8 Gigahumans) and the mean American uses ~8KW of power according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_energy_co.... So if we align AIs to be eco-friendly, they will definitely murder all humans for the sake of the planet /s

sxp commented on What learning react won't teach you: Image Formats idiallo.com/blog/react-an... · Posted by u/foxfired

sxp · 9 days ago

> This is a SVG. Only 2KB!

That's the uncompressed size. Since most production webservers use compression, the actual transfered data according to Chrome's Inspector was .9kb. Ironically, the favicon.ico was a 32kb file that compressed to 4.3kb and was loaded when I looked at https://cdn.idiallo.com/images/assets/527/ping_svg.svg

sxp commented on Airbrush art of the 80s (2015) coolandcollected.com/airb... · Posted by u/Michelangelo11

sxp · 13 days ago

The picture of the gynoid is by Hajime Sorayama. He has a very distinct (and slightly NSFW) art style. I'm a computer graphics nerd and I've always been amazed by the curved chrome in his paintings. A lot of my hacky attempts at art tried to replicate that chrome style in Photoshop.

sxp commented on Show HN: OWhisper – Ollama for realtime speech-to-text docs.hyprnote.com/owhispe... · Posted by u/yujonglee

JP_Watts · 13 days ago

I’d like to use this to transcribe meeting minutes with multiple people. How could this program work for that use case?

sxp · 13 days ago

If you want to transcribe meeting notes, whisper isn't the best tool because it doesn't separate the transcribe by speakers. There are some other tools that do that, but I'm not sure what the best local option is. I've used Google's cloud STT with the diarization option and manually renamed "Speaker N" after the fact.

sxp commented on Meta's flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York reuters.com/investigates/... · Posted by u/edent

sxp · 14 days ago

This seems unrelated to the chatbot aspect:

> And at 76, his family says, he was in a diminished state: He’d suffered a stroke nearly a decade ago and had recently gotten lost walking in his neighborhood in Piscataway, New Jersey.

...

> Rushing in the dark with a roller-bag suitcase to catch a train to meet her, Bue fell near a parking lot on a Rutgers University campus in New Brunswick, New Jersey, injuring his head and neck. After three days on life support and surrounded by his family, he was pronounced dead on March 28.

sxp commented on Show HN: Real-time privacy protection for smart glasses github.com/PrivacyIsAllYo... · Posted by u/tash_2s

sxp · 14 days ago

> Real-time processing – 720p 30fps on laptop

Have you tried running this on a phone or standalone smart glasses? 30fps is horrible performance on a laptop given that it's probably 10-100x more powerful than the target device. And what laptop? Based on your screenshot, I'm guessing you're using a new Apple Silicon mac which is practically a supercomputer compared to smart glasses.

Posted by u/sxp 22 days ago

OpenAI in talks with investors about share sale at $500B valuation cnbc.com/2025/08/05/opena...

sxp commented on Plain Text. With Lines akkartik.name/lines.html... · Posted by u/bpierre

sxp · 22 days ago

Why use a new format instead of SVG or JS+canvas? The latter would deviate from "plain text" but it's still pretty close. It avoids reinventing the wheel and a webbrower is installed on almost every computer with a display.

Another format to look at is Markdeep which has support for rendering ASCII diagrams and is very close to plain text: https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/features.md.html

Personally, I just wrote a thin wrapper around the somewhat verbose JS Canvas API that lets me write code such as

  ctx4b.save();
    ctx4b.translate(x+=10, 10);
    new Line(ctx4b).b().m(36,50).lAD(180 + 50, 56).lXY(0, -7.1).lXY(7, 0).lAD(50, 55).f();
    ctx4b.fillRect(36, 0, 10, 50);
  ctx4b.restore();

when I want to draw diagrams in my Markdeep notes.

sxp commented on Show HN: Spatial Web Browser Engine m-creativelab.github.io/j... · Posted by u/yorkie

JoeOfTexas · 24 days ago

I can't seem to find an demo of what this can do. Am I blind or is there no example?

sxp · 24 days ago

It seems to be in a half-baked stage. The Quick Start guide has broken links: https://m-creativelab.github.io/jsar-runtime/manual/quick-st...

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