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It's impressive to see the battery capacity growing on ElectricityMaps over the years : https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/US-CAL-CISO/yearly

But why is the utilization rate so low? It was barely 0.8% of electricity in California last year.

Edit: Got the answer, the batteries fire up around 6pm during the evening peak at around 9GW for ~25% of the total consumption. We would need approximately 5x more batteries and renewable power to move out of carbon-intensive production entirely.

Since the robocall tsunami of the 2020s, people stopped answering phone calls entirely.

The same thing might happen to the entire internet.

The "massive technological improvements" already happened.

Since the 1960s, the worker-to-retiree ratio halved indeed, but productivity went 4x.

Impressive work. I wish they did it on Qwen3.5 though, because their beefed up Qwen3 8B is still way worse than Qwen3.5 9B.
Has Google (or other adtech) ever been sued for this?

They do barely any due diligence and are basically distributing malware and badware at a massive scale without any consequences.

Re:My last six months at Evernote on Saturday September 12, 2026 @10:41AM (#49672804)
Google shutting down it's public cache made it even worse.
Re:We Must Pace the Frontier on Saturday September 12, 2026 @10:38AM (#49672774)
"I believe that AI could [...] usher in a renaissance of democracy and freedom"

How exactly? So far AI has accelerated misinformation at scale and wealth concentration.

Re:OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems on Saturday September 12, 2026 @09:50AM (#49672305)
Between this and Huggingface, when will any victim sue OpenAI for this ?
Re: on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @06:23AM (#49624143)
Re:Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf] on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @04:37AM (#49607399)
I recommend Terrence Tao's commentary on such a proof : https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/117219101339291693

Key quote : "Solving the problem by purely AI-powered methods [would be a] net negative for the progress of mathematics."

Key quote : "Solving the problem by purely AI-powered methods [would be a] net negative for the progress of mathematics."
@dang please can we add a [2014] to the title ?
Re:The moral panic over data centres is foolish on Saturday September 05, 2026 @03:57PM (#49580117)
Thank you, your comment was more informative than the economist article
Re:The moral panic over data centres is foolish on Saturday September 05, 2026 @03:45PM (#49580000)
The article dismisses everything without sourcing anything.

US electricity is 40% more expensive since 2022 https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU000072610

Some AI datacenters can indeed be heard a mile away https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/28/datacenters-...

Amazon's new Texas AI data center could become the biggest CO2 polluter in the US https://www.techradar.com/pro/amazons-new-texas-ai-data-cent...

Re:Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board on Friday September 04, 2026 @10:57AM (#49565611)
The only benchmark I don't want to be saturated : https://felonybench.com/
Re:The Post-AI Internet Doesn't Look Great on Thursday September 03, 2026 @11:45AM (#49551939)
I love Gemini but god their SEO is awful, it's very difficult to look for anything related to it. They should consider a new name
Re:AI Agents and the Refactoring That Never Happens on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @04:57PM (#49542448)
Reminds me of the "entreprise grade fizzbuzz"

https://github.com/enterprisequalitycoding/fizzbuzzenterpris...

Re:The Post-AI Internet Doesn't Look Great on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @04:30PM (#49542044)
You're describing the 2010s era of algorithmic social media, I think OP is referring to the earlier internet
Re:Creepy Crawlies on Sunday August 30, 2026 @05:27PM (#49503010)
Many are on old laptops, which suffer the same way
Astra is >10TB and might struggle to self replicate, but the wicked-smart qwen3.8 27B is 20GB and could easily spread on botnets
I'm confused by the situation. I'm the last manual coder of my company, and am shipping projects faster than my colleagues who are spending fortunes in tokens.

I was intrigued by the hype and gave a chance this week to codex+sol 5.6 and cc+opus 5. They cheated, lied, disobeyed, and shipped subtle bugs so often, it wasted more time that if I did it myself.

Is half of the industry under AI psychosis right now ?

Re:Silicon Valley is in denial in face of widespread backlash on Thursday August 27, 2026 @05:34PM (#49471569)
My relatives and friends are fed up with enshittification and hostile tech, some are about to stop using tech entirely.

Big tech is too short-termist to realize it, but we are about to destroy a lot of economical value if we destroy the internet and the trust behind it.

Re:DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @01:19PM (#49275754)
Geometric mean of all these benchmarks :

* GPT-5.6 Sol: 65.5

* Fable 5 (w/ fallback): 64.5

* Opus 5: 64.0

* DS-V4-Pro 0813: 62.5

* Kimi-K3: 62.3

* DS-V4-Flash 0731: 55.8

* GLM-5.2: 47.3

I respect Anthropic for dogfooding and vibecoding their own products.

The unfortunate consequence is low quality engineering and a billion dollar product with 15k pending Github issues.

Re:Microsoft raises Xbox prices by up to 43% on Sunday August 02, 2026 @03:13PM (#49147389)
PS5 prices went up 35% in the past 2 years, and PC RAM went 5x. This is a global problem
Re:How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023) on Saturday August 01, 2026 @04:24PM (#49138091)
They killed greader and RSS to push Google+, which was a brilliant decision.
Why are models better than agents, isn't it supposed to be the opposite? I don't understand the difference and what you are measuring.

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