I would think anesthesia, in specific doses, would only attenuate consciousness...if it stopped other processes your organs and nervous system would stop. I guess this confirms that.
General anesthesia disrupts the ability of regions of the brain to network coherently. Individual regions might still be ticking along, but your experience of consciousness is a result of the network.
I’d argue that general anesthesia is the experiment that proves the fact. It’s a blunt and low resolution one admittedly, I wouldn’t use it to make any strong case about consciousness other than that our experience of it clearly requires coordination across many networked brain regions. As far as what’s going on within the individual regions or cells I’m not venturing a guess. Likewise I’m not claiming it to understand why networking of the whole brain is required to be conscious, but take some propofol and you’ll know that it is.
They are running Forgejo. The text being Dutch on the main page of https://code.overheid.nl/ is probably either because they haven’t provided any translations for the text, or maybe they even put the Dutch version in the template itself directly instead of storing it in whatever DB table Forgejo normally uses for the text.
I run a Forgejo instance too for my own use, but haven’t looked into how translation is set up as I haven’t had any need for changing any of the templates or texts that ship with Forgejo by default.
Most government sites, especially open-source ones that want international contributors, do a decent job at internationalization. It doesn't seem like much of a reach to have that working.
Our government failed the citizens and let outsourcing and wage suppression destroy the US tech industry...positioning the country far behind other countries in technology supremacy for at least a decade to come
You don’t have a god given right as an American to a mid-high six figure income working in tech and I’m not sure how you can see Anthropic playing whack-a-mole trying to keep the Chinese from distilling their models and say that the US isn’t still on the inside track with this stuff.
Corporations don’t have a God-given right to manipulate the market by outsourcing the work to the detriment of the natives, yet they make good use of it!
Also, why do you hate the poor so much? Do people not deserve well paying jobs because the vagina they came out of wasn’t located on the correct patch of dirt?
And yet, CS was the fastest growing employment category with some of the highest and among the fastest growing salaries in the nation for the past 2 decades despite the fact that outsourcing has been around since the 90s.
The fact that this changed in the last 2 years right when AI became feasible is just a coincidence. It’s actually finally outsourcing destroying the grad job market nearly 3 decades later.
Nothing changed in the past 2 years except we had another recession. Just like very other recession, people are looking for something to blame. Out sourcing has long been a popular thing to blame. This time blaming AI is the fad. There will be more recessions in the future and people will blame some other fad next time (or perhaps the same). In the end though it is the economy.
$12,000 for the base model is insane. I have an Apple M3 Max with 128GB RAM that can run 120B parameter models using like 80 watts of electricity at about 15-20 tokens/sec. It's not amazing for 120B parameter models but it's also not 12 grand.
It is very comparable if you work out the $/tok/s on inference. I did some napkin math and it looks like you’re getting roughly 3x the performance for 3x the cost. Red v2 vs Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB.
If you compare tokens/kWh efficiency then my math has Mac Studio being about 1.5x more efficient.
M3 has tolerable decode performance for the price, and that's what people would care about most of the time. they underperform severely wrt. prefill, but that's a fraction of the workload. AI, even agentic AI, spends most of its time outputing tokens, not processing context in bulk.
it's for fools. i bought 160gb of vram for $1000 last year. 96gb of p40 VRAM can be had for under $1000. And it will run gpt-oss-120b Q8 at probably 30tk/sec
P40 is Tesla architecture which is no longer receiving driver or CUDA updates. And only available as used hardware. Fine for hobbyists, startups, and home labs, but there is likely a growing market of businesses too large to depend on used gear from ebay, but too small for a full rack solution from Nvidia. Seems like that's who they're targeting.
I suppose if I rent a cloud GPU and just let it sit there dark and do nothing then I wouldn't have to move any data to it. Otherwise, I'm uploading some kind of work for it to do. And that usually involves some data to operate on. Even if it's just prompts.
So you also believe when you rent a server you are sharing your data with the cloud? AWS and GCP are copying all private data on servers? Give me a break. There's a big difference between renting a server and using an API.
> So you also believe when you rent a server you are sharing your data with the cloud [hosting provider]?
Only if you upload your data to that cloud server you rented. Then, by definition, you are.
> AWS and GCP are copying all private data on servers?
Every computer copies data when moving it. Several times, in fact. Through network card buffers, switches, system memory, disk caches, and finally to some form of semi-permanent storage.
I don't have to think Amazon is stealing my data to be aware that Amazon S3 buckets containing privileged information are routinely found open. I don't have to think that Google is spying on me to know that operating equipment my business owns on prem and does not share requires me to trust fewer people and less complex systems than doing the same work from the cloud.
You are very quick to make foolish assumptions and assign them to others.
I would argue that actually political corruption is destroying nature because there would not be an obsession with growth if executives did not have so much leverage to make workers desperate for jobs because they're so underpaid.
I don't know why anyone uses Tauri - disk space is cheap but having to handle QA and supporting quirks for every possible browser engine the users' system could ship with certainly is not.
My Native macos app was using well over 1gb the other day, while my electron notes app was 1/5 of it. Theres an electron tax for sure but people are wildy mixing up application architecture issues and bugs with the framework tax.
It's a RAM issue all right - browsers are set up in a multiprocess manner to allow sharing resources between tabs while sandboxing every single one.
So the footprint of the whole browser might be heavy, but each individual tab (origin) adds only a little extra.
Unfortunately both Tauri and Electron suck in this regard - they replicate the entire browser infrastructure per app and per instance, with each running just a single 'tab'.
And I share your concern for both disk space and RAM - but the solution here is to move away from browser tech, not picking a slightly differently packaged browser.
I'm pretty sure Tauri uses almost as much RAM, you just don't see it because it gets assigned to some kind of system process associated with the webview. Most of the RAM used by a browser is per-tab.
Agreed! I built a MacOS Postgres client with just Claude Code[1]. It could use some UI improvements, but it runs much better than other apps I’ve tried (specifically what it’s replacing for me: RazorSQL) and the binary is smaller than 20MB.
Eh, didn't even Microsoft give up and just shipped a React-based start menu at one point? The range of "native" on Windows 11 is quite wide - starts with an ancient Windows 3.1 ODBC dialog box.
