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Ask HN: M5 MacBook Pro buyers, worth spending the $$$ to maybe run LLMs local?
11 points by tpurves 7mo ago|12 comments
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Ask HN: Settings.json is an insane design choice for OpenClaw?
3 points by tpurves 7mo ago|0 comments
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by tpurves 8mo ago
Closest thing to a usecase I can think of are all military in nature. There's an argument that AI in space only begins to make any sense if the data source you are processing is also originating in space, and you need (for reasons) to
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by tpurves 9mo ago
It's not just chat. Remember image and video generation are on the table. There are already a huge category of adult video 'games' of this nature. I think they use combos of pre-rendered and dynamic content. But really not ha
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by tpurves 9mo ago
Either M5 Pro chips are finally here... or March is just the next time Apple can source any DRAM or SSD chips for the existing line! In all seriousness, I am quite concerned for what the base model and upgrade pricing is going to be for the
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by tpurves 9mo ago
Ships of that era and leader had castles on both ends fore and aft. It's just the forward one than retained in usage as a sailing term, even after foredecks no longer looked like castles. The aft castle became a quarterdeck, a poop dec
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by tpurves 9mo ago
[this is a reply to fourseventy] Looking up the violent crime rates by migrants in places like MN, it's effectively zero. As a rule, migrants and immigrants don't commit crimes at anything close to the rate of native US citizens.
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by tpurves 9mo ago
Your comment above should make more clear that the large scale healcare fraud you mentioned was not about Minnesota. It was nationwide, involved mass identity theft and large corporate scale white collar crime.
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by tpurves 9mo ago
Dell is cooked this year for reasons entirely outside their control. DRAM and storage/drive shortages are causing costs of those to go to the moon. And Dell's 'inventory' light supply chain and narrow margins puts them i
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by tpurves 10mo ago
So Zen 6/7 will have a core design and a CCD design. But like past gens, these will be packaged into different products with different sockets and packages (everything from monolithic APUs to sprawling multi-chiplet Server cpus). So to
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by tpurves 10mo ago
Undoubtedly each new model from OpenAi has numerous training and orchestration improvements etc. But how much of each product they release also just a factor of how much they are willing to spend on inference per query in order to stay comp
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by tpurves 10mo ago
Either way, you are right to point out that it important to only a try a pattern like this if your clients are highly trusted (or/and have additional compensating controls against DDOS threats). It would be beneficial if the OP made mo
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by tpurves 11mo ago
Thanks for calling this out. Here is a better comparison. Before Google was founded, the market for online search advertising was negligible. But the global market for all advertising media spend was on the order of 400B (NYT 1998). Today,
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by tpurves 11mo ago
What you are describing has been proposed before, for example within context of projects like Breakthrough Starshot. In that the case the idea is to launch thousands of probes, each weighing only a few grams or less, and accelerating them t
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by tpurves 11mo ago
It seems like strixhalo is a pipe-cleaner part of sorts and the real deal may have to be Medusa Halo. That one could be a monster. The bad news is that it sounds like it's a long way off (2027 sometime) so who knows what Apple M5 or M6
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by tpurves 1y ago
Around a decade ago, even as they were just launching Apple Pay, Apple was trading at a multiple barely over 10x. Street was valuing Apple like a manufacturing OEM company. I remember buying a small chunck of shares at the time thinking, t
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by tpurves 1y ago
America is trapped in a cycle where political parties have discovered that fear and anger drives voters whereas contentment with status quo does not motivate turnout. This leads to a scenario where parties will actively sabotage the resolut
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by tpurves 1y ago
You forget, they also clean-sheet designed the starliner starting in 2014 and that project... also happens to exactly prove your point. (at least 2B over budget, and 8 years after it's original operational target of 2017, has yet to fl
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by tpurves 1y ago
Did you take a job at Apple just so you can accept one or more of those PR's that's been bugging you? :) Wasn't there an xkcd about that scenario...
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by tpurves 1y ago
And 75% of that just gets shipped right over to nVidia as pure profit. The mind boggles at the macro-economic inefficiency of that situation.
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by tpurves 1y ago
It's really both effects happening at once. AI is just like the invention of the assembly line, or the explosion of mass produced consumer packaged goods starting from the first cotton gin. Automation allows a massive increase in quant
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by tpurves 1y ago
Card networks have the most reliable protections and guarantees, their systems and rules are designed around consumer trust in their brand and zero-liability (to consumers).
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by tpurves 1y ago
Yes. When he's right, he's right. However the main issue I have with GN is how Steve tends to go full Leeroy Jenkins pitchforks and torches for 9 out of every 5 actual scandals in the tech industry.
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by tpurves 1y ago
Arbitraging fraud has always been PayPal's game. For the mass market of small-scale sellers there's a threshold, whre the cost of onboarding, verifying, underwriting and eating fraud exposure is greater than the revenues you could
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by tpurves 1y ago
No you were right to be disappointed! I was similarly in a state of excited awe to see someone play actual quake inside the notch of a mac. Much like the noble hacker tradition of getting Doom to run on the most unexpected devices possible.
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by tpurves 1y ago
It's a distraction to try and imagine homomorphic encryption for generic computing or internet needs. At least not for many more generations of moore's law and then even still. However, where FHE will shine already is in specific
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by tpurves 1y ago
Graduate employment crises happen at least once every decade (initial covid, 2008 crisis, dotcom bust, early 90s recession etc). What I could argue is more unusual are those bubble times when getting a great job right out of college is easy
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by tpurves 1y ago
That implies the interesting question though, which shape and mass distribution comes closest to, or would maximize relative uniformity?
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by tpurves 1y ago
Well, lifeforms on earth are all pretty dependent on being water based, and water in the liquid state specifically. Maybe there is a possibility of exotic life based on some other types of chemistry and/or phases of matter. But the fa
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by tpurves 1y ago
Wonderfully cheeky but also helpfully informative writeup. Also appreciate the hat-tip to all the (as yet) unsolved security issues. Clearly MCP is onto something important, although undoubtedly the standard (or some replacement standard) w

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