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The fastest M6 MacBook Pro (24/32GB config) has a memory bandwidth of 170 GB/s. And the M5 Max is 614 GB/s.
Am I missing some nuance of the M6 MBP here, or am I right to assume it won't set the local LLM world on fire?
The fastest M6 MacBook Pro (24/32GB configs) has a memory bandwidth of 170 GB/s. And the M5 Max is 614 GB/s.
Am I missing some nuance of the M6 MBP here, or am I right to assume it won't set the local LLM world on fire?
Must we have to remind people that raising an arm (while saying “my heart goes out to you all”) does not make someone a Nazi, not matter how strenuously the leftwing media try to present it that way?
What if he's telling the truth and it wasn't him that disabled it? How is it that you have obtained evidence as to internal operational procedures of Starlink/Starshield/Pentagon that make you better qualified than Musk to judge who carried out an action?
And why would Ukraine deserve any kind of warning? Surely if anyone breaks the very clear T&Cs by using Starlink in weaponry, then they should expect the service to be withdrawn, or at best, temporarily limited.
> Ukraine uses it for defensive purposes, not offensive
Ukraine have blurred the line since they started attacking energy infrastructure and civilian data centres etc deep inside Russia, with loss of Russian civilian life. I'll say it again - I support Ukraine vs Russia's illegal invasion. However, from Starlink's PoV, Ukraine is using its network for military attacks on Russian civilian infrastructure, which gives Russia the right (arguably) to attack Starlink infrastructure (e.g. ground stations). Why would Musk allow this to happen?
> Musk alongside Trump want Zelenskyy gone (receipts are there) and he thought pressuring him by crippling access to Starlink would do it or at least get him to stop attacking Putin's oil refineries.
That's a possible motivation, although speculative at this point. And it seems certain people are strenuously trying to paint Musk as the bad guy in this, and any other circumstances they can find. There's some partisan noise and speculation that we need to remove in order to find the truth here.
Starshield has different T&Cs, of course, but that network is wholly governed by the Pentagon, not by Musk
I don’t understand why everyone is making Elon Musk the bad guy here, but it does seem to be a peculiar quirk of the HN audience.
Bearing in mind this war has absolutely nothing to do with the private American citizen.
Seems especially dangerous for the American citizen to be required to provide this support now that Russia is destroying Starlink stations in response - see the stories from Lithuania and Poland:
https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/lithuania-starlink-arson-...
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cmp30r1klk37o
Just for the record, I support Ukraine in its defence against Russia's illegal and outrageous invasion. However, I don't understand by which moral or legal code, Elon Musk is required to provide direct military assistance to them?
PHP was great for learning the basics of web development 25 years ago. The world has moved on a lot since then.
Imagine the horror of the USSR, or Mao's China, or Jong Un having this technology.
Would we honestly prefer a far-left totalitarian dictatorship having control and leadership over AI?
At the end of the day, we'll always fear and distrust AI being owned by someone other than ourselves. Questions over the ownership of AI is important - in fact, too important to be conflated with our populist gripes against capitalism.
If, instead, you had a grounded, balanced opinion about the man, you'd understand the great good he's delivered, and continues to deliver for the world, from Tesla (making electric cars desirable and mass-market) to Neuralink (making viable brain computer interfaces to give heavily disabled people back their lives), to SpaceX (giving humanity hope for a brighter, more exciting future in space, as governments once did, but have since failed to do).
I think this ranking feature alone would solve the lazy throwaway posts problem entirely
There could be another place for these common posts on the site somewhere (might be interesting to surface how many people are happy about "coffee" vs "tea" for example), but on the bird view they just end up being a disappointing click.
https://www.ushmm.org/genocide-prevention/countries/china/ch...
Russia - the most corrupt major dictatorship in Europe, military invasions of its peaceful neighbours, hybrid warfare against European countries, nerve agent assassination of political rivals both within and outside Russia. Indiscriminate killing of civilians in Ukraine with no remorse.
US - a constitutional democracy that has alternated leadership in the last decade in the same familiar way it always has. Attacked Iranian regime assets because Iran threatened it with nuclear weapons and fired hundreds of ballistic missiles at US ally Israel (a pluralist democracy that should be defended IMO). Widespread support for the US intervention from ordinary Iranians who has been oppressed by their Islamist dictator for decades; Removed a ruthless dictator in Venezuela due to massive human rights abuses and state narco trafficking, widespread US support from ordinary Venezuelans who have been oppressed by their dictator.
I do wonder about the consciousness / emotions argument, which you casually write off as "bonkers" - even skeptical-by-default evolutionary biologists like Richard Dawkins think Claude is conscious.
I guess it all depends how we define "conscious." At the end of the day, the human brain is quite analogous to a biological LLM where the weights are encoded as synaptic weights, right?
I kinda agree with you that Sam Altman is a shifty-looking character with some questionable history. But Dario and Elon (to me at least), seem very decent. They've both helped the US govt and also publicly challenged and criticised it where necessary. For example, Elon was invited to be on Trump's first panel of experts, but he publicly walked out in protest over Trump's minimisation of climate change. And Dario refused to work with the US military unless they promised no population surveillance and automated killing machines.
But to compare a constitutional democracy with a deeply authoritarian communist dictatorship as if they're equally bad is quite a stretch.
It's annoying that social networks work this way. The upvote should be for high-quality content and the downvote should be for low-quality content. But .. well.. human nature and tribal dynamics always seem to win.
Every company in China has to abide by the 2017 National Intelligence Law: "supporting, assisting and cooperating" with state intelligence work, and keeping that cooperation secret. They have to hand prior knowledge of vulnerabilities to the state before public disclosure, in order that the state always has an exploit pipeline. No matter how ethical the company staff may be, they'll always be bound by law into being an arm of the Communist Party.
Agentic access is infinitely worse than chatbots. They can exfiltrate silently, target users, plant persistent malware, and be run by third parties through you.
You don't have to be a tin foil hat sinophobe to understand the dangers of being a Westerner granting CCP access to your files and network.
ByteDance staff accessed US journalists' TikTok data to hunt leakers (admitted in 2022). Volt Typhoon and Salt Typhoon were state operations pre-positioned in Western infrastructure and telecoms. Regulators in Italy and South Korea blocked DeepSeek's app over data handling, and analysts found its web client sending data to a China Mobile domain.
Please don't sacrifice security for cost and convenience.