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Comment How is the lack of govt information relevant? (Score 3, Insightful) 9

Assuming it's remotely true (and there's good reason for thinking it isn't), it still means the FBI director was negligent in their choice of personal email provider, that the email provider had incompetent security, and that the government's failure to either have an Internet Czar (the post exists) or to enforce high standards on Internet services are a threat to the security of the nation (since we already know malware can cross airgaps through negligence, the DoD has been hit that way a few times). The FBI director could have copied unknown quantities of malware onto government machines through lax standards, any of which could have delivered classified information over the Internet (we know this because it has also happened to the DoD).

In short, the existence of the hack is a minor concern relative to every single implication that hack has.

Comment Re:the last mac pro had an big upchange for very l (Score 1) 75

I've seen demos on YouTube of someone hooking up like 4-5 Mac Studios that were maxed out M3 ultras I think and they were running extremely LARGE LLMs locally and getting cloud level numbers on them.

Of course these were like $10K each boxes.....but the level of model they were running would have cost my MANY more times trying to match them with NVIDIA GPU cards.....

So, 4-5 Mac Studios at about $10K/each.
You can get an NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 with 96gb ram for about $9K.

It's hard to directly compare those two, but it doesn't seem like it'd, "cost MANY more times trying to match them with NVIDIA GPU cards."

Mac Studio has a leg up in that it's a whole computer, and it can be configured with $256gb ram (for an extra $2K).
NVIDIA *probably* has a big leg up on GPU performance.
IMHO, at the scale of building out a cluster of 10+ of these, I'd lean towards the NVIDIA GPU based solution; One off personal use at home, the Mac would be much more accessible and easier to use.

Comment Re:Shooting themselves in the foot. (Score 1) 40

Agreed. General LLM tech is obviously a dead end, at least without some fundamental breakthrough. Specialist models may or may not fix hallucinations and command injection, but at least there seems to be a reasonable chance that they will or that other safeguards can be put in place.

Comment Interesting (Score 1) 40

While not surprising (LLMs are not reliable instruction followers and cannot be), this pretty much kills the idea of LLM-Agents in most usage scenarios. And it is even worse: As LLMs do not have a separation between data and instructions, this means that command-injection attacks seem to be getting even easier. Another reason that LLM-Agents are a very bad idea.

Comment Re:So it was illegal (Score -1, Troll) 37

I'm with you on the first part of your post. Trump likely did know his actions were illegal, but did it anyway, thinking that some of his actions would somehow slip through the cracks.

Your characterization of Biden being a "uniter" though, is exaggerated. Biden came down very forcefully on the liberal side of the fence, on every hot-button issue that divided (and divides) Democrats from Republicans. As a centrist myself, I personally despair of either party truly deciding to work with the other.

Comment Re:Is anyone surprised? (Score 4, Informative) 65

They gave the Chinese government access to Chinese user's data years ago. They don't seem to have an issue with governments gaining warrantless access to their systems.

Chinese law doesn't require a warrant for such access and it may be done in secrecy (i.e. without informing the user) if necessary to perform duties. The problem with Apple in China isn't that they aren't following the law, it's that they are and the law is openly fascist.

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