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First, how do you define "technical"?

An Petroleum Engineer, Materials Engineer, Industrial Engineer, Chemical Engineer, Biopharmaceuticals Researcher, etc will always have the option to work at an MBB, as those industries heavily use McK to help with their own businesses.

On top of that, McK hiring even at the undergrad level skews STEM. If you attend a feeder school like MIT, Stanford, or Berkeley, it's EECS/Applied Math/Physics majors that land Associate interviews, because management is much more technical now. McKinsey literally has recruiters devoted only to candidates from Berkeley and UMich Engineering for strategy roles.

It isn't the 1980s anymore when some random schmoe with an Econ or Business degree can land an MBB role anymore.
Mandiant had their Twitter/X account stolen
ya but not when your tow rig is an EV SUV

a heavy duty diesel tow pig usually has an auxiliary fuel tank in the bed and can do 1000+ miles in one go.
It sounds like this increases the minimum from 8 to 12 for old accounts that previously used short passwords. For a master password protecting a password manager, often without 2FA, the a minimum of 8 characters doesn't make sense. Although honestly LassPass should have lost all trust long before this and anyone still using it should switch.
I've seen and heard a lot of what they can do, but certainly not everything. Pretty sure humanity as a whole is very far from understanding everything ants do and why.
Super cool! How is memory managed? Does it do lifetimes like Rust as well?
If everyone in the world were using 100 passwords, you'd need space for 800 billion passwords, which is 39.5 bits of entropy. Assuming an alphabet of 74 characters (lower + upper + digits + a few symbols), you'd need a little over 6 characters to make 800 billion unique passwords. A random password of 9 characters has a very low chance of overlapping any other password in the world: somewhere around Sqrt(74^9 / 74^6.2) ~= 0.2%. That's a 0.2% chance of overlapping any other password -- multiply that by the probability of having your password leaked for the chance that it's on the blacklist. Make it 10+ and you're fine.
Safari, without hesitation doubt or debate, is subpar compared to the alternatives. You can claim "privacy" all you want but at the end of the day Safari is lackluster and neutered to "nudge" people into the Apple Store so Apple can get a 30% cut.

Privacy? Riiiiiight. Apple isn't using it's market place to stifle competition and limit choice out of the kindness of their hearts.

"M$ CEO" yeah... good thing you have IE 2024 installed on phones without the alternatives available that existed on Windows. Nope... you're stuck like a good slave who's $mart enough to not use M$ and instead you get the joy of being a good donator to Apples bottom line instead of Googles.

At the end of the day... nothing in your response changes the fact that Apple limits choices and holds the industry back with Safari which is a shit option that couldn't compete against real options.

"XBox" xbox is a gaming console not a phone. It's tied to a TV and not the center of your life. It also has competition in PS, Nintendo and gaming alternatives like Android and iPhone.

XBox doesn't have shitty safari on it as a core app to force people into the XBox store. You can also load CDs/DVDs into it purchased outside of it. Can you resell iPhone games? No? didn't think so. tons of reasons why "derp xbox" is a bad comparison.

I'm personally okay extending forcing alternative app stores onto XBox... but the scope is different and you know it - no matter that you try to deflect from how shitty Safari is. Your hate of "M$" doesn't make Apple any better.
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> Porsche seems to build reliable stuff compared to their actual competitors which are Ferrari, Lotus, etc etc. Toyota comparisons are meaningless.

That was my point
Funny I was just looking for something to substitute GPT4V as they are bounding the API usage to few request per day. Sadly this project is built on top of phi-2 that has the non-commercial friendly Microsoft research license.
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The whole "mystery" of transformer is that instead of a linear sequence of static weights times values in each layer, you now have 3 different matrices that are obtained from the same input through multiplication of learned weights, and then you just multiply the matrices together. I.e more parallelism which works out nice, but very restrictive since the attention formula is static.

We arent going to see more progress until we have a way to generalize the compute graph as a learnable parameter. I dunno if this is even possible in the traditional sense of gradients due to chaotic effects (i.e small changes reflect big shifts in performance), it may have to be some form of genetic algorithm or pso that happens under the hood.
Which means running extra wires, and special locking hardware, all of which can break so calls for additional maintenance.

And when it does break, you've got people in the aisle wanting their carry-ons - which may include medicine or other essential items - so you need to train the cabin crew on how to manage that situation.

If power goes out in-flight, which does happen, do the storage bins stay locked, or do they fail-safe to unlocked? Is there a manual override for when that medicine is really needed?

Consider Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, "the Miracle of the Andes", where the plane crashed on a glacier in the Andes. The used what was in the luggage to rescue themself. Were it locked away, things would have been tougher for them.

Figuring out how to handle low-probability situations is hard.
Now that I'm on my desktop, here's a better list of my favorites

Some kind of 9800Hz statis/hiss, reminiscent of crickets. Masks my tinnitus perfectly and doesn't seem to trigger excessive attention. Has a very quick intro bit, but not talking after: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I-20-jKVF0

"Grey" noise, whatever that's supposed to mean. A low hum/rumble similar to ocean waves but more constant. Also has a hiss added. Very non-intrusive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSQ_gW7iVis

"Shimmer", very reminiscent of crickets but much smoother and without all the little peaks that would normally activate my attention: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ke2BopotSIU
Getting other people to inspect your work sounds great for you but it costs those people a time and money.

So, the incentives for misuse are really high and the net result is that shortcutting the process is a net drag on progress. People remember the bigs stuff like FTL neutrinos, cold fusion, NK-99, etc but arguably this also shows up as part of the ‘reproducibility crisis’ in many fields.
The moment you understand the Transformer you become incapable of explaining it.
Don’t hold your breath on anyone doing anything about it. Regulators wont even go after intentional interference.

See: The guys in the southern U.S. running 10,000-100,000W AM transmitters with dirty amps that splatter 6 CB channels at a time across half the planet. And all they do is yell gibberish and try to drown each other out 16 hours a day, making swathes of the 11m band unusable when they get bored of 27.025 and start moving to higher channels.

They’ve been doing it for 30-40 years, and people have been complaining and reporting it the entire time.
I have tried several S3 Alternative so far Wasabi has been the best...

I had some Latency and Bandwidth problems when trying to push alot of data into BackBlaze not terrible but slower than Wasabi it however was usable. Some of the other vendors I tried were not even usable
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We got a very small, teardrop trailer as a gift from a relative a couple of years ago. It's awesome, but I was absolutely floored at how badly towing it killed our mileage in a Y. We went short distances so I wasn't too scientific about it, but I'd wager it cut our range in at _least_ half.

Our friend borrowed it to take a small Uhaul trailer to pick something up from family and had a similar experience. At one point he called us asking, cryptically, "how low was safe to plan to get to a charging station." Turns out he was on a longer stretch between chargers that he'd handled fine on the way out, but, like the author, ended up having to leave the Uhaul and come back for it on the way back.
Perhaps Wirth would say that compilers are _close enough_ to user programs to be a decent enough representation in most cases. And of course he was sensible enough to also recognize that there are special cases, like matrix operations, where it might be wirthwhile.

EDIT: typo in the last word but I'm leaving it in for obvious reasons.
In what way is the headline misleading? The 4060 Ti is not a 4060 in the same way a Ryzen 7900 is not a Ryzen 7900X3D. The GPU you, and the article, mention is a completely separate model with a completely separate chip and drastically higher price.

> 1) Driving monitors. If I want a dozen word processor windows open at the same time, I don't need a thousand CUDA cores, but I do need enough ports

My iGPU compact desktop drives 4 monitors just fine. After that... you're not really in budget GPU territory.

> 2) Acceleration. This costs more money relative to CPUs today. Most people don't do much that requires this (although this might change with SD, LLMs, etc.)

iGPUs can do the same accelerations as dedicated GPUs these days. The difference is in whether it's part of the main SoC or a larger separate chip. As a further example the iGPUs in the MacBook even scale to being better consumer accelerators than mid-high range desktop GPUs for large models.

> 3) Offloading bus load. Things like screen refresh, for an iGPU, requires constant access to main memory. On a GPU, there is dedicated graphics memory. A server showing a lock screen has constant bus load with an iGPU, but not with a dedicated graphics card.

This I largely agree with, though as its impact on the overall measure of performance not an inherent requirement of a budget GPU.

> As a footnote, fundamentally, what I would prefer is an architecture where I have:

It's your preference so I'm not going to argue any of it is right or wrong but I'm curious what the value in having the output and accelerator as physically separate cards is. You can already do things like DisplayLink to output over arbitrary bus interfaces and you can indeed multi-head with different brands (works fine, doing it right now) so what's the value difference in the built in outputs being physically separated by some additional interconnect?
> I don’t know what problem domains

The addendum about network calls in a loop makes it sound like his domain uses some kind of SDK with a bad API design. There are some notorious examples which are known to fool new and uninitiated developers who haven't read the fine print into writing code that looks perfectly reasonable on the surface, but does dumb things under the hood.

My experience with new devs is more towards obsessive concern with respect to time complexity, at least where isn't hidden behind a bad API design, fearing an algorithm with high complexity that when measured under its practical use would be just fine. It can be difficult for new (and even old) developers to grasp just how fast computers actually are.
It's not hard to see that in this algorithm when a new cache miss is handled to insert an item, the current position of the Hand bears no relation to that new item.

Sure, we can contrive access sequences where that is not random, because the whole thing is actually deterministic. That's not what I mean by random; I mean not expected to be related under realistic conditions where the inputs aren't contrived.

A good cache algorithm should be immune against contrived input sequences. With this one, we could devise a degenerate access sequence such that a particular item is always placed just ahead of the Hand, such that it is victimized in the next access cycle. Yet another particular item is given the maximum leeway. And that could be in spite of both items appearing equally often and deserving the same treatment.
A lot of studies have shown it's common. Maybe not quite to the level I had, but teens in general have circadian rhythms that are shifted later.

The problem of course is that they make high school start earlier than middle school despite the tendency to want to rise and sleep later so that high school kids can arrive home before their possible younger elementary school siblings and watch them.
Was Shakespeare originally a high-end affair with the utmost decorum? Or was it more like community theater, where some amount of misbehavior was expected?
For those like myself that are somewhat unfamiliar with what RIPE is:

RIPE is the European equivalent of ARIN (the North American regional authority of ISP addressing matters). They are sort of like the postal/zoning agents of the internet in that they oversee the distribution and management of IP address blocks. ISPs like Orange Spain have a RIPE account that they use manage their IP allocations, which is what was compromised.
got a bit frenzied by the last superconductor drop, gonna sit this one out
I can second this! I've been using it across my dev setup and window manager for almost a year now and haven't wanted to switch to anything else.

I really like how it looks on your page, it makes the code blocks feel "cozy" for lack of a better word.
Backblaze B2 is their generic object storage platform similar to S3. You pay what you use and it scales into petabytes. There's no minimums so if you're only using small amounts, you get a small bill at the end of the month. It's not backup software, just the underlying cloud storage platform.
Fiduciary responsibilities can be construed very broadly, and as long as they can point to CEOs with similar salaries and haven't recorded themselves basically admitting to some illegal arrangement it's extremely hard to do anything about it unless you'd been a shareholder.
Cloud backup != B2.

https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage/pricing

$6/TB/Month. Very manageable egress-fees. If you're using it for cold-backup, hopefully you rarely have to pay them.
Proof definitely needed. Honestly this doesn’t sound like something HN would have any interest in doing, they don’t serve ads or anything like that so why would they care?
https://archive.ph/2023.12.26-124321/https://www.latimes.com...
2-3x of 1 is still in the same order of magnitude and unlikely to matter.
This is basically this - it can learn ignore some paths, and amplify something more important, then you can just cut this paths without sensible loss of quality. The problem is that you are not going to win anything from this - non-matrix multiplication would be slower or the same.
I think it is unreasonable to blame site when you allow sharing data by certain separations. Like in social media set your friends' friends to be able to see your data. If one of these friend's friend is bad actor. Is it really on the site to prevent them seeing the data?
> The most fundamental element to science is skepticism.

We probably agree on the right way to apply “skepticism” re science.

But the self-described “skeptics” I know often ignore evidence. Which is one way the word (Words! They suck!) can be validly interpreted.

I would say the fundamental element of science is “the evidence based search to continually improve our current understanding”.

I particularly like how “understanding” inoculates against the more static, subjective, bias friendly, identity and ideologically based, implications of “belief”.
Would like to read more about these menaces and the reasons for the government's refusal. Do you have any articles or blogs or even other comments you could link me to to read more about this?
Which is just under 1 000 000 000 000 000 times more signal strength loss assuming quadratic dispersion.
Might require a window seat though.
I can't really take seriously any research with "elevates the LLM from a nascent model to a formidable one" in the abstract...

If you want to catch my attention, say "+XX% at [benchmark], with the same number of weights and training data".
Yes this is true. I once saw a TV show where they tested the VW ID (SUV type) with a normal caravan/trailer and they had over 50% less mileage.
I grew up in Indiana, literally in the middle of cornfields. Farm kids went to school, and sometimes smelled like they'd just got done with chores. But no one to my knowledge got cut slack because they had farm work to do. And what parent wants their kid to grow up uneducated? Even if they're supposed to grow up and take over the farm later, you'll never go to Purdue for that ag degree if you don't go to high school.

Granted, just one piece of anecdata from just one U. S. state. But without evidence to the contrary, I'm having a hard time picturing any adult in the process, parents or school employee, being content with uneducated ignoramuses as long as they get the pigs fed.
It's actually really hard to keep discoveries like this secret or restricted. The real value worth protecting often is how to manufacture and mass produce.

The nuclear bomb is a perfect example: It's actually a very simple mechanism, and the steps needed to refine the materials and make the mechanism are extremely well documented. However, the capability to actually reliably and safely make it is quite difficult.
Japan's has been doing this for thousands of years.

"The nightless city, or, the "History of the Yoshiwara Yūkwaku"
by De Becker, J. E., 1899

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>an .ini file should not be a thing in Windows

Hard, hard disagree there. Having config files available is vastly preferable to using the unmitigated shitshow that is the windows registry. That and a config file at least gives users a prayer at being able to provide some sort of troubleshooting information, and provides savvy users with a way to actually solve problems on their own.

>half ass ports it to windows

Redmond, themselves, do all sorts of seemingly 'wrong' things with their directory structure, which tells me the 'free for all' nature of it is intentional, and not wrong at all. It is a terrible structure, it does cause problems, but, that's the conditions you work under while using windows. It's mostly OK in practice, but as bitwarden found out, there are conditions that developers have to account for if you require security and safety.

And factually, your presumed solution of "put things in the right place" is doubly broken, because if one acquires the correct privileges, there is no location on a windows machine where cleartext data is safe. The solution is not "store it in the correct location" the solution is to encrypt sensitive data at rest, regardless of location, which is more or less what bitwarden did. That's the correct strategy, and it's operating system agnostic.
Right now, memory is managed like C or C++, but I intend to implement lifetimes in the frontend eventually.

But definitely no garbage collection (although, a target could implement it against the standard and it would work)

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I experienced this. Due to various undiagnosed mental health issues I ended up with a serious record in the UK - a total of 15 charges, all computer related.

Due to the clear lack of malicious intent I didn't serve any time, but did get shackled with: 12 months suspended for 12 months; 10 years on the sex offenders register; 7 years sexual harm prevention order; and 5 years of something else I can't remember.

Every computer I touch - whilst in the UK - should have "monitoring" software installed, which pretty much ruled out any office job, let alone tech.

So after 2 failed suicide attempts and a stay in hospital I decided to completely reinvent myself and start from scratch. Time to hit the big reset button. Legally I have to reveal my convictions ahead of signing a contract in the UK. I got frog-marched out of several buildings by security after the interviews were terminated immediately when I revealed my convictions. I was basically unemployable in the UK and decided to leave and never return. Even after the 10 years is up I am still required to declare "spent convictions" for 5/6 years. This would take me close to my 50th birthday until I no longer have to say anything - 15 years from conviction date.

It took 1 year to "create" a new identity, including complete change of name, severing any connection with friends, and faking an employment history.

I moved abroad with my new identity and hoped for the best... and so far have had an incredibly successful career (post-conviction), and the one thing which has driven me is being good enough that IF my employer learns of my past, they will weigh up what I offer them vs. what I have done in my past.

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> Electric vehicle battery prices are falling faster than expected

> Goldman Sachs Research now expects battery prices to fall to $99 per kilowatt hour (kWh) of storage capacity by 2025 — a 40% decrease from 2022 (the previous forecast was for a 33% decline).

https://www.goldmansachs.com/intelligence/pages/electric-veh...
Agree. I am so sick of everything turning to shit. profits....bullshit....each one of these so called profit chasing decisions were short sighted and cost them billions and billions and possibly trillions of dollars had they just continued to care about the product and what it was originally meant for
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