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> You would still want that free pie to be put through the workflow and tracked. The only difference is you wouldn’t collect a payment.

In some jurisdictions you don't just want to put the pie through the POS system, you have to for both tax reasons and to make sure your employees don't ring up their friends on "faked" coupons.

The rest of the article is really nice as well and reflects with my personal experiences in bartending... indeed having experience in hospitality jobs is a major plus for anyone working in IT or design, simply because you learn to value first hand how important performance and good UX is at some of the highest-stress jobs there are.
Part of the experience. Some of your neighbors are jerks
Similar to my experience with Windows TBH.
It's the same width as the 15" I use on my lap in the train every day. Wouldn't want something smaller personally.
I would have taken sum types over generics, personally. It kinda sucks because you can't create something like Rust's `?` operator without them or making serious kludgy compromises.
> What does any country "have going for it"?

Military importance is a big one. Part of the reason Japan and Korea industrialized so quickly after 1950 was because the West supported them economically as they were needed as a reliable bulwark against Communist expansion. The US also tolerates dictatorships worldwide (incl S Korea until 1988) if the regime is friendly to the US.
You can also search open tabs in the address bar: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/address-bar-autocomplet...

I hardly use it, though, because I usually have < 100 open tabs, not thousands like others have. I identify tabs by their tree structures (parents, children, siblings tabs) and the prefixes of the titles, whose lengths don't depend on how many tabs opened, because the tabs are arranged vertically.
That's true. It's also true that even more subtle types of social capital can be extremely influential. And it's further true that these types of subtle influencing factors are much harder to address than overt corruption.

But even with all of that said: not having legacy admissions is better than having legacy admissions.
a isn't used so it won't ;p

Honestly the thing that I think lacks more is macros. With macros it would be trivial to write

a := Must!(f())

that

* assigns last return value to err

* calls return with that error if it is not nil
Yeah, that Entra ID was the biggest "why?" moment I had in years. Seeing the new name no better or even worse than the old one I can already imagine the pain of renaming packages, namespaces, fixing documentation etc. Probably the most expensive marketing campaign with 0 gain I am aware of.
Actually it’s not. The expectation is that men do their half and also provide emotional support. The problem is that many omen don’t do either of those and few so both well. Instead many men try to compensate with wealth and fail.
Do you use TST or anything like that? How do you navigate around that many tabs?
Entra ID. As someone trying to get up to speed on Azure AD, suddenly all the recent tutorials I've watched are out of date. Very frustrating.

Same story when they moved to MSAL a few years ago.
“Tolerate” as in survive, but the wildlife is clearly impacted.
Without knowing details, it could be that this person (or persons in your experience) are actually delivering work that doesn't fit what you deem to be meaningful work. Yet the businesses are rewarding them. Might be a calibration issue on your side potentially?
default values for everything without significantly increasing language complexity
> “unmotivated” is a bit reductive

Well, sure, it's under-specified, I said "unmotivated (for whatever reasons)", eh?

I agree with you. When it comes to programming computers it's one of the few areas where I am unabashedly elitist ( https://sforman.srht.site/AnyoneCanCode.html "For most people learning anything more complicated than Excel is counter-productive." )

My point is that it's not that hard to learn to program, not that it's easy to program well (it's not. I've been at it for over a quarter of a century and I'm still barely capable.)

My additional point is that the barrier to entry (other than apathy or disinterest) is the complexity (just to make a website you need to know three or four computer languages!?)

My third point is that that complexity is about to vanish in a haze of linear algebra and massive data (the computers can talk now.)
Apple doesn’t verify that purchases from the educational store are from students it’s honor system. Those prices are available to everyone, in small quantities.

Sit the 15 inch MBA next to the 16 inch MBP and the screens look identical. Performance wise the M2 w unified memory crushes X86 systems across the benchmarks at half the power budget.
It’s a joke about the parent comment being bad at math, so maybe they don’t need to contribute
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Do they specify which GPT version they used? Could Llama 2 really beat GPT-4?
> Uber/Lyft did outcompete taxis on merit, and to suggest otherwise is revisionist history!

You're right about downsides of cabs, but I'm afraid you are also revising history on the issue of merit.

For a long time, Uber (and Lyft) rides cost a lot more than clients were paying - many people noticed this and wrote about it, and the edgier ones characterized ride-sharing as a wealth transfer from VCs to riders.

The setup was clearly not "competing on merit" and was closer to predatory pricing. It's obvious the investors would have demanded massive hikes had they managed to drive competitors out of business.
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Great move. Meta is at the finish line in AI in the race to zero and you can make money out of this model.

A year ago, many here have written off Meta and have now changed their opinions more times like the weather.

It seems that many have already forgotten Meta still has their AI labs and can afford to put things on hold and reboot other areas in their business. Unlike these so-called AI startups who are pre-revenue and unprofitable.

Why would so many underestimate Meta when they can drive everything to zero. Putting OpenAI and Google at risk of getting upended by very good freely released AI models like LLama 2?
Was suffering a large number of TIAs, and some clots in lungs.

When I stopped drinking a sugar free energy drink that had Erythritol my episodes drastically reduced. From weekly to every few months.

I have Factor 5 Leiden. So I predisposed to clots, but certain chemicals seem make it a lot works.
So far, we’ve only done larger cities/metros
Why? You can fill in one form and get a download.
we have a fly.io log shipper. docs here: https://www.highlight.io/docs/getting-started/backend-loggin...

> Also please make sure you have multi-line logs covered out of the gate. (Logtail, for example, doesn't support multiline stacktraces(!))

Noted. We're doing a push on our logging UX soon and can take a look.

> One thing that isn't clear to me from your marketing is what capability you have to support frameworks that aren't in your list. Do you have a regexp/generic parsing engine/ui?

I'm not entirely sure about the question, but we can receive logs via several specifications. OTEL, HTTP, Fluentbit, etc.. Does that answer your question? Or are you talking more about log filtering (i.e. filtering out logs for a specific log level)?
You seem emotional about these facts. I'll let you get on with your day.
It would be nice to see 6 of them trained for different purposes by combining 5 of their outputs together and 1 trained to summarize for the most complete and correct output. If we are to trust the leaks about GPT-4, this may be a more fair comparison, even if it is only ~10-20% of the size or so.
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Property tax is not land value tax. Property tax is a tax on both the improvements and the base value of the land.

Land value taxes are only taxes on the value of the land.

A land value tax would tax a giant residential building and the parking lot adjacent to it the same, which encourages maximizing the value of the lot rather than leaving it for parking.
I need to get my hands on that Windows Military Edition®
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>Brave's BAT is the best alternative web business model that gets rid of the advertising middleman plaguing the modern web

I don't understand Brave just goes out and signs their own advertising deals. Essentially like using Chrome and using a google site. Google could do this too but would be a nightmare.

>Blockchains are a great fit for storing DNS, identity and certificate records.

As with the other comment, sure you could do it with blockchain but theres often better solutions.

> middleman transfer fees (Western Union, etc.).

The fundamental problem is people still have to deal with fiat money. that conversion always carries a fee.
Because I work in NLP so I have a good sense of the different capabilities of different firms and for the Bard release, it would have made more sense for them to have a more limited release of a better model for PR reasons than what actually happened.

The other things you are describing are just standard for research paper releases.
When many parts of the earth start experiencing abnormally high sustained temperatures, what should we call it if not climate change?

Maybe we need a new term? International heating? Planetary barbecue? Wait, I know! How about "global warming"?
Agreed. There are two UKs: London and the rest, like u said. Just like USA. There's Silicon Valley and NYC plus some other enclaves and there's the "flyover".

UK has become like USA with yawning gaps between the have and have nots.
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The other end of the PR stake was safety/alignment. If Google released a well functioning model, but it said some unsavory things or carried out requests that the public doesn't find agreeable, it could make Google look bad.
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I like the poetic sing-songy tone of the article -- it does convey the joy of moving through the world on a bike. An electric one, even more so.

My city has a rental bike system (Bixi, or City Bike elsewhere) and they're clunky tanks, made to be abused. In the past couple of years they've expanded their fleet with e-assist bikes. They're amazing. They're still unwieldy tanks, but the boost makes them fly up hills with little effort.

In my limited experience with different types of e-bikes, the ones where you need to pedal to make them go seem better than the ones with some kind of a throttle / lever etc. The act of pedalling engages the rider more completely than sliding some thumb lever, it feels safer and more connected with the ride.
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I think TikTok would just use it anyway even if they were denied a license (if they even bothered asking for one). They've never really cared about that kind of stuff.
I think it confuses things immensely to anthropomorphize large language models. LLMs don't lie or tell the truth they just spit out text that is in alignment with the training model. Don't give them agency they don't have.
I think the difference is in how it's approached. Admissions never say, "We need 20 bassoon players every year," but they absolutely look for 20 football players every year.

And it's a known way to game admissions. How many people do you know who row or fence? Because top schools are looking for a set number of people who are good at those sports each year and wealthy parents can get their kids top coaching for such boutique sports, knowing that.
The open-source infra we use allows us to have a highly-available, scale-able system.

Kafka - buffers data ingest so that we never lose recordings.
Redis - acts as a cache, optimized for write-heavy processing in our app.
Postgres - stores metadata for the data we record.
ClickHouse - stores logs and other time-series data that need to be aggregated.

We're looking to simplify the system and replacing InfluxDB + OpenSearch in the near future with ClickHouse as a more performance and cost-effective solution that has proven simpler to maintain.
> It's not really different from getting a content farm to write you a bunch of crap, just cheaper and faster. Search companies will adapt

Not sure they have adapted. Most of the links on the front page of a search are crap.
One thing I've noticed since I started using Sideberry extension (a different/better take on Tree Style Tabs) is that after a day or two, the whole tab panel I separated specifically for HN tends to accumulate 100+ tabs. Having them laid out vertically in tiny font makes this apparent in a way that the regular tab bar doesn't.

Fortunately, I also habituated the simple behavior of "If I realize I have a lot of HN tabs open, right-click and close the entire pane". That's how I know I'm clocking about 100 tabs per two days on HN alone.

Also, Sideberry changed my tab hoarding habit in a way that still results in keeping hundreds of tabs, but using them in much more sensible way. I keep them arranged in trees stemming from topical groups on high-level panels, and trim or kill as they're no longer useful. Most of those tabs are unloaded anyway, but the interface works as excellent short-term (days to weeks, sometimes a few months) bookmarking system - and I don't lose tabs anymore (as in knowing the tab is there somewhere, but not being able to find it in the vast sea of other tabs).
Comments like this are why I like to joke that the G in Golang stands for gaslighting.
its not clear but can we also download the model with this Llama v2 Cog thing? EDIT: Meta is being extremely prompt, just got sent the download instructions https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1681351712718876673

also is it now Llama or LLaMA since the website says Llama? lol
The airport lounges are decent - at least the Delta lounge and the Amex Centurion lounge
Don't underestimate how much some people dislike talking on the phone.
Framework has made no such promise, but I can’t imagine they’re not interested in making that happen.
GRUB is a bootloader. A bootloader takes care of getting the operating system started up. It is also responsible for allowing the user to select between multiple operating systems at boot.
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This is actually what's going on. Ivy's are an intelligence signal laundering operation. Attract 80% super smarts, throw in 20% rich upper class, now people think your average rich upper class kids are "super smart," for their later career.

It's why there's such a skewed financial aid. And it's why there's no prestigious rich-kid-only school, because it's obvious the academics aren't very good and that's not what is desired to be seen like.
In practice, a lot of people are just not compatible with anyone
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I work in this field. I would love to see what you are basing these assertions off of.

> they mostly work in areas tangential to 'just chatbots' (e.g. how to improve science with novel GNNs, etc)

Yes, Alphabet has poured tons of money into exotic ML research whereas Meta just kept pouring more money into more & deeper NLP research.
,,, wanna see differentiable FORTRAN so much.
I'm pretty sure Firefox defaults to smooth scrolling, which can feel laggy even on reasonably powerful hardware, because animation is its own latency.
Except in style.. it's on the ugly side.
We use MS for some stuff and did use Okta for others. But... Okta fkd up and can never be used in any enterprise today. We migrated from it. Everybody should. Now we use MS and Google. Okta is probably the most over-priced service in history of CS especially considering the poor sec design. They do however solve the US-Franchise-Corp bs that I guess it was designed for.
If by culture shift you mean abandon Brexit and return to EU, I agree.
Ironically, all these will be solved by raising everybody 3% and that's it. By trying to measure individual performance, the company is taking away time from their employees. And the ones that end up getting the rise are the best ones at doing reviews, not at doing the job.

I prefer that everybody gets the same raise, and that the company pays competitive salaries. To spend so much time justifying your own job for a company that is making a lot of profits makes little sense.
This does seem to be a RLHF model, not a base model. Unless 'supervised fine-tuning' and 'human preference' mean something else.
A PL without Generics is just Terrible DX for me, let me abstract the types in my Algorithms and Data Structures Goddammit!

Now Golang is saved, with Generics it's actually an Awesome Incredible PL.
I'm barely awake at 9am and now I need to be awake at 6am?

Yeah, that's not happening...
"We have also trained 34B variants, which we report on in this paper but are not releasing."

"We are delaying the release of the 34B model due to a lack of time to sufficiently red team."

From the Llama 2 paper
As a counterpoint:

I've worked with both Azure cloud and Azure DevOps (or whatever the feck they call it now) for a long time (maybe 10 years?), a lot in a corporate setting, but also for my startup.

Apart from the same price issues that exist across all the big 3 cloud providers, I actually really like Azure.
I think it's more base than this; in order to be valued you have to be seen as useful. This is only somewhat related to being actually useful. Workers who haven't drunk the company Kool-Aid have realized that their own personal value is maximized by giving priority to work that is visible over doing the best or most work.
The ChromeOS use case is a strict subset of the use case of a normal Linux laptop. There is nothing stopping you from treating an Ubuntu installation as if it's as limited as a Chromebook. It's every bit as lightweight and can be every bit as locked down.
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I am a longtime and proud Firefox user, but this feature of Chrome is the one thing I want. When I see colleagues using it, it just looks like the right way to tackle that need.
On the last point: Somehow I haven’t even considered that :) Still, that’s just the RAM cost. The overall cluster would be much more expensive.
Ah, okay. The use of the second form requires a `@chain` macro annotation in the beginning of that expression, so I've never found this to be ambiguous.
Is there some tool out there that will take a model (like the Llama-2 model that Meta is offering up to download) and render it in a high-level way?
I've got an ebike that takes me anywhere within ~10 miles easily, including picking up/drop off kids), and I'm a remote worker (though I could bike to the office easily.)
I don't know C#, but I'll take a guess:

I think it's exactly the same issue as null in Lisp and Lua — you sometimes want to differentiate between null as in "I returned no value", and null as in "I returned the fact that there is no value". Or null vs false vs empty list in the context of Lisp.

This distinction becomes very clear (and sometimes very annoying) when you realize that in Lua, setting a table key to null completely removes it, so there's no way to store the concept of a missing value unless you define a special value (like DBNull). A slot being null literally signifies its absence.
Making advanced LLMs and releasing them for free like this is wonderful for the world. It saves a huge number of folks (companies, universities & individuals) vast amount of money and engineering time. It will enable many teams to do research and make products that they otherwise wouldn't be able to.

It is interesting to ponder to what extent this is just a strategic move by Meta to make more money in the end, but whatever the answer to that, it doesn't change how much I appreciate them doing it.

When AWS launched, I was similarly appreciative, as it made a lot of work a lot easier and affordable. The fact AWS made Amazon money didn't lower my appreciation of them for making AWS exist.
In the age of Zoom, won't even slightly well to do parents get tutors from a remote country for a reasonable price for their kids if the school stops teaching math. The only kids who will suffer are the kids where parents are not so much focused on education, thus increasing the disparity.
Because it's easier to handle? You open a new tab with a mindless Ctrl+T, if I wanted to do some organizing I would clean up my desk instead.
> maximize human capability

Ah, you've touched to the quick.

The challenge of AI (and technology is general) is to answer "What are people for?" or, in other words, "What is good?"

(Not to get ahead of the discussion, but I would suggest that this is a question no computer tutor can help answer, except perhaps in the negative?)

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edit to add: "Bloom’s 2 sigma problem" I just looked that up on the wikipedia. The guy I was arguing with was a follower of Bloom. AFAICT I couldn't even begin to rattle him on the idea that Bloom's whole thing is goofy from first principles.

I don't want to get into another argument on the subject of Bloom.
> > SV not a scam on some general level

Except it kinda is.

The big improvement in quality of life for people in the last 3 years have been mRNA vaccines, they brought normality back in the world. Developed in Boston and Germany.

In the 2010s the real revolution which made everybody in the world safer was fracking. Forget social media and all that crap, fracking has saved trillions to the US economy given how costly the Middle East military campaigns proved to be.

And yet in the press (tech, financial and otherwise) there is just the Silicon Valley, because it's a 2 way street, people in Silicon Valley go out of their way to get press space to explain to mere mortals how they are saving the world when there is vivid action attacking the problems in all kind of places, sometimes world saving kind of action (as per the case of mRNA)
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