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> in order to be valued you have to be seen as useful

My point is, that's a characteristic of liberal (individualist, meritocratic) paradigm. In other paradigms, your value comes from something else than usefulness. In authoritarian (patriarchal) system, your value is inherent in your (or your family) social status, like your wealth. And in egalitarian (collectivist) system, you're valued (but also less so) inherently by virtue of being part of the group.
People who need space for offices and businesses, but are not willing to pay the rates that are being demanded while the properties sit empty?
i dont know how to engage with a comment like this. but i have a feeling that its an example of garbage in garbage out. i recommend you take any one of those specific assertions, maybe starting with "a few farmers can feed the country" and really try to actually substantiate the claim. good luck!
Maybe, just maybe, your singular experience is not accurately representative of Uber's business? You can go look up how they were clearly subsidizing fares.
Grammar schools do still exist in a few hold-out counties like Kent.

One thing that was repealed by the last Labour government was the Assisted Places Scheme [1]. If you scored highly enough the government would pay for a child to go to private school.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_Places_Scheme
How many cores was laptop benchmark running on?
I don't know what you mean by "gimped", but they do advertise that it has safety and capability features comparable to OpenAI models, as rated by human testers.
I'm from Poland, I've worked for UK company for several years and lived there from time to time. I disagree with the article main thesis. UK will still be more wealthy in 30 years, simply because wealth and GDP is not the same. Country wealth is a portion of each years' GDP accumulated over centuries - so Poland has decades to go even accounting for the depreciation of money and old infrastructure).

People focus on GDP a lot, but wealth is just as important - because wealth creates opportunities and innovation. When Poland transformed from communism to capitalism most people had savings for less than a month. Nobody was rich. You can't do a startup or a company if you start starving after 1 month without income. And don't get me started about trying to get a credit when your only asset is house you share with 6 other people in the middle of post-communist nowhere.

This changed in last 20 years, but we still got long way to go.

People in the west are blind to how wealthy they are, and how many opportunities it creates. I worked for a small family company in UK that did embedded devices for blind people. 2 students after university created it because a father of one of them got blind. It's still hard to do in Poland. In 90s it was impossible for 99.9% of the population.

Anyway - I also disagree with your characterization of Polish economic boom. The EU contribution to Poland started at about 2.5% of GDP and is currently around 1% yearly. It's nice to have, but it's not the determining factor. Polish export to EU is over 33% of GDP for comparison. It grew over 20 times since 2004.

It's not the donations that keep countries in EU, it's the trade.
yup, for a start you can't even train other LLMs with it
Maybe you are a large language model?
It's moronic. Source: I'm a university math professor with a hell of a lot more experience teaching math well than you have.
Not quite a drop in replacement, but close enough.
From the paper[1]:

> Llama 2, an updated version of Llama 1, trained on a new mix of publicly available data. We also increased the size of the pretraining corpus by 40%, doubled the context length of the model, and adopted grouped-query attention (Ainslie et al., 2023)[2].

[1]: https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/llama-2-open-found...

[2]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.13245
But then engaged parents will take their kids to Kumon, and rich parents will take their kids to private school.

Their kids will then mop the floor against all other kids, including engaged kids without engaged parents, that would have benefited from more advanced classes. Is that equality?
At least in NYC the DOE has to at least subsidize your private school if you show that your child has needs that require that school.
Provide examples.
To be sure, it's not a panacea and there are more subtle ways to work the same influence networks.

I liken it to Jim Crow: systemic racism didn't end the day that Jim Crow laws were struck down, but a world without those statutes is undeniably a step in the right direction. So too here: it's not perfect, it doesn't solve the issue once and for all, but it's unquestionably better than the alternative.
Google will index whatever is generated in your sitemap.xml file. The "site:" filter isn't going to show them all.
Is a truly open source 2 trillion token model even possible?

Even if Meta released this under Apache 2.0, there's the sticky question of the training data licenses.
That doesn't sound very much like a plan. What an exhausting style of rhetoric.
Wow. this looks really useful. Have you tried it?
if you red team the 13b and the 70b and they pass, what is the danger of 34B being significantly more dangerous?

edit: turns out I should RTFP. there was a ~2x spike in safety violations for 34B https://twitter.com/yacineMTB/status/1681358362057883680?s=2...
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To schools that have motivation to actually educate children?
They make the car industry a ton of money though so I don't expect them to go away any time soon.
PSA, this exists: https://lite.cnn.com/2023/07/18/investing/premarket-stocks-t...
Yes! Thank you Meta for going the open AI way. While not fully open source, it is responsibly open IMO. Sure the licensing has plenty of restrictions but being able to download code and weights, run on your own hardware, play and finetune it is a huge step forward.

I've been following Yan LeCun and Meta research paper/code/models, it's amazing what they've been able to accomplish.

Also very beautifully designed site as well.
I don't think it's a bug in the trial, but rather evolution at work.

The vaccine worked pretty well against the Wuhan strain, but Covid breeds variants like it was a rabbit. The farther from the strain coded into the vaccine the less effective the vaccine is. It still seems to be pretty good at reducing the severity, though--the unvaccinated are dying at a far higher rate than the vaccinated.
They often don't have a choice. They can stay, but as just one vote they cannot reform the system. They can fight for thier kids, but they may have limited results. (My mom faught hard in ~1965 to be able to take shop, but it was a boys only class and she didn't win)
Meta and Microsoft Introduce the Next Generation of Llama
Llama-v2 is open source, with a license that authorizes commercial use!

(except for other megacorps)
> Actually, who am I kidding- some other interest group would probably take their place.

This is it unfortunately.

After observing the SF NIMBY mentality for many, many years, you start to see the matrix. It has nothing to do with gentrification, inclusion, environmentalism, or any of the other purported values. It's about one thing: stasis. Keeping SF the same at all costs, and making sure no new people come here.

San Franciscans favorite subject right now is talking about how downtown commercial space could be converted to housing, but make no mistake, the second anyone actually tried to do that, the backslash would be powerful and instantaneous. (And it's already so impossible to do between zoning and regulation that it doesn't even need backlash to already be infeasible.)
> purposes of public education is also assimilating children into the shared values of society

Regulate voucher schools. Content requirements. Restrictions on religion. Maybe even standardized testing, or requirements that voucher students not be subject to extra fees.

The public is paying, after all. It can attach strings to its money.
My only suggestion is for FireFox to implement the native UI elements of the system (dropdowns, menus) etc. Than using something of their own. Where Chrome uses the system native UI elements.

Is there a way to fix it with some tweeking?
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USSR, with the exception of the elections, wasn't much different from what we recognize as democracies.

i.e. a local bureaucrat notices something, he contacts his bureaucrat supervisor, let's call him the city manager, who then decide to command the bureaucrat to investigate further or ignore the issue.

Once it is established that the issue actually exists, the local bureaucrat supervisor contacts his bureaucrat supervisor, let's call him the area manager who once again analyzes the report, or more probably gives it to his subordinates to analyze it, because he has a lot of more important work to do, he's a manager!, and then decides what to do next.

Once it is established that the issue actually exists, the area manager contacts his supervisor, let's call him the regional manager, who once again analyzes the report, or more probably give it to his subordinates to analyze it, because he has a lot of more important work to do, he's a manager of managers for god's sake!, and then decides what to do next.

Rinse and repeat a dozen times in a system deeply nested (full employment was a primary goal in USSR, meaning that the machine was slow and inefficient but provided job security to almost everybody) and it is clear that what Stalin said or commanded was the result of an information gathering process that wasn't so swift and to deploy the solutions that the central committee deliberated they had to face some slowdown and a lot of friction.

To understand how fragile the system was, imagine that the fall of the Berlin wall was caused by a trivial communication mistake made by Guenter Schabowski during a momentary inability to contact the bureaucrat who knew the correct answer to the journalists questions.

Democracy simply means that we vote and have many different parties to chose from (not so many in the US, for example), a parliament made by one, two or more "houses" where elected representatives discuss matters, etc. etc., but what we call "the machinery of government" it's not very different from system to system.

Take China for example, yes, they have only one party, but the CCP ha almost 100 million members, with many different political currents, that constantly discuss different point of views and try to find a compromise, making it one of the largest, if not the largest, political institution in the World and in human history.

We do not call it a democracy, but it is still humans discussing politics that have real life impact on over a billion people that form their community.
Can see Wolfram's approach here - interesting how he's coming to generative AI with a beginner's mind, from first principles. He makes a lot of interesting points, but I can't help and think that he would save a lot of time talking to someone who knows the field better, instead of figuring it all out on his own.

The stuff about attractors and dimensions in model space is missing the architectural understanding (layers representing features, backprop)
You might want to look into "repunits" (though we really do want the 9s, actually) and the Cunningham Project.

Mersenne primes, the largest known, are the base-2 case of these (in which case there is no "9"s distinction).
They are standing in the middle of it and picking everyone's digital pockets while claiming that they can't possibly help in the fight because it's too hard to pick a side. In an alternate universe they would be a Nazi Switzerland.

Google makes money off of SEO spam. They get ad revenue from sellers and then give some pocket change to the scammers from the sellers. All of the money goes through their hands first.

They're evil, they've sold whatever soul they might have had to the god of "money at any cost", and the current shitshow of their terrible search results is what you get when a soulless wreck is left to shamble the earth until its heart stops beating.
Even then you'd still have to lubricate some bits more frequently and re-adjust the valves.
Linear Programming in Python (2023)
What evidence do you have that this policy is influenced by any kind of "movement," and what are the differences of this "movement" compared to the Dallas policy mentioned in the article?
Multiple decades of studies produced by the NAEP directly refute your argument.

I would reference the confirming NAIS studies as well but they've got some self-interest in those results.
> “We are coming after you,” a letter mailed to an Ohio school board member said, according to the group. “You are forcing them to wear mask — for no reason in this world other than control. And for that you will pay dearly.” It called the member “a filthy traitor.”

Ah yes, this is clearly a 'both sides' issue where parents are the victims.
That's drawing an unnecessarily sharp description. To a first approximation all Cochrane pieces are editorials. They're interpreting what's actually out there.

> But let's be slightly rigorous thinkers for a moment: there's a fairly obvious difference between a fit-tested n95 mask in a laboratory setting, where there are lots of other interventions happening at the same time (negative pressure labs, hoods, etc.), and putting on a loose surgical mask on a bus. We should be able to talk about that rationally, and not resort to superstition.

No one's resorting to superstition. You're the one saying there's no value in an intervention that has empiric laboratory evidence to support it. The argument here is what matters at the population level. If the problem is performance, then we train people to select and use masks better, not simply say that there's no point to it at all.
> They could cut rent drastically and people still might not show up.

You could sell ice cream for 5 cents on a hot summer day and people might not buy it. Try it and find out; there has been speculation in the past that lowering prices raises sales.
No there’s no legal basis for any of this that even begins to make sense. It’s nothing but a bad-faith reading. Here’s the phrase in question:

“we use publicly available information to help train Google’s AI models”

That’s it.

The point being that such public information might include personal data about you and that’s fair game, it falls outside of the privacy policy. It’s not a novel claim, just a statement of fact.
Was this on HuggingFace or the Meta site?
I like E-prime. I treat it as an extension of avoiding the passive voice. It nudges you to be more concrete about your definitions, who is doing what to whom.

A lot of people would find themselves mute, and that would probably improve the quality of discourse all by itself.
The review found very few studies into the effectiveness of N95/respirators against ILIs, and from those studies they concluded "wearing N95/P2 respirators probably makes little to no difference".

Bear in mind a possible source of confusion here: TB bacterium are ~3 microns in size, but viruses are about 0.2 microns. The Cochrane review I mentioned is only about respiratory viruses. So it's possible that they may work against TB but not against flu or COVID.
(Not trying to start a flame war). There's a strain of left-wing thought (of course not ALL left-wing thinking) that accepts economic prosperity as unconnected to competence.

Something that's just there in larger or smaller amounts, like the weather.

To these people, standards is just another word for gatekeeping. In this frame of mind, something like communism actually makes sense - the prosperity is there by default, and those at the top get most of it, so why not put everyone on the same rung of society.

There's another school of thought a step closer to the centre which holds that competence exists, but has no innate component and is purely environmental. This leads to the conclusion that if you put everyone in the same environment, you'll get the same outcomes.
I don't think this is a physical viability problem (we convert old industrial warehouses into lofts all of the time).

But I think the problems are that this would represent a major depreciation of the value of the real estate - both for the owners and the city. And the zoning issues would be tough. These are currently not good areas for housing without a lot of work.
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The article cites a parent physically attacking a school board member and your response is shock that authorities were involved?
I really think the deep learning maximalists are leading us down a rabbit hole. We're going to waste a lot of digital storage and computing resources on creating bigger and bigger models for more and more diminishing returns, barring some breakthrough. Without a way of encoding expertise, which is limited right now, I don't think we're going to get the kind of performance that the uninformed public expects out of these systems.
I'm similar, but `startx` to get to GUI, and dwm instead of i3/sway. My girlfriend is somewhat used to it, I've added some convenience scripts for her in rofi to switch keyboard layout and setup the screens. She still asks me to remind her how to access her menu though.
It's complicated because PyTorch also uses class syntax to allow you to introspect the various blocks in your modules. It's a bit of a kludge, but composing it strictly out of Expressions would remove that introspection capability.
I share the frustration you express based on my experience working at large companies. However, there is a strong steelman explanation for why this is required.

In a 5 person company, it is easy to sit around the table and decide what needs to be done and then have everyone "get good work done and go home". In a 5,000 person company, it is not obvious what needs to be done in the first place talk less of making sure everyone knows their part in it. Should we be going after SMBs or Enterprise customers? What do we (or more importantly I) do differently based on that decision? How do we time the next campaign push to line up with the product launch?

There are thousands of decisions that need to be made and it is impossible to do that without having these formal processes that allow people to coordinate in large groups. I would argue that >60% of work involved in a large company is coordination rather than actual building, selling, marketing, whatever. The larger the company, the greater this percentage becomes.

I would love to know if anyone has found a solution to counteract this phenomenon but it seems like an immutable law based on my experience.
Sounds like a cover up for the real problem: Not enough money and teachers for education.
The funding wouldn't be unlimited. Schools would have to figure out how to deliver services with the funds available. This is not totally different than how many public school systems are funded. My local government sucks $12,000 a year out of my paycheck. About 70% of it funds the pensions of local public school teachers, the remaining 30% pays for the actual schools, with a smidge left over for police and fire department, etc.

They can and do raise my property taxes, but it's much harder than colleges simply demanding higher and higher tuitions.
> aside from the few people actually implementing these changes

That, though.
I wonder how fudged are those numbers. I know of a town with tons of idle hotel space yet they report an occupancy rate of 65%, which is within a few percent of the typical range of 70%-90%. I suspect some empty properties are listed as "under renovation" even though no work is being done.
Being a good engineer no longer means that you only need to be technically solid, but you bring a lot of value to the company with your non-technical skills - soft skills.

This article is going to bring you some actionable insights and tips on how you can show your value as an engineer from the view point of a manager as well as a long-time engineer.
Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?
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It's already being used to target women who travel for abortions. We're already there!
> I have exactly the right amount of information I want.

Really? Because `ReadFile` already adds the path to the context, so what you actually get is

read /tmp/foo: open /tmp/foo: no such file or directory

which is more confusing than "the right amount of information".

Furthermore nothing precludes `Must!` taking a prefix and wrapping automatically, does it?

> Assigning to err magically (it's not even mentioned in the source code) is exactly the kind of thing that'll turn out to be the cause of a subtle bug 6 months later.

What bug? It's assigning and returning, the only situation where you'd have "a subtle bug" is if you didn't check the previous call and overwrote its error, which is exactly what you get with the code you propose.
Oh, so in a voucher system I would've had to choose between receiving a worthwhile education and being queer. Got it.
Officer, let's be clear. This noise pollution comes from vibrations in the air, it's not because of "my awesome sound system".
And surely he died from a bullet, not because of "my smokin' gun".
Every Apple product post reliably brings this same tiresome comment. Most people don’t need more than 8GB for browsing and office work. The memory upgrade prices are competitive with high-end Lenovo and Surface laptops. However, if you don’t like it then just ~buy another computer~. What is the point of this constant complaining?
Math major here. Go for it CA. The current "STEM pipeline" is garbage and underserving. A larger populace not excluded from the pipeline (because it wont exist) and not being turned off by math before high school is actually a step in the right direction.

It will take an economy the size of CA to upend things, and they need to be upended. If it's progressive to have a larger base of the mathematically literate, then so be it.

The current system just hires who resembles the incumbents the most. I think that can be broken if enough students and resources go another direction.

Math is no different than any other subject at its core. So it needs to go back to being a regular subject, not among the few in the pipeline, which should never have existed. (Why do I need 3 sophomore level prerequisites, Applied Linear Algebra, Calc 3, Diff Eq's, for a junior level class, mathematical modeling? And there's worse examples at my university too, I followed the least pipelined path. That structure doesn't exist as directed for most subjects. The pipeline needs to go. Math doesn't have to be this way).
>the people elected to them are disproportionately ideologues who treat engaged parents with contempt for being "privileged."

There are grim economic shifts behind this. The majority of people are now priced out of raising their own kids to a good standard (i.e. stay-at-home mum). So, more and more people feel envy towards those who can, and various "equity" movements pop out (that all focus on bringing top performers down, rather than bottom performers up).

The only way to fight it is move to an area where most people can still afford kids, and in our generation it may mean moving out of U.S. entirely.
On modern browsers, don't unused/old tabs take up basically no resources?

I remember both Chrome and FF making a big deal over that point years ago.