skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> MIT doesn’t consider legacy or alumni relations in our admissions process. If you’d like to read more about this policy, check out the blog Just to Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy.

blog.

Links to https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/just-to-be-clear-we-do...

which reads:

> anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

WTF

> Mollie blogged about it back in 2006.

blogged.

> Our institutional research website says, quite specifically, that “alumni relations” are “not considered.”

Nope, it's a dead link.

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MIT, the original source of authority, trying to dispel a harmful myth, can't even be bothered to publish a legitimate, maintained document to use as a reliable, authoritative source for admissions policies. All they offer is gossip from random employees.

Why would they expect random journos to do what they themselves can't do?
I would say it skews towards languages that are easy to be immediately productive in, which is certainly one of Go's biggest strengths.
Some people would just be in favour of the rights of parents to eductate their children however they like...
First of all understand it doesn't have to be all-or-nothing. Many homeschooling parents enroll in a part-time education co-op with other likeminded parents. I guarantee there's one near you right now. In these groups you essentially take turns teaching. There's almost always a parent there who is competent in an area where you lack expertise. It really just works out.

The late-game strategy that I see is enrolling in community college for advanced classes in math, physics, science, etc. In Washington state you can start this your junior year in a program called "Running Start" and it's free. At this point your homeschooling with that child is essentially over and they're taking college classes for college credit.
Turbo and You [pdf]
We can tax corporations and billionaires. Building a functional education system isn't an unrealistic pipe dream, its an imperative for a well adjusted society.
Meta, Microsoft Team Up to Offer New AI Software for Businesses
MS is quite hostile towards Linux and OSS.
I think you might be misunderstanding the system. In California, you had standard track math, and advanced or accelerated track. This measure gets rids of advanced/accelerated, and forces everyone into standard. Without the measure you have 5s and 10s separated, with the measure, you have 5s and 10s together.

But as the parent post points out, 10s either dominate the class, leave the class, or ignore the class and take math outside school. None of that help's the 5s, and all of it hurts, or is wasteful for the 10s.
Fair enough, the figures I found were probably older.

My point is the USA should fix its own problem before lecturing others. Other countries are far more advanced in renewables, time to catch up.
Huh? Staff augmentation contracts are super common. They're definitely not illegal. And the risk in employment classification mistakes is to the employer, not the contractor.
I'm up at 5:25 anyway (even when not working), works for me! I've never had a job that worked from 9am-5pm anyway. Instead of I've worked 6am-2pm, 7am-3:30pm, 7:30amm-4:00pm, 7pm-4am, and then all the random retail hours.
"Cities exist as job markets."

That's changing. Cities are beginning to exist as playgrounds for the privileged.
You are only taking into account one factor. Is the money being spent well? Do you need more money because of external situations that may affect a child's learning?

For example in a poor area with more crime a child may need after school programs, which cost more money, to keep kids out of trouble.
I would say 95% of people who are trying to solve a complicated problem with reflection, type erasure, or codegen are solving the problem the wrong way. Obviously I'm glad these tools exist, and some problems can indeed only be solved with them. But I think people reach for them as a first solution and make bad code as a result. Go strongly encourages you not to reach for bad solutions, which is one of its bigger advantages, in my opinion.
Some people believe being homosexual is also intrinsic, despite identical twin studies showing contrary evidence. People like simple answers. It’s probably partly genetic, partly environmental. In other words, something worth studying further.
I find simple loops over simple data more understandable than inheritance chains and pointer chasing.
https://archive.ph/uETsh
Cognitive Distortions: Unhelpful Thinking Habits (2019)
Try the Chat Arena with ELO ratings based on end user side by side blind tests. It run out of UC Berkley by lmsys the same team that released Vicuna.

https://arena.lmsys.org/
> Ironically, in an effort to be global and inclusive we are throwing out all the languages and attempting to replace them with a single, universal iconography.

Meanwhile, there is also the opposite trend to enhance languages[0], supposedly also to make them more inclusive. There, too, the "UX" suffers, though for different reasons (readability, additional grammatical complexity, …).

To follow your line of thought, now I'm imagining a world where, in the interest of both gender neutrality and UX, in our languages we start replacing words with icons. :eek.jpg:

[0]:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-neutral_language

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_neutrality_in_languag...
I worked at a company that caught a major Chinese Internet company (not ByteDance/TikTok, but one even larger) red-handed engaging in deliberate app install ad fraud (their app would send forged Android INSTALL_REFERRER intents), so it would not surprise me.
Develop a set of queries for the use-case with human review of outputs. My team has an internal (corporate) tool where we drop in an S3 file, complete text over K models, then evaluate the completions with appropriate humans labor pools. Each evaluator gets a pair of outputs for the same prompt and picks the best.
Disclaimer: European.

Is it not strange how in an article arguing from otherwise a very egalitarian, leftist viewpoint, when it discusses how students perform given more or less difficult classes, it somehow thinks the most relevant statistic is the race of the students? (Approximately, even, because American race designation is kinda weird anyway.)

Sure, socio-economic circumstances are correlated with race. (Unfortunately still in this day and age.) Not perfectly, but there is a correlation, so absent other data, it can be used as a proxy for the socio-economic circumstances in which the student grows up. But there are multiple problems with this:

1. If we are to lessen discrimination, the very first thing we should do is stop discriminating. Is this considered normal in the USA? Stop tracking race! And even if you do track it (or an approximation of it) to double-check you're not inadvertently disadvantaging certain minority groups, certainly (1.) there are better measures to designate minority groups, and (2.) one can do this without telling all the world about it and giving society even more fuel for discrimination. If people see other people treat people equally, and see that as normal, they will tend to do the same. We should lead by example, not start a discussion on equality with the worst kind of discrimination.

2. Surely there are better indicators for socio-economic circumstances than race? What about the salary of their parents? This is a typical measure in The Netherlands (where I live). Or even where they live. And if you say that we cannot track those things because that would be an infringement on privacy: how on Earth is tracking parents' salary an infringement on privacy but not tracking race?

Like, I agree that teaching less math is bollocks. But that's not the thing that surprises me most when reading OP.
Yes, human labor is critical for subsistence. But let's look at how many people are employed by industry in the US: https://www.bls.gov/emp/tables/employment-by-major-industry-...

About 2% of people in the US work in agriculture/forestry/animal handling/etc. If you include transportation workers, that's still about 5% of US workers. And if you include wholesale workers and utilities workers -- that's still < 10% of the US population.

All of this work is critical and necessary (to your point). But I think the BLS data is evidence toward OP's point that we've automated and optimized a lot of the work necessary for subsistence.
Chris Douvos' Guide to Investing in Venture Capital in 2023 [video]
Chris Douvos, founder of Ahoy Capital and formerly Princeton Endowment, talks about investing in Venture Funds.
I filled the form about an hour ago and got the download link 15 mins ago. Download is ongoing.

Direct link to request access form:
https://ai.meta.com/resources/models-and-libraries/llama-dow...

Direct link to request access on Hugging Face (use the same email):
https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Llama-2-70b-chat-hf

Direct link to repo:
https://github.com/facebookresearch/llama

Once you get a link to download on email make sure to copy it without spaces, an option is to open it in a new tab and then download. If you are using fish or another fancy shell, make sure you switch to bash or sh before running download.sh from the repo.

I am not sure exactly how much space is needed but it is likely north of 500GB given that there are two 70B models (you are given the option to download just the small ones in a prompt).

Edit: The_Bloke on HF already has them in GGML format available for download.

https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Llama-2-7B-GGML
https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Llama-2-13B-GGML
https://www.geocities.ws/films4/parkinsonselection.htm
> It sucked.

In what way did it suck?
"talons" yes! That's exactly what it felt like!

My curvy roads were the canyons from Salt Lake City to Park City and up Wasatch mountains to the ski resorts.
It's size, not generation. The Framework 16 is 16"
Every mathematician disagrees because their focus isn't learning or teaching children foundational number sense and math concepts that will help them lead successful lives.

You guys are talking past each other, and the guidelines in question are aimed at the kids in primary math education, not academic and applied math, where your statement applies better.
My friends and I just really love a themed activity
The number reflects the screen size (rounded down). Framework Laptop 13 is 13.5". Framework Laptop 16 is 16". Both product lines are continuing in parallel.
Public schools as they exist today are already in a state of terminal disrepair and do a massive disservice to all their students. Note that the original article is about public schools banning the teaching of algebra for all students before high school because too many students fail it.

Parents complain about this and fight against it but are ignored. So what are we supposed to do? There are only so many school board meetings you can attend only to get eye rolls from officials.
...is this supposed to make sense? https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/5j0mtwdrqm08dxbh84hh6/Screen-...
Seems like whatever entity did the financing would be motivated to relax those terms. Empty buildings can't be good for them either, can they?
Java also has a comprehensive stdlib but the golang stdlib is designed so much better, and has a small number of simple and orthogonal concepts. (e.g io.Reader and io.Writer go a long way, compared to the 20 io interfaces in java).
"Teachable" has been a bit debased in business-speak/wokespeak. It now refers to a mistake or accident that can be learned from.
PCIe 4 x8. We have documentation around it here: https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/ExpansionBay
This is the way. Teach kids more, not less. Ask more of them, not less. If you need to lengthen the school day and school year to do so, do it. Do it now.

"So what should we do instead? Dallas came up with an answer: Teach kids more math instead of teaching them less. In 2019, Dallas Independent School District implemented a new equity policy that encouraged many more people to take honors math classes:

Many capable Hispanic, Black and English learner students did not elect to join these classes on their own or were passed over by their instructors. And their parents were often unaware they could make the request.

Dallas ISD, which serves some 142,000 children, took note of the disparity and in 2017 formed a racial equity advisory council — some of whose members had children in the district — with the goal of improving opportunity for all…It decided to move from an opt-in model to an opt-out policy in the 2019-20 school year. Since then…students cannot opt out [of advances classes] without written parent permission. The move has dramatically increased participation among traditionally marginalized children."
The regular and bold versions probably qualify as slab serifs, but the “book” weight is a true sans. (Might be easiest to see if you just download the font and look at the OTF files.)
This is an emerging space with lots of interesting tools coming out... There are many established benchmarks out there (i.e. included on front page of llama2 release), but most product builders have their own sets of evals that are more relevant to them...

Here is a thread exploring differences between llama-v2 vs. gpt3.5:
https://twitter.com/rajko_rad/status/1681344850510376960
GGML quantizations are already being uploaded to huggingface, suggesting it works out of the box.

GPTQ files are being uploaded too, meaning exLLaMA also might work.
Let me get this straight. We're behind the rest of our class and we're going to catch up to them by going slower than they are? -Bart Simpson

People who fall behind don't need a slower pace. They need to move faster. That means not just more attention but longer hours. But there is only so much time. A school wanting to maximize its graduation rate needs to spend less energy on teaching people who are good at a subject in order to divert resources to those who need more. That means, counterintuitively, that kids who are good at math should be spending less time on math, not more.
> The worst part of private schooling was that a few underperforming kids were pushed/passed along with everyone else.

I also went to both. When I didn't have good enough grades they just passed me to public schools. Shocker, the private school passed off difficult children somewhere else. You know who else they didn't serve? Special needs? And who else? Anybody who couldn't afford it, or didn't believe in the holy trinity.

I realize that a lot of libertarians believe that everyone should fend for themselves and that there's some sort of natural selection that justifies poor outcomes for some based on "fair rules". As I've gotten older in life, nothing seems less true.
Sometimes it's nice starting from scratch because once you learn something, your thinking is "corrupted" and your take isn't very fresh anymore.
The suburban reaction to the pandemic is a real shame. For a while there, it had looked like we might finally reverse the awful tide of sprawl.
Nope going into oppenheimer sober and then the weed and barbie is to recover
"We should be assessing schools on how many kids get As"

Then based on your logic schools would just pad grades.

Also the rest of your comment is a pile of right wing garbage
Potentially. Devs might get up and running with Scratch even faster than Go. But I'm assuming the OP already determined that Go or Clojure would work well for the task.

Go probably has a leg up on Clojure for reputation in production projects, considering Docker, K8s, Terraform, InfluxDB, and Geth are all written in Go. The biggest ones I can find written in Clojure are Puppet and CircleCI.
It depends if you're trying to get promoted or not. One of the reasons I never aim for a promotion internally--remote or in person--is the requirement of theater over everything else. It perverts the day to day.
replace "normal" with "slow" and "advanced" with "normal", and you will discover:

1. Why this initiative is a problem

2. That simply rewording "slow" to "normal" and "normal" to "advanced" seems to constitute the majority of your argument, without which there isn't a good one
i've seen some unsettling videos of attackers approaching vehicles when the auto-door-unlock activates.
> in the form of my browser history, or if not, via Google search.

So I do have bad news about this that may or may not be news: Firefox cycles history even if you never clear it. Unbelievably it's not permanent.

This has bitten me a couple of times in the past because I always assumed that naturally history wouldn't just get randomly deleted in the background, so I'd search for a tweet or article from an obscure blog and couldn't figure out why nothing was coming up in my history searches. Took me a long time to actually check "is this article I looked up 6 months ago even there anymore?"

There is a way to set up recurring database backups manually if you're willing to do some gruntwork, but it's kind of a pain and means you need to break out an SQLite browser across multiple backups in order to search.

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Where searching is concerned, :shrug: that doesn't generally work for me, but I'm happy for anyone that it does work for :) My tabs aren't just so that I remember where a document is (although they serve that purpose as well), they're also a reminder that the thing exists at all. When it gets to 1000 tabs, is that useful? Arguably no, but the process getting there is pretty organic, it's not really a conscious choice.

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In support of your comment though, being able to just stick all of my tabs in an open text file does genuinely help a lot[0] because it's permanent history and it serves the same purpose of being a reminder. It could be better, sometimes I leave tabs open on images that I forget to get around to saving or on open sessions and then the link rot hits whatever I'm looking at -- but it helps a lot. Being able to have an intermediary step between "leave everything open" and "categorize and organize everything you're looking at and save what you need" does allow me to do things like grab 500 tabs that I haven't checked in weeks and just stick them in a text file and write some notes at the top about what I was working on.

Split browser sessions, better windowing would help a lot with this, although I worry I'd end up with similar situations as my Emacs window, where everything looks clean but behind the scenes I have 1000 open files and 20 of them are unsaved scratch buffers ;) But the text file does kind of work the way you're describing; you can be free of the clutter, but if you really need to find everything, you know it's in a static text file that you can grep through at any time and that you know the browser won't do anything shifty with in the background.

[0]: I say that it's common to have 1000 tabs open, and it is, but currently I only have about 200, largely because of that method. I went through a bunch of stuff a few weeks ago and stashed most of the stuff I had open.
He's making a pun referring to OpenAI's open-sourced Whisper voice recognition model:

https://openai.com/research/whisper
While Apple silicone may not be there for training, I think it's probably there for inference. I expect next years device models to launch with exclusive support for Apples own LLM based Siri.
Well, for that specific case (it was a well defined block that could be all selected and commented out in order to disable it), your technique would have worked fine, true :)

But of course it can get tiring and not be very practical if the logic to disable is a little bit more spread out (I'd say having to "if false" anything more than 2 paragraphs or blocks of code would already start to feel annoying)
> If business administrators could cut labour costs by reducing workforce, they would in a blind of an eye.

But this assumes that they are smart enough to know how to eradicate those extra costs, but bullshit jobs might have co-evolved among labor as a defense mechanism against that sort of thing.
> their focus isn't learning or teaching children foundational number sense and math concepts that will help them lead successful lives

They teach undergrads. They are saying a student graduating from this framework, without outside tutoring, would not have the skills necessary to learn entry-level undergraduate math.

The data-science component, additionally, seems entirely designed to support a private consulting complex. That time would be better returned to students, given the content's outright inaccuracies.
Ok, we changed to that from https://mitadmissions.org/help/faq/legacy/. Thanks!
In a healthy society there should be no institute of marriage at all.
How does Sidebery compare to Tree Style Tab?
> you can learn in a day and keep in your head.

I'm not sure that this successpoint is really that valuable. It sounds more valuable for those who want butts in seats than it does for long term satisfaction and survivability of your code base.
It depends -- do you mean as a general end-user of a chat platform or do you mean to include a model as part of an app or service?

As an end user, what I've found works in practice is to use one of the models until it gives me an answer I'm unhappy with. At that point I'll try another model and see whether the response is better. Do this for long enough and you'll get a sense of the various models' strengths and weaknesses (although the tl;dr is that if you're willing to pay GPT-4 is better than anything else across most use cases right now).

For evaluating models for app integrations, I can plug an open source combined playground + eval harness I'm currently developing: https://github.com/openpipe/openpipe

We're working on integrating Llama 2 so users can test it against other models for their own workloads head to head. (We're also working on a hosted SaaS version so people don't have to download/install Postgres and Node!)
Sure it does, it's not magic. But the alternative is to start dropping out text out of context entirely, which is arguably far worse.

As someone else mentioned, this is probably more due to Llama 2 being already in training when this was figured out and it's not fully accepted yet, but I wouldn't be surprised if there was LLama 3 with out of the box dynamically scaled context at some point.
Comments like this remind me of the old-timers from IBM saying "but wait, we invented the PC! and the cloud! and..."

Gotta put products in the market, or it didn't happen...
Related:

We Don’t Do Legacy (2012) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14016231 - April 2017 (78 comments)
You could get extra help after school. Should a teacher just move as fast as the best student? You seem to want the education system to mirror capitalism which I find morally reprehensible.
Been a firefox user since 2020 after switching from Chrome and haven't looked back. The only thing that I find myself missing is native casting support so that's the last piece that sometimes forces me to open up Chrome
The pathology about grades is caused by colleges giving far too great a weight to high school GPA. If it falls below a 3.5, your chances of getting into the kind of school that people who give a shit about their or their child's education are gunning for drops precipitously.

Meanwhile, universities don't take the time to seriously consider what courses a student took, save for a few APs. That leads to a situation where it may well be in the student's best interest to coast through an easy A rather than get a B or C in a more challenging course. An example I can think of immediately was a friend who got an offer rescinded from a UC because they failed Discrete Mathematics as a senior, despite the fact that taking the class at all was completely optional for him.
The templates on this theme looks really nice and modern, will check it out, but it uses the native WordPress editor or a third party plugin? Also, the pre-installed plugins will update automatically?