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Honestly it doesn't feel any different for me on MacOS. Both OSes push first-party music and cloud services, both OSes beg you to use their browser, both OSes show news with their own built-in ad networks. At this point for Windows 11 and MacOS 13, I'm shocked how little these OSes have meaningfully changed since the early 2000s. Both companies feel like they're taking a detour around user empowerment to focus on Selling Moar Services™.

While we're looking at things from a retro-idealist lens, even Android and iOS seem unnecessarily bloated. It feels like the vast majority of every FAANG's engineering effort goes into crippling the user nowadays.
I think the best comparison for the iPhone is looking at DSLRs that do not shoot RAW but do shoot in Log. The workflow out of iPhone compared to say, an a7s, should be relatively similar, aside from the differences in sensor capabilities such as color depth, dynamic range, ect.

I can see a lot of potential use of the iPhone 15 as on hand as a "deploy anytime, anywhere" B-Cam. For the editor, having that B-Cam to cut away to is invaluable and for small shoots or tight schedules, slapping the iPhone 15 on a cheap tripod is at the right level of convenience to give that a shot.
I sure do! Thanks to the REM song.
I don’t know if this ever going to be commercial but I am enthusiastic for stereograms and also anything that turns AR “inside out” like Pepper’s Ghost.
>I didn't need your permission to give birth to my children, why do I need your permission when deciding how I educate them?

One legal theory that may be relevant was brought up long ago for a case on banned books in school: you have the right to raise your kid according to your beliefs, but many states guarantee children the right to education. So the state could regulate homeschooling to ensure all children have access to an actual education.

>If you feel these children are legitimately being abused in some way, I'm guessing there are plenty of state resources to address that challenge.

A lot of those resources rely on processes that come after reports from teachers and caregivers. If nobody outside the home ever sees or talks to the kids, there's not much the state can do to even start an investigation. Children who go to daycare or public school are seen by professionals trained to spot abuse.

We allow anyone to have children, because otherwise we're on a very slippery and short slope towards eugenics. But those children are entitled to the same rights and protections as their parents. It's hard to strike a good balance between a family's freedom and a child's freedom.

Edited out some unnecessary detours in my ramblings
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It’s also possible that they were eating a lot more high zinc foods in cold climates (think organ meats and seafood like mussels). Getting too much zinc is as bad as getting too little so genetic adaptation would favor slower intestinal zinc transport and higher mitochondrial, zinc export which is what the SLC30A9 gene does.

So now, those of us who carry this variant and are eating a lower zinc diet get way too deficient to easily.
Chrome is closed-source though. There’s no way to make a reproducible build of Chrome (the Google binary adds DRM and could be adding more).

I’m mentioning this, because this open-closed ambiguity is a typical Google strategy. Similarly, Android in the AOSP flavor is open, but the OS that actually ships on phones is different.
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So, to be clear, you’re fine with funding special needs education and etc. as long as it’s someone else footing the bill.
Thanks for the feedback and I'm sorry to see you go. The new version should be better at library versions. If you're in our Discord, I'd be happy to help you one-on-one -- please send me a DM.
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The good old “the sky will come crashing down” FUD is still in full swing, I see.

Meanwhile, requirements like this have been commonplace in the EU. As well as employers having to pay mileage or the cost of public transport for their daily commute.

Similarly, laying off people is strictly limited. Instead of the US style under hiring or barely hiring enough people to cover the job at hand, which leads to animosity when people take their PTO, most companies there hire enough to account for employees not being present despite the high statutory PTO days.

Are those companies all going under? No. The only downside is that they can't reach trillion-dollar market caps, big whoop.

The companies and investors simply adjust their expectations, and the sky is still where it always has been.
Makes sense, we're also very small (pre-seed) so definitely no cash cow for you guys yet. We probably shouldn't be prematurely optimizing our prompting performance as it's not really a bottleneck, but a 4x improvement just by swapping an API would be too good not to act on.
I had a math teacher in high school who would write with one hand and erase with the other. You had to be quick with your note-taking!
There are most definitely performances that you will enjoy less if you learn how it works. You're trading off "knowing" for being suspended in awe or mystery.
I got too distracted to keep reading the comment after that error
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I'm only arguing against going hard into eating Spinach without being aware of the possible risks. A lot of times people make an assumption that because something is a natural it can't really hurt them and they don't have to be careful how much of it they consume (like the Grapefruit diet or whatever) and go overboard with it.

Personally I eat a decent amount of spinach myself, although I don't go super crazy with it, but someone with a history of kidney stones or low calcium or magnesium might not want to, or might want to at least take some steps to reduce the oxalates before eating it.
Good education vs bad/no education

You'll find this in public schools too.
Isn't chalk dust pretty bad for your lungs?
I don't think saying that you can get the same results with a $2,000+/week rental is making the argument that you think it is...
> Every cheater will buy a cheating peripheral, and then go around saying how it isn’t all that much of an advantage, and how they don’t even need it, and have some story how they got it for some other reason entirely and certainly not for the reasons stated on the box.

I don't think that's true at all!

> The poster claims to somehow know how much of an advantage it is. Wonder how that knowledge was acquired? I am sure that too was perfectly innocent and just “that one time”.

They didn't even say they tested it online.

And you're making a claim that's impossible to disprove. Oh if they say they cheat regularly, they cheat regularly, and if they say they tried it out of curiosity, they're lying and they cheat regularly.

> Then why all the hand-wringing about these cheats getting blocked?

Because it's going to get blocked in all situations. Single player? Blocked. Fighting games? Blocked. Games with friends? Blocked.

They're not blocking cheats, they're blocking the controller itself. (If the block works on this model.)
McDonald's used to be our "I don't feel like cooking, what's a cheap and fast option?" Bearing in mind that we live about 10 miles outside town and McDonald's is the first business as you get into town, I'd often get takeout from there. But last time I noticed that a McD's meal for 3 was within $10 of a restaurant that we like and that's only another half mile away with much better food. And since I place the order before driving there, the food's ready just as I arrive, so time-wise they end up being the same.

McDonald's has the benefit of being open until midnight whereas my local restaurant closes at 7PM weekdays, but that's about it.
Are you comparing the best public schools to the best homeschools? Or the worst to the worst? Or the average to the average?

I suspect that the education kids get at the worst 20% of public schools in the country is still way better than the worst 20% of homeschoolers.

I also would totally believe that the education kids get at the top 20% of homeschools is better than the average public school.

Public schools are far from perfect, but there are minimum standards and there are resources at the state and federal level to try to improve schools that aren't meeting those standards.

My problem with homeschools is that in most states, there aren't any standards being enforced. If homeschools had surprise inspections and biannual state-run testing, I'd be fine with it.
there are obviously lots of kids that had a very bad homeschooling, and also lots of kids that had very bad public schooling. many kids are bullied so badly at school that they commit suicide, and many more develop antisocial habits there. the question is whether those issues are better or worse with homeschooling, and a single anecdote doesn't help us with that.
The basic idea is sound. But the majority of the examples are strangely politically biased and in my experience they are things I've never heard from the 1%.
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> Like any economically rational entity, your employer is going to respond by reducing headcount, not hiring in CA anymore, cutting costs in your annual raises, or some combination of the above. This law does not work in your favor.

OTOH, like any "economically rational entity", even if the company could afford to pay expenses for its employees without needing to cut costs elsewhere, they wouldn't unless forced to by the law, whereas companies that actually have the optimal number of employees aren't going to just sabotage their business to try and fail to maintain unmaintainable profits. And if they could already take all of those measures you mention without harming their business, then not having already done them would make them irrational. The situation you describe isn't a rational business being harmed, it's an irrational one being subsidized by its employees.
I used buy a $700 Windows laptop every 18 months in the 2000s. Then I got fed up with them just falling apart and switched to Macbooks. My 2013 purchase is still alive and being used by the kids.
This is a mistake in thinking.

If an when we get AGI, the biggest threat to AGI is other AGI. I mean, I'm in computer security, the first thing I'm doing is making an AI system that is attacking weaker computer systems by finding weaknesses in them. Now imagine that kind of system at nation state level resources. Not only is it attacking systems, it's having to protect itself from attack.

This is where the entire AI alignment issue comes in. The AI doesn't have to want. The paperclip optimizer never wanted to destroy humanity, instrumental convergence demands it!

I recommend Robert Miles videos on this topic. There aren't that many and they cover the topics well.

https://www.youtube.com/@RobertMilesAI/videos
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Nope Actually, networks like alpha zero learned with nothing. If only we could get that to training data
Which is straight out of Macchiavelli's playbook.

The first thing you do after conquering the throne is to bundle up all your pending atrocities in one and eliminate competition. The second thing you do is slaughter the mercenaries you had hired to win your war of ascension.

No reason to leave them around and let the next usurper hire them to dethrone you.
What telemetry are you objecting to? Telemetry has good and bad uses. For example, sending in automatic crash reports helps companies find bugs. It can also expose sensitive information which was in ram at the time of the crash.

Another example is usage telemetry tells developers what part of the app is being used and can help them focus popular features or on working to let people know about useful but under used portions of the app.

My main complaint about people who dislike telemetry is they never acknowledge its good uses and they never state what telemetry is objectionable.
Could you share that data, then? There are successful / sustainable organizations of all sizes that embrace a remote work culture - Oxide, Dropbox, Palo Alto, VMWare, etc., heck - just check out this list [0]. Neither does the data support your assertion that remote work makes folks less productive [1].

I will agree that remote work may be more lonely for folks that depend on their job to socialize and make friends. But most of us (clearly) don't want or need that.

0. https://builtin.com/awards/fully-remote/2023/best-large-plac...
1. https://hbr.org/2020/08/research-knowledge-workers-are-more-...
These articles are so silly. Of course you have low turn over rate, you live in a city in the middle of nowhere with little to no competition.
Some small feedback/bug:
(Mobile, Firefox, using pair programmer mode)

The text box gets hidden after the conversation exceeds the page height
Those largely appear to affect local collection of telemetry.

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/7k3r9u/mozilla_is_...

> Telemetry data is stored locally by default. As long as the relevant options in the settings' UI are unchecked, or datareporting.healthreport.uploadEnabled is set to false in about:config, this data won't be sent. <https://medium.com/georg-fritzsche/data-preference-changes-i...>

There's likely to still be some non-telemetry chatter, like checking for available Firefox/plugin updates etc.
Does that have a big impact on use-feel if you aren't doing data-write intensive tasks?
I think I pretty much summed where my personal line is, at least when it comes to the "ethics" of "exposure." I'm not going to expose something that isn't mine to expose.

Less in terms of ethics, every magician gets asked "how did you do that?" And every magician learns at a very early stage that if you answer it, the reaction is almost never interest and joy, it is disappointment.

That's because methods are boring and often simple. And when people find out how something is done that truly amazed them, learning the method will just take that amazement and joy away from them. In the worst case they feel stupid for being fooled by it. And that's the exact opposite of what I want. I want people to enjoy a theatrical moment of astonishment. I don't want them to think that I'm trying to make a fool of them. Nor should they feel that way, since magic uses applied psychology that works on every single person ... including magicians before they understood what was happening.

And it's a hard lesson for magician to learn because we were the people that HAD to know. We love methods. We're obsessed with them. Which is why I think that so many magicians get stupid about "exposure." Because they fall into that common psychological fallacy of assuming that other people think as they do. That if given the chance everyone is going to rush to find out how a trick is done. Whereas most people just don't care that much.

So for me, the only ethics of it is respecting the IP rights of my peers. The rest is theatre. When it comes to widely available knowledge the only reason I have to withhold information is for the above artistic reasons. If someone who wants to get into magic and learn a few tricks to show their friends asks me to share some stuff with them I'm an open book as long as I'm not sharing something that isn't mine to share.
From personal experience, the average homeschooled family seems to be blue collar
Israel's name is conspicuously absent from maps on the Chinese internet
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Are big efficient schools better than lots of small schools?
Thanks, we'll take a look.
To be fair, I don't think many would have trusted that Apple's M1 chips were going to be as good as they were before they were actually in consumers hands. I'll reserve judgement too until that's the case.
What they're citing isn't what the LLM "scraped", it's what the retrieval model fed to the LLM. You're not guaranteed that it's what it actually used to give you the output, and it's also definitely not all the text that it used to get appropriate knowledge to generate the answer, as this is split over whatever millions of examples for the language and for human language in a non human-understandable way
I heard this a lot. I did music production on Linux for 5 years, and tried it on Windows for a few months.

Then I bought my M1 Mac and was shocked to learn that I think it's actually the least sophisticated, by far.

Don't get me wrong, my M1 hardware competes with my 5950x Desktop system... which amazes me.

But, Jack2 on Linux was pretty cool, a little rough around the edges, but worked really well.

Now with Pipewire becoming the standard, I can't imagine why anyone would pick a platform besides Linux for any real time Audio+Visual routing/processing.

It's just so easy to pipe any of your data to any other piece of software, including over the network.
Since the article doesn't directly link to the company they reference, its:

https://www.frameryacoustics.com

The company is only 12-years old.

It should be no surprise that, for a company still in business after a decade but also not a super old company either - that they have hired way more than let go.

(Seems a bit of confirmation bias combined with survivor bias going on)
I'm sure i'll be back soon, the overall experience was good. So many competing products it's difficult to pay for them all at once.
It’s probably not a transport issue, but a conversion issue. I would check out your CYP2R1 genetics.

https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/gene/cyp2r1/#:~:text=The%20....
"Can't we be more efficient as a society?"

Not the way government tends to work in US.
Wonder how it stands up to UV, since it would be pretty cool using it for heating in the winter by just having it in view of the sun
They didn't learn with nothing. They learned with a game of Go to play. If they'd never "seen" the game of Go there's no way they could have learned to play it.

Data can be either static in the form of examples or dynamic in the form of an interactive game or world. Humans primarily learn through dynamic interaction with the world in our early years, then switch to learning more from static information as we enter schools and the work place.

One open question is how far you can go in terms of evolving intelligence with games and self-play or adversarial play. There's a whole subject area around this in evolutionary game theory.
Always nice to see a silly Elon quote
The true legend of quad mastery foretells the coming of a hacker capable of using four keyboards simultaneously. One for each hand, one for each feet. Such a superhuman being could theoretically hack anything, even the NSA. They would not be able to turn off the monitors of the computers fast enough to stop him.
Fringe and fastest-growing are not mutually exclusive: https://xkcd.com/1102/
Technically, google doesn't sell people's data. It uses data to train AIs to predict people's behaviour, modify that behaviour, modify attitudes/beliefs (it's an ad company), and eventually replace people
I know its /s but we also say that the victor writes the history books. and its kinda hard not to portray yourself as the good guy when the other guy is not around to defend himself. AGI will learn that too. I mean one look at earth and its not like we have been model citizens exactly.
> Bullying is not something isolated to schools. I've seen it in nearly every social and political situation that exists at nearly every age group.

Unless you live in prison or a war zone I highly doubt you've witnessed "adult" bullying that remotely approaches the ferocity and cruelty some kids have to endure on a daily basis.
You need to download and learn how to interpret your raw data. I’m sorry, but it’s too much information for me to convey here.
Who said anything about nerfing? Citation is just additive, no?
> By the way, I don't think there is anyone homeschooling with the "only textbook is the Bible"

They’re pretty common, in fact. Here’s a curriculum company that’ll gladly give you the tools: https://answersingenesis.org/homeschool-edition/

“The Bible is the only education you need” is a very common meme among evangelical Christians.

> and in most states you need to file a curriculum every year that gets reviewed and approved.

Most states have almost no recourse to reject submitted curricula, no matter how specious they are. One influential homeschool association has a 24/7 legal hotline specifically for subverting these mild attempts at accountability.
Not my experience at all. Are you counting the entire answer in your time?

If so, consider adding one of the “just get to the point” prompts. GPT4’s defaults have been geared towards public acceptance through long-windedness which is imo entirely unnecessary when using it to do functional things like scp a file.
> .vs, .fs

Is that like a Unity or Unreal standard? The thing I'm familiar with is a single .glsl with a void fragment() and void vertex() etc. in it
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In matlab, the = sign is an assignment operator. I think it is really common because load/compute/store is what the hardware does, and so languages tend to be built around computing a value and then assigning it.

You could, I guess, in any language that allows operator overloading (Python would be a good one) define operators that actually return a function for computation, guess. This just seems like a really complicated way of defining a function, though.

Or possible a template library like Eigen could be thought of in terms of “building a computation.” Maybe CUDA has something like this? I’m not sure, at all.

An aspect for my case specifically, which is probably not a coincidence, is that I usually work with Electrical Engineering students. They’ll typically have seen some very light Verilog in some of their intro classes. I’m definitely not a Verilog expert, but you can use it to define combinatorial circuits—in that case you are literally describing the wires and gates that the computation flows through, so the left hand side does change based on the right hand side, continuously. At least until you write to a clocked register. And of course in a real circuit, there’d be some signal propagation time…
Are "return visits" really a big concern? I don't care if a site tracks my return visits, as long as it's local and not via a hidden Facebook pixel, Google Analytics, etc. that will get added to their global profile about me.
there are plenty of public schools, despite spending 10-15-$20K per student are also not teaching those things. THAT ought to be stopped.
Not everything that is "federal" is the same.

Hiring policies and legality are different matters.

If there is a hiring policy against it, then that hiring policy is paternalistic and demeaning and shouldn't exist.

If it's illegal, that's not the responsibility of the people hiring you.

The people in charge of hiring should not be trying to enforce laws outside of the workplace.
Is your username related to the actual program out of Toronto?
The author seems to "define" GPU as "what can run A.I. workload". Well: despite the fact that modern GPUs have indeed become more CPU-like, in that they are now suitable for GP (general-purpose) computing, it does not make sense to call a CPU a GPU, even out of good intentions - because it's confusing; a GPU still only plays the role of a co-processors, and its single-thread performance is low compared to the CPU's, among other limitations.
Seems to be, ie every X months you compare the full list (of unique code for each function I guess) with the log list, and remove the ones that don't appear in the latter...
I would assume any kind of education that is dependent on strict adherence to a specific ideological doctrine, whose tolerance of free inquiry is similarly constrained, to underperform one without these limitations. This was my experience of attending public schools that were under the thumb of right wing religious nuts vs. attending a state university that was not. I learned much more at the latter than the former.