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> Every country I've ever been to except the US includes VAT in their prices and I've been to over 30. It's not just a European thing but a world thing, where the US once again is the odd one out.

Only for local purchases, at least in Europe. In fact for non-local purchases, the US is much simpler.

I am, right now, in Italy, ordering an item from Germany, and it priced at N euros "plus 19% VAT". Because receiving countries differ in amount of VAT, vendors outside those countries cannot include it in their prices.

But it's "0% VAT" shipping to US -- that is, the primary country where you pay the vendor exactly what's stated is the US.
Booking.com includes resort fees at checkout. If the website you booked on said it was the final cost, then you can fight it.
omg I had to read the title 5 times. I kept reading "Why are AI ethnic teams being disbanded" and I'm like wtf?
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Amazon gains on FedEx and UPS in package delivery volume
I think “merci, mon ami français” would be more correct, but at any rate, I’m not French!
Hi, if you have enough business track record to assemble an E2 package, then it's likely you'd be a good candidate for O-1 also.
Yeah, this theory was in the same "package".

People close to the matters told that this is most likely untrue and radars are capable of tracking from multiple directions.

Also, anaprop conditions are common and not something which happens ones in a hundred years.
Really? Why the hell should I volunteer to work for one of the richest governments in the world? What are they going for? The wealthy and bored housewives?

I have no issue with volunteering for non-profits to do things like food distribution and homeless shelters. But volunteering for the USG? HAH fuck you pay me.
The name HawkEye reminds me somehow of the movie Eagle Eye from 2008 (which is also about tracking people).
I wasn't expecting paid work, but I also wasn't expecting "come live in this cabin for several months while you work full time in a visitors bureau."

The map data entry opportunity that seems to be available in every state was closer to what I expected, some projects people could spend a few hours a week on in their hometown.
"Just carried a link to it."

-- Game over.
Am I the only person who has read a bunch of Elizer writings and decided he's a crank?
Only when the IOC is not involved.
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This is a classic example of market failure. Consumers will choose the lowest rates—all else being equal—and this leads to artificially low prices.

What I don’t understand is whether doing this really protects their profits. If everyone does it, then it’s a race to the bottom anyway. Is it during this “transition period” where profits are made?

And if everyone in the US does it, then the natural outcome is for everyone and anyone to avoid doing any business or travel in the US.
You could try showing her some documentary going over how some particular professional animation was made in detail. It sounds like she doesn't just want to make her own kid version of animation, but rather wants to learn how professional animation is done.
Have never published my thoughts anywhere. First time ever. Hope there is some discussion, very interested in anyone else's thoughts.
Why can’t the LLM be a (model, prompt prefix) pair?
none of the stories in i robot i can remember feature the robots intentionally harming humans/humanity most of them are essentially stories of a few robot technicians trying to debug unexpected behaviors resulting form conflicting directives given to the robots. so yeah. you wouldn't by chance be thinking of that travesty of a movie that shares only a name in common with his book and seemed to completely misrepresent his take on ai?

Thought to be honest in my original post I was more thinking of Asimov's nonfiction essays on the subject. I recommend finding a copy of "Robot Visons" if you can. Its a mixed work of fictional short stories and nonfiction essays including several on the subject of the three laws and on the Frankenstein Complex.
For anyone disappointed that Handbrake doesn't allow you to specify a final file size and automagically figure out the rest, calculating this is straightforward.

average bitrate [kbps] = target size [kilobits] ÷ length [seconds]

Example: You have 2'48" file that you need to be 5GB or less.

- 2'48" is 10,080s
- 5GB = 40,000,000 kb
- average bitrate = 40,000,000 kb ÷ 10,080s = 3,968 kbps
- If audio is 256 kbps, average video bitrate should be 3,712 kbps or less

If anyone from the Handbrake team is reading, thank you for all of your work on Handbrake. <3
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I pointed it out because when I lived in France, I personally appreciated people pointing out grammatical mistakes I made in French. If the OP doesn’t care about sounding more like a native English speaker, that’s perfectly fine and he can just ignore my comment.
Sounds like it would be just as trivial to detect the split at the decoder level.
>I always tip my barista at least 20%

I’m sorry but tipping 20% for coffee is nuts.
Across Europe you'll find many small countries with similar incomes, less cash use and more transparent pricing.

Transparent pricing is a fundamental necessity for the free market.

More importantly not having puts an additional burden on those with smaller incomes (they most certainly also exist in the US).
You can setup remote backends which support locking (e.g. Azure storage, Amazon S3, etc..) that way it's automatic.

You can see a list on the left-hand side here: https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/language/settings/...
He said 4 x 5000 daily, which is considered a large dose
because humanity never understood time properly.. so all these facades making it look "simpler" while actualy a lot more complicated.

long time ago there was a special `$ man date` -like page in linux which went into long explaining many "amazing" things about calendar stuff, like whoever feudal in 1553 deciding that certain week was bad and striked it out of his and his country's calendar, or another one that liked certain month and decided to repeat it...

but cannot find it anymore.
Yeah, that's what I mean by "chicken and egg": We have all these usb A ports because that's what the peripherals expect, and we have usb-a peripherals because that's what we have ports for. My laptop has just one c port which I connect to a hub with a bunch of A ports. My desktop doesn't have any c ports at all. My car has one A port which connects to the phone for navigation (navigation using bluetooth doesn't work) and a whole bunch of c ports which are for charging only.
Hahaha. Fucking python. This kind of shit is why you’d be mental to use it for anything that can’t be rewritten in a day.
Yes, that is the way to do it. Don’t leave the sender wondering. Immediately confirm that you read the email and are prioritizing a substantive response.
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> I know this is not placebo because often in the past if I got the flu it would lead to pneumonia. Since dosing I have not had a single case of it.

Just because something worked doesn't mean it wasn't a placebo.
What Are Quantized LLMs?
I would not consider metrics explorer to be a particularly good product. For queries where the query builder isn't good enough and you write PromQL instead, they don't even let you alias the legend; instead you must see the entire query as the label for that line.

A pretty minor nitpick, but indicative of the level of attention they give the product.
The problem I've seen with sleep/caffeine research is that most of it is done with non-habitual doses.

Half-life might be such and such, but people who drink a coffee after dinner for 20 years sleep better than non-coffee-drinkers who have an espresso after lunch that one time.
My issue is figuring out how to identify how many concurrent users you can support on average on a given GPU.

Understanding the vram to simply load the weights is easy enough. When you are allowing for something like content generation with varying lengths of input/output tokens, how do you even begin to identify the GPUs you need?
Until very recently we were exclusively deploying on-prem and had been for over 20 years. The amount of tooling we had to write ourselves to get even a semblance of modern devops practices is insane. Absolutely no one supports the deployment methods and requirements we have, so it was either hacking existing things to do what we want, or writing our own stuff.

My team maintains our own Terraform providers, Ansible playbooks, bare metal management infra, CLI tooling, network automation, ITSM integration, on-prem Kubernetes running on metal in our own DCs, on-prem CI/CD, on-prem Gitlab, evolving IDP, etc.

SaaS, what SaaS?
Up until pandemic it was impossible for me to convince mgmt that I can work remotely just fine. Then it turns out that it's viable, personally I'm happy there are people shouting about it. On the other side you have biased articles how WFH slays businesses, I see no problem with both sides being remindered about an alternative, especially in times when it's a hot topic
I don't see why you can't compartmentalize it exactly like how I described. A leak in one of the ISS's modules wouldn't take down the whole ISS.
Updated the title slightly. Thanks.
Unfortunately, this is - like so many stupid things - governmentally-driven.

In some US States (e.g., California), there are requirements on how many hours of training on topic X must be done every year. So if you finish faster, they literally, legally, have to feed you more crap until the hours of training have been met.
I'll give you a clue: it's fucking expensive and their stuff creeps in everywhere.
It helped me a lot when I had a colleague who had a strong workman's hands and who could not be found at the end of presentations where he had set up the projector's cabling.
The fees aren't the problem, it's that they're hidden until the very end. Makes it impossible to compare services, feels like extortion when asked for after you've already eaten, and is just misleading.

In the EU the advertised price has to be with all fees included. No surprises, and I don't have to care if the hotel is €75 + €25 service fee, or just €100.
I think most European languages lack the distinction between “he did X” and “he has done X”. Actually, a lot of languages (including Spanish, German and French) have a distinction like this syntactically but it doesn’t really mean the same thing as it does in English.
Could they? I don't know the details of MSFTs contracts with OpenAI... but even if they can legally just walk away, it would certainly have some negative impact on MSFTs reputation when dealing with future negotiations for them to do so.
The Planetary Annihilation devs are coming out with a factory-rts hybrid game akin to Mindustry.

That seems the direction RTS is heading in general, hybridizing with other genres.
Who is a "tipped versus non-tipped employee"? I think for servers coming to your table it's actually spelled out in law, for everything else it's a social convention that businesses can try to shove in one direction.
They named their company after one of the core features of Lisp (where it was also discovered ~ 1960) and then they don't support it...
This leads to another awful behavior. Have seen too many instances, including by friends of mine, where instead of paying the uncharge they let the airline assign seats. And then they put up a fuss when people won't swap seats with them when they board. What's worse, often the flight attendants will side with these people.

As someone who always pays extra to choose my seat, no. It is not my problem if people can't be bothered to do the same thing.
It depends what the software is of course, but I've definitely fixed issues in a not unreasonable amount of time that in some cases would not even have been within the terms of any support contract (and would certainly have taken a tier 1 or tier 2 vendor application support an unacceptably long amount of time to do the same, assuming they didn't just close the ticket as unsupported use case).

Would I be able to do that for the Linux kernel? Of course not. But the vast majority of software out there is nowhere close to that level of complexity. And there are specialized groups that are trustworthy that we pay enormous sums to handle that and have had good experiences with.

So it depends but it's definitely a selling point of open source for a lot of systems engineering and adjacent roles that need to glue together lots of disparate pieces of software in sometimes unusual and unsupported ways, and sometimes for platforms that are not technically supported, or that the vendor is not able to establish any confidence in us that they will be able to support it competently for the next 10+ years for any number of reasons. That often requires forking the codebase.

To summarize, as someone essentially in the business of insuring for fortune 500s that aren't software vendors against startups and other companies deemed non-trustworthy or risky in some other way...the vast majority of YC style companies inevitably fall into the category of company where their software would not pass risk management processes for enterprise wide deployment without a proper open source license. A lot of that is down to regulatory requirements as well. It isn't some sort of irrational FAANG company "not developed here" ego boost.

For those of you that are new to the startup world, or weren't around back in the before times of the 60s-around about the mid 2000s up until the financial crisis, this may not make much sense. But it's very much the case that this ecosystem of software startups would not exist in any significant way if it had not gone all in on open source. I'm not sure how I feel about that morally or ethically but its something to think about when you are deciding how to license your software.

As far as these weird source available licenses go...it's an option but it's risky. Those familiar with the history of computing will know that the old mainframe OS's and commercial Unix's were both once source available and that ended up burning a lot of people when they started to restrict access to the source (a lot of our companies had and still maintain custom operating system modifications to legacy platforms from back in those days). The institutional memory of source available licenses (or in the case of MVS, no concept of software licensing at all) being used to turn the screws on customers is still very raw in the much slower moving world of traditional industries. Enshitification is not a new idea, some industries have been through multiple cycles of that process and have developed defense mechanisms.
Even threatening that, if disclosed publicly, would entirely threaten Azures business model. Cloud providers try to stay entirely neutral to their users business insofar as they don’t breach a ToS, law, or regulation forcing their actions. The entire business model is trusting a third party with the keys to your business. In my time working as a senior person at a cloud provider, then as a person setting system for major customers of cloud providers, this specific point was sacrosanct and invariant. Crossing that line would be a huge breach of the business model.

I think in this case I would need to see a source to believe you, and if substantiated, it would make me question Nadellas fitness to lead a cloud computing business.
https://justserve.org if available in your area.
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As an end customer I want to know when I am being swindled with unnecessary fees. As a business owner you want to hide them.

So yeah, there's plenty of reasons. Oh no, a long receipt. Won't somebody think of the ... ignorant people?
Correct, but the whole point of a rhetorical question is that everyone already knows the answer, and anyone who would try to defend the invalid argument would not be able to answer the question in any way that supports the invalid argument, such as whatever excuse google or a google apologist might try to give for the double standard exposed in this case.
It's fascinating to me that folks see clear market signals like this and don't see it as an indication that we need to build more of it.

It's not that it's very expensive to build (well, it's not cheap either), it's that there's so little supply and so much demand.
StackOverflow famously manages database migrations this way; you post a message in a shared channel and get the next revision number.
Because google drive is in the PublicSuffixList and listed as a hosting provider is my guess.
> know it's true -- when I loved in SF the fact that I couldn't tell what things cost just made me give up looking at the price altogether :) I just picked things in safeway and payed without even listening to what the amount charged was...

I'm sorry that it's so hard for you to multiply by 1.1
At my last gig we built a bespoke version of this on top of our CI provider. Now i'm a technical co-founder in a startup and this is something I haven't quite solved yet, and this looks like exactly what we're after. Thanks!
But embodiment being a bottleneck could indicate that it's a data/training issue, rather than an architectural issue. Multimodal training data improves GPT-4 already, but that's still very little data compared to growing up to a full human adult. There are still many things to try.
Assaulted on a flight? Stranger danger, I guess, but this seems like a very low odds event.
While your setup now is great, just know that it can change at any time. I know multiple people whose companies are finding a new address for their office for one reason or another. Some of them in completely different areas. My mom, who used to live a 5-10 minute drive from her office now has to drive about 30-40. My office being at home, I'll never have that problem as long as I don't change jobs. Granted I know multiple people who had WFH jobs where the carpet was swept right out from under them and they had to start coming into the office or be laid off, which is the flipside to my argument, though it doesn't really affect me because my company has no central headquarters so some huge internal changes would need to happen for my situation to change.

Anyway, biking to work is awesome, that's a cool setup too for sure. I used to bike 10 miles into one of my previous jobs (and then 10 miles back home.)
Even if I lived next door to an office where I had a private room and my teammates there I wouldn't want to go at all, for many reasons. Off the top of my head:

- Even without commute there's at least 30-45 minutes of preparation to be decent for the office,

- The office invariably doesn't have the setup that I want and have at home,

- People are able to come "bother" you all day long.

None of those are things I'm willing to put up with.
I’ll take 20 minutes in a car over bike on a cold rainy day every time.
You might have some luck with Ruffle.rs
Some of the fastest CPUs you can buy are made by Apple and their GPUs are good enough.

Hardware isn’t why there are few macOS games.
Great stuff, took a look through the README but... what are the minimum hardware requirements to run this? Is this gonna blow up my CPU / harddrive?
Got it, thanks. Alright that makes sense. I haven't really tried much at this point, though I have had ChatGPT give me a few "I can't do that" and I've had to be like "no, seriously, I'm doing this because it's a good thing" in the past (3.5 days).

Fine tuning does seem like a good idea.
How many nonprofit companies are of OpenAI's size?

Experience. Does Mayer have experience running a nonprofit with a charter for the good of humanity?
I’m not a physics person, but couldn’t this be easily solved by adding a programmed delay that corresponds to the distance from the transmitter? Street lights aren’t known to migrate.
> "all the info is already online" argument is also an argument against LLMs in general.

No it isnt. That's like saying, "You can walk" is an argument against cars.
Are you boycotting articles with AI art? For any particular reason?
If you remember what derivatives are and are decent with math (and some probability), you have what it takes (!), and can pick up most of this easier than say React, in the sense that the incline of the ramp is much less significant, but it will take more time overall (so more of a marathon than a sprint).
I took a break from a big tech and joined a startup. It was infuriating how people were actively opposing my TDD approach. It was redeeming when I was shipping one of my projects (service for integration with 3rd party) - and product managers and others were expecting we will need weeks to test and fix the bugs - but instead the other party just said "it's perfect, no comments".

All because I was "wasting my time" on writing "useless tests" that helped me identify and discuss edge cases early in the process. Also, I could continue working on parts even while waiting for a response from product managers or while DevOps were still struggling to provision the resources.
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I suspect the feral cat gene pool is constantly sabotaged by the human-directed elimination of any cat that is not soft, friendly, and cuddly.

Human-directed breeding also plays a huge role.

Feral cats will almost never beat wild rats.
You keep throwing examples of weapons of mass destruction, meant to evoke emotions.

For better or worse, nuclear weapons have been democratized. Some developing countries still don't have access, but the fact that multiple world powers have nuclear weapons is why we still haven't experienced WW3. We've enjoyed probably the longest period of peace and prosperity, and it's all due to nuclear weapons. Speaking of, Cold War era communists weren't “pursuing profits at all costs” either, which didn't stop them from conducting some of the largest democides in history.

The announcement from OpenAI should give you pause because it's being run by board members that are completely unfit to lead OpenAI. You rarely see this level of incompetence.

PS: I'm not against regulations, as I'm a European. But you're talking about concentrating power in the hands of a few big (US) companies, harming the population and the economy, while China is perfectly capable of developing their own AI, and having engaged successfully in industrial espionage. China is, for this topic, a bogeyman used for restricting the free market.
The cat command is meant as a placeholder for whatever other commands are used for printing out a file stream to stdout.
Strategy gamers are incredibly whiny and entitled in my opinion. I struggle to remember a strategy game or DLC released by a major studio recently that wasn’t review-bombed on release. And yet studios aren’t going out of business, indicating that people are getting value out of these products and repeatedly buying and enjoying them.

This really frustrates me because it makes it very difficult to actually determine what games or DLCs are worth buying. If every release is reviewed "mostly negative" on steam, then the reviews don't help inform you about the quality of a game.

If you look at steam reviews, it’s even more frustrating - you’ll get negative reviews with 20, 40, even 80 hours of playtime.
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Don't like it, looks to stretched vertically, not easy to read, especially having seen Berkeley Mono here today that looks super nice.
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No it isn't. 2 years is very recent in most software ecosystems. Even in the JS world it is really very recent, depending on the software. E.g. 2 year old Bootstrap is perfectly fine.

2 years seems hilariously short for me. If AWS want to rip this off they'll be very happy to use code that is only 2 years old to do it. Or fork a 2 year old version and reimplement only 2 years of work.

4 years makes way more sense, and even that is quite generous IMO.
The "Understanding Deep Learning" book covers more recent models as well: https://udlbook.github.io/udlbook/ (free PDF and Jupyter notebooks available)
Yes there is. PublicSuffixList does that.