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Raising tax rates beyond that point is guaranteed to be suboptimal, though. Most of the weird distortions being discussed in this thread are due to the postwar 92% tax rates.

It's useful to know where the ceiling is.

There are many people today that argue we should bring back Eisenhower level tax rates on the wealthy, and there are many others that argue we have to keep taxes on billionaires at the extremely low levels they're at today or they'll quit participating in our economy. Neither of these is true.
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how does it compare to 8-bit/4-bit quantization in terms of speed/accuracy?
I think the point is that the offer products that cover a significant portion of the market throughout your entire life, so they are highly incentivized to act in such a way to get you to consume sugary products (theirs) as much as possible.

I haven’t seen anyone proposing reasons why these added sugars might be beneficial. Is there a counterargument? Are these countries where calories are very hard to come by, and thus they make the case that they are helping deliver those calories cheaply?
The article’s thesis is based on the assumption that most contributors care a good deal about the business and/or their craft. I just don’t see that.
Why don’t you think it’s fair or accurate to credit founders with the work their companies do?
This is useful as a "tiny paper" showing that one naive kind of self-training, in a smaller/older model (GPT-2), causes degradation.

But it's likely those on a motivated search for evidence of LLM limitations ('cope') are going to tout & over-rely on this result – and miss the extensive evidence in larger models, with slightly-more selective generations, that self-training often elicits improved performance on domains of interest.

For example, both the 'UnnInstruct' and 'Self Instruct' papers (of December 2022) showed that if – rather than self-training on arbitrary generations – you ask a model to generate good examples of a certain kind of prompt and helpfulness, then train on those generations, the resulting model tends to get better on many similar challenges.

It's almost like, as with human practice/exercises, there's a spillover effect on related competencies - eliciting from the model a potential that was too fuzzy to exploit at first, but gets honed by effortful practice (even without additional authoritative-instructor corrections).

To me, it's eerily similar to human self-help routines - "give yourself a pep talk, visualize desired results, pick tiny positive steps doable once & keep doing repeatedly, imagine success, affirm all progress".

Or, say, the "Inner Game of Tennis" style of gently reinforcing some key skill into subconscious comfort, with broader effects:

https://youtu.be/HzR8x5MgvDw?t=25
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> 8g of sugar is enough

8g of sugar is enough for the taste but not enough for the crack effect to take place. Coca Cola et all did plenty of research into how to get their product to sell ever higher quantities (addictive properties).
Wrong way around.
There were several instances that came out in recent court cases of the app stores negotiating custom deals with strategically-important apps.

E.g. Spotify: https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/20/23969690/google-spotify-...

So typical "above this negotiating power, let's talk terms", and everybody smaller has to pay list price.
Gotcha, thank you so much for this breakdown! I agree it seems promising. I would be inclined to believe that this innovation is simple enough it should reliably scale, but as they say the proof is in the pudding.
There is no amount of money you can pay someone to make them genuinely love a child. Employees do a job, you can throw money at the same employees, or more employees, but children need better parents.

Maybe we should be investing ways to get parents to go to church? They would turn into better people.
I like the word "maritimity"!
There are people who know more Chinese glyphs than just the numbers, implying it is possible to learn 60 glyphs.
I know a lot of UK soft drinks changed their recipes in 2018 - I guess I was more surprised that Coca Cola isn't the same thing the world over.
I'm sitting in Denisovan right now. Thank the maker for mobile devices to pass the time while nature does it's thing.
There was a satellite ISP for a time. The satellite box had a modem in it and your outbound traffic went out over the modem and the inbound traffic came down to the dish.
Funny how the right lose their shit when media outlets take a progressive stance but don't say a thing about right wing media and their obvious ideological bias.

The right are huge hypocrites. Seems like only the progressives need to apologise for holding their views but the right never does.

NPR should tell everyone to fuck off and go watch fox news if they don't want a progressive and fact based view point.
Probably, and I am not arguing that.

I think it is important to point out that clearly there could be improvements to the App Store without opening it wide open.

However, this has nothing to do with my core problem here of now in the EU having no choice but to use an alternative store. When every other country can just download it from the App Store.

My problem here is not that alternative store exist. my problem is that we are already seeing a developer making the choice for me of where I can download the app from.

Which is why I replied with an article, if Apple was just focusing on "making a point" the previous emulator would not have been approved.
If I were that good a teacher, my supernatural talent would be wasted on engineering work.
Seriously, talk to a teacher about dealing with cell phone use in class. A friend relayed a story to me recently of a parent (whose child is constantly on their tablet during class) who had the audacity to respond to teachers' complaints by saying their child "shouldn't be punished for their [internet] addiction."

There's no reason kids should be on smart phones during the school day at all. The only "panic" is from parents who are terrified of being more than ten seconds away from contact with their child.
With that approach, literally everything is in your head. Physics itself exists nowhere but in the heads of humans. Even "light itself" exists in our heads - it's just a mental construct that we use to describe certain kinds of electromagnetic energy that our bodies react in certain ways to it. "Color" is no closer of farther to the underlying reality than "light".
Could you break down a bit more about why you can skip so many calculations ?
It's not it. I tested it. Waiting several minutes after clearing everything in Firefox doesn't make it forget. But shutting down the browser and restarting allows you to try again.
Still, it makes a bit more sense than "Dolphin" or "Nemo", and you'll probably never actually see these names if the desktop file is configured to show a generic name for your desktop environment.
As the saying goes:

"If you stick your head up above the cube wall, prepare to have it decapitated."
I don't think there's anything stopping us from making trace amounts of elements heavier than iron. The superheavy elements have only been synthesised in the laboratory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superheavy_element
Yeah, that's why my drink list contains mostly water, coffee, and tea. Trying to cut the energy drink habit, which is incredibly hard (they have 0g sugar, although for sure have artificial sugars). I'm down to about 1 per day, sometimes none at all.

When I finally manage to cut them out, I will be incredibly proud. But, man, they've made them so, so addicting.

Also... I don't know. I drink bottled water, which has microplastics, eh? There's no winning.
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Unflavoured whey protein isolate isn't hugely popular but you can get it online.

US:
https://nutricost.com/collections/protein/products/nutricost...

AU:
https://www.bulknutrients.com.au/products/whey-protein-isola...

edit - I should add, you can get a bit of an idea of the quality of the protein powder by just looking at the percentage of protein in it. Nutricost is 85% and Bulk Nutrients is 87%. Doesn't leave much room to shove other ingredients in with protein levels that high.

You can also go buy 20kg bags of WPI from NZ (which is where I think most of these retail products get their WPI from) https://www.nzmp.com/global/en/products/ingredients/types/pr...
> If you're looking to save some RAM, this ain't it. Not because LXQt is memory hungry, but because Plasma is so damn efficient these days.

Not according to these benchmarks:

https://itvision.altervista.org/linux-desktop-environments-s...

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2022/07/12/desktop-environmen...
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My, you’re sure a pleasant person to have a conversation with!
I despise these companies for pumping sugar into everything... however, understand that street drinks in those countries are plenty sweet themselves and can be less hygienic as well --street food is also very fatty or oily. So, both local and foreign chains or brands exploit sugar and fats but so do the mom and pop or in many cases, kid street vendors. The stuff sells and costs less.

In mexico they sell horchate in plastic baggies with straws --boy, are they sweet.
I can do fuck all, so I'm just gonna 'hide' this story and pretend I didn't see it.
Low risk assumption, since they seem to be involved in most websites today for some reason.
Even in production my guess is most teams would be better off just rolling their own embedding model (huggingface) + caching (redis/rocksdb) + FAISS (nearest neighbor) and be good to go. I suppose there is some expertise needed, but working with a vector database vendor has major drawbacks too.
If you depend heavily on Mach ports I don't think "kqueue (macOS)" is an accurate description. That makes it sound like it has more of a chance to work on BSD than it does.
Some early dictionaries did in fact do this, and this was also the case with Roget’s project with his thesaurus (most contemporary thesauri arrange the main headings in alphabetical order, thus the title, “Roget’s Thesaurus in Dictionary Form”) where he arranged the words in a tree of classifications.

Most rhyming dictionaries are still alphabetical, but I think it was Webster’s that kept a file of headwords alphabetized in reverse order (so order would be sorted as redro, reverse as esrever, etc.) to facilitate the creation of rhyming dictionaries, but a case could be made that this order could be useful on its own.
I like the overall message of the two passages, promoting hard work and valuing skill. But I dont like that both passages emphasize working for someone else. I agree with OP's sentiment of working for yourself, even if that means producing no income at all and learning your skills in a self-motivated manner as a hobby.
> WebHardDriveMusic

I can hear it now: millions of non-solid-state drives across the Internet playing the Imperial March in sync...
Because we operate on a banlist instead of an allowlist of ingredients. Banned sugar in baby porridge? Oh, we just broke down the wheat (to simpler carbs/high insulin response)
Republicans talk about race all the time, they're just careful to always refer to it by proxy - terms like "young urban males" etc. And Atwater's point is that many Republicans are concerned about those economic things because they are a proxy for race, and they wouldn't really pursue them otherwise.

And no, I don't view everything through the lens of race, and I think that American progressives often end up looking very silly when they try to shoehorn it everywhere. At the same time, it's very obvious from just looking at the American political discourse that racially driven thinking is very pervasive there even when it's not openly mentioned.

I've also heard plenty of explicit racial talk from Republicans - it just happens in environments where they don't need to check themselves. One of my hobbies is guns; my gun collection is well into the double digits, and includes plenty of stuff that'd be referred to as "weapons of war" in your typical progressive publication. Consequently, I spend a fair bit of time in the associated community, which, of course, leans very heavily to the right. And because of my guns, they often automatically assume that I am politically of the same mind as them, and talk to me and around me without the usual checks. What I can tell you I've heard the word "nigger" thrown around quite a bit in those circles, today - but it is okay, you see, because "it just means bad people, so it's not really racist". Some other choice wording includes "those animals" referring to Hispanic immigrants, or "those things" referring to trans folk.
if a data scientist thinks that data is even remotely accurate they should not be a data scientist.
I saw ghostty and thought, “isn’t that the terminal written by the guy who cofounded hashicorp?”. I really enjoy your ghostty blog posts and will be checking out libxev!
If I have 50,000 historical articles and 5,000 new articles I apply SBERT and then k-means with N=20 I get great results in terms of articles about Ukraine, sports, chemistry, and nerdcore from Lobsters ending up in distinct clusters.

I’ve used DBSCAN for finding duplicate content, this is less successful. With the parameters I am using it is rare for there to be a false positives, but there aren’t that many true positives. I’m sure I could do do better if I tuned it up but I’m not sure if there is an operating point I’d really like.
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To close it after a few years?
If you manage to take a break from Coke for a while then when you come back to it it's really undrinkable. I personally stopped drinking this or any similar hi sugar soft drinks a while ago and really makes me nauseous if I try.
Definitely not every table needs an audit trail, or soft delete capability.

Bolting this stuff on where it's not needed just leads to ... well the author apparently didn't think about that, now did they.
So, they own a lot of packaged food brands?

Only my cat regularly consumes anything on that list.
It's about understanding if a person is capable of grappling with hard problems, if they can quickly pareto down to the 20% of the part of it that's going to be tricky (big conference -> breakfast -> early morning -> fresh squeezed). Anyone can quote a big top-line number for the whole shebang, but that just tells you they haven't thought it through and any "real" hard problems that materialize are going to be met with last minute, slapped together solutions.

As a mid-career software person, one of the most important things I've recognized is that my trust for my colleagues hinges on them knowing their limits and knowing when and how to escalate hard problems. I don't want to hear about small problems— those they can solve themselves. But they need to know which problems should become a quick slack message, a whiteboard chat, a revisiting of the design doc, or even questioning the fundamentals of the whole project. A person who slaps on duct tape when they should have engaged a war room discussion is someone who ends up needing almost constant supervision.
Any real-world situation (outside of simple trivial matters)? War, health care, immigration, economics, running a business, those kind of things. Chess is just a game and not very important. No one is talking about games here.

Getting a good overview of what happens at scale is exceedingly hard, and on pretty much all of this you need to take in more inputs than what can be strictly quantified.
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> We are talking past each other.

I don't actually think we are. If you've made a point I haven't addressed, I'm happy to address it.

> Kids that need help should get help. One form of that help is holding kids back so that they get a second chance to master material they need for the next year. If you progress kids that are not ready you burden the teacher the next year as they have to provide more differentiated instruction. We should reduce the stigma of holding kids back by doing more regularly. Its cheaper than the wide array of tier 1 and 2 interventions.

Did you read the paper in the comment you replied to? Because empirical evidence doesn't support that.

> Kids that have violence/social issue should be removed from kids that are ready to be in school. I know teacher who have kids who have been disruptive and they can not discipline them. Suspensions/ Alternative / Expulsions should be used when appropriate for the benefit of everyone else.

Still betting you didn't read those papers. Suspension/expulsion is absolutely one of multiple ways to remove a kid from the other kids. Unfortunately, it's one that necessarily removes any help or actual behavioral correction the kid could have gotten, and they're waaaay more likely than most other kids to need more intensive help. Suspension is a codified way for schools to abdicate their responsibility to manage the environment within the schools. So you responded to it? Great. You're not the ruler by which everyone is measured, and the data doesn't support your anecdote.

> I don't know if you have kids, but mine are in a very liberal school in a very rich area. Very unlike where I grew up, and they cannot run an elementary school. Both my kids are Add/Dyslexic. My wife observed a class and the teacher had no ability to create a calm learning environment. There were emotionally disturbed kids in the same class who screamed / ran out of the room. 2x this year my son was asked to go fetch a kid who ran from the room because the kid that ran likes my son. We had a 504 plan which could not be implemented because there is no bandwidth.

Zero people here are arguing that kids with disruptive behavioral problems should be in classrooms with mainstream kids. You're the one saying that suspensions et al are the best way to solve that. They weren't when I was in school, and they aren't now. Schools not having the funding or the staff to do what they need to do doesn't turn a harmful non-answer into an answer, or make it less harmful.

> We need to look at how we teach kids fundamentally because what we have been doing for the last 30 years hasn't worked.

Sure. For most of the past 30 years we've been indiscriminately handing out suspensions and failing to offer support for kids that need it. My entire high school career happened squarely within the past 30 years. Maybe we should try looking at the data we have rather than just saying what feels right and doubling down on the back in my day tough love nostalgia.
Yes, you are severely misunderstanding the federal government or at the least making a leap of judgement.

https://apnews.com/article/federal-employee-job-protections-...

You sure seem awfully defendant of FISA and government abuse. Why is that?
I'm still waiting for someone to explain to me how voice-cloning could ever be an ethical technology to sell.

Even more so than any of the other AI-imitation tools (including LLMs, which imitate human speech), its ratio of potential evil-to-good is absolutely enormously in favor of evil.
Yeah, that is a poorly written description. I think they meant that each word gets a unique index location into an array, and the value at that word's index location is incremented whenever the word occurs.
Yes, it will be
If you are building using Supabase stack (Postgres as DB with pgVector), we just released a built-in embedding generation API yesterday. This works both locally (in CPUs) and you can deploy it without any modifications.

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Also, the blog on announcement with links to text versions of the tutorials: https://supabase.com/blog/ai-inference-now-available-in-supa...
That's the historical right maybe...

Butnthe current conservative right is actively working to destroy thr Is, not making it run.

That's democrats and centrists that are trying to make the country work.
There's some specific things they're doing, like adding sugar to infant formula and milk, that they don't do in Europe but do in lower income countries apparently. That seems like a very conscious thing targeted at very young children?
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> this isn’t a nestlé specific activity? As far as I can tell this is standard behaviour from every company involved in snack foods, candy, soda, etc?

If you open the article, you might discover that this is about literal baby food for infants as young as six months, not snacks and such for [older] children.
Tech folks being dicks east of the Sierra Nevada / Cascade ranges makes for great popcorn.

Mostly because the rancher / local types would rather spit in their eyes just to make a point that not everything can be bought. Kudos to them.

Want to throw your dollar weight around? Do it in California, New York, or Florida. There are towns there that are happy to kowtow.

Edit: Watching the wild karma +/- swings on this comment has also been entertaining. Strong opinions!
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I'm too much an instrumentalist to give you an unbiased answer.

My view is that, as it pertains to any theory, the ability to make reasonably accurate predictions within a given region, and reasonably accurately describe the region where those predictions are correct is understanding.

I don't believe our knowledge is complete, because the universe is effectively infinite, so there's room for effectively infinite combinations and permutations of phenomenon even within our understanding. But when we encounter something that contradicts our understanding, that doesn't mean we didn't understand anything we experienced before. It just means that our overall understanding was incomplete.
I don't completely disagree, but Korean and Japanese corporations are renowned for being bureaucratic and inefficient, at least at the white collar level. Having worked for a Korean conglomerate, I've written off ever working for one again because of this kind of stuff. (disclaimer - I am Korean)

Then again, it's hard to deny the progress and products these countries have made. So what gives? To be honest, I don't know.
Many employees are trying to minimize their work. (Do we really need to fill out 10 TPS reports that no one reads?) Often the ones who are doing the most menial tasks would definitely want to do something else more meaningful

Not everyone wants to work less. Many want a path to make an impact to the organization, but don't see how. They'd rather just be quiet engineers/accountants/office workers/etc.
Nothing if you feel it to be fulfilling but for a lot of people it raises the bar on what could be a fun hobby to something else and often includes a bunch of elements you'd normally not care about.

As a gamedev my brain is continually broken trying to make games in my own time because I'm so used to treating games as a product. There's a wide gulf between doing that as a hobby and doing it as a job. Particularly in motivation around the end result.