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by option 4y ago
interesting fact - Ukraine in the middle of war now sells electricity for profit to Europe because they haven’t completely abandoned nuclear. This is even despite the fact of them losing their largest nuclear plant (in Zaporizhja) to russia
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by option 4y ago
you can get to 50% (up to 39% federal and 12% state) in CA before sales and real estate tax if you are in high enough tax braket.
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by option 4y ago
ask Ukrainians whether they want US bases and whether they want to be part of Nato
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by option 4y ago
silly “all or nothing” dichotomy. it is, gradual, consistent efforts that change status quo
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by option 4y ago
you conveniently left Russia out of your “acting outside of their borders” discussion… In case you haven’t noticed they started a bloody war in Ukraine this year.
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by option 4y ago
under which rule would your rather live Western (US) or China. And no, realistically you do not have “your own” choice
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by option 4y ago
Before buying any Volvo or Polestar consider that those are owned by China.
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by option 4y ago
Four people got Fields medal today, including second woman in its history. Yet, HN discusses the article with catchiest title :D https://www.quantamagazine.org/tag/2022-fields-and-abacus-me...
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by option 4y ago
not sure about the target. the rocket is the one which can be equipped with nuclear warhead
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by option 4y ago
meanwhile, russia already used its hypersonic missile to strike a target in Ivano Frankovsk, Ukraine. less than 100 miles from NATO border. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-uses-hypersonic-...
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by option 4y ago
Contact your state representatives and demand they hold Rob Bonta accountable for this.
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by option 4y ago
they didn’t break any laws, why shouldn’t they? Also, there is no lack of historic precedent when one group not willing to live next to the other. How are you different?
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by option 4y ago
On the ethics front Yandex should provide more details on the data they’ve used.
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by option 4y ago
All I can see is “ 1.7 TB of online texts, books, and countless other sources in both English and Russian.” if there are more details, can you please share a link? I am worried that “other sources” may contain Yandex.news which is a cesspoo
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by option 4y ago
yes, looking forward to it especially because it is going to be multilingual by design
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by option 4y ago
175B is for research only and as far as I understood their ToU does not allow commercial usage. Currently, the largest LLM that is both free and commercially usable (Apache 2.0) is 100B YaLM from Yandex (russian’s copy of Google). However,
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by option 4y ago
Thanks for reminder, I deleted other two comments which were more flamebaity. My overall point still stands - they did not give any details other than size on the training data. This is crucial (I train LLMs for a living)
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by option 4y ago
Did they bias it toward ru propaganda talking points? Edit: I would like to see more details in addition to size and languages (en, ru) about training data. For example, did they use their own Yandex.news (a cesspool of propoganda)?
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by option 4y ago
You added (3) because of your personal agenda. It may or may not be true, but it is a minuscule detail compared to first two.
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by option 4y ago
Postdocs don’t make sense. Once you get PhD, you should be able to find faculty or industry job.
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by option 4y ago
It’s not just frugality. Being “penny wise and pound foolish” and being risk averse is a huge drag on one’s financial opportunities.
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by option 4y ago
Or maybe he is trying to force them do their jobs (reduce bots/spam) even before he officially takes over
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by option 4y ago
In SF it can be quite cold too for outside. But drug addicts get ~800$ a month and easy access to drugs for being there.
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by option 4y ago
“to have your car window broken overnight or to see people shoplifting openly at the pharmacy or grocery store. In certain parts of the city there’s fairly open drug dealing & use. And the homelessness is heartbreaking.” - Well, no, thi
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by option 4y ago
I live in San Jose. I used to love going to SF with my kids - Cal Academy of Sciences, Fisherman’s Wharf, Botanic Garden, etc. I don’t go there anymore - too many drug addicts using drugs openly on the streets, people assaulted by mentally
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by option 4y ago
Bureaucrats gonna bureaucrat … What will happen when a company (outside EU for obvious reasons) introduces clearly superior standard? The EU will wait for its bureaucracy to catch up?
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by option 4y ago
I'm asking about gas stations specifically. Of course, governments do and should continue building electric grid infrastructure
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by option 4y ago
Did the government also fund the construction of gas stations when cars were getting started?
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by option 4y ago
What’s wrong with using cloud without sending any user id with the request?
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by option 4y ago
Seems like great news for Meta.

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