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> that “extra” is going to be somewhat school and school system dependent

Is it? That’s news to me. I grew up thinking it was standard to just have 5 grade points for honors and AP classes. I guess the nuance comes into the bar for a class being “honors,” vs. AP which has a more consistent definition given the standardized exam?

Interesting idea, but look at it from the applicant’s perspective: you’d have to front like $50,000 to apply to just 5 schools (if you call $10k the average price for a semester). Even if you solved the financial aid question here, admissions is a numbers game for students, usually, so getting accepted to more than one school would dig the student loan debt hole that much deeper across the board.

They sorta do: each comment on a discussion starts a thread you can reply to, unlike on issues where you have to keep quoting each other to track a topic if there’s more than one. It still sucks, especially since long threads are collapsed and thus harder to ctrl-f or link a reply, but it’s something.

So does OpenAI (last I checked) which I sadly learned the hard way.

Signal has a desktop app. Unless you mean phone number, in which case I get where you’re coming from, though I think they allow just usernames now.

Because both Ukraine and Russia have changed? Ukraine is war torn, deeply in debt, and no longer provides the strategic benefit to Russia it might’ve in ‘22. Russia’s economy and populace needs to recover from being war-oriented.

They have their land bridge to Crimea now, and if I had to speculate, they’d be happy with a neutered neighbor that can’t join NATO, essentially a populated DMZ. I can’t see what benefit in wanting to take Ukraine on again after the dragged out meat grinder it was this time around.

That doesn’t answer the “why?” at all. To what end?

Why would Russia bother going through this again?

Pretty sure Ukraine shelled its own people for ~6 years before that.

As long as someone else does the fighting, right? Last I checked, the majority of Ukrainians themselves want a quick end to the war.

[1]: https://news.gallup.com/poll/653495/half-ukrainians-quick-ne...

Nothing to lose besides thousands more lives, of course.

Ukraine has lost massive amounts of lives, territory, and foreign funding under his leadership; Zelensky effectively has zero negotiating power.

Where are the voices that simply want the war to end so people stop dying? It’s easy to say bully this and ally that from the comfort of your office while hundreds of thousands of people die in a strip of land most “supporters” couldn’t point out on a map. At this point there’s a collective ego tied to the outcome more than there is any care for the actual people involved.

Seems like a massive buried lede in an “outperforms the previous SoTA” paper.

How does generating images with 90% less pixels count as beating DALL•E?

It’s not better than o1. And given that OpenAI is on the verge of releasing o3, has some “o4” in the pipeline, and Deepseek could only build this because of o1, I don’t think there’s as much competition as people seem to imply.

I’m excited to see models become open, but given the curve of progress we’ve seen, even being “a little” behind is a gap that grows exponentially every day.

I agree with many of your points but not your parallel, entirely:

> I haven't ever felt like the federal government represents me. Most of the time the US federal government acts against my interests while pursuing the interests of some other segment

Imo, the only thing a rational participant in a democratic system should do is either (a) voting for a candidate that represents all of your make-or-breaks or (b) abstaining. I think if more people abstained (which I feel most people “wish” they could [I quote that because they absolutely could]), we’d see a little more change or diversity in opinion. Yet people feel shoehorned into a side because for the better part of a decade “side = !other side” (in the US, anyway) which perpetuates the notion that you don’t have to offer anything new and hurts the possibility of real change. Let the abstaining groups make their voice heard by the very act of abstaining.

By this same rationale (dependence), Biden could end the war with one phone call, too.

> I personally don’t think LLMs can achieve reasoning, or any kind of innate awareness.

You presume, though, that AGI relies exclusively on LLMs.

Alternate title:

> Employees that spent many years contributing to a company that rewarded them with stock are enjoying the fruits of their labor.

Needing a smartphone to figure out if your power tool is charging is moronic and a complete waste of human resources in the engineering involved.

But that isn’t valid JSON

Can’t the government just buy this data from them, anyway?

Except on the scale

I suppose if you think of it as a high-end MacBook Pro + display, it’s an easier pill to swallow.

If you haven't heard, there's an official iOS app[1], so that's probably a far more efficient/private alternative to a custom bot.

[1]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/openai-chatgpt/id6448311069

a $10M portfolio with 10% annual gains (tweak the numbers as you’d like, it’s still fairly reasonable for the “wealthy”, I think)

So do you: it’s called a job.

And you still have to worry about traffic/accidents, performing well, getting fired or laid off, getting berated by customers/clients/bosses, plus any number of additional anxiety-inducing events.

Most of us would probably still take that trade, though: at least sitting all day kills you slowly relative to a mountain lion.

Of course, but NPR's origins are from a government-controlled organization.

Has NPR evolved since its inception? Sure. But "nor has it ever been" is... misleading at best:

> Funding for NPR comes from [...other sources...] and annual grants from the publicly-funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Hmm, let's look into said Corporation:

> On February 26, 1970, the CPB formed National Public Radio (NPR)

> The CPB's annual budget is composed almost entirely of an annual appropriation from Congress plus interest on those funds.

> The CPB is governed by a nine-member board of directors selected by the president of the United States and confirmed by the Senate

I mean... If this wasn't "state-affiliated media" at its inception, I'm not entirely sure what is.

> Yes, Internet companies will have to go to court more. That's a good thing.

Isn’t this textbook regulatory capture? Only companies that can afford to go to court will continue to exist. Or move to IPFS, I guess.

We should do a better job as a society in using the Web as a tool rather than letting the Web use us as attention engines. We used to tell people “don’t believe everything you read on the Internet,” “don’t message strangers,” and “Mom hang up the phone I’m trying to play Quake!” Maybe we should bring that mindset back rather than trying to make hosting user content financially infeasible.