> The Service’s mandate allows it the wide-ranging ability to enter any government agency and access its software or technical systems with the goal of helping to streamline or reform existing systems.
That’s actually cool they have that ability. I’ve always been a huge fan of USDS, I think they just got massively supercharged, and look forward to watching them achieve this mission.
No ok but then let's drop matrix completely as the "next-gen" IRC / FOSS collaboration platform.
There's a lot of moral support and ecosystem gain (eg bridges) from the community. Why bother with that anymore if we're just getting the "broken implementation"?
I think part of the issue here is that they're trying to compete with the enterprise IM solutions. That doesn't really work as the others are way better funded and have benefits that element can't deliver (such as the wide Microsoft M365 + EntraID ecosystem). A Microsoft shop is never ever going to choose this over teams (horrible as the latter is).
> Why bother with that anymore if we're just getting the "broken implementation"?
You’re not. All work (other than stuff which primarily benefits scalability for enormous deployments) should land on FOSS Synapse - particularly core performance improvements like faster state res. This is just trying to fund it.
And no, this is not us trying to compete with Teams - this is us trying to force big Matrix deployments to actually route $ to Element to fund upstream
dev, rather than use System Integrators who win the big tenders and then mysteriously fail to route any $ to us.
> All work (other than stuff which primarily benefits scalability for enormous deployments)
But anything that could be considered public infrastructure better be able to scale to millions of users!
I wish you had chosen to gatekeep some other features to differentiate between enterprises (with members numbering in 10^1 -- 10^6) the open version; public infra should ideally be able to handle >>10^6 members.
They want to make money just like you do and they will do what they are incentivized to. You can't expect them to give you money just out of the goodness of their heart.
Professional software developers work for the customers that pay them. Doing free work isn't a sustainable businesses model, not for anyone.
It's not about routing money or funding a foundation/hobby.
If they're not paying you then they're not your customer and you don't owe them anything.
Professionals build products. Don't waste time/money building anything but the best possible product. The best product creates the most value for users and customers pay for that value. This functions like a corporate tax on profit.
Software has zero marginal cost which let's people who aren't generating much if any economic value benefit. It's nice but it's not a business.
Everyone benefits from a healthy ecosystem where developers are paid and build products that end enriching the public domain sooner or later. Align your incentives with your paying customers and you will prosper.
Tell me you haven’t used the latest models, without telling me you haven’t used the latest models?
They do hallucinate at times, but you’re missing a lot of real utility by claiming they are basically bullshit engines.
They can now use tools, and maintain internal consistency over long context windows (with both text and video). They can iterate fully autonomously on software development by building, testing, and bug fixing on real world problems producing usable & functioning code.
There’s a reason Microsoft is putting $80 billion dollars on the line to run LLMs. It’s not because they are full of shit!
Maybe by the time it’s doing a trillion dollars a year of useful work (less than 10 years out) people will call it intelligent… but still probably not.
Down voted for not actually countering the argument in question? The script doesn't alter the phrasing of the question itself. It just generates a randomized, irrelevant preamble.
Well, I understood the argument in question to be: was it possible for the model to be fooled by this question, not was it possible to prompt engineer it into failure.
The parameter space I was exploring, then, was the different decoding parameters available during the invocation of the model, with the thesis that if were possible to for the model to generate an incorrect answer to the question, I would be able to replicate it by tweaking the decoding parameters to be more "loose" while increasing sample size. By jacking up temperature while lowering Top-p, we see the biggest variation of responses and if there were an incorrect response to be found, I would have expected to see in the few hundred times I ran during my parameter search.
If you think you can fool it by slight variations on the wording of the problem, I would encourage you to perform a similar experiment as mine and prove me wrong =P
That doesn’t mean the first phone is waste! There’s nothing wrong with wanting to buy a new phone.
The law won’t reduce smartphone ewaste. It will just satisfy the people who want removable batteries over sleaker design.
The battery is serviceable and it can be done quite easily and cheaply. In fact it’s done billions of times over.
Really just nanny state regulation, which as typical, will not bring any benefit and impose tremendous compliance costs and actually make some products worse.
I don’t even use iCloud Photos and this was on by default. Very bad move by Apple to ship my photos off my device, without my permission, in any shape or form, I don’t care.
It’s funny how the wordsmiths come out to defend Apple here.
Your “photos” aren’t shipped off-device without your knowledge, just an arbitrary blob of ”metadata” that you can’t audit describing everything about that photo. :)
It’s sort of like “I don’t want my WiFi router uploading my house online!” And someone replying “it’s not your physical house, just a map of the house and the real time location of everyone in it! The house never moves!”
That’s actually cool they have that ability. I’ve always been a huge fan of USDS, I think they just got massively supercharged, and look forward to watching them achieve this mission.