Balinares

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by Balinares 2mo ago
I haven't found that to be true at all. So I suppose there's a personal component to it and your observation doesn't apply universally? If so, though, that's possibly good news: it means there may be factors that are you
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by Balinares 2mo ago
There was a time when Google SREs were inventing the profession from the ground up, and it was the stuff of legend.
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by Balinares 2mo ago
This assumes a world where one parent can afford to not work and mind the kids full time instead. This also assumes a world where having a parent over their shoulder full time doesn't severely mess up kids. And meanwhile, punishing com
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by Balinares 2mo ago
Ah, you're right. Thanks for the correction. I read that other post too fast.
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by Balinares 2mo ago
Well, damn. Jeff, Sanjay and Demis leaving all at once, it's hard not to read that as someone fucked up pretty bad.
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by Balinares 2mo ago
Which is why, instead of "democracy", it's more useful to quantify democratic . One traditional measure of such is the degree to which political power can be gained through free elections. But the research in TFA instead use
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by Balinares 2mo ago
Man shoots himself in the foot then turns up limping, it's probably not that his shoes are too tight.
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by Balinares 3mo ago
As well, I have a feeling that market dynamics have evolved a tad since 2008, from the influx of retail investors (redditors, if you will) who seem keen to "buy the dip" on general principle. So, who knows how poorly a short posit
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by Balinares 3mo ago
Can you elaborate on what felt revolutionary to you about Fable?
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by Balinares 3mo ago
I suspect mainly because you don't and can't understand the world ; you understand whatever simplified model of the world is inside your head and by default it's real unobvious just how simplified exactly.
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by Balinares 3mo ago
Charity / fundraisers, one-off under the table gigs for acquaintances, pooling scant resources with more roommates, skipping meals... It's been really bleak over there lately. The number of survival fundraisers I've seen floa
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by Balinares 3mo ago
So many of my people in the US can't even make ends meet anymore that I opened a dedicated line of budget to provide help where I can. It's never been that bad before and it's nowhere near as bad for my people in the EU (not
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by Balinares 3mo ago
I don't think I would characterize this last era as one of global peace.
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Why Socialism? By Albert Einstein(monthlyreview.org)
5 points by Balinares 3mo ago|3 comments
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by Balinares 3mo ago
Albert Einstein is the world-famous physicist. This article was originally published in the first issue of Monthly Review (May 1949). It was subsequently published in May 1998 to commemorate the first issue of MR‘s fiftieth year.
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by Balinares 3mo ago
Whenever I see something in OCaml I assume it's Jane Street and that ends up correct a surprising amount of the time.
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by Balinares 3mo ago
What's Stroustrup up to these days though?
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by Balinares 3mo ago
> So, if I'm reading this correctly, Chat Control [2.0, implied] is bound to become law? Nope. This is bad, but not THAT bad. This is an extension of the existing Chat Control 1.0, which was set to expire (or maybe already has, I
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by Balinares 3mo ago
A hundred thousand furries consuming unfathomable amounts of porn without shooting up anyone kind of cast doubt about that point.
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by Balinares 3mo ago
I have a hunch that the Epstein class is getting increasingly upset about the kids encountering ideas about what ought to be done about the Epstein class, and mostly are keen to see the next generation molded back into good little subservie
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by Balinares 3mo ago
Mainly I disliked the walrus operator because Python already has a keyword that means "capture the output of this clause into this variable": as. E.g., try: with open("file.txt") as f: do_someth
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by Balinares 3mo ago
Ok, I gave the 35B MoE weights a shot at Q6. It failed my go-to code reasoning benchmark (local models usually do), but delivered the most advanced output I've seen so far for my (non-agentic) coding execution benchmark. It was also fu
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by Balinares 3mo ago
A 9B model with the capability of the 35B SOTA from last February is too good to be true, and a wild claim to make IMO even if there's a newer 35B SOTA. I'll need to make time to take it on a test drive and see how it holds up.
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by Balinares 4mo ago
I'd have expected this to get more HN attention. Qwen 3.6 35B capability in a 9B model is a bonkers claim.
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by Balinares 4mo ago
The interesting thing here is that Amodei is implicitly admitting he foresees open-weight models (and not "open-source", please...) reaching Mythos-equivalent capability before much longer. Which, I mean, d'uh; if you've
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by Balinares 4mo ago
According to US AI labs, training on other people's output is fair use. So that's how.
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by Balinares 4mo ago
In fairness, goroutine is far catchier than >>=<%>.
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by Balinares 4mo ago
Thank you for helpfully de-darmoking that for the less pony-attuned of us.
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by Balinares 4mo ago
I mean, there's such a thing as reality and there's such a thing as being wrong. By construction, the closer you approach reality, the narrower your band of uncertainty becomes, and the less overlap you have with viewpoints that a
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by Balinares 4mo ago
Burning even more energy in response to the consequence of burning too much energy is seen by some as counterproductive. Do also note that AIUI in the US only deaths that were officially ruled from heat are counted as such by the CDC (sourc

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