mediaman

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by mediaman 5d ago
We protect kids because they are people, and we socially recognize that even if a person is potentially more likely to cause damage, there is a public interest in not discriminating against people based on age, or gender, or race. Dogs are
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by mediaman 5d ago
I did not say the EU forces Meta to ban it; perhaps you should re-read the comment. It does impose significant compliance burdens with massive fines. You have to report who paid for the ad, where the money came from, what political process
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by mediaman 5d ago
Yes, and instead of sending an letter by post I could send a carrier pigeon. I don't "need" the postal service at all! Why am I shoehorning the postal service in where it doesn't belong?
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by mediaman 5d ago
Meta does not do this outside the EU. It's a EU problem, and was caused by the EU's TTPA enacted last year which imposes heavy bureaucratic compliance process on any advertising that touches on any social or political topics. Meta
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by mediaman 5d ago
The article doesn't mention this, of course, but Meta prohibits "socially sensitive" advertising due to the EU's TTPA law, or "Transparency and Targeting of Political Advertising." It imposes substantial bureau
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by mediaman 6d ago
It is lazy and wasteful if you ignore the costs of specialized skills in doing it the "right way." If you stop looking at things in a narrow technical frame, and look at it as an organization, it's not wasteful. And lazy is a
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by mediaman 9d ago
It's not to write the article. I would hope they don't do that; I wouldn't want to read it. But I do want them using it to help them research, find interesting contrary views on a subject, gut-check assertions (how many weird
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by mediaman 9d ago
I don't know. I dislike camera asymmetry (mine on, others off) but when everyone's is off it's just like the phone conference calls of olden days. I like it because I can pace around, stand up, stare at the ceiling to allow m
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by mediaman 16d ago
Agreed. I find it really fun to work with customers. It keeps you focused on real problems. And there are so many problems in 'boring' industries that need solving. Just a ridiculous number. There's so much bad software out t
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by mediaman 16d ago
This is a groundless criticism. TB2.1 is saturated. TB4 is not. Sol xhigh is 90% on TB2.1 but 37% on TB4. Is it also "benchmaxxed"? Your assumption is that the benchmarks are essentially identical in difficulty, with the only diff
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by mediaman 29d ago
No, that's not correct for any reasonable definition of "impossible." Look up pangram's accuracy ratings. It's not perfect, but it's pretty good. LLMs in fact leave very distinguishing traces of their logit dis
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by mediaman 1mo ago
Just look at the prices that inference providers charge for small models. The argument that these unit economics are negative is trivial to disprove. DeepInfra sells DS v4-flash at 0.08 in, $0.18 out. Gemma4 they sell for $0.07 in, $0.34 ou
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by mediaman 1mo ago
You can make the other argument that China subsidizes the price and that they can't be profitable at this pricing level. From an industrial strategy standpoint, they already do this for many other industries with huge subsidized state
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by mediaman 1mo ago
Overall I prefer Codex over Claude in their current state, but I do agree that Codex's solutions tend to be too complex and I have to constantly tell it to simplify solutions, detect when it's creating ornate architecture, and pro
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by mediaman 1mo ago
As a coda to this, anyone using grok 4.6 via API pricing should be aware that while their headline pricing is good, the pricing that actually matters is pretty bad. Their cache read costs are $0.50 per million, or 25% of the cost of uncache
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by mediaman 1mo ago
Criminal acts do not require the victim to "press charges." A government prosecuting attorney decides whether to criminally prosecute the alleged perpetrator. "Pressing charges" is mostly a made up idea for criminal case
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by mediaman 1mo ago
Consider that the stance now is banning data centers . That's the context of the discussion. The county's other option is to simply price data centers . Yes, that means they might not win the data center. If the data center can
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by mediaman 1mo ago
My theory is demand substitution. NVME/SSD is up so much people at the margin are switching to spinning rust, which nobody was prepared for, so now they too are drowning in demand.
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by mediaman 1mo ago
Simple mechanistic explanations in biology are often wrong. For example, oxidative stress does not have a linear no-threshold harm. For alcohol, almost every big study has shown either no discernible effects going from zero to 1 drink per d
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by mediaman 1mo ago
That's not a study from the WHO, it's a public statement they published in Lancet. It's an opinion piece. Moreover, the WHO never changed their stance when later big studies showed that the "lowest risk" level is no
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by mediaman 1mo ago
What I don't understand is why communities want to block the data centers. Just make them pay! Your electricity price shouldn't go up because of them. So just make a rate card for data centers that ensures the burden doesn't
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by mediaman 1mo ago
To continue to take us off topic, there is actually pretty limited evidence that this is true. It is true that wine doesn't do anyone any good (unless you count it making people more social or something). But the effects of one glass a
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by mediaman 1mo ago
Clickhouse has a more intentionally built ingestion system. Duckdb has concurrency limits so you can't have a writer and a reader on the same file if they're not the same process (multiple readers is fine). But that's not too
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by mediaman 1mo ago
It's possible, but I've experimented with different style guides and prompt methods and have never gotten it to output what I'd call "good" writing. It is almost always low information density. Sometimes I can get i
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by mediaman 1mo ago
I do something similar and just use echarts. Very happy with it.
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by mediaman 1mo ago
I built a platform for some midsize companies in a specific vertical that is basically a data warehouse with some LLM-driven dashboarding and query tools on top. Typical data size 5-150gb. So I built a service layer around duckdb, where eac
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by mediaman 2mo ago
That poster mixed it up with trademarks, for which enforcement is required to maintain its validity.
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by mediaman 2mo ago
I don't see how this follows. The cost of nails has fallen by 95% over the last century. It's because the cost of manufacturing has fallen. Not because they are selling the information of nail consumers. Tokens are not normal soft
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by mediaman 2mo ago
Yes but there is a big, big market for subagents to consume lots of tokens cheaply and condense information up to parent agents. Luna would not be my choice for planning. But an explorer to comb through a codebase to find relevant parts? Or
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by mediaman 2mo ago
So this only switches models if the cache is cold, because otherwise the economics of switching don't work. But most agentic work involves long strings of successive tool calls that benefit from a hot cache. Hot cache calls reduce inpu

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