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by reissbaker 10mo ago
I don't mind if they're distilling frontier models to make them cheaper, and open-sourcing the weights!
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by reissbaker 10mo ago
I don't know where you read that fair skin is a diet adaptation and not a sunlight one, but that's wrong: fair skin is an adaptation to northern latitudes due to reduced sunlight. The majority of people of African descent in Ameri
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by reissbaker 10mo ago
You can use webhooks to replace Github Actions: https://docs.github.com/en/webhooks/about-webhooks Listen to webhooks for new commits + PRs, and then use the commit status API to push statuses: https://
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by reissbaker 10mo ago
Route files are no different than the pages router that preceded them, except they sit in a different filepath. They're not React components, and definitely not React Server Components. They're not even tsx/jsx files, which s
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by reissbaker 10mo ago
I don't care whether the citizens of Israel would think it's legal. It's not terrorism if you're at war to attack enemy combatants or their leaders, and that goes for any side in a war: whether you're Israel, Iran,
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by reissbaker 10mo ago
Personally, I love App Router: it reminds me of the Meta monorepos, where everything related to a certain domain is kept in the same directory. For example, anything related to user login/creation/deletion might be kept in the &#x
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by reissbaker 10mo ago
While I'm only adding to the choir of people telling you "of course," since I'm directly the person you're responding to it still feels worth saying: yes, of course, if America and Venezuela went to war, it's c
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by reissbaker 10mo ago
Fortunately, you are wrong. The cost of milk in 1995 was $2.50/gallon; today, it's about $4.13/gallon — which is less than inflation since 1995. Ditto for many other grocery products: although you can always cherry pick some
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by reissbaker 10mo ago
Terrorism doesn't mean "anything that makes someone scared," or else all wars would be acts of terrorism. There isn't a universally agreed upon definition, but generally it refers to targeting non-combatants: https:&#x2
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by reissbaker 11mo ago
I think everyone has quibbles about the CPI. Ultimately though, it would take a lot of cherry-picking to make it seem like overall cost of living has gone up 3x while wages have gone up less. As a counterexample, an NES game in 1990 cost $5
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by reissbaker 11mo ago
Your Go example included zero information that Python wouldn't give you out-of-the-box. And FWIW, since this is "Go vs Rust vs Zig," both Rust and Zig allow for much more elegant handling than Go, while similarly forcing you
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by reissbaker 11mo ago
This will probably be an unpopular reply, but "real median household income" — aka, inflation-adjusted median income — has steadily risen since the 90s and is currently at an all-time high in the United States. [1] Inflation inclu
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by reissbaker 11mo ago
It's obviously true that DeepSeek models are biased about topics sensitive to the Chinese government, like Tiananmen Square: they refuse to answer questions related to Tiananmen. That didn't magically fall out of a "predict t
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by reissbaker 11mo ago
I think "investing in research and hardware" is fairly relevant to my claim of "China has been investing in open-source LLMs." China also has partial ownership of several major labs via "golden shares" [1] like
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by reissbaker 11mo ago
This is the major reason China has been investing in open-source LLMs: because the U.S. publicly announced its plans to restrict AI access into tiers, and certain countries — of course including China — were at the lowest tier of access. [1
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by reissbaker 11mo ago
The satisfies keyword is quite different than "as const." What it does is: 1. Enforce that a value adheres to a specific type 2. But, doesn't cause the value to be cast to that type. For example, if you have a Rect type like:
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by reissbaker 11mo ago
2 million people in prison* right now in US* FWIW, you're nearly doubling the actual prison incarceration rate. There were about 1.25 million people in prison as of the most recent federal data (which covers up until 2023). 2MM is th
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by reissbaker 11mo ago
in everyday life the limits on personal liberty in china are hardly noticeable. and they are contrasted with safety even when walking through dark neighborhoods at 3am in the morning. The everyday life aspects aren't noticeable becau
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by reissbaker 11mo ago
Yup. K8s is a bit of a pain to keep up with, but Chef and even Ansible are much more painful for other reasons once you have more than a handful of nodes to manage. It's also basically a standard API that every cloud provider is forced
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by reissbaker 1y ago
But this is just part of how Singapore is different than America and Europe. China has even stricter controls in terms of limiting what individuals can do with their bank accounts (you can't transfer money to non-Chinese-citizens at al
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by reissbaker 1y ago
I think it's actually conceptually pretty different. LLMs today are usually constrained to: 1. Outputting text (or, sometimes, images). 2. No long term storage except, rarely, closed-source "memory" implementations that just
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by reissbaker 1y ago
Based on forest cover? The US has nearly 50% more forest cover than China, and has been steadily growing it since the 90s as well.
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by reissbaker 1y ago
Multimodal LLMs already learn to generalize over text inside images. In my experience most multimodal LLMs are significantly better than traditional OCR, especially if there's any unusual formatting going on.
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by reissbaker 1y ago
As usual with Alzheimer's studies, this is another "breakthrough" in mice. Unfortunately, every other Alzheimer's breakthrough in mice has failed to replicate in humans, because... Mice don't get Alzheimer's. W
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by reissbaker 1y ago
It's not a silver bullet, but there are many studies (including the ones referenced in the article) that show that introducing peanuts in a consistent early childhood window reduces the likelihood of later developing a peanut allergy.
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by reissbaker 1y ago
Qwen3 Coder unfortunately isn't on par with Sonnet, no matter what the benchmarks say. GLM-4.6 does feel pretty competitive though. You'll need a pretty expensive home lab to run it though... I'd be surprised if you could do
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by reissbaker 1y ago
I've tried variations on low-color syntax highlighting (I've even tried no syntax highlighting!). While I agree most color schemes are too colorful, to the point where it's largely noise, I think trying to go super low on c
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by reissbaker 1y ago
Not sure I follow the first part of what you're saying. For the part where you're describing what's possible or not in TypeScript/JS, though, you're incorrect: You can't do something like title("hi")
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by reissbaker 1y ago
Americans are always looking for someone else to blame for their choices. A bit of an ironic statement, given that this post is you blaming everyone except yourself for the role you played in deepening the opioid crisis to increase profit
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by reissbaker 1y ago
Yep — sadly the most effective cure is being on the receiving end of one of the stories, and realizing how bad faith they are. I think the U.S. slander laws are probably too light. I'm generally supportive of the idea that "democr

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