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bel8··on Does Ruby on Rails still make sense?
I agree. type checking is game changing for AI development.

And you can't duct tape your way into Ruby type checking and hope to beat the likes of C#, Java, Rust, Go. TypeScript.

Rails (and Ruby) made tradeoffs to please humans. Some of those tradeoffs became downsides now with AI.

bel8··on SimCity, but with Permits
For those who are curious, this is what I could gather:

    - Three.js for rendering
    - react 18+ UI built with Vite
    - charts are custom, no libs
    - main bundle size is a js file of 1MB (290KB gziped)
    - No router, no redux/zustand
    - saves using indexedDB + service-worker
bel8··on Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads
How is he able to help more other than telling the truth that phones and tablets can't do what she needs?
bel8··on Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads
> because doing new things is hard and hardware has deadlines that software doesn't.

It was nothing new tho. They broke existing software. This is caught by basic software regression test. That's engineering 101.

bel8··on DeepSeek banned from U.S. federal civilian agencies under new DHS order
I don't agree. Because DeepSeek is a few months behind Sota for 1/5 of the price even if you consider open router API prices.

I highly suspect models like Sol would be much more expensive without Chinese competition.

So to a point Sota pricing is already affected depending who you ask. And the tendency is for the gap to tighten.

bel8··on MiniMax M3.1 Flash
Oh wow, you're right. On mobile it looks correct to me.
bel8··on MiniMax M3.1 Flash
Their orbit is broken:

https://imgur.com/a/Hrtk3IX

Both in Chrome and Firefox.

bel8··on MiniMax M3.1 Flash
Just a note: their leaderboard has Gemini Flash 3.6 on #1.

And that model was not top 5 even when it was released, 3 months ago.

bel8··on MiniMax M3.1 Flash
wow, Opus 5 (not 5.5) solar system is broken.

I wouldn't expect that.

But it's probably n=1. Still.

bel8··on DeepSeek banned from U.S. federal civilian agencies under new DHS order
Look around you.

You'll have a hard time finding electronic devices not made in China. And all of them have software which is harder to monitor and debug than LLMs.

So I don't think distrust for Chinese LLMs will hold.

bel8··on DeepSeek banned from U.S. federal civilian agencies under new DHS order
API price rates drop should slow down if open weight models are banned.

Less competition.

bel8··on MiniMax M3.1 Flash
Some reddit comments say it's not as good as DS 4.1 Flash. But I didn't test myself and I don't trust benchmarks.
bel8··on Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains
I went GoDaddy -> Namecheap -> Cloudflare.
bel8··on macOS 15.8.2 Breaks OpenGL
And many do abandon Apple.
bel8··on DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017
Doesn't changing model incur in losing cache, which makes things more expensive by itself?
bel8··on DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017
For DS, not between xhigh and high.

I recall the difference being minimal in 4.0.

bel8··on Source code of the Estonian online voting system
That would require at least access to the ballots, which citizens don't have.

Not even a remote access to a demo ballot machine.

bel8··on Source code of the Estonian online voting system
But Brazilian gov says their electronic election system is unhackable... Yeah.

Only a selected few orgs and groups are allowed to audit and in a very controlled environment because they also rely on security through obscurity. The source code is not available to the citizens.

If by any chance I'm wrong and someone can point me a source code repo, please enlighten me.

https://international.tse.jus.br/en/electronic-ballot-box/pr...

bel8··on DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017
you probably tried with DS on max and I don't blame you.

But try it on high instead of max if possible. max is known for being overly verbose to the point of being detrimental compared to high at times.

For example Simmons svg pelican took 11 minutes on max and 1 minute on high. And they are comparable.

bel8··on Muse Spark Open
Artifical Analysis says is this comparable to DeepSeek 4.1.

But weaker than Muse Spark 1.3: https://i.imgur.com/8ST1rRY.png

    Muse Spark 1.3 (Xhigh)     45
    Muse Spark Open (Xhigh)    39
    DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (Max)  39
bel8··on Siri is so bad at everything
Couldn't they use something like Jev to make Siri really good and fast at processing the most frequent commands?
bel8··on I know why the mathematicians weep
My friend, who is a math professor, told me that they weep because they are about to become just like us developers: prompt writers and AI output reviewers.
bel8··on LittleJS is 2D and 3D now
I love LittleJS so much!

And I invite everyone to join their Discord: https://discord.gg/zb7hcGkyZe

The author is very welcoming and helpful.

bel8··on Why is every rationalist blog post way too long?
To me it's clearly the opposite. They could condense but did not have the time to do so. And I struggle to understand how the opposite conclusion could be reached when the explanation is right there, leaving little margin to extrapolation.
bel8··on Why is every rationalist blog post way too long?
It takes skill and effort to condense knowledge.

"I would have written a shorter letter, but did not have the time." - Blaise Pascal in “Lettres Provinciales,” 1657.

bel8··on AI is a tool and using it well takes skill
Agreed. It takes skill.

3 engineers at my job were fired because all they were doing was pasting Jira ticket links on Claude without further curation and generating horrible PRs.

So I don't buy that it takes no skill.

bel8··on AI is a tool and using it well takes skill
Was a hoe not a tool because it was rendered obsolete in many applications by tractors?

Not to mention that I find these semantic discussions pointless and unproductive.

And what actionable information can be extracted from these articles? Near zero. It's a collective waste of bright minds.

bel8··on AI is a tool and using it well takes skill
Why is he posting on LinkedIn of all places?
bel8··on A Dynamic and Distributed Virtual GPU Cloud Built on Idle Apple Silicon Devices
I don't think they would be able to buy any of these. It would have been blocked by multiple regulators.
bel8··on Muse Wonder
I found out about this release from Reddit because for some reason this frontier model post is suppressed in HN.

Had to use Algolia search to find this buried post.

Which is sad.

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