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bildungon Complete hardware and software setup for running Deepseek-R1 locally

The twitter link doesn't work if you don't have an account, so I personally found the alternatives helpful.

bildungon DeepSeek releases Janus Pro, a text-to-image generator [pdf]

Well there's the practical reason of the model natively being fp8 ;) One of the innovative ideas making it so much less compute-intensive, apparently.

bildungon DeepSeek could represent Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's worst nightmare

Deepseek offers API pricing directly on their website, so it's pretty easy to compare inference costs indirectly: It's $60.00 vs. $2.19 for 1M output tokens. Openai is 27x as expensive.

bildungon DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL

This is the same axomatic ideology that GPT responded with. Miniscule fraction of what value? What do you think would happen to openai's valuation if their models would accidently advocate for pedophilia or building bombs? I mean this very topic we comment on just vaporized the market value of openai to single digit percentages. Openai raised nearly $18B, while DeepSeek-R1 cost $6M, works just as fine and is open. It has just been empirically proven that the market value of the developers working on GPT is actually dramatically lower than the payment they got.

bildungon DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL

Again, I'm not arguing for anything here. My point was that GPT wasn't willing to imagine a rationale for the labellers to get better compensation.

bildungon DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL

I am not arguing for anything in this case, just pointing out how western ideology finds its way in GPT etc. Also, I didn't write anything about demanding equal pay.

bildungon DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL

GPT4 is also full of ideology, but of course the type you probably grew up with, so harder to see. (No offense intended, this is just the way ideology works).

Try for example to persuade GPT to argue that the workers doing data labeling in Kenya should be better compensated relative to the programmers in SF, as the work they do is both critical for good data for training and often very gruesome, with many workers getting PTSD from all the horrible content they filter out.

I couldn't, about a year ago. The model always tried to argue in favor of the status quo because of market forces - which is, of course, axiomatic ideology.

bildungon BYD's electric supercar jumps over potholes and spikes

Well to be fair, he got prominent and created an illegal peer-to-peer lending business to enrich himself on the despair of lower-income people - in a country that has heavy financial regulation in place to prevent exactly these kinds of developments (same as MLM schemes etc.).

bildungon Samsung Display to Begin Mass Production of Rollable OLED for Laptops

No need to be snarky, googling "samsung rollable display patent" isn't so hard:

https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=US43...

bildungon Social Media Distorts Perceptions of Norms

Of course it was, the trick simply was to declare some groups to not be human.

bildungon Sora is here

There are already Hunyuan fp8 examples running on a 4090 on r/stablediffusion.

bildungon How to validate a market with development boards and SD cards

Enforcing basic device safety is hardly regulatory capture. I was part of preparing devices for CE tests, the requirements are essentially: nobody gets killed if the hardware is plugged in, you haven't accidently created an rf transmitter, and if you want to advertise IP67 it should survive being placed under water.

bildungon How to validate a market with development boards and SD cards

If the project is actually just a hobby, then CE and probably FCC testing is not needed.

If the project is a startup, then the cost of labor is not zero, at least not if people are not deluding themselves (i.e. at least opportunity costs should be considered).

Personally, as a consumer, I'm pretty happy that I can buy e.g. a wireless mouse or a bluetooth speaker and can reasonably assume that they actually work and aren't accidently jammed by some "startup"'s hardware.

bildungon Apple's On-Device and Server Foundation Models

Was that really the case? I remember they were mocked for e.g. offering wifi only, firewire only etc., while the respective removed alternatives were way more common.

bildungon Debian's /tmpest in a teapot

> Now I'm to give 50% of this up, having those buffers/cache flushed for... someone unarchiving a tarball?!

Nope, unarchiving tarballs doesn't write the tarball content to /tmp.

> It smacks of people with desktops, with enormous amounts of free RAM, making decisions for servers.

* Servers usually have way more RAM than desktop devices? Unless you mean VMs, in which case the VM can't decide what device /tmp lies in anyway.

* in any case it will be trivial to just not use it for your servers, if you prefer /tmp to be on disk. Just like I already used tmpfs for 2 decades in Debian, it is a single line in /etc/fstab either way.

bildungon Passkeys: A shattered dream

Homicide rate is 10x the rate of EU and over 30x the rate of Japan: https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/a...

Rape rate is about 3x the rate of EU: https://www.civitas.org.uk/content/files/crime_stats_oecdjan...

People killed by police (population adjusted) is about 30x the rate of Germany: https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-de... https://polizeischuesse.cilip.de/?p=1&year=2023

bildungon How to found a company in Germany: 14 "easy" steps and lots of pain

And yet the self-employment rate in Germany seems to be higher than in the US: https://genderdata.worldbank.org/indicators/sl-emp-self-zs/?...

bildungon Divide-and-conquer dynamics in AI-driven disempowerment

That's true, but society has to have a discourse about who owns these gains, and what to do with the negatively affected people.

A scenario where people in creative jobs are essentially dispossessed with tax-avoiding megacorporations being the only profiteers is not the only possible option.

We as society could also decide that e.g. there have to be free occupational retraining options for those affected (as happened in other instances of technological revolutions), and AI models, or their underlying data, have to be open source of some new kind and so on.

bildungon I am the cheapest bastard in indie games (2019)

For me personally many of those high fantasy polished D&D based games have become quite boring. I mean they objectively are of high quality! But I couldn't e.g. manage to finish both Pillars of Eternity games because they somehow just became a chore to play further. The writing was great, the visuals were great, but something was still lacking. Achievements and collectables and similar 4th-wall-breaking elements were a turn-off for me, and the D&D ruleset again and again...

By contrast Jeff's Avernum series was such a breath of fresh air. Really interesting world, great writing, no D&D. Those were really great. I wouldn't mind better graphics, but that's a minor point for me.

bildungon Firefox on the brink?

Can confirm, I currently have around 240 tabs open (yeah I know...), and most of those a running for at least multiple weeks now.

I am on X though, perhaps a Wayland related bug or config thing?

bildungon Productivity has grown faster in Western Europe than in America

Production is the gross output. Productivity is production divided by the whole population or the working population.

You can easily have a situation were production shrinks but productivity is unchanged, e.g. because a cohort leaves the workforce and becomes pensioneers.

bildungon Productivity has grown faster in Western Europe than in America

It's actually pretty common and one of the hurdles of getting comparable data.

An anectode from an Amartya Sen book: Uneducated women in rural India, when asked anout their health status, effectively said everything is fine. After getting access to better healthcare and health education, self reported health scores went down. Classic case of unknown unknowns: The women didn't know that live actually could be better than what they experienced so far.

The same is true for this discussion: I'd wager that thanks to Hollywood and world news coverage, the average citizen of a small EU country like Norway has (or at least thinks they have) deeper knowledge of live in the US than the average US person about live in Norway. So the Norwegian, when asked about their own happiness, can position themselves in context of this knowledge.

bildungon Productivity has grown faster in Western Europe than in America

You can't compare wealth as simplisticly as you imply, for a multitude of reasons, the top three being:

* Wealth includes house ownership, but in many EU countries living in a rented apartment is normal and even preferred, mostly because strong regulatory protection of tenant's rights. As an example our family could easily afford owning a house in the suburbs but still lives for rent in the city, because quality of life is better here.

* In the US, wealth includes savings for pension, whereas in many EU countries pensions are organized collectively, like an insurance. In other words most EU pension schemes are not visible in wealth statistics.

* Same for healthcare. I know of noone in my social circle saving for eventual healthcare crises because that is cared for by health insurance.

bildungon Identifying organic compounds with visible light

Funnily enough using the refractive index to discern compounds is the modus operandi of one of the very fist spectrometer made by William Hyde Wollaston in 1802: https://www.en.silicann.com/blog/post/history-of-spectroscop... (disclaimer: I wrote that).

Very cool approach, though it will most probably only work for classification (i.e. what is this sample), whereas NIR spectroscopy (most common when working with organic compounds) allows for quantification of the sample analytes (who much of each analyte is in this sample).

bildungon Musk faces fines if Twitter’s gutted child safety team becomes overwhelmed

Twitter currently seems on the road to withdrawing from every market...

bildungon Twitter has fired more software engineers

Twitter had a bunch of people employed to sell Twitter to exactly these cohorts, including the journalists (or their publications)

bildungon Is novel research worth doing? Evidence from peer review

My background is in humanities but the dynamics are the same: Chasing the goal of objectivity, easily measurable datapoints like number of publications and number of citations are used for quantifying impact of a researcher. This incentivizes researching/publishing low hanging fruit, because actually working on deep or unusual approaches means sinking more time into the endevour while risking less or no publishable results. For people trying to earn a living in academic institutions this would be stupid.

bildungon Wikipedians are rebelling against “unethical” Wikipedia fundraising banners

That's false I fear. Intersectionality hasn't much to do with Foucault. It's a framework for analyzing multiple levels of discrimination occuring at the same time (say for someone having both a physical disability and mental illness). You could have just linked to wikipedia ;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersectionality

IMO there's quite a bit to criticize in that approach, but calling it postmodernist relativism doesn't really fit.

bildungon The hyperinflation gallery

The USA had dozens of years with >10% inflation or deflation during that period, and even multiple years with over 20% inflation.

https://www.minneapolisfed.org/about-us/monetary-policy/infl...

bildungon Gimp development release 2.99.12 includes initial CMYK support

> I am aware of "gimp" as a derogatory term, but it pops up so infrequently, its primary connotation for me has become this piece of software.

This is also the way our language perception generally works: The word is just the signifier, a variable. The meaning, the significate, is not inherent in the word itself.

If enough people say "gimp" and mean the software, that becomes the default inference.