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mhh__on Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model

"It's a German joke, it doesn't have to be funny"

mhh__on Kolibri is an open-weight LLM from Aleph Alpha for German and English

Stereotype accuracy is one of the few social science results that replicates.

mhh__on 10-year Treasury yield climbs above 5.3% to a level not seen in 24 years

Yes apart from showing up in almost literally every "umm , we don't do THAT in Germany" back and forth on this very question

mhh__on 10-year Treasury yield climbs above 5.3% to a level not seen in 24 years

The amount of growth the "95%" have seen in china is huge!

Also American peasants / lower tier white collar workers are usually richer than fairly well off Europeans... You cannot even begin to comprehend how much wealthier the US is in some ways - and remember how totally dysfunctional the US economy is in many limits i.e. if Europe could just be as _bad_ as the US it would grow much faster.

mhh__on Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm

I don't really like the idea of the state having access to the data of a dating app but there is a part of me that things it should exist in an accelerationist/realist sense. I don't think online dating is going away, and the incentives of the dominant players are clearly not great for users or society. Government has a very strong incentive for people getting hitched.

mhh__on 10-year Treasury yield climbs above 5.3% to a level not seen in 24 years

You absolutely can grow your way out of a deficit - France is maybe the most regulated liberal economy in the world? It's designed not to grow

If you can keep energy costs down and get out of the way there will be growth. It's a thing that happens when people do business and make new things.

mhh__on A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal

Right but it's also exposed (I'm not sure if it's actually pure ocaml but it is presumably a form of it) to users

mhh__on EDG C++ front-end goes public

This is also where conditions go in languages with contracts, I like it

mhh__on US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS

They are or at least were in those years died in the wool woke. They minted coins with "diversity built Britain" on them, rishi held one up for the camera!

mhh__on A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal

It may be of interest to some that Bloomberg has an ocaml based DSL built in for pricing exotic derivatives.

mhh__on A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal

It's not very responsive

mhh__on US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS

You don't actually think the Tory party is right wing, surely?

Theresa May et al instituted net zero basically without a vote, huge liberalisation of various social matters, enormous spending on welfare, locked the country down, and then imported 4 million people!

mhh__on US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS

Banking has been taken over by HR and regulators

mhh__on US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS

I may have misread the topic of conversation but he was debanked by a private bank - I was arguing against juristocracy but possibly incorrectly aimed

mhh__on US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS

This is only really true in certain countries that don't really do democracy. In Britain for example parliament is sovereign.

mhh__on US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS

Frankly I think this is a good bit of hormesis for European countries. It's critical that we have domestic payment infrastructure.

mhh__on Coulomb's law remains tricky to test at home

Because we aren't dealing with the universe but rather ruling out possible forms of models of it

mhh__on Bill to Ban Private Equity from Owning Medical Practices

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airline_Deregulation_Act

mhh__on Bill to Ban Private Equity from Owning Medical Practices

Because in a fair market they would be competed away - prices of food, computers, bonds, etc are not transparent because of regulation - it's largely because of the tax incentive as far as I've read from healthcare economists.

mhh__on Bill to Ban Private Equity from Owning Medical Practices

> reimbursement between major healthcare chains and insurers

And why is this so prevalent? It's subject to huge subsidy and regulatory capture

mhh__on Bill to Ban Private Equity from Owning Medical Practices

Is Apple Inc run for consumer good or value extraction?

mhh__on San Francisco Onion Futures Company

You may have liabilities or income that exist outside of financial markets e.g. if I have 500t of wheat due to be harvested I might want to hedge enough to guarantee I can pay my staff - ive locked in the price of wheat, I might make less money as a result but my risk is lower.

mhh__on Bill to Ban Private Equity from Owning Medical Practices

Well they're considerably better paid and in a business that allows economies of scale.

It's a steelman argument to be clear I'm not entirely convinced by it.

mhh__on Bill to Ban Private Equity from Owning Medical Practices

yes. It's completely insane that health insurance A) does all price discovery B) is tied to your employer.

Ask an American hospital how much something costs - you will get a completely fake price back, this is a sign of a totally broken market.

mhh__on Bill to Ban Private Equity from Owning Medical Practices

PE staff are more intelligent and more shrewd than the people running the businesses they buy. Being a good doctor doesn't make you a good businessman.

I'm not a huge fan of PE but the point of economics to deliver cheap and quality goods to consumers not keep people in a job.

In healthcare in US in particular I think the main thing that capital should be (if regulators allow) boutique / specialists that e.g. are the best in the biz at doing MRI scans, in some states my understanding is that it's literally illegal to start a business aiming to make one small part of the process better.

mhh__on Bill to Ban Private Equity from Owning Medical Practices

You know what american healthcare really needs is more regulation!

mhh__on San Francisco Onion Futures Company

All you need to do is quite a price that isn't vulnerable to arbitrage. As a dealer you should then charge a spread atop of that to cover make a profit after costs and adverse selection (even if trading was free you should charge a spread to protect you against informed traders)

mhh__on San Francisco Onion Futures Company

many users of derivatives willingly lose money on them because the purpose of these contracts is to transfer risk to those willing to hold it.