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blazarquasar··on GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks
Plenty of other providers that offer much faster inference on GLM-5.1. Friendli, GMICloud, Venice, Fireworks, etc. And can be deployed through Bedrock already as well. Will probably be available generally in Bedrock soon, I would guess.
blazarquasar··on Schizophrenia study finds new biomarker, drug candidate in mice
I don't disagree at all.

I am merely commenting on your takeaway that this somehow means that some cultures see schizophrenia as "friendly", which does absolutely does not follow from the fact that the "mostly, the voices are good".

I would also think that this is likely due to cultural differences and in many cases probably adds to the problem.

https://doi.org/10.3109/09540261.2012.711746

From the full Article:

"People suffering from psychotic illness continue to hold multi-explanatory models. The cultural, religious and social explanatory models are predominant in non-western cultures."

"Limited evidence suggests that traditional belief models affect [duration of untreated psychosis], and explanatory models based on spiritual and social causes of illness may result in delayed presentations for professional help."

blazarquasar··on Schizophrenia study finds new biomarker, drug candidate in mice
> To this point, some cultures see schizophrenia as friendly, not scary.

That should not be your conclusion from the article.

"the voices" are hardly the only symptom that people with schizophrenia suffer from. A lot of those affected don't have auditory hallucinations at all and are still suffering from one of the (if not the) most debilitating mental disorders out there.

Calling it "friendly" risks trivialising of the very real symptoms.

blazarquasar··on Astral to Join OpenAI
You are aware that ty has only recently entered beta status?

Ruff isn’t stable yet either and has evolved into the de facto standard for new projects. It has more than double the amount of rules than Pylint does. Also downloaded more than 3 times as often as Pylint in the past month.

Pylint has some advantages, sure, but Ruffs adoption speaks for itself. Pylint is 25 years old. You’d hope they do some things better.

Saying that uv is their only winner is a hilarious take.

blazarquasar··on The next era of social media: built and run in Europe, ruled by our laws
Maybe a lot of us are ready for “free speech”. But people tend to define it in drastically different terms.
blazarquasar··on MacBook Neo
Surface Laptop is 1099€ vs 699€ for the Macbook Neo in Germany.

Macbook Neo is also 219ppi vs Surface Laptop at 178ppi. We’ll see about performance, but i’d expect the macbook to be on par or better.

blazarquasar··on Show HN: A native macOS client for Hacker News, built with SwiftUI
I guess you could say that. There are frameworks such as swift-cross-ui, but I couldn’t tell you anything about their maturity.

I don’t think CLI and GUI applications are the only software people write. Swift is a great backend language.

blazarquasar··on Show HN: A native macOS client for Hacker News, built with SwiftUI
Swift is de-facto cross-platform without limitations.

SwiftUI is something entirely different and not trying to be cross-platform at all.

blazarquasar··on Luce: First Electric Ferrari
Yes, UN ECE 94 requires them.
blazarquasar··on OpenClaw is changing my life
Given that the authors previous post was about how the Rabbit R1 has “the potential to change the world”, I don’t expect much in the way of critical assessment here.
blazarquasar··on Deutsche Telekom is throttling the internet
Could also check the official Breitbandmessung by the BNetzA They also have some interesting statistic by provider, etc. on there. https://www.breitbandmessung.de
blazarquasar··on Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability
Their description does say “Works with AirTag generation 1 & 2.” Thanks for putting me on to these. Really clever products. I always feel stupid with my airtag dangling off of my camera.
blazarquasar··on Proton spam and the AI consent problem
I’ve been very happy with mailbox.org. The proton mail bridge was a huge pain point for me.
blazarquasar··on AI SlopStop by Kagi
I would disagree. I would never activate a feature that down-ranks or hides results based on some ominous judgement on quality by a Kagi team. For AI Slop its pretty easy to determine because it is always lows quality and useless content that provides zero value and is a waste of time. The guidelines as specified also allow for some margin or error here I would argue.
blazarquasar··on Germany is not supporting ChatControl – blocking minority secured
They could have just left out Article 8. Its a “no interference by a public authority unless it want’s to.” “Well-being of the country”, “protection of health or morals” are terms that make this statute irrelevant and dependent on the current mood of the EU.

Privacy needs to be an absolute right. Any invasion of privacy of any individual is a violation of their rights and needs to be treated as such with actual repercussions following misconduct.

blazarquasar··on The cost of transparency: Living with schizoaffective disorder in tech
I appreciate your reply. Psychotic disorders are absolutely debilitating and any stigma and invalidation towards those is just as shameful. I understand your reaction and I apologize if I was being a little too confrontational. I guess we both share a similar history of stigmatization.
blazarquasar··on The cost of transparency: Living with schizoaffective disorder in tech
These disorders don't exist on the same spectrum. There is no point in comparing the two. Both can be absolutely debilitating. People that feel the need to compare severity of disorders like you do actively contribute to the stigma and invalidation of severe disorders. Tell the families of the more than 700k people that commit suicide every year that "depression is very mild by comparison". An absolutely ignorant comment.
blazarquasar··on The cost of transparency: Living with schizoaffective disorder in tech
This is a very ignorant thing to say. I agree that most people cannot relate to the experience of psychotic episodes.

While prevalence IS higher for depression and anxiety, most people have not experienced depression or anxiety and will not in their life.

Lifetime prevalence of depression is 10-20% worldwide, depending on the studies. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-21243-x

Anxiety prevalence is a little higher but also not experienced by a majority. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.31887/DCNS.2015.17.3...

People that have not experienced anxiety and depression can not relate.

Depression and anxiety are not amplified version of emotions. They are not on the same spectrum.

Comparing the disorders makes no sense and only helps stigma.

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