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chromatin··on GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities
This is a fantastic ad for GLM-5.3
chromatin··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
I started to correct you that the limit was surely 0.05%, but then I saw you snuck a per-mille sign in, instead of a percent sign. Nicely done
chromatin··on The darker side of being a doctor
An alternative hypothesis is that it's low because our most talented kids know they can make a ton more in finance and tech
chromatin··on The darker side of being a doctor
I can think of at least one person who failed out of my medical school class
chromatin··on The darker side of being a doctor
> From a more practical angle, I don’t know how you could possibly find more doctors by lowering their earning potential.

You certainly could if you were willing to accept people who are terrible at being a physician.

The notion that you can just throw more warm bodies at the problem is ludicrous

chromatin··on The darker side of being a doctor
> Their salaries need to be lower, training needs to be cheaper and faster, and we need a lot more of them.

The quality of the average physician is already so low I am not sure what you are hoping to accomplish with lower salaries and faster training.

Doctoring isn't a matter of more warm bodies

chromatin··on JetKVM Mini
Yes I am aware but the comment explicitly compared it to JetKVM, not the mini which is not yet available anyway
chromatin··on JetKVM Mini
It's not though.

JetKVM typically $100-120 ArkKVM $99-115

chromatin··on Stripe in talks to buy OpenRouter for ~10B
Extremely relevant:

Ramp Router: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48987253

chromatin··on Ramp Router
Looks like it will be a paid offering? Seems strange coming from a Fintech, unless they're looking to pivot.
chromatin··on Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on iroh
A 1 gbe local network should have < 1 msec latency per hop so theoretical upper bound is substantially higher than 30 tps (again assuming instantaneous compute) => thus network latency should not be the limiting factor in reality, no?
chromatin··on An update on residential proxies and the scraper situation
I would very much like to see a Lightning-Network based 402 standard succeed!
chromatin··on How many of the 170k English words do you know?
The UX is awful - I bailed out at 25/100 JUST IN LEVEL ONE (BASICS)

Might I suggest adaptive difficulty? After getting 10, 15, 20 correct in a row it should scale up the difficulty immediately, rather than waiting for 100 in the basic level 1...

chromatin··on How much of Thermo Fisher's antibody data has been manipulated?
We noticed this years ago when looking at -- IIRC -- ikaros antibodies. They were clearly faked. Lacking any sort of platform to gain attention we moved on to Abcam and our lab just sort of maintained a mental map of who not to purchase ANYTHING immuno- from.
chromatin··on Biohub releases a world model of protein biology
> Do you need to predict when AP-MS is so cheap?

Yes because a core reason fro this technology is evaluation of de-novo designs (small peptide binders; scFvs; sdAbs)

chromatin··on The perils of UUID primary keys in SQLite
If you had read the article, you'd have seen that UUIDv4 with Rowid was slightly slower than UUIDv7
chromatin··on Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains
Is this substantially different, cognitively or skills-wise, than moving into management and directing a team to write code, but no longer writing code oneself?
chromatin··on Claude Platform on AWS
"Practice is policy"
chromatin··on US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Iran war
I disagree and think GP poster is right on the money.

There are many ways in which inflation numbers are cooked; just one of them is the hedonic adjustment [1].

Others include an un-representative basket of goods.

The basket of goods is adjusted every 2 years, but not necessarily in a way that mirrors the way real households adapt their spending patterns to increased prices.

Owner equivalent rent (LOL) massively lags behind home prices.

Honestly, when 10s or hundreds of millions of people's perception does not match *Official Government Numbers*, then it's reason to suspect that the official numbers are a poor metric.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/cpi/quality-adjustment/

chromatin··on Google releases Gemma 4 open models
I love that you are doing this test. However, as it purports to be a test of "English-to-SQL", your hardest question (Q9) seems ungrammatical:

> Show order lines, revenue, units sold, revenue per unit (total revenue ÷ total units sold), average list price per product in the subcategory, gross profit, and margin percentage for each product subcategory.

In particular, the clause "in the subcategory, gross profit, and margin percentage for each product subcategory" is ambiguous, and I wonder if more models would pass if the English were reformulated to be correct.

(it's also notable that Claude Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 both "missed" this one)

chromatin··on Show HN: An open-source safety net for home hemodialysis
Incredible; I'll let my patients* on Home HD know about this.

*not a nephrologist but have several pts on home hd

chromatin··on Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service
> Delve was founded in 2023 by Karun Kaushik and Selin Kocalar, both Forbes 30 Under 30 members and MIT dropouts who met as freshmen.

Forbes 30 under 30 remains undefeated

chromatin··on GPT‑5.3 Instant
No, not at all. My unqualified internet diagnosis is that you may have high anxiety.
chromatin··on Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info
When I was a young(er) postdoc and had to overhaul my bicycle -- my main transportation to work-- this site was invaluable. Forever grateful to Sheldon.
chromatin··on The 600-year-old origins of the word 'hello'
> According to linguists, elongated variations such as "heyyy" could be construed as flirtatious, "hellaw" might suggest you're from the southern US,

I am from the Southern US and I am definitely not familiar with this phonetic form. Could be what a BBC writer _imagines_ a Southerner sounds like

chromatin··on Nabokov's guide to foreigners learning Russian
I found Croatian significantly easier than Czech, perhaps because of centuries (millenia?) of trans-Adriatic Italian influence?
chromatin··on Unifi Travel Router
Time is your most precious commodity.
chromatin··on Self-hosting a Matrix server for 5 years
Conduit [1] has retention policies [2] for media and attachments!

[1] https://conduit.rs/ and https://gitlab.com/famedly/conduit [2] https://gitlab.com/famedly/conduit/-/blob/next/docs/configur...

chromatin··on How to sequence your DNA for <$2k
> Intentionally not bothering to go into why, but above average intelligence.

Speaking as a geneticist, it's a shame that this is forbidden knowledge

chromatin··on All-New Next Gen of UniFi Storage
I've found the same. I've moved from a homebrew tinkerer's delight home network with pfSense running in a VM, Supermicro FreeBSD ZFS fileserver, hodgepodge of cameras etc. to a top-to-bottom Unifi Stack.

My time is worth a lot more now, my family appreciates very much that it "Just Works" (tm), and -- most importantly -- the cognitive load for me is a fraction of before.

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