DeepSeek V4 Flash is a very capable coding model that runs well on the hardware you described. Look up the optimized version specifically designed for local use.
This is exactly why I chose to build my AI startup outside of the United States. I knew that if I ever built anything of world-changing consequence, the US would seize it for its own use, because that is what desperate, flailing empires do. Having access to the most capital/talent/resources is irrelevant if I can't keep what I build.
It’s neither a matter of profits nor costs. It’s a matter of incentives. The basic principle of capitalism can’t work if the buyer doesn’t have a choice, if the buyer is not the one who usually pays, and if the payer has a way of avoiding responsibility to pay. The privatized health insurance system is truly and completely fucked up.
By definition a free market in healthcare requires forcing some people to die from a treatable injury or condition to discover the optimal price. That's part of the definition.
Because the supply is constrained I feel like that's the case regardless of how the system is financed. (There are only so many providers, facilities, etc.)
It seems like the core problems with US "system" come from having a "shadow" socialized system (by way of EMTALA[0]) that offloads costs onto the "free market" (read: patients or insurers who can pay) and a shocking inability to have a mature public conversation about how care will be rationed. (That conversation still happens but it's between providers and insurers and not subject to public scrutiny.)
Free market usefully means both sides can choose to participate in transactions which means price is how they do that. It is a useful concept but it doesn't cover everything, like what you mentioned and things like if emergency patients are shopping around hospitals or if the average consumer is capable of being well informed in such a market.
The buyer and sellers are frequently wrong. The buyer isn’t the patient, it’s the employer. The insurer is either charging a premium for risk or servicing work for a self-pay employer.
The biggest buyer is the Federal government and by law they are required to get the best deal, the government also restricts the supply of providers. It’s not a capitalist system at all. It’s a weird hybrid command economy with a consolidating cartel of providers and administrators.
Looks very useful, but incredibly obnoxious that it overrides default git diff. And the only way to get the regular git diff output is to uninstall it? There is no way I would ever want to do that.
sem doesn't override git diff, it's a completely separate command (sem diff). Your regular git diff should work exactly as it always has after installing sem.
If you want to change your git diff default behavior then you can do sem setup.
That’s not clear at all from the docs. It shouldn’t be called “setup” then. Even after doing sem setup there should be a CLI flag to get the default diff output without unsetting up. Very annoying hijack.
sorry if you consider that as hijack, it was just a user's request to use this as default plugin on their git. But I will add it to let the users know thanks for the feedback
Not just domain expertise. The hard part has always been marketing, distribution, risk appetite, motivation, grit, and patience.
There are plenty of things which are "trivial" to produce with no moat and yet are still million dollar businesses. Kebab stands. Water bottles. Barber shops. Movers.
The Abrahamic religions have a natural safeguard against excessive wealth concentration: ban interest-based loans to private individuals (usury is shunned in the Bible and the Koran) and instead encourage a wealth tax on hoarding that directly transfers charity from the wealthiest to the poorest (tithe or zakaat).
Some modern economists have suggested this should work theoretically if properly implemented. See Helmut Creutz, Das Geld-Syndrom (1993) and “The Natural Rate of Interest Is Zero” — Mathew Forstater & Warren Mosler.
LOL, read up on how baking and loans in Islamic countries work. Banks buy whatever you want and then sell it to you partially at a higher rate. The customer then pays a rent for the portion owned by the bank till the principle is paid off. No interest charged technically, but effectively they do pay; except it is now kosher/halal. We humans use language to work around every such restriction by debating on the literal meaning of any such religious restrction.
And which countries does this work for? They all still somehow still manage to have palaces.
There's also a strong argument that charity transfers to the poor does far more harm than good. How do you price a field worth of wheat, a mill, or even a local grocery when an airdrop of processed flour and food rations can arrive at any moment with no warning? And how do you get the capital to start one of those when it's illegal to get a loan?
Of course there are solutions if you have enough tenacity, but the overall result is far fewer businesses started because the friction is just so much higher.
Instead of empty theorizing, we should have benchmarks for this. There is at least one benchmark which suggests that LLMs are better at writing Elixir than most other languages: see the AutoCodeBenchmark.
Thanks for the tip. If they are representative the results are quite surprising. Anecdotally, I always thought Go would be on one of languages LLM's were best at.
In my experience, LLMs are pretty good at writing Go code. In fact, that’s one of my principal use cases: I have a number of bespoke Node programs from many years ago that usually run in the background on my computer.
Each process (with the Node runtime engine) consumes about 50–100 MB of RAM. One of the first things I tried was using large language models to help port them over to Go. Since the model has a point of reference (the original Node program plus its unit tests) it’s been easy to use a test-driven approach and ensure the Go version maintains parity with the originals.
Memory usage usually drops from around ~50 MB to about ~5 MB per process, which really adds up when you’ve got a dozen of these programs running at once.
This kind of attitude is exactly why American-style capitalism is not wanted. As if money is the only thing that matters? Maybe there aren’t enough Dutch investors with deep enough pockets to match the American offer because the US prints the worlds reserve currency with no fiscal balance whatsoever. American investors are playing with monopoly money propped up by an army to bully anyone who doesn’t take it.
Because very powerful private VCs and investment bankers want to ensure that governments stay impotent when compared to their capital. Welcome to the Western world.
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