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ramblerman··on The Mafia may be keeping fentanyl out of Italy
lol. Whoosh
ramblerman··on We just shipped support for the ugliest part of HTTP: Vary
It sounds like you came up with a proper solution because cf didn’t support this silliness
ramblerman··on Why I didn’t sign the Fields medallists’ letter
I guess there is a bit of a realization from the laymen (and I'm speaking as a member of that group) that a lot of these problems are toy problems.

It's clear of Fermat's last theorem. But I figured that the Millennium Prize Problems (of which there are only 10) would have some real spillover into either physics or chemistry.

Yet when one of them gets solved, it seems to be that the argument is, "yeah but not like that".

Imagine if an AI solved cancer, or a vastly cheaper way to get into space, we wouldn't react like that.

ramblerman··on Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption
Sry to be pedantic (it is german after all) but,

"responsibility table tennis" would be a better fit.

Competence in english translates to the skill side of the word

ramblerman··on Dario, Please
Unregulated greed in banking means taking ridiculous risks to line your own pockets at no benefit to society.

If a year from now we have a model that is 2-5x of Fable/Astra that is definitely world changing.

ramblerman··on OpenAI might have stolen another major proof
As per the post, this mathematician has been working on this problem for 20 years. So either he was "just" about to breakthrough and this is a big coincidence, or Astra was able to push through the remaining block of 5-10-20-never years it might have taken.

That's still a pretty big marker of competence in my eyes.

The point of controversy seems to be who gets credit

ramblerman··on Codex on GPT6 Astra Low launched a rocket into space in Factorio Space Age 2.1
Can someone ELI5 how LLMs are manipulating environments like this? I have a similar question for when you see the blender examples online.

AFAIU the models are multimodal, so you could screenshot factorio and let it come back with some manipulation like move west 5 tiles, do that and then take another screenshot, but that seems wildly inefficient so I'm sure i'm missing something

ramblerman··on GPT-6 Astra
I agree, but I also long considered llm's stochastic parrots. Then this year happened.

Opus/Sol are easily far smarter programmers than I, and this thing supposedly blows them out of the water. Once an LLM is a better doctor, researcher, biologist, chemist, mathematician, physicist than any human is that not AGI?

It didn't arrive in the form I would have ever imagined, but it's hard to say its not (imo).

ramblerman··on Dutch central bank moves share of gold from U.S., Canada to London
I think you misunderstood the emphasis there - yes Europeans love football.

The point is that it's so blatant for such little gain, it's still a game. I.e. if he is willing to do that so openly for such low stakes, imagine what he does behind closed doors when it matters.

ramblerman··on 1Password Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Europe
As a European... please no.

I'm so tired of the US trying to fight a proxy political turf war by fitting their simplistic maga/democrat viewpoints over everything.

The truth, it's pretty complicated. But since all things US blow over, the biggest help would be fix your own backyard, and then perhaps moderate discussions can again prevail.

ramblerman··on Omacom Foundation funding hits $10M
People can come together on a project and not involve their politics in that project or their communal interaction.

And then in their own private sphere they are free to express their opinions.

The fact this is confusing to people beggars belief

ramblerman··on Omacom Foundation funding hits $10M
> Tech needs more kindness, not less.

How is lets not talk about politics and focus on the tech counter to that

ramblerman··on Omacom Foundation launches with $8M
It must get exhausting keeping track of what everybody thinks to know if a project is worthwhile.

In this case, I hate to tell you - the owner of the company you work for invested a million into this.

So... you should probably quit your job, unless this is all just performative outrage...

ramblerman··on GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released
Now maybe, but the gap is closing.
ramblerman··on Ask HN: Do you know of any company that went back to hand-written code?
Someone answered the question with some actual examples. Please refrain from the hyperbole
ramblerman··on The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party
> But if you're tolerant of someone in your workplace that wants to make it a monoculture, and then succeeds in doing so, will you remain glad?

Isn't that exactly the argument Örebro would make about islam and europe.

ramblerman··on What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance
What a ridiculous strawman. OP wasn't proposing removing the police, and any charitable take would have understood that given the topic of the article.
ramblerman··on Midjourney Medical
If you think the premise and conclusion of Op's statement form a tautology then you agree with him strongly.
ramblerman··on I procrastinate by building tools to stop me from procrastinating: A sad story
From the title alone I was going to comment that these tools we build are not about not procrastinating but about chasing some illusionary productivity.

My own examples

- Instead of learning a language, I can write a tool that generates flashcards for me from books I'm reading, surely that's better than "actually" reading a book

- Instead of using my morning willpower to hit the gym, surely a dashboard that shows me how many reps I did per week, with graphs of my progressions will get me better gains ... someday.

The fact you called it ProductivityProxy seems like we are on the same page.

ramblerman··on Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?
This is a silly form of no true Scotsman, you don't create a Messi if he had been kicking a coke can around.
ramblerman··on LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do
That's good advice to stay employable.

But I used to enjoy learning - I think most of us did. The existential crisis many are experiencing is about the lack of fulfilment in rolling an LLM slot machine all day in an already dopamine depleting environment.

ramblerman··on Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs
Or simple economics kicks in, price/demand all that.

If hand coding pays better there will be plenty who can still do that.

ramblerman··on Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed
> The UK doesn't support cigarettes, so the law gets passed. If someone has a public opinion poll there showing less than 50% support for this, I'd love to see it.

Isn't the impetus on the makers of this bill to show there is more than 50% support for this.

I'm not a fan of smoking but this isn't the governments job imo. Not to mention the odd precedent of do what I say not as I do, with different laws for different generations.

ramblerman··on Krafton CEO used ChatGPT in failed bid to avoid paying US$250M bonus
> ChatGPT initially responded that the earnout would be “difficult to cancel” but later at ChatGPT’s suggestion Kim formed an internal taskforce, dubbed Project X.

Anyone know how they got access to his conversation with ChatGPT? Can the court order the transcripts for a particular user, or was this leaked more conventionally - e.g. a coworker / hack?

ramblerman··on Saying goodbye to Agile
Communism comes to mind.

It's led to misery every time - but it's always because they just "did it wrong"

ramblerman··on jj – the CLI for Jujutsu
The new solution is better. It’s so good we must get all the big players to mandate its usage.

If ur making an appeal on a forum like this u could have gone with ur favorite feature, or anything else really.

ramblerman··on US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire
I think reparations could be spent as they see fit. Reconstruction implies the money is going to exactly that.

But I agree it's a weird nitpick at this stage, as it seems almost impossible to verify once in place

ramblerman··on German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function
Taxpayer money project being tied to a dependency on Apple google is 100% counter what that money should be used for.

You are copy pasting a “correct” argument against eu bureaucracy in the absolute wrong space

ramblerman··on Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns
> You have a right to perform your prescribed duty, but you are not entitled to the fruits of action. Never consider yourself the cause of the results of your activities, and never be attached to not doing your duty.

I have a hard time interpreting that as what geohotz is saying. If anything it seems to promote rent seekers by telling you - stick to your lane and don't complain. I.e. the caste system

ramblerman··on What Is a Centipawn Advantage?
If there is a 15 move sequence that leads to a guaranteed win, stockfish would not call it a 1 pawn advantage (given the sufficient calculation time) instead calling it a won position.

I think you may be mistaking your understanding of stockfish as shallow in that regard.

Where the big differences might emerge is in strategic mid game positions without any clear tactics or forcing moves. There lc0 can somehow "feel" that a position seems better.

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