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New comment by ramblerman in "Mistral Large 4"

ramblerman — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 14:31:52 +0000

> Europeans are notoriously arrogant. It's a mockable combination.

Not a very rigorous economic argument - besides they also don't share an immigration policy, nor a single currency (Denmark)

New comment by ramblerman in "Mistral Large 4"

ramblerman — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 14:20:18 +0000

Ah yes... the "European". From the Scandinavian viking to the Sicilian - one homogenous group that agrees on everything and acts the same.

New comment by ramblerman in "The Mafia may be keeping fentanyl out of Italy"

ramblerman — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 17:33:03 +0000

lol. Whoosh

New comment by ramblerman in "We just shipped support for the ugliest part of HTTP: Vary"

ramblerman — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 17:13:23 +0000

It sounds like you came up with a proper solution because cf didn’t support this silliness

New comment by ramblerman in "Why I didn’t sign the Fields medallists’ letter"

ramblerman — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 13:26:47 +0000

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.

New comment by ramblerman in "Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption"

ramblerman — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 11:37:03 +0000

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

New comment by ramblerman in "Dario, Please"

ramblerman — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 06:31:45 +0000

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.

New comment by ramblerman in "OpenAI might have stolen another major proof"

ramblerman — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 05:46:54 +0000

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

New comment by ramblerman in "Codex on GPT6 Astra Low launched a rocket into space in Factorio Space Age 2.1"

ramblerman — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 13:34:57 +0000

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

New comment by ramblerman in "GPT-6 Astra"

ramblerman — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 05:23:42 +0000

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).

New comment by ramblerman in "Dutch central bank moves share of gold from U.S., Canada to London"

ramblerman — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:23:25 +0000

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.

New comment by ramblerman in "1Password Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Europe"

ramblerman — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 05:57:08 +0000

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.

New comment by ramblerman in "Omacom Foundation funding hits $10M"

ramblerman — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 05:39:09 +0000

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

New comment by ramblerman in "Omacom Foundation funding hits $10M"

ramblerman — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 05:36:44 +0000

> Tech needs more kindness, not less.

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

New comment by ramblerman in "Omacom Foundation launches with $8M"

ramblerman — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 07:43:06 +0000

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...

New comment by ramblerman in "GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released"

ramblerman — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:08:56 +0000

Now maybe, but the gap is closing.

New comment by ramblerman in "Ask HN: Do you know of any company that went back to hand-written code?"

ramblerman — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 12:04:04 +0000

Someone answered the question with some actual examples. Please refrain from the hyperbole

New comment by ramblerman in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

ramblerman — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:37:24 +0000

> 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.

New comment by ramblerman in "What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance"

ramblerman — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:19:20 +0000

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.

New comment by ramblerman in "Midjourney Medical"

ramblerman — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 06:10:26 +0000

If you think the premise and conclusion of Op's statement form a tautology then you agree with him strongly.