rudolftheone

Awesome! I love looking through old tech magazines and remembering how bright and promising the future looked in their pages!

That's something which caught my attention:

> First, we aim not to release open weights that would extend the absolute frontier of cyber capability. K3.1 Pro's offensive cyber capability is, by design, below what our pipeline can produce, and remains behind that of frontier proprietary models. Second, we intend to progressively raise the cyber capability available in open weights.

So they admit that they could do more, but they won't?

Hallu Bench Hard: K3 at 23.4%, K3.1 at 8.3% which is very nice improvement!

That's delusional.

2 days ago I wrote a piece about how we think about jobs: starting with translators, then programmers then mathematicians, see https://rudolf.observer/en/posts/i-was-not-a-programmer-afte...

Not to mention how naive it is to think UBI would work.

Exactly!

But - we do have similar (and real) science like psychohistory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliodynamics

Sounds interesting, but this put me off: "You've read 21% Give us your email to read the full story"

It's complicated.

UBI was never a proper solution, stop spreading this nonsense.

This is rather just another mechanism to control people - by creating a dependency from entity which is providing this kind of support.

> I sweat a lot and if I'm wearing polyester (...)

Please don't!

If you sweat a lot, wearing polyester is the worst decision you can make!

Not only it makes you sweat more, but it also smells really bad, as compared to wool or even cotton (or linen if you live in a hot area).

Fellow Pole here :)

The author writes: "This time I do not need the research, because I have spent the past year looking for a house. (...) And the Polish loan is the worse product."

I wrote a piece comparing what Poles and Americans say about the housing crisis in social media, you might find it interesting, especially that I tried to compare affordability as well [0].

In short, it seems that:

- Warsaw is even slightly less affordable for its residents than Manhattan - but the Americans seem to be more pissed off by the situation.

That was very surprising to me.

[0] https://rudolf.observer/en/posts/who-complains-more-on-housi...

"Lonesome Dove" was the most surprising book in years for me - I do not like westerns, and that book is a western - but guess what: I loved it!

One of the best books and simply the best imho in its genre.

If you do go the box-set route, you might want to be careful about which editions you buy.

Alec from Technology Connections[0] about a year ago put out a video detailing frustrating trend: many modern DVD box-set re-releases of popular series are being quietly downgraded in quality.

Basically publishers are taking content originally authored for dual-layer discs and cramming it onto cheaper single-layer discs to cut costs. The result is aggressive over-compression, terrible macroblocking, and sometimes outright playback issues.

It really sucks: you try to do the "right thing" by paying for a legitimate, physical copy to own your media and you end up getting ripped off with crap.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzz_d9Y44ZE

UBI as a fuel to grow economy? That's first time I hear such a preposterous sentence.

Care to explain how it would work in practice?

So you're saying limiting the number of doctors work better?

Speaking from Poland, we see the same outcome: doctors rushing patients out after 5 minutes. The reasons may be different, though: since COVID, many doctors here have, in my view, become more arrogant and focused on money. Over the past few months, an uproar over doctors’ pay has swept through Polish social media.

Reports have emerged of doctors billing for overlapping work under multiple contracts. In one case, a doctor’s records showed 72 hours of work in a single day!

Meanwhile, the Polish Chamber of Physicians and Dentists (NIL) continues to defend caps on medical school admissions, adding fuel to the national debate.

> It’s also in my opinion a poorly designed language but that also makes it “interesting” because its behavior is sometimes hard to predict.

Following this logic, any broken device is equally interesting as its behavior is sometimes hard to predict, isn't it?

imho the only kind of acceptable 2-lane roundabout is a turbo-roundabout: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundabout#Turbo_roundabouts

I see what you did here - you assumed sapient animals HAVE to create technological civilization, didn't you?

Maybe they are sapient - you know, like the dolphins from the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy :)

> China has stricter regulations on models than the US. For example you can't release a model if the hallucination rate is above a certain threshold.

I wasn't aware of that, so I checked - and indeed, there are some firm regulations there, just not exactly the one you're describing:

- a new generative AI must pass a security assessment and be filed with the "Cyberspace Administration of China" before launch, tested against GB/T 45654-2025, which has hard numeric thresholds:

training corpus ≥96% compliant on manual inspection (≥98% technical), sources with >5% illegal/harmful content can't be collected at all, generated content ≥90% pass rate, ≥95% refusal on questions that must be refused, ≤5% false refusals.

The moment in which hallucination factors into this hard 90% threshold is Risk A.5.a ("inaccurate content grossly inconsistent with scientific knowledge"). The standard explicitly states however, that this risk applies when the model is used for specific service types with higher safety requirements, such as critical information infrastructure, automatic control, medical information services, psychological counseling, and financial information services. Everywhere else, accuracy is a best-effort obligation.

source: https://cset.georgetown.edu/publication/china-gen-ai-safety-...

Wait, so you're taking ~26 pictures every single day for the last 25 years?

You know, I would also love to see 60fps, but let's wait till the premiere, and then - just show me the list of games with that level of details and rich world running 60fps on machines like xbox or ps5.

I think that's something younger players are looking for ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Anyway, I - as an old chap - am still going to have fun playing!

Yeah, there was a great discussion here on making ads illegal, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43595269

I don't get it about the isometric mode allergy - I personally love such games and feel I'm not the only one.

For Syndicate I tried Satellite Reign - it was ~10 years ago, and despite great graphics back then, I was disappointed by the fact you couldn't even drive cars (where it was a possibility in 1993!); bummer!

So if anyone knows a better title - I'd likely give it a try!

Wait, but you compare the cost of animated show or a movie which is in its final, acceptable quality!

The cost of that $15 per 30sec is NOT FINAL - you'll pretty much end up deciding you want another take - either due to some inconsistencies, non-physical movements, or anything else, which screams "that's fake".

So the cost is most probably much higher; how much higher? We don't really know, as there are virtually no acceptable shows created by that tool yet (until there is something I don't know about).

Now look at the same metric per capita - USA immediately loses its 1st place.

That's not what the article is about. The author describes using AI Note takers in PRIVATE meetings :)

That's astonishing for me, first time I hear about such a practice