skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My question is:

How far does the AI system go… is it behind the AI decision to starve the population of Gaza?

And if it is behind the strategy of starvation as a tool of war, is it also behind the decision to kill the aid workers who are trying to feed the starving?

How far does the AI system go?

Also, can an AI commit a war crime? Is it any defence to say, “The computer did it!” Or “I was just following AI’s orders!”

There’s so much about this death machine AI I would like to know.
on the contrary, we're already well past knee-deep imo. this is simply about Chase playing some relatively benign, intentionally public-facing catch-up (and almost inevitably for less-than-scrupulous purposes like sheer bottom-line at whatever non-economic cost).
This is incredible and would make for an excellent teaching tool! For students it’s generally not helpful just to crash with “invalid access.” They need to be shown where the overflow occurred and ideally what reads/writes caused it.
There is a good reason: it becomes much easier to think about state transitions, because optimistic and “verified” updates both follow the same code path.

I've built a turn-based game that worked this way, where essentially every player and the server contains a copy of the same state machine, and the server determines the order of state updates. Like OP said, once you have the framework in place, it's magic.
> why on earth would we assume that everything that goes on in there maps neatly to the concept of "predict future tokens"?

I have no reason to assume anything, positively or negatively, about the underlying mechanisms in the moist fatty ball of electrochemistry that is a brain.

There is no reason at all, when reading such a reductive description, to expect the qualia of emotion to arise even within my own brain — that it does is known to me, but to all others the question "is Ben a P-zombie?" is outside the realm of the scientific method as we have not yet determined a way to test for the presence/absence of qualia.

Even without making assumptions about mechanisms, "predict future experience and generated signals to maximise what you regard as goodness" seems to be a fundamental task for all brains of all species to perform, and one can map the concept of a token to this — though it may be as wrong as the mapping of any of the other time-series prediction machine learning systems that came before Transformer models (these models are certainly not as sample-efficient as we are).

> And where are the analogues for stuff like emotions, evolutionarily useful chemical processes which actually make us worse at prediction?

Similarly, the value proposition of emotion can be easily simulated by an LLM even if any given model does not[0] possess the qualia. But this is a statement that we don't know, it definitely isn't a yes or a no — it isn't even as good as being an "it depends".

[0] my guess is that none have qualia; but as I say, I have no reason to be confident of this guess, as nobody knows how to test for it or why we ourselves may possess it.
A rather opinionated site with no about page.
I can see NIST setting up station WWVM: "At the tone, 693 hours, 21 minutes, Coordinated Lunar Time."
The Ethics of AI in Military Decision-Making: Unpacking Lavender and Its Impact
For the compiler implementation in Rust, I wonder how practical it is to switch between Latin for the Rust keywords, and Cyrillic for everything else. Do Russian keyboards make that simple (e.g. a modifier key like Ctrl or Alt), or does it involve switching the whole keyboard layout (like for instance switching between German and US layout).

When I spent some time at a Chinese company, at least it was common there to write only the comments and documentation in Chinese, but not the actual program logic (e.g. types, variables, functions etc... were named in English, which made it surprisingly easy for non-Chinese speakers to work on that codebase).
> The differences stack up for say, a 1GB video that becomes viral and triggers terabytes in egress. You pay for 1GB, not terabytes.

Under the condition that you actively monitor the usage and manage to "process it once" on time (and then "process it back"). Because otherwise you pay for terabytes - not in egress fees, but in processing fees. Or am I missing something?
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This is a good place to remind ourselves that we shouldn't let perfect get in the way of good.
So what you're saying is, under this theory, increases in productivity create real improvements in people's purchasing power?

In that case, how do you explain the last 40+ years, where productivity has been skyrocketing, but most peoples purchasing power has remained mostly flat?

Or is it your contention that there is nothing we can do that can increase the purchasing power of regular people under the current system? Because if that's the case, that would be a pretty massive indictment of the system as a whole.
Time to pull out the link to Technology Connections’ excellent video on the subject: https://youtu.be/RSTNhvDGbYI?feature=shared
free cheese is only in a mousetrap ;)
Totally unrelated side note, but I was in car sales for almost a decade and was better than top 1% nationwide basically since the first year. Averaging 34 cars a month when national average is 11.

People always asked for advice and in general my advice was "don't shoot yourself in the foot".

Actual particular style or methods aren't that important because whatever style you have will work on some and not on others, so just keep yourself and your pipeline busy with people that are ok with that style.

But don't mess up in a way to loose people. You don't need the world's best opener. You need an opener that doesn't turn people off.

You don't need to be the best more charismatic person, just don't turn people off.

You don't need to be the world strongest closer, just don't turn people off making them get up and leave.

Stop making mistakes, and the rest is usually fine.
This sounds like it was copied from PostreSQL which SQLite cites as a strong source of inspiration.
Modern versions of macOS also include the "Silom" Thai-language font, which uses Chicago for its Latin glyphs.
Turns out, it, too, was just 1000 dudes in India watching camera footage and clicking things.
If you’re rated 800 online and making 1-2 blunders per game playing blitz, that seems low and it still adds up to 2-4 in a given game.

If you mean longer time controls then that’s definitely helping, but most games are 5 minutes or less simply because players are going to be able to fit far more such games per day. Similarly the average rating is quite low simply because everyone starts terrible and most people quit relatively quickly.
I run a Pi that runs CUPS under Raspbian and exposes the wireless Samsung printer on the same network as a network shared printer. This works from my Android phone, my wife's Windows PC, my wife's iPad, my work MacBook and my Linux laptop. The Samsung printer itself is a dumb ML-2160 series that doesn't support AirPrint.

No need for these idiotic printers.

I think it was as simple as installing CUPS, going to http://localhost:631/admin and enabling "Share printers connected to this system".
It's mostly an Aprils Fools joke, starting with a name.
If anything that reinforces my point that low-rated players aren't losing in a series of constant blunders.
There is the problem of ultra-complex syntax computer languages in the first place like c++, java, now rust and etc.
Getting all these reports about atrocities, I wonder if the conflict in the area has grown more brutal over the decades or if this is just business as usual. I'm in my late 30s, growing up in the EU, the conflict in the region was always present. I don't remember hearing the kind of stories that come to light these days though, indiscriminate killings, food and water being targeted, aid workers being killed. I get that it's hard to know what's real and what's not and that we live in the age of information, but I'm curious how, on a high level, the conflict is developing. Does anyone got a good source that deals with that?
As typical product of russian culture it must include swearing.
It got 98 points in 20 minutes but sure, IDF troll armies.
The name made me laugh.

The compiler command, "хуяк", is a dick-derived obscene word denoting some intense, quick event.
The problem is that this now becomes a long term investment, which doesn't work out when we have CEOs chasing quarterly profits and all that. Meanwhile Nvidia stuck with CUDA all those years back (while ensuring that it worked well on both the consumer and enterprise line) and now they reap the rewards.
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What kind of manipulation is needed?
If a 3 axis or 4d axis system can do the job, that is always much cheaper than a robot arm, for a given precision and load capacity.
So at least they should really work hard to not let a BSOD happen in case of excessive nesting of widgets. The repro case is actually the same than the one for a bug which was fixed 6 years ago, and it is straightforward (just nest enough panels in a modal popup, and close it). It's hard to understand how this could not be caught by a non regression test.
To trust gcc and similar, indeed. Actually insane, to say the least.
I don't think it's just a gate-keeping tool. (Though it certainly has that effect.) We're rapidly approaching a point where, like for many other fields before it, there's just not much interesting amateur work to be done on large models anymore. You need to be affiliated with some sort of institution to get access to the necessary resources.

Maybe theoretical work such as developing fundamentally new neural network architectures that don't need to be proven out with a 7+ figure budget for training the model? But that would be more of a labor of love than a career strategy.
Show HN: AI generator for faceless TikTok videos
Hi there

Several months ago I launched an app called LogoPicture AI. It's a simple app that generates picture in the style of your logo. Last week I sold this app.

It was my first app ever which generated some revenue. But I really struggled with marketing. I tried SEO, TikTok, Twitter - many other things.

And one thing I realized that in marketing you need to be super consistent to win. You need to create a video every day, a post, etc. But I am too lazy for this :))

So, this is how the idea of Cliplama was born. I wanted to automate my marketing. I wanted to create a tool what will do at least some marketing for me. A tool, that will create a popular social account for me and I will be able to funnel its traffic in my apps.

So yeah, this is that Cliplama is about. It helps you to create faceless TikTok or even YouTube channel and just post there videos daily. That's it.

Right now Cliplama is in beta, so there are some bugs for sure. Some features are also missing. But I felt like it's a time to launch it.

Would love to hear your feedback. Thank you!
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/972-magazine/
The programs were so simple back then with almost no abstraction. I can’t even imagine laying out punch cards for a basic web dev project now. It might cover the earth or something.
but what if everything cost the same, like a dollar store?
ETC. Time, etcetera. I like that. There's something poetic about it.
Tomato, Tomato, it has another VM.
If you write a GPU shader in most graphics APIs today you will also not have a stack or heap.
Note that UsePrivilegeSeparation is no longer an option; it is mandatory since OpenSSH 7.5, released seven years ago.
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Creators hardly got paid anything back in the CD era either! Especially new bands that had no experience with the sharks at the record company.

I remember back in the 90s one of the radio countdown shows did a bit on Madonna. They said because she was her own producer, director, manager, etc she cut out all the middlemen and thus earned a much larger share of each album sale.
This is actually a much better option, optimize playing golf and assigning other humans to do your work for you.
Yeah, when you see a Honda CR-V or Toyota Camry driving down the road you know exactly why those people bought those cars, they are one of THEM.
It can be instructed to browse on user behalf, this might be interesting feature presumably
No the AI was the scapegoat for IDF deciding to "target" low-level enemies, then bombing them with bunker-buster 2000lb bombs that leveled entire buildings and city blocks around those targets.

The AI did something, but the IDF used it to justify effectively committing a genocide.
One would hope, but I’ve read all 21 comments in this post and not a single one of them meets your criteria.
> Also, can an AI commit a war crime? Is it any defence to say, “The computer did it!” Or “I was just following AI’s orders!”

It's not that the "AI" described here is an autonomous actor.

> During the early stages of the war, the army gave sweeping approval for officers to adopt Lavender’s kill lists, with no requirement to thoroughly check why the machine made those choices or to examine the raw intelligence data on which they were based. One source stated that human personnel often served only as a “rubber stamp” for the machine’s decisions, adding that, normally, they would personally devote only about “20 seconds” to each target before authorizing a bombing

Obviously all this is to be taken with a grain of salt, who knows if it's even true.
That's a helpful explanation, thank you.
Now removed from the front page even without being labeled as flagged.
guardian references 972 as source for report
Tips for linking shell companies to their secret owners
Just looking inside a modern car door panel should give you some idea why. It's a 3d jigsaw puzzle of door linkages, switches, window lifter, speaker, etc and the metal stamping die to make the inner panel must be insanely complex.

An electric only latch would reduce parts count, simplify assembly, and ease door panel design for a new manufacturer. I'm also strongly in the "keep things mechanical" camp but I see the appeal to engineers making a new model car and wanting to keep things simple.
Indeed, as info, COM is definitely much an actual subject for anyone doing Windows development, just in case anyone thinks it is gone by now.
>While humans select these features at first, the commander continues, over time the machine will come to identify features on its own. This, he says, can enable militaries to create “tens of thousands of targets,”

So overfitting or hallucinations as a feature. Scary.
I like the idea of dense cities, but I think that a lot of YIMBYs go too far and twist facts to fit their narrative. This seems to be one of those posts.
So, if the AI kicks out your name, you're ok with that?
Don’t confuse angellist with the crowdfunding platforms. Crowd funding platforms are used by companies that can’t attract legitimate VC investment, angel list are real VC syndicates that send accredited investors opportunities to invest in specific deals.
> It’s much easier to bomb a family’s home.

Okay, how is this not a war crime?

There are ~2M civilians who live in Gaza, and many of them don't have access to food, water, medicine, or safe shelter. Some of those unfortunates live above, or below, Hamas operatives and their families.

"Oh, sorry, lol." "It was unintentional, lmao, seriously." "Our doctrine states that we can kill X civilians for every hostile operative, so don't worry about it."

The war in Gaza is unlike Ukraine -- where Ukrainian and Russian villagers can move away from the front, either towards Russia or westwards into Galicia -- and where nobody's flattening major population centers. In Gaza, anybody can evidently be killed at any time, for any reason or for no reason at all. The Israeli "strategy" makes the Ukrainians and Russians look like paragons of restraint and civility.
https://www.972mag.com/about/
If you’re 800 FIDE rated over the board you’re not going to be 800 online. You’ll be way above that. I haven’t played in years but I was beating 1200 rated players online as a total beginner. The ratings are not comparable.

A sub-1000 online rated player is frankly a very poor, total beginner at chess, not an enthusiastic club player.
Ford hasn't shipped the F-150 Lightning since Feb 9 due to undisclosed issue
There is a system in place for flagging specific comments by users.

Admins can, and do, prune entire branches of comments off of posts.

These two methods would take a bit more work than just banishing the topic entirely, but with topics like the first time that "AI" kill lists are publicized, maybe exceptions should be made.
This shouldn't be flagged.
Simple Ways AI Can Help You Learn a Language
Besides the people complaining about the flagging, the thread seems just as high-quality as any other HN thread. People are curious, sharing information and personal experiences. If that's low-quality then we might as well restrict HN submissions to press releases from the Fortune 500 only.
How and why we built our expense tracker with CRDTs
Israel's evil keeps taking me by surprise. I guess when people go down the path of dehumanization there are truly no limits to what they are ready to do.

But what is even sadder is that the supposedly morally superior western world is entirely bribed and blackmailed to stand behind Israel. And then you have countries like Germany where you get thrown in jail for being upset at Israel.
Yeah I wish this article had covered how this solution compares to React Server Components as it kind of looks like spaghetti of different techs compared to how next.js streamlines the same problem space into one consistent mental model.
Successful flagging doesn't (just) disable comments, it disables discovery/access.

For a high quality piece of tech-related investigative journalism like this, flagging is simply censorship.
How is this not a genocide?

How are those "acceptable" collateral deaths not war crimes?
Sorry, it's definitely not true that you need to be an expert in LLMs to optimize BLAS kernels. Also, he started working on AI at least five years ago, which is a long time in AI world, probably before Justine Tunney started actually. And he's been optimizing code his whole life.
How do 98 refute a IDF troll army?

It got 98 points but also was flagged multiple times.
The whole point of IA is cheaper storage that is infrequently accessed, and there is a price to accessing it. If you need / want frequent access just use the regular storage class.

All object stores out there have a flavor of IA class with an access fee that should be far lower than the storage class savings for scenarios where you would even consider using this. If you don't want or understand this cost optimization you simply don't use it.
this is a horrific use of ai
No one can seem to get past GPT 4 levels of performance. It’s done.
I was disappointed at the black mirror new season, so I asked gpt to write a new episode synopsis and it was actually more interesting to me than any of the last seasons episodes!

Title: "Retrospect"

In the near future, a tech company called "MemorEase" creates a device named "Retrospect", a neuro-implant that allows individuals to vividly relive past memories. The device grows immensely popular, as people enjoy the nostalgic journeys back in time.

The protagonist, Jill, is a middle-aged woman who's struggling with the recent loss of her husband, Max. She decides to get the implant to relive her precious memories with him.

However, as she revisits her past, she starts noticing anomalies - small discrepancies in her memories. Certain scenes play out differently, some events she doesn't remember at all, and in others, Max behaves in ways she doesn't recall.

Jill contacts MemorEase, and they reassure her that Retrospect can't alter memories, it merely reveals them in their truest form. Jill grows paranoid and starts investigating. She finds a forum of other Retrospect users who have experienced similar anomalies.

Jill and her forum friends uncover that Retrospect is actually accessing the collective memory of its users, amalgamating all the memories into a unified version of the past. They find that MemorEase is subtly influencing this collective memory to rewrite history, shaping public opinion and manipulating power dynamics for unknown reasons.

They decide to expose MemorEase but face the dilemma of convincing a society that trusts the "reality" presented by Retrospect more than their own recollections. The episode ends on a suspenseful note, with Jill and her group preparing to disrupt a major MemorEase event, planning to wake the public up to the manipulation they've been subjected to.

https://mleverything.substack.com/p/we-should-just-let-gpt-w...
They increased the anticipated seismic loads and also reinforced the structure accordingly. I don’t think any NPP has been scrutinized to the extent that Diablo has been.
Did you tune the file descriptor limits?
I am interested in your feedback but to fight back a little... The title image is a Menger Sponge, the ShaderToy link is an animated journey of the article*, and the article itself contains ~35 images.

Maybe I should have frontloaded more images?

*It's fully embedded on my personal blog here: https://lucodivo.github.io/menger_sponge.html

Edit: I think I see what you're talking about. Maybe I should be explaining/showing briefly what a Menger Sponge is?

Edit 2: Added a tiny section at the top with a couple pictures describing what a Menger Sponge is. Much appreciated.
Damn, some people really don't want anyone to see this
Well, the company is about to go under so the cars are now at fire sale prices.

My guess is that Fisker and others thought that the market would be much larger, Tesla wouldn't be able to ramp up their production that quickly, and battery prices would have dropped faster. Fisker gets a little bit of a pass since it's from a CEO who tried to sell EVs back in 2009, and may be living in that same mindset.
Elon is not that smart. He's an anomalously hard worker. He can focus on one thing for 18 hours a day, seven days a week, for years. That's his super power. I think he's made a lot of impressive accomplishments, and he certainly keeps a lot of smart people on his teams, but his intelligence never played an outsize role in his success
If we just discovered these giant mountains then what are the chances we will find a new “deepest point”?
Hi! I'm interested in the Business Analyst role you have open - is there an email I can send my resume to? Thanks in advance!
> Why is it barbarism?

Because the civilian death toll far outweighs the militant casualties?
Yeah, good idea! I'm not sure if you would be successful mixing LoRA + functional tokens. If you could, that would be great. Then You could ship very light LoRA packs with repositories.

Their LoRA training was I think against their finetuned model, not Gemma-2B directly. But, seems worth playing with -- could be super useful.
The total pie has absolutely grown. There were a little under 1 billion US album sales in 2000 (the peak of CDs). Spotify alone paid around $3.5B in royalties in the US last year (with similar #s for apple music and a bit less for YT music).

I suspect the disconnect comes from
a) a big increase in the # of artists
b) artists trying to compare apples to oranges #s as though every stream would've been an album/MP3 sale
c) the timeline of revenues: an album sale is a big cash flow shortly after the album release, but streaming revenue is a slow trickle as users gradually discover the album, listen, re-listen, etc