skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While we all live under constant surveillance and are treated as a suspect for crimes past and future by our government, in the end it's looking like it wasn't the spy drones, or facial recognition AI, or the internet data collection that caught this guy, and instead it was just some random dude at a McDonald's who recognized him and called the police. Same basic tactic that's worked for ages. No fancy spy stuff needed.
> We can achieve policy goals the old fashioned way. We choose not to. You want insurance reform? Vote in someone that will do it.

Vote for who? There are two viable parties and neither supports insurance reform.
A bunch of drywall around it?
I tried an image of a F-117 stealth bomber from wikipedia. The output was a complete fail, to the point where I have no idea how they managed to generate the examples on their project page. The basic silhouette was completely inaccurate.

I was hoping you could upload several images from different angles to help it, but that doesn't appear to be a feature.
> If it’s as difficulty to put out as EV’s

EVs do not all share the same battery chemistry. Many have LFP batteries, and these are common for home batteries too. You can go on YouTube and see people drilling into an LFP battery with only a little smoke to show for it.
> But if the algorithm responds equally well to highly engaging posts from team A and team B, then ultimately the algorithm is fair, there's a level playing field. Would I prefer it if it boosted boring academic papers about nothingburgers that nobody will ever read? I suppose so, but clickbait is the content humanity wants to engage with, regardless of medium. It's up to each team to make sure that their comms are written in a way that cuts through the noise, like with any other form of marketing.

That assumes it's possible to have a "fair" algorithm.

As I don't want to make a point about specific parties, call them Team Purple and Team Mauve.

If Purple voters tend to press "share" and Mauve voters tend to comment with a link back to the original, and the algorithm favours shares, should Mauve adjust their comms strategy, or should the maker of the algorithm adjust the algorithm? And what happens if, even with the best will in the world, both update at the same time and therefore Mauve gets more and more out of sync?

But even then, marketing is a game of "who has the most money" — one dollar one vote, rather than one person one vote.
Right. Transparency is a really important aspect of a functioning democracy. Without it, there’s less and less separating democracy from authoritarianism
Metal/comic band released a new single as ... github repo of all things.

Link to the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yup8gIXxWDU
My mistake, my mistake.

It seems I had my Antimatter confused with mah Dark matter.

Antimatter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter

Dark matter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter

Antimass:

I and the Internet have never heard of antimass.

Negative mass:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_mass

Dark energy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_energy

Dark fluid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_fluid :

> Dark fluid goes beyond dark matter and dark energy in that it predicts a continuous range of attractive and repulsive qualities under various matter density cases. Indeed, special cases of various other gravitational theories are reproduced by dark fluid, e.g. inflation, quintessence, k-essence, f(R), Generalized Einstein-Aether f(K), MOND, TeVeS, BSTV, etc. Dark fluid theory also suggests new models, such as a certain f(K+R) model that suggests interesting corrections to MOND that depend on redshift and density
Indeed, when the alternative was to be a nobody, on the lam, for the rest of his life.
Maybe? Thatʻs fairly obvious.
That sounds like a good life lesson right there.
There's going to be sooo much stuff that's set up that way in their future unless they don't buy into it.
More or less lays out his motive right there.

I disagree with his thoughts on violence. When you try to solve a problem by inviting violence to dinner you'll find you have a guest you are unable to excuse.
Sorry, but you're simply wrong. You can read the answer I gave. You can read the answer Colin Wright gave. You can trust that we both have math degrees and know what we are talking about. Or, aw heck, you can try it with an actual program at https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=39630. (Yes, I wrote that piece of hackery about a decade ago.)

I don't actually care how you convince yourself. But the explanation is right. If your random number is outside of the range, you've got even odds. If it is inside of the range, you've got 100% odds. As long as there is a positive probability of being between, you've got strictly better than even, by half of the probability of being between.

Many, many distributions guarantee positive odds of being in between. The one I chose for my program was:

(log(rand) * (flip_coin() ? 10 : -10 ))

Which is the log of a random number between 0 and 1, times 10 times + or - with even odds. The various factors were chosen to fit well with normal human choices that most seek to test it with.
Traffic is caused by cars. The cheapest, easiest, fastest way to fix traffic problems is fewer cars. More bikes means fewer cars.

And Doug Ford can't claim that it won't work in Toronto because it worked in Montreal.
mp3s are starting to turn up at the bottom of the ocean too
The difference is you can extinguish a fuel fire by smothering it. Deny it oxygen and it can't combust. When you do that with a battery fire, it just flares back up as soon you stop smothering it
Is this a "guns don't kill" argument ?

Microsoft Word and Excel aren't generative tools. If Excel added a new headline feature to scan your financial sheets and auto-adjust the numbers to match what's expected when audited, you bet there would be backlash.

And regarding scrutiny, morphine is a immensely usefulness tool and it's use surely extremely monitored.

On the general point, our society values intent. Tools can just be tools when their primary purpose is in line with our values and they only behave according to the user's intent. AI will have to prove a lot to match both criteria.
No need for conspiracy here. I'd be surprised at this point if McDonald's wasn't running that type of software on all their cameras 24/7 and using to better profile their customers. Is there actually a law against it? There should be, but is there? It likely isn't hard and I am positive the data could be useful to them in many ways so if they aren't then it would only be because they thought it wasn't legal.
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Is it your belief that UHC could have approved every denied claim and paid for these out of their 6% profit margin?

This seems at odds with the numbers I have seen shared here.
If not, what do you think would happen if UHC lost money by paying out every claim that they previously denied? Is there an alternative to charging everyone much higher premiums?

Are you saying a government-run insurance company could be run more efficiently, and collect the same amount in premiums yet somehow pay out more in claims?

Do you think it is moral for UHC to deny _any_ claims because they are for treatments which are not medically necessary, or too expensive given the potential benefits? Should UHC pay $1M of policyholders premiums for a risky liver transplant for a chronic alcoholic who is still drinking?

If you accept it is moral for UHC to deny some claims, how do you know that UHC's policies around denying claims (which led to their 6% profit margin) are actually wrong? Because you read some articles with anecdotes about people's bad experience with them?
This is a factually incorrect statement, Joe Lieberman killed the public option not "doctors."

At least blame the right people.

Also FWIW every doctor I know supports universal healthcare, granted most of them are under the age of 40 but you're foolish if you all doctors believe the same thing.
The History of Slipping on Banana Peels [video]
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He gave the Unabomber’s manifesto four stars on Goodreads, and described Unabomber as a "political revolutionary".

Excerpts from his review:

"It’s easy to quickly and thoughtless write this off as the manifesto of a lunatic, in order to avoid facing some of the uncomfortable problems it identifies. But it’s simply impossible to ignore how prescient many of his predictions about modern society turned out."

"He was a violent individual - rightfully imprisoned - who maimed innocent people. While these actions tend to be characterized as those of a crazy luddite, however, they are more accurately seen as those of an extreme political revolutionary."

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/luigi-mang...
>I have the book still but the CD is long gone and so is owning a CD rom drive.

https://github.com/SamKomesarook/The-Csound-Book
Microsoft is more evil than Enron? Than the company that faked blood tests? This is some pretty extreme hyperbole. I’d pick Google over Microsoft for one.
Hey there. This project isn't posted publicly anywhere at the moment—it's a very idiosyncratic one-of-one sort of deal.

For one thing, while I know Python a little bit, I much prefer to write Lisp. But the Textual [0] library is for Python and nothing else seems to even compete in the same space. So my "outlook-explorer" ("oe" on my command line) is actually written in Hy [1], a Lisp-y syntax swap that emits Python AST objects. And there's a couple places where I just hard-coded my own info, like the email address I'm using it with in order to pull from the right inbox in Outlook, that would need some kind of user-facing and reasonably user-friendly config options before it'd be ready for general consumption.

Have you thought about making your own bespoke one-of-one thing? I got much further than I expected to in only a couple hours. It was already basically functional in three hours, I think, and I came to the table with no prior experience using Textual.

[0] https://textual.textualize.io/

[1] https://hylang.org/
Not two bad filters, just one. The mainstream media is not acknowledging what is going on in social media. One is a vox that can be target of suggestion, the other is outright instruction. So mainstream media will never be a good indicator of what people think and social media sometimes can be. It's important to ask: "who would feel the assassination is bad? Why would they feel that way? Who would share those principles?" I think the answers at the end point towards the assassination being a popular act. That should be raising hairs.
Indeed.
I regard wind turbines as striking kinetic sculptures in the landscape.
> One of the most glaringly broken things about society is that abuse of power is not punished harshly enough.

Maybe it's just me getting older but it seems like this has always been true across cultures and history. People like to believe that once they get power, they will act differently than the ones who came before. But in the overwhelming majority of cases, they end up being just like the people they replaced, if not worse.

Every once in a while you get an exception but that's why we remember those people - because they were the exception.
My dream was to be able to use VR glasses and something like Samsung dex for an ultra portable coding workstation.

I bought a pair of Viture Pro glasses, but they were pretty unusable for coding for me. Maybe for watching videos would have been OK but not typing / needing to read all areas of the screen.
Same here. Him and other tech channels have really gotten me interested in how really amazing tech works. From semiconductor and mems design, to uhv and xhv.

Hope I can one day explore my passion and curiosity on these issues like I see so many doing.
Exactly. I don't think anyone in the media commenting on this ever worked in the service industry and therefore doesn't understand the obvious.
There are two people that smart in every NYC subway car during rush hour.
With the ubiquity of cameras, tracking, I suspect any murder can be solved if we are suitably motivated.
30 points higher than the average person on HN!
Pray, what private citizens operate ICBMs?
> but you can’t just have a tank, fighter jet, or ICBM.

?? You 100% can in the USA it just costs a lot of money.
Shart taters
Now I'm feeling really paranoid about finding a McDonald's ordering kiosk broken mid-software-update on Friday 6th: I bet that was when they were updating the facial recognition tech to spy and track everyone walking past. :p
Itch.io's mom? Like... the site??

What in the world?
It's a little disingenuous to jump to "we don't want new stuff" when people voice criticism of deepfake generators or AI models trained on stolen content
The same basic rags-to-richest pattern was true for most US citizens a century ago, and no we're now objectively some of the richest people in the world. But despite this progress, US politics does not indicate that the US populace is deeply satisfied. Which leads to the real question: will the CCP still be as popular when material progress plateaus?
I find the video in the article really interesting. This person is clearly an adult and is crying while discussing the robot's future "death" with it. She's clearly quite attached despite the robot being quite inhuman with sub par text to speech.

This company is a take the money and run type of operation. No subscription plan and I doubt the API fees were making a huge part of their obscene profit. They would have eventually, but clearly they were not going to wait that long.
There's a big difference between compensating skilled professionals for their work and running healthcare as a profit-maximizing business. Doctors deserve fair compensation for their expertise and time, just like any other skilled professional.

The issue with for-profit healthcare isn't about individual compensation - it's about corporate entities having the power to make sweeping decisions that affect access to healthcare. When large healthcare companies control substantial market share, they can unilaterally raise prices or restrict coverage in ways that leave patients with few alternatives. Unlike choosing a different doctor, patients often can't easily switch insurance providers or hospital systems, especially in emergencies or in areas with limited options.
So he meticulously planned the rest of the murder, disappeared for almost a year before now, and we are to believe that everything he did in the last year was NOT also staged?

Come on.
What benchmark is being referred here?

>>Willow performed a standard benchmark computation in under five minutes that would take one of today’s fastest supercomputers 10 septillion (that is, 1025) years — a number that vastly exceeds the age of the Universe
Considering intellectual property doesn't exist, I wouldn't fault him for not knowing anything about its fundamentals.
Then you realise that trying to quantitatively test intelligence only goes so far :D
Maybe this is the straw that breaks childhood's back, but they've said the same about every boogeyman since the 19th century. "The real problem is that parents are giving children [books → radio → comic books → rock music → television → video games → D&D → rap music → computers → internet → smartphones → social media → toy that uses AI], not [the actual problem]."
Since when is it "chinese telephone" and not just "telephone"?
I work with professional artists all the time and this is not the case. They're generally quite good at extrapolating from a couple paragraphs into something fantastic, often exactly what I had in mind.

In comparison I've messed around with prompting image generator models quite a bit and it's not possible to get remotely close to the quality level of even rough paid concept work by a professional, and the credits to run these models aren't particularly cheap.
So are we now concerned with the environment of another universe? Like climate activitist but for multiverses?
I'll look into it if I get the time. Though, would be pretty easy to defeat monopolies in local clinics if we simply had a lot more local clinics, eg by increasing the supply of doctors to what other countries have.

> They're non-profit so they don't have nearly the same incentive to leverage one side of their business to benefit the other.

Most US hospitals are nonprofits, but that doesn't make them behave better. You can still earn and pay out a lot of revenue as a nonprofit.
> Like I suspected, you unfortunately don't have the capacity to see things from another persons perspective.

No, you're just an arrogant piece of work without an ounce of self-reflection in him. Bye.
> primarily to trick Facebook users

You say it like that's not the majority of the web.
Then there needs to be some cost associated with sending a completely false claim.

Doesn’t need to be huge – just enough to cover their cost and thereby make it uneconomical to outsource the work these companies are charging their customers for to their targets.
> And regarding scrutiny, morphine is a immensely usefulness tool and it's use surely extremely monitored.

I went to high school in a fairly affluent area and I promise you this is not true. If you have money and know how to talk to your doctor, you can get whatever you want. No questions asked.

You can even get prescription methamphetamine - and Walgreens will stock generic for it!
But not physicists (at least, scientists), according to the article.

Reminds me of the Salem Hypothesis.
They only care about certain murders.
Plenty of companies research phages. They're just not that great for practical purposes because they are often strain-specific. Bacteria also evolve resistance to them easily.

The USSR's "research" was not great either. It mostly consisted of practical methods of evaluating environmental samples and concentrating/purifying phages.
This has been my thought over and over as this. has been going on. So many people are murdered in this country and this one murder probably got 1000x the resources applied to it compared to the rest. Justice should be impartial so this case makes it look like some people's lives are more important than others.
My car (2023 Honda Civic) apparently has the "slam on the brakes at the last possible instance before crashing into something" feature. I say apparently because how am I going to test it? Glad to say it hasn't false triggered.

The adaptive cruise control has done spurious braking, but not too hard andonly at night when there are lots of oncoming glaring headlights. That's when I wish you could disable the adaptive part, but you can't. The other slightly alarming thing was that after repeatedly observing it slowing all the way to a stop as the car in front does, once it didn't! The car in front braked fairly hard to make a left turn, but then had to wait for oncoming traffic to clear. I wanted to see what ours would do. Slam right into him, that's what (and then had to brake really hard to avoid that). For some reason it missed the cue. So yeah, full driver attention required. That said, adaptive cruise control is a huge boon for stretches of highway with no passing opportunity for 100+ kilometres and loooong convoys behind one 70km/h slowpoke (Highway 7, for Ontarians). Instead of frayed nerves and endless lookout for maybe a queue jumping opportunity... just put on the adaptive cruise control and chill. Works for me.
very interesting. i love the reply; don't mistake my responses as arguments or disagreement - just ideas:

i think Savant was 100% correct and the original stating of the problem was clear enough. it's not really about torturing students or trying to be tricky or edgy - it's meant to be an important lesson about independence in statistics. it's more of an example of the kind of real problems that are torture. statistics is the torture, not the exposition of it...

> content creator in the print media wanted to give an edgy true answer to farm engagement

this was 1975 and the fight didn't break out until 1990. using terms like "content creator", "farm engagement", etc. gives a vibe that i guarantee was not the case at the time. yes, it was meant to be an engaging puzzle, but back then it didn't have those highly negative connotations.

from wiki: "Several critics of the paper by Morgan et al.,[38] whose contributions were published along with the original paper, criticized the authors for altering Savant's wording and misinterpreting her intention"

if anything people with an axe to grind like the Morgan et. al. analysis were the one twisting words around.

as far as instructors (and many other people) having a bad time explaining it, well... that's not a problem with the puzzle is it? bad teachers are a real thing.

for me the very best most direct way to understand the puzzle and the solution is to look at the decision tree diagram next to "Conditional probability by direct calculation" on the wikipedia page [1]. with only 3 doors and 3 possible first choices and a single 2nd chose (switch or not), you can easily fully directly compute every possible scenario. draw that picture 3 times (one for each initial door chosen) and count up the wins and losses for strategy switch vs no-switch.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Mo...
> not to see all the spam their model was making when they did release it.

All replaced by open source LLMs at this point.

Most AI video will be produced by Hunyuan [1], LTX [2], and Mochi [3] in short order. These are the Flux / Stable Diffusion models for generative video. These can all be fine tuned to produce incredible results, and work with the Comfy ecosystem for wildly creative and controllable workflows.

I don't think it'll be possible for a closed source tool to compete with the open image/video ecosystem. Dall-E certainly didn't stay competitive for long. It's a totally different game.

[1] https://github.com/Tencent/HunyuanVideo

[2] https://huggingface.co/Lightricks/LTX-Video

[3] https://github.com/genmoai/mochi
What about virtual particles, too?

Virtual particles:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_particle :

> As a consequence of quantum mechanical uncertainty, any object or process that exists for a limited time or in a limited volume cannot have a precisely defined energy or momentum. For this reason, virtual particles – which exist only temporarily as they are exchanged between ordinary particles – do not typically obey the mass-shell relation; the longer a virtual particle exists, the more the energy and momentum approach the mass-shell relation.
Interesting! I'll have to give this a try. On my framework 16 with the GPU (running Fedora), ollama runs super well and blazing fast, though only smaller models of course. I have 128 GB of system memory though so would love to try it a bigger model in the integrated GPU.

Btw, this is my favorite laptop of all time. Highly recommend it.
Well yeah, I would cry if one of my stuffies got destroyed and it's even less animated than the robot. It being less animated actually helps the attachment because it's more like a pet than a person.

Humans will pack bond with anything.
Do bacteriophages work against cancer?
Homemade incremental programming, part 1: how and why to abolish update code
Well, (allegedly) he got caught due to not boycotting McDonalds, which as a seeming enemy of corporate greed is not the smartest of moves.
And what percentage of the world do you think are engineers/STEM?
Hell no. Try to blend in as much as possible and book it to South America via Mexico or something.
I had to refresh the page for the layout to work correctly on mobile Safari
IIRC the person was being framed as a serial kidnapper/killer to explain a bunch of missing children, with no specific extra motive.

Anyway, here's a video clip of the fictional cops looking at the suspiciously full room of evidence:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpQCiLi_mHg
How do you get a credit score?