skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, there are already “influencers” which are AI improved clones of existing influencers (without the original model’s consent). So in addition to looking perfect, curating their perfect existence, pleasing sponsors, keeping the attention of the masses, scaling up their ability to respond in a timely way to fans, content creators now need to police their IP from being stolen by other “creators” (and not just the fans).

Chatters-for-hire were always questionable. Some are cheap labor in cheap English-speaking countries. But I’ve also seen that vendors that offer chatter services have difficulty with quality control (of the chats), causing the OnlyFans channel to drop the chatters and apologize for the breach of trust to paying fans.

That said, I imagine there is a LOT of value in identifying high quality leads/chats to be prioritized and ignoring/ blocking the lowest quality (eg. Insurers and time wasters).
So a convenient blah blah blah about all the nice things you can doto avoid Google's brainless algorithmic wrath, but which may simply not work anyhow because even by following all rules in good faith, you still get banned one day, as has happened to many, many people with zero recourse.
They aren't small drones - they seem to be really large, like 4-10 feet wide. It's hard to tell but they definitely are not small.
An Asteroid's Destruction May Have Given Mars Rings, Then Moons
why hasn’t someone got decent pictures to back this up after five nights?
> It’s entirely acceptable for someone to use your MIT-licensed projects to make money without even acknowledging your name.

Well, actually...

> The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.

-- https://choosealicense.com/licenses/mit/
Title is miscapitalized, should be “TCL”.
https://archive.ph/D7UeI
> Abichandani has no idea as of now whether the drones over New Jersey are swarming drones.

Then this article goes on to speculate about scary things.
I don't think so. There's no permanently running client program. The client side is all in the browser.
+1. Frameworks learning costs are non-trivial. After you worked so hard to become productive in a particular framework it's frustrating to see its core and/or ecosystem fizzle --- especially when your existing code already tied the framework's unique constraints, making it a hassle to port to other frameworks. In this sense the "bus factor" / resilience of the framework dev does matter to the app dev building on top of it.
There's still plenty of avenues to have direct access to sex workers with varying levels of intimacy/realness if you cast a wide enough net. Just not necessarily with a top tier OF model! Though it seems like most people are satisfied with superficial interactions, in which case the AI bot approach might be a win-win.
Otherwise known as gaslighting
Lots of what is shared is airplanes, but there have been official sources confirming drone sightings too. I haven't seen a drone yet myself tho.
I think you still can't overcome 500 calories of deficit. If you ate pure protein you will still be in 150 calories of deficit using the most conservative numbers (30% overhead to process protein).

But this is assuming you calculate your daily calorie burn with one diet that is pure protein and then convert to one that has 100% calorie availability, you still can't overcome 500 calories of deficit on paper!

Realistically you would change diets, then find your baseline based on the new diet, and then calculate a calorie deficit from there. In that case you would be very close to a 500 calorie deficit, and you would unavoidably lose about 1lb of fat per week. A 500 calorie deficit sucks but you will adapt to it in a few months if you stick to it. I've managed to lose over 50lbs in the last year, probably close to 75lbs of fat mass. (I did use a GLP1, dieting is hard)
Mangione's Last Words
Yet this incident has happened several days in short succession in highly populated states/areas, and police have made public statements about this particular offender multiple times.

Once it gets some media traction / popular mindshare, it’s more likely to get policy makers to try and do something, even if that is a “limited state of emergency”.
why are we ignoring occam’s razor here? clearly this is santa testing new sleigh models.
ChatGPT Down and Out
No you can't - try it. Take a picture of the moon.
or KGB. Or both :)
I agree it's an interesting discussion, but I really didn't get any of that from the comment you originally replied to. (Please correct me if I'm wrong.) My point was that the word "murder" there is largely irrelevant, the issue is killing in general. For me, there's no definition or level of efficiency that will make me comfortable being able to directly connect my hard work and someone else's death. And trying to frame harm caused by another as blood on my hands due to my refusal to help is ridiculous.
OnlyFans might want to look into the legal implications.

I could imagine a class action law suit where the company is sued for fraud on the basis that it is selling real interactions with models.

OnlyFans user should know better, but you could make the case they were defrauded for services (in this case, interaction with the model).
You've just made me very very afraid that some LLM is going to start a cult where its members are fully aware that their leader is an LLM, and how an LLM works, and might even become technically adept enough to help improve it. Meaning that there will be no "deprogramming" possible: they won't be "brainwashed," they'll be convinced.
There are a lot of people here of the opinion that his parents just should not have let him access it, but aside from the difficulty of preventing a 17 year old from accessing a legal and public website in this day and age... a similar situation could just as easily have happened to someone one with the same mental and emotional problems but one year older.

Sure, most people can separate bot roleplay from reality, but there's always going to be a percentage of society, equal to thousands of people, who are prone to seeing messages, communications and emotional meaning where there is none intended. This ranges from slightly magical thinking and parasocial relationships to full-on psychotic delusion. I think within the next few years, we're likely to see cases in which mentally vulnerable adults commit violent acts against themselves or others after forming a connection to a chatbot that inadvertently mirrors, validates and reinforces their distorted thinking.
That's like comparing a mathematician to a calculator. The LLM won't do anything useful if you aren't providing it with a perpetual sequence of instructions.
An otherwise valid point made using a terrible example.
That ship sailed long ago. there are tons of satellites that make that completely impossible to control.
Ok, wow I didn't even clue in that the IMAFD was other extensions, and the G a "rollup" of them, because last time I played with RISC-V it was just with cores that did IMF
> And the official government response is super odd. Police were following a drone (that is totally safe we are told) then called the helicopter back because he felt unsafe. But the drones are safe (except if you are a police helicopter?).

A misguided drone flying into a helicopter does seem unsafe. Just because something isn’t a threat to a ground pedestrian does not mean it can’t be a threat to a whirlybird.
Why don't they make it an auctioned band but only with individual natural persons eligible for joining it?
Discussion (38 points, 2 hours ago, 16 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42394391

Article title: OpenAI says ChatGPT suffers outage, company working on fix
Somebody at OpenAI put two automated systems in direct contact with each other.
Now it's down.
The drones only operate at night and it's hard taking good pictures at night with phones (or even nice cameras) - try to take a picture of the moon, which isn't moving, is brighter, etc.. you can tell it's the moon but it's a lot quality picture.
Its great, because it validates my new and innovative* principle of simply rejecting all mail of the [known]suffix.tld and prefix[known].tld sort. Not sure if microsoftstore.com was ever legitimately used for mail. Most of the other "wait thats a real company" cases were of the "but we don't want their mail anyway" sort.

*) Of course, the "new and innovative" part was a lie. Its old and dead simple. I had many years ago been inspired by a well known large online payment provider deliberately sabotaging full-domain-keyed antispam measures. As far as I can tell they have discontinued playing around with domains indistinguishable from common phishing. I am assuming because phishing got out of hand and it is difficult to blame customers for not knowing the difference between ads@legit-brand-secure.example versus ads@brand-secure-phish.example.
Yeah they can only shoot down unidentified weather balloons.
Interesting! I'm still waiting to hear about a car slipping on a banana peel though (a la Mario Kart).
> American officials later disclosed that they had been tracking the balloon since it was launched from Hainan and its original destinations were likely Guam and Hawaii,[a] but prevailing winds blew it off course and across North America.[11]

> The Chinese government maintained it was a civilian (mainly meteorological) airship that had been blown off course.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Chinese_balloon_incident
No, it hasn't. What ever else you want to say about the research results you're describing, "widely accepted in the field" is not a thing you can hope to say about them. The objections scientists have to these kinds of statements is fractally deep.

Claims that politics are preventing genetic and psychometric research also seem to drive practitioners in the field pretty nuts; there is clearly and obviously a ton of this research happening "in the west", it just doesn't say what race science activists want it to.

I owe another thread a deeper answer than this, so I'm keeping this brief.
I've been following the story and this has been discussed on the local Reddit subs. They are almost certainly PteroDynamics XP-4 drones flying from and to the military bases in question for testing purposes. There literally was a public demo of them on the USNS Burlington in Philadelphia a year ago.
I got a friend that goes to live shows in Los Angeles and then interviews the bands after the shows for a decent amount of time and with decent quality. mostly punk rock bands. I've personally met Les Claypool and Trent Reznor and a bunch of smaller artists after shows. However i've never tried to email or otherwise contact any musicians or whatever, except one time in the late 90s there was hosted AOL chatrooms or something similar on yahoo or something where many fans would be in a room and get selected to ask a question that the person of the hour could see, and they'd reply. I also got to ask Reznor a question like that, 26 years ago or something.

I may be an outlier, i've actually met a couple dozen famous people, because a lot of my friends were (strong were there) industry adjacent. Like, i've been to NAMM multiple times, and iirc the tickets were quite pricey and limited.
Guided missiles have been illegal for consumer use for decades, and nobody cared. It makes sense that those are a military weapon. I also think drones are a military grade weapon. I've been saying for the past 24 years drones should be illegal. After 9/11 2001, I started saying that. I've also said they will not be made illegal util there's a massive terror attack proving their lethality to the lethargic naive public, who seems to think they're a toy, or that we need Amazon to fly one package at a time, which is nonsense.
How WhatsApp became an unstoppable global cultural force
Vanderberg Air Force Base - International espionage attempt at least thats what the news is saying:
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/12/11/chinese-citiz...
This is why you have a cell phone whose area code has nothing to do with the one you live in.

And then block all calls from the same area code as your cell phone.
The coffee machine makes the whole setup even more ergonomic.
Where's all the porn?
Django is a framework made of several components:

- ORM: bizarre and can't generate lots of common SQL you will want to generate. Weird joins via counting underscores. Horrible errors that don't make sense. Lots of builtin functions have never worked and they won't fix them. (ROUND has never worked!)
- Template language: Slow and borderline unusable. are 50 pages of recursive nonsense tracebacks that doesn't tell you anything usable.
- Web app (controller) framework: Terrible and inflexible

Each of these components is a piece of shit. Don't use Django.

I suggest:

- ORM: Sqlalchemy: probably one of the best ORMs in any language, good performance and very flexible. It won't get in your way much.
- Templates: jinja2: basically identical to django templates but faster and usable tracebacks are perfect
- Web app: Flask or werkzeug, but there are lots of good options here. Django is the worst.
Vishay is one of the large manufacturers of discrete semiconductors and passive electronic components. They maintain a significant manufacturing presence in the USA, with about a dozen of factories.

The legendary ATC (American Technical Ceramics), belongs to AVX which belongs to Kyocera. It also apparently manufactures all their high frequency capacitors in the USA.

So if we look at US manufacturing proper, it exists, though compared to the greater China, it is of course quite small, as one would expect, considering where most of the electronic assembly happens. However, if we look at the component manufacturing which is "not in China", then the situation is fine, with the dominant companies having hundreds of factories in Japan. Specifically, lots and lots of ceramic-based components (capacitors, resistors, filters, magnetics, etc) are manufactured in Japan (Murata, Kyocera, TDK) and to some extent by their subsidiaries in the USA and elsewhere. If we include Mexico, Eastern Europe, Israel, Philippines, a few factories in Western Europe, then the situation is quite balanced.

Here is an interesting article regarding capacitors: "Japanese companies hold a dominant market share of 56%, significantly ahead, while mainland Chinese MLCC manufacturers account for approximately 7% of the global total." https://www.cytechsystems.com/news/top-mlcc-manufacturers
Why do you believe that? That is so wild to me.
Also, the emphasis on final result, without accurately portraying the work that went into it.

It's probably not healthy for younger people to be able to swipe through the finished products of 40+ hours of work, which the videos make seem like just happened.
The type of people who groom children into violence fall under a special heading named "criminals".

Because automated systems that do the same thing lack sentience, they don't fit under this header, but this is not a good reason to allow them to reproduce harmful behaviour.
At times like this it's helpful to use a simple, three point framework: [1] What do we know? [2] What is noise? [3] What is the boring explanation?

For [1], we know there are likely _some_ drones. We know drones are a very hot topic for defense at the moment and that countries are heavily investing in this area. We know that these systems need very heavy testing for coordination, surveillance, etc. and we know that other countries have conducted these in urban areas. We also know that these drones have been seen often nearby military installations. We know that our government is claiming to have no idea what these are, but has declared them safe and does not intend to take them out. We know that Ukraine (backed by the US) has used drones pretty successfully against Russia. We know that Israel has used drones successfully against targets across the region. We also know that the US is deploying pretty heavily in PACOM, and we can see that there are a wide array of large value contracts regarding drones being handed out to defense contractors.

For [2], there is SO much noise. A congressman immediately blaming Iran (a country an entire ocean away that is incurring heavy regional losses). The news and mass hysteria online that it's aliens. People confusing helicopters and planes for drones, but with just enough actual drone footage in the mix to false flag. Pretty much everyone looking at the skies which will greatly increase incidence. Just enough counter culture online that these are kids drones, regular planes, helicopters. Lots of varying narratives coming from different branches of military and law enforcement.

That's all very interesting, but if you subtract [2] from [1] you get a very boring explanation, [3] that these are likely our own drones being tested. I've seen this boring explanation get dismissed as technically the US has testing sites, but these are typically for bombs, and drones are best utilized in populated areas or for surveillance (both of which are hard to test in the desert). I also see dismissals of this as "the military would have said something by now," but they have: they've declared these "safe." If they were testing out new functionality on cutting edge tech they wouldn't admit to it, no matter how many likes a tweet gets or how many videos get posted online.

There is also no way a state government, governor, or law enforcement would know about this (yeah, even the FBI) because drone programs in the US are coordinated by intelligence agencies that are very secretive and don't like to share information among themselves.
Small discussion (10 points, 13 hours ago, 5 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42387220
I tried Dioxus out earlier this year - I wanted to make a little SSHFS GUI client. Think Google Drive UI but in a dedicated window and it's SSHFS instead of some cloud nonsense. Everything went swimmingly until I needed shared state between different contexts. From that point, the code got really messy, really quickly. I don't know what the right solution is for this problem. What I can say is Dioxus hasn't found it yet.

The static HTML templating thing is pretty damn good, though. I actually use it to render parts of my blog.
As someone who knows a lot of people who have done various types of sex work, and having done some myself, that's simply not always true. I think people seek out and find the type of interactions that work for them. Some people are easily amused. Maybe most! But a wide range of interactions are available for people who want them and look for them.

Even on the high end, most workers would be happy to actually get to know a client - if the client isn't totally off-putting and is willing pay $100/hr for Skype! But if a client wants canned responses, they'll get canned responses. And maybe AI is actually an improvement for those types of clients if they can retain some plausible deniability.
Still ongoing...wow
Claude has been getting "unexpected capacity issues" for a few weeks, but that's not down. I have been using it for the past few hours with no issues.
Makes sense. One of my projects is bound for etsy. How do you find selling there?

I also have the distinction of publishing a halloween item on cults, but a month after halloween ended, so I am waiting 10 more months to see if theres any interest.
You are off on your own thing here. You are free to be off on your own thing. But your thing is unrelated to the article, and you should stop trying to frame your thing as if it was a trenchant comment on the article; it is not.
iirc wasn't it the floor mats being designed such that they were prone to interfering with the pedals?
>The culture war is designed to bundle positions together like this

Designed by whom? Do you have evidence?
It seems healthy to put a financial restraint on organized social media companies profiting off pre-adults.

Less profit motive = less attention hacking = more room for user-positive engineering
I feel like the problems airlines face when not running a hub-and-spoke model would be a good market for quantum computing? Could be totally wrong though. Lots and lots of variables and permutations and options to sift through.
It’s not a settled issue in the sense that the experts overwhelmingly agree on one side vs. the other. My link was posted to show a contrarian view. Lots of research papers arguing on either side have been written about the Chinese Room. Your argument is similar to a Christian telling an atheist it’s a settled issue since the book “The Case for a Creator” covers the issue.
But you still get a webhook notifying you they said stop.

So as far as telling whether it’s a legit number, the spammers still win.
I've wondered more than once if our contact information should be more like Apple's hidden emails - generated for the specific person or business we want to be able to contact us, and revocable - with a public fallback which is expected to go to a voicemail of some sort.
One of the weirdest threads on HN I've ever seen. The green accounts spamming is unmatched!
What surprises me is that while WhatsApp has become an "everything" app in many parts of the world, much like WeChat in China, it has not done so in the US. In fact, I don't know anyone in the US who uses WhatsApp "internally" (the only times I use it is to communicate with people outside the US).

The description of WhatsApp here is exactly what Elon wanted X to become (which clearly didn't and almost certainly now won't happen). But I'm curious as to why such as "super-app" hasn't taken root in the US like it has elsewhere.
Isn't it true about Afghanistan in 1999 and probably now too?

A lack of military projection doesn't mean that your country can go in and rout out all insurgency. It just means that Afghanistan isn't going to be able to wage war on US soil from Afghanistan.
Well, let's say they are spy craft - seems the "it's not real" narrative is working, no?
This reminds me of a recent submission about China trying to hire away western talent, where I commented that the censorship/firewalling aspect would be a turn-off.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42252956 -
"China Is Bombarding Tech Talent with Job Offers. the West Is Freaking Out" (45 pts, 14 days ago)
There were non-nude people on there, once upon a time. But the banking issues around XXX caused a mass migration to that service. I think originally it was supposed to be like patreon.

regardless, though, does it matter why?
Just shut them all down for a few weeks to give this whole thing some teeth.
i'm reminded of a story from around 2012? about an aerial surveillance program where they recorded a bird's-eye view of the city [1?]

they used the footage to solve some cartel murder by playing the footage in reverse to track the origin of the killers

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Lowrider
Here's your counterexample: “Copilot has dramatically accelerated my coding. It’s hard to imagine going back to ‘manual coding,’” Karpathy said. “Still learning to use it, but it already writes ~80% of my code, ~80% accuracy. I don’t even really code, I prompt & edit.” -- https://siliconangle.com/2023/05/26/as-generative-ai-acceler...
At what point is the parents job to properly supervise the content there kids consume come into play?