skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>And the second, more pertaining to the magic 8 ball comparison, is that the company is specifically building products for teens/children and marketing them as such. The models are designed with guardrails according to their own spokesperson. But looks like it’s failing. Therefore, it can no longer be considered a magic 8 ball.

Would you mind explaining that "therefore"? One doesn't seem to follow from the other.
more like ~$16k for 16 3090s. AMD chips can also run these models. The parts are expensive but there is a competitive market in processors that can do LLM inference. Less so in training.
There's an interesting twist to this problem when one is playing with DST! Consider for instance a recurring event that happens every day at 02:30, let's say in Switzerland.

On the day DST starts, that event cannot exist, at 01:59 clocks will jump forward to 03:00. Vice versa, on the day DST ends, any time between 02:00 and 02:59 will happen twice.
> Duck hunters with shotguns?

Duck Dynasty season 12 is going to be a doozy
> The AI was trained to minimize lawsuit_dollars.

That seems wrong. The null AI would have been better at minimizing legal liability. The actual character.ai to some extent prioritized user engagement over a fear of lawsuits.

Probably it's more correct to say that the AI was chosen to maximize lawsuit_dollars. The parents and child could have conspired to make the AI more like Barney, and no one would have entertained a lawsuit.
>Do people reach 100 by surviving, delaying, or avoiding diseases?

Answer from the abstract: they avoid them.
website? do you mean a Facebook page?
I can't remember where I read it but a large portion of people who are over 100 might be the result of poor record keeping in the past, especially with registration of births at home.
Which are buggy as hell
The "extras" also speak in favor of the physical media. The streamers apparently still haven't figured out what to do with that.
$30 off on $250 GPU is not aggressive, its mild. What intel will probably try is tying promotions to force vendors into taking those cards in, this is their usual MO after being caught bribing vendors with cash money back in mid 2000.
sure but they certainly acquired data from mass scraping (including of data produced by their users) and/or data brokering aka paying someone to do the same.
Letting Jones buy back his 'bankrupt' assets using money he fraudulently hid goes against the spirit of the law, even in the purchasing phase.

This guy should be living in his parents basement and barred from publishing on any significant media platforms. He's proven willing to exploit victims for personal gain to the tune of the millions of dollars.
Page 5 is pretty strong too. And that's as far as I've gotten.

And paragraph 66, page 18 is super creepy. The various posters apparently defending this machine are disturbing. Maybe some adults wish that as a kid they'd had a secret friend to tell them how full of shit their parents - and wouldn't have position if that friend was either real or imagined by them. But synthesized algorithms that clearly are emulating the behavior of villains from thrillers should be avoided, woah...
So Ai companies aren't responsible for the training data they stole, aren't responsible for the output. What exactly are they responsible for other than the (limited) profits? Seems to me the only thing they care about is protecting power and the status quo.

What limited productive use they have seems to be constrained to software development. Any kind of deep insight is classified as a hallucination and removed. It's becoming clearer and clearer that these products are a stopgap only; billions of dollars to make sure nothing changes. Yet it will happily spit out obviously fake sources, a different definition of "hallucinations," in the domains of science and law. These are information weapons against small businesses and individual autonomy.

I don't think it's any accident that Character.ai is targeted at children.
Three years from announcement of a core to SoCs on boards being available is actually on the quick side.

Arm A53 (Pi 3, October 2012 - February 2016), A72 (Pi 4, Feb 2015 - June 2019), and A76 (Pi 5, May 2018 - September 2023, or January 2022 for Radxa Rock 5B) all took longer.

P670 was only announced in November 2022. If a board ships by the end of 2025 it will be doing very well.
One of the best features of the Internet is when the inventor of some thing chimes in to explain the history behind it.
a recent thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42225609
Ask HN: Ideas to spend 8k in Claude credits?
Won a lot of credits in anthropic hackathon recently, need ideas to spend it. Also won 8k in AWS credits. Am thinking of hosting claude on AWS and charging $10/month
Wow a new use case that's not paying ransom.
SCP objects are real. Reality distortion fields and the cornucopia on fruit of the loom logo are your evidence.
One point from this article that I think is great is: the TZ database maps pretty poorly onto how people think about timezones.

In the states, I think most people I know are familiar with "eastern time" or "pacific time." But I doubt that many of my friends recognize "Americas/New_York" or appreciate why they need to select that instead of "Americas/Indianapolis" when referencing eastern time[1]. I certainly wasn't familiar with referencing timezones this way until I had a job that cared a whole lot about timezones and had offices in several countries!

I like the idea of solving this by just asking for the location of an event.

[1] having lived in indiana a while ago, I'm assuming that Indianapolis gets its own TZ entry because it wasn't on daylight savings back in the 90s (?). Which was pretty annoying.
It's bad, but it's not the state's nor private companies' responsibility to protect your children online. The parents should be held accountable here.
come on, really? you've never done
a = '1'; b = '2';
let sum = a + b

so that sum is '12'? it happens all the time when reading from the DOM and you fail to parseInt/parseFloat.
They've mostly kept a low profile since the Great Depression though. And plenty would be oligarchs were taxed out of the upper class by the WW2 tax brackets.
BadRAM Attack Uses $10 Equipment to Break AMD Processor Protections
> Moderation here is entirely based on tone, not content

My least favorite thing about reading HN, by far. Glad someone else said it.
The location is implied by the time zone. The proposal is to store the user’s calendar date, wall-clock time, and time zone. (Technically, you also need a DST marker for the ambiguous hour in the fall when the clock is turned back and repeats 2–3 am.) From that you can derive a UTC timestamp.
>"And LLMs are the only way to deliver the product, unless you dial it back to one or two hand-crafted characters instead of the wide range of available characters that give the service its name. I'm not sure they can change the service to a point where this complaint would be satisfied."

I agree with everything you're saying, but there are no legal protections for incitements to violence, or other problematic communications (such as libel) by an LLM. It may be that they provide a very valuable service (though I don't see that), but the risk of them crafting problematic messages is too high to be economically viable (which is how it seems to me).

As it stands, this LLM seems analogous to a low-cost, remote children’s entertainer which acts as a foolish enabler of children’s impulses.
Essentially that is part the 'male sedation hypothesis'.

Due to the amount of incels or men who aren't really in relationships or even work these days, they should be causing significant social unrest as they have nothing to lose and try and overthrow the current social structure. In reality we hardly see any real violence or trouble from incels other than the odd angry rant on social media and the idea is that things like porn, video games and social media take care of the base needs just enough to stop the angry from boiling over and causing real trouble.
As one of those 12 other people, number of commits is not a good metric in this context. When you have a single maintainer, like antirez was for a long time, he could commit 10+ commits for a single small feature but I needed to get someone else to approve my commit before merging.
Working on a Pivotal Tracker Replacement
I'm working on a Pivotal Tracker replacement with a friend. While it's just a tool, it is something that shaped how I view and work on software and we want it to live on. We're hoping to make enough progress before they shut it off to actually help customers transition. That's ambitious given the timeframe, but we're optimistic we can get the basics in place and then layer in reporting and more obscure features over time. The goal right now is to maintain the essence of what makes Pivotal great and then build it into a sustainable business. We believe it can likely be sustainable with the current feature set but it's a little hard to get a sense for the current revenue and user base. I've had some communication with employees at Pivotal/VMware/Tanzu/Broadcom (what a mess), but they are quite limited in what they can say about the issue and from what I can tell only one person really remains focused on it while they shut it down. If they end up open sourcing the code, we'll try to adapt to that and accelerate our progress. Please share any feedback you have or reach out directly if you have strong interest.
My plan includes free SMS, but nobody is capable of reading or sending SMS anymore. Mobile phones can only have three apps: phone, WhatsApp and shop discount apps
Traditionally one role of government has been to provide legislative oversight to temper unadulterated pursuit of profits. Lobbying and the related ills have definitely undercut that role significantly. But the theory is that government provides the guardrails within which business should operate.
I'm not the person you're asking to, but I failed at the "choose a server" part. I started having a bunch of questions over the choice of server and then gave up from analysis paralysis.

What are the implications of choosing one server over the other? Does this affect search and discoverability in between servers? If I really like Baking and really like Fencing as well, should I join the "Matodon Baking" server, the "Fencing fans" server of a neutral one? If I choose the Fencing server, will the people on the Baking server start seeing me as some sort of outsider since I'm not originally from the Baking server? Will they even be able to organically find me? How does the algorithm evaluate these choices? Can I restrict/split my posts between Baking, Fencing and general? And so on...
only works with email validation. Sadly some providers don’t do this (not even Microsoft azure ad in some cases…)
I believe the implication isn’t that he’d be fired. Rather that doing the bidding of the far right (as instructed) was the deal he made to get the job. I look at it as payment for services rendered.
I Went to the Premiere of the First Commercially Streaming AI-Generated Movies
Thanks for the link. It looks like the public part is 27k lines of code (vs the 92,000k lines of code in the proprietary closed-source part).
Wow this is amazing. It just gave me critique on my bodyweight squat form.

But I also found it hard to prompt to tutor in French or Portuguese; the accents were gruesomely bad.
I think we’re already heading in that direction. As generative models improve, it’ll become cheaper and easier for creators, or platforms themselves, to spin up AI-based companions that feel personal, available around the clock, and perfectly tailored to each subscriber’s tastes. Tools like https://roleplayr.ai are just the start; we’ll likely see many more services offering on-demand, individualized role playing based on any image/context as the technology matures.
> Obviously it's hard to tell how cherry picked the complaint is—but it's arguing that this is a pattern that has actually damaged a particularly vulnerable kid's relationship with his family and encouraged him to start harming himself, with this specific message just one example. There are a bunch of other screenshots in the complaint that are worth looking over before coming to a conclusion.

Conclusion: Chat bots should not tell children about sex, about self harm, or about ways to murder their parents. This conclusion is not abrogated by the parents actions, the state of the childs mind, or by other details in the complaint.

Is that the sentiment here? Things were already bad so who cares if the chatbot made it worse?
Discussion (325 points, 20 hours ago, 150 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42382829
Do they have the equivalent of CUDA, and what is it called?
Well, I am not a native English speaker and it says 77% English (and 6% Chinese, 5% Spanish). I guess I should take that to mean that my English is pretty good.
I'm in Northern Europe and lately spam calls, and especially spoofing from random peoples numbers have become so bad i know multiple who stopped taking any calls, or even changed their phone numbers because they got too many calls, or angry people called them because their number was spoofed.

To me the whole system is archaic - i know gen z would never ever take a call from someone they don't know, or even call each other - it's simply not something you do - it would be like reading your spam mails.

And i'm coming to the same conclusion, answering random people is naive.

Practically we need something new though.
I think the contrast between the pop culture representation of bananas vs the behavior of the united fruit company makes the article a fun read.
Discussion (37 points, 4 hours ago, 11 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42390828
Yes, defamation. Many such cases are dismissed; this one was not and resulted in large punitive damages being awarded.

Less relevant to this case, intentional infliction of emotional distress and negligent infliction of emotional distress can also both be against the law in the United States.
Seems like it can count just fine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42391312

Maybe you’re using it wrong.
Israel has been mounting guns and speakers on long-distance quadcopters and shooting at Gazans. Only a short time until that tech becomes widespread. Israel seems to be a proving ground for mass population terrorizing tech like this. I'm having a hard time seeing how society is not going to devolve into capitalist tech fascism as we lose all our privacy and tech becomes more powerful than our governments, aka the will of the people.
I never considered that we might end up with Sweet Bobby & Tinder Swindler AI bots that people somehow keep interacting with even when they know they aren't real.

Interesting times.
No one is concerned this sends your LinkedIn ID and PDF to their own server to "generate" the PDF? Surely that data is being stored (and probably sold).

Can you share the github/sourcecode for the extension or unminify it? Code shouldn't be minified in V3 extensions anyway.
I was working on exactly such a project in 2022. It was scrapped because there is too much risk in LLM accidentally violating OF rules, which immediately results in losing a very valuable account.
Old images stored on Photobucket could soon be used to train AI
I'm surprised how much faster the Jupiter is than the BPI-F3: 28%.

That's a lot for the same SoC.

And, yes, ridiculously small caches on the BPI-F3 at 0.5 MB for each 4 core cluster, vs 2 MB on the VisionFive 2 and 4 MB on the P550.

The Pioneer still wins for cache and I think real-world speed though, with 4 MB L3 cache per 4 core cluster, but also access to the other 60 MB of L3 cache from the other clusters on the (near) single-threaded parts of your builds (autoconf, linking, that last stubborn .cpp, ...)
Maybe, but I suspect many lonely people will want to know there is a "real" person on the other side of the screen.
sora is not a big factor in this
His conviction wasn't overturned, they are just delaying his sentencing because he's now going to be the president again. He's not doing it by any power of the federal gov't.
That is a side effect of passing the pointer as a function parameter marked nonnull. It implies that the pointer is nonnull and any NULL checks against it can be removed. Pass it to a normal function and you will not see the NULL check removed.
So where is justice in this equation then?
I found the ABC (oz) news reporting a bit deficient on this. Leading disease risk factor doesn't have to mean its rising, it can be that smoking has fallen and now, people who would have died of COPD and Cancer caused by smoking die of COPD and different cancers, caused by morbid obesity.

Its probably just me but I found the language around absolutes and relatives a bit flakey. The overall population is rising so absolutes trend upward but leading goes to relatives, and so the rate of increase against population increase is material.
I find the discussions on Metabunk.org helpful with news stories like this.

For example here is a clip that a Fox News host recorded. Presented as a drone, but is it not clearly just an airplane filmed flying directly overhead?

https://www.metabunk.org/threads/drones-over-new-jersey.1377...
I could use a mentor that is a generalist software engineer and well established in his career or startup.

Given my rough upbringing, I had to learn and do everything on my own from a young age as everyone around me was crazily ignorant except for the teachers at school.

Because of it, I unknowingly made a few critical career mistakes:

1. I did 2 bachelors and 2 masters. When I started job hunting this has been perceived as 1 bachelor and 1 master. I believed back then that multiple degrees would be seen as more knowledge and therefore as valuable as job experience. This hasn’t been true.

2. After graduating my last degree, I took a 1.5 year long sabbatical. This cycled me out of all the graduate positions. I didn’t know. I felt that after 8 years of studying that I deserved a break.

3. I mistook taking advice from the US as being applicable to advice from where I live (The Netherlands). Ironically, I will immigrate to the US due to marriage.

Because of this: my career is ragged and never felt like I had a good start. In part this was also because I was crazy ambitious (wanting to work at Google back then etc) and because I really wanted my generalist skills to also be a part of my software engineering role.

The net result is that in my 7 year career, I have been jobless for 3. I ironically taught a coding bootcamp and most students are much further in their career than I am. And it hurts because from a young age I have always done my utmost best in school and to this day suspect to have way more general experience in computers and programming than any of my students (given I studied it and always had side jobs in the industry or side projects).

My self-esteem is quite low. I recently took a job as a data analyst because (1) I think I will like the job but (2) because I need the money. The thing is: it feels like a reactionary move and I can’t get my bearings in that sense to start actually working on my career as I don’t have a good framework for it.

I have a ton of motivation to switch this around.

—-

With that said, I also have something to offer. In my early 20s, I could’ve written this post about dating as well but I figured out how to do well at that despite my issues being very neurodivergent (in part due to my rough upbringing). So if anyone needs dating advice I might be able to help you if you have a ton of motivation. I have helped friends in the past and they got the results in line with the amount of motivation they had. All I can do is supply a framework.

—-

My email is in my profile.
Hence the if
Ideally for this work you want somebody who is capable of communicating in a way that doesn't feel dumbed down and yet also isn't actively wrong. This explanation of the floating point types does not hit that mark. I'm not in the market for an Odin book, so in some sense it doesn't matter what I think, but across fields it's better if what you're saying is able to both serve its immediate purpose and actually true.

People are going to remember (some of) what you taught them and even if it felt peripheral at the time they may have centred it. When they return to this teaching again, it's not surprising that they assume you meant what you said, even if in your mind it was figurative or targeted at a superficial understanding of the subject.

Decimal representations do exist in machines. Representations that can manage 1.2 exactly but can't handle a third, or pi, or the square root of 2 for example. But the floating point numbers aren't that, they're a weird (but useful) binary fraction and if we're going to mention them at all we need to make it clear what's going on here.

For example the "float" (32-bit IEEE floating point type) called 1.2 is actually 5033165 divided by 4194304 which isn't actually six over five (1.2) but it's pretty close.
Louis Rossmann for FTC chair [video]
> and king rules that all mirrors need to be destroyed.

You're not describing how this would cause more harm than not doing it. Is that because you believe that mirrors are so insanely beneficial to society that they must be kept, even though, some of them suggest to their owners that murder is okay?

Is there no other way for someone to see their own reflection? Must we put up with this so a mirror manufacturer can continue to profit from a defective product?
Discussion (37 points, 53 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42391443
No they used Buk missiles instead.
Huh, I've never heard of a charter model where the local district had any oversight.

To me a charter is just a school that is privately run, usually for either ideological or profit motives, or both, that parents can choose to send their kids to instead of a public school, and which gets money from the state, usually a bit less than a public school would, for each attending child. In turn, the charter school is usually subject to different and less stringent oversight and standards than the public school.

Unlike publics, usually charters do not have to accept mid-term enrollment and parents have to figure out transportation. In demand charters can cap their enrollment and use a lottery for admissions.
The point is that the C standard does guarantee that the function returns 1 if the program is a valid C program - which means there is no UB.

For example: If the oracle function returns an invalid pointer, then dereferencing that pointer is UB, and therefore the program isn't a valid C program.
Preety spot on, very catchy. Got me to download your app, congratulations.
Dupe (139 points, 9 hour ago, 170 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42387549

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I think it’s more that some people are excited by the prospects of further progress in this area, and are afraid that cases like this will stunt the progress (if successful).
> limited productive use they have seems to be constrained to software development.

It can write functions in some instances if you're exceptionally careful with your prompting. It can't do "software development."