skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This keeps happening, and it can end someone's company, and livelihoods.

Can people sue, and seek punitive damages large enough to be punitive to a trillion-dollar company?
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>why would you use it in a tool that has to make hundreds of inference calls to it to answer a single question? You'd use a much cheaper model.

The same reason a lot of people switched to GPT-4 when it came out even though it was much more expensive than 3 - doesn't matter how cheap it is if it isn't good enough/much worse.
AI as applied today is pretty deterministic. It does get retrained and tuned often in most common applications like ChatGPT, but without any changes, you should expect a deterministic answer.
Thinking about it, nearly everything about computing is fundamentally about how to translate between analog and digital.
A nice read, finished with an abomination:

> When the first balloons arrived in America, they technically became the world’s first intercontinental ballistic missile.

I mean, checking what ballistic and missile means, would have helped here.
It’s a shortcut in the sense that most, if not all optimisations are shortcuts. This one allows you to shortcut the usual formatting machinery if the result of formatting is a static string.

Like all shortcuts, it’s not something you can always rely on.
TeXInfo is a plain-TeX system that rewrites the parser to a completely new syntax, whilst maintaining compatibility with importing and linking to other libraries. It is extensively used, especially in emacs.

Having a DSL, isn't necessarily a bad thing.
It does a lot of good (value) for the cost. A lot of poor people will starve and die and America will lose standing and respect in the world as a consequence of destroying aid to save relative pennies.
Here in the Netherlands some of the potatoes we grow are cut in Poland then some of the cut potatoes are sold in the Netherlands again.

I'm sure it makes perfect sense from a business perspective. The Polish factory can do some additional cutting, packaging and transport cheaper than our own potato cutting means. You could say it makes no sense to do it ourselves, many believe this.

If you do this with many goods and services your politicians cant really have disagreeable opinions. If they pull any lever backwards or push it forwards the ecosystem starts to destabilize.

Trump enjoys negotiating, he has various tools at his disposal one of which is the most expensive military in the world. This is a very large lever to pull. He cant really extort people with it if declaring war instantly turns the domestic market to chaos. That said, it doesn't require pulling a big lever to trigger a trade war or to implode the us dollar. Donald wants to be able to press all the buttons and flick all the switches in his negotiations.

To see the goal of his negotiations you only have to look which branch of the international mafia he supports the most. If you see him grovel at someones feet you know who his true master is.
TikTok doesn't require an account to view videos.
That's not what my comment implies. I'm just saying that relying solely on LLMs makes you lazy, like relying just on google/stackoverflow whatever, it doesn't shift you from a resource that can be layed off to a resource that can't. You must know your art, and use the tools wisely
Isn't it possible you could make a mistake that maimed someone? Or that the medical billing is burdensome to some people? On the whole you might be helping people, but I would think there's a small minority that is negatively impacted too.
For the YouTuber who is merely talking into the camera, it is mostly just a matter of uploading a video. How would he be better off making a website and publishing the content there? It would be difficult to find an audience and almost impossible to get paid. I agree that it would make more sense for this content to be a textual article, but until better monetization opportunities and easier publishing becomes available for people, they are going to keep recording themselves talking into the camera.

> but one problem is people now a day don't actually search for content, we are mindless zombies fed by algoritms

People choose to be like that. Think of it like a supermarket: Up in front is the worst kind of garbage "food", literal sewage that will destroy your health while living and kill you prematurely. In the back you have the highest quality produce and ingredients in abundance. You can go to the back of the supermarket and enjoy the benefits of having this broad access. Or do like most people and go to the front shelves and fill up your cart with poison. It's a choice.
> You can access DeepSeek R1?

Yes, well, I live in the EU and thus can avoid US work hours and Chinese peak hours. I think availability has been a bit better since they disabled websearch (also I noticed DSR1 half a week before it made the mainstream news).

> There's lots of fiddling with these models.

Agreed
I think it might be what she’s searching for or subscribed to? I’ve never seen cocks or genitals on BS but I don’t go looking for them either.
They work as a team. You need a data storer and a data carrier. (Yes some may say you can simply stream data but I will always carry a backup alongside having cloud version).
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Good idea

Although I suppose using an approach like mine precludes any notion of a serious application.
Specific text banning downloading in US:

> "On and after the date that is 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the importation into the United States of artificial intelligence or generative artificial intelligence technology or intellectual property developed or produced in the People’s Republic of China is prohibited."

FYI, the next paragraph says the same thing banning the US from exporting / allowing Chinese people to use their software/models.
Might be moot, but the shutdown email mentions "spam, scam or deceptive practices", not just "reasons".

Without any context about the owner of the channel, the reader has no way to know how unfair the shutdown is.

I understand from the HN thread that the dev is well known and that the shutdown seems unfair - but it's always hard to share the outrage in this situation.

Best of luck to the channel's owner - let's hope the appeal ends up in front of a human being.

Now, let's all go back on youtube, to watch suggested videos about fake news interspersed with ads for crypto scam.
You have no control over that. If you are thrown into a bad project, you will rot with them. Or turn the situation around by using your own expertise.

That's what being a leader means, you deal with the ambiguity, is paid more, but if things don't go as expected, you are axed.

The only thing that can save you is if you have built relationships with senior directors that could save you.

Just a reminder that Tomorrow the CEO can wake up and desire to cut people to increase their margins and Staff engineers working on improvements are the first to go.

There's no such thing as a career. Just focus on making money while you can.

Also, make sure you have a few doors open in case you need to get out.

This means you want to have a flexible skill set in case you need a new job, also a network of people that wants to work with you.
I think you're wrong.

Not on on the oligarchs attempting to rule, that much is obvious. It's that the oligarchs we have are extremely stupid. Elon Musk has exposed how little he knows about anything multiple times, and the same goes for the other billionaires attempting to wrest control.

They're attempting to follow a children's playbook as if it was an engineering manual for how to become kings. I think they will absolutely crash the economy, but I don't think the plutocrats will survive or be able to pick up the pieces.

As I've mentioned before, Romans already figured this out. Bread and circuses. But the plutocrats are not willing to maintain the flow of bread, nor are they willing to create circuses. They aren't even willing to follow the typical fascist playbook of empowering the military and bribing them off with additional benefits and loot.

This kind of situation can only lead down two roads if they keep attempting a smash and grab hostile takeover: Either a American-style French Revolution or a military coup.
Right now you're correct that the only form of recourse users have is to sue the companies, but you're not entirely correct that it takes spending six figures.

You can sue them in San Mateo county and have the case adjudicated in a court which does not allow lawyers for either side and which has the power to compel a Google or a Facebook to reverse an erroneous moderation decision.

https://www.engadget.com/how-small-claims-court-became-metas...
I think if you find Ollama useful, use it regardless of others say. I did give it a try, but found it lands in a weird place of "Meant for developers, marketed to non-developers", where llama.cpp sits on one extreme, and apps like LM Studio sits on the other extreme, Ollama landing somewhere in the middle.

I think the main point that turned me off was how they have their custom way of storing weights/metadata on disk, which makes it too complicated to share models between applications, I much prefer to be able to use the same weights across all applications I use, as some of them end up being like 50GB.

I ended up using llama.cpp directly (since I am a developer) for prototyping and recommending LM Studio for people who want to run local models but aren't developers.

But again, if you find Ollama useful, I don't think there is any reasons for dropping it immediately.
Not any kind of strike against China. A strike against the American people.

Not supporting any kind of open-software-at-any-price kind of agenda. The law is to put Americans into jail. No other interpretation than a law to punish our own people.

The cringing tragedy is, the folks creating the law imagine themselves some kind of super-patriots. When in fact they're running around causing damage among our own people, operating in fact as agents for the perceived enemy by doing their work for them.
pretty good, imo. Goes to show that comedy (like art) really is a lot about generic rules that are learnable (not only for LLMs!).
At least someone realizes the soulless unimaginative mediocrity machine makes people sound soulless, unimaginative, and mediocre.
Perhaps, but I don't think that's what happened. He continued publishing good quality research in quantum theory and quantum computation until I was doing my PhD, which is just before 2014, and likely still does.

As I say, I also disagree with his philosophical (and political) viewpoints. But your dismissal above is based on a pretty shallow reading alongside unfounded personal attacks.
The extreme left are on small mastodon servers and hate BlueSky and the large mastodon servers almost as much as X at this stage. Given Elon's control of the platform, manipulation of the algorithm and petty bans, it's been a while since X/Twitter has been a neutral choice. What's left of it is certainly at least as right wing as Bluesky is left.
> We have LLMs shoved down our throats as this new way to communicate

I don't think that's true at all.
Yes.

> Email is horribly centralized

You’re seeing the downsides of decentralization not the result of centralization. There’s ~100’s of thousands of independently operated email servers, but nobody is directly forcing people to listen to everyone else. Instead they must stay reasonably open because the cloud didn’t win, work school and emails are still frequently independent.
Only if they stop screening us with their shitty AI first.
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Won't your content be deprioritized if you do that though? Or won't it be further down the road? I fail to see any reason for Bluesky to be honest once the user base is big enough and people are silo'ed into it.
He's talking about Bayesian philosophy of science, not science, which ultimately does not rely on Bayesian epistemology.
Well English is not my first language, so I probably tend to go through text more slowly and/or scan the text differently, so I have higher chance stumbling upon these oddities. (I can confirm that sometimes I see unexpected amount of misspelt homophones or usage of strangely related words.) Seeing two distinct LLM chats gloss over this particular nuance in almost identical way was really interesting.

Grok, on the other hand, has absolutely no problem with concept of sender both expanding and compressing the message, and with absence of recipient. Even after super-painstaking discussion, where Grok identified the strange absence of the "recipient", when I asked him to correct the sentence, he simply changed the word "sender" to the word "themselves":

> something very strange about people writing bullet points, having ChatGPT expand it to a polite email, sending it, and *themselves* using ChatGPT to condense it into the key bullet points

https://x.com/i/grok/share/mwFR2jQ9MS6uVemgiHokJKiBd (cringe/pain warning)
How do you do online banking?
Only if they stop screening us with their shitty AI first. Otherwise it is slop vs slop.
But it's quirky, because there are some great action shots too. E.g. Jackson Lamb. But those tend to be tighter, usually interior shots.

So maybe they should avoid the grand exterior action sequences.
Interesting. That's a lot more plausible. Reopened the bug.
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> yes, this is cited on similar right-wing comedy shows, and individuals on the right believe it

Can you give an example? Of course you can find 2 people in the US who believe it, and they held 2 comedy shows where it was said, and it's technically true, but I don't think I've ever seen anything like this said.
> Bluesky is less attractive right now to Canadians who are participating in the boycott of US products.

How many people are boycotting these US products which specifically includes not using iPhones, Macs, Android and Windows devices?

Out of that, how many are going to bother to choose to sign up to a Mastodon instance that is only hosted in Canada and use it for more than a year? My guess is a very small number of people.

Realistically they don't care and the boycott won't last and the majority are still more likely to sign up to either Threads or BlueSky than to even consider Mastodon.
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In France there has been a clear (and coordinated) exodus of people from the left from X to Bluesky. They also actively try to ban anyone from the right who post there.

It makes for a bland circle jerk to be honest but they kind of succeeded at making also X worse as there's less balance to those racist tweets etc.
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There is tremendous friction on mobile for watching TikTok videos without an account. I do not have a TikTok account and have had videos just not work without signing up. Not sure if they have been AB testing this or something because once in a while the video does work.
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Australia has no land borders. It's one of the easiest places to secure, and thus it makes sense to do so.
People who sign-off on the programs to do the task can be held accountable, they just aren't. It's not about computers, it's about the legal system.
the US currently has a tech oligarch employing teenagers to audit government finance software
What type of person is deeply committed to privacy invasion for profit?
some peoples brains just operate faster, like have a faster clockspeed in the same way CPUs do. i feel like people who can read extremely fast also correlate strongly to people who can listen to audio very fast. my partner is an unbelievably fast reader, like the fastest i've ever seen, but she also has a phd in maths and is generally brilliant, i have no idea where im going with this. some peoples brains are just wired for high amounts of data bandwidth. but also practice, and it also depends on the original speed of the speaker/content.
That's a very big and dubious claim! I'd like to see some evidence for that.
> AI that attempts to predict people committing crimes based on their appearance.

Should have been

> AI that attempts to predict people committing crimes
> We apparently don’t even have a name for it. We just call it “CI” because that’s the adjacent practice. “Oh no the CI failed”

Martin Fowler apparently calls this “continuous build” (the build itself without CI necessarily). And that’s better.
> I thought LLMs are only good for low-value adtech codes and resources accessible on public Internet, like tons of getters/setters and onEvent triggers without much CS elements or time or multi domain implications.

I'm not sure where you get this generalization from. It seems like most local models you can run locally today on consumer hardware are kind of at that level, at least in my experience. But then you have things like o1 "pro mode" which pretty much allowed me to program things I couldn't before, and no other LLM until o1 could actually help me do.
It is added cognitive load, but there is a lot of value in async tasks if you can trust the output or if the opportunity cost of validating is low.

The challenge with something like this for research, in its current state, is you’ll need to go double check it because you don’t trust it and it will end up effectively being a list of links.

It’s progress though and evidently good enough to find a sweet NSX in Japan, which is all some really need.
Nice one! Thanks for sharing
> AI that attempts to predict people committing crimes based on their appearance.

FTFY: AI that attempts to predict people committing crimes.

By "appearance" are they talking about a guy wearing a hoodie must be a hacker or are we talking about race/colour/religious garb etc?

I'd rather they just didn't use it for any kind of criminal application at all if I have a say in it!

Just my $0.02
> What I don't see here is how the EU is actually defining what is and is not considered AI.

Because instead of reading the source, you're reading a sensationalist article.

> That can be a hugely broad category that covers any algorithmic feed or advertising platform.

Again, read the EU AI Act. It's not like it's hidden, or hasn't been available for several years already.

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We're going to get a repeat of GDPR aren't we? Where 8 years in people arguing about it have never read anything beyond twitter hot takes and sensationalist articles?
"These days it feels like the only way you get resolution to this automated bullshit is to post on some social media platform or other."

Just leave for another platform, especially if you're making content people would actively seek out. Who even watches Youtube at this point?
What about obesity?

Trade promotion is about short-term push strategies to get people to buy more. So things like cheaper sodas, chips, and other processed food could contribute to obesity. There's also massive food waste in the industry for the healthier options, but none of the trade promotion software I read about talked about reducing waste. So there can definitely be negative impacts in the food industry that you are enabling. I would bet that there's not a single job that doesn't have some negative impact.
I was in Detroit for a big tech event a couple years back. The more or less universal consensus was that, yes, the Riverwalk during the day (and the Convention Center there) were quite nice. But people felt uncomfortable away from large groups of event-goers at night and there were a few incidents. It definitely felt different from other events I've been to. Some of this is admittedly probably a matter of familiarity; I generally know to just avoid the Tenderloin for example.
Likely was mass reported? fake copyright strikes? account hacked? it is a possible explanation.

Sinevibes makes audio plugins and other stuff for makes synthesizers, so I am not sure what it is about...

Meanwhile, Youtube does not lack of crypto scam channels with millions of subscribers...
I've had good luck with Firefox, ublock origin, and sponsorblock. Can't remember the last time I saw an ad, automated or otherwise. There's also an extension that changes your default page to "subscriptions" instead of "home." I do recall using the ad blocker to hide the side panel of video recommendations, too. At least for now, youtube really is a free ride for me.
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> Ollama is traditionally very sloppy with the chat templates they use

Not that I don't believe you (I do, and I think I've seen them correct this before too), but you happen to have specific examples when this happened?
If this became popular, wouldn't people start rehearsing for it like they do Leetcode interviews, and it would be become another performance that people focus on and optimize for, rather than on the skills for the job?
I think there's a misunderstanding here. I just want to talk to the applicant and see what they think about working with designers, their thoughts on learning golang as a javascript developer, or how they've handled a last minute "high priority" project.
i personally relearned what transitive verbs are, haha. but that, too
Does this affect open weights AI releases? Or is the ban only on the actual use for the listed cases? Because you can use open weights Mistral models to implement probably everything on that list.
Has anyone managed to get a "functioning" tech discussion feed on bluesky?

I tried not long ago, mostly help me get acquaintanced with the ruby ecosystem and news, but even using starter packs and the like the best I got was following devs that mostly talked about non tech stuff (personal life, politics and the like).

Particularly annoying was the constant "we hate twitter" posts (I know, I'm here now, so why are we talking about them?). Also tons of anti AI clickbait.