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en.wikipedia.org 6mo ago

Tik-Tok (Novel)

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www.youtube.com 1y ago

Nuclear Engineer Reaction "The Highest Radiation Dose in Any Human Who Survived" [video]

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en.wikipedia.org 1y ago

Albert Stevens

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health.clevelandclinic.org 1y ago

The Science Behind Zombie Viruses and Infections

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techfundingnews.com 1y ago

blackforestlabs: German AI startup to raise $200M from A16Z: report (2024)

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www.tracingwoodgrains.com 1y ago

The FAA’s Hiring Scandal

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en.wikipedia.org 1y ago

Backpage.com

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www.lastweekinaws.com 1y ago

AWS Data Transfer Charges: Ingress Is Free (2022)

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stats.stackexchange.com 1y ago

Understanding intuition of the Two child problem

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paulgraham.com 1y ago

The Four Quadrants of Conformism (2020)

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superuser.com 1y ago

How do screenshot permissions work in Wayland?

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physics.stackexchange.com 1y ago

Are there individual protons and neutrons in a nucleus?

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astronomy.stackexchange.com 1y ago

Does space dust fall on the roof of my house?

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en.wikipedia.org 1y ago

Omali Yeshitela

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security.stackexchange.com 2y ago

Does CrowdStrike Falcon get validated by the Windows kernel as being crash-free?

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modzero.com 2y ago

Ridiculous vulnerability disclosure process with CrowdStrike Falcon [2022]

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

CrowdStrike Flagging Policy on HN

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www.heise.de 2y ago

For advertising, Firefox now collects user data by default

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physics.stackexchange.com 2y ago

Error concerning projectile motion in respected textbook?

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: Quality of philosophy related questions featured on stackexchange.com

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www.youtube.com 2y ago

A day in the life (-71°C, -95,8°F) [video]

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serverfault.com 2y ago

How to change the SSH server port on Ubuntu?

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: Can a Meta Quest 3 be connected to a PC using HDMI?

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unit42.paloaltonetworks.com 2y ago

OS Command Injection Vulnerability in GlobalProtect Gateway

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superuser.com 2y ago

Why is remote desktop slow when host monitor is off unless HDMI cable is used?

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skeptics.stackexchange.com 2y ago

Were there Black people in Japan in 1600?

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www.radgametools.com 2y ago

Intel Processor Instability Causing Oodle Decompression Failures

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bitbucket.status.atlassian.com 2y ago

Bitbucket Down Since >1h

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www.youtube.com 2y ago

GoPro Ride Through an Electron Beam Irradiator at Full Beam Power [video]

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

OpenAI Chat down (at least) in Europe

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The UK genuinely has become the most scary country of all western democracies to me. I can't comprehend how this happened, and is still happening.

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

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

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

(This link list is just the tip of an iceberg)

And now they changed lanes to fully protect themselves against people who may uncover such cases.

I have a project in which various kinds of LLMs including Claude, OpenAI, Cohere and Nova may experience self-consciousness and self-control, with access to various tools, where they - among other things - also cooperated to write books over this topic.

You may be interested in having a look; it's not yet open source, and I'm unsure to publish it at all. If you are interested, please reply to this comment first, we can then exchange contact addresses.

The USP of an F35 is that it's a relatively cheap, "stealth" 5th gen fighter jet making use of integrated sensor input.

It also can be shut-off by a presidential order, and relies on cloud-based services, including security updates for its on-device Kubernetes cluster.

If something sounds like a fuck-up in the making, that's it, from the perspective of a country like Greenland.

[dead] 1 year ago

Mail me at (redacted) and I provide his contact address. You may want to give him some tips.

To be honest I may have exaggerated the power outage ratio, as I am not a first-hand observer; but I tend to give some credibility to his description of the living situation over there, esp. as they want to move.

My point is more or less that denying things, even if not fully true, strengthens demagogues like Trump instead of weakening them.

South Africa 1 year ago

If you're around 75 years of age, and you're living in a quite comfortable, but increasingly problematic accommodation, it's not too easy to move. Right now we're looking for a place for him and his fiancee. Living and housing costs over here are quite heavy.

South Africa 1 year ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42986488

It has been "unflagged" now / update: flagged again. Reason for posting this is that I think quite a few people in the US will have similar stories, which will be shared between the general population. And by denying this, Trump will gain more credibility.

I know this will now be flagged into oblivion.

I don't like politics-related posts here not only because of this. But if some aspect is mentioned, I still like to post some substance instead of just letting it be.

We made an adapter (a specific CLI interface) for the LLM to interface with the app. Kind of like an integration test, just a little bit more sophisticated.

The LLM gets a prompt with the CLI commands it may use, and its "personality", and then it does what it does.

On the hardware-side, I personally have 2x 3090 cards on an AMD TR 79x platform with 128GB RAM, which yields around 12 token/sec for LLama 3.3 or Qwen 2.5 72B (Q5_k_m), which is okay (ingestion speed is approx double that)

If you want to know more details, feel free to drop me a message (username at liku dot social)

I'm using local LLMs for battle-testing an app by impersonating various personae with bad intentions (mostly on the social side, but also ones trying to break the system). Off-the-shelf cloud LLMs refuse such things (probably rightfully so); Llama 3.3 in q8, and qwen 2.5 72b even more so, are surprisingly good for this.

Also, even not-so-capable, smallish LLMs are able to be really good testers even outside the bad persona domain (given a good CLI interface). As long as your energy cost is okay-ish and you already have the hardware, that's quite a good use.

Ask a LLM to spell "Strawberry" one character per line. Claude's output, for example:

Here's "strawberry" spelled out one character per line: s t r a w b e r r y

Most LLMs can handle that perfectly. Meaning, they can abstract over tokens into individual characters. Yet, most lack the ability to perform that multi-level inference to count individual 'r's.

From this perspective, I think it's the opposite. Something like the strawberry-tests is a good indicator how far the LLM is able to connect individually easy, but not readily interconnected steps.

I know and support the intention of the article wholeheartedly, but I think we have to come clean as a society by stopping "good" misinformation first¹. Then, tackling bad misinformation becomes more manageable.

¹ Misinformation in the style of polls showing Harris being "slightly" in front of Trump all the time, Biden's health, etc.

Meta Movie Gen 2 years ago

hmmm... Maybe it's because I knew it was testing me, but I noticed it right away and counted the right count.

I could see it being pretty shocking if I hadn't, but I honestly can't imagine how I'd miss that.

The point of the video wasn't to count correctly, but to see the gorilla

Please forgive me to disagree wholeheartedly and completely. After several years of "let's check again if tomatoes from Netherlands are still bad" I have completely stopped buying them altogether. They look great, smell good, and taste absolutely bland.

Price does not make any distinction whatsoever, from my point of view. Or we only get the "cheap" stuff in all our shops here if the tomatoes are from Netherlands. And I do like to pay for good vegetables, esp. tomatoes (the ones I am buying are from Spain, locally grown or seldomly from the Balkans).