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firebaze··on UK Home Office launches £75M 'PoliceAI' to capitalise on artificial intelligence
How does the US president change the view of the UK? Trump is a moron, reminds me at times of Idiocracy, esp. with UFC cage fights. However, the link to the UK eludes me
firebaze··on UK Home Office launches £75M 'PoliceAI' to capitalise on artificial intelligence
It's the world leader in disguising it, yes, just after Belgium.

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

Almost no-one talks about that anymore. It's still mostly unsolved.

Children matter, right?

firebaze··on UK Home Office launches £75M 'PoliceAI' to capitalise on artificial intelligence
Yes, by far.
firebaze··on UK Home Office launches £75M 'PoliceAI' to capitalise on artificial intelligence
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.

firebaze··on Cal.com OSS project goes closed source due to AI
ChrisArchitect likes to have a word with you
firebaze··on Teaching AI to recognize itself as process, not system – a week long experiment
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.

firebaze··on Nuclear Engineer Reaction "The Highest Radiation Dose in Any Human Who Survived" [video]
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Stevens
firebaze··on Ask HN: Cant Americans see Trumps policies are a massive stock manipulation scam
I made more money from stocks than I ever thought since Trump became president. Make of it what you want.
firebaze··on Trump Spoiled the F-35, America's Most Popular Fighter Jet
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.

firebaze··on Ask HN: 23andMe has my data, am I screwed?
How can someone asking this question have so many karma points on HN?
firebaze··on [dead]
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.

firebaze··on South Africa
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.
firebaze··on South Africa
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.

firebaze··on Stimulation Clicker
This is so German
firebaze··on Ask HN: What are local LLMs good for?
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)

firebaze··on Ask HN: What are local LLMs good for?
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.

firebaze··on Notes on the New Deepseek v3
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.

firebaze··on Bench.co acquired after informing staff company was insolvent
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=bench.co
firebaze··on Google's Results Are Infested, Open AI Is Using Their Playbook from the 2000s
They lost way too much trust across the board the last years, culminating in the Biden/Harris/Trump debacle.

Youtube/Instagram Reels/Tiktok is the (sad) future. "Classical" media is a zombie.

Google is deader than dead on the search front. But I think they'll go the IBM route, albeit more successful

firebaze··on Suspect in Germany attack self-identified as Islamophobic, anti-immigrationist
Who proceeds to kill christians, not muslims.
firebaze··on Elon Musk Flexes His Political Strength as Government Shutdown Looms
Would you elaborate how you arrive at this viewpoint? From my point of view I seem to be missing some crucial information.
firebaze··on Two undersea cables in Baltic Sea disrupted
Nord Stream Part II
firebaze··on FrontierMath: A benchmark for evaluating advanced mathematical reasoning in AI
I'm not sure if it is feasible to provide all relevant sources to someone who doesn't follow a field. It is quite common knowledge that LLMs in their current form have no ability to recurse directly over a prompt, which inherently limits their reasoning ability.
firebaze··on Elon Musk's Twitter takeover math has changed
Elon/Joe talk about that in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qZl_5xHoBw&t=678s
firebaze··on Misinformation Does Spread Like a Virus, Epidemiology Shows
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.

firebaze··on Why Google Search Is Falling Apart?
Either this is a transcript of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSGVk2KVokQ, or vice versa. Exactly the same points are being made, at least.
firebaze··on Meta Movie Gen
> 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

firebaze··on You're probably not vulnerable to the CUPS CVE
Popos (out-of-the-box): cupsd running, but on 127.0.0.1.
firebaze··on Tomato nostalgia as I relive my Croatian island childhood
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).

firebaze··on Von der Leyen gives nod to €100B 'CERN for AI' proposal
Notice how many people attended the vote, how many experts were involved and agreed, and how much her extended fam...

Nevermind. She's a lighthouse of ~idio~democracy.

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