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Re:UK Home Office launches £75M 'PoliceAI' to capitalise on artificial... on Saturday June 20, 2026 @05:42PM (#48613251)
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
Re:UK Home Office launches £75M 'PoliceAI' to capitalise on artificial... on Saturday June 20, 2026 @05:37PM (#48613205)
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?

Re:UK Home Office launches £75M 'PoliceAI' to capitalise on artificial... on Saturday June 20, 2026 @05:36PM (#48613202)
Yes, by far.
Re:UK Home Office launches £75M 'PoliceAI' to capitalise on artificial... on Saturday June 20, 2026 @05:24PM (#48613105)
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.

Re:Cal.com OSS project goes closed source due to AI on Friday April 17, 2026 @05:54PM (#47811031)
ChrisArchitect likes to have a word with you
Re:Teaching AI to recognize itself as process, not system – a week lon... on Monday July 07, 2025 @02:54AM (#44487431)
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.

Re:Nuclear Engineer Reaction "The Highest Radiation Dose in Any Human ... on Friday May 23, 2025 @05:21PM (#44076724)
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Stevens
Re:Ask HN: Cant Americans see Trumps policies are a massive stock mani... on Saturday April 12, 2025 @04:53PM (#43667871)
I made more money from stocks than I ever thought since Trump became president. Make of it what you want.
Re:Trump Spoiled the F-35, America's Most Popular Fighter Jet on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @04:56PM (#43487210)
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.

Re:Ask HN: 23andMe has my data, am I screwed? on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @05:41PM (#43476321)
How can someone asking this question have so many karma points on HN?
Re: on Saturday February 08, 2025 @06:00PM (#42986945)
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.

Re: on Saturday February 08, 2025 @05:56PM (#42986921)
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.
Re: on Saturday February 08, 2025 @05:47PM (#42986863)
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.

Re:Google offers 'voluntary exit' to all US platforms and devices empl... on Thursday January 30, 2025 @04:13PM (#42882244)
This is getting more ridiculous every minute. I have been a HN reader/contributor over more than 10 years, and I have been through the usual ups and downs, and I know the "HN is dead" trope and its ridiculousness, but this dude is killing me. Since when are bots okay on HN? Are we free to create our own bots? If this bot (1) would _at least_ link to the perceived dupe, it would be a little bit more than a totally abysmal, contentless shit-post. Otherwise, it prevents a more-or-less okay-ish follow-up post from gaining upvotes, preventing people having been away for 8-10 hours to catch up.

Please at least update the guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) to allow for bots.

(1) no substantial posts except dubious [dupe] posts

Re:Did Elon Musk Appear to Sieg Heil at Trump Inauguration? on Monday January 20, 2025 @04:15PM (#42773140)
This thread shows the reason why trump won (until now, at least). And I think that is what Elon intended.
Re:Did Elon Musk Appear to Sieg Heil at Trump Inauguration? on Monday January 20, 2025 @04:13PM (#42773120)
My god what a shitshow.
Re:Did Elon Musk Appear to Sieg Heil at Trump Inauguration? on Monday January 20, 2025 @04:13PM (#42773105)
You are not seriously linking Elon Musk to Nazism?
Re:Did Elon Musk Appear to Sieg Heil at Trump Inauguration? on Monday January 20, 2025 @04:08PM (#42773072)
This must be an inside joke from HN I don't get. Next up: ChrisArchitect linking to something from 3 years ago.
Re:Stimulation Clicker on Monday January 06, 2025 @05:22PM (#42616694)
This is so German
Re:Ask HN: What are local LLMs good for? on Saturday January 04, 2025 @03:54PM (#42597612)
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)

Re:Ask HN: What are local LLMs good for? on Friday January 03, 2025 @05:17PM (#42590050)
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.

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