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I believe you. I would suggest not using the word 'vibe' in that case.

I think 'vibe' suggests that you haven't really read or edited the result. That might not be what you meant, but on that understanding, it is fair to ask why someone else should read your article if you have not properly read and edited it.

Again, we run into the fact that 'woke' is now a meaningless term of abuse. Most people would take it as an uncontroversial and largely apolitical observation that ethnic minority communities have made a significant contribution to the history of Britain (which was the point of the coin). If you think that's an example of woke extremism of some kind, it says more about you than about the Conservative party.

Sunak himself certainly didn't present as a dyed in the wool wokist in the lead up to his permiership:

> Whether it’s pulling down statues of historic figures, replacing the school curriculum with anti-British propaganda or rewriting the English language so we can’t even use words like ‘man’, ‘woman’ or ‘mother’ without being told we’re offending someone [... etc. etc.]

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/29/rishi-sunak...

I do not think that the Tory party is leftist, or 'woke' (whatever that even means these days).

>taken over by HR

Who hasn't?

> and regulators

Good! (I wonder why?)

This is quite different from the claim that Coutts, of all organisations, was in hoc to 'woke leftists' while the country was under a Conservative government.

As far as I can discover, we only have Nigel Farage's word for the seven subsequent refusals from other banks. The issue with Coutts is on the record, as there was subsequent legal and regulatory action, etc. I for one don't believe Farage here. He may have been turned down by some other fancy private banks, but that is not the same thing as being debanked. In fact, NatWest (owners of Coutts) explicitly offered him a standard bank account when they notified him of closure of his Coutts account: https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/nigel-farage-says-set-lose-...

The notion that banking, of all industries, has been taken over by woke leftists (please supply your own scare quotes for the first of those appellations – I give up) is for the birds. As for the establishment, your own take on this is inconsistent, first saying that the establishment is entirely homogenous and aligned against Farage, and then pointing out that the government of the day helped Farage to get his Coutts account back.

Err, no, he was debanked by the flashy private bank Coutts. A bank that would refuse to give most people an account.

Any tooling that looks at Go module imports should respect the contents of go.mod.

If you haven't added a replace directive to your go.mod, then you certainly haven't replaced all instances of the old URLs with updated ones.

The Go tooling won't do that if you configure it properly (e.g. via a 'replace' directive in your go.mod or https://go.dev/ref/mod#goproxy-protocol)

Any tool that automatically assumes that a URL in a Go module import is 'trusted' is just a broken tool.

Sounds like classic developer OCD to me. Old URLs used as Go package identifiers are completely harmless.

That's just the default, which you can easily override if you need to. IMO there is nothing wrong with treating Go package names as arbitrary identifiers like com.sun.* If you're spending a lot of time updating imports because the underlying repo has moved from its original URL, then just don't do that. It's unnecessary.

On the contrary, what this illustrates is that there is no level of immigration that is low enough to satisfy right-wing populist demands. Right wing populists will keep stirring up anti-immigration sentiment as necessary to win elections. Actual levels of immigration, or actual evidence of the positive and negative impacts of immigration, are irrelevant.

It is rather like extremist environmentalism (by which I mean actual extremism – not just acknowledging the reality of climate change, etc.). Whatever you do, it will never be enough to satisfy the hempen-socked.

I believe it’s more about robustness than performance in typical cases. Without pre-emption, there’s always a risk of one goroutine using disproportionate CPU time if it gets into an infinite (or just very long) loop without doing any IO.

>The UK have about 13,000 arrests per year over social media etc.

That's the figure (slightly inflated) for arrests under both the Malicious Communications Act 1988 and Communications Act 2003. That's not reasonably described as arrests for 'social media etc.' It's quite likely the the majority of those arrests have nothing to do with content that people post on social media.

For anyone reading, this is entirely false. As sdcfgy says, these events were reported as usual in the news of the day.

> Everything is a finite shared resource. > That's the point of ownership.

I think the point is that (up to a limit that we're a long way from reaching) we can make more toasters to satisfy any additional demand that arises for toasters. But we can't make more land to satisfy any additional demand that arises for land. So we have to share the land in a way that we don't have to share toasters.

I could find one news story a week about an outrageous arrest in the US, or in many other countries. You don't give a citation for the 60k figure, but I imagine it's the same one that has to be laboriously debunked every time someone brings social media talking points about the UK to one of these threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49830776

What exactly are you saying is systemic and on a national scale? I certainly don't think the specific news story we're talking about is typical. That's why it was widely reported and why the Police had to admit their error.

Hmm, so your argument actually is that a politically motivated prosecution in the 16th century that occurred before the UK even existed, before constitutional democracies were much of a thing, and that couldn't occur under present UK constitutional arrangements, is proof that the UK at present is not a democracy. I'm not sure if you're in a position to call other people's argument's "silly".

What would the argument even be here? That the UK can never be a democracy because of what Henry VIII did in the 16th century?

No, the comment by itself wasn't the threat. Explanation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49831263 Or just look at this post:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jonrichelieu-booth_jonthehash...

It's the combination of the paragraph about the 'delinquent client' and the picture of him pointing a gun which could be construed as an implied threat. I don't know if that would hold up legally, but in any case, no charges were brought in the end.

As to why the police did anything at all, the most likely explanation is that once the 'delinquent client' reported the LinkedIn posts, the Police saw a photo of someone using a shotgun who didn't have a shotgun license. Unaware that the photo was taken outside the UK, they probably decided that the combination of an unlicensed firearm and a possible implied threat was worth investigating.

This was, obviously, stupid and wrong, but:

* The Police admitted their obvious error and paid £20k in damages: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gz1qy30v5o

* This bizarre case has nothing to do with "speech that offends the prevailing political orthodoxy" (root comment).

If you look for examples of the police arresting people for stupid and unjustifiable reasons, you can find them in lots of countries, including the US. For example, here is someone being arrested in Kansas for clapping too loudly during a meeting: https://www.kbtx.com/2026/07/27/teacher-arrested-repeatedly-... It's absolutely right that this sort of thing is reported and it's right for people to be outraged about it. However, I'd be cautious about drawing overly sweeping conclusions about the UK from such cases.

That's a substantially larger vote share than any other party:

https://electionresults.parliament.uk/general-elections/6

The electoral college would throw up equally weird results if the US didn't have a fully two-party system. (How's that working out?)

Well, the breakdowns are according to the offences the arrests come under. The police can't really release official figures for "arrests that would seen unjustifiable to libertarian-leaning HN readers", or "arrests for things that would not be a crime in the US".

That’s beyond about 90% of the population.

I'm not really trying to 'refute' the original statement. Certainly, an LLM is just doing some calculations that can be done deterministically in principle. However, I think it's worth pointing out that there are practical barriers to doing those particular calculations both deterministically and efficiently. People who worry about LLM output not being reproducible aren't necessarily misunderstanding what an LLM is doing; they are responding to a real feature of most practical LLM implementations.

>An LLM is just as deterministic as any other computer program. For identical inputs (which includes the PRNG seed) it produces identical outputs.

This is not really true in practice because of multi-threading and out-of-order execution. Mathematically equivalent orderings of operations are not equivalent when dealing with floating point values, so most practical LLM implementations end up being non-deterministic.

>It’s strange how one eyebrow (in the back) got completely obliterated while the other looks completely fine, and it’s even stranger how the texture of the collar (in front) is basically perfect on the left where it’s unobstructed but basically destroyed on the right where some hair escaping from the braids was in front of it

As I mentioned in another comment, even this isn't strange when you consider that the areas where detail is lost are in shadow (compared to the similar areas where more detail is preserved). That means less contrast, which means more detail lost to denoising.

Repairing an aperture mechanism on a regular camera lens is a pretty specialised job, so it's not exactly surprising that repairing a much smaller and more delicate mechanism is outside the reach of most repair shops.