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incone123··on 4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC
It was a win under the rules but a memorably shallow one. Labour won a big majority of seats in 2024 on fewer votes (grand total) than when they lost handsomely in 2019.
incone123··on 4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC
That barely got covered in the UK news, but if wealthy rural people (who don't have good wired or cellular internet) get told their Starlink is getting banned it will be much more newsworthy.
incone123··on A statistical analysis of Rotten Tomatoes
I read some of the IMDb reviews and a person making a case for a film with a low score can tip the scales for me.
incone123··on Staff disquiet as Alan Turing Institute faces identity crisis
Had he not bothered with the work and the axis powers had been victorious, we would be executing homosexuals today. Modern threats from Russia and Iran hardly bode any better. Your reasoning that putting his name on an institution that does as much liberal arts as it does science is ok but not if it does defence work, is hard to fathom.
incone123··on Staff disquiet as Alan Turing Institute faces identity crisis
Given Alan Turing's work in the defense field, I do not think it grotesque to put his name on defence work.
incone123··on Sunny days are warm: why LinkedIn rewards mediocrity
Might be an effect of your location, field and 3rd order connections. Also India is a big place with a lot of people in or looking for white collar jobs. Granted so is China so I guess the difference is LinkedIn is not so popular in China.
incone123··on The End of Tesla?
You and the other person may be talking at cross purposes. I took them to mean self driving cars give you a taxi experience without the labour cost of a human driver.
incone123··on Fairness is what the powerful 'can get away with' study shows
We used to have the concept of the divine right of kings. The current arrangements are a step down from that. Your framing has it back to front.
incone123··on It Looks Like a School Bathroom Smoke Detector. It Could Be an Audio Bug
In the movies they usually sneak in and replace your genuine gadget with a modified one. more effective use of resources.
incone123··on Police asked Cotswolds residents for social media details
More recent reports are the police denying they did this. But the police have not got a great image on this topic at the moment which is probably why the headline is plausible.
incone123··on What does Palantir actually do?
News reported it was data getting passed around as a spreadsheet attached to emails. Ironically it would have been possible to build a case management tool with rbac on Palantir Foundry and avoid that screwup.
incone123··on Why does AI feel so different?
Yes. It came off as sneering.
incone123··on Claude says “You're absolutely right!” about everything
I never saw any formal analysis, just a few anecdotal blog posts. Your colleagues might have seen the same kind of thing and taken it at face value. It might even be good advice for some models and tasks - whole topic moves so fast!
incone123··on Claude says “You're absolutely right!” about everything
I was a bit unfair then. That sounds like someone with good intent tried to put something together to help colleagues. And it's definitely not the only time I heard of negative prompting being a recommended approach.
incone123··on Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England
Not in Britain there isn't. We have constant retail theft and violence against staff and the Police and Crime Commissioner for Thames Valley asking the public to do the crime fighting

https://www.witneygazette.co.uk/news/25365950.thames-valley-...

incone123··on Claude says “You're absolutely right!” about everything
That your firm purchased training that was clearly just some chancers doing whatever seems like an even worse approach than just giving out access to a service and telling everyone to give it a shot.

Do they also post vacancies asking for 5 years experience in a 2 year old technology?

incone123··on Why does AI feel so different?
They all went to public school?
incone123··on UK government advises deleting emails to save water
Great to see the grown ups are back in charge.
incone123··on UK government advises deleting emails to save water
Only boiling the water you need for tea saves energy and time but won't save water unless you were throwing away unused hot water.
incone123··on StarDict sends X11 clipboard to remote servers
It aired on BBC World Service a long time ago. Apparently some guy wrote in from India to complain that robots (ie Marvin) shouldn't be employed in place of human actors. I wonder if he is still around to see how _that_ turned out.
incone123··on Tesla used car prices keep plumetting, dips below average used car
You're right. Amazon UK has a great selection of used ThinkPads with worn out batteries. Fine if you have no plan to use it away from mains power. If something has a battery, I would rather buy new.
incone123··on I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C
I have a Garmin with a monochrome LCD face. Ok, it can't compete on price but battery life is a couple of weeks (and can top up with solar) so the proprietary cable is not a big problem.
incone123··on Show HN: Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source TTS Model
You're right. I should have used Marvin from Hitchhiker's Guide as an example instead. There's very light processing on his speech.
incone123··on I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me
Profitable schmofitable! But seriously, that is orthogonal to whether those figures are rounding errors at anthropic's financial level.
incone123··on AI is propping up the US economy
I've read some complete nonsense in those summaries. I use LLMs for other things but I don't find this application useful because I would need to trust it, and I don't.
incone123··on AI is propping up the US economy
You imply the UK is a rich country...
incone123··on Show HN: Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source TTS Model
Depends on the movie. Ash and Bishop in the Alien franchise sound human until there's a dramatic reason to sound more 'robotic'.

I agree with your wider point. I use Google TTS with Moon+Reader all the time (I tried audio books read by real humans but I prefer the consistency of TTS)

incone123··on I tried to replace myself with ChatGPT in my English class
From the title I thought this was going to be about a student using AI to take their place in class. I imagined a modern version of the montage in Real Genius (1985) where students leave tape recorders on their seats in the lecture hall.
incone123··on Facts will not Save You - AI, History and Soviet Sci-Fi
Reminds me of my Czech friend explaining some of the subtle humour in 'Kolya' which I would never have got just from the English subtitles.
incone123··on Live coding interviews measure stress, not coding skills
Even if the cash headline is less, some people will consider being your own boss makes up for that.
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