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David Allen Green is a great commentator on law in the UK. During the Brexit period, he was a contributing editor to the Financial Times, with similarly insightful analyses of how Boris Johnson et al were misusing the government's legal powers.

Anyway, David also posted this to his non-gated "The Law and Policy Blog" at [1].

[1] https://davidallengreen.com/2023/09/computer-says-guilty-an-...

There are more comments there, including this one from me (written for his blog's legal/non-technical audience, not for the HN crowd!):

"There has been a big shift in the practice of computer programming in the last 25 years. In the “old days”, software was delivered on floppy disks or tape, and pretty much had to be correct first time.

Nowadays, everything is on the web, “agile” means the functionality gets delivered incrementally in 2-week sprints. It is regarded as ok to leave out the difficult cases or ship bugs, provided they don’t affect too many users too much of the time. In other words, the software is never really finished.

With that in mind, it becomes simple to rebut the presumption of correctness: if the company’s tech organisation describes itself as “agile”, using “scrum” etc, its software – by design – contains bugs and omissions, both known and unknown.

Fortunately, modern development practices means evidence for this will be in the dev tickets in GitHub, Azure DevOps or whatever other systems their dev teams use."
In many companies using work laptops for private stuff is considered a security issue and a breach of work contract, not everyone actively checks it, it is however an easy way to fire someone when something like this happens.
I use my company laptop for personal things all the time. My personal computer is some kind of space heater that can also run video games, so I don’t use it by default. I can afford a third device but I have better things to do with the money.

Of course I aim to respect the security rules of my company. I trust my company. I wouldn’t enjoy working for a company that I wouldn’t trust with my browser cookies.

The laws are also on my side in my jurisdiction. I cannot be fired simply because I did something my company didn’t enjoy on the company laptop. They need a really good reason.
I would appreciate if someone wrote here their opinion on Matriarch [1], an application of category theory to biology/physics via software.

[1] https://web.mit.edu/matriarch/
Can you explain the larger pattern you are talking about?
You are speculating about intents some other people might have.

Let's take the issue in vacuum first. Either you hold your privacy as more important than X, or you are willing to compromise some of your privacy in the name of X-- there's no third option. Eg. in case of airport security or CCTV in some public space suddenly everyone is OK compromising personal privacy in the name of personal life and safety.

Now finally let's get back to those other people whom you suspect of having an agenda to surveil everybody. If they honestly tried to combat child abuse, how do you see them going about it?
The 1% are difficult to learn, because you only need them in 1% of the cases ;)
I'm not making that assumption. I'm thinking that either I'm a zombie or you're insane.
Yeah I was thinking about that. Even asking me to use a specific package for any reason, I probably wouldn't think much of that before today. However now I'd certainly question it.
Someone who needs to. In this case, the victim worked for an aerospace company. I know some people in that industry and all of them work insanely long hours. On top of that, it was a Spanish company, so working for 10+ hours a day would be expected.
Amba, popular in Iraq and Israel, is similar and has its roots in India:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amba_(condiment)
This sounds (to my layman self) like one of those situations where the IBM team that assembles nifty constructs atom by atom could be of assistance.

https://research.ibm.com/projects/atom-and-molecule-manipula...
There are quite a number of AI firms in China working on LLMs. Actually, about half the research I follow is from Chinese institutions.
Companies don't want to give employees any warning that they're about to be fired - because that would give the employee a chance to do some damage (modify or destroy data, steal IP, etc). The person who's being fired shouldn't know that it's going to happen until they sit down in the meeting, and all their access should be revoked before they leave the meeting room.

It sucks for the employee - but it would be negligent for the company to let them continue to have access once they know that they're being fired.

However, it's much better practice to do it with a more generic kind of meeting invite (or even just not scheduling the meeting), rather than creating a fake and positive sounding one.
4s: Saturation + sexy Screenshots sell. If you want to be competitive in a saturated market you goto have AAA graphics for promotion. Thus tons of work.
This sounds like what they have in GitLab merge request flow: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/merge_requests/versi...
I really want to share all the details but I am trying not to risk the 4 weeks of severance they have offered, which is unfortunately important for me in this job market :(
What exactly did you do over the wifi? How do you think they were able to access your private SSH key by simply having your laptop join their wifi? Did you leave the laptop unattended and unlocked?
Let's assume they're right. Even so, they emphasize that the structure of LK99 is so finicky, so sensitive to a misplaced atom here or there, so prone to confusing performance in the real world due to inhomogeneity, that it's practically impossible to "get it right" with current materials synthesis technologies. It's something that literally has to be grown from the bottom-up, atom by atom --- in bulk, that's essentially a UFO-tier tech.

And that's if their models and assumptions are correct. If it works.

The way I see it, the best this material can do for us is advance our theoretical understanding of superconductivity. There's no grand theory of how molecular/crystal structure relates to superconductivity. But maybe we've gotten a little bit closer.
> because they don‘t want to give up their lifestyle

Almost. They want the same lifestyles that their parents had growing up. I do blame the housing market for this. If you rent for the rest of your life, nothing will stop your rent from increasing and your wages from stagnating, and those two lines will cross at some point. With kids it's sooner. The only security you can have is to own a home to guard against any future price gouging.
That type of processing is super common in DJing, but the understanding of how it interacts with lossy files is not.
You are so conspiratorial! I just can't believe that anyone would want total control of everyone else's data, while remaining entirely anonymous and unaccountable themselves! /s

I actually think that it's coming to the point that the gains of technology, even large bits such as 'the internet' or mobile phones, are so inhuman that it's not worth it. I think modern tech can easily be characterised an almost entirely subsumed for governmental and corporate control. If we thought giving banks licenses to print money was bad, giving these nefarious entities control over everyone's data will be far worse.
>> If there is shortage of workforce there will be shortage of goods

Are we sure about this because a shortage of workforce leading to a shortage of services makes sense but the same doesn’t hold for goods I don’t think?

E.g. I don’t really see myself going to a robot physiotherapist for example. I can’t see how productivity improvements (capital investment in automation for example) can universally improve service production - there are some cases for sure but plenty of gaps.

On the goods side, i don’t care if my TV was made by a robot rather than a craftsperson. As i understand it, the energy and labour required to produce comparable goods today is less than yesterday.

As i understand it, services have gotten relatively more expensive over time as goods have done the opposite. These costs I’m led to believe can be seen as a proxy for labour costs since labour is often the most expensive part and as production volume increases the cost to produce a good tends towards the cost of its material inputs.
Not that I disbelieve you strict couplists...but I am finding it hard to believe you.

Are you saying that when someone tells you, "Would you mind waiting a couple of minutes," that in all honesty you literally expect to wait two minutes, no more and no less?

Or that if someone in authority says, "I've got a couple of minor issues with your submission," you feel confident they will mention two and only two issues, and never start out with two but work their way up to seven?

I grant that the canonical expected value of a couple is "two." But it seems to me the reason people use "couple" as opposed to "pair" or just "two" is because it allows for some metaphorical wiggle-room.
Open-Source Visual Field Examination Using VR Headset
It sounds like you'd benefit a lot from Nix/NixOS [1], if not just home-manager[2].

1. https://nixos.org/

2. https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager
Was this not already pointed out in one of the theoretical papers during the initial replication attempt including the judgment that the interesting crystal structure is unlikely to be producable because it is not energetically favored?
Apple announcing that stupid Csam scanning started all of this and they proved it's possible.

An absolutely stupid and disastrous move.
I think the distinction between "processed food" and "ready food" is important here. Not all processed foods are bad - I am not paid to say this, but after doing a lot of preliminary research into Huel some 3 years ago, I've lived off it for weeks at a time when time-constrained or lazy. I usually feel better overall for it (fuller, prolonged energy), which for me, meant less snacking.

On account of the higher carbs, I can't speak so much to their "instant meals", but the powders are a pretty even split of carbs/fats/protein, with the black powder being primarily protein for a slightly higher cost.
Tangerine skin in China/Canton area ( I believe ), used for different cuisines, it can be decade old as well, generally it seems to be more dried than packed with spices, it gives a delicious fragrance.

https://guide.michelin.com/mo/en/article/dining-in/ingredien...
Dong Jianbiao, the father of Dong Yaoqiong, who authorities disappeared for splashing ink on a poster of President Xi Jinping in 2018, died in a prison in Hunan province.

The new Measures on the Administration of Internet Religious Information Services came into effect in March, prohibiting individuals or groups from teaching or otherwise propagating religion online without official approval. A widely used Catholic app, CathAssist, shut down in August because it was unable to obtain a license.

Authorities in Jilin province forcibly disappeared human rights lawyer Tang Jitian.

A court in Shandong province held secret trials of prominent legal scholar Xu Zhiyong and human rights lawyer Ding Jiaxi for “subversion.” Their verdicts were unknown at time of writing. The men were detained in 2020 and 2019 respectively after organizing a small gathering to discuss human rights and democracy issues.

https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2023/country-chapters/china
BastilleBSD Changes Its Bastille.conf Config Format
BastilleBSD Jails on FreeBSD
Sorry I haven’t followed the latest developments to run at scale since the summer. I don’t have concurrent users so llama.cpp or diffusers are good enough for me.
A friend told me to get down to "The Pub" on friday as she would bring someone she thougt I ought to meet.

I was a year or so out of a 15 years relationship by then and she knew I had started to 'look around' again
As I understand, D is a pragmatic vision of how C++ could look like if it was not C++ (that is, not designed by committee, without decades of backward compat needed, without the need to support some exotic hardware, etc.) It aims to completely drop the "C with classes" heritage, bring OOP and FP together while integrating important concepts into the language (delegates instead of function pointers, strings instead of char arrays, slices instead of T[], etc.)

While Nim indeed comes from Wirthian heritage instead of K&R heritage, its goals are pretty similar to D. You could say that Nim is for (Object)Pascal what D is for C(++). I think that's what the GP alluded to - not that Nim borrows directly from D or the other way around.
Absolutely, and they should have the right to be reinvented for public occasions to cheer and honor them the way it is meant to be.
Before type hints we had doc strings. "This function takes arguments of the following type and returns a value of this other type. Trust me bro!". Type hints and the ecosystem around them are without any doubt a net progress.
Changesets in Gerrit are more easier to manage from processes and UX standpoint. There is no branch/commit/comment/rebase/commit/resolve-staled-comment/fight-for-true-pr-merging-strategy dance.

I'm doing a lot of review work and changesets are a killer feature not to lost in comments. Even for small-ish 50 line reviews.

Changesets especially powerful with local stack based development tools like stgit which allows to completely remove branch management.
Is it still a slippery slope fallacy when someone at the bottom of the first slope argues for further slopes?
For me, it solves the "problem" of getting nutrients fast and effortlessly. When I don't feel like cooking, it allows me to get the energy I need, while avoiding fattening or, generally speaking, poorly nutrient food.
This is very creative, I love out of the box thinking like this. Well done!
That's... kind of how laws work. They don't actually need justification, except that they were duly passed.
Well an interesting hack (of a hack) was pirated / imported games couldn't be played because they didn't have a specific chip. They did have splitters so you took the chip signal from a genuine cart, and the other game plugged in the other port.

So you could have your camera and printer.
I've not been in the situation yet, but it makes sense to me.

Accepting a patch like that can be a significant commitment of time and brain power. "What exactly does this fix? Does it actually fix it?". Such patches can be a lot more complicated than a straightforward new feature.

And then there's that oddball compilers may not support everything gcc and clang do, so making them happy may actually mean sacrificing something.
Proxmox can also automatically provision zfs underneath, automatically set up ceph across nodes, has a nice ui for the firewall and more. Maybe the benefit is convenience.
> I have little time these days

This contradicts everything else you say or imply here. Try to see how you fool yourself here.

If meeting a spouse is not that important — don’t pretend it is, just live your life as usual.

If it is important — then realize that it is not a business, not a process to measure ROI, not a jira ticket to resolve and forget etc.

you have to start trusting your gut feelings and be prepared to give away a substantial part of your time, your life, your energy to this new family you want to build together.
You can probably find allies among those on the campaign against "more optimal".
No - common usage is clearly more than 2. In the context of relationships I completely agree because no one says "They are a two".

But when you are in the context of quantity, "a couple" is a quicker way of saying "between 2 and 3/4/5" .

There are no "rules" in English, only conventions. It is a product of whoever speaks it and whatever they bring with them, and as such is forever changing and evolving without any control or authority.
I agree in principle, however I was in marketing without access to IP or social accounts etc that, hypothetically, a disgruntled employee could use to cause brand damage. What's also ironic is that my access to their company slack is still working
Yes, NYC has Wi-Fi at many shops and restaurants, and at the very least, it has these LinkNYC stations that provide free Wi-Fi along with Google Maps and other services.

https://www.link.nyc
Code Golfing in Commodore BASIC
Police police Police police police police Police police.
I also live in Europe and also in my experience healthy salads are often an available choice. However, "salads" are often tricky, because the calorie count can go up very fast (eggs, cheese, side bread, crumbles, etc.), while thinking of eating "only a salad"
I haven't used GitHub in a while but absolutely all of the author's issues are fixed in gitlab and I have a hard time believing GitHub is that far behind.
No, I have much to worry about.
I dont want people to read my private conversations, private photos and anything i don't want to be public.

They can catche them without such stupid measures, that will make any secure communication impossible for the masses.
True for some cases, but not everyone embarking in those Gamedev journeys are competent developers able to land those jobs. If you see testimonials, they're often people coming from different walks of life, doing a micro-game (often following a tutorial) and then deciding to stop everything for a few months or even years.

Doing those mid-level games is arguably equivalent to taking a low-paid internship.
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> The second part could also be the other way round. If there is easy access to CSAM maybe there will be less abuse. I could see either case be true, or that the availability of such material does not change incidence of abuse st all.

This is actually my opinion but I have no hard data on this. Is it feasible to apply the same logic as with video games where realistic killing is depicted and the argument is that this doesn't make people killers in real life?
He also helped to popularize "bacon and eggs for breakfast" and water fluoridation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_relations_campaigns_o...
For the ones who remember BeOS and its history, from Wikipedia : In 2002, Be Inc. sued Microsoft claiming that Hitachi had been dissuaded from selling PCs loaded with BeOS, and that Compaq had been pressured not to market an Internet appliance in partnership with Be. Be also claimed that Microsoft acted to artificially depress Be Inc.'s initial public offering (IPO). The case was eventually settled out of court for $23.25 million with no admission of liability on Microsoft's part.
Ooh, this is an interesting set of comments. I'm currently trying to turn a really old Midimam Keystation 61 into a toy synth for my 3x 10 year old nephews (triplets). I'm using a spare Raspberry pi 4 so it's all gonna be Linux based. But I actually want to make it completely headless because DAWs are too complex and, IMHO, get between the person and the noises they're making. My goal is to hook up a Korg nanoKONTROL2 and use it as the only extra "surface" between the kid and the music. I'm at the very early stages of it right now but I can choose one of 16 midi channels, hit a key and make a noise. I haven't actually done anything with the nano.
Women who've had kids live longer & have fewer diseases btw. Breastfeeding reduces risk of breast cancer. It's not such a bad deal actually.
Is blackface really accepted in Europe? Like, minstrel shows with white people putting shoe polish on their faces and acting like a bunch of stereotypes? saying "mammy?" surely not, right?
Another couple of common words that can cause confusion are “last” and “next” in reference to days of the week. If today is Monday, for example, when are “next Wednesday,” “next Thursday,” “next Friday,” and “next Saturday”? The same week? Or the following week? What about if today is Sunday or Tuesday?

Twenty years ago, when I was working as a dictionary editor, I wrote a note about the problem:

https://www.gally.net/leavings/00/0014.html
For those who've never experienced one:

Navigating ploughed fields was part of the design brief for the 2CV (note for Americans: it's pronounced "der shev-VOH", not "2 C. V.")

The light weight was the biggest factor in their performance in the mud. Those skinny wheels put a lot of circumference down. And the suspension travel was generous.

On the road, the 2CV was a bouncy ride. I would not describe it as comfortable, but it was certainly not harsh - a 2CV will bounce you about but never jolt you. Dignity without gravitas, perhaps.

If you ever meet an owner, ask for a ride. It's an experience. I adore them and would love to own one, although note that I'm not in the dating scene any more. And yes, Jay Leno has one.
You're absolutely right, the author's problem imply massive pull requests that I wouldn't accept in my workplace.
I don't actually believe this sort of middle is missing in market. There is plenty enough of them. And these day they qualify as small games.

Middle games are step or two above these. But they suffer from needing both budget and good marketing. But cannot afford either unless they accidentally become hits... AAAs can push both as marketing will bring the sales to fund itself and development.
Tell HN: Flask and Quart have now partially merged
Flask is a web microframework built to be used with WSGI servers and synchronous code. Quart is the same web microframework built to be used with ASGI servers and asynchronous code. In other words Flask and Quart are now the same base framework as they share the majority of their codebases.

This means that you can use the same framework API and understanding to write synchronous code with Flask, and asynchronous code with Quart.

It is important to note that Flask cannot be made asynchronous without breaking extension and backwards compatibility, or without using monkeypatching. Therefore, Quart is best viewed as a namespace for async/await usages.

Questions and comments very welcome. (I'm struggling a little thinking about how best to communicate this)
Isn't that basically what we are debating about? It is clear that "common" usage differs substantially where while some use your definition, others mean mine. And anyway, it is also clear that, based on many dictionaries, the original definition at least always meant two.
Yeah?

You can still drink diabetes in a can or choose your liter size from Coca Cola or Pepsi or Faygo within 15 feet of a building entrance in Texas.

No sin taxes either. But yeah, just tobacco companies and their…spin offs?

Many of todays unhealthy foods are actually the fault of generic laziness and over work under paid conditions in the US. But sure, tell me more about how the Washington Post did a great job publishing Bezos’s dick pics in the name of…well, clickbait gonna clickbait
And that is only the one we know of.

There are thousands of cases that are hidden in the bowels of the post office court system

Oh and the compensation are uh... let say hard to get the money for.
> There is, at least for me and many others, simply no tangible, concrete reason to have kids, beyond the nebulous sense of pride and accomplishment

I used to feel like that... until I had children. It is an experience that can't be understood until you live through it. We can use words to try and describe it, but to a non-parent it will sound like a "nebulous sense of pride and accomplishment" because of how far removed it is from their past experiences. It's like trying to use words to explain music to a person who has never felt it.
I agree with your description, but having the same fidelity is still very different from actually hearing it (having an auditory hallucination). Visualization being more hollow than auditory imagination makes sense because of the much higher bandwidth of visual information.

My impression is that individual differences lie much less in the actual mental abilities than in how people interpret and describe those abilities.
Clever and probably they had a high percentage success rate