skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Post Office knew that the Horizon system was deeply flawed and that the prosecutions they were pursuing were unsound. They intentionally covered up this fact. The courts adjudicated based on evidence provided by the Post Office, but that evidence intentionally omitted things like error logs that would have undermined their case. The defendants had a right to see that evidence, but the Post Office simply denied that it existed. The Post Office were helped by the fact that the rules of evidence presume that computer records are accurate unless shown otherwise - the burden was on the defence to show that Horizon was flawed, not on the Post Office to show that it was reliable.

Lots of things had to go wrong for this miscarriage of justice to happen, but at the core of it all is the fact that the Post Office lied for years - to the defendants, to the courts, to the media, to government. Things should have been handled differently, the case has revealed a number of systematic failings that need to be urgently addressed, but there's only so much the legal system can do to defend against very sophisticated people who engage in a determined campaign of deceit. We can reduce the risk of something like this happening again, but sadly we can't eliminate that risk entirely.

https://davidallengreen.com/2024/01/how-the-legal-system-mad...
of course they do, that's what they want. control.

all those companies that call for laws being written about AI
what they want is those laws to be written AS THEY WANT THEM TO BE.
they go see the governments, spray a nice amount of FUD and EXPLAIN to them what to do, how to do it because they know how to avoid the danger and risk for the whole human race...

you can bet they will make those laws be a very nice fit to what they want to reign supreme and make sure any competition is eliminated.
Anyone have any updated figures, 7 years later?
Between the shitty obviously-AI-generated square header image with floating hands everywhere, the equally shitty obviously-AI-generated image in the middle and the "Please pay for Medium" banner which takes up literally half the page, this blog post does its utmost to make a truly terrible impression.
The good thing about a Dualit is that, because (with repairs) they last approximately forever, you can always buy one second-hand.

I paid about 3x what I would normally pay for a toaster for one on eBay. I expect it to last much more than 3x as long (a decent standard toaster usually lasts us around 3 years before something breaks unrepairably).
The meme that linguistic relativity has been debunked is a uniquely anglophone phenomenon :)
Some people suck at management, some people suck at coding, and some people suck at self-awareness.

I can think of two things that I believe would make a difference in any LargeCorp: First, a standarized way to visualise and execute business logic that allows developers and management to reason together. (The no-code movement is on the right track in fostering a common way to interface with code). And second, a responsible editor for each piece of code.

I think a key factor is that software historically hasn't enjoyed industrialisation to the degree of hardware (or construction for that matter). I can buy a standardized CPU of millions of transistors and integrate it into a standardized motherboard with just a snap. We have managed to standardize software up to the OS level, but after that it's up to the developer and her shortcomings.

https://www.codevalley.com/ does some interesting work.
> LMs might disrupt knowledge-based economy and threaten many key professions - but how is this conceptually different from any technological revolution?

To me it looks like all work can eventually (within years or few decades at most) be done by AI, much cheaper and faster than hiring a human to do the same. So we're looking at a world where all human thinking and effort is irrelevant. If you can imagine a good world like that, then you have a better imagination than me.

From that perspective it almost doesn't matter if AI kills us or merely sends us to the dust bin of history. Either way it's a bad direction and we need to stop going in that direction. Stop all development of machine-based intelligence, like in Dune, as the root comment said.
Having X resources and Y dedicated threads that operate on them, where Y > X, and allowing a thread to block in a way that requires the assistance of another thread to make progress but only when it's holding a resource, is a perfectly reasonable, standard, and safe design. When a change to the runtime silently reduces the number of synchronized sections a program can enter concurrently, it's not at all surprising that this breaks working code.
My wife and I get IG ads for threads that are full of racist, bigoted posts by its users. We have no idea why, since we never click on those sorts of post, and our IG accounts are 100% hobby centric between our own posts and follows. As such, I have not touched Threads and keep telling IG the ads are not relevant to my interests.

Presumably that is not your experience with it. It's wild how easily an algorithm can skew our perception.
Ultratec technology timeline
Banning AI is simply useless. It's a technology that anyone with sufficient processing power and access to the internet can use, so trying to ban it is guaranteed to fail just like prohibiting alcohol would be.

The only thing we can do is limit how megacorps can openly abuse the technology.
So they're the PETA of AI. It was bound to happen, AI stuff seems to strike a very emotional chord in some people.
OTOH, GPUs are made by machines, not by greasy fingers hand-knitting them like back in the late 1960s.

And an AI can just be wrong, which happens a lot; an AI wrongly thinking it should kill everyone may still succeed at that, though I doubt the capability would be as early as next year.
There is definitely a sensemaking process where organizations have to figure out what it is that they really need. But I wouldn't fault organizations for that. Most startups go through the same process trying to figure out product-market fit and you don't see those startups blaming their customers for not knowing what they want.
This is why a real hybrid car would be ideal. Front axle driven by ICE, and rear by electric motor and a battery with say 100 mile range. For 90% of the rides, the 100 mile electric drive train is enough, and you almost ride operational cost free if you also have solar panels and charge at home. There is no anxiety for extreme weather or those occasional long trips because the ICE got you covered. I don’t know if any car does this combination without breaking the bank.
What does the "Compression" in the name mean? Is it compressing data, RAM Doubler style? Or does it mean the physical form factor is smaller? Or what?
how do freemasons fit in all of this ? i heard that a lot of salor crew were made freemason aboard ships travelling to the East Indies, so that family received a pension in case of shipwreck/death/injury. Also, they are known for secrecy and like networking all over world.

Spycast : "Venice’s Secret Service" – with Ioanna Iordanou

see : https://thecyberwire.com/podcasts/spycast/592/notes
For a beta, I don’t see this work well, if at all.

Firstly, you’d have to park in the sun a lot of the time. That may be doable, but is certainly challenging in many cities, where I would think most cars get parked during daylight hours (and many cars parked at home could just be connected to a larger rooftop solar array that, likely, catches more sunlight per m² than a car parked near to a house)

Then, you’d be willing to unfold and fold it whenever you park. “Only a minute” each, I fear, is too long for most drivers especially on relatively short stops such as those people make during lunch time in the USA.

Also, this contraption kills the carefully designed streamline of your car. A roof rack impacts performance by at least 5%. I don’t see this being better.

The site should, at least, mention range loss due to driving with this.
I apologise for calling you daft.

Here's a re-wording of our conversation without that; you decide how you want to take it.

me: I am sad because people are clearly using these tools without understanding them; here is a specific example and reason of why what they're trying to do doesn't work.

you: these tools cannot be understood.

me: not only is that is literally false, it's obviously and self evidently false, and I just gave you a specific example of how; I can't take anything you say as being in good faith when you believe that anything to do with AI is literally unfathomable, and you can't even be bothered responding to what I actually wrote.

Maybe, looking into it, you would find that it's not nearly as complicated or difficult as you imagine.

If not, I guess we have nothing to talk about.

This kind of attitude is why I'm sad.

/shrug
This is the recommended stuff as seen from on one single server. It doesn't represent one's experience.

The whole point of Mastodon is to only get what you want, not the rest. It's easy to build your own network of sources. The explore feed is useless :)
> The IT engineer says: “Hey guys, I have an idea, how about we all get out of the car and get back in”.

I have worked with ECU programming. When test drivers got stuck and called me it was the first thing I told them. "Restart the vehicle". If that didn't work, "disconnect the battery and wait 5 minutes".

They quickly learned.
The article written by Bill Gates very much glosses over anything Welch did, with the notable exception of praising him as someone who wrote a bunch of books and who was looked at as a visionary.

He goes on to mention a few things for the downfall:

* Lack of understanding of financial investments by the management and executives

* Encouraging hearing 'good news' and hiding 'bad news' by leadership, which meant they were ignorant of many festering problems that needed fixing

* Diversity in enterprise -- lack of ability for anyone to understand how all the pieces fit together

* Cooking the books to keep Wall Street happy

I think perhaps you took something from the article that wasn't present, or I missed the part where he attributed 'simplistic' causes.

However, in my personal opinion I think Gates is too close to the situation and the actors to have a qualified and unbiased opinion. Refusing to blame Welch for anything besides being slightly ignorant of financial complexities illustrates that he isn't willing to look at Welch's leadership critically.
That was nearly 22 years ago. Does the same attack still work against most modern biometric scanners?
Government knows that random people having the ability to use "AI" without their control and oversight reduces their ever expanding reach. As the article demonstrates, the groundwork is already being laid by these "think tanks" to prevent a repeat of Llama 2.

We truly need an AI Stallman. FOSS AI models need to become a movement, like the push for a FOSS UNIX became in the 80s and 90s. Sadly when I wrote to Stallman on the subject he seemed disinterested/defeatist, and mostly dismissed the idea of a GPL for model weights. Looks like millennials/gen Z must become more interested in these matters ourselves, however we seem to be disinterested in politics and even more disinterested in how the devices we use daily _actually_ work than Gen X.
There's a quality spectrum of AI-generated images, sure, but they're all equally artistically void.
It'd be a bit late to build the castle after the major military campaign, so the lack of campaigns doesn't mean the castles wouldn't get built in case of the future eventuality.

It might go so far that perhaps the reason the area never saw major military campaigns is because of the defensibility of it's castles?
In Belarus where the author is from people don't have many options.
This was already back in 2008/2009. At the time, I posted about my approach in online forums to ask for coding advice. Through those, I got to meet the creators of two more organizations that used a similar approach for PC gaming news pages.

And this was for the German market only. So I am quite sure that it was more common in the US at an earlier time, as they are usually ahead of us.
HR here means Human Resources, right? I have never heard of them needing to approve of any hiring. Finance and some director high enough needs to approve.
Optimizing Prettier's CLI: A Performance Deep Dive
You don't have to 'install' event handlers, there are no event objects, and there's no event loop like:

while (uiEvent = uiGetNextEvent()) {
uiHandleEvent(uiEvent);
}

...and it would never enter my mind to call this an 'event handler':

if (Button("Click Me!")) {
printf("Button Clicked!");
}

One very nice side effect of this immediate mode style code is that it 'runs on a linear timeline', e.g. you can step through the code in a debugger without having to put breakpoints inside 'event handlers'.

How all this is implemented inside the immediate mode UI framework isn't relevant. The 'immediate mode idea' is only about the user-facing code which describes the UI, not the internal implementation (those can vastly differ, and could even manage a 'retained mode' widget tree under the hood).
I would guess "compressing" the pins against pads, like tightening down a traditional lga desktop cpu
Yesterday I was looking at a credit card sized multi tool which had a perfect description in Hungarian except one thing, the auto translation picked "emperor" for ruler and not another word which should have meant the measuring thing :)
Does anybody really struggle so much with vim that in the occasional circumstance they have to quickly edit files on a remote server, they are totally brickwalled, and need to install a total conversion config?

That seems insane to me. A few years ago I decided to "get good" at vim, and I learned a handful of new tricks. A few new ways to select text, macros, new ways to navigate, etc. But before that, I was perfectly capable of navigating documents and editing them with the arrow keys, just using "i" and "<Esc>".

It seems like the only person for whom this would be helpful is someone who has no clue what vim is, and doesn't understand modes at all. That kind of person is likely not going to be able to even find this repo, let alone install the configuration.
I love them. How quickly people forget… waiting in line for over 10 minutes wasn’t all that uncommon back it the day.

Doesn’t really matter though. The next gen tech is coming soon. You won’t have to scan anymore and theft will be next to impossible.
But if we have 100,000 people with RTX 4090s mining some new AI based cryptocurrency, that happens to train the model in the process, it's going to be a highly effective system. And we can do it anonymously over Tor or I2P.
Really sad to see Europe spiral back into stagnation.

"In 2008, the eurozone and the US had equivalent gross domestic products (GDP) at current prices of $14.2 trillion and $14.8 trillion respectively (€13.1 trillion and €13.6 trillion). Fifteen years on, the eurozone's GDP is just over $15 trillion, while US GDP has soared to $26.9 trillion."

Any thoughts as to the disparity in growth? How do we correct course? Do we need to?
Is JIT for JavaScript supported on RISC-V? This was an issue in PPC for a long time.
I think if a handful of people had been prosecuted then it would still be an outrage but understandable. But this was hundreds of cases. I think the legal system has some responsibility for not maybe thinking "Huh, what are the chances of so many previously law abiding people all committing the same crime in the same time period?".
It’s not about having a PhD. If I pay to have a house built, the point of paying money to a construction company is that I don’t know how to build a house. I’m hiring them because they’re experts and I’m not. If the house falls down and kills someone, the construction company is responsible. I don’t know how to tell if a building is safe because I’m not a working engineer. (And even if I was, it’s still the construction company’s job to build my house properly. That’s what I’m paying them for.)

In software, it’s the same. Your employer hires you because they need an expert. It’s your job to take responsibility for the software you write. Even if the CEO has a PhD, it’s not the job of senior management to review your code. And - trust me - they don’t want to. Instead take responsibility for your own work. You are worth your paycheck because you know how to build software well. Stop trying to shirk your job.
Remember correlation does not imply causation.

Apple prices and divorce rates are correlated too!
I totally agree, but we should concede that the defaults need to accommodate the next billion users instead. I propose that a distribution ought to have the right to:

- Easy-mode as sensible-editor

- runtime mswin.vim, set nocompatible, etc as the skel vimrc

These are easier to change than driving new users to Google “how to exit vi”.

But remapping Ctrl-O, like this post, is a breaking change.
> Judges... don't understand that.

I think for the courts the issue is a bit more subtle. The question is, who's job is it to prove that the other person is wrong ("burden of proof")? Should it be the job of the prosecutor to prove that Intel's processor produces the right answer when an ADD instruction is executed? Or should it be the job of the defendant to show that Intel's processor doesn't produce the right answer? What about proving that the compiler produced binaries which faithfully represent the algorithm? What about Excel?

In our normal life, if a computer is doing the wrong thing, we don't start by assuming a broken compiler; we start by assuming that the new, not-well-tested code is probably broken.

It seems that in the UK before the 90's, the burden of proof was always on the prosecutor to prove almost everything about the system, which is kind of ridiculous. So they passed a law trying to fix it, but messed it up the other way, putting the entire burden of proof on the defendant, without giving them any real way to disprove it. (I mean, shouldn't "discovery" at least mean I can inspect the source code?)

A more balanced law would say that widely-used software with extensive test suites can generally be assumed to be working properly; but that custom-purpose software needs at least some level of evidence that it's correct, and that defendants have a right to inspect any software that's used against them in court for defects.
His linkedin page says he's in Zurich, Switzerland, so I correct myself
VMware End of Availability of perpetual licensing and associated products
Yamaha launches SEQTRAK
> Especially that last part makes me extremely skeptical that the Swedish government would be OK with handing over the keys to their economic kingdom to cheap digital labor abroad so a company might save some money.

Well, to begin with, the Swedish government seems to have known for a rather long while that Nordea has been doing quite a lot of other shady shit abroad, and still stuck with them... From your own WP cite, a bit further down: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordea#Scandals .

Not that the Swedish government is much of a guarantor against sending sensitive data abroad in the first place: They were quite OK with the Swedish Transport Agency letting a contractor (Oh look, IBM again!) hand over data, including higly secret (protected identities, military vehicle registry, security van routes and timetables) to sub-contractors abroad with no Swedish security clearances: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Transport_Agency%2... (very cursory article; much more in the Swedish-language version). So them trusting Nordea... Isn't much of a recommendation for Nordea either.
There are flat-ish contact surfaces on the bottom of the module that are compressed by a bracket onto the corresponding contact surfaces of the motherboard.
They probably should be fired, but it's actually complicated because the orgs tend to be staffed with departments that believe this is the way things should be done, and best case the replacement needs to compromise with them, worse case they are like minded and you just get more of the same.
And yet a lot of modern software is written in it and people seem to be happy using it. Let the music do the talking.
Fs: Remove NTFS Classic
> Toasters are refined brilliance, if done right. The concept of "done" is computed using an analog computer programmed by human experts.

That hasn't been the case in ages. Modern cheap toasters use a dedicated toaster chip (... yes), which is a plain timer but with built-in retained heat compensation for when the toaster is used back-to-back. Fewer components equals cheaper toaster.

A very fancy toaster would have sensor for the bread (mimicking the Sunbeam) rather than a timer, but that's not common.

Either way, any toaster you buy today is a digital computer. :)
Ukraine only feigned their interest in democracic but they didn't want it hard enough? that's why they're at war ? The same mentality that led to the iraq warn is still so pervasive it's disheartening.
The default is 256, way higher than 10.

But of course, when you have thousands of Virtual Threads all deliberately pinning the carrier thread, you quickly run out.
> a2, c = a2+c, c+2
> is faster than
> a2 += c
> c += 2
> My guess is that in the first case the two evaluations and assignments can happen in parallel, and so may happen on different cores

Not sure I follow, isn't Python single threaded by default? Changes to GIL is coming but does it change how the interpreter uses CPU?
Is FOLGARP an IKEA thing?
If you correlate ice cream consumption with accidental drownings amongst children you will find a striking match up. I propose to ban ice cream to limit drownings.

Or maybe it is because it is summer when most kids eat ice cream and go swimming?

Of course it is easy to put these two things together, but it is much harder with economics to know if there is a simple answer or a complicated one.
It's physically pressed down to the pads on the motherboard with screws.
"Venice never developed a professional spy force, like the professional cryptologers. Instead it relied mostly on amateurs, criminals and other people paid for with sometimes huge, sometimes only meagre amounts of money, and sometimes with favors, especially the release or un-banishment of criminals."

So they used a lot of spying and as a merchant empire, did traded and guarded a lot of information about everything, but they did not really had a secret service - they had professional cryptologers which was usually a family buisness:

"Venice’s cryptology department was usually centered upon a foremost cryptologer, who was also responsible for educating new recruits. He got special affordances, like being allowed to choose new recruits himself. This contributed to the department of cryptology being a nepotic affair. Younger family members were often selected and preferred. "
I'm not saying it's optimal in any way, just that it's a significantly harder problem than people with their ten seconds of thought about it implies.
Yeah I have an account on that Mastodon server and even logged-in, that page shows popular (rage-bait) content regardless of my personal preferences. It filtered by language but not region (so it was mostly content from another continent).

However, my actual Mastodon feed only has content from people I follow, without any recommendations, and that works great.
You have it backwards. It does not matter what regime russia has, it has the same imperialist mentality that wants to conquer neighboring countries and destabilize international relations.

Trying to pin international relationship destabilization to capitalism while actually it is being done by russia being greedy is the real lack of education or maybe even malice.
And:

"Read the OTP that you have received to the driver, in person and not over phone or intercom."

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.html

yet you are given no way to verify this person is your driver.
Running that across two cores would be a slowdown, not a speedup. You cannot parallelize work like this, because it's too small to be worth it.