crimsoneer

5 ms·

1.
by crimsoneer 5d ago
Did the Assange allegations fall apart? I thought he just hid until it became pretty irrelevant.
2.
by crimsoneer 17d ago
This is not at all what Palantir OR SamDesk does. SamDesk processes and sells data (eg, has agreements with various news/social media websites etc and converts that to a nice API of events). Palantir sells software to use all sorts of
3.
by crimsoneer 18d ago
"solved through technology" is an optimistic take on modern litter robots, in my experience ... I saw those as someone who has owned like 3 of them. Sometimes I realise I'm paying 500 bucks for an incredibly unreliable machin
4.
by crimsoneer 23d ago
Someone tested this, and it doesn't look to be saturated. https://dylancastillo.co/posts/pelicanmaxxing.html Simon made I think a very good argument for why it's still useful, if not the most robust benchmark
5.
by crimsoneer 25d ago
At the risk of bringing up a controversial topic, in the midst of the Jason Arday furore last month when everyone was like "this wouldn't happen to a white professor", the person who kept coming to mind for me was Ariely. I b
6.
by crimsoneer 29d ago
Yup, you can still get one, as long as you're happy to pay 3k usd plus the 300 yearly cloud subscription...
7.
by crimsoneer 1mo ago
Everyone should just read everything by Tim Harford and then the world would be a better place.
8.
by crimsoneer 1mo ago
As in the UK, where we've since gotten rid of all the regulation and live in a halcyon utopia.
9.
by crimsoneer 1mo ago
Honestly, ZSA deserves so much love. I have a Moonlander and Voyager and they're both so darn excellent.
10.
by crimsoneer 2mo ago
At the risk of stating the obvious, Trump has had his tariff policy killed off in the courts (although it'll obviously come back in some form) and in a few months is going to have (probably not great) midterm elections. And there are p
11.
by crimsoneer 2mo ago
I mean, the Chinese government doesn't really believe in checks and balances, or corporations as autonomous to the state. That's not a conspiracy, that's just how the CCP sees it (ask Jack Ma). You could argue the US has the
12.
by crimsoneer 2mo ago
Yeaaah for seeing Andy on HN. His stuff is always excellent.
13.
by crimsoneer 2mo ago
Those of us who lived in London in the 90s very actively remember the IRA bombs and the relatively regular having to shelter in place, evacuate etc.
14.
by crimsoneer 2mo ago
Well, no, this is a group of people who police are actively looking to arrest because they believe they've committed a crime. That's a different thing.
15.
by crimsoneer 2mo ago
I mean, violent crime and homicide is essentially at all time lows (or at least since we all started living in dense cities after the war) in the UK.
16.
by crimsoneer 2mo ago
It's worth being aware the current police implementation of police LFR is explicitly not doing "tracking": it scans faces against an existing database of outstanding wanted suspects. If a match is made, it alerts the officers
17.
by crimsoneer 2mo ago
It's worth pointing out this is specifically not mass tracking. LFR scans faces against an existing database of outstanding wanted suspects. If a match is made, it alerts the officers who are manning the camera there and then. It do
18.
by crimsoneer 2mo ago
Sorry, but wtf is this and why is it on the front-page?? "Agent ready"? Eg, it uses markdown like... everything else? There is literally no information here.
19.
by crimsoneer 2mo ago
It's quite a cool technical concept, and I really like their design sensibility, but don't know anybody using it "in prod".
20.
by crimsoneer 3mo ago
Yes! I spent ages watches them play Risk. It was fun and deeply silly: https://andreasthinks.me/posts/ai-at-play/ I've now got them playing Blood Bown(ish), and they're bad: https://ai-at-pla
21.
by crimsoneer 3mo ago
The idea we're going to stop people like special forces and intelligence buying the software they want to run on on prem, air gapped stacks that they control in the name of sovereignty is silly.
22.
by crimsoneer 3mo ago
I suspect it's linked to this which is the latest example being used. https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/uk-man-was-assaulted-by-atta...
23.
by crimsoneer 3mo ago
This feels like a weird takeway to take from this! Out of curiousity, where are you from? I find it interesting where only people who get so exercised about the UK get their info from...
24.
by crimsoneer 3mo ago
It's worth reflecting on the fact nobody has ever been arrested for running a forum under the online safety act. One forum, which was specifically dedicated to helping people commit suicide, was fined. https://www.theguardia
25.
by crimsoneer 3mo ago
Why? You are significantly more likely to be struck by lightning when out for a walk then prosecuted for running a forum under the online safety act. The act and guidance are very, very clear that your safeguards have to be proportionate to
26.
by crimsoneer 3mo ago
Tangentially related, but the UK Gov Incubator for AI has quite a nifty LLM driven classification pipeline for survey answers. https://github.com/i-dot-ai/consult
27.
by crimsoneer 3mo ago
Practically nobody.
28.
by crimsoneer 3mo ago
This specifically doesn't ID anybody. It's not using the upcoming digital ID, it's just going to use the existing age authentication - eg, you just need to show your company is doing some sort of "serious" age veri
29.
by crimsoneer 4mo ago
Bring back the minitel.
30.
by crimsoneer 4mo ago
Based on what? Is there any evidence of risk at all?

More ›