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by pjc50 5mo ago
Cinderella isn't going to complain because she's not a real person. The problem here is making and distributing fakes of specific real people.
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by pjc50 5mo ago
> What's the defense? Prosecution of AI operators for making indecent images of children?
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by pjc50 5mo ago
> the Ukrainians themselves saw the huge army on their border and told everyone it wasn’t going to happen and refused to build any defences You're going to have to cite that, because Ukraine was already in the low-intensity Donbass
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by pjc50 5mo ago
If I'd simply written the correct numbers on last week's lottery ticket, I could do that. (hindsight stock picking is terrible!)
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by pjc50 5mo ago
It looks completely fine and plausible to me. Which is worrying.
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by pjc50 5mo ago
Eh, I think this is where it's important to distinguish between different types of corporation. The very point of going through YC is to trade ownership and control for external capital: the capital ends up in control of the business.
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by pjc50 5mo ago
s/free/owned by a billion dollar megacorp/ (AI output is very much not free in the resource consumption sense!)
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by pjc50 5mo ago
> In the UK tax on interest earned on plain savings accounts isn't deducted at source Yes, but as you point out you should really be using the ISA wrapper or a pension of some sort for most investments. I suspect most of those doing
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by pjc50 5mo ago
Quite possible that there will be a Trump effort to drive down rates and abandon inflation control for political reasons.
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by pjc50 5mo ago
Basel capital rules are supposed to mitigate against the insane idea of banks deploying all their capital in a single high risk stock. If you think you can get all the _public_ to pull their short term bank deposits into stock .. well, (a)
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by pjc50 5mo ago
Ah, the old trick: "I would simply pick the good stocks".
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by pjc50 5mo ago
Russia has allocated a significant proportion of its resources to exterminating its own children. China has done well, but the rest of the BRICS categorization makes no sense to me. India (and also Pakistan) are behind China on renewables b
853.
by pjc50 5mo ago
AMD should have been ideally placed to compete with them, and haven't. > NVIDIA engineers code against a well-defined test suite/specification, right? The spec is the value. And the patents.
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by pjc50 5mo ago
That's the premium for being a Western company in a Western market, yes.
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by pjc50 5mo ago
This sort of thing had a huge social movement in the UK in the 1800s, and parts of it still survive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Co-operative_Group , for example. The trick is that it doesn't "feel like
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by pjc50 5mo ago
The "work an unpaid shift" interview is a common tactic of low-rent bars. It's very scummy. In software, how much can you really get out of a human with a very small context who has no long term view or investment in the qual
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by pjc50 5mo ago
Once a program is available over the internet, hackers are the enemy of merely good programs that don't perfectly validate their input. "You have to get lucky every time. We only have to get lucky once".
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by pjc50 5mo ago
Eh, in the UK this is only true for the most absolutely serious cases where someone has been killed or seriously injured. Wrongful arrest doesn't. It may face career risks. Ultimately the US lacks some sort of Federal "inspector
859.
by pjc50 5mo ago
This is one of those "everyone doing this kind of work knows" that's rather hard to source, but: this is basically the point of volatile. Especially for reads rather than writes, where you may want to read some location tha
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by pjc50 5mo ago
There is now , but it wasn't really extractable at all until electrochemistry.
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by pjc50 5mo ago
If everything is going to be dependent on computers, it's probably important that they work and remain under their owner's control rather than whichever NK or Chinese hacker group gets to them first. Can't talk about C withou
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by pjc50 5mo ago
Except ARM32. ARM64 doesn't guarantee it to be valid in all cases either.
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by pjc50 5mo ago
> rounding the pointer down, thus producing a valid one A "valid" pointer to the wrong object ?
864.
by pjc50 5mo ago
Java has been jitted for .. decades?
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by pjc50 5mo ago
You missed the point: the pointer existing as a value of that type at all is UB, even if you never try to access anything through it and no corresponding machine code is ever emitted.
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by pjc50 5mo ago
No? That's the whole point of formal verification? You can even kind of retrofit this to C. The classic example is "sel4". You just need a set of proofs that the code doesn't trigger UB. This ends up being much larger an
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by pjc50 5mo ago
Also, it's not enough to quit on your own: all the voters and CEOs around you will still be on social media, making decisions it influences. Just like quitting alcohol won't prevent you being killed by a drunk driver.
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by pjc50 5mo ago
>> "we used AI to readout and some names were missed. We will not redo and you will not see your name on stage" This is .. not quiet, but extremely noisy, quitting of the bargain by the management/authority class. This
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by pjc50 5mo ago
Unfortunately on HN people who don't get the joke tend to down vote it, so there's an incentive for pre emptive explanation.
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by pjc50 5mo ago
Japan being 68% forest is an astounding stat.

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