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llm_trw commented on Apple takes UK to court over 'backdoor' order   theregister.com/2025/03/0... · Posted by u/latexr
PaulRobinson · 6 months ago
The penalty for not giving up keys is max 2 years in prison. Most offences that they're trying to use the encrypted data to use as prosecution evidence (for example, child pornography), have penalties that are way more than 2 years in prison.

If you're genuinely innocent, the 2 years is horrid. If you're actually guilty, it's a cheap way to serve your time.

It's a weird and perverse law that shouldn't exist, but it's likely in time the government will need to move the needle one way or the other, as habitual criminals are getting used to doing the maths.

llm_trw · 6 months ago
This comes up every time someone wants to give the death penalty for rape.

If the punishment for rape is harsher than the punishment for murder than anyone committing it may as well remove the evidence by using a blender.

llm_trw commented on We in-housed our data labelling   ericbutton.co/p/data-labe... · Posted by u/EricButton
almostgotcaught · 6 months ago
It's almost as if (bear with me ...) these "artificial intelligences" actually need "human intelligences" to guide them. Maybe we can think up a "system" where "experts" can codify rules for the "artificial intelligence" to follow.

Ok the sarcasm got too thick but my point is if the engineer has to spend the time to comb thousands of examples then you don't have AI you have a man in a box pretending to be a machine that plays chess.

llm_trw · 6 months ago
We have human teachers for much the same reasons.

Are humans just other humans hiding in boxes pretending to play chess?

llm_trw commented on Lawrence of Arabia, Paul Atreides, and the roots of Frank Herbert's Dune (2021)   reactormag.com/lawrence-o... · Posted by u/softwaredoug
dredmorbius · 6 months ago
"All the spices", save for tea, coffee, and sugar, which continued to be imported in quantity. And are addictive to boot.

A century or so later, laudenum.

The spice trade itself didn't shrink so much as it was subsumed by other trade, I think, particularly as shipping capacity, reliability, and safety increased.

llm_trw · 6 months ago
Other than sugar none of those are spices used for food.

And even sugar became much less commonly used to in Europe.

llm_trw commented on Lawrence of Arabia, Paul Atreides, and the roots of Frank Herbert's Dune (2021)   reactormag.com/lawrence-o... · Posted by u/softwaredoug
defrost · 6 months ago
The Dutch East Indies was literally "mining" spice ( cinnamon, cassia, cardamom, ginger, pepper, nutmeg, star anise, clove, and turmeric ) from SE Asia for European consumption and packing ship with gold bullion in exchange.

There were many actual "spice wars" fought in the region to wipe out competing crops, to build alliances, and later betray those local allies, etc.

llm_trw · 6 months ago
The wildest thing about European colonialism is that it was kicked off to get more spices for European food. Then in the worlds most bizarre twist European food gave up all spices a few centuries later and colonies had to invent something else to sell back to the colonial centre.
llm_trw commented on Lawrence of Arabia, Paul Atreides, and the roots of Frank Herbert's Dune (2021)   reactormag.com/lawrence-o... · Posted by u/softwaredoug
throwup238 · 6 months ago
It’s even more stark the further back you go. When the printing press was invented, it didn’t usher in a new era of creativity but instead the first few centuries resembled modern Hollywood: shameless sequels and reboots. By far the most popular books were translations of Greek classics and rote derivatives of the Arthurian legends. It wasn’t until the first iterations of copyright and a few other cultural shifts that a “professional” writer class was born and started to expand on the creativity of our stories. Until then publishing wasn’t profitable enough to support a real creative process, so they cribbed as much from existing canon as they could to make ends meet. See how long it took science fiction to properly develop into a literary form, for example.
llm_trw · 6 months ago
That's the third major use of the printing press.

The first was for catholic indulgences.

The second was for religious propaganda during the European wars of religion.

llm_trw commented on Apple's Software Quality Crisis   eliseomartelli.it/blog/20... · Posted by u/ajdude
cageface · 6 months ago
You can really see this when trying to build apps with Swift & SwiftUI. The language and the framework seem to be optimized for nice terse WWDC demos but both fall apart pretty quickly when you start to do any heavy UI lifting with them. And I think that's starting to bleed into their own native UI now too. The lousy macOS settings app is a good example.

Unfortunately there don't seem to be any good alternatives to Apple. Windows is even worse.

llm_trw · 6 months ago
Ironically Linux with KDE is very good for being both pixel perfect, responsive and enjoyable to work with.

What a time to be alive.

llm_trw commented on We in-housed our data labelling   ericbutton.co/p/data-labe... · Posted by u/EricButton
jsemrau · 6 months ago
What would a product look like in this space?
llm_trw · 6 months ago
It's not a product. It's business core competency in the ml space.
llm_trw commented on We in-housed our data labelling   ericbutton.co/p/data-labe... · Posted by u/EricButton
llm_trw · 6 months ago
Data is king. Even when a new better model comes along a high quality dataset is still just as valuable.

Paying top performers above market rates to do nothing but data labelling is a moat that just keeps getting deeper.

llm_trw commented on The early days of Linux (2023)   lwn.net/Articles/928581/... · Posted by u/stmw
vednig · 6 months ago
> Every well can be poisoned. Linux relies on people's values and people's skills. Neither of which are immune to degradation over time.

It's rather the opposite, combined with moral stance of Linus and it's core committee itself that has managed to kept Linux on this track so far.

llm_trw · 6 months ago
Linus isn't a renewable resource unfortunately.
llm_trw commented on The NIH is being slashed and burned, not "reformed"   sensible-med.com/p/the-ni... · Posted by u/SubiculumCode
beardedwizard · 6 months ago
How long will California maintain GDP dominance when major parts of business are in the pocket of Trump? Won't they just pack up and leave, tanking Californias economy with it?
llm_trw · 6 months ago
Longer than Germany at the rate things are going in Germany.

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