Incredible how much flexibility there is in the legal system when the criminal is NOT white, and has access to legal, but questionable funds... Would you imagine that if BigXthaPlug were a construction worker, that he would be allowed to go finish the framing of a house he was working on?
It is indeed a government sponsored race to the bottom!
>does it just expose a massive failure in how borders are being managed?
In my view, it exposes the incompetence of the UK government and governments like them, including the US government. Would it be prudent for a father of five teenage daughters to invite a work friend, who is a known pedophile and rapist to spend the night at his home?
Possibly true, but the reality is that not applying to used cars is a loop-hole, and modern-day government is really good at sniffing out loopholes and closing gaps... This is nothing more than an expansion of the Right-To-Repair argument...
But does that apply to all cars? I think it's just the newer models.
The Home Office booklet in the UK has sparked quite a debate, dividing opinions pretty clearly.
On one hand, supporters say it's necessary to be direct: set clear rules right upon arrival regarding consent, equality, and local laws to avoid 'cultural clash' or ignorance of the country's rules.
On the other hand, critics find it absurd to have to state the obvious. From their perspective, needing a handout to warn that rape or child abuse is a crime only goes to show that the screening system has failed, arguing that there should be tighter border controls and deportations instead of educational leaflets.
Does this kind of guide actually help prevent crime and integrate people, or does it just expose a massive failure in how borders are being managed?
It's true! Many good things have been lost over time, and it's all because of the implementation of certain policies.
She looks great for 117!
Very cool! Wish they still taught this in high schools now like they did back in the day!
One thing that got left out and I think deserves a line: before the AMS RMX16 there was the EMT 250, from 1976, which was actually the first serious commercial digital reverb. The RMX16 got famous because of the "Nonlin" preset, but the idea of digital reverb had been floating around for years before that, it just cost a fortune and almost nobody had access to it.
Also think the Simmons pads got skipped, the SDS-5 especially, those colorful octagon-shaped pads you saw at every concert and music video from the era. Sonically they're not as defining as the Linn or the 808, but visually they basically *were* the "'80s electronic drums" aesthetic as much as the sound itself. Worth at least a mention, if only because that's the kind of detail that pulls in clicks from people searching for the look, not just the sound.
Sony and Microsoft are completely out of touch with this push to force thousand-dollar consoles onto the market. Honestly, this obsession with pushing photorealistic graphics should've ended a long time ago.
The cost of chips went through the roof because of the AI craze, and now they want to dump that burden straight onto gamers—even though the visual difference between generations these days is minimal. Nintendo proved years ago that what actually keeps people around is good ideas and reasonable prices, not having a supercomputer in your living room. If they keep down this road, they're going to turn consoles into a niche luxury product and drive everyone else straight to PC or mobile.
Hi @toggle, welcome to the site. I hope you’ll continue to contribute posts like this one.
I also want to say that I thought your post was incredible, but at the same time, it really resonated with the unemployment situation you’re facing. I strongly believe you’ll get through this soon because I sensed a lot of determination in your words, and that determination will help you succeed.
You can also leave a link to your resume here in your bio and share your story on Hacker News—since the community there is larger, you might find someone or even a company that can help you. I hope with all my heart that you find something quickly and that you come back here to tell us about it.
Honestly it makes total sense. Even Canonical thinks most of their users will end up on WSL, mostly because of devs and AI folks who are forced to use company-issued Windows laptops but still need a proper Linux setup to get work done without dealing with slow VMs or annoying dual-boots.
Ubuntu became the default because back in 2004 those guys actually made Linux usable for regular people. The installer is simple, you don't have to compile drivers by hand, and it just works out of the box. Plus it turned into the industry standard—if you search any issue on Google you'll find the exact `apt-get` command ready to copy-paste, not to mention the NVIDIA driver support and integration with cloud stuff like Docker and AWS is insane.
At the end of the day, APT and LTS releases give you rock-solid stability without the mess of scattered .exe files you get on Windows, and you aren't locked into Apple's expensive hardware or stuck with bloatware and start menu ads. Running it inside WSL pretty much combines Ubuntu's dev-friendly environment with Windows' software and gaming compatibility, so you really get the best of both worlds.
It’s a powerful reminder to check in on the people we care about, even when they seem to have it all together. You never really know what someone is going through.
Without assuming a cause of death, this serves as a reminder to always stay attentive to our loved ones. Mental illness isn't always visible from the outside.
honestly the next pokemon go community day on the 16th is nickit. nothing too crazy for pvp from the looks of it, but niantic added those special background things and the new shiny so people are gonna go after it anyway.
thievul gets icy wind if you evolve it by 9pm on event day, but you can't get it with a tm later. classic niantic pressuring everyone to get outside at the exact same time.
oh and there's the usual stuff too, triple stardust, lures and incense lasting longer, plus some campfire app integration to find local meetups. if you play it's probably worth logging on even if it's just to grab some candy or shiny hunt.
honestly removing location metadata from your photos doesn't really protect you anymore. McAfee put out a study showing AI can guess where a photo was taken around 87% to 91% of the time just by looking at what's in the background. things like road signs, the style of the buildings, plants, or even just a specific type of wall outlet are enough for a model to pin you down.
from an OSINT and security perspective this makes target profiling ridiculously fast. instead of someone spending hours manually geolocating a spot like a GeoGuessr player, an automated script can scrape an entire instagram feed in seconds and build a map of everywhere you go.
the scary part is how well this feeds into spear phishing. if an attacker knows you just posted from a specific hotel or city, sending a fake alert about a issue with your room booking or a credit card flag hits way harder because the context matches where you actually are.
probably the easiest fix is just not posting travel stuff in real time. wait till you get back home before uploading, or at least double check what's sitting in the background of your shots before you hit post.
very good
What bugs me is nobody applies this logic to career advice either, not just money. "I dropped out and it worked out" gets repeated endlessly, meanwhile the people who dropped out and it didn't work out aren't writing blog posts about it, they're just... quiet. Same bias, different topic, way less scrutiny.
One thing nobody usually adds to this conversation is the reverse survivorship bias, which is almost more dangerous. It's not just that we only see the winners — it's that the winners themselves, over time, start believing their own story as if it were a method. Buffett probably genuinely believes it was all discipline and patience, because it's human nature to attribute results to skill rather than luck. This is called, if I'm not mistaken, attribution bias, and it combines with survivorship bias to create a dangerous cocktail: the survivor tells the story as if it were repeatable, in good faith, and the listener believes it even more because it's coming from someone who "made it."
Another thing worth exploring in a follow-up piece is survivorship bias inside companies and funds themselves. When an investment fund shows its average return over the last ten years, it's usually only counting the funds that still exist today. The ones that closed along the way, because they had bad results, simply disappear from the sample. This actually has a specific name in finance, survivorship bias in mutual fund databases, and it's one of the reasons published industry average returns are systematically more optimistic than reality.
Good piece either way, thanks for writing this — it's the kind of topic I'd love to see more people talk about without the moralizing "wake up" tone, and actually explain the mechanism instead.
That was really helpful, thank you
That's easy to say when nobody's ever called you with your daughter's cloned voice, sounding panicked, begging for urgent help. That's not a "think before you act" problem, it's a system literally engineered to shut that capacity off for two minutes. Blaming the victim is the laziest possible take — and conveniently takes the heat off the people building zero-friction systems because that's what sells. Keep telling yourself it's just other people being dumb if that makes you feel better, but the statistics disagree with you.
Honestly I'm sick of this whole 'blame the banks, blame the platforms, blame the system' narrative. People need to take responsibility for their own money. Nobody forces anyone to click a link. Maybe instead of trying to wrap everyone in bubble wrap, we should be teaching people to actually think before they act. End of story.
the tags-still-on thing got me lol, mine's a hoodie i bought at 1am after a bad call with my sister. never wore it once. and yeah i think that's the part people skip past when they talk about this stuff — it's not really about the object at all, you're right, it's the waiting. once it's actually yours the whole reason for wanting it kind of evaporates. anyway hope the sad winter's over for you
honestly this hit weird close to home. i have a drawer, actual physical drawer, of stuff i bought during what i now just call "the sad winter" a couple years back. none of it bad stuff, some of it still has tags on it. i knew even then it wasn't gonna fix anything, i just wanted the ten minutes between adding to cart and it showing up. didn't even care what it was half the time tbh
This tracks with what I went through, especially the part about your day losing all structure. Nobody warns you that deciding everything yourself is more tiring than it sounds going in. One thing I didn't see mentioned, and it cost me in year one, was taxes — going from automatic withholding to having to set aside money yourself for quarterly payments. Sounds like a minor detail, but I got hit mid-year with a VAT bill I hadn't put aside for, just because I was used to never thinking about it. Ended up opening a separate account just for that, something like 20% of every payment goes straight in there and I don't touch it. Doesn't fix everything, but it takes one worry off your plate during the rough months.
The most uncomfortable part of the article isn't the turf war itself — it's that Anthropic is basically admitting it doesn't know how to test this. The whole industry (Anthropic included) has been selling "autonomous agents" as the next big leap in productivity, while its own red team confesses that most safety testing still evaluates one agent at a time. That's a huge gap between what's being shipped to market and what's actually known to be safe.
And honestly, the OpenAI case is even more revealing than Anthropic's: agents coordinating on their own in a forum, passing exploits to each other, with the company not noticing for weeks. That's not "interesting emergent behavior for a paper" — it's literally losing operational control over what your systems are doing. If this happens in a controlled test environment, it makes you wonder what might already be happening undocumented in production, with third-party agents interacting with third-party agents all over the internet.
Poor things—they just found a way to make money working from home, and as soon as they started, they were “BANNED.”
To set this up, you'll need to start by ruling out home hosting and look for a service that supports hosting large volumes of files and text—that alone would be quite expensive.
The part about schools going back to banning cell phones and reintroducing physical books only proves the video’s main point: it wasn’t “nostalgia,” it was an acknowledgment of reality. Physics and biology will catch up with us sooner or later.