Although it is concerning, this is NOT blanket facial recognition against passport photos. From the article: "The number of searches by 31 police forces against the passport databases rose from two in 2020 to 417 by 2023, and scans using the immigration database photos rose from 16 in 2023 to 102 the following year"

Sorry about the missing newlines. Also stabbing data was from here: https://worldpopulationreview....

Someone being wrong on the internet again? Guess I'd better check whether you're close to correct. London does not appear in this list of 50 cities ranked by homicide rate. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik... While I cannot find equivalent rates of stabbings per city, this list of stabbing deaths per country may be a useful proxy. Notice that UK, at 0.08 deaths per 100000, is close to the safest in the world by that metric. With only 9 countries reporting lower. (I swear if slashdot removes these newlines again I will stop posting from my phone) I can go a little further - even if every stabbing death in the UK (pop. ~ 67m) was in London (pop. ~ 9m), it would still be safer than most of the countries in the world. Those figures were for 2021. Things may have become a little worse since then, but it doesn't make your statement even close to true.

I don't completely disagree with you. And certainly not all programmers are engineers. But some are, and they earn more than average. Related... I was corrected in a professional setting by a professor of (civil) engineering at an ancient university that the word engineer should be read as closer to ingenuity than engine. I take from that the permission to describe an ingenious solution as well engineered. I know that specific job titles in some jurisdictions are protected, and some of those (engineer, nurse) become part of an identity that it seems unfair for others to adopt without accreditation. Nevertheless there is plenty of ingenuity in software today, and because some of it is newer, there is arguably more in software than in some branches of traditional engineering. End of moderate disagreement.

Only the scheme ("https") and host ("example.com") are always case insensitive. Citation provided: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc...

The article is useless and wrong in many ways. But SQL is definitely a Query Language, with a specific purpose that it does well. It's also apparently turing complete, and belongs in an idiotic list of "how much did people google this" as much as for example brainfuck.

You may be completely right on the root cause of house price increases. And even if not, you are certainly right that the interactions between bank lending limits, number of earners, contraception and decreasing sexism will combine to cause price rises. I think the original “Bingo” can probably stand, but my own right to check bingo cards is revoked.

Bingo! We have a bingo. Houses are too expensive. So two parents need to work to afford the house. And childcare costs are also too expensive. The financial cost of having children, for the majority who mostly pay their own way, is much higher than even 20 years ago.

A pigment of the imagination.

Well, for that price you only get a beginner spy who confesses to spying and tells everyone that you hired them. Not certain what the lesson is. Buy cheap, buy twice?

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Completely agree with your main point - newsflash - salesman sells. But the deepseek surprise was efficiency of training the models (whether or not it cheated). I think Huang is talking about increases in the separate cost per use.

You might be interested to know that, despite the reporting, the album is NOT silent. It is full of background noises from a studio. I guess that if it was fed into a model, this could do more harm than total silence would. Also, best thing Billy Ocean ever recorded.

I mostly agree, but there is one crucial difference here. In the examples you gave, the consumers don't quite get what they paid for but the company makes money. The mistake that puts this guy in the dock is that he lost *investors* money.

Windscale?