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How will they ensure they continue working or train replacements if their parent company no longer employs or pays them? What's to stop them leaving the country?

They are _not_ hosting UK government data in the US. They offer on-premise and self-managed cloud offerings, which are often used where data sovereignty is important. Additionally,…

The commenters below are confusing two things - Rust binaries can be dynamically linked, but because Rust doesn’t have a stable ABI you can’t do this across compiler versions the w…

zsh has been the default on macOS for a while now so it's pretty commonly used

For what it's worth, a friend of mine is a lawyer in a well-known hedge fund and he gets access to their funds too (funds that would not otherwise be accessible without making a su…

Sure, but most modern OSes would inform the user when the WiFi connection dies - so there's something happening on the CPU too.

This is false and represents a poor understanding of how these models work - they do abstract concepts and no you can't trivially get training images out.

On the other hand, Facebook went from about 4,000 employees to over 70,000 in the same time period, so given how much Apple's business has grown in the last decade (when they relea…

How is that different with LLMs versus badly-written human generated content? Most clickbait/SEO articles are as poorly researched as they come, and shouldn't be assumed to be accu…

> Anybody who lost their sense of taste or smell took months to recover that. Loss of smell or taste is almost 50% for Covid prior to Omicron. Even with Omicron, it's about 20%. An…

I think the complexity arrives when the 14-year-old asks the follow up question "why?"

So there's a bunch of existing intermediaries, which is bad, and to fix that we're going to add the exact same set of intermediaries, but on top of bitcoin, which means its good?

Germany has reference pricing for their drugs system and doesn't seem to have a supply issue. Genuine question, is there something that makes you think that wouldn't be true for th…

Today you could do this with a copy of Photoshop, but in practice this isn't really a concern for most people. What makes you think it'll be different with deepfakes?

Yeah, I really do find this kind of attitude strange. If it's not safe now, it never will be. Guess a large portion of society is still waiting for COVID to be "over", as if the vi…

It's harder but very much possible to switch company on an H1B visa - my partner did this recently and while there's a bunch of legal work and waiting around, for tech companies it…

I think it's reasonable for Apple to assume that if you kept the old charger, you also had the old cable for it which would also work with the new iPhone.

Doesn't the example of a florida company just using real pictures suggest this isn't such a big change? "We can't trust that the picture represents a real person's opinion" was tru…

That's...what the article proposes, so yes?

I like this idea too. Sadly I doubt regulators would go for it without substantial modification - all lie-flat beds have to be in the upright position for take-off and landing at t…

Whilst it's certainly valuable to make people aware of the limitations of the security systems we use, this shouldn't really come as a surpre. If someone is close enough and motiva…

Unless it's a new feature, the UE4 UI does not render at retina resolution - certainly looks pretty pixelated on my rMBP.