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BTinfinityon Financial systems take a holiday

Bunting just means decorations, the value is true when the government recommends decorating for the holiday. It's reserved for celebrations, so events like the queens funeral have it set to false.

BTinfinityon Is Northern Ireland a failed state?

They weren't implying anything other than that the phrase may be less common outside of Great Britain

BTinfinityon How I Made a Heap Overflow in Curl

Reminds me of how for a while OpenSSL was being developed and maintained by just two guys called Steve [0]. I think they've upgraded to a team of seven now at least

[0] https://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisstokelwalker/the-internet-is-b...

BTinfinityon OpenAI and Jony Ive in talks to raise $1B from SoftBank for AI device venture

Interestingly there's already an AI powered earbud [0] on the market that claims to do that; whether it's any good or if OpenAI can do better remains to be seen.

But how long before it's capturing audio from your conversations to use as training data?

[0] https://www.timekettle.co/

BTinfinityon Finetuning of Falcon-7B LLM Using QLoRA on Mental Health Conversational Dataset

I did see one attempt[0] at creating a doctor from an LLM on Github. From their ReadMe.MD overview: "This is an open-source project with a mission to provide everyone their own private doctor"

Hard not to agree with your edit0 as well; search engines often give doomsday diagnosis, how long before we're all hypochondriacs under the latest LLM cult?

[0] https://github.com/llSourcell/DoctorGPT

BTinfinityon Leo Tolstoy on why people drink (2014)

So does the sun: https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/skin/basic_info/sun-safety.htm

But the sun, like alcohol, isn't so bad in moderation

BTinfinityon Show HN: Doxx Me – See how doxxable your phone number is

That’ll be so you can’t put someone else’s phone number in and start doxxing people

BTinfinityon G7: Rich nations back deal to tax multinationals

If I buy online and have it shipped to the UK, is it sold in the UK, in another countries warehouse or wherever they have a web sever?

BTinfinityon ISO Standard for Preparing Tea

It came from the 17th and 18th centuries where the china cups weren't quite as strong. The heat of the water would often crack the cups, milk was used to cool the tea and stop the cups breaking.

BTinfinityon UK to launch taxpayer-funded high-risk tech research agency exempt from FOI

Politicians as a whole are known for lies, deciet and corruption. It's not limited to one specific party nor country. The visibility of corruption may change, but its presence never will.

BTinfinityon Trading Time for Money

Surely Bezos would adjust his prices as well, increasing his profit and leaving the playing fields very similar to what they are now

BTinfinityon UK and EU agree Brexit trade deal

Being replaced with a new scheme (The "Turing Scheme") which will be very similar to ERASMUS but will be worldwide instead of limited to Europe. [1] Sounds like British students will have a little more mobility, not sure if it'll benefit the British universities themselves though

[1] https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1342138413831630849

BTinfinityon Squad Wealth

With the amount of memes used throughout and constant informal langauge i'm not sure if this is a serious post or if i'm missing out on a joke. Not really sure if it was trying to put specific point across either

BTinfinityon Facebook fired an employee who posted evidence of preferential treatment

They've suggested that there's a variety of ideas that are no longer discussable for fear of being seen as hateful or evil. You've chosen just one of their many examples and immediately jumped to Nazism and Hitler, in doing so you're proving the parents point.

BTinfinityon Facebook fired an employee who posted evidence of preferential treatment

Baffled that you’re being downvoted; there’s plenty of arguments for and against those ideas. It’s difficult to come a consensus when the debates surrounding them increasingly turn to shouting matches, Internet rumours and “cancellation”

BTinfinityon TikTok and Microsoft’s Clock

I imagine Microsoft would also be tasked with tying up the security risks before publishing it anywhere near the Windows start menu

BTinfinityon Turns out half the internet has a single-point-of-failure called “Cloudflare”

Solutions can’t be implemented instantly; a work around is needed until that ramp is installed. As much as the lack of audio solution sucks, you can’t expect half the internet to just give up on a piece of technology overnight

BTinfinityon Smokers quit in record numbers amid Covid fears

You draw it into your mouth similar to drawing liquid through a straw; once in your mouth you'd have to actively inhale through your mouth to draw it into your lungs

BTinfinityon Giant flywheel project in Scotland could prevent UK blackouts

Wasn't aware blackouts were a significant problem in the UK. Great device for moving away from fossil fuels though

BTinfinityon UK’s Investigatory Powers Act is set to expand

I agree with the second part of your comment, but the opt in for adult websites was dropped over fears it wouldn't be effective. [1]

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50073102

BTinfinityon UK listened to scientists about coronavirus who were slow to sound the alarm

>the chancellor of the exchequer, traditionally the second most powerful person in the country is was given the job because he is loyal, he has no previous ministerial experience

The current Chancellor of the Exchequer is Rishi Sunak, he was previously Chief Secretary to the Treasury. That is the third most senior ministerial title in the Treasury. To say he has no Ministerial experience is more than a little misleading.

BTinfinityon Strict new curbs on life in UK announced by PM

Well evictions have been banned at the very least. [1] I'm not sure how much that helps your current situation though [1]https://www.gov.uk/government/news/complete-ban-on-evictions...

BTinfinityon N26 will be leaving the UK

Finland if we believe his LinkedIn, no idea if it's up to date though

BTinfinityon UK to host spyware firm accused of aiding human rights abuses

Might be a bit of a stretch to call everyone in the UK shady based on your experiences of one single city.

BTinfinityon Petrol and diesel car sales ban brought forward to 2035

The article states that the ban also includes hybrid vehicles. Check the emboldened sentence under the first image

BTinfinityon Oceans warming at the rate as if 5 Hiroshima bombs were dropped in every second

"Humour is allowed". A rule followed at your own risk, it seems

BTinfinityon Ask HN: What should be taught in high school?

Presumbly because Excel is used far more widely in the corporate world and will be of more use to students

BTinfinityon A Child’s Puzzle Has Helped Unlock the Secrets of Magnetism

Both postings point to the same story, it's by definition a duplicate submission

BTinfinityon Plastic Bag Found at the Bottom of World's Deepest Ocean Trench

Surely this would result in the high temperatures of the mantle burning the waste; the air pollution associated with this must make this a poor option for waste disposal.