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by timje1 4mo ago
Multiple countries take the entirety of August off. This is most common in France, but also Italy and Spain. 5, 6 weeks of contiguous holiday is commonplace in France. This is a big enough trend for there to be data.
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by timje1 1y ago
I've scribbled 'this is satire' across each and every generated ID, so they can't realistically be used for anything.
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by timje1 1y ago
Nope! Office of national statistics published a CSV for postcode -> constituency name [ https://geoportal.statistics.gov.uk/datasets/6f2f35a9a0b94e7... ], and then the official gov.uk parliament API for a constituen
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by timje1 1y ago
They're definitely not perfect. I wouldn't want them to be perfect, then they might be used for something nefarious. The mock IDs use fake details and fake faces, and don't even attempt to get the watermarks and machine reada
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by timje1 1y ago
Yup, that's what happens. If you request a postcode that leads to an MP that's not been seen before, it starts generating that MP and saves the ongoing promise, and gives that promise to everyone else to asks for that MP. Had to
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by timje1 1y ago
Thanks Danny - it was indeed following 'They Work For You' - I'm a big fan of that site.
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by timje1 1y ago
yeah to generate a photo of reasonable quality it costs like $.18, so multiply that by 650ish MPs and you have a pretty expensive lil parody site...
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by timje1 1y ago
Because that's expensive as hell and I didn't know if anyone would visit the site..
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by timje1 1y ago
Yeah the address on all the IDs is for parliament. I assume one could find em there
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by timje1 1y ago
It's literally just sticking the MPs name into an AI and asking for it to generate a mock ID for them. None of their real data is being used (e.g. their face, their DoB, the address) and the mock IDs wouldn't fool anyone for a sec
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by timje1 1y ago
Seems like open AI is rate limiting me for a minute, I didn't expect to get top of HN this quickly. Use Starmer's for now - WC2B6NH
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by timje1 1y ago
it's literally just the MPs name. It's a fake DoB (because their DoB's aren't public knowledge anymore) all the numbers and such are nonsense, the images wouldn't fool a human for one second. The AI tools don't
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by timje1 1y ago
what's the postcode?
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Show HN: Use Their ID – Use your local UK MP’s ID for the Online Safety Act(use-their-id.com)
862 points by timje1 1y ago|281 comments
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by timje1 4y ago
I don't think that's as universally agreed upon as you claim. I know of plenty of women who struggled to lose weight via diet and cardio, and then turned things round when they started eating high protein and lifting weights. Diet
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by timje1 4y ago
I remember reading a book a while back that mentioned that the luxury shops in airports don't make any money and don't expect to make sales. They're there to make you see Armani handbags for $2500 and think 'Wow, Armani
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by timje1 5y ago
We had a similar situation to Troy's where several thousand pounds was charged in a matter of days as a result of our misconfiguration of caching in our azure app services (before that month we typically had around £800 a month costs).
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by timje1 5y ago
Back in UK history there were paid rabbit hunters, who'd roam a farmer's land hunting rabbits. They ate a lot of rabbit. It turns out that rabbit meat is not nutritionally complete and some of them died. https://fourtal
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by timje1 6y ago
The author misses the driving force behind most of this - Chinese censorship and the money behind the Chinese market. If you're making a modern blockbuster you'll double your take if you make sure it plays well in China - which yo
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by timje1 6y ago
I think a big factor you're missing here is that many of the regulations in Europe are around the public's (and workers) rights, health and wellbeing. For example it's difficult to create a startup in France because it's
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by timje1 7y ago
There was an interesting article a couple of years back, positing that the years that humans won coincide with unusually warm weather. The takeaway was the humans have a superior cooling system for efficient long distance running, compared
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by timje1 7y ago
'"Hate Speech", defined essentially as any form of discrimination whatsoever, has been made illegal in Europe following the growth of the anti-immigration far right.' Misguided on a number of fronts -> 'hate spee
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by timje1 7y ago
What a weird, unfounded bit of vitriol to vomit into the discussion
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by timje1 7y ago
Look has a correlation to perceived taste. People perceive things to be tastier when they look good.
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by timje1 7y ago
I often come across South Asian women driving for Uber in London while their kids are in nursery / primary school. Uber's flexibility seems to fit perfectly with a more modern view of labour vs child rearing responsibilities. Ther
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by timje1 7y ago
Apex Legends is good for improvisational gameplay that doesn't involve memorising building patterns. Also it's free! The tactical opportunities in a fight that are available to a team with a gibraltar and pathfinder vs a gibraltar
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by timje1 7y ago
Seconding the idea of finding them problems that they can solve or things they can build that they find interesting. Programming to make their homework easier? Great. Programming a game they can show their friends, that lets them compete to
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by timje1 8y ago
Define 'you'. If 'you' is your memories and personality, then those things are physical. You can take a knife to a brain and cut out memories, you can cut out love. These are tied to your physical meat. If the meat is de
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by timje1 8y ago
The big difference that I remember from gmail was the superior spam filter (other inboxes filled with spam quickly) and better security (everyone with a yahoo mail account had it compromised and started sending spam / virus laden links
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by timje1 8y ago
That's not particularly productive thinking: should we test buildings by bombing them - if they fall over, they didn't deserve to tower so high? The world would be a lot better if a country that detects weakness in another didn&#x

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