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>I myself live in Eastern Europe and make €60,000 per year gross

That's a very good salary for Romania. Can I ask your seniority level. DO you work for a company on a local employment contract or freelance for outside remote companies?
I'd love to read some serious scholarship on this. One that maybe looks at bones for signs of malnutrition and tries tries to plot famine frequency over time.
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>> The Rust project needs to stamp this out before it begins to fester. This is incredibly stupid behavior coming from what is being regarded as the next C++.

>> Come on, Rust committee. Let's grow up here, shall we?

It is too much power held by one group with too little accountability.

More transparency is needed and more people from different organizations need to be involved.

The fact that JT and the rest of us have to guess what really happened speaks volumes.
Correct. The big fallacy of agility. Mixing work items with requirements (words like feature or user story are terrible abused here). If you need a specification in an agile project, then it is an output of the work items next to the code.
It's unlikely there is anyone in a position of authority in Rust consciously and nefariously excluding black folks and other people of color, but there doesn't need to be. It's a self-reinforcing problem that requires conscious effort to address. I'm a (nonblack) minority, and I tend to actively avoid participation in groups where I know I'm not likely to be understood in important ways. It can be pretty fucking exhausting being the only X
> It is clear that firing ChatGPT at its own source code is not going to produce a better ChatGPT.

I think it could do that in software. Assuming compute is no issue we have:

- LLMs writing code, explaining code, changing code, and observing code execution

- LLMs that understand ML concepts and can explain their own workings

- LLMs can generate the training set all from inside (see TinyStories)

- LLMs can make "RLHF" data for the fine-tuning (see Alpaca, tuned with GPT3.5 and GPT4 data from LLaMA)

If we take a look, it seems LLMs can self replicate in software with nothing else but compute and a neural net framework. Of course making the chips is a whole other story.
>> but that’s not all that they collate from their training set

OK, so what else is it?
All of this drama / culture war or whatever you want to call it is a big part of what turned me off to Rust in the first place.

I come from .NET background and am open to the idea of a realistic C/C++ replacement. My experience with .NET and its "community" has left me with a really comfortable feeling with regard to my ability to do business, just "get shit done", etc. To be clear, there isn't really a community. I think that's why you don't hear a whole lot of drama come out of it. It's more of a LARP where we pretend we have some kind of say and sometimes Microsoft's leadership agrees and it looks like we participated openly. Most on HN hate this, but when you are trying to build a stable B2B product and signing 5+ year contracts, it's a goddamn paradise to not have concerns about what angry corners of social media might be up in arms about today.
Coming from the Controls Systems Industry, I have seen a few flavors of the SRS. Sometimes we call them Functional Requirements Specifications (FRS). The IEEE has a decent standard for how to put one together, although they call it Software Design Description, "IEEE 1016-2009 IEEE Standard for Information Technology--Systems Design--Software Design Descriptions."

The two industries where I worked where these are well recognized and their use enforced are Nuclear Power and Pharmaceuticals.

Some personal wisdom that I picked up is "If it can't be verified, it isn't a requirement." As an example, I was one told to change the tagnames in a program to "something meaningful." I went through several iterations before I realized that, with this particular customer, that was unachievable. None of the tagnames I built had meaning to him, and he would not give me guidance as to what would be better.
Again with the wet blanket. Those things have solutions, already. The answers are readily available in fact, with a little looking.

It's easy to condemn something because, I guess it feels good to be the rebel online. I don't know.

Folks show flying car go-pro videos online, more every day. Never from an airport (where does that air-traffic control idea come from?). They always seem ecstatic to be in the air, free as a bird. That alone will make flying cars inevitable - people want them badly.

Of course some rules will have to follow - simple low-altitude one-directional flying lanes seem prudent. But time will tell. Of course it will; these things are already possible and get easier to make every day.
It was a small part of the post and I think it was explained fairly. It's part of the context, and they don't think it should be ignored. JeanHeyd doesn't have to have mentioned it (or even thought about it) for it to be considered relevant by someone else.

The behaviour is disrespectful regardless of colour, yes. But someone's skin colour does influence other people's behaviour.
I’m not sure MOST humans would pass the test. Maybe most decent SW engineers would.
I think it started off because they needed more speed than the higher level languages like ruby and python could give them (at the time), but couldn't justify writing in a low-ish level like C/C++. I suppose they might have landed on something like Pascal or Fortran, maybe even a lisp, if they'd hired a different developer who had to make the search.
Cartels are moving away from cocaine, heroine, and marijuana, as they need to depend on farmers. Second, they need to source Cocaine from Colombia, Ecuador, Peru; they grow opium in Sinaloa. Dependence on farmers, land, weather, climate change just add complexity. That's why they have switched to synthetics: just set up pharmaceutical factories in Mexico itself, import ingredients from China, and hire and train chemists.
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Stealing food from a nation, resulting in millions of deaths, is a pretty clear "bad guy" move.

There are plenty of clear cut bad guy moments in history, falsely equivocating and saying "it's complicated" is a way to undermine critique.
Yup this. These vulnerabilities are far too valuable to use for petty crime. You'll never get an equivalent return from using them to compromise a handful of phones, and if you use them on a large scale, they'll get noticed and patched fast. It's pretty much only used by Governments on whoever they consider to be an enemy of the state.
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Musk is as much a dirtbag industrialist as the rest – Jobs, Gates, Sergey/Brin, Bezos, Waltons, Sacklers, Rockefeller, JP Morgan.

We admire them for their successes, which they use to camouflage their misdeeds. Worth studying but never becoming.
The website actually only loads the images in view (~10 if you're not scrolling). I get your point though.
malloc and free are part of what I would consider a runtime. As are the file objects opened for standard I/O.

It's a very small runtime, but all the code before main is properly runtime initiation
So interesting to read this thread after all the LLM threads where people were violently arguing that it's fine for ClosedAI/M$/SD to train models on data without giving attribution because it's just "inspiration" and then on selling for money. Many other HNers claiming copyright is a big stupid rent seeking exercise stupid face that can go to hell because it's holding back progress...but now...China build a plane and...they turk our juubbzz.

I hate to say it but we can't have it both ways...
This is a point of frustration for me -- I have reduced vision, but I wouldn't even qualify as legally blind. It impacts me to the degree that I don't drive a car, which is pretty inconvenient living in America.

There's a whole world of options between "tiny fonts on a high resolution screen" and "screen reader" but things like large fonts, legibility-focused typefaces, zoomable applications and high contrast don't seem to be a priority (looking at you, MacOS).

This is all a big part of why I work primarily in a terminal emulator. I can control all of these things.
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Haha damnit
It's funny, I have this same "who cares?" prior about it being a keynote, but draw the opposite conclusion. A simple disclaimer that the idea's appearance in a keynote doesn't imply that it will land in the language would have sufficed. It's just a talk, it's fine.
Not at all what they said.
I will not accept being stereotyped and you implying I am wrong without you giving a single argument to defend your stance. Your nebulous claims might as well be summarized as "I dislike you for reasons I won't ever explain".

If you want to discuss, let's go. If you are only gonna use thinly veiled insults then you got no leg to stand on.

(If I understood you correctly, you seem to think something as small as the Rust foundation should fight racism on a world scale?)
That depends on the power balance. Adults have power over children. The author does not have power over the people involved. Deescalating when you lack power is often little different from not saying anything at all. This is why most non-generational change to existing power structures involves large groups of very angry people. Same reason complaining about your Google Account getting locked on social media is more effective than spending the rest of your life going through their process.

The real question is if the Rust project has an equitable governance structure that minimizes imbalances of power or if it doesn't. If it does then the author should follow that instead of a large angry blog post. If it doesn't then he may as well go with the large angry blog post.
This is not true. Given two songs A, B, an informed human can tell whether A and B are the same song or not. Now you’ve created a UNIQUE constraint on your data, so you have a unique identifier.
Much faster detection of fault, including ability to detect and point to a fault happening at a distance from the relay.
Saying someone is black or someone identifying as black is not the same as the n-word, this is hilariously out of touch
The list comes from a paragraph from Wikipedia, it's not an attempt to comprehensively list every famine. Perhaps someone has done a study on this that has a precise definition of famine and graphs of frequency over time, along with an attempt to disentangle all the different effects. IIRC there's one like that which attempts to show that colonialism reduced development by using satellite images of electric lighting decades later. It seemed very fragile but is at least an attempt to be rigorous.
I doubt this article is true.

1. Germany was knocking at Britain's door when this famine happened. I personally wouldn't spend a lot of effort helping another country after seeing what happened in Germany.

2. The tone of this article sounds like damage control.

War turns even good men cruel, lets leave it at that
For context, when power grid engineers talk about relays, they're not talking about physical switching of the electricity itself, but instead the control and monitoring system for the grid. Traditionally this was done using specialised electomechanical devices (like the common electronic relay, but with special functions/construction).

The relays control actual power flow on the grid indirectly, using devices like breakers, tap changers, etc.

This article is talking about the digitalisation of relays, which basically means microprocessors or adapting industrial PLCs to do the same basic functions as the electromechanical relays but better (smaller, less maintenance, advanced features like fault localisation, remote control, etc.).

Interestingly, some power grids have resisted digitalisation out of concern that new electronics will have unknown fault characteristics that could lead to blackouts. Take this in contrast to railway signalling, which has if anything a more severe fault condition (would you rather be in a train crash or a blackout!) yet digital signalling was enthusiastically adopted by almost all systems.
IIRC, core 0 is the one that tends to service processor interrupts, which may mean that the data is unusually noisy in a way that tends to underestimate the RTT latency time.
That appears to be based on a re-release after the rights reverted to the original developers, rather than the original build published by Sierra.
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> AI wants to do something? Make some money, hire people to do it. If you're not allowed to have a bank account, simply barter.

One of my crackpot ideas as I was contributing to Blockchain infrastructure was: they’re the payment infrastructure for our coming AI overlords. I think that the idea of a DAO is a similar take on AI and singularity, except the DAO doesn’t actually need to be intelligent, only self-sustaining.

It’s an entertaining conspiracy theory.
Is it even email? It's just messages right. You want messages to be sent directly to you.
There is a lot of dodgy stuff in the field of threat intelligence. Many big companies client to some of those providers have access to information which clearly cannot be obtained through OSINT alone, or just surfing the dark web.

I am talking which IP talked to which other IP, or even stuff seen from running botnets of infected machines in certain "interesting" parts of the world.
This goes both ways though? The organizers also turned this into a big drama and could have instead chosen to just chill and accept there was going to be a keynote some of them didn't love.
> Ummm, what about the rest of us?

You will have to fight for your country. / s
> (Side note: "identification number" really means "opaque string". IDs are not numbers. If adding or multiplying them together doesn't make sense, they're not numbers.)

Eeehhh I'm not sure if this necessarily true. A telephone number is definitely a number but addition doesn't make all too much sense on them.

If you want to specifically talk about objects that require addition and multiplication to be properly defined on them then you can always use Groups and Rings.
Thank you. I actually have a primary care physician, although I just don't remember ever seeing him. I'm pretty sure I did at least once though.
> During COVID the government tried skipping those procurement rules in the interests of expediency. The result was a huge corruption scandal.

I don't think that this is the guaranteed outcome for all governments and situations.

In Latvia, the COVID-19 contract tracing application "Apturi Covid" wasn't developed with a bunch of buraucracy beforehand, but as a voluntary community effort between both different orgs and people. As a consequence, it was developed reasonably quickly, actually worked and was helpful (even if the user numbers weren't as great as expected, but that's besides the point): https://lv-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Apturi_Covid?...

I know this because I was a part of the developer team (the website in particular: https://apturicovid.lv/#en before handing it over to govt. once my participation was concluded) and it was actually encouraging to see how well professionals with a common goal can work together, as opposed to some of the less successful processes I've seen. In particular, our e-health platform was once of those serious government projects with lots of bureaucracy, yet still didn't work after many millions in investments: https://www-lsm-lv.translate.goog/raksts/zinas/zinu-analize/...

(I've mentioned this previously, but the point still stands and the contrast is very apparent)

I don't see why a slightly more streamlined, iterative and goal oriented process couldn't work for commercial software projects, even in the public sector. Of course, if the clients don't know what they want and change their requirements whenever new people come into the office (new management), no particular process is going to save you. Nor will you be successful when people quite frankly don't care about shipping software that works and instead of answering your questions just throw a PDF with 200 pages at you, that doesn't provide the actual answer either.
Fair, but let's recognize the fact that nobody has stopped you at the door.

And I am not sure what does the Rust Foundation has to do with self-reinforcing problems stemming from racism.

Moving the goalposts all the way to the skies is why we can't have productive discussions in many venues of life, sadly.
I don't see any solution that involves mexico remaining an independent country. Corruption is so deep they will just find the next thing to make money off. Illegal pharmaceuticals etc.

It would never happen but why not annex Mexico? Send in special forces to wipe out the biggest cartels and put the entire country under Marshall law for x amount of years until they are transitioned into US states.

The southern border of Mexico is much easier to manage. Would give us full control of gulf etc. US could be more influential on some of those smaller Mexican border countries.
I have a doctor that was essentially assigned to me by the fact that they were the only local doctor accepting my insurance and new patients. It takes two months to get an appointment and my annual check ups are with random physician assistants - not actually with the doctor, whom I have never met.

As an American, I look forward to retiring in some other country with a functional healthcare system.
The article argues how respectful Churchill was of India and its well being despite him being occasionally racist and awful. I would have tried to see the point in all fairness, but this article seems to portray an agenda to clear the dislike (or hatred) people have on Churchill on account of him being ill and old then.

While I haven't read the primary sources that claim Churchill's efforts in restoring food balance in India, I am not convinced he could not have prevented this from happening in the first place --- after all, Bengal or India was being ruled by them.

Feels like damage control and a beg at cutting some slack.
Dolly Parton is the most wholesome and sexiest person alive. There was an interview with her just after she turned 70, and the question was something along the lines of "Do you argue with your husband (shes been married to the same man for 50+ years)" and her response was "no, if I need to win an argument, I just have sex with him to get my way"
I love how everything has to be spun into something about race by the left. You win today's award for the Wokest Bloke.
What do you mean by “that,” specifically? A bit hard to know what exactly you’re asking.
You're up against permanent increases in the cost of electricity which would likely be measured in tens of percent. Proposing to take that cost on to mitigate a once-in-a-decade event is unlikely to be cost effective. And that is generously assuming that this is actually a once-a-decade event and not an outlier that caught everyone off guard.

If you want to make an argument that it might be cost effective go ahead; I'd suggest that prices would be going to go up somewhere in the range of 10-33%. ERCOT responding by increasing standards on power producers is the usual brain-dead response that pushes prices up higher than what people would need to pay if they had a choice. Which is going to cause more damage and probably kill more people, it just happens to be deaths that the pro-regulatory types feel comfortable with ignoring because it isn't easy to name names.

You don't need to educate yourself as much as sit down and think through the second order effects of whether the situation is actually broken before asking ERCOT to 'fix' it. They are going to push the situation somewhere where the net damage will be more than it is now.
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Kuryer was a movie that impressed me much when I saw it first, back in ~ 1988. I searched for it for 30 years and I found it on Internet a few years ago, I saw it again and I got the same hit in the head as in '88. It is not a light movie to see, a bottle of vodka aside might help if you were of that age in Eastern Europe in the 80-es.
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It might be some time, Chinese are struggling with jet engines since 1950s. Still not being able to get them running reliably for at least same hours as western or even Russian engines.

https://eurasiantimes.com/chinas-engine-problems-despite-new...
That's basically just the definition of the word "renting". If the owner is doing their job right, it's always more expensive than owning, but it still makes financial sense to rent in many scenarios.
> today Russia

Not exactly the fittest nor really that into survival (suicidal masochism would be a better description)
Wasn't the green revolution shortly after that?

Which just leaves a <20 year window where a famine was possible. And British India had plenty of gaps of that size.

I won't say it's literally zero evidence that famine was much more frequent under British rule, but its not very strong given the obvious confounder.
Current bureaucracies already are "AIs" of sorts, notably "expert systems" (the rule book) with a bit of "temperature tuned" hallucinating at the edges. (The human bureaucrats applying judgement.)

It's a super-organism already, but it will get faster, cheaper and more efficient at what it already does.
This is some very neat stuff.
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Realistically almost everyone needs some degree of trust in computers nowadays. Except for the the guy who lives off the grid in the woods in the middle of no where, you can’t function without some degree of trust.
Deaths in Bengal famine were due to native Indian administration and hoarding to grains by Hindu merchants. Why do you think Bangladesh never pays any attention to the famine? This re-surfacing of famine myths is Hindu Nationalist project at play.

1) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jid.3635

2) https://journal.oraltradition.org/wp-content/uploads/files/a...

3) https://www.jstor.org/stable/651058

4) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jid.3635

5) https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/pdf/10.3366/brs.2009.0004
Explain the dodgy bit here? These are all public/open forums. Open source intelligence work[1] is... routine and normal? What's the remedy you want to see? The government isn't allowed to read reddit or join discord forums? The government isn't allowed to hire people to read reddit or join discord forums?

The headline is doing a lot of lifting with "spies" and "infiltrate", but as I read the article... quite frankly everything described is not only routine, and legal, it's literally protected by the first amendment.

[1] It's a term of art. Obviously not the same thing as open source software.
Nintendo would be first in line to pay the renewal fees
Personally I find people with the superintelligence fetish frustratingly dumb too.

Far more likely is that an AI will get depressed, bored, get obsessed with some niche maths or navel gaze itself into nothingness.

And that's before we even think about whether it would even have the motivation.

I think there's a reason humans plateaued where they did, very intelligent people often really struggle in the real world.
No it didn’t, what are you talking about? It was a strictly technical keynote
This. I have avoided rust so far because I don't like the community around it and the reputation it's building. This type of drama really does effect the ecosystem.
The EU, Russia, even Quebec has its own passenger aircraft industry. Kind of trite to frame this as China vs. the West. Is it because the narrative fits in better with the current newscycle?
So only real option is to wholesale legalize all of the drugs.
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