skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the question is was the resources diverted from same regions to fight the war or policy decisions taken which would accelerate the onset of famine?

Quoting from the book:

>The "rice denial" policy saw soldiers confiscate and destroy rice deemed surplus; according to one journalist, thousands of tons of rice were thrown into the water in east Bengal.[8] The "boat denial" policy saw 46,000 boats able to carry more than ten passengers confiscated; bicycles, carts and elephants were also taken.[9] One civil servant said the policy "completely broke the economy of the fishing class" in Bengal.

The answer seems an resounding yes - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churchill%27s_Secret_War#:~:....
I had a relationship counselor tell me once “there are three secrets to a successful long-term relationship: forgive, forgive, forgive.” It’s kind of the antithesis of the scar tissue theory where you need to make sure every grievance is addressed.
a ‘masterpiece’ is a very subjective term. Most are viewed as such not because of some objectively measurable quality but because of their uniqueness/originality (at the time) and context. In that regard it’s hard to imagine AI could achieve that until it became very good at imitating humans.
Fascinating article, it argues that Churchill was indeed racist and imperialist toward these people, and yet strove to head off the famine from humanitarian impulses. The more informed histories always seem to be written in shades of grey.
There was a famine in Bangladesh in 1974 that may have killed 1.5 million people.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_famine_of_1974
Who's going to pay that much for insurance though?
> If you're not allowed to have a bank account, simply barter.

Bank account AND passport. AI could get into places if it hires human "avatars". Maybe it's the job of the future.
> if we can all figure out how to adult

Part of adulting is responding proportionally to childish behavior in others. Events like this feel like my toddlers fighting—he takes her pencil so she tears his paper so he hits her so she comes crying to mommy.

The adult in the room deescalates, they don't write an emotional blog about how betrayed they feel on behalf of someone else.
I think this is almost enough, but the child might not want any pictures on the internet. What would you say about a regular picture showing his face? He might not want his face online at all.
Probably all false. Flying cars will be a new thing, with new regulation. If they are e.g. on autopilot all the time, then the licensing would be different. Likewise traffic control.

Ducted fans are not as noisy as helicopters.

Perhaps that was a hasty condemnation. It amounted to a wet-blanket response, and doesn't seem very considered.
Requiring banks to issue long-term debt could make customers safer
>Austria and Germany things like groceries, utilities and eating out seem to be considerably cheaper (and much bette

Check salaries in Austria. The you realize why stuff is cheaper there.
CBC did a study went to 20 dentists each of them found a different number of fillings required
Well this made me laugh today... You can call it Dr. Strangelove the Next Generation
Massive reduction of prey and habitat, and being hunted. This would kill any species, including humans.

Though, apparently they also have low reproductive success. Perhaps if they had habitat and weren’t exterminated for centuries they could have overcome that, though.
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I'll obviously not stop using Rust over this -- and I think 99.99% of the people using Rust for work will not stop using it either -- but this looks like a case where the underlying true issue (sidestepping a democratic process) was very quickly forgotten and people started arguing over the expressions of the problem using dramatic and exaggerated language, which just makes things worse because it makes other people jumpy. And it spiraled out of control extremely quickly because you know, people are being people. Oh well. Hopefully the dust settles and they can figure it out.

Another thing that rubs me the wrong way: "lack of Black representation". So here's the question: is somebody actively suppressing Black applicants, or are there simply no Black applicants?

If it's the former, obviously that's a huge problem. But I suspect it's the latter and if that's really the case then this seems like people basically rebelling against an objective reality they can do nothing against, but still make a drama over it. If there are literally no black people who want to do things X and Y, how is that even a reason to feel bad about stuff? Same way as you won't find many Japanese golfers in, say, Italy. There simply are not enough people out there with the characteristics you are focused on that do the things you feel they should feel more represented in. Nothing you can do.

EDIT: And before I keep receiving replies that are COMPLETELY OFF-TOPIC, my question to any reader or commenter is this: where do we draw the line on what should the Rust Foundation do when relating to world-wide social injustice problems? Many people seem to think that it's a trampoline to achieving social justice in the world and I strongly disagree with that stance. Let's keep our goals realistic and compartmentalized; there are other organizations out there that fight injustice as their main objective. Rust Foundation is not that.
Problem is that without those old buildings there are no real practical reasons to live in Venice or build anything on top.
All systems can be improved, but perfection is a meaningless yardstick. The most relevant comparison is systems that actually existed.

Churchill could likely have saved 100’s of thousands, but I seriously doubt he could have dropped deaths to zero in the middle of WWII. England was forced to ration food domestically, they didn’t have some great surplus to distribute. That 50,000 tons mentioned could have saved lives but wouldn’t have even come close to solving the problem.

That’s the nuance of history, people could have done more which would have helped though not actually solving the problem. All those shipments sunk by U-Boats were destroying part of a finite pool of food produced which had already shrunk as economies mobilized for war. Eventually you simply hit a breaking point.
Here’s chatgpt:

—-

My decision to leave was driven by witnessing the negative impact on JeanHeyd resulting from the actions taken by Rust. The situation raised concerns about the treatment and the breach of trust that occurred. It made me reflect on the role I played in the development of the system and whether I want to continue to be associated with it.

—-

No weeping, no histrionic claims of betrayal.
I find the religious arguments for god’s existence similarly bad to the denials of unaligned ASI e-risk, but in the god case at least it doesn’t matter as much since bad epistemology there is a lot less likely to lead to human extinction.

It’s a logic argument.

1. Super Intelligent AGI is possible.

2. Unaligned super intelligent AGI is an e-risk likely to wipe out humanity.

3. We have no idea how to align AGI.

There seems to be more consensus around 1 now than there was even 3 years ago. I think most also agree with 3. 2 is where people are incredulous, but the incredulity is backed by (imo) bad reasoning.

People think of a smart person they know as an example of something “smarter” and use that as a justification of why it’s not an issue. We’re constrained in all sorts of ways (head size, energy) and the distance of intelligence from a dumb human to Einstein is very tiny on the overall spectrum.
Nature doesn’t come with identifiers; that is why Apollo gave us UUIDs. And always remember, the goal of a database is not to model the domain - it is to model your knowledge of the domain.
Beyond utility – the role of user experience in enterprise software
The way I read it, famines in Indea were one in two generations and the british empire after the agricultural revolution managed to make them every 20 years. Definitely accelerating the future there.
> As it's becoming generally normalized, it's absolutely logical that it spills into other fields of human interaction. It's simple, and efficient, so why not?

Is this sarcasm? I think it's pretty obvious why not. Broken communication, poor decisions, and the obvious fallout.
Really? I'm pretty worried about AGI that's not god, just a bit smarter than us, and because we're lazy and the incentives are to give power to the AI, we just start putting it in control of everything. It gets smarter, captures regulators just like oil companies did, and we end up losing control of things. Even though if we could coordinate, we might decide to want to stop things, coordination is really hard.
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I agree, was just explaining what (I think) the author was going for.
Yeah the FAQ seems like you can upvote but not downvote until you have a certain amount of karma. I don't remember when I unlocked the downvote.
That's rather like saying that the famine in Ukraine caused by Soviet collectivization policies in the 1930s was nothing unusual, since:

> "From the beginning of the 11th to the end of the 16th century, on the territory of Russia for every century there were 8 crop failures, which were repeated every 13 years, sometimes causing prolonged famine in a significant territory. The causes of the famine were different, from natural (droughts, crop failures, low rainfall in a certain year) and economic and political crises; for example, the Great Famine of 1931–1933, colloquially called the Holodomor, the cause of which was the collectivization policy in the USSR..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droughts_and_famines_in_Russia...

It's historically undeniable that Churchill had no qualms when it came to actively destroying resistance to colonial rule, and complete indifference to the fates of the Indian subcontinent's people is no surprise:

> "Churchill suggested that chemical weapons should be used “against recalcitrant Arabs as an experiment.” He added “I am strongly in favor of using poisoned gas against uncivilized tribes to spread a lively terror” in Iraq."

https://english.alarabiya.net/special-reports/winston-church...
The islands themselves (and not the mainland where an overwhelming majority live) are closer to an amusement park than a real city
I think it’s more important to engage with the contents of the post rather than your misgivings with the author’s writing style. Honestly it’s a childish approach to have.
> Sure it goes faster, but it can't self repair, procreate, needs a boatload of supporting infrastructure, is not even remotely as energy efficient, can't hunt, can't think, the list goes on.

That's one reason the "stochastic parrots" metaphor is silly. AI's cant make AI's, maybe only in software, but not the hardware. Parrots can make parrots without human assistance,
they don't need humans for anything.
If Churchill wasn’t a bit racist he probably wouldn’t have thought British culture is superior to nazi culture.
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Haha, imagine selling it to HR

"Y-y-yes, I specifically emphasized that I work at State Farm so I know what's really going on, but I used 'they' to emphasize that this post has nothing to do with State Farm".

But I guess this subthread is getting longer than it deserves to be. I'm not saying OP did anything wrong, but people use throwaway accounts with a reason. Employees have been terminated for much dumber reasons.
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You’re probably looking for a Merchant of Record like Paddle, FastSpring, and so on. Payment, privacy, and tax compliance instantly in basically every jurisdiction. At the end of each month you’ll get paid in a single transfer. Read their Terms first, though–I am still debating whether going global in a weekend outweighs the legal exposure.
They say state socialism killed millions, and point to the Holodomor and Great Chinese Famine as examples. They are not wrong that collectivization did that.

But they never stand up and discuss how state capitalism is explicitly behind famines like the Great Irine Potato Famine and the numerous ones in Bengal - with this one postdating Holodomor.

In the Irish Potato Famine, 15% of the country perished — it was right next door to the English — and did so largely due to enforcing private property of landlords above human lives of Irish peasants and sharecroppers.

Whether it is a Raj government that got set up to protect the state capitalist “East India Company”, or whether it is “wartime communism”, requisitioning food from starving peasants to feed cityfolk is something only a powerful state apparatus can do at such a scale, and at such a scale it is entirely out of touch with the people on the ground. People have suffered under both economic systems, it is just in the USA it is fashionable to associate communism with the State while capitalism has come to be somehow associated the absence of one.
For now, won't be for long until they build the whole thing, they're a growing super power mostly created by the west off shoring their operations there to make more money...we just have to deal with it...
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The OP is one of the funniest takes on the subject I've ever read -- funny because a lot of it rings true. Perhaps the funniest part is the section that compares true believers in the AI singularity to a cult, headlined by this photo of three prominent believers, which always makes me laugh out loud: https://static.pinboard.in/si/si.050.jpg . The linked PBF cartoons are pretty funny too, given the context: http://pbfcomics.com/115/ , http://pbfcomics.com/154/ .

Whether you agree or not with the OP's views, I highly recommend you read the whole thing and click on all the links!
IMPORTANT: A fascinating approach to better improve on a project-wide basis instead of a small-scope basis.

1. Prompt: "Read project code files. Describe the flow of <whatever it is doing>? Just a step by step description of each operation taking place that this software is doing. Be as detailed as you possibly can."

2. Prompt: "Suggest improvements to this process described above, how <new feature>, how <new feature> taken into account, and add any additional edge cases that you can think of to make the process more robust and to cause it <do whatever> in a more complete way.

3. *WRITE THE TWO ABOVE ANSWERS INTO A FILE CALLED GAME_PLAN.md*

4. Prompt: "Read the file called GAME_PLAN.md and write code that implements the first improvement."

5. Profit!
Which was also caused by the atrocities of the (arguably colonial) Pakistani military during the Bangladeshi liberation war.

If you are trying to argue self-governance can also cause famines, this isn't an example to be used.
Here's the correct link showing dolphin core can be loaded into retroarch: https://docs.libretro.com/library/dolphin/

Maybe retroarch itself doesn't emulate anything, but just provide a render surface/input abstraction to 'cores'?
When is the Taylor swift concert?
A pity. For me the IEC 62304 is one of the standards who make the most sense.

For me traceability has one more very nice aspect: you always trace whatever you do (think merge request or it deployment request / changes) back to the reason/authorization why you do it (think project, change request, defect, ...). Like that you are never in the limbo why you do something. Especially in regularity domains that is a must have but honestly i would not run a company otherwise. Because it also ensures that money is spent where you want it. With or without requirements in between them.
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation has talked repeatedly about how the Interoperability exception is significantly weaker in context than it appears.

The biggest problem, as they summarize it, is that “Any interoperable program you created as a result of the reverse engineering is non-infringing.”

Aka, your reverse-engineered DVD player software for Linux cannot break TPMs. Your emulator can’t break TPMs. Etc. It only protects breaking TPMs to develop software that does not break TPMs. Surprise, that’s almost useless.

In which case, all it does is say that the Dolphin developers can’t be sued for breaking TPMs to develop Dolphin, at least under the DMCA. But they can still be sued if they distribute any TPM-breaking tools.

https://www.eff.org/issues/coders/reverse-engineering-faq
The idea of this have me a chuckle. Instead of worring about skynet destroying all of humanity, we should be worried about them constantly asking about our car's extended warranty.

Seriously though, a real life robot is more expensive to make and run than an online one. Plus, there's nowhere for them to put "permanent" content, they'd have to talk to us one by one, or start graffitotagging ads everywhere. Any robots they did make would be obviously robots, and we can avoid them. It doesn't scale the same way.
Checking the GNU Make manual it might me .NOTPARALLEL flag that wasn’t recognized correctly.

Cannot provide precise issues with (as it was more then a year) but I encountered 3-4 problems after having complete Makefile which was kind of downer because I had to rewrite it to support “vanilla” make.

In the end I dropped parallel went with Justfile and it took fraction of time (but truth be told I had dynamic PHONY targets which aren’t super easy to setup in Make).
Also, I wonder if Scotland has an agency similar to Ireland whereby they have a government VC fund to encourage startups... So there may be a .gov option

https://thetab.com/uk/glasgow/2023/02/15/glasgow-uni-working...

https://www.investglasgow.com/
Your comment excludes all mention of Churchill's active role in causing the famine. One would be tempted to conclude that your comment has an agenda of its own, but I'll assume in good faith that is not the case.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/29/winston-church...

> The Bengal famine of 1943 was the only one in modern Indian history not to occur as a result of serious drought, according to a study that provides scientific backing for arguments that Churchill-era British policies were a significant factor contributing to the catastrophe.

> Mukerjee has presented evidence the cabinet was warned repeatedly that the exhaustive use of Indian resources for the war effort could result in famine, but it opted to continue exporting rice from India to elsewhere in the empire.

> Rice stocks continued to leave India even as London was denying urgent requests from India’s viceroy for more than 1m tonnes of emergency wheat supplies in 1942-43. Churchill has been quoted as blaming the famine on the fact Indians were “breeding like rabbits”, and asking how, if the shortages were so bad, Mahatma Gandhi was still alive.

> Mukerjee and others also point to Britain’s “denial policy” in the region, in which huge supplies of rice and thousands of boats were confiscated from coastal areas of Bengal in order to deny resources to the Japanese army in case of a future invasion.
She’s about to release a rock album, maybe now is your chance :D
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Exactly! This headline/article is harmful in my opinion. We need people to get checked more not less!!!
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> I think being apathetic about it won't solve anything either.

How so? Me, a random Rust dev, can't ever make any difference in how is the foundation governed.

But, if you are telling us that the Rust leadership will e.g. actively follow this very HN thread and base their policy on it then yeah, then I'd agree with you.
Retroarch doesn't include any copyrighted BIOS files, or decryption keys which could make it run afoul of the DMCA. Dolphin does include keys dumped from the Wii, which are nessesery to run common dumps of retail games which are usually distributed in their original encrypted form.

The legal dubiousness of bundling keys was already well established, emulators for Nintendos other recent systems (3DS/Switch) don't include the keys, and instruct the user to dump them from their own hardware to shield the project from liability (of course the keys can easily be found online, but the projects don't endorse that out of abundance of caution).
That's about Bangladesh, not Bengal. Bangladesh is a neighboring country of India.
I don't read this as particularly deceptive, or suggesting that there were no prior famines.

That said, seeing rate of famines increase as technology for food production improved is a pretty glaring.

Churchill (and arguably capitalism more broadly) were absolutely extracting food from India in a way that hurt the Indian people.
> If they are e.g. on autopilot all the time.

When autopilot malfunction, who is going to take over the control?

>Ducted fans are not as noisy as helicopters.

So why are we not using this miraculous technology on helicopters to make them noiseless? There is some catch, isn't there?

And my point with minor fender benders still stands. Immediately not flight worthy.
I think you are wasting your time. Many Europeans see Churchill as a saviour they don't care about victims from colonies.

It all boils down to the survival of the fittest. Yesterday Europe, today Russia and tomorrow China. No one can stop that
natural extension of the woke/SJW nonsense. it will ultimately be the downfall of all OOS as people refuse to contribute/engage.
5900x and a 3080 for me
Also, lots of people high up in Rust have a background in JavaScript, where drama is common, which I believe has helped normalise it as a mode of social interaction.
Could you outline what the device actually does? The article is not very rich on the details.
Original article is just Hindu Nationalist 'history' project. Not a single Brahmin merchant released any grain that they hoarded in their warehouses, they were looking for profit. Nobody even bothers to tell this part of the famine. We already hate Churchill for being racist, but complete the picture and tell the role of Brahmins too.
> the amount of drama around Rust seems to be something unseen among open source projects before.

Bless your heart. The modern world is tame and blissful in comparison to the world of the 90's. Then, most projects could be individually maintained and so treated their drama with public forks of source code and shrieking on mailing lists. We who lived through that remember the ejection of Theo from NetBSD and the resulting fork of OpenBSD, the XFree86/Xorg fork, the gcc/egcs fork, emacs/xemacs, the list goes on and on.

Today, most major maintainers are employed by name brand corporations to do their work, which highly constrains the amount of drama to "stuff that doesn't embarrass your boss". So board-level end-arounds like the linked article is all we get. It used to be much more personal.
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> I think the question is was the resources diverted from same regions to fight the war or policy decisions taken which would accelerate the onset of famine?

Isn't this true of every wartime famine throughout history? My understanding is that famine and hunger were pretty standard during wartime as armies would "forrage" (a lovely euphemism for theft, murder and rape).
This is an absurd post, these tirades against the boogeyman of “woke culture” are so tiresome. Engage with the content of the blog post instead of deferring to this tribal bullshit.
Dolly Parton embodies everything good about people.
Having these movies, and many others, on YouTube is a net positive. I already saw most of Tarkovsky's movies, but I found on Mosfilm's account on YT a few more good movies, it will be a good way to spend the nights during this summer.

I would like to have a simple way to get these movies offline without paying YT premium for 720p, so your links are welcome.
China’s C919 Takes Maiden Commercial Flight–and First Bite from Boeing
https://archive.is/JyXKg