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Governments are huge and constantly changing things.

The cops think this is great, more power in their hands.

The feds think it'll help them out, but those local cops will try to abuse it for sure, let's hope the courts keep on top of the warrants.

The spies already have access that's almost as good by illegal means, without the need for any of those pesky warrants. But it'll be useful not to have to keep their access secret.

The judges think this is a Fourth Amendment bust-up waiting to happen, why would you even... ugh.

The defensive cyber-security types think this is very obviously a bad move.

The diplomats think the Brits are OK and will do their warrant stuff properly, but for sure there will immediately be a request from some oil-rich middle eastern dictatorship for the same access. That will make for some awkward conversations.

The elected politicians in power want to get votes, and are safe against this power being used against them. Being tough on crime and Backing The Blue might be a vote-winner. 95% of voters don't know the difference between "encrypted end-to-end" and "encrypted in transit and at rest" so getting this right might not win you many votes. On the other hand, if this takes off in the public consciousness as snooping, or intrusion, or an expansion of state power, could lose you a lot of votes. Maybe wait and see how the public reacts?

The elected politicians who aren't in power think ooooh boy, this is not a power I want used against me, and not an administration I'd trust not to use it against me.
I followed those links and it agrees with my initial post that LazyVStack does not reuse or unload, and confirms that the only choice for large data sets is List (focused on iOS)
That copper requires upkeep, which is expensive. The maximum speeds are terrible by modern standards. Using the existing right-of-way (established for the copper lines) to install new fiber that will replace the copper, is the right move.
Only the crunchy ones in Lucky Charms
I don't think it is this simple.
Does it have an option to shut off the dGPU entirely and rely on integrated? Just as a test.
gets() was straight-up removed in C11.

Every language has breaking changes. The question is the frequency, not if it happens at all.

The C and C++ folks try very hard to minimize breakage, and so do the Rust folks. Rust is far closer to those two than other languages. I'm not willing to say that it's the same, because I do not know how to quantify it.
This is not something specific to open source. Unfortunately if you want to be well-known person who works on well-known project you must either ignore all the shit thrown at you altogether or you must be very very resilient. When you react to attacks on internet you will be attacked, often.

And while I appreciate Marcan's work a lot he is also partically responsible because he himself often jumped on bandwagon attacking other people exactly the same way.
One of the best foss projects imo
Right, which is basically the opposite of what backwards incompatibility means. Imagine if GCC 14.2.0 was only guaranteed to be able to compile "C 14.2.0".
I remember at the start of COVID, scoring a Steelcase Leap v2 from a guy who was scooping up office chairs from failed Silicon Valley startups and hauling them up to Canada. Super chill dude, and totally upfront about basically making a 100% profit margin by gluing on new armrests to these wholesale fire-sale finds. It really highlighted the interesting economics of the time - a lot of businesses probably thrived just by redistributing stuff from regions in freefall. You have to wonder how much of the "supply chain" was actually just people moving stuff from places that were dying to places still kicking. Kind of a morbid redistributive supply chain, when you think about it.
For context: Tuberculosis treatment requires strict, months-long medication adherence. Even a brief disruption means patients may not complete their courses, allowing drug-resistant TB to emerge. These strains are far harder and more expensive to treat, spreading across borders and undoing decades of progress.
1. Game of life simulating itself
2. Lisp interpreter (in C? or in Lisp)
3. a game engine??
4. Bitcoin
5. Other distributed systems?? (Spanner?)
6. AI/deep learning representative. GPT4? AlphaGo? Pikadditions?
7. ?
maybe that wasn't that good of an Idea either then?
I would argue that this kind of interference is in every way problematic, especially when the outset goal is to erode trust in democratic institutions, which it is in this case.
The warning argument is silly. It just means that your code is not up to par with the modern standards. -Wall is a moving goalpost and it's getting new warnings added with every release of a TC because TC developers are trying to make your code more secure.
I'm not sure if it is mandated but it is certainly relatively easily obtained. You will need a birth certificate and it will often differ in name for married women. The relative ease with which it can be obtained is important for voting, I suspect.
> That of course was difficult in the corporate environment of 2014-2024.

No clue what you could mean by this

>Perhaps he was forced to do it.

By whom? Linus is the one who decides these things.
> It makes sense to be extremely adversarial about accepting code because they're on the hook for maintaining it after that. They have maximum leverage at review time, and 0 leverage after.

I don't follow. The one with zero leverage is the contributor, no? They have to beg and plead with the maintainers to get anything done. Whereas the maintainers can yank code out at any time, at least before when the code makes it into an official stable release. (Which they can control - if they're not sure, they can disable the code to delay the release as long as they want.)
Flagged an actual major technology release and it hasn't been fixed in a week. What a joke of a "tech forum".
Correct a lot of stuff can stop being screened for because of incidence of disease, how slowly it moves, expected remaining lifespan, and ability of elderly to endure whatever treatment they would receive anyway.
Larry should create a platform where anyone can VOLUNTARILY post personal data if they like - - and as long as he and his family members go first. As well as the board and execs of whatever companies will benefit from this. Go for it, and kindly leave the rest of us alone.
Case in point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43038903
they should track the office furniture provenance with blockchain, that way you could verify what startup it came from, and then when your startup fails and you sell the aeron chairs again it can be an added bonus to the item value.
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> opposed to the idea of multiple implementations, which is plainly false, as evidenced by the link to the official blog post celebrating gccrs. Ted T'so is speaking from ignorance here.

Why use so strong words? Yes, there's clearly a misunderstanding here, but why do we need to use equally negative words towards them? Isn't it more interesting to discuss why they have this impression? Maybe there's something with the communication from the upstream language developers which hasn't been clear enough? It's a blog post which is a few months old so if that's the only signal it's maybe not so strange that they've missed it?

Or maybe they are just actively lying because they have their own agenda. But I don't see how this kind of communication, assuming the worst of the other part, beings us any closer.
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This would be the same list as those startups whose initial investors have not yet exited.
iPhone, most notably.
>Would you care to share some examples of the Rust for Linux community who have said this? I'm unaware of Hector or anyone else saying anything similar?

In fact, he said that as his very first reply to that thread:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/2b9b75d1-eb8e-494a-b05f-59f75c9...

>Everything else is distractions orchestrated by a subset of saboteur maintainers who are trying to demoralize you until you give up, because they know they're going to be on the losing side of history sooner or later. No amount of sabotage from old entrenched maintainers is going to stop the world from moving forward towards memory-safe languages.
> "no one will be forced to use Rust in the Kernel"

Is this true, though? One reason for this altercation seems to be the basic circumstance that in Linux kernel development, if there is a dependency between two pieces of code A and B, the responsibility to keep B consistent with changes to A lies, in order, with anyone proposing patches to A, the subsystem maintainer for A, and finally the subsystem maintainer for B. If B is Rust code, such as a binding, then that's potentially up to 3 people who don't want to use Rust being forced to use Rust.
Chips are too imporant to modern war for any country to be unable to make them. I mean the entire chip not just a part. the entire chain from raw minerals to a complete circuit board needs to be in your county. don't forget to design the above too.

Small countries better join something like the eu and nato because they cannot ro alone.
I misinterpreted the outcome, my thought was along the lines of "are they creating (eg) SSH keys out of magnetic charges and radix-sorting them to find the factors" (or something).

eg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3YnENM0cFg

...we're at the materials science stage where it's not out of the realm of possibility to "do it with the atoms" and "let god/physics sort it out".
Sorry you're getting downvoted. I just saw a yt video about the Live Aid concert in the 80s and it was just sickening how much today's culture shits on them for trying to help. The comments section was very keen on using the failure as an excuse to not donate ("U2 are millionaires, they should donate instead of asking us to!") and using 40 years of hindsight to absolutely slay the musician who organized the event (Bob Geldof).

They raised an enormous amount of money that unfortunately was stolen by an African warlord, and the ones who's hearts were in the right place were hung out to dry over it. Stuff like that erodes my faith in humanity.
Have you met other people?

It's all fun and games until two people or groups contest the same limited resources; then there's sword and fire o'clock.
This is not how the kernel works. You cannot rely on someone's "commitment" or "promise". Kernel maintainers was to have very good control over the kernel and they want strong separation of concern. As long as this is not delivered, it will be very hard to accept the Rust changes.
I've been following it along the whole time. I fondly remember using StarOffice on my SGI Indigo back in the early 1990's to do all my homework in college.
How many people on all those subreddits know what root access means, how many journalists havea technical understanding of what is possible with the access given to the DOGE team? How does that compare to the demographic on Hacker News?

There are any number of places people can talk about this but the same is true of literally anything that gets discussed here. What value does HN ever add? What's ever the benefit of sharing something here?

Personally speaking this is the number one place I want to see these conversations happen because I have a deep respect for the technical understanding of my peers here. It's disturbing that at such an important juncture in history so many people are jumping up to say "go elsewhere, there's nothing of value for you here."
> Anyway, the US federal bureaucracy is enormous. It employs massive amounts of people

At < 3 million people this is substantially under its peak and at about its level in the 1960's, and a smaller fraction of the workforce than pretty much everywhere. Wages are 0.9 per cent of the federal budget.
> language backward-compatibility, vs. standard practices about what semver means

I've read and re-read this several times now and for the life of me I can't understand the hair you're trying to split here. The only reason to do semantic versioning is compatibility...
Most philantropy is closer to what MrBeast does than everyone is comfortable admitting. Most times I decide to read into some public philantropy intervention or other, especially those that happen in remote/far off places, it turns out it was a disaster, nothing was achieved, funds were stolen, and the intervention ended up doing more harm than good. Except to the philantropist's brand, which always comes out on top.
I posted it a few days ago because the date specified to move from whois to rdap was recent, and I am learning about various network protocols at the minute and I found it interesting.
Fantastic thought. Though I think economic signaling theory shows the bottoms-up motivator.

Certainly in the US, the GI Bill lead to a decreased value for high school diplomas for the median graduate. This doesn't mean it wasn't the right idea for the time, just that it's caused a lot of crowding out. I feel like the Elite Overproduction is a good post hoc descriptive theory but missing the why.
You knew what they meant, which is clear if you’re able to correct the use of language accurately. This isn’t a criticism per se, but an acknowledgment that language evolves and part of the way it does that is acceptance that “incorrect” usage, once common enough, is seldom reversed.
Even if we define "value" strictly in monetary terms (which is a deeply bleak outlook, but nevertheless) PhDs can be at once of great value and also out of reach for those without the access to the debt instruments required to pay for it.

Of course, much like life has value outside of the monetary, PhDs are a great way to enrich your life if you don't have to financially bury yourself in debt. Notably, this is the case for people who have the good fortune of being born in places with low tuition, like much of Europe and Canada. I pay $4K in tuition and make, after tax, not much less than I was making as a junior machine learning dev.
Youre locked in the room either way.
For whatever it's worth, I did believe that some of the Rust team was very hostile towards gccrs, but that behavior has completely changed, and it seems like they're receiving a lot of support these days.

Reddit... is reddit.
I think you might be mistaking the "thin blue line" concept with the "blue / all lives matter" in this case, thin blue line is neither new nor newly popular with BLM.
Yes, but the engine doesn't need to do this, you can do this on your own time as a library. As there are literally dozens of Wasm engines now, thin kernel interfaces are a stable interface that they can all implement in exactly the same way[1] (simple safety checks + pass through) and then higher-level, more safe, and in some way better policies and APIs can be implemented as Wasm modules on top.

[1] This makes the interface per-kernel, not per-kernel x per-engine. It's also not per-kernel x per-kernel; engines would not be required to emulate one kernel on another kernel.
Anthropic's next Claude model is coming
Trump and Elon are purposefully deconstructing the government offices that would regulate their business. Via whatever false promises and claims they made to the public, the net effect is that private corporate owners are dictating the law. If that's not regulatory capture I don't know what is.
Here in Argentina I think the Congress of each province decides the names. It's somewhat usual to rename something to the name of a dead politician (like a governor). People get angry, but not too angry to make a revolt.

I guess the National Congress can rename thing too, but I'm not sure the scope. And the President can issue an Emergency Executive Order overstepping the powers of the Congress, but only in case of an Emergency. It's used without a real emergency too, and the Congress may cancel it.

So ... I guess our president can rename the Antartica to Whiteland, but that would be unusual.
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They're not "forced to use Rust". They are maybe forced to work with Rust developers of whichever subsystem needs to be updated, but that would always have been the case with the C developers of whichever subsystem needs to be updated too.
As of today, the burden is uncertain and the Rust crowd has not been fixing things quickly enough since they are manual fixes:

https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/20250131135421.GO5556...

> Then I think we need a clear statement from Linus how he will be working. If he is build testing rust or not.

> Without that I don't think the Rust team should be saying "any changes on the C side rests entirely on the Rust side's shoulders".

> It is clearly not the process if Linus is build testing rust and rejecting PRs that fail to build.

For clarity, tree-wide fixes for C in the kernel are automated via Coccinelle. Coccinelle for Rust is constantly unstable and broken which is why manual fixes are required. Does this help to explain the burden that C developers are facing because of Rust and how it is in addition to their existing workloads?
At least now we know that they don’t have a backdoor yet (unless this is a charade and they already do, but that’s probably less likely).
Australia just gave America a down payment of $800 million to build submarines.
Probably the interplay between developing new features versus fixing existing bugs and problems.
> The subpixel layout of OLED screens is different than the the traditional layout, so text ends up looking pretty bad. Patching ClearType would be the first step to fixing this issue.

Patching ClearType is unfortunately not as straightforward as it should have been. In an ideal world, you just change the sampling kernel your rasterizer uses to match the subpixel layout (with perceptual corrections) and you’re done. In our world, it takes hackery of Lovecraftian levels of horrifying to display crisp text using a vector font on a monitor with a resolution so pitiful a typographer from centuries ago would have been embarrassed to touch it. Unfortunately, that ( < 100 dpi when 300 dpi is considered barely acceptable for a print magazine) is the only thing that was available on personal computers for decades. And if you try avoid hacks, you get more or less Adobe Reader’s famously “blurry” text.

One of the parts of that hackery is distorting outlines via hinting. That distortion is conventionally hand-tuned by font designers on the kind of display they envision their users having, so in a homogeneous landscape it ends up tied to the specifics of both ClearType’s subpixel grid (that has been fixed since 2001) and Microsoft’s rasterizer (which is even older). Your sampling kernel is now part of your compatibility promise.

The Raster Tragedy website[1] goes into much more detail with much more authority than I ever could lay claim to, except it primarily views the aforementioned hackery as a heroic technical achievement whereas I am more concerned with how it has propagated the misery of 96 dpi and sustained inadequate displays for so long we’re still struggling to be rid of said displays and still dealing with the sequelae of said misery.

[1] http://rastertragedy.com/
I think the goal is to destroy US soft power on the way to undermining the rule of law and destroying what passes for a rules-based international order. Once that's done they can really get busy stamping out democracy.
For example you might do surgery on people who wouldn’t benefit.
There's a short history of Star/Open/Libre Office at [1] [in Denglish].

[1]: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/History
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Your DNA is just a rich mine of new data points about you that they can exploit and use against you. Maybe AI thinks you're more likely than most people to have medical issues and as a result companies now refuse to hire you. Maybe AI decides that your DNA makes you more susceptible to certain addictions or alcoholism and companies selling addictive products target you relentlessly as a result. Maybe your DNA makes AI think you're more prone to criminal activity and the police harass you endlessly until you either end up in prison or move away.

The conclusions AI reaches don't even have to be scientifically valid, they could be nothing more than hallucinations, but that doesn't mean that it won't have impacts on your life or place limitations on your opportunities.
The US will justify any means to achieve its goals. If it doesn't work through democracy, human rights, capitalism, it will invent other more sinister methods to attempt to subjugate other nations.
Your grandfather's take has become increasingly accepted for prostate cancer. There is more of a watch and see attitude to make sure that the patient doesn't have a rare case of aggressive growth.

As you mentioned, the outcomes aren't significantly different, regardless of how you treat it.

From the article linked above:

> Researchers followed more than 1,600 men with localized prostate cancer who, from 1999 to 2009, received what they called active monitoring, a prostatectomy or radiation with hormone therapy.

Over an exceptionally long follow-up averaging 15 years, fewer than 3 percent of the men, whose average age at diagnosis was 62, had died of prostate cancer. The differences between the three treatment groups were not statistically significant.
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Ecologist and The Wild podcast host Chris Morgan recounts the moment Chinese researchers discovered Siberian tigers hunt and eat bears, offering new insight into the dynamics between these two apex predators.
> Bees might be a better analogy since they produce something that humans can use.

And yet they're endangered, and we already figured out how to do pollination, so we know we can survive without them - it's just going to be a huge pain. Some famines may follow, but likely not enough to endanger civilization as a whole.

Thus even with this analogy, if humans end up being an annoying supply chain dependency to an AI, the AI might eventually work out an alternative supply chain, at which point we're back to being just an annoyance.
>In contrast to the parent: yes, the presenter says „you don’t have to use rust, we are not forcing you“ but he fails to address the concern that a change they introduce would error downstream and someone else had to clean up afterwards.

He did not fail to address that concern. And then Ted shouted him down for 2 minutes such that he couldn't get 2 syllables in to respond.
I'm not convinced this is in practice better than a newtype with a hand-written `pub fn new(...)` that returns Option or Result. Sure, you get And/Or from the library, but the cognitive overhead is not free!

Also, the post talks about how one should prefer parsers over validators, but the library `refined` actually makes you to write validators not parsers: https://docs.rs/refined/latest/refined/trait.Predicate.html -- the library them combines validatators
It's been interesting seeing Western European NGO's struggle to find funding without USAID as well. I don't like Trump, I don't like much of what he's doing, but this at least has been a bit of a wake-up call for me. While the US is rich and should provide what it can, the degree to which the rest of the world (and the rest of the West) has clearly just shrugged and let us carry them is... interesting.
You use k8s to manage the machines where wasmCloud runs, and wasmCloud to manage the WASM apps that run on top of it. That's at least my understanding.
"We need the world's biggest database" said the database salesman.
dude is living his best life. and its an open question whether you need to be damaged to be worth that amount of money.
This is a good analysis of the validity (and reproducibility) or otherwise of the marshmallow test: https://anderson-review.ucla.edu/new-study-disavows-marshmal...
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