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especially in America.

Slavery was common everywhere, it was more prevalent in many places than it ever was in America, and in some places it still is. So I’m sorry but I have to say that observation was just unnecessary and quite inaccurate.

Seems pretty inevitable to me. I already don’t trust myself to write code without it being reviewed by AI . It always finds something wrong!

Hentai porn is apparently the most popular porn category in lots of countries! Took me by surprise when I found that out. Closely followed by the more predictable “lesbian”, “Anal”, “MILF” and “Asian”!

It’s almost free money! Migrants may not have money (refugees to be clearer, the UK receives a lot of migrants who come as highly skilled workers and those do have money) but they don’t need to pay for the rent, the Government does it for them in case you didn’t know. If you have a few houses to rent it’s really easy money.

The vast majority of recent supply chain attacks have only lasted minutes to hours

More claims without evidence! And how are you even going to defend that claim when it’s absolutely possible that lots of attacks are not even detected?!

This is such a slippery slope. It amounts to thought police. You did not actually cause any harm, but thought of doing something. Where do we stop ? If I fantasize about my pretty coworker without her consent, am I a rapist now? What if I make a sketch of her naked? Is that a crime? What if I ask AI to remove her clothes from a real picture? Even if I just immediately delete it?? I guess that there’s different levels to each “offense”, and at one level it does become criminal, but it’s hard to unequivocally decide where.

I thought it had never happened around me in my whole life, but my sister recently told me that when she just in primary school, a friend of my dad gave her a lift and while she was in the car, inserted his fingers on her. Like WTF! I really had no idea this could have happened in my environment. I guess it probably happened more than I know to others too uncomfortable to say anything, took my sister 30 years to say something.

it's absurd to think that nobody is going to pull releases before the default cool down period.

Why is that absurd? It seems like a more likely outcome than just assuming there are enough "security researchers" out there doing this for every package?! IMO both sides here seem to have no evidence that the other is wrong.

Here in Sweden it seems to be true. Both houses I owned had the markers. I had an issue where the online map disagreed with the markers and found out they made a nice film to explain how to resolve problems regarding lot borders: https://www.lantmateriet.se/sv/kartor/vara-karttjanster/Visa...

They even show how they did historically which is super interesting!

Unfortunately changing the borders is super expensive and time consuming though so I didn’t do anything.

That is not what the report says at all !!

Over the same period, total population growth in the UK has been approximately 20%, again close to the cross-country average in our sample. Immigration, therefore, accounts for roughly half of the UK’s population growth over the last three decades.

Population growth has nothing to do with price increases? If it does, then half of the increase being due to immigration seems quite significant.

most credible estimates suggest that a one-percentage-point increase in the immigrant share of the population increases house prices by between 0 and 3%. Rent effects are typically slightly smaller.

The increase in the immigrant shares since the mid-1990s (around 10 percentage points) and overall population growth are close to OECD averages.

It’s hard to believe a range including “no effect whatsoever” when you add people to a neighborhood. But assuming a more reasonable 2%, that would mean 20% higher prices attributed to immigration alone. Where did you get at most 10%??

If the system is just at capacity, but not beyond, it’s in fact well optimized. Empty trains are a loss to the company running it. Similar to airliners: they want every flight as full as possible. No company cares if it’s comfortable for the passengers since they either have no competition, or if they do it’s always the one offering the lowest price who wins. The passengers who want comfort can buy first class for a gigantic premium, and that is also well optimized: expensive enough to be profitable, cheap enough to actually sell tickets.

Are VTubers mostly attractive looking female characters?

In many languages that’s the only way to express that since there is no “it”. It doesn’t mean speakers of such languages anthropofy everything and I think that’s the case here.

The rewrite was only possible because they mostly stick to 1-to-1 translation resulting in non-idiomatic Rust code.

That’s patently false, just read Jarred’s own blog post describing how that was the first stage only, they went through many more to get the amount of non idiomatic, unsafe Rust code to an acceptable level.

Can you show some examples of abominable Rust code they have?

I'm concerned that the complete rewrite in an entirely different language is not a sound technical decision…

Even if this was a terrible technical decision, it is a good, maybe even unavoidable, business decision. And I don’t think moving to Rust was a bad technical decision at all, given Zig is unstable and constantly changing, and that it’s not memory safe, which is a big problem for something like a JS runtime!

The reason it’s a necessary business decision is that Bun is owned by an AI company and Zig has a policy to not accept AI assisted contributions, making it impossible for Anthropic to contribute to a language that is still evolving rapidly, not to mention the bad marketing of using a language that basically is hostile to your product.

You only end up on the streets if a lot of things go really wrong :

No family nearby. No friends willing to take you. No money to pay for rent even in the cheapest areas. No cheap temporary accommodation nearby of any sort. No government provided emergency housing available.

If you want to make it personal, I live in Sweden. There are lots of options available and no one lives on the streets if not for a mental illness that prevents you from seeking help, as help is available and easy to get. You can get a salary for indeterminate amount of time and pay for your own accommodation as long as you show you’re looking for jobs. If your job pays too little you can get a stipend from the government to pay for rent and food. So yeah I am sure I would never get homeless even if everything went wrong for me. If you live in a country where that’s not the case, you should really question what should the priorities of your country be (notice that basically all developed countries in the world and even many developing ones provide everything I mentioned above, with possibly one single, big exception).

Of course, yes, the models will provide propaganda-aligned responses to prompts that specifically mention certain political issues.

The only study I’ve seen about that actually showed Chinese models to be less “propaganda-aligned” than the Western counterparts.

I thought most homeless were drug addicts?! It’s hard to believe a healthy person could fall into homelessness. Maybe as OC mentioned only those who don’t do drugs go to shelters.

It may sound crazy but that may be cheaper than maintaining the status quo. The idea is serious and it’s called Universal Basic Income, or UBI. It may arrive earlier than most think.

If we 'solved' crime, homelessness, drug use, poverty, etc.;

Crime is really hard to solve, but many cities in the USA and elsewhere have managed to largely do it.

Homelessness is something I think is very much an American problem among developed nations. It’s always shocking to see the campgrounds in American cities, some of the richest in the world, coming from Europe. I suspect it’s mostly related to drug abuse and the lack of social assistance for those in need which the Americans are allergic to solving due to the culture of freedom, or autonomy at all costs (which somehow gets interpreted as not having to pay taxes to help those in need).

I saw that but it asked me if I wanted to optin first! I did accidentally and hated it since I always click on the terminal to make it focused and now accidentally click on something that actually responds!

it shows weakness in a vulnerable way. It is human. It is not strategic.

Are you complaining that the answer is too human and that a multi billion company should not allow a human who made a mistake to own the mistake in public, being honest about what happened in this case?? Would you prefer complete silence from them like you most certainly would from Google or Apple.

That sounds incredibly sad to me, we don’t even expect humanity from big tech since that’s what we’ve become accustomed to seeing.

fTR both the Anthropic dev response and the blog post seem to believe that a single person can be blamed for something like this, which I wholeheartedly disagree with! Nobody reviews your changes? There’s no QA? Not even an AI checking the release notes match the diff from the previous release?? Blaming a dev for “putting a serious bug in production” sounds really 90’s to me.

If the memory leak could cost the firm its reputation with important customers, then I doubt the VP had something better to do.

In go you don’t need to care, the GC will take care of allocations on the heap and the runtime will choose when something should go on the stack. That’s the problem: in this other language it’s suicidal to program as if it was the same as Go as you will just make huge mistakes like returning a pointer to a local variable.

Your definition of art is not in agreement with any artist’s interpretation I’ve ever heard. It’s like saying a movie based on a book is not art , it just distracts from the book.

It sounds incredibly dangerous in the hands of a usual go programmer who has no idea what the difference between the stack and the heap is.

how do you make a programming language like this from scratch?

Write a parser from your language’s syntax to an AST (Abstract Syntax Tree) which is the representation of the code in memory. Now write a function from the AST to the compiler output format. That can be some executable binary format (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_executable_file_...) or some other language, like C (a common target) or something made exactly for that like LLVM (used by clang and Rust), Java or C# bytecode if you don’t mind requiring a VM to run the application. I’ve written Java bytecode generators and it’s surprisingly easy! Getting a simple language off the ground is a lot of fun and not a huge challenge.

The link to Russian intelligence services may not be proven, but nobody seems to dispute that there were paid influencers?

As the quotes I included say, there was no evidence that Russia was behind the interference. They did track who paid for Tiktok "influencers" but it was ended up at "the National Liberal Party" - which means it was not foreign interference as pretty much all media in the world reported. If you wan to claim there was without anyone disputing it, you absolutely should provide evidence!

I think the only irregularity was that the Tiktok paid influencers were not disclosed properly. But the same has happened in so many other countries (even in Sweden where I am - the biggest party had to go through a huge scandal about doing just that) without ending up nullifying the result of elections. Of course, if they did not like the results enough, I'm sure similar shenanigans would've been utilized.

Really bad example. From the Wikipedia article:

“ No evidence established direct connections between Georgescu's campaign and Russian state actors. There were only assertions that there must have been due to his rapid rise on social media”

And:

the "National Liberal Party paid for a campaign on TikTok that ended up favoring ... Georgescu" and not Russia as previously presented to the Constitutional Court.

Also:

On 28 April 2025, right-wing conservative Hungarian think-tank Mathias Corvinus Collegium filed a complaint with the European Ombudsman because the European Commission denied access to the documents containing information on the EU's DSA proceedings in the case.

That’s not something you would expect from a proper investigation. The whole thing is a mess and what we heard on the news at the time is essentially a made up story.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accusations_of_Russian_interfe...