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If you are in a field where everything is being rewritten in Rust, then it may be a good idea to spend some time on it. It is not the case of every field though.

Basically, Rust seems like a good replacement for most C++ applications. It offers memory and thread safety guarantees with no or minimal overhead and a speed comparable to C++.

I am currently working on two projects: one in python, one in Rust. I am a proficient C/C++ dev but I think I will ditch C++ in the near future. I am not sure it makes sense to replace C with Rust unless safety is required.

I don't see rust replacing python. Rust is painful to write, it is longer than C++ and python is much more productive when you can afford the overhead.

I still have an account!

Mark my words: as soon as the world starts to turn their back on advertisement, there will be several micropayement unicorns flourishing in the next 6 months.

20+ paid subscriptions make no sense, but checking a box with your ISP to get a 2 USD monthly credit to use on the articles you click on, could work.

What is that supposed to mean in English? In French it usually refers to the eponymous book from Rousseau, that basically explains that leaders powers are always in balance against the people's will to overthrow them and that there has to be some kind of mutual gains between leaders and the population they rule for it to be stable.

It was mostly an argument in favor of democracy and some kind of redistributive system.

There is something I don't understand in the Chaebol strategy: Why is it considered a controlling share if it is less than 50%? I can see how owning 51% of a holding that then owns 51% of another company can be seen as a wealth multiplier, but at 20%, you run the risk of losing control if the other entities ally against you, don't you?

I mentioned that work in a comment and realized that it is crazy that this is not more well-known.

It shows how crappy mechanics with tons of backlash can be compensated by a smart control loop. I think it is really an important notions to people who are interested in making their own robotics.

Depending on how much you are comfortable tinkering with control electronics and encoders, know that getting a good repeatability can just be a matter of tinkering with the control eletcronics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SioCwvR_PYY

How does this channel does not have more views is a real mystery to me.

Yes, ever since the beginning. Which is at least 2 decades. And until now, it was totally in vain.

Funny how they ask it now that China took the lead in patents.

Why does US only recognize a bad idea when they end up on the receiving end?

It should be taught somewhere at school that if your job involves lying, there is probably something deeply unethical about it.

To me, the important quote was this:

> so a few dedicated nerds wanted to see how far we could get with that. In all honesty, we didn’t actually expect to get very far, but it was the height of a pandemic and we didn’t exactly have anything better to do.

Think about it: the pandemic caused many people to stop at the same time and for a long time. GPT-J took about 10 months to be released. It may not have been possible in a different context.

Yes, that's related to what I call the religion of paper.

Here is its credo:

Paper is official.

Paper is non-falsifiable, especially if you stamp it.

Paper can't lie.

Paper comes with a date that is trustworthy.

Paper can be sent through mail of fax.

Paper can't be sent by email. Computers are where fakes are made, don't trust computers.

Because you still need to be able to send a fax to an actual fax machine over a land line.

I fail to see your point. You are saying that communication can help developers be more efficient then you give an example of a good developer who did not need a team to develop a ground breaking product?

old.reddit.com is the only way to browse that site. I really don't think I will be able to stay the day they pull the plug on the old version.

A while ago, a very simple agent I made had to do tasks in the maze and evaluate strategies to reach them. I wanted it to have no assumptions about the world, so it started with minimum knowledge. Its first plan was to try to remove walls, to get to the things it needed.

It is a fun feeling when your own program surprises you.

That's the norm for a Microsoft product. Sell something full of holes, deal with it only when it starts posing an existential threat to the product

How about that: starting a campaign to nominate her to a nobel prize. I am not sure at which she would qualify the most, but I am sure there are no shortage of academics to sing her praises (this is a condition for nomination)

I feel that her case is exactly what presidential pardons are about.

Otherwise, write to whatever lawmaker represents you to talk about it, to ask for a change of law and to support asylum for her if she ever asks it. But for now Russia seems to protect her.

In this article they measure "boringness" by the amount of traffic news websites receive. It is a debatable metric but has the merit of being fairly objective.

About the last point, I am not familiar about the key distribution there...

Say Google wanted to create an eavesdropping Facebook Messenger, couldn't it hide the real one and replace it with an app of the same name, signed by an entity named "Facebook Inc [random invisible unicode character]" and essentially do the same thing?

I always assumed that the APK security model did not protect against a compromised Google Store?

I disagreed with most of it, and actually I think that the basic premise expresses a very nefarious and misguided opinion, but almost at the end, it gets to an interesting observation:

> Just as it seems that teenage smoking can't be reduced much without giving teenagers good substitute ways to show their independence and worldliness, the social costs of mistaken beliefs about politics and UFOs probably can't be reduced much without giving people good substitute ways to show their concern and independence. But it is hard to create substitutes for things before you understand in some detail the functions they now perform.

I think it is wrong to accept that beliefs are just fashion or identity facets with no other connection with reality or facts and that this should be fought.

That said, the article proposes an angle that can be used to limit the damage of the most insane beliefs. However, I think that fighting propaganda with propaganda is not sustainable nor democratic.

The core solution is not in designing warm bikinis but in convincing arctic fashionistas that it is ok to not wear a bikini on the ice-sheet.

When he was a baby, I had to manually put and remove clothing on my baby boy. Now he is 7 and can dress/undress by himself, I am very proud.

He is learning about the world and for now I am manually putting my beliefs over him so that he can make some sense of the world.

I am going to be proud the day he manages to remove them and and put beliefs in his mind by himself.

In my opinion deconstructing the opinions you were given as a kid is part of the process of growing up. Thing is, it is an optional part and too many people grow up without going through that stage.

We are all vulnerable to predatory lawyer trolls, whether we do things correctly or not. If you are accused of reusing a GPL code, then you ask clarification on which and you rewrite. It is likely to be just a snippet. I doubt Copilot would write a whole lib by copying it from another project.

And yes, of course github is not going to take responsibility for things you do with their tools.

Is it only available for Visual Code?

Google Books actually displays full pages of copyrighted works Google did not license. It was considered legal.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_Guild,_Inc._v._Google,....

I would argue that a trained model falls under the legal category of "compilation of facts".

More generally, keep in mind that the legal world, despite an apparent focus on definition is very bad at dealing with novelty, and most of it will end up justifying a posteriori existing practices.

Start by giving them holidays. Even US companies give more holidays to their employees.

Living in Japan also, the rumor I heard was that these additional workers actually work as a shadow force for political parties during elections.

To circumvent strict donation laws, the idea is that these people will be "lended" as administrative staff and door-knockers during elections, in exchange of juicy contracts.

And let's be real, that linked in [2] does not point to a job that requires automation, a blinking panel is enough. Often I have seen the sad spectacle of one mannequin handling a signal on the end and a human on the other end. It is totally a bullshit job.

I was not criticizing the prevalence of parking, it is obvious you need a lot because most amenities will have one. What I found weird was that places of worship is the second absolutely necessary amenity according to the American mindset.

Places of worship are places where you are taught to respect a lot of indoctrination techniques as valid and where you do weekly exercises at shutting down critical thinking. I can't imagine it having a positive contribution over the wisdom of the general public.