TomaszZielinski

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by TomaszZielinski 3y ago
You could call me "AI serious complicationist" ("AI doomist" would probably be too much), and I still am as I'm writing this comment. But your point about the required amount of iteration and all the complications a
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by TomaszZielinski 3y ago
The way I see it is that we don't need to imagine any sci-fi scenario to see how any device with a computer (so basically anything from a phone to killer robots or power plants) could go rogue or severely malfunction. Stuxnet was devel
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by TomaszZielinski 3y ago
You might have just planted an idea for a future super AI who to cont(r)act when iteration and manufacturing of that innocent Ring [1] is due :). I cannot decide how much I'm joking here (not about planting the idea, which obviously is
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by TomaszZielinski 3y ago
I think I owe you an explanation, as I was referring to the fact that in Poland "Januszex" is a meme. Back in the 90s, when market economy started here, many many businesses' names had the "-ex" suffix, as apparentl
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by TomaszZielinski 3y ago
I'm guessing that these days anything might need to be rebooted, including track themselves (I mean: there are misc detectors there).. Sometimes I'm in awe how strong the overarching duct tape is :)
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by TomaszZielinski 3y ago
For some reason I'm afraid to check if that website exists :)
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by TomaszZielinski 3y ago
Thank you for putting it so clearly! I feel this angle got somewhat lost in the whole discussion. For instance, has anyone really analyzed, what would happened if the trains were running at 160km/h at midnight, on Nov 21? I mean, the
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by TomaszZielinski 3y ago
"Pants down" situation aside, if the firmware is not signed or verified in any way, then isn't it prone to "neutrino bit reversal", potentially causing Bad Things? I have no idea how those systems work and what guar
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by TomaszZielinski 3y ago
I read and reread it and IMHO it's perfectly clear.
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by TomaszZielinski 3y ago
I'm from Poland, and there's a chance I was going by those specific immobilized trains--I lived in Wrocław and used Koleje Dolnośląskie (Lower Silesia Railways) to "scout" the area (there are some beautiful places around
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by TomaszZielinski 3y ago
What if it's caused by random reboots lasting up to 1h? :) Of course I'm half joking, but I wouldn't be surprised if software problems contributed to the delays (which tend to chain, as trains need to wait for each other, etc
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by TomaszZielinski 3y ago
I'm writing from memory so I could be wrong, but based on (IIRC) two articles and some comments I read in Polish: - The 10 days limit was their initial attempt, no GPS involved - After it turned out the trains were immobilized in the &
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by TomaszZielinski 3y ago
OK, let's try how it goes: Hey Czesław, I cannot leave it flexible, because it's a train that can run over 100km/h with 500 passengers inside, so I need to know the details to perform the required safety analysis. All in all,
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by TomaszZielinski 3y ago
Sure, I'll write one, but if you don't mind I would prefer to do it in a few weeks, when I cook more recipes and can write something based on real "kitchen experience" with the book?
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by TomaszZielinski 3y ago
Thank you for the offer, but I insist the cropped numbers are unimportant :)! I mean, I sent some electrical impulses through wires and two days later a book materialized in a box nearby. And then I used it to cook a hit dinner, which happe
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by TomaszZielinski 3y ago
So I got the book today, and I cooked the tuna pasta. I admit I was kinda skeptical at first (for no specific reason), but gave it a shot and it was a hit! Everyone (including me :)) said it was very tasty--and we actually meant it, we have
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by TomaszZielinski 3y ago
This is unrelated to fusion, but it's HN so I'm hoping such trivia fits here :) In my previous life I was a game developer. For one of my games I needed a physics engine. And one of the candidates was < https://en.wik
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by TomaszZielinski 3y ago
A day has passed and today my comments about code reviews don't really make sense to me anymore. I think I lost forest for the trees :). So now it makes perfect sense to me that you thought it was about a 3rd party review, or about a r
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by TomaszZielinski 3y ago
Yeah, for some reason I thought it was 5.0. Do you remember if there was any major language feature added in 5.0? I couldn't quickly find anything concrete..
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by TomaszZielinski 3y ago
Thanks for the link! It's fascinating for a laymen like me how they considered all those different angles. And also: > For Breyer, however, the prospect of a “tractive power” test > confirmed that the concept of “use” is so inher
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by TomaszZielinski 3y ago
Yes, I agree, but AFAICT we have two questions in this subthread: - about common usage of the word - and here it _seems to me_ it's context- and domain-specific, because for instance we don't call cars a road infrastructure - whet
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by TomaszZielinski 3y ago
It's 3mln PLN, so more like $750k... It must have been worth it, right?
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by TomaszZielinski 3y ago
Ah, that's a very good distinction between the national perspective and the rail perspective! > I wonder: If the rolling stock becomes immobilized, does it now count as immovable stuff? Assuming it's a philosophical question, a
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by TomaszZielinski 3y ago
Ah OK! No, the top link seems to be the same as before. My Scenario 1. wasn't about some rogue employee, only about unstructured development process, possibly even with no version control. So there's this one developer that adds t
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by TomaszZielinski 3y ago
I don't know, that's why I asked--for me "infrastructure" sounds like the immovable parts. Similarly to road infrastructure, which doesn't include cars. But it's just my armchair impression, I have no idea how
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by TomaszZielinski 3y ago
I have no idea how software for trains is (or should be) created. So I meant a regular code review you would do for anything else. I can see two scenarios at play: 1. either it's "free for all" and someone (anyone?) can put a
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by TomaszZielinski 3y ago
In this case the lower offer was 22mln PLN, whereas the manufacturer's offer was 25mln.
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by TomaszZielinski 3y ago
Having read only that kk article, I'm not certain if trains are considered parts of the infrastructure?
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by TomaszZielinski 3y ago
The world is such a small place--I open HN and read a movie-grade story about trains that I took many times. In fact, it's even possible I was going by one of those grounded trains.. In any case, either there was no code review, or the
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by TomaszZielinski 3y ago
Ahh, I didn't know that product IDs are the same on all Amazon sites, thanks! OK, so the delivery is supposed to happen on Friday :)

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