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by Ambroos | 2025-08-07 16:16:03+00:00
Almost all of the other things you want to get rid of are legal requirements in some regions. Auto start-stop is generally to meet emissions targets. European safety regulations have made all of the following required on all new vehicles sold since mid 2024: AEB detecting cars/pedestrians/cyclists, intelligent speed assist, lane departure assist, reversing camera or sensors, drowsiness warning and a few others. For any car or platform that will at some point end up on the European market you can thus expect manufacturers to make all of these standard.

There's a cost attached to them, but it was decided that that cost is worth the significant benefits in road safety for both the people in the vehicle and the people around the vehicle.
by eddythompson80 | 2025-08-07 16:16:41+00:00
So you’re just not gonna respond to any of the points explaining your straw man. Yeah you should read it again, and read my explanation again and let me know if you have any questions or responses. Dont douse yourself in gasoline and you won’t have to worry about being on fire.

(You have every right do douse yourself in gasoline. No one is taking that way from you. Just say away from everyone else)
by Venn1 | 2025-08-07 16:17:20+00:00
I spent some time testing Steam with FEX on the Orion O6 using an AMD RX570. Really surprised it worked as well as it did.

Portal 2 was hitting over 100 FPS. Half-Life 2 and DOOM 2016 hovered around 60 FPS. Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Control mostly stayed above 30 FPS, while The Witcher 3 and God of War usually hung out in the low to mid 40s.

- https://interfacinglinux.com/2025/06/30/fex-emu-gaming-on-th...
by pyuser583 | 2025-08-07 16:17:55+00:00
> I have yet to meet a single AI safety person that knows how to rename a file in linux.

It's funny, because I can tell when I'm dealing with a non-technical, policy person, because they always use language in a way no programmer would. I'd prefer not share the specific tells, but there are some things technical people just don't say, but policy people say all the time.
by thewebguyd | 2025-08-07 16:18:36+00:00
I'd hardly call a business with between 150-300 employees, that cares about SSO but doesn't need the full suite of enterprise features an outlier, I'd imagine that's fairly common nowadays.

Maybe in 2015 it was an outlier, but SSO is now a non-negotiable and with many of these businesses on M365 business premium, which includes EntraID P2, SSO is now accessible to a large number of companies where it wasn't before. It's no longer some niche enterprise only functionality, it's a bare minimum for business SaaS.
by lenerdenator | 2025-08-07 16:18:41+00:00
> But what about other expensive, complicated, things I want a choice to get rid of, major things I don't want to pay for, like .. auto stop-start, or the ability for the car to slam on the brakes by itself, or the ability for the car to decide to steer itself if it thinks I've strayed from the middle of the lane. Heck, I don't want a rear camera or blind spot monitoring, I'll check my blind spots myself. They're even working on mandating some sort of monitoring in the next few years to "detect" whether you might be drunk. What are the costs of all those sorts of things? All the sensors? All the computers? All the design/coding? The costs for maintaining all of it? The cost of the extra complexity? No mention of any of that?

Depends. The rearview camera thing? Probably not that expensive at this point; development costs have been amortized. Sensors probably are a bit more expensive.

The thing that chaps my ass about it is that there's so little commonality among parts between models and makers. We're 40+ years into the microprocessor revolution and ECMs are still mostly bespoke designs that have closed code running on them. Why? One way to deal with the design/coding costs would be to simply spread it across more automotive manufacturers, because at the end of the day, most of them are trying to achieve the same goals with regards to the function of the component. It's like looking at the different lug nut patterns between automakers... there's only so many ways to mount a wheel on a hub and you could reduce the tooling cost to make those wheels if you shared it with someone else.

> (Also don't get me started on the extra cost and complexity and loss of maintainability that emissions regulations have added to cars. They used to be dead simple and maintainable.)

It's nice to have breathable air, no?
by vpribish | 2025-08-07 16:19:01+00:00
that little bit of work and attention is too much for most people.

I'm as frustrated about this as you are, but there is a large class of people who will not or can not understand and implement the password-manager workflow.

Of the people I know who are not in a tech career i'd say about 80% have nothing but contempt and ignorant fatalism toward security. The only success I've had is getting one older relative to start writing account credentials down in a little paper notebook and making sure there are numbers and letters in the passwords.
by thwarted | 2025-08-07 16:19:05+00:00
>> That sounds like the 90s argument against FLOSS

> This is still the argument for software copyright.

And open source licensing is based on and relies on copyright. Patents and copyright are different kinds of intellectual property protection and incentivize different things. Copyright in some sense encourages participation and collaboration because you retain ownership of your code. The way patents are used discourages participation and collaboration.
by nowayno583 | 2025-08-07 16:20:05+00:00
Your reasoning is correct if you think about negotiating options, or going all in on a trade, but its not quite right for stocks. The borrowing rates for MSFT and NVDA - even for a retail investor - are less than 1% yearly. So if your view is right you could hold a short on them for years. The market cap for these companies has already incorporated a large capex investment for AI DCs. As long as you use a reasonable rebalancing strategy, and you are right that their current investment in AI will not pay off, you will make money.

Mind you, this is a view that exists - a few large hedge funds and sell side firms currently hold negative positions/views on these companies.

However, the fact of the matter is, fewer people are willing to take that bet than the opposite view. So it is reasonable to state that view with care.

You might be right at the end of the day, but it is very much not obvious that this bet has not (or will not) pay off.
by biophysboy | 2025-08-07 16:20:19+00:00
> Taiwan isn't some backwater island making low skilled items.

Definitely not! Wasn't trying to imply this.

> If we cannot manufacture then we likely cannot win the next war.

If you think a war is imminent (a big claim!), then our only chance is to partner with specialized allies that set up shop here (e.g. Taiwan, Japan, South Korea). Trying to resurrect Intel's vertically integrated business model to compete with TSMC's contractor model is a mistake, IMO.
by Apocryphon | 2025-08-07 16:20:21+00:00
> Yet no "hard" takes on artificial gravity come to mind.

Yeah, I’m just suggesting maybe there just haven’t been any hypothetical speculative physics concepts that could explain artificial gravity. At least with FTL we’ve got wormholes, the Alcubierre drive, zero-point energy, etc.

> any explanation would be difficult to work into an interesting narrative

With sci-fi people seem to like explanations of FTL well enough, both the soft fantastical kind and the hard speculative physics kind. I think artificial gravity just needs its own visual/conceptual equivalent to the going into hyperspace effect, or warping space, or stargate relays, etc.

But artificial gravity itself is indeed conceptually and perhaps literally “low” because it’s much more mundane than other aspects. You might as well explain it away by everyone wearing magnetized boots. Tractor beams / interdictors with gravity well projectors are neat, though.
by boothby | 2025-08-07 16:20:25+00:00
> Efficiency is about sitting down and analyzing your tasks holistically and doing min-maxing...

Accurate analysis depends on accurate data. Which is why some people I know are required to account for their work activities in 7-minute increments, have frequent and detailed meetings to account for progress, project planning, etc.

Actually, doing that analysis has a cost that must be discounted from any perceived gains of efficiency, to be truly efficient. One learns to tolerate some waste to avoid the ultimate time-suck.

To say nothing of maintence and sustainability -- if you're always sprinting, you're doomed to fall.
by johnnyjeans | 2025-08-07 16:20:30+00:00
The part where it becomes appearances is that it's public. The negative impact here stems from the office of the president criticizing the CEO of a publicly traded company, using an unofficial but public channel. This impact doesn't exist if it happens in private backchannels.

I think it's foolhardy to hold any certainty on the effect of transitioning from gloabalism to neo-mercantilism, which seems to be the economic policy of this admin. Given the complexity of the systems involved it should be flagrantly obvious that whether this is good or bad for the American people is wholly unpredictable for tiny little monkey brains. Thus, when I speak of the negative impacts in this context, I'm implicitly just sticking to what's definitely harmful, which is tied up in appearances here, and empirically measurable in intel's stock price (though it seems to be mostly minimal, thankfully.)
by pavel_lishin | 2025-08-07 16:20:32+00:00
Yep. My backups - personal ones, not business - live in three places:

1. A hard drive in a fire safe.

2. An S3 bucket, mediated by Wasabi.

3. My friend's server that lives at his house half a continent away.

It would be nice to have a fourth location that's a physical hard-drive that lives outside of my house, but close enough to drive to for pick-up, but it would mean either paying for a safety deposit box as you mentioned, or hassling a friend once a week as I come to pick it up and deposit it.
by __turbobrew__ | 2025-08-07 16:20:41+00:00
I once optimized some configs around dm-crypt block devices which increased IO throughput by 15-20% across tens of thousands of nodes. I am maybe 1 of 2 people at the company who could have done the profiling and implemented the optimization. That change was about a day or two of work for me.

I think there actually exists infinity-X employees which perform work that could not be done by infinity 1x engineers. At some level, deep technical experience is not something that can be achieved by throwing more engineers at it.

So depending on how you define it, I do legitimately think 1000x engineers exist.
by paulcole | 2025-08-07 16:21:10+00:00
> There’s obviously a financial bubble in full force.

If it’s so obvious, figure out how to bet against it, get rich, and never have to worry about productivity again.

> The environmental impact is real.

If every LLM disappeared tomorrow, the environment is still equally fucked as it is today. “Think of the environment” is the second most mindless appeal to emotion argument against anything other than “Think of the children.”
by MaxPock | 2025-08-07 16:21:32+00:00
Things I love to read.

I went to visit my aunt one day, and my favourite uncle couldn't recognize me. It made me think that Alzheimer's is probably the worst thing that could happen to a person. I mean, what's worse than not being able to recognize those closest to you? You work a lifetime, and then you go out in such an undignified manner.

I pray for a cure in my lifetime.
by 1718627440 | 2025-08-07 16:21:37+00:00
I don't. It just shows that the police doesn't need to be escalating and we shouldn't shrug and accept it as it is.

> Police are a volatile, uncontrollable solution

No they don't and shouldn't be.

> If you introduce police into a situation

I think informing the police about a dangerous attitude in some child isn't the wrong solution. The police not showing up at the parent's place and sending a therapist, but instead treating a child like a criminal adult is criminally neglect.

Also right here in the comments we have somebody mentioning that people behave how you treat them. That doesn't apply soly to children. If you treat the police like a militia and don't show respect they will behave like that to you.
by diatone | 2025-08-07 16:21:39+00:00
I’ve read some blog posts by Geoff and there’s a useful idea here but it’s surrounded by so much storytelling.

To dig up the lede: LLMs are proving useful in some instances, consider staying abreast of developments here to find ways to do a better job as time goes by. The exact nature of “better job” and the timeframe along which that reveals itself are left as exercises for the reader
by zdragnar | 2025-08-07 16:21:48+00:00
The article incorrectly conflates "cares about productivity" with "cares exclusively about productivity".

SWE salaries are a massive cost. Improving productivity is one way of offsetting that cost. The examples provided for "don't care about productivity" are things like open office plans- where a certain amount of productivity is sacrificed while offsetting a different cost (building space).

Yes, it is fair to say that managers and executives do not care about productivity to the exclusion of all else. It's something of a pointless statement, though, as I don't think anyone actually thinks that.
by m4rtink | 2025-08-07 16:22:19+00:00
If its loosing mass for propulsion, it might need to slow down a lighter ship, taking less time ?

Remember, a lighter ship can start slowing down later so it will arrive to its destination faster. This might be important if you are traveling with a flotilla of ships & decide for a little race at the end. Also helps if you have some heavy hibernation pods on board[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chasm_City
by james2doyle | 2025-08-07 16:22:21+00:00
I’ve actually been using Gemini on my phone to create appointments from details on my screen. For example, I have a delivery coming so there is an email with the date and time range. I can press and hold my power button and Gemini pops up. I press a button to use screen context. Then say, "put this in my calendar". Then it does. It isn’t perfect. Events that cross multiple days or odd location details in the description sometimes don’t get included. But that is more and more rare. I’m using an Android phone. So maybe that is why it seems to work. I do see that "mostly works" is not the same as "always works".

Also, if you are a Google Workspace customer, you can connect your workspace to the Gemini web app. It can then search and manipulate your calendar and your drive. It will also summarize documents and a few other tasks. I have less use for this but it is far from "it _can’t_ make appointments".
by lenerdenator | 2025-08-07 16:22:58+00:00
Don't forget the way we handle fuel economy standards in the US... or did, given the way those regulations are being repealed for some reason.

Petroleum is a critical resource and most countries manage its use in automobiles for fuel in a fairly direct way: They tax the living shit out of gasoline and diesel. If you use more, you pay more. You have incentive to buy a smaller, more basic car because they will ultimately cost you less.

But not here. We gave exceptions on light trucks because that's all the big three could competently produce back when fuel economy standards were being introduced and we were getting our brains beaten in by the Japanese. Making more fuel-efficient vehicles requires R&D, and R&D spend is money not sent to a shareholder. Since the bigger vehicles don't count towards CAFE and smaller vehicles do, guess which vehicles the big three push harder to consumers?
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-08-07 16:23:13+00:00
> A regular sedan would do.

Or a small hatchback, e.g. a Fit, Golf, Matrix, Yaris, etc. They might not be the most attractive looking vehicles but darn if they aren’t practical. Better cargo space than much longer sedans while being short enough to park almost anywhere.

It’s so disappointing that they’ve disappeared from the US market almost entirely.
by tw04 | 2025-08-07 16:23:47+00:00
The fact you’re unwilling to even consider a product with SSO behind the enterprise license is what makes you an outlier, and frankly probably a bad customer.

And if you’re trying to negotiate custom, non standard licensing when you’ve only got 300 employees you will likely be a noisy customer in perpetuity.

No offense, that’s just how I’m betting 99% of folks read your response.
by mcv | 2025-08-07 16:24:01+00:00
I still question your claims of cause and effect here. The US abandoned this well before the USSR had fallen, and the reason the rest of Europe followed suit was not the fall of the USSR, but merely because they were blindly following the US, which they saw as a leader in this matter.

But plenty of countries did not follow down that part. There's no reason to assume this can't be stable, but you do need to limit the influence of big money and neoliberalism on your society.
by moc_was_wronged | 2025-08-07 16:24:19+00:00
Large language models have their place, but they’re quite limited and no real substitute for human intelligence or judgement at its best.

That said, abusive corporate environments (and they’re pretty much all abusive) turn people into automatons. Execs can thus wave LLMs around and say, “Look, you’re so useless a machine can do your job.”

And even then it does a shitty job. It misses special cases and causes messes. But it’s cheap in the short term, which is all that matters to the boss’s career. Things will go to shit in a few years, but if you’re good at executive social climbing, you are three promotions away from your bad decisions by the time anyone figures out that’s what they were.
by tetha | 2025-08-07 16:24:32+00:00
Within Europe and if you're not at Hetzner already, Hetzner Storage Boxes[1] are very competitive. 4 Euros per month for a terabyte, throw borg[2] with compression + deduplication at it and it'll take you far. Especially if your databases are not changing that much, then borg can make that terabyte of storage a lot bigger.

1: https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/

2: https://www.borgbackup.org/
by tonymet | 2025-08-07 16:24:59+00:00
After our convo i decided to rekindle some working making oauth ipv4/ipv6 backward compatible

I'm having an issue with ipv6 sockets not receiving ipv4 traffic. setsockopt IPV6_V6ONLY = 0 is supposed to make ipv6 sockets listen on ipv4 as well

Can you take a look at this and see why it's not working

https://gist.github.com/tonymet/a85b43831179055d16403a9d9be1...
by atonse | 2025-08-07 16:25:03+00:00
For day to day coding, I've found Anthropic to be killing it with Sonnet 3.7 and now Sonnet 4, and Claude Code feeling like it has even bigger advantages over when it's used in Cursor (And I can't explain why).

I don't even try to use the OpenAI models because it's felt like night and day.

Hopefully GPT-5 helps them catch up. Although I'm sure there are 100 people that have their own personal "hopefully GPT-5 fixes my personal issue with GPT4"
by Hackbraten | 2025-08-07 16:25:22+00:00
I don’t remember why KeePassXC didn’t make my list last time I checked.

That was years ago, so I’m going to check it out again. Thanks for the pointer.

Update: One thing that stands out immediately is a confusing mess of three different projects, two of them unmaintained, which all call themselves KeePassX or KeePassXC, sometimes linking to each other’s documentation. How do I even tell I’m facing the correct KeePass(X(C)?)? project?

Yes, I’ll figure it out eventually but until then, it’s confusing. Also, if a password manager project needs to be forked over and over and over again (how can a holder of the keys to the kingdom possibly go MIA on three different occasions in basically the same project?), then does that tell us something about how the project is governed?
by colmmacc | 2025-08-07 16:25:23+00:00
Every week at AWS we have an account protection meeting; it's got the teams who handle fraud and abuse detection, compromised accounts (e.g. when a customer has a security issue on their side), non-payment, forgotten creds, as well as our support team. You'll find the most junior members of those teams, all the way up to VPs, in the same meeting diving into the nitty gritty. Every week.

Disabling a legitimate in-use account is one of our absolute nightmares, and I don't care if it was an account paying $3/month we would be having a review of that with our top level management (including our CEO - Matt Garman) no matter how we found out about it. For us, there is not some acceptable rate of this as a cost of doing business.
by tptacek | 2025-08-07 16:25:32+00:00
The author has twisted themselves into a weird pretzel trying to tie a broad societal critique about short-termism to day-to-day line management. Your manager almost certainly does care about your productivity; in fact, the more biting critique is probably that they care too much about it, working to juice output in the short term while paying short shrift to downstream consequences.
by lelanthran | 2025-08-07 16:25:43+00:00
> The problem of overflowing context is solved by RAGs, though.

No, it isn't.

It's mitigated with RAGs, but RAGs add to the context, and what they add might be irrelevant is all the retriever module is doing is plain text search.

If the retriever module is performing an embeddings/vector search on a properly prepared dataset you may have more luck, but it's still a piss-poor experience compared to simply putting all the tools into the context.

Of course, I'm not an expert, so I welcome corrections.
by padenot | 2025-08-07 16:25:52+00:00
Those methods are sub-sample accurate, granted you call them a bit in advance to account for the cross-thread communication, as you say. But yes, in general this was designed (prior to me becoming an editor) with scheduling in mind, not with low-latency interactivity. That said, it goes quite far.

Other systems go further, such as Web Audio Modules (that builds on top of AudioWorklet) implement sample-accurate parameter change from within the rendering thread, using wait-free ring-buffers. That requires `SharedArrayBuffer` but works great, and is the lowest latency possible (since it uses atomic loads and stores from e.g. the main thread to the rendering thread).
by ignoramous | 2025-08-07 16:25:54+00:00
> Typically this is met with incredulity

Surprising. In my time, things always got pretty serious if your service could not recover from loss due to regretable events.

TFA alluded to a possible but "undocumented" way to restore terminated infrastructure. I don't think all AWS services nuke everything on deletion, but if it is not in writing ...
by riedel | 2025-08-07 16:26:08+00:00
MPEG-7 includes a binary XML standard [0] which is quite useful IMHO in comparison to others (I think it is used in DVB Meta data streams). But beyond patents it is even hard to find open documentation of BIM. I think the group was technically quite competent in comparison with other standard groups, but the business models around it really turn me off.

[0] https://mpeg.chiariglione.org/standards/mpeg-7/reference-sof...

EDIT: Here is the Wikipedia page of BiM which evidently made it even into an ISO Standard [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BiM
by modeless | 2025-08-07 16:26:26+00:00
Lithium orotate is available over the counter. People could try it today.

> Since lithium has not yet been shown to be safe or effective in protecting against neurodegeneration in humans, Yankner emphasizes that people should not take lithium compounds on their own

I reject this kind of blind safetyism. A cursory search suggests that lithium orotate has been used for decades, and the article suggests that "profound effects" were seen at an "exquisitely low dose" which should be safe. They're going to need a much better explanation of why people shouldn't try it.