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The company is now no longer controlled by one man alone, but instead many. I’m still a major shareholder.

We are changing the world by fighting in the front lines with our PR as we always did [1], donating to organizations without pause or hesitation [2], and sticking to our decisions even when the world may not understand as they aren’t deep in the battle like us.

Time will prove everything, and we will help the people (and freedom of speech and privacy) achieve victory.

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It sounds like that trainee fucked up so badly, that you would have been able to sue the hospital for malpractice even in Europe. :-/
This strikes me as such an odd law. Does CA feel the same about houses? Can one go break into a house and get away with it if the homeowner can't prove the doors were locked? I suspect not and, so, if not, why not? What was the impetus for such a law to begin with? Was there a rash of people leaving their cars unlocked and some politician decided it "serves them right" for getting broken into? The questions abound!
>they never mention the word waste once when it comes to the cost calculation

Because they don't need to. Power generation plants of any reasonably modern design don't generate lots of waste, just spent fuel rods that can be reprocessed and a tiny amount of non reusable radioactive material that needs to be stored until it's less radioactive.

All the mess regarding storage sites like Yucca Mountain relates to waste from bomb production, not from power plants.

Even if we had a storage facility like that operating in the US, spent fuel assemblies from power plants wouldn't be permanently interred there, that would be a waste.
> I'll also mention that drunk drivers caught at checkpoints are arrested for a victimless crime while every car burglary has a victim.

A victimless crime at the checkpoint, yes - but many people driving drunk end up in accidents and endanger public safety.

As for the real issue here: it's a problem only if there is not enough police to simultaneously conduct sobriety checkpoints and prevent crimes against property at the same time.

Fix police education, payment and staff and the problem is solved without pitting different dangers to society against each other. Or, even better, provide adequate public transport to allow people to have a drink without having to rely on driving drunk to get home...
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> Two sleeper startups in this space that are going to make a lot of money ...

How are they going to make money if open source enthusiasts copy the ideas and spread them for free? See e.g. React -> Vue.

Selling developer tools these days is just a losing game.
> I've always seen this as an example of why physical/hardware interlocks are really important when you're mixing software with hardware that can easily hurt people.

Not only that, but running in to the interlock should be considered a notable event. The machine should not just continue operating as normal, it should be clear to the operators that something potentially dangerous has occurred and should be investigated.

It seems like they had just assumed that because no one had managed zap someone with the previous models that the software must have been perfect, even though the previous models had hardware interlocks preventing the dangerous scenario. Those interlocks had presumably been tripped many times, just no one ever brought it to the attention of the vendor.

If a system trips a safety interlock it should fail to a safe configuration and remain there until reset by someone capable of investigating why it was tripped in the first place.

Modern traffic lights are a good example of doing it right. In those cabinets you see at every intersection, right next to the traffic light controller will be a device called a conflict monitor. This device will be wired to the circuits feeding the light heads themselves. If two conflicting movements are indicated for whatever reason, be it a failure of the controller, a short in the wiring, etc, the conflict monitor will trip and set the intersection to a fail-safe mode (usually either all-red blink or yellow blink for a main road with reds elsewhere) until manually reset by a human.

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> I'm also always amazed by how few people seem to know about the Therac-25 incident, especially people that work in therapeutic radiation roles (in the UK anyway).

That's interesting, at least amongst my "techie" friends it's common knowledge. Many of us who went to college for computer science related things had it used in one class or another to get across the point that bad software can kill people in really unexpected ways.

I guess maybe the medical side of things doesn't find it worth as much attention because they don't have as much to learn from it.
I think providing reliable compute and storage is not so difficult and for that there are many options that are cheaper than AWS or Azure (e.g. Hetzner cloud, Scaleway, Vultr or DO). The hard part, in my opinion, is providing managed services like relational databases or key-value stores. For that there are far fewer vendors available, so if Oxide manages to build something that makes this easier I think they’d have a pretty solid business case. In general I think we see a trend towards simpler IT and system architectures, which I really like as I think the complexity has become way too high. I e.g. know a company that invested significant resources (people and hardware) in setting up an OpenStack cluster but even after three years never managed to use it in production. From what I’ve heard k8s has a similar complexity problem, so I really think there’s room for a simpler approach to scalable computing.
A culture of refusing responsibility is better how?
The schools will argue that surveillance of students promotes safety and good behavior. That might be true up to a point. But, they're missing out on the opportunity to teach a deeper, more important lesson, which is how to behave when you're not being watched.

Would we rather live in a society where people are only doing the right thing because they're being watched, or where people do the right thing because they've internalized morals and ethics so it doesn't matter if they're watched?

I'd argue the latter is better. Merely pleasing your watchers is not personal responsibility. It's control and confinement to whatever you think the watchers want to see. But, when/if the surveillance rails come off, then what happens? Then we have people who have never stood on their own ethical two feet.
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> does not displace nuclear because they do not provide a stable base.

If we put the money we put into building nuclear plants into energy storage, then that would likely change pretty quickly.
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Thanks for sharing your experience! Obviously with specialized hardware remote work isn't feasible, but I think with a lot of things (like smart home, iot, etc) the focus is on the firmware and not so much the hardware.

I do think it may be necessary to switch over to software development but that would be a tough transition!
One point is that grocers shouldn't have to fend for themselves against crime.

Supplying the public good of crime fighting is the main reason to form governments in the first place.
Real airports have control towers, baggage handlers, and hangers. Seeing them, it is a mistake to assume no flight operations. To assume it's only a cargo cult. Or to assume, in the age of Kickstarters, that it will never be more than marketing. None of which is my prediction of the company's successful shipping of quality product. Some companies never get past the low hanging fruit. Other companies do.
If I'd just read the post and not clicked the homepage, I'd have no idea what they mean by "computer company". Turns out it's some boring B2B server thing.

Does it annoy anyone else to see blog posts where the first paragraph is a bunch of links to other posts? The first paragraph should give the reader at least some idea of what the main idea is. If the material has been covered in detail elsewhere, then post those links at the bottom of the post.
While taxes are high, employees in Europe are still way cheaper than say SF or NYC. You can get a decent web developer for EUR 60-80k in total cost per year in Austria. Spend 100k and you get the top 5% talent.

What Europe lacks is private funding. I don’t find the article now, but years ago read that there’s 5x as much funding in the US market as compared to the EU market. Seed funding is 3-5x less than you would expect in the US.
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> largely neglected by any existing vendor

I am not sure about this. It seems all their experience is geared towards software with little to nobody from a traditional hardware engineering background. Wouldn't they be better off using open compute[1] designs and focusing on the software inside? Building hardware just seems like a stretch trying to compete against Dell, HP, and Supermicro all of which have "Kubernetes" / high density offerings.

[1] https://www.opencompute.org/
I an European and I have worked and lived in 4 different EU member states, some rich, some more poor. I know almost nobody who gets private insurance.

Currently I am in Germany, and I had a serious health issue. The sort of thing that makes you go bankrupt in the US. I had surgery and months of treatment for free. I stayed on my own private room in the hospital, and it looked like a hotel room, with a private bathroom. I payed zero euros, this was all on public healthcare. They even offered me a few days in a SPA to recover after surgery. They even funded the metro tickets to go from my house to the place where I received the treatment.

Some other EU member states do not have the resources for such niceties, but you will absolutely get the treatment you need.

I feel sorry for people in the U.S. I read about all sorts of situations that are heartbreaking, and it confuses me that most people there still vote against universal healthcare. This serves nobody except the very rich people exploiting the situation.

I listen to North American podcasts and such, and I am still surprised to hear educated people repeating lies about the situation in Europe, as if we were some almost-communist repressive society about to collapse. The most common assertion is that, after all, the US is the only country with "real freedom". To my European ears, this sounds exactly like the sort of propaganda you get from any authoritarian regime. As if "freedom" is some simple one-dimensional things that can be measured like this.

I think it would be good if U.S. citizens had a more realistic picture of how the rest of the western world lives.
Honestly, I feel that Intel could have the better laptop chips if they get 10nm in a better state. And I say this after building a 3600X +RX 5700 XT desktop this year.

Intel's R&D budget is several times larger then AMD's revenue so they'll always be able to squeeze a little more out of their current chips.

Could just be a timing issue though. Intel might abandon their current 10nm leaving AMD as the default winner by mid/late 2020.

Disclaimer: I'm long on AMD and wishing I bought more 5 years ago.
Your math is right but the numbers you based it on were not.

(70*365) / 500,000 = 0.0511

You have about a 5% chance of having your car stolen in SF annually.

Or to replicate your process:

70 / 500,000 = 0.00014

1 - 0.00014 = 0.99986

0.99986^365 = 0.950180248299

Again, about a 5% annual rate.
So it’s not red hat scooping up competition in the startup phase? Like my Econ background expects.
I think it's mostly for chew spit. Depending on where you're at, it's still not uncommon for kids to be using chewing tobacco or snus during school hours. If you were sly with a colored bottle, you could spit all day and never get caught. I'm not saying this is a great reason, but this isn't totally illogical.
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I though the same thing! ...Until I noticed this: https://www.orderofmalta.int/in-the-news/order-malta-worlds-...

...So, I'm guessing whatever the requirements, they might be a little tight. ;-)
While I agree with you, I think there's some nuance. In the Lavabit case, the FBI was investigating a national security threat whereas the PIA case involved the hacking of local social media sites. I can see a judge not wanting to rule against the FBI in a case of national security whereas I think a judge would be hesitant to do the same in the case of a misdemeanor offense. Then again, I'm continually surprised by the U.S. government in the "war against terror" era.
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To the best of my comprehension, Hardware and Software designed hand in hand for a good on-premises “cloud.”
For all those out there that applauded Prop 47 that helped lead to this mess let me tell you a story of how this law leads to more inequality not less.

A single mother working 2 minimum wage jobs in different parts of the city uses her car to travel to work. She basically lives in her car so she must keep belongings she will need in there. While working her first shift for the day her car is broken into. Her bag with her uniform for her second shift is stolen along with everything else.

The cops tell her that the damage to her 20 year old used car's window and the items stolen add up to less than $950 so they can't do much of anything for her.

Meanwhile, across town, a rich tech elite's high end electric car is broken into and some valuable electronics are stolen. The damage and theft adds up to well over $950 so the police are able to investigate.

At the end of the day the tech elite orders replacement electronics with next day prime delivery and has their assistant work on repairing the window. The single mother gets fired from her second job for not having the appropriate attire. Great work California.
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Yeah, most of that was before we discovered (or just didn't care enough) we have been destroying natural resources in a completely unsustainable way, from the extraction processes (mining) to disposal (ocean filled with trash)
He's referring to research by Nick Bloom, an economist at Stanford. They've worked together.

Ctrl-F management on his research page (https://nbloom.people.stanford.edu/research). In one paper, they randomly assign consulting services from a management consultancy to manufacturing plants in India and found a 17% increase in productivity.
> What’s the difference between “Progress Studies” and economics?

It does sound a bit "Economic history. You've invented economic history." Mind you, VC/Koch-style libertarians are the only people who could be accused of that, given the recent beef between self-described economic historians and self-described historians of capitalism.
Why don’t you out them? You haven’t had much trouble slinging mud on HN in the past, and to be clear, it has been appreciated.
> An astonishing thing happened when we finally made it possible for everyone in the world to tell a computer what to do: We discovered nobody knows what they want the computer to do!

I feel this way. I've been at this a long time but all my non-work computing is either futzing about or incredibly low-value. Spreadsheets are pretty nice but I could do without them. Some kind of instant messaging or email is pretty useful. Calendar reminders are nice. But there are decent alternatives to all of them that aren't really that much worse, for personal use, while computers are expensive and take up a lot of time, especially to get good enough to use them without constantly being confused and mystified (see: any non-nerds using computers).

90%ish of what I get out of all this, personally, is media access, which could be almost perfectly replaced by living somewhat closer to a library and having a Netflix DVD subscription. I kinda think the everything-always-available aspect actually makes things worse, so a little extra friction or forcing choices might be an improvement. Ditto spending—I think any savings from online shopping is probably exceeded, for most people, by increased total spending.

It's looking increasingly likely I'll never start a significant side-project, let alone found a product of any significance whatsoever, because I just can't think of anything useful to do with these magical boxes that's not already being done. Since everyone says that business ideas are the easy part I guess I'm truly fucked because I can't even come up with one of those that survives a day of thought and research. I look at computers and the Internet and see a time-suck that is, most of the time, ill-applied, dangerous, and probably harming productivity in most areas.

[EDIT] to support the "expensive" thing, say it's about $2000 every four years per person to keep in smartphones and larger computing devices that don't take up too much space (laptop or tablet), that work well enough to actually be semi-useful rather than just a constant pain in your ass, and that will actually probably last and remain usable for four years, on average. Two adults in a household, that's about $1,000/yr in hardware, no tinkering, no gaming consoles, no bling'd out new phone every year, no peripherals, just to basically get the "job" done. Two streaming services of some kind, call it $20/mo, and that's a pretty low count. Good home Internet plus the Internet portion of your cell phone bill, for me, that's about $110/mo combined for the two of us (kids don't have their own stuff yet, and hell, may not at all until they can pay for it, because this stuff's expensive). That totals to about $2500/yr. You can buy a hell of a lot of physical media, (physical) games, postage stamps, puzzle books, whatever, for $2500/yr, and if you don't just throw it away you can keep using all that stuff the next year, and the one after, without paying again.