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> As a way to protect himself from this dilution in ownership, what could he do?

First, I think a “dilution in ownership” for founders is possible as an outcome of the tax structure.

My quibble is mostly that the dilution will affect fewer companies that was presented, and will be less dilution than was presented. Specifically, I think it’d be a small enough amount that it’d flip the control from the individual founders to not the individual founders.

In the FB example, it’s worth noting that as of 2019 Facebook already had two classes of shares (class A, held by public investors, and class B held by FB executives, which have 10x the voting power), which (again, in 2019) gave Zuckerberg total control of Facebook.

So, insofar as dual classes of shares already exist, that certainly seems like one option. Zuckerberg can sell class A shares for his tax burden, but keep class B shares. That would dilute his ownership to some extent, but his voting power would be diluted significantly less.

Other options could be paying the tax burden over 5 years instead of a single year (which is in the legislative text), which’d let him pay his tax burden with something like hundreds of millions per year.

Another option instead of selling stock would be to take out loans collateralized by the stock, and use that to pay the tax burden. This would effectively allow them to pay the tax burden over (say) 30 years, which again makes it easier to cover on salary alone.

Or, they could forego the benefits of being a public company (or being a private company that’s readily tradable on secondary markets). There are real downsides to that, though.

To your point, though, I think it’s fair to say that this tax law may dilute the ownership interest of billionaires to some degree. I think it’s less likely than Tim Sweeney was suggesting to wrest control out of founder’s hands (though obviously still possible, especially for any founder that is just barely holding on to 50% ownership).
> I would say that the majority of leader-based state machine replication protocols today are based on the more popular RAFT, which is itself a derivative of Viewstamped Replication.

In production systems, most software appears to use Raft. In academia much more significant advances have been made for Paxos, and most of the research I am aware of is invested into Paxos. I am not really aware of much protocol advancement in academia that is built upon Raft?

> Implementing Paxos correctly in the presence of a realistic storage fault model is certainly non-trivial.

I disagree. The failure model for Paxos as specified assumes that processes fail-stop. So all that is required for correctness is that a process fail-stops in the presence of a detectable disk fault. To detect the kind of fault you report here, we only require checksums - either that are in part computed upon data that is not stored in the sector in question, or that are computed over multiple sectors (or both). This latter criterion holds pretty commonly, I think.

Of course, all distributed consensus protocols must handle reconfiguration in order to replace faulty processes, which would need to be invoked here. So this does not really seem any more challenging?

Certainly the software I maintain (Apache Cassandra), that currently employs Paxos is protected against this kind of fault by virtue of the chunk-level checksums that span many sectors, and the property that processes will not respond to operations that encounter any kind of local fault.
Some are created as jokes, some are created with better privacy in mind, some are intended to be more energy efficient forks of other existing altcoins, etc.,.
Part of the problem back then is they really really wanted to fit it all in 16 bits, and given there are more hanzi than that to start with this was a bit of an issue (back in the 80s the largest dictionary listed >54000 characters, now it’s >100000, and Japanese and Korean total about 50000 each).

A few years later they increased the character space by 5 bits and it wasn’t an issue anymore, but the original legacy of han unification remains.
I was pretty surprised that Iosevka wasn't in the running, I was under the impression it was pretty popular, but maybe not. I also recognize the fact that there's about a billion fonts out there, so obviously you can't include them all.
> Open-source creators are underpaid.

Maybe you should rephrase your article, or remove him. Sindre is one of the most-paid open source creators. There are other creators which definitely deserve to be listed here instead of him.
Unless love of money > hatred of web apps.
>>Next month, $8B of Bitcoin that have been locked in Mt. Gox are expected to be released to their owners. That could become the biggest liquidity test in the history of crypto.

Next month, Mt. Gox is only expected to officially ratify approval of a plan to distribute the remaining $8B USD in bitcoin. Although nobody knows when the distribution will actually take place (6/12/18/24+ months), based on the timing of steps outlined in the approved plan, the distribution is definitely not happening next month.
Living in a US city that has no cars for personal transport
Reimagining Philippine mythical creatures using VQGAN+CLIP
Exactly, given enough liquid helium, anyone can conjure up arbitrary benchmark numbers.
If you've tried to rent a car lately, prices are sky high. I'm renting a very rough Nissan Frontier with 50,000 miles from Enterprise at the moment, that was the only car they had available. At some point in the last year, the rental car market made a binary flip going from Can't make money because no one is renting cars to Can't make money because we have no cars to rent! Tesla's risk here, even if they are lender as well, is very modest because the rental market is in a massive supply pit that may take 5 years to get out of.

Details will come forth but I would not be surprised if Tesla's terms were pretty harsh to Hertz, as in a profit sharing from Tesla rentals in exchange for ongoing tech support for making Teslas work on the rental market. So Tesla's upside could even far exceed the value of the car sold + financing terms.
This comes across as a lazy attempt to find business ideas.
Same as you handle people near railroad tracks.
Radar, sonar and satellite are good weather equipement though. Sea weed gets stuck on the sonar all the time.

You will still need mechanics to solve things aboard no matter the navigational automation, which allready are on autopilot on open sea.
Freezing the user-agent string won’t prevent sniffing, it’ll just possibly make sniffing of precise version numbers a bit more difficult (… because you’ll be abusing feature detection to achieve it); but for this sort of thing you’re mostly just caring about the platform at a coarse level, and maybe the browser (though I think Edge lost its distinctive <select> style and behaviour in the Chromium migration, so that now all browsers on Windows work roughly the same). So UA freezing won’t cause any trouble at all for this sort of thing.

For various sorts of keyboard shortcuts, this style of platform detection has long been essential, so that you can use altKey/⌘ on Apple platforms and ctrlKey/Ctrl everywhere else. Ain’t never been no feature detection candidate for that.
> The annual pass, priced at $1,267 (€1,095), works out at just $24 (€21) per week or $3.50 a day.

or 15 cents if you decide to put in the headline the price per hour rather than the true full accurate price
My results: B612 Mono [1].

From the 'About' page: B612 is an highly legible open source font family, designed and tested to be used on aircraft cockpit screens. ... In 2010, Airbus initiated a research ...

[1]: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/B612+Mono#standard-styles
I guess the point here is that these companies are acting irrationally, and that’s bad.

The way I look at it, these companies are telling you how to play the game. All you have to do is play it and you’ll make quite an impressive amount of money. Maybe C# is just as good a language as Ruby, but if Ruby pays twice as much I’m learning Ruby. (As it happens I’ve worked in both, and Ruby paid WAY more than double.)

There’s a difference between some noumenal, pure engineering and having a career in this industry. I can’t think of an industry that isn’t like that, frankly. Whoever is #1 on Spotify right now is not the most technically accomplished musician in the world.
Workflow Systems 2020
What is funny about it? People have worked around deficiency of systems since forever in almost every field. Is it something you have never seen in real life?
...with on-demand replays of previously streamed content.
One thing I find super interesting is how that side effect is pretty inconsistent even in the same person. I’m currently on Wellbutrin/Zyban/Bupropion as a smoking cessation aid and am not having that side effect this time. But last time I was on it for the same reason… oooooohhhhh boy, yeah, it’s a good thing that I had a partner who was good with that!
$57m to $570m
For whatever it's worth, that type of shenanigan is endemic everywhere else in the tech world, too. ISPs advertising speeds "up to"? SSD vendors quietly swapping SLC for limited QLC? Hat-on-a-hat super-processors in otherwise-shonky SOCs that immediately throttle themselves into uselessness but look great on paper? Prebuilt "gaming" computers with a big-name processor and a mobo pulled out of a cereal box?

It's not a "bait-and-switch", per se, it's just an information asymmetry -- that speed will be achievable on speedtest.com alone, that transfer speed looks great just as long as you haven't put more than 128gb (or whatever it is) onto the drive, if you cover the SOC in copper heatsinks (sold seperately) you can get some performance back, and the motherboard can be replaced but that rig'll play LoL just fine. If you know these things, then the game is navigable; the statements about speed or capacity or value are "true", there's "just" important and missing information about what happens once t>0 or the feeding frenzy starts or capacity is exceeded or whatever.
Larger vessels already transmit their position via AIS, which is helpful for collision avoidance. The problem is that you can't rely on it. Transmitters can fail or get switched off. The smallest vessels don't have AIS and probably never will. How would that work on a Hobie Cat that has no electronics at all?
> Boats have had a higher level of autonomy than cars for a while.

This is really a mixed bag - some categories of vessels have had more advanced navigation systems for decades, but on the the other hand a family minivan is about two decades ahead of a bowrider that goes for about same price when it comes to autonomy.

More directly addressing the article - marine autonomy is an easier problem technically, but there is a significant market problem. Aside from water taxis, there is not the same compelling economic case for autonomous small boats as there is for commuter cars.

Disclaimer: I work on ADAS systems for recreational boats.
I'm probably going to use it, but isn't it valuable to be a bit skeptical and question what the long-term effects may be?

Over the past decades we went from snail mail to email to instant messaging, each step made it easier to write text to a person. Today, we are writing so many messages to each other that people have started arguing for less instant messaging and less email. Mainly because distractions and frequent context shifts allegedly reduce productivity and happiness.

With Copilot, we have a similar evolution where writing code becomes easier. Could this result in people writing more and more code since it is a smaller effort? What would this do to the developer ecosystem in the long term? Maybe code reviews will take longer because there is more code and because it is more likely for junior developers to introduce bugs using copilot code. Maybe this results in more bugs slipping through code reviews and into production and eventually lower productivity and happiness since more time is spent stress-fully fixing production errors. I can't predict the future, but I do think it's valuable to ask these questions before it's too late.
Can you please expand on this, I'm not familiar with the controversy and don't understand what you mean
I absolutely think you're right that it's an Americanism. I actually worked at Yahoo in London when I started noticing it, about 18 years ago, and the office was full of Americans and they were most prone to using it.

> That said even when it was a question it was expected that you replied something along the lines of "I'm good thanks, you?". Unless it was a good friend you never replied negatively, though if you had good news it was fine to expand.

Yeah, that was my expectation as well - the answer needs to be adjusted to how close you are, and so it's mostly relatively perfunctory. But occasionally you get more detail than you bargained for.
Mind explaining what you mean by this?
Statistics eh? What can you do. The stats you gave are the fed's view of dollars. Foreign assets priced in foreign currency are not included. The net US international investment position is actually $34tn in assets and $49tn in liabilities. That's in deficit, but like I said that's mainly due to the strength of the dollar (currency collapse my arse) depressing the relative value of US owned foreign assets. If the currency were to drop, they would even out.

https://www.bea.gov/data/intl-trade-investment/international...

As long as foreign investment is going into productive assets this is fine. Many countries have run extended periods of trade deficit for decades, including the US, and it's been no problem. Being a wealthy country that buys stuff is not a bad thing. The problem comes if you're running a deficit and the inward investment dries up or reverses. Then your deficit is being funded by debt, and you're in big trouble. That's what happened to Russia in 1998.

So what actually matters is that you run a productive economy. Protectionism and subsidies is (and I can't believe I have to spell this out) not the way to run a productive economy.
I've posted about Kovid before.

He's on sponsors[0] making >=$40/m. He also makes $2,142/m on Patreon[1] and ~$74/m on Liberapay[2]. The calibre site[3] also accepts PayPal.

[0] https://github.com/sponsors/kovidgoyal

[1] https://www.patreon.com/kovidgoyal

[2] https://liberapay.com/kovidgoyal/donate

[3] https://calibre-ebook.com/donate
Yeah but they are usually news articles about a political event.

This is a straight opinion hit piece.
There are already some companies experimenting with autonomous ships in international waters. Maritime drones have also been a thing for a while. There's a bay area company that has been operating some of those for a few years. They are at sea for months.
Don't know what do you mean by "dominate the laptop market" because in terms of market share it certainly isn't.

Also, contrary to popular belief the A14 and it's child/sibling the M1 isn't made of magic and the "double in every stuff" each generation train has long gone away ( see A15 ). The M1 is great, performance per watt is really great, but the "tech advantages" Apple has are due to Intel's horrible track record as a tech company in the last decade.

I think the M1 was another "AMD moment" for Intel, I'm mildly optimistic they are starting to get their shit together. While I'm mildly certain Apple is starting to suffer from the same rot Intel has been suffering.
I don't know anything about video.js in particular, but many libraries are huge when served from a CDN because they have to account for every possible use case, as well as every locale, whereas in a local build with tree shaking and modular imports, it can be cut down by quite a lot. Depends on how "legacy" the codebase is, though.
Not really, but that's because I largely dismiss the early Pis altogether. They sit in the awkward space where they're larger and faster than a microcontroller but practically speaking require an OS that wastes a lot of the available resources; for running Linux applications, they feel way underpowered. Pi 3 seemed powerful enough to be interesting and I did a small project with it, but Pi 4 pushes it to where I'm actually starting to like the platform (though I'm still anxious for a Pi 5).

Now with the Zero 2 W, there are three tiers: the Pi 4 for SBCs, Zero 2 W for providing connectivity for things that don't really look like computers as such (but still need Linux for whatever reason?), and then the Pico for microcontroller projects. The difference in capabilities between each tier is large; they cover a wide spectrum of use cases. You can't complain that there are too many tiers.

It's good to know that you can fall back to the older Pis if you have very specific/niche needs that they fulfill better than the new ones, but you'll know it when you need them, and having these extra choices doesn't hurt.

If you don't have very specific requirements, just pick the most appropriate of the three new ones. Easy.

I guess I'm also disregarding the compute module, because I haven't seen particularly compelling reason to look at it. Again I guess if you have very specific needs and can design a carrier board for it, have a go at it. Otherwise, ignore.
"Alternative treatment" implies an unapproved, off-label use. Maybe you meant "promising therapeutic" or something along those lines? Throwing around the term "alternative" is dicey, especially in a world where people take advice about COVID vaccines and "alternative treatments" from podcasts hosted by former comedians.

Once enough studies have been done, this off-label use for fluvoxamine will likely be blessed by the agencies that regulate these sorts of things and at that point it will become an approved treatment for long COVID symptoms. Most things spoken of as "alternative treatments" don't even get to the first stage of this process (since they can't be substantiated with evidence).
SMIC surely has the capacity and does higher resolution than 28nm.

Are you referring to "pure Chinese" fabs with all Chinese equipment?
> ...need a lot more context for me to decide that the person who said it meant it for real.

Yes, of course. But the thing that ends up hurting a lot of people in a really deep way is the psychological hangs-ups caused when they conflate THEIR OWN self-worth to their employment status (not just employed or not, but also level and salary).

Any adult who has a solid self-image can tolerate hearing "you've failed as a human being" from derps all day long, what ends up causing damage is if they take it seriously, or much worse, tell it to themselves.
I'd like to throw in PhotoPrism[1], a web-based photo management tool. It's already moving forward steadily, having recently added a first version of facial recognition. The author wants to make it his full time job, but isn't quite there yet funding-wise.

[1]: https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism
Crypto makes no sense to me…
Better single thread performance is always a nice win because it is immediately perceivable on unmodified software.

I believe Intel is still counting on using x4 PCIE4 for SSDs. I wonder if the PCI-E 5 x16 makes any difference for the GPUs?

DDR5 may bring in nice capacity boosts. However, I read somewhere that at lower capacities it is almost indistinguishable perf wise from high-end DDR4.

The key to M1's attraction is the cohesiveness of its implementation. Apple can make MacOS tightly knit to the heterogenous core types and caches. and essentially gate keep applications to behave optimally. From Intel's announcements, it looks like Intel came up with Thread Director to _advice_ Windows on how to schedule stuff and leave it to MS to implement things. Not sure how that synergy is going to take shape. Perhaps Linux will come out and eat this.

if AMD can improve on Zen 3 and come up with Zen 4, they already provide much more PCI-E lanes and ECC on DDR4/DDR5 memory support, with better than intel multi-threading perf. Competition sure is nice!
This was already addressed. Most of it would still have to be human accessible for maintenance/emergency purposes. If you're going to have to potentially service the thing underway, there is no point redoing the packaging.

Besides which, an automated ship is about a trio of tugs, a computer replacement, and a buncha fuel away from anywhere.
Probably eating the oatmeal that made his cholesterol get higher.

There are now tons of research coming out about how cereals (wheat and corn specially) are basically the culprit of a lot of diseases that in the past were blamed on "fat", and also that this past blame was partially due to corruption (for example coca-cola literally gave six digits money to Harvard scientists so they would lie and say sugar was safe and the culprit for people problems was meat).
RS485 is just an electrical standard for serial transmission that includes multiple devices on the same bus. It is not a network or transport protocol. I doubt SLIP would function on an RS485 connection as 485 is typically used in master-slave configurations where only one master unit sends messages and listening "slave" devices only respond if addressed. You'd have to write a protocol layer to handle the transport of packets over 485, even in four wire full duplex setups.

The issue with "stacking" is the pins on each board are not part of a bus but individual programmable io pins. Any stacking would require an intermediary board to isolate all these pins safely while adding the necessary TTL serial to 485 interface chips (e.g. Maxim max485).

CAN is similar to 485 where it's a 2 wire bus though it has smarter hardware which enables full duplex communication and any device can listen or transmit. Unfortunately it is pretty slow compared to Ethernet but plenty fast for its intended use.
I think he meant the mentioned O'Reilly link isn't a 5 minute read.
I recently did my 2013 MBP, and while it was a massive pain that left my hands hurting afterwards, I was able to do it without solvents or having to dismantle the entire system like iFixit said I would need to.

Probably spent about 20 to 30 minutes using some old sacrificial credit cards to break the glue & pry the cells out.
> You can get decent Bluetooth wireless headphones for ~$20 now

IMO $20 is only barely enough to get something WIRED that won't turn your music into a mushy mess.
You know what they say... you either die a hero or live long enough to become a villan. That definitely would have happened with Jobs.
> tech staff with skills to deliver HTML video

A big one that hits small sites I think is simply tech staff with the ability to properly encode HTML video. You lose them as soon as you say vp9, h264, or av1.
Please don't fabricate the title, especially for the blogs. It's not respectful.
I tried getting donations on my GitHub repos (this was before Sponsors was announced). I got just one sponsor for about $1/month, which got cancelled after some months due to payment gateway changes. In hindsight, I didn't do a good job of asking for donation and my repos were on programming tutorials rather than open source software.

This pushed me towards adapting my tutorials to ebooks and self publishing. I promoted the books as pay-what-you-want for a few days after completing each book. This method of donation worked much better for me [0]

I feel free software could also adapt similar approach during installation/download in addition to setting up Sponsors.

[0] https://learnbyexample.github.io/my-book-writing-experience/