skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There are a quarter million vehicle crashes in the DataSF Fire Department Calls For Service. Self-driving cars will prevent these.

That's a bold claim. Do you have evidence to support it? I'm not talking about results from controlled or ideal driving conditions, I mean evidence showing that self driving will definitely be better at the conditions those quarter million accidents occur in.

Perhaps there's some research I'm unaware of but as far as I know the best we can say is that self driving might end up being safer for general usecase driving, but that there are wide disagreements about how likely that chance is.
Oh please, it's the exact same subject.
On the other hand you could also have got in at the ground floor for tvOS or watchOS, and probably don’t have much to show for it.

Not all Apple platforms are enormously successful for third parties.
In case you haven't seen, in April, Framework published an official Optimizing Ubuntu Battery Life guide that is quite useful: https://knowledgebase.frame.work/en_us/optimizing-ubuntu-bat...

If that doesn't help, I'd recommend reviewing some of the resources:

* Framework Forum Linux battery life tuning thread (300+ messages) https://community.frame.work/t/guide-linux-battery-life-tuni...

* anarcat's Framework Battery Life and Power management testing: https://anarc.at/hardware/laptop/framework-12th-gen/#battery...

* I also did a long review covering different ways of optimizing CPU performance, evaluating idle and near idle power consumption, various power-testing (including writing a suspend battery logging tool that people may find useful, etc): https://github.com/lhl/linuxlaptops/wiki/2022-Framework-Lapt...
No amount of poor decision making changes the fact that several precious human lives were lost. Frustration over the company's potential negligence and sadness over the loss of life can coexist.
I would imagine the optimism is due to this site's core audience: SV people.
They need to find some cheap used A380s, right? That may be doable even if <40% of the A380s are parked.
MacArthur's solution [0] to every military problem after 1945 was to drop a nuke on it:

> On 24 December 1950, while responding to a formal request from the Pentagon, specifically Major General Charles L. Bolte, about a hypothetical question regarding which targets should be bombed with atomic weapons if the Soviets got directly involved in the Korean War or if the Chinese military sent bombers to bomb UN forces in Korea and Japan from mainland China, MacArthur submitted a list of "retardation targets" in Korea, Manchuria and other parts of China, for which 34 atomic bombs would be required.

And from that same link, here's a direct quote from an interview with MacArthur which was published posthumously:

> Of all the campaigns of my life, 20 major ones to be exact, [Korea was] the one I felt most sure of was the one I was deprived of waging. I could have won the war in Korea in a maximum of 10 days.... I would have dropped between 30 and 50 atomic bombs on his air bases and other depots strung across the neck of Manchuria

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relief_of_Douglas_MacArthur#Nu...
Notorious? I didn't know he was notorious at all..?
> If the majority of farm animals get their feed from grazing, then replacing them as sources of nutrients with mechanically harvested plants might come out even.

Why even? Rule of thumb is that it takes an acre of grass to feed a cattle beast. If that acre is, instead, 'clear cut' multiple times each year, over several years to match what would be fed to a live animal, to ship the product off to a factory, only one animal living in that grass will experience the cruelty? That seems surprising. An acre of grass provides a significant habitat.

And that is if grass remains the source of nutrients. Harvested grass is hard to move efficiently. If, say, a row crop is used instead then there is an attack on the habitat even before harvest begins. Row crops regularly come under fire because of how unfriendly they are to everything else.

> As I understand it though, the vast majority of cattle are currently being fed mechanically harvested plants

While that is true – the vast majority of cattle are raised on grass and finished with corn, the latter of which being almost certainly mechanically harvested – it is also not binary.

According to Oklahoma State University, most cattle in the United States will spend most of their lives on pastures and grasslands and then finished in feedlots, the latter of which accounting for 15-35% of their lives according to their figures. This does mean that mechanically harvested food does account for some of the nutrient requirements for most cattle, but there is more to the story.
TFA tells you how.
How's this better than Matrix?

(Not a leading question. I haven't used Discord/Matrix/etc. more than a handful of times and don't know what I don't know.)
Isn't this the same company that is attempting to sell "software that never fails and can't be hacked" (an impossible claim)? And they're also working on their own competing self driving software, of which it appears to be vaporware currently?

Why would I trust them? If I recall, they were doing some extremely shady stuff in their videos previously.
For what it's worth, I know several people who got in to software development later in life (well into their 30s), and they managed fine. At one position we hired someone and "got into development later in life" was something we considered a positive for her, rather than a negative, as we felt it demonstrated ability and motivation.

That said, it looks like your timing isn't the best :-(

I can't give you any more concrete advice based on this, and it may also depend on where you live, but you're welcome to email me your CV and I can take a look if there's something that you can improve (email in profile).
Well, it worked, a few times. The problem isn't so much the rules of physics it is the materials science underpinned by those rules of physics. This particular material for a hull is in my opinion a mis-application if you plan on using it repeatedly or for carrying people.
The question is which time do we consider to be the “correct” time. Turns out, we’ve decided to use a clock in Colorado as the time of record and then occasionally sync that clock with GPS satellites.

https://timeandnavigation.si.edu/satellite-navigation/gps/sy...
Given their team up with Microsoft on Azure I don't see a redemption arc anytime soon. What is left, SUSE I suppose for an enterprise style LTS distro?
Human drivers usually back up or go around when that happens though.
I didn’t leave it because of the compile steps, but because the extra layers, despite all their downsides, were far from able to hide the underlying impedance mismatch.

I left over a decade ago and went back to low level kernel programming.
If you're running some expensive software, the few hundred bucks for a RHEL license doesn't matter at all. Some database licenses easily reach a six figure price per server. Custom built software often runs only on a handful of servers and can then easily reach seven figures per server.
http://www.gregegan.net/DICHRONAUTS/02/Interactive.html
You save up on money ignoring safety, next you fire the guy who could had saved your life, and finally you suffer disasters ending your life.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/katherinehamilton/2023/06/21/oc...

Money addicts, take notes. This is what happens when you put money cartels before real life physics.
Ubuntu has 5 years of “standard support”, with EOL after 10 years. RHEL has 10 years of “production”, with another 3-5 years of “extended support”.
The same way we justify the significant resources devoted to the attempted rescues of the Thai boys in the cave and the Chilean miners.
Safety regulations are written in blood as they say.
Contrast that to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_ink_character_recogni...
There are things that mostly just work (e.g. static content), and then there are things that require constant attention (infra, PaaS, tech heavy APIs).
People are putting a lot of weight on the whole "one vessel heard a rhythmic sound while exploring". From what I've seen of these investigations the ocean is a noisy place and sometimes it gets mistaken for signal. We saw a lot of similar reports from the MH370 investigation.

My money is on simple catastrophic failure of the hull and it not being detected either because the private company is run by jokers who weren't listening for it or because they have been running around like chickens with their heads cut off because the CEO and paying customers just died and they don't want to have to report that to the family, government, media, insurance company, etc... Either explanation is plausible, but I'm slightly more inclined to go with the second simply because they were actively trying to communicate with the sub when it happened and it seems so improbable that they could miss it.
Open source licenses "actually" also say that anyone you ship the binary and source to is free to share the source with whomever else they want to.

So an open source license to me seems to be in conflict with the idea that you "don't want to give it away for free", but if you think a license that requires you to give users the source and then lets them distribute that source as they will is a different thing than "giving it away for free", I don't know if I'm interested in arguing about it. Although I guess I'm curious if that's your position.

The "four freedoms" are "the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software". Note "copy" and "distribute". Any user of your software is free to copy and distribute it.

"Open source" has for decades _not_ simply meant "you share the source code with your licensed users", while not allowing modification or redistribution except by further license. There has for decades been a difference between "open source" and simply sharing the source with paying customers while not allowing them to share it with third parties -- and attempts to rewrite history and make "open source" mean nothing more than the latter are attempts to rewrite history.

You are right that making software available under open source license does not require the original owner/author to run any particular infrastructure of distribution though. It does not require them to run a web site or git repo or anything else. It just says that anyone with the software is allowed to share that software with whomever they like however they like, as well as make modifications and share those modifications with whomever they like, as well as run that software however they like, with no further permission or fee required because the open source license already grants permission.

So, I stand by my comment -- if you "don't want to give your main product away for free", and you license your "main product" under an open source license -- you have made a terrible mistake. (Or are engaged in some kind of calculated deception of your userbase). Because the open source license has indeed already granted the world the right to use your software for free.
SUSE was sold to EQT in 2019 and went public in 2021.
Why does that matter?

Most people buying them will likely use their own RAM, storage and OS anyway.

And either way, you'd ostensibly want to make sure your computer is supposed to work once you assemble it yourself.
We're the same, but a little larger. Don't let anyone convince you you're a freeloader. If you're a freeloader, then Red Hat are freeloaders for relying on the Linux Kernel and all the open source software in their distros as well.

What we both are are power users that don't really need their support. Our company has an entitlement so we can use the KB articles (to our benefit) and view/submit bug reports to them (which is to their benefit). I have no problems telling them that (and for the most part did last week), and if someone on the call were to argue me on that point, I'd have happily gotten into it with them. I know they're adding a lot to linux and open source, and pay for a lot of developers to maintain and add to projects (including Linux itself), but that's just the point, they're adding to something that already exists that they use. They don't own it, and they can't expect to require payment for it. They aren't Microsoft, and the only reason they've ever been able to compete in that space is because they're standing on the shoulders of what the open source community has made possible.

It's a symbiotic relationship, and they can mess with it at their peril.
I don't see this as being about entitlement either way. RHEL isn't entitled to Jeff testing his software on RHEL, and Jeff isn't entitled to test his software on RHEL for free. The point was that a previously mutually beneficial arrangement is ended.

The thesis is that Red Hat needs 3rd party devs to test on RHEL more than 3rd party devs need access to Red Hat, and if this is true then the move is dumb.
In July 2018, Micro Focus International, SUSE's parent company since 2014, announced its plan to sell the business unit to a subsidiary of EQT Partners in the first quarter of calendar year 2019.[7][8] This acquisition was completed on 15 March 2019, making SUSE a standalone business. Under new ownership, their legal name is SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH.
a.k.a. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Few of us have careers long enough to remember purchasing SCO or HP-UX or similar and what that whole experience was like. We're positively blessed compared to how things were in the '90s.

Red Hat's leadership forgets what made them successful in the first place and wants those bad old days back badly.
Well "move fast, break things" is fine in certain contexts... SpaceX could be said to have done that. Their first few launches exploded. But they put in the engineering discipline, extensively tested all new/innovative processes, and they didn't dare put a human or even a paying payload on top of their rocket until they'd done extensive work on the test stand and actual launches.

You can move fast and innovate in life-critical systems so long as you prioritize the engineering and testing.
click and hold brings up a user-initiated popup that shows the full url, though it may not sufficiently deobfuscate it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OceanGate

> Rush's experience and research led him to two basic conclusions: one, that submersibles had an unwarranted reputation as dangerous vehicles due to their use in ferrying commercial divers, and two, the Passenger Vessel Safety Act of 1993 "needlessly prioritized passenger safety over commercial innovation".
This is a very USA centric view.

In many European countries, freedom of attention is attained by having strong social support (eg free day care, education, health care, quality food, strong employment and tenant laws).

Many people in Europe live without thinking about money 24/7 but are in absolute terms less rich than high paid people in nyc and sf.
I believe almost all Search and Rescue is free because S&R organizations don’t want people to hesitate to call 911 (or equivalent) because of cost concerns, and have the situation deteriorate while they delay calling.

As to who should share in the cost… my take is that it’s time to discuss whether some expeditions (e.g. risky commercial tourist rides) should sign a Do Not Rescue pledge before they head out and/or self-fund a commercial rescue operation.
I think "before realization, fear, or even pain set in" is well within everyone's definition of instant death.
Why are people assuming this? How about a leak that fills the sub with water? Is a leak impossible to keep stable at those depths?
Prompting is a type of information photography. Artists should embrace the new information camera (LLM).
ROVs do so routinely, at greater depths.
For context, some numbers I saw estimated the implosion would take about 1ms, and it takes about 25ms for signals to travel from nerve endings to the brain.
Why should be pressure be from Windows people?

They just announced at BUILD 2023 the graduation of CBL-Mariner Linux distribution into "Azure Linux", and guess what else has same support level, Ubuntu.

https://build.microsoft.com/en-US/sessions/4c586f76-ad6e-444...

Naturally, they have plenty of other distributions being supported.

If anything, most likely it is the Azure focus that is partially responsible for the chaos of Windows GUI frameworks, as the teams have minimal resources to keep going.
The code and bits aren't Red Hat's main product. Red Hat's main product is the "warm fuzzies" that large enterprises get from knowing that somebody is "on the hook" to provide support if there's a SHTF outage or other incident, and somebody to sue in the unlikely chance that they lose serious $$$ as a result of a technical problem. In many ways Red Hat is closer to a company that sells insurance than a company that sells software.
It also probably was armed with torpedoes when it was sunk, which probably detonated due to the explosive decompression.
Note: I'm speculating here, not saying Apple Vision Pro can do any of this.

If you could track hand movement 1:1 enough that interacting with a 3D space was as natural as it would be as if it was actually in front of you, the problem is definitely a solved one at that point. If Apple manages to do this at any point in the lifecycle of this product line, it'll be a significant breakthrough for this type of computing / experience
Yes, and SpaceX's approach to safety and testing is significantly different for crewed and uncrewed rockets.
That's just corporate speak. They are all the same. If you use RHEL after 5 years or after the .5 release, it becomes plainly obvious that it's begging you to pull the plug. It's only half assed security fixes after a few years, no matter where you are. If a customer asks for 13 years, I'm sure Canonical will oblige.

Edit: I'm talking about Ubuntu Pro that is 10 years.
“wasm boots fast, containers boot slow”: as someone who uses neither (unless you count cgroups), i assume there’s a reason that ”classic” containerization is slow? like, your container today provides a complete linux userspace with a filesystem, scheduler, user/permissions enforcement, elf loader/dynamic linker, service manager (systemd/openRC/whatever), maybe a DNS stub resolver, etc — and maybe you don’t actually need half of these? what does using a new bytecode/architecture have to do with optimizing any of this? is it just a sneaky way of swapping out libc and the abstractions beneath it (and if so, why not do just that on “plain” x86_64)?
They definitely lost revenue. People use RHEL/CentOS because a load of software only officially supports Enterprise Linux. But why would they pay for RHEL if CentOS works fine?
The Titanic also began its descent on a Sunday.
Forgiveness. We frequently forgive stupid a5es, and adopt regulations to prevent other a5es causing too much damage. It was Jesus' message, after all.
Real-world training for the newbies, exercise for the journeymen, and teaching moments for the experts. That alone is worth my tax dollars for keeping a robust search and rescue force.

At least some of the CEO's estate should go to paying for it, but pay out to victims' families first.
first of all it'd be a dedicated emergency line, like 911 to Operations center direct.

Second of all, if that is not fast enough, then humans are insufficient too. You cant just magically get people to act (a lot of the time they'll do the wrong thing and fail to even recognize what situation they're in at the moment) Notice how bumper to bumper traffic is pretty bad for EMS, people do not know how to react.
In an instant unless OceanGate's patented monitoring system actually worked. If it did work, they would've had at least a couple of seconds to panic.

>Rush planned to pilot the sub himself, which critics said was an unnecessary risk: Under pressure, the experimental carbon fiber hull might, in the jargon of the sub world, “collapse catastrophically.” So OceanGate developed a new acoustic monitoring system, which can detect “crackling,” or, as Rush puts it, “the sound of micro-buckling way before it fails.”

https://worldwide.espacenet.com/patent/search/family/0776658...

I don't suppose there is a huge line to license this technology.
You need to ship the source code to the people you distribute the software to and you need to do so under a license that allows them to modify and redistribute this.

So if any of your licensees wants to make a 100% copy of what you shipped, then you need to allow them to.
Agree with this; also, it feels like you are reading out the same theories I have somewhere in my brain and that's a weird sensation.

A related theory: being good at math, especially mental math, correlates with aphantasia (not being able to see pictures in your head). People who can see images in their head learn to do arithmetic early on with visual algorithms, which are fundamentally not good for understanding as well as rather error-prone (because the brain remembers gestalts, not finicky details like where a decimal is).

Aphantasiacs are forced to learn to do math differently, and use some different part of the brain as 'scratch space'. In my case it's the language brain: calculations which are set aside live in the same part of your brain that can repeat what was said a moment to you without understanding it. Turns out, though, that this verbal part is quite _accurate_ at remembering things, and this makes it easier to juggle multi-step calculations without paper.
Do it. Even if it's somewhat painful now, seems like it'll be much cheaper long term. This is the second major surprise we're seeing from Red Hat's side over the last couple of years. It's quite likely you'll have to migrate somewhere soon anyway (for the second time in as many years), and it might as well be a community-supported distribution that has never pulled any similar tricks over its multi-decade lifetime (as it is not dominated by any single corporate entity, or really any corporate entities at all).
I'm not saying that there's no good handcrafted bare browser code out there, and I guess some of the bad wasn't made without love at all. But I've just seen too much of the stuff that seems like it's still standing with half a leg in the age of internet explorer vs netscape, and that was perhaps crafted laboriously but certainly with more contempt than love to consider the loved stuff mow than a rare exception. I guess part of my gut reasoning goes like this: chances are the loved ones have been modernised three times over, while the contemptful implementations live on.

But I can't come up with any coffee analogy for that, there's just no mapping between those spaces that makes any sense.
> Realistically, there are lots of companies that would pay for Red Hat but don't because they get can get it for free.

If the free RHEL variants disappeared today I'd wager most of those companies would choose other distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, openSUSE, etc) or making the jump to containerisation or serverless before paying for RHEL. In the end less people would be using their kind of Enterprise Linux, which in turn will result in less conversion to the paid version of it.
Thanks for the link. I had not heard of this project, though I knew about CERN's experiments with synchronous ethernet. Tiny nit though - the plan was never to sync over the internet, with its variable latency and multiple PHY formats, but instead to provide an ethernet network with links up to 10km long that can provide a timing and phase reference for the LHC.
My guess would be that the Oceangate ship ignores everything that it's not 'expecting' to hear. I don't really know anything about deep sea exploration, but having general purpose microphones in the water seems like a bit of an oversight to me, given the marginal cost of having them.