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Software patents are bogus. Under the law, algorithms cannot be patented but clever lawyers figured out ways of getting the USPTO to issue software patents despite the intent of the law.
If you are talking about the "supported" list of GPUs, those listed are only the ones they fully validate and QA test, other of same gen are likely to work, but most likely with some bumps along the way. In one of the a bit older phoronix posts about ROCm one of their engeneers did say they are trying to expand the list of validated & QA'd cards, as well as destinguishing between "validated", "supported" and "non-functional"
ESPHome is fine, but it's not representative of what people mean by "wifi devices."

Most wifi devices require a proprietary app, sweep up your data to some fly-by-night operation, stop working during an internet outage, don't interoperate between vendors, "call home," and yet never receive security updates.

Technically, it's 802.11, but by design, ESPHome is closer to Zigbee with a different underlying interface (802.11 rather than 802.15) than it is to most wifi devices. It's 100% open, simple, documented, reliable, etc.

I'd be fine with wifi devices if they were ESPHome underneath. Heck, I'd probably set up a separate network for HomeAssistant and IoT.

To that point, one major upside of 802.15 over 802.11 is battery life. I don't have any battery-powered 802.11 devices. It is possible to power zigbee devices from mains, and on my to do list at some point is to move a few of them from batteries to external power.
I think the point is the employer simply gets a fine while the reverse would see criminal penalty. This lopsided application of the law shows it was rigged from the start. We should be holding managers and whoever gave them the order criminally liable.
Many smaller, older aircraft use leaded fuel as well.
Currently changing diapers and feeding every 3 hours through the night.

It’s work.
I wasn’t suggesting above that anything is wrong with say deleting a film is bad, only pointing out that is what the article is claiming, contrary to the parent’s claim.

That said, TBH, I don’t see a problem with deleting a film, if there are no tax breaks in question. I don’t agree with the author that governments should force anyone to sell or give away something they don’t want to sell or give away. I’m pretty sure the author’s suggestions and a bunch of the commentary here is completely naive and unrealistic about the ramifications of being forced to release a film against the studio’s will; there are many reasons studios don’t want to do that aside from money, including reputation, liability, copyrights, brand recognition, etc.. The author suggested trying to use moral rights to force the release, but the funny thing is that using moral rights to prevent the release is a much stronger argument, if the film is actually crappy, right? I don’t know exactly what the tax breaks in question are, but I don’t see a problem with not paying taxes on profits either. I do see a potential problem with doing both things at the same time - if the tax breaks were more than not having to pay a percent of the profits; that’s does start to sound like burning down your house for the insurance money.

I’ve worked overtime on a project that was canned after being finished, and also worked at a studio that was closed on the heels of $1B in sales, with rumors the execs said the tax break was bigger than the remaining profits. These things suck hard and they’re destructive and it’s obvious that accountant-executives lack all imagination and can’t see potential. But should it be illegal? Probably not, forcing people to do business when they don’t want to would drive businesses into the ground and ruin people.
Interesting, maybe your ZWave dongle is not the greatest? I also run a mix of ZWave & Zigbee with their own appropriate dongles plugged into my Home Assistant server and they've both been great. No issues with devices dropping or needing to manually repair anything.

For both I use a 6ft USB extension cable to mount the dongles up on the wall behind my server instead of hanging out of the USB port.
> It’s basic business skills

Job offers are often take it or leave it, because of the inherent power dynamics in the industry. These “basic business skills” will essentially leave you out of a job.
Integer overflows can be enabled in release mode by modifying your Cargo.toml with

[profile.release]
overflow-checks = true

IMO it should have been the default.
yes. Duolingo fired 10% of their contractor language staff (and said they will be using AI) and I know for a fact are using AI to generate some of their language lessons.

The lessons that are AI generated are obvious and many times are completely incorrect.
Is that how patents are used today?
People inside the US could trade encryption libraries. They just couldn't send those libraries to outside the US. You could download a cryptography library from outside the US, and your foreign recipient could do the same, and thus send emails back & forth. In practice all it meant was that US developers couldn't write make useful cryptography libraries, and the development got done elsewhere.

The US still restricts the export of (some) cryptography to (some) countries & organizations. Mostly that just requires submitting a self-classification report to the BIS stating that the cryptography is "mass market" and matches the definition thereof in the export regulations.
The internet is still fun.

I was on bulletin board systems pre-internet as a kid and spent too much time on the web in the late 90s. I've seen it evolve from java applets and flash to something better.

Though I don't like social media much anymore and worry about the effect of screens on kids, I still love the internet and value what it makes possible.

I don't buy into these arguments of things used to be better. It's the same argument that older generations used with younger generations for music, cars, or clothes. The list goes on.

It's subjective. Technology enables new possibilities. Everything grows or dies and life moves on.

It's not that the internet used to be fun. It's that the internet changed and people tend to stay the same and not want things to change around them.
GPU for compute has been a thing since the 00s. Regardless of whether AI is a fad (it isn't, but we can agree to disagree on this one) not investing more in GPU compute is a weird decision.
I haven't been for a while but latterly I came to the conclusion that you picked a devroom for a day/half-day that you were interested in the talks/people and hung there. Or you spend the half-day networking/socializing. It's mostly an exercise in frustration to flit from room to room for specific talks.
* GE/Jasco switches (the bulk of my devices, around 10 total.)

* GE/Jasco outdoor outlet controls

* Schlage motorized door locks

* Linear garage door controller

* Aeotec outlet control

* Aeotec repeater

* Aeotec temperature and humidity sensor
Another good one that shocks me that people ignore is the long-term effect of remote work on salaries. If you can do your job from home, there's someone who can do it who has a cheaper home than you.
> That is: if regulation was dropped, would pro cycling be filled with weird looking CF monocoque designs, or is the traditional design still optimal for some use cases (e.g. for weight and events with team ridning and lots of climbing)?

The original Lotus bike mentionned above was introduced and used in olympic events. Chris Boardman held for a long time the speed record in a grand tour time trial that he set with the original road Lotus Bike (the track version he used at Barcelona olympics predates it):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjJ60Kx2j8I

Also Miguel Indurain in the 90's used the "Espada" time trial pinarello bike and some of his rivals used also non diamond shaped carbon bikes.
Also known as “Might makes right”
Patents fundamentally operate to allow the owner of protection to extract value from research and development investment. If you cannot protect your research and development, then competitor may extend upon your invention without the necessary capital or time investment — effectively making any kind of innovation risky and unattractive to business. There is no model where abolishing patents still grants protection for R&D.

The complaint is that software patents have been awarded and interpreted far too broadly, and coupled with the relatively low cost of R&D for software, have begun to stymied innovation in the same way patents intended to prevent.
Having a time limited monopoly on new drugs seems required considering the costs involved in getting drugs through the regulatory framework.
It was Microsoft’s strategy for several decades (outsiders called it embrace, extend, extinguish, only partially in jest). It can work for some companies.
The "industry buddies" but seems like a Boogeyman meant to scare people.
Which is crazy. Because no one had a life harder than the previous generations.

The amount of technological progress in the past decade is staggering. So many infrastructure issues are now just automated, that we don’t have to think about.

It’s a great time to be alive. And a great time to give someone else that opportunity to experience it too.
>"So by applying an alternating voltage, you can make the transducer vibrate with rather considerable force. These vibrations can be slow—the kind needed for haptic feedback—or very fast, to the highest audio frequencies and beyond.

While creating the effect with ceramic material requires relatively high voltages—in the range of 40 volts or more—it requires very little current

and, hence, little power—far less than the power used by mobile device speakers today."

I'm not too concerned about the high(er) voltage (than say 5V or 12V) requirement -- but the fact that this, well, let's call it "momentum in an oscillatory/vibratory (AKA trapped) mode" or, perhaps more broadly, "energy" -- requires very little current (AKA "power", AKA "energy") -- should be of interest!

In other words, what devices could be conceived of, for this effect, in the future?

Also, is there a potential connection here (if so, I don't see it yet! <g>) with warping space (AKA a future "warp field", if one could ever be created in the future) -- and "warping" (if ever so slightly -- on the microscopic scale) the dimensions of a piece of piezoelectric glass -- with a voltage?

Well, probably not!

(But then again... maybe! <g>)

Anyway, a very interesting article!
I think the challenge is learning enough of the biology outside of academia. I think it is fully possible, e.g. from books and videos ... but will take a lot of determination.

For the bioinformatics part, I think something like the "Genomics data science" specialization on Coursera should be a pretty good start.
Because AI is nowhere close to replace a large swath of jobs? Besides content spam authors? Because even in case of artists, the 100% AI generated stuff is crap compared to the AI-supported stuff.
The problem is the airlines. They can't be bothered to do any kind of retraining for their pilots. They'll just buy another brand if this is needed. Which is why the whole MCAS thing happened.

Even 787 pilots will have to be retrained if they scale it down to the size of a 737.
>>I'm aware of no union or "tax people" in my circle who deny that reality.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/understanding-off-payroll-workin...

>> (The down votes, fwiw, are probably not because people disagree with your political stance, lest you feel like a martyr, but from possibly intentional obtuse misrepresentation of article and issue).

I think I'll cope with the loss of imaginary internet points, and there is no obtuse misrepresentation. Clearly your reading comprehension is struggling. I said that:

>>>> There are numerous forms of wage theft, from employers not compensating workers for time worked, violating minimum wage and overtime laws, misclassifying employees as independent contractors, not providing legally required meal breaks, confiscating worker tips, or illegally taking deductions from worker wages.

>> Yeah, one of those isn't like the others. I know unions and the tax people hate it, but some people are perfectly happy to be independent contractors.

I can't think of anyone that would like to be paid less than minimum wage, or not get paid overtime for instance, but I can think of plenty of people (especially in the UK) that would have liked to have continued as independent contractors (in IT, broadcasting, lorry driving or wherever).

Often under the guise of protecting the vulnerable, over broad legislation is passed that affects more than just (EG) the Uber Eats driver.
I don't know what it is about the Kalman filter but so many explanations including the OP have this format: "It's very simple! <complicated obtuse explanation listing the computation steps>"

Your comment is the first I've seen actually providing intuition about what is happening. It doesn't help perhaps that the name itself is misleading as heck to computer people like me: it's not a filter as in stream processing or SQL.
You say "put yourself in the shoes of the profit maximizing firm", do you expect governments to not optimize for cost, or other organizations should not optimize for cost?
It’s also inconsistent. From what I remember, the padlock toggle shows the current state (an unlatched padlock means the doors are unlocked, and pressing it will lock the doors), but the trunk button shows the opposite (an open trunk means the trunk is closed, and pressing it will open the trunk).
The most hopeful answer is 'because the competition will use AI to augment instead of replace, and produce a superior product.'
I'm an Old (53), and always felt a little weird because I had very little cousin interaction growing up. I mean, I'm from a small, mostly rural state; most people I knew had cousins out the wazoo -- but not me.

I think the real reason is that both my parents were from two-child families, and they were also very much older than their younger siblings; my mom is 7 years older than her brother, and my father was a full decade older than his sister.

Both my Aunt and my Uncle had families, but necessarily later. My aunt went first, and had a daughter about the age of my little sister -- 5 years after me -- and then another daughter a couple years later. However, they lived a couple towns over, and my father and his sister weren't especially close, so we didn't spend much time with them.

My uncle and his wife didn't start their family until I was 17, so obviously there was zero childhood overlap there. I see and talk to those cousins more often than the two from my father's side, mostly because we have more in common, but it's still not very often.
I don’t think this is particularly controversial. Augmenting work means you need fewer workers and cheaper workers. “Replace” is just semantics.
I've been to a few weddings at VFW's in small towns. They were no better (or worse) than the big fancy ones! The couples fared no better (or worse) than any others.
That's b/c they are entirely different situations. You can't "pay yourself" taking money from the till, it isn't pay, it's just theft you justify taking from the wages you believe you are owed. You are only owed those wages on the basis of a contract, and that contract won't allow you to take anything from the till.

Theft is "the dishonest appropriation of property belonging to another with the intention to permanently deprive the other of it". Not being paid isn't the same, no matter if you try to equate the two on a numerical basis.

It would be more accurate to call "wage theft" as "labour theft". But then, labour isn't as easily stolen outside a contract. The fact is, if you aren't compensated, you can stop providing labour, and any right to a wage usually has a contract associated that can be taken to court.

Someone stealing from a till can steal potentially unlimited amounts before an employer discovers it, and there may be no record proving what is missing.

It's not great how hard it is to recover unpaid wages, but there's no injustice in theft being criminal in comparison. Also, there are circumstances that contract violations can lead to criminal charges (e.g. fraud), but in general if a valid contract is in places, penalties are not criminal (e.g. monetary).
If they could afford the server hardware and datacenters to house them in and the fat, fat paychecks they were giving their employees, they could afford the software licenses.

Everyone here acts as if no capital equipment intensive businesses, like Tesla or SpaceX/Blue Origin, ever manages to get off the ground. Had Linux, GCC, etc. not existed, Sun Microsystems or whoever would have charged whatever the market would bear without strangling it with Microsoft + Intel trying to undercut them on price/performance to keep them honest. For most software businesses trying to get off the ground, software licensing costs would have been a significant budget item but not overwhelmingly so. [EDIT] That's already the case today for per-employee software costs like Windows + MS Office and the zillion SaaSes (Slack, Okta, etc.) that most businesses use.
I agree with you, patents in general shouldn't exist
Very J G Ballard.
Nice work.
Yes, but it is a comforting lie.
Broken in Sonoma
The code prior to this was all for the intel gpu zluda, and then the latest commit is all the amd zluda code, hence why the commit talks about the red team
If someone invents something truly novel I think they deserve the first right to make money off it. The extra bonus of having them file a patent is that when it expires it becomes free public knowledge for everyone. The problem for software is that the duration of the patent is way too long for the pace of innovation in the world of software, to the point that a reasonable duration patent probably wouldn't even be worth filing for after the time it takes to process. In other fields it's not the existence of patents but the games and loopholes e.g. pharma companies coming up with a slight reformulation they can patent again and again. It's not novel at that point and should not be granted a patent.
From someone who would love for Crystal to be the answer here, because of its fantastic concurrency features: It is a bit of a non-starter because of excessive compile times for larger projects. Also, they hadn't solved the cross-compilation issue last time I checked.
I think a professional financial planner (which I’m not) would say that 30% is too low, and also advocate holding cash and some bonds. You really have a very aggressive investment portfolio. But personally I don’t mind aggressive investment, and I feel your present allocation may be fine depending on your beliefs and your risk tolerance. Your initial post has this if-I-get-fired/if-I-don’t-get-fired analysis, which I think presents your investments as lower risk than they really are. I think your job and 70% of your investments is going to do whatever tech does. If you still feel ok with that, then I think your allocation is probably matching your beliefs and risk tolerance well.
US academia has its problems, but UK academia is a whole different nightmare.
The Ultraviolet Myth
I think it depends on how much salaries drop. Let’s say salaries drop 25%, but more people can live in places where homes cost 50% or less, it’s likely still a good deal for that remote employee. Remote work is making cities in the Midwest far more attractive.
everyone buying GPUs for AI and scientific workloads wishes AMD was a viable option, and this has been true for almost a decade now.

the hardware is already good enough, people would be happy to use it and accept that's it's not quite as optimized for DL as Nvidia.

people would even accept that the software is not as optimized as CUDA, I think, as long as it is correct and reasonably fast.

the problem is just that every time i've tried it, it's been a pain in the ass to install and there are always weird bugs and crashes. I don't think it's hubris to say that they could fix these sorts of problems if they had the will.
We even have ample evidence from history that this did not occur with other innovations. We don’t have a field of workers anymore, we have one guy in a tractor. We don’t have a factory of workers anymore, we have one guy watching the machines.

We won’t have a field of lawyers, radiologists, programmers anymore, we will have one guy watching the machines. You can tell yourself you’ll be that one guy, but statistically you won’t.
That's why strong unions are needed.
I'd say it's even worse, since for rendering Optix is like 30% faster than CUDA. But that requires the tensor cores. At this point AMD is waaay behind hardware wise.
I've used them in robotics and for tracking satellites going overhead via radar. Apparently they're also used by economists for guessing the state of the economy, along with other filters in the standard robotics toolkit.
It's certainly one advantage.

I still worry about some of the technical aspects. The craft is going to pull it's own tether through the water behind/"under" it while it "flies" loops in the current at a speed faster than the current itself. That must induce quite a bit of drag, right? Especially because that tether is delivering several megawatts of electric power do the anchor, while holding all the mechanical load of that power being generated. That has to be a beefy cable. And the joints where that cable meets the craft and the anchor are moving parts, for all intents and purposes.

I also wonder how much the craft actually resembles a full submarine. Are there ballast tanks and ballast pumps for altitude control? Full set of diving and directional rudders? What happens when any of those fail?

Potential complexity is certainly higher than for an offshore wind turbine.
Boeing could recycle some of the core 787 technology to design a new single-aisle airliner. But the concern is that by the time it is certified it might already be obsolete. They are in a holding pattern now, waiting for research results on truss-braced wings. If those work then they could significantly reduce fuel costs.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boein...
What does any of what you just said have to do with their employer violating Florida labor laws? They have specific wages for both tipped and non tipped employees. The wage as mentioned above was well below the tipped wage line as defined by Florida law.
Industrial secrets. WD40 was not patented, they did good anyway.

Wright brothers or James Watt were notoriously hard defending their patents, hindering progress and getting next to no significant profits. 3D printers only took off after key patents expired.
> Because AI is nowhere close to replace a large swath of jobs?

It's nowhere close now. 10 years ago we were nowhere close to generative AI. How will the AI landscape look in the next 10-20 years? There's a non-zero chance that it will be ready by then to replace many jobs.