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I said that what matters is not the law, to which you responded by doubling down on your argument about what the law says, accused me of disagreeing with you on an issue I did not take a position on, and then went for the personal attacks.

In case my lawnmower reference confused you enough that you were unable to make an appropriate response to the point I actually made, I'll try to state it a bit more clearly:

It does not matter how confident you are that Oracle would eventually lose a lawsuit over using or distributing ZFS with the Linux kernel. If Oracle decides to attempt to exert control over ZFS and interfere with the use or distribution of ZFS with Linux, they have ample resources to make a lot of very expensive trouble for various users and organizations. Oracle's history—most importantly, their history vs Google re Java in Android—means it would not be much of a stretch for them to decide to start behaving like The SCO Group. I do not think this risk is large. But I do think it is a real risk that a cautious Linux distro can reasonably be worried about.

If you truly believe that Oracle's lack of action thus far against ZFS on Linux and their public statements of their beliefs about the effects of the CDDL and GPL would prevent them from starting shit, then you are simply wrong about how our legal system works, and there are plenty of examples. The things you point to to bolster your arguments about what the law says are things that would make it hard for Oracle to win a lawsuit on its merits, but the eventual judgement is hardly the only thing that matters when assessing a legal risk—especially if your pockets are not as deep as Oracle's.
> Distracted parenting: Nearly half of teens (46%) say their parent is at least sometimes distracted by their phone when they’re trying to talk to them.

This is heartbreaking. How can parents guide their kids to not become addicted to smartphones when they themselves are addicted? We really need a taboo-reset. Sitting there zombied-out, neck crooked and hunched over your smartphone, dopamine-loading, should be considered as disgusting as sitting there with a heroin needle hanging out of your arm. Society needs to set a better example for the next generation.
>The above fails in only one case: Free space on the drive is very low.

No.
Most of the block will be marked as unsure in first step -- because most of them had been used before thanks to CoW
Wait until he hears about banks and the cursed things they build on top of excel
Yeah, but does it matter? Most of their revenue comes from enterprise clients and it seems more likely that someone is going to create a killer app for AI by leveraging APIs and publishing their work on traditional distribution channels rather than creating something that only works on a relatively niche platform.

Like, hypothetically, if Anthropic took the lead in this effort, I don't think it would derail OpenAI's plans in the slightest.
Whose week's work? One person, a small team (<5), or a large organization? At some point on that axis, the RoI becomes negative.
What percentage was it when everyone collectively decided to stop supporting IE6? 20%?

To me it’s less of an absolute percentage and more of a function of how much extra effort needs to go into it, and whether the usability of the rest of the product needs to suffer. I’ve seen potentially useful features nixed because they can’t be made fully compatible with JAWS, which seems silly to me.
I mean, I would also love to see a server rack battery at $99 per kwh, but of a different chemistry, LiFePO4, I wouldn't trust having any other type of lithium battery at home.
Yeah, I mentioned federal because that’s where I have experience but I know more people who went to state level agencies, libraries, etc. Nobody gets rich that way but you also don’t get asked to work unpaid overtime or mysteriously laid off when you turn 50, either, and if you have any reason to be in a different part of the country outside of a tech hotspot that might be an easy way to stay near family, too.
Margins aren't just low, many times they're negative! Rivian is losing something like 30% of the sales price each car. Tesla's margins used to be some of the best in the entire auto industry at like 25%, but are slimming down to 17% now.
Thanks! I'll try it out
Sure, but those are CPU libraries, but what has grown NVIDIA into a $2T company wasn't building CPUs - it was building processors specific to this new and exploding field of ML/AI, which grew out of them building processors (GPUs) specific to the growing field of realtime PC-based gaming...

Is the problem that Intel saw themselves too narrowly as in the CPU business rather than as in the compute business? I've no idea - it'd be interesting to hear the inside story of how all these missed opportunities went down.
There seems to be some survivorship bias in the advice people are giving. I think it is very possible that we will never see that tight of a labor in tech ever again - even without AI.

On the economic side it's more difficult to control inflation than it was in previous downturns so there isn't the option of dropping interest rates to the floor. There isn't much room to lower reserve requirements for banks either. I think stimulus measures will be largely ineffectual and the inflation produced increasingly unpopular. So it looks like the pending recession will not have the cushioning that we've had in the past and may be longer and more painful as a result.
The bug in Sam Altman's industrial revolution
Twilight of the Steam Age, Part 1: Internal Combustion
>> and you’re emptying that 401k

Door dash, lyft, über, liquor store. NOTE: dont end up in a back room some where! You want to keep your social game sharp and you never know who will want a web site, or a pc repair, do these things too, your networking while your working.

Start a side project: Build a CLI tool, in a new language... Go, Rust, Zig are all sexy for this right now. It doesn't have to be perfect just launch. Stay in the game make yourself hot.

Your job is getting a job. You will work at least 5 hours a day at this till you have a job. Thats on top of Lyft, and side project...

If you have a life, or a family your gonna see them less till your back on your feet.
It really needs to be banned on a national level, just like underage drinking and smoking.
What is the upside?
Yeah, looks awesome but as someone who forked out for a permanent Altium license for myself, there's no way I'm paying $1k/month for it ....
I mean, there clearly isn’t a decrease in demand; electric car sales globally continue to increase. LFP batteries getting more common might be one factor; they have lower materials cost than conventional lithium ion batteries.
> He can have a great quality of life from his salary and earns an extra yearly salary each year from his real estate increasing in value. He doesn't need to sell to reap that money, he can borrow against his increased home value and use a small part of his salary to pay off the loan.

I don't see how that would work. Borrowed money has to be paid back plus interest. My house is currently worth about twice what I paid for it ~17 years ago, and I do have a home equity line of credit so I can borrow against the increased value at will, but the current interest rate on that is over 9%.

The only effect I and most of my neighbors see from rising home values unless we sell our homes is that our property taxes rise by about the same factor, which is vary annoying to those whose salaries have not also risen by a similar factor.
Correction: There is a big scaleup of capacity that's coming online exactly as BEVs are growing in popularity slower than many previous forecasts (hence lots of press about some carmakers having to scale back BEV production, while still moving more BEVs than last year). That is a US-centric statement. BEV demand is still quite explosive in China and Europe.

https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/articles/fotw-1329-febr...
I think they are actually measured with lasers, IIRC. Did a lot of research about GNSS when setting up an RTK base station, and used PPP to get the initial location.
doh, I forgot about voice chat.

> People should also be able to create their own servers without worrying about technical details, and again, without directly paying for it.

I think this is the real reason why Discord is so ubiquitous nowadays. I remember back in 2017/18, it was really only (PC) gamers who used Discord - because your average PC gamer is somewhat more tech literate than the general. Nowadays, every community and their mother has a Discord server.
Can they really be separated from one another, for practical purposes?

iMessage/SMS is baked-in. The rest you can easily acquire within a few seconds (and when does the inclination to "catch-up" via. Insta/Twitter/Snap/etc. come up, if not primarily when on one's phone? Or rather when a friend off-handedly mentions you're not on $APP, and being the impressionable -- and perhaps feeling "left out" -- teenager that you are, you experience FOMO and become inclined to (re)-download).

Yes, a separate study can be done to try to tease out this confounder, but who is kidding themselves into thinking that the majority of time spent on a phone is not within apps? Turning on parental controls that limit app usage and installation has, in my experience, resulted in the phone barely being used at all except for convenience purposes (navigation and such).

Though, you may have a point, in that case.
This is such a silly take. Europe enslaved the world? Sorry, but slavery was an institution long before some Europeans took part in it (emphasis on "took part" as it was cooperative, involving African, Arab, etc. slave traders), and continues to be practiced long after those European empires abolished it within their own empires. The abolitionist movement was also European, and certainly Western. And how can you know if the world would have been better? That's a counterfactual you either cannot know, or one that fails to account for all the good that was also transmitted through colonialism, or absorbed by the colonial powers. It wasn't black and white. And even where the bad is concerned, while there is not argument for chattel slavery, good can come out of bad things. Furthermore, you are reducing European influence to one aspect of one aspect, not even just colonialism, which is not even uniquely European, but slavery per se. This is ridiculous.

Your argument w.r.t. poverty is also the same boring reductive fallacy that people who argue against beautiful architecture and art make ("You could have fed so many people with that money!"). Guess what: you can do both. You don't "solve poverty" by spending a sum of money on food over art. Those people will be hungry soon. That's one. Two, Man does not live by bread alone. Beauty matters. We don't live to eat. We eat to live. And yes, we can both care for the starving and invest in things other than helping the poor.

The idea that Europe is responsible for global poverty is also obtuse, historically illiterate, and devoid of common sense. There was plenty of poverty in the world before the evil European showed up. If anything, Western commerce, whatever its flaws, has lifted many out of poverty. Yes, capitalism, whatever its flaws, has lifted many, especially the West, out of poverty and into a good deal of material comfort. Look at the 20th century alone. It's better to be poor today than poor a century or a few centuries ago. The average man today is far better off today materially than he has ever been, than even the materially better off in previous centuries were.

Our ancestors weren't perfect, and we should not repeat their errors, but it takes a certain kind of ingratitude and blindness to fail to appreciate the cumulative good they did leave us, an ingratitude and blindness seemingly particular to snarky, ideologically infected oikophobes in the West. Believe me: Africans aren't generally seething with hatred at the good of the West the way people in the West do. If anything, they are more likely to despise the malaise and decadence they see in the West today, that the West is trying to force down the throats of everyone else. They are looking to replicate what is actually good in the West in their own countries.
Brain drain is a bitch
Every time Americans in tech mention applying to dozens or hundreds of jobs to get any position, Europeans are typically incredulous. This does not appear to be an issue on the other side of the ocean.

The problem is that the American hiring culture is uniquely toxic, and this is not at all limited to tech. I read stories of people who are desperately hiring but outsource the application and screening process, only to find the outsourcers put decent candidates in the bin for being from the wrong college, or merely having adjacent (and highly relevant!) experience but not exact experience. In other words, they will only accept a purple squirrel.

I once applied to a maintenance job at a facility where a relative works. No dice. I asked my relative. "Yeah they keep hiring construction contractors who quit immediately because they aren't paying enough, but I already talked to the manager and he would love to have you." Didn't matter, I couldn't get past the gatekeepers in HR. So because the "talent experts" didn't want to hire someone without carpentry experience to change air filters, or pay the carpenters they hired the $20/hour they wanted, they instead hired outside contractors for $150/hour.

In no other country would any of the above be tolerated. Even during the "job boom" of 2021, it was not as easy as it is in Europe to land a medicore position at a mediocre wage. We have a serious cultural issue with hiring and a high degree of arrogance on the part of those doing the hiring. I have no idea how this problem can even be tackled, except if maybe the federal reserve let the economy run hot for several years and forced employers to lower their absurd expectations.
This is an uncharitable and oddly dismissive take (i.e. perfect for HN, I suppose).

Today's incredible state-of-the-art does not exist without the transformer architecture. Transformers aren't merely some lucky passengers riding the coattails of compute scale. If they were, then the ChatGPT app which set the world ablaze would've instead been called ChatMLP, or ChatCNN. But it's not. And in 2024 we still have no competing NLP architecture. Because the transformer is a genuinely profound, remarkable idea with remarkable properties (e.g. training parallelism). It's easy to downplay GPTs as a mostly derivative idea with the benefit of hindsight. I'm sure we'll perform the same revisionist history with state-space models, or whatever architecture eventually supplants transformers. Do GPTs build on prior work? Do other approaches and ideas deserve recognition? Yeah, obviously. Like...welcome to science. But the transformer's architects earned their praise -- including via this article -- which isn't some slight against everyone else, as if accolades were a zero-sum game. These 8 people changed our world and genuinely deserve the love!
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't lab grown meat literally tumors? Like we're eating tumors?

It's prudent to remember we're usually slow on the uptake when it comes to safety. Cigarettes were thought to be benign for decades, as was asbestos, high fructose corn syrup, trans fats and non ha bit forming pain killers. And now it looks like the ungodly concoction that is canola looks like it's not great for us as well.

So with that in mind, what are the odds that 50 years from now we look back and realize, yes eating artificial tumorous animal flesh was a good idea?
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Oh no, it's on f-droid, my hands are tied! I'll have to ahem contribute my free time to this important open source library.
Well I think you're completely right, in a way. But I also don't see the problem with people telling other people to not use the software or to complain about it. They are totally in their right to complain about stuff. Now obviously if the complaining involves requiring people to work for some feature you want, that's entitled and wack. Same goes for throwing a fit because maintainers went for systemd instead of your own favorite init system.

But being open source doesn't mean people shouldn't or can't just say "this is bad" or "don't use x" or even "this X feature doesn't work when using Y" (now If what they are saying isn't true, sure we should call them out)

It's normal and in fact I think it should be encouraged, as not everyone can be aware of potential problems they could have with a piece of OSS that is already known in some obscure dev mailing list. The more people are informed and aware of potential issues, the less they will be surprised and complain about it when they start using it.

(Fwiw I love btrfs, and I think it's very reliable)
Initially raw materials were anticipated to be hard to come by, competive forward contracts put up prices as "shortages were forecast" and mining companies went hell for leather to open new lithium (and other elements required) prospects ...

Recently (last six months) it has become clear that more raw prospects were opened than actual demand existed for (glut of future supply), as a result a number of 'fresh' lithium mines have been recently shuttered.

In the post mining concentrate processing game ground has been broken on several processing plants that take mined concentrates and produce usuable raw minerals - Tesla in Texas, for example, now has a pipelined spodumene processing plant and adjoining battery manufacturing facility that will soon be completed.

Much of this flux from expensive to cheaper comes about from the interplay of forward contracts - it takes 18 months and more to bring new mines to production, to bring processing plants to completion, etc.

What's behind the drastic downturn in nickel and lithium prices, and what does it mean?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-26/examining-the-drastic...
Oh, it's been happening since 2020. I was offered a few of these HireVues, but I could never finish any because the experience of speaking to a screen like it's a person is so dehumanizing. I believe one of them was from General Motors.
What's worse about these anecdotes is that they ignore the obvious. I guarantee you some people are still getting hired for those open job reqs, it's just that when you have a big contraction and now have a ton more applicants for each open role, you're going to have many more anecdotes with people lamenting that "AI has broken the process" or "there are a ton of scams" or "insidious tech trends", because the real answer is just a lot more painful: there were tons of applicants for that job, and the person who was picked wasn't you. And (saying this from experience), that can just really, really suck, and when it goes on for a while it can be very difficult to come to terms with.
Redis was open before the trademark was acquired from antirez by Garantia Data, who then re-branded themselves as RedisLabs, and then as Redis. This was definitely not a predestined outcome, there are plenty of other foundational open source server software that transitioned to a software foundation. While I worked on the redis core team (https://redis.com/blog/new-governance-for-redis/), I advocated to move it to a foundation.
>> Honestly it blows my mind they were able to give control of one of the most important industries in the world over to a foreign country like that.

The engines of capitalism only look 1 quarter ahead. And the politicians who support them only look up to the next election. Unless you are majority or largely controlled by your founders, who care about building a good legacy.
I agree that it's fun and can often be safe if built correctly for the right application. But I think UAVs don't experience the same beating and vibrations that ebike batteries do, which I think is what the bigger problem is with ebike batteries in particular. Unless carefully built, things like balance wires can shafe and cause a short, the spot-welded tabs can break off or the connection resistance increase, leading to hot spot. The BMS can have hot spots (FET based ones in particular) that lead to failure or electrical fires over time. Humidity mixed with various electrical potentials on nearby PCB traces causes corrosion and eventually failure of the BMS, etc. And it's not all the BMSes that are built the same, they may all have the same set of features on the happy path, but they're not all created equal when their PCB starts failing and fail-safes are required.

Basically in a "tough" environment like ebikes, I think the aging of the pack is much accelerated, which leads to lower mean-time between incidents. Combine that with the profile of the average buyer (wants the cheapest, longest range battery they can get) and it's an even higher probability.

Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love custom DIY packs. It's just way more dangerous than meets the eye, especially in dirty and high vibration environments.
I’m not a teen but have configured “focus” mode on my phone to silence all unnecessary notifications. Only notifications from Message (iMessage, SMS), Phone (only known callers), and Mail for my personal e-mail. Set this up for a majority of the day. Leave 30 minutes open to view non critical notifications. Then turn it back on.
What to do when a leader does something wrong (2019)
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I too feel every ounce of this. It's in the air. As a data oriented person I'm uncomfortable relying on "feels like" and "intuition" but that's all I have.

The best way I can describe it is "societal rot". Just 10 years ago there was optimism in the air. Now every damn day I see SEVERELY mentally ill people losing their shit in the streets and there's more and more of them each month (I live in a medium sized US city). There's human shit all over the sidewalks. Nudity in front of children. Are we supposed to think this is ok?

I recently ordered food delivery and the girl delivery driver passionately thanked me for a $9 tip. The desperation and despair in her eyes was disturbing. I see this same look in too many people. It's not normal. People seem to be struggling in a way that I've never seen in my life (I'm 34).

Also its difficult to find hope. It's no longer easy to support yourself with a high school education. In response to that more people got educated. Great! We currently have the most educated population in the history of the United States. But oh no we now have an AI rat race where the main monetization strategy is replacing those white collar jobs with AI. People can only take so much.

BTW I'm a typically very positive person (based on feedback from peers and co workers)
Did you decide on a hypervisor instead of an emulator for overhead reasons? I don't work there but I heard Microsoft has something called tkofuzz which similarly emphasizes determinism but uses Bochs internally.
I tried traveling with a nissan leaf ev (24kwh) a couple years ago, and it was COMPLETELY impractical. It was just a stupid leap of faith with giant portions of luck and silly time wasting. 3rd party charging services suck. They have few chargers, they have few stalls and terrible information about them. (The worst was blink, virtually always broken)

And then I tried a couple years later with tesla, and it was a completely different experience. Telsas have large batteries, the chargers are very plentiful along most routes, have many stalls, and are dependable.

I came to realize having a non-telsa ev is really a waste of time unless you can charge at home and stay in range.

So anything to create a reliable network to travel I think is a good idea (for non-tesla cars)
>> i find this rise in nativistic and jingoistic sentiment weird. comparative advantage exists for a reason - we are not going to be the best at every single step of every single industry.

There are more considerations than just profits. Consider how domestic PPE plants closed down in the US because even US gov institutions wanted the cheapest product, and went overseas. Then when COVID hit, we had no local supplier for PPE.