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> other nuclear reactors in britain(and in fact across the world) operate with the same fractures in their vessels and it's not considered a reason to shut them down

This should be viewed as "corrupted regulators" rather than "magically strong materials".

In 1986, the Challenger blew up. We learned that although originally good safety standards had existed, over time a series of small exceptions had been made, each one on the theory that "hey it never blew up yet, a small change won't matter".

Reactor licensing works like that. Sure, the reactor vessel is cracking which was never expected to happen. Sure, the graphite bricks are cracking which was never expected to happen. The important thing is, it never blew up yet, and that means it's perfectly safe to ignore the problems.

At some future point there will be a Problem and it will be dutifully explained that a series of small deviations from safe practices became normalized, blah-blah, and everyone will nod and take the lesson to heart, until it happens the next time.
I am afraid that this would make them put me in positions I am not good at.
Arm Ltd. v. Qualcomm Inc. (1:22-cv-01146)

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/gov.u...

From the complaint:

22. (Page 6)

[...]

The licenses safeguarded Arm’s rights and expectations by prohibiting assignment without Arm’s consent, regardless of whether a contemplated assignee had its own Arm licenses.

39. (Page 12)

On February 1, 2022, Arm sent a letter to Nuvia and Qualcomm terminating the Nuvia licenses effective March 1, 2022. The letter terminated the licenses based on Nuvia’s material breach of the assignment provisions of the Nuvia licenses by entering into the acquisition of Nuvia without Arm’s consent.

42. (Page 12)

On April 1, 2022, Qualcomm’s General Counsel sent Arm a letter enclosing a Nuvia representative’s termination certification. The certification acknowledged—without objection—that the Nuvia licenses had been terminated. The certification recognized the obligations upon termination, and asserted that Nuvia was in compliance. Qualcomm and Nuvia thereby conceded that termination of the Nuvia licenses was appropriate, and that the termination provisions had been triggered, are binding, and are enforceable.

47. (Page 14)

Qualcomm’s Arm licenses do not cover products based on or incorporating Arm-based technologies developed by third parties under different Arm licenses

62. (Page 17)

Upon termination, the Nuvia ALA requires Nuvia to cease using and destroy any technology developed under the Nuvia ALA, as well as cease using Arm’s trademarks in connection with any technology developed under the Nuvia ALA.
re. Zeiss inserts - do you have astigmatism ?
Boot up a Livebook and step through some of the basics on the Elixir homepage. Someone else recommended Elixir in Action, which is a very good book once you have some grasp on the fundamentals.
Qualcomm's license doesn't cover the IP Nuvia created with their license, and Nuvia's license (and everything created under it) became void when Qualcomm acquired the company.

Source: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22273195/arm-v-qualco...
Is it a form of apocalyptic glee? It’s quite common from some Trotskyist movements to rapture believers to conspiracy theorists…
In a way it recenter the world around one single explanation/core and give a sense of, if not agency at all, cognitive control over that complexity and unknowns
As a support engineer...

"Hey Mr Customer... don't worry that all your data is corrupt or you lost access to your disks ... you have been set in a new direction and we're just making your day job 'fun'"

They're not Bugs ... what you have here are little balls of 'fun' /s

;)
I would think the keeper would be keeping and the bees themselves would be beeing.
Famous for doing just what?
>Wood constructed houses have one of the arguably worst thermal profiles

I can't find any research backing this claim. The exact opposite appears to be true. Stone remains cold all winter and hot all summer. And it's expensive to heat and cool.

In addition, wood can be renewable and has a much smaller carbon footprint than mining and quarrying.
This is the opposite of
a: scientific
b: the point of the study
An awful lot of complexity hidden behind the word 'unhobbling' here, for example page 33. Not to say we can't overcome those challenges, but they're by no means tweaks in the margins.
I would prefer to move to cheaper new tech.
The big bummer about acquisitions is that they can change the terms of the deal however they want, including devaluing or even outright cancelling all the common stock. IPOs seem much safer in that regard, but obviously a rank-and-file employee has no say in which direction the company goes.

To be fair, though, the bad deals the employees see at acquisition aren't necessarily always due to sketchy exploitation bullshit. Sometimes a bad deal for employees is the only one the board can make, with the alternative being bankruptcy and everyone losing their jobs. It does sting that institutional investors and founders will sometimes get a decent return on their investment/time in those cases, while employees get table scraps, though.
And the Cambrian explosion, exponential development this triggers. Esp with AI driving the development (evolution) of these bots, detection mechanism, evasion mechanism, optimization of ROI. Including testing ways to improve extraction of the asset called 'money' - from the abstract thing called 'humans' and their agents.

We meat sacks don't stand a chance. We need to evolve.
I think the joke is that those issues arent important at all
They don’t even have the Nuvia one anymore, ARM rescinded it.
What is different here is that the non-VC investors investments are being recycled back into their goods&services see: cloud credits, buying NVDA compute, etc.

I don't think we had a similar pattern in the mobile era. Did Apple ever invest in an app in exchange for App Store fee credits or some dubious scrip like that? I don't think so.
Can you explain the cuda-less stack a little more or provide a source?
Well, the terms of the contract are outlined in the respective lawsuit between ARM and Qualcomm: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22273195/arm-v-qualco...
Reading over the post I realize they meant that companies in the U.S need to handle EU citizens data properly but they can do what they want with U.S citizens data, which I misunderstood so my apologies on the misunderstanding.
They did it to finance their street racing habit, I'm sure. :P
A change up is simply a slower pitcher than a fastball, thrown with the same motion. The slower speed mean that ball, while looking like a fastball, will act differently.
N26, Klarna and Revolut are not tech companies. Neobanks are still banks. And Klarna is just modern store credit cards. These have been around for decades.

Adyen is very underrated, and Spotify is definitely tech.

Stripe should be on the list. DeepMind at one point.
It would be even less and even faster decline of coal with nuclear

But for Germany the priorities were other than decarbonization.
Perhaps you should be a little more realistic about your capabilities and prospects.
I think the problem with mobile devices is not the software but the hardware.
These devices are locked down partly because of business interests (planned obsolescence), but another part is personal identity security.

A run-of-the-mill Android or iOS device carries more secrets inside, which have much more weight (biometric data, TOTP, serial numbers used as secure tokens/unique identifiers, etc). This situation makes them a "trusted security device," and allowing tampering with it opens an unpleasant can of worms. For example, during my short Android stint, I found out that no custom ROM can talk with the secure element in my SIM, and I'm locked out of my e-signature, which is not pleasant.

If manufacturers can find a good way to make these secure elements trustworthy without the need to close down the platform and weld shut, I think we can work around graphics and Wi-Fi drivers.

Of course, we also have the "radio security" problem. Still, I think it can be solved by moving the wireless radio to an independent IP block inside the processor with a dedicated postbox and firmware system. While I'd love to have completely open radio firmware, the wireless world is much more complex (I'm a newbie HAM operator, so I have some slight ideas).

So, the reasons for closing down a mobile device are varied, but the list indeed contains the desire for more money. If one of the hardware manufacturers decides to spend the money and pull the trigger (like AMD did with its HDMI/HDCP block), we can have secure systems that do not need locking down. Still, I'm not holding my breath, because while Apple loves to leave doors for tinkerers on their laptops, iPhone is their Fort Knox. On the other hand, I don't have the slightest confidence in the company called Broadcom to do the right thing.
This doesn’t seem shocking. We just had a year or two of rolling layoffs across major tech companies, interest rates are high, the market is fluctuating, and all of that is affecting hiring pipelines.
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Anything’s possible but the mass of the satellite won’t cease to be something they need to optimize, even with a heavier booster. Those little satellites use thrusters themselves when they’re in orbit.
Same in my field (SRE/Architecture)! I know the struggle, friend :(

It's tough. The internet has taught people the value in branding/advertising. I'm too exhausted from doing the work they skipped.
"Snapdragon X Elite" is based on the IP Qualcomm gained from the Acquisition of Nuvia, who developed this IP based on a very narrow license they got from ARM to develop for the server market.

Qualcomm is trying to transfer everything Nuvia has developed under that specific narrow ARM-license to the broad license of Qualcomm and use it for "powering flagship smartphones, next-generation laptops, and digital cockpits, as well as Advanced Driver Assistance Systems, extended reality and infrastructure networking solutions"

ARM has filed a lawsuit that this was never in scope of the license of Nuvia, the court-ruling is still pending on that one...
I agreed but in the case of the news we're commenting this feels an awful lot like an effort that would've benefitted from a proper R&D team where only the leadership would've had to be involved in company politics, goal-setting, etc.
That's some good news. Hopefully they'll expand it to also apply in Sweden. Although a system that works in all of Europe would be even more ideal.
Agreed, I think on your last point ARM is also trying for a fast case/settlement as they are in a difficult position:

They don't want to have a long fight expensive fight with qualcom and make other arm companies uneasy about investing in the arm platform.

They also don't want to open the door to have companies buy their IP for "cheap" by buying smaller companies with special arm licences instead of directly negotiating with them.
That’s dystopian.
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Well, are you? ;)
The grandparent claimed that the DAX 40 has real businesses that make things as opposed to American tech businesses that just serve the attention economy. Clearly not true. European businesses run on American technology. American businesses do not run on European technology.

Europe has many small and not very profitable tech companies. Almost no large and profitable ones. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GNDtCtTXcAAiwFk?format=jpg&name=...
Nothing wrong - just for transparency.

Also, the price difference is not quantified.

Additionally, CUDA is a known and tangible software stack - can I try out this "MK1 FLywheel" on my local (AMD) hardware?
Also, colloquially Europeans consider Russia to be an uncivilized backwater, so they don't count. Turkey is considered more middle-east.
It's not really surprising. EVs (both foreign and domestic) haven't caught up in price and range as fast as expected since the proposal was originally made, for EVs to be a drop-in replacement for ICE cars the voting population can afford and drives to work everyday and on vacation in the south of Europe every summer.

And neither is the EV charging infrastructure already there to support the same use cases. And since there's no sign we'll be there in 10 years, then a lot of voters will be pissed that they'll be priced out of car ownership when the future they were promised didn't pan out.

I'm already betting the deadline will be extended past 2035 as we get closer to it.
I'm pretty sure there is an option to ask ChatGPT to do inferencing for Email, etc.

If I'm a paid ChatGPT user, I'd definitely choose GPT4 over Apple's models.
Right? I would be perfectly content with a feature set from 30 years ago.
“The entire current AI market”.
> ClipBook stores everything you copy

Everything? I'm not seeing any screenshots in the... screenshot.
I had issues like that a few years back on memory starved Chromebooks, in my case the biggest savior was the Great Suspender/Discarder extension as I hoard tabs, otherwise the Android subsystem on a 4GB RAM machine is stretching it thin.
This is not the news that informs.

I can't tell from the article if they count Tesla's Berlin factory as "German assembly line".

If not, the article should say that.

If yes, to say that "Germany’s automakers manufactured" 1 million EVs is misleading given that around 25% of that was Tesla's Model Y.

Tesla has a factory in Germany but it's a stretch to call it a German automaker, just like Toyota has factories in Mexico but we don't call it Mexican company.

Either way, to namecheck Volkswagen or BMW but not Tesla is just bizarre.
Globalstar had some really rough system issues about 10 years ago when their constellation was dying. They were so desperate for Duplex users they had plans as cheap as $50/month unlimited everything - voice, SMS, and 9600 baud dialin data.

At this point it's very much a "we want to stop selling satellite voice services and just let IoT have the whole lot".
Then you clearly don't work in healthcare or law.
What is Apple's AI doing with your data?
We must thank the author for the content-free article, so each of us can freely ramble on tangents, as if we are looking at an abstract art piece.

My beef is with the Dwarkesh Patel podcast. While he has some very good interviews (Carl Shulman, or even Zuckerberg) he seems to have a lot of rambling-on conversstion by very young employees of AI startups (openAI). I don't get value from those because they don't really say anything other than patting each other's back about how awesome they are for having been hired by their companies. I think he should focus on people with actual contribution to the science who have meaningful things to say
The people are the automakers, not the brand behind it.
The quote list is pretty cool, I wonder if there are other languages available?
I am not sure a decade is enough time and after the energy crisis in the EU with the Ukraine conflict, I am not sure its smart to back yourself into a corner.
To be or not to be, this is a serious question.
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Nvidia's valuation is in part driven by the fact that their chips potentially disrupt the vehicle for ad revenue that is search.

For all his insanity, the one thing I respect Musk for, is that he actually started successful companies that make stuff. Creating a new car manufacturer of the scale of BMW out of nothing was widely considered impossible before.

Of course he did this from a position of extreme wealth, but none of his peers managed to do that. Everyone else is just seeking rent by trying to be first to implement some tech transition that is coming anyway. And that might be a lot more valuable to society if it was managed differently...
You can rent them online for ~ 4-5 $ per hour per GPU. Not cheap, but definitely feasible as a weekend project.
>US is one country, not a collection of countries fighting each other

The US is a republic of 50 states. Each state has a huge amount of sovereignty and autonomy. There are 50 state-level regulatory jurisdictions. Not to mention the local-level of government.

But in spite of this, the US does not over-regulate. This is the big difference to Europe (I say this as an American expat living in Europe).
Lawyers, administrations and corporations still send each other faxes because it is a way to provably deliver documents instantly. At scale it’s cheaper and quicker than a registered letter.
It's in section 3.3.

- Natural Al estimated at 141.1 metric tons / year not varying.

- Human-made:
2016: 5.36 tons,
2022: 41.7 tons,
"future" could be 912 tons, i.e. more than 6x natural.

I think the last figure is based on many planned large satellite constellations being deployed.
So .. this seems to reflect the problem of a set of very carefully hedged statements that touch controversial topics, but people are aware that if they give a yes/no agreement to the qualified version, it will be turned into a declaration that they agree with a whole bunch of qualifier-removed or indirect-consequence versions of the statement. So it's dangerous to answer honestly because your answer will be used against you.

For example:

> “Transgender identity is sometimes the product of social influence.”

I think you could find trans people themselves who might to some extent agree with that - I've more than once heard of people who knew themselves to be deeply miserable before ever hearing about transness, then discovering it, finding it "clicked", transitioning, and becoming much happier as a result. Does that qualify as "social influence"? They might not have transitioned if they hadn't known it was a possibility.

There are then two political views derived from this:

- the rightwing view that people should be prevented from knowing about the possibility of transness, especially as children, in order to discourage them from transitioning

- the leftwing view that, as part of the totality of the human experience, it is useful to include a description of it in the education given to children to help them understand their own process of puberty

But all sorts of things could be said to be "social influence". "Eating healthily is sometimes the product of social influence". "Turning up to events on time is sometimes the product of social influence". "High income is sometimes the product of social influence" (there are entire books sold on this thesis!)

The statement on its own is a semantic trap for assuming a whole bunch of things follow from that statement which can then be used to condemn people who agree/disagree with it.
Creators aren't paid some flat fee per view. They're paid a revenue share. By blocking the ads, you're already making sure the creators won't get paid for your views, and they lose nothing when you watch fewer of their videos.
2 of the top 3 most valuable public companies have AI front and center. Where's your evidence?
"got a prediction of AGI in 1 to 2 centuries"

Predictions at this time scale are bullshit, at least in modern technological civilization. It would have been different in the Stone Age, but we don't live in the Stone Age, when things barely changed for millennia.

For some perspective:

100 years ago, radio was barely a thing, airplanes were made of wood and canvas, Africa was thinly populated, antibiotics didn't exist, semiconductors weren't useful yet and the British Empire reached its largest extent ever.

200 years ago, railway wasn't a thing, electric telegraphy wasn't a thing, germ theory wasn't a thing, photography wasn't a thing, most parts of Europe were still feudal, Oregon and California were still Amerindian country, the US was an unimportant country on the fringe of the developed world, and official science of the day denied the very existence of meteors as space rocks, because only dumb hicks would believe in rocks falling from the sky, ya know?

Don't tell me that people back then could make accurate predictions about the technological level of 2024. Neither can your smartest person, even though I don't doubt their smarts. Making long-term predictions is about as reliable as making long-term weather forecasts. (Not climate. Weather.)
Percentage sizing was only added in the 16th century though.
Number 3 is not like the others.
Oof. The CTO not having the chops to build the core technology would have been a huge red flag for me. At a 75-person startup the CTO should transition to be more of a manager and strategy person than a builder, but at time of founding they should be doing 100% of the building. Hiring the first engineer should be a way to increase the pace of tech work, not start it.

If none of the founders are technical enough to build the MVP, none of them should take the CTO title.
It is a bit more complex than that; what matters is the correlation between the initial trajectory and when the batter's vision believes the ball will go. The dry spitball (knuckleball) and the spitball work on the same concept (i.e., the lack of spin will cause the ball to react differently than pitches with spin).
I wonder how the EU will react to this, since they might view it as proof of an Apple monopoly who can dictate terms & pricing.
A smart watch that doesn't depend on fickle cloud providers would thrive in this Google-shutting-everything-down environment.

Too bad Fitbit already bought and killed it.
I'm not really surprised that got an immediate "what the fuck" from your interlocutor.
I'm familiar with this tone from my LessWrong lurker days. It comes from wrestling with the idea that there is no scalable way to actually stop AGI from coming about, so you just have to grit your teeth and hope for the best.
But that doesn't keep the levers of power in power
There is a difference between minimalism and handicapping. If your device is too handicapped I won’t pay $800 for it.
Did Warcraft 1 and Doom have cross platform multiplayer back then?
Federated verifiers who are kept independent out of band are strictly superior to proof-of-x verifiers for a distributed ledger: lower transaction costs, wider feature space, less centralized. Proof-of-x tends towards one verifier, because it's an unregulated marketplace hence tends to monopoly.

The one application where this isn't true is when regulatory risk prevents lawful verifiers -- i.e. illegal transactions. So, it's not coincidence -- proof-of-x will always be dominated by illegal user stories and desire paths as it is now, because that's where it's not strictly inferior.
> Very very few companies build and maintain SDKs for Elixir.

This is true with any tech until it gets traction. React/Next is backed by a big company, but Vue/Nuxt still managed to grab its piece of the pie.

In order to get traction Erlang / Elixir needs enthusiasts who are ok with risking and introducing it to their company or product, at least partially.

No offense, but instead of condemning the Elixir ecosystem, why not embrace it in your company or product, as many have done (including me)?
I think most devs should be OK with taking a tolerable risk if they see opportunity to increase productivity by N times
> An American with no ability to pay will wait far longer than an Albertan for heart surgery.

Won't they be covered by Medicaid?
On the bright side, it can also automatically apply updates and reboot in the blink of an eye, so all you perceives is that every app windows disappear. :)
Couldn't they find a real workload that does this?
This just isn’t Boeing’s decade.
Hacker News is so special for that. I posted a question about Django a while back and sure enough, in rolled the framework's creator to answer it.
I don't live in Germany and this is all based on accounts I have seen posted in HN. Everytime there is a post that journals the process to setup a startup in Germany or do other business functions, it always included something that needed to be faxed.
It claims to have more than 13000 quotes, which aren't going to be evenly spread. There's probably at least a month of midnights, but precious few 5:37s