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You can thank Nixon and the abandoning of the Gold Standard in 1971 for this problem.

It allowed government to print $ unchecked. When new $ gets printed, it goes to the corporations/rich first, causing inflation for everyone else. This artificially creates an extremely wealthy class.

Not saying the Gold Standard is the solution - it had its own set of problems. But the untying of money from a real, hard asset is what makes the existence of the ultra-rich possible.
Which means, the way others argument here (and are downvoted for it) the majority of the country is not particularly bothered by what is going on. No, they didn't approve of this, but also didn't disapprove. So why keeping them aside? Their conscious choice of "let whoever win" has brought the world where it is now just as the vote pro-Trump did, so if it walks and quacks like a Trump helper...
The ideal state is every individual has control of their health and DNA information and use models running on their controlled devices to do the monitoring for them.

Maybe there are cases where they want to share this information with subscribers who authenticate and have authorization over some segments of the data. But it absolutely should not be in the hands of others as the default.
> That’s not ok.

Then entertain his question and tell us what is? Bringing up people’s attention to the matter to finally somehow resolve the situation is his last resort, after spending years trying to upstream even trivial patches. You can eat your cake and have it too - you can’t say you want rust in the kernel and then sabotage any upstreaming efforts
No, I strongly disagree with this. Wealth does not change you, it amplifies who you already were.

Examples: Melinda French Gates, MacKenzie Scott
> Isn't mesa portable? Or are there parts that are OS-specific?

Even the OS-specific parts are at least permissively-licensed. OpenBSD is about as religious about "all new code must be under an ISC-compatible license" as it gets, and even they pull in Linux DRM/Mesa code for hardware graphics acceleration: https://man.openbsd.org/drm.7
>I believe he is acting in good faith and the result will be a much more efficient government.

If he's acting in good faith then where is the transparency he's promised? Taking Elon at his word is, at this point, naive at best.
Pay Down Process Debt
> solving hunger in Africa

I wish the billionaires were doing this. Instead they are hoarding wealth like angry dragons and comparing piles.
Cellular technologies can be configured to degrade differently to WiFi. The device gets fewer assigned slices, so the bandwidth reduces, but latency should remain static.
Are you just saying they're not as bright or is there something more there?
Not just extrajudicial punishment, but overlooking corrupt acts and crimes from fellow officers. That it's more important to maintain the 'brotherhood' than to arrest an officer caught driving home drunk.
I always invited them to talk to my manager if they wished. "If you can get my manager to tell me to do the thing, I'll happily do it."

I got along great with the sales guys. They could understand that kind of thing.
Blacksmith: GitHub Actions, twice as fast, half the cost
I checked into Reiser4 and they are still indeed working on that out of tree. Hats off to people who stick to it, though I think renaming the file system would have been a smart idea.

That's the only other project I can think of that's out of tree besides the usual suspect (ZoL)
Are we sure about this? McKenzie Bezos and Melinda Gates are, of course, different -- but they really really really appear to be doing what a normal person would do, given that amount of money.
It's Time to Amend the Patent Act for AI Inventors
This always gets trotted out, usually by people who seem to have never run any web service before. IPs are apparently PII, and all default server configs log them. If you don’t, good luck complying with any security audits that will require you to keep them to make forensics possible.

This is just one of the things that makes GDPR, in practice, an “if we don’t like you, we’ll investigate you and will definitely find something” law.
> real people don't talk about their stalkers so much. When I was stalked and harassed I kept the details light and didn't provide much in the way of actual community details because I went to the FBI and local police to deal with it

You actually provided more details here than he did, so I guess that's not true.

>> Suffice it to say, I ended up traveling for most of the year, all the while having to handle various abusers and stalkers who harassed and attacked me and my family (and continue to do so).

If anything, I am more doubtful you had stalkers since you are also in this thread saying this[1]. What an unsympathetic reply. You certainly don't come off like you're aware of the stress and fear that can bring if your answer to other people being stalked is "rethink your life choices."

> Sounds to me like you just need to take a break from the internet friend. If you're that high profile that you're getting hit over and over, maybe you need to rethink your life choices. If it bothers you that much especially.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43038512
Yeah, phosphoric would be another great example of "corrosive but not toxic per se." But even nitrate is something you could ingest a reasonable amount of, and is commonly used in food. Too much and you turn blue and die.

As for turpentine, it depends on the person and the particular turpentine, but generally turpentine on your skin isn't particularly irritating and may even be therapeutically beneficial. Like many other essential oils, it's a broad-spectrum fungicide, bactericide, and antiviral, but isn't absorbed particularly well through the stratum corneum, and it's a pretty decent solvent for removing other chemicals that may be more toxic and are commonly used in woodworking.

I think there are two good reasons for preferring natural turpentine, despite its variability, to mineral spirits:

- as with cyanide, the humans evolved with frequent exposure to small amounts of plant terpenes, from chewing pine needles and other leaves and from dermal exposure to broken and crushed plant matter and to pine resin. So you'd expect them to have reasonable ways of clearing out the terpenes that occur naturally, and in fact they do. Mineral spirits might just contain the same compounds (and other well-tolerated ones like octane and xylene) but they also might have novel compounds humans don't tolerate as well. And you can't usually tell from the label; just as with turpentine, what you get depends on where it comes from. Typically the MSDS will tell you the major components, but not the impurities thought to be harmless.

- culturally, there are millennia of traditions about how to use turpentine safely, due to its extensive use in shipbuilding, painting, and woodworking, so we can be reasonably sure that the health risks are small when handled in traditional ways. Mineral spirits are only 200 years old or less, and the processes for producing them today aren't the same as the processes used 50 years ago. So it's much more plausible for them to contain impurities that turn out to be dangerous. Indeed, many such novel nonpolar solvents widely used in the past turned out to be unexpectedly dangerous, such as benzene, carbon disulfide, polychlorinated biphenyls (used as solvents for woodworking in old Fabulon; see https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2267460/), and "cleaning fluid" (carbon tetrachloride). It would be much less surprising to find some novel hazard in mineral spirits than in turpentine.

I used mineral spirits last month to clean oil off my immersion blender. They're probably pretty harmless. But we can have a lot more confidence in the exact degree of harmlessness of turpentine.
It seems obvious that that’s not what Ted intended it to mean, since it wouldn’t even make sense in this context (the debate doesn’t really seem to be about whether maintainers should be loyal to other maintainers).

A more charitable interpretation would be “we’re the only line of defense protecting something good and valuable from the outside world, so people should give significant weight to our opinions and decisions”. Which, to be clear, I would still mostly disagree with WRT the police, but it at least doesn’t explicitly endorse corruption.
Can you provide an example for the broken-crater claim? As far as I'm aware, Rust folks don't break compatibility that easily, and the one time that happened recently (an old version of the `time` crate getting broken by a compiler update), there were a lot of foul words thrown around and the maintainers learned their lesson. Are you sure you aren't talking about crates triggering UB or crates with unreliable tests that were broken anyway?
> Can you read a contract and tell whether the courts will accept it

Of course you can, if you understand the law. It's the same with professional sports; a random guy off the street isn't going to be proficient as a coach, but someone that deeply understands the domain -- as I mentioned -- can create and review code for quality without being able to write the code at that level or proficiency.

Erik Spoelstra is a great example. Played basketball and had a short professional stint in lower leagues in Europe. Started off reviewing tape for the Miami Heat and went on to be a very successful coach. He doesn't make the plays, but he knows which players and which plays he needs. He knows when a player makes a good play and when a player makes a bad play. He substitutes players as needed for each situation. He deeply knows the domain, even if he can't himself play at that level.

When the LLM can code 100x faster than you, your job isn't to be a better coder, it's to be a better coach.
That is not what many voted for. I personally know a few who voted with glee because Trump is a loose cannon and follows no decorum.
Rust is static analyzer built into a compiler frontend
Yes but these comparisons of real cultures become very gross very fast.

Japanese culture is orderly, neat, autonomous and their children are taught to wait at an early age. That's awesome! We should emulate Japan, clearly their culture is superior. Nevermind the salary-man trope, misogyny, Hikikomori, and rigidity that comes with it.

Instead of thinking about cultures in terms of ranking, try to understand the history of why a culture is a certain way and appreciate why other cultures are not like that.
Packaging is gobbling up more and more of the backend process, especially for chiplets.
I’d also add that China actually does have future pension liabilities. China’s past one child policy is causing the pyramid to quickly go from 4-2-1 to 1-2-4 in terms of ratio of working to dependents; and young people are already not participating in pensions because they think its highly likely the systems will go bust and they won’t see a cent of their contributions.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-07/why-milli...
USAID funding freeze disrupts global tuberculosis control efforts
This was probably drawn up as an option, but is everyone here gonna ignore that theres a new administration in the whitehouse and Intels previous CEO (who, at least publicly, was very optimistic that Intel could pull a turnaround all on its own) was recently ousted?
> I supposed the unstated implication is that the US could just take the IP by force

Isn’t that what China’s stated plan is?
https://youtu.be/AJ6a9F3q0OE?t=11
It's not okay but he's giving them ammunition by mentioning them and complaining about them. It proves that it's working.

When I started getting harassed in 2022 over an ill advised post on a site, the only thing that stopped it was to sandbag everything and rethink how I interacted on the internet.
Video: Billionaire Larry Ellison pulled over for speeding

https://youtu.be/wqarQ-CQ4BM

I don't like these videos, little benefit. Only thing here: If he wants to start surveillance we should start on him and he should publish it all, so we can monitor him (incl. publication of all financials so we can monitor for financial crimes as well)
I mean, I'm not sure how _occasional_ it is; seems to show up in nearly all threads about Asahi.
You know we have all sorts of laws which are iffy-squishy, right?

Like, why is the voting age 18 and not 17.5? Why is the drinking age 21 and not 20?

Why not allow 2 year olds to vote and drink hard liquor?

The tax brackets, and tax levels for each bracket, are another squishy thing. Always have been.

Easiest is to start with the 1944 tax rate, at 94% on taxable income over about $2.5 million in today's dollars.

We know the US survived that level.
A dog isn't a kid obviously, the dog you leave him outside of the home once you're done and it requires maybe 30 minutes of attention a day. a kid, it's constant attention.

> I will make sure that what I communicate (either verbally or non-verbally) is congruent with my actions. I believe that this, is the surest way to build trust.

Everyone think that way during the beginning, until having an hour of free time during a week becomes a dream, you don't sleep at night anymore, things get exhausting to do.

Then you get the belt out and teach the kids how to behave. i have been taught that way, most kids until 20 years ago were taught that way.

Physical pain is part of life, the very first event of a kid's life is his mother tearing herself painfully to get him out of her belly.
> It's all in the framing

Yeah, that's the root of the problem, I think.

It's easy to sell people that "we just need this one more bit of access to your private data, it helps us stops paedophiles and terrorists", but each step takes us further down a bad path.

I'm sure everybody would agree that having full camera surveillance inside every UK home is too far, but no oversight at all is also bad.

There is a point along that line where society would say "no, that's enough", but successive governments have realised that they can slowly push that point further right and nobody seems to notice, or care.
Let's be honest, these apps wouldn't exist if there were no real women on them.

Seems to me the absolute bare minimum is to ensure the safety of your most valuable users. Not put your head in the sand. Not hide the facts.

Most women won't go to the police but I expect they will report their victimization to the app which promises them they will take their reports seriously. A 158 years to life sentence seems like they weren't taking any reports seriously.
Why is it silly? Is it reasonable to hold the opinion that DOGE should not have been given access to these systems (note: this doesn't mean that the opposite view isn't also reasonable)? If it's a reasonable position to hold, then getting access to these systems can be reasonably construed as an attack, can it not?

I don't really think this argument merits a comparison to "technology is the mark of the beast" or that the only people that can be opposed to DOGE suffers from "personality derangement" or "glorifies bureaucratic power"
IMO pipe syntax is so much better. Not necessarily this version, but in general
This is exactly backwards, I think.

"Risk-averse" (really, wealth loving) people, uh, loving amassing wealth.
I always use LibreOffice to edit csv files. Excel always seems to mess with csv files in ways I don't want it to.
You basically described my account/family topology, and my concerns, to a tee. This sounds messy and I think I'm on the wrong side of the risk vs reward curve for now, perhaps I'll revisit in another year or two.

Thanks for taking the time to write this up.
At one point I started to explore what you would need to adapt any MongoDB compatible DB to work with CouchDB-style synchronization. The biggest problem is you need a consistent Changes view of the database and that's optional from MongoDB-provider to MongoDB-provider. Had I continued on that project it probably would have wound up Azure CosmosDB-specific, specific enough that it didn't feel particularly good for ROI, and was starting to feel like a "back to the drawing board/time to leave CouchDB" situation. It's interesting to wonder if the CosmosDB/DocumentDB pieces that Microsoft is open sourcing (as mentioned in the article here) would eventually include a Postgres extension for their Changes view? Had that been done when I was evaluating options in that past project, it might have lent more weight to that ROI decision that it would also support open source Postgres databases with these open source Document DB extensions.
Thanks. Checking Aider out!
> I agree but how rich is too rich?

Try an experiment: the current levels of richness may be too much, and we seem to be learning that through lived experience; it may be that we have to dial down the richness and if we go too in the other way we lift the restrictions.

As it currently stands, wealth concentration is at about the same level as in the Gilded Age:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._Pre-Tax_Income_Share...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_inequality_in_the_Unite...

So perhaps adjust tax rates to what they were from about 1950-70. Certainly there were other factors that helped prosperity (in the US) during that time period, but it's probably worth tweaking this variable.
Taiwan is ROC (republic of china)
China is PRC (people's republic of china)

Until the day China finally invades Taiwan and stablishes its laws there.
It may sound like a bad thing for the American citizens that cherish imperialism and for the compradors here in Eastern Europe who directly profit from said American imperialism, but for the rest of us, normal people (both in the US and in Eastern Europe and other such parts of the American Empire) seeing USAID and NED gone is a gift from Heaven.
Given the source, no, my first thought was emphatically not "training models," it was -- this crazy bastard is hellbent on world domination. Seriously.
Difficulties notwithstanding, Marcan’s drama is excessive. He has a history of it.

His fellow R4L partners chewed him out for jumping in and spoiling their work. They even quietly but publicly disaffiliated R4L from him.
I didn't say Rust for Linux community, I said Rust community. Here's an example [1]. You don't have to search online forums and mailing lists very long to find countless others like this.

The problem with the brigading (which has been done by the Rust for Linux community) is that it invites these zealots into the conversation. It's totally inappropriate and not at all constructive towards a compromise.

Plus the stated goal of Rust for Linux is to enable people to write drivers in Rust, not to rewrite the whole kernel in Rust. Yet there are countless people in the wider Rust community that believe Rust is the future and every line of C code still in use should be rewritten in Rust. It's gotten so prominent that "Rewrite it in Rust" has become a meme at this point [2]. There are now many developers in other languages (C and C++ especially) who reject Rust simply because they don't like the community.

[1] https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/software/general-linux...

[2] https://goto.ucsd.edu/~rjhala/hotos-ffi.pdf
Certainly the legal profession has gained a lot from him.
Don't worry guys, DOGE is going to snuff out this egregiously corrupt contract...
I guess that's true.

All the Buyer's Remorse isn't gonna accomplish a thing. Just gotta hope for the best for the next four years.

I don't know?

Maybe we get some better choices next time around? Probably not, but maybe?
Billionaires and totalitarian ruling parties both pretend that they’re polar opposites, but they’re mostly two sides of the same coin.
And who needs evidence before shutting stuff down anyway!
Possibly a shift from bulkier older laptops to tablet hybrids?

1366 x 768 definitely sounds like it's just an increase in older machines though.
The ABA, lawfare, and many trial attorneys have been sending 'red alerts' that there is mounting evidence this administration intends to demonstrate the fragility of our democracy by taking the position SCOTUS has no authority over the Executive.

If that is not 'interesting or new', then we are already truly f*ked.
Alternatively, there's no real risk if you still have a lot left over even after losing.
I've been through this cycle as well, but I don't think this works the same way. I mean the only way it would work the same is if AI never reaches its promises, and I don't mean AGI, but never reaches the level of the thinking of a software developer. Then yes, no replacement. But do you really think AI will never get smart enough? Because the second it gets, whoever works on that level flies out the window. A therapeut needs his hands to work, so a very complex hardware interface with a long way ahead to reproduce, but a developer's work happens directly in the computer, zero hardware replacement costs.
> I can think of many times Ted was overly hyperbolic, but he was ultimately correct. Here is the part of the Linux project I don't like sometimes, which was recently described well in this recent thread. Being correct, or at least being subjectively correct by having extremely persuasive arguments, yet being toxic... is still toxic and unacceptable.

I want to say that I am thankful in this world that I am a truly anonymous nobody who writes codes for closed-source mega corp CRUD apps. Being a tech "public figure" (Bryan Cantrill calls it "nerd famous") sounds absolutely awful. Every little thing that you wrote on the Internet in the last 30 years is permanently recorded (!!!), then picked apart by every Tom, Dick, Harry, and Internet rando. My ego could never survive such a beating. And, yet, here we are in 2025, where Ted T'so continues to maintain a small mountain of file system code that makes the Linux world go "brrr".

Hot take: Do you really think you could have done better over a 30 year period? I can only answer for myself: Absolutely fucking not.

I, for one, am deeply thankful for all of Ted's hard work on Linux file systems.
This argument devolves to "we can't let women compete until we dissect them".

At what point in a woman's competitive career do we decide that she's sufficiently talented that we have to examine her body and approve of her gender expression? Is it reserved for Olympic athletes? Or do talented college women need approval? Skilled high school students? A surprisingly good tee ball player?

Down this path lies madness.

You keep saying they're males as though it were fact and not your personal opinion. That's not at all a factual statement. Every bit of public information about these women says that they're women. Misgendering them isn't transphobia because they're not trans. They're cis woman and have been their entire lives.
This won't fly yet
> nuclear weapons are more or less useless in a modern conflict, as has been observed in the Russia-Ukraine war with endless Russian sabre-rattling

Russia is constrained by India and China in its use of tactical nukes in Ukraine. That wouldn't apply in America.

> collateral damage from nuclear weapons makes their usage suicidal

The excess damage caused by tactical nukes when compared with conventional weapons, particularly the low-efficiency sort that tend to find their way into civil wars, is principally diplomatic. We're currently seeing a breakdown of the rules-based international order.

> in the case of the US, states breaking away from the Federal government would also inherit a nuclear arsenal

Why? The nukes are on U.S. land, legally and militarily. A state militia attempting to storm a nuclear silo is, if anything, the closest legitimate reason I can think of for why Washington might nuke its own homeland.

> Russia-Ukraine war has convinced me that artificial intelligence driven drone warfare has rendered nuclear warfare obsolete

There have been no AI drones in that war. Drones are reigning free because nobody established air superiority.