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In the article, he addresses the issue of clones vs 1st party RISC chips on AliExpress. As a mere dabbler, I have been bit by undisclosed errata on an STM-compatible/bootleg/clone/counterfeit Arm chip while using the official STM SDK.

Microsoft's threat was more overt than that: the initial plan was for Microsoft to be the sole signing authority for Windows apps in Windows 7, while simultaneously locking down the OS from pre-boot onwards and not executing unsigned binaries. This would have killed not only Steam games, but Steam itself wouldn't be distributable. Microsoft forced Gabe's hand! Valve had to pivot away from being 100% dependant on Windows as a matter of corporate survival.

> ...so it would at least be interesting to try the flipped experiment

Trying to replace the foot-soldiers of capital in a capitalist system would be bold, if one could raise the capital for the experiment.

Hacker News is awash wirh people who believe many jobs are "bullshit jobs", based on nothing beyond lacking intellectual humility, and ignorance of what the jobs emtsil.

> It's a silly argument and the lowest form of bike-shedding on the level of tabs vs commas

Guess what other low-level bike-shedding argument 'go fmt' obviates? That's right - tabs vs spaces!

> If it isn't the end of it you've got a talent issue.

I know you meant this as a slur, but the implication is Go works better than other languages for those who have what you call "a talent issue"

There is no value in merely having a position with no power, that only exists to make the organization look good. Do you think a vegan is most effective at a slaughterhouse, given that they'd undermine their employers revenue if they were given a modicum of power. Google's AI ethics team was steamrolled by this reality.

Further, they can still edit their comment to correct it, but opting not to.

>> ...there is no debate...

> ...And so many languages have an opinionated formatter these days

The crux of gp's post is for Go, there is no debate as 'go fmt' is the only one that matters. Black is great, but some people prefer Ruff, leading to ...debates about which formatter the team/org should use. Go's batteries-included philosophy makes those discussions moot on so many levels beyond formatting.

> ...drag it into a standards committee to either devalue it or slow the leader down

Anthropic et al recently proposed a supranational AI governing body designed to slow everyone down (euphemistically calling it "AI pacing"). Are the Pacer signatories losing?

> Will be interesting to see how Qwen3.8 27B compares against this once it releases this week

Considering that Meta distills Qwen[1] (and should!), it'd be hilarious if Muse loses the head-to-head; the "distillation attack!!1!" people claimed distillation on release n-1 is enough to match the intelligence of the latest version.

1. They wrote a paper about it

> ...all that dictates the release schedule.

AI companies release models when they are ready - not on a set schedule. The steps are required to produce a release candidate, so a company can choose to bless the RC with the best metrics at any time - or alternatively continue (post/)training newer RCs if they feel they can do better, and they have time. When a model is ready for release is subjective, and can take into consideration what the competition is doing.

An obvious counter-example to schedules driving releases is the still unreleased Gemini 3.6 Pro.

> 4k video is worthless compared to LiDAR. You are never going to get sub millisecond dead reckoning from video processing

Will America's foes heinously attack the homeland by offering socialistic self-driving vehicles? What exactly the threat model here, that makes Lidar data dangerous? Space-based remote sensing is superior in almost every way.

> The license does give end-users one more freedom than copyleft licenses?

IMO,the end-user is the person downloading and using the software from the app store, not the free-riding intermediary who repackages it. Copyleft ensures the end users can modify their software by guaranteeing access to its source code, and it accomplishes this by constraining any privileges of would-be intermediary repackagers from impinging this fundamental end-user right.

When judging which software offers more rights, you must first establish which party you prefer to have primacy: downstream developers, or the users of the software who run the released packages on their devices.

4. Pervasive , distributed dragnet surveillance under the misrepresentation that it's not a search until a human pulls the data. But a small on-device "E2E preserving" "safety" model that runs on your phone and snitches when illegal communication content is suspected.

Edit: also consider centralized Room-641A-type surveillance when models summarize and/or flag all calls processed by public telephony

> Air Traffic Control is still primarily voice based, and simply up to the user on both sides to not make a mistake

The "user[s] on both sides" of ATC conversions have passed through the filters of rigorous training and certification. They also happen to communicate in a DSL designed to minimize misunderstandings, the DSL just happens to be based on English.

TBQH, probably fashy.

> And all the prominent names Google gained: NULL

As an outsider, Google seems to have a knack for minting prominence for their talent.

> But things need to change.

Not all change is good, as proven by Zuckerberg's response after the lackluster Llama 4 release. The radical restructuring appears to have made things worse.

> Lock in isn't about physical versus digital.

I fully disagree with this statement, it equates very unequal scenarios.

> Disks can be locked in and digital can be completely free.

Disks can't be locked-in - the OEM console that runs them can. Platform emulators can't be locked-in: MAME, Dolphin, RPCS3, Eden, etc offer user freedom, and all depend on access to the game's physical media in order to dump, rip, or play directly off of.

You need an exploit and/or decryption key to archive a game on a locked-down, downloads-only disk-free console. Something valuable is lost when there is a forced physical to digital transition.

When represented on a quadrant wirh physical/digital on one axis and locked-down/open on the other, the locked-down + disk quadrant can be nullified by user-controlled emulators. Until recently, this quadrant had a lot of games, while digital+open is nearly empty, save for GoG, old non-steam, Humble Bundle games, quirky Indie games, and old game DVDs on a shelf.

> Right now, the US is half-heartedly trying to bomb Iran into submission

The title of TFA confirms the attempt is wholehearted: It's just not working as well as it did in Venezuela (where leadership was captured, rather than killed).

> Obviously this war is bad for a bunch of reasons, but the US is completely fine at home relatively.

With the exception of total wars, the domestic standard of living has very little to do with how well or not a foreign war is going.

How good Americans are living is a non-sequitur with regards to the war objectives set by the political and military leaders in Washington and Tehran. War, being politics by other means, has to be measured by political objectives. The average American didn't even notice when America relinquished control of Afghanistan to the Taliban, amd yet it was a clear-cut failure to achieve GW's stated goals.

Waymo can't launch anywhere in NY state due to state law, but by all means, trot out your favorite whipping boy.

Uber also partners with Zoox and Lucid on self-driving, missing this wave may be an existential risk, so they aren't putting eggs in one basket. Nevermind a level of duress due to the Uber/Waymo partnership being (almost certainly) part of a settlement agreement regarding alleged IP theft from Google by way of Anthony Levandowki.

> ...they already unsuccessfully burnt a lot of money on it years ago

It was for the best; the Kalanick-era company culture wasn't (/isn't?) compatible with the levels of public trust required for successful self driving.

> Can a single vehicle ever turn a profit?

That depends on how low they can get the costs. Waymo took delivery of the last Jaguar i-Pace, and are scaling up production of the Zeekr-based EVs, which I assume are significantly cheaper.

I think the math works, using car rental companies as an anchor point: they are (mostly) profitable*; they have relatively lower Cost of Revenue, but Waymo will have much fatter margins.

* There was a blip when Hertz had to write-down its bold bet on EVs didn't quite work out.

I was left scratching my head why Ukraine would be there, but not Iran, on the basis that it too has stood its ground in what the superpower aggressor planned to be short and decisive conflict.

Perhaps the activists were representing the people, but were unfortunately under a Makita/DeWalt NDA, and cannot make public their deliberations and actions just yet. Rest assured they are acting in your best interests.

If you've read anything Garry Tan has said, you wouldn't be curious.

> Value is almost never in the thing itself or some inherent quality.

Value is in the thing itself, however, there requires a certain level of trust by the reader consumer that what they are taking part of is not a scam/bamboozle first, and hopefully worth their time, and some proof of work goes a long way. So effort used to signal that the author cares about the subject if they went through the effort of setting up a blog, writing 2000 words on a topic with some curated CC-licensed images relevant to the subject.

GenAI images and LLMisms are the inverse - proof of no-work; they signal the author didn't put in effort, other than a fraction of a cent on tokens. This is why "cleaning up" your writing with LLMs is not a great idea, or makes it look low-effort.

> These dynamics are crucial for understanding the feelings and emotions around AI

These issues predate AI, going back to content-farms (if not earlier). The root issue is low-quality content masquerading as high-quality and authoritative. GenAI greatly lowers the bar of entry.

> public can mean an organization owned and operated by the government.

Would you consider In-Q-Tel - wholly owned by the CIA - to be a public venture* through ownership by a government agency, or a private one, because the public has no opportunity of ownership or control? I'm convinced it's the latter.

* Let's ignore it's non-profit status. Any CIA shell-/front-company is an even better example

What is the typical job title and/or skillset for this?

It can be any one of many jobs depending on how high close to the metal one's focus is, but the highest headcount role is usually SRE/Infra/Ops with GPU knowledge sprinkled on top. That is to say Linux sysadmin, networking, fleet management, scaling, incident troubleshooting, etc.