The ecosystem consumes talent and late-stage capital in real time, and replenishes both on a five-to-ten-year lag.
Later in the article, there's a line about a shortage of senior engineers.
Won't AI solve this problem more-or-less immediately? We're already seeing AI-first and AI-native startups that almost certainly only have senior engineers in name only. AI is going to remove this kind of talent limitation quickly, because it's the worst it will ever be right now, and AI can do senior engineer work.
Collectively we are wasting an impressive amount of time waiting for access to websites; time we didn’t spend before the AI era. As a human, time is precious and finite to me, whereas to a robot it is not.
Another sad side-effect of the abysmal ethics of the folks who wrote and run AI-crawlers. They ignored robots.txt, and didn't do any kind of rate limiting, and weren't very good about acknowledging that they were using copyright inputs, so people (justifiably!) implemented some barriers like Anubis. Now we all have to wait for proof-of-work to happen.
If only "AI" people had taken a clue from existing crawlers, we wouldn't all suffer. But since the entire point of "AI" is to render most people obsolete or inefficient, I suppose the imperative is to just go ahead and vacuum up all the text every written 3 or 4 times a day.
Existing high-strength alloys like MP35N are already extraordinarily difficult to machine. The "super alloy" in the story is said to have a compressive yield strength of 2 gigapascals, which is about MP35N tensile yield. Sounds like this "super alloy" isn't that much stronger than existing high strength alloys. It does have some fairly exotic alloying elements, tantalum, niobium and hafnium that probably don't come cheap. This super alloy will be used only in a very few applications.
Doesn't quite smell right. A leak like that would be a big scoop. Where's the other media spouting off? Why hasn't starlink been disabled already, given how much Russia has lost, how badly they need to get their war over with?
1. Go's *os.File have finalizers that close the underlying file descriptor or handle during garbage collection. See runtime.SetFinalizer
2. I hate that use of defer has become conventional in the Java High Ceremony sense. That is, you must use defer, or "AI" and code reviewers call it out as a mistake. Granted, not deferring is usually a mistake, but not always.
the fact that pro-management organizations are postured as pro-business while pro-worker organizations are treated as a narrower interest group is a topic for another day).
Great post, hope to see the "topic for another day" as well.
People will be making "year of the Linux desktop" long after virtually all desktops (except the US federal government and state of Washington) are running Linux.
This is bad, given that advertisers end up corrupting every ad-supported media. Look at what newspapers, TV and radio became - thinly veiled puppets of the advertisers, willing to kill stories at their behest.
Fair enough - we have different definitions. If I have audio on while driving or cooking or cleaning, I can only half listen, I miss a lot. I have to be very careful with what I listen to while driving, lest it take my attention away from the road, so I only half agree with you.
Isn't the USA moving towards mercantilism under Trump? We as a nation are letting Trump and his immediate family direct major economic decisions without a whole lot of scrutiny.
I had the same blog post get on HN and on Slashdot. HN link didn't get to the front page, got about 25 human visits. The link on Slashdot got the blog post 2500 visits, plus the Slashdot IP addresses visited tons of other posts and content on my web site. Maybe places don't get "slashdotted" any more, but a link on Slashdot seemingly gets you a ton more visits than a link on HN.
Also, Slashdot visitors use more MacOS and Linux than Windows. The reverse is true of the small number of HN visitors.
This appears to be true for a plurality, or maybe just barely a majority of people.
I don't find audio so easily multi-tasks, unless we're using different definitions. My example: I find it very difficult to do something described in an audio or video format - rewire a light switch, say. I find it way easier to have text with a diagram. I can stop and check the text at any time. I find it easier to go back to previous sentences, than to rewind an audio or video.
Re-writing previous news was Winston Smith's job at MiniTru in "1984". The Trump admin (probably not Trump himself, he doesn't seem to care enough about "gotchas") deletes history to allow Republicans to criticize completely anodyne announcements made by a politician they hate. Really and truly Orwellian, but it also puts lie to Republicans using "orwellian" as a negative adjective, now that they've done it themselves. Republicans engage in duckspeak in its most orwellian form.
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