Then another maintainer will take care of it? This is how kernel development works....
They have less and less resources
Readit Newshello_moto commented on Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental lwn.net/Articles/1049831/... · Posted by u/rascul
I live in the middle of nowhere in Northern Germany. A house where you wont have to tear down the whole place starts at 400k. And that's a basic small sub 100m^2 house with no garden.
Sorry but I wont get myself into 40 year debt for a bungalow.
After my father's death we sold our old family home for ~70k€ 15 years ago. It would have been in the 300-400k range nowadays. My salary certainly did not double - triple in that time frame.
Inflation and rich people buying asset class drives everything up
> It's do-able, but the housing crisis needs to be resolved.
Why? Almost everywhere a majority of people (and certainly the majority of voters) are already invested in housing and do not want their investment to loose value.
> Specifically, both house prices and interest need to go down heavily. Sadly, they used higher interest to try to lower prices, and that didn't really bring prices down.
People are more willing to spend an ever-growing share of their dual-incomes on housing, which drives housing prices modulo interest. So interest has no actual effect on housing affordability, since it doesn't influence how much people are willing to spend. If you lower interest, prices are simply going to rise such that people spend the same % of their income on housing. If you increase interest, prices will (eventually, slowly, since this is a seller-dominated market) fall to match.
> More supply isn't helping much either, as there is no diversity of supply, and builds aren't undercutting the market yet.
New builds will never be cheaper than existing housing stock. Low-cost new housing is a mirage; new housing is premium by construction.
Diversity in property means condos with various configurations, rowhouses, townhouses, multiplex (duplex, quadplex, sixplex).
Where I live, the local government decided to remove zoning thereby allowing more varieties of properties.
Price comes down in the sense that the missing middle provide options between condo to townhouse to detached
hello_moto commented on Anthropic’s paper smells like bullshit djnn.sh/posts/anthropic-s... · Posted by u/vxvxvx
Anthropic make a lot of bullshit reports to tickle the investors.
They'll do stuff like prompt an AI to generate text about bombs, and then say "AI decides completely by itself to become a suicide bomber in shock evil twist to AI behaviour - that's why you need a trusted AI partner like anthropic"
Like come on guys, it's the same generic slop that everyone else generates. Your company doesn't do anything.
Someone reminds me all the time: consider AI as “companions” and “opinions”.
AI (adhd, neurodivergence) entrepreneurs took opinions and made them facts.
It takes certain personalities to lead an AI company.
hello_moto commented on Anthropic’s paper smells like bullshit djnn.sh/posts/anthropic-s... · Posted by u/vxvxvx
I suspect there are CCP agents both here in Hacker News and everywhere else, trying to undermine the reality of China-sponsored malicious behavior.
I'm not a cybersecurity expert, but it doesn't compute to think there would be any specific "hashes" to report if it's an AI-based attack that constantly uses unique code or patterns for everything.
Plus, there's nothing surprising about the Chinese stealing and hacking anything for their advantage.
It’s more likely that there are more western VC propaganda here than CCP.
The HN of Paul Graham era had finished.
This is the HN of Sam Altman and Gary Tan era.
Different VC/capitalist mindset
I mean, if a lot of a certain type of Americans are immigrating to Alberta, that would explain a lot
You don’t need those type to immigrate. You just need to export the ideology which is what happened to Alberta, the Texas of Canada.
Where in the article it suggested the spread due to immigration?
If any, it is due to misinformation and reluctance of those communities (mentioned specifically Alberta rural, y’know, the province that has been burned with misinformation, public health scandal, crazy Premier that has been stoking Separatism while cozying with MAGA that has threatened Canada sovereignty)
hello_moto commented on Amazon hopes to replace 600k US workers with robots theverge.com/news/803257/... · Posted by u/pwthornton
Have you ever worked in a manufacturing job? Surveys have shown that people are much happier, on average, with their service jobs than they were in the past when manufacturing was more prevalent. That's because factory work involves doing dangerous, repetitive, mind numbing work in a loud, often overcrowded, odorous, and hot space. It's a meme that everyone wants to bring back manufacturing jobs, but no one actually wants to work in manufacturing. People want cozy office jobs.
"move up the value chain" assuming:
1. the next level opportunity exist
2. proper training (we all know that's pipe dream)
3. fits what these folks are looking for (for some, repetitive jobs == less stress than "creative" jobs).
but what about glut of workers == depress wage?
hello_moto commented on Amazon hopes to replace 600k US workers with robots theverge.com/news/803257/... · Posted by u/pwthornton
It is obvious that Amazon wishes to replace all its employees for cheaper alternatives. That is true for all big companies. How realistic is this plan that is the question.
American companies lie so often about the feasibility of future capabilities that it is becoming just background noise. If the plan is not realistic, if it is not based in well argued projects, then they are just lying to the public and to investors. Currently the bar is so low, that anything counts as "we just though that it was possible" so it is not illegal. That should be solved.
> How realistic is this plan that is the question.
FTA:
Amazon has considered steps to improve its image as a “good corporate citizen” in preparation for the anticipated backlash around job losses, according to The NYT, reporting that the company considered participating in community projects and avoiding terms like “automation” and “AI.” More vague terms like “advanced technology” were explored instead, and using the term “cobot” for robots that work alongside humans.
I wasn't told to hate government regulations. 30 years of horrible, ineffective regulation taught me to hate these poorly thought out regulatoins. I grew up under No Child Left Behind. I saw the TSA form before my very eyes. I'm right now seeing ICE roam free, regulations be damned.
I don't hate the idea of regulation. I don't trust the people who are trying to regulate.
Aussie, Canada, much of the Europe have no issue.