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kloop commented on U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel cnbc.com/2025/08/22/intel... · Posted by u/givemeethekeys

And now China knows the US expects this and it also knows the US does not expect to stop China, so China knows that it can expect the US to do very little. It's game theory turtles all the way down...

Edit: I think it's a misconception that China cares much about fabs in Taiwan. It wants unification.

kloop · 3 days ago

It also means that China can expect the destruction of Taiwan's fabs to hurt the US less than China.

Combine that with the US's ability to unilaterally destroy Taiwan's fabs, and it sways the calculation a bit

kloop commented on This Month in Ladybird ladybird.org/newsletter/2... · Posted by u/net01

pmkary · 23 days ago

You guys are hugely on fire. Who would have thought someday a new engine rises in this climate, and then who would have thought it would be a small team, without a trillion dollar giant behind them pouring hundreds of millions into its production? This is truly one of the greatest things I have seen in my lifetime.

kloop · 23 days ago

> Who would have thought someday a new engine rises in this climate, and then who would have thought it would be a small team, without a trillion dollar giant behind them pouring hundreds of millions into its production?

Anybody who has ever worked on a large enterprise software team. Anybody who has ever worked in this scenario will believe this. Computing history is full of 2-10 people teams beating giant well funded teams to the punch.

This mostly occurs because work expands to fill the time and resources allowed for the project (Parkinson's Law), and large companies have almost unlimited amounts of both.

kloop commented on The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong derekthompson.org/p/the-a... · Posted by u/rbanffy

bluGill · 24 days ago

The meaning of liberal and conservative has shifted so much over time that the term is now useless. The original meaning of liberal was about not killing you neighbor if they were a different religion - from which we get freedom of religion. That slowly expanded to things like freedom for slaves and women voting.

kloop · 24 days ago

You're describing classical liberalism. The meaning of the term liberalism in the US switched to social liberalism back in the great depression (unless specified with a qualifier). It has remained roughly constant for as long as most people on this site have been alive. Though I will grant that the policies social liberals support have changed since then.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_liberalism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_liberalism

kloop commented on Bill Atkinson's psychedelic user interface patternproject.substack.c... · Posted by u/cainxinth

demaga · a month ago

I feel like someone is trying really hard to push public perception of psychedelics towards "acceptable". I don't know who it benefits, but this is a really weird Overton window.

I wouldn't say a word if it weren't nth article about psychedelics that appears on HN frontpage. I was quiet the last n-1 times.

If you google psilocybin right now, you can see articles that state how it "slows ageing" and "cures depression". There probably is some truth to it, but only in very specific sense and specific circumstances. Most people will NOT benefit from taking the drug (as with any drug).

So it hurts my soul when I see words like "legalize" being thrown in this context. We know very very little about effect of such drugs. And the goal should not be to legalize, but rather to expand our knowledge on how it works, and create safe medicine that actually helps people.

Rant is over now. Thank you.

kloop · a month ago

> So it hurts my soul when I see words like "legalize" being thrown in this context. We know very very little about effect of such drugs.

That seems like exactly when we should legalize it. The default is legal, and without definite knowledge of serious harm, that should be the status.

The burden of proof should be on the people who want it to be legal, and by your comment, their case seems pretty weak.

kloop commented on The Unsustainability of Moore's Law bzolang.blog/p/the-unsust... · Posted by u/shadyboi

vorgol · 2 months ago

The last sentence should be first, to put things in context:

> We’re entering the post-Moore era, I’m busy designing chips (and maybe a fab) for this new world. I’d be happy to talk to investors.

We were told in uni in the early 2000s that post-Moore era was just few years from then.

kloop · 2 months ago

When people not super into hardware say Moore's Law, they mean Dennard Scaling.

Which did roughly end in the mid 2000s. That's why we've spent so much time parallelizing in the past 20 years rather than just expecting increases in single threaded perf

kloop commented on Long live Xorg, I mean Xlibre dedoimedo.com/computers/x... · Posted by u/dxs

bsder · 2 months ago

> If you like Xorg, use Xorg. If you like Wayland, use Wayland. If you're not happy about an issue, contribute to it.

The problem is that RedHat nee IBM are attempting to force everybody onto Wayland by dropping X11 support. They already tried once and the outcry was so huge that they had to back off saying they would try again next version.

This is kind of a rock and a hard place. The Wayland developers don't want to support X11 but neither does anybody else. Wayland is fundamentally broken in many ways down at the architectural level, but the sunk cost fallacy keeps them working on it.

Everybody forgets that Wayland predates Vulkan. A "real" replacement for X11/Wayland probably needs to restart from "Vulkan support is the base layer" and build up from there.

kloop · 2 months ago

> The Wayland developers don't want to support X11 but neither does anybody else.

You can't say that in a thread about the main maintainer forking it because he wants to maintain it against the wishes of the original maintainers.

This post is literally about someone wanting to maintain it.

kloop commented on New US visa rules will force foreign students to unlock social media profiles theguardian.com/us-news/2... · Posted by u/sva_

impossiblefork · 2 months ago

Rights always apply, always. This is the thing about human rights enshrined in human rights laws in places like the EU, or about your constitutional rights (although the latter only applies to US citizens and to people physically present in the US).

However, countries may, depending on their laws, choose to not let certain people in on conditions that would otherwise violate guarantees on freedom of speech etc.

However, you do have your constitutional rights at the border etc. There is an exception concerning searches.

kloop · 2 months ago

That depends a lot on the constitutional right. They're, generally, phrased as restrictions on the federal government (assumed to apply to state governments under incorporation post civil war).

There are a lot of times the government is limited even dealing with foreigners abroad (in legal theory anyways, ymmv in reality).

kloop commented on Ruby on Rails Audit Complete ostif.org/ruby-on-rails-a... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

nurettin · 2 months ago

The entire 2012 scene used Rails. Then they realized it was hard to scale and rewrote everything in Go.

kloop · 2 months ago

That makes perfect sense for people that need to scale. But doesn't explain why newer start ups aren't using it.

Doing things that don't scale is a proven strategy at the beginning, pg even has a post about it

https://www.paulgraham.com/ds.html

kloop commented on Ask HN: How to learn CUDA to professional level · Posted by u/upmind

mekpro · 3 months ago

To professionals in the field, I have a question: what jobs, positions, and companies are in need of CUDA engineers? My current understanding is that while many companies use CUDA's by-products (like PyTorch), direct CUDA development seems less prevalent. I'm therefore seeking to identify more companies and roles that heavily rely on CUDA.

kloop · 3 months ago

My team uses it for geospatial data. We rasterize slippy map tiles and then do a raster summary on the gpu.

It's a weird case, but the pixels can be processed independently for most of it, so it works pretty well. Then the rows can be summarized in parallel and rolled up at the end. The copy onto the gpu is our current bottleneck however.

kloop commented on At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work nytimes.com/2025/05/25/bu... · Posted by u/milkshakes

bartread · 3 months ago

And except that the factory analogy of software delivery has always been utterly terrible.

If you want to draw parallels between software delivery and automotive delivery then most of what software engineers do would fall into the design and development phases. The bit that doesn’t: the manufacturing phase - I.e., creating lots of copies of the car - is most closely modelled by deployment, or distribution of deliverables (e.g., downloading a piece of software - like an app on your phone - creates a copy of it).

The “manufacturing phase” of software is super thin, even for most basic crud apps, because every application is different, and creating copies is practically free.

The idea that because software goes through a standardised workflow and pipeline over and over and over again as it’s built it’s somehow like a factory is also bullshit. You don’t think engineers and designers follow a standardised process when they develop a new car?

It would be crazy for auto factory workers to check every angle. It is absolutely not crazy for designers and engineers to have a deep understanding of the new car they’re developing.

The difference between auto engineering and software engineering is that in one your final prototype forms the basis for building out manufacturing to create copies of it, whereas in the other your final prototype is the only copy you need and becomes the thing you ship.

(Shipping cadence is irrelevant: it still doesn’t make software delivery a factory.)

This entire line of reasoning is… not really reasoning. It’s utterly vacuous.

kloop · 3 months ago

> The idea that because software goes through a standardised workflow and pipeline over and over and over again as it’s built it’s somehow like a factory is also bullshit.

I don't think it's bs. The pipeline system is almost exactly like a factory. In fact, the entire system we've created is probably what you get when cost of creating a factory approaches instantaneous and free.

The compilation step really does correspond to the "build" phase in the project lifecycle. We've just completely automated by this point.

What's hard for people to understand is that the bit right before the build phase that takes all the man-hours isn't part of the build phase. This is an understandable mistake, as the build phase in physical projects takes most of the man-hours, but it doesn't make it any more correct.