vablings (u/vablings)

vablings commented on Waymo cars ignored stopped school buses in Atlanta. What happens now? ajc.com/news/2025/12/waym... · Posted by u/themaninthedark

prepend · 3 days ago

Would AI be better at stopping for children jumping out from a stopped school bus so it’s not as necessary to stop with human drivers?

That being said, just ticket the company and make them pay. Isn’t this how it works with all moving violations? Does Waymo get pulled over for speeding?

vablings · 3 days ago

The first point is exactly my thought. Self-driving cars are completely different to human drivers. We should not hold them to the same standards while simultaneously holding them to much higher standards. There are many driving violations that are just laws because they could lead to an unsafe scenario that is purely the fault of the driver.

Eg; stop signs. The only reason a full stop is required is to ensure that drivers are taking a clear observation and to give way to other stop signs. If there are no other traffic and no other drivers to give way to. Why do self-driving cars full-stop

vablings commented on Id Software devs form "wall-to-wall" union rockpapershotgun.com/id-s... · Posted by u/simjue

DesiLurker · 3 days ago

As a non gaming engineer, I dont want a union, what I really want is solid (really, harsh) enforcement of basic common sense labor rules for exempt workers like weekly working hour limits, no after hours scheduling or minimum notice/severance period for layoffs & many other abuses. Problem is tech industry does not wants to give an inch and workers don't complain because of higher pay and 'lottery ticket' effect.

I fear the time for fixing this is passing fast. Its because within a decade AI will have enough of labor displacement that labor wont have any negotiating leverage against capital. If this happens with union, so be it.

vablings · 3 days ago

I feel like you said you don't want a union and proceeded to describe exactly what a union is supposed to be.

You are 100% a software engineer lol

vablings commented on Id Software devs form "wall-to-wall" union rockpapershotgun.com/id-s... · Posted by u/simjue

hellojesus · 3 days ago

To an extent. There is always the chance that the collective action discounts the impact to the business too heavily and ends up driving the company under, making the outcomes worse for everyone. We saw this a couple years ago with Yellow Trucking.

vablings · 3 days ago

I don't think workers are to blame when it the business who makes the deals both with the employees and other business.

If I make a series of bad deals running my company and my employees take up collection action to demand a reasonable market rate increase in pay my business didn't fail because of collective action. It failed because I failed as ab businessman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Corporation#cite_note-W...

vablings commented on The Tor Project is switching to Rust itsfoss.com/news/tor-rust... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico

FieryMechanic · 3 days ago

Go been around for quite a while now. It isn't going anywhere.

vablings · 3 days ago

Rust has been around for over 10 years now. In the last five years the language hasn't changed much and has gotten better and better

vablings commented on The Tor Project is switching to Rust itsfoss.com/news/tor-rust... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico

pezezin · 3 days ago

Portable to what? Rust works fine on all of today's popular platforms.

I see people complaining about Rust's lack of portability, and it is always some obsolete platform that has been dead for 20 years. Let's be serious, nobody is gonna run Tor on an old SGI workstation or Itanium server.

vablings · 3 days ago

It is still possible to build for targets such as Itanium. There is nothing stopping you from writing your own targets too in LLVM and its not obscenely difficult

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/tree/main/llvm/lib/Targ...

vablings commented on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban reuters.com/legal/litigat... · Posted by u/chirau

observationist · 5 days ago

You fix it with better culture. You don't throw away your principles and liberties because "bad things are happening to children, quick, burn the system down!"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...

vablings · 4 days ago

It's nothing to do with "better culture" There are completely pragmatic and realist solutions that both respect privacy and liberty.

The research has been done and is concrete. Social media is horrible for kids and especially young girls. Now it's time for people to create solutions

vablings commented on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban reuters.com/legal/litigat... · Posted by u/chirau

observationist · 5 days ago

It's four horsemen of the infocalypse 101. Look at the platforms they allowed to continue - discord and roblox, the specific worst of all socials with the most predators, least effective countermeasures.

The purpose of a thing is what it does. Australia's policies do not protect children. They quite brazenly and blatantly leave children vulnerable and exploited. The question of what those actions accomplish has a simple answer - narrative control, censorship, and weaponization of public discourse against dissent.

The real solution to these problems are cultural. If you want the best outcomes for kids, then reinforce stable loving family environments, empower a culture of resilience and competence and capability, impose accountability for wrongdoing, negligence, and careless operation. If teachers and families are leaving kids vulnerable, the solution is better education and more information.

None of the policy Australia crafted does anything good. It's just another power grab using "won't you think of the children?!" as the excuse. Next year it will be terrorism or drugs or money laundering, and they'll keep constricting around civil liberties until they have absolute control.

They'll also put various racial and ethnic officials in prominent positions, so that you may not criticize anything lest you be deemed a racist or bigot (super effective social engineering.)

vablings · 5 days ago

> The real solution to these problems are cultural. If you want the best outcomes for kids, then reinforce stable loving family environments, empower a culture of resilience and competence and capability, impose accountability for wrongdoing, negligence, and careless operation. If teachers and families are leaving kids vulnerable, the solution is better education and more information.

This is just complete bullshit. Ah yes, my solution to this problem is just to require every single family to be infinitely better in every way imaginable. What is the proposal if that can't happen? We just execute people who don't meet the "stable loving family environment" No doubt in my mind you are from the generation of a stiff upper lip

vablings commented on Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental lwn.net/Articles/1049831/... · Posted by u/rascul

iurbwdj · 5 days ago

One perspective is that Rust appears to be forced into the Linux kernel through harassment and pressure. Instead of Rust being pulled, carefully, organically and friendly, and while taking good care of any significant objections. Objections like, getting the relevant features from unstable Rust into stable Rust, or getting a second compiler like gccrs (Linux kernel uses gcc for C) fully up and running, or ensuring that there is a specification (the specification donated by/from Ferrous Systems, might have significant issues), or prioritizing the kernel higher than Rust.

If I had been enthusiastic about Rust, and wanted to see if it could maybe make sense for Rust to be part of the Linux kernel[0], I would probably had turned my attention to gccrs.

What is then extra strange is that there have been some public hostility against gccrs (WIP Rust compiler for gcc) from the rustc (sole main Rust compiler primarily based on LLVM) camp.

It feels somewhat like a corporate takeover, not something where good and benign technology is most important.

And money is at stake as well, the Rust Foundation has a large focus on fundraising, like how their progenitors at Mozilla/Firefox have or had a large focus on fundraising. And then there are major Rust proponents who openly claim, also here on Hacker News, that software and politics are inherently entwined.

[0]: And also not have it as a strict goal to get Rust into the kernel, for there might be the possibility that Rust was discovered not to be a good fit; and then one could work on that lack of fit after discovery and maybe later make Rust a good fit.

vablings · 5 days ago

>One perspective is that Rust appears to be forced into the Linux kernel through harassment and pressure. Instead of Rust being pulled, carefully, organically and friendly, and while taking good care of any significant objections. Objections like, getting the relevant features from unstable Rust into stable Rust, or getting a second compiler like gccrs (Linux kernel uses gcc for C) fully up and running, or ensuring that there is a specification (the specification donated by/from Ferrous Systems, might have significant issues), or prioritizing the kernel higher than Rust.

On the flip side there have been many downright sycophants of only C in the Linux kernel and have done every possible action to throttle and sideline the Rust for Linux movement.

There have been multiple very public statements made by other maintainers that they actively reject Rust in the kernel rather than coming in with open hearts and minds.

Why are active maintainers rejecting parts of code that are under the remit of responsibility?

vablings commented on Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental lwn.net/Articles/1049831/... · Posted by u/rascul

meindnoch · 5 days ago

"Yay, we got Rust in the Kernel! ^_^ Ok, now it's your code! Bye!"

vablings · 5 days ago

Then another maintainer will take care of it? This is how kernel development works....

vablings commented on Apple's slow AI pace becomes a strength as market grows weary of spending finance.yahoo.com/news/ap... · Posted by u/bgwalter

asdff · 6 days ago

>Apple watch

Iphone on your wrist. Most people I know with one have it for two years then once the battery goes they throw it in a drawer and don't buy another one. Most were actually gifted it.

> airpods

They just took the same old earpods they used to give you for free due to ewaste concerns and forced you to buy the disposable bluetooth version if you want to charge your phone and listen to music at the same time.

>homepod

I'm into tech and I'm not sure what this even does. Apple doesn't advertise it at all that's for certain. Its basically a sonos with siri I guess. I know no one with one. I just looked it up. It looks like a chinese air filter, absolutely no signature design language.

>ipad

No one knows why they need one. They get one because there's hype. They use it for three years to look at instagram then its put in a drawer forever. "ipad for education" is a scam/failure; just give kids macbook airs so I don't have to teach new hires what a file is anymore.

All of this is a farcry from the ipod and I feel like apologists like you understand that too.

vablings · 6 days ago

> Apple watch

Bit like marmite, some people love it some people hate it, my wife did not like hers so she got a new gpu instead.

> Airpods

I have used airpods almost every day since they came out including the 1st gen, the pros and the usb-c pros. I will continue to buy them as they are first class experience on iOS

> homepod

didn't even know this existed lol

> ipad

This one is a bit difficult for me. When I was in school I did two years of work using just an IPad, some text books and my Apple Pencil, all my notes were taken on notability and synced with my google cloud AND my iCloud. Any homeworks I could request a PDF copy and fill out easily and submit via email. Now as a software engineer i really really really really wish that you could program on the IPad (Swift does NOT count) and it was more like a slightly smaller mac, it would crush the laptop market to shreds and nobody would buy a macbook air anymore if that was the case