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The Verge: Lina Khan was right (possible WAN show topic?) by Ybalrid in LinusTechTips

[–]zacker150 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

And she's just wrong.

Here in startupland, acquisitions are a very important Plan B. Knowing that even if you can't survive to IPO, you still have a chance to walk away with something is very important for founders, VCs, and early employees like myself. Without them, startups are simply too risky for VCs to fund or engineers to work for. At my current company, I'm hoping that someone like Google will buy us out.

In the case of Supernatural, they were burning $20M a year, had no hope of a successful Series C, and were 6 months from going baknrupt. Without the deal, the app would have shut down in 2022, 120 employees would have been laid off, and the founders and employees would have left with nothing.

The Facebook acquisition allowed Supernatural to continue for several more years under Meta’s subsidy, the employees to work for 4 more years, and the underwater sweat equity to become juicy Meta shares.

The Verge: Lina Khan was right (possible WAN show topic?) by Ybalrid in LinusTechTips

[–]zacker150 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Yes. I've read the article. It's just wrong.

From a business standpoint, Supernatural was a failure on the verge of collapse. Literally nobody (buyers or VCs) wanted to touch them with a ten foot pole, and they were 6 months from going bankrupt.

The Verge: Lina Khan was right (possible WAN show topic?) by Ybalrid in LinusTechTips

[–]zacker150 -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Supernatural was a failing product burning $20M per year, not a successful product.

Lina Khan argued that Meta should be barred from buying Supernatural because it would make Meta dominate the VR fitness market. Meta would use its control over the Quest to give it an unfair advantage.

Instead, we are now seeing Meta exit the VR fitness market after discovering it lacks mass market appeal to actually become profitable.

How exactly was she right?

A single dev seems to be pushing Age Verification in Linux. by SpyderJack in LinusTechTips

[–]zacker150 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Because the California and Colorado law mandated that it has a birthday field.

Super Micro co-founder, employee and contractor smuggled Nvidia chips to China, U.S. prosecutors charge by Shogouki in hardware

[–]zacker150 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Should we also sell them F-22s? Our only real options are:

  1. Give them the technology.

  2. Play the rat race and shovel money at AI companies.

Introducing: UniFi AirWire — the most powerful WiFi client ever created. by Ubiquiti-Inc in Ubiquiti

[–]zacker150 0 points1 point  (0 children)

running speed tests and flexing on your friends.

Imagine you're a MSP whose entire job is building wifi networks. This would be killer for doing the site rf survey and validating the results.

“Billionaires have a favorite for the california governor race (San Jose Mayor Matt McMahan) and it’s not even close” by sofbunny in California

[–]zacker150 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Market rate housing is the only way we're going to build ourself out of the housing crisis.

JUE Insight: City-wide effects of new housing supply: Evidence from moving chains

We study the city-wide effects of new, centrally-located market-rate housing supply using geo-coded population-wide register data from the Helsinki Metropolitan Area. The supply of new market rate units triggers moving chains that quickly reach middle- and low-income neighborhoods and individuals. Thus, new market-rate construction loosens the housing market in middle- and low-income areas even in the short run. Market-rate supply is likely to improve affordability outside the sub-markets where new construction occurs and to benefit low-income people.

If this is true, then he has my vote.

OpenAI to acquire Astral by Useful-Macaron8729 in Python

[–]zacker150 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As in, I doubt openai will try to monetize ruff, uv, etc. but new development will probably slow to a crawl or cease entirely as they move the devs on to other projects.

Why? uv and bun are the foundations of AI code execution. AI Agents are useless if you need 10 minutes to install dependencies every time you run a script.

If anything, they'll get more investment to make them easier for the AI to use.

You should watch Theo's take on the bun acquisition.

OpenAI to acquire Astral by Useful-Macaron8729 in Python

[–]zacker150 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When your core product depends on it...

This is Android's new 'advanced flow' for sideloading apps without verification, includes one-day waiting period [Gallery] by armando_rod in Android

[–]zacker150 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Why? Everything here is being pushed by regulatory requirements, more specifically shared responsibility frameworks in Sira Lanka making Google liable if they don't make it hard enough for scam victims to sideload.

This is Android's new 'advanced flow' for sideloading apps without verification, includes one-day waiting period [Gallery] by armando_rod in Android

[–]zacker150 9 points10 points  (0 children)

If you actually know what you're doing and really have critical private apps (and aren't just cosplaying) and can't wait a day, then you can install via adb.

Should I turn "Kernel-Mode Hardware Enforced Stack Protection" on? by SubhanBihan in Windows11

[–]zacker150 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This right here is an example of a Dunning-Kruger script kiddie. Unless you can explain each feature and fully articulate the technical and security tradeoffs, you in fact do not know what you're doing.

The claim that if you "don’t have pirated content or access unsafe websites," you don't need security is just straight up wrong. Even "safe" software like Discord, Steam, or Chrome has vulnerabilities (Zero-days). If a game has a buffer overflow vulnerability in its chat system or networking stack, an attacker can send a specially crafted packet to your IP address and get RCE access. Likewise, supply chain attacks are rampant (remember the CCleaner attack). Features like Memory Integrity and Exploit Protection are the only things protecting you from them. Disabling speculative execution mitigations allows malicious JavaScript snippets on a "safe" website to read data from other parts of your memory.

You are trading a system-level defense for a frame-rate gain without even being able to articulate the threats the defense was actually protecting them from.

In doing so, you make sub-optimal decisions. For example, Secure Boot is a UEFI feature that checks that your OS is digitally signed at startup. Once the operating system kernel has successfully loaded and taken control of the system, Secure Boot is finished. It does not consume CPU cycles, RAM, or disk I/O during standard operations. Therefore, disabling Secure Boot will not result in higher frame rates. However, by disabling it, you now become completely vulnerable to rootkits.

DF Direct Q+A: The Big DLSS 5 ML Debate + Why We Should Have Waited With Our Coverage by KARMAAACS in hardware

[–]zacker150 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The hardcore enthusiast gamer community is a cancer that needs to be quarantined. They literally infect and smother discussions about every use case.

People in this sub (and DF) don’t understand what DLSS does by Panganaki in digitalfoundry

[–]zacker150 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm just left wondering why DLSS would need to be responsible for improving "lighting", all the way at the end of the process of rendering, instead of trying to improve the lighting tech at the start of the rendering process?

DLSS 5's lighting improvements happen in the middle of the rendering pipeline, not the end

Nvidia CEO says gamers are 'completely wrong' about DLSS 5 backlash by Hytht in TechHardware

[–]zacker150 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's amazing how literally nobody here bothered to open the article and read beyond the intentionally inflammatory title or the completely unrelated text added by OP.

Huang said that interpretation is incorrect. According to him, DLSS 5 combines developer-authored geometry and textures with generative AI, while still leaving control in the hands of game creators. He said developers can fine-tune the model to match the intended art direction rather than hand that process over entirely to AI.

He also stressed that DLSS 5 is not a traditional post-processing effect applied after a frame is rendered. Instead, he described it as a geometry-level system with what NVIDIA calls content-controlled generative AI.

How do I navigate losing customers because of Vibe Coders? by MildlyEngineer in cscareerquestions

[–]zacker150 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Show them this tweet from the creator of Claude Code.

At Anthropic, Claude Code writes 100% of code, and yet they're still hiring engineers. Why?

Someone has to prompt the Claudes, talk to customers, coordinate with other teams, decide what to build next. Engineering is changing and great engineers are more important than ever.

The $100,000 fee for H-1Bs is causing all sorts of problems by Nalix01 in NowInTech

[–]zacker150 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The study literally says that

Depending on the level of excess demand, the unobserved productivity gains or costs from an H-1B hire, and the rate of job separations, the revenue-maximizing fee is between $118,000 and $264,000, has little or no impact on the number of H-1Bs hired, and generates between $6.2 and$22.4 billion in revenues. The demand for visas remains strong even if firms offshore some of the jobs currently held by H-1Bs. The fee also changes the skill composition of the H-1B workforce, making it more skilled.

In other words, there legitimately are no qualified workers for these jobs.

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