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Airbus currently has two factories finalizing the airplane assembly: one in Toulouse and one in Hamburg. You could copy this model and just open different fab in different countries to spread production.

Also, another model is one country making wafers, one country making EUV-lithography machines and parts, one country mining and refining silicon, etc.

Comment · 9 months ago

The poster is the author of the website. So I think it's self-promo mixed with "hey, look how interesting is the amount of 'bureaucracy' involved when one wants to move out of Germany"

Comment · 9 months ago

> “AI makes it easier”, was it hard to stumble across out-of-context clips and photoshops that worked well enough to create divisiveness?

Yes. And I think this is what most tech-literate people fail to understand. The issue is scale.

It takes a lot of effort to find the right clip, cut it to remove its context, and even more effort to doctor a clip. Yes, you're still facing Brandolini's law[1], you can see that with the amount of effort Captain Disillusion[2] put in his videos to debunk crap.

But AI makes it 100× times worse. First, generating a convincing entirely video only takes a little bit of prompting, and waiting, no skill is required. Second, you can do that on a massive scale. You can easily make 2 AI videos a day. If you want to doctor videos "the old way", you'll need a team of VFX artists to do it at this scale.

I genuinely think that tech-literate folks, like myself and other hackernews posters, don't understand that significantly lowering the barrier to entry to X doesn't make X equivalent to what it was before. Scale changes everything.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law

[2] https://www.youtube.com/CaptainDisillusion

Comment · 9 months ago

> In fact firefox now allows you to preview the link and get key points without ever going to the link[1]

> [1] https://imgur.com/a/3E17Dts

This is generated on device with llama.cpp compiled to webassembly (aka wllama) and running SmolLM2-360M. [1] How is this different from the user clicking on the link? In the end, your local firefox will fetch the link in order to summarize it, the same way you would have followed the link and read through the document in reader mode.

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/ai/ai-tech/ai-link-previ...

Comment · 11 months ago

"When Congress passes new emission standards, [Honda] hires 50 more engineers and GM hires 50 more lawyers."

The quote is attributed to Soichiro Honda, in the book Driving Honda: Inside the World's Most Innovative Car Company by Jeffrey Rothfeder

Why solve hard problems when you can just lobby your way out of it?

Comment · 11 months ago

One of these features is "Active Hood" or "Pop Up Hood" which uses pyrotechnic to pop the hood of the car in case of a frontal collision with a pedestrian, thus making the front hood of the car acting as some kind of stiff airbag for the pedestrian. This helps reducing the risk of life-threatening injuries. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4zfwUL3joI

NotJustBikes on youtube has a video listing more of these features which don't exist in cars sold in the US: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--832LV9a3I

Comment · 1 year ago

> The wg.Go Function

> Go 1.25 introduced a waitgroup.Go function that lets you add Go routines to a waitgroup more easily. It takes the place of using the go keyword, [...]

99% of the time, you don't want to use sync.WaitGroup, but rather errgroup.Group. This is basically sync.WaitGroup with error handling. It also has optional context/cancellation support. See https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/sync/errgroup

I know it's not part of the standard library, but it's part of the http://golang.org/x/ packages. TBH, golang.org/x/ is stuff that should be in the standard library but isn't, for some reason.

Comment · 1 year ago

You were young without kids or any other responsibilities, so you had spare time to nerd around. Not everybody is in that position. With this requirement you would create a bias towards single parents or folks talking care of the handicapped partner/parent, as well as another bunch of other categories of people.

Comment · 1 year ago

I would create an unwarranted bias towards people working for companies doing mostly opensource. If their previous job was writing safe code for rockets and airplanes, the candidate will very likely be qualified to write embedded code for tractor/cars but incapable of showing previous work due to confidentiality agreements.

Comment · 1 year ago

Yeah, I'm confused by the article. Following this logic, any interview sucks because of the stress it puts on the candidate. So what am I supposed to do? Hire based on a home assignment? then the "unpaid labour" crowd will call me out, and I personally believe they would be right to do so... So I'm supposed to hire based on résumé only? It's a lose-lose situation.

It reminds me a professor who recently told me, regarding ChatGPT use in university: "we're receiving every week applications from foreign students written in perfect German, then when we schedule a call for an interview with the potential scholar, they're incapable to speak either German or English."

Comment · 1 year ago

Another security article recommending fail2ban again... Please don't do this.

Run SSH behind some layer. Some people use Wireguard, and that's okay, I prefer spiped [1] because I can run it as an unprivileged user in a fully hardened systemd unit [2], and I can use ProxyCommand in my ssh_config, which makes it transparent: no need to be constantly on a VPN or to turn it on, I just ssh.

This guide recommends two-factor authentication, which IMHO is overkill and lowers your server reliability by using some random pam authentication modules. Also your spiped key (or your wireguard key) can be considered a second factor authentication.

And a second independent layer lowers the probability of being vulnerable to a 0-day vulnerability on SSH [3] or to Jia Tan [4]

fail2ban means you have a daemon running as root parsing random logs and modify your firewall rules... Yikes... [5] If you're concerned about bruteforce bots, they'll go away as soon as SSH behind something. Also with that layer, you don't need to make you firewall dynamic.

[1] https://www.tarsnap.com/spiped.html

[2] https://ruderich.org/simon/notes/systemd-service-hardening

[3] https://www.qualys.com/2024/07/01/cve-2024-6387/regresshion....

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils_backdoor

[5] Yes I know, you can use as a user, and modify the firewall rules with custom script with an SUID. But nobody does this, actually this guide doesn't do this at all, just everything as root!

Comment · 1 year ago

Last time I checked, the sale and advertising of alcohol is highly regulated in most EU countries.

Comment · 1 year ago

I expect Lobste.rs's outage to be totally unrelated to Heroku's, just pure timing coincidence.

From the last archived version of lobste.rs/about: https://web.archive.org/web/20250601002505/https://lobste.rs...

"Lobsters is hosted on three VPSs at DigitalOcean: a s-4vcpu-8gb for the web server, a s-4vcpu-8gb for the mariadb server, and a s-1vcpu-1gb for the IRC bot. DNS is hosted at DNSimple and we use restic for backups to b2. (Setup details are available in our ansible repo.) Lobsters is cheap to run, so we don't take donations."