A person he knew, or he was in touch with sold the said trojan. The indictment also doesn't say if he did gain financially from the sale or not.
So, he developed a trojan possibly for research, someone he knew sold it and he got arrested."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Arrest of WannaCry researcher sends chill through security community"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/345337-wannacry-hero-chills-security-community"}},"_tags":["comment","author_bahularora","story_14930895"],"author":"bahularora","children":[14937205],"comment_text":""The indictment does not say Hutchins designed Kronos to be sold, knew about the sale or was at all aware his work was being used maliciously. "
A person he knew, or he was in touch with sold the said trojan. The indictment also doesn't say if he did gain financially from the sale or not.
So, he developed a trojan possibly for research, someone he knew sold it and he got arrested.","created_at":"2017-08-05T08:31:31Z","created_at_i":1501921891,"objectID":"14934769","parent_id":14934362,"story_id":14930895,"story_title":"Arrest of WannaCry researcher sends chill through security community","story_url":"http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/345337-wannacry-hero-chills-security-community","updated_at":"2024-09-20T01:08:43Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"T-A"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["kronos","financial"],"value":"Speaking of the devil [1]:
The Riksbank's e-krona project proposes in its most recent report that the Riksbank should:
+ Begin to design a technical solution for an e-krona in order to test which solutions are practicable and possible to realise
+ Draw up proposals for legislative amendments needed to clarify the Riksbank's mandate and an e-krona's legal standing
+ Continue investigating the financial aspects of an e-krona
[1] https://www.riksbank.se/en-gb/payments--cash/e-krona/"},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"As Tether flails, cryptocurrency exchanges launch rival stablecoins"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/25/as-tether-flails-cryptocurrency-exchanges-launch-rival-stablecoins/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_T-A","story_18307042"],"author":"T-A","comment_text":"Speaking of the devil [1]:
The Riksbank's e-krona project proposes in its most recent report that the Riksbank should:
+ Begin to design a technical solution for an e-krona in order to test which solutions are practicable and possible to realise
+ Draw up proposals for legislative amendments needed to clarify the Riksbank's mandate and an e-krona's legal standing
+ Continue investigating the financial aspects of an e-krona
[1] https://www.riksbank.se/en-gb/payments--cash/e-krona/","created_at":"2018-10-26T16:36:38Z","created_at_i":1540571798,"objectID":"18310814","parent_id":18307042,"story_id":18307042,"story_title":"As Tether flails, cryptocurrency exchanges launch rival stablecoins","story_url":"https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/25/as-tether-flails-cryptocurrency-exchanges-launch-rival-stablecoins/","updated_at":"2024-09-20T03:13:15Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"ChrisLomont"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["kronos","financial"],"value":"Many countries have tried it, and it usually ends like this [1] implementation by the Swedes from 1984-1991. Then they cancelled it after witnessing the devastation to their economic sector.
"During the first week of the tax, the volume of bond trading fell by 85%, even though the tax rate on five-year bonds was only 0.003%. The volume of futures trading fell by 98% and the options trading market disappeared. 60% of the trading volume of the eleven most actively traded Swedish share classes moved to the UK after the announcement in 1986 that the tax rate would double. 30% of all Swedish equity trading moved offshore. By 1990, more than 50% of all Swedish trading had moved to London. Foreign investors reacted to the tax by moving their trading offshore while domestic investors reacted by reducing the number of their equity trades.
As a result, revenues from these taxes were disappointing. For example, revenues from the tax on fixed-income securities were initially expected to amount to 1,500 million Swedish kronor per year. They did not amount to more than 80 million Swedish kronor in any year and the average was closer to 50 million. In addition, as taxable trading volumes fell, so did revenues from capital gains taxes, entirely offsetting revenues from the equity transactions tax that had grown to 4,000 million Swedish kronor by 1988."
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_financial_transaction_t..."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Replacing welfare payments with \u201cbasic income\u201d for all is alluring, but expensive"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21651897-replacing-welfare-payments-basic-income-all-alluring"}},"_tags":["comment","author_ChrisLomont","story_9596033"],"author":"ChrisLomont","comment_text":"Many countries have tried it, and it usually ends like this [1] implementation by the Swedes from 1984-1991. Then they cancelled it after witnessing the devastation to their economic sector.
"During the first week of the tax, the volume of bond trading fell by 85%, even though the tax rate on five-year bonds was only 0.003%. The volume of futures trading fell by 98% and the options trading market disappeared. 60% of the trading volume of the eleven most actively traded Swedish share classes moved to the UK after the announcement in 1986 that the tax rate would double. 30% of all Swedish equity trading moved offshore. By 1990, more than 50% of all Swedish trading had moved to London. Foreign investors reacted to the tax by moving their trading offshore while domestic investors reacted by reducing the number of their equity trades.
As a result, revenues from these taxes were disappointing. For example, revenues from the tax on fixed-income securities were initially expected to amount to 1,500 million Swedish kronor per year. They did not amount to more than 80 million Swedish kronor in any year and the average was closer to 50 million. In addition, as taxable trading volumes fell, so did revenues from capital gains taxes, entirely offsetting revenues from the equity transactions tax that had grown to 4,000 million Swedish kronor by 1988."
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_financial_transaction_t...","created_at":"2015-05-24T14:21:39Z","created_at_i":1432477299,"objectID":"9596329","parent_id":9596140,"points":null,"story_id":9596033,"story_title":"Replacing welfare payments with \u201cbasic income\u201d for all is alluring, but expensive","story_url":"http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21651897-replacing-welfare-payments-basic-income-all-alluring","updated_at":"2023-09-07T02:49:15Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"danielweber"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["kronos","financial"],"value":"TeliaSonera: 1.69 billion euros in profit out of a 2.99 billion euro revenue (2013)
I'm having trouble believing those numbers. I found a source that agrees with you [1] but Bloomberg charts show only a ~10% profit margin. [2] I wonder if the reporter in [1] confused annual revenue with quarterly revenue from this Bloomberg article. [3]
EDIT: The reporter in [1] isn't wrong, but people misreading the first paragraph is probably the source of the confusion spreading across the Internet. Read down a few paragraphs and they compare 4th quarter net profit to 4th quarter revenue, which is roughly 10%.
Also, here is the profit & loss statement from 2013. [4] Annual revenue is about 104 billion kronor, net income is about 15 billion kronor.
[1] http://www.thelocal.se/20140130/beleaguered-teliasonera-took...
[2] http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/TLSN:SS
[3] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-30/teliasonera-profit-...
[4] http://markets.ft.com/research/Markets/Tearsheets/Financials..."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"European Parliament passes net neutrality law"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"http://gigaom.com/2014/04/03/european-parliament-passes-strong-net-neutrality-law-along-with-major-roaming-reforms/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_danielweber","story_7521914"],"author":"danielweber","children":[7522655,7522705],"comment_text":"TeliaSonera: 1.69 billion euros in profit out of a 2.99 billion euro revenue (2013)
I'm having trouble believing those numbers. I found a source that agrees with you [1] but Bloomberg charts show only a ~10% profit margin. [2] I wonder if the reporter in [1] confused annual revenue with quarterly revenue from this Bloomberg article. [3]
EDIT: The reporter in [1] isn't wrong, but people misreading the first paragraph is probably the source of the confusion spreading across the Internet. Read down a few paragraphs and they compare 4th quarter net profit to 4th quarter revenue, which is roughly 10%.
Also, here is the profit & loss statement from 2013. [4] Annual revenue is about 104 billion kronor, net income is about 15 billion kronor.
[1] http://www.thelocal.se/20140130/beleaguered-teliasonera-took...
[2] http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/TLSN:SS
[3] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-30/teliasonera-profit-...
[4] http://markets.ft.com/research/Markets/Tearsheets/Financials...","created_at":"2014-04-03T12:53:23Z","created_at_i":1396529603,"objectID":"7522442","parent_id":7522312,"story_id":7521914,"story_title":"European Parliament passes net neutrality law","story_url":"http://gigaom.com/2014/04/03/european-parliament-passes-strong-net-neutrality-law-along-with-major-roaming-reforms/","updated_at":"2024-09-19T20:42:54Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"robswc"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["kronos","financial"],"value":"I honestly don't see how this outcome isn't all but guaranteed. It is actually almost comically self-destructive. Taxes based on the same idea of (just take a bit from the rich) destroyed the Swedish financial markets (basically forever).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_financial_transaction_...
> As a result, revenues from these taxes were disappointing. For example, revenues from the tax on fixed-income securities were initially expected to amount to 1,500 million Swedish kronor per year. They did not amount to more than 80 million Swedish kronor in any year and the average was closer to 50 million.[4] In addition, as taxable trading volumes fell, so did revenues from capital gains taxes, entirely offsetting revenues from the equity transactions tax that had grown to 4,000 million Swedish kronor by 1988
So off by an order of magnitude in their estimates _and_ nuked revenue from the capital gains taxes. Overall probably one of the dumbest ideas ever executed because it was so easy to forecast the second order effects."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Mark Zuckerberg Pushed Meta to Shield Him from California's Proposed Wealth Tax"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/technology/mark-zuckerberg-meta-california-wealth-tax.html"}},"_tags":["comment","author_robswc","story_50217587"],"author":"robswc","children":[50218274],"comment_text":"I honestly don't see how this outcome isn't all but guaranteed. It is actually almost comically self-destructive. Taxes based on the same idea of (just take a bit from the rich) destroyed the Swedish financial markets (basically forever).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_financial_transaction_...
> As a result, revenues from these taxes were disappointing. For example, revenues from the tax on fixed-income securities were initially expected to amount to 1,500 million Swedish kronor per year. They did not amount to more than 80 million Swedish kronor in any year and the average was closer to 50 million.[4] In addition, as taxable trading volumes fell, so did revenues from capital gains taxes, entirely offsetting revenues from the equity transactions tax that had grown to 4,000 million Swedish kronor by 1988
So off by an order of magnitude in their estimates _and_ nuked revenue from the capital gains taxes. Overall probably one of the dumbest ideas ever executed because it was so easy to forecast the second order effects.","created_at":"2026-10-24T03:31:30Z","created_at_i":1792812690,"objectID":"50218134","parent_id":50217915,"story_id":50217587,"story_title":"Mark Zuckerberg Pushed Meta to Shield Him from California's Proposed Wealth Tax","story_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/technology/mark-zuckerberg-meta-california-wealth-tax.html","updated_at":"2026-10-24T21:02:44Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"bigyabai"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["kronos","financial"],"value":"> You can't simultaneously project a hypothetical Chinese capability that it hasn't proven it can do (develop the leading models)
China does lead the frontier. If you're a cybersecurity researcher, a biologist or work in any other censored field, there's nothing that the American models can do for you. The frontier effectively begins where abliterated models can be distributed, and America releases none of them at-scale.
You can't just claim that cybersecurity and biology are non-factors in this race. There are objectively areas where Chinese AI is the only frontier; American regulation is entirely to blame.
> It's like, the thing is so valuable you can't even buy it.
We have a word for this in software actually, it's called "vaporware" in modern parlance. Good luck convincing people that Xenix and Duke Nukem Forever are too valuable for the public to own.
America's stance towards legitimate cybersecurity research is why American businesses like HuggingFace do their incident responses with GLM-5.2. If American AI is "so valuable" that people can't buy the frontier to fix legitimate problems, then China wins by default. It's already happening in several industry-leading American firms, they're not paying Anthropic or OpenAI to fix their real issues.
> Ok we'll just copy their stuff then who cares because apparently bleeding edge model development doesn't matter.
Yes, do this. OpenAI and Anthropic will inevitably turn to the US government for funding, which means that taxpayers will be financially supporting model training for weights that they won't own. If the purpose of AI research is to entrench the monopoly on power, then I would genuinely advocate for all taxpayer funds to be withheld from OpenAI and Anthropic since their products aren't contributing to the public good. There is literally no reason to copy China's state-driven investment strategy if we're not also going to copy the public ownership model. You might as well let China do the frontier research, and let America focus on hand-wringing over the consequences and writing censorship laws to prevent citizens from accessing uncensored Chinese models.
After all, it's where we're headed regardless of what China does. Anthropic, OpenAI and the current US administration have made that clear.
> Why would I trust your comment over Google's business decisions?
My comment doesn't contradict Google's business decisions. It's not an oxymoron to highlight a bad decision as part of a grander AI strategy; but so far you've failed to engage on the actual grounds of FAANG's strategies itself. You're just insisting that American businesses are right because they spend a lot of money, while failing to acknowledge that "spending lots of money" is how most financial crises start. Therefore, it seems appropriate that we acknowledge wasted investments if we want American businesses to stop digging a hole they can't get out of. The onus falls on you to argue that things like OpenCL should have died, or that the Neural Engine was the right choice for millions of iPhone owners.
The point I'm making in this regard isn't complex, you're just offended by the notion of these businesses making wrong decisions. Metal Compute Shaders is not an industry-leading inference solution. It just isn't, the free market already decided. Apple could have increased their addressable market during the datacenter boom if they supported an agnostic GPGPU compute layer like OpenCL in Apple Silicon; or, they could have freed the PCIe lanes on the rackmount Mac Pro to make it a legitimate CUDA host in a world spending trillions on ARM datacenter hardware. Instead they abandoned Khronos group, insisted on standardizing around Metal, and discontinued the Mac Pro.
Apple made some right decisions here. They also burned billions of dollars in R&D and abandoned a trillion-dollar market segment by discontinuing the Mac Pro. Despite being the most advanced ARM core designer in the world, Apple was enamored by B2C service profits and actively avoided any genuine competition that would pressure Nvidia or Apple themselves to invest in frontier research. As the richest American tech company, Apple completely failed to pivot their stack into AI inference even 10 years after CoreML was reluctantly introduced.
Compare this to how, for instance, Huawei works, and you'll see pretty quickly why ego-poisoned businesses like Apple are the antithesis of free market competition. Apple doesn't want to compete, they want to make money. They love ignoring genuinely innovative technology
> I'm not sure why you and others seem to assume that China [...] can take some action and that we can't also take some action in response
Well, China has a centrally planned economy for one. There are objectively things that their government can finance that the United States cannot reciprocally copy."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"It's not a fear of \"AI communism\"; it's a fear of competitive market capitalism"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"http://observationalepidemiology.blogspot.com/2026/07/its-not-fear-of-ai-communism-its-fear.html"}},"_tags":["comment","author_bigyabai","story_49169227"],"author":"bigyabai","children":[49191821],"comment_text":"> You can't simultaneously project a hypothetical Chinese capability that it hasn't proven it can do (develop the leading models)
China does lead the frontier. If you're a cybersecurity researcher, a biologist or work in any other censored field, there's nothing that the American models can do for you. The frontier effectively begins where abliterated models can be distributed, and America releases none of them at-scale.
You can't just claim that cybersecurity and biology are non-factors in this race. There are objectively areas where Chinese AI is the only frontier; American regulation is entirely to blame.
> It's like, the thing is so valuable you can't even buy it.
We have a word for this in software actually, it's called "vaporware" in modern parlance. Good luck convincing people that Xenix and Duke Nukem Forever are too valuable for the public to own.
America's stance towards legitimate cybersecurity research is why American businesses like HuggingFace do their incident responses with GLM-5.2. If American AI is "so valuable" that people can't buy the frontier to fix legitimate problems, then China wins by default. It's already happening in several industry-leading American firms, they're not paying Anthropic or OpenAI to fix their real issues.
> Ok we'll just copy their stuff then who cares because apparently bleeding edge model development doesn't matter.
Yes, do this. OpenAI and Anthropic will inevitably turn to the US government for funding, which means that taxpayers will be financially supporting model training for weights that they won't own. If the purpose of AI research is to entrench the monopoly on power, then I would genuinely advocate for all taxpayer funds to be withheld from OpenAI and Anthropic since their products aren't contributing to the public good. There is literally no reason to copy China's state-driven investment strategy if we're not also going to copy the public ownership model. You might as well let China do the frontier research, and let America focus on hand-wringing over the consequences and writing censorship laws to prevent citizens from accessing uncensored Chinese models.
After all, it's where we're headed regardless of what China does. Anthropic, OpenAI and the current US administration have made that clear.
> Why would I trust your comment over Google's business decisions?
My comment doesn't contradict Google's business decisions. It's not an oxymoron to highlight a bad decision as part of a grander AI strategy; but so far you've failed to engage on the actual grounds of FAANG's strategies itself. You're just insisting that American businesses are right because they spend a lot of money, while failing to acknowledge that "spending lots of money" is how most financial crises start. Therefore, it seems appropriate that we acknowledge wasted investments if we want American businesses to stop digging a hole they can't get out of. The onus falls on you to argue that things like OpenCL should have died, or that the Neural Engine was the right choice for millions of iPhone owners.
The point I'm making in this regard isn't complex, you're just offended by the notion of these businesses making wrong decisions. Metal Compute Shaders is not an industry-leading inference solution. It just isn't, the free market already decided. Apple could have increased their addressable market during the datacenter boom if they supported an agnostic GPGPU compute layer like OpenCL in Apple Silicon; or, they could have freed the PCIe lanes on the rackmount Mac Pro to make it a legitimate CUDA host in a world spending trillions on ARM datacenter hardware. Instead they abandoned Khronos group, insisted on standardizing around Metal, and discontinued the Mac Pro.
Apple made some right decisions here. They also burned billions of dollars in R&D and abandoned a trillion-dollar market segment by discontinuing the Mac Pro. Despite being the most advanced ARM core designer in the world, Apple was enamored by B2C service profits and actively avoided any genuine competition that would pressure Nvidia or Apple themselves to invest in frontier research. As the richest American tech company, Apple completely failed to pivot their stack into AI inference even 10 years after CoreML was reluctantly introduced.
Compare this to how, for instance, Huawei works, and you'll see pretty quickly why ego-poisoned businesses like Apple are the antithesis of free market competition. Apple doesn't want to compete, they want to make money. They love ignoring genuinely innovative technology
> I'm not sure why you and others seem to assume that China [...] can take some action and that we can't also take some action in response
Well, China has a centrally planned economy for one. There are objectively things that their government can finance that the United States cannot reciprocally copy.","created_at":"2026-08-05T17:47:13Z","created_at_i":1785952033,"objectID":"49186317","parent_id":49174843,"story_id":49169227,"story_title":"It's not a fear of \"AI communism\"; it's a fear of competitive market capitalism","story_url":"http://observationalepidemiology.blogspot.com/2026/07/its-not-fear-of-ai-communism-its-fear.html","updated_at":"2026-08-06T02:50:21Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"riffraff"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["kronos","financial"],"value":"Are there common expressions that are equivalent in english and swedish with the respective currencies? \nE.g. stuff like \"dollar to dollar\", \"bet someone dollars to doughnuts\" ?
Anyway, plenty of text would probably match word-wise (\"X bought Y for $AMOUNT $UNIT\") in financial news, so the mapping of \"dollar\" over \"kronor\" seems a reasonable error.
For probably the same reason, google also translates hungarian \"1000 forint\" to english \"1000 HUF\" going from the full word to a quasi-acronym for \"HUngarian Forint\"."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Swedish Exchange paralyzed by buy order for \"-6 stocks\""},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.svd.se%2Fnaringsliv%2Fnyheter%2Fsverige%2Fmonsterorder-stoppade-borsen_7708362.svd&act=url"}},"_tags":["comment","author_riffraff","story_4846626"],"author":"riffraff","comment_text":"Are there common expressions that are equivalent in english and swedish with the respective currencies? \nE.g. stuff like \"dollar to dollar\", \"bet someone dollars to doughnuts\" ?
Anyway, plenty of text would probably match word-wise (\"X bought Y for $AMOUNT $UNIT\") in financial news, so the mapping of \"dollar\" over \"kronor\" seems a reasonable error.
For probably the same reason, google also translates hungarian \"1000 forint\" to english \"1000 HUF\" going from the full word to a quasi-acronym for \"HUngarian Forint\".","created_at":"2012-11-29T13:18:21Z","created_at_i":1354195101,"objectID":"4847501","parent_id":4847297,"story_id":4846626,"story_title":"Swedish Exchange paralyzed by buy order for \"-6 stocks\"","story_url":"http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.svd.se%2Fnaringsliv%2Fnyheter%2Fsverige%2Fmonsterorder-stoppade-borsen_7708362.svd&act=url","updated_at":"2024-09-19T19:06:23Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"KronisLV"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["kronos","financial"],"value":"Codex is pretty good, OpenAI models are up there with Anthropic's, though I still prefer the latter for most development tasks (in part UI/UX, in part personal preference for how the model performs and interacts with me and the codebases). That said, if you do get a subscription from OpenAI, they actually have more generous usage limits than Anthropic - Anthropic's Pro tier is borderline useless for agentic development and I just went with their 100 USD Max tier instead. OpenAI might be more cost effective, though GPT-5.5 is more expensive than GPT-5.4, for example.
I'm recently also considering downgrading to Pro and using DeepSeek V4 Pro for anything but the more complex tasks and basically wrote a little utility to hook Claude Code up with 3rd party providers better: https://ccode.kronis.dev/ or tbh I could also just use OpenCode on the CLI or maybe something like KiloCode in Visual Studio Code (sadly RooCode got retired, liked their UI/UX a lot too).
I guess where I'm going with all this is that most of the SOTA or near-SOTA models are pretty okay and if you want, you should either get their more affordable plans for a month and experiment, or maybe hook up whatever tools you have with something like OpenRouter and try out a bunch of them: https://openrouter.ai/ (though some of their providers quantize the models a lot, look out for that) Personally I'd also add the new Kimi and GLM models to the list of the ones to try out.
Paying for API tokens isn't really financially good long term for anyone but companies and eventually most folks just settle on a subscription of some sort, since those are heavily subsidized and more cost effective."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"How fast is N tokens per second really?"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://mikeveerman.github.io/tokenspeed/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_KronisLV","story_48174920"],"author":"KronisLV","comment_text":"Codex is pretty good, OpenAI models are up there with Anthropic's, though I still prefer the latter for most development tasks (in part UI/UX, in part personal preference for how the model performs and interacts with me and the codebases). That said, if you do get a subscription from OpenAI, they actually have more generous usage limits than Anthropic - Anthropic's Pro tier is borderline useless for agentic development and I just went with their 100 USD Max tier instead. OpenAI might be more cost effective, though GPT-5.5 is more expensive than GPT-5.4, for example.
I'm recently also considering downgrading to Pro and using DeepSeek V4 Pro for anything but the more complex tasks and basically wrote a little utility to hook Claude Code up with 3rd party providers better: https://ccode.kronis.dev/ or tbh I could also just use OpenCode on the CLI or maybe something like KiloCode in Visual Studio Code (sadly RooCode got retired, liked their UI/UX a lot too).
I guess where I'm going with all this is that most of the SOTA or near-SOTA models are pretty okay and if you want, you should either get their more affordable plans for a month and experiment, or maybe hook up whatever tools you have with something like OpenRouter and try out a bunch of them: https://openrouter.ai/ (though some of their providers quantize the models a lot, look out for that) Personally I'd also add the new Kimi and GLM models to the list of the ones to try out.
Paying for API tokens isn't really financially good long term for anyone but companies and eventually most folks just settle on a subscription of some sort, since those are heavily subsidized and more cost effective.","created_at":"2026-05-20T21:13:00Z","created_at_i":1779311580,"objectID":"48214204","parent_id":48213388,"story_id":48174920,"story_title":"How fast is N tokens per second really?","story_url":"https://mikeveerman.github.io/tokenspeed/","updated_at":"2026-05-20T21:24:04Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"smoldesu"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["kronos","financial"],"value":""realistic" in this case means accepting that CUDA will never be replaced. Parts of it will get replaced (the easy bits, like matrix multiplication), but there are thousands of esoteric CUDA features that don't make financial sense to rewrite. They exist for automotive, robotics/automation, industry, gaming and datacenter customers. Only the AI parts will get rewritten, and even that has taken Apple half a decade.
I hope for alternatives and competition, but that's why I grieve OpenCL. Open CUDA alternatives are the only way you can drive Nvidia's customers away from them; Apple abandoned that dream a while ago. If they were still cooperating with Khronos and the rest of the industry, then there would be hope for dethroning Nvidia."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Apple explore LLM on flash (run large lang model on iDevices?)"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://wccftech.com/apple-exploring-llm-on-flash-storage-bring-technology-to-phones-laptops/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_smoldesu","story_38740922"],"author":"smoldesu","comment_text":""realistic" in this case means accepting that CUDA will never be replaced. Parts of it will get replaced (the easy bits, like matrix multiplication), but there are thousands of esoteric CUDA features that don't make financial sense to rewrite. They exist for automotive, robotics/automation, industry, gaming and datacenter customers. Only the AI parts will get rewritten, and even that has taken Apple half a decade.
I hope for alternatives and competition, but that's why I grieve OpenCL. Open CUDA alternatives are the only way you can drive Nvidia's customers away from them; Apple abandoned that dream a while ago. If they were still cooperating with Khronos and the rest of the industry, then there would be hope for dethroning Nvidia.","created_at":"2023-12-23T22:57:57Z","created_at_i":1703372277,"objectID":"38749144","parent_id":38748664,"story_id":38740922,"story_title":"Apple explore LLM on flash (run large lang model on iDevices?)","story_url":"https://wccftech.com/apple-exploring-llm-on-flash-storage-bring-technology-to-phones-laptops/","updated_at":"2024-09-20T16:00:54Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"the_third_wave"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["kronos","financial"],"value":"> suddenly, turning on all the equipment is good, and not just financially
I assume you have the same type of energy taxes in Denmark as we have in Sweden and that as such "negative electricity prices" only apply to the wholesale market (Nord Pool [1])? In that case you still pay:
1: market surcharge (p\u00e5slag)\n 2: energy tax (energiskatt)\n 3: renewable energy surcharge (certifikatavgift)\n 4: transmission charge (\u00f6verf\u00f6ringsavgift)\n 5: VAT on the previous (moms, 25% in Sweden)\nNegative electricity prices do affect those who have solar panels since - depending on the contract - it can actually cost money to push more energy into the network. In our case we'd pay when the price goes below ca. -0.35 kr/kWh which has not happened - yet.
[1] https://www.nordpoolgroup.com/en/Market-data1/#/nordic/table"},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Germany\u2019s solar power generation hit record high at weekend"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-29/germany-s-solar-power-generation-hit-record-high-at-weekend"}},"_tags":["comment","author_the_third_wave","story_36125701"],"author":"the_third_wave","comment_text":"> suddenly, turning on all the equipment is good, and not just financially
I assume you have the same type of energy taxes in Denmark as we have in Sweden and that as such "negative electricity prices" only apply to the wholesale market (Nord Pool [1])? In that case you still pay:
1: market surcharge (p\u00e5slag)\n 2: energy tax (energiskatt)\n 3: renewable energy surcharge (certifikatavgift)\n 4: transmission charge (\u00f6verf\u00f6ringsavgift)\n 5: VAT on the previous (moms, 25% in Sweden)\nNegative electricity prices do affect those who have solar panels since - depending on the contract - it can actually cost money to push more energy into the network. In our case we'd pay when the price goes below ca. -0.35 kr/kWh which has not happened - yet.
[1] https://www.nordpoolgroup.com/en/Market-data1/#/nordic/table","created_at":"2023-05-30T17:47:30Z","created_at_i":1685468850,"objectID":"36128002","parent_id":36127532,"story_id":36125701,"story_title":"Germany\u2019s solar power generation hit record high at weekend","story_url":"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-29/germany-s-solar-power-generation-hit-record-high-at-weekend","updated_at":"2024-09-20T14:12:27Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"KronisLV"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["kronos","financial"],"value":"> Employees are not willing to put a little extra (paid extra, I mean - and we\u2019re at the 35hrs week here),
Currently working in a company that's short staffed but there's a seemingly endless amount of work.
Things might be so charitable in many companies out there for all I care, but that's definitely not the situation everywhere.
Then again, at least in my current company things are nowhere near as bad as 996, but please don't ignore such problems either: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/996_working_hour_system
One might also bring up the fact that people in "outsourcing" countries also don't have such nice WLB.
> Not willing to study afterwork to improve their career,
Most of the stuff i've learnt (Docker/OCI, Swarm/Kubernetes/Nomad, CI/CD concepts, monitoring, different architectures and new languages) all were in my free time, because the tech stacks at work were somewhat dated and would pigeonhole me into maintenance roles and similar enterprise messes.
Then again, one can and should make the point: doctors don't practice their craft over the weekends, why should software engineers? Do cashiers have to do unpaid work after hours? Do teachers? And if yes, is that okay? Shouldn't your work be compensated, instead of cutting into your free time?
> Not willing to work on legacy products where we pay them 40% more.
Currently the oldest project that I'm working on is like 8 years old and it's a mess. Recently tried modernizing it, would recommend that NOBODY ever try to do that, since I learnt almost no new skills at the expense of massive amounts of stress and struggling with problem after problem, just to keep this old monolith alive.
40% might seem nice at a glance, but what about the alternative costs of not learning new and relevant technologies and thus getting passed up for new work opportunities? What about suffering daily due to needing to waste your time with some dated mess, since most old code is unwieldy to work with at best and horrible at worst?
> In the first 2 years, I can pay someone 35 -> 50 -> +10k bonus, and they\u2019ll leave for a job at 65 going 75 with a tech stack that ticks all boxes.
That is largely how the industry is and I doubt that I can blame people for wanting to maximize their own earning potential, especially in the current financial climate.
Of course, once again this doesn't really match up with my own circumstances, given that owning a home might take about 10 more years of saving money for me, given that I'm not as well paid as all these other developers.
> You can teach them React + SpringBoot + Kubernetes, and they\u2019ll still leave because company XYZ does AWS + Neo4j + AI\u2026 while still not fixing spelling mistakes in the UI and still in the habit of downloading and entire DB tables and filter them in the Java side, and seeing no problem asking for a microservices architecture.
With this, I can mostly agree. If things like spelling don't matter to people, obviously they aren't going to pay attention to them.
But overall, I still find your points to be too focused on a particular environment. Developers everywhere doesn't have it quite as good to begin with, no matter how much of an echo chamber HN can sometimes be.
Then again, last i checked, a Google employee would bring in around ~20x more profits for their company than I would (with some oversimplified back-of-the-napkin maths): https://blog.kronis.dev/articles/on-finances-and-savings"},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Tell HN: Job interview canceled due to looming recession"}},"_tags":["comment","author_KronisLV","story_31494417"],"author":"KronisLV","comment_text":"> Employees are not willing to put a little extra (paid extra, I mean - and we\u2019re at the 35hrs week here),
Currently working in a company that's short staffed but there's a seemingly endless amount of work.
Things might be so charitable in many companies out there for all I care, but that's definitely not the situation everywhere.
Then again, at least in my current company things are nowhere near as bad as 996, but please don't ignore such problems either: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/996_working_hour_system
One might also bring up the fact that people in "outsourcing" countries also don't have such nice WLB.
> Not willing to study afterwork to improve their career,
Most of the stuff i've learnt (Docker/OCI, Swarm/Kubernetes/Nomad, CI/CD concepts, monitoring, different architectures and new languages) all were in my free time, because the tech stacks at work were somewhat dated and would pigeonhole me into maintenance roles and similar enterprise messes.
Then again, one can and should make the point: doctors don't practice their craft over the weekends, why should software engineers? Do cashiers have to do unpaid work after hours? Do teachers? And if yes, is that okay? Shouldn't your work be compensated, instead of cutting into your free time?
> Not willing to work on legacy products where we pay them 40% more.
Currently the oldest project that I'm working on is like 8 years old and it's a mess. Recently tried modernizing it, would recommend that NOBODY ever try to do that, since I learnt almost no new skills at the expense of massive amounts of stress and struggling with problem after problem, just to keep this old monolith alive.
40% might seem nice at a glance, but what about the alternative costs of not learning new and relevant technologies and thus getting passed up for new work opportunities? What about suffering daily due to needing to waste your time with some dated mess, since most old code is unwieldy to work with at best and horrible at worst?
> In the first 2 years, I can pay someone 35 -> 50 -> +10k bonus, and they\u2019ll leave for a job at 65 going 75 with a tech stack that ticks all boxes.
That is largely how the industry is and I doubt that I can blame people for wanting to maximize their own earning potential, especially in the current financial climate.
Of course, once again this doesn't really match up with my own circumstances, given that owning a home might take about 10 more years of saving money for me, given that I'm not as well paid as all these other developers.
> You can teach them React + SpringBoot + Kubernetes, and they\u2019ll still leave because company XYZ does AWS + Neo4j + AI\u2026 while still not fixing spelling mistakes in the UI and still in the habit of downloading and entire DB tables and filter them in the Java side, and seeing no problem asking for a microservices architecture.
With this, I can mostly agree. If things like spelling don't matter to people, obviously they aren't going to pay attention to them.
But overall, I still find your points to be too focused on a particular environment. Developers everywhere doesn't have it quite as good to begin with, no matter how much of an echo chamber HN can sometimes be.
Then again, last i checked, a Google employee would bring in around ~20x more profits for their company than I would (with some oversimplified back-of-the-napkin maths): https://blog.kronis.dev/articles/on-finances-and-savings","created_at":"2022-05-25T12:37:43Z","created_at_i":1653482263,"objectID":"31503663","parent_id":31501251,"story_id":31494417,"story_title":"Tell HN: Job interview canceled due to looming recession","updated_at":"2024-09-20T11:10:45Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"KronisLV"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["kronos","financial"],"value":"> If you look outside of coastal cities, there are plenty of job offers for engineering jobs that pay less than 6 figures. Over in Europe and East Asia, $50 to $60k salaries are the norm. And people job hop frequently for a few extra $k because that corresponds to a significant increase in quality of life for them. The difference between a 2 br and 3 or 4 br apartment, between another kid or not, etc...
In my eyes, this is a good point.
Currently working in Latvia and getting a net salary of around 2k euros a month now - staying at the same company makes it increase by a few hundred euros per year. Actually provided more information in another comment of mine, compared some of the public sources for software dev salaries in the adjacent countries too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29595158
Also wrote about my savings and financial circumstances on my blog a while ago as well: https://blog.kronis.dev/articles/on-finances-and-savings
Thus, job hopping even for comparatively small increases is the smart thing to do, as well as looking for opportunities like side hustles and attempting to take advantage of a globalized economy that lends itself well to remote work (something that i'll inevitably need to explore once i'll have finished a pretty large enterprise migration and some pilot projects in my current place of work).
Now, my salary is still liveable and certainly better than those of who work for the local government, who receive about half of what i do (according to https://www-visasalgas-com.translate.goog/valsts-iestades?_x... which is a site that displays the published data per government org) and many other seemingly essential jobs (like teachers, medics, firemen, policemen all of which are comparatively underpaid). Even as a software dev, buying my own house anytime soon is unlikely, as is buying a new car, or many other luxuries that others take for granted.
In short: the original argument definitely holds true for those who are well compensated, but yours is also valid for those less so. Already, there is talk locally of not having enough engineers, especially in those aforementioned government jobs."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"I think I know why you can't hire engineers right now"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://cushychicken.github.io/why-you-cant-hire-engineers/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_KronisLV","story_29892437"],"author":"KronisLV","comment_text":"> If you look outside of coastal cities, there are plenty of job offers for engineering jobs that pay less than 6 figures. Over in Europe and East Asia, $50 to $60k salaries are the norm. And people job hop frequently for a few extra $k because that corresponds to a significant increase in quality of life for them. The difference between a 2 br and 3 or 4 br apartment, between another kid or not, etc...
In my eyes, this is a good point.
Currently working in Latvia and getting a net salary of around 2k euros a month now - staying at the same company makes it increase by a few hundred euros per year. Actually provided more information in another comment of mine, compared some of the public sources for software dev salaries in the adjacent countries too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29595158
Also wrote about my savings and financial circumstances on my blog a while ago as well: https://blog.kronis.dev/articles/on-finances-and-savings
Thus, job hopping even for comparatively small increases is the smart thing to do, as well as looking for opportunities like side hustles and attempting to take advantage of a globalized economy that lends itself well to remote work (something that i'll inevitably need to explore once i'll have finished a pretty large enterprise migration and some pilot projects in my current place of work).
Now, my salary is still liveable and certainly better than those of who work for the local government, who receive about half of what i do (according to https://www-visasalgas-com.translate.goog/valsts-iestades?_x... which is a site that displays the published data per government org) and many other seemingly essential jobs (like teachers, medics, firemen, policemen all of which are comparatively underpaid). Even as a software dev, buying my own house anytime soon is unlikely, as is buying a new car, or many other luxuries that others take for granted.
In short: the original argument definitely holds true for those who are well compensated, but yours is also valid for those less so. Already, there is talk locally of not having enough engineers, especially in those aforementioned government jobs.","created_at":"2022-01-13T11:36:53Z","created_at_i":1642073813,"objectID":"29919581","parent_id":29916545,"story_id":29892437,"story_title":"I think I know why you can't hire engineers right now","story_url":"https://cushychicken.github.io/why-you-cant-hire-engineers/","updated_at":"2024-09-20T10:12:55Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"KronisLV"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["kronos","financial"],"value":"> Some devs are in it for the passion, some for the experience, some for the challenge, some for the learning, some so their work will live on when they change employers.
Sure, but what about people who could write code, help with docs, testing etc., but can't because of the current financial disincentives to do that?
With my current salary in my country, i make around $21k a year, about which i wrote here (including information about my savings): https://blog.kronis.dev/articles/on-finances-and-savings
With these current circumstances, i cannot be in my right mind and decide to meaningfully commit to open source, apart from small bug fixes or something, unless i want to miss out on spending time with family or anything else over the evenings and weekends, because my day job takes up the rest of my time.
Sure, you can talk about that particular salary number (though it's similar for many people in Eastern Europe, India and many other places), or talk about how i should try to convince my management to allow me to contribute to open source (which is a non starter in many circumstances), but at the end of the day it'd be like quitting my job because i want to develop a video game or something without having a clear plan on how to make money and just vague hopes and dreams instead (which i've seen often as well). For example, i'd have to give up freelancing to do that, which would just further hurt my finances.
I commented on another thread here, but just look at this: https://staltz.com/software-below-the-poverty-line.html
Open source isn't a financially responsible choice for many non-privileged folks out there (e.g. company doesn't invest in it, don't have savings to avoid having to live paycheck to paycheck). Just look at this comment in the other thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29525272
> The default is that no one will use your thing, no one will contribute, no one will fund you, etc.
In my eyes, doing meaningful work is logically supposed to be followed by not being punished for it, such as not having to starve or be homeless (maybe the "just world" fallacy on my part). No one should be able to praise the open source devs for their work and then just turn around in that same sentence and shun them for wanting to be supported financially for doing that, or claim that these incentives are not valid in some way."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"\u201cOpen source\u201d is broken"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://christine.website/blog/open-source-broken-2021-12-11"}},"_tags":["comment","author_KronisLV","story_29522941"],"author":"KronisLV","comment_text":"> Some devs are in it for the passion, some for the experience, some for the challenge, some for the learning, some so their work will live on when they change employers.
Sure, but what about people who could write code, help with docs, testing etc., but can't because of the current financial disincentives to do that?
With my current salary in my country, i make around $21k a year, about which i wrote here (including information about my savings): https://blog.kronis.dev/articles/on-finances-and-savings
With these current circumstances, i cannot be in my right mind and decide to meaningfully commit to open source, apart from small bug fixes or something, unless i want to miss out on spending time with family or anything else over the evenings and weekends, because my day job takes up the rest of my time.
Sure, you can talk about that particular salary number (though it's similar for many people in Eastern Europe, India and many other places), or talk about how i should try to convince my management to allow me to contribute to open source (which is a non starter in many circumstances), but at the end of the day it'd be like quitting my job because i want to develop a video game or something without having a clear plan on how to make money and just vague hopes and dreams instead (which i've seen often as well). For example, i'd have to give up freelancing to do that, which would just further hurt my finances.
I commented on another thread here, but just look at this: https://staltz.com/software-below-the-poverty-line.html
Open source isn't a financially responsible choice for many non-privileged folks out there (e.g. company doesn't invest in it, don't have savings to avoid having to live paycheck to paycheck). Just look at this comment in the other thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29525272
> The default is that no one will use your thing, no one will contribute, no one will fund you, etc.
In my eyes, doing meaningful work is logically supposed to be followed by not being punished for it, such as not having to starve or be homeless (maybe the "just world" fallacy on my part). No one should be able to praise the open source devs for their work and then just turn around in that same sentence and shun them for wanting to be supported financially for doing that, or claim that these incentives are not valid in some way.","created_at":"2021-12-12T09:38:36Z","created_at_i":1639301916,"objectID":"29528276","parent_id":29523976,"story_id":29522941,"story_title":"\u201cOpen source\u201d is broken","story_url":"https://christine.website/blog/open-source-broken-2021-12-11","updated_at":"2024-09-20T10:01:29Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"KronisLV"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["kronos","financial"],"value":"Why not just have an intermediate company that handles the donation/support aspects? I mean, we already have Open Collective: https://opencollective.com/ and for other content creators the likes of Patreon also work out nicely.
Two examples, off the top of my head:
1) Here's how Open Collective looks, for jMonkeyEngine (a lovely Java game engine that's also a bit underfunded and underutilized): https://opencollective.com/jmonkeyengine
2) Also, here's the Patreon of Godot (a more hyped and better funded engine): https://www.patreon.com/godotengine
Why would large enterprises not just use a tool like that, if they already use the likes of AWS or other IaaS/PaaS/SaaS offerings?
But i definitely agree that a lot of open source is underfunded and as a consequence many can't work on it full time or even every day, because things are dire financially otherwise: https://staltz.com/software-below-the-poverty-line.html
Not everyone has cushy jobs that make them $100k a year, i make closer to $21k in Europe now, about which i wrote on my blog: https://blog.kronis.dev/articles/on-finances-and-savings
It feels to me that perhaps the solution here is to have something like a bot on GitHub/GitLab, that adds a comment to issues: "If you'd like to express to the maintainers how important this issue is and draw more attention to it, then submit a payment here: ... Payments so far: ... (possibly with messages by supporters)"
Most people don't care about Open Collective or GitHub Sponsors or whatever, they just want to make feature requests or bug reports. If their attention is captured and the ability to make their own request/report more visible is offered to them as a part of that process, maybe things would be a bit better? I've definitely heard the sentiment expressed that micropayments have the potential to improve how we interact with others on the web in some ways, i'm just not sure how viable that is."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Professional maintainers: a wake-up call"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://blog.filippo.io/professional-maintainers/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_KronisLV","story_29523510"],"author":"KronisLV","children":[29528602],"comment_text":"Why not just have an intermediate company that handles the donation/support aspects? I mean, we already have Open Collective: https://opencollective.com/ and for other content creators the likes of Patreon also work out nicely.
Two examples, off the top of my head:
1) Here's how Open Collective looks, for jMonkeyEngine (a lovely Java game engine that's also a bit underfunded and underutilized): https://opencollective.com/jmonkeyengine
2) Also, here's the Patreon of Godot (a more hyped and better funded engine): https://www.patreon.com/godotengine
Why would large enterprises not just use a tool like that, if they already use the likes of AWS or other IaaS/PaaS/SaaS offerings?
But i definitely agree that a lot of open source is underfunded and as a consequence many can't work on it full time or even every day, because things are dire financially otherwise: https://staltz.com/software-below-the-poverty-line.html
Not everyone has cushy jobs that make them $100k a year, i make closer to $21k in Europe now, about which i wrote on my blog: https://blog.kronis.dev/articles/on-finances-and-savings
It feels to me that perhaps the solution here is to have something like a bot on GitHub/GitLab, that adds a comment to issues: "If you'd like to express to the maintainers how important this issue is and draw more attention to it, then submit a payment here: ... Payments so far: ... (possibly with messages by supporters)"
Most people don't care about Open Collective or GitHub Sponsors or whatever, they just want to make feature requests or bug reports. If their attention is captured and the ability to make their own request/report more visible is offered to them as a part of that process, maybe things would be a bit better? I've definitely heard the sentiment expressed that micropayments have the potential to improve how we interact with others on the web in some ways, i'm just not sure how viable that is.","created_at":"2021-12-12T09:21:10Z","created_at_i":1639300870,"objectID":"29528208","parent_id":29528054,"story_id":29523510,"story_title":"Professional maintainers: a wake-up call","story_url":"https://blog.filippo.io/professional-maintainers/","updated_at":"2024-09-20T10:01:29Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"fullyHighlighted":true,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["kronos"],"value":"krono"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["financial"],"value":"Yeah the systems are far from perfect. They're inefficient, in some cases unfair, and with regards to abuse perhaps rely a little too much on good faith.
Nevertheless the systems do exist. Financial aid was and even still is there for you or your business if you need it."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Booking.com gives \u20ac28m in bonuses to three top execs; Took \u20ac65m in State aid"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://nltimes.nl/2021/05/28/bookingcom-gives-eu28m-bonuses-three-top-execs-took-eu65m-state-aid"}},"_tags":["comment","author_krono","story_27319477"],"author":"krono","comment_text":"Yeah the systems are far from perfect. They're inefficient, in some cases unfair, and with regards to abuse perhaps rely a little too much on good faith.
Nevertheless the systems do exist. Financial aid was and even still is there for you or your business if you need it.","created_at":"2021-05-28T21:29:29Z","created_at_i":1622237369,"objectID":"27320748","parent_id":27320420,"story_id":27319477,"story_title":"Booking.com gives \u20ac28m in bonuses to three top execs; Took \u20ac65m in State aid","story_url":"https://nltimes.nl/2021/05/28/bookingcom-gives-eu28m-bonuses-three-top-execs-took-eu65m-state-aid","updated_at":"2024-09-20T08:40:33Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"fullyHighlighted":true,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["kronos"],"value":"krono"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["financial"],"value":"That is exactly what was done here in the Netherlands. Booking.com just decided to exploit and, in my opinion, abuse that system.
Edit: These emergency financial support measures I was referring to are:
- "Temporary emergency scheme for job retention" (NOW)
- "Temporary self-employment income support and loan scheme" (TOZO)
- "Reimbursement Fixed Costs" (TVL)
More info (in English) on gov websites:
- https://www.government.nl/topics/coronavirus-covid-19/inform...
- https://english.rvo.nl/subsidies-programmes/reimbursement-fi...
Edit 2: Oh wait there is more:
- "Subsidy scheme for events cancelled due to corona measures"
- "TVL Stock Support Closed Retail"
- "R&D subsidy scheme for the mobility sector" (RDM)
- "Temporary Support for Necessary Costs" (TONK)
- "Arrangement for businesses damaged by curfew riots" (RBC)
More info: https://business.gov.nl/corona/overview/the-coronavirus-and-..."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Booking.com gives \u20ac28m in bonuses to three top execs; Took \u20ac65m in State aid"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://nltimes.nl/2021/05/28/bookingcom-gives-eu28m-bonuses-three-top-execs-took-eu65m-state-aid"}},"_tags":["comment","author_krono","story_27319477"],"author":"krono","children":[27320420],"comment_text":"That is exactly what was done here in the Netherlands. Booking.com just decided to exploit and, in my opinion, abuse that system.
Edit: These emergency financial support measures I was referring to are:
- "Temporary emergency scheme for job retention" (NOW)
- "Temporary self-employment income support and loan scheme" (TOZO)
- "Reimbursement Fixed Costs" (TVL)
More info (in English) on gov websites:
- https://www.government.nl/topics/coronavirus-covid-19/inform...
- https://english.rvo.nl/subsidies-programmes/reimbursement-fi...
Edit 2: Oh wait there is more:
- "Subsidy scheme for events cancelled due to corona measures"
- "TVL Stock Support Closed Retail"
- "R&D subsidy scheme for the mobility sector" (RDM)
- "Temporary Support for Necessary Costs" (TONK)
- "Arrangement for businesses damaged by curfew riots" (RBC)
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The STP I'm referring to relates to automatic roundtrips including request for quote > pricing engine > quote > order > confirmation > TMS but the real interesting part is when banks automatically back their orders with purchases from yet other banks, intra-bank. Exotic currencies add an additional dimension, as no immediate pricing for e.g. Mexican pesos in Norwegian kronors is available and the trade needs to be 'routed' through an intermediate currency, usually USD or EUR.
My view of the system didn't go beyond two banks at the time but in theory there could be a long chain. That way the banks would be forming a financial P2P network. In reality it's a pretty hierarchical network as not all banks are created equal, but it'd be interesting if you could come up with financial routing mechanisms that would find the cheapest route in a hypothetical more dense banking network and what you can learn from that for poor man's P2P networks."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html"}},"_tags":["comment","author_jerry5","story_250704"],"author":"jerry5","children":[253423],"comment_text":"Hm, I said I found FX 'inspiring', but didn't say 'inspiring for a startup'. As I mentioned elsewhere my interest is more in P2P networks, and those elude classic funding strategies.
The STP I'm referring to relates to automatic roundtrips including request for quote > pricing engine > quote > order > confirmation > TMS but the real interesting part is when banks automatically back their orders with purchases from yet other banks, intra-bank. Exotic currencies add an additional dimension, as no immediate pricing for e.g. Mexican pesos in Norwegian kronors is available and the trade needs to be 'routed' through an intermediate currency, usually USD or EUR.
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For graphics APIs we implement a subset of OpenGL or Vulkan listed under their safety critical standards. We are part of Khronos and worked with them to define the OpenGL SC 2 standard and are currently working on defining the Vulkan SC standard. The saftery critical version of the APIs are a reduce subset that eliminate anything that would be more difficult to implement in certifiable code.
As for our QA process, its really split into two distinct things. There is just normal QA side with all the run of the mill testing and verification, and then there is the actual certification team who is responsible for meeting all the DO-178 requirements as defined by our process. Like a lot of other companies who do cert work, we don't create all the artifacts from the get go. There are a lot of defense contracts where they want "certifiable" but don't want to pay for the actual evidence, so we won't go out of the way to make it, if no one is buying it. We do have a strict coding standard and code reviews to ensure that any code checked in will actual be able to be certified, but certification is way more work than just writing the code. Once we have a paying customer for cert we will go through and write all the test cases, fill out all the requirements, and make sure every i is dotted and t are crossed.
Does that answer all your questions?"},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"VxWorks now with C++17 and Rust support, alongside Ada and SPARK"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.windriver.com/news/press/pr.html?ID=22444"}},"_tags":["comment","author_Hazematman","story_21211682"],"author":"Hazematman","comment_text":"I'm at CoreAVI. As far as I know, ALT had some financial troubles that ruined the company (this was all before my time, I'm too young to have been involved in that :P ). Like half the senior employees are ex ALT employees who jumped ship once ALT started hemorrhaging money. We have a great relationship with AMD, we don't just do certified drivers for their chips, but we also temperture screen some of their GPUs and sell them in the industrial market. They give us a lot of documentation and will answer our questions directly. Although nowadays with all the stuff they release to the open source community I'm not sure if we are getting that much more information compared to everyone else. We do work with other GPUs such as the Verisilicon GC series, Intel HD, and most recently we started working with ARM. For Verisilicon & Intel, we don't really get as much support and we mostly work off the documentation they have released and reverse engineering on our part. The ARM partnership is fairly new so I can't speak too much about it, but from the outset they are looking to be a great partner like AMD.
For graphics APIs we implement a subset of OpenGL or Vulkan listed under their safety critical standards. We are part of Khronos and worked with them to define the OpenGL SC 2 standard and are currently working on defining the Vulkan SC standard. The saftery critical version of the APIs are a reduce subset that eliminate anything that would be more difficult to implement in certifiable code.
As for our QA process, its really split into two distinct things. There is just normal QA side with all the run of the mill testing and verification, and then there is the actual certification team who is responsible for meeting all the DO-178 requirements as defined by our process. Like a lot of other companies who do cert work, we don't create all the artifacts from the get go. There are a lot of defense contracts where they want "certifiable" but don't want to pay for the actual evidence, so we won't go out of the way to make it, if no one is buying it. We do have a strict coding standard and code reviews to ensure that any code checked in will actual be able to be certified, but certification is way more work than just writing the code. Once we have a paying customer for cert we will go through and write all the test cases, fill out all the requirements, and make sure every i is dotted and t are crossed.
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