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>Managers are getting a pretty bad rap in these threads, and maybe (or maybe not) in BigCo’s that’s reasonable, but I run a tiny shop and I’ve asked my team to come to the office as often as possible, despite the fact that half of us have been working together for years - and we get on just fine online.

In my BigCo job, your run-of-the-mill managers don't have any influence on this stuff. The high-level decisions are being made by executives who are at least four or five layers of reports away from the masses of ICs (eg the CEO is seven hops above me on my management chain), and whose entire job--as well as the entire job of everybody they come in contact with--consists of attending meetings. We experience the company and the workplace in vastly different ways, and articles & discussions like this are the result of that disconnect.
IKEA has to have servers for their devices to integrate with Google Home and Alexa. That's how those systems work. Only Apple offers direct local connectivity as far as I know.

These days Google Home has local fulfillment, but that seems to only be offered as an addition to cloud fulfillment. It always has a cloud fallback path.

Here's how you hook up Home Assistant to Google cloud. As you can see, turning it into a cloud service from Google's POV is required. You can either use Home Assistant Cloud (see? cloud service) or set up your own single-user cloud integration (which is what I do), turning your "local" server into a cloud service (with public IP and SSL cert and domain and everything) and registering yourself as an IoT vendor in their developer console, pointing at your "cloud" service URL.

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/google_assistant/

There is no way to keep the entire system local and have the Google Home devices only access it locally, without any cloud infrastructure. The commands flow from Google Home devices, to Google's cloud, to the vendor's cloud, to the vendor's devices. There is a bypass path these days for local access, but it is always in addition to the cloud path, and only an optimization.
>which is going to be (or already is) vastly better than our eyes and ears

Not even close, you underestimate what our sensory system is capable of.

Scenario 1: You're driving on a highway and you notice people on the opposite lane are coming in slowly, with hazard lights on and waving at you. Because of this you slow down and drive more carefully, to discover that there's been an accident/landslide/whatever right around the corner. Your whole lane is then, closed, but cars are going both ways using the other lane by taking turns, the whole thing is orchestrated by a few guys making signs at cars with their hands/flags, which you naturally follow. (This has happened to me at least 10 times in the past)

Scenario 2: Light rain is pouring down, you also know the temperature is quite close or below 0ºC, you slow down and drive with extreme caution as you're about to enter a stretch of road that is known to be prone for black ice formation.

Scenario 3: You're driving under crosswind when suddenly, the truck in front of you does this, [1]. None of the cars recording crashed with the truck, what do you think is the reason for that?

I could go on and on ...

Forget the dumb Turing tests, driving >= AGI.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOwbbsgaRaQ
Quoting the article, this was on a "highly specific task, one that was specifically designed to give a competitive edge to a quantum computer like Sycamore."

The chose an inherently quantum problem that's difficult for classic computers (including supercomputers) to simulate but matches what the quantum hardware does natively; now we're approaching the stage where quantum hardware can do something more than simulations of quantum hardware. However, that's far from effective 'general purpose' quantum processors that would be capable of executing the quantum algorithms that have interesting implications on cryptography and other fields.

For example, factoring primes - we can brute force e.g. 256bit prime numbers on classical hardware and can't really brute force 1024 bit numbers. That can be done with a quantum computer with 2*n fully entangled, long-term coherent qubits, so a 512-qubit computer (unlike 53-qubit Sycamore) for doing what we can do already and 2048 qubit computer for actually breaking something (or, more realistically 4096 qubit computer for 2048-bit RSA).
Hmm maybe I will try it again, but last time I even went as far as asking about the terrible UX on the mailing list and was met with lots of "it's fine; we're not dumbing the interface down for noobs" (though two people privately emailed me to say they strongly agreed). So I'm not holding my breath!

Well done if that attitude has changed though!
Who is Mike Crawford?
I wonder if partial WFH causes more or less environmental pressure in in the bigger picture. No need for daily travel from the worker's perspective, but e.g energy usage at home increases. Also, companies still keep their office spaces with all the creature comforts, heat those buildings "just in case", etc. It's like we have double options for everything now.
foobar33333 said "The gateway also does not connect to the internet", which cannot be true, because connecting to the internet to speak to a manufacturer-provided cloud service that then speaks to Google is required to integrate with Google Home. That's how it works. The IKEA gateway has to talk to an IKEA cloud service. If you think otherwise, please link to the Google Home docs that explain how that could possibly work, because I can't find them.

Here's how you hook up Home Assistant to Google cloud. As you can see, turning it into a cloud service from Google's POV is required. You can either use Home Assistant Cloud (see? cloud service) or set up your own single-user cloud integration (which is what I do), turning your "local" server into a cloud service (with public IP and SSL cert and domain and everything) and registering yourself as an IoT vendor in their developer console, pointing at your "cloud" service URL.

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/google_assistant/

There is no way to keep the entire system local and have the Google Home devices only access it locally, without any cloud infrastructure. The commands flow from Google Home devices, to Google's cloud, to the vendor's cloud, to the vendor's devices.

Bulb --> Zigbee --> Zigbee Gateway --> WiFi/eth --> LAN --> Your router --> WAN --> IKEA cloud --> Google cloud --> WAN --> Your router --> LAN --> WiFi --> Google Home device.

If that sounds stupid, congrats, this is why they call it the internet of shit.
>"However, he warns that attempts to assess someone's personality from their voice—or even their facial expressions—is fraught with ethical and accuracy issues. "Even though there are physiological signals, it's quite possible that the way we interpret them is very culturally biased," he said."

A relevant article on this which talks about some of the evidence for cultural specific interpretations balanced against existing evidence for their universality: Do Feelings Look the Same in Every Human Face? (https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/do_feelings_lo...)

Some additional sources as well:

- Misinterpretation of facial expression: a cross-cultural study (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10201283/)

- Perception of Facial Expressions Differs Across Cultures (https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2011/09/facial-expre...)

- Are Facial Expressions the Same Around the World? (https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/are_facial_exp...)
Software isolation, the subject of my comment, was not common in the 80s. You’re referring to systems that had no isolation at all.
> Dexamethasone is a cheap generic drug that has been proven to reduce covid-19 mortality and is being used worldwide including in the USA. The studies showing that it worked occurred before the EUA for the vaccines was issued. It is officially recommended on [nih.gov]...

These are the same doctors that recommended the use of corticosteroids when everyone else was recommending against it.

These are the same doctors that recommended anti-coagulation treatment when everyone else was recommending against it.

These are the same doctors that identified airborne transmission of disease, the WHO is only starting to acknowledge it more than a year later.

They were ridiculed and criticised at the time for things that are now standard of care, and proved right time and time again.

They are the same doctors that are now recommending Ivermectin, and are now being censored (e.g. senate hearing removed from YouTube) and labelled as spreading medical misinformation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UTuT9TSRFQ&t=110s
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I have a hefty budget for personal computing. My current laptop cost me almost 2400USD equivalent. The only reason that's not a Pixelbook is that Chrome doesn't run real Lightroom.
The point of TCP is to provide protection against packet loss and reordering, and to provide flow control.
From wikipedia (Electric light): " In technical usage, a replaceable component that produces light from electricity is called a lamp."
EDIT: Yes, later in the same page: "Lamps are commonly called light bulbs;"
Ok, I have best single thread performance on my validator machine. What if I have two of those machines?
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We already had partial WFH - my company has a lot of developers late in their career (aged 50+), they've been through the mill and can't be fucked with stupid hours anymore. And don't need constant supervision either.

Another thing; partial work from home has been a thing over here for a long time now, called "the new working". In practice though, it was just as bad as the open office, in that it was a tactic to reduce the amount of office space needed. Because some clipboard warrior decided that office space was their biggest expense, not staff, nor the realization that they can do more with the same staff if they make some changes to improve their productivity - e.g. no open offices, fixed workspaces, and a goal in their career.
Is that worth the hassle when PC-compatible hardware with similar specs is widely available and just as cheap?
That’s what team offsites, conferences and company outings are for. There’s more ways to get face to face time then “go to the office to work”
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As far as I can tell PoH is done by hashing the same value over and over (where each hash is hashing the last hash), to prove you've done some amount of work on that block. So blocks contain both the hash of the previous block and a PoH hash which is showing you've iterated SHA256 n times. This way you can't spam the network with blocks.

It seems similar to how NANO works. I still don't know why it's called proof of history.
Have you actually asked your team if they feel the same way, though? (and I mean actually asked, not just "hey bud, you're happy with coming into the office, right?")

I used to whiteboard out problems with the whole team. I loved it. We had a couple of star employees who were really good at coming up with ideas and sketching them out. Being able to get the whole team on-side for a problem and understanding the answer was great. Then I discovered (overheard conversation at a social function) that half the team absolutely hated them. I followed up in 1-to-1 meetings, and yes, over half the team didn't enjoy them, didn't feel they could contribute, and saw them as a waste of everyone's time (and saw them as me ego grandstanding). The couple of "stars" did enjoy them, and thought they were great.

During my MBA, I discovered this is common. Introverts don't enjoy this kind of interaction, and don't benefit from it. Some people don't come up with ideas by "vibing" off others - they come up with ideas by themselves. Some people can't talk about an idea until it's complete - the whole idea of "talking through" an idea to completion gives them the shudders, and doesn't work for them.

You may find, after digging, that (like me) you're doing what you love, and not what the team benefits from.
There are two types of ideas, one is the practical improvement that can and should be heard and considered seriously, and then there are the “great ideas” which a lot of engineers are happy to spew out, but are often unable to follow through because they think more highly of themselves than they ought to. The reality is that software fields are brimming with people who’ve been paid exorbitant sums for mediocre work from people who wouldn’t otherwise even qualify as above average in general intelligence. If the teams don’t listen to engineers often it’s at least partly because of such past experiences.

A good company will be a place where the engineers who are capable of following through with great ideas are being listened to while the remainder are kept at their place so to speak.
A decade ago I left a startup I helped found that did deposition video editing because (among other things) our timestamp provider was offering micro tremor stress (lie) detection in their API and people were VERY interested in using it. Even if you buy into that bullshit, in this instance the source audio was 32kbps mono. There was nothing keeping us from underlying text red, yellow, and green. It wouldn't be admissible as evidence (like a polygraph) but you best believe that shit would be used for awful shit. I left, they never did that, but I bet it's going on somewhere. I get the desire for tools like this, but it's really just a way around doing better work to determine factors. The only thing it's really for is coercion.
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I'm very much a command line guy but ffmpeg still stumps me. Might be nice if it could save the various ffmpeg arg soups as some kind of friendly name, e.g. "combine jpegs into a timelapse" or "convert video to HTML5-friendly format" and then just drop-down and fill in the timelapse parameters or whatever.
Maybe because they don't keep logs on the http server ? Logging on dns is transparent and limited
And I don't get it. A company like Apple could hire a small army of technical documentation writers who could go to town on it.

I do recall from my iOS development times that Apple's documentation and articles were really good.
The question for me is: What did smartphones do for friendships? For instance, when I used to go to the gym, I started conversations with others. Now everyone has their headphones on or is looking down at their smartphones and you can't strike up a conversation to make new friends. This is the same everywhere, not just the gym - that was only one example of many.

I lost my smartphone last year and just never got a new one. Don't miss it a bit, but all of you - the smartphone companies and application developers use psychologists and psychiatrists to make their apps addicting as possible, all you zombies.
But isn't that an important business model for smaller companies?

How would you distinguish between a large corporation bringing an important idea to fruition, and and "buy and bury"?

I mean, what if intel develops risc-v to compete with arm, such as the chips from apple?

Robust competition is very good for everyone.
This is actually quite nice. Did you open source it?
Talking about a prophylactic use case might have made sense a year ago but makes zero sense today, when more than 50% of the adult population is vaccinated and 70-80% of many states are vaccinated while most are fully reopened without capacity limits or mask mandates.

What are we doing here? Is this really the hill they want to die on?
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I made https://multipreview.com to improve my twitter feed.

When I write a blog post I typically share it 2 or 3 times to highlight different parts. But in the twitter feed, there's always the same image so it looks pretty bad/boring.

With multipreview I generate a link with a custom image, so I can share the same article but the previews always look different.

It's actually a hack I tested on a weekend (return a small html page with custom meta tags + immediate redirect to the destination link). It worked in the sense that it's previewed as I expected on twitter/facebook/linkedin. So I started using it here and there, showed it to a couple friends and eventually made it into a small saas.
What about a swarm of pigeons? Three RFCs can't be wrong…

[0] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1149

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2549

[2] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6214
Have you heard about Gargantua in the Basque country region of Spain? https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gargant%C3%BAa
And wouldn’t their manager be responsible for not noticing?
I see a 4k user drop on the past 24h on https://isfreenodedeadyet.com/ I wonder if that was the #python ban hammer

OFTC numbers look stable for the whole ordeal OTOH

Libera now has 2/3rds of the Freenode users, that number I think was 1/2 a couple of days ago.

I wonder when will the penny drop.
Hey, thanks for this helpful feedback! I will update my page accordingly. I do talk about one of my bigger projects in the blog link, but I agree it should be highlighted up front.
Inferno is another example of a system that did not expose the ability to dereference raw pointers to user programs: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(operating_system)
This is so hilariously inaccurate it's not worth anyone's time to sit down and debunk it.

You sound like someone who sold all his BTC in 2012 and bought a 2nd hand Honda Civic with the proceeds, thinking you'd beaten the system.
They are the same in the sense that both privilege jnana over karma for liberation that is all. They are different in that Advaita Vedanta gives some scope to karma (Indian) Buddhism gave none.

Buddhists themselves reduced the historical Shakyamuni to one member of a pantheon long ago. This was a clear trend in Mahayana and Vajrayana before Allauddin Khilji came and settled the issue once and for all.
Yes, really. You can have unlicensed accounts on Cloud only O365, or hybrid o365. You can auth, you can SMTP auth (called basic auth), you can do modern auth, you can do API secret auth, etc.
You obviously put it on it’s one /30 on the lan and limits it’s connection to what’s needed
We have a vaccine free at the point of service and cheap to produce in bulk. Even if this works (which it probably doesn’t) who cares?
One of them will finish calculating VDF earlier, and that result will be verified by other nodes.

When used for leader selection, VDF’s offer a substantial improvement over verifiable random functions. Instead of requiring a non-colluding honest majority, VDF-based leader selection only requires the presence of any honest participant. This added robustness is due to the fact that no amount of parallelism will speed up the VDF, and any non-malicious actor can easily verify anyone else’s claimed VDF output is accurate. [1]

[1] https://blog.trailofbits.com/2018/10/12/introduction-to-veri...
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I think that they knew there is reasonable chance the director might support them and trusts them. They worked on this system for months, it is unlikely that "legendary leader" found about whole thing when they walked into mission control. They did not knew whether whole thing will succeed overall, but at minimum they did had pre-existing trust.

People are not dumb. They know politics of situation they work in. These people were not random renegades ignoring any authority on principle or some such.
DOOM over Avian Carrier (since obvs trained pidgeons can implement a turing machine, see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers ).

DOOM in Game of Life.

DOOM as a Boltzmann brain (might take a while before that's implemented, but I bet it'll happen eventually)
I am from one of the Visegrad states. Our democracy is mostly in the same flawed state, with a recent addition of Twitter outrages over culture war topics.

This is no surprise; a flawed democracy is precisely what the original Austria-Hungary once was, more flawed in Hungary, less flawed in Austria.
We should all take some time to consider that our light bubs have more powerful computers than the first computer many of us once owned.

This perspective makes scifi stuff like "smart dust" seem a lot more feasible. Ubiquitous computing, what will it bring us?
Previous discussion 2014 (74 comments):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8218785
It seems to be me that one of the key strategic goals of China's transportation policies is to avoid a growing dependence on oil imports while its middle class grows. Hence the promotion of electric high speed trains as opposed to planes, and electric cars instead of traditional cars.

Really impressive planning and execution that we could learn a lot from in the west.
Too easy. At first I was imagining some amazing drone dance, but then I realized that it would be just a wireless screen with horrible battery endurance.
I'm not an expert on the matter. I just read about the fertile crescent & how at its peak it wasn't a desert like it is today and that temperatures and sea-level were both lower than today. For example the persian gulf (today underwater) "was an extensive region of river valley and wetlands" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Gulf#History when the ancient civilisation of Sumar developed there.

I have no knowledge about the eastern portion of Egypt (Sinai?) being richer than the western one, afaik the wealth of Egypt was always centered around the nile and nile delta (even today). That's probably what the breadbasket refers to.
Nearly the entire developed world after their growth booms. China will get there too. It’s a common enough pattern for wealthy countries worldwide.
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Or they are unable to follow through because engineering is a team activity and so they cannot follow through if people don’t listen enough to consider the idea.
High speed rail per million people:

France 43 km

China 26 km

Germany 21 km
Sounds like an excellent way to get away from Freenode and Libera dramadmins.
Everyone on my team is different from goals to what makes them happy to how they work, cant expect them all to work the same and management is figuring out what’s best for each one
> Currently we're only pursuing vaccination as the only solution, resulting in millions of unnecessary deaths and trillions of economic damage.

What?! Most states have lifted all restrictions and deaths are at the lowest in a year.
Is there any connection between pornography and depression
When the support ends, drivers must be open-sourced.
In the Perl world (and possibly others), the CPAN maintainers will transfer ownership/maintainership privileges to you if you can prove you haven't been able to contact the original author (typically by sending an email and CC'ing the perl5-modules mailing list). This works well when there is one or two distributions that are the canonical way to solve a task.

Obviously not possible for GitHub as a whole, but perhaps we could reimagine how GitHub interacts with specific language/tool/whatever communities.
It could, but favouring FP I'd use for..of for imperative loops where I need to do side-effects, or use .map which is nicer anyway.