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> Microsoft Office is one of the easiest things to replace; LibreOffice takes some getting used to, but it does what you need it to do.

Nope. No. Nada. No way.

MS Office is one of hardest software to replace. On the same level as proprietary SCADA system alike. I know this hard way.

Yes, if you only need prepare new small documents and print them out into PDF or on physical paper, you could replace MS Word with almost anything - LibreOffice, OpenOffice, KWord, Google Docs (though, Google Docs has very primitive style system, but if you need to make small simple documents, you don't need good style system anyway).

As soon as you need to work with documents created by others, and exchange these documents with others in office format (not PDF), oh man. When document was created in Office'2000 (yes, in 2020s), edited by several other versions by different people on computers with different fonts and locales, when it contains images, sections with multiple columns, is formatted half with styles (both paragraph and character ones) half by direct applications by attributes like "Bold" and "Interline space"... And you need to edit it and pass to the next person with unknown version of MS Office - good luck to use anything but MS Word. Same with Powerpoint.

Yes, MS Word could break such document too - but typically by rearranging images and adding unneeded pagebreaks, not by showing only blank pages or replacing all fonts with Courier New. After any alternative you could get anything, literally anyhting. And your OpenOffice will show "perfectly" formatted document, only your counterpart with MS Office will complain that YOU ruined document.

How do I know this? My wife is freelance translator. We've tried not to pay for MS Office several times, because, you know, new version of *Office is compatible for MS Office at last. But no, it could be Ok for next 10 clients, all looks good, and eleventh will yell t you by phone because result you provided him looks completely different in his MS Office (including, as I mentioned, empty pages without text at all or all these fancy fonts replaced with one Courier New - it is real cases from my experience).

And don't let me start to rant about Excel where people write crazy macros in VBasic and such - good luck to use any other software when you need to communicate and exchange documents with other Excel powerusers.
The creator notes buying this for $3.50 a gallon. That would last me a year in a winter climate, so I guess I just don't feel the need to make my own. Maybe I'm an outlier and don't use my washer fluid that much. I'd rather clean up the windshield next time I'm getting gas, or liberally apply RainX so there's less to remove.
Yeah, it bugs me that I don't know where I was a year ago but my phone company does.

Can I get that via GDPR? Has anyone tried?

For Android users a more straightforward option is location history, but you should probably turn that off.
I don’t agree. There is much more to hiring even across states let alone from a different country.

Mid sized companies don’t really have experience or know how to hire internationally.

Big companies have know how and resources yes but your average Joe CEO is going to be terrified of it as he won’t have control over it and he has already enough stuff to do locally to keep company running and he can hire Elaine as HR and Jeff as manager and they will know how to deal with Ashton and Jimmy who live in the same state so our Joe CEO will have less worries - which in turn translates to less money wasted by company even if some devs would be cheaper on monthly salaries.
For a trivial case like this, something like odata and entity framework will get you 90% of the way there. The ORM provides both the webserver and data tier copies of the data. The problem I run into where I have to drop down into manual SQL is migrations. Every tool that promises free migrations fails me.
Brothers Karamazov is supposedly really good, but it remains basically the only book I've started but never finished.

The beginning is sooo boring. It takes over a hundred pages for them to even get to be at the same place at the same time where something even could happen. I gave up right at that point, which supposedly is when it gets good.
Why is this called a whitepaper, as this is more of a documentation and architecture overview of the cluster? Wow a CLOS topology for networking, very innovative.

Details on NVLink would be great. For example, the needs and problems solved by their custom cables seemingly required by NVLink would be worth a whitepaper.

Don't get me wrong, this is still great the general public can get a glimpse into Grace Hopper. And they do a good job of simplifying while throwing around mind-boggling numbers (the NVLink bandwidth is insane, though no words on latency, crucial for remote memory access).
Same motivation as forwarding chain letters. Being superstitious and hope for invisible internet magic helping those poor orphans in need out. Just that you hold up the sky here.
Aren't ticketing systems designed for this?

Like customers can get in touch with you through email and the system creates tickets for you, then there's some web UI that lets you respond to the thread or assign some status to it (Completed, In Progress, Planned, Under Review).
Sure, UK will just block you and they will compel app stores to remove you if they want to. That’s what they are doing with tracker websites already.

> Define "need". If there's no legal jurisdiction,

As I have explained your country has an agreement with UK that says they do have the right to make you follow their rules if you want to trade on their market. So they can sue you and your country will say yup that’s fine they can do that. It’s a mutual agreement, so your country can do the same if some UK company decides they don’t want to pay your taxes. There are also mutual agreements about establishing foreign branches & incorporating by foreign persons or companies and UK could demand you must do that as well, if they wanted to.

If there were no diplomatic relations or the country you’re exporting services to was sanctioned then it would be illegal for you to serve or trade with any citizens of that country.

Anyway regardless as before even if you find a country that you think is safe they can still just block your IP range and remove your app, but then you’re clearly not just doing regular business—this was about actual companies operating internationally, so this is a different goalpost. I mean sure, that’s how internet works, but that was already a given.

Also unless you actually live and manage your company from Seychelles or Russia then you should be careful because there are all kinds of laws about creating fictional entities (though mostly concerning avoiding taxes) and you could still be personally liable.

> What if the service is free, like Signal and WhatsApp? (and TikTok)

Certainly WhatsApp isn’t free, you pay with ad impressions and user data. UK can demand you pay tax on that and calculate how much you make for each of their citizens. EU’s doing it already, it’s called EU Digital Tax. Signal has some crypto stuff, they might want to monetize more. Anyway it doesn’t matter, just look at GDPR and how US companies treat it for real-world analog.
Because you donated huge sums to your nonprofit, it reduced your tax burden by a significantly high amount, and that is probably a higher amount than what your friends and relatives will pay in taxes on their paychecks in your foundation, so you were able to keep more dollars from going to Uncle Sam and among your circle of loved ones instead.
> There were like 10 different brands of 64GB 2.5" SATA SSDs to choose from at the time, in the most popular PC components shop in the city, so it wasn't just my little niche.

Your story gets even weirder! Sourcing components from the local brick and mortar store when building your own desktop usually negates most of the benefits of building your own desktop computer. It's not entirely surprising that they had an excess of outdated SSDs on display.

> Plenty of people had laptops, sure, but most daily-driver work machines were still desktops.

Are we suddenly confining the discussion to corporate-owned office PCs, or do you genuinely not understand that laptops have been outselling desktops for a very long time?
Eglot is the built-in LSP client. You need an external server. If you do C or C++, clangd is likely what you want. Install it (apt install clangd) and enable eglot for C or C++ files in your Emacs config, (add-hook 'c-mode-hook 'eglot-ensure).
People are doing benchmarks on older rocm's and it is looking pretty good.

https://www.mosaicml.com/blog/amd-mi250

Waiting on the updates.

I'll add that I have learned over time to not discount motivation. If AMD it motivated, they can do it. This has been proven already with their dominance over the server cpu market.
Looks like their site is quoting a rate of $1.99 now
https://lambdalabs.com/
Definitely looking forward to reading this soon. Thanks for recommending it, friend!
Yeah the big mistake was thinking spaces in file names was a good idea. It's not it's a terrible awful idea.

Course not have a hard separation between paths and file names is also not good.

./folder_what/folder_x/folder_zee:file_name.whatever

The above would be better
I have spent four years, typically ~2 months a year between first complaint and it actually getting acted upon, getting Somerville to cut overgrowth from its own construction site that completely block a sidewalk that is used by hundreds of people per day (there is no sidewalk at all on the other side).

You couldn't use the sidewalk anyway as it is not ADA compliant in the slightest (random light posts in the middle of a half width sidewalk with tons of cracks and holes). But at least it should be vaguely passable...

Meanwhile literally 100 feet away they managed to redesign and repave an entire highway onramp without hiring a groundskeeper for their own property.

I hate having to bring up the ADA as the reason the city should respect pedestrians. They spent how much money on that highway onramp but can't be bothered to make the frontage on property it owns usable by pedestrians?
I can't wait for my bank to implement fednow. Faster transactions and the social credit are huge plusses IMHO. Hopefully, people will start to take climate change and other crises more seriously (eg covid) and think twice before they spout out disinformation about the vaccine, etc. Fednow has massive potential to ensure this happens.
That reads to me as "he looked at the details of the AI art, and had a hard time finding obvious issue in the 'technique'", not that he forgot about art he made.
I thought they were all similarly ugly. Thought so then and still do now. Drab grays and muted colors for miles. (Ignoring utility here.) Uglier stuff could be found off the beaten path, though.
Perhaps not, but that's what marketing is for...

"Increase your resistance gut to parasites with our revolutionary cure!"

Or some such...

And then you realize what complete sleezy snakes most of these tech bros are.
I have a lot of old pictures without geolocation data. A tool to automatically add even an estimate of the location would be really useful so that apple or google photos could use it to make albums automatically.

PIGEON is going that way I guess: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.05845
I am skeptical of this because as far as I understand, Arginine is naturally occurring in many foods.
> Sign up for free $29/yr

> Create your blog $29/year

Is it free or is it $29/yr
I'm pushing to go back to Debian from Ubuntu. Canonical's making decisions lately that don't appeal to me, and especially on the server I don't see a clear advantage for Ubuntu vs good ol' rock solid Debian.
"Why many human beings believe/predict transformative artificial intelligence is really, really hard to achieve according to what we've thought of so far" would be a more accurate title.
If you're on mac I would strongly recommend Notational Velocity (or the Alt version), if they still run (I know Apple likes to break compatibility).

I've tried dozens of notetaking apps and that's the only one that truly felt like a second brain.

It's because of the speed. Infuriatingly, Obsidian for example can search just as fast, but they intentionally programmed in a lag after each keystroke... (I know because I removed it.)
This.

Being disabled sucks even more. Because there is no "now I opt out" decision as the author could do. Kudos to doing the exercise.
Yeah being able to search and chat with PDF files is quite useful.

Khoj can index directory of PDFs for search and chat. But it does not currently work with scanned PDF files (i.e not with ones without selectable text).

Being able to work with those would be awesome. We just need to get to it. Hopefully soon
Serious Q, as I dont know Twitters internal infra at all... but with a shrinking in revenue from ads, or maybe less engagement by users, and the influx of Threads - maybe twitter can use from slices of its infra (even if its rack space, VMs, Containers, connectivity, who knows what, to support startups such as this?

Basically twitter devolves into the Colos of the late 90s :-)

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For those who didnt notice, it was tongue in cheek.
> who have let go of their self-ness(?) and wants, since "wanting" in nature necessarily means predation to every other being

I was discussing this on a sociology discord until some PhD asserted that every being seeks domination unless it's dominated...

I found the view a little narrow and I much prefer the one you described, even though we are to be predatory at points in our live.. (biochemistry dictatest that) we can and often prefer to be in a selfless state, a sharing, a harmonizing one.
I find similar arguments around SQL.

So much time & frustration expended simply to avoid typing out the magic database commands... And the constant ego trips attempting to outperform 30+ year old query planner codebases on 7-way+ joins by using baby's first ORM.

> the tar pit

If you find yourself stuck in one of these, I strongly recommend giving this a shot: https://curtclifton.net/papers/MoseleyMarks06a.pdf

"but it won't scale"

We are in the era of hyperscale SQL engines. Database engines that are spread out across multiple servers, racks and buildings. Engines so vast & complex the compute & storage responsibilities have to be separated into different stacks. But, they (the good ones) still work just like the old school approach from an application perspective. The workload necessary to actually saturate one of these databases would be incredible. I some days wonder if Twitter could be rewritten on top of one without much suffering.

And, if you aren't trying to go big and bold or spend a bunch of money, there's always SQLite. It also supports basically all the same damn things. It can run entirely in memory. It has FTS indexing. Your CTE-enabled queries will work just fine on it. If you find SQLite doesn't scale with you, swapping to a different engine really isn't that big of a deal either. You will have some dialect conflicts but it's generally very workable, especially if you use some thin layer like Dapper between your code and the actual connection instances.
Or hopefully we will see an end of the LLM hype.

Or at least models that don’t hog so much RAM.
While business rates may be different, California cannot be a sensible place to host power-hungry infrastructure - our electrical rates are easily 5-8 times of other locations within the US
i wrote about AI Agents & SW 3.0 on March 2022!

some selected quotes from the blog

1) "In SW 3.0, the business logic, I/O control, and the data pre/post-processing code are partially or even entirely created by the AI agent during the optimization process"

the `optimization process` for the entire chain of actions is still immature

2) "It is likely that any setting where the program is not obvious but one can repeatedly evaluate its performance (e.g. - programming competitions?) will be subject to this transition, because the optimization can probably find much better code than what an average human can write"

3) "It is likely that testing [automation] will become even more crucial in the SW 3.0 stack for a number of possible reasons. To name two: 1) programmers would be able to do more, including less experienced ones, 2) programs will be much more dynamic"

4) "In the coming years, we will see immense research efforts to improve the setup and learning schemes used to create AI agents that generate programs"

4) "Bottom-up: Functions, classes, and capabilities will be generated with newly introduced IDEs, code management, testing, code generation and analysis of SW 3.0 stack.
Top-down: graphical and programable application interfaces will be generated with newly introduced no/low-code SW 3.0 based platforms"

did these age well?

do you think that the vision of AI Agents will be realized before 2025?

curious, would you consider `ChatGPT + Code interpreter` as an agent?
One of the coolest things about plantuml is the generated PNG actually contains the source code for the image as metadata. If someone gives you an image, they don't also need to send you the source because you can extract it using the plantuml CLI.
Needs locale-specific pricing. The way the dollar has been fluctuating recently $29 could be 40-local or 20-local next month.
PikaPods.com, managed and only like ~$1.60/mo for Wordpress depending on how you spec it.

I also host my Ghost blog there for basically nothing
Oh, this is perfect. Thank you! (On a tangent: replies like these are why I wish we had ways to get notifications for responses. Another paradigm of HN I don't fully agree with but I digress).

I do like the distinguishing factor between marking a commenter and blocking. I don't like (and think it's dangerous) to feel like blocking any old bad commenter over one comment is the go-to option, so having a way to self-warn myself if this is the same user before going nuclear is a nice touch.

>The main problem I have with this is that I can no longer flag or rebuff their posts (whichever may apply), so these people become the proverbial "missing stairs" if everyone starts doing it :-/

True, it is indeed a macro issue. But at the same time I feel it's a micro problem and there's a point where I need to look out for myself as opposed to the site at large. Let sleeping dogs lie, for now.
Would Californians prefer to have a separate Cal$?
The only people tinkering for hours are either having fun making customizations, or are debugging something gnarly. If you just leave your config alone, you have to do approximately zero maintenance. Maybe a version upgrade breaks a package. Maybe. Otherwise, I'm tired of this canard. Emacs doesn't make you do anything to your configuration you don't choose to do yourself.
scaling this would make a great system design interview question. rather than building a larger system, build something that takes consistency, availability and fault tolerance to an extreme.
At least 44 dead after blast rips through political gathering in Pakistan
Macros are perfectly capable of static polymorphism. That is one of their primary use cases. _Generic is simply an alternative mechanism for static polymorphism, with some extra capabilities and some limitations in comparison to your typical macro.
Yet even Google itself lacks import capabilities, even for the very portable export formats they generate. And this is understandable, because en masse imports are undoubtedly a security issue.

As for OneDrive and Outlook exports, if only there were a way to synchronize data to a client. Oh well.
> The while premise of needing a nin-centralized wax of confirming ones identity is, at its core, deeply un-demicratic. As of bow, government issued documentation confirms anyones identiy. These governments can be democratic, and are. Puting a different system in place, controlled by some tech-billionaire-liberitarian, is as dytopian as it gets.

I deeply hate this line of logic. This exact argument was presented against the Signal messaging app in an Op-Ed in the NYT (https://archive.is/tJoem), to quote from it:

> They are a small group of people who govern these powerful tools, and they are not accountable in the way that, say, a democratically elected government is. Whether law enforcement should tap our phones on the condition that a warrant is obtained is, at the very least, worthy of public discussion. Signal has unilaterally decided for us all.

Boo hoo, math makes it so that governments (yes, even democratic ones) can't tap phones, therefore math (and the technologists who code up this math) are evil and anti-democratic.

For all WorldCoin's faults, merely attempting to offer a decentralized alternative (even if it's not a very good one!) to government proof-of-person solutions is not one of them.
Just curious, do you guys use renewable energy to power your cluster?
Grocery stores around the corner do not work in spread out neighborhoods because the Krogers/Costcos/Albertsons/Walmarts will be able to offer lower price due economies of scale, and anyone with a car will choose to drive 10min, or stop on their way home, to save money rather than go to the higher priced grocery store around the corner.
For the layperson I highly recommend The History of English Podcast. Although the focus is on English is starts from square one with the Proto Indo European people -- what we know about their culture/technology, the various migrations and branches, how the language was reconstructed, etc. The host is always careful to point out how these conclusions were drawn and where there are competing hypotheses or uncertainty. I love how the show weaves the evolution of language together with many aspects of history.
> sweet sweet VC money

Sure, yeah, maybe that's all it is, a scam that's totally transparent and obvious to every random internet commenter but totally non-obvious to the simple and gullible marks on Sand Hill Road.

Or maybe, just possibly, there might be more to it.

Perhaps it takes a little more effort to understand than just piling on to the reflexive groupthink cynicism which passes for conventional wisdom around here.

(Disclaimer: I have no association with this project, haven't gotten my irises scanned, don't own the token, haven't invested any effort to understand it. But I've been around long enough to recognize the smell of reflexive groupthink cynicism, and to profit by betting against it.)
I think the obvious solution here is to have sign language fluency be encouraged in whatever country you particularly live in. I think that person meant "world" as a figure of speech.
Interesting how Worldcoin chooses to start in countries where this demand exists, almost by definition the poorest countries in the world, where the infrastructure is not only barely needed, but also most likely to be abused by the same governments that created the poverty in the first place.
The Switch didn't change the meaning of A and B; the OS and all first-party Nintendo games that I've seen use A=confirm and B=cancel, which has been the case for a long time.

There are some games I've played on the Switch that use B=confirm, I think usually so that button layout is the same across consoles.
Exports help always. Someone in the future could write a tool. Someone can finance writing a tool. AI could be used to create a tool.
I am going to be downvoted to death, but it is clear from last year events that Sam Altman is truly that kind of "Blade Runner/Robocop(1)"-like antagonist character that has a narcissistic drive to destroy the world just so he can show everybody he is saving it.

(1) Pick your 80's Sci-Fi movie dystopia that fits here.