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I think certain kinds of work lend themselves to 100% remote being OK. I have worked remotely for about 10-11 years total out of my career. I just had to fly to client sites every once in a while, or drive in to the city to attend meetings.

The best thing about covid is that I haven't had to do either for a couple of years and the time saved (I don't work in airports or on planes, or obviously not while driving) has made me _more_ productive while spending less time on work (getting to and from client offices).

Face time now and then is a good thing, but, like I said, it depends on the type of work one is doing.
Honestly, unis are generally resourced enough that they could pull it off, were there the will to do it, and it certainly wouldn't be the least efficient use of their resources. But as with all things related to grad student exploitation, getting funds to do that through formal structures is like wringing blood from a stone.
If Obsidian stops acheong08, I'm done with Obsidian.

I want a durable way to edit, sync, and preserve my notes, not just a pretty interface.

I'm happy to pay Obsidian for sync, but if they PM this to only one distribution channel and subsequently enshittify it, I don't want it. Stopping acheong08 would be a bad signal forewarning what's to come.
What community standards are you referring to? Can you post the link? So you are using that as an excuse to avoid the actual problem? Now I have typed the words are you going to reply the actual problems? You are just using it as an excuse not discussing your own point isn't it. Seems we know who are the CCP's shills ;D
There's also an (account-specific) "You're posting too quickly. Please Slow Down. Thanks" that specific users get if they have a flag set on their account.
First time I saw BRIC was over a decade ago plastered all over Brasil.
I'm using syncthing with Obsidian but of course i have regular conflicts which i just deal with manually. Thanks for pointing me to this!
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True, but your parent comment isn’t there.
> might be fine for certain work environments, but I wouldn't rely on it for anything truly personal

Funny, I feel the same way but to an opposite conclusion.

Hardware-locked encryption is basically the last thing I want on my notes/projects/code/pictures/etc.
To your point of video conferences between offices and teams... I think the worst possible setup is a zoom conference that's a hybrid of remote and in-person attendees. It's where video conferencing really falls down.

I worked for a company remotely and really hated the experience of being "zoomed in" to a conference room. Couldn't hear, couldn't participate, couldn't jump in, etc. Lots of side conversations at the table. Then the whole table stands up and goes to lunch. It wasn't until the company went fully remote that remote work, well, worked.
This makes perfect sense to me, as someone who lives in a college town and witnesses the uptick in terrible driving when the students return.

Fortunately, my anecdotal experience isn’t necessary to make this call.

Insurance companies are well aware of the same issue and price insurance accordingly.
On 5, I will avoid humor directed at a user and usually humor related to the ambiguity in headlines, however poorly written. I won’t shy away from mocking soulless PR statements or silly public figures.
Olduvai Gorge is pretty dry.
What is autotiling?
"I think this is a nice idea and decent proof of concept, but it's not good enough at anything to be useful right now. Everything it does can be done directly in ChatGPT/Code Interpreter."

It may be that this may well wind-up being said about virtually every ChatGPT "app" that gets produced. After all, these apps essentially are just prepending some text to a ChatGPT prompt.
Kind of funny that he spent some time talking about how movies shouldn't be made out of books. Short stories, sure, but not books.
I was unaware that Apple was helping implement WebGPU! I actually love WebGPU, it looks great and pairs very nicely with three.js which is a favourite hobby tool of mine to use on pet projects.

I can tell you have strong opinions on Vulkan. I don't disagree with your general view that it's hard to work with development wise as it's very tied down to driver and hardware implementation specifics.

What I can say though, is that I've met several pipeline rendering engineers (think folks who invent render engines for film and write low level game engine code) who seem to love Vulkan. They appreciate being able to really get down to the bare metal of the drivers and eek out the performance and conformity they need for the rest of the game or render engine.

A lot of the frustration with OpenGL/DirectX from these specialists was their inability to "get in there" and force the GPU to do what they really wanted. Vulkan apparently gives them a lot more control. As a result, they are able to accomplish things that were previously impossible.

All that being said, I think WebGPU will be far more popular for 99% of developers. Only a very few folks like getting down into the nitty-gritty of libraries like Vulkan. At the same time, there is huge money to be made knowing how to make a game eek out another 10 FPS or properly render a complex scene for a film group like Pixar who wants to save days on a scene render.
I would agree with you. But on the other hand, I think there will be a very high rewards for an entity that can "unlock" a easy, repeatable and usable set of remote work patterns. And by reward, other companies would pay a lot for this.

It seems that a lot of the reversal of the WFH / remote work trend is coming from the higher ups at companies, mostly centered around culture, on-boarding of new employees, getting things done, etc.

The "a lot of work got done around here in the 5minute hall way conversation" crowd has some good points honestly. I know at my company, they instituted 2 days in the office, specifically mentioning the erosion of our culture and "ways of working."

Were I the Zoom CEO, I would 100% be experimenting and iterating on what it means to be a "remote first" Fortune 500 company, because doing that correctly is worth a lot of money.
My college dorm is the only place I've ever lived that didn't have at least a two car attached garage. That's five of five houses with two or three car garages.
Totally agree. Why not use this as an opportunity to explore the problem their users are presumably facing?
This is a weird gray area where although Twitter/X is the canonical source for many announcements, users don't upvote them unless it's from a more respected domain. (and often with a more informative title)
For its part, PyPI is apparently funded by the Python Software Foundation and run by volunteer admins, with the bulk of its data served gratis by Fastly. This is based on a blog post about its infrastructure from 2021 [1], which also says that the list price for the throughput they're doing is $1.8 million per month.

[1] https://dustingram.com/articles/2021/04/14/powering-the-pyth...
> The name perfectly describes what it is: an abstraction where the developer doesn't have to worry about a server.

There is a difference between an abstraction that allows the user to ignore X, and the actual absence of X. Modern car engines, for example, are reliable enough that most drivers don't have to worry about them. But it's still a mistake to call a car with a reliable engine "engine-less".
The first version of CUDA was released in 2007 so I would not be surprised if they started working on it in the 90s. These things take time.

Nvidia also made sure that CUDA runs on gaming GPUs and supports Windows. This is why its tools are so good. You don't need to buy a datacenter GPU, no need to mess with Linux. Just buy any gaming GPU, install CUDA SDK and you're good to go.

AMD wasn't like that. Their alternative - ROCM didn't even work on gaming GPUs. Their datacenter GPUs didn't even support Windows. Basically the opposite approach of NVIDIA. Now AMD is rushing to add Windows and consumer GPU support to ROCM, but it's a bit too little too late.
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Crawler Bot Poses a Dilemma for Publishers and Newsmakers
You have to distinguish between the implementation and the interface from the Java point of view. In Go, you'd use goroutines. Even if you want to use an OS thread you use a goroutine and then pin it to an OS thread, and there's no reason to do that in this case.

However, inside Java it may look like the original Threading API. In that case you'd have a JVM running the Thread abstraction in Java on top of green threads in Go, while not supporting Java green threads, and there's no contradiction or even anything weird going on. Perfectly normal.
Do you think there’s any room here to add a “what would be best for society” metric to this analysis, beyond just “what earns me the most money”? Obviously this realistically doesn’t happen, just curious on your stance, given your matter-of-fact take
> That is an uncomfortable conversation because it’s not true but they pretend it is.

Of course, every group of humans is further divisible into smaller groups, so no group larger than the individual is a true mono-anything. But when the great majority of those within and without Japan agree that for all practical purposes Japan is occupied by the Japanese, I'm OK rolling with it.

The same cannot be said of e.g. France, the US, or Brazil. America especially enjoys the phenomenon of the hyphenated-American.
I don't know any technical people who use Macs with OSX still installed.

They all gave up on that trainwreck of an OS, and either their final Mac died and they replaced it with an even better laptop by a different vendor (Framework, et al), or they still own a Mac but it now runs Windows or Linux (and when that one dies, it will be their last, and they will become post-Mac, too). I know exceptionally few tech people with M1, and they bought it knowing they had to suffer the rough edges of Asahi; I do not know a single tech person who bought an M1 and left OSX on it.

The number of Macs in existence only goes down, not up; doubly so in the tech world.

I don't get why theres a few people on HN that persist in the FUD+FOMO combo that OSX is gonna make a comeback and win because "its a Unix!" and "Apple takes security seriously!" and "Safari is world's best browser!" and "Swift is a great language to code in, even if it doesn't work on other OSes!" and "I use XCode unironically!"

Just stop already, we've all heard it. Repeating it doesn't make it true.
Nobody thinks that way.

If they could save money right now by not paying for utilities and support staff without sacrificing productivity, they absolutely would do it.

And eventually that lease is going to come up for renewal, and they'd love to be able to cut costs then too. Bringing everyone back to the office makes that impossible, but they've decided it's worth it.
Coverage in any given area is obviously going to be a variable, but the one major difference between the two carriers is that while Verizon has pretty complete 4G coverage, they have rested hard on their laurels and their 5G is light years behind. Just looking at the coverage maps in this comparison[1], it's not even remotely close.

[1] https://www.whistleout.com/CellPhones/Guides/verizon-vs-t-mo...
A lot of companies are doing this. I wonder how many are doing it because they want to reduce head counts through attrition instead of layoffs?
> It is pretty beautiful how such small, centuries-old traditions seem to abound in Japan, where the condition of the west seems to be a state of persistent impermanence.

You own traditions often seem trivial and normal compared to foreign ones. Especially so anglosaxon ones because of all the popculture and merchandise. But they are just as bizzare and ingrained in culture when you look at them from a different POV.

I'm from a western Slavic country - not that much different from western Europe. Yet Haloween, "telling the bees" or even baby gender reveal parties seem completely alien to me.

On the other hand we have a barely christianized fertility ritual during which boys sprinkle girls with water :)
Yeah the cloud is a lovely weapon against the BOFH. They smarten right up when you shrug your shoulders and say "Oh, I guess I'll just buy some cloud."
Yes, but as a person who is running a remote first company I'd much rather put my faith in a company that understands how to be a remote first company.

So, Zoom is out as a product for us. We use discord at our company, which just _fits_ a remote workflow so much better than zoom. Which makes sense, given their job listings have a whole lot for "... or Remote" (https://discord.com/careers).

Zoom would be able to build a better product, for more users, and capture more value, if they understood how to build a remote working team, and put in the work to do that.
Does "capable of running Java 17 classes" imply Java >= 17 or Java <= 17?

I tried to run a Java 11 jar on my M1 Mac with $JAVA_HOME pointed at a temurin-11.0.20 JVM but no such luck:

$ ./jacobin -jar my.jar
Class Format Error: Class has two package names: apple/security and com/sun/crypto/provider
detected by file: cpParser.go, line: 241
ParseAndPostClass: error parsing classes/module-info.class. Exiting.
Class Format Error: Invalid access flags of MethodParameters attribute #1 in main
detected by file: methodParser.go, line: 333
Class Format Error:
detected by file: methodParser.go, line: 109
ParseAndPostClass: error parsing my.Main. Exiting.
>This would be great if I had a beefy machine with 32GB ram and 16 cores.

Honestly this is a pretty standard workstation setup now. The days of 16GB being sufficient are pretty much over. RAM is cheap. And you can run the 7b model with well under that much.
I recently enjoyed reading the pure Python equivalent definitions of the itertools [0] and more-itertools modules.

[0]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/itertools.html
Yes, but you won't gain much cardiovascular health from that.
> Your concern about purpose strikes me as odd. When people derive purpose from their work, it's often because they feel they're playing a role in a community. To deprive people of purpose would require that we make communities fully automated and impersonal. I don't think anyone wants or is proposing that.

It is really not about wanting or proposing anything. It is about the effect of technology and what it will mean. Don't you think that communities are already becoming a bit more impersonal and automated? With ChatAI replacing customer service, self-checkout aisles, online dating, etc...

It seems to me that communities are indeed becoming more and more impersonal, especially if you compare them to communities thousands of years ago.
>The use of a discrete (physical) TPM actually decreases the security

My laptop from 2015 didn’t have physical TPM and it prompted me when I tried to enable it: “Allow BitLocker without a compatible TPM (requires a password or a startup key on a USB flash drive)” and I thought it’s less secure.. the irony! Good thing I don’t use bitlocker anyway.
So no eating your own dog food there?
The most effective online service that truly does help is Focusmate. Quite cheap and has a very simple premise.
Most small companies will login with a microsoft account and have the key saved by default to https://myaccount.microsoft.com/

If you don't sign in with a microsoft account bitlocker isn't enabled by default. When you setup bitlocker it "forces" you to make a backup of the key
Some models are distributed P2P. They download slower, in my experience, and require special software rather than the usual git commands.

P2P model distribution isn't impossible, but it's a lot less interesting to many people, or they would've already spread their models through torrents in the first place.
Unless someone figures out a way to do this without surgery from ten feet away the answer is that it won't.
cloud vs. serverless:

You can install postgres in a AWS EC2, it's in the "cloud" but you still have to do all the sysadmin work yourself.

Or you can use a "serverless" postgres and let the provider do the sysadmin work for you. I guess you could call it "postgres as a service".
Matt Mullenweg talks future of Tumblr: algorithmic choice and AI enhancements
If I understand the README correctly, CRaC in an abstract API that delegates to an implementation (CRIU) which is Linux-specific, described in its README as "the never-ending story, because we have to always keep up with the Linux kernel".

So this wouldn't help if I'm deploying a GUI app for Windows, for example.
Now that the TPM has been proven to be security theater Microsoft should drop the TPM requirement for Windows 11 and allow older machines to upgrade.

My previous job let me keep their 2016 laptop with an Intel i7 CPU, 32 GB RAM, and 512 GB SSD. Wonderful little bedtime laptop that is stuck on Windows 10.
My most upvoted comment on HN by a mile was a joke about Siri. A lot of my other most upvoted comments are either jokes or humorous exaggerations or other silly stuff.

The guidelines may say that humor should be avoided, but the readership (the people who, in the end, decide what HN is) seems to disagree.
I started working remotely from my team in 2011. By 2014 the people remaining in Hq had closed most meeting rooms and people were expected to dial in from their hot desks - nowhere near each other. It was all the downsides of being in the office with the downsides of video conferencing.
https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/
You said it didn't matter, the evidence is the graphs is crystal clear. As vaccines were rolled out there was a massive difference and the pandemic was muted for people who were vaccinated.

You are ignoring evidence and hallucinating your own results while repeating your claims over and over.

You don't need a link

Yes you do. You can't explain why you think what you do.

Think a little.

Think a little less and leave it up to the experts.

yes, 6 months of eating cookies reduces covid transmission by 11%"

Over 6 months the difference in cases for vaccinated was a tiny fraction compared to unvaccinated. I showed you this already. How do you explain this?

You haven't linked anything of your own, you haven't backed up any of your claims, you haven't explained why you think what you do and you haven't explained where you get your information.

Vaccine denial is reality denial.
If you want to understand crystals thermodynamically, in terms of entropy, you should be using a more rigorous notion of entropy. When crystal formation is thermodynamically favorable, the process causes entropy to increase, not decrease. So if you have a crystal which exists in-situ, in the conditions which caused it to form, you don’t increase entropy by un-creating it.
For sure there are GitHub lists somewhere. I recently had to research for olap Postgres compatible workloads and I know major ones: redshift, clickhouse, hydra
Yes, opening the connection to the DB read-only would also work. That's what we're planning on doing.
> If a ceo said they needed your money 5+ years from now, wouldn't you wait until then to commit?

Why would a CEO give up equity if they don't need the capital? Wouldn't they prefer not to sell big chunks of flesh?

If he's not deploying it now, maybe the CEO is predicting rough times ahead and wants to de-risk for future cash flow or fundraising turbulence? Isn't that, too, a kind of negative signal? Or is this all prudent?
> At the same time, that modern monocrop agriculture is further exacerbating the problems faced with non-native species

For sure.

> but the urban beekeepers

Are they really a problem? How many hives are they keeping? I've no idea. I know it's hard to come up with numbers in that regard because most such hives are -presumably- completely not registered.

Urban and suburban beekeeping can only be considered a hobby. And a risky one at that. Bees don't like lawn mowers running near them, and neighbors don't like getting stung. I think urban beekeeping must be a non-problem.

> Humans are absolutely not an invasive species in the americas. [...]

Fair.
Netlify Announces the Evolution of Cloud Platform
Latency. Body language. Eye contact.

It all leads to constant interruptions and people speaking over others because all of the natural cues we rely on are missing or time-shifted.

Not to mention the ability to "read the room". You're often trying to gauge what other people are thinking -- are they receptive, confused, afraid to ask a question, satisfied, etc. This is far, far more difficult over Zoom.
The US and Europe have historical preservation societies. Some people like it, some are satisfied by it, some go farther afield. I don’t think it’s “orientalist” necessarily to be interested in historical preservation of other cultures.

Is an interest [in] eastern philosophy orientalism?

I once heard it described that Shintoism is the undercurrent in Japanese society and industry in the same way that Calvinism is the undercurrent in America. Few practice it but everyone knows it subconsciously. There are a couple of famous books that look at Zen through the lens of arts like garden design or archery. I see a similar pattern in Chinese crafts and martial arts, vis a vis daoism, Confucianism, or ch’an (zen).

I’m sure someone not steeped in Christianity would see the same thing in our culture. But it’s like asking a fish to describe water.
NASA Shares First Images from US Pollution-Monitoring Instrument
I wonder how much dogfooding there is at Discord. Do they really use it for their main work communications? Maybe falling back to Google Chat (which looks like it's now a usable experience[0]) for SRE and war room type issues.

0: https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/02/new-google-c...
100% this. I've posted on HN a few times about my bouts with cancer. I'm only 35 so symptoms were constantly dismissed as something else. Only because I noticed the drop in my workouts did I have the motivation to really push my PCP for more testing. Knowing your body and being an advocate for yourself are so critical in a "if your arm hurts stop moving your arm" medical culture.
Because prototype vehicles are not supposed to be profit centers. The fact that now you are shifting to cars shows how uninterested you were in this topic to begin with.

Please stop making shit up. We already have seen people reuse or at least test natural gas infrastructure with hydrogen. There are no showstopper problems. It is a fully solvable problem and is going to happen.

You literally are making up your own fictional scenario to rationalize how you can disconnect $0.02/kWh electricity from cheap hydrogen. This is pure incoherent rubbish.

Ultimately, you are creating an alternative reality to rationalize your delusion that batteries can power anything while nothing else can. No fucking idea why are you ranting about nuclear safety either. It is one of the safest energy sources out there.
> What an idiotic conclusion

Ad hominem attack but without any additional details to support your assertion?

>> You can deposit whatever amount you want into your bank account, they just might ask questions regarding where the money came from, and if you show that you sold products there's zero issues.

The original assertion was that you'd need to 'show that you sold products'.. to the bank, not your accountant... rather more difficult than it appears at first blush.
I started using broot a while ago because I was fed up with file explorer.
I don't know why people are so terrified of politics.