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I’m all for EVs in theory, but I’m against the positioning of yet another expansion of private vehicles as the solution to our problems.

We’re investing all in a ‘revolution’ that’s just an incremental improvement over the old revolution.

Can’t call yourself green when tire pollution is filling the oceans with microplastics and your solution is worse than the old one.

For once, let’s explore long-term solutions to planetary problems rather than pretending we have the answer when it’s just a new compromise.

After all, nobody is going to care about how fast the car charges when the fish are gone from the sea. You can’t eat batteries.

https://grist.org/transportation/evs-are-a-climate-solution-...
I managed to play the demo for something like 30 minutes, and then uninstall it. Precisely because I want to have a life. I know I would love this game too much.
You can actually get quite cheap ones now. They make integrated scanners that work with a phone app. Easily under £1k second hand. Maybe close to that new if you shop around.

I wouldn't recommend it though. The only reason we use ultrasound imaging is because it's cheap, easy and completely harmless. As an actual imaging method it's terrible. There's so much speckle you can barely see anything, except in some situations like pregnancy where you have a convenient bag of water around the thing you're looking it.

There's a reason ultrasonographers are well paid - it's really really hard to read an ultrasound.
i agree, but i think they should have gone the other way. "chromebook plus" makes it sound like a premium product that you probably don't need. minimum 8GB of ram should be the standard configuration that most people go for. The people buying Chromebooks with 4GB of ram aren't going to be put off because it doesn't have the "chromebook plus" branding on it.

if they want to help the chromebook's reputation, they should be calling this the minimum spec for a chromebook, and putting "chromebook lite" or similar branding on the ones that don't meet it.
automate bits of your jobs with scripts.

use different languages when bash, python, etc get old. perl and then lisps and whatever. exposure and experience with different tools is all to the good.

in spare time, fiddle with games and silly graphics hacks that have no purpose other than pretty and fun. "always learning" and its amazing what comes in handy in contexts you never thought it would.
What does this have to do with anything? Obviously there are jobs where WFH is not possible. Nobody is disputing that. Should we all be required to wear uniforms to work because some jobs require that? Some jobs require you to be clean shaven, should that requirement be universal as well? Or what about working night shifts? Doesn't seem fair that nurses have to work overnight shifts while pampered office worker get to work regular daytime schedules does it?

And for the record I have worked restaurant, retail and construction jobs in the past.
Are new companies and new start ups eschewing office space? I would imagine so and that over time fully remote will be the way.
No, they later told me not to mention in the office what happens on a night out.

I'd prefer not to do things with my coworkers I'll later be embarrassed about, but I guess it's just different cultures.
This backpedaling looks familiar.

Who would have thought that a couple thousand dollars of "stimulus" monies, your dollar being worth 20% less than it was a few years ago, record credit card debt, record wealth inequality between the have's and have-nots, and a completely screwed up housing market would lead to Americans saving "less than previously thought"...

Remember, the people making fiscal policy have been citing "savings accrued during covid" every chance they can. The same chattering donor class, bureaucrats, and politicians that insist the economy is doing better than ever. The same chattering donor class, bureaucrats, and politicians, who redefined the meaning of "recession" when it was inconvenient to their policy goals. The same chattering donor class, bureaucrats, and politicians, who were gleefully calling for people to lose their jobs if they didn't get the latest iteration of a vaccine with questionable and overstated results.
I'm wondering if decent standards are created, we'll be able to buy an electron microscope on amazon, just like 3d printers.
This is fucking awesome. 12ft is a hilarious name.
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A fascinating thing is that you can catch a infection early. If you know you have been exposed and time it right you can induce a artificial fever via sauna or steam bath. This catches the whole infection ahead of the curve and shortens reconvalescing and downtime significantly.
My understanding is that it's the entire point actually. Jewish people believe that these loopholes are explicit rewards for studying God's teachings. They don't believe they are "tricking" god or doing anything untoward, but rather that they and their god are sharing a shit eating grin of "yup solved your puzzle, pretty great"

That being said, I have to laugh at a lot of the "Sabbath" mode stuff, because it's purposeful self deception. If you use an elevator at all, even in sabbath mode that is fully automated, just your physical presence is actuating several physical switches and logical systems, with plenty of sparks generated from relays opening and closing.
If it helps anyone, at work, I open sourced the UUID v7 postgresql function that I wrote: https://github.com/Betterment/postgresql-uuid-generate-v7

We've seen some amazing benefits, especially around improving the speed of batch inserts.
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It is missed on purpose because leadership wants it to be missed and they get visibly upset if you ask them. Such thin skins for people cracking a whip.
older family members use Chromebooks and it's amazing. All they need it for is social media, bank stuff, browsing news sites. I've bought one 6 years ago and mom has never looked back. We even set it up via hdmi to a tv and watch youtube videos with zero issues.
> Walking over and talking to someone is still far superior to any online communication. So unless you have a job that requires minimal communication on a day-to-day basis, an office is superior for productivity.

Nope! All this does is break the concentration of the person you're interrupting. This is precisely the "bullshit" viewpoint called out in the headline.

I commonly find these sorts of views espoused by people who can't type very fast. For most people who aren't Really Good With Computers, it's much easier for them to speak to someone than it is to type to someone.

I make all of my staff that don't know how to touch type learn to type their first week. It's essential.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ecca.12439
Like many corruption deniers you assume everyone is basically good and that the insiders don't rig the game, because... no reason given.

A myriad of psychological experiments, e.g. Milgram, show that people are easily influenced to do unethical things if the incentives are set right and an acceptable rationalization is provided.
“Professional” has a meaning in the context of employment that’s not just “good at a thing that is not easy”.
Only AWS for now. What use case do you have in mind for multi-cloud?

It is designed specifically with the idea of handling autoscaling well, see: https://multinode.dev/docs/resources/workers
I use Windows 11 on all my computers here, and run the Tor browser on my desktop and my laptop, and haven't seen this. In fact, I ran the Tor browser just this morning.

I think this was, at worst, a temporary issue that was resolved.
Isn't it interesting that the millions and millions of people with the opposite opinion never get their thoughts shared via articles like this? If there was legitimate, rational, discussion on the topic, wouldn't you expect to see people with differing opinions on the topic get their thoughts promoted in a similar way?
That number sounds high to me.

Is your contention here that the technology to make this seamless and reliable experience doesn't exist, or are you agreeing with me that it's not trivial to implement?
We must all remain forever vigilant and be prepared to stand our ground against tyrrany, irrespective of the cost we will have to pay.

I wish a social assistance service existed for tech workers where we pay a small monthly amount in and receive support for bills if we are fired for refusing RTO and being laid off. Such a group service would seriously blunt the sharpness of the sword at our throats by these bosses who think they have all the power.
I have to say, in this particular case it seems like a reasonable approach, but the phrase "an electronic warrant from the local on-call judge" seems to be somewhat at odds with the purported purpose of a warrant.
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So this is such a good example of why the office is actually a major liability. Being in person allows you to get away with creating a culture where documentation doesn't really exist and that tapping people on the shoulder is more efficient. Everyone will be better off if instead knowledge is shared efficiently.

A good analogue is the culture of "the smoke break"(see the Friend's episode The One Where Rachel Smokes for a funny example). It's easy to say "the best decisions are made during smoke breaks therefore smoking is necessary for efficient businesses." Clearly that's absurd. It's not the smoking that makes good decisions, nor does the ability to tap people on the shoulder make for good documentation. Depending upon an accidental formation of office culture is never going to go well in the long run.
This is so weird to me. I’ve worked in wildly successful global companies to which I have contributed wildly successful work collaborating with people I have never once met in person, over years of working with them. I am, emphatically, not questioning your perspective, but I have literally never, over 3 decades, found a need for in person collaboration that could not be satisfied electronically. If anything, post-COVID norms such as Zoom/Teams replacing conference calls have improved my daily work immeasurably, even with much less shared space work.

I actually go to the office a fair amount but, far from a shared collaboration space, it’s largely a refuge for people who specifically want not to be bothered (by the dog, the kids, the neighbor’s leaf blower, etc.).
> When the internet goes down, why aren't people simply just sending faxes?

My phones are 1) a VOIPphone, and 2) a mobile device. The former relies on the internet; the latter can't send a FAX. PSTN is 90's technology, fewer and fewer people have a PSTN line.
I expected much more correlation between the drinking culture and the amount of alcohol consumed. If the difference between drunk people in the streets and civility on a night out is 10%, I wonder what happens in countries that don't drink at all.
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Yes and no. What needs to be factored in is, does the best / top talent forget? Or are they ones with more focus and memory? Does their marketability allow them to be more selective?

I think you see where this is going :)
Because it's mostly distressed lending, the preference is almost entirely on the lender not the borrower. IMF loans are required to be fairly transparent, while B&RI have so far been opaque (not clear what the terms, payment priority, or valuation of projects as collateral). The IMF won't even lend to countries where the lending would be used to pay off other creditors (since that's a transfer between creditors). It's unclear what China's response will be if the projects they claim are then nationalized (dams, ports and railroads are likely to be considered national infrastructure). Decisions to accept loans aren't made by the population that will pay and when governments change so do priorities.

Since there's already a China debt problem (and ROI problem) though, it's more likely the loans just dry up. That already started in 2017 (see graph in article).
My three year old Android budget phone has the same specs, more or less.

A laptop has to have more.
I totally agree

These companies know they could lose a lot of excellent talent, and backfill with mediocre talent. Their employer brand names will remain strong carry them through, with enough junior candidates that will backfill the "industry expert" and mostly nobody will notice.
The author hand-waved away the whole "exception" thing with "good luck getting C-level approval in time!" But if he was really as valuable as he claimed, all he had to do was just say "No" and he would have gotten C-level approval.
There's nothing to suggest that they would have no social skills, or send creepy messages to their female co-workers either.
It's not just internationally. China has done that to its own people. Or worse. Look at Evergrand and Sunac.

The government of China let developers sell un-built apartments to future residents. The residents not only paid down payments, but took on a mortgage obligation for an un-built building.
"The majority of new properties in China — about 90% — are sold before being completed." - CNN.
This produced a terrible incentive for developers to do huge numbers of housing starts and then not finish the building.

In most of the rest of the world, developers have to finance construction with their own money or a high-interest construction loan, then sell the completed building. This gives developers a strong incentive to finish the job. Building quality control is often a problem, but unfinished projects less so.
That is remarkably depressing to see.
Such systems are even more useless than hash/pattern matching scanners. I've had CrowdStrike on my machines before and it would've had no qualms with me exposing root-level access over an RPC interface.
Or, just stop making a college degree a requirement for the jobs which don't require specialized training...
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IANAA, but my understanding is that corporate profits are taxed, but there are many deductions available for business expenses. If you tax profits more, businesses would be less inclined to take profits, and more inclined to reinvest that in additional steps to expand the business (e.g. buying more equipment). These expenses have a multiplier expense, increasing money velocity and "pushing the gas pedal" on the economy.
For neutral sounding very fast/efficient voices, I find Coqui TTS VITS models to be very good. For slower, more expressive voice or voice cloning I think the Coqui TTS XTTS is good (or you can look at the mrq/tortoise-tts).

I'm still awaiting a StyleTTS2 implementation. The audio samples sound top notch: https://styletts2.github.io/
Quite often it's just a mix of laziness and knowing that I probably know better. I'm not sure if that's better than them building broken pipelines and custom kubernetes shenanigans that I have to catch later anyway.

For instance, we recently found some developer started using some very traefik-specific annotations and CRDs in our clusters (and they can only deploy manifests that don't pass through our renderer with a hack anyway). While we were migrating ingress controllers...

It just seems like there's quite a shortage of developers, so hiring standards aren't the greatest. Or maybe I should have a higher tier job. But I already have to work 4 days a week because while I get more done than my peers, I absolutely can not work for more than 1-2 hours a day if I get bored. And fixing people's shitty designs tends to be only somewhat engaging.
Not to tell you how to comment, but those that don't seek answers with an open mind will often fulfill their own disillusion without your help at all. Which is to say: if the person you're responding to can't intrinsically understand what would be good about having a 'pair programmer AI' cleaning up your graph as you code it, based on things it learned about how you code, then that person is probably not going to benefit from whatever you can explain to them. If they don't have the problem, then their understanding of it will be just as academic as their naysaying of it. And, all things being equal, why bother trying to make someone understand something they've already represented a lack of utility for?
As an aside, unless you have a specific reason not to, refer to others in those situations in the way they refer to each other. If you’re chatting with Jane and Bob, and they’re calling each other Jane and Bob, so should you. Your default attitude should be that you’re their peer, even if you’re working in different fields. They’re good at managing organizations. You’re good at technical stuff. You’re all there to work together to get stuff done.

Get them used to calling you by name as an equal, not as “the dev”.
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Is it really zero sum? Is there a backlog of planets in sun-like systems that we’re ignoring in favor of this?
Ask HN: Should I Keep the “Co-Founder? Seeking Co-Founder?” Posts?
This month marks a time for a check-up: Should I continue posting the "Co-Founder? Seeking Co-Founder?" threads? After a conversation with dang last month, the path forward remains unclear.

To date, these threads have assisted 44 founders in connecting with potential co-founders, which is pretty meaningful impact in my book.

Your thoughts? Open for discussion.
In the US, coffee shops, bars, fast food franchises, convenience stores, gas stations and such are often considered "easy" investments. I guess in part because they are local small businesses that the would be investor knows well (the local bar) or because the franchiser might provide handholding.

There's really no need to blame the 1% for your coffee shops.
Exactly, most companies structure and processes are not ready for remote, much less hybrid, work. And a lot of workers are also not ready for that change

I started remotely recently but I feel the company, which seems to be trying, struggles to give me meaningful work, or have colleagues available to collaborate and move it forward
If Elon could just wade into a pool of insignificance that would be great.
If they actually put in writing ‘Remote is forever’, then later try to fire you for refusing to return to the office - what judge in the world is going to rule in their favor?

If course, they rarely actually say that. But some folks have definitely been dumb enough to do so.

The issue with contract law is that most folks never put things in writing, so it’s a pain to litigate many claims, which makes it uneconomic to recover damages.

But if it’s in writing? Sounds like an easy to show breach of contract to me!
I can give several reasons there's resentment: One - if you were hired with the understanding work would be remote, then it's definitely a reason to be resentful.

Two, people love to handwave away the difficulties in "just find another job." This isn't trivial like switching toothpaste brands, somebody who's been with Acme Corp for 3 years has invested time with that employer, learned their ins and outs, and has banked some social capital there. Saying "oh, just find another job" is saying "just toss all that out and start over."

Three, if you do change jobs you have no clue whether the next company might get swept up in the RTO craze at a later date. When Acme Corp's pro-RTO CEO or another c-level person trot over to your new workplace, guess what? Now it's no longer remote-friendly.

We're not living in the same world we were pre-COVID and many of us see no reason to go backwards.
Bark seems pretty good

https://github.com/suno-ai/bark
Demo at
https://huggingface.co/spaces/suno/bark

In the couple samples I tried it was substantially better at picking up meaning compared to VALL-E-X
I suspect your best bet is to reframe your solution if the technology or market need can present a gap on a chart, as a whole new startup

e.g.

"b20000s app/standanrd $industry app": 60% success
b40000: Shiny and Fancy. With AIMLGPT machines. And all. 80% success"

Basically you are probably lacking urgency and humans tend to rest a lot of assumptions on some urgency, especially for business.

At least don't start by introducing the existing business. At best say you've spent x years as a CEO/CTO etc, and pull your experience in to answer questions, as well as clarify the situation if needed.
I share your animus against China, and, lacking the original context, I can see why the post you replied to looks like a defense of China, but I did not interpret it as such. Simply a correction of the too-often-ignorance of the IMF.
Rsync syncs only differing blocks of data (not whole files) by default - it's pretty much the reason it is so popular.

There are a lot of ways to lose that though. No rsync able to run and calculate block checksums on the other machine -> no block syncing. Change a byte in a file in an encrypted volume -> it might copy-on-write and make a wholly new encrypted "file" with everything different in the final encrypted data. Etc, it depends on a bunch of stuff interacting in ways that they might have legitimate reasons to not support, particularly with security/privacy sensitive stuff.

Not sure what you're encountering, but if it's important to you there are a few ways to troubleshoot it. It might be possible to get it working.
That’s astounding. I see statistics like this all the time.
isnt BIMI like $1000/yr?
Red dwarf systems are the typical extrasolar system though. The vast majority of stars in this galaxy are red dwarfs.
And NXP. Though it would have been nice if Philips would have evolved to be the "European iPhone" company instead of selling lights, shavers and food blenders.