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> I think we all have friends who work multiple roles or do nothing remotely.

I have a hard time believing this take. I work at a fully remote company. Our calendars are public so everyone can see what everyone elses meeting schedule is. We have GitHub so you can certainly see the activity of others. We have CI systems so you can see deploys kick off. We have OKRs so you can see business objectives being met.

It would have to be a pretty extraordinary set of circumstances, maybe outright reckless laziness that would also provide cover for people in the office who do nothing, in order to cover for someone doing absolutely nothing. I think the idea that there are remote workers sitting around soaking up beaucoup bucks while doing nothing is a projection of incredible levels of insecurity.

In my own experience, companies that do RTO mandates fall into one of two categories:

- They have outstanding investments in real estate that act as collateral for other debts that they do not know how to cover yet.

- They have extreme dysfunction in their middle management arm, to the extent that peoples productivity is almost entirely based on presence rather than the merit of metrics.
Map/filter/reduce are just primitives. The composability built on top of them and coherent system of using these higher level combinators is where other languages fall short.

Other languages support regex for example, but perl takes it to a different level that changes the language experience.
don't take this the wrong way but you may be impeding traffic, and other may be fuming while going around you. there's a flow to the traffic, doubly so in NYC, cars can be going through, another making a turn, two peds crossing diagonally, but it all comes to a standstill around virginia and ohio plates for some reason
I can relate a lot to this. Thanks for sharing
> The only major downside of Podman on Mac OS is that you cant use the host network in a container

And this isn't even a Podman-specific issue, it's true of Docker Desktop as well [0]:

> The host networking driver only works on Linux hosts, and is not supported on Docker Desktop for Mac, Docker Desktop for Windows, or Docker EE for Windows Server.

[0] https://docs.docker.com/network/drivers/host/
I like the delusional presumption/implication that there are hundreds of thousands of long-term unfilled job listings for things like fusion researcher, nano bots engineering, space exploration, (other near future sounding stuff), etc., and the only reason those things aren't getting worked on is because every Factorio/EVE player is a genius with a debilitating video gaming addiction.
> Some will cuss you out in a nice way for you making them do their job close to closing hours.

If you do this you're a jerk. They've already started the process of cleaning the kitchen because they want to leave at close like you want to leave at 5. Do you start something new at 4:45 or do you pack up? If you do this and really believe it's "making people do their jobs" you've graduated to asshole and they're treating you in kind. I understand that HN is full of people who either don't grok cultural norms or who balk at them saying "well if they don't want to serve you half an hour before close they should close a half hour early then." I'm not gonna tell you can't live your life that way but you can't be surprised when you eventually find yourself disrespecting someone by ignoring those norms and people getting angry at you for it.
> Take turns in counterclockwise order at stop signs.

When I learned how to drive, we were taught right-of-way at a four way intersection goes to whoever pulled up first. I think it’s like this everywhere in the United States. Could be a regional thing, though, I suppose.
I guarantee 75% of your students got lost along the way at some point, and — having lost the train of reasoning — are simply waiting for the class to be over so they can review the textbook and try to make sense of the subject matter. At least for difficult classes like physics and mathematics, which require uninterrupted thought and reflection to achieve understanding.
Not only am I not working on anything, I'm not even reading HN anymore!
Ah yes, the good ole 'do my work for me' approach
The O we were talking about is for "Order" :D

(Btw in the '90s, when it mattered, ROTFL was ROTFL and that was that... Now get off my lawn.)
Parity means you can charge your car in 5 minutes and then drive 3-400 miles, as you can in a gas car, access to repair facilities, and an average lifetime equivalent to regular cars.

We're not there yet, we will be, but it's going to take some time. The people who say 'electric cars suck' are the same sorts of people who leave negative reviews of a beta product, missing the forest for the trees in my book.

Same goes for the people who ignore critique and offer only praise. Gas/Diesel cars have a hundred years of engineering behind them. Their capabilities exist with purpose, and ignoring that is folly.
I see a lot of comments about nationalization but I don’t think that is the American way.

There should be a range of regulatory/policy actions that could be taken with nationalization being the most extreme.

Just like the banks are regulated by FDIC so can be Boeing. They’ve done great things before and they can do it again. You “just” need to figure out the right incentive structure.

If regulating it doesn’t help, throw some billions into establishing a new Boeing, the US has a history of establishing new industries based on national priorities- most recently with the space industry, before that was the semiconductor industry, etc.
Bingo. This happened to me also. What I valued changed. In my 20s and early 30s I was really serving myself. Even work was about my own curiosity and desire to work hard. Eventually as "me" time was stripped away I had to re-evaluate and understand what I was living for. We live in a world of abundance, excess and desire. The desire to create is not the same as being driven by a real need. And the cycle of consumerism only made our lives worse as we watched others who we aspired to be like or escape our lives for short periods through endless content binging. Our real needs are much simpler. We don't need a lot to live a good life. If anything we have to become more disciplined in learning how to need less.
To some degree, but if you find that your agency is impaired by a lack of self-confidence, you can start by trying to fake self-confidence.
Devtools: Supabase
As far as I can tell, all the AI stuff happening at the moment seems to be matrix multiplication. Someone wrote up the equations behind transformers the other day and it was a half-page of maths.

I skimmed the video and I think the point you're making is not much has changed? The important variable is FLOPS/$, which is nothing like 1974 and still increasing exponentially. The researchers have known what to do for decades; it is only a question of being able to actually do it.
I can corroborate: That same feeling of as simple and terse code as possible happens in Haskell too.

However the most popular professional style of Haskell code is far too verbose for me to be able to "see the essence" in many cases without a round of refactoring.

Its far worse and far more grating for Java code that makes you do so much for so little.
I personally miss the air cover working from the office provides for doing nothing. Way easier to seem productive just by existing.
I don’t think anyone is seriously suggesting it’s a cult or a conspiracy (though I’m sure there is some coordination), but that doesn’t mean it’s not mostly fad or trend driven vs data driven.

IME I’ve worked in offices where at least 20% if not more did absolutely nothing. I mean literally nothing, not that they were doing things that just weren’t visible to me. It has a lot more to do with company culture and performance management than onsite/offsite. I’m not against the idea that the proportion of people who can succeed with remote work is lower, but most of the RTO push seems to be more to do with current management fads than anything else.
Need to have competition and actual market forces for that to actually work. A private monopoly has all of the downsides of the government with none of the oversight.
A funny story from academia is about the cohort of peer reviewers whose primary standard for acceptance is that their own work is cited in the bibliography of the submitted paper.

Peer review often fails to catch cheaters, too, as the infamous Jan Hendrik Schön case demonstrated (from 2000-2001 the Bell Labs researcher published 9 papers in Science and 7 in Nature, all of which made it through peer review, all of which were later retracted on grounds of fraudulent data manipulation). In the long run, the scandal did improve the field, as all publications on microelectronic graphite etc. devices now require electron microscopy proof that the claimed devices actually exist. Note current AI technology allows for data fraud and image manipulation that's much harder to detect than in the past, though.
Right. If you're already really good at hand reading, you might get some extra edge in working to improve your physical reads, but otherwise looking for subtle tells will probably just make you play even worse.

In elite games, you would assume everyone is an expert at hand reading, so it makes sense that physical reads would become more important.
Why is it that techbros insist on no regulation until there's a problem, and when there's a problem it's suddenly "the confetti has left the cannon, nothing to do now"? Oh wait that was a rhetorical question.
This is an a bandwagon fallacy with no reason or justification given
Only if you want it back in enforcing mode after the next reboot. If you want to make the change permanent, you need to set the following in /etc/selinux/config as well:

SELINUX=permissive
To find active popular open source projects?

How do you do it?
How has that approach been working out? It's become common for CEOs to massively cut corners in pursuit of profits and then fail up or retire in comfort unless. Occasionally one goes to prison for fraud if they've directly lied to stockholders, but 'looking the other way' and hiding behind bland assurances generally pays great. We have one political party that reliable decries any sort of regulatory action as interference with the free market or outright communism; the American system is infested with bad faith actors.
How far will I have to scroll down to learn what RTO is?
The app isn't giving away much privacy information that your credit card isn't.

Yeah, they know my name and what I ordered at each location. I'm OK with that.

You can also use a throwaway email address to sign up and use the app to order, get the discounts, but pay in cash when you arrive. If you're determined to keep your identity secret from McDonald's.
If everything goes well, he's going to deal with that by making at least a third film adapting Messiah.

https://geektyrant.com/news/dune-messiah-reportedly-greenlit...
Another content-free article for an irrelevant university that blames the victim, instead of proposing a long-term solution.

Far-reaching conclusions based on self-reported surveys are worth less than nothing. It's a great tool to be used as propaganda for either side, but it doesn't really solve the underlying mental health issues of vulnerable demographics.
Where was she “arguing”? Did you misread her interaction as her trying to maintain her employment there?

If you genuinely believed that you were being let go for something that was completely fabricated, would you not confront them? Is there ever an appropriate time to speak up? For instance, if they also attributed the fruits of your labor to someone else, and then compared you to that other person to justify your termination, would you just remain silent?

I don’t see how having a backbone is self-destructive.
Usually, you rent a cage/room in one. For all practical purposes, it is yours. I went into a few of our data centers at my old job. There'd often be entire areas dedicated to spares, scooters, or whatever people visiting there might need.

If you can afford to run in the cloud, you can often afford 2-3 times your max capacity in a data center. People ended up in the cloud because it was less expensive. Now that the demand for data center space has decreased, running bare metal is less expensive by a large margin.

Combine that with Kubernetes and Harvester, you can basically have your own cloud at a fraction of the cost. Now you just need actual sys-admins instead of AWS experts ... and they cost about the same.
Vs. His Majesty's Commonwealth could offer "Plan B To Space" on Bahama, Barbuda, Bermuda, or British Virgin Islands - all relatively close to the US Space Coast. Want near-equatorial launch? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascension_Island is less than 8 degrees south of it, and still vastly more convenient than Kiritimati.

Looking at Rocket Lab's New Zealand launch complex - I'm thinking that nothing like 13K staff would be needed for a new, modern facility.
You don't have to the one perfect move each time, it is constant recalibration on the go. If you turn slightly out, or parallel parking not happening at once don't worry. It is the normal thing you are not lacking.
There's enough emergency flights around the world each year that you could likely have a daily headline every single day, every single year, highlighting them, if you wanted to. It seems like now the "if you wanted to" has been triggered.

However, does HN get a front page post every time Airbus or any other manufacturer has something break or has an emergency landing? Why not? Why don't they get the same negative treatment?

Heck, 2 days ago an Airbus A319 had an emergency landing in Tampa because of a door problem, why don't I see a post about that on HN right next to this post about a 737 having an emergency landing?

https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/4402092-united-air...
In the late 1980s I had a friend who was a bit of a thug who ran a BBS that you could download any pirate software you wanted if you paid a monthly membership fee and also worked in some kind of computer warehouse where he would occasionally nick a hard drive and sell it for much less than retail. His apartment was saturated with tobacco smoke and he always had a copy of Atlas Shrugged around.
We sell them guns and profit off it... the same we've ever done.

What I'm really afraid of, if these global warming predictions come to pass, is that we will be so stupid that we will let millions of them to come to Europe. See what's already happening in the Mediterranean, etc. That would bring the war here.
I assume this works like traditional cellular roaming, no? So this would mean you have to be a customer of one of the service providers to get reciprocated roaming capabilities abroad.
> Why does the GC make this much?

Probably due to the vast scope of responsibilities and ramifications if something goes wrong?

I can't imagine that being in charge of all of Apple's legal concerns is a walk in the park.
"substantial" needs to be put in context.

At my company with thousands of employees, informal polls (where every employee can participate anonymously) show that people who are in favor/against of RTO is 1:4. At least that's a number I can quote.
This article links to that blog post and quotes from it.
It's also how we got United Airlines and United Technologies earlier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Aircraft_and_Transport_...
There's nothing large about that space. With 6 colors and 4 choices you get 1296 possibilities. Would have been peanuts even for the first 8-bit home computers.
Excellent tips. As a corollary to #1, strive to make your own driving predictable to other drivers, e.g., turn signal on before changing lanes or braking to make a turn.
> Even that is disappearing. It was common practice even 10 years ago to use MKL as backend.

Sorry I just saw this. And what do you think MKL does?
What I disagree with in the article is the _I never make mistakes_ attitude; it could be worse, but I still think it's good to discuss. The author writes that because they are "serious", they can essentially rebut all criticism "easily". We are all human and even excellent scientists make honest mistakes. Strong theorists can sometimes make "hard" math mistakes. In the best cases, peer review gives us some assurance that we at least did not make obvious mistakes that can be relatively easily spotted by other specialized researchers.
I think the _never make mistakes_ attitude is dangerous, because it means that researchers need to be very cautious when admitting honest mistakes and their own intellectual fallibility in order to not lose face.
> prologue with the woman talking for 90+ seconds

There are multiple cuts, and the one I grew up with (I think a VHS recording from cable) instead has a longer introduction [0], with detailed exposition while panning over paintings of its world. Watching it at around 11yo, I found it comprehensible (if bizarre), and compelling, before reading the book years later.

I'll have to look again to see if this cut is finally available in any official capacity; I've only ever managed to find a stitched-together fan edit. It's flawed by any measure (many sets and effects that looked good on VHS don't hold up on HD), but I actually enjoy most of its creative license, and the longer cut mostly holds together IMO, in a way the theatrical doesn't.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7FcJwg6OkA
The reason is that they have captured a set of customers who don't want cheap fast food, they want McDonalds. Same for most other similar chains.

Chipotle was great when it was a filling Mexican-ish meal for $5-6. Today the same food is $13-16. It makes no sense for them to stay in business when you can get a burrito for the same price from a much nicer Mexican restaurant across the street, but the people going there specifically want Chipotle burritos and are willing to pay $16 for it.
When I used Xcode for the first (and so far only) time I was surprised I could actually view bitmaps in the debugger and I've wondered why that's not commonplace ever since.
What about the people in office that were net drains on development? You know the types: the water cooler camper. The constant small conversation maker. The hovering micromanager.
Two isolated computers won’t get you very far in today’s network. They might get the auto configured 169.254/16 addresses and link-local IPv6, and get some Bonjour traffic but that is about it. But those protocols are not in TCP/IP illustrated.

Back in the times of IPX and NetBEUI that was indeed a useful activity - connecting two Windows 3.11 computers with NetBEUI was a nice way to learn Ethernet LLC-2 (yes, the connection-oriented Ethernet layer protocol :-) as it allowed to nicely trigger the DLSW to learn it.
The statements made in the original post are so foreign to me. It sounds like the author is digging really deep to try and say something nice about the peer review process. To be fair, it might be true for CS where they are stuck in the weird trap of publishing in conferences, but in other circles everything goes into journals, and in this case the peer-review processes is definitely not there to "help the authors".

The peer review is there to help the journal maintain its reputation by preventing the publication of sub-standard stuff. Period. Sub-standard can mean uninteresting, incomplete, poorly written, or whatever the journal is aiming for. It is not there to safe guard the integrity of the literature against erroneous results...it's purely self-interest on the part of the journal.

In reality, a rejected paper will just be submitted elsewhere until it is eventually accepted. The authors cannot afford to spend 1-2 years worth of work on a project then have nothing to show for it, just because a reviewer didn't "get it". So authors will keep submitting it (hopefully with some improvements based on past reviewer comments, but maybe not) until it "gets through" somewhere, and eventually nearly everything gets the seal of "peer review".

> There is SO much more I could write on this subject, but I'm trying to stay on point (-:
Do what feels right for you, and make sure you're doing that in a way that ethical for those around you and the rest of the world. It sounds like our paths getting there were a bit different, but I also took a significant break from my professional life and disengaged with expectations that were not my own and used that time to deliberately work on my mental health and relationships. Thankfully, I was in a situation where I had the resources to do so (which includes the support of my partner). I quit a nice tech job and spent a year studying a ton of subjects that I loved or thought I'd love, and explored radical shifts in my career. I'm not done yet, but I managed to find the parts of my old work I still enjoy, the parts I don't, and the beginnings of an understanding of how to trade my time for money in a way that I'm comfortable with. I've been easing back into things, and am even finding joy in the things in things that had previously been surefire triggers for emotional spirals (including hackernews!). Anyway, I'm still not settled, and never will be, but I'm content with that for now.
>understand filesystem contexts and how to copy them from a good place

I’m not really sure what this means (I have 0 knowledge on selinux)
This person (I had a different word there at first) has a master's degree in sociology.

He appears to have no credentials or expertise in this area, or, for that matter, any tech-related area.

https://haas.berkeley.edu/faculty/harris-david/

Given that he appears to not even understand the definition of "open source", I wouldn't grant any credence to anything he has to say.
Lots of places still do this, and just burn it in open pits.

Places you would need expect like Tahiti which is a French Overseas Entity, and even Hawaii. There aren't a lot of options in some places.
> for original art to flourish, there comes a time for the artist to seclude themselves and create without market pressures, the influence of popular culture and daily distractions. Us devs can learn much from him.

Strongly agree.
My source is the people in Ukraine to whom I donate and who are directly involved in drone purchases for frontline units: https://dzygaspaw.com/. They do buy <$1K FPV drones, and HEAT RPG-7 shots is one of the typical things that are strapped to them for anti-armor role.

A single-stage RPG-7 HEAT grenade weighs 2.5 kg, of which the actual explosive charge is only 700 g, and much of the rest is the powder charge that propels it in normal use, but is completely unnecessary for drone applications. And, as already noted above, you do not need the same absolute armor penetration capacity for these things, because the whole point is to attack from the side where armor is the thinnest and any exposed internal components are the easiest to disable. Judging by the videos of successful use, the most common technique is to attack the engine compartment directly from above.

Now, DJI FPV, which does retail for $1K (and can be had for less if buying in bulk) is certainly quite capable of lifting a 1kg warhead. But it should also be noted that these days, in most cases Ukrainians are using money more efficiently by assembling their own custom-tuned FPV drones from components and specially manufactured HEAT charges, which knocks the price down to ~$600 for the same lift capacity with better speed and range. They are still roughly the same size as DJI or only slightly larger, which can be readily seen in numerous videos on YouTube and Telegram showcasing their use. Here's one example of a locally manufactured FPV drone: https://neboperemogy.fund/dron-hrim/ - the lift capacity for this one is 2kg, sufficient for heavier tandem HEAT charges, and it costs ~$750.