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> I just don't reply after hours.

I'm a freelancer/independent contractor.

Every time I start a new gig, I make sure to answer private messages few hours later, and never outside the 8AM/8PM timeframe or during weekends. Ever.

I also make it black on white on contracts that I don't do meetings before 9AM or later than 5PM.

I immediately set a habit for people that I might be AFK and that I never ever answer work-related stuff in the weekends.

As months go by I start answering when I see it/have time, rather than purposefully delaying and occasionally I answer a message or a chat in the weekends if I lurk on the channels. Hell, sometimes I even did some work on the weekends too if some deadlines are close (I am still bound to the success of my clients after all) and make up for it when rhythms are lower.

But in the beginning I make sure to always set a tone where I'm just not there online and ready to answer 24/7.

I did the opposite years ago. I would make it a habit for people for always being up and ready, so when I had to do something (from preparing lunch to bathroom breaks) people would instantly assume I was working less or cared less.

I don't do the mistake anymore. Professional? Always. Connected and ready all time? As little as possible.
The Arrival of Java 23
Either Mossad has bribed or infiltrated the producer of these devices to incorporate little explosives into them.

Or they found a way to update the software on them to simply overload the battery in the most explosive way possible?

Scary what the implications could be for all of us, as we all carry a always-on device that any number of non friendly nations could try to hack into.

Update: some clever personen X remarked that another option is that Mossad only intercepted these devices and replaced the battery with a half-battery-half-book device.
The Trumps Have Gone Full Crypto with World Liberty Financial
The article is from September 5th.
Is there a non-paywalled, more technical writeup on this?
cool now do delay lines!
Why will robots eventually "literally take control"?

I'm anti-AI at the best of times, but this is alarmist at best, and dishonest at worst—especially to suggest a single government as a solution. Name a single existing government that you would want running the world. Fuck that.
I knew someone that didn't trust their employees (small business). In the past they ran a different small business where their own employees would steal from them (not money; inventory) and this lead this person into a life-long distrust of people in general.

The problem though is their new small business employed mostly office-type workers yet they still had that hourly/retail employee mindset. Treated their employees very poorly and had high turnover as a result. Then COVID happened and suddenly everything got better for everyone.

He was forced to trust his employees working from home and they loved it. He, of course, was high anxiety all the time worried that his employees were slacking off. I asked him, "are they not getting all the work done?" and he was very adamant that was completely irrelevant. From his perspective, if an employee was doing anything other than "work" while on-the-clock they were stealing from him. It was a pretty clear message.

As soon as COVID was over he forced everyone to come back into the office... And shortly thereafter he had to sell his business because he couldn't find anyone to work for him anymore. No idea what he's doing now but I still see people with his attitude everywhere (in varying degrees from mild to extreme).

On the plus side that guy would never ever bother his employees after work hours. Which is quite a step above employers that treat their employees as always-available serfs.
I think this gets at the lack of semi-social venues.

There's something special to me about events where there is some expected activity to engage with, so keeping your head down and concentrating is fine, but some people are open to socializing as well. It takes the pressure off those of us with weak social muscles, and makes it OK to socialize for a bit, and then do an individual activity for a bit to recover. And if there's someone you don't want to interact with it's easier to make yourself unavailable without making it a personal rejection.

Using earbuds to signal that you're not open to social interaction is fine, but it can be a bummer if everyone's doing that.
I only feel dumb if I don’t know how to start looking at a problem, in some cases because I don’t understand the description of the problem either.

But as long as I understand to some degree what we want to achieve, and have some vague idea of what corner I might start in, I usually don’t “feel” dumb even if I know very little about the final solution…
Oracle Cloud AI will enable mass surveillance, says Ellison
This reminds me of the equally interesting framing of modern computer failure rates in similar terms to mechanical parts.

This is also a very fun exploration of how many things start mechanical and move to more solid state as they age. I'm curious what major mechanical items are left to move over to solid state? My guess is most things that have changed were instruments in larger things. Gyroscope devices are a fun example.
> Even if it's predictive text, who the hell cares if it achieves its goals?

Haha ... well in the literal sense it does achieve "its" goals, since it only had one goal which was to minimize its training loss. Mission accomplished!

OTOH, if you mean achieving the user's goals, then it rather depends on what those goals are. If the goal is to save you typing when coding, even if you need to check it all yourself anyway, then I guess mission accomplished there too!

Whoopee! AGI done! Thanks you Dolphins!
Silicon Returns to Silicon Valley
NASA Teams Update Camera Software Ahead of Artemis II Launch
I'd love a technical write up on how this is possible. Is it RF based or the battery being exploited?
Yep, those are indeed not the same thing, and that’s why I said they’re not the same thing. The point was that “if you don’t like it, leave” is a terrible reply to any complaint about a working environment. Especially when things like insurance are bizarrely tied to employment, a huge portion of people can’t just leave.
How is this possible? Are they overclocking the MPUs and just heating the batteries to the point of explosion?
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> But, we rarely here the same from managers.

a) My manager has zero problems with remote working and has found the team to be just as productive. AFAIK, my manager also doesn't waste time posting on HN.

b) Are you SURE we're rarely hearing from managers? It's often that people don't bother to mention whether or not they're a people manager... because why the hell would you?

c) In ANY sufficiently large software business, you WILL have some-to-many geographically distributed teams. If your geographically distributed teams work fine with their asses in company-provided seats, then they can nearly always work fine in with their asses in worker-provided seats.
I like what Alfred North Whitehead said about translation in "The Place of Classics in Education". Punchline is at the end.

...

I have often noticed that, if in an assembly of great scholars the topic of translations be introduced, they function as to their emotions and sentiments in exactly the same way as do decent people in the presence of a nasty sex-problem. A mathematician has no scholastic respectability to lose, so I will face the question.

It follows from the whole line of thought which I have been developing, that an exact appreciation of the meanings of Latin words, of the ways in which ideas are connected in grammatical constructions, and of the whole hang of a Latin sentence with its distribution of emphasis, forms the very backbone of the merits which I ascribe to the study of Latin. Accordingly any woolly vagueness of teaching, slurring over the niceties of language defeats the whole ideal which I have set before you. The use of a translation to enable the pupils to get away from the Latin as quickly as possible, or to avoid the stretch of mind in grappling with construction, is erroneous. Exactness, definiteness, and independent power of analysis are among the main prizes of the whole study.

But we are still confronted with the inexorable problem of pace, and with the short four or five years of the whole course. Every poem is meant to be read within certain limits of time. The contrasts, and the images, and the transition of moods must correspond with the sway of rhythms in the human spirit. These have their periods, which refuse to be stretched beyond certain limits. You may take the noblest poetry in the world, and, if you stumble through it at snail’s pace, it collapses from a work of art into a rubbish heap. Think of the child’s mind as he pores over his work: he reads “‘as when,” then follows a pause with a reference to the dictionary, then he goes on-‘“an eagle,” then another reference to the dictionary, followed by a period of wonderment over the construction, and so on, and so on. Is that going to help him to the vision of Rome? Surely, surely, common sense dictates that you procure the best literary translation you can, the one which best preserves the charm and vigour of the original, and that you read it aloud at the right pace, and append such comments as will elucidate the comprehension. The attack on the Latin will then be fortified by the sense that it enshrines a living work of art.

But someone objects that a translation is woefully inferior to the original. Of course it is, that is why the boy has to master the Latin original. When the original has been mastered, it can be given its proper pace. I plead for an initial sense of the unity of the whole, to be given by a translation at the right pace, and for a final appreciation of the full value of the whole to be given by the original at the right pace.
Don't take this as a negative thing, but I'm confused. Is it a playwright? Is it a residential proxy? It's not clear from your video.
This reminds me of using smalltalk where everything is an object and output can be piped in to any structure that can be programmed
However, higher up in the article:

> The vulnerability itself does affect major distributions
Awesome feedback! I added a delay to the pop-up win message to make it a little more delightful to view your puzzle.

+ love the idea to share any puzzle with a puzzle link. Will add that in the coming weeks.

Currently leading this project solo, but appreciate the feedback and input!
Everyone should read my science fiction novel, where a team of intrepid heroes travels in time to assassinate Marx and Engels, but returns to a future where things are worse because they should've focused on Hegel.
Design an RP2040 Board with KiCad
But unfortunately it’s not premature. It’s been a problem for so long!
Apparently I am not watching enough PBS SpaceTime because I still do understand what a "gravitational atom" might be.

They are not implying a particle that causes gravity right? Because I thought it is pretty well accepted there isn't a "gravaton" like there are photons.

They also don't mean atom-sized black-holes, so I still don't get it.

Hoping Matt does an episode on this so I can grasp it.

https://www.pbs.org/show/pbs-space-time/
Studying fungi's 'weak link' to fight global rise in deadly fungal infections
Show HN: Frosti – Access Management Copilot
Developers are overwhelmed by the hundreds of built in roles and thousands of permissions across AWS, GCP, and Azure. What if the developer was freed from the task of identifying the specific, least privileged role assignment or defaulting to the broad owner/contributor roles?

Frosti is an Access Management Copilot that will allow developers to request Just In Time access to the resources they need by describing their task in plain english rather than platform specific permissions. For example, tell Frosti “I need to rotate a secret in Azure Key Vault” and Frosti will respond “Request the Key Vault Secrets Officer role”. We imagine this becoming a Teams app which could generate a PIM request on the developers behalf, but for demo purposes we started with a simple standalone web app for role recommendations. Let us know what you think.

Try Frosti: https://www.tryfrosti.com/beta
Demo Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL5pOFjY7Pg

According to the MSFT’s State of Cloud Permission Risks Report, over 50% of identities are super admins, and only 1% of permissions granted to identities are actually used.

But who can blame the employees for over privilege? Here’s a scenario you see every day. You are working on a new project and need access to a resource, let’s say an Azure AI model. The resource owner has to pour over the IAM docs to pick the proper role out of the hundreds of built in roles. Often this first attempt fails (maybe they granted you access to the notebook but not the underlying cluster or data). Six iterations later you still don’t have the proper access, so they give up and add you as owner to the entire resource group and every relevant security group they can find. Since this works, no one bothers to later remove access and risk breaking your workflow.

So what’s the solution? To end the continuous chore of removing access, we need a simpler way to achieve “Zero Standing Privileges”. Rather than putting the onus on the developer to request the proper, time bound role, let them simply describe their task. This will simplify the process of picking a least privileged role and stop the common practice of developers defaulting to owner or contributor roles out of convenience.
I don't disagree with what you have just said except I understand education to refer to the transfer of knowledge while research is the discovery of new knowledge.
Haha no I do not, I work on an AWS AI service. If I could get some pull on other teams it would probably be the kindle one to fix the scribe syncing feature or the fire tv one to remove the god-awful ads.
The way Apple product management works is that everyone is always demoing stuff up the chain and ultimately to Tim. They’re reverentially referred to as “Tim demos” internally. If Tim likes it, you get tons of resources.

The downside may be that in the pathological case you’re implementing stuff just for Tim. Another downside is you can’t really demo e.g. high-quality backwards-compatible SDKs to an exec.

The upside is you end up with a pretty coherent and un-fickle set of products. Unlike Google, Apple doesn’t have a roster of five (?) competing chat apps that it constantly changes.
Churchill was a genocidal monster. Just deal with it.
this is likely some sort of a supply chain attack. The videos I saw show serious explosions for radio pagers. Can lithium battery do this? Or the most likely explanation is that they were rigged with some explosives?
Why my Fedora 40 systems stalled logins for ten seconds or so
Are there any other frameworks that have similar ideas, perhaps using a functional language?
I've seen laptop and phone batteries explode with significant force on YouTube. It's called thermal runaway.

As much as I'd love to believe this couldn't happen without physical tampering, I see no good reason to.
+1 for Reflex. Truly amazing.
> He’s really talking about curiosity. Calling it stupid is a cheeky glass-half-empty framing.

I disagree.

How can you be curious without something you don't understand?

The point, as I see it, is that if you find yourself in a position of complete understanding, then you must also have a complete lack of curiosity. If you think you are in that position, then the way to revive your curiosity is to deconstruct your position of expertise, i.e., recognize your position of stupidity.

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Curiosity is step 2. Stupidity is step 1. Learning moves us from step 2 to step 3. The important thing to recognize is that step 3 is actually a new instance of step 1. Expertise is the base case of this recursive tree traversal: it's how you stop the learning process.
About a year ago, I had an opportunity to use an 8x10 field camera. This description is correct. I didn't have any film, so I loaded the film holder with paper and developed it under a safelight in the darkroom. This isn't a typical process though and film has very low ISO. I then contact printed through the paper. The resulting image wasn't particularly sharp. It was a fun exercise though, and I'd like to borrow the camera again. Using it is a very slow and formal process. The film is as one would expect, expensive.
Intel claims they can make the foundry break even by around 2027-2028, and be profitable beyond. My guess is once that happens, they plan to spin it off as a public company. This is a first step towards that goal.

Also, being able to report the gross margin for Intel Products and Intel Foundry separately will help Products. Currently that part of Intel (profitable) is "suffering" because it is being lumped in with the unprofitable part of Foundry.
It's rather hard to bond over having a roof over one's head. But sure, it's not impossible... Seems like you're just entirely missing the OP's point.
I used to get drained by uncomfortable clothes without noticing it until I got on the Vuori train. There are plenty of other brands now but the Meta pants and Strato Tech Tee are my go-to's. Sizing up helps too.

Not sponsored, I encourage you and anyone else who suffers from clothing-drain to try different brands too. Stretchy, breathable, and clean/crisp looking work best for me.
We use it at $dayjob to concatenate multi-GB gzipped files. We could decompress, cat, and compress again, but why spend the cycles?
Most likely. My gaming habits have also drastically changed, I would say mostly in part because I find it harder to justify them as a form of entertainment when I could be reading non-fiction books or browsing my RSS feeds. The fact that AAA games have gone to shit and indie games aren’t quite catching me has only further soured my feelings on the matter.
> I've told my direct reports something similar. "Don't stress out about this."

I too do that often to my direct reports. Not worth the stress. But of course it helps to pretend that one is working hard and stressed :) .
Surely just supply chain infiltration and regular explosives no?
It seems to me the real problem is that repairs are, in general, labour intensive. Few products today are sufficiently valuable that a repair is better than a new item.

Cars are worth fixing, a 10$ shirt is not, if you value your time. This only becomes more true as expertise becomes required to effect a repair, since you become less capable of repairing and the time of the repairer becomes more valuable.
I want to distinguish two sources of "feeling of stupidity". One come from the challenge of grasping a difficult concept. The other is the smack on the head when you fail to see a simple but brilliant insight. In my view, you should not feel stupid in either situations, and the teacher should try to ward you against this feeling.

For the first type, I argue it's simply the resistance to a new mental model. The article's example of epsilon-delta language is a perfect example. It's a new way of thinking that takes time (and it did historically) to sink in. Competing on how fast you grasp this new concept is stupid. When the new mode of thinking becomes natural, it won't care how long you took to adapt to it.

For the second type, it's simply an impossible standard to reliably have eureka moments. Clearly, smarter people will have more of these than the average people, but no one can do this reliably. On the other hand, while it takes more work for us mortals to have these insights than a genius, there are plenty of ways to get there that don't require a super high IQ. Teachers should try to foster these moments because they are huge confidence builders, but try to minimise the impact of someone showing off their brilliance.
Teams that are relatively co-located geographically can coordinate to come into a location regularly on the same days. That really didn't happen where I worked and, as far as I know, the company continues to shed real estate. I'm not sure the execs especially liked the shift but, starting from the base of a fairly remote-friendly company, COVID just largely shredded whatever in-office culture there was for better or worse.

So, yeah, I think there was some pre-COVID middle ground but you probably have a fairly large percent of people mostly coming into an office and a fairly small percent doing so--which of course tends to reinforce both behaviors. (And it grew a lot in a distributed manner as well which probably made getting everyone together physically all the time less relevant.)
Is your company hiring? This sounds like a dream job. Having a little home hardware lab.
Guessing they compromised the devices with a firmware backdoor, perhaps to remotely trigger an exploit that heats up the devices battery to dangerous levels once a signal is received. Paranoid about this happening with my vape mod with two 18650 cells
Remote work means ‘outsourcing’ for a FAANG includes Ohio (prev. Sunnyvale), not just India.

And if you think this isn’t having an effect on offered labor rates, available positions in certain countries, etc. then you’re not paying attention to the current market.

There are massive shifts to offshore work at most FAANGs actively going on right now. But it takes time.

Are there attempts to crack down/extract extra taxes? Yeah. But most are ineffective and/or don’t meaningfully change the economics. There is a lot of fat that can be trimmed/extracted from the super high peak of Silicon Valley comp (for one example).

A lot of folks in the US are just waiting to see what happens before they move, or are stuck with high mortgages.
>“if you don’t like it, leave” is a terrible reply to any complaint about a working environment.

Why is it a terrible reply? What should you do if you don't like your job? What's your point here?

Most people on the planet do jobs they don't like, welcome to reality. Otherwise we'd all be racecar drivers, twitch streamers, musicians and painters and get paid for our hobbies, but that's not how it works for most people.

We do a job not because we always like it or like everything about it, we do it to pay for food, shelter and if money allows, to afford hobbies and leisure that make life nice. Venting on the internet won't improve societal issues or issues you have at your job, it's still up to you to change your situation to what fits you because nobody will do it for you.
RIP static void main(String[] args)

You'll be missed by Java jokes everywhere
I think it's really as simple as a big corpo just pushing their employees as far as they can, as always. we can debate on the benefits of WFH, but really in this market employees just don't have much leverage.
So much of the time the foundation is that the software, in its entirety, IS the user interface to the electronics.

It's been that way since the beginning.

Electronics got started much earlier than software and there were physical control panels of various effectiveness too.

Before things deteriorated, it was expected that a UI designer who did not know how to code it their own self, or a coder who was not capable of doing vastly better UI than a non-coder, would not have been suitable for mission-critical situations where living things are expected to interact with electronics.

It all still converges to where you need exactly the same people coding that are designing the UI/UX or it's not going to end up as good as it could be.

"Fortunately" most of the coding and UI out there which are proliferating fastest are not mission-critical.

That would be a nightmare . . .
Why the name Rio? Couldn't find in the docs