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I’ve been remote for 15 years with the past 3 in a C level position.

People fuck around in the office and they do at home too. Expectation management and selling yourself (aka know how to communicate) is all that matters. I can sleep in, tell people the truth, and life is good.

Offices are fucking expensive. It burdens IT and it’s a performance art at the end of the day anyway.

The boards job is to fire me. As long as I maintain my roadmap and provide evidence of progress nobody who matters has time to think about this shit.

Manage your SG&A expenses, risk, and be nice to legal. You’ll be fine.
I think your original comment is entirely valid. It seems anyone who questions WFH gets downvoted.

I’m involved with several startups, and I can assure you there are clear advantages to people spending time together. WFH or not, people meeting and strategizing in person is incredibly valuable.

I also think people need to make a better distinction between remote and distributed teams. Because of the above opportunity to meet in person from time to time, and also because of the additional communication challenges of a distributed team with multiple time zones.

There’s an assumption that all work can be perfectly partitioned and assigned to people. But more often than not, innovation requires constant exploration of ideas and negotiation of resources being invested. more cohesive teams are way more likely to innovate.
Today I saw that AFFiNE released version 0.17

They’ve updated a lot of features this time:

1. Frame & Group: It looks like the UI has been redesigned, and the interactive feedback is more noticeable. Other than that, there doesn’t seem to be any major changes. Oh, and a crucial fix—when I wanted to hide the Frame label in the top left corner by typing a space, in the old version, it would still render a black box. Now it just hides it, which is awesome!

2. Doc Info: Created & Edited By: It seems they've added the creator and editor properties to docs, which is really important, especially when collaborating with colleagues or friends. I don’t use this feature much myself, but it's clear they are aligning more with Notion.

3. Block Reference: Link to Block: This feature seems to support copying the address and location of individual blocks. This should improve sharing a lot, though I haven’t tried it yet.

4. LaTeX Support: This will probably be great news for students. Most products in this category support LaTeX, and now AFFiNE finally does too! Although I won’t really use it.

5. Sharing & Duplicating Enhancements: It seems they've improved sharing capabilities. Now you can share based on modes, which is really nice. Sometimes I only want to share a page or an edgeless view, and now I finally can.

6. Editor Settings Customization: I love this feature! Now I can customize my own edgeless settings, so I don’t have to manually adjust the colors of shapes, connectors, and notes every time.

7. Mind Map 2.0: Mind Map Optimizations: There doesn't seem to be any major updates here, just support for importing from other platforms and formats.

8. Templates: Boost Your Productivity: This is probably like Notion’s template market. It looks like AFFiNE wants to build their own, which makes sense. I haven’t tried it yet, but there are only a few templates at the moment. I’m looking forward to seeing more!

Overall, this update is really impressive. AFFiNE is gradually becoming competitive in this market. Their upcoming focus on enhancing the database and releasing an iOS app is critical. I’m excited for what’s next!
> Similar to a photocopy or resale of a book, the publisher and author were paid when their work was purchased or acquired. What do the big publishers want to come after next – used bookstores?

Do they not understand what copyright means? They are not allowed to make a _copy_ of a book without permission. Traditional libraries and bookstores do not do that... it is a very important distinction that they either seem completely oblivious to, or are intentionally playing dumb. Or they're somehow trying to get the actual definition of a "copy" changed.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for IA and don't have anything against them... but in this case the court upholds that digital copies are still copies, and thus this is still copyright infringement.
The ironic part is, it's humans leading the charge, with their heads buried deep in the sand to avoid thinking about how this decays society.
Democratic governments have privileges bestowed on them by their constituences. I don't remember where the US Constitution gives any branch of government "free speech" rights. It definitely has some protections for speech of officials in Congress and in courts.

Authoritarian governments, of course, have all the rights they manage to grab. Look what Russian officials say. I suppose that North Korean officials can say anything their bosses tell them to say, any public opinion notwithstanding.
Netflix. Though it might have been the plan from the start, their bread and butter was the logistics around shipping DVDs to people, and the pivoted to lead the charge on streaming video.

AT&T. They basically owned the phone lines, but rather than getting stuck there they were able to transition to cellular and fiber. I thought they’d get stuck for a while when their slow DSL over the old phone lines was looking bad next to cable, but now they are trying to get the government to stop serving some old phone lines.

If a company does it well, it will feel more like an evolution or diversification, rather than a hard pivot. Think companies like Disney who are into everything, so where they started is such a small piece of the pie it doesn’t matter all that much. Or IBM where they transitioned from analog to digital business machines.

I won’t claim keeping any business going is easy. Very few are able to stay relevant for decades, or a person’s lifetime. Those that do are the ones that evolve and reinvent themselves over time, generally speaking.
Feels a lot less joyful to be involved in open source than it used to be when there's just not as much of a culture of respect/"respect" or even the knowledge that you're making the world a better place for individuals.

It's difficult for me to point to any one specific cause of this. I want to say the reduced control over your own computing environment, far greater propensity for litigation and control, and the reduced or eliminated means of using social media website APIs to curate your own online experience.

Everything's feels so helpless and the primary reasons to solve these don't feel like they're technical in nature. They used to always feel technical in nature.

I have to wonder how much of the problem space of individual empowerment is even left for technology to fix?
What I consider abuse is Lying and padding resources. I know people who will turn an 8 hour task into a 40 hour task, and spend the difference hiking. The other grift is when people have multiple projects to tell each manager that the workload is high on the other project right now.
Which clients? Generally you should have several with different interests.
I think that is what this article is addressing.

You can never have a thorough protocol that always works.

Doctors need to be trained in the limits of protocol.

This is why the humanities are important. Doctors should not just be unthinking executors of protocols. Trained human intuition, expertise, experience still matters. Knowledge of the human factors still matters.
Cube Crawls is a thing because of culture
Was the Treo 650 waterproof? :)
> The amount of energy required to travel the same distance increases with speed.

Power from engines is not linear. Volumetric efficiency (engines are air pumps!) is not linear.

The efficiency of a transmission is not linear.

The amount of energy required to travel the same distance is not linear to speed, at all.

Go 1 MPH somewhere, you'll have terrible gas mileage. This is precisely the exact opposite of what you're describing.
Me too. But I will pass on that transparent packing (boxes, bags, etc) is the way to go. I’ll pack smaller items in zip lock bags (they come in sizes from “snack” to 4 gallon) then they go in transparent boxes. It’s amazing that being able to see into makes finding thing so much faster. I’ve also found that hanging jewelry bags are awesome for parts storage in a closet. Good luck on your journey.
Absolutely! I'm the maintainer of a small Open Source project [1] and this phrase makes me tickle.

I totally get it that a maintainer doesn't want to merge some code, even if it's totally working. Is the new feature a niche case, or has if a wide audience? Is it aligned with the project goal/philosophy? Will it be easy to maintain/evolve/debug? Does it add unnecessary/unwanted dependencies? At the end of the day, the maintainer will be the person that have to work/support with this code.

Please keep in mind that if you've spent an hour on a project, maintainers have have certainly spent hundreds if not thousands more time on it.

[1]: https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/hurl
That is significantly easier than trying to remove a glued-on battery.

And removable batteries require far more internal space which is why they fell out of favour.
They think they can, but it's not the same
I walked up to the window (into the view of the camera) he said "Welcome home $NAME" as put my passport on the counter!

The camera was right by the counter, not behind the officer.
I do not think that it is obvious that WFH is a superior bargain for software workers in developed countries. An aspect of WFO/WFH debate that seems to have been missed among US commentators is that a remote workforce is easier to extend or supplant with offshore or nearshore staff. Brazilian and Mexican SWE contractors, in particular, have advanced considerably in quality from just a decade ago, and can now easily replace US-based workers at half the cost without compromising quality. I have seen this trend taking form in my own, remote-first work experience, and market research corroborates the trend, with US nearshore job offers increasing steadily quarter over quarter since the pandemic, in contrast to onshore positions which have notoriously been more volatile. Europe is also seeing increased nearshoring, particularly to Turkey and Egypt.
Yes, there are many nice things about WFH and I prefer it for my part, but it’s not clear to me that this debate is the obvious slam dunk that one perceives reading comments on HN.
Comment of the year. Know your requirements and find a match.
I don't think there's any other sustainable format to make software that becomes load-bearing infrastructure. Open source is the only player existing.

What isn't sustainable is just the model where some random person takes a huge part of the responsibility for himself without any structure around it. We need different organizations.
Most of this is available in any electronics screwdriver kit.

And the rest is just for safety.
That’s a reasonable point. And I’ll admit I’m expressing more of an opinion on privacy in general. I don’t know what the real risk is, immediately or over time and it would vary to an extent by individual. I suspect, again uninformed, it’s fairly small for most people.
> It's probably too much to ask corporations to dump money into it as it would not be a legitimate business expense.

Um, excuse me?

Ok, let's suppose you've got a product that depends on open source project X. For simplicity let's say it's a direct dependency, though I think everything here applies to indirect ones as well.

Let's consider the options.

Option 1: never pay a dime for it. This works in so far as someone else picks up the bill. So really there are two sub-cases:

Option 1(a): the project is successful enough that it's self-sustaining. What this really means is that someone else (or multiple someone elses) picked up the bill. Congrats, you lucked out.

Option 1(b): the project is insufficiently funded and either dies or has a major security breach. Now you end up paying either for the security breach fallout and/or to replace the component, possibly on short notice, with something else. Or you maintain it yourself and start paying that cost, again possibly on short notice.

Is that really worth it? Do you think so? I'm betting all those costs are higher than it would have cost to maintain it in the first place. Because anything you do in an emergency is more expensive, and you're paying the cost of losing all the context in the development of the project itself (if someone leaves before you start maintaining it).

Option 2: pay for the software in the first place, making the cost predictable and avoiding a low-probability high-impact failure mode. Honestly, given all the risk management companies do, this seems worth it to me. At least if the dependency is critical enough.

Obviously you won't do this with any random open source project. But that's sort of the point: companies are making economic decisions all the time about what they really care about. If they aren't paying, that means they're happy with the inverse lottery[1] of the failed open source project model.

[1]: An inverse lottery is one where most of the time you get nothing, but rarely you lose big.
I haven't yet seen the evidence that it's unsustainable. People are still doing it. It seems to be working. There's no reason to believe people are going to stop doing it or that it's going to stop working.

It might be important to you to get paid for your work. Okay, charge for your work then! That was always allowed. There are many people who are okay with doing certain work for free. Maybe they just want to put it on their resume, or they already have enough money, or they just really like that work. Open source is working fine.
What did you need the eigenvalues for? I wouldn've guessed exact diagonalization but in that case you would need the eigenvectors.
Yes, but, we still get to dunk on that company and refuse to use them for going back on the guarantees.
I worked 4 remote jobs for years long ago - I found companies with the same problem and resold my work. I probably put in 60-80 hours a week but made a killing.

Now ADP and similar companies offer monitoring services to HR to weed these people out. You might get caught now.
Most people can establish friendships that are primarily online. It's not "screen relationships" vs "in-person relationships" for me, it's "real relationships" vs "work relationships". The main thing is that I don't want anything to do with coworkers and would choose not to engage with them even in the office. They're not friends, or family, they're coworkers and they come and go with the money. I had one coworker I liked to talk to, but he got a better job somewhere else and that was the end of that relationship. I would prefer to put more time and energy into actual relationships and not at work relationships.
Internet surveillance firm Sandvine will leave 56 'non-democratic' countries
Original blog: https://blog.coffinsec.com/0day/2024/08/30/exploiting-CVE-20...
A? Asymmetry?
Thats cool for you, but I'm speaking from my experience about my team's productivity falling off a cliff. Employees that do work when in the office, but wont even respond to email for days when working from home.
This is an internally-funded whitepaper. PWC accounting and consulting practices are both historically built on lots of travel to client sites. If they can make excuses to travel less, they can charge the same amount for their services but save a LOT of money on flights, hotels and meals. (just an idea)
I did look and again I'm asking are you saying if I attempt to use this spec file to build the RPM am I getting something different than the RPM that was released? Is that your complaint that you can't build from the source rpm? Because if you can build from The source RPM then the sources were released or at least the spec file contains links to the sources.

That's why I would like you to be a whole lot more specific are they delivering a compiled RPM that you cannot take the source RPM and build the same thing from it. Throwing out a command to have me install a source RPM and then cat for files ending in the word patch isn't describing your problem.

Maybe you're complaint is they didn't release a diff between their changes and mainline kernel, is that it? If that's the complaint you might need to take another look at the GPL. Because releasing source is releasing source and is not required to release a diff or create a pull request or any of those other things. If you need a diff because you want to borrow some of their changes those are trivial to make on your own.
wouldn't that be against their own business interest? If an executive or the board of some company want PwC's services, knowing that they'll only help confirm a biased opinion, then is it worth spending millions on them?

Their main income is a direct result of their capability to advise in the best interests of their clients. If action taken upon their advise, and that action leads to a loss of profit, then their clients paid them to lose money. There aren't enough companies that pay consultants money just for the sake of their ego to sustain a company the size of PwC.
Right, part of the idea is to close the gap in incentives for white hats looking for vulnerabilities to report and black hats looking for the same to exploit. You don't have to beat the black market price of a vuln because that route is much riskier, but somewhere at least in the same order of magnitude sounds decent.

It's not about viewing security researchers as sociopaths who will always sell to the highest bidder, the fact is there will always be criminals going for exploits and bug bounties can help not just by paying off someone that would have otherwise abused a bug but also by attracting an equally motivated team who would otherwise be entirely uninvolved to play defense.
I saw this, I think posted here the other day, looked interesting. https://github.com/ajayd-san/gomanagedocker

A TUI alternative.
So for context so I don’t get accused of being antisocial, my job for three and half years until last year was (at least post Covid) flying across the country talking to directors and CxOs and ground level employees working in the consulting department (full time) for the $BigTech company based in Seattle.

Before that, I spent years talking to the “business” as an in house architect for two companies.

My coworkers are not my family nor are they people I need to “bond” with. We work well together, I do a lot of mentoring and teaching, etc.

I’ve had 9 and hopefully soon 10 jobs in almost 30 years.

Whatever bad things I can say about Amazon (and I have a shit ton of bad things to say about Amazon), they did teach me how to work in a mostly remote culture. The department I worked in was remote before Covid and is still exempt from the RTO requirements. I’m no longer working there

Currently I keep in touch with 3 people I’ve ever worked with and one of those three is my wife.

I don’t want to live in a high cost city and in fact I moved to Florida partially because it was a state tax free state and low cost of living.
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No one is stopping you from using a Treo 650.
It is impossible to make the Internet Archive understand copyright when their entire business model relies on not understanding it.
I cannot tell the difference between an essay written by a British student vs an American one in terms of word choice in the main, since at least in writing they are remarkably similar, whereas Nigerian English differs dramatically from both in its everyday lexicon, which is the entire point of the article: a difference such as colour/color would not make it worth even a comment.

If you think its racist you're going to have to claim that all those uses of "delve" in academic papers is also due to Nigerians academics massively increasing their research output just as frequently. Or, it's more likely that its AI generated content. It's a non sequitur. "Oh my god, scammers always send me emails claiming to be Nigerian princes--that's how you know it's bullshit." "Ah, but what if they're actually a Nigerian prince? Didn't consider that, I guess you must be racist then lmao." Ratio war ensues. Thank god we're not on twitter where calling people out for "racism" doesn't get you any points, where you can't get any clout for going on a moral crusade.
It's the case nationwide in Canada due to rules in the Canada Health Act: if a service is provided by provincial governments (so MSP in BC or OHIP in ON) then it cannot be offered privately.

There have been some workaround attempts in BC (such as the Cambie Surgery Centre, which lost a court case recently-ish) and AB's recent move to give contracts to Catholic health care providers, but the only true "private" option in Canada is the airport.

I could go on about this at length and how it makes me a pariah amongst a flood of anti-American conspiracy theories, but this is a thread about the UK (of which I'm also a citizen) so I'll resist.
In the same way junk food is equivalent to a healthy meal (IMO). There is a reason some mental health issues have been skyrocketing, and this is a big part of it.