yogthos

yogthos OP , 18 hours ago

I do expect that China adopting Linux as the main OS will propel Linux to leapfrog Windows and macOS going forward. It's not going to be just 1.4 billion people in China using Linux, but also all the countries that will be buying Chinese hardware. This will likely result in Linux becoming the dominant OS globally.

yogthos OP , 2 days ago

lol oops

yogthos OP , 2 days ago

the shitty processors in question https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/china-poised-to-break-5nm-barrier-huawei-lists-5nm-processor-presumably-built-with-smic-tech-defying-us-sanctions

yogthos OP , 2 days ago

that's the dream

yogthos OP , 2 days ago

Loongson makes sense for government use because it can act as a drop in replacement for x86, but it's pretty clear the chips SMIC is making for Huawei are what's going to the consumer market. These chips are only a generation behind the bleeding edge.

You're right that yields might be low currently, but all that means is that it's just less efficient to produce chips, and it's not like the problem is insurmountable. Meanwhile, silicon as a substrate is hitting limits now, there's nowhere to go past 2mn because you start having problems like quantum tunnelling effects. So, it's not like western chips can keep improving indefinitely without radically new designs.

yogthos OP , 4 days ago

Should worry more about the oppression in your own shithole country where militarized police is brutalizing students protesting genocide as we speak.

yogthos OP , 5 days ago

I expect that much more will be gained than lost in the process. China has been doing huge investments into open source because that makes more sense than starting from scratch. So, what we're going to see is a lot of proprietary software being replaced with open alternatives.

yogthos OP , 5 days ago

having basic competence helps with that

yogthos OP , 5 days ago

China's got plenty demonstrated competence across the board. From lifting people out of poverty, to making large scale infrastructure projects, and now leading the way in green energy transition.

yogthos OP , 5 days ago

Chinese companies release plenty of open source in practice. Meanwhile, cooperatively owned companies like Huawei are nothing like western capitalism.

yogthos OP , 5 days ago

Plenty of Chinese companies release stuff right on GitHub, and contribute directly to popular open source projects though. Here's just one example https://github.com/ant-design/ant-design

yogthos OP , 5 days ago

a great read on the dynamics behind this trend https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2021/08/the-value-of-nothing-capital-versus-growth/

yogthos OP , 4 days ago

wake me up when things like this start happening in usa https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2022/04/01/lifting-800-million-people-out-of-poverty-new-report-looks-at-lessons-from-china-s-experience

yogthos , 4 days ago (edited 4 days ago)

I'm always amazed how people come out of the woodwork to defend Signal any time any criticism of it comes up. It's become a sacred cow that cannot be questioned. Whatever you may think of Telegram should bear zero weight on your views of Signal.

The reality is that people developers of Signal have close ties to US security agencies. It's a centralized app hosted in US and subject to US laws. It's been forcing people to use their phone numbers to register, and this creates a graph of real world contacts people have. This alone is terrible from security/privacy perspective. It doesn't have reproducible builds on iOS, which means you have no guarantee regarding what you're actually running. These are just a handful of things that are publicly known.

And then we know stuff like this happens. NSA suggested using specific numbers for encryption that it knew how to factor quickly. The algorithm itself was secure, but the specific configuration of how the algorithm was implemented allowed for the exploit https://thehackernews.com/2015/10/nsa-crack-encryption.html

These kinds of backdoors are very difficult to audit for because if you don't know what to look for then you won't have any reason to suspect a particular configuration to be malicious. Given the relationship between people working on Signal and US government, this is a real concern.

The same kind of scrutiny people apply to Telegram and other messaging apps should absolutely be applied to Signal as well.

yogthos OP , 6 days ago

for a sandwich no, for a drone that takes out a $10m tank yes

yogthos OP , 5 days ago

What part of the article are you contesting?

yogthos OP , 5 days ago

ah Poe's law in action :)

yogthos OP , 6 days ago

It does because that energy could've been used for other purposes. This is the Jevons paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

yogthos OP , 6 days ago

funny you should ask https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2023/07/24/crypto-miners-are-pivoting-to-ai-like-everyone-else/

yogthos OP , 6 days ago

https://archive.ph/Igv2j

yogthos OP , 6 days ago

pretty much yeah

yogthos OP , 6 days ago

Return-to-office mandates at some of the most powerful tech companies — Apple, Microsoft and SpaceX — were followed by a spike in departures among the most senior, tough-to-replace talent, according to a case study published last week by researchers at the University of Chicago and the University of Michigan.

Researchers drew on resume data from People Data Labs to understand the impact that forced returns to offices had on employee tenure, and the movement of workers between companies. What they found was a strong correlation between senior-level employees departing directly after a mandate was implemented, suggesting these policies “had a negative effect on the tenure and seniority of their respective workforce.” High-ranking employees stayed several months less than they might have without the mandate, the research suggests — and in many cases, they went to work for direct competitors.

At Microsoft, the share of senior employees as a portion of the company’s overall workforce declined more than 5 percentage points after the return-to-office mandate took effect, the researchers found. At Apple, the decline was 4 percentage points, while at SpaceX — the only company of the three to require workers to be fully in-person — the share of senior employees dropped 15 percentage points.

“We find experienced employees impacted by these policies at major tech companies seek work elsewhere, taking some of the most valuable human capital investments and tools of productivity with them,” said Austin Wright, an assistant professor of public policy at the University of Chicago and one of the study’s authors. “Business leaders should weigh carefully employee preferences and market opportunities when deciding when, or if, they mandate a return to office.”

Technology is an industry “where the discourse over the return to office was most heated,” said David Van Dijcke, a researcher at the University of Michigan who worked on the study. Microsoft, Apple and SpaceX play an outsize role in the sector — collectively they represent more than 2 percent of the tech workforce and 30 percent of the industry’s revenue, according to researchers — and their office policy “sets the precedent for the wider debate around the return to office,” the study’s authors wrote.

Those three companies also were among the first Big Tech firms to pursue return-to-office mandates in 2022, allowing researchers to separate the effects of mandates from the widespread tech layoffs that rocked the industry later in the year, Van Dijcke said.

Microsoft declined to comment on the research or its return-to-office policies, and SpaceX did not respond to a request for comment from The Washington Post. But Apple spokesman Josh Rosenstock criticized the study as work that draws “inaccurate conclusions” and “does not reflect the realities of our business.”

“In fact, attrition is at historically low levels,” Rosenstock said.

Apple, Microsoft and SpaceX differ “markedly” in their corporate cultures and lines of business, and took different approaches in their return-to-office policies. Yet the similar effects of the RTO mandates found by the researchers suggest that “the effects are driven by common underlying dynamics,” the authors wrote.

“Our findings suggest that RTO mandates cost the company more than previously thought,” Van Dijcke said. “These attrition rates aren’t just something that can be managed away.”

The tug-of-war over offices has been locked in a stalemate for roughly a year: Office occupancy data tracked by Kastle Systems shows that the national average across the country’s top metro areas — including New York City, Washington, D.C. and San Francisco — has hovered stubbornly around 50 percent of pre-pandemic levels since early 2023.

A spike in departures of senior employees following return-to-office mandates could reflect the “double-pinch” they inflict on managers, who have to deal with the policy’s effects on the teams they lead and in their own lives, said Christopher Myers, associate professor of management and organization health at Johns Hopkins University, who did not work on the study.

He compared it to leading employees amid layoffs or wage stagnation.

“It’s a change to the work structure, sure, but it’s also just a hit to morale,” said Myers, who is also a scholar with the Academy of Management. Maybe managers leave shortly after mandates, he posited, “because it’s easier to manage a team that’s happy.”

Tech executives have extolled the values of in-person work, citing benefits to connectedness and innovation. CEOs such as OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and Tesla’s Elon Musk have criticized remote work’s effects on company culture and productivity. In an April interview with CNBC, Nike’s CEO John Donahoe attributed a slowdown in innovation at the company to remote work, saying that “it’s really hard to do bold, disruptive innovation, to develop a boldly disruptive shoe on Zoom.”

Executives have not provided much evidence that a return to office actually benefits their workforces, said Robert Ployhart, a professor of business administration and management at the University of South Carolina. For example, there’s nothing pointing to a widespread drop-off in productivity as hybrid work has increased, he said.

“The people sitting at the apex may not like the way they feel the organization is being run, but if they’re not bringing data to that point of view, it’s really hard to argue why people should be coming back to the workplace more frequently,” Ployhart said.

Senior employees, Ployhart said, are “the caretakers of a company’s culture” and having to replace them can have negative effects on team morale and productivity.

“By driving those employees away, they’ve actually enhanced and sped up the very thing they were trying to stop,” Ployhart said.

Although the study focused on three companies, its findings broadly reflect the impact of return-to-office mandates on workforces across the country, according to Ployhart, who is also a scholar with the Academy of Management. Companies are still struggling to adapt to a landscape fundamentally altered by hybrid work.

“We really have a very fragmented world, and these one-size-fits-all policies tend to struggle to be successful when there’s so much nuance in the way we work,” Ployhart said.

yogthos OP , 7 days ago

core of HarmonyOS is open source though https://www.openharmony.cn/

yogthos OP , 6 days ago

I keep forgetting that using google is challenging for people https://www.openharmony.cn/mainPlay/

yogthos OP , 6 days ago

It's diverged quite a bit now, and nowhere did I see anybody deny that it's android based. What's the source for "hey don’t wanna speak about when the subject is mentioned"?

yogthos OP , 6 days ago

aww my favorite troll is back

yogthos OP , 6 days ago

it is open source https://www.openharmony.cn/

yogthos OP , 6 days ago

My understanding is that it's mostly open.

yogthos OP , 6 days ago

I don't need to wait and see, genocide is being committed right now. I also love how you use the fact that US committed prior atrocities to justify this one. Brilliant defence!

yogthos OP , 5 days ago

I don't really follow your logic, since the open source OS itself is not tied to the bootloader. This is code that could be run on phones with open bootloaders. Everybody benefits from Huwawei developing an open source operating system as far as I can tell. So, not sure what you can't get behind here.

yogthos OP , 5 days ago

oh wow an article from 2021 and a criticism section on wikipedia referencing the same article. Tthat sure is current in 2024!

yogthos OP , 5 days ago

I get why people want open source running on open hardware. However, my point is that the code for HarmonyOS is perfectly usable for that. So, again, I fail to see what the problem with supporting the development of an open source mobile operating system that could be used on open hardware, once it exists, in the future. The thing you're describing doesn't really exist right now, aside from some very niche Linux phone projects that can't be used as daily drivers by most people.

Sometimes I feel like people who get too much into open source ideology start missing the forest for the trees.

yogthos OP , 5 days ago

I agree with that, there's a lot more to be done to get to truly open stacks, and it is unfortunate Huawei decided to make their stuff less open. I'm just pointing out that there is still value in open stuff they do publish.

yogthos OP , 5 days ago

The flip side of this argument is people asking for references for things that are well known and completely not controversial, as happens to be the case here. We're not talking about some conspiracy theory. We're talking about the basic fact that OpenHarmony exists, and this fact is trivially verifiable. This is known as sealoining.

yogthos OP , 5 days ago

I agree, fully open hardware and software stack is a laudable goal that we should continue to strive for.