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Ask HN: In what countries can you legally get a long term teleworking visa?
My current job allows me to telework "from anywhere" (we have employees in several countries in Europe, as well as in asia and the middle east), but it seems like it's impossible to get info on whether it's legal to move to a country while teleworking with a company in the US. Is there a list of which countries allow this somewhere?
What is "efficiency" in the context of an entire society? What are we working toward? What will we do when we get there?
> "For those interested in what people who actually know whereof they speak have to say on the topic"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority

I've no problem with learning from others, but pointing to a select handful of people who 'actually know whereof they speak' is not going to help explore the field fully.
Or sloppy/lazy counting because they already know the predetermined outcome.
Yeah, I thought that was all kind of funny too. I'm a voracious reader, and have been curious about just about all parts of science and technology at some point. So I too knew at least the basics for everything he mentioned. Magically plop me in a stone-age agrarian society, and we'd be back to at least an 18th-century level of technology in a couple decades.
>You're doing no better by trivializing the author's purview. He doesn't live anywhere else you mentioned, he lives in China and in Tibet before that.

There are billions of people, including highly successful or educated people, living in a place X all of their lives, while still not understanding it. Do, for example, Trump supporters really understand their country?

>you think an American balking at finding out their favorite restaurant was closed because of hygiene issues doesn't feel something comparable to a Chinese person who finds out their favorite street vendor used gutter oil?

They wouldn't call the whole country "unreal" for that.

>Also in all of those Western examples you gave, China was much worse off. How can you say that China's situation isn't bad with a straight face? This is a country where the smug is so bad you can't see a few feet ahead of you.

Well, there are industrial cities in Europe where it used to be like that. Or the horrible smog in LA in the 70s-80s. And China has been the "factory" of the world for 2 decades, so we've basically outsourced our smog there.

>Where people who criticize the government can be made to disappear.

That has been business as usual in places ranging from Italy, Greece, Portugal and Spain to Mexico for most of the 20th century (and still in the 21st). Not to mention most of Latin America, and often with you know who's support.

>Where the internet goes through a firewall and is closed off from the rest of the world.

Well, if the US was in their place, ie no longer top dog, with another country owning most of the internet's infrastructure and flagship services, and openly meddling in their regional affairs, plus stuffing its culture and political views all over the world, they'd do something like to to. Like they did during McCarthy, where certain tendencies had to be eradicated from mass media, cinema, etc.
Which seems to present the interesting divide between European software engineers and American ones.

In the US, you get pampered, but seem to have lots of late nights, 'crunch' time, etc. In Europe, you get far lower wages but it's treated almost solely as a 9-5 job.
The research group's publications suggest they 3D print a skeleton with embedded catalysts and release different reactants into the tank through the process to accrete a shell around the necessary electronics. http://www.chem.gla.ac.uk/cronin/publications.php

The animation seems pure fantasy, some blobs move like flubber and then spontaneously look like a plane.
I believe that this is one of the best things that TV has given us - the homogenization, and adoption of the English language. It eases communication and trade across cultures.

It also makes it cheaper to recruit people from all around the world with a given skill. Right now, there's a shortage in skilled welders. There's a massive number of skilled welders in Asia that make bit less money than the welders here do. Why can't we bring them across -- cost of certification? No. It's the language. Language enables globalization.

I'm sure there are still advantages to being bilingual that exist as well, but inventing, or adopting obscure languages to become one's mother tongue only seems counterproductive to me in the long run.
Australian here. I have had the same reaction when visiting Europe and trundling around little villages in Ireland.
We've "cured" cavities quite a few times via fighting the primary cavity causing bacteria S. Mutans with techniques ranging from phages, to a vaccine, to introducing a crippled version of the bacteria in a semi-sterilized mouth. Wondered what happened to all of those options?
We actually do want to invent new languages now - consider Game of Thrones, Star Trek, LOTR etc. In a monolingual world, would any of these have real adherents? Maybe. Even within English, various groups have invented sublanguages - Cockney rhyming slang or Polari https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polari
Oh, boy, those compuserve numbers were annoying to exchange! I found them difficult to memorize and didn't always have pen and paper around.
- You can't have a company whose name isn't French.
That's much more nuanced than that. See article: http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/quebec-cracks-down-...

- The company I work for had to replace all keyboards by French keyboards, had to switch to an HR software available in French, had to switch all OSes to French, had to put French stickers on the microwave oven, etc.

It's about having the language of the work environment in French. If the company decided to switch the keyboard to French and change your microwave in French, that is just a company policy, not a government regulation. The point of having the HR software in French is to allow someone that only speak French to work in HR in the company. Surely you can still use the software in English if you want to, but at least it's available in French.
Huh? You can have many orders of magnitude between 0 and 100%. 0.0001 is 4 orders of magnitude smaller than 1.
Honestly I don't know what this comment means. What category are you talking about, and what else is in it? Those were two languages explicitly mentioned by the comment I was replying to. As I said, there are even cases where I find Tcl to be a better language than something very popular today like Python. Tcl has had features for years or decades that Python has only very recently acquired (full coroutine support, an event loop), and it's still much better for multithreaded programming.
To my mind, there's a tremendous irony in the 1994 flame war. A user of Tcl since the 1990's I'd read, and been amused by, the hyperbole contained in those long-ago comments a number of times. Not that flaming doesn't still happen, such emotion isn't hard to find, though the subjects in dispute vary, the form of battle remains the same.

Goes without saying that there's a nub of truth in those ancient rants. Tcl can be kind of hard to catch on to, but then again, the Gnu "replacement", the Guile implementation of Scheme, is also hardly a mainstream favorite. Plenty of hate is expressed toward Lisp-derived fully parenthesized languages, Scheme included.

The not-so-dirty secret in the "language war" is that Tcl is itself very much a Lisp-like language, and over the years has increasingly adopted many features that make it even closer to languages like Scheme.

Having become reasonably fluent in both Tcl and Scheme I see similarities that outweigh syntactic differences. Not identical of course, but translating programs across them is fairly straightforward compared to C-like code, e.g., Javascript.

Maybe Lisp derivatives are an acquired taste, or maybe there some inborn twisted brain thing that entices some and repels others. At any rate, I'm convinced Tcl and Scheme are very capable languages, admittedly different in approach vs. more commonly used systems. Looking back it is ever so obvious that the old war was fought between two sects of the same tribe, and isn't that often the source of the fiercest rivalries.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/07/ugliness-a-cul...

A better article, though a review of only one of the books.

While 'ugliness' should be fascinating, it appears there are few books on the topic that don't resort to lurid bathos. If anyone can recommend a better alternative book to these (and excluding Umberto Eco's paean to monstrosity), I'd love to hear about it.
These sorts of pieces always remind me of something: When my nephew was around 2 or 3, his mother insisted that she'd never buy him any toy guns (LEGOs, pop guns, or anything). When he'd visit us, he always somehow dug out the old pop gun toys we had buried away. A year later, I visited her and she'd entirely caved. I asked her about it, and she said she gave up when she realized he was just using sticks or anything else he could think of simulate one while he continued playing cops and robbers and all the "violent" games little kids play.
Yeah, which is the Internet Archive's biggest issue. What site uses a domain name at one time isn't what site might use the same domain name at a different date.

If the archive had more common sense, they'd note down when sites and robots.txt files change and only block pages by the site owner with the offending robots.txt file. So if say, Google went under and a new company started up, a robots.txt file from the latter would only block files added since the site switched over.

That would solve 99.99% of these issues.
That's totally sufficient for airplanes since crossing semi-trailers are fairly rare on airways. Jokes aside, all obstacles for airplanes are radar tracked, so keeping attitude is all that it needs doing. If human intervention is needed, the system usually has time to warn. Still, even those super-simple systems fail.
I like dnspy, which is a fork of ilspy.
Didn't their patent on the bricks expire or something?

I had the feeling, that other companies entering their marked forced them to this licensed stuff to stand out
The most important feature of German that I strongly miss in English (and probably other languages, too) is the easiness that one can make new words (in particular nouns) by juxtaposition (and indeed, importantly, you can often rely on the fact that more complicated words are constructed this way). I really wish a lot more English words were built by juxtaposition from more simple concepts instead of being own words that one has to learn without (easily) being able to understand the "atoms" that the word is built of.

Some of smsm42's example do have this property:

"Eigenwert" (eigenvalue): eigen (of (it)self), Wert (value)

"Weltschmerz": Welt (world), Schmerz (pain)

"Poltergeist": poltern (to rumble), Geist (ghost)
I think the field you're looking for is statistics?
> The practicalities of PLs aren't at all like spoken natural languages. For one thing, all computers can run any PL with little effort.

But not with equal effort. Machines have been developed to run specific languages (Burroughs mainframes - Algol 60; Lisp Machines - Lisp), and languages have been developed to run on specific machines (C - PDP-11).
I think we're about 2-3 away from Google launching an Uber-like service in areas that lack snowfall.
I do not work at Tesla or for Tesla, just have experience with the radar systems.
Unfortunately, I am not that good at manually building hardware. Learning how it works is another thing, though.
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On Arch, installing from AUR people are told to (and generally will) inspect the install script(s) when installing something. It's part of the workflow for all AUR helpers.
Which if the author is right and our brains have already been shrinking means that within a few hundred years, there won't be any humans left - just "higher intelligence".

No, it really doesn't. Even if the extrapolation was correct - which is dubious at best - losing 15% of brain over 10 000 years certainly wouldn't mean "no humans within a few hundred years".
This post is a good one, and that utilitarian idea that unilingualism is good because you can hire people is a claim borne of the kind of short-sighted technocracy that bedevils tech and tech culture. In the appendices of 1984, Orwell was speaking of conscious linguistic malformation to make it difficult to communicate concepts that the manipulators of Newspeak (née English) wished to stamp out. It's not better when you do it because somebody sticks HBO on your television.

People here venerate Paul Graham's Blub Paradox article--I wonder how many stopped to think about the possibility that we're speaking Blub, and the attempt of a unilingual world is incomprehensibly more problematic than that of computer programming languages. From the root comment of this chain:

> Do you feel stunted or unsatisfied because your ancestors didn't pass their native tongues down to you? I don't.

How would you fucking know?

Technocracy in action: we can't think of a black swan, so black swans can't exist.
Tesla Misses Q2 Deliveries Forecast Due to ‘Steep’ Production Ramp
Tariffs are good. It is how countries force other countries to compete equally on labor rights, environmental regulations and all that. If the other country doesn't have those things you just tariff their goods until you've priced in the local moral standards into those imports.
If I make a package using $LANGUAGE's package manager I get portability across the platforms that $LANGUAGE supports, and I do it I using tools that I already know and am already using to write in $LANGUAGE. Market share == $LANGUAGE's market share.

But If I want to make an $OS package for my $LANGUAGE module, I have to use a tool unrelated to my language and package that I probably don't know and target only $OS (or do that step for every one of them). Not to mention that the specific ones that we have, say RPM and DEB, have always been a right pain for me to generate personally. Market share == $LANGUAGE's market share / $OS's market share.

I don't like the state of affairs, but I do understand why people end up distributing with their language's package manager instead. It's way simpler and already baked into their process and assuming that they wrote the code in the first place to scratch their own itch and they already know how to use their language's package manager, it solves that problem for them nicely.

I think one solution is for language-specific package managers to target creating OS packages on some common platforms (`setup.py make-deb`, `cargo deb`, etc). These modules are probably so similar that it's much easier than the package case.
Does this make Saudi the bad guys?
Thanks for the book recommendation! I'll have to take a look at it.
> loads GRUB

As your link mentions, that loader only loads signed kernels (with signed modules).

edit:

> designed to prevent malware

That's the official story. Anybody familiar with Microsoft's history knows they have been trying to lock down the wintel platform for a long time. Creating a "Trusted Computing" environment specifically for DRM purposes has been a goal since "Palladium".
What is the schedule for C/C++ rumprun ability ? I'd like to compile some GT.M programs into UniK .
The pregnant implication is that if (a) we're entertaining ourselves with violent themes, then (b) we ourselves become more violent.

As to (a), engaging in martial play or entertainment is hardly a disturbing new trend. It's not just videogames or plastic army men, even most sports are an allegory for battlefield conflicts. Some of humanity's most classic and enduring literature, including pieces from various continents, are meditations on exactly this topic.

As to (b), if anything, the supposed renaissance of violent entertainment has actually accompanied one of the least violent centuries on record.

Let people play however they want. Teach kids values that benefit humanity. These two ideals are not inconsistent.
Mandarin Chinese does much the same as German.

English prefers to borrow words from other languages. Curiously, it has borrowed hardly any words from Mandarin Chinese.
"Where else could we put blinkenlights?"
The idea of "foreignness" implicitly carries with it the notion of approaching ideas and the universe in which we live in a way that isn't the same as ours. So we invent new languages to represent that.

Almost as if that's the point, yeah?
I agree with this too. Saving/"not-spending" is important, but I still think that earning is more important.

A tip I once read that made sense to me:

- Every raise you get (of predictable income), save 50% of it (so if I get a $10k/yr pay increase, I should increase savings by $5k/yr).

- Every bonus you get (unpredictable income), save 90% of it

My savings and lifestyle would increase together as I begin to earn more, and all it takes is the discipline to follow those two rules.
There's a collective of quixotic Mexican software developers and users that is quite active. I wonder why is it that FSF's philosophy with its exhortation to viciously defend freedom resonates so well in some parts of Mexico. It was those groups, which congregate on the Hackmitin[1], Hacklab Autónomo[2] and Rancho Electrónico[3] that helped Jacobo Nájera with his legal proceedings against Secure Boot.

I went a couple of times to the Hacklab. It's an interesting place. At the time, it looked like they were squatting in an abandoned building and they looked like Hollywood hacker stereotypes. If it weren't for the proliferation of hardware with Debian and Trisquel logos, their appearance make you would think these were just ordinary anarchist punks. In a way, that's what they are, except they are technoanarchist punks, and obviously not completely anarchist as they know how to work with the legal system. They were very left-leaning, distrustful of all corporations, completely aligned with FSF philosophy; radical, feminist, and fiercely protective of their rights.

I rather miss that scene. I haven't found quite something like it here in Canada.

I hope Nájera manages to get somewhere, but it seems like a hopeless fight against MSFT, the one that is really ensuring that installing the OS of your choice is impossible. The whole "security" thing is a sideshow; the real goal here with "Secure" Boot is to make it harder to install unlicensed copies of Windows.

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[1] http://hackmitin.espora.org/

("mitin" in Spanish is from English "meeting" but has left-leaning political connotations such as protests and marches.)

[2] http://hacklab.espora.org/

[3] http://ranchoelectronico.org/
And here's me, more concerned by movie set Lego and what it does to creativity.
The analogy in aircraft circles is "lining up the holes in the swiss cheese"

Between the systems, the SOPs, and the training, there are layers of redundancy (slices of cheese) in almost everything. All have weaknesses, but not the same weaknesses. Still, occasionally the holes in the cheese line up and you have a crash. Usually after the investigation another layer of cheese is added.

In this case the Tesla had only two layers: the autopilot, and the driver. The driver wasn't paying attention so when the autopilot made a mistake there was nothing to save the situation.
"What’s more, languages are conduits of human heritage. Writing is a relatively recent development in our history (written systems currently exist for only about one-third of the world’s languages), so language itself is often the only way to convey a community’s songs, stories and poems. The Iliad was an oral story before it was written, as was The Odyssey. “How many other traditions are out there in the world that we’ll never know about because no-one recorded them before the language disappeared?” Austin says. ""

The Illiad is doing just fine in the many different languages it has been translated into. Preserving languages as living, spoken tongues is not necessary for the mere preservation of stories and history.

"Without the language, the culture itself might teeter, or even disappear. “If we are to survive, to continue on and to exist as a people with a distinct and unique culture,” he continues, “then we have to have a language.” “It’s very hard as an English speaker to understand that,” "

This is true. English is now so widely used that it isn't really associated with one particular culture. You can travel to a completely alien country that speaks English, just differently than you.

“Different languages provide distinct pathways of thought and frameworks for thinking and solving problems,” Harrison says. Returning to Cherokee, unlike English it is verb rather than noun-based, and those verbs can be conjugated in a multitude of ways based on who they are acting upon."

Many languages have unique attributes that let them excel at certain things. German, for example, is fantastic for creating compound words (e.g. Gedankenexperiment). English, however, gleefully swallows up such words and incorporates them.

"There are also a few examples of languages being revived even after actually going extinct. By the 1960s, the last fluent Miami language speakers living in the American Midwest passed away. Thanks largely to the efforts of one interested member of the Miami Nation tribe, however, the language is now taught at Miami University in Ohio. "

Another example of this is written Mayan. The first archbishop of Yucatan, Diego de Landa, deliberately wiped out every trace of written Mayan he could. Paper codices were burned. Stone monuments were defaced. Literate Mayans were executed. He was so successful that, by the 20th century, written Mayan was a complete mystery. It has since been deciphered, but outside of a very small number of paper codices, all that remains are stone monuments. This is unfortunate. Consider the writing on monuments in Washington as compared to what's in the Library of Congress.

As useful as different languages may be for different things, they're also distressingly good at preventing us from communicating with and understanding each other. Perhaps the rise of more global languages is worth paying the price of losing some of our lingual diversity.
I was a kid in the 90's so I remember keenly the unmistakeable technological shift. People started saying "information highway" an awful lot. And I remember the first time me and my friend used dial up networking to play Doom 2, and I could see his character's movements on my screen in realtime, and I thought, "I am living in the future."
That's what I don't understand either. It's already the case that news isn't shown to a lot of people unless it gets a lot of engagement.

What's different? Is Facebook now saying that it won't show the posts of publishers, even if people are liking/sharing/commenting?
A lot of the arguments/heated debates on HN stem from a failure to define key terms. Less so in threads on compsci-related topics, but almost always on threads with econ-related topics. Especially universal basic income. Once you identify this common issue it becomes easy to avoid these frustrating (and frustrated) conversations altogether.

Eno has taken a pretty liberal view of "AI" but he makes a good point about specialization. I would define the concept he's getting at as "collective social memory," but I enjoyed his musings nonetheless.
I'd cede the point if the topic was abstract philosophy or my comment was intentionally vague, but neither of those are true.

What I said and what pcwalton argued against have nothing in common, except two out of 13 words: "any" and "them", which means pcwalton simply made up 84.62% of that statement. Why? It makes for a handy strawman so he can appear intellectually superior.