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> If you’re remote, they shouldn’t care where you are

It depends on whether you are an employee or contractor. For a contractor, it mostly shouldn't matter. (Some countries, especially countries with which the HQ country has difficult relations, may represent unacceptable risk even for a contractor.)

With an employee, the employer has to be registered to pay tax in the country; they need to familiarise themselves with the labour laws of the country to ensure they comply with them; they may need to make various arrangements with respect to benefits (insurance, retirement, etc); usually to do all this they need to have a legal entity set up in the country, which in turn also needs things like local bank accounts, directors appointed, accounting and auditing contracts, etc. For the first employee in a country, that can be a lot of overhead. If some manager wants to hire some random person in country X where there are currently no employees, it probably isn't worth it unless they plan to hire more people in country X, or that person is someone very special.

A workaround some places use is contract with some sort of agency who acts as the employee's legal employer and handles all those local legal/tax/benefits/etc issues. However, that adds overhead costs, and if a firm doesn't already have a relationship with such an agency, they probably aren't going to start one just because some manager wants to hire somebody in a country in which there is no legal entity.
Will Starlink actually transmit intra-Starlink traffic point to point like that is a big question.
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MySQL to TiDB Migration Without the Migraine
Did you have a control with plant juice from other arbitrary plant leaves?
I don't even place the former two in the same category of startup as software startups.

Again, if we define startup as "Growing company in search of a business model" then fusion energy falls completely outside of that.

You don't get "hyperscale" growth with science (biotech) or infrastructure projects (fusion energy). I'm unaware of any biotech startups that have grown to hyperscale. Genentech is the only giant biotech company I'm aware of and it was started 40 years ago and acquired before any kind of hyperscaling like you see with software startups.
In many nations solar power is subsidized, more often than not in an administratively burdening way (paperwork!), and subsidies/regulation were frequently modified, discouraging the average citizen. A prominent case is France.
This is IMHO at least partly crony capitalism at work. However it is only temporary and doesn't magically suppress benefits tied to local production.
Springy/spongy/wet/heavy feeling vs mostly stiff/dry/light.
In many places for HFT the comparison is against microwave links though not standard fiber.
As a journalist/Santa Cruz resident for 8 years, you would REALLY have to do something wrong to get in trouble here for drug related crimes.
Ask HN: Should I ignore government advice on coronavirus?
Seems to me that the best advice governments can give is essentially "don't panic, keep going as normal until faced with nearby exposure to the virus".

This sort of advice prevents major unwarranted disruption to society.

The downside of such advice though is that some people will be exposed to the virus.

Statistically it seems that the government advice makes sense - "some people might be exposed/die, but that's a reasonable cost for avoiding panic".

So I got to thinking that maybe it's not in the interests of individual people to follow government advice. Maybe the wisest thing is to stay home for a month or so and see what happens. Sure this is more cautious than the government advises, but it's also the best possible way to avoid infection.

What do others think?
Ironic that a machine proportioned and named after a writing medium can't handle writing well.
Sure, I will. That's the risk of a stop loss, man. TANSTAAFL. The country doesn't lose anything because the value is transferred to whoever takes the other side.
PyTorch is a project primarily funded/developed by Facebook/FAIR. Pandas is fully an open-source project, without corporate control.

Corporate control means tighter development schedules and consistent API's. It also means that if you don't like the path FAIR has chosen, too bad. As a result, there's multiple competing options in the deep learning space: Tensorflow (Google), MXNet (Amazon), CNTK (Microsoft), Paddle (Baidu), etc.

On the other hand, Pandas is something for everyone. The lack of opinioniation means that it can be easily adopted anywhere. Can you imagine what data science/analysis would feel like with multiple low-level Pandas competitors, from different corporations? Each one would feel consistent, but none would work together (and imagine building an ML platform which supported multiple dataframe sources).

I do sometimes miss working in R - yes, R takes flexibility to a fault, but there's a consistent set of primitives that mostly get reused. Perhaps R gives off that impression because of the work done by Hadley and others to build tooling according to the tidyverse principles. I wonder if Julia will combine the best of these worlds in the future.
To take a random example I'm familiar with Uganda has 97%+ LTE-A population coverage, which is as good if not significantly better than the US.

External bandwidth costs are also coming down massively as loads of new submarine fiber cables are connecting africa.

However, even a basic smartphone will cost 400%+ of many people's monthly income. Penetration of feature phones is high though as they are so cheap.

Starlink imo will not be transformational for these places. It will be extremely useful for somewhat niche cases like rural broadband in the US, cruise ships and planes. It won't work well in cities or even suburban areas (20gigabit per sat is only 2,000HD video streams - which a small city of 100k will completely swamp).
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Hyper: A terminal built on web technologies
> Viewing it does not grant the viewer rights to republish it or claim it as their own work.

But that's not the question here, right?

The question is whether I can use my high school yearbook pictures to look for information about my classmates.
Aren't the satellites in LEO only visible for a short time after sunset?
Wow that's fantastic! Especially the part about it helping motivate people to quit. The 'not all hope is lost' if you simply stop now (simply =/= easy).

As someone who lost their grandfather to smoking/cancer, I'll take any reason for someone to quit.
we like -keep the ideas coming!
Why would your domain registry change your DNS? You can also add multiple NS to a domain.

Additionally, if you're on a business plan then you can get a dedicated IP from your ISP or just host in a data center.
I use Twist by Todoist and one of the downsides is there is no built-in video chat.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/29/business/tesla-earnings/i... Like this, you mean?
pwa are one thing, but safari based web apps are nothing more than a bookmark that happens to sit on your home screen. should they and could they be catched? absolutely. does apple care enough about us nerds with our web apps to implement a 30 year old feature? not at all.
I'm confused about the reports of showing street view without entering a location. If you deny the location permission, it won't show street view unless you explicitly type in an address. Are you sure you didn't do that? Or maybe you visited the site sometime in the past and already granted location permission?
Ask HN: I finished building a crowdsourcing platform but idk what to do with it
https://www.eraise.loans

Eraise is a platform that allows you to donate to an American struggling with student debt. Donations are securely sent directly to a random Eraise user’s loan provider.

It was a fun project I did in my spare time as an excuse to practice my design skills and play with some cool technology (nextjs, ts node. For a full breakdown check out my case study: http://www.kolbysisk.com/work/eraise)

But now I don't know what to do with it. I feel like I can't launch Eraise without incorporating and talking to lawyers because it deals with sensitive data and money transactions.

I also don't know a whole lot about the business side of things, plus I'm not super confident that it's even worth pursuing.

I'd really appreciate any feedback or direction.
It's open source. If you don't like the direction, fork it and do something new with the project.
I wouldn't worry about it.

If SpaceX does become a monopoly it will simply be treated as a utility and forced to offer FRAND wholesale pricing to anyone who wants it.

And the fun part is that SpaceX being global will have to negotiate with each country that it wants to operate in. Good luck with that.
Who have they bought recently?
Tesla's entire schtick is that they sell good cars that happen to be electric, instead of the deliberately wacky science project offerings that most companies try to sell.

Those things basically look like a rehash of the Twike, which has been around since the 80s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twike
So do you expect Apple to give away Mac OS if they did allow it to run on a VM or should they go back to charging $129 for the OS like they use to (and like MS still does)?

The current version of OS X runs on the 2012 Mac Mini. I see one on eBay for $145.
Ring has 'partnered' and gives access to videos taken of you and your neighbors to police departments without a warrant, just ad hoc access. Amazon has also been working on a facial recognition program, and the combination has worry some implications if, or more likely when (if not contested by society at large or regulation), combined.
If you opt-out of ring's sharing video, it reports you to the police with the exact repurcussions unknown to me (I have read a handful of articles on it previously).
Here is a 'ring issues' outline from EFF: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/08/five-concerns-about-am...
The question is -- if you turn whispersync off (and popular highlights and real-time hightlights etc...)

Does Amazon respect you and turn off data collection?

Or better yet - does it ask you before turning it on?
It doesn't jive with Amazon's income from the book. I doubt that users pay for books on a percentage basis. So if someone buys a book, but doesn't read it, then Amazon gets the income, but isn't paying royalty on it.

That seems illegal.
That's still a management problem, not a technological one.

Many of cross platform apps seem just slightly off compared to native ones. There are exceptions but those exceptions but they have a lot of work put into them to make them seem native -- something you get for free when you actually are native.
I love the idea of what you're building - signed up to be notified for the beta!

> Separate user accounts is kind of the naive (and not quite complete) solution to the same problem.

I too have attempted to solve this problem with user accounts; and yeah it doesn't work well. Files are a pain to share, the log-out-log-back-in process takes forever, and a bunch of preferences don't sync across user accounts.

I particularly like the idea of having a super-low-energy mode where it's just for writing or reading, and saved states for my countless research sessions. Also, being able to freeze my dev workspace and resume it any point sounds amazing.

Excited to try it out!
Most of the people, especially early smokers, who wouldn't be bothered to read the article and just go by the title and think - "I knew that, smoking is actually fine!" - and would puff away to glory like never before.

While this is the first sentence in the article:

> Your lungs have an almost "magical" ability to repair the cancerous mutations caused by smoking - but only if you stop, say scientists.

I really think BBC should have changed the title.
Can't agree more with your first paragraph.

1, 2, 6, 11 should be no-brainers if people were educated IMHO — but this is 1920 relative to electricity or cars; still a long way to go before the mainsteam masses get it (which very much includes political figures). I would think 2030-2040 for the emergence of ethical consensus and concern (the kind that pervades political parties and social classes).

That is assuming the needle doesn't move too much farther in the authoritarian direction until then (the 20-year trend is really not looking that way currently).

3, 4, 5, 9, 10 are/would be met by strong opposition from interest groups, I'm sure you see that too. Everything I know about 3 tells me it's never going to happen with current parties / politicians. It's at least 1 generation away and I'm not sure the concept itself isn't utopia. 9 and 10 as well, I think it largely depends on the cultural paradigm (and this world's in 2020 is really not aligned with that, nor does it trend or even look that way). 4, 5 likewise, complex topics, lots and lots and lots of gatekeepers and lobbyists.

My take on these is they're very costly in terms of political capital; and they are largely debatable (politically, legally, philosophically, etc., you'll find passionate captains on both sides); thus there are 'better' (more consensual, with direct net positive effect) lower hanging fruits imho.

7 and 8 are hard problems, notably because of scale and the need for automation — it's part of a much bigger domain, automation of compliance and building "trustable" systems etc.; the kind that bridge or plane engineers must build, and probably software engineers too, but you know we're far from that if you read this forum.

I'd say 1 2 6 11 and 7 8 on the way to scale/automation already paint a whole different regime and degree of maturity for a 21st century State. I'd like to think we're now ~1 generation away from enactment of such norms.
This has to be common knowledge on here, but:

You know that pokemon go basically fits this description, right?

And that the developer (keyhole Inc) was a cia nga contractor / incubator project that made the precursor version of Google Earth years ago.

What better way to get real time photo intelligence of a location than to drop a Picachu right in front and wait for the pics to come rolling in.

I suspect that the Chinese and Russians have attempted to mimic this ability. Maybe we're seeing it play out.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hanke
> In people who quit, up to 40% of their cells looked just like those from people who had never smoked.

That's a nice way to say "smoking destroys 60% of your lungs."
Coming soon: machine learning system to analyze vocalizations in dairy herds to increase total herd production over time.
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There are two kinds of LVM snapshots: thick and thin. You're probably thinking of conventional (thick) snapshots, rather than the newer thinly provisioned snapshots. Snapshotting an LV will FIFREEZE the file system, then snapshot, then FITHAW the file system. So depending on how dirty things are, it might take a while for the snapshot to happen, but otherwise they are nearly instant to create and destroy.
🧐 I'm sorry, I just had to try that.
I'm kind of done with notifications on my phone. Plenty of apps turn approving legitimate notifications into an excuse to push ads or attempts at engagement through os notifications. The most recent offender on my phone was the moovit app, that sent something inane with emojis in the notification. deleted.

I don't even have email notifications anymore. Just texts and calls from contacts. Notifications just serve to divert your attention from the task at hand. If I want to sit down and be distracted by reddit or whatever, it will be on my own time by my own choice damnit.
Once Starlink is ready everyone needs to ditch Comcast and AT&T since they’ve been screwing us for years
If it is a “specialized”,”pro” niche app people are usually willing to spend more.

It’s hard to make a living selling a niche app to price sensitive people.

Also if it is a niche app, with a small addressable market, how do you continue making money on it since their is no facility for upgrade pricing - especially since you have to keep releasing updates to support newer devices and new screen sizes?
The danger with Pandas’ bizarre API is that it isn’t obvious when you are doing something stupid, because the right way to say things also looks weird and unpythonic.

On the other hand, I’ve gotten tremendous value from it, and I can’t aggressively criticize an open source project I can use without paying.
That's really cool thanks, didn't realize you could just look up the permits like that.

I'm not sure what those values in the permits really mean, but they can't be the total costs. Hell, the kitchen remodel probably has $20,000 just in appliances.

According to https://blog.housemanager.calstate.aaa.com/blog/how-much-wil..., the price for a mid-range kitchen remodel in SF is ~$83,000, $65,000 for the bathroom and $30,000 for an average roof replacement.

Looking at the pictures of the kitchen (https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/610-Rivera-St-San-Francis...) and bathroom (https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/610-Rivera-St-San-Francis...) those numbers seem like they're probably closer than the permit numbers.

It looks like they also remodeled the half-bath as it matches the remodeled master.

It's probably more like $100-150k in renovations.
There is a difference between an intentional plot to commit one specific illegal act or tort, and recognition that torts and misbehavior will happen in a large enough organization and budgeting/insuring for it. This happens whether or not it’s believed paying damages is cheaper than fixing the problems.
These aren't just random profiles, they're security interested Hacker News browsers. And they might be correlatable with comments in this post.

IP gives you more than just location. If you own a website, and someone from an IP visits your website around the same time as this log, there's probably a good chance they're the same person. So you could then correlate a username on your website with a Facebook profile.

The whole point of potential attack is to correlate a username on the attacker's website with a Facebook profile.
Definitely agree the API can be tightened up, but just for fun and perspective take a look at pre pandas data wrangling tools like sas.

Like Example x3 vs x5 in their docs on the sum function:

http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/lrdict/64316/HTM...
The problem is, of course, tech. As explained in the article, websites have become more energy-hungry over time. This is partly explained by the rebound effect (Jevons paradox). More efficient hardware leads to faster page load times. Unfortunately, the result was heavier pages loading roughly as fast, or even slower, than old-school websites.

Unless facebook, AWS, google and Microsoft start encouraging more efficient webiste designs (static websites, limited library usage, no more 1MB fonts, etc.), the work done by the author is absolutely relevant. Limited hardware capacity has always been the most reliable way to limit energy usage.
I would also add that quitting smoking was one of the hardest things I have ever done. Just don't start. Some people don't have a problem quitting. I did.
I use Julia and this is one area where Pandas still kicks the Julia ecosystem's proverbial ass: awesome support for working with nanosecond precision epoch timestamps.
Fairness and Machine Learning
Speaking anecdotally, I long admired girls in primary school, but that's all it was, a "longing". Not to be coy but like a dog chasing a car I'm not sure what I would have done with one if I'd caught up to her. Probably act like I would towards any peer in my age group.

In adolescence I wrote a pretty amusing in my older years summary of the feelings I was experiencing during my first 'puppy love', what I'd describe today as intoxication or overwhelming and disproportionate delight.
“I couldn’t help but notice...”
I started out as a PCB sub-assembly technician, building robots that shot laser. For concert light shows, so not the Mecha-Godzilla type. It's a fancy title that means I soldered a lot and used an oscilloscope to check my work.

I only occasionally dabble in that direction these days. But I will say it was a fascinating time. I think most young people would be surprised at what you can do with analog circuits.

It hits home when you make a perfect sine wave by oohing into a microphone. After that, everything you see in an oscilloscope makes sense.
Fair point. I am also suggesting it was a serious problem in 2012 that was already recognized by the government. Hard to think of a period in recent memory when China has not been considered a threat for this kind of thing.

Furthermore, juxtaposing the two statements implies a sort of grey area like that doesn’t make sense here. It’s hard to draw any conclusion other than greed and/or malice.

But then again, people can be smart in some areas and quite error prone in others. This was a really terrible miscalculation.
I'm not sure how you measure this for any given situation.

You don't really even know how effective "stay home for a month or so" will be.
Amazon's model is different because it's electronic and therefore sustainable because they can do this trick.

When was the last time you saw a sustainable private library (i.e., funded by membership fees, not by taxes)? Were the fees $10/person/month?
For more technical information, I recommend reading this:

https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2019/11/02/star link-is-a-very-big-deal/

Strange enough the title is similar: starlink is a very big deal
you don't need a mac to build ios apps.
I think the problem is that even the best tablet is worse than a cheap shitty netbook. Shitty netbooks can be had for $200. The fancy shmancy backwards folding ones, (into a tablet form factor) aren't that much more.

You know what's better than termux? OpenSSH, tmux, a proper term, a proper tiling WM, in X.org. Or Wayland or screen if that's your thing I don't judge.
I think this highly depends on which government you're asking about. Especially if you're talking about the Wuhan coronavirus - are you in China?
Unlike "high-speed drives", magic mushrooms don't typically endanger anyone.

The worst that's likely to happen is a slight uptick in emergency room visits when people experience frightening but physically harmless bad trips.
Quic seems to be the UDP equivalent to TCPcrypt? Both of which should be used by default on the Internet?
But why should in your examples "the authorities" care or not whether you are using a browser over HTTP(S) or any other kind of software/protocol? If any communication channel is available, it's possible to send any kind of VPN traffic through it. Bits are bits. Especially when encrypted, so the censor has no idea as to what is inside...
But what about the neurotoxins present in tobacco? Does damage caused by that 'magically' heal?
U.K. Police Will Soon Be Able to Search Through U.S. Data Without Asking a Judge
Pawn shops hold the goods they purchased for 30 days to give time for someone to make a claim against them as property that was stolen from them. (This is my experience in Canada anyway.) In theory, exchanges could do the same thing for deposits above a certain amount, but this would presumably hurt their business the way things work right now.