skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US nexus was established pretty firmly early on in the case: they knowingly sold over $1B USD in "private placements" to US investors, and used US banks. Later, in March-April, after failing to stop the injunction, they attempted to pivot to overseas sales only. But the instruments they're selling are, of course, designed to be liquid and (asymptotically approaching) anonymous; not only that, but the original contracts they had built the offering on might not even have allowed them to fence off US investors even if the capability existed.

The "we'll just sell grams overseas" bit was a Hail Mary pass, performed after they'd already lost the core of their case.
From the sound of it, you're just proposing that people at the bottom have to play the free market better on a large scale, and you aren't giving much in the way of specifics of how they would do that.

One property of free markets it that they're unstable: as soon as any company gains enough power, they use that power to create rules and make the market unfree. Lobbying and laws are one way, monopolies and trusts are another. CEOs have no compunction about lobbying or taking bail-outs. You aren't really a successful company until you've pulled the ladder up behind you. And if CEOs aren't bound by free markets, it's foolish for workers to play by the rules when nobody else is.

In this terminology where every person is a business owner, then unions are trusts, worker-owned cooperatives are just companies owning the means of production, etc. If you're willing to let workers break the free market in their favor the same way CEOs break the markets in their favor, then this idea that everyone should own their own company is just linguistic gymnastics about worker-favored structures that already exist.
But it does interact with the physical world, and so there must be some objective, measurable mechanism when this happens. Even if you believe in dualism, this is almost inescapable (unless you bring in divinity, or deny the physical world entirely, as in hinduism).
I want to live in a city with an abundance of arts organizations; but it does seem a bit odd to live in a place that has those things, but can't be accessed.
didn't quite see this in other comments:

its not about you anymore

your job is to make the product and the team successful. the worst way to go about that is to use your new bully pulpit to make everyone follow your process

i agree with the people who say you need to keep your hands in the code. absolutely. but maybe instead of picking out the hardest and sexiest problems for yourself...maybe acknowledge that you have alot going on, and that you might not have enough bandwidth. i've find it works better if I keep a wider eye on everything thats going on rather than swapping out my architect hat for a developer hat and working privately on something. its also a good idea to think about tracing/debugging/operational levers that help the team as a second order (but aren't in the critical path). assume you're going to be parachuting in all sorts of places and leave time for that

get to know your people/teams. you're going to deliberately be invoking conway's law. know strengths and weaknesses and help to set up the overall development structure so maximize success. if that means not using a language or tool you think would be the best choice, then suck it up.

i don't find it at all helpful to consider yourself in charge. your role is to try to guide people to the right decision. to talk to everyone and understand whats going on and connect the right people together. to continuously translate the business needs to tactical action. but really, you're a support person now.

i guess for some people i've blurred technical team lead and architect. thats fine - let me know where you think that line is.
I asked the artist, who has a lot of experiences with mixing colors (he has made several color palettes on conmission) and on lightning (he developed a combination of three types of lamps, which gives the best reproduction of daylight, consisting of a daylight LED lamp and two types of fluorescent lamps), and he said that he did not know of a rgb sensor that gives a faitfull reproduction of daylight colors. He said that to compare the quality one would have to compare it with the work in daylight condition.

I do not know if this picture was taken with a multi-spectral camera or with a three (rgb) channel camera. Maybe with a multi-spectral camera one could find a method to accurately reproduce the experience of viewing the work in daylight conditions.
Could it be (to the op) that your body has some different oxygen/co2 processing ability? I encourage you to get and oxygen sensor (the kind you put on your finger) that measures your bodies o2. Your description sounds like what I've been reading about people who have covid-19 and their bodies don't detect that don't have enough oxygen.
It's worth casting a critical eye on the American Revolution, too.

https://www.gwern.net/Mistakes#the-american-revolution
The government can't (or shouldn't) pay someone enough to compete with 7-9 figure compensation from the high end of the private sector. If someone actually creates significant value, and gets to share in some small fraction of that value, that's going to outpace any salary-based compensation.
"An arbitrary gTLD is not something you can get from free, until we have a better solution for DNS that the current appraoch."

This implies that there is a better approach. I agree. There are many possibilities. I have been running own root zone at home for several decades. I routinely experiment with different ideas. I am aware of many possibilities.

I do generate a CA pem file using openssl in order to view own traffic. However even with all these hoops we jump through to do such basic things, "Big Tech" seems to actively try to discourage users even more, .e.g., from monitoring their own traffic. For example, subjecting the user to a keylogger in Chrome and forcing them to type some undocumented, opinionated shibboleth such as "badidea" or "thisisunsafe" to proceed.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35274659/does-using-badi...

The subject of the OP is what was originally supposed to be a "non-commercial" TLD, which since abandoned that designation and began charging fees, and, more importantly, the current and future lack of any restrictions on raising those fees. If one is using a TLD in ways that demand transparency, e.g., to represent an entity that is taking money from the public, then involving a third party that accepts personally identifiable information, e.g., a registrar, makes some sense. However, interactions with the public, e.g., commercial uses, are not the only ways the internet can be used and such uses are not the only way domains can be used.
No, there's no age cutoff for Germany. The Blue Card (4 year work visa) requires either earning more than the national average for non-technical roles (currently more than €72k per year pre-tax) and for technical roles more than €33k. There is no requirement to show that the company was unable to find an EU Citizen, if the salary numbers are met.
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I think this is the reason people's closest friends often come from school. It's so easy in adult life to avoid the difficult work of connecting with people who you don't immediately click with, and it seems like many people take this easy choice once they're out of the mandatory school environment. This is a problem I struggle with even in the office, and I'm beginning to realize how much worse it can be when working remotely.
Out-of-date, insecure open-source software is everywhere
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I switched from Logic to Ableton recently and now I love Ableton's workflow. I just downloaded the Logic update, and while there are new things, it feels like the same old Logic that I just couldn't get into. I'll be sticking with Ableton.
It starts.
Annoyingly, I was never able to find a copy with the same binding and cover as was in the film. It was probably doctored up as a prop but I thought it might be amusing to have.
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The amount they get to keep cake from accredited investors, so I don’t really feel any sympathy there.
All of those companies that you’re talking about “Shutting down” are registered with the SEC, and follow SEC rules and guidelines for selling their securities. If telegram had done that with tan, this would not be an issue.
> ...and the caste system dictates admissions policies anyway

Like, officially, in writing? Even if it's informal, as an American it blows my mind that that's still a thing.
Any articles or writeups anywhere on this? Is F2FS stuitable for production use?
Age of Empires 2 is quietly having an incredible year
I don't understand where you're going with the analogy of digestion. Nobody is saying you have to be able to explain consciousness for it to exist. And science can easily explain the mechanism of digestion, but consciousness remains a mystery.
:-))) Yay IBM-era text graphics. Brilliant! :-)))
I’m guessing they still won’t hire anyone who doesn’t live nearby though.. just cuz. (Anyone know?)
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Duolingo is a toy for getting a passing familiarity with a language. If you really want to learn it you need to take classes with a real human tutor
If this transition does happen (and that is a big if) then I can see winners and losers. Some people that currently thrive in an office environment may well struggle and others that have been suffering could see themselves become more valuable.
This reminds me of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_C5

> The Sinclair C5 is a small one-person battery electric velomobile, technically an "electrically assisted pedal cycle".[1] It was the culmination of Sir Clive Sinclair's long-running interest in electric vehicles. Although widely described as an "electric car", Sinclair characterised it as a "vehicle, not a car".[2]
This is a simplistic view of the situation.

Define "GOOD".

For a business a "GOOD" engineer is one who is able to deliver business value at minimal cost. If by "GOOD" you mean talented then you have to realize that the US doesn't have a monopoly on talented coders.

The greenback goes far in many places within your timezone. If borders are opened up via remote work companies will be forced to re-evalute the axes by which they quantify "GOOD" (talent, cost).
These are used for live video encoding and editing mostly for broadcast.

I don’t think they’ve been in wide use outside of the sports broadcast industry but I might be wrong.

The main component that is used isn’t the actual CPU but the IGPs Intel has one of the best video encoder cores out there right now.
From what I understand, having read parts of the book, is that he is making the discernment between Reality As It Really Exists and Reality As We Say It Really Exists. The first reality is something that Kant wrote about in depth, I believe. And the second reality is what Baudrillard was exploring in this book.

An example of where he was going is one of the first things he describes about the difference: countries think that they gain power by having nuclear weapons - the capability to attack and defend. But the actual reality turned out to be the opposite - nuclear armed countries became handicapped through stalemate.

So by not knowing the actual reality, they operated in a simulation of reality, or simulacrum, and ended up with results that they didn’t necessarily expect at the time.
My recent work involving EnTT is still under NDA, though at least one of the projects should have a public announcement sometime next year.

With that said, if there is interest, I'd enjoy building a clean room compiler for an existing language using EnTT and other techniques I've developed over the years. Thoughts? While I absolutely adore TinyCC, it might be worthwhile giving that space another go?
re: Crematorium Management System, it might be possible to do that rather easily with a CRM? I develop mostly with CiviCRM (https://civicrm.org). It is contact-centric (rather than sales-centric), with good workflows for communications. You can add custom fields or custom activity types to track specific types of data or activities.

However, my experience in those kind of niches, is that the client will likely be very non-technical, and will prefer to use what everyone else is using, even if it's vastly overpriced and locks their processes in place.
Pretty damning "There are currently more than 3,500 engineering schools across the country, and about 90% of graduates do not have the programming skills to work in software engineering, according to one study."

That said, I'm curious how you could talk to someone about programming for four years and at the end of that 9 out of 10 of them could not actually do it.
Fair point. I was just copying the parent post's number. Likely it would be somewhere in between, as you seem to suggest.
it works fine now.

Just one comment: maybe you could randomize the rotation angle so that all pages don't look the same.
Taking a step back from objective pros and cons or other traits of individual DAWs, the fact that so _many_ producers and YouTube stars use Logic suggests its' value. This more from a populism standpoint, but there is assurance that a great crowd of users could help a single user when an issue arises.

This is like the metrics SW engineers keep tabs on for language popularity. More questions in Stack Overflow and number of lines registered in GitHub suggest a language's value separate from, but suggestive of, objective traits.
There is no time variable in play here, it’s either a currency at the time that it’s sold, or it’s not. If it’s not a currency at the time that it’s being sold, then it is being sold speculatively – which makes it a security.
> Submariners routinely live and work in levels at 5,000ppm.

People are telling you that this study may not be reflective of the general population, and you are only demonstrating their point.

It seems like you are really invested in a particular outcome for this research. Maybe you should take a step back and try to let go of your biases.

Dying on the hill of one particular study is the definition of cherrypicking.
>I count throwing out a foreign oppressor, like the American revolution

The revolutionaries were British citizens, just like the soldiers they faced. Sure, England shipped in more soldiers, but neither side was more foreign than the other.
The real advantage of remote working isn’t even making your employees happier. It’s that you can hire world class talent from anywhere in the world.

Will twitter be opening to hiring from other states and countries?
There is a point where frequent interruptions are counter-productive. The good middle ground between productivity and socialization that I found was to be heads down except for meetings and lunch. I get long stretches of focus time, and also get to joke around with colleagues.
AHK was how I got back into programming. I wrote some scripts to help reduce RSI playing online poker and then later when I worked in a call center wrote some scripts to automate dialing my phone and macros for basic notetaking.

A clunky as it is, it is a fantastic tool.
So...what you are saying is that we don't know if the lock down is working...so then, if science is our guide, why are we doing it? Also - no matter, who will die from this will die. Our hospitals are not overwhelmed so those needing help will get it. We should take our wallops up front instead of this way - it will be cheaper in the long run in every way (this includes preventing the depression related suicides that will inevitable come from a full on economic depression).
> Most of the people I work with are highly ambitious and globally mobile. Our average tenure is something like a year. People who have been at the company for two years are veterans.

That sounds like a highly irregular company. My last company, which wasn't very big (<100), had half a dozen people who had been there 15+ years. The majority had been there 3+. A bunch of us would go out for a group lunch nearly every Friday (not organized by management). We'd do group Halloween costumes and wear them to the office. People would have game nights at their houses and invite people over.

I realize that my anecdote is probably also outside of the norm, but I just wanted to illustrate how wide the range is.
And a matter of not getting any task that is slower than what you expected.
Interesting list. I feel like cutting Clarke's '2001: A Space Odyssey' would leave space for some more real meat, such as McCarthy's original lisp paper, Parnas on modularity, or an old language spec like ALGOL 60.
Brave blocks 14+ Stripe Elements trackers
Was using forestry.io and noticed that Brave was blocking 17 trackers. Surprised to see that Stripe Elements were the majority of those (screenshot: https://ibb.co/5Gwxn2s)
Not if you're a programmer or in what is called a "Mangelberuf" (a job that the country needs and makes lax visa regulations for).
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Your logic is flawed. Just because you can find an example of a specific product name being used as a generic term does not prove that a different specific product can be used that way.

In the case of Bitcoin, it most certainly will create confusion if attempt to refer to a generic group cryptocurrencies as Bitcoin.
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More like 3 iGPUs with some extra baggage the CPUs on those aren’t accessible directly in any way and not used for what needs to be offloaded from the fixed pipeline encoders/decoders and even that might be offloaded to the main CPU.
Did nobody else get a TLS (HTTPS) certificate warning for the site? For me it shows it expired
2020-04-26T14:00:00+0200 (I guess that would be pretty crappy for a MITM, unless that's exactly the point since an unknown CA would be more suspicious than someone "forgetting to renew their cert").
Not really. The difference in salary isn't enough incentive for people to leave Western Europe at scale. You'll still live very well as a STEM graduate in France/Benelux/Germany.

It's just a cultural thing. Germany has tons of family-owned businesses with a fairly conservative ethos that manage to do well in spite of complete technological illiteracy.
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I completely get the sentiment of this; you can't pick your coworkers, commuting is insanely time consuming and you can most likely do most of your work from home.

I've probably been brainwashed by "popular culture" and the "corporate narrative" that they prob wanna push on us. I'm in my early 30s and my hobby is to build things, I've always loved that, now mostly software, but also hardware electronics etc. My biggest dream is to have something like General Magic or early Apple or some other startup building something crazy with a small group of people that are brilliant and driven.

Again this is probably just because I've been brainwashed, but I really don't see that scenario playing out over a Zoom call for instance: a brainstorming session on a whiteboard where everyone is excited and trying to solve a huge challenge together, building on each others ideas etc; It's right now just not how our zoom calls usually plays out.

I'm all for anyone being able to work remotely, and picking talents from wherever they might be, but I just don't hope this is 100% of what the future will look like.
So, actually the Ask HN should have been Please don't put (We're Hiring) in LinkedIn job title.

I actually had some trouble parsing what you said, as I thought of job title as the title of a job post, but you actually mean it as being part of a person's Job, in other words Position, title.
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Seems like Amazon is getting dangerously close to the Buy n Save (or whatever) corporation from Wall-E. The problem is no individual acquisition is suspect or bad for consumers.
The volatility is due to that cheap financial sector money, making nonsensical bets until the music stops. Big picture, we were definitely due to a correction. VCs were paying to litter the landscape with electric scooters, hoping to create some kind of recurring income stream from people renting inexpensive consumer goods.

Slowing down is never beneficial to the individuals getting laid off, which is why these destructive policies enjoy broad support. If 90% of the work is required, and everybody is still expected to work the same full time, then 10% of people are left without chairs. Focusing on the first condition is the path to make-work. Focusing on the second condition is what we need to do instead.
Thing is I was already reading some pretty bleak stuff at the time, e.g. Brave New World and 1984, and as you can probably imagine the trials of a mopey teenager didn't really impress much when put up against poor Winston and Room 101 etc.
"AVC transcoding at 30 FPS" sounds a lot less useful than what you can get from an NVIDIA consumer or Quadro card via NVENC. Very weird, and multiple Xeons doesn't sound cheap.

Am I misunderstanding the product?

I know Intel is coming out with a discrete GPU, which will probably have plenty of video encode hardware to compete with NVIDIA (esp since game streaming at 4K is quite popular).
Yep, many years ago I casually stated here that Windows was clumsy on the network, and it really offended some guy. Limited drive letters and backslashes didn’t help, but the history you mentioned is the foundational problem. The misdesign around console/remote admin is another. For more background read the Art of Unix programming and the Windows Terminal blog about all the layers they had to work around to shoehorn it in.
Those are both true, but unrelated. It's not a "bait and switch" when the comment thread changes tack.
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That's true, but I think it's only "not obviously yes" in the sense that it's also not obvious that you or my mom are conscious.

It does seem like accepting that all other physical humans are conscious, and that there are no extra-physical phenomena in a physical human, implies that a simulated human would also be conscious.
At least web assembly brings us something completely new that we never had before. Rust is just an attempt to improve things, which is fine! But, it needs a decades long proven track record to come close to competing with Java/C++/PHP, which takes time obviously.