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“Other bitcoins” doesn’t parse - did you mean “other shitcoins”? Bitcoin is a specific product, and shitcoins are a disjoint category.

The government only requires people to be accredited for "ICO"s, not currency/utility "coins" like Bitcoin or Ethereum.

As an aside, I believe the “accredited investor” category is mostly a subsidy of rich people. Exclude peasants from investing in the good high-return stuff and you can demand higher capital premiums.
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Years ago I read an interview with Marlon Brando in Playboy. He remarked that How to Win Friends and Influence People was "a book on hustling."

In China, the book is very popular and is sold under the title "The Weaknesses of Human Nature."
I've always got the feeling that MS specific developers are highly visual studio oriented

This and the rest of your post is about one specific kind of developer, and I honestly wonder how you can think that's it.. Lack of experience or just bad luck and only ever met this kind perhaps? Anyway while I know for a fact these exist, your feeling is sort of wrong in that there are also developers who just use VS as the IDE it is (to write code and debug; it's good at that) and for the rest automate build environment setup, deployment and whatnot just like you'd do on another OS. I just don't know the numbers, i.e. which share of developers using VS act like you describe. It's not like using VS somehow makes people blind for concepts like CI. Data point: we have a bunch of scripts (combination of PowerShell/Python/MSbuild) which will install and setup the complete build environment from scratch (VS/Miniconda3/Vcpkg/...) checkout all code (yes from git, not from a network share), build a myriad of different flavors of the product, package it; all in one commandline command.
>"As a director of a team at a mid-sized tech company who had conversations with employees making decisions like this, I can tell you that it is standard practice to adjust salary for the cost of living and the availability of talent in a particular market."

It's standard practice for your company maybe. This hasn't been my experience at all. I have had three jobs where this was not the case. I've had colleagues who have experienced similar as well. People should be paid for their time. I can't even believe a company would want to engage in salary reduction negotiations with employees they value.
I'd like a compiled language that feed optimization strategy notes to the editor, so the editor can describe to the programmer what the compiler plans to do to optimize features of your code.
I agree it's worthwhile estimating the power having this imagery gives. it tells much more than whether you watered your plants well.

For example, it can be used to estimate wealth at a distance. This means, for example, if I'm trying to make any kind of transaction, someone can look at my house and cars and make the price vary with their perception of my wealth. This is a form of prejudice.

It can also be used to look up interviewees. It can be used to give them the lowest possible salary based on where they live and what their perceived life circumstances are like. It's already been demonstrated that resumes with ethnic names are taken less seriously.

And what's more, this power can't be checked. Since google has a monopoly, no one else can challenge it. If it's used e.g. in a court case, no one can oppose it, because their is no corroborating or countering imagery.

And what's more, the way this information is consumed has asymmetry. For example, yes, while any individual can zip around google maps and learn information, wealthy individuals and corporations can access large amounts of public information and process it, turning it again into private information. This private information can then be used to enhance wealth, e.g. by estimating areas to develop real estate, mine resources, etc., in a way that individuals simply can not.

This all means that while individuals retain the power to observe their immediate surroundings, powerful groups, including foreign nations, are able to exert a power several orders of magnitude larger. They are in effect exploiting our individual right to observe and turning it against us.
What do they have to hide?

Filing for a US initial public offering requires much writing and some audits, but it's not inherently difficult. Thousands of marginal companies have done IPOs. That's where penny stocks come from. The SEC doesn't evaluate your business model. All they insist is that you don't lie.

Now, if you want to list on an exchange, have your IPO underwritten by a major financial firm, and get institutional investors to buy your stock, there's more to do. But those aren't SEC requirements. You can IPO without them and peddle your own shares.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/rules/other/2018/34-83723.pdf
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I think the Yakuza series might be a good example of a game of the "with some Iyashikei" category, while still having a solid core story and gameplay to lure you in to karaoke and Mahjong.

Also I think Skyrim fits a similar bill, with most of what people enjoy seemingly being the wandering around and taking in the world.
I think it's safe to say that without fungible tokens (Grams), the blockchain itself (TON) isn't very interesting (despite what they want you to believe).
That's not particularly suspicious. They've used the SSID data as part of the ground-truth map to improve positional accuracy of geolocation in Maps; "Can SSID + signal strength be used reliably for triangulation of position" is exactly the kind of wonky doman-specific knowledge you might find in the wardriving community and not many others.
I work for places that pay me for what I'm worth, I don't work for places that pay me based on where I live.

I'm not cranking out code that is somehow less effective while living in the NW England, and so to pay me less than someone else is downright insulting.

I also, to be clear, don't have any hard feelings about people who live in even cheaper[0] places than me, it's their choice. I used to work with a guy in the Phillipines who was on the same as me. Good for him!

[0] It's not that cheap in the NW England. It's clearly not SF, NY or London, but it's not cheap.
Perhaps some sous vide pickles?

Sous vide creme brulee too.
No one is advocating the right to break into homes to make others sick. Anyone who wants to stay home alone, absolutely should. I am advocating freedom of movement and freedom of association.

Quarantine is for the sick, not the healthy. I'm equating lockdowns with tyranny, yes.

Shutting down the global economy has resulted in hundreds of millions of people experiencing food insecurity. It will result in an enormous cost in terms of deaths, morbidity, and impaired mental well-being, for people in the UK and around the world.
If i can work remote at facebook for 200k or work remote at google for 210k who would I pick? Salaries I expect would dip slightly as the pool of engineers grows then go back up as it gets more competitive. Salaries would only go down if the supply of jobs goes down. I don't think that happens in the short term.
There's a bit of a spectrum. Companies have learned to have employees working from home, but they're all in the timezone they were in before, they already got to work together in-person before being in this situation, and entire teams were put into the same situation at once. That's a step toward full support of remote people all over the globe, but the further you get the more you have to factor in legal overhead, cultural and situational differences, time zone difference, etc.

To be clear - I'm a big fan of remote work, I'm just saying that companies have been forced to solve only a subset of the problem they face before the market really can scale to be that large for everyone.
> The job is, at its heart, to help software developers be able to make smarter decisions.

If anything, I've found that it strongly resembles Confucius' mentor/subordinate writings. The mentor is frequently below their subordinate. Code quality/mechanical sympathy is a constant struggle, but my teams are slowly improving. Decision making is less of a hill, my teams are rapidly learning to make really strong decisions (sometimes better than my initial decisions).

An architect should aim to teach their way out of a job.
Dror from TabNine here.
We've introduced some big improvements in TabNine's resource consumption in the last few weeks, and there's more to come. In addition, TabNine's Professional version (free trial available) lets you use our GPU cloud servers which means dramatically reduced load on your machine.
>Happy to let you do it, but know that the market rate for your skills there is X

This seems logical, but determining X is still in your authority, so let's not pretend this is fair. It's usually not a granular break down of skills either, or worse, it's calculated by job title plus a single primary skill, e.g. "Senior C#/.NET Developer".
The US Government, normally a very conservative org, has cost of living increases for federal workers and (I think) military service members. Based on that, I think it's pretty well accepted (perhaps incorrectly!) that it is ethical.

Or maybe practical beats ethical.
> But if a company is fully remote, why should it adjust for costs of living at all? Candidate A lives in an expensive place and Candidate B has an expensive hobby. Neither is the company's concern, is it? The bottom line is that each is worth $X to the company and wants $Y in compensation.

Because if it wants to hire workers that live in SF, it has to pay SF wages. It doesn't have to pay SF wages to workers living in Tulsa.

Think about it flipped around a bit. Let's say that instead of hiring employees, you're buying candy bars. Someone running a bodega in NYC isn't gonna give you a discount just because you're going to have the candy bar mailed to Oklahoma.

The bottom line is not the $X value and the $Y compensation. It's a lot more complicated than that. Just like the company's bargaining position is a complex mixture of the value that different employees provide and the opportunity cost of leaving a position unfilled, the employee's bargaining position is affected by the salary the company is willing to provide and the opportunity cost of accepting this job offer instead of another.
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Based on your reply I feel like we have fundamentally different world views that can't be resolved in HN comments, but I feel like I understand your view better than I did before. Best of luck to you, thanks for a thoughtful reply.
> If they employer can pay $200k/yr for a remote employee

It's interesting that folks envisioning a globally uniform payscale tend to posit SF salaries in Hanoi rather than Hanoi salaries in SF.
Commuting is a choice for most tech workers in the bay area. It's easy to get your commute down to 30 minutes or less if you want. I've got mine down to 20 most days.

I do what you say: take classes, do social things. And yet my most lasting friendships have come from work.

Maybe I'm the minority, or maybe it's the constant excuse to be around together that forms more lasting relationships.
Wait, do people in your office not take sick days when they get ill or something?
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It may seem crazy to some, but kids aged 2-5 can actually learn things and be taught that when a parent is in their office, they are not to be bothered. I have a 2 and a 4 year old at home, and they know what my office is for.

That being said, their games in the other rooms of the house are occasionally pretty loud, but is it really worse than an open office?
> I guess it can lead to bad surprises.

Surprises? If you build something and explicitly let anyone use it, you shouldn't be surprised when someone does in fact use it.
I think if you work with a brilliant group of coworkers that you love to hangout out with, then you are lucky and I can see how you miss being in the office. But, thats not the case for many of us. The crux of work relationships is that they are not voluntary. You might get lucky and have ones you love, or you might get some that are distracting, or at worse, you dislike. Either way though you are stuck with them.

I think people get stuck in the mental construct of "office = socializing" therefore "no office = antisocial". But thats not the case. If you could eliminate the 1 hour of wasted time daily on small talk and office distractions, as well as the 1 hour daily on commuting, that leaves you two extra hours a day of your life to focus on whatever you chose.

You can join a club, pick a new hobby, learn a new language, volunteer or even start a revolution. Be as social or not social as you want, but the beauty of it is that thats time you have complete freedom over. I choose that over contrived interactions with a random set of people who happened to do enough Leetcode problems to get in the same room as you.
It turns into early hour / late hour meetings that your dread and don't want to do. I bet as a result people silently start not working with those big time zone difference teams and it become bifurcated.
The job requirement makes all the difference. In Canada, the point based immigration system will reward anyone with a STEM degree with points, irrelevant of the actual market value of the degree. My friends in those market tell me it's not uncommon to have senior foreign graduates incapable of passing a fizzbuzz interview. They often have multi year gaps in their resume where they couldn't land a job upon arriving in Canada. Contrast this to the US where for an application to even get to the lottery it has to be vetted by a business that's willing to spend multiple thousands of dollars to maybe get a visa for the worker.

There's also a lot of workers that simply can't pass the bar due to the Requests For Evidences required by the US government. As an European from, what I assume, a legitimate university you wouldn't experience those issues. Most of the folks who fail at this step will have back-up petitions filled at one of the satellite locations in Canada.
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I have to submit my work hours in an excel sheet. There is a section for "Signature". I didn't put anything since it's an electronic file and my email sending the file should serve as a "signature". However, my manager insisted I use a cursive font to type out my signature.
> "Windows came from the single-user domain. Unix came from server space."

Windows 9x came from the single-user domain but is long dead except for compatibility stuff left over in modern Windows. Windows NT and its successors came from server space from its VMS lineage.
I was going to bring up Polymer's lit-element / html`` syntax but decided it was a dead horse - but in any case, hopefully that isn't the way things go. Even though the breakouts ${} are JS and the compiler can help with those, it doesn't do much for repetition. I really think that's one area that angularjs -> angular X really struggled was templates that repeat things... React pulled that off so f...ing fabulously. It's just a map that emits more elements!
To add another two cents, maybe consider the fact that some people would rather leave a majority of their estate to future generations rather than focus on capital depletion.

I have no intention of burning most of my investments away when I can instead, over a lifetime, teach my children how to manage their resources and insulate them from concerns most others toil away at.

I'd instead rather spend as a little as possible.
> Maybe my understanding is all wrong, feel free to correct me, as my understanding on this subject is entirely self-taught.

I wouldn't say it is all wrong. Just that the stuff you are talking about is a very tiny fraction of LA. I took a graduate class in LA, based on Strang's book. I have the book right here in front of me. So the stuff you allude to, i.e. rotation matrix, reflection matrix & projection matrix, is on p130 of Chapter 2. We got to that in the 1st month of the semester, & it got about 1 hour of classtime total. That's it. An LA class is like 4 months, or 50 hours. If the point of LA to derive those matrices so one can do 3D computer graphics with scaling, rotation & projection ? No, that stuff is too basic. We got 1 homework problem on that, that's it.

The stuff that most of the class struggled with ( & still struggle with, because Strang goes over it rather quickly in his book), is function spaces ( chapter 3, p182), Gram Schmidt for functions ( p184), FFTs, (p195), fibonacci & lucas numbers (p255), the whole stability of differential equations chapter ( he gives these hard and fast rules like a Differential Equation is stable if trace is negative & determinant is positive, but its not too clear why. ), quadratic forms & minimum principles - that whole 6th chapter glosses over too much material imo.

Overall, Strang's book is a solid A+ on how to get stuff done, but maybe a B- on why stuff works the way it works. Like, why should I find Rayleigh quotient if I want to minimize one quadratic divided by another ? Strang just says, do it & you'll get the minimum. How to find a quadratic over [-1,1] that is the least distance away from a cubic in that same space ? Again, Strang gives a method but the why part of it is quite mysterious.
That's a really good idea. That's what I use compiler explorer for but I do it poorly. CC: llvm
Believe me I tried a number of things. It was like that from the first run and every time.

Well, technically it might have used 700ms the first time and 400ms later, I didn't measure the first run, but it was still way faster than on Windows which was why I started measuring using time after all.

Also on Windows it kept being slow on subsequent runs, and in my world that matters too.

I don't have recordings, but I recommend you try for yourself. I compiled both from the same source, and as far as I can remember I used standalone compilation for both (I don't have perfect memory but I have a history of being careful.)
All decisions are pre-ordained, that doesn't mean we don't have consciousness.
A lighter comment then the others.

My mom would often drive me and my brother crazy by having views completely opposite to ours. On purpose. To force us to discuss and defend our point.

When we were teens all topics were addressed, she would be anti abortion when we were pro (she was too), against euthanasia when we were for (she was for) etc. Since we had in reality very similar views it of was a heck of a job for her to defend the other perspective.

That was awsome. I almost went to study law (but choose physics) and I am doing the same with my children.

Our discussions were very "latine" as we say in France. Quite quickly we would jump on each other and it seemed that there would be manslaughter. In the middle of that was my father who was emotional as a fish and liked to watch the show.

When I met my future wife, we invited her father home for lunch. I told my mom to not talk about anything controversial so that we look like a normal family. She completely agreed and we settled for art or something.

He came home, everyone was smiling and then my half brained brother (20 something at that time) brought to the table the subject of elections. After some time we were ready to kill each other with my mom. The future father in law quietly said that maybe it is time for him to leave to which we both jumped all in smiles telling that no, sorry, this was just an accident and other chit-chat. Some more cake maybe? What do you think about Picasso?

He much much later told us that he thought he was in a psychiatric ward.

I love my mom and dad, calling them right now!
I don't think it was a GoogleX project, but Chronicle was spun out from Google as an independent company. It grew well, and seemed ready to succeed on its own.

Google then re-acquired it.

Speculation, but perhaps Google was concerned about it getting acquired by a competitor as it used a lot of core Google search technology. Or, perhaps Google knew that the acquisition cost would spiral upwards if they waited much longer. Or, perhaps it just proved out the hypothesis that the product was viable, so better to bring it back in-house.

But I would call it successful by conventional metrics: it found product-market fit, had good customer traction, and was acquired at a decent (though not crazy) valuation.
Obviously anecdotal, but in my personal experience this is pretty close to the truth.
Everything's never written down. New knowledge comes out of meetings, then you write that down.
Maybe it's different for me because my organization is one of the last holdouts where everyone at least has there own assigned cubicle and many have full offices, but every single person in my team has complained about getting far less done than normal. Most of us had a tremendous amount of time and money invested in making our workspace productive, and it's very hard to replicate that at home.
Completely valid observation, but I imagine it's one too uncomfortable for most of HN to think about.
It does seem that we have all the tools necessary to create artificial consciousness.

We have relational databases, text file data structures, key/value storage systems, cryptographic signature systems, etc. These can form the core basis of cybernetic memory.

But it seems nobody has been able to formulate the arrangement of code and ideas, and a vision, to bring it all together.

A neural network is just a very sophisticated pattern recognizer. You need a higher algorithm than that, in order to kickstart an artificial consciousness.

It’s not real of course. It’s just a collection of electrons, following a probabilistic decision tree, with a somewhat deterministic approach, to reaching a mathematical conclusion, based on a series of linear equations, in order to select the optimal winner.

But when the robot talks back to you, and recalls everything that you did together, and how it “felt” at that moment, then, it will seem and appear, to be very real.
Virtual desktops or straight up on-prem to cloud migration might be my guess. If big companies can avoid it, why pay the cost of a rewrite?

> Crematorium Management System

Genuine question: why can't you use Microsoft Access or G Suite for this? Seems like the canonical data entry use case these products are designed for.
That's a bad analogy for an unsecured wifi. Wifi is radiated energy in radio spectra. They're not looking through your window; you're shining a flashlight through your walls and they wrote down the pattern you're strobing into the street (and that pattern isn't even secret; you're using the common pattern everyone uses to send messages intended to be universally understood).
Do you pay them more if they want to work remotely and move to an expensive market like New York or London?
This kid is awesome. I say that even though he's going 25 MPH in the left lane :P
IIT is not a phenomenological measure. That is, two systems could behave identically to all external appearances and one could be conscious and the other not.

The metric depends on how things are connected inside. There are a few versions of it, but generally systems with more direct wires between components are more conscious.

I guess if you don’t think consciousness is measurable through behavior, you have to cook up some metric that depends on internal organization.
Can Telegram afford to return the $1.2bn they raised for this boondoggle?
Two things really made linear algebra click for me: representing camera projections in a computer vision class and spectral graph theory, which basically connects graphs with linear algebra. In both of these, it seems like linear algebra was taken from the electrical engineering domain into computer science, which better fit my perspective.
Is it any better than SSH'ing into a server and "services stop mybusinessapp; update.sh; services start mybusinessapp"?

I'm detecting a bit of disdain for the VS world
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