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Ask HN: Are there any remote companies that pays SF rates worldwide remote?
Whenever I search for opportunities online, only companies that hire in SF pays well. Are there any remote companies other than Basecamp (since they rarely hire) that pays SF rates for anyone anywhere?
Especially when you are a customer at multiple banks.
The new IdeaPad 5 15 was(!) possible to order with DOS!
I checked it yesterday and today it's bot possible anymore.
Microsoft CEO warns remote work could be harmful for employees' mental health
True, but in my experience a lot of younger developers have been trained to think in frameworks all the way, with the result of growing a dangerous fondness for unnecessary complexity.
To them, I feel, turning something easy into an opaque mess that the client is of course too dumb too appreciate, let alone understand, is a sign of quality and somehow a matter of pride.
For the aforementioned project, that I could have built up in three days with HTML + CSS + some js sprinkled on top for effects, it took them a month and a half, and then he bailed on minor Cosmetic changes because “the allotted time was over”.
The client was literally fooled into spending more for this bullshit.
It doesn’t help that the US backed out of a policy solution that would actually be cheap and orders of magnitude more effective than anything that they have cooked up since in the TPP.

Backing out of it also means that the rest of the world is unlikely to trust the US on a similar effort anymore.
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It's not an easy job. Thank you.
It's norphonic.com, based in Norway. The product is not on the webpage yet though.
Any thoughts on creating hierarchical lists? I find flat lists can be done on a shared Google sheet.
> I will never understand the US fascination for peanut butter.

At one point in history, US farmers were encouraged to grow peanuts as a rotation crop to improve soil quality. That led to a glut of peanuts in the market, so people tried to find uses for them. Peanut butter was invented+ as one of these uses, and has been a staple of American diets ever since.

+Or promoted, I can’t remember
WSJ estimates this deal to be worth more than $100M.

I hope Joe Rogan has a plan for how to invest a good chunk of this for greater good. IMHO this kind of sum comes with a responsibility to do something with it that goes beyond your family and friends. (Like Tim Ferris does now for psychedelics research).

Judging by how I perceive him from the show, I don’t think he’s just greedy and wants that much for himself. Either there’s some detail in the contract that allows him to break free in case Spotify tries to censor too hard. Or he already has some longer-term thing in mind that he needs the capital for.

One nice detail is that they’d be free to play music.
As a college project in C, we were to write a soduku solver. Smart people solved it by programming in fancy heuristics. Not being smart, I just brute forced it...though I tried to be fancy by representing the data at the bit level. I doubt it made it any faster lol.

That said, when the hardest Soduku problems in the world succumbed to a brute force search to my lame program in less than a few something something ms, I kind of shrugged at the fancy methods. But I suppose that is why I'm still just a mediocre programmer :)

The brute force method was basically move forward until you hit a dead end, backtrack, go forward again until you hit another dead end, etc.

Edit: I'm not being dismissive of people who implemented better solutions. Honestly, at the time I was amazed at their skill. But I still chuckle just because the problem is trivially sized for brute force methods, and would have to be scaled much larger to actually make more sophisticated methods worth the effort in any situation other than personal satisfaction and education. In a business situation in which you do not expect the problem to scale, spending more time for a sophisticated solver may not be worth the effort. But yes, Soduku is for entertainment and R&R
Startups Should Become ‘Camels’–Not Unicorns–During Covid-19 – Crunchbase News
I very well might! As I said, I really do need an interactive language for some (most?) tasks, but it would be nice to complement it with a static language. I've been drawn to Rust since it seems to be enjoyable and less full of arcane obscurities than C/C++, but I'll take a look at Kotlin.
I agree.
Table saws are amazing, but I wouldn’t cut bread with them :)
Some here mention that possible cases are different than confirmed cases and she made an error.

If you know the Belgian story and the "big" amount of cases. Then you should know the country lists "suspected cases" as cases in every metric.

So while the number for Belgium looks a lot higher, since a lot of "other causes than COVID" are listed as cases in contrary to other countries.

We are one of the few that overestimate their cases, but we also don't need to verify the suspected cases as confirmed cases ( + put effort in that).

Probably every other country "undercounts" their cases.

This also led to the faulty conclusion of 'president T.' that Belgium is doing bad, informed observers would have known that is not correct to say :)

One of many references: https://www.brusselstimes.com/all-news/belgium-all-news/1064...
I wonder how much of that is programmed/automated and how much work is still being done manually...

Backtracking and eliminating numbers can be easily automated.
This classic contains a lot of them:
https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
Yup and gender neutral bathrooms are a thing without much ceremony in a whole bunch of places.
It's not common, but it certainly happens. Sometimes you just can't reproduce a problem without specific data.
That everyone here uses Linux and MacBooks.
Data leak: Quarter of a million Brazilian customers exposed
Public libraries are required by law to catalog books. Very different. Private libraries can and will often deny to catalog your random book.
Think about how sad it must be for Ray Ozzie. He really tried.
0.5% of 2.5 billion is 125 million. Is sideload malware irrelevant because “only” 125 million phones have flicked the sideloading switch?

I think there’s good reason for the sideload feature to be there, but your argument seems to be about it being unimportant because 0.5% isn’t a big percentage.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/7/18528297/google-io-2019-an...
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Vedic Maths

Dropping some links:

https://www.iiva.in/

https://www.vedicmaths.org/

https://vedicmathschool.org/
In Java, it is perfectly acceptable to have either a file containing the primary public class and any number of private utility and implementation classes, or just have a non-instantiatable enclosing class that works as a module and a bunch of interfaces, classes, and enums within it. Consumers then can then refer to them either by their Class.SubClass name or the shorter SubClass name.
The importance of data minimisation: Natura (Brazilian cosmetics company) exposed 192 million records with personally identifiable information, including payment gateway access tokens.
> Contrary to popular belief fear of death by being poor is not the only thing that motivates people.

That's not very charitable. I rather doubt that anybody here considers "Dickensian Nightmare" as a desirable world-state.

Maybe the best way to showcase the concern is to talk about some relatives of mine, who work just enough to pursue their two great life passions: (a) smoking weed; and (b) playing video games.

Now, either of these things is fine! Both of them together are fine are fine! And should you have the means, I have no problem if this is the sum total of your existence.

But I have zero interest in funding those life-choices via taxes.

With no-strings-attached UBI, that's exactly what we are talking about.

Moreover, there is a massive danger in decoupling "value contributed to the tribe" (work) from "value received from the tribe" (income).

What I think would make sense is to require that people receiving UBI still need to do some kind of work.

It can be painting, or cleaning parks, or making horrible music, or greeting people at Wal-Mart, but you are required to spend at least four full-time days per week (32 hours) contributing to society.

I am unsure how to appropriately enforce this.

On the one hand, you want to prevent bad actors; on the other hand, it would be stupid for the cost of enforcement to significantly exceed the cost of those bad actors -- like when the state of Florida blew through an extra $2 million to save $80k of welfare fraud.
True, this is looking like a studio light setup to me, and it's rather pleasing (albeit not making much sense.)
Well then they’re something wrong with you and your understanding of what people want in software. Can you link an app that you’ve made that people actually use?
While I truly respect your credentials, I disagree 100% with your conclusion and think DoT will win out. Should be fun to visit this thread in a year, just to see.
Record the signal, play it back. It's got the same 'flaws', perfectly. Reproduction is what I am referring to, not the _emulation_ of an analogue sound source.

The difference between digital and analogue gear is that the imperfections in analogue gear make them interesting. i.e. instabilities in VCOs, the addition of harmonics etc. I am a big, big fan of old analogue gear and so I am definitely in the camp of 'we're not there yet' with the emulation of analogue gear.

But, the idea that a digital signal can't replicate it, is nonsense, because obviously an analogue signal can be recorded digitally and perfectly played back. This is often the myth that is propagated, that the 'stair steps' somehow mean a loss of fidelity.

Interestingly, and relevant to this discussion, I am yet to find any digital plugin that manages to do saturation properly. Plugins are often, seemingly, just using random number generators, rather than anything more complex (like the AI models you link to); Nothing comes close to my Thermionic Culture Vulture, or any of my other valve based equipment at creating that 'fatness'.

I think that the AI approach is interesting, it does make me wonder how far we're willing to go to reproduce this in software, when the real thing is a handful of wires, resistors, capacitors, and transformers. It seems like trying to implement the ARM instruction set in Javascript. How much processing would a simple saturation plugin need? How many could one computer run?
WiX is great tool but a bit steep learning curve because it won't abstract MSI spec so I need to learn MSI spec.
> If nobody but a business

And quite big business at that. Everybody starts their tiny startup with AWS and Heroku, because it literally costs nothing - and if you eventually scale up, you won't switch stacks in a such a radical way.
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Is this any different from something like the public IPs on NordVPN?
Differing values for the same currency surprised me in Liberia too: https://blog.nella.org/my-favorite-things-all-at-once/
From what you say it’s as if Joe Rogan is a solipsistic prick with a disproportionate ego who runs a much overrated show and who cares mostly about getting richer and richer...
I was discussing this with a friend. I too made a brute force sudoku solver. It was somewhat smart since it was keeping track of what options are available for each cell and updates those options as it puts/removes digits.

The friend told me he was working on a sudoku solver and was trying to explain his non-brute force algorithm. I told him I did a solver back in collage and it was basically instant even though it is brute force.
Not to forget ClickOnce!
Very interested in this! Could you please incorporate rss support in your blog so I can keep track of it?
They might also implement object detection within photos and match things in the photo to products you could buy... on Facebook...
> Why not just go one step further and just do the thing instead of nag the user to do the thing?

At least, readability suffers.

"".join(["a", "b"]) is a lot more intuitive than sum(["a", "b"], start="")

edit: A beautiful abstraction is the one that feels as good when it's read as when it's written.
The existance of such ban. It feeds the conspiracy theorists, and it's just weird - why only this genocide, and not the communist one, which is increasingly denied thanks to Russian online presence? Why saying "Heil Hitler" and the gesture is criminal offense, but "Cest praci, soudruhu" (a Czech communist greeting) is not, and why the Hakenkreuz is forbidden, but the star, hammer and sickle is not? Why do statues of Stalin and Lenin and other communist leaders remain standing around the world? Surely you can imagine the outrage if it was Hitler's statue.

The laws shouldn't have such weirds corner cases of completely banning references to one thing and ignoring another, arguably worse thing.
It's not equivalent - that $25 billion is going to part cover the DIFFERENCE in cost of the goods created in China vs. the US.

Every dollar that is spent in the US and not China is removed from China so consider that if something is 10% more expensive to make in the US and that $25 billion covers the difference then the Chinese economy has lost 100% of that money and the US economy has gained it all at a 10% premium.

The west needs to seriously consider doing far more of this and spreading production around to countries like Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia etc.
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There was no conspiracy, and no censorship. He broke rules of all these platforms and the final straw pushed all platform owners to enforce their rules, that's it. It should be obvious to anyone that Facebook or Google or any other company can't be expected to publish anything anyone wants (did you even read the rules?) - since the dawn of the Internet we had to set up our own servers for that purpose. How is Facebook different from any old phpBB forum? Bans were often given for fun during these days!
> However UBI doesn't solve the problem of debt still piping the cash back into the hands of banks and other financial institutions.

That isn't a problem it's expected to solve. It's a completely independent problem that already happens whether you have a UBI or not.

The solutions there are likewise independent. Build more housing so it isn't supply constrained and doesn't increase in price to consume any gains made by the working class. Stop issuing student loans (students now have a UBI and don't need them), because student loans inflate the cost of college relative to other things which loans aren't available for. A UBI doesn't do that because the money isn't only available when spend on college.

> An actor is still a single actor, so if one actor has an over aggregation of wealth and has trouble spending it effectively the potential of that wealth is wasted when at least some actors don't have enough.

That's not how money works. Money in a bank account isn't being "wasted" because it isn't consuming resources, and if hoarding is causing currency scarcity (i.e. deflation) then additional money can easily be printed.

> So surely trillions of dollars of UBI injected directly into the hands of the poor will stimulate the economy. But for how long until the cash starts to aggregate again into slower pools of cash where throughput is limited?

For as long as they keep getting the UBI. Where do you think the money to fund it would come from?
Yes, null is, as it turns out, an incorrect abstraction. It's like saying that all your types are Maybe a, and you cannot get create a type that is not (with few exceptions of base types, which confuses it even more).

I would also add Enums to the list, sum types are superior in all respects.
The overwhelming majority of users don't use Signal, either.
How often have you ever heard of an American going to the secret service to exchange a torn note?
The obvious solution to that is to import labour intensive goods.
The nonsavy user gets zero privacy. Who cares about encrypted DNS when your ISP sees every server you connect to?
Obviously if you're on jobseekers you're meant to make the most of what you have.

£75 sounds like an extravagant weekly shop, even for a couple with a child.
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Are people getting interested in realistic design again? These days everything is flat and boring. Bring back the buttons with reflections!
Yes, NordVPN doesn't do hosting, and it costs >$150 USD a year total for their public ips.
you studied classics in grad school but you should have also studied debate. As it is abundantly clear to the posters before me and those who replied above, no one except you contended that the islamic golden age did not exiat.

What your classics academia instruction seems to have short changed you is in the entire period of history where arab conquest reduced most mesopotamian and north african development to rubble, mostly in the name of religion.
Lots of ML frameworks are built for Linux/UNIX first.
The OpenAI projects you mentioned are a good example, but also projects like Ray (ray.io). Even PyTorch - a lot of stuff works fine, but their parallel DataLoaders actually work slower on Windows than the single-threaded ones (see this github issue: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/12831 )
I think this is off base, at least if we're talking about the US. The central problem is high prices for housing, healthcare and education. The first step to solving that problem is research: we need to figure out the right theory of cost disease, its causes and prevention. Scott made a start here: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost... Once we fix it (by regulation if need be), and these goods become appropriately cheap, poor people will have much less trouble getting by. Whereas if you don't fix it, and instead give money to people, the mysterious force that extracts that money into rising housing/healthcare/education costs will just learn to extract a little more, and you're back where you started.
Amazing. I got down voted for my story. HackerNews does not like Mediocre Programmers I guess lol.

I bet I could write a better algorithm today if I was motivated. Back then I was not as experienced in programming, and I struggled with even figuring out how to represent the data and the state. Its all about learning from where you were at the time.
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> If a coffee here or there is going to break your budget, it's already broken and you need to go in to panic mode.

I understand exactly what you are saying here, however, there have been several times in my life where buying a coffee here or there will break my budget. I know that's a level of poverty that most people on HN have never experienced before, but it's a reality for many people.

You don't really ever want to go into panic mode. Living on a very limited budget is not the end of the world. I actually chose my lifestyle. I had this idea that there are 2 ways to be rich: make more money than I need, or need less money than I make. Sometimes the second one involves a lot less stress (which is admittedly quite difficult for a lot of people to believe).

If you are on such a limited budget, it is quite important that you know whether or not that coffee on Monday means that you aren't going to eat on Sunday. At the same time, if you do have some wiggle room, it's quite important to treat yourself occasionally.

What is important to track as your expenses has nothing to do with absolute value. It has to do with the value relative to your total budget. If nothing you buy costs more than $5, then obviously you are going to track smaller values. On the other hand, one of the huge advantages of having no money is that it doesn't take long to count it ;-)

So I would rather say that if you need to track down to the level of individual dollars for a personal budget, something like GnuCash is probably not the appropriate tool.
It pre-dates the internet. Happened with cable TV as well.
I made a sudoku solver back when I was in school. It's quite simple and almost a textbook case for backtracking. Even brute-force algorithms are instantaneous on the hardest puzzles.
1) Use Nighshift/Flux permanently on your device. Not just during the night. Helps reduce the amount of blue light you're exposed to.

2) Look away from the screen for a minute at least every 20 minutes.

3) Take a longer break and look around a bit every couple of hours.
All the commenters trying to shoot down the article with their fervour for modern apps deployed onto cloud infrastructure are failing to see the irony.

Their shiny app that they built a few years ago and is deployed succesfully into a companies systems, it will be maintained for a few years. Then some people will leave.

Then documentation (if there was any) will be lost.

A few rookie developers will be brought in and will try to learn the system and add a few widgets or features on.

Then in 20 years time, the app will be like the COBOL programs running on dusty mainframes.

History repeats itself
The lightning speed of his observing standard rules across the board is impressive but expected after months of practice. The agility with which he picks up new rules and starts working with them is sign of a beautiful mind. This was a pleasure to watch.
He should just go self-hosted. If anyone has the resource to make that happen it is him.
It doesn't matter where it came from. WSL is owned by MS, and the most rational framework to predict how they will use it is that they will attempt to leverage it to support their business interests.

MS is not in the business of paying developers to give away nice things for free.
Personally I don't mind a vanity domain, but what they could do is create a boring non-vanity domain for API calls and customer signup that isn't the .so domain.
> "Hope they [ie, Celtic supporters] all die. Simple. Catholic scumbags ha ha."

This is non-violent political speech?
That is outmoded. Free services begot personal data (i.e. behavioral surplus) that could be put into algorithms that allows marketing and advertisement firms to bet on our futures. This is truly valuable. Even if the marketing is only 1% more effective, it represents millions in revenue.

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

Zuboff's book is great.
OK, thanks! I didn't realize it is possible, I haven't seen code that uses this technique.
PayPal doesn't like micropayment competitors because the easiest way to do micropayments is to force users to load larger denominations in advance onto a wallet. This is bad, because this directly competes with PayPal's core offerings, and is an area where competitors can drive merchant adoption with vastly lower fees.

In the macropayment land, a competitor could come in and offer 45c to process $10 instead of PayPal's 60c. No big deal.

In the micropayment land, a competitor could come in and offer 10c to process $1 instead of PayPal's 33c. MUCH bigger deal.