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Ask HN: Remote Companies in Europe
Hi fellow hackers,

with remote work becoming more popular during this pandemic, I too became fond of this lifestyle and would like to move a remote only position permanently. Since I'm based in germany, I'm looking for remote companies all over europe.

But it's hard to find companies that actively advertise remote opportunities.

I was wondering if you could help me out with some companies that allow or prefer remote-only employees.

Thanks :)
The issue with this is that Apple has the same problem that they have had for years - they don't really offer mainstream products.

Even their most inexpensive products are on the higher end of the pricing spectrum, and they could be 5x the performance but it still wouldn't matter.

There's a reason why Chromebooks are so popular and it sure isn't anything to do with their performance.
> Spotify and Deezer both suggest the chart hits, regardless of how often I dislike that kind of music.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."

-- Upton Sinclair

In other words the reason might be that there is an incentive to suggest you chart hits. The abilities of the recommendation have probably not much to do with it.
Does move mountains mean something illegal or does it mean you can get a minister to get a civil servant to look at something? Because £50K a year will pay for a journalist/PR person who can also eventually get a civil servant to look at a thing. Access isn’t corruption, even if it is unfair.
PinePhone with KDE Plasma Mobile is going to be sold in the next few weeks so you might be interested in that as well!
Like most "exploits as a service", this only works if your volume is small enough to not make it worth shutting you down. The 0.1% get their privileges by being small in number and well-connected enough to deal with legislative retaliation. Once everyone starts bending the rules the rules bend back.

This happened in the UK: it was very common for IT contractors to set up companies to get preferential tax rates, until the "IR35" reforms targeted that. Lots of the Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories make their livings from tax avoidance; the Paradise Papers caught out a lot of celebrities using their services. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/14/after-successiv...

Look down https://thebanks.eu/compare-countries-by-banking-sector and do a rough division of size of assets by size of country, and you can estimate which countries have the biggest tax avoidance industries.

Nearly a trillion Euro sitting in the Cayman Islands? Bank soundness "n/a"? Seems legit.

Jersey (pop 97,000) and Guernsey (pop 67,000) more assets than Romania (pop 19,000,000)? Seems legit.
> think YouTube is the shining example of controllable recommendation systems.

Youtube is the worst. I have all the time to open videos (and think about it!) in private tab so that my recommendations don't get messed up. And then of course on phone you don't have that luxury so you have to go clean history manually. And now they added two interstitials before you can actually view video in private.

Shining example indeed
Denmark is not France and Denmark has no guarantee that France would step in to stop a Russian invasion.
This was the perspective that set the course for current actions, but the situation got worse.
Old fart here too.

I have the exact same experience as you, and even after using Linux om multiple machines for 20+ years (desktops, laptops and servers) I still prefer Macs and MacOS.

Changed work recently and went back to my late 2013 MacBook Pro for a few months. It still works great with Big Sur - try that on a 7 years old PC...

And I love my 2 days old MacBook Pro m1, the keyboard is perfect and the esc-key is as God intended it (yeah, for emacs...).
This could be solved simply... When the UX designers make a mockup of an app, instead of making mock screenshots, make mock videos.

Then tell the software engineer to match those mocks.

If some animation drops three frames at the start, then the code doesn't meet the mocks, and isn't ready to ship.
It seems like more and more discussions are only available on the deep web, so they're not indexed by Google and ultimately irretrievable. What we'll be left with is ultimately a shallow surface web, filled with misinformation and the occasional non-anonymous post, but a rich, goldmine in the deep web that's only accessible to those that have access to it.

The internet is slowly becoming closed off, and it's haunting to think that it'll never be as open as it once was. To me, this is a dark chapter in the Internet's present and future that I'd love to see an end to.
Wearing masks saves lives according to this data-driven model
How about i realize my battery drains "quickly" now, i will go to the store & Apple advices to keep the phone but change the battery for 50 bucks. My device still runs as smooth as it was once the "flagship". But it didn't happen and my device is so slow now (as if the CPU is tired of running) and a new "flagship" is released with 2x the speed and feels so smooth but costs $1000. Hence the lawsuit.
I can’t speak for everyone on this thread, but the combination of “hiding” and “degrading” are what make this anti-consumer. If your car wouldn’t go over 30mph and the manufacturer wouldn’t disclose why, how would you feel?

From the article:

>Apple, the most valuable company in the world, acted deceptively by hiding the shutdown and slowdown issues, according to the court filing.

>"Many consumers decided that the only way to get improved performance was to purchase a newer-model iPhone from Apple," Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich wrote...
> That 3% cannot be true, Germany is at least 1/3 the European economy, and you know since i live in Europe...i worry about Germany.

Your info is out of date by a decade or more, I think.

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

> In 2017, according to the CIA's World Factbook, the GWP was around US $80.27 trillion in nominal terms and totaled approximately 127.8 trillion international dollars in terms of purchasing power parity (PPP).

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

> German GDP: $3,780 trillion, $4.454 trillion PPP.

So, Germany is 4% of the world GDP in nominal terms and 3.4% in PPP terms. And that was back in 2017, developing countries are growing faster, so Germany's share probably went down.

Regarding Europe:

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

> EU GDP: $18.292 trillion, $18.377 trillion GDP.

So Europe is 22% of the world GDP in nominal terms and 14% in PPP terms. And it's definitely going down as a share of the world economy.

Germany also is only only about 20% of EU GDP in nominal terms and 24% in PPP terms. This part is also going down.

You're conflating the EU with Europe. Europe has quite a few economies outside the EU: UK, Russia, Switzerland, Norway, etc. Germany is probably 12-15% of the European economy, or maybe less.
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The funny thing about this is that those groups and the people in them, look at the wish ads, and engage with them, thus making wish's ads cheaper and making the company more likely to serve them bizarre ads.
An interesting tie in point is that Jad's father is a doctor at Vanderbilt University who treated Dolly after a car accident. The father and Dolly developed a relationship sharing stories of how they both grew up poor etc and their conversations on health science led to her $1M donation to help early Covid research (SARS-1). Dolly Parton is the kind of person who can restore your faith in humanity and its great the podcast interviews are such a success.
There's one clear sign that you can find on any Russian anti-Putin and/or pro-liberal blog or channel: that Russian people are lazy, stupid, alcoholics and drug addicts, that Russians never invented anything (all the technology at all times was stolen from Europe and USA), Russia never won any war (including WWII that was "won" exclusively by USA), etc.

They go even as far as to declare Russian language "stupid and barbaric and ugly" (Gasan Gusejnov).

Not touching any other reason for now, for me it's a clear sign that all opposition is rusophobic and/or paid by the CIA/MI-6.

Why would a sane person call his nation "stupid alcoholics using barbaric language"?..
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It's free in a lot of places.
> If we can’t throw off the oppression of UTC and greet TAI as liberators, at least adjust the clock at regular, very infrequent dates.

Why not just use TAI for almost everything and leave UTC (including regular leap seconds) for applications that need it?
I assume that Apple's next chapter started coincidently with the leaving of Steve Jobs. Of course, I do not know if Jobs would be cool with today's Apple. But he certainly worked hard at turning it into the cash cow it is nowadays. So in other words, we are in a different cell of the BCG Matrix today.
Don't worry - there's probably three different teams working on competing link shorteners...

Don't forget the internal ones that occasionally leak into external support articles... shortn/, go/, and goto.corp.google.com/... And maybe more I haven't seen...
I think the OP was talking about mobile, whereas the replies are talking about console/pc games.

Very, very different markets.
The squares are stacked bar charts with a weird styling. On the x axis, you have the two systems macOS and Windows, and the y axis is cost or price.

The "hardware & essential software" part for macOS is more expensive than for Windows because Mac hardware is more expensive than Windows hardware.
But this case shows the exact opposite. They updated phones to last longer without unexpected shut-downs. If they didn't do that update, many people who experienced these shut-downs outside of warrenty would change their old phone for a new ones. You can usually live with a slightly slower phone when the battery is low, but a phone that randomly dies on you? Not so much.

To be clear, Apple still messed up, because they didn't communicate this at all. They could have also put in a slightly larger battery to begin with.

But in the tech world, Apple isn't the worst in pushing people to upgrade hardware, which is illustrated by the fact that people use iPhones longer before upgrading than Android users. That's the one upside of Apples crazy App Store margins... they really don't need to push new hardware on you to make a shitload of money (while for Android that money goes to Google rather than hardware manufacturers)

Apple could do better - WAY better - but I think it's a bit naive to think that this could possibly change, and is worth complaining about. The only way it would, if there was somehow significant money in spending lots of time optimizing OS updates for old devices. But most people like upgrading their phones anyway. For Apple to change, consumers must change first. I don't think there's much hope for government regulation here either. It's a problem that's too complex to regulate.
Well, it looks like it is in the time frame of their scheduled maintenance https://www.backblaze.com/scheduled-maintenance.html
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Disregard, I got AM and PM confused :(
That "bug" exists ever since adtech exists.

Clearly, nobody is interested in fixing it then?

"It's a developing area" is a pretty old adage by now, and is worn out. Modern tech exists for 25+ years now. Do something. Most of the people I've spoken to hate ads.

Not fixing ancient bugs isn't helping the situation.
Wouldn't call it a die off, more a consolidation: reddit got some really good niche communities and if you want to narrow it even further down Discord evolved quite well in this regard (great communities + easy access to multiple groups unlike with Slack).
If you like this vibe look up Prodeus, its in early access but pretty much everyone is giving it 10/10. It runs in stylized ~480x270 resolution and looks like what DOOM Eternal (2020) would of looked like if it was released for DOS using heavily upgraded Quake (1997) engine.

https://www.gog.com/game/prodeus

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/806516315?t=01h05m24s
Well, it's more like people celebrating an electric scooter that has twice the range of the electric bike.

Not saying it isn't a novel form of transport or equally useful in most cases, but... we're comparing a very stripped-down SoC to systems that have vastly more complexity for several different reasons - not least the ability to support more modular CPU/memory/GPU configurations.

Rework the existing x86 cores that we have into similar configurations and we'll likely see pretty substantial efficiency gains there too.
I imagine they don't even want the fingerprints "getting out". Imagine if you had the fingerprints and the algorithm. This can't possibly be a cryptographic hash (too fragile); it's got to be possible to find "collisions" that have no relationship to the original image, and probably don't even look like images of anything at all.

Imagine the chaos someone could cause.

It'd be like back in 2010ish when somebody encoded a bunch of malware into bitcoin transactions: every bitcoin node running any kind of antivirus software was immediately kicked offline. Many AV programs deleted their owners' copy of bitcoind. It was madness. Forced the bitcoin developers to store the blockchain on-disk xored with a different random number unique to each computer.
Apple requires identity verification for certain individual developers too (and all organizations AFAIK):

https://developer.apple.com/support/identity-verification/

> Identity verification is required for:

> Account Holders based in the United States or China mainland.

> Account Holders of organizations based in China mainland.

> Developers based in the United States or China mainland who wish to accept the transfer of the Account Holder role.

Google Play seems to have this too, although their support page is unclear about who it applies to, and I have no personal experience: https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...
Yes, I think that would make sense, but leap hours would be very rare: the first one won’t be needed for 500 years. See the first table at https://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/dutc.html

But, leap hours don’t need to be co-ordinated: countries can and do change their clocks to adjust the time of sunrise when they want.

And leap hours will work much longer than leap seconds: leap seconds will become too frequent in 1 or 2 thousand years, but leap hours will just be getting started. See the second table at the same link https://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/dutc.html
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I also can't find a status page and not so much as a peep from Backblaze anywhere. I pinged them on Twitter [1] to no avail. I like Backblaze but this has been going on for 3 hours now. You can't be down for 3 hours without any communication about it...

[1] https://twitter.com/JasperSiepkes/status/1329347119774375937
The more infrequent your deployments, the more difficult they will be.
These are all examples you can get used to. Like you've gotten used the current version of MacOS. Big Sur has a lot of improvements. Sometimes you just have to take the good with the bad.
Can't be because this has been going on for over 3 hours now. The timeframe is only 1 hour.
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If we were finding better way to teach then kids scores would improve, but they aren't improving.
On the same vein, check out Prodeus!
I worked at a place with RuboCop as part of the CI, it was a horrible experience. I spent more time fixing lint errors than actual work, and all it does is make my code less readable.
For a while there, reddit replaced forums for me. But then they became Reddit™ and have become so user-hostile and partisan that I can't stand the site anymore.

Discord is a place for synchronous communication, so it doesn't fill quite the same niche that reddit and forums filled for me.
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I no longer think of myself as a "document writer", and there honestly would not be room in my team for someone who only wanted to touch the HTML and not the CSS or vice versa.

I was there for the Zen Garden, and it was great at the time and in its context (Flash and image maps!), but now I'm using the web stack for a 3D editing application, and my last job was complex GUI for managing large number of IoT devices. The idea of separating "the content" from "the presentation" does not apply anymore. It's just not a thing. Good software engineering is super important, more-so than ever I'd say, but keeping some parts of the UI in the .css files and some of it in the .ts files does not equal adequate "separation of concerns" in my context. It's just not that simple anymore, and in fact in the previous job it was an impediment, since UI refactors became much harder because of the state of the .css files. In my new project, which was moved over from Bootstrap shortly after I started, Tailwind has made sure that many of the old problems just don't arise anymore.
Personally I think array programming languages are the future and one of the most popular programming languages in science and engineering is Matlab, and it is to some extent an array based programming language [1].

I am surprised that the author (and reviewers of the paper) has missed to perform proper literature review, for example it missed other recent and promising works on functional array programming languages namely Single Assignment C (SAC) and Futhark [2],[3].

ShapeRank also seems to take vector algebra "tensor" concept to the extreme and to be honest it's better to based on "versor" since geometric algebra is probably the future of computer algebra [4].

Last but not least and probably the most controversial is that why create another standalone array language from scratch? It will be better to make a seamless DSL based on general purpose language like D language and you do not have to re-invent most of the libraries (and C library support in D is second to none). Arguably the most successful recent effort on array based scientific programming language is Julia and it is still very much dependent on some Fortran based libraries for speed. While with D you can go "turtle all the way down" and still meet the speed requirements that are needed in scientific computing [5].

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Array_programming

[2]http://www.sac-home.org/doku.php

[3]https://futhark-lang.org/

[4]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_vector_algebra...

[5]http://blog.mir.dlang.io/glas/benchmark/openblas/2016/09/23/...
No, I saw that, but that says 3 pm not am.

Pacific time is several hours behind me in the UK and it's 11am here.

I don't think it was even Thursday yet Pacific time when this started.
Seeing where the industry is going, I'm thinking more and more of having "one computer per purpose" rather than trying to have "one computer to rule them all" (and in the darkness bind them, ahem, sorry, I digress ^^).

To explain a bit more, I do writing, development, photo editing, video editing, music production.
Nowadays, my sole computer (besides multiple Raspberry Pi) is a gaming laptop running Windows. It can handle all of these tasks.

Before that, I had a 2012 MBP, but when I wanted to upgrade to an other mac with 32GB RAM, a good graphic card and Thunderbolt 3 in the end of 2015/beginning of 2016, the option of that much RAM and a good video card just wasn't there at the time, and so I switched to the Windows world again.

I've been able to upgrade the gaming computer over the years to 32 GB RAM, I now have 3 (!) SSD in the computer, and it runs what I want quickly enough (except for Lightroom, but that's an other story ;)).

But for development, the feeling just isn't there, even with WSL/WSL2, it's just not as straightforward as macOS with homebrew or macports, not to talk about Debian or Archlinux which are even better, so for me, it always feel like "death by a thousand cut" to develop on Windows platform.

For video, ProresRAW is only available on Apple, and I want to futureproof my future cameras in that aspect too. Or maybe I could go the BlackmagicRAW path to be able to do it in the Windows or Linux world, or converting to Prores4444, but ProresRAW and BlackmagicRAW don't seem to like each others, and in video, I don't want to spend my time fighting the computers and the codecs. So I'll probably have to switch to Mac in the long run for that.

For the sound part, in my point of view, there is still nothing coming close to Mac with CoreAudio, even if Linux is good (with Jack & cie), macOS is miles ahead when it comes for example to plugin or DAW support. And in Windows, it's still not as good as mac for Audio, at least in my perspective.

For the photography part, Darktable is getting good and faster than Lightroom, but still not as efficient in workflow than Lightroom or Capture One. Buuut it's getting close.

So I think more and more of buying one laptop just for Linux & development (or even stripping a Chromebook of Chrome OS and installing Linux on it ?).
Use my iPad for writing, because it's the most enjoyable "sit on a couch and write" experience.
And maybe buy a M1 (or M2) Mac for Audio, Video, Photo.

There still remain the question of buying a beefy workstation with for example 128GB RAM and beefy graphic card and 10GBe and RAID, to handle the big audio/video/photo project. I wanted to go the Hackintosh route, but now with ARM, I don't know if it's a futureproof purchase...
People who can't cope with leap seconds should stop pestering the people who define UTC and just switch to TAI. They can do that now. No one is stopping them. Leap seconds are a pain and I myself would happily choose TAI over UTC for the system clock on a typical embedded system.

However, for civil time keeping and for some technical purposes, UTC as currently defined is exactly what we need. Don't fuck with it.
Those books recommended in the article look good but are expensive.

The Machinery of Life, David Goodsell

A Computer Scientist’s Guide to Cell Biology, William W. Cohen
Reddit is much better in that respect.
Don’t know about elsewhere but in the U.S. bank statements is usually one of the documents used to prove your address.
To be fair, it is comparatively more difficult to get started in Haskell then, say, Python, Go, or even Rust (the latter has a steep learning curve after getting started, but installing and configuring the development environment is easy). Also, it is difficult to find a central source of information in Haskell.

I tried to give the language a spin, and struggled with many a barrier to get to the point where I see significant progress (books, build tools)

I understand that you are invested in the Haskell ecosystem with your company, and I am happy that the language has more adoption in the business sector. The design space of Haskell is huge, however, and then on boarding process to make serious applications is not convenient at all.
> So long as Google and Facebook put the advertisers in control of who sees their advertising, any assertion that the system is designed to serve us is bullshit

But they don't put advertisers in control of who sees their ads.

If you look at audience sizes on FB, and then run some direct response ads on that audience, you'll notice that you only ever reach maybe 10% of that audience.

This is because what FB/Goog are good at is figuring out which ads are likely to get someone to click and/or convert, and show only those ads.

The dirty secret is that those people might have converted anyway.

One can measure this with an attribution model, but the trouble is that the two biggest players Google and Facebook have very little incentive to co-operate, so all attribution models are extremely biased.

tl;dr the advertisers set boundaries on who should see the ad, but they don't control who the ads get served to.
What is the legal status of this?
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