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There's a mixture of useful advice in this thread, but take a deep breath before you go for any of the more enthusiastic responses.

I also work for a US company, but it's done through a wholly owned UK subsidiary. It's not uncommon to start these arrangements as contracting, especially if you're their first non-US employee, while it works on company incorporation and bank and payroll to be set up.

What you should expect in terms of fairness is for them to be upfront beforehand in terms of how they propose to proceed so the paperwork wasn't a surprise when it arrived.

I wouldn't assume malice right away in this. It could be a deliberate switcheroo, but it could have been simply bad communication due to ignorance.

Have a talk with them, if they insist that the contracting arrangement is only temporary while they set up, then you can reasonably ask for some conditions to be in the contract in terms of financial penalties if they don't go through with them. If they're serious, they shouldn't mind provided it's reasonable.

I'd agree with the other comments in that you're under no obligation to accept these arrangements.
I used to squash my feature branches before merging, but I switched to rebasing. Here’s why: https://blog.danieljanus.pl/2021/07/01/commit-groups/
> Following investigations, the CNIL noted that the websites facebook.com, google.fr and youtube.com do not make refusing cookies as easy as to accept them

Seems like a ton of websites are using the same cookie framework and they all do this. You get a pop up with with a button to allow all, or a button to customize your preference and you have to go through a bunch of accordions and grey patterns to make sure everything but "essential" cookies are disabled.
Use less 3rd party APIs
Judge orders FDA to hasten FOIA release of Pfizer vaccine docs
The article said they're building cup holders and didn't want them to come with a car.
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It is irrelevant because it is not wide-spread.
AVX-512 is much nicer to program than nay previous Intel's vector instructions.
It will be relevant if programmer could assume, that 50% of her auditory has CPU with AVX-512.

If I want to play with it (as programmer who is interested in DSP on generic-purpose hardware) I need to rent special cloud instance for very non-hobby-friendly price. Additionally, benchamrks (of algorithms, not hardware) at shared instance is never good idea.

I have old (but fast enough for most my tasks) i7-6700K at my desk now, and I've hoped to upgrade it to something with full AVX-512, but alas. What is cheapest way to have local AVX-512 capable system (I know about exotic, low-power i3-8121U, lets ignore it)?

Unless developers will be able to buy reasonable-priced (think: current i5/i7 non-extreme prices, middle-level MoBo, not low-end, but not gaming or server one) system, AVX-512 will be completely irrelevant.

Yes, GPUGP is affordable now (or not? Prices for video cards are insane!), but not all tasks goes well with GPUGP, where transaction cost is insane (memory is slow, but PCIe is much slower and has much larger latency).

Update: And no, I don't need any "effective" cores at my desktop, thank you. I'm not sure, I need it on my laptop, either, but I'm pretty sure about my desktop.
Do you have any idea about what Linux uses now, and how it differs from Fortuna?

I must say (and I say this very much as a rabid Linux fanboy) that it bothered me a bit how Linux's random number generator for a long time did not appear to be developed to a particular published and reviewed specification, but rather it seemed to be a somewhat ad hoc affair. This might be completely mischaracterizing it unfairly, but that's just how it comes across.

Does Linux's latest RNG design (which people say is finally good) conform to any mature and well analyzed and characterized published standard? I'm not asking if it uses standardized ciphers in particular stages, but whether the entire RNG follows a standard.
This doesn't answer my question, sadly. From the article we see that two of the people that died knew they touched a bat. How many don't know they touched a bat?
https://archive.fo/XWnSn
Oh there are a few documentary's that cover it and was a a good one saw recently that encompassed all this - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5706894/ do recommend that one.
Thanks for sharing! I also suffered from this when we were less than 20 people. From my experience, once you reach roughly 50 people, you have enough redundancies among functions to not be hurt by a departure.
TBH you're probably right. Most people won't use cryptocurrency directly, it'll become AWS for the financial system and people will use it every day without realizing.
Non proof-of-work "mining" typically requires another resource. Proof-of-stake rewards you based on your holdings, so additional mining compute power doesn't help.
I remember reading the CF founders about how archive.is didn't want cloudflare dns users to resolve to archive, so they respect that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28495204
>> Are you suggesting that stricter Covid regulations imposed by the federal government could have curtailed some of the struggles the health care providers are experiencing now?

Yes, I do. I live in the Netherlands and we have the 2020-ish lockdown right now, basically nothing except of groceries and pharmacies is open. And that seems to be a good strategy - https://nltimes.nl/2022/01/07/dutch-covid-hospitalizations-n...
Once we get through the Omicron wave, we will smoothly reopen.
While I completely agree with you, as a very minor point, The Matrix Reloaded features Trinity correctly using nmap to find an exposed SSH server, and then correctly using SSHNuke to exploit an era-appropriate CRC vuln -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PxTAn4g20U
The energy usage is mere propaganda spouted from individuals with A/C and heat cranked to 68-72 room temperature, way way inside the survival temperature band of their climate. They don't give a fuck about wasting some energy. Or they give a fuck and they do it anyway, prioritizing their own comforts while considering yours immoral.
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Yes but VC funds have a fixed window, their goal is to deploy their money in the first 3-5 years and show returns in under 10.
+1 for anonymous payments (Monero please?). I am signed up for the beta with a non-personal email but using traditional payments will throw that semi-anonymity out of the window.

What subscription models exist in the crypto world right now, i.e. to automatically charge me every month?
Interesting idea! I'm wondering if this would also work in higher dimensional spaces, like embeddings. Or is this just social media? :D
Here is the court order https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/gdvzykdllpw/...
That's how Mullvad VPN works (more or less). Click "Generate account" and you get a unique 16-digit account number; download the app and put in the account number and you're good to go. No email, no username, no password, etc. Only payment info when you need to pay.
Shadow Banning, Astroturfing, Catfishing, etc.
Especially if you're not capitalizing any of that spend and expensing it all to be conservative in your financial reporting.

The eng spend could benefit you later down the road so it's perhaps naive to say it's bad to be above industry average
> So we both say the same thing with different words. I agree, which is why there is a call to FSF for change.

I thought you were saying that hardware is whatever "cannot be updated". That's the argument the FSF uses to say ROM firmware is OK because it's not software. I'm saying that's not okay, because updatability is a plus, not a minus, and ROMs are still software.

> Concerning the Librem 5, if the proprietary blob can be isolated such that it can't access RAM or CPU, it's better for the user and makes the device more free, in my opinion.

The obfuscation in the Librem 5 did absolutely nothing to isolate the proprietary blob in any way, shape, or form. It would always run on a dedicated CPU, from the get-go (and that CPU is part of the RAM controller, so it is a security risk for the entire system either way). They added a third CPU in the loop to load the blob, because somehow touching the blob from the main CPU gives it the digital equivalent of cooties in the FSF's view, but adding this extra step of indirection makes it all OK. And then they put the blob in a separate Flash memory so it wouldn't live in the same flash as the main open firmware, because that somehow helps freedom too? Seriously, that whole story is just utterly stupid no matter which way you look at it.
>yes, I know, unnecessarily brutal; consider it a passive aggressive reaction - it feels good

Throwing SIGKILL at something that's misbehaving is very satisfying, especially if you have a habit of personifying your computer a bit too much.
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With GitHub's squash + merge, clean history still depends on the person doing the merge, because when clicking the squash + merge button, GitHub places all commit messages in one large chunk of text, which devs are able to edit before confirming the merge, but it takes some discipline to do so.

In my experience, devs rarely pay attention to this, so commit messages end up as a big list of:

* Ticket-1234 feature
* fix
* cleanups
* fix
* another fix
* now the real fix

Which I wouldn't qualify as a contributor to a "clean" history. It'd be great if GitHub's UX around crafting the commit messages would be more considerate and foster more meaningful commit messages.

(edit: formatting)
You don't seem to understand what liberal means. Liberals are pro status-quo, pro lobbyist, pro deregulation of corporations. They are the centrist monolith that stands in the way of leftists and real progressives at every corner of government. Most liberals, transplanted outside of the U.S., would be right or far right without changing their politics.
No, I contacted my work to get my ‘work number’, and then gave that to my mortgage lender.
Right, exactly. It's moving to issues and PR-based workflows that's the important thing. If GitHub becomes problematic in the future, they can switch to some other provider of similar functionality, and all the millions of programmers around the world who are familiar with issues and PR-based workflows can follow them.

I am personally someone who only knows PR-based workflows and is somewhat ignorant about other workflows. There are the mailing lists and old-school bug trackers which I am pretty sure I don't like. But I know that several (most/all?) big US tech companies use non-PR-based workflows via tools like Gerrit and Phabricator. I am not at all clear yet on the pros and cons of those workflows versus PRs.
Story of my life.

The worst part is once I actually start the task, its usually done in the most enjoyable and timely manner. It's exhausting.
>...At the time, interracial marriage was still illegal in most of the south.

Not exactly - by the time the movie came out the anti-miscegenation laws had recently been overturned. The decision in Loving v. Virginia was announced on June 12, 1967 and "Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner" was released on December 11, 1967.
Feels alot more like curling than golf, but "Gas Pump Curling" doesn't have quite the same ring to it.
It seems odd that parents are to be denied access to children if they (the parents) are not vaccinated.

In the UK, the JVCI determined that

The margin of benefit, based primarily on a health perspective, is considered too small to support advice on a universal programme of vaccination of otherwise healthy 12 to 15-year-old children at this time.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/jcvi-statement-se...

but the vaccine program for 12-15 year-olds went ahead anyway on the grounds that the benefit of the reduced infectivity of children would be felt by adults, and so benefit the children indirectly.

Overall however the view of the UK CMOs is that the additional likely benefits of reducing educational disruption, and the consequent reduction in public health harm from educational disruption, on balance provide sufficient extra advantage in addition to the marginal advantage at an individual level identified by the JCVI to recommend in favour of vaccinating this group.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/universal-vaccina...

i.e., the vaccination status of the parents is not relevant to the welfare of the child as far as concerns the virus, only as far as it would disrupt the child's welfare vis a vis education were the parent to get the virus. But if "what you do might result in an injury to yourself and interrupt you child's education" is sufficient to deny access, shouldn't the same be true of other activities? Rock-climbing? Skiing?
I've only come across a few AppImage apps in the wild but they have worked flawlessly. My only complaint is that installing their desktop icons is a bit of a doing and should be automatic - but that is a very fixable problem.
I agree, although he might have to 'own up' if someone found his employer and let them know he's working to enable piracy in his free time.
They're not talking about mere referencing, though. The problem is one of intentional redefinition in an attempt to counteract a movement. And indeed, the motivation for doing so is often racism.
The strongest example is the opioid epidemic. Whoops.
What's his deal with spaces? Yes, I know some crappy tools can't handle them, but he seems to indict all of Python and Ruby.
Also skills are highly relative. You could be great in some workplace but in another you'd get confused. And the things you were home with are now disregarded.
> cryptocurrency, which can enable a form of socialism

When you twist "socialism" into some libertarian ideal of flat & free markets, you lose a lot of meaning.

Public blockchains behave similar to free markets, and have the same oft-ignored flaws. Namely, you need to trust that the market/blockchain is not de facto ruled by a shadowy cartel. This is often a poor assumption, because power consolidates over time. You also need to trust that the underlying currencies and protocols are secure. This is easier to do than the former, but still a significant vulnerability.
> No one claimed it was there, would work, would be stable or anything to that tune.

Isn't that true of like 99.9999% of CPU features? I have never seen an Intel presentation or piece of marketing material that said my software would be able to use the EAX register, and yet it keeps showing up year after year.
Because it's not really an efficiency upgrade like you've envisioned.

The current PoW system turns energy directly into miner rewards.

A PoS system does not do that. You can't just throw more energy at the problem to get more rewards.
> This is false.

That's rather presumptive. If the candidate did not disclose his salary history, the obvious assumption is that it is not a positive, and the candidate will get a lowball offer.

> are judging you on your skills and experience alone

It never works that way. They'll be judging you on what you chose not to reveal, too. Other examples:

1. if you say you have a degree, but are silent about from where, the assumption will be it is not Stanford. The assumption will be it's from a degree mill, or worse, you're lying about the degree.

2. if you didn't submit SAT scores to the admissions dept, the assumption will inevitably be that they are poor scores.
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Arcane and obsolete Unix systems aside - which the vast majority of users don't have to care about, or even know that they exist - what modern Unix-like does not include nano out of the box?
Show HN: NoraSector – low-latency WebRTC police/fire/EMS scanner (Seattle)
I grew up about a mile away from the federal reserve they hacked in this movie, and other than the X-Files, Sneakers is the only media I've ever heard my small hometown of Culpeper, Virginia mentioned in. So Sneakers has always held a place in my heart. But it's also the best hacking movie ever made, in my opinion.
My first thought on the "mother" handle would be the computer from Alien(s) before Dan Akroyd.
Please do not post flamebait.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is more problematic with the USCIS immigration helpline bot. You don't have the option to yake your business elsewhere.

Trying to get the phone bot to let me talk to a human at USCIS is like talking to the Avrona Kern AI from Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

Me: The typographic error submission site throws an error when I try to use it.

Avrona Kern: We have a website to submit typographic errors.

Avrona Kern: Would you like to receive the link via SMS or email?

Me: That site doesn't work! Agent.

Avrona Kern: Would you like to receive the link by SMS or email?

Me: Agent

Avrona Kern: I can help you.

Me: Agent

Avrona Kern: If you keep asking for agent I will end the call.

Me: Typographic site throws error

Avrona Kern: We have a website...

Me: FML

Googling revealed that there are some keywords that make Avrona give up and let me through. Not gonna reveal that here, in case they close those loopholes and some poor schmuck is left with no options.
Yes I have and also as long ago. But the overall message did burn into me. That is the environment is scared and we really should take better care of it.

Eg. Florida Everglades. In short 'in the name of progress' thought it was a great idea to redirect the water flow even when presented with much scientific data that this would be a bad thing to do. And it proved disastrous. Now the state is still trying to restore it.
I wonder if you're playing Devil's advocate or you really are defending this.. They could skip the "burden" users face by just not using so many dang tracking cookies. If you want information about how your customers use the site, or what their interests are, you can just _ask_ and try to solicit feedback explicitly. Most of the people will likely decline, but that _should be_ their choice to do so. And providing feedback _should be_ opt-in, not opt-OUT.
I will add that for everybody who has type-2 diabetes as a side effect of medication, there must be tens or hundreds of thousands who came by it much more accidentally (except insofar as it is a direct consequence of phenomenally, catastrophically, absurdly harmful public policy still in force in the US).
I've certainly seen first-hand how resource constraints can lead to incredible focus, creativity and a cohesive end product. I've also seen how hypergrowth at scale can lead tons of waste and net-negative activity. The ideal is efficient growth, which requires different tricks at different stages, and becomes harder and harder as you grow.

I dislike the VC model because there is huge pressure to keep growing even when it doesn't make sense or sells out potentially bigger but non-monetary ambitions. For example Twitter received incredible pressure to be as big as Facebook which turned it into a generic walled-garden ad-selling media app, away from the potential to be message-plumbing for the Internet.
I believe a lot of people do this. There is even a podcast that is designed specifically for that (Sleep with me, I think is the name). I have particular podcasts where the host has a somewhat monotonous voice, not too exciting content and set a timer that turns off the player after I'm asleep. Works great for me.
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> About half of the world (by number, not population) is authoritarian, and only <10% would be full democracies.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index

The world only looks more authoritarian because some of the largest countries (China and Russia) are. They thankfully are stable. In Africa and the Middle East, where there is a lot of authoritarianism, you also see a lot of civil unrest. But even though authoritarianism is highly correlated with civil unrest, it doesn't necessarily cause it (indeed, it can be caused by it).

> I don't think being democratic or authoritarian really matters much to most people, as long as they agree with the policies.

In one system, if you don't agree with policies, you can "vote the turkeys out", in the other system, if you don't agree...well, hopefully the authoritarians are receptive, because your only other option is violent revolution.

Authoritarian regimes are also very brittle, they break easily when enough pressure is applied (but "enough" is a higher threshold like concrete).
+1, happy paying NextDNS customer here (for 1.5 years now) and recent Kagi user, very happy so far (likely future customer)!
I'm in no way against capitalism. As I say in my post, the only way forward is capitalism with extreme regulation. Without regulation, capitalism won't get you anywhere good. It should be treated like a bratty child with no moral values and poor upbringing. It has to be dragged, kicking and screaming, towards the good.
It is part of a European country.
There currently aren’t enough green hydrogen > ammonia manufacturing plants on the planet to do this though.

Building the necessary renewable energy and ammonia plants and infrastructure is technically trivial in that we needed approximately no innovation as the tech already exists.

The scaled of the problem is immense.
If you just want to play with AVX-512, you can rent an Ice Lake Xeon on AWS EC2 for only 3¢/hour, which strikes me as very hobby-friendly pricing.
What’s the objective here? It’s like a much slower reflex game with more waiting.

One thing that real gas pumps have is variable flow control. Once you get to the last 10 cents you can ease up on handle and gas will trickle in at a much slower rate. Also, if you stop a few cents short you can “pulse” it a couple times.
>most fun gods were also pranksters.

Eris is 100% the Greek god of putting this kind of thing into your friends and colleague's code. I suspect she also approves of `#define volatile` which could make for a frustrating debugging session.
Nobody said negotiation offered guarantees.

It's not negotiating that gets you a guaranteed worst case result.
I first read it as in “stay woke”, a reminder that your survival depends on seeing through people’s bullshit.

And the most harmful bullshit is that racism is a personal failing rather than a system working as designed; designed by people who will not peacefully let it go.
> “mindless kids who put PRs up thoughtlessly”.

Sorry, I wasn't accusing you of holding that position. Some embarrassing idiot on the emacs-devel mailing list said it.
The loaded (freighted) content of the word "woke" is exactly why it has the weight it does in conversation. Similar to a curse word.
The AVX-512 rollout has been a complete disaster. Look at how quickly AVX-2 became widespread and targetable. My all metrics, AVX-512 adoption has been abysmal and most of the blame lies squarely on Intel's shoulders. And even now that platforms are beginning to support it, developers just aren't interested because AVX-2 + optimizations got them most of the way there. Then there's the heavy performance hit that regular code intermixed with AVX-512 incurs.
Right, thank you for the suggestion, i'm gonna edit my comment
Hey anyone remember that settlement that they never paid out because it turned out the amount couldn't cover everyone who was affected by their breach?

Then they offered ID theft monitoring because just what we want is for them to collect more data on us.

How is this company still allowed to do business?