skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some contracts I've seen involve a liability shift clause from the agency/client to the contractor's Ltd co - and the client will often insist that you have fee-payer/agency IR35 insurance in place to protect the supply chain (Kingsbridge sell this sort of product) if such a clause is in place.

Yes that's definitely happening. However this practice is on the radar of the relevant authorities and hasn't yet been tested in court/tribunal settings. It's clearly trying to circumvent the spirit of the rules by shifting responsibility that is now explicitly intended to rest with the client or intermediaries onto the contractor themselves. That may be unfair particularly if the client or intermediaries are also writing the contract and specifying the required working arrangements for an engagement as is often the case for contract work.

It seems likely that a test case will happen before long. The resulting decision may be of the form "LOL nice try Mr Agency now pay up". As with so much in this area the real problem is that no-one knows for sure. That creates a chilling effect across the whole industry and of course the larger parties with the bigger legal budgets have a natural advantage there.
Potentially after the chip and supply chain crisis
It broke new ground!
> However in this case with the high cost of electricity in Europe right now, isn't crypto-mining similar to lighting money on fire?

Miners sometimes sign long-ish-term contracts for energy.
I don't see how this has to include any personal information. Perhaps a specific set of otherwise rarely used terms might be able to identify you, but there is otherwise no need to attach any PII to these data sets. The trivial case to implement such a growing dictionary would not collect any private information.
And so the fractured internet continues apace
people pay for nothing?
> (basically digital cash, untraceable)

and programmatically "generable" is a recipe for disaster (i.e. most of the exploited machines nowadays run a monero miner, when they once ran a spambot)
I think they meant “inexcusable”.
To give an example of real world sparse matrices, power grids can have thousands and thousands of nodes, but most of those nodes only connect to a few other nodes at most that are local neighbors. Systems are highly sparse as a result
Let's congratulate ETH from consuming 99.9 less energy, thus having 99.9% less value. IMO they essentially transformed something revolutionary, which is value secured by the masses. Anyone could mine and help ETH be secure. Now the rich (steakers) control the system. Which is essentially what happens with the current economy dominated by the rich. They are simply trying to change the "who". Alienating the miners was precisely the move to show in ETH the rich rule, the poor suffer. Same old capitalism as usual.
Mh... I've read few articles here and there that essentially, in the more or less explicit background say "cash are a source of evil" while e-cashes might be an answer.

I counter with a simple note: what about a LEGIT company who is just a branch of a parent company in another State, something let's say like a P.O. box in Delaware, a thing perfectly legal there, and the branch company have to pay much service to the mother company ending every year in red or nearly red and so paying no local taxes but still get allowed to remain in business? That's happen ALL by electronic money, officially transferred, officially formally billed according to the laws.

On contrary let's say we only tax the net, so we want to document any expense, even the smallest one, what do you think in this scenario?
Google search for Zonda in Poland gives phishing site as first result
“Cuba exports terrorism and misery across the region.”

::walks away whistling hoping you don’t notice Iraq and Afghanistan’s blown up weddings::
I’m saying you’re watching a movie because you literally yourself told us, and I quote “I would toss an iPad on the dash with it plugged into my aux port and watch a movie. 99% of the time, _I’d be looking through the reflected movie on the windshield_”

People do worse things, so your terrible choice is acceptable? Passengers are sometimes disruptive so it’s okay for you to distract yourself?

You’re deluding yourself.
These doctors need to be taught a lot and don't even care about proper hygiene (or as one of them told me "we care about hygiene, it just means something totally different in Cuba"), and don't know the first thing about modern medical procedures using modern technologies and tooling. It's nothing like US or European medical schools - it's like they went to a medical-oriented high school at best. In Europe we just send them to the school again, they can't even skip years or subjects.
Have you seen https://github.com/flyteorg/flyte? It's a data, ML and infrastructure orchestrator. (btw, I'm a Flyte engineer)
While it’s a good step, I’ll only join in the applause when someone reduces energy use by a 0.5% they didn’t create themselves.
I'm not attempting to make any sort of legal argument, just positing why it's widely seen as being an especially egregious act of sexual predation (and I'll admit that's how it appears on the surface to me, but ultimately it's up to the criminal justice system to decide).
I mean it's technically both, Australia sure isn't waiting for the world to rely less on coal and gas, it's pumping 10's of billions into renewables, something some of us argue should have been done years ago.
> If your terminal emulator gets told to make text blue, and instead it makes it unreadable, then you can’t say that’s not a problem with the terminal emulator.

Hear, hear. A neat tool to tell you who will be able to read a combination of background and foreground colors: https://www.whocanuse.com/
> The incentive is to discover them but exploit them after the switch to the new chain

You're always at the mercy of a hard fork that "fixes" the bug after the exploit.

This is what the Ethereum classic fork was about.
There's many companies that compete for FAANG talent and pay that type of comp or come within 15% or so of it. Just peruse levels.fyi
> You underestimate the utility of a global financial system which can be participated in by anyone.

Ah yes. By anyone. Especially those who got in early before the prices skyrocketed and can now enjoy the global financial system of... currency manipulation and hoarding.

> I'm afraid you are the one who must be kidding, if you think that internet TV is more important than leveling the financial playing field.

You must be kidding when you call scams, currency manipulation, hoarding and zero customer protections a "level playing field for a global financial system".

> They are still in their infancy, the investment in knowledge that is required to use them well remains quite substantial.

The only investment in knowledge there was (and there was very little of that) is discovering why existing systems are the way they are and keeping busy reinventing them.
I literary put his sentence[1] into google with the addition "Hack" and that came out:

https://www.wired.com/2017/02/hacked-android-phones-unlock-m...

https://www.wired.com/2015/07/gadget-hacks-gm-cars-locate-un...

Please do at least minimal work to find the information you want an stop bothering others, since we have search engines we don't need to ask librarians for every small information anymore, i don't know if it's the right "hack" but since i wasted more then 3 minutes just for you, i think that is enough.

[1]possible to list all cars and then assign any (capable) car to your mobile app hack
Nah, it's just gambling but with a veneer of investing.
The time is moot in almost all situations as long as it doesn’t take you longer to enter the PIN than it does for a cashier to finish tallying items. The concern I’ve heard businesses raise is that people won’t remember it but that’s also a chicken and egg problem since people will remember what they use regularly.

Of course, since it’s the 2020s and not the 1990s we don’t need either since NFC is widely supported and an Apple/Google device transaction secured by biometrics on the client is far better and already widely supported.
"this should create new prosperity for those who have been unable to enjoy access to fair courts and binding contracts. "

This is the heady mythology of those who said 'Crypto would create XYZ for those who cannot'.

Except it's been 10 years of Crypto popularity and they have no material function, are a huge drain of energy and human intellectual capital.

Contracts are subject to legal oversight of a Judicial system, the credibility of which is require of a system to function.

Digitization of a 'contract' really doesn't make sense so much at all in terms of it's 'legality'. The algorithm whether it's in regular code or Ehterium makes no difference.

If someone really wanted to 'help those without legal recourse' they'd just use a foreign legal system for transaction record. So, contracts between 2 people in Haiti could be designated under 'Canadian Law'.

But even that would be besides the point: It's not the 'legal system' that makes things work, it's the integrity of the system overall, maintained by a 'legal system'. Canada isn't rich because it has a 'legal system' - that's just one component. It's rich because people and groups act with integrity. The 'law' is involved very rarely.

There's no technical utopia that will replace 'integrity'. Or frankly 'values'.

Ehterium is a neat experiment, that's all it is for now.
I don't like it, and it's clearly not within the spirit of the rules (I'd rather the agency/end-client just paid Qdos for their own fee-payer insurance) but if it just creates a civil liability, I'm not sure I can see why it wouldn't be enforceable.

The agency would have to pay up first, but then could presumably pursue the Ltd co afterwards.
Congratz Ethereum, sorry for doubting you. Now let bug bounties begins (:
That's a good company for cryptocurrencies to be in, don't you think? Just as wasteful and useless.
You're trying to compare mining farms running 24/7 with people using a single card for a probably an hour a day on average. Without actual data on the number of users, this is meaningless.
They're already dropping plenty. Ars Technica reported[0] a few weeks ago that nVidia is currently struggling with a stock surplus, rather than deficit, and Amazon UK has several RTX3070 SKUs shipping at MSRP or thereabouts.

0. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/nvidias-excess-inven...
It feels like salaries in Poland went up

Now 7x minimal wage after tax is not as impressive as 5-8 years ago
Yes lets just swallow the Cuban propaganda that their medicine is somehow magical and more advanced that every other, and ignore the fact that their government have been surviving as a parasite from other countries, helping the dictators stay in power
And that is exactly why we should base plans and decisions on the actual facts we are sure about and can measure and verify and provide citations to prove, not just our feelings about how things seem and how we wish the ideal world worked in our childish libertarian fantasies and get-rich-quick pyramid schemes.
You can't just send your resume blindly with that much experience.

First, you need to contact your connections in the companies you want to work for. And they will introduce you. With 17 years of experience, you know hundreds of people working in the industry.

If you don't know anybody in the company, then you need to find a recruiter that works there and contact them directly. Find them on LinkedIn and send them a message.

You can do the same with a hiring manager for that particular role. But that's harder to figure out who it is.

You just need to speak with people in the company directly. Sending your resume to some automated black hole system will not work.
You definitively live in the first world. As a person that lived in a third-world, dictator infested country for 3 decades, I can tell you, OWNING your own money is LIFE CHANGING. I prefer not to have games, or netflix, or anything, but have financial certainty.

For you guys money is a done deal. For a HUGE part of the world, something as basic as money (or even water) is not. Try to be a little bit more empathic.
Except when you can't and you must undo a transaction, and if you can't, you can't use it.

Like for example in the world of finance, where you have to be able to backtrack.

Meaning such 'contracts' are least useful for things like, well, 'currency' and 'stores of value' ... hmm ...
If Windows didn't turn into a shit-show post-Windows 7 I would prefer Active Directory over all of this mess. Log in once with your password or smartcard and that auth magically works across all applications without ever seeing a login screen or dozens of redirects to do the SAML flow, at least for internal tools. For external stuff, SAML/OIDC is kind of a necessary evil I think (I'm not sure if there's anything preventing external tools from interoperating with Kerberos).
Zoom is reportedly developing email and calendar apps – Engadge
Came here to say this.

I personally did not like BlueJ as an IDE, but I found that the module that was built around it at Kent and the speed at which you can test classes you have created in isolation were a great aid for teaching people basic OOP principles.
Everyone stops breathing sometimes, but SIDS babies lack certain hormone that causes reaction (start wiggling to remove pillow or start screaming). IIRC Australian scientists identified the marker recently.
My uncle has a wood stove like that. It's awesome, too.
>Yvon's note doesn't say anything about climate change.

So this is the standard level of reading comprehension on HN these days?

LITERALLY the third sentence in the first paragraph.

>I never wanted to be a businessman. I started as a craftsman, making climbing gear for my friends and myself, then got into apparel. As we began to witness the extent of ***global warming***...
Learn to split any dataset with one line of code to break model’s generalization
No, total compensations in FAANG and a few other well-financed companies went up.

For everyone else, it went down. So, it's either FAANG or bust.
Yes I also though about a move from Germany to the Netherlands but looks like Software is nothing they see worth of paying more than 60-70k€. Here in Germany I earn 110k€, but this is close to the max you can expect as Software Developer. Maybe 120-140k€ if you are a high value asset that bunkers critical knowledge (My company calls it subject matter expert - basically somebody who wrote critical, but unmaintainable code for a decade or more).
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32848010.
That sounds like you are somehow mistreating them,

I don't think I am. All I do is take it out of my wallet, put in the reader, take it out, put it back in my wallet, lather, rinse, repeat.

or your local merchants use "special" terminals

That would make sense if we were talking about one merchant, or even just two. But I can go to Barnes & Noble, Lowes, Food Lion, the local corner gas station, Ace Hardware, it doesn't matter, I routinely find the chip readers less reliable than the magstripe reader. I can't explain it, but chips are tainted in my worldview at this point.
How to keep a Bazel project hermetic?
> 1) authorities conducting legitimate searches; 2) mass surveillance programs that are looking for terrorists;

Right. Who decides they're legitimate? And who the terrorists are?

Would you like the right to check your location history for church attendance, or the left to scan your messages for inappropriate thinking? That could be made legitimate with the right parliament :)
I was hoping for a mention of Daniel Lemire’s nearly-divisionless algorithm for unbiased sampling. I recently replaced BIND’s copy of OpenBSD arc4random_uniform() with Lemire’s algorithm https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9/-/blob/main/lib/is...
and I blogged on the subject a couple of times https://dotat.at/@/2020-10-29-nearly-divisionless-random-num... https://dotat.at/@/2022-04-20-really-divisionless.html
I run a USA based SaaS and was mistakenly caught up in Auth0's 'sanctions'.

0. Production servers deleted

1. No logs, notifications or any indications of the issues

2. Can't get ahold of support on the free plan

3. Spend 1-2 weeks frantically trying to restore access to our customers

4. Find a random Auth0 support thread of someone who had the same issues

5. Auth0s response was to submit an affadavit to their legal team indicating I'm not sanctionable

6. Access restored after ~3ish weeks of downtime

Why was my SaaS caught up in sanctions?

I had a Russian developer deploy Auth0 two years ago (and hadn't logged in for 18+ months)

That was enough to get my production servers deleted with no warning.
From the first link:

would_you_mind {

// Code here

} actually_i_do_mind (Exception £e) {

// Politely move on

cheerio('Message');

}

I've laughed my ass off with that. Thanks for sharing!
Users rights
It's unnecessary to you - a person living in a developed country with democracy and stable banks.

It might work as a backup option to people who are less lucky. That's the majority of the world. Whether it's a good option depends on a situation.

In any case, it's not for you to judge if it's necessary or not.
I think the reason he calls it outdated is the definition of "business" becomes murky when it comes to online services and SaaS companies. Does servicing an HTTP request that appears to come from a sanctioned country (based on unreliable GeoIP data) actually count as "business" for sanctions purposes?
Exactly. Here, a software engineer is mostly just another low middle class profession, not even the upper middle. US immigration is hard enough, otherwise half of European software engineers would have moved to the Valley already.

(And no, "cheap medicine" and "cheap education" do not exactly cover the difference, at least for software engineers).
Crypto is the 'least good' solution for people in regimes with crap currency.

There are at least a dozen 'very solid' currencies that people anywhere should be able to transact in, notably the USD.

All of which you 'own'.

If there are helpful things they can do, 'digital' currencies, especially USD, (one that is not mess) would be imminently useful.

If you thought the 'petro dollar' was a big thing wait until the 'digital dollar' and entire economies de facto switch to USD.
What are the possibilities of an Android app. Qt says it works on Android but not sure. A C++ dev here. How much of an effort would it be to port it to Android or do you see any blockers?
Please don't take HN threads on flamewar tangents.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32848104.
And the we are going to ban entertainment all together, only then we can produce more wealth for shareholders :)
Google funds Mozilla for plausible deniability when regulators come knocking to talk about competition. They lose that if they start dictating functionality to forks and vassals.
I try to solve whatever immediate non critical issue I’ve got. ie some digital glue in my life.

To me the real worldness of that > clever technical scenarios
Selling an item without contacting the tax authority's internet server and processing the transaction is illegal in my country, and others in Europe.

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

If you want to sell anything to anyone, and you're in the VAT system, you have to be online at all times.
I concede with this and your earlier point, you don't need a blockchain to build a new banking system. The current banking system is evidence of that: there is no blockchain needed when you ask your bank sends your funds to another bank.

But if you want to build a system that is not wholly dependent on "banks" and centralized actors securing consensus of financial transactions - which is effectively Proof of Authority - you end up having to look at alternative consensus mechanisms like Proof of Work or Proof of Stake.

The same logic applies to something like game assets. People buy and sell game assets already without a blockchain, but they do so only through centralized custodians and intermediaries.
Sorry, that is poor application of the scientific method. The blogger - and you - have made hypotheses, and conclude (the page:) "How can anyone view this chart as evidence of anything except - at best - complete vaccine failure?" and (you:) "Clearly the shots don’t work as they were supposed to.". You've concluded these things because emotionally that's what you want to happen, because (I'll assume) you're afraid[1] of the vaccine.

From 1 screenshot graph! Is that all the data you need to draw your conclusions? Is the graph even real, or is a graph from a random blog good enough because it supports your viewpoint? (Let's be honest, "both sides" have this deficiency; "This PNG supports my viewpoint, I'm right!"). Let's see the vax rates (to me the page is trying to trick people by presenting "Over 95% are vaccinated" but that's for people over the age 50. Let's see the rate of "returning to normal" and partying and mingling by people who think since they were vaxxed 6 months ago they were safe.

> And they are preventing people from being born. Birth rates are way down in mRNA injected countries.

Oooh... it must be the vaccine! How about the fact that there's been economic instability since the pandemic? Nah: mRNA introduced, birth rates down, must be mRNA!

Look, birth rates have been down since 2007, oh, must be Bill Gates' time machine: https://www.aei.org/economics/the-reasons-for-americas-birth...

Sorry if you're insulted, but geez, either this comment slaps some sense into you (here I am fighting against a windmill) that you're an idjit who needs to be more scientific about his way of thinking, or you're just going to reaffirm your beliefs, because it's more comforting to think that you have a clue and everyone else are the idjits[2]. A toast to that!

[1] Yeah TBH it's a foreign substance, I don't know what liquid they injected into me, at the end of the day I had my faith in the scientists making and checking the vaccine, just like we all put faith that the burger we're eating have been checked properly - by whoever is in charge for checking those things - for mad cow and other diseases.

[2] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/27/why-facts-dont... - Yes, arguably your "facts" won't change the minds of "I have faith in the vax" people either...
Test Your App with Pseudolocales
Is there a synopsis for those of us without a NYTimes subscription?
We don't consider "leaks the length of a SHA256 hash" to be a valid timing attack in most protocols for similar reasons (i.e. it's public knowledge).

When developers encounter timing attacks in their code, they often invent really dumb ways to side-step the length "leaking".

This might be understandable if it was a MAC then Encrypt protocol with PKCS padding (hello lucky13), but instead this comes up in the context of "validate this HMAC-SHA256 tag for our JWT-like protocol".
Oh man is it finally my time to shine?

I'm the CTO of a startup working on exactly this (pediatric sleeping):

https://www.restfullysleep.com/

Fun fact there are 3 total methods to naturally promote sleep.
But if your card's chip is broken, can't you just get your bank to send out a new one?

Of course I can. But that means I have to stop and take time out of my day to call my bank and dick around with them. And then if the new card comes with a new number (I don't know if it will or not), and/or expiration date (that almost certainly will change), then I have to login to EVERY SINGLE ONE of the places online where I use that card for some kind of automatic payment and change the payment details. I'm extremely loathe to do that, because it's incredibly tedious and painful, and I always miss one anyway and wind up getting scary emails about how my account is about to be closed.

Sure, my hand will probably be forced on this sooner or later. But as it stands, I just haven't cared enough to deal with all of that.
PoS is way more decentralized than PoW, as there are many more home stakers than 'home PoW miners'. Some numbers here https://ethsunshine.com/