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Innovation doesn't stop once you manage to make something fly. Aerodynamics simulations, science of materials, engine design or manufacturing innovation like metal 3D printing are some of the areas that can completely revolutionize how we look at previous problems.
most countries have some kind of "small business" type entity that the employee can create and you are left to deal with Data protection only. It's a B2B relationship.
" There is always an easy solution to every human problem—neat plausible and wrong."

The concept of evolution by natural selection is so powerful because it does away with design as a source of improvement. Yet nearly two centuries after it was formulated clearly, we still believe socioeconomic domains to be exempt of this process. Every crypto bro thinks they can overrule half a millennium of financial markets evolution with a neat new blockchain token. As it is often said, they just end up speedrunning the history of monetary instruments.
came here to say this. my people
This all plays out in the USA.
a lot of people in the last 15 or so years felt strongly that writing javascript was not "real programming", and this facilitated the birth of a thousand solutions to avoid writing it
Here's code: https://pastebin.com/LEzbz4NN

Basically youtube sends ads data in a window.ytInitialPlayerResponse variable. My extension loads before and intercepts this variable with proxy to prevent setting of window.ytInitialPlayerResponse.adPlacements field.

When I was writing this code, I looked into ublock origin filters, so this idea or may be even code could have been borrowed there, I don't really remember.

I also override JSON.parse and Response.json functions, because youtube can also send ad data with AJAX. One of those might be unnecessary, I'm not really sure.
Previous discussion from the time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33058889

tbf I don't know poker but it looked like an unpleasant, bullying response from a bad loser from the outside with very poor visuals considering the power dynamics.
Replace the resistor of the LED with 0Ohm and switch the LED on. Nice animation :)
Sure but that's hiring contractors and wasn't how I read the question.
It's true, and that's how many companies do it. But in fact it is illegal to hire a person as a contractor when they are de facto an employee in many countries...
Since it is tidally locked around a low mass star, axial tilt should be near 0 and seasons should not exist [1]. Tidally locked also means much higher temperature than the estimated average (231K or -42C for the hotter one) on the sunny side and much lower ones on the dark side.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_tilt#Extrasolar_planets
Same, even if the offer was "we need to send a live human to Mars to see how he'll die, to improve the next one". My kids would all get kisses and I'm off to die en route to Mars, no regrets.
> We somehow mysteriously managed to have expiration dates on food too, despite our distance from Brussels

A large part of the world adopted such rules after the Eu implemented them. The Eu is seen as the leader and standard in these things. Eu implemented consumer protections, everyone else in OECD also did. Eu implemented EUVAT, OECD countries are also doing it. Also various US states. Eu implemented GDPR, and suddenly from Brazil to US every other country or state has their own GDPR.

Now the Eu has its digital gatekeepers law. Watch how long will it take for other OECD countries to adopt similar laws.

> Reflexively attacking people whose views you know very little

Sorry but we are on public internet. We dont have the time to sit and get to know people. If you are talking like the people from a certain group, then its normal that people respond to you as if you were from that group.

Moreover, the culture that people grow up in affects their perspective greatly. Not surprisingly, having grown in an Anglosaxon country seems to have shaped your perspective too.
>There is a video of a stalker that followed him from the airport. That is not enough?

There's video of somebody in a car, hardly proof.
You're right.

> It definitely adds risk

From other comments such as badpun's [0] and ohadron's [1], along with yours, it looks like this is all boiling down to risk + unknowns vs reward.

I wonder if we can make the unknown unknowns easier to manage so that it mitigates the risks involved somehow.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33997059
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33997049
Could it be that, given that other tech companies (and that includes giants), are laying off quite a bit, it's just too risky to quit and it's better to just play for time ?

I mean if I had the choice between $10k per month or $0 for the next few months during a recession, I'd bite my tongue and stay with the bad guy for as long as possible.
Sure, but that doesn’t seem to square with the topic at hand - “why does an infinite truth and lies machine feel less trustworthy than another human”. It just isn’t a question that needs a high degree of abstraction to respond to.
I believe they maintain a legal entity in countries they're operating in.

I was a "Deel employee" and they operated through the same name.
> especially for the short contract like 3-6 months, easily could be around x2.5 comparing to hiring fulltime

Yes, when you hire people on short time contracts they quite naturally try to get paid enough to survive the gap until next contract, which makes the hour costs higher.
I thought this was about following his private jet, not his car, or did I miss something?
> I can't imagine any scenarios where these cars get in accidents that a human would have certainly avoided.

If you follow the events with self-driving accidents, most of them are nonsensical crashes that no human would ever have done.
We use Deel and have employees and contractors in 9 timezones. We are a fully distributed team of 23 people. Deel has been a lifesaver in terms of abstracting away a lot of the compliance and payroll issues. I am a huge proponent.

Deel owns most of its entities in its 150+ countries (it used to be less, but they have built out there network a lot in the past year or so).

$599 is not a bad rate, considering all of the overhead to setting up an entity, benefits, and hiring a regional manager than can deal with all the local stuff. You have to get to a good 15-20 people in a specific country before it makes sense to switch to your own entity.

EDIT: One thing that Deel does _not_ solve is visa sponsorships. They only do this very rarely AFAIK.
There could be some NPM packages where the readme is “Don’t use this. This is an empty lib that only outputs this sentence. Use the XYZ api to do this instead, with docs found at: https:// …”
You list major barriers around legal presence (the cost of deel) and compliance, what more do you want?

Are you setting yourself up as a local company and just selling yourself as a consulting firm (or using an umbrella firm), or are you an actual employee?

Are there any tariffs in engaging your firm? OK if you're remote in Germany and working for a Canadian that's probably OK, but if you are based in Cuba or Iran would that be a problem.

Lets say you incorporate in Delaware (or work for one based there), does the firm fully outsource the risk to that consultanting firm, or is this like if I employ a contractor who then pays a bribe I'm still liable.

Is that firm large enough and trusted enough (Cognizant, Accenture, Infosys etc) to take that risk?

What if you live in North Korea? Or China? Does an employer want that risk that the government will be able to interfere?

OK you might think that's OK, but how about Kablankistan? Are you confident they are free from pressures from locals (perhaps who are working for China/Russia/Your Competitor) in the same way someone working in the UK or Canada is?

How about Australia, where the government can compel your employee to insert a backdoor into your product.

On the other hand you claim that compensation scale is important, but surely if the work is being done the local compensation doesn't matter. People get paid massive variations for nominally doing the same job even in the same office.

The value proposition that US tech workers (in office and remote) have is they are literally 100 times better than a worker in a code factory in India. That's either right - in which case it doesn't matter if the worker is working remotely from Oregon or from India (setting aside the timezone issue you already discounted and the legal and risk issues mentioned above), as long as the value you're getting is enough.

If I have two identical candidates who will do the job just as well, it surely doesn't matter if they live in NYC or Buffalo (or other factors aside in NYC or Naples), I'd pay the necessary compensation to get one of them to work for me and keep them happy so they don't leave.
You sort the rules out via contract enforcable in whatever negotiated jurisdiction (yours or theirs). You send payment via Swift. Be mindful of USA sanctioned countries like Iran.
I think I'm going off on a tangent here as I'm seeing it from a digital nomad view, but it's worth saying.

Find a third party contractor that looks the other way, not caring where you are physically as long as you have an 'in country address and bank'. They take a percentage, and you can work remotely from where ever you like. If you don't have a bank or address in the same country as your employer things get more difficult.
Wow thanks. I'll try that when I can to avoid having random extensions inject scripts. How would you exclude a website for this if it doesn't work properly, especially with blur and focus?
I did the port of Paul's sim so that it runs natively in the browser instead of needing a Java plug-in (remember them) and made various other contributions.

I haven't contributed for a couple of years, but Paul still actively maintains it.

Do you have specific ideas on what would be changed to "revitalize" it? I agree the UI is kind of basic (it could do with a pallet of common components), but I still like the productivity of it.
I don't think high stakes poker players would reveal their actual strategies, that would be a pretty dumb move.
> "If you don't want your kid to be stalked, and the car driving them assaulted, surround them with bodyguards 24/7 or stop being famous"

The only defense against stalkers is to avoid being stalked or to physically prevent them from stalking you. What is your solution?
Autosteer: I haven't tried the competition; Tesla's is pretty great on the highway, but not when there is roadwork or in cities where the roads will have unexpected swerves (e.g. with cars parked in the road, or blockades).

Cruise-control: In heavy traffic, I don't use it. I like to contribute towards reducing congestion, and the cruise-control accellerates too much at once, causing lumps. But for non-heavy traffic it's pretty great. The "braking for things that don't even exist" is a separate concern, IMO.

Ultrasonic, radar: Yeah, I'm disappointed here.

Rain-sensing wipers: It actually has that, and they do sort of work. What's annoying is, apparently in Model Y, you can't disable automatic wipers if you're on autosteer. So when you're on a very regular stretch of road, and the rain-sensing wipers think it's raining and it's not, you can either choose between autosteer + wiping a dry windshield at the lowest frequency, or driving manually.

Automatic high beams: They work pretty good in my experience.

Carplay: I get that Apple wants to be my car's operating system. It may seem great, but I'd prefer if my devices got along without total platform dominance from one party.
Ha! I guess I should've predicted a "couple days" instead of a "couple years". Still, I hope people now realize that "failure" to indict immediately is not the same as failure to indict.
> Tracking the movements of wealthy targets in real time has zero value in terms of political freedoms

I mentioned factual disagreement, and those still exist. Without conceding any of those, this is our moral and philosophical disagreement. I don’t think the power of the state should bar all speech that you personally decide has 0 political value.

I think the first amendment rightly tolerates speech, even speech that many people strongly disagree with. I think the government should be extremely hesitant about telling people they can’t speak because their words have “zero political value”.

And I would vigorously oppose a party who is attempting to use the government to punish someone for speaking.

Look, if Elon Musk brings an action that alleges very clear defamation, or if he shows that Sweeney was actively inciting harassment I’d consider otherwise. But if the legal action is only for the actions publicly alleged (posting flight information), that’s simply protected speech by the first amendment. A lawsuit to suppress clearly protected speech is legal thuggery, and I would vigorously oppose that lawsuit.

In much the same way I’ve donated to the ACLU who has stood up for the rights of people I despise to speak.
> I was compelled to ask chatgpt to write a letter for me, complaining that they never let me in on the (supposedly) profitable deals.

Why? And why were you "compelled" to post it in a comment?

I don't think the ChatGPT output part of your comment contributes anything to the discussion.
We are trying to do it, and the single worst blocker is social security. In most countries you have to deduct social security and healthcare from the paycheck, but the setup is different for each country, and often doesn't work at all without a legal entity in that country.

Of course you can outsource that (so called employers of record) or hire people with freelancer contracts. But just hiring locally is much easier
What? In theory, the bankruptcy team are the "good guys" because they are working on behalf of the creditors, not because they are at odds with SBF. SBF is who put SBF in the position of being at odds with customers.
How would you stress test your own networks outside DDOS services?

Aus had a problem with the census site where everyone logged in at 5-6pm on the census date. So like millions at once.

Are there tools to stress test and build graphs about responsive times and such?
I'd say there is a good chance they can claw back some of the endorsement money. A celebrity endorser is more than just some vendor, it is someone that is lending credence to the scam either wittingly or unwittingly.
As much as possible can stop short of DNS names. My native langues doesn't use a Latin (or Latin based) script and think that it is very easy to learn to type and read (but not pronounce) names written in Latin script. It doesn't require learning English as a language.

Also with a push from Google (and Firefox too) most users no longer type URLs - they enter a search query and go to a site from search result. I don't like this trend but site names become increasingly invisible for users.
Concorde used afterburners for take-off and while transitioning to supersonic, then it cruised at Mach 2 without afterburners.

The thing with Boom is that they are saying "we are doing this new great thing", and it's not new, Concorde did it. How are they specifically going to be better than Concorde? Just not using afterburners during taking off? Are they going to be cheaper? How? Just by saying they will?

That's why I understand that people don't care about this technology, because it's nothing new, and there's no proof Boom is doing something radically different that will solve the main problems of supersonic travel.
His aircraft is not in the PIA programme. Which renders his complaints somewhat hollow.
> Also, one thing I'm thinking about now, I think a lot of people in the US are on stimulants (e.g. adderall) whereas I doubt this is really a thing in France.

I've also read about many students in elite (mostly US) universities using stimulants. Presumably many of them also continue using them after graduating. Here in Finland, I've never heard of anyone taking e.g. ADHD medication for performance enhancement.
As a peer comment says, the risk with this is treating a de facto employee as a contractor.

In the UK we have a law called IR35 to prevent disguised employment. If a US company hired a UK based citizen and acted in breach of IR35 then the employer would be liable.

In reality it would be hard for tax authorities to enforce, but I think it would be enough to scare off the employer.
Do you actually read comments before replying?
With our current methods we really only are able to detect rocky planets if they are close to a red dwarf and reasonably big.

It’s a bit like losing your key and looking below the street light because that’s the only place you can see - only that the street is littered with millions of potential keys anyway.
I was waiting for this, but it doesn't mention which version of Perl 5 this is.
These are both objective facts you can verify for yourself.
I think the winnings returning was completely understandable within the frame of a bullied individual caving under the power dynamics that seemed to be at play in this unpleasant situation.
Believing someone should be prosecuted doesn’t facilitate stalking them.
> cat

> pet peeve

nice
Isn't there a big difference between what Australia is doing and those prohibitions?
I think one of the main reasons those went so terribly is that people were already used and/or addicted to drinking/smoking, so of course they continued doing those things illegally. But this policy tries to make sure that people never start smoking, by making it not legally available to every who is now young enough to most likely not have started already. Those who smoke currently can (with this policy) continue doing so legally, so there's less demand for black markets etc.
is out of order processing part of the open spec for RISC-V? or something they added on top?
Declaraoids: Declarative Programming on Steroids
It is fully possible, as I've built such app.

Marketing is tricky, but 2023 looks like a great year for my product.

Working hard for it :) nice to see these kind of talks, it's inspiring
Yeah it seems a bit of a downer, but it’s mostly just noise. How many of us would actually invest money in Boom right now? Basically none. How many of us would short it if we could? Basically none.

The fact that Boom exists at all suggests sufficient optimism about new technology is out there somewhere.
1. Timezone - I think you need a strong documentation + asynchronous work culture. Less pair programming, more Jira.

2. No "human" touch - just make Zoom calls and drink beer.

3. Difficult to figure compensation scale - I wouldn't bother with CoL. just pick a floor and see who you get. You are fishing globally.

4. Lack of legal presence - this matters if you generate sales in the same country that you have contractors. Tax office will prefer a local entity that files taxes. The labor office will probably pressure you to hire contractors as local employees since you have a local entity. Employees may get taxed more brutally than as employees.

5. Compliance & regulations - I guess your ops people should be in home base. and I guess get your devs to develop code using dummy data. I guess if the code touches HIPAA-ish data, remote work does not really work.
Other than "Working time" and "data protection", the rest are actually pretty easy. Just use an employer of record like Remote
True. I think it's a reasonable assumption. But it doesn't matter as I don't see there being much competition between it and solar/wind. The latter will be needed to get us to the stage of being able to do fusion at scale anyway. Fusion is such a huge project, I don't believe it can be done without a well-functioning global network of individually thriving nations, and think dealing with climate change is a necessary prerequisite for that.

In other words, in my view for fusion to have become useful at scale, I think we already must have decarbonised electricity production (with solar/wind/geo etc). If at that stage fusion is cheap enough to give our civilisation a boost, all the better. If not, we'll be in better shape than looks likely now anyway.
This Americanization is another feature the UK has adopted over the last decade or so, it's called "Fleecehold", although often in the UK the residents don't even get to vote for a management company.

In my experience new homes in the UK are well built, but the outsourcing of public space to unregulated uncontrolled private maintenance companies means I won't buy anything post c. 2005 again.
The contract would have to replicate almost the entire contract law of the host country if they wanted to go down this route. It would be very hard to write that contract then keep it up to date.
Ask HN: Which is your most favorite API?
What does it do? Make you money? Solve your crucial pain point?
I've contributed quite a lot to Paul's simulator, including doing the port so it runs natively in the browser.

The photoresistor is just controlled by the slider in the side-bar. It doesn't respond to lights in the circuit. There is an "optocoupler" under "active building blocks" that does connect optically.

I've seen a few requests to add feedback that occurs outside the electrical domain - light is one, but also for mechanical movement (motors that turn generators). But, I pesonally think it's hard to know how to model all these non-electrical interactions in a way that is visually clear and effective.
You're quoting the Wikipedia page, it looks like. Do you think Schulte's former employer is too noble to have people working to "advance their perspectives" on Wikipedia?

For all we know the images are stick figures. For all we know they just made up that he said that. It is exceedingly easy to manufacture something like this, when you control all the sources of information.

If you ever wondered how some people in the west could stay Stalinist after his show trials of dissidents, look in the mirror.
I would say Svelte is fairly minimal and works well with HTML.
If you want even more minimalism then maybe : HTMX, Alpine or Stimulus.

The whole purpose of jQuery is pretty much gone. Huge browser inconsistencies is a thing of the past.
Sour grapes and sexism.
there's valid reasons to have different code points with the same character though. like Russian с and Latin c look identical to me, but fonts might have ligatures or kerning rules that apply to one but not the other.
The procipal bringing dildos and butt plugs for kids to play with literally happened last week. Before you call someone delusional do some basic research.
Arabic looks to me uniquely hard to read but I don't mind learning Thai, Armenian or Georgian script if it would be what almost everyone else is using. Even Hebrew and Hangul looks easier to learn.
Raising my daughter.

Guiding her so that she becomes a kind, good human being.
I believe VanMoof mainly makes e-bikes - I was thinking more of high end carbon fibre road bikes from companies such as Specialized, Giant, Pinarello etc.

Maybe it's a weight-weenie thing as e-bikes are already heavy so adding 100g isn't noticeable (not that I'd be able to notice 100g on an acoustic bike).
More often, its better to hire a contractor, rather than a remote employee, if you are hiring across the world internationally. It's a lot more convenient taking into account tax, payment and not having to match every other employee benefit outside your operations region.