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Olphs··on Grammarly Acquires Coda
Seems interesting

For Coda this makes sense to kind of kickstart/boost their AI efforts.

But not immediately clear to me why Grammarly is interested in building their own doc builder tool?

Olphs··on Star Citizen crowdfunding passes $750M
What would "I'm stuff waiting" even mean?
Olphs··on Ask HN: Why doesn't YC comply with GDPR?
It does, if the company has any branch/office/agent or similar in the EU, or if it targets their services/website to EU residents.

What "targets" means exactly in this case I'm not sure, but given that YC actively markets to EU based companies too, I would think that GDPR applies to them as well.

Olphs··on Ask HN: Negative Experiences with Remote and Other Employer of Records (EoR)?
From employee perspective I have been mostly happy with these services.

There has been some minor issues and extra hazzle, but nothing major, and the 2-3x salary compared to local levels certainly helps offset any small issues

Employer wanting to terminate an employee or employer going bankrupt, while maybe not common certainly happens, and it is built-in to their business model. Most of these services do require deposit that covers at least 1-2 months of salary + costs (up to even 6 months of salary), which is meant for these type of cases.

That being said, I do think many of these services are at least partly skirting the laws, or at least threading on a very thin line. As far as I know, most especially EU jurisdictions don't really have exact laws for EOR specifically. In general labor laws do apply though, of which these services sometimes have quite interesting/creative interpretations. But as long as things go well and everyone is happy, I don't think anyone really cares.

Olphs··on Show HN: Open Source TailwindCSS UI Components
Yes, I'm very surprised that this is the top post on HN currently

Still haven't seen an open-source UI kit that would get even close of the original one: https://tailwindui.com/

Olphs··on Ask HN: Has anyone gotten the Iceland 'Long-term visa for remote work'?
Interesting comment. How about people just like different things?

I have heard that Iceland has plenty of stuff to do and various festivals year around. Just because it's not 30+ celsius and sunny everyday doesn't mean that "there is nothing there"

Olphs··on I hacked a BIG prize web game hosted by a popular supermarket chain
Yeah most companies simply don't care, and/or they don't have the processes the address issues like that

They also likely get dozens of similarly looking messages each day from "developing country" "pentesters" for irrelevant issues, so your message could have also ended up with similar looking "spam"

Olphs··on Ask HN: Is OpenAI exposing user data via Google Search?
If you mean the chat.openai.com ones, those just look like SEO experiments. They all follow similar format, and match what's shown on the carousel on the left-hand side of the page
Olphs··on Ask HN: Is OpenAI exposing user data via Google Search?
"Last results" as in the 586,000 one or what?
Olphs··on 9/11 in Realtime
Hmm the times are somehow all messed up, current time shows 4:xx PM, the timeline shows things happening from 2:xx AM, and the controls show 8:xx AM
Olphs··on Tell HN: I-9 Debacle Nationwide
And how did they verify that it was someone other than yourself? Just a checkbox? Or like document upload or something? SSN?
Olphs··on Show HN: Repo with a list of 80 decent companies hiring remotely in Europe
"hiring", checked like 20 companies, and only found one that was actually hiring
Olphs··on Ask HN: How did you earn your first $100 and first $1k online?
It fluctuated month per month, but something between 500k and 2 million
Olphs··on Ask HN: How did you earn your first $100 and first $1k online?
First $100: Ads, mainly Google AdSense

First $1,000: Ads, mainly Google AdSense

Olphs··on Keep the monolith, but split the workloads
Do you think it's good idea to migrate from monolith to microservices before scaling the team?

We are essentially doing this right now, I personally don't think the teams are yet large enough to warrant this migration, but leadership says that we can't scale further before we have microservices. Imo most of the problems could be solved with increased testing and knowledge about the system. The tech also could definitely still scale with just by boosting the hardware and occasional performance passes on slow endpoints/queries.

Olphs··on Finland Becomes a Member of NATO on Tuesday 4 April
> unless they finally cooperate with Germany when it comes to the Nord Stream bombings instead of hiding their findings.

Didn't see that coming

Olphs··on Show HN: GPT Repo Loader – load entire code repos into GPT prompts
My guess is that the training data includes things specifically about the GPT itself and its capabilities, so it would be somewhat correct. But it's also known to just make shit up when it feels like it, so you can't 100% trust it, same as with all other prompts/responses.
Olphs··on LocalBitcoins will discontinue its service
25 million in profit with 22 million in turnover last year. Not sure how that works exactly, but seems like money wasn't an issue at least.

This is all publicly available since the company behind it, is based in Finland

Olphs··on Google to reduce workforce by 12k
If it was the correct decision what responsibility is there to take?
Olphs··on Google to reduce workforce by 12k
What is he taking responsibility for then?
Olphs··on The 'buy now, pay later' bubble is about to burst
They repo your ass, and everything you own
Olphs··on The 'buy now, pay later' bubble is about to burst
Credit cards are used in Europe too, but the credit part not so much, most people pay it in full end of month (or whenever their next bill comes)
Olphs··on Small Teams
It's just couple million a year business, so nothing that extraordinary
Olphs··on Ask HN: Why don't people learning to drive use simulators?
This looks like the only possibly viable simulator, at least what's been linked in the comments
Olphs··on Ask HN: Why don't people learning to drive use simulators?
Looks like a video game, and not effective at all
Olphs··on Ask HN: Why don't people learning to drive use simulators?
Some countries have an option to do part of the learning in simulator, for example in Finland.

But the simulators absolutely suck and in no way represent real driving. The feel is just not the same

Olphs··on Ask HN: Options for back end engineer sick of oncall
>dedicated "production support" team

That's interesting, so if some bug pops up during the weekend they will just revert back? And then that bug gets handled later. Or is there also so rigorous QA process that bugs rarely happen, and it's more like infra issues that the "product support" team can handle on their own?

The interesting part is that I think on-call is not only about infra issues etc., but could also be bugs in the application or some other weird behavior, which I'm assuming the "production support" wouldn't know how to handle. Maybe there is some huge amount of process to handle all that I'm just oblivious of, never having heard of this before?

Olphs··on Google has added ads on both its search page and Chrome://newtab
There is no home icon in Chrome, at least I don't see it. Or is that also some setting?
Olphs··on Help Heroku's free tier is ending
Fly.io would be great, but they don't have an UI, only CLI and their CLI doesn't work on Windows although they say it does
Olphs··on Traffic cameras expose your location through parking apps
Yes technically, as long as you know the license plates, but how often do those vehicles park in a commercial places like that? I don't think they do often enough for this kind of tracking to be useful
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