skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But you can find decent hardware elsewhere, even at lower cost and with better configurability.

The problem is, you pay the same price for a Thinkpad/Elitebook and you get ridiculous gotchas like missing wireless antennas (at most you can find 2x2, if you're lucky). Or the configuration you like doesn't come to your country, or the vendor doesn't allow custom configuration for your country unless you buy 10+, etc.

OTOH, I pay the premium, I get what I configured, with top notch small specs (antennas, wireless chips, etc.). You can't find a spare 40mm SSD for your Elitebook after three years, but Apple will service your device happily.

If you get the said SSD from the vendor, its quadruple the price, so it's Apple's price territory again.

At that price range, there's no advantage in hardware prices between Apple, HP, Lenovo and Dell. They're equally cheap/expensive. So, IMHO, you pay less on the long run for an Apple laptop, which you can use for 7-8 years without problems.
It does sometimes seem like they are designing to impress other designers at talks and conferences, rather than to make users happy. But I respect anyone who develops open source end-user software. To say it is thankless is quite an understatement.
as a communications manager

OMG...this person worked as THE "communication manager" for facebook...everyone knows facebook only has ONE communication manager and she pretty much runs the company...

This is guilt by loose association...Typical NYPOST/Murdoch crap..
Unfortunately, this enables vendors to prevent fair-use account sharing, and it looks like to implement some sort of DRM. My team at a small company used SurveyMonkey and only allowed two devices to login, and we paid for only one user license. However, our position was split into two part-time jobs; hence the pricing would have been unfair. I think your service is a good solution, as long as SaaS providers implement more reasonable licensing models.
Eliminating account sharing does not preclude offering the ability to share seats. Zendesk could very well offer their customers a way to provision users like you a limited account or some other mechanism that allows commenting on a support ticket every now and then. For example, Netflix offers a mechanism to formally invite members of your household to your account for free, which is the scope of "account sharing" that they allow in their TOS.

Either way, it's in Zendesk's and Netflix's best interest to make sure that a given account is used only by the person they were told would use it when the account was purchased, both from a business perspective and a security perspective. How they can address the needs of their customers while enforcing their stated TOS with a mechanism like Keyri is up to them.
I don't see comments that heavily support us gov and try to change topics like the chinese one do. So your sarcasm is false and let's not change the topic here again.
Exponential Ventures announces the acquisition of PyJobs
What are your concerns if you were to do it? Is it purely to take a stance?
Government intelligence agencies don't work with the rich and powerful _directly_. They use intermediaries.

And if you're doing global health work, there are large parts of the world where those are the types of connections that you need.
You'd think that?
Could an App Replace the Police?
There are many places in the United States that have free healthcare, free or reduced price housing, and assistance payments for the poor and sick or injured. These things are paid for with public money through government programs.

Personally I think everyone deserves a certain level of dignity, especially when they're going through hard times. But I've also seen plenty of examples of people who "work the system", which makes it harder to get funding for social welfare programs.
People can accept an unsavory character if he doesnt pretend being nobel.

There’s nothing better than tearing down the better man.
Feynman on reading a sociology paper:

> So I stopped – at random – and read the next sentence very carefully. I can’t remember it precisely, but it was very close to this: “The individual member of the social community often receives his information via visual, symbolic channels.” I went back and forth over it, and translated. You know what it means? “People read.”

https://thedetectiveshandbook.wordpress.com/2018/08/06/feynm...

This is part of a story in the book (Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!) and from the book I understand it happened in the 1950s.
The extradition ruling was that the charges were a valid reason to extradite, but for health concerns the extradition was rejected. The US then appealed the rejection claiming Assange's health could be guaranteed. The appeal does not mention the charges, and the judge will rule based solely on whether the US can show that the previous rejections based on health concerns was improper.

The article is entirely about that appeal, not the entire Assange extradition hearing. The retracted testimony has no bearing on the appeal, so when only writing about the appeal it is one of the many facts about the entire hearing that does not need to be mentioned.

My argument is just that this article discusses one tiny part of the entire process, and the charges are not relevant to that tiny part.
I forgot I was on HN. Before we start discussing white papers on how emotionally gullible consumers of information can be, let's look at the article, shall we?

"There are probably 20,000 or 30,000 people who want to do this, but they can’t get the appointment".

And

"A lot of people who take this drastic step are tech zillionaires: Eric Schmidt, the former Alphabet CEO, has applied to become a citizen of Cyprus."
> Basically the only country in the world that charges taxes on money you make and spend somewhere else

I believe Eritrea does this, too. They don't have as much political power as the US though, so they resort to torturing your remaining family members in the country to get you to comply.
Sidewalk Labs arguably an impactful spinoff
If there is one thing that you should know about Germany, then it is that we do not take flouting the rules lightly (which is incidentally a thing that Mr. Musk seems to be keen on learning the hard way btw;). You see that in effect here (escalated measures after the easy ones (asking to quarantine) did not work). Keep in mind that the health authority ordering a quarantine is not an appeal or something like that. They have got the authority to do so by law. People that do not comply chose to break the law.

The ones that might be most likely to flout the rules are our resident contrarians, I guess. They call themselves "Querdenker" ("lateral thinkers", suggesting that they think/know differently) and are a motley crew of contrarians, Nazis and conspiracy theorists. I guess they are the ones that might actually run into these problems here.
Ah, this comments thread will just be full of ignorants won't it...

Yes, true about local passports, but if I have a German and American passport in Russia, I'd just call the German embassy. Or is it not good enough, America number 1, Germany number 8?[1] BTW in your (correct) scenario, what's the point of owning the American passport?

On the topic of taxes, most countries have tax treaties. If their tax level is 30% in Germany and 5% in the US, they can pay the 5% and fill in a paper for the German tax authorities, and the 5% is discounted.

Maybe they're just people who didn't want to finance an idiocracy with the biggest firepower in the world. But rah rah, 'Murica!

[1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/taiwan-1
A couple of sources from another perspective:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-08-31/why-th...

https://theconversation.com/americans-are-renouncing-us-citi...

And one fun quote:

"Still, all American expats – even those who’ve lived abroad for decades, earn no income in the U.S., and hold no U.S. assets – must submit an annual tax return to the Internal Revenue Service. Now, ever since Congress strengthened anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financial reporting requirements, many have had to hire costly international accounting firms to do their taxes.

The consequences of noncompliance are severe: forfeiting up to 50% of all undeclared assets held overseas."

There may be some "ultra-wealthy" people doing this, but I suspect that they are not the bulk of it by a long way.
Cyprus gives you access to the EU while being a tax haven.

https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/11/9/21547055/eric-schmidt-g...
On Unix Composability
I would be happy to pay taxes if I thought that my tax money was being used well.

I wonder if these mega rich are leaving to avoid paying taxes to a what they view as a mismanaged governmental system because they think they can do a better job of distributing their money and making the world a better place.
Not related, but I pay about 40% income tax plus a 25% value-added tax (VAT) on every purchase.

It's at a good level but my political belief is that this should be higher.
Clearly you're not a programmer.
This is deeply wrong on many levels. Let's start with birds of prey eating other birds. It's not true that there are no other predators / checks on population growth. A lot of animals eat eggs as well. And humans do a pretty good job killing birds with windows.
I'd rather formulate that as privacy is a fundamental concept, but its legal implementation is reactionary.
What's the success rate of treating depression without one?
There are lots of bird hunting predators, mostly larger birds.

Do you think native bird populations would spiral out of control if they weren’t killed by cats? That is definitely not true I am not sure where you would have gotten that idea.
Well it does say that she roughed up the previous alpha male, so presumably she's at least similar in size/strength.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7350469/Bill-Gates-...
Can a citizenship be exchanged? For example you get my Australian passport, I get your American? Neither country loses a taxpayer this way.. ;)
To spellcheck outgoing messaging. To organize press events. To ensure a cohesive message is presented that is accurate to the intentions of the company. To stop execs from saying horrible things (Blizzard-Activision). There is plenty of communications work that doesn't require influence.
I'd like to know: what are your biggest challenges when it comes to community management?

As a community manager myself, I personally know that engagement really is a big problem that brands and businesses face when building a new community or growing an existing one. People are often faced with the challenge of making the online experience more compelling or more engaging. No doubt, you've read hundreds of business articles claiming that content is king. And while that may be true, content can also easily be overlooked if you don't have the right engagement strategy.
Google is always right. Please download Google Chrome to see this site. You have an add blocker. Please disable it to see content (and let Google analyse you). Good luck living in a world without Google.
it's not just about taxes. US Citizens who live overseas can't invest in what are effectively foreign mutual funds (PFIC in IRS parlance). While retirement plans are generally exempted if there's a tax treaty, that doesn't help other forms of money one might get.

Your local government gives your child a grant of money each month to be invested in a choice of funds? You're a US citizen? sorry, you're out of luck, this makes doing taxes effectively very very difficult.
Are you saying that nursing home patients should be moved to live on the street? Where else could they go?
Go look at VAERs more carefully – not what someone on TV told you to believe it says but the actual data and its collection rules. The CDC requests reports of deaths following vaccination, even if there isn’t a suspected connection to the vaccine – they’re not going to want someone who died in a car crash but the whole point here is getting a large amount of data for analysis. The emergency authorization includes unusually broad collection because they’re trying to maximize the odds of seeing a real problem earlier.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/ad...

“FDA requires healthcare providers to report any death after COVID-19 vaccination to VAERS, even if it’s unclear whether the vaccine was the cause. Reports of adverse events to VAERS following vaccination, including deaths, do not necessarily mean that a vaccine caused a health problem. A review of available clinical information, including death certificates, autopsy, and medical records, has not established a causal link to COVID-19 vaccines.”

Now, think about how broadly the vaccines have been given to hundreds of millions of people. Beyond the obvious conclusion that there is very little chance of a hidden serious complication which hadn’t yet manifested at that scale, think about how compressed that is in timing: if you take 100M people and look at that population for 6 months you’re going to see many deaths with or without vaccination. Now, remember that the elderly and other high risk populations were sensibly prioritized, so those rates will be even higher. Anyone looking at the data has to carefully adjust for things like that – it’s not just a query for the number of deaths but seeing whether it’s unusual for the cohort: are 70 year olds with pre-existing conditions dying at a different rate than they used to, not compared to a global rate covering kids to retirees?
In Canada and not being able to open a tax free savings account is a major blow
Connections to certain types of women perhaps, the soliciting of which would get even Gates in trouble?
Foreign banks in nations with treaties with the United States require you to file a special form to the IRS when opening a bank account, furthermore they will report information on your bank account to the US government.
Link to the publisher's page: https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2016.1172766
How does one own/use an iPhone and help mitigate any issues from this? How does one help prevent this kind of sneaky photo crawling? I feel like in order to prevent people from spying on me I have to change _everything_ I do on my phone/computer.
I surely hope so. I was wondering too about non citizens who pay taxes, should they become ones?
It's not called Nerd News.
Greece + Italy golden visas also worth taking a look at.
My first vertical mouse was by Evolulent. Cost like $90 and it was great, but the slip feet wore away, the company made it very difficult to contact them, were sorta rude on the phone, and then said no to free replacement feet. I used slip tape for a while but eventually gave up.

That experience made me not want to buy another from them, so I bought the Anker wired vertical mouse for like $12. It lasted for three years, but the scroll wheel started going. Three years for such a cheap and good mouse was acceptable to me so I bought another, but the scroll wheel on the new one started going in less than a year (I’m not gaming with these things and I take good care of them, I just scroll a lot). To their credit, Anker sent me a free replacement with no hassles.

I still have the free replacement as a backup, but decided maybe it was time to try something fancier again, so I bought a Jellycomb wireless vertical mouse for $30 with a really cool split chassis design. The ergonomics were great, but once again the scroll wheel didn’t last.

My most recent purchase (about six months ago) was a Logitech MX Vertical for $94. The build quality is better than all the others and I like it very much except for one thing: the shape of it and the rubberized surface make my hand a bit hotter than I’d like. I’ve mostly gotten used to it, but it’s noticeable.

It costs 5x what the Anker does. Is it 5x better? No. But it is better, and I wanted something that I (hopefully) can keep for more than a few years. Jury’s still out on that front, though.
Spain is a NATO country involved in many American wars in the past 30 years.

If you oppose US wars and hegemony you should have followed Edward Snowden and moved to a country that actually oppose American influence in the world.
Time is inherently equalitarian, everybody gets the same amount so "I don't have the time" is a way to say "I don't think it's a priority for me and I would rather do something else". Whereas financials can very drastically, so it's much more believable that you are in rough patch and simply can't afford it for objective as opposed to subjective reasons.
Couldn't agree more, sounds like you're in Australia too - I've been here 9 years and am yet to file tax... Interested how bad they will fuck me when I do...
That's what cats do. That's how bird populations are kept in check.

A bird nest has what, 4 or 6 eggs? All those hatchlings are pretty much born to die in the first year. Because next year, the bird population is pretty much the same.

Cats can only catch birds when they are plentiful. When the population is back within bounds, cats find birds hard to find. Its a natural feedback cycle, been around for millions of years.

If the cats didn't do it, then most of those birds would starve the first winter. Is that more kind?

It's nice to feel positive thoughts about birds. But don't let that poison your feelings about cats, who are only doing their job.
My perspective as a hiring manager at a UK based SAAS company is this:

I will and do pay as much as I can afford to secure developers who are actually good at their job. I can't really comment on why they're so hard to find, but my experience is that they really are.

Maybe it's the side effect of there being very few of the kind of developers who could command those SV level salaries in the UK, or maybe they just aren't in the market for my kind of opportunities. It's a hunch that would require more data because I've not hired developers in the US so I don't actually know if there's a quality difference.

Anyway, I'm hiring at the moment.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/benelvin/
Forbidding people would only punish your normal ex-pats.

The billionaires can just dock their yachts in international waters.
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And the buyer would be right.

What if your renovations aren't good enough and the buyer has to spend 1/3 of the buying price to repair your work?

If you want to sell a shithole, at least, be honest about it, you'll do everyone a favor.
Probably Minecraft. Maybe some Call of Duty.

Edit: In the billionaire league you can hire an entire small corporation to look after your interests. Lawyers, PR people, "influencers", security experts - whole offices of full-time employees and contract hires who do nothing but You.

If you're any good at it, you hire people who can hire people who can hire people to get things done covertly by back channels - if necessary.

So getting associated with someone like Epstein certainly is a huge mistake. And not just a personal one. Either Gates knew the risks and personally decided they were manageable, or someone decided that Gates needed some bad advice.

Considering that Gates is now divorced, I suspect the former. But at this distance - who can tell for sure?
I did a quick search for some of the big companies to see who is on their board with a political past.

Apple
- Al Gore (Vice President of the US)
- Ron Sugar (Northrup Grunman)

Google
- Roger Ferguson (Federal Reserve of US)

Facebook
- Robert Kimmett (Department of Treasury)

Facebook Oversight
- Helle Thorning-Smith (PM of Denmark)
- Nick Clegg (Deputy PM of UK)

Salesforce
- Colin Powell (Secretary of State in the US)
- John Roos (Ambassador to Japan from the US)
Only if you're a dev or something, general office workers don't need admin access. Though I'll add pretty much anything legit to our self service installs.
A lot of assumptions.

Maybe people no longer want to live in US and it is wealthy that have it easier to actually go through with this?

Or maybe they actually live somewhere else and don't like paying their taxes TWICE. Almost every country in the world (except US) requires taxes based on residency, not citizenship.

For example, being Pole, if I spend more than 180 days in Sweden, I now owe taxes in Sweden but no longer owe them in Poland. That is because Poland recognizes that, while I am Polish citizen, I actually was Swedish resident during that tax year. And have an agreement with Sweden so that it is clear where I have to pay my taxes.

The US doesn't want to play nice and will only provide you with a little bit of credit for the tax you had to pay in another country. But if you earned a lot, you now have to pay it twice.

I actually know 2 or 3 people that work here in Poland that resigned their US citizenship for exactly this reason. Because IRS will hunt you down and demand your taxes even if you don't set foot in US for decades. It has been a topic in our newspapers couple of years ago when we still looked up to US as better place to live and people would need explanation for why somebody in right mind would want to resign US citizenship in favor of Polish.

I have even heard of a person that had to US citizens as parents but never set foot on US soil, that was hunted by IRS to pay taxes.

It is not like people don't have to pay taxes in other countries, though some have smaller rates. To get better picture you would have to look at where they actually went.
>By most western standards my family teeters on the line between middle and upper middle clas. (...) we are shopping for 4-6 unit buildings within 100km of Barcelona

I'm not sure this is what upper middle, much less middle, class is.

A family that can pay several millions for houses abroad just to get a visa to change citizenship is way above middle class, or even upper middle class for that matter.

Pew Research defines middle class: $53,413 - $106,827 year, and upper-middle class: $106,827 - $373,894.
Ah, the same tech liberals who voted for this shithead are now fleeing his proposed tax policy.
Thanks for this super interesting comment. The complexity of life never ceases to boggle the mind.
AccuWeather with Chainlink Why?
I'm not really into crypto or have any idea how chainlink works. But reading some of this article all I keep asking myself is why?
They can sell their data?
User know the data came from their API?

Could some explain to me why this is needed in the first place?
Ethereum Launches London Hardfork Including EIP-1559
Being upset about this is like feeling Roth accounts are unfair.
I find it amusing how the ex president of USA is banned from social media, while Chinese propaganda is left mostly untouched.
Oh wow I missed that, thanks for catching. Given these are Japanese macaques, it looks like typical m/f size difference is more like ~32%, not ~45%, and 10kg puts her larger than the average female, but smaller than the average male. Would be interested in the former alpha males size too, but it's probably safe to assume he was bigger!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_macaque
Book Review: Team Topologies (Inverse Conway Maneuver)
What biblical reference are you alluding to? I'm not sure how its relevant to the question of where the rich who leave the USA go?
Is there a particular reason to reimplement a proprietary FS (a gargantuan task) when FreeBSD already has a world class (cross-platform!) FS in ZFS/OpenZFS? Is there something about Mac apps that rely on HFS+/APFS-specific features?