skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also had a (failed) startup in Germany, with a slightly different perspective. Possibly outdated.

> It still baffles me, that you need to buy your own shares in Germany, in order to receive the “status” and protection of being a fully incorporated company.

It depends on how you read it, but it isn't true that you have to put in 25.000 in cash on the table. A GmbH is a Limited, which needs to have a value of at least 25.000EUR, so anyone trading with you knows, you are at least good for that amount.

The easiest way is to put the money in cash into the account of the company.

But it can also be done via transferring the ownership of either tangible or intangible assets into the company. The problem here is, especially with software, that the evaluation of assets is not for free and difficult.

> Now, you don’t need to convert the UG to a GmbH but if you want to be taken seriously in Germany by customers and investors, it can be a huge factor doing business. For our investor, it was a must-have.

The feedback I got from institutional investors was the following:

- If you are not willing to put down 25k, while asking for millions, it doesn't send much of signal of confidence in your proposal from your side.

Maybe it is a matter of German risk averseness, but I think it is reasonable, especially paired with the next advice:

- You will take a top level management position in your new company, your salary should reflect that. You have to strike a balance of not asking too much (you are after all a startup), but also not asking enough (you need to know the market value of your position). But chances are, the increase in your salary by your "promotion" should pay your initial investment in two years time.

In Germany, composition is much more salary based.

> I don’t know what to tell you, other than this process can take up to 3–4 weeks to get finished. Even most challenger banks (neo banks) are not really faster.

> How do I know? We’ve incorporated another holding company UG and wanted to use a Berlin based challenger bank — it took us almost a month to get done.

> Choose your bank provider wisely or at least switch early. We went with a 0$/month neo bank and it was horrible.

Yeah, we went with a traditional physical bank. Costs a fair bit more than 0€/month, but it took a couple of days, maybe?

> A mail popped up along the lines of: “We would like to do a 10 minute interview in Mountain View with you. We compensate your travel expenses”

And I think, that is the most striking difference in culture between the US (or at least SV) and Germany.
Those guys where trying to safe a couple (granted couple of thousands) Euros, and a couple of Euros per month for the bank, and the investor is paying the travel costs probably coming close to the founding costs for a 10 minute interview.
We are exploring those things. You can do it both ways. Self host storage and let us manage compute. This way all data is in your infrastructure.

We can also have you manage compute this way you can have more control over you customer.

Right now we manage both for simplicity of the user experience.
It may not meet your criteria for non-violent, or I suspect your kids requirement for interest but... you never know.

"Return of the Obra Dinn" has some of the finest game story telling I have ever experienced, the story it told was ok, a good serviceable story, but nothing exceptional. However the way it was told was amazing, I found it a highly satisfying experience.

Made by Lucus Pope who also made "Papers Please"
> If I ever had to have a business for operating in Germany again, I would create an Estonian business. There's no reason that you corporate entity has to be German itself.

A lot of people in Germany founded a British Limited with a captial of 1 Euro. Then came Brexit ...
Does the percentage of ethanol have any effect on the engine?
Elbrus chips had “catastrophically” failed tests
How has Biden's stimulus differed from Trump's?
Is US corn-based ethanol better or worse for the climate than gasoline?
GNOME Text Editor the most polished text editors I ever used for simply doing what a text editor is doing: Simply editing (plain-)text
Jony Ive continues to haunt my ease of getting started dreams.
Ask HN: What is the best jurisdiction for internationally distributed teams?
This question is inspired by: "How I would start my next startup in Germany without a GmbH (2020)" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31601638)

Say you want to set up a startup and the founders live in Germany, the US, Australia and Singapore. Your team will be fully remote from day one.

You are looking for a solution where

- the company is fully operational within days or weeks and can be set up without all founders having to come together in person

- day to day business can managed remotely (e.g. together with local tax advisor / lawyer)

- the jurisdiction has a solid good reputation

- the legal frameworks are understood and accepted by US / EU investors and VCs

- complying with all requirements around hiring employees is not too much of a burden

- official language of documents is English

- you have a good framework for rewarding employees with equity

Where would you incorporate and why?

I've looked into the US (obviously..), UK, Cayman (I know YC allows Cayman legal entities), Hong Kong, Cyprus etc. and see at lot of pros and cons for each option.

If you've gone through the process, can you share some insights and whether you'd do it again this way?
"The fuel consumes more than 40% of the nation’s corn supply"

Good thing we're not approaching global famine.
I can't believe nobody else has mentioned It Takes Two. It's one of the most imaginative games I have ever played, and my kids and I had a fantastic time playing it. Excellent story, creative mechanics, and teamwork is required through the whole game.
One issue is that a general visualization tool might have have a lot of problems jumping from a codebase in language X to a codebase in language Y (let alone a mixed codebase). MS seems to have this Code Map tool but it looks like it's for C# / VB mainly, with some C++ support.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/modeling/map-d...

In many cases it might really be faster and easier to just diagram things out with a pad of paper and a pencil compared to setting up a tool like this and getting all the parts working correctly without any bugs.

That said, a virtual reality 3D tool for visualizing code base dependencies, internal structure, what parts call what other parts, internal exception handling etc. would be pretty cool. Maybe it's an area where AI machine learning could do something.
If an ageing population has increased health span, they will also be able to work and contribute longer. "Population growth has declined mainly due to the abrupt decline in the global total fertility rate, from 5.0 in 1960 to 2.3 in 2020. The decline in the total fertility rate has occurred in every region of the world and is a result of a process known as demographic transition." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_decline
I'm so irritated with Spotify. Deezer is a bit better, but not a hell of a lot. I was a CD buyer and music pirate for a very long time, and while music streaming has helped me find a lot of new music, it has come with many frustrations as well. The biggest problem is the slow slide from convenience into a pre-packaged, curated experience, leveraging the audience for extra revenue. I know it's inevitable when companies need to maintain constant growth, but I can't help but get a little angry when I'm paying for a service, and I'm STILL the product to be sold for advertising dollars. The old adage of "if you aren't paying for it, you are the product" doesn't apply anymore. It's now basically "If it is a service, you are the product".

You can't customize any of these home screens. You can't tell them to STOP SHOWING ME PODCASTS I DON'T LISTEN TO PODCASTS. You can't reset your listening profile to get back to a vanilla experience (especially applicable if you use your account for multiple different things. I don't listen to the same music while working as I do while working out, or actual "just sit-and-listen to music" sessions, and I also use music for D&D sessions, so all my suggested music ends up being a terrible mishmash. Spotify's suggestion here is to pay for multiple accounts.

Even the AI and suggested music is wearing thin. Both Spotify and Deezer just give me the same exact tracks constantly, 99% of it is very mainstream, well-known stuff, and I haven't discovered any new music in over a month, despite listening for at least 4 hours a day. I kind of want to go back to just pirating everything again. It's actually pathetic that these top-of-the-line services offer less flexibility, power, and control than just pirating music and sticking it on your PMP did 15 years ago. It's sad.

At least Bandcamp is still a thing, but then I've got an annoying library split. I can't mix my bought Bandcamp tracks in with Deezer or Spotify.

Why are these the options? Pay out the nose for music (if you're a serious listener, $150 gets you 10 albums, which I can get through in three days). Be a criminal. Pay for a subscription that gives you no control and sells you to advertisers.
Were you American and immigrated?
Firefox appears to support[0] name constraints[1] in CA certificates. It even appears to have code that supports adding further constraints to the root certificates after they were imported, but that doesn't seem to be exposed anywhere in the UI.

[0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=856060
[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5280#section-4.2.1....
Foobar2k and Lidarr is where it's at. I went full circle back to sailing the seven seas because streaming services got so bloated and user-friendly in my opinion.
If you never make any profit, you don't need to set aside 25 % of your profits.
> Would you rather they parse all your private communications for advertising profile purposes and keep it free-as-in-Facebook?

Is this sarcasm? You know they literally do this, right?

And even if they didn't, not doing it doesn't give them a pass to promise people something and then take it back.
> The fuel consumes more than 40% of the nation’s corn supply

I know life's not so simple, but annoys me to hear this along side news blurbs about "massive food shortages coming!".
I don't understand fearing immortality and wanting to actually get old. It's a common theme in silly trite science fiction but never seen a good argument for why it's something to fear.
Different corn.
You can of course go verify it. Or you could trust the many many people who have.

Or you can spread FUD on the internet…
This is more or less about TF2. The game is still insanely popular but it has a huge bot and hacking problem ongoing for _years_. But Valve doesn't care about it or more like if you know how Valve works no one is working it (all aboard the Steam Deck!). They made a tweet [0] recently that they "hear" the community but that's all after all those years.

Anyways the dedicated community made a TF2 mod which is basically rolling back to the game almost into its original form [1]. It is however based on previously leaked source code so most likely not legal at all. Valve asked to disable downloads and the mod creators did however recently Valve stopped any communication (besides that tweet) so they just allowed downloads again [2].

And the latest step in the back and forth is this news about disabling source code access.

Valve is a huge mess as we seen it here on HN too https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31218309

0, https://twitter.com/TeamFortress/status/1529970640224018433

1, https://tf2classic.com/

2, https://tf2classic.com/?id=5380
I think it would be the opposite. Someone who is taller than you would on average look more like their head is tilted up from your perspective, and vice versa for someone shorter than you.
Are those three circles in the menu for dark/light mode? Did they devote that much prime real estate to switching between color scheme?
If you're interested, you may wish to lookup the "Silurian hypothesis, " "drake equation," and "kardeshev scale."
PJW's Face(2018)
The Art of Deception – Training for a new generation of online covert operations
Most point and click adventure games fit the bill, assuming you are okay with occasional slapstick or cartoon violence when solving a puzzle. Some of the more serious adventure games feature murder/detective storylines, which may or may not work for you.

Walking sims also rarely feature you, the player character, committing acts of violence, although - again - they often they take place in an environment where violence is a backdrop. I think this happens in a lot of games, because violence is an easy way of creating drama. However, I generally prefer these games that feature a violent backdrop to games where you are actually doing the violence, because they tend to address it in a way that better reflects how we deal with trauma in real life.

Some suggestions: Deponia series, Dreamfall series, Life is Strange series, Edna and Harvey series, The Inner World series, Nelly Cootalot series, Space Pilgrim series, Blackwell series, The Journey Down, Anna's Quest, Jenny LeClue, Sumatra: Fate of Yandi, Milkmaid of the Milky Way, Firewatch, Tacoma, Draugen, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture... There are tons of games like this. Some of these might have a death or two along the way that you might click into or through, but none of them felt like gratuitously violent games per se, at least nothing close to shooters and RPGs.
As someone who also has fought a lot with the German bureaucracy, I'd tend to use another jurisdiction in the future as well.

I'd be more than interested in hearing your opinions about what the best jurisdiction for internationally distributed teams actually is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31620700
Time heals mental scars.
Local development, usually.
I agree. I'd love to see European institutions to begin using European software and infrastructure. I feel like we have lots of puzzle pieces already, I'd add ONLYOFFICE to the mix, which would be very important to replace Google Drive / Docs / Sheets or Microsoft 365. They even have a free personal tier to test the waters.
And I would assume this trust comes, partly, from a 25k EUR "real business" bar.
Older car hoses can degrade faster from it. You also get less power per liter with the blend but overall no.
Still occupies acreage that could be used to grow something else.
I'd prefer sanctions where it hurts them more than it hurts us. Especially, since the current ukranian conflict is no different than eg the war in afghanistan, syria, libya, and as putin says it, also kosovo/yugoslavia. Those were all the wars for US power, control and mass murder of all those people, and we silently supported all those wars, even sent our own soldiers to fight there.
It’s the increase per year. Prices can go up, say 5x in a year, which would be 500%. Sometimes inflation hits millions of percent.
I really enjoyed The Long Dark. There is some violence and it has some adult (non sexual) themes, but it’s not primarily about fighting, it’s a wilderness survival game.

I played it for months and am anxiously awaiting the last chapter.

It’s rich, engaging, and the visuals are gorgeous.
“Only 1 percent of all corn grown in this country is eaten by humans. The rest is No. 2 yellow field corn, which is indigestible to humans and used in animal feed, food supplements and ethanol.“

https://www.wired.com/2011/06/five-ethanol-myths-busted-2/
To go further, it seems to make things look 'cleaner' from a 'look at this screenshot' standpoint, and I understand that. But, this design style has an interaction load which makes it harder to use day to day, and I bet adds little 'microstresses' to users, even if they can't quite put their finger on any one 'thing'.

"Looks cleaner" shouldn't have to be the mortal enemy of "easier to use", but it seems that too often things come down on one side or the other.
I think it's less buggy than Spotify.
Hetzner for the win
American, I have a decade on you. Grew up in the rural south east, 50+ minute school bus ride every day being bussed into the inner city to maintain the 40% white ratio. (Without bussing and zoning, the school would have been more like 5% white, or less.)

Families eating dinner together was the norm, and this was not a rich area.

Today this is probably less the case, the past 25 years have not been kind to the area. Loss of opportunity and rampant meth abuse has caused a lot of issues.
I suppose if you tried hard enough you could process ethanol corn into food, but it wouldn't be that healthy I'd imagine. You can't really change crops mid season very easily or cost effectively. I suppose we could lament the opportunity cost of not planting human food instead, but the fields and farms may not be setup in terms of fertilizer and seed to handle that change in crop.
It's not. We eat the corn, just in different forms. The vast majority of corn is used as feedstock, or to produce HFCS. This is the same corn used to make ethanol.

Also, the inputs (fertilizer, etc) are shared across the entire agri sector.
Great. Not the OPs point.
>Theatre is made to be enjoyed live sharing a space with the comedians. It’s a very different experience compared to watching a movie adaptation of it.

I don't really disagree although going to see a theater production is a higher bar than watching a movie--and, unless it's a good professional production, a good version on film will probably be better quality.

In any case, it's written for watching although of course someone may want to read an annotated version for deeper study.
What you said makes sense, thank you!
You've used a lot of value-laden words here (dodgy, magical) and made a lot of meta-claims about how bad this kind of thinking is, but I don't think you've shown any actual fallacy in the person's thinking.

These folks are saying they see an opportunity to save a life at very low risk to themselves. I don't see the specific problem with this reasoning. Yes, the donation is not guaranteed to save a life and everyone still dies, but these are not compelling objections from a starting point of 1 in 4,000.
I agree that they should, the story is that they can. Err, not a story, it’s a known fact that they don’t encrypt communication.
Does anyone know if having a Gewerbe would be just as difficult to transition to a C-Corp?

The whole process of registering a UG or GmbH is ... not so straightforward while registering a Gewerbe (especially if using the Kleingewerberegelung) sounds like a good starting point. Not sure if you can raise money that way though.
I work for onWater Fly Fishing. Good maps can definitely be tricky to make and manage. We are building hand-curated fly fishing maps to make it easier for anglers to plan trips, view property boundaries, understand regulations, and stay on top of changing conditions. https://onwaterapp.com/subscribe/Will-Moore
Tax shelters would be my initial guess.
Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31438659 ("The Coming Food Catastrophe (economist.com)", 597 comments)

- "There is scope for substitution. About 10% of all grains are used to make biofuel; and 18% of vegetable oils go to biodiesel. Finland and Croatia have weakened mandates that require petrol to include fuel from crops. Others should follow their lead."
> The US credit system is all kinds of fucked up. I’m glad I don’t have to deal with it anymore.

There is a law requiring the removal of debts over 7 years old. The only “report” that it would stay on is with an internal report with the specific bank.
What would suck is a 1hr long puzzle forcing you to listen to a lecture and if you misclick at any point being forced to restart the whole hour

Yes, truly that WOULD suck
Embraced or been forced into it? If you want to do long term planning and design, good luck. Everyone wants to continuously change their mind on what they want/need and have the software react yet they also somehow assume this approach creates well defined systems when it does quite the opposite. Adaptation can still create reliable and well defined systems but the rate of adaptation needs to be reasonable. In agile that simply isn't the case, it's just a way to pass consumer demand and responsibility for meeting that demand right down to developers while arbitrarily placing budgetary and time constraints around that process. Development teams are often acting as small businesses anymore with similar risks but less rewards with a middle men sitting between them and the consumer, unless you work at a large tech company where that's still a little bit insulated although not entirely when product lines are killed off.

Ultimately, you just create and endless amount of complex work that keeps developers continuously busy. On the bright side there's a never ending amount of tedious work wrestling systems back into some manageable form, on the downside that work is miserable, in my opinion because much of it can be removed whth proper planning. At some point, expectations eventually meet reality no matter how many developers management burns through, at some point it's clearly not an issue with technology, it's an issue with approach and project management. By that time the organization has had enough turnover in those above and below those pushing agile that those issues too can be hand waived away and the cycle repeats.
Not too familiar with C++, but what is "what people write c++ nowadays" that deals with this?
I've always fancied japanese style pixel art. I still remember playing megaman x and it hasn't aged a bit. Or even simpler ones like super mario world or the last few pixel based pokemon games.

I remember looking for tutorials for this style, but ended up copying sprites and trying to understand why they such and such decisions. Interestingly enough, I find it harder to recreate pokemon style sprites because they're so abstract and yet a single pixel can make or break it. I know this is a bit off topic, but would love to know if there are any resources for this.
Excellent…
https://static3.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/...
Topical: https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/us-corn-based-e...
You’re agreeing with me.

“Only 1 percent of all corn grown in this country is eaten by humans. The rest is No. 2 yellow field corn, which is indigestible to humans and used in animal feed, food supplements and ethanol.“

https://www.wired.com/2011/06/five-ethanol-myths-busted-2/
How does podman work with giving native access to resources? Like on a raspberry pi with docker you need to tell docker it has the ability to access /sys for the GPIO pins and for I2C etc. does podman have this too?
It’s not a problem, it’s just directly contrary to Telegram’s and Telegram’s supporters’ previously stated privacy/security arguments.
Use the web interface. With Adblock you can play any song and play entire albums, in order, for free.
The "comparing royalty payouts" talking point needs to die.

Read this article to learn how $ payouts per stream are determined: https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2022/02/music-streaming-real...

It's all pro-rated. 52% of Apple Music revenues go to labels, by contract; Spotify is around the same. Royalties are just revenues divided by # of streams (simplification).

Spotify's free users give lower royalty rates per stream, and Premium users give higher ones. If Spotify users like rap more than AM users, then rap will have higher rates on Spotify than Apple Music, since a larger proportion of revenue will go to the same amount of rap songs.

If Apple Music is more painful to use than Spotify, or has worse discoverability, then people won't listen to as many songs (or won't leave it on for 8h as background noise) as with Spotify, and royalties will be higher per stream than Spotify. The higher royalties don't make up for the lower # of streams since discoverability benefits small artists.
Amazing. Nothing you just said was true.