skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure you are correct about the countries the digital nomads are flocking to being pissed about them. Maybe a few locals, but, the government of Costa Rica is encouraging digital nomads because it brings money into the country because these nomads are dining at local restaurants, shopping at local stores, hiring people to clean their house, paying rent etc.. When the average salary in 10k a year in these countries a digital nomad is easily spending enough to create at least one, if not multiple jobs for a local.
I don't violate foreign laws if I buy a goods online from another country.

I don't need to know anything about laws governing manufacturing to purchase a screwdriver made in California. I only need to know my own laws.

Is it legal to import screwdrives in my jurisdiction? Yes.
Can I do this transaction without violating my own sanction laws? Yes

That's it.

Whether the California entity is allowed to sell to me is their problem, not mine.

The same applies for labor. I want to buy foreign labor? I negotiate the price, I get the work, I pay the invoice.

Which laws do I consult? Every potential country-to-country mix in the world?

No, I consult my own laws.

Is it legal to purchase foreign labor/services. Yes.
Can I do this transaction without violating my own sanction laws? Yes

Whether I buy a website or a screwdriver - I do not need to know anything about who I'm buying it from beyond the necessary information to avoid international sanctions.
I don't think wear-and-tear (or even outright damage) from tenants is the big concern. The real danger is someone who truly wrecks your property, doesn't pay rent, in a legal environment where it takes you two years to evict such a person, all the while they might continue to do inflict more damage.

Additional legal protection for renters usually decreases the supply of rentals for this reason, and it's the exact same reason why unemployment rates are higher in countries where employees are very difficult to fire.
Well, it prevents you from communicating with the sort of people who will blithely participate in these sorts of destructive systems.

More seriously, it's like an act of civil disobedience. If everybody acted similarly, we would not have these problems. Most people won't wise up until their kin are personally harmed by one of these massive unaccountable institutions, and until that happens to enough people, you have to recognize that acting in accordance with your principles will not always be the most convenient path through life.
Thank you for finding more!

I guess I was wrong on that part. Interesting that Spiral had greater capacity, I thought the opposite based in some of the sketches - possibly I mixed up sketches of another MiG space plane.

Wish someone manages to one day do a definitive history translated into English
It goes back to the 'government is not a monolithic entity'. Local tax authorities have no problem with it and likely encourage it ( more money flowing around for just about everything ), but there are always beancounters at the top, who think they may be able to extract even more.
I found mrwhosetheboss youtube comparison against the Samsung S22 ultra helpful too. Very interesting how different the approaches are despite both being aimed at top end
How do the tax offices of other countries "target me" exactly? What legal options do they have against a US based company with no business/customer in that country?

They can go after my contractors but then my contractors would just move to another country like Uruguay (which btw is very tax friendly towards remote workers and hardly charges any taxes). Some of my contractors have done exactly that.
I feel like the goalposts of this thread have moved. We've gone from "no, you don't need the internet in your life" to "just don't use certain private entities on the internet".

Which I am going to interpret as "yes, you do need the internet to live your life, and you also have to be either savvy or unremarkable to keep from getting stomped on by private entities."
It's hype - whether or not its also an example of impressive engineering is beside the point. Nobody is suggesting eth devs are bad programmers.
I also learned the hard way to never rely on a single payment processor. It was an expensive lesson. Of course, being thick-headed, I had to learn this lesson twice before it stuck.

Always have at least two payment processors. If you've got a lot of money on the line, get a third lined up, too.
Not all jurisdictions have sales taxes. And sales taxes aren't anywhere close to covering 100% of the budget for a city/state/country.

That foreign money mostly goes to a handful of landlords/Airbnbs and tourist-friendly businesses (which are often foreign owned themselves). That in turn drives up prices of everything for locals – who are seeing no increase in income and moreover have to pay income tax and a ton of other taxes on it, something that digital nomads conveniently skip.

An influx of foreigners and foreign money isn't automatically welcome in a local economy.
Companies aren’t your friends. They exist to maximize what customers will pay in exchange for the minimum effort on their part.
Not... really. Sketch is what is most analogous.
i have an insurer who uses social security numbers as account numbers...and stores them as integers.

the developers obviously did not realize that social security numbers may start with a leading zero. (so can postal codes!)
A machine that spits out one widget per watt is less efficient than a machine that spits out 10 widgets per watt. Even if there is exactly one widget machine in the world, it is always turned on and always draws the same amount of energy, one type of machine would produce more widgets than the other. That machine is more efficient. It is more useful for the same energy input. It's a totally reasonable metric to compare widget-producing machines by!

If the bitcoin network is a transaction-producing machine, the more energy it takes to produce the same number of transactions, the less efficient it is. All else being equal, spending more money and energy for the same result is worse than spending less money and energy.
Thanks for the question. At a high level, vcluster and sandboxes can be used to create environments within k8s. The approach we take with sandboxes is different in that it optimizes these environments for testing in high fidelity and without having to deploy a full isolated copy of the entire application which doesn’t scale well. As I understand it, vcluster shines where isolation is important right down to the k8s control plane and networking, but one would still typically deploy every workload into a vcluster in order to realize a test environment. The scaling considerations that apply to deploying the entire application into a K8s namespace (or real cluster) would also carry over to the use of vcluster.
A request: could you please remove "case" from the font-feature-settings on the root element of https://www.dflex.dev/. It’s wrong (its purpose is to tweak vertical positioning of punctuation to align with all-caps text, which is not the case here), and some fonts (including a couple of the largest font foundries) also have "case" effectively imply `text-transform: uppercase`, and I’m using such a font, so the entire site is inappropriately uppercase for me.

(The rest of the font-feature-settings declaration also doesn’t make much sense: "case" 1, "rlig" 1,"calt" 0: rlig is for other scripts, and calt is a weird thing to turn off. I’d remove the entire declaration.)
> For competition to strengthen a space, it needs to be meaningful competition.

There are meaningful competitors to Adobe's design tools. There are quite a few applications like Figma with a decent amount of traction. The fact they will be receiving an uptick in users will increase their meaningfulness which means Adobe acquiring Figma is not lessening the competition.
Suffering with a very similar situation but from Facebook. This hyper growth companies don't give a shit about customer support. They let their AIs and Machine learning models do all the work, which inevitably flags healthy businesses.

Reminds me of collateral damage and kills in a war.
I can't believe I'm not the only one. Something similar happened to me with one of their iPad painting apps. They told me it would be completely free for artists. Went to save my files and put them on my computer for printing, only to learn they were locked within the adobe cloud cage of despair
A nice visual showing why roundabouts are usually safer than simple intersections...
https://nextstl.com/wp-content/uploads/9577583353_3c13fe8144...

[the triple pedestrian conflict at each entry threw me at first - but if you consider where the driver is likely looking, it makes sense]
Civilization is really just higher-order consumption of energy per capita.
The catch is that people will notice 51% attacks. If you have enough voting money and fudge transactions, all that money becomes worthless pretty quickly. The more realistic issue is that the big voter gets to decide the direction of the protocol, but again sufficiently screwing things up only leads to their own demise.

It was worse with PoW in theory. Just because you have tons of mining equipment doesn't mean you have a stake in the future of the cryptocurrency.
This story references a comment from yesterday’s HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32842860#32843420
Costa Rica is staring to do this as well.
We've got to learn that this is an inevitable consequence of our appetite for automation and scale.

If your business is important enough that it can't risk falling into the endless hellpit of automated, anonymous, hyperscaled infrastructure, then don't build your business on automated, anonymous, hyperscaled infrastructure.
> great many self storage companies are mom and pop operations that only have one or two locations

Exactly the type of company that should be getting one of those portable card readers that can be easily replaced.

It can't be harder to enter an amount in the device and ask the customer to insert card and type pin than typing numbers or swiping many times, getting signatures, etc.
It puts a computer in my computer? So I can compute while I compute?
I thought the transactions within a block are stored in a Merkle tree, but the blocks themselves are stored as a linked list. So if you wanted to find a particular transaction you'd still have to traverse all the blocks (O(length)) and then inspect each block (O(log(depth))). I have no idea what dominates in verifying a Bitcoin transaction, so maybe in practice the cost of finding a particular block is amortized because you're spending most of your time within a block.

But from the original bitcoin paper[1] I got the impression that to verify any particular transaction you need to traverse the whole list of blocks.

[1]: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
Each of which has it's own set of limitations and watch-outs. I would not use the python dbm interface for anything serious. Ndbm, for example, has a per item value limit that varies between ~1-4k.
But there are tons of rules and laws around payments already, and they are often the reason why providers are so trigger happy and conservative even if it means losing clients. Regulatory requirements (KYC, money laundering, sanctions) usually force them to make those calls, quickly and by design. It's very clear that most financial regulations are customer/client unfriendly, and inherently treat them with distrust.

I'm not saying that's an inherently good or bad thing... But it sure would be hard to fit both customer protections laws and service guarantees while at the same time having laws that explicitly force providers to do the opposite.
So you mean point 2. Then let me repeat my question:

Are you saying kids should not know what they are eating and how it's being produced?
If something is sometimes a number, then it’s not a number. Address numbers in the US are just identifiers that use digits, and sometimes they are derived from some other factor that is a (or multiple!) number.
He's a Fullstack JS developer which is even dumber because he uses React which is basically the defacto JS front end framework.

React is trending heavily away from OOP, it's creators heavily buy into FP, and most of the patterns in react are inspired heavily by FP. Functional components are now the way to go.

ReasonML (a pure FP language) is react as intended and is the northstar of React.

To learn more here is a video from Jordan Walke creator of React (and ReasonML): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fG_lyNuEAw

I recommend parent commenter to learn more about the very tools he himself works with before disparaging FP and himself.
> Next time I build something with Stripe I'm going to test it in production before launching

I'm genuinely curious why you wouldn't have done that anyway? I pretty much always do, precisely so I can experience a full end to end user experience.
How, other than SEO? If you want to share a link to it, you already can.
As central as credit card processing is to many companies, why don’t those businesses maintain relationships with multiple card processors so that if one goes out you have a second ready to step in?
There is currently no tax on wealth in the United States, so there is no tax to avoid on wealth.
When I first saw the AGV2 trains years ago, I thought the nose looked tacky as hell but it looks a lot better with this prototype livery. Good job Alstom/SNCF. It'll never be as nice as the Atlantique EMUs but not bad.

Can you also fix the byzantine booking system while you're at it?
WebAssembly cut Figma’s load time by 3x (2017)
So if Stripe is one of the best "low risk" processors, who is the Stripe of "high risk" payment processors?
Ahh.. but you see. This way there is a cashflow for interim projects and government does not have to wait for you to voluntarily give what you think is fair:P
But for what reason? The styling?
A failing activity I've seen with roundabouts is when there is no physical barrier but instead just a bump in the road that everyone is supposed to go around. In those cases, a LOT of people end up treating the round about like a 4 way intersection with the worst of all world (because you don't know if someone is going to go against the roundabout rules to turn left).

There HAS to be a lump big enough to cause someone to go the right way around.
Why wouldn’t an area want remote workers? Aren’t they a great economic boon to a location? They are basically importing money from another location.
On average, yes, substantially, even _when_ you account for possible risks from accidents and potential pollution exposure:

https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/full/10.1289/ehp.0901747
Over here in germany it is insane how long inheritance disputes take. I cannot speak for other countries but there is a large number of places staying empty because the legalities do not allow selling or renting it out. I wonder how long the average process takes. I'm looking at 4 perfectly fine apartments that have been empty for 5 years.
With the price of ETHW currently at $22.80 and the price of ETH at $1500, I can’t imagine mining ETHW would even cover the electric bill. It’s also not clear to me what advantages ETHW would over ETC which is about $37 ea.

Previously ETC was often used as a lower cost dev-testing server for ETH applications that might not be ready for the main-net.
That's on regional administrations, not the SNCF
Not at all close to the design tool—features like autolayout and performance are significantly better than anyone else on the market.

Both of those are pretty close to FigJam, Figma's. whiteboarding tool. It's a nice tool, but that's not why anyone uses Figma.
I'm not saying the conclusion is accurate, but there is a correlation between mean reaction time and intelligence in humans. That doesn't mean that you can extrapolate intelligence from reaction time of Victorian era people. Their reaction time could be better for other un-accounted-for reasons. But it's not like the researchers just made up a link between reaction time and intelligence out of thin air because it sounded true. There really is a correlation between the two.

I would say this is weak evidence in favor of Victorians having higher intelligence, and insufficient to actually draw that conclusion. But still, evidence.
>We have pomp and ceremony when our head of government changes in the US.

I don't agree with it here, either, but at least our heads of state are ostensibly normal citizens and don't claim power by divine right or purity of noble blood. In the context of a funeral for royalty, the spectacle just seems more implicitly degrading.

But that's just my opinion - I despise aristocracy of any stripe. Seeing stories about people's cancer treatments being cancelled and rescheduled, schools and businesses shutting down, police snatching people off the street for any form of protest against the King, a multi-billion dollar cost to the taxpayer which the royals could easily have paid out of pocket, etc. makes the whole thing seem like an exercise in class humiliation.
Acquisitions from the acquirer side always tank the stock, the acquired always get a bump. The down market and the $20B spend is why it is down.

From an ADBE perspective, this actually is a good long term move and shouldn't be such a hit.

From Figmas perspective, I am sure this was one of their hopeful outcomes.

If people here don't like the outcome, then I wonder if they know what type of game they support. This is the game with VC/growth/exits.
You should also go burn entire forests for energy and then invest the profits to plant forests to restore what you just did.

Dont want to be snarky, but thats the summary of what you just said.
Yes but then you can help get the account owners back in the account (another thing that companies are bad at)

Care for the customer can make or break a company. If stripe wanted big customers they can't be this careless

(and just to be fair to Stripe there seems to be a lot of customers as well that know crap about best financial/accounting/compliance practices and don't know why Stripe might have an issue with somethings)
your use of asterisk for multiplication has screwed up the formatting because two asterisks get interpreted as indicating italics
Using a chaotic system to predict a chaotic system.
Yah, I was a bit cheeky, but I think we're understanding each other!

I guess I want to say that I don't think our two views obviously contradict each other. I think you and I agree on how responsible Gates was for Microsoft's success. I agree with your entire 2nd paragraph.

To me, the part of your account that I am drawn to is how much of Gates' most influential actions were well before he could fully assess his financial rewards. It simply seems true that Gates did not need the full weight of his fortune to motivate him because it did not exist for the period that was most important in generating it.

I do not have much of an answer to any of this - as I've said I think it's fine that Gates be absurdly rich - but I think it's important to point out these obvious misallocations where someone is eventually paid world-changing amounts of money for work they completed years ago when they could only be relatively sure they were going to be paid life-changing amounts of money. I think it is literally and figuratively in all our interests to see if we can imagine a system that distributes rewards more widely.

> And as far as Bill's wealth goes he's doing a pretty good job of giving it to people in greater need of it than the average software developer.

I think there's are certain inevitable problems when you ask one person to allocate this much money that will crop up no matter how good that person is. I guess I would just say, while I think Gates has done very well, I am not sure at all that the net positive change in the world is better when Gates has ~$100bn v.s. him having...$10bn and 5-10,000 MS employees share the other $90bn. A lot of those people are smart and I bet they could come up with ideas Gates has missed!
I'm more Slovak than Czech but I'd be interested in knowing what the good Chicagoland Czech places are.
The difference is between the company having their own merchant account with a bank (which is what most large companies do) using an online payment gateway, and not having one and leveraging the processor's instead (which is what Stripe, Paypal, etc provide). When you apply for a merchant account you get that approval and underwriting, but with a hefty application fee for obvious reasons. If your payment gateway shut you down, you can just switch to a different one, but there'd be little reason for them to do so. Your bank is much less likely to shut you down, because you were preapproved. The main reason would be for high fraud/chargeback percentages.

When you use Stripe or Paypal or similar, you don't apply for your own merchant account. You make transactions using their merchant account. If there's a fraud or chargeback percentage issue, the banks will have a problem with them, not you, but it also means the service needs to be proactive in policing their clients so the banks never come after their merchant accounts.

When starting up a company, use a Stripe or a Paypal to get up quickly, but probably ramp up to using multiple quickly, so you have backups. As your revenue increases, apply for a merchant account and move your transactions over to that. There is an upfront cost, but the processing fees are significantly cheaper, and no one will pull the rug out from under you without quite a bit of correspondence. Even when using your own merchant account, you can find processors who will handle all the credit card input and transmission on their end instead of on your site, which greatly limits your PCI compliance requirements. Regardless, when you build your service, abstract the payment process such that you can easily add or switch providers. Don't be married to a single one, because at the least you should be switching to a merchant account when the application fee is lower than the transaction fee percentage difference.

Source: I also worked for (and was the principle developer of) a high risk payment processor, providing a processing gateway for individual merchant accounts serviced by an ISO. We tried to look at becoming an IPSP (I think that's the acronym), letting customers leverage our merchant accounts like Stripe or Paypal do, but it was significantly more work and process with credit card companies than we wanted to deal with.
Lowering supply is an instrumental goal[0], not a final goal.

If you hate traffic, want more parking, or the like; the easiest way to do that is to just stop building housing, throw up your hands, and say the city's full.

But because doing that also makes your own property more valuable, both complaints are intermingled: people who want more money in their pocket can concern-troll about traffic to sound prosocial. In fact, this commingling has happened for so long that it is difficult to separate out the two concerns.

[0] AI ethicist jargon for "prerequisite you have to do to accomplish a lot of disparate or conflicting goals".
Figma literally changed my world so I couldn't disagree more.

Today I have +800 users and +100 editors in my Figma system; copy writers, ux, ui, ur, pm's, analysts, bizz, everyone, is collaborating like I have never seen in any Adobe setup.

Adobe hasn't even been a contender, meanwhile Figma won over Sketch and Invision as well. So while I agree that they are still missing some features, especially for shared design systems, then I don't understand your view, care to elaborate?
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