skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: (Solved) We are sorry, but you do not have access to Gmail
RESOLVED! Thanks for all of you who pointed me to my glaring mistake to subscribe to the WRONG (read: essentials) version which provides NO email. Changed to "Workspace Business Starter" (with in intermediate step, check comments if you are stuck like me).

My vanity domain (¨Lastname¨.net) had its email hosted on gmail, for over 10 years with a lot of success.

Util I was forced to buy Workspace. Since that moment the message "We are sorry, but you do not have access to Gmail" shows with NO way to enable it.

I made the mistake of having this domain registration done with an email on this domain and have lost the password for the domain registar (NetSol).

So now I can not change the MX records (password reset only works with registered email) and I have try every single possibility to contact google: to no avail.

EVERYTHING I own (user accounts and the like) are now unavailable since I lost access to my email.

Is there any google whisperer who can help or tell me where I could find help?

I am desperate...
Why not both? You could have each train actually be an array of arms that reach out and pick people up and move them along their route. The arms wouldn't have to be as long since the train is moving along the rail, and a select number of arms could be reserved for first class passengers.
You can file Estonian vat reports which is a lot simpler than any other eu country. Completely doable without an accountant fully digital with costpocket.ee
How to write high and low level comments
> The future will be something like, or at least based on, vertical self-contained (almost completely closed systems) automated farms.

nope.

because vertical farms require a fucktonne of power and infrastructure. Moreover they are only really useful for certain types of crops (ie salad)

Your stables (rice, cereals and root crops) don't work well in vertical farms.

What you're actually trying to make is a greenhouse, and the dutch have solved that pretty much already (apart from the massive monoculture bit)

I suspect the future is actually in dense mixed crop fields. If tilling, cropping and tending can be automated then making sure a plant grows in it's allotted space become simple and cheap. It reduces the risk of total crop wipeout, can keep a field productive all year, and if done properly can improve soil quality.
An Indian village bans use of mobile phones for children
Tax and simplified admin I assume?
The comment you’re referring to merely refrains from making a value judgment, while you’re turning it into an approval of OOP.
Same article with similar discussion just two days ago, ~160 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33604930
It is paid for and reads like it was paid for by ASX - damning enough to say the solution is woeful, but knows that the person paying their consulancy fee green lit the vision to jam a square peg into a round hole.
I'm from Estonia, live in Estonia, if you have any questions, can answer. Maybe a different view than from someone who has move here from a foreign country ofc.
> Wage theft in the US is estimated at _50_ billion dollars. [1]

That report is from 2014. What does it stand at today (whether in absolute or relative terms)?
There might be a tax benefit (for the business, income tax would still be paid where you live)

But as far as I understand the main value proposition might be for non-EU citizens to be able to open a business in the EU remotely with access to the EU market, banking system etc
In much of the developed world, solar energy doesn't come from directly above, it comes from a much lower angle. Trapezoidal shaped buildings can collect a great deal of direct sunlight. And further, with reflectors it's possible to direct and concentrate this where it is most needed.
Further Artemis / Orion Milestones;

Orion Begins Checkouts, Completes First Service Module Course Correction Burn : https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis/2022/11/16/orion-begins-check...

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Orion Spacecraft - @NASA_Orion - 2h

Mission Time: 1 days, 2 hrs, 5 min

Orion is 121,949 miles from Earth, 173,277 miles from the Moon, cruising at 3,076 miles per hour.

P: (-121391, -32858, -6119) V: (-2675, -1419, -540) O: 355º, 331.4º, 316.1º

Track NASA's Artemis I Mission in-real-time : http://www.nasa.gov/feature/track-nasa-s-artemis-i-mission-i...

#TrackArtemis
As someone who worked on a Deloitte government project in Aus, they'd have got a better product (or anything at all for that matter) for way less money by just hiring a small dev team internally. Instead, it was outsourced, and they were offered a bloated Sitecore .NET monstrosity. The project had completely stagnated before the pandemic, and then that was the final nail that got it abandoned.
> You would think a message board called "hacker news" would be more open to blue sky thinking.

And as you can see all over HN, most of us are quite tired of this diatribe...

This appeal to HN requiring us to be open-minded about a technology that had more than a decade to prove itself in a real world application is tiresome. I mentioned in another comment just this week, I was really excited about Bitcoin in 2012 and kept watching the whole space for opportunities to try a product that could improve my life.

Nothing has appeared, in 10 years, worse, in 10 years it all became a space filled with mumbo-jumbo, grifters and scams. In 10 years I've not seen any of these pie-in-the-sky proposals of digital attestation come to fruition.

It's a technology looking for problems, when something more exciting than Cryptokitties or pure speculation of shitcoins pops up I can definitely give it a try. Unfortunately as each day passes and more scams appear it eclipses any dreams that people like you have to sell to me, it's been thoroughly tarnished over 10 years, the space is a mess in every aspect, including information. Nowadays if you search for anything blockchain/cryptocurrency-related you will only find piles and piles of trash, of shit articles trying to peddle yet-another-scam.

It's really hard to keep any optimism when there was absolutely nothing gained from the technology in the real world.

No, remittances from developing countries is not really a gain, I personally know people that emigrated from places like Venezuela and Iran and absolutely no one is using blockchains/cryptocurrencies anymore, the few ones that tried got burnt after yet-another-crash.

A decentralised ledger might have uses, no one has shown any so far, at least none that got any traction even close to the amount of money poured into this bullshit.
Not to mention these letters have an identifier which is used basically as a password printed on them…
Well not quite.

resistance is a massive problem, so you need to spray more.

But that kills off the soil, so you need to put more fertiliser in.

But that means you get weeds, so you need to nuke the field, which means the soil blows away, which means you need more fertiliser....
Those are not AI, those are MCQ. I think I've seen just one that allowed you to have a "real" convo.
The difference between nuclear war and a market is much much wider than the gap between derivatives and the underlying market. It is your straw man analogy that is ridiculous. Look, the Fed itself says that the goal of MBS purchase is to support housing markets:

> What was the policy objective of the Federal Reserve's program to purchase agency mortgage-backed securities?
The goal of the program was to provide support to mortgage and housing markets and to foster improved conditions in financial markets more generally.

https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/mbs_faq.html
> This made him look like a dinosaur to younger colleagues.

Can't be helped. We will always look like that, no matter how hard we try to "fit in."[0]

Tension between younger and older folks is as old as humankind.

I think that a team is best served, with a combination of youthful enthusiasm and creativity, and experienced caution and completionism. I think that the whole from these teams, is greater than the sum of the parts.

If we have just older folks, stuff gets done, but it may not be that interesting.

If we have nothing but younger folks, we have ... FTX.

The difference, this time around, seems to be extremely young C-suite execs.

In "the old days," when we watched Archie Bunker rag The Meathead, companies were generally run by folks in their fifties (there were plenty of problems -not exactly the Halcyon days). These folks didn't have anything against older folks, except, maybe, that we were relatively expensive (but not, compared to these days). If they discriminated against older folks, it wasn't personal.

These days, we have people in their twenties and thirties, at the top, and their discrimination is personal. They also make it OK for their employees to have the same attitude.

What's that saying that the "olds" have? "The fish rots from the head down."?

[0] https://i.pinimg.com/originals/48/e5/30/48e53007e190cab89608...
I can recommend https://devdocs.io for reference and https://glitch.com for prototyping (and hosting if your needs are modest!) as well some good sample projects.
It is a tough place, and you will be discriminated against.

Calling out incompetency which exposed privileged patient data is not discrimination.

Rough analogy: you don’t want a pilot who flunked basic aviation class to fly your plane and it’s not discrimination to keep him or her out of the cockpit.
Extradition agreements are irrelevant when extraordinary rendition is a legal and valid option.
> He can broadcast this on Twitter, but that is not a secure and tamper proof ledger, and it is centrally owned, and it's not a great storage mechanism for this system to scale to thousands or millions of signatures.

Public blockchains[0] are not known to scale either. I can open a Twitter account for free and publish a signature right now, and do it on several other platforms at the same time to have some kind of redundancy.

I only care about the medium being tamper-proof to be able to prove the signature is at least this old (if it's in a certain block, the signature was made before this block. If it's in a certain message on Twitter, it was made before this message).

So from first principles, blockchains brings this theoretically better time-stamping mechanism, because somebody controlling Twitter could change timestamps there, while nobody could on a blockchain. In practice though, the redundancy is enough, and it's hard to change something people care about on the Internet without people noticing.

Overall this use-case somewhat legit (more legit than most), but it's a niche within a niche.

[0]: as defined in https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2019/02/theres_no_g...
SBF is a replicant
Does this mean if I am resident of a country that has higher income taxes than Estonia and register a freelancing contractor business there, I will have to pay taxes on Estonia only?
Is there a version of this in one column? Two columns are already a pain to read but it's even harder when they overlap each other haha

https://img.imgy.org/rg9J.png
Most of the negative comments on this thread read like knee-jerk reactions. I'd wager that many of them see blockchain as Bitcoin, and they are not cognisant of newer developments like zero knowledge proofs, verifiable computation, and smart contracts running on a zk rollup.
So do you believe they opened talks with the people working on a word processor in order to "[deepen] their understanding of cryptographic primitives"? Is that what the LibreOffice blog post is about? Cryptographic primitives?

It seems more likely to me that they were looking into "growing the [grifter] ecosystem through [...] community development" instead.
> Because there are no use cases for blockchains.

Someone in the comments on LibreOffice blog expressed the same opinion. Which surprised me. Has the consensus been reached among the serious non-grifting public that blockchains are useless to represent peer-to-peer trustless money? Has bitcoin been declared a failure?
None of that is true.

Firstly it's clearly not true in a practical sense. Collective health care is far more efficient than private health care with donations, because collective health care can bypass executive greed and set sensible prices. Individual health care is at the mercy of markets run by amoral people, so you end up with 500,000 people being bankrupted every year, even though they have health insurance.

Ask any diabetic in the US how well that's working for them.

Secondly it's not true ethically. Some people will do anything for friends and family, others won't lift a finger. Should the friends and family of the latter not be helped?

Thirdly the "more people -> less action" argument is clearly wrong on a collective scale, precisely because you employ individuals who are paid to provide professional help.

So your heart attack patient isn't rescued by a caring amateur who may have no clue what to do, but by a professional paramedic and eventually a doctor who does.

The doctor and paramedic are paid with taxes because all the evidence shows that is cheaper, more efficient, and more reliable universal option than privatised health care with copays and exclusions and all the other scams.

Taxes are better than charity because in a collectively oriented system even with inefficiencies you don't get the patchy, random, whimsically motivated and unreliable care offered by charity and philanthropy.

And it's not as if corporations aren't also bureaucracies - but without any possibility of democratic accountability.
> Another alternative is these messages are broadcast through a public and decentralized ledger.

Trouble is, the "decentralized ledger" can only reliably timestamp if there is a financial incentive that motivates peers to burn hashes, stake and vouch for blocks etc. Without that financial incentive the whole blockchain breaks down to something inferior to even the PKI distributed systems described by Lamport in the 70s and 80s.

That's the major fallacy of "blockchains" as a technology, they are always a disguise for token speculation, they require native minted tokens of speculative value to operate.
Musk testifies to reduce time at Twitter and hand over reins
Do we REALLY want a repeat of IE?
>>Would you rather have funds allocated towards social justice or have them spent on intimidating foreign nationals

I would rather the justice department, and labor dept choose their targets for non-political reasons, neither for "social justice" nor corporate protectionism
Blockchain is a valid solution for fast settlement clearing between market participants. JPM and Visa have already proven it their private blockchains. NASDAQ among others are experimenting with their own private blockchains.

JPM use of their own Onyx blockchain makes the repo market far more efficient: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-10/jpmorgan-...

Visa B2B Connect for global payments: https://developer.visa.com/capabilities/vba

I get it, blockchain makes for a flashy clickbait headline. There are bigger problems in the project than the selection of blockchain as a solution.

- Project was 63% with an uncertain timeline to completion. That alone is a red flag for any enterprise project.

- The teams involved weren't communicating with each other resulting in confusion. aka "misaligned views".

- When it comes to scalability, there is no way to rate limit participants, so they could screw the system given it couldn't process more than 100k transactions (not sure what rate since it is unspecified).

There are multitude of issues that justify canning the project.

For those unaware ASX used VMWare's DLT blockchain: https://www.vmware.com/welcome/asx.html. There's nothing "scammy" about it.

I'm unsure of why people in the comments here are still confused between cryptocurrency and blockchain especially since they have distinct names. If you're gonna point out incompetence, you have to realize your own faults as well.

Anyone who claims to have enough information to make a determination about blockchain tech being the cripple here doesn't have the information required to make it given the problems pointed out. There's plenty of financial industry users making use of it already.

Lots of tunnel vision below, but that's unsurprising given the hate against crypto (which people below often confuse with blockchain). I remember the same bias against K/V dbs (NoSQL). People would blame the tech choice rather than the circumstances. It's easier for certain types to blame tech for everything then hail it when the project succeeds even though it was only one part of the equation.
Terry Tao urges patience in assessing this result. There are some clear holes in the Arxiv paper which need to be fixed before the proof can be assessed.
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2021/09/15/the-hardy-littlewo...
The AI is just object recognition. Its not rocket science anymore.

Because you can now identify the weed's location to within 15mm, (down from >5meters) you can use much smaller, moveable sprayers to apply the chemical, rather than just spraying the entire field.
It is useless unless they put tax-haven-like conditions on the table. Why should I pay regular taxes to Estonia instead of my country?
The real travesty is that there is a patent court at all.

I tried to bring a product to market, something that IMO can revolutionize the world. Went to the patent attorney late in the game. He looked at my product and told me to shelve it - take out a bunch of patents, wait till someone else comes out with the idea and then sue them.

He claimed that if I brought it to market, I would be sued by others that have unrelated patents but lots of lawyers. That even if I did everything by the book, I would go bankrupt.

Went to another firm, heard something similar - basically, all patents do is keep products and ideas from market, and you wouldn't believe how many good ideas are kept from market thus.

And patents and give ammunition to trolls - aka mafia corps. And they keep the status quo with out of date ideas - since in a any given field the dominant players will always be able to sue the startup out of existence.

If the government money that goes into the patents were to go instead into grants and funds for good ideas - any thing that would have gotten a patent should get cash, say, now that could be something awesome.

But any good from patents, I have yet to see.
LibreOffice already has PGP support for signing documents, which is the standard mechanism for distributing trust among open source projects.

I suppose we can stuff PGP keys into the blockchain but I don't see the additional value. Each key needs to be trusted by the receivers independently (or through a web-of-trust-like system) so I don't see the added value of a tamper proof ledger.
I guess it depends on how Spain taxes companies.

https://www.e-resident.gov.ee/taxes-in-estonia/
Revision: USGS has updated it down a notch, to magnitude 5.3.

OTOH, one of the 11 aftershocks so far was (from memory) revised up from a 3.X to a 4.1.

IANAG (...Not a Geologist), and kudos to cc101 for pointing out the Rio Grande Rift...but (from a few quick searches) this looks rather far east to really be part of that Rift. Though USGS's 30-day view shows ~30 more quakes, ~20 miles west of this one, and in a rough line pointing west toward the Rift. (Can a north-south rift do that? The Trans-Pecos Volcanic Field isn't all that far south of the 5.3, in the Davis Mountains - but it supposedly went dormant ~17mya. The USGS 'quake map shows no fault in the area...but they show very little of even the Meers fault, up in OK.)

Hopefully there won't be more/bigger 'quakes in that area. It's only 20 miles away from the Red Bluff Reservoir - which is held back by a ~90 year old, 100 foot tall earthen dam. Reservoir capacity is ~150K acre-feet; Pecos, Texas is ~50 miles downstream.
>so that we can be sure we are verifying the correct PDF

Umm, what? Someone cannot create a PDF and sign with someone else's key. This would've defeat the purpose of public-key cryptography.

>it's not a great storage mechanism for this system to scale to thousands or millions of signatures

Not sure how recommending a system that scales not on signatures but on messages shared is better.

>Another alternative is these messages are broadcast through a public and decentralized ledger.

Okay. So suppose a message was distributed from an address. How you know to whom this address belongs? How will be different that you being shared their public key?
Honestly I'm relieved to learn I'm not just an idiot who didn't know how not to get the letters.
I'd go even that far that 7-9 yo kids in Vietnam, Laos or Thailand already ride motorbike (scooter) at that age, I crashed because of them once in Laos (on the way to Plain of jars), just suddenly stopped in front of me on dusty road, I stopped as well, but sadly I had passenger behind me who balanced in other direction, so we flipped to side when bike slipped a bit.
From my knowledge it depends on your common location. But better consult a tax lawyer.
What about a Spotify for books?
Maersk uses blockchain for cargo tracking[1].[2]

[1] https://merehead.com/blog/maersk-blockchain-use-case/

[2] Entirely possible this could be done without a blockchain, yes.
It never ceases to amaze me how much "metadata" you can pack into the Finnish language, and how it directly affects one's thinking.

As a native Swedish-speaker, I occasionally find myself thinking in Finnish when needing to look at a problem from a different angle. One's sense how things are positioned and headed changes completely when describing thing's in Finnish than in Swedish.
Mirror the DB across two servers, boom decentralized achievement unlocked
Argentina on the first glance would look “safe” to me, as South American nations seem in general not very pro-US. Live and learn, I guess. TIL that all South American countries have these extradition agreements.

I feel bad for the arrested; even if their values were not pristine. Punishments for these kind of “offences” seem extremely harsh to me, being grown in a copyright-unaware climate.
> I.e once you are eresident gas in gas station and electricity are 20% cheaper.

This isn't different from just being in the country you're in, companies usually don't pay vat on resources they use. And it only applies if you're using your car for business purposes only, otherwise it's 20% cheaper because you're committing tax fraud.
TorrentFreak report has some extra details - https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-indicts-two-russians-for-runnin...
There is nothing wrong with PHP for websites. I'm fact, PHP is probably the best option for most people(that's a bold statement). It does many things better than other languages. It's not without reason that PHP is the most used language for websites.

There is of course situations where PHP isn't a good solution. I would prefer to use something else if something like websocket was important or if performance was critical.

PHP today has about as much in common with PHP from 2005 as today's javascript has in common with javascript from 2005. Languages change.
This project was stupid from the start, I could never see it working. It never made any sense using ‘distributed ledger technology’, the ASX are the central authority and they want to be in that position… Making anything distributed isn’t actually useful to them or people who interact with them… They just got caught up in ‘blockchain hype’ and clearly there were some sales people in the right place, at the right time. Some people must have got away with serious cash from this boondoggle.
Why Infinity Does Not Exist in Reality
The interesting code starts here:

https://github.com/sweetalert2/sweetalert2/blob/642b9b6ace11...
It's been pretty hard to find media coverage of these protests. The biggest newspapers here aren't giving it much attention. Most of the information is in social media.