skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a complex question. What type of business is it? Are you intending on living in Spain long-term? I'm not sure that having e-residency would be beneficial, but you have many options wrt the set-up of a business (depending on the type of business) and setting up a Spanish SL may not be the best choice for you. (I have a Spanish SL but also for many years had a UK based Ltd as a Spanish resident, which I got rid of after the Brexit vote).
…due to proof of stake, which requires cryptocurrency. So much for “it has nothing to do with cryptocurrency”.
No. Your freelancing contractor business may pay less taxes but when you pay yourself a wage you will pay income taxes for your actual residency.
Some good points here in criticizing utilitarianism. But the dividing into "geeks, noobs and sociopaths" is bad and might even point to some of the questionable ideas in so-called virtue ethics.

Obviously, if someone says "I only want what's best for everyone", you shouldn't necessarily trust them. Especially if most of the people in their "everyone" live in some far off future.

But what's less obvious, but more important, is that you shouldn't even trust yourself when you say such things. Corruption isn't a property that comes with sociopaths moving in and gentrifying the place. Corruption starts at home. We do NOT always want what's best for everyone, if we're honest with ourselves. We want all sorts of things, be it penthouses in Bahamas or polycules, that probably aren't for the best of everyone involved (let alone everyone).

And you can't "correct" for it by, say, assigning a probability of self-deception, or creating some sort of market to estimate it (which is the sort of things EAs tend to reach for when met with fundamental criticism). You are only opening up more avenues for rationalization with such things. Your cleverness is not fully on your side in the fight to be honest with yourself.
You can't just stick seeds in a field if you lack water or your soil is already dead from overfarming. These are issues we face already, and they are only getting worse.

The water shortages are going to be our first impasse, because there's no remedy. Current farming uses vast amounts of water, much of which leaves the area due to evaporation. This leads to rapid desertification of regions, and then traditional farming becomes absolutely impossible (without lengthy restoration beforehand).

Reducing meat consumption definitely makes the problems less immediate, but so far it doesn't seem like we will be able to reduce that consumption. So I wouldn't count this as any near term solution.
You could check out WebComponents, that is the closest you could ever get from WPF using only vanilla DOM (without a DOM framework).

To me all that is really missing today in the DOM is a good DOM diff algorithm. Building a DOM fragment from a stateful model is easy. The hard part is updating the DOM currently displayed. the "event ups, data down" model from React is a good architecture at the end of the day, but one needs a DOM diff library to update the DOM efficiently. The rest is classic "MVC" rather than "MVVM". So you'd have to get familiar with Event Delegation as well.
I think we can have our cake and eat it too.

https://blog.danieljanus.pl/2022/09/24/paying-for-books/
you are regurgitating crypto and libertarian propaganda meant to desensitize you to the corruption of what they are selling. the entire finance industry is not corrupt and this moral equivalence they try to construct to justify their crimes and antisocial behavior is false.
Ideas like you suggest have been discussed on this forum uncountably many times. Blockchains in general as well, for well over 10 years now.

This stuff may look new and revolutionary to some, but if you've been here long enough you've already seen that stuff go through the hype cycle[1] and it has NOT emerged, at least so far, at the end of that curve looking good.

I am currently working on some stuff where blockchains are actually a potential solution (very related to public key cryptography, by the way), but the problems with it as a solution to anything except digital casinos are so numerous and the scams so prevalent in this space that it's next to impossible to come up with genuinely useful applications and services that rely on it. That's the reason why usages of this technology are currently extremely limited, not because there's some sort of conspiracy to stop it from succeeding!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle
Couldn't agree more. It is disgraceful how our tax dollars are used to prop up failed business models and oppress the little guy. Just another example of how supposedly democratic states only serve the interests of the elite.
Doesn't Signal have $50 million in debt? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_(software)#Developers_a...
> While almost no modern applications read these AF and PF bits

> A generic Snapdragon ARM SoC, say, would deliver notably less performance in this specific scenario that is critically important to Mac users.

Sorry, I'm not following.

If almost no modern applications read these AF and PF bits, why is it critically important to Mac users?
Yes, that's exactly how it reads.

It bends over backwards to say that somehow this approach meets some non-functional reqs. But it cannot plausibly meet any such requirements well. Even praising the "quality" of the haskell code whose job it is to provide a casio-watch level of compute power over an immutable distributed ledger. For $250m!

It would be fascinating if, eg., the Australian gov forced Accenture to release their internal docs. I imagine there are several versions of me with with much much more strongly-worded things to say.

This feels like it would go well in a netflix documentary retrospective on the "blockchain con" and how it duped gen-z and ceos.
Bitcoin is wasting humongous amounts of energy during a climate and energy crisis, which makes it morally unacceptable.
And that's exactly what they have, specifically they have a unique form of corporate taxation that means that only dividends are taxed at the end of the FY.
except that is not true
But the problem still remains that there are almost always ways of doing anything that these ‘private blockchains’ do without a blockchain, that often work better…

This was one of those times.
1st time I heard about it. I'll try to find the tor site.
I highly recommend ClearML for effortless experiment that just works. It does a lot more of MLOps besides experiment tracking but I haven’t used those functionalities

https://clear.ml/

I had researched and spent time with several other tools including DVC, GuildAI and MLFlow but finally settled on ClearML. WandB pricing is too aggressive for my liking (they force an annual subscription of $600 last I checked)
The settlement cycle for cash equities in Australia is trade date plus two business days (T+2) from trade.

The settlement cycle for the NYSE is two business days after the day the order executes, or T+2 NADAQ T+2 settlement cycle, etc. etc. etc.

Thats how it is meant to be.
I think he overvalues the sentiment the current employees have for twitter. He thinks that going "hardcore" will weed out the unproductive and leave only the most motivated employees, but what it will most likely do is the complete opposite. The most talented employees are not going to put up with 12h work days because they have better career options that doesn't involve doing free overtime for one of the richest people on the planet.
It's funny too look at the difference between the "See and spray" demonstration video and the "Robovator" video. The "See and spray" video feels very corporate, with lots of 3D renders and piano music and marketing actors making awkward jokes. The "Robovator" video is to the point, only shows on-the-field live videos, with no music and barely any flourish, to the point of being incredibly dry.

I wonder which one would work best on farmers. The corporate one feels more polished, but the simpler one feels more honest.
I wouldn't describe what Nokia are doing as dumb - quite the opposite. I'd describe it as wrong, absolutely. But not dumb.
What the alternative to patent courts be in your opinion? Simply nothing or do you have some other idea which would be more fair and hinder development less?
I am not a tax consultant. Maybe you can leave more profit to the company and have all your spending be reimbursed by your company, in return paying yourself less, hence paying lower local income tax?
> I sincerely think they are doing charity

By limiting downloads (artificial scarcity)?

By charging for pirated works?
> If you are not an EU citizen - you have even more problems.

OK, so this doesn't seem to offer an end-run around Brexit for a UK national.
Cryptographic research makes sense for LibreOffice. There is no any reason for LibreOffice to grow grifter ecosystem - this assumption sounds more fueled by feelings than based on factual discussion. E.g. using zero-knowledge proofs to confirm facts about the document content without revealing the full document is much more sensible research topic for LibreOffice.
I don't think so.

Sure, most code is boilerplate, except for that one thing, and that one thing can be anywhere. For example, let's say you want to write a function that returns the checksum of a bunch of data. That's a very common thing to do, there are plenty of libraries that do that, and I have seen the CRC32 lookup table in many places, sometimes I am the one who put it there.

Now, why rewrite such a function?

- Ignore some part of the message

- Use different constants

- Fetch data in a special way (i.e. not a file or memory buffer)

- Have some kind of a progress meter

- The library you may want to use is not available (can be for technical, legal or policy reasons)

- Some in-loop operation is needed (ex: byte swapping)

- Have a specific termination condition (ex: end-of-message marker)

- And many others, including combinations of the above

If you ignore all these points and only see the generic checksum function, yes, it is boilerplate and can be factorized. But these special cases are the reason why it may not be the case, and the reason why there are so many coding jobs.

It is also the reason why we don't have real (Lv5) self driving cars yet, why there are pilots in the cockpit, why MS Office and the like have so many "useless" features, why so many attempts to make software cleaner and simpler fail, etc...
Do the messages require computationally expensive proofs?
I'm no expert but I think when cars are converted, they can run on both natural gas and on gasoline. Gasoline is used to start the car. Wouldn't that solve the range issue?

Obvious problem in USA is availability of natural gas at gas stations, but that is a chicken and an egg problem - would be solved with more demand.
> Think of union dues as a small fee you pay to retain a legal team for employment problems.

I can see the benefit of this if you have absolutely no negotiation skill or even the option to negotiate (i.e. you’re an easily replaceable entry-level worker and your conditions of employment are “take it or leave it”, and you can’t really “leave it”), but in my case, I’m ready to walk at basically any time.

And if I’m ready to just walk away at virtually any time (as a highly skilled professional with more than a decade of experience), I hold all the cards I need for negotiation.

Wouldn’t I be more trouble for the union than I’d be worth?
“Tax incentives impacted only upper-income communities, they found. One reason, they suspect, is that lower-income families have much lower taxes and thus benefit less from tax breaks. People who rent rather than own their homes have no property taxes at all.”

Did somebody pay money to get this information? Are they checking where the sun rises? Of course people who pay no or little taxes aren’t concerned with a tax cut or rebate. These are just a disguised way of “giving money to rich(er) people”, people who pay an appreciable amount of tax. Giving more cash is effective, but for lower income folks this means giving them cash not reducing payments they don’t make.
They currently block some apps from publishing altogether. Is that not worse?
Iranian hackers use Log4Shell to mine crypto on federal computer system
> live happily in Moscow

Not an option for a majority of people who would host an online library, sadly. You can’t live happily in Moscow at the moment if you are capable of intellectual labour.
Yes, that was my initial conclusion after reading the report.

Some company was parasitically using them to drum-up interest in this useless product area.
Lasers would require massive amounts of energy for this application
That's using a specific definition of a blockchain that differs significantly from e.g. Bitcoin and Ethereum which are two of the most popular ones and the ones commonly referred to, along with their decentralization properties. The Schneier post I linked explains fairly how these are not novel and have nothing to do with the current hype beyond the confusing naming.

Concretely, if Scuttlebutt uses a blockchain, then Git also uses a blockchain by a similar reasoning. I don't think the original post claiming that "there are no use cases for blockchains" was implicitly claiming that Git (or Scuttlebut) is not relevant software, just that they don't use a blockchain, because indeed they don't for any interesting definition of "blockchain".
We're just arguing about definitions, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33637623

This is fully addressed in Schneier's article.
Banks also require a lot of energy.
I know that DiamondTypes does write to disk and acts much like a db itself. I was thinking it could be possible to expose that library as a virtual table in SQLite.
> Project was 63% with an uncertain timeline to completion. That alone is a red flag for any enterprise project.

This is in my opinion rather a good sign instead of a red flag:

If one is honest, nearly every enterprise software project is something like this. It is rather that nearly all managers are not honest, but pretend that everything is under control and tell you of some fictional timeline for completion.

The fact that they openly admit the state and the uncertainty to completion is to me thus rather a good sign that the stakeholder are much more honest than is common in such projects.
A centralized cryptocurrency exchange failed because they gambled away their reserves and suffered a bank run. Nothing to do with the underlying blockchain technology, just good old unregulated banks screwing over everyone.
If we want to talk about ideal, then the "food forest" concept is about as ideal as it gets. Once built, assuming your local climate doesn't shift radically (difficult assumption now), you can get a lot of edible material out of a relatively small space with remarkably little human intervention.

Ideally we would work to develop food forests everywhere in and around our population centers. However, that's much harder for a multinational company to make money doing, so it's not going to happen. Likewise, with city land becoming increasingly expensive, reverting blocks or spaces to be used to develop food forests is not likely.

Maybe our best bet is to learn how to eat money.
I guess so.

In any case you have to declare revenue and ownership, or commit tax fraud.

Consider that in some countries (eg Italy) running a foreign legal entity but being based in the country means that said legal entity must pay taxes in the country.

So I have frankly never understood what eResidency is for, as you will still have all liabilities for the country you are in.
Vortex phase matching as a strategy for schooling in robots and in fish (2020)
The USA is a strange land.
Excellent, I shall try this out, thanks
> The report estimated the application software for the new system is still only 63 per cent complete, with an “uncertain” timeline to completion

Does anyone actually believe the level of precision coming from this report? I bet good money that remaining “37%” would take way longer to complete than that supposed “63%” did.

Oh, Accenture created the report, so it must be accurate, never mind. /s
FTX collapse is a good source material for another book by Michael Lewis I guess.
That's an amazing feedback. Thanks! Will figure out a better way to place that button
It is not entirely true that everything can be done online. The e-residency kit is physical and needs to be picked up, which depending on your location could be cumbersome. A major problem may be the various cross border tax regulations.
It's so wildly insecure that the holder identification number comes out in the mail. Then if you change your address, they send a notification letter to the old address just letting you know that it was changed. This means if you move house, and don't get a mail redirection, whoever lives at your old address will receive a letter containing your holder identification number.
Maybe because it's coming from the people who read your blog and use your software?
Possible he did, I suppose, but I never saw it in any of the recaps / threads. But also wouldn't make a lick of sense talking about India vs US for speed...
As someone that spent a decade in the Australian tech industry, and then a decade outside, I can say that Australia is famously a tech backwater.

London might be seen as conservative/cautious compared to SV or Austin or Lisbon, but it's far ahead of Australia where bloated big bang projects are well supported, and lean projects by actual tech companies are ignored.
> verified supply chain

How does a blockchain verify the data being entered into it?
Does "https://accounts.google.com/addmailservice" do anything useful?
>>An enormous amount of work goes into producing a book

So your saying books should be protected because they take alot of work, but movies should not because they dont?

I am highly confused by your ethical position here. Either creative works should be protected by copyright or they should not.

It seems your personal connection to authors have clouded your judgement in favor of that medium over other creatives mediums, I wonder if you would feel the same if you had personal relationships with independent film maker, to toss your analogy back, not ever filmmaker has a J.K Rowling book to make a film about which comes with a built in audience

Now me personally I think copyright is WAY over protective, I think the US original copyright law was a good balance, 14 years, with 1 extension if the physical person that created the work requests it (i.e corporations get 14 years only, individuals can get up to 28 years of protection)
This is a first world perspective.

You clearly live with a political stable government you can trust not to steal from you or imprison you for engaging in political protests.

People in such places are using decentralized assets to protect themselves. What do you think they should do instead?
Basically, no. You still owe taxes in Spain and, as a US citizen, you need to report to the US and likely owe taxes there too.
> If you live outside of US/Canada and EU it is much harder to obtain books legally

I completely agree and even though I imagine countries outside of these have it much worse, even within the EU you can find massive differences between countries. For example, there is a much smaller selection in Eastern European countries vs. Western, and books are the same price or sometimes even pricier while wages are significantly lower.
> Another alternative is these messages are broadcast through a public and decentralized ledger

Or, you know, the author's website?
Academia is currently exploring multiple use cases, and some are already being used in real world scenarios. Permissioned blockchains for example can have multiple use cases in enterprise.

An example is supply chain management [0] and supply chain traceability, which is already in use at Walmart [1].

[0] https://scholar.google.pt/scholar?q=blockchain+supply+chain+...
[1] https://jbba.scholasticahq.com/article/3712.pdf
idk man, I was open minded on cryptocurrency backed blockchains for a decade, I'm kind of over it now.

Everything you're describing could be done with a git repo (also a cryptographically signed tamperproof ledger), 10x faster and with 1000x less baggage of a deeply scummy industry behind it.

The core problem to solve with your idea is proving that a piece of data that represents someone electronically (eg a public key) truly actually represents them physically. Cryptocurrency backed blockchain solves none of this any more than any other technological solution does, because it does nothing to tackle the actually hard problem, of making that physical->electronic link.

Keybase did it by not truly doing it, and instead providing a plethora of different ways that all somewhat do it, and left it up to the user as to whether they trusted that. So you can link your domain, your twitter, your reddit, your crypto wallet, etc. That still didn't actually prove the physical->electronic link, but it added evidence.
I'm not sure how a word processor uses peer-to-peer trustless money. The discussion shouldn't even be about crypto and blockchains, but about how crypto and blockchain can benefit LibreOffice. Given we cannot identify how crypto and blockchain can benefit anybody (well, except scammers and those 11 folks who actually transferred assets to third world countries) I believe the topic should have quickly died off but yeah...
Good PMs would be replaced when they say a firm no in such top down projects
It's ok, because they often make you give your postcode as a second factor.
It's not needed for any legal business.
True but that includes powerful men in the political sphere such as Biden and Trump. No way the Justice Department is going to touch this, when it implicates their bosses and potential bosses.
> ADD here too with severe tics and anxiety

Then it makes sense that I manage to get by without meds and "just" sports. My case is not as severe as yours, in a way I needed the meds to be compatible with a corporate IT job, without them the stress and responsibilities made me really anxious etc. But the last three weeks since I started running have been surprisingly zen to handle, even though I quit the meds cold turkey.

> I hope doctors will push harder on exercising in the future

Definitely, yes.
Hopefully you can regain access to your domain through one of these options:

https://customerservice.networksolutions.com/prweb/PRAuth/ap...
IT lets me sign in to my account and pops ip the message "are sorry, but you do not have access to Gmail. Please log in to your Admin Console to enable Gmail. Learn more"

Ergo: no :(
lmk if you need any help getting things set up.
Congratulations, you made the obvious and obviously correct responses to the essay. Except the last two sentences. Those are needlessly optimistic.
And tax authorities may wonder whether setting up a foreign company was for tax reasons only, and decide that you still owe taxes on everything and that you are a tax dodger.

So talk to a specialized tax accountant who know their stuff (and that won't be cheap).