skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you completely, the "blockchain" term is confusing, and by the definition I'm using, Git would also be a sort of blockchain. The more that blockchain (the grift) expands, the more that the meaning of blockchain (the technology) is diluted.

A key difference to me between Git and Scuttlebutt, which in my (most likely flawed) view makes Scuttlebutt "blockchain-er", is the distributed nature of it. You add a friend on Scuttlebutt, and this will fetch their content from any node, and all their friends' contents. It has an "automatic replication across nodes" aspect which Git does not have.

[Disclaimer: I haven't used Scuttlebutt in a long while, so I may be getting the technical details of the friends-of-friends-replication thing wrong.]
Relative to almost anything else a consumer might want to choose in their purchasing lives, tapping a screen a couple of times doesn't seem to qualify as difficult. Definitely not as a restriction of consumer choice.
Maybe they license it? Maybe they cross license things to each other?
Yep, they do. But remember, neural nets are a part of ML, not the universe of ML. The amount of sunshine between statistical learning and ML and mostly negligible.
Indeed. Many EU countries expect to pay the corporate tax levels of where you live, not where your company is registered. Like say you have a company tax rate in your country of residence of 40%, but you open a company in a country where you'll pay just 5%, then your country of residence will expect you to pay the difference to the local 40%, minus the 5% tax you paid in the country where your company is registered so you save nothing in the end while also making life more difficult for you in attorneys and accountants fees.

I knew people doing this without reporting their foreign company income to their local tax authorities, but if they catch you you're looking at severe fines and possibly jail time. I knew a British guy living in Sweden making money from his UK company without fully paying Swedish taxes on his gain from the UK. He later got slapped with a equivalent ~80k Euros fine by the Swedish tax authorities. Turns out, governments don't like you cheating your tax dues.

Legally avoiding taxes in the EU is pretty difficult for the average person without completely relocating to a tax heaven.

So be careful and hire dedicated tax attorneys with experience in international/EU tax laws before you think you're clever and dream of dodging taxes like you're Amazon all on your own.
Nobody does it in trains/buses, cause it's much more efficient to do it at the train/bus station. Or any other place where people queue.
This should help. Thanks!
You're right, but the fastest way to do that is regain his email and do the lost password flow.

It sounds from other posts changing his gmail away from "essentials" will let him solve that and then his domain.
You sound like a marketing person trying to sell me something. Your medium blog posts also sound like internet background noise.
Those are the kinds of posts that come up when you Google a problem and the results include spam like this
I can also highly recommend 3Blue1Brown's treatment of the topic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spUNpyF58BY
(...which I see now is cited in the video that you link to!)
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he he… I'm not the OP, and I'm not knowledgeable enough in programming languages to answer this question. But I also would be curious to know what the other languages are doing better, regarding backend website development (apart from consistency, which I don't argue is important).

PHP may be very inconsistent, but its syntax is also very stable. You don't need to spend hours rewriting your application to use the latest PHP version. I'm not sure if it may have been a good idea to have a "Python 3"-style release, maybe.
If you interpret it from a different angle, it would be much clearer.

1. Those made the decisions are smart, really really smart people. If they were dumb, there is no way they can get to where they are now. So if the decisions look questionable, they probably are indeed questionable. But that does not mean they made a mistake. Smart people don't do obvious stupid moves, if they do, there must be some reasons we don't know.

2. If the budget is not used, at best it lapses or worse will be used by someone else. So do whatever they can if they have nothing better to do with it.

3. If you do something for someone-else with someone-else's money, neither the price nor the quality would be much of your concern.

4. After handling meat, you know, there is oil on your hands.

Put all that together...
Thanks. What are some things that you like and dislike about living in Estonia?
A few more that havent been mentioned: Source control, public cryptographic beacons (eg randomness beacons, beacons containing public keys). Chaining blocks with cryptography is actually very useful.
For userstyles, you can do that with uBlock's custom filters [1] [2]

news.ycombinator.com##a:has-text(Hacker News):style(color: green !important)

[1]: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Procedural-cosmetic-f...
[2]: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Static-filter-syntax#...
It was never about outsourcing.
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Anything other than a 9-5 I guess? At some point if you run a business you may need to start taking laws and taxes seriously, but not everyone will get to that point. It's similar to the idea of paying a young server at a restaurant in cash to avoid taxes, except it's more common and less risky.

Also, it's Trinidad and Tobago.
You're right, not for most people. But we aren't most people here, and can stick with older AMD for desktops, as well as should be heavily investigating the alternatives like RISC-V (and also the "true" Linux, non-Android smartphone alternatives for somewhat related reasons).
What’s with this new fashion of using feminine names for tech products?
Imagine being a woman, working in an office, and hearing your first name in random contexts. I see how that could become annoying.
> The solution to this is not just acceptation that enforcement should be criminal, but instead removing the political choices from the non-political arms placing it back into the political space of the government (i.e the legislature) .

The assumption that there are too many laws and "non political" arms need to pick and choose which ones to apply is true. But I would consider that just part of reality.

Economics is just the study of resource allocation, the goverment only has so many federal tax officers and they need to focus on something. If they focus on big accounts it doesn't make not paying VAT legal. It just less likely you get caught.

Laws existing as a framework to express the current priorities of the goverment (aka tax avoidance bad) is useful even without enough officers to enforce it 100%.

> One key way to do that for the Federal government is to return said federal government back to its constitutional bounds which today it FAR FAR FAR FAR FAR exceeds

The libertarian angle is cool and all, but the political voice of the people has consistently voted for bigger gov not smaller, so you want to apply your own politics to make things "non poltiical". Which is not very consistent
Yup. You can also do <svg src="some.svg"/>

But I was talking about embedding which is, I think much nicer.

The only difference between both cases I was able to find is that if SVG is loaded via src, it will be a separate `document`. If it's embedded, it's part of DOM tree of HTML document that is being viewed.
Suppose you want to draw a six sided star. You could do it by drawing a triangle and then invert that triangle and draw it again. But suppose you want to cache the two triangles so that the next time you draw it will happen more quickly. You have some "Triangle invert(Triangle t)" function. It takes a triangle and returns the inverted version of that triangle. If that function modifies the triangle in place then you will first have to make a copy of it to make sure that you have the original triangle. If the code is written in a functional language you can assume that the funtion will always return a copy. If it is not functional then you may not know whether the function returns a copy or not and it may come as a "surprise" that the function modified the triangle in place.

In theory the functional approach is more stable and predictable. But whether this really causes a lot of bugs in practice is another question.
> Essentials, which has no email.

This is an incredibly helpful comment but I can't be the only person who finds the idea of such a service, branded "Essentials", that doesn't include email rather baffling.
This is the truth.

And by the way, the effect on dopamine is secondary. ADHD meds work because they affect glutamate leveles. You all do not have low Dopamine, you have low glutamate.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nn0301_275

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3966039/

https://www.brown.edu/news/2018-03-12/glutamate

And you all probably just need B6:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24321736/
If you're interested in ancient blue, the book Blue: The History of a Color by Michel Pastoureau is very enjoyable. I also enjoyed his Red history book.

And I've just noticed that he went on to write histories of Yellow, Green, White, and Black which I shall pop on my festive wishlist, thank you very much!
More accurately -

Callbacks are anonymous functions [or references to named functions] that you pass to asynchronous [or synchronous] functions so you can work with the produced values [or do anything else]
It’s not “where you live” but where the company operates. I happen to (indirectly) co-own a UK ltd. It does business in the UK and has UK resident employees. It pays taxes in the UK only. But if that Ltd. would operate in Germany from a German office and have German resident employees, it would likely be classified as German tax subject.
Major IT projects are a graveyard for executives, anyone who could reasonably succeed knows they are destined to fail, and they fail so often that big co's now have so much legacy chewing-gum holding together their systems that implementing any system is destined to fail.

The most likely to work solution - rip out everything in the company and start from scratch. Short of that you are looking at - $50mil to modernise with a drop in (fully functioning) component in a 2 week install + 5 years and $100mil to write translation layers to all the other systems which will still fail on edge cases.

Every now and then the executive that believes in sunshine, rainbows and unicorns comes along, slaps down a stupid budget and tries, with good intentions I might add. They however, are predisposed to buy into the people and vendor that sell magic beans. And they cycle continues...
It's very easy for companies. Netherlands and Luxembourg are tax havens inside the EU, and of course Ireland tailors her laws specifically to "sell" tax evasion products.
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That's not the argument the parent is making. They say, no use cases.
I think the number might be plausible, but you know, even if you get 80% done, it's probably only 20% of the effort. The remaining 20% will require 80% of the effort, which is 4 times of the committed.
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In which technology is there an massive opportunity?
You are not deficient in stimulants. So using them is not the answer.

Instead, look to nutrition.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24321736/
Yeah the new Ford "Essentials" has no wheels or engine, but otherwise it's a great car with a cool name.
> That kind of charity is not controlled, is not systemic, is not broad, and is not reliable.

The charity should be controlled by the people who put the money, you do not see the pattern? If they cheat they are risking losing the charity donations. This is not true of any taxing system.

> For example, the money spent on healthcare for (frequent flier) homeless people can be used instead to house them properly and significantly reduce the cost to hospitals

If there is research that this is the effective way to do it, what prevents a charity with enough incomings to do it that way? It must be the state? It can work like a private institution or a net of them.

> So no amount of “neighbourly help” can save that amount of money nor help as many people.

Taxing in Spain is higher and higher and evidence says that things are not getting better. If that was true, more taxes -> more welfare. Yet public positions that make no sense grow and "productive economy" is smashed with taxes.

> in order to feel good about themselves and see the impersonal nature of taxes as worthless or evil even because they themselves are oblivious to the consequences

Could be, that is you or me. A bureaucrat sees a mine of gold there, instead. :) You see the problem? And they have it in their hands to prioritize it however they like it. Do you think they will take a decision against them or that, in the face of choice, for example, if it is about them or others, what do you think they choose? You guessed right, them, because humans have incentives and interests. They will do more so if they do not pay the consequences, which is exactly what happens all the time. I have lots of examples of it that in a private or personal setup just do not happen just because you will pay the consequences directly.

There is no tax magic. Taxes are managed by humans with incentives. Careful with that. Same for private institutions that receive money. The difference is that for a private institution you turn back and go at the first suspicious move. With taxes you are literally captured, kidnapped by law, no matter what they do.
> it is fine to publish those signatures on a website you are known to control (or Tweet them out or whatever).

Say I tweet, post on reddit and internet archive both of those pages. When somenoe goes to verify later on, the 4 values are different to the value you've provided to me. Which of the 5 values is trustworthy? This is the problem that a blockchain verifies, in theory.

Unfortunately, there's two different answers, depending on what we're actually sharing. If we're sharing something that confirms my identity, the only correct answer is "it doesn't matter, you are not who you say you are".

If we're sharing something that proves something happened, the answer is "I need to choose one of the N options to trust", and unfortunately going down this path should leave you to "it doesn't matter, I can't actually verify what happened without trusting _someone_". The reality of both situations is that it doesn't matter whether or not the trust is centralised or not centralised, the action you take in both cases is the same - you stop trusting and look elsewhere. And Blockchains can't solve that problem.
Thiel is like a super villain straight from a comic. His own republic somewhere in the ocean, his blood boys, his disdain for democracy, where does this end?
The share of Americans not having sex has reached a record high (2019)
The biggest question to first answer is, "Who and where are your customers?"

If the customer(s) of your business are in Spain, then you would almost certainly find it least complicated to setup a business in Spain. As a legal resident of Spain, you are already required to pay taxes there.

From what I've seen, the tax rates quickly surpass those of the US; so you'll pay all your taxes to Spain and owe the US nothing (although of course you still have to file).

However... if your customers or clients are US based, then you could setup an LLC in a favorable state like Wyoming (you can search on this topic of course; and my serious search resulted in Wyoming seeming to be best). Then your US clients will not face any perceived or real obstacles in doing business with you; and your tax work should be easier (getting qualified help).
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Most of your users are idiots though, they'll just ask for a faster horse
I would translate the the beginning of the first poem in Kalevala as like this.

My mind wants, my brain thinks,

to go singing, to go saying,

to spout the family hymn, to sing song of my species.

Words are melting in my mouth, speech is falling out,

emerging in my tongue, busting up against my teeth.

(I think the Kalevala Melody and singing could make a good rap)
> I'm not sure how a word processor uses peer-to-peer trustless money

The parent (and the commenter on the site) weren't saying that an office suite has no use for blockchains; they were making a far broader claim that there are no use cases for blockchains.
Thanks, this was very useful information.
Id offer that simple vocabulary we use in "agile" is indicative of why we even reach stages above 3. I offer the use of the term "sprint" as evidence.
This happened to me too, and I also had no idea how to fix it – if you can figure it out let me know as I've ended up migrating to another email provider but would rather use gmail to keep all my accounts together
> We appreciate you getting back to us and we apologize for any inconvenience this is causing you. Yes, you are communicating to a human being and per your request, please see the word "cow".

I'm not convinced. Are they training people to be more like AI?
Get you B6 levels tested:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24321736/

Also, it is not about dopamine, it is about glutamate:
https://www.brown.edu/news/2018-03-12/glutamate
It depends how you extract the company profits (as salary? as dividends? do you reinvest them? etc.), and where you move them after you've taken them out.

If you live in Germany but operate a UK company and all those profits never leave the UK, then you'll pay no German tax on those gains. But if you were to take those profits from the UK to use in Germany, then the German gov will want a sizable piece of your foreign gains.
This caused me read up on Estonia on Wikipedia, and this struck me:

“ Estonia has pursued the development of the e-government, with 99 percent of the public services being available on the web 24 hours a day.[198] In 2005 Estonia became the first country in the world to introduce nationwide binding Internet voting in local elections of 2005.[199] In 2019 parliamentary elections 44% of the total votes were cast over the internet.”
Like I said to someone else, the real answer is to not sign documents that are wrong. To avoid doing this, you might have to be more precise than "my public key is X." You probably should include a timestamp, an expiration for the key, a hash of the previous message so people can tell what is supposed to supercede what, etc.

That way, if people get multiple messages from you, they can actually verify which one is supposed to be the most recent and what your key actually should be.

That will solve your problems and let you disseminate public keys through Twitter.
I was formally diagnosed with ASD from a young age, but only recently found out that I might have ADHD too. So this goes both ways, I think. Trying for a diagnosis and some meds of course, appointment in 11 days.
It seems that aphantasia is much more common among programmers. It must have something to do with the fact that autism and mathematical ability is correlated, or the third fact that autism and exotically expressed drawing abilities are correlated, too. But this is too complicated a tangle to draw simple conclusions.
So they don’t profit?
I see two big failure states at Montessori schools.

The first, and biggest, is constant parental pressure to move away from Montessori and more toward traditional education. This is typically because parents don't actually understand or value Montessori, they either want to brag about sending their kid there, or they're simply using it as a preschool with no intention of keeping their kid there after public school options begin. A school without a strong leader at the top will get kicked around by the parents and start to implement weird and non-useful policies and educational choices. The end failure state here is parents on the board, and a school which moves away from Montessori and ends up a middling small private school with nothing to guide its direction.

The second, as you're alluding to, is just poor teachers. It's very obvious when you walk into a Montessori classroom if the teacher has control of the class. A good Montessori classroom will have the kids engaged in group projects or quiet individual work, some kids helping other kids or giving lessons, and the teacher simply watching ready to step in if a child needs a lesson or some help moving forward. A poor Montessori classroom will have kids scattered about, chatting with each other, running around or being inappropriately loud, and a teacher haggardly running from problem to problem trying to fix it. The best Montessori teachers know how to give constant joy and encouragement, but also come down like a ton of bricks for misbehavior. But they also need to be able to know each child well. If you don't know the kid, you cannot keep them pointed in the right direction, because each kid is different, and you'll lose them to idleness and lack of motivation.
MariaDB is a fork of MySQL and was introduced in 2009. Is this new?

Other than that, Maria is also a male name although not very common.

~50% of humans are female and if there is a „trend“ for giving female names to software, yes, please do it more.
Discord fined €800k for failing to comply with several obligations of the GDPR
The most instinctual thing we can change is avoiding panic - and the negative things it causes. Like looking down instead of ahead. Or trying to stop yourself.
Tell that to Eisenhower as he’s postponing D-day due to bad weather.
Good to hear you concur on Zigbee/XBee but absent any other projects coming up I looking for an excuse to play with LoRA!
“Taxation is theft, purely and simply even though it is theft on a grand and colossal scale which no acknowledged criminals could hope to match. It is a compulsory seizure of the property of the State's inhabitants, or subjects.”
M. Rothbard :)
Blockchain has pretty powerful use cases in the enterprise. Ethereum provides one such solution which allows companies to have a private blockchain and programmable smart contracts in place—and with that a nice internal audit trail as well.

Blockchains can use proof-of-authority or proof-of-stake not as a means to accumulate “wealth” but firstly to secure the network from tampering while facilitating the resilient, chain of transaction records.

Ethereum is a distributed Turing machine (completely programmable)—first and foremost—and that is much more powerful than a simple coin.
And yet I'm seeing here a whole thread of people talking about astronomical doses, reduced effects after tolerance kicks in, negative experiences and so on. So classic drug talk.

Seems pretty strange that I should take your sourceless claims as gospel over theirs.

>Stimulant medication aren't speed, they're like "1/100 speed".

These are literally two identical substances with almost identical effects (the only difference is the ration of amph salts). Difference is dosage.

Can't understand why would you claim what you say, when Adderall is used and abused in the same exact manner as amphetamine paste is in Europe. Anecdotally I hear in USA they throw it at you like candy.

>But comparing them to speed is just wrong and irresponsible,

I stand by what I said, if you saw the numbers of amphetamine addicts on the street in USA the same way you see opoid addicts, you would have a different national perspective on these drugs.

>it makes people afraid of trying what could be effective treatment

Yes, they should be cautions in my opinion.

I personally am not taking any new chances with addiction, even though I'm sure I would have benefits, at least short term.

I'll just hobble along. Using crutches can make physical rehabilitation impossible.
Oh trust me, this terminal does have major problems executing things automatically. If any command runs in the background, the stdout seems to flush into your input editor area LOL

https://github.com/warpdotdev/Warp/issues/1796