skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it definitely does not mean that. This e-residency thing cyclically pops up to generate attention, but it's unmitigatedly and unconditionally a bad idea unless you're a lawyer who is extremely well-versed in what they're doing and who is probably doing some dirt somehow.

Most jurisdictions in most areas of the law have very successfully ensured that you can't evade their laws by just doing some paperwork to get some flag of convenience.

Estonian e-residency amounts to a piece of paperwork by which you voluntarily put yourself under Estonian jurisdiction for certain things.

However, the difficult piece is never putting yourself under a jurisdiction that you like. The difficult piece is getting yourself out of a jurisdiction that you don't like but that your business happens to be connected to somehow through real-life circumstances.

If you don't manage the latter, all you've done is to create unnecessary complication. Even if Estonian e-residency is super thin in admin overhead, it just amount to admin overhead you wouldn't otherwise have had at all, plus complicating the admin overhead you are facing in your home jurisdiction.
Tall poppy syndrome is terrible.

I've seen places which will rather hire 10 developers getting paid $80k a year than two developers getting paid $400k a year. You get what you pay for. The number of managers who will not hire someone getting paid more than them is astonishing.
>How a bright yellow pickup could be confused with a deer is beyond me.

It wasn't. It was confused with a government vehicle. The one day a year that is synonymous with hunting accidents just provided plausible deniability for taking a few pot shots.
While not optimal, most of the best criminal defence lawyers work for criminals, so we should appoint them to preside over criminal trials.
This comment is irking me for some reason. It sounds very unsympathetic to her situation.
This could be because iFixit is trying to be more consumer facing so they can sell more of their repair products. A wild guess. More likely that they're getting paid by these manufacturers though.
In contrast with Christianity, where this life is to be "endured" for the promise of afterlife, "eternal return" is exactly the opposite - "enduring" this life is the worst possible decision, as you'll just have to "endure" it again and again for eternity. In context of "eternal return", good decisions are those that make life worth living for the sake of itself - embracing life completely and doing whatever you can to enhance your will to power (which Nietzsche sees as the source of all that which is good).
I have a limited company in Ireland. I am the only employee. I pay myself a wage from that company.

One thought I had was that I could live modestly, pay myself a fraction of what the company takes in, let my company take advantage of Ireland's famously low corporate tax rates and invest accordingly, and then cash out, perhaps after moving somewhere without 52% taxes on all income over (70-90k depending on spouse, kids, etc.)

Alas, I am not the first person to think of this. The Close Company Surcharge effectively means I have to pay out on a given timeline and as such incur an income tax liability.
I'm always in favour of tools that help us find bugs earlier and with less effort, because in practice that's how we get fewer bugs, rather than just hoping everyone everywhere will be disciplined. And this seems like it could certainly be able to be in between type checking and unit tests in that sense.
The demons of WitchTok
Yep, the question is really why do they need blockchain in the first place? But I do agree that there was no better way to burn that $250M.
It is interesting if you look at the data on this. Your advantage from Montessori school by third grade is well documented, but then you typically see that by high school the traditionally schooled kids catch up and the Montessori kids come back toward the average, even if they are still in a Montessori school. Obviously this all depends upon the individual child (which is, of course, a big component of Montessori philosophy) but statistically over a population, that's how it plays out.
IANAL but I've looked into this (I'm a Swiss citizen living in Germany) before starting my business. The upside is all digital and less bureaucracy. But then it gets complicated and unclear tax-wise. Furthermore, if you're doing business mainly in your country anyways, other businesses might find it weird that it's not a German legal entity.

So, for me the uncertainity and tax complications were at the end not worth the upsides of less bureacracy to register an Estonian legal entity.
Ascend: Thales leads European feasibility study for data centers in space
Anyone here actually have this form of residency? If so why?
IT procurement in Australia is a piece of shit because, in the name of fairness, everything needs to go out to tender, but the only companies big enough to deal with a tender process are mostly lawyers with a couple of coders attached (or worse still, they just subcontract the coding). Almost all the money goes to people who sit in meetings discussing the scope, and some poor sap ends up doing the code for next to nothing.

The government just needs to hire coders directly, that's what Service NSW does and it shows.
That only applies to personal income, right? Business revenue doesn’t need to be reported I believe.
I would say that politics is broken (almost everywhere). US showed fear for FB while if they were in illegal activities the State has a lot of ways to handle it.
Bethesda issues statement to Mick Gordon
What herbicides do you spray?

How much will Avo cost?
> Output (65%): Just one, but it takes 4 cents per switch.
Somebody has to fund social media. If it’s not user’s wallets it’s their eyeballs. And it’s probably always eyeballs to some degree. If we’re nice about terminology, it’s marketing. But there are other, darker names from the 20th century that are probably more appropriate.
See cf No True Scotsman fallacy, of which this would be a perfect example.
It does not, since I do not have the password of my account there and no way to reset it without access to the email of that account :(
Oh, nvm this looks to be a few years old.
Are you able to go to admin.google.com?
> universal revenue-sharing programme

Run by whom? The UN?
Have you tried recently? It was only a couple months wait on NHS when I did it.

I know, "only", but seeing as it had been 32 years at that point it wasn't a major wait. 2 months is good for the NHS and mental health haha.

Diagnosis itself once I'd got through the wait took about 2 hours in total across 2 weekly meetings.
Far too expensive and not remotely close to doable. Greenhouse environments are actually pretty difficult to control. They are very much prone to ventilation problems, pests, mold, and fungi.
> “SpaceX is Elon and Elon is SpaceX,” the two recalled hearing Mr. Edwards declare.

> The next week, one employee was told by his manager, who had eagerly shared the open letter with co-workers, to choose between his workplace concerns and getting to Mars

Sounds like less of a company and more of a cult.
The book "Hackers and Painters"
Activision Blizzard games to go offline in China after NetEase deal falls
But why are they stuck?
And how many people went to prison over the crash of 2008?
> You would think a message board called "hacker news" would be more open to blue sky thinking.

On the other hand: a site called "Hacker News" will likely point out business scams involving technology. ;-)

If you desire this openness towards blue sky thinking, we should unmask all those cryptocurrency con men so that the only people who stay in the cryptocurrency ecosystem are those who really are into the mathematics behind it or love blue sky thinking.
The post itself is bizarre. Imagine they had said: "we had a discussion with Denuvo about DRM (We’re not talking about putting DRM into LibreOffice!). In what ways could people find a combination of LibreOffice Technology and DRM be useful?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denuvo

I'm not trying to equate blockchain and DRM. The big question lingering over their post is "why?"

From what I can see the essence of the reaction is towards the fact they appear to be in search of a problem for their shiny solution. Maybe they find a real problem, but usually you don't have your solution before you find it.
> And I still don’t know what the Sampo is!

No one does. Sampo is basically just a magical MacGuffin that brings wealth to whoever has it. In Kalevala it is usually understood as a mill that creates infinite grain, salt and money, but different folk stories have different interpretations.
17gb uncompressed? That's only 2 billion 8-character password.

Is your password that bad or did it have some really good mangling going on.

There are 100,000 alphanumeric (including caps) 8-character passwords.
It is incorrect to say nothing has happened during the last 10 years. Zero-knowledge proofs, as discussed in the potential research collaboration between Ethereum Foundation and LibreOffice, are more recent. The most useful, or compact, zero-knowledge proof systems have been created during the last few years. This can be partially contributed to the blockchain research.

You can more about the history of zero knowledge in this Wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof#Zero-Know...
Have you tried the “Primary Email Replacement”?
And what does it say when you log in to the Admin Console?
> I'm (shamefully) not familiar how EU democratic processes work.

There's no shame in that; only lobbyists have that familiarity (you might think politicians, but I think it's too complicated for them). But at least politicians know who to ask.

So the best thing is probably to write to your MEP. You don't have an MEP? Then you don't get a say in EU judicial procedures.
But why can't we talk about it like normal people? Everyone is coming against each other, it became such a taboo that one can't have a normal conversation with an other person for like a minute before they start going against each other's throat. It's starting to become like talking about politics.
No idea, but habituation is a much bigger deal than people give it credit for.

I did the titration regimen after my diagnosis with a licensed psychiatrist and ADHD specialist, so you start very low and test a dosage for a month at a time. You increase it slightly until side effects are noticeable, then you scale back. This was my timeline:

Euphoria lasts perhaps two days, and you're on the lowest dose so it's pretty mild. You're just doing something and feeling happy about yourself. Good, it's a side-effect, and needs to go ASAP. Many people start on too high a dosage, so euphoria lasts maybe weeks, and when it stops they think it stopped working. This opens the doors to abuse, especially in teenagers.

Adaptation, during which other negative side effects start to lessen, lasts about 10 days.

Then there's peak productivity with little side effects for 6 months or so.

Then you start to question if it is still doing anything. There are days that you just don't feel like doing much. Take a couple days off, and it's obvious it was working all along. Without it you're still unproductive and scatter-brained as you've always been without. Also, you've started getting good at using this new powerful tool, but still don't know what to do with it. This is where I'm at at the moment.

--

When you're used to having good days, good days become normal days and it is very hard to remain objective in your assessment.
It's corruption, pure and simple. "Not optimal" and then giving an excuse is a pretty sad reaction to (government sanctioned!) private justice by corporations as a weapon against any smaller competitor.
Or last name. Which is also printed on the letter…
I believe it was 30mg (10mg, 3x a day) that I started on. Dosage was adjusted after about a year, when I began to notice the dosage wasn't really having the same effect. Was upped to my current dose that I've been on since then.
> Your geographical white privilege is showing.

Although I fully agree with the points you make I just want to point out that being wealthy (from a world average wealth standpoint) is dissociated from being white.

The issue is limited access to resources due to lack of wealth, or geo-location with bizantine distribution contracts. Race has little to do with this discussion. Plenty of white poor people across the globe, plenty of non-white rich people across the globe.
These men helped build Qatar's World Cup, now they are struggling to survive
Pretty sure Calgary, Edmonton, Fredericton, and all many more major cities in Canada have decent access to healthcare from rural areas with a car. Trying to live in Toronto has been a losing battle for a long time. The wait for health care even with appointments has been a losing battle in Toronto for quite some time.
Sounds nice but there might be a catch, e g. you might have to serve in their army.
Thanks, the person really just proved my point. We cannot talk about it properly and having a civilized discussion.
You're right about the difference, but I very much doubt the term "specification" as you use it is common.

It's just a different approach to dealing with the expression problem using sum types.
> I would rather the justice department, and labor dept choose their targets for non-political reasons

You want the justice department, a branch of the goverment, to not be political?
> It does many things better than other languages.

Such as? (Aside from inconsistency, it's indeed unbeatable at that)
That's typical in these kinds of reports. I wouldn't necessarily read that as Accenture believing they have 2 s.f. precision. If you put something like 60±20% in a report like this, to the audience it might look like you've done a bad job and have no idea what the real number is.
The bit I never understand, and these projects crop up all the time - for 250mil ... seed a company that you 100% own to build the solution.

Or if you have to pay 100mil for the drop in already complete solution (which sounds insanely expensive).
> after moving somewhere without 52% taxes on all income over

Does Ireland not have some form of expatriation tax? In Germany, this doesn't work, because they'll tax you "as if" you've sold your company at the time of emigration.
Am I a cryptobro believing this field is the future? No it could all go to zero//

why it could all go to zero ?
Ask HN: What's the longest function name you've ever come across?
Mine is public function testDeliveryAddressIsBasedOnBillingAddressIfThereIsNoOrderDeliveryAddress()
And all the dots.
>Or do these cases make the news exactly because of how outrageous and rare they are?

It's that. I've lived in the USA my whole life in a big city and don't ever think about this stuff except when I'm online. There have been shooting instances in my city, but they're rare enough that I've never been around for them, so again I only think about them when online. The only time I physically feared (a little bit) for my safety was the height of the BLM protests when folks started smashing storefronts in my neighborhood. But that can happen in any country, obviously, and is not especially worse in the USA as far as I know.
The Matter IoT protocol uses a blockchain for device attestation
> Is there a wage-thief who's doing it at scale?

FAANG got caught having a wage cartel where poaching affected possible salaries between workers.

They got a measly 50 million dollar fine.

Wage theft pays off in america, and Amazon and Apple being trillion dollar companies proves it.
Paraphrasing:

"Thinking carefully about these things leads to results that are all perfectly consistent, but I think are stupid, so I'm going to reject them."

OK.
Most of us were very interested in cryptocurrencies at some point in our lives. At some point, we have to accept that things are not what we think they could or should be. They're just what they are.

If I build weapons for freedom fighters, but they're used to massacre civilians, I'm not bravely aiding the people's revolution, I'm just an arms dealer for a terrorist group.

If I build a decentralised cryptographically verified ledger to provide trustable alternatives to traditional banking, but it's used to trick people into spending millions on digital receipts for ugly monkeys, I'm not disrupting the corrupt banking oligarchies, I'm just running an elaborate technological grift.
_sigh_... If you have a good problem to apply blockchain to, just do it. Make a startup.

If you want us to come up with problems for you to apply blockchain to, just stop. Find problems and apply whatever solution you need for them.

This applies for any single piece of technology one may want to use. The act of reaching out to the community looking for problems and suggesting you want to use hammers is, to me, a sign that company vision is muddy and unclear.

[edit] This is in no way an endorsement of blockchain, especially how it's used today.
Yes, the peasants must be happy living in their boxes with roaches and no sunlight
Profit margins of the healthcare industry as an aggregate are a single digit percentage. If you got rid of the "executive greed" (whatever that is) portion then you get a very small drop in prices, at best.
Guys I created url shortener in spring boot and react check it out and give me feedback :)
Meta has a more a hacker culture "move fast and break things". On the other hand, Google is well-known for its engineering culture (they wrote numerous articles and books about it).
>He has to broadcast his public key for this [...] through a public and decentralized ledger.

Yes, but then he also has to broadcast the transaction linking his identity and public key. He could do this on twitter, but that is not a secure and tamper proof ledger. So he creates a second blockchain to advertise the transaction. But then he needs to advertise the second blockchain's transaction in order to link his identity and public key. He could do this on twitter, but that is not a secure and tamper proof ledger. So he creates a third blockchain to advertise the second transaction...
Would you pay more for a house where the internal plumbing is beautifully laid out? Not functionally better, just more beautiful (in some abstract sense).
I used to file VAT quarterly through the HMRC website when I had a small consulting business in the U.K. (back when that was still in the EU). It really wasn’t very complex.

I did use an accountant for filing my company’s annual accounts and taxes, though when I was a sole trader I just used the HMRC tax website to file. Far simpler than any of the options I’ve tried in the US, even as a regular employee (which you usually don’t have to file anything for in the U.K.)
This short scene from Malcolm in the Middle is the best explanation I've found of ADHD as an adult: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbSehcT19u0

He tries to turn on the light, the bulb is dead, unscrews it, then as he's getting the bulb the shelf in the cabinet it's in is loose.

He gets a screwdriver to fix the cabinet, but the rails on the drawer the screwdriver's in are squeaky. He gets some WD-40 to fix that, but the can of WD-40 is empty. He then gets in the car, which refuses to start.

Then his wife gets home, and he's underneath the car covered in motor oil. "Hal, did you replace that light bulb in the kitchen?" "WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE I'M DOING?!".
How about having an induction recharge state every few meters? They could be rolled out as the same type of infrastructure as water piping is now. At scale, induction chargers can be manufactured very inexpensively.
What kind of Workspace subscriptions do you have? This page [0] talks about "Essentials" editions which do not have Gmail available:

> With Essentials for your domain, you get many of the features of other editions of Google Workspace but without the cost of services you might not need, like Gmail

and if you want Gmail, you need to upgrade:

> If you need Gmail, sign up instead for Business Starter, Business Standard, and Business Plus.

[0] https://support.google.com/a/answer/7681288
Wage theft is committed by millions of employers, this "theft" was committed by just a few people. While I agree with your general sentiment, the resources required to prosecute wage theft would be vastly greater than to prosecute this case.

That being said, they should definitely prosecute wage theft much more than they are now. Maybe the fear of jail time if wage theft were actually prosecuted a few times would deter most other potential wage thieves.
OP: Hey guys how can I learn to write a simple vanilla webpage?

HN: No problem, just deploy a container, set up nginx, use Express, VueV3, run the Esbuild Go tool, leverage the MVC pattern and get the dependencies with Webpack, then you need to use a web component wrapper on top of bootstrap and style it with SaSS compiled to CSS - easy peasy!
Yep, moved to Tallinn from England for work 6 months ago. Being a software engineer classes you as a “top specialist” so getting a visa and residence permit was very straightforward.

It really is a beautiful country. And today is the first day of snow :)
Zero knowledge proofs have nothing to do with blockchain, verifiable computation has nothing to do with blockchain.
You can use Zero Knowledge proof with many things, one of them is blockchain.
This inverses the relation of Zero knowledge proof and Blockchain, Its like saying supply chains are an advancement of blockchain. Just because you can do something (poorly) with blockchain does not make it part of blockchain.

This kind of inversion of relations stands in the base of why people with subject matter knowledge are opposing Blockchains/Crypto. Its a tower of badly constructed arguments standing on top of each other.

Private money is not a blockchain advancement, Supply chain management is not a blockchain advancement, Consensus algorithms are not a blockchain advancement... and zero knowledge proofs are not blockchain advancement.
Each and every one of this things can be done better not using blockchain.
Um...so?

I am not against youthful idealism, and no fan of Elan's "issues"...but is there any major company where calling for the company to publicly criticize its own alpha male CEO/~owner would end well?

I'm thinking "no".

(Yeah, I'd bet that SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell is at least as unhappy with Elan as the letter-writing kids are. But she also has a large rocket company to run. And I'm thinking that a big, youthful anti-Elan rebellion in the ranks would be pretty incompatible with SpaceX continuing to function well as a rocket company.)
I’d be very careful about the business taxes - it used to be a common model that Germans would form a UK ltd to do mostly business in germany - and they were generally liable for corporate taxes in germany. (1) So depending on your local tax laws and where you perform work/where your customers are located, you might still be liable for taxes.

(1) see the section about “inbound Tätigkeit” here https://www.dittmann-hartmann.de/Fachgebiete/Gesellschaftsre...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Foundation_Burn_a_Million_Qu...

Do that 250 * AUD/GBP rate times.

edit: shit forgot to adjust for 28 years of inflation
It looks like this article was prescient:

"Why is Canada euthanising the poor?" https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-is-canada-euthanisin...

Discussed previously on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32922399
It's also quite frustrating in practice. It's often hard to understand that an error is actually lack of conformance to an interface (and why) and even worse, it's not uncommon to accidentally implement an interface you didn't intend to.
They charge for bandwidth, server cycles and rent.
Why introduce a ledger into such a system? There's no need for global consensus on a total ordering of events.

Just use a DHT, like we've had for decades.
The far more common scenario - a bomb in a bag - is very devastating in closed spaces such as trains and buses.
Is Rust Ready for the Web Yet? (2020)