skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a German I agree with the gist: Germany is overly buerocratic and not startup friendly.

When it comes to founding a company the author overcomplicates things, however. This is OK when you want to study the process, or want to become an expert in this and maybe make a business out of it.

If you just want a company get started, just buy a ready made one. There are specialized lawyers that always keep a pool of freshly founded companies to sell - exactly for that purpose. These companies are brand new, usually just a couple of weeks old and have no significant history. They have generic names and you can decide on a proper name later.

If you don't have anyone to advise you and insist finding a suitable lawyer on your own: Go to Germany's central company register (Handelsregister) and research startups in your field. The lawyers and law firms specialized in selling new companies will stick out pretty quickly to you.
Can’t get meld to work on macos anymore :(
This is some fantastic insight. That would also inflate the opex (power/space/staffing) needs as well as people need to consider all the networking gear to hook this stuff together. 400G nic/switches/cables aren't cheap and in some cases, very hard to obtain in any sort of quantity.

It does seem like an odd move in that case. I liken this to a company like Bitmain. Why sell the miners when you could just run them yourselves? Well, fact is that they do both. But in this case, Groq is turning off the sales. Who knows, maybe it just ends up being a temporary thing until they can sort all of the pieces out.
Who knew you could get aids from AI...
Life isn't stable, if it was it wouldn't have managed to stick around for this long. Hundreds of millions of people are impoverished, are they unable to make art?

I'm also not sure what your suggestion is. Should aspiring artists create corporations and live from the labour of other people, to create something you'd consider freedom for themselves while intruding on the freedom of others? Or do you consider it freedom to be in someone else's service under the threat of poverty?

Some people also agree with songs like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFkmRp_G2uo
A trampoline used with no injury, is not defrauding the insurance company.
I'm sorry to hear that. I do not have any advice to offer, but someone close to me went through a similar ordeal of bureaucratic and fiscal hell in another European country. They lost everything they had to the taxman and its insane rules. There is a great number of people similarly broke or jailed because of how restrictive and anti-business these laws are. I do not see how can one in good conscience defend them as good, or productive for entrepreneurship.

If everything fails, I would suggest to at least make as much noise about this as possible. On social media, local news, etc. Just like a viral post is the only way to get Google support, in these bureaucratic hells an interview from a journalist might open some novel avenues for help.

I am so glad circumstances brought me to the UK, where in comparison company law is child's play, and managing my business and its taxes takes a couple hours a year at most.
One thing you can't get with a self-hosted blog is reach in Medium's recommendation engine.
Apple Music has a "Downloaded" browsing section (along with Artists, Albums, Composers, Genres, etc) that you can browse and search separately. Works fine.
Does it also employ a tiered-storage solution?
Can you elaborate more on the part where using Kafka as a work queue ends horribly? Genuinely interested!
Termites strike gold: Ant and termite colonies unearth gold in Australia

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/12/121211095007.h...

( Also used in parts of Africa)
> Or does Germany have some other forms of companies that I don't know?

There are 9 forms of companies in Germany, only two of which (GmbH and AG [stock corporation/PLC/...]) require fixed capital and a notary.
Sure. Thank you for answering. Good luck with what you're doing!
> In some cases, the industry has replaced these chemicals with newer phosphorus-based flame retardants, Trasande said, adding that researchers are now concerned these chemicals may be linked to cancer as well.

Then what can we do? What chemicals can we even find that do not harm us? I hate to be a chemical company shill, but thousands of people used to die in city fires, which we simply at the time took as a fact of life. This absolutely sucks, it's like there really is no way out when it comes to these things.

It really seems that while prevention is great, especially with microplastics being so pervasive now, a cancer cure seems like the only way we as a society can surivive without suffering with relentless cancer diagnoses and deaths which are only rising now. That or we have a degeneration of infrastructure and the economy, which means we'll just go back to dying in tenement fires again.
Anyone else irked by the inclusion of `currentColor`? I don't see the relevance.
Hello, the question may sound out of topic but have you considered open source solution such as Nextcloud? Personally I found privacy very important and that's what I picked. It was clearly not at the same level than Google drive at the beginning but it improved a lot those past years and is now very good in my opinion.
I liked it. I also think he sounds like a dick and a tiring man to know, and I'm confused by the people who themselves confuse dislike for the person with dislike for the writing.
The bureaucracy problem is compounded by not wanting to link databases between government organizations and a general resistance to anything digital that involves personal data (except Facebook et al. for some reason), which reduces efficiency a lot.

However, this is understandable given German history.
For example, you could run a proxy server to deliver the messages between parties.

You could just email each other your Signal ids at that point. It's no longer the email everyone thinks of as email.
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> since 128 MB of ram or how ever much they came with is peanuts today.

The first Palm (Pilot 1000) had 128 kB. I think the biggest 68k Palm was the Palm Vx with 8MB. Towards the end of the (Intel) ARM Palms, they did have 128 MB models though.
If you want to own the music aka download it Spotify is the wrong solution.
Also pays artists pennies but that's another gripe.
I don't know how it works in Germany but where I live one reason to buy an 'off-the-shelf company' is that you can pay out dividends with relatively low tax faster.
Yes, studies seem to indicate so:

https://www.nhtsa.gov/parts-partnership-for-analytics-resear...

https://www.iihs.org/topics/bibliography/ref/2143

Of course the systems are complex and make the car more expensive to repair, but that’s another topic.
I think psycho/sociopath types are a bit like the uncanny valley, where most people can tell something is off without it being obvious what. It happens because being clever isn’t the same as having the absurd level of self control needed to fake normality.
I guess its tool calling? When you chain the LLMs together?
Nice catch! It probably would be good to switch to an IDENTITY column, but it shouldn't make too much of a difference because Chela manages the state of the index manually anyways.

In order to create new IDs it consumes the next value of the index column, and then manually sets the index and the ID in one go.
Quartz Crystals – Twinning (2016)
The people benefiting from any behavior ranging from deceptive to criminal should be at least partially held liable (at minimum to not receive any profit whatsoever from those misdeeds).

Will this change investor behavior and industry culture? Yes, and that is not only a net good but absolutely necessary.

If you want capitalism as a financial system then holding the capitalists liable for wrongdoing that benefits them is the only way you avoid turning the planet into a hellscape.
It's wild that users have to be psychic enough to figure this out.

It's a super daggy solution, but I've found being humble and putting a little message in the app to let users know of oddities goes a long way. E.g. "To download this song, you need to make it part of a playlist" would have been enough. Inconvenient for users wishing to download a song for offline listening, daggy for spotify's UI, but much better than the status quo of frustrating users.
Switch to Apple Music.

One-click add from Shazam to a playlist and there is a setting to make every new song offline.

Plus you get significantly higher audio-quality.
Websites promoting weddings in Denmark start out saying birth certificates aren't needed. The marriage certificate is provided in 5 languages too.

Hundreds of non-resident trees marry in Denmark every week.

https://medium.com/@msosacordero/how-to-get-married-in-denma...
Agree that Kafka is best suited for stream scenarios. However, we also see Kafka being extensively used in online business scenarios.
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> "Spotify says it’s using large language models (LLMs) to understand the user’s intent. Then, Spotify uses its personalization technology — the information it has about the listener’s history and preferences — to fulfill the prompt and create a personalized AI-generated playlist for the user."

So "AI" to understand the request but I wonder how much of the second playlist generation step is machine learning based or if it is just their normal playlist algorithm fed with keywords. One of the reasons I don't like streaming music services is that the automatic playlist generation produces minor variations of the same playlist based on listening history & popular songs that it's hard to break out of. I'd rather they used ML to work out that if I take a break from my normal mix of music to play one pop song for my kids, I don't want to then hear 90% pop forever more!
Is it truly possible for AutoMQ to achieve 'scale-in/out' within seconds?
You have definitely had the wrong matcha. Prepared the traditional way (powder, hot water, and a bamboo whisk), it is a bit foamy, strongly bitter, with grassy notes.
What is everyone's typical use case of a playlist? The examples in the article ("songs to serenade my cat") seem rather contrived?
Not PhD students. Anything else.
Possibly the UX for songs downloads has been A/B tested into oblivion. This is one of the downsides of 'data driven design' - any feature that's immensely useful in limited circumstances looks unimportant because it appears to be something users don't go to very often. In this case if 99.9% of users are happy being online the entire time, the 'Download' button won't show up in the data very often, so designers will reduce its prominence more and more. It sucks for times when you need it but really that's a reflection of reality - most people just don't need it.
I suspect this thread is a honeypot to gather all Bulgarians on HN
>Surely its a spectrum, but seeing closed eye visuals isn't considered "being in a normal part of the spectrum" though.

Source?
Works for me with Firefox on a pixel 8...
In Apple music songs can be in three^ states: Null, In Your Library, or Downloaded, with downloaded being a subset of “In your Library”. When you are offline you can look through all your library and see those songs which you’ve added but not downloaded as greyed out, versus the download ones as black. There’s also a view that filters the library so it only shows downloaded. If you click a black Downloaded song, it plays, if you click a grey In Your Library one, it says “Connect to Data to play this song” or similar.

^ I lied, there’s actually a fourth hidden state “Cached” that the UI presents as “In your Library” rather than “Downloaded”, and will give the same “Connect to data…” error if you directly click on it to play while offline. However, if you click Play on the album/playlist/etc itself, you can then navigate via the “Next Button” and “Up Next” queue to pick the song and if you played it recently, it’ll work. Great if find yourself in a plane and there are some songs you’ve been listening to lately but forgot to download.

I’ve been meaning to write a blog on “The Hidden Cache Apple Music Doesn’t Want You To Know About” for some time now lol. But knowing Apple I’d half-expect them to “patch the bug” by preventing the hidden cache from being played offline.
Thabk you for your kind words. I used to live in the UK and had several businesses there, and can confirm your experience.
Excellently put, I couldn’t agree more!

If you’re an entrepreneur AML will cause you nothing but harm while the rich avoid it through the caribbean, Luxembourg, Monaco, Switzerland, etc.
OpenOrion – open-source Generative Design
When has latency ever not mattered?

Let alone 'chat' use cases, but holding a reponse up for N*1.2 longer than it could holds all sorts of other resources up/down stream.
It's not normal full stop. A tiny fraction of people might need it but it's definitely not the norm.
As an FYI, LIGO in Eastern Washington offers full tours of the facility inside and out for free. Was a memorable trip and included a lecture before hand. Highly recommend checking it out!
Loss of engine cover on Southwest Boeing 737-800 prompts FAA investigation
Awesome writeup, i did a similar years ago. One important thing you missed is VBG Berufsgenossenschaft. Mandatory to register within 10 days after the notary. Even as a one person Gmbh you need to register there. Running costs: https://www.on-promise.cloud/en/compendium/01-how-much-does-...
Open it in UK. There are dozens of online businesses that deal with all the overseas paperwork. Otherwise Estonia.

You will still have to pay your personal taxes in Germany, if you reside there.
I'd say the opposite, xz proved how much effort it is to actually backdoor widely used open-source software as opposed to something where the Russian government (or another one) can just go knocking.

Nothing is perfect of course but the attack was insane in terms of complexity.
Zoning is not construction regulation. I don't think OP meant don't build housing with fire escapes or certified electricians.

To the traffic point I believe you may have what young urbanists uncharitably called car brain.

Less zoning -> more density -> fewer cars -> fewer deaths. Pedestrian safety a lagging effect unfortunately
Weird troll, or sociopath?
Legend has it that these strange-looking numbers date to even older than the NFL and Squre Enix! :O

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_numerals
The prices look very reasonable for Denmark, where everything is expensive.

I'm sure the local governments know it's a good source of tourist money though, hotels, restaurants and so on.
This is the previous generation 737 NG, not the MAX. A similar incident happened in 2018 and a passenger was partially sucked out of the plane and died. The FAA has given Boeing and the airlines until 2028 to fix the uncontained engine failure risk in the 737 NG.
With all these different writeups from so many people I am just left with one big question: Why is the not such a government curated list or guidance on these topics?
Rolling your own crypto is obviously a bad idea. It turned out the cryptography implemented by developers not expert in cryptography sometimes was merely obfuscation.

If you want to roll your crypto, become a cryptographer first. That sounds circular, but isn’t.
hopefully you can disable this and not be bothered by it. the recent-ish "smart shuffle" feature shuffles songs in a playlist and also brings in songs outside the playlist, which i can see as potentially being useful, but there's many times i want to swap from shuffle to not-shuffle while listening to a playlist (eg, two or more songs that flow together) but because smart shuffle is controlled by the shuffle button it only appears in my user experience when i'm trying to do something entirely different, which only makes me resent it
To be fair, by grandfather had a Nintendo DS.
Yes, thank you for the clarification. AutoMQ has replaced the topic-partition storage with cloud-native S3Stream (https://github.com/AutoMQ/automq/tree/main/s3stream) library, thereby harnessing the benefits of cloud EBS and S3.
I went down to the local Ausländerbehörde in Berlin (a place where foreigners register with the state), having very very minimal German. I was promptly handed a form in German to fill out. More than slightly flustered and in a bit of rush to get it done, I put down "25" in a box that I thought was age, but in actuality was the number of times you were married. Never much helped my application that I think!
Get a job at a restaurant/ supermarket/bar - something basic, boring and manual.
At least for a year or so, you will have a very different experience.
Work 6-8 hours, then clock out and meet some people.

Sounds dumb but IMO you should dial it back and ground yourself a bit more - friends you make a that age often stay for life.
It's harder after.

Seriously though ignore internet advice
I believe that the exit tax is usually never actually collected due to double taxation agreements between countries.

Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wegzugsbesteuerung#Derzeitige_...
You shouldn’t have sensitive secrets on your workstation in your .env file though. It’s not what it’s for.
I'll pay annually to reduce this risk. For some reason I doubt google would just delete my data if I went into a coma for a year or two, but I can't back that up with a source. It's just a hope.

I'd consider paying 10 years in advance if I could tbh.
I strongly recognise this sentiment. It's why it was so refreshing to read The War Trap[1]. Granted, it's 40 years old at this point, but the author took data I have access to, used maths I know, and derived new results on a complicated topic.

It's incredibly inspiring. What other complicated fields are just waiting for the right person to come along and discover their fundamental laws? I have a vague suspicion that partial differential equations are criminally underused in modeling for software developmemt and system design.

[1]: I wrote a short review at https://two-wrongs.com/war-what-is-it-good-for.html if anyone is curious.
Even talking to people there, my experience is that they are super nice!
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X's AI Bot Is Reporting Joke Posts as Actual News
I don't get it.

Indian goverment asked twitter to remove links to a BBC documentary that made Modi look bad and they immediately complied.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/25/india-ban-on-b...

Brazilian goverment is closing accounts that (presumably) tried to overthrow the goverment and that's where he draws the line??

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Brazilian_Congress_atta...
Ask HN: Minimal Syllabus for Intellectual Citizenship
We like the idea of an informed voter. But informed about what. If someone has no idea about the half life of plutonium or U238, are they informed about nuclear power? What’s the minimum a modern citizen should know about mathematics? Is calculus too much? What about economics - is a wealth tax necessary?

We cannot all be experts, but what is necessary to know ?
I "solved" that by using two assembling passes. The first had dummy jump/call addresses in order to determine the code offsets of labels. Then I would resolve the relative offsets, replace the target labels with offset deltas and reassemble.

I used that trick to speed up my QBasic programs with graphics, string and list handling, etc. It was one of the first rewarding times in my programming "career" and it actually made me feel proud of myself.
"bonk - Box's windOw maNager toolKit."

Obviously.
I’m guessing you meant puppet (iac) not puppeteer (e2e testing)
Nice, also the PSoC5LP CY8CKIT-059 is cheap and can be had for ~20 €.
Quite astonishing that someone managed to get valid certs from Let's Encrypt for domains that they didn't own. Has Let's Encrypt issued any statements about how this might have happened, and how those specific certificates were validated by them?

Still, good to see that monitoring the CT logs would have caught this problem much sooner.
Spotify demonetizes all tracks under 1k streams
> Funny part is that even the library of gpg (gpgme) is internally calling the binary.

Sounds like a great way to transition things in a saner direction. You know it will be bug-for-bug compatible with calling the gpg-binary. Having one blessed text-parser with a lot of eyes on it is much better than everyone rolling their own.
Getting people used to depending on a library instead of shelling out also means it becomes possible to move the library to independent implementations.
"Hey mum, can I move back into your two-bedroom ranch house in North Carolina?"

"Oh honey, of course you can!"

Note that he did in fact move back in, so this conversation must have happened in some form.