skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having gone through this a couple of times, I'll say that all of this is true, but in practice, I find the actual founding process not very complicated with neo-banks that understand the founding process well. I just founded a new GmbH last week, and it took 2 days in total.

One more thing I'd recommend doing before going to a notary though is get a "Vorabstellungnahme" from IHK to ensure that they won't reject your company name which would create delays and additional notary cost. It costs some money, but is worth ensuring it doesn't cause chaos afterwards.

1. Get "Vorabstellungnahme" from IHK, takes a few hours.

2. E-mail notary (yes I've worked with them a couple times, that might speed up their response time), get pre-fab founding docs within a few hours, appointment next day. Digital version of the founding docs will be available within a few hours.

3. Create account with Qonto or something equivalent, there's an explicit configuration for your notary email, so they will take care of providing proof of the starting capital.

4. Transfer starting capital.

5. Notary hands in Handelsregisteranmeldung, sends you a copy and upload it to your bank.

In practice, I find the founding process not complicated, but the day-to-day operation, bookkeeping, taxes, etc. way more painful.

Founding a GmbH wholly owned by a Delaware C-Corp, however, is intensely painful, practically no bank wants to work with you, and notaries aren't enough, you need to work with apostilles (international notaries). I highly recommend working with a law firm to set this up correctly but expect easily upwards of $10k between lawyer, apostille, and bank account costs.
It was a rhetorical question. Why not increase surveillance to 24/7.

There is no defrauding going on. You don't own someone's behaviour or property simply because you "insure" them.

You get to reject claims and put your opinion on what "fraud" is, through the proper channels.

Taking photos and dropping customers is going around the proper channels and tyrannizing your customers.

How that is not obvious to everybody involved, is beyond me.

Drop the pretense and install a command economy again like the 1940s. You are leaning in that direction anyway.
> It was impossible for my wife to provide an up-to-date (less than six months old) translated copy of her Chinese birth certificate

I find this hilarious. It's the same in France, you need an up to date "original" of your birth certificate. But why? It's just saying you (full names) were born in XXX on a specific date. There's nothing about it that could change, really. In the country I'm from, your parents get one original on birth, and you can ask for copies from the town hall. But in France multiple administrations were extremely bothered that they weren't "original" (because they say DUPLICATA on them, and in French you get a shitty A4 with a stamped signature one can print at home, but they insist on an original) and weren't in French.
At least it _was_ very popular many years ago, when I created my first e-mail address in school for MSN and because they had 10 free SMS every month.
This is exactly the reason why my preferred method of music consumption is piracy + Bandcamp. Every Bandcamp Friday (when Bandcamp doesn't take a cut) I buy about 2 to 6 albums I've listened to in the past month or a few. If an artist is not on Bandcamp, I'm less likely to listen to them, but if I do, I eventually pirate their stuff.

All the music I buy and pirate is in FLAC and funneled into my local library, where I can enjoy it without any streaming service taking it away from me.

And I usually end up contributing more to my favorite artists financials than fans who use streaming service, so that's a bonus.
> The reason they have that problem is that their logic for funneling subscription revenue to streams is broken

Changing it to splitting out a users monthly payment to what they're actually listening to, would make the abuse they're trying to stop easier and not harder (as it would mean all the money they're trying to launder will go to the correct artist instead of just some of it)

Not saying that that's a good argument for the current system, but it wouldn't fix the issue they're trying to solve
You won't believe

believing is without you

you won't believe

anymore~
What's the connection there? The second link says it's not about materials discovery at all but rather their GigaPOWERS model, which is a physics simulation used to optimize CO2 injection into their fields (i.e. optimizing recovery). POWERS is old, it was in development for decades already. Given that they don't plan to use Groq for LLMs but simply for its parallel computation abilities. I wonder to what extent this deal - if it goes through - will seriously drain Groq, actually, as POWERS would not be like the code Groq was designed to run and so much of their performance comes from the way they tightly optimize for very specific calculations.
This is such an obvious and old idea that it would have killed text as source code by now if it would be an actually *good* idea ;) (IIRC one attempt was an IDE from IBM in the 90s).
I suggest you read up EV charging in New York city. At any one time at least a third is faulty. Charging is HUGE problem. When you have it at home, with your home charging, it doesnt seem so much of a problem for you. But when you have masses running EVs, a handful of Tesla super chargers CANNOT compete agains a handful of gas stations which is way way way more efficient servicing their ICE cars than the same for EVs by supercharger. You literally have to have gas triple in price and solar/fusion supplying electricity to get masses to wait extra 30mins for their cheap charging. And now, USA is in conundrum, if they support EVs, Chinese will wipe clean all American manufacturers worst than peak Japan auto. Of they dont, Americans will stuck in their stone age ICE. Look forward for Joe and Trump to declare Chinese EVs and batteries are national security threat. You can only buy expensive Model 8000 from Elon.
I'll take this bad faith argument, and give you even a worse one - $50 is about 5 drinks or less at a bar with tips nowadays. I genuinely doubt a serious person who makes music on the side will look at that number as a potential loss of income.

And if you have made 200 songs (so loss of $100), all streaming less than 1K each, maybe your current production is not marketable on Spotify, and yeah, maybe you should find another venue. Eventually there will be a marketplace for this type of production, and hopefully willing users to pay for it.
To then start complaining about the costs of living..?
Err, thanks. Heaven forbid someone shares software that they actually like.
Sounds like the world is moving in a certain direction and you didn't move at all. Now you know how the people you decried when you were young feel.
Do you know if the parts the flew away, are build by the engine manufacturer, are build by the engine manufacturer and attached/assembled by Boeing or are those coverings build and attached by Boeing (because every attachment for every plane is different, even for the same engine?)
For some Christians, a solar eclipse signals the second coming of Christ
Demystifying the Shadow DOM
I would be surprised if Boeing isn't seeing or going to see reduced orders because of this endless barrage of bad news.
> I can't wait for the new Nigerian immigrant to swing his beer at Octoberfest arm in arm with the second generation Turk from Munich, all while the waitress, a temporary worker from the Czech Republic, rushes on.

Wait, isn't that what's happening already? I'm pretty sure the temporary worker from the Czech Republic is there, as is the second generation Turk voting for Erdogan. Not fully sure about the Nigerian immigrant though.
It's trivial in an era where the concept of algorithms is established but less so back in the 1940s. You really had to be at the forefront to know that sorting algorithms are meaningful things to think about. But indeed mergesort is really not even a footnote of von Neuamnn's contributions to computing, which was perhaps not even 1/3 if his career. That's how much a giant he was.
The YouTube video linked in reference 11 has been taken down, but I found it on the Internet Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20200626032839/https://www.youtu...

I've just watched it, and it was very interesting (though a low quality copy). From 1966, it has many people who knew him talking about him.
This is interesting because I have the exact opposite experience. I'm a South African but I live in the EU, for me, I need to book my new passport 1 year+ in advance of it expiring because it takes on average about that long (if I pay the bribes).
Seem to be able to break a catch though
Microsoft hiring Inflection team triggers interest from EU's antitrust chief
step 1: register a british company
step 2: done...
There's one specifically for Boeing: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/list-of-2024-boeing-pla...
Still slower than alacritty according to https://beuke.org/terminal-latency/

Also not really cross-platform, contrary to what's indicated in the first word of its github description, and the owner is kind of an ass about it https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/6481.
Yeah, we like to think foreigners can't hack it - but we had an American friend staying with us for a while, and one day I came out to breakfast to find him having Vegemite and peanut butter layered on top of each other, on the same piece of toast.

Jesus, Craig - what the hell were you thinking!?!?
Search for white noise and you'll understand why this is not a great idea.
The market is hungry for a well-done music streaming service. I don't know why there is no venture backed competitor.
This isn't true, this year I have been on a train from Marseille to Berlin and German police checked everyone on the train for passports at the border specifically to check residence validity - and removed one passenger with a residence permit as he attempted to reenter Germany (he was informed he was not initially permitted to leave)
This is not related to Boeing at all. Engine covers not being closed properly is a relatively common (still rare in the grand scheme of things) incident and happens a lot more frequently on Airbus models to the point that Airbus modified the door latch.
Russia. I used to think that Russia was mostly the victim (I've been there several times and I speak the language; that's certainly how the regular people view geopolitical affairs).

Since the invasion to Ukraine I've been reading the history of the country, and I've changed my mind. In fact the country has a long history of invading its neighbors, and so a defensive alliance around it seems very rational. And the invasion of Ukraine was a modern day reminder for those too young to remember why NATO was created.
It isn’t relevant - the final assembler is responsible for QC.

If I build something, and I buy something from a third party to be part of it, I make sure that

A) it isn’t defective
B) it integrates robustly

You can wave your hand at the supply chain all you want, but if you’re sticking your name on it, it’s yours.
Why use Spotify at all when it's so much more helpful to subscribe to patreon of new and promising artist?
I think "theft" closer describes this rather than "demonetization"
^H, ^J, ^K, and ^L _had_ meaning and that meaning is why hjkl do what they do. Their location on the homerow of a number of layouts is an accident. And they are not very useful in practice anyway.

"Remapping" the whole keyboard around them is IMO a silly idea.
TSMC Gets $11.6B in US Grants, Loans for Three Chip Fabs
> Spotify seems very happy to just break everybody's playlists continuously.

definitely possible to avoid this, but given it would be a follow-up cost from the failing core business, it probably could not be done. hell, they didn't even get around to making basic meta-data reliably present.
https://archive.is/quo5I
Ah annoying, I'd assumed Roon had a Linux client but it appears not to, despite having a compatible server and a bridge client.
(as a fellow American) They almost certainly meant this as "politicians, or their voters, have some bias/hate against something, so they destroy the bureaucracy that benefits those people".

Eg. Republicans hate taxes, so they defund the IRS (tax collectors), to make it harder for the government to audit tax evasion.
Your arguments veers close to the "for exposure" payment.

People don't go to indie concerts because of a spotify track. Nor to big name concerts. And 20 cents corresponds to around 50 to 100 plays according to the numbers mentioned here.
No, that's the end game here. People already mostly have parasocial relationships with artists. There's already famous AI personality Instagrams and Vtubers. With the advent of Generative AI video like Sora and Generative AI music like Suno, people will find their perfect generative AI niche and follow an artist story/interaction that they can't even tell is real or not. Generative AI will create millions of niches, it will hit that spot.
a recent south park episode was about exactly this
My very own personal and totally unproven theory is that at a certain point in time Big Tech decide they can take over banks. See for instance

- https://web.archive.org/web/20240213185758/https://www.cimb....

- https://milkeninstitute.org/sites/default/files/reports-pdf/...

How? Well pushing what seems an alternative to a central bank and banks system, a fully open and still pure finance one. Since no one really trust such actors they choose the FLOSS path publishing a FLOSS project as a mysterious developer who seems to want fight the giants. "Hey, but cryptos are open!", really? Formally yes, while 99% who use them use them via some exchange, witch is de facto a kind of bank not under the national banks laws of course. When a blockchain grow enough essentially no little player can handle it entirely so again it's a big tech natural game, pretend to be open, friendly and innocent "do not be evil", while being of course the contrary.

Eventually banks react an reach some kind of agreement so now the trend is crypto but with a CBDC model, who solve some inter-central-banks problems, give a place under the Sun to big tech and keep essentially anything as usual.

Otherwise I see no reasons for someone to mask his/shes identity in a FLOSS project that's formally innocent and friendly.
What a putz.
Probably but nearly all food exposes you to toxins.

There's nicotine in French fries and ketchup, eggplants and cauliflower, for example.

CDC 1993
Experienced employees will continue to be laid off until quality improves.
That Russian dude has -ko in his surname. And the project hadn't been updated since 2020.
While your suspicions are fairly justified, this player doesn't look like a nation-state attack vector.
As a German this never really happened to me. I even own a business here, not a GmBH though. Took one document to fill out about an hour of "work".

I really do not get these complaints at all. Even Taxes can be filled out easily with a pretty good online form. None of the bureaucracy ever happened to me, except it is annoying to book appointments. The only things that need addressing are the chronically understaffed government offices and the ridiculously high taxes which are constantly being wasted on utter nonsense.
I've been working on a similar idea for Obsidian and the obsidian-spaced-repetition plugin: https://github.com/crybot/obsidian-flashcards-llm

It's not intended to work with Anki, as I meant it to be used directly within obsidian. There's still a lot of work to do and I don't really have much time right now, but it's already quite usable if you have an openAI API key. Btw if anyone is interested in contributing he's more than welcome.
Object-Oriented C: A Primer
Sagan's old quote about making an apple pie applies, here, I think.

Building on your sentiment, I have always felt that schools (in the US, at least) tend to teach students what to think rather than how to think. There is a huge emphasis on "here is the answer, now go find the questions" where I posit more focus should be placed on guiding a student to problem solve, think critically, and discover a few things for themselves, especially at the younger ages
Everything is full of humans, but private companies with terrible processes workers would usually have consequences that demand some change. Government services have no competition sos they are exempt from consequences if they're terrible.
Biggest problem: Germans don't understand digitization.

They often try to recreate the paper process with IT, instead of making a complete new setup.

Example:

Previously, you had to go to the City Hall or whatever in your pace of birth to get a birth certificate.

Now you can email them, pay, and they mail you the certificate via snail mail.

How it should be: Use an online token, log into your account, request a birth certificate and just print it. It should have a URL that can be used to verify that it is valid. This would be faster and the risk of forgery would be much lower. A seal - and Germans love seals, they wank of to seals - can be forged much easier.
This incident isn't related to Boeing .. at all ... but when Airbus do it (which you assure it happens more frequently) it's related to whom exactly, and why did Airbus fix it if it wasn't related to them (modified the door latch)?
Those are random spot checks, there's no border between France and Germany where everyone's passport will be checked.
China's Didi, GAC Aion to mass produce robotaxis next year
Essentially Spotify now pays small artists in “exposure”.

Looks a lot like abuse of market position.
Depends on your application.

For example, if you're a game company and you want to use LLMs so your players can converse with nonplayer characters in natural language, replacing a multiple-choice conversation tree - you'd want that to be low latency, and you'd want it to be cheap.
>Other countries that see immigration as an opportunity have systems that are far far superior to that of Germany.

Do you have any examples for this? Genuinely curious.

From where I stand most EU countries right now are talking steps backwards on this as they've become overloaded with migration waves, housing shortages, stagnating wages, which increased the far right support, so the hot topic now is how to discourage ALL immigration, not how to make life better and easier for SOME immigrants to attract them.

Sure, you obviously want to encourage the useful skilled immigration, but like I said, from where I stand it seems countries don't distinguish and are trying to make life hell for all immigrants just to plase the right wing voters since those would be frothing at the mouth if they heard their government is rolling out the red carped to attract SOME immigrants, so then for simplicity the political issue is binary, IMMIGRANTS or NO IMMIGRANTS.
> There is no monetary reason to be on spotify, the only reason we are on there is because fans asked.

This isn't an excuse for Spotify not paying much for plays, but I bet having music on spotify helps the gig revenue though.

In some ways this is also true for Taylor Swift et al - they also make thousands times the amount from playing gigs than 'selling' albums, streaming, and radio plays but that drives ticket sales.
Whoever did not latch the door properly after doing maintenance checks. Which is either a mechanic at the airline itself or someone at a maintenance hub that is contracted by the airline. Not the job of the manufacturer whatsoever.
Especially because merging was how card machines sorted large decks
Paddy Cosgrave is back and better than ever, baby!
If the ownership is with the publishing studio then AFAIK they pay the producing, distribution and promotion. It is an investment into the artist, so they shouldn't have these costs.
And what do you think epochs in machine learning are? Or why more modern training efforts (i.e. for LLMs) are focussing hard on deduplicating scraped data?
Darwin did give him a shout out, the biggest difference here was very likely the levels of self promotion;

Wallace failed to promote his role in formulating the theory as effectively as Darwin.

~ your bbc link

and Darwin was very much on home ground in the UK actively riding on Wallace's extensive field work and spreading a Darwin flavoured spin on the very material Wallace was writing in from the tropics.

Both were very good writers, Darwin had greater visibility during the early days simply by being there to meet, greet, and lecture.

Many of the "Darwin" ideas in the popular mind came from elsewhere; Survival of the fittest was Spencer and although later taken up as a phrse by both Darwin and Wallace it's almost the active opposite of the more passive (and more correct) notion of Survival of the best adapted.
Hell no. I applied for citizenship over a year ago now and no communication has been made with me. I'm also not sure where this "up to 10 months" is coming from because when I applied (and recently checked) it says "over 2 years". On top of that I'm not sure what reddit you're looking at, but the ones I'm looking at are constantly complaining about how long the process is taking - how they expected it in 2022 and are still waiting in 2024.

Also this "web ui" is so bad and difficult to work with. I lost all the data I input at least twice, also the forms do no seem up to date with the requirements (requirements on newindenmark are different from what is presented on the form).
The plane was built in 2015.

This is not about building the engine doors, it's about who did not close them properly during last maintenance.
Is this a brand new airplane or caused by some design flaw? Because if not everyone should probably be blaming the airline/maintenance company.

Certainly not downplaying Boeing’s massive screwups but it just seems that every single incident that everyone just used ignore in past is now an international news story (but only if a Boeing plane is involved)
Mmmhh... I don't think the OECD data is not working comparing countries:

"The data are published with the following health warning: The data are intended for comparisons of trends over time; they are unsuitable for comparisons of the level of average annual hours of work for a given year, because of differences in their sources and method of calculation."

Yes, in Germany are many part-time workers but overall mostly they are not working 6 hours the day . Normal is - afaik - 8 hours per day on approx. 220 days in a year.
If someone owns the property next to you, they obviously have an economic interest in the neighborhood. They may or may not live there, but that has nothing to do with zoning. Someone can own a single-family home and rent it out. Meanwhile you can have a 10-story condominium where every single unit is owner-occupied. How tall the building is has nothing to do with whether the property owner lives in it.
Sorting was already a big thing in the punched card world.

Edit: adp with cards had been a thing for half a century by the time digital machines appeared. IBM was founded in 1911; NCR 1884.
Something like 15% of spotify's revenue is from ads, and so even if you do that you have to address the ad-fraud problem.

You also aren't even addressing one of the issues here, which is functionally "listen-time" related fraud on Spotify, but simple solutions don't really work, since yt has the same issue in reverse.

As a general rule, if you think something like "No abuse possible.", you are unfamiliar with the problem space.
They will give that answer because they are forced to give it. The softmax amplifies whatever marginal outputs of the model head to a probability distribution. This means that if they don't have an answer, they are quite likely to "hallucinate" it. This is of course influenced by the patterns they learned. And directing them to be more structured also utilitizes pattern of structured thinking that is either part of finetuning or somewhere to be found in training data.

The cat/dog vs. human analogy is a very bad comparison since their brains work fundamentally like human brains, while transformers are something completely different.