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(Not a tax professional so don't take my word for it) But I think you're talking about individual fiscal residency. A company you create can technically not be resident where you live so long as you can demonstrate that the principal activities of the company do not take place where you live. So with Spain, if a decent percent of your customers are Spanish and you're the only member of the company, then Spain would have reasonable recourse to consider the company Spanish and require you to register it there and pay Spanish corporate taxes. However, if you have say, 6 employees all over the world, your customers are not substantially Spanish etc then they have a lot harder job proving that the fiscal residency of the company is Spanish. In any case, there is always an outside chance that they could investigate you which is enough of a pain on its own, so may not be worth it!

https://www.prisma.io/docs/orm/prisma-client/using-raw-sql/r... - it assumes that these queries return arrays and there's a template you can pass in like this:

prisma.$queryraw<YourType>`SELECT * FROM ...`

The key to it is that it uses the OS's webview (on Windows 10+ the new edge webview https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview...) which means that you're mostly not bundling the whole of chromium / webkit each time.

I've been using v2 for a month or so and it's really great. There are a few things that feel a little bit rougher than the Rust equivalent (Tauri), but Go is just so much faster to code in that this has been a pleasure to work with.

Also props to the lead maintainer Lea Anthony who seems to be behind all the very exciting momentum of the project

Yes I think that's fair especially about writing technique if that was the OP's original analogy, and in particular about new writers as you point out.

What I was referring to specifically was inspiration and knowledge of niche events that become the details that bring prose / art alive. These immediately lose their effect if they are reused which is why my friends who are professional writers dedicate an enormous amount of time to research in the hope that these details may jump out to them.

In a lot of contemporary art, a curator's view of work is often hung around a particular piece of research and that must be unique to warrant the attention of the public - my original point was that that research just can't be shared until the work is revealed.

However, maybe to your point, there is a lot of value in a more technical literary HN which encourages meta discussion on the process of writing rather than the content.

I have discussed this idea with friends who are writers / artists. Call me a cynic, but while many writers / artists aspire to collective shared knowledge, the reality of both the writing and art market is that unique knowledge is an important differentiator and an asset to their careers. If you do find a fascinating, rare 19th century travel journal in some online archive the last thing you are going to do is share it with others like you until you're sure that you're not going to use it as material yourself. The exception to this being other writers completed work (ie long-form articles, books), but that probably doesn't need a focus on writers / artists per se and a more general "aesthete" HN might work better...

If you are an essential part of your startup as, for example CTOs are in very early stage startups, you may find it difficult to completely detach for more than a few weeks especially if the business is negotiating a complicated part of its development.

There is much good advice here but I would add a few things that I have not seen in other comments. My advice is not for people who are employees as I believe they should take at a minimum their entire statutory allowance, but for founders with a greater stake in the success of the business:

- although the first few weeks are certainly the most challenging especially if you end up staying on in hospital for a few days, there will be many challenges over the entire first year unless you have excellent family (ie grandmother) help - so pace yourself and your team's expectation of your involvement.

- Plan to be completely absent for the first few weeks and adjust your team's expectations accordingly, but then optimise asynchronous communication of all but the most pressing issues from that point on. This helps if your business is remote because it's likely you will already be successfully using asynchronous communication through tickets / slack / email.

- While it would have been great to spend my downtime watching series, early infancy tends to give you a lot of time at unexpected hours and it can actually end up being quite painless to put in 2-3 hours of problem solving or pull request reviews. These can make the difference between a team heading radically off path and staying on track.

- If you can (ie if you're not the one breastfeeding -- that's totally consuming and you won't be able to do anything) try and distribute some of your leave later because babies get more engaging every extra day they are out of the womb!

Good luck!

If Rust is too much of an adventure, maybe you'll find Go easier. Wails [1] is great if perhaps a bit more rough round the edges. Because it's go, package sizes are 10mb+ but nothing like Electron 30mb+

1. https://github.com/wailsapp/wails

It is easy to agree with the sentiment of this article, but the fundamental premise of this is wrong in modern architecture. That premise is that it is the architect that is in control of the final aesthetic of the building. Architects get work by participating in competitions against other architects for limited budgets. In a few, rare cases (usually public buildings and museums) an extraordinary budget may be approved that goes to funding truly radical buildings that break from the status quo, but in the overwhelming majority of cases architects play a fine line within the following constraints:

1. Planning regulations (in the UK at least, it's very hard to propose buildings that differ significantly from neighbouring buildings)

2. Materials -- building custom window frames / door frames is incredibly expensive. The first thing that tends to get cut as budgets are inevitably squeezed are any custom items

3. Client expectations -- most new large buildings are built with a projection of future occupants. Developers want to be able to make apartments as saleable as possible so usually take the most risk-averse options

While I applaud concepts with more colour, detail and originality, you must also consider where you would like to live. Most people (I think) want to build out their own custom surroundings as their home grows on them. Bland buildings make this easier because it is a blank canvas upon which you can begin to construct your own projection of your ideal home. Being locked inside a giant multicoloured artwork conceived of by somebody else might sound appealing to start off with, but will quickly become an aesthetic prison of somebody else's personality.

For anybody thinking about contributing this, this is sadly as close to not open source as open source gets. I tried to contribute to this, but it's impossible to build without the webrtc binary and the docs are deliberately opaque about going about building your own version of the binary. You are encouraged to pay the (almost sole) contributor of this repo for his build of webrtc. For this reason it's not really surprising that this version is both quite out of sync with the mainline OBS and also has only one or two contributors. Fortunately, for me, most plugins built with the mainline OBS do work with this.

I get that the maintainer has put a lot of work into this and wants to try and monetize some part which is hard when OBS is GPL, but depending on a binary which is nigh-on impossible to build and then charging for it on your website just feels a bit of a shitty way to do it.

I've been using this for nearly a year and it's by far the best thing I've found so far for testing realistic websockets load where servers are put under strain not just by connections but interactions between each other. Many thanks for the dev team behind this. It's a great piece of work.

+1 for Eça de Queiroz. With the exception of O Crime do Padre Amaro which can in places be a bit blunt, he tends to have a a kind admiration for his characters as he quietly makes fun of them and the decadent society around them.

I never thought I would see this on HN! I also highly recommend reading (an abridged version of) this, maybe in tandem with a well annotated version of The Lusiads by Camoes. From our modern, connected multicultural world, I find there's nothing more engrossing than witnessing this "discovery" through the eyes of those comparatively monocultural generations. In a similar vein, I have also been meaning to read some of Ibn Battuta's travels which strike me as a Berber angle on a similar journey.

For anybody using Firefox Android and ublock origin who now sees ads, worth checking out the duckduckgo Android privacy browser. So far, it seems to be working beautifully so something good for me at least has come out of this mess!

I've managed to get the classic vim `<C>-w` + h|j|k|l working in VSCode. Sadly my convenient remapping of that doesn't work :(

My annoyances are pretty small: not being able to do `:e ` and then tab complete the directory structure and the fact that VSCode has splits with tabs rather than tabs with splits.

For anybody who's found more IDE-y activities a bit beyond the current generation of VIM plugins (looking at you Typescript), the Vim plugins for VsCode and Visual Studio are actually surprisingly good and I find myself at least as productive as I do in Vim.

I imagine it might be quite a good starting point for somebody who's used to VsCode productivity but wanted to get into vim without going full vim!

I used to work in the same co-working space as them in London in 2012 when it was just 3 of them and 3 interns. If I remember correctly, they managed the whole thing on excel sheets balancing out their EUR and GBP accounts with the frantic interns settling transactions manually.

Always interesting to see tech companies that going on little to no tech! Congrats to them!

Absolutely. But I for one would rather live in a world that had the diversity of both private and state-funded art, each with their own biases. Surely that's better than the single influence of the market?

I think this is the essence of most modern entertainment. I once produced a pilot children's animation and had written a "bible" - the text that sets out what you plan to do for a series - and was told by a senior commissioner in no uncertain terms that modern children's tv series "must take place in the same place with the same characters so kids can come home and watch the show at the same time every day and feel like they have a family while their parents are doing something else. That way they buy into the brand and parents buy all the merchandise". As you mention, it's the inevitable consequence of optimisation and why there should always be a space for government-funded programming and art.

What UK current account do you have with a decent interest rate? By decent do you mean 0.02% or something?

I stopped my subscription to the New Yorker because I got fed up with exactly this. Although, as others here have commented, it may more emotionally resonant to hear one person's story, it also reinforces a very American view of history that all changes good and bad are forged by individuals, not by motivated groups of people or larger stochastic events / underlying structural changes.

Repeated enough, it can create a narrative that the wider groups don't matter as long as you support the few exceptionals. This seems to play out across all sides of US society both in justice (think "headline" prosecution of corrupt individuals in finance etc) and in social welfare. This is not to say that exceptional individuals do not have a disproportionate role in society. They unquestionably do. However I can't think of any of those individuals who has not been enabled by dozens if not thousands of talented others.

>"After all, without trade secrets and IP, a business has nothing to stand out from the crowd."

Except that GoDaddy has a massive, massive brand with millions invested in marketing over years of business. Its success is hardly down to trade secrets or juicy AWS discounts...

>I could never get something I was happy with

You sound like a writer! Keep going

Very creepy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reiser

I'm with you and ready to sign any petition that stops museums buying Jeff Koons!

Most people tend to dismiss the wide-range manipulation of high-end art as an irrelevant problem that only affects millionaires and a tiny subsection of "commercial artists". A point worth making is that more often than not, it is taxpayers who end up footing the bill when public museums purchase wildly expensive work whose price has been driven up by the processes described in the article.

While museums may get a discount for being important "taste-makers", I can't believe that that makes up for the crazy overvaluation.

This alone should make the case for better regulation as difficult as it must be across international borders.

I completely agree with this. While there can be many other issues that are worth seeking professional advice for, being on ones own for prolonged periods is definitely bad for one's mental health. I recently watched a documentary on the effects of solitary confinment on prison inmates and saw that I was developing very mild symptoms described by working on my own at home for many days consecutively. Even having people in view helps immeasurably.

I was imagining that publishing bank details would expose them to a slightly higher risk of Direct Debit fraud, but again i'm no expert...

Lobby Congress to outlaw lobbying and restrict campaign donations to $20 / person!

I agree thoroughly with your sentiment and am a strong believer in the welfare state as a way of addressing social imbalances. I also like the economics of the state providing better stability to those in the gig economy because, in theory, it will mean that they feel less pressure to work unhealthy hours (as in the article) and this, in turn, should increase the minimum amount they will work for. However, my objection to this as solution is the situation of non-domiciled, largely un-taxed multinationals not contributing fairly to the pot that keeps the welfare working. As far as I can see, that amounts to a wealth transfer from the state to the shareholders and high-level managers of these companies.

Of course the solution would be to tax these companies fairly (which at least in the UK, is slowly beginning to happen), but eventually when taxed fairly enough, doesn't the burden for the companies end up being the same? The only difference is that the state would be footing the bill for the admin overhead of supporting these workers.