skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take a look at https://serverless-stack.com.

I'm doing exactly what you are; my answer was to fork what they've done and proceed from there.

* Serverless framework for the backend

* React / Amplify / Bootstrap for the front-end
Imagine citing any of these outlets as a serious authority on anything other than propagandized nonsense with a political agenda.

Gab is the home of free speech online powered by The People. Always has been, always will be.
My take (from a brief stint with a debit card issuer):

This is about the chilling effect of regulator's behavior.

Compliance is expensive, hard, and detailed. And if you fuck it up, it can sting very badly. Financial companies get away with a whole hell of a lot in America, but they can still get very expensive fines, and whole departments exist to mitigate this risk.

Financial software engineering is precisely as poor as you think it was. In 1985. Forget the scary stuff they build on purpose. The real fear is the scary stuff you didn't realize you built until an auditor finds it.

You don't ever want to do the kind of thing that causes an auditor to say "let's examine this closer", even if that thing is ultimately legal for reasons X and Y. You want the system to pass inspection with the minimum amount of scrutiny.

Being genuinely compliant for many types of nuanced clients is great. But it's a lot cheaper, and a lot safer, to be strictly compliant for limited types of generic clients. When you support services like this, you put a target on your back[0].

Mastercard and Visa are like Palantir. They're not innocent, but they're single nodes in a large machine that you'll never hear about because it doesn't interface directly with the public, and so they get all the shit because nobody knows where else to send it. Payment processors like FIS, the many institutions that issue cards through the card companies processed by the processing companies, they all have their own shaky infrastructure and compliance fears. No one org decides to shaft the public. They're all covering their asses. As a result, the set of industry best practices converges on the safest common denominator.

You want them to risk millions in fines and investigation that unearths more skeletons so you can host gifs of boobs? Through services where margins are measured in basis points? Good luck.

TLDLR: Visa and Mastercard are following orders from America, and behaving sanely given a corporation's fiduciary duty to not die. The correct place to attack this is with regulation that mandates equal access. Or better yet, blind access. Again, good luck.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Choke_Point
I'm pretty confidant that all 2018\2019 Hondas have buttons and knobs for the volume and climate control functions, which was the complaint from the above poster.

Example...

http://owners.honda.com/vehicles/information/2018/Accord-Sed...
Our automation should be more biomimetic, rather than making our agriculture more mechanical. For example, there's a fellow who shows how to integrate small-scale alcohol fuel production into a Permaculture farm: http://alcoholcanbeagas.com/node/518 (Permaculture is a form of applied ecology.)
Except that stripe is citing that Gab is hosting pornography as their reason.... which doesn’t make sense. OnlyFans (dot) com is a website that allows porn stars to sell their own membership based porn service... OnlyFans uses Stripe as their payment processor. That is hypocritical that Stripe processes one of the biggest porn websites yet
Tesla makes their own seats. They've also had four seat-related recalls in the past 5 years.
> I don't see why that couldn't coincide with a decrease in subsidies. In an ideal world, we could even redirect that money towards the poor - potentially making up for the impact to food banks.

This seems true but irrelevant. The claim that things would be better for everyone, were X accompanied by policies Y and Z, is not a real defence of X unless you have good reason to believe that it really will be accompanied by Y and Z.
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there are extremists and pornographers all over other sites that use stripe.

the "private company" argument doesn't apply super well when there are only a handful of options and they all have the same political ideology.
What % of these subsidies flow to vegetables?

https://www.pcrm.org/health/reports/agriculture-and-health-p...

> Between 1995 and 2009, USDA distributed more than $246 billion ($246,000,000,000) in subsidies. The subsidy system, updated approximately every five years, provides financial support primarily to producers of “commodity crops,” which include more than a dozen nonperishable crops. However, five commodity crops—corn, wheat, soybeans, cotton, and rice—receive the vast majority of subsidies.
> even the inbuilt UEFI firmware of most manufacturers.

I have a <3yo laptop that boots NVME OSes fine, Windows and Linux alike ... except for the Windows feature-upgrade process, which just hangs indefinitely on the OEM logo.*

I also have a desktop whose UEFI firmware doesn't output anything to its PCI videocard, and also refuses to boot at all if anything is connected to its integrated videocard. So getting Linux installed on that silly thing at all, was an exercise in frustration.

I furthermore used to have a little "mini PC" that utterly refused to allow its UEFI boot entries to be modified at all - on top of having no boot-time video output and a soldered-on bootable storage. So I had to abandon and rollback my efforts to install Linux on it, lest I brick it. Brick, an x86-based system. Ugh!

In short, I don't respect manufacturers' UEFI firmware any farther than I can defenestrate their products.

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* I would say something about how imaging from a SATA SSD onto an NVME SSD even required a reinstall of Windows, whereas the dual-booted Linux install worked perfectly; but that's probably just Windows being its usual stupid self.
The political views of most Gab users are essentially those of a majority of Americans during the 20th century. I doubt it would be fair to say those who fought Nazis in WW2 were also Nazis. By todays "standards" they would be called such hence why its a useless term.
You probably have class warfare in your country, too. You didn't say anything about the average consumer, but they're criticizing you as if you had.
Which machine?
There's no basis in saying that single gear ice vehicles would break-down more frequently under conventional driving conditions?

A thought experiment needs to explain something using fundamental physics? What about a math or logic related thought experiment?

Why would I have to include maybe or might in a thought experiment?
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I think you have some good points here. Just wanted to point out that the audio can be controlled by the steering wheel, and they could easily add an update so that the air could be controlled by the same mechanism if they wanted to. I haven’t found that to be an issue personally, but if you drive one try it out.
How about accountability for criminals? That’s the real problem in society despite what Obama and Hillary tell you
Note that this is a user installed script - its not care iOS functionality. You configure a scripting 'glue' to send a predefined set of messages to different applications in an order. Activating this script may be done by invoking siri with a particular phrase.

Siri - sexy time

* Run Home Scene {lights at 25%, warm}

* Play playlist George Michael - Careless Whisper

Same thing. Different apps. Different trigger. Not something that Apple installed.
How do you expect a driver to maintain a dead man's switch the entire time they are driving in manual mode?

Or conversely, suppose the switch must be maintained while the car is in autonomous mode, should the car pull over and stop on the side of the freeway? In terms of user experience I would expect the car to continue to the destination. The commenter discussing the use of sensors to detect the state of the driver and act accordingly makes more sense.
Similar thing happened to me. STRIPE closed me at their discretion and yet my direct competitors are using Stripe (they've since asked me back but I declined, too risky).

One thing Stripe cited was their underwriting FI wouldn't allow it. IIRC that FI was Wells Fargo, we my company has had a happy relationship since we started five years ago.
Which is why the "Cash for Clunkers" program was a giant environmental disaster. There's no way the fuel efficiency gains made up for the fuel burned manufacturing the car.
They also tied every search request with a government ID according to some reports and one must assume they’re willing and able to share that with the Chinese state security. As far as I’m aware the EU isn’t targeting minority citizens for increased surveillance like the Chinese state is doing to the Uighurs either.
As you said, the "earn trust" doesn't really make sense, so I'd guess there is actually some other reason. Is the way you've implemented the staging plan making life more difficult in some way? Does the founder have some other objective in mind?

Once I worked with a company that had a super smart founder who hired a super smart sales manager. The sales manager quickly noticed that the company did not follow the usual industry practices around quoting projects, and on his own initiative started rolling out a new system, including training sales people, and changing the company's software systems. There was increasing friction with the founder over everything, and eventually the sales manager was let go/quit.

Somehow the sales manager never understood that the core issue the founder had with his plan was that even though 95% of the industry operated with a secretive, price-what-the-customer-can-pay sales process, the whole company had been built over decades on transparent pricing for everyone. It was big part of the trust the customers had for the company and quite a competitive advantage.

Which is all to say that to you, devops means "production doesn't go down", but to the founder, it could mean "Anyone can push to production even faster on more servers." :)

Since the founder has basically said he doesn't trust you, it's likely there's something you are doing that he doesn't like. I hear that you are offended by the founders lack of trust, but being offended is a really good way of missing the actual meaning when he is talking. If things continue as they are, both of you are going to be very unhappy.

Given that there's this disconnect, I'd really spend some time with him to work out what it is that he actually wants -- and when he says he wants something, push deeper to find out the why behind it! Sometimes people ask for a "universal plugin system for our app, so any can extend it" when all they really wanted was "we can translate the app to French".

It's aways possible that the founder is a loon in this area, but I'd say that's only a 10% chance. 80% bet that there is a miscommunication.
> They are a private company and have their own reasons to disassociate from any client they wish.

This is a true fact. But it is completely unrelated to your previous point, about slippery slopes.

This very much does seem to be a slope that is quite slippery.

Yes, a couple psuedo oligopoly payments processors could indeed collude together, and ban whatever the controversial thing of the day is.

This would be perfectly legal and the fact that it is perfectly legal and easy says something about our society. It says that the metaphor of a slippery slope where more and more people get censored, because they were on the wrong side of a corporation, is an accurate analogy.
So you've been given the responsibility but not the authority. You've been set up for failure. Demand clarification of what's expected from you and the backing to carry it out, because right now you are not able to do your job.
What’s Vault?
Everyone has their own view on who is bad, is all. One person's virtue signal is another's evil.
Does Stripe know that one of their flagship clients listed on their site (Pinterest) hosts NSFW content?

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/03/cours...
Useful biotechnology may increase life expectancy in the near term, but not so differently as has been discussed here. We have basically zero chance of counteracting a life time of bioaccumulant toxins, telomere shortening, and numerous other shortcomings such that actual maximum lifespan sees a meaningful bump.
I agree that aquaponics is ‘cleaner’ than hydroponics but now we are into fish farming and not just growing plants as food. It’s certainly the more organic option.

There is a company that is trying to use organic/natural hydroponic nutrient inputs than just what’s been used all along. It will take some time(and testing) to adapt.
"Siri, help help I'm being repressed"
Initially plane parts (engines, wings, cockpits) were tested against dead birds but nowadays we have so many live strikes every year that in practice we know what the proxy based on gelatin is for a variety of birds.

Gelatin is harder than flesh but softer than bone and the overall effect is that on average it has the same effect as birds because it is more like an average representation. While parts of birds are relatively tough they aren't in sufficient volume or weight to penetrate any more.

That isn't to say a bird strike isn't pretty dangerous because they can be. Jet cockpits get severely damaged by them as do engines and you can see in the video the effect on a wing.
That was an iOS9 limitation.
apropos, Tim Harford is an economist and an author of multiple exceptional books on economics targeted to the general public, not a reporter. He manages to show how deeply fascinating economics is and that economic phenomena are part of the fabric of not just our societies, but the very natural world. I highly recommend his "Undercover Economist" and other books.
Stripe cut me off...I used PayPal for a while but now my subscription buyers use ACH (I'm all US based). Saves me loads of fees (I had been paying about $9k/yr)
This is really the only, and best, solution. It's simple and clear. Car manufactures cannot get around it with their bag of tricks. Plus, 12 years is a long long time.
There is an aclu app called mobile justice that does this. There appears to be a different one for each state. I was previously under the impression that it uploads the video if you shake your phone, but I found some articles that suggest it transmits while you’re recording.

>The app features a large red “Record” button in the middle of the screen. When it’s pressed, the video is recorded on the phone and a duplicate copy is transmitted simultaneously to the ACLU server.
Strawberry is tough. Unless it’s bought indoors and even then we need human labour.

Potato should be easily mechanized like any root crop. Sugar beets are mechanized. Why not potatoes?
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If fraud was the only thing they cared about, why was Alex Jones (and other conservatives) deplatformed by MasterCard? Why are some banks stopping every customer they have from allowing them to buy firearms?
I think the motivation was reducing pollution. A small minority of badly running cars emit most of the particulate and nitrogen oxide pollution. In certain areas like Los Angeles in the 1980s, smog (caused by nitrogen oxides) was killing people, and removing a few clunkers made a significant difference.
The normal mode of operation for an auto-taxi is nobody in the driver's seat.
There are hundreds of bird strikes every year around the world and so far no drone strikes. Admittedly birds are a lot more numerous but I think drone fliers are also a lot more intelligent with where they place themselves to avoid damage.

There is obviously very real potential for danger but so far drones haven't been an actual danger to aviation.
Sounds like a very toxic company. You're there for a reason, if you have 7 years of experience you do not deserve this attitude. In the West Coast, you can probably find a new job in 3 minutes anyway. Leave and find a new job.
I've been driving the C class cars through CarToGo, their rideshare-as-marketing operation. They are horrid. Clunky, with seats that could never pass as leather, gaudy plastic bits everywhere, and needlessly complex interfaces. Not to mention their touch screens, which... ugh. They are like a poor person's idea of what a rich person's car might look like. Flash and trim and affectation with no underlying reason whatsoever.

I mention this because I'm skeptical to attribute that drop to Tesla alone. I don't know about the high end (S class, etc), but the new C class is capable of tanking its own sales unassisted.
If the founder is who you report to then you need to schedule a 1-on-1 with them in private and ask them to clarify why they hired you.

If the person you report to is someone else, you need to have this conversation with them first. Then have a follow up meeting with your boss and the founder and clarify your role and position to the founder with your manager.

Just be upfront, and say hey I’m the new guy, and I’m getting pushback, and want to understand my role better so I can contribute my expertise and create value for the team. Not here to step on anyone’s toes, just trying to gather more information as I haven’t been on boarded properly and I’ve been here nearly 3 weeks.

Then let them tell you what they want.

If the response is not what you agreed to when hired and the role they want you to fill is not what you thought then look for another job. Better figure this out now then waste months or years working in a toxic environment. DevOps is one of the most sought after positions in the world right now, don’t settle for being bullied or working in a toxic environment.

At the same time, you need to establish a clear line of communication first. Collect data, and then analyze what the situation is.

Many startups don’t know why they’re hiring people and often aren’t sure why or what they’re hiring for. For example, I got recruited for business development from a company then in the interview realized they weren’t looking for business development. They were looking for an office manager to babysit the developers so they could not be in the office. When I asked about how I would take calls in an open office next to the dev team, and what kind of flexabity I would have to broker deals and deal structures they didn’t even know what I was talking about. The founders basically just wanted an exec assistant with a fancier title.

It’s entirely possible you thought you were hired for devops but they don’t even know what devops is and think you’re just an IT guy or sys admin. That’s why you need to gather more info and figure out if this is something you even want to be involved in.
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Anyone working with cobots in your factory interested to comment? What's the main competitive advantage that made Universal[1] so successful while Rethink withered away?

[1] https://www.universal-robots.com/
> equally

Implies everyone is in the same situation. This is never true. For example, in WW2 we had gas rationing. You got a fixed amount of gas, regardless of how much driving you needed to do. The result was a black market in gas, where those who didn't need all their alotment sold it to those who did (at black market prices, of course, since this was illegal).
Well at least I nailed the personality disorder bit.
Put a rule in outlook to delay emails in the outbox for 2 or 3 minutes. Gives you a chance to delete after you vent.

This also helps in a compliance-heavy environment to give time to correct if something is accidentally sent.
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If we want authentication, public-private key pairs are a great idea.

A trusted network is fine, but are the telephone networks trusted? Can't get them to implement simple features in our interests, doesn't seem very much like a trusted third party to me. Meanwhile, OTT services work. Some let you whitelist contacts. Killer features like that will push everyone off POTS eventually anyway.

Inertia and legacy will keep holdouts using POTS, just like people still use fax machines, but they're mostly irrelevant.
On the other hand, because I live in rural Japan and am only really friends with the people who live near me, almost all of my friends are over 70 (I'm 50). While this is of course selection bias (as well as being anecdotal), people I associate with don't end up in nursing homes -- at least long term. A quick google search tells me that only between 2 and 5% of people over 65 live in nursing homes and that jives pretty well with my experience. Most people seem to live pretty well until a year or so before they die, and then they essentially fall off a cliff.

My wife's aunt passed away last year from some kind of brain issue (I never did figure out exactly what the problem was -- lack of vocabulary). She was in and out of the hospital for about 3 months and while distressing, I think she very much appreciated being alive in those 3 months. After that she essentially ended up in a kind of semi-coma where she was awake for maybe an hour a day -- and she was in a nursing home. After another 5 months or so she passed away. I don't know if she got much value from those 5 months, but I know her husband definitely was able to use the time to come to grips with the reality of the situation. Again, just an anecdote, but I think it's illustrative of the complexity of the situation.

Anyway, I think most people can look forward to enjoying their old age. Of course it makes a big difference if you look after your body when you are young and it is much easier to do so.
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Uh what. That’s what black holes are.
We're talking new cars here, so the 30% figure isn't relevant. It's not fair to compare the 70% of used car sales to the $60k price here, since that's a new car price.

So if the average new car is $37k, how many are in the range of $60k? The luxury segment alone is more than 10% and one of the fastest growing, and generally starts above $40k. And the $37k average isn't far from that, so I'd assume that there are tons of cheap cars pulling the average down, but also that there are probably a lot of very expensive cars pulling the average up. So while $60k for a new car is high, it's not like a crazy 1% super luxury purchase.

I think you might be the one out of touch here...there are a LOT of wealthy people out there buying new cars for whom $60k is a drop in the bucket. For example: the very story that we're all commenting on!
Try following any of those links now, you fucking tease
If you want to be the best at something, first, make sure you are passionate about whatever it is. If you don't care about it, you won't do what it takes. If you are passionate about it, then live and breathe it. Do lots and lots of it. Study it. Read about it. Have posters of it on your wall. Watch every single youtube video about it. Plan your vacations around it as trips where you check out something related to your passion. You basically have to become a one-dimensional crazy person about your thing - whatever it is. Elon Musk lived in his factory. He shot one of his cars to Mars. That's crazy. That's passion. That's how you become the best.
Maybe consider inspiring farmers as a goal? Like, Elon's initial plan of a greenhouse on Mars.

Also, the market concepts of innovator, early adopter, early majority, late majority, laggard came from potato farmers, showing that some of them are innovators, just like every other group. Target them.
Not GP, but I assume the one in the video used in the outdoor operation.
I don't think you're the only one who has experienced this; we hired a couple of new grad programmers recently and they've really been put through the ringer. Not necessarily on dumb projects, but projects that one might categorize as urgent but not important.