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Did Amazon announce they'd also help Rivian in AI / self-driving ? This is an area of expertise where Tesla is years ahead of Rivian by I'm thinking if Rivian gets Amazing engineering help, they will catch up sooner
Also I see little true (high-tech) innovation with the "SV Elite".

It seems that people are more interested in cornering markets than in creating exciting new things. The valuation doesn't surprise me because that's how you corner markets, by first building a huge pile of money.
no... but we're getting there...
Elasticsearch plugin for approximate K-nearest-neighbors search
wipr from the App Store is a serviceable ad blocker, not as good as ublock origin, but (mostly) does the job for me at least. I miss the ability to kill specific elements ad-hoc.
I'm Writing Serverless Microservices in Golang These Days
Just want to say your Connect product is INCREDIBLE. Our company couldn't function (at least not well and at scale) without it!
Depends... at my company (financial/legal services, multinational, quite a corporate environment but... in the EU) nobody would ever make an issue out of taking your dog to the vet. Dentist? No problem. Any medical thing, anything with family... hell, even getting a package delivered early, not a problem. Think once or twice a month, missing 2 hours in the morning or late afternoon.

Unless it's structural. Take your kids to school every morning and come in late? That has to be talked through properly. And if you go home early every week because your fashion items are going to be delivered, that's not okay.

Other people take vacation hours for this kind of stuff. (we get 25 days a year). Others will work an hour unpaid overtime here and there, and compensate by going home or getting in early at other times.

In general it's just not an issue really, you just notify upfront and not be there, and make sure not to do it more than twice or so a month.

It really helps that working from home 1 day a week is becoming more of a thing though. You're more flexible that way.
Just block your website from being accessed in any country where you aren’t sure you can comply with their laws.

A lot of sites are doing that for GDPR.
Jeffrey Epstein's Jet Flew to Riyadh at Same Time Jeff Bezos Met with MBS
Yeah, MS announced awhile ago. [0].

I've had it in my todo's for almost two years now...still haven't played with it yet.

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/quantum/language/?view=qsha...
I used to work at Overstock as an engineer. It was a wild ride. This guy is explaining this situation better than any combination of people in that company could ever muster up. Also, AMA, there are plenty of stories.
The deep state is just the permanent bureaucracy that sticks around as presidents come and go. Those people run a lot of shit, and they have a lot of influence. Whether Byrne is being rational about this group is a whole separate question, but the "deep state" is a real thing. (And yes, the concept attracts a lot of conspiracy theories. However, some conspiracy theories turn out to be true, so we can't discount all of them without a merits-based examination of each hypothesis.)
[Random techie]

This makes total sense. Stripe is driving the example for OSS for all countries to follow.

Thank you Stripe Co-founders. I appreciate your work and effort to bring GH where it is today.
If deliberateness works then it works man. Whatever works.
my list of MBP 15" pre-touchbar features I most like was durability: it survived multiple bicycle wipeouts and drops like a champ.

That + battery life + width + an 4k barely-usable HDMI 1.4b was just a great combo.

Why the industry could not replicate that after 4-5 years (HDMI still stuck at 1.2, cheap cases, iffy battery life, etc) is beyond me.

I'd also like a bezel-less 15" OLED display, a 16-17" option, SSD storage and large RAM that is only 2x time going rate on newegg rather than 10x, and a combo of USB-C and USB-3.x (aka no dongles). So tons of room for improvement on the basic model.

But Apple regressed their hardware, and the rest of industry just sat around. Chromebooks regressed into sub-200 categories and are so annoyingly google. Windows continues to suck in dumbfounding ways.

And this is compounded by the fact that processors are basically at a standstill efficiency wise, so the only way to get people to upgrade is... decent design/hardware?

Mystifying.
> Just be explicit (This requires Python3.7)

Or just use a `#!/usr/bin/env python3.7` shebang.
Totally disagree. Complicate is not the same thing as following the spirit of the rules. Compliance is proving you followed the rules. Totally different. Also, you have to define what you mean by “respecting privacy”. Something that I do on my website, like basic retargeting marketing for abandoned shopping carts doesn’t feel to me like an invasion of privacy. To you, it might. The rules have to be defined clearly.
A free webapp that uses AI to uncover supplement-drug interactions, by AI2
I stopped trusting reviews many years ago.

They are like the comment section under an article: useless.
> We need to have a conversation about jurisdictions in the digital age. The way governments have decided that having a website accessible in a country makes you liable to respect the law of this country is a convulted and hacky notion that has been accepted way too fast.

You know if you turn that around and say "How come we have to respect the laws of every country we do business in?" it sounds a lot more self serving.

Nobody said your website had to serve Californians. Nobody said your iPhone game has to be accessible in North Korea. Nobody said your movie has to be viewable in China.

If you're intending to serve any product to an entire planet composed of nations, states, societies all pulling from different experiences, different cultural attitudes, I think expecting a completely friction-free experience in doing so is more than a little unreasonable.

And more to the point that this particular discussion is about, these are principles that pretty much every society could reasonably get behind. Sorry that means mining data isn't a solid business model anymore, but I'm also not even remotely sorry. Adtech should die. It's a blight on our society.
Can I prove that "every definition [you've] heard is not usually based on a vague conspiracy theory or is not an obvious truth that draws conclusions about the intentions of state actors without providing any evidence." No.
Yeah, I'm not talking about buying trucks, I'm talking about their claim to go "carbon neutral" by 2040 and all of the other dipshits who use that term.
Yes, I feel Stripe has lost its edge with the new APIs. Interesting to hear 'demotivating' used as that's how I felt for a while. I needed many requests with Stripe support and could see the docs changing each time I returned to the task.

The interesting one for me is the way the client triggers the transaction, and the server has to asynchronously process that. I'm pretty sure I'm still having dreams at night about all the edge cases and whether I've truly covered them. Others are probably a more "that seems to work" style of development.

I was really happy with my idempotent IDs before....
Some, perhaps, but nowhere near the figure given ($5trn). Saying that they'es $5 trillion in fossil fuel subsidies makes people think that if we just cut these subsidies then we'd have $5 trillion of spare cash. That's not the case, these subsidies are really speculated externalities.
Patrick, the way Stripe continues to engage with Hacker News and remains true to its roots is an inspiration. Congratulations!
Maybe this is a good place to ask. During off-peak hours my local utility charges $.025/Kwh versus $.25/Kwh for peak. If I charged a 11Kwh Telsa powerwall, I could easily get through the day on $.025/kwh electricity, even on hot days, and the payback would be something like 11 years. Why wouldn't this be cheaper at grid scale and why isn't it doable today?
Right, I get that “technically” there is a deep state it’s not some strange esoteric knowledge.

That really doesn’t make it any more sane to plan a war against a poorly defined adversary, this is a hall mark of delusion. I don’t see why my comment warranted downvotes
Same. Agoda, Booking, Kayak and hotels are my place now. It isn't the same anymore. What airbnb was in 2013-2014 was magical.

Now, with 300+ reviews, it's, sad, and maybe I was part of the change because I rented places and lived 50/50 in different parts of the world and it was possible w/ airbnb and I only tried to be cost negative.
“Wasn’t great” is an understatement! I dealt with it as a developer both in New Zealand and the Uk and it was outright terrible. Oh, you didn’t apply for a merchant account 6 weeks ago...yeah, you’re not gonna go live this month. You just go right ahead and book in a meeting with you bank manager and get down on your knees to plea for an account.
> She got out of our 1996 Saturn SL, walked around a few minutes, snapped a single picture, and got back in the car.

This is fantastic! The Eastern Sierras are an amazing place to explore through camping and day hikes. In my own experience, my parents had planned backpacking trips in this area several times when I was a teen, where each trip was filled with moments like the one your wife and yourself experienced. New places, or points of perspective — where you see the world around you in a new light — are precious and awe-inspiring.

> Alas, it was lost in a fire many years ago.

This is sad to read. Losing personal photos is hard to come to terms with

> Equipment is good and important; location, timing, and an eye for composition is, in my opinion, far more important.

This makes sense, and seems to be a broad truth across disciplines: artists and creators are not bounded by tools.

My wife and I plan to take our children out to these places. Seeing a sky full of stars and seemingly boundless nature, against the background of quiet sounds and the natural world around you, is something that I wish everyone would experience in their lifetime.
I'm not really sure why you're being downvoted. This guy is a quack. You can just skim the quotes and I'm not sure how exactly you end up with a different viewpoint.

Here he is threatening to "vaporize" the SEC if they clean up the fraudulent mess he created:

> Now, after 15 years of being scofflaws, the shorts are crying because they are getting sucked into a black hole they created themselves. If you call “Bazoomba!” for them now, I am going to use this website to vaporize you with information I give the public. I am 100% confident that at least one of you knows to what I am referring.
Since I almost never see it mentioned in any threads related to this subject, am I thrilled that the main article actually references Silent Spring. I remember growing up that people thought that we had somehow managed to avoid the future it portrayed, but no, we have not. Another generation and the purveyors of death are back selling the cure for other species some people haven't learned to live in balance with.
If you think the US "takes it way way beyond that", then you need to do some serious homework on China and Russia.

EDIT: Since people don't seem to believe me. Just look at this [1] NPR article from this morning, which quotes: "The Chinese, are our No. 1 intelligence threat."

[1] https://www.npr.org/2019/09/19/761962531/people-are-looking-...
IMO the most perfect laptop made for road-warriors like myself was the Lenovo X270. I bought the 6-cell spare. Nothing is touching it on battery life and it had great specs.

The two-battery system is something I long for in other laptops.
Upvotes don’t show on HN, so let me first say this is very much like our recent experience.

If those from Stripe who are reading this would like a hopefully constructive suggestion, may I suggest here the same thing I suggested to your support team?

Right on the front page of your documentation site (https://stripe.com/docs) you have a step-by-step walkthrough for setting up a basic subscription the old way.

If you follow through that process using one of the test cards for the new SCA behaviour (4000002500003155, say) you will see that the API effectively fails at a couple of points along the way.

Presumably either integrations need to do something extra at those points to take into account what needs to happen for SCA, or integrations need to follow different steps in the first place so they don’t run into those problems.

Either way, an equivalent step-by-step walkthrough showing how to use Stripe.js, the API and webhooks to set up a simple subscription in an SCA-compatible way would have been very helpful.
If you cut up the municipality into uniform sizes, and then randomly sample from that to do your counts it should account for that problem I think.
> most startups leading up to an IPO manipulate their profits into looking great.

They're clearly not - or if so, they're doing a pretty bad job at it, because most big-name tech startups that have announced IPOs have posted a track record of losses, not profits.
I think it really depends on when you read it. Code Complete was in the first handful of books I read about the practice of programming, apart from language-specific books, and I loved it. Years later I bought the second edition, having given away my first copy, but the magic was gone.

I didn't get much out of The Pragmatic Programmer myself. Maybe if I'd read it ten years earlier, it would have been my Code Complete.
As I’ve said to others, yes I understand the “well technically” explanation of deep state but I’d posit that you’re still not particularly mentally fit if you’re declaring war on such a poorly conceived adversary.

How do you go to war with a deep state? What do you do? It sounds like pure delusion
Ok. What is the deep state to you?
> but after watching a hundred or so Numberphile videos on YT, many on the cosmos and nuclear physics, I can see myself making similar statements in the future ;)

I read this as

> I watched a bunch of high level YouTube videos and now I'm an expert on quantum mechanics and nuclear physics.

It is okay, you don't have to be an expert in everything. It is okay to not know. It is okay to be wrong. But please don't act like you know what you're an expert when you haven't done the perquisites. We're not in high school anymore, you can't write the book report without reading the book.
> So the question is this, if there was two versions of a popular torrent site, equal in every way, except you had to pay for one to get the same content. What percentage of users would choose to use the pay site? I suspect a small fraction of a percent.

That's not the question at all, no. I said you need better service than pirates. And that's absolutely possible, as steam shows.

Meanwhile spotify is busy losing my offline songs for no reason when i'm abroad and can't really stream because of roaming and netflix refuses to give me the original english audio.

I never had a problem with downloaded songs just disappearing when i bought an album from bandcamp or a youtube video refusing to play in english.

Using netflix and spotify is way easier than some kind of setup with Kodi or whatever people use, but they need to stop crippling their services. Some people pirate stuff instead, I mostly just stop consuming content where i'm treated like shit even after paying.
This apparently isn't a popular opinion, but: this world is precious. I would even go so far as to say miraculous. Until we wake up to this fact, we will continue to ennui ourselves and this world into oblivion. It's hard to prove (or even study), but I believe this is the root cause of all the other tragedies. It is not something we will merely engineer our way out of.

We don't like religion (or in many cases, even spirituality), and the modern scientific metaphysics has no space for "miracles," so we don't have a coherent framework in which to talk about or even remind ourselves of this profound truth. Each of us is left to cobble something together for ourselves (and for the few people around us that we trust not to think we're crazy).

I do think that psychedelics seem like one promising avenue. Perhaps they will help give us the inspiration to fill in this tragic blindspot.

Edit: If the votes are any indication, then I was too hasty in calling this opinion unpopular. Perhaps more of us suspect this than are willing to say it out loud.

Edit 2: On that note, I've been scared to share my own crazy take on this, but I'll just leave this here: https://www.lifeismiraculous.org
Being insulted is not a choice, being offended is.
I haven't read the book, but I have to challenge the assumption here. That you didn't get anything out of it in an afternoon's sprint through it does not make it "probable" that it's not hiding any deep wisdom. It could mean that, or it could mean that you didn't stop to digest what it was actually saying.
I looked through the archives and only GHC/Haskell and LLILC have made it:
http://blog.llvm.org/2010/05/glasgow-haskell-compiler-and-ll...
http://blog.llvm.org/2015/04/llilc-llvm-based-compiler-for-d...

But I think the limitation is on developers willing to write a blog post rather than "serious" development. Excluding "LLVM Weekly" which has since moved to http://llvmweekly.org/, there's been less than 1 post per month, even though LLVM conferences have grown significantly in size.
I think you are basically paraphrasing what the book says. :)

The technologies that the British brought through colonialism, including their own class structure, lead to what you described. It likely would have happened without the British but because of the power structures in place that came with colonial rule. This process accelerated so a lot of the rigidity that we can attribute now was the upper castes trying to hold onto their power which was magnified by the British giving them more power in colonial India.

It is also why it was the upper caste Hindus that eventually rebelled against British rule. They received the best economic and political benefit from British rule.
The one time I was in London fifteen years ago, it felt like 1984. I was sitting in a bus and there were at least five or six TVs showing several camera perspectives.

Including one directly at the back of my head, which showed some early signs of balding.

It was the most unpleasant bus ride I have ever had. London is nuts.
One of the many books on CIA training describes how they handle this. The CIA has written agreements with law enforcement in the areas where they do training exercises. Trainees are given a number to call. If they call it, someone from CIA HQ comes over, with, as one trainee put it, the "rumored but never seen get out of jail free letter".

This usually means the trainee failed the exercise.
I believe the parent comment was regarding "Its actually about employee liquidity.. " part.
The Dell XPS 13 has slightly better support (for Ubuntu at least) and has official documentation on their website. You can even buy one with Ubuntu preinstalled.

I had to tweak one or two bios options for my X1 6th gen, the XPS 13 worked flawlessly out of the box.
The typical internal combustion engine is only ~30% efficient, getting only ~10 kWh of energy out of that gallon.
> At this point I think we owe Cuba and Russia an apology for the hysteria involved.

We are at the point where we need to confirm the hypothesis. If the hypothesis is confirmed we owe Cuba and Russia an apology.
Ok.

My problem with functional programming written like this (I admit that this example is too short) is that once there are too many functions combining with other functions it is very easy to lose thread of what is happening. My comparison with perl is more to the point that these programs are way easier to write than read.

Again, this example is too simplistic to illustrate my point, but what I like with combining imperative and functional programming is that it is easier to keep trace of what is happening by using intermediate variables that hold the state and thus break the chain of functions.
How close? 65,000 km. For reference, GEO is 35,000 km, Earth diameter is 12,700 km.
Check the rest of the thread, there is no shortage of people that mean it in exactly "the bad way".
"Ideal state" is inserted by your own bias. There are plenty of changes made by humans to the planetary system and some of them will be undone once humans are not around to maintain those changes.
Non Linear Sphere Tracing
The country can choose the block the website. Why should you have to do it?
Well, we are in the midst of the Anthropocene Extinction.
They've had a natively compiled content blocking engine for years, and I've been using Ka-Block. It works really well without killing your battery.
One hopes that GraphQL abstractions will enable the decoupling. So if you opt for a database that offers GraphQL natively, it might address the issue. You do have to learn the GraphQL ecosystem (new tools/language etc.)
Noone in particular. Just let the lack of food do its thing. Or if you want to actively do something, then pick 50% at random.
Yup. Just comes with the territory of the scale they are operating at. Looking at Renault Kangaroo ZE and Nissan e NV200 sales its possible 100k electrics vans is more than have ever been produced, cumulatively, period.
Node.js Now Available in Haiku
Problem: we're using trim_string in an initramfs image. Now we need Python3 in initramfs. Oops, kernel doesn't fit into the ARM board's flash partition any more ...
I've been flagging mainstream news topics hard all year, but I think there's just a few of us actually trying to keep the site to its stated goal.

The level of discourse around those topics is abysmal.
Being "sent to Alaska" is really just a saying that the organization is super-super-super pissed at you, and desires to send you to the crappiest location (job) possible in an effort to make you leave the organization.

EG: He fucked up so bad, he will be manning a remote radar station in Alaska for the rest of his military career.
High level officials at tech companies can get better than weev's crazy ex nude in person.
I've heard that before. Most recently from someone who thought ig completely unreasonable that he had to pay to withdraw money from his account.

What are PG&E's costs OTHER than electricity? Why don't you just buy that 3¢ electricity on those terms, which I presume means include advance warning before any usage change, and you pay for transport from seller's location.
"The worst-case scenario of 6.5-7.0°C of warming assumed continued economic expansion driven by growth of fossil fuel production"

I assume this means "doing nothing, all future growth based on burning coal", which hopefully is a lot less likely than the headline makes it sound.
Exactly.

Anybody remember the way Blackberry handled this before proper push messaging? The data connection was completely dead, they just got the mobile companies themselves to do it over the phone call connection (SMS?) to indicate when there was something to read at which point the data layer came up. Really efficient in those days, except you obviously paid a fee for 'Blackberry service'
This is manifestly bullshit. When I as an Engineer build a physical product, I have to take care that it fulfills the legal and normative requirements of every place I plan to sell it. The product of a software company is said software. The "storefront" is their website. When I cater to a global audience, I have to make sure I fulfill all requirements. Period. No matter what I sell.

Now, there are ways around it. Either agree on a supernational legal frame , for example a car which is certified in one EU-Country is deemed certified everywhere (something Tesla used to great effect) or have one reliable entity for certification (like the FAA was in Aerospace, which is most likely bound to change).

But putting the onus on the customer to find the legalities in the origin country of the software/website provider is not the solution. Especially for large providers. Just an example question: Where is the website "legally" located?
The company's HQ?
The local office?
The office of the developers?
The main database?
The CDN-Server for your location?

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