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> This article lost me at "printing money does not cause inflation." How would that be possible?

Consider the equation of exchange (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation_of_exchange): MV = PQ.

The amount of money (M) can be increased without prices (P) going up so long as either the velocity (V) of money goes down or the economy (Q) becomes larger.
Accepting ACH payments on larger client invoices (30-100k+) for a few dollars is why we use them at one company.
the US dollar was also in massive demand during 2008 as it is during every downturn or when risk goes up.
I got right into their site, but boy, what a godawful chat popup (which doesn't actually let you chat).
I went to Purdue, and when I graduated (15 years ago) my best job offer in Indiana was 30k for a 1 year contract in Fort Wayne. I took an offer at 75k/year full time in California. At the time cost of living was comparable to Indianapolis (so more expensive than FW, but not $45k/year more).
Maybe they already have Stripe and don't do very many transactions this way, so they're not that cost-sensitive? For exceptions to their normal way of doing business, convenience might be more important.
I built my own, Using codemirror.

NodeJs for the server which spawns a process to execute bash commands.

https://twitter.com/fasturdotcom
Actually, I believe they stand a decent chance of some future billionaire recovereing them and putting them into a museum or a private collection in a hundred years or so.
The term for this is "Quality Fade" and is by no means unique to amazon. This is a very common thing in all low-cost manufacturing. you start with higher quality and lower margin, and gradually degrade quality to improve margin. You consistently flirt with the lowest quality possible.
The number of kids featured in such articles is really a drop in the ocean. So, coming to the conclusion that 'having a gift is not synonymous with being successful' is not entirely correct.

As a counter example, Zuck, Sergey Brin and Lady Gaga were identified as talented youth. They may not have been covered by the Economist when they were kids. But all of them are certainly successful in my book.
To extend the analogy further, that's like saying "I'll just build my own electricity company" when they cut your power.
I spent some time at the Mountain View campus and it was cut throat. I suppose it depends on who your manager is but I didn’t like the vibe. It was novel but once that wears off - reality sets in.

I found a good litmus test with how courteous people are, or aren’t, in the gym.
Hey, Ryan here. I don’t want to be bought. And in the end if Stripe decides to shut off the source, there are plenty of other things to build. Not to mention, tons of companies to work for. Just fortunate to be in this time and place right now.
If someone resurrected Compuserve, I’d pay. Again. The signal to noise ratio was insane. Having to part with real money tends to focus the mind and the tongue.
Not surprisingly but this comment / position gets downvoted and yet plenty of approval for "Also, Oracle just sucks in general. Larry Ellison is a notorious jerk and philanderer...."

(I'm all for crapping on Oracle, I guess the lesson is to weave that into any post on this topic).
It seems like you're asking for what Amazon is being criticized for in this article? :)
Ironically, the post talks about the importance of context, yet you’ve given an example focused exclusively on technical features, and completely ignored any of the problems they might be built to solve.
Sources, sources, and sources. SD is top 5 in the short-term fiscal stability[1]. SD may be top 5 in lowest state debt but they are 16th in per capita debt[2](that's below average). Hey I guess you're right about the public services, a local news paper reports they are also "above average"[3].

[1] https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/fiscal-stab...

[2] https://ballotpedia.org/South_Dakota_state_budget_and_financ...

[3] https://rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/south-dakota-ranks-t...

I don't know maybe I'm just commenting because all these numbers are actually meaningless to the conversation.
> Funny factoid for you: Google hires those guys in Russia through recruiters and innocuously sounding shell companies in Saint Petersburg.

> The guy can work for the shell for years without realising that he works for Google.

Your comment makes this practice sound shady. I don't see how this practice is even probably shady, if the general thrust of you say is true.

First, you have to set up a different company for each country where you're doing business. Second, it's not a shell company if it hires employees or contractors and has clients. Finally, if the subsidiary doesn't engage in your primary business activity you don't call the subsidiary by a name similar to the primary company's name.

It's a very common corporation structure.
To Go's credit, it predates Shenandoah and ZGC, before which your only real option for low-latency GC on the JVM was Zing, which I don't think had too many people using it (I certainly have no personal experience with it). I can't say whether they were inspired by Go, but I do think that Go is responsible for bringing the desirability of low-latency GC, even at potentially high cost to throughput, to the forefront of the greater programming community's attention.
That’s exactly right. Terminal solved a problem for me (I used to integrate Mattel card readers to a serious amount of pain). I worked with Stripe to help identify good ones, and they built easy to use APIs to integrate. This is exactly what they hoped for.
I'm really just referring to their aspirations -- the thing justifying their funding, hiring and size.

I feel like you could run that whole company with 20 people.
Correct. Most user come from the e-commerce world and are willing to pay for the convenience of a simple, POS app.
> calls a 1 hour meeting, [...] but now they feel the need to pad the remaining half hour with whatever

that's a wild way to run meetings — in my current organization, finishing a meeting ahead of schedule (when appropriate) is celebrated as "giving time back".
Unicorn isn’t the goal, I’ll let Stripe be that. I’ll take the financial freedom.
> Because amazon doesn't add seller stickers/labels it's nearly impossible for them to even determine the seller if it's "Fulfilled by Amazon"

You are referring to mingled inventory which the seller has to opt into explicitly when they decide how to sell their product.

This is not the default, and in my experience, very few sellers choose this option. Most of the inventory is labeled with Amazon-proprietary bar codes that identify the seller.
I recently bought a new book from amazon, and it was thrown in with the rest of my order, causing the pages to be folded over at an angle. sigh.
I used bill.com and ran quite a bit of money through there but I find the UX to be terrible. Second only to WorkDay.

I never asked but maybe the accounting team loves it. As an approver and receiver (separate companies) it never made sense to me. I used it only because I had to.
Why instantly? Is there not a market for more than one third party app with separate features? Does Stripe want to compete with Square, or are they focused on larger things? And if they do, I got nearly 5 years out of it, which is the longest job I’ve ever had, ironically.
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And just when you thought naming was difficult enough
I ordered two cr2032 cells, and received them in a huge box with a lithium battery sticker. I suspected the box was chosen so large because of the sticker size, not the product size (which was about 1"x2"x1/8")
It's funny, and sad, to see this on the front page at the same time as the story about Google cancelling TGIF.
>In any case, I'd say its cheaper and easier to know about things today than it was back then.

That might be true but it isn't required. Its cheaper and easier to access information today than its ever been, but doesn't mean people are more literate and more informed - they aren't. Years ago using computers and getting everything to work required that you learn at least the basics and how to tinker with different things and get a basic understanding for them to work. These days most people are using tablet and other simple, graphically designed interfaces that don't require (or in many cases allow) any substantial tinkering in order to get them to work or do what you want them to do.

Necessity is the mother of invention, not availability.
Same. My experience mirrors yours and OP's.

Socializing in your formative years is MASSIVE.
The mistake you are making is assuming Oracle is, and will continue to operate in good faith, judging by their past history of rent extraction maximization, that is absolutely not the case.
Where is that money supposed to come from? To make this work people have to pay enough consumption tax so there is money for the payouts. Also, if you make these payments dependent on income level you pretty much have the problem of determining a taxable income which we have now.

Personally I think there is almost no way to make this work without being highly regressive.
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Sure. Why wouldn't it be?
It would be really cool to see the features in this mainlined.

Side question: I know in the article it was mentioned that they liked their signal approach to scaling because it allows them to preemptively scale. I'm just not sure why that wouldn't be achievable by scaling the replica counts of your deployments based on signals.

If scaling happens based on pending pods then just scale your pods so that they're configured to handle your predicted traffic. Then the cluster will obtain your desired state. Am I missing something?
Notes on scheduling for anyone who wants to follow along:

Google now has 45 days to file a brief on the merits that explains their position.

Once that is filed, Oracle has 30 days to file a brief on the merits that explains their position.

Google then has 30 more days to file a reply to Oracle's brief. That brings us to the 28th of February, assuming everyone uses all their time (and no more).

The court can extend all those deadlines.

Once all the briefs have been filed the case will (probably) be scheduled for oral argument. It looks like oral argument is usually scheduled several months out, and the last day for oral argument this term is April 29. It might meet that deadline, otherwise it will be pushed to next October. If the oral argument is heard this term then we can expect a ruling by the time the court goes into recess for the year (end of june).

Of course a ruling doesn't mean the case is over, it may well then return to lower courts for more argument. (It almost certainly will for various details, like attorney's fees and/or damages).

This case started August 13, 2010. It's been almost a decade. Something is very wrong with how our court system functions.
I've been wondering how long it will be before anker gear is counterfeited.
I'm expecting the internal meme tool, aptly named memegen, to suffer the same fate as TGIF.
Throwaway time..

The minefield about trying to predict what's going to be politically correct in the future is so true--you nailed it. You might carefully self-censor your discussions to things that are politically allowed today but everything lives forever, so something you say may fall out of fashion and years from now it could get you in hot HR water. The only solution is to just stick to work topics, really. The need for both current and forward self-censorship is very real.

The "bring your whole self to work" thing is actually kind of a trap. If you're politically aligned the correct way, then sure, you're welcome to bring your whole self to work and participate in political discussions. If you're a Trump supporter, for example, or don't buy in to the whole pronouns thing, then [it's kind of unspoken that] you're expected to please leave that whole self at home thankyouverymuch. Kind of a one way street.

I just come in to work and don't seek out political drama. It's totally optional. Besides the above future-PC worry, you really have to go out and look for trouble. For me, memegen is a place to read silly lighthearted memes and nothing more.
I would say that I started programming in BASIC, and then later Z80 assembly solely as a result of reading the manual that came with my ZX Spectrum:

https://www.worldofspectrum.org/ZXBasicManual/

One of the things that made computers back then interesting was that they were well-documented. (Of course I only started this because I received the computer for Christmas, and the cassette-player was broken so we couldn't load any of the bundled games for about ten days. The local computer shop didn't open again until the new year!)
Thank you! I’ll be first to admit it was perfect timing (which wasn’t planned at all). The freedom is what I was looking for; if nobody buys it, I’ll happy just keep running it. If Stripe launches the same features, I’ll figure out how to pivot. Or, build something completely new. Who knows what the future holds.
Agreed, but spent most of it on the business and buying out my partner in the first 4 years.
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Ask HN: How do you choose between two job offers?
Do you have a method? What if both jobs aren't a 1:1 match (not apples to apples comparison), how do you weight pro's and con's?
Please stop trying to help this industry, let it die.
> I don't think forced political expression is entirely a boogeyman.

Sure, someone complained that people weren't knowledgable and up for debating an issue that was important to him. But notably, no one was forced to express anything, he was simply disappointed that they weren't willing to discuss the issue. Actually it wasn't even that, he was disappointed that, instead of expressing concern over the death of a black man, his coworkers were more concerned over how people were protesting[0]. No really, what he complained about was his coworker expressing this opinion:

> “These protestors aren’t going to solve anything, ” she said. ”Like, what are those people even trying to
do? Seriously. What are they trying to do? Make people mad about getting stuck in traffic? Piss people
off because they can’t get to Grand Central? It’s annoying . I just can’t stand it.”

I can see why that would be disappointing, but even still that disappointment is a far cry from forced political expression.

> When employees insisted that Kay Coles James must not be allowed on the AI advisory council[2], they didn't argue that having her would make Google do some particular evil thing. They argued that she's a mean person who holds the wrong political views, so Google must shun her.

But they did! There were other objections too, but one of the objections was specifically that James's values are directly contradictory to those that Google expresses, both in terms of diversity issues and in terms of AI.

> Not only are James’ views counter to Google’s stated values, but they are directly counter to the project of ensuring that the development and application of AI prioritizes justice over profit.

From the original petition. The thinking, which I broadly agree with, goes something like this: KCJ isn't an expert on AI. She's essentially a layperson, so her value on the ethics board would be as an ethics person, not as an AI person. Two of Google's AI ethics principles are "2. Avoid creating or reinforcing unfair bias." and "3. Be built and tested for safety.". KCJ appears to be comfortable using AI for military applications, arguably a violation of 3, and certainly doesn't care for avoiding bias towards trans people, a violation of 2. She didn't make any sense on the committee, and I'd argue that the followup made it clear that it was more meant to pander than to actually address issues.

> I'm a very strong Andrew Yang supporter, bumper sticker and pile of campaign swag and all, and I never bring it up in the workplace because I'm not there to do partisan politics.

Sure, and I don't generally bring up politics at work either. But that doesn't mean that I should deny other people, who are more directly affected by things, the ability to do so.

[0]: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/zmjvy3/heres-the-memo-abo...
I’m definitely not trying to peddle advice, I was just approached about my story. I think there are tons of micro niche things like this that can be built to earn a living (I have a list of 5 I’d build on top of just Stripe if I had the time). Large companies can’t do everything, and I think Stripe owns that. Not to mention, they still get all their same fees and don’t have to maintain the app.
You can get that sort of money as a developer if you're lucky and in the right place. I just finished a contract with an Evil Inc that was paying pretty close to that. From my personal sample getting a job that pays that well is a lot easier than getting a business to be successful enough to have that much profit.
Users,users! Not wikipedia promoted groups. Ffs,what is controversial about that?
Isn't it unlikely that a case will be granted cert if appeals courts in different circuits are in agreement? I.e. not a circuit split? So while not legally binding, it might be in practice indicative.

I wonder, does this mean I can scrape Instagram/Facebook for photos and use them for face recognition? Is that 'fair use'? Is an Instagram post a publication?
If there’s 1 atom per cubic cm in interstellar space, I’m finding it takes about half a million years to collide with a mole of hydrogen (at 17km/s)
I'm not complaining about the existence of Outpan, or trying to mount some defense of the original author.

I'm saying that links to this kind of aggregator have no place on Hacker News. What benefit is it to the community to have the authorship hidden and ads added?

Talking about licensing is orthogonal to my point. Blogspam is totally legal and not accepted here. This is no different.
I guess it’s possible they’ll eat it, but they sort of already are. They get the benefits of my work on growth as they get their same fees and don’t have to dedicate anyone to an app.
I think 1 & 2 might be the motivating problem for my whole worldview right now --- just the notion that the system is in fact rigged, but not for who we want to say it's rigged for, but rather for the college-educated middle/upper-middle class. We're all on board for for social justice (I certainly am too), but only to the extent that it doesn't impact the square footage we can get a mortgage on in a choice "public" school district.

This isn't an especially productive comment and I should probably delete it before I hit the reply button.
It seems like some subreddits are already those jumping off points to other places.

r/sffpc has https://smallformfactor.net/forum/

r/JDM_WAAAAT has serverbuilds.net

Not to mention that some subs have associated / affiliated Discord servers- where you can directly chat with those at the forefront of the community directly.
20 MHz --> 40M samples per second (Nyquist). 16 bits per channel, and two channels (I, Q).

40000000 x 2 x 2, so... about 160 MB/sec?

It's a lot of data. It wasn't happening with the disk I had on hand, so I went for the ramdisk thing. 1.6 GB of memory? That I did have.
I foresee a potential scenario where Stripe hires you if they deem what you have created, and more importantly the person behind its creation, is worth integrating. I would be surprised if you do not see formal contact from them (if you haven't already)!

Great work.
My kids are homeschooled and we consistently receive unsolicited feedback from other adults that they rarely encounter children these days who can have a conversation. I know that’s not true as I see plenty of conventionally schooled kids possess the same skillset. In my view, all this means is that the one nearly universal defense of conventional brick and mortar school - “the socialization” - is totally bogus. I find it interesting the most parents we met raise this defense rather than suggest superior learning environments or something more related to - you know - school. But these days we hear less and less the socialization argument and more the lament- ie Parents wishing they had the time and/or skills to homeschool. And I really do not wish this to seem judgmental but what do they think they already are doing with all the activities and extra learning they are providing their kids? It would seem to me many parents already are homeschooling they just don’t see it as such...
I work with credit card data, and I'm always astounded at how much ambiguity the banks allow. We see major brands redact what's in the transaction description to the point where it may only say the street intersection of the transaction (Main & 4th), yet the banks have a call center handling questions like, 'I don't recognize this place and it's a $200 charge, so what was it?'. With simple rules to make the transaction descriptions less opaque, I'd think the banks would come out ahead.
Tbh, at this point I don’t buy anything I that a value authenticity in from non-official distributors. I’ll go to the brands web page, and find their list of official resellers and buy from them only.
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Um, no. I said, "If I write a book" the respondent said, "... write a title and chapter names..."

One is an accurate analogy, the other is a false analogy.
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> This is historically revisionist. Google was a money-making behemoth with its tentacles in many areas of innovation before it became the politicized entity we know it to be today.

This is also historically revisionist. Google's been super political since forever, it just wasn't in the news for it.
> I know that open-source BIOSes, e.g., coreboot (formerly known as LinuxBIOS), exist, but I got the impression that even at this late stage in the BIOS game, only a minority of machines ship with them.

coreboot is not an open source BIOS, it's open source firmware. It can be combined with SeaBIOS, which is an actual PCBIOS implementation (that may or may not be in violation of IBM's APIs given this case) to provide a PCBIOS-alike boot environment.

It can also be combined with Tianocore, Intel's open sourced implementation of the high level APIs of UEFI, so that this approach would be less affected by the court case (since that's using code verbatim that was specifically published for that purpose). But who knows if the Oracle case wouldn't affect this approach as well?

coreboot can also be combined with other code for customized boot concepts, like on Chromebooks, which are probably the largest consumer deployment of coreboot, at ~6% of laptops and desktop in the US, apparently (The numbers on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste... vary wildly depending on the detail each is covering)

> I always thought that Compaq created its clean-room implementation because IBM outright refused to license their BIOS (to Compaq or anyone else).

Apparently Google (or Android before they were bought? not sure) also tried to license Java for Android and that fell through. They didn't clean-room because there was the Harmony stuff to work from that nobody seemed to have a problem with. These days Android's Java is based on OpenJDK which gives it a whole new twist (it being licensed by Oracle under GPL terms).