skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An acre of trees absorbs on average the CO2 produced by two cars [1]. A typical American car travels about 12000 miles/ year and has an fuel consumption of about 24mpg, so two cars burn about 1000 gallons per year. For a carbon tax of $0.2/gallon [2], that's $200 per year. Currently you can buy forest land for less than $1000/acre e.g. [3]. An incentive of $200/year could make forest ownership one of the best investments available anywhere.

[1] http://www.tenmilliontrees.org/trees/

[2] https://www.resourcesmag.org/common-resources/calculating-va...

[3] https://www.landandfarm.com/property/Timber_Property_Surroun...
The blog post[1] (which seems like a better link than the landing page) says, "Today, we’re adding support for coupons, tax rates, and two new payment methods".

1. https://stripe.com/blog/checkout
I would definitely say yes. It's extremely well made, and the core mechanics are extremely well polished.

You do still get the "big empire" management issue, but for worker in particular, I find that it's really spread out. You only have a little bit to do with workers at a time, but that little bit is pretty consistent over the course of the game. Two of the changes that affect this are: every worker action only takes one turn, and workers don't build roads.

(The "worker charges" mechanic also allowed, I think, for things like roman legions to one-time drop forts, which is awesome)

The unstacking of cities is mostly a good thing, although I do find that I spend a lot more time planning cities (Due to all the different adjacency bonuses and requirements between districts, terrain, and wonders).
> back then we used to call it slashdotting, what do we call it now?

That was back when slashdot was a real tech site.
It was addressed to Marty McFly!
Email is literally a store-and-forward technology!
Gerald Shur, architect of U.S. Witness Protection Program, dies at 86
Stripe Checkout has been around since 2014, but along with the new page, there are a bunch of new updates today (coupons, tax rates, and more payment methods). More in the blogpost: https://stripe.com/blog/checkout.
Thanks for the clarification and thanks for all the great work! Wish you and Caddy all the best for the future :)
So, I have a serious love-hate relation with Docker, and lately it's mostly been hate, but this article still doesn't speak to me at all.

It seems to come from the same place that used to lead so many fledgling software companies to decide to write their own in-house CRM or bug tracker instead of buying a commercial product. Yes, the commercial product is big and complicated and takes time to learn and implements a hundred features you don't need. Yes, the absolute minimum implementation will take no time to hack together. But this is a trap. All that stuff you thought was just window dressing will inevitably prove to be critically important to someone at your company. A 90% solution will not work for the long haul, and rolling your own will inevitably send you down a path that ends in tears, blood, and the endless quagmire of implementing the last 10% of needed features that proverbially take 90% of the effort. And then 99%. And then 99.9%.
It seems like payment/e-commerce companies in general are shifting towards offering "express checkout" experiences nowadays - Shopify, Paypal, Amazon Pay, are a couple prominent examples. My former employer Affirm was also very concerned about owning the checkout experience/acquiring users up-funnel. It's a smart move, really.
I am not surprised. The list of services I no longer use because they constantly email me to generate "engagement" is quite long. And if I get too annoyed (about once or twice per quarter), I make the effort to not only de-register my account, but I often add the domain to my spam filter so I never see email from that domain again.

I just checked and I have a bit over 110 domains in my spam list that look like they were added over the years because of this. So I may have under-estimated how often I "blacklist" businesses like this.
For what it's worth, Racket has a pretty terse syntax for literal hash tables:

> (let ((x (make-hash))) (hash-set! x 1 3) (hash-set! x 'a 5) x)
'#hash((1 . 3) (a . 5))

They can be read in:

> (list (read) 30)
#hash((2 . 4) (a . b))
'(#hash((a . b) (2 . 4)) 30)
> incentivizes creators to make artificially long videos

One of the reasons I use a FF addon to make the default speed of all youtube videos 1.5X. So few v-bloggers are succinct and fluid enough to have to listen at 1X.
Colorado is home to Lockheed Martin, one of the largest US defense contractors. Sounds like a solid culture fit for Palantir.
The problem with that is that you're essentially using a hierarchy to attach some piece of metadata to each package. The question then is what piece of metadata is both so valuable to be worth enshrining in the name and yet so unchanging that if its value changes, you're OK with every user of that package having to migrate to the new identifier.

I have yet to see any particular bit of metadata that fits into that set. Using "owner" like you do in your example here is a common choice, but also very frequently changes. If you look around, you'll find lots of examples where a package moved to a new owner and caused all sorts of problems because now all the old name references no longer work.

You could try to pick some essentially descriptive property of the package itselfs—maybe, say, "Net" if it has to with networking—like CPAN does, but it's not clear that doing so adds any real value beyond satisfying our human desire to put things in neat littly cubbyholes.
Author here! I came across the original study referring to the "physicist" and the "English Professor" while reading Economic Facts and Fallacies by Thomas Sowell. It's an interesting read that addresses almost all of the hot political topics of today.
Honestly that Crunchbase page looks automatically generated by a bot. It's not accurate.
I don’t know much about Interactive Brokers, but compare this fine with the measly fine (13k) issued to Smithfield for workplace safety violations which lead to thousands of cases of covid and 4 employee deaths. Why are the fines for financial noncompliance like this orders of magnitude higher than fines for killing people?
I don’t need to read this to know the answer. It’s because that is when they are used. It’s like having a lawn mower sit for 2 years and then acting all bewildered when you go to turn the engine over “Why did it break today!”
> drastically improve the quality of their docs

You've got to be kidding, right?
who the fuck in SV even pays taxes? nobody with actual money, sadly.

gtfo.
I would say this as "set age to 42".
As much as i loved integrating Stripe before i have to say it is pretty expensive for micro-transactions in Europe (less than 5€). They charge a base fee of 0.25€ +1.4% so this pretty much kills the business margin. We went with a local payments company in Spain (paycomet) because they could offer a flat 17€ fee a month.
HN would be better off if people didn't nitpick the framing of articles. That's what I'm saying.
People who miss the office are listening to its sounds at home
"A lot of thought and consideration" was put into the ten previous approaches they've attempted to solve this problem.

I'm starting to think that the reason they've tried so hard to avoid solving interesting problems in the language is that every time they've tried they've made something worse than every other alternative that existed in the problem space.
The term "conspiracy theory" originated as an attempt to discredit people who had correctly recognized a very real conspiracy. Always remember that.
Stripe checkout has existed for awhile, which might not be obvious seeing it on the frontpage of HN.

It does make Stripe integration much quicker, which usually takes quite awhile especially when many users only need basic functionality when starting out.

However it's still intended for people that know how to do at least a little development, so I wouldn't call it a competitor to Shopify and so on.
The direct effect of COVID-19 on kids is not the issue, but the fact that they can spread it to vulnerable adults, including their teachers, parents, and grandparents, and whoever they infect could infect even more.

This has and will continue to cause lots of older people to die, even if the kids themselves remain mostly unharmed.

As for the government's power, see what they did in WW2. They had major propaganda campaigns to get everyone on board (like "Loose Lips Sink Ships", Presidential "fireside chat" addresses, and propaganda posters everywhere, etc), a united and determined Congress, and actual leadership that helped the entire nation become aware and engaged with the war effort.

If there was this kind of leadership, media effort, and peer-pressure today as there was during WW2, along with laws and actual enforcement against non-compliant anti-maskers, then you can believe there'd be a hell of a lot less anti-maskers even trying to get out of wearing a mask, never mind staging mass anti-mask protests (with Presidential encouragement!).

The political bickering, selfishness, and incompetency in the US has already resulted in literally hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths, and will probably cause hundreds of thousands if not millions more.
I look at like this:

Civ4 pretty much perfected that kind of gameplay; local maxima at least, global maxima if that's your thing.

Civ5 started exploring a new optimization zone, and Civ6 continued towards that local maxima.

All of the things you listed as differences in 5 & 6 are things I view as good things; although I'd disagree that the various units are "just" reskins.
U.S. issues first Covid-19 fine to meatpacking plant totaling $13,500
> Because the first goal post was meaningless.

I think that's debatable. If an individual can abuse the system in a way that undermines the intent of the system, we need to think carefully about what it is that we're actually building.

> we can't even give cops sticks because at least one of them is going to beat an innocent person with it.

Considering the debate around police violence in America right now, I think it's amusing that we're using this as an example of a ridiculous proposition. Maybe not sticks, no, but the level to which our police are armed is definitely under scrutiny.
Tesla Battery Day Predictions // Output, Cost, Energy Density [video]
Modules had been in discussion for like years. Modules HowTo has been around from day one and it tells about this very clearly. Modules adoption rolled over a couple of releases which gave all the pointers they could..

Any minimally maintained project uses modules already. It is a must for any Go programmer to be skilled at managing modules because otherwise things just break. And yet it seems some people have lived under rocks.

People don't have time to RTFM, but apparently lots of time to complain and write about things they should have known with minimal due diligence around the tech they use. shrug
It's crazy that today nearly everything is political, even an S-1 filing.
It'll probably be implementation-defined...
> May be we already living in that alternative branch.

You conjugated the future semiconditionally modified subinverted plagal past subjunctive intentional incorrectly.
This resulted in the deaths of 4 workers. Why are the fines so low?
> We AB tested this
I ordered a package of plastic worms (for bass fishing) back in June. They were shipped from Texas on 06-21, and as of today (09-10), they still haven't arrived (Chapel Hill, NC).

Yet strangely enough, the postal service tracking system updated the status about a month ago, from "In Transit" to "In Transit - Arriving Late". Derp, derp.

Anyway, I've pretty much given up on them at this point, but I wonder if like 100 years from now, or at some other arbitrary point in time down the line, somebody who lives here after me is going to find a package of plastic worms in the mailbox...
Numan Türle adds every Gitlab user to project
As someone else mentioned, one reason is it's cheaper...for now. The "for now" is key. Having lived in Denver for more than 10 years, our housing and costs of living are growing incredibly quickly (relative to the Bay Area at least). Our total housing costs are definitely not in the same ballpark as the Bay, but we're creeping up on L.A. levels.

Add to that a good quality of life for employees (low pollution, the outdoors, etc), as well as an abundance of talent, and a city (or three) that's been very focused on nurturing its tech/startup community for the past 10 years (including Denver Startup Week, the largest free startup-focused event in the world)...and it's a no-brainer.

TBH, one of the biggest recent macro-challenges for Denver is the sheer number of people moving here, a large portion of which are from California.
> drastically improve the quality of their docs.

This is surprising, I've always found their docs to be world class. Their API reference site is especially nice. What have you found lacking other than the Elixir library?
It's possible, but it leaves unexplained how the text was produced.
Hi, Kenneth here from Stripe. I'd love to chat with you about the problems you have with webhooks. How can I best reach you? My email is auchenberg@stripe.com
It's ultimately a corrupted version of Cicero's "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum".
Ach, had such hope for the remake. Alas :/

Kinda hoping there'll be a new attempt now that core Civ has climate change, since those mechanics could (I hope?) be repurposed for terraforming.
Upgrade keys for Windows 10 pro are cheap on eBay and are completely worth it.
My favorite part about Visual Basic was the help files. They were absolutely great for someone learning to code. From what I remember, there was a snippet of example code for basically everything.
GitHub at scale and how to help “Stadium” model maintainers
This is in the process of being implemented: https://www.sec.gov/news/pressrelease/2016-240.html

better article: https://www.refinitiv.com/perspectives/future-of-investing-t...

I can't even begin to wrap my head around the infrastructure you'd need to handle this much daily traffic, considering it'll almost definitely be stored longer term, never mind how you'd go about querying it in any sensible manner. It's something upwards of 100 million trades per day
Inventing hypothetical scenarios where you are right isn't as strong an argument as you think it is. In the real world, a few people have too damn money and spend it in absolutely frivolous ways while millions of other people are being bankrupted.
FYI, the person you are responding to, does not want to actually address any of your points or arguments that you are bringing up. Instead, they just wants to sidestep your points.

He copy pasted the exact same comment in a conversation with me, which is why I am bringing it up. Instead of actually saying anything related to what I said, he just posted that copy-paste comment.

Likely, because they had nothing to add, related to the actual comments and points that you or I brought up.
It's great if you're the only one who ever has to read or maintain your code.
Doesn't that argument depend on their net worth now being equal to (or at least not significantly greater) than it was before the pandemic (or market pricing in the risk of same) started? I.e. yeah, his net worth went up, but it went down first, so it's just coming back to "normal".

That doesn't seem to be the case here- Amazon's (and thus Bezos's) dip in early 2020 is practically invisible compared to its growth since then March, from what I see on https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AMZN?p=AMZN

So...

Imagine you own a modest $300,000 house. A city inspector comes by and finds that your property is located on an old toxic waste spill- its value drops to $225,000. A week later, the city finds that they've made an error, and there is no toxic waste- and, in fact, that in doing the testing, they discovered deposits of incredibly valuable minerals on your property, so now your house is worth $450,000. A month after that, you get a tax bill in your mailbox for $45,000, 30% of your $150,000 asset gain. (These numbers are based (rounded) on the actual data.)
I think it always was, but those being taken advantage of never had the voice to respond.
We always hear about how payment networks manage to nickel and dime merchants to produce lots of revenue, so it was probably only a matter of time before other players in the process wanted a piece of that action.
Ex-Google Engineer Levandowski’s Jump to Uber Ends in Prison
Ever try Stellaris?

It's been pretty cool watching the studio gradually add to the game, getting more of the CK/EU4 "losing is fun" (and overall complexity) into it.

Their development model is really something I can get behind.
"I suspect that the ideal primary role of a leader in a remote setting is to serve as a communication channel."

Someone needs to do that job, but it doesn't have to be the leader. It's an admin job. In non-combat military units, sergeants do that.
Alright, I did in fact chuckle, out loud.

But I gotta ask: does it have the correct precedence?

And sure, throwing some superficial math at the problem works. But is that a coincidence?

I guess what I'm asking is: how does Nim know that `=>` is infix? How does it derive the correct precedence? It looks like spooky magic, but Nim is pretty well-designed in my experience: what's going on here?
I see two postmarks. One stamped from 1920, and a second one sprayed on from 2020 (just to the left of the first one).

The second postmark suggests that this was possibly redeposited into the mail somewhere.
I’ve had a lot of success with https://hex.pm/packages/stripity_stripe.
Doesn't Raku essentially already have this with feed operator? [1]

1: https://raku.guide/#_feed_operator
Interesting!

Hmmm, is the bitmap linear by line, or C64 style?

Auto increment + C64 style would rock pretty hard. It's still good per line.

Both have their merits.
This is a easy, short and classic read: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Cartoon_Guide_to_Statis...

EDIT: Also very basic. Should have added that.
In a collapsed tourism economy, a crumbling motel is abandoned to its tenants
Isn't that a bit of a self-answering question?

"We" value capital more than workers. The law reflects that.
>I don't understand why anyone thinks it's a sensible choice.

Hint: it's because they usually work for the people they are defending. Remember which site you are on
> The IP stack has the concept of layers, which function as abstractions that hide the implementation of lower layers from the upper layers

Correction: the network stack has layers, where IP is one of them, near the top.

Which is why most software targets IP. It’s a good abstraction and it’s portable.
What do you mean? California has an 11% top marginal income tax bracket - most of my income was in that bracket when I worked there. Add to that fairly high local sales taxes, and property taxes for the new (high income) residents as well as the commercial properties where they work.
Use of AI in Taxation to boost Economic Growth in third world countries
CD Projekt is hardly a microcap, it's in the Stoxx 600.
I haven't been able to find anything reported about recent US drone strikes after April 2019.
I'd vote for 6. 4 is the other "local maxima"; IMO 6 is a strict improvement on 5. They essentially just matured all of the mechanics, and then have added some new ones that aren't quite there yet (civ 7 some day...)

(Although I do miss single-city runs as Venice in 5...)
You just got me to do a little digging... apparently, as of Windows 10, RemoteApp itself isn't restricted by licensing (at least, any more than Remote Desktop itself is)-- Windows 10 Pro (and Enterprise) can now host RemoteApp applications.

The catch is that the UI to configure RemoteApp isn't present on client versions of Windows. It can be configured manually (by editing the registry then creating RDP files by hand), or there are open source tools that will do the work themselves: https://github.com/kimmknight/remoteapptool

Somewhat outdated Microsoft docs on how to do this by hand: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-security-an...
The article is reminiscent of the some old science fiction tropes, about very different life cycles.

The article also reminded me of the chicken and egg inversion (I think from a chapter in a Richard Dawkins book) -- the observation that chickens are merely the mechanism through which eggs propagate themselves throughout the world.
I have used both Spec and Schema professionally.

It's not exactly a secret that Spec is not intended to be a type-like system. But it turns out, it's perfectly possible to use Spec as a building block to do so!

As for complexity, I think instrumentation (Spec's approach) is complex. People routinely struggle with it, in fact you must use an external lib (Orchestra) to fully enable it. It also slows down execution, sometimes disproportionally.

Whereas Schema simply has a global toggle that also can be overriden in a fine-grained manner. It's explicitly made to be fast and have a type-like use.

As for type definitions, honestly both are elegant and powerful; you can quite easily use arbitrary predicates as "types" with both, and compose those predicates. Ultimately Spec is better designed because it fosters namespaced-qualifed keywords which compose better.

For addressing the instrumentation problem, I created https://github.com/nedap/speced.def which uses Clojure's :pre system. I have used :pre for over a decade so I know it has an extreme simplicity. Spec can take :pre's usefulness to the next level.
Every person, living and dead, is tracked in realtime, in astonishing detail.

We should daylight these activities and normalize it. Privacy protections would be nice, for instance. The Wild West days of these data aggregators needs to be over.

Further, other policy assumptions need to be revisited. Continued debate over our census process and voter registration databases is silly. Just run some queries.
I'm not sure I follow. As a power user of computers for years, I would be a liar if I said any of those programs were "quick to get running." Speaking as someone that is getting my kids up and running with computers. Training and tutorial running are the norm and should be. Expecting proficiency in anything with less than a few hours is an exercise in pain.

If you want there to be a new tutorial, I don't know anyone that would be against it. The "game to learn vim" was popular a few times. Same basic idea. I don't know what I would make of it, right off. There are some great typing modes that let you quickly type the current document and score you on speed/accuracy. Moving to other windows is tough in any option. But I could imagine a fun game made to navigate through. (Though, with helm, most navigations are autocompletes nowadays.)

I hate that it feels like a lack of empathy for you. But I really don't see the ecosystem as alien. Any more than I see the python ecosystem as alien, or the java, or javascript, browsers, etc. They are all just a little different. But all have some rough analogs. And all feel like they are just trying to shield users from complicated problems. Many times making things more complicated in the process.
Look, if the Russians invade, you don't want us letting them know that we know that they're invading, do you? That would just be crazy.
I dealt with a number of these issues 20+ years ago when working with nonprofit websites. My quick metric was "does it make sense and work in lynx?"...
Span/Memory/ValeTask and friends were motivated by optimization push for ASP.NET core, they were serious about getting to the top of some benchmarks.