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> But Bash devs know that their users won't always have the bleeding edge and don't use $latest stuff as soon as it's released.

Frankly, it's more that we have no idea which shell (nevermind the version) the code will run onto and keep on relying on old api and luck...
Well, it’s even easier to imagine that they will start charging money for it. If it makes life easier for developers they can easily charge 20 bucks a month for it.
> Compliance for a payment processor has nothing to do with detecting fraud and is pretty much just the OFAC list.

I suspect that it's not that simple. I did some work for people in compliance, I have some idea on the work they do and it's not simply department of people simply checking against the OFAC list.

I'm a bit familiar with banks and not with money processors though. I have seen the bank side of the relationship and they can be very nervous when working with payment processors that bring bad money(scammers, pyramid schemes, drug money, terrorism financing etc).

I like the firewall concept but it feels incomplete. Stripe must be doing a lot of interesting work to not be the shady company that the banks don't like working with.

If you have more concrete knowledge on the topic, what is the hard part of running money transaction service, I.E. money processor? Atomic book keeping is not the challenge keeping every kid on the block from starting a money processor business, I would guess.
I just wish I could use regular Stripe. :'(
Petty theft is not violence; violence is crime against a person's body. The only violence that happened here was the guy attacking the thief.

In almost all cases, escalating a relatively minor crime into physical violence against a human being is the wrong move, and needlessly increases the risk in a situation.

Grab the wrong person by accident? In a lot of states that might endanger your own life if the person decides to defend themselves.

Escalating to violence over simple objects (property) is to have priorities out of whack.

PS: be nice. I will not fuck off.
I’d be curious to know what Siemens’ plans are for HaD, if they’re looking to monetize it or just keep it as is. Basically I want to know how long it’ll be before HaD is ruined. I still hope it won’t be because I love HaD but it really doesn’t look good. When has such a corporate takeover ever gone well for the product?
Sparkfun seems out of most too. I just placed a backorder for one.
Because Google has infinite money, the execs just hire people so they can admire the zoo of smart people they've built. Why do they need Vint Cerf, Guido, and Rob Pike? Why are they on the MIDI board? Because there's no real reason not to.
Except in cases where they somewhat dysfunctional systems of FB and US are considerably more rational and functional than the local systems, which is unfortunately very often the case.
Flappy Bird WASM Neuro Evolution in Rust
I am having difficulty deconstructing your argument. Is it since you believe that these platforms are suppressing some plausibly truthful content, all content on these platforms / the platforms themselves should be suppressed?
Yeah, you can of course keep approximating it. The next adjustment would then probably be to use something like quality-adjusted-life-years (QALY) based on the persons co-morbidity, and then (if you want to) your could also take it the other way and reduce QALY for survivors with long-covid.
The link itself is global, not local to a transaction. So I can have the same link posted on my Github repo to support development or in my HN bio to buy me a coffee. That link then generates a checkout session when you visit it, and if the payment is actually made, then I see a payment entry in my dashboard. But the link is just a common global initiator.
One would hope. But that is not what is going to happen. People do not talk over small networks because they are inconvenient due to their small size. It is more convenient to talk over large networks because there are more people to talk to.

If you ban a massive centralized network, another one will take its place. It will certainly be smaller than Facebook, but no less centralized. And in this particular case, I would imagine that based on the Indian government's grievances with these American networks, information will almost certainly be less free on the replacement.
Show a pop-up or pop-up like asking if they want to switch to an Indian language.

I never switch to another language other than English.

It is highly advisable that companies translate to eight most common Indian languages. Or even the top five [0].

People speaking all major languages of India are huge potential markets for companies. Google offers search in nine Indian languages. Amazon provides customer services in five languages.

For some services, you should not even want to translate to languages other than English. India has one of the largest English speaking populace of the world- 2nd only after the US [1].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of....

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-s...
In short, yes—confirmation is requried.

Here's an example of a payment link: https://buy.stripe.com/dR6cOd9RJ8KS8nufYZ. It's a single link that can be shared with anybody (not unique to one customer).

On the Stripe side, nothing is collected from the customer til they click.

We've thought a lot about the security side of things—one of the reasons why Payment Links has its own subdomain and the payment page is hosted by Stripe.
That's not universally true, because many countries don't tax foreign-sourced income of their citizens, (meaning in this context, dividends paid by a corporation not incorporated in the taxpayer's country of tax residence).
I'm gonna assume you've never learned it. A provably safe C replacement is pretty useful and its adoption could do away with a ton of common bugs and security vulnerabilities.

The Theranos comparison is asinine. Rust works, Theranos did not.
The first half of the 20th century was when none of the economic systems worked. Capitalism had the Depression, communism wasn't working all that well, and near-anarchy collapsed quite rapidly.

We still don't know how to make an economic system that works anywhere near optimum, but have so much excess productive capacity that it doesn't matter as much.
I promise ecosystem will not be considered complete until this fundamental problem is solved. That said, you can have time-to-first plot below a hundred milliseconds right now if you put Plots into your system image - that's always been an option. System images have workflow issues which is why they're not used more.
according to ars technica [1] they removed the ui layer from the repo... is that accurate and does that mean we are in for a macos type situation where the real treasure (the ui bits) are locked away?

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/google-launches-its-...
Except yellow skin has been historically used to describe Asians. Maybe purple or neon green could have been used to steer definitely clear of that.
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> Linux is definitely not an after thought to us!

Care to share more about this? Which terminals are you planning to support?
YouTube approves ad by Belarusian gov with journalist from hijackd Ryanair plane
The second greatest trick evil ever played on us was to convince us that it was necessary. They have become too powerful to not be held responsible and the order they were ostensibly intended to preserve has disintegrated as a direct consequence of their failure to allow it to evolve naturally, imo.

Their capabilities and their influences on our own democratic processes are about as welcome as leftover minefields from forgotten conflicts, especially as many of them retire to write memoirs and mug for television presenters. They were a 20th century artifact of the nation state (which they have forfeited) and by all popular accounts now they seem to form a kind of seedy post-national shadow government engaged in protecting sympathetic capital flows. As ever it was, perhaps, but we shouldn't be arguing about whether or not their behavior is appropriate so much as whether we should tolerate their continued existence at all.

Of course they're an easy straw man, but being the key source of deception in the world is neither necessary or sympathetic.
It'd be nice to know that a feature/product is widely used in Japan, say, so if you're in the US and considering implementing Stripe's version you can be more assured that it won't disappear suddenly.
This is great news for Supplyframe.

But there is a darker undercurrent here that really needs some introspection. The "makers market" of today doesn't work.

Let's compare the market between say 1975 and 1985 with the market between 2010 and 2020. Money spent on the early market supported no less than 6 monthly printed magazines, several chains of electronics component stores (Radio Shack/Tandy/Dick Smiths/Marples(sp?)), a host of retail outlets, and several equipment manufacturers selling into the market.

In the "modern" era, there are no profitable magazines or web sites or blogs or ANYTHING with respect to this hobby, there are NO brick and mortar retail components stores, and no equipment maker sells into this market.

So why is this? I suspect that a large chunk of that is money. In particular, the "cost" of things has gone so far down that the money selling those things is a mere pittance of what it was before. But salaries of people to run these businesses, offices, etc hasn't changed. Nor has postage or warehouse space etc. But the interesting follow on effect is that it makes no sense to pay $8000 for an advertisement (the full page price of an ad in Modern Electronics in 1980) when you might generate an additional $4K in revenue. Similarly for blogs or podcasts where 70 to 90% of the ad revenue goes to the ad network (Google, Bing, Etc.)

Open source is great, but without money people have to work other jobs and so their ability to contribute quality time to their hobbies, much less full time to them, is that much harder to do.

I used to write free lance articles for Byte, Dr. Dobbs, and others and they would pay me $600 - $800 per article. A recent article suggests that the editors for Hackaday get paid but the places they link? They just get "exposure." (cue the Oatmeal comic on spending "exposure").

There are some standouts, like Adafruit, but even there the margins are tight and the operations are small. They are certainly not a "Radio Shack" level of enterprise.

I don't know what the "fix" is, but there is some re-imagining, re-inventing that needs to go on here to pay these people who put in their time to make the "maker movement" work. Or it will continue to struggle.
Isn't it simpler to just have a single static web page, to show that presence? Even if it's just for western contacts such as banks.
Multiple dispatch and generic programming make Julia a productive language to work with. However, a given program may have unnecessary function specializations (which affect startup compile time) or unexpected dynamic dispatches (which affect runtime performance). These can be addressed with some important development patterns: checking for type stability via @code_warntype, using opaque structs or @nospecialize when appropriate, etc. I've found the Julia community to be very helpful with regard to performance on the forums, slack, and zulip.
Accept-Language header, to me as a developer, has always been the better approach to this problem. It has language prioritization built-in to the value.
We'll try this in lieu of PayPal invoices since those have become a pita.
> If you replaced a bunch of rust crates with random modified builds from a third party, you would probably see the same types of breakage.

I wouldn't need to do that in Rust because Rust programs are typically statically compiled. If I install some third-party program, it doesn't break a bunch of software that I installed via `cargo install`, nor does it prevent me from `cargo install`ing new packages (whether or not I can install a given package doesn't depend on the state of the packages that are already installed on my system).

Maybe the real reason that distro package managers are unpleasant is that they opt to dynamically link everything by default?
And you're posting it here because...why?

If you think there's a legal issue, this, obviously, isn't the forum.

If you want to tell people "I had this idea first!" this also isn't the forum; you're either wrong, or are pointing to the wrong thing (patents aren't particular readable or understandable); show us the thing you made.
DragonFlyBSD 6.0 Is Performing Well Against Ubuntu Linux, FreeBSD 13.0
We've been live with Payment Links in beta to around a hundred sellers for the past few weeks, and we've seen businesses selling both digital goods/services, as well as physical goods. Sellers have been sharing Payment Links on social media, via email newsletters, and in support interactions. And we've also seen some sellers generate QR codes that send their customers to a Payment Link. Excited to see what you use Payment Link to sell!
Well of course not, but it's a pretty strong risk factor.
sure, but I didn't want to change the title a lot, just to prevent any wild and crazy misunderstandings.
No worries. We determine who is on your 'team' based on email domain excluding webmail domains, like gmail.com and hey.com.

If there are a bunch of people at the same company using Fig, we'd probably reach out to understand what you find valuable and how we could make it better - we don't have a paid offering yet, but want to figure out what teams are willing to pay for!
Spectre is because computers are memory bound so branch prediction without being able to touch memory is useless, and touching memory is very hard to undo, not because of out of order execution as per se.
It is so hilariously bad that Linux has an easier time running Windows applications than it does Linux applications from an older (or newer, or sideways) distro. It's been like this for decades, it has been complained about for decades, but there seems to be very little desire to fix it.
> Yes, but you don't need microservices to do that. You can just lower the coupling between the teams working on your monolith using the means of abstraction of the language is written in.

Forcing a common platform across unrelated components because you have decided to make it a monolith is tighter coupling than exist with microservices, so, no, you can’t. Choosing a monolith is choosing a higher level of irreducible coupling that choosing independent (not necessarily “micro”) services.
Well, not anymore for the small publishers. Now they’re subsidizing the big publishers.
A lot of "best practices" in engineering were established empirically, after root cause analysis of failures and successes. Software is more or less evolving along the same path (structured programming, OOP, higher-than-assembly languages, version control, documented ISAs).

Go back to earlier machines and each version had it's own assembly language and instruction set. Nobody would ever go back to that era.

OOP was pitched as a one-size-fits-all solution to all problems, and as a checklist of items that would turn a cheap offshored programmer into a real software engineer thanks to design patterns and abstractions dictated by a "Software Architect". We all know it to be false, and bordering on snake oil, but it still had some good ideas. Having a class encapsulate complexity and defining interfaces is neat. It forces to think in terms of abstractions and helps readability.

> This isn't to mean a coder would have to follow rigid rules constantly or that it needs a regulatory body, but that the practice of deviating from standardized best-practices should be communicated in terms of the risk rather than claiming it's just subjective.

As more and more years pass, I'm less and less against a regulatory body. Would help with getting rid of snake oil salesman in the industry and limit offshoring to barely qualified coders. And simplify hiring too by having a known certification that tells you someone at least meets a certain bar.
I am fine with GMO and other genetic technology in principle. But I am not happy about GMO with the sole purpose of deploying more and more herbicides. Unfortunately that's what it has been about mostly in the past.
‘There’s nothing like it ’ Musical stars return to storm the stage
Awesome! Can't wait to hear your thoughts/feedback on Payment Links; feel free to reach out at jackerman@stripe.com
Mach/Darwin/iOS has this and I suppose it's nice, but it does break down when you introduce POSIX compatibility, because you have to deal with the less expressive and insecure concepts like pids and file descriptors there.
They are only negotiating the bribe. Nobody I going to ban them...
The "I send you a tikkie for this .25ct tomato paste can"-meme.
Except the evidence that the virus came from a lab leak is provided by the American government, the arguments are constructed by Americans, and the news leaked and propagated by the American press and American social media networks.

The other side of the debate use the same American tools.

This is more a civil war in American discourse between the liberals and conservatives than anything else.
Pure chaos.
Disregarding the fact that even Google offers long-term updates for certain Android mobile phones, and even a small company like Jolla provided Sailfish OS updates for 7 years to its first phone, it's kind of disingenuous to highlight only those features of Android OS that make Apple's iDevices look good.

I can also the throw the same argument back at you by pointing out that even if I can't update the Android OS on some devices, I can still update the default browser (Chrome) or even install a different browser, like Firefox, that is totally independent of the OS (unlike in ios where every browser is forced to use Safari / Webkit as the rendering engine, and thus will be stuck with an older version whenever Apple decides to not update it). The argument can even be stretched further - I can also buy an Android phone with an unlocked bootloader (like Sony Open Devices phones) and install other Android and other mobile OSes on it too, if I so desire.

When compared with that perspective, don't some Android phones seem better than Apple's iDevices? Anyway, that isn't the point - the criticism here is that Apple users like me are demanding more from Apple are not satisfied with their current practices.
I'm sorry to hear about your friend's child. That would be the kind of detail that would make the original comment much more meaningful and relatable, though of course it's also a sensitive thing that one might not want to include.

I wouldn't worry about the occasional errant downvote; if it isn't a noticeable pattern, it's best to remember that misclicks are a thing, and just move on. People will usually give corrective upvotes in such cases (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...). If it does become a noticeable pattern, then it's best to reflect on what in one's comments might be giving rise to it, because the odds in that case are that there's something worth adjusting.
It would be except the longevity of any human civilization will probably stop that from happening.
our burden raised the world set free

the earth returns to land and sea

our buildings burned and highways gone

I love my friends and everyone
but we've had our chance let's move aside

let time wash us out with the tide
99.9% of all species ever existed are gone today. Earth have been through 5 mass extinctions.

Nature doesn't give us a safe and friendly environment we make unsafe, nature gives us a hostile and unsafe environment we make safe through our impact of the planet.

Yes we need to get better at many things and luckily we are, but the idea that humans are the destroyers of biodiversity is simply untrue. We might in fact be the only species who will be able to not only avoid mass-extinction but also rebuild biodiversity. No matter what. Nature doesn't care about us and have no issue adding us to the 99.9% if we don't learn how to control and manipulate the planet and our nearby solar system.
Which market are you in? In the US I'm seeing "Starts at 2.9% + 30¢ per successful charge"
The ad shows the journalist Roman Protasevich "confessing" that he is being treated well and he has no complaints. However, he looks beaten and scared.
Linus tech tips did an enlightening breakdown video of their earnings and YouTube ads make up around 25% of their revenue.

I think they have to upload to YouTube because that’s where their audience is (IIRC it’s the world’s second largest search engine). There are lots of channels that I’ve only discovered as related videos to other videos I’ve watched.

https://youtu.be/-zt57TWkTF4
Patreon should host videos instead of letting YouTube do it for them. I have 4 Patreon subscriptions and would happily pay for more. I am not willing to pay for a YouTube subscription when they ban content whenever it is politically convenient for them to do so.
And if you stop trusting the system and decide to make a new one. you're branded a terrorist and executed.
Facebook has 5 offices in India, these could still be left operational.
It would be nice to see a government clamp down on them, in the US this will never happen.
Time Berners-Lee:

literally describes web applications as handling documents and only documents. Bases HTML on SGML, which is literally a language to describe documents, and only documents. Calls the system, a ypertext system. Lists exclusively text systems as systems one might connect to.

In the conclusion writes (emphasis mine): "We should work toward a universal linked information system, in which generality and portability are more important than fancy graphics techniques and complex extra facilities. The aim would be to allow a place to be found for any information or reference which one felt was important, and a way of finding it afterwards."

HN in 2021:

no-no-no, that's reductionism, what he really meant was full-featured applications, it's not "a massive conceptual leap"

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Edit.

Time Berners-Lee in an interview [1]:

"It was designed in order to make it possible to get at documentation and in order to be able to get people — students working with me, contributing to the project, for example — to be able to come in and link in their ideas, so that we wouldn’t lose it all if we didn’t debrief them before they left. Really, it was designed to be a collaborative workspace for people to design on a system together. "

[1] https://achievement.org/achiever/sir-timothy-berners-lee/#in...
I hate the word, but if there's one thing google has it's analytics - data. They can tell if something is growing or dying. I'm guessing they could even tell youtube was growing before they bought it. But seeing an upward trend seems easier than seeing a flat line and deciding it can't be turned into an upward trend.
I'm a US Citizen, and it's not easy to get a Russian visa right now. In fact, it's borderline impossible for the average person. I know because I am actively trying as hard as I can and failing.

I was granted a visa a couple years back, so I know how the process works - letter of invitation, application through ILS (usually in person, now via mail/email). But they're not issuing visas to Americans unless you have a compelling reason (they said basically a dying relative or if you're the only guy that can repair critical national infrastructure for Russia).

I even tried going the business visa route by getting a letter of invitation issued saying I had to conduct negotiations and close business deals in Russia... no luck with the Consulate/ILS in SF or NYC.

FWIW - I don't think it's even Covid related at this point, it's diplomatic collapses between USA/Russia (embassy employees being sent back, etc). Supposedly something might change June 15, but I'm not hopeful.