skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good question! Today you would still need to register yourself, however we tried to make this as easy as possible in two ways:

1) We monitor your transaction and compare them to local thresholds so you know where/when you may need to register: https://stripe.com/docs/tax/set-up#monitoring-your-obligatio...

2) We provide documentation/links to the exact sites to register: https://stripe.com/docs/tax/registering#list-of-state-and-co...

In the future though we'd love to also offer registrations on your behalf, this is just the beginning!
Sufficiently large boolean satisfiability also enough to reach general AI.

I kid, but these sorts of papers are theoretical position papers and do not account practical considerations e.g., for how many suns of energy must be expended.
When America’s richest men pay $0 in income tax, this is wealth supremacy
By "within a decade", do you mean the start or end of the projects? Hinkley Point C is at the decade mark from its initial announcement and roughly halfway through the decade of its construction.
This reads almost like a tautology.

I'm reading: "You need a manager to coordinate a deeply hierarchical and separated structure with production at the bottom and the clients at the outside."

I mean no disrespect, but from my perspective I see a deeper problem here that is being patched over by exceptional people like yourself. Shouldn't the creators and clients have a major, high impact role and the coordinators a supporting role in terms of decision making?

To make an exaggerated joke it looks a bit like a dictator complaining about all their responsibilities and the hard decisions they have to make. Well maybe they shouldn't even be in that position to begin with.

And yes I've seen the diagrams and the theory behind this. But I've become more and more suspicious of bureaucracy and process that tries to fight the symptoms of lack of trust and human connection.
Carry-on luggage for one thing. (And the luggage I take is comfortably within limits before you ask. I'm also frequently in a bulkhead seat so the luggage has to go overhead.) I also like to just get settled in.
I liked this until everyone got paid the same. That's the fastest way to lose all of the people who can get more elsewhere. And it's not going to be the laggards who jump ship...
I don't want fresh air or sunlight. I want to sit in a dark basement with a big Unix beard. I hate this "lifestyle and health" dogma that has poisoned hacker culture.
I'm curious if there's regulation on managing the end-of-life cycles for PV; there's an interesting article on recycling them: https://www.greenmatch.co.uk/blog/2017/10/the-opportunities-...

But it seems it's hypothetical. As far as I know most of these, in North America, end up in the trash. Which is not great due to the toxic materials used leaching into the water system.

Anyone know more about this?
Exactly. Once the number of stakeholders crosses a certain threshold, your lead developer will be so busy with them that they will essentially just become the manager because they wouldn't have any time to code.
Is countering unproven and potentially dangerous medical advice by saying "wait for the evidence" really demonization? And it wasn't just the left saying that. Just because the right pushes something doesn't make everyone who disagrees with that "the left".
The insidious part is that every effort to work around bad management of this type is captured by management, and twisted, corrupted, and festered until it becomes yet another torture inflicted by management.

Agile would be just fine, if it was the bottom-up, developer-focused scheme that the manifesto writers and True Scotsmen claim it to be.

Unfortunately, it's been co-opted, and we end up with interminable daily standups that are driven by line managers, or by yet another useless person who bought a Scrum Master certification, and exist solely for developers to justify themselves and kowtow in self-abasement. Likewise with the whole cavalcade of infantilizing sprint planning meetings and planning poker and retrospectives and meeting after meeting after meeting imposed as part of a holy Process, that the company spent tens of thousands of dollars having consultants implement.
I started using M1 Finance, and while they send useful notifications about when transfers and rebalances occur, they use those same permissions to send marketing type notifications that you can't disable: nagging me to take out a loan from them or refer friends to their platform. It's obnoxious. These should never be notifications, let alone ones you can't even selectively opt out of.
If it's at the stage where they're talking to partners, and it's expected to ship in less than a year, I'd argue that those are pretty clear indications that this isn't a skunkworks project that will be shelved.
All of which still ignores how wildly unlikely it is that such a high degree of similarity occurs by chance.

The paper doesn't claim causality either, but only argues, in my view pretty convincingly, that lateral gene transfer is a likelier explanation for the observed similarity than any other including convergent evolution. You haven't argued otherwise, but only that convergent evolution in this case is not implausible - which is true, but answers no claim that anyone is actually making.

There's no point in that that I can see, so if you want to keep on doing it, I'm afraid you'll need to do so in the absence of an interlocutor, or at least of an interlocutor who is me.
> I don’t think Jeff Dean’s email [0] was concerned with missing citations, but that the work did not address and reflect the work in those citations that were contrary to what the paper reported.

Wouldn't that make the paper a PR piece for other projects at Google? Including some that may never be deployed?
Perhaps the brain will naturally adjust to Neuralink, and similar technology, via a feedback loop that would tend to keep the Neuralink-monitored neurons more static?
It's worth noting that there's the interchange fees that come along with using a credit card in the US aren't just a pure profit rake for the credit card companies.

It obviously pays for computing resources and staffing and such, but beyond that it also, roughly, pays for all the fraud that happens with any credit card. In many cases, when someone does a fraud, it's someone "in the middle" (i.e. not the fraudster, the card holder, or the merchant) who ends up holding the bag.

It's also paying for some aggregate amount of credit risk that card users pose to their banks.

Credit card fees are high because fraud is such a colossal problem, and at various levels it's better for institutions to just eat costs (and thus slightly raise the minimum viable price they can charge for processing) than make it harder for people to buy things.
> I'm inclined to lean towards reconfigurations of simple materials ...

This is just a reconfiguration of soy protein isolate. They dispersed it in an acetic acid solution, applied heat and used an ultrasonic homogenizer, then used glycerol as a plasticizer and dried it out. I was expecting something more exotic, but this doesn't seem difficult to scale.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-23813-6
Frozen units which skipped the last 24k years of evolution. Even if that species exists today, "what could go wrong" could include some small behaviour change which current environment can't counteract.
This is exactly the sort of thing that led to Andrew Jackson killing the National Bank.

I wonder what he'd think of a private entity doing the same thing.
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When KFC Came to Kenya
I have yet to encounter a realtor that competent, or possessing perfect information, but your mileage may vary.
Half of people certainly are not buying houses in any year.
Encoding your HTTP for fun and profit
Well HTTPS isn't used everywhere and governments have decided that banks need to meet an extremely strict set of rules to operate. As much as we'd like to think of the internet as the wild west, it is not.
That isolation is often as much self-imposed as not. While the GP may have been a bit aggressive in his/her characterization of it, I agree with the general thrust that developers tend to be both narrowly focused on their own technical work and prone to inflation of its worth.
It's not really squandered away. I am all for postponing nuclear until we can get our shit together and have proper security in place. The workers at the Fukushima plant had a lower salary than McDonalds employees. I don't want that nuclear. I want modular, mass produced, failsafe nuclear plants somewhere in the middle of the desert
> "will always be vetted"

It isn't. Malware is already an option. And websites are available on the phone, along with text and calls and many other channels that are constantly being used for scams and attacks. iOS isn't magically invulnerable and security would be handled the same way as MacOS (which also has an app store). This really isn't that big of a deal as you make it seem.

As for the rest, the other comments already describe the issues with the size of the company and importance of mobile devices leading to the current challenges. Reality, and how people and companies operate, just isn't that black and white.
> People have been wearing protective equipment such as masks for decades, and the negative effects are none.

Have you yourself seen studies that say the negative effects are none? If so, point me to them; I've only found a few, and they all seemed flawed.

> you should be ashamed of yourself for contributing to this state of affairs.

I have no shame in defending true science against propaganda.

[1] is a blog post I wrote about masks and carbon dioxide, where I wrote a model and ran it on various parameters. The net result was always the same: there was half oxygen and half carbon dioxide behind the mask.

Dr. Anthony Fauci knew that masks were ineffective. [2]

The CDC did a study that failed to show that masks were effective. [3]

Another study showed that masks did not work. [4]

There is a review of older papers concerning masks [5] as well as a follow-up. [6] (Though I do not know the political bent of that website; the review may be cherry picked.)

In other words, there is evidence that masks don't work and that there are downsides. If masks reduce oxygen, which makes us more vulnerable to disease, and they don't work, it's possible that the masks actually made things worse, by making us more vulnerable while doing nothing.

That is why I will never feel shame for my "irrational tirade" because it's not a tirade, and it's not irrational.

[1]: https://gavinhoward.com/2020/08/masks-and-carbon-dioxide/

[2]: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fauci-said-masks-were-not-...

[3]: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/pdfs/mm6936a5-H.pdf

[4]: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.18.21257385v...

[5]: https://www.rcreader.com/commentary/masks-dont-work-covid-a-...

[6]: https://www.rcreader.com/commentary/still-no-conclusive-evid...
Anecdotally: I know a number of people who say they "had COVID" but when you poke a little bit deeper it turns out they never had a formal diagnosis or test result -- they just self-diagnosed based on some symptoms. I have no data about the numbers here, but I suspect that these people make up a non-trivial percentage of the "already had COVID" crowd. Vaccination seems like a pretty good precaution for these folks.
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I can only use the models that I have, accurate or otherwise. I hope I'm not confusing others, I'm not pretending to be an expert in DNA.

> Both a computer program and a genome encode information, but that's about where the similarities end.

FWIW this is a very significant similarity to me.
Sure, email in my profile.
> all of these genes "just work" together

That's a little bit tautological since if the genes didn't work together they wouldn't be here after all these years, right? Fascinating nonetheless.
> All of which still ignores how wildly unlikely it is that such a high degree of similarity occurs by chance.

It is wildly unlikely that I should exist through the process of evolution, to waste my afternoon on this argument, and yet: here I am :) Have a nice day.
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The pine phone is under 250 dollars, and runs Linux. Although, you have the issue of if some service are accessible via an app on iOS or Android.
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So, I had this argument/conversation with Jedberg (who incidentally also works at Netflix);

I said that: DevOps means different things to different people;

To Some: it's the evolution of "Operations" to integrate them into the team so that operational issues are automated out and that developers can get greater velocity.

To Others: it's a sysadmin who can use CI/CD and fumble through scripting something.

To the majority: it's a developer who can fumble through installing a server or package, and this is jedbergs definition too, and one he argues is canonical.

My opinion is that specialising is important.

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To this effect: it's _far_ too much cognitive load to understand how your OS works, your application, its framework, the cloud provider, the logging tools, SLI/SLOs and error budgets, on-call policies and alerting mechanisms, application level security, authentication of systems, authorization of systems, SSO, etc;etc;etc;etc;

Because to learn all of those various things and weigh them in your head every time you make a decision is fatiguing, it took me 10 years to get "great" at Ops and a decent scripter; it's possible that Ops is easier than programming but from what I understand it's not easier, it's just different.

With Development (exception: Javascript) you learn primitives and they rarely change. With Ops, the tools and landscape change _frequently_.

10 years ago it was Nagios, then Zabbix, then some combination of graphite and co, now it's prometheus, maybe Thanos or is it influxDB+Kapacitor?

That's just alerting, there's new and changing solutions for logging, message queues, databases, IdP tooling (keycloak, vs FreeIPA vs AD), distributed tracing systems, heck even load balancers (GCE Ingress vs Nginx vs traefik vs etc;etc;etc).

Hell, understanding how Kubernetes works is basically a full time job otherwise "black magic is happening" and debugging becomes a nightmare.

Frameworks change or get replaced too, but it doesn't feel like it's close to the same rate as infrastructure software.

I remember at college one of the professors said to me: "It's impossible to know everything about computers, because as you're learning: new things come out, and after you've learned something: it will change. The more you learn, the more you have to keep up to date until you can no longer keep up."

I think maybe people don't think like that.

I think we need to have people of different disciplines.
Optimist, pessimist, and realist comment on the current state of tech
It punishes smaller transactions unfairly, which doesn't make a lot of sense since the size of the dollar amount probably doesn't have anything to do with the incremental cost to stripe to compute the tax bill.
It has been covered in the popular tech press:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/processors/cerebras...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/semiconductors/processor...
There is some in Europe, we even have an industry association charged with recycling. How much of the old modules are actually recycled, I don't know. Chinese are buying used ones yo resell in developing countries.
Wonderful comment. Mirrors a lot of what I've experienced directly or indirectly in the industry.

I'd add that mid-sized and up companies are usually not homogeneous. There are usually good and bad leaders, managers, and developers to be found within them. You can have a great experience in one part of a company and a horrible one in another part.

Another thing that I've found is that there is no "one true way" for a team to operate. I have found that what works best is to lean into a methodology that meets your business partners wants/needs and hire people that work well in that environment in that mode. Be it highly formalized and layer ITIL, super agile kanban+devops, or somewhere in between.
A friend visited the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, where he saw one of these. Said that they throw off a LOT of heat. Stainless steel braided piping is used to move the liquid cooling around.
EU caps card interchange fees (.3% credit .2% debit), so the baseline is lower. US has comparably huge card rewards, those have to come from somewhere, so with 1.5-3% interchange fees the incentive to implement 2FA to cut, say, 0.2% off commission is just not there..
> Fees aren’t about costs, they are about value.

Correct.

The problem is the value is artifically high because it is basically extortion.

It is basically a protection racket: "you pay us and nothing bad happens to your app that you spent x years and y thousand dollars creating".
The same point applies though: if if you think a large percentage of your colleagues shouldn't have been hired, that's one thing... If not then you have to just make do with your actual coworkers. To the point of the root comment, it's no use deciding that you're done with your share of the work (you wrote the docs after all) and now it's up to others to do their part (why are they so lazy!). That's just fantasizing that you had different coworkers, and it leads neither to effectiveness nor to happiness.
The actual difference between the bloodless "conflict of interest" and the line you did use to explain the title change is of course that the latter implies that this was not why Biggar was expelled, i.e. that there was some other reason -- "he had it coming anyway, it's just that I can't say precisely why."

Since you're not stupid we have to assume you knew very well that this was what you were saying, so we have to conclude you said exactly that because exactly that was what you wanted to say.
Right...

Within a decade, solar will have dropped another 300% and "next gen nuclear" will still be 10 years away.

At this point, it's a dead heat between next gen nuclear and fusion.
> In a true inflation income rises along with prices so wage earners, and firms and indexed pension holders are protected.

This is not a given and far from necessarily perfectly correlated. Wage earners can still be hit.

There are several assumptions you make here, and none of them should be taken for granted.

And, well, people who hold cash (unless you classify those as debt-holders, which, sure, yeah, but that should be pointed out) or happen to invest in the wrong thing are also hurt badly.
Same reason you might buy a pack of bubblegum.
I am just waiting untill I need to go to the hospital and a warning pops up: "this destination is not included in basic plan, do you want to upgrade to premium for $999" and then have it reject my card or crash or glitch out and leave me high and dry.

Or untill I get banned from VW for self-driving offensively, or having sex in the car. Or untill all this data leaks or the car pushes ads on me.

Capitialism is eating personal liberty.
I hope so.

I'm not optimistic that it can be cost competitive without massive government subsidies for construction, fuel production, waste disposal, and/or insurance.
The Wiretrustee SATA Pi board is a true SATA NAS
Co-founder of Billflow here.

We were lucky enough to be able to integrate the Stripe Tax beta with Billflow.
In my opinion this is the coolest thing Stripe is launched (For SaaS) since they came out with subscriptions. It just works™.

Implementing Stripe Tax was dead-easy, to get it working we essentially just had to switch a boolean to true on our subscription creation code.

Also, the new functionality of the upcoming invoice API is something we've been wanting for a while - being able to estimate the first invoice for a subscription _without_ the customer existing beforehand makes life so much easier when checkout is concerned.

Huge props to the Stripe team, love this product!
> walkable neighborhoods.

Is there any proof of this? Or just a wish?
I'm surprised the types of things you can get insurance for. I know one company that got hacked and data (no money) was exposed. There was an insurance pay out (to the company) to pay for "fixing the digital infrastructure".

This is like saying: If you leave the door to your house open, and someone robs you, we will pay to show you how to lock your front door.
Excellent ideas. I use Freedom to limit my use of social media to specific times of day, which is a good start. I especially liked the idea of promoting people if they seem to be browsing aimlessly.
Of course, but much of the food for desert dwellers can still be grown in less drought-prone regions.

In the US, we have a fertile region in the midwest where there's enough water to grow millions of acres of corn just for ethanol fuel [0] (perhaps not sustainably given the state of underground aquifers, but that's another subject entirely.)

In drought-prone regions like California, we divert millions of acre-feet of water annually to grow especially thirsty crops like almonds [1] which aren't exactly a staple crop feeding cities. Current water policy is wildly unsustainable, but no politician wants to be the first to make an unpopular change in this game of drought chicken.

[0] https://biotechnologyforbiofuels.biomedcentral.com/articles/...

[1] http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/0...
What's the other solution? Stripe to become merchant of record like Paddle.com?
test.robot

*** Settings ***
Library calc.py

*** Test Cases ***
My First Library
${sum} Plus 1 2
Should Be Equal As Integers ${sum} 3

calc.py

def plus(a: float, b: float):
return a + b

No manual casting, no extra directories, no complicated sharing of functions.
> A culture where people are afraid of asking questions is worse than having the best possible documentation on everything

Yes, true, but a culture of asking too easy or even dumb questions that the docs clearly cover is also worse than having the best possible documentation on everything.

One company I worked for got it right, IMO, and it stuck with me. My mentor told me the first day: “You must spend at least five minutes trying to answer your own question by reading the docs before you ask someone else. And you must go ask someone if it takes you more than ten minutes to find the answer. Do not ask someone without having tried to find the answer yourself, and do not get stuck on something alone.”
Hey! We haven't tackled tax withholding yet. That said, I'd love to learn more about your use case and requirements if you're up for it: kmoriarty@stripe.com
> making the users' browser use proxy is a step too far

uBO does not do this, and nowhere is there any suggestion that uBO does this.

Users configure their own network settings, and it was found that in some cases when the browser is configured to go through a proxy (through either OS or browser settings), uBO's CNAME-uncloaking feature, which requires a call to the `dns.resolve()` API[1], would cause undue delay to page load. The root cause is outside uBO and outside the browser, it lies in the proxy.

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[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...