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The interface to the car is a solved problem.

> You can read a book on how to hit a ball with a baseball bat, you can even practice and get good at it, but that still doesn't mean you would actually be able to hit a ball thrown by a professional pitcher.

If I hade incredibly fast reflexes and actuators I could.
I've been on Firefox for a few years now and it irritates me how super slow it is. Version 89 seems to be a bit better though.

I know it might be the extensions (I have 20+) but I seriously don't care. Chrome manages to be fast with the same set of extensions.

I don't like Google but Firefox's slowness is a real strain on my productivity and brain well-being. Hope they improve even more soon.

I am on an iMac Pro btw. Stuff like this should not ever happen on a workstation.
> i often wonder: why does any reasonably worthwhile program, the type other people will pay for, always require at least 50,000 lines of code? is that really necessary? surely we can do better than that. but if there's a way, apparently nobody has found it yet. i hope people like kragen help push the state of the art forward, so we might someday find a way around that.

It's unlikely you'll get many people to pay for automating a simple process, so "serious programs" will generally only be the ones that automate complicated processes. So from the start, the pure algorithm you're going to implement will usually be complex. Then, to actually implement that algorithm on a real machine, you'll have to deal with all of the specifics of that machine as well, which adds significant boiler-plate even when coding in Python or Haskell, not to mention programming in C++ or Rust. This boilerplate typically grows exponentially with the size of the algorithm you have to implement, and with the size of the data that will be processed.

It's also important to remember that many "simple" operations, such as "print the date one hour from now", or "read the user's name" hide huge complexity encoded in human context and history.
This is absolutely HUGE.

If you're an indie hacker, or solo founder taxes are extremely important and you cannot ignore them if you go over a certain amount.

In the past taxes, VAT and all of that is a pain in the backside for most EU / UK businesses and most go with Paddle because of this.

I am so elated that this is now available (although through an invite), and saves a TON of time, unnecessary annoying scripts and duck tape.

Downvoters: So you can manage taxes and VAT for each different EU member state yourself manually? Is this some sort of side hobby for you? This is a real problem of many businesses.
"Ass covering when I like it and lack of understanding when I don't"

(not to say that the article doesn't make the same implication)

It's impossible to tell from such a brief exchange whether the guy was fishing for them to tell him exactly what to do or was genuinely unaware. "If you want something non-standard you need to spell out exactly what you want so my ass is covered when you're not satisfied" is not exactly an uncommon response to a request for something that isn't SOP.
They should be required to release API and allow 3rd party self driving services. Otherwise it is a monopoly. They think this will fly because they are a German company.
I had to look up "merchant of record" [0]. I think the implication of Merchant of Record platform-wide would be that Stripe would own the customer-vendor relationship, and that Stripe would become something like Amazon Marketplace. I agree that as a "feature" MOR has a market, but I would see risk for Stripe as being seen as a competitor to its customrs, vs as a processor for them.

[0] https://www.venable.com/insights/publications/2019/05/will-t...
Can I point out the fact that this article compares software developers to auto workers trying to explain the problem and then highlights failed management strategies as a fact that software development is nothing like manufacturing, saying " and if I ever run a factory, I'm gonna use it! But it has no place in software projects."

I dont disagree with this article in general but please dont contradict yourself.
Arguably for advertisers it’s a benefit - if your behavior changes to that extent, likely you’d be better targeted by different ads.
Wikimedia should start publishing science articles (legally). It has the infrastructure, money and culture to become a non-profit world-scale publisher with decentralized curation.
Any good team worth their salt will recognize that those with siloed information on the team are a threat to productivity to everyone else. People should get hired and kept based on their ability to learn, their approach to problem-solving, and their ability to share knowledge and unshackle their coworkers from any dependencies on oneself. If a coworker in my organization had disproportionate value stemming from a cache of undocumented information (meaning that then writing documentation would make them disposable), then they’re not worth having in the long run.

A smart manager would start finding someone to receive that knowledge and the smart employee would volunteer to learn. Giving raises to the person with the siloed information to incentivize them to work and share information with other employees is a relatively inexpensive cost to the alternative of spending a yearly salary on someone who’s main draw is being a walking notion/confluence page
Not for the initial person, however, there is a case to be made for anyone who amplified awareness of the resulting tool.

Like I can see a reasonable path to conspiracy or facilitation in the commission of a felony. This would fly because LE we're not the ones exhorting the users of ANOM to commit crimes that they needed ANOM's functionality to pull off.

More interestingly, I don't understand how the FBI should be able to do anything with this data given the collection sans probable cause or due process. Unless we're going down the route TPD based confidential informant.

Then again, going after the influencer's themselves... Dicey ground. Don't like the smell of precedent in the works at all.
> "It’s super fragmented"

So what? There's multiple options. That's called choice and competition, which is helping drive new features and better pricing.

> "With that said I don’t see how any of those can be enforced."

Draconic measures like that are being enforced, which why other app stores are wanted in the first place.

Your entire argument seems to be that other stores are bad because of "fracturing" the market, yet desktop/macos users manage just fine, even with an app store on that platform. You're imagining a challenge that doesn't exist.
You would hope so, but no.
A good example is that the UK now requires online business to collect UK VAT on sales to UK customers, even when the seller is abroad - there are many similar rules and this will really help people, especially smaller businesses who really face big barriers in dealing with these rules.
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Did you mean the Acorn Archimedes? (The Acorn Electron was a cut-down version of the 8-bit BBC Model B. The Archimedes was the first ARM computer (32-bit RISC CPU, full colour WIMP interface, anti-aliased fonts, etc.).
>mobile inherently discourages longform text and encourages images

As I read on a site on with no images or video and entirely in the form of thoughtful responses via mobile device.
Paddle has a good article about this: "..the taxes apply not only to where your company has a physical presence (an office or employees) but to where your customers are based." https://paddle.com/blog/global-sales-taxes-for-software-comp...

It seems to be a huge mess. Even if you know how much to pay for different countries, registration for paying taxes can be painful.
Well as influencer/soc med star you're a source of dopamine kicks. As that inevitably becomes boring the crowd moves on to the next sucker.

That part of social media has always seemed to me a self-serving scheme to pit people's happy chemicals against each other. The crowd looking for cheap distraction, the creator spurned on by quick-found fame.

No substance, no creation out of authentic well-being, no sustainability.
Yup - basically they don't want SaaS they want on-prem. That is a drastically different pricing model and should have a different SLA. I would go so far as to include into the pricing the cost of keeping engineers and support people on staff who know this particular build specifically because it is different than what you normally run. You would need to maintain the exact stack they are running to test patches, upgrades, etc.

If there is a security vulnerability somewhere in their stack that is running your app, that should be called out as well as not your problem (legally, financially). Similarly if they have access to your running system and muck it up somehow, also not your problem.

The large Target breach a few years back was because the HVAC system controls were adjacent to payment systems and attackers got in and installed credit card number swiping. I get their concern with having a vendor's stuff sitting on their network but you should be protecting yourself from them not maintaining things.
How about compared to typical American car loan?
Apple only does this because they take your money seriously --- a lot of your money.

If you think about it, they really didn't have much choice. It's becoming increasingly difficult for them to justify the outrageous cost of Apple's walled ecosystem. Perfectly good phones with similar features and capabilities are available for a fraction of the cost.

So what can Apple offer to justify their extortion? Pay up and we won't burn your privacy. The cost to Apple --- zero, nada. It's really almost a mafia style tactic. They're selling you something that already belongs to you.

Zuckerberg should have seen it coming. Next up, Google will copy Apple and start building similar social media features into Android that encroach on Facecrook's market. The required features are already there, they just need to be repackaged.

The only reasonable way for Facecrook to resist is by building their own competing hardware. But they already tried that years ago. Bye, bye Facecrook, I'm not going to miss ya.
If the average technical document was useful and clear, I think more people would be inclined to read whatever you're handing out.

It may be that your coworkers are so used to the piss-poor quality of average documentation that they don't bother-- even if yours is high quality. I can't blame them.

Most documentation I've seen is some combination of:

- Inaccurate
- Verbose
- Poorly organized

When I'm handed a 20 page document consisting mostly of lengthy paragraphs, I generally opt out and just go look at the code.

I'm much more likely to read further if a document leads with:

- A single-sentence summary
- A 5(ish) bullet overview
- Prerequisite knowledge

It signals that I'm in for a better-than-average read.

Incidentally, the Google course[0] or the equivalent is excellent.

[0] https://developers.google.com/tech-writing
It's all fun and games until that co-lo goes down and with it your entire business.

Speaking from someone who moved a SaaS operation from co-lo to AWS. Everyone (especially the C-suite) was much happier.
r/gaming has always been the meme/low-quality gaming board and it's not really expected to have any serious discussion there.

r/games is the one that's actually for somewhat coherent discussion. Not suggesting it's perfect, but it's probably the one you're looking for.
In the Maghreb and West Africa a decade ago, there were still some scribes in public squares who would type up correspondence, because literacy was so low. I wonder if some of them are now working with laptops or tablets.
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That's not how it works within Europe. You need to collect taxes in the country where your customer is located, you need to register with VAT instances in those countries. There are exceptions, for example up to some total revenue you may be allowed to collect local sales tax instead. This is what I've understood, but it probably gets more complicated in real.
The best manager I ever had really just left the team to do its job.

I think we might only really need management on a higher lever for large projects.

We certainly don't need Project jockeys for managing very small teams.

As with many things in software, we don't have the maturity to clearly identify where the complexity and overhead are needed. A project manager for a 3 person team is like a bloated multilayer web app that gets 50 users a day. It's just superfluous.
Don't try to think about genomics in programming terms. At best you'll only confuse yourself; at worst, others also. Both a computer program and a genome encode information, but that's about where the similarities end.
For Android I can also recommend Bromite. It's Chromium-based with a built-in ad blocker and focus on anti-fingerprinting.

https://www.bromite.org/
I agree that it seems like an interesting approach to bringing it to market. Imagine living in rural somewhere where they don’t have the same quality of data that they have for Silicon Valley, you don’t have to pay for the service that doesn’t work as well.

Also, I expect there will be a service component whereby mapping a models are updated regularly so some fee for that makes sense.

Then what if insurance was covered in that fee?
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Do you feel like the value is worth with the fee Stripe is charging?
I think they're highlighting the fact that the average age of Redditors has dropped very significantly, and the upcoming Reddit gift exchange would have been a disaster of no-gifts.
Stripe’s product pages are so beautiful and cover the product features brilliantly.

Stripe tax should away the headache of being on the wild ride that is EU VAT as EU citizen.

Congrats on the launch!
One factor I think is span of control. If the director you mentioned starts getting project statuses from 15+ teams then the director might not scale. The director will not be able to scale for things like appraisals, burning issues, hiring.
If you want to have fun with Twitter ads, block the advertiser whenever you see them. After two weeks or so you start to get really.. different stuff.
Reddit has access to the stats - and I’m sure they know just exactly how much of the content is posted from old.reddit - and they know if they cut it off they lose that content.
> Due to the lack of rules, I didn't have the option to give the vaccine I took to an underprivileged person of color in the West Oakland community.

Huh -- how was that option taken away from you? You could have just not queued up there, or left the queue. Or were you chained in line?
Technical challenges that are actuslly used beat out technical challenges that are just for fun though.
As you alluded to, I think telling the cops someone has your phone and telling the cops someone is about to shoot up a bunch of people should get different responses.

Now, I'm not saying cops don't abuse their power nor what response they should give to an "obviously" bogus threat, but even for a trigger happy cop, why bother the risk for someone's phone when there are gonna be hundreds of "credible" threats? I doubt even a crooked cop would be willing to break the rules over someone's stole phone.
At work : to manage the onboarding of newcomers, to organize our weekly strategic meeting (we have a page where we share our subjects and reflexions), to organize the engineering wiki and more generally the knowledge of the team on various subjects. Notion is good for managing knowledge in a team, I am less convinced but using it as a tool for project management / kanban.
At home : I open a new Notion page by topic (like : Python tips, books to read, notes from a book, ideas on a specific problem I'm dealing with) and once in while I supress non useful pages or regroup them in a master page. For the todo I alternate between Notion and pen and paper. I don't know why I am better at managing my time and priorities when I write then down.
YES, considering the only best competitor in this space Paddle takes 5%.

Taxes is the reason why in the past most EU/UK businesses go to Paddle. Stripe's Tax feature now saves people who were considering Paddle a lot of time now.
> In theory given enough time and resources, anyone can defeat any grandmaster in Chess: just compute the extended tree form of the game and run the minimax algorithm.

Yes, that's why we're considered to be generally intelligent. It is exactly the point, and not at all meaningless. Right now there's no machine that can come up with the idea to run an extended tree form of the game and minimax the algorithm. If there was such a machine, then that machine would be considered AGI.

> It is absolutely not like quantum computing.

I meant in the sense that just that it has actually been achieved, it doesn't mean it's as powerful as we have described in the theory. In theory you can use Shor's algorithm to break encryption, in practice the devices we have today have trouble with 2 digit numbers.

The same principle goes for AGI. If someone releases an AGI system today, it doesn't mean that tomorrow we'll see a Boston Dynamics robot hop on a bicycle to his day job as a Disney movie art director. The world would most likely not change at all, at least not for a while, many people would not recognise the significance and many people might not even recognise the fact that it is in fact AGI.

> As far as AGI goes, we have absolutely no idea. There's lively debate on whether anything we have done even counts as significant advancement towards AGI.

You might think that, and that says something about what side of the debate you're on. We're commenting here on the thread of an article about DeepMind asseting that reinforcement learning is enough to reach general AI. If that's true (and I think it is), then we've probably reached general AI already.
A future where humans are no longer able to drive will have to be a decade or more after self driving arrives. It’s impossible for everyone to replace their non self driving cars immediately.

The used car market is a $150bn industry. A quick spot check found that a 2010 Honda Civic still costs between $5k and $10k depending on mileage, etc.

By the time that self driving is required by the NHSA or whatever body requires backup cameras and the like in new cars self driving will be standard.

A $20k Subaru will come with it out of the box, no add ons, just like a backup camera today.
Sure! as long as our transportation is run by the DOT, maybe they can set the price... hey where did you go?
I think many of us are so exhausted from fighting to get people to just sort of follow the rules. I’d rather just tell everyone to get the vaccine and leave no room for error here
I think doctors in general start stimulant doses way too high. I’m about 200 lbs, but reacted badly to 15, 10, even 5 mg. However at, 2.5 mg, I couldn’t even tell I was taking anything - but for the next semester my GPA was up 2 points, from C’s to A’s.
Maybe where you live. There's a 0% chance human driving will be banned in America until we are all well passed driving age.
I wonder why developers won't organise and demand royalty payments for their code?
It's crazy that company pays once for the software and makes money off of it forever but don't share those profits with developers.
Automate taxes on your Stripe transactions
I've been involved in several projects using Explosive Densification to combat soil liquefaction, its pretty dang fun.

That is, using a sequence of explosive charges to improve soil compaction by breaking bonds and driving out latent water content. It triggers a cycle of liquefaction and then compaction afterwards.

http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S...
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100% agree with this. I work on a service deployed in Azure processing PBs of data each day. We’re a team of about 8 engineers, and we have an on-call rotation.

As a result, we’re incentivized to reduce on call noise and have the system automate remediation as much as possible.

Granted, our company does have centralized teams that build tooling. So that does seem to be a prerequisite to having full cycle developers.

If you’re building in the cloud, I think there’s less need to be a SysAdmin these days (I used to be be one), and Azure makes it pretty easy to have automatic updates, firewall rules, etc. We rarely touch our hosting environment (Service Fabric on VMSS).

The on-call sucks at times, but I’d never trade it for how fast we’re able to ship.
Unless that file is to be read by 1000 users simultaneously - that's where the fun begins ;)
Not sure if this would help in your case but try to enable `gfx.webrender.all` or `layers.acceleration.force-enabled` in `about:config` if it's not already enabled.
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Well, that's part of the issue. On macOS, all browsers are just skins over Safari. Google obviously has more resources to make this work better but I agree, overall I always found Chrome better than Firefox on macOS.

You can't really compare that to a native linux/windows experience.
This is quite typical. When I was younger and needed my IP changed, I'd simply power cycle my router.

Newer ISPs use CGNAT so you'll be sharing your public IP with a few neighbours (7+you in the case of my ISP).
Presumably because it's hard to do correctly, and Stripe chose to focus on the easier part.

For example, I need to report VAT on the 15th of the second following month. If I got a refund after that date, I have already reported that tax, and I need to report a correction. I can't just report a lower tax the next time.

If you don't have a lot of refunds, then just paying taxes that you don't owe may be cheaper than handling it correctly (which is a lot of effort). And it may be the safer option -- nobody is going to fine you for paying too much tax.
Yes, obviously, the police would need a warrant to actually enter the building.

But there was no attempt to get one, or even just to knock on the door. There was no attempt to do anything apart from record the fact that a crime had (allegedly) occurred. Which, no matter how understandable, is not exactly the pursuit of justice.

> And any hours spent on this one iPhone isn't spent catching rapists (for example).

Okay, so I understand that you have recently taken a job with law enforcement and I can see why you feel the need to defend your workplace but the point remains that objectively speaking, whether one thinks the US police is benevolent or malicious, they don't really do much for the vast majority of property crimes. It's simply not a priority, as you've inadvertently said yourself.

Plus law enforcement...doesn't exactly catch a lot of rapists either.
Oh, no! This means I might still get relevant ads that relate to my unique interests as an individual instead of some least common denominator cookie cutter garbage ad.
Sounds like your experience is with small organisations. Management is required in large enterprises.
Charge them extra for a "staging" environment setup only for them and then deploy all latest stuff there for them to test. Then get their approval to apply it to their production environment. Charge well for this.
YouTube made $6B revenue in Q1. [1] While they don’t release profit numbers, it would be pretty surprising if they were negative.

Did you mean to write DeepMind instead? If so, I don’t disagree.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/27/youtube-could-soon-equal-net...
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