skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry I had meant this for @curiousperson23. Thanks
From what baseline? The pandemic dip? Or pre-pandemic levels?

Here's some actual journalism: https://jabberwocking.com/the-price-of-bacon-is-up-8-1/
Get a password safe and put everything in it. Share the password or use a password manager with sharing.

I still probably need a technical executor for some of my encrypted stuff as that's a little more complex.
The same "tax" existed before Stripe, and it was higher, in both overall costs and development complexity.
> others want totally unrestricted code available.

It's easy to give the lie to this, because the restriction they are unhappy with is the restriction against restricting others. Anyone complaining about that is just masking a demand of "free for me, but not for thee" - definitely _not_ "totally unrestricted."
There are also a lot of thresholds that might apply to your situation. More rules to look up, but could simplify it to having less administration if your revenue is under a couple K's
You can (and should) freeze your Work Number file.

https://theworknumber.com/employee-data-freeze/
Sigh. I wish the US would encourage this. It would make me feel so much more confident about fraud prevention.
China has grown successfully with inflation ranging from 5-15% over the last 3 decades.

If inflation maintained a persistent 5%+ clip over the next 10 years how would that effect VC funding and startup formation?
So the accountant should be charging less (or stripe more)
> Happily, the paper does not only do that!

Yes, happily! Since, as I was saying in my first comment: I didn't agree with this part of the paper's abstract being relevant evidence, or your take on it; but I agreed with it in other aspects.
> Similarly, DeepMind's software might be able to drive a car, would it have a similar neuron count, connectivity, perception systems and training you received.

Admittedly I'm a layman in this area, but could it? AFAICT it would only work on trained set data and whatever generalizations can be made on that and not infer unseen scenarios like humans do readily.

> What I'm saying is that just that because an AGI can't drive a car, it doesn't mean it's an AGI.

I understood what you meant from your first post, I'm simply disagreeing on account of the very definition of AGI.

You can't have an ameoba level AGI and still call it (a limited) AGI. Either it can understand/learn any human task, or it can't.

The definition is made for a reason. Watering it down for any specific generation of AI serves no benefit.
Why does it have to be a percentage of your revenue? It’s doing exactly the same thing for a $100 invoice and a $10000 invoice, why does the latter cost 100x more?
In UberEats (and many other apps) you can configure which push notifications you get. Is that functionally different than channels for the purposes of turning off marketing notifications? Both seem to rely on the App developer allowing you to turn off the notifications you don't want.

The problem I have are the apps which don't allow that, which presumably also wouldn't allow to separate them into channels for the same reason they don't let you turn them off.
Exactly. I can completely disrupt my factory to refactor it for hours without worrying about pesky end-users and other stakeholders.
Edward de Bono has died
Either that (see the jetbrains store as a random example) or other indicators such as language, tld-domain, ip origin, advertisement targets etc.

Of course offering one price for everyone is fine as well.

These rules are usually B2C only. For B2B either way is fine.

(I'm definitely no tax expert. Do you own research if needed;) )
The real work of FOSS maintenance is politics.
> Airlines would be interested in heavier people because they pay the most, isn't?

No, because other factors bring in orders of magnitude more money, which is why airlines cater to business travelers that buy expensive tickets last minute, not leisure travelers, that buy tickets months in advance. Weight (and the cost of fuel to move it) is only one of many factors that contribute to the total cost of airline tickets.

> And people in low economic brackets would try to lose as much weight as possible, probably getting below healthy conditions just so they can travel cheaper.

If we take baggage fees as in indicator of cost, we could assume 50 lbs will cost or save you about $30. And people are going to not only lose weight, but lose so much to be unhealthy to save…60 bucks round trip on a once yearly vacation? If giving people $60 a year to lose weight is real, we have just discovered a way to save billions on healthcare.
I don't know how I feel about this. I've always been good at math, and was one of five kids (out of class of 120) that took Calculus as a senior in high school in the early 1990's. To even take Calculus as a senior, you had to have taken four years of math in the previous three years. I was even the HS Math Champion" for my state.

However, when I took Calculus in High School, it was taught similarly to this. Lots and lots and lots of math foundations, infinite series, areas under curves, and I was able to trudge through it but I didn't really grasp what it all meant or why I was doing it. Finally, about 2/3 of the way through the year, I was working on a problem and had an "oh, shit, this is just about how things are changing". It was a Eureka moment, and entirely based on such a simple statement that was never brought up in lectures or our crusty 1960's texbook.
I'm on a mission here on HN to encourage people to write clearly, with specificity, and without exaggeration. In that spirit, let me show how I would edit the comment above. Here are the parts I would modify (i.e. change X -> Y)

1. "You are a fool" -> leave it out. Think about your audience; this phrase is unlikely to persuade.

2. "Big Tech" -> Social Media (e.g. not AWS or Fastly)

3. "They control" -> "They constrain/frame"

4. "what you can see" -> "what you see first / what is recommended"

5. "control" ... "what you can express" -> "your content on their platform"

6. "control" ... "what do you do outside of the platform" -> [delete]

I would also contrast multinational information / social media technologies with the underlying tools that allow governments to monitor and shape people's activity; e.g. firewalls, packet inspection, etc.
What you really want is insurance that pays out if you cannot work in your given profession (e.g. software engineering) not insurance that only pays out only if you can’t even work as a greeter at Walmart. I’m under the impression that this is very expensive because of adverse selection effects.
There is very little reason to believe Tesla will be best let alone first when it comes to self driving technology. I personally feel they are backing the wrong technology and will ultimately be unsuccessful without LIDAR sensors like Waymo and other startups and the beta testers with current model Teslas are going to ultimately end up disappointed.

I don't own a car currently (nor any Tesla stock) so I'm happy to wait and see if I'm wrong or right.
I personally love having my personal information taken without my permission, by code running on my device and wasting my battery, so that some company can show me ads I’m never going to click on.
> developers are delusional

> Developers .. appears blind to the fact that they play only a minor role in the bigger picture.

> Developers are not good at this work.

Developers aren't some special creatures with one dimensional fixed mindset. They can do whatever that needs to be done.

This is kind of silly stereotyping precisely why makes developers hate managers. I hate managers who think of their team as mere code monkeys that are "not good at" some mythical management work.

I am a manager myself but I never diminish role of my team members as "minor players", "not good at work" ect. They are my peers and partners who are equally as "major players" as anyone else.
Thanks.

>BUGS Very long lines are silently truncated.

And didn't know that about `mv`, good to know.
Super interesting, thank you! I immediately disabled it and will monitor if that improves my page loading speeds.

EDIT: pay no attention to the text below, I have misread the linked documentation. uBO isn't using external proxy for any network requests.

Not sure how much -- or at all -- you're involved with uBO. Your name does ring a bell though so I'd like to remark to you that making the users' browser use proxy is a step too far. It shouldn't automatically be enabled.

A privacy extension should do everything it could locally and stop there. If I one day figure it's not enough then I'll set a privacy VPN (or use an existing one).

I don't want that decision made for me on my own machine without my consent. :(

And apologies if my comment is misguided -- I only skimmed the linked page and I might have misunderstood.
Thanks for sharing your insights! good list.
I don’t want to argue, just maybe help you expand your horizons a bit. I am 85,000 words into my novel with almost all of those written on my IPhone using Scriviner. I like to sit in my backyard and actually purchased a big comfy writing chair recently.

After my last laptop broke I simply decided I didn’t need another one. Like most people on this site I have a beast of a desktop computer I write code on all day and then like to get away from to write my novel.

I’ve been able to maintain 2k words per day with some 5k days when I am really jiving with the scene I am writing. All from my iPhone. Times they are a changing.
I agree, you need a manager, but through my limited experience I feel as though the issue is developers are mostly detached from the buisness end of things. When things go wrong or some issue occurs I've always had managers step in to aid from the buisness side. You almost need a manager who has developer experience like yourself to make for a good manager. I suppose even a manager who is able to understand the general overview of what the developers are doing would be good.

Basically it seems the average manager in buisness would be a bad fit to manage developers. overall a manager is still needed for sure. I guess its the same everywhere though a bad manager vs a good manager makes a world of difference.
There is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_alternate_reality_game... but they look like they're all complete except one where the "prizes" are just clues about an upcoming game release.
No, we're getting offended at well-heeled serial start-up founders getting vaccinated at the expense of others and then playing the victim card when it's pointed out that this isn't super nice.

Did you really not get that, or are you just pretending?
You accuse others of economic illeteracy while yourself fail to grasp or address basic concepts like inelastic goods and market failure.

I see the church of free market is strong here.

Open an article by an actual economist, not a political pundit. They know for a fact you can't build your way out of the housing bubble.

https://www.ft.com/content/e1160d72-8414-371e-94dc-3c4c7a499...
We started using Stripe recently for a worldwide base of customers and I was a bit flabbergasted that Stripe didn't have a tax solution already built in.

Taxes are a PITA, and in my opinion this product from stripe makes enormous sense. If it's as good as everything else they do, it'll simply our lives enormously. Super happy to see this being released.
I don't think of augmentation specifically in terms of productivity, but more in terms of an external brain.

I'd say peak augmentation came with having Wikipedia available in my pocket or from a smart speaker. There's still so much more that could be done. If anything, word processors and spreadsheets are a local maximum and I think we are probably stuck on another one now.
Stripe launches Stripe Tax to simplify global tax compliance for businesses
Why do you think this? I'd be interested as to why you came to this conclusion.
I agree managing is a skill all on its own. Yet IME it's easier to respect the choices or difficult circumstances when they come from someone who clearly knows the important parts at a conceptual and deep technical level.
What a charmingly impractical product! I wonder what their yields are like.

I am reminded of a recording of a Seymour Cray talk where he discussed some of the challenges his company faced with actually manufacturing their computers. The challenges associated with physical packaging, cooling, and power were as much or more interesting to me than the computing capabilities of the resulting product. I bet there are similar interesting rabbit-holes w/ this product.

I have some nostalgia for the past world of "supercomputers" that were actually purpose-built devices, rather than clusters of off-the-shelf hardware. Economics don't favor the purpose-built, for sure, but things like the old Connection Machines and Cray machines seem very romantic to me. This product seems a bit like an artifact from that time.

Edit: I think the Cray talk I'm thinking about is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z9VStbhplQ
>> The interest calculation problem you describe would fall under what I think is the usual definition of "white-collar crime".

But unless an individual found a way to "take the difference" they would not personally benefit. I'd call that one fraud on the part of the bank, and if it was caught and dealt with the bank might pay a fine but nobody would go to jail. I consider "white collar crime" something that an individual could be charged for, but maybe that's not the legal definition.
I can run puppeteer in a Lambda fine, it's just that when you navigate to a webpage with a background loaded as a css image it doesn't wait for that to load before taking the screen grab. :(

https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer/issues/4046
https://www.pnas.org/content/111/18/6672 - an example from the plant world. I suspect (no evidence!) it's one of those things where the more you look the more you find - in plants, at least.
The Cost of Adding Features to Software
As an SW dev the first thing I experience at this is sadness, on a bad day I might feel my heart in my throat.

I am proud when I maximize the value the customer gets for the cost it takes to give them that value.

I'm skeptical about business plans that involve making value and then locking it away or (similarly) degrading value so you can some or all of it back to customers.

A good example is the airline industry that claims it needs the First class section to subsidize coach. Historically, they also put in complex rules that make you pay two or three times as much for coach ticket if you don't overstay the weekend.

The counterexample is that the most successful and consistently profitable airlines, like Southwest, don't play those games. On Delta or American you might wait 20 minutes for them to explain the 9 levels of boarding priority and which credit card entitles you to which priority and which status level on which partner airlines, etc.

On Southwest they would have the flight mostly boarded by the time the legacy airline had explained the boarding procedure. They wouldn't have to pay all the attendants to sit around, pay for the expensive jet stairs to be occupied, pay for the pilots to sit around, etc. They might even get another flight in.

"Price discrimination" frequently is "cutting off your nose to spite your face".
Actually, Stripe's payment fees are lower for European merchants (because card interchange is lower) so it would be more like 1.9% plus some pennies.

https://stripe.com/en-de/pricing
The Courage to Let Go
Probably marketing nonsense, like "vegan leather" ... polyurethane just doesn't sound as sexy or as "eco conscious".
Enhancing Privacy and Security in the DNS
No it hasn't.

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/CHN/china/inflation-ra...

Year Inflation Rate (%) Annual Change

2019 2.90% 0.82%

2018 2.07% 0.48%

2017 1.59% -0.41%

2016 2.00% 0.56%

2015 1.44% -0.48%

2014 1.92% -0.70%

2013 2.62% 0.00%

2012 2.62% -2.93%

2011 5.55% 2.38%

2010 3.18% 3.90%

2009 -0.73% -6.65%

2008 5.93% 1.11%

2007 4.82% 3.17%

2006 1.65% -0.13%

2005 1.78% -2.05%

2004 3.82% 2.70%

2003 1.13% 1.86%

2002 -0.73% -1.45%

2001 0.72% 0.37%

2000 0.35% 1.75%

1999 -1.40% -0.63%

1998 -0.77% -3.56%

1997 2.79% -5.53%

1996 8.31% -8.48%

1995 16.79% -7.47%

1994 24.26% 9.65%

1993 14.61% 8.26%

1992 6.35% 2.80%

1991 3.56% 0.50%

1990 3.05% -15.19%

1989 18.25% -0.57%

1988 18.81% 11.58%

1987 7.23% 11.58%
I wish like the flashlight i could toggle on and off "Silence All Unknown Callers," which for me I leave on always. There are times when I need to have a call come in and have to drill down into the settings to get to it.

Also, I'd love to be able to wake up using the built in alarm to a Internet URL (radio station, podcast, whatever).
A difference is that there's a unified UI for disabling channels, and app developers don't have to do anything except annotate each notification with the channel it belongs to and list the channels somewhere in their manifest (IIRC). If you get a notification you don't like, you long long-press it and a menu appears showing you the different notification channels and prompting you to enable or disable them.
Oh no! The experts told me that the record April inflation was a one time thing.

The dollar index also shows that the dollar is down ~10% in value since 2018-2020. Which is concerning, because the USA is the strongest economy so you would expect people to flee to the dollar in times of crisis, pushing up its value.
Show HN: Discover and discuss incident postmortems from other companies
16 Years Old, $1.7M in Revenue: Max Hits It Big as a Pandemic Reseller
Looks like they address that:

> Never designate a marketing notification as Time Sensitive. For guidance, see Helping People Manage Notifications.

Although I'm not clear on whether this are just HIG guidelines for notifications or if they are enforceable App Store rules.
Buying 15MW of energy does not undo the cost to the planet if that energy is produced with carbon. The entire planet needs to drop to near zero total emissions. Something resembling carbon arbitrage does not push towards this goal. Firing up the geothermal generator in Iceland to mine BTC just produces BTC. And more BTC is not a resource that changes the productive behavior of the planet.
Yeah, you're right, my coffee hasn't kicked in yet.

For the amount I thought you would pay for Stripe to do that, you could have hired an accountant to figure all of that out for you on an ongoing basis, but for the actual price that's a pretty good deal to not have to think about it.

My opinion on accounting services has always been that it's nothing that a business owner can't do themselves since it's not really that complicated, but it's never worth the time when you can pay someone who already knows what they're doing. Stripe Tax falls into that category for me too, it's cheap enough that it makes it not worth it to do it yourself.
> Graham thinks that these sequences are “definitive proof” that a small chunk of a herring chromosome made its way into a smelt’s. “If anybody wants to dispute this,” she said, “you know, I don’t see how they possibly could.”

I think the problem here is she is presenting something that is unfalsifiable and therefore problematic. I think it would then be on her and her team (or someone else who cares enough) to prove that it is possible somehow. Devise an experiment (a very clever one I'm sure) of some type that proves that DNA can be passed on this way somehow.
> That said, I've seen many really solid developers be motivated by solving complex technical challenges instead of work that actually creates business/product value.

Complex technical challenges create value for the developer, as it's fun solving problems like that. If management doesn't communicate the end-user's needs/wants and how the product helps them, even valuable work can feel like pushing up Sisyphus's boulder, so working on fun stuff at least creates value for you rather than work that appears to be purely for the leadership's vanity.
Do you think it's worth editing the title? Will I step on any metaphorical landmines because the HN community (for example) prefers immutability?
“More freedom of choice” – Beckhoff Worldwide
Hi HN! Working on an incident management startup I’ve become pretty obsessed with discovering and reading public postmortem documents after major incidents, so I built https://postmortem.io as a way to try and better capture and organize the growing number of postmortems companies are publishing in a familiar, reddit-like format.

Besides being able to submit and discuss postmortems, posts are organized by tags that you can subscribe to so you can keep up to date about new postmortems you care about (either through a custom feed or a weekly email digest).

You can also submit your own postmortems as formatted text directly on the site, but admittedly this feature is pretty basic right now (I just started adding a few templates but would love feedback here and ideas for other templates).

I know there are already a few large postmortem lists[1] out there that are variously maintained and HN itself already does a really good job of capturing discussion about postmortems for large enough incidents the moment they happen, but the lists tend to get outdated and lack discussion, and the HN stories get lost after a day or so, so I thought creating a separate place dedicated to these documents might be useful to others as more and more companies participate in the practice.

This is very much a v1 passion project (inspired from the feedback on talks I’ve given about our startup Kintaba) so would love feedback or ideas!

[1] https://github.com/danluu/post-mortems - a commonly referenced existing list
My last sentence was a statement of that problem, not a question.
An open source monitoring library for async Python
Mnemic is an open source project that allows for tracing and profiling of async python applications. It consists of a backend that can be easily installed using docker and a python library called dolon that can be installed from PyPi. The application to be traced and profiled must include the librart and strart the tracing process as can be seen in the examples. The tracing runs can be accessed through a browser based front end that is exposed from the back end.
Detailed documentation can be read here:

https://mnemic.readthedocs.io/en/main/index.html

while the source code can be cloned from here:

https://github.com/codingismycraft/mnemic
I was recently looking for a way to sell my digital product.

I was surprised how complicated all these solutions are. First of all, I want a 'merchant of record' to handle my taxes, which basically gets rid of most payment solutions.

Secondly, I want an easy to use affiliate program where I can add affiliates.

Oh man, they almost all work with some complex external affiliate service.

I used to sell my indie game with Plimus (around 2009), which is now BlueSnap, but even they are now really complex and working with external affiliate network.

Ended up with Gumroad, which has all of these things, in a very simple and clear way. Now I understand why they are so popular.
Happy to see that he seems to be doing fine: writing a book, doing podcasts, and still available with his typewriter for personalized stories.

https://cdhermelin.com/
The universities handle the accreditation of all other faculties so why not have them also handle medicine law and engineering. As far as I'm aware theres no guild of philosophers who can control the number of students entering philosophy school. Universities would respond to supply and demand just like they do in any other faculty. Secondly make medicine an undergraduate programs , like it is in the most of the world which reduces the financial burden that doctors have to take on to complete the degree. This would also make the supply of doctors more elastic.
They're replying to a comment arguing for open devices. Saying "I'm fine with a closed device" is at best irrelevant. "I'm fine with a locked-down computer" is no argument against "I want my computer to be more open", as, in the end, if you're fine with your locked-down computer, just keep it locked down.