skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's some current Stripe UK pricing, confirmed on their site today.

Baseline of 2.9% + £0.20 for international card payments. (It's reduced to 1.4% + 20p for European cards.)

Add 2% for currency conversion. The exchange rate used is stated as "the daily mid-market rate provided by our service providers".

Add 0.5% for Billing if you're using subscriptions.

Add 0.5% more if you're using this new Stripe Tax functionality.

That is significantly over 5% for a typical SaaS or merchant selling digital content online, making international sales in multiple currencies.

Given that merchant of record services like Paddle are providing functionality far more comprehensive than Stripe Tax appears to be, they're still going to be attractive for smaller merchants compared to the more traditional PSPs like Stripe.

It's probably worth pointing out that while the EU has a long track record of making VAT difficult for everyone, plenty of other countries around the world and even some smaller regions seem to be jumping on the bandwagon lately. If all of these governments start attempting to enforce their local laws extra-territorially (leaving aside any questions about the legality and/or morality of doing so for this discussion) without also introducing reasonable de minimis thresholds to avoid grossly disproportionate compliance costs for negligible extra tax revenues in low volume situations, the situation could get very messy.

If that does happen and businesses are forced to comply with all rules globally regardless of actual sales volumes, I don't see how the model uses by traditional PSPs like Stripe has any chance of surviving. Every small business will have to sell via intermediaries like Paddle to shift the tax responsibilities to a larger business with the resources to deal with it, and pay whatever premium the market decides that justifies on all affected international sales.
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Well, cutting off water subsidies for the meat industrial complex would be a very good start to mitigate water shortage problems.

If people want to eat meat, they should pay for water costs. A pound of steak requires 4000 to 6000 gallons of water.

I enjoy occasionally eating beef, but also realize the environmental hit.
v8 is orders of magnitude more complex than QuickJS. There is no “just” available in a browser.
Microsoft has 57 screens about turning tracking on/off for Microsoft things when you install Windows, they're not against asking the user, except in that one case...
When I commuted downtown, it was $15 for parking, $6 in gas, and about 90 minutes round trip...so an additional $12.75?

Not to get into hourly wages, but it doesn't sit right when X% of your day is spent simply paying off your ride to work.
Still requires nodejs though, it is more a wrapper than a port.
Wait, so someone obsessed with an unsolved puzzle ends up marrying the one person whose laptop contains the information she needs to solve that puzzle?

They must really love each other, because I'm sure a lot of people would be plagued by doubts about the real basis of their relationship if they found this out about their partner.
It would be nice to know the degradation rates by panel manufacturer. Jinko Solar, for example, claims they make premium panels. How do the degradation rates compare with other panel manufacturers.
> This is just taking advantage of the poor-middle class' inability to pay a larger upfront cost, to extort them for more over a larger period of time.

How on earth is charging more money for a lower upfront cost "extortion"? If you remove the option, you're not magically granting people the upfront cost, you're just cutting them off from access at all. Are you not aware of the time value of money?
Even the fact that WebGL is disabled contributes some entropy that can be used to identify you.
Because they were caught in the act as they were doing it.
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> A lot of the license language only works reliably for C

Few years ago Ton Roosendaal clarified Blender licensing in a long thread on Twitter:

> Blender is Free Software. It's free to use for everyone. Free to use for any purpose, also commercially. Blender is free to share with others, free to study its sources and free make new versions. Blender is free, forever. #b3d[0]

> This freedom is what makes the GNU GPL license so powerful and it's why it's much more than "open source". The license simply prevents anyone to put restrictions on Blender. That protects users as well as everyone who contribute to Blender.[1]

> If you decide to contribute to Blender, whether as Python script or as C++ code, you have to agree on this freedom. You can keep all rights of your own work, but if you publish or sell or share Blender code, you do it just as Free as Blender is.[2]

> Blender add-ons work, look and feel like Blender features. And as for any other Blender feature that means - it has to be free, free and free forever! Paying for an add-on just means access to the add-on download service... offering it to you as GNU GPL. Your freedom guaranteed.[3]

[0] https://twitter.com/tonroosendaal/status/1135229214607773696

[1] https://twitter.com/tonroosendaal/status/1135229215761195009

[2] https://twitter.com/tonroosendaal/status/1135229217040474113

[3] https://twitter.com/tonroosendaal/status/1135229221838761984
Thanks for sharing!

Another commenter mentioned that labor shortages on the low end might be related to stimulus payments and pandemic unemployment payments - if so then I suppose what we'd expect is that if inflation remains high over the next year as we go without stimulus and pandemic unemployment payments, any labor shortages (and corresponding boost in wages) will quickly end, and we will proceed to observe the cited effect - that the remaining inflation hits the poor the hardest.
More like how does somebody get elected to ban almond farming. You could xeroscape the entire SW US and still not solve the water problem.
Do you sell to US only or globally? Each country has its own tax rules.

E.g. if you sell to EU customers, you need to apply a correct VAT % of their country on top. If you reach a certain threshold you then need to file VAT returns.
Not to be mistaken for high-availability Dqlite[1], which is one of the options one can run the k3s kubernetes distribution on (instead of etcd), via the Kine etcd shim[2]. Ultimately though the K3s team replaced Dqlite with an embedded etcd to get high-availability[3].

[1] https://dqlite.io/

[2] https://github.com/k3s-io/kine

[3] https://rancher.com/docs/k3s/latest/en/installation/ha-embed...
Being a really negative person helps sometimes. I consider the default to be rejection (of which I have had many), making any non-rejection a really positive event :)
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> Managers, tech leads, or users of your OSS project don't care about the "fix typo" comments. They are interested in a meaningful history that tells a bigger story.

Why would they be looking at the version control system for this? That is not what it's there for.
This is something people say often, but studies put the cost of accepting cash for retailers at 4.7-15.3%, which is higher than the cost to accept credit cards. If anything, it's the high cost of handling cash built into prices that's increasingly burdening credit card users in stores, not the other way around.
This is a bit off-topic

But I never understood prototypes and prototype inheritance, and how does that "map" to "classic" inheritance, from Java or C++. And I worked in FE for about 10 years...

It seems you can model "classic" inheritance using prototypes, but... there is something more there that I don't understand. I started using ES6 "class" as quickly as I could, but I still wish I understood what .prototype and .__proto__ is and how to use it. I feel like I "miss" a lot of JS when misunderstanding prototypes.

But none of my colleagues know either, so I guess I at least know what I don't know.
"I have enough land for 80 people, I should get more of other stuff as a reward."

What is this logic?
Wait...I was a tech writer for 20+ years at a major software developer. To me, a tech writer is someone who documents apps or APIs. If true, I don't see what this article has to do with tech writers.
Whether we've hit Peak JavaScript, or are looking at Long JavaScript, sooner or later we'll face Big JavaScript.
I'd like to make a wild inference and suggest that you and the parent poster are talking straight past each other, because you're drawing your experience from two different business paradigms.

kbmunchkin wrote:

> The lead developer handled communication with the IT Director about project status

The fact that the ultimate person being reported to was the head of IT strongly implies to me that it was an in-house development team working on in-house projects.

Your list,

> orchestrating people across sales, strategy, business transformation, creative, development, QA, operations and infrastructure.

Strongly implies that your experience comes from building consumer products.

Personally, I've spent time working on both successful and unsuccessful projects on both sides of the fence. What I've seen is that the most straightforward way to create a dysfunctional team is to try to take what works from one context, and apply it uncritically to the other. I personally hate working with a dedicated product manager on an in-house project every bit as much as I hate working without a dedicated product manager on consumer-facing stuff.
Housing is also tricky to really account for correctly. One of the reasons house prices are skyrocketing is people are leaving cities in droves, moving everywhere from near suburbs to places like rural Vermont.

One of the main reasons people are doing this is they're realizing the dramatic cost differential between living in the city in a tiny apartment and living in a much larger space outside the city or in a smaller city.

This means many people can pay 20-50% over asking, but still end up paying less per month and having more space. This is in fact part of the reason people are willing to bid so much over asking. It's not because they're desperate, at least for my anecdotes, but because you can bid very aggressively and still pay substantially less than you would for an apartment.

On top of all that, rental costs in most cities are plummeting.

Despite the bizarre housing market right now, I wouldn't be surprised if on average most people were spending less on monthly payments.
But why? What problem are you actually solving with this?
A lot of internet communication platforms are just The Two Minutes Hate, only they run 24/7.
Can't you port the number to something like Twilio or Google Voice in the event you need to get SMSes to it? Or get a new SIM card with the number and toss it in an old phone.
Does that mean a small US-based B2B SaaS with no EU nexus have to pay EU VAT? It seems overreaching.
I live in New England, we sometimes have watering bans but overall we have nothing like California.

We already have graduated water increases in my town, go above a certain limit and your price will go up 5X.

It seems insane that any place in the west doesn't have a sliding scale since it's a desert and water is a zillion times more difficult to come by.

And we can mostly grow lawns without even watering.. they'll turn yellow for a little bit in the peak of the summer but they certainly won't die without irrigation/sprinklers like the west.
Always fun to see people compare bare metal costs to actual running cost of cloud infrastructure. For some reason such advocates always think the system administrators work for free, the network will always work, the machine will never break, the machine will not need to be replicated etc etc etc
This is a hilarious decision not only because of the bozo pricing attempt, but also because as someone who has to drive a WV every so often, my opinion of their existing software capabilities is that it's just bad.

Start stop is poorly implemented, and can actively be dangerous in city driving. Many other aspects of the car that is software controlled is just crap. They can't even write code well enough for us to drive the car normally, now they want to drive the car for us, automatically?.

Hard pass.
This interaction is why I don't do things that involve legal matters via phone. there needs to be a paper trail for all correspondence to avoid he-said/she-said situations.
There are a few companies specializing in recycling solar panels. It's doable. Depending on the type, the panels actually may contain valuable stuff like silver, aluminium, or copper in addition to harmless silicon. Some of the nasty stuff includes lead and cadmium. However, it's not a given that that just leaks out of the panels. Storing that in an inert form in a landfill might be fine.

I'm guessing the recycling industry will start ramping up in a decade or two wWhen most of the recently installed stuff starts reaching the end of its useful life. Older PV exists of course but there's just a lot less of that. It's one of those things that will get sorted as demand increases and economies of scale increase.

Meanwhile, local regulations are probably a great way to avoid people dumping toxic stuff in landfills. How that's not a thing to begin with is a bit mind boggling. On a positive note, those landfills might be the mines of the future as they contain lots of valuable resources that people discarded.
how are panels entirely recyclable?
I have to read the paper thoroughly but I've come to the opinion that multiple solutions aren't in of themselves a problem if they are incorporated into inferences. A lot of Bayesian inference can be thought of as involving solution spaces, for instance, where you're assigning a probability to each solution.

Not disagreeing with you, just wondering out loud if it could be revisited with other methods.
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> But the hardware and software that shipped from factory should work in perpetuity, period.

There’s a cost to VW to keep that system running. They have to staff SWEs that can write security patches, have to maintain outdated methods to update the software, etc.

And this isn’t really optional for VW to do it as if there’s a problem on a 2000 pound vehicle moving at 60 miles per hour things can get deadly quickly. For example what if there was a way to get into the car’s computer via the map software that was last updated 4 years ago? Maybe a hacker could then turn off power steering? Yes that is a hypothetical but there’s always problems with software and they need to get fixed when the consequences of not fixing them are high.
Apple is the only company I can imagine doing this. They're really the only remaining PC company where a PC is defined as a computer designed to serve and assist its customer/user instead of treat the customer as the product.
The cynical side of me thinks this is just wages catching up with asset (especially housing) inflation over the last— well, hell, housing prices never dropped to where they "should" be even after '08, did they, so, two decades—but that higher wages will nonetheless end up being blamed for all of the current and upcoming increase in CPI.
Estimates of the literacy level of the adult population are doubtless wildly over-estimated. There's a reason that newspapers are targeted at a seventh-grade reading level, or at least used to be.

Writing skills are even more depressing. Just laying out bullet points coherently puts somebody in the top quartile of white-collar workers.
Do we have any insight on what these panels will be like 30, 50, 80 years in the future?

This is the lifespan of some homes, and power plants.
How is weighing people and their luggage demeaning?
I've been programming professionally since 1993, and I can tell you that some of the software managers I've have had been invaluable. When they are good they can be very propulsive. I don't necessarily have time to collect up all the different and sometimes contradictory specs from the product owners and make sense of them. When the manager is technical and can do this for you it's golden.
And when I checked the great Reset page, it seems to be about only investing in sustainable companies? No doubt also terrifying to the poster.
Not that I don't worry about large entities buying up housing and raising house prices and possibly controlling the market.
House prices consistently outpacing wages does not seem like a good long term strategy
TaxJar won't handle global. SaaS is inherently global. Your own docs point to other providers for EU. Ultimately you need to have a Stripe MoR option.
How did the natural immunity path go for those 550k+ that died in the US? lol.

Obv everybody should've worn a mask. Everybody who hasn't had it should get vaccinated etc. Pretty much what the authorities have been saying the whole time.
No, I've actually mostly worked in well balanced places. It is my experience that technology is the lesser issue and the one with the smallest impact. That's not to diminish the highly skilled developers - the work just have less impact that we seem to believe.

I do not believe in self organizing teams. I have not seem them work. Without direction the team will fumble until someone assumes control. I have also not seen many happy in such an environment.

The opposite is strict top-down control, such as what is often described and lamented on HN, is equally bad. No one wants to work under a dictator.

There's a balance to be struck between authority and autonomy.
One might with equal merit say that, because I know English orthography, I can also read Linear A.
Ok just had a couple of effbomb thoughts that we can discuss tomorrow. First I have some ideas for some shots for Friday. I think we could stitch a tiktok of someone making a profee and then the next shot is Kevin imitating Khaby Lame (look him up). No talking, just facial expressions and an annoyed 'this is obviously so much easier' gesture.

Second I think we may need to try a series of different targeting options. We've tried fitness people, vitamins people, and coffee people. The fitness people were closest, but the other two didn't care. I think we could get them to care if we use different messaging. For example, we really haven't said anything about why this tablet should go in your coffee and not your water. We need to talk more about the flavoring aspect of this to the coffee people and tell them that it's so much cheaper than creamer and tastes better - plus it makes them healthy whereas creamer will give them cancer.

For vitamin people...well I think we've been misreading who these are. People who care about vitamins are already too healthy to use a standard multi-vitamin. They have their own supplement stack they've developed over years. We should be targeting the couch potatoes of the world. People with an interest in fast food, or specific chains like Wendy's, BK etc. Our messaging can basically be, "are you lazy af but want to get 1% healthier? Drop this in your coffee and go." It feels like that's the multi-vitamin demographic.

If we run out of other stuff, I think we could try those two streams.
In my experience that is equivalent to trying to help a Harley Davidson owner fix his engine so it doesn't leak or vibrate excessively.
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Please double check your math before doing a hot take paragraph.
I'd be surprised if nobody has hacked these systems.
Actually used cars and trucks are apparently a particularly big spike, almost 30% in the chart in The New York Times. (New vehicles are only about 3%.) Almost as big, and completely unsurprising, is airfares. I recently booked a flight for late September and it was very pricey.
As sibling comment of adriaN, there is https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1+million+acres
From a technology standpoint, this seems much much easier for AVs vs humans than many other AV challenges. When it comes to measuring physics precisely, complex computation, and rapid control, computers beat humans by a million miles. This is in stark contrast to, say, driving through a crowded urban environment with all manner of rule-breaking peds and bikes popping out of everywhere.
Fine, as long as I don't pay for the car :D
Soon publishers will be allowed to run Brave ads on their website (and earn money), but users will be able to disable these ads anytime. So Brave is building a web experience where users can choose to enable ads or not (and if they do they will earn crypto).
I'm coming up on 15 years of professional career in software (development experience being 25 years or so).

In small projects, a lack of managers can be pretty effective when there is good team cohesion and lack of conflicts over priorities and expectations.

In larger projects and teams, where your team has to interact with other teams and navigate competing pressures within a larger organization, while still delivering on internal goals and keeping turnover reasonable.. managers are crucial.

The best managers make you feel like there is no manager. They run interference for you. They talk to you, understand your individual priorities as a developer (project priorities as well as career priorities), and coalesce that information across their entire team to quietly craft a path forward that preserves cohesion and effectiveness and productivity and happiness. They also communicate progress to higher ups, and interpret (to the executives) the day-to-day operations with relation to broader organizational goals.

Managers are the interface between larger organizational priorities and a team's individuals. For a company, managers serve the role of both implementing policy top-down, as well as understanding operational dynamics from the bottom up and communicating it to the higher-level positions in the org.

They are fundamentally a structural necessity once you step beyond a certain scale of project or product or company.

My personal thoughts on managers used to be closer to yours, but it has evolved over time. These days, I'm more inclined to think that _everyone should get an opportunity to be a manager_. Maybe even a structure where management roles are cycled between different people on the team with a willingness to take on the role. I think more developers need to understand how difficult good management is, and to get a personal exposure to that problem space. I think it would make developers into better developers.. who, rather than reacting blindly to their local perception of the symptoms of management (poor or good), get a firsthand view of the other side, and learn to better interact with it in the future.
> If it gets widely reported, that probably means fewer people will get vaccinated.

So.. no change? At least in the US, we're already at the point where we have more vaccines than people who want them.
Nuclear energy has a qualified personnel pipeline problem. Even if we ignore all other plausible impediments to widespread adoption.

Hands on training is hard to provide and acquire. As in expensive and not widely dispersed geographically around the world.

Nation states actively pursue programs that restrict the flow of nuclear knowledge and the development of expertise. Particularly flows toward low wage economies.
Glad you enjoyed! I do think the Deutsch Oracle problem is the closest thing to a "hello world" problem in quantum computing, or maybe more analogous to the "sum every value in a list of integers" problem in GPU programming. Of course you can shoot holes in it, and a lot of people have trouble with the "rewire the black box to use two wires" thing and think it's cheating. But such an objection would disappear if you just look at the N-bit Deutsch Oracle problem, which is unfortunately too complicated to be the first problem one encounters.
Am I missing something? Wasn't this the pitch for floc from day one?