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> End the arms race on fingerprinting

Google is known to fingerprint you on their sites[0] and this practice will continue unless some sort of political action is taken to make fingerprinting illegal. WebGL is not the only heuristic used to reliably determine it's a specific device accessing a site, but a whole slew of techniques can be used to reliably determine it is 'you' who is on a site (you can even detect if a browser is running in a virtual machine, among many other techniques to fingerprint).

To mitigate this, I do most of my browsing with JS disabled by default, and if I really need JS turned on (for a site I trust like my bank), then I temporarily turn it on for that specific site. Also you can just disable WebGL in Firefox in about:config but keep in mind, there are many other techniques Google and `ADTech` in general can use to fingerprint you.

[0] https://jonatron.github.io/webgl-fingerprinting/
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I don't think he really contradicted himself - what he's saying is that auto workers fell behind because management was trying to manage them like farm workers when they weren't, and that software is falling behind because managers are trying to manage them like factory workers when they aren't.
This may be better expressed as "When scientists publish research, they usually have some hypothesis (or hypotheses) to explain it, or maybe a theory they were hoping to prove". But in this unusual case, they admit they are confused.
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This describes the org I’m in right now. The upper management (all former engineers, several ex-FAANG) are not only supportive but have explicitly reaffirmed that duplication of that sort doesn’t matter: every team must be as autonomous as possible even if it leads to a high degree of overlap.

And it’s already biting us. There are at least two issues I’m aware of that are a direct result of this policy which are very bad. When they come to light the company’s reputation (and share price) will very likely be harmed.
You could get the safety and efficiency advantages of pipelines while still creating the same cost increase through taxes.

Blocking pipelines is not a logical way to achieve that cost increase. That would simply make oil more expensive because it's now less safe/efficient. That does not actually cause the externalities to be priced in like a tax could achieve.
I'm gonna look like a mermaid now for sure!
Well, you can look at it that way, or you can say that the degradation appears to be 100% worse than expected. They modeled 0.5% and it seems real world numbers are more like 1% , at least for the installations they observed.
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"Half of peoples' spending" presumably means "roughly half of individual post-tax income goes into housing costs," not "roughly half of individuals buy a new home each year."

I don't know whether that number is true or not, but it doesn't seem implausible given mortgages and rent.
> In a true inflation income rises along with prices so wage earners

So "true inflation" is no different than a "true scotsman."

Wealthy people invest, buy properties, and have assets that grow in value with inflation.

The poor have cash in a bank or in their closet that becomes increasingly worthless with inflation. Their rent, gas, and bread prices go up by large amounts, but if they're lucky, they might get an extra 2 cents an hour for their work.
Mindless browsing is nothing like walking randomly in the woods or on the beach, communing with nature. One thing saps our humanity and the other enhances it.
First of all, policymaking is downstream of elections.

Second of all, the influence of lobbyists on how laws are formed is "well known" as a talking point, and nothing else. There aren't any hard empirical studies that draw a causal line.

In fact, to really drive home that point, I'll reiterate a sentence I wrote in a previous reply to you, but with a minor addition:

Sweden has more billionaires per capita than the US, no wealth tax, and levies broad-based taxes on the middle class. The top marginal tax rate kicks in at 1.5 times the average wage, whereas in the US the top marginal tax rate kicks in at 9.2 times the average wage. Lobbying on policymakers is unregulated (http://www.aalep.eu/lobbying-landscape-sweden). And yet, you might probably define Swedish society as "functional and peaceful".
I imagine that most businesses have bigger risks to deal with than this, especially in early to mid stages (where Stripe seems to target).
As an enthusiastically former staff engineer at a bioinformatics institute, I'm happy to have been of help! Please feel free to do so without attribution; if nothing else, it'd be a shame at this late date to have my opinions of the caste system in academia disturbed by the novel experience of receiving credit for my contributions to the work of people with letters after their names. :D
This is pretty much exactly how I ended up thinking after almost a decade in industry. Anyone who thinks that social missions can be worked on inside a for-profit corporation is incredibly naïve. It is a difficult task even in non-profits, government institutions and politics; in essence, the systems are there for the systems' sake. The people within the system each have different motivations and reasons for being there. Even before joining a company, expectations of pushback should be the first thing on your mind if you are working in a potential social minefield like ethics governance.

Corporations exist to make money, period. Never expect social contributions to progress, worthwhile and long-term employment and a guaranteed paycheck or pension. Fighting for a worthwhile cause is always good, but if you're doing it on company time, expect that there's a good chance that you won't be at the company for long.
Out of curiosity, does anyone know of an actual company that's bought and uses one of these chips (say, the CS-1)? What's the use case?

They mention "low latency datacenter inference." Surely, the Facebooks and Amazons in the world could do better by using localized, smaller-scale machines for inference, since their use cases are distributed geographically. The one use case that I can think of, is high-frequency trading. But I can tell you that 20PB/s memory bandwidth is an overkill, and also, you're going to have a bad time trying to cool this thing down in a colocation center that doesn't belong to you.
There are alternatives that doesn't go as far as isolation or religion of course. You mention a great example yourself that shows how you can be extreme/religious for no good reason when a open alternative is clearly present:

It's a worldwide phenomenon that motorcyclists in general wants to be open and inclusive. We wave to each other when we pass on the road, talk when we meet at gas stations and so on. But a Harley is not a motorcycle, it is a Harley. Most don't wave back, all frown if you try to talk to them if not out on your own Harley today but some Japanese bike and so on. Tesla and Apple users are very often in the same category of religious fanaticism for no good reason except brand loyalty. That is sad as one should be able to own a Harley, be part of a Harley crowd and not be religious about it but most (not all!) fall into this trap.

A tribe that is divided because of some businesses PR is always sad and harmful.
As a CEO and long time developer before then... its complicated. High performance teams are killed by managers unless they stay out of the way and then whats the point right? Managers are great for managing clients, but not devs.

Low performance, bare minimum devs, sure need reminding and pro-ding to get anything done... yes, you need managers to babysit.

Companies with heavy management usually have mediocre at best devs and little to no innovation. They have great sales and support - this keeps them alive.

Captain obvious here - there is no one size fits all. Do what makes sense at your org and take home a paycheck or leave and start your own business - there has never been a better time!
Ah OK, I guess the line of reasoning is that if the low water levels were due to low maintenance, then maybe there isn't really a drought.

Of course the enormous fires last year and the potential for a severe fire season this year suggests this line of reasoning is incorrect.

Thanks!
you need to put this before the Screenshot ?

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Just quit sucking all the water out. It's a dam, assholes. California and all those illegals are next to the ocean, get your shit together and get your water from the ocean.
It’s actually $300 one time payment.
The firm doing this research also sell insurance that covers solar panel under performance. So while there might be truth in what they are saying, just keep in mind there is conflict of interest here.
I pay TaxJar to prepare and file my sales tax returns for me.

Stripe just acquired them in April.
My reply was worded to mirror "...I've come to the conclusion that software managers are not needed." which is obviously nonsense.

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

Yes, but it is ok to generalize in a broad discussion like this one. Otherwise we can have no meaningful conversation. In general managers do not understand developers. And in general developers do not understand management. Those that are good have been exposed to both sides.

I never diminish anyone but it is naive to think that everyone contributes equally.
The thing is, if you didn't integrate Stripe, you'd either be:

1. integrating someone else who does roughly the same thing as Stripe
2. integrating with and maintaining 100's of individual payment methods and countries, and dealing with tons of entities and managing relationships with them.

You might be able to cheat if you just do visa cards and only in the US, or something. But that is dramatically less than what you're getting when you integrate Stripe.
These are very good points. I had it in my head htat

> Why not both? First of all, Swish is only free for transfers to or from private individuals. Companies pay a pr transaction fee. I don't know how the fees compare, but it is probably not a huge difference. If you're a company handling a huge number of transactions pr day I suspect you'll be able to negotiate a better deal with a card processing company.

Yeah but this is just an extension of... taxation when the government does it right? The fee seems to be 2 kronor[0][1] this is static not %-based. I'm not a huge payment processor but $0.24 USD/transaction seems REALLY good to me. The fact that it's not % based is just a complete shift of the cost dynamic -- if you sell something for $1000 and pay 0.24 for the transaction the fee is 0.00024%. I don't know what kind of numbers you have to do to get that from a card processor.

> Also there are still people inside Sweden who have credit/debit cards but not Swish, for example tourists, older people or people here on temporary work contracts.

Yup, I've heard this mentioned, people who went for a concert had a terrible time, etc.

> Secondly there are reasons why people would want to use a credit card instead of having the money taken directly from their bank account. One such reason is if it's a company making the purchase it is much more convenient to use your company card. Another aspect is if you have more than one bank account (say your personal account and a joint account with your spouse) then you might have different cards tied to different accounts. You cannot do that with Swish.

This is a good point -- but I want to push back that you can't do it with Swish now. Doesn't feel like a really hard problem.

> Basically while there is some overlap between Swish and companies like Stripe, they aren't really drop in replacements for each other.

They aren't drop in replacements for each other if any of the scenarios you've outlined is the case, but I intended to restrict the situation to the case where they are roughly identical. In that situation, do people use stripe?

> Edit: From a technical point of view there is probably nothing stopping Stripe from adding Swish as a payment option to their API if they wanted to have that as a feature for the Swedish market.

Ok so this is a bit closer to what I'm trying to get at -- Why would a merchant pay ~3% compared to 2SEK? Is Stripe worth 3% when all you need them to do is process the payment?

[0]: https://insights.nordea.com/en/innovation/the-benefits-of-sw...

[1]: https://medium.com/@etiennebr/swish-the-secret-swedish-finte...
Honestly I see the opposite happening. A fresh wave of young distributed workers coming into urban centers.
> With heated seats the hardware to provide the functionality was either fitted or no

I don’t understand this argument. Would it feel different if you had to install the FooBar component to get it to work? That the act of having to do something physically can then justify the additional cost?

I’m all for a rental market like this. It no longer means that in the used car market there’s 100 different cars of model XYZ to look at as there’s 2^n different combinations of options to consider. All of that model are the same and then you unlock features.
Yup. In fact, I transitioned out of development in part because of the prevalence of this. I have learned the hard way that my work/life boundary is absolutely critical to my mental health and wellbeing. Even if it's relatively infrequent, any period of being on-call is incredibly stressful to me. I am willing to work some periods of long hours (within reason), but I am not willing to be in a position where I can be called or paged at night or on a weekend. No job is worth that to me. Hats off to the folks who can tolerate it. We need those people! But I am definitely not one of them.
I'm all about pricing for value without regulation. But did the App Store lose half of it's value to developers when Apple decided to slash fees from 30% to 15% (for smaller companies)? I don't think so. Did a competitor to the App Store appear to try and compete for lower fees? No.

This is just the behaviour of a company that can change prices on a whim because they don't need to compete with other app stores after having established a large share in the market and controlling 100% of all third party app distribution.
Right. This is not what most people these days mean by "memory model" and indeed what I expected based on the date was an article about Consistency Models, maybe talking about the C++ model, the Java model, how they relate to hardware.

I think the article doesn't end up offering a deep insight because at a theoretical level all of these are equivalent (which it acknowledges) and at a practical level what matters is performance. And the practical implications depend on the physical manifestation of the computer. That's an electronics thing not a programming thing.

Pointer chasing was a plausible strategy when your physical computer takes a very similar amount of time to read the next sixty-four bytes from RAM versus chasing pointers to eight sets of eight bytes randomly sprayed around the machine. But today that's not just "a bit slower" it can be literally thousands of times slower.

Because today the next sixty-four bytes are probably in your nearby cache, whereas hopping around madly will cause loads from all the way over in the DRAM, and that takes forever. Worse, with pointer chasing you are waiting for one load, to get the address for the next load. So you don't even get to schedule all the waiting up front and get on with something else in parallel, it's just a series of stalls.
I just read the PLOS one paper. The arguments they brought forth were strong. If this had been my paper, I would have been livid if I had been rejected. However, given the fragmented and buggy state of bioinformatics tooling and databases at the time, I can easily imagine how their extraordinary claims did not the cross the "beyond reasonable doubt" threshold. From a reviewer's perspective, a couple matching disulfide bridges and a negative Southern alone might not have convinced me either. Glad it worked out for her in the end though.
As someone with a Koi pond I got excited because this is a real issue with bio-load so I went into this thinking there might be info on how to determine food, fish quantity, etc. I shouldn't have been surprised what this actually is.
At least half of people are involved in the housing market, not just immediate buyers. Because you’d better believe if residential property prices skyrocket, so will rental rates.
I'll save you some trouble. This lost all credibility when 3/4 of the way down the poster starts talking about how the 2020 election was stolen.

> You think this will be corrected by market forces when it is a financial and political pincher movement pushed by the same cabal that stole the 2020 election & hid COVID Truth?
I will keep this comment as a favorite. Thank you. very few people dare admit to bad decisions. When you see someone open to admitting bad decisions, hire them if u can.
People will put up with physical discomfort over having to pay more (eg. economy seats).

If one combined weight is 220lb/100kg vs another combined weight of 320/145. That’s quite a difference in fuel requirements to move mass from one place to another. I don’t see why not discounting it proportionally to increased cost + opportunity cost. It’s not a penalty if it’s just proportional to actual cost.

They already discount children for theoretically weighing less than adults.
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>Vast majority of police departments won't have time for that.

How much of that is because they won't allocate time for that but rather allocate time for a more profitable operation, like writing traffic citations?

Has there ever been a public accounting on what police departments spend their time on? My medium sized city spends about $500 million a year on police. That seems like a lot. It's the largest single expenditure.
It's not that you disagree with me that leads me to that surmise, but how. You have a good one too!
We are currently using ChargeBee that has great connectivity with Stripe and offers a lot of the functionality that Stripe Tax is now offering. Wondering if it is worth the change. I have nothing but good things to say about ChargeBee so I don't think I will be making the move unless pricing becomes an issue. They also have a really good starting package for startups.
So how does one pay tax with this?

Let's say you and your server are in Singapore.

You are selling a digital product - PDF book on dynamically typed Rust...

You have customers from all 50 US states and all European countries.

You have 100k USD sales total.

At the end of the year are you obliged to send the correct amount of tax to EACH US state and each EU country?
> And there's always, like, this premise of, well, it's gonna get shipped anyway. No, it's not. Like, that's the whole point. No, it's not. Your industry is on its way out. And that's the point. And we all know that. You can't sit there and say, "Oh, well, it's gonna go by rail or it's gonna go by ship anyway. No, it's not. The tar sands are on their way out. And that's the reality.

I think this is purposely confusing two different arguments.

Nobody can deny that oil use is becoming less and less attractive and that is a good thing for everyone.

But if it is "on the way out", what's the need for blocking the pipeline? The need is that actually there are still significant usages of oil remaining even though it's "on the way out".

So those significant remaining usages actually DO add validity to the argument that blocking the pipeline will cause additional demand for oil trains/tankers. Otherwise there wouldn't be a need to take any action at all.
I think below a certain threshold of competence, a manager will negatively impact the productivity of a team mostly by eroding any ability to focus on a single task at a time. A good manager should shield the team until it is appropriate from the very things a poor manager would be dumping on the team as they arise.
Housing, building materials, food, even used cars are all up WAY more than 5% vs this time last year.
As a developer, I’ve noticed a pattern: devs complain about too many meetings -> devs are left alone (aka isolated) -> devs complain about being left out of decision making process/chain of comm.
The more you have, the more likely are you to invest, and invest it better.

Those with <= 1y income in the bank (most people) are more likely to just hold cash above what goes into their retirement fund.
Housing is tricky because most individuals do not pay the marginal rate. There are many individuals who last bought a house decades ago, are locked into rent-control, or have fortunate landlords who don't push the rent to the marginal rate.

Unfortunately this means that if housing is inflating it punishes the portion of the population susceptible to the marginal rates which in the long-run will be everyone. It would be great if there was a "marginal" CPI which highlighted the changing prices of capital assets.
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Looking at the cpi doc [0], shelter makes up 32.86% of the expenditures, which at least at first glance appears realistic. There will obviously be outliers (people living in higher cost of living areas, cities, etc), but I'm curious if you see data that supports a different number.

I'd expect anecdotal numbers from hn to trend towards higher CoL, which likely correlates with spending a higher percentage on housing.

[0] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cpi.pdf
I use Paddle, they do file 99% of your taxes for you.

In effect, they sell the product to customers, and handle all the tax on that side, for every tax regime in the world.

Meanwhile you act as a company with a single B2B client and one invoice a month (covering Paddle's net sales minus 5%) instead of N invoices. They send you an email every month with your 'reverse invoice'. As accountancy goes it's extremely easy, but you do need to do the basic tax filing in your local jurisdiction.

That 5% includes all the processing fees, they also have a bunch of useful subscription infrastructure, and they handle customer support for billing issues, which tends to be a substantial percentage of issues as you get larger.

So far they've been great, and doing nearly zero accountancy is worth a lot of money to me as an indie dev with a digital product (where you need to know a lot about local digital taxes nowadays). That said, would I do the same at the beginning if this existed a few years ago? Hard to know, but this doesn't look so compelling that I'm likely to switch now.
Literally all companies pay other people (accountants, lawyers) to do their taxes and in many cases they are third parties so no, that is not the case.

https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...
Then I have misread. My apologies. Editing the comment above so as not to mislead readers.