skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You still have to calculate all taxes from Stripe from these EU regions and then do that. For those using Stripe before this announcement it was a huge time sink.
and there is no more rabid human than an American Farmer, so balancing the water right is a lost cause if you're not ready to spill blood over a water gate.
I very much look forward to the podcast series.
>Constantly nagging yourself to close social media? Reminding yourself that social media is a waste of time by asking whether the time is “well spent”?

It's a business opportunity for Apple to be able to judge what gets graded as good, bad or a waste of time. That's what this is about in my opinion.
AKS vs. EKS vs. GKE
> Software development is much closer to creating a new factory than running an existing factory

This has been known, and ignored, for at least 30 years now.
With this new Stripe solution, do you still have to register for licenses to collect tax everywhere and remit the sales tax to various US states and foreign governments? Unless I misunderstand, that still sounds prohibitively onerous for anyone working as a solo dev or very small team..
We will survive this climate crisis if we can somehow figure out a way of living without golf courses in deserts.
Yes...they do go to the Norwegian base, and find the remains of the alien that the Norwegians had burned, the cut-out slab of ice, and the spaceship. While some of both movies didn't age very well, I still like both of them and watch them in sequence every now and then.
I'm honestly baffled that people will talk to a major media outlet like this, knowing full well the quotes will be going into the article.

> And she defends the amount of water she and her neighbors need for their vast estates. “You could put 20 houses on my property, and they’d have families of at least four. In my house, there is only two of us,” Butler said. So “they’d be using a hell of a lot more water than we’re using.”

"I have enough land for 80 people, I should get more of other stuff as a reward."
> Works with finance, works with marketing, works with IT support, and should work with engineering as well... right?

I think there is a variation of Gell-Mann's amnesia effect but for management. Everybody sees how their own manager/boss is mostly wrong and useless. However, when we deal with somebody else, for example as customers, we somehow conveniently forget that fact and we continue to believe that managers need to exist.
> an area nearly as large as Kuwait.

Do journalists all have some tool where they enter the number of acres something is, and it tells them the state or country that's the closest in size?
It's not strictly the API definition that's protected, it's the linking to the GPLed software that is (with Python imports considered equivalent to linking). The Linux APIs have an explicit exception in the license allowing this. Blender does not.
Most of the poor and middle (spare me the lecture about how someone grossing 200k+ is middle because they're unwilling to suffer a longer commute or live where the schools are slightly worse) don't have a mortgage on a house. Those that do don't tend to have them in the trendy places being pumped full of urban monopoly money. And even then if you need a roof over your head you can't sell because then you'd get screwed right back out of any earnings by having to buy back in. Cashing out and moving to BFE is harder if you're more chained to a particular locale because of support network or a particular job/industry. Also if you're middle class or poor then there's now fewer BFE's within your budget thanks to covid and remote work.

Student debt is a thing but the amounts and repayment rates are so low nobody was hurting that much anyway (the guy who's 60k in the red for a journalism degree is not in any way typical).

Even with stupidly high inflation a car loan will never make you money because you can't liquidate because you'd need to buy back in.

If you've got credit card debt or a payday loan or something else with a stupid high interest rate then anything short of Venezuela levels of inflation doesn't really help you. You get marginally less screwed but in the bigger picture you get more screwed because your day to day cash-flow is worse making the payments harder even if they're shrinking relatively

The only people being helped by debt being inflated away didn't need the help to begin wit. Everyone else is being screwed because any savings they have will go poof and their standard of living will be knocked down because wages always lag inflation.

A little inflation is fine/good but enough inflation that people are feeling the squeeze in the short term (you'd have to be blind to social media to not see this is the case) is too much.
How often do you see something like this? Any workaround besides not working with the customer?

I worked on both sides. This is super common for large shops with tight IT policy. My previous job provide critical services to our customers, our source code is escrowed to the third party in case we go bankrupted. My current job, we dismiss many vendors who can't run their software in our AWS VPC. The idea of a vendor can control (shut off) our core business is not an acceptable risk unless the vendor is huge like MS, Oracle, AWS.
Deep mind’s protein folding algorithm is probably worth a chunk of change. As far as I know, they’ve been holding onto the secret sauce rather than publishing it.
I’m just curious as to what you think, as you seem to indicate you don’t think complexity arising from randomness is good/something you don’t believe is true. I’m pretty comfortable with that as an idea, I’m genuinely wondering what your opinion is for opinion’s sake, hence why I haven’t presented an argument per se. I (apparently) used the word argue but it’s a figure of speech
Ted Nelson email archive now available
Endless Svmmer Times
Art Imitates Life: A 2-Quine
>I guess you assume inflation will also translate the higher wages so that people would be able to pay off their debt?

Here is a chart of real, disposable personal income: https://jabberwocking.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/blog_di...
Ah, now it's clear where some Valve level designers gathered their inspiration from.
I thought Avalara was the leader in this space. What is their pricing, I can't find it on the site.
I wonder if people that trade on headlines would get ruined so fast that no particular, single headline would make much of a difference (i.e. most people who would be fooled by this would already have been weeded out by some set of previous headlines).
Phones for me were always for consuming content, and I rarely 'created' anything with them. For creation I would use a standard desktop PC with Ubuntu and code to my heart's content. If you want a 'bicycle for the mind' then you would not use a handheld device. You would use a desktop PC (either a laptop or tower PC, or whatever).
> Humans are terrible drivers, even in the best cases.

Humans drive correctly 99.99999% of the time. We can't can't even keep a computer up and running that well, never mind driving perfectly.

See this thread with the math: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12012166

The future you are expecting is never going to happen.
14K users sounds like a technical difficulty of some kind.
Here is link to the archive preview: https://epadd.stanford.edu/epadd/collection-detail?collectio...

ps. all emails are actually blured out. Nonetheless, Ted Nelson pretty much said all of what he wanted to be said to the public on camera already.
I’d agree that if you’re looking to have a career in front-end your order should be some JavaScript, then React/Angular and possibly Typescript, but after that I’d still recommend you go back and really learn JavaScript. It doesn’t often happen but sometimes you run into a situation where that knowledge does come in handy. You can introduce bugs in your React code if you don’t understand closures for example, to use a library like redux-saga you need to understand generator functions, you may run into code where you need to know how the “this” keyword works, etc. A more junior dev needing help with those is fine, but I’d expect a senior dev to be able to navigate those type of situations on their own most of the time.
Into the 80's, the Army Corps of Engineers supervised the building of flood control and water impoundment dams all over the USA. Then they stopped; and a decade later the floods started being a bigger problem and the water levels out west varied more with the seasons...

Probably no connection at all, tho, must have been climate change.
The cost of letting Stripe do all the work than moving over to another provider is extremely costly and can damage sales.

Unless your provider really sucks, it's always important to evaluate carefully and ideally stick with them unless it is really that bad.
What's the problem with keeping the more effective technology (pipelines) and instead using taxes to disincentivize the externalities? Wouldn't that be better for everyone?
DeepSpeed: Deep Learning Optimization Library
Huh. I like almost all the UI in this better than current iOS. Good placement, clear at a glance what everything is. This strengthens my sense that iOS has been going downhill, UI-wise, since v7 came out.
Thanks for the reply - yea these are great points to consider and raised a few of them. Ideally rollouts benefit all customers, and the concern is that there is some possibility that something might not jive with them and they want the ability to do testing ahead of time.

Seems like putting as many things that might risk this under settings/configurable as possible? This does extend development to have to gate everything in this way though.
Florida sometimes promotes xeriscaping.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeriscaping

My step-father did have a well installed for the lone purpose of maintaining the lawn.

It is also a backup supply if the municipal system becomes unavailable.

Also, I do find it odd to water plants with water treated with chlorine and fluoride.
From November 2020.. where's the damned app already?

Since this is 2021, imagine the number of fraudulent apps that claim this and steal your data instead (thanks Google and Apple...).

Also, I wonder why there's no news about a massive training program to train dogs to smell the virus, because apparently they're very effective at it.
Looks like it's much lower than 9th population adjusted.
It doesn't solve everything, but when people ask you questions that are answered in documentation, answer those questions with a link to that documentation. Some people will always go straight to you, but over time, others will learn to check documentation first and a smaller subset of those will see the value in that and start following that approach themselves.

Almost everyone understands the value of DRY in code, but not everyone sees the value of it in day to day processes in the same light.
KDE Plasma 5.22 Released with Much Better Wayland Support
So again, in a situation where it is very likely that you could use Swish with ~0 fees or Stripe, do people continue choosing Stripe?

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.

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.

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.

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

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.
Actually small molecules rarely work against viruses inside an intact organism; counter that with immunobiology (convalescent plasma, monoclonal antibodies, nanobodies, ...) almost always working.

It is like the drumbeat of articles on "Substance X extended the life of mice by 15%" that don't contextualize it like so: a human is an extremely long-lived animal, your heart is good for 4 billion beats, the mouse died at 1 billion beats, you would need at least 10 interventions that work independently to get the mouse longevity up to the human standard.

People don't want to die, however, so they eat that kind of article up.
Will not happen, first world governments will rather go to war before needing to give up luxuries.
I keep having to downgrade my baseline for "the good in human nature."
This just means many US companies, especially ones extracting oil, prefer using precious water to make profits.

US Government finally woke up to the fact that Cybersecurity is important.

I am sure once Water is recognized as a precious resource, we will see improvement.
Said anonymous account on HN... If you're going to question other people's credentials, reputation, track record and claims make sure your own are solid. Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

Finally, if you're going to attack someone's article: attack the article, not the person that wrote it. This is the lowest level of attack possible: the personal one. It's as ad-hominem as it gets.
Which, ironically, most municipalities incentivize the opposite.

The more you use, the less it costs.
I remember when I was a college student at UIC and I took a class that taught me how to use Maple (now they use Sage). The professor also taught supercomputing and he bought some specialized NUMA computers and a few dense multiprocessor systems. If you don't have a large company that will support what you buy then there is a huge risk if the company folds and then your hardware becomes useless to the point that you will let an Undergraduate try to figure out how to fix it (that undergraduate was me). Unfortunately, I was unsuccessful.
How long is soon? I'm asking as I'm in the middle of building a saas. I might get to payments functionality in about 2-3 weeks if all goes well. Should I wait or register interest?
How much does a user story cost?
When someone finally rules the world, what will they do next?
> can self select themselves out of it too (by changing employer)

... who's exactly like the old employer because everybody is following the same playbook.
Heh, came here to moan about this also. I bet the scientists interviewed for this story groaned so hard when they read that line. It's like...a Hollywood blockbuster idea of "scientist"
Google already does a pretty good job with search. Sci-Hub really just needs to handle content delivery, instead of kicking you to a scientific publisher's paywall.
Coming soon: Show HN: I made a web app to layout artificial turf lawns and compare prices.
Judging from this poster, he is most likely not right: https://twitter.com/SarahBelleLin/status/1370071520953835520
It seems like you're suggesting something but I can't tell what it is. What are you talking about?
Where I live (southern Europe) they do that already. After all, Mediterranean climates don't have a lot of rain so we're used to droughts.

Base consumption hovers around 30€ every 2 months but the price per cubic meter (m^3) increases quite dramatically every 6 cubic meters. Families get cheaper pricing than people living alone.

People with gardens or pools have to pay quite a lot (most of them recycle the water though).
Much of the opposition to pipelines is their propensity to fail. There are many, many pipelines in various states of neglect and failure. With no plans or resources to fix them. We don't even monitor most of them.

We should be decommissioning pipelines, not building new ones.
Is the Explore page controlled by videos I watched ? Because there isn't a single video on it i would watch. Not one.
true story -- in the 1980s in California, Contra Costa county, water conservation was a topic and the local authorities decided to allow a change in billing for water (managed monopoly water district under local govt rules). Some public body of locally elected officials approved a new tier of water pricing, where the highest tiers of average DAILY water useage were charged a lot more.

In those 1980s days in the SF Bay Area, some small properties kept horses, and certainly swimming pools were common. Property owners spread the word and charged into the Council meeting causing a near riot with yelling and obstruction, because the price for using more than ONE THOUSAND GALLONS a DAY increased dramatically, along with the lesser, large use tiers.

The cost increase was defeated.
we already have substitutes for these kinds of plastics - like natureflex, which is made of wood pulp (found out about this from the tea brand I drink - https://www.teapigs.co.uk/pages/sustainability-values#plasti...).

I'm inclined to lean towards reconfigurations of simple materials (cellulose in this case) rather than high tech solutions, for the sake of simple and scalable production and lower likelihood of simply laundering the ecological impact from the finished product to the manufacturing process.

That's just a rough heuristic though, I don't know whether this or cellulose-based plastic replacements would be definitively better.
But this can't be, people assured me that FLoC was an improvement to privacy, and that it would provide an alternative to persistent identifiers and profiles, and that it would help end the arms race on fingerprinting.

You mean to tell me that FLoC will be used for fingerprinting anyway, and it changes nothing about advertiser's strategies and tracking techniques, and they won't self-regulate, and that it doesn't work to throw them bones of extra data and hope that they'll willingly stop their abusive behavior if we meet them halfway?

This is a shocking development.

The only consolation is that Google's next privacy compromise with the ad industry definitely won't suffer from exactly the same problems. The best thing for us to do now is to assume that this is a completely random, one-time fluke that doesn't reflect anything on the industry's character. No need to change the way we engage with the advertising industry on privacy issues because of it. We should keep offering them compromises that make it easier for them to track users, and keep assuming that they'll in good faith regulate themselves.
Even Taiwan would be an unacceptable Pyrrhic victory at best.
It might be possible to add self-driving features as an aftermarket upgrade. My 2013 model car already has drive-by-wire features (for automatic parallel parking), so it just needs more cameras and a replacement CPU. Heck, as a last resort you could put a robot in the driver's seat, physically operating the steering wheel and pedals.
I use 1Password for this purpose essentially and I’ve printed out backup codes and put it into an emergency box. One other problem is that the MFA every other site has now with SMS means that in a disaster recovery situation one will need access to the original phone number associated with an account when logging onto for the first time on a new machine. So this means a shared voice / SMS capable account is also necessary in conjunction with e-mail to avoid more complications. I realized with Apple’s system if I lost all my gear on a trip that nobody would be able to login to my Apple account because all my devices would have been lost.

Like any backup plan, unless it’s regularly tested it should be presumed to not be working
I included details in the blog post, the 3.x to 5.x design had the following issues:

- stateful system, with extra data stored in Raft. Always a chance for bugs with stateful systems.

- some corner cases whereby the state rqlite was storing got out of sync with the some other cluster configuration. Finding the root cause of these bugs could have been very time-consuming.

- certain failure cases happened during automatic cluster operations, meaning an operator mightn't notice and be able to deal with them. Now those failures cases -- while still very rare -- happen at query time. The operators know immediately sometime is up, and can deal with the problem there and then, usually by just re-issuing the query.
There are some jobs with a goldilocks element. Such that the job can be done just right, but it is easy to overdo or underdo it. Management is the most common job in this scenario, and we tend to really notice when it is overdone. Toes get stepped on, trust is not felt, everyone is unhappy. Unfortunately it many of the people that get into management try and push themselves to achieve as much as possible, which is what leads them to overdo it and make their teams unhappy.
>Interestingly, it's about 5% annualized over the last month, 5% versus May 2020

thanks, edited that in too.
A tip I have is creating tickets for creating documentation and treating them the same as coding tickets.

Writing documentation is always difficult. It takes a lot of understanding to be able to write.

Often times I think people find themselves in a situation where they need to understand something - but they aren't doing so to write documentation - they're doing so because they have to.

So, if you envision achieving this understanding as climbing a mountain - then documentation is the extra hill at the top you don't want to cross. By the time you're done understanding, the last thing you really want to do is write documentation.

Additionally, documentation is sometimes thankless work.

Making a ticket for documentation kinda solves both of these. 1) You can write a bunch of bullet points and have it be very messy within a ticket, and then you can use those bullet points within the ticket to make the documentation. 2) A ticket is a way of recognizing that documentation requires time and effort, and in a ticket form you have to make time for it in your sprint.

Is this a red flag? Kinda. If you have to write tickets for documents it might mean your team isn't appreciating effort towards documentation, you might have to write tickets to make people write documentation, and you team isn't making time for documentation.

On the other hand, it's a great way to get major pieces of documentation done if you have huge holes in your documentation. For example, if you have a document you need to write that will take 4+ hours of work, it might be a good idea to put that into a ticket.
“What are we supposed to do, just have dirt around our house on four acres?”

Yes.

Or move to a place with water, and it not a desert.
Neither do I, I bought one ;-) But people comparing it to Kindle thought it should be about 200€ tops, because of its limited function compared to a tablet.
MobilePay in Denmark (which is about the same as Swish, with very similar constraints wrt to phone numbers and banks) seems to be trying to enter the online payments business. But it does require MobilePay which is ubiquitous in Denmark, but utterly useless outside of it. So the rollout to other markets is slow to non-existing (and given how Danish banks - which run MobilePay - seem not to be aware of the rest of the world), so if I were a merchant no way in hell I would chose to exclusively accept MobilePay online.
> It doesn't say they file the taxes for you

Yay for automation, but is using third parties to file taxes not open to fraud and potential error (if you don't do it yourself?)