skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are your questions also coming from a standpoint of modern tech. such that a sniper could accurately measure range using a modern rangefinder?

This was circa the 1916-1918 time-frame. Modern range finding equipment did not exist, and what did exist at the time very likely required someone carrying a rather large range finding target over to the enemy lines to use to determine range (with the obvious negative result to that poor individual).

With no easy way to determine range (distance to target) beyond eyeball estimates, the only real way to sight in the sniper rifle was by taking test shots at a target and watching where one's bullet actually lands as compared to that target.
I haven't given up on them, but LATAM is definitely not their focus and we've moved 95% of our payment volume to a local payment processor, even tough we were one of the first private beta testers back in 2015 (wow, it's been 6 years already).

My angle is in Brazil. Even after all these years, they still don't support monthly installments, which is literally a single line API param that, honestly, I don't know any other payment gateway in Brazil that doesn't support it. Monthly installments is a huge deal in Brazil.

They also only now started the private beta of Boletos, which is unfortunate since Boletos are being phased out in Brazil due to the new PIX, which allow for instant payments 24/7. So they are basically releasing just now a feature that nobody really wants anymore.

Stripe connect also isn't available (AFAIK only the "standard" account is available, which mandates for Stripe onboarding and can't accommodate any white label marketplace integration).

The lack of focus is noticeable even from their marketing pages. Notice how in https://stripe.com/br/connect the explanation for "Cobranças diretas" and "Cobranças de destino" are exactly the same (the text "Os compradores fazem transações diretamente com os vendedores, mas quase nunca notam a existência da plataforma, que pode cobrar tarifas de transação" appears in both), making it impossible to understand the difference, while if you visit https://stripe.com/us/connect you see two different texts for each option.

Their support team has always responded quickly and politely, but we've had an impossible time trying to understand how they could allow us collect payments from abroad as a marketplace operating in Brazil, and that's even pointing out we didn't rule out opening a US-based company via Stripe Atlas if that was necessary. Lots of contradictory information and when we pressed on, they always end with them noticing that Brazil is still in preview and they still can't operate properly with Connect in Brazil.

Which is weird, considering it's LATAM's biggest market. This release of Stripe Identity missing out Brazil on launch, even tough it's a country that badly needs antifraud solutions, is only one more evidence of this.
As an European tech-sphere data point: it seems somewhat normal to travel the world for half a year before your first job. Gap time later on is not so common. Still, I can easily name five colleagues who took one to six months off, some as unpaid vacation, some between jobs.

Personally, six weeks sounds more like an extra-long vacation. I always took four to six months off before looking for a new job, or when on-job an unpaid month or two every other year. But that's definitively nowhere near the norm, many people don't understand it. I usually end up coding 20h per week on geek projects or random open source stuff. After six months I predictably get bored with it.

I rarely end up doing the project I planned to do. So if you want any advice from me: Don't force yourself to do what you thought you wanted to do, before you had time. Look around and don't feel guilty for following that new interest you just discovered.
yes, those are also bad
I am mesmerized by the Byzantine chanting and the Byzantine musical notation, which many, including music professionals, are unaware of. I haven't felt more human than being among Orthodox brothers and sisters, who are our extended family. I feel a lot more at home at the Church than at my temporary earthly residence. I can always call my priest and share all things that trouble me, ask for a blessing for something that I'm planning to do, and a prayer when we're in trouble. There's no pressure to tithe, bring more people to Church, and other things, turning the Church of God into a cult, an exclusive club, or an MLM scheme. When I look for a Church management system, I found only Protestant versions, which focus on attendance and tithe tracking with weird add-ons such as facial recognition, contacting people who haven't donated recently, and many other things you can never see in an Orthodox Church.
kinda sad that the US has a useless SEC while china and thailand actually protect their citizens.
Consumers are not buying iPhones because of charisma. They are not using Gmail because of charisma.

Some VC pump and dump companies get by and make some headlines by being a fad electron app, but I am referring to those that stick around for years and develop products that require R&D. I have a hard time believing that people who work at companies that have transformed the way we live over the past few decades are "lower than average skill".
However, there is still the fact that the more elderly there are, the more resources are drained to help them, which I am not saying is a bad thing, but to keep the cycle of social security cheques and pensions going, you need more people in the workforce who can work to pay taxes who in turn hope to receive the same benefits when they come of that age.

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/071514/why-social-s...
If you can't opt out of one but not the other, is this distinction meaningful?
That’s already mentioned in the third paragraph but it’s nice of you to also include the bytecode in the comment.

> Apparently in 1984, a strange program won the IOCCC where main was declared as a short main[] = {...} and somehow this did stuff and printed to the screen!
Fra Giocondo (among others) would like a word with you:

> The second siege was that of Padua in 1509. A monk engineer named Fra Giocondo, trusted with the defence of the Venetian city, cut down the city's medieval wall and surrounded the city with a broad ditch that could be swept by flanking fire from gun ports set low in projections extending into the ditch. Finding that their cannon fire made little impression on these low ramparts, the French and allied besiegers made several bloody and fruitless assaults and then withdrew.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastion_fort#Effectiveness
Math Books you should read in 2021
That is not quite right. NixOS can download files from the internet during build time for example to get the source code and you can even disable downloading things form the cache. It would be technically possible to download files at runtime but that does not align well with the reproducible goal and would also require some hacky patching.
COVID hasn't made people miserable in their jobs.

COVID has exposed how pathetic the commute-to-work experience is in comparison to working from home. A lot of people are just fine not keeping up a work wardrobe, or getting up every day to get dressed and groomed for work, or driving to the office every day. It personally takes me 45 minutes to get to work on a good day. If my employer tried to force me into the office while I could get a job elsewhere that would allow me to make around the same money to work from home, I'm gone. I'd save about $2500 in gas alone.

And for the record, I love my co-workers. Every single one is a software development veteran, professional in their day to day activities, and is motivated to producing quality work. But I'd still rather work with a knucklehead from time to time than give up the 2+ hours of daily time that going back to the office would require.
Right, all the letter says is what anyone who is talking about the Steele Dossier should already know - Russia habitually leaks disinformation, and will mix the lies with fact to confuse folks. Steele said as much himself which the FBI commented on in their review of the dossier (parts of the report he got from Russian contacts he wasn't sure were accurate, but since it was raw intelligence he reported it).

Basically the letter says: "somebody heard from some Russian source that is not trusted that HRC was behind linking trump to Russia, but since that source is not trustworthy and there's no evidence we can't determine that to be a fact."

Treating that tenuous link as a fact is doing exactly what OP is claiming the media did with the Steele Dossier (which generally they did not, they reported on its existence not its accuracy - and the media I consumed was careful about that distinction).
I guess it's not his first rodeo, he simply doesn't want to support whatever version is packaged by NixOS.

However the MIT license dictates what can or cannot be done. No need for further drama.
Zink (OpenGL-On-Vulkan): Summer 2021 update
Love this. Its very very interesting. You guys follow this.
oh for sure, I'm just saying anyone can link to anything on the internet afaik, you can't just say, don't link to me.
All machine learning becomes reinforcement learning
> DON'T TRUST THIRD PARTY

This is a good policy when ALL first parties meet a certain (regulatory) bar. For banks, I assume that bar is "don't become insolvent" and more recently "don't lend money to terrorists."

The problem is that, as we've seen from the countless hacks in recent years, the first parties are NOT all meeting the bar when it comes to security, namely "don't leak (or abuse) users' private personal info."

And that's unfortunate, because a lot of the time, all a company really needs to know is a "does the registered account correspond (uniquely) to a real human (with certain legal characteristics)." Sometimes they need to know for compliance reasons ("our users are adults" or "aren't terrorists") and other times for uniqueness/fraud reasons ("We want to reduce spam accounts" or "we're paying users $10 to sign up and so need to make sure users aren't signing up multiple times.") It'd be great to be able to answer those questions without having to protect all that personal data that goes into answering it, similar to credit cards.

But your main point stands: if Stripe is allowing companies access to the collected data, then from a security point of view it's little better than having the companies collect and store it themselves. Hopefully Stripe explains their reasoning, or even better, course-corrects early in this launch.
> What an awful community response.

You're expecting an entirely unrelated community of users to be invested in the goals and interests of NixOS. They're not, and perhaps they see Frenk's point in a way that people that aren't part of their community do not.
I find making nice and runny scrambled eggs on electricity really hard to do. Actually induction is even harder with the pulses of energy dissipating so quickly.
Refusal to provide password set to become criminal offence in Ireland
> People should get on a ship somewhere and build a colony with freedom as an ideal. Something like that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberland
> the author complains they have no time to support users

In the github issue, as far as I can see, he doesn't "complain" at any point about having "no time to support users".

What he does say is "I'm not willing to support that or accept that burden" [of supporting NixOS users], and "I have no intention of spending time in this project" [meaning NixOS].

It appears that he just isn't interested in NixOS or supporting NixOS users. That's absolutely his prerogative, and does not mean he is "complaining" about not having "enough time" for it. And regardless, how he chooses to spend his volunteer/unpaid time really isn't anyone else's business.

There are some other valid criticisms here but I don't feel this particular point is a fair take.
What the hell is “Qanon-agacent”
Is that just a way to deny things you don’t like to hear without critical thought?

My data comes from inside sources in the lumber industry.

Yours comes from… where exactly?
> I believe they were just using it as a method to prove available funds while waiting on the traditional banks / lawyers to do their thing.

That sounds really vague. A proof of funds letter has nothing to do with money transfers. You can walk into a bank branch and get a signed proof of funds letter right there. The people actually selling the property that require a proof of funds letter are going to be either a trustee or court auction (foreclosure), or when making an offer to a bank for an REO/bank-owned property (what some people mistakenly call foreclosures).

It would be really interesting if those parties started accepting stablecoin signed messages as proof of funds letters, but I do not know of any that do. The real interesting part in that scenario would have nothing to do with cryptocurrencies - it would mean the widespread acceptance of public key cryptography for legal and financial documents and transactions. Once that happens there would be even less reason for the really shitty distributed database part of cryptocurrencies anymore. Not a popular opinion, but one I have held for a long time, and if you think the system through it is hard not to arrive at the same conclusion. "You mean this all could be done with PGP in the 1990s?"

What it sounds like is happening is that third-party companies involved in foreclosure buying are accepting stablecoin signed messages to act as financing intermediaries. That really does not mean a lot - there are even financing companies out there specializing in supplying "instant" proof of funds letters to house flippers that are really conditional loan offers.
Since the NYT is America's Pravda (according to Chomsky), then whatever the analogue of the opposite of Pravda is.
I wonder if instead Stripe could have routed calls through itself, filling in the secret info. Perhaps it was discussed?

For example, imagine Joe Biden buys a widget from WidgetsR.us and wants it shipped to his home address of 1600 Penn Ave in DC.

WidgetsR.us -> Fedex.com/order_XYZ/ship-to/Joe Biden at 1600 Penn Ave in DC
WidgetsR.us <- Fedex.com "201 CREATED"

Instead they could route through Stripe (where 123_joe corresponds to Joe Biden's identity docs in Stripe), which fills in the missing info.

WidgetsR.us -> Stripe.com/identity/123_joe?redirect=Fedex.com/order_XYZ/ship-to/$NAME at $ADDRESS
Stripe.com -> Fedex.com/order_XYZ/ship-to/Joe Biden at 1600 Penn Ave in DC
Stripe.com <- Fedex.com "201 CREATED"
WidgetsR.us <- Stripe.com '"201 CREATED"'

That way WidgetsR.us never knew the $NAME or $ADDRESS of user 123_joe, but was still able to use them. (Yes, they could send that info to themselves, but then they're on the hook for protecting it.) The huge downside here is putting Stripe in your business's critical path. But if it's already there for payments, then why not for identity?
I worked in fast food for several years and the job is terrible. The fundamental problem with this job and others like it are the fact that you can bust your ass day in and day out and see no benefit to your work. It's like groundhog day where every singe day you work there is exactly the same until you finally quit.

I think what would really improve a job like fast food is if workers were part owners of their franchise. Most fast food restaurants are franchises owned by one person or a local corporation that owns several franchises. Putting ownership into the workers hands would mean profit sharing, it would mean when you bust ass over the hot grill working a double shift or cleaning shit and blood from the walls in the bathroom, you are actually rewarded for the increased demand on the restaurant. It would be like a built in hazard pay for when things got busy and stressful and awful. At least benefits would be nice, I know several people who burned their forearms really bad on the fryer.
Overall I agree with you, and my experience has been similar, but I think the comparison with outsourcing is not correct.

I would argue that outsourcing failed primarily due to companies trying to farm out the coding to uninterested entities whose incentives did not align well. Not necessarily because the foreign workers doing the coding were bad.

Back to the guy in Argentina -- I imagine that he/she is actually in a reasonably good position as the amount of remote work increases. Indians not so much, because they are 12.5 hours ahead (of Pacific time). Argentina is only 4 hours ahead, which makes for a lot more overlap.

So I think the field has leveled a little bit in that sense, because if you have a remote developer in another state, they are not very different than one in another country who happens to be in a similar time zone. The other big barrier IMO is communication, so someone in Argentina who is not merely fluent in English but speaks it very clearly could be in a really strong position.
Surely effort is a very big part of success, but I would attribute at least some of the magic that makes the tech companies hum to above average technical expertise.
I am reading The 48 laws of power by Robert Greene. It is a book containing historical anecdotes regarding different attitudes and behaviours one should be aware if if one embarks on a quest for power. I am half way through it and so far it is certainly an interesting read. While in todays society ( perhaps in all ages? ) the advice there would be shunned, I perfonally find it very interesting a enjoy applying, at least in part, the lessons learned by reading this book.

If I could give it a short description, it's pretty much the modern equivalent of The Prince and i highly reccomend it to everyone!
What do you use for cooking traditionally done on curved cookware?
> But at a fundamental level, why do Discord and Clubhouse need to verify my identity?

Because of credit card fraud. I've run services where >5% of attempted transactions were done using stolen credit cards. So we used services that determine the risk of a transaction being fraudulent, and if the risk was too high, we required identity verification.

The alternative was to reject those transactions outright and permanently lose those customers, which is terrible when there is a false positive.

If credit card fraud is high, it doesn't matter whether you are a chat app or a bank app.
Well, somebody has to step up and do the R&D to productisize supercritical CO2 technology. Steam has been around for a couple of centuries and is extremely mature.

One potential cost reduction in none-LWR's is that those LWR reactor vessels are awfully thick and heavy to withstand the pressures involved. Making them is pretty involved, and there's only a few forges around the world capable of making such large objects. Metal or salt-cooled reactors work at roughly atmospheric pressure, which can be easily made by just welding sheet metal together.
Right, but since that's no longer a feature of American healthcare, that's not what we're talking about when we compare the US and European systems.
oh ok so those are internal tags I though there was a index somewhere to navegate without going all over, thanks
I took one CS class as an undergrad. On those occasions I showed up for class, I sat in the back row and wrote poetry. I think I only turned in one assignment as well. It was supposed to be a very simple infix calculator with 26 statically allocated variables. I thought that was boring so I ended up creating an algebraic solver that could use dynamically allocated variables of any length as long as they began with a letter and were all alphanumeric. The whole thing was done using cweb. The TA gave me partial credit saying that he couldn't understand any of what the code did (in his defense, the cweave output was 20+ pages long and I think my classmates' programs were all a couple pages of C) but that it appeared to work.
Indeed - the battle of the Crater in Petersburg is an eery foretaste of the WWI battlefield.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Crater
"Unwise generalization to business" is the essential contribution of this blog. I've had the same feeling about nearly every post that made its way here.
Best advice I read (I think here on HN):

Make it work, not crash, fast, pretty — in that order.
I'm happy with crypto investors being bled out of their money... Not so happy with adds and tracking me for useless things as this affects also those companies who buys adds...
@pc - This should be a pass-through / ephemeral type of service where a document is verified in-transit and then purged from memory. Stripe should not save any of these documents. Let Stripe customers deal with the decision whether to save in their own systems. Otherwise, this looks like yet another great value-added service -- congrats!
My guess is most likely Africa, though I think somewhere in Central or South America would have a very strong advantage due to the narrower time offset.
This isn't a great argument, regardless of my stance on the issue.

We ban and heavily regulate plenty of financial stuff so that people don't get taken advantage of. Payday loan regulations/bans are a good example.
The best feature about ripgrep (apart from its great performance): Sane defaults out of the box!
In practice I don't think google exerts much control over Mozilla.
Echo chambers are fine. It’s okay to have firm beliefs that you aren’t interested in changing.

This isn’t appropriate for every belief, but for some, it is.
Preventing legitimate institutions from allowing transactions involved with the purchase of the coin effectively bans it. It doesn't matter if consumers can still use it, if businesses can not.
If the response to someone finding and using your work is the kind of over the top demand to "don't use the thing I just released under a permissive license" with multiple replies that amount to, "Don't use the thing in a way I don't like kthanxbai" how can you depend on it?
Simple: I trust the security of Apple/iCloud over the security of the servers of any IoT vendor.
It's an example of how Fox is less honest than other news companies, exactly what you asked for. They let people on air spout obvious lies all the time. Find a mainstream channel that does the same. I'll wait
Interesting! Thanks for the insight!

I think you're right. This is largely a difference of opinion. It's a shame it couldn't have worked out better.
Indoor air pollution is only a serious problem for unvented gas stoves. Current building codes require venting for gas stoves and any gas stove installed in the 21st century will have a vent.
I don't really understand electric bikes, on a flat surface, riding a bike is effortless for me (I don't really try to go fast, 20km/h is good enough), if it goes slightly uphill then it's a good opportunity to do a bit of exercise, but really, you can ride bikes with very little (own) energy, and that's super healthy, no engines, thanks

I think bicyles will become a primary transport in the next decades, electric or not
> but even the most committed data hoarders are nowhere near that

Not all that committed, well over that.
Easily, you start seizing assets.
> Do you reserve "secularism" only for polities that forbid
> religious practice?

Having at least o couple of irreligious people in the legislative would be a good start :)

https://www.pewforum.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2018/12/...
Yes! You should change to a better one - but incorporate the old one into the new one.
Also consider installing ripgrep-all [1], an extension making it possible to search through PDFs, eBooks, ZIPs and other documents.
The integration with fzf is also fantastic!

[1] https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all