skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the commenter above was talking about complexity in the backend ("serverless" architectures, all the data brokerage siphons, leading to 10s to 100s of requests per click at times) as much as the frontend (new noisy notifications, plethora of "tools" that don't add much value).
Lets say I really like basketball, like a lot, so much so that I want to work at a basketball company doing something. In doing so I accept that a basketball company will want to promote politicians that will build sports centers and will promote basketball (or whatever).

On the surface this is fine. However, a politician is not only a basketball advocate, this person will have thoughts on abortion, civil rights, healthcare, etc.

Now, just because I like basketball so much I want to work for a basketball company doesn't mean I like basketball more than my healthcare, right to bodily autonomy, or my right to marry who I want to. So is it not within reasonable expectation for me to be upset at a company that actively supports politicians that want to end my marriage or strip me of fundamental civil rights?

This is why a strict "no politics", (while still a cop-out imo because taking no side is implicitly siding with the oppressor), is the only logically consistent attitude to take if you don't want to "be political" at work. You don't get to use basketball, or crypto for that matter, as a shield against criticism for supporting someone that wants to raise taxes or cut healthcare spending.

The argument is not "I don't think crypto companies should support crypto politicians" the argument is "You cannot ignore the negative externalities of single-issue voting". If you vote for a pro-crypto politician that also supports, say, killing toddlers if they don't pass 1st grade math class; you can't ignore the fact he wants to kill toddlers just because he is also pro-crypto. It's ethically negligent to do so.

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For your 3rdly point: You forfeit this option when the boss decides to talk THEIR politics at work.
What we really need is some sort of default arbitrator for cases like this. Support gives no answers because "reasons" too frequently for too many business critical applications and the courts are too slow to fix the problem and building in redundancy too costly to compete for most integrations.
A 1964 Chevrolet Impala is an impressive automobile that may persuade potential mates to overlook ones height deficiency.
>"No politics" means "no partisan identity activism on the clock" like asking a company to get involved in "Black Lives Matters", taking positions about the war in Ukraine beyond nationwide sanctions, or displaying a rainbow flag during "pride month".

Nah. "No politics" simply means "no politics I disagree with".
It sounds like you agree that these are all matters of degree.

I don't see anything in your post that is in disagreement with what I said above.
To be perfectly fair, I don't think "It's $DATE, that should be automated by AI by now" is really a joking matter on this site, considering the audience. :)
An empty house will turn bad faster than a rented out house. Give it to a property manager for the time it's rented, and when you move back in, do a remodel.

With tenants in the house, you'll be doing regular maintenance anyways, especially at turnover. You might find some damage once in a while and repair it over the years. This is damage you probably wouldn't find if you lived in there yourself, because you wouldn't have the "turnover" event triggering a deep check. But also, you might avoid the damage in the first place, who knows. Overall though, it's minuscule expense in comparison and it's not like the house will be ruined out of it. A decade or two later you'll want to do work on the house anyways before you move back in.

I think renting out is actually a lot better than you'd think. A good property manager will help you find good tenants and save you a whole lot of headache, save you from getting yourself into iffy legal situations, etc.
There are dark patterns in Adobe's pricing plans up the wazoo. And each year it seems that they change their UI just a little more to try to lock your data into their Creative Cloud. Photoshop now tries to save your files to the Creative Cloud (instead of your computer) by default.

I think the concern has definitely gone to an anti-trust level. Adobe packages Lightroom for free with Photoshop, probably with Capture One directly in their sights. Anti-trust definitely needs a reinvigoration.
And it's good that they're giving them time to transition internally instead of just laying them off. Now the hiring freeze makes more sense, if a team elsewhere is desperate to find an engineer, this is their chance.
Great post, thank you. Makes sense. Have applied for stripe myself, and was amazed there weren’t more hoops to jump through. I guess they eat the risk until a threshold, as you say.
Sure there are cool teams in every org. What is the probability I will join one of them if they are very small % of workforce, even if you do join a such a team with great manager there is higher probability that will not last in orgs with bad reputation.

Also while teams have variances org culture is rarely so different. Toxic cultures , red tape bureaucracy, or how performance is evaluated is typically mostly global not localised.

That's isn't to say nobody should in such places, there are plenty of people who just want a paycheck and don't care where they work or what their work environment is like, these orgs are perfect for them.

If you are passionate about your work and environment, and compensation wise squeezing your current value immediately in cash is not your priority then most big orgs especially ones like Oracle are bad place for you
I’m just calling out the hypocrisy of people tsk tsking those evil capitalist pigs while feeding from those same troughs.
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Yes exactly, I sometimes push them a bit longer then your upper bound as well to save money but you can really tell the difference once you get a new pair.

My current pair is far overdue! Anyone here have experience with the Gore-Tex 880's, are they good?
DHS didn't start from nothing, it was formed from a bunch of other departments and agencies. Like the Pentagon, there was partial auditing in place in that various levels and entities had internal and external audits, but nothing on the overall organisation level.

The Pentagon said it expects to get fully clean audits by FY28. That seems plausible at the current rate of change in their audits.
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Whoa, $20b seems like an eye watering amount for a tool like this.

I guess it goes to show how little I know about all of this, but surely a company with Adobe’s resources and prestige could just engineer something like this for less themselves?

Seems crazy to me. I guess it’s mostly about removing competition and giving people less options to not use an adobe product rather than the product itself that has value?
A payment system like that would run face first into Know Your Customer (KYC) laws and bet shut down.

This isn't a hard problem for technical reasons, it's all political. It's about preventing money laundering and trying to fight crime via financial instruments. But it also means any payment system that doesn't implement these restrictions will almost instantly be overrun by criminals because they are highly motivated to find ways of moving money.
Reminds me of a species of small fish passing the mirror test[0] while dogs fail it.

[0]: https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-self-aware-fish-raises-doub...
> But even that would be besides the point: It's not the 'legal system' that makes things work, it's the integrity of the system overall, maintained by a 'legal system'. Canada isn't rich because it has a 'legal system' - that's just one component. It's rich because people and groups act with integrity. The 'law' is involved very rarely.

You have flipped the direction of the causal arrow here.

The existence of functioning and accessible court systems in the western world is one of the reasons that western societies have higher levels of trust—not the other way around. It's much easier to trust someone when you know that if they cheat you, you have recourse to pursue justice in the courts.

In my experience doing business in both developed countries and less-developed countries, there isn't much difference with regards to individual human beings' "integrity". In fact, in countries without functioning judicial systems, business owners might demonstrate more "integrity" toward their customers, vendors and partners than we see in the US—but this has more to do with incentives than it has to do with people's character. In countries without functioning and accessible judicial systems, people typically do business with people that they have done business with before, because doing business with strangers is so risky. Reputation matters a bit more.

> There's no technical utopia that will replace 'integrity'. Or frankly 'values'.

Yes, as a general matter, many of the problems that exist in the less-developed world originate from deficiencies of trust [0]. But again, this is largely attributable to there not being reliable ways for people in those societies to mediate disputes.

This isn't about utopia. If smart contracts can take the place of functioning court systems in commercial transactions—or at least can reduce the complexity of legal disputes and narrow the discretion of judges to influence dispute outcomes—a real problem is solved and an impediment standing in the way of economic development is removed.

Smart contracts allow for certain types of commercial transactions to be conducted without the existence of a reliable judicial system, which transactions would otherwise be too risky to undertake. This incremental improvement will have a material impact on people's lives.

[0] https://www.bi.team/blogs/social-trust-is-one-of-the-most-im...
It looks like there's a common flaw in modern abuse detection systems: they have no long-term memory.

Stripe's abuse detection should be factoring in the age and long-term activity of the account, and support staff should be able to provide additional information to customers with established histories. Some of Stripe's policies make sense when dealing with new accounts, but a recurring factor in these complaints is that the account isn't new.

(Google's spam detection is broken in a similar way.)

I've been a low-volume Stripe customer for years. Posts like this are really increasing the urgency for me to come up with a new card processor, because I'd rather take an additional percentage haircut to get access to a dispute resolution process that recognizes me as an established customer.
I wasn't suggesting that there are decentralized options for every cloud dependency that is viable today. I am just saying that it is issues like this one which will drive innovation toward solutions that do not require you to put your fate in the hands of some central authority.
It is only worth it though if the shitcoin is worth more than the cost of electricity used to generate it. At the moment and for many miners, that just won’t be the case.
Quite a lot of companies think that things like civil rights are good for their businesses, and so support them. They see themselves as furthering the interests of the company.

So here "no politics" appears to mean "only the politics that the CEO personally likes". Which, fine, CEOs can do that. But that doesn't mean that people can't point out the hypocrisy of a "no politics" stand that doesn't actually mean "no politics". Which I think is always the case with "no politics" stands, really. It's a way for powerful ingroups to deny that outgroup issues should even be discussed.
Who Invented the LED?
Not a fan of Adobe and not really a fan of Figma but they are things. Alot of people talking about Macromedia Fireworks and Dreamweaver etc in here is a bit curmudgeonly-old HN. That's forever ago now as far as web/design. Yes it was sad/and Adobe made a mess, but alot has changed since then that lead to the environment where Figma rose. Not to mention probably most of the audience of users that are really into Figma weren't even born when all the golden era Flash and stuff was going on. The youngins don't understand big business Adobe, and they probably don't like the 'vibe', but they also aren't totally against it if they can keep using the product they owe a lot of their career to.
They will be fine I think.
Who says it will only be Edwin?
> as there's a tiny chance a random number fails the test

There’s ~4e23 _grains of sand_ on Earth. There are more possible values in 128 bits than grains of sand on Earth.

Take it further. There are 10^11 stars in our galaxy. If every star in the Milky Way had a planet identical to Earth orbiting it, there would be ~4e35 grains of sand on all the Earths orbiting all the stars of the Milky Way.[1]

If you assigned each of those grains to its own value, we’d only need 0.11% of the possible values of 2^128.[2]

I think it’s safe to say those bureaucrats are wrong :)

1: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%28number+of+stars+in+t...

2: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=2%5E128+-+4e35
seriously you should write this as a blog

(or if you are trying to be pseud, let me interview you and I'll write it)

if this is SOP it's important information
no, certainly not
I pay other people with venmo but refuse to accept payment (I'd literally rather just forgive the debt) for exactly that reason. I don't trust paypal, so they do not get access to my account.
On my TV it's called "perfect motion" and it's terrible.
This is one reason among many we should eliminate employer-based tax enforcement. Your taxes should be between you and the government; the government should not force your employer to act as a tax nanny (e.g. with mandatory withholding).
Sales tax is a tax that hits low income households harder, since they consume a higher portion of their income. And it's impossible to have a progressive sales tax.

So switching from income tax to sales tax would transfer money from the relatively poor to the relatively rich.
Yeah, but the discussion hasn't gone anywhere lol the conclusion of the article is basically "yeah I guess they don't care"
> People choose to become employees

People really don't have the sort of freedom to make choices that you're assigning to them. There's a thousand mitigating circumstances that limit peoples' options and can preclude the sort of risk taking that you're valorizing and shaming employees for not taking.
It is remarkable but I do think people are missing the forest for the trees.

Stunning trees in isolation are impressive and awe-inspiring, but note that the rest of the trees in the forest are made up of just the same stuff and composed in extremely similar ways!

ML shows not that computers can be smart, but that smarts is just a matter of statistics + abstraction. In this way no "intelligent" being is any more impressive, just more complex and fine-tuned.
> But why?

Mostly US bureaucracy and central banks + states having their own agendas. At this point, world governments have had how many years to figure this out? It's no better than 2009 in the US.

Much of the world doesn't have SEPA ICT. And much of the world probably doesn't want to support a euro-centric system (e.g. Serbia). Also, about ~1B people in the world are unbanked.

Decoupling the geopolitical aspects from the settlement layer is a big advantage to crypto. USDC/Circle is free to censor whomever they'd like, but the Ethereum blockchain isn't going to halt at the whims of the SEC or any other regulator.
How can you tell what the market thinks about this decision when a company's stock price is a function of what is happening publicly at the company AND externally in the economy? How do you separate the 2 drivers?
It's definitely either self-promotion or promotion through friends in the community seeing as she edits a lot. It totally reads like an ad.

But that works. I know one guy who had his Chief of Staff write his Wikipedia.
Maybe I’m using it wrong and it was never intended for this, but when I tried Penpot about a year ago, I had no way to export the diagram as one file like PDF or JPG. I could only export a layer. Did I miss something or am I not understanding what Penpot is for?
Not being a front-end dev, it does seem trivial, but using [0-9\.]* means you can have 1.2.3. You can tighten that regex up, but I imagine that either doesn't fly with mobile keyboard hinting or screen readers trying to hint what a correct value is.
You also hire family members of your “ real employees “ so that they have legitimate income also.
If that is the case, that is fine.

Then Stripe can FORKING SAY SO UP FRONT.

And those businesses can grumble but go elsewhere

Implying that you are happy to take on responsibility for infrastructure of someone's business, then unilaterally and without notice or opportunity to cure any issue, is pretty much tantamount to theft. Stripe in this case appears to be accepting money, then failing to provide service, and in this case is even holding onto money paid to their customers. This causes a lot more damage to others than it does to Stripe.

I don't like externalizing problems to other parties as a business model.
Surely this is terrible for competition?
And I made a comment about the attitude of the studio that makes it, rather than about Diablo specifically. Your comments, unfortunately, don't make any real sense.
unironically i've been thinking that something like this should have been done years before. i would have done it myself, but i don't have the skills.

the ideal would be to have two (three?) network ports however.

the idea would be to have one port to the wan, another to the network port of the host computer, and maybe a third one for the ilo/idrac/ipmi port.

it would be great in my opinion.
There was a HN post a while back where a MS engineer was explaining why windows file system access will never be as fast as Linux.
What is the business model? There’s a lot of detail here for that to be given a passing mention.

Is there a common theme between these posts?
The argument "but there are competitors" – that the very existence of other players in a market should preclude the blocking of acquisitions – is flawed and misleading.

For competition to strengthen a space, it needs to be meaningful competition. The goal for regulators should not be "more than one player in every category." It should be diverse product expression, improved customer utility, and most of all ZERO winner-take-all effects.

That last item (winner-take-all) is crucial to understand, and I'm sad that it is no longer a major part of economic discourse (as it once was when systems-thinking was more common). Winner-take-all effects often occur without an explicit monopoly, yet devastate the category and its adjacent categories.
"Does a company have any responsibility if the employee lies "

May be, may be not but in practice, you are not going to be able to tell IRS or another compliance org. that sorry, my employee lied so it's not my problem. As the employer, you are still on the hook for any taxes and other compliance related issues regardless. You can sue your employee may be later but that is not going to save you from the wrath of Uncle Sam and others.
> but they absolutely adore figma that has never been anything but subscription.

Doesn't Figma have a free tier? That changes everything.
Yep, much in the same way that posts about the (British) Queen's death means the zombie apocalypse is imminent.
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Thank you god I'm not an American.
If the PoW markets collapse they'll just invent new PoW shitcoins that will go up.
Those are a lot of nice words, but I stand by my statement that natural selection is pretty cruel. I do not see how accepting one's fate makes it any less cruel.

I did not comment on the surgery and do not approve of such measures.
Same boat. Wondering what it takes to either VM Mojave or get a windows license and VM that. And this whole episode has made me definitely appreciate the merits of Windows backward compatibility as a feature...
Why AI in DevOps is here to stay
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One of my realtors once said that they had a client who refused to move into a place that didn’t have granite countertops.

Like seriously.. replacing a countertop is not hard!
I totally agree with you about what the problem with the policy is - but I don't think Coinbase is doing this:

> pretend[ing] that involving themselves in politics isn't political and doesn't have political consequences beyond "crypto good".

I don't think they're pretending it doesn't. I think they're making it clear they simply don't care.

They don't care about climate, or BLM, or the 2020 election, or whatever. They only care about crypto. The world can burn so long as crypto numbers go up.

But at least they're honest about it.
Income is also taxed if it's generated outside America as long as you're an American citizen. Some people who emigrated to Europe as a child got quite a nasty tax bill for decades of untaxed income when the USA found out that they're still American citizens, for example.

Many countries have tax law to deal with this type of American bullshit but it's still something to be aware of.
In my local market, prices are definitely dropping [1] and available inventory is up to pre-pandemic levels [2]. But even with price cuts, it's still only at Jan-Feb 2022 levels (I think prices peaked around April-May). It's the lag between rates rising and that being reflected in prices that makes the timing less ideal.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEDLISPRI12420

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ACTLISCOU12420
Counterpoint: HN (and Twitter) certainly seems to be the complaint forum of last resort for Stripe, Google, some AWS issues, and so forth.
I dunno, isn't that like saying "if planes were all half-empty, the carbon emissions of the plane would barely change, so you can't blame the carbon emissions on any of the passengers"? Yes, the "marginal carbon emissions" of a single transaction is ~0, much like the marginal carbon emission of taking an empty seat on an airplane is ~0, but by this logic nobody on the plane is responsible for any carbon emissions, which is obviously silly, so in lieu of any better accounting method, you just amortize the carbon emission of the plane across the passengers.

If the block size was reduced to, say, one transaction, then the economic value of the Bitcoin network would surely drop, mining rewards would be worth less, miners would quit, and the electricity use would fall. It's the economic value of the transactions that end up rewarding miners; I can't see how people transacting on the chain aren't partly responsible for the miners' emissions.

I can't think of any obviously better way to assign a number to that than just amortizing it across the number of transactions. It's a meaningful number that explains something about how much usefulness the network produces per unit of electricity. Doubling that by doubling the block size (or, halving it by halving the block size) would be a meaningful change!
Should

> "They are so common"

be

"These are so common"

?
Yeah that isn't how payment processors work. If his clients are in breach of Stripes TOS it puts Stripe at odds with the compliance teams at Visa/MC/Amex immediately if they are processing his payments.

Source: I used to run adult websites which is considered 'high risk' and also these days responsible for overseeing 1M/m in CC processing for a state agency.