skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Under ChargeBee's terms, they must provide you with your data for up to 120 days following any termination. So there's that at least.

> 7.2.3. Data Export Following termination or expiration of a Subscription, We will retain that Account’s Service Data for one hundred twenty (120) days from such date of termination or expiration (“Data Retention Period”).

I mean, ideally we need an open source PCI compliant equivalent of ChargeBee so that you can 100% own your customers payment information.

That's the way this problem really gets solved, but the security surface for that open source project is going to be a challenge.
There's no real product so they're easy to spin up and run a bunch of stolen CC numbers through.

ETA: Either the site all together or as an individual coach on the platform.
A former employer had a system that consumed phone calls from Twilio. The phonecall table had a touchtoneinput column for the sequence of digits a caller pushed after the call connected (press 1 for English, press 3 to dispute a charge, etc.). We would sporadically get these query errors on inserts--turned out the touchtoneinput column was defined as a bigint, and the rare occasions where a caller pressed the # or * keys were sending input that obviously could not be parsed as an integer.

Good rule of thumb: if a reasonable person calls it a number, but your application is never going to perform arithmetic on it[0], it should probably just be a string.

[0]: Yes, a credit card number can be checksummed, but that's more in the sense of a CC# being a sequence of numbers rather than one int.
Yes, my point is that a lack of general privacy hygiene, both personally and businesses collecting your information, directly provides information for these crimes. It's very nearly the reason why hacking many companies with personal information is so valuable. It's already a crime, and it's already a (gigantic!) known vector feeding crimes.

Which seems like a pretty good argument for tightening down on privacy, rather than allowing it to continue as-is or worsen.
also sky is blue, study finds..
Sure there is, it’s possible to give up too much from the present in exchange for a future that either sucks or never comes at all.
> Oxford Dictionary says "the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills".

And what is knowledge? When I say I know p, then p is a proposition. Thus, p is intelligible. Anything intelligible is conceptual. Indeed, if we analyze what a proposition is, we see that it entails predicates and predicates correspond to concepts. However, concepts are abstract and universal, that is, they are not concrete or particular, they are not mere images. Triangularity is not this or that triangle, but that which holds of all triangles, and you will not find triangularity out and about in the world on its own, but only instantiated in particulars, and any particular is not any of the other particulars for which the same predicate holds.

When we implement propositions in computers, we really only simulate the formal via mechanical manipulations. When I create a negation operation on a string of symbols, I am only moving symbols around in a way that corresponds to what negation would produce. But the computer is not strictly speaking negating anything. Furthermore, the symbols that stand for predicates are just placeholders at best. There is no concept in the machine. Deep learning does not somehow magically transcend this limitation.

> "The ability to create models of the world around them, and make predictions based on those models"

Modeling and prediction is not intelligence, but a consequence of it. It is also central to modern science because the purpose of modern science is, to a large degree, less about understanding nature than it is about mastering it for practical purposes (prediction is presupposed by control).
> The government is not supposed to be oppressive.

All "Big" Governments are oppressive, as all "Big" anything is. The only difference is in how they exert their power, and what type of people are at the top of each pyramid.

Even "totally democratic" powers of the west will quickly attempt to crush anything that takes that power away from them and show potential to liberate people.
OK, if latency is a concern, is it possible to parallelize requests or increase batch sizes to maximize utilization and throughput?
Surprised to see all the "hate" for Adobe. They provide an awesome suite of products only $55 per month. I've had nothing but good experiences with them. Is it wrong to pay for software when you get a truckload of value out of it? No other creative software even comes close.
My ability to address screwups or fraud on an individual level with banks is significantly higher than anything I'd have with crypto.

All your statement does is agree with my sentiment that crypto like ethereum is controlled by a very small number of very large players in the field. It is not the democratization of money & finance that proponents & crypto idealists use in their rhetoric to promote a supposed revolution in the field. It's substantially similar to traditional systems with a few minor (relative to the proposed revolution) features that might offer improvements on the traditional systems.

And yes, lots of people have told me otherwise-- that crypto will put the the aggregated power of traditional financial systems into the hands of the people and all sorts of things along those lines. It's not hard to find such crypto evangelicals. But no I have __never__ been misled by them.

It's always been obvious to me that any actual promise that crypto may have in improving financial systems falls massively short of promises made.
My fantasies aren't depraved in any way, but they are well-represented in pornography.
Paris is the best example of how you can get very high density without actually needing very large buildings, just by being extremely consistent about having apartments and condos be the default mode of urban construction.
So, with all the new hashers coming from ETH, ETHW still has an order of magnitude less activity than ETH had before the change. Evidently it didn't absorb all the hardware.

The question if it is visible in the electricity generation numbers is still very relevant. (If it is, we will probably only be able to see it in an year, when international organizations compile their numbers.)
I am suggesting making on a new, less volatile platform, and announcing via a burner Discord account.
Never seen a monkey get stuck late at work, though.
It may but mostly likely won't unless you're a huge company.

I hired a bunch of people outside the US and it's not a problem. Use Deel and hire them as contractors. Make the contractors fill out W8BENs. Don't let the HR folks and lawyers scare you - they don't understand risk vs reward mentality of a startup founder.
I think promoting politicians violates the "no politics" spirit but promoting/lobbying for specific legislation would not.

Because once you start promoting individuals based on a single issue you agree with, you've become a mark. Your vote, your support is easy to get by simply paying the bare minimum lip service to the cause.

I could run for office on a platform of polluting the environment, defining abortion to include straight up murdering babies up to 9 months old, mandating each student carries a long gun with a minimum 20 round capacity, arson, rape, and pillaging. But as long as I'm also pro-crypto, Coinbase will support me. Which includes, if not implicit support for the rest of my positions, at least tolerance of them. Especially if I'm the only pro-crypto politician on the docket.

And as long as my pro-crypto stance is a minority one, I don't even have to be successful in advancing pro-crypto laws.

The net effect of the stance of supporting politicians on a single issue is that you wind up supporting horrible politicians and horrible people.

What one should do, and is the much harder path, is to petition your current politicians to adopt your views. To convince them that either enough people want it or that it would be good for the people and they will thank you for it by continuing to vote for you.

But still, "politics" is a lot like null, it's a greedy term. You really can't do "some politics" or "politics, but just in this one area". Once you introduce the term, you now have to be aware of it everywhere.
Buying Figma, apparently
If you can pip install something, I would also recommend diskcache:

- it backed up by sqlite, so the data is much more secure

- you can access it from several processes

- it's more portable
It’s probably less the revenue they’d gain and more the revenue they’d lose to figma.

Doesn’t matter what figma makes if the customers they’re losing are worth 20B in the long run. This is certainly a defensive position.
serious question: how is this different if you live in the city making X amount and then move to the suburbs where X is now supposedly 2X.

In my head we all pay the dues somewhere in some form to begin with - property taxes, sales taxes, income taxes etc.

It’s one thing if you’re avoiding paying those.

but how is it different that Twitter gets a tax write off to move to the Tenderloin. and if Joe/Jill chooses to move to the suburbs or temporarily move to Mexico while still paying state and federal income tax. sure there maybe some property tax loss but isn’t housing crisis already an issue? don’t company incorporate in Ireland to pay less tax?
I'm not a designer full time, but have dabbled over my career and in my youth used Photoshop and Premiere heavily. I'd say Pixelmator and Sketch were more approachable, discoverable and had better workflows. This made the combo of being easier to pick up than Adobe tools and more powerful for professionals.
I was able to use Figma productively in my first day of using it. The added collaboration features with Figma's App preview mode and collaboration in the tool made me never look at anything else when I needed to design something.
Funny, this is my plan to get out of tech. I've been welding bicycle frames for five years (cumulative, over maybe a 10 year period). I'll probably leave tech for good at the end of the year and start a boutique bike frame company.

EDIT: (clarified a timeframe)
Check out Recurly as a alternative to stripe.
https://www.beecracked.com/reviversoft-security-reviver/
Art has nothing to do with merit, does it?

Sex with another person is difficult to come by for many, and only comes sporadically for many more. You don't sound like you've been married for 20 years and bound by oath to not have sex with anyone other than someone who's physically lost all libido. I recommend some empathy.
Fair critique — AngelList is pretty aggressive with its fees. If you're willing to handle settlement + custody yourself, it's much cheaper.

The oracle problem is very real (and solvable). Even ignoring the ability to transact within the same system where provenance is maintained, I tend to think that trusted third-parties moving their supply chain operations into a public ledger which is verifiable across time is more advantageous than point-in-time cryptographic signatures.
FFS now they’re going to ruin it.
As a tech employee turned contractor:

I write software for pay. That's it. I don't see my employer as a boss - they are a customer. If they aren't happy with the product, they can find someone else and I can respond to the other 50 LinkedIn requests...
Premiere and After Effects are also industry standards for video, Illustrator is the industry standard for illustrators, and I'm sure there's more I don't know about. As far as producing industry-standard products in the creative sphere, who is better than Adobe?
This genuinely hurts. Not only is Figma an excellent product, it demonstrates what can be achieved on the web as a platform.
The problem with a server is that it's detectable based on the source IP - if your employee suddenly starts appearing from a datacenter IP you might have to ask questions.

This box allows them to build a virtual network cable back to their usual, residential connection - completely invisible from the other side (besides latency, but this can be explained away).
Another nice thing about walking is that you can multitask to make it more stimulating, for longer. Imagine if you only went on HN and social media and Youtube while you were walking the local park.
Twilio CEO: Layoffs were carried out through an Anti-Racist/Anti-Oppression lens
In the filing, it states

> As you all know, we are committed to becoming an Anti-Racist/Anti-Oppression company. Layoffs like this can have a more pronounced impact on marginalized communities, so we were particularly focused on ensuring our layoffs – while a business necessity today – were carried out through an Anti-Racist/Anti-Oppression lens.

What does it mean to layoff through an, "Anti-Racist/Anti-Oppression lens"?
Don't wait for a response. Swap out stripe for something else so that you can process payments. If they give a satisfactory response and restore you could switch back
Positive experiences
- Patent lawyers at one company were just plain easy to work with, and took the time to explain why they were filing the patent a certain way. They didn't put too much burden on the inventors. Overall it wasn't much effort for me and my coworkers and I understood what was happening. I think they were company-internal lawyers
- Having a contract lawyer review a basic contract for software development was a good experience - they were quick, professional, and responsive. I remember being uncomfortable doing remote contract review at the time (around 2015) and it's funny how the times have changed
- Being prepared for a deposition was a good experience and they took the time to teach me a lot about how to disagree in a cooperative manner
- Chatting with a contract lawyer about delays in signing deals was always useful and taught me a lot

Negative experiences
- Patient lawyer consultant at another company was just ok, they put the burden of strategy on us and any time we asked for advice they would flip things around and ask what we wanted to do, but high-level direction wasn't enough for them
- Legal team inside a previous company would swoop in out of nowhere and raise a stink about every little thing. When we included them early on projects, they'd take it as a sign to try and meddle with every little detail and often delayed projects or led to them being shelved indefinitely. It would've gone a lot better if they just spent time to make sure we were informed about legal risks enough to make tradeoffs, but they were pretty heavy handed. In later years it got worse when they started to step on PMs and other leaders toes about overall feature designs and product designs. Like things that didn't have legal implications at all.
> like for example all the mining hardware dedicated to ETH needs to find a new home

https://minerstat.com/coin/ETC/network-hashrate and https://minerstat.com/coin/ETC/difficulty

A blockchain compatible with old ETH is old ETH... the classic one.
In the US we generally tax based on where you live, not where you temporarily reside.

Nope, sorry, completely wrong.

You pay taxes to the states proportionately to how much time you spent in the state for the year. Many states don't even have a "floor" for how much time an employee works in a state before they're required to pay income and payroll taxes to that state, so in some states even one day working in that state triggers tax.

Consulting firms track employees time spent in each state down to the hour so they can properly pay payroll taxes. Many consulting firms will even pay for tax return prep for employees required to work in other states long enough to trigger tax compliance.
Paid endorsement?
Fair point :) I'm assuming the stack is doing what it can to avoid being the bottleneck. On a system level, I'd still call what you're describing CPU-bound, as in: unable to use all potential IO capacity.
Boyer-Moore Style Regex Search
The same way that Trump, Bezos et. al. seem to be able to avoid paying taxes on most of their wealth, in that they generally find a way to recover profits without it being considered "income".

https://www.propublica.org/article/billionaires-tax-avoidanc...

All I'm saying is that by eliminating the 1031 exchange, I suspect it'll hurt far more individuals and small businesses (resulting in stifled growth) and the "big boys" will simply use some other vehicle to continue avoid the taxes.
> what do you feel as right as the pilot doing it (vs the laws)?

Personally, I think it's fine, and don't have a problem with people flying over my backyard & collecting images just like I don't have a problem with satellites adding images of my yard to Google Earth. I think it's pretty cool that I can zoom in and see my car in my driveway as seen by a satellite flying around the Earth at 17,000 mph.
> PayPal and Stripe don't advertise that they will only do business with organizations with which they agree.

Huh? Of course they do. Just one example:

https://www.paypal.com/us/smarthelp/article/what-is-paypal%E...
> generally of the opinion that "maintaining a community feel" is a fool's errand

It's code for maintaining low density. (Historically, and still in some places, it codes for race, too.)

Combined with supply restrictions, low density requirements mean (a) skyrocketing prices, (b) rationing or (c) more density. A lot of the conversation has been focussed on (c), which I approve of in e.g. Cupertino, where I grew up. (Turning suburbia into a city solely impacts human concerns in a way paving over nature does not.) But (b) might have more angles to it than the traditional public housing model. (I've also been a favor of public housing built to own, where the government e.g. builds housing and sells it to first-time home buyers at a subsidized price. This not only builds wealth and avoids the patronage problem, it also creates mixed-income housing of the type that's less noxious to NIMBY's than solely low-income housing.)
But you can support candidate A with coinbase's money, despite the fact that candidate A has non-crypto related opinions. What's worse is that candidate A might not even have a real pro-crypto stance, they just realize that crypto companies take this "no politics" stance, so it's essentially legalized bribery encouraged by the companies that take the stance
long-term active accounts can get hacked. I absolutely agree with support staff needing to provide more information, but they can't just blanket whitelist any old account
This sentiment with respect to radical medical transformations is not well received in certain online communities...
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yikes. i never really thought about backup vendors
I wish there were better advise but after years of e-commerce experience all anyone will ever tell you is don't use Stripe. Don't use Square,don't use PayPal. Don't use any of the faceless companies for anything remotely critical and for anything that is critical have two backups. Basically that goes for things like hosting, payment processor or anything else your business depends on.
> I wonder why it took so many years?

Tesla recently turned it into an up-sell, instead of a free (beta) feature. It was $10000 when I was considering a Tesla.
Outside the US is a bit easier. How would you hire an out of state employee IN the US who moves to a different state ? You will need to register your business in that state then. Deal/remote.com don't help with that.
Not in the sense like people describe runner's high, no.

It's relaxing for me, not exciting.
What's the problem with fluoride?
Perfect, thankyou for the clarification. That makes sense now given its an add-on board. It's been ages since I looked into network KVM. The DIY/consumer options seem to have evolved quite a bit.
Capture One and Lightroom are definitely fighting in the same class. Both are true pro-grade tools. Some people and some workflows will prefer one of the two, but that's how preferences work.

It's basically Coke versus Pepsi.
>But by this logic nobody on the plane is responsible for any carbon emissions

That is strictly true. This is why the concept of a personal carbon footprint (something dreamed up by a British Petroleum marketing team) is inherently inane.

>Doubling that by doubling the block size (or, halving it by halving the block size) would be a meaningful change!

How and why? It would change your metric, but it wouldn't make the network consume one single watt less or more power. Its efficiency is unchanged.
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Agree. The OP account was created today. If it was a long-standing user with lots of comment history, then I’d be more inclined to wonder what was going on etc.

Creating a new account on here to potentially get support is just plain wrong, and needs dealing with IMO. Should never hit the front page.
Agreed this deserves a blog post. Very interested in best practices around providing payments.
DFlex doesn't reorder the elements. 1- It transforms elements by calculating the new position so it can avoid any layout shift this is something essential in the transformation mechanism. 2- It reconciles the transformed element when needed. So instead of replacing the entire children, it replaces only the transformed ones.
I don't think anyone, anywhere is profitably doing carbon sequestration (and i'm not aware of any practical 'scrubbing' scheme).
Start growing food.
Without using the browser find tool I suddenly realize it's nothing like how I usually use Wikipedia. I have to scan a lot differently to find what I'm looking for. I'm not sure if that's a positive or negative thing, since arguably using the find tool biases what we read toward what we want to see rather than something objectively true.
In case you wanted your PC to draw 2W even when it's off. This card by itself would violate the energy star standards for small servers when off.
This looks pretty dope. Is there a documentation where one can understand the underlying concepts of such a tech?
This is very exciting. I'll start using it for my side projects immediately. Thank you!

Any timeline on when Appetite Cloud will be ready?
New AI assistant can browse, search, and use web apps like a human
Aww man, I wish we had these in Austria. Don't get me wrong, the trains here are nice, but they are sooo slow that most of the times it's quicker and cheaper to get to your destination by car on the Autobahn, especially if you just buy the ticket a few days before the journey without any discounts and pay full price.
Countries have mechanisms to deal with this. VISA's, they can simply charge more for longer stay visa's. Would they capture all of potential value of those taxes? No. But they'd likely capture a decent amount of extra money which they otherwise wouldn't have got, while still restricting people from taking native jobs in their countries which is what the wider populace actually cares about.

Pretty sure some countries are doing this already.
> Think about that next time you order something made in China over another country merely because of price or convenience

I'm waiting for the UN report from Guantanamo.