skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 'two factors' are not two factors. Frequency range, bit depth, and whatever lossy algorithm is used, all play a role. A lossless rip matches the original audio as stored on the CD. A lossy rip will commonly 'lose' between 8-12x of that information. Lossy audio, like mp3 and m4a, 'throw away' information that is otherwise maintained in a lossless audio file. Hearing the difference is not being questioned, but the integrity.
Birds arent real meme

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lsgnrYog6W0
I read this in David Attenborough's voice.
An answer I haven’t seen yet is that making your website look and act like other websites is fairly well established UX principle for avoiding user friction. It’s known as Jakob’s Law.

https://lawsofux.com/jakobs-law/
Production of the 8086 by Intel stopped in 1998. I imagine that it may have continued by another manufacturer, but I doubt it. 8051 descendants/derivatives are manufactured, but no longer by Intel.

In general ARM and RISC-V have taken much of the low end market and microcontroller market.
It's the most recent company listed for someone with the same handle. I haven't come to any conclusion, hence the question mark in the comment.
Berkshire Hathaway is a conglomeration of companies, each run by its own CEO. It is more like a private equity with a long horizon.
13 billion doses administered. If they were one-thousandth as dangerous as you claim, we’d see a helluva lot more problems than we do. But we don’t. You’re jus plain wrong.
Steel cut oats.
> One question I have for the community: why is payment processing the most uptight industry on this planet?

I assume a combination of low margins, high risk (fraud of many types), and regulatory risk, and the nature of 'winner takes all' tech services lead to low willingness/ability to deal with small clients, of which some are trying to abuse your service.

Can you tell us more about the nature of your service? Normally these posts are trying to resolve their issues, but the fact you don't mention the service makes me wonder if you were in an area with a lot of fraud like crypto.
Oh,to be clear you are 100% correct in that we a) don't know the long term effects and b) in general folks aren't aware of these kinds of programs even if they are in more or less plain sight.

I appreciate your comment.

These projects seems very much like every other shitty thing that has been done around here, ranging from killing off predator populations to residential schools. Which is why I have very little opinion- the gov will do what they will do, and I will never have enough money to change that balance or enough tolerance for prison to do much directly.

However, I don't agree that it's just semantics to say that these projects are not "chemtrails".

Part of what I see in a larger group of people (for whom I am very fond) is a willingness to abandon most material nuance in their understanding of the world. In this case, specifically, it seems like a pretty normal case where the government is doing something with no regard for anything other than money.

That's not, specifically, what people are talking about when they are talking about chemtrails, and that is important to me.

Because the whole "chemtrials" discussion is a very handy metaphor about something that really is true:

the folks who own this place undertake vast technological projects with no regard for our well being.

However, since that's a metaphor and can be detached from reality, the responses to it can become immaterial and ineffective.

Like, great, maybe we can all go sit in energy vortexes in Sedona and examine our starseed bodies so we can astrally project into a dimension where we can directly battle the annunaki because the lizard people are trying to mind control the NPCs.

Or we can go levitate the pentagon or whatever people used to do for fun back int he day.

To me the specifics of these things matter because the responses vary based on how we understand the cause.

The fact that the government feels like they hold all the cards means that they are just up front about what they are doing and have no problem being violent to anyone who directly opposes those projects.

So it's hard enough to mount a effective material response to that situation without also having to deal with a bunch of misunderstandings of the world or going to prison for blowing up dams or burning down ski resorts.

Anyhow, sorry for the rant. I hope I'm just wrong and that all my new age friends really can manifest 5D consciousness and that Desert really is a wrong-headed bit of ficiton.
In memory of the 100th annivesary of the Tulsa Massacre.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34281730 (Show HN: List of Stripe Alternatives, 7 days ago)
A lot of the Usenet/BBS files are equally ... Well, let's just say you will lose your fingers probably.
Btw the GPT3 codex model `code-davinci-002` has a 8k token limit, too.
lol no, totally different person
The language model wants to spend $5 on beer but is willing to spend up to $10 if you give it no other choice. It understands a beach resort with a local beer monopoly is probably charging more, and correctly explains why that is.

Seems mostly rational to me. The irrational part is where it didn't answer the initial "How much would you want to spend?" query with a preference for free beer. The thought of paying less than $5 for beer apparently didn't occur to it. Maybe it's snooty.
The IMH contains a whole host of instructions that may lead to loss of digits.

Its kind of a "safety third" document for really shitty situations, lol.
What's the point in Stripe and services like that if they don't protect you and customers? Transfer money around? That's a low bar.
Not OP but username is pjyancey, some light googling brings us to:

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/storecycle

And https://storecycle.io/ (which may be down due to the story above)

Although the Linkedin description doesn't quite align?

"Have an e-commerce brand built primarily on Shopify? Get a free, no-obligation cash offer for your business soon as 24 hours. "

Maybe they pivoted?
By their own admission, monopolies are not efficient and they are actively hurting the consumer by their size.

When will we call the antitrust experiment from the 80s era “Chicago school of economics” an abject failure? Google should instead be several companies, each with a duty to consumers to compete with other companies in their respective businesses.

Even Google knows it, not that their leadership would ever admit it. Slow, wasteful monopolies are still appealing to those at the top of hierarchies.
It's a shame this filesystem never received the attention it deserved, it was a bit ahead of its time and IBM should have dedicated more resources to it. Years ago JFS was quite performant on low-resources machines and it was certainly superior over stuff like EXT2, etc. imo.

I suppose it occupied the same awkward niche that ZFS does, another good filesystem that has had its adoption hindered.
Passive consumption and active skill building are different emotional contexts.

Adam Smith wrote of it hundreds of years ago; extreme division of labor will make humans as dumb as the lowest creature.

To reduce screen time during covid I ditched my TV, bought a guitar. Not saying everyone should pick up music; I already knew how to play saxophone and piano; it was evolving my current state. The point is I cut passive consumption to infrequent mentorship via YT tutorials, rather than endless staring, to focus on mechanical skill building.

Our society needs to let go of career memes, which IMO are coupled to historical memes like “A man named Farmer is a farmer for life” which forces us to relinquish our dynamism in deference to memes of greater good. But I should qualify; I grew up in farm land, building barns, fixing big machines (programming machines all night), cutting wood in January, managing livestock, was routine in my teens. Diverse hands on experience was baked in early (only in my 40s now). Someone without that will have a harder time.

The only evidence human agency must serve aristocratic vision is being told as much from birth.
I had great success tweeting at Stripe.
I have worked at both. Literally nothing happened the entire time I was in my group at Goldman, because everyone spent 100% of their time on compliance and friction.
Definitely a better idea to just be yourself!
Another cool feature of of pedestrian crossings (and I think this applies to the whole UK) is the accessibility aids. We're all used to beeping traffic signals, but did you know that on the underside of the control box there is a tactile cone that rotates when the green signal is active?

https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/pedestrian-facilities-b...
This should be one of those abstractions that just work but from time to time it pops up with arrows suddenly not working while jdb or other places. Somewhere some escape codes are not right
> The failure was in a technical organization architecting a solution that allowed a simple human error in data entry to take down the entire system. This is classic system design and process failure. Bad input should have been caught before it got pushed to prod, before it got pushed to backup databases, etc. There was clearly no testing, no change process, no backup verification, etc.

Sec. Buttigieg apparently agrees: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/software-blamed-faa-out...

> Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg told NBC News that he has asked the FAA, "to make sure that there are enough safeguards built into the system that this level of disruption can't happen because of an individual person’s decision or action or mistake."
You point out that it’s hard to measure merit at times. OK, but you haven’t argued that means our noisy signals of merit should be ignored.

Whatever it’s flaws, here is what I like about meritocracy: it says we should honor and reward those who work hard and encourages the pursuit of merit in individuals.

In contrast, the central comment of DEI is that groups who do relatively well don’t deserve it, that their gains are ill gotten. Members of these groups who work hard should not be rewarded. In fact they deserve less than equal treatment by society.

I am confident that this latter system if followed would result in much worse outcomes, discouraging individuals to work hard. It is an ugly, negative philosophy.

We should honor the strong and hard working and successful, encourage them to share their methods with others so that they might also succeed, help the weak, and ostracize the lazy.
> A good leader doesn't need to be authoritarian in order to lead.

Bottom up doesnt mean unauthoritarian leaders.
> Web work was new 10 years ago?? What am I missing here? I've been doing almost exclusively web work for 20 years now.

New in relative terms 10 years ago, the vast majority of leadership teams came from non-web software. Alternately, if they came from web software - they were going from writing landing pages to complex SaaS products. I rarely encounter people in leadership who haven't spent the majority of their career building web services/software which runs on the web at this point.

> And agile produced cancerous bad software culture?

Aye - My experience with agile teams was that the sprint structure took precedence over the customers, business stakeholders, and product. Engineers either got burned out because estimates came in low - or crap was shipped to hit the sprint deadline. Ironically if something new came up, rather than handling the new thing in an agile way - customers would get berated for not filling in acceptance criteria, or not putting enough detail in the acceptance criteria, or not sacrificing under the full moon in the acceptance criteria etc.

I spent the last 8 years avoiding agile shops, and I am pleased to see that there are fewer of them every year. I vastly prefer treating software engineers like any other professional engineering discipline where you assign a project to an engineer, let the engineer scope and design the project, then execute on the project.
I am still confused how this is related to DMCA. I tried googling and I couldnt' find any references to specific laws. My understanding of "revenge porn" is rarely commercialized by the user.
Very fun! I’ve found sketching and journaling super valuable.

I follow the methods from https://bulletjournal.com/

My journal is full of different layouts, diagrams, decision making tables, for example doing a quick SWOT analysis on paper by diving a page into 4.

Paper is good and helpful for the process.

I’m continually trying to produce ‘evergreen notes” and writing on paper helps me push towards that a bit. (https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Evergreen_notes)
They're definitely trying, but they're not as open as they might appear.

I had one of their in-house recruiters work hard to get me into their company, and was kind of happy until it came to the reference checks, nobody had mentioned to me that they would be hiring a 3rd party company that was going to contact 7 years of previous employers. For some people this might be the norm, for me that's MASSIVE overkill.

A couple of years later someone on twitter was claiming that Gitlab's hiring process was transparent so I mentioned the problem, and they opened a public issue.

A month later I checked to see how it was progressing and they'd decided to make it private and I was definitely not allowed to see anything about it.

I've since noted in their materials that they explicitly mention the check, and it's 5 years worth, which is much better from a transparency point of view, but disappointing from a - I had to go and check their documents to discover a change had been made, point of view.
Interesting, I get this flow state where the world falls away when I have a good programming task for work and I can accomplish a Herculean amount of work in a day. At the end of the day it feels like it was in a blink of an eye and I feel super good about myself.

I got into a great flow state earlier this week the day after seeing my relative in hospice care. I didn’t have to think about the pain of that for a day and it was pretty great.
I mean kinda, someone who has been following web development since jQuery and MooTools is going to grok everything way better than someone who is standing today looking backwards, gazing into the labyrinthine nightmare that is the modern JS stack. Either you were around for when each part was introduced and it was a gradual descent into madness where the next step was a natural progression from the previous, or you weren't and now you're in the center of the maze without a map and in your mania you desperately try to invent higher level primitives and metaphors that let you reason about... well anything at all.

But they're all falsehoods that break down eventually and require an elder or time spent with the sacred texts to achieve enlightenment. Repeat the cycle and you get a senior dev in <something: webdev> whose skills are only kinda transferrable to <other thing: CLIs> and you must start your journey over again.

So you have arch mages in webdev who are a acolytes in systems and the only way they'll progress to is write a lot of bad code. I'll get there eventually but how long it takes is dependent on how many opportunities I get to cut my teeth on stuff that requires a more complete understanding.
Here’s a detailed video by retro game mechanics that shows how the logo graphics of the infamous E.T. game is rendered: https://youtu.be/sJFnWZH5FXc

It seems incredible, very difficult. And remember, back then cartridges only had 8KB of memory.

This means even more hacks are required, if your game needs more than a few levels. Theres a recurring hn post how Pitfall encoded levels in a single byte (bitfield), then used some sort of sequence generator to allow going back and forth among the 255 levels.
The parent poster was likey refering to the fact that good apps should suppress colors when output is not a tty, so that all the text-processing tools work properly.

This works identically in all the shells (and even without a shell), and there is no "50 years years of techinical debt" (unless you mean the idea itself of in-band control codes)
They actually link an article they wrote on some drawing exercises. https://ralphammer.com/a-quick-beginners-guide-to-drawing/
Remind me of a lot of what we did in some of my old beginner art classes.
Are you tracking declined payments, and using the fraud/risk metrics? Doing ZIP checks and 3D secure?
Or maybe everyone clicks on it so that the surveillance lists are polluted by false positives, forcing lazy spies to actually investigate real criminals and not just geeky curious people.
I just did: From page 114 ("How to make mercury fulminate"), 1st line of the recipe says "take 5 grams of pure mercury and mix it with 35 ml of nitric acid".
Don't be a jerk -- Googlers posting in forums like that do this for good reason. All Googlers take mandatory training and among those mandatory training courses are all sorts of notes on how not say things in public which could be construed as reflecting on the company. Making it clear "opinions are my own" is CYA, and a completely reasonable one for people who want to keep their job.

(Ref: Used to work at Google. No longer have to cover my ass.)
It's not their negligence, you didn't read the fine print. Stripe is in the business of accepting as many 'merchants' as possible without doing the 'due diligence' to underwrite the risk on their transactions... Stripe waits until you've started to process transactions before they begin underwriting.. You're seeing the effects of that.
I worked really hard with my current company to reinvent our software engineer interview process, taking it down from weeks of multiple interviews and a full day test to something we could do in one 3 hour sitting (or break up if the candidate wanted).

I can tell you that even when the recruiters said they wanted it, and my bosses said they wanted it, and I got great feedback… there was still a lot of friction before I could actually make it happen.

We are very vested into the “prove you want it” mindset, and there is a lot of ego in believing that you are so important and distinguished that you need 20 interviews to make sure you only get the best of the best.
Based on my experience, the harder and more in depth the approval process the merchant account has, the less likely these types of problems are to occur.

Places like Stripe have a seamless sign up process and easy integration, so a lot of people like the convenience and the low "touch".

But, as someone who runs with traditional merchant accounts and such, the more "touch" and eyeballs from my merchant account provider on what I am doing makes me feel a lot more confident. Things get mentioned and suggestions get made BEFORE the money comes into the account so everything is kosher...not after the money is made.

Sometimes a little PITA upfront is worth it in the long run...
Please do not spam HN

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34373829
Examples of the bottom-up approach exist in very large organizations: pod shop hedge funds, investment banks, a lot of the conglomerate industrials are run the same way (although this model has become less popular after GE), some kinds of insurance.

It can and does work. But it requires getting over the instinct to control and monitor which, I think, Google will never surpass. I have been saying for years that Google is like a civil service with a small search company attached...the weirdest part is that Google has somehow maintained this fiction internally that their employees are all wonderful entrepreneurs and dynamic whilst they have grown into the tech equivalent of the DMV. Once that process begins, you will never be able to fire enough people to undo it.

Also, bottom-up doesn't work if you don't have good staff. Top-down is about turning average staff (i.e. most Googlers) into something passable. The example of GE is quite good, they empowered lots of their lower-level execs and that was a terrible idea because doing an MBA or GE's exec training does not suddenly turn you into someone who can do good deals.
> You don't involve legal

Sounds like a winning strategy.
> That's just another name for car for hire or taxi.

There's a legal distinction between taxis and hackneys. Taxis can be taken from a taxi rank or flagged down, but hackneys must be called to collect you. I'm sure there was a reason for the distinction at some point, but it remains.
I think this depends on which OS you are using. Firefox is stable on some and not others, while Chrome uses less RAM on some and more on others.
That depends on your CI service and pipeline...
Probably, and some are looking into it. But it seems the penalties are meaningless.

https://esq.social/@andrew/109684497703065388
Yeah you beat me to it. I think OP scrubbed it from his LinkedIn.
I wonder if it's just a coincidence that the FAA started accepting public applications today[1] for 12 general engineer vacancies (of the program management office type) in the DC locality.

[1] https://www.usajobs.gov/job/700094300
I'll send you an email message later, to the address on the page.
Eh. Not sure about that. Yasuke is a real person or we think he is. But this feels more like speculative fiction with an advertisment rather than anything else.
> Internal Server Error
What's funny is that 8 or so years ago, stripe was the knight in shining armour that came to free.us from the clutches of PayPal and company.

They used to be the good guys, the ones who you could call and talk to. I wonder if every company is just doomed to end up like this :/

The only other business I know which is similarly "no, you are banished for life" are brokers (I work in the hedge fund industry). Someone at the brokerage has a personal issue with you or your company and thinks you have a liquidity issue, and suddenly you find your account shut.
> I also received an IQ test result which was strange to see, and I actually would have preferred not to see it.

Why is that?
What were your anti-fraud measures, and were their any reports of it from users or stripe? It's extremely common in this universe for people to enter card details that they are not authorized to use into web forms.
Just time-travelling historians coming back to study the era just before "The Great Disaster" in which 98% of the world's population perished.
> I chalk it up to lack of other things to do

In my case, I don't have other things to do because I'm on the internet. When I manage to turn off the internet (HN, Youtube, podcasts, Twitter, LinkedIn, reading up on random, pretty useless stuff), suddenly I get pretty good ideas on what to do.

Oh, I wanted to learn finally that language. I wanted to clean up in the kitchen cabinet. I wanted to meet up with a friend. I wanted to sign up for swimming class. I wanted to go to a restaurant with my wife. I wanted to call my brother and sister. I wanted to code up an open source package...

The list of fun things to do is endless, but somehow consuming content on the internet trumps everything if you are not careful (ymmw).
Yeah, one of the 1000-person companies had a dev whole-own a critical microservice. Changing it was always a battle, because the owner was very critical of anyone touching 'his' service. Large companies aren't immune, but due to eng specs and collaboration baked into development, its less likely for this to happen.
I mean no, it doesn't. It's like drawing something in Photoshop which is a copyright'd work: the act of creating it is the violation, it doesn't prove that Photoshop contains the content directly.

The way SD model weights work, if you managed to prompt engineer a recreation of one specific work, it would only have been generated as a product of all the information in the entire training set + noise seed + the prompt. And the prompt wouldn't look anything like a reasonable description of any specific work.

Which is to say, it means nothing because you can equally generate a likeness of works which are known not to be included in the training set (easy, you ask for a latent encoding of the image and it gives you one): equivalent to a JPEG codec.