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> payouts will be higher due to increases in network costs (in recent years, major card networks have introduced several new fees and increased existing fees), as well as increases in underlying service costs.

Can someone from the industry offer more colour on what this actually means?

It strikes me that pricing for companies like Stripe should go down, not up in the long run. They're fairly well insulated from inflation (as pricing is % of transaction value), so the only reason I can think of for price _increases_ would be increased regulatory burden or some sort of structural industry change.

The vagueness with which Stripe justifies the price increase makes me think this is not supported by actual cost increases, but by a desire to increase profits. (which, hey, if you can put prices up and customers won't leave, then great - but it would be good to know the actual reason)
Recently I've been applying to remote jobs...

You and about 200,000 others. This is going to have a horrible impact on people's success rate.
I keep hoping that the C and C++ committees will get together and standardize some of that in the form of C23/C++11 style attributes. But that is sadly likely a naïve hope.
Every time I've seen an OpenSSL security fix on HN, the discussion gravitated towards alternatives.

I think this is a wasted energy, because switching cryptographic providers is the last thing you want to do under the timeline of a routine security release for an open source library.

If you're a Debian user, this might be as simple as "ensure unattended-upgrades is configured on all hosts and this is monitored somehow". However, sometimes it's not so simple.

Eventually one of these releases is going to break something that requires a code change in your applications. (Maybe pass a different flag to OpenSSL? Maybe use a different API for, I dunno, MGF1+SHA256?) And I don't know how many teams are prepared for that kind of rollout.

I'd be interested in hearing from HN users how they plan to respond to these sort of releases.
> society is well below the minimum and ideal birth replacement rates (scarily low in fact).

The global human population reached 8.0 billion in mid-November 2022 from an estimated 2.5 billion people in 1950,

Your opinion and the actual growth rates do not seem to be in agreement.
I would consider this innovative, but Office365 has had this built in (and as far as I can tell impossible to turn off) for years. What used to be a sensible link turns into a vast "safe link honest, guv" mess. I call it "man in the middle attack as a service"
They said

>It's 5 positions excluding internships

So, no, some aren't "obviously capped length internships."
It's possible that the short tenure is holding you back from the companies with a larger engineering workforce, or from higher level roles. To be honest, it's unusual in my experience to be mid 20s with 5 non internship positions on your resume. I recognize this is not fair in many cases, especially if many of them are startups and whatnot. I would try extra hard to emphasize that (not too on the nose) on your resume.

I know the meme on HackerNews and in tech is to always be job hopping / once a year is fine, but in my experience that isn't as normal as internet people make it seem. People who never did the startup circuit are not going to understand so you need to help them.
All shorteners are worserners, even if the URL was long/ugly/crap to begin with.
Every day the quantity and quality of AI software is growing. Now people are actively using AI copywriting tools, text-to-image generators, etc. But what about AI animation and motion design software?
I think that by definition, true counterculture isn't going to happen on social media platforms.
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Differences are mostly attributable to prior knowledge.
The problem with SEPA payment, is that it's great for the merchant and a net loss for the user, especially individual consumers.

From a UX perspective today, it will always be more cumbersome to initiate a SEPA transfer to the merchant. Some integrations offer a semblance of interactivity with your banking app in an attempt to streamline it, but nothing beats the simplicity entering your cards details or just showing your face to Apple pay. Then from a consumer protection perspective, if something wrong happen with your order or the merchant goes bust, you have no recourse if you initiated a SEPA CT. Card payments on the other hand give you a nice chain of large entities exposing themselves to the merchant's credit risk in front of you.

It can probably work in specific situations (e.g. if you have a niche website with a sophisticated audience ready to overcome the hurdles to acquire your widgets), but for these reasons alone I just can't see SEPA payments going anywhere near even a ridicule fraction of the market share held by legacy card networks yet.
> What would the business model look like for doing this?

What would the business model look like for going fishing with your friends?

Some people want to wear diamonds and dine at posh restaurants, some want to do gardening and write books on it, some want to revive extinct birds; it's not a means, it's an end.
> The article is about creative content, and how YouTube content is aesthetically all the same.

Yeah, but Youtube is mainstream now; it comes installed on almost every single consumer TV available for sale right now. You don't get more mainstream than that.

If you wanted to see counterculture, you'd have to use the youtube alternatives.
Well, the same thing is true for other languages too. Some languages used to be popular to mention, because they were new and shiny (like Ruby, was a period of time when "X written in Ruby" was popular on HN), and others are seemingly always worth mentioning, like Common Lisp or Clojure.

Bunch of language nerds on here (both world and programming languages), so kind of makes sense to share a bit about the language.
As far as I understand, you can payout in USD on a EEA domiciled account, and you won’t be incurring any fees.

It’s the crossborder settlement which they charge for, which I don’t think is crazy, as it just reflects the underlying costs Stripe must be incurring themselves.

As someone who ran a business in multiple countries, the bank always charged similar fees for these transfers between accounts. Stripe letting me settle directly in the account where I want the money to land, rather than me having to log in to my bank and initiating a transfer manually where fees are ~the same is definitely a better option, which I’m happy they offer.
I agree with you and I'm definitely not a trad person.

Specifically I think the counter-cultural part in terms of the rise of like...young trad Catholics/religious people is the idea of not partaking in the world. Our current attention economy spends a lot of time trying to get people (including adolescents) to spend their time watching/consuming/interacting, be constantly available, etc. The idea that you don't have to participate is the counter-cultural part.
For the layperson: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/11/211124154118.h...
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/There-Are-No-Accident...
See, so I am right that this is counter culture? I said this and it triggered you to jump and respond with fact checks and whatever.

https://web.archive.org/web/20060212064058/https://www.merri...

Can also show you that the dominant medical narrative around vaccines was that they provide immunity (except in the case of immune compromised individuals).

To this day I'm actually astonished watching the entire medical consensus shift as a direct result for the failure of the COVID vaccines. Absolute objective failure.

What's even more surprising to me is watching the entire narrative move around instead of acknowledging this. Instead of acknowledging the truth, the definitions move around so that the truth is redefined.

The definition of vaccine (provides immunity), recession (two quarters of contraction), woman (female with XX chromosomes), election, freedom (from doing what you want to "the ability to choose"), family (husband, wife and kids), democracy, peaceful ("protests"), racism (treating someone differently because of race, now you're racist for not giving preferential treatment to some1). Global warming became climate change. I've watched how in very few years the entire world has been reprogrammed with new definitions for these like ChatGPT. They kept getting bombarded with new definitions, so that lies will be redefined to be truths.

It is absolutely ridiculous to watch and realize how the media could train people like some neural network to lose the meanings of words and the relation to reality. It is watching people being reprogrammed into newspeak where they literally can't understand what's wrong because the meaning of all words have been replaced in their minds, so they can't have controversial thoughts.

It has become impossible to communicate. It's like talking to ChatGPT trained on some corrupt input, they are writing the same letters and speaking the same syllables but they have a different mental model. There are no other words describing the concepts they have lost, so at this point it's like speaking in two different languages. You'll say they don't have freedom and they will reply that they can choose what they want to do. In 10 years they will own nothing and be happy, because they will redefine rented property to be "yours".
Even in the best hiring environment it’s not uncommon for you not receive a response to a resume. HR departments are black holes that suck up bazillions of resumes, do a light pass to discard any that aren’t an obvious (to HR) match, then throw away the rest. The traditional pleasantries be damned. Without seeing the text of your resume, my advice is to keep applying, make sure you have key words, skills, experience from the job description visible. Avoid any upfront salary discussion. A good recruiter can tell you if there are obvious issues with your resume.
> There is a significant problem of overdiagnosis and overtreatment in the US

Reasonably true. Which is funny, because we also have a significant problem of undertreatment for the causes of most chronic disease, notably obesity.

The US refuses to perform a proper RCA of healthcare spending. Bring back fat shaming and start prosecuting soft drink, snack food, and fast food executives (as well as the lobbyists they employ), and you'll likely see these costs fall dramatically over time.

We did it with smoking, and it worked. The same needs to happen with the nation's food addiction.
This kind of data is less than useless without knowing the details of how they measured.

Typically they're just using insurance reported events which has a huge bias against areas where cars are newer on average (rich areas and against states that heavily use road salt) because nobody reports when two 20yo shitboxes trade paint but everybody calls in The System(TM) when two expensive new cars do (and these sorts of small accidents make up the majority of collisions).

Even if we knew it's still skewed heavily against dense metros because it uses miles instead of operating hours.

And this is coming from someone who hates the people of Massachusetts and wants to believe they are rightfully at the top of the list...
I think there are too many variables, a number of which a candidate wouldn't be able to articulate prior to a search. That would likely lead to candidates rejecting interviews or be caught off guard if the recruiter calls them and they know nothing about the position or company that "they" applied to.
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I think everybody overestimates in the beginning, here it’s the same. AI will solve every problem, nope it won’t, but it will help.
If the specs would be the predominant factor to the success of a military jet, the Avro Arrow would have been a massive export success, and the SR-71 would still be flying.

Reality is pretty different and the arcane of politics dominate military contracts.

Even if the US came with an half-baked scooter branded as a fighter jet (Hello Lockheed Star-fighter [1]), it would still encounter some export success:

- Countries in NATO are informally required to buy US material politically speaking

- Many countries are US Nuke and their territory and needs US jets to operate them. Belgium and Germany are in this situation with the B61 [2].

- Large military industrial companies have a long history of corruption in procurements processes. USA have some of the largest one world wide

[1]: https://militarymachine.com/f-104-starfighter-flawed-midcent...

[2]: https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2022/03/14/germany...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_bribery_scandals
That means 1y6m per job? I know it might not mean anything relevant, but it might look like job hopping for the hiring companies. Also, market is pretty tough right now, and flooded with experienced people from big tech. Good luck on your job search!
Pretty sure BLM was a media darling from the moment it was discovered. Maybe I have a weird media bubble, but the content I saw was endlessly pro-BLM (even contortions such as the memorable CNN reporter wearing a gas mask against a burning Kenosha with the caption “fiery but mostly peaceful protests”) for most of the last decade.

I can’t think of a way that BLM was ever counter-cultural.
They are dense as $##&. 15 years and almost no innovation except a slightly worse catalogue and a reduction of genres....and now ads.

quality! mwah! beautiful! I want the product team working on my tombstones...they know death
Not sure about ChatGPT, but Midjourney et al have definitely transformed many markets already. Why would I get any illustrations from fiverr.com, when I can get better turnaround times for $0 from Midjourney?
90% of the people that would identify with those touchpoints listed above wouldn't and didn't vote for Trump. I think they get lumped in with die hard Trump supporters because they weren't buying in to the same paranoia and delusions that the rest of society was imbibing while Trump was in office.
That's exactly the point - mass education. Busses. Not ferraris - even for people who might need that level of support. It isn't economical or a net benefit for society to make sure everyone's needs are met to the best possible point.
I’m in the same boat with roughly the same experience. The job market for engineers is night-and-day worse than it was a couple years ago. Back then everyone was hiring; now most companies have frozen hiring or are laying people off.

The most success I’ve had getting interviews has been with small startups. Try YC’s Work At A Startup if you haven’t already. The Who’s Hiring thread this month may also have some good leads. Best of luck
A public transport bus usually has several entrances, you can have a machine inside the bus at each entrance. Not everyone will play nice and pay if the bus driver doesn't check the ticket, but you could have random controls on the bus from time to time. In practice you of course have to weigh the costs of these different approaches.
One funny thing is that some card transactions (e.g. contactless payments without PIN entry over 100€ for at least one payment processor, needs to be enabled by the merchant) actually don't go trough Visa/Mastercard but are already done via SEPA.
> Honestly I kind of wonder if Tesla's software team (or overall technical approach) wasn't very badly mismanaged since they seem to have thrown away a huge head start.

Keep in mind they are likely spending 10x or less than Waymo on FSD, so a lot less employees/researchers, have been around a lot less time and have decided not to use the sensors and ground truth data that Waymo relies on.

Just having lots of data isn't necessarily very useful, or we'd see the pure FSD trying to get their sensors on everybody's cars.
Right, and in my experience urban retail is often high cost, low quality. Some of the dirtiest stores/restaurants you see are in urban centers.

They could get away with this because they had a captive group which was previously forced to be in that location with relatively few options.
So, the website states that 6 species are going extinct per hour and continues to claim "the solution is de-extinction".

Shouldn't we start by preventing further extinctions? Also it seems rather unlikely that they can scale their approach to 6 de-extinctions per hour...
I think the hype cycle is getting faster. In the last 5-10 years we've seen the birth, huge interested and investment in, and eventual decline of: self-driving vehicles; smart glasses; AI powered home assistants; blockchains; Web3, NFTs and decentralised technology... to name a few.

I'm certainly sceptical. I think ChatGPT is the next poisoned chalice. It's a wildly impressive tech demo which feels like the "next big thing" and will probably suck a huge amount of time and capital until it's realised that there is a marginal benefit to your base product.

It's not to say that AI in general is a waste, rather, more specifically, this feels like Silicon Valley's usual "chasing what is hot in tech" from within their bubble, looking for the next big 10x thing...
many of us are, actually, indirectly as taxpayers. the MIC is really good at unaccountable taxpayer spending. So while reviews of military tech might just appease our inner child they're also useful from a civics perspective!
No, they have to be with to a payment processor. But you can get a better deal than Stripe if you have a business mid-size and up. You can program that connection yourself, but honestly, if you are able to pull it off you will start selling that solution for a suitable price and that's where we are at today. And I think that is good.
And now we start relying on machine hallucinations for people's health. I don't see any way this could go wrong.
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So I inadvertently picked examples of who copyright terms are absurdly long more so than Unicode committee nonsense.
CatGPT – What if ChatGPT were a cat?
I think also that “trad” is an umbrella to which many hands hold.

Tradcath: traditional lifestyle Catholics

Trad homeschoolers: arguably some of the most steadfast and longest holding countercultures. They literally have children and raise them opposite or tangential to the current culture norms.

Trad Christian theonomist: complimentarian views on marriage, anti secular government, often homesteaders.

Trad chads: men pursuing lives of purity at any social cost. Staunchly opposed to todays hookup culture and LGBT influences.
I was wrong! It’s been found 2 meters from the road.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34607423

https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/d47c6a97fd9b93de...
Roon and Qobuz are all I need to be happy!
> Changing the colour of your logo on a certain date is not really "supporting".

Meh. "really supporting it" or "poseur supporting it" is irrelevant, what's relevant is that it's mainstream, not counter[1] to mainstream.

[1] That's what the "counter" in counterculture means, dammit.
I had the same question. The short answer is I don't know. ChatGPT's biggest weakness is that it doesn't have the context of your code. If Copilot looks at how your overall codebase works, that would be a win over ChatGPT, but I don't know if that's the case.
I feel like we already passed that low point, I mean, years ago that was a promise and a trend, then I got disillusioned, but now, talking to ChatGPT is actually making me more positive about AI again.
Some expensive cards (historically mainly Amex) are just not accepted widely.
How long until AI can write literature reviews and meta analysis on it's own?
I think this indirectly happens. I live in Haarlem, Netherlands, and some popular supermarkets in my area would not accept a VISA/Mastercard. They only accept Maestro(Which I think is cheaper for them because it is a debit card that Dutch banks give out). I found it surprising because that should mean they lose out on some business from so many expats that visit/live in Netherlands, but apparently not.
I think large-scale, cheap to maintain, gulag-style camps are the best solution to homelessness.
I'd love to see this as well. Outside the FAANGs embedded devs are treated as a line-item cost on the BOM. 5 years of experience gets you a "senior" title and salaries here in the midwest cap at $150K with very few exceptions. I'm pretty sure you can make $150K as a freshout writing ReactJS.

Then again I refuse to make FPGAs for HF trading firms, and apparently you can make bank there if you can put up with their crap.
> Stripe is charged every time a user faces a dispute.

Is this charge returned to Stripe if the bank rules in the favor of the Stripe user? Or did that change recently as well, as now Stripe won't hand back the fee in case the dispute is overturned.

Thanks a lot for jumping into the thread with some more facts.
Is the author conflating the cost to train an AI model with the cost to use the resulting models, here?

I can certainly believe that model training cost is exponential as the # of parameters goes exponential. But that is a one time(-ish) cost relative to actually using those models.

Or am I completely off base here?
I don't think that's the trick at all. Running up bills will only make people leave for other services once their business does get money flowing.

Instead, I believe the reason cloud companies give away free stuff is the same reason Microsoft will give away Windows upgrades to students: if their weird, proprietary API is all you learn, you'll only be able to get started quickly on their platform so the moment you need to pick tech for a small business/your startup, you'll be quicker to choose their service.

There's a reason AWS Lambda (and Azure's competitor) is free but OpenStack/vSphere providers expect you to pay off the bat: if your workload and knowledge transfer (relatively) easily, there's no lock-in with which to trick people into choosing you.
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That's super useful, thanks. Could you expand on the 'Use dependency injection to avoid disk I/O in the test suite' point please - I'm not sure I understand what it means but it sounds interesting!
Now that you mention a Danish one, Quickpay (Denmark) has been around for a long time.
That's really interesting (I now live in an East Coast US city with a rat problem) -- do they have any good papers or anything on what tactics they used to eliminate the rats? 500K a year sounds like a bargain, I bet that's NYC's rat czar's basic salary
I've been wondering lately if it's down to the lack of agency on the part of average people.

Like I see that America is in decline and has a decent chance of falling apart in my lifetime (I'm 34), but what exactly am I going to do about it? Nobody in charge cares, they're too busy fiddling. If you can't stop the decline and have to live it, why not try to enjoy what you have while you have it?
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But I think that goes with the card fee limit of 0.2-0.3% if I remember correctly.
Their product is barely differentiated from other laptops on the market. Having a niche but unique product would be good for them.
For people still wondering, the GP is talking about OJ Simpson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_trial_of_O._J._Simpson
not only is this useless but it's been done at least half a dozen times already in the past 2 decades
Years ago, we used canned air as freeze spray in the lab for preparing certain cultures.

I picked up a new case on my way in one day, and probably 20 minutes into using it, someone said "do you taste that?"

We ended up evacuating and later discovered the cause was an undisclosed bitterant added to the product. I sent 3M an invoice for the lab cleaning (they politely declined to pay), but the next time I saw the bottles, they had a big warning on them.
...or at least warn authors and provide a one-click button to optimize...