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Stripe Pricing Changes
Per Stripe:

We’re letting you know about Stripe pricing changes for international card transactions, disputes, and sales tax, starting June 1, 2023.

- Over the past few years, card networks have increased the total fees that Stripe pays for card processing. Because of these costs, starting June 1, Stripe’s additional fee for international card transactions will change from 1.0% to 1.5%. There’s no change to our standard 2.9% + $0.30 pricing for US card transactions.

- Whether you win or lose a dispute, card networks charge Stripe a fee in either case. To cover these costs, starting June 1, Stripe will no longer return the $15 dispute fee for successfully contested disputes. The dispute fee itself is not changing.

- Some US states require us to collect sales tax on certain Stripe products. On June 1, we’ll begin collecting sales tax where applicable based on your business location, which you can review in the dashboard. Payment processing fees are generally not subject to sales tax.

Additionally:

- We’ve decided to make two payment optimization features free for you starting June 1. Adaptive Acceptance and network tokens have increased revenue for businesses on Stripe by an average of 1.2%. There’s nothing you need to do: we’ll turn them on for your account if they aren’t on already.
Being pure Ruby, it should make it much easier for Ruby programmers to hack on. I am really impressed with the latency numbers. This will be some enjoyable code to read. It also sounds like through this and other's work, that Ruby will have a defacto JIT interface to the VM. This could open up the door for domain or framework specific jits, AI powered jit, jits that reload their past state, etc.

I am a huge Rust fan, but going up stack and writing your jit as first party is pretty cool. Maybe after RJIT is well factored, the internals could done in Rust again.

Really happy for Ruby!
This is not my claim. I am replying to someone who said above

> Define "neutral" and I can find one

I think I misunderstood their comment to say "I don't understand why you are claiming Rolling Stone is not neutral". Sorry.
The energy could be very low - after all we are really good at insulation.
Miguel Díaz-Canel is president now.
>> Yes, Pterry too. I also have his first-ever novel in hardback first edition, as I was a fan of his before he wrote the Discworld books, and met him many times. About half my Pratchetts are signed.

>> And Douglas Adams, just the once.

Oh gosh, now I'm even more jealous :)

>> Banksie was Scottish and sounded Scottish. (She met him with me, I think. I don't recall if she had problems with his spoken English.) To read the phonetic parts in IMB/IB, you need to read them in a Scottish accent -- the phonetics don't work with RP English.

Well that's interesting. I read Feersum Engine back in 2004 I think, a year before I moved to the UK. Once arrived, it was a couple of years before I could make myself undestood by, or understand myself, any person of the British persuasion. I distinctly remember an hour-long conversation with a man from Glasgow, in which I did not understand a single word. For all I know, I nodded along and smiled politely to him claiming that the Holocaust was all made up and Hitler was right to exterminate the Jews anyway.

I know Glaswegian accents are hard. I think I get about 60% of Burnistoun. It never occurred to me that Feersum Engine must be read in a Scottish voice. I wouldn't be able to pull it off anyway. But it just really clicked for me and I didn't find it a drag, in fact the parts of Ergates the ant where the ones I liked reading the most. You know, because they were the most fun!

I certainly don't have an RP. After 17 years in the UK I have a soft, but firm, South European accent. I once watched a recording of myself giving a presentation and my accent is very, very there. It could maybe sound like a very poor attempt at imitating a Scottish accent, by someone who had only heard a very vague description of it. Maybe. Dunno.

>> "Well, not really..." I replied. "It's in Scottish. It's not the same."

More weird. I've watched Trainspotting a few times, with subtitles on or off, can't remember. I can always understand it just fine. Spud is the only one I have trouble understanding and I think that's partly on purpose.

Maybe has something to do with being Greek, at a very wild guess? Scottish people speaking English sound to me like they're making the sweetest sounds that remind me of home. We have strong "ARRRs" (like in "Rory") and "CHAAAs" (like in "loch") too.

Thank you for being kind to my curiosity!
It's cars. You killed them all!
U.S. Shale Boom Shows Signs of Peaking as Big Oil Wells Disappear
note that you can run openAI's whisper locally. The language model and tools are open sourced. It is finicky to set up if you're not a python dev. Just wanted to let you know that it's an option and it works literally exactly as well. You can even choose if you want to sacrifice quality for speed of conversion. The experience of using it will just be a lot.... geekier. command line call that produces a text format with timestamps on every line.
Congrats on the launch!

We use Metabase at our company (created and managed by a non developer). Can you share some reasons for us to switch to Plato?
They should do both.
The way I interpreted it is- cities and states should focus more on being great places to live, not great places to move your corporate office.

And although I'm sure this is not a popular sentiment, I think governments are too biased towards people already living in their jurisdiction, even if those people are there by mere coincidence (i.e. they happened to be born there). People shouldn't be held to higher standards simply because they were born somewhere else, which is something they don't control.

An ideal immigration policy would be to allow anyone making above the median income, or otherwise anyone who would be an "above average" resident to become a citizen instantly, and the government should work hard to attract these people. Conversely, they should encourage "below average" residents to relocate to more affordable/lower tier areas, and not give them any special privileges just because they are "legacy residents."
Several points discussed in these comments are addressed by the author in the linked https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19420
The United States is probably a more common example for Americans. The US Constitution makes the whole country a free trade zone between states. Borders between states are easily navigated by corporations, by design. Workers in Washington compete with workers in South Carolina. Manufacturers can freely move their plants around the US.
Sorry, in my usage "bring in" means move tail latency P99/P100 more to the left not as introduce, I'll be more clear next time.

So yes! That is great news.
The enshittafication of TikTok is just starting. Right now they are still doing their best to provide a quality service rather than extract value. Instagram is about a decade into getting steadily worse, more addicting, and more unhealthy.

So IMHO no not yet, but it will get there eventually.
> it’s extrapolating from what it saw in its training data, but isn’t that what humans do most of the time?

The difference is that human training data is interactive. We are not just passive consumers of information, we can poke at the world and see how it responds. We can do experiments. ChatGPT can't, at least not yet. We can ask questions. ChatGPT probably can, but it doesn't.

But I will grant that the distance between ChatGPT and something I would call "real AI" is probably smaller than the distance between pre-ChatGPT language models and ChatGPT.
:smart guy meme: Can't delete it if I don't have it installed in the first place!
Bash is the hardest language to write comparisons in if you're not doing it every day. The syntax is so unlike anything else.
To be fair, I do not think many people here (or anywhere) is qualified enough to have an informed opinion in the matter.

In fact, the lack of entomologists (a boring, unexciting field of study for most of us) may be the cause of how seemly late the complete wipe-out of all insect life is being reported. Last time this happened, it was killing the birds and people noticed it much much earlier.
Housing in Cali is known to cause cancer
Toblerone: Swiss rules mean chocolate bar to drop Matterhorn from packaging
No reason to?, naive advice, what if you absolutely love it?. It's also hard for me to understand why people would eat certain things but I get it.
No I mean you'll commonly encounter several RSS feeds on the same page, all rel=alternate. There doesn't seem to be any convention for indicating what the feed is about.

You may get an RSS feed for the site, one for each the topic, and one for each comments section of the blog post, etc. These may then be duplicated in various ways since there's more than one path to the same page. It's a real pain in the ass.
disclosure: Supabase user

Long time user, first time caller. Besides the DO droplet, separately I also use Supabase and I love it.

I understand completely about restricting the content type, maybe just for now. Fun fact: I work around it by serving up text/xml plus XSLT. I'm sure you don't mind.
Acer confirms server intrusion after miscreant offers 160GB cache
Oh goodie, now fix the userspace before we get a 9th way to configure ethernet devices.
Oh and one thing I forgot to address above:

> In my experience, you want to decouple the task-level orchestration mechanism from the nature of the data itself.

No, that's a fantasy. The data is EVERYTHING. There is no abstract, platonic solution that works equally well with 100 rows or 100 billion rows.

One of the unique things about Data Engineering that sets it apart from most other specialties is that we deal in bulk. The code we write takes significant wall-clock time to execute. Performance ALWAYS matters. Never forget that!
Its all about preferences, I tend to prefer seasoned devs who have had the chance to try different things and form their own opinions. Someone who has relied on framework magic they don't understand through their careers tend to be less resilient to change
I mean maybe if you wanted to you could ;)

But not in practice, I agree. I was actually fruitarian for a few weeks and man it's HARD to chew enough food to even get your calories in, lol. Plus it's all cold so it's extra annoying cause you never get the thermal heat of cooked food!
I can't help but find it interesting how this, perhaps his most shocking public display yet, barely seems to have moved the needle relative to previous Elon discourse here on HN. I guess even his most devoted sycophants are finding it hard to defend and everyone else is just sick to death of hearing about the guy.
I appreciate mercilessly curating your feed. But man even having to do that is such a huge waste of time and life energy.
> I have nothing to say. I feel powerless and robbed of my own future by my parents' generation.

Beware, O Sinner, for Who Promises You a Tomorrow?

--St. Alphonsus of Ligouri

Just as we pretend the heat death of the universe shall never arrive and that time (billions upon billions of years is inconceivable to the human mind) we pretended it an infinity, never truly paying heed that there would be a last generation or that we might be among them.
Your straw man argument might hold up better if you at least spelled the former president's name correctly.
Does this type of implementation strategy for unpopular changes (taking two steps forward, waiting out torches and pitchforks, and then taking one step back to intended level) have a specific name that it is usually referred to as?

It is so incredibly evil
Snail: CLI for Glitch
Debian is already a reliable, high quality desktop distro. Ubuntu is just different. It's a customization.
Of course. Metabase is the first product I recommend for easy BI, but Plato isn't a BI tool. It's an ops tool used for more "transactional" workflows.

Startups use us to diagnose support issues, track new user data for ops, extend user trials, manually update ML training sets, etc..
All this is available on an iPhone, including wifi, cellular, bluetooth, airplane mode, hotspot and airdrop control.

But maybe that’s beside the point, I’m interested why you see this as a bad thing?
It's a modern (a 'temporary measure' enacted in WW1) invention to enact a passport-controlled system of travel and residency across the entire world.

Border control prior to it was more focused on customs taxes, and in some countries, keeping undesirable races/religions out.

We have decided the latter is wrong, so instead of directly banning, say, Chinese or Jewish immigration, we replaced it with quotas on country of birth/origin.
It claims to be open source but it seems to be only in name. The web site says you can use it for free for personal use, but such a claim makes it NOT open source by definition. (Source-available at best.)

I had to dig really hard to find a link to github (https://github.com/ispysoftware/iSpy) but I get the impression from the README and lack of activity that this repo was superceded by another product from the same company, and that appears to be what the main website is marketing for download/payment. And according to the license file, some rather important bits of it are not open source at all.
I'm not sure why billionaires don't put more money into it. Maybe they do? We can go to Mars after we eliminate death from old age
In February Stripe annouced it similar for Euro/Europe starting April https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34609182
The situation in San Francisco is more complex than that. It is pretty clear that heavy handed taxes drove some away, but the bulk of office workers were not in that elite club. The transition to remote work drained San Francisco of its office workers. Even with that more than half of the existing office space stock is still rented and used.
With falling birthrates in developed countries, competing for residents will be exactly what they will be doing.

Making a success of large scale immigration will be essential to the future prospects of those nations/communities.
That didn't happen.

And if it did, it wasn't that bad.

And if it was, that's not a big deal.

And if it is, that's not my fault. <-- YOU ARE HERE

And if it was, I didn't mean it.

And if I did, you deserved it.
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Terran 1: Launching the World’s First 3D Printed Rocket
GM’s EV Push Stalls Amid Slow Rollouts
Very nice to read! Interesting to see how long those ideas took to go from theory to application.

In the "Two-dimensional syntax" section, the first example variable type is "m × 2 × 1 · N" and is described as "list of m pairs of values of type S1 · N", but shouldn't it be "m × 2 × S1 · N" then? Is it a shorthand syntax or just a typo?
It's probably still there.
By that logic, uncontacted tribes shouldn't be negatively affected by the modern world, and the Sentinelese don't need to concern themselves with sea level rise even if their island is completely swallowed.
What prior knowledge would you need to do computing?

Cooking a simple meal anybody can learn, just as typing a Word document and printing it. More complicated cooking tends to stress people out immensely. Kind of the same as more complicated computer stuff does.
My only gripe with that is it doesn't differentiate between products that google started and killed and products that google bought and killed.

The former can be a sign of healthy experimentation. The latter is just frustrating, particularly when Google paid a lot for the product in question. Groups at least partly came out of the Dejanews acquisition and seeing something purchased by a company that will be a poor steward is frustrating.
It's almost as if we have spent 50 years ignoring and accelerating climate change...
Only if one can get ahold of the material.

> However, outside access may fall short of the community’s hopes. Dias and Salamat have founded a startup, Unearthly Materials, which, Dias said, has already raised over $20 million in funding from investors including the CEOs of Spotify and OpenAI. They’ve also recently applied for a patent on the lutetium hydride material, which would deter them from mailing out samples. “We have clear, detailed instructions on how to make our samples,” Dias said. “We are not going to distribute this material, considering the proprietary nature of our processes and the intellectual property rights that exist.” He suggested that “certain methodologies and processes” are also off the table.
FTC bars GoodRx from sharing consumers’ sensitive health info for advertising
Developing Local-First Software
My belief is that "isolationist economies fall well below the mean" in the long-term. If you want a comfortable Western lifestyle, you don't want to isolate yourself from global trade, but global trade means you aren't isolated from global competitive pressures.
It's the pesticides. Consider the world from the POV of an insect. Even if you're a bee, your metabolism is similar to other insect pests. There are huge fields of dense crops with plenty of pollen but if you partake, you die.
As much as people hate on market solutions, completely ignoring Market forces simply makes them build and compound until they reach a breaking point.
The three-hour launch window opens at 1 p.m. EST (1800 GMT) on March 8 from Launch Complex 16 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.

The rocket consists of 85% 3D printed material by mass.

Live stream: https://www.youtube.com/live/_YAlOGZM32U?feature=share
at the very least they should host the model and point their service to their own locally hosted whisper instance...
Went from Apple IIe to an Amiga 500, then later an Amiga 1200. Sometime later "upgraded" to a 486 running DOS/Win3.1 (not an upgrade).
>When were the units built?

1962 (Atlanta) and 1978 (San Francisco).
I'm still baffled about how TikTok hooks people. I installed it to check out an AI filter and look for a certain person doing live videos I found on YouTube. I've browsed the main feed a few times now and it's honestly 90-95%+ garbage and altogether just super annoying.
Scientists are generally paid, at least with public grant money or corporate sponsorship, or by working in corp labs.

Artists and writers generally earn their living by selling their works. If they are not paid for their works, they starve, which is why the stereotype of the "starving artist" exists.

This is like MS scanning all Open-Source code and generating PROPRIETARY results from that code.

Like the art, it was shared or published WITHOUT permission for commercial re-use.

Yet, here is Microsoft, hijacking and commercially re-using it. This is effectively stealing without permission or compensation. None of the artists consented for this type of re-use, especially packaged such that it would literally erase their ability to make a living.

MS has a very cool product here, except for this wholesale systematic theft.
This is exactly my use case for SumatraPDF as well; seamlessly refresh a PDF that's been regenerated from LaTeX.
Teaching my UniFi UDM how to IPv6
I think you could say yjit fills that role; in any case, having multiple active jit projects leaves open a lot of room for experimentation. In the end, you might be right and rjit will fade away — we will see!
I assume you know this person IRL?
I believe that you can never completely get rid of it, because any technical measure (signals jamming comes to mind) will interfere with the use of phones in an emergency, which trumps all other considerations.

So the only way that I see is to make an honest connection with the students on a human level. This means they will probably keep the disruption to a minimum because they either want to learn, or because they at least do not want to interrupt the learning of others too much.

It's not easy, but teaching well never is, and of course it is highly dependent on the students.
The thing is that Florida and a few other top destinations seem to have a monopoly on attracting remote workers. No state income tax helps a lot, but that’s not going to make Wisconsin a major destination for remote workers. If the place hasn’t already been attracting retirees for years, it’s probably not going to ever get on the remote worker radar.
Bloomberg is actually a good publication - especially their print edition. But most people's exposure only comes from the op-eds - people who only read the op-eds are not reading the boring but competent reporting on the pages in between.
HTMX definitely chips at some of the use cases of SPAs. What percent of cases? I don't have that answer.

And yes, Phoenix is a very interesting thing, but it's most likely only viable because of it being Erlang under the hood (needs a process running for each client, hence ultra cheap Erlang processes being a good fit).

> when you visit some site like anandtech it is by no means accidental that the layout rerenders endlessly because each rerender is a chance that a click on a link is transmogrified into a click on an ad

I think you went a bit too far into the conspiracy theory there. An element for which the height is not defined (via HTML or CSS) gets rendered usually to 1x1 pixel, which forces a redraw if the element turns out later to have width and height (like an image that takes half of a second to download). Which, IMO, means web developers are not bothering to put sizes in delayed-loading elements, which points a bit more to the incompetence side than the malice side. But ads probably not specifying width and height would also indicate significant malice, can't rule that out.
The differences between groups in the former Yugoslavia have little to do with race (as most Americans would understand the term). It's tough to tell the difference between a Croat and a Serb just by looking at them. Conflicts were based more on culture, religion, language, and perhaps something akin to "tribal" identity (not literally tribes but I don't know how else to describe it). Some of these conflicts date back to the 14th century.

The only significant group in the region which some might identify as a distinct "race" are the Roma. That minority lives in all of the countries and they didn't cause countries to split up.
Not being familiar with origins of British cheddar, where did it come from before?
> Who people think we are is who we are

May be true for extroverts, but as an introvert I don't give a cent about what random people think about me (which also explains why I do not use Instagram in the first place).
Fun exercise, use cgpt or copilot to convert the descriptions into code and then roll your own then check correctness and benchmark cgpt, your own, author's own and lodash.
I don’t eat that crap.
While i completely agree with you, we should remember that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
HingeGPT
Most crops are not. Many plants rely on specific insects for pollination. And domesticated honey bees can never hope to match the rest of the insect world in numbers.
Has anyone thought of building an app that automatically composes and sends messages to Hinge matches using ChatGPT? Just trying to automate what is mentioned in the article.
Not the person who used the term, but I kind of wish I had been. It's excellent. At FAANG-ish companies where "impact" is the key to promotion, there's an inevitable tendency for engineers to prefer working on things that are highly visible like starting new projects or adding new features, vs. things that are highly useful like stability, testing, or code quality. Most internally promoted E6s or above got that way by initiating multiple projects, then dumping them on others when they've served their perf-review-enhancing purpose. "Perf farming" is as good a term as I've seen for it.
10 years ago windows ARM was not really a thing, so I think this is a bigger than that. I think Intel is just invested in making software take full advantage of features in their CPU's. They can directly do that on Linux.