skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And don't they use a bank's services so they don't have to go through the normal 'if you're going to be a bank' scrutiny? I'm guessing that they have a requirement from the banking service to vet anything that would normally need underwriting otherwise.
The main problem with technology in the past (~2) decades, aka modern technology, is that it has been virtually all developed under the business model of advertising. I don't care how much of your income comes from advertising, you should be alarmed that so much of the world runs on the ability to efficiently and effectively manipulate people for money.

Advertising, and especially the technological improvements to advertising, are a threat. If you are of reasonable intelligence, trying to ignore this threat, or write it off as funding "a lot of good things", will cause cognitive dissonance and you will find yourself feeling "like a crotchety old man" in the face of new technology, even if you are not honest with yourself as to why.

I think Doug was reasonably self-aware, and would probably write, today, about how his wisdom about technophobia did not age well.
Sounds like it may be time for some legislation requiring payment processors and other service providers (eg hosting/email) to provide an escalation process - probably human review - in cases such as these.

Although I agree that there are a lot of TOS violators out there, there are also legitimate businesses suffering real and tangible harm from these actions.

This case in particular sounds interesting. They were reviewed and the problem was fixed, and they were then again given the big ban hammer. In this case, I suspect the liability must shift to the provider for causing harm through failed processes/systems under their control.

Just my 2c
Facebook should not be above criticism, but in this case when a propaganda merchant like Miranda Devine does it, it's better to be sceptical.
You understand this is a liability for the cruise line and has almost nothing to do with your parents? If there's an outbreak on the cruise and someone dies from COVID, they have liability.
Most roundabouts have a very short skirt around the middle island thats like 10 feet wide just for this reason. Theres a curb so normal cars don't go on it, but it allows wide trailers to cut over them just fine.
well, if the SNCF could also pour some of that money in secondary/regional lines too, it'd be swell
Actual paper: https://journals.aps.org/prresearch/abstract/10.1103/PhysRev...

More useful than Quanta Magazine hype.

The basic idea is that you've got a process with feedback that behaves like a chaotic attractor, moving around a lot but staying in a stable regime.
Where's the edge of that regime?

Here's a video of a leaky bucket waterwheel that exhibits chaotic behavior.[1] If all you had was a graph of rotational velocity, could you tell when it was about to reverse? Probably. Could you train a machine learning system to do that? Yes.

It's not clear how general a result this is, but undoubtedly someone is already trying it on financial data.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A_rl-DAmUE
See https://youtu.be/tFQBcu5qlmE?t=485 for a breakdown of terminology. This is how it started and where it is going back to. This is a bit of history that I've personally lived.

If you investigate you'd probably be surprised just how behind the 8-ball these institutions are. Their inability to predict the bleedingly obvious as corona viruses have a history of triggering ME/CFS. Their many decades of gaslighting patients and recommending harmful treatments such as exercise and cognitive behavioural therapy.

Those of us from the ME/CFS space knew this was coming and knew people with Long Covid were going to be gaslit so we've been educating them on what to expect and how best to treat it. Plus we don't mind that they're rebranding ME/CFS as Long Covid as we'd like these institutions to actually do their job and do some research. We're not expecting an apology for the decades of gaslighting. The main thing we want is for people to not waste time rediscovering what we already know. Conflating the Long Covid (ME/CFS) part of PASC with the organ damage part muddies the water and diminishes focus.
> OH radicals in the air, of which there are a fixed amount

To make the complexity really mind-blowing, no, the amount is not fixed. It varies, and temperature is one of the largest factors. But it's not a simple relation, because air currents are also very important, and temperature also changes those.
My credit card number is three quadrillion, five hundred and twenty-eight trillion, nine hundred and seventeen billion...
You use several API, attach one provider per customer to divide the risks. When one provider bails out, you onboard new customers and new payment on the other payment provider.

Then you only loose the recurring payments on the lost provider that are on hold, and you are not dying, so you can resolve that problem using a lawyer.

This is crisis management, not technical perfection that you need for those situations.
I had a very similar experience, except it was on our launch day.

We hadn't charged a single live customer yet, but we had done plenty of tests using the Stripe testing environment. So we go live with a huge launch event, and we have customers signing up in droves. When they get to the last step -- payment -- they get an error.

Logging in to the dashboard I didn't see any indication that there was anything wrong with our account. No alerts or notices. We had already gone through the approval process you go through when signing up, and been told we were approved.

The thing that surprised me the most was that there was just no indication anywhere that our account would not be able to charge cards. Wouldn't it make sense for there to be an indicator somewhere that just says "Not ready yet"?

Apparently, they had never even begun reviewing/vetting us since the time we signed up for the account months earlier. We reached out to customer support and it took them about two weeks to get us activated. And, similar to OP, they never gave us a shred of information about what was going on. I still don't know to this day what the issue was.

Next time I build something with Stripe I'm going to test it in production before launching, with my own real credit card!
fair point there are some good ones
Well, never using stripe then. never recommending them either.
Instagram post of rapper PnB Rock at Roscoe’s may have led to his killing
OpenSSF Brings SBOM and SDPX to Python
there is someone sanitizing its kyc. simple as that, hehehe
CGA can do quite a bit more:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWDxdoRTZPc (Area 5150 demo)
So many people here extrapolating a one time issue they once experienced to cover the whole 50 states of the union and all 330 million of us.
In theory I don't care where the bytes come from.

In reality, there are IP kind of laws, contract enforcement, taxes, time zones ...
It was fun for me to finish the game for the first time, but then I thought to play again to make everything better and plan each move from the very beginning. Aaaand I stopped after 1 or 2 hours because it wasn't fun anymore. And never got back to the game.
The tutorial is infuriating. It tells you to do a thing, but then doesn't let you do it unless you click next, which isn't apparent.

If you tell a person to do a thing, you have to let them do it. If you want people to click the "next" button instead, you tell them to do that.
Hauberk: A web-based roguelike written in Dart
Abscond means to hide or steal away. I think you mean abdicate? That would make more sense in this context. It's still not quite right though, the author of a GPL work fully retains the copyright of their work, and merely give a license to others.
Figma was never on track to change the world. They were an Adobe clone from the beginning, out-executing them, but fundamentally exactly as anti-innovative.

Not that $20B is anything to shake a stick at — but real innovation in this market will be worth one to two orders of magnitude more. Figma was scratching at this with their "whole org collab" vision and FigJam, but they lacked the vision to crack it, and their execution has been faltering since their early talent started jumping ship. Selling to a desperate Adobe, distressed by public markets, is the perfect chance to "fail up."

Why am I disappointed in Figma? Because they could have been so much more. Because in effect, they have held the creative world back by doubling down & cashing in on Adobe's corruption of design tooling. Play Adobe games, win Adobe prizes. It's just a shit game, and peanuts compared to latent opportunity in this space.
> PayPal and Stripe don't advertise that they will only do business with organizations with which they agree.

https://stripe.com/legal/restricted-businesses
Further: if you dig into Gini by cities, your hypothesis gets even weaker: one ranking I found goes:

1. San Juan
2. Atlanta
3. Miami
4. New Orleans
5. New York
6. Cleveland
7. Cincinatti
8. Dallas
9. Tampa
10. Chicago

(I'm playing with the actual ACS data from Census.gov now, but haven't figured out how to get it broken out by major city; if you do by "places", which include every city no matter how small, the leaderboard is dominated by small rural cities).

No California city even appears in the top 10, and the list is dominated by non-finance-centers in red states.
Brooks, they don't have excessive cushioning (which is bad) like my indoor Nike shoes.
If you set up your entire home network to tunnel back via the VPN, it's basically bulletproof. The failure mode would be "no connection", not a leak via the local, non-VPN'd connection. You can even maintain an actual air gap between the 2 networks with one device that handles the tunneling and exposes an ethernet port that's only ever bridged to the VPN interface, and the normal router's WAN port connected to that.

I have such a setup - the local connections at the end-user sites are inexpensive consumer-grade connections (because they are cheaper and quicker to set up than a proper leased-line which has months of lead time, and you're not going to convince small restaurants/coffee shops that they need to spend 500 bucks/month for a leased line to serve public Wi-Fi) with various bullshit such as filtering, dynamic IP, etc - but the network hardware tunnels back to my infrastructure and abstracts away all the intermediary connections, giving them a "clean" Ethernet port. As a bonus, it can tolerate intermediary connections failing without dropping in-flight TCP connections, since those run over the tunnel rather than the raw interfaces which have gone down.
I’ve been a Capture One user for several years and it’s a more powerful tool than Lightroom for sure. Layer capability removes the need to go to PS for most simple use cases. Their color tools were much better previously as well but LR has some major recent updates. I also like their session catalog model, but that’s optional and mostly personal preference. It’s not as well designed IMO, a bit more of a power user tool where you can tweak the UI to your liking, but in terms of functionality it’s as good or better than LR.

Affinity Photo is also on the same level as PS, I don’t know about “surpassed” but Adobe is no longer the clear leader.
It doesn't work like this. If there is a hiring freeze in place, it means that internal headcounts are also limited. The "desperate team elsewhere" must have money to pay for the new engineer.
Those are generally rotaries, not roundabouts.
I’m curious what benefit you think publishing the comment as a blog post would provide over the existent HN comment (which also has its own URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32855106). Possibly better SEO?
Pakistan floods are linked to climate change
I dunno what SQLite is doing specifically but you can certainly mmap a file across containers and it behaves like you’d think. SELinux and other hardening options might interfere though, because shared mmaps should imho be viewed as a very likely vector for cross-process exploitation.
How many properties do you own? Few people i know in east europe own at least a second home. One owns four flats and land. Do you own at least the home you live in or is it bank owned? Not being rude, just asking if the above average salary actually brings above average living, and not just a new iphone and macbook pro every 5-6 years. Does it allow for one to grow into more than just a wage earner?
SkyMass and Firebase RTDB
A demo todo list app using SkyMass for app logic + UI and Firebase Real Time DB as the database in ~100 SLoC [1]

SkyMass is a new cloud UI server [2] that provides the entire frontend stack as a service (UI components, Auth etc...). It lets you build modern apps by simply writing backends that deal with data access, application logic and describe their UI with very high level widgets.

[1] https://github.com/skymasshq/skymass-demo/blob/main/firebase...

[2] https://skymass.dev
I'm in Southern California, and traffic lights are already ignored. (YT - Fiery, fatal Windsor Hills crash)
This one works: `[0-9]+([\.][0-9]+)?`

> I imagine that either doesn't fly with mobile keyboard hinting or screen readers trying to hint what a correct value is

The `pattern` attribute isn't used for anything except validation as far as I know; the mobile keyboard at least is entirely driven by `inputmode` and/or `type`
I used to use UpWork extensively 10yrs ago, with lots of success. We tried to use UpWork recently and cant even create an account. There is no real way to figure out how to make it work or what the issue might be. The site has gone downhill fast.
That "cash" was created by credit stemming from low interest rates. Interest rates mean more than just mortgages.
Requiring an updated W-4 does not subject an employer to an additional liability.

Very importantly, the employer is already subject to additional liability by the very fact of the employee working in another state/jurisdiction. It's irrelevant from the perspective of the employer's legal liabilities whether the employee goes through the formality of updating their W-4.

But note that failure to update a W-4 after moving to another state or country is generally considered grounds for for-cause termination.
I was recently banned from Paypal for life, with no reason given. I have literally used PayPal for over a decade, usually once or twice a year to pay family or friends back from something small. I have heard all the horror stories so I intentionally didn't use for anything unless the recipient had no other easy way to receive funds. I never used to pay for anything shady, or even buy anything really. It was almost always to pay someone back for dinner or something small like that.

And then one day last month I got an email saying my account had been banned. They would not give me a reason, and told me if I tried to open a new account it would be banned as well. Good riddance, I don't need them anyway, but talk about burning any vestige of good will they ever had.

It seems Stripe has gone the same way now. Time to move on to the next hot payments processing startup until they get big enough that they decide to start fucking their customers too.
> but real innovation in this market will be worth one to two orders of magnitude more.

200 billion, maybe. $2 trillion? Maybe with 10% inflation for a few more years.
I can understand the need for anonymity. It wouldn't fill customers with confidence to Google the seller and find a giant thread about how his payments service cut off 35% of his customers.
Point 10 confirms that those under 18 should no longer get the first two jabs, contradicting what you wrote in the text being disputed here. You seem to acknowledge this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32853039
> 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.

You keep on making assumptions about your interlocutor, stick to the matter discussed.

I'd recommend you stop trying making things personal and have some empathy yourself for the victims of the porn trade and sex trafficking instead of trying defend pornography by labeling its critics "anti-sex". Porn is not sex and whoever gets off watching porn isn't having sex at first place. The fact that people have a non-existing libido is the least of my concerns.
Even those get destroyed in pretty short order. All the smaller ones around here have chewed up kerbs
How does it compare with https://www.vcluster.com/ which also available as open source?
Redwood trees need the moisture in the air. Some of those trees are a couple thousand years old. Is this the end for Redwoods?

https://www.nps.gov/redw/learn/nature/about-the-trees.htm
The decision all over the world wasn't bought it was cleanly made all over the world. Doubt isn't a super power and an idiot remains an idiot by definition incapable of parsing a complex choice.
> The government on the other side is the one you really have to worry about. Locals in Mexico City, all over South America, Bali, Thailand, Vietnam and really all over the world are pissed with these "digital nomads" (read: illegal immigrants) who upend the local economy and pay no taxes. It's only a matter of time before they all start cracking down.

Also your employer needs to worry about this. And therefore you need to worry about your employer suing you.

If you think that's far fetched, do you think your employer will NOT throw you under the bus when France sues your German employer for turning a blind eye to where their employee is?

Frankly as a tech manager YOU are adding legal risk to yourself personally by protecting the employee from the company. Arguably YOU personally are complicit in tax fraud.
No dishwasher should be manufactured and sold without a heated dry cycle. [1]

[1] I just moved into a new place and the dishwasher has no heated dry cycle. You must use rinse aid.
The hemispheres are not equal: differences in brain asymmetry
I must be idealistic in expecting a senior manager to do better than "Do what you're told because we told you".
I love it but it’s nowhere near the level of replacing anything but the lowest skill developers. The actual real skills involved with deciding what problems to solve, architecting and developing complex software would require general AI level AI, and at that point a *lot* of people are going to be out of jobs.
I dont get how having idle staff helps launder money? Presumably the scheme works by adding fake transactions to the books.
First I think in this case the browsers are all stuck with a bad decision made in a different era because they don't want to break back compat, and there's no user or product owner who thinks this is actually the right behavior. Do you expect every user and every product to be happy with bad behavior for philosophical reasons?

Second a browser is less and less a user agent and more and more just an app runtime. It's only the lingering history that separates browsers from native app runtimes and not any real difference in expected semantics about experience control.
Yes but Ethereum accounted for 94% of GPU hashpower. The other coins can't absorb all that and stay profitable.

ETH ASICs weren't much better than just getting the latest GPU.
I agree with you on the stress. I only visit the USA for funerals now. I just had 3 root canals and crowns done last year, it cost me $750 at a high-end dental office. I think that would get me 1/2 of a root canal in the states.
Agree. Macromedia products were amazing for their time. Dreamweaver, Flash (Creating flash apps including ActionScript), Fireworks with vector + bitmap, were all very cool until Adobe acquired them
Would appreciate this blog or further deep dives; I’d like to take it to legislators and regulators demonstrating a regulatory gap.
Outside the USA maybe? I see free shipping from seller fifakingdom, estimated delivery Sep 20-22.
> My ability to address screwups or fraud on an individual level with banks is significantly higher than anything I'd have with crypto.

Yes, nobody ever suggested that irreversible transactions would make it easier to address fraud. You don't have a central entity to appeal to.

> 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.

No, it does not agree with that. But the value of ethereum is determined by willingness to pay. There are not a "very small number" of actors with willingness to pay for ethereum.

Crypto is explicitly anti-democratic in that you cannot democratically (ie. by vote) decide to take away someone's asset.
FWIW Windows has had something basically equivalent (IO completion ports) for quite some time. Indeed helpful, I remember that early SSDs already required high queue depths.
Is their an equivalent benefit from cycling? Anybody knows?
uBO doesn't accept or reject though and that is required for some sites to work. That's why I used this extension and uBO.
mostly agree but as other posters have mentioned I would imagine that any crashes that occur in in mulit-lane 4-ways are likely to be less severe/likely to injure people.
"but fundamentally exactly as anti-innovative."

Would love to hear more about this thought. Disclaimer: figma employee.
Well, there are options. I do not want to point to obvious candidates, because I am biased and it could easily be misconstrued, but RVN just just saw a decent influx of those ETH miners based on recent spike.

Life hates vacuum. Short of outright ban, nothing will change in that space.
I will definitely look into that.
> Feels very 1984.

I'd say Kafka. On the bright side, so far no one has woken up and googled himself and seen page after pages of cockroach pictures, not yet at least.
BTCPay Server is a self-hosted, open-source cryptocurrency payment processor. It's secure, private, censorship-resistant and free.
> Open Source has comprehensively won.

Won what? By what metric?
Yeah I was just wondering, it's probably non-trivial to distinguish between them. Cool project though!
> My fantasies aren't depraved in any way, but they are well-represented in pornography.

Your certainly qualify as a vulgar individual given the fact that you feel the need to depict pornography here trying to make a point about god knows what.
> If they are too transparent about exactly how they detect a problem, that makes it much easier for the criminals, scam artists, and dodgy merchants to get around TOS enforcement.

I get that, but I don't see how actually telling people what term of service was violated gives too much leverage to the bad guys.
I'm just starting to use Lago (getlago.com) for this. I'm not affiliated with them, but it solves the need for me for an open-source payment-processor-agnostic billing system that can easily swap between processors while maintaining a single source of truth.
Good luck trying to convince an resource-strapped nonprofit to implement contingency plan for this.

No government regulation means existence of these will for all practical purposes depend on Google's whim. I don't see any other viable option, you do? can you elaborate?
That is rude. I care about the environment, still I am mining.

How is it good for the environment? I only mine when my house and battery does not need electricity and our solar is producing over 1kw. Everything I earn (around 100-300$ a month between February to Oktober) I invest in the next environment project. My miners need about 500w. This is a fraction of the amount I put back into the grid.
If I would not do this, our new heating system wouldn't be financed yet.
Did they use the Consumer Welfare Standard to block Visa's acquisition of Plaid? Seems like the main reasoning they used was because it was a strategic buy rather than a financially sound one. (and the finances of this deal pretty much mirror Plaids)
Sure, $2T — a fundamental innovation in how we "design and build" software has implications as far-reaching as the World Wide Web itself. Google IS the World Wide Web — they have previously broken a $2T market cap.