skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Had a similar thing happening. Never any problems. Then account disabled.

I thought, well this is Stripe, they’re awesome. I’ll email them. They’ll help.

Well, big surprise. Customer support was just bots and boilerplate answers, after weeks of waiting.

Mentioned my issue in passing on a thread here (I resent having to make a fuss on social media just to get some special attention). I was told to contact one of their people directly. I did that a few months ago. And he actually did email me back. But then he first forgot about my case for another two weeks. And then he said he would look into it immediately, but all I got is a bunch of automated emails asking me to validate my email address and things kind that. I did all of that, but it changed nothing. And my account is still suspended.

I will continue to use Stripe for MVPs and such. But I now consider it a toy solution that can’t be trusted for running a business.

Stripe cut off my revenue and deactivated customer facing payment pages. They did so without giving me prior notice, and I haven’t found a single person to talk to who would know what is going on in almost half a year now.

They’re putting their customers in serious risk of financial losses and potential insolvency. And they do not care, do not help and do not even explain.

That is the inverse of customer obsession. I wonder if the Collison brothers have lost interest in running their business like Bezos did with Amazon a few years ago.
It's not an arbitrary thing, and any kind of vulnerability (including this one) is potentially a step in a chained exploit. I wouldn't be suprised if we see a hack before Tesla fixes this. And yes, they will fix it because it's a security issue.
I have an interview with Google in a few days and this is making me reconsider it. I'm not sure it's a good time to join any big tech.
Hey.Café just got a major update to v2.0
Spent the last few months really working on it and now https://hey.cafe finally is out with an almost entire rewrite making it way faster and more powerful with features that have been requested for the last year.
Who are you quoting? I said "multi-region from the outset" and later acknowledged that multi-cloud would probably be overkill.
Quaint Startups
I don't think we see it play out this way. Japan is the poster child for this. They also like technology and don't like immigration. But their economy has deep structural issues.
A lot, though given how different everything was priced, I’m not sure it would translate into a single number in the modern economy — today, 5 years of an unskilled labourers’ wages isn’t a year at Oxford university plus two draught horses: https://thehistoryofengland.co.uk/resource/medieval-prices-a...
> Adam co-founded ITA which was eventually acquired by Google and probably is the basis for Google Flights

This is an absolutely wild pair of claims. Adam was nothing like (and does not claim to be) a co-founder and google flights is driven entirely by ITAs QPX product. ITA was a very good place to work.
it wouldn't let me promote my pawn... super annoying
I do not trust Tesla because of the apparent instability of its owner, but not because its website does not use the most bleeding edge web technology. The website works and I see no information of any security flaws. This is what matters.
Why on earth are you feeding a currawong? They’re among the meanest most mercenary omnivores; they hardly need your help.
I've got no pity for the retirees who caused a lot of the environmental crisis in the first place.
Seems these sites should be blocked on CF, at the root. Not all the leaf nodes apps. It’s pretty easy for me to automate it at my company. Seems CF could?
So what is gonna be your opinion when it gets fixed?
Ship the files sure, ship the top-level folder not really. Most sites will have a "public" subfolder or equivalent, so the READMEs, scripts, sources etc don't get served. Either way, a professional would remove those files or block them at the HTTP server level.
Indeed, right? Funny fact: Wikileaks is blocked my ISP (in Europe).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27éta...
Immigrants still revert to native sub-fertility after a generation, or two at most.

Immigration may be a solution for countries in the Anglosphere, as there are countless educated English speakers who want to immigrate.

Countries in the rest of Europe and in East Asia do not have the luxury of educated, native-language speakers in the millions wanting to immigrate. Those who do want to come to us instead of the Anglosphere, either lack marketable skills or lack the language skills necessary to be a part of society. This imposes considerable costs, and our pension systems are not equipped to handle people working here for 20-30 years and then living off a government pension for another 20.
I had one kid, I'm purposefully shrinking the human population, I walk the walk.
Some people still live in denial. I can surely see CIA paying a visit to Ghana's officials.
Housing has plenty of inelastic demand and it's getting worse[1]. This isn't a controversial statement.

1. https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/declining-elasticity-us-housi...
Darwin Correspondence Project: The full edition is now online
Agree. I think they’re awesome birds and it is so cool they such an exotic looking bird should be considered a pest.
wow, sounds neat. how was payment handled for booking?
I’m not sure. I dislike the Ibis quite a lot, and so does this guy (funny, NSFW): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO-OpFjHRbE
more housing? need water sources ect for existing housing, not to mention new housing..
The growth of the global population is slowing[1]. Undeveloped nations are developing, and as they do their birth rate drops as well.

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/WLD/world/birth-rate
If I have to not be biased. Yeah it isn’t the biggest deal yet. Would I hate this sort of situation regardless of who was at the helm? Absolutely.

The worst thing as a [tech] worker is people being okay with Twitter as it is now and with more gradual degradation. I will vote with my class interest by saying Twitter isn’t fine. Why should most people be fine with shoddy work by overworked employees or with possibly weak safety and security. All of this because debt repayment has to happen on billions of dollars of debt put on to the company’s books.
Corporate landlords have large portfolios and more likely experienced the new “risk” that the government allowed people to not pay rent for almost 2 years IIRC. It’s hard to objectively try to analyze the situation and ignore that whole snafu.
At least in WA (OR may be different but as PNW neighbors we are often pretty similar) a lot of heating locally is electric resistance, so heat pumps would actually represent a net decrease in energy use.
In the olden days you use to buy computers from Dell and were well under 1% of their revenue. But if they dropped you as a customer, you bought them from HP instead, no problem.
>Hardware is two levels above biology, and software is a level above that.

From a conceptual point of view that can be grabbed by some human mind, this all make perfect sense.

However, these hierarchies tell more about our way to handle sensedata than it reveals of the actual structure of the universe, if this does match anything relevant past our thoughts.
It’s the default drupal robots.txt it seems.
https://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/robots.txt/5.x
My vote is for extended keys, something based off HD Wallets:

https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0032.mediawi...

Easy rotation and recovery of individual keys, but you do have to protect your master seed.

Nostr also supports user verification through DNS hostnames.

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/05.md
https://www.tesla.com/LICENSE.txt
Tesla opensource confirmed?
At this point I don't see much point in adopting something that doesn't support ActivityPub. I'd rather just use Mastodon/Pleroma/Akkoma with some heavy blocklists.
I was reading about algorand rekeying today, as well as DIDs and atproto/bluesky.

Both seem to use a “signed rotation” approach. Algorand keeps your public key stable while adding metadata that your spend key has changed and links the two. Atproto similarly uses the recovery key to sign a rotation op which can regenerate your signing key, additionally readjusting the tree to preattack state (by setting prev of the rotation to the last precompromise state).

This seems like an improvement of some kind, but still leaves gaps for lost keys. Keybase style approach, or multisig social recovery may also help.
Accounts have instance count quotas; you can get them raised, but it is a support ticket to do so.

And sometimes, that is hard. I've had Azure support not able to understand what quota they need to raise / what quota is being requested. I had to at least link them to their own documentation on it… (partly the confusion is that quota support tickets allow selecting the quota as a piece of metadata on the ticket, but only for some quotas, and of course, mine was for one of the ones not listed. Why they don't just list all of them is anyone's guess.)
Along with the acquisition of Twitter.
It's almost as if he's a world-class grifter who continually lies and whose entire net worth is predicated on keeping up an illusion of his own competence. The dude doesn't even have a physics degree, it's pure bullshit.
Cloudflare wants to make money. The IPv6 features can come second as v6 usage increases.
Because the world has an anemic shortage of dollars.

The reason for that is post 2008 banks have become much more risk averse (seeing what happened to Lehman et al) and they are mostly the conduit through which broad currency is generated. That mechanism is mostly broken unless you’re an ultra rich company like Apple or Google.

So today to make a bank create USD for you you’d be required to have the best of the best collateral namely sovereign bonds. As it stands the US hasn’t taken even close to enough debt and thus issued Treasuries to even come close to the shortage in dollars that banks’ risk aversion has created since 2008.
I'm sure z/OS is not nearly as popular as linux servers but there is a niche market for what it provides, just because it is old does not mean it is inferior.
> There's some academic smoke-blowing for you

What do you mean? please go straight to the point

> But let's make it simple: 2% of GDP to be spent on defense. They've agreed to do it, but until Ukraine they just refused. Was there some help from the US that they were missing?

The US wants Europe to fund NATO, not to become a sovereign military super power, and even less an independent economy that commerce with Russia/China

That's what i mean by demilitarization of Europe, you are not militarized if you do not defend your sovereignty, you are a vassal who protects the interest of an Empire that is not yours

https://i.imgur.com/FBysSrf.png you see right, that's the US
I'm surprised that Cloudflare isn't all IPv6 when Cloudflare is the client. That would solve their address problems. Maybe charge more if your servers can't talk IPv6. Or require it for the free tier.

It's useful that they use client side certificates. (They call this "authenticated origin pull", but it seems to be client side certs.
https://pastebin.com
I have been looking for the linked 2013 post on density for years, thank you
> The spread-out "C" style that emphasizes the curly braces on their own line seems so backwards, emphasizing precisely the thing you don't care about.

Really? I like the curly braces on their own line precisely because that's what I do care about. I want to see the block structure - the context, if you will - before I think about the individual lines.
My favorite "a few bad apples" is not a problem, which leaves out the second half: "ruin the bunch".

Especially when applied to police - the fact that the "boys in blue" turn a blind eye to the bad apples is what ruins the bunch. It's unintentionally accurate.
US state pension funds are passively funding crimes against humanity in Xinjiang
The title says this is expanded PTFE, which seems like it wouldn't need an additional PFOTS coating. I doubt it would shed similar small molecules to a PFOTS coating as it's a different material (polymerized tetrafluoroethylene).

I also doubt you would get similar endocrine disruption with PTFE polymerization biproducts since you won't have the "polar head/fluorinated tail" structure that PFOTS has.
I’ve had very good luck with a paid account at kagi.com. They have many filtering options to remove sites you don’t ever want to see (like Pinterest, allrecipes.com, etc.).
Seeing that excerpt from 'A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation' really brought back some memories.

Must have been some 20 odd years since I first read it. Wonderful book.
> I will continue to use Stripe for MVPs and such

Can I ask why? Wouldn't inertia see to it that it stays in place in some circumstances? I'd be moving to something else at every stage if it were me
I don't know, but just because it can be emulated does not mean it is equivalent. I have a friend who uses DOS software on his modern laptop and laments that it was faster running natively on a 486.
I think the patent expired, so there are knock offs now.
Game Archaeology: No Man's Sky
The 3.9%, 5.6% decline comes from OECD's November report, so hardly outdated.

I don't think there's much reason to trust Russian Central Bank which has strong incentives (read: orders) to enhance the numbers.

https://www.oecd.org/economic-outlook/november-2022/
An AI-aided translation might make more sense, since at least you could review that for correctness and it'd likely be easier+cheaper to run the result.
Previously discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33056077; to quote myself from that discussion:

> I think a much better email from the thread to link to would be the earlier https://lkml.org/lkml/2022/9/19/840, where Linus actually talks about some of the challenges of kernel programming and how they differ from user-space programming.
If you are shrikemen, Teenage Fanclub are the first band I saw live. Looking through your profile, I’m surprised we are only Medium.
it's not even line coverage. to be secure you need to be secure for every combination of branches. at 25 million lines of code, hitting every if/else combination would take longer than the lifetime of the universe.
I mean, in fairness, if you're not getting enough rest (which seems to be what "hardcore engineering" means) then maybe you're more likely to screw up the nginx config.
Usually, a server throwing an error would mean that it is aware there was an unexpected state, and is itself consciously not fulfilling the request by returning a 500 error, for example. It remains available to handle the next incoming request.

A server crashing implies that the server program or process itself has terminated, and is not able to handle further requests. This usually manifests as a 503 error by an upstream proxy server (nginx/apache/CDN/etc.).
I've seen this before. I think it was in us-west1, ran out of VMs of the size we used for CI. Had to move to a different region. (Never moved back…)

It is shocking to me that it happened at all. Capacity planning shouldn't be so far behind in a cloud that wants to position it as being on-par with AWS/GCP. (Which Azure absolutely isn't.) To me, having capacity planning be solved is part of what I am paying for in that higher price of the VM.

> We never thought our startup would be threatened by the unreliability of a company like Microsoft, or that they wouldn’t proactively inform us about this.

Oh my sweet summer child, welcome to Azure. Don't depend on them being proactive about anything; even depending on them to react is a mistake, e.g., they do not reliably post-mortem severe failures. (At least, externally. But as a customer, I want to know what you're doing to prevent $massive_failure from happening again, and time and time again they're just silent on that front.)
I'm quite sure it's just a question of what you are used to. It is for me, anyway.

My first PC (~year 2000) came with Windows but I wanted to use some software that only existed for Unix at the time and I was used to work in Unix anyway, so I heard about Linux and installed it. Great, I got an OS I was used to and the software I needed for my project.

When finally I had to use Windows for work a couple of years later it took time to adapt and, even to this day, I just find it easier to use Linux. It's just a metter of what you are used to.

Last year I bought a MacBook, because of the M1, and I can't get used to the "weirdness" of MacOS, specially the keyboard and the window management. Every other machine I use (Linux, Windows or ChromeOS) uses the same keybindings but in MacOS the same software I use everywhere else (e.g. Chrome) has been forced to change the standard keybindings to something else and and it's even not configurable. Programs just don't implement stuff as C-c to copy and C-v to paste. Programs link that functionality to S-c and S-v, instead. WTF? This means there is no remapping of the keyboard that can fix this, since the software itself is broken.

For me, this makes the machine pretty unusable. I'm a keyboard guy and quite fast at it. But when I'm in MacOS I waste a lot of time finding the right keybindings even for switching Windows. Example: S-w to close a tab but C-TAB to switch tabs %~(
> "Java!" used to be talked about as a good way to create software that you could run in the future, but anyone who has had to keep around old laptops / old VMs to run ancient Java to handle KVMs or device management tools knows how ridiculous an expectation about the stability of Java can be.

Hard disagree. In my 20 years of experience, Java is very, very, extremely stable and backwards-compatible.

I would absolutely expect Java bytecode compiled in 1996 on Java 1.1 to have a very good chance to run without errors on a brand new Java 20 JVM, and source code from that time to compile with some very minor adjustments such as changing identifiers that clash with newly introduced keywords. Ironically, the older the code, the less likely it is to have problems with the post-Java 8 breaking changes.

But you talk about "handling KVMs or device management tools" - that's hardware stuff not covered by Java's standard API, so it will involve native code. That will bring you compatibility problems, not Java. Admittedly, that could be seen as Java avoiding the hard problems rather than solving them.

> On the other hand, you can take large, complicated programs from the 1980s written in C and compile them on a modern Unix computer without issues, even when the modern computer is running architectures which hadn't even been dreamt of when the software was written...

I want some of what you're smoking. Toy programs, sure. But nothing that does any kind of hardware interfacing (notice a theme?) or uses any but the most trivial syscalls (this would be pre POSIX), or makes any of a myriad common assumptions about hardware architecture (see https://catb.org/jargon/html/V/vaxocentrism.html). So how many large, complicated programs does that really leave?
Generally speaking yes. If from your question I deduce that you’re worried about how much we already “printed” then do some googling over why the common citing of growth of M2 chart is interpreted wrong.

Spoiler - we didn’t print nearly as much as you think we did. And we generally haven’t even scratched the surface of how much more a normal growth of the currency since 2008 was needed.

The question that needs to be asked is more political and societal than monetary. Does the US want to lead the world by resuming at marketing a more true and secular beacon of hope and freedom or does it want to become isolationist and toe the line of each dog to its own. If we choose the former the question than arises if that’s even still possible and if we ever were true to it or were we just lucky enough to enjoy the arbitrage of developing countries not having developed yet.

I personally don’t have all the answers but it seems to me that combined with our questionable moral standing in the last 22 years and our secular stagnation the latter is the path we’re choosing to follow.
And "Hamburger" is a person from Hamburg, where the "u" is pronounced ⟨u⟩ like in engl. "boot". (The same pronounciation btw. as in the German surname "Trump".)
Pretty sweet paper. First time the clickbait title actually turned out to be accurate
I guess I should clarify that South Korea is not xenophobic to people that don't carry themselves as obvious sex pests
Basically yes. Large-scale DDoS attacks rely on compromising random servers and devices, either directly with malware or indirectly with reflection attacks. Those hosts aren't all going to be located in the same place.

An attacker could choose to only compromise devices located near a particular data center, but that would really reduce the amount of traffic they could generate, and also other data centers would stay online and serve requests from users in other places.
I have stopped eating seafood that comes from an ocean, I don't trust it any more. Especially the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic coast which are still contaminated from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. That plastic is now being found in all kinds of sea creatures only reinforces my lack of trust.
You can get a worse version of this functionality out of IntelliJ's http client[0]. Hurl seems better for several reasons, although I wish there was an example showing a few more useful tricks:

1 - When the content of a JSON variable is an XML string, or a JSON string, detect this and format white space for readability.

2 - Support pulling either the entire request or just the body from a file, and looping over all files in a directory.

3 - Pull data out of a response, put it in an environment used by later lines in the script.

0 - https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/http-client-in-product-c...
pastebin.com is what I use for this. I'm curious if there's something more lightweight out there.
Not only that, but Gore will honour their “guaranteed to keep you dry” warranty. I had a Gore-Tex jacket that the manufacturer refused to replace after it delaminated about 3 years after I bought it. One call to Gore and I got the purchase price of the jacket in a prepaid credit card sent to me after sending them the jacket.
Among the many reasons this is a bad idea: the "hot" resistance of an incandescent bulb is many times the "cold" resistance. For example, [0] finds that a 110V 40W bulb is 24Ω when cold, but 360Ω when hot.

Why does this matter? Let's put two of these bulbs in series, one of them hot and the other cold, and run 220V through them. The total resistance will be 384Ω, so the current will be V/R, or 0.57A. The hot bulb will have IR volts across it, or 206V; the cold bulb will have 14V. Bingo: your voltage divider is way, way off. Even better, putting 200+ volts across a 110V bulb will blow it (power would be IV, or 117W), and you've got either nothing or 220V.

Now, you won't be starting with one bulb hot and the other cold, but the two bulbs won't be exactly equal. The one with the higher resistance will be hotter than the other one; can you be sure that the imbalance won't slowly get larger and larger?

[0]: https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/571836/why-d...
As an American I think our mental health, at least among millennials and gen Z is generally in shambles, largely thanks to financial stress. We have a lot of depressed young people feeling like there is no bright future to strive for and that they're going to be working some menial job until the day they die.
You appear to have a low opinion of other people's cognitive abilities. In that light, perhaps you should consider the possibility that your position, which strenuously attempts to imply that there is a serious cognitive dissonance here, could complicate understanding these matters for someone who is approaching them for the first time.
https://wordcounter.net/