skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Out of curiosity, can you be more specific about what you sell? Consumer electronics like vapes or consumer electronics like Alibaba hoverboards or consumer electronics like a quality, entry level set of computer speakers? Stripe seems to be pretty sensitive towards certain industries and I'd like to see if this holds true here.
Now I've heard there was a secret speed

That David walked and it pleased the knees

'Cause you don't really care for jogging, do ya?

It goes like this, the foot, the hips

The minor fall, the pedal lift

The Briskly Walking king spoke "Hallelujah"
Upsides for whom? I believe it highly depends on who you ask and what their use cases are. Being able to shrink at all (i.e. XFS cannot) and shrink _ONLINE_ , per-directory files compression, rich ACLs - some sysadmins need those, some not, for average Joe - doesn't matter is it NTFS or something else.
I ran a raspberry (model 1, then 2, 3, 4) since forever, which has been fun. Switched to an intel NUC recently as I had a spare and needed the compute power. Being able to run on 32 gb ram with an nvme disk feels good, but the pi has served my needs pretty well...

- plex for streaming media

- external hdd that a friend uses as offsite backup (he has mine)

- home assistant, mostly fed by data from the...

- mqtt broker, that ties the sensors around my house together

- postgres, for long term reporting and predictions, mostly with data from...

- some cron jobs that scrape weather data and energy prices (they change hourly, sometimes going negative)

- security camera (a shell script saving an RTSP stream)

- a docker container that I can ssh into from anywhere, that allows backing up the iphone photo roll using the "photosync" app into my photo backup folder

Soon (I tell myself) I will analyze the security camera stream with YOLO or something to detect the cats that piss against my bikes... hehehe
It's the new paypal.

I have some webshops serving local markets and transitioned to a local provider (mollie) after reading many posts like this. I found their APIs and documention, for which people always praise stripe, to be just as good and the support is better.
There needs to be a dedicated “YC Portfolio Company Support” section of HN.
Every digital asset I’ve ever created and backups of every machine I’ve had since graduating college. I have a rule of forbidding remote access so it’s not really a server — you can only get onto this host if you are sat in front of it. Everything is backed up offsite by a combination of borg and USB “tapes”.

It was very liberating to put all my data on one filesystem (ZFS zpool) instead of having it littered over many decades of hard and floppy disks. It felt like a great tidy up, even if it was really more like bundling all my junk into a storage unit. Not having to worry about losing it took a weight off my mind.
Also in the Magic world has WOTC been making a stir recently. They have reprinted non-playable versions of cards they promised never to reprint like Black Lotus and sell them at staggering prices. This has been seen as a breach of trust in a desperate attempt to fulfill their promise of growing profits[1] and even Bank of America has warned against their stock[2].

1 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33114181

2 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33613315
OGL is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Game_License
move fast, break things, ruin your customer's lives, but its ok you automated most of your service so you make lots of money

works out perfectly for stripe
Is there some background? This post seems to make some assumptions about knowledge of what’s going on?
I'm sorry but I would need some really compelling evidence to believe that's less sustainable into middle age than repetitive, difficult manual labor. The idea seems absurd on its face and I see many people sitting at desks right up till they're eligible for Social Security.
Sure, but rattling off a bunch of names doesn't really say anything about what they've contributed and what impact it had. This piece is specifically celebrating Juan Tamariz and his contributions to close-up card magic.

I don't see why we can't celebrate someone for doing something without having to mention everyone else who's also done something. No one is diminishing their contributions but they're not the topic of the article. If you want to write an article about them, I'm sure someone would be happy to publish it.
Adderall prescriptions are easy to get, at least in the US. Good luck reporting that to HR.
Navidrome is my favorite, by far. It's like a personal Spotify. It also has built-in subsonic support.

Syncthing is another I could not live without. All devices upload to my server and my server gets backed up to S3/backblaze type service.

Plex for movies. But I may look at Jellyfin soon.

I use Calibre-web, but it's really not my favorite. Okular is so much better. And Calibre is a chore to use and overkill for my needs. Books organized into folders is about as far as I care to organize. Thumbnails are nice though.
What big Rust projects do is split things up into crates which can be compiled as individual units. still bigger than a single file, but it helps.
As the author of the above article I saw Pushup the other day and thought it looked interesting. If people are being inspired to bring back this sort of approach to webdev that makes me happy. Good stuff!

It's still a hard rule of mine that a website must work without JS and use progressive enhancement - I won't accept less in my own work. A lot of "modern" web frameworks get automatically disqualified when I evaluate them for this reason.
C++ has the same with implicit constructors, generally considered to be a footgun that should be disabled with the explicit-keyword unless such a cast makes sense, implicit constructors are otherwise the default. For example vector has a constructor with takes integer size argument, if it wasn't explicit you could accidentally do vector v = {10} which would construct a vector with 10 empty elements, instead of one element with value 10. This also has to do with the ambigous curly brace syntax in c++.
I've created a tool due to this incident to help you find your secrets in CircleCi.

https://github.com/rupert-madden-abbott/circleci-audit

It can:
* List env vars attached to your repos and contexts
* List SSH keys attached to your repos
* List which repos are configured with Jira (a secret that might need rotating)
Here's my original post, which doesn't mention anything about "empowerment" or "making the world a better place" or "implied systemic misogyny."

>> I've always been super curious about the YC application vs. accepted demographics. ESPECIALLY who gets told to come back with a co-founder.
I applied as a solo woman technical founder with a product that is already close to ramen profitability. Going in, I thought this already made me an outlier - especially because I'll be able to tap my network and hire a founding team with some cash in the bank.

The tepid response during YC interviews was jarring. I know the panels are an exhausting marathon, but my group partners acted like they'd rather be anywhere else than talking to me. I got the impression that maybe I'd been invited to fill a quota, and the Zoom interview was just going through the motions.

The whole experience made me sit down and reverse-engineer the actions needed to hit 10-15k MRR by Q2 2023. With that amount of cash flow, I can reach out to angels directly. Just 6 angels in for 30k/1% party round is 180k @ 3M post.

If you're a woman with a similar story, I'm an angel investor (B2B, Saas, manufacturing). Reach out (email in profile.
It's pretty easy, actually, and was common in early PL designs such as ALGOL. All you need to do is make a special syntax for keywords - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stropping_(syntax) - and then whitespace becomes completely redundant for tokenization purposes, and can be ignored altogether, or treated as part of the identifier in which it occurs.
honestly I'd rather hear about stuff like this than not.
There’s a big difference to receiving a signal than to receiving energy with any kind of reasonable efficiency.
I've been self-hosting Matomo (née Piwik) for about a decade and really enjoying it, but I do wonder about looking at the alternatives
Which camera allows you to do that. I wish my Sony Alpha had that ability instead of using the horrendous app they require.
This. But for C++ and Python.
Interesting, thanks for clarifying! Looks like I live in an environment where this is not a thing. Or I'm not aware of it. I'm also not in the USfor what it's worth.
Starting to reconsider if I want to use Stripe with all these horror stories.
Best of luck to you OP.
I second this - BTW, it's the second time I'm seeing someone pitch it this week.
Discussion from when the acquisition was announced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20145630
If it allows someone to avoid an unjustified $250,000 loss each time … I hope they come here every time!

EXCEPT, what I really wish is that large companies like STRIPE stopped treating gross account mismanagement cases as small frequency regrettable but acceptable outcomes.

How can any of us sleep at night with these deaf capricious overlords managing our important information & services?

It is getting dystopian. Welcome to Brazil (the movie).
In OCaml, they are a bit more subtle:

let x = ... in
some_function ~x

if the parameter has the same name on both sides (caller, callee) there's a syntactic shortcut. It's a small but noticeable force that pushes you towards more consistent naming.
The audience of HN is also the audience who will pick what payment provider they want for their new projects. Horror stories like this one are relevant to this audience (and why they get upvoted).
I've been working on a VR app for a couple of years. I wonder what it would take to get an SDK or a dev kit for this long rumored device?
Why then is so much HN discussion centered around installing and running Windows 11?
Recursive Games with ChatGPT
Nice list, thanks!
The earliest I've seen |> specifically in stdlib was in F#, which still predates Elixir by several years.
Incredible reporting. The mission of these men reminds me of the main character in Hemingway’s ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’. Crazy to think this is going on right now.
This. Reminds me of [1]. Although I never finished reading it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Crowds
I see this in some Rust crates, as you can implement traits for built-in, primitive types.

For instance, the `embedded_time` crate lets you do

200.microseconds()
5.Hz()

https://docs.rs/embedded-time/latest/embedded_time/
Do not play then. It is their company, not yours.

No matter how annoying. It they make a bad move they could mess it up. It is them who take the risk after all.
Try to take solace in the fact that no one cares about your anxiety. In fact, no one cares about you at all.

A lot of people in tech are just massive losers, I wouldn't want to be around the work version of their soul (usually they are much more normal outside of that context). They come from half assed bootcamps or self learning or non relevant majors, and have intense inferiority complexes. This manifests in this type of behavior. A lot also come from more "legit" backgrounds and have intense superiority complexes. It's a shit show from top to bottom. Couple all this with the 10x engineer mantra and stuff, and the general male dominant/new age yuppy lifestyles, it's like the last type of person you'd ever want to be around.

I've been all of these things and more, and I'm disgusted with myself. Here's my tip:

They say one form of meditation is to be cognizant of meandering thoughts. Watch as they show up in your head, acknowledge it, and let it pass by you. Don't react. Do this at work. When you see the system you hate, and the cosigners of the system (your coworkers) dancing to the tune, just go "heh, oh, you are doing that thing", and let it pass without reacting.

And a follow up to that tip addressing the solution you proposed of finding a smaller company:

It's the same shit at smaller companies. It can be even worse. You'll just run into another egomaniac that thinks they are king shit of that small company, or will find you threatening, or whatever. Again, it happens from top to bottom, so you will see the inferiority/superiority complexes in the devs down to the fucking office secretary.

You won't be able to run from any of it.

“Where would I find enough leather To cover the entire surface of the earth? But with leather soles beneath my feet, It’s as if the whole world has been covered.” ― Shantideva

Cover your feet with foam, there isn't a company that has nice soft carpet. But, be honest with yourself. If you embark on this new attitude, you must first acknowledge all the ways you were a shithead yourself that did much of the same things.
The number of issues posted on HN that get sorted because somebody browsing the front page happens to work there is astonishing. And terrible. What's everybody else supposed to do?
What alternatives are there to Stripe that don't suck? I've personally had nightmare experiences with Paypal, and there is no way in hell I'll be using crypto
Still no working escalation for issues within stripe?
Absolutely damned is combination of Kotlin's several features:

1. Lambda functions can be defined with `{}`.

2.`foo(bar, somefunc)` is the same as `foo(bar) somefunc`. In other words, if the last parameter is a function, it can be provided AFTER closing parenthesis.

3. Interfaces that require only one method can be implemented on-side with a lambda function (i.e. `{}` syntax for no-param function).

Combined those three features, the code may look like that:

routing {
static("/statics") {
files("css")
}
get("/foo") {
call.respondText("Hello world!")
}
}

So you can make a config-looking file which is just pure Kotlin, with static type checking, autocomplete, suggestions, "this" etc.

It's so damned, I'm surprised author didn't mention it.
That's similar to graffitis. I agree it's not great, but my point is about the proportionality of the response here imo. Do you really think this is worth such a vengeful response?
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If for you "invited to fill a quota" is not [very forcefully] implying systemic misogyny, then you are using the language wrong and will get many more rejections.
yeah man, I'm going to avoid Stripe now that I've seen this (or at least I'll treat them the same way I'd treat Paypal or an angry venomous snake)
This. I feel people in tech often forget the world outside the internet exists. And that laws exist beyond EULAs
Does it not concern you at all that you have, like, zero ability to assess the merit of HBD claims, and therefore are in no position to reason so glibly and confidently about Alexander's motives? If arguments for population differences are compelling, then all this schlock about suitability to chattel slavery and what have you becomes irrelevant. You imply that Alexander believes the former due to preferring the latter, but that's only a plausible accusation if the former is assumed a priori to be ridiculous.

(It isn't; on the contrary, there is no plausible scientific hypothesis that can attribute population differences solely to environmental causes. The entire blank slate case relies on sneering of the sort you do here).

I find it strange when competent people get so fixated on flaunting their ignorance.
I agree with the OP. Nobody should be choosing a critical dependency based on anecdotes like this, which tell only one side. If there were a post that aggregated such anecdotes with a more neutral stance, that might be more interesting.
I've seen it unironically cited in psychology textbooks as a 'benefit' to dementia that you become increasingly unaware of just how much you've lost. It's not totally untrue I suppose, so I can see the angle, but it's also clearly the copest of copes.

One major reason to be aware of decline is so you can plan. That may include long term care or obviously more dramatic measures. It creates a gigantic set of issues for families when someone declines who had no plan at all and is in denial or unable to understand their own decline.
This has more details: https://gizmodo.com/dnd-wizards-of-the-coast-ogl-1-1-open-ga...
that was apparently covered.

If you made something based on the license while it was in effect, you are perpetually covered.

Once they revoke the license, you can no longer make new work.

That's how I read it anyway
If you can suggest a better way to reach an actual human at Stripe / Google / etc, I’m all ears.

Sometimes you get lucky and reach a helpdesk droid, but they’re not permitted to deviate from script. Posting to HN can put you in contact with someone who actually is able to do independent thinking, and take action too
"Perpetual" has a precise meaning: it lasts until it is explicitly revoked; you don't have to re-license the IP on a regular basis, for example.

I.e. a temporary license will expire by default, but a perpetual one will not.

This is not legal advice but rather my personal understanding of the matter which may or may not be factually correct.
Agreed. Do you have any ideas?

HN could ban posts asking for support, but then people don't get support and companies have even less incentive to create sensible support systems.

It's embarrassing for Stripe to have HN flooded with support requests, and that's a good thing.
That's why I only leave the house to step into my Marauder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDoRmT0iRic I think every other vehicle should be banned.
Odd that you reply to me with a bitterly ironic link, yet not to the other commenter. Have a nice day, you need it.
Yep. That’s the feeling I have. And we are using Mollie since 2005 (for micropayments) and after that payments. The api was always good and the people/support are real, not some ‘AI’ like paypal (and now stripe) and then ‘support’ who cannot help you because computer says no.
Glad it could be of use!
But it's anecdotal evidence at best and at worst this person is only telling their side of the story
Damn, like.omg.lol was already taken.
Ha. I used to own paste.lol. So funny to see it used for something fun after I stopped paying for it.
That's what the voting buttons are for.
People should be encouraged to share these types of stories so we can hold these companies to account. Tiresome? Please refer to Tyler, the Creator's famous tweet if these posts are bothering you.
I'm sure someone reads legal@stripe.com, with the right title you can probably have they call you in 10min.
OGL refers to the Open Game License.

Essentially you are allowed to use the rules of DnD (and other games that use the license) to make derivative work as long as its also published with OGL.

It allows homebrewed content to exist and is part of the reason the DnD community is so big.

WoTC (Wizards of the Coast, the owner of DnD) is “updating” the license from 1.0 to 1.1 and is using the update as an excuse to clamp down on competition and limit what can be used.

This has a far reaching effect because 1.0 would be revoked which means lots of content that has already been created would be put in a grey area, WoTC could sue anyone who made content for ownership even if it was made with the previous license.

It also puts entire games like Pathfinder into question as these are essentially modded DnD.
As a Scala developer, I can only dream about these build times. 1.8s to build a 17K LOC project .. This would take minutes for my similarly sized Scala project.
E-bikes have a top speed where crashes are rarely dangerous unless they involve a car.
> I always get a kick out of refrigeration

It's a cooler subject.

(sorry)
Some languages use ~ for negation; wasting it (and other common chars) on bitwise ops is a waste in most languages that don't specifically target bit twiddling.

That said, have you considered making this outright illegal without explicit parentheses? I actually wish that more languages would require that any sequence of operators has the same precedence throughout; i.e. a+b*c would also be illegal. It's always a pain to remember the exact precedence rules, especially since they're not consistent across PLs, so I'd prefer any expression that is ambiguous to be explicitly disambiguated.
All these fiascos make me wonder if there is any value left in the FAANG brand, apart from signalling to a particular segment of hiring managers?
Interesting, so this seems analogous to trying to revoke or rescind a GPL license in the software world?

This is something that has been tried in the past, IIRC, when a project with a single contributor has attracted a commercial buyer that wants to take the product closed-source.

In the case I so vaguely remember (video software of some sort?), they tried to say that not only would future releases be closed, but that all previous GPL versions were now revoked, and continued use was copyright violation. From what I can remember, the community response was basically "LOL no".
Jesus the capacitive touch signaling is astoundingly stupid.

The horn, though. In decades of driving, I've used my horn maybe once or twice.
Bring them to court. It's enough money to make it worth the risk.
Tesla Cybertruck SUV (concept)
This is like Games Workshop. Trying to control things after the horse has long bolted.

I don't actually know anyone still playing any version of D&D at this point. Everyone I know is either Pathfinder, OSR or some other indie RPG (MORK BORG seems popular right now).
> bedrocks of our culture

D&D does indeed predate me, but there's nothing stopping me from inhabiting their world.

I don't think they understand the extent to which moves like this harm their fanbase. Paying fans! They will soon find out.

What I am certain of is is that the D&D phenomenon will outlive WotC. It's a movement, an ethos, and gross mismanagement will not kill it.
> maybe a more fair comparison wouldn't involve polymorphism in the rust code?

I think using features of the language is fair game

btw, don't C++ templates also use monomorphization? I agree C++'s implementation is "lower level" (from a compiler perspective) than Rust generics, but that's one of Rust's selling features
Standard merchant gateway that has a relationship with your business bank. Ensure you procure that relationship through your bank with someone you actually speak to, ideally face to face but atleast on the phone. You pay slightly more than Stripe and the APIs generally suck but you don't end up with these sorts of impossible situations.
This is why I've been seeing a big push for Pathfinder 2e, right? I suppose there are some game mechanics reasons too, but a project that isn't owned by a bully will probably see more organic support.
You don't notice it because as soon as somebody steps out of line they are erased. my root comment has been flagged and nobody else will even see it.
I think the possibility that YC is discriminating against women is worthy of discussing. If they are, it would be beneficial for both YC and the world at large if they did something to address it. If they are not, it's still interesting and possibly valuable to attempt to figure out why the list looks like it does.
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So are you saying that the offset of 1 Earth/soccer ball radius is helping or hurting? It’s still seems to me like it’s just getting in the way. (Though I guess the ant wouldn’t see much of anything if it was down in the grass.)
This is the Nth horror story I've seen about stripe. It's the new Google.

Good docs and a sane technical API make my life as a dev easier.

But I'd rather use a payments vendor that I can trust not to deep 6 my company a year later.

Any recommendations? Ideally they still have good docs and a sane API.
Laws don’t enforce themselves, but this is more of a civil case which definitely doesn’t enforce themselves.