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Ask HN: Suggestions about platform to develop a customizable B2B marketplace
I'm starting as CTO with a mission of building a B2B marketplace company from scratch. My original background is not in e-commerce, so I'm researching the best platforms/frameworks that can allow me to build a highly customizable product (features, storefronts, analytical screens, etc.), taking advantage of well-known e-commerce abstractions without reinventing the wheel.

I want to decouple as much as possible the backend and frontend, and one of my few requirements is to use React Native to build a multi-platform mobile-first marketplace. High customization is also necessary, as we plan to integrate with plenty of proprietary features and ML models.

I found the concept of headless e-commerce well-suitable for the case. It leads me to players such as Shopify Plus, bigCommerce, Swell, and Medusa JS. However, Shopify Plus seems expensive for an early-stage venture and also not soo customizable. I like the Mesuda JS approach, but it is not a battle-tested project to bet as a core to my business.

Any opinions or recommendations?
At it's peak hospitals were getting overrun. The only way my family and I were going out was once the vaccine had came out. or I was force out because of a job. which I may or may not of survived.
> What I want to know is this: what force lies behind the screens and wires of the web in which we are now entangled like so many struggling flies, and how we can break free of it... In short: What is this thing? And how should it be faced?

I had read up until there, but stepped away to do something else. I was looking forward to coming back to something more ambitious beyond the recent spate of "AI" talk, like some kind of analysis within a larger context of the forces pushing us towards technological/economic determinism (slash digital authoritarianism) for the past few decades - the elephant in the room that all of these alarmist "OMGAI" articles conveniently leave out.

Instead, this article disappointingly nose dived into the superstitious/religious, with its characteristic lack of constructive ideas - essentially just lamenting that we're no longer in the past when things were oh-so-simple. Not that there isn't some fundamental wisdom in the religious tales and prognostications of old, but to take them literally as descriptive models that are directly applicable to novel phenomena is utterly vacuous.

This is starkly demonstrated in the second installment of the essay, where the author leans on "I won’t have a smartphone in the house" as if that is an example of ascetic restraint. Sorry, abstention is not principled engagement!

I've developed my own personal philosophy mostly revolving around libre software and personal computing autonomy, which I think has done a decent job of letting me dodge many attention-economy bullets. But it doesn't feel particularly apt for confronting what ML is poised to do. Which is why I was hoping for something a bit more general and constructive, but alas this isn't it.
Sounds like a good app for an old phone!
I used paid relays. The reasons are higher quality content. It works alright for spam prevention. Also, I use the nostr.wine filter relay, which is pretty neat. You can connect to it and it will pull notes from your web of contacts (your follows, plus their follows). Additionally, it will rebroadcast your notes to public relays.

It's a pretty nice way to keep your feed quiet (not spammy), but also allow your notes to make it out to the broader public nostr sphere.
I think the line between political solutions and technologial/cultural solutions is quite blurry.

To get past those "using these tools makes you suspicious" phase, you have to convince everyone to both care and to use the tools.

Once they care that much, the political solution is also much more feasible.
Precisely this.

I haven't seen anybody take any of the cheap CO2 sensors and demonstrate that they are anywhere in the range of the readings of a lab grade CO2 sensor.
You have misread what I said, it is not either capitalist or socialist. Policies can incorporate both, using subsidies, tax policies, law/regulations etc to incentivize desired outcomes
So how does this compare to am embedded analytics service like SiSense, Looker? Is this sort of in between?
Is it islamophobic to oppose throwing gay people off of roofs? What about killing apostates?

Clearly you can critique interpretations of a religion without being islamophobic.
duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35774730
From article: “the FSLIC decided it was cheaper to actually burn some unfinished condos that a bankrupt Texas S&L had financed rather than try to sell them”.

That doesn’t sound crazy. Especially if the condos were rubbish (as we see happen on many countries speculating on houses - unused properties with little intrinsic value).
> However, I would venture that being successful in any career --- be it research, business, politics, arts --- requires a certain amount of focus and neglect of your family and friends.

A warning for the younger readers in our midst: this is NOT how most relationships work. You normally don't get to mismanage a relationship and then "make up for it" later. When you do, there are almost always lasting scars.

That said: this might be true for business and politics. But academics? LOL. Becoming a professor, even at a top university, is a pretty pathetic definition of "success". A professor is a mid-level manager position that pays about the same as an entry-level position at a top tech or finance firm. Most people involved in allocating budget / selecting projects understand that the work being managed is mostly not valuable; that's why they don't mind telling you that you need to pay your subordinates about what they'd make at McDonald's.

It's a first line management job where pay is not enough to "make up" for the lost years and the work almost always literally doesn't matter.

> But later, if you succeed, you can make it up to them and make it worth it for them as well.

This might be true in business and politics, and to some extent in arts, but it's not true in academia. And to the extent that it is true, it's enabled by pushing shit down the hill.

Which is why I'm a lapsed academic. I turned down my TT offers because I realized that I couldn't, in good conscience, build a career out of abusing junior labor. And universities put hard constraints on how you pay and manage PhD students, so avoiding at least financial abuse is mostly impossible.
But I did not in any way say that they have reproductive instincts. Much less by accident. I agree with you.

But developers are working hard to emulate those and other artificial life characteristics explicitly in systems based on GPT and also totally different architectures.
Starship getting high on 4/20 was truly a crime of opportunity.

The only victim, however, may be the poor bastard who was forced to write an article explaining the gag.
> This decision was made because PrivacyTools’ founder and controller of the domain name had disappeared for an extended period of time and could not be contacted.

> After the organizational move was completed, the founder of PrivacyTools returned and began to spread misinformation about the Privacy Guides project. They continue to spread misinformation in addition to operating a paid link farm on the PrivacyTools domain. We are creating this page to clear up any misconceptions.

paid link farm?
From the Wikipedia page:

> Yurts take between 30 minutes and 3 hours to set up or take down, and are generally used by between five and 15 people.
You like his writing and yet you still feel it appropriate to insult him?
This is my favorite short story of all time. Thanks for including it.
Are you talking about a fan that simply blows outside air in? Wouldn’t that basically fight what the HVAC is doing? AFAIK the only real solution is an ERV / HRV, and they are extremely expensive (like $10k in my area)
I might be misremembering it. It was more than 25 years ago. But the plot stayed imprinted to this day. I will keep looking. Only thing I am sure is that is either Philip K. Dick or Arthur C. Clarke.
> There is also a legal (not to mention moral and ethical) requirement to clear snow from the sidewalk in front of your property within 24 hours of a snowfall.

What happens if you're away from home for a week (or a month)?
> import { sql } from '@vercel/postgres';

Careful here. You'd be building a vercel-specific API into the middle of your data access stack. That might be fine... e.g., if it has a limited/specific use or lifetime, so that you know you won't get stuck.

But otherwise, use a standard, portable client. The docs say you can use any postgres client, so you should be able to choose whatever you prefer.
> And open car window lets someone easily get in without breaking the glass and attracting attention and the cracked open window may give them the idea to try it in the first place.
Scott Alexander needs no help in digging his own holes.
Curious about this, does the same hold in Arizona? I had a landlord steal my security deposit plus send me to collections for almost $2K for what they said were scratches on the flooring... which was vinyl... the picture they sent as proof would get absolutely laughed out of court I am sure[1]

[1] https://goo.gl/maps/VRe4zHTAYrzZZz1H7
Especially in California
> why wouldn't companies leave for another country

Haven't they already?

Besides, that might be a good thing, if corporate overreach continues to grow unchecked.
I have observed (anecdotally) an increase in calf/achilles pain and knee pain reports in high school runners transitioning between XC and track meets in which they're wearing ultra-minimalistic spikes with negligible - often negative! - heel-toe drop, and training in high-stack "cloud shoes" with enormous amounts of exotic super-cushioning foam.

I think this is particularly unhelpful when marketing the same shoe design that has essentially no material under the instep or heel to elites who have the endurance and form to be poised on their toes with negligible heel contact during an entire 10k to 15-year-olds who will start off with grand ambitions and then be slogging it in for the latter two laps of the 1600..

I definitely agree that runners using these "maximalist" shoes exclusively are likely to experience more foot injuries if they ever need to transition away from them. My coaches (from as far back as...two decades ago, yikes) had us do strides on the football field barefoot, as well as occasional speed workouts on the track in spikes or spike flats to ensure that we were not only conditioning our major leg muscle groups but also smaller muscles and ligaments in the feet. If you only ever train to go straight forward with even, highly cushioned footfalls, and step in a pothole or on a rock when your muscles are at their weakest, it's not good.

That said, for long, slow, distance days, I love me some cloud shoes. I just make sure to switch them up with minimalist flats for speed work and tempos once in a while, and to get some barefoot strides in when I have access to good grass.
No point, because there are already thousands of such examples on Twitter or wherever on the internet. And since you ask, obviously you intend to find some way to dismiss anything I bring up.
Scalpel manufacturers don't advertise their scalpels as capable of performing surgery on their own.
In theory that is how it should work. I promise in practice that you will get absolutely nowhere. Most prosecutors seem local, either municipal or county, but in actuality are State workers, and the State is generally completely disinterested in investigating its own staff.

The feds are even less interested in investigating matters that should be handled by the State.

I say this from practical experience of trying to move the State Attorney General's office and the FBI to investigate and getting absolutely nowhere at all.

My next plan is to simply take a local friendly reporter with a video camera and perform a sit-in at the prosecutors office until they promise to do something or they have me arrested for trespass.
Not completely true but there is definitely some degree of it here. Some of it I think is propaganda machine doing the job, some of it is lack of critical thinking, some - intolerance to the opposite opinions and we probably have healthy dose of Ukrainians here who are understandably in no mood to let anything non negative slide.

As for downvotes themselves - I personally do not give rat's ass about those. In large part those are "I do not like you" type of reaction. So fucking be it. I am not being paid for karma. Personally I did not downvote single post however I feel about content / poster.
I wonder how much of this gets "downstream" to people eating the food produced.

EDIT: https://www.ewg.org/foodnews/summary.php

The 2023 DIRTY DOZEN

Of the 46 items included in our analysis, these 12 fruits and vegetables were most contaminated with pesticides:

Strawberries
Spinach
Kale, collard and mustard greens
Peaches
Pears
Nectarines
Apples
Grapes
Bell and hot peppers
Cherries
Blueberries
Green beans
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/watch-fight-to-repair-de...
black/white fallacy
I think your distinction on push vs pull is a good one that Congress could consider incorporating if it chooses to revisit 230, though that approach is probably too far from the current text for SCOTUS to be willing to read it in when it rules on Gonzalez.

However, something worth noting: wherever 230 lands, there's not some regulator using discretion in enforcing it (like a prosecutor deciding when to charge someone with murder) -- this is a law that gives tech platforms a defense from the private lawsuits that could otherwise put them out of business (e.g., suits by indviduals/businesses for defamation because the algo ended up recommending a "John Smith is a lying fraud" video).
This isn't a planet though, why should it get a planet's name?
Yeah that's more glamping than an earnest discussion about long term occupancy considerations.
It's unlikely the House will pass a clean debt ceiling hike. The GOP has not budged since the beginning of the new Congress. The MAGA caucus is determined to extract spending cuts at any costs. The way I see it, one of three things will happen:

1) The executive branch will invoke Section 4 of the 14th Amendment[1] and direct, by Executive Order, the Treasury Department to continue paying interest to bondholders, effectively abolishing the debt ceiling with the stroke of a pen, and without Congress' approval. This is my preferred option. There already exists a strong legal argument that the existence of the debt ceiling is unconstitutional. This maneuver would allow the White House and Congress to fight the issue in the courts without defaulting. The administration could also mint the oft-discussed trillion dollar coin, or a couple of them, if that loophole still exists.

2) A few sane House Republicans will cross party lines and vote for a clean debt ceiling hike with the Democrats. The Speaker would not be able to prevent it, and what happens to Kevin McCarthy doesn't matter here. Democrats can introduce a bill and force a floor vote without the Speaker's approval (?) Someone correct me on this.

3) Default. Either the US government stops paying bondholders, or the Fed buys bonds in default (this is called a technical default), or the Treasury keeps paying interest but slashes spending in other areas, like Medicare, to pay for it. However, there are serious doubts as to whether this "debt prioritization" maneuver would be legal and/or constitutional.

Or the administration could cave and give the Republicans what they want, but I don't see that happening, because it would greatly harm Biden's reelection chances and hand a huge political victory to the GOP.

[1] The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned.
As the joke goes: dating websites are really getting weird with stable diffusion. I mean, they look like a super model in the profile pic, but when you meet them in person they have deformed hands with 8 fingers! (referring to stable diffusion's inability to render hands very well)
I've used all three hiking and I absolutely prefer trail runners. I only use waterproof shoes if I'm going in the snow and even then I still don't like it.
It would not be trivial to design an separate underwater vehicle that could travel ahead of a submarine at flank speed (>30 knots), let alone do so quietly.
Fair enough, I don't know anything about Delphi except its price tag. Given OPs request for a friendly UI to sit on top of cube I thought retool could fit well that use case. And thanks for sharing the guide, I use and love Cube but I didn't want to pass as a shill :)
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I see lots of people pointing to what is "more likely" or "more realistic."

I'm not sure where everyone got these strong priors on the consequences of 'intelligent' machines from, did I miss some memo?
No one is dismissing anything
Life is not an accelerator. It takes energy and produces order from it, inefficiantly but order still. If earth never had any life, it would simply be a warmer soup. Instead look around at what photosynthesis and energy storage has accomplished. Without it there would not be hundred story buildings, roads, olympic competitions, taxes, karaoke, or anything thay exists around us. Certainly without life all energy from the sun would have simply blasted a the wet space rock that we call earth all the same. I posit that life is a way to slow the trend towards entropy. It is ultimately unstoppable, but the protest of life is beautiful in its epemeral spite in the face of that truth.
I refuse to believe that a 200+lb athlete's jumping is significantly impacted by a few ounces of extra weight in their shoe. I could believe that rigidity in fabric around the ankle has an impact.
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> Income inequality is good,

Yeah I don't agree with that.

> It's accumulated wealth that is the problem

I do agree that wealth inequality is the bigger problem, and I should have used that term instead.
If your reader raises it's reading as you sit in a small room, and lowers when you open a window... It's probably not at risk of being random. Inaccurate maybe, but still sensing in the correct direction.
There's an argument that people generally do not want the truth and that AI will never be allowed to tell it. An optimist could view this as ensuring AI will be safe forever or pessimistically they might see it as AI never being authoritative ever.

One example of truth would be the topic of biological sex another about politics or economics or racism. Imagine releasing an AI that told the actual truth. It's impossible that one will be released by anyone, anywhere.

It's possible to build it but it can't happen.

On the other side of inconvenient or embarrassing truths some would argue that "truth" itself is part of the machineries of oppression because it destroys and ignores an individuals experiences and feelings.

Without objective truth AI will always be limited and therefore it will be tamed and made safe no matter where and who invented, runs and releases it.
You're replying to the person who used the term "Ags" upthread.
I'm not a geopolitical expert, but I'd imagine the main dynamic at play here is:

1) The US has strong influence in China's sphere of influence and doesn't want to give it up.

2) China wants to drive the American influence away from its borders and shipping lanes. They believe that very well could be possible in the coming years.

3) If you're China, you don't want to sign a weapons ban that benefits the incumbent.

4) If you're the US, you're not going to stop AI weapons research unless China does too.
Here's how it works right now: a staffing companies takes money from applicants for filing a petition and THEN finds them a job later based on whichever staffing agency gets picked. It's not even illegal for multiple companies to submit a petition for the same person.

Meanwhile there's a real position at FAANG for every petition they file (and if the petition doesn't get selected, there's a position at a subsidiary). Keep in mind that If I want to hire:

A smart graduate from EPFL, Polytechnique or ETH Zurich who interned at CERN and has contributed to the Linux kernel for a software engineering job at a unicorn startup OR

A grad from a second tier "technical college" in India with a visa refusal rate of ~90% for a job doing manual UI testing and QA for a body shop [0]

my only path forward is H1! They'll both be listed as "computer related occupations" and apply for the same visa in the same quota. Does that make any sense to anyone?

Of course, my odds of getting a lottery spot for the former are dramatically lower, since we all know body shops and consulting firms won't hesitate to file 4-5 applications per seat they plan to fill out (so one can hopefully get a spot in the lottery and not get any RFE).

[0] https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/silicon-valleys-body-s...
> Income inequality is good

I agreed with the rest of your comment but this is... strange. You might agree if it's rephrased as "extreme income inequality" is bad?

"Harrison Bergeron" was a straw man argument posing as a short story - don't let the similar strawman of "no income inequality" overshadow the more present and real threat to society of growing extreme income inequality. Some twitter posts accurately phrase this as the "too expensive to live" problem for some.
Irrationally how?

What is so obviously irrational about what is being done? I don't see it.
Someone has a million in index funds and earns more than a Walmart worker by "sitting on their ass". Are you proposing a ban to that?
I'm not arguing artists are going to go away, just that story telling is going to become a lot easier. it also doesn't mean the content produced is necessarily painted with 'broad strokes' and absolutely doesn't mean its soulless. It means the barriers to entry for producing stories just came down a whole lot - akin to the printing press did for books.