skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a big caveat to using PayPal: most marketplaces are not really supported.

From the Stripe page OP link: PayPal is available for online marketplaces using Stripe Connect. These online marketplaces include businesses such as Deliveroo and ManoMano that collect payment from customers, and later pay out to sub-accounts or service providers. PayPal isn’t available for platforms that onboard other businesses and enable them to accept payments directly, such as Shopify or Squarespace.
>I can easily see bitcoin lose much of its value in about 4 decades when the block subsidy is negligible and it relies almost exclusively on transaction fees for security.

I actually agree with this, and that's one reason I, too, prefer Monero - the tail emissions + tx fees are more economically sustainable than tx fees alone.
Companies have shown they'll do speculative layoffs or hiring. It's possible it's just an excuse in this case, but they might also genuinely believe the AI hype.
In the 70s the gradually forming consensus was still that global warming was real. The popular press just ran with cooling more, so the lay person believed it. The modern "the 70s predicted cooling so can we believe anything these 'scientists' say?" talking point is based upon a false premise.

https://skepticalscience.com/ice-age-predictions-in-1970s.ht...
Title is off yeah, but the abstract does effectively say that the paper was written amongst a cohort of PhD students
> Generally, chatbots function in direct communication with humans and do not function autonomously. Thus they are dependent on not just human meaning-making but human thirst for meaning which will find it even when it isn't there.

The latter doesn't follow. They may just be dependent on good prompt design.

People who aren't used to the AIs, and don't know how to use them, get worse results. This shouldn't be a surprise; it's how every tool works.
I think there is also a obsession with presentism and applying modern morals to the past. It is almost as if the point of historical study is to sit in judgement, opposed to understand how the world worked and changed.

Ask most people what the defining characteristics or deeds of Washington of Jefferson and they respond with the points above.

Are those the most impactful or noteworthy characteristics of those individuals? I don't think so. Perhaps they are interesting context for understanding their other deeds or the human condition, but certainly not the primary impact they had on history.
Not anymore https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/mozilla-stops...
I also agree with the later option.

I've been using databases for a very long time. For the past 2 decades there has been a drive by framework providers to transparently handle such things and relieve developers of any difficult decisions. Often there isn't an option or it is deeply hidden. I've arrived on jobs to find Spring applications where database transactions have been unwittingly disabled (or not enabled) and no one has realised.

There is also a lack of upfront thinking about types of data and the required consistency. Some items really should be consistent and some don't need to be.

In one of Martin Fowler's earlier books he describes the difference between knowledge and operational data. Knowledge data is almost like configuration - perhaps the description of a currency and number of decimal places it has. Operational data might be an invoice generated using that currency. The description of a currency changes rarely (unlike a currency rate), it could be cached a long time for use by many processes without issue. However, the invoice must be consistent, but only one process will be involved in creating it and nothing else is held up waiting for it, and once it is created - it will never change.

In practice most data items lie somewhere along this spectrum. However, you choose your tool and then everthing is either ACID or NoSQL.
Reddit told Apollo’s dev that they plan yo announce the pricing on upcoming Monday, the 29th. Guess we’ll get more details then.
Stripe is not available in some countries yet, which Gumroads supports.
If you avoid answering questions about your theories it can certainly appear to be not complicated, but whether it actually is is another matter.
I really like this analogy, especially if you go deep on "drug trafficking," -- a corrupted, but not "wholly corrupt" activity that has potential to be legitimized and thus there may be a need to consider something other than "legal annihilation."

(as in bootlegging was also once drug-trafficking)
Who are you referring to? Linux or FreeBsd people? I guess both should look to each others'. But it's common to see this in FLOSS, right? Goes beyond namespaces/ isolation.
"Trump immediately ramped up forced internment of legal immigrants, some of which we later discovered amounted to literal ethnic cleansing via forced sterilization practices."

Source?
It's the same fruit, "pomelo" in Spanish is "grapefruit" in English.

edit: ok, according to Wikipedia, "pomelo" is an ancestor of grapefruit. But in Spanish, "pomelo" is grapefruit.
>The competition is mostly regular ICE cars with a battery bolted on, while Teslas are designed from ground up as EVs and it shows throughout in ways big and small.

This is not true, it's not 2017 anymore. Everyone is designing their EVs from "the ground up".

How is it that people can both think that Tesla will dominate because building EVs is simpler, but also that the legacy auto world can't figure out how to do it?
I agree with all of this, with perhaps one tiny addendum. Defaults matter, and last I checked Docker/container defaults are miserable for security. I'm guessing if you randomly inspected production container vs jails out in the world, way more container solutions would have giant holes in them compared to jails.
> Limes do prevent scurvy. However the British Navy at that time failed to distinguish between limes and key limes, believing them to be the same fruit. Key limes have very little ascorbic acid (vitamin C)

There is no single fruit called just "lime", its a category of fruits which includes key limes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lime_(fruit)
>> My family history has no memory of me having chicken pox. I had shingles at around 13

Those are the same virus. Yours manifested as shingles even though you were only 13.
Bartek from the Deno team here, let me clarify a few things.

> for one the security model is incompatible with node APIs.

All Node.js APIs are polyfilled using Deno APIs and as such these Node.js API are subject to the same permission model as regular Deno programs.

> however if deno were to support all npm packages, it would necessarily basically have to implement the entire node api, including support for pre async/await (aka callbacks)

We're not aiming for 100% compatibility, though we managed to polyfill a hefty amount of built-in Node modules, including ones that are callback based.

> consider just the c++ embedder apis. how exactly would deno deal with that with respect to permissions?

This is the same situation as with Deno's FFI API. You need to pass `--allow-ffi` flag to enable usage of `Deno.dlopen` (or `require("./foo.node")` for N-API extensions). That said when you load dynamic libraries all bets are off - we can't control what the dynamic library can do and you effectively open up your whole system. Still, you can't load such libraries unless `--allow-ffi` flag is passed.

Hope this clears up some things.
Never underestimate the ability of corporations to make a multi-decade business venture out of selling AI-bullshit to other corporations.
Oh! Yes, then I do see this. Thank you for the pointer to the PR and the explanation.
I wonder why would anyone spend time on developing and maintaining that. FreeBSD needs Linux userland and syscall support to get roughly the same level of software compatibility. The opposite isn't true (maybe it is for your special snowlake internal application developed specifically for FreeBSD, but it isn't so in general case).

All other things you have mentioned are possible with pretty much any of the Linux container runtimes. systemd-nspawn is just one of them, and I don't think it is actually used very much compared to the alternatives.
Depends who you know in some places.
That’s not really an issue when we’re talking about AI. I said in a separate comment on the topic: intelligence is such a complicated thing that we seem to only be able to define it by pointing to things and saying “that’s not it.”

If we didn’t move the goalposts, we’d have declared Stockfish to be full AI, despite it only being a chess-playing program, long ago.
A few order of magnitudes? Can you be more specific? I'm genuinely wondering what you could be referring to that I've missed.
I had an amazing first boss who shared it with me near when I started and said "Ya know, for when you have some downtime". Not only did that introduce me to this awesome news and community, but also, he normalized the idea of some downtime during the 8 hour work day which was so important for me to hear as a junior engineer.
This won't take effect until 2024, Tesla are massively expanding their already massive supercharger network, and the software routes you to the least-busy charger.

This is a huge win for Tesla. They own the "gas stations."
Our marketing department already started replacing content creators with chatGPT. While I don't think it will replace that many jobs right away, it will start replacing more junior roles, which will make it even more difficult to break into many industries.
Same thing at the company I recently worked at-- a maker of software for car dealerships & manufacturers.

The product marketing mentions AI.

I asked a staff data scientist (has been with company for several years) if AI is used in our products.

"No."

It's quite amazing how pervasive Fraud & pseudo-Fraud is in the American economy. Regulators seem to turn a blind eye to so much of it. A recent example I saw was Food adulteration, with things such as sawdust [0]

[0] "31 Foods You're Eating That Contain Sawdust" https://www.prevention.com/food-nutrition/healthy-eating/a20...
But I'll reserve full judgement until they release their side.

Unless they say 'look we're barely functional because our budget is leaking and here's the numbers' it's going to be meaningless PR pablum designed to derail discussion into vagueness. If they were in such dire financials traits, why didn't the board fire the management too?
For e-commerce and digital goods (i.e. courses) sales, PayPal is the preferred payment method in EU. Given the choice, we see EU customers choosing to pay with PayPal instead of Apple or Google pay about 50% of the time. Stripe doesn't want to lose out on these sales.
I don't mean to sound snide, I'm just saying: if your stack is Linux and the container ecosystem (for instance, if your stack is K8s) what would be in it for you to investigate Jails?
> Eminent domain is well established; the court is unlikely to ever overturn this no matter the make up, and they probably shouldn’t as that’s a political question.

I think the bigger issue is that it is expressly Constitutional with terms laid out in the Constitution, not that it is a political question.
Show HN: Pika – Custom ChatGPT-like chatbots for any website
Hello everyone,

My name is Alex and I am the founder a VC-backed startup.

Recently, I’ve used the Open AI API to create an internal chatbot that the team could use. Basically, I wanted to allow the team to ask questions about any company-related information and get answers immediately. That chatbot was trained mainly on our Notion docs, as well as memos and notes taken by the team. Later on, that chatbot was also used by my company’s website, to help our acquisition efforts. The results were great and given that we didn’t have the capability to get back to every customer inquiry from our previous chat widget, the chatbot I created was a huge success.

I ended up creating an entirely new product called Pika so that it can be used on any website.

This is how it works. People login the platform, they add sources of information to the chatbot’s knowledge base (either documents, URLs or free-form text), and click on a button to create a chatbot. Then the chatbot is trained on the sources of information provided; this usually takes less than 30 seconds.

The chatbot now knows everything about the sources of information provided. It can answer any question and every answer can be analyzed and later edited so the chatbot can learn from its mistakes.

You can see a demo of Pika at https://trypika.com

Please try it out and let me know if you have any feedback. I am also happy to take any other technical questions you may have.

Thanks.
It's a bit deeper: since HTML is defined as text markup, text is the truth of HTML documents and the standard of their users, while any sort of object representation of HTML documents is someone's idiosyncratic and possibly limited implementation, necessarily specialized and necessarily harder to use.
It should be less expensive than emitting carbon
Paying for two competing providers really payed off for NASA. If they had only gone with the safe choice (which in 2011 definitely seemed to be Boeing) the West would be forced to soften their stance to either China or Russia, or be locked out of the ISS.
they own redhat linux, hence they have enormous influence over systemd and the linux kernel, this all seems quite serious stuff to me
Excel has some annoying defaults when importing data, too.

My company tracks transactions with an ID that is a numeric string that Excel assumes is an integer but longer than it supports so it truncates the value and displays it in scientific notation.

Original value: -7223371999747962216

Truncated value: -7223371999747960000

Displayed value: -7.22337E+18

It would be fine if it just treated it as text but by discarding digits it makes the values useless. You can’t open a CSV file directly. You have to manually import the data and specify specific columns as text. Every. Single. Time. It cannot be automated.

I’ve been sent so many excel files with truncated data like that because most people don’t even know about the problem, let alone know how to work around it.
PayPal has damaged their reputation enough for people to legitimately dislike them
> These things, from the data, are approximately equally likely.

They aren't. The paper states that 95% confidence interval for men includes a maximum protective effect of up to -1.9 while the 95% confidence for women include a minimum effect of -1.3.

Thus it is far more likely that there is a protective effect for man than no protective effect for women.
Yes, and Mr Citroën was named after the fruit. Or more precisely, his grandfather, a grocer, was named after it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Citro%C3%ABn
Anything new here?

Some discussion 5 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33987578
i've learned from reading glassdoor reviews, that you have to read the review rather than go by the star ratings. the star ratings often don't reflect what written in the review. for example, you'll see lots of amazon reviews that are 3, 4 or even 5 stars but a lot of the time the truth comes out in the text review itself.
They have every right to say what they'd rather it be called, and others have every right to ignore them and use a generic name if they prefer.
Yep, with closed-source financial applications such issues are a common thing, just on a smaller scale so they do not meet the news.

Many of contemporary financials are also still being worked on the mainframes, utilizing the technology stack of 80s, and there are many differences between vendor implementations in the space.

While there are many argues about usability of crypto for payments today, crypto standards do exist in form of RFCs that are open source, produced by community, and are enforced world wide by application developers.

Very progressive step forward IMO as compared to software side of traditional finance today.
That's our official policy right now as well . . .
Mojo: First Impressions
chroot more or less isn't secure at all. All they're really saying is that Jails aren't built on top of chroot, but rather are a ground-up reimplementation motivated by improving chroot.
Thanks guys for the explanation :) Make sense.
OPPO’s Tuzla factory closed quietly
This resonates with a dry-run of my architecture ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWYgChA_aYA ). A central thesis is that that "sure, you can have all these infinitely scalable services" but then the composition of all of them is very hard to reason about.

The interesting thing as I play with my platform as I build a product right now under the thesis is that I'm focused almost 100% on the domain modelling problem for the business rather than thinking about architecture, databases, etc. I'm just writing code, and I have a reliable product from the get-go.

Honestly, I think we have been solving the wrong problems collectively for many years. Granted, I'm years away from a platform for the masses, but it is a super power that my partners and I have to go storm various industries to beat the average.
How is that related to a web browser?
Highly recommend calamansi if you've never tried it before. It's very prevalent in Phillipine cuisine; I first came across it as a sorbet flavor and I'm absolutely hooked on them now. They're a sort of super-acidic version of a cross between an orange and a lime.
Can music festivals go green? We went to one
This is very true. I've worked in an organization where most people on most of the other teams would negatively rate the company, but I was fortunate to have a great boss. So I look back on my time there as positive, although I recognize that most other people had a very different experience of that company.
Someone needs to make a "Firefox Marketing Department Greatest Hits" page; this isn't the first time, by far, they've tried to shoe-horn some absolutely user-hostile garbage into some release, followed by the usual "we will do better" back-pedalling non-apology
That's an especially nuanced take, to the point that it's the first time I've even encountered it. Nearly everyone I've met against GMOs seems to think the problem is that they're creating some kind of mutant plant that lacks "natural" elements, and will surely give us cancer. Of course there's anti-corporate sentiment but something is lost in the telephone game for many.
> Ralph Waldo Emerson described weeds as plants “whose virtues have not yet been discovered"

Agreed!
No it's not blocked by ad blockers, since this was not injected in pages but part of the browser UI (the "chrome").
> provided they are the right nutrients in the right quantities

But isn’t that the tricky part: how do you figure out what is “right”? If you eat synthesized sugar and vitamin C in place of an orange, is it really the same thing? Perhaps the fiber or some other minerals in the orange affect how your body processes and digests the nutrients.

Nutrition is pretty complex and until we know what “right” is, I’d think it’s generally a safer bet to stick with foods that we’ve been eating for hundreds or thousands of years, rather than recently devised nutritive cocktails.
The particularly terrible thing about this is that the Mozilla VPN product is actually Mullvad underneath, one of the better and more ethical VPN providers. Then they have to do this popup ad bullshit pushed by the browser and take a dump all over it.
It's truly fascinating how different people can derive such different meanings! "Confident and serious about mail" are not things that came to my mind at all until someone mentioned them. (I tend to perceive hostility as signifying insecurity and weakness.)

All I saw was hostility. After the other interpretation was pointed out, I can see that -- but I have to force myself to see it. I still just see hostility by default.
Unlikely. My guess is that the ad code runs in the context of the browser itself or some newly created context, rather than of the page you were reading before, but whatever fetch() or similar call it makes to load the ad goes through a subsystem that is affected by ad blockers.

Put another way, when you allow ublock or whatever you're using permission to intercept requests for ALL pages, that includes the "page" that mozilla is using to serve this ad.

Further evidence in favour of this hypothesis is that the ad can temporarily disable the rest of the firefox UI until you deal with it, which normal pages certainly can't do.
There's no more people in camps in the US because we actually have power.
> The reason for this "fad" is straightforward — there are a lot of middle-aged humans who are undiagnosed because ADHD was effectively "not a thing" when GenX were kids.

Or to the extent that it was, they only knew of it through narrow or outright inaccurate stereotypes. It's become a somewhat common story over the past few years in online ADHD communities for Gen X and older Millennial parents to get their kid diagnosed and have a "wait, that's not normal?" reaction to the explanation of how the condition actually tends to manifest.
So they're conducting psy-ops on their users to manipulate them into behaving in a way that Mozilla decided is best? I'm a fan of Firefox, but that's bizarre.
Magnitude 6.1 earthquake near the east coast of Honshu, Japan
This seems really interesting. I am glad many of these tools built up around LLMs allow you to bring your own rather than rely on OpenAI.
Well, they’re expecting to send people to the heavens, one way or another. Boeing has a great track record here, even recently in the aviation business.
I still have some SysV init and I use it to respawn Oracle clients in runlevel 4.

I use this C to knock down the privilege from root to the app client account before I execve() the target:

setfsgid(g);
setfsuid(u);
if(setgroups(NULL) || setresgid(g,g,g) || setresuid(u,u,u))
{
fprintf(stderr, "permissions error\n");
exit(1);
}

I hope that I did this correctly. Even if incorrect, it's worked since 2013.

Interesting that the post's linked article does not even mention real, effective, and saved user/groupIDs.
> We may be splitting hairs about signed agreements and assurances.

None exist, unlike the assurance that Russia would never invade Ukraine.

> Yes there are no signed agreements.

Of course there aren't cause it never happened, and was never promised.

> One interview with the dead Gorbachev is a source, but assurances were given by Western leaders to other people in Russia as well which are documented.

There were never any real agreements, to anyone in any way shape or form that constituted and actual agreement that was meant to be enforced, the leader of the country himself has said that already.

> That aside, what is important is Russia was under the understanding that NATO would not expand into the former Soviet bloc countries right up to its border and create a security threat which we are seeing now play out.

No they weren't their leader literally said he knew that wasn't the guarantee, this is more Putin invented fiction to just his imperialistic war of conquest.

> If you find something that Sachs got wrong, I would love to hear it.

Here's an article that refutes everything he wrote.

> https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1661857051725709314.html

Here's another

> https://blogs.berkeley.edu/2023/03/20/open-letter-to-jeffrey...

By the way, I looked up Jeffery Sachs cause you seem to love him as a source, so I googled him, turns out he's appeared on Russian propaganda shows hosted by Vladimir Solovyov.

Now why would Sachs go on a show that just pure Russian propaganda I wonder?.
This is my approach as well, and I think it's generally considered a best practice in engineering, at least on the software side.

When faced with what sounds like an insurmountable,"where the heck do I even begin?" type of challenge, I like to slice it up and get the obvious bits working, just to build confidence & domain knowledge, while my brain autonomously digests the main problem.
What's the incentive to do anything about it?