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Tell HN: Considering legal action against Stripe
Like many others, they just permanently damaged our platform by closing our account without notice. It's plain sad considering how much we've worked on it — for more than 2 years as a team of 2 college students.

Despite seeing these kinds of posts on HN every week, we mistakingly thought taking extra care of our account and forming our company under Stripe Atlas would at least help us survive until we got big enough. Also, some part of us thought – "Clearly, these people must have done something wrong. Stripe wouldn't be this aggressive. They are terrific for entrepreneurs after all!" We were dead wrong.

The truly insane part about it is that we had no issues with *anyone*: no complaints, no chargebacks, no anything. We went further by regularly checking purchases and manually refunding suspicious sales, which happened once when someone started card testing and we stopped it immediately — we also kept Stripe updated at every step, and they told us that they were impressed with how we handled it and that someone would contact us about the matter. With all that said, these shouldn't even matter because we are so new and small as a company that nearly all our paying customers are our friends & family.

What's even better is how they permanently damaged our brand by sending the same email about our account's closure due to "unauthorized charges" to our Connect users/sellers.

I just cannot help but feel like they are simply doing a summer cleanup, removing low revenue companies that might be making them lose a few bucks.

We contacted support 3 times, yet the answer is always the same automated "We still think your account is high risk" nonsense — even though we've had less than 100 transactions this year, all cleared up by the IRS & Cleer Tax.

Honestly, it's like they don't even want to find a solution since when we offered to axe a whole part of our service, just to be "low risk" and comply with their demands (that we were guessing as they just won't tell us), they again replied with the automated message.

We were baffled by how we were cut off without a single warning and without reason. The only plausible move seems to take legal action to at least get some answers?
By what physical means do these AI 'goal directed agents' actually manipulate the physical world?
No. I don't think they do that. Creators will naturally want to turn on ads because the return is amazing. YouTube just recommends videos that it thinks individual users will enjoy the most.
Apple devices aren't nearly as universal outside of the US (except Japan where they're even more universal) and there are already payment options for non-US Apple users. I think I have four different payment cards in my Wallet.
My guess is that it originates with designers who build these web pages as basically Keynote / PowerPoint presentations.

It’s shown to management, everybody oohs and aahs at the clever transitions between slides… And then the developer is stuck trying to replicate that “unique experience” with the designer breathing down their neck.
I'm not sure why states are not just ignoring federal courts at this point. The GOP hasn't allowed democrats to appoint any judges (even when they had majorities in the senate) for over a decade now. There is no reason for blue states to abide at all at this point, and they should just defer to their own state level courts instead. Either that or a 'supreme court in exile' needs to be made to counter this.
It feels like Xbox also serves as a reference controller for PC. Viewed from that angle, basic and conservative makes sense.

I still really like the XBox controllers for their ergonomics. They’ve been refining that same basic design for a long time.
Yes, the cash back into a high yield savings account. My wife has it and it’s a great setup
There's a lot of seemingly purely local infrastructure that nowadays depends from networking. login calls into a PAM module, which does database lookups, which goes through nsswitch and under the covers tries to consult nscd or systemd-resolved or some such, which either have network timeouts to tick down or aren't started until boot network interfaces are configured ....

Mind you, there was the same issue with NIS.
It's probably the biggest problem in the ecosystem, for all the papercuts I piss and moan over. The existence of an F-Droid style store on iOS would go such a long ways in stimulating competition. Even if Apple defends their right to tax platform payments, the mere existence of no-cost ad-free software would force other ecosystem players to do better. It's a win for FOSS fanatics and paid software stalwarts alike.

Now, if Apple unlocked the bootloader and promised no more ownership shenanigans, I'd never badmouth Tim or his company's software ever again. This website has my word on that.
What I have done for a similar use case is to have ChatGPT via the OpenAI API generate SQL (or KQL) based on the user request and then run that query and display the results (with some prose if appropriate). Works fairly well even with GPT-3.5-turbo. With GPT-4 can handle more complex requests (slower). It could even create a custom Chart.js chart on the fly if requested.

To me this demonstrates that there is a specific job here, even if you don't want to call it "engineering". Which I would argue is the correct category of job at least.

The above project was presented as "let's put a table of data in a vector database and then search it using the embedding of the user query". Here you were suggesting fine-tuning an LLM with the structured data. Again, it makes more sense to just generate the SQL and leave it in the relational database.

So there are a few basic things about how this stuff works that are not obvious and require some specialization. Even for programmers.

Right now I think it's fair enough to put it in its own job category since there are plenty of software engineers that just don't have any experience with generative AI. But within a few years, I think knowing how to integrate generative AI into a product will be considered core knowledge for a software engineer. So using LLMs or Stable Diffusion will become bullet points on a job requirements list.
I use the one I wrote https://fairthejob.com
I just discovered the “hide” button on HN.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2t1vfur07xE&pp=ygUMd2hvb29vIGN...
> Would mark a major escalation in executive accountability... Still no criminal charges, though.

If there was a criminal referral they wouldn’t announce it and any charges would usually sigbificantly trail civil enforcement action, judging from every other SEC civil + DOJ criminal action I’ve seen.
I'm sure you know this, but for others reading this who are novices at finance / trading, like I am - the gotcha here is that while the strategy may be symmetric, the risk is not - when buying a stock, there is a floor to how much money you can lose (the price you paid for the stock), while with short-selling, there is no such floor, since the price can rise to any amount and increase your losses to infinite. I believe that traders will use hedges to account for this, however, these hedges will eat into your profits if they are not exercised (but may save your bacon if they are!).
I don’t know what more to say, so please read this and get back to me. Research shows this would actually be a good thing

https://www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/rpr_2_6.pdf
Surprisingly, no.

These foundational things are pretty frequently skipped or glossed over. There's a lot of stuff above and beyond that needs to be covered.

For example, in 1994, you probably didn't spend a whole lot of time talking about concurrency or parallelism. Most software didn't need to think about those things.

But beyond that, kids these days have a very different relationship with computers than we did. They very VERY rarely interact with the filesystem (in my day, that was everything). Instead, it's a slick UX with apps to tell you everything to do.

Back in my day, even fairly novice computer users were familiar with the idea of mounting/unmounting stuff because they'd pop in a 3 1/4 floppy write stuff there, and pop it out. Formatting a floppy was a fairly common occurrence (for some reason).

Things are just different. On the one hand information about this stuff is WAY more available than it ever was. On the other, there's a lot more information and things are constantly changing. You can see that in old games like starcraft. There, the authors had things like their own custom linked list implementation. You'd pretty much never see something like that in modern software. You'd get funny looks with people saying "Why aren't you using a library for that? There's `ac`"
The only thing interesting here is the marketing gimmick. Any charity can accept crypto payment rails via a vendor.
They should probably stop killing dolphins indiscriminately in the name of catching fish.
I'm having difficulty determining what your point is here, and with whom you're agreeing and/or disagreeing.

Care to clarify?
Yes, it would fall under the category of 'dark patterns'.

If you're not allowed to block ads, you sure as hell don't have a right to be promoted while refusing to RUN ads. I've assumed the worst for years now.
Right, it's technically just expensive and that's the thing that may leave some players behind, but I bet that at competitive level, players are not missing any card they need.

Similarly with F1 after the cost caps. If you had 135M you could compete with no monetary disadvantage.
Might taste like cow?
Unless you constantly play more than 6 hours straight without rest, the mediocre battery of PS5 controller is not really a problem. Much less so if you have the official charging dock.
MantisBT:

https://www.mantisbt.org/index.php
> "You made me do it” is a standard gaslighting technique, common in abusive relationships....

Amusingly, when I first started reading this I thought you were referring to all the comments justifying using ad blockers for the various reasons.

Funny that things like this go both ways...
Source-level debugging is what we have in mind; we have done a lot of work on Wazero and as part of https://github.com/stealthrocket/wzprof to enable it.

It is still not a solved problem, and it requires support for each programming language that does things differently, but we're working towards this.
> I grew up changing the channel on TV when ads came on, and ripping adverts out of magazines before sitting down to read them.

Roger that. Always turning over a full-page ad to verify that no content text would be lost.

And then there's the magazines that put the ads on right-hand pages and the content on left-hand pages.
Language ecosystem is more important than the language itself. Typing 5 lines of code because of fancy syntax is nice, but writing 20 doesn't take a significant amount of time. What does take tons of time however is figuring build systems, packaging, distribution, debugging, editor support, documentation, community, libraries, etc...

I'm surprised no new languages focus on ecosystem. It is much less fun than making clever syntax I suppose.
Spread of diseases and parasites is one of the reasons it's usually prohibited across the world, despite the amounts of waste people produce. Safe processing methods are still to be found. Sure, materials can be irradiated to sterilize them, but facilities to mass-irradiate truckloads of fertilizer are itself a problem.

Random YouTube video on that topic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V4q59o_mjU
https://archive.is/nKk3x
periodic auctions are common on european exchanges (pesky limits on dark pool volume)

instead of order entry + continuous matching: order entry is allowed, but no matching (like pre-open phase)

then after a random period of time the auction algo runs on the entered orders

then repeat the entire thing every second
Ha ha good luck, suckers. Negotiating with Apple is a fool's effort: they have too much experience and are too good at it.

Amex are no dummies either (despite a couple of near death experiences over the years). They'd be a good match with Apple from a consumer perspective but I find it hard to imagine that Apple would give up the terms of the sweet deal they struck with Goldman nor can I believe Amex would be willing to accept those terms.

Goldman isn't going to go out of business due to their botched consumer foray, but I'm sure Apple would be quite content to continue to peacefully pump blood out of Goldman until the original agreement runs out.

And Goldman: next time don't recruit a DJ to be your part time CEO!
higher resident memory is not ideal, but is it a dealbreaker?

Anyhoot - I think clojure is the best lisp there is right now, but for better or worse it is tied to the jvm and seems to be stagnating.
I used to advocate for fastmail but honestly, it's been awful for me. I had to go back to gmail. Fastmail isn't able to consistently deliver and receive emails, and it cost me a very good job once. More than half of the "verify email address" or "one time PIN" emails don't make it to my inbox anymore and I have to use my gmail address instead. Some platforms just flat out can't send me any emails at all. Multiple occasions of people just flat out not receiving my email, not even in a spam folder. I had a brief period where if I had an important email I'd send it from both fastmail and my gmail to make sure it was delivered. I just gave up and went back to gmail. The state of email is really frustrating and it's not fastmail's fault I don't think, it' more likely google's fault.
It does work on PC when plugged in via USB. Bluetooth support for controllers on Windows is terrible without 3rd party programs like DS4Windows.
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Smartphones start at $20.

Urban areas where most homeless people are are blanketed with wifi.
The estate agent percentage in the U.K. is typically around 2% of property value in total, paid by the seller, with virtually nobody using a buyers agent. I have never understood why fees are so crazy in the USA.
I am waiting for a response on this thread. Hope we can sort it out. (This was a disaster of a day)
I had a professor at college who mandated Racket as the mode of learning for a software engineering course. I remember how Racket just ended up taking centre stage, figuring language-specific concepts and hacks out let the larger engineering concepts fade into the background.

I did not learn much in that course.
Wait to see what the realized losses are. Banks are kinda infamous for huge preemptive write downs, then discovering "profits" when the loans pan out.
Here’s some research showing loan forgiveness would be a net boon on the economy

https://www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/rpr_2_6.pdf
I feel that I've very rarely actually heard people complain that what Red Hat is doing is illegal. The overwhelming majority of negative opinion takes that I've heard has been, "Red Hat is trying to squeeze out money from users which is against the spirit of Linux." Which is to paraphrase the generally ineloquent takes I've heard on the matter. Though there's a point to be made there, why did Linus Torvalds start the Linux project? To make a free alternative to the expensive Unix of the time. I think that point falls a bit short, there are plenty of completely free Linux-based distributions out there to choose from. People just wanted an "Enterprise Linux" for free, which for years had been CentOS, and now Rocky/Alma Linux. People feel like they're going to have to change to a new OS or pay Red Hat money, which given the spirit of RHEL, change probably isn't something these people are accustom to.

In short, I've heard of people being generally annoyed by the change, which may be fair. I haven't heard too many people seriously trying to make the claim that what Red Hat is doing is illegal.
The difference is that we are not trying to learn how to talk to mice, as to potential intellectual peers.
Because part of the article's premise is that the high sticker price is dissuading people from enrolling. The cost of running a university net public funding was significantly reduced from 2018 to 2021. When your margin goes up and your demand goes down below capacity, then prices go down due to price equilibrium, since the marginal benefit from enrolling one more student is positive, assuming a student can pick from more than one university. But this didn't happen, which means the prices are being driven by some other force (maybe student loans that can never be discharged through bankruptcy?)
This is true even when talking about reading a byte from memory.

It's way faster to fill a cache line with 64bytes in one go than it is to make 64 1 byte requests to main memory.
Noticed this morning that nitter was down and twitter made tweets completely unavailable until you're logged in. Very annoying.

I wonder what happened to embedded tweets?
Yes, I guess that's right.

It's just weird to include generations that were mostly children in a calculation of household wealth.
And how would you create a transaction without access to internet or a fairly modern device?
Depends on what you call 'kids'.

To me it seems way different than 2005. I was working (illegally, I was 15 and unpaid) with my father in a 'quartier ZEP' to help kids do their homework (we also played sport, board games and taught 'La vie en communauté' in general). For some reasons, I'm at the same place 18 years later, and it's not the same public. I'm living right in front of were the 'chaos' was last night. It feels way younger (I might just be way older, but truth to be told, I don't think it's that), more diverse (not just concerning the skin color and the religion, more socially diverse especially), more frantic, more violent at times but less focused. That might end in like two days.

It doesn't feel like the usual social crisis. I'm not sure it's social at all. It might be mostly generational. I think they are scared.

Also, we're back to the 70s it seems. Michel Rocard's inheritance is definitely gone. I'm afraid we're becoming the US in Europe, it surely seems we're racing the British toward that goalpost.
The primary justification seems to be a pizza delivery startup going under and a pets.com imploding due to payroll issues, as well as some random doom tweet.

I’ll put $5 on 2024 being one of the most frothy markets as materially relevant AI stuff hits production, the much predicted and prepared for recession never materializes, and inflations dips out of sight.
Putting the internet in the hands of corporations was the worst thing that ever happened to technology
Clearly people disagree that it's uninteresting.

You don't need to personally like every story posted on HN. It's fine to skip the some of them. You can even hide them.
What's really shocking is that this number is post provision for future losses, which is a non cash accounting charge that the media often uses to make banks look worse. These are real losses.
Every apartment and house I've bought up to this day in my life (and I've moved quite a lot over the decades) would have been almost an impossible sale by the owners themselves. Their realtor was able to present the place, reply with empathy (that is, understood where I was coming from and what my interests are) and get back to me with important info about the property and district that the owners themselves usually had little clue about. The owners themselves where often awkward, hard to talk to and overall pretty clueless.

So, all those folks definitely got something out of hiring a realtor. Nothing to do with "legal stuff". Most people are just terrible at presenting and selling things. And that's fine. Claiming otherwise is closing your eyes for what's out there in the real world.
I don't view advertising. I use ad block everywhere, no TV, download everything I watch.

I still found a computer to buy.

How?
I think it's a combo of not having a culture for it and that the margins in that space are lower than that of their other lines of business.

Apple is the master of entering new LOBs always with (only when) they can get the same margins they do on the rest of their business. Remember how people laughed at the price of the iphone? They didn't care -- the target was 1% of the phone business: the profitable part.
Not to be confused with sweetbread.
So your proof of six figure blue collar jobs being abundant is: a fast food chain, that isn’t even a national chain, where you have to work at garbage pay for years to MAYBE get a manager position (for which there are few and I bet they have degrees) where you might possibly get near six figure pay (in what are most likely high COL areas). Are you serious right now?

And the ATC not needing schooling is misleading. You’re only getting accepted via experience if you’ve served in the military as an ATC. Otherwise you need a degree. Go read the BLS overview: https://www.bls.gov/ooh/transportation-and-material-moving/a...

Also I’ve put effort into my argument, not that it required much. You’ve moved the goalposts from oh so many six figure blue collar jobs to maybe you can be a manager at in and out. Which just confirms the OPs point of a degree being necessary for real social mobility. Unless you think everyone in the country can be an in and out manager.

And finally, hard work doesn’t always earn big bucks. Plenty of people work grueling jobs and get paid crap. The break their bodies for nothing. You are just spouting more ideological garbage.
> A possible starting point would be to address the remarkable lack of regulation of the AI industry, ...

We've successfully regulated away vendor lock-in, proprietary file formats, walled gardens, e-mail spam, ransomware, no right to repair, viruses, spyware, software boondogles in government and disasters in areas like transportation and medicine, ... so of course regulation is the answer that's going to work!
"Temporary emergency measure" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36540957
Browsers shouldn't have accounts to begin with.
> bad thing to interfere with the ability to access information on the Internet for reasons of nationalist politics

Or after 20 years, non Americans recognize information control should be more nationalized instead of under perview of US companies.
First Complete Wiring Diagram of an Adult Fly Brain
No longer any way to view Twitter data without being logged in. Nitter front ends have gone dark. ‘Temporary’, apparently, but time will tell.
Streaming killed the mainstream: The decade that broke popular culture
[x] doubt

Putting the internet in the hands of the Government wouldn't fair much better.
Do you have an AMEX? It's accepted basically nowhere outside of the US, actually very annoying
Here's an option - apply the constitutional privilege to trial by jury and let Law Enforcement have a monopoly on enforcing laws.
I've viewed twitter wayyyyy less (only when someone links something) since Tweetbot stopped working and I think it's been good for my mental health. A login wall will take that usage down to zero, so good news overall.
Why does that classification preclude validation? Is that classification not imposed as part of your proof? I guess what I'm not so seriously wondering is what is the point of it, if it can't be understood without relying on a stupidly complex network?
OTOH I typically only have 2-3 non-Amex charges a month. Costco is the main one (used to be Amex only too).
Same kind of speech as "special military operation"
They could do what every other scientist does, and pay people to build and run the tools they need to get scientifically valid results from their experiments.
> The MI250 has a larger amount of HBM memory (128GB) than even the largest A100 (80GB). This means the MI250 can hold larger models for training or inference.

AMD put two individual devices together, so you can tell people the combined memory is more than Nvidia has to offer.

> Overall we find that AMD MI250 achieves an average of ~80% of the per-GPU training throughput of A100-40GB and ~73% of A100-80GB

So their two-device bundle with more memory and theoretical compute just can't compete with Nvidia's prior gen single device.

Can MI300 compete with H100?