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Stripe Account CLOSED for no reason and with no explanation
Hi to all.

My name is Luca and I’m writing this thread on behalf of my business for a problem we are currently facing with our Stripe account.

To sum up our story:
- We created our business Stripe account months back…no complaints.
- 2 weeks ago, we opened the payment gates and received the first 10 payments after 1 year of work…account disabled for no reason and with no explanation.
- We went through multiple support tickets and emails with Stripe support and got the same answer every time from, what seems to be, a chatbot.
- We contacted the "Specialist team" through LinkedIn and after thoroughly explaining how we do not fall under any Restricted Business written by Stripe, he still decided to close our account for no reason and with no explanation.
- The Stripe team is ignoring the fact that we fall under the same category as our competitor, which literally offers our same exact service. In the end, they still decided to close our account...again, for no reason and with no explanation.

Now after 1 year of work and weeks of integrating Stripe services to our platform, clients’ money involved, what are we supposed to do?
Does Stripe at least have a support to pass clients recurring payments to another platform?
Or do we just lose all of our clients?

If there’s anything my team can do such as: changing the service, the platform or the landing page to become compliant to Stripe’s Policies please help us out.

If anyone knows someone we can hop on a call with or discuss this situation please leave details or contact me at:

lucadalla88@gmail.com
xdotool is AutoHotKey for Linux. (ydotool on Wayland, if you've switched for some reason.)

On any Linux DE, you have native configurable key shortcuts (binding commands to keystrokes).

On KDE, Win+right-click for resizing a window from anywhere in the window (no need to click the edges) is awesome. Win+left-click for moving a window from anywhere in the window (no need to click the title bar) is awesome. Ctrl+Alt+Esc to turn your cursor into a little skull and crossbones and instantly kill whatever program you click the window of is awesome. Dolphin is amazing compared to Explorer (tabs, split views, rich file metadata displayed right below filenames).

Alt+tab to summon krunner, a tiny temporary window in the middle of the screen. Type the name of an app, Enter, and it launches. Type a math equation, and it evaluates it. Type "define" and a word, and it pulls a dictionary definition.

Clipboard history in the tray (works with pictures!). Related, Flameshot, which puts Window's Snippet Tool to shame. Like on Windows, Win+. for the emoji picker, but with more modern emojis than Windows currently supports. Customizable emoji fonts, too, unlike on Windows (Twemoji, the one Discord uses, is the best).

Gwenview is better than Window's Photos, and Okular is better than Adobe Reader.

Windows UX has nothing on KDE's UX, and I never wanna go back to an OS that can't translate billions of dollars to features I can get for free because it treats me as a dataminable cost center.
These people have no idea what they're talking about.

They think the UK and France are meritocracies when it comes to attending Oxbridge or the Grande Ecoles?

This doesn't stand up to even the most basic scrutiny. Cambridge doesn't even keep data on its students by income group. That's how embarrassing the numbers are. (Cambridge even actively punishes poor students by forbidding them to work at all while enrolled.) All Oxford will admit to is that 90% of the students come from above the UK's median income.

The Grand Ecoles in France are far worse. People talk about the opening of the Grand Ecoles to other social classes, but this is barely happening. They only started to open up in the 2000s and the opening has been extremely underwhelming. https://shs.hal.science/halshs-03119054/document

If Harvard, Princeton, MIT, Stanford were as unequal as the schools this article is promoting people would lose their minds!

The only difference between the US and Europe: in the US people were upfront about the system. You got extra points for being a legacy. In Europe, they discriminate in exactly the same way but they don't make it so overt.

I'd rather have a transparent system that we can understand and where we can set clear goals, instead of an opaque system that fights even the most basic data collection and reforms.
> The Steam Survey results for July 2023 were just published and it points to a large and unexpected jump in the Linux gaming marketshare.

> When looking at the Steam Linux breakdown, the SteamOS Holo that powers the Steam Deck is now accounting for around 42% of all Linux gamers on Steam.

Doesn't seem unexpected at all?
Nice and Simple Example. Thank You.
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This is an awful lot of analysis for “it’s high-temperature relative to the superconductors that preceded it”
Yes, I agree, HashiCorp Vault definitely serves the purpose of having a single point of failure that can go down and take your entire company down with it, just like in the story :P (c.f. Roblox)
Correct + part of the reason Russia is so fucked up is extreme elitism and a massive gap between the provinces and the 2 gigacities. It's like if NYC and London were dropped in the middle of Kazakhstan, and both groups were raised to hate each other.
Not sure if I understood the questions.

In both iframes and Web Components, a Javascript code (Preact in our case) rendered the comments element, there is no much difference.

Maybe we are not on the same page?
How to raise awareness for Firefox through personal website (and other methods)
Hi HN,

I'm trying to raise awareness of gecko-based browsers like Firefox, Librewolf, Mullvad, etc.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

P.S. One of the methods I remember seeing on HN (but don't have the link anymore) is providing a footer on a personal website when using Chrome (and other Chrome based browsers) that said something like: "This website is best viewed on Firefox" or something. Is there a way to do this in HTML? Thanks.
Nothing about that really screams "kiosk" to me.

That to me says a purpose built computer, which both my desktop and steam deck sole purpose is to play games.

I don't need regular updates either, I need a stable OS. Most games are not on the bleeding edge of technology and need the latest Windows features, especially if those features are not back ported to Windows 10.

Again will point out that I am running this daily on my Steam Deck for gaming and have had zero issues with compatibility.
Good note on a design pattern for a LLM based product. The biggest focal points will be if we see evolution of frameworks that tackle the hard parts here.

Evals, RAG, Guardrails often times require recursive calls to LLM's or other fine-tuned systems which are based on LLM's.

I would like to see LLM's and models condensed and bundled up into more singular task trained models - much more beneficial versus system design on using LLM's for applications.

This seems like we are applying traditional system design patterns for using LLM's in practice in apps.
Interesting; can you elaborate? Also could you clarify what you mean by changes that are "not always visual"? How would non-visual information exist in a purely visual medium?
As many others have said, this appears to be a puff piece almost entirely devoid of meaningful content. There is currently one ongoing phase 1 trial for the drug in question, AOH1996. That phase 1 trial is scheduled to end in March or April of 2024 so we may have some answers about the safety of the treatment.

It is important to remember, when discussing these things, how clinical trial phases work. There are four main trial phases in a drug development cycle.

A Phase 1 trial is used to determine if a treatment is safe and to determine the maximum dosing. A preliminary result about the effects of the drug is a side product of a Phase 1 trial but this is not sufficient to know if a drug will succeed. Phase 1 trials are primarily about safety.

A Phase 2 trial is used to determine the efficacy of a treatment and to determine the best and most effective way to use that treatment. A drug that has a successful Phase 2 trial is likely to be effective but merely being effective is often insufficient for a drug to be considered a success.

A Phase 3 trial compares the effectiveness of a treatment against the current standard treatments. A new treatment must be better than the existing treatments in some way (e.g. same effect on the disease but lower side-effects, more effective in general, etc) to have a successful Phase 3 trial. A Phase 3 trial is the last regulatory hurdle to the approval of a treatment for use.

A Phase 4 trial, is performed after a treatment is developed and brought to market. The most common type is post-marketing surveillance where data is gathered about the effectiveness of the treatment, side effects, etc from observational studies of the treatment as used. These data are compared with the data developed during the Phase 3 randomized controlled trial to ensure that the treatment is performing like it should in the market. Differences between Phase 3 results and Phase 4 results can result in modifications to the box (e.g. a black box label), prescribing information, or other aspects of the treatment's packaging and marketing.

Hopefully this was helpful.
Those Cave Wars. They were Dark Days. District 12, the odds are NEVER in our favor!
Reasoning by analogy is one of the ways we solve the framing problem.

So, when explaining the universe we imagine it's an act of will by a conscious entity (ie., like how we invent). When explaining the mind we suppose it's like one of our inventions.

Absent an analogy of some kind it's quite hard to determine what features are salient. Objects have an essentially infinite number of properties.
I like how the diagram is captioned "A hypothetical escape route ..." as if the frog's gut were a cave system with different potential passageways and not a single path out
They have been signaling that for decades, yet no action indicates that people around the world still trust the US and hence USD more than any other currency.
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Well, the education systems within the UK vary quite a lot.
Everything has limits.

The idea that you can determine those limits from a short video of an unrefined specimen of the first-ever synthesized bit of a brand-new material is just silly.

It's not possible for anyone to know yet whether this advancement, if real, will result in "power lines from Alaska to New York" at this time, in either direction.
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This is e.g. in Germany - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Germany#Secondary....

Children of well educated parents almost always end up at a Gymnasium from which their career path ends up leading them to a university degree. Those in others types of schools have a tougher path leading to university education and will most likely end up in the equivalent of community colleges, vocational training or apprenticeship. Since recommendation by teachers counts for admission to a Gymnasium and this is often subjective, children of parents from less privileged backgrounds (blue collar workers, immigrants etc.) often end up in other schools. Sometimes this is an example of how society is stratified - a place for everyone and everyone in their place.

Apart from the public schooling there are also private schools which are almost entirely for children of very well to do types since they come with a significant fee.
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NASA hears ‘heartbeat’ of Voyager 2 after losing communication
Top universities are more about making connections than about education. The education is of course excellent, but what you really get is access to previous graduates who trust you and treat you as part of their in group. The same goes for your classmates, who will be your first pick of business partners because you know them.

Legacies are just one aspect of this, though it is particularly visible. Being able to break into that is a huge leg up, not just for you but for people around you in society. And being kept out reinforces that your group isn't suited to that kind of wealth production, even though it has nothing to do with either your skills or the quality of education you received.
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Thanks for pointing that out. That does indeed make it harder to establish a policy of confiscation for repeated offenses.
Good catch, I misread that. Clock frequency is ultimately dependent on the longest path of propagation, so it does depend on the circuit, or CPU.

I'd be interested to know from any experts whether there is potential for fundamentally higher switching speed in super conducting circuits. As you suggest, they are not necessarily directly indicative of the clock speed of a specific real world circuit or CPU, especially considering super conductors don't even use transistors and need to use different building blocks for equivalent logic... but as a rough indication based on order of magnitude of switching speed would be interesting.
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It is a very straightforward reading... Incidentally, I have responded to the impounding option on an adjacent thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36970547
I don’t think this should be “Show HN” because we can’t try it. From the rules https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html emphasis mine:

> Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs. Make a regular submission instead.

> If your work isn't ready for users to try out, please don't do a Show HN. Once it's ready, come back and do it then. Don't post landing pages or fundraisers.
The citations won't be counted by the big databases like scopus and web of science, which are often a prerequisite when being measured for grants etc.
The article sheds doubt on edge detection as being the major reason why we can interpret drawings as what they attempt to portray, because drawings are often missing shading and color.

Drawings also often drop a great amount of detail, and proper proportion information, and remain recognizable.

Think of cave paintings or Picasso’s bull.

But if you consider image interpretation as a competitive classification, then missing information doesn’t present a problem.

If color, shading, detail & proportion are missing, then they are missing from all possible pattern interpretations equally. That leaves the final classification problem relatively unchanged despite all the missing info.

EDIT: in fact, if my hypothesis is true we should be able to see patterns with even less information!

For instance, dropping all internal detail, and even most shape. As in seeing a face profile on the side of a cloud that otherwise looks nothing like a human head.

Or dropping edges completely. Perhaps seeing an object where there are only stars creating points of light.

Please post your anecdotal experiments at 404experimentreports.com!
Downvotes must be worth even more
True, but in academia and R&D, when researchers talk about "publications" they always refer to peer-reviewed journal publication unless stated otherwise.
It's no secret that racial preferences were a cover for legacy admissions.
I hope you guys do well, I'm a big fan of the open core model and I really enjoyed using TipTap. This is the client I integrated TipTap with if you're interested in collecting examples in the wild: https://bundleiq.com/
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> An advantage of battery powered ones specifically (especially for new learners) is that you can eliminate the need for an cord that could be damaged by the user of the device in which it’s powering.

Proper irons have heat resistant cords, though!
I suggest designing it in CAD and possibly sending it to be metal 3d-printed, which would be cheaper than a whole garage(I feel your pain on not having space... my carport is currently saturated with my business's equipment and I'd really like to build a proper workshop). In addition to less metal shavings around, you'll have access to different geometry which may help your design.
> I think this has more to do with the US spending itself into debt in an unsustainable way.

Government debt and household debt don't work the same way.

This a common fallacy that serves political ends, but they are not directly comparable.
It's fine that it's working for you, but I was describing what its intended purpose is. If you're happy with using your wrench to hammer in nails, I'm certainly not going to stop you!
Customizing logists
amd needs to make itself a first class citizen
Well, Shanghai has some, Japan is building some, and if this discovery is real, Germany might as well revive their Transrapid project (which built the shanghai one).
You could just admit that you are oversimplifying things without trying to dismiss my credentials. I have experience. I haven't posted anything unreasonable in this thread.
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This assumes you trust Microsoft.
I evangelize the concepts of open source and avoiding giving up your data. Meaning any time I think it's topical and not annoying, I spout the opinions and the reasons for them.

As far as I can tell I have no "buy things" motivation. I am not trying to get my sister in law to hire me to install and maintain an asterisk phone system or an instance of nextcloud or add a custom feature to vlc etc. Nor do I do those things in general where I would benefit indirectly if more people wanted those services generally.
It might be that thing of using "schools" to refer to tertiary education? In that case both universities have an even higher proportion of PMs... ;-)
You need to use ChatGPT 3.5 rather than ChatGPT 4.
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if they're lying about weed they're lying about... what else? theft? fraud? violent crime? domestic abuse?

the point is that there are no surprises about a candidate, not that some guy they've known since 3rd grade will cover for them.

cuz their job won't involve talking to people they've known since 3rd grade
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Exactly. It isn't free as in FSF definitional freedom, you still can't do certain things with it etc but it is unencumbered by external costs unless you exceed a certain usage threshold.
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Rather than criticise this information source, would you mind providing your own that makes you think Europeans' lives were decided from birth?

I'm hoping to invest in the company that knew I'd be working on Python long before it was created.
Wait so congress can stop lending but not minting new coins? That's just weird. Although the whole concept of a hard debt limit is weird, not saying you can't limit the amount of debt but you can't just back out of existing obligations.
The long-term price difference can be hard to estimate. Suppose that your application is heavily dependent on GPT-4. OpenAI can double your API prices the next term. Or they can decide to stop supporting the model that you wrote all your custom prompts for. Or they could decide to disable your account because they feel like it.

Unless it's for some fringe feature, building your business on OpenAI is probably a considerable (financial) risk in the future.
Running llama-2-7b-chat at 8 bit quantization, and completions are essentially at GPT-3.5 levels (and instant) on a single RTX4090 using 15gb VRAM. I don't think most people realize just how small and efficient these models are going to become.
> Future economic prospects for the US have never been so grim in living memory

Everything is cyclical, and no one truly expected the US to rise indefinitely. Perhaps we're past the peak now.
In my defense, it’s very easy to.

Then again: the law in question has bounds that are reasonable across the entire state. You shouldn’t speed; if you think the limit is too low, petition to get it raised. I wouldn’t object particularly if this bill was stapled to a limit increase on I-87.
Free vs monthly cost. What is there to elaborate on?
The manual steering thing is a huge safety issue, that manufacturers have recently started taking seriously.

There should be more redundancy now to ensure you don't lose assist. Not that it can't happen, but there's fault toleration.
I wonder if it's like a steroid doping situation:

What kinds of steroids and how much of them can I get away with using so I'm in the perfect spot where I am ahead my fellow doping athletes, but still under the bar of detection...
> I seriously think that it is within the realm of possibilities that this universe we live in (including us) is a literal simulation.

Notice how you dropped the “computer” part. Without that qualifier, the “universe is a simulation” hypothesis goes back at least to Descartes and his evil demon [1].

That’s the GP’s point. The “demon,” “clockwork,” and “computer” are just metaphors to help illustrate the point. Hundreds of years ago it was a trickster demon, now it’s computers - the simulation part is the same.

(The world floating on a turtle idea traces to the world turtle and several different creation myths, so it’s safe to say their believers took them a bit more literally)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_demon
I built a timeline thing last year.

https://nicolasbouliane.com/projects/timeline

The approach was wrong. This big, bloated monolith is unpleasant to setup, host and maintain. Django, Postgred, a REST API, OAuth, all wrapped in a lot of docker containers... it's just too much to reason about.

I'm rebuilding the same thing from scratch, with much simpler tech and dramatically reduced scope. Now it's basically a static site generator. Point it at directories, run the command, get a timeline as a static website. The filesystem - my personal files - is the single source of truth. The timeline is just a visualisation of those files.

Best of all, it ships as a Python package, not a set of heavy docker images.