skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It feels—and I fully understand feelings are fishy—like this has become an extremely common problem.

If someone asked me what to use for payments on a new project, I don’t think I’d feel comfortable suggesting Stripe, based solely on what I keep reading about the company on HN. That itself also feels a bit weird, especially without a clear alternative.

I myself have used Stripe for a few tiny things over the years, and have never had an issue, but I’d be surprised if I’ve put more than $100 total through the platform.

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Edit: The comments some have about the legitimacy of the OP’s business may make this particular case a non-issue, to be fair.
I urge you to consider the owner of this media outlet and what political ties they likely have. Propaganda works best when veiled in a guise of neutrality.
The psychology of spot fixing–why athletes might gamble their careers
That’s where you’re wrong. Raw LLM very often get stuck in loops, usually extremely small loops. There’s a big chunk of infrastructure that exists on the output end of any production LLM that exists explicitly for the purpose of preventing loops.

That post-processing infrastructure can use all kinds of mechanisms to prevent loops and induce more useful output. With the most basic simply systems simply refusing to select any output token that already in the input, to more complex stochastic process that explore the tree of possible outputs, to find branches whose overall result is improved by choosing less optimal immediate steps.

The vast majority of what make Chat GPT different to simpler GPT-3 models is this complex post-processing phase that allows designers to push and pull on the behaviour of the pre-baked static model underlying the chat interface.
With this stereotypical view you are dismissing the legitimate technological advantages of the modern .NET platform, which, in my opinion, is now better than Node, Java or Go.

Also, .NET ecosystem is way richer and more open than you perceive it to be. There are 350K packages on Nuget, and probably 0.01% of them are shipped by Microsoft.
This is compelling to me in general. Getting a core engine stood up that is capable of this flexibility would be a hell of a challenge, but a fun one!
Maybe I'm that lucky. Or maybe I do my homework before buying a computer for Linux.

I don't think a single laptop I owned (7+) ever booted Ubuntu without everything just working.

Sound, screen brightness, wifi, touchpad, sleep/suspend.

I did have problems with gentoo but those were evidently self-inflicted, and solvable by installing Ubuntu.
If cops are in a mini-warzone with vehicles on fire and bricks and molotovs being thrown, bad outcomes are likely going to happen. (50 shots does seem extreme, but when the decision to use lethal force has been made, does the number of shots really matter?)

If you're a genuinely peaceful protestor, you need to seriously consider leaving the protest area before trouble escalates to the point where police are forced to make impossible life-or-death decisions within seconds amidst chaos.
Probably a satellite in low-earth orbit. They only take a few minutes to go from one horizon to the other. Since it is very bright, I am guessing it is the ISS.

Update: Iceland is too far north (64°N) to see the ISS (max 51.6°N). Too bad.
There is a site to explain the differences "Help! Is This Arabic?" https://isthisarabic.com/ HN discussions https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34949146 (635 points | 6 months ago | 299 comments) and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29544990 (80 points | December 2021 | 20 comments)
The thing preventing cops from being brought on charges is, the vast majority of the time, an uncooperative DA. qualified immunity is a complete red herring.
The alternative would be discovery on that issue, which they may want to avoid.
We have been planning and working for 7 months. We created our Stripe account on Feb, and since then we have been planning for this launch. Also we have not processed card payments ourselves, we bring clients to other Stripe accounts and they process payments the way they prefer and we only take application fee by using Stripe Standard Connect
I’m sure this is a nice founding narrative that brings comfort to a lot of Americans of Western European ancestry. I think USA is better off inventing a more inclusive one in the coming century though (I suppose they already have in parts)
If the goal is to ultimately OCR then it's moot. But yes, of course information is lost.

That being said, modern phone cameras are going to produce "scans" above 300 DPI, and while 600 DPI or higher might be tricky they're stills possible if you take partial shots of a document, assuming you can focus that close.

What you lose in quality you make up with convenience, I suppose.
Well hopefully it won't be mixed in _randomly_.

I have some use cases in mind and think it will be very helpful. I have been converting a 10+ year-old code base to modern, functional-style Java and believe that sealed types and pattern matching will help us further simplify our code and eliminate more usages of nullable values.

A challenge for us will be that we need the core library to stay on JDK 8 for a while. But, in general, I am finding that you can implement a JDK 8 library that works well with newer JDKs if you are careful (and willing to write more verbose code using the older syntax/libraries to support the newer paradigms)
Mobile games went a completely different route, with many dev shops crafting titles that reuse gameplay mechanisms and focus on monetization only.
“Never be on the iPhone”…. Yet here we are.
Wyoming poised to take on carbon dioxide, pump it underground
Mirror [1]

[1] - https://archive.ph/qYwzX
Because international waters are international waters.

Do you want China to start cruising around the world and arbitrarily enforcing their laws on other citizens?
Switch to Revolut payments:
https://developer.revolut.com/docs/accept-payments
It is indeed poor communication - why? Because:

1. The message is secondary to the medium.

2. The communication requires numerous unnecessary click throughs to obtain the relevant information.

3. The division of the information into various panels and mediums does not enhance the communication, rather the messages are divided in a way that doesn't match a hierarchal introduction of detail. It often serves no purpose whatsoever.

Also this is not some personal attack on identity "who she wants to be", it's a commentary on poor communication - don't attempt to equate the two, it's incredibly poor taste, and flame baiting.
Hehe nice. There is a whole community about this topic at: https://diybookscanner.org/

Years ago I once wrote a little tool in Java called bookbuilder, where you could turn the pages manually, make a photo and then run an automatic process on all images to build a searchable pdf.

I used https://boofcv.org/, an impressive Computer Vision library in pure Java, still exists and it is pretty fast, too.

It was able to detect the page contour, deskew it, flatten the image and remove finger contours by matching the skin tone, then build a PDF with integrated invisible OCR Layer without any user interaction. I remember that I was working on line slope detection with some kind of watershed algorithm to improve the flattening part.

Fun project, I wonder if I have the source code laying around somewhere... even the download page is gone today. This was long before I went open source with all of my little side projects, because I never thought it could be interesting for someone else :-)
Having worked in the fraud space for a large fintech, I understand that it can be hard to determine if transactions are legitimate or not. Bad actors has strong financial incentives to find any and all loopholes to move dirty money. It sucks that businesses (especially new businesses with few transactions) get swept up in algorithms and have their accounts impacted.

I get why financial companies don’t want to give out their reasoning, because it would help bad actors work the algorithms. On the other hand, it’s an awful experience to be banned when you are a legitimate user and have no recourse.

Maybe we need some sort of regulation that requires fintechs to provide an audit service where a user can have their transactions reviewed for legitimacy by a human?

Sorry y’all had to go through this.
They literally showed off a game coming out end of quarter 2023.
Morally this justifies killing climate activists. You’re painting them as terrorists and monsters.
I feel vscode is quite good at hiding the fact it's not native, and felt quite snappy when I used it. Slack on the other hand feels painful slow and heavy (and very sensitive to network events like change of network or short disconnections, while native apps are generally much better add handling such glitches for some reasons)
We had a sales pitch by a MS partner and they made it sound like provisioning/ migrating services to gov cloud was seamless. It makes sense there is overhead involved from compliance. Two years to pivot seems pretty crazy though.
Let me point to the gaming industry and giants like Riot games real quick.
Mostly size. Ordinary shooting stars are grain-of-sand sized, and what you see is actually the superheated air that they displace coming in at 10+ km/s. Something slightly bigger, like a rock a few cm wide, can cause a blinding fireball.

Speed also counts. It can range from 8 km/s (a "stationary" object, relative to us, falling into Earth's gravity well) to about 70 km/s (something in a retrograde orbit in the Earth's plane). That's a factor of almost 80 in energy to be dissipated
All these lawsuits will die. Why?

Because people train on corpuses of data all the time, without a license or any attribution.

Every piece of text a writer reads is training that writer. Every image an artist sees helps to train that artist. Every sound a musician hears is training that musician.

That doesn't mean they can't exclude their works from training via a license going foreward. But that becomes an enforcement problem.
I love you I love you I love you I love you

Seems to work fine. Though I typically use Gboard because the swipe typing is much better.

I find the most restrictive thing about Apple's autocorrect and speech to text to be the limited vocabulary. Once you start using any industry terms it completely fails.
This doesn't seem to indicate what you suggest. Can you link proof that even a single real world application calls it whenever it wants?

The mere fact that it's theoretically possible doesn't seem to be persuasive.
I started closing issues unceremoniously with a maybelater tag.

If I won't be working on it, if no one is working on it, I won't leave the bug open.

Either someone shows up and decides to put up the legwork or it gets closed, even if it doesn't cross the threshold of wontfix (i.e. I won't accept a fix).
We basically bring you new users by running ads, email marketing on your behalf without charging you any upfront fees

Example, you have a task management software and you are looking for web developers, we bring you those clients without any fees upfront and only charge you application fee (% of your sales) after clients we brought pays you

We usually do b2b sales with each connected account, so landing page does not play a big role in our sales
My favorite line:
> On the other hand, we as engineers need to be real with ourselves. Every piece of code you write as an engineer is legacy code. Maybe not right now, but it will be.

which of course leads to what some people are saying, did this have to be built? Sometimes I think our job is to optimize ourselves away.
Abusing a "Show HN" for a complaint about a company does not really signal that you can be trusted to stay within the boundaries of what is allowed and ethical.

Not taking the time to use proper spelling and punctuation in your text does not really signal that you care much about others.
You’re missing my point, which is that you cannot rely on the testimony of corrupt individuals who can lie under oath, in the court of law, without consequence. This means you only have a few facts, and any other presented facts by corrupt institutions are suspect by default.
VC funding selects for messiahs so that’s what you get…
> For most people it’s not high.

In other words, it depends on the person. :)

Some people are not fans of eating things approaching soda GI, as they have a feeling of a sugar rush, followed by a crash and hunger. No need for a medical condition - it can simply be a dietary preference.

It depends on the person and circumstance whether GI above 55 is high. Everyone needs to figure out for themselves, but it helps to be aware of GI in food and see how different GIs make you feel and function. And it helps to be aware that soda-type GI isn't considered very healthy by some, with ongoing debate.

Also, possibly 55+, 65+, or whatever arbitrary threshold is not too high for most people. There's some debate around that now. So I still think it doesn't hurt to be aware. But possibly.
Because at work I’m typing the same bland things all the time in documents and communications. I appreciate stuff like the predictive word stuff in Google Docs. It’s helpful because business language is expected to be normalized and boring.

On the other side of that token, the average language abilities of the average American office worker are pretty low so I’m assuming they view this as an enhanced AutoCorrect and they appreciate it because it makes them look less dumb.

I agree with your point though. And to answer your last question, unfortunately I think the answer is “yes”.
They were evil people but not hard to ignore.
One solution could be to standardize the "esport booth", so it becomes more like a squash court for example
why are you using a <p> tag
Your main website is filled with copy errors and you don’t really explain how the product works.

How are you sourcing leads/customers?
> Subjective means that something is based on opinions that people can legitimately disagree about.

Yes, and your claim is literally your opinion. Others probably hold the same opinion but that doesn't make it objective.

> The fact that LHD is a worse option in the real world than RHD is not subjective, even if in isolation they are not really any different.

But that's just my point. It's entirely subjective. Just because you think it's worse, doesn't mean that's objectively true.

> Ok fine, how about programme/program? Metre/meter?

I really don't think you understand what the phrase "objectively worse" means at this point.

> Subjective doesn't mean "people disagree about it"

It's not about you or I disagreeing or agreeing, and if that's what you took from what I wrote, you may want to try re-reading it. I agree with you that chopsticks are not great to eat rice with. But it's still subjective.

Subjective means something (in this case an opinion being stated as a fact) is relative to the person making it, and their view of the world. Thus it is inherently not objective.
In the Before Times, the cereal aisle was full of things like Wheaties, Cheerios, Total, Special-K, Chex, and other things that were, at least, not that terrible. They still had the Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs that Calvin liked, but they were at eye level for a kid in a grocery cart.

Now those cereals are still there, but obscenely overpriced, and the aisle is full of Calvin Cereals.
None of that prevents aquisitions.

Companies would just be bought by wealth induviduals (or trusts, or whatever) as opposed to companies, and copyright/ip would just stay unde the original legal entity and licensed out.
but we don't process payments ourselves, we take application fee of the payments of other Stripe accounts
I’m old enough to remember the original Canter and Siegel spam, and yes, it was on Usenet. What amazes me is that in 2023 people still launch social networks where spam prevention is not at the center.
Under Musk, Twitter is handing over more data to investigators
Just looking at your site my first impression would be that the whole business model seems very shady. You're saying that you're somehow bring new users to my shop and charge 30% for that. Which would be fair if you can actually do that. But you're not even restricting this to any particular domain, you do that magic for every possible shop. And I just can't believe that you can reliably advertise for any kind of shop as a service without knowledge of the domain.

I mean maybe there's more to this, but that is the impression I get from the landing page.
I suspect this is happening a lot more than people realize. Even before the pandemic, in office, there was a layer of HR tracking and activity that was deliberately opaque to the people being tracked.

Now throw in a "need" to be aggressively tracking this stuff with WFH, the existing opaque structures, and now it all exists already when people RTO.

Companies not doing more invasive tracking are probably the exception or too small to pull it off.

Note: Pretty much no large companies have provided data points on why it's better to RTO, even if they're very data driven.

People assume this means they have no data and just want it. Really? Wouldnt that be a bit irresponsible to shareholders? A more likely scenario is they have data that they don't want to discuss publicly.
Definitely a thing for me. When translating between two non-primary languages, I'll often either start talking the wrong one to the wrong party, or just completely blank out on basic words. I assume it's what an 8051 feels like when switching register banks!

I also recall teachers doing our spoken assessments reminding us the moment before the tape started recording that "remember, French, not German" because both tests took place in the same week and pupils would often launch into the wrong language.
Which is all completely untrue. Police in America are very untrained compared to other countries. The standards to be a cop are too low.

This is just a bunch of middle class "defund" people with little else going on.
Why do they need to be hard to ignore? They don’t have a right to attention.
Ah, the Nintendo piracy logic.
I mean, they have a photo of the gun, on the ground at the crime scene.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/usually
We basically bring you new users by running ads, email marketing on your behalf without charging you any upfront fees
Example, you have a task management software and you are looking for web developers, we bring you those clients without any fees upfront and only charge you application fee (% of your sales) after clients we brought pays you

We usually do b2b sales with each connected account, so landing page does not play a big role in our sales
Wouldn't be surprised if the word "battery" genericized over the next few years to mean any form of energy storage, especially given the growth in the relevance of geod scale storage. I've already seen a couple of folks refer to pumped storage as massive batteries and if those count, then yeah do does your gasoline generator
I feel this building would be a much better conspiracy target if they had done then normal thing of making it look like a building; one with fake windows that nobody ever goes in - or comes out.
The bison were deliberately shot in order to force the Comanche onto reservations.

"Empire of the Summer Moon"
https://www.amazon.com/Empire-Summer-Moon-Comanches-Powerful...
I don't know what happened and I fully admit that, but let's take the cop section out of it, so none of this "Cops lie all the time" business.

1) A person was shot by someone at the scene

2) A different person who was in conflict with the first person had a gun with the same ballistic profile (caliber etc.)

3) There are two separate parties with an interest in the outcome who witnessed the crime

4) The first party with an interest, was actively aggrivating people at the scene, causing hightened tensions

5) The second party was in direct conflict with the first

I have a hard time believing the first party shot their own in order to press charges on the second party. It doesn't pass the Occam's razor test, TBH

EDIT: I suck at formatting
Respectfully: do you genuinely believe that guideline had this kind of presentation in mind, or the very common tedium of poorly built websites that occurs frequently on amateur tech posts. Even the examples provided by the rule you quoted lend to the latter.

The format is indeed relevant.
I am showing HN what Stripe did to us and I thought this is the best tagline for this case
My native language is French but I learned English at a young age so my English is better. I haven't spoken French regularly for the past 10 years and so, nowadays, it takes me some effort to recall certain French words.

10 years ago, my level of French and English were almost on par to the extent that I didn't even realize what language I was speaking with my parents or siblings (who could also speak both) and would often mix words from different languages based on which one came to mind first.

I took a French class in school (as an easy way to boost my grades) and sometimes the teacher would ask me a question in English and I would accidentally respond back in English instead of French (not realizing it); this amused some of my peers as the questions were usually very basic and therefore awkward to answer in English as anyone could have done so.

I would just respond in whatever language the other person spoke and it took effort for me to consciously answer in a different language than what the other person used.
PraxisLIVE – hybrid visual live programming
Thank you! We try very hard (collectively, as a community).
This is fascinating to me. I am a software developer of many years and a novelist in more recent years. (See https://ronanodriscoll.com/work)

My latest book is a novel about the life of a software developer starting with BASIC on the Commodore 64 in the Eighties up to today. One of the main ideas is how (unlike previous professions), a programmer who only writes Basic can hardly last one generation. The novel is tentatively titled "BASIC Instinct: A Coding Novel". The book is to be published by Moose House press next year and I am looking to generate interest among the developer community.

I hope people who comment on this thread find this interesting. Please don't hesitate to contact me if you do, or have ideas of other online communities to share with. Thank you.
The trouble is in learning how to distinguish between unhelpful overthinking and the [right kind].

I think it's necessary to balance thought with awareness of emotions and intuition. To listen to the gut, which is also an intelligent signal, but doesn't translate to verbal thought.

Thinking more and thinking harder often creates an illusion of some kind of progress or of triangulating on the best decision. And this can be the case, but can also lead to a kind of decision paralysis and/or overconfidence in a decision (I thought really hard about this, so it must be better) when we don't actually have enough underlying knowledge to justify the decision.

If we could measure such a thing, I'd love to see a plot of decision accuracy vs. time spent reaching the decision. This will highly depend on one's deeply ingrained biases. I'm overly pessimistic, so thinking more helps me temper my pessimism and reframe when needed, but thinking too much eventually leads me back to where I started.
How does this work anyway? I reported a password bug that went unfixed for months and didn't hear back from Apple. Do you need to be the first/only person to have reported something, or what?
My 2 cents.

I only played with haskell, but liked a lot the language. The only downside was the 'cabal' versus 'stack' build tools unclear status.
The official haskell.org site recommends installing both but I had incompatibility issues at the time.
And doesn't momentum, being a vector quantity, already have a direction?
https://floss.social/about
I can also go to the Wikipedia article about any book of note and get a plot or other summary and other information about the book. If that’s the reason for buying the book, “the author got robbed.”
That's awesome! Thank you for the experience/feedback.