skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People who rage-quit due to RTO aren't eligible for severance or unemployment insurance.

If you're being forced to RTO and that's not feasible, make them fire you. You'll hold onto that job longer as they go through the process and then you can likely succeed in an unemployment claim. It's harder to fight if you quit, but you could claim constructive dismissal if there was an explicit agreement to work remote.
Wild how often a viaduct or train track separates a Black neighborhood from a neighboring non-Black neighborhood.
Tell HN: Stripe Radar is broken and got my account closed having 0 disputes
My Stripe account id is acct_1OMfRXI3z35NJvjn
what I am describing is a new issue with Stripe and had happened with many of my friends as well but not as severe as my situation where account got shut down

we are providing AI driven sales integration software to web developers and over 200 transactions via Stripe with 0 disputes, refunds.
Suddenly Stripe asked ID verification which caused all our charges to require 3ds and all charges to be scored over 80. People I know paying and getting declined for fraud, I asked even our employee to pay and even he got blocked.
I said alright they just want me to verify ID probably that's why very sensitive. I did but issue has not been resolved. I asked my friends and they said after ID verification they used to fix this issue but now they have a bug they do not

So now once Stripe asks you to verify your ID, no matter what you do account will be not usable and you need to beg them to fix Radar.

Now even after ID successfully verified and a week passed, still Radar scoring EVERYONE over 80 and requiring 3ds

I asked my other friends who also have software startup and he said he had exact same issue but he asked Stripe support and they said they needed to decrease sensitivity of Stripe Radar

So I decided to do the same, I asked Stripe support but support representative (named Mark) was really rude and acting like an AI to be honest telling me Radar is not broken, reason transactions are declining is due to fraud which means this guy is not even listening to me saying Radar is fakely scoring everything over 80. And he then asks me to provide transactions IDs which I did and he keeps saying Radar thinks it is fraudulent

I am like ok, let me ask another support person so I did but by that time everything in my account in that day was blocked by Radar fakely for over 80 risk score, my friends cannot pay, my employees cannot pay, customers I know personally cannot pay

AND .... Stripe automatically closed my account due to having too many fraudulent declines which is deemed fraudulent by broken Radar scoring

This issue is COMMON now, create new Stripe account and you will see, once they require ID your scores will increase and it will require 3ds in all transactions

It used to be resolved once you verify id but now it is there forever

Stripe Radar is broken and it BROKE Stripe all together

Now Stripe Radar is going to block your charges for fraud which will lead Stripe to block you for fraud. Additionally, they add you to Match List or something when they mark you fraud because I cannot even apply to normal merchant account now with 0 dispute and refunds

Someone please help
I would urge all designers to get comfy with all the various units... there are a lot of really minor ones which will help you out enormously:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/Building_...
Learn what are the latest features of Midjourey 6 with examples.
We do not sell support and consultancy.

Source code is freely available. We sell ready-to-run binaries, almost entirely to individual end users (desktop application).
Benchmarking The Experimental Ubuntu x86-64-v3 Build
Honestly, all this tells me is no matter what big tech wins.

Have a great idea and patent it? Well who cares, they'll steal your tech and courts seemingly will let them. All comes down to who has the money for better lawyers.
When we went to Nissan's dog-and-pony show before the Leaf was released, they went on about how, by the time the 2011 Leaf battery needs replacement, that prices on batteries would come down, the old batteries would be recycled to $UNDEFINED_BATTERY_STORAGE, etc.

Twelve years later when I went to look at replacing the battery, the prices had barely budged, and good luck finding a shop that would actually do the job. It would seem that those battery cells make more money in a new car than in a replacement battery pack. It was incredibly disappointing.
Envisioning a BHET Economy: Adding Value to Pet Waste
I don’t disagree with you, but I wasn’t going to exclude it from the discussion. I’m not trying to convince people to use IGRs or other potentially dangerous chemicals. We all have our risk tolerances and while I don’t think it’s related, it’s also worth stating.

If I thought there was a correlation, I’d for sure sue. But the birth defect my daughter has is often caused by a lack of vitamin B at a vital part of the gestation process. I hadn’t been an exterminator or sprayed my house for bugs for that matter for over a decade when she was born, and my wife and I had a perfectly healthy kid three years before. The roach treatment in my house occurred years after my daughter with a birth defect was born. The correlation is extremely weak at best.

Furthermore, while I’m not saying it’s impossible, but in my mind it feels very unlikely, especially as my wife was never exposed to any of those chemicals. Also, it’s not a genetic defect, which would come from the father, but more a mechanical one in gestation (failure to fully develop and build the spinal cord).
You're right about that, I took an economics class which turned out to be a Marxist indoctrination course. I wasn't interested in wasting time on fairy tales. I then satisfied the GE requirement by taking classes like financial accounting, which I expected to be useful in my career.
Andrew Huberman’s “Goals Toolkit” is responsible for me finally losing some stubborn weight this year, and I plan to apply it to other things I want to achieve.

https://www.hubermanlab.com/episode/goals-toolkit-how-to-set...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CrtR12PBKb0
- "Review" of "Programming as theory building" paper by Peter Naur (of BNF fame): https://overcast.fm/+JrqaObyhE/. The idea that the code is actually a physical manifestation of an _idea_ was so mind-blowing to me. Goes on to explain why team churn is bad for the software, why re-writes happen, how software dies.

- Non-human Biologics, UFO Encounters, and Mexico’s Alien Bodies https://overcast.fm/+WO2ETzarQ/ -- a conversation with one of the navy pilots that testified before congress about UAP. crazy stuff.

- Data-Backed Answers to Personal Finance Controversies: https://overcast.fm/+0OUMIFTyg A few interesting tidbits bits like: "Only one and seven retirees ends up running down the principal" and "Average transaction costs are 6% and average appreciation is. 6% so you need to be in a home for 10 years" before you flip.
I am increasingly convinced that the "thyroid hormones" T1, T2, T3, and T4 are simply a place to store iodine. When iodine is needed somewhere in the body it can be taken from T4, converting it to T3. But it's not the case that "T3 is the active form" as you'll read in the literature, it's that the removed iodine is the active or useful thing.

Changing the ratio of T3/T4 does cause a change in TSH (thyroid stimulating hormone) but that's IMHO simply a signal that the iodine is getting used, so please send us more.

There are other tissues in the body that need iodine, as evidenced by the sodium-iodine symporter present on those cells, so to set the recommended daily iodine intake based solely on what the thyroid can use is IMHO a huge mistake.

Some things with interesting iodine research: skin cancer, breast cancer, type 2 diabetes, asthma, polycystic ovaries, fibrocystic breast disease, other cancers. But yeah, it cures goiter...
The expectation to make money from artificially restricting an abundant resource. While copyright is a way to create funding, it also massively harms society by restricting future creators from being able to freely reuse previous works. Modern ways to deal with this are patronage, government funding, foundations (e.g. NLNet) and crowdfunding.

Also, plagiarism has nothing to do with copyright. It has to do with attribution. This is easily proven: you can plagiarise Beethoven's music even though it's public domain.

https://questioncopyright.org/minute-memes-credit-is-due
I am yet to read up on xcc so this is helpful, thanks. One thing that I found useful as an application from Knuth's lecture (I'm not sure if it's edited out because it was an audience discussion, I attended the 2023 talk in person, reg. which I commented on another thread [1]), is that it can produce multiple SAT solutions, as opposed to just one,which seems to be the case now (definitely true for z3 which I have used a bit). This is important in practice because often there are downstream constraints which you might become aware of later (e.g., there're other hidden "soft" costs you didn't factor in), and because of which you now need to go back and need to run the solver again to find an alternative solution. This is time consuming but the worse part is there is no good way to avoid the first solution except by adding another constraint, e.g. original constraints + not(first solution).

Edit: as an extension of the above, the second solution mightn't work well too, in which case you'd need to repeat the above till you find a solution that you like. Very painful in practice.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38775882
> Relatedly, a tight labor market has made it harder for meat processors, farms, roofing contractors and other employers to find workers willing to do physically taxing, often low-paying work.

So pay more then? Instead of trapping children in these slaughterhouse jobs and justifying it with a bunch of shit about "building character"?
You can encode understanding in a vector.

To use Andrew Ng's example, you have build a multi-dimensional arrow representing "king". You compare it to the arrow for "queen" and you see that it's almost identical, except it points in the opposite direction in the gender dimension. Compare it to "man" and you see that "king" and "man" have some things in common, but "man" is a broader term.

That's getting really close to understanding as far as I'm concerned; especially if you have a large number of such arrows. It's statistical in a literal sense, but it's more like the computer used statistics to work out the meaning of each word by a process of elimination and now actually understands it.
It’s quite unfortunate that Apple doesn’t allow users to uninstall iMessage, it seems to be the infection vector for advanced threats like this, NSO group, etc. Presumably it’s to avoid the support burden, but they could gate it behind having Lockdown Mode enabled for a week or something to shake out the vast majority of mistaken activations.
A government which can't regulate effectively can't be trusted with a monopoly.

Anyway, how does holding antibiotics in reserve help anything? Why let the bugs evolve resistance to one antibiotic at a time, rather than hitting them them with multiple antibiotics and thus raising the evolutionary hurdle to resistance? Was this strategy designed by the bad guys in a Jacky Chan movie?
I think you are looking at current AI product rather than the underlying technology. It's like saying that the wheel is a useless invention because it has only been used for unicycles so far. I'm sure that AI will have huge impacts in medicine (assisting diagnosis from medical tests) and agriculture (identifying issues with areas of crops, scanning for diseases and increasing automation of food processing) as well as likely nearly every other field.

I don't know if I would agree that it is "probably the single most important development in human history" but I think that it is way to early to make a reasonable guess of if it will or not.
+1 on those two Hardcore History podcasts, they were really interesting.

Joscha Bach is always an interesting guy, this was his latest appearance on Lex Fridman's podcast [0].

Edit: If we're including longform video essays, Down The Rabbit Hole made a 6 hour video on the history of Eve Online [1]. It's interesting to see how pure capitalist systems evolved and shaped the game.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8qJsk1j2zE

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCSeISYcoyI
Persistent servers moved the goal-posts for problems at least. With stateless HTTP, maintaining state somewhere was always part of the challenge, so CGI programmers would be tempted to put too much into client-side cookies. That meant the user could see and tamper with that info. On the other hand, the brief existence of that CGI program meant that the OS cleaned up much of what the programmer may not have.
Which roach bait products have you had success with?
I am positively surprised to see this as the top comment. For subjective topics, people have a bias to believe in what they would like to be reality, discarding all negative evidence.

I am all for the freedom of WFH, I see many positive aspects to it, if given the choice I will pick “flexible”, but it’s crystal clear to me that, when people are not working in particularly exciting projects, productivity will take a hit. Creative brainstorm is worse remotely and it’s easier for people to isolate themselves socially.
This podcast episode blew a hole in my understanding of reality. First because of how plainly SBF explained crpyto as a ponzi with his "magic box" example, and then six months later when he was exposed for fraud.
Your argument is that you think FAANG companies are heavily invested in REITs, and would sacrifice their core revenue stream to support that amount?
> Grades are great, but not for the pressure they apply on students -- they are a measure of how successful the teacher has been in reaching their students!

The students do have some responsibility to learn the material.
Indeed, chemicals are scary, we trashed our entire pantry. It’s just not worth the risk. When you spray the focus for roaches is generally on cracks and crevices though, places roaches like to hang out and places humans shouldn’t be very often. It took about three months after spraying the growth regulator to have them fully disappear from the house.
Even if you force companies to provide them at cost, they could conceivably end up more expensive than a new car.

If you sell a vehicle model for 5 years, you don't keep the production lines for spare parts around for another 20 years. Instead you predict how much you will need and put that in a warehouse somewhere to ship out over the years. That's naturally expensive, often more expensive than the production cost. Not a massive issue for the smaller stuff, but if you take a part that is massive and makes up a significant fraction of the cost of the vehicle you get headlines like this.

Imho that's a sign it shouldn't be a replacement part, its something that should be serviced and have smaller individual replacement parts (EV battery packs are more than a bunch of cells, after all)
> Why do you have to laboriously teach babies [basic survival things]

Because we are born prematurely. Our brain wouldn’t fit through the birth canal if we were born later with more basic skills baked in. So instead we finish a big part of our early development outside the womb.
It may not be a question of the initiative itself, rather, what conditions in Switzerland at the time led to an uptick in iodine deficiencies.
If the size of the internet is really a bottleneck it seems Google is in quite a strong position.

Assuming they have effectively a log of the internet, rather than counting the current state of the internet as usable data we should be thinking about the list of diffs that make up the internet.

Maybe this ends up like Millenium Management where a key differentiator is having access to deleted datasets.
That's a large category that includes everything from YouTubers to furry artists to live concerts.
That still could be underway?
…obviously the question here is: and the battery?
Acquired's overview of Costco is a pleasant 3 hours https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/costco
Agree on implicit behavior.

Actually I think it's fine for the implicit automatic features to exist, I just think no one should use them in most cases.

It's fine for a tool to try to be as magic as possible, as an optional thing you can do whaen you decide you want. And for practically any makefile that you are bothering to actually write into a file that you are keeping and running again tomorrow, and giving to someone else to run some other day on some other machine... everything should be explicit. Just like the projects code, it's documentation as much as function, and no part of either the documentation or the function should be left unexplained and undetermined.

But that's a seperate issue from the tool having the ability. I think it's not a tools job to tell me what I want and why and what is and is not valid. If make never had the magic features, I would not miss them feel any need to invest in adding them, but if they are there anyway somehow, I also don't see any reason to remove them or create a new tool just to have something that doesn't have them.

I should be free to write a short super convenient fully magic 3-line makefile that just says "do the likely thing with whatever is in this directory", and at the same time, no project should ever have that as their real makefile. Both stances are valid at the same time, I think.
Why do you expect an AI to cite it's source? Humans are allowed to use and profit on knowledge they've learned from any and all sources without having to mention or even remember their sources.

Yes, we all agree that it's better if they do remember and mention their sources, but we don't sue them for failing to do so.
It is the pricing model for car parts vs cars - say you take a car and order all the possible parts from the factory/dealer the costs is way more than the car itself by a factor of 3 I reckon.

Keeping parts around and stocked is very expensive for the distributor - you have to handle multiple model years and various trim levels.
Yes. It was also common in mountainous areas of western China and Tibet.
Where can you get these parts in US? I can probably order the pico, but others seems hard to find.

(or is the answer AliExpress)?
Time management. Between the job and three little kids, there hasn't been much time at all for any leisure time activity in 2023, unfortunately.
I've seen similar claims on HN and I'm puzzled:

1) Are you saying people weren't primitive (and how is that defined) in the early Neolithic or, implied by your claim, the late Paleolithic; or that they weren't genetically identical; or both?

2) How does the OP support that claim? I don't see anything that addresses either issue, unless by 'primitive' you mean something on the level of Acheulean tools - handaxes, essentially stone axeheads held in the hand sans hafts or handles, used for ~1.5 million years until a few hundred thousand years ago. In that case, by the early Neolithic our ancestors had exceeded that for at least a couple hundred thousand years (conservatively, and depending on geography).

3) Most of all, why do people care? Why is there a minor movement to push the capabilities of prehistoric humans? What is the emotional investment here? Why bother to come up with mis/disinformation and spread it about these people (unless such behavior is so ingrained that people do it for any reason)?
> For example SystemVerilog has no real typing which sucks, so a typical thing to do is to build a massively improved type system for a new HDL. However in my experience good use of verilog style guides and decent linting tools solves most of the problem

This is why I prefer VHDL. It's strongly typed. I worked at an EDA company on an HLS tool that generated HDL (Verilog, VHDL and SystemC). Customers would report linting problems with the generated Verilog. Since backend code generation was what I worked on I got to fix them. We had almost 0 problems with the generated VHDL mostly due to strong typing. But lots of issues with the generated Verilog that needed fixing.

> Another typical improvement you'll find in an alternative HDL is vastly improved parameterization and generics

Another area where VHDL was already there. SystemVerilog makes some improvements over Verilog.
Even if it meant you can't work on something similar to that hobby project again?
Cuba has a fairly large biomedical sector and export industry, despite being under crushing sanctions. It’s absurd to ask about the scale of their development relative to private industry in the US because it’s impossible for them to even gain access to the same raw materials. But that’s also entirely beside the point because the discussion was about whether we need to allow Moderna to rake in billions off public investment in basic research and IP rentiering in order to make COVID vaccines possible. The example of the Cuban vaccine disproves this, but all the pharma apologists of course prefer to talk circles around this point instead of addressing it.
…due to those corporate interests.

I am a big fan of capitalism but it does have a tendency to drive out human discourse, as in this case, when companies think there is money to be made.
They gotta, gotta, have those blue bubbles. Some teenagers fight to get an overpriced phone solely to avoid the deep deep shame of having a green bubble when chatting.

If apple is forced to shut down iMessage being the exclusive option and have some pure SMS application they might see a sudden noticeable drop in market share.
There is no proof so far that openAI has violated any copyright. I understand the public’s emotions but recall that these large language models can read all the public info and make useful generalizations.
I am always looking for example of successful commercial FOSS projects that doesn't compromise the spirit and intent of Free Software.

I am curious as to what you're selling, and why wouldn't anybody just download a free copies from somewhere else?
You think the companies that do rigorous performance reviews, regularly fire people for performance reasons from executives down to interns, and provide insanely lucrative compensation packages don't care about 'productivity', and instead just choose to invest in more tangible results?

Why would these companies we're talking about spend so much money compensating employees and firing bad ones if it doesn't matter?
Big Tech is spending more than VC firms on AI startups
There are verbatim and almost verbatim copyrighted works, lengthier than any fair use I’ve seen permissible, outputted which they charge money for and don’t have licensing for.

What am I missing?
Mel Robbins, episode 84: “Change Your Relationship With Alcohol – How to Control Your Urge to Drink” [1]

[1] https://www.melrobbins.com/podcasts/episode-84
I've used a similar commercial implementation. They're sold as USB or KVM Synchronizer. Some will control 4 machines. The one I had was limited to 2x2 or 4x1 arrangements for the edge switching. Not ideal for a multi-monitor setup, but still pretty cool. I have future plans to combine it with an HDMI multi-viewer to setup a compact gaggle of machines.

They were quirky in their implementation, but it still felt cool to have it all done in a little USB switch device.

For my actual setup I still find barrier (forked as input-leap) excellent. I use Linux, Mac, and Windows machines without issue. I even play games with with my input going over the network this way.
I do buy industrial strength pesticides on Amazon but apparently if you were to buy off a reputable supplier you'd need to give your exterminator credentials. I spray Bayer's Polyzone outside and use Tempo between walls/floor and cabinets and see a dead roach inside every quarter or so (there are commercial food establishments nearby so roaches are just roaming the streets). Never bothered with GHI as the pesticides already do a great job.