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(Co-Founder of Justpaid.io here)Thank you, Arnon, for sharing this article. I have firsthand experience working with a homegrown billing system for a fairly large EHR company that processes millions of dollars in claims daily. It was a nightmare for billing team and account managers to determine the invoicing amounts for hospitals each month. The system was complex, with a flat platform fee, discounts for the first year, usage based on the number and value of claims processed, and different items billed at different times. The billing system did not scale, and every month I ran reports without confidence in the accuracy of the billed amounts. Currently, I am addressing this problem by developing a fully customizable billing system tailored for SaaS companies. One unique aspect of our billing solution is the use of signed contract documents as a foundation. This eliminates the need to decide on a plan for new customers or be limited to specific pricing structures due to system constraints. By leveraging detailed contract information in natural language, we employ LLM to make custom exceptions when generating invoices. For instance, if you wish to offer a discount to an existing customer for November and December due to low activity, traditional subscription-based billing methods lack flexibility. Our dynamic contract-based billing allows for such exceptions without the need to cancel and recreate subscriptions. In addition, our collections workflow will complete the billing workflow. We leverage agent type LLM for collection workflow, which drafts and sends emails impersonating a founder and to notify the founder/account representative about customer queries while collecting the invoiced amount. I know this is a new and untested approach, but we aim to simplify billing for founders and we value any constructive feedback or inquiries.
Merci pour l'explication, je pense que c'est très claire en anglais!
Love it.

But in my town the idea that something would sit on the market with no bids is virtually unthinkable.

I probably will do what tfa did, but it's not going to be here.
Having done both, I have to agree with OP that assembly language is far easier than PDEs.
> I've been contacted a few times by HN moderation and was asked to re-submit some interesting link that didn't get traction on the first try, but it's the first time that I see a link be re-submitted on my behalf. Is that common on HN now?

Not resubmitted but re-upped. That is, we rolled back the clock on it and added some points so that it would get a placement on HN's front page. You can see the stories that get picked this way here: https://news.ycombinator.com/pool, and the system is described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998309 and the links back from there.

When a post is older, we email an invite link (as you described) but when it's only a day or two old, we re-up the current submission. That's what happened in the present case. The timestamp munging is an artifact of this re-upping system (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...).

Thanks for posting great submissions to Hacker News! Btw, if anyone sees a great submission that could use a re-up or a repost, please let us know at hn@ycombinator.com. (It's best when the article isn't your own stuff, but rather something that you just think is interesting.)
It's a really weird return to the Steve Jobs attitude towards problems like this. Except then it was usually literally Steve writing statements and saying those things, and now it's just a faceless Apple Inc which is even less sympathetic.

I don't know who these statements are for, aside from the most devoted Apple fans. I feel like investors would be happier with shorter, more professional communication.
I've noticed this is very much the case when working with Americans. There's a real weird vibe where dominance needs to be proven at every turn. Some European cultures have this a little too, but not to the extent it's evident with Americans.
Looks like the only way to use it is giving location permission? Was excited to try it but probably won't until there is a postal code option.
I've been told a few times that I'm a good listener. All I ever did in this direction was reading Michael Endes "Momo" as a child.
> Is a nuke particularly expensive or something? Google tells me they are less than a billion dollars each.

Yeah but that's from Shein, and you don't wanna buy your nukes from a company that uses child labor and unsustainable materials.
Accommodate mediocre communication, but do not tolerate it in yourself
That's the "extend" part of the embrace, extend, extinguish game plan.
death valley has an ephemeral lake
Show HN: I made a nocode app for stripe webhooks, get notify on important events
Oof. This is likely to get a whole lot of very emotional "SCOTUS rules that Trump doesn't have to obey the US Constitution" spinning, in a whole lot of places.
Glad you found the concept interesting. I admit it's my fault for not including enough information for anyone who's willing to spend their time for my project.

I'm out of the edit window now so I'll answer your question here.

There's a page for RSS feed submission: https://bhread.com/feeds/

And for more details about bhread, I have a blog post that may help (how to participate, and why): https://blog.bhread.com/posts/about-bhread/

In the future, I'll add a page that will get new users up to speed in a single place. Everything's scattered right now and pasting links is getting old for me.

Anyways, thank you for the feedback and suggestions, I'm taking notes.
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Interestingly, in the US, the middle class only shrank because the upper class grew.
Maybe 10% snarky and 90% insightful for those that don't know what Houri is and can mean by different interpretations.

My point is that if I believed in a religion [and a specific interpretation of God's written word] that said I could get to heaven with 72 Houri by committing murder then [actual] life would not be precious at all.

Please note, I'm not suggesting YOUR beliefs or interpretation of the text, but it cannot be debated that a sizable amount [in nominal terms] believe this.
If people really cared about it, there'd be long distance airlines that looked like submarine bunks - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuVe_KaTGg8

I'm not saying I'd not take it as an option ...
What a joke. Corporate personhood should be illegal.
Only the abstractions are zero cost
We should absolutely do that to the agricultural concerns raising alfalfa in the desert to mostly ship to China, Japan, and Saudi Arabia.
Trying to subscribe to pro but website keeps loading (404 to stripe's /invoices is the only non 2xx I see)
One in eight people are now living with obesity
Who selects the institutions that receives the money? Let me guess, it is politicians.
You can find most books for free on the internet :) Please do support the authors though.
Sorry, I didn't want to sound aggressive at all :-). Of course that's your choice. I was just sharing my preference.

In my experience, many developers tend to prefer the licenses that are better for their company. And I don't get that. They should prefer the licenses that are better for themselves. If my company is forced to use a GPL library because there is no alternative, then I get to open source my code. That's great for me personally! Conversely, if I get to publish code I wrote in my company, if I manage to do it under a copyleft license, it helps other developers open source their code.

I understand that GPL/LGPL maybe scary in some situations (how do you deal with LGPL in a proprietary iOS app?), but I haven't found a single example where MPLv2 doesn't work. I don't see a reason to use a permissive license, MPLv2 is always fine.

As a developer, it's never good for me to help a company get permissive code for free.
Yeah, mercurial is better than git, but not that much better. It's not so hard to learn both well, and be happy when you have a chance to use mercurial, while remaining content when you're using git instead.
Young devs won't believe it, but in the late 1990s, quite a number of software companies didn’t use source control at all. You just copied source files from/to a central location, and from time to time made a version_x.y.z copy of the source directory.
I don't think you can change the license of existing code at all, unless you're the copyright holder. Best you can do is release someone's code as part of a work under another license. Anyway,

> It is also bizarre that someone could take BSD code, make trivial modifications, and now such cannot be sent upstream or used under the original license.

That's the case for anyone taking BSD sources and turning it into a closed product, isn't it? Even if you get the BSD-licensed sources, the trivial modification will not be upstreamable.

That's kind of the entire point of permissive licenses, as opposed to copyleft, isn't it?
US troops on Kinmen (alias Quemoy) ? That is interesting.

Maybe US frogmen can join Taiwanese frogmen in going ashore on the mainland and going to the movies. At least that's what Taiwanese frogmen were doing some decades ago.
If you're able to look at the modern world and all it's marvels - none of which are possible without a testable and provable understanding of an increasing fraction what's out there - and you'd still rather be down in the dumps, there's no amount of evidence anyone can offer that would change your mind.
I wonder how many billions in fines the EU can take out of US companies before they start to get political blowback.
- "It is also true that much content is “preserved,” often illegally, in shadow libraries/archives such as Library Genesis and Sci-Hub (for more, see Bodó, 2018a, 2018b; Eve, 2022). These archives are at great legal threat of shutdown but have also proved surprisingly resilient. We do not, in this article, count material stored in such archives, even though it constitutes an additional storage location."

A major limitation.
Arbitrary region locking : for example supported in Algeria and not in the neighboring Tunisia ... both are in North Africa
Water linger is what is needed. There are ways to accomplish that. But it means undoing decades of making that not happen. Then once you figure out the water linger problem you have to figure out the soil fungus/plants/animals. So it does not just all run off again. Probably the worst thing we did was decimating the beaver population. That takes time to fix.
You're hijacking the term "ethical" to present yourself as morally superior. Many people don't think they're behaving unethically, and I think you're of the minority opinion.

> Many people don’t know about it and obviously should.

If people did know, what would be the consequence? What tangible difference would it make in anyone's life?
> And you can't bring in a small bag of beans/pre-ground beans from your favorite roaster?

Literally no? I've basically had a mix of … industrial coffee vats, managed by the office? IDK what they're really called; and machines that make jarring noises & reconstitute coffee from what feels like freeze dried ingredients (touch screen interface, constantly breaking due to clogs).

> Every office I've worked in had a coffee maker or espresso machine or both,

I've had an espresso machine exactly once, but that's sort of the thing, it is the exception, not the rule. (I did like the coffee, then.)

When we had the espresso machine, the beans in use were a very low key office politics thing? (In a friendly way.) There was one guy who liked a particular brand that the rest of us pretty much didn't, but the rest of us weren't too picky otherwise. Just … not that one. Nobody much minded, since it's really not that big of a deal, of course.

Our espresso machine had a hopper, so you're not realistically grinding "your" beans. You can bring in some, but you're sharing, and it'd be until the next time the hopper needs a fill. Easier to just get it on the office shopping list.
If legimate, then failure. The precondition implies the postcondition.

I don't personally think running copyright material through a magic box that you write lots of pretty marketing about removes copyright. Much like running it through grep to delete the copyright notices doesn't remove the copyright. Or deleting the licence file from a fork.

Seems totally obvious to me, but only because I don't buy that there's an artificial intelligence composing code from scratch that just happens to have the same expletives in comments that the GPL code did.
If you expand the theory to encompass riverine ports that would cover five of the six. I don't know enough about Olmec / Mexican geography / development to speak to that.
I still don't trust benchmarks, but they've come a long way.

It's genuinely outperforming GPT4 in my manual tests.
Apple's response makes me almost put my iPhone in the trash. What a trash article with trash arguments. It's like reading a kids writeup how they stole their candy that wasn't even theirs.

They also explained why my App Reviews sometimes take weeks, they treat their customers not with integrity. Sad stuff really.
1. Flag question with custom flag or something to bring moderator’s attention, explain the problem, so that you can try to write correct answer.

2. Ask new question and answer it yourself. It won’t become more popular but maybe it will help a few people who can find it.

But, yeah, it sucks.
During a renovation, I ran 6-strand single-mode fiber to various locations in my home. I found the termination process (using an inexpensive Chinese fusion splicer) to be somewhat of a pain, especially for connections behind wall jacks rather than in a proper splicing cabinet.

What I found worked best was to buy a bunch of 50 meter pre-terminated plenum-rated cables and cut them in half. I'd plug the pre-terminated ends into the wall-jack coupler, then weave the cut end through the walls back to the splicing cabinet, where I'd leave several turns of slack and fusion splice the pigtail which I plugged into the patch panel.
Could you give any examples? I'd say GDPR was an incredibly well-thought-out bit of legislation
You can't eat wild boar.

Or rather you can and individual hunters sometimes do. But the various diseases and parasites wild boars tend to have makes them uneconomical to harvest for resale.

Trust me, Texans have thought of this.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/travel/texas-feral-hog-problem-...
Barrier to entry with "few $B" is pretty high.
Especially since the scaling laws indicate that it's only getting more expensive.
And even if you manage to raise $Bs, you still need to be clever on how to deploy it (talent, compute, data) ...
Emacs implementation when? ;)
To avoid the required non-integer resampling in software, as everything but music has basically standardized on 48k, and most platforms default to it.
How 'bout "sufficient water [..] for a self sustaining cycle of evaporation and precipitation".
Things you consider luxury may not be such for others and vice versa. You cannot really state your opinions as a fact and expect everyone to agree.
This is the way to go - and you can reduce luggage even further by "preshipping" via UPS or whatever, or if you travel to the same area often store stuff with friends/relatives/small storage unit.

The other huge advantage with picking the early flights - if something goes wrong you'll get there later on a later flight almost always, so you can cut the times a bit closer and not be terribly worried.

If you're on the last flight out that day, missing it is bad news.
As a co-founder of Class Companion, I appreciate the shoutout, kind stranger!
"seize the moment"
I think paradoxically if the slowdown doesn't stop, and they think internally people are increasingly unhappy, a war or military aggression is more likely. It's a great distraction something like "the economy is not as good, but look, we got Taiwan back from the weak Americans!"
> Piracy was traditionally seen as something that predominantly young males were interested in.

Really? Even 20 years ago limewire was wildly popular regardless of gender. It never occurred to me to gender the practice as male.
What are the constraints? Does it have to go through an SVG intermediary (as opposed to raw pixel math, for example)? Does the canvas have to be responsive? Can you use GPU calculations?

I don't know what you've tried already, but typically SVGs are very slow to work with. If you're drawing to a canvas anyway, you should see if you can skip the XML altogether and do the math to draw directly to the canvas (or use a helper lib like Konva or Pixi or D3 etc.). Can any of the line generation and stringification be offloaded to WASM, which can often be several times faster than JS? Can any of it be offloaded to a GPU, depending on which platforms you need to support?

I'm still not sure what the actual use case is for a bunch of random polylines (is it a visualization of something? a scientific calculation? background graphics?). If they don't represent any actual data and are just a graphical nicety, can you fake them somehow (bitmap sprites with different transformations)? And does it have to happen client-side in real time (can you just prerender it?)?
Google Trims Jobs in Trust and Safety While Others Work 'Around the Clock'
Hey everyone!

WebhookWatch was born from a recurring need I saw as a freelance developer. Many online B2B SaaS platforms and individuals integrate payment systems like Stripe, but lack advanced notifications for crucial events. For example, they might need alerts when a customer cancels a subscription, a charge fails, or a subscriber's card is about to expire. That's why I built WebhookWatch – to provide proactive email notifications for these important events.

I plan on adding more features and other means of notifications in the future!

Roberto
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Sorry I did what? When?
I’m sure they know most people aren’t upgrading yearly so it makes more sense to target people two gens or more behind.

Regarding your last point, it’s because of the video accelerators on the M series chips which is why they mention Final Cut. The latter comparison to Intel laptops also has to take into account that it’s been ~4 years since Apple shipped that.
Sorry, I should have been more clear. I meant that it is fairly common for a project that has a single author and contributor to nevertheless be developed as part of an organization such as Apache. So, even if that single author is the de facto owner, they may not be the legal owner of the copyright.
> Is there even a way to correctly deal with signals in the first place?

There is, but it requires a level of rigor and overhead that tends to make them poor choices for practical engineering. Signals are, at their core, 1:1 isomorphic to interrupts being delivered to a physical CPU. The stop execution and transfer it to a different location at an arbitrary/uncontrollable time. Operating systems deal with this problem robustly all the time, they have to.

What you typically do as the fundamental building block is provide some way of "masking" the interrupts (e.g. sigaction() with appropriate flags for every signal you might receive) so that they won't occur while you're inspecting some critical state. On hardware this is generally cheap, but with signals it's a whole system call (or many, if there are multiple signals to deal with). So generally this isn't the common technique.

So you fall back to the other OS technique, typically used for non-maskable interrupts: don't touch anything. You can't call OS APIs safely (because they might have been preempted in arbitrary states), so you're limited to doing lockless algorithms that can safely update the shared data in a way that can be inspected later. Then maybe you might queue up an "event" or something to get the interrupted context to re-inspect state "soon", etc...

The second option generally is what unix processes try to do. Except that it's really hard (because it's isomorphic to lockless coding!), and easy to get wrong. So signals ended up with the reuptation of being fundamentally broken.

They're not. They have a home and can be used robustly. Just... don't, unless you really really need them for some reason.
Shot-Scraper
The loudest part of the company that inflicted pain on people revolved around the background checks. We had a call center dedicated to taking those calls, e.g. “You have a DUI and your landlord doesn’t allow” / “You committed a felony and your landlord says they don’t allow felonies.” - everyone was encouraged to sit on those calls to know what it felt like and have empathy.

Most products centered on whether you actually got a lease or not in the first place (and it was mainly crime related). Once you got into a lease and were struggling to pay rent, anything else would have moved to a manual action taken by the landlord if they wanted to be a soulless jerk. (Not sure about whether Realpage has some kind of automated product for that but we didn’t)

As for competing YieldStar product. Our main objection was that if we were to build price projection software, it’d better reflect the actual market. The algorithm and heuristics like “raise rent on Christmas” didn’t sit well, so we raised the conversation and stalled the project for a few weeks. Eventually we were told we’d get to revisit our concerns in the V2 but we’d be overruled for the time being “just to get out this MVP”.
I am personally surprised that TFA didn't mention either jj or Sapling [0] given its emphasis on how both Git and svn were both made to be backwards compatible!

[0] https://github.com/facebook/sapling
Why it's so challenging to land upright on the moon
MMLU is garbage. A lot of incorrect answers there.
GraphRAG: Unlocking LLM discovery on narrative private data
> Quite surprised they didnt mention the obvious - the added personal costs and time.

I'm not sure what personal costs are, if you're referring to my comment? DIY coffee is considerably cheaper. As for time … because it's mostly a wash? While I think the coffee shop will win out, you still have to walk there, wait to order, order, wait for them to make it, and walk back. It definitely takes me less time to make coffee myself; it's the washing of the equipment where the coffee shop might then come out ahead.

I should time the two.
Ah yes, the leftists who posted in fatpeoplehate, jailbait, theDonald, and all the gamergate subs.
What is the probability that newer models are just overfitting various benchmarks? A lot of these newer models seem to underperform GPT-4 in most of my daily queries, but I'm obviously swimming in the world of anecdata.
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Google launches $5M prize to find actual uses for quantum computers
It's not even that they say it's been ineffective; they're saying that the EC can't prove that it has been effective.

And AFAIK there's also no reasoning given why it's fine to prevent apps from mentioning other payment options, even assuming it's not anti-competitive. (But to be fair, I haven't actually gone to the source to read their statement.)
This is yet more bullshit California politics, part of why I left. It’s the same thing as Californians eternally blaming the long-dead Ronald Reagan for the problem of visible homelessness in their state.

Bring up that CA finally has plenty of water this year and they bitch about how actually it’s “too much” after a decade of bitching about “not enough.” It’s like they never heard the Goldilocks fairy tale or simply cannot relate what comes out of their mouth to the most basic critical thinking. Really, it’s not enough of an unpredictable and uncontrollable weather pattern for ten years and when that finally lets up it’s TOO MUCH. And it’s the farmers’ (they vote R) fault too!!1 Okay, California.
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