skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Check fraud" isn't exactly a "glitch". This "works" because of a concession made to the customer to allow them to access funds before they're verified, because checks can take weeks to clear.

It's exactly why those "I'll send you a check for $10k, deposit and withdraw it, then send me half back and you keep the other half" scams work. By the time the bank comes back and says "This $10k check was
bad, give us back the $10k you withdrew", you're out the $5k you mailed off. Except in this case, the only person you're scamming is yourself, so it's an extra potent form of stupid.
In mice [0]

What translational value was gained from this study? This is lost on me.

We take germ-free pregnant female mice, with no gut microbiome. We then add B. breve UCC2003 to the experimental group. We observe that the metabolic profiles of the fetal brains from the experimental group are altered relative to the controls.

Great. Now we can say, with slightly more confidence, “A fetus in a pregnant biological female human with only B. breve UCC2003 in their gut microbiome may exhibit altered brain metabolic profiles.” Did we need to euthanize 11 pregnant mice (at least) to determine this?

I commend the authors on their reporting and transparency, but truly I do not understand this study.

Clearly I am cynical from my time in academic biomedical research, so perhaps my perception of this study is biased. Happy to hear opposing opinions.

[0] https://x.com/justsaysinmice
As someone with a BRCA2 mutation this is very promising news.
I’d like to add 4. The inertia and feel good sense of being in the flow when programming. The mind gets into a single track and wants to continue.

Fun but also exhausting.

So I stopped all that. I started learning Argentine Tango instead - lifelong project and an invitation to limitless mastery of multiple aspects of self and relationships.

F number 3. I feel we all give more than enough in our jobs.
Even the most dysfunctional and abusive states can generally manage a deeper vision for the future than the next quarter's management bonuses.
This kind of dribble is exactly why Musk bought Twitter. He has always had these views but he was smart enough not to reveal them since he could be canceled and lose his megaphone. By buying it, he knew he could express his point of view without anyone stopping him. The free speech he talked about was his own, not the overall public. It was smart on his part. It sucks for most of us since the general media can't stop echoing his views. The billions he paid were actually a bargain since he controls a large part of the world's media by the results of his X messages. He has the money to run X until his death. Twitter took a hold of the media's psyche that won't be going away any time soon.
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Happened to my wife’s uncle. A meningioma surgery led to glioblastoma.
My experience is building streaming systems using “exactly-once delivery” primitives is much more awkward than designing your system around at least once primitives and explicitly de-duplicating using last-write wins. For one thing, LWW gives you an obvious recovery strategy if you have outages of the primitive your system is built on: a lot of the exactly once modes for tools make failure recovery harder than necessary
That’s selection bias, not competitive pressure raising the top level. It’s not that professional positions being so few and far between for artists raise the bar. It’s that you are only looking at the top of the competent musicians which are actually far more numerous but keep music as a hobby because there is no job there. Take a similar sample of the "best" at anything and you will find similar traits.
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Back in the day, I got most of my linux cd's from them.
Today, distrowatch is prob the best modern replacement.
Crypto as in:

- Decentralized finance (not even Coinbase)

- Decentralized internet (everyone has servers)

- New currencies / economies (niche-specific wealth)

- Stop macro exploitation of intl economies

- Information available to all

- Sanity restored to money system / no more theft

- Sanity restored to content / no more censorship

Then sign me up! Or actually don't... I'll sign me up!

Crypto as in:

- Centralized exchanges

- Centralized content hubs and "vaults"

- Crypto twitter celeb ICOs and pump/dumps
- NFTs ZKPs PePes and emojis

- More corruption than ever

- More theft than ever

- Information obfuscated by memes and schemes

Then no thanks, I'm good. Crypto was cool in the beginning, just got steered into a mess that nobody wants anything to do with anymore (probably intentionally).
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You haven't seen Amharic on Ethiopian Airline planes?

The project supports many other languages which justifies the use of "African".
They have raised at least $6.5 Billion.
The dot got more "likes" than Khamenei's Tweet. He was able to "ratio" the supreme leader's message without saying anything at all, and apparently the government decided that's worth 12 years in prison.
Please take this as well-intentioned feedback. #1 and #2 are really difficult to parse. A really carefully considered elevator pitch that distills the essence of your product into concrete use cases would go really far in helping people understand what you're building.

e.g. I think you're trying to say: SyncLite helps <developer?/dba?/who?> replicate databases from a variety of apps into a centralized location <for what purpose?>.

What's not clear is what problem this is solving, or what the ultimate goal is. Same comment for data streaming. I can imagine a few, but would prefer not to imagine.

Assume some of your potential users/customers don't know which specific solution they need, but probably know what their problem is. Your description should help someone with a problem your product solves recognize that your product seeks to address that problem. As someone who has worked with ETL products extensively (as a PM for those products and as a developer using those products), it's hard for me to know if your tool is interesting to me even as someone who's been intimately involved with the space.

One area where some jargon may be helpful is using more standard ETL terminology. You appear to have a kind of ETL tool, but are using terms that have me unsure about whether or not that's the space you sit in or how to mentally model your product.

Based on a quick skim, I suspect a lot of my questions are answered by digging deeper into the docs, and that's good. Just gotta get those details boiled down into a more descriptive summary.
I work on an organisation that does anti-corruption reporting. We have some software for that and the search box has "Vladimir Putin, TeliaSonera" as a placeholder example.

Few months back a new hire quit on his second day when he saw that, because he was afraid he might get into trouble since he has to regularly travel to Russia (he was from, eh, somewhere in Eastern Europe or the Balkans or some such – I forgot).

We had some discussions about whether that was completely paranoid and stupid, or whether it was somewhat reasonable/understandable.

I was firmly in the last camp. Yes, maybe the chance of actually suffering consequences is small and in that sense it's paranoid, but people buy lottery tickets with a lower chance of winning. The arbitrariness of it is the point.
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I have one of those - great for video calls but music after 30 minutes gives me serious headaches.
I believe he was trying to ratio him (and he succeeded).
Asking for XPaths is clever!

Plus you can probably use that until it fails (website changes) and then just re scrape it with llm request
Is there a process for getting an account manager with Stripe? I think it would be useful for other reasons but cheaper fees is certainly good too.
Indeed, the perennial excuse of every authoritarian; they are "#Not like other countries".
I don’t see confirmation of anything in particular here, other than some ad sales company made some rather vague and dubious claims. Does anyone know what specifically they were talking about and if there’s anything to it?
Woah, that sounds really cool! I did some research this summer on running programs in kernel space and tactics used to verify safety. This sounds right up my alley—-if I had any of the qualifications!
It's worked for 45+ years for cable companies.
55? It’s only recently the red line has gotten back above _5_ in some stretches.
trying to overwrite the hardlink to current directory, typical cybercrime
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Presumably from lack of relevant context (i.e. relevance to the child's own needs/sensory experience) and lack of trial and error.

Similarly you can't learn to write code very well from watching videos of someone watching code, especially when they're not trying to teach code through the video.
Meanwhile the prize I won is tinnitus and a persistant uncontrollable twitch, neither of which have subsided even years after the “treatment” that caused them. Like they said, it's roulette.
No they killed the project a while ago. The goal was to identify if you were watching a video based on the audio.

I assume that the feature was not worth privacy implications and potential fallout.
There is an ongoing effort to include back the equivalent in core [here](https://github.com/django/django/pull/17554)
I'm sorry, but you must be confusing what a legal representative is, or we are getting lost in translation here.

The legal rep for Twitter in Brazil was not just some Lawyer defending Twitter in court. They were effectively the Owner and President of the Twitter subsidiary in Brazil, and as such are legally responsible for any and all dealings of the company in the country.
"CIA front" is a weird thing to say. It's openly funded by the US Government, so it's not like Radio Free Europe's affiliation is a secret or a conspiracy; we don't need to exaggerate for effect here.

Anyway, his lawyer also spoke to a newspaper in Iran, so I think it's hard to argue that he was arrested and tried for something. Whether it was specifically for the dot thing is, I guess, the main thing that one could speculate on, if you were particularly distrustful of the sources.
Not at all. See my reply to the other comment.
Stifling thought crime does indeed seem best by punishing even trivial offenses. The gestapo cannot be everywhere, so encourage people to self censor or else.
It's not exactly impossible to ban since the court is threatening individuals with a $9k daily fine for trying to access via VPN. The court also previously ordered Google & Apple to delete VPN apps off people's phones.
We have adaptive immune systems.

Exposure to disease allows us to respond to more dangerous related diseases - if this weren't true vaccination never would have worked.
Is the story false?
your bully replies to your tweet with a single period. you don't know precisely what he means, but you do know he's bullying you. You and your bully are adversaries, he's adversarying you. I'm not saying that Shanbehzadeh is the bully, I'm sure it's vice versa, but if you respond to your bully's post with a single period, prepare to get your ass kicked in school the next day.

it might be fun to play the legal game "but what law did I break" in a country with rights and rule of law, but in a country without it...? I'm pretty sure Shanbehzadeh knew what he was risking.
As someone who regularly takes the red line also: you'll have plenty of time to consider it.
no description of the technology at all...just marketing
Apart from the myriad technical reasons that existing crypto transactions will never be a replacement for existing payment processors, I'm personally not interested in a payment system that makes all of my transactions a matter of public record.
I didn't know what BIN attack was until now but it seems to be essentially brute forcing card details until one succeeds. How is that even feasible and why would the sellers account be banned in the case someone got the right combo? Very strange and suspicious.
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I'm one of the founders of OpenPay (getopenpay.com) and we offer comprehensive subscription management and analytics, and our customers can bring in any payment processor they want. We don't lock people into only using one payment processor like Stripe so we support a lot of businesses that have gotten banned from Stripe

Would love to partner together to support all the subscription + hosted pages + analytics functionality
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I'm not really sure what you're talking about.

Let's say you work at a company that uses Elasticsearch. Let's say you're running a newspaper and you've got your logs in elasticsearch. Let's say one of your reporters ends up getting chopped up while they're visiting the Ostrich embassy to get a marriage license. Now let's say you're then asked "who looked at the logs of the CMS who searched for and found the IP address that was used by that reporter on October 1st 2018"

That example, purely hypothetical, is an example of "security" but not the typical security you'll see in some open source application -- it's an enterprise "compliance" feature that won't be trivial to implement and will be judged not just on completeness but on user interface, ease of use, ease of implementation, etc.

"security" means different things to different people
Stripe ['s leadership] doesn't want to IPO, and its balance sheet doesn't need to. There's ridiculous demand for a Stripe IPO, whether it could is not at all in question.
That’s going to happen no matter what. It’s a hot diagnosis that yields alot of services. It is to 2024 what ADD was to 1994.
I'm working on a Chrome extension to do web scraping using OpenAI, and I've been impressed by what ChatGPT can do. It can scrape complicated text/html, and usually returns the correct results.

It's very early still but check it out at https://FetchFoxAI.com

One of the cool things is that you can scrape non-uniform pages easily. For example I helped someone scrape auto dealer leads from different websites: https://youtu.be/QlWX83uHgHs . This would be a lot harder with a "traditional" scraper.
I don't doubt that this technology exists, but I do seriously doubt Facebook, Google, Amazon, etc. use it. They don't need to.
Interestingly, I’ve learned more from learning to let go from this idea of finishing a useless idea. A “project” doesn’t inherently mean “useful”. Sometimes I’m just dillying around on something useless and eventually I recognize it as such and cancel it.

It’s better to just not do things than to do something unnecessary really well.
I'm one of the founders of OpenPay (getopenpay.com) and we support all this functionality and have a simple to use API. We are charging way less than Stripe so you don't have to pay the "Stripe tax" just to run your business

You can also bring in whichever payment processor you want which will help you save on your payment processing fees
Very neat but I don’t understand what it has to do with puns. These are rhymes, as far as I can tell.
“Everyone gets cheaper pricing except anyone you know.”
I also had good results with structured outputs, scraping news articles for city names from https://lite.cnn.com for the “in the news” list at https://weather.bingo - code here: https://www.jasonthorsness.com/13

I’ve had problems with hallucinations though even for something as simple as city names; also the model often ignores my prompt and returns country names - am thinking of trying a two-stage scrape with one checking the output of the other.
> “Postgres environment variable”

I think most people think of environment variables as being for a whole process. For RLS this can be any GUC variable so it can be per-session, per transaction, etc.

Usually you would set it per transaction (and start a transaction for each request) and I think the important part you are missing to say is they are applied to any joins, CTE's, functions and views (as of the latest-1 version with the right flag).

So you write your schema, write your access (RLS) rules and can then write your queries as if you had access to the whole DB but the only parts you will see is what that user can access.
The one ticket only is how it is done at my current job (except in support, which is a whole new hell) and I hate how it actively deters me from using my brain (and time) efficiently.
Somehow, I feel like if a project hasn't become incredibly boring to work on, then it's not even close to finished.

The hardest part is finishing a project pre-revenue. There's just little motivation to do it because, at that point, it's too boring to be about the 'journey' anymore; it becomes all about money... Yet you don't know if the project will be able to generate revenue so it's about 'hypothetical money'. As someone who has a huge number of failed projects under their belt, for me it feels like working for 'magic unicorn money'. I rely 100% on the enthusiasm/delusion of my non-technical co-founder to keep me going. In my mind, it's not going to make it... Though I like the fact that my current project is in a niche that I would never have chosen on my own because it's so damn boring (it's in HR search/recruitment sector *vomits*). I was literally optimizing for boringness.

I wish I could come up with one of these startups which can be monetized straight away, no free tier, no complex sales funnel but I think these opportunities are very limited and highly competitive.
Yeah. This submission is a clear dupe of that.
I've been thinking a lot recently about where I would personally draw the line on what sorts of speech should be criminal.

If someone publicly called for specific violence (ex: "let's all meet at Joe's house to burn it down—I'll bring the lighter") that feels to me like the sort of thing that would be useful to do something about instead of waiting for the actual crime to be committed.

But publicly stating that you support a violent act that somebody else did? Criticizing widely accepted beliefs? Expressing that you don't like a particular sort of person? I don't see how we could possibly criminalize anything like that without neutering the ability for a society to come up with new ideas.

Tim Urban's "What's Our Problem" has a great framing of this question: the sort of discourse needed for a high-rung "idea lab" requires that people are about to speak publicly in ways that appear to be "spreading lies online" (one of the crimes Shanbehzadeh, the Iranian writer, was apparently charged with). Without that freedom we all descend into tribal barbarism that leaves us stuck in the current set of ideas we happen to have right now.
FWIW people are still building in the former list and never stopped. It's the "degen" speculators that got loud enough to overtake the public-facing narratives for their own personal gain.
> the effective ideological charge since opposite sides cancel out each other

I honestly, wholeheartedly wish that was true.

In reality, however, the ideology of whoever holds more economic power has orders of magnitude more weight than the one of the powerless masses.
I am working on something similar and applied for your role! I prefixed my email with "ETF Matcher" just to correlate it here.
I've never been a Will Smith fan, but of all the bad behavior in the world, two guys getting into a minor physical altercation over jokes about the sexual relationships involving the other's wife does not do much for my outrage meter. This is almost normal human weakness stuff, as opposed to 'must be cancelled and shunned by all of society "for eternity" stuff.'

Rock presumably could have pressed charges. Smith can receive public approbation, but for me the world would be much less interesting if anyone who ever erred be prohibited in participating in it for the rest of their lives.
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>In general, users never face fines in the US even for visiting "banned" pages.

You might be oversimplifying. Yes, the US does have particularly free speech, and especially for listening to it. But using kiddie porn sites, president threatening sites, ISIS recruiting sites, US govt leaked secrets sharing sites, perhaps ghost gun or bomb making sites, stalking ex girlfriends... I think a good bit of that has legal consequences for people under many circumstances. Evidence used to convict you is not much different than... evidence.
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On Discord many years ago I spoke to someone about my "big belly".
The next day I received ads about exactly that topic everywhere Adsense Facebook everywhere.
So the technology is at least 10 years old and I totally believe that the story is true.

The key issue here is that we don't own our phones.
We have little control over what those apps do and often apps are hidden and can't be uninstalled.
Really? That’s surprising to me. The Arabic keyboard layout is very simple to learn, and people in the Eastern Arabic-speaking world (Egypt, Jordan, etc.) seem to use it pretty universally. Obviously people write online with the “chat alphabet,” but I’ve never heard of anyone in the Levant actually using it to input Arabic characters.
In 2006, a satellite repairman in New York City was imprisoned for allowing people to watch the television channel al-Manar, which is run by a political party which holds over 10% of the seats in Lebanon's parliament - Hezbollah.
this is actually being done with laser weapons...i also recall some anti-mosquito window frame with the same principle at work