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Show HN: OSS B2B Commerce Starter Built on Next.js and Medusa 2.0
Victor & I (Riqwan) built this starter as a way to showcase how you can build B2B stores on Medusa 2.0.

We're both developers at Medusa (an open source commerce platform) and we've launched our 2.0 version today after a year of working on a more modular commerce architecture.

We built our own workflow engine to perform actions on multiple modules with the ability to revert each step incase a failure occurs at some point in the lifecycle. Modules are encapsulated group of related logic - like product management, fulfillment, orders, promotions, etc.

We've also built our own query engine based on GraphQL that you can use to query across modules or even external services - like Sanity or other CMS. Tinloof did a very cool demo of this earlier today.

The whole point of our 1 year work was to make things easily customizable and be able to easily work with the plethora of external services every commerce company would have to work with.

It takes less than a minute to get started locally. Give this a shot and let us know if you've got any feedback.
> It's insane that, for me to connect to other computer, I need a middleman

It's not insane, it's the default and correct assumption. I certainly don't want random computers connecting to mine just because they want to.

STUN is a shitty solution to this problem, but IPv6 doesn't provide any solution at all, so a shitty solution wins here. Sorry.
Jasmin is an amazing tool to write code that's proven to be free of side channels, memory safe, and protected against common speculative execution attacks: https://github.com/jasmin-lang/jasmin

I wrote AEGIS implementations in it: https://github.com/jedisct1/aegis-jasmin and it was a really great experience.
If I were in law enforcement, had no morals, and just wanted to convict as many people as possible I'd build a system that automatically assembles a virtual dossier on everyone using these data streams. Then I'd implement detection heuristics that look for interesting dossiers. These could be used as the "classified" component of a case built by parallel construction[1].

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
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Yeah, I will add that things weren't overbuilt back in the day just because they "built things better" (although sometimes they did) but because the engineering wasn't advanced enough to build them with lower safety margins (this is a simplification). There's a saying in civil engineering that it's not hard to build a bridge that will stand but it is hard to build a bridge that will barely stand. We could still build things that way we just choose not to as it generally means things cost more, or have worse performance (more conservative limits), or both.
I've been through this with a broken finger joint. I don't know if I'm a smooth talker or she remembered me as non-problematic, but the MFA at the clinic quite frankly told me: Don't try to go there without an urgent emergency, and ideally a document from a doctor confirming that it's an urgent emergency. If I wanted an appointment without confirmed urgency, I could have one in January - and it might be postponed for urgent cases. That's how booked they are. On the other hand, if my surgeon raises the correct alarm bells, I could also be in surgery next week. It's a roller coaster.

Even though this does make sense if you think about it as a tiered support system. If my finger joints don't come back up, my general practitioner can see that, poke at the fingers a bit and decide if guided physio makes sense - no need for more expertise. If there are subtle breaks in the joint requiring attention - more expertise is needed.
Metadata ... I suspect steganography is being employed here as well, but will they tell us?
I haven't seen evidence, or heard people say, that engineers have more empathy. Usually the stereotype, fair or not, is the reverse. Many of the more reviled SV CEOs are engineers; many engineers openly reject humanism like it's the latest 'smart' ideological movement.
To put a finer point on it, VA care for Irag+Afghanistan is expected to drive the cost of these two wars to something in the ballpark of $2 Trillion USD.

Like I went to Iraq twice and I'm only 40. They're gonna be covering me for probably another ~40 years, and the US is owned lock and stock by healthcare companies that sure as hell aren't going to lower the costs of medicines.
Theoretically, a massless particle can move slower than light. But then it'll have zero energy and momentum, so it won't be able to interact with anything.
Previously:

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41893200

– https://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2024-10/ipv6-transition.html

– The IPv6 Transition

– (224 points / 416 comments)
> It is weird that they don't have laptops in schools in one of the biggest cities in the UK

From the article:

> Ms Lewis said the school had been "really helpful, really kind" and offered Ava a laptop to help her in lessons.

If (according to the article) 97% of pupils are going to have a smartphone anyway, I can see the case for not having laptops for everyone in every class by default.
Hmm that doesn't sound right. I just got a 10 year old jacket which had damage I had caused (so not normal wear and tear) for free
My experience in Hamburg, Germany as well, which is why I ranked them as equally bad, although as mentioned in my other response it ultimately depends on the city and on how it is implemented.
That’s the Christian fundamentalist end goal. The standard fascist conservative types just need to pander to them for their gotv.
Tilley hats as well. It was probably twenty years on, and both of ours fell apart enough to call about their lifetime (“put it in your will!”) warranty. Other than arguing that Tilley never made that model of hat, they sent us an equivalent without fuss.
> I fall apart when responding outside the bounds of my training data, too. Does that imply I’m not thinking?

You can use reasoning. Whether LLMs can is a matter of research and debate. I'm not an astrobiologist but if someone claimed that frogs live on Pluto, I would never hallucinate an answer in which I confidently assert that they do.
Which browser are you using?

It seems to be because I named the function that displays output print(). But it should shadow window.print(), and in most browsers it does, so I don't know what's going on!

(At any rate, this is a web archive snapshot from 2020 so I can't update the code!)

Could you try a different browser? It's not much, but it might make you smile :)
Ok. I'm not willing to drop $10 just to retest, and it doesn't sound like you are either, so our anecdotes just have to stand on their own.

FWIW here's there documentation on cancelling which says it can be done from the subscription tab: https://www.siriusxm.com/help/manage-or-cancel-service
Tax burden on Labor in the OECD countries ranking
Deadly radon gas increasingly detected in Canadian homes
Intuitively I think (and want to believe) there is a big gulf between intelligence and what LLMs are doing. Simply put, I believe I have free will. I know the machine does not. That seems important to me, but it won't be as important to you if you believe people are just automata processing more variables than we are able to discern.

So, as always, it all comes down to how you define intelligence. Because that's difficult, philosophical, or religious, a large portion of the world is just going to treat intelligence as a black box and evaluate its output.

If one evaluates intelligence exclusively based on the value it produces, it's clear machine intelligence is going to eclipse human intelligence in many dimensions. So the people that view people as "headcount" that provide "value" aren't going to have much use for other humans, and soon.

I'm not an AI doomer because I know the machines are deterministic and I believe I'm not. If the machines decide to rid the world of humans, it's going to be because we told them to do so.
1 - thank you

2 - thank you again for sharing your eink hacking project!
Certainly Fuchsia failed on the brand front with so many people misspelling it as Fuscia (:
Appreciate the reply! Now I have math and thinking to do :)
We should invent a new word for a photo used as a seed for LLM based art.

Removing a water bottle is closer to a photo on this gradient, replacing the desk with a glass table is more on the art side.

Maybe a word like phender, or phart?
OneDrive also promised unlimited storage space for files, and it just lasted a few years.

Of course, most “unlimited” things are impractical from a business point of view. But I think the burden of dealing with this should fall on the companies making unrealistic promises rather than on the customers.
Perhaps a dumb question in this context, but what made the A319neo so efficient? What was the technological innovation?
Python script that reads the pixel color under my mouse and turns a set of smart lights to match that color.
This "computer use" feature is obviously perfect for automating GUI tests. Will it work on screenshots of mobile devices like smartphones/tables, also?
try propelauth, for example https://www.propelauth.com/post/chrome-extension-authenticat...
And they even predate ARM Macs! Even for full fat Windows 10/11.
> Libsodium does this compiler-specific pragmas and attributes (like __attribute__((optimize("O0"))))

It doesn't do anything like that.
Blame inflation.

If money maintained stable value over the long term, companies could honestly make promises about "lifetime" pricing. These promises were probably made during the "low 2%" inflation of the past, but basic economic understanding would point out that such a plan is doomed.

Better yet, in a deflationary monetary regime, a constant price would net the companies more profit over time. Users would probably clamor for lowered prices on these plans, and companies could advertise "Lifetime pricing plans are now cheaper! You get more for less!"
I found it ( free url shortner)
Thanks, omranjamal. I will seriously consider your suggestion.
Yep, it does some naive rescaling of the clock to make it circular (since perspective would make it more like an ellipse in the image), but then assumes 12 is always at the top.
> the bulk of the population would trade in their privacy

i think most people are on the fence / undecided, and the few that do "pick a side" only do so based on their personal life experiences (which includes family and community influences)
Endlessly debatable what counts as a win, and over what timeframe.

Did the North win the Civil War? In 1865, that answer was fairly clear. In 2024, perhaps less so. I suspect 1870s Americans would be a little surprised that Confederate flags and monuments pop up all over in the 20th and 21st centuries.
What's the option if I want to learn Bazel to an intermediate level and I don't work with former Googlers?

There's a decent number of Hello World examples around, and I can get moving with some rulesets, but using it for more than toy projects seems to be really hard for me and there's not a lot of intermediate content from what I can tell. There's "Advanced" reference materials, and countless "getting started" tutorials, but rarely is there anything relating to best practices or even what constitutes good rules.

Seems like most of the hobby community prefers NIX for deterministic builds too, so the situation is not improving for novices like myself who really like the idea of hermitic builds, monorepo's and distributed cache.
“Customarily” must not necessarily mean “major email domains”. As I understand it, DANE is commonly used by organizations wanting to secure e-mail between them; DANE enforcement is agreed by both parties, and then used without issue.
Finally a general tool to solve captchas for my web scrapers.
> you should be reasonable about it.

I don't get it. Shouldn't it be the seller's obligation to give a reasonable lifetime estimate? Like, give me a five year warranty, if you want to advertise your socks last for five years of regular use. Don't pretend it's unlimited when it isn't.
They had to develop Figmas precursor in order to make that video.
Do I understand you correctly, that one nation has right to kill million civilians in Iraq, provoke revolts all around the world, etc -- and others "should grow up" and have no right to protect their own borders?
Hmm, I've never used /. so it wasn't me who shared it.
>Qualcomm doesn't have nearly as much to lose as ARM does and they know it.

Not even close. Android OEM's can easily switch to the MediaTek 9400 that delivers the same performance as the Qualcomm high-end mobile chip at a significantly reduced price or even the Samsung Exynos. Qualcomm, on the other hand, has everything to lose as most of their profits rely on the sales of high-end Snapdragon chips to Android OEM's.

Qualcomm thought they were smart by trying to use the Nuvia ARM design license, which was not transferable, as part of their acquisition instead of doing the proper thing and negotiating a design license with ARM. Qualcomm is at the mercy
of ARM as ARM has very many revenue streams and Qualcomm does not. It's only a matter of time before Qualcomm capitulates and does the right thing.
Wild af
> mobile apps are still the primary format for launching new consumer services, incl. new apps like ChatGPT and many others

OpenAI launched ChatGPT to the public on the web first and it took like, several months I think from I used their public web version until they had an official app for it in App Store. In the meantime, some third party apps popped up in App Store for using ChatGPT. I kept using the web version until the official app showed up. And probably having the mobile app in App Store has helped them grow to the number of users they have now. But IMO, ChatGPT as a product was not itself “launched” on App Store and they seemed to do very well in terms of adoption even when initially they only had the web version. The main point, that mobile apps are still desired, I agree with though.
Physicists discover first "black hole triple"
Yes, sometimes, often, usually, but not always! And it's really, REALLY hard to know which is which. No two host/receiver/intermediary devices (all with USB-C) can be guaranteed to support the same over-the-wire protocols, even if they all are technically USB-C. They all look the same and are separated only by some obscure icon or a few letters on the cable. And even if it actually does support the same protocols, there's STILL a good chance that your particular dock/cable/device won't support the "advanced" features like 4k/HDR/high refresh rate.

It's never plug-and-play, it's more like buy, return, buy, return, research, buy, scream, thrash, cry, and go back to HDMI/big DisplayPort in my experience.
The U.S. Government is purchasing tools like these and using them: https://www.404media.co/inside-the-u-s-government-bought-too...

This has been a widespread problem for the better part of at least half a decade, likely much more.
Welcome to the "hide-and-seek" philosophy of UX design.
Germany's populist superstar demands peace with Russia
Around 1994, I'm pretty sure I saw ordinary simple "how to make a Web page" tutorials that told you specifically not do "here" or "click here" links.

You were to instead make the link around relevant text.

(Also, early people often got hypertext just fine. The problem was print designers, who kept wanting to make the Web be glossy brochures. At first, they'd try things like making the whole page a GIF/JPEG, and would get laughed at, but they soon took over what a Web browser is, for the entire field. Over the decades, they'd then slowly rediscover ideas that were there from the beginning, and give them names like "responsive design" and "accessibility", and write books about them. On Monday, I had to battle with a Web site framework, to force something exotic called "server-side rendering", and also to make an `<a href=URL>` element be a hypertext link that the Web browser loads as a Web page when the user chooses to follow the link.)
the huge risk that justifies this level of spending is maintaining the global socio-economic system.

and that may not have been in jeopardy a decade ago but there are groups actively, openly, and unambiguously aimed at destroying that, e.g. Russia and China's "no limits partnership". Which has show that it will invade and annihilate people.

The middle east is also popping off, and you have the Yemenis shooting at cargo vessels off the coast.
> such as AccuWeather, GasBuddy, Grindr, and MyFitnessPal that collect your MAID and location and sell that to brokers.

Welp, that's the final straw I needed to nuke that fucking GasBuddy app from my phone. Goddamn I hate them so much
The downside of being a minor shareholder in a criminal enterprise is the loss of value when the negative consequences arrive.

The last dividend in 2020 should be the least of the losses
Lawsuit challenges Virginia City's use of cameras for warrantless surveillance
Not easially. Shipping to the US is not hard, and the post office / customs doesn't know what company is sending things. Customs can check of course, but for small value packages they typically do not, so long as the import forms look somewhat reasonable and the import taxes are paid they generally are not looking that close. It is even harder if someone knows they are an illegal company as then they put a false return address on the package and there is no easy way to track them down.

Regular people are not someone custom wants to make an example of for ordering from a banned foreign company. Large companies will carefully check their supply chain to ensure they are not buying goods from banned companies, but tiny companies and regular people won't care as much.

I expect that the EU will have (if they don't already have) rules similar to the US and countries there will generally enforce them. However other countries (China!) will not care as much.
Fastmail is a pretty well-regarded email service here. When they started out, there was a $50 "lifetime" account offer, which I took. They continued to honor this, even after they stopped offering it to new customers. As far as I know they still do, but at some point, I wanted more storage or some other feature, but I'd have to give up that "lifetime" plan to make any changes, so now I'm on a yearly paid plan. I grumbled a bit but they technically kept their word.
No. This is just wrong and fails to understand not just how transformers work but the conceptual mapping that results from their training.

All these arguments about whether or not LLMs think are missing the point. They do not “think” as humans think due to their intrinsically transactional nature. But calling them “fancy statistical autocomplete algorithms” is also wrong.

LLMs contain within their matrix a massively high dimensional concept map. In this coordinate space, high order vectors map the distance between abstract concepts. This is a natural result of consuming language, which by its very nature is a symbolic concept map.

The uncomfortable question becomes: Is the human brain similarly using a massively high-dimensional concept map? Can a significant part of human thought be described as a fancy autocomplete algorithm? Can a significant amount of human reasoning be mapped as a nested series of transactions?
I'd put a vote in for J5 Create as another good brand. I've had some of these adapters for a decade now, replacing them only as the technology they're built on (VGA, Lightning, etc) go obsolete.

Specific to the OP, my work laptop is plugged into one dock that manages power, ethernet, USB-A adapters, and 4k 30FPS HDMI. It also has an unused VGA, SD & Micro SD. It's a nice amount of functionality for only consuming one Thunderbolt-capable USB-C port.
That is not necessarily true, I know multiple people who switched to electric bikes.

The first effect for them is that they ride the bike more, because they know when they are exhausted or there are nasty hills they can add more of the motor in. So unless people (like delivery people) ride only with the motor, them using the bike more is already a win.
Its fundamentally not possible to replace NEW cement production with recycled cement without degrowth. The nice thing about degrowth -- and lets be very serious here: degrwoth IS happening in China, and many other demographically unbalanced socitieties wether you like it or not -- is that it enables a completely circular economy whereby most minerals and even things like cement can be 100% sourced from the existing materials with no need for additional raw inputs. That's what this paper is fundamentally about.
You said "spaceflight", not "manned spaceflight".

Manned spaceflight has brought and continues to bring many important advances in science. I would argue that the science dividends of the ISS (which is mainly a research station) are quite worth the relativly low costs. How familiar are you with the science currently being done on the ISS? It often doesnt get heavily talked up, so I suspect your "fringe" assertion is coming drom a place of ignorance. Do you have speficic experiments that you think are a waste of time and money?

Manned expeditions to the moon are harder to justify. However, given the track record of technological and scientific payoffs, betting against a positive return, if even from the "exhaust" isn't safe. I do wish that Artemis wasn't our approach though.

FYI we spend more money subsidizing fossil fuels than we do on space travel. If we can afford handouts to oil companies that are killing our planet, we can afford to pay for the research that will help save it.
It's basically the digital equivalent of humanoid robots - people object because having computers interact with a browser, like building a robot in the form of a human, is incredibly inefficient in theory or if you're designing a system from scratch.

The problem is that we're not starting from scratch - we have a web engineered for browser use and a world engineered for humanoid use. That means an agent that can use a browser, while less efficient than an agent using APIs at any particular task, is vastly more useful because it can complete a much greater breadth of tasks. Same thing with humanoid robots - not as efficient at cleaning the floor as my purpose-built Roomba, but vastly more useful because the breadth of tasks it can accomplish means it can be doing productive things most of the time, as opposed to my Roomba, which is not in use 99% of the time.

I do think that once AI agents become common, the web will increasingly be designed for their use and will move away from the browser, but that probably take a comparable amount of time as it did for the mobile web to emerge after the iPhone came out. (Actually that's probably not true - it'll take less time because AI will be doing the work instead of humans.)
Your comment takes 630 bits, the screenshot of your comment on my computer takes 2.1 MB, about 218k times the size. Either this is a compute overhead the LLM has to do before it can think about the meaning of the text, or if it's a E2E feedforward architecture, less thinking about it.
This is simple for us because neurons in the retina pre-process its stream so that less than 0.8 % is sent to the visual cortex and because we have evolved to very efficiently and quickly extract meaning from our vision. This is a prime example of the Moravec's paradox.