skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hawala is literally the opposite of crypto because it’s entirely about trust and has the same issues of external pressure modern banking has to stop transactions that crypto doesn’t
....I'm really going to have to read that again. I don't remember that at ALL.
It doesn’t work like that. You have to understand what set of laws an organization falls under. For example, even though NSA and Army is part of the DoD, they fall under different Titles of US Code which defines their authority.
I don't think that's the argument exactly. The parallel to LSD was brought up to demonstrate that something that may be good for one person's well being may not be good for another.

Changing your psychological state is something all of us do every day, and some people have problems with just doing that. Experimenting with it substantially has the capacity to damage, and it's reasonable to conclude that for some subset of the population, for whatever reasons, it is not a hood idea. I think that's the point of the article
People are so obsessed over this mythos of the "more deserving" person being pushed down cuz he's white/upper cast/<insert dominant group of people> and yet if you still look at most people in power, it's still that same fucking dominant group in charge, just maybe not AS dominant as before.

There was a reddit thread that went super viral right after the SuperBowl (with zero data) about "demographics of people in the tv ads vs US demographics", and everyone was obsessing over how black people were vastly overrepresented versus their demographics... and STILL white people were also over-represented.

Don't kid yourself that just because you hear (or even experience) anecdotes of people belonging to the dominant group being "discriminated" against that it's the norm.

Simple - go try applying for jobs with a white-sounding versus a black-sounding name and see what happens.

And btw, this is literally what CRT is, and actual experts and academics have shown over and over and over again that the political systems are tilted against the non-dominant groups, even with the boogeyman of affirmative action.
How is this different than Apollo GraphQL with an SQL backend?
Meditation is not just one thing, there are many traditions and many forms, some can lead to strange side effects, in fact, some document those side effects on their map towards their goal.

Every culture has forms of meditation, for example some prayers that christian monks do are mindfulness meditation. See David Fontana's "The Meditator's Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Eastern and Western Meditation Techniques" for a overview of many forms of meditations across cultures.

One thing that is not emphasized enough about meditation is to explore why you want to meditate, what you expect out of it. Different answers to that questions will lead to different practices. My understanding though is that if done in an intensive manner, all forms of meditation converge and have side effects.

Finding a good teacher is important, the issue is to how... There is no easy answer, but there is a lot of information online, do your homework about particular practices and what to expect, their risks, etc... and trust your gut instincts. Don't take red flags lightly, talk to friend and family, see a professional if in doubt.
> We've proven that the big tech companies can go fully remote and not completely crash and burn, that's about it.

Google's stock looks the exact opposite of crash and burn, it doubled during these last 2 years of pandemic and remote work.
> "I think that an environment where someone can tap me on the shoulder when they need help leads to overall higher productivity"

First of all, not everyone is in same building or on same floor, or in same country of a large organization. Google account managers, for example, don't tap tech support people on the shoulder.

Secondly, a related anecdote: An overly friendly project manager in a previous job used to physically tap/slap me on shoulder on a regular basis. I politely asked him to stop doing it. He kept doing it, and my polite request became an awkwardly agitated request in front of colleagues. I am male, and his unwanted physical contact had nothing to do with harassment or intent to irritate me. He was "just that kinda guy". I want to be tolerant of people's different ways as much as anyone, but please keep your hands to yourself.

I am happier and more productive working from home, away from the awkward grey areas of personal interactions and distractions at work.
NYT writing on Ukraine in 1930s was repeated lies. Weak statement about the lies 80 years later:
https://www.nytco.com/company/prizes-awards/new-york-times-s...
You are very right to be Skeptical and much of what is being talked about when it comes to "Meditation" (both in this thread and elsewhere) should be taken with a "bucket full of grains of salt".

However, be careful to not "throw out the baby with the bathwater". Ignoring obvious woo-woo claims and just focusing on documented Health Benefits is the right way to approach it. Others have posted some useful links from NIH/NCCIH which gives you some good starting points for study.
That sequence of events is exactly what I'd expect for a "we screwed up, but not in a way to incur any legal liability"

1. Generic answer that "yep, it's not working, here's how to fix it"
2. Updating documentation to make it better.
3. Somebody saying "what should we do about all the other customers in the same situation? can we just shut up about it?" leading to the last email.

And then... yeah, you can't directly apologize and take responsibility because that would cost you a fortune (and really, back billing is the right answer, though maybe he could in turn offer his customers a month's discount or something). Maybe Stripe could waive some fees for a while or something, but you have to have some limits on hard to use but technically correct situations.
I don't know why anyone would join Google at this point. Even before this return-to-office mandate, stinginess on PTO is a dealbreaker for me.
It's really unfortunate that the sanctioned way to call Linux syscalls directly is via the syscall() function (previously the _syscallN macros), and both of those methods set errno on error, which fails in a clone() thread.

If only Glibc provided a syscall_r() or something that returns the raw return value whether it's an error or not.

It is possible to make syscall() (and regular libc syscalls like read()) work in a clone() thread. I use this in performance-optimised I/O code in a database engine, so I know it works, but it requires some ugly Glibc-and-architecture-specific things. Doing it portably doesn't seem to be an option.
I'm 10 minutes in, and thinking "So you want more programs to read from standard input?"
A PWA it's a lot better. With electron, each app had their own browser as a dependency. So if you have discord, vs code, slack, notion, Figma, you basically have 5 versions of chrome installed (like 60mb each minimum).

Instead a PWA it's more like a WebView/Direct access that uses the main browser with some extra APIs that a webpage doesn't have, but that's it. It's a lot safer as you don't need to install another version of chrome
No Silver Bullet – Garbage Collection for Java in Embedded Systems (1998)
Well, that becomes the interesting question. :)

I started meditation about 5 months ago, via the Waking Up app by Sam Harris (after reading the book of the same name).

He is extremely keen on this notion that "self is an illusion" and keeps trying to help us app-users see that.

As a n00b, I can't answer your question with any authority. To me, in my personal practice, the evaluator of these thoughts still feels like "me".

When I intentionally set out to think about a problem, iterate on possible solutions, pick an approach — also me.

What I really feel subjectively, after daily meditation practice for a few months, is that the human mind is made up of a whole bunch of sub-entities that can produce "thoughts". Words, images, a visceral sense of forboding, or joy, or anticipation — all "thoughts".

To paraphrase the famous trilogy, there are hoodoos in the matrix.

For me, this was weird and kind of unnerving to realize. At the same time, it's only based on my subjective experience — and I have already proven that my subjective experience is an unreliable guide, because a lot of what I previously felt like were the authentic thoughts of myself, which I, myself, me, was thinking, were in fact just some quasi-random crap thrown up by the various hoodoos in there, which had just happened to bubble up to my consciousness at that time.

Anyway I am pretty sure that many people have spent their entire lives trying to answer your question, lol.

What I can say is only that, the trying of it is pretty interesting and enlightening (at least in the prosaic everyday sense of the word).

It can also be a bit disorienting and even alarming. So the OP is surely right that some people are probably better off not meditating, although I feel confident that most people should probably try it.
One more thing to add to this: scrutinizing transactions isn’t just for catching bad stuff. It’s also a way to spot the good. For my dad, it’s a way to spot up-and-coming salespeople who are punching above their weight, for noticing high-dollar sales to repeat customers and making sure that those folks are well cared-for. It also tells him what bikes are selling well and helps him make strategic decisions for buying.

For your SaaS, it might be noticing patterns across your customer base and using these patterns to refine your product to cater to a certain facet of customer that seems to like your product, or spotting potential transactional issues before they cause a churn.
Sad to see Stripe fall to the bean counters instead of staying focused on customers. They were coming out with some cool innovations a few years ago. Even "don't be evil" Google is moving in this direction. Not sure why companies always evolve this way. Boeing is another prime example. Apple has maintained its focus on the customer and thrived, bucking the trend, which seems like it would be motivation for others to stay focused on the customer. Especially given when Apple hired the Pepsi guy to run things in the bean counter way, the company nearly died.
> That said, I did hear Java is getting value types soon, or something like that.

Java has had records (the thing that's like Lombok) since Java 14.

What Java is soon getting is inline value types, i.e. datatypes that work like primitives (are pass-by-value; have no identity but rather structural equality; are freely copyable; can be held on the stack, or intrusively within a containing array; etc.)
Could you email me at edwin@stripe.com and we can dig a bit more into this?
“Team, I’ve got some bad news to share. I’m afraid Bob is no longer an employee of Big Corp. I know this may come as a shock to you, but he just wasn’t able to keep his head above water. Making waves is all well and good, but at the end of the day, Bob’s little venture has left us all dead in the water. Well, actually, just Bob really. What I’m trying to say is that Bob drowned on his way over to this morning’s standup.”
It's interesting to note that probably the best selling Java application for desktop is owned and maintained by Microsoft: Minecraft. It's a testament to the technology that they still after all these years have not managed to make a definitive non-Java version that replaces the Java edition outright.
After such a long civil war in Ukraine I find it very hard to believe that they didn't know already exactly what to expect from who.
Yes and Harding is the mayor of one city. Are you interested in reading an article about that city? What city am I even talking about?
I expect these underutilized properties will end up rented out or some such other result of unintended consequences and in the end affordability will still not be in reach for some. Homeostasis doesn't always come easily.
I also find it easier to ctrl/cmd-f what I’m looking for on a data-dump page than try to parse their information architecture (navigation) or use the search box, which rarely seem to return useful results.
I don't think tanks normally want to drive straight through buildings, so I think visibility might still be an issue in cities.
This is an interesting idea. I wanted to use p2p distribution to save bandwidth costs, but maybe I have to re-evaluate with git in mind.

Thanks for the idea!
Experiencing social anxiety has very little to do with what other people _actually_ think about what you're doing.
In the actual paper, right after the introduction.

They have a section with pseudocode and a tldr explanation.
Yeah, I'm not denying they have tons of secondary ways to sanction crypto. On the other hand, I think a state level actor could figure out ways around most of them.

I think you are definitely correct that these is part of larger posturing.
Thanks for this! I will give my approach more thought with a messaging system model.
React+redux well is a huge if.

Last time I used redux, about 4 years ago, every tutorial on it demonstrated a completely different way of using it.

I spent a week piping a couple dozen form inputs through redux.

Throw typescript in there and life got more complex.

Maybe it sucks less now. But I've seen plenty of websites where every key press causes crap tons of state to get copied around because "lol const only". I've seen sites where typing takes a second per character due to mis use of redux, and the problem with redux is that it is easier to misuse than to use properly.
I wonder what Plotly's valuation is. Surely more than Streamlit and they have only raised <$19 million.
This is super cool. Thanks for letting me know about it!
Personal discipline, or the lack of, is a thing.

Plenty of people benefit from imposed structure in their lives.

Yes, it's bad, yes, it's sad, but that's life. It's not all idealism and dreams.
I assume they work for the Mayo clinic, it's not exactly your average hospital workload.
Why assume the government is doing it domestically? Plenty of political organizations and lobby groups exist for this exact purpose.
Have you ever watched congressional hearings? Many lawmakers seem to struggle with technical concepts way simpler than an immutable distributed ledger.
It's not just "authoritarian governments" but rather "governments" in general, unless you consider the EU government to be authoritarian. And circumventing the law has always been the prime use case for crypto since the beginning. I think everyone has always agreed that it's great for that.
ipfs is something new to investigate. Have you used this? I'm a little concerned about the data pinning costs.
> if you let this kind of fuck-up go undetected for over three months, you have to at least assume some of the blame and acknowledge that you probably could have caught it if you scrutinized transactions.

I work in eCommerce and occasionally there will be something like a script or config gets messed up and an issue with billing will happen. And being the "expert" I'm usually the one called to fix it.

I wish I could count the number of tense discussions I have had that are along the lines of:

Them: We haven't been charging tax in Canada for three months because the config was wrong. Fix it!
Me: (some more polite variant of) So just to confirm, this has been wrong in your ERP... hundreds of thousands of CAD of uncollected VAT... for 3 months and you're just now noticing?

It is, unfortunately, an extremely common discussion. That or some close variant of.
Fascinating. Thank's for letting me know about this!
Honestly I'd prefer to send them in first.
> approaching

We were already there in 2020.
That's really neat, thanks for showing me. This looks very straightforward for parsing a straightforward format.

I think Nom might be more useful as the format gets more complicated... the combinators can really save you quite a bit of time. Having things like many0, or delimited_pair, or length_count already tested and documented saves time compared to implementing + testing it yourself. It's cool seeing how many different approaches you can use to solve the same problem :)
Swedish people avoid Smalltalk (2020) [video]
I respect Stripe for responding in some way. When I had an issue with Square they just terminated my account and left me stranded, rather than fix their product.
Congrats on the launch guys! We need to invite y'all to Texas Medical Center in Houston. A long of companies here (with employees in the state) that need to know about your product. How's your coverage in southeast TX?
My New Old Apple Macintosh SE/30 Computer
Reading the spec[1] this behaviour might actually be spec compliant (as the algorithm described matches on hosts rather than on domains, unless the provided header value is same-origin-domain) but I don't think that's what you'd actually want the headers to do. This might also be a spec bug?

Thisnis the first time I'm reading about this header, but if you know more you should file a bug with Firefox to get it confirmed and/or fixed.

Security headers like these are hard to keep up with, there's bound to be a bug in the implementation somewhere. At least it fails safely this time!

[1]: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/origin.html#the-coop-...
If there are remediations, it might likely be done under NDA for legal reasons, so we may never hear anything back.
No problem!

> I think Nom might be more useful as the format gets more complicated... the combinators can really save you quite a bit of time. Having things like many0, or delimited_pair, or length_count already tested and documented saves time compared to implementing + testing it yourself.

Totally agree -- bitvec works for things that are easy to hand write a parser for. Nom is a lot more powerful.
I would only have to assume you haven't ran a business with over $2M ARR. Taxes, VAT, etc is a HUGE pain in the ass.

It's been a long time for Stripe to introduce a solution for taxes after it was requested by lots of customers (and recently acquired TaxJar because of it)
Ask HN: Do you use live chat widgets on your site?
I recently discovered a chat widget with a generous free tier that covered all of my needs. The goal was to have 2-way communication without the user needing to give their email address. After testing out the service and customizing it to my liking, I removed it from my site and closed my account. Mostly for the following reasons:

- It uses cookies and my site doesn’t do any other tracking or have analytics
- The UX wasn’t great, the best I’ve seen but still unintuitive.
- It was annoying to allow in my content security policy
- It slowed down my site
- From a user’s perspective I find them annoying

So I’m wondering, has anyone found a service like this worth using, or that they genuinely like? What is your use case? How does it work?
Well, first of all, you don't do that, because what email server anywhere is going to accept mail with an executable attached, without thinking it's some kind of attack?

But in general, you put it in an archive.

(Yes, that's inconvenient; but when you're coming from an OS where you already had to do that — e.g. macOS 9, where you had to use StuffIt Expander to distribute executables in order to ensure they retain their resource forks — switching from StuffIt to zip was a wash.)

These OSes (NeXTStep, macOS) usually integrate some support for mounting disk images, though, and so executables packaged for distribution are usually packaged by putting them in a disk-image. To further decrease the friction (i.e. avoid having to say "copy this thing out of this directory into your /Applications dir", they usually make it so that if you run the app from inside the image, it copies itself to your /Applications dir, and then relaunches from there. Sometimes it even unmounts the image when it does that.

Given that most people get programs from websites, though, there are also special techniques built into web browsers to make downloading executables on these OSes more transparent and less requiring the abstraction of a disk-image. E.g. Apple's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.XIP format, where any .XIP downloaded in Safari will be automatically+transparently integrity-verified and unpacked, with the result being that it seems like you just "downloaded a folder" somehow.
I think these generally framed studies don't prove anything, there are so many variables that may vary between projects and individuals; However they like to come up with some number and claim that it is the gospel truth.

What I know: the industry likes to emulate google, for example they like to emulate the google job interview process and google coding style guidelines. Now my question: does this decision imply that most places will start to work strictly from the office?
Please don't post unsubstantive comments or putdowns. It doesn't help.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>not familiar at all with lender fees ‘baked in’ to the price.

Not cars, but a family member sells high end mowers. They offer 0% financing, knowing that they directly pay the lender $400 per loan to be able to offer that (varies with loan amount, but not much). They just price everything $400 higher when running that deal (their internal minimum recoup sale price, not necessarily the sticker or displayed discount price).

>there was no legal way to attempt to hide additional costs.

It's not hiding an "additional" cost, it just means the sale price or financing rate takes into account the dealers/ lenders cost to finance. It also has to do with whether the rate offered is APY or APR, and how those are used somewhat interchangeably to hide fees as included in the offered APR (so it's truthful, but basically based on a best-case payback scenario, and effectively higher if you prepay, even if there are no "penalties").

>Most lender had a 3-6 month wait on that, so they needed to make a few payments before paying it off in a lump sum.

Yes, this is almost universal now, including provisions that restrict the title transfer for some minimum period (was 6 months in our last car, but they said some are for 12 or even 24 months). Basically they don't have to remove the lien until then, even if you pay off the note.

So if you pay early, you are effectively penalized the annuitized cost between the payback date and when you are actually free to sell the vehicle to recoup that payoff amount.
This should be the main URL. It's better than the current URL, which is a press release by a political entity that has skin in the game.
Depends which tradeoffs you are comfortable with and which aspects affect one's individual definition of "better".
to put that in perspective, that's 4.5 sunradii per fortnight, or .55 AU/year
Is it possible that in general we have more attachment with our colleagues in our earlier jobs than the later ones?

I remember when I got my first job I was extremely social and would try to make friends with anyone. But now that I'm on my nth job I don't feel the need to socialize as much and would prefer to put in my work hours and move on with my life.
Humans don't work like that.

Otherwise a majority of people wouldn't become obese in developed countries, many people wouldn't be single, etc.

A lot of remote work people are very preachy. It's not helping your cause. You're dealing with imperfect people, that's just fact. Adapt to that.
Yeah, and in the long term it has the potential to depress wages really, really low, because someone in, say, Costa Rica is willing to do the job for $30,000/year without benefits.

At the start of my career, 16 years ago, I spent some time abroad in a small country with some very distant family. When the topic of my career came up in conversation I remember multiple people saying that software engineer simply didn't exist as a profession in that country because there were no software jobs available there.
It's lumpers vs splitters again.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumpers_and_splitters