skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t see why this is considered appalling. Massachusetts declared itself a “sanctuary state”, one that is welcoming to illegal immigrants and won’t prosecute them for entering the country illegally. Surely asking some illegal immigrants if they want to visit Martha’s Vineyard and putting the volunteers on a bus or a plane is a good thing? After all, if they stayed in Florida they would be subject to arrest at any time.

Border towns in Texas and Arizona are seeing ten thousand or more illegal immigrants per day. We can’t leave them all there or they will starve. If we can’t deport them then we must spread them around. Personally I am more in favor of deporting them (after all, by our standards they have committed a felony), but as long as we have sanctuary states to send them to then surely that is just as good.
I will admit that it is hard for me to make a good prediction here. I ridiculous amount of it boils down to psychology and perception and not any kind of fundamentals. The following statement can be true in some instances, but I am not sure if it is true across the board.
Those folks can contribute a few dollars a month.
Someone should write a bot to post a reminder to "start with strings unless you're doing math" to reddit/twitter/youtube every week and the world would probably be way better for it. We could even have compiler warnings for type-safe languages when someone declares an int with a name containing 'address/zip/postal/credit/card'
True, though from my understanding, in some sense herd immunity was reached for the original strain and even delta, both of which are pretty much eradicated from the US.

Those were the deadliest strains as well.

What happened is that COVID started mutating much faster than expected in ways that it can avoid the immune system.
I like weather.gov but it doesn't show the "next hour" precipitation prediction that I like from dark sky.
According to previous posts* this company sells something related to cannibis.

I'd love to know why certain categories are always flagged or silently banned. Cannibis, sex toys, porn, crypto, etc. Payment processors seem to always give these categories the worst service and whenever a company is nuked like this, it's usually one of these categories. Why is that? It almost feels like there's some secret government organization tasked with upholding religious values telling payment processors to fuck with random accounts and swearing them to secrecy. I obviously don't believe that, but it's equivalent to the scale of whatever is going on due to natural causes. I don't believe that these industries are prone to higher than usual fraud. So what is it?

* - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32263429
I agree so hard that I rage posted the same idea with less polite wording. Sorry for not reading your comment first.
It will work until you have someone from Europe get in touch early in the morning to complain your form doesn’t accept decimal commas (although they may well just roll their eyes again and mutter something about how Anglos don’t bother supporting their international users properly).
Definitely. HN is suspiciously devoid images. To most people on the internet in 2022 that alone makes it wholly uninteresting.
Show HN: Minimalist S&P 500 Ticker for the Mac menu bar
Barely worth a mention but I whipped this up for my own purpose and figured I might as well submit it to the MAS. S&P 500 Ticker, updates every minute, switches to Futures when the market is closed.
Until you come to Spain and write

8.320.320,23

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About your last point. Interestingly, some governments have been trying to entice people to work remotely in their countries. Iceland is the latest example. I'm guessing that, while they don't directly collect the tax revenue, there's some incentive to the local economy as that's where a lot of the consumption would happen.
Why I gotta update my software once a week just to read pdfs?
There are so many flaws in this response. I don't even know where to begin. But I respect your opinion. I'll leave it at that.
Oh...it could be much worse than that.

You could be forced to use an internal video conferencing solution.

Don't ask how I know.
Sitting on the TGV Lyria while writing this.
I have to say it is a great feeling to travel across the country in a few hours. However I think it is the experience around it that make it difficult: Waiting lines at Gare the Lyon never knowing where your train comes and having huge qeues or just the idea that travelling with bags or family squeeze in the metro, still makes me think about flying or driving for certain use-cases.

I think it is mostly a business train to get from A to B (bug cities).
Reading about these kinds of issues strengthens my belief that ecommerce using stablecoins is the way forward.
Only if you run Docker on it.
Lost in the noise when the community is large enough.
> Why wouldn’t an area want remote workers?

The town doesn't want to be all remote workers, or remote workers and $100 cocktails because that's what it costs to keep a bartender. Remote workers (like me) are welcome. We must simply pay market rate, versus having dedicated supply. This seems fair given, as remote workers, we have more choice with respect to which housing market we descend upon.
Adobe is a nasty, predatory company. They charged me like $200 just for the ability to cancel my Adobe subscription. Caught me with some fine print.

Will never touch Figma now.
IF you are just talking about price inflation, 3%/yr seams very reasonable.

Average inflation for the last 60 years is 4.7%/yr.
I've not been enjoying the back to the office aspect of things... but it always feels better after a wonderful ride through Midtown rush hour traffic. Just being out there moving the body is always wonderful.
doesn't traefik provide much of the functionality you'd want from an api gateway?
Good question. Feels like there's two Qs in there: 1) when is long-form better than short form, 2) why write about problems at all?

2. Why write at all: consensus drives policy change, and information drives consensus. Writing, of any length, assembles information, bundles it into an argument, and (if the argument lands) becomes a 'capsule' around which consensus can form.

1. Why long form: room for nuance and research. Long form can include different perspectives (including stripe's -- perhaps they have a reason for these practices). It can address questions like 'what % of the industry behaves this way, what are the downsides to the banks' approach'. The interview + editing process can tease out anecdotes that sharpen the argument, or uncover new aspects of the problem.

This part is selfish, but for the writer, long form lets you improve your own knowledge of the topic, and your ability to make arguments around it.
How do they make it economically sustainable? Where does the money come from after the initial investment?
Sure, and my experience is outside finance (more spam and fraud prevention).

Even if it is government under the hood you have to know what you're accused of. Not American so I doubt the US political system is interested in hearing from me, but I agree that's the only way of solving the deeper AML problems.
> Shuttle flights proved that the Shuttle-like configuration works successfully and there is less risk when choosing a configuration

Classic Soviet risk-averse behavior. See also: copying every single detail from the B-29 because they knew it worked and it would be their heads (perhaps literally) if the Tu-4 didn't. They did the same thing with Joe-1, their first atomic bomb test. Do what you know works so you can go home at the end of the day. Innovation is a luxury.

This is what happens when employees fear management. Lessons to be learned.
It's the YCombinator startup way: scale large enough so that you don't have to worry about customer complaints until they threaten to go public and generate enough press to cause real damage.

But in all seriousness, being a YCombinator startup is now a big red flag outside of the VC-funded bubble. My current employer, and the previous one, have strict no-YC policy for SaaS due to numerous issues with previous YC companies. And these are both tech-friendly/tech-adjacent companies.

It's even worse at stodgier companies; an executive sees "Stripe froze my payments" and that's what they remember when a Stripe salesman tries to pitch them on using stripe for their online store. Stripe is quickly becoming Google, in the bad way: it's a name people are learning to avoid, and if that hits critical mass they're dead.
I work for a company that helps a lot of PayPal refugees. We hear these stories all the time. In many cases people know exactly why they were banned, but it's amazing how often they have no clue (like OP). Apparently these mystery bans tend to originate from automated systems, and there are too many automated bans for it human agents to be able to investigate them all.

While it feels like rule of the machines, it's actually rule of the fraudsters. If these payment processing platforms weren't so broadly vulnerable to fraud, they wouldn't need to rely on machines to make these critical decisions. An we can blame the credit card and ACH systems for both heavily prioritizing convenience over security via "pull" payments. Yes, crypto offers "push" payments, but those actually increase the risk of fraud for buyers. I think the killer combo is crypto with escrow, to protect buyers. But of course escrow has higher costs than just blindly transferring funds like the payment processors do. That's why this is one of those perennial problems of commerce.
Costco or Elavon ?
You can't do that with crypto either.

Because you actually need to convert your Fiat into crypto first.

The current limitations are real and the theoretical possibility is equally good of what currently exist: a black market.

In Iran everyone took euros or exchanged them on the spot. Even when the currency shop was closed people were waiting outside for us
The NPR page lists a RSS feed

https://www.npr.org/podcasts/452538045/freakonomics-radio

https://feeds.simplecast.com/Y8lFbOT4
That's unfortunate. I have one large file that contains everything for a particular project. I migrated from Sketch to Figma a couple years ago and did so using their import. It was not perfect, but was better than nothing. It took a few days to clean it up again, but was a good starting point for migration. As the file has years of work in it, starting over would be a significant amount of work.
Yep, as I was reading OP's story I kept waiting to get to the part where he switched to his backup payment processor and life went on. My brain: "You do have a backup payment processor, don't you? Don't you??"

If you're running a business and you find that it is utterly dependent on some single point of failure, you'd think that would be something you'd want to correct ASAP.
Everyone is recommending different brands but it really depends on your feet, posture and gait - there is no one brand or model that fits everyone. And of course walking surface and climate will impact as well. Dont buy online, go to a good store, ask for advice and try a bunch on.
That's the Javascript's "everything is a single type, but we use types for polymorphism" footgun, and it's a way more general problem than this. Anyway, every JS developer has been harmed by it and knows about it.
Ask HN: Is there a Stack Overflow clone that pays money for answers?
I'm having a problem with StackOverflow - it's usually about basic programming stuff. Sometimes I work on a kind of niche this and asking questions about those gives you no answers (or weird off topic answers). From what I know I can't offer money for solution there, but I think that's the only way I could attract someone and actually get an answer.

I feel that more poeple may share the same feeling.

I'm not looking for a job offering websites, it's not about doing the whole project for me - it's about letting me just skip the part I can't solve. It's also not about trying to monetize answers for trivial questions. I helped hundreds of people already in the past and I understand the value of knowledge sharing.

An example: I need to run Lua compiler (not Lua VM or something) in a browser. I'm totally not experienced with c++, emscripten, wasm, etc and I'm not interested right now. I just want to embed this solution into my frontend app. Not a whole project taking days/weeks/months, not a trivial question about centering images in a box.

Is there something like that already? Do you feel that is something you want to exist?

(BTW: If you feel brave - feel free to steal this idea and make it into reality if it not exist.)
I haven't reviewed the json in depth but I wonder if the data is sufficient to also test against other vote-counting methods such as Condorcet.

BTW, I've always found the descriptions of Condorcet to be self-defeating, even on Wikipedia (and my edits have been rejected). I've always considered there to be a conceptual separation between the Condorcet method itself, and the various "tie-breaking" schemes that are bolted on if the Smith Set has more than one member. But in the voting literature, they're always communicated together. The reason this causes confusion is that then a "Condorcet Method" can then be described as having this flaw or that, when those flaws almost entirely come up only in those tie-breaking scenarios. So then Condorcet itself gets painted with the same broad brush. But an election with a single-member Smith Set is free of all of those flaws that only apply to the tie-breaker methods.

And personally, I don't see why we should be so scared of a multi-member Smith Set. The presence of which is an accurate indicator that the voting population is actually unable to come to a clear decision - that is valuable information! In a Democratic election, I'd honestly be more interested in having a runoff election at that point, rather than trying to bolt on some sort of flawed tie-breaking vote-counting mechanism.
NO, it does not in this case

They can determine up front if it violates the TOS

They can notify the customer of the SPECIFIC violation IN DETAIL, and what can be done to cure it, and provide time to do so.

They can deny access to the transaction instead of nuking the entire business for some algorithmic flag.

The Stripes and PayPals of the world do NONE of this. Instead, they act like they accept almost all businesses, get them dependent on that piece of infrastructure, then willfully trash the business on a whim.
== Funnily enough, I left a comparable (to Boston, in incomes, house prices, political attitudes, etc.) metro for a smaller city in a stereotypical "red state", which the residents of my former city are fond of describing as a third-world country.==

Can you name the cities?
Exactly.

Worth noting this particular roundabout is in a small farming town on the edge of the highlands. Already slow speed road and low volume. But, shows that many 4-way stops within the US suburbs could easily be swapped with a roundabout during normal road repaving without much additional cost (yield signs to replace stops, some paint).
Unless your “new heating system” is a euphemism for a gpu array, you’re being pretty dishonest here.

Mining takes energy that is likely created by fossil fuel, that would otherwise be used to some necessary purposes, and burns it.

Unless you are generating green energy yourself, you’re likely hurting the environment.

I’m not saying you need to stop, and I’m not saying mining rigs are the end of the world (lord knows at least they aren’t frivolous airline flights), I’m just saying the previous poster isn’t being rude… it’s a valid point.
Please keep conversation productive on HN, thank you.
Yep. But with that the difficulty is going through the roof and earnings are dropping. Ethereum had A LOT of hash power while ETC isn't really used by anyone so where are the earnings supposed to come from. It's not going to be economically viable because the electricity is a fixed cost, even if some individual miners are trying it out.

There is a new PoW fork that was started by miners that want to continue mining. Some of the work could go there assuming it doesn't tank. I personally don't see the utility though, doubt it will be able to attract many users.
Astonishing that arguably the 3 greatest players in the history of men's tennis were contemporaries. It was truly a golden age for rivalries.

In fairness, it's somewhat difficult for us now to evaluate players from before the Open Era, such as Rod Laver and Roy Emerson. Also, Bjorn Borg shockingly retired at age 25. In any case, though, Federer, Nadal, and Djokovic are indisputably on any top list.

When Pete Sampras won his 14th grand slam, who knew that he was about to be surpassed, not just once but thrice! (Young Federer defeated Sampras at Wimbledon in 2001, though he didn't win the title that year.)
Thank you!

And as the employer, I'm the importer of the labor so I don't care. If my contractor didn't pay their taxes that is not really my problem - they will just have to do deal with that themselves. What's very important is that I, as labor importer, didn't have to pay payroll taxes of the country where the labor was based. In the case of Argentina it's close too 100% of the salary. When i pay my contractor triple the average engineering salary they would get from a local country they are more than happy with this situation.
If you can get a city/county/state to adopt Condorcet, by all means have at it. IRV is much better than FPTP because FPTP encourages candidates to drop out of a race so that their supporters can unite around one ideologically aligned candidates - meaning we lose the "signal" from those other candidates.

IRV, on the other hand, does not encourage candidates to drop out, allowing the voters to express their views more clearly.
- "Epicenter" should be returned to its geological sense, and not used as as if "epi" were an intensive.

- There is no such thing as a "mentee": Mentor is a character in Homer, not someone who ments. If there is such a thing as a mentee, then there should be a "stentee", the person who is shouted at by someone with a stentorian voice.

Though actually, unless eye-rolling is ultimately fatal, I'm not really out to die on either of these.
I can promise you that 99.9% of the people trading bitcoin have zero understanding about the underlying technology.

I don't need to understand how an internal combustion engine works to know cars are not a fad. Same way I don't need to know how to reverse-engineer a distributed ledger system to know crypto is.
`[0-9]+([\.,][0-9]+)?` then

Getting into the weeds here though. The advantages/disadvantages of regex-based validation are beside the original point (and anyway I prefer doing validation in JS most of the time, for various reasons, but that's also out of scope)
I guess I don't follow - if you rent, for any period of time (sure, I'm slightly assuming a longer period of time - say, >1 year), you will give the landlord rent money over that duration, and walk away with ~nothing at the end. I'm not saying it's impossible to lose LESS with buying unwisely / unluckily, of course.
Yep, this is known as input masking, and I wish browsers would just natively support this through various input types, because it's been the bane of my existence.

Phone inputs are especially painful to mask since you have to deal with a mind-boggling number of format variations.
Why do big creatures live longer? [video]
>Replaced by STEM

I cannot let this go because my Engineering undergrad is the one place I encountered a decent course on ethics; studying the subject is necessary for licensure. We didn't displace ethics, Philosophy departments got lost in their own rhetorical devices and don't talk about the 'how then should we live?' question enough to interest the general public.
LATAM: government wants income tax, and foreign exchange cuts too. Argentina wants employees to run their paychecks through the central bank so that they can take a 50% cut.
And they also have sales tax.
So government are targeting those off the banking system and export regulations
What about people who live in the country who don't actually have public transport options?
There are actually 4 more touch tones possible - A, B, C and D.

Sometimes you can get into secret menus if you play the tones for them...
Besides being a single point of failure, we tried to switch to ChargeBee and found them to be pretty lacking (to put it mildly). The platform looks nice and has lots of options, but under the hood things seem pretty fragile. Horrible docs, random 500 errors that weren't showing on the status page (and support ignored until more customers reported it), our Stripe gateway disconnected and the system still appeared to be working (partly, partly failing) with no alerts, plus lots of other odd behaviour. To be fair, all of this was on the test system, but we didn't feel confident to go live so we put the migration on hold. YMMV of course.
Peter Thiel's fellowship program has birthed power players worth more than $220B
It seems like the general case answer is "no, using a larger nonce does not increase risk".

Otherwise an attacker could just imagine that instead of a 256-bit nonce, the nonce was actually 257 bits long but the first bit is always 0.
Archive if paywalled: http://archive.ph/x8U9B
Yeah my “business” (just a small app) uses a third party API for tracking packages. You better believe I abstracted that API and programmed to the abstraction, so in case I ever need to move off that API I can do it very easily.

It’s not just getting banned, they could change their pricing on you or just straight up close their doors. You never want your business to be totally dependent on another company. If it can’t be avoided, get on a service contract with them.
You clearly never heard of import laws or ignore it to make an argument which is flawed.
https://archive.ph/z6uiC
I wonder whether this approach can be used to predict the behavior of social systems, given enough historical data.
The left-to-right trees of these mindmap applications has always felt a very bad fit for me. To me, a mindmap is a big piece of paper with the core concept in a bubble in the middle, and things drawn outward from it, with lines connecting things when they are related. The end result is much more organic, and spatial layout matters.
So they made a slightly better Adobe.

Figma is all about collaborating on software — yet they don't touch software.
They have been incrementally innovative in involving design-adjacent stakeholders in the design process, but the elephant in room is "how do we collaborate on _software itself_," rather than pictures of software?

When you have copywriters, designers, managers, and biz making pull requests to a Github repo via a design tool — that will be world-changing. This COULD have been our world already, but this paradigm is against Adobe's entrenched interests. Figma just played Adobe's game, and netted a cool $20B for it.
Discord fails the wrench test too. The difference is that it also fails without wrench, but cyberpunk doesn't.
A payment system like that would run face first into Know Your Customer (KYC) laws and bet shut down.

Great, then let's change those laws.
Some regions operate TER trains themselves.
I wonder if criminals didn't have so much money to launder, would bitcoin have ever managed to jump the "belief gap" to the extreme degee it did, from computational bits of cryptographically unique data into actual spendable dollars?
Many (most?) SV startups and larger companies are run by brown people (mostly Indians). I guess they must be the most white folks out there if whiteness is the root of all power.
Yup, I’d definitely travel from London to the south of France by train more often if it didn’t mean the Gare du nord - gare de lyon change…
I've never used a drag-and-drop framework that didn't have an issue dragging into the first/last position of nested items.