skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ”A couple a weeks ago I did a wire half way across the globe. It took almost 7 days for the money to arrive. With bitcoin? 60 minutes.”

And how long does it take to convert the Bitcoin to money in the destination country?

SWIFT wires normally clear the same day. If it took seven days, your transaction was being held for legal reasons. It’s foolish to think that Bitcoin somehow solves this problem — it just moves the responsibility for inspecting transactions to the “off-ramp” exchange you’d be using in the destination country.
I don't need to be diligently checking the news to see if Chase Bank or Fidelity is crashing 24/7!
The "popularity" issue does not help a payments/transaction system. I believe in the long term it will die. A merchant that tried accepting crypto payments and found that in the busiest day its clients couldn't pay due the high transaction fees will abandon the crypto payments entirely and wont come back when they get cheaper.

Of course the system may still be used for the types of transactions that cannot be easily replaced by mainstreem methods (crypto scams, fraud payments, pump/dump tokens etc) but I believe in the end it will die because the number of white sheeps will get thinner.
"If they win, I deserve all the credit. If they lose, I should not take any of the blame" - P45, this past week
Other than being different from what you might be used to, and not having a lot of software available, what other tradeoffs would you be making if you wanted to try and use Plan 9 in production? How's the performance?
> Wire transfers

Wise or CurrencyFair take your money on a local account anywhere on the globe, and deposit it anywhere else with a local currency from a local account.

Rates are within 0.5% of the currency exchange, and no fixed or percentage fee, no wire fee since it’s all local accounts (it’s an example / please check the terms / this is not financial advice).

I honestly don’t see what’s there to save with crypto. Fees for credit card transactions are often 5 times above (2.5%).
> will block any HTTP request that exhibits domain fronting behavior.

How does the CDN detect this? The CDN only sees the encrypted domain, correct?
Well let's see which health experts signed it...

Roger Severino, vice president of the Heritage Foundation.

He's a lawyer with no medical training. I guess his credentials for health is Trump appointed him as an HHS lawyer to undo what Severino called the "radical gender ideology" of Obama.
Vaccines generally don't make you healthier, they protect you from potential illness (so you keep a baseline in the future rather than increasing).

Forcible vaccination is bad, but I think it's hard to start from freedom of association and then argue that a vaccinated majority can't choose to exclude unvaccinated people from things. This is society choosing, but the consequence isn't forced vaccination, it's telling the unvaccinated "good luck, stay away from here".
Based on sales figures, many millions of people like Harry Potter and statistically almost none of them have stolen pension funds. You’re getting heat because it’s not relevant and this isn’t a puff piece on the lives of the rich.
Pretty much but people fight wars over the perceived differences.
I'll just leave this relevant tweet here for folks to look into:

https://twitter.com/ZeroHedge_/status/1591444264890011649
A private plane departed from the Bahamas yesterday with an unknown destination. Ultimately it landed in Argentina.
>Perhaps we'll eventually see an innovative OS written in WASM

I hope that doesn't happen. No body wants a Nuclear War and 40 million refugees off the coast of Australia.
any important sum should be kept with more custodians unless its not possible. As a retail investor with retirement savings i think 3 different reputable (insured) brokers/custodians are the minimum. Bad practice for "professionals"
Did it have to be, is the question. Did you help make the label?
Because it's essentially every variety of HN dupe

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33549059

and is now on the front page twice. Flaggers had it right as is usually the case.
Vitruvian Man
Robots can do pre-programmed things at the limits of their physical servos, which is very fast.

They are still computationally limited in how fast they can process new terrain, course-find, object detect, etc.

If their sensors only saw that object 10ms ago, they probably don’t have an idea what it is yet. At speed, 10ms can be a long time.

60mph == 88 feet per second == .8 feet (about 10 inches) per 10 milliseconds.

10 inches matters a lot when you’re on terrain, or even on a road.
Depending on the meaning of faster, maybe. If it's to calculate a motion faster, yes, but to move faster is not the same. The dynamics change.
Can society please stop worshiping idiots who were at the right place at the right time? I’m doubtful.
There's probably something these guys know that ordinary HN people don't know about how to extract the money.

Perhaps there's a jurisdiction where it's made a lot easier.
I should have noted that I'm talking about the original Sherman Act, if you read the Sherman Act now, you're reading a longer document that does much more, it's been much revised over time, with broader, more expected agenda.
I have found heavy powerlifting negatively affects my concentration. The exhaustion in my muscles afterwards I’ve always found very distracting
Less than 2 months old, wow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/420_(cannabis_culture)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/69_(sex_position)
Even more so, it's usually mandatory to ground your panel to incoming water line when it is metallic. But that's for the electrical panel, not a single random outlet.
Thanks. That explains a lot.
There's no good reason for KYC to take days.

It's perfectly reasonable for the party receiving the funds to ask for a proof that the money didn't come from human trafficking. But that should be a fully automated process in most cases, and no one but the receiving party should have anything to say.
Insolvency absolutely doesn't mean there's no more money or firm to pay you. They're seeking bankruptcy protection because they have money, but not as much as they owe. So now someone has to go through every penny that FTX owes, who it owes that money to, and in what order. Then they either sell off FTX or its assets, and use the money to pay the creditors. What this article is basically saying is that this Arena is now a creditor to FTX. In this particular situation, sure, they're unlikely to get a penny back, but that doesn't mean that there were no situation where they could've been paid.
s/Lisp/Programming Language/g not `a programming language`.
420 is likely a symbol for cannabis. 69 is a paired sexual position.
Always read all articles with writers motivation/agenda in mind. this is why I like research / tech articles that are thoroughly backed by data or math!
https://youtu.be/vnciCz83t70?t=878
No charts?
Ask HN: Do you think this API authorization design is bad?
The scenario is an app that uses a tech giant's API to post messages.

+ The app's only feature is posting. No reading, searching, user profiles, or any other feature.

+ Users too just want it to post. We can assume many users don't want any apps - including this one - to routinely examine their user profiles, followers, or protected memberships on the platform.

+ However - and here's the problem IMO - the API's /post endpoint forces the app to have "read readuser post" scopes just to call this post-only API. ("Scopes" are OAuth terminology for broad permissions).

Why I think this is bad design:

+ The API fails to differentiate between external access and internal access. If the API's code needs to read profile data before posting, it's purely an internal implementation detail. There's no need to impose that requirement on all external apps even when they aren't interested in reading that data.

+ This is a leaky abstraction but with long-term privacy implications. Every posting app now has access to data it doesn't need or want. The app's vulnerabilities, breaches, or ownership transfers can potentially breach private data of thousands of users.

The OAuth philosophy normally assumes that apps have malicious intentions and it's on the platform to look out for the best interests of its users.

Ironically, here it's the API owner itself that's ignoring user privacy and the spirit of user consent. Perhaps an unintended consequence of innocuous technical decisions made by individual engineers who didn't realize their higher-level implications
on society.

But I haven't done API design at that scale. I made this an Ask instead of Tell HN because I'd like to know:

1) Do you think this is poor API design? Or is there a Chesterton's Fence here that I'm overlooking that justifies the broader scopes?

2) If you think it's poor design, do you know of any online resources for authz best practices that you found useful?

3) Are there terms and phrases for such phenomena where innocuous decisions made at lower levels, perhaps under limited time and responsibilities, have wider and deeper implications?

----

The particular API I'm talking about (though I believe this may be a wider problem across most platforms): https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/tweets/manage-tweets/api-reference/post-tweets
Old copper water pipes, yes. Obviously you can’t ground using a PEX pipe.
Most Tracked Flight Right Now
It's an interesting idea, but I don't think it matches my subjective experience.

I think better when I've been exercising, but it doesn't feel like I've given my brain a workout so much as it feels like I gave it percussive maintenance. It feels like exercise turns the sound of my subconscious from a buzzy rattle to a gentle hum, keeping it out of my way except to help. It very much does not feel like I've given my mind a workout.

Though I also have unmedicated ADHD, so my subjective experience of my subconscious might be different than most.
This doesn’t necessarily contradict what I’ve said: if inflation is around 7%, my premium can increase by anything less than that and still decrease in real terms.

Mine didn’t increase, but if it had increased by a point or two I wouldn’t have considered that meaningful.
> Consider an early stage startup of six employees

A small company is then going to have to lose the flexibility of hiring from anywhere in the country and have to compete for local talent. On top of that, one competitive advantage could be over larger better paying companies (especially now that hopefully most people have wises up enough to know that “equity” in a private company is statistically meaningless)

> The office has a closed door, and only the team are allowed in the office. The team chat amongst themselves as needed during the day.

That doesn’t alleviate the chief complaint about in office work - loud open offices - if I still have to listen to other people talk while I’m doing deep work.
I'm no musician but I tried to learn a bit of gypsy jazz rhythm guitar. I think it is relatively 'easier' to swing with gypsy jazz style because of the staccato mimicking the rhythm section. Again this is just an observation from a beginner. The rhythm section of a big swing band is very complex.
I'm not trying to be an asshole, but we don't get much info from UK here besides things like the Queen dying, so I have to ask, Does it work?

I mean, are instances of kids <=17 year olds with knifes down? What about shivs and other things?

The reason I'm asking is because as a kid, if I had been told to not do something, I'd just find a way to do it. Not to use it, but to find loopholes and just say, _so what?, I can do x_
I tried it in debian/ubuntu and it didn't work at all, but I got the vibe the tool was maintained by non-debian using individuals.
Unless you live in one of the countries they don't want to touch.
You started off on topic then completely derailed into US political crap. Find something else to care about! Anything! Like the cool kids say on the internet - go outside and touch grass.
Personally I liquidated all remaining crypto. I think these are the end of days for crypto and before the end of this year anyone still holding crypto assets will find them significantly less valued. There is no path to increasing value.
I wasn't really thinking about EA, more that the type of person who is brought up by college professors and gets through some quite tight eye-of-the-needle admissions processes tends to be the kind of person who venerates knowledge in its most venerable form.
UnrealIRCD front-ended by TheLounge web interface that has history would fit what you described, but the setup is not super quick unless one finds Ansible playbooks for both. I would imagine public Ansible scripts for this exist.

No registration would be required and TheLounge provides chat persistence. Both are open source. Visitors would not need to be technical and would not need to know IRC commands. Rooms can be deleted by the channel operator. Clients of TheLounge require only a browser and do not require any additional software. The IRC daemon scales to tens of thousands of people on a small server. Adding a web front-end reduces that number a little.

[1] - https://www.unrealircd.org/ https://github.com/unrealircd/unrealircd/

[2] - https://thelounge.chat/ https://github.com/thelounge
Hmm, Now this has me confused, should I seek consultation for possible Adhd or just declare myself a genius and be done.
I suppose you are an alien and haven’t lived on this earth. We can criticize you for how you breath.
Infinite, until they start seeing real repercussions like life sentences behind bars.
Can I strong second a good pair of noise cancelling headphones. I used the Sony WH 1000 XM3 and now use the the Sony wf 1000xm4 since the latter is in-ear and easier to carry around. The noise cancellation is phenomenal. Pair this with a mindfulness playlist from a variety of composers and your senses will be detached from distractions around you.
Come on now, Elizabeth Holmes could only dream of having $420m handed to her, no questions asked. She came up in more hardscrabble times where the children of the rich had to first con former government and military officials to join their board. That takes work!
To me, SBF embodied the worst stereotypes about the Effective Altruism movement. The not-so-subtle air of I'm-smarter-than-thou, the hubris to think whatever they have thought of haven't been thought and dismissed by others (probably for good reason), and a bull-headed focus on risk and return that can be exactly quantified, to the point of ignoring other, "softer" sides of the issue. Until I see stronger denouncements of SBF (and not just for getting caught, but for the scheming) from within the Effective Altruism community, I don't think I can take them quite seriously anymore.

SBF isn't alone in this. In school, while interning for a competing hedge fund, I met a drove of Jane Street interns who thought exactly the same way, in terms of "EV" or expected value -- the mean outcome from a random event. For example, whenever we would go out for ice cream, they would try to flip a coin to see who pays, given the "expected cost" was same. This behavior is fine if you're a market maker betting 0.001% of your worth on a toss that you win 51% of the time, and I imagine this is why Jane Street tries to cultivate it. But unfortunately, in this hyperfocus on returns, they forgot that "risk"/"variance" exists, and sometimes flipping a coin will land you in such a deep hole that you can't continue to play the game long enough to dig yourself out of there.
Sure that works for application code; for library code, you are raising an exception so that the application code can decide the domain-specific thing to do that the person reading the log message would do. Exceptions are raised by code that can be used in multiple contexts, where the person reading the log message would be doing entirely different things.
> The likely thing is that innovation would come to a standstill. Money goes to where it can make the most money. No money in drugs? No new drugs.

There are pharmaceutical companies all around the world, while it's true that the US currently has the largest market cap for pharma companies, it's not like the rest of the world is sitting on it's hands. Of the top 15 largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, 8 are in the US, and 7 abroad. But market cap is a poor metric for impact, especially in the US, where it seems the market can price a social media company with no profit at 44billion, I'm not particularly convinced by valuations on pharmaceutical companies who's share pricing rely on price gouging and a indentured customer base to stay high.

Another perspective is that while they're able to sell insulin at 40x cost, something they developed decades ago, what's their incentive to develop new drugs? In countries where companies are required to provide licensing for generics after a certain time period, they would be incentivized to continue developing new drugs in order to keep products on the shelves that are in the exclusive licensing window.

Regardless of any of the above, what you're essentially advocating for is fleecing US citizens to the benefit of the rest of the world. I'm just not sure how this could possibly be a good thing for the US.
Glad you posted this. I didn't know there was an actual condition for it. Seems obvious there would be, but I'm no psychologist.
Patrick Boyle's overview is good (and, typically Boyle-esque-ly savage in its dryness): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTFhnpf-IE0
"[...] let a person confess within reason"

That evidently is where everything gets messy. We don't have a way (yet) to determine if it is "within reason".

Transcending this tendency of deflection requires transcending the notion of the self -- the deflection is after all for the sake of the self and for those experts at deflection it may have been an especially crucial ingredient for their success.

The good news is that we already do transcend the self, or at least seek to do so, in many ways. But I think we (meaning modern Western society and allies) aren't able to digest the full implications of this -- something the Buddhists understood very well, which is that you can only get there with total renunciation and not a wishful combination of self-transcendence with tons of material prosperity sustained over long periods of time.
> because it computationally is a very hard task for the brain

Can you explain what part of physical exercise is computationally hard for the brain?
It is not just that, but it's also because you have to apply a surprising amount of mental concentration in power lifting. Basically, you have to be hyper-aware of your entire form while you are lifting. From my experience that takes as much concentration as working on a hard mental problem.
It's both at the same time. The open and federated nature of the network allows for all those outcomes and more to happen simultaneously.
>Also it’s a special fancy outlet that tells the load how much current it may use.

Isn't that the sort of thing that can typically be accomplished with nothing more than a resistor or two?
Ask HN: What kind of life do you dream about?
Personally, my aim in life - my dream life - is to live a slow life. Own a small house somewhere in the woods. My days will be filled with writing and reading. What about you?
> but only a kernel so it is in my opinion not really right to say that it has no support.

The kernel has no native support for ZFS.

Ubuntu may ship with ZFS, but that's one distro. Meanwhile, RHEL etc won't even touch it.

On Linux, XFS dominates and likely will continue to dominate the server world, meanwhile btrfs will slowly erase ext4 in the desktop side of things. Android/Embedded have always used their own different filesystems so it's irrelevant there.
Do you have a lot of money and/or familial connection to high places? Depends really on that answer.
Canadian Teacher Pension put money in the same round. VC could be reckless with their money. How could pension funds be so reckless?
Corporate theft is not a hack.
This is from your years of law enforcement knowledge on Terrorism, Tax Avoidance, Theft?
Check out the digitalocean tutorials on all the topics you mention. They have a very good series on html, css and JavaScript along with numerous tutorials on setting up reverse proxy’s, load balancers and deployment
Plenty of people have this ability - the vast majority of people in my personal & professional life take responsibility for their mistakes, own up to them, and try to make them right. Even my four year old occasionally does it.

The problem is that we've created a system where political and corporate discourse does not allow these people to rise to the top, and selects for people who deflect and never admit wrongdoing. Given a large enough audience, there is always some vocal minority who will crucify you for any mistake. If you wish to lead an organization or institution with a large stakeholder base, you learn to never admit the mistake, because if you do you will soon not be leading that institution. This is why we can't have nice things.

I think there's a relatively simple fix, but it'll probably never happen because it's contrary to why we have leaders in the first place. If the masses crucified leaders for mistakes they made but didn't admit rather than mistakes they admitted, the incentive would be to avoid making mistakes, not avoid admitting them. But this would require that everyone "trust but verify", and that they do (or at least believe) independent research into the performance of their leaders. The whole reason we have leaders and specialization is so that the masses do not need to perform this time-consuming and intellectually-draining work. This is also why we can't have nice things.
I've also only played around with picolisp, but thought it was pretty cool. The design ideas are kind of cool for sure, but I can't put my finger on why.
I think his contributions to society are far greater in the role he's played. More than enough VCs out there. Not enough clear-eyed interpreters.
Corporate theft is not a hacking.
Isn’t this the version Wes Bos did? If so you should give him credit.
I should have said most people, not no one.

The reality is most people outside of the HN bubble trust billion dollar companies. Crypto or otherwise. And when I say trust, I don’t mean in the sense that they think the company is doing any moral good, but that they expect a product or service in return for payment.

You don’t question that the gas you purchase at a gas station is in fact gas, and not water. Why would a sensible person expect a billion dollar exchange to suddenly halt withdrawals?

The point of my comment was that most sensible people would expect a billion dollar company to hold up some aspect of the bargain.
...and did not bother to find out whether it was before removing the seton. That's malpractice in my book, though I doubt the victim has standing to sue.
KYC & AML got a lot more thorough after 9/11, at the behest of the US government. A large part of the cost is extra guarantees against terrorist funding, and it's not obvious that this extra burden is worth the cost. It's kind of like airport security, except for money.

Simply making illegal activity more burdensome with fiat money requires less effort than what's currently being spent on these processes.
Did you help make the label?

No, a collection of psycho-analysts made the label and the description. The label is for the extreme condition of what was being described.
Canada has a population of 35M.

United healthcare, the largest US insurer cover over 40M people.
I totally agree regarding bjj and live sparring. I do bjj, a bit of judo and also climbing. I think climbing is a bit similar in the way that you need almost constant focus, doing small adjustments and so on. For all these three (and similar) activities there will be consequences if losing focus and starting to think about something else.