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helsontaveras18··on Binance says banking partner will stop processing SWIFT transfers under $100K
Crypto is high risk in the banking industry due to poor anti-money laundering enforcement and lack of compliance. Additionally, working with Binance carries reputation risk, since their practices are shady. So a bank processing payments for crypto absolutely has motive to shut it down, especially if it’s not lucrative to do so.
helsontaveras18··on Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again?
I’ve used Privacy.com in the US. works great!
helsontaveras18··on Migrating our largest mobile app to React Native
Why is this being down voted? Upon re-watching the video, I did notice a visible stutter in scrolling the app on the left.

(To be fair, I didn't notice it the first time I watched the video.)

helsontaveras18··on Twilio’s toll fraud problem
And then you switch to another SMS provider, which may be costly from an engineering perspective, but clearly worth it if you’re getting slammed with botnets and Twilio doesn’t care.

Absolutely, dispute the charge.

helsontaveras18··on Investors conclude that Tesla is a carmaker, not a tech firm
Don’t other car companies also collect data?

Data isn’t what makes a tech company successful. It’s the application of that data into a product. They have Autopilot as their seminal data product, but it is buggy.

helsontaveras18··on My experience with check fraud
Check fraud is a federal crime. I think an investigation did occur.

It's in the banks/police's best interest to withhold details regarding an active investigation, because what if you go tell the suspect the details?

helsontaveras18··on An Open-Source Version of ChatGPT Is Coming
Is coming... In 6-8 months according to this article. Still, it'll be an impressive feat. Also, who is Yannic Kilcher?
helsontaveras18··on FCC calls for mega $300M fine for US robocall campaign
Surprised no one is going to jail
helsontaveras18··on Startup childhood – Tiny startups are not Google-in-miniature-form
What you didn't mention is that Uber and Doordash aren't very profitable. Also, it's in their interest to cut costs... which means paying their worker less.
helsontaveras18··on Ask HN: What will everyone do if everything is automated?
Could the rise of AGI mean software no longer has to be written by humans? Sure it won't be finished. But we wouldn't need to be the ones to work on it anymore.
helsontaveras18··on Tell HN: Two YC companies in a row hired and then didn't take me on
I understand where your frustration is coming from. As a founder, you do your best to prepare for the best and worst outcomes at the same time. It sounds like they ran a real recruitment process and paid you for your time, hoping to hire you.

However, the funding market is very poor. It's likely they realized that someone of your calibre, while useful to the org, wasn't absolutely, 100% needed to the survival of the company. That's not to say you weren't impressive. It's just that founders right now are in survival mode, not "Let's hire the best talent we can find" mode. Founders are trying to use the minimum resources possible to get to their next milestone.

It sounds like the YC founders made a tough call but one that protected their runway.

helsontaveras18··on ChatGPT playing a not so simple game
Every technology has changed how humans interact with the world and society at large. For me, I use ChatGPT as an AI pair programmer. In certain cases, it returns better results than Google. Because you can continue to ask it questions and ponder pros and cons of one approach over another, it really does feel like you have a competent engineer next to you.

There are good use cases to GPT. Not everything it doom and gloom.

helsontaveras18··on Beyond Functional Programming: The Verse Programming Language [pdf]
I was expecting an entire section devoted to how this language would deliver on its promise on powering the metaverse. This was a nice post about a new language, but I was ready for a bitcoin paper.
helsontaveras18··on Sign in with Google has been removed for your privacy
That sucks and this is something Google needs to fix, but for everyone else: make sure to get backup codes for your Google Account and place them in a password manager.
helsontaveras18··on Bun 0.3
This sounds like a dream come true. Are you running into any issues with existing dependencies or this a new application?
helsontaveras18··on Ask HN: What field in computer science will be AI proof
Don’t look at where we are now, look at the rate of improvement. I don’t think it’ll be long before it has an understanding of advanced mathematics.
helsontaveras18··on Twitter’s ongoing cruel treatment of software engineers
It’s all fun and games until a US Federal judge forces you to buy Twitter
helsontaveras18··on FTX’s ownership of a U.S. bank raises questions
There was another amazing exposé of Tether a few months ago all about this. I can’t remember if it was on Bloomberg, but that Inspector Gadget bit stuck out to me too.
helsontaveras18··on Wasmer 3.0
That’s the first use case that’s practical, in the wild, and adopted by Microsoft nonetheless.

Do you have any additional details/links on how this works?

helsontaveras18··on Show HN: Illa – An open-source alternative to Retool
I agree with this sentiment. Even the font is the same. Show some creativity.
helsontaveras18··on Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?
Can you elaborate?
helsontaveras18··on Elizabeth Holmes: 'They Don’t Put Pretty People Like Me in Jail'
Absolutely brilliant comment.
helsontaveras18··on Ask HN: How relevant is cross-browser testing anymore?
I experienced a DOM issue where a horizontal scrollbar was being rendered on some versions of Chrome running on Windows, some versions of Firefox on Mac, but I couldn't reproduce it myself (Chrome / Safari on Mac). It happens.

I don't QA for these things beforehand, but when they do occur, it helps to have a way to perform cross-browser testing to fix the bug.

helsontaveras18··on Major investor calls on Google owner to ‘aggressively’ cut staff and pay
Companies sell shares in order to raise cash. At some point Google had to sell shares in order to receive liquidity from the public markets. The people who bought those shares are investors in Google. Buying a share from another investor still represents the same equity ownership from which the original share was purchased.
helsontaveras18··on FTX’s SBF had a secret 'back door' to transfer billions off the books
So what kind of backdoor is this? Is he claiming that his Quickbooks is mislabeled? Or is this blockchain analysis?
helsontaveras18··on Ask HN: What are some excellent pieces of software written by a single person?
Esbuild (it’s open source but much of the work is done by one person)
helsontaveras18··on Accounting for developers part III – building a lending marketplace
We’ve built our own in house ledger and also use double entry accounting. When one transaction affects multiple accounts, you need to ensure the books balance, which the premise of double entry accounting.

It’s the standard for a reason. Even when using a software like Quickbooks, errors can come up.

helsontaveras18··on Ask HN: Tasked to keep alive a big Node.js project how to do it?
Increment versions in smaller upgrades. Make sure you can run unit tests, end to end tests, and QA on each new version. Also, make sure to read the NodeJS change log to know what APIs change and how they may affect your app. You’ll need to do searches across you codebase to find affected areas.

As you patch this code, ensure your CI process also gets updated since you’ll need to download a new version of Node on your staging/production servers. Tests these as well.

If possible, make a clone of your production database and create a mock production environment. Run requests against this environment. This will give you the best feedback as to whether crashes may occur.

Ensure you can deploy to production in a way that can easily be rolled back. Also, you’ll want to have the right monitoring / logging in place to know when a request crashes your app and how you can reproduce it.

helsontaveras18··on VLC-developer VideoLAN sends legal notice to Indian ministries over ban
What’s your strategy? Do you know if this strategy has seen success in India? What are the checks and balances that the Indian government has to resolve these matters?
helsontaveras18··on Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Hacker News
Thanks for sharing! I love this skin, the dark mode is really easy on my eyes. And the threading is really nice too.
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