skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is pretty clear by now Stripe has big guns pointed at enterprise customers. What others like Checkout.com, Adyen thought was a relatively safe moat, has now clearly disappeared.

However, I'm sorry to always be the sour grapes guy when it comes to talking about Stripe neglecting us SMEs.

I'm pretty sure a lot of these things mentioned in the article are being passed down to "regular" customers, but to be honest, it lately hasn't felt like that.

Last year there were a few price spikes, Radar fees that were initially negotiated where reinstated, same for refund fees.

Radar works great when it does, but has a lot of wonky stuff like not catching heavy carders which defeats the purpose of using rules.

Acceptance rates internationally are still lacking. If you have a European Stripe account, billing US customers will not provide the same acceptance rates as if you use a US account.
In some Latam countries the difference can be important.

Stripe is vital to our growth, but it is a complicated marriage.

I really hope they don't forget about us, the regular merchants.
>The lesson for founders is to never, ever, ever give up control of your board/company. Always maintain control of a majority of the board seats.

Maybe you're too close to the situation so what you say above feels to you like a universal truth but it actually doesn't help me as a reader.

To raise the quality of discussion, we'd need to know what your realistic options were at the time you raised Series A.

E.g... Did you have meaningful revenue making VC capital optional? Did you need VC money to have a runway and make payroll for a few months?

In other words, if you're in a situation where rejecting VC money means your business shuts down, it becomes a moot point if you're still 100% in control of all board seats.

As for board seats composition, was it something like You=1, VC=1, and Independent=1? If so, was the independent automatically on VC's side to fire you or were they truly independent?

If you don't want to get into the details to maintain privacy, that's understandable. But also understand that your advice born out of your experience doesn't have enough context for us.
When someone hacks your computer and transfers the NFT of your house that's going to be an interesting one.
For one, if I want to sell/give something to someone, I just transfer the NFT representing the agreement.

Imagine if you could transfer car ownership without having to deal with the government or anything else? Just a transaction away. If the seller/buyer also uses cryptocurrency, you could safely write a contract that swaps the funds for the NFT without any risk of either parties running away with both of them (funds and NFT).
Who's the "B" here? Paypal? Square?
Ordering a replacement phone be sent to the account owner certainly isn't within the scope of social engineering. The fact that I couldn't do _anything_ to verify ownership outside of having access to the code from my Google account seems excessive for device replacement.
Given that they're headquartered in Europe and most popular there, why is the satellite location better? Is it because the Canadian data center is newer, because Canada has stronger regulations in this area, or something else? Also, does anyone know how the OVH US data centers compare?
A lot of the polarizing nature of the modern Internet comes down to a two-team tribal mentality (two party system). Subreddits/forums like HN seem like an analog for the modern associations described by the article, and I do think they are great, despite some bad press for a rare few. I can think of a number of policies to improve diversity of ideas in government, which shouldn't be controversial and would all have incredible benefits to society.

- Use approval voting for all federal and state elections

- Limit terms to a maximum of 12 total years in the legislative branch

- Federally adopt a simple geometric algorithm for drawing voting districts

Possibly more controversially:

- Cut all non-architectural patent durations by 50%, and cut software patent durations by 67%

- Re-organize the EPA's mandate to become an accurate measurer of externalities, that taxes the externality based on the cost to undo it (and outlaws or heavily regulates things we can't currently fix)

And if we weren't already so far in debt, I'd suggest the Fed not buy anything except US treasuries, and not at such a low interest rate.
It's seems like he's saying the UI's are different between and Android app and a Windows app so that means it's not cross-platform. If my interpretation is correct, it surprises me anyone ever thought this is how cross platform is defined
Joined Dec 1, 2005
I’m going to take a moment to plug The Congressional Research Service. They produce reports on every topical issue. Free, readable, and timely. Stop reading the news/social media and get informed (by a variety of higher quality sources).
Life is too short for these shenanigans. But, I think that you should still go for it if and only if you understand what you’re getting yourself into. There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
It is yet to be proven if it is "as secure" because no PoS network has operated at scale.

It also certainly defeats much of the original purpose of decentralization when a few stakeholders have total control of the network because they hold the most coins...

Regardless if the network has "correct incentives" or not, things can happen to those stakeholders outside their control, or other incentives could easily develop to act in bad faith against the network.
Magnetic boost helps to squeeze more data onto computer hard discs
Users like outline trees. Trees communicate a lot more information about what the project does and what systems or features support what.

Wiki linking, in that case, is just an alternative way to duplicate the content of a page on the tree. Other methods include redirects and using software that can symlink individual blocks of text to keep them in sync.

As to why documentation is bad, it's because people close to a project are not in a good position to communicate about it. Absent a large, self-documenting community, the best solution is to either have documentation be done by an employee who is a power user or customer of the system, who writes well, or by taking developers off production duty to do nothing but provide support to users and structure them into general answers and explanations.
Exactly.

If we can't even keep the README up to date, when that's in the same repo as the change, how on earth are we going to be disciplined enough to go update the docs.

And the occurrence of the word "disciplined" hints at the real reason: it's a lot less fun to write docs than write code, so we don't unless we're forced to by circumstances or by management.
> Am I not paranoid enough

Do you also forgo a fire extinguisher in your kitchen?
Another great tool is Pitest for mutation testing on the JVM (make coverage more meaningful) https://github.com/hcoles/pitest
Why Security Programs Often Fail
"Roskomnadzor inadvertently blocked or throttled all domains containing the string t.co rather than blocking only the domain t.co itself. "

I've made that kinda mistake in testing for sure but man... they rolled that out?
Previous discussions:

2019 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19010164

2016 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13276968
As I've said a few times below, they may choose to spend more time on their friends. Being a millionaire gives you that choice because you can pay people to do things that would normally take away time from your friends, like chores.

It isn't a necessary conclusion.
This is simply not true. They banned at least a dozen leftist subreddits at the same time.
The two tend to have similar patterns most days
You don't need to resort to hidden variables to explain why this topic breaks out into flamewars.

Also, can you please review the site guidelines, which ask you not to post like this? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data."
This product is nothing new, and the reality here is that it's existed for quite a number of years. Why don't we see these things out there killing millions of mosquitos? Because the use of camera vision and a galvanometer to attack mosquitos with a laser is PATENTED TECHNOLOGY, owned and licenced by an Israeli company. You can find a Ted talk video where they display literally this same technology. So far, nobody has been willing to pay the astronomical amount of money they are asking to licence the technology and if this guy thinks he's going to start producing these things without a legal fight that will set him bankrupt, he has it coming.
'Charlie sink'
Right. I was actually alive too. What we're trying to tell you, is that the kind of explanation offered in that article is absolute bullshit. It's common! People make this kind of argument all the time. It's still wrong, for the reasons eloquently outlined in the replies.

I think the thing that trips people up is that they think that a digital process can somehow fail to make something happen to an analogue speaker cone that an analog process can do effortlessly because of the nature of the process (or the medium). It's not true.

Do you like vinyl better? Or CDs better? Or reel-to-reel tape? You'll get no argument from me, because "better" is a pretty subjective thing. But the following propositions are absurd:

1. Vinyl has "higher fidelity" than CDs.
2. CDs "add treble" to recordings.
3. Digital processes can never accurately reproduce analog phenomena.
4. Analog "warmth" is only achievable with analog equipment.
5. No one ever over-compressed their tracks until CDs (or Pro Tools, or DAT tapes, or whatever) came along, and so these things are to blame.

I could go on.

I'm not accusing you of having said all of these things; they're just examples of things are absolutely not true, but which get said all the time, and which start to seem like truth because everyone is nodding.
>There's speculation this article was part of a coordinated attack

WSB is almost qanon at this point. everything is a coordinated attack to them.
Facebook denies being a monopoly as it asks judge to toss antitrust suits
I noticed some weird bugs with clipboard sharing, a pure wayland setup avoids such quirks.
Bitcoin are more like Rai stones than dollars. They're more of a tradable valuable than a true money due to the high transaction costs, relative scarcity, etc.
No, considering the same people are buying it for the same reasons.
Yeah, just as dumb as buying an original art piece for your wall instead of a print. But... it's not dumb to other people, just you and me. Other people like buying things that are provably 'only theirs'.
Even for digital collector items, it's dubious.

Even NBA Topshot, the golden child of NFTs right now, is only useful when backed by NBA centralized infrastructure.

There's a _little_ value of decoupling the ownership from the centralized infra that controls the thing you own..but tbh it's not much different than an NFT for a physical trading card lol.
There is no draw, it's a meme stock that's had a cult form around it.
I have spent probably about a year in total in india over various trips, cities and rurally a bit of cycling though usually just for getting around locally. It’s much easier outside big cities, wrt traffic. It seems a bit easier in the south, too. I’ve never felt remotely worried about crime from a personal safety POV, but having something lifted from you on a sleeper train is not that unlikely (those steel-cable net bag things you can padlock to something to contain your bag are handy). It was never an issue in homesteads, and getting your washing done regardless of how sketchy a place you think you’re staying always just seems to work - you always get your clothes back and never anyone else’s. A bit like takuhaibin in Japan - accept it’s magic and just relax and enjoy yourself more.
The two stocks are targeted by the same group of investors.
It would make sense they move together.
No, because cleaning and fielding questions would be too much for the price that hourly co-working could command.
Isn't google providing a lot of heavy lifting for wikipedia, by "figuring out" what I want and taking me there.

Wiki just on itself, where you need to browse inside to get where you need won't work.
Now you need to find the right node in the graph that connects to your information.

I feel the same way about Stack Overflow. I rarely search for the answer to my question inside SO, instead google takes me to the relevant page.

So what companies seem to need is documentation in any format, hierarchy or graph, plus a really, really good search engine over it.
I haven't found a good enterprise (for SME's) wiki. Mediawiki is not really usable out of the box without significant work.

Obvious stuff is hard to set up, e.g. private wiki with SSO.
The legal red tape of real estate ownership is a feature not a bug
It's from 2007 and will not get an update since the author has died. I do like it for taking a quantitative approach even though the assumptions used are increasingly outdated.

Here's the summary page where the author asked if the UK could supply its energy needs from renewables alone:

http://www.withouthotair.com/c18/page_103.shtml

The answer was "not quite."

However, he assumed that utility scale solar farms would be using 10% efficient panels. 20% are now widely available. So let's make these two quick edits:

- Assume that solar farms provide double the energy from doubled panel efficiency.

- Drop biomass, because it's unneeded with better solar farms.

With these changes the renewable energy supply of 206 kWh/person/day exceeds modeled demand of 195 kWh/person/day. Making some other simple updates like assuming that car transportation is mostly electrified would further increase the margin of safety.
In my experince X11 is faster (as in latency) when run without any compositor.
Damn, fell into the clickbait title trap. I'll never get this time back. Nothing new in there for anyone who has ever deployed a flutter application.
Politicalhumor posts seem to contain zero humor at least half the time. It's just anti Trump screenshots.
Show HN: MultiPreview – sharable links with custom images
I am sure that a project that is 21 years old has much less bugs than a new project that had its first release one year ago, independently of the language.
crypto lovers really don't understand that there is value to existing real-world "archaic" systems
I'm pretty sure most people would argue that it has nothing to do with market fundamentals or the valuation of Gamestop as a company. There's a mixture of wanting to stick it to hedge funds (based on the idea that a short squeeze could happen), power from it being a meme, and other social factors. You'll often see optimism on Reddit about changes that Gamestop is making to their stores or business model, but I think that's really the minority here.

Disclaimer: I have previously bought/sold GME purely out of personal interest for the phenomenon (and have no position in it now, nor do I have a plan to buy any more), but this is not financial advice.
Sure, it makes sense from an "imagine a world where..." perspective. Sounds convenient.

I'm looking at it from a "why would any government on Earth choose to use a 'decentralized' blockchain as a source of truth to keep track of property deeds in their jurisdictions" perspective.
Applying to FAANG isn't a one-shot thing. At most of them, you can re-interview every 6 months to a 1 year until you get the job or give up.
Record 3,200 Migrant Children Stuck in Border Patrol Custody, Past Legal Limit
I had to get a couple of appliances repaired recently. The handy man charges a minimum of 50 GBP per hour. Established and organized business charge upwards of 100 as a call-out charge alone (parts extra). If it's a non-trivial electronic repair, the spare would cost 150+ (and they're allowed to mark up prices as they please). Now add all that up, and a sweet 20% VAT on top, and voila, that's nearly how much a new one costs, plus it comes with n years of warranty; even better, I get the opportunity buy extended warranty. What I didn't mention is the waiting time for someone to visit in the first place.

Essentially, it's economical and sensible to get at most one repair on an appliance done. If it's an appliance on which you depend daily, you might not be in a position to wait to get it repaired.

Solution: get a new one. Nearly same cost; no wait; new features. Plus, they'll also take away your old one, and may even give you a discount.

Summary: I'm skeptical this changes anything.
(Author here) Take you last blog post. Share it on Twitter. Now share it a 2nd and 3rd time. You see the issue? There's always the same image.

With MultiPreview you can create sharable links with different images, so you can share the same article over and over and keep your feed nice and clean.

For those interested in the details, MultiPreview renders an html page with custom metatags and immediately redirects to the target. Redirect happens in js, so crawlers actually display our metatags vs the target ones. It's just a hack I've tested a while ago, a couple marketer friends liked it and so I decided to make it into a micro SaaS.

I'd like to hear your opinion on: 1) the hack, 2) the landing page, 3) the pricing.

I've disabled credit cards of course, you can signup without paying. I recommend to have your latest blog post handy to test it.

Known issues:

- The css/js are heavy. I took the Landkit theme from Bootstrap but I guess I'll have to tweak it to make it more usable

- You have to manually add the image urls, I could add a simple crawler in the future

- You can't delete your account yet, but please ping me and I'll do it manually. I'm adding an account settings page and will make it self-service soon
Seems like a wonderful red-flag system to me. I'd rather live in a world where bad recruiters make their values apparent than in one where they are well hidden.
The low-end NUC is under $200.
I was onside with the retail investors during the short squeeze against wallstreet hedge funds. But I don't think that narrative holds anymore and its beginning to look like stock manipulation
> How does the size not balloon out of control?

It does, which is why they are looking into scaling solutions (sharding, layer 2 solutions, etc).
I'm in the transportation industry and your use of "semi-truck" doesn't instill confidence.
It does balloon and has already ballooned. There's company called Infura that hosts most of Ethereum full nodes. Because of this, the system is quite fragile and not properly decentralized. https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/84232/ethereum-infrastru...
Makes sense, other than the headline. Build multiple apps with the same components, sharing lots of code.

Using a common technology and language should mean that the developers working on different targets have more in common and can collaborate more?
I skimmed some of this, but are you asking why you need to clone in the closure? Because "async closures" don't exist at the moment, the closest you can get is a closure that returns a future, this usually has the form:

<F, Fut> where F: Fn() -> Fut, Fut: Future

i.e. you call some closure f that returns a future that you can then await on. when writing that out it will look like:

|| {
// closure
async move {
// returned future
}
}

`make_service_fn` likely takes something like this and puts it in a struct, then for every request it will call the closure to create the future to process the request. (edit: and indeed it does, it's definition literally takes your closure and uses it to implement the Service trait, which you are free to do also if you didn't want to write it this way https://docs.rs/hyper/0.14.4/src/hyper/service/make.rs.html#...)

The reason you need to clone in the closure is that is what 'closes over' the scope and is able to capture the Arc reference you need to pass to your future. Whenever make_service_fn uses the closure you pass to it, it will call the closure, which can create your Arc references, then create a future with those references "moved" in.

It's a little deceptive as this means the exact same thing as above, just with the first set of curly braces not needed

|| async move {}

This is still a closure which returns a Future. Does all of that make sense? Perhaps they could use a more explicit example, but it also helps to carefully read the type signature.
Unfortunately you export it over the world as well, all these stupid fights spill over the oceans.
Ok, but please don't make the thread even worse with meta comments about offtopicness.

It's not surprising that an internet forum thread about Israel turns into a political, etc., flamewar—that's unfortunately the expected outcome. The important question is how to develop a site culture where that's less likely to happen.
The NUC in the article was $1016 all-up.
This article is conflating cross platform with responsive design.

Flutter is cross platform.
Cross platform works best when paired with a responsive design.

Maybe on mobile you see a list, and when you tap an item you go to a details view...
Maybe in desktop that list is the left side panel to a main detail view, without changing views.

Still cross platform, still 1 code base. Responsive design has been an issue since browsers have been resizable
Another kind of hackability: There is a whole little music genre called "tape loops" where people make music by cutting open cassettes and taping the ends of the tape to make infinite loops. You record onto a few of those of different lengths, play them back in parallel and get neat rhythmic effects as the loops go in and out of phase with each other.

AMULETS is a good example of a musician making songs like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVon_9VmMEc

The r/tapeloops subreddit is a nice little community for it.
* Security Benefits, maybe!

* No more screen tearing

* Multiple Displays with multiple different refresh rates, on some compositors (sway can do it!)

* HWVideo Acceleration for firefox (on some setups)

* it can be faster in some situations

* In the future: More likely support for HDR, VRR etc.
Most effective online communities, whether ivory towers or toxic cesspools, are tirelessly built on the effort and guile of volunteer moderators. I don't think the average poster realizes the power to sculpt a consensus that can come from bans, post removals, and pinned posts.

Still, their ability to "round up" is trounced by the automation of the social media platform. It would be like one of those early "American associations" that Tocqueville observed being dependent on an venue whose owner insisted that they spend more time on obnoxious issues because "it brought in a crowd". The article discusses a "more enlightened algorithm", but it isn't in Facebook's interest to give up its power to community moderators.

I am still convinced that humanity is "building a collective immunity" to this kind of toxicity, but this will be a slow, possibly painful process. Right now, it seems the only immediate way people can resist is to acknowledge the importance of connection "off screens" and do their best to keep those other associations - family, friendships, local groups, etc. - active and engaged.
Wear two watches at the same time?
I think choosing between a mechanical watch and a smartwatch is like choosing between a painting and television.

Is it weird to wear both? People don't carry their paintings along, right? Am I lost, is this stupid? Anybody else doing this?