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These ideas are all technological in nature and avoid thinking about what payment systems are: they're social constructs, not technological ones.

The problem with crypto-as-payment network is that their central appeal is that they bypass all of the regulatory frameworks that protect every day people from money laundering and fraud; bypass sanctions, etc.

As soon as they're subjected to the same regulation and oversight that other payment networks and money transmitters are... there's no point. As a network technology it's slow, inefficient, difficult to develop on and extend. And any organization set up to follow regulations that exist today would have to have reserves, charters, submit themselves to regular inspections, etc and... be exactly what we already have.

Some people think by-passing international wire rails (SWIFT etc) is the big win: I can send money to friends/family in the global south without the fees/sanctions associated with such transfers in the regulated system. I would like to see that become a better experience for people in general but I don't think crypto and bypassing the state is the answer here. It's way more risky for a lot of reasons.
What does being near Fremont have to do with the issue?
Or leather water bottles as well.
> They probably have close to 0 maintenance cost

This is unfortunately incorrect. They actually cost a bit more than comparable Gasoline vehicles.

https://jalopnik.com/advisor/tesla-maintenance-cost/

However, the reduced fuel cost may be able to offset this and the additional purchase cost.
We are talking about a product that lets users buy crypto. Why would they people you mention need it?
> I'm using a UDM Pro, and I had just recently patched.

This is the issue. The patch either turned on BGP or has a BGP bug.
What would be a better (i.e. more accurate and neutral) title?

The article's title sounds too pressreleasey to me, which is a form of misleading+linkbait in its own right, so it was a legit title to rewrite, given HN's rule ("Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait" - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).
Do you have similar details of skills that you're looking for in Data Scientists?
This actually makes the most sense so far. I hadn't even considered the possibility of multicast. Let me see if I can dig in further.
So the Ethereum network is entitled to their cut, but not Apple?
You have to be able to pivot your company. You can't just pick a niche and stick with it if you don't know how profitable it is.
seems to be careless not to burn current residence to the ground as well
The CFPB did end up forwarding the complaint and I did notify the DoJ as well. I agree that they'll probably try to argue anything they can to deny responsibility.
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"I personally think therapy (shooting targets) is great and will help gun owners protect themselves from the greatest threat they face, which is their mental health (greatest threat all Americans face)!"

Imagine posting exactly what a pro-gun target shooter would post and think it's snark. Congrats, you just played yourself again. Thanks for agreeing.
cops more likely to use deadly force as officer lives are no longer on the line? reading the piece it sounds like the police would have to ability to be less willing to use alternative, non-lethal or harmful solutions when they can just jump to this
What exactly is the Ethereum network's cut?
No, you're purchasing it but it's not in the app. And you can absolutely pay bills in a lot of banking apps, or even use zelle to buy things in a store. The whole point of the nft is that you can trade it outside of the app. If I buy a physical limited edition poster on etsy does Apple get 30% of that sale?
The other one was also on the front page. Clearly we can't have two identical submissions on the front page at the same time, and it's only fair to privilege the original submitter.
On that last point, isn't that because all eggs are produced in-utero and stored for later use (no new eggs can be produced), whereas sperm is manufactured on demand?
I didn't run a BBS that young but I was definitely an 11-year old modem user... hung out on the local DDial (an early Apple II-based chat system) and used to talk to some unsavoury (but mostly savoury) very fun people!

My parents were understandably a bit cautious and my Dad went to a few meets with me to check these people out but they weren't any worse than our neighbours so... good times

The advantage was I had friends of all ages which as an autistic child was good for developing a well-grounded worldview and empathy, particularly since I was bullied a lot in school for being autistic
That is one of my biggest concerns, although in this case that would hopefully be a PR disaster.
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Googles Ad revenue from US alone could be 100B. If there are 100M converting users, that's 1000$ per user. 200$ per month cannot get you got. Think more like 100$ per month
The best thing about Apple's outrageous 30% cut is it's some of the biggest companies in the world and Apple smashing each other to bits.

In this society, big companies usually get all the breaks and the little guys get nothing, so it's nice to see the big guys forced to brawl.

Governments, for example, folded many years ago and stopped taxing big companies 30% and instead give them money. Apple isn't as easily bribed as politicians.
squatting on competitor-named domains!
The first thing I do when setting up a new browser is to permanently disable this feature.

The feature had potential, but the fact that websites can ask you to enable push notifications unprompted renders it far more irritating than useful.
I haven’t played chess seriously since I was in high school but I do like collecting hardwood chess boards cus they look great as room decor.

I give them out as gifts too. Everyone loves a chess set.
> My workflow often involves alternating between two tabs.

Same here! I really wish Safari used Ctrl-Tab to toggle since CMD-Shift-[,] already does prior/next in order.
The GC I guess ? Rust is mostly replacing the C & C++ code that is pretty low-level in the OS where a GC is not desirable or even usable.
Preemptively complaining about downvotes is a great way to get downvotes.

That doesn't make you a martyr.
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Martha Steward wasn't part of the financial inside circle. No one's nephew was going to lose an internship at Goldman Sachs because of her prosecution, so she was able to be the sacrificial lamb so the public maintained confidence in the existing financial system. But, in general the regulatory facility is so deeply coupled to those that they seek to keep in check to essentially be toothless.
My wife and I did some fertility tests, since we're planning to have kids soonish, and my work insurance covered it. Turns out my sperm count / quality was in the 90% and 96% percentiles respectively.

Not sure what I did, I'm early 30s, I run/hike and I'm vegan (eat mostly soy for protein). I don't really avoid plastic containers, etc.
If you are making 40K in india, where the cost of living is extremely low, why would you want to move?
I am ordering this book. Thanks.
If they are transparent about what they're doing, then it's not the same case I was talking about.

I can't see Apple saying "Well, on advice of our lawyers we can't actually explain our corporate structure to you." Is it a secret that they have a corporate entity in Ireland, is it a secret what they do with it? Or is it public knowledge that they don't hide?

So I wouldn't describe secret ownership structures as a thing "most every company out there does." But I'm not going to say Apple doesn't do unethical things. (Also is Apple even a trusted root CA for mozilla or microsoft browsers?)

I think non-transparency is an even higher level of problem for a CA. Secrecy about your corporate structure does not seem okay for a CA -- we need to know who they are and who controls them, non-negotiably. Secrecy of corporate structure does not seem like a thing most every company (or every CA) out there does.

But it's quite possible Apple should _not_ be trusted to "run the entire mobile ecosystem" that uses Apple products. You can make that argument. And we can talk about what the heck any of us can do about it individually or collectively if so. That's a different question than who should be allowed as a trusted CA root, or who Mozilla or Microsoft should allow as a trusted CA root.

When you say "that underpins all of this in the first place", I'm not sure what you mean; Mozilla and Microsoft trusted CA roots effect people who aren't doing anything with Apple products, Apple does not in fact "underpin" the entire SSL CA system in the first place. I don't know what to do about the Apple ecosystem if Apple can't be trusted, but I support Mozilla, Microsoft, or anyone else removing trusted CA roots belonging to companies with secretive corporate structures, ownership, or governance. All of this can be true. Apple doing unethical things doesn't mean mozilla or microsoft should allow a trusted root CA with secretive corporate ownership structure.
The fee to set up a developer account is $99/year. The biggest apps on the store and the smallest pay the same fee. A fixed fee helps to equalize the barrier to entry, and everyone likes that. On the other hand, App Store's cost structure is not fixed. Spotify costs Apple vastly more than an app with 1000 installs. This needs to be accounted for.

> Nothing about the streaming or value delivered is in any way related to the App Store.

Entirely incorrect. By taking a percentage of transactions, App Store is incentivized to help apps grow. From day one, getting featured on App Store has driven serious business outcomes for developers. This has only grown over the years, especially after Apple started to focus on marketing apps more deliberately with the "For You" tab.

That's a service that they provide "for free". You get an email from Apple saying that they'd like to feature your app, send over some creative assets, they write an article, and suddenly you're getting a lot of "free" installs. This is only one example of the value that apps get "for free" from Apple and the App Store. And again, this levels the playing field between big and small developers.

Of course, nothing is actually free. Apple is a business and not only needs to be compensated for the value that they provide, but they also need to make a profit. That's why they take a cut of transactions.

An alternative model would be to charge for all of this à la carte. All promotion would be paid for directly. Bandwidth would be metered and invoiced. WWDC sessions locked behind a paywall. Maybe that would even add up to be less than 30% of revenue. Certainly big developers would like it -- up and coming competitors would have a much tougher time competing than today.
This doesn't even make business sense. What money is there to be made in NFT transitions in December 2022?
I have fond memories of those days.. Zmodem and xmodem protocols.. Vision/2 and Oblivion BBS software.. Acid and Ice were the stars in the ansi world. Scanning 950's for long distance calls.. and realizing that call waiting was not your friend when downloading big files..
How can data analytics help to retain staff?
Unfortunately, I did not save any packet captures, so I only saw that it was on the IPsec port.
You're speaking to the "state" part of the above comment. Yes, clearly the PRC and ROC are not the same state. "Nation" is not necessarily the same thing.
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This is really fun work that takes me back to the very early Newton days at Apple. It is a little sad that in the past 30 years we haven’t made more conceptual progress on what pen-based tools should be. It’s like Ivan Sutherland opened a door but we can’t seem to walk through it.

It’s not a hardware problem — pretty much these same demos could have been done (we did some of them!) in 1990 with much more primitive devices. It’s more that we haven’t found the underlying model to build on to get beyond simple demos.
Ah, that just sounds like "no one is average" and that anecdote about pilots.
That does not show you can distinguish < 20 ms latency. Latency is specifically the time between you taking an action and getting a result. I would doubt that most people would be able to tell the difference between 8ms and 16ms of latency between a button and light or speaker.

There are two other ways scrolling on a 60Hz vs 120Hz phone would allow you to tell the difference: the increased smoothness of the scroll (not related to latency at all) and how far the content lags behind your finger. The content lagging behind where you initially touched does allow you to experience the latency, but that is more of a visual only experience than a temporal one.
> But I don't see how they increase the free and open exchange of information on the web.

I think I can help explain. Almost all search engine users (~95%+) only scan the first 10-20 results on a query, and those results are dominated by sites that have the budget to spend on SEO. Buying ads gives other voices a chance to break through.

Depending on the niche it can be far more expensive to be on the first page of search results through long term SEO efforts than shorter term, campaign based PPC (paid ads) efforts. This is particularly true for search terms where it may not be known how valuable a top 5 or top 10 position is. It could take months or years and a ton of cash to rank for certain things through SEO efforts alone, only to discover the traffic isn't worth it.

Alternatively, you could test that with PPC and discover quickly and far cheaper if you should spend your time and money trying to rank for something. This then gives smaller voices a chance to amplify.
From what I've seen, the real-time performance is insane. Dozens of folks on one board with instant updates.
Why should serving only this model cost as much as all of Google ?
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This is more like target locking in half of all customers unless they pay a big fee and give up everything they ever bought there. After gaining control of all customers they take huge chunks of all product revenues. See, you can go to Walmart over the street and sell your product there. It‘s the same situation with them by the way.
There is some important context missing from your comment here. At least two points anyway:

In Rust, overflow is not undefined behavior (neither signed nor unsigned). Today, arithmetic wraps in release mode (panics in debug mode), but it may panic in release mode in the future.

The other point is that, since overflow wraps, that may indeed result in logic bugs. And in theory that logic bug could be used to lead to exploit, such as a buffer overrun. But Rust uses bounds checking by default everywhere, so the worst case you'll usually end up with here is a panic or a DoS vulnerability. Not great, but probably preferable to other types of vulns that grant access to sensitive data.

So I think two things would need to happen, at minimum, to get a non-DoS vulnerability here. You'd need to find a bug that caused arithmetic to overflow where it otherwise shouldn't, and you need to find some way to connect that to an explicitly `unsafe` unchecked access into memory.
Adverse effects of AGI and becoming brutally uncreative
I set up LUKS with NixOs like 5 years ago without any prior experience and it was straightforward (just followed the docs). I wish that dealing with nix/nixos was always that easy...
I disagree, because this mindset leads to what happened under Mao where anything against the party was punishable and family members would turn you in.
Absolutely, and the problem is that amphetamines will make most people feel better regardless of their underlying issue, because that's what they do to the human brain. If you're depressed and you start taking Adderall you will feel happier and more energetic in a way that will convince you that you just had ADHD all along, when it's simply not true at all. You can insert so many other conditions in the place of "depression" in that sentence and it will be true. I know because I went through this whole cycle myself: adult ADHD diagnosis that seemingly explained so many things in my life -> prescription for low dose amphetamines that gave me that "wow is this how normal people feel" moment and validated that ADHD must have been my problem all along -> eventually hit a ceiling with medication effects and begin having terrible comedowns such that when I skipped them for a day I felt essentially lobotomized and incapable of getting out of bed.

Eventually I came to accept that my attention and motivation problems were a combination of screen/social media addiction, drinking too much, poor sleep caused by the two previous behaviors, poor diet, lack of exercise, and the stress of pandemic isolation and working from home. Addressing those issues was much more difficult than getting diagnosed with ADHD but in the long run it has completely changed my life for the better. I do think the ADHD thing was an important detour on my path to a healthier life, but I wonder how many people who are in the same boat will move beyond the "ADHD explains everything" stage and actually solve their real problems?
Ask HN: How do you make pretty “demos” of your API on your landing page?
There are a number of variations to this question but feel free to answer whichever based on your own experience. Some examples:

1) Stripe: showing the code being animated in an IDE with the response https://stripe.com/

2) OpenAI: code that you can copy-paste https://openai.com/api/

Some folks make snappy video demos, other more interactive things. What do you do and how do you do it (e.g. tools, process)?
At this point it'd probably be better to invest in building good browser web UIs over dedicated apps. No appstore verification, no fees, it basically seems like a no-brainer at this point. I guess it sacrifices viral growth through appstore installs, but maybe just don't support transactions on the app and kick them to the browser.
the uniqueness is that it's the highest quality drawing app on the internet. even if on paper other products say they do the same thing, there's a huge difference in quality.
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Yeah Rust's syntax was inspired to be similar to C++.
On the other hand, a majority voted later that year to join the rest of Ukraine in independence from the Soviet Union.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Ukrainian_independence_re...
Both. Regardless of the route, they would change their practices and the law does allow for equitable relief to get them to stop doing the action.
Note that this mindset leads to what happened under Mao with children ratting out parents etc.
What positions are the first to go during layoffs?