mattbeckman

I imagine the audience crossover between crypto and HN is quite high.

BAYC gave rights to NFT owners, and that's why they became the example. Larva Labs / Punks is doing it wrong IMO.

EOS tried to use on-chain Ricardian Contracts and pair that with upgradeable smart contracts in C++ with DPoS consensus so that intent-of-code could be enforced. That's pretty "real world" but most people feel it's not unstoppable enough.

Ethereum is pretty unstoppable, but unless you use a contract proxy, your contracts are immutable and bugs that can be exploited will be exploited.

Pokemon will enter the NFT digital collectibles space, and it would be absolute crazy if they don't already have a team working on it.

All of these collectors are making assumptions based on information other collectors have shared about "how many are known to exist" etc., whereas NFTs are provably scarce and they never get scuffed up.

Transfers are not necessarily sales.

Transaction fees for the Topps MLB cards on WAX, for example, are only taken during the sale when the sale occurs on a secondary Atomic Asset marketplace. There are no royalties to trade or transfer between accounts.

Our small team spends roughly $40-50k/mo at AWS. If you're just hosting a website with a SQL database (glorified LAMP stack), you're probably in it for the wrong reasons. Stick to a dedicated box or DigitalOcean etc.

AWS is like co-locating your hardware, and then the data center having 1000s of employees offering highly reliable services you can access from your infrastructure that lets you move WAY faster for things that are hard to do.

e.g. Discussion today was increasing log retention. 10 years ago I would have run the numbers, extended some SAN volumes, considered procuring more NetApp shelves, etc.

Today it's simply a cost question: is it worth it to us to store those logs for 10x longer? Sure? Ok, done.

As we head into the post-truth era, we already know videos are going to become far less trusted due to deep fake tech. Finding grains of truth through cryptography, like DKIM, is so refreshing that it hurts to think some people want to cripple it.

The Hunter Biden email is a good example.

I initially thought it was a garbage tabloid drop, but once I read Rob Graham's analysis, it felt very refreshing to have a real nugget of truth based on math. While the context of that content is up for debate, the truth was essentially undeniable (unless you subscribe to the 2016 private key being stolen).

We need nuggets of truth.

You know that's not what I meant.

Let's chat again when you've executed and launched five unique revolutionary companies.

If someone was to Elon Musk the shi* out of this problem, what would they build or do differently?

My gut is that it would focus on plastic identification automation, but not positive.

You can get a $5-10 Million loan for 14 employees at a nail salon?

https://pppreport.org/company/snappy+nails+s+p+a+9+inc

Damn.

I don't frequent /r/wsb, but the onus should not be on the SEC to clamp down on a community, it should be on the service the "significant young people" are using to execute satirical investment advice.

For example, if Robinhood wants to gamify everything, then advanced trading opportunities should be part of some built-in experience-based level up system. E.g. you can't trade options until you have made X classic trades, or after you've completed X days of simulated advanced trading.

Once you open the email, a tracking pixel will fire (usually an <img> tag), which is far more useful to the email marketer.

Unsubscribe is your best bet as honoring opt-outs are protected by the CAN-SPAM act.

Annoying for sure, but one benefit of this approach is due to forwarding. For the moment, let's assume you have a newsletter you enjoy. If you forward an instance of that newsletter to your friend, and they aren't expecting it, they might hit unsubscribe. With one click, they'll prevent you from receiving future newsletters.

I think the better approach is simply showing the "Intended for [email protected]" next to Unsubscribe, but I could see why they ask for your email.

We've had "Add List-Unsubscribe Header" on Trello for a long time, but for some reason I had it in my mind that there was a ~60 character limit.

I appreciate the post because after revisiting it, I think that info was gathered from a few-years-old blog discussing a specific limit in (maybe?) Gmail, but it sounds like it can be broken down into multiple lines.

UBI (in the U.S.) would be like printing more shares of a publicly-traded stock and giving all of the new stock to the employees of the company.

USD is the reserve currency, so foreign interests (or large corps) w/ stockpiles of USD will be the losers due to inflation.

Foreign interests can change which reserve currency they use at-will, so wouldn't this be like a direct-fee/dividend U.S. citizens (or any UBI-country citizens) could charge those that use the currency of the country but don't live there?

We spend ~$50k/mo on serverless infrastructure on AWS.

It hurts sometimes, given we were fully colocated about 4 years back, and I know how much hardware that could buy us every month.

However, with serverless infra we can pivot quickly.

Since we're still in the beta stage, with a few large, early access partnerships, and an unfinished roadmap, we don't know where the bottlenecks will be.

For example, we depended heavily on CloudSearch, until it sucked for our use case, so we shifted to Elasticsearch, and ran both clusters simultaneously until we were fully off of CS. If we were to do that on-prem, we'd have to order a lot more hardware (or squeeze in new ES cluster VMs across heavy utilization nodes).

With AWS, a few minutes to launch a new ES cluster, dev time to migrate the data, followed by a few clicks to kill the CloudSearch cluster.

Cloud = lower upfront, higher long term, but no ceiling. On-prem = higher upfront, lower long term, but ceiling.

A few months before COVID-19 broke out, I started working with the founder of a platform called eTAP, which the founder first build about 20 years ago. We haven't begun the platform redesign yet, but it is fairly thorough platform for K-12 students who can benefit from an online supplement for math, science, language arts, and social studies. Parents can monitor progress, but don't need to be involved in lesson plans etc. as it's essentially ready to go.

https://www.eHomeschool.org

The free trial can be extended as long as necessary. Just message us.

*No, not bicep curls.

Could you spoof the car to exit and continue thinking you were still on a freeway? A car being spoofed into thinking it was still on a freeway, while driving on city streets, might not prioritize certain rules when it approaches an intersection.

Every ticket I've ever created on the paid Developer support plan was within the "24 hour" and "12 hour" windows for guidance and system impaired issues. However, always always always at the far end of those windows.

Meaning if I had something I really needed help with, it was going to be a conversation for the following day.

I'm not really mad, we're just pre-release, and the number crunching to go from Developer adding 3% to cost vs. Business adding 10% to cost is too damn high. Our infra is about $10K/mo right now (pre-release), so we're talking $1000/mo for live chat and a shorter window vs. $250-300/mo we're paying right now.

Pro tip: just get in an accident while distracted, and you'll never want to do it again.

Largely impacted by this outage was how it affected those who use Facebook Login as a convenient OAuth option. Good thing for developers to remember if someone asks them to avoid a native login option.

I wouldn't say it was a death sentence. Maybe it depends on strong word-of-mouth reputation, but I'd prefer to buy one online without ever stepping onto a sales floor.

From their original announcement: "You can now return a car within 7 days or 1,000 miles for a full refund. Quite literally, you could buy a Tesla, drive several hundred miles for a weekend road trip with friends and then return it for free."

This is how buying a car should be, if it was up to me.

Company I work for was using an email verification service for the first time. We have a lot of brands, so I was being my white hat self and checking it out before we risked importing our largest subscriber brands.

It took me all of 10 minutes to find a convenient JSON endpoint with incrementing IDs that didn't disallow cross-account pulls. It wasn't a public MongoDB endpoint like the above, but we did get a pretty sweet discount rate for reporting it to them and, you know, not abusing some other customer lists with 300M+ emails.

"Of course the mother doesn't HAVE to take time off - just do a planned c section on a Saturday and she can be back to work on Monday."

This isn't based on reality. Recovery time for a c-section is a week or two at least (planned or emergency). I would think 5-6 weeks before anyone would be talking about going back to work.

It's a major surgery.

Only way you could do a Saturday delivery and back to work on Monday is if you were a superhero and dropped the baby the classic way early AM Saturday.

Decentralized social networks are a thing, and will become a much bigger thing, fueled by the catalyst of the aforementioned monarchs of social media taking things way too far.

And you made a brand new HN account 12 minutes after the parent. Thank you for your personal and totally inconspicuous vouch. :P

Anyone currently working on replacing product SKUs with public keys and verification process on the last hop where only the manufacturer can verify that a product is brand new?

That has blockchain all over it.

I've been remote for ~6 years now. Started working remotely when I had my first. I have a dedicated office, but now there are 3 of them.

Oh, the noise noise noise noise.

Install Newsfeed eradicator and then remove the app from your phone. Brought me down to maybe check the site once every couple weeks for notifications.