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searchableguy··on Precedent – Building Blocks for Next.js
https://vercel.com/design/introduction

They hired evilrabbit and now show geist ui on their own site.

searchableguy··on Endemic pathogens are causing psychiatric illnesses and shortening lives
Many viruses have been linked to singular inflammatory diseases, making it hard to attribute any one virus to a specific disease.

Coxsackievirus B4, Herpesvirus 6, Enteroviruses, and Cytomegalovirus have all been linked to type 1 diabetes and pancreatic failure.

EBV, however, has been identified as a strong precursor for MS. Due to difficulty in conducting studies on viruses, research in this area has been limited, but recent interest in auto-immune disorders caused by COVID has led to renewed funding.

mRNA-based vaccines are also being tested for auto-immune diseases thought to have viral causes.

searchableguy··on Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now
Is it just me or pg's twitter account is suspended now?
searchableguy··on Media companies file motion to unseal personal information of FTX customers
None of those customers were creditors. The fraud was precisely turning them into creditors and using the deposit for gambling and corruption.
searchableguy··on Stripe’s real pricing: a primer
I don't know about AU banks but in India, most big banks allow you to convert at 0.3-0.4% + FIRA and interbank charge which is around $10. Not great but it's better than stripe for bigger amount.

You can also get a multi currency bank account. There are some options available to Indians which provide US based ACH and IBAN. Be careful with FEMA compliance.

searchableguy··on Stripe’s real pricing: a primer
Does stripe restrict payout currency to INR in India?

Can you add a bank account which can handle alternative currency payout and let your bank handle do conversion?

searchableguy··on macOS Command Line
> Is it worth trying DP with a DP to USB-C adapter?

No. I meant if you have a DP to USB type C cable, you may switch to see if issue resolved.

Try plugging it in and out a few times (yes, it worked for me when it went back to not recognizing).

I have the same mac but a different 4K monitor. Sadly, I don't know any other solution.

Macbook display and scaling handling on external monitors is one of the worst I have experienced by a long margin so know you are not alone.

searchableguy··on macOS Command Line
I wiped it clean during installation so no previous settings.

The HDPI icon pop ups automatically on ventura in display settings.

I would also change the cable and try a different one if that doesn't work. Sometimes the DP cable end up causing issues with monitor recognition.

searchableguy··on macOS Command Line
Upgrading to Ventura and resetting resolved the issue for me. I had previously been using the beta version due to this issue. The better display app did not resolve the issue for me, and there are other known issues with external monitors on Ventura that you may encounter.
searchableguy··on Nigeria bans ATM cash withdrawals over $225 a week to force use of CBDC
> and the card that comes with one. And that's not something the government is enforcing

They are. Most countries impose additional regulatory compliance on businesses which deal with cash making it costly to handle.

searchableguy··on Stripe is wrongly suspending accounts
In India, you can pick any payment gateway for UPI. They are easily replaceable.

No payment gateway in India charges for UPI transaction too. So if similar payment system is incorporated in US, I won't expect stripe to be able to charge for it.

The only major functionality these payment gateway provide is checking if transaction went through.

They are wrappers on top of bank APIs such as federal bank.

Anyone can generate a QR code for their payment ID and request payment without needing a gateway but it's manual. Most street vendors confirm payments manually since it happens in person.

Additionally, we have other standardized framework for requesting account information from banks such as RBI account aggregator framework. So you don't need something like plaid to fetch bank statements from all your bank accounts.

Recurring payments are also setup on the bank end as a mandate.

Yes, you will end up using an off the shelf solution but you are not at the mercy of them if you accept UPI only.

searchableguy··on Stripe is wrongly suspending accounts
Fed now instant payments will go live in US next year. EU has similar cross country solution in work. Majority of Asia already switched or in the phase.

In India, most purchases go through UPI already which is p2p without a middleman.

It's tough time to be in payments and will only get worse as many custom integration with lending companies break down due to huge losses.

searchableguy··on Tumblr to Add Support for ActivityPub
> Sorry if a stupid question, I'm assuming it's a blockchain thing.

That's an interesting idea. Build a smart contract which can issue bingo cards and keep track of it publicly.

searchableguy··on Stable Diffusion 2.0
What are you building?
searchableguy··on Show HN: I made a pretty relaxing puzzle game
Sorry OP but this triggers my captcha hell trauma on the internet using a VPN for privacy.
searchableguy··on How to add biometric authentication to your webpage
Yes, depending on the platform.

See apple passkey page: https://support.apple.com/en-in/HT213305

searchableguy··on How to add biometric authentication to your webpage
WebAuthN operates on a key pair generated using your biometrics in the background and then that is used for authentication. Your actual biometric data isn't sent to the website.
searchableguy··on Ask HN: Experienced software engineer – but unable to consistently work
Where in European union?
searchableguy··on LG announces the first 1440p 240Hz OLED monitor and it only costs $999
LG GN950, new G7 28, G7 Neo, MU28 Gigabyte. None of them are good at HDR or color reproduction though.

For professional design work, nothing beats the XDR or studio display from apple but capped at 60hz.

Also, samsung and Gigabyte build is really cheap plastic. Display is fine for the price.

searchableguy··on LG announces the first 1440p 240Hz OLED monitor and it only costs $999
Very far, I would say.

The only monitor I found was an apple studio monitor.

The LG one is 5+ years old and the build isn't great.

So there's two options.

Rest of the manufacturers are using 4K panels.

searchableguy··on Is hacker “news” a lot less about hacker and more about news?
Question: why not write custom code to ping yourself at email when someone @dang?

Just curious because I would have figured it would do something given how often everyone uses it.

searchableguy··on But, aren't you folks web2?
The topic was UPI. Not general.

You can ask bank to reverse card transaction and certain form of transfers but for UPI, there is no automatic reversal. Your bank needs to contact other bank after receiving police report to freeze the account and then sort it out. The scammer will take out the money before that or move it.

It is not reversal and it is not an option in practice unless the amount is very big which is rare for P2P. There is an upper limit on transactions enforced on UPI.

The point still stands that reversal is not a significant problem for adoption when it's such as an edge case. UPI added dispute handling standard process only after it was processing more than billions of transactions monthly.

There is something else holding crypto back from being used for payments.

searchableguy··on But, aren't you folks web2?
There's very limited area where banks can refund the transaction where they are at fault. It is not reversal.

For reversing, they have to contact the receiving bank and person to send back the money which in case of scam is low. You can do that with crypto too. Contact the person and ask them to send the money back.

You also need police report and the sum has to be big enough for them to bother.

searchableguy··on But, aren't you folks web2?
> How do you deal with domain squatting or trademark violation?

In practice, it rarely works. Only big corporations have money to actually sue and win these cases. They usually prefer to pay however.

Same with regards to other reasons people give for lack of adoption of crypto alternative.

For example, lack of reversal and dispute handling is cited as the major reason why crypto currency isn't used for payments. That's just not true.

UPI in India does not have ability to reverse transactions either. So does not countless p2p payment systems. UPI alone processes billions of transactions weekly.

I think all these high level concerns aren't the reason for lack of adoption. They might indicate lack of corporate adoption but at the core level, I would think lack of a widely used consumer DNS like 8.8.8.8 and 1.1.1.1 is a bigger hurdle. Both of them won't resolve ENS and any other crypto based alternative.

Your average person is never going to run their own local DNS resolution node and switch it in their browsers.

In iOT and smart devices like TV, DNS is often hard coded so impossible to change.

searchableguy··on What Happened at Alameda Research
No, it's true.

Theoretical TPS limit for mainnet and L2s isn't enough to support the scale of twitter. The writes will get expensive very fast unless you offload that and only send a batched proof. Putting actual content on blockchain is a non-starter as well.

Most of the blockchain based social graphs end up using centralized indexer.

Everyone is also dependent on centralized RPC providers for querying and sending transactions since it requires a lot of resources to maintain your own.

So peer to peer isn't possible at their scale depending on how you interpret it.

searchableguy··on Eli Lilly pulls millions in Twitter advertising after fake account debacle
I wonder if Elon also thought of this when he made verification checks paid.

He must have been aware of verified accounts getting sold and used for scamming so maybe he wanted to dip into that instead of losing it to middleman.

searchableguy··on Ask HN: How do I start feeling secure financially as a tech worker?
I don't think there is much you can do. Based on what you have written, I would assume you already invest a good portion in 401K, index funds, and other options.

If you have savings which aren't counted in that, you are better than 90% of the people out there who are happy and chugging along.

I would recommend building document with your backup plans and runaway. That should give you ample time to reflect.

searchableguy··on Mass of transactions leaving crypto.com wallets
They also deposited a significant money in FTX which they haven't clarified anything on yet.
searchableguy··on Just how complicated could it be to register a German company?
It is same in India too. The amount of time that is wasted on it is absolutely massive.

There is no benefit. We have director and ID sign which is accepted in a few departments for what they ask for a notary to witness in others.

Printing something on stamp paper changes absolutely nothing.

The amount of mindless bureaucracy just to waste people's time gets me every time. If you want more money, just ask for it directly.

Also all the penalties for not doing redundant and useless paperwork. You can pay all the taxes and be compliant yet if you don't fill form saying I paid everything, they penalize you.

searchableguy··on I decided to stop working on Mighty
Everyone is pivoting to AI creative tools recently.

So much interest and explosion.

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