Viewing profile — usehackernews

It depends. My dad pushed me to play a sport I despised. Hated it from when I was young all the way to my last games. But thank god he did. Changed my life completely. As a mediocr…

As a PM, I factor this into prioritization. An engineer passionate for a product will lead to better engineering output, increased morale, and feeling of being heard. A motivated, …

It’s not different. It’s a direct competitor. These new wallets are all to compete with Apple and Google Pay.

We do allow customers to check order status based on order id. I was just using an example. The only information paypal is sharing is name and shipping address. We’re aren’t talkin…

There are indications he may have been raised Jewish, and later converted to Catholicism. Or, converted but still close to Judaism. His choice to set sail for the New World on Augu…

What’s so strange about this? Columbus is one of the most important explorers in history, but his past, and resting place had been unconfirmed - even his birthplace was unknown. 50…

I work in Payments. This must be related to their new product - Fastlane. Fastlane is an express checkout product, similar to ShopPay. Even if you have never used a website, you au…

These are called ACH return codes and are similar to disputes on credit card. Liability is on the receiving or the originator institution. But in practice, it depends on the contra…

It does. A2A / Pay By Bank is a growing payment method. Merchants will begin incentivizing it due to the cheaper costs relative to cards. We’ve implemented it and I’ve presented to…

If they didn’t consider civilians, they could have been a lot more effective. But, they targeted combatants devices, which also limits the destruction capability of the bomb.

This may be controversial but the cost it would require for a restaurant to replicate what DoorDash/Grubhub provide is less than the fee they are charged by these companies. Advoca…

NBA already offers the ability to watch games via VR. It’s a 180 degree camera set up court side. > it would be entirely non-immersive because moving your upper body Not sure what …

[flagged]

Interesting, this is the exact question that came to mind for me. This would address a pain point for me. Does anyone have recommendations for a tool that does it? Or, anyone want …

Completely true. What I’m most excited about is to see what people do with the UX. We are no longer confined to windows that scroll up, down, left, and right. Application’s now hav…

Cormac got me back into reading as an adult. I read The Road and I was astounded. Still have yet to read another book I’ve liked as much, but at least he got me reading to find it!…

What immediately came to my mind for me are ticket/event websites and travel blogs. Allow your customers to book travel to the event or to the location you mentioned directly throu…

The bitcoin one I’d disagree with, it was quite easy to see the drop. It never hit 12k, but my target was always 17k, which it did hit. I publicly told many people who asked when i…

I’m a lead product manager, but this is my first time moving to a new company. I have no prior history working with anyone at the company. Company is mid-size. Not a startup. Decen…

You probably could have made your point without posting the GitHub link with the exact means to do so. I imagine there is one chess cheater reading this that will use your repo soo…

This isn’t crypto “hype.” It’s not going to impact the price of Ethereum. At least it’s not hype in my opinion. It’s just an impressive engineering feat. Given crypto isn’t going t…

The combination of recommended media (TikTok) and generated media (SD) makes me believe this future is inevitable. Content will be created specifically for you.

I want to train a language model (or use existing ones) to translate question to query for trivial questions. I find 80% of queries that people want across a company are trivial. I…

Magnusviri[0], the original author of the SD M1 repo credited in this article, has merged his fork into the Lstein Stable Diffusion fork. You can now run the Lstein fork[1] with M1…

I’m confused, so you’re saying BW is superior in every way because they don’t have features that don’t drive meaningful revenue? Your response to the commenter who pointed out ways…