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Re: Stripe live dashboard

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Post by rTX5CMRXIfFG »

cantSpellSober wrote: post #158
rTX5CMRXIfFG wrote: post #55

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Lots of important info get posted in HN everyday without the fancy design that takes a lot of clicks and waiting times, so how could you assume it won’t make it to the front page? This is why people need to stop using the “false dichotomy” card in every discussion. It’s so devoid of rigor in thinking and is always used lazily to frame another person’s comment in a paradigm that it wasn’t intended to be framed.

> it’s all about making things look cool instead of just no-bullshit functional It's your dichotomy, "reframe the paradigm" if you'd like. The typical regurgitation of this talking point is " prioritizes form over function."

That’s not a dichotomy. In virtually all of design function is a prerequisite to prioritizing form, otherwise what you’re building might not even be possible and so you might not even be creating design but just art.

Re: Stripe live dashboard

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FredPret wrote: post #80
xyst wrote: post #75

~$3.2B USD in processed transactions through stripe (so far). ~42M transactions. ~$92.8M for 2.9% fee. ~$12.6M for 30 cent fee. ~$105.4M just for processing transactions on a single day. Above assumes the “standard” pricing [1]. It’s not quite clear how much stripe takes from the 2.9% and 0.30 cut. Likely have to share this with card network and issuing bank. The invisible hand of traditional banking system taking mo…

Uhhh… how exactly were these transactions supposed to even take place without the banking system? I have no interest in bartering or sending ounces of gold around. And don’t say crypto - last time I tried to figure it out, I ended up sending ETH, and more than half of it evaporated in “gas money”. What a joke.

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Re: Stripe live dashboard

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Post by PartiallyTyped »

solatic wrote: post #152
willsmith72 wrote: post #147

12% request load vs current capacity seems low to me. In my experience, as much as you can distil it down to a simple number, we've aimed for 30-50 depending on capacity for risk. Is 12% normal for stripe? Especially cautious knowing demand will spike this weekend? Feels pretty non-optimised, assuming their infra can scale quickly.

> Especially cautious knowing demand will spike this weekend? At Stripe's scale, I doubt you could accurately forecast demand for a weekend like Black Friday. Last year's sales are just a data point; what matters this year is consumer confidence on a global macroeconomic scale. Who knows what that translates to? > assuming their infra can scale quickly Even if Stripe is handling spikes by scaling on a hyperscaler (e.…

> Even if Stripe is handling spikes by scaling on a hyperscaler (e.g. AWS), this scale requires advanced coordination with the hyperscaler. They can't just spin up tens of thousands / hundreds of thousands of VM's on a whim, the underlying abstraction would leak and fail.

AWS uses predictors / models for this when you are on serverless and automatically allocates instances for you ahead of time.

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Post by thundergolfer »

kefabean wrote: post #46
saliagato wrote: post #18

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this is so cool lol

It does look cool, but I do find the 'Carbon removed' ticker slightly misleading. In what way does this reflect carbon removed? Surely carbon added to the atmosphere is broadly proportional to the total value of sales.

It’s 100% false consciousness. The Black Friday consumption is a significant carbon pollution event, but ‘conscious consumers’ (and engineers) appreciate the carbon offset trick.

Re: Stripe live dashboard

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Post by fragmede »

smokefoot wrote: post #111
cuuupid wrote: post #34

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Out of curiosity do you share the suspected fraud with law enforcement? At that amount there are probably too many to chase down so I’d think this is just an unprosecuted crime?

Generally the bank will file a Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) with FINCEN for egregious cases. I don’t think intermediaries like stripe have any direct responsibility in this respect but I could be wrong. The volumes are huge and few SARs actually are investigated or prosecuted.

SARs are for, like, attempted funding of terrorists. fraudy cc attempts don't scratch the surface

Re: Stripe live dashboard

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Post by danudey »

TekMol wrote: post #17

This reliably kills Firefox on Linux here. The whole browser. After a few seconds, during which the laptop fans are spinnung up, all tabs go into a "This tab just crashed" state.

Kills Firefox? My entire laptop, including my cursor and typing into a terminal, dropped to something like 10 fps.

The lofi version posted in reply to this is definitely better, but it's still crazy they managed to use up an entire laptop for their status page. Cool, but crazy.

Re: Stripe live dashboard

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Post by fragmede »

stemlord wrote: post #136
rTX5CMRXIfFG wrote: post #39

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See, that’s a real problem with modern day design: it’s all about making things look cool instead of just no-bullshit functional.

Your emotional response to the ways things look and feel is a "function" as valid as a button or a slider. Actually, it's more functional in the digital ecosystsm where everything is a symbolic abstraction of light except for your emotional response to their meanings-- it's in fact the only real outcome of the design intent. So if you see it as a problem and not a strength of modern visual design you are fully cluele…

-Devil Wears Prada

https://artdepartmental.com/blog/devil-wears-prada-cerulean-...

Re: Stripe live dashboard

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Post by nozzlegear »

jona-f wrote: post #138
akamaka wrote: post #126

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How about direct air capture, is that also greenwashing? Shopify is simply waiting for the capture plants to go online: https://news.shopify.com/shopify-purchases-more-direct-air-c...

Yes, afaik, direct air capture currently is miniscule and when it is happening the co2 is sold on the market, where it replaces waste-product-co2, so in the end no co2 is actually removed from the atmosphere. It's currently in research phase, marketing it as "you can offset your carbon emissions here" is lies. We currently can't both consume like this and improve the outcome of global warming. The whole idea of black…

To be frank, it sounds like you're deadset on being cynical no matter what. Shopify has committed to removing carbon from the atmosphere via direct air capture, and that's what their metric is counting. Direct air capture is literally removing carbon from the atmosphere, regardless of what's done with the carbon afterwards.

Re: Stripe live dashboard

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Post by fragmede »

FredPret wrote: post #113
bob1029 wrote: post #97

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I have a similar reaction. If you want to go all the way into the consumer value matrix - Has anyone on HN ever had much a 2nd thought about whether or not their card would 'just work' out in the world? I used to work in the actual room where acquirer links were monitored in real time 24/7/365. At least 8 people were in that room at any given time. I've never worked in nuclear power but I imagine you could draw some…

The history of payments and banking is amazing. It’s always been a hard problem to solve, and the bankers who solved it always got paid handsomely for enabling commerce. In the old days everyone bartered. Then came shells. Then precious metals. The gold had to be literally shipped around. Everyone from the Roman to the British empire had to physically ship chests of gold to it’s soldiers. Cross border commerce was ab…

Another innovation is JPM coin, which is technically a cryptocurrency, and they're using that to power their internal international money movement systems.
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