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It's a very good store of value/gold analog and a not so great currency.

That's fine though - if you have something that holds value you can move it into whatever currency exists when you need to do that.

Plus rewarding early miners creative the incentive structure more likely to drive adoption.

+1 - this is a childish move and bad business imo.

I'd guess the author is pretty young.

I still use it, I just started traveling way more so lounge access was nice.

Then once I had the travel cards I started using them to see if I could optimize their perks.

The Apple Card is a great credit card for people that aren't optimizing points for travel (most regular people).

The software is solid and Apple prevents them from reselling your data to third parties. The cash back is super easy to use and visible (and the extra percentage on Apple purchases is a nice bonus).

I have some cards I use for perks (Amex Plat/Gold, United Club, used to have Chase Sapphire Reserve) but I used the Apple Card as my sole card for a while and I kind of miss the simplicity of it. With Amex I feel like I'm fighting against an Army of Amex employees trying to make it as hard as possible for me to use the card's perks where as with Apple I feel like they're genuinely trying to make the software usable for me, the incentives are more aligned.

Every time I have to use Amex's site to 'enable' a perk and then read the fine print to make sure I actually get the benefit it makes me angry at some invisible product manager that hates customers.

This is great, thanks!

The tech for this will obviously get better (is the example shown even recent?). The complaints in the Twitter thread are ridiculous imo. Disney is right to be experimenting with this stuff, it’s clearly going to be super relevant in the future.

Yeah I think it’s the same thing

If you haven’t seen the Get Back Beatles documentary that came out during Covid it’s definitely worth a watch.

It’s very long (3 parts, 9 hours?) but it’s the best type of documentary (just observing them create the let it be album).

You see all this stuff, the creative process, humor/conflict, gibberish words before they have the real ones, figuring out the tune, messing around with ideas etc.

It’s probably the best observation I’ve seen of this sort of thing in any recorded media ever.

This explains why the random text that appears in the images often says things like “ethnically ambiguous”

My counter argument would be that a lot of the world’s best people move to hubs anyway to intentionally be around other great people.

So being located in the Bay Area gets you the world’s best people without the negative tradeoffs of remote.

That said, I think your point is valid for startups located outside of hubs. If your company would otherwise be located in rural South Dakota (or even a decent sized non-hub city), then yes - remote is more compelling for the reasons you state. Whether that’s a competitive advantage on net given the downsides is not clear to me.

I'll concede this point - it is primarily about communication.

In theory you can resolve this (I'm at a remote company now and think gathertown is a great tool for this), but the lift is high and I suspect the majority of remote companies are operating at a net negative vs. colocation because of this.

Even with these tools, some natural amount of human communication/interaction is lost. It mostly hurts spontaneous collaboration and junior engineers - the threshold for these (comms/collab) is higher than in the office even in ideal remote conditions. Normal human team bonding/relationship building stuff is also lost (and useful for building a high performance culture).

This is also assuming you're at least within mostly the same or close timezones, add that into the mix and it gets even worse.

Other people replying don't understand what I mean by the market solving this. If remote is truly advantageous then startups that are remote first should out compete those that aren't. Empirically this appears to not be true and at least in SF and AI (the sector with the largest return likely in the next decade) people are going back to being colocated because of its advantages (primarily around communication and cycle times).

Mostly I see motivated reasoning primarily as the argument in favor of remote being better. I get it, I work remotely - there are nice quality of life advantages, but I still think it's competitively worse for companies in almost all cases.

This is a classic HN post that will get a lot of positive attention here playing into the HN cognitive bias zeitgeist, but I think is mostly bullshit.

The market will settle it in the end, but at least for startups being colocated is a competitive advantage.

I doubt it’s common - almost certainly most users don’t think of it or even know what an engine is.

I just notice it - if I see something is unity I’m less likely to give it a try vs. something unreal. Usually I’m just scrolling Xbox gamepass options that look appealing.

If it was some specific game I wanted to try, unity wouldn’t stop me - but I have a bias against it. Unity games generally feel crappier imo.

+1 - I actively avoid games using the unity engine in favor of ones using unreal. It’s a noticeably worse experience for end users of the product (not just the devs, but also the players).

It’s unfortunate because it’d be good to have some real competition in the space, and there’s basically none.

Usually the dumber thing is the true thing, I doubt this was some three dimensional company strategy (and it doesn't make sense for that to even be the case if you think it through).

I wouldn't be surprised if the CEO gets fired for this given how strategically misguided it was and the fallout it caused, that's the kind of change probably required given the error to help claw back any amount of lost trust they can.

Apple is probably annoyed they became friendlier to Unity (in order to punish Epic), looks like not a great choice in hindsight.

The video interview is really great, worth watching the entire thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aCg7jH4S1w

Also starts on a funny note with the interviewer asking about Elon wussing out of the fight, Mark is friendly about it though.

I love the HHKB - it’s compact and looks/feels nice.

I’m either using a variation of one of those or the macOS boards.

Audience capture is a scary thing: https://gurwinder.substack.com/p/the-perils-of-audience-capt... (a particularly sad and grotesque example).

I think it's something we're all vulnerable too.

It's important to be aware of the incentives you're allowing yourself to operate under.

A little tangential maybe, but it reminds me of this book review I really liked: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/17/books/review/herman-wouk-...

Not everyone needs to be doing keto (especially if you’re active and doing cardio) - though getting protein in your diet I think is one of the few things that’s generally agreed to be good (I just use whey powder shakes as a vegetarian).

I do often skip breakfast also, but will typically have cheerios as my first food around 1pm or so.

There’s just so much snake oil nonsense with nutrition information that I’m highly skeptical of most claims.

Are standard cheerios really that unhealthy? They’re easy - 3 cups (two servings) with some almond milk is only 315 calories and they’re packed with fortified vitamins. Three cups is also a lot.

It’s a pretty convenient food.

Sure the super sugary ones aren’t great for you, but generally I like cereals and they’re better than a lot of other common breakfast options (pastries).

I'm in California - reality is even with this stuff it's hard. I'd say maybe 20% companies you send CCPA request emails to don't know what to do, have broken forms, etc. It does work probably 80% of the time though.

I also use this which seems to work, but it's hard to know how effective it is really: https://joindeleteme.com/

This can come up in other interesting ways.

There are human behaviors that appear to be entirely selected for (and then kept around via culture) [0].

In this case a population may do something like have pregnant women avoid eating sharks which are otherwise a normal part of their diet. They don't know why they don't eat the sharks, they just don't. It turns out the sharks contain something that causes birth defects. Commonly people think someone must have realized this and then that original knowledge was forgotten, but it's quite likely it was never known and the behavior was entirely selected (pregnant women that didn't eat the sharks more successfully reproduced).

When you press the women to answer why they don't know, if forced to answer they make something up (it'll give my baby shark skin).

You could imagine someone thinking that's stupid and then eating the sharks and getting a baby with birth defects.

I think this explains a lot about why superstitious belief is so common in humans and animals.

Reason is obviously selectively advantageous, but a little reason incorrectly or over confidently applied can also be harmful, most people are bad at individual reasoning (endless conspiracy theories) and are often better off with consensus.

For every contrarian that unlocks massive value by being contrarian and correct there are ten cranks that just hold false beliefs that potentially harm themselves and others.

[0] https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/04/book-review-the-secret...

My original comment was flag-killed, the irony of what constitutes a forbidden opinion on HN.

The stuff on the steering wheel no, but the stuff on the dash (radio, aircon, fan, etc.) I did look at when I had tactile controls (this is primarily the stuff that's moved to the touchscreen, the wheel controls/levers let you do tactile actions without looking for more common stuff).

I'd bet most people look at the tactile buttons when adjusting them, to see the temperature, fanspeed, etc. and that the difference between this and swiping on the tesla display isn't an important difference.

It really is imo. Good touchscreen UI is superior in many ways (though not all) to fixed control buttons. It’s why it dominates phones and why it’s winning in the market for cars as well (Model Y was top selling car on earth for Q1 2023).

Bad touchscreen UIs suck, but that’s also true of phones. Good tactile controls have some advantages, but ultimately they’re minor and worse on net than a good touchscreen interface.

People on HN will disagree (like people here disagree about everything), but the market will settle it.

Yeah that’s literally the point in the CSAM case.

For regular people taking photos the government won’t have their plaintext.

For popular media people are uploading the same copy of it saves a lot of bandwidth.

This is what I was recalling, this method gives you a clever way to do it using the file itself as the key:

“Convergent encryption solves this problem in a very clever way:

“The way to make sure that every unique user with the same file ends up with an encrypted version of that file that is also identical is to ensure they use the same key. However, you can’t share keys between users, because that defeats the entire point; you need a common reference point between users that is unknown to anyone but those users.

“The answer is to use the file itself: the system creates a hash of the file’s content, and that hash (a long string of characters derived from a known algorithm) is the key that is used to encrypt said file.

“If every iCloud user uses this technique — and given that Apple implements the system, they do — then every iCloud user with the same file will produce the same encrypted file, given that they are using the same key (which is derived from the file itself); that means that Apple only needs to store one version of that file even as it makes said file available to everyone who “uploaded” it (in truth, because iCloud integration goes down to the device, the file is probably never actually uploaded at all — Apple just includes a reference to the file that already exists on its servers, thus saving a huge amount of money on both storage costs and bandwidth).

“There is one huge flaw in convergent encryption, however, called “confirmation of file”: if you know the original file you by definition can identify the encrypted version of that file (because the key is derived from the file itself). When it comes to CSAM, though, this flaw is a feature: because Apple uses convergent encryption for its end-to-end encryption it can by definition do server-side scanning of files and exploit the “confirmation of file” flaw to confirm if CSAM exists, and, by extension, who “uploaded” it. Apple’s extremely low rates of CSAM reporting suggest that the company is not currently pursuing this approach, but it is the most obvious way to scan for CSAM given it has abandoned its on-device plan.”

https://stratechery.com/2022/apple-icloud-encryption-csam-sc...

There are also ways to detect matches even with e2ee iirc and I suspect they found doing that instead easier than dealing with the previous approach.

At the time I also thought it was obvious it was in preparation for e2ee (despite loud people on HN who disagreed).

I do wonder if they had intended to have it be default on though, maybe not since probably better for most users to have a recovery option.