Hacker News: ro_sharp

New comment by ro_sharp in "Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026"

ro_sharp — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 07:06:36 +0000

This is the ideal, but in practice you need to own the business to live this way..

New comment by ro_sharp in "A 'cold blob' in the Atlantic could be a sign of AMOC shutdown"

ro_sharp — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:35:38 +0000

As long as the pollution is a negative externality and the polluting option is (immediately) cheaper, people (especially poorer people) will choose the cheaper option.

New comment by ro_sharp in "Stripe is friendly to “friendly fraud”"

ro_sharp — Wed, 27 May 2026 07:07:30 +0000

All of these may result in you bringing in less $ overall, so it really depends on how much each fraud case costs you, but you could (off the top of my head): - Enable always checking CVV - Require 3DS - Ban a card after N disputes - Ban an email/other identifier after N disputes - Ban certain payment methods, banks etc - Add a visible or invisible captcha to fight automated abuse/card testing

I suspect Stripe walks a fine line where they want to help you prevent fraud, but they also want to avoid vendors complaining to them that their customers can’t pay.

Context: I worked on a payments team for a short while.

New comment by ro_sharp in "Over $70T of inherited wealth over next decade will widen inequality, economists"

ro_sharp — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 12:29:48 +0000

You can sell the asset, so how does anyone inherit nothing?

Someone who wants to spend an inheritance is going to do it, whether it’s liquid (cash) or marginally less so (real property)

New comment by ro_sharp in "SQL or Death? Seminar Series – Spring 2025"

ro_sharp — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 08:49:33 +0000

Not sure I follow. In a world with CTEs and views, what do you think is missing for composability?

New comment by ro_sharp in "No one expects young men to do anything and they respond by doing nothing (2022)"

ro_sharp — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 13:42:38 +0000

I don’t know why we call having a mortgage “ownership”: it’s not. Across the western world mortgages are getting larger and longer relative to income.

More people are in more significant debt bondage than in the past, that’s not an improvement.

The proportion of owned outright homes has been declining in the western world for 30 years.

New comment by ro_sharp in "Apple and Google deliver support for unwanted tracking alerts in iOS and Android"

ro_sharp — Tue, 14 May 2024 09:36:51 +0000

Great, now I’ll get more than two or three of these every day just because I live in a mildly dense city centre…

New comment by ro_sharp in "Google's First Tensor Processing Unit: Architecture"

ro_sharp — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 04:34:42 +0000

> GPT-4 doesn't seem profitable (if it was, would they need to throttle it?)

Maybe? Hardware supply isn’t perfectly elastic

New comment by ro_sharp in "Why is it so hard to build an airport?"

ro_sharp — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 07:05:53 +0000

> Curious minds wonder what you do to be able to have that kind of time for travel

In developed countries outside the US annual multi-week vacations are routine for the middle classes

New comment by ro_sharp in "Why is it so hard to build an airport?"

ro_sharp — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 06:59:22 +0000

Yep, it’s an international embarrassment

New comment by ro_sharp in "The teen mental illness epidemic is international (2023)"

ro_sharp — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 09:36:26 +0000

The doomsday clock is closer to midnight than it’s ever been https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/current-time/ and now we avoid another 1929 by inflating away the gains of the middle class and siphoning value off to the 1%

New comment by ro_sharp in "All Sliders to the Right"

ro_sharp — Sun, 02 Apr 2023 13:01:02 +0000

Mike Judge was right!

New comment by ro_sharp in "Things they didn’t teach you about software engineering"

ro_sharp — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 22:28:47 +0000

> You jump when they say jump

Thankfully sometimes 'they' are the customers paying real money for a product or service that's valuable to them.

But as you say, larger organizations have more room for political distractions on the way to giving that customer what they want.

From Zero to 50M Uploads per Day: Scaling Media at Canva

ro_sharp — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 12:42:27 +0000

Article URL: https://canvatechblog.com/from-zero-to-50-million-uploads-per-day-scaling-media-at-canva-c81fa0c92f34

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33786864

Points: 11

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New comment by ro_sharp in "Lessons learned using single-table design with DynamoDB and GraphQL"

ro_sharp — Sun, 01 Dec 2019 06:36:31 +0000

Couldn’t this still hit partition throughput limits though?

New comment by ro_sharp in "How to monitor MySQL / MariaDB query progress"

ro_sharp — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 22:37:21 +0000

Wouldn’t it be preferable if the DBMS did this for you?

New comment by ro_sharp in "On Being an Engineering Manager"

ro_sharp — Sun, 17 Feb 2019 21:51:24 +0000

Amen. Work without context is demoralising and can lead to micro decisions that don't align with the macro context of the business you're in.

New comment by ro_sharp in "Amazon's AbeBooks backs down after booksellers stage global protest"

ro_sharp — Fri, 09 Nov 2018 08:15:35 +0000

But it's also one of the best places to buy secondhand books that are rare and/or out of print.

New comment by ro_sharp in "Banks scramble to fix old systems as IT 'cowboys' ride into sunset (2017)"

ro_sharp — Fri, 05 Oct 2018 06:20:32 +0000

The code is only hard if you can't release it safely.

New comment by ro_sharp in "Ask HN: Which cloud behemoth is best for individual learning?"

ro_sharp — Fri, 03 Aug 2018 09:16:35 +0000

If you’re using the AWS console on the reg, you’re doing it wrong (but yes, it’s a mess)