skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My thumb rule is always dial the number where the company hopes you'll be handing over money, rarely fails to get me faster to a person who can help or transfer. Schedule appointment, Re-order Supplies, and Billing Questions are always much better than the Cancel service or Tech Support
There's no way it's worth that much.

Articles kicking around estimate at 140 - 400 million, with some "over a billion".
you already can't find a PS5 in stock anywhere, so sales can't increase any more at this point
In that case you are holding back updates even though they are ready for the “major” update. What if the “update” is just compatibility/features for new browsers/mobile OS versions? Besides, there is no “upgrade pricing” in either mobile OS.
I think having separate DNS from your CDN isn't that big a deal, but bunny.net will combine both. Their DNS is currently in preview (open preview to anyone), but it looks like it'll be offering what you want.

Cloudflare has been taking a more expansive view of a CDN, but bunny.net seems to be going in that direction as well. They're offering CDN, DNS, storage, and video so far.
The idea makes no sense unfortunately. If the game dies so does the meaning of the NFTs. It's even more pointless in the context of Vitalik's WoW example because the NFT has no relationship to the game mechanics, the creators of the game could trivially nerf, alter, or remove previously minted NFTs at their own discretion.
> Distance between A and B are subjective according to each voter.

This is my entire point?

> Then should your vote matter more than mine?

No.

But just because you view them differently doesn't mean there isn't a latent landscape that can't capture both these viewpoints within higher dimensions.
Everything I've ever seen from Patagonia shows that they actually walk the walk.

They source as ethically as possible. Their repair program is unmatched. They pay their workers well.

In this story, they did their utmost to ensure their company remains well run, while constantly supporting their goal of protecting nature.

So, what exactly is your point here? Of all the companies you could reasonably attack for propaganda - why this one?
Powder it. Problem solved.
What do you mean? All of the data is on the chain. It's a global "third-party" that everyone is a part of.
That's kind of an important thing to lie about (money and work related), I'd rather have someone not lying about anything at the very least on that subject.
Actually, I'm editing the comment. Even lying about anything is bad because you'll eventually start lying about something work related too. That's just how it is, whether it's a time table, some interaction you had with a customer where you don't quite paint the truth or anything else. Eventually it always impacts the real world. That's the thing about the word "lying", it's not so precise. You practically mixed "omitting information" and "lying" together even though they can be extremely different in quality, depending on intent, situation and much more.
>>> As you can see, it is pass by reference.

> Yes, pointer’s are themselves passed by value (no pointers to pointers) due to garbage collection where the ability to directly alter them would cause crashes (like basically every C++ program does if you spend enough time fuzzing it).

I'm going to be frank, you're arguing both sides here which is very frustrating. You've said that Python is pass-by-reference, that it passes references, and now that it is pass-by-value (I think that's what you're trying to say). So do you believe that Python is pass-by-reference or not? If you believe it is, and if mine and moonchild's functions demonstrating the opposite aren't persuasive, here's the Python FAQ itself saying that it is not, in fact, pass-by-reference:

https://docs.python.org/3/faq/programming.html#how-do-i-writ...

> Remember that arguments are passed by assignment in Python. Since assignment just creates references to objects, there’s no alias between an argument name in the caller and callee, and so no call-by-reference per se.
Most people just use "Silicon Valley bro" in substitute for "man I don't like that is interested in technology".
The biggest issue I see with this is that it is web-based. It should be decentralized and have a native desktop client. 70% of the world has crappy internet, and if your connection goes down you are sol.
You submit the action you want to do, anywhere in the ethereum network, and if it's valid (e.g. if you're running an operation that destroys a kitty then you'd better include a digital signature showing that you own that kitty) then it will be accepted and published. You have to pay a "gas fee" which in theory a) should be pretty small and b) is what pays for the running of that ethereum network. In practice under the current implementation those fees got to be big enough that they kind of killed cryptokitties, but this might be fixable.
So how did Penpot come into existence? Because some 'sucker' paid for it?

Kaleidos, the creators of Penpot, built a tool that they need and invested to make it open. And they get recognition for it which builds their brand and gets them more customers and employees.

Paying for feature X and having that advertised in the ChangeLog and on the sponsors page is a sound business decision.

Soon enough, businesses pay fees to Adobe only to have their data taken hostage in the cloud will be known as suckers.
Oh the reparations are not happening. But world needs to be aware of the level of apathy the British government had towards its colonies (even in the 20th century)
So much good info and retrospection to read through here, but just noticed:

Laboratory, field, modelling, and case studies have shown that airborne transmission through the inhalation of a virus-laden aerosol is important, if not dominant, for COVID-19

So stop the wiping everything down, and "social distancing" is moot in a closed space. And keep N95/KN95 masks on hand.
It is all about money and ease of use. What you are describing is how the software model used to work - it is simply easier to outsource everything. But as you note, of course, this usually makes things more expensive.

Cloud providers and software engineers have of course come up with tons of new tools to make this outsourcing (or you could also call it renting + outsourcing) cheaper (autoscaling being a huge one) and this incentivizes moving to SaaS or PaaS infrastructure. However as these new products mature companies are also realizing they can use those same innovations in their own "on prem" infrastructure. Most of the time it comes down to how big the company is (do they hit the threshold where hiring a bunch of people to run their own datacenter or machines makes sense) and is their business long term focuses enough that they care more about the big potential cost savings vs the advantage of (from an accounting perspective) recuring regular costs per quarter vs larger occasional purchases of hardware.

Personally I think we are going to see a huge "private cloud" movement in a few years once the market matures and companies realize they did not need to give absolutely everything to AWS. I have always liked the hybrid cloud model and then using SaaS only for things that are a huge pain in the ass to manage (since with SaaS you are not just renting/outsourcing the hardware but also all of the software work as well). Email is a great example of this - its a huge PIA to manage yourself and often not that costly to just pay someone else to do it.

In my opinion the holy grail for many companies is having their big "regular" workloads (especially stuff computationally expensive or requiring special hardware or large storages) run themselves on their own hardware + seamless integration with a cloud provider for autoscaling that process up as needed.
I mean, you usually don't hear your own audio, so you're oblivious by default.

With video quality, you usually see a preview of what was captured locally, so at least you'll see terrible lighting or other really obvious image quality problems, but you won't see the results after encoding and decoding and you may not have a good understanding of the latency and jitter of your video sending either.
Just because it's tradition to not let "someone being wrong on the internet" stand: https://www.cryptokitties.co/blog/post/learn-how-our-last-my...
Also cat food. They invest in a reef conservation technique too, and named a reef in Indo - where they were trialing said technique - after one of their catfood brands. The logo says "more coral today, more fish tomorrow" and there's a picture of a cat.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johannaread/2021/05/05/the-sheb...
You may find historical maps of SFO helpful:

- https://www.sfomuseum.org/about/blog/interactive-historic-ma...

- https://millsfield.sfomuseum.org/map/

Much of the current runways are on what was part of the water in the bay just 100 years ago.
> I’m not saying you’re wrong, but you can absolutely hire devs per project

You're right of course. I should have written a more nuanced comment that I had time for :)

My point was only that in other types of businesses it's possible and common to hire the whole team per project or season.
Well, you're assuming that everyone can just learn electronic engineering and get the optimal solution, things don't work that way. It's an interesting viewpoint though.
I think you mean seppuku, not sudoku. :)
Don't know, must be a [queen].
So it’s fine for the entire tech community to decide the victor in an election. So long as it’s your guy?

How would you feel if all the news media only said positive things about Trump, and reported on Bidens crimes.
> "Bitcoin is solving the issue of brning gas flares by buying that gas and burning it ... thereby reducing emissions"

You realise methane is a worse GHG than CO2, right? You realise flaring is incredibly inefficient with most of the methane still being released into the atmosphere, right? You realise that capturing it and burning it in a generator is better for GHG emissions, right?

Right?

> Lancium raises 150 million dollars to build windfarms 100% of whose output will be wasited on mining Bitcoin and not on, you know, actually producing electricity that people can use.

100% of output to Bitcoin? Where did you see that? Do they specifically state that? Because I couldn't see it in the article.

Also, you just completely gloss over the benefit Bitcoin mining provides in load balancing and curtailment as a demand response (DR). You know, the main point of the article? You know what curtailment is, right? You realise the purpose of demand response, right? That's the real "wasted" energy. Bitcoin is an energy buyer of last resort so that the energy isn't wasted.

Do you also realise that many renewable projects sit in waiting for months to be connected to the grid, right? In that time they could be mining Bitcoin to recoup any losses from just sitting there doing nothing. The more profitable renewables can be the faster they can scale up to replace fossil fuels. The only way this happens fast enough is through economic incentives.

But seriously, I'm not sure why I bother explaining all this to people like you. You're not going to change your mind and your opinion on the matter is ultimately irrelevant. It won't affect the economic incentives for a faster transition to renewables. You'll just be proven wrong in a few decades, but figure out some logical backflips to think it's not so, to save your ego.

Also, the fact that you keep referencing "crypto-talk" says a lot. You haven't yet figured out the difference between Bitcoin and the wider "crypto" industry, which is almost entirely a scam.
Which Series or Model Is My Apple Watch?
This logic doesn't hold up.

> Memory tends to play tricks and we remember older games looking better than they actually did

We compared what League of Legends, Valorant, and Inscryption look like now with what those other games look like now. There's no rose-tinted glasses involved - this is an apples-to-apples comparison.

> Those games you've mention run on advanced and heavyweight fragment and vertex shaders to create a specific look

If that same look is being created in a far more performant manner by other games, then that means that the game is poorly optimized.

> cartoony graphics in Fortnite

Same effect class as Valorant and League, with lower visual fidelity, and worse performance.

> there's a million effects on screen a dozen levels in a Risk of Rain game

Risk of Rain is incredibly laggy in the menu, with zero mobs on screen and a single small scene as the background.

> yet everything else is 20 years ahead of that game tech and complexity wise

Again, see Valorant, LoL, and Inscryption.

> Also not sure what your friend's PC is like, because a 5 year old PC can play all of those games with ease, though perhaps not at max settings.

Core i3-5015U with Intel integrated 5500[1] - so, 7 years old. Yet, it can still run League and Valorant at >60 fps with default settings, and 20-30fps Inscryption and Dota 2 with reduced settings - meanwhile, Fortnite, DRG, RoR2, and Valheim are all slideshows with all settings turned all the way down.

The claim that "these new games are just so much more involved than older games" simply doesn't hold up against the reality that there are recently-released games that look better and perform better simultaneously than these examples.

My lived experience, my understanding of computer graphics, and knowledge of things like the GTA Online incident[2] strongly indicates that this line of reasoning is incorrect.

[1] https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/84698/i...

[2] https://nee.lv/2021/02/28/How-I-cut-GTA-Online-loading-times...
Not saying they are lying about what they are doing, only that they are conscious of what kind of message the PR sends, factored it into their sales forecasts, and are now profiting off of it. It's just business.

In general brand loyalty is a consumerist mindset, period. To the extent that Patagonia's actions engender a "rethinking" of "capitalism" they are still inhabiting a space which benefits from encouraging a consumer mindset, which as we know is one of the main cultural forces that continues to push us toward more and more growth, at the behest of the (individualist) consumer, and at the expense of nature.

Patagonia's ethics are complicated, as are those of any company who inhabits a system where profit is the dominant motive. Ultimately they are still producing articles primarily made of petrochemicals for one-time (and, occasionally, secondhand) consumption. They do good through advocacy and other initiatives, but one must consider the entire set of nth-order effects that participating in such a system entails, and if you do the accounting you would realize it is a net negative as far as climate impacts go.
Personally I am conflicted on this one.

On the one hand a ssn number(or any identifying number) should not need to be any more secret than the name it is replacing, your ssn should be able to be publicly available.

However, this is the real world and many people and institutions use the ssn as the sole source of identity, which means it needs to be kept secret.
Who gets to trigger the web3 call? a centralized server?
Btw, for anyone interested, `Koh-I-Noor` means `Mountain of Light`.
As far as I can see, the wording on Google's pages is fine. It's just that someone else submitted it to HN under an editorialized title.
they still have $4k from me, I just gave up on it.
Stealing it is just theft. To make it "legitimate" you have to claim it by conquest.
> Google, Amazon, Azure are stand alone CDN

Not really sure what exactly you are looking for and at what price point, but Google and AWS both have domain registration and WW highly available DNS services.
Honestly, it's the DNS and whole HTML/File assets caching and acceleration that it provides.
I once drove through Dinuba with my head out the window to try to see past the hood of my car, it was crazy.
Also I doubt the charts include the most popular way of buying a console in Brazil:

Buying one from USA.

Sometimes even flying to USA, buying the console and flying back is cheaper than buying local.

And during the PS2 era, everyone I knew that owned a PS2, bought it from a shop that sold modchipped PS2 that they bought from smugglers that got it from USA.

Currently I see that with the Switch, of the people I know that own a game console, most of the time is a Switch, and most of the time is a pre-modded Switch imported from USA, usually an old hardware version with Atmosphere installed, because modchipped Switches are buggy.
- How can a business, specifically a CDN, not be centralized?

- Your business, your values, you're of course free to ignore Cloudflare if you disagree with their policies.

- What kind of support are they supposed to give their competitors that they aren't?
Sure, but my point is that the lack of blockchain technology is not what's preventing most games from featuring this, it's only the developer's willingness to do so.
None of the pre-colonial massacres exceed 500k; the Bengal famine alone killed over 2 million: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943
You're just lucky that business haven't started using WhatsApp to send you unsolicited ads. This is becoming more and more common in India - I received no less than three messages this month from businesses I've never used.
I know Adobe is not really included in the typical anti-competitive criticism like some of the entrenched FAANG's, but this amounts to nothin less than what they do to stifle competition: Point to upstarts like Figma to justify an argument that "No, see? Competition is still possible!" But then buy out that competition to create a metastable state of:

1) dominance w/ noncom practices
2) -> disruption by a slight threat arises to threaten #1 market share
3) -> buyout of #2
4) -> return to to the desired state of #1
>For instance, in some anarchistic type scenario
The tendency of spreadsheets, most notably Excel, to convert phone numbers to integers (or worse, a generic number form that it then saves in floating-point representation) has infuriated everyone that ever exported a telephone field.

Yes, there are ways to trick Excel into interpreting the value as a string. None of them are foolproof.
You just described the situation mobile app developers face every day.

1/ Have slower thoughtful release cycles
2/ Construct a test release plan and hire a QA to perform the test every release.
3/ Feature flag releases (have the device check an api to see what is actually allowed to be enabled)

> True CI/CD is out of the question since we have no way to automatically release.

CircleCI thinks you can[0]? Google has apis for everything.

[0] - https://circleci.com/blog/continuously-deploy-a-chrome-exten...
Interesting. I was actually thinking about doing something very similar with a few higher spec Chromeboxes inside my existing desktop - my plan was to have them completely separate from the main PC and then use the existing / unused space and slots of my case. I have room for a lot of drives and was basically gonna try to do a little double hyperconverged system.
> we as a civilization have jumped too far, too fast, we don't actually need those things to survive, and we will need to be comfortable temporarily sacrificing certain luxuries

If you mean the average hacker news reader, you may be right. If you're talking about the average person on this planet, you're very far off. The type of global reform that makes a high earning tech worker's smart phone double in price will also have millions of people pushed back into poverty or outright starvation. The hypothetical political, economical or technological tools for reducing luxury consumption while at the same time having no net effect on survivability for the global poor, are entirely imaginary. You can say that we went too far when we discovered artificial fertilizer, which allowed the planet to support 2x its human population, but it's a bit late to put that genie back in the bottle now.

That said, doing nothing is a pretty good recipe for displacing and starving people as well, we just have much less information on exactly how and when that disaster will manifest itself.
Here's a solution: regard the diamond as the property and legacy of the people, with the royals holding it as mere stewards. Rather than basing the center of the nation at the location of the royal court, consider a population weighted centroid as the center of the legal holding. So for example, while the former Sikh empire was based at Lahore, much of the western Punjab was sparsely populated till the early 20th century, with the bulk of the empire's population in Eastern Punjab and the non-punjabi segments of present Northern India. As the diamond moved hands, perhaps we can also weigh how long it rested in each region, so a nation (i.e., its people) that held it for a brief while has a commensurate level of claim to its ownership.

I think the issue of federal government vs state government - federal government holds it as stewards of the people.
oh, also: separate accounts with domains per account so my clients can access their own set of domains. I need some sort of separation of permissions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_India
David Frum's new Atlantic article shows a similar situation in Nigeria: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/10/benin-b...

Basically the Nigerian federal government, the state government of Benin, and the descendants of the kings of Benin who originally owned the stolen Benin bronzes all think they should be the ones to whom the bronzes should be returned -- and in the case of the current king, he asserts they are his family's private property.

On top of that, there is a long track record of art being stolen from modern-day Nigerian museums and sold to other museums or collectors, and returning the bronzes just for them to be re-stolen does not benefit any of the parties involved.
Having a regular commercial centralized game with decentralized NFT items is an awkward halfway point that doesn't get you the full benefits of decentralization.

If the game itself is decentralized too, that changes things, but it's unclear if it's possible to make a game like WoW like that.
How about space companies pay the f@cking cost of their externalities?

An estimate is made for the total cost of clearing significant space junk.

Space companies pay a fee per launch. Amount gets pooled.

Pool pays for it estimated total cost.

But no .... no one wants to pay for their sh!t ... just like here on Earth.
Core i3-5015U with Intel integrated 5500.

Yes, that's a low-end processor. No, it doesn't matter, because the fact is that there are several other games that look better and run much better on the same hardware.
Mathematics may be made up in the sense of what we use for notation or symbology but the underlying relations are timeless and superuniversal.

In any universe or species pi defined as the ratio of the path length traced by a set of coplanar points equidistant to a common point to the path traced by a set of points in a different plane intersecting exactly two points in the first path and the aforementioned common point will be the same as our pi.
I think the argument that Ethereum/etc provide useful off-the-shelf APIs/services for implementing something like this might be the one point in their favor
Twitter to Gambia... That was way more fun than I thought it would be...
the Imperial State Crown is the one sitting on HMQs coffin and has the Cullinan II diamond (among many others)

the one in the article (containg the Koh-I-Noor) is the Queen Mother's Crown
If so, why and what’s your startup?

We applied for https://www.questmate.com to benefit from their network for general advice, but especially GTM.
This is specifically funding for R&D.
Also - 12345 State Road 5 E and 12345 E State Road 5 E, and 12345E State Road 5 E
Taking Stock of Our Technological Liturgies
The rate of customers served and the amount who use a credit card would filter those down to tiny numbers.

A large coffee shop chain would crush any supermarket in volume.
Anything but work.