skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’d also add: it’s easier to operate and iterate.

If you have a thousand different installs that you need to provide support for, that makes for a very challenging support and maintenance responsibility. People need to be able to operate the software themselves, and may not upgrade when you want them to.

SaaS on the other hand means you, the vendor, are in full control. Sure, it means you need to be able to scale it, but you and only you completely own the infrastructure, which makes things so much simpler.
I think that you can get your answer from the tooltip on that market cap widget:

> Market capitalization is calculated as the sum of each NFT valued at the greater of its last traded price and the floor price of the collection, respectively.

So their market cap calculation does not attempt to capture a current fair market value for all outstanding CryptoKitties. For a non-fungible asset like this, just using the last sale price like this will always give a lagging indicator. In some sense, you could argue that it lags the fair market value by a possibly infinite amount of time.

Concretely, this method would assume that the Dragon cryptokitty that the article discusses has been worth a constant 600 ETH that hasn't fluctuated by even one iota in over 4 years.

I don't know how much better one could do for a market cap calculation. It certainly wouldn't be practical to individually appraise all 2 million cryptokitties on a regular basis. Perhaps one could look at how prices of more frequently traded cryptokitties have fluctuated over time and use that to generate a scaling factor for the old ones. But even that might have downsides. How do you account for the possibly large percentage of cryptokitties that belong to wallets whose keys have been lost? It doesn't make sense to count those into the market capitalization, because they are no longer part of the market. The method being used at least has the advantage of being clean and objective. It's just not particularly useful, is all.
Well, California is working on it, but taking a constant stream of abuse for going over budget. Not sure who else is ever going to sign on for this process. I can't remember the last time and entire nation cared this much about an over-budget freeway program; and there have been plenty.
Just thinking the problem through, I think that's very unlikely, unless you're in a pathological situation.

So, for a nuclear plant to be profitable in a competitive market, it needs to produce energy for less than its competitors. If its competitors don't have to pay to capture carbon (through money or output) then they are always going to be cheaper per watt, and the plant is going to become unprofitable.

The only way that would work is if you had chronic electricity undersupply (v. likely but also pathological) or if nuclear plants were way more efficient than alternatives (the opposite is true).

Generally the argument for nuclear is you need a diverse range of energy sources to have a stable power supply, not that they are a great 'bang-for-buck' option. (An argument I agree with, fwiw).

EDIT, PS: It's worth keeping in mind that carbon capture is largely an unsolved technical problem, and I think it's perfectly feasible that it will never be solved. The basic idea of burning fossil fuels for energy, then using energy to recoup the carbon from the atmosphere, just makes no sense at all. There's no world where this would be cheaper than just not releasing the CO2 in the first place.
Not currently, but it's definitely something the team has received feedback for.
SEPA transfers are instant.

Secondly, is Bitcoin + Lightning in combo decentralized in practice?
>A nominal payment for the purpose of verification could allow someone to "prove" ownership of a number/email/identity.

1) Not really .. people can steal your private key. And then you have to same problem.

2) Don't payment processor already have inordinate amount of (government-issued) identity data they collect from you? Everything from Driver's license, to Passport, to Social Insurance numbers? How would another piece of information make any difference?
Are they fixing mistakes or constantly adapting to new/expanding requirements?

Try adding an extra bedroom or 3 mid-construction on a house that had perfectly designed plans. One might be doable, seem easy even but 3 might require a new foundation or something to carry the load (scale).

What if the ask is to pivot to a commercial property. Now you have to physically move it to piece of land that is zoned appropriately. Or maybe just tear it down and start over (refactor).

Those aren't mistakes, they just weren't planned when construction began yet have insane implications to the builders. Planning and expanding software never ends like it would when you complete a tangible finished good.
You can’t sustain a business on one time sales. Operating systems change, markets change, and products need continuous updates.

Besides, managing servers is “undifferentiated heavy lifting”, why would most companies invest in infrastructure that “doesn’t make the beer taste better”
Good luck getting that (potentially every changing) list from the hands of your HR and legal departments! Remember, that (at least in US) lot of protections and laws change quite frequently and not knowing where an employee is would put the company at huge risk. Companies, for most part, establish their bases where they find local laws are favorable to them (in addition to ability to find enough able warm bodies to fill the positions), they don't want to open themselves up to lawsuits, legal hassle, what-nots from state/city the laws of which they are not fully appraised of all the time! What happens when that @listOfPlaces change, say every year?
Also you can use WAL
> If two employees are otherwise equally performing, the company has to lay off one of them....but one would have significantly greater difficulty finding re-employment, that's something they want to consider in the decision of which employee is laid off.

This completely ignores that most companies have their own DEI and ESG based hiring initiatives.
The reason is that tanned people got tanned because they had to work.
Well I guess I'll tell you how. They give you a free first month of pro-membership, so the product works amazing. And then they take away every single feature so that the product is just completely useless.

- Sample 5 Star Review -
Purchased this for my husband for Father's Day and we love it. Haven't had a door bell in years and this has been a great addition. We have been alerted when someone comes to the door both when home and when away and we can clearly see who rang the bell. This is especially amazing when we are not at home and we can know who came to our door.
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Problem is, if you don't have a pro membership, you can't actually see who was at your door if they leave within 30 seconds of triggering the motion sensor. And that happens an awful lot.

Ring Video Doorbell – 1080p HD video, improved motion detection, easy installation – Venetian Bronze (2020 release)
Since copilot support has only been implemented for a few editors (vscode, nvim, ...), the OP works around it by starting a bash shell inside the nvim editor.

Once you get to "vimshell %", you could just run bash and disable the vim keybindings.

A less hacked together solution would probably be running nvim in the background, feeding it the content from the current terminal session, intercepting the copilot suggestions, and then returning them as terminal suggestions (I'd use `tmux send-keys` and `tmux read-pane` with some regex to get the copilot results). Even less hacked together would be to implement a bash plugin to send out the necessary copilot API requests.
It was the gateway to getting gamers interested in crypto/web3, which resulted in the absurd "play2earn" concept which has been the subject of justified mockery.
> Well, now on wallet C you have $(X - gas fees - minting fees) etc., that is totally legal and clean.

It's not "legal" at all, because it's still proceeds of crime. Although it may "appear" legal and be very difficult to trace back to the source, it's still not actually legal.
Fam - we can’t even make climate change laws without oil lobbies paying lawmakers off…what makes you think that yet another corruptible organization in govt is going to help?
> Imagine a software tester finds this issue and logs a bug. Imagine the product manager hears about the bug. Imagine discussing this bug during sprint planning, but then pleading your case to that same product manager: “This is an edge case and the number will still be validated on the back end.” And besides, you said this was MVP and this “bug” is actually standard behavior of the number input. Imagine losing that battle and having to fix it anyway.

I felt sick reading that. We've all been there.
Senators introduce bill to thin out the 900k pieces of orbiting junk
Ah, the primary use-case here is for developers to test microservices as changes are made to them - so one would typically be running this setup in pre-production / staging only and no prod user data would be involved. I would think of it as a way to run integration / e2e tests for each commit or pull request. Running these tests in the high fidelity test environment constructed this way reduces the bottlenecks on staging environments, and bugs are discovered / addressed sooner.
What I meant by "product effectively the same" would be better said more like "solves the same problem".

Then better is faster, less annoying, easier to integrate, better UX, etc., even if it sits in the same spot in the workflow.
There's a big difference between an illiquid market where wealthy collectors are so keen to hang onto things they only change hands at crazy possibly-not-to-be-repeated prices and a fake market where the illusion of deep-pocketed collectors is created by the auctioneer and owner colluding to pretend an item changed hands at a massive amount of money.
I want a weak government. I'd rather have warlords compete for my allegiance than be subject to one all powerful warlord who has no powerful enemies to worry about. A capitalism of polycentric governance, if you will.
Technically speaking, you could totally imagine a SaaS software that does not require you sharing your data. These two things are fairly orthogonal.
I agree with your sentiment of concern but I don't think there's all of a sudden a lot of cash buyers converting homes to rental units and making a killing. Thats a lot of risk, work and capital being put to work for not a particularly great return. Especially into one asset thats currently devaluing pretty quickly.

I don't buy your logic.
"Hand-off" describes a paradigm of designer/developer collaboration where a designer creates a mock-up or prototype, then "hands off" that picture to a developer who then creates the "real thing."

Hand-offs are wildly inefficient, and the fidelity of creativity & artistic expression gets largely butchered on its way into the final medium.

Contrast with a design tool like Webflow, Flash, HyperCard, or Visual Basic, where the product of the design process is production software. Figma could have gone down this route — a harder route, admittedly, but ripe for innovation — and they chose not to.[1]

Good for them: $20B. Bad for the world.

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[1] Sho's vision is that design _should_ live in a separate world, and that hand-offs are the ideal form of collaboration — because they enable design to be unfettered by the constraints of production software. I would call this a failure of imagination: it is quite possible to explore free-form design ideas within and around production software: c.f. Macromedia Flash.
Building is the most effective way to learn new skills
Sales, Not Awards
I tend to look at bi-modal as two bell curves that are close at a few parts, but not quite merging together, and tri-modal as three curves.

Wouldn't it be more sensible to treat each curve as one sub-category of the industry? It would at least make things more intuitive. My salaries tend to be in the bottom-most curve (55k was my top yearly income) and any changes in salaries in the top curve would probably have little to no effect on prospects at the bottom.
Users generally don't plug ad-hoc log shipping solutions into Postgres. They generally use the built-in battle-tested Postgres replication features, and they can setup synchronous replication to avoid data loss. Shipping a log is trivial but synchronous replication and failover are quite difficult to get right (see jepsen.io), and setting up failover for Postgres is still quite difficult. Newer DBs have been built from the groundup (CRDB, TIDB, etc) in part because of the difficulty of attempting to operate traditional DBs as reliable distributed systems.
QBraid is sponsored by AWS to how Quantum Computing Hackathon
Hello qBraid is doing it's own hackathon called HAQS! The hackathon will consist of a leaderboard for a QML challenge where the winner's contribution will be merged into an open source project (updates to come).

Make a qbraid account at https://account.qbraid.com/ and register via the HAQS tab!
If you read that closely, it doesn't apply in the slightest to the example.
The amount of wash trading in the fine art world is certainly not zero.
And I am really tired of seeing people online saying, "Well, but they must have huge hosting costs. Think of all the traffic!"

And they are saying this because hosting costs are subtly ...

https://www.wionews.com/science-technology/exclusive-wikiped...

("Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia is one of the world’s most visited websites, yet many people don’t know that it is hosted and operated by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation. Unlike other top websites, we rely on donations to support Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects ...")

... and not so subtly ...

https://www.business-standard.com/article/international/wiki...

("But why does the “Wiki” continually appeal for funding? ... the wheels keep turning, and it has massive bandwidth and hosting service costs.")

... alluded to in press reports designed to stimulate giving. So I think it is fair enough to point out that the scale of WMF expenses is not actually due to hosting costs.

Lastly, Erik's $10M+ estimate very clearly included the requisite salaries.
That's the beauty of it. Land can't move.
Rent seeking behavour
There's no liquidity. The market cap is pure fabrication based on historical sales, there's no current day sales, so no way to pull money out of that cap.
Logo change in Godot 5 ?
Spending many, many billions of dollars on revamping public infrastructure for an unproven, nascent technology with functionally zero current adoption sounds absurd to me. Good luck convincing governments and the people that hold the purse strings.
> there's no way to distinguish fake wash trades from real ones

Ah, like that $532M Punk wash trade that was clearly visible on-chain?[1] I guess we'll never know if it was real or fake.

[1] https://decrypt.co/84756/no-someone-didnt-really-pay-532-mil...
Sorry, you are correct. I was reading the graphs on mobile which are cut off, and I did not check the x axis and thought the graph showed 50% increase in 20 years.
Apparently the global reduction was 0.2%. That is not negligible, but not nearly enough to see power plants shutting down.
Because enforcement of their copyrights in the digital asset itself, that you would prefer to by, is extremely difficult. SaaS sidesteps the piracy problem entirely.
> just used for speculation by a bunch of rich folks, crooks and marks

Good try, but trite criticism regarding crypto is required to include the words "Ponzi" and "tulips".

Let's try nuanced criticism please, crypto needs it.

> Probably only a few thousand transactions per second, I imagine

Quite an imagination! You're very far off, do you have any experience in this space?
> is a lot like having an extra tourist on any given week

And as OP explained in the comment you're replying to, tourism is not necessarily a positive for the locals:

> That foreign money mostly goes to a handful of landlords/Airbnbs and tourist-friendly businesses (which are often foreign owned themselves). That in turn drives up prices of everything for locals – who are seeing no increase in income and moreover have to pay income tax and a ton of other taxes on it, something that digital nomads conveniently skip.

It doesn't really matter if you're a digital nomad or a classic tourist, the same downsides apply, but in the case of digital nomads they're even working while being on a tourist visa. They should pay taxes to the local administration but they don't, so that makes them a double problem.
More specifically: if you're in the business of processing payments on behalf of others, you actually have "bank" as a core competency / requirement of your business model and need to make your plans accordingly (or carry the added risk of having your core business model outsourced).
(you forgot to switch to your alt for the second comment btw)

No you're missing the point. You don't have to choose a side and go to bat for it. You don't have to defend Batista and reject Castro and what he originally wanted for the Cuban people (or vice versa!). You can understand what each side wanted during the conflict, read into what they did and who they were supported by (note: the Cuban population supported Castro). It's not binary - Castro wasn't a universally good person to be worshipped, far from it. That kind of flawless person never exists.

Take George Washington (yes yes, whataboutism I don't care). He stood up to the Brits, and kicked the fuck out of them. That's good! As a Brit I can say that's a fucking good thing to have done. And yet we can acknowledge he was a slaver who likely did a lot of shitty things in his life. That doesn't mean the USA is bad - it just shows you can't draw a nice clean good/bad line, it's messier than that.
Very cool! I'm going to show this to my kids after school. One of the "steps" mentions that the cosmic ray detector found a void near the King's Chamber. Have they been able to find a way into that void (and how big is the void?)
Makes sense. I have seen a couple of instances of this pattern - with service dependencies being stitched together using configuration. Thanks for sharing!
Why is shopify.com hosting scientific papers?
I mean, yes. If you read the bitcoin paper it very clearly talks about what problems it is trying to solve, so this shouldn't come as a surprise.

Whether or not it is useless really depends how much you value independence from a central authority (i was originally going to say anonoyminity, but if you only care about anonoyminity, digicash is a much better solution than bitcoin)
See? My post was downvoted 3.

Not 1, not 7. But 3.
I've been testing penpot, and yes, you can feel a performance penalty for using SVG instead of Canvas... but only after having like 20 screens or more.

For smaller projects, weirdly enough it's even faster than figma. Specially initial loading times, and switching between project selection, and loading the project. I think I'm gonna use it more for when I have a quick idea, and want to draft something quickly before lose it, just because of that.
Not easy here. You see the results of the California high speed rail project. Billions spent with basically nothing to show for it. Buying the land up near the cities they would service is super expensive. I was hoping they could at least connect the Central Valley cities. It may allow people to live where it’s cheaper and commute to the LA area.
I have never experienced a segfault or other memory errors with haproxy. How can I reproduce the errors you describe.
ÖBB is leading the pack on the sleeper train front though. Wien, Graz, Innsbruck, all linked up to the rest of Europe on a neat network of NightJet trains. The next generation of rolling stock for the sleeper cars looks amazing too.
Yep. Just to tack on - even if you minted a "master copy" of your digital asset on the Blockchain, it still doesn't represent anything meaningful:

- It doesn't guarantee that you are the first or exclusive owner of this digital asset

- It doesn't correlate to physical ownership

- It doesn't hold any water in a legal sense, if you want your ownership of an NFT to be ratified then you need to use the same centralized avenues as everyone else
I smell a made up problem. Do you really think the CEO of Chipotle can’t buy a burrito from one of their branches without accountants getting a heart attack?

They just walk in and buy one. They in their personal capacity end up richer by a burrito and some invaluable experience. The company ends up richer by the price of a burrito. If this kind of “revenue inflation” matters to anyone then either the CEO has a bad burrito addiction or the company wasn’t transacting enough anyway or both.
I cannot think of another reasonable interpretation of what the CEO said than "we considered race/class/some other attribute as part of a person's performance and suitability for continued employment at the company". If two people were otherwise equal int heir performance, but one was black, and the other white, I woudl expect that to be the determining feature.

I don't have any insight into what they are actually doing.
Still blatlantly ignoring the majority of people who are not wealthy enough to profit from tourism, but only get the downsides of it, which I'm not going to list here as they are many and proven.

Edit: No, more potential careers as an underpaid waiter or touristic guide is not an upside.
Ever wonder why we want to trace transactions? KYC, AML, all that jazz?

Hint: darkness and obscurity most of the time don't hide shy virtuous people.
Misleading title, second time this week. "Can" becomes a "could in the future" in the article.
You claim that the consumer has it better with the desktop app, but you're ignoring the number of people who want quick access to their photos or finances from their mobile device, or from the computer at their friend's house when their computer dies. SaaS also implies universal access to a system.
I still want to see Congress pass a law requiring any internet company that accepts money or fees from you that bans you, must give the exact reason, evidence, and where on your contract / ToS you violated. Frankly, at a certain size (millions of customers), these companies are utilities.
"Asian blepharoplasty" creates an eyelid crease resulting in a larger and more symmetric, almond-shaped eye is apparently pretty common.
Manipulating the press is too out of fashion for Elon. He manipulates people directly from tweeter. No need for intermediates.
C is a bit of a free-for-all with case, but some languages have well-established conventions for this. E.g. type names are almost always CamelCase in Haskell, and the compiler requires the first letter be a capital. If there's a convention already, I mostly just try to follow it.
>Voters don't know which candidates they prefer?

They know which candidates they prefer, they don't have a score for it. One voter may prefer A over B and B over C. There's an argument to give A 10.0 and C 0.0 (it's not the only way to allocate, but I'll grant it for the sake of argument). What is B's score however?

Most voters do not have an answer. The only people who will have an answer are ultra-ideological voters who are willing to grade every legislative vote. Not sure this is what we want to encourage.

>This is a feature, not a bug. Cardinal systems can capture ordinal preference

This isn't entirely true. Let's give an American example.

Say the candidates in 2024 are Biden, Romney and Trump. For the sake of argument, your preference is Biden > Romney > Trump.

So you give Biden 10.0, Trump 0.0, and for Romney, say 1.0. It's possible your 1.0 vote gives Romney the election. Now, if only Biden and Romney ran, you'd have given 10.0 and 0.0 respectively. So Romney gains by having Trump run despite no change in the ordinal preference.
That's wild, in Europe you get paid before the 28th of every month for that month's labour. Payment is by EFT direct to your bank account and arrives before the end of the month every month.