skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Incidentally, Playstation is primarily an American endeavor now. Sony Interactive Entertainment and Playstation Studios are now based out of California. Most of the first and second party developers are American or European. Playstation owns just one Japanese developer. Some claim that this western shift has compromised the "quirky" aspect of the Playstation brand. Look at the PS1 lineup and you will find so many oddball games that became classics, or at least cult classics. I would not disagree. Playstation has an amazing track record of releasing games, but from a wider view the games do look homogenous.
I wish for the opposite.
If everyone acted rationally yes. A good example of how we might make things worse is mandating that every structure have solar panels on the roof. Sure that might make sense in Arizona, it makes zero sense in Maine and other areas without sufficient sunlight, never-mind the implications for the grid.

Humans are prone to performative overreactions, because what works and what's emotionally satisfying to the masses are often two very different things.

Case in point: the ideological drive for electric vehicles. To ameliorate the greatest amount of carbon emissions as fast as possible we should be going all-in on PHEVs, because you can essentially take the one large battery in a single electric vehicle and chop it up to equip several PHEVs. Plus the batteries are small enough to charge overnight on a standard Level 1 outlet. Given that most people don't drive beyond a decent all-electric range (say 40-50 miles) each day, with PHEVs you get rid of something like 80% of tailpipe emissions from several people, which is a lot more than 100% of emissions from 1 person. And you don't need to build-out nearly as much extra electrical infrastructure or battery manufacturing/mining.

But let's not let math get in the way of all the talk about "half measures" and how PHEVs allow BIG WORSE-THAN-HITLER OIL to continue to exist, because obviously moral purity and Captain Planet cosplay is more important that the boring business of actually lowering carbon emissions.
It's not our (SE's) choice to use XHTML in ebooks, it's part of the epub spec. So we merely expect valid XHTML per the epub spec, and valid XHTML requires self-closing tags.
If greed is the primary mechanism for increased costs, then why do costs ever go down? It seems unlikely that someone gets less greedy. Is that the posited framework?

Frameworks which cannot predict the future well are not very useful.

For instance, did we envision Jeff Bezos suddenly found Jesus on this day? https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-s3-glacier-price-red...

The thing that gets me is that this is such an obviously bad model (that market prices vary based on participant greed variation) and I would expect people in tech to want a better explanatory mechanism and yet it is madly popular here. Really makes me question a lot of the other predictions and modeling in this community.
Meta has 3.8 billion monthly active users across its products.

A few million new people is less than 0.1% of the total. It's entirely within expected variance.
The I pretend I know what I'm doing strategy.

Most acquisitions fail. It's a difficult path unless it fits a very specific need.

Yet a common management / product strategy is to buy random companies as though they are ingredients of a dish and think it'll just work.

Digital Ocean to me has lost their core focus and appeal. They aren't upgrading their hardware, software and other crucial pieces of their infrastructure. There's been gimmicks, acquisitions and marketing.

Someone said the executives there don't believe they can compete with the big cloud providers and so are poking at different areas to see what works.
Yes, I know that, what I'm questioning is the quantity of CO2 necessary to achieve that in earth atmosphere. Let alone be enough to cause it to overheat at this extent. Again, just questioning it not saying what's wrong or right here.
It's crazy you have to put the disclaimer. We know the climate has been a lot hotter and we know it's been a lot cooler. Take a look at Tony Heller's take on it: https://realclimatescience.com/2023/07/hottest-day-ever/, I think we should be looking at all sides of the argument and not treat climate science as if it's a religion. I also think we should come down on the side of doing more to limit the burning of fossil fuels, but there are a lot of downsides to wind, solar, lithium, etc.
It really feels like you are climate change denier trying to make it seem like you're not. It would have to be a massive conspiracy that spans multiple massive fields of science and has hundreds of thousands if not millions of scientists constantly doing something wrong intentionally or not. Your counter point is the equivalent of questioning the theory of relativity because you don't trust the decades worth of proof.

The science behind climate change is simple and more than 90% of the worlds experts in geology, ecology, climatology, oceanography, chemistry, physics, etc all are in agreement that global warming is real and caused by humans. Here's a FAQ from the times if you'd like a reference https://www.nytimes.com/article/climate-change-global-warmin...
I love the real world projects!
> We're discussing here and I literally put a disclaimer in the beginning of the comment saying I'm not pro fossil fuels usage.

This disclaimer is not a free card to cast doubts on climate change science. Not being pro fossil fuels usage has nothing to do with questions about climate change science. The way you raise that disclaimer to doubt climate change science ? Well...

People have given you simple explanations you dismissed, I am giving you links to longer/harder explanations you are dismissing (I presume, since you don't follow on that).

If you think climate change science is wrong then bring up why you think so. "What if it's wrong" is rarely a useful basis by itself for a discussion on topics that have been studied in depths for decades.
Paraphrasing, I've heard similar phrases used.

Do you have a better candidate for worst act of environmental terrorism? I'm open to amending that wording, or dropping the quotes if they are causing distress.
Is there a website that shows the chemicals and their allowed/disallowed uses by country?

Would love to see the differences.
Paperspace?
Did you click anything or engage at all with Threads (ex if you searched 'threads' in Instagram, there was an Easter egg to the App store pre-launch)
>There's nothing wrong with that because you're expecting costs to continue increasing but you might be locking in the price you charge for the next year.

Ha, if only.

The company I work for has increased their prices about a 10 times in the last 2 years.
> Though screwing over the mental health of an entire generation over it might defeat the purpose of "saving the world" or "saving humanity".

I don't take issue with that position, although I disagree. I'd say it is worth it.

However, we should consider that the effect of climate change on "the mental health of an entire genration" is perhaps not greater than the effect of e.g., WWI, WWII, or the Cold War. Imagine living under the constant threat of nuclear war.
Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning about a Highly Connected World [pdf]
> I would be surprised if most people trying to do some semblance of a robbery on a financial institution actually believe they are harming others.

I think that most people who are stealing from others probably go to great lengths to contort their thinking such that it makes their theft OK in some way.

If you're engaging in fraud or theft, you are undeniably intending to harm others. Making excuses such as "they can afford it" is not claiming there is no harm, it's claiming that the harm is justified.
What's absurd is the notion that profit is evil, or that there is some set amount of profit above which it is evil. Before its blowout result in 2022, Exxon Mobil (the first company the PBS article points a finger at) lost $20b in one quarter back in 2020[0], more than its net income in any single quarter since then. Should companies not be allowed to lose money, either, then?

[0]: https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/XOM/exxon/net-inco...
Not to be flippant, but so what?

I'd rather be the creator of the worst thing that people want to buy than the best thing that nobody's ever heard of.
> There is a single hop mode on hidden services.

These[0][1][2]?

[0]: https://blog.torproject.org/whats-new-tor-0298/

[1]: https://2019.www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual.html.en#Hidd...

[2]: https://2019.www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual.html.en#Hidd...
The rapid consistency of these posts and them being about something so benign makes it seem like Meta is posting these to HN for publicity.
This is the only real thing stopping me from trying PlanetScale as well, glad to see in the comments that it's coming.
It’s a Humble ‘Scope, but It Changed Our World
I'd rather the platforms be treated as common carriers - unable to censor by themselves. Corporations having the right to censor is no better than the government. It would fix a lot of misalignment in terms of advertiser spend, too.

In a common carrier world, the government censoring private individuals would go against our first amendment rights. Pretty clear cut.

Ideally we eventually reach p2p social networking protocols. I don't want my interest or attention graph dictated or influenced by a third party. I want to be able to (de)weight and (de)prioritize based off of my own personal preferences.
Do you have any suggestions for Python libraries (other than what's mentioned in the post)?
Meta does this a lot. Instagram didn't have a web version for years. Even today it's missing a lot of features compared to the app.
Either way, it's poisoning the well. It's a shame that many (most?) SaaS applications lack data portability. I get that part of it is it's easier to have a custom schema than adhere to an established file format (or creating a new open format). The cynic in me believes a lot of it is good old-fashioned lock-in or casual indifference to their customers' data.

That's may even be fine for some bits of data. But, for anything I want access to long-term, I just can't trust SaaS start-ups anymore. Very few acquisitions end up with a favorable outcome for the customers. Sometimes the service gets unceremoniously shut down. In other cases the app gets folded in to some other product the parent company owns. In yet others the product suffers as the parent company tries to squeeze what it can from the existing consumer base.

I have no real interest in trying to scrape my data out of a vault so I can recreate it elsewhere. Increasingly, I limit my choices to established players with a history of long-term product support (e.g., Apple or Microsoft, but not Google) or OSS. I'm sure in the short-term I'm missing out on new functionality that could increase my productivity, but I don't like the anxiety of knowing I could lose all my data in an instant and so I don't truly engage with such products. My primary concern is no longer than the company will go out of business but rather that they'll try to shoehorn a growth model that doesn't make sense for the core product so they can then sell and sail off into the sunset.

Obsidian is an interesting case where's it's not an established company and it's not OSS, but they've made it possible for you to ensure long-term access to your data. If needed, there could be an OSS-equivalent of Obsidian to read those files. But, I'm happy to just pay them for a good product. If they were to have a big exit, that's great for them and I don't think I'd be impacted very much.

The trend in software has been a move to walled gardens and there's been strong adoption there, so I don't think my mindset on the topic is a prevailing opinion. But, I have noticed family members and such have grown increasingly tired of service shutdowns from acquisitions. Expensive devices become bricks. Important data goes away. Etc.
> Examining the surrounding cliffs for signs of a collapse, he noticed that a peak known as Annapurna IV offered a relatively smooth, steep face which seemed to fit.

I was interested in what the mountain looked like, and found a whole page dedicated to it [0]. In the picture of the west side you can see the steep face. The altitude map also has an unusually large flat area to the west of the mountain.

[0]: https://nepalhimalpeakprofile.org/annapurna-iv
Yeah, using quotation marks when paraphrasing is super confusing. Still, paraphrasing what or whom?

I guess I'd need to know a working definition for environmental terrorism. I've heard of eco-terrorism before, but that's generally thought to be the use of violence to further environmental policy change, which isn't want happened in the case in question.

After we have that working definition, I'd like to know why it's important that one particular young private citizen not connected with the incident be held accountable to having a statement about it.
The last time I recommended to use planetscale at my company the only factor that stopped us using them was GDPR/DSGVO. Any news about a europe friendly version?
> (whatever this is)?

Essentially it's when insurance companies buy insurance on the policies they sell.

The typical follow-up question to this [overly] simplistic explanation is

"…So who insures the reinsurance deals? How many levels of insurance are there?"

And the answer to that question… is best learned on The Reinsurance Podcast.

:D
Fair. ACAB is kind of the asshole's version of "Defund the Police" (which is also problematic, as the "pro-police" side jumps straight to "defund and disband all policing", which also isn't what most people mean). Nuance doesn't work very well on Twitter (or online in general).
Which is why I go out of my way to avoid advertisements as much as possible.
I think this was always true, but maybe many companies realized that they were playing it too safe and conservative with price bumps?

What changed (besides a good excuse) is big data being and analytics being much easier to obtain and manage. If people can't get the same product category cheaper anywhere else and they keep buying it then of course the will raise more aggressively.

I feel the market will eventually correct if "greedflation" is real. Someone must come along and say that they are happy with X% less which is theoretically possible, to capture a market more aggressively and use this narrative as a marketing tool.

I know it's easier said than done when there are few players in an industry and the barrier to entry is rather high.
"Triton" (but this has another somewhat repulsive protagonist) and "Stars in my pocket like grains of sand"
>majority owner should be paying out of pocket for other companies to access twitter's data for free

Spare me the sob stories for the wealthiest person on earth (the son of people who made their fortunes exploiting impoverished Africans), not understanding the costs and realities (remember, he waived his due diligence requirements) of a company when deciding to spend nearly 50 billion dollars on it.

Spending slightly more than the equivalent of the entire net worth of Nike's founder (the 26th wealthiest person in the world) on a social media platform known to be loosing money is quite possibly one of the dumbest things I've ever seen in my 30+ years on this planet.

Twitter grew organically, as did Reddit, by having open access - anyone who wanted to see the content had the ability to do so. If Twitter was locked to non-account-holders from the get-go, they wouldn't have scaled to anywhere close to the level it did to be worth IPO'ing, much less being taken private for the amount it was.
Yeah, and no one is preventing that.

There is a diff between opinion and force/blackmail disguised as opinion.

"You have a fine shop here, would be a shame if it burned down".

Syntactically, it is an opinion. But it is not just an opinion if comes from a mobster.
The government has plenty of ways to express thoughts. Almost every agency has a podium with a room full of reporters waiting whenever they want to make a statement.
The American elite's novel definition of "free speech" is that the bedrock foundation is the FBI's freedom to instruct social media conglomerates to delete the speech posted by US citizens and ban their accounts. If the government doesn't even have the freedom to tell trillion dollar companies who should be allowed to voice what opinions, the first amendment is dead paper.
> This thread is about async/await, which was added to JavaScript in 2017.

The article is about async/await, but the comments I'm replying to seem to be about asynchronous programming in general. JS was doing async for many years before async/await was added.
I have been building with my 6yo, and he has the traditional giant bin where all the sets of Creator pack of assorted bricks, plus the sets from Ninjago and Spider Man and Minecraft and various cars and so on all get disassembled after about 3 days for him to dig through.

More recently, I also got out my old boxes of Knex, which I'd put away a decade ago by sorting the parts by color into about a dozen quart-size ziploc bags (there are far fewer variants of Knex than of Lego, even ignoring the myriad custom tiles and stickers). He was THRILLED to have them all sorted, and for more than a month now - probably a dozen sessions of use - has put them back in the right bags. It's like pulling teeth to get him to keep his art supplies organized, those can just be piled in a heap, it can take two hours for him to do his laundry, typical playtime with friends is an explosion of toys from bins, but it is critical that the Knex go in the right bag even during use.

After seeing that, I got a compartmentalized organizer that used to hold fishing tackle, dumped all the tackle in the big tackle box, and washed it, and he has been keeping "the good Legos" in that. If you're curious, it turns out that the good Lego are the wheels, propellers, blocks with pins to connect to those wheels and propellers, the Technik couplers, the Ninjago transparent flames, especially the Ninjago spring-loaded bolt gun thing, and the Minecraft character heads Not the character bodies, not the Iron Man head, not even the ones that look like him and Mom and Dad, just Minecraft heads - everything else can go in the bin. I think he made a good selection, builds just seem to go together faster when those parts are available. In particular he used to need help on occasion to find the right wheels - everything seems to need wheels - and now he has them.

God I hope he's more organized and tidy than me.
Bitcoin hits high after BlackRock’s Larry Fink calls it an ‘international asset’
>Bacteria and fungi can be found lurking in and around tumours. These microbial residents may be crucial to understanding how cancer develops and how to treat it.
I think the start of your reply is the bad faith they’re calling out — as that’s obviously not what they said.

They simply prioritize their well-being and not being vilified over the social causes you view as $very_important; and I’d suggest that since you bring up issues such as minority rights, you examine why you think they should accept being othered and vilified, when clearly you object to that behavior in other contexts.

Why is that particular example of social abuse something they need to “sit down and shut up” about?
> Last time I checked cell tower triangulation is accurate to between a few hundred and a few thousand feet

That was about what LTE could do. With 4G, they got it down to 20-50 meters. Now they can do much better.
Just a quick example: BP almost doubled their profits in 2022 even when the price oil didn't really double with respect to 2021 prices. https://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/news-and-insights/pre...

> But if your profits increase by 5%, and inflation increases by 9%

One should actually look not at inflation but at the increase in costs of that company. Not all companies are equally exposed to inflation, they will suffer different price increases.
Stop dreaming. The acquirer does whatever they want with what they've bought.
Interesting, thanks for confirming.. not sure yet if I want to jump back to Joplin yet.
A farmer responded to a contract question with a thumbs up – now has to pay $82K
Good question. Big picture, the phone companies have access to that information any time they want.

The E911 laws, though, only require that the location information be obtained and forwarded when the call is placed.

So, I don't know. I don't know anything beyond that.
Just don't sync to the cloud. Use syncthing and any privacy concerns are solved. That's what I do. Works great syncing between my 3 devices
>If greed is the primary mechanism for increased costs, then why do costs ever go down?

Greedy people lose their influence and ability to call the shots as a result of popular outrage, which in turn is a result of comments on HN and other forums complaining about greed :)
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> Was it such a hassle to check like four URLs a day

People decided to check more than 4. It's inevitable, you find a forum and start checking it, then find another, then another, and soon you have dozens of low volume forums, all adding to a small amount of messages.

RSS would have solved this problem, if the sites that published feeds actually made the feeds work. There's no need of centralization of the creation, but you must be able to centralize them someway.

And also, sharing a login between all of them is a very nice feature. Managing accounts is always a bother.
I don't see any assumptions in my comment. Where did I make the assumption that "the studies being done are actually right"? If you can show that the existing studies have problems you're free to share those.

But let me ask you this. Can you think of a single thing you can't discard with this logic? One single thing.
> It doesn’t work. In the time it takes to refute one lie with facts and data, the world has moved on and uncountable additional lies have been spread in the meantime.

Great point, free speech is bad. We should repeal the 1st Amendment. /s
The ironic thing is that he lists monetization last, but simply by uttering that sentiment he tells us that they are really thinking about monetization first, aka the end goal of the product.
They never raised a stink, so I have to assume they, at the very least, didn't have a problem with it.
If the government was just trying to police fraud, extortion, etc., then few people would have a problem. However, there is solid evidence that the government worked in secret to censor the speech of a Stanford University professor, physician, and epidemiologist. How is society better off when the government is working is secret to suppress the speech of academics who have opinions that are misaligned with the establishment.
> Buying a monthly pass for one of those games ends up feeling like a pretty good deal because it enables you to increase your engagement with the game by a lot for what feels like a good deal.

You have no idea how right you are. It increases your engagement. Not your enjoyment.

> Good speed and weapons. Every single comment was about armor cores and skins. I just didn't get it.

You have to play for something. To reach the end of the story. To grow a thing (city builders, minecraft). Or... for skins in a competitive shooter. But there are no skins unless you pay real money for the game you've already paid for. Oops?
Archaean Log or the Autopoiesis of a Prokaryote
It's a lot easier to criticize "the market" when you live in a system that benefits from it. Life is universally worse in places where "the market" doesn't exist or economic actors aren't allowed to profit.
How is Django now? I’m a long time python dev (data eng space) but new-ish to web dev. I started a Flask project 2 years ago and found it to be pretty full of footguns, mixed messaging on best practices for scalable apps, and the ecosystem feels overbloated with vapor ware extensions.

Is this just a Flask problem, or does Django have the same issues?