Thinking that you are operating in the UK because a UK user can theoretically send packets to you, is similar to thinking a corner store in Japan is operating in the UK because a brit can theoretically get on a plane and fly there to shop.

No, if a Brit goes to shop in Japan the transaction happens in Japan. So the shop operates entirely in Japan.

> At Apple Pay, we processed millions of daily transactions across 30,000 servers

Why does it require 30,000 servers to process millions of daily transactions? Is there a typo in the amount?

Maybe globally spread out POS servers if that's how it works?

I have previous CTO experience in the POS space, you would be right on both counts.

(till this day, I can walk into a shop, look at the POS screen and identify if its one of those visual basic/PHP/windows XP compatibility mode required stuff).

i also first thought of point of sale servers

> Meanwhile, Samsung's own recycling numbers tell a different story. Its old phone collection campaign, running since 2015, had collected just 38,000 phones as of May 2019. Samsung had sold 2 billion Galaxy devices by February 2019.

Well... duh? Their program offers far less money for the old phone than selling it used on ebay. Why would anyone use it?

> Their program offers far less money for the old phone than selling it used on ebay. Why would anyone use it?

It sets the price floor and provides liquidity, so the phone doesn’t go into a trash bin instead.

It can. The fact there is a password, even if you can trivially find said password, is considered a protection. The German law is completely absurd here.

Why does it have access to those paths?

They haven't published the weights yet, don't celebrate too early.

Now they have!

You can just not specify a topic and write your messages in "general chat", nothing stops you from doing this.

we want topics allowed in certain channels only (ie #announcements) so that's probably what we'll use this feature for which certainly was not there when we tested maybe a year ago or so

The nice general chat UI and per-channel permissions for it were new in Zulip 11.0 last year: https://blog.zulip.com/2025/08/13/zulip-11-0-released/. So probably you tested not long before this got built.

That's new.

True, though even before this we just made a chatting topic with the name "general", that worked just fine while still letting people make other threads for long discussions.

I always assumed that those were posts that got flagged too often.

"Spamming", or rather, responding too quickly in an intense discussion, is cause for automatic shadowban here on HN. It happened to me on a previous account some years ago. The posts themselves were harmless, I merely responded to too many users in a too short timeframe. My attempts at having the ban undone also turned out to be a waste of time. Completely absurd.

It's worth noting those 250k tokens will be cached for repeat queries.

I tried using it for two hours and it burned $100 at the 50% discounted pricing.