skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work for an IP geolocations service, even I hate this thing.

They call it "web experience personalization" in the industry, and it is annoying. I have never recommended anyone to do that. The best way to do website personalization through IP geolocation:

- Taxes and stuff (if applicable)

- Delivery costs (if applicable)

- Putting the user's country first in those country selection drop-down menu

And that's about it from the top of my head. In my experience, these translations never work and only create distractions. Regardless of the positive intention the website has, using Google Translate to create a native language version of the website is just not a good idea.
Show HN: Democratizing Access to Machine Learning
Recently everyone has been talking about chat-gpt or other AI tools but the world of AI extends to a lot more sectors. Do you have a huge data store that you aren't sure what to do with? You can use Heimdall to bring in your data as a csv file and Heimdall will quickly build a model to solve that problem.

Please note that Heimdall is NOT a large language model but rather like an automatic regression type tool. Say you want to build a model to predict if a customer will spend money based on their characteristics or you want to predict the price of real estate given characteristics of a home - Heimdall is here to help.

Another great example is if you have your customer fill out surveys which you manually have to review in order to get back to them with a decision. Using Heimdall, you can cut the decision time to about 2 seconds after your train a model with all your previous decisions.

Heimdall also comes equipped with an unstructured suite which means that Heimdall can help convert your text and image data to actual csv files. You can essentially take your csv file and then do things like classifying an image etc. This is more advanced and we would love to help you with these tasks if your interested - just reach out!
To be fair, the difference here is that Unity is doing more than just an engine for a specific type of game. Rather, they are building lots of different tools for lots of different games.

For example, Larian (BG3) and Wube (Factorio) each have their own engine. They are specially built specifically for the games they are making.

Also, you say "have been kept modern" but even that is questionable. "Modern?" What does that really mean? It's "modern" enough for the game. Starfield was just released, and it was released without ray tracing.

And we are just talking about games. Unity and Unreal do more than just working on the engine for games. So yes, while it's a lot, it's not fair to compare the bespoke engine use by game companies and engines like Unity and Unreal.
I commute & ride a LOT in the heart of a major city, and suffered numerous flat tires until switching to gatorskins. You may already be using cut/puncture proof tires, but if not, try 'em out. These things are tough!
No, this is pretty typical (I'm American).

The only time people who are more than a few years into their career are asked about degrees (and grades) in an interview is at very bureaucratic organizations or when being interviewed by someone themselves barely out of school who lacks awareness.
“For 6 months”

That’s some pretty important context you left out.
The barely legal "20% free" packages.

https://www.cdiscount.com/au-quotidien/alimentaire/nestle-cr...
You don't have to do anything if they change, and they did. Written and formal notification to change their policy. Then if it still happens one small fine of IDK 100,000 EUR would be enough.
SSD or HDD?

16 GB would be about 8-16x what the system I'm describing had.

How are you blacklisting sites? Pihole/DNS, or something within Firefox itself?
I'll try that. Bit of a PITA though, having extra files to manage. I prefer having them embedded.
how would that last on (bad) roads? thorns, screws, potholes-with-grinded-edges, and plain rubble where the asphalt has disappeared?

(just "unswept" is the luxury level here.
All roads are worse than "unswept".
Sometimes they are roads only on map..
)
This would be the stupidest way to compensate for tax avoidance. If the EU really wants to curb that, they have other ways to do it.
Really terrible ones, if they think that using data already tracked by the store's internal systems (you know, the database attached to the POS, the one that stores all the pricing data and names, the one you could conceivably track changes in, that database, the one with the pre-labeled data available for one to parse) is something that would genuinely adversely affect business on engineering cost and complexity.
Veritasium's excellent video on it if you haven't watched it yet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSNtifE0Z2Q
Twitter Is Still Throttling Competitors’ Links – Check for Yourself
this is from last week
Dittos ;-)
Cool device.

But if your nights are slightly colder and days slightly hotter and humidity is so low then why be so complicated? You don't need heating, don't need AC... unlike tropics with constant +30 and 90% humidity or snowy places where it's -30 in winter, seems like you can just ventilate

See this cool chart btw: https://drajmarsh.bitbucket.io/psychro-chart2d.html (pick your place, select comfort overlay -> Givoni and it will show what you need to be in comfort zone in a given month based on temperatures and humidity)
If you ignore Ireland and Luxembourg there (most of the big multinationals are subject to one or the other), then you'll get a much more balanced picture. For most of the countries, most of the top offenders are European.
twitter too: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/09/x-unfit-for-bank...
> foundation for the economy was strong.

There were and increasingly are some major concerns about the economy. For starters we're still seeing very low unemployment with rapidly decreasing personal saving rate (near record lows) [0], increased tapping into 401ks early[1], and record credit debt [2].

More people are working and yet are less able to pay for things. Even if you completely ignore inflation, something seems very concerning about this.

The fact that the market is divorced from reality doesn't mean that our economic fundamentals are strong.

That doesn't even touch on the looming crisis with commercial real estate impacting the already unstable small banks which is just starting to unravel now [3], or the major threats to the insurance industry that are starting to appear with increased effects of climate change [4].

What's going on right now economically is strange, and it's a far better to question "wait, why aren't we in a recession?" than it is to mock those who claimed we would be (though I do tend to avoid 100% claims).

[0] https://www.finder.com/personal-saving-rate#:~:text=The%20pe....

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/workers-are-still-raiding-the...

[2] https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/08/economy/us-household-credit-c...

[3] https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/commercial-real-estate-regio...

[4] https://www.wsj.com/finance/insurance-catastrophe-reinsuranc...
but isnt it supported 10 years?
> Guigoz infant formula produced by Nestlé went from 900 grams (31.75 oz) to 830 grams, while Unilever’s Viennetta ice-cream cake shrank to 320 grams from 350 grams.

I've always thought "from -> to" so I'm curious when people use "to <- from".

Is it more common in the UK? Is there a name for this?
Since iOS 11, turning Bluetooth off from the control center only puts Bluetooth on a timeout until the next morning instead of disabling it permanently, as one would expect. Even when it’s off, the antenna stays on, looking for new devices. You can turn it all the way off by digging into the settings menu, but as soon as you turn it on for any reason, the cycle starts again.
Obviously I meant to write "companies" not countries. (fixed.)
> or the cat might drop the tracker somewhere where it gets unusable, say a bit of water for example.

The dog GPS collars made by e.g. Whistle are waterproof, IPX8.

You might not get a cell signal under a couple of feet of water, but that much water also means you probably aren't finding the gadget even if you have a recent GPS fix.
And DC can create an LLC which is legally owned by DC but also not legally DC which can do whatever it wants. As I understand it that pretty standard for movies and how Hollywood accounting happens.
The point of a fine is to discourage bad behavior, not to financially ruin a company.
And NATO are at fault. They forced him to invade a country and bomb its cities. Like, he had literally no choice. The Russians are the real victims here.
It's not the poorly thought out dev work that Google does, which is the problem. Lots of firms are like that.

Instead, it's that they have negative tech support. By negative, I mean that their support goes from "making the situation horriy worse" to "nothing".
>A Fuji Snapscan S1500

That's "ScanSnap", not Snapscan. :-) I posted about how handy these are before I saw your comment.

>There's always a bit too much that is attached to emails, I try to remember to save stuff out.

Same here. In fact, I always either save or delete attachments, I never leave them in my Thunderbird mail store.
Reputation. When you see a different size for the first time at big chains they sometimes are not a change to the manufacturers normal lines.

(If you have much faster turn over than other places your customer's shop that could also reinforce the perception that you are complicit.)
Never going flat is not anything special anymore. Take schwalbe tires, their puncture proof tires will disintegrate of old age before they puncture. So if this metal tire is not giving a better ride than schwalbe marathon, there is no reason to use them.

edit: lets not discuss Schwalbe, its besides the point. There are many brands with good puncture free tires in many different styles. The point is that this metal tire does not provide anything current rubber tires cant do - both better and cheaper.
What are you talking about though, it absolutely is "sustainable", and businesses have been doing it at least a couple decades, so why would they stop? It makes the profit line go up, which is all that matters.
If cats escape from their house, either the owners behave like royal a-holes with them, or very likely they were not spayed/neutered. I'm sorry for some self defined animal lovers, but by not spaying/neutering a domestic cat they're actually harming it, in a very cruel way. Cats aren't people: many times during their life they feel the absolute urge to reproduce and cannot fight against this need with reasoning like humans because it's purely an instinct that can become stressful and very dangerous for their physical and mental health if not satisfied.
I've had family members who were against spaying/neutering and had all their cats escape, even multiple times by throwing themselves off the balcony (2nd floor luckily, they all survived), and all of them eventually developed very aggressive behavior against humans although they definitely were house cats.

All my cats (all neutered) never tried to escape from our old city apartment, aside the obvious exploring the hall beyond the house door, and now that we live in a small town in a cottage with garden and trees my two cats both enjoy wandering around the property, but they eventually come home for the night. It wasn't that easy: they had to fight for territory since this property has been kept empty for years so that it was easily taken by the neighborhood cats, but so far it looks like our cats won.
Browser memory management has been improving, but when that system was last running, let's just say that things were bad.
Wow - really cool you had the chance to see this in person. I didn't know that about dotCloud's positioning...especially given the relative differentiation compared to Heroku in those days.

Also, I didn't know about the lightning talks, both of those together make a ton of sense - thanks for sharing your personal perspective on this big moment in history
Might be surprising but those are not inherently unique to a product, the maker does whatever they want (if Chupa Chups decide to only ever use 100 barcodes and recycle them across products in time, they can). And they're also not completely unique internationally but I don't remember if there are any namespaces in the first place [edit: EANs are namespaced internationally, but nothing stops a maker from putting random codes if they're not going through standard distribution.]
https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2

Git internals chapter. You'll learn more than you ever wanted to know about how git works.

Plus this classic: https://tom.preston-werner.com/2009/05/19/the-git-parable.ht...
Can confirm they're doing this (in Spain at least).
If the consumer benefits, does the intent matter?
Eh... You aren't supposed to have a competent software team to use Unity? That's news.
I don’t know what the correct term is in English but in my country, “comparative pricing” is mandatory, so when you’re buying coffee for example there’s a secondary price listed that tells you what the cost is per kilogram or whatever other unit makes sense.

For me this already solves the problem, because what I really care about isn’t whether I get 500g or 400g of coffee, I care about the real price compared to the other options on the shelf.
> Many children no longer learn to write cursive in school. [...] People may recognize the signature, but they weren’t necessarily reading it.

Does this sound alarming to anyone besides me?
I would rather that the calculation method was different so that people could afford "8%" interest.
You can build them all over the mountains but it involves flooding new valleys with the associated cost both economic from displacing the existing people and destroying the ecosystem in that valley.
Some countries like Germany and Japan don't recognize public domain dedication. But afaik the United States does. There is one oddity in the US which is that Section 203 of the Copyright Act grants the author of a work the right to cancel "the exclusive or nonexclusive grant of a transfer or license of copyright or of any right under a copyright" up to thirty-five years after the grant or transfer occurred (only applicable to works not created "for hire"). So you could argue under that until 35 years have elapsed the work isn't truly in the public domain because the original author of the work has the statutory right to reclaim its copyright.

That said, could the author here have used Section 203 to revoke DC's license? I see section 203 requires that "Notices of termination may be served no earlier than 25 years after the execution of the grant or, if the grant covers the right of publication, no earlier than 30 years after the execution of the grant or 25 years after publication under the grant (whichever comes first)."

So maybe the author could have waited a few more years and done that?
I think you’re right about side effects being the missing ingredient to this discussion, that is leading people to talk past each other. The pattern’s sometimes called “imperative shell, functional core”.

And I totally agree, this is how you write large code bases without making them unmaintainable.

Where to go “linear” vs “modular” is an important design choice, but it’s secondary to the design choice of where to embed state-altering features in your program tree.

I think people dislike modular code because they want to have all the “side-effects” visible in one function. Perhaps they’ve only worked in code bases where people have made poor choices in that regard.

But if you can guarantee and document things like purity, idempotency, etc, you can blissfully ignore implementation details most of the time (i.e. until performance becomes an issue), which is definitionally what allows a codebase to scale.
> Also, think about how a 10 year limit would be used against creators by the Disneys of the world. "Well, damn, we don't need to arrange a movie deal with King... we'll just wait 10 years and a day and then make a movie on this book."

They might say that, but they're just signing their own death warrant. Those who watch, like myself, will just wait out the 10 years and download it. (Well, not really, I will probably download it the next day).

It cuts both ways.

> Now - I'd be willing to talk about things like drastically shorting terms for works for hire/copyright owned by corporations and not individuals.

There is no legal distinction here, and there can't be. Even individuals will spin up an LLC which has ownership of that stuff, for tax/bankruptcy/whatever reasons. Do they lose copyright because they were business savvy?

> We might also need to think about not having one term for all things. There's no reason the copyright term for software should be the same as that for a song or a movie or a book. Books, songs, paintings, basically art should probably have a copyright term in the 25-50 year range. Certainly no longer than 50 years.

I'd go the other direction. 18 months, no renewals, and no criminal charges for infringement without proof of infringement for commercial sales, and most of all any works with DRM left out in the cold and can never get copyright protection (not even if they later release a version without DRM).
Interesting, probably not these days but it would be interesting to know.
An interesting tidbit of information is that a number of products (butter, flour, milk, sugar,...) used to be sold in standardized weights and volumes (1kg, 500g, etc.).

It got repealed in the 80s under pressure from manufacturing AND commercial lobbys.
People. Treating the people who work for you as the people they are. People who depend on stable employment for their lives & family, and who intrinsically deserve to be respected, rather than be tossed on the street to save a couple bucks.
Perhaps you're thinking of a particular kind of game-dev as being monolithic? Many top-grossing studios/titles do not use the engines you've listed.

What do you mean by monolithic?
In those cases, they always would be in caps.

So you get LAA and IAA, which are indeed distinct in the typeface.

Nevertheless they (and most other typefaces) should have avoided the ambiguity.
I'm just annoyed of people always assuming the worst in people. Musk is a pubic enemy so anything he does or says is bad. It is just so tiring. Every day on the front page of HN there is Musk hate. Look, I'm not a fan of Musk, but I don't need to see this kind of crap every single day here.

I would do this for somebody who was a billion dollars in debt. I don't care about their wealth or lack of maturity or anything of the sort. I just want people to stop picking the bad guys and constantly picking apart every thing they do. All it is doing is dividing us. We should come together where we agree. Musk supports using Starlink in defensive actions and it sounds like you do as well. Great, let's build on that instead of tearing each other down.
There's even this in the article: "Here’s a Verge video that provides a deeper dive into nitinol and its NASA origins"
A brand of laundry detergent I use recently decreased the size of its 36oz bottle to 28oz. The kicker, however, is the approximate number of loads listed on the bottle changed from 27… to 28. The instructions on the back now recommend filling the cap to a lower bar for “medium” loads.

I’ve been meaning to write to the manufacturer to ask if they’ve quietly changed their formulation to something more concentrated, though I have a pretty good idea of the canned response I'd receive.
Does normal linux provide firmware updates for chromebook-specific hardware?
Self inflating mattresses are over 20 year old tech.
It's very naive to think that the Internet can transcend in any way law enforcement. You may have distributed protocols and crypto, but the state has a monopoly on violence, it controls all infrastructure, and therefore can control all inputs and outputs.

You can't change the world just with technology, as society is a "social construct". And if people want regulation, that's what they are going to get.

Speaking of EU's data protection regulations, it's funny because many people here claim that it doesn't work, and then are shocked to see that it does.

For what is worth, I think EU's data protections are a good thing. Big Tech acted irresponsibly for too long.
I disagree: this is what happens when you have structural racism. Here, it’s either individuals stripping others of their long held traditions, property rights, and society. Or it’s an organized government transgressing.

Less government wouldn’t prevent this outcome. A more just one that doesn’t ignore the rights of natives would.
Ah ok, I think I have a good idea of who you're talking about, that's nuts. I never knew that side of their history. It's too bad there's not an HN herf to hang out and chat about this type of stuff. Thanks for the clue!
Exactly, I believe almost all of the Jakarta EE standard is supported on Spring Boot. Micronauts is another framework.

I do know some enterprises that still run JBoss so it’s not entirely like no one would use this. However, they are all in the process of refactoring for the cloud off of JBoss JEE.
Proving their point by demonstrating invasive behavior themselves!
Adding a print statement speeds up code by an order of magnitude (2017)
It’s like Yelp, though.

If they’re just wielding power over manufacturers, they also have the power to give into negotiations to remove the labels if manufacturers pay enough.

Which means it’s ultimately no longer about benefiting the customers, but squeezing as much as they can from manufacturers, and we end up with only get part of the truth.
I used to have some glasses (spectacle) frames made out of the stuff when I was a teenager and I loved them: they wouldn't get broken when my dog would bash me in the face and I would use them like a fidget spinner, folding them in half at the nose piece.

The nose piece would get warm when it bent and I found that, if I conducted the heat away with my fingers, it would then get cold when I released them -- bit like what a fridge does with its pressurised liquid.

I've never seen glasses made out of them since.
I know the devs of Hades have a custom engine and they are by no means a large studio
Get a proper OS with a proper SLA on those machines. Or get an OS that you can control. Then you can complain.

Otherwise, good luck getting Google to move in maybe a few years or so...
It all depends on the license. There’s no umbrella ability to modify the source code of a software binary, open-source or proprietary, unless explicitly allowed.
>at the end of the day these fines exist because it's easy money for the EU - there's really no way of stopping children from using TikTok, or any social media for that matter but the EU knows that so they fine the companies and keep the gravy train going.

Actually, the fines exist to make sure laws are respected. Also, the issue wasn't about users lying about their age, it was about underage users signing up for an account and having access to all content, instead of only child-safe content, as other platforms do.
It does when I used to sleep in my car in the ski hill parking lot. Why the down votes? Lol, that's often the way it works. I was working two hours a day at the hill, free board and accommodations in a bus another time. Best month ever as a young adult.
The Accuracy of the Hubble Constant Tested with JWST