skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
anytime a huge multi-decades-old FOSS project lands a milestone, I can't help but equate it to something like a moon landing.

So much (unpaid) work and thought goes into stewarding open software. Kudos to the whole team. Software infra is just as important as bridges and roads -- here's hoping we can fund it at least as well, for humanity's sake. [1]

[1]: https://www.fordfoundation.org/work/learning/research-report...
> Do terrible NBA players get to keep their jobs?

Sports is different because there’s only a certain number of spots on the field. This changes the dynamics and keeps the crab mentality at bay. The same is not true for most workplaces.
It seems like they often work this way. Line up individual pieces, then release a product that ties them together. I.e. the Apple Silicon transition, the VR headset.
Does Cloudflare have the same data as Maxmind?

Because Cloudflare and Maxmind geolocate me to the exact same longitude/latitude.
Made me think of this in the accounting chapter of an aged textbook:

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For decades companies that stockpile old goods have been "writing down" the value of their inventories. Using the accepted principle of evaluating inventory at the lower of two figures--current market price or the cost to produce--they sharply depreciate the stock to reflect the slow movement of dated parts that may never be sold. (...) the Supreme Court ruled... unless... actually scrapped or offered for sale at the reduced price, write-downs are... illegal.

The Supreme Court Decision in the case of Thor Power Tool Co. vs. IRS meant that Thor had either to sell or scrap its devalued parts or to revalue its inventory and pay back taxes on the basis of new valuation... accountants advised clients to take no action, and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants notified members that they need not advise clients to seek permission to conform to the Thor Power Tool decision.

The IRS then shocked the accounting community... all improperly devalued inventory still on hand would need to be scrapped or revalued and back taxes paid.¹

¹ Jerry Giesel, "Product Liability Suits Jump in '80, Court Report Says," Business Insurance, October 6, 1980, p. 1.

-- Business Today 3e (1982). Random House, Inc.
Or Whole Foods in the US where aspirins are hidden somewhere and all you do have is this expensive homeopathic stuff on the shelves…
In recent developments about the 9/11 attacks, there is new evidence the highest level of the Saudi Arabia monarchy knew of and supported these cowardly acts of mass murder. It's especially bad optics that Biden shook hands with MbS, the slaughterer of Jamal Khashoggi.
Can Godot Deliver?
Yes, at least I would not be able to do it with the household soldering iron I have.
Totally cool and not everyone's cup of tea. Wasn't mine when I was growing up.

But I married a woman who grew up more in that type of sphere. I ended up having a lot of fun diamond shopping in the upstairs office of a dealer in the diamond district in NYC, learning a lot, connecting to the stone, etc. My wife loved it and I love seeing the ring on her hand.

If the market value of it goes to zero and it's just a sentimental thing we share and then give to our daughter, I got my money's worth.

Obviously wouldn't have done it if I couldn't afford it etc
I'm mimicking CDE, previously with NSCDE, now with Plasma - [Commonality - KDE Store](https://store.kde.org/p/1314028/)
The universe I'm in is the one where you have to staff the IT department and they have to support the device. The IT department costs way more than $21/month.

You have a valid point that we need SaaS vendor support for SAML/whatever, but GitHub, specifically, supports SSO. Yeah, it costs money to get that feature, but security doesn't just happen. Security is expensive, but it's more expensive not to have it. In this case, it costs $21/user/month. If that's too expensive to protect the source code of the company's product, that says a lot about the company.
First, I am big fan of your articles even before I joined IPinfo, where we provide IP geolocation data service.

Our geolocation methodology expands on the methodology you described. We utilize some of the publicly available datasets that you are using. However, the core geolocation data comes from our ping-based operation.

We ping an IP address from multiple servers across the world and identify the location of the IP address through a process called multilateration. Pinging an IP address from one server gives us one dimension of location information meaning that based on certain parameters the IP address could be in any place within a certain radius on the globe. Then as we ping that IP from our other servers, the location information becomes more precise. After enough pings, we have a very precise IP location information that almost reaches zip code level precision with a high degree of accuracy. Currently, we have more than 600 probe servers across the world and it is expanding.

The publicly available information that you are referring to is sometimes not very reliable in providing IP location data as:

- They are often stale and not frequently updated.

- They are not precise enough to be generally useful.

- They provide location context at an large IP range level or even at organization level scale.

And last but not least, there is no verification process with these public datasets. With IPv4 trade and VPN services being more and more popular we have seen evidence that in some instances inaccurate information is being injected in these datasets. We are happy and grateful to anyone who submits IP location corrections to us but we do verify these correction submissions for that reason.

From my experience with our probe network, I can definitely say that it is far easier and cheaper to buy a server in New York than in any country in the middle of Africa. Location of an IP address greatly influences the value it can provide.

We have a free IP to Country ASN database that you can use in your project if you like.

https://ipinfo.io/developers/ip-to-country-asn-database
Copy of the article without the paywall:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-diamonds-losing-allure-20...
Consumers already had little to no choice in the matter where it counted. California is making the decision for the producer that they must offer the choice to consumers to repair a product that brakes in a semi-reasonable timeframe (should definitely be longer for some product categories, arguably less for others).

American brands often already enjoy significant advantages in reputation (not to mention actual quality), in part due to regulations and business norms in the states. This only strengthens that.

Moderately more expensive products that can be expected to be operable for substantially longer is a big win for the overwhelming majority of society, including future generations (in more ways than one). It remains to be seen if that is the actual result of legislation like this, but it is certainly a noble goal for society and worth attempting.
They're suing the state, not the officials.
Since you are in adtech: do you buy MaxMind, or roll your own? Are there any providers for US-only data, and therefore, cheaper?
Isn't modeling turbulence in two-dimensional completely different phenomena from (real-life) three-dimensional turbulence?

I thought this is why it's impossible to simplify turbulence models by 'ignoring a dimension'?
Given how remote the area is... if you end up with issues and don't have a permit, you'll most likely die.
For one thing, because it's important to know the lower bound of success in order to identify the reasonableness of the proposed solution, competing its perceived costs with its perceived benefits.
Woops. Not sure how I missed that :D
Counterpoint - I know plenty of people who go out and buy an expensive guitar (or camera, or bicycle, or <name your hobby equipment>) and it sits around when they discover they don't want to put the time into it.

My advice to the OP is to buy something used at a decent price. Chances are that if you don't like it after a month or so, you can sell it for close to what you paid. And if you like it so much after a month or two that you want to upgrade, you can sell it for close to what you paid.
(As a french) I argue that it's better for physicians to have a way out to not give anything active to the patient who is adament they need a drug for their flu to be over faster. Also, placebo effect do work.
Why Don’t We Just Ban Targeted Advertising? (2020)
The premise of the Bible is salvation from human’s fallen state through love, compassion and self sacrifice.

Many people can read the same book and get different things from it, which is an interesting point to consider wrt the lindy effect. Some books are read differently over time, or by different groups/nations. The lindy effect can include books that are read for different reasons; undoubtedly people still read mein kampf, but for wholly different reasons (one hopes!)

He who drinks the old wine is probably more interested in history than he who drinks the new.
> dealing with misogynistic comments and just overall disappointing behavior from quite a few less than stellar men was a regular occurrence at work for me and my female coworkers.

Subjective judgements on behavior, from someone who complains that there are too many white scientists.

Pardon me if I take their judgement with a grain of salt.

The entire article is incredibly poorly written, to boot. I was expecting to see a credit card advertisement any second. “Use my referral code and you too can fly to Antarctica for free!”. Actually - the majority of points/credit card referral sites have higher quality writing.
False dichotomy! You should certainly do all the things that the parent comment is saying, but I still enjoy and recommend having a standing desk.

Be sure to get one that is tall enough for you. We have cheaper ones in the office than I do at my home office and they don't go quite as high as I'd like. I'm tall, but not that tall.
I'm not familiar with the codebase, but from my understanding it saves messages in a database [1], then periodically send out a formatted email to people who subscribed to the thread/group [2]

Anyone can post on the forum, you just have to provide an email address (you don't have to register, but they can enforce it)

[1] - https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed/blob/master/src/dfeed/w...

[2] - https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed/blob/master/src/dfeed/s...
CloudFlare uses Maxmind:
https://developers.cloudflare.com/support/network/configurin...
You are correct! But we are discussing why I personally would vote against one at an employer. It would take an otherwise reasonable and enjoyable employer and turn them into a place I no longer want to work.
Cough medicines don't work either. Expectorants don't expectorate, suppressants don't suppress. (Why they're both sometimes in the same bottle is beyond me, but they don't do anything, anyway)
I hope it is equally enforced on imported gadgets listed on AliExpress or Amazon.
Absolutely. I built my motorized one about 6 years ago (bought the motorized legs and wood top for a total of 450€ back then) and I still use it on all home office days. The key is having a rubber floor mat with some knobs you can play with to stand comfortably. I can also recommend getting a walking pad. I usually have 10k steps before lunch with a 2.5km/h speed only that lets me still type perfectly.

I primarily got my desk because I was tired of having bad posture and back pain. But since I also started working out heavily at the same time I built the table, I can't attribute the desk only to alleviating any pain I had. It definitely helps though with good posture.

I'm also happy I got a smart version that can remember 4 heights. I had another (much more expensive) table at my previous workplace that didn't have it. And it was a pain switching from a seated to standing position.
These are the two relevant patches that I know of (there might be more):

1. https://github.com/postgres/postgres/commit/3838fa269c15706d...

2. https://github.com/postgres/postgres/commit/121d2d3d70ecdb21...

It causes much less CPU overhead on the receiving side of a copy when receiving big JSON blobs.
>while dishonest actors or megacorps

why the distinction? if spam is illegal, it doesn't matter your size or incorporation status. if you break the rules, you've broken the rules. the ability to spam doesn't really increase by size of corp. a single person can hire services to spam just as effectively has evilCorp
Book classifications ultimately need to assign a book to a location.

So long as that goal is achieved, the rationality or consistency of that assignment is a strongly-secondary consideration. If the book has a place, and can be located, where it happens to be relative to other related works, or unrelated ones, really doesn't matter.

Searching for works based on similarities or relationships is a problem of the indexing system. I should be able to find works on a similar topic, which reference or are referenced by another, by author, by institution, perhaps by publisher, by publication date, etc. That information would be carried within a catalogue, but need not determine the location of the work within a physical archive.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230914134125/https://www.nytim...
Motorized is 100 percent essential. It allows you to change position while doing something else such as thinking or listening to a meeting. Just push the button and stand up.
Physical things have interesting support - there are actually companies whose entire business model is support equipment from companies that have been gone 40+ years.
The previous poster is likely referring to something like a GeoTIFF, which more or less accepts an arbitrary number of bands (matrices).
Compliance costs get passed to the consumer, one way or another.

Higher prices or products not being sold in CA anymore are the most obvious ones.
Oh boy. The things the security people do to justify their existence.

The future may be your actual traffic through ssh tunneled through https with esni to a server behind Cloudflare. Unless you want pseudo security tools to mess with your traffic.
Something I can chime in on. We've been doing Mac/PC/iPhone @ our B&M repair shop since 2009. We've delayed a few hundred thousand pounds of e-waste from hitting the dump before it's truly EOL (doesn't sound like much but we're also retaining the customers familiar computing environment which is a huge value add).

We've also enabled our customers to skip quite a few generations of upgrades due to extended operation of their existing hardware.

To keep things simple: the parts used to achieve this were from computer recyclers across the US, not even once have we used parts from a manufacturer. There are quite a few reasons for this besides maintaining our profitability. We love high quality OEM parts.

I have a feeling this will become a profit center for manufacturers and be priced just high enough that there's no room to justify maintaining hardware when repair labor costs are added to the equation.

My opinion is the "Garbage by Design" lockouts that happen due to hardware/software/firmware locks, are going to be the main culprits preventing companies like mine from performing the same extended use of these tools and thus causing more "upgrades" and trashing cycles.

I think the most important thing is that parts remain swappable without manufacturer intervention and red tape. Louis Rossmann and Hugh Jefferys also make great videos about these issues.

-Typed on my 2011 17" Macbook Pro (16GB/1TB) while pulling 20W from the wall.
> > my wage at a job may not rise quickly, my raise at a job jump rockets up

> There's a well-known plateau in tech wages that affects most tech workers. Look at what your current employer pays people 10 or 20 years older than you for the type of work you do and you will be able to observe the plateau.

I've been doing this for over 10 years. When is the plateau coming? Even lateral moves for me bump my paid up to whatever market is at the moment. Maybe that's just a 5K bump if i left in a hurry, but it's not like I lost money to inflation with a jump. I demoted myself during the pandemic due to family stuff and even taking a lesser title I still got a pay bump.

I'm still of the opinion that enough money exists, but I just haven't ever experienced that my salary has gone down with a job jump
I've experienced meager annual raises and skipped bonuses, but I've never not been reset to market rate however many thousands of dollars that is. I think my record for a salary jump was 40K? I stayed at a jump I liked for like 5 years. Even still, I never felt my lifestyle decrease in those 5 years. I was always paid enough and I remember once there was a 12% raise in there to help that we were too far behind market rates.
Army to treat OSINT as ‘intelligence discipline of first resort’
Previous discussions:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22662856
What? These things take ludicrous amounts of time to produce, on top of several years of experience to gain the baseline skills required to make a typeface that's even remotely palatable.

We absolutely should preserve commercial incentive for people to make IP of such importance (both functionally and artistically).
There is a lot of great youtube videos on both McMurdo and the station at the pole.

I know the plan to rebuild McMurdo was delayed by covid - https://www.discovermagazine.com/environment/antarcticas-agi...

I'd love to hear what the plan is now. Are they moving ahead with the project?
> health insurance premiums and stuff paid by the employer.

As indicated above, most blue-collar jobs don't carry similar benefits. Totally fair to include in the TC number. It's also a higher percentage of notional wages for the specific type of job. Health insurance premiums for a family of 4 are averaging approximately $10/hr; it would be silly not to include that in a comp discussion where employees might be looking at other jobs that pay $15/hr.

Again, even backing out the compensation you don't want to call "compensation," these are still very good jobs.
It's time to put Pseudoephedrine back on store shelves and end the silly behind the counter failed war on drugs experiment. This result forces everyone to confront that reality which damages egos and pride so it will be resisted but I'm glad science is finally winning out over hysteria.
Ah, this is right on the money in terms of the level of explanation I was looking for. Thank you so much for that, and thank you for the ref, which I will read during my long wait at the DMV today :)
There's no promise that legacy software is safe. There's only a promise it exists, works, gets the job done and releases updates.
I kid you not, this is the first time in my life that I have seen the word "quintal" in a forum post.
I tried so hard to make ascii art with GPT-4 api :(
My last office had very high-quality motorized sitting/standing desks. They were beautiful. Maybe 5-10% of people used the standing functionality regularly, although to be fair, there is also value in having a sitting desk that adjusts to the exact height you want.

That said, the people who used the standing functionality a lot really liked it. So for some people, it's a fantastic investment. I thought I'd be one of those people... turns out I'm not. So I'll echo the sentiment in other comments here, which is that you should buy a cheap desktop converter, a used desk [1] or the standing desk from ikea before making a big investment.

[1] there's a lot of used desks out there that are in great condition. People bought them during the pandemic and now no longer work from home, or realized they don't like standing while working. At the same time, there's lots of companies that shifted permanently to remote work and are now done with their leases and selling high quality equipment at great prices.
> Doesn't justify their advertising

Doesn't justify their invasive advertising.

> There's always other sources of information

There are, sometimes, different sources of information (you would be giving up a massive amount of resources).

> There's always better sources of information

Not necessarily. Sometimes information is scarce and hard to find.

> I make it a point to read books now. Libraries should be valued

That is not an exclusive alternative.
Intelligence is manifested by the quality and timeliness of decisions. Talking has always been a faux demonstration of actual intelligence, for man or machine.
and then the vampires arrived, that's all you ever heard again :( didn't they make a movie about this?
This is excellent!

Would you mind open sourcing the code for that?
And you need to tell everyone, like Peter Griffin did: https://youtu.be/Dh9wyy0S3dg?feature=shared
I would have to dig through the old plan details again but they had a pretty similar example to our situation where they estimated you would owe essentially the entire bill minus some copay amounts, i.e. $100k - $300, which is funny but depressing. Their version of emergency coverage would have come in to play perhaps if one of us had been hit by a car and were bleeding out on the street.
Boycott the cartel and their resource curse/slavery/conflict diamonds. There are plenty of other ways besides advertising-manufactured material expressions of commitment. Make your own rings.
From what I understand about diamonds they’re completely uninteresting to me.

The way you measure how valuable a diamond is? Purity.
The way you tell a lab made diamond from a “real” diamond? Purity.

If it’s too pure it’s fake. There is this weird market where you want the purist diamond you can find, but not too pure. So you want some imperfections, just the perfect number of imperfections.

Too many imperfections and it’s low quality.

Too few imperfections and it’s worthless enough to grind to dust and use on consumable parts for power tools.

The modern jewelry market is also substantially different than what past generations taught me jewelry was. To them, jewelry was meant to be a value store. You purchase a valuable ring, the stone and metal held their value and you or your heirs could sell it later if times were tough.

Now jewelry seems more like buying a new car. It loses half its value when you drive it off the lot.