skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a great question. So when I came up with IP location back in 1999, there was nothing for location-based targeting. Any advertising that happened would be because a user shared a location (ZIP code, etc.) and then got cookie'd and that information was brokered between sites. This obviously doesn't work for more secure uses (content control, fraud detection, etc.), so some of these uses were made possible once we launched. The shift to streaming content would never have happened without a secure way to accurately know a user's location.

The other part of your question, I think, deserves its own blog post. One of my tenants was to NEVER be reliant on someone else's willingness to give us data or access. So, everything was designed with the idea that we would have to gather first-hand data and knowledge. If an ISP gave us data, that would be great and make things easier. But being beholden to ISPs would mean we would be hosed if the sands shifted. This is why I am still flabbergasted when people build their entire company based on someone else's platform, API, etc., and then are upset when those platforms change their models. If you build the foundation of your company on someone else's land, be prepared to lose the house.
This is the best reply to a vulnerability disclosure I have ever seen so far. Wow.

"Your firebase allows anyone to read information"

"i want to be your gf"
I developed an unhealthy obsession with the RAND book in 2020,which culminated in an article on the front page of the wsj. https://www.wsj.com/articles/rand-million-random-digits-numb...

RAND used to cut copies of the punch card deck for anyone who asked, but I'm sadly unable to find anyone who's still got a copy.
Kinda! My ultimate goal is to be able to join multiple 3D reconstructions from a set of iPhones all in different positions! Like hemisphere. The single-view image to 3D is pretty accurate but across lots of iPhones.
How do you know? I also live in a tick area and typically when i have one tick on me, there are more if i look around for them.
To be fair, in Windows 11 this doesn't happen -- it detects when you are in games (or tries to) and withholds the messages.
Ask HN: How do you spend your professional development stipends?
Our employers are offering us stipends in the low-hundred dollars range. If you were in my shoes, how would you spend it? I feel like it's an opportunity to step out of my usual wheelhouse for training.
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Seems about right to me. Hyper-standardization around few architecture patterns using Kubernetes/Kafka/Microservice/GraphQL/React/OTelemetry etc can roughly cover 95-99% of all typical software development when you add a cloud DB.

Now I know there are ton of different flavors in each of these tech but they will be mostly distraction for employers. With heavy layer of abstraction of above pattern and SLAs by vendors as you say Microsoft/Google/Amazon etc employers will be least bothered vast variety of software products.
They don't work in some axiomized higher logic because they chose the rules to avoid them.

HoL not having traditional NOT is an example.

Even in FoL, Peano arithmetic uses the SoL induction to be usable.

There is no free lunch.
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temperature is analogous to surface gravity which gets weaker at the event horizon as the black hole grows.

temperature is not expectation of a kinetic energy distribution of micro constituents. you don't measure a black holes temperature with a thermometer because you can't get information out of a black hole
Probably my Gmail account that I got when it was still in beta circa 2005.
i know 2 people that made the transition from other fields to nursing. one was a GIS programmer, the other a paralegal. both women, both pretty intense, type-A people, both named some permutation of Catherine / Kathleen.

both seem to like it. one married a doctor she met during training, and is a surgical ICU nurse. the other works for the WHO and injects vaccines in the 3rd world.
Ha! I did the exact same. I think I might have been using an MIT(?) web to email gateway.
>If the instability is something that develops over time as a genuine change in behavior of the chip, and not merely an artifact due to the evidence of instability taking time to pile up, then the extreme voltages are by far the most plausible culprit.

That's all fine and dandy, but can you please cite some evidence to support those claims?

This should not be such a farfetched request.
It's likely just that they haven't done the legwork to properly support it yet, or don't want to be a whitelabel service. Even the little gas station washes by me push subscriptions now. My agency has built out a few of these services in the past and they aren't cheap, even the off-the-shelf ones.

As an aside, the entire experience is awful. "Pay $25/month and get as many $8 washes as you want!" ...but I only get a car wash every 2 months and since you're tracking my license plate, you already know that.
For someone that's not a web developer, I found Kanboard to be the easiest to set up, and it has all the basic features you'd expect. It's a traditional PHP app where you copy the files to your web server and set a few configuration options and you're good. If you want to use it locally, you download it, run php -S localhost:8080, and start using it.

https://kanboard.org/

Note: The project is in maintenance mode, it hasn't shut down or been abandoned.
Ars Technica forums, over 25 years.
> taxi services in the US have yet to roll out any type of [app] for hailing rides afaik and have a fleet of vehicles with their own livery.

Don't NYC taxis have one? I vaguely recall there being something when I visited several years ago.

[note, I had to guess to fill in the blank for your comment, since it seemed like you dropped a critical word].
POTS is/was a requirement for remote/out of band access to AT&T network gear as well. I did run into a funny thing when they started to migrate T1/PRI's to fiber. They still insisted that they needed a dedicated POTS line but converted the underlying copper circuits to a single fiber circuit. I was able to work around this with a phone line adapter but if the underlying fiber circuit was down they would be screwed.
Have you any specific ideas?

Would you mind sharing what sort of programming you have skills in?
Scott Alexander had a post about this a few months back considering a lot of the obvious follow-up questions people might have: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/defying-cavity-lantern-biow...

I haven't gone in for this, but I'm hoping it proves successful and drops in price. It certainly seems promising to me.

*Edit to clarify: it's a different company (unless they rebranded), but about the same bacteria.
It doesn’t—

Most tick bites take 36-48 hours before you get infected (bell hump). But sometimes you get infected quickly (left tail) and sometimes it takes longer (right tail).
Did you mean pgconf.dev in May (which has the unconference), or pgconf.eu in October (which doesn't have an unconference, but the CfP will open sometime in the - hopefully near - future)?
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That's true for chess engines, but almost every use-case listed in the WebNN specification currently requires a fairly large model. Certainly not things you would want every website downloading duplicate copies of.
Penis and insects are mentioned in quite a few places in the study. Author seems very preoccupied with that.
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It's impossible to know how much support it has from Uber/Lyft employees, but there has been a sustained effort for this kind of legislation for a long time, both here & elsewhere (e.g. Austin, TX). Last summer the legislature passed a statewide law enforcing a minimum wage for drivers, but the governor vetoed it[1]. So it least has enough support to get it through the state House & Senate, which isn't nothing.

[1] https://www.mprnews.org/story/2023/05/25/walz-vetoes-bill-ad...
It's a long way from "this factory keeps tearing children limb from limb" to "there are too many car washes in this town."

I specifically said externalities are real problems that bear addressing.

The problem is that once politicians are turned loose, they never stop. They cannot stop. They can't say, "well done, problem solved, let's pack up and go home." That would mean giving up their hard-won power -- and the concominant benefits to themselves and their friends that came with it.

So they must always seek yet another supposed outrage to feed their power. When they can't find one, they manufacture one, to increasingly absurd and implausible lengths, eventually wrecking the system.
Some of my MUD accounts from 1991-1992, which I still occasionally log into from time to time, out of morbid curiousity. They're inexplicably still online, but effectively ghost towns.

Other than that, probably my Gmail account from the beta days.
I’m not in automotive, but I am interested in this too. Which MCUs are you thinking of?
> Dreamweaver Templates were still very much a thing.

It's funny to see this technique get reinvented/renamed as "static site generators"
> SQL streaming engines really seem to be having a moment.

I definitely agree! In the past few years, a bunch of folks (including myself) who had been working with Flink/Spark Streaming/KSQL/etc. at large companies decided that the time was right for a new generation of streaming systems and started companies to do that. For myself, seeing how much users struggled to build pipelines on Flink at Lyft inspired me to build Arroyo.

I think it's really exciting after ~5 years of relative stagnation.

> As someone who is less familiar with all the players in the space, how should I think about Arroyo vs. streaming databases like Materialize or caching tools like Readyset?

There are no hard lines (and internally all of these systems look fairly similar) but the products and use cases are pretty different.

To give my gloss:

* Readyset is a very clever cache for your OLTP database that lets you push it into more analytical territory with reasonable performance, but still focused mostly on product use cases; the stream processing system is internal and not exposed to users

* Materialize is designed to provide OLAP materialized views on top of your OLTP database by reading postgres/mysql changefeeds. It gives you up-to-date results for analytical queries without needing to replicate your postgres to snowflake and repeatedly query it.

* Arroyo is a modern Flink, designed for more traditional stream processing use cases. This includes real-time analytics, but is more focused on operational and product use cases like alerting, real-time ML, automated remediation, and streaming ETL.

Also, Arroyo is the only one of these that is fully open source (apache 2) and designed for self hosting.
I also have to frequently update it before the call on Windows.

Maybe it works as intended if you use it daily, but as someone who only occasionally uses Zoom for external calls I'm in the habit of always opening it a couple minutes early to have time for software updates
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I see a whole lot of confirmation bias and circular reasoning in that statement, which makes supply and demand sound an awful lot like phlogistons, the luminiferous ether, epicycles, and other famous fudge factors that millennia of humans have used to maintain their neither testable or falsifiable worldviews. Swap out just a few phrases and we’re at insufficient faith being why the Messiah didn’t return as predicted.
Here on HN, I was once complaining about those "Sign up for our newsletter" popups that every site seems to have these days, and mentioned that if I see that, I close the tab immediately. A marketing guy replied and told me that the bounce rate is so much smaller than the conversion rate that not doing it would be crazy.

You might be surprised how many people have absolutely no concern for software abusing them.
Sure, but who the hell buys a digital copy they can't even resell for more money than a physical copy?
A lot of that happened when Steve Jobs was alive and a major shareholder in the Walt Disney Company.

I don't think Tim Cook has the same kind of connections, even if Apple is a much bigger company now.
Software Developers (humans) are the horses, the models are the mechanical cars, and the analysts and business experts are the drivers. Software's only job is to empower the end user, and that's exactly what these models are doing. We're going to see a massive paradigm shift in how software technology is built in the next decade.
Not surprising back when chip shortages were severe, and while checking out all their workstations I did note one of their oldest SKUs having a CPU option disappear in the process. Some of that might count as clearance but there's reasons to not be on the bleeding edge.

As I'm finding with a Raptor Lake CPU and conservative stock Debian 12 bookworm and it's 6.1 kernel, largest format video playing has some tearing and so on due to driver support based on the error messages I'm seeing, 720p is much better. At the bottom of the stack root ZFS is rock solid: https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Getting%20Started/Deb...

Today availability should be different and skimming their rackmount SKUs the vast majority claim "Ships Within 3-5 Business Days" which was my experience with a tower workstation.

I went to the above few minutes of effort because the company has done very well for me and mine in the last couple of decades, and people who are buying small quantities which certainly includes small or startup businesses as well as "hobbyists" shouldn't think the old shortages still hold in a period where I hear general demand is down outside of AI platforms. And prices are certainly pretty good.
This would make more sense if a $15/hour wage was something out of step with historical wages. It's a big jump right now, but historically it's not out of step with previous periods. What were average wages at taxi companies pre-Uber?

As for self-driving, I'd be a little concerned that a ~$8/hour cost (assuming previous was around $7) puts Uber in an untenable situation, self-driving cars or not. Ultimately there still would be labor force to worry about, no? Currently, drivers are responsible for maintenance, cleanliness, etc. -- once you switch to self-driving, someone else has to do all of that.
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Going to the stream with a bucket is still a lot more effort than turning a tap. And don't forget the hot water that can also come out!
It's remarkable how brain habitually ignores stuff that is relatively constant, no matter how impressive or how important.
IMO it would be better for the government to keep this sort of general library content on a url that doesn’t contain NIH. They have the disclaimer,

> As a library, NLM provides access to scientific literature. Inclusion in an NLM database does not imply endorsement of, or agreement with, the contents by NLM or the National Institutes of Health.

Anyway, it seems like an interesting collection of anecdotes that would be a good place to start searching. I don’t see as much value in some of his speculations. The bit about dogs not getting asthma seems a little out of scope.

Actually, do dogs get asthma? Quick googling seems to provide contradictory answers, with the general trend that apparently cats get it more often, and apparently dogs get some sort of allergic reaction thing that is technically not asthma, but is very similar?
I'll echo others here - they need to focus on a core set of products and get better about upstream support. They have a few legitimately good devices like the Pinebook Pro and the Pinecil. Focus on those and maybe a handful of SBCs.
It would be super expensive to use LFS to distribute this:

> Each pack costs $5 per month, and provides 50 GiB of bandwidth and 50 GiB for storage

So they would need to pay for 6 data packs (or $30) for every 300gb download.

(https://docs.github.com/en/billing/managing-billing-for-git-...)
I remember pranking my college roommates with this close to 20 years ago. Thanks for the memory refresh :D
The last taxi I ever took in Sydney drove twice the distance he needed to so he could charge me a higher fee. And that wasn't the first time something like that had happened. I've now been using Uber for years and I'm yet to be so blatantly scammed.
When you know what to look for, a questing tick is not too hard to spot.

If you are in an area that you suspect might have a lot of ticks. Look at the tips of any grass stems for a little brown/black spot. They climb as high as they can and then kinda "stand up" and put their "arms" up and out and wait for something to touch them. Then it's off to the races to climb as high as they can... on you. They stop once they hit an obstacle they can't easily get around and dig in.

I spray my shoes with permethrin. That seems to almost totally eliminate climbers as I'm not walking through tall grass. You know they've gotten a deadly dose when they start walking in circles. I don't feel bad for them. My doctor told me that 85% of ticks in my area are positive for Lyme.
I don't think gorillas are too worried about acne or wrinkles.
This was a fun one to lookup. eBay 2001, Amazon 1999 (first order was a book I needed for high school as well as VHS tape for the movie Heat), but my winner is Yahoo Mail 1997. I'm sure my AIM account would be older but is long since deleted.
I think they are slaves to a degree if they are illegal immigrants, which I suspect many of them are. This is the dirty trick played by many big businesses in the US. "You'll get your low wage and you'll like it, or else." I do know this happens in the agriculture and construction businesses, and based on my limited powers of observation, it happens in the ride-share business too.
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Am I the only person who saw this headline and thought WOW, 12 inch transistors!?
Another flagging to silence, as it was with many other news. Why not this one too? It was not looking like the community was particularly concerned about those. Now the jobs these people did might be similar to what this community does, but if you are not willing to see the despair of children with no family, or of people who are starving while food rots across border, how could we expect us to understand this; because one person was using vim as much you were using? I hope none of us are targeted by our resume. Meanwhile we can just ignore this, just as we were ignoring it in the past.
My DSLReports is my oldest! 1999.
Same. But my EQ account from Kunark would be even older, by about 4 years.
So can car insurance, but I'd rather my agent not install a GPS without my knowledge or consent on my vehicle.
That's a future direction we're very excited about, particularly being able to run pyarrow-based UDFs on Arroyo state without any serialization overhead.
There are literally languages that depend entirely on context to ascertain the meaning of the words spoken bc the words mean many things depending on context.

Like, entire languages of read vs read - as in "He reads that" or "He read that" , context is part of a words definition
It makes more sense if your run-off and sewage are treated separately - assuming the car washes get theirs treated.

My understanding is that the UK has a combined system where rainwater and waste go into the same system and is all treated the same. More because of history than because anyone now thinks that is a good idea. Maybe someone who knows more about this could confirm?
Look into "tick tubes", which you scatter around your yard. Tick tubes have permethrin impregnated cotton inside them, which mice collect and use as bedding. Mice are a critical part of the tick life cycle. The permethrin kills ticks that feed on the mice, and over a season or two you can seriously eliminate infestations of ticks without indiscriminate pesticide spraying.

The good thing is, we're just approaching the best time to apply tick tubes, early spring to summer.
A little bit of a double-edged sword, because I appreciate they can be a probiotic and avoid all the FDA red-tape, but on the other hand there are no guarantees of effectiveness. I can "gamble" $20 on some probiotic pills, but this is asking for $2k for no guarantee.

I have been very interested in hearing about this technology for at least 5 years.
I can tell you with certainty that most low-margin, high workforce industries (because I work in one of them) are looking to automate much of their workforce away especially in light of labor costs rising (minimum wage laws), increasing safety regulations (let the robots do it), increasing competitive pressure (foreign countries have cheaper labor), and social changes (people prefer interacting with a cell phone over a human being).

Couple this with a publicly traded company such as Uber/Lyft whose whole existence depends on market value (the stock price) then the management of those companies are going to do the math to figure out if automating jobs is the right thing to do: their job is to maximize the value of the company (the stock price). The shareholders also have a vested interest for the same reasons.
I agree with this move.

Tax those who hold single family homes for renting to others and the problems will fix itself.

Housing is seen as an investment. If a big portion of rent starts going into taxes, then it doesn’t become a speculative instrument.

Have apartment complexes managed by corps with central management.

Don’t make single family homes and townhomes a tool of speculative investment.

US economy would grow a lot faster if the money sitting on houses went into companies producing goods and services.
Would also note that one of India's greatest geopolitical weaknesses is its blockade potential. You don't want to find yourself limited to unguided munitions a few months into a shooting match.
I think this is a bit of a false dichotomy. Yeah wasting away in a factory for 12 hours a day is better than starving to death on a farm, but still, the factory conditions didn't have to suck as bad as they did.
You never think about ants crawling up your urethra until one of them tries.
I too have an AOL account from 1996. I used to occasionally IM people with it until about 2015, but haven't actually emailed anyone with it since I can't remember when. 2008? It's definitely my oldest account.
What do you use ICQ for?

I stopped using it when it became pretty much just a dating service.
Which OS are you taking about?

In this article's context (Windows), you would have put in the effort to download Chrome yourself and then used it, which is a heck of a lot of intent, as compared to what Microsoft is doing here.
I wondered why this sort of thing didn’t already exist. I had to develop for IBM Db2 (for i Series) on a Linux environment (using MariaDB) due to the licensing that stopped us from having a test env.

I wound up writing a very ad-hoc C++ program that would parse a base SQL file and generate the appropriate DB2 and MariaDB dialect versions. Not flexible enough for reuse but it got the job done.
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