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Re:Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @07:04AM (#45964252)
Poland. Most of the popular sites are down. Including community forum on Cloudflare.
Would anyone of you if it is trained to recognize geographical places, famous people, etc?
Would anyone of you know any tool that would simulate working on GSM connection (EDGE, 3G, LTE) on Linux box?

I am looking for any reliable way of simulating user application working on mobile phone.

Re:The hidden cost of air quality monitoring on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @07:59AM (#36505174)
In my area in the winter you always sense air pollution.

But with just a nose it's hard to say if it's 100 μg/m3 of or 200 μg/m3 of PM2.5.

Ask HN: How Large Languge Models Work?

I am looking for technical descriptions how LLM works for:a. non-tech people,b. programmers, who are not familiar with ML/AI,c. programmers, who are familiar with the basics of ML/AI.Could you share URLs, please?

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Re:Google cloud Europe is out on Thursday April 27, 2023 @03:42AM (#35724572)
"europe-west-9 (Paris) has been physically flooded [...], but has zero impact elsewhere."

I am afraid this is not true. We have nothing in europe-west-9, but problem in this region caused global problem with Cloud Console, which hit us, because we were not able to use it for several hours.

Snippert from https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/dS9ps52MUnxQfyDGPf...:

"Cloud Console: Experienced a global outage, which has been mitigated. Management tasks should be operational again for operations outside the affected region (europe-west9). Primary impact was observed from 2023-04-25 23:15:30 PDT to 2023-04-26 03:38:40 PDT."

Reduce? They are hiring in Poland!
Lay-offs?

Companies are hiring people as fast as they can! I am writing from Poland.

Snow cannons are much cheaper, but don't work when temperature is above 0 °C; helicopters can still fly and carry snow.
"Over 97 percent of documents related to the event are now publicly available."

Read - "Over 2% of all documents are still classified."

How exactly does US support it?
I was looking for this port for years. Thank you!
Re:Ask HN: Have tech salaries been stagnant for the past decade? on Thursday September 15, 2022 @11:07AM (#32853154)
Experience is an important factor here.

Minimal wage in 2022 is 3010 PLN (~630 Eur), so juniors/mids rather won't make 10-12x.

Re:Ask HN: Have tech salaries been stagnant for the past decade? on Thursday September 15, 2022 @11:00AM (#32853041)
Not in Poland.

They grew ~3-4 times during last 10 years. COVID-19 definitely helped here!

Re:A Deep Dive on a Thin Watch on Sunday July 17, 2022 @12:19PM (#32128146)
Very good, interactive article describing how the watch works: https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/
Re:Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @06:07AM (#30930326)
I 100% agree with you. I will keep Warp on my radar, but without proper tmux support it's no-go for me.

All my friends, which are using terminals, are also using tmux. It's still small sample, but probably we don't represent such a tiny minority here.

"We have no clue how our software works, so we will sue you".

It's a disaster from any point of view. Also ineffective.

They could easily designate not 10M, but 100M for bug bounties and simply solve their problems.

Yet another similar story.

Will your next startup also rely on Google?

Governments are printing money, inflation is eating savings. Properties are safe and easy way to protect money.

When buying properties will be banned, what would you recommend as an alternative?

Re:How I Practice Piano on Sunday May 09, 2021 @03:24AM (#27093961)
What do you think about applications like Simply Piano? I am 40+ yo, and never played any instrument before. After 3 years of practicing with Simply Piano I am able to read and play some sheet music, but I'd like to know which areas need improvements.

Do you know any applications which can record performance of a song and evaluate it?

Re:Decoded: GNU coreutils (2019) on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @03:32PM (#26415821)
I have just spent 5 minutes trying to find any useful use cases for 'vdir'. Does anyone of have idea why other 'ls' has been created?
Re:Bongo Cat on Friday October 23, 2020 @08:15AM (#24868629)
Feature requests:

- ability to save played melodies,

- ranked playlist.

Re:“I monitor my staff with software that takes screenshots” on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @02:09AM (#24624603)
I am wondering if he runs any OCR or object recognition on collected screenshots.
Re:US debt surpasses $23T for first time on Saturday November 02, 2019 @03:11PM (#21429408)
Does anyone of you know who owns this debt? What will happen when citizens decide to null it?
Re:Things to use in Python 3 on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @08:00AM (#19918530)
Standard logging functions, without f-strings. So instead of: logging.debug(f'Problem with {x}') use: logging.debug('Problem with %s', x).
Re:Things to use in Python 3 on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @07:58AM (#19918516)
I already experienced performance issue, just because log messages (millions/s) were evaluated, for logger in debug mode, so it really depends on the system.
Re:Things to use in Python 3 on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @02:48AM (#19916980)
The example of f-string in the article is quite unfortunate, it suggests using it for logging messages. F-strings shouldn't be used in loggers, because they aren't lazy evaluated.

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