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Re:France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @12:21PM (#49260620)
Surprised that it was “Robinson” in Spain as well as Denmark, I had to look it up.

Apparently that name is used in germany, netherlands, Belgium and more. It stems from Robinson Crusoe, which of course makes sense, as he was disconnected from the world :)

Personal take: it has no real effect, as especially foreign spam/scam callers have no insight or interest in looking up the list. Any ban is welcome!

Re:Kimi K3-256k on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @04:37PM (#49102754)
I don’t know, but I do think that the days of the US “forcing” Euro countries to do anything, is over.
Op is nitpicking on the poorly written title. I came here to find that comment :)
Re:Google Plans to Invest Up to $40B in Anthropic on Saturday April 25, 2026 @02:18AM (#47899158)
This seems to be a common denominator for what LLMs actually do well: Finding bugs and explaining code. Anything about producing code is still a success to be seen.
I personally know that L’oreal will buy back and destroy products of theirs from outlets, just to keep the prices up. These items are often bought in bulk on grey markets by discount outlets. Not only does L’oreal destroy the products, they pay for them to do so. None of this is shocking IMO.
Re:Gemini 3 Flash: frontier intelligence built for speed on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @12:25PM (#46302548)
Have you seen any indications that there will be a Lite version?
Re:An Important New Study on Phones and Kids on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @05:16PM (#44448939)
Happy to share!

We have (in Denmark) a lot of shows on our public broadcasting network DR, and similar for NRK (the Norwegian counterpart) that are meant for toddlers, many of which share these traits:

- Slow, meaning long scenes without cuts. - Calm speaker narrating something happening in simple words and with repetition. - Babies like to watch other babies, and toddlers other toddlers.

Go for older shows (90s, 2000s). Once they watch newer stuff which has a faster pace, it’s hard to get them to watch the oldies.

Once they get older (5+), I would recommend Stillwater on Apple TV.

Re:An Important New Study on Phones and Kids on Sunday June 29, 2025 @01:29PM (#44414785)
Unless you have a zero screen policy with your kids - which I can definitely recommend - the trick is to give them incredibly small doses and being consistent with it. My son is 6 and he is perfectly happy with 30 minutes once a week when his younger brother is taking his nap.

We tell him it’s not good for him, which is why we limit it. He occasionally complaints, but most of the time he is looking forward to the 30 mins, and will close the iPad on his own when the timer ends. Consistency is key.

Second advice is to not give them authority over what to watch. No YouTube. Spend some time curating what will be acceptable. In the first few years (we started allowing it when he was 3) they will watch anything. Just stay of the dopamine stuff!

It helps that we never have the tv on when they are awake. Break your own bad habits first - but that’s general parenting advice…

Good luck to us all!

Re:Show HN: Mem0 – open-source Memory Layer for AI apps on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @05:25PM (#41451016)
If I see this many questions that could have been taken straight from an FAQ, all followed up with “great question, we do so and so..”, my alarm bells go off. Shady marketing indeed.
Re:Is a 'slow' swimming pool impeding world records? on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @04:56PM (#41123382)
As a counterpoint to the Parisian pool being slow, China beat the world record in 100m free 10 minutes ago.
Re:Mistral AI Launches New 8x22B MOE Model on Thursday April 11, 2024 @12:49PM (#40004219)
We use their earlier Mixtral model because it outperforms llama for our use case. They do not release full models for marketing purposes, though it definitely grabs attention! You may need to revise your views..
Re:The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining on Monday April 01, 2024 @04:38PM (#39898996)
I think it’s a fair comment. A lot of readers on HN are adept debuggers, and will start to analyze everything from the first paragraph. By burying the lede like that, it feels like wasted time, to have begun debugging before the (incredibly important) part about the unusual setup was revealed.

Seems almost implausible that the protagonist, with his technical knowhow, did not think of this earlier..

Anyway, it’s a matter of storytelling, and that matters!

In Denmark hardly anyone uses WhatsApp by default. No business I’ve seen uses it. Android is common.

I’m currently in Indonesia however, and it’s universal both privately and corporately.

Re:New models and developer products announced at OpenAI DevDay on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @03:27AM (#38174498)
The “browse with bing” feature allows it to fetch a single webpage into the context, but the new cutoff allows _everything crawled_ to be context (up to the new date, that is)
Re:How many animals get slaughtered every day? on Thursday September 28, 2023 @01:52AM (#37685756)
I would assume that the majority of the animals that humans kill are kept in captivity and therefore not exposed to other animals. Since this breeding/captivity is happening at a staggering scale, my second assumption is that animals have absolutely no way of keeping up with humans. I would also like to see the numbers of kills by non-humans too! I’m quite appalled actually, seeing it laid out like this, and I eat my share of chicken and fish..

Edit: typo

Re:SQL: 2023 Has Been Released on Friday June 02, 2023 @02:55AM (#36161947)
Or said in a more 2023-chatgpt-jailbreaky kind of way: what urls to avoid in order to not find pirated mirrors?
Re:GPT-4 on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @04:43AM (#35165517)
I can suggest “Daemon” by Daniel Suarez if you’re looking for a novel with such a plot.
Re:Goodbye Spotify on Monday December 12, 2022 @02:09PM (#33958780)
> The author touts Spotify's recommendation engine and rightly so, nothing comes close.

Actually the author does the opposite, saying that YouTube’s algo is superior.

For me, Spotify used to be THE recommendation engine, but the last few years I found it to regurgitate a lot of the same songs, and recommended the same songs to people around me.

To be fair, I’m far less in “discovery mode” than I used to be, but Spotify is contributing to this by no longer inspiring me. It’s easy to get Spotify like everyone else and just be over with it, but a healthy discussion about active choice is always welcome.

Re:Show HN: I may have created a new type of puzzle on Sunday September 18, 2022 @08:50AM (#32887103)
Fun! Though I managed to break the game by placing all on the boat :)
Re:Random Google Street View on Thursday September 01, 2022 @11:07AM (#32677410)
That was very interesting, right until it turned dark. Warning, somewhat graphic/NSFW

https://9-eyes.com/post/628925033219309568

I can the recommend recent interview with him on the The Knowledge Project podcast. Had a lot of aha-moments listening to that.
Re:FiatMarketCap on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @06:35AM (#27193014)
With China’s population being more than 4 times that of the US, I would find you guilty as charged, on the basis of not considering the possibility :)
Re:SPAs Are Dead? on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @05:08PM (#26731317)
To be fair, most of the blogposts are not written for us on HN, but for the followers of the blog in question. I do not mind having to figure out the context, if it means I get to explore the esoteric and far corners of the internet from one place :)
As others have pointed out, it’s probably the carrier that does not support the right kind of E-Sim.

But furthermore, an Apple Watch with cellular bought in the US, cannot use cellular data in e.g. the EU. Not sure why, but it must be localized on a software/hardware (?) level. At least that’s what the Apple genius told me on my last visit to the states..

Re:Ethereum 2.0 launches on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @03:46PM (#25281369)
Not sure where you get your facts, but Litecoin all-time-high was around $360. The founder, Charlie Lee, stayed and is still a visible and active advocate for litecoin to this day.
Re:I Hate My MacBook on Sunday October 04, 2020 @05:58AM (#24677672)
I have the same X1, same with two others on my team, and none of us are experiencing any fan issues like yours. Its silent most of the time, even with CPU intensive work.
I stand corrected, thank you.
If so, that would only apply to data kept within the EU, IIRC.
Re:To Fall Out of Love, Do This (2015) on Friday June 05, 2020 @01:58AM (#23425491)
It got me the same way at first. But then I realized that the questions simply bring out the essence of being human, the same flaws and insecurities that most people feel. That had me feeling that we’re all connected on a human level through good and bad, diminishing the importance of the issues one might have in a relationship. That was my take away from those annoying questions, anyway.
Re:To Fall Out of Love, Do This (2015) on Friday June 05, 2020 @01:52AM (#23425458)
Thank you. As first time parents, my spouse and I are currently feeling the fire from under us, and need to remind ourselves to put it out, together.

I wonder what thirty six questions will make a couple fall in love _again_?

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