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by spacebeacon | 2025-05-27 07:20:02+00:00
Vancouver’s own SpaceBeacon, a rising star in travel technology, is making waves at Web Summit Vancouver 2025 with the debut of its innovative voice-based AI platform—a travel assistant that speaks your language, understands your intent, and takes real-time action to plan, book, and adapt your journey.

Developed by a diverse team of local engineers and AI researchers, SpaceBeacon’s voice AI supports multilingual interactions and is designed to help both travelers and travel businesses navigate complex travel scenarios with ease. Whether it’s booking a hotel, rerouting due to flight delays, or finding authentic cuisine near a conference center, the platform is optimized for both individual users and enterprise travel providers.

“We’re excited to unveil a platform built in Vancouver that’s ready for the world,” said Harvinder Kaur, Founder & CEO of SpaceBeacon. “With real-time voice interactions, multilingual support, and intelligent itinerary optimization, we’re not just helping people plan trips—we’re empowering them to travel smarter, with confidence and cultural context. Web Summit is the perfect place to share this with a global audience.”

Attendees at Web Summit Vancouver 2025 can experience live demos of the platform at the SpaceBeacon booth, where the AI will respond to voice prompts in over 100 languages, provide real-time travel solutions, and showcase its agentic capabilities—taking actions like booking accommodations or making local recommendations on the fly.

Key Features of the SpaceBeacon Voice AI Platform: Voice-enabled AI assistant for travel discovery, planning, and booking

Multilingual support to serve international travelers and businesses

Agentic AI capabilities that act on user goals with minimal input

Enterprise tools for travel agents, tour operators, and corporate teams

Mobile-first experience for on-the-go travel assistance

As Vancouver cements its place as a growing tech and innovation hub, SpaceBeacon represents the future of travel—built locally, designed globally.

About SpaceBeacon: Founded in Vancouver, SpaceBeacon is a travel technology startup pioneering agentic AI platforms that simplify and automate complex travel experiences. With a mission to make global exploration seamless and accessible, SpaceBeacon develops tools that empower both individual travelers and the travel industry through AI.
by nivertech | 2025-05-27 07:20:38+00:00
If anything this thread shows how work ethics have changed in the last decade

Some people don't realize that being an employee means having a basic incentives alignment with your employer. No one demands complete unconditional loyalty, but there should be some unwritten codes (regardless of what's written in your contract)

People who value their freedom should not be salaried employees. Start yr own business & do whatever u want. With caveats, in some jurisdictions employees are much better protected by law than businesses or self-employed consultants/contractors, & companies often ask the latter to sign more draconian contracts, NDAs, and non-competes (viewing them as potential competitors). U can always negotiate, but there are less scurpolous businesses & consultants who will sign any contract just to get the project/deal, & that's lowers the bar for everyone
by shelled | 2025-05-27 07:21:14+00:00
It's mostly what I use daily or a lot (except one these are not recurring; I will try to make these recurring once I am financially there again):

- https://objective-see.org/support.html (For https://github.com/objective-see/LuLu et al)

- https://www.thunderbird.net/donate (I hope none of it goes to Mozilla or Firefox. I also hope https://thundermail.com brings something than I can instead pay for, if I can or will decide to afford, instead of intermittent donations)

- https://www.borgbackup.org/support/fund.html (I would want to support https://restic.net as well as I use it so much but they never setup a way - it has been discussed :/)

- https://syncthing.net/donations

- https://github.com/Homebrew/brew#donations

- https://cryptomator.org/donate/

- https://www.patreon.com/db4s

- https://github.com/sponsors/qarmin for https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka

- https://github.com/sponsors/garethgeorge for https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest

- https://keepass.info/donate.html and https://keepassium.com/donate (Mostly the latter) (I had actually moved to StrongBox which did a U-turn on FOSS and then sold to another company. At that point I came back to KeePassium. The KeepPassium author actually took a stand a went FOSS as a principle. I think this is worth noting.)

..and few more.

… …

# The ones I support by paying for one of its services bust mostly because its FOSS app:

- https://vorta.borgbase.com

- http://ente.io (But sadly not for long; because I really can't stand a non-native "photos" app. I just can't! Otherwise it's a great service!)
by blippage | 2025-05-27 07:22:23+00:00
Brit here. IANAL, but there is a legal principle of "vicarious liability". So if an employee does something bad, it's the employer that foots the bill. This is vicarious liability. It is actually a "good" thing as a legal principle because it's the the employer who has all the dough and is most able to compensate for a wrong.

The downside to all this is that the bad actors get away with it. They have less skin in the game.

My view is that more people need to go to jail. Corporations would behave less like sociopathic institutions if this were done.
by omcnoe | 2025-05-27 07:23:20+00:00
This is a great example of the kinds of problems with "defined benefit" pensions compared to "defined contribution" plans.

Defined benefit plans rely on the firm to correctly manage their pension plan, allocate funds for it, invest them wisely etc. In public sector there is political pressure to reduce forecast costs of a defined benefit pension. In many places it's completely legal to operate an underfunded defined benefit plan. Defined benefit plans are also traditionally fixed to a single employer, they don't fit well for a more mobile labor force.

For defined contribution plans individuals actually have control of the pension funds - they are just locked from access til retirement. They are generally government run, you aren't locked to a single employer. Individuals can set their own risk appetite and make their own decisions regarding fees etc.

Defined benefit plans are really popular because the pension amount is "guaranteed" but this guarantee is just an illusion. You can't magically make risk go away, just move it somewhere else. Many examples of defined benefit plans that blew up/were restructured/cancelled etc. Defined benefit is just a plain bad concept.
by arielcostas | 2025-05-27 07:23:41+00:00
They didn't order Cloudflare to shut down, they ordered ISPs to block any IP LaLiga claims is hosting pirated football. The president of LaLiga "Javier Tebas" also called Cloudflare a criminal organisation for enabling and making a profit off anything including child pornography (without any evidence of this, of course, just his word).

Now, there is also a conflict of interest, because Telefonica (the main telecom provider here, think Deutsche Telekom in germany or any formerly-public ISP) is also a rights holder to some football, meaning their interest is to block everything instead of their internet users, who suddently can't work on Github, visit Twitter or many other large sites; or even can't buy in many places online because Redsys (the largest payment processor here) also uses Cloudflare to protect their infra, and Cloudflare IPs were being blocked indiscriminately. All of this while being able to force other ISPs to block those IP ranges too, and without any possible recourse by either Cloudflare or the sites themselves, which according to Tebas "are only used by 4 nerds who like to complain".
by hatefulmoron | 2025-05-27 07:23:47+00:00
I literally just asked ChatGPT and Claude, they both clarified to me that Rust is safe. The website for Rust even says so.

If you have any questions, I would be happy to forward them to my ChatGPT Pro subscription, and then relay the answer back to you.

Rust is an AI native language, it's best to start there.
by 59nadir | 2025-05-27 07:25:02+00:00
Eh, I think he brings up a pretty good point but I wouldn't say HN is any better. People here think that MacOS has high usage numbers and iPhones are the most used phone, when that's not the case. There are also a few very, very misguided ideas about software development that definitely are over-represented on HN in large part due to the (apparently, according to polls) very inexperienced nature of most HN visitors and the things they tend to work on (low-skill/low-knowledge, "high-in-their-mind"-velocity work).

HN has some very clear bubbles that probably wouldn't happen without a popularity system tied to its comments and submissions; maybe the janitorial duty of removing spam and so on is enough for a page like this. I'm not sure I see the merits of upvotes and downvotes at this point.
by const_cast | 2025-05-27 07:26:17+00:00
The insane cost of small business is because of the existence of a private insurance industry. There's thousands of insurers and you need to work with a lot of them. Every single thing you do needs to be authorized and ran through them.

They decide your medications you can prescribe, when you prescribe them, who can have them, how long your visits will be, when you should have those visits, how many visits you need to make a diagnosis, and on and on and on and on. Every single detail - multiplexed across thousands of insurers.

So, you need administration, and lots of it. The system is so horribly fragmented that all hopes of efficiency are lost. A single-payer solution is orders of magnitude more simple, and thereby more efficient. A lot of problems just go away when you only have one person doling out recommendations, one person doing care, and one person paying.

Also, the doctors who are making most of the decisions around your care aren't the doctors you go to. It's dozens of doctors, mostly nameless, working for your insurer making those decisions. How this isn't considering practicing medicine is beyond everyone.
by try_the_bass | 2025-05-27 07:28:35+00:00
Deliberately putting in less than the asked for effort in an attempt to extract more pay for less work is theft in the same way that attempting to minimize pay and maximize effort is "wage theft".

It's a knife that cuts both ways. If companies attempting to maximally exploit their employee's time is wage theft, so too is an employee's attempt to get a paycheck without doing work.
by dragonwriter | 2025-05-27 07:30:23+00:00
> Brit here. IANAL, but there is a legal principle of "vicarious liability". So if an employee does something bad, it's the employer that foots the bill. This is vicarious liability.

More specifically (vicarious liability is correct, but less specific) it is respondear superior, the liability of the principal for harmful actions of the agent within the scope of the principal-agent relationship.
by potholereseller | 2025-05-27 07:30:52+00:00
> But the Polyheme trial was one of 15 no-consent studies permitted by the FDA since 1996, when it began allowing researchers to enroll patients in clinical trials without their permission if the treatment showed enough potential to save lives.

After WW2, some German doctors and government officials were executed for doing this sort of thing. Experimenting on living humans without their informed consent is a crime against humanity, especially if authorized by a government.

Time and again, it is proven true that not learning from the past causes you to repeat every mistake/crime of the past. Living by "the ends justifies the means" blinds you to the causes of your mistakes; arrogance is blinding and, ironically, also inefficient.

You can't blame this crime-as-policy on just one political party, since both parties have had plenty of power and opportunity over the last ~30 years to stop or prevent these no-consent studies. In a just world, the responsible parties (in the government and in the medical industry) would at least be imprisoned, but a lot of people are at least partially responsible. And we all know that this crime-as-policy will be memory-holed as much as the government can do so; and any remaining ire from the US citizenry will be deflected to a few politically-expendable individuals (e.g. the current FDA chief, or some CEOs). This is a systemic problem, that can only be solved through systemic changes, which will never occur; only tokens will be offered to reduce effects on election outcomes.

Incidentally, there is no "No-consent Study" article on Wikipedia. And the blood substitute articles give no mention of no-consent studies. I wonder if any of the investors in the companies conducting these studies even knew that they were funding crimes against humanity.
by rambambram | 2025-05-27 07:30:54+00:00
> Meanwhile, those who aren’t in that group feel almost infantilized.

For me, the perfect examples of feeling infantilized (I like that word) are the following: I feel infantilized by government or hospital illustrations that are meant to convey a simple message to the lowest common denominator. I feel infantilized by Youtube videos and TV ads that use these happy but annoying 'toddler' sounds in the background.
by zyntraxis | 2025-05-27 07:33:58+00:00
We’ve added full IDE project generation support — instantly set up your C++ project in:

Visual Studio Code CLion QtCreator

Just run zyn ide --vscode, --clion, or --qtcreator and start coding. No setup. No config. Just build.

Smarter. Faster. Cleaner. github.com/zyntraxis/zyn
by mns | 2025-05-27 07:38:38+00:00
I was thinking at one point if all these companies just hit a wall in performance and improvements of the underlying technology and all the version updates and new "models" presented are them just editing and creating more and more complex system prompts. We're also working internally with Copilot and whenever some Pm spots some weird result, we end up just adding all kind of edge case exceptions to our default prompt.
by lynx97 | 2025-05-27 07:39:31+00:00
While we are at unconventional tetris implementations: I wrote a cosmopolitan libc based tetris clone for Braille display users. IOW, pieces "fall" horizontally, and blocks are rendered with (unicode) braille.

https://github.com/mlang/betris

Big thanks to @jart, cosmo is a godsent for cross-platform TUI stuff.
by rl3 | 2025-05-27 07:41:06+00:00
Harvard scientist would be another way to refer to her.

>I don't know too many countries who don't deport people who break the laws in that country.

The United States for one, specifically in circumstances like this case.

Nevertheless, people bend over backwards to defend and justify attempts that not only stand to end a brilliant young woman’s career, but may very well put her in undue mortal danger in the process.

I often wonder what those people see when they look in the mirror, if anything.
by const_cast | 2025-05-27 07:41:19+00:00
Right, but it's not - because salary paid workers are not paid for their time spent, but rather for their quantity and quality of work. Which is up to employers to measure.

Me spending 5 minutes filling up my water is not stealing. Me taking a nice 15 minute walk is also not stealing. Presumably you're going to draw the line somewhere, but the implication of salary jobs is that productivity is not linear.

Me spending an extra hour working on something does not translate into an extra unit of work done. Me taking that 15 minute walk doesn't translate to 1/4th less unit of work, either. In fact, it might translate to 1 extra unit of work done. Look at that, I am now bending time into the negative. Human productivity is complicated, and we're not assembly line workers.

Also, even the concept of "less work" is dubious. The level of work being done varies from person to person, and nobody actually knows what the minimum is. Everybody should be optimizing for the minimum work necessary to get their pay, because that's just obvious. No hourly worker is going to spend even 1 minute working off the clock. But alas, we have no clock, and we're just kind of... estimating... what level of work really needs to be done, and then calculating that in with our own levels of accomplishment we want, and then convenience. I might work a bit extra to find a nice stopping point, or because I really want to conquer a bug.

If a worker decides to work less than whatever their current level of work is, and they don't get fired or even reprimanded, I have to conclude they were previously working above the level of work expected of them. Which means that, overall, not only is this worker not stealing, they've actually been giving.
by elric | 2025-05-27 07:41:54+00:00
> CPAP helps, but it doesn't address the root cause. Fixing it is a matter of airway geometry, with many obstructions along the way.

It's not as simple as you make it seem. There are some things that are "easy" to fix, like a deviated septum, but surgical treatments are often very complex, very expensive, come with a lot of risks of complications, and in some cases only last for a limited amount of time.

> Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment

Apart from the practical issues (who wants to spend half an hour playing the didgeridoo every day?), it's not a solution. The majority of participants in the trial still had an AHI of 11. Their sleep is still shit, their long term health is still impacted.

> Myofunctional Therapy to Treat Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Same thing. A reduction in AHI of 50% is impressive at face value, but it's not a solution.

It would be great if everyone on CPAP would be offered a comprehensive programme to strengthen their airway. If this could lead to reduced pressures for instance, that would be great. But neither study looked into that, which is a shame.
by bramvanleur | 2025-05-27 07:42:08+00:00
It would be great if undo would make the piece appear at the spot I dropped it from. So I can correct mistakes by "undo", "left", "drop".

But what I am really looking for in Tetris is the game to train me. After observing me play for a few minutes it tells me: _"Hey, I notice you always deal with L pieces horizontally. Proffesional players usually prefer to X so they can achieve Y"_
by topspin | 2025-05-27 07:42:20+00:00
> You might be right and they are talking about fibre bundles

The caption of the image of the cable and connector reads: "CMOS ASIC with microLEDs sending data with blue light into a fiberbundle." So yes, fibre bundles.

> I don't see any advantage over vcsel arrays

They claim the following advantages:

1. Low energy use 2. Low "computational overhead" 3. Scalability

All of these at least pass the smell test. LEDs are indeed quite efficient relative to lasers. They cite about an order of magnitude "pJ/bit" advantage for the system over laser based optics, and I presume they're privy to vcsels. When you're trying to wheedle nuclear reactor restarts to run your enormous AI clusters, saving power is nice. The system has a parallel "conductor" design that likely employs high speed parallel CMOS latches, so the "computational overhead" claim could make sense: all you're doing is latching bits to/from PCB traces or IC pins so all the SerDes and multiplexing cost is gone. They claim that it can easily be scaled to more pixels/lines. Sure, I guess: low power makes that easier.

There you are. All pretty simple.

I think there is use case for this outside data centers. We're at the point where copper transmission lines are a real problem for consumers. Fiber can solve the signal integrity problem for such use cases, however--despite several famous runs at it (Thunderbolt, Firewire)--the cost has always precluded widespread adoption outside niche, professional, or high-end applications. Maybe LED based optics can make fiber cost competitive with copper for such applications: one imagines a very small, very low power microLED based transceiver costing only slightly more than a USB connector on each end of such a cable with maybe 4-8 parallel fibers. Just spit-balling here
by lionkor | 2025-05-27 07:42:32+00:00
I think most commenters are really missing the point. This is not a "maybe" possible attack that only works if the stars align. This is "if you follow the AI hype and use this tool naiively, anyone can access your private repos".

This is a security vulnerability. This is an attack. If I leave my back door unlocked, it's still a burglary when someone walks in and takes everything I own. That doesn't mean that suddenly "it's not an attack".

This is victim blaming, nothing else. You cannot expect people to use hyped AI tools and also know anything about anything. People following the AI hype and giving full access to AIs are still people, even if they lack a healthy risk assessment. They're going to get hurt by this, and you saying "its not an attack" isn't going to make that any better.

The reality is that the agent should only have the permissions and accesses of the person writing the request.
by nivertech | 2025-05-27 07:42:47+00:00
Years ago I was using GitHub Issues as my personal task manager

But ~ 2 years ago I switched to Obsidian for that

Eventually I event started used Obsidian for my project management, and ditched GitHub Issues / GitHub Projects

With caveats, that I use that for the greenfield project with lots of unstructured exploration + AI agents for keeping design docs and figuring out detailed tasks

For the established and legacy projects, I would probably use GitHub Issues for bugs, enhancement requests. And GitHub Projects for all reactive work (support, ops, bugs, etc.)

Lastly, I disagree that it's "almost the best notebook in the world". It my might be a best ticketing system or a note taking system, but not a notebook in the sense of Jupyter or LiveBook (but nothing stopping them to make code blocks executable[1], and even add some LLMs).

Also it's easy overwrite the content of the issue, even by a single person working from different tabs (at least that was the case in the past).

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1. GitHub Blocks

https://blocks.githubnext.com/
by BrenBarn | 2025-05-27 07:42:59+00:00
The instructors may not know the absolute best way to teach, but I think they do know more than the administrators. All my interaction with teacher training suggests to me that a large proportion of it is basically vacuous. On dimensions like the ones under discussion here (e.g., "should we use AI", "can we do this class online"), there is not really anything to "know": it's not like anyone is somehow a super expert on AI teaching. Teacher training in such cases is mostly just fads with little substantive basis.

Moreover, the same issues arise even outside a classroom setting. A person learning on their own from a book vs. a chatbot faces many of the same problems. People have to deal with the problem of AI slop in office emails and restaurant menus. The problem isn't really about teaching, it's about the difficulty of using AI to do anything involving substantive knowledge and the ease of using AI to do things involving superficial tasks.
by mintsuki | 2025-05-27 07:43:57+00:00
Indeed! Which is why the only portable solution is to not do this.

For stuff that needs to be bootable by both BIOS and UEFI the only portable solution is to use MBR, not GPT. That means all legacy BIOS systems will boot it, and so will all UEFI systems since UEFI must support MBR.

For ISOs that need to additionally be booted off of optical media (aka ISOHYBRIDs) the story gets more complicated, but ultimately what you need to take away from that is the same: avoid GPT at all cost.