skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If discord had a blip and stopped working for your global team then you would have a more catastrophic problem surely?

Regardless, what is your point? I never claimed that conversions can't happen when you are not online, just that you should design your conversations such that it doesn't matter if someone isn't online.

The problem you just described was caused not by IRC and its lack of backlog but by you and your team and your misuse of a backlog-less chat system.

Important announcements shouldn't be done on IRC. For that matter, neither should they be done on Teams, Slack, Discord, Matrix, XMPP, or Skype. Important announcements belong on a web page and a mailing list (both simultaneously) or alternatively on some other purpose built system which tracks who has seen an annoucement so that if important announcement is missed by a key player, someone is alerted and can reach out using an alternative method of communication.

But even if you insist on misusing a chat protocol like IRC for this, ask someone who was there for their logs? I don't understand how nobody on your global team was able to even just summarize what you missed.
I actually like that change. The seats are so thin that there's actually "a lot" of leg room now.
With digital files, I don’t think it makes more work. Different people want different things and it’s hard to know who will be reading.

For my resume, I add on new items after each position or paper or new thing or whatever. So I’m just adding on new sections every few years. If I was starting fresh I probably wouldn’t write pages and pages.

I agree that the first page should contain all essential information. But as for the extra pages, people only read if they have some reason.
Depends on how close you are to the transmitters.
Sure, it can be circumvented. But 95% of people won't be bothered / wont know how / wont want the hassle.
Can you sell me on the IntelliJ suite of IDEs database UI? What makes it in your opinion fantastic?

I'm using it at the monent, it sure beats dealing with sqlite at the cli level but apart from that to me it feels as rudimentary as any other DB UI I've used in the past.
The only thing valuable that academic journals and conferences bring to the table is the peer-review process. Which, to be fair, is needed.

In this case, the peer review is being conducted without the need for publishing venues. However, I don't think that is usually the case. Take a look at the countless number of ArXiv papers that lack any sort of peer review.
I think they added it pretty recently, but you can change your whole profile per server now if you have nitro

https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/4409388345495-...
There is literally no need for google to know which sites I visit all over the web all the time, just because the web site owners were too lazy to host their own fonts.
For the Tesla, it shut itself off in this story. Regardless of whether it may have had some juice left
In EU you will end up under Package travel directive. Which means extra protections, and single point of communication. Like when COVID hit and travel recommendations were issued. My whole holiday of hotel+flight got cancelled, and I got automatic refund for whole thing. Just had to give them by account number.

It makes life simpler in cases when flights or hotel gets cancelled and agency is responsible for handling things.
this is not completely correct. GDPR applies to (among others) „ a company established outside the EU and is offering goods/services (paid or for free) or is monitoring the behaviour of individuals in the EU.“ - if you have an accidental EU customer it applies to you. Also if you have an US customer who is temporarily in the EU. https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/r...
> ...when they could focus on building a good product first

So not tracking every single molecule of detail about your users is incompatible with building a good product?

If being entrepreneurial means that I have to violate my user's privacy then I'd rather not be an entrepreneur, thanks. And again, if your business can't survive without being invasive and malicious to your users, then your business shouldn't exist. You won't see me or anyone else reasonable weeping about the dissolution of such entities, either.
You don’t need a degree to be successful but having one won’t harm your progress. Not having one held me back early in my career but I just left those short sighted companies. Degrees are a way for lazy companies to vet candidates. A computer science degree will obviously help you more but there’s nothing that will teach you that you can’t learn yourself. Uni is a great life experience though and you’ll make great friends but if I was starting again I’d rather spend those years at early stage startups learning how and how not to build product.
I would say, subjectively yes, but these insects are incapable of worrying about that. Furthermore, biologically not quite, because they can reproduce with 100% their original DNA afterwards (unlike offspring which has less and less overlap).
>> We've so far done nothing to stop it from happening.

That is completely untrue. We’ve certainly not done enough but the world of 40, 20 and even 10 years ago was much worse. Unfortunately most of the changes have been ones forced on individuals while businesses and governments continue to pollute and cause damage.
more importantly : does their soul survive metamorphosis ?
Ha, just last week I was on a Wizzair flight that had a one-hour delay.

Because of the delay, rentalcars automatically cancelled my (already paid!) car rental booking and their agent tried to extort 400 (then later, 500) euros from me.

In the end, my family and I, were left stranded on the airport, on a Sunday evening and had to pay double for another car rental.

Of course, neither company wants to refund me, not to mention pay the difference of cost between the two rentals.

I filed a complaint via ECC, let's see how it goes.
Replace AWS with whatever cloud provider they use...
> and it’s already changing the Web that we know and love.

Nitpick, and clearly off topic, but right now I don't love "the web".

It's increasingly controlled by a handful of companies. They dictate what content is made visible (meta, google) or what email goes to the spam filter (ms, google).

Right now I don't love the web, far from it. It's a constant struggle to be heard even by the people who chose to follow your activity.

Essentially, most of my communication happens in real life or in private chats. (Also, have I said how messenger for business is terrible and unreliable?)

To me, something needs to happen to the web as it is today. I don't know what, I don't know how, but I certainly welcome change.
This is really well written and surprisingly accessible! I know nothing about communication systems but was able to read this pretty easily.
I'd say IRC and Matrix are the only viable protocols.

The rest are just proprietary, centralized, corporate-owned.

Here's a short list of those: Teams, Zoom, Discord, Whatsapp, Telegram, Skype, Ring.
>The UK Government repeatedly fails to understand ... impossible to impose

Yeah but it's never worried them much in the past. As a Brit I occasionally come across the effects of them requiring ISPs to block piracy sites. Something comes up saying "this site is blocked" so you click like one or two buttons to switch to a different connection or turn a VPN on (VeePN is good and free). I imagine their encryption ban will be similarly tricky to avoid. I think it's more about looking noble to the electors than actually achieving anything.
I remember seeing a cartoon of Einstein at the blackboard on which the equation E=ma^2 (crossed out) then E=mb^2 (crossed out) and finally E=mc^2 with a beaming Einstein.
I would like to know if you did C or FORTRAN in the 90s because it’s different than if you were building houses.

Someone who has been programming for 25 years, starting in the trenches is different from someone who changes careers in the 00s and learns programming.

And I prefer some context to know what someone means as if it was just a line for “FooCorp 1995-2000, Programmer” does that mean FORTRAN or excel macros?
Why would it take 30 minutes? Maybe in the worst case, but most of the time it would maybe take a couple minutes to find the right thing to search for. And grep is pretty fast.
So Python is being fundamentally changed for everyone because of the needs of a niche subset of Python programmers (AI researchers), because that niche subset refuses to learn a language more suited to their task?
"Also you forgot to say that Discord had a high quality voice chat back when such a thing was nonexistent in the web"

Camfrog video chat has been around since the beginning '00s. You could put as many video feeds as you could fit on your screen, with 20-30FPS streams, and good sound quality. Granted, resolution was 352x288, but for seeing and talking, you don't really NEED much else.

Discord, meanwhile, can't keep a reliable WebRTC stream going.
If you select "NO" in any of those questions you get an alert "You are not eligible" so you need to be a citizen and in the US in that time
One detail that I think is so cool is how people from this period rode horses without a saddle. I think it leads to very different capabilities as well as different horses than we have now. The riders have to scoot much further up, almost on the neck of the horse.
It just so happens that those who advocate and benefit directly from it are the ones who already have the power to make markets. The product of a company is based on its labor utilization, which doesn't change materially in the (very) short timespans of HFT. Liquidity aside, five minutes isn't going to make much of a difference when most people generally wait weeks or months to make major asset purchases like a car or a house, or to be approved for a small business loan. Only the ultra-wealthy car about milliseconds, because they can afford to make such vast and diverse trades in so little time.
Air is aether.
Less than people might think. Apparently a lot of the the worst cyber-bullying (like the stuff that drives teens to take their own lives) happens from real-name accounts on Facebook and Messenger…
I believe that is "gut wrenching scream and fall into distance"

I associate it with the original doom but the second link shows prior use.

https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/doom-characters-infamo...

https://remingtonsteelers.fandom.com/wiki/Gut-wrenching_Scre...

This appears to be the original un-distorted effect: https://youtu.be/9rTa6HMi3R4
You can't even compare bluesky and fedi at this point. Last I checked bluesky isn't even federated, and will it ever be? Considering the financial hit of opening up your platform like that. I mean in practice it means anyone can build their own bluesky, with blackjack and hookers.

I really hope activitypub doesn't die out because people are choosing old centralized solutions again, have they learned nothing?

AP needs some help from government and news agencies. For example, you should be able to subscribe to news@nyt.com or alerts@usgs.gov. Any site can implement ActivityPub. It's not a twitter-clone until someone makes a twitter clone that is AP federated. So far it's just a fancy alternative to RSS.
>But Discord is an information black hole where data goes to die.

I'm really saddened and angry that projects end up using Discord as their main forum interface.

Not everything is worth keeping around forever, but Discord is as closed a closed garden as can be.

That's great for private servers between friends, but it's contrary to the ethos of Open Source, as nothing is really in the open.

History is basically unsearchable and everyone lives in a perpetual present where topics need to be discussed over and over again instead of being easily available to newcomers. Once they disappear from the current page, they become really hard to reach.

And discord will happily close your account or prevent you from logging if your activity is deemed suspicious, i.e. if you're travelling and using VPNs, getting in can be a nightmare. The feeling of also being constantly watched, a step away from having your account blocked, is jarring.

I wish there was a good open source alternative that would also allow data to be easily made public and allowed users to just join and participate with whatever existing accounts they have (google, GitHub, any Fediverse account, etc).

Servers could be self-hosted or hosted for free or a minimal fee based on the server size, with some paying additional features (like flair, large audio rooms, automated backups, branding, more customization, etc).

But is discord too big to be taken on by an Open Source project?
Every community needs a subversive - or, at least, a clown.
It‘s unlikely because decades of experiments suggest so and also because it‘s unlikely that animals with a very basic neural system can have a sense of self. The burden of proof is on those claiming differently.
> I don't believe there is anything we can do about the impending climate changes.

But there is (something we could do).

Climate change is caused by pollution and overconsumption.

We're perfectly capable to change that ... we just don't want to.

If we don't, the nature will force us.

As it does with every species in overshoot.

> all we can do is learn, prepare, and adapt

But we don't know how it will play out. Imagine building a jenga tower. You'll remove a brick from the base and put it on top. The more you build the less stable the structure becomes.

Our society is an extremely complex system.

We don't know when and how, but we know it will collapse. And nobody can even know how it will look, what to expect, and what to prepare for.

Even those bunkers of our tech elites won't do them much good.
I think a large majority of the "non technical" population would have no clue how to sideload apps, or even that it was possible, and that the more likely result of WhatsApp being withdrawn from the UK would be massive screaming from the public of such intensity and wrath that the government would be forced to backtrack.
Adding a few more data points here, my colleagues and friends (all of us technical people), approve of GDPR.
Republicans have made climate denial part of their identity. The US isn't capable of doing anything federally until the nation is reunified.
Discord is a social media platform. And you absolutely could. I’ve been in quite a few servers where channels were used as a dumping ground for whatever people were doing at a time and felt like showing off. It’s an extreme example, but one that works because ultimately Instagram’s ability to display this information is no different than anything else’s. You simply believe Instagram is some perfect solution that cannot be replicated and refuse to understand the basic definition of a social network.
Unfortunately, this only works unless you have a textfield focused or something similar that "consumes" your keyboard input. At least in my experience, it's quite unreliable.
Practical betterments – a collection of one-off actions with continuous gains
For the past year I've been collecting what I was calling "life hacks", but are really their own thing — I've decided to call them practical betterments — mostly because the domain practicalbetterments.com was available.

I didn't originally intend for this collection to be a website — but after boring everyone I know with them, it seemed important for my personal life to have an outlet.
Why United States only?
And even if it _did_ take 30 minutes, that's _way_ better than blowing a day, week, or even more time rediscovering the information contained in the log.
let’s rebrand “mosh and a vps” as “irc nitro”, and then everyone will be happy.

(ripgrep is a very nice log searching tool, only top tier users will be told about it!)
You shouldn't have to do that. Sure, customer support costs a lot of money if done properly but so does executive compensation. Customer support is usually the lowest paid and suffers the most abuse, but because of the decades of skimming from the top customers (and support) lose out.

Google just had a net income for the quarter of $18B. Why do we accept the tepid to non-existent support of these companies? How much support does $1B cover?
Only if you don’t care about screen, battery life or user interface.

Caveat. If windows matters, or you’re talking about the generation of defective MacBooks with a bad keyboard, I’d concede that a top of the line HP, Dell or Lenovo is a better choice.
> You can install it using Conda

On the risk of starting a holywar: why.
Another thing I like with the discount airlines like Ryanair and Wizzair is that, because they are dirt cheap and point-to-point, I end up visiting places on a whim.

For example, a couple months ago I noticed I could take an affordable weekend trip on Wizzair to Cluj-Napoca in Romania (never heard of the place before); I booked the flight, visited, and found it a very lovely little city that was perfect for a 2 or 3 day weekend trip.

The caveat of course is that they nickel and dime everything, so if you need hand baggage or don't want flight attendants trying to shill perfume mid-flight, they are annoying to fly with, but on the other hand you pay much less so if those aren't big issues, then the deals are great.
I have felt this too. Young SV valley tech bros seem to be trying to build whatever they saw at the movies. This includes some movies with very bad outcomes unfortunately.
Also, one thing that I heard when I was in Albania, is that the country has mostly paved over their cities, making excavation in these areas virtually impossible. If anyone from Albania is reading this I'd love to hear your pov. point of view.
> Sounds like a big filter... for what? for who? Because can be seen it's not working just as a mere "quality" filter.

To me it seems it keeps not only a wall around papers and journals. But also about whole academia which is probably an unwanted side effect since inside and outside of academia there seems to be consensus that knowledge transfer could be better. Also it seems everybody who can rather does research outside (AI/ML, Chemistry, Pharmacy).
I’m not worried about the difficulty of migration; I’m worried that the end state might actually be worse than what we have now.
Thank you for another example of where arguments from language semantics and usage fails to address a complex issue!

This example happens to contain all there is to Searle's "Chinese Room" argument.
The EFF are very US focused and I feel they often pay lip service elsewhere. It's disappointing and why I stopped donating.

As another commenter said, nobody in the UK is going to protest over this. As a downbeaten kingdom (in my opinion), we have no fight left in most of us. People will sigh and move to another app en masse.

The issue I have with all of this is that we think a law is going to make people who break the law not break the law.

The only people who this affects is people who everyday people chatting to their family.

The ones this is claimed to be fighting don't, by and large, use WhatsApp and the like, so will make no difference to how they operate. The one off they catch who does naively use it, does not justify surveilling the entire UK.
If security is a concern, getting a newer Pixel and installing GrapheneOS is your best bet. It's still not perfect and nothing beats just not having a cell phone, but that's a choice very few are okay with today.

The trick with GrapheneOS, or any privacy setup, is that it requires attention to stay reasonably secure. The OS won't matter if you enable Google services and install apps that track and sell all your data.
> I find it really cool that this whole process didn't involve scientific publishers at all.

IIRC, the 1989 cold fusion fiasco did not involve scientific publishers as well.

Not saying this is a similar fiasco, just that 34 years ago it was done via a press conference and circulating drafts rather than arXiv.
Depends on where you live.

Seeing as Costco exists in Ontario, Canada. Where citizens with knowledge of a crime can use private prosecution.

https://www.ontario.ca/page/private-prosecutions
Twitter might not be as important to the US as it is to a lot of other countries. A lot of content that is censored or blocked in countries by restrictive regimes rises on twitter organically. I think it plays a big role in dissemination of information from reporters etc. Take Pakistan for instance currently all the private channels are completely controlled by government it under quasi martial law. But because of twitter people are aware of 1000s of political prisoners including women and children, disappearances of reporters, harassment and threats by law enforcement to protestor families and relatives to control the protestors.
Having charges dripping in by letting you pay for every little extra is a good way to extract money from people, but makes it easy for them to feel ripped of. Paying 150€ for a ticket with 50€ upfront and the rest done through fees will probably feel more expensive to attentive people than a 200€ ticket with everything included. It's easy to seem expensive this way without actually being profitable.
It is the asynchronous and decoupled nature of messaging that pulls architectures towards message brokers. In a "MOM Architecture", the producing of messages, and consuming of messages, is completely decoupled - both in "space" (HA, location transparency, replication etc) and in time (the async nature).

This leads to a whole heap of benefits. I've outlined a few of them here, in the "Rationale for Mats3", my Message-Oriented Async RPC library: https://mats3.io/background/rationale-for-mats/

You will find that the Reactive Manifesto also lays out the same type of arguments (there's some links to it from the list in the first link): https://www.reactivemanifesto.org/ and its glossary: https://www.reactivemanifesto.org/glossary
Not at the same price-point at quantity 1.

If you as a consumer buy a nice HP Spectre, it will be more than an equivalent MacBook barring a sale or clearance. I buy 10,000 at a time, and get about 30% off.
The Government, Opposition and NGOs don’t necessarily represent the views of the general public. Obviously in a perfect world such a consensus would, but in the real world it’s often not the case unfortunately.

I expect many UK citizens who were given a clear explanation of what the implications of the law was (without revealing which law it is and using its cutesy name) would say they would be opposed to such a hypothetical law, and would then be surprised if you told them you’d just described the “Online Safety” bill - if they knew what it was.

Literally the way these laws get through is because there are enough uninformed and politically non-engaged people that they can slip them by.
> Ventrilo, Mumble, TeamSpeak, Skype, etc, etc

Looks to me that Discord went after those and not after IRC.
This is short on info -- but are we talking about a verification process that is separate to the "passport check" which Ryanair requires for all non-UK/EU passport holders?

Unlike many other UK/EU budget airlines, Ryanair requires a passport check to issue your boarding pass... and this kind of sounds like that?

If this is the "passport check," I wouldn't be surprised if Ryanair is doing it to avoid the check-in lines at the airport. They are particularly cost and efficiencies focused, after all.