skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be good that you can easily claim it but make sure that you just instead donate to some organization like EFF. For single person $5 or $35 is small money not maybe worth the hassle but for charity organization it might be a big amount of money on the table.

Just an idea for those organizations - maybe create some browser addon or more user friendly claim form to easily donate such type of claims to them.
Apache Iceberg is kind of this, but more oriented around large data lake datasets.
If I am trying to contact a business, it is because I have a question that their site wasn't able to answer, or I need to contact a representative to do something I can't do on the website (think canceling a service).

Having a talking FAQ page is, in my opinion, trying to compensate for lacking UX practices, and chances are that if the business didn't include the information I am seeking for in their website, they won't include it in the chatbot.

That said, I think that chatbots could assist customers in getting in contact with the right representative, but trying to have chatbots as a wall between getting human help is imho an anti-pattern
We're undoubtedly impoverished when core knowledge goes out of the system. This is really a problem of succession planning and the more experiential knowledge than bare facts. Competencies perhaps. The facts of nuclear engineering aren't dying. It's how small the pool is we can call on.
This is the fine line between inspirational and stupid. But I guess that is the hacker manifesto, it is so pointless it has to be done!
(I just noticed that I emitted the word “iniquitie” above, where I thought I’d written “uniquifier” — and have just confirmed that autocorrect was responsible. Strangely, in context, the word “iniquitie” sort of “appears” to be an appropriate word, when its meaning is certainly not. I found that interesting.)
The easiest option is just to use your OPT to run and build your business after you graduate and then move to O-1 or rely on STEM OPT to continue to run your company or work for another.
Still universally useless though.
I watched the video and I agree. He goes a bit sensationalistic and makes fun of the researchers for that specific video, while still saving face saying they could still be on to something.
The requirements state "a Facebook user in the United States between May 24, 2007, and December 22, 2022". Is that true? What if you are a United States citizen, but not inside the United States during that period?
What percentage of prisoners fit that description? Or even that if violent offenders?

I think few people would argue that those classes of law breakers are allowed off the hook.
Interesting. I find it frustrating that there is little coherent documentation available on this topic.
Doesn't this conflate diversity of identity with diversity of perspective?

You don't have to be raped and killed daily to have an valuable opinion. Indians, Serbians, Black Americans, rich western whites, these are all just humans who, a priori, are just as worthwhile as one another.

I get that you have in mind particular kind of harm that you want to prevent, and that this is a priority for you, but reasonable people can and do differ in their opinions on what's harmful and what they'd like to talk about.
TBH, 99% of the clients never read the documentation, the faq, nor they search in google. Lazy users are wasting time and if a chatbot can filter a significant percent of them, then it would be a net gain for humanity. chatbots are not a silver bullet, but they can kill lots of unnecessary noise. all that we need is something that can answer basic questions asked by average users in a specific domain.
We all produce content that we publish on the social media site platform (posts, stories, reels. Text posts now too if you count Threads…). This is quintessential social media content, and was the primary way that social media platforms were used in their early years. My content with a couple dozen likes isn’t somehow not-social-media-content just because my audience is limited to my actual social circle.

The point they were trying to make isn’t difficult to understand. It just doesn’t make any sense.
Was that directed to me or the larger HN community because I'm always looking for good attorneys to refer work to?
> Most people long stopped caring about privacy.

Nah. This is only because the effect for most people of the LOSS of their privacy is usually unseen to them. So it feels like privacy/no-privacy is the same thing, no consequence. So, no outcry. No big deal. That apathy is not endorsement or abdication of caring. IT is the same psychological effect as smoking. We all hear "how bad it is". But then you have one. And... nothing. Actually it feels good. And another. Nothing. And another and so on. What are people whining about? Years later, consequences.
From the article: "This breakthrough, which earned a Nobel Prize, prompted scientists to question if cellular aging could be reversed without pushing cells to become too young and potentially cancerous."
The bad-faith filter is manifested in the "flag" button.

The problem is that "rational" is taken as the highest good by some people, and a key part of their identities.

Unfortunately these people have mammalian brains, which are a prefrontal cortex sitting on top of an antediluvian limbic system. To pretend that you are rational and not emotional is to launch vigorously down the path of self-deception.

It inevitably follows that one's post-rationalisation becomes both deep-rooted and hidden from one's own view. To roughly paraphrase tfa, you'll cherry-pick facts and apply narrow logic. Worse, you'll be bolstered by the unshakeable conviction that you are completely logical. Then you'll become extremely passionate in defense of your beliefs. The irony...

It is excellent to strive for rationality, just as long as one keeps one's own fallibility in mind. That implies self-knowledge. You can't reach the top of Maslow's pyramid without self-knowledge; we should teach techniques to cultivate it in schools.
that actually worked.
Paying 1/3rd for the same cost of living.
Which client do you use? Back in the day i first loved Homer and then ircle
At its core, I agree that the bare-bones nature of IRC can be wonderful. But all of the modern services like Teams, Slack and Discord, have seamlessness between client devices as their first priority. People leave their laptop, go to the bathroom, get their phone out and go on typing.

I used IRC for a brief period even after we began to have multiple devices. It was always through some kind of proxy, or basically an ssh connection through GNU screen, just so that basic functionality like asynchronous messaging worked, and so that my setup would carry over. The whole protocol you would have to build around IRC to achieve client agnosticity would arguably be more complex than IRC itself. To a point where any of the big players could introduce IRC-style channels as a fun retro feature. I'd bet more money on that feature becoming popular than on an IRC resurgence.
I agree with the core of your message, and you are far from alone with this opinion.

The history of science is a sequence of profound platitudes, each time refining the prior ones. It is a part of awakening to pick the lowest hanging fruits first, just to get a foot in the door. While its not theoretically impossible to go straight from ignorance to -say- the postulates of quantum field theory, its incredibly unlikely to scale such a huge step at once, both for scientists at the frontier as well as each generation of students catching up. In this sense the profound platitudes are quasi necessary to build up an understanding of the world around us. Individually each outdated platitude may appear so very wrong when looking back with 20 / 20 hindsight, and most of these individual platitudes could plausibly have been skipped by scaling 2 or 3 steps at a time, but no one could scale all of them at once.

Literally respect and review mean the same thing. To view or observe anew (re-).

One may objectively claim that each step or correction of a prior platitude was an improvement of our worldview, even though in hindsight each step of correction also contributed the next erroneous stumbling block to be scaled.

Throughout history policy decisions (from household decisions, to court decisions, to budget decisions, to research direction decisions, etc...) humans sought ways to settle matters.

The desire for Finality is universal and justified. However the expectation that this universe came with a manual is not.

A core tenet of the scientific mindset is the recognition that this finality is a temporary illusion.

Selling this illusion of a recipe for finality is profitable and what journals and gatekeepers have gravitated toward, especially since information became dirt cheap to duplicate.
Blocking UK users is removing business presence. How else would you go about it?
When I spent 10 years in Nyc everything is at least 45 minutes away no matter where you are. The walks between stations can be long, wait times are long, travel times slow. If you live far out on a local line it can be longer for sure. But even going downtown from UES is a 45 minute affair. I rarely left my neighborhood other than for work because I had to plan 2 hours of round trip travel. That sucks up most of a day.
You ought to meet and discuss your project with Arnaud Hervas, the original author of the Shake compositing software. Shake was a VFX industry compositor that used GCC C++ as the "scripting language" that non-developers wrote. It was not exposed as C, but macro modified to look simpler. Arnaud did several industry firsts, including using the GPU to render compositing layers back when all that type of work was in software. His company before Apple bought them was called Nothing Real, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_Real He's a nice guy, so don't be intimidated.
> The reliability and lack of bloat that are inherent to IRC ultimately also means that there are a number of fancy modern features that Discord has that IRC lacks, a big one being the inability to view backlogs of conversations that transpired while one was not connected to an IRC server. Although IRC does not itself provide this functionality, the extremely simple nature of IRC allows for a couple of lightweight options for reliably remaining on IRC around the clock and not missing out on a word that anyone says.

The article brushes over this, but IMO the lack of built-in backlog support is the main reason why IRC is essentially doomed. Logging isn't a "fancy" feature and telling people to just run an always-on logging service on top doesn't cut it.

Especially when there are open, federated chat protocols that don't have this problem.
Almost certainly a single incident such as this will have no impact on your current status, the renewal process, or a green card application. This will depend in part on the maximum penalty for the offense and the penalty actually received. But really, I wouldn't worry although you should consult with an immigration attorney on this or have your defense attorney consult with an immigration attorney.
Looks interesting! Thank you for focusing on AoT compilation and not just JIT compilation. To be honest, I'm sick of JIT compilation. In theory it seems like the best of both worlds, but in practice it turns out to be the worst of both worlds, especially for larger projects.

Will LPython have the ability to generate AoT compiled libraries in addition to executables?
A lot of the original ircd/ircII devs and I are on Signal these days, we had a private channel on efnet for about 25 years. Open e2e with history is pretty compelling, and decent mobile clients on top. But we still love irc.
One thing I miss about IRC is the lack of a typing indicator.
We span up a Synapse instance the other day and connected to it with Element on a few different laptops. (This is the Matrix server and client btw — they really need a marketing / branding person!)

It was both hellish and amazing. Hellish in that I had absolutely no idea how to use anything. Channels and rooms and stuff. All very complicated and weird. I just wanted a single, default place to hang out!

It was also amazing because it all worked beautifully all the way from text chit chat up to in channel video calls. Snappy and fast and reliable. Bliss. LDAP integration out of the box (or near enough out of the box) too. Lovely.

If it was just a little bit more seamless it would probably take over the world.
It's not hard, but they just make the build of our monorepo take longer and longer without finding actual bugs, in my experience. I feel most unit tests should be commented out once the thing under test is done.
What if I visited the US for business/as a tourist during this period but reside in EU ? Can I still claim ?
And they couldn't switch to another language? It sounds really odd to me, too odd to be a justification for this change.
was waiting for Mozilla to get in on the game and develop their own LLM. given that organization's mission ("Keep the internet open and accessible to all"), I think it makes perfect sense. not sure if they have the resources or will to do this
The O-1 standard, while high, is often a viable option and it might be here. The O-1 can support employment with another company (acting as the sponsor) or even with your own company (acting as the sponsor). Many founders are on O-1s.
Just glad to see F# used for something and hitting front page.

Such a great language, it never seems to get traction, to hit any critical mass.
I needed to do this a few days back and it was so annoying.

It even makes you pay some 99p for the “service”. It is the kind of thing you do to save a few money. Annoying nonetheless.
You demonstrate how important it is to stomp out the rightwing ultranationalism festering in India. It is not solely India's problem any more.

There is irreparable damage being done to the Indian psyche, and it is not going to be contained (unlike, for example, if it was China). Especially considering the impending climate disaster is going to disproportionately affect India and neighbors, resulting in social disaster, mass migration of a scale not seen before.

Indian problems are increasingly world problems.
> I'm really not looking forward to the future where every business has chatbot support. They are already quite common and frustrating.

To be honest, I've had some good experience with some of them.

Amazon's comes to mind. I've been a customer for a long time, and I was shipped a faulty computer peripheral recently.

I briefly explained what the issue was to the chatbot and got an immediate response that a new order had been placed, that I should just keep what they originally sent me, there was no charge and it would be sent out priority.

And that was it. It arrived the next day and it worked fine.

Granted, it knew I was a long-time customer who has already spent a lot of money with them, but this was about as painless an experience as I can imagine. It sure beat clicking through multiple web pages of dialog options.
"plays around with bytecode"?
Even if that is so, it translates the whole program to c++, which is then compiled. It relies on libpython to implement a lot of the core language types and such, so if your program isn't very computationally intensive or makes heavy use of core data types, you might not notice much, but it's definitely a compiler.
i guess this thread is a great example of how different the HN crowd is to the rest of the population. i keep seeing the same type of comments for every article where encryption is threatened.

to me it looks like the direction of policy in the world when it comes to the internet is pretty clear: the internet needs to be brought to heel. it needs to respect local laws, it can’t be a black box, we can’t rely on foreign/american companies to moderate.

this direction is coming mainly from voters. they feel disenfranchised from the big internet companies, they feel threatened, the internet still feels like a dangerous place. and to be fair, there are so many crimes enabled by the internet, some of them violent.

and so the public and the NGO’s make enough noise so that politicians take stock and start doing something about it.

this law is not the first law in the world to force internet companies to better moderate their content. and it won’t be the last.

but if HN folk want to change people’s view around this issue then they need to step out of this bubble and engage with people’s concerns.

because this direction of travel has been set for a while now. and it won’t change anytime soon.

what’s going to happen with this law? nothing special. it will be adopted, and there will be no consequences. just like all the other countries that did the same.

disclaimer: i’ve been on the internet since there were ~10 websites. that wild west stuff was amazing when growing up. but the cat is now out of the bag.
That's it. The TN is a good option but it does require a job offer from/sponsorship by a U.S. company.
IRC is great! I access through the excellent biboumi gateway, which offers bouncer-like functionality and let me choose between various clients. There are open instances available for everyone to use, although I couldn't give a list of them since I self-host. I like that it's very lightweight, making it a reasonable permacomputing approach to group chats.

I wouldn't go as far as saying it's the only viable chat protocol, if you follow the link below you'll guess what I have in mind saying that. (it starts with an X and ends with two Ps)

https://biboumi.louiz.org/
Ask HN: Anyone using proportional fonts for coding?
(I don't find them distracting and I enjoy messing with typography.)

I'm curious about any less obvious pros and cons, as well as recommendations for any fonts to try.
>using wikipedia as a source

Not even wikipedia own founder believes on it anymore. It's essentially useless for anything political related because you already know that they will be heavily biased in favor of a given side...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...
> EU legislation doesn’t stifle innovation. It stifles abuse of technology.

Honestly, my biggest complaints with EU software legislation are:

1. It doesn't scale down to tiny non-commercial or barely-commercial activities.

2. It theoretically proposes penalties on private people outside the EU (even though they are rarely imposed?).

3. I have no vote or representation.

For example, I used to provide tiny, free web apps that performed useful tasks. These often had fewer than 100 users, and they kept no information that wasn't strictly necessary. But if you emailed me about them, I might not respond within a month, especially if I was traveling or something. The GDPR requires 30-day turnarounds for lots of stuff. I shut down all of these apps, because some of my users might have been in the EU? And I won't be releasing any more free web tools. It's all CLI now.

Similarly, I host a small web forum in the US, and we have some EU users. We keep no information beyond that required to run a web forum. If you ask the moderators to delete all your posts on August 1st, well, I hope someone took their computer on vacation.

Similarly, I maintain a couple of open source projects. Many of these are paid for by an employer, who makes the code available for free. In the past, I have occasionally added a feature to one of my projects as a consulting project for someone. But reading through https://www.techradar.com/pro/the-eus-product-liability-dire..., I see that I am now likely to have personal liability for my open source projects, towards people who have never paid me a cent. Sure, I do have liability towards the rare consulting customer who actually paid for something, which is carefully negotiated in our contract. But in the future, some random EU company I've never heard of will likely be able to use my software, pay me nothing, and make me liable? It's very hard to tell with current drafts.

And I have at least one open source AI tool on GitHub, that's of no use to anyone. But I suppose I'll need to read the EU AI laws now, too.

Sometimes I just want to build useful stuff (web apps, forums, open source tools) and give it away for free. But if I have any European users, I may get entangled in complex European laws. Honestly, there's zero upside for me supporting EU users, because I'm not benefiting from them, and I keep having to read hundreds of pages of incredibly vague laws in multiple languages.

If the Product Liability Directive goes through in its current form, and if GitHub offers me a way to block EU downloads, I'll probably use it. I am not interested in supporting or encouraging commerical EU users who have never paid me anything.
Such a fake passport is not the same as a complete fake identity. There is more to that than a passport and a lot of it you categorically cannot fake.

A fake passport can trick some people some of the time but not all people all of the time. As such those $15k do not represent a full fake identity. Your history of enhancing with the state in some way, paying taxes, requesting a new passport, getting your drivers license, whatever, serves as defense in depth.

States are pretty good at this, actually.

Also, you account is worthless. Hard or impossible to replicate, sure, but if there is no buyer it‘s worth zero.
I like these kinds of games for long car drives.

My favourite (I'm in the UK, where licence plates generally have the form XX 123 XXX where Xs are letters and 123 is three numbers) is to make the shortest word possible by adding additional letters to the XXX letters while keeping the original letters in order. (e.g. if the letters were FTU you could do FORTUNE but not TURF). Even better when there's more than one of you and you just say how many extra letters you've added to make a word until you both agree that you've got as few as possible, then reveal each word.

Another one I like is to get from one to as high a number as possible using the three numbers, e.g. if you have 136 you go:

1 = 1
2 = 3-1
3 = 3
4 = 3+1
5 = 6-1
etc.

That game doesn't last long though...

Sometimes I let myself cheat and use factorial (i.e. 3! = 3x2x1 = 6)

Good car games for kids that we use:

ABC animals - you go around the card one-by-one naming an animal that starts with A, then B, then C etc. Variants on this are foods, boys names, girls names etc.

Word association for older kids can be fun too.
Single, childless 20 year old's ideas. You will get zero traction with this mentality.
What you describe is basically this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BNC_(software)

Also, tangentially related to your first point; I am personally exploring more ways to disconnect. Even if it’s just briefly, like not bringing my phone to the bathroom as you describe. I realize now that I hate being always connected. Vanilla irc sounds like a dream compared to the nightmare of constant connection.
Apple has more at stake than a rando like you.
The only threat to message data on Discord is third party bots like mee6 who are gateway connected to tons of public, private, and "small friend-group" servers, vacuuming up every message data to some data lake for later use. This is why Discord pushed Application Commands[0], which only receive data from Discord when the application is initialized by the user, and made Message Contents a privileged intent[1] that requires identity verification if your bot is in 100 or more servers.

0: https://discord.com/developers/docs/interactions/application...

1: https://support-dev.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/4404772028...
That's right, the application is submitted using Form I-131. At a stretch here means a 2 year absence from the U.S. (without traveling back to the U.S.) and 5 year total means you could live abroad for 5 years without losing your green card (by getting reentry permits which can be issued for a total of 5 years).