skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you book flights to Sydney on Concur, you are given a choice between two places called "Sydney NS". One NS is Nova Scotia, Canada, the other is New South Wales, Australia, and they're about as far away as is possible on this globe.
No, just not understanding why someone saying they work for Meta or Google is seen as A-OK on this forum, but if someone even mentions crypto, they raise such antagonism.
Ontario plates run from AAAA-001 - ZZZZ-999 and are about to hit D series. https://www.licenseplates.cc/ON
No, i used to consider twitter on the far left.

It’s the same tool, now with a right-wing owner.

If anything, we should wonder: was this happening before too (with inverted roles) but we just didn’t get made aware of it?
Democracy requires transparency about how decisions are made, so that I could vote based on whether I support representative's and parties' actions. E.g. if a law is proposed in German parliament it's pretty much open information who introduced it, who objected with what arguments, who supported it with what arguments etc. Either I am missing something or EU structures are much less transparent
'This site is best experienced in Chrome[+]' ...

+ Or IE, or Netscape.
While the smell of farts are primarily gas, I thought the smell of poo was mostly particles of poo. And even farts contain a notable amount of poo particles.
Ask HN: Online activities to be made impossible by the UK Online Safety Bill
I thought it might be interesting to compile a list of things which it might be impossible (or at least very difficult) for a private individual to do under the Online Safety Bill.

Starters for ten:

1) Minecraft / MineTest server
2) IRC server
3) Mastodon server
4) BBS
5) ... please continue

I'm not fully sure about all this - as I understand it, if you allow chat or user generated content, you become a private service provider, and then have a host of responsibilities including annual audits of whether a significant proportion of your users are minors. If they are then you need to use a (commercial?) age verification tool and monitor everything assiduously. Difficult to see most people being able to satisfy those requirements.
The main risk I heard about is tissues with rapid cell turnover, but some startups are working on it.
and for completion that buddhist philosphy was taken from hindu scriptures which detail the reasoning for what we call "mindfulness"
I mean having users in the country without having a business incorporated in the country, therefore there's no entity the Government has any jurisdiction over.
I cycles, yes, in absolute time, no.
All C extensions are available when running without GIL. A challenge for distribution is that all extensions will have to built twice to be compatible with the two Python builds. However, few source code changes are required where the developers don't want to make it compatible with running without GIL. Executing such extensions forces using the GIL for the whole interpreter, which is slower than the GIL-only build.
Microsoft Office (word especially) for macos. I’m required to use at the moment, but oh boy for decades old, mature software it’s frustrating buggy.
Study finds Google more current and ChatGPT more objective in medical queries
> I have no idea what will become of Twitter

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We have slack and teams. Teams is awful, it’s silo based, separate discussions in tiny areas.

Slack means silo walls break down, channels are formed and disintegrate by people with stuff to contribute in an agile way, rather than a team structure which takes years to change.
I read the title and thought that the legislation had gone through already! Might be worth tweaking
I'd love a Craig Kilborne archive...
While I can’t deny that people, including the media, have a general disliking for him, there’s plenty of puff pieces to be found, especially by corporate friendly outlets.

Business Insider in particular likes to publish articles that are either outright shameless puff pieces or occasionally contain thinly veiled attempts at spinning things in his favor.

Some examples:

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-new-logo-x-twitter...

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-x-rebrand-...

https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-asana-dustin-moskov...

And here’s a Newsweek one:

https://www.newsweek.com/twitter-has-undeniably-gotten-bette...

As for the disliking or hatred towards him, I’m not sure why this puzzles you.

He is simply an unlikable person, doing unlikable things.

Yeah sure it doesn’t help that he’s wealthy in this time and age and it also doesn’t help that he’s attributed accomplishments of mythical proportions that are mostly veneer, nor does it help that he seemingly has taken it upon himself to disprove the business acumen that people attribute to him, but all of those are just cherries on top.

Certainly not half the reason people dislike him.

Gates, Zuckerberg and Bezos are in the same order of magnitude as Musk (at least from the perspective of most people) and don’t nearly get as much hate, because they don’t act like utter tools at every single chance they get.

That’s it, that’s the reason. It’s not rocket science.

Which is why it’s weird that you seem to yearn for a time where people will judge him on his individual actions, when they already do so.
That's a feature in many people's eyes
Sadly this happens to a lot of people, I have relatives that get stressed when their blood pressure is taken meaning they can't take a resting state reading.
Myopia is caused by spending time indoors without full wavelength sun exposure btw. Two hours outdoors when the sun is bright should be enough.
> Also, not sure if you are linking Roma and slavery, at least in East that was absolutely never the case, in contrary there were medieval laws banning them from entering cities etc.

It absolutely was the case. Roma slavery in Romania is a well known part of history.[0] It doesn’t matter that they might have been banned from cities, because slavery put them to work on e.g. boyars’ and monastic estates.

> gave them whole apartment blocks which they destroyed beyond repair

Some Roma communities have a code of ritual purity similar to kosher laws in Judaism. Dwellings fall into disrepair once a generation has died in them. It is a failure of public housing policy that this factor was not taken into account when serving the needs of this particular community.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Romania
Scams via credit card are very hard to sustain due to chargebacks.
Yes. We have lots of models, some of the biggest super computers crunching them.

But models are still estimates. There can still be un-knowns. Scientist have been writing about un-known, or difficult to model feedback loops for awhile. That is the movie-style doomsday, where we hit some un-foreseen tipping point and climate change takes off.

Instead view climate as a large dynamic system, you hit it hard enough, maybe it moves to a different stability point. Even with small systems this can be hard to estimate with a model.

Of course, this is the plot to the movie "Day After Tomorrow".

But just because it was the plot to a movie doesn't mean it can't be a real risk.
Good shout, I'll try to squeeze in something within the character limit.
What has the better mean quality of life, the US or the EU?
China is already planning something similar: https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-seeks-to-counter-musks-st...
That's nice as an optional feature but as a baseline it just seems like sentimental skeumorphism/metaphorism.

Chat being real-time is certainly "approaching real life" much moreso than fully asynchronous email, but most people don't want either to be real life: chat still needs an element of asynchronicity to distinguish it as a technologically useful medium improving over actually walking into a real room.

To put it another way: if I'm in a real life room where being present for the full conversation is necessary, it's easy to excuse being late or going to the bathroom as unfortunate parts of life when people are repeating themselves. When there's simple technological solutions that can easily prevent me from missing anything important, and someone's telling me they don't want it because they like the inconvenience, that's harder to justify.
I got over $2000 from the class action against banks for sneaky foreign transaction fees. It did, however, require a lot of documentation.
Ryanair have a bad name but I've flown with them possibly as many as 50 return flights from STN to wherever.

I don't /love/ flying with them but it's cheap as chips, never an issue, never a delay longer than an hour. Emirates first class it ain't, but they always get the job done for me.

I went to see my friend in Denmark the other week for £40 return! Beat that!
I grew up in the Balkans. There were two large gypsy camps near my city.

I went to prison, which coincidentally is packed with gypsies (and not because they are being discriminated against). I've met countless gypsies, their families, etc.

An ex girlfriend used to voluntarily go to the gypsy camp with a mobile school to teach them basic, primary school stuff. They did not want to learn and only made sexist comments (the kids.).

Gypsies unfortunately have no place in a post industrial western society. Sure, their seemingly anarchistic lifestyle is romantic and attractive, but it is far from the reality.
> in about 20 to 50 years

That's the optimistic timeline :)

I've read somewhere that up to half of Antarctic sea ice could easily disappear in hours or days, given right conditions. Greenland is not looking good either.

https://richardcrim.substack.com/p/coming-soon

When Greenland melts completely global sea levels will rise about 20 feet, or 7 meters.

We aren’t talking about “if” anymore. We are way past that. Now, we are discussing “how fast”.

It could happen much faster than we used to think.

With “Global Warming” temperature is only half of the equation. The other half is speed. With Global Warming, the faster it happens, the worse it is.

Very funny clip on the topic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNYp6oc37ds
Let's start with one account between all servers.

And one censoring authority.

Nope, not a good idea.
That is incredibly cool, but unless I'm mistaken it's not doing any windowing/arbitrary drawing. Everything is full screen, so elements can be plotted out in advance by the designer to work with sprite restrictions.
Absolutely. Most big tech companies had, at one point, or still have (Google's is alive and well - how do you talk to your coworkers over Google Meet to troubleshoot why Meet is down when Meet is down?) their own internal IRC server that the sysadmins setup because it was easy enough to stand one up and all the tech people were on IRC anyway, back in the day. IRC predates cloud and the virtual machine proliferation, nevermind Docker.
I can understand switching distros to have a different init system, since doing it manually would be impractical, but you can easily avoid Wayland in any distro... What does Slackware have to do with it?
> anyone could do it by just putting in the work, it's not surprising that people might interpret that as implying that people who don't have the same knowledge are either too lazy to put in the effort or not capable of it

Not spending time on something doesn't mean you're lazy or stupid, that seems like your own leap. If you choose to interpret in a charitable way it just says: "if you haven't looked here don't worry, it's not that hard, you'll just need to spend some time".

I haven't looked under many rocks I've walked by, talked to everyone, read every book I encountered, doesn't mean I'm stupid or lazy, I just haven't done it.
At the very least then, you need it as a prerequisite for something else that you want. Or perhaps I'm assuming too much about your network here. Let me double-check: do you use NAT? You've said things about it, but do you use it on your network?

NAT applies on top of routing, so you can't use it without routing. If you're using NAT, then you've made your devices routable. Whatever you say about not wanting to do that, you did do that, so it must have been preferable to you in some manner or another.

I know this would contradict your claim that you only have a router to make your network unroutable, but that claim never made any sense in the first place. It's the job of a router to make a network routable.

> NAT used that way usually, because other solutions are lacking or too expensive, and because the people who invented IPv6 didn't bother trying to solve real problems.

Nobody is using it to get a single point of control. In order to NAT you need to set a router up, which means you already have a single point of control. There's no need to also do NAT and it won't help either, so it's not being used for this.

It's not usually being used for anonymity either, because most people using it only have a single IP address in the first place and that's the one all their NATed connections appear to come from. They get no anonymity from NAT.

The people who invented v6 did bother trying to solve real problems. But getting a single point of control was never a real problem and didn't need solving; the real problem was the lack of address space, which they did solve.
Everything since then just adds more whitespace

I always felt that UX people are self-loathing, and thus, view their best work as... nothingness!

The more of nothing they add, the more space, the more emptiness, the more comfortable they are with their work!

The less of them, the better they did!

"Hi, I took this perfect thing, and added ... nothingness, and got paid for it!"

Perhaps, a little voice in my head whispers, the nothingness matches their soul!
Yes, taiwan, hong kong and singapore have played a major role in China's development. And yes, trust networks are important. One thing to note is that despjte the divergence of the diaspora culturally linguistically mandarin is commonly spoken among educated classes.
Ive observed similar behaviour among tamilians overseas where an enterprising cousin builds their start up around their home village in tamil nadu. However, I think this is where the issue of class comes in. Annecdoteally, a lot of the indian diaspora come from already wealthy backgrounds which do not see the need to help each other.
Most people who make jokes about ryanair are just mad that everybody can afford to fly now. They yearn for the days when flying was an exclusive activity and only they could do it.
Actually there is a third option, don't back-up your iMessage to iCloud in the first place. In this configuration you need to transfer your content from device to device using a local backup if you intend to keep your messages.

You the have the same level of privacy (if not higher) than with ADP. But with the same drawback, if your recipient does backup to iCloud without ADP then messages can be intercept by apple at rest on your recipient iCloud backup.

Incidentally ADP mainly target users that didn't trusted iCloud backup for the lack of e2e encryption at rest.
>If that had happened to me, it probably would have radicalized me.

One can just get 'radicalized' merely by observing what going on around, like Ted Kaczynski. Version 1.0 of humans collectively don't meet the bar of standards for a civilized society, if a civilized society did exist then it's by fluke of a confluence of factors and fleeting one at that.
> Let's start with one account between all servers.

Go ahead and create 1 account per 1 server, nothing prevents you.

I've actually been doing it for some time - school (1 server) & private discord account (like 10 servers).

>And one censoring authority.

Sure, that's valid concern, I respect it.

For me it's a trade off.
> But all of the modern services like Teams, Slack and Discord, have seamlessness between client devices as their first priority.

First? Slack takes ages to sync lately (sometimes you have to explicitly refresh) and has a ... random ... idea of how to move unread counts around.

Discord never notifies me of direct messages from my daughter but always notifies me of announcements in a gaming discord i've explicitly muted to hell and back.
Yes in Swiss Bank/UBS with logging and other extensions to make it effectively one server across regions. - This was either sold to Microsoft as MindAlign
I believe you just pass objects instead, like you would in OOP, and take the hit of pickling and unpickling them every time.

If you really want to pass lambdas, you can use a third party library to pickle them

https://github.com/cloudpipe/cloudpickle

Yes, this is not great.
A good use for a chatbot would be a replacement/augmentation of documentation search and navigation.

Let's say you've got 200 pages of documentation on a product that needs to be well organized. You can spend weeks tracking how users interact with the page and working out a perfect layout of categories and subcategories, or you can fine tune an LLM on it and have it answer any query with both a direct problem-tailored answer and the actual pages of the doc where it sourced the answers from.

That way even if you don't even know what exact keywords to search for it should be able to give you an instant solution for almost anything even if the answer is a combination of like 8 different subpages in different categories that would've taken you an hour to find manually.
There's something going on in the Middle East. Whenever I click on Israel, it responds Palestinian Territories. Also, might want to turn off tiny countries by default. I don't know my island nations well enough. Otherwise very cool.
Ryanair is easily one of the worst airlines in the world, at least the western world. Booking with them in general is a nightmare.

They broke my laptop one time, one of their staff dropped it. It wouldn't boot on afterwards, I took it back and the supervisor just said he stood by his colleague's story. I had a flight to catch and wasn't sure if I could have gotten any kind of proof so had to let it go.

That's not even regarding their policies for flying.
Yes we had a private irc server for work in the 2000s.
US Spies Are Lobbying Congress to Save a Phone Surveillance ‘Loophole’
Unveiling new Internet trending and routing tools, disruptions and Kevin Mitnick
The tech community in Europe is naturally scared of (yet another like GDPR) regulatory overreach by a commission who fundamentally doesn't understand neither technology nor market.
The documentation is less incoherent than you assume. My own background is in linguistics, so I am familiar with the literature on the history of the Roma that take evidence of historical language contact into account. The relevant chapter in Matras’ Romani: A Linguistic Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 2004) has a pretty accessible overview of prior scholarship and the modern state of the art. As Matras points out, interaction between the Romani and the Byzantine Greeks was ongoing from the eleventh century at the latest, so they had left India well before the Mongol invasion (which happened in the mid-twelfth century).
Show HN: Eiliad Pro – macOS World Clock Manager
Hi HN!

We are thrilled to announce the launch of Eiliad Pro, a beautiful world clock app for Mac. With Eiliad Pro, you can instantly look up the time in any location and create an event right from the search results. The app comes with an offline database of 15,000 cities from around the world.

Effortlessly plan meetings with colleagues from different continents, coordinate video calls with friends around the world, and never miss a moment of international excitement. Categorize your locations, whether they are your favorite travel destinations, places of work, or cherished spots with family and friends.

We would love to hear your feedback!
Noyb are doing great work, they've been filing much-needed lawsuits. I get a lot of bang for my donation buck from them, I definitely recommend donating.
LLMs can make decisions and take actions so a talking FAQ is not necessarily the end game.

And some FAQs are so opaque and/or lengthy that even just a talking FAQ is very useful.
As someone who first created an IG account in 2010, then deleted it in 2019 after watching it decline, I like how simply this summed up my reasoning :
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> Go ahead and create 1 account per 1 server, nothing prevents you.

You think? I still have to use the official client to log on to all of them so they can just ban all if their AI thinks I'm a communist pedophile terrorist.
What was good about Twitter before? Limited message size. Couldn't edit posts. Impossible to discuss anything with any nuance or civility. Full of echo chambers. Why was it better? Because they kicked off people you didn't like, and whose content you probably didn't follow anyway?

>At least it had a quite decent logo instead of as generic as it get X character.

It's just a logo. Companies come and go. Everyone needs to get over it.

Trying to duplicate WeChat is an objectively interesting strategy. At the very least, by integrating payments your social media platform doesn't have have to sell ads. You could buy items directly off a merchants Twitter/X page and Twitter/X can just take a merchant fee. You could have a market place with integrated payment methods rather than posting on Facebook and working out an intermediate payment method on the side.
> People kept saying friction piles were idiotic in earthquake-prone, sandy soils, but that's precisely the environment where they were first researched

Friction pilings have been in use in NL for 100's of years.
Most people just don't want to shout things, and the ones that do are a tiny unrepresentative minority. Imho it's that simple, and has been from the get-go
You can look at Matrix, but it won't help you, since Matrix additionally has a DAG datastructure for decentralized chatrooms, which allows to recognize and deal with bad servers in an open federation.

Additionally, it's richer in features
Tell me what happened your freenode?

Discord is IRC's next evolution. Next generation chat. Good voice, excellent interactivity.

It has problems (bugs & weak beta phases) but after nearly 20 years of irc, i stopped my bnc (currently znc) instance last week. ~20 years of irc, countless bots, tons of good memories.

it is time to say goodbye for now.
Yup. Those massive land grants begat timber companies. Which in turn begat real estate and development companies.

The story's similar for ranching, mining, power, telecommunications, etc, etc.

TLDR: The government is the source of all wealth.

Which is terrific. So long as the government's ongoing investments are repaid in kind.
Nice, do I understand it correctly that this would mean there is a straight forward way to let Prometheus ingest the new histogram type without needing any new daemons (like otel-collector)?

Currently, it doesn't appear the text format for pull metrics doesn't appear to support it.
I totally agree with you here. The use of a chatbot becomes advantageous when the cost of delivering intelligent responses is prohibitive in terms of quality and / or speed.
I am too very happy with cheap airlines including Ryanair. It is true that their customer service may not be brilliant but they make it more affordable to travel. I think it is a reasonable compromise that benefits us all.
That would be a bigger scandal. If Apple's communication protection protocols could be subverted in flight (i.e., not via endpoint compromises) without Apple's consent or active participation, that would imply that the protocols themselves were just for show.
I'm just tired of relying on people in power to make people care about something that they should intrinsically care about. Sure, you can regulate it, but I feel like it's the equivalent of a parent saying "because I told you so" instead of properly teaching why this regulation exists.
The Press, Exposed as Censors
> If I am trying to contact a business...

You and I both, but it sure does seem that the majority of their calls/interactions are not this way. So many people can't search/discover content on their own.