skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Importance of a feature depends largely on use-cases.

Chat is not just for business. Its use-case existed even before notion of business came to be.
Evidence that the old argument of who should put the seat down is bogus.

Both men and women both should put the cover down.
What if you are not a citizen, but spent some time in the US during that time? Do you need to have had residence at the time, or just an address, or is just being a tourist sufficient? Do you need to have had an account during that time, or did you need to have logged in during that time? Do you need to have told Facebook about that US address?
From the HN Guidelines [1]: "please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

The editorialised title here is misleading, as it's not what the article is really about, it's just mentioned in passing.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
AI Chatbots Are the New Job Interviewers
Yes, I think, because I used to run 2 accounts for a few years.

>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.

so... what? Your country can cause you a lot of harm too if they think you're pedophile terrorist.

That's edge case, not something that happens to 99.99% of the users.
TIL about Comic Chat. Looks like a novelty thing to me, but also I would probably use it today! I'm wondering if they do some sort of sentiment analysis on messages sent from other clients.

Working at Microsoft surely must have been a lot more fun back then.
> Note that the code may cause a context switch even today if the C code callbacks into Python bytecode (via a __del__ method) and the bytecode is long enough (100 instructions I think). However, that is extremely unlikely and much C extension code is not written with such situations in mind.

As someone who works professionally on a parallel / async runtime that supports thousands of continuously running servers, "extremely unlikely" means that actually it breaks all the time, but it's also impossible to debug.
Just don't.
Please.

Don't.

If you can't help yourself, at the very least put in a bypass code word.
https://xkcd.com/806/
What you are contemplating here is a question of English-language semantics and usage, not biology. It is commonplace for words previously used in one restricted sense to be adopted to talk about other situations that are merely analogous in some sense. This is useful and probably inevitable, but it does not mean we can take these disparate uses to imply a sameness, where the expanded usage is merely the consequence of a similarity (and sometimes the similarity is quite abstract.)

In this case, neuronal information storage and retrieval, which is the biological basis of memory as the word is ordinarily used, is quite different and separable from the genetic storage and use of information.
More reasons not to fly with Ryanair. In the past they were the only airline that flown to the closest airport (half hour drive vs 2 hours) were my parents lived. Not an issue anymore.

This sounds horrible and unnecessary
I think in part this is because a lot of people started to be interested in the meta-metrics of scientific work and like any metric once you start tracking it you influence the system you are tracking. Publishers and various scientific actors then made things worse by making those very metrics (a symptom) a goal in its own right. That's what broke the system.
Stroking egos is all that that would do.

It seems that most of our most powerful leaders (so-called) are sociopaths or psychopaths.[1] Are people who are pathologically incapable of basic empathy and compassion going to be moved by a joyride to watch the Big Blue Ball? I wouldn’t hold my breath.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eBN_9rMoVI
The West Chicago Tower Mistery
I fully ignore this New Jersey idiocy with my cars and motorcyles, for the very same reason. The pumps are completely identical over there, so you can just pay with your card like in any every normal state.
I filled my claim out yesterday. The form has a section for deleted accounts, so even if you deleted or recreated account you should be good to go. All you need for the deleted account is some basic info like the email address associated with the account.
They've also been advertising it pretty extensively for quite a while. I signed up close to a year ago I think.

At the end of the day they aren't required to cover every edge case or possible contingency. Like the other person said, its a compromise. If everyone had to file individually, most would never get justice. The settlement gets evaluated for reasonableness by the court for exactly this issue. Not everyone is going to be reachable. For the fraction that aren't, would a reasonable person consider this an acceptable outcome?

At the end of the day its a decent solution to a thorny problem. If there's a better one then by all means propose it to some legal thinkers. But as it stands now, over the course of a very long time legal minds have decided on this and it works alright.
> These companies are not trying to take something from you but are in fact trying to give something to you.

That's incredibly shortsighted.

These companies are only concerned with hyper growth and pleasing their investors, and have zero regards about the user, their privacy, and the harms their products unleash on the public. The benefits they offer to the user are tangential to their goals. This has been the MO of every tech corporation in the past 2 decades, and by all means has grown out of control. The oncoming AI disruption will exacerbate this even further.

The tech industry needs much more regulation, not less. If anything, the EU is being conservative in the scope and lagging behind on the timing of these laws.
Discord has shitty logging and log-search capabilities.

Discord's logging is shitty because:

1 - The logs aren't yours, they're Discord's. If you get banned from the server, your server shuts down, or Discord bans you altogether your access to those logs is gone forever.

2 - Unlike the logs of some IRC channels, Discord's logs aren't available on the web anywhere, so they can't be indexed or searched outside of Discord.

3 - Paging through hours or days of Discord logs is so incredibly painful, because every few screenfuls or so Discord has to load the previous/next logs and that is super slow compared to paging through text logs offline. If you have a lot of logs to page through, this experience is absolutely atrocious.

4 - There's no easy way to export the logs to be processed with standard/powerful text manipulation tools, like text editors, sed, etc..

Discord's search is painful because:

1 - There's no regex search.

2 - No ability to search via web search engines, because the logs aren't available on any website (see above).

3 - No way to search through the logs of multiple servers at once.

I have IRC logs going back decades, from servers I haven't been on in decades, but they're all instantly searchable, and the text in them is easily manipulable.

My Discord logs are trapped in Discord and I'm forced to use Discord's pretty but otherwise horrible UI to search them.

No, the reason Discord is popular has nothing to do with logging, but everything to do with how easy it is to sign up, join, and get a server running. Inline images and not having to learn obscure IRC commands or figure out obtuse IRC clients are also huge plusses for your average user. Discord's client is also visually pleasing -- something that most IRC client developers still haven't figured out. Aesthetics matter to users, as Apple has proved.

But Discord is an information black hole where data goes to die.
>> She was even charged a small fee for the “verification process”.

The Ryanair exec who thought this up gave herself a big bonus for being smart and adding value to the company.
Another proof that, without porn, you cannot win
Thankfully there is a text transcript.
> the news media has for some time been working in concert with civil society organizations, government, and tech platforms, as part of the censorship apparatus.

Those who disagree that this is the case don't bother me. Everyone has a right to be wrong.

What worries me is how many people seem to think that it's a fine idea and that talking about it is at best unseemly.
If you are using GitHub, you can use GitHub Actions or just a basic web hook. If you don’t want any of that and want something Python based, you can use Fabric [1] to run remote shell commands.

[1] https://www.fabfile.org/
DNS's caching behaviour in the wild is incredibly infuriating. We have one team member at my company who is stuck with a stale DNS record for one of our internal services in our application, but their browser works just fine. I've absolutely no idea how to actually fix it, so for that one persons benefit we bought a whole new domain and ported everything to that.

Split DNS has let us do some cool things, and simultaneously caused no end of headaches. See above for the sorts of headaches.
How about partial backlogs? Like say I could "subscribe" to certain keywords (upto a max limit if that's necessary, say 10) and the server will store all messages containing those words or my username.

If I need more context about those messages when I return, I can just ask those users (or a bot).
The problem with in-app messaging is that they still fall back to sms and email MFA.
Some people are also mad, because flying is somewhat bad for a stable climate.
Worth noting that, in some countries, TV guides published numeric codes for each programme. These codes could be punched directly into a video recorder to set up a recording (instead of having to manually select the channel, the date and the start/end times).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_recorder_scheduling_co...
From PEP 703:

> Manuel Kroiss, software engineer at DeepMind on the reinforcement learning team, describes how the bottlenecks posed by the GIL lead to rewriting Python codebases in C++, making the code less accessible:

> "We frequently battle issues with the Python GIL at DeepMind. In many of our applications, we would like to run on the order of 50-100 threads per process. However, we often see that even with fewer than 10 threads the GIL becomes the bottleneck. To work around this problem, we sometimes use subprocesses, but in many cases the inter-process communication becomes too big of an overhead. To deal with the GIL, we usually end up translating large parts of our Python codebase into C++. This is undesirable because it makes the code less accessible to researchers."

For average usage like web apps, no-GIL can be solved by multiprocessing. But for AI workloads at huge scale like Google and DeepMind, the GIL really does limit their usage of Python (hence the need to translate to C++). This is also why Meta are willing to commit three engineer-years to making this happen: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36643670
> it's a law that was pushed by the POLITICIANS

FTFY. The industry is incentivized to reduce cost, politicians are incentivized to increase votes.
I thought it had already been demonstrated that butterflies retain memories acquired premetamorphosis? Eg,

https://www.wired.com/2008/03/butterflies-rem/

The article is odd because it's written as if this hasn't been tested and it has, or I thought it had.

Towards the end they acknowledge butterflies might be different, but don't mention any of the prior research at all.

The whole article is structured very strangely given the existing literature.
I understand. Yet natural language is the natural and most intuitive interface, directly built into our brains. I'm convinced that the default user interface will be LLMs while tech-savvy folks will continue to use command-l'ne like interfaces in the future. For normies, traditional GUIs will most likely be both harder to comprehend and slower to use than LMUIs* when they're maturely implemented. After all these years spent with a smartphone, my older relatives still can't do the simplest operations on their phones. And this is because they don't care (to learn), no non-tech person ever wants to spend their lives learning mere tools more than a software developer wants to learn about the intricacies of their car, and they're justified in that.

* I coined the term rn. Tho probably someone else already did it.
While I agree with your main point that this type of legislation doesn't necessarily stifle innovation, the line of what is considered abuse is subjective.

Legislation like this is effectively either the EU attempting to force their opinion of what is an acceptable use of tech on the rest of the world, or the EU committing to potentially fall behind on moral grounds. I actually greatly respect the second scenario if that's the situation, we'd all be better off if people chose their morals over profit and fear.
US rejects Australia’s calls to end pursuit of WikiLeaks
I was wondering the exact same.
“they would have done it by skipping the Dark Ages”

well, yes, since the “Dark Age” was just the aftermath of the collapse of Roman Imperial projection of military power and law and order... this phrase is a tautology.
Another fantastic UI is IntelliJ (database support is built into the IDE) or Datagrip. It's a paid product, but it's more than worth the money if you use it daily.
It is extremely unlikely that these animals have any sense of self, in which case they would be completely unaware of what's happening to themselves.
Usarcent tests phone app that detects unmanned aerial systems
Yeah I agree with all of these complaints.

EU legislation seems to work under the assumption that all meaningful engineering and innovation is performed at large companies the likes of Siemens.

The utter lack of meaningful influence and representation in the discussion is IMO the biggest culprit in this.
Yes yes you've got a big list of cherry-picked papers and pro-vegan PR which declares "meat bad".

Then just a quick dismissal of goats because it's devastating to your overall point if "vegan" isn't actually the solution and no answer at all to the existence of cash-cropping other then to say 'oh yeah it's probably animal feed'.

Really? Rice is animal feed? Give me a break. There's a reason no one takes vegans activists seriously - you're as loose with the truth and reality as any politician.
I recorded logs back in my IRC days but I never used them for anything or searched through them. That is a complete red herring. Nobody who uses IRC cares about persistent chat. What most people want is to see the last X hours of chat history while they were offline, so if they open their chat client they don't have to stare at an empty window, not the last X months.

Also you forgot to say that Discord had a high quality voice chat back when such a thing was nonexistent in the web and the various desktop clients like Skype were a crapshot or were obscure and required you to host your own server like Mumble.
US Army did. Not sure if they still do.
> If meta refuses there is very little they can do. Facebook can continue to operate without a single person on the ground in UK

If it came to it, Whatsapp could be blocked at the network level. All the gov need to do is impose regulations that forbid ISPs and other infrastructure hosts to carry the traffic.
I haven't spoken to a single technical person in Europe who doesn't despise the GDPR. It is only praised by the Eurocrats themselves or the whole pack of NGOs/think tanks who lives off EU funding. As a guy with a startup I naturally fear this will be as counterproductive as GDPR or the decades of lawsuits against various foreign tech corporations. The fundamental problem is however with the political class.
I think it showed up in an ad somewhere recently and thats how it’s gotten on my radar recently.
Manufacturers deserve this because they became greedy bastards.

My anecdote, i loved my samsung S10 which i had to replace. Their new flagship is heavier, has no headphone jack, no FM radio, no SpO2 meter, and doesnt feel considerably faster. It also seems to heat up a bit more. What the hell is going on. I feel cheated

Apple's phone seem to make slight improvements, but really it's hard to tell anymore.

I think the sector is beyond its peak and about to see a huge slump
GitHub? Ah, they owned by Microsoft? Microsoft not speaking up?
Since F# is a functional language, it allows, using a purely functional approach and a system of strong types, pure functions, to formally verify the correctness of a particular ISA. The emulator is nothing more than a side effect.
Unseen sure, maybe back in 2010.

Nowadays all this is taught in Grade school. If people want to still use Meta or Tiktok or whatnot despite supposedly being taught this growing up: I don't know what to say.

>IT is the same psychological effect as smoking.

I think smoking is a great analogue for this. It did take decades, but we did slowly get people to care about this without needing to suffer the consequences firsthand.

I was hoping we could streamline that a bit quicker this time, but alas. I guess we need to let it spin for a few more generations to get the ball rolling.
Apparently Teams does have push-to-talk, although it's not switched on by default.

[ https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/muting-and-unmuti... ]
I'd probably switch to Discord before using Matrix as my primary way of communication. It's a clusterfuck held together by duct-tape and ADHS.

I try it every now and then and within a couple minutes, I manage to break something, that my Matrix-using friends just shrug off. As an example, just a few days ago I used the web client again and had a chat with a friend. Just for fun, he added a bazillion emoji reactions to one of my messages, and after that the client would always claim our conversation has unread messages, even after right-clicking and selecting "mark as read".

But my favorite is how they broke the IRC bridge about 3 months ago: It randomly drops messages from IRC -> Matrix. There's an issue[1] for this with pretty much no reaction from the devs. Like, nobody cares. So on one hand, the Matrix folks always stress how it's the best chat protocol on the planet because of all the bridges that connect it to everything, but then in reality those brides are unreliable and apparently only there to tick a box, working as well as Microsoft's POSIX layer for Windows NT in the 90s.

And apart from the complete lack of interest in getting this fixed, it also just boggles the mind how you can even break it in this way. IRC has a persistent connection and streams messages separated by CRLF. How do you end up parsing the protocol properly and then randomly ignore a received message?

In its current form, the bridge does more harm than good, as you can't always keep in mind during a conversation that the bridge might just have dropped a message again, leading to frustrating misunderstandings every now and then.

[1] https://github.com/matrix-org/libera-chat/issues/6
Ryanairs Twitter account is hilariously brutal and I don't generally like them but have to hand it to them for that.

https://twitter.com/Ryanair/status/1684158478871404544
Why do people use travel agencies? For me it would just be another layer adding expense, mistakes and complexities. I'm guessing people use them thinking they will reduce those things.
> Lack of security problem unlike the self-hosted alternatives have.

This is a major issue. Back in the day TeamSpeak was the primary mode of communication for game servers of a certain kind. Every game server had an associated TS for offering support and many/most of the teams had their own. This was a disaster with people's IP addresses being leaked all over the place, if you joined a server and associated yourself with your in game name there was a high chance that you'd get DDoS'd offline at an important moment. Switching to discord makes this much less likely.
Does anyone know of the the "other" male scream that started showing up around the mid 1990s? It's a more drawn out almost growl-like yeeeeeeeaaarrrrghhhh. Usually in action movies where someone is falling or blown off a tall building or bridge.

It pops up in trailers a lot it seems around that era.
You don’t need to be a resident to be protected by US laws. Obviously they’re talking about location and not nationality or residence.
ReactJS is objectively bad for an Apple ][ with 16kb.

Also, there's nothing in the statement "different technologies aren't inherently better or worse than other technologies" which requires it be interpreted in isolation or to require it to be interpreted subjectively (or objectively.)

Sometimes we have to deal with the ambiguity of natural language.
The UK doesn't need to implement a Great Firewall; if they succeed in convincing service providers to voluntarily exit the UK market, then each service provider will block traffic to/from the UK on its own. A few shitty laws may be enough to incentivize the emergence of a Great Patchwork Firewall.
Interesting, I do wonder whether this is configurable so you can use it on e.g mouse scroll button
Including people is not political. People are not being political by being different and wanting to participate. People are not being political for wanting to make technology that works for people who have different needs related to their abilities or identities.

Technology doesn't happen in a vacuum. It is made by people and for people. People who are not all the same.

YOU are being political by pretending that including people is political.
That depends on how the diamagnetism comes about. One way in which it could come about which would still make it a big discovery is if the material is locally superconducting but not globally. That would give you diamagnetism without superconductivity on a usable scale and might in turn open the door to modifying the material to increase the size of the superconducting regions. Pure speculation, obviously, the bigger chance is that if the material is 'just' diamagnetic that it is simply diamagnetic in the same way in which other materials are (all particles of which the samples are made are constructed such that all electrons are paired).
I don't think the idea of rogue Discord employees accessing uploaded images for nudes or searching logs for personal information is far fetched.

Consider that a Ring employee was doing exactly that, with customer security cameras, and the only reason they were caught is another employee reported them (and Ring has no idea how many other employees were doing the same thing). [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36146062
I scroll to 70% and by then the secret is given out.
Depending on the outcome I’ll call BS on your BS. Open source AI friendly regulation would certainly support your statement, while regulatory moat for megacorps with sophisticated compliance divisions would entirely obviate your statement.

There is something though that’s chilling EU tech investment, whether it’s regulation or tech, regulation of funding vehicles, or some other artifact. All factors align to a vibrant EU tech sector, yet it’s just not present. This reflects in ludicrously low salaries, poor career prospects, and a lack of clout - better than trying to force tech standards via imperfect mechanisms like regulation the EU should be setting standards by virtue of its technical ability to create excellent tech standards and platforms.

The best EU tech talent I know is working at some American company, be it megacorps like Google or Amazon, JPMC, or smaller tech companies like Datadog, etc. I don’t gloat in this - I wish all the world were firing on all cylinders in tech, space, science, engineering innovation. That’s the only way out of our broken way of doing things that’s killing our planet and our society.
Were you in the United States and used Facebook during that time period? If so, then yes.