skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The answer is: small-size groupchats and they are already here. It depends on the location and your interests, but WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Telegram and Discord groups became prevalent in the previous few years (I don't know about Asia though). I'm personally a member of like 5-6 similar communities. There is virtually no overlap between these, separate groups of friends and people who share the same hobbies. Between 3 and 8 members per group. Usually async communication, but random audio/videocalls are also happening.

The actual platform/app is not really relevant outside of core functionality (chat, audio call, video call, attachments), the main motivational factors seem to be:
- private: yes to inside jokes, no to unknown people
- real: yes to random, realistic, sometimes ugly stuff; no to the empty and fake nature of social media as we know it
- dynamic: spontaneous calls, random pictures about things we see, hear, experience
- prefer actual reality more than virtual reality: groupchats work more like an augmentation than a replacement of real-life communication and gatherings
"America almost certainly won't get attacked or invaded on its own soil,..."

Uh? Ever heard of nuclear intercontinental missiles?
Not all of them. Some models don't support them at all, others only have it as an option. My EB845G8 has the slot, but there's no reader inside.
I wonder if this will encourage writers to adopt standard poetry forms in their writing so that it can more easily be adapted to AI-generated songs.
Go look at how these 5-over-1s burn when they catch fire before they are finished.
Imported plants may be out of order because of biosafety and liability laws, but is there a ban anywhere on genetic manipulation of house plants, if done by an EU company?
Country from IP is usually based on public whois information about the IP range. No spyware involved.

For city-level it gets more complicated. Every provider of IP geo-localization has its own way of doing it. I guess google uses aggregated information from web searches to figure out the city/region for a given IP range... and sometimes it blatantly fails, because ISPs might allocate IPs in unexpected ways for their algorithms, or move them around to different cities/regions. I'm often getting geolocalized (by IP) to a totally different part of the country. I've seen similar behaviours in other countries and with other ISPs, so it's not something that can fail relatively easily.

Then there might be another source of information, which is more spyware-like. Android devices (via the Google play services, I think) participate in constructing a database of cell tower IDs and WiFi access point MAC addresses along with their GPS-derived estimated geographic position (see more: https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/library/geolocation.go...). Apple has a similar service, too. Theoretically the could use the submitted information to geolocalize the source IP range, but I'm unsure whether they actually do it.
I assume it's from the pressure the Apple Vision Pro put by raising the bar on passthrough quality.
And let's not forget that the advantages of WebP are already often way overstated compared to how things really match up when you don't just really on shitty metrics to pretend that images have the same quality.
Gnome supports RDP now.

Also, on pure X, Xpra can do that too.

And, finally: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/VirtualGL
Occam's razor: people are pointing out a major internet service doing something dumb and dangerous because it's a major internet service doing something dumb and dangerous, or they are doing to to... impact the price of something else the same idiot runs, somehow? How is this supposed to work? What is the incentive?

What's I'm getting from this is that Tesla daytraders are now approaching GME levels of persecution complex.
I agree except I suspect the "ongoing political choice" you mention really comes down to ongoing dithering and failure to make a choice, in the USA. Everything from pronouns to COVID to Ukraine get turned into political footballs, used to score points against the other party. The country suffers from lack of leadership, and that's not helped by the historic American isolationism and unwillingness to engage in foreign wars. Now we're heading into an election, one in which Biden can't make any big mistakes, so I don't expect the administration to take any risks.

Referring back to my original comment, Americans have more immediate and pressing things to get pissed off about and pressure politicians over, like price inflation, housing costs, medical costs, homelessness, infrastructure, loneliness, etc. I don't think a majority of Americans can find Ukraine on a map, or know one fact about it other than it has some conflict with Russia. Politicians trying to get more money or do anything that increases America's involvement will not have much public support.

I just spent some time with a friend who lives in Kiev, and was there when the war started. He's leaving, can't have a normal life under those conditions. He agrees with your assessment: Ukraine needs a lot more political and military support from the US or they will lose.
https://github.com/Eugeny/tabby
yes, allen brain atlas (and allen institute in general) is a major force in neuroscience
You are correct, after having read a couple of other comments in here which endorsed similar conspiracy theories, I was primed to read the previous comment as of the poster also believed them. This is probably not even the case, it was just an addition of more theories to the list.

Re-reading my comment, it was also unnecessarily snarky, which is against the hn guidelines as well. So I am a hypocrite anyway, and would be even if the comment I replied to had actually endorsed those conspiracy theories in contradiction with the guidelines.

I'm not sure about the best practice in this case, do I delete my previous comment, or let it stand as a monument to my shame?
more like IP allocation databases and ping times
Jumping-in as I happen to know formance very well; I'm 100% agreeing with the need to know what posting originates from what account, which is why formance transaction format is essentially a container for postings, which themselves are a quantified, directed relation between exactly 2 accounts. So a transaction can indeed impact N >= 2 accounts, but a posting within a transaction will always relate exactly 2 accounts.
If what you say is true, it feels as if it's a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Lower release quality will require more, and more frequent, bug fixes, for which faster shipping is considered important to those high enough in the hierarchy that they don't understand that there could be any drawbacks to 'faster'.
Reemo: <https://reemo.io/>

You don't even need a code or install a client (you can use Chrome). Sometimes I use it for gaming, too.
The Calls for Help Coming from Above the Poverty Line
Yeah, we'll work to improve the documentation on this.

Though.. note that WhatsApp doesn't have any documentation on their key discovery either, because WhatsApp is not a federated system. Achieving automatic end-to-end encryption in a federated system, when it wasn't there before, isn't so easy. So there's bound to be some growing pains, but we're still trying :)
The Calls for Help Coming From Above the Poverty Line
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/poverty-america-low-income-eme...
I'm pretty sure they meant disk, and they have a point.
Not quite. I'm not skilled in mixing enough to know the right description for it, sorry. I can hear vibrato-like modulation/beating, but in the vocal part only.
Id30: An Identifier Scheme for URLs
>this basically comes down to State Actors ... or Everyone Else

This is oversimplification if not misleading. There are also Bad Guys (who aren't state actors), who usually can't reach for your data. But occasionally they can, when rare Planet Parades like Heartbleed or Meltdown make the news. And they are happy to use this one-in-a-lifetime chance to sell access to your data to everyone else.
if only browsers respected this. none of browsers use ETag and If-None-Match mechanism. instead they do their own wizzardy caching...
>What's to stop you from cutting your price to grab some business from me?

The fact that the parties mutually benefit from their collusion, which is why they sought to price fix in the first place. It's an agreement like any other.

Please, just read up on the definition of price fixing. It'll clear these questions up for you.
Interestingly I’ve heard this observation about American managers in US multinational businesses in Europe, that they seem to performatively do the long hours, for the sake of their own managers view of them, but that little of it is actual productive time.

I’ve not really observed it myself, and I’d suspect that part of it might be very different styles or ways of working. But maybe there’s a grain of truth there.
Even setting aside languages spoken in multiple places, please leave the accept language header to languages, not regions. I have en us, because that's the language I want, but I've never been in the US and probably never will.
The new GitHub CS is pretty great indeed. Still not on par with it's role model, but getting closer.
See also vocaloid 'performers' such as Hatsune Miku or Ia in Japan.
>With Eclipse all this was instantly and unambiguous ...

Still is, and is the main reason why a lot of us will never jump ship.
Hmm, I think a rambling song form would have been a better fit.
It's not like life has any worth in its own right. It's sad that he was driven that far, but what could you really have done? No use blaming yourself.
sooo is there a price for the author ? ha!
Email addresses are typically stored in the User ID in OpenPGP keys, so as long as the OpenPGP key is on keys.openpgp.org, the email address will be there as well. They can be deleted by the owner whenever, of course.
Complete bullshit.

If you're only building a mega project so you're forced to develop the infrastructure around it, why don't you choose a sensible megaproject instead? Answer: because that's not why they're doing it, you just made that up.
...
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
No thing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare.
So you know, sbts-aru is an audio recording program. However, in one command it sets an an overlayFS protected SD card setup and chrony GPS based time synchronization. You can turn off all the recording related stuff and then you have a stratum #1 time server for your network. Real easy, real cheap. No more time problems.

There's no reason now for all geeks not to have at least one stratum #1 time server in their networks. Really none.
For me it's the opposite. This is interesting in its absurdity, the mistakes it makes, how it tries and somewhat fails to convey emotion etc.

Someone making a "proper" song where they just sang these words would be quite boring, then I'd rather spend my time checking out other music.
But, perhaps uniquely amongst all the systems for avoiding boilerplate since Lisp macros were introduced in the 1950s, it will sometimes make stuff up. I don't buy that "a worse way to write boilerplate" is going to revolutionise programming.
Pretty cool. I’ve been using a Google Map for this, adding a pin for each place I’ve been. I use Apple Photos to some extent as well, as there is a map view, but that’s only good for places I’ve been since 2007.

My biggest concern with your project, as well as Google Maps and Apple Photos, is longevity. In 40 years will I be able to look back at an overview of all the travels I’ve taken in my life? I’ve been thinking I should probably have a text document with the basics, so at least I have the information to enter into something in the future, if all the other platforms die along the way.
>1. Patents usually involve a lot of research — and existed as a way to ensure that competition couldn't imitate your product without also making that investment, licensing it from you, etc.

I agree with the gist of your comment, but a fundamental issue with patents is that your investment in research can be destroyed if someone else independently did overlapping research and filed first.
I belong to the first generation enjoying the end of Portuguese dictorship in 1974, had family involved in the colonial wars, or taken by the security services, I know pretty well how terrible it can turn out to be.
When recorded music was invented, musicians protested. Recorded music was devoid of any vitality or soul. Recorded music still became a hit. Then we got the synthesizer. Again we got the same complaints, lifeless and without soul. The synthesizer still became a hit. Now the next step is happening, and we see the same complaints all over.

Only time will show if the next step will happen anyway. My gut feeling tells me that AI art will gain acceptance over time, and we will just think of it as "art" or "music", just as we did with recorded mysic and synthetic sounds.
> There are numerous of cases of financiers, academics, etc. who have
been expelled because they have corrected their beliefs in contrary
to the groups.

The best thing to do is leave. Once you cross that Rubicon, never
think "I can change this system/institution from within". You will die
on that hill.

I wish people had better psychological education and preparation to
understand what institutions are. Realistic preparation before joining
the police, army, government, or academia would help many people avoid
so much suffering - and make those institutions "better" by making it
easier for differently-thinking individuals to get out and start new
movements or institutions.

It's really hard, because sometimes ones whole identity gets wrapped
up in that group. Cult leavers often talk about this. Rejecting the
ideas is the comparatively easy part. Escaping the people is
harder. But hardest of all is escaping the part of yourself that
identifies.

Sorry I don't have a better link to this video [0], but it matches my
experience, of waking up one day in an in institution I had outgrown,
surrounded by tiny-minded, compliant, insecure, mutually hostile,
self-deluding people. It takes courage to move on.

[0] https://youtu.be/LKiBlGDfRU8?si=yn9ii7jkoJ1w2pMo
Yes indeed. Science.org recently published an interesting interview [0] on exactly that, that even made the HN front page.

[0] https://www.science.org/content/article/now-we-know-where-de...
Meta 'discussed buying publisher Simon and Schuster to train AI'
Global Emissions Could Peak Sooner Than You Think
> experiment, for example, with religious moderation

I'm not sure if this is satire or not... Religious moderation should be the default, not something to 'experiment' with.
An important feature to me is being able to ignore epub's CSS rules and embedded fonts that are otherwise enforced.
The 'why' is missing from the title of the article on the page on which it's published.
> That the Saudis spend their money on stupid vanity projects?

I guess over human rights transgressions. But the collective West is very selective on whose transgressions they are willing to overlook and whose not.

And, indeed, at this point, in no position to play hardball with the Saudis.
In principle there isn't. But there are laws about introduction of such organisms. So it's fine to do that in a lab. But the moment you put the plant in a pot on your balcony you are in trouble.

You need official approval for that. But obtaining it is borderline impossible. Not even the biggest agrotech corporations are trying anymore. There are only a handful of approved organisms, and some countries in EU go even further and ban them as well.

So nobody can use them, so nobody will sell them, so nobody will develop them.
There is an ongoing effort to bypass these restrictions for CRISPR based technologies. But who knows how effective will that be.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_of_genetic_engineer...
The experience of knowing there's a human behind the message is valuable. People hated corporate propaganda "art" before AI was a thing, for the same reason it is not human.
You want to install a filter the size of a small city?
> For decades, they wanted to diversify away from oil and build tech industries. The problem is they don’t have skilled labor and would have to import “slaves” as they do with everything.

Quite correct. I had people reaching out to me saying they want me to contract for Arabic millionaires -- websites, backends, a lot of stuff together -- but every time they demanded time tracking, they wanted to know my physical address, wanted my photo, and one of them even wanted me to install camera so he can track me in real time with some misguided AI-based software.

Each time I giggled to myself and responded something along the lines of:

"While the offer sounds tempting financially, and while I would love to have some tech independence, your offer falls short on the privacy front, and it also contains clauses that can nullify the independence to choose tech tomorrow. I'll have to decline and if you are open to feedback: insisting on face tracking is not how you hire the really good programmers, to which I don't pretend to belong but have known a good number of them".

So yes their mindset is apparently always 10 masters + 20_000_000 slaves and as hard as they are trying, they will not export this culture to anywhere else except maybe India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, China and a few others. The West will not change for them no matter how rich they are.

The Qatari have also obviously paid off various FIFA officials but hey, that's just football.
"Cycling on the moon" – lyrics by Gemini, music by Suno
Alternate version: https://suno.com/song/ec93d589-c675-49e1-9cbd-fc9bf828fb91

Took me in total 10seconds to create lyrics in Gemini Advanced, copy-paste in Suno and generate.

How will artists survive this ?
Safe relative to what?

Being a Venetian banker or Chinese tea exporter wasnt that safe. What about prospecting for gold in Colorado river valleys where bears hang out? Moving trains of camels thru the Sahara? Chasing whales around for years at a time without going home.

Today is way better.
Show HN: Chrome extension to remove unwanted domains from Google search results
Quora has been ranking really high on Google search recently, and I dislike the content and UX of their site so much that I actively avoid clicking on any Quora link.

So I built this extension that removes their links (and any other domain you want - it's configurable!) from Google search results.

It's free and open source. Install it and enjoy a cleaner Google experience :)
Clearly you dislike gulf countries.

The points raised are a mixture of facts, fiction, jealousy and dislike.

You want them to boil in desert heat with some environmental appeal, while many countries pump the air full of pollution from factories or massive ICE cars

I haven’t heard of back alley executions over there

I don’t feel hate towards someone spending their money on 2 cars or a holiday house or whatever luxury shoes, or paint their house whatever color. Why does it annoy you so much.

Why hate on people with different taste, very strange

I get it’s ok to hate on gulf countries without backlash more than hating on say Denmark

FWIW I’m not from there and don’t live there
UAE is well on its way to being the Switzerland of the Middle East and Indian Ocean. Your rhetoric sounds like it’s from 2003.