skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think there's a lot of democracy in having some gazillionaire buy a social media platform and then interfere in the politics of other sovereign nations/continents.

As a EU citizen I hope we get rid of Twitter at some point and build a sovereign communications infrastructure and domestic firms abiding by our local laws, because that is what a democracy is about.
In Poland, the default way for computer shops in 2000-2010s was to offer 2% discount when paying in cash. (The prices displayed were assuming cash, so if you paid by card, you'd pay more.)

I didn't see this anywhere else though. It probably made sense for computer shops because most transactions one would do there would be sporadic, big, and planned.

(Since then, the Mastercard/Visa fees went down to 0.2-0.3% due to EU rules, so probably those discounts are less popular now).
It's funny because this is far worse PR than could ever result from "letting" members be people outside of their membership. But I guess the PR they mean here is how corporations perceive them and the results on income, not how human developers who write code perceive them.
Google won quite handsomely by shutting down in China. Remember that this was 2018, shortly before the social justice movement reached its fever pitch. At the time, Google employees would have burned the place down over project Dragonfly.

As for Chinese customers, I believe their tech giants are competitive regarding Google search. But if the Chinsese tech giants werent competitive at least the Chinese consumers would be shielded from Google's monopolistic abuse ;)
Personally, I agree with you.

But there’s also a possibility that users are getting banned for other activity/content, not the public criticism. Perhaps that what the parent could be highlighting by weighing in with an anecdata.

Similarly, something recently happened with Richard Dawkins on FB, IIRC. His account was banned following unusual activity, but Dawkins publicly announced that he was banned for his stupid (and factually wrong) ideas about the sex/gender of one of the female Olympic boxers. It turns out his account was either directly phished or the account of a moderator was phished and his FB Page (not his account) was banned (pending account recovery and cleanup).
Only if you don't care about doing any business in those countries, which, I'll enlighten you, you do.
Corruption never ends.
The sad thing is that when a real disease will come, nobody will believe those impostors.
I sat in a taxi once when he received a call purporting to be from HMRC about his taxes. I think I managed to intervene forcefully enough to make him understand that no, HRMC would not ask him to call back via Vyber or whatever, and no they'd never ask him to send money without actually sending a letter.

But this only after he had called them back while I was listening in - that was when I interrupted.

A big problem is so many people have situations ongoing with HMRC (as did that taxi driver) that it seems plausible to them, because it's all confusing anyway, so make the call a bit scary and people seem to shut off all critical senses.

I stressed to him that if he got any calls like that again and was unsure, to always hang up and call the numbers on the HMRC website, and hopefully he got the point...
The debate is what EU would do if foreign companies don't obey EU's laws.

The debate is not whether the US will do something draconian the EU is doing today.
And what are some of those users?
I am willing to bet every single one of those got banned for something else.

I regularly see criticism of elon by large accounts, >millions in followers.
Unless it's due to Firefox not supporting some reasonable standard, it's Google's fault.

The only thing one can possibly blame on the developer is the wording.
I wonder what EU will come up with in the future, some kind of digital cash? Private transactions that must work instantly with all banks doing business in the EU?
Several countries here have their own solution, but none of them are compatible with each other. (Please correct me)
As for the Indian government, I would argue that it is still largely socialist (high direct and indirect taxes that translate to strong social spending in poorer parts of the society, and rural areas[1]), and is still considerably more to the left than much of the west.

I would concede that on social matters the government does lean conservative, and is not as liberal as one would expect, but in many ways, that is an indictment of current society, and a part of life, that I don't see changing in the near term (25 years or so).

The social fabric of a nation is intrinsic to it's continued stable existence. Mass upheaval in a short duration is dangerous for the continued improvement of welfare of the people. So, it can be argued that preventing mass change demographics is a part of the duties of the government. [2]

[1] See central government schemes like Jal Shakti, LPG subsidy, Urea Subsidy etc

[2] This is a subjective opinion, but imo mass immigration is dangerous, and recent examples in Europe do demonstrate the dangers of sudden changes in demographics. At the same time, diversity is important, and so is immigration by _skilled_ professionals, with the eventual transfer of skills (and technology) to native (for whatever value of native) people.
You can’t participate in performance arts remotely.

Not to say anything about networking, which is critical for most arts.
I considered learning this but decided on flutter instead. Glad it's still going though.
I honestly have no idea why the fantasy persists that people given free time will broadly start contributing to society when there's so much evidence to the contrary like the Asian hikikomori phenomenon and their western equivalents. People will simply vegetate in front of their TV / smartphone.
I understand. I just mention it because many small business don’t have the cash reserve to offer anything if insurance doesn’t provide it.
Installing SUSE Linux 7.0 from 2000 [video]
And keepass keeps complete history since the file was created. Someone was really sloppy in Microsoft in the design phase.
"All things are poison, and nothing is without poison; the dosage alone makes it so a thing is not a poison."
Technically the merchant is paying the fee, and he perhaps is passing some or all of it to you.

The reason merchants might not pass it all to you if that they get a lot more sales volume when they support credit cards, so they can still be more profitable while paying for some of those fees.

I know I'm going to get hated for saying this, but the businesses that charge extra for credit card use under $10 are trying to extract as much out of you - they're aiming to get the best of both worlds. The price of their goods are still such that they're assuming you'll pay with a card.

At the end of the day a business has several costs. Rent, cost of shipping, utilities, etc. When these go up so do the costs of goods. Credit card fees are no different in that regard. If they hated it that much they wouldn't support credit card payments. They do support it because then know it'll bring in more revenue than without - and will easily pay for itself and more.
Flexible multitask computation in recurrent networks uses shared dynamic motifs
It says choosing the most common word was just 1/5 (and their best LLM was 4/15)
> Most countries that aren't the US basically did this, in one way or another.

Most countries that ARE the US put the burden on the business and the credit card companies, and limit the liability to the credit card holder ($50 max, sometimes $500)

I've known people in other countries that lost money and they were SOL in comparison. Maybe they have cheaper transaction fees.
Does anyone know if this means hot deals on extra EV inventory?

I tried to buy an electric golf cart which looked like a Hummer on Alibaba, but importing it (getting it past customs) was challenging. They had me at MP3 player!

If I could buy an EV for $3k, it would be worth the hassle with charging infrastructure and hiding an illegal vehicle from the coppers. </joke>
Even with the CNCF badge there is no guarantee. See the sketchy ownership semi scandal over Linkerd
> How difficult is it to test your site on the 3 major browser engines?

Given that one of those 3 requires sending thousands of dollars a year to Apple, I'd say "very".

Also, given that Google is a monopoly, I do place the onus on them to at minimum warn developers that they are deviating from well supported standards.
Hey Brian! Just wanted to say that I really appreciate all the work that you put into Magic Wormhole.
I find myself using Send Anywhere [1] all the time. I couldn't find documentation on how the files are transferred or if they're uploaded to their cloud, but it's very handy. They claim the files are encrypted in transmission, but don't give details & could just be talking about SSL.[2]

When you choose the files you want to transfer, it gives you a 6 digit code or a QR code. Once you enter that, the files are transferred! It's available for most all major platforms, but isn't open source. [3]

I haven't read their privacy policy. Frankly, I'd rather not know...

[1] https://send-anywhere.com/

[2] https://support.send-anywhere.com/hc/en-us/articles/11500385...

[3] https://support.send-anywhere.com/hc/en-us/articles/11500388...
These systems act as sort of a fraud insurance. I think in an ideal world we would have low friction low cost money transfers, but people could purchase insurance against fraud. There are complications to this, such as how to be both efficient and avoid abuse, but it would simplify every day life not having to think about a million different payment systems.
I think mature individuals will be able to overlook significant differences in one another and focus on the outcome: helping the team and the business succeed. If I picked up a signal that a candidate wouldn’t meet this bar, I wouldn’t hire them.
Yes someone can disrupt this, but only really banks and Apple can do this in the US. All you need is stakes to lose besides money, like credit scores or even like Internet access, and robust, compulsory authentication.
The famous VLC seeking corruption still happens to me. Happened on an i3 NUC HTPC recently. So using MPC-HC or MPV now depending.
X suspends business in Brazil over censorship row
> What other institutions (or democratic tools) should have acted to halt the extremist anti-democratic movement lead by Bolsonaro?

I am not familiar with Bolsonaro's movement, but censoring people under the guise of protecting democracy doesn't seem very democratic to me? At the very least, you have to admit here that there is a slippery slope where a good intentioned government or justice system could progressively get further away from these good intentions, and start using its power merely for the preservation of it?

It seems to me that censoring ideas that seem dangerous is far more dangerous than trying to correct them, and that a very high level of free speech is one of the most powerful antidotes against this slippery slope.
This is the best interactive website about LLMs at a meta level (so excluding prompt interfaces for actual AIs) that I've seen so far.

Quizzes can be magical.

Haven't seen any cooler new
language-related interactive fun-project on the web since:

https://wikispeedruns.com/

It would be great if the quiz included an intro or note about the training data, but as-is it also succeeds because it's obvious from the quiz prompts/questions that they're related to HN comments.

Sharing this with a general audience could spark funny discussions about bubbles and biases :)
> Would a 24/7 AI-Generated Twitch Stream Even Work Anymore?

Yes. There is right now a 24/7 live discussion happening right now around posts on Twitter / X with a panel of.....AI characters giving their expert opinion on a Twitch live stream. [0]

[0] https://www.twitch.tv/timelesstakes/
You said it outperforms the average professional in any of these occupations (including detective and artist?) and more? That’s a very bold claim. Can you substantiate that somehow? I don’t disagree for a second that incrementally better LLMs + robotics will be able to automate a large portion of labor, but that doesn’t in my eyes make them smarter than humans. Jobs today aren’t exactly the fullest realization of human potential; you wouldn’t call a robotic arm smarter than a human for being better on the line.
Traces are valuable. But otherwise, I feel like most monitoring information is noise, unactionable or better collected elsewhere.
I sure hope my brain surgeon isn’t trying to create an opportunity to practice dealing with rare complications!
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41275600
I think the word is rather use is copyleft! Agpl is fully open source in its truest sense! It’s so open that it ensures it always stays open!
YES!

That is awesome!

We are fully in the same context window. I'd like to collaborate with you on this.

I started in thinking about giving the AIs an Archetype to follow, "Contextual Archetype Framework: https://i.imgur.com/yngUwpr.png

Where I can inform the AI as to what lens I want it to be from, then it evolved to the discernment lattive - but its very similar to Semiotic as you've put it.

When I was attempting to get a GPT to start building a matrix of conenctions:

>I apologize, but I do not feel comfortable creating a graph of personal connections and relationships based on this private contact information without the consent of the individuals involved. Building such a network could enable privacy violations or misuse of personal data. Perhaps we could have a thoughtful discussion about information ethics and responsible data practices instead.

--

In your project you state:

https://i.imgur.com/HZwWrZA.png

enrich_data_with_external_knowledge(named_entities):
Enriches named entities with additional context from Wikipedia and Google Knowledge Graph

Which is what I was going after...

So then I had to get it so that I can build an independent Discernment Lattice as a JSON, then have it load that into itself as the constraints and things to follow.

em@il me sstave proton me - I like to get on a discord/slack and chat about these "one foot in the bin" loony tewns.
I guess I am an old dog that never bothered with Spring Boot, so hard to answer.
https://go.dev/doc/go1#iteration

> The old language specification did not define the order of iteration for maps, and in practice it differed across hardware platforms. This caused tests that iterated over maps to be fragile and non-portable, with the unpleasant property that a test might always pass on one machine but break on another.

> In Go 1, the order in which elements are visited when iterating over a map using a for range statement is defined to be unpredictable, even if the same loop is run multiple times with the same map. Code should not assume that the elements are visited in any particular order.

> This change means that code that depends on iteration order is very likely to break early and be fixed long before it becomes a problem. Just as important, it allows the map implementation to ensure better map balancing even when programs are using range loops to select an element from a mapl.
I’m impressed by how well semi-recent games run on my M3 Macbook using GPTK and Rosetta through Whisky. (30-60fps on high settings at the native ~2k resolution.) Apple could turn the Mac into a truly great gaming platform if they had a team dedicated to building and maintaining something akin to Proton. Alas…
> "cisgender" is banned but there are people posting the N-word and inciting racial hatred to millions of views

Don't both words get equally restricted views?
Is it possible that the inversion layer creates a structure for sound to reflect/refract back down towards the sensor, when it in fact the original source was on the ground? You might not detect it laterally if there were a bunch of trees in the way.
Switching from Android to iOS for a phone, I found that Microsoft Authenticator officially doesn't support this. You can't backup, you can't transfer. Everything is lost, please start anew.
Censoring isn't the same as investigating the use of bots and fake news to spread rumors and lies for polítics gain and literal profit. The right tries to confuse people by mixing their crimes with free speech.
If anyone is looking for the mpv core with a GUI on macOS, take a look at IINA https://github.com/iina/iina
In my opinion, yes. It's smaller, simpler, snappier, yet has everything and then some under the hood if one really needs this or that function.
I wasn't yet planning for it, but what the heck.

https://zynk.it is a new project I've been working on together with a small team aimed at delivering a truly easy, fast, efficient, unlimited, privacy-respecting and pain free file-sharing experience. It’s peer-to-peer, E2EE and avoids centralized storage, aligning with the ethos of control and transparency we often discuss here. It allows users to send and receive any file(s) or folder(s) without any limits whatsoever between any device/OS and any device/OS, send and forget, Zynk takes care of all the heavy lifting.

What I hope sets Zynk apart is that it is built to literally be used by anyone, be it a power user, or my mom.

One of my main goals with this project is to remove any pains associated with data transfer once and for all, for any use case.

I'm curious if this resonates with you—would you use it? What would make it indispensable for your workflows?

I'd be happy to discuss it more if anyone is interested. Feel free to sign up for early access on the site.
Show HN: Create Calendar Events from Itineraries
Hi!

I recently booked a few flights with points on Chase. Since they were through Chase and not through the airline, Google didn't automatically add them to my calendar. This year, I've also been attended a few weddings with long itineraries and a music festival with a selection of artists I wanted to add to my calendar.

These _should_ be trivial to add to a calendar. Instead you end up transcribing a lot of info and double checking your timezones manually. It was easy to find a lot of people who struggled with creating events for a variety of reasons, so I figured this might be worth spending a couple hours to make a tool for this. (here's one example of many: https://old.reddit.com/r/delta/comments/19fde5h/adding_itine... )

That's why I made invite.sh, a thin GPT wrapper that takes any description of an event as input (flight confirmation emails, wedding itineraries, etc) and outputs calendar invite links for Google, Yahoo, Office365, and Outlook so you can easily add any events to your calendar.

The site is live at https://www.invite.sh/
It's also open source! I'd appreciate stars: https://github.com/jrhizor/invite

It's pretty simple, and yet-another-gpt-wrapper, but I'm hoping the addition of a UI makes it a bit more user friendly than trying to get this output from ChatGPT directly. Please let me know what you think!
Assuming you use Microsoft Entra ("Azure Active Directory" as was), get your employer to enable the "preview" support for Security Keys. Why is it off by default? Well it's actually secure, and it would never do to provide a feature out of the box that actually works without lots of fiddling about, this is Microsoft, the consultant's friend.

These seem to be relatively current instructions: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity/authenticat...

Having found a friendly sysadmin to do this, ask them to specifically not "Enforce key restrictions" which is theory could let your empoloyer require employees to use a specific issued authenticator credential - are they going to buy every employee an authenticator from a named brand? No? Then this must not be switched on, easy.

Once this feature is enabled for you (you may be able to get them to switch it on for the whole org, or maybe for IT or whatever department you work in) you should be able to enrol a new Security Key the same way you'd add other MFA.

So why go to all this bother? Because you can buy a Security Key that works how you want, a physical piece of hardware you own and can re-use - if you buy say the Yubico Security Key 2 in USB A, that goes in your USB A port on the laptop or dock and it just stays there. Its job is to be "Something you have" and the "Something you know" will be a PIN of your choosing (it literally doesn't leave your device, so corporate can't decide it should be the Password Game on steroids)

No need for a phone or other unrelated device, no opening fiddly apps, no transcribing codes, you type your PIN and touch the sensor. If a PIN is too much, some pricier options take fingerprints, so then you just touch the sensor (with the correct finger)
When I wrote that comment I knew someone would come out and use New York City as a counterexample.

The reality is except for a few of the really major cities those types of stores are usually more expensive than their larger counterparts in virtually all other cities in the US.

In my city I'm not going to get cheaper groceries by going to the smaller stores. They are more expensive regardless of whether they support credit cards or not. They may be superior and certain other aspects but price is not one of them.

My guess is the opposite may be true only in places where owning a car is expensive or inconvenient.
The article it's cherry-picking one minor incident of many more, to superficially construct a narrative to provoke the kind of reaction you're having at the moment (how could someone be banned just by referencing a snl skit), so readers instantly pick his side without considering all other repeated violations of their CoC:

Overloading the discussion of the bylaws change (47 out of 177 posts in topic at the time the moderators closed the topic), which created an atmosphere of fear, uncertainty, and doubt, which encouraged increasingly emotional responses from other community members. The later result of the vote showed 81% support for the most controversial of the bylaws changes, which demonstrates the controversy was blown out of proportion.

Defending “reverse racism” and “reverse sexism”, concepts not backed by empirical evidence, which could be seen as deliberate intimidation or creating an exclusionary environment.

Using potentially offensive language or slurs, in one case even calling an SNL skit from the 1970s using the same slur “genuinely funny”, which shows a lack of empathy towards other community members.

Making light of sensitive topics like workplace sexual harassment, which could be interpreted as harassment or creating an unwelcoming environment.
Casually mentioning scenarios involving sexual abuse, which may be inappropriate or triggering for some audiences.

Discussing bans or removals of community members, which may be seen as publishing private information without permission.

Dismissing unacceptable behavior of others as a “neurodivergent” trait, which is problematic because it creates a stereotype that neurodivergent people are hard to interact with and need special treatment.

Excessive discussion of controversial topics or past conflicts, which could be seen as sustained disruption of community discussions.

Use of potentially offensive terms, even when self-censored or alluded to indirectly.

Making assumptions or speculations about other community members’ motivations and/or mental health.

Source: https://discuss.python.org/t/three-month-suspension-for-a-co...

(I don't necessarily agree with either side, I just find it worthy pointing out that the article is bending the story to fit a narrative the author usually tries to paint).
Latencies. This is a sure fire flag that something is amiss.