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If you're traveling via Europe, you could finish US border control in Ireland directly before departure and won't be checked again.

Very much. Try to start a union in China and see how communist that country is. China is essentially a right-wing hypercapitalist country run by a dictatorship.

AI will also just run some query or grep commands against it for the most part and has no magical way of finding connections that a human can’t.

Interestingly, contamination of the forensic equipment was considered early on already. However, due to the geographic area of the findings and initial negative control tests using fresh swabs, they ruled it out.

The way you describe the alternative option seems not very good faith.

So far, the EU's track record on privacy is definitely a lot better though. Not saying it'd always stay that way of course.

The emphasis of "domestic" surveillance is definitely concerning.

That's true but OpenAI also isn't introducing ads to the Plus accounts as far as I'm aware.

>Not Google.

Google's main revenue source (~ 75%) is advertising. They will absolutely try to shove in ads into their AI offerings. They simply don't have to do it this quickly.

I find the quality is not consistent at all and of all the LLMs I use Gemini is the one most likely to just verge off and ignore my instructions.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46780065 (2 days ago, 70+ comments)

I think Kagi buys search engine results from SERP vendors who typically scrape Google’s results and offer an API experience on top of it.

I find your critique not very sensible. Point-of-sale systems are not necessarily tied to the payment terminal just because they communicate to each other. If companies choose to use Stripe they do have to set up their own invoicing and tax handling. Your comment makes it sound like Stripe hides this fact and thus users end up not handling tax or invoices because they were mislead. But if you run any kind of businesses being on top of taxes is obviously paramount. I don’t quite get your gripe here.

Stripe never claimed to handle tax however. Merchants have to handle tax on their own. This is no different than accepting cash or using a card terminal in your shop. The payment processor does not handle your tax for you.

The SE has a minimum capital requirement of 120k € so is not within reach for most people. I think this EU-Inc would be a simple structure with a lower threshold.

I am absolutely for it. There are too many different types of company structures in the individual EU countries and they don’t work well when you move and come with all sorts of different risks. Obviously many are also just cumbersome to start and dissolve. You could start five US LLCs within ten minutes of filling out some online forms whereas to start one European entity depending on the country you might have to make a notary appointment, register with the national registry and the tax authority. I think there’s a lot of room for improvement which can take days to weeks.

> Most of the whining I've heard about DB boils down to inconvenience in situations nobody could have predicted nor helped [..]

I agree with you that there’s a lot of complaining and it does get tiresome. The German train system is one of the most complex in the world and works closer to an interconnected spider web than the typical straight line systems in other countries.

However much of this has been predicted in the past. I think that’s why a lot of people are annoyed. Here are some sources if you’re interested to read more:

(2006) Audit critique regarding the bad state of DB funding after privatization: https://dserver.bundestag.de/btd/16/008/1600840.pdf

(2011) DB is not spending enough on the track network: https://taz.de/Investitionen-in-das-Schienennetz/%215117195/

(2014) State of German train bridges: https://www.zeit.de/mobilitaet/2014-09/deutsche-bahn-bruecke...

> If you find yourself in a similar situation and want out - call emergency services, say chest pain, out of breath, and where you are.

It is if you instruct people how to best lie to emergency services because your train was delayed.

DB‘s quality decline started when this move to privatization happened. They didn’t put money into maintenance, closed lot of tracks and ignored all warnings by experts who predicted this exact scenario more than a decade ago. Most of the time now DB issues seem to be connected to a lack of available tracks. A super fast ICE has to wait for some slow train to clear the path. There’s an issue on one track and thus the entire traffic is backed up till that’s resolved.

I do think they’re working on improving these conditions. But I wish they did more to communicate that. Where is the big marketing campaign explaining how they got there, apologizing, and explaining how they will do better?

That was my first thought too. I replayed it recently. Still a great game.

It’s a complicated question nowadays as the first generation of networks that were really all about networking have mostly died out or morphed into algorithmic feeds. So the question is whether there’s a market for this classical networking at all. If so for a network to make sense you do need networking effects of some kind as people would likely not want to pay to be registered to a service that shows them having 0 friends. I do think it’s a difficult bet.

I can however see this for niches and small groups. Something more akin to old school bulletin board forums. In a sense Metafilter works a bit that way already.

Was there any concern about giving the LLM access to this return data? Reading your article I wondered if there could be an approach that limits the LLM to running the function calls without ever seeing the output itself fully, e.g., only seeing the start of a JSON string with a status like “success” or “not found”. But I guess it would be complicated to have a continuous conversation that way.

> No you don't.

Growing old together is what couples want. He was afraid he would lose her to cancer thus he’s happy they’re getting older as it means they’re both still here together.

In a grand view removed 1000 years from now the introduction of digital communication and their network effects must have been pivotal though even if it was in a negative way (which very well may be). I just doubt that would then be a point about Facebook specifically as this is just a tiny slice of that era, I think.

Similarly overlooked is the philosophy of the Americas before European colonization. A great read I recommend to anyone who’s interested: “ Aztec Philosophy: Understanding a World in Motion” by James Maffie

It obviously only focuses on the Aztecs so hardly a deep dive on all there is to learn.

I do think this is tenable as long as these services are reliable. Even though there have been some outages I would argue that they’re incredibly reliable at this point. If though this ever changes the costs to move to a competitor won’t be as simple as pushing a repository elsewhere, especially for AWS. I think that’s where some of the potential danger lies.

It’s that time of the year again where we all realize that relying on AWS and Cloudflare to this degree is pretty dangerous but then again it’s difficult to switch at this point.

If there is a slight positive note to all this, then it is that these outages are so large that customers usually seem to be quite understanding.

How did you determine the tags?

Same and always wanted to be completely offline for that length of time.

> Maybe I’m just web framework jaded.

At the end of the day there have been a lot of new things in web development but none of them are of such a significance that you’re missing out on anything by sticking with what works. I personally just like to go with a mature backend framework (usually Laravel or Django) and minimal JS on the frontend. I’ve tried many of the shiny new libraries but have not seen much reason to switch over.

That aspect I don’t find all that concerning. I just wish they had a page where they explain what AI preparation entails.