Added myself for the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg / Luxembourg (City) (lu-Luxembourg as this meet.hn encodes that country-city).
Motivated to meet dmichulke, pvtmert and uselpa... And the others who may join.
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#192I've often thought about building something like this into HN itself and having a 'meet' tab at the top. There are so many people, me included, whose lives have been changed by HN. I would love to find a way to encourage more positive effects in the real world. Not sure exactly how this would work, but it's encouraging to see the community taking up the cause again, and I'll be interested to hear about how this goes. If people start having real meetups maybe we can sponsor a semi-official thread about them or something.
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#193I am trying to register from Warsaw, Poland - but I always get a 'City not found' error - I've tried Warszawa, Polska and Warszawa, Poland too.
It reports the error already at the first letter and never changes.
I am using Firefox and I get lots of Javascript errors.
I am curious how the three users that are visible on the map registered.
*Update:* the Openstreetmap call that is used seems to be correct: https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?city=Warsaw&count... - this leads to the right data - so I guess the page is updated after I fill up the correct name, but some Javascript error blows up the process.
This is the primary candidate:
Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: x is undefined NextJS 17 h cache validationFunction p t setTimeout handler*8245/Q/*Update:* It also failed in Chrome. With the following error in web console:
Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'split') at page-9fc22f2169c430e1.js:1:1223 at async validationFunction (page-9fc22f2169c430e1.js:1:56767) at async p (page-9fc22f2169c430e1.js:1:47487)
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#194How bold of people to openly share their geolocations when doxing and swatting are routine happenings. Happy for y'all.
Hundreds of millions of people have posted some geographical information about themselves on the internet without being swatted. This is like saying that people who ride public transportation are bold because murders happen there
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#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
People move all the time. People also often have multiple accounts, which they could use to determine which accounts are located where.
Then it would need a GPS-backed proof to allow more location changes while preventing abuse. There's always an intended use case and corner cases which could be handled via support ticket, thus passing through human judgement. If there is a secure app on your phone, then how can you have multiple accounts?
Well, one answer might be that someone could spin up emulators
Or reverse engineer whatever app you have.
Or reset their phone? (or would you restrict it somehow to one account per physical phone? What happens if it gets sold or given away?)
Having worked in fraud detection a bit, it's _really_ hard to prevent people from making multiple accounts. Short of requiring ID based verification, and even then.
And then you have to still not go overboard and keep the onboarding low friction enough that people will be willing to go through it
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#196Wait, are there really 36 Hacker News users in North Korea? The map just refreshes if I check that, but it seems kinda unbelievable given how isolated the country is and how heavily monitored the folks living there are. Either way, had a bit of trouble adding myself due to the tool expecting this data to be the only thing in the user's bio. Could it be updated to check if the text exists anywhere at all? Because quit…
> 36 Hacker News users in North Korea
Some hacker was trolling and moving people there. Should be fixed now!
> due to the tool expecting this data to be the only thing in the user's bio
Shouldn't be the case! Seems it's good for you now. If not, don't hesitate to share more details.
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#197Wait, are there really 36 Hacker News users in North Korea? The map just refreshes if I check that, but it seems kinda unbelievable given how isolated the country is and how heavily monitored the folks living there are. Either way, had a bit of trouble adding myself due to the tool expecting this data to be the only thing in the user's bio. Could it be updated to check if the text exists anywhere at all? Because quit…
I was able to add myself even though I have another unrelated sentence in my bio. But I think the tool fails to show my interests.
Sorry for that, should be fixed now!
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#198I placed myself at McMurdo Station and it shows up on the map but clicking the icon throws a 500 error. Edit: seems to be fixed (by removing my icon from the map, now it throws error 500 when posting the data to re-add it). Edit 2: you can place yourself in North Korea but clicking the [M] doesn't work because the name contains non ASCII characters. Also it returns error 405 when adding yourself (despite actually sav…
Thanks for reporting all this!
> I placed myself at McMurdo Station and it shows up on the map but clicking the icon throws a 500 error.
This was because there was no country code associated to it.
> Edit: seems to be fixed (by removing my icon from the map, now it throws error 500 when posting the data to re-add it).
I actually did more than removing it, I now make any "city" without a country code, an invalid one. It's a hotfix, I'll have to think about it more tbh.
> Edit 2: you can place yourself in North Korea but clicking the [M] doesn't work because the name contains non ASCII characters. Also it returns error 405 when adding yourself (despite actually saving the data).
Yeah, actually I'm dumb I reintroduced a "vulnerability" by not checking if the city in the form was the same as the city in the HN user profile. So you could move people around, basically. But their actual data was unchanged of course, as it's stored here on HN. That's why I was able to revert this.
About the ASCII characters, yes it's a problem. I'll implement it as soon as possible, when things will calm down a bit.
Can you tell me more about the 405 though? It seems strange.
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#199I've often thought about building something like this into HN itself and having a 'meet' tab at the top. There are so many people, me included, whose lives have been changed by HN. I would love to find a way to encourage more positive effects in the real world. Not sure exactly how this would work, but it's encouraging to see the community taking up the cause again, and I'll be interested to hear about how this goes.…
The problem will be that once this goes from the front page (on a weekend) then the chances that people will remember the site are low. Nevertheless there will be users who will not see the submission and would be otherwise interested into trying that. I think the voice chat with HN that was submitted last year (was it last year?) showed us that mostly after a day or two you couldn't find any activity.
I don't know how to solve that unless you actually have your idea of having "meet" on HN itself.
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#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a funny cultural thing that it wouldn't have even occurred to me that someone in Europe wouldn't realize city names can conflict—it's a chronic problem here in the states. There are some ridiculously common city names here, but one that's been in the news lately and probably confusing a lot of people is Springfield, which is the name of at least 42 different cities in the US [0], including 5 just in Wisconsin. M…
I knew city names were repeated in different US states, but they repeat even within a state?
Yes, There are multiple Springfield in Wisconsin, multiple Madison in Pennsylvania and multiple Clinton in New York. These are some of the examples I remember. And yes it is annoying if you live in one of these towns.