skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'During Apple’s event, a plane circled the company’s headquarters carrying an impossible-to-miss message'

They do know that:
- The event was all pre-recorded
- Nobody was there to see it. People were either at home or inside watching the keynote.

They should have picked a better time to spend the money.
Every time I read about what the EFF is doing I get the sense that their priorities are clear, they’re fighting a good fight and in my case they’re generally acting in line with the values/beliefs I hold around the areas they get involved with.

It’s cool when you find an organisation whose actions line up with your view of the world like that, and appears to be pretty effective too.

Someone else commented about the cost of this “stunt”, but I can’t see it costing a huge amount to pull off in the big scheme of things, and it does make for some excellent visuals which as someone else pointed out, may give some journalists a “hook” into the story.

I don’t donate much (monthly recurring) but I’m pretty happy with what I see coming out of the EFF and am happy to support them.

By the way, if anyone is on the fence about donating, check out their site as you can get some “cool”[1] EFF swag in return for your donation too:

https://supporters.eff.org/donate/

[1] No guarantees implied or given about how “cool” others will think your swag actually is.
Interesting take on how the future might judge Thiel. Definitely there is a place for government, so as you say there is a sort-of Buddhist middle path that mixes personal responsibility and the need for some government services.
I hate x1 carbons with windows. The t series has been much better but I think carbones are ok with ubuntu.
AFAIK this is only an issue if you think UEFI Secure Boot and TPM are a good idea. The traditional way to implement full-disk encryption on Linux is by disabling UEFI validation and deriving the key from a passphrase rather than storing it in the TPM.
UK businesses never bothered much with the EU, anyway. It's ridiculous. There's big demand for cheese, ales, biscuits, even pasties, all over Europe.

Yet many farms and companies with an online store didn't even ship EU-wide. Why, just why?

Then they blame Germany for dominating. Well, yeah, they actually come and advertise their shit in other countries.
Its got to be hackernews. No doubt.
Off topic, but that HQ building genuinely looks like something from a dystopian sci-fi film.
To exploit this you only have to infect one of the many dependencies off user installed app. It is not true that the attacker has to forge an identity in the App Store. It is enough to insert your code somewhere along the whole software supply chain. And that can be long, think about ReactNative apps using NPM dependencies.
https://itch.io/games/tag-gameboy-rom
I have no idea how those shareholders are going to argue saving Zuckerberg in a suit about Facebook is not in the companies direct interest.

Like literally, other than being the CEO, he is also the founder, majority shareholder and the brand of the company.

P.S. this is a PR ploy.. shareholders will never win a suit like this in a Deleware court.
Well, let’s see if the people clamoring for real keyboards are going to put their money where their mouth is. Perhaps this phone also has the prized 3.5mm jack!
I guess it's difficult when you don't control the full stack. Windows is a bit of a mess nowadays to be honest, you will probably get better luck with a linux laptop
I am extremely uncomfortable with these less voting right shares that so many companies(FB, Google et al) favor these days.

It perverts the open market and reminds me of shenanigans in Eastern European stock markets and Asian ones where it is the norm for minority shareholders to be left out to dry.

It creates a conflict of interest for those with more voting rights than ownership. Usually the interests are aligned but there are no checks and balances anymore.

In the old days a corporate raider could challenge a badly run company and threaten to overturn the board.

So now you have 14% of company but have 65% of voting rights you can do whatever to those 85% "minority" shareholders.

So those with Class B shares get to have their cake and eat it too.

This is close to FB building a 5B money hole(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnX-D4kkPOQ) in a desert.
https://v.fandom.com/wiki/Mothership_(TOS)
Nor should you. The special relationship has never been about trade though. It’s about national security and intelligence sharing.
Grain 0.4 – Cereal
Seven reasons: Expose everyone to USB exploits.

http://mg.lol/blog/badusb-cables/
Hey now, working 100 hours a week is illegal!
So, why does the lid close then?

Or in other words, from the perspective of the hardware, what is about to happen once somebody closes the lid?
I have accessibility needs so I use soft keyboard and a trackpad. I keep the keyboard at an angle on the closed laptop but the trackpad was on a flat surface which caused some wrist fatigue.

I join the keyboard and the trackpad together with a double sided tape[1] with a metal scale to the bottom for added rigidity and now I can use both of them at a preferred angle. I no longer have wrist fatigue as I can rest them on a flat surface while both typing and tracking.

[1] https://abishekmuthian.com/accessibility-hack-for-keyboard-a...
Show HN: Open-source self-hosted all-in-one cryptocurrency platform
I see descriptions of how amazing the company is as being largely fluff. Every company thinks they're cool and amazing.

Sort of like how every candidate thinks he/she is a 'great problem solver' and 'team player'.

It's a goal that we all acknowledge is something we desire, but so subjective that everyone believes they have it and self-assertions to that effect tell one very little.
NeWS used to have a way to record an event stream and play it back later, so you could record a start-up event stream to play from ~/.startup.ps when you ran the NeWS server, that would pop up menus and open windows, start apps, position them on the screen, type stuff into them, click on buttons, etc.

You had to be careful and not record setting up your desktop too fast, but then it worked pretty well! I would open up terminals on a bunch of different servers, start emacs in shell windows, set up my initial emacs shell window, etc. I'd just go take a dump and get some coffee while NeWS warmed up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS

That was the best you could do in 1986, since none of the Unix programs or gui apps at that time had any idea about how to save and restore their state, and there wasn't a standard desktop framework (except what NeWS provided, which was hardly a standard).

I'm disappointed that 35 years later all window systems don't come with a standard built-in event recording and playback (and even editing) feature you can use to set up your desktop or execute repetitive tasks. Like visual Emacs keyboard macros.
The thermically better solution might net you 2°K. Getting an aftermarket AIO for the GPU would make a bigger difference IMHO. The voltage converters for CPU & GPU (if not full block) need a bit if airflow though.
> Nowadays, the base of the laptop has bowed, causing the trackpad to unglue and jut out at an angle.

I don't think that's coming from the laptop sagging. They're pretty rigid. I think your battery has swollen.

But fret not, it's "factory-replaceable".

There's another modern trend with what appears to be no justification.
That's a bit like saying: "I don't mind giving my government absolute power, because my government isn't corrupt absolutely."
Threy only know mervhant and amount, not the exact item you are buying
That's a weak statement: isn't Chrome is almost entirely written in C++? I suppose you mean it's a memory overrun or use are free. You're probably right, then.

But in Rust, something like this could happen too, if someone added a panic!, e.g. on parsing a domain name with an empty component, or failure to put the domain name in a certain (external) structure. If the URL is parsed again on start-up, the application would be bricked. Granted, it's much easier to find and solve.
I genuinely don't understand how lawmakers do not see that they are the ones who will lose the most from privacy-invading laws.

As a political person, the less you control what's being recorded about you, the more it's likely that it is going to be used against you.

Would anyone be elected if their entire google search history were made transparent?

I certainly wouldn't. Now add location history, and everything you say near a smartphone...
You can enable the start menu hibernate button in advanced power settings:

System -> Power & sleep -> Additional power settings -> Choose what the power buttons do -> Change settings that are currently unavailable -> Check Hibernate.

And then get lucky that your laptop wakes up again (mine dies 1 out of 10 times)

Edit: sorry, can't read.
It depends how you're assessing the need.

As an individual, no, there's no need, you can use your phone number as a user ID (although this comes up as a concern whenever Signal is mentioned as an alternative). There's also a practical factor - using device IDs allows end-to-end encryption to multiple devices without the user needing to manage keys themselves. (ie: WhatsApp can just create a new key pair for each device).

As Facebook however, there is a business need to be able to identify a single user across multiple devices in order to properly track them for marketing reasons.

If Facebook are unable to do this, then the business case for operating a free messaging service falls apart. Each individual needs to make their own decision as to whether they are prepared to pay the price of sharing the data that Facebook collects in exchange for simple, free-of-cost, international messaging. It's not an easy decision.
FYI, it's "kowtow", not "cow tail".

Also, it's "This makes it immediately available to exploit before a fix can even _theoretically_ be developed", not "This places pressure on the corporation to fix it immediately".
HN was around in the late 2000s, which was enough to catch the latter part of the Rails craze, and yes there were a number of posts regularly on X in Rails/RailsClone, Rails vs Sinatra, Rails vs Merb, etc etc
> It's sad but we have to deal with it.

We can absolutely both meet reasonable innovation and deadlines with formal verification. It's just that no one wants to pay for it.
Agreed. It’s basically a grave of dead accounts and fake profiles.
Tomp was likely talking about the Mac “reopen running apps after reboot” which works very well in terms of putting your state back the way it was. Terminals aren’t fully restored (what would it mean to/how could you restore an ssh connection anyway?), but most apps for most people are.
In Serbia, for a ruling class (politicians, judges, attorneys, police), laws are more like a lax guidelines so even if this is a step back for them in the end nothing fundamentally changes.
Now that you mention it, I think there's a real lack of grandmas in tech... maybe I shouldn't be saying this publicly, but we don't have any at our company.
And under circumstances testing the own url parser _alone_ is only half (?) of the story. The other URL parsers within the system or in the line need to be tested, too. Which mathematically might not be possible. So next to the URL parser it is likely practically to have an URL filter. And with it, a good test-suite, too.

(I don't do any bets thought, sorry)
I have an XPS 9500 under Linux (this is a >$4000 machine), no amount of fiddling with BIOS settings (which are few) or systemd/GNOME settings will make it work reliably:

- short suspend time (it can't really stay overnight when suspended with a full battery)

- sometimes it wakes up and overheats in the bag

- very short battery duration when unplugged

Apparently I'm not alone, and even under Windows it's a generalized problem; and when you look for solution on Dell's forum you find this FAQ, which tend to say XPS are more foldable desktops than real laptops.
Efficiency is highest around 50% of load usually.
Better JIT Support for Auto-Generated Python Code – PyPy
They are presented with that. Just in real life. When they choose to buy the iPhone or something else.
I think it depends heavily on what area you want support for. EC 2 support is generally very good, billing support is reasonable if a bit slow. Support for a lot of their managed services, or media services is beyond useless. All the support engineer does is take your complaint and says they will check with the internal service team. Your ticket will just end up in "waiting for Amazon" state for weeks or months.
> recently the wealthiest company on the planet … They could slow down their software development process, focus less on adding new features, and prioritize fewer security holes.

My inner cynic¹ has a slightly different take on that: You don't get to be the wealthiest company on the planet by doing the right thing at the expense of the profitable things.

¹ He says, pretending it isn't also his outer and all-consuming cynic!
Chemical factory in the middle of heavily populated area doesn't have to be a bad thing, if it is properly managed and safety systems are operating perfectly.
I've been told more than once by my employer that "this is not a democracy". They meant that staff can have opinions, but don't get to vote; they weren't talking about shareholders. But AFAIA, stockholder corporations are not supposed to be democracies - FSVO "democracy".

Investors in Faceache get no dividends; the only reason they're there is to speculate on the value of their stock. With no dividends, there's no reason for stockholders to worry about profits. They just want to see the share-price increase.

I dunno, I'm not an investor. The last two decades are littered with the corpses of social networking firms that failed. I imagine Faceache must own assets, in the form of IP and so on; I doubt their value comes anywhere close to the company's market valuation.

That valuation is suspended from the fickle thread of shareholder sentiment; so on my reading, Faceache shares amount to a bubble.
The only interactions made cumbersome by GDPR are those with organizations that abuse their users/customers’ data.

Otherwise you don’t even need a cookie banner.
> normally I'd define it as something found in the wild being exploited already

Yeah, but ... that's not what it means. You can choose to define "spoon" as "fork" too, but I don't see how it's useful to go around complaining about other people using the actual definition of the word.
>> every time a report of details and extent of their censorship and hiding is submitted to HN, the same people doing the censoring are allowed to flag the article out of existence

> You're pushing the door in the wrong direction! We're open to these topics being discussed on HN. They've been discussed a lot and they can, should, and will be discussed more, as significant new information arises.

I'm not a native speaker but I wonder if you are talking past each other:

SiVal - as far as I can read - describes ordinary users flagging stories before the rest of us can see them.

You describe that HN mods doesn't do that and quite the opposite: you reopen discussions like this one.

Both of you are correct in my opinion and I think the point that I and possibly also SiVal feel is that moderation is good but some users are abusing the flag feature and it is too easy to do that.
interesting; will not tolerate being compensated less for remote work
Enhancing Protection and Information for Activists
All this "wAlLeD gArDeN!!!11" cries are so trite. People who want 3rd-party app stores are long gone to other platforms (me included).
Kinda brilliant actually - convincing the AT&T guys of yore to give away everything for free so you can inject ads into a phone call. Yeah, that would certainly be met with disbelief, anyway I gotta go "skip some ads" on YouTube I'll talk to you later.
> Ok, laptop is in a sleep mode successfully. But doing anything to it or even looking at it funny will immediately wake it.

The XPS that I recently replaced had to be closed at night, which annoyed me every day. If left open, it would detect that it was idle and shut off the display. Except that that only worked on the laptop screen. The external monitor would go through a permanent cycle of shutting off, waking up, displaying a "no signal" message, shutting off, waking up...

This doesn't happen with other laptops on the same monitor. Something was broken pretty badly.
Control over who gets elected moves to the security apparatus. There's always one party for which that's a feature.
The whole point of Swift is to be next generation Objective-C and C on Apple platforms, no need to drop down to other languages.

In fact, the prof of concepts shown in the article are all written in Swift.
I assume you're talking about cookie consent notices? If so I agree, but they're a relatively small part of what GDPR does.

In my opinion the rights[1] and principles[2] it lays out are much more important in giving individuals control over their personal data.

[1] https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...

[2] https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...
C.f. BBC article today reporting on British engineers urging the construction industry to stop knocking down houses because of the carbon emissions of new builds:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58667328

The 8% stat is surprising.
I'm not excluding anything, let's look into it. In The US there is about 600k international students [1]. In the EU if I read [2] correctly about half of total 1.3m foreign students is from outside Europe which is same or a bit more ( and european non-EU-members are probably not included, that would raise the number). It is very likely that US edu gets bigger profit, but dominance isn't only about profit.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/233880/international-stu...
[2] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...
Yep, there it is… forget all the half measures and flouncing about, go straight for the total surveillance of all people all the time in all situations. Cut out the middle man.
Valencia.

$2k USB means 1700€.

- Small studio 400-500€ (You can get a small old apartment for that too)
- Electricity bill 70-80€, maybe less if you're alone and a little bit more if you use AC
- Water bill 100€ every 3 months
- Metro/Subway 40-50€
- Groceries 200-400€ depending on what you eat

Eating out is cheap unless you go to the highly touristic zones. No matter where you are you can find a restaurant where the menu is between 10 and 15€ with first and second course, drink, dessert and coffee.

Night life is awesome. Alcohol is cheap. No matter where you are in the city you'll be safe, the worst thing that could ever happen to you is to get robbed when you're not paying attention.
> two iPad Pros, air pods (three pairs)/pro (two pairs) /max (two pairs), home pod, home pod mini, iMac, and two MacBook pros..I’m a big fan of Apple products.

Normally person like you would be the best person to criticise apple, they are using their products first and foremost :) so they know all little/big things they would want changed
I find this kind of recommendation to a random stranger on the internet highly ubjectionable and indecent.

Have you considered, that if they agree they don't like their country, maybe they have to look after ageing or ill parents, or have other responsibilities they can't just abandon? Not to mention money ofcourse.
That's wrong. You can clear both cache and data of a system app on a typical Android device. You just can't uninstall it.

The base .apk is stored on a read-only system partition, so you can't completely get rid of it, but typically you should be able to remove all data of that app, clear its cache, uninstall any updates it downloaded (since those are stored on another partition), and also disable it.

I haven't used any OS by Xiaomi in a while, so I don't know if they changed anything about that.

Though I used to run their MIUI OS on my Samsung Galaxy (S2 or S5, I don't remember) for a while. That one was the opposite of locked down and even shipped pre-rooted, but it's been a long time.
CDC Chief Overrules Agency Panel, Endorses Pfizer Boosters for Frontline Workers
I've seen a meme recently that said.

Crypto. Everything you don't know about computers with everything you don't know about money.
I still am. :)
Google, Apple, Facebook are starting to adapt their salaries based on location of remote employees. Im working remote for the past 7 years in middle management, and Im living in a low wage country.

If my employees started adapting my salary based on the country I live in I would quit immediately
ASUS UM325
Legislation like this might make sense now but in the long run silly laws like this cause more harm than good. Do we really want to lock in the charging form factor for the next who knows how long?
Had similar issues. Has something to do with wake timers (see powercfg /waketimers)

Sometimes caused by drivers or periphery. Good luck disabling them all.

No idea how modern sleep plays into this. The Linux hibernate turns the system off for real (battery can be removed).
You've not demonstrated this is actually costing more than a plausible alternative, just moved quickly on to complaining that it's an outrage to be spending so much and that they should be spending it on other things.

Lots of sensible ideas have components that cost more than the cheapest available alternative component e.g. if for example they introduced electric garbage trucks, it would be short-sighted to focus on just the up front cost of that vehicle versus a standard diesel alternative.

If other aspects (quiet operation, maintenance costs, fuel expenses, longevity) are counted then it may cost less overall, which is the only figure we should care about.

Yes, I can't prove that my hypothetical EV truck will deliver those future cost savings but if you're arguing against it without even mentioning those, then that's a very poor quality of argument and highly suggests you don't have anything better to use as your argument.

I'm also highly dubious, of why that article, from the same source, keeps referring to "primarily" and "most" of the bins that other cities use. Either they have a really strong case, and they have no idea how bad their presentation makes them look, or they are using these weasel words because they don't have an actual case. Since it seems to be some local civic government feud, I'm leaning towards the latter.

edit: reading further around this, the actual corruption seems to mostly stem from the trash collection being given to a monopoly in 1938, and there being no laws against that monopoly from giving gifts to the city employees that oversee them. Which seems insane, but also run of the mill for the US, where they often manage to be less market-oriented than European governments, while at the same time offering less benefits to the actual people paying for them. One of the drawbacks of living in an oligarchy rather than a democracy I guess.
I can't wait to see hiring managers tell top talent with a flora of options that they will be paid less just because they work remote - good luck
From OPs link to the official guidelines:

"If data are inaccurate to the point that no individual can be identified, then the information is not personal data. (e.g. If you refer to “the man who lives at 12 Mulberry Lane had a party last night,” when Mulberry Lane ends at number 10, that’s not personal data.).

I could guess "12" was a mistake and just send spam or visit the man living at number 10.

That's way more dangerous imo than an old skool email address and a first name. Yet it's apparently not considered personal data. That's why I asked, actually, since it confused me.
Also, science is not ready to rule a nation.