skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
exactly. this law is the EU forcing companies to make phones more like PCs. this is brilliant news and a big step back from the powerless dystopia we've all been wandering towards
Standing Everywhere
More details here....

"Characterization of JWST science performance from commissioning": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32136969

See comment: under "Micrometeoroids"
Great, if Alphabet, Facebook and Apple leave the EU, it will be a painful few years but finally boost the EU tech sector. It's what China did: Prohibit external services to force local innovation.
I would like to be able to output sound files like some *.wav or so directly from a programming language, writing code, which works with frequences, amplitude, channels, creating effects like ramp off or other things one can see in tools like audacity.

This is probably more mathematical than using existing tools. I definitely want to touch the code, and I would like to have an understanding, so that I could do it in almost any programming language.

Perhaps there is something beginner friendly, that also explains the math behind it for non mathematic / physics degree owners? Maybe I should look for something like "sound processing/generation from scratch".
Big Blue Turns in a Solid Quarter for Systems
So how much money did they make on the trade?
> Now, as far as I understand, it happened that no book was likely borrowed more times than the number of physical copies held by archive.org + the libraries they had partnered with
Little Ways the World Works (Morgan Housel)
Honestly big tech has got too big and too much lobbying power in USA and I believe at this point, unless something really revolutionary happens, they'll hold the whole executive and legislative branches by the balls for a very long time. Adding this to the hard political bipolarism in USA, the situation looks extremely grim in the future.
I always wondered how does unlimited PTO actually work. Like, in practice.
Do whatever the ERP tells me to do.
> This vulnerability could be exploited to get a privilege escalation on Ubuntu 22.04.

Nothing else is vulnerable?
... The UK threatening to adopt a variant watered-down GDPR is... EU protectionism? Truly, the powers of these Brussels bureaucrats know no bounds, using EU Mind Control to make Britain self-sabotage.
A ton of speedup in the bag checking process could be obtained by upgrading the kiosks for a snappier and simpler UI/UX.

-Swipe credit or frequent flyer card

[WAIT]

-Enter the airport identifier you are going to

[WAIT WHILE I PULL OUT MY PHONE TO LOOK UP AIRPORT IDENTIFIER]

[WAIT WHILE COMPUTER THINKS ON THIS]

-Is this your flight?

[WAIT]

-Do you want to choose seats?

[If you haven't done this online, hoo boy are you in for five minutes of frustration]

-Do you want to check bags?

[WAIT]

-Are you active duty military?

[WAIT]

-Can you confirm that you have removed all lithium-ion batteries from your checked luggage?

[WAIT]

-Federal law prohibits the following long list of dangerous items. Can you confirm that you have none of these?

[WAIT]

-How many bags do you want to check?

[WAIT]

[God help you if you have a nonstandard item here, eg skis+boots, which the airline will only charge you for one bag for, but will require two baggage tickets]

-Printing your bag tags.

[VERY LONG WAIT]

[20% CHANCE THE PRINTER SHITS THE BED]

-Please affix the tags to your bags in a way that makes perfect sense only if you do this frequently

[NON-FREQUENT FLYERS ADD 5 MINUTES TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO AFFIX THE TAG TO THE LUGGAGE]

[LONG WAIT TO HAND BAG TO EMPLOYEE]

Employee: You did it wrong, do it again.

I fly United a lot, maybe people on other airlines have more hope
so I think it is safe to say that no one is 'pro cp' but building in image scanning functionality is clearly a privacy violation and security risk. That UK cybersecurity chiefs say it is ok does not mean it is ok
Usually that’s rendered as one control unit not as caret + H. The caret indicates an escape character. You can typically type in escape sequences via ctrl v (eg ctrl-v + tab for the tab character instead of tab completion)
It’s a humbling experience in the natural sciences. You can study chemistry for 4 years as an undergrad, then 4-6 years as a PhD. Then you go to a conference and even in the small room dedicated to your little sub-sub-discipline, someone can get up and talk about something you have never heard of.

The incorrect lesson to take from getting a PhD is that you are really smart and can solve everyone’s problems. The correct lesson is that there are many fields this deep, and you can’t just read a bit and think you are knowledgeable about the whole field.
Not all lobbying is bad. That this regulation clearly protects the local tech industry is in the interest of many companies, but also in the interest of many (if not most) of the population.
magic-regexp: A compiled-away, type-safe, readable RegExp alternative
in tomorrow's news: "Apple, Google and Facebook in joint venture to the moon"
The "Military is stupid" trope is so well-known by now that I assumed everyone knew where the phrase Catch-22 came from[1].

Note, I am not saying that the military is stupid, I am saying that the trope is simply very well known by now.

[1] A work of fiction.
It may reduce overall vehicle traffic if drone deliveries displace some car, van, and plane trips.

Could be a win all totalled.
What will happen when people exploit the bugs that were not found?
> I don't think I could in good conscience recommend your approach as a general practice.

I can live with that, but ... (There's always a "but").

I am not happy at all, with the general industry practice of writing every project to be something that can be understood by inexperienced, undisciplined coders.

Every language and programming methodology has an "advanced" type of thing, requiring people to have experience and/or book-larnin'.

I write Swift at a fairly advanced level. I am not at the level of some heavy-duty advanced Swift people, but I am pretty "idiomatic," in my approach. It is not "rewritten TypeScript," like so much code out there.

My code is very well-documented, and I hold myself to standards of Quality that most folks in the industry consider to be obsessive to the point of insanity. My testing code usually dwarfs my implementation code, and my documentation is, let's say ... complete. You can see what I mean in my latest module[0].

The fact that so many folks have so much scorn for my posture and approach, tells me pretty much all I need to know. My values are not in sync with the prevailing industry values. I guess that I'm an "anomaly." I can live with that, as well.

I won't write junk, so that someone used to junk, can comprehend it. If people aren't willing to learn enough to understand my middle-of-the-road semi-advanced Swift, then I can't help them. Swift is an awesome language. I feel that we are doing ourselves a disservice, if we do not explore it.

I write for myself. I write code and documentation that I want to use (and I use it). I really don't care, whether or not someone else "approves" of it. I am not relying on others to review, maintain, or patch my code.

When I do use other people's code, I vet it fairly carefully. Including a dependency is a really serious matter. I'm handing full control of my execution context to code that someone else wrote. I'd damn well better take that Responsibility seriously.

[0] https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/RVS_UIKit_Toolbox
Xi wanted to punish Didi with $1B fine - the fact that it was for collection of user data was purely accidental. Could have been for having logo with too bright font color or some other random thing.

I really really hope EU avoids writing regulation with specific goal of punishing specific big tech companies by disguising it with consumer protection. Every time ends up hurting broader ecosystem and making EU less competitive.
GDPR changed a lot. From my own experience, European companies think much harder about what data to collect, where to store it and how to distribute it. We're not even close to 100% enforcement, but a huge step forward from where we were.

If this law only reaches 20% of what it envisions, it'll do more for consumers than other laws before.
The TLDR is, on the surface of the earth the slower you're going, the more efficient it tends to be. That even holds for, for example, making trains or cars move slowly: they'll be most efficient at a pretty slow speed. Even planes are most efficient flying 0.0001% above stall speed, the slowest they can possibly go.

Most energy in transport goes into moving the atmosphere out of the way.

Planes fly high, but that really only makes them comparable to a car. Surprisingly that also means that for really long-range transports even rockets aren't as inefficient as you'd initially think.
Show HN: New Restaurants Discovery Notifier
After the first five games it was 2.5 - 2.5. Whatever happened to Ian after the first loss does not indicate the level of the play he is capable of, and does not even in the slightest predict what would happen in the rematch.

I understand that Magnus glory hunting fans are everywhere and they love to pretend that once he had someone beaten, he'll repeat the feat with certainty, but have some more sense than that. More than one world champion has won the crown not on his first attempt, including one of the all-time greats, Kasparov.
The difference is one of those governments is actively running concentration camps.
yep, I wonder what's happening here.

That said, I do compile edbrowse with quickjs and pcre on my hand-rolled glibc/linux distro. I have even removed the build systems from edbrowse, quickjs and pcre to use my own. Quickjs is aiming the one-compilation-unit model (good!).

Almost no javascript-ed sites run with it (but I am still testing, for instance on gogol noto font download page), but I like to keep track of its advancement, loosely, but I do it anyway.

The bottom of the pb is big tech javascript-ed web engines: blink/geeko (financed by gogol) and webkit (apple).

We all know the only reasonably fix for this issue is to regulate HARD towards the availability of a noscript/basic (x)html portal for all pertinent web sites (which are close to 100% anyway).
I work for a company that has a holiday shutdown.

It is a great perk. One of the best reasons to stay at the company.
I believe private business won't weld me into my own home

Viewing this in isolation isn't particularly helpful. I support regulation on big tech. I think the digital markets act is great. I certainly wouldn't trade that for CCP authoritarianism.
Lockdown is literally presented by Apple as being for people targeted by APTs like those developed by NSO Group, therefore I expect it to prevent attack vectors used by these APTs, like exploitation of the Developer program to facilitate sideloading malicious apps. I don't feel like this is an unrealistic expectation, and not having the mode actually do that amounts to security theater, which is a far cry from decrying everything as such.
They had to pay a fine in France because of throttling their devices with older batteries. Maybe they'll try again, but I'm sure it'll be proven eventually.
The gaming industry has it particularly bad. The industry is high risk. Like any type of software but gaming is a very competitive market in addition. Like the rest of the entertainment industry it really makes dependable employment more difficult. It only works as long as you manage to produce successful titles.

That said, a company the size of Blizzard should be able to pay decent wages for QA. I don't know how it is today but older Blizzard games had excellent QA and their products were very polished compared to the rest of the market and they were recognized by that. So trying to save a few bucks in this department is negligent management and should immediately be stopped as it would undermine their successful strategy.
> What's the difference between "enforcing citizens rights" and "ensuring that the private org understands that the government of the people is in charge"

The difference is that you can use "ensuring that the private org understands that the government of the people is in charge" for anything including abusing citizens rights
I'm not suggesting that the government should require all OSes to provide identical APIs for apps to run on them, for example, as obviously that sort of "interoperability" would place an unreasonable burden on companies.

However, there are anti-competitive policies of Apple which burden not just app developers and users but Apple themselves, and it's really hard to justify their existence other than "monopolies are very profitable".

https://www.reddit.com/r/swift/comments/3d8koa/apple_rejecte...
Then why not doing more things where coldness becomes an asset instead going against nature?

Geo-engineering should be made illegal. Their "bugs" would scorch the Earth. No geo-engineer knows what's he/she is doing. Any implementation there is a guarantee of having massive unintended consequences that are irreversible.
It's too selfish for humans to say world is better. Is the world only for humans? Does it belong to us only?

Every other species is in terrible condition than before or they got extinction.

And the better is not going to last. All the progress is because of extreme fossil fuel usage. The effect has started to show, to be honest it's going to get much worse in coming decades.

It's like a person falling from a building says life was never so exiting while going down each floor, even just before hitting the ground.
Thats a great story , thanks :) … honestly I’m almost enjoying more seeing people here sharing their stories and giving encouragement than the small amount I made :).

Can I ask , was it like a lot of money ? Like, enough for a really good vacations :)?
With the right plugin (both mobile and desktop), you can automatically opt out, something that wasn't possible before. And larger ad companies actually enforce compliance here (where possible).
Okay, so no data. Just speculation.
Almost every site I've had this pop-up on required no more than 2-5 clicks -> manage cookie options -> either select ok because everything but 'required' is already off or deselect a couple of options then ok. That's easy after doing it a couple of times, it's pure laziness to say that's too hard, and we should not accept that as a good excuse to remove it.
As this was a linux kernal subsystem "netfilter subsystem of the Linux kernel" then I would presume not, and any kernel with the impacted subsystem present and equally exposed would be equally at risk.

A bit like finding a flaw in a steering wheel used in a particular model of car when other car makes use that same steering wheel, yet were not tested in the findings.

At least that is my interpretation of all this.
How popular were the car companies?

US big tech companies like amazon and Google enjoy more bipartisan support than practically any other institution, except maybe the military.
Simple answer is to save money, reduce spam reports, get better signal-to-noise ratios in analytics, etc — basically all the same reasons you should be doing opt-in in the first place.

Like all topics, there’s a lot to learn about it, differing opinions, etc — for example, some might say not to send an re-opt-in email to an email that’s recently opened an email, others might say that the open was just automatically triggered.

To learn more, Google to start with might be “re-opt-in campaign”:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22re-opt-in+campaign%22
Are you insinuating that Nancy Pelosi's husband committed insider trading and got away with it? If that is true then he can also get away with shorting these big companies. If you know what the market will do ahead of time you can make money whether it goes up or down.
Of course you can use Apple Pay, but if you don't like it you could also use Google Pay or Samsung Pay instead. But Apple Pay could also be used on Androids if Apple chooses to offer it.
I think you'll be disappointed in your specific situating. The regulation doesn't seem to force the communicators to be both open protocol and open federation. Unless I misunderstand it, Apple, Google and FB having a private federation between each other would satisfy it too.
Indeed. And additionally, I have often wondered what opinions and impact he would have had during the Covid pandemic
We do monthly FTE forecasts and use a web tool called time2submit (www.time2submit.com).
You underestimate the blessing that is an app store that's free of bullshit policies restricting what you can and cannot publish. With F-Droid on Android, I used to have access to apps like NewPipe that Google would never even consider carrying on their app store, but - because I had a third party store, that wasn't a problem.

Now that I have an iPhone, I miss NewPipe greatly. But with this law, I might be able to get something like it in a few months without jailbreaking.
it most cases it's not even arguable
https://cogo.co/ has been doing something like this for a while.
Okay - that was an awesome link ;-) Well, I wonder how BrandonM feels about the whole "files synced online" thing now?
I only see one recent applicant from Thailand, but we welcome applications regardless of where they live (with a few obvious exceptions). I don’t want to dox any colleagues by listing individual countries as we’re a relatively small company, but we have hired from 6/7 continents in the last 12 months (all except Antarctica).

Also happy to answer any other questions you have. And again, if anyone reading this is interested, please take a look at our open roles [0]. This is one of many, many things which makes the company great [1].

[0] https://we.are.expensify.com/#workwithus
[1] https://we.are.expensify.com/benefits-perks
But please do question it! Just calling it, I quote, "crock of shite" does not deserve the name "questioning" by any measure.
You've got it a bit backwards.

Large swathes of human population do experience issues with water availability.

However, richest parts of the world are where water was traditionally in abundance, and human settlements have been created around large bodies of (drinking) water. Confluences of rivers into (non-frozen) seas is the sweetspot: pottable water and cheap trade routes.

So you come from a rich part of the world because it's got a great balance of natural resources, but humans are there because of it: it is no accident!

Btw, canals (as in human built rivers) might have been part of the problem. They might also be part of the solution going forward.
To my very humble reading you need local system (non-root) access first. So no exploitation over the networking interface themselves.

Disclaimer: Not a hacker, not an Linux pro.
The website's design reminds me of Windows Vista in a very positive way.
Well, yeah.

Every source is highly politicized.

Fake stories (or stories with little truth and lots of innuendo) are run.
True stories are buried, when it suits the political narrative.
Politicians are mostly actors.

Why would anyone have confidence in that sort of mind controlling?
Oh I'm quite certain that the new UK data laws are going to be a total shit show and there's absolutely no possibility that they'll be compatible with EU regulations causing a massive spike in red tape. But I'm certain of that because that's the entire direction of the tory party since they expelled everyone to the left of Mussolini in the 2019 election. I'm just saying the details of this particular draft are moot.
Excel, but it's painful - as any change's through the year make it very hard to compare and contrast actual to budget (e.g. a simple rate change from a supplier vs adding someone to a team, moving different rate people between teams) and quite challenging to do different scenarios (e.g. impact of different inflation levels for different roles / countries). It is possible but requires a lot of discipline and excel expertise from everyone to make it work. I am exploring using a planning & budgeting tool (anaplan, pbcs).
I just hope it has spillover effects into the US. Platforms like this are the biggest trench of economic rent the world has ever seen.
In my corner of the world/philanthropy discussion, I'd consider GiveWell one of the most well-known organizations and with a reputation of high quality, thorough research. In terms of charity evaluators who focus on the impact per dollar spent, I'd have a hard time thinking of anyone comparable.

Regarding what type of programs GiveWell currently recommends, they do evaluate a wide range of types of programs. For instance, here is a page on their website summarizing some of their work on education: https://www.givewell.org/international/technical/programs/ed.... However, with the facts as they exist in the world today, their analysis is that for a given amount of funding, more good can be done with certain specific health interventions.
I would imagine the sight of a US President throwing paper towels to the needy, as if he was shooting hoops, was an educational experience. There is such a thing as dignity, a preeminent concern for any people whose spirit is unbroken
Because when things get better and awesome, this sentence is still true, "aweful" mean both awful and awesome, depends on the context.
Wow! If I understand correctly this is a local privilege escalation (the blog post doesn't mention "local" or "remote"). But it seems it could also be used to get remote code execution?

I wish there was a list of distribution kernels that are vulnerable and which have already patched this. Would be valuable to add to the blog post and the GitHub repo. https://github.com/randorisec/CVE-2022-34918-LPE-PoC
It's a great feeling! When I was just starting out with a side project, I used to carry in my wallet a bill that reflected the amount of money I had made in the prior week (and then day). This increased the saliency and physicality of the money I was making.

There's research that shows that people spend less money when spending cash (versus card) because it feels more real. I used the "more real" feeling in reverse, to make the money I was earning feel more real than just bits floating in the ether.