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Show HN: Create EU E-Label QR-codes for wines and spirits
As a result of new EU regulations, nutritional information and ingredient listing must be provided for wines and flavored wine products from December 2023, either printed on the physical label or in digital form, e.g., as a QR-code.

e-label.io is the fastest and easiest way to the EU E-Label for wines and spirits.

If you know a winiery or distilleries which sells to the eu it would be awesome if you could share the page with them.

Feedback is highly appreciated
Yup, sorry, my mistake, it's a bit like "Apple TV" the device, "Apple TV" the app, and "Apple TV+" the streaming service.

Apple Card was/is Apple's way to promote contactless EMV in the US, which in turn promotes use of Apple Pay on the phone/watch.

Apple Card is a US only thing though AFAIK.
That’s precisely what they are trying to do - they have an “executive” tier that has a bank associated Mastercard
I never notice bots on Twitter except for those shilling for crypto in Elon’s comment section.
The Hawthorne effect doesn't necessarily apply to all people, nor does it affect all behaviors.

For example- it's difficult to poll people on some contentious topics. If you ask people, "Are you racist?" they tend to answer that they are not.

This doesn't call into question most or all polls. It just needs to be taken into account when designing and interpreting polls and especially with certain topics. The same applies to psychological research.
what is the monetization idea for each? my guess is google doesn't need the data as much as a new competitor would. they are in the growth phase.
What if I’m addicted not to my phone, but web in general? Be it iPad, PC or phone in front of me, I will immediately go to Reddit, ycombinator and trick myself into thinking I’m being productive and learning when in actuality I am just consuming like now.
If not basic logic, it is a foundation of a few common sense premises and basic logic.

For an organization to output something of value to people they will generally need something of value as input. Money is the best way to convince someone to give you that input. Money is burgers, beers, drugs, and gasoline. Something you can sell for money or barter is a close second. There are other ways to get that input, but ultimately you are relying on someone being convinced into doing something for less in return than what they put in: military draft, patriotic enlistment, prison labor, slavery, volunteering, donations, taxes, robbery, inflationary money printing, non-competes, anti union laws, a nationwide campaign to convert to communism, etc.
I’m genuinely curious, where in this shortage are the trade unions? The manufacturers of tradesman-installed hardware? The distributor/retailers of same? They all have reason to see that their revenues aren’t limited by too few trained installers.
Maybe the two things should be different? Blue checkmark for official accounts, but to get boosted you need to pay up?
> If you try to create a third mobile platform to compete, you will fail.

but apple wasn't the one preventing these from succeeding. they failed on their own. On the other hand, it is reasonable to conclude that Netscape didn't fail on their own, but that Microsoft _prevented_ netscape from gaining marketshare by preloading a competing browser; such a preloading can only have occurred with a monopoly on operating systems.

Therefore, the monopoly abuse was to leverage its monopoly position in one market, to prevent competition a different market.

So despite the fact that I also hate the appstore and walled gardens, apple _did not_ use their apple device dominance to _prevent_ android versions of an app from existing/competing.

The complaint about walled gardens from people is that of lack of open access - not that of monopoly.

I suspect that new laws needs to be introduced to break open walled gardens - i want to call these "interoperability" laws. It's in the interest of society for systems to be interoperable.

This will not only concern apple devices, but things like EV charging networks, computer networks, and data interchange apis, and digital ownership of data. Imagine if by purchasing a CD or DVD, you are only allowed to play that disk on an authorized device! Now imagine instead of a physical disk, you buy a digital "disk" - a game, or music - but you're locked into the vendor's platform!
I see everything as a failure and success. It's a two headed 3d coin and everything depends on where you are looking from and where you are looking to
The fact that if an entity uses thousands of bots, verification does become expensive. At the very minimum, it's an additional barrier. All else being equal, bots and sockpuppets are less likely to get verified than regular human users. I've seen communities where an individual user created dozens of sockpuppets to troll around. Such sockpuppets won't be verified for obvious reasons. Not to mention, if a credit card is used to verify lots of spam accounts, the card itself can be banned from being used to verify additional accounts, which hampers bad actors who have just a few credit cards lying around.
N=1 but back in my broke teenager years I definitely preferred keygens over cracks. With antivirus flagging everything crack or keygen related as a virus, I considered it important to only run the keygen once (in a sandbox/VM) to get the install done. Replacing DLLs and EXEs with a cracked version always came with risks that keygens don't.
The simple case in which you have a home where everything is more or up to code isn’t hard. The complexity comes in when you’re unwinding decades of other people’s hack jobs (the case in most real homes I’ve come across). I agree that the basics are worth learning though!
I’m confused. Doesn’t the lawsuit claim that the SEC has, in fact, not responded to Coinbase’s petition?
Vertical integration, including hardware production. Apple has the capital to buy Foxconn's and the rest of their supplier's exclusive output on the new process for years. Open source just doesn't have the money to compete in kind with those kind of exclusivity agreements in place. Not enough people want a 3 year old phone with shittier specs that costs more than a new phone, with incomplete software that can't be used as a daily driver.
Chip + Signature is a dumb USian thing because merchants didn't want to change their readers to have a secure PIN pad.

Contactless has different floor limits than Contact (chip). For example, in AU, the limit for contactless without PIN is ~AUD100. In the UK, I believe its GBP30.

If you tap for a payment over that limit, the reader will ask for the PIN.

The primary difference is that if a customer uses contactless/contact and PIN, then the risk of the transaction is passed to the network/issuer, instead of the merchant.
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Paying a tiny sum to get boosted is still a shortcut for grifters. Paying for the effort to do actual verification would be an option, but that’s not what’s happening here.
It would probably be cheaper to hack my bank.
The flip side of the coin is that 95%+ of Twitter's user base (every unverified user) is now going to have a worse publishing experience due to less engagement, less visibility of their tweets. Time will tell if prioritizing the consuming experience over the publishing experience is a good business decision.
> if smaller oil companies promote innovation that benefits everyone,

They didn't. Standard Oil was cheaper, faster, easier, higher quality, more consistent.. why use anybody else? They weren't being manipulative, they weren't strongarming competition, they just made the best product and everybody wanted it. What's wrong with that?
That is very interesting, which I'd like to try once GPT4 is widely available. I did try GPT3 with a CTF a few weeks ago, and it gave seemingly plausible code but outright incorrect answers.
It’s convenient if you’re already all-in on the Apple ecosystem.
Exactly

And for most transactions it's just 'tap your card' (no pin), no need to have it in the phone.
> This all basically requires you to actually be a (digital) artist to fix properly. Again, for now.

right, this is my impression of the "graphic ai revolution": it will be a boon for actual digital artists that can take the output and refine it, much like Copilot can help programmers while not replacing them. for now, anyway.
In my corner of Twitter there’s no correlation between any of those.
Can you respond to the second part of my comment? 'char buf[size]' seems just as explicit as 'char *buf = alloca(size)' yet you're comfortable claiming that one constitutes automatic memory management and the other manual memory management? How is it not just two slightly different syntaxes for the same thing? I'm really struggling to understand how there's such a big fundamental difference.
If we’re comparing business owners to individual contributors now, I’m sure we all know some software guy who got an obscene startup payout.
as someone who has lived in multiple highrises, in multiple large cities both stateside and as an expat, above-ground subway is what's loud. after about the 20th floor, you don't hear the cars. The base floors are shops, then some offices - where the people live you don't hear cars. But boy do you hear the subway.

the reason the shops are loud, and the reason many offices have white noise generators or music in public areas, is so you and the person with whom you are talking have at least some level of privacy while in the middle of a crowd of people. in fact, even outside of privacy, it's a lot better to hear white noise or music, than the 20 individual conversations taking place around you.

This is what cities are - lots of people, not going far, everything is right there, and then you go up 20 floors for your quiet. If you need quiet, the place to be is not where you have thousands in density per city block. That would be like going to the indy500 and complaining about the noise.

As far as highways, a few cut through the city, but most of the city is not highways. They go around the city, with off ramps onto a few wide city roads, from which you get onto the tiny streets. There is not highway noise in 99% of the city.

leaf blowers in a city? car noise and leaf blower noise is immediate suburbs right outside the city. The urban noise in the actual city, where it's all highrises, but it's no leaf blowers, is subway, street performers, a couple of overweight (excluding an adjective because statistics look racist to some) women in bright spandex arguing, city outdoor events.
> And how exactly will they do that on a non-jailbroken fully updated iOS installation?

This is irrelevant because banks need to support people using older versions of iOS as well.

> Not to mention that iOS apps keep those kinds of secrets in the Secure Enclave

iOS doesn’t store tokens in the Secure Enclave. It can generate keys and use them to sign things, but keys and tokens are different things. The Secure Enclave isn’t a generic secret store, it has very specific, limited functionality. Are you perhaps mixing it up with the keychain?

Also, you didn’t answer the question:

> What kind of token? How does it obtain it?

It’s still unclear whether you are thinking of a static token bundled with the application or a per-user token obtained during first use. In the former case attackers can just download the IPA and extract it themselves without even thinking about attacking a user’s device. In the latter case, you need a mechanism to distribute tokens to untrusted devices, so that is the most likely entry point for an attack, not trying to obtain an existing token after the fact.
> the current gov is the previous gov… and macron has been in the,government before the previous one as its economy minister (and he was widely considered as its most important member) and before that he was in the comission atali under sakorzy. so we have the same people and the same school of thought governing france since 2008.

That's a very big stretch and also false. Macron was only appointed as minister of Finance in 2014, 3 years into Hollande's term, and it only happened because Hollande's initial financial and economic policies were turning out to be disastrous so a change was needed.

> and guess what ? theres a reason our gdp per ppp did not move from 2008 while other countries got wealthier. our wealth got distributed to shareholders

I think you need to update your talking points, GDP PPP has been going up (Covid being an exception) since the Macron years:

https://www.worldeconomics.com/GrossDomesticProduct/Real-GDP...

> then struggle even more to get a first appointment because doctors dont take new patients and now that everything is digital you cant even go there or call to discuss your case

You're confusing problems. There not being enough doctors and them not taking in new patients had nothing to do with "digital" or not. It's just that with "digital" you can actually know in advance when you can get a meeting with which doctor instead of having to make the rounds calling or visiting all doctors in your area. You cannot seriously tell me that this is a bad thing. And again, clinics and cabinets of multiple doctors still have assistants that you can call or visit to talk to if you prefer a slower and suboptimal way of doing things.

> reckon its better for you as a foreigner that did not live in france to see how it was before

When I arrived, universally all public IT systems were just shit. Like from a bad movie, designed by people who hadn't come close to computers, and written by people who won't use them and couldn't care any less. Again, ANTS, Impôts, Ameli, all those are new(or renewed) and with seamless making it easy to do basic administrative stuff without having to get an appointment at an office that only works 10-11:30 on Tuesdays on the third week of months, on a website that falls down every time there are more than 5 people on it (that was the case with my prefecture).

> doctolib only exist because massive money went in so that private shareholder can get wealthy using french citizen health data

They're not "using french citizen data", they're providing a service that uses it. Also, you keep saying "shareholders getting wealthier".. you know that Doctolib is private and thus we don't know about their financials and it's "shareholders", which btw includes Bpifrance (state investment bank), aren't wealthier for it?
Explicitly opt-out sadly.

It bothers me quite a bit to read that we’ve normalized telemetry as much as we have. If you’d asked more or less any random hacker 10 years ago if any of this was remotely OK they’d all be slack-jawed to learn what has happened.

Where did all the privacy conscious hackers go? Did they all get replaced when JavaScript and Electron became the norm?
> In general if no one cares does it make it an ethical issue?

There is a big difference between “no one cares” and “society (weighted by social power) doesn’t care”.

Entrenching and reinforcing bias against the already socially weak is something that society, weighted by social power, does not care about, but it is precisely that that makes it an important ethical issue.

> AI ethics should cover economic issues brought on by AI.

Capitalism’s failure to distribute economic gains well is not a issue brought on by AI, and there is already a much larger body of ethical philosophy directed at that problem with whose work anything the much smaller number of AI ethicists would direct at the problem would be redundant.

This is not a problem that remains because of inadequate attention by an appropriate set of ethicists, but, again, because it is one that society, weighted by social power, very much does not care about. Social power in capitalism is, in fact, very much concentrated in those for whom this problem is a benefit, and it is concentrated there as a direct result of this problem.
Are there any examples where donating money to any community anywhere succeeded in getting it into a steady-state good place? Excluding the aftermath of natural disasters and wars of course. I can't think of any...
See also Allan Odgaard’s excellent writeup “OpenSSL for license keys” from 2004:

> https://sigpipe.macromates.com/2004/using-openssl-for-licens...
>SEC has already provided clarity on crypto

oof, so...is Ether a security?

Is this tweet an exchange? https://twitter.com/hoffmang/status/1515797969802436608
If you use any phone with a SIM card that is connected to a tower just for signal, not even data, you're already trackable. You can go up to application level, but the house of cards starts crumbling from cell towers first.
> The “verification” verifies nothing other than having a credit card and 8 USD to spend.

Indeed. That's why it's effective for reducing spam, since spammers who run thousands of bot accounts aren't going to verify each of them unless their spamming activity generates at least $8 per account. Most spamming activities generate far less revenue, so those become unprofitable, and the overall amount of spam goes down.
I don't want to say making shit tons of money as a welder is easy by any means, but you can get hyper specific in that field with all the different metals and alloys so that you're one of a very small number of people worldwide qualified to weld something. It's supply and demand.
Rest-of-the-world had Visa/MC forcing merchants to upgrade on a faster schedule than the US, because the US card environment has many more middle-man processors in the mix that would lose their slice of the transactions.

Also large retailers that "self-acquired" didn't want to invest in upgraded readers, or lose access to the card details.

Breaches like Target's where a bunch of actual CPANs and customer details were stolen started to force the US to upgrade. Enforcing PCI compliance of separation and encryption of CHI has also forced US companies and banks to upgrade.
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What exactly stops the bots and sockpuppets from having blue and this getting ranked higher now?
Between Uber and Lyft you can make your choice every day. And at least here in this country taxis are still a realistic choice, not sure whether that applies to the US.

Between Apple and Android you have the choice only every couple of years. The rest of the time there is zero competition.

It maybe that the antitrust law is not well-written for this case. But nobody can claim their is a functional app market at the moment. Market meaning choice for the customer where to buy.
PL/pgSQL needs some styling improvements:

1. Get a better name, PL/pgSQL doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.

2. Get rid of those $$ at the start and end of any PL/pgSQL, it's just verbose and ugly.
Maybe we just like the idea of a central app store, where everything has to be approved.

-makers- want other app stores, but I'm not sure consumers do.

I'd go so far as to argue that -consumers- like the single-app-store, and see that as a feature.
I use the web one exclusively. Other than the video pop out feature missing and once in a while scrolling bugs on shorts, it actually works perfectly fine.

I refuse to use the YouTube app because they disabled playing in the background or with the screen locked . They Want your eyeballs on the screen for the ads. It so blatant.
Wow, interesting project. Not sure how many people you can entice into providing 10k photos of license plates, firearms, and children in pools. I kid, but are you building an alert system for a superhero?
Since Twitter doesn’t seem to be able to find out who is human vs who is a bot, I guess a paid subscription was the next best thing. Plus they get paid.
Exactly my case two years ago. After while of using Fedora she said "I though linux is more different."

She forgets on Win quickly and probably never go back.
Most guys on the internet think a guy has to meet a high bar of requirements when really all they want is someone who is not so dependent on them: can take care of himself, cover his own bills, etc. Someone who’s self sufficient and doesn’t need a mother.

Sure, maybe that one girl passed on you in your 20s because you didn’t have the right credentials, but there are plenty of other people out there.
A better questions is why don't we have a files system that forbids spaces in file names entirely. Then programmers assumptions and reality will match, and much will be simplified.
It is not too hard. But on other hand you must get it right each and every time and that is hard.

There is quite many ways to make eventually dangerous stuff. And this isn't just your program crashing, but potential fire inside a wall or socket. Or electrocution of person. And that is why it must be gotten right everytime.
The difference is that when you tap your card, it uses your CPAN directly.

Plus you have to carry around your cards.

When I'm not travelling for work, I only have my phone. No need for wallet, has drivers license, Medicare (AU), and my credit/debit cards in the Apple wallet.

I haven't used physical cash in AU except very rarely for about a year now.
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KDE Connect works as well as airdrop between iOS and Desktop Linux and Android, and isn't a unintrospectable proprietary protocol. (Which is to say honestly it's spotty, but so is Airdrop. It's the underlying Bluetooth that's at fault with both.)

Even then, Apple could choose to let their protocol be reimplimentable by others but they've chosen very explicitly not to. They've locked it down with Apple signatures that can't be used by competitors. As you pointed out, it's a competitive advantage for them to lock others out, so they have. It's working, but it's gross. We can dream about better, but for now, no buying books on the Kindle/Amazon app on your iphone, or buying video off Google Play on your iphone, or Chromecasting AppleTV to your Chromecast (just buy an Apple TV like you're made of money).
That’s how you develop silicosis while the beasts stay put in a crack in the wall.
Yep. All part of the idealistic “let’s just sit together and do the code” pipe dream. Which I honestly see as part of the developer superiority complex, where somehow we don’t count as…imperfect…people.
This is one thing I appreciate about swimming. I don’t own the pool, so no fiddling there. My swim trunks require no fiddling. The only thing that could possibly require fiddling are my goggles, but I use Swedish goggles that are so simple (two pieces of plastic and a piece of rubber - there isn’t even a gasket), they don’t require any fiddling.
I don’t know where the hell you’re from, but the word you’re looking for is american
Seem like one of those dictator megaprojects that rarely go well and is just a source of corruption.
Dollar quoting is just the easiest way to write strings with lots of escape characters, it's not required (I think it's the best way to do pl/pgsql though). You can also tag dollar-quoted strings:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-syntax-lexical.h...
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Also compact size for bar and more customizable start menu. I don't need to waste a space by recommended files and also compact shortcuts would make my start menu more efficient.

Start menu in Win11 is dumbier.
Which is more important to users, the authenticity or the experience?
They have 56% of the market in the US.
i don’t understand what the point of talking about us adoption of nfc payment vs chip+pin is.

i’ve lived in several countries and used apple wallet in all of them + the us since 2012.

and my german bank only got a card available in wallet in 2021…

chip and sign is dumb, but nfc and apple wallet work just as well in the states as they do anywhere else.
I recall another day someone who had a PHD in astrophysics and was a professor of climate science at a university making a comment, with lots of people disagreeing with his opinion.

A fair few telling him "he was wrong" were blue ticks with crypto in their profile.