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Maybe they should force Apple to open their phone APIs as well. Why should they be the only one that can develop phone usage apps? (preventing people to build decent anti-phone addiction apps... I see why Apple does it... but how's that good for drug addicts, cof, consumers?)

There are so many things wrong with those companies, in terms of non-competitive practices, that I find that the EU or any regulator have trouble figuring out where to start. I believe that's why things are in that bad situation.

People mention that you(developer/company), shouldn't be hostage of any platform and develop ideas that aren't so dependent on them. Which is true, as it isn't worth the risk, or not be entirely dependant on it.

Which in business terms, makes sense. But from a regulatory standpoint, why is it acceptable? Imagine if any developer or small company could compete on a fair ground against thos e big tech companies, I bet none of them would be >$1T market cap.

It's funny how things are uncompetitive for silly things like weather apps, imagine how it is to compete on a really wide and profitable category. And don't come to me saying regulations are bad to consumers, how's having a monopoly even on weather apps good to consumers?

I really fail to see the mental gymnastics americans do to explain why those regulation initiatives from the EU are bad, much less when it comes from a big tech employee.

The amount of rugpulls that those platforms have done on the last decade on small players is impossible to count, and they've been mostly left unscathed.

This is all a side-effect of companies being able to shove a Terms of Service(ToS) down the throat of everyone, I think platforms need to be heavily regulated.

If you build something on top of some other "private property" that would take trillions to build a competitor yourself, and suddenly be unpublished or having an API change completely destroy your business.

I can't see that being fair, and this condition is pretty much analogous to slavery and thievery, as many times you are doing actually R&D for those companies, to get rugpulled, copied and increasing their trillions, making their advantage even more unfair.
"Oops, how did that happen..." ;)
I'm curious: for how many people is this news? For those more inquiring you should look into the Smith-Mundt Act, which makes it illegal for the US Government to directly propagandize the American people; it was effectively repealed in 2012.
My current project involves processing flight plans. I believe the company even helped build part of NATS. There must be something else going on to crash the whole system.

We get so many invalid flight plans from third parties (e.g., ForeFlight) that the system would never be up if we didn’t mark them as invalid and move on to the next.
> Datatilsynet used an "expedited process" that was unnecessary and did not give the company enough time to answer

The GDPR became enforceable 5 years ago, and this is their core business. This does not concern some ambiguous edge case, it's essentially the fundamental reason the law exists. Either they've been willfully breaking the law for 5 years and the fact that they haven't been fined out of existence should be considered a blessing, or the company is so incompetent that its continued existence is an unacceptable risk to the world.
> Wayland never fails to impress me with how much stuff has still been left out

That's the problem when you replace a desktop system with something which has been designed for the embedded use case, Wayland's proponent always boasted that there had much less line of codes, but of course they had much less features too..
Ask HN: What tools have helped you work on remote servers over SSH?
Hey HN! At work I'm using a Remote Devservers for most of my work. This means you mostly live inside SSH all day, and don't have access to a graphical environment.

What tools have you found most helpful to be productive in a setup like that? My largest fear so far is keeping which server I'm currently connected to straight.
There's likely five Sims at various places and even 3d printed into the frame.
IANAL but this is clearly not even close to being legal under GDPR. Especially those collecting article 9 stuff (biometrics, genetics, sexual orientation, race, etc).

I think its just a matter of time before someone buys a new car that does this and takes the manufacturer to the EU courts. The argument that concent is given when you buy/use the car will not hold up for one second.

Car manufactors will have to allow you to use the car without collecting anything.
Im a little confused. Can you explain how their proposal is a first ammendment violation? If you're reffering to "could be CC'd to security@fcc.gov," I assume they mean make it an option, not make it mandatory. Some companies attack you for trying to disclose bugs and exploits -- saying that you're attempting to ransom.
That would be the past perfect tense, a different tense with a different meaning that is only used in the context of another past event you're talking about. The original quote is simple past tense and is correct.

You could also use the present perfect, "she has said goodbye too many times before", which sounds slightly better to me, but is again a different tense and implies the goodbye-saying is an ongoing phenomenon. If it's all in the past, this tense would be wrong.
Blows my mind that people think that there’s some magical way that Firefox could have competed. Chrome had ads on google.com, like the home page. No one except Google gets those ads. 90-second prime time tv spots. And they also scattered nudges throughout their entire website. Google ran a relentless ad campaign to get people to switch, and no browser on Earth was able to compete with that.
Okay so you wanna hear something absolutely horrifying?

My new CPAP machine has a 4G modem and it shares all my sleep data with the company. There’s some people at the local office who can tell precisely when I’m asleep and how asleep I am.

Could you possibly want any better data for when to rob someone?

I’ve put the thing in airplane mode and they called saying they can’t get the data needed for the first month, required for insurance purposes. Nope. My last machine had an SD card. How about you do that instead?
She died at 60, so no eligibility for Medicare or Social Security. That's a nightmare scenario in the good old US of A.
RIP
A swarm of swimming microbots could be deployed to Europa's ocean
How very postmodern.
Services targeted by EU’s tough new DMA
My 2002 Ford Excursion says "What's a SIM?"
I have a new EV (a modest MG ZS long range 2022) and I'm not much concerned about privacy BUT much, much, much more about remote controls ability from the factory AND potentially someone else due to some crapware vulnerabilities who happen to be vast https://samcurry.net/web-hackers-vs-the-auto-industry/

My take is simple:

- all cars can be connected BUT the connection must be user controllable, meaning the car must run on FLOSS easily installable by the formal owner;

- all cars can offer remote controls BUT in a classic ssh-alike fashion, meaning it's ok to have a web(cr)app for end users, but not proxyed by the OEM only. OEM might act as a proxy to circumvent NAT, but the user is free to choose a DynDNS and other P2P/distributed solution hosted alone.

In mere privacy IMVHO my car can snoop videos of me/anything surrounding / capture audio no more and no less than an Android or iOS macrospy also know as smartphones. So I'm equally concerned BUT so far such smart devices can't potentially lock me outside in the middle of anything, making me crash on some people and than state I'm a terrorist crushing on purpose and so on. Witch limit much the risk surface.
Well yeah, if your swap partitions on the same as the rest of your OS, eventually it will just make itself known as an issue.
yeah, I find it odd, just add up the revenue of the health insurance industry, that's how much you americans are paying, then see how much profit and overheads they have, that's how much health care money is directly not going to actual health outcomes, and then work out if you can do a better system. Should be a case that overall, everyone pays less and you get better outcomes. But, I can't see it ever happening for you guys. Americans are weird, they seem ok when americans let americans die and suffer, but if anyone else trys it, they spend whatever they have to show the world not to mess with America.
I believe they're referring to the practice of the extremely wealthy buying real estate in hot markets, not to actually use it, but in order to launder the source of their money. There are large numbers of never-occupied units in these cities; there are also efforts underway to stop the practice:

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-set-unveil-long-awaited-...
I think the analogy would be someone doesn't realize they left their backdoor unlocked.

You can see an open door. You can see an unlocked door unless you go up and try to open the door.

if a stranger informed me that my backdoor was unlocked, then I would be immediately suspicious. Why were you at my door trying to open it without trying to contact me first?
The US has the largest global economy so probably has an outsized impact on this.
I think you got that wrong, "valedixit" is just third person perfect, "he/she/it said goodbye", the verb suffix does not encode gender.
I switched to a motorbike that has almost nothing ‘fancy’ about it--along with public transportation.
That's a nice way to bring attention to the many interesting blogs that exist.
True History of Animals in Space
First thing I thought when I looked at the pictures: "Looks like the first iBook"
The "clamshell" iBook was launched in 1999, and the orange one looks like if this car was a laptop.
I'm showing how it would be under the original operator design which was reverted, which was "=-".
Just make sure you do something, like use a resistor to ground the antenna lead, because I did that, and would still get connectivity at times.

EG if the cell tower was very close.

Was fine after I used a resistor to turn that power into mild heat.
I think for most people its more about the network effects. Once you switch any iMessage groups you are in get degraded to MMS which means you'll probably just get dropped from the group so that the iPhone users can keep using read receipts/typing indicators, send higher quality media, and get lower latency/higher reliability chat.

Even for one-on-one conversations you and the other participant immediately lose a lot of QoL features that you took for granted.

Obviously there are crossplatform apps that offer those features but now the friction of switching to Android includes trying to convince every iPhone user you interact with or will interact with to download another app and set up an account or both of you have to deal with a pretty miserable chat experience.

Its definitely not the end of the world but if your goal is to promote competition then lowering switching friction has to be a big part of that.
Of all the problems in current day society, this isn't one of the worst. Consumers are talking with the money, and they're saying they prefer the cheap stuff. This isn't one of the worst problems, because no one but the consumer is affected.
Yo fellow 3rd gen driver!

Bought my 2000 SR5 in 09 and it’s gone way up in value since then.

Have had 3 random people ask me over the last few years how much I’d take for it and the answer is always “not for sale.”
Nice, has really soothing, ala late 90's web vibe to it. I like it.
So we shouldn't do anything at all?
Wikipedia is much deeper and nuanced than imagined
That sort of unaccountability is why Brexit happened, and why Trump got elected. That level of abuse by special interest groups need to stop.
I want to know how these license agreements work, legally speaking?

We bought a new car and signed the purchase agreement. Nowhere was there anything resembling a software license. Some months later, the display has a pop-up "our terms and conditions have changed". Um...which terms would those be, and when did we ever agree to them? Anyway, how can they make a one-sided change to a contract?
Maybe as a work around one of the EU commissioners can bug your family and friends to include you in their group chats. Access to group chats have recently been added to the list of inalienable rights.
Duolingo confirms its app will soon include both math and music lessons
That's what the question is trying to figure out

Actual native speakers are all dead. It's poetry, not conversational. The answers looked to poets.
This is really nice, I thought about doing something precisely like this, I'm guessing your are taking advantage of RSS?
> “When we said that sounds really exciting, like James Bond spy stuff, she said no, it wasn’t at all like that, it was very humdrum. We were operating machines night and day and it was incredibly boring work most of the time.

> “You just had to stand by the machines, you had to concentrate when you were programming it and make sure it was set up correctly, and the rest of the time you were there watching it, waiting for it to come up with something.”

Maybe I'm a bit dim...but I've just never gotten over how otherwise-intelligent-seeming people keep defaulting to "the real world is like Hollywood's fantasy spectacles".

OTOH, we live in a world where "Gell-Mann Amnesia effect" merits its own Wictionary page. So I probably am at least a bit dim...
Oz Police ask public to donate childhood photos to combat child abuse with AI
It doesn't. "Despidió" is already past tense. That said, "despidiose", while valid, is quite archaic. If it was me, I'd say "se despidió demasiado" or even "se despidió de más"

Edit: Reading the meaning of the song, I'd say "dijo adios demasiadas veces", as it stays closer to the original meaning.
I did Advent of Code in SML a couple years ago. It was an interesting experience. I don't think I've ever previously experienced such a vast disconnect between the quality of the core language, and the lack of functionality in the standard library.

I think that it could have easily been my favorite dialect of ML if its standard library hadn't been so anemic even by 1990s standards. As it is, though, my AoC solutions tended to take a large effort, not because the problems were difficult to solve in the language, but because I ended up having to build up so many of my own algorithms and data structures. Fortunately, doing that in in SML is a genuine joy. But it still, sadly, renders the language irrelevant for just about any practical purpose nowadays.
Everything he does apparently is. I look forward to him transitioning
Perhaps we're also measuring temps more than ever with greater data collection.
You at least bought a burner device to do this, right?
The concept of ultra-processed food is nonsense. https://thecritic.co.uk/whos-afraid-of-upfs-part-1/
Yeah true, that’s a fascinating challenge that I haven’t seen particularly well discussed anywhere in detail.

It needs to be really well protected so that the owner, and only the owner can disable the chain of security, but that they can do it without unreasonable overhead and without actually involving the manufacturer (in my opinion. To handle examples like manufacturer trying to lock-in or charge fees or simply going out of business)

Perhaps the owner mints a public key pair, and the device only unlocks with proof of the private key. But in a way in which is easy for your every day person.
I've never bought a new car and don't have any plans to soon

My 2001 Tundra is a spy-free, comfortable and versatile life/work vehicle that works as well in the city as it does hauling logs and steel on my property. I have three school age kids and prefer my truck to a Van (I've owned one in the past too) any-day.
Sincere thanks! This is exactly what I meant to ask!
"Recognized you"

I wonder where they put the facial detection camera
It’s a uniquely bad tweet. Why is my new technology not stealing enough attention from my old technology?
I've been working at EU startups and tech for a while now. There isn't much worry about data laws. All the data you need for the real product you can get without even getting close to breaking any privacy laws.

It only gets very complicated when you start forwarding that data to 3rd parties, intensively tracking + storing user behaviour and engineering patterns aimed at deceiving how you use the data.

If you're that worried about keeping up to date on these types of rules, you can subscribe to the EU data protection newsletter, which will be a fairly decent overview on what's going on: https://edps.europa.eu/press-publications/publications/newsl...
I guess you’re all set then and the rest of us are screwed?
LMQL author here. You may want to try the preview 0.7b release of LMQL, chat is not in the stable 0.0.6.* series. Lots of things are coming in LMQL also, so don't worry :)
Digging into "She said goodbye too many times before" versus "She said goodbye too many times", the "before" in the first implies that She is saying goodbye now.

I'm not sure if the Latin translation as it is captures that, or if you'd go for something more like "valedīxisse nimium valedīxit", "she said goodbye having said goodbye too much"; I kind of like that because then you're saying goodbye twice in the same line.
China bans government officials from using iPhones at work
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/27/world/july-hottest-month-reco...

There is a decent amount of confidence that it's an outlier in the last 120,000 years, but you're right, there are no written records that far back.

Regardless, do you find it reassuring to know that the world is rapidly changing in a way that's proving to be predictable? We can easily look at that chart and guess what it's going to look like over the next 10 years.
It is EURO5 or EURO6 emmision norm. It also handles firmware updates, reaction to Volkswagen cheating. Car needs to be online, check for latest firmware and all sort of nasty DRM.

There is also a black box, that records position and speed. It may call emergency if it detects crash. If DRM is violated, car may refuse to start, or only drive like 50 kms.

I don't have a source, but anyone should be able to find relevant articles.
If it’s not an excuse for something more serious they definitely need to rethink their infrastructure. It’s not allowed to have a single server with no disk space, taking offline 14 factories.

That should’ve used the old trick. Create a big empty file inside the server (i.e. delete_me_in_case_of_need.txt with size a few GBs) and delete that in case of emergency. This will buy you some time to take the necessary actions ;-)
Will it also be illegal to drive an old car that doesn't have this telemetry?
Show HN: I made a browser extension to track the time I spend on websites
Hello everyone. This browser extension was created for my personal use. I spend a significant amount of time on the browser every day, and one day I thought it would be helpful to track how much time I spend on certain websites, to see if I'm getting too addicted to a particular site like Twitter. That's why I developed this browser plugin.

I'm aware that there are already many time-tracking tools and websites available, such as RescueTime, WakaTime, and others. However, I believe the core idea behind this plugin is to respect privacy. Your browsing history should not be uploaded to any server, and you can export all the records as a CSV file to view them with your preferred tools, even when you're not using this plugin.

Additionally, browser extension have an advantage in that they can accurately track your browsing by listening to tab switches and window focus status. This way, the records will be more precise.

Currently, this extension is still in its early stages, but the core functionality has been completed. In the future, I plan to add more comprehensive data visualization charts and features such as proactive reminders when your browsing time on a website exceeds a certain threshold, and more.
That's fascinating to read, thanks for sharing.

Did it ever do something genuinely surprising? That seemed beyond the state-of-the-art at the time?
> An EDID override like this would be helpful for macOS as well, where the monitors swapping around after standby is a real annoyance [0] [1]

Are you sure this is still true? I had this problem for a very long time but it seems to have been fixed with a recent macOS update. It must have been one of the Ventura point releases.
The thing about "expert systems" is that they're just glorified database query. (And yes, you can do also 'semantic' inference in a DB simply by adding some views. It's not generally done because it's quite computationally expensive even for very simple taxonomy structures, i.e. 'A implies B which implies C and foo is A, hence foo is C'.)

Database query is of course ubiquitous, but not generally thought of as 'AI'.
With the next Gen Toyota platforms all coming to market, it’s the end of an era for sure. I will be driving my 2nd Gen tundra into the ground!
Your first sentence says that it's a simple matter of overeating, whilst your second alludes to the correct fact that it's more about what you eat.

And even then, it's not a simple question of volume. The processed foods are addictive and play havoc with blood sugar with little satiety.

I really think they are at the heart of the obesity epidemic.
Drone-Captured Orthomosaic Property Map
Did you read the linked post?
Its a systemic disease of greed that is causing larger and larger corporations in modern societies, while we are taught we [west] are a free market, false-capitalism from "wealthy states" is causing this rot across finance, food and healthcare across the globe.
Hundred years is a too-big number!

Microsoft and Apple are in their late 40s, Amazon and Google are in their 20s, Facebook is 19 and ByteDance is a teenager with 11 years old, yet managed to be classified as gatekeepers.

I think no other company, with a young age, in any other domain but tech could ever qualify as a gatekeeper
Thank you; I plagiarized it from System of a Down's Chop Suey.
I‘m on your side but your initial response would have meant something completely different to me, if you added that first sentence:

> It’s relevant because people continue to downplay just how dire the situation is.
Can you confidently state all the amino acids in an egg?
US mental health crisis is 100% driven by systemic lack of empathy. Makes sense it’s not getting better.

Jpow and corporate are coming for worker gains.

Climate change is waved off as a subjective mental illness.

Religious and secular toxic positivity crackpots demand we all smile and express nothing but happy thoughts lest we hurt their fee-fees.

“Experts” like Haidt blame social media, not the world teens see via social media; ossified minds of leadership chant the same old catechisms screwing the kids futures up. What teen girl wouldn’t go bananas as her body starts buzzing with hormones driving her to procreate given the obvious uncertainties.

The demand to exist in a cognitive dissonant state is only getting worse.
“Always” is a long time. Cars from the 1920s are on the road today, but do you want that to be your daily driver? Do you care about safety or the safety of your passengers?

This kind of backwards thinking does not scale to everyone who wants privacy in their car. And it does not scale into the long-term future of driving.
In the west = anglo countries

please don't clump together all westerners
The VSCode Remote SSH extension - the experience is almost identical to using VSCode locally.
It would be illegal to do this in the US or Europe without the business being PCI compliant first.

You might want to offer up the country's laws you are familiar with before making offers like this.
Non-news sites expose people to more political content than news sites. Why?
I wonder if one could build a metal cap, shape and color matched to the sharkfin, that goes over the antenna and couples to the roof of the car. Would that be enough to make a small Faraday cage over the antenna? Would leakage though the mounting hole still be enough to let a signal through?