skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you like the sound of white noise or rain, there is a nice built-in feature that makes it available as additional background music even when listening to podcasts:

Settings -> Accessibility -> Audio & Visual -> Background Noise

I can activate it by pressing the home button three times (but I think that needs an additional setting).
Ctrl-Z to the rescue!
This is the sad truth. I have a translation/localization company in the US. When pitching investors, first/second gen immigrant investors were always very interested, while multi-gen Americans would always ask "but what's wrong with google translate?"

Americans have a very strange and tunnel-vision world view.

I blame most of this on the fact that when you turn on any news channel, in an average 1 hour new program, less than 10% of the time is spent talking about anything outside of the US (and when they do talk about international news, it's always tied back to how it impacts the US - no one is listening to international news just for the sake of knowing what's happening in the world)
I am sure that next time something nefarious comes from Russia, you will afford Russia the same, very large, benefit of doubt.
Those who can escape the construct will do so. The number of routes available have increased thanks to globalization. You are not being imaginative enough. Look at people who don't have opportunities in their countries. Do they sit there and cry we don't have opportunities or are they moving? People are watching all this on their streams 24x7. And one thing people are good at is blindly copying what others are doing. Those who are clinging to the status quo are totally delusional about what globalization has done to the West.
Kind of looks like they had no canaries. https://securityboulevard.com/2024/07/crowdstrike-pir-canary...
> If we entertain multiple theories though, the "Hitler is just crazy!" theory fits, but so does the "gee, it is pretty easy to see why they'd be scared of France and Britain, look at what France and Britain did to them at the first opportunity" theory.

Well, yes. As a Brit I would like to believe I would have been saying things like "this Treaty of Versailles approach is a disaster, we're just giving the Germans reasons to re-arm and fight us. We should have made more of an effort towards ensuring that Germany is prosperous and wealthy despite losing the Great War. Given what the British and the French did to them at the first opportunity, they are likely to be really angry with us the next time tensions rise".

Given what then happened, I would probably have scored myself pretty well for geopolitical acumen too. roenxi approved policies towards Germany in the interbellum period would have been less likely to see the British Empire make enemies and get its back broken. As we saw in the aftermath of WWII, the policies that work were occupation, respectful treatment, rebuilding and creating prosperity in the vanquished countries [0]. Similarly, the policies that would have helped with Ukraine would be a similar approach. We can't manage occupation but Russia seemed to be feeling cooperative back in the 90s, we should have taken advantage of that when the chance was open and tried to achieve all the other parts. Not salami tactics of advancing a hostile military alliance towards their borders.

Creating reasons for great powers to fight you is remarkably foolish policy. Even middle powers for that matter. That is not the sort of thing that should be done. These stupid policies have consequences.

[0] Policies adopted because, given the sheer scale of the disaster that was WWII, even the politicians had to admit that a new approach from WWI's failed peace was needed.
> Can someone explain to me why the protections that Falcon provides, are not provided by the OS itself?

They are. It doesn't, y'know, do anything. It ticks the box for your auditors and occasionally makes your computers stop running, which is par for the course in regulated environments.
That sounds like concentrated power in a hands of a few people, government officials who decide what's what. This leads to oppression. And central planning for everything is definitely bad. Plenty of examples from China and former Soviet block.

Our current system (which is not true capitalism in my view) also has concentrated power in the hands of a few people.

So what do you call a system where the majority of people can't be exploited by the 1%?

I like Carl Sagan's answer to this topic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDK2chgNPZM
- Disable background refresh for all apps (for battery life)

- Enable lockdown mode and any other privacy features

- Limit all app permissions to the minimum, including notifications (for privacy and battery)

- For password manager, use bitwarden (or 1password), not apple's own (to prevent lockdown)

- Under location settings, avoid using precise location unless explicitly required, like maps (for privacy)
Not really true, depends on the marginal elasticity of demand whether the consumer vs. the retailer pays and how much. My wife owns a retail store, and she loves Amex customers, they’re usually the highest spenders and easiest to upsell. Having a surcharge for credit cards or Amex in particular would be counterproductive.
Conclusion

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I created new accounts because I didn't register with an email and lost the login. What a nasty person you are! Why don't you go create something?
Hi! Thanks for your comment! We have thought a lot about safety, and the battery is designed to make it hard to assemble the wrong way, and we obviously have safety features (fuse) which would prevent any damage if cells were put the wrong way
There is lots of interesting kernel surface that is rarely locked down. eBPF is a (relative) the new kid on the block but there is also Netlink and the other new kid io_uring. Unfortunately security features for these transports are limited so if you have to say run a daemon that manages network device state that now becomes attack surface for other juicy things you can do with Netlink (because once you have CAP_NET_ADMIN everything is up for grabs). io_uring is similar in this regard with both currently pretty much "trusted" APIs.

Netlink is pretty awesome, you can sort of think of it like ioctl on steroids. As a result it's proliferated around the kernel as much nicer replacement for ioctls or implementing a custom character device or something for userspace/kernel communication.

Knowledge of this isn't widespread however, even security experts I have spoken to that don't have deep kernel development background aren't really aware of how widespread Netlink is in generic non-network related subsystems.
How long until they use an LLM to make up a joke based on what the user typed in the query field?
It's a non-zero switching cost for me. Every site that doesn't work in Firefox is a pain to use and I mostly don't bother.
This is great, but I doubt this will ever actually be enforced. At least not without Switzerland dramatically increasing its investment in FOSS.
So methods and tools developed to combat global extremism during the War on Terror weren't used by US tech companies at the behest of an in-power political party against opposition speech?

Is that not what the senate subcommittee has been discussing for the past two years?
It's CIO magazine snakeoil. You don't buy it for any other reason than tick off some risk thing without knowing/thinking about it. Everyone does it, so he. Terrible.
Google maps works fine.
Tried wingdings font, would look fun
Time to settle in a jurisdiction where gift cards are a legal currency and only do business within there
I'd love to find framework as powerful and as complete as API Platform in PHP in other language but even in java / popular languages for web dev
> default to Frankenstein degrees

That's Fronkensteen.
You're listing the latest revisions which is wrong. Issue 6 is originally from 2001 and Issue 7 from 2008.
This headline is kind of misleading. It's actually someone's personal (educated) opinion on a blog, not a statement of fact. Should be something more like "I think CrowdStrike will be liable" or "CrowdStrike should be liable"
Swiss E-ID and Trust Infrastructure – Technical Roadmap
Its the World Series of Baseball.
I'd argue the UK is part of "the west"?
Most normal users will simply switch away from Firefox, often permanently, if things break in Firefox.
Google Nest prononciation of EN songs names in middle of sentence in other language was fun to ear. It’s been a wile it does pretty well (way better than at the beginning at least) so they probably have the tech to achieve street names prononciation.
> And navigation on Android / Google Maps can't pronounce French names for streets/places while driving around in bilingual places in Canada.

Honestly, I think this is the right approach, and I'm speaking as a bilingual French/English speaker.

Google Maps doesn't know that you are bilingual. So it has two choices: pronounce words the "right" (i.e., native) way, or pronounce them the "English" way. If someone who is unused to hearing the native pronunciation, their understanding is going to be impeded. Google Maps tells you for example to turn onto Passage du Grand Cerf in a French accent, a non-Francophone is going to have a harder time finding that.

(Now, okay, maybe you should have a way to say that you're bilingual and want to hear the French pronunciation, but I understand why they don't do it.)
Is it bad that I knew exactly what this was before I clicked on it?
FYI Links to the Previous parts can be found here

1) Part-1 https://tailcall.run/blog/graphql-schema/
2) Part-2 https://tailcall.run/blog/graphql-schema-part-2-1/
3) Part-3 https://tailcall.run/blog/graphql-schema-part-2-2/
That's not what I am trying to convey here. JVM is amazing and it is a feat that java is as fast as it is and javascript and v8 are order of magnitude slower.

Also even though I also found java too verbose, I kept believing that we need it to be so to write good software. I still enjoy java but it doesn't compare to the ergonomics of typescript for me. And nimbleness of the experience according to me plays a decent role.

Currently for me, either I really care about performance and I default to rust for those applications or I need solutions where the product will evolve quickly over time and I need great DX over performance and I default to typescript for those.

Java definitely has a role to play but its role in my work has certainly diminished.
I wonder what the combined percentage of Linux usage is for personal use. The results (distros) add up to 61% which might be overlapping (one dev using more than one distro).
Those eager would take it immediately, those conservative would wait (and be celebrated by C-suite later when SHTF). Still a much better scenario than what happened.
Lose a bit on each unit but make it up in volume
There are still arguments going on to make sure the entire Swiss Digital National ID (e-ID)[1] code will be open source.

[1] https://github.com/e-id-admin/open-source-community/blob/mai...
Why has it dropped to second page already after 5 hours and 223 points/113 comments? It's tech x politics, it's perfectly acceptable and discussion worth having. Deliberately downranked?
[dupe]

Some discussion earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40852084

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41047172
One example:

https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/30551

Which goes to https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/9998 which captures a lot of such scenarios

And just a few releases ago there were some big problems with handling recursive types. I think most are fixed but there may still be a few around.

These are things that you run into on a daily basis if you write enough TypeScript.

I doubt we should standardize TypeScript before we have definitive solutions to all these. And I 100% agree with the parent's comment.
What is hilarious to me is how the US government or courts doesn't seem to give a shit about this.

Corporativism in US is a thing. Companies can brick hospital systems killing patients, drive self-driving cars and run over people but don't get sued, and if they do, they settle for very little.

Just look at the recent Boeing incident where people were killed, the company clearly misled the US authorities and settled only a $0.5B fine.

Those companies in those scenarios should pay the fine that they should ($20B+), and if it means the company would go bankrupt, do it and form a new company diluting the previous shareholders.

Without doing this, shareholders and CEOs will have the incentive to carry on with their unfair practices that leads to dead people and deadlocked systems.
I'm guessing that's Chrome going to Google maps site. I recall a setting being there to disable this.
Isn’t it 60 days in the whole EU for physical objects bought via internet?
No, I mean median. Here is an article describing a very similar problem since I can’t link to the leetcode version: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/median-of-stream-of-running-in...
I thought the same, until I realised I still had `/unsupported` in the URL. Spoofing a Chrome UA and dropping that path from the URL let me load (and use) Apple Maps fine under Firefox.
If it is in such immature condition it should be kept internal.

If it doesn’t work at all in a web-browser which handles HTML5 and modern CS it is probably not a website - but a proprietary protocol which needs a special client-application.
What are cognitive light cones?
Thank you for your comment!

Indeed, those are all valid criticisms that people ask us, but thankfully we have worked on this product for the last 3 years, iterating on the design, so we have answers!

Our battery is already running every day on free-floating e-bikes, and our data shows that our batteries are working great and are safe!

We've got extra doc here if interested: https://docs.gouach.com/fireproof-casing

We really care about bikes and electrification, we think it's the way forward for cities in a climate-changing world, so our (engineers) observation was that we needed batteries that people could TRULY depend on, meaning they could observe them and repair them

This is what we've set out to build, and we're very happy with our current product now, so this is the reason we're trying to push it to the general public now!

Thanks for your encouragement it is much appreciated!
Israel, despite being a small country, has a very successful tech/IT sector, esp in the security space. Probably IDF acolytes bridging over to the private sector. Israel is widely known to participate in social psyop campaigns as well. It is not farfetched to think they have a pulse on popular tech forums like HN.
Hopefully judges aren't that stupid / our legal systems so easily gamed
Yes we're French sorry! We'd love any comment on how to rephrase things haha
7 months of interviews with 50 European and US IT executives about the crisis
This comment contains a link to a detailed technical explanation of why the person I was replying to was wrong. Does your browser not support websites others than Hacker News? What is this peculiar delusion you have in which content not written into this little box is not real content?

Hacker News comments are divided between useful, inquisitive engagement, to which I react positively and smarmy, self-important bullshit, to which I react with scorn. You have made clear your allegiance to the latter. Sad!
The same would apply to assistive technology. Right now, various countries are paying relatively big sums to Freedom Scientific for JAWS licenses. It would be way better for the users if those countries would pay open source devs to work on accessibility for everyone. However, capitalism is preventing this. Resellers would be out of bussiness, so they lobby for the current system to stay as it is.
An EULA does not change the morality of the situation anyway. They are a leech profiting off users generating content who are now upset about not getting a cut from third-parties also profiting from said user generated content.
With Trump's remarks about Taiwan it seems the US is backing off it's idea of being a peacekeeper. If it's military is only for defence it could be shrunk massively.
We had 4 monnth of full lockdown in the whole country and like 2 more month in Buenos Aires. (Kids had kindergarten by Zoom.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Argentina
Wruby: A single file, minimal site generator written in Ruby
I feel for the poor dispatchers who'll have to deal with bickering idiots on video discussing domestic/civil disputes.
Maybe this would work if the damage was $100.

But you would not get away from $mil of damages with a $10 voucher. The courts are not dumb and don't work like that.
It is funny… based on the way Coke (and Pepsi)prices their products (prices all over the place and near constant discounts) they seem to have a critical mass of people that buy their 12pack every time they go the the store no matter the cost.
The point of the design is not so much individual cell replacement, but more:

- replacing electronics (hard to do safely on a traditional battery, and electronics often breaks with shocks)
- replacing all cells at once when they are drained (and then they are easy to reuse in second-life storage, or to recycle, because they haven't been welded and damaged)
That 10% and around 400 votes is very close to previous campaigns to vote out certain authors.

It just crazy to see one failed author spend much time and resources fighting against people he probably never have met.
Why are there so many more startups in the US compared to Europe?

While not a perfect measurement, there is more innovation and economic generation that happens in the US compared to Europe. Time will prove which culture of business wins.
Visual Studio proper has time-travel debugging (IntelliTrace) with GUI since VS 2010. RR came out in 2016.
Then why why not an "I understand, continue anyway" button? Hide the feedback button for those users, if you must.
*might be liable

And if France comes down hard on them, they may simply not do business in France.
(2023)

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35391433
What? We're into late stage capitalism and you're telling me the world was experimenting with making employees lives better? I must be living under a rock!

Where are these so called experiments? I only see employee conditions getting progressively worse. If you go back long enough, we did get a few wins like weekends and some limits on hours after a lot of people died for it, but that's about it.

The last change we had was probably WFH which only affects a small portion of people and, realistically, is only being accepted because it's cheaper for companies.

>But, you are of course free to start a company doing that.

I argue nothing different than the status quo can ever succeed without deep structural change.

It's like trying to be a pacifist in the middle of a war zone. You will be killed. It doesn't mean there's anything wrong with being a pacifist, but it simply cannot work under those conditions.

The part that people seem to forget is that we chose to value profits above all else. We can also choose to change that. Even if it's extremely hard to imagine this with all the propaganda we've been bombarded with in the past century, it's possible.
No, they aren't. GS1 - the organisation that administers retail barcodes - has rules about when to change the Global Trade Item Number for a product. The GTIN is what you probably mean by 'UPC' but GS1 now distinguishes between the abstract product number (the GTIN), and the concrete barcode symbology containing a 12-digit GTIN (UPC-A).

The Guiding Principles are:

* Is a consumer and/or trading partner expected to distinguish the changed or new product from previous/current products?

* Is there a regulatory/liability disclosure requirement to the consumer and/or trading partner?

* Is there a substantial impact to the supply chain (e.g., how the product is shipped, stored, received)?

- from https://www.gs1.org/1/gtinrules/en/guiding-principles
I've heard of senior people applying for jobs like this simply turning the interview question around and demanding that the person asking it solve it in the allotted time. A surprisingly high percentage of the time they can't.
I think that's a bad argument. Founding your own cooperative makes you kind of an entrepreneur but joining one doesn't. Most workers are joiners not creators in terms of companies. And I bet more than a few of them would gladly become a partial owner of the company they are working for.

But there are so few cooperatives that the chance of you joining one is very slim anyways.
I checked with curl and no matter the user agent it will answer with a 302 to google maps, I don't know how it works that others say it will redirect them to the Apple Maps App.
While Clowdstrike Falcon EDR is in some sense an AV on steroids and Crowdstrike not only does EDR. While they are obviously deployed on lots of systems, less than 1% of Windows systems means it still operates in an absolute niche. Most people didn't know CS even fewer know any of the competitors.

I think one massive difference between CS and AV is also, you don't expect a human to be in the loop because it would be too expensive. Nor would it be feasible for consumer software because of privacy.

Also even within this small niche, the solutions are very heterogeneous and make little sense for single boxes - in fact may even be designed to run on a network level.
Yes, for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Lorz They were initially banned for life. Maybe copping to it eventually let their sentence be commuted, hard to say.

There's probably more recent ones too, this was posted here recently so was on my mind.
(2012) if you're going to keep submitting old stuff put a date on them!
Disagree. If you're using a service, understand how it works.

Not everything needs to be designed for idiots and lazy people, it's ok for some tools and services, especially those aimed at technical people and engineers to require reading to use properly and to be surprising or unintuitive at first glance.
> If the story is "all companies must be fully employee-owned workers' cooperatives", then first, note that you are calling for a restriction on workers' rights:

This is completely dishonest. You're not arguing against this because you're concerned for workers.

> they have to be given part of their pay as stocks,

This is nonsense: the stock given to workers would normally be distributed to other places, so when it's given to workers instead, it's generally in addition to what they would normally be paid.

> and they can't sell them freely.

Also nonsense: this is a rule at some companies, but doesn't have to be.

> Second, that will probably make markets work worse. There's a large economics literature on this: worker-owned cooperatives have not taken over the market, although they are an available institutional form, because (a) they find it hard to raise capital (b) they tend to make decisions that maximize worker welfare rather than profit, e.g. they won't sack underperforming divisions or expand in ways that dilute existing workers' stake.

Ah, the real reason you care about this issue: "it will probably make markets worse". Screw workers, can't make markets worse!

As a society, is it our goal to have companies that "take over the market"? Or is our goal to have an economy that meets the needs of our people?
what if the fine was giving up some shares to the government? With such a rule, after enough fines, the company would basically automatically become a public company.
In "mice that had been genetically altered to express human tau"