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"All his accounts with US companies such as Amazon, Airbnb, or PayPal were immediately closed by the providers. Online bookings, such as through Expedia, are immediately canceled, even if they concern hotels in France."
How is this legal / OK?
Related:
"IMPOSING SANCTIONS ON THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT" (white house, feb 2025) https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/impo...
Microsoft admits in French court it can't keep EU data safe from US authorities (jul 2025) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45822902
About half of the problems mentioned by the article are solved by the all-in-one-inbox beeper.com, now owned by Automattic.
It allows me for example to avoid Instagram's crack app while still DMing with friends only available on there.
Except "Long term availability" ... I'd love to have my full chat archive under my own control but doesn't seem on the roadmap.
I am less optimistic than the author.
Everything we have seen over the last few years (eg what microsoft is doing to Windows) points to a push to make the platforms we used to control, more like the 'consumption' platforms. Profit demands it.
"Does this serve my goals, or someone else's metrics?" indeed.
Oh? I think the outrage over making the reader feel like "a bad or prejudiced person" that accompanies any invitation to challenge assumptions is so tedious.
How come this culture war mindset infuses everything we do online now?
Nowhere does this map or its description even imply you are a bad person.
It's pure ... projection
Is there any type of advocacy or laws anywhere to push Apple to make data like this intercompatible?
Remember: this is only possible not thanks to Apple's good graces, but by:
- the EU Digital Markets act
- (in the US) Judge Yvonne‑Gonzalez Rogers’ final Epic v. Apple injunction https://www.theverge.com/news/660025/apple-changes-app-store...
first screen is 'Select a language' - maybe good to make clear if that's your own language, or your target learning language
So what's stopping anyone from forming a group or foundation based on donations from like-minded people? And maintain a secure, free fork? I see this topic often enough on HN, this might a big enough group.
related: see HN user jacquesm's work on a LEGO sorting machine
https://jacquesmattheij.com/sorting-lego-many-questions-and-...
Usually it’s a good move for articles but for this title, it’s a bit distortive to the point of HN selfparody
I was thinking about making this the other day. Would you mind sharing what you used?
Shift | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Hybrid or Remote | Full-time or Contract
WANTED: Fullstack developer that wants to save the world
At Shift, we want to make it easy for anyone to combat climate change. We are a non-profit startup.
We developed a (physical, irl) 3 month program where people reduced the CO2 emissions from their lifestyle by 25% on average, and found joy in it. Now we want to see if we can get the same results via a web app. Want to build it with us?
Ideal candidate: You have 8+ years experience. Preferred stack doesn't matter. You can show a portfolio of (personal) little projects. You have a strong moral sense. Interested in AI-assisted coding. Able to come to Amsterdam occasionally.
Please mail your github or portfolio to welcomeonboard@shift.world
If you want to experience Strandbeest yourself, Theo will be giving demos on september 14 in Vlissingen, the Netherlands.
Needs to add (2024) at end of title
Would be relevant criticism but here’s fusion startups skipping the “boiling water” step - see Helion Energy (Sam Altman funded)
An important topic to be on HN for several reasons. Let's hope it doesn't get downvoted / flamed into oblivion.
There’s a leaderboard on the Blue Wolf app, which effectively tracks the military units that are using the tool and capturing the faces of Palestinians. It gives you a weekly score based on the most amount of pictures taken. Military units that captured the most faces of Palestinians on a weekly basis would be provided rewards such as paid time away.
I am in 3 years post-covid. Definitely saw some lows but have been recovering steadily. Definitely look into Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment for this, for me it helped fight the plateau.
upvoted you not because I 100% agree but your (completely reasonable) comment looks to have been downvoted very heavily.
I do feel there needs to be space to discuss what kinds of reductions of consumption make sense, esp for rich countries.
To go a little bit further on this argument: I was dissapointed because the whole point of making this film turned out to be for nothing.
Instead of animation, it felt to me like just a live action film with a fiter. Sure, the filter in this case took many man-hours to produce, and as stills felt pretty, but there was something vital missing.
I found this hard to put into words, but here goes:
Actual animation thinks about how to present perspective, movement, character, etc. This film chose to paint over moving pictures, and in that way literally took over all the 'real' visual elements without making any choices in them. Compared to almost any anime, it feels lifeless and an under-use of the medium, IMO.
Long Covid is no joke. Many have been hoping for a breakthrough. This new hypothesis is trying to explain all symptoms different long haulers experience, from muscle pain, post exertional symptom exacerbation to fatigue.
The full paper: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2023.1150...
FAQ: https://researchaidnetworks.org/faq/
Lay summary (the explanation for those without a medical or related scientific background): https://researchaidnetworks.org/hypothesis-summary/
Fundraiser for the clinical trials: https://www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-help-fund-research-into...
In 2017, Breath of The Wild developers shared a lot of details of the process at the game dev conference CEDEC.
Nintendo made blogs take down the pictures of the slides afterwards, but here is a good summary:
The author is pessimistic about Beeper's future. They will be happy to learn that the EU will basically force messaging interoperability in the next 2 years:
Is there a (firefox) extension that auto-rejects everything on your behalf?
I have only seen auto-accept ones so far.
how did this happen?
is someone generating paraphrased clones of articles appearing on HN?
why? for ad revenue?
I think this is a fair assessment.
Big social media companies are not incentivized to care about psychological and social side effects of their product.
A bit like cigarette companies offloading externalities onto society, but much harder to specifically identify and address.
the paper, “Rail-based direct air carbon capture”
https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(22)00299-9
their website:
Any other similar platform (weibo, facebook, G+) just allows the post/tweet to be long and editable.
It’s a proven concept. It leads to many people sharing their thoughts in a more readable way than a thread of tweets, and has a lower barrier than having a blog.
What I see here feels overspec’d and convoluted, as if hundreds of people had to have a say on what could be a very simple and singular product.