skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I agree with this.

I think that governments should provide a verifiable digital ID the same way they provide physical IDs and that they should provide communications platforms that allow people to communicate with these digital IDs in a way that protects their rights the same way that they provide mail service.

I do not think that governments should be regulating/banning activity on private platforms but should be offering an alternative where private platforms fall short. This is really nothing more than bringing existing government services (ID, mail, voting, parliaments) fully up to date with digital technology.

There is a big gap right now where governments don't understand what they should be doing or are incapable of doing it. They recognize the need for action because they see that things are going wrong but are not proposing or implementing the correct solutions yet.
In the USSR, you don't look for happiness, happiness looks for you.
I love the people behind Fastly. Congrats to Artur and the crew :-)
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What kind of work on Firefox are you referring to?
It's not the only attempt of the current government of Austria to do something against privacy on the internet.

- There is the idea of a tax called "Digitalsteuer": A tax for internet companies which didn't pay taxes for some reason. However, it is estimated this would make only some million dollars (~25 to 30/year). At the same time, it could lead to too much surveillance because somebody would have to save the address and location data of Austrian users somewhere. https://derstandard.at/2000100880156/Kritiker-befuerchten-du...

- And the "Überwachungspaket":

-> you need to register prepaid sim cards

-> limitation of the secrecy of letters

-> data retention by ISPs etc
https://epicenter.works/thema/ueberwachungspaket
Windows 10 is getting a new Sandbox feature so soon you’ll be able to use that instead
Thanks for the useful info! I'm going to apply to Uni this year. All I need is just to improve my writing skills. I always was bad at writing. But I've already found one writing service here https://uk.edusson.com/dissertation-help for grammar and plagiarism check. Hope with their help I'll get good grades in English.
Exactly. Theres plenty of documentation to be written and translating to be done
Sounds unlikely. I know quite many in Sweden who have unregistered SIM cards and I think I would have heard of if they did not work in Spain.
Not much chance of that before the 2020 elections.
Software Heritage and GNU Guix join forces to enable long term reproducibility
I'd do. I appreciate having my data on my local server(s).

But since you pointed out a necessity, and for every necessity there is a customer, one can start a SaaS for (Mozilla) gateways, charging for traffic/storage.

There are others IoT providers, but I think there is none for Mozilla's (?).
I'm in the market to replace my macbook. Does the X1 Extreme support usb-c charging (charging the laptop with usb-c)?
"So the FAA said to the airplane manufacturers, “Why don’t you just have your people tell us if your designs are safe?”" This
This is an interesting AI problem to explore.
> having to provide and record ID when entering a concert, restaurant or other public places

What do you think cell phones and credit cards are? In all of your examples you do have to provide an ID.
The entire thread was full of reasonable people reasonably suggesting things like this and the OP being sarcastic and dismissive in response, guess she really wants those libraries
Venmo’s Latest Effort to Turn a Profit: Credit Cards
I think that scene was completely unnecessary, and also out of character for the rest of the show.

It's strange to think about too. No nudity, but will show a severed baby's head..
Show HN: Built a habit tracking app for myself. See if it's of any use to you
Yes, and to Cloudflare.
How do you name your topic branches? We previously used a bug tracking system in parallel with this same process, so we used ticket numbers as the prefix for branch names. On our current project, we are using Trello as the driving tool which obviously doesn't have the simple numbers so we end up with odd inscrutable branch names and I haven't yet found a good way to normalize them.
Artificial intelligence is helping old video games look like new
Interesting that in the former USSR states if person is old enough to have lived during communism you will be unhappy under capitalism and the more you lived in the previous system the harder is to get used to the new system.
Hyperion – The “Swiss Army Knife” Within Your App
While de-anonymising users may or may not work to stop individual trolling and other abuse (the jury is still out); it most definitely enables organized troll groups. Therefore it's actually not a good idea at all.
Please don't state opinion as fact.
Yes, delivering a better product is light. Delivering an equal or worse product but forcing your customers to pay you anyways is dark.
They are more like Cloudflare or Akamai
I honestly think that more than Matz reconsidering his own opinions, it probably turned out that having types is an instrumental thing to enable performance improvements.

Keep in mind, Ruby development is headed towards a goal that the dev team has called "3x3" as in Ruby 3 aims to be three times faster than current Ruby implementation.
Not that I know of, but technically doable since all it needs is transmitting through infrared the corresponding signal variants according to different brands. By modifying the source one could for example set all TVs to maximum volume, or tune them to channel 666, or even give different commands to different brands as they share the same IR codes.
Local city and State of Utah cops will merely pass off their requests to Feds, who are free of these restrictions . . . .
> Oh think of the kids!

We really need to start discouraging the use of throwaway accounts for comments like this. One should be willing to stand by their beliefs and navigate the process of push-back with courage and honesty.
Leave the Defender/Firewall untouched, don't install any additional "security" software and increase the UAC level to the highest one [0] that even prompts for changing important Windows settings.

Obtain all 3rd party tools from the Microsoft Store or scoop [1] or chocolatey [2] (in that order) and not by downloading `foo.msi` from the first search result. This way you can update all your apps in a single step and don't have to rely on built-in updaters.

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/identity-p...

[1] https://scoop.sh/ (enable its additional repositories for GUI tools or all possible JDK flavors: https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop/wiki/Buckets)

[2] https://chocolatey.org/
Putting 2 innocent people through systems designed to assume they are guilty is worse than 1 guilty person being able to be anonymous. Look at what the TSA has done. They’ve wasted so much time and created a massive invasion of physical privacy (i.e. someone touching your private parts in public) and not only did they never catch anything, they fail 90% of penetration tests. There is some positive intent here but in the real world this is obvious to cause more harm than good. I don’t know if it is hubris or ignorance to not see how easily this will be manipulated and have negative externalities. You don’t jail your whole population because of 1 bad apple.
How China Is Defending Its Detention of Muslims to the World
They are in the CDN/Edge space. Akamai and Cloudflare are more direct comparisons.

AWS, GCP, and Azure have CDNs as well, but those are more typically used by existing customers to front things running there.
I feel for you. The Turkish community has a real hard time in Austria, much more so than Germany.

I'm ashamed to say that many people from my childhood, today consider themselves liberals but in their rethoric are nothing more than the descendants of Nazis. The first thing I did when being old enough was to GTFO of Austria, and I haven't been back other than on vacation. I have a couple of Turkish friends in Germany who feel quite comfortable and at home there. From those I met in Austria they were by far not as cheerful. There is a lot of talk about "integration" which is basically a way to say: don't speak your language, don't eat your food, and don't visit your mosques because it offends us.

Every attempt of me making friends among Turks in Austria has always been met with suspicion since they aren't used to it. Extremely sad and disgusting.

I guess the problem is that people view Austria as some kind of liberal "Western" country, while geographically it is part of Eastern Europe and ideologically they are closer to those cheering for Victor Orban in Hungary.

If you want to deeply offend (most) Austrians call them Eastern Europeans. They think they're better.
Could elixir be a good alternative? It has typespecs https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/typespecs-and-behavi...
They serve a small number of relatively high revenue opportunity use cases (SMB/Mid-Enterprise). If you use a lot of specialized CDN and want solutions engineers to work with, know you need it but don't have the capability to do it well in house, etc, "hosted" companies like Fastly, Aiven, Elastic make a lot of sense (things that are easy till they're not). My biggest red flag for fastly would be: cloudflare.
> but I just don’t have time to a.) tune and configure it to work and have decent battery life with whatever hardware I choose or b.) troubleshoot it when it randomly decides to break itself on update

From my experience, troubleshooting macOS when it randomly decides to break is almost a Windows-like experience - lots of frustration and no sensible help on the internet (unless your problem is so trivial it gets solved by something like NVRAM reset, because this is the best advice you can count on online). I absolutely prefer GNU/Linux where, if something breaks, it's not that hard to get it back to sensible state.
Be happy until also this keyboard starts failing.
Under the "Risks" section they specifically mention their competitors:

The market for cloud computing platforms, particularly enterprise grade products, is highly fragmented, competitive, and constantly evolving. With the introduction of new technologies and market entrants, we expect that the competitive environment in which we compete will remain intense going forward. Legacy CDNs, such as Akamai, Limelight, EdgeCast (part of Verizon Digital Media), Level3, and Imperva, and small business-focused CDNs, such as Cloudflare, InStart, StackPath, and Section.io, offer products that compete with ours.
Most malware is targeted at Windows machines. First step would be to switch OS to Linux or BSD. Then you could sandbox your browser, taking it a notch further.

It is also bad practice to let browsers save your passwords, for Firefox at least, as these can be decrypted afaik.

Like others write: also avoid dodgy sites as these may execute malicuous javascript (disable javascript if you need to visit such site, at the least).

Be sure to aleays keep your software updated (this is a big one!).
Alternate approach that works is to start simple and low level. Twiddle bits, read hardware manuals. Code your own window blinds controller.
Play a chiptune directly from hardware.

Skip all the abstractions and push the numbers and currents.

Then when you get it, it is easier to go up in stack.
> So tell me how this will work. Will you swap SIM cards just to post anonymously sometimes and let the telecom providers (among others) find out what your other SIM cards are through your device ID? Or will you get a SIM card from another country to use exclusively and pay roaming costs / live with a worse data plan in Austria?

> People apparently forget that telecoms providers cooperate with authorities, new legislation is planned for this too.

Also remember that as soon as you connect to the cell phone network, your location is made known. If you ever slip up and use your personal and private sims in a more private place, you are likely to get caught. Coupled with other potential identifier leakage (like device id as you mentioned) the opsec bar is high for this use case.
Actually there is theft, for example, I watched a TV program about shoplifting and they caught several people, like a company of school girls or an old woman.

The bicyles must be registered in Tokyo if I remember correctly.

Also, they have unmanned selling stalls, usually in the countryside, where farmers sell fruits and vegetables [1]

[1] http://abritishprofinjapan.blogspot.com/2017/07/unmanned-veg...
The Amber Computer VDU Project [pdf]
What happens if you wait till your 40s before having kids?
I had slowly been moving into the Apple ecosystem, buying an iPad, iPhone, and even a HomePod and Apple Music. I was largely motivated by a respect for Apple's stance on privacy. Then it came time for me to buy a laptop and I encountered these numerous reports of Apple screwing up one of the most basic parts of the computer. I couldn't justify spending so much on a laptop plus AppleCare, which would only result in getting another keyboard that suffers from the same problem.

I realized that this is what Apple lock-in means, and now I'm leaving their ecosystem. Whereas before I would tell friends and family to just get Apple products, now I'll them to buy a Chromebook or Windows laptop. Maybe this is why I keep seeing the newly released Macbook Air on sale for $200 off...
And to MaxCDN, another second tier US competitor, like Fastly.
Thank you! I truly believe in the idea: I've had it since 2014, and after a few stranded attempts with various co-founders (as a side project, no funding nor enough time) I decided to roll up my sleeves and learn to build everything myself.

> As with any social network, the hard part is getting lots of people to use it. There's no benefit to me if I have a card but none of my friends do. How are you going to tackle this problem?

The way I see it, a social media platform only offers value if you have people actively posting content. Cardbox is different in that it already offers benefit if you have just one connection; that's one contact you never have to manage again. And this is true for every connection you make.

Right now, it's not yet a full replacement of your old address book, but rather a utility to modernize it, bit by bit. As the user base grows and the app becomes available on all platforms, it can become that replacement.

If everyone manages to just convince their closest circles (and/or people that change phone numbers or addresses a lot e.g. due to travel) to use the app, at some point enough people will have it so that it can unlock its full potential in situations of meeting new people.

To promote this, there's the referral program that rewards free Pro. Hoping early adopters want to set up the app for family members etc.

> Do you have any plans for some kind of company tier, where you could add/connect cards to a company on behalf of the user?

Absolutely, lots of potential there; company cards and business cards are on the roadmap: https://cardbox.app/roadmap

> Also, where is the data kept? Is this GDPR safe? I'm in the UK and I'd like to keep this company/user data somewhere safe :)

It's stored on AWS in the Ireland region. Of course, Cardbox is GDPR compliant; privacy is a core focus :) See https://cardbox.app/privacy
How to Make Habits the Easy Way
"small business-focused CDNs, such as Cloudflare"

That's an interesting statement. Supposedly, 10% of web requests on the internet route through Cloudflare. And I imagine their free tier has plenty of non-business use.
I think "Mayhem In Monsterland" was the most accomplished C64 platform scroller of the retro era. It has sonic-hedgehog-like smooth scrolling > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsEkN_9gqOc&t=1249s

Some amazing C64 games are being produced in recent years, for example see this one > "Sams Amazing Journey" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uHys7Vr-FY
You need passport or local id for prepaid purchase, at least in the EU countries to which I've been.
Vigilantes Are Taking Scooters Off the Streets. Bird and Lime Are Pissed
Thought about it a bit more.. Hopefully Season Three will have a shabby future Federation and a "Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire" vibe.
It is an interesting question, through I think I suspect the answer has to do with the values that profession provides to the employee. In many studies we see a gender difference in men valuing high pay over other aspects in work place, and women valuing social respect and a feeling of helping more than high pay. The legal profession, and I suspect pro-bono lawyers in particular, provide tends to a value of respect and being helpful, while high profile cases brings in the high pay. It would not surprise me if men and women would give very different answer in surveys on why they entered the legal profession.
Yes, clojure.spec enjoys a great momentum and acceptance in the community. It's being used for a great deal of use cases from safety to generative testing to HTTP params coercion.
MaxCND (awesome folks!!) got acquired by StackPath.
Is this Austria or North Korea? I’m appalled by this idea.
Now imagine, you being one of the kids you are talking about, and someone with your current attitude talking to you. Would this make you stop doing things that you do? Would it make you reconsider your actions? I bet it would only make you feel more angry.

What my kids thought me is that you must be patient. Always. You cant tell something once, and expect it to work instantly. It's easier to just slap annoying kid if he misbehaves, but he will just start to fear you, and it will not add to his understanding on the right way to behave.

For you it might look that it have worked because he will try to avoid you, but in his head there will be totally different understanding compared to what could have been if you talked to him constantly about "the tight way" of behaving.
BitBay celebrates the anniversary and adds the British pound
Ah Medium has turned into a paywall for content they didn’t even create. Wtf?

Here is a workaround.

https://outline.com/qeuupx
Beyond the Double Diamond: thinking about a better design process model
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/france-covered-up-bataclan...
I think that depends on the perspective of the audience.

Just as a point of comparison, a generation ago Koreans would reserve quite a bit of animus toward Japanese, newer generations know the history and are drilled propaganda but yet don’t have the same animus against Japanese. Inter-ethnic marriage was a no-no couple of generations ago; today only grandparents might scoff.
Yeah... Right that's why they'll be doing it.
Except that under Brady, Giglio, and their progeny, "open file" policies are legally insufficient to meet the requirements imposed by those cases. Although a few states have not passed laws or rules to enforce those court opinions, most have either explicitly or through standard discovery rules. Furthermore, most prosecutors, myself and my office colleagues included, actively provide any and all non-privileged information we obtain in a case and flag anything that is obvious Brady or Giglio material.
Alternate opinion, I work at Microsoft as an Engineer. We (obviously) use Teams for meetings. For one thing, it integrates well with the MS/Office ecosystem (sharing videos is easier etc). But the video conferencing system is really poor. Meetings sometime start with one party not able to hear properly, the other one. Usually, we spend the first 5 minutes saying "Am I audible?", "Can you hear me?" and their variants with that a feeling of deja-vu hits me. Usually, there aren't issues once the meeting starts (not with the software at-least). But the starting a meeting is certainly painful. SfB is a whole different ball of wax.

I have never used Zoom but I understand why someone would be willing to pay for a video-conferencing solution that works. Think about your hundreds of thousands of employees losing 5-10 meetings of all their meetings, everyday. That is the problem Zoom must be solving.
I'm using iPhone and I did some Android development recently. I bought quite recent phone (cheap as hell, of course, but it's not slow). Sorry, Android is still not going to win over iOS for me. Price is awesome, yeah, that phone for $200 is as good as my $1000 iPhone, but Android is for very different kind of people than I am. And even that advantage seems to vanish in new versions (e.g. it seems that you can't record calls with new Android anymore).

I don't really want to bash on people using Android. It's free OS after all and that's awesome, it allows many things that are not possible with iOS. But not everyone does not know what's out there. It's not like Android is some hidden treasure, it's everywhere and most people saw it, they just made a different choice.
Of course AWS costs more if you’re just moving a bunch of VMs to it and not changing your processes, automating, using managed services, and honestly down sizing your IT department.
Nice article. I finally gave Rust a recently. It's really interesting how new languages evolve, and what "deficiencies" they exert. The article for example uses closures, but it's currently impossible in stable Rust to accept a closure that itself accepts a closure as an argument (while you can easily rewrite the same pattern with structs). The borrow checker could still do better on suggesting fixes to common problems (otherwise it's actually quite elegant). What struck me while reading this was the use of assert_eq!(expected, actual), as I've mostly seen the other order. Sure enough I checked and the macro does not define the order. That's unfortunate, as testing against "fixed" "expected" outcome is very common, and leads to more friendly testing devx (which in general while supported out of the box isn't great).

On the other hand, Rust's IDE support, built-in linting, is seriously impressive.
Why don't you read the filing? It covers the competitive landscape.

Competition

Our platform spans several markets from cloud computing and cloud security to CDNs. We segment the competitive landscape into four key categories:

•Legacy CDNs like Akamai, Limelight, EdgeCast (part of Verizon Digital Media), Level3, and Imperva (for security);
•Small business focused CDNs like InStart, Cloudflare, StackPath, and Section.io;
•Cloud providers who are starting to offer compute functionality at the edge like Amazon’s CloudFront, AWS Lambda, and Google Cloud Platform; and
•Traditional data center and appliance vendors like F5, Citrix, A10 Networks, Cisco, Imperva, Radware, and Arbor, as well as networks that offer a range of on-premise solutions for load balancing, WAF, and DDoS.
The thing is, I do some Python programming for money, and I'm having a hard time imagining what the Brew team did to make `brew search` and its other parts so slow. I'd probably have to compare strings byte by byte in Python code for that.

Might have to learn me some Ruby just to figure out this mystery.