skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I took a look over the rant and it seems blown out of proportion.
Compare this to google chrome.

- this is the most worrisome part which I hope never repeats: "In 2017 Mozilla made a deal with Cliqz".

- I don't see any 'Remote Settings' service - perhaps because I have a about:blank home page (or I'm not on a corporate laptop)... something to look at later to see how it works.

- I do see location services - good to know, will disable fast enough.

- detectportal.firefox.com - captive wifi portal detector - I don't mind much.

- Firefox push services - this I do use - it's nice to get telegram notifications all the time via firefox.

- cloudfront - something to look into in the future.

- telemetry - the only thing I've seen were the bug reports where it asks you if you want to submit it... and it's very useful on the other side when you're actually fixing the bugs.

- DNS via Cloudflare - the default is not encrypted via ISP which is a lot worse (anyone upstream or on the same network will see what you are browsing)
Thank $deity for gigabit fiber to the home for €40/month. Netherlands is one of the countries with the highest average bandwidths available (though not the cheapest)
Britain was completely defeated by June 1940, after that until D day in June 1944 was pure survival tactics and nothing much else, without Bletchly the entire nation would have pretty much starved to death over those 4 years.
That's superior for central governments who want to be able to get half of your economic output, punish you if you do drugs and that try to push an insane level of consumerism at the expense of businesses (reversibility).

Fraud protection could very well be kept under control and prevented with insurance, instead of potentially invalidating every economic transaction.
I was first a bit hesitant to embed a letter using a custom font in an SVG, but then I saw it actually creates a path. So it will look the same everywhere and not depend on a font-file. Nifty! But how is it done?

How usable are svg favicons nowadays? Do I still need a dozen link rels in my <head> with various icons in different formats/sizes? Currently I have one .ico file as rel="shortcut icon", 4 pngs in various sizes as "icon", 4 pngs as "apple-touch-icon" and 1 svg as "mask icon"
> A snag doesn't draw any water

I had seen this narrative lots of times before. "Fix it for me for free whereas I take the money" because you like the trees, don't you?.

Not. Sorry. Is nor is my mission, neither I have the private resources to "draw any water" or fix the consequences of the greed of others.

I assume that US government could fix the problem if they wanted, so don't blame on the messenger, please. The current narrative seems to be "forests are expensive so lets remove them and problem solved". Will not work.
Sure, People activate the sharing of what they spot or not. If they do, no money is asked for them benefiting from the global IP rep DB. The one willing to use it without contributing will be able to do so, through API calls, but at a (moderate) cost. We'll have 2 plans, premium & enterprise. They we will provide support, tools for fleet management (like deploying a policy on X/Y/Z servers from a central location), AI (to spot larger trends), cold log analyzes (forensic, but harder coz of GDPR), tailor made bouncer responses, bounce back to us and self IP monitoring (to see if they are caught in a consensus, hence have been hacked). Also, bouncers, the components blocking Ingress IPs are able to work without the GO daemon, by just using the IP rep DB. Think for exemple someone willing to protect a group of IoT machines, low CPU, low mem, the API approach is close to costless in terms of resources and allow those machines to be protected without running the daemon.
I don’t know why this comment is getting downvoted. I agree that the numbers in the article are not representative of the reality in the UK. Entry-level broadband for most people is around 30Mbps minimum.

To say that 4.5Mbps is typical is completely incorrect.
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Yes: the processor is turing-complete, if you could predict the patterns then you've solved the halting problem.
This. Biometrics are perfect for tracking but sh*t for security!
> I've always wanted to know why a ball doesn't follow a beam of light if they are both following straight lines in spacetime.

Because light is much faster. Throw a ball at the speed of light and you will see exactly the same path.

Lets say you shoot rifles with different calibers. Each time the bullet takes one second to hit the ground but the faster bullets travel longer distances. Light is so fast it escapes from the planet but if the planet were big enough even light would hit the ground like a bullet.
>but the benefits will be reaped by the largest of corporations.

What isn't?

But you're also ignoring the fact that these benefits will also be reaped by end-users - and more by people who have poor connections to the Internet.

>Is it worth it? Maybe for end users (who will get their web page in 485 ms instead of 500ms), but for developers it is not.

The Internet is for End Users,[0] not for developers. UX >>> DX.

[0] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8890
I thought this was the claim of TFA being summarised.

They have examples with walls of text from which I can't guess anything, but whether those are representative of inscriptions on so-damaged statues I don't know.
That's really bad design/accessibility on YouTube's part, especially as the median PC is likely significantly slower than yours (I'd guess it's a dual core of some sort and intel integrated graphics).

Outside of some very specific things like gaming etc, I don't think I've ever watched a YouTube video and wished that it was 60fps. Even if there was a ton of bandwidth and CPU available on the client side, I'd prefer if they spent it on putting more information into each of the 24/30 frames.
I feel like I've seen a half dozen articles on this site alone on why WPS is horrible and insecure.
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Only videos that are uploaded at 60fps are served with 60fps
I don't know, I just watched some newly uploaded videos available exclusively in 30fps. TFA shows a screenshot where there's no 720p(30) or 1080p(30) option though, so it must be happening to some videos.

(Does it even make sense to "upgrade" a 30/29.97 fps origin video to 60fps? I don't think so.)
Can't have tax-payers money used to improve conditions for normal people - that would be socialism!.
Very few iPhone components are actually manufactured in China even now, it's just where all the parts are assembled, but the value contribution of assembly is only a few dollars per device[0]. Back in the day as much as about 40% of the components by value were manufactured in the USA, including the early Samsung CPUs made in a fab in Texas, and Gorilla Glass made by Corning in New York state. That was actually the case at the height of the furore about iPhones being made in China around 2010-2012, although few commentators bothered finding that out.

Nowadays the countries of origin are more diverse, and the proportion made in the USA has fallen. The biggest single change though was moving from US made Samsung CPUs to TSMC chips from Taiwan.

I believe some of the more sophisticated assembly and QA test equipment is US made, or at least used to be but can't find a reference for that online.

[0]https://www.lifewire.com/where-is-the-iphone-made-1999503
Haha I posted this a few months ago: 4 points. HN is so random sometimes :D
When people try doubling frame rate, such as in the Hobbit, everyone makes a huge deal out of it, so I'm guessing everyone can.
Ahh yes, Foxconn and Samsung, two famous Chinese companies...
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They call out those cheap, split lockwashers that have been experimentally proven to be ineffective: https://i.imgur.com/4nbgxmW.jpg

The lockwasher serves as a spring while the bolt is being tightened. However, the washer is normally flat by the time the bolt is fully torqued. At this time it is equivalent to a solid flat washer, and its locking ability is nonexistent. In summary,
a Iockwasher of this type is useless for locking.

Also, note this PDF was posted to HN six years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8604761
no risk here. Tool is MIT, if community doesn't like our approach, you fork it. So we'll be faithful to our commitments and this licensing model is the best insurance for it. Now, I can also tell you that people using the free software and contributing IPs will get back, for free, the IPs dangerous for their technology footprint. (like if you use Wordpress / SSH & Nginx scenario, you'll get the IP attacking those). Free. Period.

We monetize the aggregated, curated data and the features we offer that cost us infrastructure to run.
60fps videos look so bad to me, I'd really love to have possibility to switch to classic frame rates all the time. :(
Yes, engage in discourse. I mean, have a conversation and argument why I think they are wrong or whatever. I don't see any other way, to hate or shut off the haters doesn't sound like a solution, because from a certain perspective we are the "other side" too. It's delicate.
> Somehow, Battle of Britain is celebrated as a multi-national cooperation.

Not that I've ever noticed. I don't think I learned until I was 17 or 18 that there were non-British pilots involved on the British side. And I live in England! We should know!

I'm glad the article isn't quite as blunt as the headline suggests. If GCHQ are saying that public perception of Bletchley's role is overrated... well, they're entirely correct about that. But if you actually go to Bletchley Park they're quite clear about the role of Polish intelligence in breaking the Enigma machine.
"unmonetized" doesn't actually make a difference in trademark law. If they felt they had to defend the mark under the letter of the law in order to keep control of the mark, then they need to defend it where used for non-monetary gain (or no gain at all) as much as where it is used for that purpose.

Of course sometimes mark holders will avoid going after the bigger fish where possible, just in case, unless they have a very strong case (obvious deliberate misuse of the mark).
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I quite honestly wonder sometimes why Rust excited me so much when I first started using it, but I do not get such excitement from Zig. Nowadays it's very easy to be excited about Rust because it demonstrated that ownership works but when I started using it, there was still garbage collection etc.

Zig looks really cool but it feels like it has a high chance of being a niche language. Rust never felt like that.
The response was posted as an image containing text, so here it is in text form for screen readers or text mode only browsers.

STATEMENT FROM PHILIP COLLIGAN ON RASPBERRY PI TRADEMARKS

Yesterday we sent a letter to a member of the Raspberry Pi community as part of our efforts
to protect the Raspberry Pi trademark that was inconsistent with our values as a community
organisation. We got it wrong and we have apologised to the valued community member
who got the letter. We are undertaking a review of how we protect our trademark to make
sure that this doesn’t happen again.

The letter was sent automatically to a small number of individuals responsible for social
media accounts and websites that were identified by external legal advisers as possibly
infringing our trademarks. It should never have been sent.

It is important that we take action to protect the Raspberry Pi trademarks, not least to protect
the public from bad actors who deliberately misuse our brands to sell poor quality, rip off
products.

We want to do that in a way that doesn’t undermine the use of the Raspberry Pi brands and
trademarks by members of the fantastic Raspberry Pi community who share our educational
mission and who do so much to bring it to life everyday.

If you have a question or concern about your use of the Raspberry Pi brand or trademarks,
please get in touch with us at trademarks@raspberrypi.org.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia_PC

There was an actual group with recommended ‘standards’.
I don't know why the parent was downvoted. It's a reasonably accurate summary of the state of Internet access in much of the UK, and it correctly identifies the misleading emphasis on ADSL-based technologies in the article.

In practice, most UK premises now have at least FTTC available, which can give realistic download speeds of up to 80Mbps depending on how close to the cabinet you are. FTTP is the technology currently being worked on in a lot of areas but will obviously take a long time to become the norm if only because existing housing stock will need new cables to be physically installed. If you're willing to have that disruption and to pay the premium, there are also cable companies that will install dedicated lines for you with much higher speeds even if FTTP isn't yet available in your area using BT's network.
I don’t have the means (or time or interest) to do this analysis myself, but it has been claimed that half that accounts’ tweets are him personally and the other half are a team: http://varianceexplained.org/r/trump-tweets/
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Me too - since the rise of ad-funded SEO 'content farms', it's become damn hard to find information written by someone who has even a passing familiarity with the topic.
I disagree with the idea that this is being "pushed down people's throats". It's another protocol and nothing has been published stating that HTTP/1.1 support is going anywhere.

A protocol format violation notice could tell you what was wrong it just hasn't been developed to the full extent to do so. Give browsers and tools time to develop and be built to properly debug the connection.
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This is a summary entirely tilted by a very questionable political perspective.

You'll find the same problems elsewhere in Europe dealing with population density and rolling out the infrastructure for this stuff. I know plenty of people in Sweden, France, Germany who struggle with exactly the same issues, despite better headline average speeds etc.

> "hollowing out"; services that get used by the small elite fraction of the country that lives in the right bits of London are good, everything else is quietly ignored.

Fundamentally wrong given that central London is in a large proportion (often > 50% by ward) social housing. Or are the millions of people who live there the "small elite" too? Or perhaps it is the case the high population density urban centres are naturally the easiest place to build infrastructure to benefit the most people.

> BT pay this money to shareholders and then fail to improve speeds. Both parties are apparently happy with this arrangement.

Clearly this isn't true. BT OR has for many years been separated and highly and transparently regulated. Perhaps you would like to explain more your implications of corruption that isn't visible to anyone else?

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/114814/...
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Recently, I finished reading Hackers and Painters by PG, so this is going to be blunt, but helpful. You are warned.

There is absolutely no surefire way to guarantee that your side-project will ever be anything more than a hobby that pays for
itself. But there are some surefire ways to guarantee that you'll get to failure sooner rather than later.

1. Building something in the latest and greatest tech and then trying to find a problem it solves.

Don't do this. I see it too often, especially on Indie Hackers. This is a Rube Goldberg way of trying to accomplish your end goal and will lead most likely to frustration and burnout.

2. Your idea doesn't solve a problem.

Pivot. Come up with an idea that solves a problem. Preferably a problem you have.

3. You're not passionate about what you're doing.

Be honest with yourself. Really honest. Can you imagine working on
this the next 5-10 years? If not, don't waste time on it now. Spare
yourself the misery.

4. We're going to be first-to-market!

Unless you want to scoop up some early adopters, being first to market only indicates that there might not actually be a market for what you're doing.

5. If I build it, they will come.

No they won't. They really won't. This ties back to #1.

6. I want to be my own boss.

Running a startup is the most brutally demanding work you will ever do. It is 10x easier to be a drone for a corporation; maybe 100x easier if
it's a regional co.

7. I'm afraid to ________

You cannot be scared. Not of rejection, failure, embarrassment,
ridicule by your peers, ridicule from the world, etc. Being a leader
isn't easy and your mettle needs to be unbreakable, unflinching, and
unquestionable.
--

That's all of the harsh truth that I can muster for now. Even though I don't know you, I want you to succeed.
Can anyone explain the alleged legal basis of this (https://www.raspberrypi.org/trademark-rules/)?

"You may not: ... use the Raspberry Pi Word Mark as part of the domain name for your website"

I thought it used to be possible to register X-is-crap.com for your web site that tells the world exactly how you feel about X, even if X was a registered trade mark, provided you're using X to refer to "genuine" X. If this has changed, when did it change?
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People who can play 720p30 well enough but not 720p60 would have a connection speed around 3Mbps, which is at most 10% per the graph in TFA.

TFA is claiming ~40% got a downgrade in resolution.
I should maybe have told you also, team members are from pentesting and high security hosting background.
We also have created some other OSS components before, like NAXSI (Waf over Nginx), Snuffleupagus, PHP malware finder, etc.
So we faced the hurdles of assembling, deploying, configuring, handling and maintaining sectools in our Devops & Secops environments, and we thought this tool with our years of experience in mind.
> I absolutely despise those pop-up "Can I help you" boxes on product websites

Agree. Over the last few years, I started running into those more and more often as well. From an UX standpoint I would categorize them somewhere between marque/blink tags and rotating GIF icons.

Actually, that was roughly the time from which I recall first running into those things on corporate websites (IIRC Yello Strom in Germany had one in the early 2000s, widely know for a particular Easter egg).

I find it kind of funny that those are having a revival in recent years, along with animated GIFs (abused as a video format this time round) and annoying overuse of the word "cyber".
Perhaps there would be significant administrative and legal costs involved, due diligence regarding where the mark is used and so forth, that they've determined is significantly more than that of just defending the mark directly this way to avoid dilution to the point of loss of control?

Caveat: I'm no copyright expert or otherwise legally experienced, other groups do things differently so perhaps there would be a way.
I suspect coordinated effort and intention.
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Imagine posting this and not idk, googling the author to find he's one of the most well-respected game-theorists in the world.

But sure, anonymous internet bro knows more about game theory than the Stanford econ PhD who teaches at Stanford econ department and edited the leading game theory academic periodical...
That feature is a bug. Exchanges are providing a bug correction service. Fraud protection and reversibility are actually massive features of the classical banking helping the markets tik.

It could become a feature in a post apocalyptic world where the society doesn’t function. Until that day, a system based on social contract will prevail due to massively better user experience.
That isn't obvious at all. Folks get smitten by people they've barely met. It doesn't take years to be tricked into joining a cult: You can convince folks in a matter of months.

John might be 10 years into your lies, but he also might have caught on. You use different lies with Jane, who might not know better, and she listens wholeheartedly and with good faith.

If John is an adult and Jane isn't, Jane is easier even with the age difference. This is simply because of lack of knowledge and experience.

If one has more access to the outside world than the other, they are less likely to believe your lies.

If John knows you have mental health problems that causes you to lie and Jane doesn't, Jane is easier to lie to.

Maybe John is more suspicious of people and the world. Maybe John just shuts up to appease you, like folks that avoid talking politics with their families simply don't want to deal with things.

Are you someone younger? DO you have authority over them?

There are so many things that affect whether or not you can lie to someone.
And bingo, that's exactly what happened (seeing RPi Foundation's answer). Sigh, what a world...
The local council (QLDC) has online available high-resolution imagery of the entire of Thiel's Glendhu Bay property.
Yeah same for me. I was super happy with sign in with apple as a concept, but I have exactly 1 account with them.
After the epic account-hijacking, no thank you. I will never ever use it again.
While this seems rather bad marketing wise (they're advertising for you!) hey, at least they're being relatively nice.
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Yet if you don't know math, you can be ripped off. If you can't read the contract or understand law at all, you can be manipulated.
Well, there was the notorious case of the Polish Spitfire on a BNP poster. https://www.theregister.com/2009/03/04/polish_spitfire/

Presumably the BNP didn't know about the multi-national bit.
Are you claiming that trademark law doesn't care if there is trade happening?
Hmm, this is very neat and elegant! But how well is svg (or data:) favicons supported in random non-strictly-browser context, like password managers, or some link aggregator/bookmarking style sites or apps?
Correct. Furthermore, the motto of the IETF is "Rough consensus and running code". Someone needs to go ahead and implement specs while they're still in draft stage so people can actually use it, benchmark it and in some cases figure out problems that no committee of IETF engineers would have been able to predict.
Scale probably. Trademark protection is too costly to conduct on an individual basis. The easiest solution is to fire and forget.

They have also replied indicating something to this effect. https://twitter.com/Raspberry_Pi/status/1318494942478635009

"This letter was automatically sent to"
I won’t bother reading this, it seems to be a standard time waster.
Coincidentally I saw this yesterday https://youtu.be/IWMZ17Iyu3o
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Comparing Slack to email, in an email I generally provide a feedback sandwich: start with a positive note or warm introduction, transition into a call to action with explanatory details, and again end on a positive note.

In Slack I find that I can use emoji in lieu of some of the positivity, if that makes sense.

If I have any takeaway from this conversation it is that I should use _more_ emoji simply because a lot of emotional context is being lost through the internet. I feel like this is especially important because I manage people and my tone can really matter.
If this comes to a court case then that would probably be the defence. It would also lead to the RPi Foundation practically losing their trademark, of course, because letting one company use the trade mark without permission makes the entire trademark unenforceable.

It might also be argued that the RPi Foundation wasn't aware of these websites and that they took action as soon as they learned about this, which they are basically obligated to do. I've certainly never heard about them and I doubt people at the RPi Foundation do a lot of searching for other RPi communities when they have their own to manage.