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Re:Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service
on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @08:10AM (#47501463)
Forbes 30 under 30 strikes again.
Re:Australian Digital ID Bill to be passed without debate
on Wednesday March 27, 2024 @10:35AM (#39839735)
They won't make digital ID mandatory yet; the point is to make it as inconvenient as possible not to have a digital ID. It's likely you won't be able to do your taxes online without signing up for it. Then you won't be able to receive certain government services. Businesses will be able to use it, starting with banks.[1] It's just about making it more and more inconvenient until you're forced to use it because some service you can't do without requires it.
The Netherlands has some respect for digital privacy. In Australia, it won't be hard for the Americans to access this data. The point of data privacy isn't just about not giving up information. If a particular agency needs a piece of data, you don't want every other government agency to have access to it. A digital ID makes it convenient to aggregate everything.
Australia has tried this many times. They even satirized it in the TV Show "Utopia" (Episode "Mission Creeps")
[1] https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/banks-auspost-win-early...
Re:Fast CPU VPS?
on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @06:19PM (#39610346)
AWS r7iz claim to be good and sped it up close to Mac M1 performance.
Fast CPU VPS?
My program ran 3x slower on AWS t4g instances than on my mac.Where can you get the fastest cpus for VPS hosting?
Y Combinator Compensation Numbers
Does the compensation listed on YC jobs include stock converted to cash?For example, Retool (https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/retool) claims to be paying $600k to someone with 6 years experience. I find this hard to believe.
Re:We will coup whoever we want!
on Saturday November 25, 2023 @05:23PM (#38417301)
Did he say that? I can't find the original.
The Guardian article cites an article that cites an article that never contains the word "coup".
Re:Last Chance to Fix eIDAS (Mozilla)
on Saturday November 04, 2023 @01:06PM (#38142931)
That's the definition of a "rubber stamp". They technically have the ability to reject, but they rarely do.
Re:The Techno-Optimist Manifesto
on Monday October 16, 2023 @05:47PM (#37907125)
Ownership:
NYT - billionaire Sulzberger family
WaPo - Jeff Bezos
LA Times - billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong
Disney/Comcast/Paramount represent the consolidation of an industry that used to be hundreds of independent newsrooms into a dozen or so corporations. The murdoch family's New Corp is regularly analyzed as a political force on par with individual elected leaders, if not more so.
Entertainment: Apple/Amazon/Comcast/Disney/Sony/WarnerBrosDiscovery/Paramount
The problem is that the industry has consolidated into a number of players you can count on one hand.
Re:Universities have disinvested from their presses just as much as th...
on Saturday September 30, 2023 @05:29PM (#37720020)
What is the ongoing cost of the price of ink?
Re:Facebook is blocking Canadians’ posts about the assassination of a ...
on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @01:06PM (#37586734)
The real story is India forcing its censorship regime on Canada by threatening employees in India.
Facebook should leave India or be forced by Canada and Europe not to cooperate with Indian demands.
Otherwise, the EU is letting India censor its own citizens.
Re:Facebook is blocking Canadians’ posts about the assassination of a ...
on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @01:03PM (#37586712)
So India couldn't extradite him. There are many people North Korea would like to punish but can't extradite.
You seem to be implying that if India couldn't extradite him, they should kill him.
Re:YouTube Blocks Russell Brand from Making Money Through Its Platform
on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @12:48PM (#37586523)
The comparison to 'morals clauses' is apt: it was used mostly to force Christian, anti-Communist, and later pro-China stances on actors lest they harm the 'reputation' of the studio.
It's not a good thing.
Re:TSA officers accused of stealing from passengers
on Saturday September 16, 2023 @07:20PM (#37539829)
Where is this—the record of the old ones?
Re:China Offers Lesson in How to Cut Plastic Waste from Food Delivery
on Friday September 08, 2023 @12:32PM (#37435838)
Mandatory reminder that this narrative of "individual impact" was created and pushed by oil companies to shift blame from them to consumers.
Re:Mother is arrested in Bangladesh after son in US criticizes governm...
on Monday August 28, 2023 @06:43PM (#37301331)
That sounds like totalitarianism.
> ruling party
Are there fair elections in Bangladesh? Why does this not hurt their election chances? Why would a people tolerate this of their government?
Paris, Late 1890s [video]
Re:Larry Gagosian reshaped the art world
on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @06:48PM (#36886227)
Did he reshape the art world or the art trade? Artists or art traders?
Re:How Signal Walks the Line Between Anarchism and Pragmatism
on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @06:20PM (#36870449)
It's quite likely that the purpose of this story is to push a narrative for anti-encryption advocates. Cf. US and UK pushes against encryption.
Show HN: Google Shopping Sponsored
I see no "sponsored" labels on Google shopping results. Does anyone else? How do you tell when it's an ad?
FBI created fake encrypted messaging app
Re:Signal's president vows to reject UK law on message scanning before...
on Saturday July 15, 2023 @12:35PM (#36738500)
The British government has been oppressing the people of the British isles long before and after the empire...
Tell HN: CodeSignal executes buggy, custom Python build
TLDR: weird treatment of global/nonlocal in CodeSignal, probably because they're wrapping the function.I nearly lost a job offer today because CodeSignal does not execute 'real' Python.Minimal example:x = {} def f(): global x x['key'] = 'value' f()This will succeed in real python, but fail in CodeSignal. To make it work in CodeSignal, you need to change "global" to "nonlocal":x = {} def...
Re:The 'Fuck You' Pattern
on Monday June 26, 2023 @01:42AM (#36476103)
Can you cite a source?
Re:Here’s what Mark Zuckerberg thinks about Apple’s Vision Pro headset
on Sunday June 18, 2023 @01:40PM (#36382425)
Yeah, that's just aging, fortunately.
Re:New York State Senate passes prohibitions on non-competes
on Thursday June 15, 2023 @03:51PM (#36345594)
MN, so "remaining 47"
Re:Asia Sentinel Blocked in Singapore
on Saturday June 03, 2023 @02:05AM (#36174157)
> While free speech and access to information is almost always a good thing, people raised with western values should not overlook that the east does things a little differently
"'The East' does not respect freedom of thought" is a sentiment one would be castigated for expressing in the West.
Re:Noncompete Clauses Violate Labor Law, NLRB Lawyer Says
on Friday June 02, 2023 @02:25AM (#36161735)
Accidental humor:
> Observers on both sides say that limitations on the clauses will compel employers to get more creative about how they retain talent, using everything from compensation to career advancement to keep workers engaged.
Hmmm...we wouldn't want that now, would we?
Re:Ask HN: Reverse Cloudflare
on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @01:37AM (#36134844)
Yes, but that can store terabytes to petabytes of cached data.
Ask HN: Reverse Cloudflare
Is there a service that proxies internet traffic and is capable of caching petabytes of responses? Like a reverse cloudflare, but cached within the datacenter you are accessing it from.Imagine a job that needs to access the internet and render webpages, but you want to reduce the latency of the webpages.