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From the link, on economic complexity [1]:

Where does Australia rank on the global scale?

Worse than Mauritius, Macedonia, Oman, Moldova, Vietnam, Egypt and Botswana.

Worse than Georgia, Kuwait, Colombia, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and El Salvador.

Sitting embarrassingly and awkwardly between Kazakhstan and Jamaica, and worse than the Dominican Republic at 74 and Guatemala at 75,

Australia ranks off the deep end of the scale at 77th place.

77th and falling. After Tajikistan, Australia had the fourth highest loss in Economic Complexity over the last decade, falling 18 places.

Not the behavior of a modern, mixed economy that many Australians pretend that we have. We are an anomaly. A third world economy with a first world standard of living. Will is last?

[1] http://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/rankings/
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> imagine if all packaging was compostable

How much would the loss rates of packaged goods increase? Shelf stability is a very useful property which saves food from being wasted.
I think that nobody questions that the main factor for this meteoric rise in valuation was Steve Jobs it just proves that the entrepreneur and is vision are the main factors on the growth of companies.
about when my family's house was first document, and it's just an farm belonging to the church.
It has been well over a decade since supermarkets in many countries got automated bottle-return machines. With all the advances in computer vision, is there really no way to have machines that can economically scan returned plastic for its recycling code and direct it towards the appropriate bin, so that the recycler gets a supply of correctly sorted plastic?
Google is kind of in the business of allowing us to be tracked and identified as precisely as advertisers want.
Police protect people, by and large. Corporations don't benefit much from services of the state. Fire services would be a better example but they are often funded out of local rates rather than national corporation tax.

As a Brit I wish my country would give up on these boring and routine "outrage" stories. Amazon pays corporation tax in America because it's an American company. End of story. If my fellow Brits want a world beating firm like Amazon that brings profits back to the UK locally, they need to get cracking and make one.
I'm currently sat in a not particularly noteworth house in England built in 1770 that is apparently older than anything in 22 US states..!

It's cool to think of former inhabitants hearing tales from the New World.
Great documentary, thanks.

This puts the recent "90% of ocean plastic comes from Asian/African rivers" story[1] in a drastically new light.

The issue was previously framed in terms of poor waste management due to lack of infrastructure for native waste (agreed) and uneducated Asian/African consumers (a blame-laundering technique that the disposable product industry has already successfully deployed in the US[2]). But on further examination, it seems the countries with "good infrastructure"[3] and "well-educated wasters" may be part of (or even a majority of) the problem.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16913389

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20050401192355/http://www.altern...

[3] "good waste infrastructure" being, in part, a euphemism for "keep that expensive-to-handle waste in a box until it's outside our border so it's technically Not Our Problem"
He does the math to prove that when you subtract all the mandatory protocol and frame headers you end up with practical maximum of 949.28 Mbps on 1 Gbps line. Providing charts with 1011 Mbps in favor of WireGuard makes all the comparison at least dubious. Another thing he mentioned is the test compares ChaCha20 cipher with AES256-GCM which is totally unfair.
Why would you invest so much in perfect code then to fake the benchmarks?
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In the physical world social convention is used all the time instead of real security.

If my boss needs some peace and quiet he closes his door. It is not locked, but people know not to enter. If it is open I can walk in and have a chat.

A WIFI password is a social convention asking you to not share. Everyone knows that it is not secure. But it is much easier than having a captive portal login system. By respecting the social convention we make life easier for everyone. Respecting a social convention is far less onerous than over zealous security mechanisms that annoy the customer.
I think it practically would be very challenging to achieve something like this, unless the company is interested in selling the service/product it is probably very hard to force them to make a compelling offer to the market. The Walmart bar code reader for example, what was really the inovation/edge there? I guess that is was probably not the physical hardware but rather a deep and complex integration into the internal systems, which would be next to useless for anyone but Walmart.

We also see some voluntary licensing of at least software, not seldomly free of charge (and open source). It's probably easier to build something like Facebook today, thanks to frameworks open sourced by Facebook themselves (i.e React). Getting access to hosting at scale is also easier and importantly less capital intensive than before, thanks to the cloud providers, who at least partly, make their internal hosting infra accessible for outsiders.

However, it's not like the big players are open sourcing/selling their most important stuff. AirBnb is not successful thanks to their server side javascript rendering library, but them giving it away is nevertheless helpful for someone trying to disrupt them.
I recommend The Talos Principle. The Witness is better (except narratively), but if you liked Braid you've probably already played it.
i applaude you to sticking to your principles and voting with your dollar, however i do not share your sentiment about walled gardens.

and when it comes to ethics, same argument can be made for apple with regarda to users controlling their hardware. (if) you are informed about the limitations of said hardware and general terms under which you bought it, then they have every right to protect their business model. it makes no sense to me to force a company to change the foundation of their business, and i dont wanna hear about “minor cutting” into their profits, the ROI is not something that should be adjusted by a 3rd party after consenting entities made a contract, and one side decides that it no longer wishes to honor it.

im not in favor of forbidding the things you listed, apple is not without sin, and they wouldnt suffer much with the legislation being changed, but i believe that the scale and trade off of the consequences should not be a factor in deciding whether we stick to a principal of honoring legally binding contracts, even if it’s EULA that might seem unfair. those issues mustn’t be adressed post factum and uncoerced consumers should not be coddled.
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There is way too many white knights on HN to even have the discussion here. Even if you word stuff good, have valid points you will be downvoted and ridiculed.

Typical mob mentality and it's pretty obvious to me that this is the real reason behind these kind of laws.
The word "just" is doing a lot of work. Cython might as well be a different language.
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Seeing how Scheme is enjoying a temporary HN frontpage resurgence:

This is from the same author as the more popular:

"Scheme 9 from Empty Space"
"A Guide to Implementing Scheme in C"

which walks you through the design and implementation of a portable Scheme in C89, with awesome cover art to match the name.

(http://t3x.org/s9book/index.html)
I don't think it's established that either "keys" or "values" exist in the brain. It's more "stimulus-response", where similar stimulus produces similar response. There's a nonlinear classifier going on which tends to create categories for us, but it's definitely possible to produce cross-category stimulus.
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Funny you picked that particular IP -- out of all four billion, 1.1.1.1 is the only one (that I know of) that uses HTTPS!
I found that really hard to watch, especially the children stepping on deity knows what part.

Even then I wish everyone would see it.

Humanity sucks sometimes ... if not most of the time.
The AS/400 descendants are not as bullet proof as the zSeries. They are POWER servers similar to high-end Intel boxes, mostly the same hardware as their AIX machines - RAID, ECC memory, multiple PSUs but, IIRC, won't easily recover from failed CPUs or anything like that.
3-D printed guns being available to download 'doesn't seem to make much sense'
Said trap would hit any former returning customer who saved the wifi password.
to continue the discussion, there are many kinds of infinities, and some are larger than others.

one of the smaller kinds of infinities is "countable". we say a collection of countably infinite things is countable if, intuitively, we can count them (as the parent says, put them in 1:1 correspondence with the natural numbers 1, 2, 3, ....).

there are only a countably infinite number of rational numbers, since each rational number has the form p / q, where p and q are (perhaps negative) integers. if we made a large 2d grid of all integer grid points, we could regard each rational number p/q as a grid point (p, q). Then we can count the grid points by starting at the origin of the grid (0, 0) * and spiraling outwards. This will eventually count every grid point, so this gives us a way to count all the rationals.

as the parent post says, by Cantor's diagonalisation argument we can demonstrate that we can't count the real numbers, so there are a lot more reals than rationals. it's a strictly bigger kind of infinity.

even if we start inventing new notation for particular reals we care about (e.g. pi, e, pi^e, door, super(door, |^|^bat)man, ) -- whatever you like provided it is well-defined, we can only name at most countably many reals, leaving a remainder of uncountably many un-named reals. we can single out any particular real that can be well-defined, and mint a new name for it, but we can only do this for at most countably many such reals, while the bulk of the reals escape naming.

* the origin (0, 0) corresponds to 0 / 0 which isn't a rational number, and some rational numbers such as 4 have multiple representations as coordinates. For example we could write 4 as 4 / 1 or 8 / 2 or 40 / 10 or -16 / -4 ... so strictly speaking by demonstrating we can count all of the 2d integer grid points shows that there are at most a countably infinite number of rationals. but since each natural number is a rational, and there are countably many rationals, we know there's at least a countably infinite number of rationals.
There are a lot of city and town public records. But once they are online and searchable and cross reference able with databases and APIs they become a new kind of public. There’s a lot of data showing this. So maybe it’s public, but not everything that is public needs to be in machine readable format on the internet.

I didn’t explain that well, but maybe you get the point. There’s a balance to be struck.
I agree. My comment clearly shows my ignorance when it comes to macroeconomics so your reply is much appreciated.
I used to be active in computer graphics. Great to see an article by Whitted himself. A bit of trivia: I think _the_ pioneer in the field of ray-tracing is Albrecht Dürer [1] who ray traced by hand in the 16th century.

[1]: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Man-drawing-a-lute-by-Al...
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Have you actually tried using an alternative email client with iCloud mail? You might get lucky, but for sure it is only tested with Apple Mail as a client. They might claim standard protocol adherence, but are they actually testing for it? Likewise, your assessment of how easy it is to get ones photos exported with metadata intact is not true in practice.

Android phones are indeed as bad or worse than Apple with regard to lifespan, but this was a trend that Apple started. A Nokia 3310 purchased in 2000 would still work fine today. Apple would even like to see something as simple and universal as a headphone jack disappear in order to regularly sell new headphones (!)
To put it another, simpler, way:

Apple can’t influence any country’s elections. Facebook can, and has. Even the most “powerful” country’s.
Not quite, you can't order all natural numbers alphabetically either but that doesn't mean you can't count them.

A better way to count based on names would be to first count all single letter names alphabetically, then all two letter names alphabetically, etc.
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I think you should read a book on the history of the British empire. The point you're responding to is basically correct. The idea of the "noble savage" as it was once called is a fantasy. The countries invaded and conquered by the British were typically brutal empires with medieval or lower levels of development, and had been that way for thousands of years with apparently little or no cultural development. The British were encountering local rulers with spears and they had Gatling guns. These societies had no technology, no science, no education or healthcare, primitive to non existent infrastructure of state and oh, they were mostly slave-oriented societies.

Yes the empire was a dictatorship that conquered them and in the early era, bought slaves from the local rulers. In the late eras the empire built infrastructure, education systems, brought modern medicine, tried to teach civilised values like not beheading your political opponents and having votes instead, and in some cases as the empire faded, left the countries in a vastly better state than they were found.

Colonialism is easily one of the most complex and ethically grey areas I've found when studying history. There is no evidence or reason to believe those societies would have ever advanced were they not conquered.
North America. The other Americas have ones that still have the title of oldest, such as Sechin Bajo.
Porn is more disrespected I think. The term "torture porn" is used disparaging even by horror enthusiasts.

Movies catering to base physical reactions (sexual arousal, fear, laughter) is considered less prestigious. Although intellectual comedy can be pretty prestigious compared to physical comedy. And psychological horror is considered more prestigious than horror based on gore and dismemberment. And suspense is higher than horror I think.
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Eventually Facebook, Google, and Amazon will get there..maybe in a few years or so.
One of the biggest benefits of go vs python is that you only manage your dependencies during build. You end up with a single executable that is easy to deploy and mostly immune to the deployment of other things. In python, you have to also worry about deployment. To be safe, you need to carry the vm and other dependencies with you.

This means you can't just give any python program to someone and have it just work, unless it's pretty trivial.
There's an upsurge in burglaries in France and Romanians are often quoted by Police as responsible. European rules authorize Polish to come to work in France and go back in Poland to spend their money. I hope hacker news is a place where we can discuss about these subjects without veing accused of racism. Burglaries are a problem for France and also for Romania. I think both countries should work together to fight this kind of criminality. Polish mobility is an expected consequence of free market and all the short term problems should disappear with time.
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I.e., "Disregarding the weak points, what weak points are there?"
> A number called "door" is conceivable (like superman) but it is not a possible under the rules of maths (or physics in superman's case) because "door" is not in that set of symbols.

Certainly you are able to represent "door" in a base-64 numbering system? (or base-36, or even base-28)
I've been living and working in Toronto since 2003, and can attest that it truly is a fantastic city to live in.

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But nobody has written it and most likely nobody will, because statisticians are perfect happy with R and programmers aren't using R enough to bother.
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Given that these are pulled from breaches, it's very likely these are from fake accounts that used a simple password to create many accounts using bots.

Would be interesting to look at the email addresses associated and see if you can see a pattern and maybe filter those out.
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Then again, lots of studies point towards the keto diet being equivalent to a moderate-carb (e.g. 100-200g for an average person) diet that has the same amount of calories.

Personally, I think low-carb diets seem to work better for most people, because almost all junk food is high in carbs, and therefore forbidden. Obviously if you want a healthy and lean body, you need to focus on healthy foods and keep the junk to a minimum.
Because of the massive variation in shapes and sizes, the fact that some plastics might have other trash inside them and that plastic drinks bottles are usually more than one type of plastic.
There are machines but they can only perform basic sorting so you still need people to do the "intelligent" part.
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I don't get how this is a major issue.

Most UK supermarkets have an online delivery service (even Iceland!) You pick a delivery slot for a certain price (off peak is cheaper) and then choose what you want.

They have store assistants with specific trolleys with plastic boxes for each order and fill up as they walk around the store. Boxes get loaded to a specially designed truck and delivered in the time slot.

Works pretty well, unless you're this person https://www.reddit.com/r/britishproblems/comments/2sxjiv/tes...
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