skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> America's the most free country on the planet.

That's an odd take, given the USA imprisons more people for longer for doing those things any of the other countries listed. The difference is not small. The USA has 0.5% of their population in jail, Australia 0.15%. The USA has the death penality, Australia doesn't. The USA's drug laws are in practice the most punitive of all the countries listed. So when it comes to OD'ing, the situation appears to be the reverse of what you said: a USA citizens have the least freedoms.

If you read the article you will see the other countries don't achieve the health by restricting freedoms. For example, there isn't a significant difference between Australia's & the USA's laws on speeding. Australia reduced speeding accidents by adding roundabouts. All adults are allowed to smoke in Australia - but it's very expensive. Assisting someone to die in Australia can be legal, it isn't in most of the USA.

These individual freedoms you think you have in the USA are mostly a myth. The rest of the world looks at USA preventing a woman from making an individual choice about abortion and then in the next breath claims the USA is the worlds leader in individual rights, and scratches their head.
But for those cases you just use cmd+v or whatever
These are mostly statements from other people rather than Kremlin officials speaking in any official capacity.

One of the statements was from Putin himself; another was from Dmitry Medvedev.

Taking over other countries is a massive drain and doomed to fail when that population does not want to be ruled by another country.

Of course the war is completely insane, and against Russia's interest by every possible metric and axis of consideration.

Ukraine conflict was forced upon them.

Not by any rational analysis of the situation.
Again, I’m not saying it won’t be possible someday. Any number of things could happen, even though the trajectory doesn’t imply it will be in the next 5 years. All I’m saying is that the question is pointless without bounds.

Otherwise flying cars will also be possible.

Also your splat is running in isolation. Any single system can run by itself at a good clip. That’s not indicative of anything when running as part of a larger system. Again, the discussion of performance is pointless without bounds.
We've just had 2 LCCs, (one a regional with significant government support) crash out in Australia. It's a de-facto 2 majors duopoly in Australia with one (Jetstar) sidekick LCC. (it may be unfair to characterise REX as an LCC. Bonza definitely was)

At some level, for some economies, flying is wider-public-interest stuff which demands regulation. We're a bit half-pregnant when it comes to the management of slots, costs, compliance.

I hate LCC. I realize they suit some people, the ones who will willingly wear every item of clothing so as not to incur wrath for putting a bag into the overhead locker, in fear of incurring costs to put it in the hold. If you add all the optionals back into price, the LCC is usually no cheaper than a mainline so it really only "wins" for people who don't carry things with them when they fly.

The one good thing of the LCC I've used, has been non-reclining seats. Ending the warfare over space was good, if harsh. I suppose the "paint your wagon" wash out interior is good too.
How far away is the far detector?
> That hurts too much but doesn't kill.

It didn't kill once. Not enough of a sample to draw a firm conclusion from.
I’m not the one arguing for moral superiority that Democrats purportedly have over Republicans, which is the point the OP was unsuccessfully trying to make. Truth is: the probability of seeing the inside of a jail cell is markedly lower for the rich and well connected, irrespective of their political affiliation.
Where does one find out about all of these conventions for rails?
I said “many” instead of “all” because I agree with you. But I think like your other post acknowledges is that there is real pain they experience that is driving them to fascism. What creates the pain is a lot of the things they complain about (loss of identify, worsening job outlook, worsening social standing/status, crime, not being heard by the majority).
They mean why is it wireless not why is it electric shifting
Explains why everyone I’ve talked to that uses Rippling (including our company) hates it.

The size that you can grow to while maintaining singular focus is getting bigger and bigger. Parker’s situation is probably different because he was able to raise a bunch of money early on after Zenefits bequeathed him with SV stardom. He had early signs of success because he was able to acquire customers through what seems like an incomparable feature completeness, at the cost of shit UX and buggy software (IME). For example: they literally didn’t file our tax documents despite telling us they did, resulting in thousands of dollars of fines.

I might be overly cynical based on our pretty awful experiences, but feel vindicated because we’ve moved to a smaller, leaner, more focused HR startup named Warp and haven’t had half the issues we did with Rippling.
how does this work with taxes? When an ETF rebalances, there is no tax impact, but wouldn't there be a tax impact with this tool as you're individually managing the stocks?
>Or using a mac - ...(it seems to encourage wasting screen space and peer at a tiny window in the middle of a massive screen....)

Isn't this normal on Windows too? The few times I have to use it, it seems I'm always doing something where some sub-window will pop up that I need to use or read, but the stupid thing is comically small, but needs to be scrolled (because there's too much content inside it for its size), but I'm forbidden from expanding the window size the way you can with normal windows.

This never happens to me in KDE: if a window is too small by default (which sometimes happens), I can always expand it.
Rather than subsidize the poor person being poor via insurance, we can subsidize them by say, building public housing nearby their place of work, or direct payments.
Make the blockchain safe or lose it – Vinay Gupta
From a service owner perspective, if I offer content and want to enforce strong identity from the user then this seems like a win. I may lose eyeballs but will gain higher confidence that my content is being consumed as intended.

I'm fine with more controls in place, a safer internet is clearly a social win that would reduce life alerting fraud, scams etc. If power users want to go to their peer-to-peer cesspool then go for it.
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Funny you should say that. Australia is trying to launch TEx -designed on open-source models to do this kind of thing. It's hitting the usual roadblocks of public acceptance of government mandated ID, in an economy which trashed the "australia card" idea back in the 80s. We're wiser now, we've been frogs boiled slowly: the downsides of central safe ID/auth are outweighed by the risks of loss of info giving everyone 100 points information.

The government now knows what we do most of the time anyway: layer-2 logs on our phones are constant. We lost any privacy some time ago. So now, getting security back might be a net win.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-13/trust-exchange-digita...
You can't learn that on your own though, unless you have a large side project.
I don't think I've ever clicked into a category on Amazon. I wouldn't need to know it's under Mac accessories, id just use the search bar and type in thunderbolt. In what world would clicking through a hierarchical UI be faster or easier than a search?
just wait until you get to the undo/redo stack! That's one of my favourite parts of a UI to program.
In my experience I discovered Rails and Django because the generic do everything systems always run into some big roadblock that the client demands.

At the end of the day every client/company has their own special requirements so going with a framework that speeds that process up without the pain of a generic system is where it is at.

I cringe when I hear stories of new teams trying to move off Rails into something like Wordpress.
This means that to improve one's chances to gain publicly, one should adjust their art to the exact requirements of the publicity-producing organization, and not let artistic whims like "inspiration" ruin the day. Or, better yet, has to learn how to reorient the latter slightly to check every box when a checklist becomes available.

This requires a serious mastery of the art that allows to obtain exactly what's envisioned.

It also rubs many artists the wrong way, because they want to be led by the art, ideas, concepts, etc, and not by external riders. OTOH most great masters of the past worked under such conditions, with notable success. Michelangelo certainly had a rather detailed list of requirements for the Sistine Chapel paint job.
I have never earned terribly more than the median US salary and I have a house and a family. It's possible - if difficult.

There's no denying that more money helps, but looking at https://www.marketwatch.com/picks/heres-how-rich-you-need-to... shows it can be done at varying levels.

Again, if the median is $63k, that means half are below that; if you're at the median and you live below the median, you're saving money. 23% live below $35k, so if you make $63k and live like you make $35k, you should be able to save at least $10k a year or more.

Of course, choosing to spend your money on divorces and child support greatly hampers things (and those are choices, even if you feel it's the only reasonable one).
OK fair.
I never said anything about a slippery slope. Either way I do think that you are more free to speak in the woods 200 years ago, than now jumping from one corporate kindergarten to another.

The problem with letting companies decide their own free speech subrules is that I am always inside a company kindergarten. At work, online, in public. Every website. How would I avoid them? Hide in my room with my phone in airplane mode after work? As it remains the only place that we can talk freely is when we are in hiding from perpetual corporate surveillance. Do you really think it was like this when the country was founded? I do not trust any entity to regulate what is allowed to be said or not said at all, be that the government, or bussinesses.
Rippling is terrible. I had major major issues with their software and an even worse customer service experience. The best thing I can say about it is the UI is better than ADP but ADP at least works.
>> Put that person in a noisy crowd and it's game over.

That's when you discover you can lip read to a certain degree. There is way more to it than that. Speech is only one of the sets of cues we use when discoursing. Hand gestures, body posture, facial expressions and more are all involved too.

I'm somewhat deaf in both ears, worse in one and always have been. I have had tinnitus since birth. My deafness does not affect all frequencies equally. Thankfully its mostly the high frequencies that have gone a bit dark and the tinnitus may be largely to blame.

Anyway, your senses are all linked up and your brain is rather good at making connections to try and make up for deficiencies in some areas by co-opting other bits. I have minor lip reading skills to augment my hearing. I can't help it! I also swivel somewhat to try and deploy my better ear as the situation allows. One must try and maintain decorum and not look too weird 8)

"If you're deaf in one ear, your ability to hear and understand speech in particular goes down a lot, even if someone is talking on your good side. Put that person in a noisy crowd and it's game over."

This sounds like personal experience. I don't know how old you are but give it time ...
To me, rich is 'not having to work anymore' - which is easily doable at $5m and very likely doable much lower than that, depending on where you are.
To be fair, a toaster is always a fire risk. That's why the manual says never put them under flammable things. You should always assume your toaster will catch fire.
Where does Excel fall down when exporting CSVs?
Has anyone been able to reverse this base64 encryption? Whatever am I going to do with this?
Except it's being implemented by the people who brought you robodebt.

So i imagine the "Number of people driven to suicide" KPI is going to be pretty high. They're not going to want to ship something that performs worse.
It doesn't need to be a national ID, it could just operate on a state-level like drivers licenses currently do.
> Apple isn't expected to fix bugs in a third party's app using their APIs, but they're totally expected to fix those APIs, should they be faulty (conceptually or in their implementation).

The problem is what we expect to be fixed for a software product and a hardware product are two different things. If you buy a car, and the next year the car company discovers they can get even more fuel efficiency with a different piston design, or they can improve crash safety with new airbag locations, we don't expect car manufacturers to recall all the current model year cars. We only expect recalls for failure to perform the expected functions that were expected at the time of sale.

On the other hand, when a new version of SSL or TLS is released, when root CA certs expire or change, when new Wi-Fi encryption standards are released, we expect those updates to our old devices, almost always expected gratis and for many years after the initial sale. Look at the substantial amount of complaining every time some software company like Apple or Google announce the end of software support for some old hardware. We treat these devices differently from a tool you buy at the hardware store.

And yes, Apple is expected to issue fixes bugs that 3rd parties bring to the table. Which is exactly what expecting updates for things like stronger encryption cyphers and the like are. They sold you a device that can speak Protocol X, developed by a 3rd party. You use that device to speak Protocol X to another 3rd party device or service. Yet another 3rd party invents some way to exploit Protocol X to do nefarious things. And everyone who bought the Apple device last year absolutely 100% expects apple to release an update when Protocol X++ is released.

And to be clear, I'm not saying this is unreasonable, but it's worth noting as you point out that software updates used to cost money (remember the annual "why is apple charging us for a point release?" song and dance?). And we should remember that developing software for platforms used to cost money too. A lot of money. How much were Visual Studio licenses? Code Warrior? A MS developer network license? Or check out Qualcom's BREW program for the multi thousand dollar up front process to put "bejeweled" on a flip phone. When companies stopped charging for OS updates and developer kits and SDKs, the money needed to make those things didn't stop needing to be made. We talk a lot around here about the lack of funding for open source projects. Well software and software development has a value. How much is it worth, and how many new things are we allowed to demand before the price has to go up somehow?

>To stick with the Home Depot example: Why should the manufacturers of third party paint cartridges pay for Home Depot's product safety obligations?

I suspect that if a paint company wanted to use Home Depot's credit card terminals to do sales for a custom sales process of paint accessories to Home Depot customers that Home Depot would want a cut of that.
I'm under the impression you can't. You create an environment that is more likely to keep the sets of particles from interacting with anything else and then you create an entangled pair. To confirm the entanglement I believe would take several measurements of several pairs of particles and these measurements would result in a probability that they were still entangled, not a certainty.

I found this explanation:

https://www.quora.com/Is-it-possible-to-detect-if-a-particle...

In my opinion, it's not the entanglement that is interesting or confusing, it's the super positions of both particles before they are measured that is hard to explain... How can two particles be in super positions of two states but then when you measure them they are always complimentary? Either it was "spooky action at a distance" ie (particle A communicated it's measurement result to particle B) or there is "hidden variables" inside the super positions that determines the result of the measurements.
> There's no "Do you really want to sign over your house to XYZ?" message on the card itself. And suddenly the government/bank/whatever is getting a request with a cryptographic signature which can obviously only be made by you - why would they have to double-check it if it cannot possible be fraudulent?

My country's version uses separate mechanisms with separate passwords for "identify me, revealing my name/DoB/number" and "sign something". Obviously not impossible to pretend that you're signing an innocuous document and have you sign something else, but it at least removes some of the low-hanging fruit.
I kinda feel we both read two different blog posts here?

What I took from this was:

1) Choose contests with well defined judging criteria, not subjective or popularity contests. Ideally ones where there are specific weightings for requirements and where some of the heaviest weightings are both a) things that'll be overlooked by a lot of entrants, and b) things you're personally very good at. (in this case video content and production)

2) Choose contests where there are sufficient prizes that it's worthwhile entering even if you don't win first place.

3) Choose contests where you are allowed multiple entries, and allowed to win multiple prizes.

This is all backed up with some javascript, webscraping, AI, and math - presumably to meet all the judging criteria and improve their chances of winning the HN front page contest. My suspicious is that this is what most of that validation you're skeptical about was for - not a beautiful vase, but a checkbox ticking exercise in ranking on HN.

Then don't bust a gut trying to produce the best possible entry, just use your subject matter expertise (in this case video content production) to produce "good enough" entries that are above the level that most of the public can create but without striving to surpass Ridley Scott or Quentin Tarantino levels of production.

Don't "make 1000 vases" to practice contest entry and enter 10 contests a day. Instead carefully choose only the contests who's requirements include something important that you've already "made 1000 vases" for (like, whatever you do as a day job) and only bother entering those.
Reminds me of Janusz Goraj, the the man from Poland who was blind for decades until he was hit by a car while crossing the street, slammed his head against pavement, and was instantly cured.
Ask HN: What's a security risk you think people should be more aware of?
Here's mine: QR codes. They're a terrible idea, especially when there's no URL attached. They remove someone's ability to verify that yes, this is the correct site, and are easy to bypass - a scammer can literally just put a different QR code over the intended one, and ta-da! Done.
It's no longer a factor for many (most?) in the USA because the standard deduction went so high.

And even then, only the amount above the standard deduction is effectively deductible, so it kind of is a wash.

(Fun fact - if you have an expensive enough house it is better NOT to be married to your spouse, as if so each can claim up to $750k of mortgage, whereas as married it's only a total of $750k or something. I don't know the actual numbers, never been close to that.)
>You’re describing Google 10 years ago.

The Google of 10, or 15 years ago did not build quagmires. Google's interview process is so rigorous that I do not doubt the caliber of talent that even currently works there. I think people don't have enough perspective when they criticize something like the Pixel Phone or Gemini. I don't think those are products that could be built by "morons".

There is a lack of risk or commitment to whenever Google launches anything new, and they refuse to be anything other than a fast follower. Stadia was an great product - afaik it worked with acceptable latency and the hardware was good. Morons could not have executed it that well. The quagmire came from the fact the messaging was confusing and there was no leadership that had any vision or conviction for the product. When I look at something like Stadia, as a microsm of new Google projects, the last lesson I take away is "Stadia was a shoddy product because people didn't spend enough time in the office." More engineers sleeping overnight at Google wouldn't have saved Stadia. Replace Stadia with any half baked release out of Google.

I worry the same for Waymo - an amazing product, damn near futuristic at this point, that will fall on the sword because no one at Google will be willing to risk their career on it.
https://www.slashgear.com/1576972/omega-1-engine-astron-real...
Does a better job of explaining the concept.
Horses are the OG self driving vehicle, they’ll happily plod home if they know where they are
One could argue criminal.

Feel like it’s kinda like my bank using my email as the password or something.
in my experience, your submission does not have to be a carbon copy of what you end up making. you can check the boxes to make them trust your artistic ability - then you can make it yours, within reason. the money controls the art outcome, until you're banksy. a lot of great artists are able to stylistically and thematically change their art on a whim, by studying the materials/style and putting conscious effort in. this is not rare. modern art does not require mastery by any means and some of the more successful artists actively avoid perfectionism.
There is no link here.
Institutional shareholders actually play a strong role in governance over companies, both in choosing where to invest, and in directing companies (and their boards) as to how they should operate.

Pension and hedge funds finding that their assets are at risk due to changes in perceptions around privacy are actually among the most effective market mechanisms for changing corporate behaviour. Far more so, it seems than the consumer/retail side of the market, where leverage is effectively nil.

Investors can effect leverage because they're not stuck with a monopolistic / oligopolistic market with a small number of vendor choices for a particular good. Investors have the entire market of stock corporations as potential investments, and can enter into or exit from those which pose attractive opportunities or undue risks with very few additional concerns.
How about this: without barcodes, you can't replace your clerks with self-checkout machines
Wouldn't that make it a monster?
There's a torrent going around the usual places that has every [as] bump from the launch of the network to whenever they last updated the archive (a few months ago in my case.)
Yeah ranching used to be done on land not suitable for farming. This way it's just using unusable resource.

But the modern practice is using something consumable by human so the economic is different?
Goth is always in. It just floats in and out of the consciousness of non-goths over time.
> It's not like it's rocket science to have the reader application detail what the request is used for, and encoding it in the request/response

The reader application can, sure, but what ensures that that "reader application" is genuine and can't be subverted? The card's own processor is supposedly tamperproof, but all the display etc. is in the reader which is probably owned and controlled by whatever third-party you're identifying yourself to, or at best it's a random application running on your PC/phone with whatever malware you have.
Yeah, I presented that wrong. It's not actually a failure as such.