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What's the result of the completely useless flight safety mantra? People will not leave their belongings! The mantra should tell them that they will be compensated if they make it out alive but they will be put down like a mad dog if they hinder others with their packing and packages...

Also people do charge all the fucking time, and don't put their phone into airplane mode. :|
Explain how they still survive and are the only viable option for anyone in the day and age where $5 VPSes are a thing.
Even engineering contests are like this. I remember back in college there was a sustainable dog house competition with a very clearly defined rubric. My partner and I min/maxed the hell out of it and won first prize and $1,000, while everyone else built beautiful dog houses that ultimately missed the point.
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Not OP but BYD cars are being kept out via policy so don’t think it’s that far fetched. Certainly not conspiracy territory

https://www.vox.com/climate/2024/3/4/24087919/biden-tariff-c...
Very cool - definitely an important missing feature in SQlite.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax

> The Chicken tax is a 25 percent tariff on light trucks (and originally on potato starch, dextrin, and brandy) imposed in 1964 by the United States under President Lyndon B. Johnson in response to tariffs placed by France and West Germany on importation of U.S. chicken.

> Eventually, the tariffs on potato starch, dextrin, and brandy were lifted,[4] but since 1964 this form of protectionism has remained in place to give US domestic automakers an advantage over imported competitors.
Any contract can be invalidated on that grounds. If I sell my land with a gun to my head, that's a good reason to discard the bill of sale. If a party lies about their state of mind afterwards, that's perjury.
Have you read the indictment? It makes a pretty strong case that he knew copyright infringement was the cash cow of his business model, structuring the business and lying to copyright holders in order to make the infringement more effective. Deleting links without removing the infringing content from the server is the big smoking gun to me - there’s really no legitimate reason to do that.
The “right answer” also depends on attack vector. If you are trying to protect against nation-state-level tampering or data leaks for two full generations, the enemy moves much quicker, and so you will need to advance much more quickly, to outpace what you think they might do to outpace you in the future.

If you are only trying to prevent your ISP from seeing your traffic, which they are not trying particularly hard to do, then that level of protection would be overkill.
How is google a monopoly at all? There’s competition and alternative for each of their products. And people can keep using the alternatives if they want.

I can choose iOS over Android. Bing over Google. Yahoo over Gmail. Dailymotion over YouTube.

Why is it a problem that google makes a superior product and people choose it ?

In all studies, when consumers get faced the decision to choose freely any search engine, most of them keep going back to google. Why is that a problem at all?
Assuming $100 bills, that's nearly two tons of cash. (3800 pounds.)

Definitely not "small folk like us".
> there is definitly a suggestion and I would even say more than that. the OP comment literaly says he is on the payroll of russia lol

Being on Russian payroll is not a criminal offense, there are plenty of RT-affiliated journalists who still operate in the West.
people used to be embarrassed in forums like this about being so pro-government. Tech has been completely captured by normies
Please. It fits his personality perfectly to do something like keep all his money in cash.

If he was a drug lord or if he was even remotely connected to malicious security services he would have been long taken by force. New Zealand is a close US ally.
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“Classical cryptography” used to refer to historical ciphers, Vigenère and the like, tapering off after the World War 2-era cipher machines and definitely not used to describe asymmetric algorithms. There should be a different term for pre- (non-?) quantum cryptography from the modern era. We already suffered the redefinition of “crypto”.
Sort of like what happened with Microsoft.
Those are not "trumped" up reasons those. That is an explicit ban that the US makes.
A small plugin hybrid would be nice. All the options seem to be SUVs.
Their TV choices are confounding. I don’t know about other platforms, but the YouTube app on Apple TV is the most useless thing I’ve ever tried. Search is abysmal.
The nostalgic feel of earlier TV experiences
Could you give some specific examples of those new languages with their own backends for faster builds?
All those reasons and more. Strategically bad move, we did okay in the middle.

You don’t have to be a Sinophile to know Keating’s right about AUKUS

alt-headline: Paul Keating is right, AUKUS will turn Australia into US protectorate

The ex-PM is the only person offering a convincing explanation of AUKUS. And it's a damning one.

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On the economics | robustness of the deal:

This deal is getting worse all the time.

Courtesy of the latest details of the AUKUS agreement tabled yesterday in Parliament, we now know that the moment it becomes inconvenient for the Americans or the Brits, there’ll be no submarines for Australia:

Cooperation under the agreement is to be carried out in such a manner as to not adversely affect the ability of the United States and the United Kingdom to meet their respective military requirements and to not degrade their respective naval nuclear propulsion programs.

Those programs, as even ardent defenders of the program admit, are already pretty degraded. The Americans have shifted from building two Virginia-class boats a year to one this year, and delayed the construction of the next generation of nuclear submarines by five years to 2040. The new generation Dreadnought-class boats under construction in the UK have suffered serious delays and astonishing cost blowouts.

Somehow, with around $10 billion of Australian cash, both programs will come good, to the point they can build boats for the US and UK, and for Australia, and help Australia build its own. It’s normal for defence policy to double as heavy manufacturing policy, and Australia has a rich history of wasting billions making things here that we could have bought far cheaper from other countries. Where AUKUS is unusual is that Australia will be using its defence policy as heavy manufacturing policy for the US and UK as well
It works on my machine. Why?
> There has been nothing in my life so disillusioning as working on a Web app for a company that is more or less required to play Google's game.

Have you built any iOS apps?
One of the potential remedies is to require Google to open source their crawling data. This should make it easier for others who want to build a competing search engine.
On the other hand, the straming/video 'services', are literally stealing stuff you bought from them. How is that better? If there's a "buy"/"purchase" button, the movie is yours... it's not a "rent" button, where they can take it away whenever they want.

Kim is a modern day robin hood. Illegal, criminal, yada yada? Sure. Is he "bad" for the people? Well... that's very debatable.
From what I understand, Mastodon is to Twitter as WriteFreely is to WordPress.com/Medium/Blogger/etc. Fediverse-aware, open-source, with a flagship SaaS hosted instance available at https://write.as. If microblogging hadn't fried my brain and I was interested in spinning up a longform blog, this is the software I would choose.
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>I think Google can win this easily by using the public opinion against the regulators.

Apple levels of arrogance.

Apple tried the same approach when the EU was slapping them down with DMA and few were having it, calling Apple out for their immature responses delusionally thinking that because people were glued to their phones they would some how value that above their representative government.
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The way actual index funds vs individual balancing works is different.

For individuals if you buy a stock and sell it at loss within 30 days, that’s considered a wash sale. AFAIK doing trades like that are penalized and not considered losses from tax perspective.

So if you’re balancing the portfolio everyday like FNILX and VOO with 500 trades, you’d be racking up tons of wash sales.

IRS will come knocking if you fraudulently claim losses.
Hey, sorry about that; there was some performance degradation overnight which caused the game server to run very slowly. I restarted the server to temporarily fix it, I'll look into it today.
what was the rubric they missed?
I prefer not to see the markdown, and only the styling. We used to have a smattering of RTF-styled notetakong apps until they all became markdown-backed ones. It’s telling that they’re hiding the Markdown. People don’t want to see it.
Depends, that is what OLAP is all about, naturally most of the good tools happen to be commercial for the enterprise space.
This reminds me of a similar ask that someone had a few years ago about a video calling solution device.

I posted an explanation then as to why proposing iPads and iPhones is missing the point. I think the same sentiment applies.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23598685

OP: I have no answers for existing solutions but I have no doubt there are customers out there for such a product. Funnily enough the target market isn't so much the end user but rather their adult children that want to be able to provide them with a solution that won't cause UX problems every 6 months because some patch changed the UI for no good reason :)
Thanks for sharing, very interesting! Also super fascinating that it has largely been left untouched since then. I was thinking purely from a safety standard regulation as I know many don't pass US standards.
The underlying Reticulum network this uses is really quite interesting given how many transport media it offers (packet radio, etc).
If they break up the ad business it could be helpful. Otherwise search and youtube are like you say synergistic and there is no obvious way to break them up.
When your computer was anemic, and could barely do the tasks required for it, eking out a few percent — or a 2x! — from an optimizer was important.

Now-a-days, the difference between "big compiler optimized" and "little compiler not optimized" can be quite dramatic; but, is probably no more than 4x — certainly within range of the distinction between "systems programming language" and "high tuned JITted scripting language". I think most people are perfectly fine with the performance of highly-tuned scripting languages. The result is that all of the overhead of "big compiler" is just ... immaterial; overhead. This is especially true for the case of extremely well-tuned code, where the algorithm and — last resort — assembly, will easily beat out the best optimizer by at least an order-of-magnitude, or more.
We already had an order in for convential working subs from the French .. now we're on the hook for more money and less of a guarantee they'll ever arrive.
Wait til you hear about this new startup called Google. They are going to launch yet another search engine. I doubt there's much money in it, though. They'll be lucky to make a few million.
Gov.Uk Notify does support sending letters (as well as email and SMs/text messages): https://www.notifications.service.gov.uk/using-notify
I don't see this succeeding. Not only is tech extremely hateable as a demographic, not everyone is a corporate bootlicker (outside of this forum)
But I hate A/B testing, and so I won't participate. Users like me fall outside the scope of your experiment, I guess.
I'm a pacifist at heart, but I'm not blind to the fact that a single digit percentage of humans (in every country) are just plain evil (in lots of ways). These people can do harm without any feelings of remorse. And a double digit percentage of humanity can easily be manipulated into being / doing evil.

Our current, imperfect, civilisation exists because we largely succeed in keeping the whims of these minorities under control. It's a depressing thought, but if I don't accept it, I'll be disappointed in humanity on a daily basis.
Totally fair point, but what can you do? This is how the world works. Fighting such beasts is pointless. You might tame them with lobby money, but no billionaire is interested. And we're now talking about the human spirit that cannot be chained, as also seen in Pirate Bay or Snowden. Sure, people do need heroes and hope from time to time. But I have become less romantic over the years, and more careful.
I disagree, he has engaged in a deliberate media/public personality building campaign over the last 12 years to make the public sympathetic to him and his plight.

>>I do not think he's a criminal
"He was arrested in 1994 for trafficking in stolen phone calling card numbers. He was convicted on eleven charges of computer fraud, ten charges of data espionage and various other charges in 1998 that he served a two-year suspended sentence for.[7] In 2003, he was deported to Germany where he pleaded guilty to embezzlement in November 2003 and after five months in jail awaiting trial he received another 20 months suspended sentence" (From Wiki)

>>The raid at his NZ home was already taking it too far, IMO.
Yeah it was over the top, but he had firearms on the property and bodygaurds....

I'm with you that he should have just been fined, but he made a tremendous amount of money very deliberately (despite his protestations) trafficking illeagaly in Warez, I geniunely think the US is right to go after and nail him.

As a New Zealander, our government should be far more judicous about who it grants visa's to - he should have prima facae been refused his original visa on the basis of his prior convictions (I am sure there is a good story about why this was (incorrectly) overlooked by NZ officials). This ultimately is not a problem of New Zealands government/judicial system making, they have very fairly given Kim every chance to appeal and hear his side of the story - whilst he engages in games of attempted political manipulation for his own aim. The chickens must come home to roost at some point.

IMO I dont think Kim deserves the publics sympathy, the shield of New Zealand residency or that he is a good faith operator.
> Compacts, subcompacts, and microcompacts are very popular in Europe.

They are also growing in size. Most "compacts" are the size of many regular SUVs from 20 years ago
Globally, I would bet that there are more daily Android users than daily Windows users. There is no real competitor to Youtube.
> why couldn't Russia extradite someone for ignoring Russian censorship takedowns

They can, in countries that have entered into extradition treaties with Russia. That's how treaties work.

In this case, the courts seem to think Dotcom was breaking both US and New Zealand law, and in the treaty New Zealand has with the US, they've agreed that someone could be extradited in those cases.

If Dotcom wasn't found to be breaking New Zealand law but only US law, it seems he wouldn't have been extradited.
True, and hybrid cryptography is definitely the way to go.

But there's more to it than just resistance to cryptanalysis: crashes, memory leaks, disabled security features (e.g., ASLR), irregular performance, supply chain attacks...

PQC requires extra code, and every added instruction carries some risk.
> As an Aussie observer, I'm seeing more US influence in our region.

Not an expert, but my guess is that there is (probably valid) concern about China. "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" and all that.
This gets brought up on HN every time the subject comes up but it doesn't make sense. It is true that, sensibly, emissions regulations are more relaxed as vehicles get larger. But smaller vehicles are still cheaper to make and sell for lower MSRPs than the same manufacturer's larger cars, and larger cars almost always hugely outsell them. Sadly, this has meant that a lot of small cars, like the Honda Fit, have been discontinued in the US.

HN users are not representative. Kei car enthusiasts are not representative. Americans love F-150s, Tacomas, Highlanders, 4runners, RAV4s, CRVs, etc. They by-and-large buy the largest car/truck they can afford. You look up the sales numbers for this stuff and there's just no contest; e.g., CRVs outsold Fits by almost a factor of 10. The marginal gain of "parking is slightly easier in streets or unlined lots" is something most people don't care enough about to buy a smaller vehicle. They prefer the other conveniences of large cars.

Is it true that manufacturers like selling larger cars because they have higher margins? Sure; they also like to sell you on the higher trim levels of small cars for the same reason. But Americans are happily making that easy for them.
This is why Toyota is the #1 automaker on the planet and will likely remain so for the next decade. This dovetails nicely with their strategy of evolution, not revolution. They've spent 30 years perfecting the hybrid drivetrain. Their current generation of hybrids are more gasoline-oriented vehicles. As they develop their EV platform they're going to transition to being more EV-oriented vehicles. Meanwhile, this gives several battery technologies that are in the pipeline a chance to mature.

Kudos! This is a brilliant strategy!
A small truck has just as much possibility to kill as a big truck, and in fact due to the smaller application of similar forces its more likely to seriously cripple you, even if said hit was non-fatal.

While I’m all for reducing the size of cars in USA, pretending that ”massive modern trucks” are the only ones that kill is just wrong.
You could use only the banking websites or switch banks. That's what I did personally since I want completely control over any device I use, and more importantly over my data.
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You couldn't even own a phone under Ma Bell.

Meanwhile just about every product Google has I can use someone else.
Hey, thanks! You're right, I should've probably labeled it as a multi-player game, not an MMO. The connection issue you faced was because of a (probably) faulty clientside fingerprint implementation I made; your fingerprint probably collided with others. I'll rework it in a few hours.
The guy has a lot of money, so therefore it’s very tedious when people characterize him as a smol bean who just wanted to help people share their data. It’s a smokescreen for the real position (which I recognize some people do legitimately hold) that copying and selling movies without compensating the people who made them is a legitimate business model and it’s OK to make lots of money doing it.
RHEL has put a lot of work into their SELinux policy. Without a doubt it's more secure than OpenBSD.

If both OSes had a remote root hole, on OpenBSD you would have carte blanche to do whatever, on the RHEL system you would be able to do very little.
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There is a PHEV Prius which is not an SUV. It's not a small hatchback either, but yeah it's not a big car. And there is a PHEV C-HR too, which is more like a crossover than a proper SUV.
Sharing CSAM definitely is a crime. Nuances exist.

>He's a modern day robin hood

He's run or partnered on multiple pump-and-dumps for the better part of 30 years, some of which capitalized on his fanbase.
In very simple terms, their approach to security is auditing to try and remove all bugs, but offering very little to protect against the case where there is a remote root hole, such as they have had in the past.

Things have gotten better in recent years with things like pledge and doas, but they are quite lacking compared to proper MAC or sandbox implementations. Worse, many of the OpenBSD devs don't seem to know much about those technologies and are kind of dismissive. I remember an OBSD user or enthusiast trying to argue Pledge was equivalent to SELinux which was pretty bad.

I'd take a slimmed down hardened Linux install over OpenBSD any day of the week.
I feel like the US should have serious conversations about it's regulation of monopolies, especially on internet giants. The current system seems to be woefully ineffective. On the one hand, it's not clear it's necessarily, Google isn't a particularly old company it hasn't had a strangle hold for long and it doesn't look like it's business is unassailable. So why go after it at all. On the other hand, the anti-monopoly moves have been slow and ineffective. When Microsoft finally got hit their crimes were pretty egregious and they actually never faced any consequences, the law suit they lost eventaully got turned over on appeal and by the time it was all resolved the market looked markedly different.

Isn't it time to think about either (a) just accepting that you give them a much wider birth or (b) be much faster and tactical in your enforcement. Not every monopoly case needs to result in a break up. If you could point at one bad thing Google did - maybe the Apple deal for example, get that in court quickly with fast penalties that don't require massive corporate interference maybe we would be better off.
News would have refused to put sugar on its porridge, too.
> what is 'controversial and not widely accepted by relevant experts' is the comet impact hypothesis which the nyt presents as an accepted fact

Careful there. If people start questioning the NYT's reporting, they may start believing things like voting machines are unreliable and various other ideas pushed by Republicans.
The issue is that acquisitions have been allowed. We(EU, USA, whoever) should have put stop on that long time ago.

Maybe even demanded that certain too effective components were separated like adds. Or with Amazon retail from AWS.
A small plugin hybrid doesn't make sense. It still needs room for both the ICE _and_ electrical parts. So the whole car is not scaling down, only the passenger compartment and luggage area.
You're analogy isn't exactly good. In this case, other businesses flourishing is a good thing.

If you are specifically referring to Apple becoming an even bigger monopoly, that would be a bad thing but I think in the US they've already effectively won.
Just in case...

The various banners displayed are of varying quality but one of them is not like the others in a weirdly misleading way.

The banner with the green-red-blue buttons, has a green button that says "Accept Only Essential Cookies" and a red one that says "Reject Non-Essential Cookies" which are the same option. That is, this banner would "mislead" the user into accepting only essential cookies. Which is probably not a bad thing, but it feels improbable a site would do that.
Is that going to be a trial by the laws of the land he resides in and not to a foreign country that the defendant is not a citizen nor a resident nor operates out of and that refuses to guarantee the same protections under the law to a non-citizen compared to a citizen[1]?

This same foreign country who passed laws for invading the hague if they came under trial for crimes in the ICC.

[1]: See assange's bid for first amendment's guarantees when the same foreign country was trying to extradite and "trial" him