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Isn’t New Hampshire’s state motto “Live free or die”?

It wouldn’t work in the US anyway. The gloves would come off in a long running civil war as they always do and there would be collective punishment, population resettlement and other war crimes. The US is as likely to follow international law in a war it genuinely feels is an existential threat as anyone else, not at all.
>Assume they are rational beings, and get at the heart of it.

Why? Why import the concept of homo oeconomicus into this discussion?
I used to think so. I think part of it is getting "used to the situation" and the other part is dramatization of the Venezuela crisis by the media.

Our roads are worse, the streets are much dirtier, and unless you are living around lamarsa/lac, then food shortages are real. If you can afford them in the first place. I live in a "wealthy" neighborhood and yesterday there was a water cut.

Yesterday I was at the airport. Looking at Venezuela/Caracas airport and comparing, the one here is much more degraded. What do you think is Venezuela situation? No electricity? It might as well be a reality here if the government doesn't get its shit together very soon.
I've had a similar issue. I must use VMWare on my machine for various reasons, and Windows have decided, probably for a good reason, that only one hypervisor can run on the machine.

So using Docker locally for me is a major pain in the ass, even though I use the probably most widely used enterprise virtualization stack. Let that sink in for a while.
The CIA Expands Its Presence by Launching Own Tor Site
thanks for the interesting response and the link.
Apple should have an under-duress alternative iCloud password which behaves identically to the real password, but with all the changes totally reversible using the real password, as well as silently alerting the authorities with location tracking etc.
They aren’t. This thread is weird.
australia is a continent nation that has been out of ecological equilibrium for at least 200 years. for the previous 100,000 years the human population was wide spread and used aggressive mass burning of the land to hunt and gather resources. the types of plants and animals that developed in this forced selection event are hardy, drought resistant, fast growing and vastly underutilized by the settler-colonial civilization that developed. the introduced species: cats, dogs, horses, cows/water buffalo, camels, toads, rabbits, deer, goats, pigs, foxes, are causing mass extinction of native fauna species which are either prey or cannot compete in their environmental niches. honey bees thrive in australian conditions since they are bred for efficient pollination and can work almost year round with mild australian winters. ironically the flammable flora is spreading faster than it can be control burned, causing catastrophic wildfires across the habitable coastal and inland regions which get progressively worse every year.

the solution is clearly to promote harvesting of introduced species at scale, while also creating an export market around unique australian products from flora and fauna - because of the lack of natural predators and the general disinterest in controlling their population as a food resource - kangaroos, a native species, are breeding completely out of control and rapidly exhausting their natural environments, and the giant inland deserts grow bigger every year. you add to this powder keg a general lack of understanding between a remote and rural population which must deal with in-climate conditions mentioned above and a well meaning but uninformed city population which fails to grasp the situation and wants to promote a laisse faire attitude towards sound ecological management and you get political wedges which always tiptoe around the major issue.

the idea that australia will create some sort of tech hub to compete with india, china, south korea, japan, singapore, hong kong etc is ridiculous. look at a world map and corresponding population density.
You've completely missed the point of the NBN.

One reason for installing fiber is because it's superior infrastructure. It's not simply a gigabit network and gigabit speed is a irrelevant. Fiber will happily transmit hundreds of terrabits per second given the right endpoint hardware. It's install once and reap the benefits for many, many decades.

Another reason is because you don't know what innovations will arise from pervasive fiber connectivity until you have it and there is a ready market for those innovations. Just like mobile phones unlocked all manner of innovations no-one could foresee.

Australia could have been at the forefront of internet connectivity, instead they have a third rate network for billions of dollars spent, all due to political interference.
quadrature encoders use diodes
Gigabit is a bit overkill, it doesn't do much that 100 Mbit can't. However the real game changer is low latency 10 Gbit+. That is when the paradigm changes, and you no longer need storage. That is when you can do high resolution, high refresh rate, even stereoscopic video. Where game consoles can play every game. 100 Mbit technology doesn't really scale to that and the difference isn't going to be big enough to warrant a technology change for a long time. So you want gigabit now so you can have something better in the future. Otherwise whatever you have now will be good enough, and so will less than that as well. So you will miss out on the next thing.
> If your co-worker proposed this as a solution you'd probably slap them.

So instead you'd suggest to research better languages? What would you say to your boss when he asks you about a time estimate?
Google launches new “portal” HTML element
Berlin ran the first experimental Trolleybus in the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromote
>Why oh why are we not investing more in the manufacturing of renewable energy products and services?

The Liberal-National Party.
'Silicon Valley Nonsense': Will Uber Drivers Be Heard?
Your Career Tomorrow Depends on the Investments You Make Today
Default opt-outs for absolutely everything.
Thank you for the article.

I completely agree with you on this. But lets aside the effort and energy part for a few seconds and talk on the outcome and even then I am not able to see any impact on the current system. Even I see many multimillion frauds in ICOs, STOs and whatever the fancy term they are generating each day.
Memory paints with a golden brush.
> I have debated using Twilio to create my own number pool of international numbers and a way to check my messages via a web portal instead of relying on messaging. Are there any current apps / services that already do this effectively?

I had the same idea and have been using Twillio to forward SMS / Voice to my phone. The idea being that a Twillio number should be harder for an attacker to port.

There are a few issues with that approach:

* SMS are only received if they come from the same country as the phone number.

* SMS issued by my bank not arriving. Maybe related to the first issue.

* Voice calls take a few more rings before they are passed through, meaning that calls are more likely to get dropped by the caller.

Other than that it works beautifully.
Thanks. That's amazing. I always though GC must have been in Lisp from Day 1, but the Minsky article used to be the oldest one I was aware of. Has anybody dug into the original LISP sources (do they still exist?) to see when working GC first arrived?
I still haven't fathomed why ETSI chose AMBE+2 for DMR. It's a codec made by an American company for compressing American English speech and it works reasonably well for that purpose. However, most speakers in my native language sound as if they were drunk or having a stroke.

Even Motorola has recognized that problem and added options in their programming software that makes the DSP boost higher frequencies before feeding the signal to the vocoder.

As to the graceful vs cliff-edge degradation of signals I've yet to see real comparisons where both analog and digital radios use the same frequency, radiated power and bandwidth (with co-channel interference!). With digital systems, the degradation will surely be much more noticeable, but the real question is whether the critical signal level is above or below that of the analog system.
Ok, in that case I don't see how headers solve the problem better than:

1) Don't click on bad URLs. (should be taught at kinder-garden by now)

2) Replace all input <> with &lt;&gt; etc.

I'm convinced scripts should not be able to read cookies for other domains?

Surely I'm missing something?
I’ve cut sugar out of my diet almost completely(bar trace amounts and the rare cheat treat).

23kg loss sustained over 16 months on a modified keto diet.

Cutting out sugar has been a game changer for me.
this reminds me of a document W3C published one time that showed how you could encode HTTP as SOAP messages, so you could run HTTP over SOAP, and of course SOAP was running over HTTP.

I just remember there were a lot of angry people when they read it.

Then again I might like to do the same thing with Firefox' JavaScript engine.
Heh, well my personal anecdata in NZ where fibre is becoming ubiquitous disagrees. Fibre has been a game changer for many people and businesses.
It is done immediately.
How Complex Is “Personal Computing”?
US is hotbed of climate change denial, major global survey finds
>> Certainly not in terms of employment or taxes.

You're right on both fronts, the mining companies are automating everything they can and whole political parties were formed to take an axe to the minerals resource rent tax!

However in terms of exports, Minerals/Ores/Gems/Metals accounted for 64.4% of Australia's top 10 exports in 2018. Australia’s top 10 exports accounted about three-quarters (79.5%) of the overall value of its global shipments. [1].

[1] http://www.worldstopexports.com/australias-top-10-exports/
Adobe Kickbox Opensourced in Foundation
Deep Learning Hardware: Past, Present, and Future – Yann LeCun, ISSCC 2019
If the US government thinks rebels are a real threat to its territorial integrity or sovereignty the laws of armed conflict will be abandoned in short order and they’ll use every advantage they have to crush rebellion. If the ATF can do Ruby Ridge and Waco and get away Scot free with precalculated murder (the first) or setting tens of people on fire deliberately and interfering with evidence what do you think the military would do with a threat they were taking seriously? They’d kill everything that moved. The Russians have shown the world how effective guerillas are against state backed monsters in Chechnya. Monsters win. The fact that the US can’t ein in Afghanistan with its rules of engagement is a fact about the RoE, not the US capacity to defeat insurgencies.
It is a shame computers don't have a key of some sorts today. Imagine a small sim-sized key that had a vital circuit on it and was removable. Going for lunch? Leave the laptop, take the physical key.

If you could use the key to also make it bypassable by your phone's Bluetooth the key need not be carried around. Anyone stealing it would never be able to get in. If the only way to get to the bios was with the private key on the physical key then it could be rendered useless to a thief.

If this physical key locked the screen of a laptop to a keyboard that would make a very effective 'key lock'. It is a shame the keylock did not take this evolutionary path.
Things are much more simple I'd say. Those "algorithms" I'd say are very dumb, nor human flaggers that are better.

Even very innocent family videos are being flagged all the time, you just have to speak a foreign language and look like a middle easterner.

Some say that just speaking in elevated tone in Arabic and having a beard is enough to be flagged on big dotcoms.

And if you are openly are a member of just any social organisation, your account deletion is pretty much a matter of time if you are a middle easterner, no matter if you are pro-regime, anti-regime, or have nothing to do with that. The Egyptian national symphonic orchestra was once banned by Facebook as a "terrorist organisation"

This is ironic given that all big social networks including Facebook outsource content censorship to companies in obscure countries like Algeria or in Balkans.
That's like saying, out of the box a knife acts as something I use to cut bread, weird that someone can get in trouble for carrying one to stab people with it.
Memory you are wasting for GC is Memory you are not using, for example, for caching which directly impacts performance.

Mind you, I think GC is great, but saying that RAM is free is misguided.
"Summary: With great pleasure we would like to report that we have discovered a GraphQL endpoint that discloses internal beer consumption at your [Spotify] offices."

Shopify awarded a $134 bounty for this.
Here you go - Oral History of Gary Gordon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxxoWhCzIeU HP engineer (later Avago), inventor of the sensor.
At least on my Motorola phone (which isn't the very very latest model, but still), the warning can certainly be bypassed by simply swapping out the boot logo animation (and personally I'm glad about that).
My first desktop had a key lock for power on. Surprisingly I think that's the first thing I ever hacked so that locked or not I could boot the thing.
I'm getting daily calls where they leave a voicemail in Chinese. I live in a metro area where at most there are 0.05% Chinese speakers. The costs must be so low they just do not care.

Course I block the numbers but they seem to have an almost endless supply. Interestingly my Pixel doesn't report the call ever as suspected spam.
Hmm so there's a coprocessor that does the GC... doesn't it need to lock the memory away from the main CPU while it does that? And doesn't this lead back to unpredictable pauses and slowdowns?
It's not compulsory even in a language that supports it, I'm working on a medium sized C# project that has minimal use of inheritance and only then to fit in with the requirements of a library feature.
Hi HN. We made Stalemate because we wanted a dashboard which makes it easy to see the relevant pull requests and what needs doing to get them ready to merge.

We've been testing Stalemate with a few companies here in the UK. It's ideal when you're working across multiple repositories on a single team (e.g. when you have code split out into libraries on a project).

Stalemate is good for teams who use relatively simple issue/task tracking such as GitHub issues, trello et al. It's not a great pairing with tools like Jira however because there are better ways to surface the information that Stalemate does in Jira.

There's no magic here - just a really useful way to surface the data you already have in a way that makes it really easy for developers to see PRs needing attention.

We'd love feedback! Thanks
It's even more simple using a SDF, and making it a pie-chart is almost trivial: https://iquilezles.org/www/articles/distfunctions2d/distfunc...
Southend burial site 'UK's answer to Tutankhamun'
The UN is an intergovernmental organisation with pretensions to universality and relevance to international law. Any kind of real enforcement activity is national, as ever.
Chart of the Most Active Blockchain Projects in Terms of Development
I'm not sure it has been publicly deabted to shake out who stands where, but probably a classic market-oriented position of "if people will buy it, we'll sell it. If not, we won't". Same as was applied to the manufacturing industry.

Coal is used to make steel. Unless the mettalurgists have come up with something I don't know about that isn't going away any time soon - my understanding is that Queensland coal is mostly metallurgical. Victorian coal is too dodgy to export, so overseas buyers don't matter.

NSW and the Hunter Valley are very exposed to the thermal market. They sink or swim based on how much gets burned in power generation.
It's a non-fiction book pretty much through and through. The author writes with an eye for entertaining narrative and thus you could assume that small parts are embellished a bit for this reason but overall I haven't seen any criticism of the book that claims anything remotely important to be fictional. Martha Dodd (the ambassador's daughter) comes across as particularly foolish. First because she tries to defend the Nazi regime to her friends and then when a bit of light finally dawns on her about its nature, switches over to becoming a useful idiot for the equally vicious soviet regime, working as an NKVD informatn/agent. And based on third party accounts and the old NKVD documents from her informant file, describing her as a useful idiot (stealing a phrase from Lenin) doesn't seem to be far off the mark. One soviet handler's description of her is rather amusing: "She considers herself a Communist and claims to accept the party's program. In reality she is a typical representative of American bohemia, a sexually decayed woman ready to sleep with any handsome man."

Dodd herself met Hitler once through an introduction by a man who at the time was a close friend of the dictator, and her description of him was that he was "excessively gentle and modest in his manners"... Indeed...
>> look at a world map and corresponding population density.

What is the basis for the assertion that population density is required for a competitive tech hub?
I wouldn't say there is a disinterest in kangaroos as food, it is a difficult thing to scale though - 8ft+ fences, on farm slaughtering/butchering because you can't really transport them alive

Maybe if we started selectively breeding them they would be farmable in a few hundred years?
> Determine liveness is hard on its own, ABA issues are totally eliminated by GC enabled setups.

FWIW, Herlihy has examples of ABA issues on algorithms implemented in Java.
I'm reminded of the following which was posted to HN a while back.
https://github.com/googlei18n/libphonenumber/blob/master/FAL...
Zowie scroll wheel is true garbage, $80 mouse and it binds to the side of plastic case.
> I still haven't fathomed why ETSI chose AMBE+2 for DMR. It's a codec made by an American company for compressing American English speech and it works reasonably well for that purpose. However, most speakers in my native language sound as if they were drunk or having a stroke.

A lack of ethnic diversity in vendors and standardization committees, which has also led to issues such as the "racist soap dispenser" (https://gizmodo.com/why-cant-this-soap-dispenser-identify-da...).

When most or all testing is exclusively done on White US-english male persons, issues such as a lack of sensitivity/quality for anything diverging from that norm only crop up when it is way too late to fix.
From companies' perspective, SMS has a critical property that U2F dongles and TOTP authenticators lack: Restoring the user's access if they lose it is someone else's problem.

With SMS login, if I lose my phone getting back into my account is an argument between me and my phone provider. And blame for any mistakes in that process lies squarely with my phone provider.

This avoids the "I lost the backup codes as it's 5 years since I printed them out" problem.

Anyone involved in designing a 2FA system knows SMS isn't secure - companies like Apple accept that insecurity, to avoid the support costs of the lost-backup-codes problem.
They do however leak their local oscillator through the antenna, albeit at really low signal levels. Two ham friends experimented with slow FSK across the room.
I've noticed OO education has a habit of appropriating every good idea from software engineering as if it was a distinctive feature of OO approach. I think reading SICP opened my eyes to that for the first time. As it turns out, you can do abstraction without objects just fine.
> I think it's more about the technical difficulties associated with effective key management.

TETRA, the German digital police/ems/... network, uses SIM cards for that part. Pretty easy, if you ask me.
I bet you complain about interpreted languages too. The trade off of computer vs developer time happens by design.
There are some companies trying to do teletherapy (eg BetterHelp), but video conferencing is a poor substitute for meeting in person, especially when a therapy session may often have the client crying, or panicking, or emotionally reacting very strongly. "Just talking" trivializes the contents of the conversation
as well as the psychologist's role in the healing process.
And that's why everything is continue to go downhill in the Free Software world

Because of the mentality that UX problems are just "the user being lazy"

IRC stopped in time. Linux desktop is a mess and have very weird ideas about UX (especially Gnome, they love making things "simple" by shipping a car with no gearbox but only one speed)

"Freedom" is a "cost/quality" like any other, some people might value it the most, some people might value it the least, but it is less important than other factors.
Docker also has support for user namespaces which makes it so that the root inside the container is e.g. nobody outside. In general I'd say docker (with user namespaces) is quite a bit more secure than running as a normal user without containers when it comes to escaping the container/the app being breached. However this is very distinct from the fact that it basically ignores all multi user aspects of Unix when it comes to using the docker command. So while the application inside is more secure, using docker is insecure. Now in the typical deployment scenario the latter doesn't really matter since an admin deploys and the developer only creates the image locally.
That’s not really the case. With dispatchables, curtailment, frequency correction from battery storage, etc. these aren’t really a problem until you get to more like 85-90% renewables across the whole grid. By then hopefully we’ll have enough pumped hydro to deal with shortfalls, and of course there will always be some gas backup just in case.

Renewables haven’t actually been the cause of any of our recent blackouts. Even back in the big storm a few years ago when they were blamed by conservative politicians and journalists, the actual reports came back showing it was more to do with the wind downing critical transmission lines, one of the interconnectors being out of service, grid management issues, etc. - that a bunch of wind turbines tripped due to safety settings was basically meaningless given all the actual problems.

More recently, coal and gas plant failures have been much more of a problem, like in the recent Victoria when over a GW of fossil fuel generation was out of service. It would been a lot worse without solar and hydro, as well as unexpectedly good wind conditions that took up a lot of the shortfall.
The transaction rate of bitcoin can't support widespread use. A bitcoin-based economy would require most transactions to be aggregated through intermediate exchanges, which is exactly one of the primary functions of the traditional banking system.
Don't block access to the docs. I always go through the docs first before purchasing software, it cuts through the marketing messages and helps me understand if the software does exactly what I need. No available docs = no purchase.
Excellent idea. So, how do you actually go about sending such a Subject Access Request? Mail it to a random email address? Use their contact form? What if they don't have a contact form? (Google and similar companies are notoriously hard to contact, for example.)
Under Obama they made steps forward to stop these, penalties were drastically increased, and an actual investigation team was put together, but Trump defunded the efforts and now the complaint form leads to a massive master in pile with no hope of a single message being read.

The phone companies ARE able to stop the caller ID spoofing with a simple notch filter placed at the right point on the line, or packet filter on the right place on the firewall.

They could easily force businesses to give a valid return number on their calls and prevent jamming based caller ID spoofing, but instead they don't want to because these calls mean more money for them.