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> It was correct to oppose Hugo Chavez

Only for Venezuelans. It was none of the US business.

> Meanwhile, the US backed Colombia is doing fine

For debatable values of "doing fine".

> The US also maintains near-guaranteed border security for Latin American nations

Not really.

> The US has been a superpower for ~75 years now and has not attempted to use that extreme power imbalance to annex swaths of Latin America.

It hasn't used overt military power (except in limited cases, like their own CIA-backed agents going rogue on them). It has meddled in Latin America democracies to often terrible results. In many cases, it has abetted bloodshed.
I sincerely recommend reading the book Crypto if this topic interests you. This isn’t the first time we’ve been here, and it won’t be the last, but Crypto does an excellent job going through some of the history and the absurdity of the idea.

https://www.stevenlevy.com/index.php/books/crypto
I tried Notion but there's something I don't like about it. It's also kind of slow. I have been using Bear and I like its simplicity and features a lot!
"Designed by Apple in California, where cigarettes do not exist"
Canada, like many other countries around the world, enjoys the luxury of being protected by the US and doesn't have to spend as much money on defense.

During WWII, do you think appeasement would have worked?

The reason many evil countries aren't bombing the US and Canada is because they know they would be obliterated by the US military due to past campaigns.
I'm not an expert, but my understanding is that encryption that is E2E in 99.9% of cases is, definitionally, _not_ E2E, as it is no longer required to be at either end point.
Well they can already do that if they want to, so this system doesn't change that. Responsible vendors wouldn't do that though (and if they do, just don't buy their products)
So if I'm in Canada and a pregnant woman tries to kill me I'm pretty much out of luck if I kill her in self defense?
By not helping the Chinese government.
Still waiting for KWin to become functional on Wayland. Some serious bugs prevent it. And where is RedHat rushing exactly? Something like adaptive sync doesn't even work with Wayland compositors yet. So good luck using your fancy adaptive sync high refresh monitor with games in Wayland session.
Why would you need Swift in Jupyter?

Just implement your model's architecture in Python. Export it. Invoke it at runtime via Swift and TF.
> I wonder if the problem isn't how to measure productivity, but the fact that we bother to focus on individual contribution rather than how the organization operates with respect to organizational goals.

YES!

Are you aware of pair and mob programming?

People want to be successful. No one likes to lose. Even a freeloader is expressing that behavior because they believe that is the best way to win.

Pair and mob programming completely makes freeloading impossible. It also is true teamwork
Porting XFCE applications (Thunar etc.) to GTK3 indeed gives automatic (or near-automatic) Wayland support. This means that XFCE applications will run natively (without XWayland) in Wayland compositors (such as sway, GNOME or KDE).

However, xfwm (the window manager) will also need to be ported to Wayland — i.e. become a Wayland compositor — which will probably be a more complicated undertaking, as "xfwm-wayland will need to fulfil the role of both X and the window manager. (Yes, using libraries like wlroots or libmir, will make this not completely impossible, but it will still be non-trivial.) Plausibly, XFCE might join forces and use the same Wayland compositor as, say, LXQt or Mate.
How much are we all going to have to suffer before our governments actually take constructive action on the climate. Not to mention personal action as well.
According to the NY Times, Huawei is owned by a holding company, which is in turn 1% owned by the CEO and 99% by the company's employee union, which is an affiliate of the Shenzhen Government Employee union.

But the union has no control, other than after-work social activity.

It's about as complex and weird as a situation can get. Spies hide in complexity.
It used to be fantastic. The killer app for me was that it was actually impressively good at searching text in images which at the time felt like magic. Like you could take a picture of a whiteboard or your handwritten notes from a meeting or slide on a screen at a conference and then do a free text search of the keywords in it a few months later and find it.

It was also really good at clipping web pages and helping you find them later. I really really liked it for free form research, like when you spend a couple weeks looking into a business idea to write up a detailed report later and want to find the reference to that concept or statistic you remember.

Ten years ago that kind of thing was really hard to do reliably and they were good at it.

But then instead of building on that success the product got worse. Oh well.
It made me laugh... if that was the purpose... the guy made it. LOL
> Unfortunately, we're not ready to support your desktop device yet. Superhuman is currently built for Apple laptops, but our team is working hard to expand platforms.

So not only is it a recurring $30/m but it only works on macOS. Seems to me this could have easily been Electron or a cross-platform web app. Not sure why email needs native performance.

Stop discrimination against Linux users!
Fundamentally, all that I am is built from electrons, protons, and neutrons, but if you think I am "just a collection" of such things, you might struggle to differentiate between a human and a rock.

I also think that thinking of ourselves as "ultimately" being "nothing more" than whatever fundamentals give rise to our existence is a great way to deprive ourselves of meaning, given that there's quite a bit that goes on between the subatomic level and the experience you have as you read this. For example, from my own particular materialist point of view, I don't spend much time thinking about subatomic particles when I want to deepen the sense of "meaning" I have about any particular experience.
but any software you make that uses e2e dependencies would be subject to the same export regulations, right?

I mean, not even just e2e, just the normal ubiquitous encryption we all use is a "gift" from relaxed export restrictions along side non-enforcement. Some app stores still ask you if you obtained the export license or qualify for an exemption.

The US government could just start enforcing that, fund the agency to enforce it.

It doesn't matter about what it enables to citizens, no organization operating in the US would offer it because it would break their global business.
As a one-off perhaps. It's not a one off though. 2019 is shaping up to continue the trend,and perhaps break yet another record.

"The average annual temperature for the European land area for the last decade (2009–2018) was between 1.6 °C and 1.7 °C above the pre-industrial level, which makes it the warmest decade on record. In Europe, 2018 was among three warmest years on record"

https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/indicators/global-an...
Well the strategy was first to get the Chinese people addicted to wealth before moving on to discuss the issues of human rights (imaging trying to sanction a poor communist country - e.g. north korea - it will have no effect because the citizens there won't rise up in discontent to protect what they have if they have nothing). But given that China is currently the largest economy in the world right now, now is probably a good of a time as any to show that China needs to play fair internationally and locally in order to acquire the consent of other trade members
If the only thing a company achieves is wealth transfer from investor to founder (in the form of wages and/or a sub-valuation exit), then it's not a success but a failure. Unless you take founder economic gain as the sole success metric, but them it's not a company but a fraud scheme. The line between victim and perpetrator blur in interesting ways when a sub-valuation exit is a win for some investors and a loss for others.

It's a somewhat funny situation: if you feign optimism to access stupid money you're a fraud, but if you are just as stupid as the money and believe it yourself, everything is fine.
I'm biased, because I took the course when it was called "ML Class" in 2011:

https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning

Everything is done in Octave (ie - open-source matlab-like language); primitives are vectors and matrices - so you'll have to wrap your head around that.

But that course gave me the first explanation as to how neural networks actually worked that I could understand; I had been reading about neural networks for years from various sources - books, online, videos, etc - and nothing ever "clicked" for me (mainly around how backprop worked). For some reason, this did it for me.

Since then, I have taken other MOOCs centered around ML and Deep Learning, mainly with a focus on self-driving vehicles.

Oh - ML Class also led one individual to implement this during the course, as the ALVINN vehicle was mentioned in more than a few ways:

https://blog.davidsingleton.org/nnrccar/

While Singleton does mention its "vintage-ness", I still think it's a sound project for inspiration and learning how to apply a neural network to a simple self-driving vehicle system, not to mention the fact that it replicated a system from the 1980s using today's commodity hardware; I recall reading about ALVINN when I was a kid, with wonderment about how it "worked" - it was one of several 1980s projects in the space that got me hooked on wanting to learn how to make computers learn.
> If Russia were China they could have annexed Crimea without the West doing anything more than complaining.

As opposed to what exactly?
Dupe from yesterday https://www.oregonlive.com/nation/2019/06/woman-charged-for-...
Thanks, I gave up too early.
Serious bugs like this make it far from working well:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=387313
Yeap. The two part debates had a few great candidates weighed down and split with aspirational and corporate candidates. And the moderators were horrible, neoliberal corporate hack$.

Jimmy Dore, George Galloway, Ro Khanna and Noam Chomsky are some of the only people qualified to interview candidates for POTUS.
Mods: the title is wrong. It should be

Proposal: leave "if err != nil" alone? (Go)
You need look no further than the very next right (the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed) to understand that these "rights" are rather squishy in practice.

I 100% agree freedom of speech protects encryption, plain as day; I'm justifiably skeptical that a court would see it that way.
Not only the political positions that match the desire, but also voting record that matches their position.

I would personally prefer direct democracy, but I think it is extreme to claim that every politician is corrupt.
I guess it depends on if the perpetual license was for Evernote or Evernote 2.
I believe you are over-simplifying a very complicated argument, although perhaps HN is not the place for the full argument.

When I was young, I lived in nightly fear of China. I lived on a military base in the 1980s, and read conspiratorialist material my parents had in the house. One of my greatest fears was China's army of hundreds of millions of men. Today I don't fear China. I have a ten-year tourist visa for China and will be heading to Hong Kong next week.

I believe the difference is economic engagement. The economic interests of both America and China are too entangled now to imagine a military war between the two countries.

So on the one extreme is sanctions a la Iran or North Korea, and on the other extreme is the full unlimited economic engagement we have now. If the choices are that stark, I choose engagement every time.

The choice isn't that stark, though. One can still engage but with limits and conditions, right? It seems likely that even if Apple completely withdrew all manufacturing from China, or with even more difficulty and expense, completely withdrew all supply of raw materials, there would still be enough economic engagement between China and other companies to make open hostility unpalatable. But Apple is definitely one of the bigger companies doing business there, and they would have lost any influence there at all.

Right now Apple can say they've brought the standard of living for employees of factories which build Apple gear up quite a bit. Not to western standards, obviously, but far, far higher than they were. If Apple leaves, do those changes remain? Or do the standards drop back down to pre-Apple levels, sending people back into poverty and hardship? I don't know, do you?

Where would Apple send manufacturing next? They were producing the Mac Pro in the US, which I think is one of the largest reasons that platform has stagnated for years now. Do you have a suggestion of another country that provides the resources Apple needs while also providing a standard of living for every citizen that satisfies you? I mean, does the standard of living for every citizen of the US satisfy you?

Anyway, it's a complicated issue, and I'm not arguing that Apple shouldn't continue to do more, but I think disengagement is not the right move here, for Apple, for Chinese citizens, for anyone.
I would say it gets worse than this though. "Moto G (5) Plus" is probably pretty common. As are Pixels and many Samsung offerings. But since android has such a broad spectrum of devices, if you happened to get one that's more rare, you are sort of advertising that all over the web, and you will be one of a small number of people doing it.
It’s Hard for Big Banks to Be Cool
The author is using the term "present-discounted value" to describe the deaths of millions of people and the extinction of a major portion of the species of the earths.

You may have to put a dollar value on that sort of stuff to do economic calculations, but you have to recognize that's what you're doing.
You don't always know that keys have been stolen. And an electron scanning microscope is hard to get now, but what about state-sponsored actors spending half a decade developing a pocket-sized tool? The whole point of E2E is that all of these scenarios are literally not possible.
I'm willing to pay for it, but nobody is willing to sell it to me.
For storing a URL, a title, and a note I find Pinboard works perfectly.
> All components developed by Qwant Maps are open source so that users can contribute directly to improve their experience with the map: they can contribute either to the Qwant Maps code or to the enrichment of the data directly in OpenStreetMap.

This is an important takeaway.

One of the pain points in the OpenStreetMap experience has been lack of performance of the reverse geocoding engine (input lat/lon, get POIs/adress). Or so I hear/see.
It looks like they worked around this by only letting the user click on known POIs.

One small nitpick: I find the simplified polygons to be... too polygonal (forests, bodies of water, etc) at lower zoom levels. I don't know much about this field, but that's probably a result of not picking the right points when reducing the shape complexity? A bit like what bilinear/other filtering does for raster.
Multipart Uploads on Sia Using Filebase and the AWS CLI
Truly the dismal science.

How do you put a dollar cost on mass-extinction? It's ludicrous to even try.
Here's an even earlier article claiming that close to 90% of the balls were imported: http://www.cqn.com.cn/news/zgzlwlx/1114936.html

I assume the 90% figure was rounded up to "all of them", potentially by Li Keqiang himself, who was probably not interested in low-quality ballpoint pens that could be made without high-precision manufacturing equipment.
No -- well, it depends, and that's a false dichotomy.

I work until the job is done (or I'm cut) and the workplace is safe. It's the employer's responsibility to pay me at least the legal minimum wage for hours worked. If that means I'm going into OT because they can't organize shift changes properly, that's their problem.

There are usually also legal or contractual requirements for breaks, so I'd be prepared to say "I'm walking away this minute -- unless you want to pay meal penalty?" (I've said that once or twice, and the response has always been "Go, take an hour!") Texas doesn't seem to have any laws requiring worker breaks (wow), and the article doesn't mention if they have a union, but Texas law does apparently require at least a 1.5x pay rate for any hours beyond 40/wk.

Depending on their contract, either they should walk away as they do, or they should keep working until relieved and get paid for OT. Nobody is suggesting they should do extra unpaid work.
To me, the article reads as more of an attack on Nordhaus than an attempt to hijack his cred.
This is precisely one of the reasons why OpenBSD was developed in Canada (crypto). No such regulations barring import/export of crypto.

In the end, it's impossible to police the use of strong encryption. Things like Waste and many others saw this coming back in the "Clipper chip" and PGP trouble days. What would end up happening is people just start appealing to OTP. Well-designed OTP is very resistant to attack.

This all reminds me of Neal Stephenson's seminal book, Cryptonomicon, one of the best IT fiction books ever written. If you have an interest in encryption, coding, data havens, currency, etc., this is the book for you. It's a veritable tome.

* Editing to say that despite Cryptonomicon being written in 1999, I still think it holds its own even now. Kind of a timeless classic as far as IT goes.
Separating kids from their parents and allowing them to die in cages is not necessary no matter one' stance on immigration.
What kind of garbage is this.

The Unix philosophy is not about any of this. In fact X.org is an example of software running on a UNIX environment that really doesn't embrace the philosophy. It's not small, and it doesn't really do a minimal task well and compose them. It's a monolithic interface, and it works because it's been around for a long time. OpenGL or DirectX are other examples of interfaces that aren't really UNIX like.

In comes Wayland, with solutions to many outstanding issues, and design decisions. But it's new, bleeding new still.

When I think about UNIX philosophy I think of `ps -ef | rg fire | cut -d ' ' -f 2 | sort | sed '/^$/d'`, and the push towards micro kernels and stuff like that.
Yes, funny how you don’t get attacked when you’re a cub with a lion standing behind you.
Citation needed. It would be like saying a paper money system would be impossible/ineffective because paper money manufacturing techniques can theoretically be reverse engineered.

In theory that is true, but in practice paper money works quite well.
IIRC this is already happening in Chernobyl - other than all the wildlife preservation & tourism there is a big solar power plant being built:

https://phys.org/news/2018-10-chernobyl-life-solar-power.htm...

The article says they aim for up to 100 MWe capacity in the future, which would be nice, yet still illustrates how very powerful nuclear reactors are, with each of the 4 now inactive Chernobyl blocks producing 1000 MWe (and 3x times as much heat!).
> both to prevent (fire/reeducate) people from abusing the system (freeloaders), and to fairly reward people (avoid negative selection).

Are you aware of pair and mob programming?

People want to be successful. No one likes to lose. Even a freeloader is expressing that behavior because they believe that is the best way to win.

Pair and mob programming completely makes freeloading impossible. It also is true teamwork where everyone is literally on the same page.
Ok, tried it. Almost no settings, no tab previews, no addons, not even about:config. So far unusable for me. And unfortunatelly as seless as Foxus - it's effectivelly Focus v2, so I uninstalled it. I hope some provacy features and speedups will eventually be backported to our awesome Firefox which I use daily. Instead of Focus v2, I would like to see Firefox as an alternative default webview for Android.
If there is something like NX, it was added as an afterthought (last time a Remote Desktop protocol for wayland came up, it was explicitly outside the scope of what wayland was designed to support).
Can you include pictures and audio notes? Does it index those pictures?

Evernote users are accustomed to more than text files.
You did get something in return for that 40k though.
I ignore your first paragraph since it sounds hostile.

As for the rest, obviously, free market has a self-correcting mechanism. Corporations need consumers so they cannot simply "run afoul of basic human rights" as you said or they get a pushback from the populace. But at the same time, western companies send their manufacturing to Asia due to lower costs despite the lax labor and environmental regulations in those countries. I'm not sure what is controversial about what I said.
I've been experimenting with OpenBSD, and it's been pretty nice. The code is beautiful, and a lot of stuff just works. Not sure how it will behave on a laptop though.
> We've seen this happen with TLS certificate authorities

Have we? I'm going to assume that you mean CAs in the Web PKI and not just "My friend Bob runs TLS and this has happened to the CA he was running on his Windows 10 laptop".

The last CA where we had a really grave problem was DigiNotar, in 2011. It seem _very_ unlikely that the problem at DigiNotar was full key compromise, instead bad guys appear to have penetrated the issuance infrastructure. This means they were able to (and did) issue themselves arbitrary certificates, but it did not give them the actual keys as you've said "happens frequently".

Since then we've seen a variety of unacceptable behaviour, including issuing backdated certificates to conceal the (also problematic) choice to continue doing something that was no longer allowed in new certificates, and issuing "test" certificates which would have been trusted by real client software even though their contents were known to be false. All unacceptable, and all having consequences (for example Symantec is no longer a CA) but all far short of "vendor has the keys stolen or leaked by a disgruntled employee".
Sure but the assumption is that however infinitesimally bad it is, it’s not worse than what you’re already tolerating.
My understanding (under US law) is that accessing computer systems without authorization is illegal.

However, you can totally make tools to hack your own stuff.

And this company only advertises their unlocking abilities to law enforcement services, who are presumably authorized to access the device (via warrant). So the company itself isn't accessing devices without authorization, so they aren't technically "hacking anybody".
jUsT bUy A sEcOnD mOuSe!
That’s a very ahistoric perspective. Many of the longest-lived and most successful empires throughput history have been monarchies and dictatorships. The current popularity of broadly democratic regimes is a very recent development in human history.

Even the US was very undemocratic for most of its history (remember when only white male landowners could vote?), and that didn’t stop its ascendancy to world superpower.
> Not all bubbles have negative consequences for the economy

Unless we are using a different definition of "bubble" than it would seem (to me) most people intend when they use that word, this is a factually incorrect statement.

If widespread misallocation of investment capital does not "hurt" the economy, then what does? If capital is invested with a positive outcome for the wrong reasons, then that certainly would not fit the definition.

First applicable definition from a google search:

Bubble: used to refer to a significant, usually rapid, increase in asset prices that is soon followed by a collapse in prices and typically arises from speculation or enthusiasm rather than intrinsic increases in value.