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Every MacBook I’ve bought for our business (and every MB any of my friends has owned) since 2016 (including the 2017 models) continues to have regular keyboard problems leading to repair.

It’s only a sample size of a couple dozen, but 100% of them have had keyboard problems within 6 months.
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Pleroma does for sure (it even follows the exact same url scheme and feed format) but not sure about others.
So it's like life replicating Conway's Game of Life.
Technical people should not be pushing centralization and vested interests, that's not a technical solution.

In the a world of state surveillance and invasive data practices by SV based companies it's a difficult to understand this obsession with http scaremongering by some to perpetuate more centralization.
Re: Your edit.

SSH actually follows the same model as SSL in this respect. It's just that basically everyone goes self-signed and there isn't a big institutional system to distribute SSH CA's.

It's more common in enterprisey environments where you have config management to distribute the CA but you can do it right now https://www.lorier.net/docs/ssh-ca.html
Wonder if there is a bit of an Osbourne Effect limiting demand as potential buyers keep waiting to see if the next generation of panels are even better.
Just FYI, Show HN isn't meant for blog posts. It's for things that can be interacted with. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

You might want to edit the title.
The Definitive Guide to Python Import Statements
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Not only that, but solar generated in one place can supply electricity to areas where the sun has not hit yet, and likewise after the sun goes down, those same places can draw power from further west.
Transitioning from Programming to Management
True. Causation is less useful for fundamental physics than it is for the other sciences. The intent of my comment is that even if causation is nonsensical at the physical level, it may be usefully and sensibly defined at higher other levels. Just like how "true" randomness isn't a prerequisite for usefully defining probability.
Why local US newspapers are sounding the alarm
Chrome in particular has been gradually tightening things up. So there have been similar stories, as well as of course both the announcement and then it actually happening both get a HN story.

For example, a while back Chrome changed their porn viewing mode ("Incognito") to label HTTP Not Secure, and changed normal mode to mark pages Not Secure if the user seems to be filling out a form.
Increased enrollment isn't the same thing as increasing work %. Some of these other studies are testing "cash transfer for specific thing" and find that "specific thing" increased, somewhat. That's not really what people are arguing when they argue broader cash transfers, like Basic Income.

The work disincentive of basic-income-like cash transfers, in studies so far, is actually somewhat consistent at around 10%. Some papers referencing this approx figure:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/r19npwc30trejb6/Basic_Income_in_a_...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/oi0kv3vcya9o0ad/The_Rural_Income_M...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/hkd489vcarcrorg/Findings_from_the_...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5m2k5qzgv699dfe/THE_TOWN_WITH_NO_P...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/dsucn7jone74g65/New_Jersey_Graduat...

I've had these sources handy since last year when I was doing research on my own UBI-skeptic piece: https://medium.com/@simon.sarris/after-universal-basic-incom...
Generally, WAT is produced from the binary format. Compilers don't go through WAT; they produce the binary output directly.

The translation between WAT and the binary format is lossless, so there's no advantage of producing WAT as an intermediate step.
I wondered the same. There are small windmills I've seen on cabins and such for intermittent use.
Dinner is relevant. Lights… take a standard lightbulb form factor fill it with batteries and coat the outside with LEDs, and it can last most of the night.
Mozilla's been doing this for HTTP sites with password fields for a while, and has publicly said they will roll it out to all HTTP domains. Not sure why you think it's Google pushing an agenda here when it's recommended policy of the W3C TAG.

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2017/01/20/communicating-t...
As a twitter user, it doesn't matter to me. I don't see these bots & fake users. What annoys me with all these platform is that that they choose what to show me. I wish to see all posts/tweets in the exact order it was created. That's it, don't decide who's I should see. Every once in a while, I'm shocked to come across someone I was following and havent' seen their tweet only to check their profile and see they have been tweeting tons! Meanwhile, I see tons of tweets from people I don't follow only because someone I followed retweeted it. What I've done is to unfollow a good amount of folks to reduce the noise.
Chances are the solar companies themselves are selling for cheap and taking credits as an "alternative currency", which makes sense for Average Joe as they no longer need them (in theory) as (I assume) excess credits have no value.

From there, the solar company probably covers their own pollution level and then sells the remainder of the credits at auction and capitalizes on the spread.

Company pollution rates will likely not be affected until it eats into their profits; rather, they will likely just buy credits up to the point where there's a breakeven between the cost of a credit and the savings for a credit. Whatever money is saved won't be used to increase pollution but rather just be reinvested into other parts of the company or released to shareholders.

In this case, the pollutant is paying money to pay less in taxation, the solar company is providing access to renewable energy, and Average Joe is going to be polluting less at home. I could get behind that.

EDIT: Also, this means that Utah could theoretically wean the state's pollution credits lower and lower each year until the cost of polluting is so high that pollutants either convert or leave.
For what it's worth, every rated parachutist packs their own parachute. For the reserve chute, it's always packed or repacked by an FAA certified rigger, which is an incredibly high bar by comparison. They must be repacked every 6 months.

The estimate is that on average a parachute will fail one in a thousand times, mostly due to packing error, seldom due to equipment failure. Maybe 90/10 ratio.

For a reserve, the expectation is that they would fail less than one in 10,000 times they are deployed. Which means that, collectively, avoidable errors should only happen one in every million or so rides on a parachute. This is less often than the real observed rate (1 per 75k or so), but errors other than packing or equipment failure are often the root cause.
You have 30kW of panels? That's a large system. Most people cna't fit that many. The more panels you get the lower the price gets per kWh.
LOL at SFFD giving any shits about costs. This is the same department that power grabbed emergency medical response away from dedicated paramedics in ambulances. Responding in full ladder trucks to take care of drunk homeless people...yeah, they do that, costing millions every year in added expenses and road repairs. But good for them for saving a few bucks on ladders, that must make a huge difference.
It is my understanding that we are already past or very near a point of no return w.r.t greenhouse gas emissions and global warming. Talk of peak power and renewable excess leads to discussion about the need to store that excess. Could we also expend that energy to do something like scrub CO2? Is this even feasible at a scale that could make a difference?
You're missing the point. If you assume some intelligence agency was behind the Clinton email leak, they could have anonymously leaked them to a range of press outlets and generated the same result. Meanwhile, Ellsberg had to work incredibly hard to prevent being caught before the Pentagon Papers went public. A site like this makes Ellsberg's life easier, while making no difference to the intelligence agency.

The method of leaking has little to do with the value of the leak, someone will print almost anything. The Times and the Post regularly print items intentionally leaked for propaganda purposes, the classic example is the buildup to the Iraq War.
Scientists Harvest Hydrogen from Water in Microgravity
You're assuming 1) there's a legitimate technical problem and 2) the person calling is management and not a user
No. He states:

> I ship configuration as system packages. Every distribution has their own tooling and process for building these packages, but I eventually grew tired of the ceremony involved in it, and wrote my own system package compiler.

Which to most engineers would mean making a tool that builds.rpm files, not reimplements the rpm build tools.
The Agave must build up a large store of starch over many years to be able to grow this reproductive organ so quickly. It is this large starchy part of the plant that is harvested in the mature Agave plant to make tequila.
Puerto Rico too.
Nobody I have ever worked with at Google has had this carrot dangled under their noses. It certainly wasn't dangled under mine when I was hired. I don't dangle it under the noses of anyone I interview. I think most people with a basic understanding of arithmetic realize that the overwhelming majority of the company does not work in X, and they should not expect to, either.

I have zero interest in working in X.

The reason hiring is hard is because the interviews have a low pass rate, everyone else is also hiring, and salaries + benefits among top tech firms in an area are fairly similar.
It may be a 'type' thing. Every time I look at my neglected Facebook account I have anywhere from 6 to maybe 15 friends requests from accounts which have basically no timeline and a "sexy" picture of a 20 something female. If those accounts do have any friends it seems they are all white males over 50 years of age.
You realize the electrical grid means that excess power can go to other states right?
The sun goes down at night
I'm sure that it's encouraging to people, but in the end it's very unlikely to change any outcomes. If the project is going to succeed, someone else would have made that first pledge, and the same effect would have happened. It feels impactful from your end because you're getting involved in so many projects (and getting a lot of thank-you messages), but if all the same projects succeed and fail you haven't actually affected anything.

It's probably also worth mentioning that small pledges (especially $1 ones) are the least efficient in terms of how much of the pledge is lost to fees. A $1 pledge on Kickstarter loses 15% to fees. This is made even worse by having the money come via Patreon, where a similar chunk is lost. So if someone pledges $1/month on Patreon to you, this will end up with a project creator only receiving about 70 cents of it.

I don't mean to be too cynical, it's a great thing to do. I just think it's worth considering if this is really the best approach, or if you could change your method a bit and make more of an impact with the effort and money you're devoting to it.
4 Lessons in Creativity from John Cleese (2014)
Earnings season?
omg.. I think this is what I've been looking for.. how is it so far besides the USB? more details?
> That gets you houses in the New Mexico desert that need no air conditioning (air cooling) and churches and office buildings in the northeast that need no additional heating.

Do you have a source for your NM desert example? I'm doubtful you can keep a desert home cool with just airflow.
Romania Drafts Emergency Bill to Regulate Electronic Money Transfers
mmm dat keyboard
I prefer working with my team.

Years ago, when telecommuting was the bright future, I thought working from home would be great. I don't anymore. I'm more productive when I'm with the people I work with. We can discuss stuff, help each other, etc. More team cohesion, more cooperation, more knowledge sharing, more working in the same direction.
A jewel seller would have an incentive to stake a lot of tokens on inclusion in the list; but who would have an incentive to stake as many tokens against the inclusion?
Hand-made jewelry sellers, but bystander effect may apply.

And what would prevent hand-made jewelry sellers from uniting against a single legitimate seller?

The only solution is to provide sources and have them manually reviewed by a trusted party, because voting only gives a majority opinion (weighted by how much money one wants to spend on that issue), not the truth.
It doesn't seem to have slowed down TV sales.
The autocomplete in general is abyssmal.
Alphabet’s drone, balloon units fly out to become independent entities
However the amount of storage (battery or otherwise) for a network of renewable electricity producers depends on the full diversity of the complete network.

Which is to say, for example, that a grid supplied by solar and wind will need proportionally less storage per megawatt as the geographical size of the grid increases. A larger grid "averages out" the intermittent sources better as it gets bigger.
Discouraging OO would be the worst thing Scala could do. Its one really unique capability is the fusion of OO and functional: it's a language that can go toe-to-toe with Haskell, yet also one that lets you switch from Java in a weekend. Take away the OO support and you'd have just another functional also-ran.

Sadly while the language itself has excellent OO support and Java interop, the community support just isn't there (by which I mainly mean: too many people like DeGoes will shout you down rather than trying to help you).
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any curated list of place to follow to stay up to date ?
And? I'm still connected to the grid.
SW patches for HW design errors are only tampering over the problem. And definitely slower.
There's code and data that people can "try out". Some of my past Show HNs have been of a similar format. But if a mod wants to edit the title, go ahead.
Architecting Applications for Kubernetes
Don't get me wrong, using easy-rsa is definitely easier than not but it doesn't abstract nearly as much as a tool for local development probably should which mkcert definitely provides.
I wonder if bot sellers will see an increase in sales? and Twitter announces a lot of new users soon.....
Search doesnt seem to work but I dont think thats useful in a site like 9gag.

Otherwise cool idea, if a content would be in english I would like to visit it sometimes
Magic Leap is shipping its first headset this summer
As they say, Mussolini put coin slots in front of all the police stations.
The way you describe "exploratory debugging" make it sound very close to binary reverse engineering: you put breakpoints/tracepoints at strategic places, run the program repeatedly, dump strategic memory addresses ... in an attempt to get a grasp at what the program is doing.

This is what you do when you can't rely on file names, variable names, function names, types, and comments.

A codebase that make this the fastest possible workflow probably has some important design issues.
Thanks! Great question.

1. Repeat votes - If you lose the vote, you can vote again. DIRT works not only for correcting intentionally misleading data, but also for fixing out of data information. It's similar to a bug bounty for data.

2. Cycle of challenges - Each time misinformation re-surfaces, you would have to challenge and vote down the data. However, every time you are successful in your challenge, you earn tokens for your efforts.

3. Fake news - Subjective information can be harder to adjudicate with DIRT and that will not be our initial market. As an engineer, I would love to believe that the blockchain can solve fake news. However, a lot of research shows it is not the lack of data that the issue, but rather perspective. People believe what they want to believe.
The really great thing about this situation is how crazy people/assholes can just reject whatever they don't like as coming from a "Russian troll bot". Easy cognitive kill switch.
Growth will stagnant once the area reaches capacity. There is no political will to relax zoning to increase housing inventory to meet the new demand as existing residents are becoming very rich from their increased property values.
Facebook labels some Russian users as ‘interested in treason’
> If something is in the public domain in the U.S. then anyone can use it for any purpose, including releasing it under whatever license they want

In the US. Public domain dedications have no legal standing in most of mainland Europe's IP regimes. A public domain dedication is the equivalent of no license at all.

And because a public domain dedication has no legal standing, a third-party slapping a license on the code does not make it legally licensed as far as european IP courts are concerned, they don't have that right, their "license" is worth as much as you deciding to license Windows under GPLv3.

> But if you think you need it licensed, you can have it licensed.

Unless djb offers to provide a fallback license (which incidentally is exactly what CC0 does and why it's legally sensible and valid[0]), then no, you can't "have it licensed".

[0] https://rd-alliance.org/sites/default/files/cc0-analysis-kre...
It was nice to hear some unpolished stories.
Why should you feel encouraged by receiving a dollar if anybody gets the dollar whether their project is good or not?
Public Accountability vs. Secret Laws: Can They Coexist?
This isn't true for localhost. But some browsers don't know whether "localhost" is really localhost, so for best compatibility write 127.0.0.1 or ::1 as appropriate

If you need to simulate HTTPS for your local host, but you actually control all the moving parts (e.g. a dev environment) you can use any private key + associated certificate for a DNS FQDN you control, then use /etc/hosts or its moral equivalent to tell your local machine that this name is on the local loop, and the key + certificate will validate.

You must not ship this as a "product" because when you do that all the end users end up with the private key, which both destroys the whole _point_ of public key cryptography AND violates the terms of whichever CA issued you with the certificate.
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It's also just inference, not training.
You have to pay to file in court.

I've always felt that was wrong, but that is how it works, and it's not fascism, so yes, you are being hyperbolic.
I've built tools that automatically create RPM files in less time than the author tool to write this article. I take umbrage in the bizarre implication that building a tool to make RPMs needs you to dive into the format with a hex editor, when it does not.
Overall it's really not as bad as people make it out to be. Of course I've lived here all my life. There are periodic cold snaps where it gets way below freezing, but typically it is in the 20's (F). The trick for winter is to embrace it, and wear appropriate clothing. For snow removal you may need heavy machinery (I just use a sleigh shovel, works great). For clothing, a good flannel shirt with a vest jacket and hat goes a long way (keeps you from getting too warm, and your body acclimates to the temps).
If only a different species had reached our level of intelligence first... This would be a cool solution.
The author updated the article:

> EDIT: Specifically, Python wraps negative indices that are smaller than the length of the array.

(But that's not quite correct either. 3 is not smaller than the length of a, but a[-3] worked.)
We should use a PID controller to set the number of cops. Where number of cops is the control variable, and crime rate is the process variable ;)
I raise you a Russian city of Cherepovets, the photos don't do it justice, where you see green, yellow, violet snow wherever it isn't just black and the pipes, columns and other stuff of the steel and associated chemical plants go for kilometers along the road and you feel like you're descending to hell. Those moving trains of railroad cars filled with tens of tons of actively burning coals which awash everything around with that red glow...

https://gizmodo.com/5680577/the-chimneys-of-hell-are-in-russ...
Since WAT -> WASM is already easy to do, compiling <otherlanguage> to WAT makes it really easy for people to create their own abstractions for writing WebAssembly in nearly _any_ other programming language, not just those that can compile directly to the binary format.
> Alerts are only as effective as the knowledge of the writer

We're enforcing that alerts have a link to a playbook where there are more datails about the issue and how to mitigate them.

About over-alerting, we had already been over alerting before we began the taskforce, and one of our efforts is removing cloudwatch and riemann alerts that are usually noisy and do not offer a lot of insight on the real issues.
I don't think you can apply the model (with unencrypted outputs) without all the decryption keys.
Reading those complaints cold, I would suspect DJB to be between 16 and 22 years old; old enough to have seen more than his own system, but young enough to be absolutely certain his off-the-cuff solution is better than any of those other idiots can come up with. It helps to be the smartest person in any room, I guess.

"When oaf was integrated into ``the system,'' it was moved to /usr/bin/oaf, and its files moved to /usr/share/oaf, because FHS doesn't let ``the system'' touch /usr/local. What happened in this case is that oaf didn't find files that were put into /usr/local/share/oaf by another package."

Once upon a time, I worked as a sysadmin for a major university computer science department. We supported a half-dozen or so different architectures. We built a long list of software, including all of the X and Gnu programs, so that our users had the same environment essentially everywhere. Oh, and we all built it to live under /lusr, because our convention started before "/usr/local" was a thing. (The weird looks when you started babbling about "slash-loser" were just a fringe benefit.)

imake was a giant pain in the rear. Autotools were also a giant pain in the rear. But everything else, except in very, very simple cases, was much worse. DJB's software would come under the header of "sorry, not supportable without unreasonable effort."
OP said they were trying to make a tool to automatically generate RPM packages. They didn't do this efficiently or reasonably at all.
Shame, that does what you desire on MacOS. Just like Ctr + K will clear till the end of the line from the cursor forward.
I meant that it was just to drop the bomb to stop the war even at the cost of Japanese casualties because they are at fault for letting their nation be led to war.

This doesn't excuse inflicting unneeded violence but it does mean that it is more just that the aggressor bear the cost.
The main reason why it's hard for me to finish his works is how deeply they emotionally resonate with my life and the world I see.
> A jewel seller would have an incentive to stake a lot of tokens on inclusion in the list; but who would have an incentive to stake as many tokens against the inclusion? Hand-made jewelry sellers, but bystander effect may apply.

The other owners of the tokens! That's the conceit of a TCR. The owners of the tokens have an incentive to maintain their value. The value of their tokens comes from their ability to get you onto the list of that token. The value of being on that list comes from the prestige of the list (i.e. its track record of honesty/quality).

> And what would prevent hand-made jewelry sellers from uniting against a single legitimate seller?

They could do this, but again, they'd be doing it at some cost to the prestige of their list.