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> I have a 2009 MacBook Pro (Core2Duo + 4GB of ram), I've added an SSD years ago, and it runs absolutely fine, I use it almost daily to browse the web. ... the updates stopped at El Capitan unfortunately. ... I'm not that bothered.

You might want to consider running Manjaro[0] or Haiku[1] instead (I've had great luck with both on older MacBooks [2,3]).

Nessus reports El Capitan as a "Critical" vulnerability due to lack of security updates:

According to its self-reported version number, the Unix operating system running on the remote host is no longer supported.

Lack of support implies that no new security patches for the product will be released by the vendor. As a result, it is likely to contain security vulnerabilities.

...

Mac OS X 10.11.6 (intel) support ended.

Upgrade to Mac OS X 10.14 / 10.13 / 10.12.

[0] https://manjaro.org

[1] https://www.haiku-os.org

[2] https://tinyapps.org/blog/201811010700_linux_for_2009_macboo...

[3] https://tinyapps.org/docs/haiku/
AWS averages about one major outage per year[0].

Google's own status page[1] list near 100 incidents in the past 365 days, only one of which ended on HN frontpage.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Amazon_Web_Service...

[1] https://status.cloud.google.com/summary
I was at a pool party in Las Vegas not too long ago and saw several guys in the water pull a Samsung out of the pocket of their swim shorts (trunks?), use the phone, and put it back in their pocket as if they were wearing jeans. I finally asked one of them wtf he was doing (I was always under the impression it could survive an accidental dunk in the water, not be used in the water) and he insisted it was totally waterproof “like a GoPro” as long as it was above a certain depth.
That’s why government intervention is needed. We can disrupt these industries with the stroke of a pen. No matter how much it hurts, it’ll hurt more to let them continue to spew greenhouse gasses and other pollutants into the air.
I wonder why this doesn't get more attention.

https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?ind=E

That, and a lot of misinformation. Like believing that driving is safer than flying.
From what I've been hearing[1], you might want to consider the "maybe" in "maybe a dollar store". At 15,000 stores, there's probably a Dollar General in every community with a Walmart as well as every community in the surrounding 200 miles.

1: https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor...
Nuclear is dangerous for the local ecosystem, fossil fuels are dangerous to the global ecosystem, and renewables will require a total societal makeover in terms of energy consumption.

A choice needs to be made, and I'd argue that we're better at mitigating Chernobyl and Fukushima than we are about mitigating global warming, or convincing everyone that we don't need industry.
According to Twitter Poll by 50 different Web SaaS companies, All of them had MacBook Pro Keyboard failure in their team and have been working around them.

If you are telling me even a 5% keyboard failure rate within the first 2 year of purchase is an acceptable number that we can simply stop further discussion and say we agree to disagree.
It seems to work in the sector I was thinking of (lewd ASMR).

I guess if YouTube blocks content by keywords we'll need to get creative with the thesaurus or ROT13.
I think hemp and cannabis come from the same Old English root word. However hemp is normally used to refer to the industrial plants, as opposed to the higher THC ones with more recreational potential. Supposedly the term marijuana became popular back in the "reefer madness" days because it had more of a racial connotation, but I don't know how accurate that is.
In the words of Eliezer Yudkowsky, "Shut up and multiply"

https://i.imgur.com/uLihyq4.jpg
Was post Japan Fukushima incident that Germany did this as a knee-jerk reaction. Of course, not factoring in the enviromental aspect. Then the big factor that most of Germanies coal electric generating plants sit on the border of other countries, makeing their enviroment/air quality at the mercy of the wind. An often overlooked aspect in air quality in some places - change of wind and they get somebody else's dirty air and tips the balance triggering the EU to fine the place with the dirty air and overlook the source that may of been within limits (just) but combined with another source that is within limits, tips the balance and you get air quality that's classed as unfit and bad.

So for many neibours, thank you Germany for your pollution so you can carry on burning your toxic coal at any excuse.
"According to you, does nuclear energy contribute to the production of greenhouse gasses (CO2) and to climate change?"

In France a whopping 86% of 18-34 year olds answer YES.

Source: p17 of https://www.orano.group/docs/default-source/orano-doc/presse...
One company keeping a specific product launch secret is different from three or four independent companies and all of their network engineers all conspiring.
Your post is kind of vague. Rust was hard to grasp, and then I learned it, and now it isn't.

I don't find anything about the language to be particularly more complex than, say, Python or C++.
Weird that it's billed as an alternative to YAML, but effectively has zero roots or influence from YAML. Looks more like an alternative to... whatever configuration language is popular in ML language projects?
https://medium.com/cbd-origin/hemp-vs-marijuana-the-differen...
Immediate response?

I hate commas at the start of lines and I would prefer not to have curly braces in a human editable/readable format.

Neither reason is terribly rational but my first impressions weren't great.
This has been possible at times in past versions of Rust, though I don't think there's currently any automatic regression test to ensure it so the ability comes and goes. Here's the tracking issue: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/34902
Didn't amazon lose billions for years?
I have the same model, except the even smaller SSD. I’m always having to clear out packages for old projects, but the computer is still a stud.
You can't really compare ChNPP (or any RBMK) to any modern reactor. It did not have a containment building.
The picture of the truck: https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/photo/2013/01/a...
“When it rains, it pours” is the conventional wisdom distillation of Poisson variable behavior
> Thing is many of Rust features could probably be enforced with a static analysis tool, which a large majority unfortunately ignores.

But it definitely can't be? There are plenty of open source projects (Chromium, Firefox) that develop and leverage state of the art static analysis tools and best practices. It's very clearly not enough, and the costs (built/ test time) are really significant.
Very possible. e.g.:

FDA has observed a reporting bias for breeds like Golden Retrievers due to breed-specific social media groups and activities that have raised awareness of the issue in these communities and urged owners and vets to submit reports to FDA.

https://www.fda.gov/animal-veterinary/news-events/fda-invest...
This is also easily observed by anyone old enough who drives in the suburbs or rural areas, and it really jumped out at me a decade or more ago.

When's the last time you had to clean your windshield of a bunch of dead bugs (or a few large ones)? I remember when every gas fill up also meant using both the mesh sponge side and the squeegee side of a windshield washer, and you knew which gas stations kept those buckets filled and had good squeegees. How long since you used one of those to clean off a filthy windshield, or since you noticed if a gas station has good ones?

On a somewhat related note, how long since you had to do the same for bird droppings? And when you're parking at night or walking back to your car, do you have any issues with walking through the huge clouds of bugs around the lights or are there no longer any such clouds?

Edit: expanded and mobile corrections
I was noticing some issues with mega sync earlier, maybe these orgs are sharing infrastructure at some level... I guess I won't rage quit just yet
Ex-Google Software Engineer Mike Wacker on the Company's Political Bias
Chinese Ponzi scheme victims accuse Justin Sun of complicity through silence
A lot of the strong anti-fission sentiments in Germany is buit on emotion and not facts. The debate has been thoroughly poisoned by fear-mongering of the opponents of nuclear power. Interestingly, this was the strategy of environmentalist and left-wing parties jumped onto the same bandwagon. This has been going on for more than 3 decades and the public is mostly trained to ignore any rational arguments (no matter whether for or against). So unless a new generation grows up that is not indoctrinated (for lack of a better term), the decision to exit nuclear power has no chance of being overturned.
Maybe the unsourced numbers on the page you linked to are plain wrong? I know, it's the first hit when you google, but let's do some more "research". I raise you a Wikipedia!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edible_protein_per_unit_area_o...

According to these numbers, soy beans produce about 16 times(!) as much protein for a given plot of land compared to beef. That's quite a difference.

Thanks for the reply!

Edit: I hope this doesn't sound condescending or suchalike. I'm really interested what the real numbers are, but the page you linked to (while honestly very intersting; permaculture! No-till-agriculture) is somewhat lacking in credibility. I hope we can find a tabulation that satisfies our curiosity and our purpose.
So ... feed images into Facebook to break Captcha?
> Who is gary.wu1(at)huawei.com, and why are his keys embedded in Cisco’s firmware?

.. and, lastly, why the do we care about protecting his e-mail address from harvesters with (at) if he so loose with it himself that he lets it end up in random firmware?
The article feels incomplete. I don’t feel like I have a better understanding of what’s going on during wave function collapse, rather I just know QTT is a thing and people are experimenting with it and it’s yielded promising results when using more sophisticated measurement apparatus to observe an “atom”, like reversing a quantum jump mid-flight by injecting feedback into the system as it’s being measured.
Yep. The solution to comma issues isn't to put every single one in a place nobody usually puts them - it's to be more forgiving about allowing the occasional trailing one.
A brand is a promise. Apple's brand is heavily security-focused.

If their promise is broken, their brand will suffer.

Amazon has no such promise or brand. They offer low prices and high convenience.
I read this as a direct attack, although the parent's argument is clear.

Let's say you trap 2 in 10k insects, which sounds high. If 50% of those insects had a slight evolutionary advantage against traps (which sounds a lot), that the two that did get caught didn't possess.

Great, they now have a 0.02% evolutionary advantage.

My point is: I assumed a lot of things, yet came up with a tiny advantage. I don't think (didn't compute) this is going to do much difference in the short term (although long term, it could have a bigger effect). So yeah, as in your argument, Zs die of, but very slowly, and there might be other greater pressures fighting against this.

Assuming the rates of my post, I'd be curious to see how much time it would take to achieve a meaningful difference in terms of population. (These catch rates are very high, and insects tend to reproduce quickly, so I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't much).
Great. Coal mining could have gone in the forty years ago if nuclear had replaced coal. But I guess it was too dangerous, so now we get to live the hottest years on record. Yay for safety, everybody truly did a great job.
The irony is that our nation (I am an American) has been at war for over a decade, but much of our society has not. I am a staunch advocate for peaceful conflict resolution, informed in part by my experiences in the war in Iraq. If a larger part of our society had been actively involved in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (serving in the military, having a loved one deploy for months/years, paying higher taxes to support the war, etc), I wonder if our nation would be more wary of a force-first approach to foreign policy.
How is this at all related to Dhall? It looks like a completely different thing with a completely different purpose.
Five couples lined up for CRISPR babies to avoid deafness
And fabric/clothing.

https://ecosciences.com/blogs/news/hemp-vs-cotton

Or construction materials.

http://www.globalhemp.com/2014/04/hemp-building-materials.ht...
To me, worrying about config files seems like the ultimate exercise in bikeshedding.

You either need a simple list of items (eg. dependencies) or key/value pairs. Use a text file or yml or json or whatever.

Or you need templating, the use of functions, etc, like dhall provides. But then, why not use the language you're already using for the rest of your project, or a bash script to export some variables?

Might sound like I'm throwing sourness around, but I just don't see the niche for this, except inventing a new thing for the joy of it?
Nuclear is dangerous for the local ecosystem

Utterly wrong.

https://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/radiation/related-info/faq.htm...

You get more radiation living in a brick house

https://hps.org/publicinformation/ate/q9778.html

https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/radiation/building.html
Clearly this means they've broken public-key cryptography.
There is something called "Mandukya Upanishads" which explain the four stages of AUM_, which some chant during meditation. I found the explanations of these concepts by a monk named "Sarvapriyananda" very useful. Search his name and the word "mandukya" on youtube for the explanation of what these four stages are.
Woman Crowned Miss Virginia After Doing Chemistry Demo for Talent Competition
Or you could do it with a camera watching and extract the numbers from the image. I've considered this route many times for many types of devices.
Interesting to see the number of items about payment and invoices. While great advice, I wonder if they had a specific instance where this burned them.
See, I don’t understand this. Zip is a streamable format. I don’t understand why you would extract the archive before checking the contents?

I worked on productizing a code signing tool a while back and I believe the first thing I did after we got it working was change it so nothing touched the disk until after the signature had been validated (in this case the signers had business relationships with each other. This would be necessary but insufficient for download s from the internet).

There were already well known CERT advisories about how relative paths can confuse archive tools, email tools and web servers from Microsoft. Know history or repeat it.

I didn’t know “zip bomb” as a phrase but I knew a good bit about compression, so when I needed to fix a problem with zips over 2G I managed to make myself a test fixture that was around 80k without modifying the file format. I think it was just 2.01G of white space.
Phones have a security/privacy advantage, because being battery powered and (potentially) using metered data, the cost of recording everything and shipping interesting parts of the audio to the corporate mothership would be immediate, in customer complaints about battery life and data usage.

Wifi/ethernet and AC-connected devices change the risk/benefit calculation significantly.

Alexa or Google Assistant on a phone is therefore not really the same thing as Alexa or Google on a standalone plug-in device.

For example, a google phone (depending on model/setup) and Google mini might both listening all the time for "Hey google". Both respond by listening and recording the next collection of sounds. However, the bar for deciding when to ship that audio off to Google, or when it's confident enough it can handle processing on-device, could easily change depending on whether the device is battery-powered or whether it's on wifi/eth instead of mobile. A wall-powered device might opt to keep a running history in ram of the last N seconds of audio, so it has more context with which to answer questions if Google Assistant is addressed. If it's battery powered, there are obvious reasons not to do that unless the phone has a dedicated extremely low powered continuous recording loop circuit.
There is an argument for posting articles on established science more often (or well, ever) in the news. Not everybody paid attention in biology class and there is a benefit of not having to post reversal when the next cutting edge article comes out with opposite findings.

"BOATS EXPLAINED: Centuries-Old Problem Solved By Bathtub Nudist"

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ndGYn7ZFiZyernp9f/the-beauty...
Is this a joke about the Russian communications sub fire?
So far, only comments complaining about syntax. You can do better, HN!
Envoy proxy load balancing introduction
Ale – A Lisp Environment Written in Go
Chicago IX posts their aggregate data publically.
You mean their website doesn’t have https?
> If what you want is to write code that runs on bare metal then consider Rust

The closest I was to bare metal, i.e. code that works without an OS, when I developed stuff for “small” MCUs, like Intel MCS51, Motorola COP8. Rust supports none of them: https://forge.rust-lang.org/platform-support.html

I’ve developed for Nintendo Wii, nominally there’s an OS but it’s very “thin” one, mostly statically linked libraries provided by Nintendo. Rust can’t compile for that platform either, it only supports PowerPC Linux.

I’m currently working on low-level software working on bare Linux kernel. Rust apparently supports ARM Linux, but C libraries are literally everywhere, both kernel APIs and user mode: drm, kms, gles, udev, freetype, low-level kernel stuff like tons of ioctl calls for SPI and USB I/O, wpa_supplicant, and more. That’s too much native C stuff to integrate together, using a foreign language causes too much friction.

I can think of bare metal software for which Rust is good. If I would work on x86 bare metal hypervisor, I would look at Rust very closely. Platform support is good, not much libraries are needed, and the project is extremely security sensitive so using Rust will probably pay off in the long run. But I don’t think that’s a rule, looks like an exception to me.
Dollar General has over 15,000 stores and most are in towns of less than 20,000 people. [1] I think perhaps you're assuming too much and working off incomplete or obsolete information.

1: https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor...
Sure, but the Manhattan project was a huge undertaking with multiple extremely large facilities.

What if the NSA identified a critical backdoor and ordered all major companies to decommission and not talk about it? ( NSLs )
I'm surprised you say this. I was having issues with wrist pain at work from typing so bought myself a keyboard with cherry mx browns - has done wonders for me.
I have a friend who used his samsung with a cracked screen underwater in the sea for years for photos/video. I'm not sure about the models in question, but the company does have effective waterproofing.
The scale is logarithmic (9.0 is ~32 times stronger than 8.0 in terms of energy release).
Why don't you vouch for them? Vouching is a way for users to rescue [dead] comments that shouldn't be [dead]. Click on the timestamp to go to its page, then click 'vouch' at the top. (There's a small karma threshold for such links to appear.)

Comments can be [dead] for many reasons, including software (which doesn't get everything right) or the account being banned (which doesn't mean that every post is bad—indeed, some users start posting good comments only once we've banned them). So there are plenty of good comments that need to be rescued, which is why we introduced vouching in the first place. It works well when users use it.
I'd say that concerns regarding self-discipline are overblown in this case. Experienced Rust programmers aren't simply typing blindly into their editor and hoping that their code will compile. When writing Rust one comes to learn the code that the compiler likes, and strives to write code that is free of compiler errors in the first place. This is itself an expression of self-discipline, except that the discipline comes in the form of compiler errors rather than runtime errors. There's less of a penalty for making an error in Rust than in C++, but that's going to be true regardless of whether one's background is "I already know Rust" or "I don't already know Rust", which is what the parent commenter appears to be concerned about.
People believe all of the following:

>Coal needs to go
>Nuclear needs to go
>High energy (even unsubsidized gasoline) is politically untenable
>Economic deprrssion from 1 and 2 is not tolerable, also
I think you're half-right, but we're entering an unprecedented age where global climate change really mixes up the desirability of certain geographical features. I strongly suspect this is why a lot of immigration phobias are being whipped up (mass climate migrants will mix things up IMMENSELY), and where at least some of the next large wars will come from. Lakes and rivers will dry out, floodplains will flood, and previous choice living locations will become some of the worst around. Stress this enough, and war can indeed break out.
The Fukushima reactors had containment buildings, but other fatal design flaws. We know these flaws and their consequemces now in hindsight. But we can only tolerate so many accidents with containment failures on one planet and all we can realistically do is increase the mean time between accidents through engineering.
To me it's very natural, perhaps because I've been argui-- er, interacting with so many people on the internet, whose true identities and genders are completely obscured behind an arbitrary username.

"I replied to always4getpass, and told them that the generic pronoun seems pretty normal, I hope they agree."
Now, if we could get a durable keyboard and two keys at the touchbar row, esc to the left and power/fingerprint to the right and a nice touchbar in the middle with haptic feedback, that would be perfect.

I don't use function keys much, and I need to confess the emoji keyboard is pretty neat.
I’ve used this in the past when I was doing more analytics and it worked great. It’s interesting that you bring up the “good documentation” piece now because I credit this package with finally teaching me what is actually going on under the hood with conjugate priors of different distributions versus thinking of Bayesian stats more as “call this function and trust me”.

I’m a big fan of all the documentation and error checking built directly into the package. I seem to remember earlier versions/advertisements billing it only as fast (which it also is ).
Alexa used to help combat conditions related to alcohol
Celebrities die 2.7183 at a time (2013)
I mean if the argument is that the intended design of the phone is that it be usable underwater and there's a a 1/10000 or whatever manufacturing defect that makes them not actually waterproof then that seems fair as long as they're remedying it and replacing customers' phones.

Why is it obviously not a small number? I mean the corps support staff are the ones who have the best picture since they're the ones getting the warranty claims.
Caps lock is where God wanted Control to be.
It's like the franco-prussian war and German unification just didn't happen!

Have you ever asked yourself why France was so willing to fight Germany?
Fair enough... But then they all just did a really crappy job of concealing the patch?
Mining, and oil are still two very massive industries. The developing world suffers due to the greed of the "West".