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You speak like governments care about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Plot twist: they don't.
Mexico isn't the only one.
I've visited many countries in Europe and Asia that actually recycle their glass bottles without crushing them/melting them down.
> I’m not certain what the cost would be, being no compiler engineer or hand-coder of assembly, but I’m fairly confident that there is one. I suspect that cost may also be inordinate on various realistic workloads.

Back in the PowerPC days, something along these lines happened with Java. Java mandates that integer divide-by-zero throws an exception, but PowerPC doesn't have a mechanism to signal that a divide-by-zero occurred (1/0 == 0, as far as PowerPC is concerned). This forced the JVM to wrap every integer divide with an explicit test for a zero divisor, which put a significant drag on JVM performance...
I saw the headline and immediately wondered if it was the person who did the food for Hannibal. Part of the disturbing affect of the show is that whenever I would see one of the dishes, I would think "That's horrifying. But it looks so good..."
Oof. That’s tough. I’m sure it’ll get better, but it’s definitely hard work in the meantime. Just keep in mind that it’s temporary on all counts.
In a democracy the government can't do whatever it likes, it does whatever the electorate are willing to allow or tolerate. The fact is the electorate are willing to allow government to do a lot more than many at the libertarian end of the spectrum like. However blaming "the government" rather than the collective democratic will of the people and their elected representatives sounds better.
I think the complications getting transit home is a major cause of point two there. Co-workers that have to catch trains out to commuter towns always needed to be mindful of the time, and may have needed to drive the final part of their journey.

Big contrast to being able to catch an underground/subway within a few minutes with no planning, and fall back to a relatively affordable Uber if you get carried away and miss the last one
Spanish healthcare is decentralized as well. Every "Comunidad Autónoma" (think about them as states in the US) has its own healthcare system. Which is a pain in the ass if you have some condition and something happens to you outside of your autonomous community.
With mainframe support scarce, North Dakota turns to Latvia
Spending money on scraping asteroids won't help that problem, sorry. Asteroids fall on Earth and can be sufficiently studied.
You should watch the movie Brazil, if you haven't. All the computers have tiny 2" displays, with a Fresnel lens attached in front of it
In Portugal it is the same. I am not a socialist but i do not find public health and sanitation a political /ideological issue. It in my libertarian bag as it violates the freedoms and human rights of others to not have diseases. Not having a vaccine harms others through lack of herd immunity.

Also I would argue it is more a business issue. These countries rely a lot on the hospitality and tourism industry and lack of herd immunity means the economy is severely hamstrung. So yeah, it is actually a matter of economic survival. For me it should be mandatory, but as far as i know Portuguese constitution does not allow it. Even for the lock down they needed to declare national emergency, because otherwise there would not be a legal basis for it. The only other time there was an emergency was when the country was on the verge of a civil war after the carnations revolution in the 70s.

In Portugal you used to have a vaccine card, which some institutions required you to provide. For example, health professionals are required the vaccine bulletin to apply for work.

Except for the case above, I am not aware any other case where the vaccine record is required for adults. I actually lost my card several years ago. I think they started digitalizing it though, but i do not think it contains old information, only newly taken vaccine shots.

I said adults, because for children there is a caveat, where there is a de facto enforcement unless exempted by a medical doctor, or home school (very rare). To apply to a school your child needs to have the OPs mentioned vaccines. If you do not you will be denied application. Every year it is checked. As there is mandatory education in Portugal the way around it is very hard.
> It's usually implied that it would also increase the healthspan, rather than prolonging suffering.

As I've stated multiple times now, this is only true if you consider suffering related to health, and I am not considering just health-related suffering. Please read my other comments before replying. I keep getting replies only talking about health in the very physical and medical sense. When I say "quality of life", I mean it in the holistic sense. For example, if someone who is poor, disenfranchised, has no retirement, lives paycheck to paycheck, lives in heavy pollution both of air and water, etc., is living longer really on top of their list?

And of course, no one has addressed the societal issues that longevity creates.

> Aging itself isn't something you die from, you die from age related deceases.

That's kind of pointless semantics, but anyway, it doesn't address anything I've said.

If we go back to the original query: "what are you surprised isn't being work on?", then is it really surprising longevity is a niche thing when there's so much else to work on (i.e., so much going wrong)? If someone really thinks longevity is interesting enough, then I'd like to see the political, societal, and environmental, not just the medical, arguments and solutions that would need to come along with it to make it a net positive.

Wanting longevity seems to be a rather privileged position.
What is the transmission rate for asymptomatic people? I am asking because my grandma has been visited by a family member who tested positive that day, but nothing has happened.
> The term "Freshman 15" is an expression commonly used in the United States that refers to an amount (somewhat arbitrarily set at 15 pounds (7 kg), and originally just 10 lbs (5 kg)[1]) of weight gained during a student's first year at college [sic].

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freshman_15
I believe Stow can fix everything except #2 [1], although I haven't actually used it before. But it's also easy to create your own "garbage collector" that cleans up dangling symlinks in your home directory.

All you need to do is to keep track of symlinks you've installed with your setup script. This can be done by creating a symlink to the symlink you've installed, which acts as a "GC root." The next time you run the setup script, it would check those "GC roots" to see if they point to a valid file and remove any dangling symlinks.

This is the approach I take for my own dotfiles. I seriously considered using Stow or the bare git approach before, but I decided against it because setting up my dotfiles involved more than just installing symlinks. I had to be able to download files (e.g., vim-plug), clone git repositories, change file permissions, and maintain files that's not meant to be linked into the home directory. I found the flexibility of a custom shell script most fit for my needs.

[1]: The "Deleting Packages" section in https://linux.die.net/man/8/stow
For an article which aspires to clarify safety I would expect a good definition of the term. Is it "preventing a system from reaching dangerous states"?

In my opinion, you should start with defining what harm to humans you think about.
Harm due to privacy leaks?
Financial loss due to miscalculations?
Locked out by your home security system?
Electrocuted by your home security system?

I'm working in driver assistance, safety-critical software in cars. Here is a very high level description how we treat safety:

We start with a high level feature, e.g. automated emergency breaking (AEB). Now someone determines safety goals like "don't break unintentionally" and "don't break too hard". Violating those goals would probably mean the driver loses control of the car and thus harms humans. It needs to be a more specific, of course. Breaking too hard is "decelerate no more than 60km/h in 1.2 seconds" if I remember it correctly. Note that all usual features always use the human driver as fallback mechanism. That results in very interesting questions for autonomous driving.

From those high level requirements it traces down to various parts (hardware, software, electric, mechanics, whatever). There might be a requirement like "this device (ECU), never send signal AebBreakRequest=1 for longer than 1.2seconds".

Then the tedious work comes. You think through all the parts and safety goals and wonder: If something goes wrong here, would it violate the safety goal? If you don't find a good argument, then you need to build some mechanism to prevent it from going wrong. Examples: What if a bit flips in RAM? Use ECC RAM then the probability is low enough. What if there is noise on the CAN vehicle bus? We do check sums. How can we be sure that our radar sensor does not trigger an unintentional break due to a plastic bag blowing in the wind? We collect 10000h of real world driving evidence. Those question and answer games can become quite elaborate.

Note that the general pattern here is "if there is a fault, will a safety goal be violated."
These days Safety Of The Intended Function (SOTIF) comes with a new pattern "if everything is working as intended, is it safe?"
This is mostly triggered from autonomous driving and deep learning approaches.
Absent any faults like bit flips, how can we be sure that it won't kill pedestrians dressed up as chickens?
You could be one of those that lowers the average. I rather not, thanks.
I’ll throw one thing out there in case you’ve not tried it: I’ve seen plenty of advice that if your kids wake up “too early”, then counterintuitively, they may be going to sleep too late. So in your case, it’s possible that if you get them to bed two hours earlier, they’ll just wake up earlier. However, getting them to bed several hours earlier might work better. Ours are almost-3 and 5 and both sleep ~12 hours, but if they go to bed late will probably wake up early and things go to pot.

That said, I’ve zero idea how to switch sleep modes, sorry.

Our lifesaver was “healthy sleep habits, happy child” by Mark Weissbluth.
I bought an EZ Flash IV last year for around £35.
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No, what I mean is looking at the world from your standard, you won't have patience for things to play out. We definitely should improve things, but also we need to have patience for people to catch up. You can definitely help, but help also needs understanding. For example, the problem you are looking at may not be something of high priority to people need help. To understand what people really need will require more than compassion.
Thank you for acknowledging this. The whole subthread of shared experience is highly theraputic.
I think this is great, I found a few good threads and articles this morning that I missed. Ironically the first was about spending too much time online :)
Though mushrooms contain large amounts of chitin which we can’t really digest, so I’m not sure they would be a good fit as base food.
I guess your standards are just different than others. People still play Halo 1 CE
Please educate me on where I should go for esp32?
home-manager is how I'm getting into nix. Having generations for my dotfiles is very appealing. Maybe I never really got the hang of stow, but I would also get bitten by it when I would rearrange my dotfiles, which would leave dead symlinks around. Perhaps this is what "unstowing" is for?
> LTO-9 should be hitting the market very soon and supports up to 45TB per tape (compressed capacity, 18TB raw).

LTO is cool and all but is the "compressed capacity" number really something to repeat with a straight face? The tape holds 18TB, we don't need to pretend it's anything else.

> But certainly tape has continued to progress much faster than most people would have imagined.

Mostly it has. But I'm somewhat worried about the future after the sudden late-game announcement that LTO-9 would have a 50% capacity improvement instead of the usual doubling.
Lots of Mac Pros, some virtual machines.
> Thanks to California Senate Bill 329, as of January 1, 2017, it is no longer a felony for people who are HIV-positive to have unprotected sex and not disclose their status.

What do you think about this?
Now that I think about it, "what you see in movies is a silly exaggeration" vs "that's a perfectly plausible depiction of reality" could be one of the deep cultural differences between Europe and the US. Maybe because the fact that most action movies are made in the US creates in Europeans a healthy sense of detachment. As if the foreign setting provided a way to firmly place the narration in the realm of fiction.
Similar to the way you could look at guns and cigarettes. 'Guns don't kill', 'It's your own responsibility', etc.
Right, I’m assuming that covid, like most diseases, won’t be transmissible after the vaccine.

You’re also assuming that everyone will take the vaccine at the same moment in time, which won’t be true. Also, some people won’t be vaccinated on a first moment such as pregnant women.

I think the whole point is responsibility, going to a concrete example: let’s say I have the chance and refuse to take the vaccine, then I pass covid to a pregnant women which comes to pass away. How wouldn’t that event not be 100% my responsibility?
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And awkward as hell too. Maccheroni is a shape of pasta, but apparently all pasta is "enriched macaroni" in the US?
> Because it overwhelms the health systems.

The average victim of COVID is aged over 70 with multiple comorbities, i.e. precisely those people that the youth demographic isn’t enthusiastic about sacrificing their lifestyle for. If you simply triage that demographic out of treatment, then suddenly there is no especial burden on the health system at all.
Data Insurance.

Almost every company out there is collecting tons of data, but 90% of companies don't have an IT department capable of keeping it safe and compliant with the latest regulations. Companies thought data was an asset but as the hacks and regulations pile up I think they will begin to view it as a liability.

So what are their options:
1) Try and beef up your tech operation. Maybe spend $xxM with AWS and hope their customer engineers can set you up right. This is a distraction from selling cars or whatever it is that you actually do, but the shareholders like that you're modernizing I guess.
2) Buy insurance. The same thing that people do to prepare for any other potential disaster that they can't prevent. If Russia decides to hack you there's nothing you can do, but at least the insurer will cover the bill.

The key is that this should NOT come from a traditional insurance company. Those companies do not have the ability to assess the risks properly nor do they have the expertise to recommend simple preventative measures or help a customer recover from an incident.

Instead there needs to be some sort of combination Cybersecurity consultancy and data insurance company. They come in, audit you, fix the low hanging fruit, and insure the rest. Maybe they even sell you some cloud services too for data warehousing, etc.

All the cloud companies are trying to sell Kubernetes to every traditional company out there. Forget it, just sell them insurance.
Virtualization is available on A14 but not made available to developers. (In fact, all of XNU runs in EL2.)
I think it's not that bad scientific progress wise if you know where to look - just a couple days ago I learned about an apparent revolution going on with camera optics via metamaterials for example. Back at university less then a decade ago I attended a talk by one of the leading metamaterial experts back then and the field of study was promissing nice benefits but was far from ready & it was not clear optical metematerials are even possible. Now major camera manufacturers are apparently close to shipping metamaterial camera lenses with before unseen performance at low cost.

And that's just one of the examples - we might not be doubling airplane performance records every year as we did in the 1950s but a lot of (progressively harder) cool tech is being introduced every day (5 nm chips, HBM RAM, practical non volatile RAM from Intel, TsV technology making much more stacked chips possible & actual 3D designs in the future, massive expansion of 3D printing everywhere, quick to produce RNA vaccines, ubiqutous joint and even organ replacements, etc.). Not to mention all the IT systems now deployed making all these advances easily accessible to basically anyone on Earth.

Also in some cases we hit the "road not taken" territory - with SpaceX Starship for example the Raptor engines are indeed novel and very huge achievement (and the best liquid rocket engine in existence effectively) but the fact that some types of stainless steel being stronger at cryogenic temperatures being was known before yet no one really realized how good match it is for reusable rocket manufacturing.
As the full lesson says:

For every soundness-related bug that sneaks through, TypeScript will probably save you from hundreds of "cannot read property of undefined" errors.
So the mRNA vaccine is not safe for those people? Genuinely curious. Plus, in any case, they should probably take cautions themselves if they know they have not been vaccinated for those reasons.
De Cecco is an expensive brand in Italy. When I'm abroad I don't buy anything but. Barilla will do if De Cecco is missing though.
Ask HN: In your experience, are new Macs less reliable?
I ask because I've been using MacBooks of various models for close to 10 years and have never experienced even so much as a hardware hiccup. The machines were perfect for lack of a better word.

Now I have one of the new Touch Bar MacBooks (with no escape key). I've had to send it in for repairs twice in one year because it keeps bricking itself. What's going on? Do I just have a defective computer or is part of a broader trend?
Since churn generates jobs, I see the incentive of the industry to continue doing this.
Don't feel bad! Every kid is different and there is no magic trick (at least that I've found!) to get them to sleep more. Mine are 4 and 6 and I'm trying to reframe my mind to not see sleep as a battle.
What is killing me is that they won't come downstairs alone to play, though once here they can play unsupervised. I am looking forward to the days getting brighter so it isn't the dark that stops them.

Even taking out my 2h45m (total) commute time, I'm more tired than ever. I'm sure a lot of mine is due to stress and low level depression - I have a lot on now but so does pretty much every person you interact with.

Before lockdown I was starting to get some arduino and electronics projects in during my commute, but I've barely even had time to watch videos of other people's projects.

I just remind myself that in time this will change, that I'll find time again for myself. Over Christmas I've been trying to go for a walk alone each day and also to step away from my phone more. But it is hard - but that is OK.
You can try Firejail:

https://firejail.wordpress.com/
>Freemasons

So, basically people just wanted to hang out but now everyone thinks they want to take over the world.
These products exist but in the US insurance is a highly regulated relationship driven transaction. The insurance market is ripe for disruption but having worked in the reinsurance market for 4 years I don't see any realistic prospect of it happening.
If the added velocities of the debris were unidirectional (along the debris's orbital velocity) then increasing their velocity enough would result in them breaking free of orbit. But I doubt that you would be able to do either in reality (not to mention detonating nuclear bombs in space seems like a bad idea regardless of any other factors).
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Does this help? https://www.buydisplay.com/5-inch-tft-lcd-module-800x480-dis...
I'm on cc: lists with documents I don't have access to all the time. It depends on how organizations interact. And I suspect it wouldn't be very hard for me to iframe Google Docs and appropriately obscure things so someone does, indeed, click where I want.

$3.3k is about a week's worth of time for a poorly-paid developer before overhead.

It's not reasonable. At those rates, the only people who will be able to afford to be paid to do security work on Google products will be ones who sell on the gray/black market. The whole point of bounties was to give a path without the need for that.
In my country you need to show that your kid is vaccinated against e.g. Polio before you can let him/her go to daycare. To me, it makes perfect sense, that somebody who wants to go to e.g. a music festival in 2022 without a face mask, should be able to prove that he is vaccinated (assuming vaccinated people are not infectious, which still needs to be shown, but this is quite likely).

Keeping a record of those who refused vaccination might not be necessary for this. In fact, somebody who refused vaccination is as much as a health risk as somebody who has not (yet) the possibility to get vaccinated.

But vaccinated people should have the possibility to prove that they are vaccinated and current social distancing rules should no longer apply to these people.
Then you have very strange standards, the XPS 13 I have at home can easily compete with 13" MBP and outshines it in several areas. Especially having a sturdy build quality and a good keyboard.
>no sane person believes this registry will be harmless. //

This is not objective, ergo I downvoted.

"I think this registry will cause harm", seems like a reasonable statement, and assuming you mean that could you identify the harm you perceive here?
These kind of skins are still alive in "gaming" motherboard softwares.
Nice write up, BTW this is a re-post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25557431
but you're the original author, hmm...
Also, other tamper resistance mechanisms (such as the mentioned tamper sensors) could be disabled by excess heat.
I can't help but think of Rodney Dangerfield in Caddyshack. During a golf tournament, he gives the officials some money saying "keep it fair, keep it fair!"
tl;dr

The first part tells you that "Economics has historically focused on "goods" in the form of physical objects" but the internet and crypto are making it different
Not very original, we've known that since software was an industry and marginal costs ceased being of concerned. There is nothing blockchain-specific here.

The second part is about parochial crypto-feuds:
I'm very enthusiastic about blockchain and the cryptoindustry, especially compared to the rest of folks on here, but having one third of that article on old feuds and CSW bashing feels childish.

The last part is about scale and power and IMO the most interesting.
> If you define success as the total absence of a category of powerful actor or even a category of activity that you dislike, then you will probably leave the 21st century disappointed. But if you define success more through what happens than through what doesn't happen, and you are okay with imperfect outcomes, there is enough space to make everyone happy.
Crypto was supposed to decentralize power and I think it's telling that one of the major actor in the space is acknowledging that this is not and will not be the case. "Changing everything to change nothing", even if crypto and DeFi overtake traditional banks and finance, it will still be an oligarchic behemoth of whales and tech-wizs. So much for anarchy.