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No. The ideal is far from what is practical. We can't ban fossil fuel engines overnight for instance. Clean energy needs the market pressure of competition to help keep it honest.

Also, I believe that taking every car off the road would actually exceed what scientist think need to be done. There is no need to be excessive.

At the same time though, to put it in HN terms, it's like if you have a huge six month software project and according to the burn-down chart you've only completed 10% of your story points by month five. At some point catch up becomes impossible. I am really afraid that all the deniers are taking what could be an easy(ish) problem to solve incrementally and through politics (not science, not even economics) causing us to delay implementing solutions so long that by the time we need to act (because it is so obvious things are broken[1]) it will be very expensive and very painful.

I'm all for weight the cost benefit but if there is a broken water pipe in your basement flooding your house and you priced out all the plumbers you don't debate for 20 years if the water really needs to be fixed or whether a cheaper plumber will be available in the future. And you definitely don't debate if the water exists. You pay what you need to to fix the leak.

Furthermore in this analogy, the deniers are the insurance company on the phone asking the home owner who is waste deep in water, "Are you sure that the water really exists?"

[1] For example: in parts of the Earth it is already obvious. In the northeast united states Lyme disease (a serious tick borne illness) has been spreading further and further south because the changes in climate are allowing ticks to be active more of the year and therefor migrate further. There are thousands of "tiny" side effects that people don't realize.
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419 scams began long before most people were using email. Around 27 years ago, my relatives in Texas sent us a tape of 60 Minutes when I was in Lagos, and in the opening monologue the person said "Nigeria is the most corrupt country I have ever reported on or from." Then they revealed lots of American businesses were scammed into thinking they were sending an initial round of money for valid business contracts with government or Nigerian companies. These scams have never been a large organized effort by one entity and the addition of email added in a whole new wave of scammers who enjoyed a lower barrier to entry since less overhead was needed and they could still enjoy enough successes with less sophistication. A lot of them are simply young unemployed guys killing time in internet cafes. In the late 90s the USPS and Secret Service both already had websites warning about 419 scams and although most people are only familiar with the cheesy emails, there is a history of massive amounts of dollars being siphoned out through a wide variety of storytelling by countless actors.
And even then, you are still allowed to explicitly define types everywhere, they are just optional.

https://play.rust-lang.org/?gist=24d87fde3cc5273d4ec73ba5647...
Just because there are hundreds of other problems does not mean we can’t focus on and try to solve one of them.
Actually most new (<5 year old) petrol cars use direct injection which emits much more fine soot particles than diesel with particle filter. In EU particle filter for petrol cars is only mandatory from 2017. Also worrysome that most of the particles are of the ultrafine type which is the most dangerous in terms of cancer-risk etc. https://www.transportenvironment.org/press/new-petrol-engine...
Large rifles work better than pushing all the recoil into the shooter.

https://www.americanrifleman.org/articles/2016/4/29/the-barr...

Pretty hard to put a muzzle brake on your body armor.
Why downvoting you for stating the obvious contradiction?

We humans apply double standards for others and for us.
Normal ranges: normal for whom?
Avoid metaphors in general. In my experience, metaphors lead to discussion about the correctness of the metaphor instead of the subject the metaphor was referring to. This is a waste of time.
Builders have always been a tiny slice of the market. But even for me, who has built many systems, when I needed a new Windows system last year, I ended up buying a 17" Alienware laptop just because it was easier, self-contained, and took up less space.
But corporation collections as paperclip maximizers is a bad analogy. Corporations generally produce something large numbers of people want (be it solar panels or cars in his example), whereas a paperclip maximizer AI produces paperclips that only it wants, destroying everything in its path.
> America has a lot of problems but I would not prefer to live in Russia or Saudi Arabia.

Would you prefer to live in Japan? Like most, I consider the "alt right" to be on the margins but I also think it's healthy to challenge conventional wisdom.

Japan is not nor does it strive to be diverse and they do not have a lot of the problems the US has.
Making such claims without background information does not help anyone.
To play devil's advocate:
What if the shooter had a previous case where one of his colleagues died?
What if he's involved in many cases where the targets do indeed have guns and an adequate reaction is required?

I'm not saying that he's completely innocent, but calling this murder is just bullshit.
Coming from a country where this is prohibited, the fact that everyone is allowed to carry guns is a much more interesting fact considering that we here usually don't have incidents like this.
But that's also another discussion I guess.
Lack of surprise should not mean resignation.
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> So - the demonstrations following some police shootings aside, is there any significant push in the US to drive the police towards less lethal encounters with the public it is to serve and protect?

I'm from the southern US, which is historically more conservative than the rest of the country. I'm not in any way claiming that the following viewpoints are universal and accepted in this region, but a large enough portion of the population holds these viewpoints, preventing further progress:

1) Anyone who gets shot by cops must have done something to warrant being shot. Even for people who get shot during traffic stops, that person did something to get pulled over in the first place. If they had a criminal record in the past, even if they didn't commit an offense during the situation where they were killed, there's a good chance they would have offended again, and this preemptive killing probably prevented a future crime.

2) In the case of this swatting incident, the blame lies 100% on the person who made the false police report. No false report, no shooting. The cop had reason to believe based on the report that the man who emerged from the door claimed to have a gun and had killed in the last hour, so it was plausible to believe he may try to retaliate and the appropriate force was used. No time for fact checking during an active shooter situation. "Shoot first, ask questions later" is considered an appropriate way for the police to deal with criminals.

Obviously there are numerous refutations, and that isn't lost on people. Many people will justify it by saying that regardless of the circumstances, the police put their lives on the line every day, so that gives them a pass when they make mistakes. Many people would view your suggestions as weakening the police, and the militarization of US police is viewed by many as making us safer, not less safe.
In EU they need to explicitly state that data is collected and reason. Data uses for authentication cannot be used for marketing.
Yeah, in the US, my understanding is that the regulation is much looser relative to the rest of the world. You can have a maximum of 750W with a top speed of 28 MPH without pedal assist, which in my view is plenty fast for a bike. The problem is that because US is such a small market for EBike that most are imported with European specs. In the US with straight and open roads, they just aren't fast enough
Robert Epstein has given a couple of talks on the search engine effect at Stanford which have been published to YouTube.

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"I think the compelling question is why people feel so compelled to take a pill to sell their souls to a rat race?"

There seems to be an implicit assumption in your question that refers to adults. What about the growing number of people, diagnosed and treated as children or young adults before they really have an agency in the matter?

Some U.S. based statistics on diagnoses for different <18 year old groups:
https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/data.html
http://www.wnd.com/2013/04/radical-increase-in-kids-prescrib...
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/slaits/nsch.htm
Seems like we'll have to wait until it's another cop or politician that gets the mistaken bullet.
Thankfully, RSS lives on. I follow 40-50 feeds using a native app, and pay a few bucks a month to host an ad-free blog that offers its own feed. My blog software even automatically posts links to Facebook for the weirdos who try to follow it there. I'm not sure how well that works, though, since I refuse to pay to "boost" those links.
If anyone here reading this needs the motivation or gentle reminder: you might not need Adderall anymore.

I've used it to get ahead in software for the past ~8 years. I recently gave it up, but it was hard to realize that it was time. It might be time for you, too.

The thing holding me back was fear. Fear I wasn't enough, that I couldn't be efficient. That I would get fired from my high position. Or even if I could make it work, that I still wouldn't get enough done on my startup (which has its own list of fears itself).

What finally pushed me to quit was realizing I wasn't as compassionate anymore; it was impacting my relationships. I had three separate people tell me in my coworking space that I look too busy and unapproachable so they never came to chat. I had a SO tell me that I'm emotionally unavailable too often. All within the time span of a month. I'm naturally an optimistic, compassionate person. This wasn't me, and being a robot (as mentioned in the article!) wasn't who I wanted to be, at any cost.

Indeed, three days after I quit I felt like a new person. I felt silly, fun, again. I had a week of "brain fog" where I wasn't productive. Afterward my efficiency went back up. Nowhere near the Adderall levels, but to a very acceptable level.

So in summary, you might not need it anymore if it's causing you grief. Sorry for the lame motivational things I'm about to say (Taken from the book, Daring Greatly):

You are enough.

You are worthy.
Fair enough, maybe that was a bit hyperbolic. An electronic device still wouldn't be useful as long as paper, at least not for the average person. There's no planned obsolescence or EOL with paper.
I have banked with five different banks (private and public) and have never had to face the tight coupling with a particular branch that you talk about?

Indian banking system is actually a joy to use compared to the first world systems that I have seen.
I prefer Spamnesty, as it's fully automated. You just forward the spam to sp@mnesty.com, then watch the fun at http://spa.mnesty.com.

(http://www.mnesty.com is bogus business website with a tongue in cheek strapline.)
And mass murder had a long history before communism.

Are you even disagreeing with me?
Seems not that bad, considering that 90% startups fail [1]

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/neilpatel/2015/01/16/90-of-star...
Just a side note, because you’re from Norway, that may be surprising to some. The US is #1 with 1.01 guns per capita, and Norway is #9 with .31 guns per capita.

In any case, i don’t think the number of guns per capita explains the difference in gun crime rates between the two.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_guns_per...
If your time is of any value to you, then you should be willing to pay more for furniture that is already assembled, not the opposite.

I mean unless assembling it is something that you really enjoy doing. So much that you want to pay extra for that pleasure.
Not to mention that the wrong dosage, or an interaction with something else in their system, makes a tranquilizer gun potentially as lethal as a regular handgun or a taser.
The raft consensus algorithm article [1] and the follow up that modifies it slightly with some changes that are useful when implementing it [2]. Both are written very clearly and very focused on actually using the algorithm in practice. Problems that arise when implementing it are discussed and solutions are proposed as well.

[1] https://raft.github.io/raft.pdf

[2] http://openlife.cc/system/files/4-modifications-for-Raft-con...
This is not necessarily related to the medication. ADD often represents as hyperfocus, to the detriment of the things you should be focusing on. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperfocus
Surprised that nobody mentioned Kotlin!
It is a weapon effectively. Psychopaths and criminals will not hesitate to use it. During Communist times in Soviet Union same thing could happen if a neighbor denounced you for spreading anti-government propaganda, while say in reality they just didn't like your sheep grazing too close to the fence. Families ended up disappearing overnight because of it.

It is basically using the irrationality of a power structure as leverage.
Its a very different world if you're not white and live in the American South. Easy to believe the best, when you are relatively safe.
Why send email at all? The only times I use email is when:

- I need to formalize something everybody already agreed to (record keeping)

- The content of the message is not all that important

Perhaps your organization is different, but usually your communications end with email, they don't start with it. Talk to people in private, give them a call, etc.
This is typical "advocacy research". They don't care about science; they only care about getting funded. The general public knows this, so for the most part their research is completely ignored.

Don't even get me started on the "suicide is always terrible" bullshit. Many suicides are rational responses to untenable situations. I'm glad that my grandfather had a gun, when AEC and his physicians had both failed him completely.
http://mcz.harvard.edu/collections/blaschka_coll.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_and_Rudolf_Blaschka
I have put about 3,000km on my E-bike in the last 1.5 years. It's limited to 25km/h, because then I don't need a license, it's fast enough for city traffic (mostly in bike lanes anyways) and I get to tow a trailer for my kid.

Biggest advantage: Hills don't exist for me. We live in a city with quite a few hills and day care is about 70-100m below our appartment. Doing this trip twice a day with its 15% slope would take way longer and exhaust me, before the day even started. The way downhill to day care is now something like 10 minutes and back up 11 minutes.

Biggest disadvantage: If you drive on mostly flat terrain, there's no real benefit – it might even slow you down. I get my regular bike to 25km/h easily. An E-Bike accelerates until it hits 25km/h and then it's just a damn heavy bike (17-20kg) that is slower than a regular bike (if you're a somewhat fit person).

Anyways, I love the E-Bike for the simple fact that I go almost anywhere by bike, can take my kid with me and don't have to think about any hills at all.
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What do you intend to replace it with? PDFs?

If there's to be a universal "digital paper", it would need a lot of planning and agreement. With the amount of churn of stuff in technology these days I don't see anything stable enough to "replace paper" anytime soon.

Thinking about this problem reminds me of the transition from linotype machines at the New York Times, to fully computerised systems in 1978.

The computer systems are shown at the end of the wonderful documentary 'Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu'
https://vimeo.com/127605643#t=24m55s

The amount of thought and preparation put into those systems, and the thought and preparation put into the change from ink-and-metal to pixels-and-bytes seems remarkable. Perhaps the (lack of) co-ordination between hardware and software today is to blame? Many industries have their IT problems handled with software-only solutions, generally with little thought for what the solution will look like 10--or even 5--years down the road.

I would love to hear from people in industries like medical software, and flight software; where thought and preparation is--hopefully--given some budget and priority.
He should got to jail but if any random idiot can get any random person killed by the police that is a Police problem as we can have different training and screening procedures for police officers but we sure as hell can not guarantee that there are no idiots with access to phones.
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Not the parent, but I have two specific suggestions about the on boarding process.

One, please add a directory (feed?) of public conversations that can be viewed without logging in. I want to see how the platform is used by other people and whether that fits me - but if you ask me to create an account first, I'm going to bounce.

Two, here on HN you say the team is mostly cog sci and engg people, which sounds awesome and piques my curiosity about why you made this. But the web site itself doesn't mention that, or anything about the people behind it. Please add an 'about the team' page so that I can understand more about the people who are inviting me to use their platform.

Hope this helps!
>Not to mention that by the time you get to your doctor, un-medicated, you will forget to tell about half of your symptoms.

This is actually a major problem. I was diagnosed with ADD as a child but gave up the medication in my late teens because it had side-effects I didn't enjoy.

Late last year, I thought it might be worth trying it again, maybe with a milder dose. I booked an appointment with a doctor, who referred me to a psychiatrist. The psychiatrist told me there was a two week waiting period and that they'd call me back in a few weeks, and never did. It was two months before I remembered to follow it up.

I don't bore you with the rest of the details, but the short version is every medical professional I spoke to (and I spoke to about 5 during this saga) told me to wait and that they would organize something for me, and then didn't. Turns out if you lie to someone with ADD and leave the organization ball in their court like that, they'll never get treatment, because they struggle with the very thing you're asking them to do. It's pretty much the worst thing you can do for them.

Anyway, I've just realized I was planning to talk to the doctor about it again 4 months ago to try to get the ball rolling again. It's Christmas now, they won't be back at work until mid January. I'd better send myself an email, wish me luck.
What particularly struck me about this is how the cities around her had changed, especially the smog present in almost every German city and now completely gone.
Over two thousand blockchain projects is still pretty impressive. Although, it's only been at most two years.

I wonder what a graph would look like.
3) Anyone implying that the police need to change is labeled anti police by a large portion of the population because this has become a political issue in the US and given the current political climate of identity politics there is really no reasoning with those people.
I was treated both as a child and as an adult. After I quit my adult medication I was a wreck, and ended up going to therapy. It wasn't specifically to address ADHD, but just me in general. I took a break from work, began eating well, sleeping well, and exercising, and I feel like I've gotten a lot better at focusing. My diet became more or less low-carb, and I did strength training. Could those be it? I don't know, but I feel a lot better and am more professionally accomplished than I ever was. There's my anecdote.
As a person with good hearing I’m wondering what you’re supposed to do in a situation like this to avoid getting killed.

Anyone know of any stats on the military service experiences of these shooter cops? Possible ptsd? Is this fear the officer had just the result of police training or was he dodging IEDs in Iraq? I’m just curious. And WTF is it with “gamers?”
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Nice story, but the USSR has been gone for more than twenty years. What value does this add to HN’s audience, beyond stoking more russophobe hysteria? There are plenty of other awful things that could be covered - ranging from lynchings to police brutality...and all of this is largely irrelevant to the tech community.
Should cops have to wait until they are actually being gunned down before they can use force to protect themselves? What happened was an absolute tragedy, and every measure should be taken to avoid anything like that ever happening again. The shooting was not justified, and cops need better training, non-lethal options must be expanded, penalties for this kind of "prank" must be made harsher. Everyone agrees on that. But to call the cop a murderer, as if he had executed someone he knew was innocent, just for fun, that's not right either. Cops face actual murdering psychos on a daily basis, and must be able to respond to how the situation looks at the time. Again, not trying to justify the shooting, but trying to encourage a more nuanced perspective.
Besides the fact that Nigerian scammers often have middlemen in North American and Europe to assist the process, 419 scams have come to be commonly perpetuated from a number of other West African countries besides Nigeria.
I do not think Incompleteness speaks to the question of whether things that happen in our Universe have explanations. It speaks to formal mathematical systems that have a property of self-reference.

If we are to debate whether the conclusion of my parable is true, I would tend more towards considering the possibility that many things in our Universe may simply be axiomatic, there is no explanation for them, they just are. Uncertainty may be one of those things.

Another line of investigation would be to consider whether some things do have explanations, but we have missed the opportunity to gather the evidence to understand them, therefore we will never understand them. Likewise, the Universe is finite, it will die, and we may never discover all of the explanations.

If something has an explanation, but there is no way for us to discover it, in what sense does it have an explanation?