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Ask HN: How can young adults reduce their risk of serious illness or death?
What are the most effective things people under the age of ~35 can do to reduce their risk of death or serious illness?

Inspired by this post http://lesswrong.com/lw/awm/how_to_avoid_dying_in_a_car_crash/

I'm guessing things like:

- Follow steps to reduce risk of dying in a car http://lesswrong.com/lw/awm/how_to_avoid_dying_in_a_car_crash/

- Don't be obese

- Perhaps reduce sugar (and high GI carb?) intake to reduce risk of metabolic disease

- Exercise

- Avoid binge drinking

- Stocking canned food in case of a pandemic? http://lesswrong.com/lw/awm/how_to_avoid_dying_in_a_car_crash/62eq

In an ideal world, there'd perhaps be a list of all of these things, ranked in order of importance or grouped by magnitude of importance.

What else?

Which things might be most important?

Are there any good resources that attempt to tackle this question, with a focus on effectiveness?
ln -s /usr/bin/nc /yourpath/bin/telnet

The command-line options are the same.
Tax fraud and/or transaction fees.
In context of the article, it's the myth of good guys versus bad guys instead of gray characters. That means these characters have moral choices to make. A tiger doesn't understand morality, while Kylo Ren and does, but chooses to do join/stay on the dark side, which means causing a lot of people harm, which he's fully aware of.

We don't hold a tiger morally responsible, while most of the beings on the tv show Supernatural would be, since they're capable of making moral choices. Even the ST Borg understand morality, although they consider it irrelevant. But the Federation would probably hold them responsible, if they had the power to put the Borg Queen on trial, like they ended up doing with the Changeling lead female character from the Dominion.
Raising an error is an intentionally defined effect.

Doing something under-defined, by accident, that you'll at some point break because you weren't thinking of that specific edge case when e.g. refactoring, for someone else who didn't actually intend to exercise that edge case but never realized they were doing so as they never received an error... well, not my cup of tea.
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What the parent message did is: log2(32+4-1 C 4), because the number of k-sized combinations of n objects with repetitions is (n+k-1)Ck. One way to prove it is that you sort the objects (so you can establish an order among the objects in the combination) and add k-1 dummy objects for "the second is the same as the first, the third is the same as the second,..., the last is the same as the penultimate".
The reasons why batch mode processing can be more efficient go beyond just sequential I/O.

If I do a little of something now and a little later and yet more even later, I will probably have to deal with caches that don't have my data in them because other things happen in the intervening time. If I do it all at once, then a lot of the work benefits from already-warm caches. (This can apply to disk caches, CPU data caches, and even instruction caches.)

Not to mention that sometimes batch mode processing opens up opportunities to use a more efficient algorithm (even if sometimes just by a constant factor). For example, if you maintain an index in a balanced tree and keep adding to it piecemeal, you do extra work continually rebalancing that tree. Whereas in theory if you built an index all at once, you could collect all the data, sort it using some kind of fast sort like mergesort, and then write out a final tree which is already balanced as desired and doesn't need to be rearranged as data comes in in random order.
It uses more memory.
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On the other hand, if you pay by card everywhere, your moments and spending habits will be tracked and catalogued.

A lot of people are not comfortable with that.
To be fair, the Kindle version is only $4.3M.
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Not sure how much of it you’ve seen, as while it does diverge substantially from the book, it does go off down a belief-powers reality route.
Why are black poor Americans more optimistic than white ones?
I assume this will end with there being fewer ATMs. That they will become more expensive to run in due to costs of hardened physical devices and insurance. If they become too rare it could result in a reduction of cash usage, maybe significantly.
Having a convenience store is actually a necessity for an independent gas station. Gas stations themselves only make about 7-10 cents per gallon in revenue [0] (2008) which is less profitable than what is sold inside in the store [1].

For how much talk there is around here on how unprofitable it is to be an Uber driver, it wouldn't surprise me if a similar dynamic develops in rideshare.

[0] http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/13/news/economy/gas_gallon/

[1] https://www.quora.com/How-do-gas-stations-make-their-money
Here in Europe, CCS is now the official standard for DC charging. Europe had already Type 2 as standard for AC charging. CCS is a Type 2 plug with 2 additional large pins for DC. Tesla is using Type 2 both for AC and DC. So the plugs of a Tesla supercharger actually fit into a CCS socket. But of course, it won't charge. Tesla seems to be at the limits of the Type 2 plug with their superchargers, CCS is supposed to scale to larger power levels.

So, while there probably was a tactical component in the German manufacturers pushing for CCS, one can also make quite good technical arguments for CCS. In true German fashion, it is bulky and somewhat overengineered for current cars, but for a reason.
Numbers 1, 2, and 3 can all be fixed, and fixing those fix number 4.

For gerrymandering, there are plenty of proposals around requiring districts conform to some set of geometric rules.

The electoral college issue gets a lot of attention, but the more fundamental problem is first-past-the-post voting. What we really need is approval-based voting (i.e. I approve of candidates A and B; whoever has the most approvals wins). Such would eliminate the incentive to solely vote for the lesser of two evils. The electoral college has a bigger influence than when the Constitution was written due to the even higher concentrations of people in urban centers -- the idea makes sense though, perhaps with some math we can find a compromise. Regardless, FPTP is much more serious.

Easy to pass any legislation that changes voting and threatens all the incumbents? Not without a HUGE push, which I don't see happening anytime soon but why not try?
> Won't those unskilled workers return if there is no work

It depends - if there is no work in the US then there is probably no work where they have come from.
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Just because the data exists doesn't mean it is used.
Yeah, but in the short story the dead planet actually was earth - ends with him finding a copper disk and going “e pluribus unum? What does that mean?” before throwing it away and getting back on ship. Very definitely not the same as the garbage TV series.

I recommend reading the short stories - the series absolutely lost the meaning of every single one of them.
Reasonable cost is something you would define through policy, and would likely be based on percentage of trip traveled, initial cost, and some percentage as a premium. Even in human staffed companies this isn't left entirely to the discretion of the person handling the case.

I 's not entirely simole, but let's not act like it's impossible either. People use Google apps and services with shitty support all the time, because Google is fairly good at reducing the times you need support and also because they are pretty good at saying "you pay $X, we provide Y, and Z is what you can expect if there's a problem, and if you don't like that, go find a competitor."

Make breaking the contract painful on both parties, and hopefully it will be rare. In the case where it happens, you try to make sure the normal penalty covers it, and where it doesn't you eat the cost and look at why it failed and fix it if you can.
I strongly hope that paper money is not completely replaced by electronic payments because it may be convenient as long as it works but I would like to still be able to buy food even when the service stops working.

We had this in Austria a few months ago where one if the biggest providers for electronic payment terminals stopped working for 1 1/2 days
It's cool that you're not locked into Switchboard if you sign up for the service. You can always go back to managing your calls some other way. You're locked into Twilio, of course, but that doesn't seem like much of an inconvenience.
- Being a part of a community (family/stable work/physical friends) around you.
- Find a good compromise between taking opportunities and not taking too much risks.
I believe that. But a day of ordinary CPU must have some value, however small, and I'm curious what it is.
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Terrorists Could Use Teslas to Kill Us
I did a DDG search for "economics of cryptocurrency mining on ordinary hardware".

The first hit was for https://arxiv.org/pdf/1605.01354.pdf .

> We assumed that miners in the market at initial time ... own a personal PC such as Core i5 2600K, and hence they are initially endowed with a hashing capability ... equal to 0.0173GH/sec, that implies a power consumption equal to 75W

as well as:

> Over time, the different mining hardware available was characterized by an increasing hash rate, a decreasing power consumption per hash, and increasing costs. For example, NVIDIA Quadro NVS 3100M, 16 cores, belonging to the GPU generation, has a hash rate equal to 3.6 MH/s and a power consumption equal to 14 W [16]; ModMiner Quad, belonging to the FPGA generation, has a hash rate equal to 800 MH/s and power consumption equal to 40 W [16]; Monarch(300), belonging to the ASIC generation, has a hash rate equal to 300 GH/s and power consumption equal to 175 W

Using those numbers to give hash/Joule (a watt is a Joule/second):

CPU = 17.3MH / 75 W = 0.23 MH/J
GPU = 3.6 MH/s / 14 W = 0.25 MH/J
FPGA = 800 MH/s / 40 W = 20 MH/J
ASIC = 300000 GH/s / 175 W = 1700 MH/J

Since the primary cost is power consumption, that suggests that a CPU is about 1000x more expensive than an ASIC.

There's a bajillion other cryptocurrencies these days. The economics is different for every one.
Razer Atheris mouse – disappointingly bad Bluetooth performance, no accessories
This precedes Justin Bieber's video for "Where Are Ü Now" by a couple of years.
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Old boy may be right on one of them. I doubt his predictions are valid for Google
Check the cost of a basic cloud/saas product.

Otherwise an accountant would tell you it is something like the cost of ownership: Let say very roughly $0.5 per cpu/per day.
The vast majority carry an internet connected gps tracker with microphone, Wifi, Bluetooth, sms and email all in one place with them at all times, and bank accounts, sms, emails are already accessible to the state on the server side. Shops are using facial recognition and Bluetooth to advertise and track customers. So I honestly think privacy in what you purchase is a ship that has sailed, this data will be recorded in future.

What we should be agitating for is proper control over the use of this info, not trying to limit ways to collect it.
Our college had its own internal system for students rating professors. In order to receive your final grade for a class, you had to complete a review of the course and professor, with optional public components. During the shopping period of next term, you could read all the reviews from previous terms, by professor and/or class.

I think the admins like the data it gives them on professors, let’s them know who to promote / watch, etc
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Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9929333
> Therefore if everyone fights back when "they" come for you, the outcome for society is positive, even if hopeless for individuals. The insane gun ownership in this country could be a benefit. Sure, you're not going to beat the army, but if every 10 people to be liquidated take out one secret police guy, then the civilian population as a whole will be safe.

That argument only works if it were an all-out battle between the population as a whole on one side and the secret police on the other. That is not how authoritarianism works. They start by isolating minorities, and target individuals one by one. In every single 'battle' the secret police outnumbers their opponents. Any resistance is used to justify the use of more force.

Imagine what would happen if 'illegal' immigrants (which number in the millions) that are being deported by ICE (about 20,000 employees [1]) start fighting back with guns. How do you think Fox News would react? Or public opinion?

Or just look at police brutality against minorities in the US. Do you think that the use of more guns by minorities is likely to lessen police brutality, or exacerbate it?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Immigration_and_Customs_E...
It’s unbelievable that any military allows its soldiers to deploy carrying consumer technology equipped with GPS tracking.
To lounge on a beach or travel the world and not actively engage in building your arsenal of expertise is professional malpractice.

I've seen this thought expressed before in writing about Startups. If you're not burning your life down 24/7 in the struggle to make it Big, you're doing it wrong.

But that's silly.

The entire goal of building a business, in my mind, is to get the point where you can lounge on a beach or travel the world and not need to actively engage in anything except the pursuit of happiness.

I personally averaged out at a little less than four hours of work per week in 2017, running the sort of low maintenance, feature complete, Software-as-a-Service business that the author spends a paragraph explaining is not in fact a "serious company".

But look at the product and you'll see craftsmanship. Ten years of work, in fact as of roughly today. But never at the author's pace. Always at mine. Those two things are not mutually exclusive.

That's the great thing about building a business. You can do it any way you like.
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> By the way, there's no way to remove your company's profile. Think long and hard before you create a profile there.

Creating a Glassdoor profile for an early stage 3 persons startup doesn't look very useful.
I heard about DRM.. is it secure ?? or it can be byassed.
High Sierra - too secure for FTP, not secure enough to not allow root login with a blank password
Are any of these locations actually secret?
Most of those traditional church hymns are really old; many not subject to copyright or, those that are, simply no one cares. If the UU had to fight for them, some could be protected under satire/parody.
Several years ago, I've had an ATM crash and reboot after pressing one of the screen side buttons when the machine was waiting for PIN entry via the numeric pad. It rebooted, and I could see that it was running MSDOS, not even Windows. Luckily, after the reboot completed and the ATM frontend program started, it spit out my card again.

With one of offices of my bank being nearby (to be able to block my card if I couldn't get it back), I tried it two more times, just to check that it wasn't a random occurrence.

While it was probably nothing that could further be escalated into gaining access without additional hardware, it gave me a chuckle (and a bit of fear for my card, initially).
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I love the output of LaTeX but the language itself (and it’s dependencies and packages) are an absolute horror show.

I’ve never understood how people can learn be it so, writing it is painful, it’s tooling is abysmal, and it rarely seems to work except on the person who wrote its machine.

We’ve got to be able to do better.
How do I report vulnerability to stripe?
On the topic of processing command-line arguments and the recent post on obscure things you can do with C: My "magic getopt" (http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2015-12-06-magic-getopt.html) does some very evil things to make it possible to write a "normal-looking" C getopt look which accepts both short and long options.
I feel very skeptical of calling your representatives. Firstly, it matters if they are in a contentious district. Secondly, even if they do see you as a potentially credible concern, they will still corroborate that concern with a political consultancy when election time comes.
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I really want to know how much that person banks because I will quit my day job right now.
I thought UI testing would be hard for iOS, but in practice it was only the new "style" of interacting with the app that was an obstacle.

Xcode literally allows you to record your taps, however the code will be impossible to maintain. It is better to pause the application with breakpoints, inspect the app through "po app" and see what it allows you to click. Then just add the code to click whatever you want. Then continue.

There's a lot of "aha" moments but as each one gets ironed out you'll become faster at it.

As an added bonus you will be more knowledgable about how your app perform in 'accessibility' mode.

I also consider the "breaking" of UI tests a feature. Because if you do some breaking change, you might have added some new bugs. In practice I haven't had the 'hell' period of many tests breaking though.
>You act like encryption is the default state. It isn't.

It wasn't the default state. Past tense. You're taking a very 1980's view. The world has moved on. Sure, there are some types of data that are not yet protected, but that's a deficiency which should be corrected with time.

>Why is access to encrypted data magically different

Nothing magic about it, but it's different for a couple of reasons.

First, because a smartphone is more like an extension of your brain than it is like a file cabinet.

Second, because in the old paper world you imagine (or pretend?) we still live in, the entities interested in accessing people's private data didn't have the internet, so they would have to by necessity go to one house at a time to get written records. Now, they do have the internet, and they can hoover up everything. And they do. "They" meaning not necessarily good guys. Sometimes there are rogue cops, or haven't you heard? Not to mention black hat hackers.

So, because of this extraordinary change in how data can be accessed in bulk, and the personal nature of devices, private data needs better protection. Not magic. Just different times, with different snooping tools, different data, and different devices. So much has changed, you might as well ask what hasn't changed.
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With high enough amperages and frequent enough charging points the long wait problem disappears.

That’s the bet of Tesla’s Supercharger Network, and in their view on a road long trip you still stop to take a leak, get coffee, stretch a bit, so why not do all that with the car parked at a charging spot for 20-30 minutes. The charger can also accept a credit card or do in-app billing, like Tesla or Chargepoint do.

Any shopping plaza or road stop can add chargers at fairly minimal (frequently taxpayer-subsidized) costs. Setting up a battery swap operation is just more difficult logistically - you have to dedicate real estate just to that, hire employees, train employees, manage employees, get compensated from car owners somehow, which would involve getting a cash register, running a cash register, etc.
> the guys who wrote the original rules for the country considered gun ownership so essential that they placed it second only to the freedom of expression.

That is an appeal to authority. Those guys were not handed down the word of god from heaven. They wrote down what they thought was best at the time. They were not infallible (see the amendments), what they wrote down was not unambiguous (or the supreme court wouldn't be necessary), and society and technology has changed in the intervening 200+ years. Do you think they would come up with exactly the same text if they were alive today, with the benefit of hindsight?
I have to say, to reasonably experienced C programmers, this code should be pretty clear. If you need that whole paragraph to understand (* ++argv)[0], you might be an awesome programmer, but you're not yet a reasonably experienced C programmer. ;)

I do think this is even more concise than they would have written in maintained code. In particular, I believe the missing {}'s for the 'while' and 'for' loops whouldn't have been left away, but I might be mistaken. Compare, for example, with this gem:

https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spr09/cos333/be... (submitted as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5672875 some time ago)

There Kernighan talks about a piece of code written by Rob Pike for inclusion in a different book; the code was written to be as small as possible while still including some useful functionality. In particular, Pike made well-considered choices about which functionality to include and which to exclude, but there are also some of those expressions that will not be completely transparent to the beginner C programmer. But the goal was writing short code, and clarity came secondary, but also emerged partly as a result of the first.
I used to work with various ATMs and the cash dispenser _is_ a hardened safe, with a combination lock and all. If you are to steal an ATM, you will still need to open the safe and the simplest option would indeed be to try and persuade it to just dispense the money.

The thing is that ATMs from larger vendors (IBM, NCR, Bull, Siemens, etc.) have layer upon layers of protection features. For example, you can configure a secondary combination for the safe which will open it and also send an emergency alert. This is for the cases when someone is being forced to open the safe at gunpoint. There are batteries for secondary power supply. There are options for physical lock-down in case of a power loss. Tilt and movement sensors. Redundant communication options, including exotics like x.28 radio.

I mean that all of this was readily available even 20 years ago. ATMs are not designed by amateurs. The issue is that all these are _options_. They need to be bought first and then they also need to be properly configured and enabled, which falls on the banks or their IT service providers to do. The smaller the bank, the less willing they are to spend even more money on configuring secondary stuff and setting up an infrastructure for it, so many of these options will remain off even if they are available.
Well it’s easy to do with two people because the first person can just guess the color of the second, since we are allowed one wrong guess. I don’t see how this can be extended.
the music mouse is really cool - it doesn't sound generated or repetitive at all too!
Good luck with that, outside of a handful of Nordic oddballs, cash is still king in most of the world (US included). We have a massive unbanked population that isn't going to start using banks or digital payments anytime soon, no matter what politicians or economists may desire.
This is very interesting. It is important to remember that "man-made" and "natural" are on the same continuum. We are a part of nature, and vice-versa. This discovery is stunning, but not surprising, given the other incredible inventions by mother nature in the history of evolution.
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Yes. IDK in the US, but it was common in Europe until the 80s-90s or so.
I don't plan on buying one either. It was more of if had to trust the three companies I would trust Apple more.

Apple isn't in the business of giving me adverts for soap if I tell my roommate it is their turn to get more Irish Spring.
I'd rather have a ATM running MS-DOS than Windows. At least the attack surface is small. God nows how many ATM's are running Windows 98 and XP, which contain major security holes which will never be patched.