skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm trying to answer your question, and it's hard.

Really, though, you have to use all the leverage points (or a subset of them). The point of the list was not: Which of these will achieve the desired external behavior the best? The point is: Which of these will actually alter the system itself so that it doesn't regress when removed?

Prohibition didn't eliminate alcohol consumption, it only changed how it was acquired. It made use of a number of the leverage points but fundamentally the US was still a nation of alcohol consumers. Tobacco use has been reduced in the US, but not eliminated, through education and taxes on tobacco products. Education (at least for my generation, now mid-30s) seems to have had a huge impact and actually changed the way it's viewed (so it achieved a paradigm shift).

To change the system (and maybe the paradigm) you'll have to use several of them. Raise taxes on the product (#12). Increase information flow about the consequences of tobacco use (#6). Reduce the positive feedback loop of using it by making it "uncool" (#7). Introduce alternatives that provide the chemical fix (nicotine) without (as much of?) the health consequences via patches and gum (#4).

To directly attack the paradigm itself, you have to use education and propaganda. Which will have varying effectiveness. For points #1 and #2 to be useful, you either have to be an individual with an open mind and the ability to introspect, or a learning organization. That latter part gets harder and harder the larger the organization becomes. A small team can alter its course more easily than a small business, which is more adaptable than IBM or the US population.
Government Availability tracker from yesterday:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18868754

That tracker was amusing, this one is more informative.
Given that automobile accidents are currently one of the most likely ways that you will meet your demise, would you agree that decreasing the likelihood of accidents is a worthwhile pursuit?

As I understand it, increased safety is one of the primary motivators for self-driving cars. I think it's fairly obvious that this goal has not been realized yet. But it's one motivator for a lot of people, one which you don't seem to acknowledge.
For C:

Pointers, stacks (one in ever 23.7 bugs is a stack smashing bug), bit bashing and endianness, types and coercion at the byte level (see also: pointers, bit bashing), C strings, the stupid rules about when a variable's value is actually written to memory that need to die in a fire, memory allocation/clearing/copying/ownership/freeing, ALWAYS CHECK RETURN CODES, what the heck an lvalue is.

This book is fun:

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920033677.do
> How could decentralized applications/services be sustainable funded? If not advertising, how?

How any other open source is funded (e.g. corporate/individual donations, grants, crowdsourcing, support, ancillary products, etc). I don't believe, at least for an MVP, that much funding is needed compared the scope of some of the successfully funded open source projects that exist.

> Most importantly, why would users care about decentralized vs centralized?

They wouldn't. And ideally, beyond the annoying hoops on initial versions (e.g. discovery/identity), they shouldn't. Your software needs to win on features. A self-hosted, subscribable Reddit clone w/ chat would be a very good start.
Debug Adapter Protocol
> Instead, we should be promoting savings, and the preservation of resources, as well as the creation of capital.

Production and consumption are both necessary. If you don't save and invest then production capacity will decline and there will be less available to consume in the future; but on the other hand if you don't consume then all that production capacity goes to waste and you derive no benefit from saving and investing. The balance is the critical aspect. Both policies which promote over-consumption at the expense of saving and policies which encourage over-investment at the expense of consumption miss the mark and destroy value by moving the economy away from the optimum balance.
How Chasing Money Can Ruin Your Life
Similar to interviewing.io, Pramp is another site that pairs interviewees together for practice phone interviews with a shared document to type in. It also lets you play the role of interviewer for half the session which is a good experience.

https://www.pramp.com
You are comfortable with a world where people are forced to randomly die from buggy code. You are comfortable with a world where a worm utilizing a remote code execution exploit activates the hidden payload on a set date and steers infected cars in random directions and kills tens of millions of people in 24 hours. You are comfortable with a world where car manufacturers can provide a simple API for government agencies or the highest bidder to enter a desired target's name and remotely hijack and pilot their car into a tree at 90 mph and their family members are mocked as conspiracy theorists for suggesting anything is amiss. I am not comfortable with a world where someone like you has the power to implement their insane ideas.
Stories like this make me incredibly wary about the future of my Google account. I've been using it for almost twelve years. It has a copy of every photo/video I've taken for almost eight years. It's what I use to download apps, listen to music, and pay for things, and get around. I'd be absolutely devastated if I suddenly lost it. I've been planning for a while now a sort of contingency plan where I regularly backup my emails and photos, but from what I've read even that's difficult to do.
Spam - this is just an advertisement for a silly checklist website.
He is flagged because you are not allowed to call out the political left on supporting Islam. Even though it basically contradicts everything that is politically left.

It's a garbage religion and has no place in America.

Make Istanbul Constantinople Again. Deus vult.
I didn't say they couldn't use them.. only that they should have to disclose them to the company(ies) responsible.

If they get a zero-day for windows, they can use it all they want... but they should have to disclose it to MS after 30-60 days of knowledge. The NSA is as responsible for technology security in the US as much as spying operations. They need to find a balance to do both.

If they responsibly disclose and that happens before other nation states discover and take advantage of zero-days it makes it much better for everyone.
YouCompleteMe provided an API that abstracted away what compilers/tools were on the backend and gave you information that an editor could use. Just like LSP.
> I don't recall ever being asked whether I consent to sharing the road with non-human drivers. I don't

Society does not require individual people's consent in determining which vehicles drive on the road. If it did, there would be no large pickup trucks, because I would never have allowed them.
Germany Bans Amazon's Dash Buttons
> That's bad news for soda giants, who want to grow their market.

Hasn't Coca-Cola been extremely pro-active recently in tackling obesity since it became clear that sweet drinks were a major problem?

They've almost completely replaced their flagship brand and formula with the zero sugar variant. They're not even promoting it as an alternative any more - the 'Zero' on the cans has been getting smaller and smaller and the black branding has been shrinking as well, and they seem to be getting retailers to suggest it as the default as well.

I guess they think they're able to grow their market by being healthier and helping their customers to be healthier.
Yes, that was difficult indeed. But not, I think, for the reasons you mean:

FURTHER UPDATE: I had my serious, constructive converstation with Microsoft last year, when a midlevel exec named Steven Walli took me out to dinner at OSCON 2004 and asked, in so many words, “How can we not be evil?” And I told him — open up your file formats (including Word and multimedia), support open technical standards instead of sabotaging them, license your patents under royalty-free, paperwork-free terms.

I believe Steve Walli went back to his bosses and told them that truth. He is no longer with Microsoft, and what little he’ll say about it hints that they canned him for trying to change their culture.
There's also an Echo exclusively for use with the 3.5 mm jack

https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/20/amazon-introduces-the-echo...
I don't think that is OP's point though - they switch personal banking for some reason.

Also - I just got a letter that SoFi is doing debit cards now.
This is great for me because my job filters all ssh traffic that isnt within our WAN. I can remote into my homeserver using this now.
This is a general issue with google. If their system decides it doesn't like you, then you're out of luck. You'll never get them to fix it.
I don't ever recall being asked if I consent to share the road with you...

Humans are bad drivers, self driving cars do not have to be very good to be substantially better than humans.
a lot of long and good answers.

but, a traditional trial by fire is to write an operating system.
Selecting a pulse repetition interval and spreading sequence from a prng should mostly eliminate interference like that for both lidar and radar I think.
We are talking the cell providers here, disabling GPS only slows down the initial positioning as LTE has a number of alternative ways to determine your location. That is required in places like the US were its mandated by law (E911 IIRC) that the providers are capable of providing your location to government services in real time (like 911).

So, the fact that the providers are keeping tabs on you and storing all that metadata for some government agency (cause you might be dangerous!), just means that they have discovered a way to recoup some of the investment costs. Thank your government, because the phone companies likely wouldn't have been this creative by themselves.
Indeed it is. And on a personal level, that can be a tragedy. But on a social/economic level, it's great for raising everyone's living standards, which is the point of this paper.
Airbnb Is Moving Faster at Scale with GraphQL and Apollo
I was never really into demos, so thank you, it looks very interesting, and the source code is released too [1]. Will try to fill the gaps, even if just a little bit.

My high water mark was '96 when Aleph One released his stack smashing article in Phrack. So yeah, more than two decades, not 15 years.

[1] https://github.com/mtuomi/SecondReality
I haven't disabled my service, but it was pretty straightforward to enable and everything can be managed through the website/app! Things seems to be easier now than before since you don't need a Fi-specific phone to activate
I'm not an expert on this stuff at all, but are the toy problems basically formulations of Simpson's paradox? My sense was that if you have a set of a data, where if you cut it into two slices and each slice suggests the same (identical) conclusion, but then if you look at the data overall it suggests a different conclusion, then how do you know which approach is correct? And it seems the only way to know that is to use your judgment about causal factors that generated the data, and the do-calculus helps make that explicit. For instance, when thinking about gender ratios and grad programs, it's more probable that the choice of what grad program to apply to is affected by what gender you are, but it's less probable that the choice of your grad program affects your gender.

Well I just reviewed section 3 of page 584 of that pdf that was shared and it seems different, so I probably have a long way to go before I understand this stuff.
It's right there in the linked JAMA article:

> Marketing to health care professionals by pharmaceutical companies accounted for most promotional spending and increased from $15.6 billion to $20.3 billion, including $5.6 billion for prescriber detailing, $13.5 billion for free samples, $979 million for direct physician payments (eg, speaking fees, meals) related to specific drugs, and $59 million for disease education.

Speaker fees are a particularly insidious approach: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/06/25/1952325...

> At least 17 of the top 20 Bystolic prescribers in Medicare's prescription drug program in 2010 have been paid by Forest to deliver promotional talks. In 2012, they together received $284,700 for speeches and more than $20,000 in meals.
> First someone has to make a server that is perfectly secure and lasts for 50 years without any updates.

Nah, your auto-updating desktop is fine. The software itself might evolve to an hands-off, evergreen-type of approach, but for now just a desktop daemon is fine. The reason keeping servers updated seems so non-trivial is that we visualize it in an ops sense like we're at work.
Yet Another Bypass: Is 2FA Broken? Authentication Experts Weigh In
Bummer. I own one and use it every day for listening to high quality audio on an old stereo setup. The sound quality is so great!

I routinely buy these for friends/family who want better digital audio setups and they tend to work great. I’ve never had any issues.

The best feature is “Ok, Google, play X.” When combined with Spotify’s amazing music index (really good for rare recordings/composers/etc), this is a super powerful mechanism to play any music at high quality. Best of all I can do it without needing to look at my phone and fend off the distractions there.
You can pause Fi service for a few months at a time.

However, Google will catch on to your proposed usage pattern and will eventually boot you from the platform. Majority usage outside the USA violate ToS.

There are plenty of stories on r/projectfi about this. I've also had a personal friend that was booted after he subscribed to Fi, then moved out of the USA month later for a temporary work assignment, and was booted from Fi a few months later for violating ToS.
Edit: added link [0] to lensrentals.com story about gear damaged during solar eclipse of 2017.

Your cell phone camera has a wide angle lens. it's at the longer focal lengths where one might expect sensor damage, or even melt the curtains of shooting directly into the sun when high above horizon.

[0] https://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2017/09/rental-camera-gear-...
Well, the idea that most people forgot or didn't realize (including me) is actually StackOverflow is a wiki so you can edit and fix other people's answers. You might need some reputations points before you can do that though.

The idea was to get the definitive answer as in Wikipedia. It was a good time when SO came out, afterwards it degraded in quality like anything else in universe.
Wouldn't effective defense of a nation-state require putting resources behind projects that lead to "killing people better?" If so, would the purpose of effectively defending a nation-state be evil?
> [Citation needed]

The Chinese government has imprisoned 1 million+ members of a ethnic minority. I'm sure you've heard of this, if not, you need to do some research...

> You are presenting a false fallacy where the only two options are "do nothing" and "invest all possible resources available to the country into killing other people".

No one is presenting that.

> A casual look at history book would quickly show you that escalating arms races are not beneficial in the long run

[Citation needed]

From my perspective, it sure did help, as nuclear weapons resulted in the inability for large countries to go to physical wars (for now, at least).
That's an argument, but I belive it wouldn't stand up in court.

If you have something like the JVM, you can make a case that the program and the JVM are separate works. If you have something like Quake, I don't think that would hold up, I would consider the bytecode and Quake to form a combined work.

At best, I think you would be testing in-court what a "derived work" is or what it means for a work to be "based on" a program. The legal risk is not only the fact that your game might be considered in violation of GPL (and therefore copyright infringement), but that the case might be difficult and involve sophisticated legal arguments (which would make it expensive) and you might also experience adverse effects before successfully arguing your case (DMCA takedown notices, etc).
I've been trying to get Fi to resolve a billing issue.... I'm stuck in a loop with support where they keep asking me for a security code, then the next day they'll respond back saying it expired and they need another one. The codes only seem to be valid for 30m, so I don't have any idea why they keep asking for them...
Well, that's pretty damning. I hope this gets an answer from some Googler now that's it's out in the media.
Paper? You don't even get paper stock certificates these days. It's all electronic.

At a previous company, I exercised my stock options when I left. This cost me about $4K. Two years later, I got $12K back... not a bad return, but certainly not the "potential for early retirement" I was told when I joined.
Is there a contradiction?
They are used to treating women like children who never grow up. There is always a guardian in charge of them. It is crazy to read they've set up a website to send notifications and disable family members from travel.

They only just allowed women to vote/run for office a few years ago, and women to drive last year. This is a great produced piece by nytimes as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ8WPHj6Nhw
Packers are nonprofit but there are other sports teams/organizations that have similar public offerings to raise funds/capital that are for profit entities.
Companies like google shouldn't be allowed to just ban someone's account and leave it at that. We actually need to regulate how OUR data is handled and managed by companies. Google thinks just because they provide an email service, they own all the emails in their service. This should not be the case and with all our reliance on cloud services, we need to be assured that our accounts are safe and we won't be denied access over stuff that isn't in our control.
Bash 5.0 Released with New Features
Regular Chromecast (Gen 2 and above) can now be added to groups too!

https://chromeunboxed.com/news/chromecast-video-and-smart-di...
Can't give you a definite answer, but it's easy to activate an account and they have a wizard for cancelling a plan with what looks pretty quick. https://i.imgur.com/lBv5NUw.png
I recently had nearly the same exact problem with Microsoft. Security department is a black box—zero communication. A friend working for Microsoft even escalated my case internally at the time, but nobody could do or see anything. My account was eventually unfrozen without so much as an email to notify me, never mind an explanation.

The point is, this issue isn’t limited to Google.
You're assuming that, but that isn't how energy works in the ocean. Stuff in the water falls down. Disturbances at 5500 m and deeper do not affect distant (hundreds of nautical miles) seafloor life at far shallower depths. If a mud-collection operation transported lots of abyssal mud to the surface and then dispersed it into the water column, it would affect pelagic life in that location, but not coral. Coral do not grow at these depths. Anyway, any feasible rare earth operation would need to "refine" the mud before hauling it to the surface, as described in TFA, so the mud wouldn't be dispersed into the water column anyway.

Actually even Lophelia should be considered in the category "too deep to worry about", because as you pointed out they don't photosynthesize. They don't interact with us, and they don't interact with anything we interact with.
I'm going to add this link (and a link to this HN discussion) to the "Startup Law 101" page that I've been maintaining [0] in lieu of providing copies of the slides I use in guest-lecturing on the subject.

[0] https://www.oncontracts.com/startup-law/
I'm a T-Mobile customer. I use EasyTether to tether wherever I am.
Yeah, but it is a problem with domain-validated certificates in general that kinda defeats the purpose of SSL.

It seems most of the time that a web site is "hacked" (defaced) somebody changed the DNS instead of attacking the actual web server.

SSL signing can potentially be a second line of defense, but only if having control of the DNS (thus web and email) is insufficient to get a cert.
Back when I lead Network Engineering at Square, we had a global network of production dataceters and offices. Nothing of the scale of Cloudflare, but we still have many hundreds of devices. They had all been built manually with copy and pasted configs. The trouble with this was it made changes very risky and terrifying because there could be subtle inconsistencies between sites, or huge differences. So it was always very challenging to reason about the impact of a given change.

Thanks to a ton of grit by the team, and the insistence of one engineer in particular we built a config management system and started tracking the total percent of our global network config that was managed by our config management system.

That metric was regularly presented at the VP level to hold us accountable to getting the percentage to 100.

It was months and months of boring work to remove inconsistencies and templatize configs. But in the end, I believe it resulted in a much more reliable and ultimately safer network to operate. I'm also happy that my management chain saw the value in this work.

I'm quite proud of the work the team did.

Some side benefits were that once we started going through audits like SOC2, we had a really good story to tell about how we reviewed and pushed changes to production.
Tax policy has a huge impact on growth. However what matters much more than quantity of tax is the quality of tax.

Money is public credit and varies in quality depending upon what it is secured by. Broad-based sales and payroll taxes are the worst possible quality of tax which undermine their own base. Sales taxes destroy commerce and payroll taxes which shift the tax burden from old savers onto young workers make it harder for families to afford having kids as early.

Land value and property income taxes are the best quality of tax, because the state simply confiscates a portion of the free lunch which would otherwise be privately captured by landlords, without discouraging any productive economic activity.

Louisiana is an example of a state with very poor tax "quality": low property tax, large property tax exemptions for businesses, and high sales taxes. It has negative real GDP growth per capita.

The public is frequently malinformed by experts as to what taxes are the best quality, because many tax 'reform' advocacy organizations actually advocate that the governments use the worst possible quality tax because they hypothesize that it will cause voters to advocate for lower government spending.
Some of these "toy" problems have had pretty major practical effects. For example, reconciling the disagreement between cohort studies and RCTs, in many medical contexts, come down to remarkably simple causal diagrams.
Another example
https://onemileatatime.com/google-fi-review/