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> “I have a very simple rule,” he says. “I eat fruit, but I don’t eat anything that has sugar added to it.

I'm curious to know how people actually draw lines around sugar intake. Presumably fruit juice is not allowed? What about foods that have fruit juice as an ingredient? Do you decide based on what the ingredients are, or how much of the ingredient there is? Seems like there's a number of reasonable ways to make rules, but it isn't immediately apparent which one is most principled, or easiest to stick to.

EDIT: Any explanation on the downvotes? I'd love to know how folks draw lines around eating sugary foods. If you've got it all figured out, please share your secrets!
I largely disagree with this. In WoW I spent a ton of time reading and writing with other people, organizing and recruiting for a bunch of guilds, and making a lot of great long term friends.

That's not to deny that you can avoid doing those things, or that many games don't provide those same opportunities, but rather that it's not a fundamental property of games that you gain nothing beyond the game. I gained a lot from my time in WoW.

I think this also ignores that the alternative for a lot of people would be watching TV or using social media.

It's possible there is a problem with games like Fortnite in that you're communicating almost solely by voice and there's a very limited complexity, but it might just be that there's something about it that I don't get.
Does anyone have a head-to-head comparison of Google vs Amazon vs Apple cancellations? I guess the Facebook equivalent would be what of our personal information they've newly managed to monetize.
I agree incentive structure matters, and it's why I consider the OHIP model superior: "I need care and it's already paid for, so I get it", vs the US model "I pay more upfront to do the triage nurse's job myself so I can then pay again if I do decide to see the doctor after all and geez I hope I can afford the bill when it comes"
I interpret the "by default" as meaning the exact same thing as "Developer ID is required by default for Mac apps" today. Or in other words, I would assume that getting around a non-notarized app in the future would have the exact same sequence of steps as getting around a non-Developer ID-signed app today.
I have a Fios modem in my apartment but with Verizon's extortionate pricing I couldn't ever consider them an option.
You have a point. There are a lot of people comparing the worst parts of the US system with the best parts of the single payer systems.

As a Canadian, I will say there are a lot of people dissatisfied with the Canadian system. Likely to a lesser degree than in the US, but the system is far from perfect.
> I certainly do expect my federal, state and local government to follow best practices and provide working websites that I can use without running JS.

Best practices is a moving target. What made sense in 1999 doesn't make sense in 2019. The web simply requires JS, CSS, and HTML today. If you disable any one you aren't compatible.

There's no actual argument for why websites should spend significantly to support a tiny subset of users that intentionally break compatibility for ideological reasons. It is unfair to our other >99% of users who we'd have more time for.

The old arguments such as accessibility aren't correct any longer: accessibility devices specifically support JavaScript (text contrast, HTML organization/order, aria tags, video subtitles, etc remain highly important).

If you really insist on a JavaScript free world you are of course welcome to visit a government office in person, pick up, and mail back a paper form. The website is merely a convenience we offer to you.

Otherwise you'll need an IE 10 or newer browser, on an Operating System that supports TLS 1.1 (Windows Vista or newer), JavaScript, CSS, and HTML.
"Not even", TechCrunch? I think the word you're looking for is "especially".
I don't have the time, money or energy to build a specific crawler, but a Linux search engine that indexed all the major distros, packages, mailing lists, forums and issue trackers would be amazing.
GateKeeper (the mechanism that enforces this) can be easily disabled. It could even be disabled from the UI, up until a few releases ago.
That's a false equivalence. An iPad is not a Mac, it has a different security model and a different way of using it. The iPad is more locked-down than the Mac and always will be. Allowing people to disable protections on the Mac has no bearing on whether they should be able to disable them on iPad.
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Good grief. No!

Because as we are literally discovering, not knowing the details of how and why the automatic stabilization software is driving your trim wheel can kill you. The biggest single part of the failure chain here was the fact that this should have been an invasive change requiring recertification as a different aircraft and retraining for pilots instead of pretending that it was just like a 737-600.
Having machines remember for us has indeed affected human memory for a long time. Socrates complained that the introduction of writing would damage readers' memorization ability: http://neamathisi.com/literacies/chapter-1-literacies-on-a-h...
It's not the dead products on my case I fear but the lockdown of a Gmail account, there's already 2 gmail accounts I can't access despite knowing the password. I would not use GCP just because of that, everything might work fine and then one day you're locked out of your account and can't do anything.
> It allows us to be able to pay for resource use rather than provisioning.

Not arguing against the choice, but at some level, you are paying for the provisioning costs of the cloud provider. The higher initial costs of provisioning is what you may be escaping, and instead paying on an ongoing basis (as if you’re leasing equipment and services).

Once your needs scale significantly, cloud providers would end up being quite expensive if your load is not highly variable.
> Why isn't their broad-based support of it for medical care?

IMHO, it is because folks are overly deferential to medical doctors.

While a lot of the problems are actually caused by the insurance industry (a constantly changing billing code system) rather than the doctors themselves, I think folks are growing tired of being yanked around by the system.

This deference is decreasing based on my limited experience (i.e., just talking to people about their medical experiences), and it may drop precipitously soon. My guess is that most/all of the good doctors going to "concierge" will be the breaking point.
The national voter ID will make this moot. All the blue states will turn red when the illegals won't be able to vote.
No. I am talking about decreasing the revenue for a government funded business then later paying for it indirectly via taxes. The price of the service (train ticket) does not change, but you are still paying. That is what makes it obfuscated.
I agree, I intended to share courseware on the topic. Perhaps should have worded as such.
Even technical users have a limited capacity to properly vet what an authority should be allowed to do. Not to mention, this becomes a very heavy-handed choice to the user (as people already see on android), like "either allow this new app version to now root your phone, or you can't use this service at all"

The reason we can trust the CA certificates loaded in our browsers have proper processes and operate transparently is that the browser makers leverage those certificates being preloaded as bargaining power.

Would we have the opportunity to retain that sort of power in this decentralized world? Or do we start seeing the "essential" apps move out of the store and doing things like background monitoring of the user?
The build artifact caching algorithm seems rather clever and other build systems should take a look:

https://ziglang.org/download/0.4.0/release-notes.html#Build-...
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What's the reliability rating on that part? Have there been any recalls? Is it RoHS compliant? Will the US charge me a 25% tariff on import? Can I lubricate with part 199-398-500-B?
> That assumes that their parents are the ultimate source of authority and in many cases they aren't.

They're in early age.

> Parents don't typically enforce much of a dress code for instance, but schools will often require uniforms

Ultimately it is on parents. If parents DGAF, kids are likely to stretch the dress code. At least here, schools can only call home and ask parents to make sure they will wear uniforms. Worst school can do is send kid home. Then it's on parents to enforce the uniform.

> Kids have to learn a different set of rules for different contexts

Different context. But multiple-mom-dads at home would be same context with simultaneous nodes.

> The only thing that seems to prevent it (or limit it anyway) is constant enforcement, but that's also usually limited to where they have authority

And with multiple-mom-dads it's likely there won't be constant, consistent enforcement.

We've a saying in my mother tongue that roughly translates to "9 nannies and the kid is headless". So far in my observations it's 120% true. Both in kids raising and elsewhere in life, e.g. project masnagement. If there's no single person who takes responsibility (or multiple persons coordinating fantastically well), you're in for a rough ride.
I think you may have answered a different question
We have liberty. You have the liberty to use a platform that tries to protect your security at the cost of adding some restrictions. You have the liberty of choosing a different platform (using the same hardware even!) that has no restrictions and is fully open to be modified, at the cost of requiring a lot of technical expertise and putting yourself at risk of malware. You have the liberty of choosing yet another platform (still on the same hardware!) that's not open to modification but less restricted, at the cost of serving you ads on the lock screen and having a history of the worst malware infestation of any computing platform in history. And you have the freedom to write your own platform from scratch if you don't like any of these.
> Your chart shows the US national debt, not the budget deficit.

No, it shows debt as a percent of GDP. The idea is to normalize debt so the numbers are more meaningful. Context is everything.

> Revenues fell by 2 percent to $1.1 trillion, while spending rose 9 percent to $1.4 trillion.

I'm not especially concerned if also GDP went up, but the data's not out, yet.

> What will this look like in non-ideal conditions of war or economic recession?

See 2008-2015? That. That should worry you.

Also fun:
https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=ds22a34krhq5p_&...
Hydro is fantastic and we should use it wherever we can. Problem is the last part. We can't use it everywhere.
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Echoing the top comment in this thread, FCC lists 6 providers for my neighborhood; in reality there's only two and Comcast is the only one who provides cable.

This means if I have an issue with them, there's no competitor I can join instead and they take full advantage of this. I got it resolved recently after many years of issues, but it turns out that Comcast installed my cables wrong. They

1) Used television grade cables that weren't properly shielded so every time my neighbor ran their microwave my ping would spike to 800-2,000 and

2) Didn't hook up the cables right so my other neighbor and I have been splitting connections for the past five years

Every time I bugged them about this they would send out a tech that would poke around in the attic for a bit, but ultimately just shrug their shoulders and be on their way. I was finally able to get it resolved, but only because I happen to know a local Comcast executive that was able to escalate the issue for me.

If I provided such a negligent service and charged my customers full-price as an individual I would be arrested and charged with theft and fraud.
"Figure out a way to fly the thing in the new, crippled configuration" is hard. Figure out a way that's better than what the human pilot came up with may be even harder.
Capacitors fail either open or short.

Failing open will pretty much always not damage any other circuitry.

Failing short will usually not damage other circuitry, since usually a fuse will blow or the power supply refuse to start.

For the above reasons, I wouldn't preemptively change capacitors. From an effort point of view, changing them in the unlikely event of a failure is far less than changing them all 'just because'.
Hi. I manage App Engine (the original "serverless" product at Google).

This is a very understandable concern, given the importance of having a platform on which you can rely.

Contractually Google Cloud provides a 1 year notice before discontinuing (or making backwards incompatible changes) to products. This is for generally available (GA) products. Cloud Run is in beta, so technically it could be decided not to bring it to GA. This is why some conservative orgs tend to wait for products to be GA before releasing them.

From a technical perspective, Cloud Run was designed to be highly portable and idiomatic. If the service were discontinued (or you just didn't like it), you should be able to take your container image, and run it anywhere else. Odds are you would be using some other Google Cloud Services, so you would likely want to run in an environment with low network latency to Google Cloud (Compute Engine and Kubernetes Engine being obvious candidates).

From a historical perspective, I'd say that Google Cloud goes above and beyond in supporting older products. App Engine is about to hit its 11th anniversary. We are still running PHP 5.5 apps and backporting security patches to the runtime, despite the language losing community support 3 years ago. We are still turning down an old product called "Managed Virtual Machines", which has now been in a deprecated (but running) state for longer than it was GA!

From an emotional perspective, I think that Google is eyed with a lot of suspicion for turning off products. Google Reader - enough said. But as someone on the thread pointed out, Google Cloud is a very different business from the rest of Google. Google (!cloud) is a consumer company at a scale where if a product matters when it hits a billion users. Google Cloud is an enterprise company. Scale still matters, but not in the same way it does in consumer.

I can't wait for hacker news folks to try Cloud Run. Its an awesome product.
crooked-v says: "12 out of all soldiers may not be a lot, but 12 out of 38 certainly is."

If the 38 were a random sample then finding that 12 of the 38 had high lead levels would indeed be alarming and call for further study. But it appears those were persons already suspected of having problems. In contrast the article at

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/magazine/lead-poisoning-m...

reveals:

"The Department of Defense, which until last year annually tested blood lead levels in just 1,200 out of almost three million troops and civilian employees, has found very few cases of lead poisoning, leading Army officials to believe that there isn’t a widespread problem."
As an advertiser, you are definitely getting defrauded.
I feel like C hasn't been a "language-that-you-use-for-everything" for some time, so it's more about replacing C in the situations where C is currently a reasonable choice for new development.
Which countries? The closest I know of is Norway. But they do burn some gas and also import from Sweden (and others). Even if they didn't have gas I don't think it is fair to say that a country runs on 100% renewables if they import energy from a country that isn't 100% renewable.
If you're willing to risk your credit score for a bit, just don't pay the bill. Eventually some entity down the line will accept less. If you don't want to do that, then you have to eat it; immediately or in installments.
I like that idea, say after N inserts to a database/bigquery or N requests to existing service, after a file is posted to storage, or once a VM variable hits a certain trigger, kick off cloud function. Great for mini batching ETLs, log cleanup/parsing, upload possessing, cache invalidation... So many use cases.

That flexibility would be great. Hope this is on the radar! Cloud run triggers. Being able to pass the event metadata in would be great too.
If notarization is going to be required by default, and Apple wants users to depend on this as a signal of trust, they really need to use something other than light gray text on a gray dialog to inform users that the software they’re opening for the first time is checked and notarized. That dialog that you’re trying to open software from the internet feels like a BE CAREFUL warning—which feels odd when the light gray text says they’ve checked it and found nothing malicious.

Not that I think users shouldn’t be encouraged to be aware ... but it feels rather odd.
It's compatible with Knative, which is easy to set up in GKE, so you can migrate loads over to that if you want more control over your compute costs. And of course, you can run Knative outside of GKE, too.

Disclaimer: I work on GCP but have only touched Cloud Run/Knative a little bit.
Android is pretty huge in Europe. London could be an exception. Surprising even Chinese brands became popular lately with own physical stores in Western European capitals.
The Bitwarden password vault iOS app is open source.
"Refusing" is a bit strong here.

How so? In your own words:

someone else filed the CVE.

Having someone else override Poettering does not mean "Pottering did not refuse". It simply means saner heads prevailed.

You don't win a pwnie for high quality code, and the vulns they listed (as well as ones discovered subsequent to the award) all smack of low quality code. As the lead of a core piece of technology I expect more than childish whinging about how "CVEs aren't our currency". You like Pottering, great. I don't, and more to the point I don't like the results of his influence on Linux. When posed the question "why not switch to Linux now?" systemd is high on the list of reasons.
As a customer, a bank having problems can be good for you.

If they go under, the government protects all deposits, and there is a good chance you won't have to pay off any loans, or if you do, that the interest will be frozen for years till the bank is wound up.
I’m guessing by learning the vectors over lots of ASTs?
For expenses, it would be nice if there was a way to automatically shut off or throttle traffic after $X a month.
Apple is actually fairly good at making the warnings/process heavy-handed enough that only technical users will follow them.

For instance, the /System folder is not writable unless you reboot into single user or recovery mode, then run commands in a shell.

Several app developers (including Mojang with Minecraft) recommended turning off Gatekeeper to run their apps rather than dealing with developer signing or because they did not want to purchase a signing certificate. Apple eventually removed the option to disable gatekeeper from the UI (but retained it as a shell command).

The 'advanced user' override to run these apps has always been to select 'open' from the finder/context menu - but simply double-clicking on an app will give a failure screen, not an override/consent screen. (Yes - rather than telling users to right-click on their app, third parties told the users to disable app verification and quarantine for the whole system.)
Next use a credit card. Basically thanks to credit card laws the bank will go tell google to f off and give you your money back. Debit cards don't have the same protection, but just call your bank or OCS (https://www.occ.treas.gov/). They have a little more bite.
Also, thanks for the citation. I still strongly feel you've shown something that doesn't warrant a personal attack. As someone who gladly uses systemd while having no particular attachment to it, I find the aggressive and personal attacks confusing.
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I didn't put a lot of consideration into the algorithm in particular. I was going to do SHA-256 but somebody told me Blake was faster.

I haven't tested the performance of any other algorithms, but that's a completely swappable component. I'm sure the hash function will be swapped with a different one before 1.0.0 is done.
It's hitting a major nerve. Video games are far more dangerous than comic books or movies or TV. Why? Because they're a success surrogate. They take people who may feel disillusioned with the difficulty of making a life and give them an easy fix. It's the number one problem with video games: they hijack the reward mechanisms that are supposed to motivate you to improve your life. This puts them on a level closer to hardcore drugs than to other forms of entertainment.
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Abstract interpretation is a wider concept than symbolic execution; check the post in the top thread answered by user mjn to get more info; the fb and mozilla ones seem to focus on more mainstream languages.
The site is currently dead for me. Some sort of SQL issue.
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> if your load is not highly variable

Most real-world loads are in fact pretty variable.
Note that Zig has line-independent tokenization. As a text editor of Zig code, you can have correct tokenization by scanning to the previous \n and starting from there.
> Are you absolutely sure that the US provides a net benefit to other countries via its military?

Yes, the issue at hand isn't whether the US provides a net benefit to every country, because 'every country' is rarely used as a metric against which to measure the US. Instead, America is typically measured against western European countries and 'developed' countries (so, ex-colonies, essentially). The article in question in this HN thread compares the US to Europe.

Pretty much every 'developed' country benefits from US hegemony. That is one reason why they are considered 'developed'.

How many times do I have to say that I am in no way justifying American military action or even saying it's a good and ethical thing. I am just making a very obvious observation that American tax payers pay for the current Pax Americana (evil or not) that many countries often contrasted with the US benefit greatly from.
I've been trying to figure out this problem. It seems like people understand the dangers of nuclear (with some overstatement[0]). The problem I see is that people don't understand dangers of other sources. Like even solar kills more than nuclear (on a per kilowatt basis, and including predicted deaths from cancer of Fukushima and Chernobyl). Or they don't understand how small the waste is in comparison to other sources (~soda can a year compared to train fulls a day (coal)). I don't know if this is due to fear or humans having a hard time comparing large numbers. Or some combination.

[0] example being that meltdowns make a place inhospitable for centuries. Fukushima's exclusion zone is shrinking fast. And only Chernobyl and Fukushima have exclusion zones. Plus, those ares have thriving wildlife and vegetation.
That's all good. I lead a guild to a server first, but you know what means today? Nothing. I wish I had gone outside.

By the way, the cost of doing a server first kill is tens of thousands of hours of a person's life. For what? A virtual high score?

Video games are more addictive than TV. It is the evolution of technology to be so.
I like building my own automation to move money.

For example, use all unspent money at the end of each month to buy shares.