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> Page 12 says "Reduce access to lethal means among persons at risk of suicide"

Yes of course. People on psychiatric hold shouldn't have access to firearms any more than they should have access to cutlery or shoelaces.

> The reducing access to means and methods is equivalent in your metaphor to "as you're leaving this gas filled house do not strike any matches".

Leaving the house is equivalent to a psychiatric hold.

> If you have tens of thousands of people dying each year from one method of suicide you need to reduce access to that method while you're putting in place other stuff to reduce suicidality in the population.

We already do this for anyone known to be at immediate risk, the problem is in accurately identifying who that is.

There is also a real risk that if you do things like condition voluntary outpatient psychiatric treatment on losing access to firearms, that would deter people who own firearms from seeking treatment. Then the choice isn't between treatment and firearms or treatment and no firearms, it's between firearms and treatment or firearms and no treatment.

> In your analogy "doing something about the gas leak" (fixing suicidality across a population) is something that takes years of concerted effort across national and local government agencies, see the linked CDC report above for examples.

Which is, nonetheless, still the only real solution.

What are you suggesting that we do? Declare a state of emergency and confiscate all firearms, but then give them back in a few years once we better address the root causes of suicide? Considering that firearms are used in about half of US suicide deaths and some non-zero number those would only switch to another method, that seems rather extreme for a temporary solution that would solve less than half of the problem, even if it wasn't politically infeasible.

And spending time fighting over that instead of starting to address the root causes right now means that the same number of people die in the short term (as we do nothing but argue) and more die in the long term because it's that much longer before a real solution that addresses the problem independent of method is actually implemented.

We know that there is a large contingent of people who oppose restricting firearms, but who is it in opposition to getting underway with this "concerted effort across national and local government agencies" right away?
For an educated and specialized workforce, changing employers can result in huge wage gains, I know, I've benefited from this too. However, much of this is due to the present economy and who knows how long it will last.

For an average worker, the path to higher wages is through seniority and institutional knowledge that makes them more valuable. When they change jobs, they are often right back at the bottom, union or no union. They are also competing against young, fresh workers.
Anyscale, from the creators of the Ray distributed computing project, launches
As with every role, you pay the minimum you must pay in order to attract and retain the people with the experience you need.
How would you solve access permissions in DHT? What if a node in DHT holds data that it is not granted to read? This would imply encryption of the data to prevent unauthorized reads - this does not really seem as a complicated problem - the data could be encrypted with only the nodes granted the read access having the decryption key(s). What seems harder to me is write permissions - if the data is encrypted/signed, only those nodes that have been granted permissions (and thus have copies of keys) would be able to overwrite/change that data. So the node that holds the data would not be able to overwrite it if it does not have r/w access to that piece of data. Nothing prevents from removing this data though. (I'm assuming the possibility of some nodes being malicious)
Scala roadmap update: The road to Scala 3
"Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
jlmorton was referring to the employer contribution limits of $56k, which are utilized, obviously, by rich companies.
Just saw this comment but I wish I had seen it earlier: I did just that. Cheers.
12b-1 fees[1] are the biggest scam the mutual fund industry has going.

[1] https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2010/10/15/why-we-opp...
Getting permission to do research on a schedule 1 drug is pretty tricky, from what I understand? Since marijuana is schedule 1 it's termed as having a) no medical benefit and b) a high potential for abuse, which puts you in something of a catch-22 situation: you can't justify the research on medical grounds because the drug has no medical benefit (or it wouldn't be sched 1), and you can't justify research for exploratory purposes because of the potential for abuse (or else it wouldn't be sched 1), and then it becomes hard to find research that says "Actually, weed has medical uses and isn't nearly as abusable as heroin" because no research can be conducted.

Edit: To clarify, that's not to say that marijuana _should_ be schedule 1, only that it _is_ schedule 1 and moving something out of sched 1 is challenging because the research position is tricky.
Interesting product. My DigitalOcean droplets have only weekly backups. I will give it a try for creating daily snapshots.
Not a problem, yet...
But that way they can still report back to the cloud, on top of what their actual function is.

In that regard I much prefer non-IP based devices.
I like to divide tools into things that solve difficult computer science problems and ones that are just plain cool, like Jekyll. The latter category is like a drug since you can get lost having fun doing so much stuff without needing to think too deeply with all the rough mental workouts. But that usually isn't rewarding in hindsight. It's better to be attracted to the austere. There's less distraction that way. Although, swearing off the shiny things doesn't necessarily preclude having a more fabulous web design, OP ;)
Escape from Systemd: Freedom in Sight
Total IaC n00b here.

3 weeks ago I set up our AWS infrastructure with Terraform but somehow I never got it to work correctly (somehow the AWS Elastic Beanstalk health checker never turned green).

Just this week I decided to migrate to Pulumi and after a few very explanatory good error messages I got it to work. I'd say Pulumi's error messages are superior.

Another major benefit of Pulumi is that you can use typescript (and others) to script your setup. Terraform supports some scripting [1] but you have to take a few hours to learn it, and it never will be as powerful as plain ts/js/py.

[1] https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-terraform-0-12-prev...
Homekit has had support for cameras for a while. The recent support was for a cloud integration to store video securely.
Yeah, I don't get it. FB is being openly evil with the political ads thing, but Google is the devil somehow? I suspect a smear campaign.
Because they aren't. They hard-forked away from the Bitcoin protocol to a protocol that did not adhere to the Bitcoin consensus at the time, that >90% of the nodes, miners, and businesses did not accept.
Interestingly, in Japan for my short stay there, I found that the Suica card I needed for public transport could only be purchased and recharged with cash.
My own (current) personal hell is essentially the inverse of this assumption. I work in an area that was essentially ran by 1 extremely overworked developer. The result? Now there are 40 people (including management, PMs, Scrumlords, QA and devs) doing the work originally done by a single person. The tech-debt and cruft is unbelievable (considering the domain is also quite complex). Every decision made before the 40 people were hired was made just to check off 1 of 1000 things on this person's plate... I could probably write a book about this if we are ever able to turn things around, which requires explaining to management why the things that have been 'working' for over a decade are longer working.

The sad part is, it would seem like all the engineers we have are overkill, but in my little silo, we could easily split our work into even more sub-teams, hire 12 more people, and still keep churning just to stay afloat. Sorry for the rant, I'm not sure exactly what I'm driving at. I guess I'm just trying to give a cautionary example of how not to manage large-scale software projects.
Redirecting to https is still problematic though.

Let's say your websites homepage only uses http but the login form is over https. You can MiTM the homepage, and change the login link to haX0r.xyz and then proxy the login.
True, but they are either or and a High deductible plan is a disaster for many people.
I broke an internet rule. I apoligize, as I was being sarcastic. I thought my comment was ridiculous enough for that to be obvious.
This sounds like an argument I hear about the nuclear deterrent in the UK. "This brings jobs to the area". There are plenty of serious discussions about the existential threat posed / mitigated / whatever by nuclear weapons without mixing in the incidentals like this. Of course it wins votes.

Big companies a century ago made a lot of cash out of exploiting slave labour overseas. And, I'm sure, plenty of people thought they couldn't live without whatever commodity they were getting for cheap on the back of foreign lives.

This hasn't stopped. We need to keep the dialogue open. The axes should be just as sharp for the new colonial powers.

Maybe it seems like there's a never-ending stream of history to be on the wrong side of, but that can't be an impediment to action.

(Apologies if the parent comment was satyrical)
> Why has the US given up on deportation? Is it really deemed to be cheaper to just endlessly imprison people?

To be fair here, those who support the detention regime are also generally in favour of deportation. However, current US laws require amounts of due process (to evaluate the claim on its merits) that -- combined with current administrative resources -- result in a slow timeline for hearings and deportation.

Therefore, immigration advocates argue for continuing the past practice of release on bail-like conditions, whereas restrictionists argue that such release is itself a threat (e.g., claimants can 'disappear' as illegal immigrants) and detention is necessary notwithstanding the human cost.

In the meantime, there is also evidently an informal argument that detention itself should act as a deterrent, as weaponized cruelty. This argument is legally and morally reprehensible, but as far as I know policymakers have not officially made it.
I actually thought about that and went with JavaScript anyway. I myself surf with it off. The loss of the header is to me not a bug but a feature. It usually just clutters the page. Seldom do I wish to click there.

I just want to read the article and back away. If I wanted to look around the site, then I could edit the address to go home. I think most others who know computers well enough to turn off JavaScript would also be comfortable doing the same.

Nunjucks is cool, but now your website is no longer static. You need to run every page request through Node. That's not too bad, but I took the loss of nav as the better road.
It doesn't look like you can buy anything at their shop, they either redirect to Amazon or to their subscription platform (which does use HTTPS).
if all you virtual signaling assholes bitching about climate and your self driving cars would focus on this bullshit, the world could actually change, until you do, nothing will.
Please don't shift goalposts - you asked a question (on HN!), got an answer here (based on conjecture), and you now want an official Google response that breaks down the reasons?
Never came up as a dupe when submitted
In the case of child/slave labor the topic is sensitive enough that it isn't worth sweeping under the rug because the risk is too great. If you do "sweep it under the rug" a large part of your efforts is ensuring the children working for you have a better life than those not (education and medical care) which costs a lot of money. That is you assume you will be caught and try to present yourself in the best light anyway.
Was it a company that is in the healthcare technology space, because that sounds like something you'd find there. That or aerospace.
Hi @kariert,

I think a first answer could be answering with a question:

"Why do so many people use makefiles to just manage tasks/scripts/wrappers instead of using pure bash scripts"

One reason may be that they are already using make in their project for actual build targets, but I see many pure task-only makefiles out there, so its not the only reason.

I think another reason is ease of use - The syntax is very terse and you can get a useful task runner with just a few lines of text.

With regards to Run, one of the additional features it brings is the ability for your 'commands' to be any type of script and not just bash.

You could have small scripts coded ruby, python, perl, etc all mixed together and managed within a single Runfile.

Thanks for the question - I hope that helps - Please let me know if you have any further comments or questions.
My 2015 Mazda 3 doesn't have any of this stuff either. It does have the terrible XM radio, but that's optional and is receive-only.
I can't believe how much union busting is going on in these comments. People take for granted the little wins labor has gotten over the last century.
I just think full term fetuses deserve at least as much legal protection as a pet dog. It's pretty awful to kill a pet when animal shelters are a thing.

I understand the desire to group that opinion along with PizzaGate or some other toxic nonsense. That's exactly the sort of cognitive dissonance I'm talking about.

I am actually sympathetic to and support single mothers in all sorts of ways, not that people should have to qualify philosophical opinions with virtue signalling.
So don't install a security camera in your 8 year old daughter's bedroom, especially if you don't intend to use good security practices. That isn't a societal issue, that is an issue of the parents being idiots. Like I said, I fail to see how a doorbell camera, even with bad security practice, is going to be more dangerous than a smartphone which tracks what you are browsing on the internet and your positional data within a few feet at literally every second of the day.
3-5? Absolutely. 20-30? Expect to find it difficult to find jobs. You're a bad "culture fit" they'll say. Personally I'm looking forward to working as a Long-haul truck driver once my web developer Logan's Run is up.
Insurer Races to Fix Security Flaws After Whistleblower Alert
I was referring to the concept of employers being able to contribution $56k to an employee's 401k (which only happens if employee is already highly compensated), as opposed to IRAs being capped at $6k.
I wonder if he could just ship an american car with onstar to the EU and start requesting the information using GDPR.
It really feels like Apple's OS updates have started to become user hostile in an attempt to "iOS-ify" MacOS.
If you have a big project that needs a big team, then the big project is the cause, and the big team is only coincidentally there.

But if you have a medium project, and you put a big team on it, then I suspect that you will get big team problems (communication issues causing bugs) even though the project itself didn't cause the issues.
I don't think there is anything wrong with pointing out that this fund is all male.

It is stating a fact that might be informative of the rest of the article.

There is nothing wrong with stating facts.
Or the boycott is part of a common industry practice like Disney/ Netflix distribution rules.
I don't think one can fake an entire community with sock puppets. Reddit famously paid for some content (professional redditor would be the most seeked job today).
You don’t know what your talking about. Common problem here in HN.
Good thing I don't care about a haircut, it just needs to be done to a socially acceptable degree.
Heavier vehicles make collisions more dangerous for everyone.
OP meant people employed by local city and state governments, that the tech company resides in probably.
Thank you. This is actually first comment that explains whats going on. Now since my understanding is that this is something relatively new (in terms of volume pumped in) can someone explains WHY this is happening? Why banks need to dip below the line so often these days. And is this behaviour can come eventually with some negatvie consequences to banks or individuals holding loans, stocks etc?
Ask HN: Does it matter who wins the 2020 US presidential election?
I know Apple invested heavily into tracking their mineral supply chain, but I believe their final conclusion was that it is essentially impossible.

> "the lengthy nature of its supply chain – as well as the nature of the refining process – makes it “difficult to track and trace these materials”. Apple illustrates this challenge by noting that its supply chain runs through “family-run mines, brokers, smelters, refiners, and commodity exchanges – before reaching a component or subcomponent manufacturer”"[1]

From Apple's 2018 conflict minerals report - "Apple has not, to date, been able to determine whether the reported incidents were connected to specific 3TG included in Apple’s products. The challenges with tracking specific mineral quantities through the supply chain continue to prevent the traceability of any specific mineral shipment through the entire manufacturing process."[2]

[1] https://hrbdf.org/case_studies/conflict-minerals/conflict_mi...

[2] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/0001193125190...
Rise of Robot Radiologists
There's also Drone: https://www.drone-os.com/

I've not used either though, yet. I need to play with them.
Their product appears to be mostly an extension, with a small amount of bespoke browser code which necessitated a fork. I believe they are saying the delta is smaller with a Firefox base because there are more pre-existing extension APIs they can reuse (and rely on someone else to maintain).

I don't understand why this sort of product exists though. As a user, whether or not I'm aware of the difference, I don't want the additional memory overhead of running a separate browser, the separate cookie jar, the delayed updates, the additional bugs... the better approach would obviously be to work with FF developers to add the extra extension APIs they need; I can only assume they took that path but got rejected. If you're a Firefox user, ie someone who inherently places their trust in the security and privacy decisions of Mozilla, that's probably a red flag.
Not sure I understand. I am pretty sure you have been to remotely control Homekit since the beginning, originally by utilizing an Apple TV 3rd generation, and subsequently with iPads, Apple TV 4th gen/Apple TV 4K, and now HomePods.
> I suspect this is why chat is such a crap, low-throughput form communication; it's trivial for the sender to ship of a half-assed message

I think the crap is related to the amount of effort put into the message vs the medium. Making it easier/harder to send a message MIGHT change the quality, but I'd argue the decay of email over time was due to people failing to put in any effort DESPITE the minimum required.

I recall a coworker back in the late 90s talking about their usenet program, that made them click through a "Warning: What you are about to send will be read by thousands of people. Are you sure you want to send it?" message (paraphrased from memory). He found it daunting and therefore bad, I thought it was properly daunting.
It almost feels like there is an active campaign against them at this point. There used to be a smear campaign against Google which was orchestrated by Facebook a while ago, around the time when Cambridge Analytica scandal was discovered, just to take the heat off themselves. It is difficult to guess who is behind this new campaign.
Sequence of events:

* Indigenous people of Assam complain about illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.

* BJP (party in power) promises to deport illegal immigrants

* NRC (National Registry of Citizenship) law is brought to identify and deport illegal immigrants, most of them believed to be Muslims. NRC is applied in Assam for the cost of 16 Billion INR. 1.9 million illegal immigrants are identified.

* It is found that 1.2 million immigrants are Hindus. BJP, a pro Hindu party, can't afford to deport 1.2 million Hindus.

* CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act) is brought to give citizenship to all but Muslim.

* Protests erupt over this act being signed by government.
The Animal-AI Testbed
How A Plague Tale: Innocence's rat hordes were made
you should be asking why your friend needs a loan every day and one friend is not the proper analogy, all your friends would be asking you for a lunch loan. which should make you think that something is wrong. instead you spend time blindly defending the system that is causing all the actual problems. while the people that actually benefit from that system just laugh at you
The most popular CP/M platform wasn't strictly a CP/M computer at all but the Apple II with the Microsoft Z80 Softcard installed.
>drive-by type attacks would be very concerning

not only that. One insecure system in the area could be infected and then controlled to attack other networks in the area. With a high density of IoT devices you could have malware spreading wirelessly device-to-device.
Also with a wide IoT adoption with such devices being used by public/utilities companies (smart street lamps, leakage monitoring in pipes, smart electric grid etc) you don't even need a densely populated area to have that problem.

>I am more concerned about the bigger threat, global attacks.

I once read something among the lines that IT security needs its own Pearl Harbor event. I can neither quote it exactly or attribute it to any source
I'm not totally sure about that. "Me, yesterday" has to communicate with "me, today", and communication misunderstandings can absolutely happen.

Now, sure, such things happen less when it's me talking to me than when it's me talking to you. They still happen, though.
You may agree or disagree with Justice Scalia, but he was not one to sit around trying to figure out legislative intent when reading a statute (http://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?art...). His take was that the legislature spoke through the statutes text, and after that it was up to the judges.
How is gsuite a "discount mail service" exactly?
Yeah, I guess that's my point. I can understand if the conversation was more centered around the security cameras people are putting up, especially within their own homes. And we already get tracked nearly 24/7 both geographically via our smartphones, as well as online. The possible scenarios where footage from a doorbell cam gets misused seems pretty limited and innocuous. And yet I've seen article after article in recent months about how Ring doorbells are what leads us to 1984.
Unfortunately the federal government subsidizes this behavior so I would need to spend more than what my employer does.
if i'm getting my shit done at work, then im going to get my shit done at work.
Thank god.

Yes, logically, if I drag a file into the Terminal, I want Terminal to be able to access that file.

Should be documented somewhere, probably, but very clearly a positive change.
user namespaces are a super rad feature. They've protected us at $WORK from multiple vulnerabilities that have come out.
Most people do not romanticize or seek to emulate Bukowski although I know at least one person who does. Bukowski lived a life that I wouldn't like to trade places with which is what makes him interesting. I can only read about so many scientists and thinkers who lived their lives beyond reproach all day every day.
> I would rather be able to switch jobs easily than have to follow union rules

What do you think society is? We live in a giant union of citizens.

The point of the union is to protect labor from capital; and protect the rest of us from selfish attitudes.