skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, the difference between the US and Canada is a surprise, in particular the opioid overdoses and road accidents.

I am a US->Canada transplant, and the cultural and economic differences here just don’t seem that stark. Yes, there is universal health care, obviously…but there is definitely not an abundance of easily available mental health care here, especially outside the major metro areas. And the health care in the most economically disadvantaged areas (First Nations reservations) certainly isn’t platinum care.

Really, the road deaths chart stands out to me. Canada is very car centric, and huge, and full of plenty of large animals to hit. I simply cannot hazard a guess as to why it’s that different.
Your employer picks a plan for you, which isn't what you need.

You go to your doctor, who then tries to treat you. But then has to fight an insurance company who wants treatment that isn't in your best interests or isn't covered by the employer plan.

You get home and discover your Doctor is out of network. Pay up. You spend a million years fighting the insurance company.

OR your insurance is good, so the doctor says, what the hell I will order that test that is nice to have. They'll cover it. Costs increase.

Or you go to the emergency room, run up bills for the hospital and leave without paying. The taxpayer foots the bill.

And the doctors pay through the teeth for their degrees and want a big return. They earn more than other countries in a significant way.

All the incentives are out of whack and not in the public's interest.
> Nearly every substance has an LD50. I wouldn't say they should be used for that, but trying to attack something like the death penalty at that level seems absurd given that there are so many alternate means.

It's not, because the state isn't allowed to use literally any means to kill someone, so there's actually only a limited number of substances that are actually used.
California forbids carrying a concealed firearm even if it is unloaded.[1]

Also California's legal definition of a loaded gun is not what everyone thinks it means. For example, PC 25400 has extra penalties if the firearm is loaded or if, "...the unexpended ammunition capable of being discharged from it are in the immediate possession of the person or readily accessible to that person." That makes your suggestion just as illegal as carrying a loaded handgun.

> Close protection details for large US corps virtually never fire a shot in anger. It is a once-per-decade event.

The point of a concealed handgun is to react as quickly as possible to what is usually a once-in-a-lifetime event. Even if it only takes an extra second to load a magazine into a firearm, that second can mean the difference between preventing a murder or not. It doesn't matter how rare the event is. It matters what the consequences are.

1. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio....
It's still regional rather than simply everyone vs. coastal. Not sure if it's fair to lump in the wealthier Rocky Mountain states like Colorado or Utah in with say the butter and cornfed Midwest.
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They’re building a second donut in Austin, maybe the will. Hopefully tbh
I spoke on a panel with Rick Sung, the Undersheriff who allegedly withheld permits until Apple coughed up the iPads.

At the end of the event, each panelist was offered a Starbucks gift card by the event organizers.

Rick gave his Starbucks gift card to me, saying, "since I'm here as a public official I can't accept this. Otherwise it would be counted as a bribe."

Wild.
> I'm all for people consulting counselors and psychologists, but many people want to get back to normal, and part of that is to look the same as they did before, and avoid others asking them very personal questions or making hurtful comments. The doctors performing reconstructive surgery are not taking advantage of vulnerable individuals, they are helping support people's recoveries.

I'm not sure I understand ... ?

First, I certainly didn't say that the doctors are taking advantage of anyone and certainly don't think so! I don't even know what ulterior motive the doctors would have. Please don't attribute things to me.

The job of mental health professionals is to help the patient achieve whatever their goal is, whether that's 'getting back to normal' or to help with a difficult decision or situation.

Who are you saying would be "asking very personal questions and making hurtful comments"? Mental health professionals? Mental health treatment is not an inquisition; there's no judgment made. Just like the surgeon, their job is to help the patient.

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The doctors have asked us to take a survey. It's reasonable to raise legitimate concerns about that survey; we're not and shouldn't be thoughtless and unskeptical.
This seems to be only available on the home page, but thank you I didnt know this exists. Do you know what the option on the video page itself does "Not interested"?
I read these here:

https://paragonie.com/blog/2017/03/jwt-json-web-tokens-is-ba...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16070394
Not really, no. Many of the coastal cities are more stratified and economically segregated than many of the non-coastal ones, but they still have a sizable lower-class population. So the precarious people in the high-poverty areas are much more hidden from the "typical" view of someone with some money.

Food deserts and gang violence - both accelerated by concentrated poverty - are a couple of ways this manifests in some of the "elite" cities.
Or health care (the wrong type) is the problem...
I also thought it was interesting to see when the US branched away from the rest of the rich countries. For example:

1. All the other rich countries have steadily increased health expenditure per capita, and for some reason this really accelerated in the US around the early '80s. But the money looks like it mostly went to things that didn't increase life expectancy. Maybe this was a Reagan thing?

2. The US had the highest cigarette sales until the mid '70s, but is now one of the lowest per capita. This is actually one of the things that the US has done better than its counterparts, e.g. Japan and Germany have higher cigarette sales per capita. However the death rate from smoking remains the highest, probably due to a combination of other factors such as poor healthcare.

3. Around the late '90s, the US really started to pull away from the rest of the rich countries in terms of death rate from opioid overdoses. Some of this spilled over into Canada, but they were able to keep it somewhat under control.

4. For deaths from both obesity and road accidents, the US just hasn't made the same sort of gains as the others since 1990.
Is there any research that suggests such a dramatic effect as you're implying? It's obviously plausible that there is some genetic component to longevity but I have a hard time believing that isn't dwarfed by quality of healthcare and nutrition.

That said, it doesn't really invalidate what the article is talking about.
Tennessee is a tax haven for the wealthy who don't want to be in Florida. These states have a more regressive economy because the un-wealthy have to shoulder more of the burden of financing their government.
May-issue doesn't legalize bribery. See: the indictment.
For those interested in the topic, also read, "Moonwalking wtih Einstein" by Joshua Foer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonwalking_with_Einstein).

It is a really entertaining look at the world of competitive memorization by a journalist who started out looking into this area and then ended up competing in the 2005 U.S. Memory Championship.

The writer goes into detail about how 'method of loci' or memory palace techniques work and theres also plenty of humour in the book as well.
Not to mention squads of clerks at every single doctor's office doing battle with entire armies at the insurers in a many-to-many clusterfuck of epic proportions over every single bit of care delivered.
You don't need a CCW to carry on your own property
Ken Jennings will be first interim Jeopardy host
And how did we get to that state? By having jailbreaks show everyone what the phone was actually capable of, and Apple had to be dragged along to what the customers actually wanted.
I suppose you could be charitable to gp and think they were making the reverse racist good genes argument for Black people?

At least it’d be a new twist on an old racist trope.
Compare wealth and life expectancy of any ethnicity living in USA with the population living in their previous habitat, and the US population comes out on top.

Japanese Americans for example have higher life expectancy than Japanese in Japan, and I expect the same would be true for Ethiopians.

This shows the superiority of the American system.

I need to second the previous comment that this article is either based on deception or ignorance.
Not anymore. The firearms community is more inclusive than it has ever been. We - and I obviously count myself among them - see the racial disparity in access to arms as a key component of our legal strategy to get those laws overturned.

Pretty much all gun control in the US is racist in its origins and usually in its modern implementation. "May issue" is a shining example of this.
I'm pretty sure this guy was just hired
> US is more ethically diverse... inequality, unfortunately, is distributed ethically

Trenchant, if unintentional, observation :)
Wrapping around to this late—

Yea I can imagine that phenomenon, though perhaps I simply haven't encountered it strongly myself. The particular case for this was a periodic meeting to review the style guide. Thus, you're pulled into conversations (flamewars) about style topics even if you have no stake and just want consistency.

I certainly agree that anything with disagreement merits discussion! I'm mostly bemused/have difficulty understanding why there is such a broad emotional response to syntax. Think of all the flamewars 15 years ago over ruby syntax vs python syntax—it all blurs together into blocks to me, tbh, so I have difficulty dredging up how I felt when I first read these languages, and what code makes me feel good. It's all subconscious now!
Owell was a Democratic Socialist, FYI. There used to be a lot more nuance to these things before the cold war.
There are dramatically more high density, high risk driving environments in the US versus Canada. I could also make some questionable generalizations about Canadian drivers versus US drivers.
I know a few multi-millionaires in Idaho and Utah that live very nicely.

In SF or LA they'd be middle-class.

It's not just about wealth in dollars, it's about purchasing power.
The money to pay for bailouts has to come from taxes, otherwise we just create inflation which causes other problems.
People complaining the loudest about "not OSI compliant" etc. are not complaining about the software being non-FOSS. They're complaining about non-FOSS software masquerading as/lying about being FOSS.

If the solution to making FOSS more competitive with non-FOSS is to make FOSS non-FOSS, well, that's not much of a solution.
The amount the US spends on healthcare is more than offset by the high proportion of people who have no cover.

The % of US population covered by health insurance is around 84%, compared with most other rich countries, which are all at 100%.

Additional, much of what you count as US health care spending is really health care administration - i.e. billing and finding reasons to deny care to the sick.
They contain explosives, which often don't need more than a bit of heat to go off.
I’ve been in a similar situation and got in within seconds using an old credit card. The lock in the handle (as opposed to the deadbolt) of most home doors is basically worthless.
Lots of things were supposed to be anonymous/secure, right up until it turned out that they weren't. Maybe this time is different, but I can understand a reasonable person being extremely skeptical of a system that is literally designed to track the people you're around, no matter what great promises are made about it.
For transparency, from [0]:

US Right to Know (USRTK), an Oakland, California-based group whose sole major funder is the Organic Consumers Association

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Folta
I wonder if it will be one of the inferior technologies that were forced by Microsoft even outside of their Windows world. Like it happened with UEFI (that has no multithreading, uses PE as a format, Microsoft C ugly coding convention, bloated), SecureBoot (that was designed to stop anything non-Windows instead of real security), UTF-16 (everyone except them and JavaScript uses UTF-8), and so on. The list is long.
Python Package Index (PyPI) codename is 'Cheese Shop'
Have a look at Erlang's success typing

https://it.uu.se/research/group/hipe/papers/succ_types.pdf
I think if I did a saas I’d do django on heroku to get started.

I want the minimal devops/sys admin work possible and have all my effort go towards adding features.

If I’m successful I could cut costs later and switch to something cheaper.

Is that a good strategy?
NO - these aren't workplace permits, they are personal licenses for the employees. They can already carry guns on their building grounds without a permit. The company is stepping in on behalf of their employees for to get these permits issued to them as individuals, so Apple's willingness to participate in the bribery is on the company. I do agree that the police have done the far greater crime in the abuse of their authority. No one really cared when the only permit issued by the city of Oakland was to Jerry Brown's personal assistant Jacques.
I think the answer is yes, but much more slowly and it probably would not look the same. It would be slower, more efficient, more durable, and it would probably take a lot longer to get things like air and space flights.

Think bootstrapped company vs big money VC backed company. Fossil fuels are like a boatload of VC. It accelerates things but also promotes certain dysfunctions and wastefulness.

Of course maybe our slow renewable civilization would eventually find nuclear fission and take off like ours.
It's almost like we should tax unsafer lithium tech used in sports and truck/commercial EV's more than LiFePo2, NMC and other safer but less dense chems.
A reasonably high cap like this doesn’t seem completely unreasonable. But where the cap is set, who it applies to, when it’s updated and when it comes into effect are more important than the number of TBs.

For instance, setting it at 1.2 TB today seems fine, but in 10 years that won’t be nearly enough, but will Comcast update it? Or just push ‘heavy’ user to their ‘prosumer’ plans.

It’s similar in financial regulation. Transactions over $10,000 must be reported for KYC/AML purposes. Sounds fine when it was implemented, but now it seems very low.

It wouldn’t take much to future proof decisions like this, by default. Inflate by 10% per year, or some other metric. And the lack of such features hints at the fixed amount being the feature.
I think you have to go even finer grained than that.

Chicago, for example. My old stomping grounds. The inequality within that city is stark. Glaring. The South and West sides are a world apart from the North side.
Yeah, you're right... this isn't Hollywood.

A determined attacker could seriously injure or kill someone in the time it takes to load your weapon and chamber a round.

Your kind of ignorance almost makes me physically ill... you sound just like those women who take a self-defense course and think they can take down a 6'4" 295 lb. guy who looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger's bigger cousin.

I'd love to see the look in your eyes when someone rushes you at 10 feet and stabs you with the blue plastic prop knife 99 times out of 100. Its the same look those women get when they realize, "Oh shit... it turns out someone who's got 150 lbs. of muscle over me can fight off my puny attacks."

If guns were truly the ultimate force multiplier, military and police would never train for close quarters hand-to-hand combat. They aren't, so we do.
Last time I looked closely at infant mortality in the US, it looked like the US was doing horribly. However, after talking with some doctors at a neonatal ICU I found out that in the US, we will often identify an unborn child that is in trouble and get it out of the mother in an attempt to save it. Since these types of cases are considered a birth, they count against the mortality rate whereas in some other countries they would be stillborn and not count against infant mortality statistics.

That isn't to disagree with the causes given in the article, but after talking to those doctors it made me realize how complicated it is to get accurate comparisons between countries.
Well, the US has better outcomes for employed, insured and non-overweight folks; dramatically lower wait times, better cancer survival rates and less competition for care. Expense is also a nonissue on employer insurance.

Unfortunately the US aggregate outcomes are dragged heavily down by an unhealthy population and high barriers to care for the uninsured.
Quality of service is also not correlated with usage. packet loss, queuing and dropped connections result in higher usage and are directly the fault of the ISP. they can oversell a region and under provision and then charge excessive bandwidth fees because of it.
This is more crazy. Is this achieved by hardcoding the DNS server IP address in the device?
I think youtube recommendations are a sneaky and opaque thing. Whatever they're doing, "it works" well enough for their ulterior motivations rooted in surveillance capitalism.

The OP is absolutely right in wanting to regain some control over what's presented to his eyeballs. Right now the only way you can do that is to right-click on an offending video and select "don't recommend this channel" or "not interested". That only partially works.

I wish there were some way to specify actual words in a "black list" such that videos whose titles or descriptions contain a black list word would NEVER be presented as a recommendation. This is sort of like Twitter's muted words list. It really is the only way to block content that you really don't want to enter your headspace. Not perfect, of course, but better than being left to the whims of pavlovian algorithms coordinated by ever-improving AI.

I once made the mistake of viewing a Jordan Peterson video. It was mildly interesting, I found him somewhat provocative but a bit paternalistic, not my cup of tea, no big deal. But then... I got a ridiculous number of men's right's or "red-pill" videos recommended to me which were totally disgusting. It's easy to see how people can get radicalized or worse all because somebody is paying Google money for clicks and Google is, in spite of whatever they say, disinterested in our well-being.
My favorite is Compact Conflict, a minimal version of Risk that you can play in a few minutes:

https://wasyl.eu/games/compact-conflict.html
Tor was released in 2003, and yet people don't realise that it's that project (and others like that one) that gives people the freedom of speech.

Tor isn't particularly difficult to use (client-side), the only obstacle is having to remember the links
> Gun laws have only gotten more strict in recent years, not less strict

This is definitely not true at the state level, and not exactly true at the federal level either.

Every state to which I regularly travel is now "constitutional carry" - i.e., no permit needed at all. None of them were ten years ago.
Nothing about the chart you showed supports your argument.
You can't blame MS for UTF-16. They adopted it when it was UCS-2 and unicode only had 64k codepoints. They are stuck on the older technology because they were early adopters.
Sounds like Swiss trains need a single axle connector to ensure all trains have an odd number of axles.
The Moral Machine Experiment (Results)
> The purpose of science is not prediction. The purpose of science is to find better deeper explanations for reality.

But prediction is the proof that your explanation (i.e. model) is correct, no?
Yet the median disposable income per person, after adjustments for government provided healthcare and education is enormously higher than any other nation, according to the OECD.

https://data.oecd.org/hha/household-disposable-income.htm
I agree with pmoriarty in their statement that this is not only uncalled for; but offensive.

Nothing about that comment suggested pmoriarty felt 'entitled' to it - they were simply asking if it was an option / available.
Futures which pause the calling thread can be used to solve some of the synchronization issues mentioned:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futures_and_promises

Here's an example of this in Objective-C:
https://github.com/stevedekorte/ActorKit
Steve Jobs incredulously derided both Android phablets ("no one wants these Hummer phones"[1]) and 7"/8" Android tablets ("They are so small, you'll have to file down your fingers to use them"[1]). All the while, Apple was working on both bigger iPhones and smaller iPads. When Apple's version of products were released, those niches weren't terrible, all of a sudden.

1. I'm paraphrasing
But calling it a Chinese backdoor drives more clicks ;)
> They come from states, based on the votes in those states.

They come from states based on what the state legislature decides.

> But I'm pretty sure you knew that. You're clinging to the hope that things will change.

I'm actually just explaining the legal process here since so many people seem to think the president is elected by the media.

> Trump has legal remedies, and he's filed suits. But those suits don't add up to enough votes in enough states to change the result.

Perhaps so. We'll see, just like in 2000.
Not even close... thanks to YouTube personalities like Colion Noir, white gun owners and black gun owners are on very very good terms.

There's a lot of black shooters at the ranges here in North Texas, and I'm happy to see them. Black people aren't my enemy - the ever encroaching desire of the state to strip us of what few freedoms we have left is.

Pity no one was listening to George Carlin...
For healthcare, you can probably segment America a little more generously into insured vs uninsured. If you are insured in America, your healthcare is reasonably good. Lower quality plans may have more restrictive networks or higher deductibles and maximums, but these are manageable and neither are truly barriers to care.
People are actually downvoting my post (and the one where someone confirmed that this happened at three Fortune 100 companies).

It's one thing to be a boy scout, but it's another entirely to get accused of severe, frivolous charges while abroad, or to drive up to an armed cartel/militant roadblock, and then say "I'm sorry, bribes are against corporate policy and illegal in my country" when asked for $50.

Shame on any company for creating a clause like that and risking their employees lives instead of just remaining silent on the matter. Make no mistake, bribery isn't optional in many parts of the world, it's a robbery by a uniformed official.
Also America is the most litigious society in the world [0], making medical malpractice suits an ever-present threat in everyone's minds; but tort reform does not help taxpayers, and hurts patients [1].

[0] https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2015/12/03/why-us-lit...

[1] https://www.citizen.org/wp-content/uploads/medical_malpracti...
unhealthy diet, drug addiction, wealth disparity.
"Sung—second in rank only to Sheriff Laurie Smith in the sheriff’s office—is accused of deliberately holding back four concealed carry weapons (CCW) permits for Apple’s security team until the Cupertino-based corporation agreed to donate 200 iPads worth about $75,000 to the Sheriff’s Office, Rosen said.

Sung and Jensen allegedly worked together to solicit the exchange of CCW permits for the tech donation from Apple."
It’s insane that shall-issue is not the defacto standard. If you meet the requirements (not a felon etc) for exercising what is unarguably a constitutional right your participation in said right should not be at the gov’s leisure.