skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whoever is involved, it is true that antidepressant use among children in the US is much higher than in the rest of the world.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/nov/21/children-who...

Quoting the article:

"According to America’s Centers for Disease Control, 11% of four- to 17-year-olds in the US have been diagnosed with ADHD, a label for those who are disruptive in class and unable to concentrate; just over 6% are taking medication."

"In the UK, meanwhile, about 3% of children are diagnosed with ADHD; just 1% are on medication. American children can go through six or seven different drugs quite early in their lives; in the UK, children are usually sent for cognitive behaviour therapy first, in line with guidance from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence."

"It is now generally accepted, says David Healy, professor of psychiatry at Bangor University, that 20%-25% of students at most universities in the US are on medication, often on multiple prescriptions"
This kind of comment screams of lack of perspective.

In the 1960's the US had multiple race riots where dozens died and cities were burnt down. It was bogged down in a war in SE Asia and had constant protests. Radical groups were killing policemen and sending bombs to politicians. Political leaders were being assassinated on a regular basis. The economy was in shambles.

Things are way better than then, but for some reason people think the end is near.

Time to take a break from social media I think!
Easy, give every SSN a corresponding USPS/public bank account
Teitter wanted my phone number once, even by locking my account and asking me for my phone number to unlock it. It felt like blackmail and I threatened Twitter with a GDPR request, not only requesting my data but also the algorithms used for automated decision making.

As soon as my account got restored I let their DPO know that I don't insist on the fulfillment of the GDPR request any more. And that I will follow through if Twitter pulls off this kind of blackmail again on me. Haven't had this issue any more.
I used to live in California. They have silly laws that require a "fin" on the grip (so you can't wrap your hand around it) and 10 round magazines. Once I moved, I fixed those annoyances.
> When people in other countries lose their minds they cannot go on rampages as easily because of filters on gun ownership.

They totally can, for instance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_attacks_in_China:

> On March 23, 2010, Zheng Minsheng (郑民生)[7] 41, murdered eight children with a knife in an elementary school in Nanping,[8] Fujian province...

> An attacker named Wu Huanming (吴环明), 48, killed seven children and two adults and injured 11 other persons with a cleaver at a kindergarten in Hanzhong, Shaanxi on May 12, 2010...

> On 4 August 2010, 26-year-old Fang Jiantang (方建堂) slashed more than 20 children and staff with a 60 cm knife, killing three children and a teacher at a kindergarten in Zibo, Shandong province....

> The death toll has risen to nine in Friday's stabbing attack outside a middle school in northwestern China allegedly carried out by a former pupil seeking revenge for having been bullied....

etc.
> Ford dealers seem to be honoring MSRP with pre-ordered Mach-e

That's, like, the opposite of truth. In other words: a lie.

https://www.tesmanian.com/blogs/tesmanian-blog/ford-dealersh...

Majority of dealerships will always act in their self-interest and therefore heavily mark-up cars that are in demand.

Only dealership-free new entrants like Tesla / Rivian / Lucid have a single, no-haggling price.
When I got bullied in junior high I immediately went to the vice principal. That was my understanding of what you were supposed to do. And she set up a meeting with me and the bully, and the bullying stopped after that. (Though I remember when I walked into the office the bully looked at me and realized what the meeting was about and he said, “oh give me a break.” He has definitely expected us to settle it ourselves.)
Here in Canada the "left" liberal government made it much harder to get a gun license. Then proceeded to mandate the vaccine, fired unvaccinated employees, denied them their EI, and banned about 6 million Canadians from flying to this day. When some truckers protested, they suspended the charter.
I can see how many Americans would want to hold to their guns in light of the behaviour of governments over the last few years.
Yes, actually, it does very clearly mean individuals. To quote the relevant amendments that cite "The People":

9th:
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
10th:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

What meaning would the 4th have, if "The People" were state assemblies? "The right of the people to be secure in their persons"... Would that mean it was up to individual states to decide if you are secure in... What, exactly?

Or consider the 1st, "the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances"... Why would a state need to petition "The Government", as it is "The Government".

There is no reasonable reading of the constitution that reads the second amendment as anything but an individual right.
> abortions the woman chose to take the action whose sole biological purpose is pregnancy.

If you think that, you really haven't been doing it right. Pleasure, companionship, comfort, reinforcement of social status, and many other purposes are commonly fulfilled by the act of sex, including between same sex partners.

But let us say that you're correct. That still leaves 1% of pregnancies that are involuntary. What should women be allowed to do then?

We aren't going to agree on when a fertilized egg becomes a person (I think you would say immediately, I would say only when viable outside the womb), but let's set that aside.

I don't think women should be forced to continue an unwanted pregnancy. You don't think destroying the fetus at any point is moral. What if we could both get what we want?:

https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15112

Please note that unless women are provided with comprehensive sex education that includes contraception, there are going to be a lot more unwanted babies being born, regardless of how they are brought to term. This imposes a lot of costs on society that I hope you have some sort of plan to cover.
Can you use your own PGP key on ProtonMail without uploading your private key to them yet?
You are thinking of Tom E Hawk.
Select multiple files with different extensions > hold [Control] and right click > Get Summary Info > Open with (select all) > click [Change All...].

The files don't need to be valid, just have the extension you want to associate, so you can do something like `touch _.mp3 _.mp4 _.m4a _.mkv` then select those files and set them all at once.
tbh I’ve come a full circle and feel like the “normie” stuff is actually good, quality content. It’s the non-normies with agendas and single minded thinking that ruin a lot of what Reddit was.
> What should I watch to learn more about kiwis in Australia

Watch “Housos” (TV series or movie): from an Ocker POV it is partially about trailertrash kiwis in Ozzie. If visiting Australia, “The Castle” is important cultural background, and I personally love “A Moody Christmas” which is on Netflix here.

> kiwi land, what comedy culture should I familiarize myself with?

Kiwis tend make serious productions. If you are approximately middle aged, you could try watching Billy T James (TV series or movie). Here’s some funny history: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTFEZiKItLs although I’m unsure it would be wise for new foreigners to apply that humour locally here. There’s some very unfunny historical stuff here https://www.nzonscreen.com/collection/kiwi-comedy-on-tv if it isn’t blocked overseas, it probably should be.

I have always suspected there is some sort of derper connection between Canadian’s and Kiwi’s. . . poor bastards.
> That's what I love about engineering generally, the ability to roughly understand what is going on around me down to some first principles.

This! It's very empowering and one of the things that drew me to tech/computers. Being able to understand things helped me realize the potential of what is possible with computers/computing technology.

I majored in EE in undergrad and didn't really appreciate my EE education until I got older (I was more interested in software).
> yes I know it's a vague term but you also know what I mean don't @ me.

Our world is filled to the brim with vague constructed terms to solve for a problem, not for a clean categorization. The assault-style category is a desire to lump all the guns that multiply too much the assailant's power. It's not about a certain bullet type, or a specific barrel length. If it's too good at doing a mass shooting, it's assault-style.
Polestar and Volvo both have excellent EVs. Audi's e-tron models, ditto. The EQS, same.

BMW's i4 and iX just came out, both of which appear to blow Tesla out of the fucking water.

Hyundai's Ioniq 5, so far getting rave reviews from owners that match the press.

The Ford Mach-E is having a bit of teething issues reportedly (cooling related, I think?) but I see them all over the place.

The Ford Lightning has sold out several years worth of production.

GM has the Ultium platform in production (Hummer) which will soon serve as the base for a number of models. The Equinox EV is in testing and everyone's guess is that they will sell better than hotcakes unless GM manages to fuck it up. Hopefully they call all the "fuck it up" out of their system with the Bolt.

VW right now is trailing the pack. The IQ4 by all accounts was a huge swing and a miss, which is inexcusable coming from one of the world's largest car companies. They tried to "re-imagine" "the car" on a basic level and failed miserably. For example: it automatically turns on/off. No power/start switch. Just get in, use the "gear" selector, and drive. Ditto for stoping. Sounds great, right? Except if you come out of the driver's seat for even a second (as is common when backing up) the car thinks you're "leaving" and almost immediately shuts itself off. Then they had to go and infantilize the climate control system. I wish I were joking when you tap a "I'm cold" button or "I can't see out the windshield" to get things to happen. Apparently VW's IQ team thinks people are absolute imbeciles.
Archaeologists and anthropologists are required to treat remains, cultural artifacts and funeral goods in particular with 'dignity and respect' by professional ethical norms. That's a legal requirement that's taken very seriously in many American countries to boot.

What that means in practical terms is that we typically avoid taking pictures or doing procedures that aren't strictly necessary for research and engage in a complicated process called consultation to find related descendents to get their permission for various things/do repatriation of artifacts and remains.

Unfortunately the finds we can't show are also the ones media and laypeople are the most interested in.
Mental time travel: Hierarchical memory for reinforcement learning agents (2021)
2A says militias were the reason for guns. Now we have the national guard. Private gun ownership is much less useful than it once was. England is doing reasonably well without them. Worth a try here IMO.
A big issue is how “parenting” has changed in recent decades.

Even a couple of generations ago it was much more of a group effort. Now it is just the parents versus everyone else either not caring or kicking down on them (for example, some comments over here).
Cool idea, I'd like to see different types of users output. Say a programmer vs a call of duty player vs someone browsing Facebook.
This is your brain on haven't read the article.
Auto sears are illegal. Possessing one is a felony with a penalty of up to 10 years in prison and a fine of $250,000. No legal civilian-owned full-auto firearm has been made since the 1986 ban.[1]

There's really no way to make a semi-auto firearm that impedes full auto modification. Full auto is the default behavior. It's the trigger disconnector that makes a handgun semi-auto. That said, full auto isn't very useful. It's inaccurate and eats up ammo quickly, necessitating reloads.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearm_Owners_Protection_Act#...
As Microsoft's $70b takeover of Activision nears workers step up organizing
I mean, I'm not being entirely serious but it was kind of the beginning of the end as shell accounts became increasingly pointless. Although maybe my mental timeline is a bit off, I remember a lottery scheduler getting implemented on the FreeBSD soda and those writeups seem to be from the late 90s not early 00s as I thought.

The t-shirts used to be a good way to run into strangers IRL who would inform you that they too partied with Nick Weaver.
I think you're backwards. Tails is the LiveCD with a browser (that can beacon straight out). Whonix is the VM based system. I think it's capable of more than just browsing, but I use it as the "secure browser" in Qubes as a disposable VM, because it just automatically does the right stuff with the gateway VM and such.
Does the GitHub Actions Toolkit need new maintainers?
Thanks! I hadn't see that - so sad that it's solitaire.
Not sure I agree that that's what the Civil War decided, since it ended with the federal government asserting its power.

I am not a constitutional law expert, but the way the second amendment has been interpreted has become its meaning. At this point, I think what would have to happen is the 2nd amendment would need to be replaced with another amendment that better describes the limits on individuals rights to bear arms.

Until then, these events will continue indefinitely. I simply do not believe that any SCOTUS would make a different decision.
Some games based on ecology, where you play an ant/termite colony or a species for example.
> The state you want to reach is "fixed", not merely "fixable".

And my argument is that readable code is the most direct route to that state.

> > And code is always incorrect.

> This makes a strawman of my argument.

It would if it was actually part of my argument, and not a cheeky parting shot.

Here's the straightforward version. In my experience, the most productive way to approach code is to assume that at some point a bug will be found, or you will have to extend it. You may disagree, of course, but my views all flow from this assumption.
Vehicle owner data exposed in GM credential-stuffing attack
You and the person you were replying to are confusing two kinds of GMO crop:

Pest-resistant (kills bugs) and Herbicide-resistant( makes the plant robust to chemicals which kills weeds)

You're right about refuges, they only slow things down. To truly prevent resistance genes in pests from appearing, you need multiple modes of action. This was used effectively in HIV treatment. The virus was developing resistance to AZT treatment alone, eventually new drugs came along and patients were treated with 3 or more drugs at once. Multiple modes of action makes it too hard for the virus (or pest) to adapt in time. We don't really have multiple modes of action in plants yet, but one day, maybe?

The person you were replying to was describing herbicide resistant crops, which are sprayed (sometimes oversprayed). This isn't so cut and dry as they describe though. Things like glyphosate are much milder compared to older herbicides and GMO crops encourage things like 'no til' agriculture which greatly improves soil quality. So we're still spraying, but it's better, and has ecological benefits.
Ah, the elders of the internet: https://youtu.be/iDbyYGrswtg
>I'm a Canadian and can name all members of the US supreme Court from memory and zero members of the Canadian one.

To be fair, the Canadian Supreme Court rarely does anything of everyday relevance to Canadians, much like all aspects of the political system except for which party happens to be in power (the exact identity of the PM is similarly irrelevant, though everyone knows who that is).
To the extent that school shooting are, statistically, a "tail" event, you would expect that to change more sensitively than the "average" (guns per capita). So a tripling of the average gun measure (going from Serbia to US), might correspond to a much larger change in these extreme events. I doubt it's a simple statistical consequence, but it also doesn't follow that amount of guns would be (linearly) proportional to extreme events.
Ask HN: Data Analysis AI in sub nanoseconds
This is probably hypothetical or science fiction but with the current state of computers, what is the possibility of achieving an data analysis AI that literally, on the fly, munches through yottabytes of data to discover insights, find new patterns and discover relationships e.t.c in sub nanoseconds
It's not a terrible thing to craft policy around if you want to stop school shootings.

Looking at raw death numbers is dumb. Not all deaths are considered equal. At my grandfathers funeral people told nice stories and laughed at jokes. Despite it being sad for us no one thought it tragic - he died at 90, had lived a fun life, and was a respected and loved man. For all time the death of innocent children has been viewed as tragic. It is. It's worse than death of 40 yos, whose deaths are worse than a 90 yos(all else equal). Similarly, few were upset by Bernie Madoff's death, nor Epsein's (bad people).
There are plenty that think any compromise is anti 2A. And the amount of compromise is wildly dependent on state.
We gain massive societal benefit from the existence of cars, what equally large societal benefit is gained from the easy availability of firearms?
That's more the fault of regulators not being serious about hydrogen infrastructure.
I studied to be a teacher. Every teacher knows that the kids we help will usually not reach out to us once they're adults, and that's a part of the job we're fine with.

Mr. Alexander knew he changed your life, and expected nothing in return. Teaching was his reward.
But it sure is more expensive.
If you like this, check out the 4am collection on archive.org (https://archive.org/details/apple_ii_library_4am) - the Apple II hacker posts detailed logs of their cracking techniques for each title. Here's an example of the crack note for Datasoft's Pac-Man port (https://ia600508.us.archive.org/20/items/PacManDatasoft4amCr...)
Well they said nothing of entirely outlawing guns, but yes a lot of people put cars before kids’ lives and I would like to see that change.
Using interfaces everywhere might increase future flexibility, but it comes across as (a) not accepting the idiomatic way of programming in Java, C++, Rust, or C#; and (b) a form of premature optimization (which according to Knuth is the root of all evil, as we all know) -- a lot like premature abstraction.

Duck typing is great, but interfaces everywhere isn't necessarily the answer in non-duck OO languages.
I don't think this is in the book because this is highly personal to you and what your goals are. Sonke and Luhmann had the goal of research and writing. They use their Zettelkasten to produce research which I think Sonke explains pretty well how he does it but if you aren't interested in research or writing then that's explanation is kinda useless. So how you use it will be very dependent on why you want to use it. If you're taking notes just to take notes then you will likely not get any value out of it.
I just don't think that after the way things have worked out in the past we'll suddenly see a supreme court decision that is wildly different from what we've seen. I don't think anything will change until congress decides to make an amendment which isn't going to happen unless attitudes broadly shift in this country.

Buckle in, this is just how it's going to be I think.
We have many laws and regulation in place to lower children MV deaths. This includes things like seat belt, booster seat, child seat expiration and couple zones, and rollover protection.

The fact of the matter is that

“The previous analysis, which examined data through 2016, showed that firearm-related injuries were second only to motor vehicle crashes (both traffic-related and nontraffic-related) as the leading cause of death among children and adolescents, defined as persons 1 to 19 years of age. Since 2016, that gap has narrowed, and in 2020, firearm-related injuries became the leading cause of death in that age group. From 2019 to 2020, the relative increase in the rate of firearm-related deaths of all types (suicide, homicide, unintentional, and undetermined) among children and adolescents was 29.5% — more than twice as high as the relative increase in the general population.”

So outlawing vehicles is not proposed but laws, and regulation to control risk appears to be effective.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2201761
Unfortunately while that's an easy and vague statement to say, getting into the detailed implementations of what you're trying to say becomes difficult.
Is this constitutional in Canada? Won’t this be struck down by the federal courts and/or legislature?
In fact it was one such person who ended the killing spree in question.
It's not appropriate to compare the United States to Afghanistan or Sudan. Better to pick countries with similar GDP per capita.

Switzerland is a good point of comparison; they have about half as many guns per capita as the US which includes military-grade weapons, but no mass shootings.
Relentless pressure to conform and be a "team player" + massive levels of doublethink and hypocrisy + lack of parental guidance and care even in two-parent households because everyone has to work and has no time and energy for raising children.

Also definitely a big portion of attention-seeking. If you want to be "seen" or "heard", a pretty sure-fire way is to shoot a bunch of people, especially the vulnerable and innocent. Where better than a school? Media has been told over and over again that they create copycats, but their profit motive prohibits reform.
When I was a kid, I remember being at my local arcade and seeing them open up Monaco GP to service it. My mind was completely blown by the hundreds and hundreds of wires and I couldn't fathom how anyone could make sense of it. I believe this is another game that doesn't have code or a CPU, but uses discrete logic circuitry instead. ...Which, I think, is why it's not emulated in MAME.
> Differences within the populace with regard to risk tolerance and perception doesn't tell you anything about systemic issues.

How we deal with it as a society does though - some people don't mind going fast but we as a society decided to impose speed limits on roads, especially around schools. Some people don't mind the smell of cigarettes but we as a society decided that indoor smoking shouldn't be allowed in general. No one likes paying taxes but as a society, we accept that we need it to function, however imperfect the process may be.

This is where US feels like a dysfunctional society when viewed from outside. If US views occasional mass-shootings as a non-issue, sure. But if it does see it as a problem and it's not able to deal with it because for whatever reason (culture, freedom, constitution etc.), I think that's a problem.
I mostly don't use cash and throw small coin change into a drawer or whatever. In the last 10 years I've probably dealt with like 300 pennies. The horror!

Like it would be fine if they did just disappear, but it's also a pretty "meh" issue day to day.
Nope, I'm doing close to 9 hour days here in NZ. Meetings and other distractions eat into the day but I'm doing lots of work.

I'm interested in what's behind the claim that 2 hours work in country y is better than 8 in country x?
In a way it seems like SWE jobs in tech hubs are subsidized by VCs. We can see it as some huge redistribution of wealth.
Impossible without huge leaps in AI, data collection and privacy violation, but a game where you can relive recorded moments of your life, but change the decisions and experience how that plays out.