skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have always maintained that children growing in this generation with social network and influencers is way harder than any generation before. For instance, growing up I knew that we weren't rich but never fully aware how much poorer I was than my classmates. Simply I have no access to the information of my classmate life after school is over. Sure I had TV and all that but almost everyone I knew growing up are more or less like me, from what I can see. Nowaday even for grownups, you have a hard time constantly comparing yourself to others with what you see on FB or IG, your "peers" who are better or whatnot. Can't imagine for kids without the maturity and fully developed brain can process that. All that is to say, the feeling of insecurity and being "not enough" is so much more amplified for kids than ever before. Nothing makes you feel even more lonely and miserable than seeing other kids having a seemingly great lives on their vacation with their loving parents or kids having so much fun at parties that you are not invited to. So glad that I didn't grow up with social network.
Some of us can tell the difference between fact and fiction, between make-believe and reality.

I mean, the majority of people everywhere are able to do this just fine, that's my point. US movie culture isn't particularly different than elsewhere.

Here's a popular French movie that celebrates impunity. A cop steals cocaine from some drug dealers and then makes war on them when they kidnap his son:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz_VfNacaeo

Maybe I got lucky and found the only one.
The other fun trap is that high performers might even be happy with the bottom 5% gone, but it's also easiest for them to find new jobs, so if you cut the bottom 20%, half of the top 10% will also leave.
If X & Y are correlated, it absolutely can be because X causes Y. And if X & Y are correlated, it's more likely X causes Y than if they were not correlated.

Parroting "correlation isn't causation" every time someone trots out an argument which isn't water tight is dumb.
I hope they ban kids under 18 from accessing social media so I don’t have to be the bad guy when my daughter grows up. It’s cancer and kids should not be exposed to it.
Hey now, you can get somebody to do anything for $300 on Craigslist. You just need a fairly flexible definition of “qualified”.
I'm a US citizen that has spent a significant amount of time outside of the US. 35 years in the US, and 16 years now in New Zealand. And it's not plainly obvious to me. Bowling for Columbine movie pointed out that Canadians have just as many guns, but much less shootings.

I'm in New Zealand. New Zealand has guns. You need to take a class and be approved by the police who interview you and inspect your gun safe. Pistols are much harder to get. More than 10% of people have a gun license. There is almost no culture of using guns for self-defense against other humans. Farmers consider them necessary tools on the farm, hunters use them to hunt food, and DoC workers use them to cull pests (so do farmers). I also feed my dog about one-third of her diet by shooting rabbits and possum. Recently certain semi-automatic weapons were prohibited, but even before that we didn't have school shootings. Sometimes a family household would be slaughtered by a member of that household. Last night in Auckland seven houses were shot up in gang related violence.
>> then removed the grip fin and modified the magazine to accept 30 rounds.

What an oddly specific comment.
until randomly without warning the latest version is broken, removes something, deprecates something, or is incompatible with something else. "always up to date" is something that sounds great but in practice has many many pitfalls.
I'm saying Brave doesn't do anything as far as I'm aware to stop fingerprinting, and since it is Chromium-based I'm guess also leaks Client Hints.
My wife is in the same boat. Here are some games we play:

- Narrative games. Think anything from Quantic Dreams (Heavy Rain, Detroit), lots of Nancy Drew games, Tell tale Games (Walking Dead). Note that none of these are co-op, but they're fun to pass and play.
- Simple platforming games (we're currently playing Kirby and the forbidden land on Switch, will probably play Mario Odyssey after. I let her play the main character but take over if it ever gets tough)
- Puzzle type games (Portal)

She isn't great at games, but she's getting better, and she enjoys playing them.
yea i would bolt even if you still have the offer.
I got a Gen 2 Volt in late 2020 for $19k, low mileage and top trim. Great car that hasn't given me any trouble and more than takes care of my commute with its battery.
that's exactly why faecebook etc are fully onboard with other such initiatives, like fines for hate speech. they want it to be prohibitively expensive to dethrone them.
Please spend 15 seconds looking up what "the left" is actually arguing for before speaking in public about it. Because you appear to not have any idea.

Hint: it's what 92-96% of the US public consistently agrees with. Background checks without loopholes, for instance.
It's weird how the absolutely right answer is yours, as in, reduce the guns and take away the guns but almost all comments that talk about gun reduction is either downvoted to hell or flagged.

if the supposedly intelligent HN can't arrive at the conclusion that reducing guns is the right answer since it was already successfully done by Canada and Australia then what chance do the rest of the US have?

it's been instilled from their birth that will be born with and die with guns. No amount of persuasion will change their minds. It's absolutely 100% futile to argue with Americans that guns are the root of all evil.

It's a fucking straight forward issue. Gun violence is increasing so reduce gun. Even for this linear problem every American is blaming everything else from Saturn in retrograde to bullying /mental health (as if its not an issue across the world)

so aggravating.
Denver Public Schools will discipline kids, just not for bullying. Apparently the victims are supposed to deal with it, which I think is logically inconsistent. If the victim could deal with it, they would. Victim is still getting bullied, therefore they can't do it.
In 1966 half of all children (in the US) weren't even completing high school. This thread is a disjointed set of "facts", just asking questions, and implying issues without any real analysis or insight.
A nasty integral! https://mathworld.wolfram.com/DiskLinePicking.html
I just want Portal 3..and 4..and 5..and so. If there are 20+ FIFA games, I want the same for Portal.
https://endless-sky.github.io/

> Endless Sky is a 2D space trading and combat game similar to the classic Escape Velocity series. Explore other star systems. Earn money by trading, carrying passengers, or completing missions. Use your earnings to buy a better ship or to upgrade the weapons and engines on your current one. Blow up pirates. Take sides in a civil war. Or leave human space behind and hope to find friendly aliens whose culture is more civilized than your own.
India and China had the highest GDP 250 years ago. So it is not surprising that they will grow back again.That necessarily does not mean USA people have to kill each other. There is enough room for global prosperity if only we have the patience and the right attitude. To start with - stop killing each other.
Okay, let's take away 30% of fatal car accidents. There is still a truly enormous magnitude of car deaths. I can still show you a relentless barrage of gory car death scenes, are you now persuaded to ban cars?
Memes are international. American cultural hegemony is global. Evidence: I'm a Canadian and can name all members of the US supreme Court from memory and zero members of the Canadian one.

Memes do not stop at borders, and yet the hot zone for the school shooting plague is localized within the USA.

It's the cheap plentiful, underregulated firearms.
"upgrade" steam to version 2.1.4 or older and you can use adb backup. Android backup extractor can convert the backup to a standard tar file.
> Lots of dev forums talk about this and encourage others do the same, even juniors, just to earn more because their 2 hours or work is better than 8 hours of their colleagues from western countries.

I work for a company's whose headquarters is in Poland and we rely on eastern europeans for a fair amount of work. For context on this statement, we (americans) all believe our 2 hours of work is equivalent to their 8 hours of work.

To massively oversimplify, eastern europeans believe american corporate speak and many meetings are a huge waste of time and inefficicent communication. Americans believe eastern europeans miss critical context that leads to work which needs to be redone because its incorrect.
How about having a mandatory committee that seriously investigates {physical, social, cyber, etc.}-bullying more instead of just ignoring it? We can both work on stringent gun laws and take the mental health of children/teenagers more seriously. There is a clear pattern of which demographic of people consistently commit such crimes. Using this subset of gun owners to dictate gun ownership policies is going to be a hotly contested political issue and it is going to take a while to make progress on that. I personally would hope for a future where gun ownership is very very strictly controlled. However, to claim that gun ownership is the root cause of such incidents occurring doesn't sit right with me. Sure it amplifies the amount of damage that can be done but I don't think that most of these individuals randomly woke up and decided to cause mayhem.
I agree with everything you’re saying up until this point:

> What's necessary is clear rules that align the behavior of companies with social ends. If they can't square making money with keeping public discourse healthy or not making teens mentally ill they need to be culled, it's that simple.

I don’t think it’s that simple, or simple in the way you may imagine. It’s impossible to come up with rules that even a plurality agree with. Just scroll the comment threads here when social media “censorship” comes up, which may not be directly what you’re talking about but is surely related in part if not in whole to the very real mental health issues you are describing.

The auto regulation and leaded drinking water analogies, however, incidentally hint at what the real answer is. We banned those things. If social media is the lead in our water, we don’t need better filters (or whatever) we need to get rid of it.
If it is who I think you’re referring to, America needs its Brutus now.
NY and California would beg to differ.
In theory, Elon Musk maybe buying Twitter shouldn't change any of its management decisions yet.
What are some takeaways? Normally I can get a sense from reading summaries and reviews, but finding it hard in this case.
Yet overall crime went down in the mid 90s all the way until the late 2010s.

Any explanation based on mental illness, lack of stable parenting, Ritalin, lack of community, etc. needs to explain why all these negative impacts only affect shootings in schools, while apparently far more mentally ill, drug addled 18 year olds decided to stop committing crimes outside schools in much greater percentages.
Can't you find a DOS emulator/simulator for iPad? And play the original game in it.
Guns in the US are fetishized, and the culture around guns is certainly something that can evolve over time even if guns stay largely the same (which they haven't really, but I will grant you this for the sake of argument).
A fully functional Star Citizen.
Here it is: https://ufile.io/7h9zq6ft
> So guns are what caused this tragedy? The mere existing of them in the US causes people to lose their minds and go on rampages?

When people in other countries lose their minds they cannot go on rampages as easily because of filters on gun ownership.

In fact before people go on rampages they often go to the US first to get guns so their rampages can be more 'effective' where they actually do live:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Nova_Scotia_attacks
> This time I looked at Web Blocking, the blocking of domains accessed with HTTP and HTTPS.

Anyone knows how this works, especially for HTTPS? I imagine it doesn't MiTM TLS so SNI..?

> The disadvantage of DNS is that it blocks one computer at a time. It can not block facebook.com the way Web Blocking does. With DNS you have to block abc.facebook.com and def.facebook.com and anything.you.want.facebook.com individually.

This isn't true. You can block domains with arbitrary rules - what you're looking for here is easy enough in any DNS server I ever worked with. Maybe there is such a limitation with this particular interface but that distinction should be clear.
There have been a number of mass stabbings with swords in recent years. Japan appears to have quite a pattern of this and the body count is often higher. I am no expert with a sword but I have cleared a few acres of brush with a machete and the first thing that comes to mind is that it doesn't go bang thus giving the attacker a little more time before confrontation. The downside was that I got a nasty blister on my thumb due to using the wrong gloves but I can clear brush for hours on end.

I would never harm anyone unprovoked and attacking anyone in my state would be suicide as everyone here is packing. The ratio is something like 221:1 firearms to people, yet no mass shootings, yet. No idea why. There are virtually no ammo or suppressor restrictions. My state and a neighboring state have a 66% firearm ownership rate but I think that counts children.

The only thing that really comes to mind is that most folks here are religious, mostly Mormon. They are very family oriented and if a kid is getting picked on the parents will confront the other parents, likely in church. There is a bit of peer pressure to not be a bad person. But that could be entirely unrelated.
>Australia isn’t really a success at solving the underlying social issues.

Definitely- the most recent mass shooting committed by an Australian national didn't even occur on Australian soil, but in Christchurch, NZ.

>our cultural relationship with guns didn’t fetishise them as implements of power

As opposed to the US, whose cultural relationship with school shooters sees them made Person of the Year by a popular nationwide magazine. Their media reports stories of "Could [popular movie] result in mass shootings?" throughout the time it was in the theaters to the point you'd wonder if it was actually part of a marketing campaign.

Not actively promoting this particular kind of crime or the people who commit it would indeed be a good start to eliminating it but why do that when there's money and political hay to be made over it?
What's a game of chance to you to him is one of real skill...
Not Carnot, it's mechanical. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricit...

It's not 100%, but it's not bad.
>> Also any argument like "mental illness" or "ease of access to firearms" needs to explain why the same does not apply to the rest of the world

- Well Afghanistan people have access to lot of guns , lots of it and maybe even tanks. But they don't go to school that much. And in Serbia the population is thinly spread across vast swatches of ice. Not exactly LA.

Lets simply stop talking and just bring a bill to buy back all automatic guns and destroy them. This country needs it.
That is true, there are people who use an ISP modem/router but what of the ones who don't, what of the android TV or phone is that doesn't get updates, what of that winxp/vista/7 computer that won't be upgraded.......?

There are so many other devices out there that are required for this change to work, it is insane to think it could be done.
Indeed. Canada had a mass shooting in 2020 where 23 people were killed. The person had been in contact with the police on many occasions, but still had legal and illegal guns on hand. And this is with Canada's much more strict gun control laws.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Nova_Scotia_attacks

There are regular shootings in public in Vancouver and Toronto due to gang activity. Hell, some random innocent person was killed in Calgary when shooting started during a traffic incident.
I’d give them a chance. Then doing a full recall is the responsible move and in the long run should establish confidence. I doubt Tesla would have done a full recall for something as “trivial” as the displays sometimes failing. In fact I’m pretty sure Elon knew this was a problem with Teslas from the get-go (the displays were not up to spec) and shipped the cars anyway and made everyone sign an NDA who had an issue.
> Generics can not reliably be optimized.

Choose to believe this, it's your loss. The fact is that performance sensitive domains like browsers/HFT/HPC/ML/etc are almost universally written in heavily templated C++. Just look at linear algebra libraries, C can't compete.

> They create specialized inline code by monomorphization

Neither generics nor monomorphization imply inlining, that's purely a performance optimization.

> (except partially in Go which is a bit smarter).

Are you joking? Go, already an extremely bloated language, somehow managed to implement generics with runtime overhead.

> Generics always create the bloat by default.

Generics only generate code you would have manually written/copied otherwise.

> But the best strategy is not let the optimizer decide and apply this very carefully inly for the few selected cases where it matters.

Two words, heterogeneous programming.
I always used to use both.

figlet | cowsay -n
My personal experience was that some teachers (Kirksville Jr High "Coach" Keith Jerome was one) actually let some bullying go on. Coach Jerome let some kids beat other kids that he didn't like. That would have been around 1974, so maybe in your Golden Age of individual justice and standing up for ourselves.

In general, I think that teachers do use bullies to extract revenge on students they wouldn't otherwise be able to punish. Same as we as a society let cops do extra-judicial killings and such.
Mass shootings are very different from mass _school_ shootings though. Outside of the obvious Polytechnique, for which Canadian engineering schools still mourn for every year, I don't think Canada's experienced anything close to what this article's referring to.
there is a performative aspect to "credit building", but it's not all a meaningless game. the fact that someone has access to a $5k credit line and doesn't go crazy with it is a positive signal itself.
I think D will be much better suited for embedded system because you can even seamlessly import C functions into D program [1],[2]. Since C is the de facto language for embedded system this new capability is a game changer.

Added to the fact that D language designers try to make programming D similar to programming Python and D is by default has GC, it'll make it easier for those coming from application software developer background to program embedded system with D.

[1]Add ability to import modules to ImportC:

https://dlang.org/changelog/2.099.0.html#__import

[2]Great Programming with ImportC:

https://youtu.be/c3kJoFCzA-0
One day we'll have a thriving EV upgrade market. Then you can take your old dumb car and drive out with a modern EV.
> The US' foundation is based on a war fought for freedom, using guns.

A "war fought for freedom" is a long, long way from shooting innocent people at a school. Equating the two is a huge slap in the face to the vast majority of gun owners in the US who are responsible, law-abiding citizens and, while they would use their guns to defend themselves against tyranny, would never even think of using their guns to shoot an innocent person.
> The argument being made is that this is either insignificant or OK

This is my point. Nobody is saying it's "okay". Facts are _upstream_ of the normative claims people use them to support, and don't always lead to conclusions that you can predict from kneejerk, nonsensical assumptions of the sort you're making.

A historian can object to the NYT (allegedly) explicitly making an incorrect _factual_ claim; that's practically his damn job! The only person rushing to project an agenda onto it so that you can get high off of outrage is you. Before we can make detailed normative decisions about reality, we need to understand the facts that underlie them.

> That's sort reprehensible even if it's true. Let I repeat even if it's true

Even the assumption that this exonerates the French doesn't make any sense! It's trivial to frame this as "the French further damaged an economy that was already at a disadvantage relative to its peers"! You're throwing away the truth for a "benefit" that doesn't even make any sense!

I apologize for the pointed language, but I can't think of anything in modern discourse that I loath more than this revolting focus on what factual claims _sound_ like instead of what they actually mean and how they contribute to our picture of the world. The world is _complicated_. Facts don't always lead you to the conclusions that this childish kneejerk style of analysis assumes they do. There are a lot of decent, serious people trying to understand the world and make it better, and it is _precisely_ this alternative-facts approach that is poisoning our modern discourse.
Some cities won't grant a permit unless the pool is fenced because of the drowning risk to small children.
Great Programming with ImportC (DConf Online 2021)
There was also Pong In A Chip:

https://www.pong-story.com/gi.htm

> General Instrument Microelectronics, also known as General Instruments (GI), was well known for designing Large Scale Integragion (LSI) chips. In 1975, GI had a revolutionar idea: the design of a low-cost chip playing several Ball & Paddle games, and available to any manufacturer.

[snip]

> GI's first video game chip was the AY-3-8500. It played six games: four Ball & Paddle variants and two target shooting games, which all had variable difficulty settings changed using switches. In addition, a seventh undocumented game could be played when none of the previous six was selected: Handicap, a football/hockey variant where the player on the right has a third paddle. Very few systems played this game. Interestingly, two versions of the AY-3-8500 exist: the early one with dashed central line (about twice larger) and solid horizontal boundaries.

GI expanded its lineup of single-game chips but, by the 1980s, it looks like the whole concept was dead.
It feels like gun-owners in the US hav made lots of compromises about weapon ownership. I feel like saying otherwise is dishonest.
Talking Deadly Towers NES with Broderbund's Producer, Alan Weiss (2014)
> The left says "no guns". The right says "more guns".

How much of "the left" is actually about no guns, versus having a few hoops that you have to jump through first, à la (e.g.) Massachusetts:

* https://www.vox.com/2018/11/13/17658028/massachusetts-gun-co...

Compared to: "Only in Texas: Lubbock jeweler offers free gun with engagement ring purchase":

* https://www.dallasnews.com/news/texas/2016/10/25/only-in-tex...
I mean... please don't trust a random key given to you at an event by someone you will never see again and might not even be affiliated with the company they are claiming to be from to not have a copy floating around in a database?
I have a program on disk called Apple Rock ‘83 that has 4 of those songs, including Black Dog. The author built a quiz around the songs. The others were, I think, Eruption by Can Halen and … now I forget then others.
Regulations have not "increased across the board". Obviously.

We had an assault weapons ban in the US, for a while, under Clinton. It worked. We should still have it.

The solution is to ban assault weapons, outright, and then institute strict background checks, without any loopholes. The vast majority of the public supports this.

Was that clear enough? Yes, I do know the solution.
“Establishment Simp” would be a great name for a punk band.
1000 kids a year die because of cars, are you putting cars before kids lives by not outlawing them?