skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The biggest gun problem in the US is urban shootings via hand guns, by a drastic margin.

I'd like to see a plan for removing all the illegally owned guns from US cities. I rarely see anybody talk about how to get those off the streets. Those guns are already illegal and nobody is doing anything about it, nothing that is making a dent in the problem anyway. The murders and shootings continue just as they have for decades, accounting for the majority of US murders by gun. Half of the major US cities are war zones because of illegal hand guns, and it has nothing to do with the mentally ill and mass shootings.

And yes, we should still deal with the mental illness issue around gun access and ownership simultaneously.
Whether or not Musk has the perfect idea for peace is a fair question, but I'd say that influential people who are trying to suggest a semi-realistic basis for a peaceful dialogue and some kind of resolution to this conflict are being more productive than those who are virtue signaling about how much they hate Putin. Musk should have more credibility here than the blue checkmark brigade as he physically acted to help Ukraine early when they needed it.
Persons suffering from mental health conditions suffer them long before they warrant the "dangerous" moniker. The solution lies in substantive treatment of all mental health conditions.

The disparity of care between mental health conditions and all other health conditions is laughable, including in New York State, despite "mental health parity" rules. For those with Medicaid (public health program for those meeting certain low-income or disability criteria), this disparity isn't as severe. However, many young adults with serious mental illness are covered by commercial health plans via their parents, and it is these plans that are relatively weak when it comes to mental health coverage.

These plans do well when it comes to emergency, in-patient interventions, but fall short when it comes to ongoing outpatient support. Much of this is due to lack of participation by mental healthcare providers in the insurance reimbursement system, likely as a result of low reimbursement rates. Why see patients with serious mental illness reimbursed at $100 a session when one can see less complex patients paying cash at $150 or even $200 a session.

This has been exacerbated by the prevalence of mobile app-based therapy arrangements, which, again, are suitable for someone who is reasonably healthy and needs some additional support, but may be completely inappropriate for those with a serious mental health condition.

Mental health care parity laws need teeth. The free market will not solve this.
At this point, I see crypto as nothing more than digital penny stocks. It isn't all scams, just mostly.
If this article has a point, it fails to deliver it.
Crypto is like the invention of ink that cannot be erased. How that technology would weaken trust and accountability is beyond me. It's literally perfect for finance (especially once multi-sig wallets become common). If Celsius had been more all-in on crypto tech, they would have had FEWER problems.

Also, I don't know any law that exempts crypto companies from being taken to court.
The parent is already going grey via downvotes, which I think is a bit harsh: "hire a lawyer and let them hire PR people" is in fact generally good advice.

This thread is 1 part "this isn't the place to litigate this" and 2 parts "i've got a beef with big tech", so it's unlikely to be germane and therefore the all caps are likely to be a bit much.

But it's good advice generally, and that shouldn't be downvoted.
He defines those as concrete real-world examples!

Event {E}: on October 1, 2022, the PCSO Grand Lotto in the Philippines, which draws six numbers from {1} to {55} at random, managed to draw the numbers {9, 18, 27, 36, 45, 54} (though the balls were actually drawn in the order {9, 45,36, 27, 18, 54}). In other words, they drew exactly six multiples of nine from {1} to {55}. In addition, a total of {433} tickets were bought with this winning combination, whose owners then had to split the {236} million peso jackpot (about {4} million USD) among themselves.

Null hypothesis {H_0}: The lottery is run in a completely fair and random fashion.

Alternative hypothesis {H_1}: The lottery is rigged by some corrupt officials for their personal gain.

Alternative hypothesis {H'_1}: The lottery is rigged by a cult that worships the multiples of {9}, and views October 1 as their holiest day. On this day, they will manipulate the lottery to only select those balls that are multiples of {9}.

So then with substitution:

Remark 1: The contrast between alternative hypothesis that "the lottery is rigged by some corrupt officials for their personal gain" and alternative hypothesis that "the lottery is rigged by a cult that worships the multiples of {9}, and views October 1 as their holiest day. On this day, they will manipulate the lottery to only select those balls that are multiples of {9}" illustrates a common demagogical rhetorical technique when an advocate is trying to convince an audience of an alternative hypothesis, namely to use suggestive language (“`I’m just asking questions here”) rather than precise statements in order to leave the alternative hypothesis deliberately vague. In particular, the advocate may take advantage of the freedom to use a broad formulation of the hypothesis (such as "the lottery is rigged by some corrupt officials for their personal gain") in order to maximize the audience’s prior odds of the hypothesis, simultaneously with a very specific formulation of the hypothesis (such as "the lottery is rigged by a cult that worships the multiples of {9}") in order to maximize the probability of the actual event of "they drew exactly six multiples of nine from {1} to {55}" occurring under this hypothesis. (A related technique is to be deliberately vague about the hypothesized competency of some suspicious actor, so that this actor could be portrayed as being extraordinarily competent when convenient to do so, while simultaneously being portrayed as extraordinarily incompetent when that instead is the more useful hypothesis.) This can lead to wildly inaccurate Bayesian updates of this vague alternative hypothesis, and so precise formulation of such hypothesis is important if one is to approach a topic from anything remotely resembling a scientific approach. [EDIT: as pointed out to me by a reader, this technique is a Bayesian analogue of the motte and bailey fallacy.]
meh you get the point
It's centralized. Turns out people like centralized things because it's easier!
I wouldn't say killed. More accurately would be "highways aren't as pretty as residential streets"
From the article

> The petition did not call for Jones' firing.

Also notable, the petition isn’t publicly available either. Why? Because the students were actually being quite reasonable- they weren’t trying to get him fired.
This article presents an absolutely DISTURBINGLY disingenuous view of the civil-rights-forward view here.

> The underlying problem is that the ACLU and other progressive libertarians view the mentally ill as victims of society deserving of special rights, including a he right to avoid the consequences of their behavior.

No, the ACLU believes that without strong protections against forced hospitalization and treatment, people will be abused and stripped of rights in the false name of community safety.

The ACLU doesn’t just believe this on idealist grounds, they believe this because that is the legacy of asylums in the USA.
Does the Academy Matter? Do policymakers listen to academics?
That's definitely the idea with a lot of these classes, but I think it filters out a lot of people who'd be great in chemistry or other STEM fields, but can't deal with lots of rote memorization and such. One of the best programmers I know originally was going to do chemistry, but inorganic chemistry pretty much gave him a mental breakdown and he switched to the liberal arts. Of course he naturally gravitated back into quantitative things (no formal CS education), but that was a lot of wasted education and prime 20's work years.
What's stopping that from happening now? We already have the Baker Act and CA's 5x50s.
What was your tool? Was it more than the --fixup/--autosquash feature (perhaps your tool predated that)?
How do you propose we identify such individuals? How do you avoid false positives? And what will you do with them once you've done so? Antipsychotics? Electroshock? Just let people rot in prison for their whole lives because they answered a question wrong on a questionnaire?
You're right. I got the two frameworks confused.

Async UI is similar to Sycamore in term of not diffing VDOM.

The API is different in that in Sycamore, you tell the framework what to render (by using sycamore::render) and the framework will handle it from there. In Async UI, you await what you want to render yourself. Async UI's API is more transparent in this way, and this brings benefits including
- making async control flow (like the control flow example in the blog post) possible
- making component simply async function or anything that implements IntoFuture<Output = ()>

Sycamore's reactivity is pretty painless (a little too magical for my taste, but that's probably just me), so it's something Async UI can learn from.
It’s probably not all that obscure. There’s an awful lot of ewaste.
> Now that Jewish immigration has mostly ended, their great-grandchildren (and the descendants of previous generations of Asian immigrants) are, as a cohort, not performing academically as well as today's Asian immigrant children and children of immigrants.

Source? Judging by elite college representation [1], they're doing at least as well if not better than Asian Americans (which granted, is not limited to just Asian immigrant children).

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24166064
Facebook is the perfect match for vr. Vr is inherently a social experience, so is facebooks.
But they failed with half the people. I wonder how many don't develop false memories like that?
That's besides the point. I have not lost money from my private account or from my crypto wallets.

I lost money on companies which marketed themselves as using crypto, but were in fact not.
I'm going through John Vervaeke's "Awakening from the Meaning Crisis" on youtube and it's fascinating. One thing he means to answer is: why do we have these altered consciousness experiences where we come back from it, and unlike most altered experiences (being drunk; dreaming), we say THAT was more real than THIS? And then profoundly change our lives in a positive way?

Especially since the actual contents of the altered state are usually known falsehoods, and people come back with contradictory propositions (I saw God vs. I saw there is no god.)

He has some very plausible explanations for why these experiences can be hugely positively transformative despite the actual contents of them (and propositional beliefs stemming from them) being largely meaningless.
Well the article doesn't give any evidence that that's the case. In fact it mentions that Jones' style is one that focuses less on drudgery and more on the interesting aspects of ochem.
The US med/school complex is regulated by the AMA based on the number of residency slots. The schools get high tuitions and the restricted supply means we get less but higher paid doctors.
The US doesn't have enough doctors and accordingly there is a large amount of medicine that we don't need doctors for such that PAs and NPs are taking over.

In reality O-chem should not be a pre-med class nor should it be required by medical schools. Other countries admit straight to med school without a BS requirement.

It's really more about, how much do you really want this and less about the coursework.

However, O-chem probably wouldn't have any students if it wasn't a premed course either.
Says you. Lots of people like software that keeps working reliably over the years. I know I do. The only valuable updates to WhatsApp are when new emojis are added ;). For the rest it already works very well, why break it or redesign it?
I had to scroll my mouse many, many times to read all the specs. It's much easier to read them on gsmarena instead.

https://www.gsmarena.com/google_pixel_7-11903.php
UEFI is not a big bloat of closed source. UEFI is a spec that defines a newer, more feature-rich and easily-extensible way to boot than legacy BIOS. There is a common core, used by just about every single UEFI-based firmware out there, that is completely open source available here https://github.com/tianocore/edk2 and it's completely possible to ship a fully open UEFI system.

It happens to be the case that most organizations using UEFI-based firmware don't, and they keep everything beyond that core closed-source. This is not the fault of UEFI - those companies were closed source beforehand, and that trend continued. UEFI neither caused nor enabled them to be that way.

Now you may not want any of the things UEFI brings to the table, like GPT and booting to partitions larger than 2.2TB, or filepath based booting rather than sector based booting (or sector-booting into a boot manager and file booting from there). That's fine, but there's a difference between "X provides Y which I don't need" and "X causes Z which is bad" - UEFI causes almost none of the things people blame it for.

If you must blame UEFI for one thing, you can blame it for Secure Boot, as that wasn't (easily) possible with legacy BIOS. But neither is it mandated what keys it does or doesn't include, or even that it be implemented/enabled! UEFI has nothing to do with whether you should use Secure Boot - only that you can. The blame lies mostly with Microsoft for pushing so hard on vendors to ship with it enabled/locked/whatever.
> We don’t provide free access to test prep.

There's tons of sample tests, vocabulary flashcards, and advice on test taking strategy available completely free online. There's no secret information or techniques taught in these expensive SAT prep classes that you can't find on Youtube, Google or Khan Academy. I didn't spend a single cent on SAT prep (and not much time either) and still managed to get a 1500.
And exactly how many software engineer roles test for that during interviews? We test algorithm and data structures for a reason, and we don't interview for computer arch outside of certain systems engineering roles. Tech is much more empirical than many of the more traditional fields. The companies that test framework knowledge/implementation details first are generally all mediocre/traditional enterprise companies where the software engineering department is secondary to sales when it comes to value generation. None of the top tier companies care about specific framework and architectural details outside of domain specific knowledge if your day to day doesn't heavily depend on it.

> Is that not what your computer arch class was? In mine we had to write every mips instruction and what it did, from memory, on pencil and paper.

A few deterministic RISC op codes that nearly mirrors a Turing machine can hardly compare to the rigor of organic/biochemistry. You don't see exams asking students to build a branch predictor from the transistor level.

Take a look at what organic chemistry really entails

https://www.masterorganicchemistry.com/reaction-guide/

All the reactions above can be combined in arbitrary ways and a potential student is expected to recall and apply the concepts in an instant on-demand.
Thank you, that makes sense. That said, though - doesn't that mean those people are making a pretty rational decision about avoiding treatment?
How does this respond to parent, which didn't even mention other generations, cavemen, medieval serfs, etc? Who really benefits from this "perspective" you suggest? Not the millennials under discussion, nor 99% of anyone else. You certainly don't benefit from it, so why suggest it?
So is gun violence, the housing crisis, record levels of inequality, a deadly global pandemic, and anti-queer stochastic terror.
Say I’m developing an application that needs to interact with cloud services.

The last time the third party Haskell SDK for AWS was updated was in 2014. I do see a third party GCP SDK. But if GCP and Azure works like AWS, as soon as a new API is released by a service team, all of the officially supported SDKs automatically get updated.

I am sure there are other service providers that have SDKs and code samples for popular languages.
Were they premeds that needed the A for med school?
I'll agree this is functionally indistinguishable from us remembering correctly, but we quickly veer into "if a tree falls into the forest, and no one is there to hear it" territory. Whatever claim you have that this happens is as equally valid as my claim that it has not.

However, in my thirty some years, never has anyone come back to correct anything more than a minor detail. Not something major like, "actually, we all got arrested that night, we didn't get away".
> In November 2021, Malone shared a deceptive video on Twitter that falsely linked athlete deaths to COVID-19 vaccines. In particular, the video suggested that Jake West, a 17-year-old Indiana high school football player who succumbed to sudden cardiac arrest, had actually died from COVID-19 vaccination. However, West had died years earlier, in 2013, due to an undiagnosed heart condition. Malone deleted the video from his Twitter account after receiving a cease-and-desist letter from West's family. Malone later said on Twitter that he did not know the video was doctored.

> In an April 1, 2022 interview, Malone made the unfounded claim that COVID-19 vaccines are "damaging T cell responses" and "causing a form of AIDS". Malone claimed that he had "lots of scientific data" to back up his claim, but did not cite evidence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Malone?wprov=sfti1
As far as I understand the science, that clarity is in part the perceived experience of reduced inflammation in the central nervous system. Psychedelics are anti-inflammatory. (Profoundly so. The anti-inflammatory effect is orders of magnitude stronger than the effects on the mind, i.e. a dose orders of magnitude smaller than we can directly perceive has a strong anti-inflammatory effect. Which is fascinating as these substances are well known for their unusual potency at changing perception and cognition.)

As one start onto the trail of established science on the phenomenon, here’s a review paper from 2015: Psychedelics and immunomodulation: novel approaches and therapeutic opportunities – https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2015.0035...
False memories can have major legal consequences. See https://www.wired.co.uk/article/false-memory-syndrome-false-... for some examples. It was particularly bad some 30 years ago when "recovered memory therapy" was popular. Which was a type of therapy designed to create false memories, particularly of abuse. The events remembered might be false, but the pain and trauma from the memories was emphatically real.

For me, personally, this was a source of frustration. I came from a family with actual abuse. But when I went to read up on abuse, the literature at that time was dominated by accounts from those with "recovered memories". And what they described and went through looked absolutely nothing like my experience.

Since learning how easily memories can be implanted, I came up with a simple litmus test to tell the false apart from the true for sexual abuse. People with recovered memories have memories that feel like they would expect. Very simple and stark emotions. By contrast people who have been through abuse have much more complex backgrounds that contain things that non-abused people wouldn't expect. For example abused children do not look at events with adult eyes and mark this as wrong. Instead at the time children try to accept events as normal, and wind up with a very confused picture of the world.

For anyone who wants a picture of how it actually looks from a child's eyes, I highly recommend my sister's book, https://www.amazon.com/Singing-Songs-Meg-Tilly/dp/0929636627. (I was the baby who winds up taken by "Richard" at the end of the book.)
This points to a larger discussion about systems thinking. Specifically that warning labels put responsibility on the individual to correctly read, interpret, and act on information in the label. Alternatively, consider not using a label and fixing the underlying systemic problem so that there is no danger in the first place. In the case of a lawn mower, this is designing it such that it doesn't require a human to operate it correctly. It fails to operate if used incorrectly.

Given this is HN, the equivalent in software is: fix the code on your side; don't try to train your users. We don't add warning labels telling users to not do SQL injection, we solve it systematically by making sure our backend isn't using untrusted user inputs directly in queries!

You're right in that warning stickers won't fix stupid, and that we need more systemic action in order to treat the cause and not the symptom. I'll be honest: I don't even know what that systemic action would be in the case of misinformation on Twitter, but I know that warning labels are just a way to shunt responsibility away from Twitter and onto individual users.
Thanks. I thought it was just me.
I identify with this so much. Brains are weird.
> social media platforms aren't (currently) legally liable for misinformation spread by their users.

They're politically liable for it. The misinformation warnings on social media aren't there to protect dumb people from misinformation; those people won't heed the warnings. The misinformation warnings are there to keep political heat off the company.

Do you think any would-be flat earther has ever been saved by a warning "Fact check: the earth is actually round"? If somebody was going to fall for a flat earther video, a content warning from youtube won't change their mind. I don't believe that.
> not shrug and treat it like a broken stair.

When all but 2 of the stairs are broken in a flight -- discussing the particularities of this break or that isn't very meaningful or productive. Perhaps the 2 functional stairs are worth another look instead.
I've been mostly a lurker on HN for over a decade. I never thought I'd see the day where a large portion of the userbase supports bringing back mental asylums and forced medication.
Someone has made this comparison between other cities https://iqc.ou.edu/2015/01/21/60yrsnortheast/

I agree though. Cities are cities because they're dense, having buildings larger than a standard house or 4-6 lane roads doesn't mean the city is dead it means it has more traffic to move
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See my comment regarding 18 U.S. Code § 3553(a)(2)(D). Due process is superseded by 'treatment in the most effective manner' under Federal law, including losing your Constitutional right to be sentenced by a judge (a treatment provider, not a judge, determines the rules of your Court Ordered treatment imposed with the full force of the Federal Government).
Anecdotal, but everything running fine and looking normal on our us-west-2 instances