skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The worst part is that according to Cambridge some 40% of that is coal power [1]. Frequently the dirtiest coal power in the world, between Xinjiang (no longer, probably...) and Kazakhstan. Coal power causes excess mortality of anywhere between 25 and 278 deaths per TWh generated depending on how you're counting it and (most importantly) where it's generated. [2,3,4]

Bitcoin's addiction to dirty coal killed between 1500 and 15000 people last year.

To process 4 transactions per second.

In a few years Bitcoin mining will kill way more people than the number of political dissidents it could hope to save through the magic of decentralization.

[edit] Energy is not free people. Not even renewables. Making electronics isn't free. E-waste isn't free. This isn't WoW.

[1] https://ccaf.io/cbeci/index

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/494425/death-rate-worldw...

[3] https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-ener...

[4] https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy
I’d go one step further and recommend actually deleting the account — non-binding actions such as temporary app removal (in my experience) have not worked. If I want to stop doing something it’s always been helpful to me to have some sort of “committing” action attached

edit: this is if the goal is full stoppage — limitation based goals have always been very difficult for me
It sounds like you’re already active and you have a common theme in what you don’t like to do: you’re not going anywhere/changing the scenery. I’m the same way, I hate treadmills and stationary bikes but love running and biking outside.
The Lancet letter came about to imply there was an expert consensus, when there was not yet one. It was driven by the exact people who would know best that a lab origin was plausible, saying loudly that it was not.
"regular life today lacks life-threatening thrill"

The problem is not that surfing isn't exciting or life threatening, the problem is that most jobs in accounting, HR, etc. Are soul crushing.
HN is heavily moderated (unsubstantial comments are flagged or removed) and it only allows people who participate to downvote. A problem with Reddit is that everyone can downvote and it’s gamified so that you want to dogpile on certain posts (it’s easy to just downvote a heavily downvoted post without reading it.) HN on the other hand hides vote count and only starts to fade heavily downvoted posts.
Here in the Netherlands there's also a sharp increase in the excess mortality that
can't be explained by COVID deaths.

https://www.rivm.nl/monitoring-sterftecijfers-nederland
Nuclear make inhabitant 400x more land than gas.
> 3 standard deviations, which is really unbelievable

People reporting on deaths have to average over a period, otherwise you find deaths drop on weekends and spike on mondays because that's when the paperwork gets processed. In this case, they're averaging over an entire quarter.

I could well believe that the variance in death rates between Q4 2008 and Q4 2018 had a standard deviation of 3% - an entire quarter is a lot of averaging.
there are multiple generations of people at this point who don't draw the line of utility at “tangible”

now that population has irrevocable possession as well, which still doesnt exist for digital tradable goods outside of this system, and all those people can use their digital property for multiple things too

even if it only does any one of those multiple thing moderately well, instead of anything exceedingly well, thats still value. it relies on cognitive negligence to make a separate higher standard for this, that could not apply to any asset under supply and demand pressure.
MP3 also has some fundamental problems when dealing with short sharp sounds (e.g. castanets), which have been fixed in subsequent audio codec generations such as AAC, Vorbis or Opus.
I think the more thought-provoking question is what exactly is the Black Swan event? If only 37% of their ICU beds are used for COVID patients then why are so many more people dying right now?
Yeah. The classic formulation I’ve seen of that is “would you cut off your pinky to save 100 people’s lives in China”
Ada provides integers and floats with range checks, and you can specify the underlying size, but intermediate values don't get checked. It also has a separate form of unsigned integers called "modular types" which expressly indicate wrapping, if that's your intent.

-- Range checked equivalent of uint64_t;
type Nibble is range 0 .. 15 with Size => 64;

-- Every assignment is as if Value := (Value % 16);
type Wrapped_Nibble is mod 16;
type Small_Float is digits 4 range 0.0 .. 20.0 with Size => 32;

I agree that the subexpression issue is problematic, IIRC I thought this was checked in SPARK code, but I could be wrong. The big benefit is describing your intent and you know that the stored value is in range, though whether it went outside of that range in calculation might not be known. Another thing is that these types define 'First, 'Last, 'Pred, 'Succ, and 'Range attributes which you can use.

for N of Nibble'Range loop
-- do something
end loop;
Depending on the study in question and the criteria for what is considered weak evidence...
My hypothesis is that this is caused from diabetes. I first learned about this when my friend was diagnosed with diabetes at the beginning of the pandemic. He said that Stanford was investigating a potential connection. Now there is a bit more literature [1]. If you go to [2] and select "Weekly Number of Deaths by Cause Subgroup" and then "Other select causes" from the dropdown, you will see that diabetes jumped up at the start of the pandemic and has stayed at ~40% increased levels since.

[1] - https://www.nih.gov/how-covid-19-can-lead-diabetes

[2] - https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
> So, let's make an odd_int_less_than_20587 type and a billion of other types?

Yes, and at least in C++ it isn't that difficult to trivially generate these types as you need them with a modicum of template-fu. You don't need that many integer type templates to capture most of the common cases and provide contextually sane operators. This might be a little more difficult in other languages.

This is pretty standard type safety practice and usually well worth it in terms of writing robust low-defect code.
I hate to be a bore, but.. did zoning come into play? I know a place that had to tear theirs down once the city found out.
Looks cool! What would worry me is that you're displaying a screen and (presumably) a computer in front of a large window outside of your house. Of course I don't know what the rest of the property looks like, but from the pictures it looks perfect for burglars.
When I go there for my work, for example, I see notifications _for every repo I've ever interacted with_. I would prefer it be a bit smarter, like focus in on most important repos / notifications.

I want kind of like a priority inbox of important stuff, and then a secondary inbox of stuff to ignore...
I was referencing/satirizing a well-known quote and am not a Thiel fan, please calm down
Another option (also not Airdrop compatible) is https://github.com/akovacs/uploadserver which is a Rust (Rocket) web server that you can run on a local machine. Open a browser and navigate to the machine's IP address at port 8000 to upload/download files from the web form.

Disclaimer: I know the author.
In my observation the primary difference between the two is that the statement of I'm fixin to do a thing rarely refers to immediately / now; whereas "I'm going to go ahead and put the cake in the oven" means essentially right now. Versus: "I'm fixin to put the cake in the oven" would be sometime in the next N minutes, when I get a free moment to do so.

I'm going to go ahead and do a thing - can be used for any time (eg as a confirmation, I'm going to go ahead and mow the lawn (referring to later today at 4pm, confirming intent)). I'm fixin to do a thing - is more often a delayed action set into the future (by at least several minutes) and can be used for any longer timeframe as well, and is often less definite of a statement (fixin usually means I'm going to attempt to, if I can get around to it; or I'm going to try to get to it).
In the Harry Potter books, when Harry is watching a flashback scene where Snape is being bullied, the last line ('Who wants to see me take off Snivelly's pants?') - is the same in the US and UK versions of the books.

That scene is meant to make the reader feel very uneasy (and it makes Harry quite depressed). But in the UK English edition, despite using the same words, the scene is far worse.
Probably the best example of a good balance is the legendary Sushi chefs who use the blowfish as an ingredient to allow enough poison to achieve the desired effect but not so much as to make the customer gravely ill.

Another example might be what seems to be occurring with the opioid endemic.
Retail Loss Prevention
"Well, I had a flat"
And flat could be interpreted as flatrate.
Yes, ICANN planned to sell the Public Interest Registry, responsible for .org, to a private equity group.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethos_Capital

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fadi_Chehad%C3%A9

Note that the co-founder of Ethos was the former CEO of ICANN. The PIR sale was stopped but it looks like Ethos still ended up with the company actually contracted to operate the .org registry and the .org DNS provider. That whole sequence was and is outrageous.
Mapping Data Portability Initiatives, Opportunities and Challenges
Covid-19 early treatment: real-time analysis of 1,263 studies
This also worked for me. I deleted the Instagram app from my phone. If I want to see it, I can look at it from the phone browser. The experience is just barely not smooth enough to break the addiction.

I also keep the Nintendo Switch nearby. I've come to allow myself to take breaks, and I play Dead Cells for a level. Its the perfect amount of time to rest while also not completely losing context.

The other thing is that regular exercise for an hour everyday seems to improve my social media addiction. I feel better overall so I don't need the hit from social media.
I am planning on building what is essentially a tiny house for my shoffice. Basically I want something that also includes a bed and a shower/bathroom. My biggest concern is whether I will need to pull permits for this project and/or if I need a foundation or if I can get away with a gravel pad + railroad ties as the base. Tying into house plumbing and power is going to be the trick I guess.
Social isolation is well known to probably be the number one factor driving drug abuse (see eg Rat park experiments). Lockdowns, no school, etc…

In teenagers this has already caused a spike in mental illnesses.
China's urban population is like 61% at the moment. Considering that EVs are more efficient in urban environments since they don't actually need to spend much energy when idling, I imagine that it's still more efficient to burn fossil fuels centrally for electricity than everyone in their own car.
I'm not entirely following here. What is the point of even having tests if there are teams out there who disregard their outputs?

Freezing a set of parameters that always pass, in case you don't run into the failing edge case, defeats the entire point of testing in the first place. If it's one test that is failing because the test itself is defective, and if that test is not for a crucial part of the product, then skip the test in the interim and come back to it later. But giving it a happy path for success sounds really strange to me.
I go on Facebook about once a month. I’ve noticed that Facebook’s friend recommendation engine now sprinkles in some beautiful women, with whom I have no friends in common. I don’t know if someone tuned the algorithm this way, or if it tuned itself. It feels like the desperate move of a platform that realizes it’s losing control of someone.
They're pulling from this fact sheet:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S0szR2Ua9v0Sr91YhDD7gPrXsDk...

Topic 1 is on ages 18-45: more deaths from fentanyl than from...

The later topics are on all ages.

The fact sheet attributes 24k deaths in the age range to fentanyl in 2019. WISQARS accidental injuries from poisoning in the age range were 38k in 2019. 2/3rds in that age range being fentanyl is totally plausible.

https://wonder.cdc.gov/controller/datarequest/D157;jsessioni... has the broken down data. They have 36,907 deaths in 2020 from 18-45 with T40.4-- "other synthetic opioids excluding methadone". FAF is calling all deaths from synthetic opioids fentanyl, which isn't quite true but it's very likely close to true.
If you are unwilling to walk halfway to your destination, you can never arrive.
> Why not just use SQL databases?

How would a centralized SQL database have prevented the USG from cutting funding to Wikileaks?
I write:

> Any explanation for the structure, placement, demographics and dynamics of American society that focuses on single reason for things (whether it is "elbow room", "Robert Moses" or "racism") is going to be wrong about most things.

to which you respond:

> So cars did this entirely on their own. Come on

Is there something that unclear about what I wrote?
To make the early ones in win.
If you delete an app, you'll forget all about it. You won't miss it at all.

If you don't delete the app, really really cut back on your subscriptions/follows to just the essentials. The less content, the less time you spend doomscrolling.

Also, on platforms like Twitter, I turn of retweets. I only see tweets directly tweeted by people I follow.
That's no different from the current world. Three different apps claim to just be "Messenger" on my phone. Books.com goes to only one seller.
I try to be opinionated about which patterns of usage are both fun and productive, e.g. noticing how /r/all is full of unsatisfying material produces a conscious countervailing force to any subconscious desire to go there. I still use reddit a lot, but I do so by going to specific subreddits, e.g. by typing in programming.reddit.com instead of going to the generic entrypoint and allowing reddit's ranking and recommendation infrastructure do its thing. Sure, I'm still susceptible to it w.r.t ranking within subreddits and ranking within comments, but many of my subreddits of choice are smaller and so I end up seeing most of the recent content anyway.

Twitter and Facebook are too recommendation-intensive for me to use them on a daily basis. I follow a pretty small set of people on Twitter and my feed is still full of "people my followers interact with" and "things I might like". Facebook groups are usually too big for even the group-internal ranking to be very honest, although increasingly I find that going to Facebook for specific groups (similarly to going to reddit for specific subreddits) can be effective (at surfacing memes about new urbanism or Brian Eno).
Thanks for linking the factsheet. These deaths are a useless tragedy, and it frustrates me to see them framed against another useless tragedy.

The CDC's death count with age breakdowns[1] shows that over twice as many people aged 18-64 died of COVID-19 than drug overdoes, combined across 2020 and 2021. That flips when you limit it to just 18-45, which is the statistic FAF is using.

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#Se...
I was always amused when someone ordered the launch of some some form of buoy.

"launch a boo-eey"

(Brit's distinguish between "boy" and "buoy" - the latter has the same sound as in "buoyancy")
It’s funny, when I see critics of crypto currencies, there’s always one crypto currency which solves that particular problem. Crypto advocates always seem to have another argument in their toolkit. If you put forwards an economic argument against, they will rave about the technical benefits. If you bring technical arguments, they will shout about the economic benefits or how this currencies over here solves that problem. Quite magical and convenient to be honest. Circular arguments similar to debating the existence of God…
There are also other tasty cultivated mushrooms like shiitake! More expensive (at least in the US), but much cheaper than a visit to the emergency room after eating a dangerous wild mushroom...
Suppose the speaker is female.
I have no problem handing out personal insults to those who deserve them. Especially fraudsters.
>: to examine in order to suppress (see SUPPRESS sense 2) or delete anything considered objectionable

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/censor

That doesn't apply? The common definition of censor is not exclusive to government.
It's the same here in Europe, where nobody talks about Fentanyl.
related: a discussion of American and British English, with examples from native speakers. Bonus: the teacher is German (Sabine Hossenfelder) and has a great sense of humor :-D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP0GQS-s4Gw
By this logic, your family is also not a conscious being and cannot experience the subjective feeling of being oppressed. Or maybe you have a girlfriend or a boyfriend and a group of friends. Are these groups also unable to experience the subjective feeling of being oppressed?
There are no cool tricks to improving yourself. If you want to stop eating sugar then stop eating it. If you want to stop drinking alcohol stop drinking it. If you want to get fit start exercising. If you want to stop being addicted to social media then delete it. You can make all the excuses about how you need it to stay in contact with friends, or deals on the local market, or find events in groups but in the end if you delete it you'll continue living and everything will be fine. If you think it's affecting you negatively, get rid of it, and do the myriad of other things that exist in this world.
Are you sure? Is it not the same as this: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1009490/average-num...

E = p/(1-p)

So pretty close to 80 years, no?

I guess it gets more complicated because you'd die of other reasons as you age so there's no point including the eventualities where you reached 120 for example... I guess it gets pretty complicated in the end...
> Watch a normal user use a computer sometime to do work without interjecting. They all do stupid repetitive tasks that take hours and should be easily automated.

if you buy the hypothesis about autism in Baron Cohen's book, it is the noticing of and obsession with repetition that is the hallmark of autism, so it is your watches-and-does-not-interject individual who is the one who wants to program, and still not the subject of the study.
This story [1] (NYT paywall) is clearer IMHO:

1. 600,000 more elderly Americans, or 1 of 100, have died during the Covid epidemic than would have died had the epidemic not occurred.

2. 200,000 more non-elderly Americans, or 1 of 1,400, have died—but that's mostly ages 15-64, so more like 1 in 1,000 adults of working age.

3. The CDC says adult death rates were up 20%. [2]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/13/us/covid-deaths-elderly-a...

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db427.htm#secti...
At least data centers aren't designed to burn as much electricity as possible. Amazon is even giving me like a 20% discount to switch my services to run on the more energy-efficient ARM machines.
What do you think about the teeth cleaning analogy though?

Do you ever get distracted from cleaning your teeth or procrastinate or put off cleaning your teeth? I guess you don't and it's a normal effortless part of your day that you hardly think about - why is that? Can you use whatever natural habit you do to get yourself to do that to exercise?
Google Docs - not just a UX, built on the Google ecosystem with its existing network of users and massive amounts of data

TikTok - not just a UX, but a massive social network, again with lots of data.

In a decentralized world, there will be a decentralized social network like TikTok. The UX would interact with that social network; it wouldn't create the social network itself. To give another example, it's as if Facebook's social network was open to anyone to build a UX on top of and interact with. Much lower barrier to entry.
I use ideas taken from behavioral psychology book, Nudge, but in reverse.

For instance, I use an extension that adds a 2 second delay to every Facebook page load. The added friction is small but it very quickly gets me frustrated and I just stop.
The fact that people trade in it isn't enough evidence?
Here's a protip that helps me.

Return yourself to the 1990s: Keep your mobile phone plugged in at all times when at home. Make it like a home phone line - turn on phone / texting notifs and disable all else. If you want to / need to check it, force yourself to walk to it to see that text or look something up. Print out things you need (like recipes, etc). Similarly, dock your laptop, and keep it docked when at home.

Not 100% possible, but it is a way to try and reduce the temptation to always check.
> now do cloth dryers

Christmas lights FTW
German Greens lead attack on EU plan to label nuclear power ‘sustainable’
> E.g. https://itch.io/games/free (468,224 results)

...and how many of them are a simple prototype-grade stuff made over a weekend or so at something like a game jam?

Not trying to throw a shade - I've personally contributed to elevating that number myself :)

(also, bunch of them aren't really gratis, but only have some gratis component - itch.io doesn't distinguish these cases when filtering)
I don't know about "low brow culture" but comic books and rap have some fantastic material in them. Consider works like Promethea from Alan Moore or In Her Magic Box by Atmosphere.
I think there are two main factors that are different (not necessarily in order):

* companies can much more easily weaponize their services and tailor them to get individuals addicted, than individual video games ever could. And the feedback loop happens much faster.

* it was easier to moderate video games, because they had a single purpose: entertainment. since you can be in a device for any number of reasons: gaming, studying, catching up, reading,... and _everyone_ is on their devices _all the time_ (both kids and parents), it's much harder to establish good boundaries.
There's none.

It's mind boggling that 12 years later, people like the parent poster are still claiming bullshit like that when there's literally zero evidence, rather the opposite. No country with underdeveloped banking and payment systems is interested in something like Bitcoin. They need something cheap and efficient, federated and... centralized! Many African countries are perfectly fine using M-Pesa.
Wondering how recall of half of the millions vehicles will affect their production in 2022.
Habit change is no small thing. Delete the apps, schedule or ration usage. My noticing the difference quitting social media made in my emotional health helped reinforce the change — reflection writing was a good routine that supported that noticing.
Comprehensive tutorial in https://learn-the-web.algonquindesign.ca/
signed/unsigned stuff predates C, though. My (lack of) experience with C came much later, when I had used assembly for 3 different CPUs already, so no recollection of the times.
Or maybe a Southpark episode?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinpokomon
When they warn of rare disorders, these prenatal tests are usually wrong
Ask HN: What are some good personal blogs/sites with RSS feeds available?
I’ve recently resolved (happy 2022, all) to be marginally more intentional about my choice of media consumption. In particular, using an RSS reader to collect articles from individual blogs. I enjoy infrequently updated personal blogs/sites, with high quality articles from individual writers who are “experts” in their respective fields, rather than e.g. “daily news”/lists of pointers/references. As far as subject matter/field goes, I’m open to anything. I find that the average value I get out of well-reasoned articles in fields other than my own (read: computers) is much higher than those in my own field of work. To that end, I’d love to hear of any high signal/noise personal sites you enjoy reading that are syndicated via RSS, to help bootstrap this process.