skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “more than all deaths nationwide from motor vehicle accidents, infectious diseases, or battle deaths in wars during the same period.”

The researchers put big numbers on the indirect impact but they were precise about what they meant. But then the journalist (or maybe college PR department?) grabbed the biggest total they could find, turned around, and compared that total-life-course indirect count to acute direct causes of mortality… sigh.

Where are those EA types when we need them, with their fast-and-loose treatment of “quality-adjusted life years”?
Pretty low risk though. It requires a low-oxygen environment so mainly canned foods are the risk and overwhelmingly home-canned food that isn't heated properly/long enough.

But yeah, don't eat food from damaged cans.
Its the AI Nobels. First physics and now chemistry. Demis Hasabis getting the prize for Chemistry is not something I would have ever expected though.
The alternative would be the removal of the banking system, not to re-make it.
It was well known even to the general public in the 1940s that the mechanism behind the nuclear bomb could generate vast amounts of cheap energy. It was known by nuclear scientists in the late 1930s that massive amounts of energy were released upon nuclear decay, and that chain reactions were possible, but that harvesting the energy for power generation would take some time.

I don’t believe there is anyone in the general public or who is an expert in any of the aforementioned fields (which have been around for 1-3 decades) that truly believes they are net positives.
> Cloudflare get the best deals on bandwidth.

If you want to pay for bandwidth then yeah, CloudFlare is a great option.

Otherwise, if you like the experience of not paying per GB/TB, go for a dedicated server with unmetered connection that has the same price every month, regardless.
This looks like is going to help increase the prices even more.
So what, the exchange rate in that case would change so US consumers lose buying power for EU imports as a sort of automatic customs fee and as a result would prefer locally made alternatives?

I would question how well that works outside completely generic goods that you can buy anywhere, since with economies of scale consolidating production there is often hardly any alternative anymore.

Also, feels like there could be a way to manually address the balance without reducing people's standard of living.
The feedback loop doesn't work like that. You are implying there is some target revenue that the website aims to hit, and if it fails to meet that target it adds more ads.

But that's just nonsense, if a website can get more revenue from more ads, they are gonna put more ads right away, they aren't gonna wait until their revenue drops under some magic number before they do.
Two things stand out:

1) Positions and messaging strategy. Trump tends to take up the positions you hear Republican voters talk about over a coffee at the diner or over a beer on an aluminum-hull outboard motor fishing boat. As with Democrats, typical Republican planks aren’t terribly close to what their voters want, so (Trump proved) you can win elections by targeting this unmet demand directly.

“Why don’t they just build a wall?”; “Fucking NAFTA, sold us all out”; “gotta do something about that trade deficit with China” and/or other comments on restricting trade with China; “Obamacare sucks” but also kinda vaguely supporting something to fix healthcare (this muddled set of positions came out rather directly in Trump’s speeches—sometimes it’d sound like he was about to advocate single payer); “we should stop being the world police for free” and/or “Europe’s freeloading on NATO”; lots of complaints about illegal immigration’s and crime generally; Washington corruption (“drain the swamp!”); et c.

If you know many Republican voters, not politicians, you may recognize that as stuff that’d inform their wishlist. Trump heard that, and just… did exactly that, turned around and said exactly those things instead of taking up the typical Republican platform. Got him elected. He even sort-of followed through on some of it. This is true for at least the first election, his positions this time seem to have gone a bit more tail-wagging-the-dog (creating issues and demand for a particular solution to the created issue, through messaging, rather than going to where voters already are on existing issues)

2) Relatedly, and especially because he did follow through on some of it, he’s the only big two party Presidential candidate since perhaps 1980 to not be fully on-board with neoliberalism. That’s definitely remarkable. Vance alluded to this at one point in the recent debate.

(Disclaimer because it’s a polarizing topic: observation without condemnation should not be taken as support)
interesting idea. try to understand the dsl for the chart but the doc is not very detailed
On some level I think everyone admires a mobster, but he and his union are parasites enriching themselves at literal public expense. This “labor class” nonsense is just an identity racket that helps them get away with it. You might as well have said “I’m a mark and I’m proud of it!”
But there is an adjustment in the total wealth owned in aggregate by those in Portugal vs. France, which is what’s important at the end of the day, right?

Eventually those in Portugal will not have enough wealth to import above their exports, depending on how much stored wealth they have in aggregate.

So it’s still guaranteed to balance out on a century timescale…
There are companies like Nielsen that will pay you directly for you to provide personal data. But regardless of that, there are plenty of things that we do for free, like babysitting our own kids or answering our own phones, that if provided to someone else we would get paid for. So if your data is worthless to you, that doesn't mean it's not valuable to someone else. And we know for a fact that data is valuable, so why are you even raising this point, except to be argumentative for its own sake?
Obviously legal obligations is an issue.

For a consumer facing business with no lock in, the tax thing makes absolutely no difference in your life using the product.

If it was really a concern you'd simply no longer have access and change search engine, until then it doesn't matter. You'd be surprised what tax issues even large billion dollar companies have.
Asahi Linux official x86_64 support
What's Causing the Recent Spike in Global Temperatures?
The main thing is not to do things that would be fine in other languages when they result in complications in the one you’re using. Some people want to write an entire library rather than writing statements. Why?

Also, local names can sometimes be useful documentation when the function names don’t really get the point across (perhaps because they’re at a different level of abstraction). Or alternatively, in Go it’s idiomatic to keep them short.
Hybrid Gain Cells Memory: New Memory Designed to Cut AI Energy Use
Again you aren't saying matters for whom.

For the engineer writing code, I would absolutely expect they have different priorities and metrics than the business or accounting department.

I personally wouldn't even consider hiring a dev who makes clear that the only metric they care about is gross sales.
Renewables on Track to Supply Half of Global Power by the End of This Decade
> cannot pay health insurance and the cost of medicine/surgery

https://www.medicaid.gov/

https://www.healthcare.gov/health-coverage-exemptions/forms-...

> I think only the wealthiest Americans have much more money in their bank accounts than they would in Europe

Well, you thunk wrong.

Median household income in the US is $80,000 [0] and taxes like VAT are nonexistent.

Throw on top of that access to subsidized plans like Medicaid or ACA plans for households that earn below the median, and most Americans come out ahead.

The big issue with the US is the de facto inability to commit mental health patients to involuntary mental health holds unlike much of Europe due to the current interpretation of the 14th amendment, which has caused the mental health crisis to become a homelessness and drug crisis.

That said, as a whole, most Americans live fairly comparable lives to most Western countries, as HDI shows. In fact, much of Europe has a much lower HDI than the US once you exclude Scandinavia, Germany, the British Isles, and Switzerland.

When you look at a subnational level, it is the Deep South (Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas) and Appalachia (West Virginia, Kentucky) that continues to lag, but they represent less than 5% of the entire population of the US.

[0] - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N
The dom comes from some of the tame ads...
Al Will Take over Human Systems from Within
Yes, and if I type X, backspace, X, backspace, and click somewhere near X again... you'd better not say I clicked X!
When single threaded Node.js becomes a trouble
Given the hint that the porch thief may know the value of the contents, regardless of whether it's FedEx or UPS, it makes me wonder whether the source of the leak may be some kind of parcel-contents insurance provider used by both companies.
There is more to the story than I can tell here, unfortunately, but at least I can write this:

During my work for Bentley Motors I was at one of the Geneve Motor Shows in the 2010s. During my stay at the fair, a new (1500 USD) Tata car was introduced. I visited the Tata stand with a friend, looking at their new car, which was quite the contrast in product philosophy, design and target group to the Bentley models. Thanking our host at the Tata stand for our personal tour, I gave him the invitation to return him the favour and show him the Bentley models and stand.

To my great surprise later that day Ratan Tata came to the Bentley stand with what appeared to be his family (some male and female family members) - and I was able to show him around. We could not talk much due to the bodyguards and press, but he seemed distinct in demeanor to his sons and entourage. Apart from the colourful and diverse customer group, I met Piech, other industrial magnates of our time, but Ratan managed to retain a humble and human aura. I sympathized with him.
laughs in swedish.

32.75% taxes. That is so low.
well. but these two countries are very different, so can't just copy paste policies.
K-9 is great. I think I first used it ~14 years ago, happily for years, then couldn't use it due to various phone changes, then, after I moved from iPhone to GrapheneOS a few years ago, I was happy to find that K-9 was available.

My first concern about Mozilla taking over K-9 is that it not get privacy-violating phoning-home, nor dark patterns pushing that, like Firefox has.

For example, there's zero technical need for an email program to phone home to Mozilla when you configure it for a new email server.

Nor is there a technical need for a Mozilla "sync service" for K-9 settings, nor for dark patterns pushing users to use it.
Yes. I feel like most "national security" politicians that push policies are emotion driven to a way greater extent than the rest.
Even better, you can get a captcha before you're allowed to see 404 Not Found.
That feature hasn't been around for very long though (12 months ? two years ?)
Humans and proto-humans have been eating large herbivores as the majority of our diet since ~2M years ago.

Sapiens-Sapiens continued this omnivore tradition from the 250ky divergence from neandertal and denisovian

It wasn’t until 50ky ago that the concept of foraging and farming for non-ungulate protein became needed with the collapse of megafauna

There are volumes and volumes of anthropological and biological support for humans being biologically and ecologically tied to living with and consuming large herbivores.

Any nomadic pastoralist community demonstrates this be default with blood and milk being staples, fresh liver as “treats” and fresh cow dung being used as building material.

Vegetarianism, irrespective of how you view things “ethically” diverges significantly with what the human body expects to consume.

Can you survive on rice and beans? Kinda - but the centuries of refinements that have been required to make what we call staple grains, consumable by humans has been absolutely wild to the extent that are staple grains look nothing like their origins, which means they certainly don’t align with human biology.

Golden Rice is a perfect example of how we’ve had to dope and nutrient augment what are considered “basic” staples because they do not provide the necessary vitamins and minerals that you need for sustaining life - in a way that the body efficiently processes them into amino-acids and etc…that we run on

Pasture fed cattle in the other hand, produce be default safe meat that has the nutrient and vitamin profile, at an uptake rate by our biological system, that surpasses all other possible nutrient transfer mechanisms that we are aware of.
> What is the purpose of the word vegetarian

For most people Vegetarian means no animal is killed - so eggs are ok.

In fact, some people claim egg is veg to convince people to consume eggs as protein source.
For proper clarity, some people use eggetarian for eggs allowed.

Seafood as veg, I guess is more a concept outside India, as consuming seafood is not seen as killing animals.

Depending on how the question was interpreted, Vegetarian might mean:
May eat outside, but will not cook non-veg at home
May eat non-veg only if veg option is not available.

Kind Advice for the meat eaters when lunch is brought in office:

-- Do not finish the only 2 vegetarian sandwiches because you wanted to see what the impossible burger tastes like.

-- Try not finish the cheese pizzas first and then touch the pepperonis later, if there are people who will come to the lunch table later

It is for this reason I always say Veg so that there is still some count available for people who need it.

Fun Facts:

Food packaging (and restaurant menus) in India show "signal" of green or red circle to indicate veg or not.

Airlines have a menu option of Hindu meal and Veg meal. Hindu meal can have chicken and omelet (or may not). Veg meal could be just salad and fruits. Many Indians pre-order Hindu and get confused when they get chicken. For me it is easier to pre-order Hindu and get cooked food with spices, and I can skip if it is chicken (or ask for veg).

[Jain meal is further restricted to veg grown above ground]
There's a fine distinction to be made between "he thinks he's right" and "he thinks he can get away with it", which both would lead to the actions we now see
Hey, as long as they don't have those dark pattern cookie consent forms, I'm a happy camper.
The EU should really have specified that accept all/decline all should be a top level choice instead of "Accept all" with the alternative being "learn more" leading to submenus for every one of the 891 "partners".
I'm not concerned with the business' model or how they plan to make a revenue. That's the CEO decision and he's smarter than me.

I'd be happy to pay for no ads, and I have before for streaming services. But as time goes on it gets harder and harder. Often the only choice is ads, at which point I block or move on to a different service.

Ads use up my time and attention. Which, to me, is much more valuable than a small amount of money.
Agreed. There are many reasons to prefer living in Europe to the US, but "more money in their bank accounts" of non-wealthy people is certainly not one of them even though the American must sometimes use the bank account to pay for things that are provided by the government in Europe.
Lack of 64-bit ints didn't help either...
I think the difference is that the US is where you'd want to found your startup anyway.
Wasm bytecode verification is more strict than JVM bytecode verification. For example, JVM locals don't have declared types, they are inferred by the abstract interpretation algorithm (one of the reasons for the afore-mentioned O(n^3) worst case). In Wasm bytecode, all locals have declared types.

Wasm GC also introduces non-null reference types, and the validation algorithm guarantees that locals of declared non-null type cannot be used before being initialized. That's also done as part of the single-pass verification.

Wasm GC has a lower-level object model and type system than the JVM (basically structs, arrays, and first-class functions, to which object models are lowered), so it's possible that a higher-level type system, when lowered to Wasm GC, may not be enforceable at the bytecode level. So you could, e.g. screw up the virtual dispatch sequence of a Java method call and end up with a Wasm runtime type error.
To me it feels like whichever hand I start with lol, it does make me wonder if the reason I'm much better at fps games with a controller is because my left is my precision hand but I'm using the mouse with my right. (I know controllers have aa but I'm still much better than a mouse even though I've been using mouse to play rts and moba games my whole life over using a controller for just apex)
I use cocaine semi-frequently but avoid all opioids. The people I've known with cocaine problems always have tangential problems with alcohol abuse, excessive/irresponsible partying and generally unstable lifestyles. I've rarely seem people with acute addictions. The (many more) people I've know with opioid addictions are often 'regular' people with moderate-to-severe pain or mental health issues that become severely addicted, usually starting with prescriptions. We shouldn't pretend that the use patterns or use cases of the two drugs are the same, even if the dug war tried really, really hard to make us think that way.
Different analogies, but both are true.

Young, educated, [and motivated] workers are a desired and contested resource.

Producing them is also important.
Interesting. Makes sense.
Per SIGMOD 2006 paper "'A veritable bucket of facts'- origins of the data base management system", https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/1147376.1147382 / https://www.tomandmaria.com/Tom/Writing/VeritableBucketOfFac... , "The data base concept derives from early military on-line systems"

The term "base" used with data would correlate well with the military term for "base" and perhaps adds some color to its original context.

Perhaps a "data base" originated as "A safe refuge of facts from which you would learn, train, and launch a defense or an attack?"

Or perhaps its a "base" (basis) of facts from which you operate in a military operation?

Or perhaps someone else non-military used the term first but it picked up early resonance in the military community due to its additional connotations for them or their management?

Anyway, TIL. I wonder whether a FOIA request to NSA or DoD would turn up anything.
> But how did Vim get in a Fandom in the first place?

It was created back when Fandom was Wikia, back when it was a good place to host a wiki
to put a finer point on it: capitalism.

"then the MBAs got involved" is a cop-out, it's a systemic issue.
Totally agree, for too many years some of the smartest people have been dedicating their lives to the development of FarmVille and AngryBirds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive
From my point of view, it builds on BEAM, and while Erlang might have been a success story in telecommunications, there is no reason for any of my employers to use it instead of JVM or CLR, and the languages available to them.
At least they moved away from Google Captchas, which really hates disabling of 3rd party cookies and other privacy-protection measures.

I haven't had a problem with Cloudflare and their new Captcha system since their changed, but I still suffer whenever I see another website using Google Captcha :(
Economic Culture Wars (1996)
That’s just factually incorrect meat has been the majority of our diet up until the neolithic
Weird that they would even consider that – Norway is so rich from oil and gas, it may be able to keep going without collecting any taxes.
> we don’t have a one-person one-vote system.

Correct, and that’s a good thing! Intelligence is not evenly distributed among individuals, and susceptibility to psyops and propaganda is a huge issue. The plain truth of the matter is that a majority of people simply aren’t qualified to weigh in on national issues. True democracy works when you’ve got a small group of like-minded individuals of roughly equal stature (13 original colonies) but not when you’ve got an entire empire (Roman republic)
It's not so simple, because Ukraine will join NPT when we will have security assurances from nuclear countries. It found recently, that security assurances, given to Ukraine, either a) broken, b) fake, so Ukraine may claim that the essential step is not completed yet.
Perhaps, but VPS traffic prices are also already a lot better than "big cloud" traffic prices, especially if you choose your VPS provider with that in mind. And once your traffic is large enough there are also options where you pay for a fixed pipe instead of a transfer amount.
Meili search is also a great option.

https://www.meilisearch.com/docs/learn/resources/comparison_...
> Strong unpasteurized malty beers like porters and stouts can age for literally years in a cool dark place, and it smooths the flavors out.

Had a coworker who made this phenomenon into a yearly gathering. We would bring beers of our choice, bury them in his back yard, then drink and grill/smoke meats. Next year he would dig up the previous years burial and we would try to bring the same beers with us. Then we all gather around and have a tasting comparing the year long aged beer to the fresh beer. You also brought along new beers to bury. He names it Man Beer Meat because it was just guys drinking and grilling.
OK but don't you hate it when you're trying to sign up for internet service and they're like "what sorts of things do you do on the computer?"

I know what I need just gimme the 100 MBPs plan!
> Because it’s impossible to implement any non-trivial data structures in safe Rust

This is why I think rust is great for application programmers.
Honestly high performance web servers, games, anything in that realm it's pretty good for.

Low level systems and high performance data structures are better implemented with direct memory management, but the consumers of those libraries shouldn't have that same burden (as much as possible).

Granted, I haven't worked with rust enough to run into issues with other people's unsafe code.
UESP is amazing, and is a great example of what the non-fandom wikis are trying to be
I was interested in that as well. What would be recommendations to break Google up? I am not sure that breaking up Google would work. All their systems are built to run on Google infrastructure.
Outlawing tracking of the population (for ads and other things) I think would have a better effect.
That isn't most, and I mentioned synthetic chemicals & preservatives.
> For the engineer writing code, I would absolutely expect they have different priorities and metrics than the business or accounting department.

And yet the business has that expectation.

> I personally wouldn't even consider hiring a dev who makes clear that the only metric they care about is gross sales.

Yes, you would, as you are instructed to. The only difference is that you have deluded yourself that there are interim metrics that actually matter, when they are all lossy abstractions of revenue or profit.