skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And parents replacing the sand in their children's sandpits. There are parts of southern Germany where you are not supposed to collect mushrooms or hunt and eat game, because there is still enough residual nuclear contamination to be harmful to humans.

Proponents of nuclear energy like to pretend that it is almost completely safe. But if we look beyond the, admittedly relatively low, confirmed number of immediate casualties of nuclear accidents, there are serious long-term consequences that remain an issue for decades and more. And Chernobyl was still far from the worst case scenario as most of the fallout hit sparsely populated areas.
Depends on how rational you are. Unfortunately, people are not very rational on average.
I've decided English spelling is about like Chinese characters. If you see a new word you can make some guesses about how it is pronounced (many characters have pronunciation hints), but you won't really know until you hear someone pronounce it. I was told English is phonetic, and I believed it, but the fact that we had spelling tests through fifth or sixth grade suggests it is most definitely not. I'm guessing Chinese kids have about six years of learning characters before they have the standard set down. (3000 characters gets to 95% usage, in 6 years that's 20 a week for 25 weeks/year.)
I'm from Ontario. This test is relatively basic. Any math course at an Ontario university would be more demanding than this test. Although I do remember a friend of mine taking a history of mathematics course at McMaster while doing an English degree to have enough credits to teach high school math. He had however already taken first year calc.
Triple vaxxed are safe, therefore antivaxxers have won? That does not seem to make any sense. What am I missing?
It seems likely that the US would still see waves over much of the winter.

South Africa has a population of about 60 million, fairly dense compared to the US. Compared to the US, their spike and fall would be expected to come on faster (and drop faster). The US is more spread out but with many more people. So its great to know that local spikes would come and go fast, it still is a very acute strain likely to be spread over months as it travels around the country.
Well being Tor, there's a lot of infosec stuff to browse. For some reason, on Tor (onion-land) people just divulge more, since it's the so called 'hidden internet', so people just presume the layperson won't find it.
I don’t see why that should happen since Christians think the Bible contains (for the time) careful documentation of Jesus’ supernatural birth and resurrection.
> The fear of nuclear energy is deeply rooted in Germany and cannot be simply ignored.

It's not being ignored. We're all here complaining about how short sighted it is. What's their plan for renewables again? Aren't we in the middle of a low sunlight, low wind winter where nat. gas demand is through the roof? So Germany's plan is Nord Stream 2, buying from Russia trying to invade Ukraine?
NFT collection here: https://opensea.io/collection/faces-of-open-source

It feels very awkward to buy these, though I'm not sure exactly why.
Yup sorry! I realized after I submitted I meant gas. I’ll see if I can edit
Can anyone point to an official worldwide number of deaths attributable to Omicron?
And here I thought the "rational German" stereotype had some justification.
Being target for nuclear bombs isn't related to nuclear power in the slightest.

The fallout sucked, but even that was a minor hiccup compared to the destruction pollution is bringing with it...
I’ve been tanking some downvotes for the past few days for saying this. Disease spread is only exponential for a brief initial period. It is not a good mental or even general model for how disease spreads. We have two years of observational covid data that shows this to be true.

Spread slows down rapidly long before reaching 100%. People hear “5x as infectious” and reason that due to the nature of exponential models, that much more than 5x people will be infected. This is extremely incorrect. In truth, far fewer than 5x people will be infected over the long term. And again, no, this is not because it’s hitting the upper limits of 100% of the population or anywhere near that.

I won’t be so bold as to say it’s probable, but given this is not a novel virus, it’s entirely believable to say that omicron could go on to infect fewer people than delta due to the past two years of vaccination and immunity and die off. Presuming data about lower severity holds, it would be surprising to me if hospitalization or deaths aren’t noticeably lower than delta; which, in turn, was noticeably lower than the original.
> 52% of Germany's energy production in 2021 was from renewables

44% in 2021 according to the graph you linked and 52% in 2020.
Australia rules out lockdowns despite Omicron surge
VMs still provide better isolation and security, or is that no longer true?
That's part of our secret sauce we solved :) If you are have at least 40Mbps downstream bandwidth (most home broadband), there's little noticeable latency.
If a student shows up with visible bruises as the result of domestic abuse the teacher is supposed to make a report to CPS and let the professionals handle it (teachers are mandated reporters in the United States).

There's orders of magnitude difference between the chess club coach noticing a student displays aptitude and inviting them to join the club and a teacher _actively searching_ a students computer for "evidence" of them supporting the teachers politics-du-jour.
Similar situation in Denmark as well. Huge number of omicron infections, but deaths haven't budged and number of covid patients in hospitals are actually decreasing.
https://archive.md/guZDk
There’s a service called DoNotPay that helps file legal requests to unban you. They’re obviously not miracle workers, but I’m curious whether litigation would slow them down.
Ha, hey there! Nice username :)

You're totally right, of course; for shared states between different backend instances you'll need a different solution, like database locking or complicated inter-backend API calls, or even a separate (set of) microservice(s) to deal purely with websockets while other backend operate on the database. That way you can apply scaling without data consistency issues, if you want to go for a really (unnecessarily) complicated solution.

It all depends on your problem space. If you want to make a little icon go green on a forum because someone commented on your post, I think websockets are perfect, much better than the long-lived HTTP polls of yore.

I think the OP is using websockets to synchronize game state across different clients, which can be quite tricky even without having to deal with scaling or asynchronous connections. You can use websockets for that, but manual HTTP syncs/websocket reconnects after a period of radio silence would not go amiss. Hell, if it's real-time games this is about, you might even want a custom protocol on top of WebRTC to get complete control over data ad state with much better performance.
Germany has been running at 500 deaths per day from Delta for several weeks (https://covid19.who.int/region/euro/country/de). The evidence from the UK is that Omicron overtakes Delta in just a few days (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...). As the most recent research in the UK suggests (https://www.politico.eu/article/omicron-variant-coronavirus-...), and the data in the parent comment demonstrates in the case of South Africa, Omicron is significantly less harmful. My conclusion is that we should really welcome Omicron as the variant that will vaccinate those holding out against the man-made vaccine without killing and hospitalising too many of them.
This is an interesting piece by Matt Levine, but perhaps the reason it is interesting here is somewhat more cynical.

From the article -- Veterans of past Wall Street booms suggest that, somehow, this one doesn’t feel so good. One reason: The wealth reeled in by elite traders and dealmakers is getting outshined by the quick riches touted by cryptocurrency fanatics, fintech whizzes and meme stocks. ...

It is useful to take a moment and think about this statement.

In every population there will be a group for whom the pursuit of resource ownership is a goal in itself, simply put people who are pursuing a strategy of "getting rich" for the sole purpose of "getting rich."

I have known many such people in my life, they find it awesome that not only what they do is "fun" but there is a score that you can compare with other people who are playing the game. And as the comment above pulls out, the gravitate to where ever they can get the biggest score.

During the dot com "boom" the Bay Area became lousy with this personality type. They were everywhere, trying to throw together a company, tell some BS story about the potential, take it public and score millions of dollars. When the game got called on account of BS in late 1999, early 2000. They all left for some other game (turns out it was sub-prime mortgages).

I have lived long enough now to see some of these folks go through the full cycle from glassy eyed college graduate to multi-millionaire (or in a couple of case billionaire) and now looking around as "old people", almost for the first time and asking "now what?"

The answer is of course, now you die. It's the way of the world, and maybe at some point science will allow you to live forever but that time is not yet here and if you're in your 70's it seems unlikely you're going to make it to that time before you go.

And for at least one person I know well, this has made them extremely sad because there is "so much they want to do" and yet they don't have the physicality or realistically the runway to do it. They can feel their own mortality creeping up on them.

So my advice to you is this, if you are young and have the means because you've landed in a space where you can make enough to build wealth, take the time to live your life. Do the things that you can remember fondly, invest in your friendships so that you will have folks to remember things with, and share some of that wealth with those who are just managing to get by so that they too might have some great memories to look back on when they are in their sunset years.

Life isn't a game with an "I win!" button, there is no goal other than to live it well and make the world a better place because you were in it.

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah, or Happy Holidays in any way you are celebrating this year. Give the gift of great memories to yourself and those around you.
Telling people that the deaths of their loved ones are "meaningless" is not a very convincing argumentative tack.
Yes, because there are still restrictions as a result of them, even though most people in the USA have been vaccinated.

In other words policies that affect the super majority are being formed due to the actions of a small group.
I think the argument would be that they send those request knowing that the sites do not have information stored.

I think a ethical good study would be if they requested users to request their data from sites they use.
Not sure whether I agree with the "over-reliance on renewables"-bit. Renewables are a relatively small part of EU energy production. The vast majority is fossil fuel (which is mostly imported from the Middle East or Russia).

I can't speak for the rest of the EU, but energy policy in Belgium has been an absolute shitshow for decades now. No one wants to invest in anything. There's NIMBYism everywhere. No one wants any kind of energy production in sight, which is an impossibility in a country the size of paper towel. No one wants to reduce demand. And no one wants to rely on imports; which is ironic, given that we import uranium, oil, and gas ... ?
This too doesn't make it less true.
Yes, the kids and parents are aware that the teachers are watching them during virtual school hours. Kids who were watching YouTube or playing games in class were reprimanded on the spot.
Link to data?
They only have to distribute the source code for their modified Webkit, and IIRC have some way for end users to link in their own Webkit. That does not have the same vitality of a strong copyleft license like GPL. I guess this may still be classified as copyleft, but by no means does it require them to redistribute the source code of their browser.

Note that Edge is not open source, even though it is based on Chromium and contains Webkit-derived code.
On a windy day or two, I've done multiple go-arounds in a fixed wing aircraft. In low weather, missing an approach to land is also relatively common.

"Don't worry, your pilot has 60 seconds of reserve with which to land safely" is terrifying rather than reassuring.
Most people who died were not vaccinated
Schröder is a social democrat, not a green. His schmoozing with Russia is not characteristic of the German green party.
It only means overwhelmed healthcare if the hospitalisation/requirement for healthcare rate is high enough.

If this variant is 5x more infectious, but 5x less likely to result in hospitalisation, the net effect on healthcare resources should remain level, no?
If you think you can do better than AWS, GCP, Azure there is a lot of money to be made, for sure.
One wonders how much better those charts would have looked with a rational investment into a climate-neutral, self-reliant form of electricity production, i.e. dozens of new nuclear reactors.

I think the merit of this idea will become clear among the public when the price of electricity becomes an election issue.
I find it mind-boggling that a person could live through nearly 2 years of this pandemic and still not understand how hospitalizations lag cases and deaths lag hospitalizations by a number of weeks. I'm optimistic about Omicron, but I'm not going to pretend I don't know the pattern we have seen over and over and over again.
It’s all unmanned unfortunately. Still waiting for them to demo at least a dummy payload like Joby did a few months back.

Also, Joby, Ehang, and Volocopter are much further ahead in the sense they have done point to point or are building out the factory (same time last year Ehang got hit by being called a scam by Citron, however).

From what I read, rumor is the big issue is battery density which is holding Lilium from being viable. We shall see!

Also, Joby is most likely the one to look at to track the progress of this air taxi segment since they have just Spac’ed and their aircraft is the most conventional.
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It works on mobile too. You should try it on a tablet. The experience is really good, especially if you are collaborating with someone.
Where are you? Everyone where I am in Southern California still wears a mask inside.
The issue of this behavior is that CCP built an apparatus that information flow is managed across the whole country. As a result, one can no longer trace this document on any official channel. Since there is no public trace of this document, one is impossible to pinpoint the chain of evidence.

So block chain has been touted as an advanced tech by Xi, you'll notice that it's adoption is never free. The line that crossing would result into hard to predict consequences is itself intractable.
Regulations are like code - buggy and iterative. That's why you need a responsive democracy (which the US decidedly does not have). So when a regulation has bugs, the people can get their representatives to update it.

We don't avoid writing code just because it's inevitably buggy and has unintended side effects. Indeed, there's a whole mentality of "move fast and break things" - essentially damn the side effects and full speed ahead - because we, as a sector, recognize that you have to take risks to make the world a better place. Yet, we forget that when it comes to using government power (our collective power) to make laws that shape our world.

Now, I'm not a proponent of "move fast and break things" - more, move steadily and make the best decision you can in a reasonable time frame. But "move steadily" is still moving. We can take our time writing legislation and regulations and do our best to get it right, and still also work to build responsive systems so that when it's inevitably buggy we can fix the bugs.

As I said in the second sentence, the problem with the US right now is that it was intentionally constructed to be the opposite of a responsive democracy.
People keep saying that but looking at https://app.electricitymap.org/zone/FR it seems reverse... That is probably happening in summer at nights...
That chart is misleading; the rise/spike in deaths is always delayed from the rise/spike in cases.

It does seem like Omicron is less deadly than Delta. The big concern is that because it's so significantly more contagious, that even though a smaller percentage of infected people will require ventilators, the absolute number will be high enough to overwhelm hospitals.

Sources: Dr. John Campbell, Dr. Larry Brilliant (WHO) https://youtu.be/YdVymGK3OzM https://youtu.be/ltXkJTSBeaE
Take this with a heap of salt but I looked for this figure yesterday and found it to be 12 in several sources, but hard to find the official figures. Share them if you do find them!
Request a review from Google? Real human intervention? That's cute... but we know how this actually goes with them.
Even leaving aside covid concerns, I'd love for sanitizer stations and mask wearing in grocery stores to become the new normal. I don't want the general public sneezing on my food - especially during flu season.
Why would that be a bad thing?

The Republicans influence FoxNews.

The Democrats influence CNN.

Why wouldn't China also influence some outlets?

It's a free market, you don't like a media source, you are free to use one suitable to your bias.
Yep, you can access the cloud-based browser via any local browser, without any install. Yeah it's a bit meta....
They might be, but the fact that the case rate is now falling means that whatever increase is seen in deaths will be very short-lived. That is something to be thankful for, since Delta has been killing large numbers of people worldwide over a very long period of time.
She didn't, her predecessor did.
Denmark is the other country with an Omicron-fueled spike, but they have a corresponding increase in deaths:

https://graphics.reuters.com/world-coronavirus-tracker-and-m...
There's been no time to have real, peer reviewed science to make a definitive conclusion either way. All we have is preliminary data which seems to be trending towards the positive.

The sensationalist flip-flopping media reports have been mostly unhelpful. I've been swinging between "this is wishful thinking and it's going to be really bad" to "this is overly dramatic and it's going to be ok" for the past few weeks. I've been feeling more of the latter recently, but I'm still not 100% certain. Call it cautious optimism.
Such a number would be difficult to interpret, or entirely meaningless, without understanding the classification methods and policies of each constituent region. This also holds true of overall death statistics.

Finally with local statistics, you still have political dramatics like https://twitter.com/dancohen3000/status/1473480933579923456
Nuclear reactors actually produce a family of decay products as they run, some with longer decay times and neutron absorbing cross sections than others... things get less stable as you rapidly ramp levels up and down, so it is avoided at all costs. Uranium based fuel generates about 1/10 of its operating heat for a very long time, which is why it has to be kept in cooling ponds after removal from the reactor.

Coal plants take time to get to temperature and pressure, furthermore the generators themselves have a limited number of stop/start cycles, as cracks radiate outward from the center of the rotor shaft over time. (They are cast in a centrifugal fashion, in a vacuum, to reduce voids to). Periodically the center of the shaft is bored to remove the cracks, but there is a finite amount of material that can be removed.

Gas turbine spool up/down quickly, but cost 2 or more times the cost of other fossil fuel sourced generation.

Hydro is awesome, if you have it, but global climate change is causing precipitation patterns to shift.
They discovered the variant less than a month ago. The science will take time, all we can do in the meantime is make our best guesses
Nothing you say makes your comment any more true, either. At the moment, we're at "That's just, like, your opinion, man."

[Edit: Do you have any evidence that the NYT is deliberately seeking to manufacture consent? Or even that they are unwittingly being used to manufacture consent?

Or are they just reporting what's actually happening, namely that China is manipulating western media?

And, even if the NYT is manufacturing consent, that's still pretty much a "whataboutism", unless you're claiming that China is not manipulating Facebook and Twitter.

End of edit.]
There is no “we” that can do this, no world government.

Also by implication there is a lost of bad energy uses we must prohibit. What else is on the list?
Connection to antenna may loosen or crack over time.
7-day average graphs are pretty misleading when you have a new variant that grows at the rate that Omicron does. You might have no Omicron at all at the start of the seven day period and majority Omicron by the end of it, at which point the 7-day average really doesn't mean anything useful.
Seriously, Germany is shooting itself in the foot and face. SMH
While we are adding charts: [1] shows carbon intensity (g CO2e / kWH) per country for EU.

[1] https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/daviz/co2-emission-i...
This is so regional; and it has little to do with the local death rate, unfortunately. Where I'm located, deaths are relatively low, and people have no problem masking up. In other places, such as Arizona, lots of people are still dying, and masking is also relatively rare. It's cultural and/or political, in many regions, as opposed to based on need/risk.
Isn't the same percentage in the US exposed, either via vaccine or previous infection?
Viruses don't "want", anthropomorphizing COVID like media headlines do is a bit of a "language virus" in and of itself that makes global understanding of what's going on more difficult. AFAIK the virus mutates randomly, and we just see more of the more infectious and less deathly (in the short and mid-term) variants because those are the ones that spread faster and successfully among humans, but attributing even collective behavior to COVID, like to an ant colony, is too liberal of a use of our imagination.
I was under the impression they were like jails, to sandbox a program and make it more siloed off and secure? Whatever the underlying mechanisms for obtaining that. I'll research some more I guess.
So, to summarize,

1. Germany is a net exporter

2. Germany has reduced the production from fossil fuels from about 70% to about 37% within 30 years.

3. At the same time it cut nuclear power from around 28% to about 10.

4. It looks like without reducing nuclear power it could have replaced the equivalent amount of fossil fuels (achieving less than 20% fossil fuels by 2020). However, energy consumption has also gone up since 1990, so it would have required building more reactors.

5. Renewables have replaced about 25% of energy production in the last 10 years.
Perhaps one that is relevant to the future of your children rather than the fears of your parents?
It's the same reason that the NBA came under fire after one of their GM's sent a tweet out in support of Honk Kong [1].

Of course it's important for the CCP to shape opinion abroad, it's seeking to supplant the US as a global power and needs the soft-influence that the US has.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/07/houston-rockets-gm-morey-del...
If a preconceived belief will make you blind to genocide, what else will it make you blind to?