skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is, however, no reason that fission power need be restricted to uranium as a fuel source. Use of breeder reactors would allow power consumption at our current levels longer than the sun is likely to exist.

Even if fission power is not the long-term solution, it is the desperately needed current solution. Running out of power would definitely kill us slowly. Current rates of CO2 production will kill us quite quickly.
I find your interest in my sexual life as inappropriate as distracting while I'm learning this new shibari binding as my main sub girl is asking me to use it on her this weekend. Oh god, how she loves when I use rope on her. What were you saying?
I agree entirely with you. Open competitive marketplace is definitely not an easy goal.
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Milk Chocolate Is Better Than Dark, the End (2016)
I thought the same, but then maybe the 10mio to 20mio was also distributed over several years, making it less than the 7.5% of their revenue.
A place where it hit exponential levels with really bad results is here in NY at the beginning. We had no precautions, testing, or vaccines in place yet, and hospitals were overwhelmed. It was honestly a scary time. That was where we started "flattening the curve". Now with vaccines available if there are surges and they are not literally building hospitals on fields like they were near me that is something we have to just live with. COVID will never hit 0 cases. People will still be hospitalized and occasionally die of COVID as was always the case with winter flu seasons.

Now we are at the point where fully vaccinated people and people with immunity from a previous infection have a low rate of death or serious illness. People who are very old or have a compromised immune system should lay low and take precautions now and during every flu season when it spikes. Those who choose not to get vaccinated and die, that is still on them.
Depends upon of every event is strictly necessary for the proper functioning of the system, or if some are just nice-to-have.
It has access points from the public internet too.
Only 20% of Americans are triple vaxxed.
One of the main backers of Lilium is Frank Thelen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Thelen), a VC from Germany, best known for his participation in the German version of Shark Thank ("Die Höhle der Löwen").

He seems to believe that eVTOL are the future of mass transportation, like an airborne version of taxis. I personally don't find that plausible at all, but maybe I'm just not creative enough to imagine a future where this would work.
https://www.moaa.org/content/publications-and-media/news-art...
Well, one of the basic premises of public schooling is that the parents have a significant say in what is taught, via the election of school boards and other politicians. This report details a subversion of the 'consent of the governed', which is troubling.
That place is much larger than you'll ever need at the very least in this century (maybe in a thousand years we'll be in trouble, but I imagine that in that era, we'll have completely different issues anyway).
Most people are obese.
whatboutism is whataboutism
And that thinking is insane to me, long-term best is to have renewables and not pollute - nuclear is no alternative but just another bad with too many problems, bad economics, and waste produced.
> become net buyers of coal electricity

even if, it's not because of that we have no coal. it's just not a good idea to use lignite (besides the co2 it also destroys tons of ecosystems which is probably beyond co2) and deep mining is basically dead in germany
“none of that is true” - compelling. lol.

I was going to include a few links to recent reputable studies which confirm exactly my talking points, but why - they are very easily found, trivial outcomes that have been proven time and again and I’m not here to do throw chicken bones to people that form counterpoints on emotion.
No comments, 4 upvotes. Not sure what algo HN is using for their front page, but it seems weird for this to be anywhere near the top.
Didn't the doctor who discovered and documented Omicron state that it results in mild disease? Therefore, it won't require ventilators and thus won't overwhelm hospitals?
This is where fast reactors can help. Fast reactors can be fueled with reprocessed waste from thermal-neutron reactors. This produces many times the energy for the same amount of fuel. We can meet the US's energy needs for well over 100 years with the nuclear waste that we've already stockpiled, and the ultimate waste products have a half life measured in decades and not millennia.
These graphs are misleading. Intermittent and non-pilotable sources are a nightmare during shortages. Which is the biggest threat Germany faces right now.
> And you can't either decide when people turn on their washing machine.

Not completely, but you can make electricity almost free at certain times of day to encourage shifting usage.

Although there is a natural limit to this, since people have to be home to do laundry!

(Also electric driers are the real culprit, they use an obscene amount of electricity! I am not sure if Germany is big on electric dryers or not though, that is something which is very culture dependent)
FWIW, according to your own links.

> Uranium-235 is a finite non-renewable resource.[1][3]

> As of 2017, identified uranium reserves recoverable at US$130/kg were 6.14 million tons (compared to 5.72 million tons in 2015). At the rate of consumption in 2017, these reserves are sufficient for slightly over 130 years of supply. The identified reserves as of 2017 recoverable at US$260/kg are 7.99 million tons (compared to 7.64 million tons in 2015).[9]

They mention multiple (more or less optimistic) scenarios in respect to finiteness of U235, plus, they talk about the experiences using fast breeders and their current state with respect to market needs.
or a scale-up of an ELB
But we don't know why the case rate is falling so fast. It could be that people tend to isolate when everyone around them is suddenly having symptoms.
Product placement is not marked. That's the whole idea before product placement, not marking it so that it appears "organic".

When a think tank expert comes on TV and talks in favor of (or against) building an oil pipeline, they will briefly announce that "X is from the Open House think tank", but not mention "a know oil company defender".
Phew.

> In a similar vein, E85, a non-carbon neutral gasoline substitute made from 85 percent corn-based ethanol

Ethanol is not:

1. A clean fuel

2. A carbon neutral fuel

3. A carbon negative fuel

4. A cheap fuel

5. An effective fuel

6. A responsible fuel

It takes a tremendous amount of fossil fuel to make ethanol. We're better off just burning the fossil fuel.
Today we live in a world where we feel safe using the internet for financial transactions. This is only possible as long as the public feels safe doing so. A series of massive cyber attacks could also weaken public trust and bring down the major part of the economy that is growing.

It doesn’t have to be for financial profit
https://www.justice.gov/storage/report_volume1.pdf
[1] more than half of their power comes from burning something and releasing carbon.
It would be better to keep nuclear and remove carbon sources, especially any gas from russia.
Yes, that is what I've noticed too. On medium/big projects macro-level(holistic) arrow functionality is far more important than having beautifully curved arrows from node A to node B. Solving that problem strangely resembles routing on a circuit board with buses, labels, colors, layers etc.
Hmm that's a little uncalled for. It's a short write up and the bulk of it was talking about her take on crypto, an intro to Ethereum, and Licensing stuff in open source and photography. Her wishing for a better photo was barely emphasized.
Interestingly the energy consumption from renewables is at 43%, ie. considerably lower than production. I guess the difference is accounted for by the exports at peak wind/sun at the expense of other sources. Probably french nuclear plants as some other poster here noted, ie. Germany takes the cream of the top and lets others provider the expensive base load or just burns dirty lignite and coal.

[1] https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/renewables-cover-43-ger...
I'll look up some examples, but for now, ee (as in "been") sounds like the English "a", so Dutch "been" sounds like English "bane". The ee in "beer" (and "peer") sounds more like I say "bir" (in Dutch, perhaps with a bit longer "i" sound).
That's a very good argument for the need to build much more renewable capacity in Germany, since that would substitute the burning of natural gas that caused this price increase.
One problem here is there are two camps in the vaccine resistant group:

1. Those who did not want to take the vaccine but did

2. Those who will not take the vaccine under nearly any condition

With many people's jobs being threatened and ability to eat in restaurants, etc being limited, most unvaxxed are in the second camp. At this stage I'd say they must have very strong feelings on it and are more likely to think the vaccine is much more dangerous than the data suggests or has some other nefarious purpose.

I'm vaccinated and I did it voluntarily as it seemed like it met the risk/reward trade-off for me. I've always been against mandates. I probably won't take the current booster unless forced (more of the same for a very different and likely mild variant meet my cost/benefit threshold), but I will take it if my job hinges on it. Rational people weigh cost/benefit. Losing your job definitely tilts the ledger, but I imagine many people who felt coerced into their decision are pretty sore over it and we will suffer some serious political repercussions for this, in my view, unnecessary mandate.
US gas producers would also like to sell them more delivered by LNG tankers.
Electric heating is extremely uncommon in Germany (like 1-2 % of households use it).
I don't think that says what you're claiming it says. In fact, my reading of the content is contradictory to my reading of your comments. Am I missing something?
I second the absurdness. It's almost as if there are entities that don't want it to end.
All the grandstanding and whataboutism notwithstanding, there's really no excuse for what China is doing to Uyghurs atm.
From a political point of view re-introducing nuclear in Germany would be suicide for anyone attempting it.

It‘s just not a politically viable option. That’s the reality of it, irregardless of anything else.
We could provide for all the needs of our current power consumption by use of a single very large solar array in central africa or the middle east. The problem is no the availability of wind and solar- those can provide a monumental amount of energy. The problem is that energy and power are not the same thing. We need to be able to store energy widely throughout the grid and make massive transmission system improvements to facilitate the movement of energy from place to place.

Both of these are not fundamental problems, only financial / political ones. If we decided tomorrow that we really wanted these things we could have them.
PS2 marketing killed the Dreamcast.
No I have not.

Will do it right now, thanks for the heads up.
It's pretty subjective, honestly. For context, I played Sonic Adventure when it first came out. I played Sonic Adventure 2 (DC version) less than a year ago because it had a reputation for being a fan favorite. I hated it. I played Sonic 06 recently it had a reputation for being terrible and I found I actually kinda liked it because it made me laugh.

'06s reputation for being terrible is objectively overblown. It is definitely rushed, has long loading times, and is jank as hell, but it is otherwise a pretty mediocre game. I've definitely played a lot worse and I think the general "someone's free Unity game" feel helps it to not be taken too seriously. It is also occasionally completely hilarious. For instance, during the Shadow story fight with Silver, I got trapped in a notorious "It's no use" loop getting shot straight upwards. This was a little frustrating, but then Shadow's corpse fell into the ground head first and got stuck in it like a lawn dart and I laughed my ass off.

By contrast I think a lot of what put me off of SA2 was how seriously it seemed to take itself. It's a lot more polished than '06, but still has enough jank to cause frustration and is otherwise just as mediocre in the gameplay department. A lot of my gripes about SA2's gameplay are actually shared by 06, but I guess I just kind of expect that from a buggy unfinished mess so it is more easily forgiven.
No. Currently (20:56 UTC) there is no sun shining in Europe.

As for wind, in the UK (it's the country where I know where to find the real-time data easily), wind is only producing about 1/3 of its capacity--about 7GW of 24GW capacity. https://www.energydashboard.co.uk/live Overall renewables are generating about 1/4 of total generation.
COVID in general results in mild cases for the vast majority. It's that sliver of the population that wont that's the problem.
When watching FoxNews or CNN, we know that someone is making editorial decisions. When looking at something popular on Twitter, we assume that the number of likes is "real" and not made-up.

This is akin to FoxNews or CNN presenting a poll where they just made up fake data.

This is akin to FoxNews or CNN interviewing someone and saying that they're "an independent voter" when they're actually a paid spokesperson for a political party.

If comments and votes/likes/etc. come in without someone saying that they're paid-for views, it's very different.

China can certainly influence media outlets in ways that one would consider fair. They can push CNN to have a Chinese Government Spokesperson interviewed. They would say a pro-China message, but viewers would be aware that they're a paid spokesperson.

In the US, the FTC requires that paid promotion be disclosed because there's a difference between someone pushing a product because they're getting paid for it and someone talking about something they like. Similarly, there's a certain moral duty to disclose when you're being paid to push certain views/agendas.

Likewise, we all hate fake reviews on products. This process is basically getting lots of fake social media accounts to give you "fake reviews" along with the impression of many people (who are actually fake) validating those fake reviews as real.

We see it here on HN. People writing from mostly anonymous accounts will say things like, "full disclosure, I work at X, but not on anything related to Y." The reason why is that we feel we should be honest. We're (hopefully) not pushing agendas on here for money. We're just saying things that we think.

I think China should be able to tweet things from government-labeled accounts to try and influence people. But what the article describes is basically a fake review problem. Shady companies hire people with fake accounts to post positive reviews. There's a reason people hate that.
They're approximately as safe as modern Docker is. Upside to Docker: more security knobs (eBPF, kernel MAC, &c); upside to jails: probably easier to get right out of the box, fewer footguns. Both jails and containers (and Solaris Zones) share a fundamental security weakness, which is a kernel shared between tenants.
I'm a Canadian, but I often watch American rallies on the news.

I always laugh when some American protestors say they're being oppressed/the current regime is fascistic.

I mean, you're gathered, in a crowd, often armed, with your message being broadcast, with a reasonable expectation (I know, I know, not always - especially for certain demographics) of going home/surviving.

I'm not sure they really understand what fascism is

EDIT:
I'm completely supportive of gathering/protesting. But be clear that you're protesting particular, discrete issues. And probably not fascism in the general sense.
So the thing about the earth is that it's big. If you have a big enough grid, it will be sunny and windy over a fairly consistent portion of that area.
I'm not sure how you can suggest there's any caution here. At least not with regards to the students. They are a low risk category with 100% vaccination rate and their risk of losing out on many of the important aspects of college are being disregarded.

This is not what caution looks like.
I met my wife when she tapped me on the shoulder in a public place and introduced herself. I just smiled and nodded and ended up with a date - I think I might have gotten my name out at some point -- not sure. She calls me by the correct name now, 20+ years later in any case.

Online dating sites/apps seem like they'd be a nightmare.
Seriously?

If someone vaxxed and boosted dies of COVID, the media spins it as "Look how deadly..."

If someone is on Ivermectine and dies of COVID, they're villified as spreaders.
I've been running a pi at home for more than a half a year now.
It's running multiple web services, like my personal blog https://habet.dev/blog nextcloud, wireguard, pihole and more.

Lately I started writing blog posts detailing the set up:
https://habet.dev/self-hosting-and-securing-web-services-out...

I haven't had any issues with it!
In Korea there are birthcare centers where mothers can go for two weeks to a month to rest and recuperate after delivering a baby, and nurses will care for the baby and teach the mothers how to care for the baby. Of course food, laundry etc are taken care of by the centers. Hospitals offer that service as well, but bed spaces are typically more limited in hospitals.
The public debate was polluted by misinformation. I remember a poll showed most Europeans think Fukushima killed thousands and nuclear emits massive CO2.
There are many places where that's a perfectly rational decision.

COVID was never going to be completely managed by states less than willing to take draconian measures, the purpose soft-lockdowns was instead to lighten the load on our healthcare system so that we didn't need to invest in field hospitals and a bunch of field-trained doctors and nurses. If we had done that instead not only would the optics be worse (not just many more people dying, think front page photos of them dying in muddy tents), it would also dilute the market capture of the existing entrenched healthcare system.
>Hard to say where the public stands on this, though it was interesting reading a Reddit thread concerning lockdown measures being enacted in Ontario again, total 180 from the habitual Reddit opinion.

I found the thread (<https://www.reddit.com/r/ontario/comments/riqusg/ontario_ann...>) after reading your comment. Wow, you're right about it being a total 180 from the usual Reddit opinion. (Sort by Best or Top, not New.) This comment getting 100 upvotes is one example of the change in sentiment:

>Why don’t they just permanently shut down all small businesses and call it a day. That’s clearly their goal here.

That's not to say that the mods have changed their views; thus the thread being locked, to prevent more wrongthought from appearing.
Germany has the same electricity mix as Germany and it has extremely good SAIDI index compared to all other countries (https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-electric...). I guess those Germans are just insanely competent, then.
People in general are bad at risk assessment.

In many countries, roughly 30% don’t want vaccines, citing the 1:10,000 side effects, ignoring the roughly 1:1,000 fatality rate (as a fraction of global population, 1:55 of infected[0]).

Same deal with playing lotteries in the expectation of getting rich, or fearing terrorists more than dangerous drivers.

[0] https://covid19.who.int/
The fundamental rule of conservatism is this:

>There must be an in-group that the law protects but does not bind, alongside an out-group that the law binds but does not protect.

That is why conservatives are so prickly about being regulated: to be bound by the rules is "proof" that they are no longer the in-group.

Your very assertion that the law can be applied fairly (to the point group membership is irrelevant) is a denial of the fundamental thesis of conservatism.

I agree that we should aspire to fairness and equality-before-the-rules, but there are too many people who do deeply believe that fundamental theorem to just deny and ignore.
Do you regard Tibet as an internal Chinese matter?

The US has more of a track record, I'll admit. On the other hand, China keeps forever in a way that the US does not.

I asked if you have any evidence. You didn't even hint that you had any, so I will assume that you do not. So we're back to "That's just your opinion."
My daily first-hand encounters with China's 50 cent army suggest it's more than just dubious claims. If anything, the NYT is late to the party.
Such an innocent-sounding problem, but I've drawn tons of figures in inkscape, tikz and matplotlib and I swear, I'd never stop fidgeting with curved arrows if time was immaterial.

But of course, I have Opinions that would keep me from using this in practice. For example, my favorite style is similar to a half curly-bracket (or, taste depending, an integral symbol) -- two small semicircles connected by an axis-aligned line.

Edit: oh, and question from the peanut gallery... what if one box is fully within the other, and centered?
One would be disingenuous if they argued that.
Yeah, about 60% double and 70% single. Anyone can get more vaccines for free.

Not sure why people support restrictions at this point. If someone doesn’t want to be vaccinated that’s fair enough, but let the rest of us be free.
From the blog post:

"""
I agree with Peter.

I think he is well-meaning. Given the difficulties with publishing his book I can see why NFTs make sense. As an author, I can deeply emphasize with the challenges in publishing a book.

Sure – it could have been better.

Honestly I am just honored that somebody thinks my stupid open source work is valuable enough to put my face on an NFT.

- Do I wish he would take another photograph of me? Yes. I hate that face!
- Do I wish he would have reached out first? Yes. But honestly I probably would have missed the email.
- Do I think Crypto is here to stay? Absolutely. There are too many hurt, and traumatized young people in the world without a viable career path otherwise. Crypto isn’t going anywhere.
- Do I think Crypto is bad for the environment? Yes.
"""
not sure if nofollow controlled spam, other than people telling google that all my comments are spam, all my links are spam.
In my opinion I think biomass can be considered cleaner since the burning of it releases only recently stored carbon as opposed to taking huge carbon reserves from fossil fuels that might not have ever seen the atmosphere again. In my mind biomass is "carbon neutral" where fossil fuels are "carbon positive"
Yes, but nobody in a position to affect a country with Covid lockdowns and laws believed her. It seems like money and politics are running the show.
False. Even accounting for the delay it's not as dangerous, check and numerous news channels today: https://data.spectator.co.uk/category/south-africa
Legal or not, it's still skivvy.
You are confusing China with North Korea.
Clearly there are some situations where requests which are reasonable and others which are not. This is not in dispute.
Looking at the 2020 elections and aftermath, it seems they were highly successful in undermining confidence in the election process.
Are we reading the same quote? He is calling reporting about the genocide propaganda.
Indeed I flipped which was 16:9 and which was 16:10 in my head.