skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "If you take coal and gas together and look at overall fossil based generation, it declined and continues to decline."

In absolute terms the combined capacity of coal and gas is the same now as it was in 2010. It has fallen as a share of the total because output has increased.

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/p...

> "The unspoken implication of nuclear proponents is that Germany started putting out more CO2 because they shut down nuclear. The reality is that there was a continuous decline in fossil fuel related emissions related to electricity production."

I am not a partisan in this argument. But clearly that's a strawman. The argument is that if Germany hadn't taken its nuclear capacity offline then it would have been in a better position to more rapidly decarbonise its energy mix. In one simple sense that's true: nuclear energy is clean, and so by getting rid of it you need to add more clean energy that you would have otherwise to decarbonise. That is, Germany would not have had to increase gas imports at the rate it did, and would not have had to drag out its coal phase-out.

Showing that fossil fuels have decreased in relative terms as a share of the energy mix does not show that it would not have fallen faster with nuclear online.

> "There are no international deadlines other than what was agreed at Cop 26, which thanks to China and India avoids any big explicit commitments."

I was writing in a hurry. I meant that the most respected models of the pathways to net zero tell us that coal needs to be eradicated across advanced economies by 2030. The IEA's Net Zero scenario, which is widely taken as a benchmark by policymakers around the world, says just that. Everyone in Germany knew their original 2038 phase-out date flouted their responsibilities.
Pure-Functioning Toasters
Ackshually, the mobile apps have statistics on watching, which seem to include what was watched on the desktop. Here's the support page about the feature: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9052667

Apparently videos watched on the desktop aren't counted correctly, but I imagine it's not worse than summing the durations.
> Personally, I prefer QCAD to LibreCAD. Both are quirky to use, but QCAD is at least a little bit less quirky.

LibreCAD in same time has a better performance with big/complex drawings, than QCAD.
The one posted here is a dump from 2016 and https://torrents-csv.ml/ has imported piratebay dumps from then (probably from the same source). The difference is that https://torrents-csv.ml/ does health checks on the torrents and will remove dead ones which means that a lot of the torrents in this dump will be removed since they have probably died either before 2016 or during the last 7 years.
You're giving him way too much credit by underestimating grossly what the value of WhatsApp was: around 0.6 billion users.

It's the exact same reason why Microsoft bought Minecraft for 2B. Not because the game was worth anything near that, but because the community was.
I’m only commenting from the perspective of investors concerned over debasement. 0.03% annual inflation reduces purchasing power by about 7% every 250 years.
I was curious about new types of nuclear reactors.

But, it turns out they still can't deliver what nuclear proponents claim.

Sabine Hossenfelder explains it very well:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0kahih8RT1k
image boards like danbooru and similar websites are an example of the things mentioned by the parent comment. and from my personal experience they are the best implementation of tags I've seen on the internet. they are not perfect and still have lot of room to improve on but they are way better than what's used and available elsewhere.

they have their own description, their get moderated, other people can add tags, they can report them, you can alias tags, see related tags, and get feedback on them.

disclaimer: most of these image board are NSFW.
Also some relevant coverage by the San Francisco Examiner: https://www.sfexaminer.com/fixes/urban-alchemy-a-rapid-rise-...
Wind turbines are often sited on operating farms. The point that was being made is that while a field of wind turbines may be spread over a large area, most of that area can still be farmed.
First context: prosumer: Portmanteau of "producer" and "consumer".

Second context: prosumer: Portmanteau of "professional" and "consumer".
Any programming language with macros is done goofed in my book. I ain't no preprocessor. Zig does this right with compile-time code execution.

C++ and Rust both suffer from trying to cater for every use case. They are the Holy Grail of programming. C++ found it's place in game development, but that's not enough, and Rust is being pushed for everything, even if it's only good at replacing C++. Between C, Java and JavaScript you can probably do everything, but no language will ever be a good replacement for all three at the same time.
One could define a BooleanConvertible interface with a toBoolean() method.
Azure DevOps can also show the changes between different pushes: called “updates”. We tried GitHub for some time, but found the lack of this feature a no-go. GitHub is seriously broken in this regard: they will send an e-mail that should show the difference since the update, but clicking this link will show a 404 as the old HEAD was GC’ed. See also https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/999 and related issues.
I agree. France was lucky and smart enough to socialize the profits of nuclear, and the public there is still mostly supportive.

People may say that they worry about the risks, but that's just a rationalization presented to others.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_pence_(British_decimal_coi...

About 2mm thick, 26mm diameter, masses about 7g.
Seen this happen with so many developers that I’m completely jaded by this space. Dev launches a promising project idea. Token balloons because of the reputation of the dev or promise of the idea. By the time the product actually launches, the price has cratered. Devs, team members and users can’t be compensated enough in the native token and abandon the project
The batteries powered by gravity
Questions to Ask Before Joining a Social Network (2020)
The whole argument about base supply (not load), only made sense in the old times when there were expensive variable supplies which could quickly follow load, and cheap base supplies which would run constantly at the same output (typically coal, nuclear...).

The situation completely changed now the highly variable loads are cheaper now than the former base supplies. So you would always use your money to overbuild on the variable supplies not build constant supplies. The thing is solar and wind don't compete with gas, they compete with coal solar. However with the way solar and wind costs are going, we will likely reach a point where it makes more sense to overbuild so much to even cover the load peaks instead of using gas peakers.
Pink Floyd - Echoes surely is one of the best recipes for frisson.
However for me Royksopp - Forever is the absolute number 1 winner in this category.
It feels like those guys have really cracked the code with this one.
Just listen for at least 20s before 3:10: https://youtu.be/nM_txL43iFM?t=170
No, I mean that I felt cold blowing on my legs walking down the street, not entering a door.
Salt water + molten salt sounds like a real headache to maintain.
Yeah I should have phrased that question better since you wrote solo creator.
Do you use any external people to get anything done?
Reading through this list, it seems to me that growing up in the right socioeconomic class and supportive community definitely helps. A lot of it comes down to having a very healthy self-confidence, combined with being able to take the financial risks related to startups.

For most regular people, taking a risky N-year startup "sabbatical" could severely limit their later career options, along with the opportunity loss of salary. If you ask most 20/30-something young professionals where their priority lies, it's probably either climbing up the career ladder, saving up for a house, or planning a family.
YouTube removes more than 9k channels relating to Ukraine war
Unpopular opinion.

The Verge did exactly what Apple would have like them to do. And you could argue whether that was intentional or not. ( Part of the whole PR play is to shape public discourse )

By showcasing the proper way of doing it, or how it is done when you paid $69 in the Apple Store, the article has correctly set the stage for 99% of Tech readers. ( Non-Tech people never give a damn or wouldn't want to try it themselves anyway ).
I really like the removal of the !! operator from being included in the language. The syntax was awkward and the introduction of branching/exceptions into parameter spec felt wrong.
Didn't they want to make second screen content? Thus relatively unengaging content?
As a broke student, I would pay €20 a year. Monthly billing for productivity/creativity apps scares me for some reason.

That is meant just as a data point for you, not to diminish your work (which is awesome).
how many listeners did you got already from this ?
I think what OP meant was why would anyone hold Tether at this point instead of a more transparent and less fudded stabelcoin like USDC
Doesn't matter at all. Germany is exporting tons of underpriced (or even negatively priced) electricity in peak season - when everybody has more than enough of their own, so people are using it only to mine Bitcoin and other non essential usecases - and then there would be a blackout off-season if it wasn't for neighboring nuclear power plants, gas and coal. Very weird for a country that has its mouth full with greenness and renewability.
> Are they ignoring their data? Says who?

Well, the fact that they are following flops with flops is a good indicator.

> I guess it’s more comfortable to your worldview to make several jumps:

Ironically, the only person who made jumps here was you. All I'm doing is pointing out that they have to data to reduce the number of flops, and it isn't getting reduced, hence they must be ignoring that data.

You are making the unwarranted conclusion that it's all down to pure chance. There is no evidence that that is true.
However if you are doing it professionally, why not have your underlings move twice the weight? Time is money and all that, besides, if you don’t do it, your competitors probably are so if you don’t want to go under, you’re going to have to do the same thing.
This isn't true for transfers within the UK using Faster payments - upto £250K, near instantaneous.
Similar story. My dad was a carpenter doing wood frame construction in southern California. He later got his contractor's license - better money and less physical labor but he still did some construction. I worked summers as a laborer for him when I was in high school. I never got injured but he had injuries now and then. The one that did him in was a fall due to a broken rafter that broke his heel. He could never walk normally after that.

Even when he was young he told me to make money with my brain not my back. He would also tell me to look around at a job site and ask my why I thought there were no old roofers (falls), or painters (paint fumes), or plumbers (solder fumes).

Some of my high school friends got started in construction via my dad. It was good money and they were not the college-bound types. A few years later I heard one of my good buddies cut off his thumb with a Skilsaw. By now most of the others are probably broken down.
This is a mental health video, not an engineering video.
The nuclear energy industry needs to lay down the pipe dreams of long building times and long CAPEX expenses

Nobody is paying for this anymore. "Oooh but the efficiency" the efficiency of something that produces 0kWh is 0

Nuclear needs its SpaceX moment where you attack the costs and processes (without compromising safety). As SLS has shown, building on top of old projects is just a money sink.
FCC filings reveal Apple’s mysterious ‘Network Adapter’ that runs iOS
Germany is paying hundreds of millions of euros per day to Russia for the gas. In March EU total payment was 700 million per day. This completely dwarfs any even billion dollar level support given to Ukraine. This is one quick graph that I could find.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1281568/daily-russian-ga...

On Friday, Russia stopped gas exports to Finland. Electricity export to (and import from) Finland was stopped earlier already. Was Finland in a crisis? No, most people didn't even notice, because Finland had prepared for this. It certainly would have been convenient to build our heating to depend more on cheap Russian gas, but it was restrained by law, because of the risks. Finland was willing to tolerate the inconvenience of higher energy prices, to keep its political independence and safety.

But it seems Germany is not yet capable of this introspection. Germany has been too lazy and corrupt and has let itself become very dependent on cheap Russian gas. Now it's saying "we can't do anything, we are too dependent". It's not the world's fault, it's the fault of past German governments and German voters.

Germany is an industrialized and rich nation. It can start building heat pumps if the people are ready to do it. The very recent nuclear shutdown decision can also be reversed. But it would first require admitting that you have made serious errors in the recent past and then make a turn around on those decisions.
I just turn my head to look at my bookshelf, and sure enough, there it is, my C# 6.0 & .NET Framework 4.6 book. That was the last version I worked.

Nice to read about all the changes in C#, I've been thinking a lot about going back to .NET, but at this point I would probably need some training. There are things like Blazor or .NET Core that I'm absolutely unfamiliar with.

I kind of miss Visual Studio for some reason, after what feels like a lifetime of web development in other open source tech stacks.
It was against any geopolitics or environmental logic either.
It's really striking how in recent years the Godwin point has been replaced from "everybody who disagrees is Hitler" to "everybody who disagrees is a anti-climate flat-vax earth-denier".
It's really not helping getting any point across. In a way it is self-realizing polarization: because you are casting any criticism of "modern finance" into this "bundle of badness" this is likely to reinforce their position.
Can you name a single country that doesn't have a "banking infrastructure", other than perhaps North Korea?
I appreciate the inclusion of raw strings. Together with the work on interpolated strings api in previous language / base class library, there might be some nice innovations in the templating corner coming to C#.
Normally not worthy of submission, but I am wondering if anyone on HN has a good guess as to what it might be?

With two Ethernet Port I was hoping for the return of Airport, but only 802.11 b/g/n is listed.
> The feedback and the wide range of insight we gained from this feedback led us to reconsider this as a C# 11 feature. We do not have sufficient confidence that this is the right feature design for C# and are removing it from C# 11. We may return to this area again at a later date.

But Microsoft bad, right?
> so Europe's dependence on Russia is even stronger for Uranium than for gas

I’d argue that it’s not about % coming from Russia that reflects dependence, it’s how easy you could switch to another supplier.

How difficult would it be to find a different provider for that Uranium?
If only there was a number between 2 and 7!
For people viewing using mobile, here is the youtube link to understand what the tool does: https://youtu.be/QSwRQv70iy4 or please mail vevestax@vevesta.com for a demo of the tool.
In Python it's the opposite, as we good serious bootstrapping problems, and people complain for different reasons.

In C, people complain because tooling is too complex, in Haskell because 3rd party tools are unreliable, in PHP because it's riddle with security issues, in JS because it breaks compat regularly, etc.

There is always something it seems.
> But it is usually not black and white.

I would agree in 99% of cases. But when it comes nuclear power vs coal and gas, the only data I can find seems to make this issue completely black and white (at least for developed countries).

As far as I can tell, nuclear is not only safer, but even MUCH safer than coal and gas, regardless of what parameters you look at. All argument to the contrary, seem to follow one of the following patters:
- Not understanding the science and math (claims about how long used fuel will be dangerous)
- Not even tryting to understand the science and math (not willing to even listen to arguments)
- Worst case interpretation of findings (ie assuming the LNT model for cancer risk)
- Treat Nuclear as an alternative to renewables instead of as an alternative to coal and gas.
- Demanding orders of magnitude more safety from Nuclear than from other energy sources.
- Some argue that from a scientific point of view, nuclear is obviously better than coal and gas, but it is not realistic to move the public opinion

Obviously a lot of this is generated from (irrational) fear of the unknown. But there is so much of this anti-nuclear propaganda being spread, that I wonder if there could be bad actors involved. It's almost like some climate activists and politicians don't want nuclear for some other reason.

Maybe they are worried that the replacement of coal with nuclear would make people less worried about the climate, remove the support for environmentalist organizations, and that this could cost them their jobs? Or it could be that the particular people who support environmentalists happen to be especially irrational on this topic, so even if the leaders understand the science, their base would not accept nuclear energy?
My immediate reaction to this is "that's a very high-brow way to condemn music eliciting a primal response". I get it, if people raving to brain-numbing bass sounds is low-brow, then how is captivating an audience with music of any form any different?

But look, you could make arguments in the same vein about how evil it is to eat good food, or enjoy a good sleep. Or sex. Giving in to primal desires is not a-priori bad, particularly when it is on your own (and whoever else is involved) terms - like voluntarily going to a concert. I hope the author doesn't react to those "reductions to autonomous nervous systems" with the same disgust, or they'll have a sad life...
Utopians like Harari don't actually have any ideas about even the most fundamental questions like the nature of consciousness, the nature of free will, whether it is right to force someone to do something they don't want to do, or what is the significance of freedom of association.

They rely on that poverty of discourse for validity and probably find disagreement, debate and the constant tension of these questions to be irritating and they want it to end, so their propositions simply assume a position on these things then assert some moralistic or otherwise utopian vision of plenty to be derived from them at some undefined point in the future. This is what irrational and religious people do in order to justify their own power, because ultimately that's what really matters to them.
The parents who refuse to give their kids smartphones
Thanks for the review.

> We need more of this and less of "Learn how to speak in an American accent in 2 months!"

I agree. I think familiarity with the Indian accent will soon be seen as a major skill set. A skill set that people should maybe work on.
Yes, it's different, because for a drug lord not being able to access some amount of dirty cash is very inconvenient, while for the average person on the flag of a regime, it may be an end
Boring, simple, male pleasures-

Making love and romancing a good woman.

Me and my buds drinking the good stuff and eating pizza.

Taking the kids out for ice cream

Drinking a good cappuccino with a croissant after a hard workout in the early morning

Swimming alone in the pool/ocean and just enjoying being alive

Going on a hike in the forest on magic mushrooms

Making music with my friends
Or anything else you claimed, by the sounds, no more than therapy or classical psychoanalysis or anything else anyway. Stepping out of oneself, channel curiosity outward, healing releases, etc. All just sounds exactly like all the other snakeoil to me. Unscientific mumbo jumbo that barely even means anything.
Area scoring is far easier to teach, especially if you're willing to ignore imprecision from not considering group tax.

'just keep going until you both agree on who can put more of your stones on the board and keep them there'.
Can't Uranium be easily sourced from somewhere else or is Russia the only viable supplier?
> I’m bored of Netflix. They have simply gone the assembly line direction instead of the direction of art, at least for some big niches. For example, every True Crime docuseries on Netflix is the same crap.

My benchmark for this genre is Forensic Files. I have yet to find another one that is this concise and informative.
“In no city have I felt as unsafe as Berlin”: opera singer sues metro
Amateur antiquities collectors are making out like bandits thanks to this war.
that limit depends on your bank. for large transfers you will often need to visit your branch in person which can be a multi day process.

and yes UK faster payments system is great but it is not yet the backbone of global payment processing. the world is larger than the UK and as we continue to connect globally online and become more digitally nomadic there will be more need to pay users outside of a UK-to-UK bank system.
Another commenter described what I meant using what I think is a more accurate term: assembly line.

My point is that creating original content is a creative endeavor that doesn’t naturally scale. MrBeast is obviously successful but that doesn’t mean you can just cookie cutter another 100 MrBeasts. That’s not how it works.
> shows Zuck's [...] business genius

> I think 99% of executives on earth wouldn't have made that decision.

We conclude, 99% of executives are geniuses. I just feel like the term 'genius' gets thrown around inflationary. Being successful != being a genius. There is more to it (it actually isn't even a requirement) . At least I want to believe that.
> or can be coordinated by users in the network

Phone-a-friend consensus aka “weak subjectivity” doesn’t meaningfully differ from the administration of centralized Git repositories. If your blockchain requires human intervention to resolve disputes, as do all pure proof of stake implementations, you probably never needed a blockchain to begin with.
Even I clicked on it hoping it to be a an engineering concept related video.

But interesting video nonetheless.
You don’t need those tools. It’s very easy to do with a hairdryer and a guitar pick. The point of the tools which is mentioned in the video is it allows a moron with no skill or hand to eye coordination to reliably replace batteries all day with no failures and a perfect finish.

You, a competent person, will just use a guitar pick and your fingers to do the same job. Or at least you won’t have anyone else to blame if you mess it up when apple offered the tools or the in store service to have it done.

Apple has a tool for putting glass screen protectors on phones, or unplugging the power cable from their monitors. All things normal people can manage just fine with their hands. But the tool costs very little when used regularly at a store and prevents the rare mistakes.
Oh thank you, your comment really adds value.
Thanks for the review.

I will check the Mozilla voice model site and their contribution options.
Seawater: "pumping the seawater to extract this uranium would need more energy than what could be produced with the recuperated uranium"
Source: http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2017/ph241/jones-j2/docs/e...
If this is true, it simply means your tax code has a giant loophole that allows people avoid paying tax on capital gains by simply swapping an asset for another.