skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- Grüne (the Green party) have become strong in Germany

- Fukushima happened, emotionally it helped the anti atom campaign

- Germany is the lead manufacturer of solar panels in Europe

- former German Chancellor Schröder (already chairman of Nord Stream and a good friend of Vladimir Putin) was nominated for Gazprom board
This suggests that it is not that useful https://warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/previously...
Doesn't seem particularly uncommon. Perl, JavaScript, and Ruby come to mind if you're really looking for languages that use just a raw term "array" with no extra qualifiers.
Yes, forever. And no it wasn't. The rainforest has existed for tens of millions of years (and has species much) older than humans have inhabited South America. And while they shaped it, there is NO way suggests we could just regrow it, even if we could organise the manpower and political will.

When the forest loses the capacity to create clouds, it is game over. It will never be the same again, and that's just one of many of non-linear effects at work.
Isn't this one of the most prominent features in D? Sounds like they're trying for something very much like D, while starting closer to current C++.
China is not going to curb its demand for Brazilian products on this basis. The EU hypothetically could, but try to sell price increases to the public.
Electricity Maps Launches a Historical View
Hopefully Glassdoor is still pursuing protection of the reviewers. This was a rejected motion to squash the whole case without a hearing. That doesn't mean after a hearing there will be a decision in Zuru's favor, just that there is enough for a hearing. At least that's the way I read it, but I'm not a lawyer.
> Since the Ukraine crisis the EU is relabeling everything ESG
I remember reading about the "relabeling" long before UK crisis. It started as Germany wanting to label gas as green to defend their high interest in Russian gas and going all surprised when France pulled the "Nuclear is cleaner than gas so it's green too, right ?" card. Current crisis probably helped Nuclear to make the cut because it originally wasn't a done deal at all.
Why does energy density matter? You can have wind farms on your arable land, about no loss at all.

If you are crusading against land use a much better target is the beef industry.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/land-use-per-kg-poore
Amazon DynamoDB: A Scalable, Predictably Performant, Managed NoSQL Database
Can we not with this tired joke. Yes we're talking about the company with hundreds of chat apps, but we're also talking about the 100,000+ employee company that developed and support Golang, Dart and Flutter. But ignoring all this, the GitHub page is pretty clear: "Carbon is currently an experimental project." You shouldn't have confidence that it will be supported but they are pretty clear about it, they're trying to find the right fit.
Yes, all the gas usages can and will be replaced by electricity. Which will come from renewables. The 3 remaining German nuclear reactors won't make much of a difference here, but yes, those which are in any shape for it, should run e bit longer. Though one has to take into account, that the maintenance was set up according to operate them to the end of the year, so a lot of maintenance would be necessary for any longer operation time.

No where there is abundant nuclear visible, new build projects have vastly overrun any time and fiscal budgets.
How can my ambulance service triage patients better?
I work as a Paramedic for a large regional ambulance service in the UK. Too many of the calls we attend to with blue lights are not emergencies. This is a problem because it puts genuine emergencies at risk due to long waits and degrades staff morale. The long waits are a national crisis. Yesterday I attended to someone on the floor for 5+hrs before we picked her up.

There are many factors to this but I would like to identify the issue of defensive medicine. Defensive medicine refers to the practice of recommending a diagnostic test or medical treatment that is not necessarily the best option for the patient, but mainly serves to protect the clinicians.

I believe this is happening with out national medical advice line '111'. It is a common held belief amongst my colleagues that '111' is too risk adverse.

It's a long shot asking HN but can one implement a smarter triage system? One that filters out the junk so ambulances are kept for real emergencies.
I'm still waiting on SPECS (1998) (https://users.monash.edu/~damian/papers/HTML/ModestProposal....)

But I don't think a re-sugaring of syntax is enough to make people switch.
Marrying this analysis with the FE International valuation spectrum for SaaS businesses under a $2m valuation[1] gives some interesting results:

- ~6% of these founders have built businesses that could likely be sold for > $500k today

- ~4% have built businesses they could likely sell for > $1m

- ~3% have built businesses they could likely sell for > $2m

And for those that want to go bigger, having enough revenue that one could exit for 7 figures makes pitches to investors much stronger. (Some of these companies are doing better financially than VC-backed firms that have raised tons of money. Fast.co, which raised over $100m and produced only $600k in revenue, comes to mind here.)

(I give credence to the FEI valuation spectrum because they were the broker when I sold my last SaaS, and their valuation advice led to a successful sale. I highly recommend them, and will likely use them again in the future.)

Lower-value exits are somewhat harder to value, but I do find it striking that of the analyzed firms, perhaps 10% have built businesses they could sell for $250k or more. (And likely more of the analyzed first simply haven't gotten to that point yet, since this analysis doesn't analyze time-based cohorts. 5-year-old firms are in the same bucket as companies that joined this week.)

1 - https://feinternational.com/blog/saas-metrics-value-saas-bus...
> It would take, optimistically, decades before Mars was truly self-sufficient, and that time and money could be spent working to prevent the kind of disasters that threaten our existence on Earth, such as natural disasters related to climate change.

There are good points in the article--I particularly liked the comparison to post-apoc Earth--but this particular argument always seems to hit like a non-starter due to the subjective imperative.

The people who will bankroll human travel to Mars are not doing it for entirely rational reasons. Further, they "wanna" do it, which is nearly an unstoppable human force once that button is pushed.

Still, I believe they work from a broad mental concept. A sketch or pastiche.

So, it would be interesting to me to get at something like: What would convince an Elon Musk to completely ditch the Mars journey concept? What would be the needed components of the replacement sketch, or concept?

And further, what would really make someone like that turn back to Earth and say, "heck with my backup metaphor, let's make this place really awesome?" Given things like political boundaries, the strength of that metaphor by itself, etc.

IMO these kind of space travel conceptualizers need a concept. Logical reasoning in parts is nice but the conceptual alternative must be rock solid, and likely singular (a good way to annoy a busy conceptualizer is to prepare lots of options).

Thank you for sharing the article.
It's about the same rate w/ how many americans die from firearms
Yes, there are (the many worlds interpretation and the Bohmian "pilot wave" interpretation are the two that come immediately to mind). I don't see what that has to do with "block universe", however, since that is an interpretation of relativity, not quantum mechanics.
They're both worth checking out. The biggest complaints I've seen about either were about the pace: slow for HtDP, fast for Norvig. I think HtDP's recipes are worth reviewing even if you'd get bored with its pace.
Is there any truth to this, what are your sources? Because if Russia wanted to make Germany dependant on their energy, using a political movement/party within to achieve their aims would be the natural progression.

Still recall the overreaction post-Fukushima and thought it was really peculiar that a non-seismic region would look to an island sitting on top of a tectonic plate for guidance.

It's almost comical how wide the ESG definition has become and how its been expanded to include not-so-eco friendly energy sources.

I fear that all these virtue signaling, tree hugging movement, have an ulterior motive that overrides the genuine good will of the people participating but this asymmetric political cell will not be exposed I'm afraid because it would ruin a lot of what we've taught our schools as "moral".

This is like a rich person that has a change of heart and wants his donation to a prestiguous school back but don't want to look bad so he's trying to find all sorts of faults.
I'm not sure about that definition. I think it includes people who genuinely believe they will meet the need, but it's obvious to a knowledgeable observer that they won't succeed. E.g. Elisabeth Holmes, Elon Musk (self driving and mars colonization, not landing rockets).
> It’s the greenest energy source at scale!

Sources: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26603464, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26673987.

> I’m not sure why Germany thought that it would be a good idea to decommission nuclear energy

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29278996

and

https://www.ans.org/news/article-1392/robert-anderson-antinu...
Yup. Billionaires and capitalists don’t need to downgrade their expectations, of course.
i got that feedback a lot after initially posting the experiment:

> Since posting this experiment, I've received a lot of side comments along the lines of, "Well, of course I don't expect Bionic Reading to work for most people, but for [my subpopulation], it really works." If that were the case, we might expect to see disproportionate benefits for those participants who read faster with Bionic Reading than for those who read faster without Bionic Reading. Let's look at how many participants read faster with each font and their average speed gains.

there might be some specialized effect on folks with known reading problems, but bionic reading makes no claims to specifically work for those people but rather the whole population so that's what we decided to test.
Only works well if your text is a leaf and has no other contained entities/structure.

<entity attr="whatever">Try to make this <appearance>look good</appearance> in <markup>YAML</markup></entity>

As I said, horses for courses. FWIW I actually like YAML for certain limited use cases, just not where XML is better. And vice versa.
Yet, the CEO of the company who owns Isar 2 still hasn't revised his opinion. Without his OK Isar 2 won't run. https://www.zeit.de/news/2022-04/11/eon-lehnt-soeder-forderu...

So stop spreading one sided information.
Congratulations, I used castingcall.club in around 2014
These things exist everywhere - the cheap/free options have no marketing budgets.

I fondly remember something similar at Gasworks Park in Seattle.
Nuclear can provide base load. Battery tech or other storage options are nowhere near developed/scalable enough to do that. Solar and wind always needs natural gas or similar as a backup.
I am curious, why was downvoting removed? It seems to have had a bad effect based on what you are saying.
FWIW, ArrayList is a List, backed by Arrays.

So List would have been the more Java/Zig way to name it (also Python, etc.)
The US does indeed do better than most of the world. I just don't think it's fair to credit its success to its status as a "top dog" or superpower. In my opinion, the vast majority of the credit goes elsewhere, e.g. its (largely) free enterprise system, capacity to attract foreign talent, top universities, culture, etc.
I assume Europe's only real "strategy" for 2022 is extreme energy conservation, from lowering temperature settings ("put on a sweater") to heating selected rooms and offices. In fact, the plan is more comprehensive, though I notice that the numbers seem elusive - does conservation really have much impact?

https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy/news/europe-outlines...

https://www.iea.org/news/energy-saving-actions-by-eu-citizen...

"According to the plan’s findings, turning down the thermostat by just 1 °C would save around 7% of the energy used for heating, while setting an air conditioner 1 °C warmer could reduce the amount of electricity used by up to 10%. With an average one-way car commute in the EU of 15 kilometres, working at home three days a week could reduce household fuel bills by around €35 a month, even after taking increased energy use at home into account. And as the average car in the EU clocks up about 13 000 kilometres a year, reducing cruising speed on motorways by 10 kilometres an hour could cut fuel bills by an average of around €60 a year."
> Most people use Blockchain through established services

Source
Doesn't seem that great to teach your kids to eat some of the worst food just to support a venue.

It also sounds like self-deceit tbh. "Totally just eating this slurpee and vegetable oil 'butter' popcorn to support the local theater!"
I beg your pardon? Excessive safety guidelines? Do you have any idea what a large scale nuclear disaster could cause in a densely populated Europe? How close Japan brush with disaster as the Fukushima fallout could have hit the Tokyo region?
Hmm. Did the GOP's reach extend to the island nation of New Zealand on the other side of the globe?
I get so nervous writing something for the crowd.
For me it's simply that a large % of landlords earned nothing; they inherited substantial property (or were gifted the means of acquiring it, such as by living rent free) and then tap the income streams of people who are productive, but whose labor is not worth enough for them ever to escape the drudgery.

There is no level playing field in the UK.
Totally agree. Very annoying.
Show HN: I built a self hosted recommendation feed to escape Google's algorithm
I created this chrome extension for myself where I track my own behavior locally and recommend myself content from platforms I want content from (youtube/twitter/quora/etc) in a feed. I made it public just in case anyone else was interested.

I would rather have control over my own algorithm and own the data. Also, it gives me flexibility. Turns out I do like these feeds just not when I don't own it haha. Let me know what you think of my implementation?
There is no Green future without nuclear energy as a component.

By saying “yes, it’s better than coal but not as good as wind/water/solar/geothermal” you’re missing the forest for the trees.

People are using coal and gas today. Without moving to nuclear we will keep using coal and gas. There is no near-term future where we can live on 100% renewable energy.
From the end of the safety document:

> Overall, Carbon is making a compromise around safety in order to give a path for C++ to evolve. C++ developers must be comfortable migrating their codebases, and able to do so in a largely automated manner. In order to achieve automated migration, Carbon cannot require fundamental redesigns of migrated C++ code. While a migration tool could in theory mark all migrated code as unsafe, Carbon should use a safety strategy that degrades gracefully and offers improvements for C++ code, whether migrated or not.

> That does not mean Carbon will never adopt guaranteed safety by default, only that performance and migration of C++ code takes priority, and any design will need to be considered in the context of other goals. It should still be possible to adopt guaranteed safety later, although it will require identifying a migration path.

That's very interesting and pragmatic. It would be interesting if they can eventually come up with the same level of safety guarantees via a different path than Rust's borrow checker.

-------------

Since one of their goals is to automatically translate modern C++ to Carbon, I do wonder how well that is going to work in general.

I definitely welcome an alternative to C++ that would be easier to read and understand. That would be a benefit to the world.
I use inoreader and had the same problem. But solved it by installing a plugin to Firefox, that closes current tab with back-button if you are at the start of history.
Inoreader also has a button to show full content. But it's not working for all feeds.
All these C++ "successors" that do nothing but change the syntax sugar and find ways to operate with C++ are really tiring to read about.

I seem to be the only one on the planet that doesn't think the language needs to be replaced.
>And a lot of tangentials remain open. Like where to get and reprocess fuel rods? What about operational safety? And most of all, where to dump the radiactive waste?

All solved issues - nuclear energy is a matter of political will at this point.
Solar isn't a great idea in Germany anyway, but wind farms don't take much land, because you can use it for other things. It's pretty common here in the UK to have livestock or crops in the same fields as wind turbines.
Factoring in the nuclear waste storage cost over it's whole lifetime (instead of socializing it) will eat those savings easily.

Also: Germans love their safety regulations, this is never going to happen.
I don't think so, a strong German economy ultimately benefits the region and results in more resources available for distribution elsewhere.

But we've decided we don't want that model anymore. It's ironic that people who have been participating in protests about global warming are the very ones that will pay the brunt of the cost through inflation and scarcity of heat/energy
This is a great site except for the Hayek quote in the end. One of the bad things that happened in 1971 is that people started listening to scumbags like Hayek, instead of economists like Maynard Keynes who genuinely wanted the economy to help everyone and make the entire country richer and more powerful.

The post word war economic order was Keynesian. It created the greatest economic boom known to mankind. Then people got greedy and the ideas of the kinds of Hayek got in vogue. Not only did the middle class get screwed but the philosophy of Hayek and the like made it seem like it was completely necessary and cosmically just that the middle class must get screwed.
In my mind, without the need to chase advertising money, misinformation/attention is not something they need to maximize.
At least for my needs, NeDB[0] is the best of both worlds for prototyping and early-stage production releases. It's human-readable, on-disk, greppable, still supports indexing and a subset of Mongo features while remaining serverless and in-memory.

[0] https://github.com/louischatriot/nedb
I wasn't joking.

But yes, I agree, we should have no expectation of support for experimental or beta products.
The US government is not your wife no matter where you live
Minus having to deal with memory management?
This has been an issue at every team I’ve worked at.

My current team spontaneously started using FigJam for a variety of things (it’s like a real time multiplayer whiteboard) and I’m starting to think a cross between FigJam/Figma and JIRA/Trello would be a useful product. Basically tickets are directly associated with or “on” mocks, perhaps like annotations.

Maybe a good weekend project for me haha.
I thought this part was rather interesting:

> Evrone: You spread the idea that developers should read each other's code regularly…

> Douglas: In filmmaking, there is a time in the morning called "dailies", when the previous day's footage is examined. It looks like everyone is just sitting around watching movies and wasting time, but it is critically important in finding problems early and assuring the quality of the product. I believe that we should do the same thing in programming. We have a time every morning when the team gets together and reviews all of the code and designs that were developed the previous day.
Love this. A project I've had in mind for a while but realistically will never get around to building is an ambient/coding music generator that's hooked up to a metric, e.g. your project's latency, autoscale size, error rate, potentially controlling different instruments.

It would be fun to be able to subconsciously monitor your system without staring at graphs.
I've worked as both, for many years now.

It obviously varies by individual and by team, but in general the solution is more communication, earlier in the process, and frequently throughout it.

The thing designers often don't understand is how their design needs to work within the larger system, which has many complex interactions, tradeoffs, and constraints. Changing one thing entails changing many other, non-obvious things, and did you think about that when you drew a picture of it working perfectly in Figma? No?

The thing developers often don't understand is that designers work without the benefit of certainty. They may get a set of requirements from a PM, but often they don't, or they don't get a very good one. Do all the user interviews you want, you're still just guessing about a hundred times a day. And there is no automated testing or static analysis. There isn't even syntax highlighting. You just make something you hope is right, then show it to people, and have them point out all your mistakes. Of course they get defensive and protective of their jobs.

So developers and designers need to be in communication with each other frequently, to spot problems early and fix them. And it needs to be so common and lightweight an interaction that it doesn't feel like a committee meeting, but like a collaboration between partners with the same goal.
I wonder what 1946 song (Get your kicks on) Route 66 is about.

Are you people not Americans? Do you have any idea how big car travel is here and how it's been happening way, way, before the 70's and 80's?

My parents drove out to Yellowstone with my grandparents a very long time ago.
Of current gas demand. The thing is that Germany was planning on significantly increasing their gas demand by building many gas reactors [1] to work in tandem with renewables.

Since building new gas plants isn't really an option anymore, and renewable can't produce reliable electricity by themselves regardless of cost, we are back to nuclear.

[1] https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/germany-needs-20-30-gw-...
> If nuclear was an easy solution the French reactors would be running.

To me the French nuclear situation is just another example of why privatizing public infrastructure is an exceptionally stupid idea. In the free market, the consequences of failing to perform long-term infrastructure maintenance is a negative externality, and so it doesn't get done.
Now that nuclear energy is considered "green" in the EU, this is an expected move
>> It's like the difference between sharing your bank password with your wife vs. some dude you aren't very friendly with who has a history of wire fraud. "Treat everyone the same" is not a workable policy.

> The US government is not your wife no matter where you live

You're missing the point by taking the analogy too literally.
I think what you mean is very little thrust exits the turbine. In other words, the air expansion from burning the fuel is used almost entirely by the turbine which, in turn, powers both the compressor and a huge fan which provides the actual thrust used for flight.
They have a value that greater than just their economic value!

The environment created us, we created economics. It's an artificial concept that will never capture the true value of nature.
This is being reflected in the kind of startups that get large funding rounds these days.

Its either products made for people who have too much money (NFT marketplaces, superfast delivery, expensive consumer goods), or for people who have too little (BNPL, medical debt payments, etc)

America - and American entrepreneurs - need to ask themselves some tough questions.