skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way I remember this, after the Fukushima disaster there were some state level elections, the center-right parties that had until then supported nuclear lost one or two of these elections due to voter panic about Fukushima and then abandoned their support for nuclear. I really think that if the state level election calender had been different, germany would still use nuclear power today.
Looks perfect for use in RL tutorials. Does it have an API?
In my mind, part of the problem is that both parties are pandering to a base with nonsensical policies. One party wants to do nothing because that is popular. The other party is apparently allergic to economically-based policies like cap-and-trade or a revenue neutral tax and instead wants to throw money at the problem. Neither approach is particularly effective.

(At least one side is willing to acknowledge that the problem exists. That’s worth something but maybe not very much.)
Yes! That would catch firms touting “BPA-free” plastics that instead contain the chemically very similar BPS, for example.
Cooling towers (evaporative chilling) use far less water than cooling directly with river water and returning hot water to the river.

About 20x less for the same energy generation.

And the water ends up in the atmosphere so usually will end up in additional rain elsewhere in France.

You effectively get to use the same water twice, so instead of being 20x less water, it is infinity x less water.
I haven't seen a whole lot said in the thread below about ceramic coatings. While I like and use cast iron and stainless steel in my kitchen, I've been very pleasantly surprised by some of the "non-commercial" grade ceramic pans I've encountered recently. Especially for those times when I just want to fry an egg and I'm not doing soufflé or omelets, there's a lot to be said for reaching for a generic ceramic pan. Conducts heat uniformly, doesn't stick, cleans up beautifully, and as far as I can tell doesn't contain any kind of harmful chemicals. For a beginning cook in particular, I'd really recommend this path over some of these other options that take a bit more effort in both cooking and clean / care.
If we go the carbon-capture route, it'll almost certainly be via bioengineering, since lifeforms are able to scale themselves up. Something like giant GMO algae farms in the desert.
> It is important to remember that Germany has still very strong manufacturing industries who hold a lot of sway over the government.

Good for them to not get rid of their industrial base otherwise they will depend on China more than the USA (that was (still?) proud of becoming a service economy) does.
Why would you think, pipes would be freezing?
Besides the fact that due to climate change really cold winters have been rare, the current szenario just is to reduce room temperature to like 19 degrees, not stop heating alltogether.
If those tests can be done within a reasonable timeframe and cost then sure, they should be mandatory. But there's still a question of whether the benefits outweigh any downsides.
There's been a number of hypotheses floating about that many of the industrial chemicals permeating our environment might be partly responsible for declining fertility - if true, how do you judge whether that's necessarily a bad thing in a world where we're already overstretching our planet's ability to sustain our lifestyles?
1. You can only insure against losses to the insured. Most of the concerns regarding externalities. Insurance only will help if you have a legal regime that allows people injured by the externalities to be made while from the insured.

Imagine you have a situation like the one in Chernobyl: a couple dozen people die. A much larger number of people need to have regular checkups for life, but as a result of said checkups have a normal or slightly longer lifespan.

I’m not sure how health insurance works in Germany, but who pays for the lifetime of checkups? Is the power company liable? Will there be a suit?

The free market rates could fluctuate wildly, but wouldn’t have any relationship to whether nuclear is better than coal.

Also, there’s no guarantee that an a policy would even be offered for more than a year or so. Future insurers might just say, sorry, the admin costs are too much (admin costs could be insane).

2. If the plant goes bust because the government decides to “phase out nuclear” - it’s completely legitimate to ask the government to help with shutdown costs.
Lots of fun. Works surprisingly well on mobile too.

The Astro’s Playroom tech demo for the PS5 has a level like this where the DualSense triggers are used for the thrusters. The force feedback is incredible and really gives you an edge in feathering the thrust. It’s also a lot easier!
I don't disagree (favoring personal ownership over multiple ownership), but then I'm not sure how this works out. Single-family homes everywhere? It's causing housing problems due to sky rocketing prices due to low density. So I think it's accepted that we need multi-family homes, to gain higher density housing. Ultimately skyscrapers, but in most case a few units per building. In most jurisdiction, the cost of developing a unit goes up the less dense the project is, so economical units sort of by definition mean packing more units per project.

It works out if high density housing is built and then all sold as condos. People could pool together and buy land as a coop-style group, and then develop it as high density housing. But then its facing organizational hurdles (coop-style orgs don't have the best outcomes) and the whole thing need to survive years long timelines (to design, permit and build) while staying focused to avoid cost avalanches. Good luck!

I don't have an agenda in this (unlike other commenters suggested) and would love to discover a better way of doing all this. I think the current system is flawed but I don't hear convincing alternatives. And what's there right now is better than a feudal system, that's for sure... Hey, back then, Lords were owner occupiers! How has that worked out for the peasants?
Or they sell it to someone for $1 million who is happy to live in it and pay the 1% tax without renting it out. (It may decrease in value some as it's no longer attractive as a rental property--especially if it isn't setup ideally as a home to live in.)
Even if you use procedurally generated levels, first few should be hand picked to be easy.
We actually do have an example of a category that is regulated as “deny by default” in the US but not elsewhere!

Sunscreen is regulated by the FDA unlike all other cosmetic products, and is considered a cosmetic in Korea, Japan, Canada and Asia. The end result is that there are a lot of new sunscreen formulations no one wants to put through the FDA process despite several attempts at simplification by the FDA and Congress; a new sunscreen chemical hasn’t been approved since the turn of the century.

The problem is that the already approved 15 or so chemicals either have side effects of their own, or have bad cosmetic properties (bad texture, bad mixing, leaves white color on skin, etc.). We may actually be exposing people to more risk from skin cancer due to the lack of products that people actually want to apply to their skin daily.
??

He more wants to just learn Unity.

But still, why does Unity VC suck so much. Eventually someone has to code with this thing.
Me too, especially as that would give Putin a reason to withdraw the troups from the contaminated Ukraine. Considering all the explosions which have been reported around the Saporischschja plant, I am really afraid.
> Do you really have a strong opinion about which one is the least bad choice?

Yes, the one without a desktop install is clearly the best solution.
Thanks, that was great
Newer homes are supposed to have heat recovery ventilators, which do bring in fresh air even if all windows are closed.
I have to agree. Exercise and music-making both reenergize me out of a state of mental exhaustion after work.

Physical exhaustion is different: its only cure is a nap.
No sauce was used on the first 3 photos. That is all browning of meat. It is not distinguishable from food cooked in the oven, cooks faster, and doesn’t dry out the meat or vegetables the way conventional ovens can.

A perfect example for the lady tasting tea experiment: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_tasting_tea
I'll also recommend, the Shinjuku Government Building (for free), but also Mori Tower, Shibuya Skyview, and Tokyo Tower for ~Y1000 each.
Shouldn't we instead try to go for better solutions? What do those numbers look like for wind and solar?
It's not about trust. Uber is just realizing they don't really have any moats.

All the gravy they collected from riding the gravy-regulation-skirting train was wasted on trying to build competitive advantages, developing self-driving and rewards programs like these to make it more attractive to customers compared to competitors.

They've been selling $2 for the price of $1 and now that the party is beginning to die down, they're doing what any large faceless corp is doing - reducing the quality of the services they offer so they can extend their own runway.
I find the older definition preferable.
To your point, ecomm is (still) focused on the transaction. Sure, there is some effort put into the shopping experience but it's minimal. The presumption seems to be that the customer will know what they want...have the lowest price possible to be the choice.

I suspect one of the reasons the problem isn't being fixed is that the first site to do so would be used for shopping, but not necessarily buying. There is also limited differentiation oin brand and product. How do you improving shopping when there is so much beige?
I have had no problem using git with unity in my hololens dev work, so I don't know what you are having issue with
> serious cooling problems because huge rivers like the Loire, have almost dried out.

Mostly German lobbies right? Fancy isn’t it.
I've never heard of this before. Is this well known? Do ROS go away after sleeping?
Most of the challenge comes from bad controls.
Just a small suggestion, make the initial few levels easy!
So Autodesk fusion 360 is opting out of government and defence contracts?

I presume there's rules somewhere where parts for the F-22, or HIMARS can't be hosted on some random companies cloud.
brl-cad doesn't use the same paradigm as Fusion360, Inventor, Solidworks, etc. brl-cad uses Constructive Solid Geometry, similar to OpenSCAD, where you declare geometric shapes with certain dimensions to exist, and boolean them together into the final shape.

Most popular engineering CAD programs are parametric -- you lay out shapes in2D or 3D, and then specify their dimensions and relationships. Parametric modelling makes it much easier to create highly-interdependent geometry, and also to understand or explore the degrees of freedom your design does and does not have.

Also, modelling in brl-cad means typing into a command prompt [1], which makes it much more difficult to figure out what you can, or should, do with it.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C0fZ2iofgs
friendly reminder that feeling chronically fatigued or tired is not normal. People experiencing this should consider getting tested for sleep apnea.
Ask HN: What was the last purchase you made at Fry's before they went under?
What was the last purchase you made at Fry's before they went under?

For me it was a spindle of double layer DVD-R discs.

I miss Fry's store #3 in Palo Alto, lots of fond memories going there as a kid in the 90s.
Addressing the title rather than the story, I really like the system Colorado has for state judges and wish we could copy it at the federal level. A nonpartisan panel creates a pool of candidates, then the governor nominates one and the state senate confirms them. Then the important part is that every so often the public gets to vote on whether or not to retain them as judges.

This way the public gets a voice in judicial matters, but without the problems you see in states with directly elected judges.
What I saw is fewer kids in almost all countries. The urbanisation push this even further as adult living in dense cities have even fewer kids.
Yes, it will take some time, but the aging of population is already there. And old people consume very little.
I agree that the speculative nature of housing is a problem, from what I see it is caused mainly by the devaluation of currencies.

You by a house at 100k$ with 90k$ of mortgage, your government print money making your mortgage worth less, bam you got a 200k$ house with 90k$ mortgage. Your 10k$ gave you 110k$ While your currency is worth half of its previous value.

It was the easiest way to get rich for a long time, it work as long as the currency keep debasing (you can count on that) and the housing market is good.
The "safety regulators" required spraying furniture and other products with PFAS in the name of flame retardants. If anything, it was the regulators that helped cause this mess.
As soon as consumers started onboarding to it, absolutely.

On top of the other examples mentioned in this thread, it wasn't that long ago that the internet was plagued with pop-up scams left and right. We forget about it now because browsers have eliminated that vector for the most part.
Two adjacent keys so the same hand can be used. Consider having introductory levels with lower acceleration rates.
At first I thought it was these lyrics!

Fitter happier
More productive
Comfortable
Not drinking too much
Regular exercise at the gym (3 days a week)
Getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries
At ease
Eating well (no more microwave dinners and saturated fats)
A patient, better driver
A safer car (baby smiling in back seat)
Sleeping well (no bad dreams)

It’s so easy just be a better person! Thanks internet comment.
Can excel create csv in utf-8 nowadays?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4221176/excel-to-csv-wit...

That would be cool.
The early internet was purely technical...mainly military, university.

The early 'mass internet' of the early to mid 90s is when I started on it. In my experience, it was mostly people looking for entertainment and chatting. The web was new, barebones, and fascinating. It was nowhere near as scummy as it is now.

Scams of some sort have always existed...phishing, get rich quick schemes, etc. Mainly delivered by email. It definitely was by no means primarily for scams. I'd argue the internet today is more scammy than the early internet was, ignoring blockchain.
> where I live there is a campaign to get rid of gas stoves.

I'd be very interested to hear from the serious home cooks on this issue, as well as the perspective of professional chefs. While I consider myself an advanced home cook, I've come to the conclusion that I'm not limited by going electric only - it's the heat, not the flame that matters for most of what I do.

For those cases where I really do need flame (roasting peppers or something maybe?), I can always go outside to my grill.

Again, would be very interested in other perspectives on this.
They could just load up tons of nuclear waste in planes and sprinkle it over Ukraine to cause the same kind of damage, having a nuclear powerplant lying around in no way makes it easier to cause those disasters.

Terrorists doesn't target nuclear powerplants since bombing one doesn't do much, plenty of nuclear plants has been attacked to date and you didn't know since it doesn't cause any significant damage. Main damage from bombing a nuclear plant is that people die from the bombs and areas lose electricity.
Listening now. Great so far, but 5 hours will probably take me all week.
I hadn't planned on that use case, but check back in a few days where I might share the source code. Perhaps you or someone can build around it.
Malware sandbox evasion in x64 assembly by checking RAM size – Part 1
The Greens are the one party not responsible for the current mess Germany is is (which is much less than people here think it is). It was the previous government which decided to cut the run time of the power plants short (it didn't have Greens in the government). The previous government didn't start to cut ties with Russia after 2014. The previous government curbed the buildup of renewable energy.
It's also $240. I can buy a skillet and a camp stove for less than half the price, and still have money left over to buy my steak.
I get the avoision factor, but what do we have to go on to know the safety of the other country’s products if they’re more loosely regulated?

It’s not like the FDA requires studies to be done in USA, so it’s hard(er) to argue that this is a case of regulatory capture.

It sounds like the evidence base for the non-FDA products isn’t there beyond “people in blank have used it and we can confirm they didn’t immediately die but otherwise we don’t really know”.

Meanwhile, I can’t just import a European car and register it, even though it has met almost entirely overlapping safety standards.
Well if that other place is having to have the device in physical possession, and having to enter the admin password in person, before you can e.g. replace the kernel or critical system libraries...

https://help.apple.com/pdf/security/en_US/apple-platform-sec...
First of all, the average household in Argentina uses 3,500 kWh of electricity, which is 5 times more than the energy consumption of Bitcoin divided by the number of transactions it processes.

Second, Bitcoin is a special case, in that its leadership deliberately chose to not scale its transaction throughput, which is independent of its mining-rewards/energy consumption. Had Bitcoin scaled, then its energy consumption would be securing a massive number of transactions, leading to far less energy expended per transaction.

Right now speculation sustains this massive expenditure of resources to maintain the Bitcoin network, and if the speculators are wrong about the value of the BTC the network sustains, then they will lose a huge amount of money, and the energy consumption of the network will plummet.

We should let the market decide, instead of assuming we can be so certain of the potential of novel technologies, that we can overrule millions of investors. Maybe they know something we don't? Maybe looking only at number of on-chain tranasctions processed is an incomplete analysis that misses other utility derived from Bitcoin, like off-chain transactions, store-of-value functionality, high-powered money transfersr between nation-states, etc?

Bitcoin also uses Proof of Work, which the largest cryptocurrency network, Etheruem, is going to abandon in a month when it transitions to Proof of Stake. So your analysis is quite limited and doesn't justify the blanket anti-cryptocurrency stance you've taken.

>>Have open banking standards. Implement proper consumer finance regulations. Fight against corporate capture of government. You aren't going to bootstrap human liberty — power concedes nothing without a demand.

This puts all hope in the political process being effective. If this effort fails, people will be stuck with the same global financial system we've had for decades. You're advocating a plan that's based on a naive idealism, and there is no space for that when the stakes involve the financial well-being of billions of people.

Allowing consumer choice and multiple competing ideas to co-exist is how historically societies have evolved and progressed.
> But the problem here is that we just don't know.

Many of these things we don't know are because it would be unethical to do the experiment to give some people PFAS and some people no PFAS and see if the PFAS group get more diseases.

Instead, we allow PFAS to be used indiscriminately, and then afterwards regret it.

Experimentation of potentially harmful things on people should be allowed if the alternative is giving the same potentially harmful thing to everybody with no experimentation done.
But not really a pythonic syntax. Reminds me more of ruby? i.e.:

> 2.times! do!:
> Was this true, did people really not question anything?

No, it's not. This is what an YouTube entertainer writes to get viewers, playing into gossipy, naive folk history to reinforce the narrative they want to tell.

There's no shortage of primary sources and modern academic history that show, very plainly, wide exercise of skepticism, logic, critical thought, diversity of thought and (of course) disinterest with abstract concepts altogether. Yes, there were times when one epistemic regime or another dominated public discourse, just like there is now, but it turns out people suck at conformance with those regimes and have their own private experiences independent of the public discourse, just like they do now.

Private and subculture beliefs are, and have always been, all over the place.
On the flip side, if only had the teenage me had a computer at home my last year in school. Or more than a single book on Turbo Pascal (with OO support in v5.5!) I was reading again and again. Forget about the Internet, had the college-age me had access to just Wikipedia :(

It's _really_ painful to remember how scarce information was in the early 90s and how prohibitively expensive the hardware. I guess it was a better filter when only the people who really loved computers were getting into the industry though.
Take a look at [1]. It may have some actionable explanations on what's going on with you.

It all starts with lingering fatigue.

[1] https://www.hormonesmatter.com/recovering-from-post-covid-mi...
Do you have any conception of how much TCAM would be required to individually route 14 billion IP addresses? And even beyond that what else would be involved to route things fast enough at that granularity.

A top end router today can handle ~million routes. You’re talking a four orders of magnitude increase.
accept it, and enjoy the fact that it is making your life better. You could be dating an introvert and you could both be looking at your computers over the weekend.
Fanatic natalism and capitalism already created tragedy. We're talking cure now and nobody ever likes how the medicine tastes.

That said, the only person invoking death camps and gulags here is you.
I began screenshotting my original ETA every time years ago with Uber and Uber Eats for this reason.

A few years back I had an ETA which remained at 15-20 minutes for two full hours and Uber wanted to charge me to cancel. When it happened again I was able to show the original ETA was over 1.5 hours earlier than my cancelation time and received a refund immediately.

We shouldn't have to do this though. It's an awful customer experience and has lead me to use alternatives whenever possible.
That's what blew my mind, I remember having the thought of what if you lost someone, where would you even begin to look.
why not use the built in typing? https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html
The same German reports that were touted by members of the Bundestag saying that making a wind turbine cost more energy than that turbine will harvest from the wind over its lifetime?
There is no contractual obligation to provide notice.
Back in 2000 there was also a Romanian gold mine polluting rivers in Romania, Hungary, Serbia and the Danube all the way to the Black Sea. Allegedly 100 tonnes of cyanides were spilled into the river ecosystem. The related wikipedia article [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Baia_Mare_cyanide_spill
Holy shit this game is hard. First few levels, maybe a bit of extra health?
>The civil engineer will be held to account for his failures. Hopefully, soon, the same will be true for the likes of your professions

So some mid level manager/engineer gets to be the fall guy and all the executives gets away scot free?
Thanks! I intended for folks to start with the tutorial. They are easier than any of the free play levels but still challenging until you get used to the dynamics.
Down for me (ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS), mirror: https://archive.ph/KBK1a
I would absolutely do it because of the people and soft issues. Not so much for any other reason.