Hacker News Reader

dmitrijon Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations

We could also leave fake images aside, go outside and try to watch the birds ourselves. Maybe even let the camera inside, just looking with our own eyes. Real nature. No intermediate.

dmitrijon Inhibition of fatty acid oxidation enables heart regeneration in adult mice

Vegetables and fruits. Less meat, especially red meat. Less fat. Especially reduce saturated fat. No refined sugar. Reduce salt. And: Exercise. Cardio sport . Increase muscle mass. And reduce stress. But most important: go to the cardiologist, take your meds, adhere to their advice.

dmitrijon Keith Haring’s Computer Drawings

Warhol, Haring, Pollock – after the NFT art market of contemporary artworks failed, they now go for the safe old modernists?

dmitrijon Keith Haring’s Computer Drawings

Don't underestimate the art market. A lot of money in it (still), high expectations, willing artists and owners, and valuations are dependent on the expertise of a rather closed circle of few who are in constant contact with collectors, artists, galleries and other insiders. If they see a chance of making NFTs profitable, they will realise it.

dmitrijon Keith Haring’s Computer Drawings

Stays. "It is important to know that you do not receive any intellectual property rights". See: https://www.christies.com/features/nft-101-11654-7.aspx?sc_l...

dmitrijon Mortality patterns for patients hospitalized during cardiology meetings (2016)

Sometimes when the boss is away the team works better. At least, that is the case with my team. I don't really know why. Because I really think I am not a bad boss. But apparently either I am or they just don't need one and I am in the end a distraction.

dmitrijon Petrucci Music Library

In the last decades philological standards for reproducing the original form of a musical work taking into account historical musical traditions, composing and performance practices have become much more thorough. Editions from the 19th and early 20th century which you can find on IMSLP because they are out of copyright restrictions often don't meet these scholarly standards. They very often reflect performance practises and the style of their time. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urtext_edition.

dmitrijon ChatGPT for Robotics

I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that!

dmitrijon Germany paying $5.5B for Intel fab

Already prepared grand space for industrial use with energy, water and public transport; 100% carbon neutral wind energy and very soon also water-neutrality were a few of the reasons given.

dmitrijon Scientist busts myths about how humans burn calories

It's nice when science confirms personal experience.

Early 2020 I started to change my life. Exercise, healthier food, weight control. My conclusions: I got stronger, had less back pain and less fat, felt calmer. Weight went down significantly.

After restaurants opened, I started again eating more fat and drinking more wine while continuing exercising and eating healthy at home. Strength and calm stayed, weight got up.

My conclusion: exercise is good in any aspect, but weight control also needs control of calories intake.

dmitrijon Former nuclear leaders: Say ‘no’ to new reactors

It's 4 guys. Former heads of nuclear regulation US, UK, Germany, France.

" Dr. Greg Jaczko, former Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Prof. Wolfgang Renneberg, former Head of the Reactor Safety, Radiation Protection and Nuclear Waste, Federal Environment Ministry, Germany Dr. Bernard Laponche, former Director General, French Agency for Energy Management, former Advisor to French Minister of Environment, Energy and Nuclear Safety Dr. Paul Dorfman, former Secretary UK Govt. Committee Examining Radiation Risk from Internal Emitters "

Reasons:

    Too costly in absolute terms to make a relevant contribution to global power production
    More expensive than renewable energy in terms of energy production and CO2 mitigation, even taking into account costs of grid management tools like energy storage associated with renewables rollout.
    Too costly and risky for financial market investment, and therefore dependent on very large public subsidies and loan guarantees.
    Unsustainable due to the unresolved problem of very long-lived radioactive waste.
    Financially unsustainable as no economic institution is prepared to insure against the full potential cost, environmental and human impacts of accidental radiation release – with the majority of those very significant costs being borne by the public.
    Militarily hazardous since newly promoted reactor designs increase the risk of  nuclear weapons proliferation.
    Inherently risky due to unavoidable cascading accidents from human error, internal faults, and external impacts; vulnerability to climate-driven sea-level rise, storm, storm surge, inundation and flooding hazard, resulting in international economic impacts.
    Subject to too many unresolved technical and safety problems associated with newer unproven concepts, including ‘Advanced’ and Small Modular Reactors (SMRs).
    Too unwieldy and complex to create an efficient industrial regime for reactor construction and operation processes within the intended build-time and scope needed for climate change mitigation.
    Unlikely to make a relevant contribution to necessary climate change mitigation needed by the 2030’s due to nuclear’s impracticably lengthy development and construction time-lines, and the overwhelming construction costs of the very great volume of reactors that would be needed to make a difference.

dmitrijon Prague's Brutalist Buildings

This is the start of a horror novel.

dmitrijon Covid Pass in Lithuania and Throughout Europe

Reacted to that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28968555

dmitrijon Covid Pass in Lithuania and Throughout Europe

I am not sure about the insignificance of 5%. In Germany, hospitals loose personnell, because after 3 big waves people simply can't cope with the stress any more. Every health system in countries which play fast and loose this winter will have a really bad time.

dmitrijon Covid Pass in Lithuania and Throughout Europe

I would like to argue that point by saying these 100,000 are not separated in 100,000 vaccinated and 100,000 unvaccinated, but I am not sure.

Anyway: in Germany the numbers are: 4 times more probable for the unvaccinated. I all depends on how people protect themselves, and that is the reason for vaccination passes: less infections, much less symptoms, much much less hospitalisations, almost no deaths in otherwise healthy people under 80 = no lockdowns.

dmitrijon Covid Pass in Lithuania and Throughout Europe

Cause, if you write "twice as likely" you will have to measure against vaccincation rates. If 1000 people are vaccinated, and 10 get infected, versus 10 unvaccinated with 1 infection: who is more likely?

dmitrijon Covid Pass in Lithuania and Throughout Europe

Yet, the latest data out of the UK (COVID-19 vaccine surveillance report Week 42, Page 13) [1] shows that the double-vaccinated are around TWICE as likely to catch COVID-19

I hope you don't work in programming or data analytics

dmitrijon Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions

Let me pay for Firefox, please!

dmitrijon Common cold combats Covid-19

You are talking about two different topics.

The first case: this story is not an article. It's a press release, and I wish we would stop treating these like "scientific publications".

The second case: there is a real debate going on, on a global level: should we use vaccines for booster vaccinations, or shouldn't we first vaccinate the whole world to get control of the pandemic. This is not only a question of medicine, this is also global politics, the rich North versus the not so rich rest of the world, patents and corporations versus saving lifes – debate is inevitable.

dmitrijon The New York Times uses the dark patterns it derides

Same with me. In my case, the Economist, who does the same like the New York Times. Subscribing is a click, canceling is a call to a representative who will talk to me about how they "love to discuss a more affordable or flexible subscription option so that you can keep enjoying everything The Economist has to offer" https://myaccount.economist.com/s/article/How-do-I-cancel-my...

dmitrijon Microfilm Lasts Half a Millennium

You will find good holdings of national and international periodicals in university and higher ed libraries, in Frankfurt/Main, Marburg, Darmstadt, Wiesbaden, Gießen, Kassel and so on. Also, the German National Library (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek) is in Frankfurt/Main.

dmitrijon Microfilm Lasts Half a Millennium

For starters: https://news.google.com/newspapers and https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov

dmitrijon Ask HN: Should I move to Berlin?

- after tax, social security and mandatory health insurance, you will keep around 50% of your gross income

- apartment will be around € 600-700 now (1-2 rooms in a "hip", central location like Kreuzberg, Friedrichshain, Neukölln)

- it's a quite multicultural city, with lot's interesting live styles and culture

- it's a democratic, stable country with a generally functioning law and state

- the weather is cold and rainy especially from November to May

- it's way up north, so less light in winter, more in summer

I would prefer Berlin to Dubai, but I am a Berliner, so ...

dmitrijon Silicon Valley is erasing individuality

I switched to Newstral, https://newstral.com/en. I like the simplistic beauty of the "algorithm": The first three stories on the front page. And you can order and select the sources.

dmitrijon Watsi launches universal health coverage, funded by YC Research

Do you need a prescription for Ibuprofen in Spain? Strange. In Germany, go to the drugstore and buy it yourself. € 10 for 100 400mg pills. And if you are ill, usually you go to a doctor near you. Only in real emergencies, go to the hospital.

dmitrijon Rod Vagg's statement on the request to be removed from the Node.js CTC

It's been quite a journey from a "great babbling bazaar of differing agendas and approaches"[1] to this mess. Bureaucracy always wins in the end.

[1] <http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-...

dmitrijon Don't publicly expose .git (2015)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14534499

dmitrijon Gerhard Steidl is making books an art form

It's interesting that you mention "cultural elite". Because the real cultural elite in Germany, the ones coming from "good families" and having the finest education, always looked down on Gerhard Steidl because he wasn't one of them and didn't play by their rules. Yes, he is clever and enjoys the fruits of his endeavours. But he made his success all by himself, and he makes good and nice things. Shame on him!

dmitrijon Berlin Living Rooms

Why sad truth? I just looked at my Ikea sofa (in a Berliner Wohnzimmer, for the record) and noticed, that it lived longer with me than any of my partners. That may be sad, but it's not the sofa's fault.

dmitrijon Fake News on Facebook? In Foreign Elections, That’s Not New

Having the Economist, NY Times and WP reporting according to a certain liberal, free market bias is bad. But, in a world of post-truth, not having them at all would be worse. For me, there is still a difference between bias and not caring about the facts at all.