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Class 1 civilization has a lot of resources

Americium battery could last a lot longer.

I do Openwrt on my HP


Not really, my old microwave has 500 Watts, this should be also enough for slow resistive cooking while being insulated.You will find 12V/24V 2.8L/5L Dc Electric Pressures Cookers with 250W-300W on AliExpress. (1l needs roughly 0.1kwh of energy to go from 20 to 100°C) Additionally, you might save a lot of energy by using a hay box after it starts to boil. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haybox


IMO 500 watts of sustained electrical power is a fair bit, especially compared to every other electric device these households are likely to have.


500wh battery can deliver that for 1 hour.


slow cooking: see above on changing the taste of food that's deeply rooted in tradition


So? Everyone used to cook over woodfire. If the benefits are good enough, like massiv time saving, it will change.


alibaba.com/product-detail/Solar-DC-12V-24V-Battery-Powered_60758353185.html


Laptops, TVs and other electronics already run from DC. Also, there are a lot of appliances for camper vans, boat which run on 12v or 24v DC. On Alibaba you can buy a stove for a few bucks: https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Solar-DC-12V-24V-Batt...


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage_therapy

Basically use dirty water, finely filter it, such that only things as big as phages remain. Put that liquid in a solution of bacteria you want to treat. Filter it again, repeat... In the end you should end up with some phage solution which specifically attacks the bacteria. If these phages don't work anymore, find new ones.


George Eliava Institute in Tbilisi is where you could get such a treatment. In the West you might be able to source it from food production related suppliers: https://phageguard.com. I guess an open wound where treatment with antibiotics fails and loosing your foot etc. is on the table, this might be an option of last resort.


> In the end you should end up with some phage solution which specifically attacks the bacteria

This reminds of the universal cure to disease being a bullet [1].

Phages are promising. That doesn’t mean they can’t hurt you [2].

[1] https://xkcd.com/1217/

[2] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8310247/


"we found some adverse events associated with phage therapy, but serious events were extremely rare."

The biggest hindrance is that the western process of developing and releasing new medicine is ill-suited for phage treatment.


That's only partly it.

The whole procedure of selecting a phage personalized for the patient and then growing it into a treatment is so slow the patient may die before it's ready. Works for chonic infections but not much else.

There are probably phage treatments that are not personalized: test susceptibility and then mail-order the treatment. That treatment:

  - Would be very expensive to *produce* compared to most antibiotics. I emphasize *produce* because the price of antibiotics rarely reflect how much it costs to produce them. Compared to antibiotics, phage treatments have very low margins.

  - Would work for a very limited percentage of patients (probably less than 10%). There are hundreds of phages for each bacteria species (yes, they're species-specific and sub-species-specific). 

  - Have a very *very* short shelf life, possibly a couple of days. So, no pharmacy or hospital can keep a sufficiently diverse supply of phages in store to treat most patients, possibly not even whole countries.
BTW, species specificity and shelf life applies to the susceptibility test kits too.


Well Phage guard and similar products using a replacement schedule and many phages in one cocktail. But this does not mean that page guard like products would not be successfully as medicine, but as a medicine this is not possible as it is non-stable and containing live viruses. At best, you would need to get a new approvable every time the cocktail changes.


> the western process of developing and releasing new medicine is ill-suited for phage treatment

…as evidenced by the booming phage industry somewhere in the east?

(The weird thing is this railing against western medicine or whatnot is usually a dead ringer for pseudoscience. Yet phages are a scientifically valid thereaupeutic route [1].)

[1] https://www.nature.com/subjects/bacteriophages


I don't understand your point? The only thing I said that the process of developing new medicine is ill-suited for phage treatment. This due the fact bacteria and phages are coevolving, hence any phage treatment is highly specific and hence not worth of developing. It needs new ideas to standardize the process and to make this process a legal treatment option.


> due the fact bacteria and phages are coevolving, hence any phage treatment is highly specific and hence not worth of developing

How is this different from antibiotics?

Nothing about phages makes them not worth developing. Exhibit A: they’re being researched and developed.


1) Phages are specific for each bacteria species or sub-species. Can't treat E.coli and Klebsiella with the same phages like we do with antibiotics. Not even the test kits are the same. There are hundreds of phages for each bacteria species and only a few of them would work for each patient.

2) Phages are live organisms (as much as you can call a virus "alive"). The shelf life is very very short. A couple of days probably.

1 + 2 => A hospital would have to store thousands of different phages to be able to treat most of it's patients and it would have to replace those stores twice a week.


> hospital would have to store thousands of different phages to be able to treat most of it's patients and it would have to replace those stores twice a week

Couldn’t you create a few compound batches that treat sets of bacteria, balancing distribution cost and side effects?

Do that a little, remove phages that don’t work better than antibiotics, tailor for local conditions and I doubt you’re adding more than a few dozen medicines to the hospital’s inventory.

> shelf life is very very short. A couple of days probably

Plenty can survive cryogenic suspension [1].

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3131515/


They are only active against a narrow strain of bacteria unlike antibiotics.


> are only active against a narrow strain of bacteria unlike antibiotics

And this makes them “not worth…developing” why?

(The comparison to antibiotics was that the antibiotic-bacteria system is coevolving too. Exhibit A: TFA on antibiotic resistance.)


Much slower, we are still using 100 year old antibiotics. Money one phage is going to make is much smaller. This is not cost effective to go through the whole process.


> Money one phage is going to make is much smaller

Again, what are you basing this on?

> This is not cost effective to go through the whole process

Now do personalized medicine.


Phages are binding to very specific proteins, where as antibiotics disrupt more fundamental processes.

Personal medicine as in individual combination of existing drugs is easier to achieve in current regulatory framework then using new drugs.


There is a special place in hell for people providing non copyable text information in the form of screenshots.


It's amazing how many "little" things there are like this. Like I honestly can't remember the last time I filled out a form which required something like my country and I didn't have to scroll to find it. All the information's there to make a good guess. But this is just one example of a million. There's just too many papercuts.


Modern life is full of these tiny inconveniences. It usually involves some sort of "smart" devices, like light switches, stoves, elevator buttons, etc. Each one of which could be forgivable, but in sum it's like death by a thousand paper cuts.

User hostile UI in the name of security is particularly bad: we are supposed to type unique and complicated passwords in text fields without being able to see what we type, and if we get it wrong, we are put in timeout for two seconds. Citrix Netscaler nowadays apparently wants to be extra secure and shows you the most generic error message if you have a typo in either your password or user name and just tells you to "try again later", so you do until you lock yourself out. It's madness.


The other day I wanted to send someone proof that a transaction has gone through. A screenshot would have been the obvious choice, but of course, my banking app wouldn't let me do it.


A screenshot would also be trivial to counterfeit. That being said, I am not aware of any banks that provide any actually tamper-proof, shareable transaction confirmations.


I don't know about your bank/countries, but all of the banking apps in my country I've seen have 1. a "share account details" button that lets you easily paste your IBAN and other details in text form and 2. a "transaction receipt" button that saves a .pdf with the relevant details, that can be sent to the other part (although I agree with the other comment, this .pdf just like a screenshot can be easily spoofed)


At least in SEPA you have instant payment, which is even better than any proof of the start of the transaction.


Why does a third party want to know the transaction occured?

These seems a bit like a scam. Why can't they ask the recevier?


Perhaps true, but some modern OSes (like macOS and iOS) allow you to copy text from screenshots. And since the text quality of screenshots is typically good, it works well.


Windows with power toys and android have it too.

The Penny supermarkt app on android disables both screenshots and text selection with the error that it is disabled by admin.


And PDF documents in image form. Usually scans of printed copies.

It is fine for historical documents, but doing today means you really want to piss people off. And by the way, PDF files support signatures, both handwritten and digital. There are ways other than printing a 100+ page document and scanning it just so that your signature shows up on a single one of these pages.


At least the days of those screenshot being pasted into a Microsoft Word document are mostly behind us now...


At this point you can just use google lens or something like that to copy text from images.


Do you prefer a voice message instead? /s


Not true, lifetime is longer and there are no rare earth elements in battery cells themself. Rare earth are not really rare btw.


South Korean company build a NPP in 7 years in Saudi Arabia.


United Arab Emirates.

Fastest build times are Japan with under 4 years.

Germany built its Konvois in just shy of 6 years.

Just before we stopped building altogether.

France built 50+ reactors in 15 years.

We know how to build nuclear quickly, reliably and (relatively) cheaply. We also know how to do it slowly, eratically and expensively.

Fortunately the former comes almost but not entirely automatically with building lots of them.


During the past 25 years there were projects aiming at building industrial nuclear reactors. They all ended badly (canceled, way over budget or delay...).


That's completely false.

The Konvois in Germany were extremely successful.

France built 50+ reactors in 15 years from a standing start.


I wrote "During the past 25 years"

Please describe any nuclear reactor which was successfully built in France or Germany during the past 25 years.

France: https://sites.google.com/view/electricitedefrance/messmer-pl...


Germany didn't build any.

France built hardly any.

And that's the complete answer: we know how to build nuclear reactors quickly and cheaply.

Building only very few of different novel designs while slowly (or quickly) losing the industrial base to do so, for example by making it illegal to build more (or at all) is exactly how you don't do it.


The EPR2 program is in absolute shambles.

Currently they can’t even agree on how to fund the absolutely insanely bonkers subsidies.

Now targeting investment decision in H2 2026… And the French government just fell because they are underwater in debt and have a spending problem which they can’t agree on how to fix.

A massive handout to the dead end nuclear industry sounds like the perfect solution!

But nuclear is fast to build, if we ignore all modern western examples!


Just because in Germany the bill was footed by the consumer and geopolitical dependcies (Russia) does not make its CO2 free electricity cheaper. It also still lacks behind France in CO2 emission.


This argument is like nuclear power was a waste for France in the 1980s because they weren't done removing all oil from their grid.

As per recent French nuclear construction they are on a path of replacing it with renewables because it is horrifically expensive and they are unable to finance new construction.


My argument is that german electricity is way more expensive then the french. But you are right npp is overregulated and should be build in convoys to manage cost.


> South Korean company build a NPP in 7 years in Saudi Arabia.

Barakah (delivered March 2024) was late (by about 3 years?), undersold (KEPCO hadn't any other ongoing project and the Korean government at the time wanted a nuclear phase-out) and various tricks are now known: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korean_nuclear_scandal


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