News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

cjg_

Re:Sweden Gov Announces 'Massive Expansion' of Nuclear Energy on Thursday November 16, 2023 @04:26PM (#38295781)
There's several projects ongoing to store heat from district heating systems, for example in Västerås [1] and Linköping [2]

[1] https://www.malarenergi.se/om-malarenergi/framtidens-samhall... [2] https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/ost/de-lagrar-varme-i-berg...

Re:Sweden Gov Announces 'Massive Expansion' of Nuclear Energy on Thursday November 16, 2023 @04:21PM (#38295704)
Vattenfall is fully state-owned anyway.
Re:EU Artificial Intelligence Act on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @04:55PM (#35967649)
Note that this is not an official EU website, but by a non-profit organization https://futureoflife.org/
Re:Live Briefing on Alaska Aerial Object Shoot-Down on Friday February 10, 2023 @05:56PM (#34747159)
More or less the premise of this 2021 article: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/40054/adversary-drones...
Re:Supermicro Throws Its Weight Behind Arm Servers on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @05:26PM (#34252800)
Amazon creates their own security chips since several years with the Nitro system: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/nitro/
Normally these ageeements are time limited to say 1-3 years and then needs to be renegotiated, this is when union requires some certain salary increases over the next agreement period and for that promise to not strike given that the employer hold up the agreement. Should the not come to a agreement during the negotiations, strikes are an option.
Re:Fire Apparatus – United States vs. Europe (2016) on Saturday August 20, 2022 @09:25AM (#32531904)
Found a quite good article about differences on the helmets (and some other firefighting techniques like fognails) in https://www.firehouse.com/safety-health/ppe/helmets/article/...

This fognail video was quite interesting also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe_V7aLyzM8

Re:I hacked my car on Saturday August 13, 2022 @05:27AM (#32448216)
Immobilizers are mandatory in EU since 1998, so yes.
Re:EVs cost 22% less to service than ICE cars, new data shows on Saturday August 06, 2022 @04:53AM (#32366283)
I guess one example is bikeshops providing air for bikes for free. But I agree, not many services provide things for free. I’m assuming gas stations see it as a way to draw in customers, many also have bathrooms for free.
Interesting, here in Sweden air is always free, however vaccums cost money (but way less stations have vaccums).
Yeah, more or less every manned gas station in Sweden has that.
Gas stations charge for air?
Re:Cooling related failure (in Google London DC) on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @04:18AM (#32162914)
The eu-north-1 AZ’s are in Västerås, Eskilstuna and Katrineholm, all ~100 km from Stockholm and ~40-80 km from each other.
Username is your national id number, not really something strange in Sweden for banking.
Re:Major Swedish supermarket chain hit by cyberattack on Saturday July 03, 2021 @02:48PM (#27723819)
Coop the store chain is owned by a cooperative association (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kooperativa_F%C3%B6rbundet) so would say it is legit still.
No, but Opportunity is lost, it survived for 15 years though, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_(rover)
Re:What We Can Learn from Japanese Prefab Homes on Thursday March 11, 2021 @07:59AM (#26423475)
Basically all major house manufacturers in Sweden prefab walls etc and deliver them and assemble.

Assembling of one of them in a day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4ndJF64M3I

Re:Ask HN: Can I trust brokers with my stocks? on Saturday February 20, 2021 @08:16AM (#26203873)
Avanza supports loaning out stocks depending on the account type, it is only available on Kapitalförsäkring because otherwise the stock is in your name (on Depå / ISK). Also you get paid a premium if they loan your stocks. It is described on https://www.avanza.se/konton-lan-prislista/konton/kapitalfor... and includes a section about the risk.
Not less efficient than just using electricity. At -20C you get 1:1 electricity to heat.
Would say that almost all cities / larger towns in Sweden has municipal heating via hot water. And acc. to wikipedia around half of all housing units in Denmark, Sweden and Finland has municipal heating.
Re:iOS 14 is available today on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @04:09PM (#24497106)
Update available now for me (Sweden)
There's a quite big one in Sweden also, built in the 50's that is still active. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musk%C3%B6_naval_base
Get the ebook for $47 with a ebook 30% discount on their site? $33.
Re:New iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @08:30AM (#22615836)
"A full-size keyboard designed for iPad Pro brings individual hard keycaps and a scissor mechanism with 1 mm travel for a responsive, comfortable and quiet typing experience."

Seems very similar to the new Pro keyboard!

Re:Hundreds of dogs in Norway hit by mystery illness on Friday September 13, 2019 @11:16AM (#20962877)
Norway is in the EEA and that means they are effectively bound by same rules as the rest of the EU governing trade.
Re:NetNewsWire 5.0 – Open-Source RSS Reader for Mac on Sunday September 01, 2019 @08:52AM (#20852001)
Worked fine to export/import from 4.10 so I bet this is a limitation of the OPML export in 3.3.2 rather than an issues in 5.0.
Re:Ask HN: What backpack are you using? on Friday March 29, 2019 @09:27AM (#19521437)
Mission Workshop The Rambler, https://missionworkshop.com/products/the-rambler Amazing bag, not cheap though, have had it for 5 years. Perfect for biking or travel.
Re:Best Startups to Work for in Stockholm on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @06:29AM (#19207116)
That's only if you are taking sick-leave (and for the first day, then you get some part of your salary), also Sweden got 25 days of mandatory paid vacation days.
The difference is well explained by the 25% VAT applied in Norway.

Older »