Even in a highly regulated environment like the United States, coal mining is not a zero-fatality industry. United States: According to the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), there were 8 coal mining deaths in 2025 and 10 in 2024. This is a massive improvement from 1907 (the deadliest year), which saw 3,242 deaths.
In countries with less stringent safety oversight, the numbers are much higher. For example, China's coal industry—though improving—has historically recorded hundreds to thousands of deaths annually.
In 2022 alone, hundreds of people died in global coal mine accidents.
Chronic Disease: "Black Lung" (pneumoconiosis) is still a leading cause of death for miners. In the U.S. alone, thousands of former miners die every decade from lung diseases directly caused by inhaling coal dust.
Absolutely. This is why it would be better to chose the best option without the management.
I regularly consult management about technical decisions and the always chose something else than the best option. Based on feelings, opinions and kickback rates.
There are way to limit the scope of those. One set of credentials per environment for example. You can also limit the use of the these credentials by policy.
Thanks, it just confirming what I thought. Solar is in the same bracket as nuclear. The difference is pretty small. Adding the energy density to the mix makes it obvious which one is a better option.
If you compare apples to oranges it is not. Once you start to compare apples to apples it is very competitive. What do I mean by this?
People like to compare nuclear to wind or solar. There is a fundamental difference. Wind or solar is not controlled by the energy demand while a nuclear power plat's energy production is. This is why you cannot compare them. If you talk about solar or renewables you should talk about:
- the production part (solar panels or wind mills)
- the energy storage part (some sort of batteries or pumped-storage hydroelectricity)
- if you do not want to build either batteries of pumped-storage then you have to build in the same amount of quickly accessible power source (this is natural gas
turbines mostly)
There are few other challenges:
- solar or windmills require massive amount of construction because the energy density is very low
- the damage to nature with windmills especially is bad (there is preemptive maintenance during animal activity for many of the windmills)
- weather can damage these facilities
- the lifetime of windmills or solar panels are much shorter than nuclear power plant lifetimes
Given all these and the general public's hatred towards nuclear energy largely fuelled by politicians many countries shut down research into nuclear with very few exceptions. Instead, these countries invested billions into renewables without much success yet. I think soon we are going to be at a tipping point when this whole circus ends and we are going to get back on track with nuclear which is much needed in the coming of space era.
Actually, I haven't heard of them and they look like a pretty nice way of connecting different resources over the internet. I am not sure what you mean by parasites. I am glad they posted the link in this thread. Wireguard is an opensource project, Tailscale is a paid service. Do you think they compete with each other or you think that people should not share product recommendations at all on HN?
Sorry I am not trying to turn this into a framework discussion. I just used that list the exhibit the sort of naming that I do not really like. I like if I can tell what my code does. I usually use verbs in naming methods create, update, delete, add, remove, run, wait, etc. and try to name the classes (or more likely just packages, modules) after what they do.
Regarding your comment about the quality of implementation, I agree. This is why I like paradigms that are simple enough for everybody to understand.