MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by chihuahua | 2025-10-26 02:08:45+00:00
Based on the following sentences from the article, it's probably 4 to 6 times more than 15.7 GWh (60 to 90 GWh, apparently):

"Battery energy storage is not without challenges, however. Lithium-ion batteries — the most common type used for energy storage — typically have about four to six hours of capacity. It’s enough to support the grid during peak hours as the sun sets, but can still leave some gaps to be filled by natural gas."
by frank_nitti | 2025-10-26 02:09:03+00:00
Great insight and advice I need to take - your description captures my current situation almost to a tee, better than I’ve been able to understand it for myself, so thank you.

In addition to what you described, in my case this engineer quickly recognizes other highly-effective and/or important people, and aggressively tries to build that reputation by privately messaging and even privately demoing work where the recipient has some stake in the outcome.

I would onboard him to a project, sharing all of my tools, key contacts and personal insights, e.g.

“our manager Smith is hinting that there is a big customer interested in X capability, which I’ve discussed with their power user Wilson and product owner Flores informally in recent demos. I think we could use Y approach and want to start prototyping if we get the go-ahead”

This engineer would start messaging Flores, Wilson and Smith privately and schedule calls about X excluding me and other core maintainers to push the thing forward, often proposing Y in his own words.

This strategy worked wonders for him in terms of upward movement. He is a diligent and extremely responsive to important people. But the strong engineers from whom he has effectively stolen credit, or even the opportunity to have a seat at the table in critical early discussions, obviously resent it.

His direct manager is lackadaisical and basically just gets bombarded by this engineer asking for frequent, long 1-1 calls where he shares “his” accomplishments and ideas. I’ve watched this play out in person (we are a remote-only team except for big project-related events) — his manager clearly trying to leave the event after it concluded, keys in hand and facing his car door, everyone else has said goodbye and given space, and this engineer keeps him there talking for no less than 10 more minutes.

I’ve never met someone so comically ambitious and overzealous to be seen as the MVP He was promoted in record time, much to the frustration of stronger and more critical maintainers.

I am baffled by the whole thing, and just laugh at this point. My most charitable interpretation of manager’s actions are that they do recognize the dynamic, and just don’t care because ultimately their job is slightly easier for the meantime. But if any 2+ of the critical core maintainers split in frustration, the whole thing will suffer, badly

ETA: it seems to me that remote-only teams are particularly susceptible to this kind of thing getting out of hand, because the capacity for secret communication is immensely greater
by BobbyTables2 | 2025-10-26 02:09:49+00:00
I really hate it when various packages expect users to add their custom repo. Especially for something where I don’t care about updates.

Feels like every little thing should be in its own docker container with limited filesystem access. Of course that is a whole lot of trouble…

The dependency trees in cargo/pip also greatly bother me.

VS Code extensions are also under appreciated. Some turd makes a “starter pack” for rust/python/etc with a great set of common extensions… plus a few that nobody has heard of… Over time, they reach 50k-100k downloads and start to appear legit… Excellent way to exfiltrate trade secrets!!!
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-10-26 02:10:38+00:00
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cd zearch-master/ ed Makefile <<__GGG__ 11c CC = gcc . 4,6c CFLAGS = -static -s -I/usr/include -fcommon -O3 -march=native -flto -mtune=native # CFLAGS = -fcommon -flto -DNDEBUG -ggdb -fno-inline-functions LFLAGS = -L/usr/local/lib/ /usr/lib/libfa.a . w q __GGG__ ed main.c <<__HHH__ 750,751c if(mode=='q'){ret=run_boolean_zearch(minimize,argv[argc-1],argv[argc-2]);exit(ret);}else run_zearch(minimize,argv[argc-1],argv[argc-2]); . 730,733c if(argc==4)if(argv[1][0]=='-')mode=argv[1][1];else mode='l'; . 707,728c if(argc!=3&&argc!=4)help(); . 703c int help(){ fputs("Usage: zearch [OPTION] PATTERN RE-PAIR FILE\n",stderr); fputs(" -c: prints only a count of selected lines in RE-PAIR FILE\n",stderr); fputs(" -q: suppress all normal output\n",stderr); exit(0); } . 525a int help(); if(slp==NULL)help(); . 501c ret=1; . 491c ret=0; . 482c ret=0; . 430a int help(); if(slp==NULL)help(); . 419c if(mode=='c')printf("%d\n",ret+counting_overflows*COUNTER_TOP); . 350c if(mode!='c'&&mode!='q'){ . 238,253d w q __HHH__ ed nfa.c <<__III__ 103,104c extern unsigned int num_e_l; extern unsigned int num_e_r; . diff -re zearch-master/src/stack.c zearch-master.new/src/stack.c 56c s->data = (unsigned int*)realloc(s->data, sizeof(unsigned int) * s->size); . 53c __attribute__((always_inline)) inline void stack_push(STACK *s, unsigned int n){ . 42,43c __attribute__((always_inline)) inline unsigned int stack_pop(STACK *s){ unsigned int ret; . 37c posix_memalign((void **)&s->data, 64, STACK_SIZE * sizeof(unsigned int)); . w q __III__ ed stack.h <<__JJJ__ 65c void stack_push(STACK *s, unsigned int n); . 55c unsigned int stack_pop(STACK *s); . 36c unsigned int *data; . 5c * Each element is a unsigned int. . w q __JJJ__
by ang_cire | 2025-10-26 02:11:09+00:00
Literally no amount of incident reporting is excessive when it comes to nuclear power. Not just because of the safety of the plant itself, but because so much is reliant on it.

It's important to identify even small defects or incidents so that patterns can be noticed before they turn into larger issues. You see the same breaker tripping at 3x the rate of other ones, and even though maybe nothing was damaged you now know there's something to investigate.
by robocat | 2025-10-26 02:11:40+00:00
Someone just posted "Noam Chomsky Slams ŽIžek and Lacan: Empty 'Posturing' (2013)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45708442

I've tried to listen to ŽIžek, but he sounds like nonsense to me. Like exactly what Sokal was taking the Mick out of.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-10-26 02:12:19+00:00
>Fiction makes you think.

A good computer game makes you think too.

The strategic play in this game is very deep: https://store.steampowered.com/app/646570/Slay_the_Spire/

If I had a kid, I would be tempted to have them play Slay the Spire as a homework assignment, to teach practical arithmetic and critical thinking. (No reading wikis or discussion forums; you have to figure out the best strategies for yourself!)

>About the world, about the future, about yourself, about who you want to be, about what life is about, about why you exist, about love, about injustice, etc.

This statement is also true for movies, TV shows, AskReddit discussions, etc. Yet they don't have the same cultural cachet as fiction.
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-10-26 02:13:35+00:00
>"We know that they are lying,

>they know that they are lying,

>they even know that we know they are lying,

>we also know that they know we know they are lying too,

>they of course know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying too as well,

>BUT THEY ARE STILL LYING.

>The lie has become not just moral category, but the pillar industry of this country [Russia]."

—Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on vranyo [0] emphasis/formatting mine

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Gulag-Archipelago-1918-1956-Investiga...
by scarier | 2025-10-26 02:16:35+00:00
It seems reasonable and prudent to go through decontamination after this sort of thing, but if the worker had just gone home to their family soaking wet without changing, there would still have been close enough to zero risk to anyone (again, cleaning up and making sure this is the case is a very reasonable thing to do).

This sort of place is safe enough to bring your kid into without significant precautions (I got to do this as a kid—it was really cool). The biggest risk by far is drowning.

Relevant XKCD: https://what-if.xkcd.com/29/
by bm3719 | 2025-10-26 02:16:50+00:00
I'm not fluent in French or German either, only enough for light reading in both, and certainly not enough for anything complex/dense. For Lacan, Hegel, and other continental thinkers, I read the same translations that most English-speaking readers do. Am I missing something of these text's core essence? Probably. But, it's also not my job and I need that linguistic brain space for programming languages, so I'm okay with getting 90% of it.

Here was my early Lacan workflow: Lots of Freud essays (you need to know Freud's major ideas cold), The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan by McGowan, The Lacanian Subject by Fink, Seminar VII, Seminar XI.

I've read a lot of other stuff since then, but this path into Lacan worked for me. By the time you've read these, you'll know where to go next on your own. You'll also know pretty early in it whether Lacan is for you. Also, if you don't like Freud (and I don't mean disagree with him, but dislike the overall approach), you can safely stop there.
by untrust | 2025-10-26 02:17:11+00:00
> The AI of today can and if everyone knew about it, they would be using it.

The AI of today absolutely does not add 0.5x, I'm using cursor and copilot and they still are usually just a fiddly tool which gets it right half the time. Anything complicated enough to need me to review its work takes longer through series of prompting and correcting its work than if I did it myself, and anything trivial enough for it to one shot its not saving me much time on anyways. All for a costly monthly subscription.
by quamserena | 2025-10-26 02:17:23+00:00
Meh, Linux Mint has some serious rough edges from my experience. Suspend doesn’t work if multiple users are logged in, save-as dialog windows open under the current window (a 7-year old bug!!!) [0], audio devices are not shared between users, some drives don't mount on boot, etc. These problems are probably fixable if you have the know-how but it isn't great for the tech illiterate.

That being said, I have never had kernel panics or opened my computer to find a corrupted OS after a bad update (unlike Windows), so there's that.

[0] https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal-gtk/issues/137
by BryantD | 2025-10-26 02:17:53+00:00
Oh, we’ve long since seen that revenge: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scholarly_publishing_s... for many examples, including quite a few in the sciences.

I have come to think of the Sokal hoax as an early warning sign of our current information crisis. There was an era when high production values signaled information hygiene. The real Apple original sin wasn’t the walled garden, it was the LaserWriter.
by mlindner | 2025-10-26 02:18:55+00:00
It's not that surprising. We're burning a rock we dug out of the ground and turning it into a vapor. Rocks found underground contain some amount of natural radioactive material, for example granite/marble tend to be higher in radiation. If you burn that into a powder and put it into the atmosphere it'll spread around and expose the nearby area to very slightly radioactive pollution.
by grogenaut | 2025-10-26 02:19:05+00:00
I couldn't get my spouse to try till her computer died, I installed it and said try for a day, I had to use linux to fix the computer (not a lie). See how it goes. She's a gimp wizard now (odd sentence). And very flexible on oses. The only killer app for her is excel on windows. "mac excel is crap". yes honey, yes it is.
by pembrook | 2025-10-26 02:20:03+00:00
Man in Michigan potentially exposed to radiation levels equivalent to undergoing 4 x-rays at the doctors office.

Meanwhile, in Texas, 1.5 people die every day working in Oil and Gas extraction.

A few people die every year installing or falling off of wind turbines.

But by all means, let's make this a news story instead and keep making nuclear sound scary. I’m sure the person who posted this to HN with this clickbait title has zero political beliefs.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-10-26 02:21:51+00:00
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/solar-is-crushing...

https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/US-CAL-CISO/12mo/mo...

~50% of California’s electricity over the last year was sourced from renewables, ~60% from all low carbon generators. The last 50% will not take as long as the first 50%. Electric vehicles get cleaner as the grid gets cleaner. Hydrogen for light vehicles is dead; scrap the cars and move on.
by musicale | 2025-10-26 02:22:24+00:00
> Great, so you have to pretend 40 hours a week

I think this is an important realization - you are in a sense being paid to play a role at work, and there is a script for that role that everyone expects you to follow.

One of the benefits of having such a script is that it standardizes how to interact with people in a particular role, and reduces the friction of having to change workflow based on a specific person.
by hammock | 2025-10-26 02:23:10+00:00
People don’t talk enough about the risk of fire. The crazy thing is when a battery installation catches fire they don’t actually fight the fire. They just have to let it burn out. The resulting environmental damage is terrible.

This happened recently in the Central Valley. I can’t remember the name of the battery site but it was a huge one, and literally right next door to one of the largest Driscolls strawberry farms, on which black lithium smoke settled all over , over the course of several days/weeks in the middle of the summer.

Edit: maybe we are talking about the same fire? https://x.com/TheKevinDalton/status/1880277672393412848
by vunderba | 2025-10-26 02:25:09+00:00
From the paper

> The pipeline (bottom) shows how diverse OpenImages inputs are edited using Nano-Banana and quality-filtered by Gemini-2.5-Pro, with failed attempts automatically retried.

Pretty interesting. I run a fairly comprehensive image-comparison site for SOTA generative AI in text-to-image and editing. Managing it manually got pretty tiring, so a while back I put together a small program that takes a given starting prompt, a list of GenAI models, and a max number of retries which does something similar.

It generates and evaluates images using a separate multimodal AI, and then rewrites failed prompts automatically repeating up to a set limit.

It's not perfect (nine pointed star example in particular) - but often times the "recognition aspect of a multimodal model" is superior to its generative capabilities so you can run it in a sort of REPL until you get the desired outcome.

https://genai-showdown.specr.net/image-editing
by culi | 2025-10-26 02:26:21+00:00
> Yet it was not quite gone. Half a century later, in 1958, two shrews appeared as bulldozers tore into the forest for phosphate mining. They were seen, released, and forgotten.

I wonder how many thought-to-be-extinct species were not seen before it was too late. It's also wild that they were simply released instead of being moved to captivity to try to breed
by wtfwhateven | 2025-10-26 02:27:11+00:00
>I am very consistent. What's inconsistent about my argument?

You really are not. I've already explained. Namely the statehood criteria. Palestine fulfills all the requirements but it is apparent your actual criteria has a "except if it's called Palestine" suffix.

Your argument is self-defeating and, if anything, is simply a concession to my argument.

>Can you give me three other examples of states where their existence is similar to the existence of "Palestine"? How is Palestine not a snowflake here? And if it is, why? What in your mind does the "existence of a state" mean exactly? What is your reference?

What does "snowflake" mean in this context exactly?

Palestine fulfills all requirements for statehood.

>Please answer my question about the State of Palestine pre 1967. Did that state exist before 1967? Did it exist e.g. in the 1970's or the 80's? Did it meet the same criteria? What has changed?

>Please expand on why you think a State of Palestine existed before 1948 and Israel.

>What was the timeline for recognition of the State of Palestine by those 80% countries you're so happy to enlist in your support. What's different about the conditions before and after that timeline? What is the international law basis for the existence of the Palestinian Authority?

Use google. The answer to these questions are still irrelevant given Palestine fulfills the criteria previously stated, as far as I can tell you conceded given your refusal to address the fact Palestine fulfills the requirements and you choose to instead deflect to numerous other questions whose answers don't disqualify from statehood.

"timeline for recognition of the State of Palestine by those 80% countries you're so happy to enlist in your support."

I guess you also have total snarling contempt for 80% of the world too. It is a shame your biases cloud your reasoning so much.

The simple fact is Palestine fulfills all requirements.

Repeating "Countries are only saying this due to money and pressure" is a nonsensical rebuttal based on no evidence and just reads as a cope to justify pretending something doesn't exist when it clearly does.
by bm3719 | 2025-10-26 02:27:24+00:00
This stuff is all true. Lacan also had a habit of permanently "borrowing" people's collectible books, charging Felix Guattari to drive Lacan home, sleeping with his female clients, and many, many other despicable things. He was, by all accounts, a complete scumbag.

I still read him because his ideas are brilliant and helped me in innumerable ways. He's dead now and his books can't hurt me. They're not even ideological, so you can't make the same case as you could for avoiding, say, a certain Austrian political theorist. However, if we somehow resurrect Lacan, I won't be lending him any first editions from my collection.
by creatonez | 2025-10-26 02:27:55+00:00
Transport encryption should be a huge priority for everyone. It's completely unacceptable to continue using unencrypted protocols over the public internet.

Especially for the use case of transferring files to and from the backend of a web host. Not using it in that scenario is freely handing over control over your backend to everything in between you and the host, putting everyone at risk in the process.
by al_borland | 2025-10-26 02:28:49+00:00
There is another thing in here to add to the feedback about why won’t be moving up. If he is the only one he knows the stack, and he isn’t personable enough to work with for a hand off (for most of the team), he had stuck himself in that role. Some people think if only they can do a certain job it means security, but what it really means is they can never be promoted.

If he wants to move up he needs to show that is can successfully work with people and have everything off, so he isn’t a single point of failure.

Being a lead is also more than hard skills, it’s soft skills and being able to work with people, which sounds like a weakness.

If he is serious about wanting to move up, there are lots of things he needs to address here, not just his attitude towards you.
by dgrin91 | 2025-10-26 02:29:14+00:00
It's a weird article for me. On one side it is an interesting topic. On the other hand why are we explaining what a hex number is? Who is interested in this level of detail but doesn't know hex? Maybe I'm overanalyzing.

At the same time this doesn't address my biggest open question on the topic - how do we get from the physical push to the reset vector? Somehow that magic works in HW, physics and electronics - how?
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-10-26 02:29:24+00:00
> I’ve repeatedly clarified that speech isn’t obstruction and that investigation isn’t punishment, yet those were your projections, not my original claim.

You seem to be confused again. I've been explaining that you were suggesting that the speech was obstruction. I've explained why it appeared to be so based on what you wrote. I don't need you to "clarify" that speech isn't obstruction; that's what I've been doing for you. Yet here you double down that you never claimed it in the first place. (Hey, talk about "classic bad-faith debate patterns".)

> My point is straightforward. If you call lawful arrests ‘kidnappings,’ the state will view you as adversarial, meaning subject to scrutiny or investigation

Right, I understand your view: federal obstruction is a crime ("Speech isn’t the crime, federal obstruction is."), speech reasonably justifies suspicion for the crime of federal obstruction ("If you call lawful arrests 'kidnappings', don’t be surprised when the state treats you like an adversary."), so these officers were investigating this person for the crime of obstructing federal officers ("That’s what they’re looking for.") via his speech. That's not a "projection", it's a reasonable understanding of the words you wrote.

> A simple ‘What do you mean by that?’ would have been far more productive than dragging the discussion into refuting claims I never made. That’s a classic bad-faith debate pattern.

Well, surely it would have been productive for you to spout a bunch more bullshit but the reason I'm calling out your bullshit is to make you defend it. (/s) And, of course, instead of defending it, you simply state it again as though people misunderstand and then tell everyone that a plain-reading understanding of it is a personal projection. Yeah, tell me more about this "bad-faith" thing.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-10-26 02:29:49+00:00
Here are some books I've read from semi-recently which felt like they had "about a blog post's worth of useful information" (probably an exaggeration, but still):

https://www.amazon.com/Iron-Steam-Money-Industrial-Revolutio...

https://www.amazon.com/Rents-How-Marketing-Causes-Inequality...

https://www.amazon.com/Chaos-Making-Science-James-Gleick/dp/...

Oftentimes such books will repeat their core points over and over, or include a lot of detail which feels irrelevant/overly technical and I will soon forget. In my experience, it's surprisingly common for books written for a general audience to include technical details and descriptions which are only meaningful for a specialist. Even though the book is hundreds of pages long, and there's plenty of room, the author still doesn't provide the necessary background knowledge to interpret the technical details they're including.

>Most books I read have a lot of information, if they didn't I would stop reading.

Any tips on finding such books?
by simoncion | 2025-10-26 02:30:11+00:00
> They had 300 counts per minute which would e around 6200 mSv year

Are you sure about that? 6200 mSv is 6.2 Sv, which I understand to be near-universally deadly. That dosage would be profoundly incompatible with the news that the worker was being sent offsite to seek non-emergency medical attention.

Poking around, it looks like "counts per minute" have to get converted to a dosage using an instrument-specific formula. I CBA to go find that formula, but you're quite welcome to.
by clickety_clack | 2025-10-26 02:31:27+00:00
I didn’t say anything about pull request descriptions.

Most of the time, I imagine that people on a team know what each other is generally doing, and that everyone is broadly familiar with the codebase. So, if you really need a ground up walkthrough of a pull request, then that is a time to talk to your colleague, because they’ve either done something brilliant or something weird. That colleague has asked you to engage with their code by tagging you in the review. If you can’t ask a question like “Alice, what am I looking at here?”, then there’s a problem.

It also seems weird to me that you seem to need to set a meeting with someone to talk about a pull review. Do you not just regularly talk to people on your team about what you guys are doing? Like, you just randomly see pull request review notifications pop up and that’s your only interaction with your team? It’s not like we talk about every detail of everything, but if something came up in a pull request that I wasn’t sure about, it would just come up in conversation.