skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> nobody is actually going to look beyond the lock anyway. (Yes, I know there'll be someone somewhere who eventually does, let's just agree that "nobody" is a number that rounds to 0%.) I mean seriously, do you ever do this?

Yes, yes I do... did. I'm in the US and get a vast array of bills coming from all kinds of different sources (utilities, doctors, etc.) that manage their payments via some random portal. Some of the "payment portals" they send me to are sketchy as hell and it brings me great anxiety to use them even though it's guarantees my payment arrives on time and I don't have to fuss with snail mail (and its associated thefts). I always make sure they are https and I used to look "beyond the lock" to make sure they a well-known CA was being used. Well as Troy mentions, it's effectively a worthless endeavor. I'm glad he's bringing this topic up to gain more visibility and awareness towards the issue.
There are trillions of dollars in capital floating around looking for a better place to park it than treasuries. Major infrastructural projects like semi fabs should be a no brainer - the risk is not that high due to evergrowing demand and the trust that governments won't let an Intel or TSMC fail.

Even just look at the VC landscape - there was $621 billion spent in venture capital globally last year, which is one of the worst ways to invest your cash.

Point being there's plenty of capital out there for giant projects like building fabs, I just don't think it's sexy enough yet or the financiers haven't taken a deep enough look while governments are expected to make the first moves.
The person you replied to said nothing to imply they disagree with you. Perhaps we are forced to choose as a society between technocracy and misinformation. I'm suspicious of that line of argument myself, but "technocracy is bad" and "misinformation isn't a problem" are separate arguments.
> I would hope I would have a nice long think about what I was doing

Whenever I encounter vegetarians I remind them that Hitler also was one. For some reason they usually just scoff.
> Though to be fair on actions v. words, even if the two don't match up, I wouldn't say it invalidates the words.

I think that even when two people agree on the problem statement; political take might make them differ greatly on what they think the correct solution is. That doesn't "invalidate the words" even if you think that the proposed solution is e.g. unethical, impractical, not likely to actually fix the problem, captured by a big business, mere crowd-pleasing window-dressing, or otherwise inadvisable.

The actions indicate how a person responds to a belief. It's relevant.

For example, in the context of globalization, an answer is "just prevent the globalization of industrialization". An answer to immigration was "build a border wall". Supporting those answers might make you a bad person, will reveal a lot about your actual politics, but does not "invalidate the words".
>After reading all the definitions and articles about the meaning of vaccine and immunity, I think it's legit to call them vaccines.

This is a fair point but going forward perhaps we need a new term or at least requirement to differentiate the clear 2 different categories.

>The problem has been that the Covid vaccines are definitely not what they were advertised as in terms of efficacy (namely: stopping transmission and ending the pandemic).

Oh absolutely. You can find countless examples of mainstream media saying that the covid shot would prevent infection and then you never have to worry about it again and we can then reopen.

So what do you think we should do to prevent this borderline fraud?
> Why do you think nuclear plants run at 100% capacity 24/7?

The primary reason would be economic. Fuel costs IIRC are really low but capital-expenses (especially safety engineering / politics / convincing the people nearby that the plant is safe) is so costly.

When you have cheap-fuel but expensive machines, it makes sense to run closer to 100%. If you have expensive fuel but cheap machines (ex: Gas turbines), it makes sense to run in a "peaker" fashion.

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That being said: I've heard that older nuclear plants are "baseload" designs, in that they _CANNOT_ turn off or feasibly regulate their power output.

I mean, they obviously "can" turn off, they all have control rods for safety. But they're clearly not using them to regulate the power output.
> It requires a lot of good faith, and a relatively credible and overlapping set of facts.

This is what any honest exchange of ideas requires, and these conditions are almost never met online (social media, forums, etc.)

Id also add that source validation is required (as you point out an 'overlapping set of facts.') If you can't agree that a major news media organization with full time fact checking (no matter their political bent) is objectively better than a shiftless blog or single social media personality with a dodgy history of accuracy, then there is no hope for exchange. It's just a boxing match.

The problem comes down to "you don't trust the sources that I trust." Why people tend to trust sources that clearly aren't worthy of anyone's trust largely depends on their own confirmation bias.
I guess I am missing the criticism then. What is the problem with a sponsored content blog post? This will have zero impact on the average Firefox user. If people want to engage with this content, they can. If they don't, they are free to ignore it.
I've never paid bills from the CC side, but from the provider side. I don't even know how I'd tell my CC to automatically pay some entity on a set schedule. It's all pulled by the service providers, separately, on whatever schedule they decide (or choose to let me configure). I know I can do it with account-to-account transfers (so, electronic checks) from my checking account, but had no idea that was a thing for credit cards. Where do you tell it to send the money? Do you have to get bank account info for the receiver?

[EDIT] On reflection, I've even built subscription systems reliant on credit card payments, and didn't know you could do this.
Solar is awesome in that yield scales with load peaks.

The problem with nuclear is an example of why deregulation was stupid. As a society of electricity consumers, we are sitting on lawn chairs on a railroad track with an electric train approaching us. It's obvious to anyone with a pulse that electric cars are ramping up and will displace the current fleet, and equally obvious that that operating model (plug in your car at night) will increase base load requirements.

So because we've detached planning from electrical generation and distribution, we have 50 different sets of cartels optimizing for short term returns on the spot market. The various electrical shit-shows in California and Texas are like failed-state levels of dysfunction. North of NYC, electrical supply rates are up 50% because we turned off a massive reactor complex and replaced it with volatile natural gas. We're decommissioning nuclear at a point in time just before we need it, environmentalists were bought by gas extraction people and Wall St. accounting is very bad at dealing with capital assets with 50-100 year lifecycles.

If you think about it the "energy storage" problem is absurd. Installing millions of inefficient distributed battery cells in potentially millions of buildings, for want of adequate electrical generation is beyond dumb, and the scale of waste and wasted value is staggering. It is solely a byproduct of a market designed to maximize producer profit.
Where do the color names come from? They're delicious.
Exactly - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_deprivation#Interrogatio... there we go, right there.
No need to open a terminal

https://files.catbox.moe/tkefli.png
> People like to make noise about the impact of mining the materials needed for solar. Well, what about the impact of mining and refining uranium?

While I agree with you in general, the amount of uranium needed to run a power plant should be orders of magnitude smaller than is necessary to build and equivalent solar farm
> The administrations (not just the 45th, we had this shit worldwide) suddenly realized that they had no stockpile of masks and other PPE, and instead of communicating to the people and admitting fault for about three decades of globalization gone bad

How is that the fault of globalisation, and how is globalisation the fault of current governments? For reference, France had mask and PPE stockpiles for the swine/bird/whatever flu, but the last administration let them expire because they were considered a waste of money. (Decades into globalisation)
That is the the official year, the coincidence is too compelling.

The French had a separate ministry for espionage.

Columbus set out precisely to find a trade route to India and Vasco da Gama eventually managed by circumnavigating Africa with the precise intent of finding a route to India to import goods into Europe.

Similar to renaissance, the sudden explosion of enlightenment or industrialisation did not happen, there was significant transfer of knowledge, materials and skills from very likely India.

And like with renaissance, this is often covered up. I do not see why there is a need to deny that today, it has happened through out history and is quite suspicious that something happened independently.
Reminds me of this image:

https://i.redd.it/lr5rfu3paen61.jpg
> I know guys do the crushing handshake thing as a dominance game.

It's ironic how an attempt to show dominance is actually such a clear demonstration of (psychological) weakness.
Have you actually done it?

Either way, this was 5 years ago and beyond the SOL
> Demand is usually the highest when PV output is also the highest

In California, demand peaks are around 6-8pm, well past the peak of solar production. This disparity has a name, the "Duck Curve". You can view the near real-time power demand on the CAISO[1] website. Your region may have a similar way to see live demand.

[1] http://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/default.aspx
The Far Sound, a History of Long and Longer Distance Communications (1961)
A bit of educational propaganda out of AT&T Bell Labs, showing some 50 or so years of telecommunications and audio signal processing technology advances.

Numerous cameos that even I recongise, including Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain (named), and at the very end, Claude Shannon.
A basciicle!
What makes it "special" here is the fact that it will COMPILE only on a friday.

It's not a runtime error but a compile time error. Because yes otherwise I would agree that it's doable easily in every single language.
Effective Haskell: Solving Problems with Strongly Typed Functional Programming
> Complicated frontend projects needs good seniors, and they get paid their fair share.

Yes, but "needs" is different from "gets". I'm sure there are many places that hire experienced frontend developers, but the rule is that it's more a market of lemons than developers in general, so people jump out with time.
> there has never been a fucked-up American accident.

What are you smoking? This is blatantly false. We've absolutely had meltdowns, and come very damn close to real disaster (as in - evacuating a 20 mile radius including some 600,000 people close)
Not a valid conclusion — you’re not controlling for all other factors that contribute to happiness, such as weather, social environment, local opportunities etc.
> That problem is that sheet music is terrible.

Something that people with casual exposure to musical notation probably don't know is that before the standard 5-staff notation became ubiquitus there were quite a few alternatives, maybe the most interesting from a mathematical perspective being the Byzantine notation

Broadly speaking, while the modern system focuses on pitch values and an elaborate (modulated) map from frequency space to physical space (paper), older systems used in the Byzantium used "deltas" or the first differences of pitch values.

So you start with a base note (lets say C) and then you go +1, +1, -2 to indicate pitch changes (in semitones). This is quite well adapted to monophonic chant. This notation was never developed to cope with the complexity of modern music but its not immediately obvious that it can't be done

There is no easily accessible exposition of this musical notatin style, this cheatsheet gives a flavor http://www.byzantinechant.org/notation/Table%20of%20Byzantin...
> Nuclear power plants are not "carbon free." They have significant operational needs (indirect emissions), making them of the most expensive sources of electricity available today, and by some estimates their indirect carbon footprint is enormous

The United Nations Economic Commission For Europe released a report in 2021 on the life cycle emissions (including construction, operation, and decommissioning) of various power generation options and found nuclear to be the lowest overall at 5.5 gCO2eq/kWh [1].

[1] https://unece.org/sites/default/files/2021-10/LCA-2.pdf
For the record, the person that lights a small fire that turns into a forrest fire that burns down a town is still criminally libel for that initial spark.
There’s a small bit of truth to the A-bombs saving japanese/American lives if negotiations of surrender were to fall through

But I think modern day, the A-bombs are largely viewed as a show of force against the Soviets. Sort of like D-Day was so Soviets couldn’t steamroll Germany & then take all of Europe as well…
Nice connection! I remember walking through Fry's and seeing so many obviously damaged items sitting around waiting to be "sold", with no intact inventory in sight. Every display keyboard in the keyboard aisle was beat to shit and missing most of its keys. I'm sure everything looked fine in their inventory system, right up until it wasn't.

And the ambiance certainly wasn't helped by the exit line waiting to be treated as suspected criminals, or the dirty look the security guard would give you when you opted to skip it. Loss prevention (including return fraud) is a difficult problem, but companies that respond by taking it out on legitimate customers aren't long for this world.
> The Sikhs [..] lost the Punjab to the East India Company who signed a peace deal with the boy king, Duleep Singh, which included the Kohinoor as tribute. Duleep would later be exiled to England where he would personally hand the Kohinoor over to his patron Queen Victoria.

This jewel was not strictly pirated by the British. Though peace deals are signed under duress, of course.
The reason some chords or progressions sound "sad" or "happy" for some people is mostly cultural and based on association. And you can rewire your brain to get rid of those associations. It's like saying chocolate taste is happy and lead taste is sad, and complaining chemistry doesn't have an answer as to why.

I've never met a jazz pianist that for example will work under the assumption that a 2-5-1 sounds sad-transition-happy, it sounds like a 2-5-1 because the pianist has a sophisticated enough musical understanding to have a concept on their brain that is a 2-5-1 and has a specific sound that is associated to it. It's the whole deal with ear training intervals, scales and chords. The whole major happy minor sad thing is like a pedagogy trick to get people started into getting those kind of sounds into their language. Same thing with intervals, a minor third is maybe sad but then a whole or a half step on the major scale are what? super sad? they sound like a train wreck harmonically but happy when you play them all together on the scale? What's happening is that people just associate musical phrases, sounds, harmony, to stuff and that's kinda outside of musical theoretic research and more like getting into the fields of cognitive science or psychology.

Have you actually asked any music theorist about this? I would be surprised if you hadn't gotten this kind of answer because in my experience talking to working theorists over lunch or on social events they usually agree on this.
Gene-editing breakthrough made in the battle against tick-borne diseases
We have similar usage patterns for Firefox vs chrome, only difference being I use various chromium based browsers(not just chrome) in private mode for throwaway, lookups etc and FF has not more than 30 tabs open all the time.

I can attest to the reliability of FF on Windows and Linux. And chrome with 10-12 tabs starts hoarding memory on Windows after keeping it open for a few days.
My bi-weekly comment has not improved the situation.
You can justify anything that way - that's why it's a useless non-argument. "Windows does one thing and does it well: computer-y things"
> even having some health issue (some guys told me they are proud to be bald. ok??)

Baldness is not a health issue.

> I'm equally puzzled by how people can feel proud of something they did not achieve personally

It would probably be illustrative for you to make a list of your accomplishments that you are proud of and then ask yourself how much is actually due to your efforts.

Like many here, I’m a successful software engineer. I’m proud of this but realistically this is primarily down to luck. Lucky to be reasonably intelligent. Lucky to be born into a family with enough money that I could pursue education. Lucky to have been raised to have a decent work ethic. Lucky to be born into this time period. Lucky to be born reasonably healthy. Lucky to be human. Compared to all the luck, my actual hard work is almost inconsequential.
Most of the problems are from nuclear weapons production not civilian reactors.

And if you look at the list of causalities its very small amount.
The UK is a curious example to use for this, afaik a big part of that "peak demand" is people starting up their electric tea kettles in a phenomenon known as TV pickup [0]

For contrast, here are the stats for Germany [1] and the consumption peaks during the day contrast very well with the night consumption.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_pickup

[1] https://www.agora-energiewende.de/en/service/recent-electric...
> I have to go to the Desktop app, search, find, and copy

Agreed, the Chrome browser extension and the Safari inline menu are garbage.
Fortunately the classic extension is still available and still works great for me, as well as Safari with the inline menu option disabled.
Same for the iOS extension, garbage. But luckily the classic password autofill on iOS still does work great.
Interesting.

But as another comment notes, it’s on NBC’s front page. Is another explanation possible? Do the now-hidden videos contain unlicensed material, for example?

It’s too bad that YouTube doesn’t let you leave an explanation for making a video private, to stave off conspiracy theories.
Hanford is definitely the worst, but that's because of its origins as the world's first plutonium production site (first reactor criticality in 1944). Unlike commercial reactors it had to chemically reprocess irradiated fuel because the whole point was extracting plutonium. They were running experiments at industrial scale as they sought better methods for plutonium (and later, uranium-233) extraction. It ran under extreme secrecy in its earlier years, meaning that even by the generally lax standards of pre-EPA chemical facilities it had little environmental/safety oversight.

Hanford only ever had one reactor that produced electricity, the N reactor, and that wasn't built until 1963:

https://www.hanford.gov/page.cfm/NReactor
To both your points - a great example is right here on HN. If I right click and go to 1pass, I no longer can open any mini window. I instead am given the option of Lock, Save Login, Help, or Hide on this page. Completely breaks my 5+ years of muscle memory to right click on a field and find what I need.

Now if I open the browser extension in the top right, my Favorites are not my favorites...they're the favorites of my team and one of my shared vaults. My Suggestions tab is empty. And even better, when I search "ycombinator" or "hacker" or "hn" nothing comes up. "No results found in All Vaults" and if I click search everywhere I get "No results found"

Now when I go over to the Desktop app, I search any one of the above and I immediately find my credentials for HN. It's stupid simple just like it used to be in the browser.
>But they're clearly not using them to regulate the power output.

No, you heard wrong. They're often the last or second to last type of plant that's called upon to alter supply to match demand, but they don't run 100% 24/7.
">Programming for 128K takes massive skill."

It does not. What it does not tolerate is mediocre level which seems to be taking over the world lately.
Programmable Filament
The thing about leveling is there's no standard.

In general, higher titles are more easily attainable at smaller companies. Senior at one company could be equivalent to intermediate at another or staff at a third.

Consequently, deciding where you fall at level-wise, is the job of the company you're interviewing at, not your own. Your job is to talk through, and accurately represent, the experience that you have, and their job is to assess that experience with respect to their leveling framework / matrix.

For reference examples, check out GitLab's [1][2], or progression.fyi [3] for a collection of others.

That said, I would agree with others in this thread on the junior or junior to intermediate guesstimation.

[1]: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/career-develop...

[2]: https://about.gitlab.com/job-families/engineering/

[3]: https://www.progression.fyi/
I think this would probably be trivial with TextMate themes (used by VSCode, Sublime, and lots of other editors). If not, certainly it’s possible with a quick tree-sitter query. The latter also presents a wildly expansive set of options for specialized static analysis (eg I built a naive TypeScript “compiler” with it in about a day).
No, I'm talking more about the entire federalization model. The whole point of Mastodon is to be twitter without nazis, unless I'm completely misunderstanding.
Nuclear has the potential to become very cheap. Much cheaper than solar. The only reason why it's currently more expensive is because of technology. But huge advancements are made every year. Give another 10 years and it will be much much cheaper. Currently a lot of country investing a lot in new nuclear plants.
In my experience, you could get a lot out of it if you were really into it like I was. You could also coast by and not obtain any desirable skills for employers and still pass. I suspect most degrees are like that though.

I really enjoyed it though. I learned so much that my first job utilized everything I learned. At a small growing company that needed in-house expertise. I did the network, the switches, the workstation builds, the servers, built the database and applications on top of it all. I did project cost/time estimates and carried them out. After about a year we hired a full time network/client guy and I stuck to applications / database. It was a lot of work but I really enjoyed it and got a lot out of it. I don't think I would have been able to cover that much ground with just a CS degree.

>I don't think this is true at all unless the company is one of those who hires SWEs who don't really do any actual software engineering.

I don't know if it's still true, but when jobs would require "CS degree or equivalent," they meant MIS/CIS, at least 20+ years ago.
Heh. The demo devil messing everything up.

"We started slowly shifting from every engineer on the team knowing everything about all the code, to the minority of the team having that legacy knowledge, to nobody on the team that knew about everything."

God I hate this. Nature meant for us to carefully tend our code for ever and ever doing tiny changes every forth year. Not trying to grasp eachothers' wicked minds.

"The product that began as a bowl of digital spaghetti has transformed into a collection of well-tested microservices that can scale to collecting tens of terabytes of configuration data."

I really can't believe that being 1% truthful. Note first quote.