skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with OPs sentiment only that it's not true there's no theory on rhythm or on timbre. I can share rhythms and patches with anyone in the world even if we don't speak the same language and we can work on them together, there's a rudimentary symbolic language for them that is universal. Maybe we don't have an algebra of timbre but we definitely have an algebra for rhythm. Theory is also taxonomy and categories of things.

What "there are no rules!" is kinda the excuse for music theorists to keep on working on a field that has had so far little applications on how music is created. Maybe yeah on how some people learn it, but that's it. It's basically them admitting that actually successful musicians usually work under a set of rules and techniques so simple from the theoretical standpoint that the whole field gets invalidated.
or just:

assert expr, "custom message"

though given the verbose api, it is ok to require the explicit msg kwarg (duplication in the tests is ok if it makes them more robust)
A fully nuclear grid probably wouldn't make sense. France has a 60-70% nuclear electricity grid and manages just fine. Some of their reactors use grey rods which can be inserted into the core which have less effect than the normal control rods but don't distort the shape of the reaction as much as a partially inserted rod.
You are literally making this comment on an article about how the nuclear industry needs a massive taxpayer funded bailout to stay cost competitive.

The "evil solar lobby" has been saying for quite some time that solar is much cheaper than nuclear and therefore should play a large role in the post carbon grid. This article seems to reinforce their claims. Do you have a rebuttal, or are you just trying to be contrarian because it makes you feel good?
Yes, it's used heavily in France (with nuclear >70% of production it's a necessity there)
I really enjoyed adjusting the different knobs in 'Modify' mode to achieve something that 'felt' good to me. I don't know anything about color (as represented by computers or otherwise) but it was fun.

I also love the names that come up ("pig pink" v.s. "strawberry milk")
There's plenty wrong. It's a common tactic of cranks to bring out lots of sources without worrying about the quality of those sources. It's literally impossible to argue with them because they can always trot out something that even an expert in the field under discussion has never heard about before or that ostensibly supports their claim, but doesn't hold up under scrutiny. Then, when this is dismissed out of hand (in the case of obvious pablum) or a source is found lacking, they either claim victory (as you have done on his behalf here), the entire conversation derails into arguments about the sources themselves, or they trot out additional sources, continually putting the burden on the other party to show why these sources either don't support the claims or are otherwise without merit.

The kind of conversation you are suggesting is being offered here isn't. It requires a lot of good faith, and a relatively credible and overlapping set of facts.
>I interpreted your comment to mean "I flagged this submission," which would be breaking the site guideline "If you flag, please don't also comment that you did."

I don't have buttons to delete, edit, or flag, never did on my previous account neither. My understanding was that I do not have these as part of upvote threshold like being unable to downvote. Maybe it's my fault and some sort of addon doing something?

>Now that I've looked more closely, I realize that you actually originally posted a totally different comment and then effectively deleted it (by overwriting it with "Flagged"). Normally we ask people not to do that—you can use the 'delete' link as long as the comment has no replies.

I personally did not do this.

>In this case, your comment got one reply but the replier subsequently deleted it. This is a corner case. It might even be a bug in our software if the 'delete' link didn't reappear.

Well no, there was also another comment insulting me mostly. I dont recall the username. I wasn't planning to reply to that one. It was obvious that they were triggered by my comments about the democratic party. I didn't really intend to cause a fight over those comments.

I guess that Mikeouse has the right of the person who replied to me.

Thanks I guess, I'll move on.
Right, but we already know slower music is more soothing, so it’s a confounding effect.
It's yet another example of Mozilla's insanity.
The idea is that it's immoral to charge people (who have not been convicted of a crime) money to be let out of jail. Cash bail hurts poor people who either can't get the money, or get charged usurious rates to borrow the money.

It's easy enough to find cases where crime could have been avoided if the offender were locked up. Stories of innocent people spending time in jail or losing large sums of money aren't as enticing.
Which makes the lockdown/mandates even more damning to me. Back when the vaccines were available, California removed the mask mandate and then quickly put it back in place. It seems quite obvious (even at the time) that they should've fully opened and allowed people to take advantage of the strong immunity vaccination provided heading into a summer of mild transmission. People would've received both benefits: strong short term immunity and a natural boost from casual transmission.
Fortunately we rarely use 12h clocks where I live. But that opens up other avenues: if you are not much of an early riser, a build script failing to deal with single digit hours can remain undetected for a very long time.
The goalof reaching the ISS on a European space craft is interesting - the ISS is expected to last at most ten more years and the chance of a brand new government program being finished by that deadline is remote. It may be a worthwhile endeavor but you should have a different destination in mind.

If you're interested in being Eurocentric, how about a space station of your own too?
> there has never been a fucked-up American accident

That really depends on your definition of "fucked-up", but there is a long list of nuclear accidents in the US [0], among the more "fucked-up" ones were attempts to dispose of nearly a ton of left-over fissile material in mere landfills [1] and then ultimately losing track of them.

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

[1] https://thebulletin.org/2014/05/thorium-the-wonder-fuel-that...
"one valid criticism often leveled at them is that they are catering to rich and influential people"

It's not actually a valid criticism, and it is also not a problem.

Anybody who worries about that is free to launch another publication targeted at whomever they fancy.

What IS a problem is that people really think that kind of thinking has merit.
@dang could the black bar be a link to an FAQ? Could allow folks to self serve this question as it comes up each time the site is in mourning.
I agree. And I think that framing it as quirk(not by the OP but by the gentleman in the article) is disingenuous and being used to push for what just looks like more subsidies for private energy companies. It's hard to read the following and not feel a bit rankled.

>"Matt Crozat, senior director of policy development for the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), said the industry is "encouraged" by the creation of the credit program, but is still pushing for more permanent economic support."

The Nuclear Energy Institute looks like it's an just industry trade group that likely retains some powerful lobbyists.
Thanks for the reply.

I also found that I work pretty well when under pressure or someone request something challenging (especially if it's a girl I like :D). However, both are external forces and they don't come very often. It's VERY difficult to find jobs that consistently provide enough challenge because those jobs are very picky about candidates. Neither often there is any request coming from other people.

It would be nice if I can grow an internal force.
Everyone knows the C# connects to the DB
Will circuit breakers solve my problems?
They could store it in the form of digital energy (Bitcoin). With that you're able to capture what would otherwise be wasted energy.

"The gas, which would otherwise have been burned off, is instead routed to a bitcoin processor.

For years, oil and gas companies have struggled with the problem of what to do when they accidentally hit a natural gas formation while drilling for oil. Whereas oil can easily be trucked out to a remote destination, gas delivery requires a pipeline. If a drilling site is right next to a pipeline, they chuck the gas in and take whatever cash the buyer on the other end is willing to pay that day. But if it’s 20 miles from a pipeline, drillers often burn it off, or flare it. That is why you will typically see flames rising from oil fields.

The process reduces CO2-equivalent emissions by about 63% compared to continued flaring.."

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/15/conocophillips-is-selling-ex...
Posts aren't only made for positive portrayal of their subject... it could just as easily have been made as a criticism of what Mozilla is doing.
Comparing attempts to go viral on TikTok and YouTube with economics content
When it comes to donations, all of it. As far as I know, donations go to the Mozilla Foundation while the browser is developed by the Mozilla Corporation.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30349541
I’ve seens it as MAAMA. Microsoft, Alphabet, Apple, Meta, Amazon. Netflix is not a tech darling anymore.
It would have been nice for the article to tie this in with business a little more.

At first I thought they might be tying this in to "And what else?" of The Coaching Habit.
I love this, it’s super smooth! Definitely bookmarking this for later.
I see 0 problems with this. Disney gets their exposure. Mozilla gets some money (I hope) and exposure. The users don't really get negatively affected. I hope this helps increase Firefox's market share to make it more competitive to Chrome.

The fact that Disney use DRM means that Mozilla should not have done this is a weak point at best. DRM is used by most media companies.

I feel like people just get angry at Mozilla for the hell of it without understanding that they have to pay their employees somehow. Also Mozilla could "team up" with any org and someone would find a way to get angry over it.
Since you've reverted to old habits, started a hellish flamewar, and did more than anyone else to perpetuate it, I've re-banned your account.

This is absolutely not what HN is for, and it destroys what it is for. Not cool.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30355394.
I think less of an export issue but mass collectivization all across USSR. My g-grandfather was sent to Siberia in 1932 for refusing to give up his cow to collective farm. That's one good farmer family less to produce. Now multiply it by one million and you get a famine on unimaginable scale.
Would you like to describe some of your history and day to day life now? Its so far away from what I do I'm fascinated what HFT job entails.
What's interesting here is that "good different, different good" is both completely meaningless, and also the exact argument that comes up on HN whenever firefox is brought up as an alternative to chromium browsers.
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. Think about how many people have to be involved in their operation, versus the operation of a solar farm.

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?

Their cost of construction per GW is not competitive with wind and solar - it's typically thousands of euros per kw. Whereas wind and solar can go from construction to energy production (and carbon paypback) on a timescale of months, nukes take years to build.
Nothing until lunch most days. I could eat but I just don't need to really. If I do want something I have one of the following banana, yogurt, oats (with seeds and/or nut butter).
Based upon the UK's National Grid Data (https://grid.iamkate.com/) I would disagree with you - It seems that peak demand lies at about 6PM, and solar peaks about 11:30AM - This leads to a significant increase in fossil fuel consumption around this time
Sweden didn't do lockdowns, and suffered the same adverse effects but with multiple times the deaths of their neighbours.
Why? You don't have to use Electron for everything, you can integrate using whatever language you want and some RPC, like Keybase did.
Kotlin does seem to do it well although Kotlin functions are still considered colored.
The browser is nowhere near competitive. It's a terrible Chrome knockoff, and the features that used to differentiate it from Chrome have been abandoned and removed long ago.

They could be competitive on certain features (security & privacy comes to mind - it should be private out of the box, users shouldn't have to spend 15 minutes installing an ad-blocker and opting out of all kinds of bullshit) but they choose not to.
The lazy way broadened society's access to computing which has had all sorts of positive knock on effects.
I would have agreed on the use of the atomic bomb if they didn't use it on a city. They could have demonstrated on a smaller island or a navy outpost near Japan or on Japan. The US have shown no pity bombing city and killing innocents during world war 2 so I think for the US generals showing off your new bomb by erasing two city is a good strategy for them.
HN: Mozilla depends way too heavily on revenue from Google paying to be the default engine. They need to find other ways to make money.

Also HN: why is Mozilla wasting time promoting a Disney movie?
> Demand is usually the highest when PV output is also the highest

Not quite, the mismatch in timing between solar generation and energy demand has been called the "duck curve" [1][2]. Peak demand is normally in the evening when people are done with work [3].

[1] https://www.energy.gov/eere/articles/confronting-duck-curve-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_curve

[3] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=42915
I think even faster is taking whatever instrument you have, whether it's physical or digital, and start putting together some melodies or notes and making something.
Weird thing is Imperial Japanese system was something the country adopted as part of modernization effort over military Shogunate system. During the Edo era under Tokugawa shogunate, the country kept the borders closed with little effort being made to expand for literally multiple centuries. Only after the Meiji government was established and it made efforts to "reach and surpass Europe" the Imperial Japan stuff happened.
You're right, I think I should file a bug.

The Go library I need(ebiten) isn't compatible with TinyGo, I did try it for the reason you mentioned and to reduce size.

> Doom3 uses Asyncify in some parts of the event loop, for similar reasons (blocking code). I'm not sure if LibreOffice does as well, but it might.

Thanks! That's what I wanted to know, So it's certainly possible to write asynchronous code using C++ and Rust.
>Subsequently, they were randomized to one of three treatments: 30 min of moderate aerobic exercise on a cycle ergometer, 30 min of a simple lower body stretching routine (= active control treatment) or watching a popular sitcom (= passive control treatment).

Watching sitcoms stresses me out. And I hate most of them.
and still it's the only one which is easily available everywhere and for the most part already in the allow/whitelist of tooling in most organizations as redhat and debian/ubuntu are almost everywhere.
The medical definition of "immunity" is a scale rather than a switch. You can have immunity and still have some form of the disease. I think they genuinely edited that to not confuse people.

These vaccines are not sterilizing though, which is what's required to stop infection. They 100% lied about that. Cue: The Biden administration saying "if you get vaccinated you will not get Covid".

I'm honestly surprised I'm just finding this out now, the combination of lies and legitimate updates got me confused as fuck.
Email about limiting Google Drive storage
Mozilla let go a large number of developers recently.
Hum... Creating node was a good idea. Using it like people use nowadays that wasn't.

There are plenty of reasons why you may want a standalone JS interpreter.
Yes, you had me puzzled for a bit :)
I like the spirit of what you're saying here. It touches on why I think crypto/decentralized systems could have a domino effect that disrupts how people organize and govern. You like space and would be able to "vote" for it directly.
Somewhat disingenuous, you should take into account nuclear black swans which could easily make a whole state uninhabitable forever. That said, what I’ve read ( not much, haha ) about newer nuclear thorium tech seems to indicate this argument does not have a future…
If they didn’t do lockdowns, how could they have suffered the same adverse effects?
If you read the actual LKML message, and not just the LWN article, it becomes clear this is really about bumping TSO/LRO sizes in linux, not about using link layer MTUs in excess of 64k. This is more akin to Microsoft's "LSOv2" (which is even mentioned in Erick's commit message for the mlx5 driver).

I'm not sure if the LWN author just doesn't understand the distinction, or if they were trying to simplify things for their readers..
I don't know the details.

What I do know is that the older reactors weren't really the type that could "spin up" or "spin down". Control rods always existed on nuclear power plants, even the oldest designs.

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In any case: "Connecting" those rods up to a computer so that the reaction can get hotter or run cooler would be the basis for variable power output.
Yes, that’s right. The perfect way to operate is to have complete ideological purity. As a matter of fact, it is embarrassing that Firefox even runs on Windows (a closed source operating system that has integrated telemetry) and dare I say that perhaps Intel processors are unacceptable too?

Firefox should only run on completely open source and open firmware open architectures. Anything less is tantamount to endorsing crimes against mankind.

I am currently preparing a breadboard and expect to be completed with my port by 2042. I am going to have to sift for metals in my local stream in order to create resistors that were manufactured by pure provenance.

Currently uncertain about my own personal lineage, though. Have I had an unkind ancestor who did not believe in open source? Is it ethical for me to participate given such a taint? Questions of great import. I will consult a pure institutional review board before proceeding.
> Has anyone checked that barbershop quartets are actually singing such narrow major thirds?

I don’t know if anyone has checked, but why wouldn’t they want to? Surely the low integer ratios are best going to get the intended sound of barbershop harmony, unless there are other acoustic reasons why slightly changing the intervals would work better (something akin to octave stretching in pianos, although I’m not sure that sort of thing would be as relevant to barbershop harmony).
Start by confirming that the students can sequentially solve problems. Those who skip steps or intuit results will find programming a depressing come-down. Once this can be demonstrated to some degree, programming can be taught.

Perhaps the next step should be stating and solving a problem: I want to do X. How does one do X? How will I know that my implementation of X is correct? ... This can be done in a simpler language as this approach is general and universally useful.

It does little good to teach specifics of a library or language too early unless you want script kiddies rather than programmers. I would imagine like those trying to learn a foreign/second language without a strong grasp on what a sentence is and how they can be structured. Or, how they can be used to communicate.
I can hear the confusion in your writing and am thinking the same thing as you. The comment you're replying to seems almost artificial. The words refer to nuclear power but there's no sense of any understanding behind them.
I expected this to be related to colour gamuts or calibration or something like that.
One thing I like to do with my sizable sample library is smush different samples together that would be "wrong" by a strict, surface theoretical view. There's probably theory to explain why two samples in two different non-relative scales can sound good together, but I don't know it. And if someone knows it, I would like to know! Then I can be more intentional and rely less on trial and error.
They're advocating for "drastically cutting the red tape", which could certainly influence one side of these inequalities quite strongly.
Usually, scrambled eggs on a slice of toast. I'll sprinkle in some cajun or paprika seasoning and smother it in hot sauce.

If I'm in a rush, or I know I'm having an early/big lunch, I'll just grab an apple or a banana.

In either case, an americano as well.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle

And I am totally against this. I agree for human / interactive input. But for automated things, be as strict as you can be, and hard fail on anything else. Specs are there for a reason, and not adhering them creates compatibility issues.

> RFC 1122 (1989) expanded on Postel's principle by recommending that programmers "assume that the network is filled with malevolent entities that will send in packets designed to have the worst possible effect

Well, that's gonna be a tough one if you try to make sense of garbage data (or data which doesn't adhere to the specs)

> Protocols should allow for the addition of new codes for existing fields in future versions of protocols by accepting messages with unknown codes (possibly logging them).

I agree with that. That does not mean "be liberal in what you accept". It means the protocol is designed in a better way.

> Basically be liberal in what you accept and conservative in what you send

That's not the same as "be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others". "Doing" is a lot more than "sending".

You know.. many programmers sometimes say that when things go wrong it's "a user error", or "a human error". But most of the time it is either a programming error, or a lazy programmer. It's so easy for a programmer to send the correct data. But we live in a world where usually the least correct/secure software is chosen, because it's slightly easier to get started, or allows for input errors (mysql data truncation, mongodb, etc, etc)
Yeah I didn't really phrase it the right way when I posted that. But essentially my experience matches yours.
Been there, a TCL web script, IIRC. This led to religious processing of input with "regsub" (this predated TCL 8). Yuck.

Also once fixed an inherited awk script that malfunctioned at the end of year: a hardcoded month name array with November missing. To this day I always populate any such lookup with a loop and strftime() or appropriate.
MIS is a generic enough degree that I wouldn't read too much into what people do with that degree. There are lots of degrees that are basically catch-alls for people who don't really feel like they fit into a particular discipline.

The end result is that there is a wide variance in what people do after they graduate, and the degree isn't really an indicator of anything other than them getting a degree.

I have one of these generic multi-disciplinary undergraduate degrees and honestly, years later I feel like I would have less regret about how I spent those 4 years had I done CS or another program that was more focused. YMMV.