skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A mentor needs to be willing to be a mentor in the first place.

A mentor should not be someone who gives you "homework" but more about challenging you, your thoughts, help you navigate your thought process and share experiences with you.

That's why mentors are usually at least a couple of years ahead of the mentee.

However, it's not only technical mentorship. In my opinion the even greater part is about navigating the work place: politics, different roles on different teams, expectations, reasoning behind processes and how to play them right to achieve your goals.
Extra points if you manage to do it to your own team’s APIs because of bad design and planning
That's just not how any of this works. You need to start from scratch and at the very least learn basic terminology before making broad sweeping claims. Saying "Theory, scientific theory, whatever, it's not fact, is it?" means you lack a basic understanding of the topic.
>Because nuclear is enormously expensive

I've seen the LCoE numbers [1] everyone uses to argue that solar + storage is cheaper than nuclear. It does show a price premium for nuclear. But it is not "enormous" (it's maybe 2-3x more expensive). It's also plausible that nuclear, being an older technology, is less likely to run into unexpected costs, particularly those associated with the rate of implementation — production bottlenecks, increased land prices, etc.

1: https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/aeo/pdf/electricity_generation....
1) There are countries that simply cannot rely on hydropower.

2) I am Italian, so I will talk about Italy. The Italian plan to get to 100% renewable requires 70x the current world production of lithium.

3) Rare earth mining for batteries, panels and wind turbines has a non-negligible impact.

4) You are implicitly stating that the cost of wind power is not that, but 3/4x higher, since you also need storage, and therefore it is much more expensive than nuclear the "real" cost.

5) You are talking about distributing storage over the electrical infrastructure. So you're talking about completely redoing existing grids. Other additional costs.

In short, the reality of the facts is very different from saying "renewables are cheap."
I think I remember Imre Lakatos (another 20th century philosopher of science) saying that one application of philosophy of science is to determine which 'research programs' should (continue to) be funded.

Later in life, after becoming a software engineer, it occurred to me that point of view has some resemblance to managers trying to determine whether a software engineer or a team of engineers are doing good work. If you apply a method too rigorously, you'll end up rewarding the wrong people.

It's been ages since I read these philosophers but in my mind Feyerabend's position sort of boiled down to 'at the forefront of any specialization only the experts are able to judge which investigations are worth pursuing further'. With the corollary that experts sometimes disagree among themselves.

In the field of software engineering I've encountered several cases where new engineers are onboarded and they promptly decide that the codebase is unmaintainable and should be rewritten from scratch. I usually don't give up on legacy code so easily, but there was one project where I did genuinely held the opinion that rewriting it would have been more efficient than refactoring. It occurred to me, though, that when a software engineer says a particular piece of codebase is crap, there usually is no good way for outsiders to tell whether that's true or not.

Incidentally, Feyerabend's Against Method originated out of a challenge by Lakatos to copublish a book in which they debate various ideas. That's a useful thing to keep in mind when reading Against Method. Later someone did publish a book titled For And Against Method [1], in which writings of both Lakatos and Feyerabend are juxtaposed.

[1] https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/F/bo362971...
Agree to disagree, I use inim all the time to test out those code snippets folks post in nim's discord to see what's broken in them :-P
> Whatever your thoughts are on the incident, one thing is clear; it was absolutely preventable, and they had the means to do so.

this is the whole thing about nuclear power. There's always plenty of data on how, from a technical standpoint, nuclear energy can be generated completely safely. There's always the hindsight observations how, none of this had to happen. But implementing technical solutions requires institutional capabilities to pull it off.

Case in point if you google for "Fukushima Was Preventable" you get a ton of hits that refer to well regarded studies, interviews, and journalism that refers to the ways in which TEPCO failed to plan and respond appropriately to the disaster.

But if you google for "Fukushima Was Not Preventable" then you get this: https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2022-06-18/fuk... just this year, Japan's legal system still claiming it was not preventable. It's easy to read between the lines on that, as the reason they decided this is because they are avoiding paying out damages to thousands of people harmed by this negligence. That is, they are lying.

From this, I draw the same conclusion I always have about nuclear power. Sure it can be done safely. But who is actually willing to do that enormous, massive effort, without cutting corners, covering up problems, acting negligently, and then ten years later just continuing to lie about it? Private companies? no way. Governments? we would hope, but wow, nuclear is really , really expensive and complicated to get right, and often not sufficient as practiced by mere human instutitions.
Again, the market does not exist anymore. That is the point you are missing.

The British taxpayers are set to lose ~£50 billion in subsidies to Hinkley Point C because the government decided they needed a nuclear industry. [1]

There is no market for nuclear except when you can tie them together with military ambitions or prestige projects in authoritarian countries.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinkley_Point_C_nuclear_power_...
Ooh, some good ones in there even for us concert band folks:

> Pat your foot and sing the melody in your head when you play.

I usually just tap my toes quietly within my shoe.

> Don’t play the piano part, I am playing that. Don’t listen to me, I am supposed to be accompanying you!

Sub piano for whatever solo or soli instruments have the spotlight.

> What you don’t play can be more important than what you do play.

> A note can be small as a pin or as big as the world, it depends on your imagination.

> Those pieces were written so as to have something to play & to get cats interested enough to come to rehearsal!

I love seeing articles like this.
My disillusionment with the promises of nuclear actually came from hearing a professor of nuclear energy speak. He himself was brilliant and staunchly pro-nuclear, but his rhetoric turned me off it, probably forever. Here's what happened: He was holding a presentation on nuclear power and mentioned safety, claiming that according to the best models there would be one large nuclear accident every million years. This was shortly after Fukishima, and counting that along with three mile island and Chernobyl, it's clear that the actual number is closer to every twenty years. To have someone with a higher IQ than me talk about a model off by a factor of 50 000 and indicate no need to update it tells me this is an industry with way too much kool-aid.

My low opinion was solidified when in the same year I overheard a nuclear proponent criticizing Japanese 'housewives' who had the temerity to get their own Geiger counters after Fukishima and note when radiation levels passed the official guidelines in their area. I'm sorry, but if you're against a citizenry informing itself you're against democracy, and the industry you advocate for is going to take a hit by association with you. You might say that these two examples aren't representative of the industry as a whole, but they're the representatives I met and I've yet to see a good counterexample.

A couple other criticisms:

-Refining nuclear material for peaceful purposes does make it easier to refine it for less peaceful ones. This is probably the source of the 'fear' you're referring to.

-Nuclear is nonrenewable, fissionable material will run out in time like fossil fuels

-focusing on EROI hides the cost of capital, which is substantial. Investing in nuclear requires a huge concentration of capital and risk. Capital isn't free, something the economic arguments for Nuclear tend to gloss over.

-I don't see how that much concentration of capital and hence payback can avoid increasing wealth inequality. With solar there's a plausible and peaceful way for the poorest people to eventually own the means of production - not a share where their votes don't count but the physical tool that creates energy. That can't happen with a nuclear economy, it will always be owned by an elite, managed by an elite, and leave most people as unimportant economic actors.

-Pro-nuclear arguments frequently insult the opposition. It gives a bad impression.
Correct! Plus a housing crisis.
Just make it legal and regulated.
He paid $44 billion not so start from scratch, and now he wants to start from scratch.
It also depends on the implementation, for example VC++ can ping back on Win32 structured exception handling, which other OSes don't have.
I wonder if a lot of the confusion in this discussion is for the same reason I was confused - most descriptions of a sea anchor are missing the details of why it works, and calling one style a "parachute" makes it even worse IMO.

Hopefully some folks with actual marine experience can correct me if I'm wrong here, but based on the most descriptive source I could find[1], this is what's going on:

For a traditional sea anchor (including the ones that look like parachutes), the force of the waves is pushing the anchor away from the vessel. The anchor is either submerged or very low profile, so wind/air resistance effects on it are nonexistent or negligible. i.e. the anchor should be moving in exactly the same direction as the waves.

Meanwhile, the vessel sticks up well above the waterline, so there is resistance from the air itself against it being pulled in the direction of the sea anchor. This should make it always trail behind the sea anchor, being pulled in the same direction as the waves are pushing, and this keeps its long axis perpendicular to the waves so it can't roll over.

In other words, if I understand correctly, this type of sea "anchor" is more like an underwater sail. This is why they're connected to the front of the vessel.

For drogues, it seems like the idea is to allow the waves to push the vessel continuously (like a surfer riding a wave), with the drogue trailing from the stern and tuned to slow the vessel the exact right amount to stay in a safe position relative to the wave it's riding?

[1] https://www.schoonerman.com/heaver-weather-sailing/what-is-a...
Corning invented a particular kind of borosilicate glass about a hundred years ago and called it PYREX™. They left the consumer goods market about twenty years ago, divesting the brand. Nowadays that name might refer to either borosilicate glass or to soda lime glass.
"Trusting the Rust org not to screw you" is one part, another part is trusting the Rust server operators to defend against server compromise by any third party. So trusting the intentions is not sufficient.
the problem is the taxeg go to funding military and healthcare. education is futher down the list.
Elon Musk Calls an Engineer a Jackass and a Moron
What is the end-goal of the current campaign to rid the world of 'disinformation'? Rational people know that Pope Francis was not arrested for possession of child pornography. Are we trying to save the .000001 percent that might believe this and at what cost? We have libel laws in place that can be used.
Yes, because R > G.

That's really all there is to it.
The great thing today is that fossil and biofuels are not alternatives today. It is renewables. So no point arguing a straw man.
Agreed! It’s not that people don’t want to work, they don’t want to work for $16 an hour, with no benefits, and get discarded on a whim to make the quarterlies look good. I don’t blame them.
> They take a letter of the law instead of a spirit of the law approach with taxes.

Do you think it's a bad thing that the letter of the law is enforced over the spirit of the law, whatever the latter means?
The Aviation Herald for great coverage on commercial aviation news and incidents.

Their incident breakdowns are a lesson in clear technical communication—I highly recommend checking them out even if you’re not into aviation.

https://avherald.com/
Pyrex replace borosilicate with cheaper and far less temperature resilient soda lime glass decades ago.
That's a joke right? They're $500 billion into their investment in renewables, headed up to double that.
YouTube secures NFL Sunday Ticket in landmark streaming deal
Midjourney Founder Admits to Using a 'Hundred Million' Images Without Consent
> When you don't know exactly how things will be affected, then you shouldn't make changes.

That’s an impossible standard to uphold. I don’t disagree with your overall premise, but the world is simply too complex to understand all of the ramifications of anything meaningful.
I was recently denied opening a PO Box because I no longer have a working phone number. This is apparently "required contact information" (by USPS regulation).

Parking in my town is largely paid for via an APP — which is frustrating for somebody not using a mobile phone. The coin-accepting meters are rapidly disappearing.
Why Sex Is Mostly Binary but Gender Is a Spectrum (2016)
As far as I understand they were making pretty good bank with Alameda doing crypto arbitrage. Could probably have been set for life just doing that.

Human psychology is funny. Not content with being stinking rich in their 20's, they embarked on a massive fraud to get even richer.

To give them the benefit of the doubt, I'm not sure they set out to commit fraud, just make money off suckers, but when the temptation presented itself they couldn't resist it seems.
Unsolicited feedback: the contrast is killing me. It doesn't take much html/css to make a web page a bit more user friendly. See screenshot -> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qNaBhoH2FsGlScvFmeXk9aZXouo...
It’s the Sugar, Folks (2013)
If only Twitter fixed the lunch program. It's their biggest problem right now.
Depending on the capitalization.

The good stuff is PYREX.
Hi Dang,

There's no personal attack here. I'm sorry if that comment comes across as curt, but the post I responded is (in my opinion) grossly misleading and deserves pushback. For example, consider the statement: "If the proof has a flaw, the issue will be technical and difficult to uncover," made by someone claiming years of experience as a math professor thinking about this question. This is easily identifiable as wrong, because the purported proof is just 7 pages (actually less than that due to extraneous material) and does not use any particularly technical mathematics (a strong undergraduate major probably knows enough to comprehend what's going on). Indeed, people found the error in (less than) 12 hours after that comment was made.

The comment about senility is not a "swipe." It is a very real problem in the mathematics community. Mathematicians get old and are sometimes afflicted by dementia, and this unfortunately can manifest as hopeless attempts at famous problems. Atiyah's "proof" of the Riemann Hypothesis right before his death is perhaps the most well known example, but there are others that (thankfully) aren't disseminated publicly. In the pre-internet age, journal editors were able to make such things quietly disappear. But now we have the arxiv. This is valuable context for understanding why two mathematicians with distinguished publication histories might be posting an incorrect proof, which had not been provided by other comments.

That being said, I will endeavor to phrase such comments more carefully in the future. Thank you for your message.
Especially the PET -Plastic from Bottles get's recycled in Germany because thanks to the deposit system you get it really really clean.
And even the Discounters like Lidl sell Water and Softdrinks in PET-Bottles which are made of 100% recycled PET.
If they don't do it over there, change the laws and force them
Your blog post was excellent. Thank you to share.

Is it too long, too short, too technical, not technical enough? Boring? Interesting? Is it enlightening or does it just come off like content marketing

Long, but well-organized and not ranty. You can quit after a few sections and still learn interesting things. Technical enough with enough screenshots to keep it from being "wall of text". It is a good way to share some eye candy from your games. [E]nlightening? Yes. [C]ome off like content marketing? Yes, but this is the kind that we want to read -- basically, interesting content marketing. Don't be ashamed that you need to hustle a little bit as a small software shop.

Oh, and you forgot funny. This part made me laugh:

Flash stores its vector graphics in XML format. You might argue that XML is a poor choice for graphics data, but you weren't a product manager at Macromedia. Behold: ...
https://hamiltonbeachcommercial.com/

I've been quite impressed with the few of their commercial items I have. The important parts are metal, and clearly a lot of though went into design (things like the blender jar being designed so there's nowhere for water to pool after you wash and set it upside down). The only unimpressive thing is the price.
Update on Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative in Stanford’s IT Community
There are lists of chemicals people cannot own, why can there not be lists of things corporations cannot own?
Sounds like the words of someone that overpaid for a business/property.

Or extracted too much capital when they could instead of paying down debt and got trapped under a rock when interest rates went up.
2022 Unicode Year in Review
Source code spoof-proofing: When does i ≠ і?
Improving name formating: Some cultures have one name, others 2 or 3 or more
Refining placeholder construction: "Your cart has X items"
Continuing to preserve Indigenous languages
… and ofc emoji: Flying flags at half-mast
Women lose landmark challenge to sexual abuse in Spanish meat industry
now that i'm in front of a computer i can see it was registered in 2005. The 1992 is not related to the website but to the game.
Breville coffee grinders fall into this category, and were impossible to get OEM internal parts for. When mine failed a few years back, I designed a 3D printed upgrade for the main wear-part in their BCG800XL SmartGrinder and it was not too much extra effort to document it on iFixit[0] with ShapeWays[1] as an easy way to get the part. I think there is a lot of room to do this for all kinds of stuff that would otherwise go to waste, and make a little bit of passive income on the side (enough to cover coffee indefinitely in my case).

[0] https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/BCG800XL+Grinder+Jamming+due+to...

[1] https://www.shapeways.com/product/NASLAGCCP/impeller-replace...
Of course hotels can attract people from other sectors if they choose to pay ridiculous wages (like $100/hour). That observation is true but not necessarily useful.

Sometimes other perspectives are more useful. Maybe the shortage is real and the reason for it is cultural. In some places, hotel housekeeping is seen as temporary work. It's something people in specific demographic groups do for a few years before moving on. If there are fewer people in those groups than there used to be, or if those people have found better opportunities, there may be a shortage. In such situations, raising wages may not be an effective way of attracting new workers. If people think people like them don't do certain jobs, they may be reluctant to take such jobs.
It is one thing when a junior does this because they haven't learned better.

It's quite another when experienced seniors ban the use of SQL features because it's not "modern" or there is an architectural principle to ban "business logic" in SQL.

In our team we use SQL quite heavily: Process millions of input events, sum them together, produce some output events, repeat -- perfect cases for pushing compute to where the data is, instead of writing a loop in a backend that fetches events and updates projections.

Almost every time we interact with other programmers or architects it's an uphill battle to explain this -- "why can't just just put your millions of events into a service bus and write some backend to react to them to update your aggregate". Yes we CAN do that but why do that it's 15 lines of SQL and 5 seconds compute -- instead of a new microservice or whatever and some minutes of compute.

People bend over backwards and basically re-implement what the databases does for you in their service mesh.

And with events and business logic in SQL we can do simulations, debugging, inspect state at every point with very low effort and without relying on getting logging right in our services (because you know -- doing JOIN in SQL is not modern, but pushing the data to your service logs and joining those to do some debugging is just fine...)

I think a lot of blame is with the database vendors. They only targeted some domains and not others, so writing SQL is something of an acquired taste. I wish there was a modern language that compiled to SQL (like PRQL, but with data mutation).
The advantage of solar on roofs is that solar doesn't need to be serviced often, and the solar panels actually protect the roof under it and will lower electricity use in the summer by keeping sun off the roof.
Java always gets the blame, yet the concept of checked exceptions was introduced by CLU, adopted by Modula-3 and C++, before it came to Java.

And even though C++ dropped exception specifications, they still kept the difference between might throw anything or doesn't throw at all, and there is also the paper to reintroduce them Swift style.
That's pretty much on the nose!
Retirement? I got a feeling the prior generation or two of engineers had room for more pushback versus crappyness. I.e. could say no and that was it.

It could also be the effect of attrition. Mechanical engineers nowadays maybe never have the time to become grinding experts before they switch job.
How does Textualize make money?

I played with Textual and Rich over the weekend. I found it super compelling to use TUI forms to generate json or other kinds of configs. I particularly like the faux CSS for styling and modeling UI updates as reactive components.

Before I invest further with it, I'm curious where this is all headed and if there will continue to be sustainable development in the future.
Yes I remember inheriting a project where in a similar fashion people were allergic to join. So we got js code selecting entire table, looping over the rows and then doing inner loops with further selects. I eventually had to switch everything around to using joins. There seemed to be a huge disdain for SQL.. like if you ever endeavoured to try some raw SQL you were playing with matches. Sure OK but code that is handling db operations that inefficiently is 100x worse tho...