skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
David Roberts from Volts talked about why he thinks SRMs are overhyped last week. Here's the transcript[^0], but his main points are _(I fed the whole transcript to GPT-4-turbo model for this)_:

- SMRs are not yet delivering on their promised benefits and cost savings due to challenges in scaling and production.

- The SMR concept is yet to prove itself with efficient and cost-effective factory-made parts and repeatable construction practices.

- Concern exists that the enthusiasm around SMRs could lead to more unfocused subsidies for the nuclear industry without addressing the industry's deeper issues of inefficiency and historical missteps.

- SMRs are seen as one option among many for balancing renewable energy, and they should not be considered the only solution.

- Their capabilities are mostly theoretical at this stage, and there's uncertainty if they can bridge the gap between their promise and reality in terms of cost and deployment hurdles.

- SMRs might receive undue favor over other equally promising technologies for providing firm power.

In conclusion, David believes SMRs are getting more attention and investment than warranted by their current capabilities and progress, potentially detracting from other solutions that may offer better returns or efficiency for transitioning to a renewable energy grid.

[^0]: https://transcripts.volts.wtf/the-volts-catalyst-pod-crossov... (starts at around 26:13)
Been using a lemp9 since 2020 and I will say that it's good but not great. Came to it from an X1 Carbon and it's felt like a lateral move, but if you're trying to replace an MBP or something I don't think you'll be satisfied.

_Pros_
* The battery life is incredible, that's the one thing they totally nailed. For Linux especially that's huge, and is in my opinion the absolute selling point of the device. With that said, after about 2 years I did notice a steep drop-off in performance, going down to like 4-6 hours in the span of a few weeks. Replaced the battery and the performance is again A+

* Hardware support is fire, I hop distros a lot and have never once had any issues with getting firmware for anything. IIRC there was one firmware setting I needed to flip before Arch would run properly, but customer support actually talked me through it over email which was cool.

* A pretty nice selection of ports (they have port-heavier alternatives if that's your thing). The lemp9 just came with standard USB-C, which was kind of a hassle for finding a compatible docking station, but I believe lemp10+ upgraded to thunderboltt.

* Chassis feels pretty premium, comparable to what I was using before. No deck flex, hinges are smooth, moderately slow to accumulate fingerprints.

_Cons_

Go to /r/system76 and you'll get a lot. Top culprits I've seen and experienced are:

* Speakers are very, very bad.

* Keycaps have a coating that erodes over time, which is ugly. Can't replace individual keycaps

* Intel options only

* You're using Linux, so be ready for compatibility stuff. PopOS is well managed, but at the end of the day you still have to contend with ex. the linux audio stack
It sounds like the algorithm in question was designed by a committee of experts to make a better triage process. Given that the previous process for deciding who gets an organ sounded a lot like individual doctors just picking patients based on proximity and how good the patient advocacy was, I think this is a much fairer alternative.

At the end of the day, triage is always a hard thing to do, but it is based in the idea of optimizing for the best global outcome at the expense of specific individual outcomes.

I personally would have no qualms about implementing the algorithm design in code (the organ score is going to be computed by hand or computed by code regardless, might as make a tool that saves time and mistakes), and would have no problem participating in the algorithm design if I had the appropriate expertise.

At the end of the day I'd rather live in a world where there is a known, predictable process for these decisions instead of an informal network of professionals making game-time decisions.
I'm on 0 jabs (apparently they don't slow transmission or virality, so I figured I wouldn't bother) and long covid is still really rough. A few things helped me get through long covid: surprisingly, nicotine and a lot of natural carbs from fresh ripe fruits. And by an excess, I mean 200+ grams a day by macro. It took me a month or two of nicotine gum, about 100lbs of fruit (12.5lbs a week) and so much sleep, but I'm starting to do better.

It sucks, but you can make it through.
Almost my entire extended family relatives live in (mostly) rural parts of Germany (including Bavaria) so thanks for this incredible laugh
I knew it was a bubble :^)
You'd want to wait to be part of recapitalization after a reorg is required. The deal is made on the buy, not buying someone else's bags.

EDIT: See gosub100's comment [1].

(not investing advice, educational purposes only)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38206727
Pardon the pedantry, but this reflects the casual/conversational uses of “hash function” not the more general definition. To be a hash function, it just has to map a set to another set of fix sized values (usually some finite set of the natural numbers).

Returning unrelated (distant) hashes for similar inputs is a possible property of a hash function, and oftentimes a desirable one (especially for cryptography), but there are in fact use cases where one wants similar inputs to map to similar (or the same) hash. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locality-sensitive_hashing
Slightly OT, but was looking at system76 mini recently: https://system76.com/desktops/meerkat

Can't get any sense of whether the memory is baked in at build time, or if I can swap out later. The 'tall' option seems to imply there's more room, and that's what I'd need to get to manage my own memory, but ... I can't tell. There's no FAQ page, and... I was going to send in a question today, but since there's a system 76 topic here, thought I'd ask here and see if anyone else can shed their experience with the meerkat and after-market upgrades.
Yeah it's true that the software support is a limiting factor also, but some manufacturers are better with it than others, like Nokia (HMD Global) which is why I use their phones. I change phones every five years, my current one is about to get to that so I'm on the market for replacement so it's on the top of my mind. My current one is a 250 euro model and I have been happy with it, but I don't game or do any heavy tasks with it so my experience is different, but I'm pretty sure that if I did game or do other tasks I would have had to change my phone way earlier, maybe even three years is pushing in this price bracket.

And I'm not making a blanket statement that higher price is equal to longer lasting, I'm fairly sure the foldable phones lose in average situations to non foldable ones just out of differences in usage and construction, and gaming phones with active cooling I guess too.
Fatalism is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Clarified butter is a nice replacement for Olive Oils. Very high burning point.
> How is it that we've become so bad at building?

What industry would you prefer your children to go into? Construction or just about anything else?
For example, by assembling with MASM and disassembling with NASM. ;)
What if this is his latest lifechanging glitch he doesn't yet know about
Well, if the survey is conducted by JetBrains, I guess it's still far down the list?
You could also argue that without the US financing the Afghan side in the Soviet-Afghan war and the Iraq side in the Iraq-Iran war then the Taliban wouldn't have taken advantage of the Afghan power vacuum post civil war and that Iraq wouldn't have attacked Kuwait to avoid paying their debts, starting the Gulf War which was the prelude to the Iraq War
We can put entire humanity's electronic items and plastic in a dump with minimal environmental impact.

Focus on bigger ticket items. The elephants in the room.
Anyone knows when will Threads be available in the EU? :(
Thanks for the link!

Completely unacceptable explanation to me, but at least there is a writeup of their position.
> the more control the civilization needs over said individuals, in order to protect itself from any of such individuals going rogue and using their power destructively

There's an implicit assumption here that people could not be educated or conditioned to tolerate such risks so they could have their liberty, and therefore stricter oversight will always occur. That might be true, but it wasn't always true, particularly in the US, so we should acknowledge this possibility.

These days this conflict is seen in the gun control issue: one side is OK with higher death rate from guns to enjoy those liberties, and the other wants a more authoritarian system for more safety.

Tolerance for such risk would change how society is structured somewhat too. Probably less concentrated populations, and more independent and local governance to mitigate the possibility of massive loss of life. Centralization has efficiency advantages though, but with the internet maybe that isn't as much of a concern anymore. I don't see us moving in that direction, but it might be a viable possibility.
It’s Denver, CO, not Oregon: https://system76.com/manufacturing
Yes, but execute disable is not the same as execute only. AFAIK there's no way to prevent executable pages from being readable using only the i386/amd64 page table.
Having worked on a greenfield microservices project, the joins over the network problem is real (and may indicate bad domain splits).
Oh wow, I wasn't aware of this! So proper embedded cross-platform engine into the final binary? That'd be awesome.
I'm sure the Dubaites would prefer to build their own, but even larger.
Everyone wishes there could be new photography or videography features and Sony could with effort to reengineer some of these processing pipelines to do more (ex: Focus Breathing). but adding some workflow capabilities is off the main & intensive path of the device & easier to tack on.
>The vast majority of humanity has never had it better

There has been a general upswing since 1600 or so, so you could say that about most years since then, at least in economic terms. In terms of happiness it seems kind of flat though.
Glad you are! I don't want to be overly negative. I am comparing my M2 work macbook trackpad with my 2 year old lemur pro trackpad - it's not really a fair comparison. The problem is that the pricing is similar enough where it's hard to justify the hardware downgrade.

I should also mention that my free time to work on projects has dramatically decreased in the past few years, so I am valuing the ability to seamlessly switch between my desktop and laptop on personal projects less than I used to.
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38202871
Went to buy tickets, was redirected to Ticketmaster. There's the issue.
From what I understand you can't scalp, they scan ID. There are many tik toks of people buying tickets from either 3rd parties online or just scalpers and they are rejected at check in.
Apparently it is a stock? https://www.google.com/finance/quote/SPHR:NYSE?sa=X&ved=2ahU...
While very frustrating, it's just not reasonable at all to call that fraud or corruption. To make that case, you'll need to also make the argument that the CEO's remuneration is unreasonable to the given market rate; and more specifically, that you might be able to hire somebody else and achieve similar results for meaningfully less cash, and the CEO and board know this, and they're overcompensating intentionally.

Now: I agree that the pay is absurd! I'm quite willing to believe she's not worth it, too. But she's hardly the first CEO to have ridiculous pay; nor am I convinced the board is overcompensating her for corrupt reasons - it may simply be a difference of perspective. And - perhaps I'm wrong, and this pay is a going market rate and a hypothetical cheaper replacement would do worse - I really don't believe that, but to call something corruption I'd need to be rather sure of that and of their knowledge of it.
Hmmm... which ethnic groups exactly?
Those short term thinking Italian farmers only leaving the trees in for 150 years for their short term profits shakesfist
/s
It's not just demanding, it's pretty anxiety inducing as the comedian has no direct control over if the audience will find it funny or not! It's basically the opposite of Stoicism, for instance. Their happiness/success depends on being able to make other people happy/laugh, which... yikes.

Do you have any examples of anyone who has done so long term?

Looking at the list of professional comedians, I'm not seeing any obvious examples.
SOA is a specific architecture, not a generic pattern name.

It implies things such as an ESB, etc. microservice is a distinct architecture.
The poor ones
Discussion from 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3011367 (10 comments)
People have different views on this.

My take is: if the code is type-agnostic (i.e. should remain identical when the type changes), and writing the type wouldn't help the reader, and the type itself isn't already a simple-to-write template (like T), then use auto. (For example, this is the case when you're just taking some value and passing it along, and have no reason to care about the type at all.) Otherwise, write it out.

The intent being that you should prefer to spell out the type unless it's genuinely adding a burden (such as being difficult to read, or adding an extra location to update if it ever changes) when the benefits are also negligible, because it's frequently useful information and a good sanity check.
The vegas strip is full of real estate stories where a major undertaking flops initially but gets turned around. The stratosphere was built, sold at a huge loss, and then flipped for an enormous profit (I'm sure there's way more to the story that others are aware of). I wouldn't be surprised if the Sphere ends up the same. I'm really excited to see it, it's very cool thinking about the potential for promoting visual art.
Has he? All I've heard are insinuations by the same institutions who covered up Saville's crimes.
Shine a laser into space and the image of your laser can be much faster than the speed of light. Nothing actually moved faster than the speed of light though.
Damn it. I love Tumblr, but it is really hard to sell advertising against the content on there, I'm guessing.

I wonder if it will get sold again?

I wish it hadn't been cleansed. Reddit just ploughed through all the objections to their adult content and came out the other side unharmed. Tumblr could have done the same.
First someone pointed out orange and blue video post processing (pulled to desaturated green for higher IQ content) and now you point this out.

Thanks a lot!
It feels like most of those bullet points, if not all, could be applied to any fledgling new energy source, or actually any new technology in general. I hope there's more to this analysis than just these bullet points
[dupe]

Lots of news last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38128765
I wish no ill on [most] Cloudflare employees

I do wish the company a great amount of ill

They are a pariah on the internet and need to be eliminated
we are working on creating "real world" benchmarks that require a lot of context, and will report when we have results!
> The accuracy of opinions/predictions is almost always inversely proportional to the confidence of the claimant.

I recognize the sort of phenomenon you're pushing back against here, and there's legitimate value in consciously trying to counterbalance the all too human tendency to nod along to overconfident proclamations of truth.

But even so, the claim you're making here is absurd when treated as a general rule. Expertise is a real thing that people can have. Yes, there are countless places where a genuine expert will express caution and give carefully qualified statements about what is "true", and that's good. It's especially common for topics close to the frontiers of human knowledge. But there are also a whole lot of places where an expert will be willing to say "it's basically safe to take ____ as true", and where if asked they'll be able to back that up with copious explanations and evidence.

If I tell you that tomorrow morning the sun will rise in the east rather than the west, I will say it very confidently, and I will be right. If I tell you as a physicist that this bowling ball I'm about to drop from the second floor window will accelerate toward the ground at a rate very close to 9.8 m/s^2 (maybe only a smidge less due to air resistance, given the short time involved), I will be right. You trust your life every day to countless engineers who have at some point said, "The design and fabrication process we have implemented has involved enough rigor and enough quality control and enough margin of safety that I'm willing to stake my career on it being safe." And the vast majority of the time, for each essential bolt in your car and each fuel line on your airplane and each support beam in your office building, they are right.

So here, in the case of dark matter, the community of astrophysicists and cosmologists has assembled over the past 50-ish years a tremendous array of evidence from multiple independent directions that all seems to paint a consistent picture of some type of matter with quite specific properties. Many of them were highly skeptical at first, and there are still some actively looking for radically different explanations. But the vast majority of those experts have considered all of this positive evidence for "dark matter" and have become convinced that something very close to the Lambda-CDM model must be more or less true.

It's not at all clear to me what more you want from them. I mean, heck, the gravitational lensing results (especially as applied to something like the Bullet Cluster) could be considered a successfully tested prediction of the dark matter model, since those measurements weren't even possible until well after most of the community had become reasonably convinced that dark matter was real. The fact that we haven't yet answered the question "how does dark matter fit with the rest of our understanding of particle physics and astronomy?" is fascinating, but the existence of open questions doesn't on its own mean that all that observational data somehow doesn't count!
Even the XPS 13 developers edition does have issues.

After the way netbooks went down, I have either used OS X, or Windows with VMWare/Virtual Box when needed.

Now with WSL there is one thing less to install, although with managed languages I hardly care as they abstract the underlying OS for the most part, or I just connect to a cloud instance.

Stil own an aging Asus 1215B, though.
> "Old" Outlook (including the newest versions) is pretty good

I'm glad someone likes it! Outlook has been one of my most hated programs for years now.
Networking is not marketing. It's creating a network of reciprocal, trust-based relationships. The main currency in the network is trust, and people stake their reputation every time they connect people with each other.

In-network transactions are frictionless because the usual diligence is not necessary. You can use your network to get insider advice, trustworthy recommendations, profitable contracts and mutually beneficial deals, yet never write a single contract or issue a single invoice. It's all based on trust and the assumption of goodwill.
That low price was only in 2020, as a result of the huge air traffic decrease caused by COVID-19.

The price of rhenium fluctuates wildly and a few years ago there was a maximum at $10 per gram.

It is unlikely that it will ever return to the COVID-19 price.

The problem with rhenium is not the current price, but the minuscule production, for which there is very little hope that it could be increased much.

If instead of being used in a few military and commercial airplanes and in a few industrial applications, like thermocouples or catalysts, there would be demand to use it in something used by everybody, the price would increase quickly.
This is how it works with the French Post, with the exception that they never come back. Other providers do their own thing, and are more or less scrupulous. Some won't even bother to come over, they'll just say nobody was home and won't even leave a slip.

Anecdotally, in France, the parcels "delivered by Amazon" have hands down the best service. They're the only ones who've ever actually delivered the parcel to my door (I live in an apartment). If they can't leave the parcel in the mailbox, they'll call me up and ask what to do, usually offering to come back some other day if I'm not at home.
The two products announced are mostly catered for professional photographers at the Olympics. The camera body and the lens are both very expensive, over $10,000 for the two combined.

That said, the global shutter is interesting, and will hopefully find its way into consumer grade products in coming years. Personally I'm excited about this "obsoleting" existing used cameras so that I can finally afford them.
Same. They are shooting themselves in the foot
Google's AI-powered search experience expands globally
193 points, 7 hours old. Removed from HN.

...Interesting dang, what's up with that?
I don't know which is worse: destroying an old and beautiful tree that takes years to bear fruit, or selling olive wood as firewood. That stuff is $26-$100 per board foot, and is a gorgeous hardwood. It's hard to work and harder to dry, but the result is something special.
Have you ever managed 10 people, wrote and checked specs and managed a business on top of that? Clearly not.
I misinterpreted parent's post underlying message then, fault on me.

There's certainly a strong link about kids doing bad in school and the housing quality and home atmosphere.
https://epxx.co/artigos/camera2_en.html
It seems I'm utterly and entirely misled to believe that Servo is the engine behind Mozilla since... FF52 (it was, right)? Can some please explain what is it that Mozilla uses then to render pages, and which parts did Mozilla rewrite in FF? Did some parts of Servo made it into FF, and is FF contributing back to Servo?

sorry, too many questions perhaps.
The prevalence of Ring-style doorbell cameras might also disincentivize porch thievery
I came here with that link in my clipboard and never got to hit Ctrl+V :D It's a good video indeed.
> when I learned it was common for a founding engineer to get like half a percent of the company, I was appalled. I'd rather just start my own startup

I don't think people appreciate how hard it is to go from 0-1. To validate a product/market, get initial customers, before raising, heavily derisks the business and 1% is fair. Sure, you could just start your own startup, but you'll have to go through the brutal glass eating process of doing exactly that, starting a company.
This is why China has so many walls, the first large agrarian settlements had to deal with a huge population of scattered nomadic peoples raiding them. You couldn't really take the offense to them because it would be like playing whack-a-mole but being nomadic they weren't well equipped to conduct sieges against towers and walls so that's what they did.

If you ever wondered where that bit from South Park came from with the Mongolians that's where. But spoiler Genghis Khan found a way around that problem.
Quite the opposite. Apple's high prices are pro-competitive. After all, high prices allow competitors to enter the market and eke out a profit at a much lower volume. It's unsustainably low prices that are anti-competitive. Think wall-mart or amazon.
It depends on what needs to be built. If the regulators 'like' what needs to be built it'll pop up fast, look at the wind turbine expansion in Europe and parts of the USA. In terms of material input that dwarves what building one nuclear power plant or blast furnace requires.
100%, if we had real personalized AI companions that actually had an idea of your knowledge state then summarization would be a game changer.