skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm never buying Asus again.

Ordered a motherboard from Amazon Germany which was sent from Amazon US.
The IPMI card is defective.
I contacted Asus support, he was playing on time, I could've replaced the motherboard no questions asked 1 month after purchase, but since Asus support wasted my time now I can't.

Asus support told me to do a RMA, which I did. I would've contacted Asus US, but that wasn't possible, I had to talk to Asus Germany.
They said they wanted an invoice.
Amazon refuses to give me an invoice.
Asus Germany RMA says I should talk to Amazon support.
I did.
1st time I have to do a lengthy explanation and the Indian support people promise the world and lie to you, after being reached around a few times.
They said that they contacted Asus and that Asus will send me a replacement in 3 days.
It never arrived.
Next time same story.
3 days, it's 3 months later now and no sign of a replacement.

Idk what to do.
Probably go to the police.
One thing I was surprised to learn about nuclear costs is that there's a fixed component that is basically the same regardless of technology (SMR vs 'LMR'): the civil works.

There's a certain amount of concrete and such that needs to always be built, and if you go with a "cheaper" SMR, then the fixed cost becomes a large portion of the total project budget.

So unless there's a specific local need for ≤300MW, it might be better to go with a 600/900(+) MW design if you can tie into a large grid where all of those 'extra' MWs can be soaked up.
Sure, but what happens when the article is updated at a later date, or rescinded, etc.? Should the LLMs be trained to repeat the article verbatim, or to say "according to this article[0], blah blah blah" with links to the sources?

Wikipedia works because we can update it in real time in response to changes. LLMs that need to constantly recrawl every time a page on the internet is updated, and that properly contextualize the content of that page, is a huge ask. Because at that point, it stops being an LLM and starts being a very energy-hungry search engine.
Not necessarily a partner, parents are often where the extra income comes from. Though I suspect parents are more likely to support a grown daughter than a grown son.
We use this for generation: https://hub.windmill.dev/scripts/helper/1508/generate-a-lice... and this for client-side checking (https://hub.windmill.dev/scripts/helper/1510/verify-a-licens...) actually the real one is in rust but same algorithm.
Only the massive onesare absurdly expensive, we build plenty of cheap small safe ones for the military to power aircraft carriers and submarines. why dont we build the same thing for power.
Of course it’s interdependent.

> Most of the value was generated by labour though, not by investments, do you agree?

Not sure how this seems logical to you. Both components are required, so you can’t really compare numerically.

Given how many people start and fund successful businesses from the ground up, versus how many people have successful careers, it seems clear to me that the start is by far the hardest part.

This lines up with my experiences as an employee, investor, and entrepreneur.
In music, the pitch-and-harmony-related content matters---that stuff we can capture in traditional sheet music---but it isn't everything, by a long shot.

You might think some pop song is hogwash, until you hear cover after cover that cannot nail it.
I love the writing style. It’s abundantly personal but not obnoxiously so: I want to tell you about why I want to tell you about a thing, but not like a recipe website where someone gives you the family tree of their cat before telling you how to make meatloaf.
Surely 'going forward' would be scrolling down a webpage? So by that thinking it would make sense for scrolling down to be zooming in. You could also see it like pulling the thing closer towards you.

(Very difficult to unlearn though, I'm not in any hurry for zoom-in to be anything other than scroll-'up'!)
The math here seems straightforward enough. What fraction of immigrants build houses? Of those that do, how many houses do they build? And how many people live in a house? You should be able to estimate whether current policies contribute more to the demand side or to the supply side. And, policy tweaks could have effects on any of those factors.
Show HN: Zone4
Hello HN community!

For the past few weeks I've been building a website for finding good places to work from remotely.

As a person that travels a lot, I often like to bring my laptop and do some work while I'm out and about in the world. To find places to work from, I usually hit up google and find places through various blogs or videos. However, I wanted something where I could go each and every time to find a place to work from. So I decided to make it myself.

The result: https://zone4.me/

Basically, you can look for places in any part of the world, and every place that's added to the website will have some basic information like a description, location, images and some variables about the place. As a user, you can also add as many new places as you like, as well as add "community information" to existing places, if there's something important you think other users should know about a place.

Personally, I am happy with how its turned out so far, and I plan to continue working on it, but I would love to hear your feedback on the website!

If you are a remote worker, do you imagine yourself using this website to find places to work from, given it gains some traction and a variety of places get added?
That enormous solar price is obtained by a not very well described adjustment procedure for variance in supply. It is not the usually described levelized cost of energy (LCoE). The adjustment would depend on system design, and should be much lower than that in a cost optimized renewable system.

If I go to https://model.energy/ and ask it to solve for a cost optimized renewable + storage system for Ontario, I get a cost out of 55 Euro/MWh for providing synthetic baseload (2030 cost assumptions). That solution doesn't include using hydro to deal with variance in supply and demand; Canada has large amounts of hydro.
for sure, I was thinking from the narrower government perspective rather than the larger "is this the right thing to do" view and appreciate the reminder to keep things in context
Beautifully said! However, in my experience, finding your own virtue requires interacting with others, and adjusting our view depending on how it went. Ie it takes both the grouping with others, and the inner quest.

And once you're grouped with others, why not interact also group to group, rather than just individual to individual, and profit from both higher order learning and influencing the world -- which I think is similar to what you describe as "power seeking aspects".

That said, the piece about finding "like-minded individuals" remains elusive, if one is serious about pursuing one's own values and way of being in the world.
No, it is expected to last another couple days until Earth is out of sight from the sunspots ejecting this plasma, but the reports I have seen have predicted that we are past the peak.
That's false. The manufactured nulear scare is a leftover from the Cold War where communists in the West did everything to equate nuclear energy with nuclear weapons and/or ticking time bombs that they advocated the abolition of (at the same time as most East-bloc nations had operating nuclear power plants). The cold war ended but the seeds of angst had been sown and to this day is the bedrock of the "green" anti-nuclear policies in pretty much every "green" movement on the planet, with a notable exception of the Finnish Greens. The Green parties, fx. In Germany have actively used hyper-regulation of the nuclear power sector as tripwires to make nuclear energy operation in the West extremely expensive to do.
This. It's great to have a hot secretary.

...

Okay seriously this can work but it will really force you to work on your communication skills. Which is probably a good thing anyway, for both the business and the relationship, but it's very challenging.
And because if you build a lot of reactors, then you get a learning curve where they get cheaper over time, just like any other mass-produced item. Some of the SMR designs can even be built in factories.

The article ignores this, and in fact complains about the cost of the first six reactors proposed by NuScale (which, fwiw, is just a smaller LWR, not one of the more innovative designs).

Before anyone talks about the negative learning curve of large reactors in the US, bear in mind that we mostly build those as one-offs, so no learning curve exists. We don't build many, regulations change pretty frequently, and sometimes the NRC requires design changes after construction starts.
Does this prediction include the effect of cost and time overruns? These overruns are mentioned in the article, but then not dealt with at all -- but it is very important whether SMRs are more expensive according to made-up "planned" numbers or actual costs.

Flyvbjerg mentions SMRs as an example for modularity in his book, How Big Things Get Done, and predicts that they will be much less prone to overruns because experience can be accumulated along a series of reactors, whereas traditional reactors are one-off, bespoke projects which directly implies that they will be built with a lack of experience. Even if a nuclear power plant gets built that is "like" an existing one, it is never the same.
Bay Area tech layoffs: Google and Rivian cut more jobs
Irrelevant. The article is about ROI, not about happiness. Income isn't the only measure of, I don't know, longevity, calorie intake, hair color, number of children, etc., either, but we're not talking of any of those things.
When folks ask "What is a monad?", they usually don't want the technical meaning, they're wondering what they can do to see why they should care or take the time to learn/use them. Here's a summary[0] that's as good as any I've seen.

> Summary. We have seen that a monad is a type constructor, a function called return, and a combinator function called bind or >>= . These three elements work together to encapsulate a strategy for combining computations to produce more complex computations.

[0] https://wiki.haskell.org/All_About_Monads#Summary
> This is a super cool idea!

Thank you. I’m honored you found it useful.

> From there, you could continue clicking to trace the origins of each fact or idea.

Exactly! I think you would like automated semantic knowledge graph building example in txtai.

Imagine how much could be done when price/token drops by another few orders of magnitude! I can envision a world with millions of research agents doing automated research on many thousands of data sets simultaneously and then pooling their research together for human scientists to study, interpret and review.
I for one would be an avid audience if you ever wanted to blog about any of that!
Unit cost of reactor not unit cost of power ?
Paris unveils water storage basin to clean up Seine River ahead of Olympics
I think the oft-cited solution to this if you're flying domestically in the US is to pack a flare gun, declare it, and use a non-TSA lock on the suitcase. Apparently, this also greatly reduces the chance of your checked baggage getting lost or misrouted.
Building intuition with spaced repetition systems
Why the state monopoly on identity is worse than Big Tech
The whole idea of encompassing an object that warps space into a sphere in our unwarped space is just a little invalid, especially when examining them on the scale of their constituent particles. I really don't know the answer, but I do not think that a black hole could be the size of an atom. I would expect the strong (or was it weak) nuclear force to overcome the mutual gravity and so compact an object would not be able to form.

I'm just a layman on the topic, and would greatly appreciate any insights by physicists in audience.
Steve Jobs said the last area of complexity they needed to solve for was the file system, as many users found it confusing. From what I understand, this is why iOS and iPadOS were app based instead of file based. Eventually they got a file browser, but it took years and a lot of bad and weird conventions were established before that happened.

When asked about the keyboard being confusing for people back in the 80s, Jobs said death would take care of it. If he has that same view on the file system, iOS and iPad OS would probably look very different today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrepreneurship
> An entrepreneur (French: [ɑ̃tʁəpʁənœʁ]) is an individual who creates and/or invests in one or more businesses, bearing most of the risks and enjoying most of the rewards.

nothing there precludes even microbusinesses. and nothing requires taking VC or having employees.

the word hasn't changed.
> and the one that has the last word on hiring someone

False. A lot of times, companies make an offer which are then rejected by a candidate because they have another better offer. Maybe not in 2024, but it was very common until 2022.
We could also be completely wiped out by a stray gamma ray blast, but it’s unlikely right.
I can’t understand why, with winters known to be how they are, there is no district heating. If that infrastructure had been in place, a transition to carbon-less sources of heat could be well underway.
> 4) Do not over leverage yourself such that a job loss or housing crash will immediately crush you.

I can reasonably assert that an economically significant number people would be in big trouble if they lost their jobs.

As for a housing crash, it depends on your specific meaning. If enough of the value of property were lost, banks would be forced to take action to survive their lending risks. The ramifications of that would be extensive, let us say.
Solar + battery: will there be enough raw material available to make it a viable alternative at world scale? I am hearing that we won't be able to extract enough metals for a world transition based on renewables. Cost is secondary when physics gets in your way.
These are individual characters that cannot be easily typed as they are enclosed in a circle and, as noted in the blog post, only included in some character sets for a limited time.

Most commonly they are typed as a circle followed by the character as in ○ビ and ○金 (used in my blog post) or enclosed in brackets to approximate a circle as in（金）and（ビ）or you can type unicode joining character to have the characters overlap each other as at https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/囲み文字#仮名文字

- https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/金

- https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/び

The characters that are circled are:

- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/金#Japanese

- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ビ#Japanese

This is somewhat related to the paragraph about Wikipedia that I put in the blog post. 1984 was very pre-internet and this stuff only happened in Japan. So, there are many references to Maru-kin ○金 and Maru-bi ○ビ in the book, and on the internet, and they're mentioned on Japanese wikipedia. But whether or not there's enough quality citations from verifiable sources to please English Wiktionary or Wikipedia is a battle I simply don't have the energy to get into these days. I'd encourage you to ask any sufficiently old Japanese person and they will let you know all about this era, and then gather enough quality cites.

Unicode comes close for kin (metal/rich):

- Circled https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+328E

- Parenthesized https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+322E

...but not for bi (poor)

After the book, and the 84年の日本流行語 (Japanese Buzzwords Award 1984), these symbols also featured in a movie based on the book

- https://www.nikkatsu.com/movie/26211.html
I’ve never seen this particular accusation anywhere, do you have examples? You’re worried that someone will hack a math textbook to teach incorrect math that’s not obviously wrong or obviously hacked, but misleading and damaging to math education somehow? Or what kind of threat exactly are you imagining? Who’s got a secret plan to corrupt math education, and how does that work when math involves exercises and proofs? Brandolini’s Law certainly finds application in politics, but it’s news to me if anyone has ever taken the time to intentionally develop fake but believable academic curricula. Why would someone go to that level of effort, what would be the political agenda, and what makes you think it would get very far without getting caught and taken down?
It's failing pretty much everywhere (even in China it's struggling, falling far short of plans). Your explanation presents environmentalists as so globally omnipotent it would be senseless to fight them. Unfortunately, environmentalists are not this powerful.
In that timeframe, those were emoticons or sometimes just smileys. Emoji and emoticons have a different background, and have a totally different etymology, despite sharing the first three letters and sharing some subjecy matter.

I don't recall seeing much, if any, discussion of emoji until they rose to power towards the end of the 00s.
Can’t you just delete the apps you don’t want, install the ones you do, and then turn off the WiFi?
I often hear and also tell people “take vacation when you want, we will work around it. Don’t work on vacation.” That’s the bare minimum, no gold star for that. But also “working the weekends should be the exception, not the norm.”

This seems normal at most FANGs/big companies. People also have a lot of choice around when to come in, leave, and have a hybrid in office policy. Where are the lies?
> Ok why is it that some people say northern lights look EXACTLY like these spectacular photos, and others say in real life they are actually barely visible and you need a camera and very dark skies?

There is a lot of variability in people’s night vision. I viewed this past aurora with a friend, we went to a relatively dark sky location and let our eyes adjust for 30 minutes. In that setting, I could make out the green and red coloration while she mostly saw it as a while glow.
And this very article is about how SMRs by their nature are going to be more expensive than traditional nuclear so seems pretty silly to make any comparison to the costs of production for reactors that were built 40 years ago. A better comparison would be how much are we expecting wholesale costs for Hinkley’s new reactor to be? Don’t want to ruin the surprise but people will be shocked if they look up what they’re charging in a sub-$0.10/kwh world.
Yeah and none of these people are going to struggle to find another job. I guess it sucks for the H1B people.
> What most people seem to complain about when they say "Java" is actually dependency injection frameworks

This is precisely what I said with “ due to what idiomatic Java looks like and how libraries/frameworks are structured”.

Sure, in a platonic ideal Java codebase, it’s all great, but I am talking about my actual practical experience, and I said as much in my message.
I am not familiar with the deaf community nor the controversy surrounding curing deafness. If you're asking me if I support firebombing clinics, no. I don't know what incident you're referring to.

I looked up some info and I find the issue to be far more complicated than you've summarized. One thing I note is that 90% of deaf children are born to hearing parents. They are making a decision about implants for an infant based on a reality they want the infant to experience, but they wouldn't even know any alternative way of living. Why do they get to make the decision for the child? Deaf people live like the rest of us. They face struggles, yet they live full happy rich lives.

Devices like implants don't come without risks and drawbacks. For people used to deaf culture, they have to learn how to integrate into hearing society, which can be frustrating and also lead to ridicule, shame, and embarrassment. The devices can be broken and can be distracting and annoying. I can understand why many would not opt for them, and would advocate against them when there is a ready and willing culture to receive deaf people as they are.

Maybe some people choose these implants and that's what they want. That's fine. No one is stopping them from doing that.

But I don't exactly see why hearing people are deciding that they must "cure" their child's deafness. I read that people are calling it child abuse. See, that's something I can't get behind, and it's an admission that our society is abusive toward people with differences.

That's not a reason to genetically alter people so that they conform to the abusive society, it's a reason to change society so that it doesn't abuse people with differences.

So again, I'm not familiar with this debate, here is some info I looked up:

https://www.businessinsider.com/why-deaf-people-turn-down-co...
Naval reactors are so economical that it's cheaper to burn expensive liquid fuels instead. Most naval ships are not nuclear, you know. Yeah, that's a ringing endorsement. /s
So if they at no point claim they’re open source… what, exactly, is your critique of them? That they built a product that is so good it could conceivably be open source but isn’t?

> And are you suggesting that people normally click the license page?

As my comment says, I am suggesting that they explicitly say they are not open source. It’s not like that’s featured front and center on literally any other product’s front page, so I’m not sure what exactly your expectations are here. Do you want them to have in 100pt font “WE ARE CLOSED SOURCE!!!” plastered across every page? Would that be enough?
Your backend is too complicated
The U.S. is now Germany's biggest trading partner – taking over from China
It makes more sense now that Intel and AMD retconned naturally-aligned 128-bit atomic loads into the ISA: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=104688 (AMD's confirmation is in comment 10.)
Without work, you might find yourself deprived of a spouse and children, so you probably better try and run the rat race at least a bit faster than the slowest rat. Take it from a slow rat indeed.
Are there no rains in western Canada? Why is hydro not an alternative?
It seems to me there's a lot more 'mass production' efficiency still to be found for small reactors. The whole article is just comparing historical costs.

Large reactors are highly bespoke, and therefore increasingly expensive, and the whole idea of small reactors is that they can be produced identically from an assembly line, and so you get the same kind of learning-curve price reductions as for solar panels or whatever.

I don't think that's the case, yet, though, so the argument might be compared to criticisms of solar in the 1980s and anyway this article seems to be a simple attack on nuclear in favor of 'renewables', which have already experience a learning curve.
I tried look at this page on an iPhone, and the figures kept resizing and the page was reflowing whenever I tried interacting with the diagrams, sometimes looking messy. That makes me thing it’s possible the parent was at an odd resolution that does look bad.
Indeed, if SMRs can serve as a way to get the industrial learning loop of nuclear working again, it may be worth it. The size of the current power plants were defined exactly due to the need of scaling the energy output to a level worth the auxiliary costs of lower output temperatures than coal, combined with increasingly expensive safeguards.

Why being anti-nuclear is even a legitimate stand is a good indicator that people still don’t take climate change (and general over consumption) seriously.
It’s like being anti-chemicals because some of them can be toxic to ingest.
Well I do appreciate you making my point quite clearly for me.
I believe that is misreported information. There was record low attrition in 2021 and an increase in 2022 due to suppressed attrition in 2021 (and a record hot job market), as well as record hiring (lowering average tenure). Even then I think that number is off base. I doubt it's even possible to make any real conclusions if it wasn't given surround facts.