skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/safety-and-...

> In the last century there have been eight tsunamis in the region with maximum amplitudes at origin above 10 metres (some much more), these having arisen from earthquakes of magnitude 7.7 to 8.4, on average one every 12 years. Those in 1983 and in 1993 were the most recent affecting Japan, with maximum heights at origin of 14.5 metres and 31 metres respectively, both induced by magnitude 7.7 earthquakes. The June 1896 earthquake of estimated magnitude 8.3 produced a tsunami with run-up height of 38 metres in Tohoku region, killing more than 27,000 people.

This risk needs to be addressed. That many people were killed by a tsunami is a catastrophe. But one would also like to have a stable energy system that does not go down like that and creates a huge problem (financial, technological, human, ...) for several decades.

The japanese nuclear industry is famous for their corruption. Reactors were claimed save, which in a single event were totally wrecked. We are not talking about a single problem, but multiple problems (failing electricity backups, failing outside electricity, exploding buildings, ...), design mistakes (fuel is difficult to reach) and problems generated by running these reactors (like the amount of spent fuel on-site which needs lots of electricity for cooling).
My team was working on merging pull requests when this happened.

We might actually be at fault! That would be kinda cool.
I am a Drupalist and work for a large government contractor and was able to switch to 75% time 30/hours a week about a year ago. I did it for several reasons:

* a bit of burnout (not acute, but the preliminary symptoms were there)

* wanting more time for myself (my side projects and fitness had been languishing under work and family responsibilities)

* wanting to get back into coaching (rowing--does not pay well, but is extremely gratifying)

All told it's been wonderful. I really enjoy my 2/hrs day for myself. I would work less, but I want to meet my saving obligations. The current situation is a nice compromise.

Tips:

* Make sure you plan each day what you're going to do (I do this as part of my work prep so I never skip this)

* Give yourself permission to f!ck off every now and again; just don't make it a habit

* Devote some time to learning new skills (2 hours immersion in new software > 5' reading about it)

* Be clear with your employer and co-workers about when you are available and when you're not and stick to it.

* For coding side-projects, always leave 15' to create a note to yourself about where you are and update your @todo so when you jump back in you can be productive quickly.

If you can do it, I highly recommend it.
For some of our HTTP requests from the US, Canada, and Europe, 20-45% of response time is spent doing DNS lookup (100ms+). For a hosting provider as widely used as AWS, frankly I find this absurd.

How are they twice as slow as GoDaddy?!

Edit: On the bright side, since so many other DNS providers have solved this problem, it must be solvable. They have the opportunity to speed up a big chunk of the internet in one fell swoop!
I may have some work available - what's a good email to reach you at?
It's actually not given to Google in a user identifiable way. I am not privy to the details, but an overview was presented at a crypto conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee7oRsDnNNc&t=10m1s

It looks to me like a form of homomorphic encryption where both the aggregate consumer transactions (people bought X at merchant M), and the aggregate Google ad information (people saw ad for X at merchant M) are encrypted and the set intersection is computed on the ciphertext revealing only the aggregate number of purchases, not the individuals.

Now granted, there could be a security hole in this scheme as with any crypto-protocol, so it does need peer review, but the design, as stated in that YouTube presentation, is not to reveal to Google personal purchasing information, nor reveal to merchants, personal profile information. No personal financial data or purchasing information is supposedly transmitted.

The problem with this kind of technology is that it is really difficult to explain to the public, and easily demagogued.
But reviewing, issues, PRs, etc. are. A lot of the planning parts are down.
And almost always ties into something the person is already doing. Like if you asked someone to get you a Coke and they were pouring some chips, they'd say, "just a sec" to mean, "sure, after I'm done with this."
Try Fedora on it. I switched from Ubuntu to Fedora a while back and couldn't be happier. Not saying you will have a perfect experience but it is worth a shot if you at least like the hardware?
If only you were using a decentralized VCS, you wouldn't have this single point of failure…
Wind and solar are interesting sources of energy, but in the grand scheme of things, they still represent a tiny fraction of power production, and the article noted that on the onset.

BUT should you account for them, nuclear is still the safest, as according to this list†, solar, wind and hydro still carry higher deaths per quantity of energy produced.

SOURCE DEATHS PER PWh
——————————————————— ——————————————
Hydro (global)	1,400
Wind (UK)	<1,000
Solar – rooftop	440
Wind	150
Nuclear (global)	90
Hydro (US)	5
Nuclear (US)	0.01

† https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_accidents
Maybe 20+ failing retries for any single page build?
The stat you refer to is for the day only. Status page shows 99.5159% for the past month, I'd guess it would be in that range for the year aswell.
I read through the entire post without realizing who wrote it. I just want to let you know your work is fantastic. Thank you for everything you've contributed to emulation.
Kinda. Insurance is about a pooling of risks, that does not mean that every risk level must be in the same pool. Houses that are built in flood-prone areas are forced to be in different insurance pools with higher rates than other houses because the risk profiles are different.
I've looked at the facts of the case, and it seems clear to me that Gawker was guilty of an invasion of privacy, and the intentional infliction of emotional distress. Can you give me an argument, based on the facts of the case, that Gawker did not commit those violations?
Can anyone comment on if the LFTR is legit?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK367T7h6ZY
It's actually easier to leave the solar system than it is to hit the sun.

(Earth orbits the sun at 30 km/s [1]. That means you need -30 km/s of ∆v to kill the energy we're born with. The escape velocity for our solar system from Earth's orbit, meanwhile, is about 42 km/s [2]. So you just need 12 km/s of ∆v to skip town.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_orbit

[2] sqrt((2 * 6.7E-11 * 2E30) / (150 * 10^6)) given G~6.7E11 [a], mass of the sun is about 2E30 kg [b] and the Earth orbiting the Sun from about 150 million km [b]; for escape velocity [c]

[a] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_constant

[b] https://hypertextbook.com/facts/2000/LeonVaysburd.shtml

[c] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_velocity
Not disagreeing with you, but I think the underlying, bigger point of pieces like this is that there are network effects that provide dominance to products that are outsized relative to their actual quality.

That is, you might make a good case that Wintel systems in 1996 were as good as Apple products in some sense, or even somewhat better, but I think it would be difficult to argue that the difference in quality was such that it paralleled the difference in market share.

A lot of the things you mention are maybe things I think the author would say are examples of social factors that push the dominance of a product outside its objective quality. In the end, I think lots of these issues come down to semantic vagueness, but I think there's a reasonable point in there.

What people tend to forget is that ironically, Windows I think came to dominate initially because it was more open. That is, you could buy it with whatever hardware you wanted, and didn't need Apple's permission.

Apple later succeeded I think because of something more nebulous, including quality on the software side, but also an appeal to the fashion-and-status-conscious (I say this as someone typing this from a MacBook, so I don't mean that as a slight).

The bigger, more serious problem is really freedom of choice and how network effects restrict that. It's one of the reasons I'm so in favor of open standards. We could argue until we're blue in the face about what X is the higher-quality product, but in the end the thing that drives these kinds of discussion is the fact that in certain fields, once a product becomes dominant, you are obliged to use that product because of others' use.

You might like to use some obscure word processing program that meets your needs better, but if the publishers you're submitting to all require Microsoft Word for some obscure feature, you are forced to use that. If your employer requires the use of some software that's only available on Windows, you might prefer Macs or Linux, but then you are forced to spend a lot of money just to run that software. You might not want to use some messaging software, but if everyone else is using it, you often kind of have to. Even with programming languages there's something similar, where you might want to program in a language, but if everyone else is writing libraries in something else, that kind of coerces you to use that something else. That is not intrinsic to the language; it's about societal use of that language.

In some ways, it's life, but I think with tech the problems get amplified because of interactivity and communication demands. At the extreme end you end up with de facto monopolies that are impossible to get out of. In fact, I think a big case could be made that often when monopolies are established in tech, it's been open standards that have allowed for the destruction of those monopolies.
How many people have died from the Fukushima accident? How many people died mining coal for your local power plant?

And solar and wind need nearly as much power generating capacity in natgas plants (or in Germany, dirty coal plants), driving up costs and even more deaths through fossil fuel mining.
I've seen claims that the price decline has been predicted since the 1970s, since almost all products get better when built at scale and that Germany and China have both put government action into place based on these long term trends.

Combined with carbon tax type modelling of coal's emmissions which would massivel raise it's cost if accounted for, I'm not sure it's that unexpected.
> I don't understand why you think that the OS's inability to scale the system UI or applications in a reasonable way would have anything to do with the cable.

Because that's not the experience everyone else is having. That leaves possibility, that something is broken on your end.

> Try it with a Linux laptop running Unity, and you'll see the difference.

I know how Linux handles HiDPI. See my comment about Fedora elsewhere in the thread.
I knew I shouldn't have released the new version of my project yesterday. :p

Sorry everyone
See previous discussion on HN:

6 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14851790

3 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8034389 (no comments on this one surprisingly)
Show HN: U&I with React, a book on reusable UI component practices
By the time you can afford that printer, there are others that cost $100k that do better job. For most tinkerers it will be better investment to place order in local metal workshop with has good printer than have your own cheap lathes, CNC mills and 3d printers in the garage.

>Maybe by the time my car is self-driving and earning me money instead of sitting in my garage, I can get that microfactory set up affordably.

Have you ever thought why there are no cheap capital assets sold in mass markets for public that provide good ROI for no additional effort? (this is good question for armchair economists)
I like the layout and design of the site.
A very expensive battery made from a material we likely don't have enough of to scale for the world.
our neolithic ancestors also ran on grass/ forest floor, not asphalt or concrete.

I run in cities. I love my trainers.
You're referring to this one right?

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/user-agent-switche...

Is there any way to confirm that this is actually from google though, and not just some 3rd party who chose their publisher name as "google.com"? Most official google extensions have a "by google" badge in the right hand column whereas this one lacks it.
What does significantly radioactive mean? If I am a single individual, a single particle of Cesium or whatever could give me cancer. It's not an averages game when you're talking about real lives.
I've built inventory systems in a similar fashion.

On one hand, using a bunch of PL/pgSQL makes sense for transaction isolation and faster execution. I'm not sure how much of the arguments about business logic matter in this case, but a strong argument for using PL/pgSQL is that these queries written in Python (for example) are going to be significantly slower, and that really matters when there are 100 concurrent users hitting the database every 10 seconds. No one likes waiting for their system to update... they'll just switch over to Excel. I think that PL/pgSQL is a great use-case for situations where preoptimizing for speed isn't a mistake, though the trade off is that you need to find the rare expert on processing languages (what order to triggers fire and how do you prevent this from being an issue?), and who can work through the complex logic of the system.

I wonder why the author didn't use windowing instead the lateral example. You can window and sum over composite rows, and it goes pretty fast. I never did a direct comparison between lateral and windowing, but windowing would be much cleaner and not require you to generate a series.
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> but the only affordable printing materials are cheap ABS plastics

Not very true at all. You can get PLA for $20/1kg or less. Even resin for SLA printers is often possible to find for affordable prices, especially considering that you can sometimes use less material without the need for infill.

I'm really not even sold on the idea that so many people "need" metal printers. Seems like most people would be way better off with the incredibly cheaper plastic options.
How does this affects all your dependencies?
I stopped believing in the "digital native" buzzword after spending some time with some older relatives.

Because nobody makes good old fashioned cellphones that can only make calls they were all upgraded to touch-screen smartphones. A lot of them came to me for direction to perform the most basic tasks. They were interested in downloading apps, getting the news from their devices, managing pictures and generally browsing the internet from them.

At first I explained every step of the process and I noticed they would all mechanically memorize the steps without really understanding any of them. So I changed my approach. I told them that, software wise, whatever happens to their device I can repair it and that instead of waiting for me to have a minute to go over the steps with them, they should try themselves and if something bad happens then they should come to me.

This has changed their behavior dramatically. They are now more confident using their devices, knowing that someone can get them out of trouble should problem arises, and try new features by themselves. An example of that is when they enabled voice control and started to play with it.

I like to separate users in two categories that I consider more realistic than "Digital Native" and so called "Digital Immigrants". I refer to them as having an "Active" position toward technology and a "Passive" position. The active crowd search for solutions themselves and learn by exploration while the passive crowd pretty much will only do as directed and what they have been taught with clear explanation. I noticed this pattern of refusing to explore new tools and platforms when exposed to one not closely related with age, as many young "Digital Natives" would get extremely confused when exposed to a new tech. Even stuff as basic as an oldschool car GPS (not their usual phone) would confuse them.
Decisions should be accountable. Ordinarily, humans make decisions, so you can hold them to account.

But who's accountable when a machine makes a choice? You can't blame the hardware. The software doesn't have much meaning before it is trained.

That leaves the training data. The data are just facts, so you only have a few routes to find the root cause of a decision:

* If a datum is actually false, you can correct it.

* Selection of data for the training set

* Input order

I don't know much about AI. Maybe someone who knows more can explain how to investigate a contentious decision?
NASA technical writing style manual [pdf] (1990)
New reactor designs completely eliminate the possibility of meltdown. LFRs include an electrically cooled salt plug that seals a holding tank. If power fails, the molten salt melts the plug, and the fuel safely drains into the tank. I particularly like ThorCon's concept, where the reactor is underground. Another plus of this reactor type is that water cooling isn't needed, so siting is much more flexible.

Note that the ThorCon design can use uranium or thorium as fuel. ThorCon estimates it could be shipping reactors in ten years, and could produce 100 GW worth of reactors per year, at around three cents per KWH.

http://thorconpower.com/

I suggest watching the video on this page, it gives a good perspective:

http://thorconpower.com/news
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Many prisons in the US are privately operated (Corrections Corporation of America is one of the large companies that run private prisons).

These companies then sell certain services to the public - such as telemarketing (seriously). In other words, that person you're talking to in a telemarketing context may very well be a prisoner in a CCA owned facility!

Now - prisoners aren't forced (?) to participate in these activities, but they are highly encouraged; it gives them a bit of money for the commissary (very small bit) and other things, plus gives them "job skills" for the outside, and probably also a mark on their records for later parole review purposes ("hey, she participated in this, and became a model "employee" as a telemarketer - let's factor that into her record for an early release").

So - there is a strong incentive to participate in these programs. They aren't limited to telemarketing either: If you can think of something which can be done by low-skilled workers who are a "captive audience" so to speak, it is probably sold as a service by these private prison companies to other businesses.

For instance, another big one is "product assembly" (putting furniture together, or electronics, or other similar work).

So - these companies - the private prisons - need more employees, right? You know, to sell their services. These employees are very cheap (and easy to coerce to work - after all, they are also prisoners!): Just pay lowest-bidder for food and housing, then get 'em inside. Best way to do that is to lobby for more restrictive laws, make more things felonies, etc...

Right? Understand? Kinda sounds like a form of indentured servitude, or corporate prison slavery, right? Maybe because it is...?

Because that's how it really is here in the "Land of the Free! (tm)(c)(r)".

/USA! USA!, MAGA!, and all that crap...
BuildZoom is hiring – every 3 minutes someone starts a remodel
"I will admit I found it hard not to read this comment and wonder about your sense of entitlement"

I see. I can't criticize a service in a way you dislike without having a sense of entitlement. I'll keep that in mind.
Parsing into Json.Encode.Value gives you that Value but no way to work with it except, at later time, using Json.Decode.decodeValue on it. And you're back to specifying decoders...
Rust plugin is now officially supported by JetBrains
So how did BluRay beat HDDVD and other standards?

I remember there was a Laserdisk standard and they made Episode 4, 5, 6 for Laserdisk that was the original cinema version before Lucas changed things to make it more family friendly, like Greedo shot first instead of Han Solo, etc. The VHS version got edited and so did the DVD versions. Laserdisk was so old it had the original released to cinemas but not the edits because they abandoned the Laserdisk format for DVD and VideoCD later on.
> implying developers spend most of their time in editors.
Why we can't we just use Venus or Mercury?
Those crickets you hear? That’s Peter Thiel standing up to Trump’s attacks
The article doesn't mention what the software does. What is it?
I would continue this discussion, but I've gotten a ton of downvotes for both of my comments, so it seems people would rather not have this discussion continue :(

EDIT: Thank you whoever took pity and upvoted my previous comments. Everything I say is in good humor, I'm not trying to detract from the conversation about AI.
Great guide and commentary. Would have liked to see a complete end to end code tutorial.
Marketing also matters, and marketing can help determine what's "best" in the consumer's mind.
How the hell do you know? How do you know that the furniture store doesn't have what you are looking for in under 2 seconds? Seems impossible to me.
"we just started using" not we just started ;)
AMDGPU-PRO 17.30 vs. Linux 4.13 and Mesa Git RadeonSI Benchmarks
Wow, I have to try to meet these folks. As an US expat here, I think Indonesia seems to have a promising future.
That depends on what you qualify as waste. As for the actual otherwise unuseful radioactive reaction byproducts this might very well be true.

But in the industrial meaning nuclear waste also includes various stuff that can not (or could not at the time) be economically separated from the waste althought it is either not dangerous at all or useful as nuclear fuel. And also stuff that is simply radioactive and has nothing to do with nuclear reactors per se.
We don't have to choose between energy abundance and good stewardship of the environment. Why do green activists and a majority of Western governments want us to? Attempts to force Western countries to cut emissions, without a corresponding transition to nuclear power, are unacceptable and represent a wealth transfer from rich countries to poor countries.
Shrinking MoarVM call frames – 6guts
Well, maybe you needed some time off. Gotta be careful, not burn out on own projects, risk loosing a hobby and more
"I only read the first 3 paragraphs but ..."

You can't have a informed conclusion without reading the entire article. That said, it clearly states in the 2nd paragraph that the assessment is for energy types with the lowest negative health impact, with comparison limited to currently dominant sources including nuclear and not renewable types like wind or solar.
I worked part-time for half of 2015 and most of 2016. Most of those gigs were with a small number of clients that couldn’t justify hiring a designer/developer unicorn full-time but were not cash-strapped either. They were mostly American as well which really helped offset the time commitments being a Canadian.

With my extra time I mostly read, visited museums, worked on a game prototype and travelled between cities along the Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal corridor (since I worked remotely it didn’t matter where I was).

I think the only thing I would have done differently was get out of Canada more often. I had insane flexibility but didn’t take advantage of it as much as I could have.

This year I’ve gone back to working closer to full-time and with predominantly Canadian clients. However I’ll probably try to resurrect the routine I had just mentioned.
It would be nice if commenters like you added a disclaimer that you work for Google in comments that hand wave away Google's privacy issues.
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