skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, this is something that I think doesn't really resonate with people well. The reactor site is 25 meters above sea level. I'm not exactly sure how high the generators were, but they were well above the level that experts thought was safe at the time. The earthquake was a 1 in 1000 year event and so there was no data on record to help them model the resultant tsunami. In the years following the tsunami, the way people modelled waves radically changed based on the new data.

There are a couple of caveats. First, there were markers saying that an historic tsunami had come in much higher than models would have predicted. However, the are very old. It's just a rock stuck in the ground with some writing on it. Stuff like that is all over Japan (there are lots of markers around where I live -- I don't think anybody pays any attention to them at all. Probably we should, but usually they just mark boring stuff ;-) ). It's like seeing a roman road marker in Europe. Interesting, but not really note worthy. It's only after the tsunami that people saw the markers and said, "Holy cow. There's a marker here showing that a tsunami came up this far". Even then it's a far cry from seeing that to saying that we need to invalidate all our wave building models.

Secondly, I think there is some evidence that in a few years preceding the tsunami that researchers were getting worried that their wave models were not correct. I think it's even the case that nuclear plant companies were aware of this. When I first moved to Japan in 2007, there used to be a section of the Meteorological Agency of Japan that showed, among other things, a map of the farthest in a tsunami would theoretically go for all parts of Japan. It also listed maximum wave size for every single place along the coast. It noted places where sea walls were not high enough and estimated worst case damages and numbers of casualties. Around about 2009 it disappeared. I tried to find out where it went and the response I got was that it needed to be updated and that it would return at some point in the future. Of course, it never came back. At the same time, I've heard that literally a few years before the Tohoku earthquake that there was serious debate about whether or not the wave models were correct. However, I think it's pretty clear that in 1967 when they started construction at Fukushima they had absolutely no idea that they were building in a potentially unsafe area.

It really sucks and I think it's fair to say that as humans we probably have too much hubris when it comes to our science. That fact that you have no reasonable way of knowing that you are making a mistake doesn't mitigate the problems that result from that mistake.
Basic rudimentary 'stick and rudder' flying skills was a big factor in AF447's crash. All old school pilots know that when you aircraft is in a nose high stall condition, you never keep pulling back on the stick, but instead push it forwards to lower the nose and get the wings flying again.

Except on an Airbus. If the plane is in "normal law", it won't go into a stall condition. Here's the Airbus training video.[1] Note, by the way, that the automatic recovery includes going to full throttle. The throttle levers don't move, though. Unlike Boeing, where the levers are moved by the computers and the pilot can overpower that. In the 737 Max, though, it's worse, because the engines are mounted too high and full thrust pushes the nose down. So "full power and back off on the stick" will not work.

[1] https://youtu.be/G161aMYCzbQ?t=100
Kernel extensions I use out of my head.

USB to ethernet dongle.

Little Snitch.

Karabiner.

Hammerspoon.

NTFS read/write driver.

I really doubt they will all remain working but the dongle is hardware.
Same issue here, been like this for > five years. Almost like no one at Apple uses multiple monitors.
The state of web ads is closer to the public pinboard only instead of having ads for grandmas couch its Mr CEO trying every trick to drain your money and track you.
The nature of all radiation is known and regulatory organizations operate accordingly.

Radium decay results in ionizing radiation. Meaning that it carries enough energy to kick electrons from their orbitals.

Radio-communication technology sold to ordinary consumers does not emit ionizing radiation.
It's not allowed to do so due to regulatory organizations.
More than this. If you thought "they took our jobs" was a big rallying cry, wait until it's "they get our UBI".

It's possible to resent someone who shows up and works hard. (Harder than you'd like to, because he's more desperate.) It's much easier to resent someone who shows up and simply collects a slice of your inheritance.

And in addition: The guy who stepped off the boat in 1900 and then spent a few decades working long hours in a factory, spent a lot of time interacting with other people in his new country. It was unavoidable. (Possibly he got drafted, too, another great way to spend time with the locals.) One of the reasons integration is not going so well in Europe is that this is no longer the story.
Placing images I have not requested on a display that I own is vandalism.

I agree that the lobbyists will win. I wish we had politicians with some moral character though.
Hopefully whoever is in the hot seat knows the name of the game. First you ask for 30 days, then you ask for 30 more.
> Nowadays there's a good case to be made that we've swung too far in the opposite direction

No. Absolutely not. Maybe in a few particulars, but not in the general case.

The reason that FDA approval is difficult is because we aren't discovering any more wonder drugs. The low hanging fruit has all been picked.

In the meantime, we are stuffing our farm animals with antibiotics, growth hormones, covering our fields with pesticides and herbicides that have not proven to be safe, stuff our furniture with all sorts of wonderful fireproof substances that, twenty years down the road, we discover to be carcinogenic, and in general, rely on victims to prove that what they have been sold is dangerous.

If we were actually prudent about this sort of thing, we'd require producers of goods to prove that what they are doing is safe - instead of waiting for people to be hurt or killed, followed by decades of studies and litigation.

We can't even effectively hold companies accountable for selling dangerous product, when they know their products are dangerous. There are barely any controls for harm that they inflict out of ignorance.
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The official channel has recently been unblocked in my region, so those pirates must be having the desired result.
That is simply not true. All my generation could do was read (consume) books and create small useless projects that lead nowhere. There was no way to find likely minded people, cooperate and share.

Kids today can create many things: mod games, work on scientific project even start businesses... Some voluntary work done by teenagers is surpassing professional companies in quality. Even taking pictures with phone creates something.

And with niche hobbies one can get at some level (for hobbyst) just by watching a few hours of youtube videos. Again it is not "consumption" but learning.

Gaming is the same thing, kids are learning cooperation, new skills, husttle etc.

It is not just media consumption. Computers and internet do not work the way books or TV works. It is dialog, two way communication that takes user feedback.
Brave mobile started letting ads go through a few months ago for me. I switched to Firefox mobile, which is not as fast / usable but at least supports ublock.
Open-Source Admin Dashboards Coded in Flask – AppSeed
There are plenty of ad networks that do not allow advertisers to run JS. You have to run the ad networks script but that's the only one.
Honestly, there’s another explanation that I think makes a lot more sense even though it’s less beautiful : the product team wasn’t sure they wanted to ship a battery with the device in the first place. Or at least they wanted to keep the option of shipping the device without a battery.

Removing the battery makes the device cheaper (you can also remove the power brick if any) and removes a supplier from the chain. Keeping this options makes a lot of sense from a purely economical standpoint.
That is why you should not segregate society in "better" and "worse" tiers.

We all understand that there are people that have a negative influence on every network they participate in. The problem is that banning them is not a long term solution and in many cases it only make things worse. It is the easy one, but it makes impossible to build some difficult conversations.

There are also many different kind of communities and forums, HN is very special in this (no subcommunities, strong moderation clearly stated upfront) many are more like tumblr (as the FAQ put it: "Go nuts, show nuts, whatever").

Reddit is effectively used as a second life, with countless smaller groups, weird circles, and unusual communities. In this regard it is the social network most similar to real live.
Sounds like modern art without the pretension to me.
Uh, I’m not sure I agree. Any website that needs to do nontrivial layout will query the browser viewport size.
My favourite bit, after the comments about the screaming eagle?

This is where a douchier person would write 'colophon'

But overall it did its mission: it made learning arabic feel linguistically interesting.
Look at the number of musicians, photographers etc complaining they can't make a living nowadays because someone else is willing to do the same thing for free.

Nobody being creative you say?

Though I share skepticism on smartphones. Off to read a book to my daughter now.
I am actually in favor of building more housing. But I think that doing so will (on top of prices already being projected to fall) put further downward pressure on house prices.

To think that this is a rosy story for everyone with no losers is a fairy tale.

I believe that the already squeezed, non-tech, middle class of the Bay Area will suffer at the expense of new, younger tech workforce (and incidentally play into the hand of the actually wealthy tech leaders who are some of the biggest proponents). If you choose not believe that, then please provide a historical example of where deflationary pressure on house prices have been a boon for the existing working/middle class that own houses anywhere.

I realize that this is not a popular opinion among the HN crowd, which obviously skews young and tech, but it certainly is the opinion/anxiety that I hear expressed on the ground in the Bay Area among non-tech families. Are they delusional and should simply welcome lower house prices? Are their wealth and security something that must be sacrificed for the greater good? Maybe.

But I am very suspicious of some of the tech leader pushing this. It’s obviously great for them if they can pay their employees less because rent is lower.
The presented solutions are honestly quite silly.

Anything available on the web, an open platform, is free to view by design. To make it not free, you as a publisher are required to take extra steps which do not presume control over the client computer. If you don't like this, perhaps the web platform is not the one you intended to use.
Agreed. Each to their own, but I am tired of seeing JP recommended because I watched one Joe Rohan video once. I click not interested on each JP video, but still get recommendations. It is quite frustrating.
With falling house prices? Good luck with that.
It's surprising how actually effective it is when trying to determine if an article is going to be worth your time.
It may raise living conditions, but the point about "human rights abuses" still stands.
Still there are a lot of information in your user-agent and metadata (OS version, platform, screen size, timezone, and more).
To be fair, HTML started as an SGML application, meaning, as a declarative language. In this aspect, it's not so much about static vs dynamic, but about two cultures of programming. However, there's a place for both approaches – and probably it's about the right mix.
Well that, or inheriting a few billions from dad, to turn into millions so you can be a millionaire without trying.
5G is probably a trigger for many, but imo it is right to call out the repeating pattern where seemingly we can't entertain the idea that there are things we simply are not aware at this point in time, yet confident we are so much better than the fools a couple of generations back, we are sure to get it right and not make a mistake.

Simultaneously there are regular articles posted on this very same site about fake news, selective reporting and irreproducible scientific studies. It is hard not to be skeptical.
Best Phones with Motorized or Pop-Up Cameras
An interesting aside: In 1998, India tested its nuclear weapons (Pokhran-II [1]). Almost immediately, US imposed sanctions. One of the terms of the sanction?
"Bar the export of certain defense and technology material" [2].

I can't find a source but I do remember that IE used to ship with reduced encryption.
Perhaps we have learnt some lessons since then :-)

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokhran-II

[2]http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/asiapcf/9805/13/india.us/
I use both and in my case, new Firefox is snappier than Chrome.
One area where lack of gendered nouns is valuable is for non-binary people (those who are neither men or women). In languages like Arabic or Hebrew, this gets very difficult as a binary gender generally must be assigned to first-person pronouns to be grammatically correct!
> I would like to do my own robotic assembly now.

It's going the other way. Automation increases the return to scale.

Your grandparents probably performed a lot of non-robotic assembly: making food and clothes at home was basically the same process as in a factory. The gain from having 1000 people making chairs under one roof was modest.

But a massively automated factory that turns trees into Ikea chairs isn't something that makes one a day, more like one a second. So there are fewer.
You can use Firefox for browsing and Chrome for development. No need to settle on a single egg.
The 30-day prevalence for vaping use is about the same as for marijuana. See https://www.drugabuse.gov/drugs-abuse/marijuana (TL;DR: 5.60%, 16.70%, and 22.20% for 8th, 10th, and 12th graders, respectively, for 2018.)

And despite the scary stories, it seems reported vaping use hasn't sharply risen. It peaked in 2015, substantially declined in 2017, and for 2018 seems to have returned to 2015 levels. But overall vaping use has at worst replaced cigarette smoking and possibly accelerated the long-term decline in smoking. A recent study, https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/early/2018/10/31/toba..., concludes

> If our primary concern is population-level trends in youth and young adult smoking, which we believe is appropriate, then vaping has not shown to be a serious cause for concern, even if the catalyst hypothesis is correct, and it is possible that vaping may be playing a contributing role to the recent steep declines in youth and young adult smoking.

The anti-vaping hysteria is irresponsible and to the extent it ignores the data and creates a boogeyman out of unknowns it's anti-science. Compared to the parade of horribles consequent to tobacco use and even marijuana use, not to mention alcohol and other drugs, nicotine itself should be the least of our worries. And that's before we even consider the efficacy of a ban in terms of preventing teen vaping. (And if we as a community could manage to have an adult conversation about nicotine, like we briefly did for THC, we might appreciate the benefits of nicotine--e.g. that it's used by a significant fraction of adults and teens alike to self-medicate real behavioral and mental health problems.)
Had the experience in the National Palace Museum Taiwan of both Taiwanese and elder Chinese (the ones who don't only speak simplified but can handle traditional) looking at thousand-plus year old artifacts and mumbling to themselves, way beyond what an english speaker will try and do with roman or greek inscription.
Show HN: Gh_announce, Python bot that tweets when you make a new GitHub release
Except that it's a game, and unless a person has significant problems anyway, they will understand that there is a difference between killing something in a game and doing it in real life.

That said, children have been playing games of "shoot em up" for many years. At one point it was cowboys and Indians, earlier it would have been whoever the local defender and perceived "bad guy" was.

I have a feeling that this is human nature, and I actually feel that we are far better having our children playing computer games where they are targeting mythical creatures, than playing shoot the Taliban or some such.
It is obviously not the case that 'humanity seems to do nothing'.

The United Nations have the IPCC working on the issue and their reports influence national policy in many countries. There are the Kyoto and Paris agreements that are based on the details from the IPCC reports. Is the world doing enough? No, I don't think countries are doing enough, but to say humanity seems to do nothing is patently ridiculous.
It is a creation, without a doubt, because a better term is an expression.

A better question is, is it art?

Is a gift in the form of a drawn picture for Father's or Mother's day?

Is Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue?

Is a laptop with a plethora of malware a work of art?

It may not live up to your standards of quality, but that's up to everyone themselves to decide.
We gleefully use all sorts of new things. Most of them turn out like sliced bread, and we stop thinking of it as "gleefully using them" and just accept them as part of our lives. It's only the odd occasion when things go wrong that confirmation bias kicks in and we think of all the other times that something hasn't worked out.
Yea, but does it come with a thinkpad keyboard and the "red dot"?
> So, even someone who disables JavaScript normally, would presumably enable it in order to use this popular and useful site.

I agree that StackOverflow is at fault here, but enabling JS is not a binary choice — "allow all JS on this site" vs "block all JS on this site" are not your only options.

Tools like uMatrix allow me to control JS coming from different domains on different domains independently. For example, on SO I have enabled JS from Stack Exchange and related domains, but not from Google or other snoopers.
> I've said nothing to compare poor people to affluent, or made any argument dependent upon demographics whatsoever.

Which is where you're going wrong, because if the tax is structured in this way then who comes out ahead depends entirely on where they are in relation to other people. It's revenue neutral but results in net transfers to those who burn less carbon than average -- and the poor characteristically burn less carbon than average.

> If you give them a tax credit and then immediately charge them for having inefficient homes/cars, then you haven't changed anything.

Poor people start off with lower carbon footprints, because being poor means they had less money to spend burning carbon to begin with. So they start by paying e.g. $2000 in carbon tax while receiving $5000 in credit, leaving $3000 to spend reducing their carbon footprint even more.

> Certainly they will not spend their <$5000 on highly efficient cars and homes.. both because this is not enough money for such things, and because they have more pressing needs to spend that money on.

It is enough, and they're not stupid.

Currently a used hybrid uses e.g. $1000/year less fuel than a different used car that costs $1500 less. If the fuel cost difference doubles to $2000/year but they get a $5000/year credit, they use the first $1500 to trade their car for the hybrid because now it saves them $2000/year, which is more than $1500. The logic of doing this has nothing to do with what else you have to buy; either way it nets you $500 more this year and $2000 more next year.

> The only way a tax policy will not be regressive is if you give more money to poor people than to rich people.

Not so. It is also possible to do it by giving the same amount to everyone while the rich pay more in taxes.
I don't mind it.

In fact, I almost spat out my Coca Cola, I was so surprised that you would think that.
As with all such changes there will be with time either open source or manufacturers who support the new user space / kernel lock down mode. What you’ll likely experience is temporary loss of use as things transition. In any case the benefits outside of your specific use case outweigh the headaches in just security alone.
Meh, you could argue the same about game consoles, all the way to the Atari 2600.

At least, with phones, kids can talk to each other, write, take pictures, and eventually make apps. Try making an app on the Playstation.
The article focuses on teens. What's a teenage summer job actually worth these days? It's not going to make any kind of dent in college tuition. And there really no need to get one if you aren't driving... (Which ties into other stats in the article.)

I opted out of driving in the late 90s because getting a shite car to go to a shite job to pay for the shite car looked like a terrible deal. The pay at the dairy queen hasn't gotten much better in the last twenty years, and it sounds like the kids aren't seeing the value in the car as much as my peers did.
What are the chances they're going to use Java instead of Erlang?
I can almost put my finger on firefox problems. The html/js engine is great. It's the GUI that severly lags. Tabs, menus, url. On the same machine Chromes never stutter, firefox nightly does way too much.

Mozilla did a lot for so long, let's hope they can circle the issues and find resources to fix them.
If you're a newcomer to this long thread, pls CTRL+F manigandham and read all his comments as a primer. Lots of misinformed couch-comments here. If you'd like to reasonably rant about ad-tech (and that's welcome), understand the value it provides first.
First, banning people absolutely does work.

Second, these are internet forums, not segregating society.

Third, if being around other people like yourself makes things worse, that isn't a problem that other people can solve for you.

Finally, check out voat, incel groups, the_donald, etc. and see if you think it is just a matter of 'difficult conversation'. There is no rationality to conversations in extremist toxic internet forums. People have an emotional investment and frustration that looks far more like mental illness than actual discord.
There were a lot more than just 2 rudder incidents.

USAir Flight 427

United Airlines Flight 585

Eastwind Airlines Flight 517

Silkair Flight 185

Copa Airlines Flight 201

China Southern Airlines Flight 3943

MetroJet Flight 2710
>I wonder if at least part of this is for DRM reasons, because having an always-on and "unauthenticated" video signal output does tends to frighten those IP control-freaks.

Probably not, DVI has hot-plug.
Clojure is kinda unique. It minimizes vector of frustration by merely not allowing needless garbage. Commas are the whitespace - totally makes sense. No bullshit stuff like semicolons. How many precedence rules are there, for example in Javascript? Like 19. In Scala? 14. In Clojure? Zero. How many things in Javascript can be falsy? (evaluate to false) - Seven. In Clojure - only two. How many reserved words there in Javascript? 64! How many in Clojure? Zero. Yes, that's right: there are no reserved words in Clojure. Do you know how many rules are there in ESLint? A lot! In contrast, Clojure teams have to agree to a single styleguide rule - either they align things or indent them - and that's it.

Does that all make Clojure less powerful than other languages? It turns out it, actually that makes it a lot more fun to work with. So yes, I agree with you, the article takes "Simple Made Easy" and turns it upside down. That talk is absolutely not about what was demonstrated in the article.