skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The principle failing here seems to be a lack of a prepared plan of action for such events, and confusion within the TikTok offices as to how specifically to respond.

When you are dealing with The Public and public activities, at scale and volume, you've got to be prepared for such actions.

This means not only detection (which functioned poorly), but response.

- Contact first responders and emergency services.

- Disable harmful, inappropriate, or disturbing content.

- A set of prepared communications for specific circumstances (and adapatable to others) such that you're not scrambling to put together language under a crisis situation.

It's worth noting that with networks such as Facebook and Google (the late unlamented G+, YouTube) having literally billions of users, simple actuarial statistics mean that tens of thousands of accounts are likely to represent deaths on any given day. Contingency planning simply has to account for more than puppies and rainbows.

During my own time on G+, at least two of the thousand of so people I followed closely, both within a relatively close circle, took their own lives. One was a complete shock, though he'd been acting somewhat oddly (purging activity and accounts, then restoring them) over preceding months. The other had made threats over the course of a year or so, including a previous instance in which I'd tried frantically to find a way to alert local authorities thousands of km away. The first time there was a intervention. The second, not. Thankfully, in both cases the evidence wasn't a stream, but silence.

I followed up as best I could with several Googlers at the time. There's frustratingly little which can be done, though some capabilities were offered.

TikTok's response here strikes me more as simply poor planning, and the Intercept's criticisms perhaps unduly harsh. Though yes, forsight, planning, drilling of those plans, and an ever-so-slightly less self-serving slant to the response, would be preferred.

Requiescat in pace, Dieter and Dawn.
Ask HN: What are some lesser known non profits doing good work?
We all know of awesome non profits like doctors without borders etc. Know of any not-so-famous non-profits doing awesome work?
> this decision

What decision? This appears to be a Bloomberg opinion piece, I see not a single reference or statement from the Japanese government.

"Another six reactors have made improvements to meet the new, post-3/11 quake safety standards and have received NRA approval to restart."

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/09/reference/japan...

As recently as December last year reactors had restart approval.
You can read more about this on TCRF [0].

[0] https://tcrf.net/Meet_the_Robinsons_(GameCube)#Dev_Message
Why isn’t anyone upvoting this? It’s a rock solid polished multiplayer browser space game created by two teenagers in their free time. Inspiring, right? Yet the other day some undeniably terrible and unplayable garbage called Space Frigates received 179 upvotes and reached the front page. Also worth noting is the Show HN post of the Pickle Rick text console which was objectively depressingly bad and for some reason was also upvoted to the front page last week.

Is it just that people here feel they can relate more to embarrassingly bad unfinished mediocre experimental projects because it’s what they are usually creating themselves? I’m not trying to sound mean, it’s an honest question. I’m trying to understand why people vote the way they do here. Do people have such a strong preference of feeling like they are participating in a real-time show-and-tell of their own unfinished projects that they’ll actively avoid upvoting actual polished completed products since those shatter the illusion?
BSD was mainstream before Linux existed...

(and macOS can't really be called a BSD derivative; it is a mostly different OS that has taken some of its code from FreeBSD)
> The primary failure at Fukushima was a sea wall too low for the tsunami that occurred

Loss of emergency electricity for the reactors. Needs for large amounts of electricity for cooling of reactors and spent fuel pools. No quick electricity from the outside for the reactors. Hydrogen explosion damaging the building. Cooling only possible with water from the outside. Structural damage due to water on the building. Spent fuel pools high in the building - hard to reach. Lots of spent fuel on the site, because a lack of storage sites. Radioactive water leaking to the environment. Possibility of severe damages on the building by further earthquakes...

There were many many problems with the site.
> I'm a H4X0R b3c4us3 I l0ve c0ck

https://tcrf.net/Meet_the_Robinsons_(GameCube)#Dev_Message
You can convert electricity, water and CO2 to fuels, such as hydrogen and natgas. These fuels can then be transported.

There are significant energy losses if all you want on the other end is electricity. But not so bad if you're burning it for heat.

In theory a nuclear reactor could produce both electricity and heat to produce synthetic fuels, making it more cost effective than renewables.

For electricity only it looks like renewables are significantly cheaper however.
Crossing into flamewar like that is not ok here. Worse, it looks like you've been using HN primarily for political and ideological battle. That's against the HN guidelines, and we ban accounts that do it. We have to, because it destroys the site for the things it's supposed to be for, like curious conversation.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use HN in the intended spirit, we'd appreciate it.
Nonsense. Fear or nuclear is a result of decades of lobbying and fear mongering by anti nuclear environmentalists.
Get a lucky saving roll?
>In most jurisdictions, witnessing a crime and not reporting it is also punishable

Usually such laws only apply to specific crimes.
I won't buy another laptop without dedicated graphics card, which rules out most Thinkpads. Sorry, but igpu is not enough these days.
Facebook's Twitter account is hijacked by notorious OurMine hacking group
I'd like to also see an article examining these computing power attributes on the piece of garbage embedded computer on the front of the gas pumps where the lag between registering every keypress is like 800ms, and every screen redraw takes about 2000ms. It takes me an extra 60 seconds to get gas now thanks to how slow these things are, and it is nearly universal despite whether they appear to be 20 year old or new devices.

> Car Wash Y/N? (wait)
> Loyalty (wait)
> Fuel Rewards (wait)
> Alt ID (wait)
> 0005550000 (wait for the numbers to appear on screen.

I bet they run Java.
Id say you’re righty as far as “Northern Europe” being Scandinavia+Germany. The Uk but london specifically is actually a pretty decent example of a contemporary protodystopia (I live there). On one side you have Mayfair which is like Monaco with some of the richest people in the world living there(and often the most corrupt - Russians, Saudis, Chinese oligarchs, African dictator’s families) side by side with Tower Hamlets in East London where a substantial amount of children suffer from malnutrition.

Malnutrition! And Tower Hamlets is of course a 5 min walk to the very core of the City of London.
The question is if you could build and operate a smaller plant to run at 100% capacity at all times which includes energy storage for less money.

You either have losses in:

* Underutilized solar generation

* Underutilized plant capacity

* Overhead of energy storage

Design your system to minimize that cost. Engineering systems of all sorts are full of this kind of optimization problem: "Should I add a subsystem to recover loss x?" There is always more you can do to recover losses, but each extra system you add suffers diminishing returns a little more.
We need to put pressure on them. Hopefully next time it is AMD + top end OLED.
"Ableist"? Go off back to your ridiculous PC college fantasy world and leave the solving of real problems to people who want to actually make things better.
For sure parallel construction is a looming issue that we as a society and the courts need to figure out.
No. The signal is not the pain. Pain signals are not feelings of pain. Pain happens in the mind.
It's a solar thermal Multi-Effect-Distillation (MED) plant!

I was part of a team that suggested using geothermal heat for desal with MED technology in Perth, Western Australia a bit more than a decade ago!

The advantage over work based (i.e. electrical/Reverse Osmosis) systems is that you do not lose heat via Carnot (or real world, for that matter) efficiency. You utilize more of the original heat, and via the multiple stages ("effects") you can re-use the latent heat of vaporization over and over.

MEDs are really cool gizmos!
All in cost on solar and wind is cheaper on a per-megawatt basis.
Followed by the Minority Report Ads that scan your retinas and the giant 3D ads from Blade Runner 2049. And then eventually just beam them into dreams like in Futurama.

One of the great things about the Star Trek universe was the complete absence of advertising. That does sound rather Utopian.
They could easily bring them back... Let's keep making noise. Next Thinkpad model FTW (I'm trying to manifest it!)
GP was saying, I think, that they'd prefer a quick violent water surge over slow radiation poisoning. You can say good bye, but you might have to do nothing else but saying good bye for an awful low of time (perhaps to similarly doomed people).

I don't have data but I assume that most immediate dam breach deaths are from acute force trauma (and then drowning) rather than from just drowning. Less similar to the slow death of being without a boat in the middle of an ocean than to the hypothetical of getting stomped by the Terry Gilliam foot in Flying Circus.
Perhaps I should amend my statement: "such that they would fall apart as soon as we stop putting energy into maintaining hardware and software dependencies"

Software assumes that there exists specific hardware, operating systems, and services underlying it to keep operating. If you try to turn on a 5-year old android phone, you will find that your apps probably don't work (because of service changes for example), but also can't be upgraded because the latest versions don't work with your old version of android, and your android can't be upgraded because the latest versions don't have device drivers for your phone hardware. You're SOL.

So, to have a 100-year software, you need commodity components from the top down, that continue to be maintained for the same length of time. And it all probably needs to be 100% open source. Otherwise, you have perishable software.
Yes, but I don’t believe it specifies how they have to be on the market. I say this because I listened to a running podcast a year or so back when they discussed these in depth, with somebody highly involved in trainer marketing. As long as they allow the public to buy them through a retail channel, I believe it ticks the box. So, they basically stick them on a no name web store, and deliberately describe them badly, so they are nigh on impossible to find to buy, but they are being sold to the public. The podcasters found this out, because somebody bought some random thing from a no name store and “accidentally” got these. The podcast for reference was “Bad Boy Running”, no idea which episode.
Look at how much the results change based on small changes to the input. Type three letters in a name and get a lot of things that aren't what you want. Type the fourth letter and the exact thing you're looking for jumps to the top. But if you add the fifth letter it goes away. I feel like it's trying to be too clever or, because it assumes the input is coming from voice recognition, it doesn't trust that what you typed is actually what you "said". So instead of compensating for potentially mistyped queries it searches for results that are nearby in audible space.
Most of Japan's electricity is from imported LNG, so doesn't make much difference to independence. They already import this energy.
Recipes elsewhere in the five eyes still use cups, tablespoons and teaspoons as well, although they're not the same size everywhere (eg. a metric cup is 250ml).
The original comment said a quarter of the price of the cheapest configuration, so I don't quite see how the price of the most expensive one is relevant.
Superphénix: During 11 years, the plant had 53 months of normal operations (mostly at low power), 25 months of outages due to fixing technical problems of the prototype, and 66 months spent on halt due to political and administrative issues.

It was then closed early.
Which is even further from a proper competition F1 racecar. But the two sports end up being very different.
Raises hand.

I'm typing this from an Arch instance running in VMWare Fusion on a macOS host. It's a bit annoying though -- the trackpad is emulated as a scroll wheel, making everything janky, and I can't use my host's full 32gb of RAM...

I almost never do anything but run VMWare on the host -- the only reason I haven't given back my MBP and asked work to buy me a Linux machine is because I'm waiting for the 32gb Dell XPS 13 to come out, supposedly sometime this month.
The anti-nuclear activism in France? You got any proof for that anywhere?

The money run out because the technology itself is expensive, the waste disposal is expensive, the costs for repairs were skyrocketing for years (not to mention the costs for buying energy from Germany because of the break downs) and the costs for decommissioning are not even priced in. Also, they recently shut down research there too because...you probably guessed it: too expensive.

I like it when nuclear fans come in, downvote me and the only comment is full of advertisement phrases and lack of information but somehow it must be about me...
Thank you. I honestly get the sense that people calling something like VS Code an "IDE" have never worked with an actual IDE.
Please don't do tit-for-tat flamewars on HN. It's off topic, nasty, and tedious.
Banqiao Hydroelectric Dam, China, was breached Aug. 8 1975 killing more than 85,000 people that day. A study conducted by eight Chinese water science experts who probably had access to censored government reports, estimated the number of total dead — from flooding and the resulting epidemics and famine — at 230,000.

https://www.ozy.com/flashback/230000-died-in-a-dam-collapse-...
> When ambitions software companies from Europe have a good idea and want to grow fast, ...

Aral Balkan made a compelling argument at the EU parliament:

"You are acting as an unpaid Research and Development department for silicon valley. Because if a startup here succeeds, it gets bought by Google or Facebook. If it fails, we pick up the bill."

https://video.lqdn.fr/videos/watch/861c07f7-7e9b-4e64-9765-c...
Any hardware not work on that one, that you know of?
From a triathlete's perspective it's interesting to watch this, since bike technology has become quite more advanced over the years, whereas running has not improved as much. Of course there's much more that goes into the bike and components than what goes into a running shoe. The UCI does have regulations around the frame where the manufacturers have to meet those standards. But those standards are mostly related to safety, whereas the IAAF standards that were recently imposed are more related to making a level playing field.
That's the definition of conflict of interest! You can't sell tech to the candidates and the election at the same time.
I really like SK logic, and have gone down the rabbit hole to play with:

- Illative combinatory logic (equivalent to dependent type theory http://chriswarbo.net/blog/2012-12-01-typed_combinators.html )

- Concatenative combinators (if SK are akin to lambda calculus, then concatenative combinators are akin to Joy)

- Binary combinatory logic (a useful context for measuring kolmogorov complexity)

- Linear combinatory logic (information-preserving, reversible, etc. with analogies to quantum operations)

Yet I've never got an intuitive feel for Iota (or Jot). Perhaps your translation/implementation will help me to finally grok it! (Their Wikipedia descriptions look like a mess or parentheses!)
The thing is given modern technology it does not make sense to replicate Saturn V 1:1 except for historical reasons.

Other than all the advances that will give you much better performance at a lower cost enumerated in other comments, there is another problem.

When you dive a bit deeper into the history and design of the Saturn V (the NASA history website is a good source) you kinda get the feeling it was hacked together in many places to meet a deadline. Many of its systems were very complicated, labor intensive or hard to upgrade or extend jus so that they could meet the deadline and beat the Soviet Union to the lunar surface. The unlimitted money pass they got for this for a while definitelly did not help matters.

This also in my opinion is why Saturn V ended production so quickly - it did meet the deadline, but was just too expensove and inflexible due to all the hacks for a regular budget conscious "production" use.
F1 is actually quite restrictive these days. There is not much room for innovation. Unfortunately...
It seems like you want to draw the line at a completely arbitrary level of mechanical advantage (presumably corresponding to about the time you took up the sport), for reasons based entirely on emotion. All mechanical advantage based on earlier technology is cool, everything later is bad for the sport. I understand why you want that, i feel similar about my hobbies. but you can see how it's not really a reasonable position, right?
Maybe because of running Rails on Heroku is simpler than with Docker.
This is brilliant and hilarious, but, as a person that cares about this I honestly have no idea what to do. Fighting software waste feels like getting in a fistfight with the ocean or something. I could write everything in C or assembly, I don't even think that notion is crazy, but my client's want javascript. Not that it's even javascripts fault, or any particular languages fault, I just don't know how you convince anyone that maaayybee we could actually take advantage of the hardware in front of us instead of just adding extra waste every 18 months.
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To me, the colored rectangles appear to be moving at the same speed, but with an alternating intermittent forward motion. The yellow rectangle will jerk forward, then the blue, then the yellow, and so on across the field.
The Deal of the Century (Or, the Alliance of Losers)
Any Donald Glover quote is great.

There's something similar with programmers - if you're ever the smartest person in the room, find a new room. If nobody is around thats either better than you or interested enough in order to give you good feedback, then its easy to stagnate. Just being around people who are all pushing hard can lead to a huge increase in skill - I think this is one of the reasons being at a top tier school helps, its the peers you're around who are all doing their best at any point, and the institution that pushes on you as well.
Calm down, it's been resolved.

I don't work for Rackspace, they host an FOSS of mine that in its peak used to transfer TB of data per month. Not an enormous amount, but out of pocket would have been similar to OP's.

From my understanding Rackspace would create a plan with a far-out expiration. Say, a plan that's active until a year from now.

Not as smooth as I would have liked, but when I would get that yearly invoice I would just contact them and they would take care of it fairly quickly.

They have not informed me of FOSS support being terminated, and I have never had to pay a single penny for them hosting my FOSS.

Big thanks to them, by the way!
Government is just doing what government inherently does - attempting to exert control over anything legible to it. The underlying problem is the longstanding insecurity of cell protocols that creates these irresistible databases of everyone's location in the first place.
If we don't count the keyboard issues, no laptop on the market is as nice to use as an MBP. If I had one with a physical escape key, I could probably make the statement without even that reservation.

But if you prefer Ubuntu to macOS for whatever reason, I've found the Dell XPS line to be good enough to be tolerable.
Of all the things I hate about Windows, unified search is the worst. If I want to search the web, I'll search the web--there's an app for that, the browser. Let me just search my hard drive, please. I didn't experience this bug, but if I had, I'd be furious that I couldn't search my own local files without somehow getting an internet service involved.
I don't understand. I don't want my start menu to search my files or the internet or be smart in any way, I just want it to show my installed programs or apps or whatever you want to call them. If I want to search my files I have a program for that, if I want to search the internet I open my browser. Why do we have to over complicate things! Who asked for this?
Microsoft doesn’t build Windows with the consumer as the priority. Microsoft first, then big business, then advertisers.

I used to find this aggravating but it’s better to accept it and move on.
This argument only sounds good if you deliberately omit the geothermal, tidal, and offshore wind potential of Japan.

Offshore wind potential alone is 1600Gw, with 600Gw of that in easy reach.

Tidal is progressing well with some ideal straights locations with consistent, high flow.
There is quite a few of them actually. Nuclear engineering a legit field of study.
Nothing to do with them there accidents, eh.
Unfortunately the changes you did didn't improve my problem, pip insisted again that a correct tensorflow version wasn't available. I was, however, able to download tb-nightly so I do at least have a version. Quite shocked tensorflow thrashes so intensely on installation - is that normal?
boost fills more of a role that standard libraries play in other languages (think go).
It's at the top of https://www.apple.com/fr/iphone/
I remember playing on your website in 08/09, thank you!
Funnily enough, I had wanted to purchase my Dell XPS 9570 (15") without dgpu, but they only offered it for their 13" model.

Until several months after release, support for the nvidia card was spotty on Ubuntu/Fedora so it would suck up power without it being used. It's better now, but my workflow doesn't really need a dgpu, and the igpu is enough to watch 1080p videos (probably not 4K, though).
Another Missed Deadline for BART to San Jose. Translation: Keep Waiting
Did you see Eric Raymond having a completely normal one about novel Coronavirus?

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8587
Women of Color Currently Holds Every Major Title in Global Pageantry. Updated
When I focused my eyes somewhere away from the screen and I tried to observe the buses from my peripheral vision, I saw them move together at the same time. But at some point my brain caught up and they did the stepping thing again, even in my peripheral. Such an interesting illusion!
People who aren’t car people have been saying this forever.

Google a ‘34 Ford and a ‘34 Chevy and tell me if you’d know the difference, same with 80s car or pick a generation.