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All the negative sides you’ve described is portrayed after Gene Roddenberry died and he was famously against a lot of those concepts while he was alive. DS9 would never have been green-lit during Roddenberry’s lifetime.

> We also don’t see that much of how Federation _civilians_ live, and a lot of what we do see frankly isn’t that great.

That’s not true. The worlds that aren’t great are planets outside of federation jurisdiction. Those that are part of it are usually portrayed as utopias.

That all said, you’ve hit on a great premise for a Star Trek spin off.

Edit:

> And it appears to be _basically_ a military dictatorship; the civil government in practice always seems to be subordinate to Starfleet.

The partnership is explored in DS9 and was the exact opposite of that you’ve described.

In the DS9 episode I’m thinking of, shapeshifters (“changelings”) had taken over Star Fleet (the military) and were then trying to bypass the Federation to start a war. Basically a military coup lead by a small number of infiltrators. The remainder of the military were against the coup, which is why they were found out and the coup failed.
it's totally irrelevant. there was a wind storm in a region where burying power lines is impractical

without wireless power transmission I'm not sure what people want.

Where do you put lines that can't be buried or blown over?
Whenever I visit Italy in the summer I check to make sure the hotel I’ve booked has AC. I got burned by that one hot summer in Milan.
I have no inside knowledge, but I'd guess that if those are valuable, they probably acquired. If not, those things won't amount to much. Sure, you could sell your brand and domain and fetch a couple of thousand dollars, but would that be worth the effort and risk of someone using your (even if dead) brand to do illegal stuff? I guess not! It's better to just write the whole thing off.
Tampons as a Source of Exposure to Metal(loid)s
...in coding. Coding jobs by neccessity are about adding new functionalities, and most of the useful stuff has been written already. So now, whether you're coding for a power plant, a yogurt factory, a bank, or Amazon, you're probably working on some far-fetched idea sold by PM to higher-ups in hopes of improving their career.

But, there are other kinds of jobs, and many are far from meaningless. There are still many millions of people working everyday to make sure basic services are available to people.
If the distasteful proliferation of the "Calvin peeing" bumpersticker is anything to go by, thank spaceman spiff Watterson sealed the floodgates of merchandising and marketing garbage.
> This structured form could provide some shielding to the gallium atoms, making them less likely to be converted via neutrinos to germanium. Instead of impacting a nucleus at the expected rate, the overlapping orbital bonds and electron resonance might offer a form of shielding. This shielding could make the gallium atoms more stable and less reactive, thereby reducing their conversion to germanium.

Might this be covered by this bit from the article?

> Another proposed explanation was that physicists had miscalculated the probability of neutrinos from the source interacting with the gallium. But in September 2023, Haxton and his colleagues also ruled out this possibility. “You can’t get rid of the anomaly,” he said.

Maybe they don't consider the scenario you outlined in their calculations, but I lack the training to understand the paper [0].

In addition, speaking more generally I'd be curious how your proposed mechanism would work physically. Given the size of the nucleus compared to that of the electron cloud, the fact that (known) neutrinos only interact via the weak interaction and gravity, and the range of the weak interaction, a big question to me is how big your proposed effect could have in this case, if any.

[0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.13623
It can be entirely frustrating to find out who owns IP, code, etc. often is seems to disappear into an unknown abandonware type limbo.

Domains eventually revert to the registrar and someone snaps them up.
As a publisher of an extension with both of the above, you definitely can. To be honest I’m not sure what the validation process is like inside Google because I only had to provide 2-3 sentences for each major permission I requested.

You do get a notification when installing it that says ‘this extension will have access to: -everything’, so the user should be aware of what’s going on.
Show HN: XStreaming-open source mobile client for xCloud and Xbox streaming
XStreaming is an open-source mobile client for xCloud and Xbox home streaming, great inspired by Greenlight.The application runs on Android 10+.

features：

Stream video and audio from the Xbox One and Xbox Series S/X

Support for 1080P resolution

Support for virtual\OTG\bluetooth gamepad controls

Support gamepad vibration

Supports rumble on xCloud without any proxy in some regions.
The McDonald's I went to in Vienna Austria was horribler on every level.
I’m struggling to come up with republican run cities in general. Mesa, Jacksonville, Colorado Springs, Fairbanks? Any other ones?
You're really splitting hairs here all to prove some sort of "type checking isn't included with python" property. Even if you're technically right, half the world really doesn't care and most code being churned out in Python is type-hinted, type-checked, and de-facto enforced at design time.

It's honestly winning the long-term war because traditional languages have really screwed things up with infinite and contrived language constructs and attempts just to satisfy some "language spec" and "compiler", whilst still trying to be expressive enough for what developers need and want to do safely. Python side-stepped all of that, has the perfect mix of type-checking and amazing "expressibility", and is currently proving that it's the way forward with no stopping it.
> I can't imagine the city is remotely prepared for (god forbid, and idk how likely it is that far inland anyway) a cat 4 or 5.

In the past they've never had a cat 5. The last cat 5 was Carla in 1961. The last cat 3 was Alicia in 1983. The last cat 2 was Alicia in 2008 (although that was actually east of Houston and just hit Houston with its weaker winds).

Climate change should make such storms more likely to form, but it should also change ocean and air current patterns which could affect the chances they make it to Houston.

The list I got those from noted that in 1961 air conditioning was still novel, which makes me curious. How did people deal with the heat in Houston before air conditioning?

The average July temperature in Houston nowadays is 4.2℉ (2.3℃) higher than it was in 1970, and climate change tends to cause more extremes, so I'd guess that the highs are also higher and extreme days more common, so maybe AC has become more of a necessity nowadays?
China's Long March 6A rocket appears to have an orbital debris problem
The DevOps/SRE discipline around LLM is bad.
There are quite a few Utopia's in fiction that work [0]. The Culture series by Iain M. Banks is a fairly well known one.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_utopian_literature
> in one direction or the other

These data exhibit a clear rightward bias.
"Writing An Interpreter In Go"[1] is also pretty good. I read it after finishing crafting interpreters.

[1] https://interpreterbook.com/
This extension marks new comments with an orange vertical bar, plus some niceties: https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news
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I find it amusing the author lists several reasons to why the DPRK is poor not mentioning the severe economic sanctions that’s imposed on them over for their nuclear program! Economic sanctions are designed to make a country poor as a non militaristic method to force them politically towards a decision and the single major reason for that country’s misery! Whether you agree the sanctions are necessary or not is one thing but to mention every cause why the DPRK is poor blaming them without mentioning the embargo is nonsense!
New Orleans and Houston are basically built on swamps. In New Orleans, you can’t even bury people below ground, so I doubt you can do much with power lines underground.
> Privacy-friendly ads are a reasonable way for Mozilla to survive long-term -- if they are indeed privacy-friendly.

At some level, trusting that privacy-friendly advertising through Firefox actually respects privacy is going to have to involve trusting Mozilla. Mozilla seems to have gone out of its way over the years to erode user trust, and this is just one more step down that road. As the author says, if Firefox is even sneakier about this than Chrome, what scope is there for trust?
It seems like a lot, but a few billions of dollars also seems like a good deal to secure against increasing risks for severe weather. What's the total economic impact of future storms? To put it in perspective a single Patriot missile battery costs about a billion dollars and a single missile costs $4M.
Perhaps, but the other version would explain the "nuclear-war-proof" thing.

I am sure the employees were told SOME kind of legend, because that building begs questions.
AI can make you more creative–but it has limits
It's "Libre" chess, as in "Free (and open source)" chess
Why Don't Elite Colleges Expand Supply?
I would pay for a browser that was 100% ad- and tracking-free. I pay for an email account. I pay for YouTube. I pay for several streaming media services. I get that people are used to browsers being free, but no reason that can't change.
It never happened to me, because I don't use Python ;)

On a more serious note, your comment actually hints at an issue: unit testing is less effective without static type checking. Let's assume I would like to sum x and y. I can extensively test the function and see that it indeed correctly sums two numbers. But then I need to call the function somewhere in my code, and whether it will work as intended or not depends on the context in which the function is used. Sometimes the input you pass to a function depends from some external source outside your control, an if that's the case you have to resort to manual type checking. Or use a properly typed language.
Or the calculated lies of propagandists. The fact that ancient histories were written with an agenda in mind may be true, but that does not mean they are improved by adding further layers of ‘constructed truth,’ IE, lies.
That is the only photo of him!
Meanwhile, Ladybird, the first new browser engine since the 90's to 100% the Acid3 JavaScript test, just secured $1 million in funding from the founder of GitHub. We, as responsible web users, need to do whatever it takes to break up Google's web oligopoly. The open web is at stake.
There are about 3844 people per square mile in Houston, so that's $650 per person, amortized over at least 20 years, which would increase the monthly power bill by about $2.70 per person (~ $10 / subscriber?)

I'd guess that's less expensive than throwing out everything in the fridge / freezer every few years.
Can you share some insights into your tech stack? What AI/ML technologies are you using?
Anarchism rejects hierarchies and centralized power in favor of maximizing individual liberty.
I would imagine it’s the same as any other business. They declare bankruptcy, put the business into administration, appoint administrators who then determine how much the assets are worth and how to realise any value from those assets to pay off any creditors/shareholders/take their fee.

Realising value from the assets (both tangible and intangible) might be via selling the business or just a fire sale of what they can make a return on.

Source: owned an investment backed company that we put into administration after 8 years when something happened that we couldn’t trade through.
You can't reasonably claim "they would not pay for the browser, or pay a subscription [fee]" when it is not even possible for a user to donate to the Firefox project specifically.
Developers and regex on email is always a terrible idea. So many fail to understand what the RFC allows (virtually anything). Can't tell you how often websites will reject an email address with a two-character localpart :-(
> "I haven't used an IDE that has that but it is still just giving you a hint that there is an error and the interpreter is not throwing an error which was my point."

At this point, I'm not sure how one is to take your opinion on this matter. Just like me coding some C# or Java in notepad and then opining to a Java developer audience about the state of their language and ecosystem.
Isn't celery powder a 'natural' source of nitrates? I didn't think of it as an analog to MSG.
The domains are an interesting asset because the annual renewal fee.

If business A owns the domain and becomes insolvent, then dissolves, the registrant of the domain no longer exists and there is no longer a business bank account to pay the renewal. This likely leads to what you’ve described, the registrar or a domainer/squatter benefiting.
Google income aside, Mozilla literally owns an ad company: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-anonym-raising-t...
Or alternative browsers based on WebKit
Suffering yes -- to an extend that we here in the US have little understanding the depths of.

But re: MAD, my point may have been the emperor's new clothes.
I didn't even know they had changed to nonstandard/non-replaceable. My Logitech wireless keyboard and mouse certainly take normal AAA batteries.
Show HN: Edit existing design systems without manual effort
Currently to edit a design system, you have to spend hours on it, with this Figma plugin it will save you a lot of time.
The art style usually changed when he became Spaceman Spiff and Tracer Bullet as well. Loved those alter egos.
> How did people deal with the heat in Houston before air conditioning

I imagine at first it was really drafty homes, and later on big ceiling fans everywhere
Ida in New Orleans was a real mess and exposed a lot of issues in the city besides electricity.

Because power was out for so long, everyone threw out a ton of food, but there was no trash pickup in some cases for weeks because of staffing shortages and contract disputes, so there was stinky trash and huge swarms of bright blue flies everywhere. At one point, the mayor suggested people could drive their own trash to the transfer station—after it had been sitting out in 95 degree heat for weeks.

There also was no proper street cleaning, which meant streets and sidewalks were full of storm debris, including things like roofing nails. The lines at tire repair shops were wrapping around the block.

Entergy's meter reading and billing also got completely thrown off. I moved shortly after Ida, and it took months to get any bill at all in the new place, and I only got my final bill for the old place this year, almost three years later, no longer living in Louisiana. (They also never actually sent me the bill or turned on my autopay, so I only knew it was time to pay when the power went out).
I've followed Kling's videos for years, both the ones working on serenity OS and the ones working on Ladybird, and followed the general arc of those projects and even contributed once a few year' back, and they actually seem to take the quality of their work very seriously and enjoy producing good high-quality code. I think it's just that none of them had experience with website design and the one guy who stepped up to do it happens to be one of those people that thinks AI generated stuff is fine.
You should also read the next paragraph.
Every day starts with a new day note that automatically generates a checklist for me.

One of the checklist items may be to journal.

The randomness is so that I actually follow through on the checklist and don’t gloss over it.
Stopping at 3 might already be enough if the background script has a sufficiently juicy bug that can be triggered by a message, e.g. if you can exfiltrate cookies or trigger requests with the user's credentials.
What stops you? Are you not satisfied with the ones on offer? Is there a compatability issue that's a show-stopper?
During the first month of the covid-19 outbreak, there were no cases within a 15 mile radius of the WIV lab south of the river. Zero. All the people infected had been within 200 meters of the wet market north of the river. Wuhan imports food animals from all over southeast asia and animals from Laos are known to carry the BANAL coronavirus which looks like it's an ancestor of sars-cov-2. Also, the WIV did not perform any gain-of-function experiments during 2019/2020; the people who would have done that were working on other projects.
> The original web is irrelevant because it didn't sustain large economies. It's like comparing radio hobbyists to the central TV station, the economics change when you have to actually pay employees and serve a mass market.

A large number of us wish that we could go back to a web that didn't exist primarily to sustain large economies. Back to a web that existed for academics and enthusiasts, a web where modern HN discussions would have been ranked in the lower half of quality instead of the top 5%.

That web existed as late as 2010 (already as a bit of an enclave, but a thriving one). It was killed by ad-funded social media and some of us are still bitter about it.
The thing is, you cannot pay for Firefox even if you wanted to*, so the assertion that people wouldn't pay is unproven (but has good circumstancial evidence). I'd still prefer they make a paid version without this crap.

* Donations to Mozilla go to a non profit which is separated from Firefox development and has questionable effectiveness in general
Show HN: Crypto Wallet using any FIDO2 key (as Yubikey)
Disclaimer: this is a very raw proof of concept. It is usable tho, and it seems reliable from my tests.
Of course an hardware wallet would be safer, but this is still safer than writing it on a piece of paper.
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I think this is the check box in question: https://pomf2.lain.la/f/8v4aq9sg.png

It is located at "Settings" -> "Privacy & Security" -> "Website Advertising Preferences" and is checked by default.
completely agree with the article

it is astounding how quickly people drop all reasoning before what is essentially a very cool party trick and instantly start believing in magic

not saying agi will never happen but i don't see it happening through llms
You are most welcome :) Hi Yuri! What a lovely little panther!
Yeah, it's confusing to me anyone expects usury of youth to be sustainable. We come into the world with nothing, and then we are saddled with debt and costs like describe above (which are, essentially, debt)?

And yet, it's a system which has, so far, outlived the others. Perhaps it is stable, after all. It certainly keeps the youth honed in on the grindstone.

There were some defectors in the 60s, and in 2008, but that was far less sustainable or, rather, failed to reach critical mass / escape velocity.
Does physics dictate how you build power lines?
Where is physics the constraint on more hardened construction? Physics isn't saying, build above ground and 'low cost'.
Back in the day I read that a lot of the desirable domains used by startups are leased, it would be interesting learn more how that part of the industry actually works.
I was close to buying an i7 or i9 for a build server. Then stumbled over those reports and now I'm considering moving to AMD, like a Ryzen 79xx.
Improving a percentage of a net has reduced down percentage for a reduced timeframe, so it seems like there are obviously better alternatives to the hand wringing approach if the goal isn't actually to justify doing nothing.
I'm getting strong "'No way to prevent this' says only country where this regularly happens" vibes.
Oh, that seems more likely
I read the Ladybird FAQ for their rationale, but building a new browser in 2024 using an unsafe language is such a facepalm it’s hard to take the entire project seriously.
Its rather annoying that theres no way to support firefox without sending money to a Mozilla ceo who could use it for some silly side project
The irony they might be referring to is that Texans, as in, people in Texas, are challenged to maintain electricity distribution for their vast energy resources, whereas many other localities have the opposite problem: a scarcity of energy resources.
What paid browsers are on offer with good technology? The only ones I'm aware of are still chromium based or I think mac only, so that's a pretty bad feature set.
I guess we'll just have to disagree.

Goodbye now.
It's new. That misfeature was checked for me, even though I had "strict privacy protection" set, the level that comes with a warning that it might break some websites. And even though I had "Do not track" checked. On two different computers.

This version of Firefox, 128.0, was auto-installed by Ubuntu update.

Has someone filed a bug report on Firefox yet?
When people are talking about Houston they are talking about Greater Houston: 7.5M people over 10,000 square miles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Houston
I'd expect the population of Houston in those days was also a little more self selective, in that of you couldn't deal with that heat, you probably didn't want to live there anyways.

There's a reason a lot of southwestern cities like Phoenix started booming in population when AC became more readily available.
"Google/Firefox claim their tracking features are not "tracking" because they use something called "differential privacy". I don't have room to explain this class of technology, but I sincerely consider it to be fake."

Differential privacy is not fake, although quite complex to do in practice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_privacy
I don't know if that 5K is before or after taxes. You easily lose half of what your employer actually pays.
Yes, particularly when the regulations are being pushed for by the very corporate interests that they're supposedly aimed at, because said regulations are asinine, dishonest and based on very specific, specifically crafted types of fear mongering. On the other hand, other regulations (that already exist and do get applied against lesser mortals!) magically don't have the same teeth against major AI players. These rules involving things like mass use of other people's media with next to no permission.

Regulations can be good, but it would first be nice if they were applied with at least a modicum of rationality and fairness.
Worked at a dotcom which ran out of funding after Series A. After all the staff got laid off, the email list, domain, brand materials, and web content were all transferred to the lead investor of the Series A.

Not sure if they were just “first in line” for it all, or if they passed anything on to minority investors.

It probably comes down to who has how much equity in the business, and what the terms say. It is essentially a bankruptcy so it could end up in court I guess, but typically the value is so low compared to the investment that it’s not worth any lawyer time.

And if it’s not in court, there’s really no vector for public visibility. If you’re interested in a particular company you will need to do some detective work to find out who still has what.
The known (non-sterile) neutrinos are very light, but there's no particular reason a hypothetical sterile neutrino would be.You can cook up sterile neutrinos with very large masses if you want to

https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.6912
Why were early (personal) computer connectors so bulky?
USA government sure looks like a business from several angles.