skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A better analogy: "it's like (engineering) a car without fully understanding how the engine works."
Yeah, well what about existing infrastructure? Most new construction already buries the last mile of power.

But if you do have above ground power lines feeding your house, how likely would it be that you'd be in favor of having your entire backyard dug up for a couple weeks while they implemented this huge public works project? How likely would you be willing to shoulder the cost burden? And of course, it's just as simple as digging a trench and burying the lines, right? I'm pretty sure there isn't any buried oil and gas infrastructure in the Houston area.... right?
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It's obvious that everyone wants to blame it on their favorite villain, whatever that is.

A more rational approach would be to look at comparable cities and see how they cope with big storms, whatever the storms' cat numbers. My guess is, no matter what comparables you pick, Houston comes out on the bottom.

Maybe it IS deregulation! You can be in favor of it in general, and still admit, "OK, maybe in this instance it didn't work." That doesn't mean you're giving free rein to the people in favor of the government regulating everything.
Free speech as in speech protected by the 1st amendment? That's very specifically meant to curtail the government's powers, not the powers of merchants who decline to do business with others.

You could make a pretty strong argument that overly stringent regulations that result in sex workers, etc., being unable to process payments are a violation of that, but I'm not aware of why Visa/Mastercard don't support Gab & Parler. If it's that, you have a point. Otherwise, not really.
You would need to write custom firmware. Which means access at least to the pin mappings. Moko dos not publish them openly. Ruuvi however does. One would also need a Nordic 52 Development Kit in practice. Other devices like ESP32 are not as power efficient but more beginner friendly.
Many homes in the US are not build with stone but thin wood. Houses in Europe with stone take some time to heat up. We lived in a 100 year old house in Berlin and it took 2 months until the walls were warm. Also took some months in winter until walls are cold again.

[Edit] This is not about insulation but heat capacity.
What he means (but can't say directly) is that this isn't like the last couple highly public Texas blackouts. This time the power is available, there is enough generating capacity online and connected, they just can't get it delivered.
What is going on over there? Seems like crazy town. With the geriatrics and corruption, good god it looks dystopian from a rando aussie pov.
Show HN: Htmx Offline Mode
I wrote a pretty simple extension to HTMX that captures requests made if you lose internet or other connectivity to the server receiving the requests. Then, when you're back online, it replays requests.

Maybe someone here would benefit from it.
Eh, I just try to not slack off too much. I've been doing this for nearly 2 years and so far only benefits as far as I can tell. I think very few people look at it besides myself and occasionally my boss.
> but where i'm from, you would have a very comfortable life earning 5k every month, so his self-imposed 60k/yr salary doesn't seem unreasonable at all.

(Some) HN commentators seems weirdly out of touch when it comes to salary outside of IT-heavy cities in the US. The other day someone claimed $125k/year for an employee wasn't "big money" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40927175), so I'd take any comments saying some salary is high/low with a box filled with sand.
Microsoft sold (maybe still sells) Home Server and Small Business Server which were turnkey solutions that included directory services, file & print sharing, and other stuff.
Visited NYC several times. Metro was unbearable in summer because trains heated up outside and blasted the warm air into tunnels and stations through AC.
For me that’s its most promising feature. At last a truly cross platform compute library (not this, WebGPU itself). With two complete and mature implementations no less (dawn and wgpu).
I’m not an electrical or civil eng, but I imagine it’s very expensive to dig so many tunnels.

Groundwater (especially for coastal cities) and people drilling holes would be very problematic too.
This is nuts and I love it. Great work!
I‘m curious, Texas seems to get a lot of sun - how common are private solar installations on the roofs? Combined with a battery you could lower your electricity bill and would be safe from this kind of problem.

In my neighbourhood in northern germany about 5% of the houses have them. They pay for themself in about 5-10 years.

edit: spelling
The thread does not explain whether the behaviour of Firefox was actually changed when they added the check box, or if it is a new option to opt-out of something that could not be opted-out before.
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> Being able to hover a line, having the message of the commit which last changed it, and be able to say "ah ok, it was for this" is quite useful.

Honestly, this just sounds like we need better integrations with JIRA into dev tools. I'm not going to rewrite tickets in commits / PRs. That ticket has its own history, linked tickets, acceptance criteria, epics, related bug tickets, etc.
Why didn’t we think to regulate physics before!?
It wouldn't have helped. Trimming trees is preventative maintenance so that simple wind gusts don't trip lines when branches encroach on power lines.

The only way you can prevent damage from falling trees is to completely remove them.
Or heck, SOPA
I'm struggling to come up with a Democrat run city that demonstrates they govern better than anyone else.

Chicago? New York? San Fransisco? Baltimore?
Average dew point July

62F Rome
74F Houston

https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/italy/rome/climate

https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/usa/houston/climate

Noticable vs humid and uncomfortable bordering on oppressive

https://www.weather.gov/images/tbw/dewpoint/DewPointScale.pn...

*edit to fix Houston dew point
This is really cool. How do you reorder frames?

If you’re working on a particularly complex frame, how do you maintain context?
For their own AI, that's definitely possible, but with other strong competitors, that seems like a super risky move. They clearly are sabotaging their own AI, but I tend to think that's because their risk analysis indicated that regulators and influencers are more of a threat than users, so they are acting accordingly.
I'm curious how a failed startups can liquidate IP, since I've seen startups go under with "secret sauce" code that could've been a whole new startup... but assets are sold for a token amount of money to someone who presumably had no idea what they own, since it's never heard from again.

(Sorta like when an app startup builds an enabling piece of infrastructure tech, and realizes that's more golden than their original idea, so they pivot to B2B that tech to other startups and/or enterprises. Only sometimes the company is liquidated before that pivot or open sourcing.)
Standard in most of Europe.
I feel like Popeyes had a random moment during the pandemic when the released their dark meat fried chicken sandwich which was initially good, but when the hype died down, they regressed to their normal fried chicken quality: bad.
> I don't know that it would help in this specific instance, but connecting Texas to the rest of the power grid would likely make the system overall more resilient.

Irrelevant wishful thinking. The outages are caused by localized physical damage. There is no shortage of grid power. Inter-ties to every grid in the world wouldn't help when the wires on the last mile have been physically destroyed.
> "a second" ?

what do you mean?

> Much easier to setup

do you mean authentik is much easier to setup?
incorrect to compare Dylan to 2pac and Mitski (a “varied feminist artist?”)

I understand the impulse of trying to tear down the establishment guy, but your take is absurd.
My power was out until ~4am today.

Incredibly, my fiber internet never went down the entire time. That part of my infrastructure is buried and they back it all up with proper generators.
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> I highly disagree about Russia being a modern nuclear power

Look, I'm as pissed at Russia as anyone but it doesn't change the facts. They are indisputably a modern nuclear power, and they have ramped up their spending in recent years. It's practically the only thing in their defense they haven't starved of funds.

> They have some nuclear capability

They don't have "some" nuclear capability. They are equal first or near enough.

> China and Israel are really the only countries that have the modern infrastructure

Israel!?? Now I'm really questioning your source of information. Whoever told you tiny Israel was anything other than dead last was leading you quite astray, I'm afraid. In fact some would say that Israel's nuclear capability is behind some other countries who don't even possess the weapons.
My understanding is that its largely a byproduct of how many of our major cities developed. When power infrastructure was originally being run, our cities were much less dense than what was already in Europe. They installed power above ground because there wasn't the density to really support funding underground lines, and because above ground lines are easier to add to as the city does become more dense.

I lived on a barrier island in the Gulf of Mexico for a couple years. The island gets hit with storms pretty regularly, two or three major storms in my lifetime if I'm not mistaken. All of the power lines were above ground until maybe 5 years ago for two reasons - the island had a pretty low density for full time residency and buried lines are expensive, and they were worried about issues with burying lines in a sand island that can quite literally move and shift after a major storm. It seems like the latter either isn't a concern today, and its a good thing because those power poles were always causing problems on the island.
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I've also noticed that newer homes tend to have this problem more than older ones. They're better sealed thermally, so while they're more efficient to keep cool, when they get hot they stay hot for a lot longer. Great for winter, not so much for summer heatwaves.

I used to live in an apartment built in the 70s which was a pain to cool or heat because it was so badly sealed. But the one benefit it did have is that on hot days with cool nights it'd very quickly cool off, without needing AC. My current place requires AC unless I mind waiting until 4am for it to cool off.
ah, I wish I could sneak into something ready for traefik and docker swarm :)
"Species" is an arbitrary designation. Maybe arbitrary isn't exactly the right term, but it's a label which says 'right now, this is different from that' , whereas over evolutionary time actual organisms will interact and intermingle in ways which (as seen in these comments!) aren't adequately captured by the categories into which we divide them.
This is what I do too.

I use the Obsidian TimeStamper plugin with a nice shortcut (Ctrl + .), and then just have an append-only log of thoughts that each start with a timestamp on its own line. I'll throw in a tag or two if I'm motivated (#tickets/DEV-1234) and create a new file every month (e.g. 2024-07).

It makes it very easy and fast to just switch to Obsidian and do a brain dump before lunch / end of day, or any time a thought hits me.
Solar installations in suburb cities in Texas are extremely common.
I don't think the difference between the power grid and the power utility is clear to most people. The grid is a statewide wholesale electricity distribution network which consists of generators, substations and high voltage long distance transmission lines. The utility is in charge of taking the power from the grid and delivering 110/220V to end customers, i.e. homes and businesses. This hurricane caused a lot of damage to the utility infrastructure. The grid performed fine.

Some people bring up the storm Ian in 2021. Winter storms are fundamentally different disasters. Cold snaps drive up local electricity demand sharply and this is the kind of thing that can stress the grid.
I live in Seattle’s Ballard area, but work with people on the east side. Big storms blow down branches all the time on the other side of the lake, causing power outages. We have less trees here in Seattle, comparatively, or maybe Seattle power and light is better at tree maintenance, but ya lots of trees = lots of power outages from what I can infer.

Some richer communities on the east side bury their lines so power outages are more rare.
I’ll give you a real example, and it aligns with one of your feature goals that you mentioned elsewhere in these threads: allow you to rate limit without change on the client side.

I have a workload that processes transactions for P external partners (P>1000) in a market with diverse technology sets; some partners are aggregated behind MSPs and some we integrate with directly, and so those P partners represent say 500 unique destinations. This workload handles < 100 line-of-business transaction types, spread across the partners; some support them all, some support only a few, and their implementations may be standard/consistent across transactions or their may be unique implementations.

This is not a strange architecture, it represents the fact that every business-system has a lifecycle, there are legacy xml cruft and shiny graphql both exposed to the world and sitting next to each other, making money, and nearly every integrator has this. These systems go down, or networks become unavailable, or they perform maintenance, or maybe they can only support 2 concurrent connections - and every partner is different. Some MSPs come in and get some % of the market for handling this for businesses that don’t have the capability, but there are many that do.

If you were in the business of exposing products that use these services, would you want your engineers having to care about any of it? Me neither, and so it is CRITICAL that we operationalize it, which for a store-and-forward integration workload basically ends up being an operational tool for queues and their destinations.

I do not however find any tools that meet our requirements, which are simply “allow an operations/support team to manage transaction T for partner P who may be hiding behind MSP M” which includes rate limiting, circuit breaker, observability, routing, deployment, billing etc etc. This is IMO tied very closely to the queue - it is in fact the workload’s primary data store - and I do not understand why queue providers don’t differentiate their offerings with this kind of management capability.

If I think about a business journey from startup to enterprise, maybe a small shop does not need this - they only support a small number of transactions and a small number of partners. As they grow, this requires engineering, and so they just build the tools they need to scale. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
Berlin, 3.645M citizen, everything underground.
Houston, 2.302M citizen, ... "gigantic"
Related:

Houston Is on a Path to an All-Out Power Crisis

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40951647
Nothing, but migrating to it is very expensive.

Centerpoint, the physical electricity provider in Houston, has said it would cost $2.5M per square mile. Houston is 640 square miles. Regulations allow them to claw back costs on the bills. (For example, repairs from past storms are often paid for over the course of several years in the form of a bond that is applied to customers as surcharges)

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/energy/article/cen...
The mayors of Houston for the past few decades have been Democrats.
It's new:

> Firefox now supports the experimental Privacy Preserving Attribution API, which provides an alternative to user tracking for ad attribution. This experiment is only enabled via origin trial and can be disabled in the new Website Advertising Preferences section in the Privacy and Security settings.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/128.0/releasenotes/
>Something as simple and common as a summation loop can often be sped up 2-4x by simply having multiple accumulators that you then combine after the loop body; this lets the processor "run ahead" without loop carried dependencies and execute multiple accumulations each cycle.

Shouldn't the compiler be smart enough to figure that out these days (at least if it truly is a straightforward accumulation loop)?
Recent and related:

Houston Is on a Path to an All-Out Power Crisis - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40951647 - July 2024 (68 comments)
The issue was exactly the same with Ida and New Orleans in 2021. Areas of the New Orleans metro area were without power for 3 weeks or more
But how do you use that flow to _plan_ your work?
The rest of the people in your country don't want it because if your money is stolen, there is no way to get it back. If it's detrimental to society, I will make laws against it. That's how government works.
It is obvious why Firefox does this though; they have no income otherwise like Google does. Firefox users somehow think that using is "supporting" Mozilla/Firefox, but it is not, and they would not pay for the browser, or pay a subscription free. Privacy-friendly ads are a reasonable way for Mozilla to survive long-term -- if they are indeed privacy-friendly.

Ultimately you probably either need a clean-room NGO that ensures the data cannot be de-anonymized, or accept that ad impact counting is BS anyway and only measure profit increases across A/B ad phases.
Van Neistat (YouTube) has a video that I can’t find know where he talks about his planning process. He uses full sized poster boards.

Lots of space to lay out your ideas and get a great overview just not very pocketable.
I guess it's because of the lychee fruit?
Any country looks dystopian from the news.

From the outside, your own country seems to have a dystopian liking for government control of speech and the internet.

If your daily experience does not align with this perception, consider that Texans might be in exactly the same boat as you, perception-vs-reality-wise.
Probably doesn't make sense. Busy wait is fast when you can dedicate a core to the task, but this means that you cannot have many tasks in parallel with a small set of physical cores. When you oversubscribe, performance will quickly degrade.

Tokio and other libraries such as pthread allows thread to wait for something and wake up that particular thread when the event occurs. This is what allows scheduler to schedule many tasks to a very small set of cores without running useless instructions checking for status.

For foundational library, I think you want things that are composable, and low latency stuff are not that composable IMO.

Not saying that they are bad, but low latency is something that requires global effort in your system, and using such library without being aware of these limitations will likely cause more harm than good.
Thank you.
I updated my question with my reasoning.

But I assume that in order for these sterile neutrinos to be dark matter they need to be really slow ...
It added in the 'privacy preserving feature' that did not exist before, automatically enabled.

> Firefox now supports the experimental Privacy Preserving Attribution API, which provides an alternative to user tracking for ad attribution. This experiment is only enabled via origin trial and can be disabled in the new Website Advertising Preferences section in the Privacy and Security settings.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/128.0/releasenotes/

This is the page users saw when they updated to 128. No mention of this setting.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/128.0/whatsnew/?oldver...
What I've always heard whenever this subject comes up in Houston is that A) burying lines is expensive (and Houston is very large), and B) Houston floods a lot.
It's not a matter of population, but land. Berlin is about 345 square miles; Houston is 640.
I think improvements to the electric-exo-skeleton contraption can keep the elderly mobile for an additional 10 years.. There comes a time when an elderly person cannot take a flight of 2 or 3 step stairs and that's when they stop moving, so if the exoskeleton can get them to the track or a flat area where they can walk, I think it can help tremendously. Additionally, I think those 2 circle zero gravity contraptions might help with circulation. As for the butt wiping, that's a tough one, but only because of the stigma associated with wearing anything on the sphincter, I can see a 12v electric sphincter dilating aparatus being very efficient in controlling bowel movement, but I don't see our childish society accepting them with a straight face.
Regional flamewar is not ok here, regardless of region, so please don't post like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Even though I find reflog very useful, I don't think it should be the first thing.

What I think that should be one of the first things and most people don't know is written in "What is Git?" chapter from Pro Git: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-What-is-Git%3...
I disagree, and I speak from experience.

We've been repeatedly hit by climate-change induced typhoons here (near the SF Bay Area), and hurricane-force gusts hit both of the last two years. Our area looses a lot of roads to mudslides, and of course we have extended power outages.

Having said that, the first year, PG&E only delivered one nine of availability last year, and this year, they're closer to two nines.

The difference is that they actually trimmed the trees (residents have been asking for this for years), and they replaced most of the Regan-era telephone poles (the old ones had bent into all sorts of interesting arcs, and the data lines used be held up by being tied to nearby tree branches).

So, for a Cat-1 to be as bad as it is in Texas, I assume the issue there is the same as here in California: Graft at the utility company, and corruption at the state house.

We know for sure that Texas has these issues because they continue to refuse to winterize the grid. They could do so at minimal cost -- I think they just have to buy more expensive grease and install insulation sleeves when they run above ground pipes -- and the vast majority of states in the US do this. As a result, every time they get a 10-year snow storm the whole state loses power (and those storms are probably now 1-5 year storms thanks to climate change). This has been a well-publicized problem there since at least the 1990's, so they've had more than enough time to fix it.

The last time they had a big winter storm, the power outage cascaded to a catastrophic failure at a refinery that feeds 20% of global PVC production. This is why you couldn't get materials to repair drainage or plumbing during the tail end of covid.

As to your point about it being an urban area:

The higher the population density, the easier the technical challenges become for this stuff. The amount of line to maintain per customer drops, and so does the density of hazardous trees, landslides, etc. The main challenges are around permitting, etc, but those processes are supposedly very lax in Texas (which is a good thing IMO).

I do agree they should be burying lines whenever possible. Everyone should do that. Modern equipment means it's a lot easier than you'd think.
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