skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assuming you don't hit rock, it's not bad.

Power lines that are rated for conduit burial (which implies indefinite direct submersion in water is fine -- conduits leak, even if they're not supposed to) are readily available and not particularly expensive vs. above ground lines. Most of the cost is in the conductor, and that's the same either way.

If memory serves me right, you need to trench 6ft (which is usually done with a backhoe that has a narrow bucket and straddles the trench), then place a PVC pipe to act as conduit and fill the trench. The last step is using a (typically) pickup-truck mounted cable puller to pull the line through the conduit.

If the wire fails, you can pull it out and put a new one in without retrenching.

When you bury the conduit, you also bury a piece of warning cloth about one foot above it. If you see that while digging, then you should stop digging. (Also, call the "call before you dig" number before you dig.)

There are also trenchless systems that I've seen used for fiber optic cables. It's basically a tiny little boring machine (like they use to bore holes for tunnels) on the end of a cable. One person steers the boring machine, and the other stands above ground with a metal detector that tells them where it is, and how deep.
I’m strongly against Harberger Taxes - I see them as an attack vector by market incumbents - but you just made them sound as non-objectionable as I’ve ever seen.

On the domain side I’d like to see a small extension of ICANN UDRP to cover trademark owners against unused/forwarded domains irrespective of the domain being registered prior to the trademark registration.
We've added tracking but at least it's safe(tm).
Houston actually has relatively low population density compared to other metro areas with only 3,842 people per square mile, and across the MSA (Houston is extremely spread out), that number is much lower. (Compare to, for example, Union City, NJ, with 54,138 persons/sq mile.) There are some 7.5 million people spread out across more than 10,000 square miles across the greater Houston area.

Also, the water table is very high, and hurricanes completely flood entire areas, so transformers etc are often completely underwater. It's just not feasible to bury sensitive equipment when the entire area is under six or ten feet of water.
You lost me at “climate change induced typhoon”.

Comparing an “Bay Area typhoon” (very hilly) to low and flat Houston with a direct hit is disingenuous at best.
Below-ground power distribution is cheaper in sparsely-populated rural areas than overhead lines because utility companies can trench the lines directly through anyone's field or in any random ditch - there's no directional boring required (until customer delivery possibly.)

Add in the fact that you no longer risk trees taking down lines when they are unkempt and ice-covered and it is probably much cheaper.
> To be fair, I don't think that has been an active Mozilla mission for close to a decade now.

Ok, maybe they should update firefox's home page, then?

Very first lines:

> Get the browser that protects what's important

> No shady privacy policies or back doors for advertisers. Just a lightning fast browser that doesn’t sell you out.
so that's one comparable. Surely there are other First World cities that have storms?
That’s not true in all of Texas for sure. I can vouch for it in Central Texas “hill country” 6-10”around my home and you will hit solid limestone. Makes a nice home foundation (provided it’s not too porous)but I would not want to pay for a pool or basement here.
about:config works on Android Firefox nightly. Just checked.
> You obviously did not follow the recent drama in the EU related to Chat Control V2.

It is strange to say they wanted it when we have proof it is voted down and widely unsupported. A part of the EU government apparatus wants it, but taking that and saying the EU wants it is not honest.
Solar installations are common and growing. I put one on my Houston roof this year. However, battery backups to allow you to keep the lights on with your solar when the grid is down are much more expensive. Many people have gotten gas backup generators in the past few years instead.
It's funny to me that folks counter criticism of Texas by saying lefty California also has outages. It's like, sure, they do -- so why not show that a right-wing government can do better? What is the actual point of the counterargument?
There were a lot of behavioral adaptations that don't seem as practical now because the extremes are so much hotter and more frequent. Porch sitting, the siesta, outdoor sleeping on porches and roofs, etc. were all ways to mitigate the heat.

Wealthier people built big houses with lots of thermal mass and tall ceilings while poorer people lived in shotgun houses with aligned doors and porches that created constant airflow.
Developers gotta have religion. It's not about fear of death like mainstream churches, it's about fear of buffer overflows.
I would love to give you a good answer but I've been working on low latency trading systems for a decade so I have never used async/actors/fibers/etc.
I would think it implies a rewrite as async is fundamentally baked into your code if you use Tokio.
Reusing names is normal. E.g. https://www.google.com/search?q=rolph
You are only imitating the homeopaths and creationists here.
Mozilla is like Wikipedia, where the vast majority of the funds they receive go to causes unrelated to development or maintenance of their core product (web browser or encyclopedia).
My personal bias: the golden age of graphic novels was in the late 1900s, in Europe, with sublime artistry and some excellent production. At one time "bande dessinée" was considered one of the Beaux Arts in France. Then Manga came and the cheaper, high-volume flood of material, with a similar Anime presence, killed off the previous generation.

Now that we have generative AI, isn't it time to reconsider things?
I think part of the argument is that it’s like that the number of these events will double or trouble, or even become yearly with climate change.
The statistical model type of AI/machine learning, things like decision trees, decision forests etc. Those has been everywhere for a long time now.
I'll dig it up, but it wasnt that long agi. We all lived through it.

Remember washing vegetables and surfaces because they were telling us in the US about fomites and surface transmission after touching your face? It was a long time before the CDC recommended masks, and that outdoor transmission was far less likely.
His salary is more like €55k though.

It's comfortable outside of Paris and other expensive cities. But he could easily double that given his background. Before quitting his job he already worked with Play and the Typesafe (now Lightbend) stack before the peak of its hype, when companies were paying top dollar for consultants.
Before the 20th century people seeked out arable land that could feed them reliably, any comfort the climate provided was a very distant concern.
> Plus the Federal budget is essentially free money, constructed as needed

It's amusing and a bit scary that someone thinks the federal budget is essentially free money, constructed as needed.
Yup I don't understand the downvotes. I don't code in Rust but I also don't feel insecure about it: I wish more projects were written in Rust (or something similar).

There are several research, already published here many times, which show that something insane like 75%+ of all the security exploits would be rendered cold dead in their tracks had Rust been used.

I don't know how anyone, even a C/C++/VisualBasic/PHP coder, could not like that.
That sounds more like Golang (generics)
I don’t disagree with your point — however apple only charged for the early iOS updates on the iPod touch. And they only did it to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act — which required that if you upgraded a device not on a subscription, you had to charge.

They stopped doing it after they lobbied congress to change the law.

https://www.macworld.com/article/189247/ipodtouch-3.html
There is also some fan created extensions.
https://imgur.com/gallery/all-bacon-hobbes-comics-i-could-fi...
Tiktok may be a net negative, but it's clear how it has changed the World for youth who are addicted to AI suggestion algorithms.
I can vouch for this. There was a lot of rhetoric about how a normal family wouldn't really need a computer in their home. This point was usually raised to support an argument that the personal computer market would be quite small.
That's one reason the in office vs remote debate is challenging. Working in person with others can be beneficial some times for collaboration and socialization but if it requires a dangerous and environmentally devastating car based commute then those benefits are negated. We shouldn't have to commute long distances in cars to get to the office but most communities are designed in a way that makes it impossible to live close to work.

I wouldn't mind working in the office if it meant walking 15 minutes down the street in the morning but around here I would have to make 4x what I make to live near the office and even then it would be a commute because the offices are sequestered in these maze like office parks with no sidewalks.

So on days I'm in the office it's a choice between a 30 minute drive with terrifyingly bad drivers focused on their cell phones while careening around at 80mph or a peaceful but much longer train ride followed by a 20 minute walk crossing streets with those same dangerous drivers.

I guess it's yet another thing where the root problem is the design of our communities.
USA, fabricate and peddle lies, brainwash the public. Then economically and diplomatically coerce everyone on Earth. USA is a global propagandist and a global dictator, forcing everyone to bind to its will. Listen to me and do what I want or else.
They are talking about Americans on this site, who very often work at companies that GDPR is made to stop predating on users. Many European users here also works at such companies, so you often see it from them as well, but not as often since those companies are mostly American.
Here's the recipe for the Colonel's original herbs and spices seasoning:

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2016/08/19/kfc-recipe-reveale...
>Texas may be unprepared because major hurricanes were uncommon in the past.

Maybe, but no. Texas has its history of major hurricanes. While maybe not as popular of a target as Florida and New Orleans, but Houston definitely has as much of a bullseye on it as a trailer park in a tornado.

Harvey was predicted well in advance that it was going to be a devastating storm. For days ahead I saw the up to 40" of rain and thought that couldn't possibly be correct. Then it happened. Houston took little action and then acted shocked. Of course, Houston has it's own unique set of problems with their lack of zoning rules plus so many other things without having to make some climate denier argument that's not necessarily wrong but just horribly out of place
Start at 1st chapter, try all the codes until you understand the concept.
Then go to next chapter and repeat the process.
> This is really cool. How do you reorder frames?

Since each frame is a subdirectory directory in ~/.framedb/root, I can simply `mv` them. TBH, I've never yet found a need to rearrange them.

> If you’re working on a particularly complex frame, how do you maintain context?

I create child frames using whatever context was written into the current frame.
The leaders who have nearly killed us all so far never demonstrated math skills. I'd be more worried that it gets Altman's weasel skills.
This describes an opportunity for a web page to trigger behavior in a native application that it has no relationship to by springboarding through an extension paired with that native app.

The threat associated with that opportunity will depend on what the native application does with received messages.

In the example case the native application presumes the content of a received message is safe and uses it to load an arbitrary DLL by path. And yes, in that case, you'd need to anticipate the path to a malicious (or insecure) DLL and that DLL would have to be executable in the user's environment. In this example, it's actually the native application that's failed to be written defensively (it should only load DLL's that it already knows about, not arbitrary ones hinted by a path from the extension), but this is really just a random example.

You could alternately imagine some other native application that was made to be very fancy and dynamic and comes with a script engine of its own, that 'eval's messages received from its extension because it (likewise) presumes its safe to do so. People do foolish things like that.

Or you could imagine the GetCertLib example letting someone quietly trigger a malicious DLL that they delivered through some otherwise legitimate-seeming means. ("Ah, the targeted user has confirmed their identity by logging into our website... time to trigger the payload we included in Silly Solitaire")

etc

The point is that the article is not about what that native application does when receiving a message, it's about the ability for an unaffiliated web page to make a native application do something, which is limited only by how poorly or insecurely designed many of these native applications can be.

Browsers seek to thoroughly safeguard against this kind of escalation, but have left a window of opportunity here. That's what this is describing.
The reason is buried in another article

"WDL tables (.rtbw) store the outcome of positions, e.g. if a position is winning. An engine will use this very frequently to decide which endgames to aim for. WDL tables should be stored on the fastest disk (preferably SSD) you have."
"DTZ tables (.rtbz) tell the engine how to finish the endgame once it is on the board. They are optional, but required to reliably convert complicated endings."

Seems reasonable to put the WDL table on the SSD for better engine performance.
I do understand not choosing SSD's. The number of lookups for positions always remains the same per user per game. Yet the tablebase is growing more than exponentially.

https://lichess.org/@/lichess/blog/7-piece-syzygy-tablebases...
OK I'll step up, senior dev of 30 or so years, and sick to death of the likes of Google ad-men trying to ruin things - how do I help?

That said, keeping up with changes in JS/ecma seems hard. Whats the answer?
hm, should I use the stable version, but be tracked,

or should I use Nightly, and risk crashes and catastrophic loss of data

choices, choices
See the crumbling privatised water infrastructure in London/England as another example of this. The companies in charge allowed the infrastructure to crumble all whilst paying out massive shareholder dividends and holding huge amounts of debt. Then they dare to ask for government bailouts and increased utility bill prices. Someone explain how that's even allowed.

As usual, socialism for the losses, capitalism for the profits.
Greater Berlin also is much bigger than Berlin.
To me, WiFi is the X in an XY problem. An endoscope can be had for <$50 and will let you actually see what is going on.

https://www.google.com/search?q=endoscope

Good luck.
Not at all. It means Colorado DPHE has performed a test and concluded the subject requires further testing by the CDC before any diagnosis can be made.

These are well documented established protocols created by domain expert scientists folks, let’s not completely ignore them for the purposes of FUD.
Apple seems to have made the economics work out well with devices alone.

You don’t even have to touch their services revenue to consider ongoing iOS development a significantly successful return on their investment.
I will always believe, based on nothing but my own gut feel and experience dealing with Homo Sapiens, that the answer is much simpler.

They were different, so we killed them.
That's quite a CPNI incident. Wonder what their fine will be. [0]

[0] https://www.tlp.law/2023/08/01/fcc-proposes-20-million-fine-....
There are a couple of problems with this argument. One is that with a device (especially a premium one) the cost of support for a reasonable lifetime is considered baked into the price. The other is that security updates imply a security issue, meaning the company sold you an insecure, i.e. defective device in the first place.
> That seems to be tied to a certain era, though;

https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra

I'm talking about modern software, Ghidra.

> What do you disagree with, in all that?

It seems like a balance has been achieved somewhere in the US Government. Maybe Ghidra was an accident but if it could happen once, we can analyze the team behind it, the circumstance and create new government organizations that follow it.

And it can then serve as the basis of a model for other public-good software.

A lot of video game reverse-engineerers now use Ghidra for video game analysis. Its a really good tool. I can imagine that the security / infosec / bug-hunting communities would also like a tool like Ghidra. So it sounds good for a net-positive effect for the public good.

Its just kind of unexpected, that's all. But its still US Government software that has a good niche.

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I've seen some other analysis like Argonne National Labs GREET (https://greet.anl.gov/), which helps analyze different supply-chain models for how much greenhouse gasses exist.

And thanks to GREET, there are large scale analysis into what kind of EVs contribute to more greenhouse-gas emissions. A subject that requires deep analysis of the various chemistries that go into different EVs: NCA vs LiFePo4 vs NCM etc. etc.. As well as hypothetical future chemistries like Silicon or Sodium batteries. So we are now better able to focus on better solutions moving forward.

GREET sucks as a UI but the features are clearly good.

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Whenever I think of US Government software, these are the examples that come up. I think its... fine. The Government should make more tools for the benefit of society. GREET isn't as well written as Ghidra but its still software that matches the profile of public good that you and I are talking about.
or use an unbranded fork that has about:config enabled
> Sorry to be pedantic

Why apologize. You're in the right place for pedantry ;)
Ask HN: WordPress design and dev, still a good career option?
Dear HN

Is it still a good career option to learn WordPress skills? And what's your understanding of the state of the market for WordPress design and technical services?

WP is such a flexible system these days and remains a hugely popular platform. I assume there are some good opportunities to build a career in this space, what do you think?
I just found this setting in mobile, but I don't know if it's the same feature: Settings > Data Collection > Marketing
Do they mandate that is cities build on what is essentially a swamp?
Capturing Slack messages from the skies (2023)
Ask HN: User communities that aren't Discord?
Anyone aware of a user community product that has the simplicity of chat threads without the complexity of Discord/Slack? We’re trying to build a space where people can give feedback and meet other users but most in our audience don’t already use Discord (and wouldn’t find a ton of value in it to make it worth the download).
Can't believe someone would look at the art in The Mysteries and call it a cash grab. It oozes personality and thoughtfulness. It's true it wouldn't have sold any copies if his name weren't attached though.
What do you think the author's intention was behind doing it this way?
Berlin including suburbs ("Speckgürtel") is ~1400 square miles.
The people pushing it weren't ostracized nearly hard enough.
We're up to 2 employees now! The founder and a mobile dev.

The impact on costs is "not small", because as a rough estimate, the charity pays overall about twice what the dev gets in take-home money, because French employer taxes are high (keyword for the Frenchies reading us: URSSAF).

Source: am President of the Lichess charity and have the honour and pleasure of dealing with most of the French administrative paperwork.
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40952330
Researchers discover swath of previously undocumented polar bear dens
So I made this little tool called puck, its a simple cli that checks for updates in your servers. Right now its in alpha stage but I am working on it actively to get it to stable. Now you will say can't this be done with ansible? Yes it can, but I am planning to add more features like notifications via discord/ntfy, a web UI etc . that will make it stand a chance again Ansible. What do you think? Would you use something like this?
Yes, AC moves heat from inside homes outside into the city.
Ah yes, the country named Europe.
They don't need to be regulated, they need to be forcefully taken into public ownership. Utilities shouldn't be privatised, and neither should public transport for that matter. All these companies do is siphon off profits to shareholders without re-investing and maintaining the infrastructure as they should.
There is chrome://geckoview/content/config.xhtml but many options shown there are nonfunctional. The relevant option is listed but I'm not sure if setting it to false has any effect.

Edit: Just found out that on that link above, you can set general.aboutConfig.enable to true to enable about.config.

It looks like the xml page and the about.config one are the same, as the modifications I made are synced.
This is not about insulation but heat capacity.
and a tool to squash or expand the hierarchy helps alot. jEdit can fold/unfold based on indentation. along with simple prefixes : '-' for info, '>' for todo, '= {date}' for done, etc
I followed the top level comment and added

Boolean
dom.private-attribution.submission.enabled
False

It disabled the checkbox after updating Firefox. I set it to true to test and it enabled the checkbox also.
Nuke an AWS account and delete all of its resources
n=1, there are plenty of nice hotels in Austin, stay downtown next time
Cavers find dog stuck in 50-foot cavern, feed her salami, rescue her
Zulip is a pretty nice option

https://zulip.com/
Why can't they just fork Blink like everyone else? A new rendering engine is an unnecessary duplication of effort and ripe for security issues.

I don't think the open web is really as dependent on the browser anymore anyway. We already have multiple choices today, but the web is still mostly controlled by a huge big companies and nations. Doesn't feel particularly open. A new browser engine won't really solve that.

Meanwhile a million dollars could go towards some network R&D or popularizing Freenet instead.

The world doesn't need a dozen HTML renderers. If we actually want a free and open web, that's a infrastructure and content censorship/algorithmic promotion issue, not a layout engine or JS engine problem.
note - "chess" is not a Germanic word (deriving from the Arabic شَاه (shah), meaning king). Ironically enough, it comes to English via the Old French eschés, meaning that "lichess" is arguably made from entirely French roots.
I don't think so. I already had the setting visible in the UI disabled, but the thing in about:config was still on.
archive links always appreciated for paywalled sites
Great question. I'll have to Kagi the answer.
Looks like the windows build for 127 didn't have it but it's there in 128. Updating to 128.0 adds the preference (defaulted to true) and also the new "Website Advertising Preferences", which seems to control the same preference.
I would just uncheck the box as it's right there on the Security page.
What incentivized Mozilla to do this? How does this get them more money? (I.e., who's paying M for this?)
I'm introverted to the point that it weirds other people out, and permanent work from home drives me insane. When I do need to talk to someone, I really prefer to see if they're available at their desk and if so, talk with them in person where the "bandwidth" is highest. I do agree that for heads-down type work, it is nice to be able to shut out everything and concentrate.