skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't worry - in a few years they'll get you to pay for Overwatch Classic!
I simply went on ebay and bought the probably fake sensors myself. At least then I get a toy with my inaccurate numbers
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Because when I started using Vim, VSCode and Helix weren't around. And now I know Vim (Neovim) very well and it does everything I need - I'm productive with it and it's lightweight.

I don't want a full IDE/graphical editor. Eclipse is a mess, I'd use a JetBrains product first, but now we have VSCode as an alternative. Atom was hot for a while but has lost popularity.

Of the (linux) terminal text editors, the choices were mostly:

* Emacs
* Vim/Neovim
* Nano

And I prefer Vim over Emacs, I really like the modal experience.

I don't spend a huge amount of time tweaking things, I use Neovim mostly stock with some useful plugins for convenient shortcuts. Though I admit that getting the new treesitter/language server integrations working was annoying, compared to the original regex-based syntax highlighting.

My goal is not to recreate an IDE experience in Neovim, I just want an efficient text editor that is syntax-aware.

If I wanted an IDE then I'd use an actual IDE.
I also really like Helix. Looking forward to:

- Reload of files changed on disk: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/2653

- Autosave: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3178

- Git/SCM support: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/227

- Extensions (potentially enabling Copilot support): https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/2949
HN has mods. Which would be considered censorship by libertarians.

Ofcourse if you get down to it everyone wants censorship to remove things they don't agree with. A very amusing/sad example is Reddit.
This wouldn't get past the app store review stage, would it (no webview apps)?
CSGO used to require a phone number. It changed a bit to be "optional", but all that really means now is that they made the system more opaque.

It used to be that to get prime queue (or whatever it was called) you need to phone number, since the open queue was filled with hackers. The new systems still attempts to do the same, just without the hard boundary. You may end up in the hacker lobby, or you may not. You won't know.
> Can you name some engineering accomplishments that have been done "single-handedly" and thus qualify as real engineering?

I'm actually very curious on what the response to this will be.
I don't think we have any skin samples from back then, but yes, that is almost certainly the case.
That's awesome. I loved the site. Congrats!!
> You might need a WKProcessPool

That's what I said, by default it doesn't retain session, you need to use some way or the other to do it.
Thanks for elaborating.

It's still a great time to found a company now, if you have the right idea and network ;)
> a) Imagine you are 13 years old and actually reading Terms of Services. Just imagine you are under 18.

No need to imagine because I did exactly that (read my other comment). Let's get into this:

> c) It's not mentioning that you will forever be blocked because you misrepresented your age for whatever the reason (just an unaware click is enough).

It is mentioning SPECIFICALLY that. And an unaware click is not enough, you have to go through the trouble of reading the contract (or scrolling past it), checking a lot of boxes, saying you agree to the contract, and that's only after you in your own will and power decided to search for this. You also get to change your birthday once in your Google account if you made any mistakes during singup.

> If Google was actually serious in enforcing the policy, they would just check any detail that could trigger this user could be below 18 years of age. As you read here, they don't spend much of an effort to avoid this scenario. AI works just to block you, not to avoid your downfall.

Then people will complain that they require documentation, privacy this, privacy that. Mind you that I would never submit an ID to Google to verify my identity, but honestly that's the only way they can actually verify your age.

I'm not a fan of Google and it's autobanning processes with no recourse, but this is a special case where I think it's completely justified looking from their side and all the liabilities they have if they decide to backtrack on something like this.

For them someone is going to criticize them either way they take, so they choose the easier and simpler path of permabanning.
What limitation would you want for license plate scanners? I know in my area they've been the key to solving half a dozen murders in the last year or two since they've been introduced.
Capsule tunnels through intestine to orally administer insulin
FYI current record is 9.58 by Usain Bolt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men's_100_metres_world_record_...
Helix is nice but Zed development speed appears to be a bit slow for my liking.
Someone mount a pizza oven on this please.
how is a machine that does something "a reasonable number of humans couldn't do" "in the likeness of a human mind"?
FPGAs would be so much more useful if AMD(Xilinx)/Intel(Altera) just gave up trying to build there own tools and instead supported F4FPGA: https://f4pga.org
> No doubt with N carefully calibrated to depopulate the parts of the country you don't like, but not the part you live in.

N is carefully calibrated by actuaries with hard data. Insurance companies stopped offering flood insurance to much of Florida decades ago - they're now covered by a federally subsidized program called the NFIP that has about five million policies. It has been a money pit since 2004 for obvious reasons.

California got plenty of federal funds to rebuild after the Northridge quake and what did the state do? It spent the next four years improving building codes - benefiting the entire country - and plowed the money into seismic retrofits. When >90% of home insurers pulled out, instead of depending on a federal program, the state created the California Earthquake Authority which is almost entirely privately funded within the state. I have no doubt the next big earthquake will require federal assistance but there hasn't been a major incident in nearly thirty years and the state, insurers, and homeowners have done a lot to mitigate future catastrophe.

The same thing is happening now in California with wildfires: many people in rural areas can only get insurance through the California FAIR Plan. The big difference is that the FAIR Plan is funded entirely through premiums and state funds. Very little if any federal funding goes to it because Trump turned it into a hot button issue just a few years ago. That's the one to watch out for, not earthquakes.

Edit: phrasing
>” But as usual, companies apply draconian measures that governments can't. Some day we'll finally get that regulation that draws a line between utilities and publishers..”

Technically true, but the government often uses regulations and investigatory powers to compel private corporations to enact draconian regulations that the government cannot enact on its own.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Choke_Point
but, since covid times, many small towns are legitimately in financial distress.. especially around pension commitments.. its a slow-moving train wreck
I wonder what the last sentence of his comment implies.
Not correct. Boomers are retiring and with them their experience.

Gen Z are much smaller than Boomers. This is a structural issue that can be fixed only via immigration.

What could have been automated probably was automated.

Also, due to china failures, there is going to be boom of insourcing not outsourcing.
Wow, that's a great feature. Too bad I'm too old to qualify.
Rocket league 1v1s are pretty balanced IMO.
Wow, that's nuts. I'd have never expected that abuse.

You can use -ftrapv to check for integer overflows, like this

https://godbolt.org/z/snbdadv8b

>Let me know how you think you can work out if that lea overflowed!

LEA (Load Effective Address) can't overflow... memory is supposed to wrap, the byte after the last byte is byte 0.
TXT DNS records are used by Google, Microsoft and LE exactly for this purpose.
Unfortunately I don’t think the economics are in your favor as I assume you are within a small enough segment to make this worth it.
Countries with nuclear weapons in Nato: Enough.

I'd also go further and say that the world makes fairly extensive efforts to understand who has nuclear weapons and how many, but that doesn't cover all WMD's. I have no idea what kind of strategic theater-level biological weapons exist in the world, but I imagine it's more than zero.
If it's for clients, does it really matter whether you're spending $2 or $5 or $10 a month?
Is this a sarcastic remark? If not, this seems like an extremely reductive stance. Surely one could imagine another skilled person preferring a GUI over the terminal, even if it's not an opinion they share :)
you can use neovim inside of vscode. it's pretty alright with only a few things that are rocky. I like it. got that modern gui affordances with the plugin ecosystem and lsp baked into it hard but also the normal/visual mode power.
And yet Google can't come knock on your door and take you away. Calling it dystopian can only come from an incredibly sheltered individual who has never faced any real danger.
> and has a long long way to go.

The stock market's price level is well above where it was pre-pandemic, it's trading at earnings multiples in-line with 30+ year averages [1] (what was the 10Y yield in 1990, might I ask?) because earnings have gone up.

I know being doom and gloom makes you sound smart (to some), but don't fall into the trap of 'everything is shit now because inflation has been high for 20 months'

[1]https://www.yardeni.com/pub/stockmktperatio.pdf
"legitimate" is doing a lot of work here.
Almost everything is manual unless an import for an area is happening. Imports require a bunch of documentation and notifications before the data gets pulled in. The data is typically for building and addresses from the government.

Adding together OSM’s rules are stacked against imports, the vocal anti import contingent and specialized software knowledge needed means that few imports happen.
> It's not (in an almost literal sense!) a game anymore at that point

I’m curious what your definition of a game is?
I wish that were how it had been presented, but they indeed did advertise it as a VPN. From https://blog.cloudflare.com/1111-warp-better-vpn/ :

"Technically, WARP is a VPN.... We built WARP because we’ve had those conversations with our loved ones too and they’ve not gone well. So we knew that we had to start with turning the weaknesses of other VPN solutions into strengths. Under the covers, WARP acts as a VPN. But now in the 1.1.1.1 App, if users decide to enable WARP, instead of just DNS queries being secured and optimized, all Internet traffic is secured and optimized. In other words, WARP is the VPN for people who don't know what V.P.N. stands for."
Right but have you seen what that’s done to your machine code? That’s why people don’t do it normally.

> LEA (Load Effective Address) can't overflow...

You're mistaken - it's defined to overflow.

https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/11442...
Nothing beats "Stop using Mandrake, this is illegal software and we will get sued!"

On that note, my sister can't wrap her head around the fact that people can have multiple bank accounts and many of them are completely free.

She looks at my collection of cards and says "omg the Finanzamt will get you!".

Just wait until they get you for making money off TikTok videos lol
>what we really need is a kind stream of data and requests that your own requests are simply merged into

having a wife and kids helps with this. or any shared wifi with a guaranteed shitstream for your tunnel to wade through
In additional to all the features that others mention, I chose to support the Neovim project. It's a more open alternative without a BDFL that is willing to move forward and modernize the editor, drop support for ancient platforms, and regularly release improvements.

A big deal was splitting the editor engine from the interface so that it's embeddable in other editors.
It's the way that error handling is done in Free Pascal. I've never worried about the code it generates before, I just care about correct results. Yeah, it could be better.
a) Unpaid balance could just be refunded to advertisers.

b) Worries about child labor: already happened. Google profited from his activity already. It's just the kid not receiving anything.
It's free real estate.
Sorry that I can't comment much on the whole mesh part but as a side note you might want to look into setting up pihole in your home network (no raspberry pi required). On your main router, deny all outgoing DNS requests and only allow those coming from the node you have pihole running. In that way you can track which of your devices is phoning back home and block accordingly
If they had to turn away things like surplus military gear and federal dollars for training in military tactics because they weren't willing to take the accountability measures -- that'd be progress.
Seriously, I can't grok why people here don't use it more often. Web is 100% usable, what doesn't work in it doesn't work in latest chrome neither. Web development is fine too, just different, not worse. But whatever, use chrome for dev work if you love it, and Firefox for everything else, especially Internet proper (plus you get another full testing browser, not just spoofing user-agent)

Its a great product, and ublock origin make it by far the best on the market for internet not only for me, across any devices ever made, period.
Eh, I didn't notice Uber while I was considering if this was about automation of forestry operations. Though I did stop to consider if there is even enough waste in the industry to have potential gains of 100x. I doubt there is more than 2x available.
The operators of the VPN in this case are also the developers of the browser. If they want to inject content they can do that without the VPN.
If you like that one, then you'd probably love https://www.futuretimeline.net/. Fair warning, you may lose your afternoon to it.
I’m not sure what definition of game you’re using, where having to validate your account with a real life identifier (which feels vague, since basically every multiplayer platform already has accounts tied to email addresses, because of course they do) makes something “not a game anymore”. But that’s not the definition that I’m aware of in use anywhere else.
So what? Just leave legit users in the dark because assholes exist? This type of logic needs to die. Assholes continue to exist because we enable them to by not raising the bar high enough that compromise is impractical, and no longer easy money.
Woz seems to think so.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/01/tech/space-junk-steve-wozniak...
"bad feeling" is too generous. Microsoft is famous for its ubiquitous telemetry. It is not a suspicion, data collection is a fact. today. already.
The word dystopia comes from analysis of fiction.
My friend ran into this recently, he signed up to Paypal in like 2003, probably to sell games or something on eBay for a bit of cash.

He's in his mid thirties now, and Paypal banned his account without warning, when he phoned them up they said it was because he was under 18 when he signed up.....19 years ago.
Postpaid was my favorite when I was a poor 16 year old.

I couldn't believe you can rent 12 core servers for 3 months and not pay for it!

Yes, I know it was illegal lol
I tried moving to neovim from vim mainly to try Copilot.
I was able to eat mostly fruit and veg for free from food banks that took maybe 15 min a day to visit. I also was not slovenly not working, I just didn’t have good habits to get out of my situation thanks to extreme mental illness and addiction. (Both of which are thankfully well under control now.)
Building an observability toolchain with OpenTelemetry, Flask, and Prometheus
So you can't use satellite data (of the same detail as on Google maps) without paying is basically the answer to my question if I understand you correctly?
I've skipped out on products _specifically_ because they have an app. I see apps as a liability, not a feature. Give me dumb products please. My air purifier doesn't need a god damn app, just an on/off switch with some LEDs, please!!!
MMOs (the current mainstream variety) are completely different games. That's why alts in MMOs are not called smurfs. This should be blindingly clear.

Smurfs in competitive shooters suck because the only reason you make a Smurf is to play in ranked lobbies of much lower skill level, ruining the experience for those who are actually playing around their rank level.
Would those intermediate releases make breaking runtime changes like dropping nashorn, removing APIs and changing default encoding modes?

That’d be pretty bad behavior when maintaining backward compatibility.

I know of a very large education company that trained their support staff to downgrade the Java 8 version of end users when they experienced problems (until they dropped Java on the front-end for web). Maybe the feature releases is why?
> you'll also get a lot of assholes and script kiddies hoping to pwn your site for lulz, and they often don't care who gets hurt along the way.

Yes... "Free security assessment" was a euphemism I'm afraid.
Besides the point, 18 hops to get to HN via my colo server in London, UK; what is cogentco doing with the excessive routing?

1 24 ms 24 ms 25 ms 10.0.0.1
2 32 ms 25 ms 24 ms x.x.x.x
3 28 ms 28 ms 27 ms core-router-b-nlc.netwise.co.uk [185.17.175.246]
4 29 ms 25 ms 25 ms core-router-hex.netwise.co.uk [185.17.175.240]
5 29 ms 25 ms 26 ms te0-7-0-17.505.rcr21.b015534-1.lon01.atlas.cogentco.com [216.168.64.16]
6 27 ms 25 ms 25 ms be2186.ccr22.lon01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.61.70]
7 27 ms 25 ms 28 ms be2870.ccr41.lon13.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.58.173]
8 94 ms 93 ms 94 ms be2317.ccr41.jfk02.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.30.185]
9 103 ms 100 ms 100 ms be2806.ccr41.dca01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.40.106]
10 118 ms 117 ms 117 ms be2112.ccr41.atl01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.7.158]
11 130 ms 130 ms 134 ms be2687.ccr41.iah01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.28.70]
12 147 ms 146 ms 181 ms be2927.ccr21.elp01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.29.222]
13 155 ms 155 ms 156 ms be2930.ccr32.phx01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.42.77]
14 172 ms 348 ms 192 ms be2941.rcr52.san01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.41.33]
15 198 ms 202 ms 205 ms te0-0-2-0.rcr12.san03.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.82.70]
16 209 ms 165 ms 165 ms te0-0-2-3.nr11.b006590-1.san03.atlas.cogentco.com [154.24.18.194]
17 166 ms 171 ms 203 ms 38.96.10.250
18 165 ms 162 ms 162 ms news.ycombinator.com [209.216.230.240]
Creating some more numbers costs us nothing — that number would be better measured against the accruing negative value of Florida’s (and other coastal states’) economic downtime instead of as a thing with any worth of its own: https://web.archive.org/web/20220104144948/https://www.treas...

“Federal Reserve notes are not redeemable in gold, silver or any other commodity, and receive no backing by anything. This has been the case since 1933. The notes have no value for themselves, but for what they will buy. In another sense, because they are legal tender, Federal Reserve notes are "backed" by all the goods and services in the economy.”
For anyone who wants to do this: it’s not that easy with PD.

I have a dozen USB-C PD bricks of various brands. Only 3 of them properly provide 12v, and one of those only does it properly when there are no other devices plugged in to it’s 3 ports.
> Now, increasingly, the context seems to be that it's unacceptable/unfair for some reason. This feels wrong to me.

The context in which "smurf" is used these days is very different. But if you try to look at it from the original MMO definition of that term, that would explain why it might feel wrong to you.

In an MMO, people refer to using many characters on one account as smurfing. That's not the case with competitive multiplayer games, where it refers specifically to using a separate account to get (initially) put in a matchmaking pool with lower-skill people, in order to "have fun" obliterating them. As opposed to playing with people of your skill on your regular account with a calibrated MMR.

In an MMO, having a smurf doesn't ruin anything for anyone else. It is just a way to play a different character class, how else is a person supposed to do it? Asking users to restrict themselves to playing only one character class (e.g., mage) forever out of many available in the game is just strange. You still have to level up that smurf character, collect appropriate gear, etc.

In a competitive multiplayer game, like CSGO/League of Legends/Overwatch, etc., none of this is the case. You can play any character on one account. You aren't expected to play one character forever, that would make zero sense in a game like League. What smurfing refers to here is existing players with high MMR creating a separate fresh account, and tearing through new players (because new accounts, rightfully, get placed in a lower MMR matchmaking pool, along with other new players). It is basically an equivalent of Mike Tyson disguising himself perfectly to look like a newbie, and then going to a local boxing gym and just beating everyone there within an inch of death in the ring.

This is the context in which smurfing is being discussed these days as a negative, and I agree with this stance. Your example of smurfing in an MMO, however, is perfectly valid and causes no harm, so it is totally fine.
Funny how that works.
Why are we not already using them? Because they're subQ injections? Supply issues? Side effects? They are already proven effective, why is every obese/overweight person not given a script? We could solve the crisis within a year
its not an argument, its about the definition of the word, and how you were word policing based on your opinion that doesn't actually reflect the way the word is used.

It wouldn't be an issue if you just had given your opinion instead of demanding he stop using words, which was the primary reason for my reply, because you demanding other people stop using words is insufferably arrogant.
Makes sense; due to competition, the gravy train party at Netflix has definitely taken a monumental dive this year.

Now they're just another streaming company. And they can only afford to pay like one.

It's a shame, their hacker culture was badass.
The FDA released a Draft of the new Cybersecurity Guidance document back in April and there was speculation that this draft was going to become active (an actual regulation) by the end of the year. I wonder if this news is going to speed that up in any way.
I’m nostalgic for the clubhouse feel of private servers but I played CounterStrike 1.6 in the early 2000s and also remember nightly encounters with aimbots, wall hacks, porn sprays, toxic voice chat and uneven teams because there was no centralized matchmaking.

Todays system certainly has trade offs but the competitive experience is so much better.