skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As a business you shouldn't have to give second chances to people who blatantly defraud you

Just to point the obvious, but corporations do not have any inherent right, and this specific one is already denied on some circumstances.
Whenever quoting an install of basically anything, ask for the list of part numbers, and then you can look them up yourself.

My furnace and AC have no internet connection; the thermostat I installed myself does.
> Your son's account is now in limbo - it can't be verified, closed or paid out. It can only be abandoned but it will still technically be active as AdSense think he is over 18 - he declared that to be the case.

Of course it can't be verified now, but what would prevent the son from completing the verification in a few years when he is actually 18?
PS3 was Cell processor..
PS2 Emotion Engine..
As far as I can tell the 13 year old isn't even locked out, they just can't verify the AdSense account (and the verification name must match the name on the account), so they will indeed be able to cash out in 5 years.
From a simplistic point of view, yes, but from a practical standpoint, no. IaC assumes a global lock on any resources being managed. As soon as that expectation is violated, everything starts breaking, regardless of how good the code is.
I can't really agree that VS Code or Helix are "great out of the box". I haven't tried zed. VS Code feels really awful to me (note: this is probably just me) without weeks spent re-configuring it. Even then, it's _way_ too heavy for my laptop to run reliably. Maybe my brain just works differently, but I feel like VSCode fights against me at every turn. Helix is nifty, but also feels like it gets in my way more than it helps.

I've never understood the advantage of "rich development environments". The refactoring tools and other fancy aids seem to never work. I wind up using regexes + manual intervention anyway. Also, I don't want to use git through a gui. Leave me be in the terminal where I have everything I need at my fingertips as fast as I can think.

Syntax highlighting, linting, completion, and docs are all nice, but I have that in vim. I can run vim in the dev instance I'm ssh-ed into (which is 99.99% of how I work, anyway -- my work laptop is ancient and they won't replace it). I just can't see what those tools add, even for very large codebases.

My configuration for vim began in the 90's. I've never put that much work into it at any one time, though it has grown quite complex over time. There are a bunch of plugins I use manged in the config file. 90% of the functionality I need works without those plugins, but even when I need to install them from scratch it's easy to go from "scp config file over" to "full setup" with one command.

So in summary, I use vim because it's part of a larger set of standard unix-y tools that are heavily ingrained into muscle memory. The biggest advantage of vim in many ways is that it's a relatively rich environment (e.g. linting, syntax highlighting, doc hints, etc) that I can ctrl-Z to immediately be back in the terminal with. Other than that, it gets out of my way, and I don't think about the editor at all, I think about what I'm doing (decades of muscle memory helps a lot, though -- I'm incapable of not using vim keybindings to edit code, I think).

I should move over to neovim, but mostly haven't yet. That's more due to a couple of weird plugins than anything else, though.
Ask HN: Could we 'make the internet good again'?
I am in a lot of spaces where there is a tremendous nostalgia for the early days of the internet/web, where there were dial-up connections, or weird handmade websites, or communities that were small and friendly.

When new things come along, most recently web3, it seems like there's a bunch of people who are like "this is going to bring back the same joyful and uncommercial aspect the web had early on." (And that's quickly followed by "we're going to make heaps of money getting in to a new technology first!" but perhaps that's not germane?)

It seems like we're expecting the technology itself to magically birth an environment that leads to more kindness, curiosity, and community.

And I am wondering, if these are values that actually matter, why aren't we working to find ways that better reflect them rather than trying to simply come up with new technologies and hope that by virtue of them being new, it will attract creative, interesting people?

Maybe I am just missing something, but it does feel like a disconnect, especially since there doesn't seem to be a ton of dialogue between people who study and understand what leads to good communities and people who are building the technical scaffolding around our relationships.
Not sure why this is downvoted, Zuckerberg himself acknowledged the legitimacy* of the H. Biden laptop story and that it was mistakenly blocked. Something like "There was a lot of BS going around at the time and we had to make a call on it quickly and we were wrong." It was fairly level headed if I recall.

*to some extent. I know there were people claiming the laptop tied the Bidens into some sort of demon worshipping child eating cult or something, obviously that's a joke.
All of the tech I mentioned is either operating in pilot studies or full scale systems. Both combined as in renewables + storage, not wind + solar.

You got way too much set phrases and trite political cliches going on for any meaningful discussion.

Solar, wind and storage are here today, they are cheaper than coal, nuclear and gas, even WITHOUT externalised costs of climate change, and long term storage.

The people that are dangerous are the ones that want to make energy politics a political game, and those that want to make as much personal profit from it as possible.
It's a long-time design flaw at Microsoft.

Long time ago, in Windows for Workgroups 3.11 times, when I opened Explorer, it was getting slower and slower. Finally, changing a directory took 5 secs. The hard disk was working hard (there were LED indicators!).

I've figured out that the root cause was my C:\Documents directory, which contained a bunch of files, maybe some hundreds of mp3s, don't remember. Moved _all_ files from C:\Documents made Explorer lightning fast.

I think, Explorer wanted to show a summary of different file types, which was completely unnecessary and couldn't turnded off.
You don't have to apologize, your comment is very much well written.
Bad actors know

1. It's detected (because Microsoft told everyone)

2. What was detected and where it was (because they put it there)

Good Actors only know 1.

So by telling someone 2 they are giving bad actors no new information, and good actors valuable information.
I don't think thats enough of a differentiator for people to head to your product, no offense. Solar price, payback terms, incentives, green ambition and neighborhood also putting up solar are probably the biggest drivers. The amount of people who would want no internet connection is incredibly niche.
> I live in a neighborhood about two blocks from a light rail stop and still walk by single family homes on relatively large plots on my walk from door to door. In nearly any direction, you are within a block or two of what one would say looks like a suburban single family home.

I live in Chicago, in a three floor walkup three blocks from an El station, and walk by dozens of single family homes on the way there. There are single-family homes everywhere, it's very difficult not to be within 100 feet of one.

Are single-family homes the enemy? I think they're nice.

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edit: Houston and LA are notably strange places. I'd add Nashville into that, which turns into what seems like Russian doll-nested suburbs right after you leave downtown.

Houston is what gets held up by house-building anti-zoning advocates as a model, though, for some reason. To me, it's always been a hellhole, but I haven't visited for years.
GC has not been an issue in Java for years. I haven't seen memory issues, except for services running in ridiculously CPU or memory starved kubernetes containers.
> This reduces my interest in both projects.

That's funny, it's the opposite for me.

> As a user, I do not care what language my editor is implemented in.

I do care. I don't like using Electron apps, even if I have to grudgingly use them a la VSCode. If an app is in Electron or some other slow framework like a Python GUI, my interest immediately drops to zero. If it's in Rust or some other low level language, at least I know it'll be fast.
Russia has the ability to drop a nuke in the region you currently live in, so there's no such thing as safety and therefore why do you have locks on your doors?
Ads are 100 percent irrelevant.

But the lock-in is there regardless of whether they intended it or not. And, by they way, you are insane if you actually believe they do not intend a lock-in, given that they're making direct (and probably illegal) threats to "void the warranty" if you don't stay connected.

If they go out of business in 5 or 10 years, and your system stops working, you are screwed. The same applies if they just decide it's no longer profitable to support old products. Even if they are still in business, they are not going to do anything whatsoever to help you keep running without them.

The fact that most users are stupid enough to sign up under those circumstances doesn't change the fact that it's a stupid thing to do.
I'm a fan of the 4-7-8 method. Two points of feedback:

1. The animation when using Firefox is ... "jumpy." This distracted me, making me feel like I wasn't breathing smoothly along with the animation. I'm not sure why it made me feel this way, but it did.

2. Slowly transitioning to the color blue for the hold may not be the best choice, since my mind went straight to turning blue from lack of oxygen. Not exactly relaxing.

Design is hard. It does weird things to the subconscious. :)
It's still incredibly optimistic. It may very well remain the domain of only a precious few career experts for quite some time, if not indefinitely, unless space begins to generate absurd revenue unavailable on Earth. There are valid and practical reasons for LEO. Beyond that, the Moon, Mars, Asteroid Belt, moons of Jupiter, etc., I don't see any advantage other than discovery and the benefit of working out how to do something (but not how to do something cheaply). Somehow ferrying back a massive asteroid made of pure gold matching the amount already on Earth would likely not even be profitable.

I suppose that climbing Everest never had any practical purpose, and an economy has developed around it. But still, cost per person is a fraction of $1M to do so. It costs an average of $58M/person to get to orbit and back safely for a short trip, and that is just LEO for a few days or maybe a couple weeks. Economies of scale may never materialize for space travel. Even if we do legitimately become spacefaring and stretch out into the Solar System for some reason, high costs and accidents may, like nuclear energy, cause it to scale back and diminish to its current state of roughly 50 people per year to LEO.

Without the incentive of profit, which I doubt tourism could sustain by itself, I don't see how spacefaring ever gets off the ground. Maybe mushrooms found on Europa become an insanely expensive delicacy, or similar. But it seems astronomically unlikely. If the profit incentive can be found, then it could not be stopped, but it really needs to do more than pay for itself, and at a current pace of sinking $20B/yr into it without a return, ever, who knows if it will ever even break even?
That is in no way describing left-libertarianism unless your critical of part three and think we should go back to one lord
A bad actor can do the same thing by putting together

Mybadpage1.com

Mybadpage2.com

Mybadpage3.com
This is why I don’t want 5G. It is not going to make my cellular service better or cheaper, but it is going to enable every internet-of-shit device manufacturer to buy bandwidth from telcos and a new generation of “smart” devices will be able to call home without asking you for wifi password.
Side note: home inspectors are typically lazy GCs who realized it was easier money.

They're not actually liable for anything more detailed than what you could notice yourself, which... why are you paying them again?
https://www.uber.com/en-US/blog/reducing-logging-cost-by-two...
Good for him. But where's the cattle?
You can’t, because your production is verified by the data you upload to the SREC marketplace. You might even lose escrow you paid at installation.
Internet of Turds seems to involve some worthless "cloud service" that they try to charge you for.

It is sometimes accompanied by a local API that works without internet (Apple HomeKit stuff seems to somewhat work sometimes in an internet outage, and the Hue buttons keep working).

It can be quite hard to distinguish the two.
It's a VP level thing. Some lowly offshore "content watcher" flags suspicious posts, the important flags bubble up in a email chain to a VP, who makes the decision. That's for high visibility dissenters. This email chain is discoverable if anyone bothers to sue and convince the judge.
My first cynical take was that this will be used for "hunch laundering." There could be no indication that user A is an alias for user B, other than someone's hunch, but getting a computer to say that they match might be good enough to get a warrant when someone's hunch wouldn't be. It would be similar to having drug sniffing dogs affirm their handlers' feelings.
The problem is the company is in a privileged position. And there have to be limits. If not, they could stretch the definition of "defrauded me" to whatever they want, for example including discrimination of any kind.
neovim/vim are lightning fast, and since they are usually installed on remote servers as well it is nice to have a consistent experience editing files whether I am working locally or in a remote shell somewhere.
> why you chose it over VS Code

VS Code has always felt clunky to me. It always felt like a halfway house between the speed and simplicity of Vim and the maximalism offered by JetBrains IDEs. I also just generally don’t love GUI apps for code because I desire to be right in my shell.

NeoVim offers LSP, Tree Sitter, DAP, and easy extensibility to reach full parity with any IDE, but with the benefit of it being:

* Faster (both in processing speed but also in my workflow). I can navigate significantly faster in Vim than I can in any other editor.
* More familiar, to me.

I can’t speak to Helix as I’ve never heard of it, but in general, the Vim community is very strong and long-lasting - it’s been a top tier editor for the past few decades and will likely continue to keep that place (albeit NeoVim is the currently favored flavor for me).

Beyond that, the extensibility of Neovim is unmatched in VSCode.

I also do most of my development in a VM and VS code remote shell is significantly slower for me than just ssh + neovim.

> huge amount of work, hoop jumping, and fragility to reach parity

This seems inaccurate. Maybe it’s because I use NixOS but my editor experience is literally the least fragile piece of software I use. I’ve ran into far more issues in both GoLand and VS Code than I have in Neovim. Perhaps because Neovim is less of a walled garden?

It took me about a weekend to properly learn Lua and how Neovim works, and after that, I was set.

> spent months tweaking

I don’t know what process you took, but properly learning the tool from the ground up and minimally adding useful plugins as you go should not take much time at all. I don’t really touch my editor config unless I need to install a new LSP server - it always just works.

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At the end of the day, the best tool is the one that enables you to be most productive. I find almost anything outside of the terminal clunky (the main exception is my browser).
Oh stop, already. Cloudflare isn't in the "business of selling insights". They make their money from enterprise sales of their various network products.

They're in the business of competing with AWS and are pretty damn good at it, too.
Apparently this is not possible. Because it's not possible to verify the account, as the person doing the verification has a different birthdate than what's associated with the account.
Police just buy this technology from corporations right now. Presumably in practice this bill would be interpreted as "you can't search clearview.ai's website unless you have a warrant"

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/03/18/magazine/faci...
No one implied that it should be illegal to warn anybody. However, it should be illegal to operate a large-scale service like this without offering some kind of proper communication and prompt action, which isn't unreasonable considering they're notorious for destroying someone's livelihood for no reason.

Keep in mind that the reason this happens isn't because of "faulty AI automated systems": the reason this happens is because these companies choose to save pennies by not offering proper support channels and recourse. Those saved pennies make the difference between a 2-hour outage and literally bankrupting you for no reason at all.
Right, so more efficiencies could free up resources to hire even more middle managers or administrative staff. It's only natural that well funded startups will have roles for "experience coordinator" or something. You think FAANG would have such a large headcount if they didn't have crazy margins?

There are some other tides working in the favor of bloated salaries and payrolls. One is the focus of "stakeholder capitalism". Most of the large companies are held by ETFs. The large banks that run the ETFs are less concerned about individual efficiencies of any one company (they own them all anyway), but are more interested in other things (green initiatives, social causes, etc). So the decisions being made at these companies are less about profit and more about servicing "stakeholders", be it their employees, the community, the environment. That's all fine, but it's difficult to track and hold executives responsible. A bloated staff is fine because you don't want to lay off employees. Or various money losing departments are okay because they're servicing the community.
Sure, but even U.S. city centers are way lower density than the European or Asian equivalent, often looking more like what would be a suburb there. Truly walkable areas are basically non-existent.
Yep, if anybody stole some money, it was Google.

If the teen entered into a lied about his age in a labor contract, performed the labor, and the employer hold the money after discovering the correct age, he would probably end in jail. Yet it's almost the same situation.
Not necessarily, I've had good luck with DNS blocking my Roku at least. I was surprised since I expected it to have hardcoded DNS. I'm sure that Chromecasts are propbably hardcoded to 8.8.8.8. It's probably not possible or easy to do with a consumer router, but if you had a Linux router (or something enterprise-y), you could do a NAT rule similar to this to force something to go to your own DNS server:

iptables -A PREROUTING -s <IP of device> -d 8.8.8.8 -p udp -m udp --dport 53 -j DNAT --to-destination <IP of custom DNS>:53

I hope the NextDNS privacy blocklist for Roku can deal with these.
A healthy domestic cat would also come in ahead of him, in a hypothetical scenario where it cared to, but I suppose they are quadrupeds with very flexible spines.
They didn't vote to be annexed. Ticking a checkbox on a ballot with armed soldiers behind your back is not voting. Any referendum carried out by an occupying force and followed by an annexation is against international law, specifically Article 47 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, not to mention the UN Charter.
When two billionaires walk into a bar…
Open? That's the state of the world. It has been for a couple years, now. Police don't have their own tech, they just have subscriptions to clearview.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/03/18/magazine/faci...
Also doesn't apply to Boston, Philly, and perhaps some smaller cities in New Jersey etc..

The author is Canadian and it seems like he's taking a lot of his perspective from Toronto, which is actually kind of bizarre in that it has clusters of high rises with single family homes in between, and leafy suburban neighborhoods right around downtown.
>And what about all the companies that still have billion dollar market caps but have NEGATIVE earnings? (Atlassian, Snowflake, Uber, Crowdstrike, Shopify.... the list goes on)

I think they are an extremely small part of the $100tn global stock market that people here love talking about because they work there.

>Folks we are in a tightening cycle in order to fight inflation.

My point was that we are at multiples in-line with 1990, ya know when we had 8% 10Y yields.

Folks, call the end of the world at your own peril.
actually .01 would not be a problem at all, remember initial pricing for whatsapp? the main issue here is its value is not yet established. They need to remember that they are competing with powerful search engines like google and bing so they must rise to the quality first. Starting with low price with even just the indication that we will charge you more later is good enough, but it is imperative that they show value first.
You said "Terminal velocity of bullets fired above approximately 60 degrees is not high enough to be lethal." Mythbusters found that any angle more than a few degrees off of straight up (i.e., below 87 degrees) was enough to establish a ballistic trajectory and be lethal.

There is a huge difference in difficulty between 30 degrees, which is easy enough to eyeball, and 3 degrees which requires careful aiming with a specialized tool.
I thought TLSv1.3 already encrypted the SNI?
Air pollution is not due to climate change, unless you count CO₂ as air pollution, but that's eargrayish misreasoning — that's not the kind of air pollution that causes 10% of all deaths. The sort of local air pollution we're talking about amounts to factories strip-mining local children's lungs for profit; it's a form of fighting each other.

Rainwater harvesting risks seem to be primarily due to birds pooping on your roof and other fecal contamination, and they can be adequately mitigated by boiling or chemical sterilization: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41545-019-0030-5.

Climate change very likely would collapse your civilization, given enough time, but that isn't what is happening now.
Not much choice with browsers!

As far as I know, Orion browser is the only browser on the market today that you can pay for with your wallet instead of your data.
I had Google shutdown my Adsense account and they didn't ever reveal why, I think they just didn't like the site it was on (A twitter picture search engine) but they never told me. I certainly didn't think I was doing anything nefarious, but maybe my site wasn't supposed to be displaying ads. They kept my money (like $3k) and I am pretty sure I can't ever use the service again, but I honestly haven't tried.

I also get a letter every so often (this was 10+ years ago) from one of the big auditing firms that I have money in my google account and I just need to go claim it by logging into the account I can't login to anymore.
And he didn't even mention Habitat 67!
https://www.habitat67.com/en/
Sure, that makes sense when talking about employee count in aggregate. But specifically the number of bank tellers has doubled. Surely bank tellers should have more tools at their disposal to be more efficient, and surely fewer people would use bank tellers with things like ATMs and online banking. But somehow we have more bank tellers.
What’s OpenAI’s Moat?
The US government needs to get out of the student loan business. There's no excuse for them to be aiding and abetting debt slavery that can't be dismissed in bankruptcy.