skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> EA already had the reputation of ruining every franchise they bought.

C&C, WingCommander, Bullfrog, le sigh…

Nightmare prompt: “What if EA acquired Wube (Factorio)?”
Not if you don't have same MAC in the network .

SLAAC reserves bottom 64 bits for autoconfiguration, and while incredibly wasteful it does ensure every MAC can have its own IP address
I was one of the earliest Alexa users, I was invited to buy the first Echo before it was generally available. It was handy mostly as a kitchen timer, occasionally for random questions when my hands were too busy/gooey to whip out my phone (e.g., "What is the safe cooking temperature for chicken thighs?").

But then one day the LED ring on the top of the Echo was flashing yellow, and when I asked Alexa why, it responded with an ad. I haven't used it since.
I was a software developer in that division in 2012 so I got to witness the early days of optimism.

After tasting success with Kindle Amazon went full throttle with their hardware investment. They were optimistic about replicating Kindle success so they threw the entire kitchen sink at it. The division hired 1000+ in product and development in a matter of weeks. It was truly heady days but equally chaotic as no one had a clue as to what were they supposed to be working on. Managers and execs promptly built their empires took promotions etc.

However it was not clear to anyone how would they monetize. Whenever some lowly developer asked the answer was standard, Amazon’s model is to grow big first and then figure out making money.

But for the interest rate hikes perhaps they could have continued down the path, who knows.

All that said, if I owned any of Alexa devices I’d be planning on sunsetting them. They will put the entire infrastructure on a strictly lights on mode. So expect things to break on the edges, at first.
If you stumble upon a website that makes the stylistic choice that text should take the whole width of your whole screen, you can toggle the "Reader view" feature in Firefox to put it back into a more usual format (F9 on Windows).

If you use Chrome-based browsers, there's bookmarklets (bookmarks with a `javascript:` URI)

javascript:(function(){var bod = document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0]; bod.style.margin = "40px auto"; bod.style.maxWidth = "40vw"; bod.style.lineHeight = "1.6"; bod.style.fontSize = "18px"; bod.style.color = "#444"; bod.style.padding = "0 10px"; })();
> what would be the best way forward to keep it that way in a IPv6-only future?

Firewalls. You configure what traffic should be allowed from who to who. Default deny incoming traffic, and its the same behavior as when you had a NAT.

Something having a routable IP address doesn't mean it needs to receive all traffic addressed to it.
More like they monetise it at the expense of maintaining it.
Most consumer routers will disable inbound connections for the IPv6 prefix by default from what I've seen. If not thats easy to enable.
Yes really, the title in the article makes little sense in isolation, as even its own subtitle demonstrates.
Skylines isn't even a very good traffic manager (the Cities in Motion games that came before it are much better in that regard) -- it's a good city _builder_, but not a good city _simulator_.
I am happy if this tool works for you but I think writing off my comment as naysaying is not constructive.

There is no support for all syntax features of the current language specification and reference implementation. There is also no legacy support. Again, especially in projects concerned with code quality and analysis, building is not more important than long-term maintenance: Both language specification and reference implementation are constantly evolving. The current approach relies on an upstream interpreter and thereby inherits idiosyncratic divergences and limitations.

There is no extensibility. The majority of projects are neither public nor frameworks. Often projects employ a number of frameworks each with associated dialects, with both frameworks and dialects also constantly evolving. The current approach to extensibility is approximately one person manually rewriting rules individually from heterogeneous projects that span several contributors over several years. There is already outstanding maintenance work on manually introduced rules, only a subset of which gets flagged by a fraction of adopters. There is even outstanding work on feature parity.
All my fingers work fine on a touch screen. If your thumb was injured and you needed emergency assistance, would you really give up instead of trying to use your index finger? Really? You would just lay there and die because you can't or won't use your index finger instead of your thumb to call for help? Really?!?

I hope this isn't true and you've merely lost track of the context of this discussion.
> As i keep telling people, self hosting is fun as long as your user count is 1. When it grows beyond that, you suddenly have a SLA.

This is the principle I.T. departments fail to grasp.

> Kids also brings all sorts of devices with new and exiting exploits/vira...

Curiosity: while vira is arguably less wrong, hackers of a certain age would have expected viri or virii, which are more wrong:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_form_of_words_ending_in...

From Tom Christiansen, of Perl fame:

http://www.ofb.net/~jlm/virus.html

// Meanwhile, in "Kids also brings" – I fully support what you did there!
Is there some backstory to the crucial-ness of Cities Skyline? I thought they’d had a pretty good thing going for a while by then, with their various funky history simulators.
A password might be a solution to this as well.
Lots of people believe essential oils can cure cancer. Any big oncology center has stories about people who show up presenting horrible symptoms well beyond what's normally seen. They spent 2 years just doing essential oils or whatever (often encouraged by some a quack) on some readily treatable thing and when they do finally give in and come to the ER it's basically too late.
Everyone always goes with the "You don't need NAT, everything is globally routable!" argument, as if that's something that anybody wants. Everything on my network is going to go through my firewall anyway. I don't want anything on my network to be globally routable.

Of course, this is not a good reason to not use IPv6, don't get me wrong. It's a problem that's easy to overcome, I just think it's not a good way to get people excited about the transition.
Don't worry coz DAD (Duplicate Address Detection) will come to your rescue :p
> Another point, which I feel is a good representation of an 'EA'-fied game: I was a bit miffed to discover that you couldn't create a subway system, you were limited to roads (I don't even remember if you could create a bus system). A few months in, I see that there was a 'Subway' content pack, which got my hopes up... until I realized it was to add 'Subway' sandwich shop in your city.

> Same, they had a cross-promotion with Nissan, so your Sims would feel happy when they recharged their electric car, and the charging station has the effect of a park in your neighborhood.

That's kind of insulting. If you were to ask me "what's an environmentally friendly piece of mobility infrastructure that should count as a park" the answer is very obviously a bike trail.
If the derivation has already been written (as GP implies), then compiling something yourself with Nix is essentially just a longer installation process. No downloading tarballs, no keeping track of things in /usr/local, no stow or manually adding things to your path. Nix is essentially a source distribution that pulls common binaries from caches.
Yes, but not necessarily the other way around.

I'm not saying one is necessarily better than the other, but I think the 2 different UIs are serving 2 different goals. Focus requires commitment at some level, and I don't think most websites are predicated on the notion that the average user is committed, at least initially. Maybe once you make a sale to them and they get access to your product you can safely prioritize focus because you now have that commitment.

I think engineers generally are above average on the skill of summoning focus, as you kind of need it in order to perform math, analysis, and logic.
I agree w them that it’s high risk. In autonomous swarms.

But also - there is nothing they can do to stop them!

All our systems, including courts and govermments and elections, are designed assuming the inefficiency of an attacker. An anonymous bot swarm would do things at a scale that dwarfs all humans put together. And the range of things is massive already — just needs to play the internet like a real time strategy game and it’s all over in a matter of weeks.

I can see requirements for real world certificates to vote and post, but that would cause everyone’s identity to be doxxed everywhere. If you think that is far-fetched, well the UK already had drafted such a bill last year: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/24/uk-online-safety-bill-new-pl...

But even given all this, it won’t be enough because communities will come to PREFER BOTS OVER HUMANS for content. (Or human + bot = centaur, read Garry Kasparov and others in the early 2000s after Deep Blue beat him in the rematch). For a while centaurs would rule, but then pure bots would take over.

Consider that Wall Street transitioned from human traders to almost entirely bots, and now Ray Dalio’s hedge fund ousted him and 10% of its workforce and is also doubling down on AI. If they do it in trading, why not content generation? After all, corporations are not humans, either. They tend to prefer to replace humans with automation.
You sound like you have no clue what youre talking about. The limitations of alexa and complaints about alexa are really complaints about the limits of NLP, which have just been expanded.
That's what a firewall is for, NAT does nothing here.
Re Kilts, I'm reminded of that scene in _Braveheart_ where the Scots start flashing and mooning the English before a battle starts.
Like giving Reddit a higher “page score” than other websites?
It is a dilettante, it has not reached the level of "talented" in anything. It knows many things about many things and nothing in depth. Test it on your specialisation, you will see it make absurd mistakes and hallucinations. Try it on a domain you know less about - it looks perfect.
As often is the case with Apple the lack of interoperability to other apps is what kills me. I do not want to use the apple lists app but third-party support is mostly a miss.
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I did consider myself lazy as well and that is what I told people, but then I got pills for ADHD and suddenly I wasn't lazy any longer. So yeah, maybe you aren't lazy and you just have ADHD, or maybe you are lazy, I don't know, but it is worth checking it out. It changed my life, if being lazy is a huge problem in your life I'd suggest to look into ADHD more and maybe try get a diagnosis if it seems to fit.
Anyone familiar with the first SimCity would be well aware that it both launched decades ago, and was not a disaster.
a) Apple TV is not necessarily a service I use. Neither is Apple News.

b) Why does the ads being first-party suddenly make it more acceptable? Ads are ads, and I don't want them on my device, even if they are ads for my computer manufacturer's services.
Of course not, but I see that fact as an indicator of the collateral damage in the continued "War on General Computing" more than anything else. The customer is not always right - what they may want is to be infantilized, but what they need is to be educated.
Not sure why you’re being downvoted, this is a very good answer. Maybe because you left out the implied “and then firewall off that vlan”?
I wrote a GameBoy emulator for my hobby OS
Cities Skylines is alright but my problem with it from when it launched is after about an hour into the game it stops being challenging and just becomes a zen city-builder-themed garden. There's really no chance of losing once you build any kind of cash flow, and as a result there's no obvious goal other than 'make big city' and then subsequently 'manage the traffic'

SimCity on the other hand is challenging to keep going throughout. You need to make thoughtful choices on what you're building next and where or else due to some quirk of the Agent system you're going to be on the brink of collapse (Why won't the power go down this one street??)

Obviously there's room for improvement on the SimCity front, but my point is that if you're looking for a challenging city builder, Skylines is not it unless you wanna spend time configuring mods.
Increased number of available IP addresses, improved security features, simplified network management, reduced network complexity, and support for new technologies. The adoption of IPv6 will lead to cost savings, improved network performance, and increased scalability. Scalability may not matter in the typical home network, but in an enterprise environment, the cost of up-keeping the network backbone is significant.
Apple's dev forums are actually useful but only because of the mind-bending efforts of superhuman Quinn "The Eskimo!", who appears to have been at Apple since forever, is an actual programmer, gives real answers with meaty information and can even look things up in the source code for you. I've lost track of how often I've needed to learn something obscure about Apple's platforms and ended up at a thread where Quinn gives an answer. I've also filed a DTS incident in the past asking a seriously obscure question I wasn't even meant to ask (to do with their code signing system), and got a detailed and correct response back from Quinn+colleagues very quickly. It was by far the best support experience I ever had from a tech firm.

Quinn, if you're out there reading this, I really hope Apple has a succession plan in place for when you take a well deserved retirement!
Funny part is that indiehackers was purchased by stripe, meaning they likely ended up more financially successful than 99% of the startups posting on their site.
Agreed. I'm from the US, I don't feel out of place or uncomfortable at all in Quebec, but I'd have a hard time operating in pre-colonisation Maori.
I bought one as it makes it easier to control my lighting -- and that's all I use it for.

I also however changed the trigger from Alexa to Computer.

Which makes watching episodes of Star Trek... interesting.
OpenTTD fits the bill.

But for me, Sim City/Cities Skylines isn’t about resource generation as much as it is about just… building and expanding a thriving city.

I like the way CS approached this and made it a thing you can do to earn extra money, but it’s not strictly necessary (your industrial areas will auto-import everything they need).
Mine just asks me to "thank" or compliment my driver. Initially they gave drivers money based on their thankfulness metrics but I think that program ended.
I know, did you read my whole post?
> Following the rodeo incident, Necaise decided to finally upgrade, but not to an entirely new machine—just to a floppy-to-USB emulator. These devices cost around $275 each...

That's odd. Gotek and similar emulators should be available for a tenth of that price. There are several variations though, so it smells to me like someone is reselling a Gotek "guaranteed to work" with a specific type of machine with a large markup.
Great tutorial on graph modeling! The author did an excellent job of explaining the basic terminology and practices related to graph databases and graph modeling. The tutorial is well-structured and easy to follow, making it an excellent resource for anyone looking to learn more about graph modeling. The author covers a wide range of use cases for graph databases, including social networks, fraud detection, network analysis, and supply chain management.
I quasi-jokingly have suggested that we will end up with a conlang like lojban (which is designed to be unambiguous) as a kind of "command language" to machines.
Source of energy and materials…
An exercise in perverse incentives. It seemed clear to me from the start that Alexa devices were a Trojan Horse to insert Amazon dependence and ads into real-world situations like writing a grocery list or cooking a meal. Similarly, it's clear that Google's search is a Trojan Horse (at this point) to sell more ads.

Folks need to be discerning with tech purchases. If it isn't in a company's interest to make your experience better (and it is in the company's interest to make your experience worse, say, with ads) when push comes to shove they will prioritize profits over your customer experience. Instead of investing in rotten platforms like Alexa, I wish more people invested in open source and non-exploitative solutions where the incentives align to improve user experience, not destroy it.

Imagine a world where you could self-host or pay a small fee to cloud host your own smart assistant, tweaked to your preferences, not in any way linked into ad sales for Amazon or Google. That's where I'd like to see us go.
Normal people can infer context. Nobody thinks the original game came out in 2013. Everyone knows it was not a disaster.
ActivityPub is a worse is better kind of thing.
I think its naïve to rank skills by a framework or library, but we're talking about a hiring platform website, used by keyword driven recruiters. If they were being more honest and accurate, lumping Django/Node would seem more appropriate. JVM/Java + C#/MSFT seems like it could stand on its own as well.
I have two experiences of using Hired to try to land jobs; I got interview requests, I interviewed, but I never found a role I was committed enough to or qualified enough for.

Both times I came out without any offers. Definitely have my own share of the blame here, but I don't think Hired put a ton of high quality leads on my radar for the effort I put in.
How many people do you believe were "very effective" in office? The truth of the matter is most people are "effective enough".

I honestly don't know if it's actually better or it just appears better. Sure, there are times when fast communication is important, but as we see with Twitter lately it's obvious that rapid fire decisions sometimes aren't the best and while things seem very active and dynamic maybe it'd be better if communication was more considered and thoughtful. Isn't that why that whole "this meeting could have been an email" meme exists?

I agree the companies believe it's an advantage, but I don't know that it is. I don't know that they know it is. Leadership definitely thinks so, and there's a ton of institutional momentum that still hasn't shifted after the last few years, but I don't that it's actually empirically better.
Oh huh, I was thinking the origin of the name "ristretto" was that espresso concentrates a certain amount of coffee in a small cup, whereas ristretto concentrates it even more: in this case it removes a cofactor of 8 and not just 4.
Looks like a guide to bland consistent mediocrity
For the last five technical questions I asked ChatGPT every single one yielded an answer that was either wrong or uselessly vague :( I've now given up. You have to cross-check everything against Google anyway so why not just skip straight to that point.
Thank you so much for this. I hate that people have to abuse Unicode just to get formatting, that screen readers will just... Well if sighted people had to read what screen readers spewed out for Mathematical italics capital letters, the change would have happened years ago.
SC4 (which I still fire up on occasion) has playable regions; in fact, that was the top-line new feature for that installment.

Graphical polish would have been nice, but what the game really needs today is an engine upgrade -- it arrived just before the broad adoption of x64 and multi-core consumer CPUs, so it can't take full advantage of modern systems.
Less operational complexity. VPN overlays for remote management, realtime peer to peer video and audio streaming, etc. just work reliably. You also get to build the address plan to fit your (business) requirements instead of working around which addressspace is available where.
it's not about choosing only one colour, colour blindness and colour systems are more complicated than that.

If you see the image under the "Double the tests, double the success" subtitle you'll see that the blue colours were actually failing a few of the APCA tests for colour contrast.
"Puffery" is just legal lying.
It depends on the language. I assume they trained it more on the most popular ones

It's pretty good in JS, it sucks in Rust
And which one launched a decade ago? How about we combine the three bits of info and see what we think we have... name = "SimCity", launch = 2013, reception = disasterous. Only one of those matches the '89 game, so it's clear which one is being referred to.
Ha ha, you just committed... to thinking about it. If you're the only person in the room who requires this kind of thinking, then you just committed to all of the tasks. Moreover, you've also tacitly accepted the burden of proof.

I've been there, which is why your comment caught my eye. I learned some strategies for dealing with the issue, but of course that learning came with age and stature within the organization, so YMMV. The best is to get agreement that analysis is needed, but delegate it if possible. Some examples of better responses:

* This needs some quantitative thinking before we commit

* One of the engineers can do an analysis

* I could mentor somebody on how to do this kind of analysis
Or aim for extremely high FPS (>250+) on games that are not GPU bound - counterstrike being the typical example here.
Yes. So it's easy to tell which the title is referring to.
Firstly, normally nodes base their automatic IPv6 address on their MAC address, so there will be no conflict between these, since MAC addresses are supposed to be unique to the hardware. Otherwise, it’s a random 64-bit number (actually a few less bits, but not many). It’s very unlikely a collision will happen. And even if it does, there is a protocol (Duplicate Address Detection) to detect it, and avoid it.
I would only voluntarily go back to the office if the commute was similar to WFH. I don't even want to calculate how many hours of my life I've wasted on my 50 mile-each-way commute before WFH.
Sure I think I agree. My point is just you can imagine the post-apocalyptic artist with a human brain painting the beach or just painting the dark landscapes; but we can only imagine the GPT brain painting the dark landscapes, in so far as that is majority of its day to day dataset, thus the statistically likely output.

This suggests a qualitative difference between the two when it comes to "creating" or "generating" that feels far from trivial, even if you want to say the AI can make "good" things, whatever that means to you.
> I know exactly what it means

Are you sure [1]?

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/rentseeking.asp
There are still a few places that sell new or new old stock tapes, including metal tapes, for much better prices than you can find ebay... check out tapeline.info for example. I got a metal tape from them a year or two ago at a reasonable price, but I'm not sure if they currently have any in stock.
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In my flat I wired in the four "ring" induction hob and double oven myself, straight into the electric oven outlet which was rated high enough and fused accordingly.

Maybe homes are all built differently and some stay with outdated wiring?
Excellent! Thank you for the reminder that humility isn’t a weakness.

Side note: love the “We’ll See” story - it’s a perfect illustration of the power of accepting Impermanence (Buddhism)
The advantage mostly falls to the infrastructure. In theory it performs better, but only marginally, which is quickly overwhelmed by simple issues like inferior routes. As an end user, frankly I stopped caring long ago.