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by Buttons840 | 2025-12-01 15:21:28+00:00
The only multiplayer game I currently play is Beyond All Reason (a RTS game).

It's a free and open-source game, so creating a cheat client would be especially easy. But I've never encountered cheating.

I think there's a few reasons for this:

1) The playerbase is small and there is no auto-matchmaking, just a traditional list of servers. This results in the same group of people always playing together. People don't want to cheat when they're playing with acquaintances they see frequently.

2) Spectators are allowed in every game. The top-ranked games usually have several spectators.

You might think this would result in even more cheating, but in practice the spectators would prefer to watch a sneak attacks succeed, because it's funny. It's boring to be whispering the enemy secrets to you buddy on a private Discord, it's more fun to watch your buddy die in a surprising and funny way.

Also, the spectators can spot if a player does something that suspiciously well timed or lucky. The spectators see all, so they have the information needed to spot suspicious behavior.

3) Official servers create an official record of what happened in every game. The entire community has access to all the recordings. If someone thinks cheating is happening they can link to the official game recording on Reddit (or whatever) and everyone can see what happened.

4) An active moderator team reviews every report of cheating. There are official moderators that do the banning, but also volunteer moderators which can watch the recordings and create a trusted written account of what happened; this makes the official moderators have an easier job.
by renewiltord | 2025-12-01 15:21:34+00:00
Yeah, common problem. But trivial to solve. Just have minimal webhook server that records full request and return 200. Then process async.

Trivial Go program, day’s work. Stick it in Postgres, run continuously.

Bizarrely there are vendors who are weird about webhooks. Lifefile, as an example, charges pharmacies a dollar per webhook firing. So the pharmacies are crappy about retry policy.

Tbh I wouldn’t buy any product in this space. It’s too simple with exclusive HTTP server plus Postgres plus processing loop. And with already delicate thing I would rather not introduce more vendors.

No, not even if you converted it into event queue via websocket or zmq or what have you.
by withinboredom | 2025-12-01 15:21:42+00:00
The main issue is that there isn't any governance to the plugin store. Once you have a plugin in there, you have free reign to do whatever you want with it. Getting it in there is a PITA though. For example, a library author and I created a plugin, but they wouldn't let me submit it because I wasn't the other author, and they wouldn't let him submit it because he wasn't me. True story.
by mrcsharp | 2025-12-01 15:21:45+00:00
Adding and removing buttons from the UI is vastly different compared to maintaining a system where which features are enabled/disabled affect the underlying data and potentially interoperability.

Do you want to work on Oracle Database [1]?

By the way, I also don't want the software I use to suffer from quality drop due to new forced "features". I just don't think the way suggested here works well.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18442941
by ICBTheory | 2025-12-01 15:21:51+00:00
Author here.

This paper is Part III of a trilogy investigating the limits of algorithmic cognition. Given the recent industry signals regarding "scaling plateaus" (e.g., Sutskever etc.), I attempt to formalize why these limits appear structurally unavoidable.

The Thesis: We model modern AI as a Probabilistic Bounded Semantic System (P-BoSS). The paper demonstrates via the "Inference Trilemma" that hallucinations are not transient bugs to be fixed by more data, but mathematical necessities when a bounded system faces fat-tailed domains (alpha ≤ 1).

The Proof: While this paper focuses on the CS implications, the underlying mathematical theorems (Rice’s Theorem applied to Semantic Frames, Sheaf Theoretic Gluing Failures) are formally verified using Coq.

You can find the formal proofs and the Coq code in the companion paper (Part II) here:

https://philpapers.org/rec/SCHTIC-16

I’m happy to discuss the P-BOSS definition and why probabilistic mitigation fails in divergent entropy regimes.
by blamestross | 2025-12-01 15:22:06+00:00
You have reasonably available context here. "This year" seems more than enough on it's own.

I think there is ethical use cases for LLMs. I have no problem leveraging a "common" corpus to support the commons. If they weren't over-hyped and almost entirely used as extensions of the weath-concentration machine, they could be really cool. Locally hosted llms are kinda awesome. As it is, they are basically just theft from the public and IP laundering.
by sofixa | 2025-12-01 15:22:16+00:00
> caused by the game companies that took away the standard method of playing multiplayer -- players running their own servers

Let's be real, what % people among those who game are interested in running their own game server? I'm definitely one of them, and one of my earliest tech memories was setting up a CS 1.6 game server for a bunch of classmates (and being unable to play myself because the computer had nowhere near enough capacity for both the server and the actual game running at the same time); but it's a minuscule percentage.
by lizknope | 2025-12-01 15:22:19+00:00
> FreeBSD was also picky with its hardware choices. I'm not sure that the hardware I had would have been fully supported

Copy / paste of my comment from last year about FreeBSD

I installed Linux in fall 1994. I looked at Free/NetBSD but when I went on some of the Usenet BSD forums they basically insulted me saying that my brand new $3,500 PC wasn't good enough.

The main thing was this IDE interface that had a bug. Linux got a workaround within days or weeks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMD640

The BSD people told me that I should buy a SCSI card, SCSI hard drive, SCSI CD-ROM. I was a sophomore in college and I saved every penny to spend $2K on that PC and my parents paid the rest. I didn't have any money for that.

The sound card was another issue.

I remember software based "WinModems" but Linux had drivers for some of these. Same for software based "Win Printers"

When I finally did graduate and had money for SCSI stuff I tried FreeBSD around 1998 and it just seemed like another Unix. I used Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Ultrix, IRIX. FreeBSD was perfectly fine but it didn't do anything I needed that Linux didn't already do.
by vablings | 2025-12-01 15:22:29+00:00
The thousands of RGB drivers from the various manufacturers that are just copy+paste jobs on RWEverything is actually disgusting and Microsoft letting that just happen is a serious problem. Ah yes you added AES to your IOCTL very secure! I'd say the only reason that these drivers haven't been exploited is because of the insane bug bounties in place. There are also other big issues in games, see the whole hack with Apex Legends lmao
by logicprog | 2025-12-01 15:22:36+00:00
Yeah, it is really unfortunate because, like, personally, I think there are a lot of very genuine, very good ethical, social, economic, and material arguments to be made against AI and then dragging their heels on this one transparently ideologically motivated and wrong criticism is just detracting from their credibility, distracting their messaging, and draining their time. And to be clear for me, like, I actually think, yeah, it would be good to have more books written about this, but Empire of AI is actually a pretty good book overall. This stuff it talks about with reinforcement learning workers and the weird bizarre fucked up culture of open AI and stuff are pretty good.

On the other hand, I think Emile P Torres and Timnit Gebru are ideologues that really shouldn't be listened to.
by carlosjobim | 2025-12-01 15:23:03+00:00
They provide all the tools to discover high quality videos and channels. It's called "like and subscribe". If you use those features, it doesn't take long before YouTube shows you only high quality videos. And there's also the dislike button and "Do not recommend this channel again", if you need.

> Freedom of speech in the US...

Freedom of speech is a subject which is much larger than the US constitution. I'm not saying YouTube isn't legally allowed to block sponsored segments. I'm saying that they might not want to because they don't want to limit their creators' speech in that matter. Especially considering how easy it would be to side-step. What would be their reason? They've already made it easy to skip sponsored segments.
by davey48016 | 2025-12-01 15:23:35+00:00
I can't find it, but this question got asked somewhere (Reddit maybe) about 8-10 years ago, and a plumber took the time to respond that many plumbers are actually very passionate about what they do. They don't specifically unclog toilets for fun, but there are plumbers that spend a lot of their free time on plumbing forums, and even some who have projects experimenting with different ways to install certain things.
by paulddraper | 2025-12-01 15:23:45+00:00
This is documented currently (supposed to be 14 days). [1]

That said, I have found runners to be unnecessarily difficult.

But Jenkins and its own quirks, and when I used GitLab, it used ancient docker-machine and outdated AMIs by default.

I think Buildkite has been the only one to make this easy and scalable. But it is meant for self hosted runners.

[1] https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/actions/h...
by dfawcus | 2025-12-01 15:23:53+00:00
One of the problems with Palestine Action is the violent protests they have previously engaged in.

There is a trial in progress at the moment relating to an attack on Elbit Systems where one of the "protestors" seemed to attack a WPC with a sledgehammer. Apparently having caused serious harm to her spine.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c79727zeqyvo

So the folks holding signs expressing their support for the group once it has been proscribed (I believe under the TA 2000) are somewhat ill advised.

If they disagree with the proscription, what they should probably be doing it assisting in the Judicial Review of that proscription which is currently ongoing. Certainly they should be waiting until after the review before expressing any support.

As even if the proscription is overturned, those who expressed support for what is currently viewed as a terrorist org may not have the personal consequences of their support undone.
by NekkoDroid | 2025-12-01 15:24:17+00:00
Overwatch (1 and 2) had/have an avoid system, but it only avoids as teammate. Overwatch 1 use to at the very beginning have a system to avoid a player as a whole and they wouldn't be matched in your game at all, but that was remove really early on, as it is easily abusable against good player (I don't want them on the enemy team, they are too good so just get rid of them entirely) and there was a report system anyway for other kinda bad stuff.

Then there is just the endorsement system, which is just a level from 1-5 and you can endorse people you liked playing with. It doesn't really do much in matchmaking but you can't do certain things if you are below a certain level (I forgot what all it was but you can't make (public?) custom games if you are too low and I think text and voice chat could also get disabled if you are too low).
by Der_Einzige | 2025-12-01 15:24:27+00:00
I am obsessed with Vector computing and I recently became the lucky owner of a Vectrex.

Projects like the VecFever, and PiTrex, exist to make it possible to combine vector displays with much more modern CPU technology, allowing emulating even old Vector arcade titles like Star Wars or Battlezone.

It is criminal that Vector Computing never took off past the 1980s, and has died. Nothing, not even OLEDs (sorry Vectrex-Mini guys!) can replicate the beauty of phosphor glow.

Speaking of amazing forgotten lighting effects, the techniques for the cool lighting effects used in Don Bluth films (and his games like Dragons Lair) are also forgotten/unused and I find them analogous to vector displays.

I find the death of Vector Displays and the cool display tech Don Bluth did to be great examples of "Worse is Better" and counterexamples to the idea that progress overtime inevitably makes things better.

I wanted a TechTronix vector computer super bad, and still do, especially the one's with the fast 3D and color add-ons.

I'll drop a few motivating videos:

0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M98VOoGFLL8 (TekTronix 3D/Color stuff)

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Dv15YRAmzM

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j60DV0Ujp_E

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAPHGBM2sQ8

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUB6OYeCKek
by MPLan | 2025-12-01 15:24:40+00:00
The debate around improving safety in cities often revolves around whether this means deploying more police or not. In New York City, the recent mayoral election had certain candidates promise an increase in police patrols, while another candidate proposed the creation of a non-police unit to deal with certain issue (homelessness and mental health).

But do these non-police approaches work? A recent paper by Blattman, Duncan, Lessing and Tobon (2024) (“BDLT”) tackles this issue with a fascinating research design and find somewhat surprising answers!
by bellamoon544 | 2025-12-01 15:24:57+00:00
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by ux266478 | 2025-12-01 15:25:14+00:00
If you're interested in something of an even higher degree of robustness and are fine with an ARM device, check out the MNT Reform Next: https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/mnt-reform-next

I really wish we could get an MNT device with upstream support, if not an x86 processor. Having used the Pocket Reform, I think about it quite often. It's almost perfect.... but the ARM chip and all the warts that come with SoC crap basically is the one single thing that keeps me from using one.
by deeptishukla22 | 2025-12-01 15:25:15+00:00
Sam Altman has shifted his stance from calling ads a "last resort" and "uniquely unsettling" as recently as last May to saying he "finds ads somewhat distasteful but not a nonstarter" in a podcast this month, while CEO of applications Fidji Simo said in a companywide meeting in recent weeks that OpenAI was looking at advertising and how it could benefit users according to two current employees
by MisterTea | 2025-12-01 15:25:26+00:00
But can it run Crysis? No. Not on Linux :-(

I actually really liked Crysis for its open maps where you can approach a goal using different tactics. It had a lot of flaws and I hated the alien ship along with everything after as it was way too linear. Though I really want to play it again but alas, no more Windows for me.
by ecshafer | 2025-12-01 15:25:42+00:00
Are you in a major tech market (SF? Seattle?)

I was a laid off in the beginning of the year from my remote job, landed several interviews, and I found a new job in <2 months. My resume is less impressive than yours, ~10 years of experience.

I was able to land interviews with some remote companies. I used to work at Shopify, a got some interviews at Ruby shops from that.

Some possibilities:

1. Ageism, this is a distinct possibility.

2. You held very senior positions. I think a lot of people don't like hiring people that were more senior than them. So that CTO is being held as a negative. They are not saying "Hey I get the experience of an EM and a CTO in a Senior Engineer for a bargain salary", they are worried you will overshadow them. This is sub optimal behavior for companies.

3. Talking to people I think non-tech markets look like they are doing fine. People I know in Rochester, Syracuse, and Cleveland aren't having issues getting jobs. I think the huge layoffs in big tech have left a big supply in tech cities to less demand.
by ISSOtm | 2025-12-01 15:26:28+00:00
Is it really that low an impact? A lot of the work performed in CI is duplicated (`apt update && apt install texlive-full` f.ex.), and thus there'd be a benefit to running it less often.

Consider also https://openssf.org/blog/2025/09/23/open-infrastructure-is-n... :

> Automated CI systems, large-scale dependency scanners, and ephemeral container builds, which are often operated by companies, place enormous strain on infrastructure. > These commercial-scale workloads often run without caching, throttling, or even awareness of the strain they impose.

...which implies that the load isn't negligible.
by fertom00 | 2025-12-01 15:26:47+00:00
I'm astonished and also disappointed to see that the book has dedicated sections for the metaheuristics Firefly and Cuckoo Search. I don't know what happened there, but any experienced researcher from the field knows that these metaheuristics (among several others) are not serious and are very criticized in the community.

There is even a paper in ITOR about this: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/itor.12001

Unfortunately, there are some "research bubbles" in the community of people that only work with these shady metaheuristics and keep citing each other. This is getting so bad to the point that I still frequently see in conferences people using such metaheuristics and believing that they are ok, only to get criticized by someone in the audience later.
by paxiscivlab | 2025-12-01 15:27:02+00:00
I don’t think they’re unique. They’re simply among the first to run into the problems AI creates.

Any white-collar field—high-skill or not—that can be solved logically will eventually face the same pressure. The deeper issue is that society still has no coherent response to a structural problem: skills that take 10+ years to master can now be copied by an AI almost overnight.

People talk about “reskilling” and “personal responsibility,” but those terms hide the fact that surviving the AI era doesn’t just mean learning to use AI tools in your current job. It’s not that simple.

I don’t have a definitive answer either. I’m just trying, every day, to use AI in my work well enough to stay ahead of the wave.
by soulofmischief | 2025-12-01 15:27:23+00:00
I'm sorry, but you clearly lack the most basic understanding of scientific history, and do not understand what philosophy even is.

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

> Aristotle pioneered scientific method in ancient Greece alongside his empirical biology and his work on logic, rejecting a purely deductive framework in favour of generalisations made from observations of nature.

Aristotle, the famous philosopher and mathematician.

If you cannot understand the very nature of where our modern scientific frameworks came from, how it relates to rationalism, itself a philosophical concept, then you cannot see that philosophy underpins every bit of science we have today. Philosophy gives us the tools to decide when to reasonably trust or distrust observations and intuitions. It is the foundational science that allows the rest of humanity's scientific research to be taken seriously.
by GaryBluto | 2025-12-01 15:27:30+00:00
If I had to choose between something that does what I want it to and crashes occasionally and something that doesn't do what I want it to and crashes frequently, what do you think I'd choose?

Wayland reminds me very much of the Disk Utility application that shipped with Mac OS X El Capitan. The developers rewrote it because the original person who wrote it wasn't at Apple anymore and it ended up being pretty much useless due to massive amount of missing features.
by doom2 | 2025-12-01 15:27:31+00:00
> but out in the official data, and less so but still true in the real world, things are still bobbing along. Not great guns but still ok. The interesting thing is how much is internet chatter a leading signal for this thing now than in previous cycles?

It's really interesting to read both this comment and the featured article because my recollection is that one of the big reasons Harris lost in 2024 is that Democrats kept saying the underlying economic data was fine but voters felt things were bad, even if they weren't (the so-called 'vibecession'). Maybe also a bit of distrusting economic experts. So which is it? Are voters just being illogical and should trust when others say the economy is doing fine? Or is there something not being captured in economic data that validates people's concerns?
by tovej | 2025-12-01 15:27:47+00:00
Just read your own text back please. It is full of ideological rhetoric and devoid of calm rational discussion.

Let's just pick out some examples here: "Your head is so far up your ass that you don't even realise that you basically described the Chinese system", "But you'll tell us how actually it's all liberalism and whatnot, for sure you have a special history we don't know about that contradict every common sources we know about", "even the hardest left-wingers are not stupid enough to believe the garbage they sell to the wider populace", "You seem to be getting high on your own supply".

Please calm down and respond to the points I made if you wish to debate me. As it stands you are making incorrect assumptions about my views while hitting random political talking points along the way. It's not really possible to respond to this wall of nonsense, as it barely has any connection to the discussion at hand.
by baq | 2025-12-01 15:27:48+00:00
LLMs don't really exist physically (except in the most technical sense), so point is kind of moot and obvious if you accept this particular definition of a feeling.

LLMs are not mammals nor animals, expecting them to feel in a mammalian or animal way is misguided. They might have a mammalian-feeling-analog just like they might have human-intelligence-analog circuitry in the billions (trillions nowadays) of parameters.
by jamesbelchamber | 2025-12-01 15:27:50+00:00
For those of you not closely following UK politics: the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) mistakenly published their Economic and Fiscal Outlook (EFO) document 40 minutes early, pre-empting the announcements by the Chancellor.

This is being treated as an incredibly big deal here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd74v35p77jo
by ajross | 2025-12-01 15:29:21+00:00
You've shifted jargon again. But you're still not providing a description or link to why AI doesn't "have experience", you're just demanding we all accept it as a prior and engaging in a (really pretty baldly stated) appeal to authority to fool us all into thinking someone else knows even if you don't.

And fundamentally my point is that no, they almost certainly don't either.
by digitalsushi | 2025-12-01 15:30:09+00:00
if my operating system had an atomic Undo/Redo stack down to each register being flipped (so basically, impossible, star trek tier fantasy tech) i would let ai run commands without worrying about it. i could have a cool scrubber ui that lets me just unwind time like doctor strange using that green emerald necklace, and, i'd lose nothing, other than confuse my network with replay session noise. and probably many, many other inconsistencies i can't think of, and then another class that i dont know that i dont know about.
by more_corn | 2025-12-01 15:30:42+00:00
Anything waterproof or grease-proof, or fire retardant can only do so because of forever chemicals.

Paper coffee cups, grease-proof paper for takeout or bbq. Children’s pajamas are required to be flame retardant. The only way that can be done is with forever chemicals.

Avoiding exposure to forever chemicals really can’t be done at the consumer level. It must be done at the government level. The science is clear that they cause organ failure and that they accumulate in our bodies at a rate far above safe levels. It’s madness that they haven’t been banned. The FDA approved a forever chemical based pesticide last week.