jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the post. It was very interesting, however, I honestly do not see it addressing my question. Most of the problems he mentions are due to client-side trust issues.

However, there is nothing there that should be hard to pick up by modelling normal behavior, and then being able to flag the anomalies. Most things he manipulated were known server side. Going the route of installing rootkits seems like fools errand to me, of which I can understand a possible non-nefarious intention behind... but it starts stinking to high water unless the other more obvious approaches are not seriously exhausted.

Develop mathematical models for likelihoods of cheating based on user input, and non-conforming game states. Create a heuristic that takes into account time spent and the possible cost of losing progress. Move possible cheaters into isolated environments where they go up against each-other. Or subtly punish by reducing drop rates.

In the post you linked to, he mentioned things like. 125-500% move speed. 200-2500% DMG increases, by manipulating client side states. However, surely, this is trivial to detect server side?

The hardest things I can imagine detecting are probably stochastic cheats like randomly improving your aim and reaction time, but these arguably less severe, to a point where if it becomes super-human, it again becomes detectable. And, these are also the kind of cheats that typically can be done through user input, and thus very easy to make undetectable to any root-kit like anti cheat.

For lest than the cost of one AAA game, you can buy the hardware required to do this processing completely outside of any rootkit. If cheating is your thing, and based on the post in question, the cheater could make back this investment in 15 minutes... arguably.

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But, to sort reply to your answer to my question. I'm curious, do you have some more details other than "yes"? The post you linked, to me, read as "nope, The Division does not do that this at all. And if they did, very few things this person did would have been possible".
Because accepting the potential demise of modern complex society and the collapse of ecosystems and biodiversity world wide and a mass exctinction event because "Fuck it China and India are bad so lets just party until the end." Is fucking stupid.

The proper framing is we need to reduce emissions and so does China and India so how do we facilitate that. The answer is to
1.) Reduce our own emissions to have the moral basis to push other countries to reduce their emissions.
2.) Tax imported goods based on the emissions created in their production. Incentivizing foreign countries to reduce their emissions to be competitive in US markets.
3.) Lobby other countries to do the same using the diplomatic means we have at our disposal.
Thanks for your answer. Yes, this is not a case of lacking science, research, or even treatment capabilities. It is a case of too many hoops to jump.

Maybe twenty years from now some people with a high degree of knowledge, skills, and some resources will be able to get around these hoops illegally (by the laws of certain jurisdictions) and fix these conditions (or kill themselves or somebody else trying, but so does god/nature and doctors, with different[citation needed] probability distributions).
I left a comment about my personal recommendations but after reading this it may not be as applicable. My intent here is not from a basis of negativity but I’m impressed with the cannabis mass you consume monthly.
It seems like a steady decrease may be a better approach for you - than cold turkey etc.
As mentioned in another comment I’m not personally concerned about my cannabis usage (on the order of 5 grams a month) but I have had (and continue to have) addiction issues with nicotine.
I’ve found that steadily decreasing daily or weekly intake is a viable way to decrease net consumption. Possibly packing smaller bowls could be a good way to start? Other tricks I’ve found to help a little is sort of an “intermittent fasting approach” - where you set a window of hours where you can consume and do not consume outside those hours.
Once again best of luck to you!
To add: Even Fox News reports it as hundreds: https://www.foxnews.com/us/dc-protesters-police-clash-on-eve...

and at least 6 have been arrested for weapons possession and assaulting police officers... so not exactly peaceful pro-democracy folks, given that what they are protesting is a (mostly) functional democratic process.
I live in Taiwan and have been reading the news here all year.

> Again: they shut their borders before there were any cases.

Again, your claim isn't true. Taiwan had cases from the very first set of Wuhan evacuees.

The virus has "gotten in". No local transmission doesn't mean people haven't been returning infected from Wuhan, other Chinese cities, Europe and elsewhere all year.

Those infections haven't spread, though.

Why are you so unwilling to give credit where credit is clearly due? Taiwan has done an exemplary job during this pandemic, despite high population density, close proximity to the initial outbreak and zero support whatsoever from the WHO.
I checked with my old classmates who currently work at Microsoft and LinkedIn, and they do not require permission for accessing company resources from abroad. One of them has been working from Israel and Turkey for many months in 2020. Another has been in Mexico since the pandemic began.

I'm not sure what team you worked in, it's possible some teams have stricter policies. If you were doing business with Microsoft, the export control language is boilerplate contract language.
I meant "better" in the sense that one can do logic programming from whatever language one is familiar with already, instead of installing and learning a whole new ecosystem. We would still have to learn logic programming.
I'm currious, what incentives would solve them in what way?
About 10-15 years ago my sister's highschool classmate tried to fund a startup to build mechanisms that would store energy by towing buoys down to the bottom of the ocean. I can't find it on the web now, though.

It's an interesting idea compared to other gravity storage solutions because

- It's the volume of the buoy rather than the mass that's important

- It could be colocated with and hooked up to offshore wind farms to smooth their generation

- You don't need to build a super-tall crane or elevated reservoir (but you do have to assemble the thing at the bottom of the ocean which sounds hard)

I haven't heard anything about it in ages so it must have turned out not to be practical.
Can we do the same thing with gyms?
"Ecliptic alignment of CMB anisotropy

Some large features of the microwave sky at distances of over 13 billion light years appear to be aligned with both the motion and orientation of the solar system. Is this due to systematic errors in processing, contamination of results by local effects, or an unexplained violation of the Copernican principle?"

Wait what? An unexplained violation of the Copernican principle? That's pretty crazy. What is being referred to? The article on the CMB says that it's isotropic to one part in a thousand
> The secret is to surround yourself with people who don't
> have the same agenda as you

Absolutely. I was called for Jury Duty a few months back. No courts ended up needing jurors during my two week service, so I ended up sitting in a comfortable room with wifi and a bunch of people I didn't know who weren't interested in what I was doing.

I got more work done in those two weeks than I had sitting in my office or working from home. It was magical. The next time a heavy deadline rolls around I'm considering packing my stuff and heading to the university library -- anywhere where I can reattain that ambient sociability.
The good of the homeland and money. You're essentially being paid to do two jobs. Go work for a good salary in a foreign country, and then collect a good salary from your intelligence agency.

Hell if you're targeting the US, why not do it? The worst that can happen to you is that you'll be deported and go back home to work a great job within the government.
So how is this different from LastPass?
If the entire security of the company rests on every intern being fully competent, that's the higher ups fault.
All the such energy/BTC arguments miss that BTC (and other crypto) mining in space has no limit and will become feasible when Starships start flying. And it looks to be more profitable than asteroid mining :)

People frequently raise the issue of cooling in space while missing the fact that at 60C 1m2 radiates away 700w - enough to cool 3-4 mining GPUs which can basically be just slapped on that heatsink.
I think you’ve focusing too much on aesthetics.
Reminds me of this tweet.

https://twitter.com/HedgingChaos/status/1364675046191546377
Ethereum isn't currently proof of stake, or did I miss out on some huge news?
I perfectly agree that Bitcoin has stopped innovating long ago to become many people's wasteful cash cow, and needs to die soon.

But I don't like "it's actually meant to be digital gold" revisionism.
That's a good question.. and I don't know the answer myself:

The shop site is run by FastSpring because I didn't want to have to deal with all the VAT weirdness in the EU. Maybe that's why they asked you, so they can decide wether to charge you VAT or not.
>Now we have to qualify any sentence referencing the Economics price each time we say it.

They should have to do that, but they don't. Which is precisely the point, and why they didn't name it something else.
Impacts on life from prison that are independent of guilt or innocence? Now it may make them more /deserving/ but it would be worse for the guilty party.

Granted it may be better for society (may because nothing stops the law from being messed up) so the question is worse for who?
Yes quite steep if you have enough devs you can pay for in-house gitlab server + admin
Looks are often quite misleading when you actually start to investigate collision safety.
> A well compensated white collar professional will get judged hard for driving a pickup in some social circles

Is this a fact in (I'm assuming) NorCal?

I'm in one of the parts of the country where everyone drives pickups, so it kind of boggles my mind.

Does no one tow or haul things there?
Sun shining on your roof is also a waste of energy.
That's a truck only if you consider a Subaru Baja a truck. If you want a real crack at the F-150's market share, it has to be usable for work. If you can't put a stack of plywood or drywall in the back and still have room for tools and a ladder, it's useless as a work truck. Will this thing even accept a ladder rack? Has a single person on the design team ever spent a single day working a blue collar job that requires a truck?
Not to defend Microsoft too much, but that's a bogus comparison.

And besides that, I don't even know what the point is. It's faster fix and deploy websites than it is to fix and deploy operating system patches? Well no shit.
Something doesn't add up for me. I constantly push the github "merge" button, and I've never, ever, seen an error AFTER I push it. It it wasn't checking for mergeability on actually current master, that seems surprising.

Is the issue that the button knows if a pull will merge ok, because it does test on current master, but the diff shown in the UI is different from that, and not on current master, and just on the older commit? If so, I think this could have been clarified better in the post.

Even so, this means that sometimes the button should be red - can't merge, has conflicts - while the diff as shown looks fine. I've never seen that happen. So something is puzzling here.
They're paying others first because you have been too friendly. I worked with somebody (same office, separate business) who was just before bankruptcy and saw first hand how he prioritized payments. It was never about amounts or number of calls but who had a lawyer and who didn't.

Watch the classic "fuck you, pay me" http://vimeo.com/22053820, and call a lawyer. It's sadly common in business.
Looks to be inspired by GoCardless (https://developer.gocardless.com/) and Stripe's API (https://stripe.com/docs/api) docs.

As an aside, GoCardless open-sourced their API docs https://github.com/gocardless/api-docs .
We're still figuring out probabilistic knowledge representation. So much depends on context.

Earlier approaches are fraught with problems. Expressing an encoded fact that translates to "Obama is the president." is far too simplistic. It does not take into account the proper context (president of the USA), and time period (from January 20th, 2009 to the current time) and so on.

These contexts: conversation (were we talking about politics?), location (USA, Russia, etc.), all need to be captured as best as possible and appropriately considered when trying to apply a learned fact. Maybe the context is hypothetical (talking about an alternate history where McCain won the election) or fantastical (talking about President Garrett Walker in the TV show House of Cards).

The existing systems I've seen can't really handle all of that.

Somehow we humans are generally good at figuring out which sets of contexts are appropriate to apply in a given situation, and doing it quickly. What's tricky is that even in a single conversation with one person, the context may switch from historical, to hypothetical and back again quickly.
I don't mind channeling the REAL engine noise into the car. Like the article said, it can be preferable to the sound of bumps in the road or whining of wind. And for car enthusiasts who actually work on their own cars, sound is a key part of detecting and diagnosing issues with the car.

But they need to cut it out with the fake noise. That's just glamor and it's unnecessary. The only exception I would support is for electric cars, for the purpose of pedestrian safety.
I understand, and I honestly don't know how to phrase it better either.
This is a point which Lewis explored in fiction, through the trials of Mark Studdock in That Hideous Strength. Studdock has tried all his life to become part of that "Inner Ring," whether as a schoolboy, as part of the "Progressive Element" at Bracton, or in the (very ironically acronymmed) N.I.C.E., but, in the process, he has compromised a large part of himself, including his relationship with his wife.

(This is the third book in the "Space Trilogy," but it's the one that has the least to do with "space." Instead, it's chock full of Lewis' philosophies; the central theme of the story is straight out of The Abolition of Man. )
I don't understand what he means by "semantic concepts". Anyone?
The economics of cost-plus do not favor the buyer.
I think PayPal is like that. For the price of an extra middle man.
As much as I enjoy HN, no, it is only one small part of my news consumption in a number of fields, which primarily comes in the form of RSS feeds. Currently I use Google Reader but I've used all kinds of readers. Since I prefer the Dave Winer-style "stream of news" approach I can trivially change readers since I don't generate a backlog. I've used "stream of news" since it was, well, the only choice since there was only one RSS generator and consumer and that's what it used.
It would be great if you would allow for multiple test URLs, i.e. make the “Enter a URL” input field a textarea that accepts a new URL on every line.

Another suggestion: why not just use localStorage instead of a $_SESSION?
How so? Because some of those companies don't actually own and operate the physical data centers?
Rackspace Cloud Sites would be a great example of cloud computing. It behaves like traditional shared hosting, with an easy to use control panel, but behind the scenes it can scale automatically with traffic and load. Obviously the database doesn't scale, but the frontend web servers do, all without user intervention.

EDIT: to the downmodders, please explain how Cloud Sites is not an example of cloud computing. It is a pool of shared hardware and software resources, the details and maintenance of which are abastracted away from the users, with the ability to automatically and infinitely scale up based on demand without user intervention, sold using an IaaS model?
Summary:

1. Android is a Linux derivative with non-mainline changes, suck as "wake locks".

2. Android uses a non-Java ME (the official Java for mobile devices) Java environment. It's closer to Java SE.

3. And it doesn't use the JVM, it uses Dalvik.

4. Android was not initially developed by Google. It was acquired by them. The company was composed of former Danger staff who worked on the Sidekick and such. [I'd argue this point, as Android is a completely different best than the builds that were coming out around acquisition time. The only thing that's practically the same is that both used the Linux kernel).

5. SQLite is pervasive in Android.
Yeah, the recursive backtracker is my favorite. Nicer results, and its very flexible. The other algorithms that I'm going to review are interesting for various reasons, and you can learn a lot about the structure and "essence" of graphs by implementing them, but they aren't as generally useful for maze generation as the recursive backtracker.
I migrated from un-official feeds of HN on Twitter to here.
It is better anyways because you can see the discussion behind it.
The Wikipedia article on DTC isn't very informative

What is the relationship between the NYSE and DTC?
I never forget 16 June 2013.
That's really about timing. If it was earlier in his administration then leadership within the CDC, FDA, etc wouldn't have avoided blunter disagreement with chloroquine enema man. As it is they risked a major public safety crisis to keep their jobs, perhaps on the theory that whoever he would hire to replace them would be an active safety threat.
Clojure exists outside the JVM as well (ClojureScript, Babashka, ClojureCLR)
> can be developed through exercise or atrophy through lack of it.

There's a personal upper limit that can be improved only when one is a child from what I've read. Whilst at the same time, damaging one's cognitive intelligence is doable at any age, yes. And to some extent, undoing the damage

You wrote elsewhere:

> The book has an entire chapter called "Raising Cognitive Ability"

Makes me interested in reading the book :-)
The string "put" does not occur in the article referenced.

Existing restrictions became sizable due to the market volatility. This impacted certain clients of the brokerage that had significant exposure to the names relative to their account.

Not the same thing as the brokerage implementing new restrictions.
A react component to render list with swipeable items. Items can have one or more actions on left (leading) and right (trailing) swipe and different behaviour depending on props.
To be fair, the submitter is looking for anecdotes from people who have regretted it--so makes sense less people who don't regret it would respond here.
Within the first minute of his talk at XOXO back in 2012, he mentioned 4chan being about anonymity and ephemerality, not a blanket endorsement for freedom of all type of speech.

If you haven't heard it, it's worth a listen (20:59).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxRNRi7bOSI
Sanity disclaimer: I'm sure right/left brained isn't the best or most current model of personality/cognition, but it's widely known and helps to frame this question, which I find interesting.

Is there a personality type which makes for better programmers?

Character of the archetypical left-brained person:
fastidious
strong logical/reasoning skills
thinks in terms of structures

whereas the right-brained person
finds creative/un-obvious solutions to problems
good at thinking laterally
thinks in analogies, better at spotting similarities than differences

Now there are many different ‘modes of thought’ a programmer encounters: coming up with the organising principles of a framework, chasing down a Heisenbug, finding a (slightly dirty) solution which saves having to re-write masses of code; these require very different cognitive skills.

Do different parts of a companies’ dev community tend to be populated by one personality type? Should even small teams contain a mix?

Is it possible to be a very right-brained, very productive programmer? And if so, is it at all clear to non-programmers that a career in software development is possible if you’re the “creative type”?
It's not so much a show of force vs a show of importance.

If it was super secure we wouldn't know all this stuff about it.
I may be misunderstanding you, but it feels like strings and datetimes are library related more than language related.

I know that higher level languages will have primitives that aim to represent strings, but if you need to get into the weeds with Unicode then you'll be leaning on a library regardless
> I have seen recently several discussions in the HN/Substack blog milleau about nuclear war “not being that bad.”

I think that was a fear of death cope. Downplaying such events reduces the temporary anxiety of thinking about living in a world where nukes have been unleashed.

It's hard to overstate how annihilating these weapons are to the areas that are struck by them, and how decimating they are even to the population areas not directly struck but heavily dependent on the major population centers.
I have the family SMS group as well.

I can't imagine having much use for a social network after all these years of social networks being awful, but maybe a truly different and more liberated one would offer some possibilities.
Well, Spaniards drink a lot of it, and coincidentally they have one of the lowest heart disease rate in the world.
Also a factor their laid-back culture and olive (oil) consumption.
Just to add to the list, Noam Chomsky has long maintained that the NYT has a very strong agenda regarding Israel which manifests in any and all related coverage.[1]

Such an idea ran contrary to my long held sentiment for the NYT as rational and unbiased but I am seeing it more and more.

[1] Chomsky writes about this in Understanding Power.
> You are describing scenarios where it’s noticeable. It’s like saying if a tree falls in the woods and no one is there.

OK, but I believe in this situation, there is no physical sound, unlike if a tree falls in the woods. It's an auditory hallucination. A visual hallucination isn't there if I don't see it, and neither is an auditory hallucination.

FWIW I think we're largely in agreement. I described that I can gain tinnitus at-will by meditating, but I wouldn't say meditation causes tinnitus. And I can certainly see the AirPod/tinnitus connection being of the same nature - nothing with the physical hearing systems at all and instead a consequence of a change in the mind - even though I wouldn't say tinnitus is "always there".
I read an much improved version of this, I forget where:

Put things back in the first place you looked, or the first place you would look for it.
Missing:

Big tech and the end of privacy plus firing people up with fear and hate using the maximal amount of lies they will individually tolerate and believe.
C is a dangerous language, but I would not ban discussions about it.
American readers are now realizing what NYT's international readers knew years ago. That they make up their minds first and then write articles to fit that narrative. Their international reporting has been biased crap for years and now the domestic reporting has caught up.
Fair enough. Then how would you suggest we raise awareness otherwise? In a celebrity obcessed culture, how do you get "old school" types to appreciate and embrace newer ideas about employees, health, mental health, and so on?

I'm not being combative. I'm sincerely looking for a conversation on such things. To me it's all very obvious. But even a pandemic hasn't seemed to change necessary behaviours (e.g., diet).