skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am surprised people don't virtualize the game and do their analysis at a level that the OS and game can't detect. Ultimately, these games trust that the hardware they're running on behaves according to specification. That is clearly an unwise assumption. Cheaters may not be taking this path today, but it gets easier and easier as time goes on, and it sounds like they're not prepared at all. (Some other comments mention that current games look for virtualization software installed on the same OS install that the game is running on and fails the integrity check if found. I can't imagine that stops anyone actually determined to cheat. I imagine it annoys people that test their Docker images on the same machine they play the game on, though.)

Even if virtualization is detectable, you can also take the computer entirely out of the loop. The state of the art for aimbots seems to be reading game memory and applying synthetic mouse movements at the OS level. That is quite a blunt instrument to apply and I'm sure that no game has a major problem with this kind of aimbot. A more elegant aimbot would look at the video of the game, look for targets, and provide the necessary mouse movements over USB. At best, the only countermeasure is to make enemies harder to see or to learn some heuristic in mouse movement that differentiates the bot from a human... but injecting randomness is straightforward and nobody needs a 100% accurate aimbot anyway. The pros destroy you with 30% accuracy.

Finally, it's unclear if there is even any advantage to be gained by cheating. If you want a higher rank in a competitive game, you can just pay someone to play on your account. From what I've read on Reddit... many of the people offering these services are apparently professional players. No anti-debugger hook is going to detect that.

It should be interesting to see how this advances. While games that rely solely on mechanics or information hiding are clearly doomed in the long run, it's probably good news for the rest of the software industry. What is your cloud provider really doing? Is your own software compromised? The tools used to cheat in games will be quite valuable in answering these questions and protecting your users from people that actually have something tangible to gain from these actions.
Or George R. R. Martin, who "still uses the MS-DOS version of WordStar 4.0".

I used WordStar briefly at school on (ancient, even then) MS-DOS 2 computers donated by a petrol station whose POS software was burned into the screens. I didn't think much of it - I'd already seen newer software.
> Telling someone you’ve smoked pot or telling someone you’ve taken 2 hits of LSD generate very different reactions.

Mention that you're interested in some of the more obscure mescaline derivatives or tryptamines and you'll get another one!
Oracle product vulnerabilities hit all-time high
Labor doesn’t get a proportional piece of it, and nradov didn’t say it does. From my reading, nradov just said increases in pay above the norm are sustainable if revenue is also increasing at a rate above norm.
Why does every ant get docked for being a "centaur" with 2 thoraces, and yet HTC goes unpunished?
As witness to an accident in China I've seen how reluctant people are to help the injured. I've heard there can be liability for anyone who gets involved and that there's many scams, which could explain why people behave as they do.

The default behavior in China seems to be "ignore and keep moving" while everywhere else usually at least one person will help immediately. I couldn't believe that so many people could look at someone so obviously in distress, bleeding on the street, and none willing to even call for help.
The title is misleading : only a small subset (-betterC) of the D langage currently is supported, and that's too bad!
Its just risk analysis. The cost involved in splitting things over multiple data centers vs. the chance of your single DC getting wiped out. Declaring bankruptcy if it happens will be the best business decision in many cases, or insurance if the risk is higher or owners can't afford the loss or have liability.
From my European perspective, US customer service is simply too much. Hovering over you, with that unnerving fake-feeling politeness. It makes me feel sort of like an errant child that needs help finding his mommy.

I don't need to be coddled, it's actually rather condescending.

I much prefer the European way of letting you look for yourself and then asking simply "can I help you?", if you look like you don't quite know what you're looking for. And if you tell them "I'm just browsing", they'll leave you alone, to browse in peace. Much less stressful.
> The latter is a real hard problem for crypto that will require an entire generation to die off (those who can't understand and will never understand that using a 3rd party to manage your money isn't compulsory or even desirable anymore) before things evolve.

This is not a description of why cryptocurrency is intrinsically hard to use. It's intrinsically hard to use because -
- It requires insane levels of OpSec to keep safe
- It can be sent to the wrong place with a typo, and never recovered
- Its transactions are irreversible, this is not a feature for most users
- The fees are opaque and variable
- Transaction processing can take an arbitrary amount of time

It's not that people 'don't understand' that using a 3rd party is unnecessary, it's that these third parties provide a lot of valuable services. The use of cryptocurrency is a marked step backwards from the existing situation for most scenarios.
The centaur idea refers to the ant's front legs not resting on the ground, not to the double thorax. I found that jarring too, but the ratings are based on appeal and HTC is apparently being rated as elegant abstract art. Compare LG's rating of "This ant is wrong in every way, and yet I can't stay mad at her. 7/10"

Looking more closely, the most disturbing thing I see in these is the Google ant, which has somehow placed its left front leg over its left middle leg. It feels like a layer mixup; that position is completely impossible in normal motion.
Exactly this. The moment you send it via IP you have the IP address and therefore have PII data. And the moment you take screenshots you cannot not be sure what you collected.

This does go further beyond GDPR as it is imho an intrusion into the inner most personal space. I believe a German court of law would have a field day ripping this practice apart, if a case would be presented.

Esp. if they do not totally make it clear upfront what they are doing. In a way every layman is able to understand.
The original maths is correct. You have neglected the fact that the 4 failed drives can be any of the 20. Your calculations are for 4 specific drives failing.
> I think allowing diabetics access to life saving medication is preferable,

I don't think anyone is arguing for diabetics to not have access.

My problem here is how someone knows they are diabetic.

But I saw little in the article actually describe what the process would be for deciding what can be sold like this, I know diabetes is not mentioned.
Moved to https://github.com/assafmo/gl-calc/tree/master/data
" Their safety and efficacy exist only within highly structured specialized treatment settings. In addition, desired outcomes depend upon the production of a temporary but profoundly regressed, disorganized and incapacitated state. Outside of that structure, psychedelics are no less abusable, acutely debilitating and liable to result in psychological damage—sometimes severe and unremitting—than they ever were."

This doesn't meet with my general experiences.

I've never understood how something like LSD can be "abused" in the way that alcohol can be abused... my experience (and the hundreds of folks I know who've used it) is that at some point, you have bad experiences with it and you stop. That's not a cyclical abuse pattern like with alcohol, where you become addicted and continue on despite the terrible toll on your health.

Similarly, of the people who have been heavily involved with psychedelics and the general outcomes aren't any worse than for the hundreds of functioning alcoholics I know.

While it is true that these kinds of drugs can put you in some really scary places and while it is true that they can possibly have longer-lasting negative effects, the article doesn't make a very compelling case to me to keep these chemicals scheduled so that only researchers have legal access to them.

Pieces like these are interesting... I can see a strand of "messianic utopianism" in some discussion of these drugs, but most of the folks I know who want these things legalized don't have an agenda beyond "I like it and have found it helpful in my life". It's a strange way to characterize the discourse... it'd be like characterizing pieces like these as having an agenda to keep these drugs out of peoples' had out some misguided sense that only clinicians know what kinds of things healthy people should do. That is clearly not what motivates most researchers I have met.
Not sure if you're being sarcastic. The very best and most pleasant restaurants I've ever been to are French. Alsace, to be precise. Wonderful people, absolutely amazing food.
> There was a way to compile D to WASM before (using the dscripten package), however that was more akin to a collection of loose pieces strung together.

Indeed :-)

The toolchain building scripts were a maintainance nightmare ; I'll be happy to drastically simplify them, especially if it means I can now use the vanilla LDC compiler (instead of having to integrate fastcomp and clang-fastcomp (Emscripten's forks of llvm and clang, respectively)).
It's a start and ideally eventually all of D will be able to run under -betterC or just enough of it at least is what I understand is the goal.
That's Tumblr for you in a nutshell. Everything is an emotional opinion
This is not true. Even when you buy a simple car, our IRS will require a proof. But it's still easy to cheat them.
What perception of market segment have to do with PCI compliance?
You haven't read the content, then.
Rethink Rebuild – What Could This Mean for You?
If these estimates are not accurate, what process produces them?
Nice vision.

Off topic. Why is the Stripe Brazil so slow to start working in Brazil? I believe Brazil has an huge space to growths in online payments, and if it process "boletos" (a Brazilian way to pay stuff) besides credit card will be very helpful.
>> I know the unspoken reason for my dismissal.

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>> I felt blessed to be able to dive into Chinese data everyday exploring aspects that most in my position simply do not get to explore.

He worked/acted as a spy? (Maybe unknowingly)
> give them a taste of the park before throwing prices and dates at them.

That's a gamble. The user might be there for dates and times, not "thrill-seeker cinematography".

The problem with trying to "help the user fall in love with the phone through playful interaction" is that such playful interaction on a website is never good as the "opening shot" or landing page.

Advanced interactive components should be items to invite users to, or left for users to discover. Optional elements of the site, not forced on every person who visits.

The benefit in allowing users to discover the playful interactive element, is exactly that... they discovered it. They weren't tied to a chair, their glazzies clamped open and forced to view your presentation.

Edit - and just a quick suggestion to the designer of this page: https://kanze.co/projects/earn

While there's some nice visuals on the site, you're breaking typography 101 on this page. A line of text should never extend from one side of a wide screen monitor to the other. Most desktop monitors are wide, and reading a sentence that wide is uncomfortable.

This is one of the many reasons I hate the "mobile first" ideology. No device should be "first", if anything, if you need such a catch phrase to bind your designers together in principle, then it should be "accessibility first" or "readability first" and go from there.
FTA,

>>> Americans may soon be able to get cholesterol-lowering medications

Going to the doctor to get such a medication is one more occasion to be reminded to check your diet before jumpin' on pills...

For the newly available medication, I'd suggest to raise their price by half the price of going to thte doctor to get the script. That money would then be given back to social health care system :-) So the patient pays less, have more flexible access to the medication and healthcare system benefits too :-)
There's no point in even buying travel insurance if your upfront assumption is that you're not likely to need it so you're going to buy on price.

On the other hand insurance is tricky at the best of times. (shill warning) In situations like this I put my trust in Costco because they have a track record of consistently providing a good deal the price.

I once knew a guy who ran a roofing business. He said that it was easy for him to insure his workers if they fell off the roof, but difficult to get coverage for when they hit the ground.
Unless the company is going to be the next Google, those kind of deals don't make sense at all. But thats' generally lottery so you can keep that aside.

The other part is I have seen people fall for titles. 'Senior VP of X', while in reality you neither good exposure into org management, and let your tech skills go down the drain at the same time.

Often because of these things people lose their prime years. In most cases working for a big company, and then having a good savings and investment driven lifestyle will put you ahead of most of this kind of work opportunities.
Nonetheless, research can be just as pricey. This is a subsidy.
Any reasonable multiplayer game works like this. They mention it in the linked article: "We don’t share the state of other players if it doesn’t need to be shared, so we can avoid common cheats like “map hacks”. Essentially the client only has the information it needs to show the current state of the game.

The problem is then that the state available to the client (like position of entities) is easily accessible in memory unless you implement some of the countermeasures they describe.

Streaming (as video) makes this harder as you'd then have to rely on visual information only. While this of course is also solvable using CV, it's a lot harder than looking at memory directly.
So many fond memories! Unlike many here, Slackware was not my first distro. I had tried Mandrake first, then RedHat, then grew more and more uncomfortable with their packaging system, and after a brief stint with Gentoo (admittedly, it was too early for my skills, back then) I met Slackware. It was love at first sight.

It was lean, nimble, skeletal almost. No frills, just perfect. My Athlon just flew with it - something I would never experience with Mandrake or RedHat! The (lovely) price to pay was that you would have to learn more about the internals. I would pay that price time and again!

And though I eventually moved to Debian (because, again, of the packaging system) I very fondly admit Slackware was my first true love.

Thanks for all you taught me, Slackware.
> Also carried the large Emcripten runtime. Sure it gives you a lot of things like posix impls

And also, SDL2 + opengl bindings. Which makes it very adapted to compiling the same project for both targets: native and web. For video games, this is a killer feature (e.g try the game in your browser, and if you like it, download the native app (smoother, less input latency)).
Kinda similar:

Investigating the Potential for Miscommunication Using Emoji https://grouplens.org/blog/investigating-the-potential-for-m...

Paper: http://grouplens.org/site-content/uploads/Emoji_Interpretati...

It's intersting because there is a huge difference between the simple emoji faces accross devices. The grinning face example is really good because the Apple and Twitter version doesn't look happy at all, like a different expression under the same emoji

https://grouplens.org/site-content/uploads/GrinningFaceWSmil...
Have you taken a math course at any point in your life?
The cars Mercedes makes and sells are absolutely abysmal (overpriced, unreliable, expensive to operate) when viewed as transportation appliances. Yet there's a reason the company still exists and its customers didn't buy Priuses instead.
> A more understandable way to process such a string would be to split it into constituent parts and use regex only for validation

Split the regex, or split the URL itself? I kinda think the split regex is pretty reasonable:

protocol = "[a-z]{3,10}://"
domain = "([^/?#]*)"
path = "([^?#]*)"
query = "(?:\?([^#]*))?"
fragment = "(?:#(.*))?"
url = protocol + domain + path + query + fragment

Not so terse now though, probably has to be wrapped in a function now (or stored as a constant somewhere else.)
I just shut down my computer for the night so I ran a test on mobile. You've got a lot of things to improve and I'll provide some feedback tomorrow.

One glaring issue and an easy fix is you have "improve DNS loomups" instead of "improve DNS lookups"
Congress questions YouTube, FB and Twitter on what it takes to ban an account
That sounds like much to me, with a 2018 mindset. Is it not pretty easy to read out a chip nowadays, even at low double digit nanometer levels?
You're right about pistols, but revolvers have no safety mechanisms (in general, at least), and they're handguns.
Everything is driven by incentives. Alcohol is cheaper for mass production and guaranteed to have good sales and huge consumer base. A state can't just allow to flow money away by legalizing a new drug which is, probably, mutually exclusive to alcohol.

It might be sound cynical, sorry if so, but again, everything is just driven by incentives.
World's oldest bread found at prehistoric site in Jordan
Was it commissioned by Facebook :D?
if that is such a great driver of value, they could have set themselves up purely as a car builder that could partner with companies doing self driving cars..
I turned down a job offering 56% more money
Yes.

[t/3, 3t] with 50% confidence
[t/4, 4t] with 60% confidence
[t/39, 39t] with 95% confidence
Oh yeah. I used to send an emoji that looked to me like grinning and my friend told me after months she was really feeling uncomfortable with me snarling all the time.

I wish those emojis carried a very small caption. Also because I can't recognize what half of them are supposed to mean.
Sorry, real tired as it's nearly 2am in Chicago. you have "reduce DNS loomups" and clearly mean "reduce DNS lookups".
Off topic, but I think this is interesting:

> I don’t know what this is?

I think statements followed by a question mark is a distinctly Tumblr-y convention. It's generally used to express confusion. Kinda like raising one's pitch at the end of a statement to indicate uncertainty.

Pretty cool.
Two comments have made me curious - do you think this could be locality specific (no, I do note you said "everywhere in Oakland", but still ....)?

This was not a major road - I got off any major road, and walked quite a bit to this cafe (30 min walks for me are common - this likely probably greater than that via much smaller roads through residential areas).
KreditBee – Instant Personal Loan and Salary Advance App for S
So... they discovered that there is a reaason that desktop computers have a large heatsink with a fan many times larger attached... Don't buy a laptop and expect it's sustained performance to be anywhere near that of a proper desktop computer. It simply won't be
Extremely powerful psychedelics are legal in many parts of the world, even the US under specific circumstances [peyote], some have been used for thousands of years. I can only see "abuse" as bullshit justification to keep them illegal.

On the flip-side, there are extremely powerful interests that are working against legalization. "Neurons to nirvana" is a great documentary that makes a good case for that.
This is so very much what I come to HN for. Bravo!
HOW POLITICIANS AND THE MEDIA CENSOR THE HEALTH BLOG 'AIDS AND EBOLA'
Tell that to apple... grrr
Compiling your specification from source
AI Startup Volley.com Receives Strategic Investment from JPMorgan Chase
Did you consider C5/C5d ? they typically get to 3.5Ghz and have smaller DRAM/vCPU ratio
That's a decent level of performance. Local driving, freeway, local driving, without (apparently) manual intervention.

Building a little vehicle for local transport is reasonable. At least five other companies have built minibuses for parking lot shuttles and such.[1] Nobody seems to have more than pilot installations. This is embarrassing. Under 25MPH self driving ought to be within current technology. At low speeds, you can stop fast enough that predicting the behavior of others isn't necessary. Navya has a few installed systems, but they're either on dedicated roads or under 10mph.

[1] https://craft.co/local-motors/competitors
"There is a complete and utter lack of respect for the individual or person in China."

I found the same attitude towards Nature when I met Chinese breaking plants in a natural reserve. Not sure if it was representative.
Wonder what the story with Salvia should be, you don't see people talk much about it. Seems like it's still legal in some states.
Tibet, Taiwan, Mongolia.
How to Use Volume Button for Shooting in PUBG Mobile – EarnGurus
Undervolting is a possibility, you can change the duration of the boost clocks, fan curves, etc. Theres a lot you can do software wise.
Zuckerberg-Backed AI Startup Volley Receives Investment from JPMorgan Chase
Capitalism rewards profitability above all else. For better or worse, a lot of “bad tech” monetizes really well.

It ain’t perfect, but is there a better way to organize a large-scale society?
Bank Statement Analytics: Credit-risk assessment for new-to-credit customers
The whole Object Orientation Concept is modelling Software after Intuition about the world. Its success and the defeat of other concepts- shows that the ability to work within the limitations of the human mind, a very imperfect machine is a valuable ability too.

Many of the more refined concepts never take off, because they expect every human to have this drive to perfect and adapt his working tools. They dont.
Quite.

Personally I used to get more annoyed by queuing for a matchup and someone dropping so we're in a team one short, or by poor matching than cheating which was usually more of an eye-roll moment for me.

Resolution would have required GMs using a (temporary) ban hammer to bring some repercussion to all the toxic reports in the chat logs, not just headline anti-cheat sweeps and very rarely during tournaments. The resulting toxic anarchy seemed the obvious and inevitable result of games ignoring just about every behaviour. Which is why I voted by removing my wallet. :)
The press release mentions Z1d.metal bare metal version coming soon, that would save the need to run hypervisor on hypervisor in the largest instance.
Yessir. A flavor of Linux but Linux nonetheless.
The 'intel upgrade treadmill' consists of reducing transistor size and upping clock; the former of which reduces thermal issues, and the latter of which increases them.
Try interfacing in depth with your Hardware with the windows Linux.
Uhh RTFA?

“Qatari officials accept that the texts and voicemails are genuine, though they believe they have been edited "very selectively" to give a misleading impression.”
Event-driven Microservices with Quebic
Fast.com now measures latency and upload speed
Reminds me of the dead butterflies: http://emilydamstra.com/news/please-enough-dead-butterflies/
That's like the semi-sad face :-/

On most devices it renders out to a look of disappointment. But on androids, their little dude looks to have a smug grin, which is never what you want to convey with :-/
> 100C

Are you sure?? That sounds a bit...hot. Do you mean 100F?