skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have not seen anything conclusive on CSGO having more trusted players playing with cheaters than overwatch. My anecdotal evidence for both games also goes along with this.
The user vs root division does not need to be bypassed for a game. Riot does bypass it with their kernel-mode driver for the anti-cheat mechanism.
That's a really good point. So if you wanted a single numbering system for 4-sided and 2-sided chips, the current approach is quite a sensible compromise.

If you have the little key symbol in a corner, you can just "walk the chip" from there, regardless of sidedness
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Hypothetically, a terrorist group could use private DMs on Twitter to coordinate an attack. If the US captured a low-level terrorist that didn’t know all the details of a plan but knew that the remaining details had been sent to other Twitter users, it would be a legitimate national security request if the government asked Twitter for copies of a user’s private DMs.

The hypothetical situation above would be an invasion of someone’s privacy, and any smart terrorist group should be using a message service that is end-to-end encrypted (I’m not sure if Twitter DMs are), but let’s acknowledge that there is at least a plausible national security reason for the US government to request things from Twitter. These requests can be abused, but any social network that has a private messaging feature could be used to coordinate national security threats.

Edit for clarification: If the US government made one request to stop a terrorist plot that they had some specific knowledge of, that would be okay in my eyes. If the US government requested access to every Twitter user’s DMs to scan for possible threats, that’s not okay. It seems like Twitter is trying to disclose the number of requests so we can see for ourselves.
I think the McDonald's order by touch screen also has the benefit of seeming to take less time when waiting because you are not standing in line behind someone, even if it takes the same amount of time psychologically it seems less.
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That's not at all clear, and won't be clear for a long time. When it comes to optimizing long term public health there are more factors to consider than just coronavirus.
Yes, specialization is a good thing, and there are many dimensions on which you can measure talent. However, the correlation between some of these dimensions (mathematical ability, reading comprehension, recall, etc.) has been found to be about 0.4. That still leaves room for individual diversity of talent, but makes it clear that not everyone gets the same amount of points to invest into the skill tree.

Saying that everyone is a genius just devalues the word.
Most countries have minimum citizenship requirements for board members, to avoid scams where a company does something bad and there are no board members within their jurisdiction to be held to account.

The U.S. is no different than most other countries in that regard, and CCOR has to be incorporated somewhere. The US has the strongest laws protecting cooperative members, and consequently hosts more cooperatives than any other country, so it’s a good place to get started, and a majority of the founding board members thus had to be US citizens. That can be changed through election if we succeed.
In my experience, the amount of time it takes to "do it right" with electron completely negates the whole "its just simple web technologies you already know" selling point.

Yes VSCode has decent performance, but watch some of their tech talks about what they have to do in order to reach that level of performance - its insane. The amount of time, effort and increased complexity that is required to make an electron app get close to native performance makes it not at all worth it. And despite all those efforts, VSCode STILL isnt as fast as Sublime.

Electron is like a welder trying to build a house out of metal - sure he probably CAN make it work, eventually, but he really should have just learnt brick-laying and done it the proper way. Even though he managed to build a house without learning anything new, it would've been quicker and better if he had just sucked it up and learnt how to lay bricks rather than trying to build a house out using a far inferior material. (I'm sure there is a better analogy out there but you get my point).
What I'm about to link considers the multimedia aspect of computing and a bit the history of the world wide web.

__Vannevar Bush__

Vannevar Bush is the person who came up with the idea that one could link information as opposed to methods that physical libraries use (catalogs, indexing, etc.). His implementation details are funny to read in hindsight. His conceptual ideas are nothing but amazing and a reality at the moment. It also highlights why we should separate conceptual ideas from implementation. The biggest reason is: despite the fact that you can't implement a certain system yet, having the conceptual ideas ready means that other people can be inspired by it when the technological requirements catch up.

Read his seminal essay "As We May Think" here:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-m...

__Douglas Engelbart__

If Vannevar Bush is considered the grandfather, then Douglas Engelbart is considered to be the father of multimedia.

Read Douglas Engelbart his seminal paper from 1962 on how multimedia would help humans process information faster. It's called:

Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework

https://www.dougengelbart.org/content/view/138

Check out the mother of all demo's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos

and here: https://www.dougengelbart.org/content/view/209/448/

Engelbart just blew my mind. He basically prototyped a simple version of TeamViewer + Skype in 1968! And even still, it has features in there that I still haven't seen (dual mouse control when using TeamViewer).

I wonder if Bill Gates read about him because if he did, then it was either too hard to implement some of Engelbart's his ideas in Windows 95, or he simply didn't read about it and now we're lagging 10 to 20 years behind on certain aspects of our multimedia experience.

__Ted Nelson__

The "younger brother" (= same time, related but not the same ideas) of Douglas. Ted Nelson is a bit of a controversial figure. Nevertheless, I do think he deserves a spot on this list. I'll leave it at that.

__I wrote a bit more about this stuff__

If you like this stuff, I invite you to read some of the introductory stuff of my thesis [1].

[1]

First 3 paragraphs of: https://melvinroest.github.io/ximpel/

and

1.3.1 "In the beginning" of https://melvinroest.github.io/ximpel/documentation/theses/ma...

The thesis itself zooms in on an old concept called hypermedia (not hypermedia APIs, that came way later), which is a bit of an alternate reality of HTML5. While that's not really important to know about, it shares the same history up until the early 90's.
Corporate power comes, largely, through government power. Corporations coopt the government and use its power to protect or enrich themselves. Why would corporations want to weaken that?
I can’t imagine what “terrorist attack” would depend on knowing the exact number of requests, and fails if only a rounded number is known. Can you suggest any possible scenario?
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I cannot envision any terrorist attack that poses an existential threat to the United States. Fighting terrorism is not a national security matter. Even the largest terrorist attack in the history of the world (not counting the atomic bombings of Japan, which were terroristic by definition but generally excluded from that classification as being carried out during a declared war by a with-a-return-address nation) was at least an order of magnitude off from posing a threat to the national security of the US.

"National security" is one of those thought-ending phrases that's thrown about to make people stop thinking critically about the matter. Terrorism is extremely bad, but it's not an existential risk, by its very definition.

> let’s acknowledge that there is at least a plausible national security reason for the US government to request things from Twitter

There is already a system that permits the government, investigating crimes, to compel information disclosure from a provider. It's called a search warrant, and requires a (very cursory, heh) review by a judge.

The government is asking not only for the power to skip that step (they've already taken that - that ship has sailed), but to prevent people from disclosing just how many times that's happened.

"National security" is not an umbrella term that means "bad things happening to USians", although I'm sure that the people using it in this instance as a cover story for widespread, illegal, extrajudicial espionage activity by the government would prefer that you think of it that way.

Remember: every legitimate NSL could have been a warrant. There's already a legal framework for how to investigate and prevent crimes, including mass murder. Additionally, anyone who's ever read a US federal warrant for anything involving sequences of bytes or information technology of any kind knows that the burden is already hilariously bad/low, and that they're very close to being rubber-stamp already. I personally have never seen a federal warrant (they're written under penalty of perjury) that didn't have naked factual errors in it, and I've only seen the ones that got approved/signed by a judge. There's a 100%, easily falsifiable, perjury rate in them in my experience. AFAIK none of the federal agents who have signed these sworn statements have ever faced any negative repercussions whatsoever for the falsehoods contained therein.

So, that hilariously low/token bar to a search warrant is what they're skipping in these cases. NSLs and related FISA warrants are extremely suspect. It makes sense that they would want to hide and obfuscate their use and existence. They're basically carte blanche for the government to inspect any communications they want - no justification required. The only reason they'd use them in place of a search warrant is because they are illegitimate.

This is absolutely not about terrorism, or threats. There's already a functioning-for-them (albeit broken in the legal checks-and-balances sense) system for that in the form of search and seizure warrants; they're trying to confuse you with the terrorism card.

This is a cover-up for an illegal power grab, nothing more.
League of legends is a real pain in the ass to play even when you’re doing everything right. Personally I don’t even like the game, it’s just popular so I played it to hang out with friends. The way their launcher handles updates is crazy inefficient and so it always takes hours to launch if it launches at all. It also runs terribly in wine.
> I think knowing the history of how we got to where we are helps to understand ot more.

This is a great attitude, especially in our largely ahistoric industry. I wish I thought this way when I started programming.

The book "The Dream Machine" [0] does a fantastic job going into the ideas driving the pioneers. It especially focuses on ARPA and PARC, so you'll get a nice overview of the ideas explored there. And it is a fun read too.

It was out of print for quite some time, until Stripe Press bought the rights and brought it back to print [1]. They also give it away at conferences, as they want more people to be exposed to the ideas of the book.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Dream-Machine-M-Mitchell-Waldrop/dp/1...

[1] https://press.stripe.com/#the-dream-machine
The innovators by Walter Isaacson is also good.

Start from the first attempt to automate calculation in a
human history.

Move to transistors, PC, Apple, windows, linux, google, and so on.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21856367-the-innovators
To be fair, this happens regardless, every day. Nobody believes anyone suspected of cheating, ever. And I mean ever. Just go look at the steam forums and the thousands of "i was falsely banned posts". If what you are saying was true, we would have seen this already happen for steam on reddit every day, which it doesnt.

Also, thats not to say you cant have a second and third tier of support to escalate your case to if you think you were wrongly banned, which wouldnt go to the grunts.
could be air drainage.

On hillsides the cold air will flow downhill, but not linger.

On flatland cold air will "pool" and the temperature will drop.

(could also be water too)
Yes but as OP mentioned, if you’re about to cut employees, the PR might not be useful. Those companies getting into ventilators and switching production have lots of capital available.
Metal targets whatever GPU is in the system, not necessarily Intel. In most cases there’s a discrete in there by AMD or Nvidia.
Right. There must have been trillions of dinosaurs over the eons. Perhaps some individuals were buried in areas with colder conditions and chemical preserving agents. It may take a long time for us to find out.
Forth programmers often talk about keeping down the number of screens a lot too, for example page 23 of Thinking Forth: "A component can usually be written in one or two screens of Forth."

(Aside from the attraction in small and simple code, each screen in forth is traditionally allocated a designated spot on the hard-drive so it's partially also for space and HDD usage efficiency too)
The easy to find part is that not everyone in ICU is not attached to ventilator. Most people are not attached there.
Does it show the actual frequencies in HZ / kHZ anywhere?

edit: wording
It's understandable because of Corporate law in the US that a public business wouldn't stand too firm against government overreach because it may impact future business,
apple can do it because apple isn't a desktop provider to the government and doesn't have a market in danger in that space.
My home ISP (RCN) also hasn't turned IPV6 on yet either. However, they turned on RPKI between when I tested IsBGPSafeYet.com in the morning and evening.
Andrews & Arnold are the best UK ISP I've used in 20 years of being online.

As well as going above and beyond when it comes to sorting problems with BT, I appreciate that like with this post they are not afraid to stick their neck out and say what they think.
I've done it all.

It's a hassle, mostly because you need to disable the GPU from the linux host; before passing through; which means you need a second GPU to power the linux host (integrated GPU is fine).

Then there's a bunch of config regarding IOMMU groups and other shit to make sure it picks it up fine, and when it finally does you get 90-95% of the performance for average FPS and then 60-70% min-fps (spikes are way worse).
Oh hey - just saw this. Thank you for this link - I’ve been looking for just such a thing!
To some degree that's true. I keep an eye out for programs that insist on running as root. And if someone breaches my account, they've still got to put the work in to escalate their privilege through one of these programs.

I've also been installing more and more software into ~/bin rather than the more traditional /opt and /usr/local/bin. I think that the trend towards usermode software will take over in the next five years.
This, plus the previous post about the WD Red drives, makes it all three manufacturers - there are no honest options left. It's like saying "honest telecoms".

Also, "boost the main muggle"? I usually think I know my Potter references, but this one escapes me.
Start WSL, say by opening a terminal window in it. Then in an Explorer window navigate to:

\\wsl$

Or, in the terminal cd to your homedir and then type "explorer.exe ." including the dot. This will get you specifically to your homedir.
Actually, there are a bunch of large non-profits that register one domain per local chapter, and have thousands of .ORG domains. There aren’t a lot of speculators in .ORG compared to other gTLDs, because there’s a perception, probably correct, that non-profits don’t have deep pockets to buy domains from speculators.
The point about GMO is itself clueless.

Breeding, crop hybrid breeding, other natural recombination techniques, directed evolution and different types of GMO are just generic techniques for the same result.

The risk is in specific organisms and regulating them. How you achieve it does not matter. If you produce harmful organism using natural recombination techniques it's just as scary.
You can’t force someone _to_ say something. You can only require they not say specific things. That’s the process by which the canary works. You set up a default state by which you say “this data has not been compromised”.

Nobody can legally force you to say that in the event it has been compromised. At least not yet, and if we get there, I really do fear for us.
I thought a clear signal of something lacking E2E encryption is if a web browser can display messages without a client-only password. That is, if the company can render your messages in plaintext server-side, they can read them server-side and do anything with the plaintext.

Now I realize the client-side password could be saved and retrieved in the browser for ease of use, but I don't think that's going on.
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yeah, a chinese company will gain root of your pc to stop you from tampering with memory but it's totally fine guys don't worry
In order for your game to render other players you have to know their position, so the game server has to send them to all players.

As an example, for CSGO in the past, the server always sent all player positions from anywhere, so it was possible to create cheats to draw players anywhere in the map. They changed the way it's done, coordinates are only sent when other players are nearly visible, although distant, or close by. This limited the way that wallhacks work, it's not possible to see where players are from far away :)

What needs to be done is reverse engineer the communication protocol. If encryption is made, some kind of key to decrypt has to be somewhere in your game client. Then you can convert 3D coordinates to 2D and even draw a radar on your smartphone if you make an app.
As late as 2014, at least, the US federal government was still processing its retirement claims on paper, in a decently large and rather nice-looking cave in Pennsylvania: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2587305/Crazy-Cave-... .
Yeah, I know that. There are even some clients for the ZX Spectrum Next.
Okay, you rule against the CIA and try sleeping well at night. Also, the judges that get these cases were undoubtedly picked (at some point of elevation in their career) for how "reasonable" they would be on these issues. You gotta remember that "national security" became a thing decades ago (Truman? Eisenhower?), so the system has gone through many several generations of selection pressure.
Larry Walls makes fun of Python, PostScript etc. (2010)
Well someone tell McDonald's some people are not going there anymore. The few I do I use McDrive because the wait is predictable and shorter.

If I had the money I'd spent it to open a good old McDonald's I'm sure more people would come.
Yes, you are not allowed to take any action to circumvent the gag order. Changing the status of the canary included.

[From memory from some ancient HN thread]
>How can an attitude of intellectual superiority amount to any good?

Can't speak for the OP, but it's not attitude, it' acknowledging/accepting my own reality and circumstances, and the consequences of that. When people feel threatened by intelligence (or anything), then intelligence becomes "superior". Humans are still animals deep down.

For me, it's my mix of curiosity and logic. If I don't dumb that down people become really uncomfortable. I've only met a handful of people in my life who enjoy their snow globe worlds being shaken. I've developed this dumbed-down mask that I have to wear all the time; mix in some obsessive personality traits-- interactions with people are like walking around with an old, dry wooden stake up the ass. Im very stiff.

Even this simple question is complicated. Are you projecting an attitude because you feel threatened (or you remember how others felt threatened)? Is it an attitude if the OP is being their true self? Is it an attitude if the OP speaks factually about their situation? Is it an attitude when the ego attaches itself to ones words, and did you assume as much?

I generally agree with everything else you said. I think you are touching on intelligence vs wisdom (life experience) in your last paragraph. Can you point out other places on the net where intellectual people congregate?

If anyone who reads this is looking for some online comradery, shoot me an email. username to fastmail. Im working on undoing all the choices I made that created my isolated/independent life.
At this point, I don't think it's too fringey a conspiracy theory that Apple is opposed to the advancement of web technology, while trying to plausibly appear to be in favor of it. Their motive would be obvious. Keep the native app experience superior.
I dont know what kind of Americans you are running into but thats just not true -> https://www.people-press.org/2019/09/19/why-americans-dont-f...
Honestly, I see the worry that we are overreacting. But you are way more likely to end up in the hospital with covid with rates of around 10-15%. Super broad strokes, if you get the flu every year and are at least 20 years old, what is the probability you would have be hospitalized if covid=flu?

I think we are considering things carefully. I can’t remember the last time you saw both dem and rep governors agree on anything, yet they are all agreeing on stay at home orders and testing.
Maybe the tone wasn't be best one, but I would like to know how WebAssembly is bare metal programming to start with.

Also would like to know in what way compiling natively to machine code has to do with having value type semantics on the source language.
Well, we now have packages where pins are on 4 sides (not just 2 sides). For example [1]. So here it certainly makes sense that numbering goes around the package instead of in columns/rows.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quad_Flat_Package
COBOL is living proof of the power of incumbency.

Once technology is entrenched, it becomes self-sufficient and very, very difficult to replace. I remember when mainframe/COBOL apps were being re-written for the client/server era, often using tools like Tuxedo/c++ for the backend and Visual Basic for the front-end. Where are those re-writes now? (Probably replaced a couple of times again, where the COBOL-remainers are still in place.)

I think the days of higher-paying COBOL gigs are still ahead of us. When the greybeards actually go away, there will be a strong need to fill.
This is amazing in that one would endure pain and disfigurement to advertise social standing, but I guess I speak from a time where there are other ways to display class standing. Dueling fell out of favors in the French aristocracy because ... wait for it ... the lower and middle class started to duel in emulation of the upper class. Although in the US, I read that it declined because it became barely concealed cover for extra-judicial killing.

Now I'm on a train of thought that wonders what the customary analogous marker of status for women would be. That is, they all seem to be external (jewelry, ballgowns, high-status relatives) and not marked on the body.
At the expense of quality, at least it was Apple's argument against supporting webp.

And no, they didn't ignore it, it was included in one of the previous betas of macOS and iOS and removed later. Don't remember which.
Do not trust any centralised authority. But if PKI Involved, what are those and what is meant by court in the article? We have to be aware certain countries (China, Russia) may not be of best interest of humanity in mind.
I'd be very surprised if the courts would follow the extremely narrow definition of "speech" required for this to work. Is there any legal precedent otherwise?