skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be impossible to catch all cheaters just from server side. Game clients for example need to have the location of other players but as the gamer it would be cheating to know this information. Moreover you can have assist clients installed which can do something as simple as image processing on what’s on screen and highlight the visible enemies - this would also be considered as a cheat for which you don’t even need to change the game client code
Along with the other good responses in this thread from bonzini and others, you might want to also check out this[1] response. It talks about useful command-line tools for KVM- and QEMU-based virt.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26993381
but will you be allowed to charge overnight or park inside?

https://electrek.co/2021/07/14/gm-chevy-bolt-ev-owners-not-c... and this is after forced recall and two supposed "software fixes"
Yes but looking at Zillow that $2M Bay Area home would go for $250K in Houston TX. In fact, I can't even find homes small enough in Texas to compare some of the houses I see for sale in the Bay...
I think that at some point in your life you may change your tune on that fact if you ever find yourself in an incredibly stressful situation. I do understand that it seems illogical from the outside, but struggling to survive can leave you blind to hope that things can get better and prevent you from having the stability of mind to sort out your shit. This is one of (but not the only reason) why abusive relationships are also such a big problem - while you're in them you don't have the personal power and stability to safely transition out of them.
I thought Half-Life: Alyx was basically our HL3? It certainly got critical reviews/scores suggesting it deserves its moniker of Half-Life.
The display specs seem very mediocre:
Resolution: 1280 x 800px (16:10 aspect ratio)
Type: Optically bonded LCD for enhanced readability
Display size: 7" diagonal
Brightness: 400 nits typical
Refresh rate: 60Hz
I feel like they dropped the ball on d
So... is it possible to clone this and turn it into a Folding@Home client? How does it do?
There are probably plenty of ways to tell "fake controller input from a bot" from "actual human controller input" today.

Sounds like a scary arms-race, though. At some point the bots will probably be very hard to distinguish from "skilled human."

It will be sad if online play becomes only enjoyable with people you already know. I'm surprised how gleeful some people seem to be about this sort of "soon cheating will be undectable!" tech advancement.

Or you just go all-in on the surveillance path and there are models that look at your performance in the game over time, your performance in other games over time, etc. Mediocre player suddenly amazing? Probably a cheater! etc... Not great sounding privacy-wise, but Steam probably has access to the data to do this.
It's gone way past that. Some anticheat software runs in the kernel now. They are doing crazy things like looking for PCIe devices trying to DMA game memory.

https://github.com/ufrisk/pcileech/blob/master/readme.md#har...
If someone is rehosting code that they don't have copyright to, it's like if someone would upload a pirated movie to YouTube.

YouTube will still make money from it for some time (selling ads, luring customers in, ...), then the copyright holder asks YouTube to take it down, and then they take it down.

The difference is that open source authors don't care that much about that. But maybe now they will when they see what GitHub is doing...
Unfortunately companies cannot afford to build messy environments.

Fixing small issues, on-boarding new people, explaining existing setups to already employed, adding new servers. That is nontrivial amount of money burned there "day in and day out" when networks are monoculture with centralized access. Making it a little bit of this flavor a little bit of other, will make those costs grow 100x in no time. This way you have 100x operational costs to prevent something that may or may not happen.

Having messy environment also brings other risks like some operator might mess up easier because of being tired fighting that mess.
Well, in this case the concept is that a drop-like thing has relatively large surface area compared to volume. Translating e.g. to people, it could mean many/all of the people in a group have ties to outside the group. Maybe "drop" is a neighbourhood and "sea" is a country.
"I see construction workers wasting time putting on hard hats when I haven't once seen something fall on their heads. When will they grow up?"

"I see electricians making sure they're properly grounded before working on high voltage electrical equipment rather than just making sure they don't touch the dangerous parts while they're working. When will they grow up?"

"I see pilots going through the same checklist they went through the last time they flew the plane even though they never find anything wrong. When will they grow up?"

"I see lifeguards wearing buoys on their feet rather than just swimming right to begin with. When will they grow up?"

Programming suffers from a lack of attention to quality not a lack of awareness that we "solve business problems".
btw. it's easy to use FOR UPDATE to create custom sequences in a table that do not have the batch reservation feature. it's just slower if you can afford that.
the problem with resetting the sequence is that it would need a full blown serilizable transaction which is worse thatn just using for update and read commited.
It would be nice if we all came to the same conclusions if we just read the same material. But reality doesnt work that way.

Assuming we are just dolts who cannot read because we disagree is a bit presumptuous.
From my personal experience not really. I’ve steam running on an about 2yo old (at this point) Gentoo system that’s still working perfectly fine. I really should update it but I don’t do much on that system except play a single game.
Just guessing here, would it make more sense to base yearly maintenance on $/sq ft instead of overall property value? Would better take in to account expensive but modest (lower maintenance cost) versus huge home (higher maintenance cost).
Always: A letter to my mum – Richard Branson
It's crazy, it almost seems to be timed with the new Nintendo Switch announcement...
> Democratic control over the workplace would make lots of things possible, including lowering profits

Yes.

> increase wages

No.
Perspectives on Trust: Organisations, Products, People and Parenting
No, you should not. Chances of it working out are probably slim. You probably don't need funding, as many solo founders can attest. Hiring should be done once the business is already generating an income, and should be scaled based on that income.

What happens is that if you do sell your house, (assuming you'll pay rent) things will get a lot more stressful for yourself financially, and this will severely hinder your mental performance and chances of success.

An even better idea would be to get a regular job and bootstrap your business in your spare time, on weekends. Once it takes off, you can quit the job and focus full time in it. Successful startups coming from this kind of environments are way more common than those coming from YOLO, all-in approaches you are thinking of. And this is precisely because of the way the mammal nervous system works. The ability to do creative mental work is severely impacted when under a perceived threat (financial doom in this case).
I have also heard less about CPUs being the pipeline blocker and more about support chips delaying manufacturing line.
> They likely were, and think of me what you like but I've noticed the same with most Americans I've known.

I am probably misunderstanding what you say, but Cornet has grown up in France, and is probably very aware that health care cost in the US is not a normal thing since he comes from a country where it is considerably cheaper if not free.

His naiveté was about the nature of Google and how he thought a giant corporation basing their revenue on ads and collecting information could be a positive force in the world and not abuse its power. It seems to me his gripe is about the hypocrisy, which in a sense make it even harder to fix the company: if people denies the company ethics problems, you can be sure they are not going to get better.

Twitter in that sense has never promised to not be evil. You can't be naive about its ethics because you just have to doom-scroll the app for an hour to feel bad about it.
The Linux Upskill Challenge
"When I've made my fortune, I close the door behind me and act holier than thou." - nearly everyone that has made a fortune in the last few decades
you both live there, I grew up there. I'm German with a migration background and spent most of my youth age in Den Haag, in an Aruban clique, my second language is Portuguese and we used to mix Papiamento, Portuguese, German, English, Dutch. We knew every group and who did what there. First time that I saw a real gun was there. I'm talking from end 90s.
Charting the 'Data for Good' Landscape
I'd say more pride than malice.
An "assistant" that generates input to move your player in a sports game, or aims for you in a shooter, is absolutely cheating.

You can't make the client untrusted to the point of "I don't trust that the human really pushed the button" or you don't have a useful multiplayer mode anymore. Cheaters are truly ruining everything, here.
> Stopping people talking about election fraud because you don't feel a certain credibility has been granted is censorship.

Zero people are being stopped from talking about election fraud. You and I are sitting here discussion election fraud right now. The only thing that has been stopped is investigations of claims of widespread fraud for which there is virtually zero evidence.

This is precisely the kind of wild misrepresentation that people—including myself—are tired of fighting. If you need to misrepresent your opponent in order to defeat them, maybe you should reflect: are we the baddies?
We have finite energy and knowledge.

I know how to configure a firewall on linux. I don't know how to on plan9 and windows.

Should I run Windows, Plan9, Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and Linux on my 5 servers to ensure I have diversity?

To me, that makes it seem 5x as likely that I make a configuration error that leads to a critical vulnerability if I have to figure out 5 different ways to setup a firewall and sandbox.

What about using software that historically has been shown to have vulnerabilities? For example, wordpress has had a lot of vulns in the past, so should I host one of my blogs on ghost, one using jekyll, one using wordpress, or should I only use a static site made with jekyll because I know static sites are more secure?

If I'm allowed to eliminate wordpress there, why can't I eliminate diversity at other layers? I know linux is more secure than windows IME, so can't I just not run any windows hosts by the same argument that I won't use wordpress?

You mentioned "diversity at every level (network)". Do you mean I should run wireguard VPN for some of my networks, cisco for others, unencrypted for others, just so I have more diversity?

I'm genuinely curious because the model I've heard advocated so far is that a monoculture is more secure because you can eliminate less secure things (use wireguard instead of unencrypted traffic), and gain mastery of a small surface area to ensure it is harder to attack.

Adding diversity just for the sake of it, by its nature, adds more attack surface and requires more expertise to secure, so it seems to fly in the face of the common advice I normally hear.
> Woodin named the axiom (*), pronounced “star,” because it was “like a bright source — a source of structure, a source of light,” he told me.

There are only two hard problems in mathematics: infinity and naming things.
You _must_ have server-side anticheat if you have any at all because client side can (eventually) be bypassed - however client side anticheat is better at catching subtle but low effort/obvious cheats.

Also some types of cheats such as wall hacks can only be detected client side.
There's also "a certain kind of person" who has no scientific or medical training. They have an emotional connection to the subject, and desperately wants to believe something is true, and therefore willing to grasp at any shred of circumstantial evidence to justify that belief.
So liberals get to pick the political arguments humans get to talk about? You may support that type of social conversation, but don't call it democracy, because it's not.
Interview with Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger [video]
Takeover Power Plants, Hospitals, IOTs
Takeover Power Plants, Hospitals, IOT using VNCBruteForce
Because programming computers is far more lucrative, and I'm better at it. However, if I had an unlimited budget I would return to biology.

I spent 15 years trying to be a professor and failed miserably. I was bad at it and didn't like what professors have to do.

I then moved to industry to be a random engineer and thrived doing things entirely unrelated to drug discovery. Eventually, I convinced my company to invest heavily in life sciences. This was successful and I was on track to be a powerful player (a "research engineer", just like the DM folks who are building these things) in this space, when the project got very popular and I was elbowed aside by others who are more aggressive. So I went back to being a programmer again, it's much less stressful, pays better, and realistically, much of my time is just telling scientists what I would do if I was in their place anyway.

"Don't swim with the sharks if you don't like being bitten"
>The end user won’t be doing anything with the OS itself.

What makes you think so? The desktop environment will be powered by KDE Plasma.

>Accordingly, the underlying distro just doesn’t seem that interesting.

Valve is pretty clear that in addition to having a gaming mode they want the device to be a full-fledged (linux-based) PC.. hopefully with everything that entails.

>What about the distro could possibly be surfaced to the end user/gamer that they would care about?

Maybe nothing in "gaming mode," but in "desktop mode", it's Arch running KDE Plasma. It's essentially a Linux-based PC with a gaming option. (Or vice-versa, depending on your primary use case and point-of-view.)

Given the fact that the desktop mode exists and is leaned on as an important feature, I'd assume a lot of underlying functionality will be exposed.

>It’s not like Steam will apt dist-upgrade their device: upgrades will be a complete reimage.

I too am interested to see how they will handle this, but based on their website copy I would not be surprised if you could at least apt-get upgrade the desktop portion, with the gaming mode running either on top or separate from it.
I dislike being tracked as much as the next guy, but I often wonder what "our" ideal end-game goal is? By "our" I mean the typical HN crowd that understands both the technological and the economical implications of this.

If we want top-grade products to remain available without a direct monetary transaction (i.e "free"), it seems we must give something that the product providers can turn into monetary value indirectly somehow. Yet it seems we are actively against any such options: We block ads guilt-free, we rally against any attempt at collecting valuable personal information even anonymously, we consider crypto mining in the background (which is basically paying via your electricity bill) borderline malware.

I am part of this "we", and yet I ask myself, what am I willing to give as indirect payment? What other options are there?
You call opinions you disagree with lies.
> This is a very bad article even if it’s from someone reputable because they don’t explain why not at each step.

Based on the context and how it's written, I get the feeling he never intended it to be a full fledged article, just some tweets, then it grew organically from there. This was never an instructional piece of work.
I can disagree with someone calling something "evil" but there is no disagreement possible if people feel the need to mix politics or other unrelated topics in their way to express an opinion.
Ccryto can not be right-wing just as it can not be sexist or racist or whatever nonsense people come up with to "describe" it. It just as absurd as if someone would say HTTP is right-wing, browsers are inherently racist and HTML sexist.

>I don't know (or care) what this person politics are, but there's something to be said for speaking the language your audience is listening in.

Neither do I but its on twitter so hes probably catering to the general twitter audience.
https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/videocard/

This is directly from valve. It's probably what Valve looks at when making these decisions. I assume this APU is relatively similar to the 1060 in power? Maybe the 1050. But I haven't seen any benchmarking around the APU.
> It's a non-commital, actionable, non-specific, diplomatic answer, that is a nicer way of saying: "Practice more."

Yeah it didn't even make sense so I'm sure it was a generic 'you're not good enough' answer. I had hundreds of thousands of lines in a major open source project at the time. Not sure I could really do any more anyway!
Anyone who advertises with FB sticks the FB pixel SDK in their app to track conversions and performance of their FB ad spend. This pixel tracks a lot and reports back to FB.

Most companies and apps advertise on FB.
No. Work on the MVP, find a customer and or customer/partner and move forward.
I would expect that once AlphaFold has helped you identify a potential protein (e.g. as a drug) out of a bigger set of potential proteins, there will still be a manual step of traditional cryoEM, NMR, etc. to get an accurate high-resolution structure.
That’s an extremely pedantic interpretation of the word video. The game isn’t designed to be playable on a screen with regular control input. It’s a video game the same way a full flight simulator is. Technically true, but it requires specialised and expensive hardware to “play”.
Gross domestic product is a product, not a longing. You can demand all you like; if no one produces it, your economy does nothing.

Production is driven by growth in demand because capitalists, realizing the demand exists, expand their production on the premise that they might earn more profit. In turn, capitalists also stop producing things that are not in demand, as this is unprofitable.
I think "brutally honest" is often more like "brutally honest judgment." I guess I see the word honest and honesty more as openly expressing what is happening inside of me, often more related to feelings. Whereas I see people use the term "brutal honesty" often when they are about to 1) use the external orientation (2nd- or 3rd-person pronouns) and 2) make a negative judgment. E.g., "I'm gonna be brutally honest, that hat is ugly/your works sucks/you're super lazy." I think it tends to be more brutal and less honest. I'd see honest as "I don't like your hat/I wouldn't invest in your work/I'm frustrated by how little you're doing."

I like your definition of tact and appreciate you highlighting this distinction, it's helping me to pause and reflect more on the terms I use and how I use them. Thank you!
I wonder what you mean by "what's wrong with an unwritable natural"... It is sound to assume one! And it doesn't make any true mathematical facts false. But of course it's sound to assume many silly things. But why assume those things?

The reality is that mathematicians didn't first come up with the Peano axioms and then study the interesting consequences of them. Both as a matter of history and also as a matter of why most mathematicians do math, mathematicians first came up with numbers, and only later came up with axioms that allow them to do rigorous reasoning about them. The same is actually true of almost all math—real numbers were invented to do rigorous reasoning about calculus, which by that point had been around for a century plus; set theory likewise.

In other words, if the goal is to come up with any old consistent set of axioms, you can assume an unwritable natural number, that's fine, go ahead. But if your goal is to study natural numbers—which, like, I have a lot of experience with natural numbers in my day to day life, I'm pretty sure I could write all of them if I had enough time and space and so on—then you want to study natural numbers, not some other weird things where there are unwritable weird things.
> One was just a collection of PHP scripts that would trigger SQL queries.

Yes, I've had to build a system like that (Java, but same diff.)

This model is popular in particular with banks, because they can split sensitive responsibilities in a way that makes sense to them.

It works fine if you have good communications between developers and DBAs. If you don't... well, I won't have to suggest finding another gig, you already want to.
> 30-40 years old, male and live in a certain region. And that's information that would help advertisers

Region, sure, that makes sense for a local business. But targeting gender or age is discrimination.
Thanks! I've been noticing these projects mostly from press releases that surface through Google News, and those don't always provide both numbers. It's good to know that there is a detailed source of open data.
> It's funny that the party of "my body my choice" is so against people wanting a say over what goes into their bodies.

Public health is public health, not purely your business.

> I am personally vaccinated,

Good on you!

> but I think it's reasonable to let individuals make that choice.

No, it's not and if you don't see why then you have a major problem with understanding modern medicine.
> Your turn to demonstrate your science

It's not "my science". It's just "science".

The fact that you keep trying to personalize this only underscores the point that you're not coming at this rationally. You're engaged in advocacy, not science.

> Please, procure a paper that supports your point of view and simultaneously satisfies your requirements.

I gave you the one I knew about that comes closest. The fact that there are no papers meeting the criteria for a good study in this area is not an indication that my standards are too high, but that yours are too low.

> But what you're doing isn't science at all. You're just shitting on other people's work without showing what you actually like.

Science is about applying skepticism to questions and demanding evidence. Again, we're not talking about emotional spreads in People Magazine here.

> I'm convinced that the "studies" you want simply don't exist, either on my side of the argument nor on yours.

The studies don't exist. That's exactly the point. And it's not "my side" or "your side" -- I have no attachment to the outcome here. Show me a study that meets the standards I set out and provides evidence for your claim, and I'll believe you. You can't.

If the best you've got is anecdote and low-quality data, then you get my prior belief in your claim, which is that you're probably mistaken.
Why would I ever do anything but lurk in such a forum? The risk/reward ratio would be so out of whack that even if I wanted to learn something, I would rather not risk a drive-by ban if who I'm talking to turned out to make the moderator mad.
diuretic are super low risk; why wouldn't they be first?
This is just saying "as long as I get to define what is reasonable, we can have a reasonable debate about anything"
I wouldn't. Having a place to be is nice for those times when you doubt yourself.

It's not the same being homeless than being unemployed.
As long as you have a good pile of savings to fall back on, fuck it, YOLO the fuck out of your life. Why not right? Worst case you can always go back to wage slaving.