skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Bloomberg article doesn't talk about BMCs however. That's __me__ talking about BMCs.

I don't need the Bloomberg article distracting the discussion. Its clear that the Bloomberg article was just fully and completely useless. It contributed no useful, technical details to the discussion.

We're sitting here arguing about how Bloomberg might have written the article better. At some point, we just gotta realize that Bloomberg wasn't helpful at the discussion at all.

Which is fine: Bloomberg is primarily a trading / commodities / financial newspaper. To expect expertise in technical issues (better than typical Hacker News discussion) is probably expecting too much from that group of journalists. But lets not pretend that the article under discussion was useful to any of us here.
Thanks for all of your hard work on Firefox mobile -- I've read plenty of background about those abusive community members, and I can only sympathize with you. People can be jerks.

That being said; responding to them with that (public!) tweet probably only added fuel to the fire, especially since the tweet wasn't clearly directed at only those abusive community members. If I didn't know about your full story and stumbled upon that tweet, I wouldn't come away from it with the best impression of you or Mozilla.

I'm not sure this person is necessarily targeting you. Or women in general. It seems to me like they're just frustrated with the product and this tweet is a very easy vent for that frustration.

Anyway, hopefully your current role is a little less political than what you dealt with at Mozilla. I definitely wouldn't have lasted as long as you did in that situation!
They outsource the polluting. Their capital funds operations that generate pollution.
> The way I see it, it's like people were buying cars only to hook stuff up to the alternator to power it, and someone figured maybe we should just build a combustion engine in a box, optimized for electricity generation, so we don't have to deal with the rest of the car.

I don't think that's a good analogy, because it presumes the removed parts were unnecessary for the core function. Trying to find a perfect analogy is a waste of time, but I think yours would be closer to the truth if during their "optimization" they also removed the oil and air filters. After all, who needs those? We're running the engine to covert fuel to power, not filter air or lubricants (but without doing that the engine will get damaged).

With a lot of systems, you can't just remove any component you wish and still have something that functions well. The lab grown meat people appear to have "removed" far too much (i.e. petty much everything).
How the ads are sold is entirely unrelated to the need to do user tracking to defeat gaming the system. If you're paying for ads on the internet you have 2 choices; live with (possibly crazy amounts of) fraud or do user tracking with JavaScript.

Edit: or 3, use a metric for campaign success which doesn't rely on knowing how many impressions your ad got
https://www.fark.com/ still has snarky headlines and offbeat content but the selection of articles is quite varied, and the comment section still has quality content. Certainly better comments than the WSJ troll-fest.
In my opinion Obra Dinn is an interactive radio play with graphics. Hyper-radio, if you will.

However, my definition of what can be considered a game is also quite broad, and Obra Dinn clearly has an interactive game loop so I think it counts.
This is great and all, but I feel like all of these client side cheat detection tools are basically a waste of time. Trying to enforce the trustworthiness of the client is basically an unwinnable arms race between anti-cheat and the cheat makers. A better approach is for the server to treat all clients as hostile and untrustworthy and use a combination of heuristics and statistics to ferret out malicious client behavior. Valve has been doing some very interesting stuff with VACnet where they employ deep learning to flag potential cheater accounts in CS:GO and then have humans review and rule on the output. From what I have read and watched, it has been very successful.
How do you test gRPC? E.g. a gRPC microservice.
> Actually (and this might sound crazy, but I encourage you to think through it and respond), why not apply this logic to COVID-19 vaccines, as well?

The COVID-19 vaccines train the immune system to attack the spike protein. A mutation that avoids this would successfully dodge the immune system… and not be able to latch onto and infect cells, because the same thing that makes the spike protein work (the shape(?) of the binding site(?)) is also the thing that makes the immune system attack it.

It's theoretically possible for a SARS-CoV-2 virus to be so mutated (SARS-CoV-3?) that the spike protein is radically different, but in a way that just so happens to also work. However, that's unlikely – the immune system also pays attention to other bits of a virus (even though the mRNA vaccine doesn't), and in the unlikely event this happened, the immune system would probably be able to kill the mutated version without problems.

But it could happen, if there are breeding populations of COVID-19 in people with weak / unprimed immune systems – for the same reason you need to take the full course of antibiotics, we need to get as many people as possible vaccinated.

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The important thing isn't medication. Do a heat treatment of some agar that isn't quite hot enough, and the bacteria will become heat resistant. Anything that provides selection pressure (kills some, but not all, of the population) can trigger evolution in the direction of “thing is less good at killing”.

A single (mutant) heat-resistant bacterium will probably die in a 121°C pressurised steam environment, but might survive 5 minutes of an 80°C environment that most of its fellow bacteria die to. Then a substantial portion of the surviving bacteria twenty generations later (i.e. a million times more bacteria) would be heat-resistant descendants of this survivor, making the once-effective treatment much less effective.

Also: bacteria can share DNA between each other, so if one becomes resistant, it can share its resistance with other bacteria. Viruses can't do this; viruses are almost inert outside cells, and it's unlikely that two different viruses will infect the same cell at the same time. (It does happen, though, with influenza, because there's so much influenza and, more importantly, several strains of similar-enough versions for a recombination to be viable.)
The dev page still says "The Anti-Cheat Client interface currently only supports the Windows platform and requires a 64-bit operating system installation. Mac and Linux client support are coming soon." so there's not much info yet. I'm guessing it'll require a specific kernel version and an obfuscated kernel patch that probes everything and calls a web service constantly.
Unless it actually strikes, no country is going to escalate an overflight to a different hot strike. Air powers regularly fly along the borders and intrude and have for the last 70 years. Overflights were deemed acts of war during the cold war as well - that's why the USSR tried to shoot down all of the U-2 planes they could (ultimately succeeding on Gary Powers' flight) and any other things they considered spy flights (such as the KAL-007 crisis). At no point did they escalate in other areas. War is hell, and countries go to great lengths to avoid it - even when they're angry.
I think it's hard for me to say exactly without a side by side comparison, partially because this one had different toppings than my normal burgers do, but it seems fairly comparable in flavor and I would buy these again. I've also had an impossible burger a few years back at a nicer restaurant and that was good too.

I think both are to the point that if I didn't know what I was eating and didn't deeply try to analyze and compare, I could eat one without any idea that it's not meat.

I'm now somewhat interested the next time I see my family to see if I can pull off a ruse of making burgers for dinner from these and see if anyone even notices, particularly my brother who would say there's no way you could trick him XD
I share your fear. We used to be able to agree to disagree after a discussion. Now, you must violently agree without discussion or accept cancellation.
https://sqwok.im is a topical aggregator with chatrooms built into every post.

Think of it like Twitter but with chat rooms instead async comments.

There's no voting and the focus is on science, tech, engineering, markets, hobbies, and culture.
What about the far middle who have been hearing for years how Facebook is eroding democracy, providing a platform for misinformation, instilling anxiety in teenage girls (the latest headline), and on and on. Zuckerberg continually makes decisions that benefit him and shareholders to the detriment of society and humanity. I think there's a greater appetite for change than it might appear, but I also think for the average person, it's really, really hard to imagine what that might be.
As someone who runs an online Counterstrike platform, I can attest to this firsthand. There are literally dozens of open source cheats on Github that bypass the major anticheat services. And when one gets detected, they're usually updated in just a few days. For private paid cheats, they're very rarely detected. I've heard of people paying thousands of dollars for custom-built cheats that have gone years and years without being detected.

The cheating in the game is out of control and has been for half a decade. People still play and can find little pockets to play in to avoid cheaters (namely playing with friends or on paid services, that cut down on cheating due to the barrier to entry of cost), but it's inevitably unavoidable to consistently run into cheaters

My approach has been to run no client anti cheat outside of that built into the game (VAC), as I don't believe invading people's privacy (e.g. always-on kernel level detection) for the illusion of reducing cheating is worth it. There are better ways of hindering cheating than on-client detection, in my humble opinion.
Wow, which countries? 3 meals for 24 euros sounds like a trip I wouldn’t want to take. My tastes are plain.
I noticed when I started to exercise more seriously few years ago, all the pain from working 8h+ in front of a PC magically disappeared.
But I think the key isn't just do the exercises for a good posture. Just commit to something a little more ( gym, tai chi, whatever you want ) and your body automagically will handle better the "bad habits".

TLDR: I noticed a lot of difference between just doing postural work and a fully committed "sport".
paywall bypass: https://archive.vn/s8rZD

Its about diversification:
"tends to move independently of other assets"...
"an optimal portfolio contained a bitcoin allocation of 1-5%"
I'd presume this is the Streisand Effect in action. Regardless of your views on the efficacy of ivermectin, media came down pretty hard on Ivermectin, implying that it was somehow dangerous while the best that the CDC's website could offer was something along the lines of "lack of efficacy and unknown safety profile in covid patients". I can see how people would be suspicious of the borderline slanderous claims regarding an established medication with a very good safety profile.

That the denizens of the internet latched onto the "horse paste" non sequitur probably helped spread awareness as well.
> the messaging application, not being able to observe that the user is still interacting with their device, may assume that they have left to grab a coffee and start delivering notifications to their phone, causing it to buzz distractingly, instead of displaying notifications on their desktop or incrementing a badge count.

Is any webapp doing this? To me it sounds like multiple steps into the future:

- First a webapp has to have the capability to notify just one device, so in this case your browser and not also your phone. I cant think of an app where you dont receive double notifications on web+mobile (or triple with a smartwatch).

- The webapp then needs to be smart enough to dynamically select the "most active" device to send the notification to.

- The new feature can then be used as a workaround for "incorrectly" classifying your computer as an inactive device, because you are not interacting with the webpage anymore.
Ferrari makes about 8,400 cars a year, almost entirely assembled by hand. McLaren produces just shy of 5,000 per year. Tesla is currently producing about the combined number per week.

Ferrari and McLaren cars are a very exclusive club. Ferrari, to my understanding, explicitly limits production capacity to maintain that exclusivity. The practices of these two companies are in no way comparable to the practices of a large-volume automaker.
Dvorak didn't change anything for me and I went back. The problem for me is angle of wrists, not key travel. (The other problem is one-handed chording and stretching. Ctrl-X,V for example.)
This was attempted but failed in California.
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

It's worth noting that if you're in Pacific time and observe daylight time year round, you're really just switching to mountain standard time.
I see the same thing on the chase.com web site.

When I log into my account, it starts up some react or angular type bullcrap that takes literally 5-10 seconds to fully load no matter what computer I'm on or what browser I'm in. If I switch away to another tab to do something else while it's doing that, _it will never fully load_. The only option is to sit there with the tab open and stare at it until my account information appears.

In 2021, I guess I should just be happy that they're not showing me ad while wasting my time.
Or worse machine-learning-to-bounding-box that takes the video stream through HDMI, identifies character heads, intercepts the USB HID mouse, and injects movement commands to move the center of the screen towards the nearest "head". Literally (not nearly) impossible to detect, there is no difference between this and just aiming by hand. The video is already out of the box, and the USB HID packets look the same as the real mouse's commands.

I spent about two months creating training data for this and it now runs smoothly on a sister PC with a capture card. I gave up because I got bored (and perhaps felt guilty about cheating) but I wholeheartedly believe I could have played top 500 region online matches and gotten away with it, as investigations usually trigger manual DMA checks by ESEA/Faceit mods, and a manual ("automated") ban in that case. But there is no DMA in my setup. The only way to get banned would be to play stupidly and obviously cheat, and to be honest that's a plus of my setup: the neural network is not perfect, so the aimbot can't be perfect. Like a built-in humanizer.
Neat! I know virtually nothing about music, and I've never really been able to get the fingerings right on a piano, but I've always wanted to learn some music theory.

It might be fun to learn how to use something like this to start learning this stuff.
> Strike works in all US states except New York and Hawaii, and the country of El Salvador.

That's odd, because Strike is the company on which El Salvador's Bitcoin experiment is based.

https://www.businessofbusiness.com/articles/what-is-strike-E...

Also, this article has a completely different take:

> A video was released on Thursday of Jack Mallers demonstrating the service with the firm’s integration of the Strike API. In the video Mallers sent Bitcoin from Chicago to El Salvador via Twitter.

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/jack-dorsey-twitter-roll...

What am I missing?
This probably works well for smaller scale hiring. At a medium org, you want to make sure to source diverse candidates and hire without bias. (We all have biases!)
It appears to use BattlEye which is another anti-cheat solution

https://www.protondb.com/app/578080

The thing is, part of the challenge is that we don't really know if the game itself will work because people can't get past the anti-cheat to see if the game itself works.
»[...] we found that App Tracking Transparency made no difference in the total number of active third-party trackers, and had a minimal impact on the total number of third-party tracking connection attempts. We further confirmed that detailed personal or device data was being sent to trackers in almost all cases. ATT was functionally useless in stopping third-party tracking, even when users explicitly choose “Ask App Not To Track”.«

This is ridiculous. That's privacy theatre!
They do. And after a few weeks/months there will be a ban wave. But there really isnt incentive to fix these problems because if you ban cheaters they have to buy new copies of games.
we burn the generated fuel and cycle the carbon again. The fuel essentially acts like a battery. You would have to use renewable energy to power the capture.
Ronald Read (Philanthropist)
You need to read Girard more closely (I recommend reading Things Hidden...)

Girard does not embrace a Hobbesian view of the world, he is trying to explain the origin of human cooperation and society. The scapegoat narrative is not a nihilistic war of all-against-all it is a narrative of all-against-one to create order. Human cooperation can exist when violence is pared-down to one person (the scapegoat).

Where Girard admits that nihilism can come into play is when the scapegoat narrative becomes openly acknowledged. Which is what he argues Christianity effectively did (opened up the scapegoat mechanism for all to see, thus rendering it ineffective). Girard predicts that our lack of a scapegoat mechanism will likely lead to apocalyptic violence.

Frankly, I think the leftist view that humans can cooperate out-of-the-head-of-Zeus is naive and needs no account, because it has never happened.
I've never seen anyone argue strongly against git (or VCS more generally) like GP, but I have definitely seen people earnestly arguing against testing (unit and otherwise, though most only argue against unit testing). It has led to some baffling conversations, especially the person who wanted to eliminate all tests but didn't want to replace the V&V effort with something else (that is, they just wanted to code and be done with it, let the users test it).
VACnet IS more effective than their previous system, but that's a LOW bar. CS:GO is still full of obvious spinbotters and wallhackers that get to ruin a hundred competitive games before eventually getting banned, and just grabbing a new account. VACnet for some reason can't even get the obvious stuff; Spinbotting looks nothing like a normal person playing, to the point that you could probably write "if average rotation rate > some high bar then ban" and do better
> So, while I use an adblock list with my unbound caching DNS server, it only works with devices which honor the local network DNS settings...

I co-develop a FOSS DNS + Firewall for Android that prevents apps from doing their own DNS over HTTPS / TLS / QUIC by blocking all connections to IPs that the DNS client (embed within the firewall) hasn't resolved itself or the TTL of whatever answer it once resolved has expired. Something similar to this could and should be implemented by other firewalls, too. The result of such a blanket setting is devastating though, as some apps (like Telegram) refuse to do plain-old DNS and hence refuse to connect at all (so, one may have to selectively allowlist certain IPs / apps). This also has a happy side-effect (or annoying side-effect, depending on how one looks at it) of breaking apps connecting to static IP endpoints (ex: Orbot connecting to Tor bridges).
I personally use BloomRPC — just point it at your protos and go. (plus it supports grpc-web)
"I already run my own DNS server ..."

I run my own resolver (unbound) that I point all of my networks/devices to.

That resolver has, as its upstream, my nextdns.io account address. nextdns has the pihole/ublock lists built-in.

So you get to run your own DNS server, you don't have to implement any of the blocking yourself, and you just point your upstream to the address you get when you sign up.

I'm quite happy with this setup ...
There's nothing circular about that. If Rt is above 1, mitigation will need to happen somehow - whether through natural immunity, death, vaccination, masks, distancing, whatever - until Rt goes below 1. If Rt is below 1, mitigation measures can be relaxed up to the point where Rt goes above 1 again.

I personally look at four metrics - ICU capacity above/below 85%, test positive ratio above/below 5%, Rt above/below 1, and Case prevalence above/below 10/100k. If all four are below, then I'm hosting parties with my vaccinated friends. Otherwise, I'm trying not to contribute to spread.
Working with Catala in academy. Also trying to model Catala as a type system embedded in Haskell
Yep. The decision for Google to have access to the contents of my email is mine, not Amazon's (or whoever else). It's the decision I make when I use a Gmail account, and it's up to me to decide that based on Google' privacy policies and reputation.

If I don't want Google to have any access then I'll use a different provider or self host my email. If I want to publish all of my emails publicly that's also my decision.
If we’re talking about this from strictly the shareholders’ perspective, deposing Zuckerberg would do more than $5 billion in damage to Facebook.
I'm afraid the battle is already lost my friend.
What pisses me off is -- WHERE exactly is that $5B going to be spent.

We hear about fines and such going into the "general fund" -- I think this is BS - the public should be specifically the ones to benefit _directly_ from such corporate overreach fines and such.

Housing fines should buy houses.

Financial fraud should pay those defrauded - directly.

Cyber [crimes?] should be paid to directly protect users

etc....

We have heard of so many fines in the past, but no real transparency on exactly how they are spent.

And it shouldnt be in some obtuse web/budget location to determine...

There should be a dedicated fines.gov or some such that lists every single company fined, how much and how it was spent.
Ubuntu supports Google Drive out of the box, it appears in the file manager. Probably it's Gnome doing the actual work, I haven't really bothered to learn it well.
I can’t quite tell if you think this system is reasonably effective or not. It certainly seems less invasive, so it would be good if it were. Are you able to comment on that?

> You can readily download the biggest script client for Dota 2, and VAC ban waves for using it have been unheard of for years now (you only get an in-game ban when enough other players verify the cheating via Overwatch).

Does this mean you think the ban process is too slow and involved?
Thanks for the guide. I don't love using Java, but I recall that Java IDEs from 2010 provided a smoother experience for this functionality than VSCode seems to for non-Java apps today. I wonder how long it will take to reach parity there, or if there is something fundamental to the problem for non-JVM languages?
Very true, but I guess from a probabilities perspective, you're highly likely to encounter a stationary car in the driving lane (i.e. a badly parked car). I can't think of a time I've driven and not encountered this, and it's easy to react in advance before it was even a priority (see parked cars ahead, move out a lane, no inconvenience experienced...)

I wonder how it would cope with other items that don't "belong" in the roadway sitting stationary - skips, bins, shipping containers, large piles of bricks or rubble etc.
All Valve has done is made it so people cheat and pretend to be legitimate, you can't beat cheaters outside of making it a non-cheatable game, you can just reduce it. Then again, if nobody notices that you're a cheater, are you a cheater?
They bought under the condition of the ownership structure and also the law. If, as alleged, the law was broken, then there is nothing wrong with shareholders seeking redress.