skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Across the US counties too, the median new COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people in the last 7 days is largely similar across the categories of percent population fully vaccinated (Fig. 2)

Am I looking at the wrong graph? There is a clear downward trend from 35-40% to the 70%+ categories.

I am not sure why looking at the median county is better than just grouping all the counties in each category and looking at the cases per 100k, but looking at the latter (which the authors provide as a link [0]), and the latest available date (7 day period ending October 8th) the number of cases per 100k is 110 in the 70%+ group of counties, and it's 220+ for any group of counties with less than 55% vaccination rate.

Having twice as many cases per capita (ignoring all the other factors on how densely populated the counties with higher vaccination rates are, etc.) for every county under 50% vaccination rate compared to the ones with 70%+ vaccination rate is "largely similar"?

[0] https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiZGE1NDBmZTctYWUyZi00N...

EDIT: Also of relevance, is the fact that the country data is from September 3rd, when Israel was at the peak of cases with the delta variant. Israel is far from having vaccinated a large enough fraction of the population to achieve "herd immunity" (just 63% fully vaccinated, Portugal has 86% for example) [1]. Another confounding factor is that Israel was one of the first countries to vaccinate a large number of people, which means the effectiveness of the vaccine is now declining compared to countries that vaccinated later. They have administered booster shots to vulnerable populations [2] and the rates of covid infections have (as expected) dropped precipitously.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-vaccina...

[2] https://www.timesofisrael.com/top-virologist-says-delta-defe...
It's cheating really that big of a deal? How do they try to stop it now? Do they really need a kernel driver?
From what I understand there are already cheats that work at the hardware level (read video output, modify mouse input) with all software running on another machine.
Labotomies won the Nobel prize.

Descartes was excommunicated.

Semmelweis was mocked.

How you should approach anti-vax/anti-mask people is to consider that they may have a point.

But your FAITH in the science of your narrative precludes you.
How do you figure? Homes would go down in price, but your mortgage would stay the same. It's kind of like how people finance cars, even though the value of their car is going down while they're paying down the price of a brand new car.
There'll be patches to enable this for Linux soon enough.
Ironically, in XBox OS I'm pretty sure there's not a big distinction between usermode and kernel mode.
So the endgame would be a type-1 anti-cheat hypervisor I guess?
I mean, this is already happening! Have a Google for "Hardware CS:GO aimbot" and there are some crazy things people are doing to cheat in video games. Stuff that attaches to the CPU, ones that attach to the mouse to fake input that way, it's really quite ingenious. The market for these devices is enormous.

I guess radar cheats where the ethernet cable to split to a second computer could also be considered a hardware cheat, since it's running between an airgap.
Can anyone tell me why Fortnite doesn't seem to have as bad of a problem as CoD?

My son plays both, but CoD really sucks. It is so obvious when someone is cheating.
Definitely already exists. I've seen external aimbots that monitor what's on screen and input specific keyboard/mouse commands.

Incredibly difficult to detect, you basically need to model the way users behave differently from bots... but at the high end of competitive play people tend to approach more bot-like behaviors.
> Next step is

...that the Mayor makes a deal with the police wherein the police will notionally do at least a bit more of the job that they have been refusing to do as a political protest of downstream aspects of the criminal justice process.

The weird thing in the US is that we have stronger civilian control of the actual military deployed against foreign enemies than of the paramilitary law enforcement deployed in the US.
Aside: are there any good tutorials that provide an overview on how to write such an anti-cheat?
Part of it is just primal primate psychology stuff.

People are scared. When a smooth, soothing voice on YouTube tells these scared people that it's all going to be all right if they just follow recommendations A, B, and C from the "experts", these people feel soothed and safe, like a crying baby being swaddled and given a pacifier.

These people perceive criticism of these soothing experts as personal attacks on their safety and react accordingly. "How DARE you attack the people who made me feel safe after I was scared?!"

Scientific progress depends on consciously overriding these ancient impulses, and we've done a terrible job of communicating this idea to the next generation.
They were still bumping a number, but it was the minor version.

But regardless, no one ever really mentioned the numbers. There was a hard announcement of the new OSX/macOS version every year with a flashy new name, first cats, then California locations. I don't think anyone ever considered OSX a rolling release in the same way Windows 10 was.
I've always thought that sudo was almost totally useless.

One way or another it is going to be possible to exploit the permissions that are given to break out into a root shell.

As far as the idea that it "makes you think", given that I've absolutely typed it without thinking at all and rebooted prod, I'd say that's worthless as well.

Then there's all the silly tricks you need to learn in order to deal with shell redirection and handling of files that just get in the way of doing your job.

The only thing it does usefully is log all the commands executed, but you can hack up bash with honeypot logging patches to syslog every command executed and achieve the same thing.
> How is this company still in business?

Security isn't a feature checkbox purchasing departments can easily verify. They just trust the vendor. Purchasing doesn't know the difference between a MAC, a signature, a checksum, or a hash, and probably think the last has to do with potatoes.
I think one reason we're seeing this change isn't necessarily even about the money°. Teens and young adults are far less interested in acting nice and chipper when they're not feeling it, even for the money. That attitude was visibly increasing in the 90s, and today's kids are being raised by increasingly disaffected parents. Add the ubiquitous distraction of smartphones, and folks (even the waitresses who've been around since non-smokers were relegated to a section) just don't seem have the capacity for attentiveness that they used to. You might like getting waited on, but as supply drops, you might find yourself paying steep premiums and still be disappointed.

° though, income for these jobs seriously lags inflation which is why tips have gone from 10% pre-tax to 25% post-tax in my lifetime
Really excellent point. I’m excited to see how this plays out.
Valve have been working with anti-cheat providers for the release of the Steam Deck. Will be interesting to see how this turns out though.
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A writeup from an esports org on hardware cheating: https://blog.esea.net/esea-hardware-cheats/
One of the most vexing problems for me is how to calculate how much to spend. We had a year of double ad budget, but we didn’t see a corresponding rise in sells. Only 10%. We assumed we reached market saturation, but it still a lot of guesswork, even when meticulously diving into GA data.
Because there is a debate about the degree of immunity that you get after being ill with COVID-19. And many healthcare workers that have been exposed to the virus have been ill, have high levels of antibodies and they don't think that the vaccine is necessary or beneficial for them.

But right now you must be in one of the two fields: you are either an anti-vaxxer or you believe in science and will do everything your government says. There are no room for rational discussion about important issues anymore. You just choose your team and fight for it till death.
Then there's CS:GO, whose developers refuse to use intrusive practices to counter cheating. And the game is ruined by rampant cheating. (Neither for nor against. Just saying.)
Windows drivers can be loaded and unloaded dynamically, yes. It's also possible that they're using "shut down" semantically and not literally, in that the driver is loaded but inactive while the game isn't running.
Yes. Drivers can be loaded and unloaded at will. It's a necessity for USB devices.

Heck, these days, even a GPU driver can be hot-swapped.
So what happened to it? There was an election, Trudeau is still head of government, and in August the bill appeared dead.
Different mongoose in this case: https://cesanta.com/
> Their actions (anecdotally) are driven by culture and politics, not data.

I'd argue 40% of societies response to this pandemic is culture and politics. 30% is media fear mongering. 20% is intellectual error and 10% is actually disease mitigation.

Requiring fully vaccinated individuals to wear masks is culture & politics.

Shutting down outdoor restaurants is culture and politics

Casting moral shame on people who get covid is culture and politics

Saying it is totally okay to go to a BLM rally while not being able to attend a football game is culture and politics.

Closing the birthday card isle in the grocery store is culture and politics.

The list goes on and on...

In fact the very core of lockdowns is premised in culture and politics and not science. Science doesn't create policy. Human values do. For example places that place more emphasis on living life instead of protecting life were probably the first to drop restrictions.... a perfectly valid stance.

Science doesn't tell us what to do. It is merely a process for testing hypothesis in an attempt to get to the "truth" of something. That's all it does. Science didn't tell us to lockdown, it doesn't tell us to require vaccinated individuals to wear a mask, it doesn't tell us to shut down our borders, or any of that. All those decisions were driven by culture and politics.
When you say "the government is composed of people like you," I imagine you are talking about the low to mid echelons of the civil service. That's right, but they don't set policy. Corporations work together with politicians and reliable upper-echelon civil servants to set US policy, and the media works together with them to prevent the use of democracy. It's impossible for a US citizen to believe anything else if they have but the most shallow awareness of even the foreign policy alone of the past 70 years.

It's universal knowledge; you will hear it whether you are talking to a conservative christian or a communist, although the particular culturally appropriate way of phrasing it will change. You will even hear it from comfortable urban professionals, although couched in a way that makes it look like they're not excessively upset about it.

I have heard a lot of opinions, some of them bonkers, but there is one I have never heard; I challenge you to find one single American who believes that Iraq was invaded due to popular demand.
Thank you.

They don't all conform to the specific pattern you said, but the more general "media keeps reporting iphone production cut rumors" is certainly there.
How about no? This will just lead these companies to implement anti-cheat to protect the "integrity" of their single player games (and their MTX) as well. Say goodbye to mods and other forms of benign game hacking (particularly hacks that fix games like Dark Souls).
Thank God I was born in a poor socialist country and I don't have to think about obvious stuff like my days off

Edit: sorry if that sounded offending but I can't wrap my head around the fact that people in US have problems of this kind
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I think Fortnite uses a projectile bullet model while Call of Duty is all hitscan, but I could be mistaken. It’s been years since I played a CoD game.
Love it. Fun, great interface, love the Gif export. Ace :-)
That's clearly not the definition the article uses, given that it at length discusses evidence that refused consent to organ use is ignored and how that's a problem with trusting Chinese claims to the contrary.
So you’re saying the situation where the pharaohs used slave labor to build the pyramids is analogous to the time we’re living in? On that we can agree.
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This is because developers work on beefy computers with the minimum of 32GB RAM and with the fastest NVMe drives and 8K monitors, which are connected to 10gbps internet.
(So I do think that performance advertising is partly a racket, but it can work really well if you know what you're doing).

One additional thing people don't call out is that a lot of the budgets spent on these platforms are "learning" budgets. Agencies play this card really well. They'll tell you, "oh, you need to increase your budget, and test all these different combinations of ads/targeting/landing pages/etc so that you can learn what works (or the AI behind the platform can learn what works)". And obviously, in "learning" mode, you're ignoring the ROI.

I've seen people spend substantial amounts of money in "learning mode", and the platforms are kind of incentivized to make the learning less efficient so it takes longer and more spend for you to get to ROI positive (or to learn that you will never get there).
> an attitude that in our society you are welcome to say something that I heartily disagree with.

That's not the ethos of free speech, the ethos is the recognition that we don't have the right to silence the other fellow.

You've got to keep in mind the context of the formation of the country and the writing of the Constitution: we had just ditched the King, eh? (And by "we" I mean the wealthy land-owning (and in some cases slave-owning!) ex-Englishmen who were in the room at the time.) We decided that we didn't have the right to abridge the freedom of speech of each other.

So it's not that we welcome speech we disagree with, (e.g. see the reception of Abolition or Women's Suffrage), it's that we mustn't use the force of law to silence those we disagree with.

These days, with the rise of social media, people are communicating en mass with each other over systems that are privately owned and built in such a way that the owners feel the need to moderate and even censor some speech. That puts us in a weird situation, one that didn't tend to apply to ostensibly private communication (mail, phones). (But radio and TV and movies have always been moderated (George Carlin - "Seven Words You Can't Say On TV" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyBH5oNQOS0 ). Heck, comic books used to be moderated!)
Perhaps I overlooked it, but it seems strange there's nothing about making containers immutable and read-only. This is a powerful tool IMO.

https://cloud.google.com/architecture/best-practices-for-ope...
I guess for me as someone who takes Adderall it feels less weird to say “dopamine rush” than “amphetamine rush”. I’ve said that once or twice and people laugh, but in the way like you’re an insane person.
Alpine.js is great. It is my goto for JavaScript now. It really hits the sweet spot.
This is something I've thought about often. Imagine mining pays $.40 per KWH used and solar costs $.35 per KWH. Now you have a customer that will buy as much solar as you can build until the market if flooded with miners and now mining only makes $.20 per KWH used.

The other issue is that if coal costs $.15 per KWH, no one will be interested in renewables.
I'm not a descriptivist! I think that everyone should speak English the way I speak it! (I'm right, and everybody else is wrong)

It's awful, being a prescriptivist. Everything you read howls at you "Ignoramus journalist!", and everyone you meet seems to be foreign. Every dictionary seems to have been compiled by an "algorithm", based on some irrelevant corpus; and the meanings of words I thought I knew keep shifting. I guess defending Norlins against a hurricane tidal surge must have felt a bit like this.

Maybe I should just chill a bit more.
And Debian is also on 11.

(GCC too, and, technically, X)
Freakonomics had an episode with an economist that worked with Ebay on ad buys. This sort of "buy ads on your own keywords" was shown to have zero impact on sales to the point that they cut completely stopped advertising when the search included "ebay".
Building is a solved problem. The hard part is the political will to do it. The point of this game is not to show a detailed budget, but the magnitude of money needed to make it happen, if only the will was there.
> Just interested to see whether this approach is viable.

Spoiler alert: It's not. The better SOCs end up becoming more proprietary because it's the companies' own implementations that make them perform better. That leads to proprietary drivers/software.
I've only ever seen people use sudo to prevent accidents (by running most commands unprivileged), not malicious use.
How is it a scam? They sell dashboards that s the business.
In my experience, "going offshore" as you put it, simply prolongs an inevitable death, while simultaneously funneling more money to the top.
Or increase the role of aim and reflex when determining rank.

Should also reduce smurfing somewhat - you'd only be able to dominate a match once with a given account.
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If you define "not poverty" as earning more than $1.90 a day, like the world bank does, that might be true.

If you define "not poverty" as $7.40, which the UN claims is the "absolute minimum for basic nutrition and normal life expectancy", the only place that has moved people out of poverty at scale is... centrally planned China.

This claim is nothing more than propaganda by a capitalist institution fudging the numbers to make itself look good.
I found it pretty easy to find non-flamebait information on this story, here it is on CNN[0]. Here[1] is some background; here[2] is the original 2003 study (which predicted the glaciers would disappear in 2030; the date was apparently pushed up based on field observations showing glaciers melting faster than the model predicted.

[0] https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/08/us/glaciers-national-park...

[1] https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2019/09/fact-check-no-the...

[2] https://doi.org/10.1641/0006-3568(2003)053[0131:MCIGCI]2.0.C...
Hey, thanks for the reply. Appreciate the writeup too, it was a fun read. Hope you don't mind but I have a few more questions.

How were you able to get Chrome RDP access setup without admin privileges? I assume this is automatically blocked via group policy.

Now that you have Chrome RDP setup, how were you able to access these machines from outside the network from home?

"since I could come in-person with my team for security competitions" I'm really intrigued now. What were these security competitions about and were they part of a class you were in?
By not relying on client side protections to prevent hackers from messing with your game... This is just another flavor of the DRM fight and its not effective.
It's really easy to "beat" the chaos monkey with this kind of design. You can destroy any VMs in our infra with reckless abandon and everything will be fine. If you destroy all the VMs of particular service obviously it will affect availability but it will still recover by itself in about 60 seconds.
Easy: code your game correctly and check for impossibilities server-side. But that costs money in development and infra.
> Is there any evidence this is actually true?

Apple stock hasn't cratered so the markets don't think much of this story.

> Literally every year at this time, Bloomberg or the WSJ reports that Apple is due to cut production due to some negative factor or another.

You shouldn't be downvoted for stating a fact. For every "fusion energy" story, we've had a "apple production cut" story.
Make sure to draw the slider far enough to see the effect. The map has a grey overlay (time is before sunrise?) for the first 10% or so of the track.
You're right it definitely doesn't fit neatly under any current anti-trust laws.

I think the justification for why something like exclusive dealing agreements in monopolistic conditions is unfair could definitely be applied to why being a competitor in your own marketplace, while leveraging your customer's data, and boosting your own listings could be deemed unfair and lead to monopolistic conditions too.
I look forward to all the kernel level anti cheat systems interferring with each other and banning players on accident.
thats a great advice and makes total sense. thank you!
There is 0 chance of this happening. Anything in kernel won't be working at all, and I'm 100% sure that Activision won't make any effort to make it work on Linux.

None of the Kernel anti cheat work without being compatible with Linux which currently none of them are. EAC is supposed to be in the future but I doubt it will work.
I'm not sure if you are "joking" or not aware of history, but here is some reading to answer your question why we don't do this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_human_experimentation
Yes but do you have to work? Does your livelyhood depend on it? Does it define you as a person? Does society shut you out if you stop working, even temporarily? There's the concept of the modern slave. While technically your employment is voluntary and you are receiving a reward for it, the system appears as if calibrated to siphon back everything given and more.

Entire armies of people are employed to extract as much wealth from you as possible. They bombard you with advertizements at every opportunity on the street and in your home, pushing you crap you don't need while conditioning you to equate having them with power, status, sex and success.

Scientists and engineers construct the most technologically elaborate optimizations to have unsupervised black box AI machines make whatever moves legal or novel to take everything you have and make your life miserable without justice or recourse.

You did read all of the EULA before accepting, right? Oh wait I was born here I never signed the constitution!
Would it be in a game company’s interest to implement anti-cheat for single player games? Mods and other forms of benign game hacking increase the popularity and longevity of games which presumably benefit profitability.
They are not. They are rent-seeking. If you didn’t convince your customers of your brand value or at leadt get a patent, you probably didn’t innovate and thus a free economy makes you vulnerable to competition from more efficient businesses. Surprise! The consumer benefits and the rent-seeker has to try something else.
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Scaring away, and alienating the last decent maintainers.

GTK now effectively stands for Gnome ToolKit.
When I tried to use jaylib I was not able to get it to work at the time. Might have to give it another shot.

The http server used in Chidi is actually fairly new and I was not aware of it. It is part of the spork package. About two months ago I chatted with the creator of Janet about whether or not an http server will be added. He said it would not be added to core, but it looks like he added to spork about a month ago. It looks like it is a pure Janet implementation so there should be no licensing conflicts. I'll have to try it out.
Rampant cheating in online FPS games is a problem right now. I've had more games ruined by cheaters than I can count.

So how about yes, let's focus on fixing the problem at hand, and if it's used for something else(like single player games) then I'll complain about it. Right now developers have my full support to use whatever methods they can to make sure the hackers stay out. The game can boot into its own OS for all I care.
The submission got flagged as well :shurg: