skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For some types of software, we really do not want students doing it, for free or otherwise. There are whole classes of software, like database engines, that are non-obvious and require many years of real-world domain experience before it is plausible that someone will design a competent, scalable architecture and implementation.

Of course as with all things the situation is more nuanced than this. Since you mention database engines we should keep in mind that without Stonebraker and 39 of his students[1] there would be no Postgres. Yet without incentives and many years of contributions from professionals (and students who would become professionals) we would not have PostgreSQL. A healthy system has a place for contributors of all levels of experience.

1- https://momjian.us/main/blogs/pgblog/2020.html#September_21_...
This is a little poll I built to track sentiment for decision making. I've been in lots of awkward meetings recently where sales and management want a product to go live. And engineering and ops do not.

What the meetings needed was a snapshot of how people were feeling. People needed to be able to contribute anonymously. And we needed to track which direction sentiment was going. This would have facilitated a productive discussion.

Instead people didn't feel safe to voice their opinions, and there was false harmony.

My organisations problems are far deeper seated than can be solved with an anonymous poll. But I enjoyed making this tool anyways, and will use it to gauge how my own teams are feeling.

It's built using Flask-SocketIO, SQLAlchemy (Sqlite), Vue and Bulma. Source code is here if you want to look around - sg3-141-592/AnonymousStrawpoll (github.com)
> leftist talking point, but untrue

This exact cheat code was successfully used by the killer in another recent high-profile example.

"If I would have let [the person shot four times] take my firearm from me, he would have used it and killed me with it and probably killed more people."

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2021/11/20/the-acqui...
People criticize the Ivy League but I think it’s nice that they make special schools for the people who can’t code
lets ban alcohol to take away the freedom of people to commit duis
His puzzle game collection is as perfect in its domain as PuTTY is as an ssh client.

'unruly' and 'signposts' are neat little timewasters, but devolve into a lot of counting at larger sizes..

'flip' with random shapes is a great fidget-style toy

'galaxies' at 'unreasonable difficulty' gets pretty crazy

and plenty more, eg 'solo' provides every version of sudoku that you might want
Right. For some reason the author thinks abolishing is easier?

> Since we can’t change Yale, we have to tear it down.

Maybe the author thinks a similar "revolution" would ripple to other Ivys?
The Ivies are not homogeneous. Yale cannot hide amongst the other institutions to camouflage the uniquely deleterious impact it imposes.
Indeed - after the long build up, the "reveal" was distinctly underwhelming. Arguments against a straw man are only persuasive if no-one notices that your foil is a straw man.
RIOT's anti-cheat is one of the strongest I have seen. Even if you close the service and enable it again, it won't let you open the game. Only after a restart.
Note that the precipitating event was Wallace’s Fox contract coming to an end. This wasn’t ideological ragequit.

But this probably is a consequence of Fox having gone full Trumpy/facist (see: Tucker Carlson) and CNN willing to buy names for their new streaming service, which I think they correctly view as the future of live news (if there is a future outside of TikTok or TikTok-alikes).
I don't doubt this, but the more time that can be spent on building the 'business logic' the better, and one way of achieving this is to rely on sensible defaults/frameworks for things shared across all SaaS tools like hosting/deployment.
Can you remove the spyware and telemetry too?
and i'm here working on a SwiftUI app and i am so happy

everything is smooth and efficient, code compiles to native machine code, there is no JIT or other weird shit that slow me down

windows is being run by incompetent junior students

leave that sinking ship
WRT teaching people how to ride vehicles: I have taught a few people to ride a motorcycle and have myself been through a few courses.

What I found works best is a ~50-50 combination of verbal explanation of important know-hows(bike moves where you are looking, don't stare at the speedometer/front fork, look through the turn) and preparing the student to learn the tacit component on their own (counter steering is spooky action at a distance, just make it feel right and pay attention to how the bike reacts to the movements of the body)
I'm not sure this is even enough, when these anti-cheat systems rely on kernel driver implementations.
It's not "abolish Yale and do nothing", it's "abolish Yale and use the $42B endowment for something better".
My daughter loves sports and she loves broccoli.
Not having cheaters ruin my online games is an improved user experience.
So, to summarize, one of the remaining issues on the Web is that when you browse to an HTTPS site the name of the site you are connecting to is still in cleartext. The reason for this is that you regularly have 1 IP address with multiple Web sites on it. The server needs to know which Web site to forward your request to. Once it has forwarded your request the SSL cert of that site takes over and all future requests are encrypted.

Encrypted Client Hello would install a server-wide certificate that would encrypt the data from the first connection so that the handshake wouldn't be visible to the outside.

The best a MITM could do is determine that you are connecting to a specific IP but would not be able to determine which site on that IP you are browsing.
As a Harvard alum I find your distinction between Harvard and Yale pretty baffling.
From what I understand, in the US it's much easier to walk away from a mortgage (with an underlying asset to reclaim) than student loans. I'm under the impression that this (and government default guarantees) makes lenders more willing to lend money. I'm curious if tuition would have risen as much if lenders were less willing to lend money due to structural changes (e.g. actually being able to lose money).
Since the guy carrying the gun winds up alive, while those around him wind up dead, seems like the obvious conclusion is that "carrying a gun is dangerous for everyone else who isn't carrying a gun".
Of course, simply put, the far left (but not far left enough according to some comments) ideology embraced by the elite universities contradicts the existence of those universities.
Schedule (Python)
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics tracks those expenses individually based on what people actually spend for each decile of the population and came to a different conclusion.

Anecdotally, it is eminently possible to live a modest life on $40k. I know several people that do, and would have no trouble doing so myself if I needed to based on my actual expenses. The idea that Americans can't live on $40k is out of touch with reality; in many parts of the US that is considered a pretty good wage.
Malware is subjective, as everyone who's made any new executable and sent it to a friend knows as Defender immediately destroys the program and quarantines it.

Surely many, many people are willing to pay the price of running this anti-cheat that 'runs in the background' (not consuming many resources, mind you - the vgc executable isn't constantly running, only vgtray which is the tray icon and it's sitting at 640K), so this obviously isn't malware to them.
I played Valorant for a month until I was banned for no reason. They said it was for running unauthorized software but they wouldn't say which. No recourse.
The author is free to leave Yale anytime he wishes.

No sale? I see.

Either stick around long enough that you can rise to the top of the institution, to a position where you can actually make a change, or recognize that there are plenty of ways to make a difference in peoples' lives that don't involve tearing down the Establishment. Tearing down the Establishment doesn't force Establishment money to fund worthy causes, it just causes Establishment money to flow elsewhere. But you can always decide to focus your own energies on projects that are noble and worth your time.
[-1] https://archive.org/details/graillegend00jung

Joseph Campbell, a student of Carl Jung (not literally in person, and yet literally in absorbing Jung sources), has also published many worthy reflections on origins and variations of Arthurian Legend, including highlighted selections, if one is interested in that sort of thing.
Lol, I actually think for building and distribution, it’s much easier to do so on Windows than it is on Linux, because of redistributables. On Linux you have to build on <insert ancient distro> and then build and bundle all other dependencies in order to guarantee it’ll actually work somewhere else.
Does Snowflake mean the end of open source? (2020)
Ask HN: What's an insanely competitive job for a software engineer?
I'm in my 30's now and while I'm enjoying the low stress / high paycheck type of jobs that I get based on my experience, sometimes I miss the days when I was a junior and I had to compete against others to show off my skills or to meet (fake-ish) deadlines my boss would put on us.

Are there any jobs / fields where I can experience that again? I do have deadlines where I work now, but I can basically jump out of them by just saying "no, we can't do this in 3 days" or something around that.
In finance, interest rates are calculated with the formula:

rate = risk free interest rate + inflation premium + default risk premium + liquidity premium + maturity premium

Stable governments can currently borrow at or close to the risk free rate because inflation is low, stable governments are at low risk of default, and bonds are fairly liquid. These things are not the case for student debt, however. Selling a student loan is harder than selling a bond, and any individual borrower is less reliable than the entire US or Swedish government.

The only other way to influence those rates is through direct intervention, like government subsidies, or other regulations that change the risk profile (like making student loans nondischargeable) Which is exactly what the US government does with their public loans, which are at lower rates than loans through any bank. (3.73% for undergrads)

Sweden must subsidize their loans more.
physical deterioration doesn’t really become evident until after/around 30 (the end of the plateau). neural development happens well into our 20s, with a long plateau into our 30s and a gradual decline after that (only becoming substantial around retirement age). growth from experience seems to be substantial into the teens, where it hits an inflection point and starts to decelerate but still climbs, albeit more slowly over time, well into our 40s at least but possibly our whole lifetimes.

we’d still get the most bang for buck if our age was ‘frozen’ in the late 20s because experience would still accumulate regardless, but we’d have maximized the combo of physical and mental growth. it’s only obvious in retrospect how immature we are at 18, both physically and mentally, or even at 25. that’s why sports is such a neat test bed, because it taxes both facilities enough to tease out these otherwise unnoticeable dynamics.
Decred has ASICs and there is nothing they can realistically jump to.
dotnet is a stack for slow servers who love cold start

wpf is a stack for slow bloated apps (200mb for a hello world and 300 dlls)

even electron is lighter than this.. electron..

microsoft needs its swift + swiftui moment
This. "Favorite servers" with admins generally took care of all of this.

You'd have a few public servers hosted by a group. You'd have a few private servers you could be invited to. Generally, everyone was happier.

And most importantly, once exploit didn't break the entire game, everywhere. Because you could get arbitrarily banned from servers for being an ass.

(And yes, you could hide your IP and redirect. But at some point trolling gets old, and trolls move on)
But I do speak Norwegian, so how about assuming I know what the law is about? It is not just about debt collection, it is about any kind of failed payment, including a declined card for a service you're subscribed to.

In the event that your card is declined, they are obliged to give you a written notice with at least a 14 day deadline (§9) and they can't charge extra for that, or anything else beyond what they would for normal billing (§18), as long as you pay within that deadline (§17). Any agreements or contracts you enter that state otherwise are explicitly null and void (§3).
It would be cool if someone would donate to him a domain. Downloading PuTTY involves relying on greenend.org.uk (which isn't obviously connected with PuTTY). You can check your download using the hashes provided on the site; but if the download has been messed with, then the hash is untrustworthy too.

https://noncombatant.org/2014/03/03/downloading-software-saf...
this will all go away once the client runs in the cloud. we are probably one more generation of consoles away. stadia has not been the moving force it appeared to be. but its only a matter of time
The question is how would you regulate browsers? I would personally hate any regulation that government would try to do for software, because we know that the next thing they would do is ban encryption. No browser/IETF member would voluntarily do this for sure, not even firefox.
yeah, and perforated metal tea filters are all dramatically worse in my experience. truly awful flow rates, you don't get very good brews.
All I said is that it might be excessive to pay 40% of public employee's individually [1] 40k more a year than the median household income [2] in the area.

Don't equate that with arguing for Austerity.

https://www.openthebooks.com/forbes-why-san-francisco-is-in-... [1]
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/sanfranciscocitycalifornia [2]
Activision-Blizzard employees detail alleged abuse, say breast milk was stolen
It really depends on how the hypothetical upload process works.

Scan and replicate? Heck no. That's just death, with the creation of a new consciousness that behaves exactly like the original, while not being the original.

It would require mature nanotechnology, but it might be possible to transition a whole brain neuron-by-neuron into a simulated space, while proxying existing connectivity between the original not-yet-transferred neurons and newly transferred simulated neurons.

Our brains already experience continuous physical drift while maintaining a continued sense of self. So the gradual, online, ship of Theseus approach might work for uploading as well.

Ultimately I don't think it will be provable as to what is actually required for a non-destructive transfer of consciousness, as a copied consciousness will still perceive itself to be the original.
heh, define "unlivable", these people are clearly still alive. Unskilled labour is usually in surplus. The only reason the likes of Walmart pay as little as they do is because our government subsidises their employees. We've already reached the equilibrium, we've just offshored all the suffering so we don't have to look at it. We still consume goods made in these places. By the way, the factories in places like Bangladesh offer an improvement in quality of life compared to subsistence farming, which is why people work there. Isn't that a good thing?
You are swinging way too far to the opposite extreme in your last paragraph. Ivies are elitist and frequently hypocritical when it comes to their mission statements. But them being flawed does not mean they are not fulfilling some more material non-idealistic parts of their mission statements. They provide stellar education, surround you by motivated colleagues, and provide a base for world-class research (even if not all of these stellar researchers are interested in teaching). Look at Fields medalists and Nobel laureates stats for instance. They certainly have to become much better than they are today, but "hedge fund with university attached" is beyond hyperbolic.
GT’s CS program is held in higher regard within the industry.

The Ivy League has great stem programs but the most prestigious degrees come from other schools like law, business and medicine.
Actually, rates of sex abuse are lower in the Catholic church than in US schools. Regardless, organizations such as Catholic Charities do hundreds of millions of dollars of charitable services each year.
Riot may not. One more reason to never install anything from them. I understand that cheating is bad but it is pretty easy to create a system that monitors behaviour at Riots infra instead of the gamer's and filter out bad users.
I think just about the only "essential" cookies to ensure functionality would be session cookies. But I would be surprised to learn that the point is to eliminate useful cookies. Shopping cart cookies, when designed so they are not shared with 3rd parties, are benign and should not require an opt-in. That's my opinion on most cookie-based functionality, really. Client-side state is useful for a lot of user-friendly functionality.

For example, remembering things like Dark Mode, pop-up re-sizing, slider locations (volume for example) are all legitimate use cases that I would prefer as a user to be isolated per client.
Do you not need to provide card details to create an account? Serious question, as I thought you did for AWS, GCP and Azure (with some exceptions for "special" Azure account types).
Yes, that's probably right. The Real estate management is just inspired from a simple app I used here. My use of it (2 properties only) would actually fall under the free quotas of the platform, maybe 10€/year max for the photos of the move-in inspection. There's probably a lot we could add in there !

Thanks for reaching out to me, that's awesome ! ;-)
I think the OP argument is: if you have less energy available, then you will manufacture fewer things. Hence the advice to seek long lasting, energy efficient, replaceable/repairable hardware.
I think the point was that "ready and waiting" is valuable to the end customer, even if it only makes a different later when they are doing something. It's kind-of like how firemen are valuable even when they are not getting calls, because they are available for low latency response instead of busy doing something else. The idea that this is just wasted computation is therefore somewhat disingenuous.
Abolish universities in general. Strip federal grants and funding of all forms. Sell off the land. If education is worth it the private companies benefitting will fund it. Make them pay their fair share if they really have a shortage of workers. Employees of public companies are not incentivized to create efficient business that output expected results. Currently, they're there to collect a paycheck and hand you a piece of paper. The system was at one time great and has slid down the hill. It's time we abolish a system thats stuck in the 50's and stop stealing money from people to fund their jobs and budgets.
And LOL @ you not understanding that law :)
It was a gamble for both teams. I think he had more to lose, being P1 with 5 cars between him and VER.
> It’s okay to not have “forgot password” flow when you launch your project v0.1.

There's no excuse for not having the ability to reset your password with so many turn key solutions and libraries available nowadays. But I agree with all the rest.
Superlatives are weird. You can claim California has the highest tax rate and it could actually just be average, because you aren’t technically comparing against anything. If the commenter said “California has the highest tax rate compared to any other state”, the statement would be false, but leaving out the comparison makes it true by default.

Of course, that’s just advertising law (what you can legally claim about your product), this is an online forum based on higher standards.
There is still the possibility of computer vision based cheats, but a streamed game would pretty much make current cheats impossible. Even with a hardened OS specifically for running games (I think this has been proposed before) or a locked-down game console it is still possible, albeit difficult, for someone to exploit it.
Forcing people to use disqus is a fantastic way to fuck over your userbase
Does anyone know why this post is no longer present on the first page (or the second) despite racking up over 60 points in less than 30 minutes?
I actually have no problem with criminalizing cheating to some extent, I’m not actually sure you need new laws for that since it should fall under existing computer misuse legislation and arguably you can also make a case for harassment and public nuisance.

Even without it being a full on felony in jurisdictions that have that distinction it should expose you to civil suits because you are degrading a service and costing the company money.

If you break into a paintball arena for example and start running around shooting everyone with your own gun you probably will get the cops called on you and they’ll drag you out and charge you with something.
And heck even without breaking in if you simply disregard the rules and don’t leave when asked the cops will be called.

That said you can support all of this without supporting being forced to install root kits and handing over the control of your devices to the game developer or publisher. The same goes for DRM, I honestly don’t see a problem if someone goes to jail for piracy I do care when companies use terrible DRM to protect their products.
Maybe with a USB "full speed" I assume it's the fastest that the current USB could go. For some reason, with self driving, the modifier "full" makes me think level 5 autonomy, which I'm almost certain it does not have.

Actually, NHTSA defines[0] level 5 as: "An automated driving system (ADS) on the vehicle can do all the driving in all circumstances. The human occupants are just passengers and need never be involved in driving."

[0]: https://www.nhtsa.gov/technology-innovation/automated-vehicl...
There’s nothing wrong with a neutral, politically uninterested party running the infrastructure for profit reasons. In fact it’s probably better than a bunch of charged and opinionated members trying to sway influence one way or another.
Correct me if I am wrong but the approach used by most in the DARPA challenge was lidar using pre-mapped routes and heavy use of localization. If the route changed significantly I think those cars would have trouble.

I belive Teslas approach might currently feel behind but has much more “headroom”. As Elon states the team have gone down many paths that lead to a local maximum which is short of the actual end goal. They firmly belive that an end-to-end system has to be based on vision and has to be able to drive in any situation the very first time without localizing itself to a preset path.
>meaningful change

not really, the vast majority of players care far more about having less cheaters than they do giving Riot/Activision etc higher levels of access. Personally I play on consoles for the most part to avoid having to install things like Riot Vanguard and whatever the new Call of Duty anti cheat is called.
I have made a living selling a software product for more than ten years without any behavior tracking at all. I just don't think tracking users is necessary.

Analytics companies that try to sell their analytics will of course tell you that you need analytics, but I just don't think it's true.

The only analytics I need are sales numbers. When they go up, I know I'm on the right track :)

The way I learn about my customers is that I put my email address on every page of my website. And then I read emails that folks send me, and this way I learn way more about my customers than any analytics could tell me, all without invading someones privacy.

(There is one exception: My apps do send crash reports, but they only send stack traces, no user data, and I don't log any identifiable info like IP addresses.)
Why is Yale unique here?