skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
aren’t websites just getting worse and bloated with JS crap

Maybe they are, but that bloat is just some static files that are sent to the user as far as the web server is concerned. They should have no practical impact on the battery life of the server.

There are JS sites that render on the server as well, but that's not the bloat you mean.
I used to think of CNN as fairly centrist (or at least more "straight news"), but haven't they leaned pretty heavily into the hard-left lately, especially with moving to more opinion-based shows? It doesn't seem like it's very controversial to say that Cuomo, Lemon, and Stelter are pretty obviously leftists?

Maybe this is an omission from CNN that moving to the left with opinion shows was a mistake and represents a move back to hard news again. Isn't Wallace considered more of a centrist reporter?

Disclaimer: I don't watch Fox or CNN other than occasionally seeing it in an office or when visiting someone's house?
I don't know exactly how Sweden works and don't have the basis to make a comparison with the American system. But I believe that many countries emphasize some kind of competitive exams for college entry and have far fewer good college spots than are available in America? Is that the case? Perhaps there's some significant differences in the overall system that just wouldn't work in America that drastically changes the financial incentives.

But speaking strictly about America, is it possible that dramatically expanding access to cheap educational loans may have some unintended negative consequences?

For instance, you could argue that the price of education in the US has continued to increase even as more and more funding assistance became available. Some observers see it as colleges taking advantage of society's goodwill and just continuously expanding their administrations and spending as students attain more access to credit. Let's conduct a thought-experiment: if society offered students 100K free per year for the sake of education, is it any doubt that college prices would find a way to rise to around that amount soon after?

As another consequence, maybe unserious people are financially incentivized to go to college to take nearly useless degrees. Is it a good thing for society to perpetuate this system of debt? Keep in mind that we live in an Instant Gratification society, and many people go to school purely for the fun social experience. Kids are basically pressured to take on tens of thousands of dollars (or more) in debt just to live life on easy mode for a few years and many people don't take actually useful degrees that are hard (some kind of engineering for instance) but many people take degrees with truly marginal or even negative social value. Would expanding access to credit not just exacerbate this?
At 640k it's using all the available ram any computer would ever need
Who determines Beta-Quality ? What you complain here is something all developed countries already allow, anyways .. let the lobbyist bribe whoever they want.
I hope it extends to 60ft for an indoor gathering with an aerosol virus.
I would say these are very very dangerous measuring devices as it is impossible to operate them and keep the minimum distance.
So you want to punish people who get practical degrees? How will this reduce "pointless" degrees? Won't it incentivize you to get them?
Sparkfun is a great goto place for electronic stuff like this. However, I’m sure there’s more specialized solar panel sources.

Https://sparkfun.com
> They are both toy models

Dune is not a model, toy or otherwise, it is a narrative with no independent variables.

The illusion that there is a model involved is art, just as the illusion of (say) spaceships in the film version.
It means the rich can get richer without the poor getting poorer since they are creating wealth, not taking it in a zero-sum or rent-seeking way. So relative inequality increases but the mean standard of living for everyone including the poor rises.

"Poverty and economic inequality are not identical. When the city is turning off your water because you can't pay the bill, it doesn't make any difference what Larry Page's net worth is compared to yours. He might only be a few times richer than you, and it would still be just as much of a problem that your water was getting turned off."
It's amazing how quickly one's scruples about using pesticides disappear with a persistent pest problem, but yes, this does need to be controlled at the source.
I don't get your point, if you don't want the anti-cheat on your machine then don't install and play the game, it's that simple. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
> I don't want people choosing art history over CS [because of price]

This reasoning right here is why people are stuck in $100k student loans with useless degrees. Sometimes it is more useful for society as a whole to have fewer art history majors and more engineering majors. The overwhelming majority of highly impactful social science research (if it can be called that with the reproducibility issues it has) comes from the top 10 institutions. Everyone else is just getting a degree in barista science.
Those look nice as well.

I think that any slim/passive box will work well. So long as it has enough NICs and they have quality drivers for hardware offload and whatnot it'll work great.
It is and is not really relevant for non-mathematicians. If there is finally an digitization of the system then I suspect programmers will find it useful, but until then, it is useful for exploring mathematics separate from set theory. E.g. instead of picking one or the other for a set theory axiom, choose neither.

Probably applicable to finding complexity proofs as well, and optimization.

I reached, some time ago, the conclusion that you could compare programs for equality and determine if they are equal. This traversal of the graph/type theory representation of the program can be NP hard, but it may also not be, and could save lots of time in fields like automatic differentiation by pruning possible solutions that don't need to be evaluated.

To some surprise I'd found other people mentioning this as well.
True, no one wants that. It's an entirely unsurprising sentiment, really. But it's in no way whatsoever mutually exclusive with disliking this specific approach.
Um err I’m writing this on a Mac mini M1 with Durgod keyboard, Logitech mouse and Iiyama monitor…

If I buy any laptop, other than Apple, I get whatever parts they managed to get from the lowest bidder.
I have had an M1 Air for months, and my eyes have not felt any worse than when using other laptops.

I find the display to be very nice. Aside from one dead pixel, it’s a joy to look upon.

The only thing that seems to tire my eyes is my iPhone 12 Pro.
> On the other hand I would welcome hazard game regulations for all games with lottery ticket like products for sale, like "loot boxes".

...especially with all the YouTube advertising. I see advertisements for these (what is essentially) gambling games quite frequently on YouTube. "One free spin if you use code XXXXX, guys! Go download it now!" type of stuff. They obviously get a kickback from these ads.

The audience for these types of channels are mostly going to be young / teenage boys. They know exactly what they're doing, and personally I find it despicable and harrowing that YouTube entertain this.
Yale has unique historic and ongoing ties to the bureaucratic apparatus of the country. These have been/are exploited for the unique benefit of the institution and its associates. Harvard, (in particular some elements of the law school), are getting in on this game more on the direct "policy" level than ever historically. Take, for example, Harvard's new institutional bias toward "Lawfare."
Counter argument: The operating system should do this instead. PC gaming would be better off if Windows shipped with “Xbox Anti-cheat” that had similar protections but was baked into Windows instead of relying on a half dozen third party implementations.
I do not recommend getting vaccinated for dengue fever :P
I'm not sure it's actually true that we should apply the same standard to predators who are naturally present in an ecosystem and predators introduced by humans. The natural ones have to some extent demonstrated that they're capable of existing without causing their various forms of prey to go extinct.
I don’t think it’s hyperbolic at all. The elite universities in the US are massive investment companies with a college side hustle. Do you think the boards spend more time discussing the quality of the fund’s investments or the quality of the school’s education?
It’s partly on Duke though, as the degree should come with a cigarette warning - this degree comes with a quarter million dollar debt, warning!
> The point is that the celebrities' opinions are to an extent representative of the communities within which they are famous.

I think there's no particular reason to assume that the loudest and best-known voices in a community reflect the view of the broader community. (That's not to say anything about whether it's true here, just that I think it's far from a given, and, if true, is an additional data point rather than a consequence.)
My CC’s are at 10% and 12%, many student loans are in that range.

20+% CC are out there but that’s often a tradeoff for cash back programs or for people with bad credit.
Web3: The Metaverse
You can get all of that plus some with Supabase or Hasura without having to write a single model or resolver, all on top of rock solid Postgres. And hook up Appsmith if you need custom admin.
I mean, that's because a lot of websites these days are built on bloat on top of bloat. A periodically generated static HTML page is pretty easy to take HN load.
Have built computer vision based bots for Diablo III, World of Warcraft, Bookworm (make words from letters), a real-life Scrabble solver on a phone, a real-world jigsaw puzzle solver on a phone, various online poker games, a proctored online test and a match 3 game on an iphone. Computer vision cheating is surprisingly easy and just getting easier.
I would like to know the same.

It seems some easily offended people moved in here and are strangling discourse.
Sounds like you screwed up. Current private student loan rates are on the order of 3-5%. Refi's are less than that. And that's ignoring the newfangled stuff like ISAs where there aren't even any loans to begin with.
Someone might also reasonably feel that more money for teachers does not, by itself improve outcomes. It's certainly possible for bad teachers to be paid a lot, which some people might call "being overpaid" even if there exists some other teacher that is making more money and is perhaps underpaid.

Or, someone might reasonably think that teachers play only one part in educational outcomes, and that investing more in teaching quality isn't an efficient use of resources.

Or maybe both those people are wrong. But it's hardly dangerous to entertain the complaints of the people paying the bills.
I don't think it's a typo. The author is a sophomore, meaning he was admitted in 2020 and is therefore part of the class of 2024.
His point is specifically that they refuse to scale up because of what they fundamentally wish to be/represent.
Same here. I assumed the upper right square with a cross was a screen though, like an oscilloscope not yet displaying a wave form.
The shortcut to implementing this technique is buy a gaming console. Gaming companies seem very committed to their desire to root your box, so might as well just get one pre-rooted and use it for nothing else.
The machine that never dies.
Uh okay
You wouldn't. Just like there's nothing to guarantee they're not using this exploit right now as we speak.
It's interesting that there is a lot of effort spent on reigning in spending but when there are reductions in services, quality thereof or otherwise spending there is not a corresponding reduction in taxes.

In Canada we have had constant reductions in the quality of education for at least the last 40 years, without any corresponding reduction in taxes.

While I'm in favour of public education in principle, we cannot trust the gov to not raid this and the health care coffers so that they can spend on what will get them re-elected.
My guess is that the answer will be "not on HN" but I'm curious where such questions could be discussed/debated as well. I get banning flame-bait questions so that the forum/website doesn't become know as the Hackers' Fight Club. Maybe a clone/similar kind of site -- perhaps called HackersFightClub.com? -- could be created where topics that are NOT flame-bait get flagged and removed.
> and it's far better than the alternative

There is, of course, a substantial issue re: privacy with this approach. A ring-0 driver can essentially do everything the system can (it's running in kernel mode). It's a two-sided coin.
Probably not. Some hacks would not work anymore (eg. wallhacks). Yet, how would you detect, say, an aimbot identifying the pixels on the screen and simulating mouse moves?
Michigan woman faces prison after trying to hire assassin through fake website
> but it is pretty easy to create a system that monitors behaviour at Riots infra

Could you expand on this approach, please? Quite interested in what you have to offer, technically speaking.
HN source is also a testimony of css2 era. Inline attributes still present.
Terrible advice imo
I'm glad to hear this because I like MacBook Air, and hope that the problem is specific to Pro only. Maybe this is related to the bigger screen (14").
Alternatively 401ks are stupid. They transfer the market risk to individuals which can result in dramatic loss of savings of no fault of the naïve general investor. Once more, they transfer wealth from wage earners to the investment class and by automatically investing more, inflate the divide between rich and poor and drive up valuations. They take dumb investor money and then add regulated inflexibility that locks it up in stock investments. These investors are told to never sell even in a crash. It’s HOLLDD in its original form. Another result in the market is that few 401k investors play anything other than indexes, which means that companies become owned by huge funds that don’t exert any control over the companies they own and don’t care about their performance. This corrupts the corporate level since accountability to investors is weakened.

Otherwise it’s great as long as stocks always go up.
My impression of the hiring ethic at Amazon is that they deliberately ignore barriers to entry like this in order to select the set of workers that is most profitable/pliable while leaving them with an easy way of getting rid of folks they dont like.
It aligns incentives between society and the student. If the student fucks around or majors in something useless, they're on the hook for it.

I'd gladly subsidize more STEM degrees with my taxpayer dollars but I won't give a single dollar towards underwater basket weaving type degrees. Every single humanities class I took in college was utterly useless. Advocates claim you're learning how to read and write competently but I learned that from business school, not sociology and history.
You got it; the point is that it's a one-time problem after which a different app should be chosen. There's a ton of things out there which'll record rides offline.

Personally, I think a dedicated bike computer is best, because then the phone's battery is saved for emergency uses instead of recording a ride. For long rides (8-10 hour) phones won't have enough battery to record the whole ride.
Oh, but it could be improved. Linux can cold boot under 300ms (easier if you control the BIOS and can tune it for speed, like coreboot can), faster if resuming from RAM. That should allow you to perform load-balancing while powering off the extra capacity (using wake-on-lan).

If load becomes too important for the SBC or close to capacity, wake the server, and perform a handover once it's up. You can either hold the packets and use the SBC as a proxy, or change your router's config to point to the newly awakened server (alternatively, just exchange IP or MAC addresses). With a bit of magic to avoid closing existing connections (I believe home ISP routers should keep NAT connections open if a port forward is changed), it would work. Obviously it's even easier with a proper load balancer.

edit: actually even a router might be able to handle low loads

There seems to be surprisingly little interest in this (closest I found was https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/89271 ).

So yeah, it's still wasted power and computation in my opinion. "Ready and waiting" should not take 100W per server, but be closer to 0.1W (WoL), or lower if managing state from a central node. I guess it's not worth optimizing for most people, and big cloud probably does something similar already.

In a way, it's a bit like big.LITTLE with additional latency: small, power-efficient vs big, fast, inefficient for small loads.
I can recommend this review too. I read it a little while ago and it lead me to read the book itself, and at that point I was so hooked I started reading the Oxford Handbook of Expertise. I'm doing it a chapter at a time so it's not going fast, but it's very rewarding.

I think, by applying some of the core principles (variety of scenarios, high difficulty, guidance from expert available, high density of lessons, etc) I can learn things quicker, as well as help others learn things quicker. Even without CTA proper, which is its own skill I haven't taken the time to learn yet.
Generating Envoy Config with Cue
They'll knock a few grand off for various points, kind of like you're buying a new car. You're still spending a lot of money. Think of it as a car dealership with promotional giveaways.
Maybe it doesn’t make financial logic for the brand and it’s reputation in the long run. (Punnery not intended)
I agree with this so so much.

The problem is too much reliances on frameworks and add on libraries.

Developers will import an entire framework that for the benefit of a single feature. It's mind blowing to look at the amount of js includes for seemingly simple sites.

Stackoverflow answers that direct you to import a library or framework should be banned in most cases.

I will often have to scroll past several answers that say to import a library before finding a simple and functional answer that uses only a few lines of code down near the bottom. Which in my eyes is the real answer. I often wonder if there's a behind the scenes effort on SO to promote certain includes.

The entire ecosystem of some languages / implementations relies on this far too heavily.

We are seeing some of the consequences other than just bloated systems from this style of coding with malicious node packages.
It's not a red herring. If I think my taxes are too high, and I hear "California has the highest taxes in the country!", I will think, "Oh, California should spend less money so my taxes go down." But if I hear "California has extremely high taxes for people like me, but very low taxes for certain other rich people," I will think, "California should reform its tax policies so that it gets more money from those people and less from me."
To clarify, any adaptive cruise system in deployment at that time.
He is possibly referring to Minecraft? You can self-host your own server and connect to it via Minecraft, although I am unsure as to whether the server-side component is open-source.
> It means the rich can get richer without the poor getting poorer since they are creating wealth, not taking it in a zero-sum or rent-seeking way.

Except outside of the most abject poverty that is fairly rare in the developed world, utility/disutility is more a function of relative economic status than absolute economic status. So, in the only sense that matters, this is at least oversimplified; you have to improve absolute wealth on the lower end considerably just to offset the disutility of increased equality and break even. It is possible to increase inequality and have everyone better off in utilitarian terms, but improvements in the usual economic measures are not sufficient to show that because those are poor proxies for utility.
Any startup founders use purely performance based compensation?
this is a mostly-unreplied-to question from one person, from 10 months ago, on a customer-support forum. Why is this newsworthy?
Enjoy dying a slow painful dead you piece of shit :)
The article even explicitly says "modern image" in the title. Those paintings posted below are certainly not the "modern image" of Santa in the US.
I have a dash cam in my Yaris. It's not any different than a Tesla recording video around you.
To see proteins change in a quadrillionth of a second, use AI
It's not. Binary protection is easy and you won't be able to stop high level attackers. It's similar to the EDR field where it's monitoring heuristics and trying to correlate those to attacks. And it's also similar in that normally it functions off of a whitelist, but they get a bit more coverage since they only care about a singular program which they control.

Companies get most of it from either filter drivers or ETW. Which effectively give a callback and notification for every handle or handle operation (So Networking, File, Registry, InterProcess, etc...). The good way to do this is ETW which gives you events and doesn't allow changing of these events, unlike a filter driver that can modify these requests. And this stops 99 % of people. ETW even runs in usermode as opposed to a driver.

They also do malware techniques such as loading shellcode over the wire so it's difficult to audit the actual malicious stuff they're doing.

There's zero reason for them to need anything like what Riot does with Vanguard and it's a joke that consumers allow this. It's them trying to jump to the top of the stack and abuse Kernel. But they're engineers are to stupid to realize this opens up complexity in the architecture and makes it easier to break and bypass.
Toto is a little bitch
I'm okay with criminal laws that punish people for cheating in games that have cash prizes but I really don't want to see that applied to everyday games.

Let's so for old times sake I organize a lanparty with my friends from HS and during this event someone decides to turn on no clip to surprise their friends. Should this be criminal?
I'm choosing to install anti-cheat software into MY OS, on MY hardware, to improve MY gaming experience. The OS isn't subverting anything by allowing me to do that. I can't see how that's anything like your hypothetical. The anti-cheat software isn't being rolled into Windows for everyone in the globe, it's part of a voluntary, user-directed game installation on a specific computer.
Whoa, TIL. It actually makes quite a big difference. Nevertheless I don't actually think being pixelated is much of a stylistic choice.

Here [1] they explain how they use dithering to minimise their bandwidth and computational costs.

[1] - https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/09/how-to-build-a-low...
I just feel like nothing is going to convey the excitement we got from BBSs in the early 90s. We used to cycle over to this guys house (he had TWO phone lines!) on our BMXs and hand over $10 for some connectivity.
Preferably this would use a browser cookie setting. I know you use cookies to store my settings, I don't need you to ask. Please stop asking.
The camera automation isn't very predictable due to the digital/timer/analog movement, input lag between AHK/Windows/Cemu, and inconsistent framerate/time caused by the nature of emulation. Just too many layers. My automation overshoots to make up for that. Maybe that doesn't matter with PTGui. I'll try it out next time I get the chance. Thanks!
Student are in debt either way. So I don't see how it aligns anything except for those who profit on it.
What's being discussed here is presenting spying on your user base as a good thing because "it stops cheating". They simply want more dirt on the kids who play their games.