skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Why is obtaining a "Yale" level of education in and of itself a good thing, especially if we're not seeing society-wide positive change driven solely by individuals with that level of education?"

If you don't think obtaining a Yale level of education is a good thing, simply don't go there? What would be the point in abolishing it?

"The article's point is that historically, large-scale change is driven by groups rather than individuals."

That would be the a) option, people can achieve the same things without Yale.

"99.999% of people don't have the choice to go to Yale. That would be true even if everyone in America were given "equal opportunity" from birth -- it's how scarcity works. The article answers this question for you in case you want to give it a second read."

Most people just decide not to go there. That doesn't imply that they don't have the choice.

"The article answers this question for you in case you want to give it a second read."

If their argument is it should be abolished because not everybody has the choice to go there, it is a bad argument. If b) holds, you would still want people to go to Yale to achieve the things that could not be achieved otherwise. And in case of a), it seems irrelevant.
> What are these people even getting out of it? Is it just having their name on a board somewhere?

Based on my observations (during 20k+ hours of playtime in multiplayer games), I don't think a leaderboard is even necessary. It often seems to be more about asserting dominance. Very simple and very primal. No deep thoughts, just imposing your will over others. It's satisfying. [1]

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[1] Of course there's a spectrum of reasons one might have to cheat. Some might be temporary cheaters who are just curious about the possibilities, others might be aiming for a specific prize in a contest. With the dominance angle I'm characterizing a certain kind of obsessive regular cheater.
Decred was created in 2013 as "bitcoin but with governance". You can earn it through both proof-of-work AND proof-of-stake mining. Users who participate in proof-of-stake mining can vote on proposals such as this one. (Their voting power is roughly equivalent to how many DCR they've locked up.)

It got a lot of attention when Bitcoin was having its block size limit controversy around 2015 (which led to the fork between bitcoin/bitcoin cash).
How much random open source code do you compile and execute? How many programs do you run?

At the end of the day it’s about trust. If you don’t trust Riot to run lol.exe then you definitely shouldn’t run their service! But if you trust Riot enough to run lol.exe it can do anything to your computer. The difference between lol.exe running in the foreground and something else running in the background is negligible from a security standpoint.
The effect of nuclear explosions on commercially packaged beverages [pdf] [1956]
"Some flavor change was found in the beverages by taste panels, more in beer than in soft drinks."
I do use a tiling WM (i3). I was specifically referring to the easymotion[0]-like navigation shown in the video.

What annoys me most about windows is, that you have to resort to using the mouse for many things, and selecting things using something like easymotion seems powerful.

[0] https://github.com/easymotion/vim-easymotion
Your parent wasn’t downvoted. The account is banned so their comments are dead by default.
In reply to the author's top-level comment, which for some reason I can't reply to.

Not sure I'd call 10% transaction fees plus card processing a "fair revenue sharing model" when I'm already paying a monthly fee? And not sure it's really ethical to say "No transaction fees" for the more expensive plan when I'm still going to be the one paying card processing, not you.
Thanks for submitting your first course, "Building Typescript Libraries". I've received the notification, I'll look into it first thing in the morning tomorrow. Did you submit it just for testing AlterClass or for launching it for real? :)

I totally understand that the ownership of your course content is a concern for you and I'm working on a solution. I don't want to promise anything yet, but I do think hard about it. As an instructor myself, I understand that you want to own your course and have access to it outside the platform you used to create it. More on that soon.

Regarding the blocks/lessons order, it is not possible on the authoring system yet. I'm working on that too.
You say that like amateur athletes think more highly of cheaters. I'd say almost anyone would be unhappy about competing against opponents who don't play fairly
Latest is they decided everything is just fine.
Ranked matchmaking is worse at delivering a competitive experience than a community of people who want to have a competitive experience. Don't kid yourself, competitive gaming existed long before ranked matchmaking.
All this means is we’ve built something in the present that someone in the future doesn’t get paid for. We still have the thing we built so I’m not sure what the problem is so long as we’re building something useful (e.g. infrastructure, public services) and not something pointless (e.g. overpriced real estate and other economic rents).
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Software where the term "crash" is quite literal no less.
But is it not a private organisation?

I don't see a way to not quickly devolve into socialism with that line of thought? You have to reject the notion that people should be allowed to spend their money as they see fit.

If you want to convince people that their money would be better spent elsewhere, fine. But to demand they should not be allowed to spend it on a Yale education is authoritarian and socialist.
I guess I could use WPF but I want to build a shiny Windows 11 app using the new controls
I would *love* to know how you think I 'screwed up' as a high school kid who applied for and accepted the only college loans that were approved. My parents and I went to the planning workshops to prepare for college, we filled out the endless forms, we jumped through all the hoops. That is what I got.

It seems that a whole generation must have screwed up as well - because I am far from a unique case here. The constant talk of student debt forgiveness, default rates, and tuition costs must all just be about nothing then, my bad.

What an absurd comment.
I often cheat, modify and use other people's save game file in single player games.
Technically this is already against the ToS.

Of course videogames aren't just a game anymore, they are a billion dollar entertainment industry.
Thank you for the link and information.

To be fair, while a concern, that’s not “everything everywhere”. That’s the current process, child processes (even if setuid), root, other processes running as the same user, and maybe processes with different user IDs sharing the same d-bus (D-bus is not used on servers, only desktop systems). I consider that slightly but not much more leaky than an unencrypted chmod 600 or chmod 700 permission file.

It’s more secure than, say, command line arguments (which can be seen by any process on the same system).
I am not sure. As often is the case, if you want your kids to go to public schools, you step in and fund an organization (in this case Kiddo) to provide funding for anything the state does not provide. The same folks just want to see their money going 100% to fund classrooms, teachers and projects.

It is very efficient. All volunteers. 100% of your money is put to good use.

Funding legislation is a whole different Hydra and the best way to go nowhere while you have kids in school. Focus on the short term and support classes and teachers right now.
Cheating in professional sports sometimes gets addressed by Congress, and that, too, is cheating in a game.

While I don’t think we should be putting cheaters in jail, I wish bans could stick harder, even across games. VAC does this to a certain extent, but only for some games. A shared database of cheaters that companies could use would be nice, but of course the sticking point is identity.

The current setup is a bit like if getting DUI’s only suspended your driver’s license in the particular town or stretch of highway where you got the DUI, and you were free to continue driving anywhere else.
Crypto/web3 allows transfering money from underdevelopped country to US with zero marginal cost.
Depends on the private university. At the very top (HYPMS), that's true (unless your family is very wealthy). It was cheaper for me to attend Yale than my sister to attend UT Austin, despite my parents being fairly affluent (dual-income engineers).

But the generosity of grants falls off sharply as you leave that tier. Financial assistance at schools like NYU are almost 100% in the form of loans.
I imagine that the difference in profitability between PoW and PoS is arbitraged away over time. If it's a lot more profitable to PoS mine, some of the PoW miners would just switch over, which in turn makes PoW slightly more profitable for everyone still doing it.
How would that be possible, though, seeing as it only affects very few people?
That is definitely the endgame for cheating. I know in WoW, they explicitly ban hardware input broadcasting for multiboxers yet actually detecting that can be quite difficult.

At the end of the day, we are trying to find technological solutions for social problems. What I think would really help would be to decrease the ease of duplicate account creation for services which care about cheating. Without that capability, punishing cheaters socially (i.e. bans) is never going to be particularly effective. I think social solutions can work because you don't need to stop 100% of cheaters like some people seem to believe. All you need to do is prevent enough cheating that people believe the game is honest overall. Locks only make sure honest people stay honest, but that actually works pretty well since most people are honest.
No, the ground has been salted since 2015, if not before.

I flag a good third of the front page stories every time I visit, because they are topics that are not business or tech related that have beaten to death so badly that they are just tiresome.
When the server is down you can get the offline version of it. AKA the Printed Website.

https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2021/12/printed-website-thir...
The OP of the Apple forums post says they have an Apple M1 Macbook Air.

I have the M1 Macbook Air as well, and haven't noticed eye strain. At least no more than experienced from other devices.
TL;DR - there's no TL;DR. Read Table 4 on p.9, all ye haughty language enthusiasts, and despair.
I made the exact same choice about 10 years ago. For security and privacy reasons. Also every couple of years I get the need for a new rig when obviously I didn’t really need one. It’s definitely better over here in the dedicated hardware world
If the moderators kept everything else the same but bifurcated into hn-tech and hn-polisci you might think it would work.

But hn-tech would have a strong tendency to want hn-vi and hn-vim and hn-emacs, and hn-polisci would want -left and -right and -libertarian and before you know it, you've made reddit.

Reductionist, but I suspect you'd break the golden goose.
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Some of the most profitable companies in the world today are in the business of collecting seemingly menial metadata about you, creating a profile, and leveraging/selling it.
Even comments come quite rarely in most cases, so that the complete page with comments can be cached.
You are not forced to pay attention to a Yale degree, though? If it affects government funding, OK, you can discuss it.

Building networks is also not a bad thing. It is good if people know and trust each other and know who to turn to for help. It is a stupid idea of modernism or whatever that there should be no networking.
I needed to install Android Studio to get the relevant android build tools, when I was done, I didn't touch android studio, I wrote all my code in Sublime and run a command that uses Android Studio's tools without opening the app. Heck, I could even run an emulator without opening the Android Studio GUI which is comparable to VS. It seems like Windows devs are locked to Visual Studio.
I will agree with your position the second compensation for teacher is tied to performance. However unions do not want any compensation tied to performance, nor do most people on the "left"

They simply want the high salaries with no responsibly to produce results.
It’s definitely a lot calmer and safer using dedicated hardware. I made the exact same decision about 10 years ago
> This program may monitor all of your activity on this computer and track your physical location while you use your computer.

This is just disingenuous.

If you are talking about what could technically be done, then sure, they could do that. But if they wanted to own your machine then they technically could do it the moment you installed any software that they provided regardless of what it says in the EULA.

So then you must be talking about what they are legally allowed to do. And guess what, they also have a privacy policy that limits what information they are allowed to collect and for what purpose they may collect it. Them carving out the legal ability to run programs on your machine for anti-cheat purposes doesn't change any of that.

Now I'm not saying you might not have other reasons for not wanting to run their crap on your machine (I certainly don't want it either) but this here is just FUD and not a good argument.
I have no idea what he's trying to compare, deliberate practice (a method of learning) is one important way to learn tacit knowledge (a kind of knowledge).

How can you compare a method of learning to a kind of knowledge? This comparison does not make sense at all.
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Aside from Japan and (very recently) China I don’t know of many countries where it was a big enough deal to care. We’re working with very very tiny sample sizes here within a problem space where almost no sincere effort has been applied.
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I was intrigued by this, because I always wonder if people who are calling for death or life imprisonments in the heat of the moment will think better when they are considering an issue in a relative state of calm.

I did a quick survey of Reddit threads that had to do with cheating criminalization itself, rather than people commenting on instances of people being caught cheating. Fortunately the vast majority of upvoted comments (besides jokey commentary) are anti criminalization. Representative highly upvoted comments: "Cheating is shit and shows no integrity but making it a crime in online gaming?... Idk man..." Or: "This is asinine, I have NEVER been in a game with a hacker and thought that they deserved to be in the same place as a rapist or murderer." I think you'll find a lot of in-the-moment raging over hackers, but when people are considering it as an issue they are more cautious.

But it could also be that different populations are interacting with different types of topics.

Caution: extremely unscientific five minute study above :)
Also the phrase seems close to breaking the guideline against commenting about the voting on comments, and is a boring meta-comment that just adds noise. It seems like putting up a preemptive umbrella.
Thanks for your review and feedback. I'd really appreciate you took the time to check all those aspects of the app/website.
I don't like the conversation that goes in circles with no seeming chance for resolution (nearly anything political). It's all very interesting however, Political Science is not the kind of Science I come here for.

As for how to host these topics without devolving into flamewars - I think you'd have to try a different species. Emotions get all of us.
Making open source for Microsoft lock-ins would seem to increase the number of people using Microsoft lock-ins.

Whether because it makes the lock-in more tolerable so that people don't switch, or it placates a developer revolt, or network effects when one person is swayed and then they do their startup as a Microsoft shop rather than a Linux shop, or network effects when the next developer is inspired to also make a lock-in more appealing, etc.

A spoonful of sugar helps the rat poison go down.
It depends on the harm done. Obviously if you’re playing with your friends there is likely no harm done.

If you’re wasting 50+ other people’s time (e.g. FPS battle arenas) then you might want a harsher punishment.

Of course there are degrees; I don’t think people should be thrown in jail for cheating in casual matches/pubs.

But then if you cheat in a tournament where there are hundreds of thousands of $$$ at stake, jail time might be appropriate.
Yes and also it was the tight nit communities that hung around on the more popular servers that helped monitor and deter cheaters and even have rights to kick users as needed to assist the server operators.
You're kind of proving my point.

The implication of this software isn't that Riot is going to steal your banking info. What would they possibly do with it? They're a legit business. They can't just starting selling bank credentials or billing people randomly. There's potentially lots of less sensitive information that most people would consider "not Riot's business" that they can get at with this software. Will they? probably not. It's how much do you trust Riot.

And none of that even begins to address the security concerns of having software running with elevated privileges.

I'm not saying it isn't worth it to some people or that it's unreasonable to decide that it is worth it. I'm saying most people don't understand or consider the implications.
Imagine the two sides of user behaviour, one side you can observe on the client while the other side is observed on the "server" (more like the infra where the servers are running). There are several ways of monitor traffic (that is sent by the client to the server) and identify patterns (good or bad patterns). I have seen machine learning based network intrusion detection projects that quite successfully identified bad user behaviour in HTTP traffic for example.

Riot has 100M+ users, it is probably the most statistically significant user base on Earth. You could start to map out user behaviour parameters that you need to monitor to have them as "features" in your machine learning model. There is also a ton of historical data where they identified bad behaviour somehow (reported by other players, etc.) that you can use to train the ML models.

Let's say you are trying to catch people with aim bot or in Riot's case farm bot (helping the player last hit, if you know LoL you know what I mean, if you don't nor problem, the example is probably understandable anyways).

There is the way to catch this guy by observing what is running on the client and see if there is a last hit bot process or not.

Or, you could come up with a number (or multiple numbers) that represent a typical player behaviour (CS / min adjusted by ELO, I am just making this up though) and you could try to build models around this try to see if the data to have is giving you any meaningful accuracy of predicting cheating.

I know, this is more work, more resources, probably more challenging, but it does not violate the user's privacy and it does not require the good users also having to install rootkits on their devices.

I would be a big surprise for me if it was not possible to achieve ML based user behaviour monitoring when the rest of tech companies implemented this years ago. I know that Amazon done this for sure (probably 10-15 years ago).
To me pedagogy is mostly being companion to the newcomer and coupling with his feelings while reducing the search space. Avoid high risk, avoid long term block. Provide a fun spot to swim in and gradually increase the width.
IIRC some games do this with “low trust” users.

But yeah the sticking point is that cheaters wanna “be the best”, even if that requires cheating, and if they’re surrounded by other cheating users that doesn’t really work anymore, so why would they stick to those servers?
"reminding colleagues that using OSS means we have to own and maintain the software whether the original community/author does or not"

No, we do not have to do this. We wouldn't get anything done, if we tried to maintain our full oss stack. Where would you start? In the linux kernel and move your way up to chromium/firefox? Have fun out there.

"There seems to be a hesitance to fork abandoned or slow moving software to update/fix issues "

And it is often easier to reimplement something from scratch, than taking up some underdocumented mess and trying to make sense of it.

So I would rephrase that to

" using OSS means we can own and maintain the software whether the original community/author does or not."
Is it my problem that I don't know how to run msbuild? I mean you've been building windows apps for years so it's easy for you but how tf am I supposed to know that I can't use nothing else other than VS to build a hello world Windows app?
Possible reason: batteries need more raw materials than reactors, and at the necessary scale the mining might not be practical.
I believe you are mistaken. Shared-data and shared-compute services of the type provided by blockchain networks such as Ethereum can only be paid for by the native token of that network. There is not a known way to provide these services without users paying for them using the native token. Thus, if those services have value, then the tokens that must be purchased to pay for them must also have value.

In this way, native crypto tokens like Eth are similar to petroleum, in that their value is commensurate with the value of the work that can be performed by consuming them.

Sure, competition between networks can have an impact on price, just like competition from electric vehicles can impact the price of oil. But competition does not itself destroy value, even if it has an impact on demand, and therefore on price.

The article itself talks about the difference between value and price. The price of crypto might be inflated by the hype surrounding it, but that does not mean that is has no underlying value, as you seem to assert.
"It’s difficult to support undergrad without good researchers and an accompanying grad school. Or rather, it is superficially possible, but in a couple generations (academic ones, i.e. in a decade or two), as graduates of the school assume teaching positions, a kind of vicious circle of degeneration sets in [...]"

I don't agree with this. First, because there are a bunch of elite liberal arts colleges in the US that serve as direct counterexamples. Second, because the teachers at these schools are not typically drawn from graduates of the school, but from PhD graduates of mid- to high-ranking research programs.

To give one example, Francis Su (who writes a lot about math education) teaches at Harvey Mudd – an excellent institution with no graduate program – and earned a PhD from Harvard.

Also:

"Unfortunately, the amount of places in the world doing fundamental maths, places diverse enough that you can stand in the hallway and find someone who can explain to you a subject far removed from your own (that’s essentially what counts as “world-class”), is perhaps a couple dozen, certainly not in the hundreds."

This is just wrong. Diversity is not really essential to the ranking or quality of a department. Plenty of top places eschew certain subjects (logic, combinatorics) or have relatively narrow tastes (NYU Courant, Princeton ORFE). Building strong groups in a few focus areas is much more important for research productivity. It sucks to be the only person doing Subject X at a certain place.