skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> yet they keep having to ban cheaters every month

It's not perfect but the cheaters generally get banned fairly quickly and it's far better than the alternative. I've played tons of games of Valorant at
Radiant (the highest rank) and it's extremely rare to even run into someone that I suspect is cheating. In comparison, I get extremely blatant cheaters in about 25% of my games of CS and far more than that in CoD: Warzone.
> I actually have no problem with criminalizing cheating to some extent

If it is criminal to cheat it is not a game anymore.

On the other hand I would welcome hazard game regulations for all games with lottery ticket like products for sale, like "loot boxes".
Looking at the video, it seems the only ones who are not correctly social distancing are the police who are walking rather close to people and each other.
Are you being glib, or do you genuinely believe the OS should subvert its user to appease a different group of people?

For many artists, not having their art copied would be an improved user experience, so should the OS prevent you from copying files tagged as copyrighted? Windows Defender already removes torrent software and gives scary warnings for LibreOffice [1] so it's not a big step.

[1] https://baronhk.wordpress.com/2021/09/13/microsoft-defender-...
I don’t agree with necessarily tying price to value. I don’t want people choosing art history over CS just because it is cheaper.

I do think each major should have something akin to a Nutrition Facts label laying out clear information about the financial outcomes for recent graduates. So people can understand if financing that educational pursuit is likely to be worthwhile.
I'm sure you don't want Apple allowing people to have illegal images on their phones, are you willing to have all your photos constantly scanned to improve that?
I think this and many other comments on this article are taking the article the wrong way. The article isn't asserting that Nast created the image of Santa Claus for everyone on Earth but only in the US. This might be wrong as well -- Nast perhaps took an image, or elements of various images, that were present in many locations in the US and popularized them -- but people are presenting evidence of the depiction of Santa Claus/Father Christmas/Saint Nick/Sion Corn/Sinterclas/etc. in other countries as contradicting the thesis of the article. It is an article in an American magazine for an American audience and it discusses the depiction of this entity in the US before and after Nast's influence. Evidently the author should have been more explicit on this point, but I expect she didn't think people would take it as they have. The "we" should refers to her assumed audience, is other people in the US, the sort of people who subscribe to Smithsonian. When she says the "the image we have today" she doesn't mean any disrespect to other cultures; she is just assuming her audience is Americans, that they will know she has this assumption, and that therefore she is talking about American culture, not global culture.
> Most implementations of faxes are "soft" (efax) and have an encryption requirement.

The transaction is not considered electronic when it is by fax, even if both sides happen to use eFax, so the pieces that involve the partner-to-partner communication aren't covered by the standard transaction set requirements of the Transaction and Code Sets rule, when performing functions for which there is a specified standard; I personally know major state Medicaid agencies whose use of fax has been largely for special (out of the regular automated flow) communications that fit functions for which there is a standard transaction, as a TCS rule hack. And it supports communication with partners using hard fax as an even more comprehensive regulatory back, which may be a minority but still exist.

But, yes, with soft fax the internal toolchain is covered by electronic-specific provisions of the various HIPAA rules.
Don’t play games that install root kits. Most games don’t.
Pfizer had to ask for legal immunity because their own data showed their vaccine was linked to 1200 deaths in the first 90 days alone.
"I distinctly remember Shroud (a popular Twitch streamer and former CS:GO professional) asking for this (for PUBG) in 2018. I remember Chocotaco (another popular Twitch streamer) voicing support for South Korean laws[1] that criminalize cheating in video games."

And what are the 99.9999% other players' opinion on this approach? Surely their collective voices weigh heavier than those of a handful celebrities.
So you think this is related to the Operating system and not physical screen (software issue not hardware issue)?
This is a fascinating site beyond the power indicator. For example, a recent article discusses low-tech solar panels:

> ... To start with, ever since the 1950s, solar panels have been unfit for recycling, resulting in a waste stream that ends up in landfills. This waste stream will grow significantly during the coming years. Solar panels are discarded only after at least 25 to 30 years, and most have been installed only in recent years. By 2050, researchers expect that almost 80 million tonnes of solar panels will reach the end of their lives. 1 2 3 That is a significant waste of resources and a danger to the environment – discarded solar PV panels contain toxic elements and present a fire hazard.

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2021/10/how-to-build-a-low...
> Is Apple way ahead or is it just less popular?

They're definitely solving a narrower problem but they do appear to have it solved. Is there even a subset of hardware configurations for which this is the case with Linux? (if there is I would love to know about it)
Semi-related —- does anyone have recommendations for where to find small hobbyist solar panels and/or kits to experiment with for small devices like a Pi?

Also curious about how a setup like this compares with using a traditional electricity source in terms of cost per hr of running the site off of solar with batteries. What is the break even point against utility costs over there(if there is one)? And are there any concerns about the sustainability of a setup like this if it’s adopted on a larger scale?
Pomaks: The Misunderstood Within the Greek Muslim Community
"natural" immunity would create antibodies and immunity that may be related to non-spike proteins of COVID-19 (I believe this depends on your own body's response and the severity of infection exactly what is generated).

The vector and mRNA vaccines only expose the spike protein (in various forms), so they don't generate immunity to other proteins of COVID-19.
No clue about physics, but an undergraduate degree from Yale in chemistry makes one a technician in biotech/pharma. Assuming you have good lab skills. Who you work for in grad school and what you get your PhD in determines how you are perceived. Big name people end up at schools like Yale, but wherever they are they are big name people and their family tree tends towards success.
If that's what is needed to fight against cheating, then it will only escalate.
The bottom line then is don't do anything else with your gaming machine: no work related stuff, no banking, no email, no social networking, no personal data or any access to the home NAS, no projects, nothing but games. Connect it to a low latency firewalled network plug on the router that would let it see only the outside and that's it. Use then a lower power machine for everything else, and treat the gaming machine as already compromised out of the box.
Advent of Code 2021 in pure TensorFlow – day 2
That's what that text is saying. If you have v6, just use it (and maybe run a v6 peer instead).

If you _don't_ have a usable v6 prefix, then continue with the instructions.
The power consumtpion of that server is honestly great already. Sustained 2W, even with the HN hug of death?!
What other accelerators do you use with NextJS?
I’ve been a long term chrome user. What’s a good alternative browser you’d recommend?
What don't you understand about those numbers?
I also have a similar experience with my new 16" Macbook Pro. There's something odd about the Mini LED display. I can't quite put my finger on it, maybe it'll just take me a bit to get used to it.

I also got used to OLED screens (the color changing depending on angle drove me crazy in the beginning)
Conservative political interests went nuts this elections season breathlessly exclaiming that we need to keep "Keep Mukilteo a Small Town!" as if it wasn't already next door to the Boeing Factory Buildings, and a Naval Complex that usually has a Nimitz-class carrier docked.
The _demo_ limits the user with a maximum of allowed sessions. The unrestricted software has a modest licensing fee. Entirely reasonable considering the target audience.
Ask HN: Is there a place on HN for interesting yet flame-war inducing topics?
I ask this (as truly an open question, without knowing the answer) because of 2 recent posts on HN that got flagged, one a thought-provoking article by a Yale student titled "Abolish Yale", and the other about the California proposal to use the recently-novel "citizen deputization" legal techniques pioneered by Texas, but this time to restrict assault weapons.

The reason I ask this is because there appear to be a growing collection of topics that are interesting and deserving of debate, but because they are hot-button issues they often devolve into flame wars. I've been on the other side of this as well, where I commented that I flagged a DEI-focused article because, while I thought the topic itself was interesting, it seems comment threads on DEI topics always devolve into uninteresting flame wars, and that I rarely learn something new from these threads.

I didn't feel that about the 2 topics today that got flagged - indeed, there were a bunch of comments that let me to going down Wikipedia rabbit holes and I learned a ton, and for both of these topics the first I heard about them was on HN.

So my question to the HN community is whether you think there is some way (e.g. feature changes, "sub topics", etc.) to host these topics that seem fundamentally relevant to the HN audience, but which are so difficult to have debate about without getting flooded by low quality comments?
Right I guess I would be hired without acknowledging my recruiter or applying I guess that makes sense

Related: Are you familiar with log aggregation/streaming?
> In fact, making it harder to cheat in games can make it more lucrative to develop cheats for them.

Sure, but I don't see how that's a bad thing. More lucrative means higher prices means fewer cheaters can afford it.
Scoop is a bit like a user focused apt/homebrew. It's mostly for installing programs, not development dependencies.

https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Scoop/wiki/Chocolatey-Comp...
I should rephrase: the user should have control over whether or not Riot is able to do stuff like this, and the operating system should enforce the user's decision.
> Because of COVID-19 gathering restrictions, the class of 2024 missed out on our first-year dinner.

I saw "2024", and concluded that this was some kind of future fiction. Apparently not; it must be a typo. I wonder which date was intended.
you are in favor of removing the consequences of bad decisons.

No wonder you struggle.

Flag away.
I’m pretty sure it’s already criminal to use “hacks” to cheat. Abuse of game mechanics shouldn’t fall under that, tho I have no issue with banning people who do it knowingly and repeatedly after it’s been made clear it’s not an intended mechanic.

We do (try) prevent cheating in sports and other games and ban players and in fact whole countries for cheating.
Try cheating in a casino for example, card counting may get you thrown out, hacking a slot machine would land you in jail.

Loot boxes are another issue they should be regulated as gambling I have no issue with thst.
I once saw a spray for CDs that would "absorb stray laser light" or something like that. The bit that gets me is that according to the instructions you're supposed to spray it only on the label side of the disc.
The point is that the celebrities' opinions are to an extent representative of the communities within which they are famous.
You're right. It really does vary.

However, in the case of the Linux kernel just about 8% were unpaid as of five years ago. https://thenewstack.io/contributes-linux-kernel/

I assume that projects like Kubernetes and OpenStack are similar.

Obviously many smaller projects are largely developed by people on their own time. I expect this also applies languages and things like that which aren't largely corporate efforts like Go and Rust are.
I would definitely support criminalizing cheating in video games. I also do not view Riot's running programs at times other than when I am playing in a negative light. What is the threat model? I've already let them own my computer via their rootkit, and their incentives are largely aligned with mine. Why should it matter when exactly their programs run?
The same logic applies to other concerns like accessibility, which is one reason why I'm making one of my contributions in that area [1] available as permissively licensed open source. It helps that my current funding source for that project also wants it to be open source.

[1]: https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit
Not sure if you’re aware but in Rust there’s no dependency hell. Component A can depend on version X of a library and component B can depend on incompatible version Y and you can still link in components A & B into your program without any hassle/correctness/safety issues. That doesn’t solve the “but I want to upgrade to the latest version & for it to be compatible” but that’s typically an untenable position in any environment when relying on OSS - perhaps try to work out arrangements with those projects if possible to backport fixes instead if it’s that mission critical or live with developing processes to stay on top of updates like the rest of us?
If Merc had pitted Lewis, Max would have stayed out and gained P1. At that stage Merc didn't know if the race would have finished under the safety car. They'd have looked equally foolish if it had as they'd have looked to have given up P1 for no reason.
> I'm less convinced that the undergraduate education at Harvard or Yale is substantially better than, say, the University of Michigan or any other top 20 school, especially in domains with a relatively standard curriculum like math and physics.

I agree with you but would probably go further than other top 20 schools which are also incredibly elite places and exclusive places.

I've also heard enough stories about undergraduate math/physics at Harvard that I would be surprised if it were better. They aren't selecting for faculty that necessarily excel in teaching. Sometimes you don't want a Nobel Prize winner to be your introductory teacher, because they might throw out the curriculum and teach whatever they want.
I don't think that's right, because human drivers are exceedingly good at handling the average situation. If they weren't, you'd have accidents literally all the time. The average situation is accident-free. How much can you improve on that?

The utilitarian argument for driverless cars needs to be that driverless cars are better at handling the edge cases than humans, because that's when accidents happen.
If you visit the subreddits for these games, most people support it as well. No one wants to have cheaters in their game.
What it the “biggest game in the market” you’re referring to?
I was referring to the world of Dune :)
These “tear it down” diatribes often fail to offer the blueprint for what comes next, but this is to be expected from a young mind.
The user does by not installing riot software or uninstalling it.
News stories are always looking for the extreme examples, someone with 10k in student debt and a stage 4 cancer is also never paying back their loans.

However, Delinquency in the article just means they missed one or more payments. That’s really easy to do even for people who eventually pay back their loans.
Fantastic read for a geezer like me. Web-safe colour is why my logo is #336699 blue
Why cant you guys enable multiple account sign ins from the one dropbox client. So annoying.
Oh I didn’t know that. I don’t use that feature. Fair point though.
I clicked the link, curious what the what the power reading would be now. Now I feel guilty.
Readers who are interested in the actionable aspects of this topic should probably read the last instalment in this series: https://commoncog.com/blog/accelerated-expertise/

The basic idea is this:

1. Deliberate practice only works for skills with a history of good pedagogical development. If no such pedagogical development exists, you can’t do DP. Source: read Peak, or any of Ericsson’s original papers. Don’t read third party or popsci accounts of DP.

2. Once you realise this, then the next question you should ask is how can you learn effectively in a skill domain where no good pedagogical development exists? Well, it turns out a) the US military wanted answers to exactly this question, and b) a good subsection of the expertise research community wondered exactly the same thing.

3. The trick is this: use cognitive task analysis to extract tacit knowledge from the heads of existing experts. These experts built their expertise through trial and error and luck, not DP. But you can extract their knowledge as a shortcut. After this, you use the extracted tacit knowledge to create a case library of simulations. Sort the simulations according to difficulty to use as training programs. Don’t bother with DP — the pedagogical development necessary for DP to be successful simply takes too long.

Broadly speaking, DP and tacit knowledge extraction represent two different takes on expertise acquisition. For an overview of this, read the Oxford Handbook of Expertise and compare against the Cambridge Handbook of Expertise. The former represents the tacit knowledge extraction approach; the latter represents the DP approach. Both are legitimate approaches, but one is more tractable when you find yourself in a domain with underdeveloped training methods (like most of the skill domains necessary for success in one’s career).
For me at least, screen size! You really want to be able to fit any diagram on the whole screen at once.
Neither do I, and I'm an American who had a few tens of thousands of dollars in loans when I graduated.

I wasn't making any money early in my career, $40k, and I had my loans paid off inside of five years.
I don’t think the game genre, or even the game itself, has anything to do with what’s being discussed here.
True, in this case it is great, somehow mandatory, that it is fully self-contained :). However, dynamic content like the current power consumption and CPU load would still need be served by the origin, or cached at the CDN with short timeouts only.

Using CDNs was more an idea/suggestion for others who take this project as an inspiration to run their own website even with small hardware, unstable electricity supply and/or expensive/limited bandwidth, where a CDN can further reduce server load and traffic. Also when speaking about efficiency of the Internet in general, using small SBCs where sufficient, a CDN usually serves assets/content much more effective, given a network where a particular edge server is usually closer to the visitor than the origin server, and hardware that is specifically designed and run for that purpose and can be assumed to be highly loaded (less wasted power consumption). So as long as one trusts a CDN, or the content is not of any security or privacy concerns, it is usually a reasonable choice to make use of it :).
Ask HN: What companies are taking on the current supply chain issues?
Who is trying to alleviate the current issues with global supply chain?

Are any new companies attempting to disrupt the way it currently (doesn’t) work?

What about the bigger players?

What solutions are being considered?
Yup. Like everybody in that generation I played and hacked with Hammurabi on a pdp-8. An 8/E in my case but 4K all the same.
One thing to remember, is just like AV's, it's the norm for them to literally upload random archives, documents and whatever else to "Scan". There's a reason pretty much every Anglo country doesn't recommend Kaspersky for this reason. It makes you wonder the risk of China owning 100 % of Riot and the data gathering potentials. And since it's the standard industry practice, the American engineers won't even blink an eye when designing it. It's truly a national security and IP risk that alot of people don't realize.

Now I will say as someone who makes tools for and reverses their products(All in fairy land in the kingdom of tacobell in my dreams). They have pretty unobtrusive anticheat in League of Legends and mainly only hammer a whitelist. For example if you install Itunes, they will get really obtrusive with anything related to Bonjour. As well as with anything that injects into the module list.

With Vanguard, they get EXTREMELY intrusive and scan network drives, and I found VM memory pages being scanned, but i'm unsure if it's intentional or not as I didn't go to deep into it, since I don't really play shooters and mainly did it as a quick audit, unlike League of Legends. They do shut it off when you say shut it off though.

EDIT:

One thing to keep in mind. Is if they make a kernel driver which subverts the OS's control schemes(For example making a CreateFile, ReadFile, Memory write primitive, Memory read primitive. If you see this, REPORT IT. Microsoft bans these types of implementation and you can do that here. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/driversubmission . It's a MASSIVE security risk and they will REVOKE the driver certification and deny loading it on Windows! Do not let them rootkit your system, know what Microsoft allows and doesn't. They do care, they've fucked over AV products before, and they will do it again. The OS Security team at Microsoft is extremely good and genuinely cares about you as a user.
I've thought about something similar before in the context of explainable machine learning [0]. The author alludes to it - explicit knowledge is like an expert system. And I would argue that tacit knowledge is closer to a modern neural network that has learned from lots of examples. Asking such a system for an "explanation" - just like trying to encode knowledge in an expert system, inevitable doesn't give a satisfying result because of all the judgment and caveats involved in real live. A better approach is to judge competence based on past experience.

As an additional corollary, the tacit knowledge concept is a good argument against decision frameworks generally, which destroy information by trying to capture experience in a rubric.

[0] Getting more out of experts by focusing on results and not process: observations of people and neural networks http://marble.onl/managing_ml.html
it is expected to be all parents money or loans

It's really problematic for large families, where schools expect parents of six kids to pay tuition as if they only had one kid.
I'd recomend you not download the game then
100% diversity in those pictures.

We did it. Well done everyone.

That people NEED to be holding something is also funny. Can't have empty hands.
Who stages those pictures?
Why don't you want that? Pricing signals are the way markets communicate. If we obfuscate those signals, problems invariably present themselves. As we are seeing.
I totally agree if the solution is just to say "we automatically will admit anyone who hits our bar, and we'll grow the university as needed to accommodate anyone that hits that bar."

At some point, though, it seems like you might get into pure physical constraints at a place like Yale.
I agree. I want sandboxing technology that increases user control, not the other way around. I don't accept the trade-off you described and I don't think anyone else really wants to either, they're just forced to if they want to play the game. We shouldn't let this invasive kernel-level anti-cheat technology become normalized.