skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not arguing that people wont buy the console, I'm arguing that if they buy a console that has support for a different operating system, one which plays all of the same games and more, and also enables them to use services that they already pay for, then they're going to install that other operating system.

A relatively small number of people are buying the steam deck to use Linux, most are buying it to play games on.
Was there an attempt at detecting cheaters by modeling human reaction times and otherwise inputs, and thus detecting non-human like inputs?
To add, Apple got in trouble when it did only do an exact match: https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-settles-allegations-of-u-...

> On the day Mr. Stjepanovic and SIS were blacklisted, Apple ran the new designations against its app developer account holder names. But the company’s sanctions-screening tool failed to identify SIS as a blacklisted entity because Apple’s system listed the company as “SIS DOO,” rather than “SIS d.o.o” on OFAC’s list, according to the agreement.
If you don't like the licensed sets, or even sets with instruction books, then you're still covered. Lego, Mega Bloks, and others have buckets or bags of just parts. To stick to Lego without a themed set, look for The Lego Classic line. If you want them as a themed set but maybe without a media license, there's the Lego Creator line (which does include some licensed material like the Bond 007 Aston Martin DB5).

Kit 10698 is a decent value for building toys and comes with its own storage container. Hasbro has multiple brands of brick building sets, but under their Kreo line there's A4585 or A4584 value buckets. I have a 759-piece Zuru Max bucket that's like $20 - the pieces fit but the quality/durability feels a little less than Lego or MEGA.
That doesn’t make a difference. The long term growth opportunities in a country are huge, and for a company the size Apple, any opportunity for growth is extremely valuable.
https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/93696/is-it-un...

https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/qstsdp/my_5year_g...

Better representation of anti-work- and its crime- having the hacker mentality and the audacity to execute a similar move to investors/big players without the funds.

Very few in our society are still needed to work, many who work do more harm then good (to the environment & themselves) and most of the work done today, exists to massage the egos of power-animals who can not avoid a existential crisis without a pyramid of suffering beneath them.

Remote work has revealed how obsolete that caste and its longings are.
Its also has shown that work is partially used to keep the "uneducated" masses from going haywire with conspiracy theories. (6 Jan comes to mind)

Which is a psychological problem worth of solving, but not one that is actually a decent enough argument to protect this institution of self-flagellation without any reward, except continued existence in protestant-work-ethic-purgatory.
Indeed! And it might also be easier to test the various meditative states vs testing sleep states in such a machine...
I think this is where that phrase comes from. https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9rvroo/most...
> obviously silly

No. You've drifted into believing your opinions are facts. Reasonable people can disagree.

Having hired many people, I understand that everything in the hiring process, no matter how well calibrated and tightly looped, are rough heuristics for how well a person will do in a role.

So years of experience in the relevant activity gets at least equal weight to responses to relevant technical questions, coding challenges, etc. Yes, FAANG experience carries extra weight in opening the door because FAANGs are known to set high bars and have (overly) intense filtering. Etc. Etc.
You don't need to start with it, but you do need to understand C# code to actually use most of .Net and 3rd party libraries. Same when you're using another language than Javascript that compiles to Javascript and same with the JVM and Java, I guess.
I think a lot of the prevalence of cheating has to have some economic roots. A certain kind of cheater, the kind who buy new accounts (maybe with new cosmetics) every time they are banned, isn't necessarily someone a company wants to get rid of permanently.

The benefits of this sort of income may be high compared to the benefit of being a "serious competitive game".

I think Minecraft servers are instructive, because they're often run just as cynically as free to play games, but with less competence, so it's easier to see what's going on. You do see a lot of pay-to-unban there, for instance.
This talk goes into it a bit more: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/tech-talks/110147

So it is possible to get a bit more control, at least on Apple ARM chips, but it’s intended for games. They even mention professional apps needing high performance are able to get the performance they need with the normal Dispatch APIs. There is no locking threads to cores, but you can set thread affinities as hints if you think certain threads should or should not share L2 cache (at least for intel based Macs).
https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/44002
> Even Christians these days pick an choose which parts of the Bible to read and then distil those down into short stories and songs rather than reading the texts in full.

It is lamentable if true. They don't know what they miss.
E.g. the Json interface of the Nim stdlib is not the quickest, but there are some third party libraries, 100% Nim, really fast (jsony). A look a both reveals that the problem is not the Nim compiler, but the algorithm used and intended usage.
Slightly of topic, but is Hack a thing outside of Facebook? I'm a little thrown off by the confusing standard library of PHP, but I don't know if using Hack instead would solve more problems than it creates.
Cloud a.k.a Someone Else's Computer, yes =)

The difference is that I'm not lugging around a huge power hungry CPU.
I bought a T14s to bridge the MacBook Pro gap before the M1. I expected more and am frankly looking forward to return to Apple, as soon as they sort out their supply-chain backlog.

It could have been better: firmware issues (as mentioned in the article and other posts, power management is a joke), very poor Windows performance (UI lag during network streaming due to the NT kernel only hammering CORE0), embarrassing Linux desktop experience (after so many years it's still such a massive train-wreck).

I just don't have the time to deal with all this, all while attempting to get some work done.
I have a few RCX Mindstorms sets, and the software was always a problem. Thankfully, there were some open source alternatives, like http://brickos.sourceforge.net/

As an aside I'm pretty sure my RCX IR towers use serial, not USB.
Someone should make a collection of the various visualization web projects that crop up here from time to time.
Until some overly agressive anti-cheat that has kernel level access, decides to blacklist your machine, and because of whatever black boxed bugs, blocks your machine's Ethernet connections, all of them, and now you're stuck until you reimage and remove that borked kernel, except that they implemented an IME level code chunk that immediately downloads the anti-cheat code on the IME channel, and now your machine can never connect to the internet again until you replace the motherboard.

Convince me that won't happen...
> Work-life balance at Shopify is unparalleled. Work is synchronous-ish but it's super easy to run out for some afternoon errands or a quick workout. Shopify is pretty visionary here - turns out happy and healthy employees do better work than ones that are chained to a desk all day

Is this really that unusual? I feel like most places I've worked, as long as I made it to meetings nobody cared if I stepped out for an hour to run errands or something.
Am I missing something? Doesn't valve pay Codeweavers to maintain Proton?
At every company I've worked at where I stayed for a bit, I eventually had to work on languages and stacks that I wasn't technically hired for/had interest in. At the very beginning I found this very hard, also wanting to quit/actually quitting. I've come to accept that this is actually pretty normal. The benefits to my career from working on a bunch of different stuff I didn't pick have been substantial.

Caveat: I probably wouldn't take the switcharoo at the very beginning either...if I'm told I'll work on A but actually get B, this is likely a sign of some important things not working well at the org.
>I'm pretty sure the issue was more "I'm visiting my dad for the first time in months so my kids can play with their similarly aged uncles, and he's skipping our planned trip to do overtime" that he's reacting to, not the 50 hours a week regularly part.

This is how I read it. And in that context there's a heck of a lot to read between the lines.

Nobody gets their kids out of the house and then starts another family because the first try turned out great.

Sounds like dad doesn't want to spend time with someone. When your options are the middle aged dude putting in OT and raising more kids and the person airing their family drama on the internet who gets the benefit of the doubt isn't much of a choice.
It's utter bollocks.

And it even looks as if they've assigned "intuition" vs "rational" words afterwards. How come "truth" is intuition while "determine" isn't? But adding "facebook" is really the nail in the coffin: that only became available in 2004 or so, and so could almost only show an upward trend.
And so you think Javascript is an above average language?
The "blue bubble" isn't just about iMessage, it's a colloquialism for how Apple's social marketing works. They have proprietary, closed protocols like Airdrop and Facetime that intentionally create friction between people on iOS and Android. It's a phrase for their marketing gimmicks that make vulnerable shoppers buy the products their friends have because they don't want to be left out. It's about the fashion statement and social pressure that goes into buying and owning a phone; Apple markets themselves as the solution to that. Much in the same way that celebrities spend inordinate amounts of money on useless and gaudy accessories, the iPhone is a token of mediocre wealth and being socially "in".
Not to mention 99% of the cracked games out there come with fun little friends that will encrypt your hard drive for you and charge you a nominal fee.
UK science stuck in 'holding pattern' on EU funding by Brexit, says minister
> Just not on any of the 'pro' servers.

No, the other way around. On "pro" servers there is moderation that makes cheating a non-issue. It's in the casual space that cheaters ruin everything, because there isn't any human moderation.

I'd phrase it as "you can still play the game, just not against other humans".
Used to be. Moore's law isn't quite dead yet, nor are algorithmic computer vision improvements.
> But how do you check whether you can actually evaluate that assembly with the given ABI?

AFAIK you cannot get the RID at runtime, but you can easily set the RID of your program/package to the supported platforms only

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/rid-catalog
Most X11 clients that had anything to gain from it also moved to bypassing the legacy X11 drawing primitives about a decade ago.
> known

If you apply for a role that is explained to you, what does it matter what the company mostly does? If I apply to a rail maintenance company as a programmer, should I expect to maintain rail? No.
This is a great article, if I were to summarise the broader trend being analysed here it would be something like

- Radicals set new bar for discourse.

- Aligned moderates adopt and modify message

- Radicals are ousted from their own movement by the new moderate messaging

- Moderates are left to try and defend their position that is garbed in extreme optics
There is a community contributed Steam Flatpak that isolates its dependencies away from the system.
https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.valvesoftware.Steam

Seemed to do the job fine, ymmv.
I’d love to hear your thoughts on wsb.
I've used Linux as my daily driver for near enough 20 years at this point. I'm not arguing that people wont use Linux because Microsoft have bought some studios, I'm arguing that they might not use Linux on a device designed specifically for gaming if they can't play games using services that they've already paid for.
OpenBSD developer Ted Unangst: https://flak.tedunangst.com/
I think that interoperability of functional items, rather than apparence items, needs to be careful considered on almost a per-item basis.

There will not be universal interoperability of functional items across disparate games, and only limited interoperability of functional items within game families/series.
I partly agree. But I especially agree it isn't a re-thinking, and that's one of the beefs I have with French. I have not seen him grapple with either his role in the problem or whether repeating his previous behaviors will lead to a solution. Which is why I think both-sidesing the problem, as he does here, is at best unhelpful.
>Principled extremists can be reasoned with. Compromises can be made.

I think you've defined that they don't make compromises when you called them principled extremists. ;) But I do agree that they have advantages over opportunists who don't believe anything: sometimes an extremist will have discovered a nugget of truth that you can take out from the rest, while an opportunist only believes things that are wholly circumstantial and unlikely to help you.
11/15... I still don't understand most of them, just remember some.

What was the grape about?
As a consumer, Valve comes across like Google. They build products and features and then they often sit untouched, sometimes for years. They are terrible at communicating to their playerbase and even their contracted talent.

The DOTA2 community has had to deal with these aspects of Valve for years. CS:GO is now also essentially a forgotten project, and within the span of just a couple of months, the FPS crowd is moving on to other newcomer games.

This might be armchair speculation but it seems like since Google is making so much money from ads and Valve is making so much money from Steam, that their projects don't really get the kind of management and focus from the organization that is mutually compatible with the other stakeholders - customers, players, tournament organizers, businesses, etc. These are drops in the ocean compared to their real revenue streams.

I guess as far as this particular story is concerned, I wouldn't be surprised if Valve just abandoned this project at some point too once it's launched, and moved on to something else. At least in this case they've done a great amount of work for open-source which is fantastic because others can build on their contributions. I don't really expect these aspects of the culture at Valve to change in this regard, as frustrating as it is from the outside, I'm sure it makes a lot more sense from the inside.
How many of those bugs are only linux-specific I wonder.
it kind of depends right?

when you think about funding structures, there's a myriad of approaches based on risk and potential outcome.

You can try to estimate ridership, but usually only in the near future as there are major macro affects at play.

every party has a different stake. transit infrastructure can lower housing costs by connecting low cost exurbs to the urban region, which in the us makes locals less interested (probably not so for japan). it can also grow national tax base by providing a competitive central business district and attract international investment, which is something that should appeal to the national government. so it is not as simple as "if locals want it, locals should pay for it", ideally there should be aligned incentives across the board

like any business, investment in transit requires leadership and vision. blindly funding every station proposed is clearly a bad idea. so too is an overly conservative investment regime that takes 0 risk
...yes, and we had to fight a whole war about that.

I cannot think of politically backlash stronger than "and then we went into Civil war about that topic, with the victors of the war settling the matter".

What point are you intending to make? That individual states/industries do not have the political power to influence a discussion at the Federal level?
> I actually want my city and its' trains to expand out so that it's a 4 hour city and I can tap a card and get the tube to Manchester and wander about there, lol.

That’s what I want in the US. Unfortunately we don’t have a city-to-city train system to speak of, Amtrak isn’t even close, and it doesn’t seem to be on the horizon either. I don’t really know, but part of the issue may be that cities in the west and midwest aren’t yet big enough and numerous enough and dense enough to support the financing for a better train system.
I happened upon the r/AntiWork comments section from time to time before that Fox News segment and it always struck me as full of people who were making every excuse not to take responsibility for their own circumstances and who have a fantasy that low skill jobs should some how pay enough to be life long careers instead of viewing them as stepping stones to bigger and better things.
That's true I forgot that it needs to work retroactively plus it's only in NL so it makes less sense to be available to everyone. Yes you can put it together quickly and no-doubt a package will appear on GitHub for those who don't want to but normally these things defer to an OS control.
The new option happened around 2014-07:

https://old.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/2a32sq/experimen...

Apparently, there were some subreddits that got bombarded with unwanted comments which prompted the new feature.
And how do you get to a big enough market share to become a default compilation target? I'd argue that Wine/Proton are a bridge to that.

If you can make every game available on Linux via wine/proton then you would have to assume that every one of the Windows holdouts (Ok, most. Some people always find excuses) will swap to Linux as their primary machine, you can then, with reasonable confidence say "Linux has X marketshare" and then make a decision on whether that is worth your development time.

I just don't think that marketshare is going to be anywhere near what it would require to become a default target and I say that as a die hard linux user.
I think it is best to make explicit when you are being sarcastic, because now a casual reader might expect you to be serious.
Perhaps you were thinking Algeria? Albania is found nearby Greece and Italy, certainly European.
You also learn to frame all previous learning within modern equivalents. Don't be surprised if academics choose to wedge their professional identities as the predetermining factor of genius.

What counted as formal education of the past is barely applicable to the education systems of the present. Shakespeare didn't spend half of his teen years getting coached in state and national examinations, nor were his teachers subject to performance targets that demanded test results from their students above all else.
Hardware Specialization: From Cell to Heterogeneous Microprocessors Everywhere
Nothing stopped anyone from building a compositor into an X server if that is what you want to change.
It's fine when the context switching is managed properly. It's not OK when a company asks a team to spend a month working on a rails service, followed by a month of working on a native app, followed by a month of working on a web front end, which I have experienced.

You wind up exhausting yourself trying to pick up new technologies that you wind up forgetting because you're not given enough time to deeply learn the concepts.
I liked the factual analysis and the story of /r/antiwork.

But regarding the actual topic of work I think it sets up a false dichotomy; that one is either a sane normal person who thinks productivity is good, or an out-of-touch anarcho-communist.

There is actually a very large middle ground which represents the most balanced view towards work; that most work is a necessary evil. It's not that work is good or desirable, it's that it (both individually and as a society) is necessary for survival or to maintain a certain standard of living.

If technology and automation could allow those who wanted to have only a 10-hour work week, with the same lifestyle, that would be unequivocally a good thing.

I'm not an anarchist, but in this sense I am very much anti-work.
> You can’t “compromise” on abortion if you think it’s murder.

You can if you're practical and think of it as working towards a common goal of decreasing abortion. Something everyone is in favor of. And face the fact that outlawing abortion doesn't eliminate abortion. Similar to how outlawing murder doesn't eliminate murder.

If you increase comprehensive sex education, decrease stigma around discussing sex, increase access to free and low cost birth control, decrease abstinence only rhetoric, increase child care options, increase free access to health care while pregnant, and increase access to free and low cost health care for delivery, you can drastically reduce the number of abortions. While we're at it, increase funding for adoption, both in placing your child and in adopting, and for foster care.

Unfun facts: Childbirth in the US costs between $10,000 to $30,000. Over 30 million Americans have no health insurance. Many have poor health insurance (deductibles of $5,000 are common on the open market... mine last year was $7,000). My last friend who adopted wound up spending nearly $40,000 to complete the process.
Scott Hanselman https://www.hanselman.com/blog/

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Yeah, but Apple is already charging twice the price for the hardware, let me charge twice the price for the software instead of insisting that I charge the same in every platform.
I like to think this crowd is above typical streamer hysteria, but I guess not?

AlphaStar and OpenAI have nothing to do with the conversation here, right off the bat.

This video is so cringey too with random burps and "skynet" references. The external hosting is not related at all to the "soft" cheating, and that in turn has nothing to do with AI. Packet sniffing vs OpenCV vs Tensorflow for finding a head is not a meaningful difference.

Years ago, and I mean years ago cheat developers were building this type of "soft aim" cheats that don't snap.

And the separate input via controller _is_ detectable if this becomes enough of an issue... your "AI" is generating input and it often will generate input that controllers wouldn't. Because the "AI" is ML and only being applied to finding on screen targets.

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Making a second model to generate realistic input would be a whole other achievement no one has even bothered with because... they don't need to.

On-host hacking is rampant and these games can't seem to stop it, so no one has bothered.

I'd be for kernel-level anti-cheat if it actually worked, but script kiddies are beating this "kernel level anti-cheat" handily.

To me the answer is boring simple statistical analysis, increasing the cost of recovering from bans, etc...

But that doesn't sound as sexy so I guess we can keep this farce of a cat and mouse game going.
> because no decent human

The "decent" word is carrying much of the weight in your argument.

Not everyone is a decent person, but if being a decent person is actually a way to become a good manager, then the statement is not vacuous at all. Given the conventional wisdom that CEOs have sociopathic tendencies, the statement may be flat out wrong even. I just don't think it's obviously vacuous.