skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>the developer risks a game of whack-a-mole with private servers and cracked clients

This would be Felony Contempt of Business Model[0], which would be enforced with every move in the legal playbook.

>Legal protection sounds like it would actually benefit the cheaters given how long an average court case takes.

I see the thought here, but it would do so by providing transparency to the license-revocation (banning) process, which greatly benefits customers who are getting screwed as hard as OP is. This in turn should lead to fewer cases of paying customers getting screwed.

>In my experience, private servers deal with cheaters and bots better than Activision/Blizzard

This is the case because they're moderated better. The companies are raking in cash. They can hire people to fix the problem. They don't because the current model maximizes profits.

[0]: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/06/felony-contempt-busine...
This reminds me of the great novel Fiasco by Stanislaw Łem [1].

The civilization described in the novel fills the entire radio spectrum with noise, to make efficient communication impossible (and possibly to also allow highly sophisticated noise-like encrypted communication be undetectable).

Their society is pretty dystopian though.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiasco_(novel)
I tried regular expressions as well, but BNF grammar seems to work best
Adding better margins and spacing around text significantly improves readability on mobile (usually it also makes UI elements easier to distinguish).

Yes, there's a limit to that, but the new design is most likely result in making emails easier to read despite stealing away screen space.
Can't forget rules of engagement. I've seen multiple (as-claimed-on-the-internet) soldiers complain about cop-malfeasance with respect to the situations in which gunfire is allowed to occur. They opine that if cops were trained like they were, shootings would look very different, be much rarer, and be much more defensible to the average joe.
> Isn't it kind of daft that we humans must go through years of training to learn esoteric languages

I mean, what do you propose, that we skip all the steps in computer science history and just start at the end? Hardly "daft, it's simply the best way we have come up to provide machines with instructions until now. And it's not like people have not tried other paradigms (ex: graphical programming, "low-code", etc.).

Also, compared to programming in assembly or binary, programming in Python or other high-level languages is a huge advance in itself. Python, at the end of the day, is nothing but a bridge between natural language and machine code.

> You specifically mention code, that concept is irrelevant in this world

Current computer systems run on trillions upon trillions of lines of code.

GPT-3 or Copilot don't change that fact, in fact they will continue to pile up lines of code.

They are systems that map natural language to code, by drawing from an infinitely massive corpus of code.

They bring the idea of expressing systems entirely in natural language one step closer, but it's still very far away - almost a pipe dream.

The output of these innovations is still code. So tell me again how code has become irrelevant, or how people who do not understand code at all will be able to leverage these advances?
Much depend on what you count as "real" lock-in: let's start with some dummy example: all cloud vendors offer some APIs there is no formal lock-in there, you can use them push and pull data as you wish BUT came back a minute: you USE THEM, witch means you craft something yours on top of certain third party APIs. If they change you have to change. If they do not work your service will not work (at least not normally) as well. You might say "hey, but almost ALL software use someone else code", yes, sure but cloud APIs means code you do not run, it's code that run on someone else iron. That's a TERRIBLE lock-in even if in formal terms data and logic on top is at your disposal.

Habits is another form of soft but VERY HARD in practice lock-in. Let's say your employees already know on average, at least a bit, Zoom or Teams or Meet. There is no lock-in in choosing one of such platform, formally. In practice you get a certain UI for users, they get to know it, they are lost in case of change, MOST users at least. Oh, just try to see the sorry state of development of VoIP open tech, most sysadmins nowadays even HATE deskphones...

There are many examples as such NORMALLY not called lock-in but in practice one of the hardest to break soft-lock-in.

Oh, another form is: you decide to quit let's say Backblaze, ok. No lock-in formally... Just... Where you want your gazillion of Pb of crap ahem backups?
At least you can bring back the previous right-click menu with a quick regedit:

https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/windows-11-classic-conte...
AM radio broadcasts can reach somewhat farther than FM (and way farther at night on clear channels); that might matter in an emergency.

As a middle-schooler living in the Washington DC area, I would regularly pick up WLS in Chicago, some 700 miles away, on my little crystal set at night.
> As amazing as OSX seemed when it was launched

This reminds me: There was pretty interesting community of Linux users customizing X11 desktops in the late 90s and the very early 2000s... When the first screenshots and demos of OS X and Aqua came out, almost immediately, people tried to imitate that.
He’s the Bad Boy of Chess. But Did He Cheat?
I reboot my macOS machine about 10 times per year, probably less.
In the 70s, there was widespread misunderstanding of what artificial intelligence would be good at. Take a look at Hubert Dreyfus' _What Computers Can't Do_ (1972). To be fair, he was correct in some respects, but I think with flawed reasoning.
At what point is an air marshal supposed to interfere?
Seems like a scumbag thing to be honest. You can't entice people to pay for a "lifetime" license and just take it away. Now people who expected to have lifetime access to the software need to periodically beg him through email?
I can also believe that the stuff in smoke that kills your lungs could destroy viruses. I think the 'why' is important, given how addictive nicotine is and the fact that you're trading poisons by smoking to avoid covid.
It’s an obvious risk that the issuer of a perpetual license goes out of business.
I mean, I get that DHS still wants it, but... Why?

It might have made sense in 2005 with the post-2001 political climate, but it's 20 years later. We've been fine with the current IDs for so long, and the climate is not anywhere near the same now as it was then with relation to security theater.
Here Come the Crypto Hypocrites
It cost slightly more for me in CA. And even then I got caught up in the whole DMV documentation snafu even though I brought a dozen identifying documents, so I had to get my REAL ID 3 times over, each at my own expense.
We're gonna accelerate that is for sure.
The optimistic case is that we will actually understand language at the end of this, and end the dark age caused by the printing press, and come to understand what consciousness is (it is actually not what these things are displaying, people need to read "Interface Theory of Perception" for what's happening).

The pessimistic case is just more confusion!
Sure thing! If you decide to use a library that other processes or machines will communicate with, you need to build a whole service around it. The library also doesn't scale well if you need to go beyond a single-machine setup. With a proper database, the distributed deployment is already built-in, so you can scale it up on demand.
My state is the same as long as you're doing it with a regular renewal. I did it last time I renewed my license, because I already had a passport. Even though it certainly seems that it'll never be enforced.
On breaking changes in transitive dependencies
First of all, I didnt really deep dive into it, if those 87 studies really exist.

Some ideas:

1) Smokers go outside more and have more vitamin D which helps against covid?

2) smokers are on average less obese than non smokers? A lot of people smoke in order to cut hunger

3) breaks? To be honest sometimes I wish I smoked

4) fresh air?

5) some sort of mechanism that of the lungs can repair themselves after smoking it also stops the virus?

6) something inside the cigarettes stopping the virus?

The article mentions how smokers reacted better when given nicotine patches, bur doesnt this just mean that their bodies didnt have to fight "two" things at the same time: covid and nicotine withdrawal?

On a side note, were there any real studies if those who died of covid didnt have a co infecfion with something else? Reports that said that in some countries various drugs would work, sounded a bit like each country had their own co infecrions treated by that particular drug.
Seems like it has the same coding abilities I had when I started to write code many years ago. Wonder how fast it can become better... I bet: exponentially faster than me.
Yeah, any new license or renewal in my state is a real id. I think it costs the same, but I wasn't sure since it was 10 years since the last time I renewed.

Other than the hassle, is there a reason to not get the new id when license renewals come up?
We can, and should do both. Filing a false police report is a crime, and if your boss is telling you to do it, it's organized crime.

"Someone told me to do it" is not an excuse for criminal behaviour, and neither is "We constructed a bureaucracy that results in us engaging in criminal behaviour".
Probably from the safety of the condo in the Bahamas - he can't be that stupid.
> sometimes in secret or with no acknowledgement like Trump did

Err, that's not even close to factual. Donald Trump touted the vaccines before they were released, got publicly vaccinated, publicly discussed getting his booster shots, and touted their effectiveness in interviews:

Example:
“Look, the results of the vaccine are very good, and if you do get (Covid), it’s a very minor form. People aren’t dying when they take the vaccine,” he said in an interview with The Daily Wire’s Candace Owens that was released Tuesday.
Okay but we care for amount of helmeted individuals injury rate vs ones without helmets.

Less incidents can be just less cyclists, or something mildly related as "on average, helmets are colorful and increase visibility vs average cyclist that before helmet had nothing well visible on them"
WA charges extra, also people on non-immigrant visas cannot get them.
I sincerely hope you're wrong and he ends up prosecuted for this, but I fear you're on the money.
The last 3 years I've had occasion to use Budget on an "I need a rental now" basis.

I've had a good experience because they just don't seem to care. That is, the employees working there just check in/out, sign the paperwork, that's it. I haven't had to spend a lot of time turning down questionable options and upgrades. There haven't been turn-in inspections where they claim that tiny scratch on the car with 160k miles is my fault.

They just seem to get me checked in so they can get back to their phone. It's not a premium experience by any means, but it's simple.
> Locked cabin doors are also good.

These have 150 confirmed kills [1], and another 239 suspected kills [2]. They also weigh a lot, so a lot of excessive fuel is burnt because of them every day. They also sometimes break, causing delayed and cancelled flights.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanwings_Flight_9525
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370
So it will go from 92% unprotected to 99% unprotected? Seems not a big difference since they don't accomplish much.
Use vs. reference.

'Peking' is a romanized name for Beijing. So is 'Beijing.' Had the author said "a romanized name for 'Beijing,'" then you would have a had a point. Sure, you could use '北京,' but that is unnecessarily confusing.
The numbers lead to more bike infrastructure and safer riding conditions.
This doesn’t address how changes that were committed offline are merged on the central server once the clients are online again.
I reboot my Macs whenever there is an update that requires a restart. Usually they have an uptime of weeks or months.
This would be a nice tool, since none of the OpenAI services support chasing of URLs. Someone could write a GPT wrapper that fetches a list, strips off headers and footers and converts it all to plain text, and then formats it into something that can be fed to the transformer with instructions to spit out a digest and maybe continue the conversation from there.
You want to aggregate and summarize content from a bunch of urls?
I brought in multiple documents to prove my identity because I heard a lot of stories of people getting turned down for not having any documents. I also saw it first-hand while waiting at the DMV to renew. I finally get to the front counter. The lady working there eyed my folder of docs, then snarkily said "you know, less is more". I hate the DMV.
It's called killing. They're wiping elephants with tusks out of existence. Reverse breeding sounds like an ironic euphemism for murder straight out of a comedy sketch.
I've been on two flights now that have had to divert due to a passenger causing issues and in both cases there was no marshal onboard, just the flight attendants and some good passengers.

To me it seems the air marshals we have now are just in it for the free vacations. If airlines want their own security they should be able to employ their own in flight guards.

And doesn't needing air marshals prove that TSA is a joke?
Heh I think I wrote the comment in a bad way. This is what I meant; Elon said anything within the law and then just weeks in banned Kanye.

An example of is word not being worth much.
Actually airport security in America was much much worse before 9/11. I remember it well. It was mostly done by ex-cons in minimum wage jobs (see my other post in this thread), it was far more understaffed.

The only "positive" thing about security before 9/11 is that those private contractors were paid to let as many people through as possible for the least amount of labor possible so they were not very serious with the security. So thats why some people remember things running "smoother". But it was definitely not safer. Remember, there were 19 9/11 hijackers, and not one of them had any problems bringing a knife on board.

Point me to one case where anyone has successfully sued a private airport screening contractor for damages resulting from terrorism? That does not happen. It would be an interesting economic experiment if airport screening companies were made liable for the acts of people they erroneously let in, and were forced to buy insurance to cover for these liabilities. I would expect airport screenings by private contractors to get much more aggressive than the TSA then. But currently this is not the case.
> But every time I get a little bit paranoid about the idea of "what if it suddenly dies and I loose everything?"

Buy 2. Sync the devices regularly. Better to have 2 512GB drives and deal with syncing them once a while and half the space than 1 1TB drive and it's all gone due to any issue.

Never completely depend on a single storage device.
Supreme Court leans toward web designer with anti-gay marriage stance
It's not maintained, but a few years ago I was feeling nostalgic and playing with "mlvwm", the mac-like virtual window manager, a project from the late 90s.

At least a small amount of C knowledge is sometimes helpful for getting those old projects working. Sometimes a new compiler or new libc will expose old bugs.

My experience with old window managers is they need tweaks to work reasonably on modern high dpi displays.

Iirc mlvwm builds with imake, which is positively ancient. It's the build tool that X.org got rid of after taking over from XFree86.
You need to separate creativity from logic.

One is subjective the other one is objective. To create something objective you need to understand the current world state, and this AI does not understand it.

I.e. this AI (might) work if he had seen all the possible states of the world , and their next state.
You did not read the article, or understand nuclear weapons at all, correct?

"

OK, so we just need to collect enough material and presto, we have a bomb. Unfortunately, it's not so simple:

Getting enough of the right material is hard.

As soon as you start to assemble the material into a critical mass, it starts reacting, and so if you do it wrong, the energy emission will cause it to explosively disassemble, which isn't fun if you're nearby, but produces a much smaller bang than you were looking for (a "fizzle").

"

A nuclear bomb is a massively complex adventure in timed explosions to get the "lens" to work. This is after you figure out what size/shape to make the "pit".

Depending on the reactor design, regular reactor fuel often contains plutonium which is rather easy to separate because it is chemically different vs other elements in the used fuel waste. Again this is covered in the article.
Art of Electronics is a 300-level course (3rd year college).

Its a great book for everyone at that level. But good luck even reading the first few pages if you don't know the basics yet.

Art of Electronics is closer to the "last book you read" on electronics, rather than the first book. Its completely the opposite from what the original poster is asking here.
Atlanta Black Star has a nice writeup including some of the more egregious examples. One of the criminal cases didn't even get dismissed despite public statements that it would be, apparently it was finally dismissed when it went to trial in October.

https://atlantablackstar.com/2022/12/04/hertz-false-stolen-c...
The fact that the US Government does not have an actual ID card is absurd. A lot of problems - especially voting related ones! - can be solved by having an actual method of identification (not SSN). We're the only country where this is still a problem.
Made me think of Markov chains, and the PageRank algorithm. We should construct causal graphs, then give each of them 1/n weight and iterate over the casual weight splitting out, until the Markov chain reaches a steady state. Then you know what is important causally and what isnt.
> The AM band in the United States covers frequencies from 540 kHz up to 1700 kHz

I wonder if there's something useful to do with that range. It's a big chunk of lower frequencies right there, in the range that reliably does over-the-horizon propagation (although better at night perhaps according to wikipedia?)

The benefit of AM being super simple to build a receiver for is less relevant nowadays, FM is trivial to get radios for now, and ham radio uses SSB for voice for the most part in the lower frequency ranges.
Because the feds are very patient about these things. They knew that with consistent pressure, the holdout states would trickle on board, which is exactly what has happened. A couple states like Oregon held out until just the past few years, but now even they will give you a REAL ID.
"Causal Explanations Considered Harmful" seems to clearly want to invoke Dijkstra's "GOTO statements considered harmful", which played an important role in changing programming style. But do we really want to see causal explanations to go the way of the "goto"? Good luck getting your car fixed, and god help you if you are ill. I'm more comfortable with the essay "superficial analyses considered harmful".
This is such a horribly immature statement to make. There are many chemicals in cigarettes that can be utilized to either prevent or understand how Covid infects the human body, and what we can do to stop it. The nicotonic receptors are highly utilized by the immune system.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11062-007-0037-2

I’m really getting tired of this lack of creative thought in thinking about health and disease.
The infrastructure doesn't get built until you have large demand from existing cyclists.
I said this in the other comment but that’s exactly what I mean; this is an example of him not holding true to his word.
About your idea, I'm not sure either way. On the surface it makes sense, and there probably is a real correlation between test performance and amount of after-school learning, so it would make sense to make homework mandatory for kids who scored low. It would also work as punishment, but at the same time reinforcing the kids' perception of homework as punishment.

What makes me really unsure, however, is parents. Families differ by the amount of time and resources they can, or are willing, to spend on child education. This is part of why I don't like the homework-as-externality model: even ignoring how students themselves feel about it, if the school is trying to maximize the amount of work they do after school, the first kids to hit the limit are ones with e.g. a single parent doing two jobs, poor household, or dysfunctional family that doesn't care. Overloading students with homework implicitly disadvantages those that don't have supporting parents with lots of free time. And those same kids will also be ones more likely to fail at tests, in which case dumping extra after-school work at them might do the opposite of the effect you intend.

But this is me speculating, I don't work in education, and I'm sure there's been research done on how to balance the amount of after-school work for the environment children live in. My complaint about homework-as-externality isn't trying to deny the work of education sciences - it's pointing out that even if the research is there and results are solid, it's not being applied anyway, because teachers are uncoordinated and they all individually think, "oh, that's just half an hour worth of work, no big deal". Almost textbook tragedy of the commons.
Just want to say that this is the type of comment we want less of. Well over 75% of it is name calling, and the rest can barely be called an argument, let alone an effective one.
I've cross posted on twitter [1] with a video

[1] https://twitter.com/clamentjohn/status/1599827373008244736
Waymo has been running in Phoenix for years.
They didn't say whether it was their first time getting COVID.
Those are very creative Photobucket Logos
How do you decide whether the article too long to fit in ChatGPT's context window?
that’s not actually why they do it. it’s because recipes are not copyrightable. so they throw in a “story” to make it something they can copyright and try to prevent people from duplicating.
You're not wrong there!