skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DotA 2 has got a system where each person has a community rating, based on some aggregate of your reports and interactions. If you have a good rating you get placed with others who have a similar rating. It's not perfect but my score has never not been maxed out and would say that solidly over 60% of my games are jovial and cooperative with people being communicative and friendly. I have friendships going on decades that started in that game, but also I continue to make friends to this day. I've got people in my book club I met on DotA last year.

I've played some league and it's definitely a very different community feel.

I also think that the fact that in DotA you are not able to surrender is incredibly important when it comes to the feel of the game and community. I think the single biggest mistake Riot made is allowing teams to surrender, it makes the game so much worse to even give people the possibility of giving up. DotA is a game you can win off a marginal mistake even till the bitter end, I'm glad the mechanics reflect that.
It is, at least, supremely satisfying to pwn a blatant cheater.

One time there was a blatant hacker on the Markov server in the original PlanetSide (a TR player with a name like iIiIiIiiIiii) that was using some sort of time/speed hack to move and shoot at some large multiple of normal.

They were having a lot of fun camping inside towers to kill people spawning there, so I managed to camp out in one before they arrived and held a good corner with my trusty bolt driver (sniper rifle). I managed to pop them once on their way up the tower, and I think they were moving so fast that they didn't realize it'd happened until they got to the top. Just enough time to reload and switch angles for them to come back down.

I know the hacker was there to enjoy ruining fun for others, but they gifted me what was unambiguously the most exhilarating, triumphant, and memorable of the 25K+ bolt driver and 40K+ total kills I recorded.
I remember having to rewrite the file blocking primitives to allow blocking only some sections of each file as a class assignment in college.

It was fun, and I learned a lot about OSs in that class.
Thanks, that helps a lot!
RTO is barely being pushed for. They said "you should come to the office these 3 days", but almost no one did and no manager seems to care.
Because those same people were pointed at as the cause of all problems and physically expelled, at least when they weren't murdered, like a hundred times over centuries. Kings, rulers, thought leaders always pointed at the jews and said "look they charge you interest on your debt, theyre so evil" while they were the only religion that ALLOWED them to charge interest on debt, meaning they were basically the only class who could be bankers by Christian rules, which often meant regional laws.

What's actually kind of neat is that Islam majority countries solved the same problem by inventing new financial instruments and skirting the rules as written. "I'm not charging interest, this is a fee for the service of this weird rent to own structure we made". I don't think it's common in Islam to hate jews for being "The bankers".

But you knew this, because you didn't ask this question in earnest.
Desks? Make those lazy bums sit on the floor. If they want a desk they can bring one from home. No, you can't work from home, obviously, or the Communists win.
Though I think Google's Bay View campus is gorgeous and probably a lovely place to work, I can't imagine it's a particularly efficient use of the space it takes up. I could be wrong though as I've never been inside. I'll give credit to Google for not building another box full of cubicles, but it seems like it was meant to compete with Apple's spaceship in terms of impressive design, rather than somewhere for thousands of employees to get work done. Anyone know how many desks the buildings have and who gets to work there?

https://blog.google/inside-google/life-at-google/bay-view-ca...
Back in the day people used DivX ;) and XVid.
The old saying goes (basically the same as with Malware vs Anti-Malware): Whoever loads first, wins. So you are right in theory, you could intercept any call that would allow you to detect malicious behaviour. That being said two things:

1.) Windows is a closed-source and really huge system. There are many places you will leave traces, and they change all the time. Getting it right is hard.

2.) At least for malware, windows offers official ways to get to go first with e.g. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/i... - I do not know if this is used by any Anti Cheat though.

The super exotic theory would be a rootkit, in those cases not even windows can help you. But as with security, as long as there is easy money to be made (because most anti-cheat systems are simply bad), those very expensive solutions will be limited to selected few professionals.
This is a good thing IMO. There are hundreds of great TLDs [1] just sitting there that can help ease the gold rush and squatting problem with .com domains, but are not favored because historically non-.com websites have been associated with scams and low effort content rather than established brands. Hopefully more and more legit startups out there with a .horse their name will finally normalize such domains.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_dom...
> Why do believe a twitter post that you haven't verified, but you disbelieve someone who tested this?

This is a strange statement. You're a 100% anonymous HN commenter. Nobody has "verified" your comment either. It's just your word and nothing else.

The linked tweet is from someone who is much — as in infinitely — more known than you.

The reason to believe the tweet is simple: Occam's razor. It could be an elaborate hoax, but what would be the motive for that?
You want us to take your word for it?
You need a good framed backpack. Not all backpacks are the same.
Plotting libraries should use larger fonts as default. The text in the plots in the post is so small, it's not readable.
> to ensure... desks are kept clean and free from personal items.

This was called "hotdesking", then "hotelling", and it's unclear why I would arrange with a coworker to timeshare a desk when a proper hotdesking arrangement would likely be cheaper and easier.
"Things are not all bad, last quarter profits were up 100%"
Right--the Turks were just in a good position, literally, to pick up the pieces afterwards.
On one hand I did not attempt to simplify the statement for easy reading. On the other hand your comment just supports the point, that common folk can't be bothered to think hard, and therefore are adamant to use volatile currencies, but currencies are not only used by common folk.
I run an open source project and we're channelling out finds into PayPal. What's a good alternative to switch to?
Thank you for the overdue reminder to finally get round to deleting my old paypal account!

(Not that they make it easy, mind you)
Argonne got NMC to market. I wouldn't discount Argonne.
It isn't a "shakedown," it is a "clawback."
From my point of view it's about expectations. An autistic person needs to have the environment adapted to endure while a non-autistic person is more likely to adapt easily. It all comes down to how much energy it costs to analyze and adapt the environment, for me that cost is through the roof. For kids this means that, no, you should not force my kid to do certain tasks, a no is a no, like grabbing the arm and drag the kids. Adapt the food in the school kitchen to things they like, it's very hard for autistic kids in general to eat mixed food etc. Lower the noise level in class. As an adult, just telling everyone that hey, I'm autistic, please treat me nice! may be just the thing to leaviate the tension. People around may find the weirdness explainable and that make it more cool than odd.

My personal belief is that one thing that autistic people in general are very bad at loving themselfs. It's very easy to critique oneself. For me it was the missing piece. Constantly talking about selflove and that I'm worth loving. Also talking to some exterior person who can after listening to all the critique you have about yourself, wrap it up and just tell you that you're awesome. Of course this is true for everyone, but I think autistic people may be the harshest to themselves (and in general may be hit and miss with skills, i.e. being expert in computers but totally suck at tying shoes, thus failing often which lowers self-esteem).

Feedback at work is often a pat on the back, but I really need to understand that the other person really understood my ideas and that we could discuss them properly. That gives me a sense of appriciation, while the pat in essence is meaningless. Maybe communicating things like that with co-workers will increase the reward at work as well.

Masking in a sense is about trying to adapt to an environment that makes it's best to make it tough for you. Letting people know that you find certain things very hard to deal with (i.e. uncertain chores, when is something truly complete, the most LOL is that my biggest problem area at home is that I can't fathom the way my wife organize the dirty clothes, just a big pile! I tend to stay away because she hates when everything is in separate boxes pre-sorted..) may give you just enough energy to make the day much rewarding instead of tough. Also my example with the clothes is a typical hidden energy thief, you think about it every time you see it, every day, when you get that stuff sorted out it gives back loads of energy!
> The main problem is e-beam litho is extremely slow.

There are now some multi-beam systems.[1]

[1] https://multibeamcorp.com/products/
Meanwhile my four letter domain, lwei.com, gets no offers and is appraised at like $1000.

There’s still stuff available for reasonable prices but it’s just a lot of work so it’s easier to get some random tld.
Again you have your head around that all money should be taxed. And the government owns a percentage, or it’s not “fair“.

As long as the rich dude is investing it in businesses and things that push the economy forward, I see no issue with it. And of course that rich dude one day is going to wanna buy the Lambo, boats, and boob jobs for the girlfriend … and that’s when we tax him.

And by the way you’d be shocked at how much is rich people spend. I literally know guys making 10 million a year, with virtually no savings.
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Its mainly to avoid responsibility.

In reality, nobody gives a fuck if you mail someone 50 euros.
Mostly by saying this is Italy's fault for being in the Eurozone and thus not being able to print its own money.

Also the USA is in a unique situation in the world due to the status of the dollar, so comparison with other countries have very little validity. If argentina prints money it just loses value immediately and triggers crazy inflation. If the US prints money it is still not that big of a deal compared to all the dollars used everywhere in the world so the negative effects are much lower.
There are certainly people out there who are motivated to trigger false alarms in hotels: https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2017/01/22/police-appr...
Perhaps convert an old lawnmower and power drill to power one’s desktop PC? Simple and perfectly safe/convenient with additional respirator and ear defenders.
Isn’t Revolut just for Europeans?
I'm just glad we live in a country with such excellent respect for due process that even when accused upon probable cause of a litany of internet-involved crimes that add up to a lifetime of imprisonment, you are free to not only be out on bail but retain internet access and even use it to tamper with witnesses. The US truly is a place where everyone is innocent until proven guilty.
It seems like each day there's an article lately about reasons _not_ to work at Google. Sad to see how they went from an enviable place to work to a place to avoid these past years.

(Although internally, things might be better than it looks from the outside of course)
Agreed, this is a garbage article. Since 2020, we've seen this new narrative percolate about "rejecting" or "trusting" _The Science_. "Misinformation" = ideas that are not blessed by the political/medical establishment. Science is not a dictum from above, and it is not God. Science is a process of questioning pervailing norms to better understand reality.

This was a rare period where all the major systems of media, information, and entertainment presented a message as _Scientific Fact_. And if you shared a video on Facebook of Fauci from March 2020 saying things that conflicted $Todays_facts, they would delete it for "Misinformation".

Remember discussions about "natural immunity"? For years, we were scapegoated, smeared, or disingenously referred to as "MAGA / Trump supporters" because we were aware of this, but it took until 2023 for a mainstream news service to publicize this information. [1] And yet even if we had coronavirus and recovered from it just fine, the president warned us of a "winter of severe illness and death" if we didn't take additional shots of a product that did not undergo long-term safety testing, despite these vaccines not designed to prevent transmission or provide immunity, unlike traditional/historical vaccines (Polio, smallpox, etc). [2]. Even talking about the benefits of Vitamin D was treated as _heresy_ and met with the same derision from the left-leaning journalists I used to respect.

And yet, the vaccine mandates are still in effect at most companies, states, universities, and counties. Why? I think intertia.

All of _The Science_ has been heavily politicized or otherwise a downstream customer of Pfizer.

[1]: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/natural-immunity-...
[2]: https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/16/politics/joe-biden-warning-wi...
> However, the main benefit of bash is the portability

For me the main benefit of PowerShell is portability. I now just have one bootstrapping script for my cross-platform project, which works on Powershell Core on Windows, Powershell Core on Linux and if I wanted also Windows Powershell or MacOS.
I feel stuff like this makes us less and less aware of our journey and existence and curiosity, modern life with the electrification of light, whether our tablets or TVs, and our skies, we are being put more and more into a bubble where we just do rather than question. Covered by maya (illusion), imagine our ancestors sky gazing and being able to daily see the cosmos.
I wonder how their recruiters will respond to those that want an office desk 5 days a week.
"Did you find gold?"

"Oh for fuck's sake".
> It seems to be just Batman and the Joker who feel society owes them a blood debt for the pain it caused them.

This seems to be going a bit off the rails, I guess I'll just say the Batman I'm familiar with seems to be different from yours, and leave it at that.

> If mandatory strict adherence to every possible law at all times makes it impossible for the police to fight crime, then maybe the problem is there are too many laws, and they're too strict. Because remember, the police don't chase criminals, they chase suspects assumed innocent until proven guilty by a court.

Possibly. I definitely feel there are too many laws, and many seem arbitrary and/or too strict.

> But they chose violence because the police always choose violence.

I guess I missed the part where they beat him into submission. I had thought they just arrested him.

And, maybe he didn't deserve to be arrested. I don't know. I do think what he did shouldn't really be morally defensible, but that's a different argument that's been debated into the ground elsewhere in this thread.

> for the most part, police do do whatever they want, whenever they want, just because, hell, they feel like it.
> police always choose violence.

I'm afraid this is where any meaningful discourse probably ends. I can't say I really get along well with most officers, but this is also not what I've seen out of most officers. You get some definite assholes, and some bigots. But words like most and always seem pretty far out of line.
doest is suffer from thermal runaway etc.

All these parameters do is help determine its best possible use-case for product and if it something to compete against incumbents or open up other market possibilities.
That's Iwei robbery!
I stopped following this scene around 2018-2019; basically right after G2/Fnatic started to be some of the most dominant teams, even compared to the best Korean teams (that's not why, just around that time).

It's disappointing -- but not surprising -- to hear all this, especially that it even affects the Challenger-level games. This does sound like the kind of issues they would have no idea how to deal with. Not that they don't care exactly but that they can't figure out how to handle it.
You don't even need that. Soap and water work fine.
> Very long cars are going to make a comeback.

Not in Europe, a lot of US cars already wouldn't fit in EU parking spots (most are 5mx2.3m)
What's the name of the 3rd one?
> Workers have even internalized this desire to be productive. A survey of 1 million people by edtech company Headway in late 2022 found that productivity is most people’s number one priority in life. Some 65 percent of Britons, 63 percent of Americans, and 58 percent of Australians rank productivity above having a healthy body, more money, or being happy.

Holy shit, this is scary. I hope that survey was somehow botched.
This is exactly the sort of fun, random, small project that reminds me of the more anarchic and playful older days of computing and the web. Those days are gone and not coming back, but their spirit lives on in things like this.

It’s not some earth shattering YCombinator thing, it’s not a SaaS, it’s not (at least to my eye) about money — it’s a neat thing to do with a piece of screen real estate we all look at a million times a day. Not to be melodramatic but the world needs a lot more “heh, neat”.
To quote Terry Pratchett:

99 out of every 100 ideas they come up with are complete rubbish, but the 100th tends to be an absolute humdinger.
Not grad school, but my first programming experience was as a freshman at my university. I took CS101 which was C++. The course covered basic programming (control structures, basic data types, functions, etc). Also covered memory pointers and the ideas behind them. The next class would be data structures, but before that, I got a job.

My buddy who encouraged me to take the programming class (thought I'd be good at it since I was a bit of a math geek) then hired me after said-first-programming-class at his start up. I made a bit above minimum wage to learn PHP and build a business to business directory website with him working evenings, sometimes til 1 or 2am. No unit tests. No build system. Nothing like that. FTP files up, manually check the site.

I only minored in CS (major was BS. Business Administration), so I took a few more classes (got exposed to Java, some Action Script, some more C++, some assembly), had a few class projects, but, meanwhile, worked at that start up slinging PHP til they closed down. I got less than a year of experience if I recall, but I then tinkered with PHP+MySQL and HTML+CSS+JS for several years while doing other things (I would help a small business here or there, or work on personal projects, very rough CMS solutions, etc, all for fun and barely earning anything). After being an insurance sales agent, a financial advisor, a construction worker, and an inner-city high school math teacher, I decided to give this whole tech thing a go. Worked with a recruiter, highlighted some projects (nearly all php+mysql+html+css+js) on my resume, and, after half a dozen interviews, landed a job at a start up that would later become a unicorn.

Fast forward a bit over a decade and I'm a principal software engineer working on high scale systems.
Well sure you can also run a random string generator and get a short .com TLD, but that's not the point.
Except on hundreds of millions of iPhones around the world. Apple has shown that the distinction is more nuanced. There are cases where biometric use is legitimate.

Signing into an account on a remote server? Probably not. To access the secure enclave on a device that is with you for 100% of your life? Probably fine.
I can see how it _technically_ turned into one when they started collecting data. But yeah the PR is strong w/ this one.
> My wife and I are performing magicians,

Very cool! Don't meet many of those :)

I had the same experience you describe with Facebook after I deleted my original account, waited years, and then had to recreate it to be able to get information about some event. I had somehow failed community standards before I had provided enough information to tell them anything. Support got me nowhere, similarly to TFA chat history.

So I tried again some months later with a phone number or email instead of the other, and it worked.

It's very discouraging to almost be forced to use a service like that to get along in the modern world. I would have paid to use it to avoid all the bs, at least for the period that I needed it.
I wonder what brand of elevators were using this scheme
This is brilliant!

Why haven't we seen this idea developed further into consumer devices by now
The journey of a startup founder – through MEMES
I created these memes to tell the story of building my first startup this past 4 years.
Zelle is in the US, backed by major banks, and good luck with a claw back.

"But Zelle’s terms are clear: You can’t cancel a payment once it’s been sent if the recipient is already enrolled with Zelle. And if you send money to someone you don’t know for a product or service, you may not get your money back for a product or service that’s not delivered."

https://www.elliott.org/problem-solved/how-to-get-your-money...
That really is good advice for any online selling including Craigslist, FB marketplace, etc. Anyone who is acting even slightly weird is almost always just wasting your time.
How do you season it? How do you clean the pan, and does it need to be seasoned again after cleaning?
.com domain availability has dried up and alternate TLDs dropped the price of squatted .coms. .io was too popular for a while and now everyone seems to be going with a .ai even if their product is far from actual AI. For my startup, I went with .dev. Don’t know if that was a good idea, but I was able to readily get a simple three-letter TLD there.
1000 cycles is about three years of use. I personally charge my EV every night, it's better to form a habit of plugging it in every night than to forget to check it and not have enough energy in the morning.
I don’t like online multiplayer but instead of cheaters it’s because I just suck: most of the time almost everyone is just better than me, and it seems like I lose way more than 50% even with SBMM. I think it’s not just cheaters that are the problem, it’s skilled players who artificially lower their ranking so they can play against less skilled players and win more.

A really smart SBMM would solve both problems. One that not only prevents players from artificially dropping rank, but also hiding their skill and maintaining a lower rank; and perhaps instead of an ELO, also matches players with similar play-styles. Because then cheaters will quickly end up in a rank with other cheaters, and won’t be able to leave unless they buy another copy of the game.