skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not all taxes are arbitrary. You can't argue that taxes on natural resources are arbitrary. Take mineral resources as an example. I think it's very difficult to find the idea of taxing the use of these resources as absurd in a similar fashion to those presented by this article. Same can be said about radio spectrum.

If we applied the same philosophy to land, we'd need much fewer "arbitrary" tax types and percentages.

Our tax systems are indeed deeply flawed and arguing that any system is arbitrary and equally absurd/paradoxical/inefficient is incorrect since there are examples of ethical (and I would argue necessary) taxes.
Yup, the article even says "It’s now early 2019 and we’ve already way surpassed this first, but very important milestone." Feels like a weird marketing technique.
Maybe I’m just too dense, but I had that impression about this essay too.

It’s just that I was reading and reading and reading it, and at some point it started to resemble a twitch streamer that spends about an hour reading patch notes to a game while peppering every sentence with ahhhs, ummmms and well maybeeeeeees without culminating in anything.
If it works out please blog about it. If it doesn’t, failure is hard to admit, but learning from other’s mistakes is still valuable, so please blog about it anyway.
How are you the author of the post when the Wayback Machine says Brian Jackson authored the post in 2019?

Despite the date on the article being today's (Feb 22, 2023) date, the article itself even says "It’s now early 2019 and we’ve already way surpassed this first, but very important milestone."

https://web.archive.org/web/20190109173232/https://kinsta.co...
Mermaid is the fastest tool to write diagrams after pen and paper.
I use it with Markdown Enhanced, it's a powerful tool that quickly ensures your entire team is on the same page and understand the ideas/concepts you're discussing.
Started adding exported images in confluence with the source code attached to the same page, people always get amazed and started adopting it (slowly, I'd say).
The speed is great but not being attached to a heavy tool such as Visio or Gliffy is the game changer.
The first few comments on the HN post also look super staged
This one is popular https://cleanlab.ai/
hardware breakpoint maybe?
Sadly there is this snippet:

All gameplay logic is currently server-authoritative.
We currently do not have any form of latency-hiding, including prediction, rollback, or clientside logic.
We previously had rollback, but removed it due to its relative inflexibility.
Our plan is to introduce clientside and shared logic that can be used for user-defined prediction with runtime assistance, but this will take some time.
> Did they give you hard numbers? Is that 1 poppy seed? 1 teaspoon of poppy seed? 1 pound of poppy seed?

As I clearly explained, this is due to contamination, possibly due to poor washing. The quantity needed is therefore going to depend on the level of contamination.

> The problem is that the tests are oversensitive.

The DoD has been operating on a 2000ng/mL cutoff, which is high, so... no.

Also, the food supply is contaminated with opiates and your first thought is that the tests are too sensitive?
Because they know already. Many patient died from these jab DIRECTLY. But of course everyone must ignored it. You can see many medical researchers hesitant to research on this topics let alone getting published and then peer-reviewed. Personally I've known people dying DIRECTLY of the jab within 2 days of it. And I know many knowing someone died and not hearing from someone else someone else story. And yet, here even medical doctors have been cautioned not to speak about it or will face consequences not only from pro-vac group but government or medical board displine. So at this point, we will just have to keep it quiet until #1 a lot of people been affected like thalidomide years ago, or #2 nothing happens, and those did died are just collateral damages.
I do research in a university lab that is also used by a number of companies. People make plenty of transistors, including state-of-the-art research.

However, reasonably sized processors need millions of transistors, and (a) we can't easily make that many at competitive feature sizes, (b) it takes significant time and effort to set up and debug a process, and even more to get high yield. So while it's theoretically possible to make small processors, it's much easier (and, including labor, probably cheaper) to leave that to dedicated fabs. Small prototyping runs (via [1] or similar) are common.

Instead, people use the lab to, e.g., prototype new MEMS devices or test new types of transistors or memory cells. Once the technology is proven, it can be mass-produced elsewhere.

[1] https://www.musesemi.com/
Interesting. 80K USD is really low in Vancouver, Canada, based on the people I talked to (limited set and all that). I thought salaries are way higher by now, even for work-life-balanced people
This is an interesting topic though, because this generation is the first generation of kids who grew up with social media, so it's not unfathomable that "kids these days" are different, for better or worse. Kids these days might be normal, but with them being the first generation to truly grow up in the internet and social media era, there is a legitimate argument that they are not.
Trust MSFT fork of google chrome. Sure.
I think its become well known enough at this point?
> ... electron beam lithography ... could theoretically be built out of a hacked scanning electron microscope

Not only theoretically. Sam hacked his own scanning electron microscope and did electron beam lithography in 2018.

http://sam.zeloof.xyz/e-beam-lithography/
> When Professor Cost left his job at Wachtell, Lipton, he took what I estimate to be an 85% pay cut. What would motivate a man to do such a thing? From a government accountant’s point of view, Professor Cost has made a terrible mistake. Whereas before he had earned, say, $2,000,000 in income annually, now he was earning only $300,000 annually. Such irrationality! In a socially just world he would be punished for costing the government $700,000 in tax revenues per year.

What nonsense. The writer assumes that the final goal of the goverment is to increase revenue. That is how corporations work, not governments. The goal of government is to represent its citizens to try to achieve the society that citizens want. The goal is to maximize well-being (whatever is each person definition), not cash.

From there on, everything falls into this kind of missing the point arguments.
Researchers find hidden vulnerabilities in hundreds of Docker containers
The Lazy Universe by Coopersmith may provide some intuition as well.
I imagined the secret area contained fake details about the game, like adding an invisible fake street to a map. If the client refers to the fake street or any location within it, you can be certain the details about that fake street were obtained using cheats.

This trick is used to catch cheaters on minecraft, by spawning in fake diamond blocks that would only be visible to specific cheats (xray). If a user suddenly were to dig to these blocks, you can be reasonably certain there's something fishy going on.

Other way to think about it, is adding an invisible field to a contact form that is only hidden through CSS
Don't forget DEC.

The guy has a career older than most people on this forum.
I'd suggest anyone with a passing knowledge of calculus, complex numbers, and vectors to sit through Leonard Suskind's lectures on quantum gravity. This one was good and wouldn't need the calc/math background, I think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OkwGDKoY0o . But YT is full of actual physics lectures and sitting in on them is pretty approachable with that calc/math background. I think they give an interesting comparison to these popular pieces on particle physics. You might not understand everything the way a physics college student should, and that's ok because you aren't one. But I bet you walk away knowing quite a bit more than you suspect and you can always replay them.

Pop-sci pieces tend to portray the universe as just a bunch of particles interacting in odd/spooky ways. It's a little reductive and sort of enshrines entanglement and similar concepts as unknowable at times. I skimmed this and it seems to spend a lot of time on spin 0 particles. Who knows, maybe that's a constraint from ER=EPR? But I didn't feel like it really conveys much about Higgs.

(Which would serve a purpose - "oh you can't know it so please come back for next installment in my series of 10 books describing it." I don't think any authors actually set out with that as a goal, explicitly, but they could do a better pointing out where to go for further, more complicated edification. That sort of thing could shoehorn new talent into science.)
"You get paid for your time AND your skills AND your willingness to exchange both for value, whatever value you choose to receive."

Still leaving out one major part: the willingness of some other entity to trade your input for money at a mutually agreeable rate. You can be willing to trade 55 hours a week of high-quality work for $3 million a year and not find an employer.
It predicts things we’ve already observed, sure. But we came up with the standard model after seeing what ideas worked and which ones didn’t, and we get to amend it every time an experiment shows us something new.

The standard model isn’t some single theory that was devised and survived testing. It’s an amalgam of various ideas which have survived experimental verification. It’s a bit hollow IMO to say it “predicts” things. It’s a bit like drawing the dartboard after throwing the darts.
Only people building software systems get to have opinions on how they get built
Is it possible to put the t25 keyboard into a t470 or t480?
It is kind of absurd, especially once you get into the messy bits around bartering and gifting. But then all sorts of elements of modern society are absurd when you look at them closely.

It seems that once you get into the world of macroeconomics, everything is absurd in some way or other. It's all just a great weird fiction that we all buy into because it keeps society running. Money itself is a weird social construct. GDP is completely mad.

What does the author suggest we do instead? Something that isn't as absurd?
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there was a convar in the game for 6+ years that let you see particles in the fog of war; 99% of cheats forced this convar on. source lets you request CVars from the client and the value, so they simply did that.

to be clear, this was not a honeypot, but they claimed it to be
So they detect reads from an external process? What if, instead of an exploit app, an antivirus read the memory?
Any top players banned? ;)
Why does my radio turn on my faucet?
Taxes don’t really have to be fair or just. In German, the noun for „tax“ is the same as the verb for „steering“ even!

In Order for our societies to work in practice, taxes are needed. What to tax and by how much is up to political debate…

But there is evidence that high taxes combined with a great welfare state and some redistribution allows even capitalist societies to thrive. It even gets better when you specifically use taxes to reduce the difference between rich and poor.

There might be less billionaires in such situations, but everyone else is MUCH happier and well off.

So, from a consequentialist standpoint, more taxes, especially if progressive and hard enforced, are better.

Every counter argument to that seems to construct some reasoning from pure egoism and assuming someone is not a product of his environment - and ignoring the very first thing I said - taxes don’t have to be fair or just
I think what was surprising for me dealing with junior data scientists was that I had to make this point. Why are you killing yourself trying to get insane accuracy on dirty data? Your energy is better spent getting better data.
No.

Everyone involved had roughly a decade of experience with the data in question, the processes that touched it before it reached us and within the company, the various problems with the data and how they impacted the analytics. They also understood how probabilistic algorithms would impact the results.

Additionally we had a team whose main responsibility was to continuously monitor and improve the quality of the data we were receiving. My team had frequent conversations with that team, because anything they couldn't detect would show up in our results.

They just had a fixation on "accuracy" stemming mostly from "our clients wouldn't understand it". Which is interesting because we had frequent complaints from clients who had secondary sources and found differences between what we provided and what their other sources provided.
Take the player info struct:

struct player_info {
std::string name;
vector4 position;
vector3 orientation;
int level;
...
}

and dump in something like `report_when_accessed<std::list<player_info>> oops_here_are_all_the_other_players_and_their_position_i_am_only_for_debug_please_remove_me`. Your client will never, ever access this list: it's your honeypot. The moment you get any access on list[i], it gets noted down and reported (like sudo does, straight to the naughty list). Cheat makers will see this and, if it doesn't smell of a too obvious honeypot, cannot pass such a golden opportunity: literally free maphack, just locate where the player struct is in memory and read it all!
latest update appears from 2009? Including instructions on how to fetch from cvs? Makes me a bit nostalgic, but not sure if this is relevant anymore
I added "implement oauth2 support" to the todo list from that comment. Shouldn't be too hard. If anyone has tips for simple-to-setup-oauth2 setups to test against, let me know. Is oauth2 support enough to get SSO covered? SASL (as used by SMTP/submission and IMAP) supports other methods (openid, saml), but I don't know clients that support that.
People conspire to do things all the time.
TikTok banned on EU executive staff devices
Sometimes rules are poorly written, outdated or straight up mistaken.

I doubt the original intent of the rule was to disallow GitHub as a collaboration tool since it's the largest coding collaboration tool out there. It's even its primary use case .

Interpreting the rule as what it meant to be seems appropriate to me. The world isn't as rigid as you paint it to be.

If you were to really code a website without tools capable of generating html from text you'd find yourself coding with pen and paper.
People are scared of crime, they usually aren't scared of students (unless the students are black, they put cops in those schools to arrest kids ofc)
I just spent months working on a large piece of software and could say without a doubt, Lisp is awesome! But I also want to say that most implementations are hashing out a spec written decades ago and not trying to improve what's obviously lacking -- a full modern standard library! Trying to piece together functionality from here and there (and Quicklisp which is an unversioned mess) will only take you so far and in the end you will realize the amount of time wasted chasing this great language! AFAIK Lisp needs more backing from the heavyweights to make any reasonable progress which I'm sure won't happen.
Out of Edge/Firefox/Chrome/Safari, Safari is the furthest behind in functionality and still has the most bugs. How do we know? We develop for these browsers every day. As for "only works in Chrome", Safari was our primary target platform. We develop with a "Safari first" process (a device that live updates on changes). If the feature/functionality didn't work in Safari, for us it might as well not exist.

As a user, you are not the one that has to invest 100's of hours fixing platform bugs. If a website does break, you'd blame the website even if Safari was at fault.

It's also hard for any end-user to see the absence of functionality, or a useful application that never got built because it was too difficult or didn't have the underlying functionality required. It's hard to see an application that was only ever built for iOS because the costs of producing two native apps was too high, or the app that never got built at all. It's hard to see the increase in prices because of no competitive pressure on the native ecosystems, or a new mobile ecosystem that never got built because it didn't have access to apps users's wanted.

At the end of the day this all ends up harming the user.
As a relative noob to newsletters this post was solid gold. Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom!
You could possibly query the OS for whether physical pages have been allocated or not. Physical pages would only be allocated on the first page fault, when the pages are read.
Just curious "only the first two packets in a VM->LB->VM flow will traverse the LB. Subsequent packets are direct from VM-to-VM and are rewritten in the host NICs to merely appear to go via the LB address" ,
how is it possible to change the Load Balancer IP(VIP) to VM IP in a session . Are you talking about DSR(Direct Server Return) here ?
I'd do it by read-protecting the page, and install a fault handler that records the access and then unprotects the page (to avoid detection when the cheat causes the game to crash).
I wonder how different countries will react to this exceptional context in the next two decades. To give an idea of the novel nature of this demographic crisis:

1. Some demographers say that for the first time in recorded history the total fertility rate of the world will be just under replacement this year (2022 TFR=2.24, world replacement level being 2.23, as opposed to ~2.1 for first world countries).

2. Middle income countries are en-masse entering a stage of low fertility, a phenomenon that 50 years ago was only observed in few high-income countries. Even some poor countries have a rapidly declining fertility with few of them under replacement, and a bit more poor countries are expected to join this under-replacement stage. This means that immigration as we know it will change in demographics and magnitude, since the source countries will have their own problems as well.

3. Aging developed countries will perhaps have to change their approach to immigration: Canada is the poster child on what not to do and is being observed by several researchers around the world to have a glimpse of what's to come. A vicious cycle is born: Their native youth has not a broad margin by which to start families, so to compensate they take in high levels of immigrants relative to their population (Century initiative, as called by their government), little jobs or housing is added (for a variety of reasons, not all of them political) and home prices go up while wages in several professions are depressed, back to square one. This is particularly pernicious in Canada given their welfare system for elderly citizens, their immigrants aren't having enough children to compensate and in some regions their TFR is actually lower than that of the native population. The bane of a generous pension system is an inverted population pyramid, this is only exacerbating the problem. To ensure non-collapse either migrants have to put a lot more than they give or they take increasingly more immigration. It seems Canada already choose, and has a window of a couple decades given what I just said in point 2.

4. How will other developed countries react? Will they become high-tax gerontocracies like future Italy where the youth has to escape from for professional and entreprenurial aspirations? Or will they battle for high-quality immigration instead and make their economies more competitive and dynamic? Will they rely on their diaspora in Latin-America to compensate (such as german, spanish, japanese, croatian, italian, portuguese) like Spain and Italy are already doing, in the style of a great recalling? Will they, like Canada, start recalling mennonite communities from Mexico? In the US, will the amish carry the bulk of births in rural counties and Hasidic jews offset the birth crisis in urban areas (they both have a falling TFR, but still greatly above replacement)? Israel's TFR is solid and their population pyramid is actually a pyramid, do we look at them on what to do? Many african cities are on the brink of having sub-replacement TFR, will they have internal migration within the same continent instead of external movements?
Taxes are /one of/ the prices we pay to live in a partially-civilized partially-capitalist society.

We are not aware of non-hypothetical long-term widespread high standard of living completely non-capitalist societies (yes, that's a bunch of qualifiers), but there is certainly a range of taxation, legal and social policies that work to varying degrees of success.
Windows lets you configure guard pages where you get notified on access, normally used to detect stack growth and such. Although that should be an easy and normal thing to avoid for av/cheats.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/memory/creat...
> You can't argue that taxes on natural resources are arbitrary.

We can swap the Income Tax for an Air Tax if that helps, air is a resource. Charge by lung capacity. Big fellas do tend to make more money so it'd probably be a rough proxy for wealth and class I expect.

Resource taxes:

* Disincentive producing resources.

* Are still arbitrary.

Fundamentally what a tax is recognising is that Entity A did the work, but Entity B should decide who gets the fruit of that work. There is no acknowledgement that Entity A might be better than B at deciding what to do, or mechanism to test it, or even really a jury to decide it in practice (in theory the legislators could, but frankly I don't think any of the legislative bodies I'm aware of could tackle that sort of micromanagement). We don't even have consensus on what value system we should use to decide which entity was going to make a better decision even if we have perfect information about both hypothetical resource allocations. It is all ultimately arbitrary.

Even the no-tax pure free market solution is arbitrary, the argument in favour of it is it has the incentive structure that results in the most production, and big picture history suggests that maximising production will get best overall living standards. But it is clearly arbitrary, people love to point out the wild wealth differences between people who seem pretty similar except for minor differences.

These are not academic or theoretical concerns, this stuff is the meat of most of the big political debates that rage on.
Do the particles alone w/o any cheats give an advantage?