skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Isn't the problem de facto solved by matchmaking? The player that aims better will quickly win more and be elevated to the level of opponents on par with them.

Matchmaking decreases the odds you meet a cheater for low rank players, and significantly increases it for higher rank players -- and since there's fewer of them due to the Bell curve, they are going to feel the cheaters that much more.

If you just rely on rank and not on anti-cheat efforts, you'd be just destroying one of the loyal cores of the playerbase, one which is also quite vocal online.

From my personal experience of thousands of hours in competitive FPS shooters on PC, there is no point in ranking where playing against a cheater becomes fair or fun.
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No, it is not. You're missing a few key qualifiers that will depend on the country but generally include the notion of "bulk" email (thus directly excluding transactional emails).

A couple examples of such nuancing qualifiers:

- "unless prior permission has been obtained or unless there is a pre-existing commercial relationship between the parties" (UK)

- "for the purposes of direct marketing" (EU)

You may read this table to get more examples of local definitions and the associated regulations, per country: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_spam_legislation_by_co...
Probably half of legit mail from self-hosted servers... Anyone using them at all?
A distributed monolith isn't based on how many services you have, a better question is, how many services do you need to redeploy/update to make a change.

Yes, by the time you get to thousands of services you hopefully have moved past the distributed monololith, if you built one.
> Who ever did not see this one coming

Were also the people who have very little understanding of biology and/or privacy. I'd say that covers a good 90% of the population.
"Just unplug it" works only if you realize that the AGI is working against your interests. If its at least human level intelligent it's going to realize that you will try doing that and it will only actually make it clear it wants to kill you when there's nothing you can do about it.
> For actual businesses like Linkedin though, it makes more sense than not to unsubscribe from unwanted emails anytime they're sent.

Why? What's in it for you?

You filter them = never see the spam they send you again

You unsubscribe = pray that it's not a phishing email disguised as linkedin spam, hope that if it's real they don't just start sending you different spam, and that maybe they haven't agreed to sell your (now confirmed as more valuable) email address to 3rd parties (aka, their "partners") now that you've made that email address worthless to them otherwise.

The absolute most you can ever hope for in the "unsubscribe" case has the exact same outcome as the "filter" case, while the filter case has less risk and as a bonus lets the spammers waste their time.
Well, when your P is still quite E, I guess it’s a different equation :).
Good lord are those things designed like shit.
> When I was growing up in foster homes, or making minimum wage as a
> dishwasher, or serving in the military, I never heard words like “cultural
> appropriation” or “gendered” or “heteronormative.”
>
> Working class people could not tell you what these terms mean. But if you
> visit an elite university, you’ll find plenty of affluent people who will
> eagerly explain them to you.

I figured out as soon as I saw the link title that the author's examples for "luxury beliefs" would just so happen to be associated with a feminist and anti-racist outlook.

> But unlike luxury goods, luxury beliefs can have long term detrimental
> effects for the poor and working class. However costly these beliefs are
> for the rich, they often inflict even greater costs on everyone else.

This is certainly true for a high number of luxury beliefs, such as "trickle down economics", "small government" advocacy and "catallaxy", none of which come up often among dishwashers; and all of which freshman students at Yale, who just read their first essay on Friedrich Hayek, will gladly explain to you.
This is an interesting way of thinking about it, but then it becomes essential to determine what the 'domain complexity level' is for any domain, and the possibility of unending argument on what that that level is will almost certainly destroy any value that either dictum or razor have.
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This meme of becoming bankrupt to pay for drugs doesn't hold water, especially in the long term.

Look at HIV medications. It used to cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to stay afloat in the 90's, when the drugs were cutting edge.

Fast forward 30 years, and you can find generic antivirals for $110/month. As patents expire, medicines become more affordable. HIV is slowly approaching "cured disease" status in the western world for new infections, and is an increasingly manageable disease for existing infections.

It's better that some people could get the drug in the early days, funding the research that would save millions in the coming generation, even if others couldn't afford it.

The logic in this thread is just flummoxing. So many people irrationally hate companies that make lots of money so vehemently, even if the companies profit by saving lives that would be guaranteed to suffer/die without that company's profit-seeking efforts.
This is a money grab with the polish of a pro-gamer cheat-cleanup.

Why do I say that?

Microsoft can fix most of the 'cheats' that a software controller can implement in software. Auto-fire is trivial to detect, as is a KBM setup where it doesn't belong. Out of the ordinary joystick characteristics/speed/hysteresis/range would make it obvious to them which controllers are aftermarket if they cared to disallow them after only a few minutes of profiling the player.

and the fun point I bring up with regards to this : the determined cheaters will just pin-out a 'qualified authentic' controller to any choice of small prototyping boards and just re-create a 'Cronus-like' device higher up the device chain without detection, and this will continue until Microsoft implements software side detection via some sort of clever profiling scheme.
Is this elementary school, where we ignore the usage and context of words and simply recite the dictionary definition? You were clearly aware of the emotional weight of the term and tried to exploit it to make your argument more impactful.

Can I call my mom a slave-driver now, because she made me clean my room when I was a child? I clearly had no choice but to submit to her demands, since I relied on her for food and shelter!
SanDisk's reputation is in the toilet though, thanks to things like this:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/05/sandisk-extreme-ssds...

Western Digital's isn't any better though, due to their own mismanagement

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/05/western-digital-gets...
Everyone forgets that all of this should have applied to every major search engine:

1. They’ve all used much more than the regulatory threshold compute power for indexing and collating.

2. They can be used to answer arbitrary questions, including how to kill oneself or produce weapons to kill others. Yes, including detailed nuclear weapons designs.

3. Can be used to find pornography, racist material, sexist literature, and on, and on… largely without censure or limit.

So… why the sudden need to curtail what we can and can’t do with computers?
I did not say he should, I'm saying that I just think he will.

Well, all this optimism (and I omitted several other important misrepresentation of Tesla business, made by Musk) is looking like that - just too much optimism.
Keep in mind, their current valuation is based solely on those promises (or shall I say misrepresentation of reality) - they're not making that much money, their margin are contracting quickly, and they are a rather small carmaker as compared to others.

However, I'm betting that fast forward 3 years, Tesla share price tanks 90% from now (that would still leave it bigger than Ford !!!) and Tesla won't deliver any meaningful progress on all those 'optimistic' predictions, people's feeling about this period will be much different.

Edit: For what it's worth, Sam Antar (former CFO of the Crazy Eddie - a huge securities fraud. He's now working for the government) is also regularly picking on Musk - he's seeing a lot of red flags.

Also, for what it's worth, it's CFO was recently fired. Without any comments as for why.
Not sure if you missed my point. 3x 4090 will be 10x faster while costing the same. There's no point making the comparison.

(Assuming both machines are running the same model. I see a lotta crazy numbers thrown around based on comparing very different quantizations)
The sad thing is that we all know this. Normies buy the cheap version and you have to explain to them: Yes, it gets slower quick, it's shit, you shouldn't have bought it, no you can't upgrade anymore. Then they feel bad.
TBH to me it feels like all the money in this world is spent on fancy cars, houses, and yachts. Anything funded from taxes, insurances, or contributions is basically "the limits are exhausted, the waiting times are in months, your case is not covered". Meantime all the cars and houses I see while driving and walking around? Wow.
This is a very simplistic approach to simplicity. Simplicity is not just counting the number of characters you see. A function in a statically typed language may have a signature that says 'it takes an integer and returns an integer'. That is very simple. A function in a dynamically type language says 'this can take something, anything really, and returns something, anything, really. That is very complicated and unspecified even if it takes a few characters less to type.
I mean… 1900. Noticed it too late for an edit.
"Pretty trivial" but only for the small percentage of people that are tech minded like that and who can be bothered; it's not an issue, not compared to laypeople being able to buy an off the shelf ready to use product.
Also by falling a lot until your brain figures out how to handle the various sensor input to get it right - can't remember but our kid took a month to get it right waling short distances after figuring out how to stand upright with support of the furniture.

A newly born antelope calf has 3 minutes to figure this all out before it becomes prey.
Crypto billionaire's nonprofit buys $500M of AI data center chips
Would this include browsers which have the DNT header enabled by default? I remember early edge/late internet explorer defaulting to sending the header, and claimed as much in advertising.

The spec itself (at the time, at least) said that it could be ignored if the header was always sent/not user-enabled.
what they actually needed to do was fire most of the staff in every team, leaving behind the two people who actually had good domain knowledge, then allow them to collaborate with good engineering teams to build sensible processes and systems

Well duh...of course you'd want that. But it is not so easy is it? I'd also instantly fire half my staff and hire hard working geniuses instead. But that just isn't an option, unfortunately.
My household mortgage provider, TD Bank Canada, offered me critical illness/death "insurance" for me and my spouse.

As we were insuring over a million in the mortgage/loc, I guess they have diff requirements.

They sent over their own funded nurse, who collected vitals and blood samples which we signed off them running any number of tests.

I should have checked if any clause for DNA. But that's not needed... Insurance is already all over you now.

Mostly in past was just a quick questionnaire. Then I was use to be sent to Dr for physical.

Now they contracting their own nurses and labs.

They probably already collecting your dna
As a customer, I very much like more frequent updates. This removes the problem of having to time your purchases right to get recent hardware.
It’s a step in a setup wizard. Whilst it’s explicitly asked, and far from dark pattern territory, it’s designed in such a way that I wouldn’t be surprised by a 95% opt-in rate.
PFAS is in the groundwater west of Spokane
I think you confirmed what you were replying to. Intel makes the numbers get bigger as you go up, regardless of whether that makes the most sense.
This knowledge isn't regulated.

Anyone with a degree in chemistry can successfully synthesize chemical weapons. This is all public domain knowledge and the chemistry is relatively simple. The technical execution is the hard part but many, many people have these lab/engineering skills. Delivery systems are the hardest part but those are military implementation details and therefore non-public.

It is the same with explosives. Anyone with chemistry skills could synthesize high-performance military explosives, it isn't difficult. Nonetheless, bombings tend to be low-grade explosives like ANFO or garbage explosives like TATP, because the people with the skills aren't the same people that do bombings.

As a chemist you are required to be knowledgeable in these things in part because it is relatively easy to inadvertently synthesize chemicals with rather dangerous properties. Part of the job is knowing what to not do for safety reasons.
Agreed; the article completely skirts the obvious point that the Black Lives Matter movement was not founded by upper-class white students at an urban college, but by working-class black people who are directly affected by the issue at hand.
But as I found, it has too many drawbacks.

Firstly, you can't add any more RAM to it. This turned out to be a BIG problem for me as I handle a lot of fairly huge RAW files in Adobe Lightroom.

Then there's the fact that it actually spends 95% of its time docked to my Studio Display and using the BT mouse and keyboard which fuck out all the time.

And the battery life isn't as great as people make it out to be. If I am on the road, which is basically never, then I'm lucky if I get 4 hours out of it.

So I thought sod it, why shouldn't I just have a proper desktop instead which solves all of these problems. I looked at the M2 studio, went pfffft at the price, and threw together a windows desktop. I've got hard wired keyboard, mouse, ethernet and headset and I can throw another TB in it or double the RAM to 64Gb for less than $100 each.

And Excel isn't a piece of shit on it.
Kim Peak wasn't even autistic.

Have a look at the DSM or ICD diagnosis criteria

https://www.autism.org.uk/advice-and-guidance/topics/diagnos...
"your browser has do not track enabled and therefore we cannot serve you this content"
Magic Keyboard, Trackpad, and Mouse Still Feature Lightning Instead of USB-C
Out of curiosity, how performant is Chromium on rPI in your experience?
Exactly - defrauding investors, see my answer below.

It's a hard sell for now, that's for sure. Once the stock inevitably crashes, it will be a different story.
"Crime is number one concern for black adults. Police doesn't even make the list."
https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1515170739791568899
That would be a major upheaval.

This one feels legit; DNT has been around (and ignored by everyone) for a long long time. But the summary here is saying, oh, the consumer signalled something so sites have to obey. It feels like fools could make up all kinds of arbitrary signalling systems packaging all manners of data handling directives to sites.

So, what if any limits does the court see or allow? If DNT is something sites have to obey, what's something sites wouldn't have to obey? And how do sites become aware of all the different mechanized ways consumers might send processing directives to them?
> designed. That’s sometimes the issue with monoliths though, they allow you to “cut corners”

I find this hard to relate to, the idea you have the discipline and culture to do microservices well if you can't do it with a monolith.

More likely is you migrate away from the monolith you never invested in fixing, and once you get to microservices you either call it a mistake and migrate back, or you have to eventually finally invest in fixing things.

Perhaps your microservice rewrite goes well because you now know your domain after building the monolith, that is another option.
Courts are not necessarily bound by such a spec, but it doesn't look as if that question was addressed here and in my view it would have to be established by another case because for sure the companies that ignore do not track right now will be more than happy to pretend that they have an excuse to continue to do so. This is a long drawn out rearguard fight.
Excellent decision.

But with most things GDPR, enforcement is key. I doubt any other website will actually change their behavior because of this.

There's a single website that I have encountered that publicly respects Do Not Track: Geizhals.de

No other website, that I know of at least, actually checks this.
> The spec itself (at the time, at least) said that it could be ignored if the header was always sent/not user-enabled.

Why?
It’s a bit funny though that their competitors don’t seem to have any issues supporting this on pretty much all of their products.
I was wrong, it's minus 50GB/s
If the down votes you received don't tell you that you're wrong, maybe this will:

https://www.crowe.com/insights/crowe-financial-services-tax-...

If it was me, I'd have to pay an accountant to help me too.
A lot resonates with this, particularly factoring code and carving out barriers later on when the project has settled.

I believe there are some antipatterns like singletons and globals that on the surface look grug-brained but are actually complexity multipliers.
How can he write that when seemingly there is no best practices from Python?
My favourite technique for tackling dead code is something I saw in a lightning talk at Velocity Conf years ago. I've introduced it at three different companies now, it's worked well in all three places and I'm always surprised it isn't more widely known/discussed (afaik).

This was the talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29UXzfQWOhQ
I still don't get why websites are not able to find in-house ad solutions that are not provided by third parties. Major sites look like shit due to ads placed without thought or care. This should be handled like magazine or newspaper ads. People selecting and placing them in the page with care. Would result in a better experience and wouldn't require any tracking.

I think that tracking to get "good ads" is a wish that never came true and it needs people with taste to choose products people would like to buy.
Excellent news. Now let's see this taken up by the EU courts as well if they are challenged on this. But my guess is that the advertising world would rather do this on a country-by-country basis rather than to risk losing in all of the EU at once.
If you're in the manchester area then you can see a replica of the Baby at the Museum of Science and Technology [1] in Manchester. Entrance is free, donation encouraged. As far as I know the original no longer exists.

And then wander down to the other end of Deansgate and check out the John Rylands library [2] - an incredibly impressive gothic building stuffed full of old books, and whose blog the article is on.

[1] https://www.scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stor...

[2] https://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/rylands/visit/
Genuine question: have you actually used a modern Mac? OS X was renamed macOS 7 years ago in 2016.
We all know what is meant by “low/mid-tier”. This is pointless pedantry. Next someone is going to come by with the throwaway comment complaint about how OpenAI isn’t “open”.
Seems strange that they're doing this mid-generation, rather than when coming out with new controllers/console.

Last time I remember this happening was in the middle of the ps3's lifecycle, and I had to return a generic controller because of it.
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It's a price for a one of a kind portable device. I used to think like you but then I realized Ill be better of just accepting the price or suffering with an inferior windows device.
I m glad they use the data, and have volunteered my data to other services as well. This was actually my reasoning for using these services from the beginning. It's sad that laws prevent them from giving us health reports.

DNA data is not worth protecting imho, and the benefits from their public use are very big. The DNA degrees-of-separation between any two humans is less than 3, so we are all traceable anyway already, and people should be aware of that. But the science/health benefits that can come out of this remain enormous.
No thanks. I had a Ryzen T495s. Nothing but aggro that thing. I religiously avoid AMD because in the last decade I've had nothing but trouble from all of their hardware. Intel and NVidia only these days.

I've got an i5-1235U T14 gen 3 which I paid £730 for (new, but damaged box) and stuffed another 8Gb stick and a 1TB WD SSD in it. That is fine for my personal use as it's mostly an Office and light code machine.
While I do agree that 8GB is a little dated, even the 8GB MacBook Air from 2020 runs most applications smoother than modern Windows machine with twice as much RAM. Apple have the smoothness part figured out, without the need for more memory (for the average consumer at least).

Your point about local AI is pretty interesting. It does seem highly likely that computers with limited memory could "age" faster than they have done in the past ten years, with the advent of more AI workloads.
https://archive.ph/20231030111752/https://www.nytimes.com/20...
So? Intel doesn’t seem have any issues supporting it regardless of that.
What's Apple high end laptop product line?
As someone who lives in the EU, I see this very often with US based websites - the ones that absolutely need the tracking cookies and the data suckage.
Minor nitpick but the 4600G and 5600G mentioned in the article are Vega, not RDNA. The iGPUs in those two processors are/were quite powerful by iGPU standards at the time, especially considering they were competing with Intel HD graphics or very early Iris Xe iGPUs. Not a scratch on a good dedicated GPU though.

Steam Deck is RDNA2 though, and is significantly faster. I don't think RDNA1 ever made it into an APU.
We can already use the Windows x86/x64 emulator. Unless you have specifics that Snapdragon X Elite performs worse under it than current chips we can expect about 60% the performance. Rosetta 2 is about 75%. Based on Qualcomm's Geekbench 6 numbers it'll have about the same x86/x64 performance as the M1.
NDs lack certain social instincts, that are at the same time very strong in NTs. To a ND, NTs acting under influence of these do appear to be flawed. It is an observation, not a superiority complex. One of the differences is that NDs are not hierarchical, superiority/inferiority of people is a non-category to a ND.

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A similar variant of this message telling me I am from EU and therefore can not visit a US site already exists.
Yes and they do not make this clear and then people come crying to reddit when they find out.

It gets even better with Apple steadfastly refusing to support MST well over a decade after its introduction so even if you have an M\d Pro or Max CPU many docks and chaining monitors will not work.