skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the real answer is to sidestep all of the direct, deterministic solutions in favor of statistical ones. I am not 100% certain of this, but I believe some there are some games, like EA's Battlefield series, that utilize a degree of statistical modeling to detect cheaters.

We reliably use statistical process control to automatically calibrate incredibly precise, nanometric-scale machinery for purposes of semiconductor engineering. Surely, with the extreme amount of data available regarding every player's minute inputs in something like a client-server shooter, you could run similar statistical models to detect outliers in performance. With enough samples you can build an extraordinarily damning case.

The only downside is that statistical models will occasionally produce false positives. But, I've personally been "falsely" banned by purely deterministic methods (VAC) for reasons similar to others noted in this thread (i.e. leaving debugging/memory tools running for a separate project while playing a game). So, in practice I feel like statistical models might even provide a better experience around the intent to cheat (i.e. if you aren't effectively causing trouble, we dont care).
Yeah, that's exactly the issue: I thought that enough people had seen the extent of damage caused by Surveillance Capitalism. I thought that a large enough percentage of these people would be willing to pay a for social media / messaging services and treat it as an utility.

Turns out that the market is there but it's just too small to sustain its own economy. The questions are now then (1) how much shittier will things have to become for this market to grow? (2) how long is it going to take for us to get there, if ever? and (3) even if we do get there, will I ever be able to get enough customers on this market or will I just be witnessing people jumping from one bandwagon to another?
If you do want to open source it someday I'd be happy to help clean up the code in my spare time. I'm actively learning Swedish and would selfishly love something like this :D
They aren't secret. France and its allies having access to Telegram data/systems doesn't affect Ukraine's ability to use it for that purpose.
> I don't really see the purpose of the volunteer diamond mods.

They do a different kind of moderation. For example we community moderators can't delete posts unless certain conditions are met (a certain number of downvotes). And we can't send warnings to user when such a warning is warranted.

Also I think they have access to some somewhat sensitive information that you may not want the whole community of high-score users to see without making everyone sign some sort of nda first.
yeah but hang on. Why are these charts going down? Is it because questions and answers are actively being _removed_?

Or is this a first-derivative of [answer/question] count ie the rate of change? In which case a) this should be clearly stated ("questions added per period x"), and also, it wouldn't be surprising that the charts go down because the knowledge is already there and so fewer questions/answers are needed, even without AI.

While there is indeed a big decline post-GPT et al, the decline started a lot earlier than general availability of AI.
That's a good point. I know no site where it takes less clicks to access the current in-group drama.

Thinking about it, know I want a "Current Drama" button where the "I'm feeling lucky" button used to be on gSearch :)
I've been playing the same 2 games for many years and I think I got pretty good at them and I've used multiple accounts - under your assumption I look like a cheater.
> With enough computation, your neural net weights would converge to some very compressed latent representation of the source code of DOOM.

You and I have very different definitions of compression

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41377398

> Someone in the field could probably correct me on that.

^__^
https://youtu.be/Y5K9HBiJpuk

I think Petter's (Mentour Pilot) delve into it is quite good - there's a lot of detail I hadn't known.
Motion detector night lights. I've got a bunch of them. Softer light, no need to make a noise and wake anyone else up. One in the loo, one outside my room, one on the fridge, several down the hallway. They're on magnetic stickies so you can grab one if you need to go further. They do need charging but not very often.
I spent a couple of days exploring linux distributions after deciding to drop Windows at home. It was an interesting experience, seeing how each distro approaches augmenting GNOME for desktop integration. I really like PopOS, but with the transition away from GNOME and GNOME extensions breaking between versions I went with Fedora.

Looking forward to trying COSMIC out again in stable, the alpha was actually very good. Let's see how they approach extensibility, as the GNOME extension fragmentation ended up a reason for my choosing Fedora.

Also if you were considering installing linux for a family member, I found ZorinOS was very good for this
There is a fascinating paper about making conclusions about MH370‘s location by investigating the drift of wreckage by analysing balanidae on those parts: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023AV00...
> If a number isn't even, you can easily tell that it's odd.
If it’s a static website, S3 has “use for static website “ option. You can put cloud front in front of it and the cost normally would be pennies.

But there is a small risk of DDoS or similar passing through their basic protections, and suddenly a huge bill!
Because "a picture is worth a thousand words"

Have you ever inherited a project with 80 tables and no documentation at all, or at best a 50 page document with database schema dumps?

You can draw it all on one page as an ERD (entity relationship diagram) with the main tables and their relationships. And this diagram can be understood in minutes, not hours/days like in the case of the schema dumps.

Also you can use various ERD editors, or text-based diagramming tools, like PlatUML, MermaidJS, DBML, on the schema design stage, while keeping the diagram sources in the source control.

Another usecase is to generate a detailed ERD for the current database schema in CI, and periodically review it, to ensure it conforms to the original design, and you understanding of the current schema is correct.
StackOverflow is one of the most hostile sites I've ever tried to use.

I vividly remember asking a question before was different in a subtle but important way from existing ones (which I'd seen) and it got marked as a duplicate.
Could I persuade you to reconsider going over them? I'm not expecting an essay or anything but it would be interesting.

One thing that comes to mind for me is that most cheaters probably don't code the cheats themselves but buy them off telegram channels or whatever (just a guess), and probably wouldn't want to install a whole operating system for them
I know Gentoo Linux is not for everyone and doesn't fix the issue of there being wayy too much source to ever personally be able to check it all, however I think there is something to be said for the fact that the source is indeed readable in-the-clear with most parts of the system and lots of it has even been looked-over by the package/ebuild maintainers. Not trying to say there's no risk, but I think it might reduce it quite a bit if you have the patience! The #gentoo IRC channel is in-my-experience incredibly helpful, totally smashing most types of support from corporate companies out of the water! (Of course that's also only working like that because hardly anyone uses Gentoo.. but I think the point still stands!)
More complex questions are OK-ish, but the site's audience is not really setup for them.

They have to be asked in the sort of detail that most of those asking do not otherwise any answers end up either wrong (because of details not known at the time of writing) or at least as vague as the question. Also, a long question will put people off actually interacting with it which is one of the reasons people aren't going to change how they ask the question, that and sometimes people don't realise that their question isn't simple (though why they don't realise that when they can't search for a simple answer seems like an odd disconnect to me!).
Learning to Live with 50C Temperatures
I hope they won't go for parity with KDE.

KDE is great, but it's enormous. If you like it, go for it. This is almost more for the OpenBox or perhaps Gnome folks. Minimalists. Curated, opinionated, fast (yes KDE is also fast)
The L series are crap no matter what CPU
I was going to rant something about open standards and how they did not care to test this toy on Firefox (but they did it test it on safari), but I grew tired.
Around 2013, StackOverflow had started to turn into a history museum. There were still some niches where there was a bit of life but the rest become too much "do not touch the exhibits" to be viable.
I thought so too, but after switching to a Kobo I realized how annoying and laggy the kindles are.
Isn't it just another Xamarin rebrand?
The supplemental oxygen system was recharged just before this flight as well, so it was at maximum capacity.
Russia Could Take Out West's Internet, No Good Back Up Plan
What happened to that other research team who used amateur radio network packet metadata that had been saved, to track airplanes including MH370 and showed tracks that also matched the satellite pings? Can't remember the name of that group though...
> Twitter formerly known as X

Given that X is the new name, should it not be "X formerly known as Twitter"?
Inside Russia's Latvian Sabotage Squad
Coolify is good, I haven't found anything comparable. But it is so dumb silly in case of UX.

You switched to static container name for your release? (this turns off rolling updates) - try to find how to switch it back. I've not found.

It's complicated to understand what happened with your dockerfile build and find an error, because coolify wraps it with docker-compose dockerfile builders.

You want to move your deploy to another env? Oh, for some reason you can manage it inside deploy in Resource Operations inside deploy. You want to migrate 10 deploys? Haha, good luck.

Also I've met some problems while integrating private gitea with deploy sources for other deploys.

So, it's complicated and not just works, but there is nothing better
> like EA's Battlefield series, that utilize a degree of statistical modeling to detect cheaters

Battlefield started out using PunkBuster, one of the earliest kernel-level anti-cheats. With Battlefield 4, they used FairFight, a statistical server-side solution, alongside PB.

With Battlefield 1, they dropped PB, and operated with just FairFight.

And now, EA have decided to create their own kernel-level AC, called EA AntiCheat, and are implementing it on BF5 and BF1, largely because FairFight was not enough.
> under your assumption I look like a cheater

In a proper statistical analysis there are far more variables than what I outlined in my preceding two sentence post. It would be naive to think that I would consider anyone a cheater only based on the account age.

Smurf accounts are also bannable in plenty of games and I certainly support that.

Beyond that, the level of "good" we're talking here goes way beyond dominating in a random match. Cheater stats are usually better than literally the top #1 player in the world.

Take something like Battlefield, where on the public leaderboards the "top players" have a kill-to-death ratio in the thousands. That is so far beyond human possibility, yet they are still not banned because of this aversion to statistics.
Cockroaches are also likely to survive all sorts of catastrophic events, yet we don't think of them as somehow competing with us.

I'm not trying to engage in a battle of wits. I'm just saying that there is no win for you by outliving these competitors. The idea for you (I hope) is to turn your business into something that can be your main business and not something you do on the side "just in case".

If you think in terms of ROI, how long are you willing to keep working on this without it being profitable? Ok if you say "5 to 10 years", but if you say "as long as I can", then this is not a venture, this is just a nice hobby.
A few years back SO used to be the common top result for my search queries regarding tech and development. I'm not sure when the shift started, but these days it's always a list of content farm links with maybe a link to SO somewhere in between.

The result for me was that I started to rely much more on documentation and writing down notes of stuff I found myself looking up a lot. I never used SO directly for looking up stuff, always relied on search engines, and as they declined in quality I just stopped visiting SO almost alltogether.

I imagine I'm not the only one with this story. Considering users also abandoned the site for LLM assistans and the strict moderation on there, I'm not surprised it is in heavy decline.
turning on the debug mode shows that the text gets misaligned with the grid
I hate to defend telemetry of all things but in this particular case the criticism is unfounded and lacks context:

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/platform/telemetry

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/telemetr...

https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/tree/main/src/Cli/dotnet/Telem...

In any case, Debian would use https://github.com/dotnet/source-build and dotnet/dotnet, and could easily include the argument or a patch for this. It’s unlikely to be an issue. My bet it was not in Debian because there was no one to take initiative yet or there was but that person has faced a backlash by people in Debian who are similar to vocal minority here that posts FUD because of their little personal crusade.
> Are you replying to the wrong comment?

Why do you always ask this? No, I'm not. And the parent comment was replying correctly to you. The whole thread reads very clearly to anyone but you it seems.

Your response to /u/immibis was very strange and I cannot help but think you're doing it on purpose.

Pretending to misunderstand everything and doing the whole "are you sure you meant to reply to me" bit is cringe. And yes, you wouldn't do this if you followed the spirit of the guidelines.
Can you please link your question?
Not that I am the world's brightest parent, or anything, but trainiing your kids to do tasks with media consumption as a reward seems like a remarkably bad idea, given how influencing that can be.
'our' intelligence may not be the best thing we can make. It would be like trying to only make planes that flaps wings or trucks with legs. A bit like using a llm to do multiplication. Not the best tool. Biomimcry is great for inspiration, but shouldn't be a 1-to-1 copy, especialy in different scale and medium.
People who whine about Redditors are like people who whine about anime being for pedos. They're almost always what they complain about.

You managed to avoid being supposedly insufferable by refusing to parrot that Dunning-Kruger has been disproven, yet you still insisted on being actually insufferable by doing this whole performative holier-than-thou dance, to then end on a strawman (no, they did not say what you or the author can or cannot talk about).

Why? Do you legitimately not have even a shred of self-reflection? Or should I allege you're an "NPC", if that's maybe closer to your vernacular?
I think StackOverflow/StackExchange has served their purpose, and are now rightfully in a decline.

There are some niches sites in the network like bicycling, English, Mathematica, Academia, etc. They contain extremely high quality answers. But for programming, it's nowadays much more easier on GitHub and relevant issue trackers. I think it's good, because there are many questions in those sites that contain often outdated answers. Some lucky questions get a comment there saying the answer is outdated, but there are many outdated answers.

Perhaps, JavaScript has a lot to do with this. JS evolves at a much faster rate than sites like StackOverflow can keep up.
> you'll probably be blocked by their WAF as you're based in Russia

Where did that come from? Can you elaborate on this? I'm sensing "ha, you must be ruzzian to even ask that, and you obviously do that in bad faith".

Sorry if I'm off-base.
Kerning makes such a huge difference in proportional fonts. Proper kerning allows your brain process word shapes much faster.
Indeed. But one possibility is that these are rate of change charts and that that crucial fact was omitted.
Rerun ceo here, thanks for jumping into the discussion here Adrian!

First of, want to really highlight that MCAP is a great container format for robotics message recordings. We (like most of the robotics community) see it as the natural evolution of the rosbag format (co-created a while back by one of our team members).

To add onto some of the differences between Rerun and Foxglove, the Rerun open source project is focused on a viewer that runs completely client side. It's written end-to-end in Rust for maximum speed and portability. That means it can run fully natively for maximum speed (e.g. utilizing native threads and rendering APIs), and in the browser via wasm. You can even embed Rerun visualization in your own web apps and use it inline in python notebooks.

I would also highlight the SDK, which lets you log / send data easily from your own code without up front declaring a message schema. This makes it much easier to also use for quick debugging etc (although some of the largest companies in the world use it to build large sets of different internal visualization heavy tools as well).

On the data model side we've focused on developing what you might label a language or semantic data model. We believe this gives users significantly more power and control than "only" orienting around robotics messages. I think that's why you'll see Rerun being used in a lot more contexts than viewing Robotics messages (although that's a big use case as well). In order to really make use of that data model (with high performance) we've had to develop a new database query engine and a lot of other craziness.

We do have a cloud data platform in the works that leans heavily on our semantic model and query engine. It will have a different take to Foxglove's, with a much broader view of the full data lifecycle for embodied AI.
for some reason this makes me think of gauls who purportedly believed that the sky was about to fall on their heads. now i imagine them lining all their roads with tree trunks and large stones, and wait, now i got the purpose of stonehenge. ;-)
It's more insidious. At high altitude the drop masks don't provide enough pressure to maintain consciousness for their full rated duration. It's expected that pilots will descend very quickly after a depressurization event to at least 14000 or below. If he stayed at high altitude the passengers probably went unconscious quickly.
Yeah, building VisualJS, an AI free coding tool:

https://github.com/yazz/VisualJS
Yes, for those interested in this scenario, check Helios Airways Flight 522. I think that's what happened with MH370, except that the depressurization was deliberate. Most likely a single pilot stayed alive and functioning in the cockpit, eventually repressurizing the aircraft.

Perhaps the pilot's goal was to hide all the evidence as well as possible, to create a perfect mystery. Then a controlled ditching would make sense, although it kind of failed considering the debris which eventually reached Africa.
Is AOT compiling your binaries [1] an option for you? The starting size of AOT compiled C# can beat Go in size [2] and from there it really depends on what you do and how you do it. Some simple ASP.NET server with https and routing can comfortably fit under 10 MB and there are compilation options that can help optimize further [3].

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/core/deploying/native-aot...
[2] https://github.com/MichalStrehovsky/sizegame?tab=readme-ov-f...
[3] https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/core/deploying/native-aot...
Aside from following the default 'start here' documentation, there are various timelines made for fun and profit that visualize the full history, for example:

https://time.graphics/line/291016

This is quite overwhelming, but it can still be useful when reading an article about .NET that is either older or refers to history as you can quickly see where in time it is located.
I get those booty and nipple pics too. I think the algorithm might take 'hover time' in consideration. So it pumps posts that annoys you or otherwise makes you look a fraction of a sec longer.
The net import in 2023 was only 10TWh so you've over explained this by x10, so something else must be going on than just importing nuclear from France (which is roughly 8TWh that year)

France is the biggest single source of imports but not the majority of imports since Germany imports from a range of countries and the energy mix of imports is roughly:

> the shares of RE, nuclear, and fossils in Germany net imports were 59%, 33%, and 8%, respectively.

https://www.renewable-ei.org/en/activities/column/REupdate/2...

Nice graph: https://www.renewable-ei.org/realfiles/pdfimage/1721291204_6...

And this makes sense as imports work on the merit order effect, with the cheapest going first. Why buy fossil electricity from one neighbour if another has cheap wind available.
Yes, and you can use an LLM to simulate role playing games.
For that you really need a conversation with a relevant person or people, where they can ask clarifying questions and the whole thing is discussed in a more fine-grained manner, which is not what SO was ever intended for. SO is more geared around a direct question→answer workflow, with some secondary support for clarifying questions via the comments areas.
> "This work changes the narrative of MH370's disappearance from one of no-blame, ..."

When has that ever been the narrative? It deviated from course, somebody performed that manouver and is "to blame"...
Oh, someone figured out the meaning of fake
This is going to be the future of cloud gaming, isn't it? In order to deal with the latency, we just generate the next frame locally, and we'll have the true frame coming in later from the cloud, so we're never dreaming too far ahead of the actual game.
I suspect it saves them peanuts and instead was just the easiest thing to do
What I don't understand about this is the partisan spin of the story - much of Covid 19 happened under the Trump administration, including the most severe lockdowns before vaccines, and corresponding information warfare and articles about how people out on the streets are evil.

Blaming Biden/Harris for this is an incredibly revisionist take thats surprising considering its very recent 'history'.
"Best practices were followed, compared to what I imagine you think. Messaging was consistent and based on evidence. No I will not back any of this up in the slightest, nor acknowledge the myriad ways this is demonstrably, laughably false."

Cool, ok.

"Millions upon millions of posts might have been deleted, researchers threatened, media and social media leaned on in various ways, all documented, but the consensus is accurate. Science is a popularity contest, and you're snake oil".

Sssure.

"Money is speech, and the only alternative I can imagine is communism".

Sounds like a you problem tbh. A deep one.

"State secrets can include genuinely bad stuff, so 100% of everything they censor must be bad. Go ruin an island if you want better".

Sane take bud. I actually hate improving things where my family and I live. Also my solution to scientists being censored at global scale was in fact to move to a private island and become a dictator. How did you know? So impressive.

"The lab leak theory is for cranks. If those censored, pressured and threatened scientists wanted people to see their evidence, they should have demonstrated their evidence. Also they don't have a right for their evidence to be seen, or a right to investigate for evidence."

I'm out.