skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't know enough about X. However I have read several HN articles over the years so I've got at least a basic understanding.

I'm sorry but this really does read like the start of a troll post.
Humanity has bootstrapped itself out of a lot of BS over the centuries. There's a mechanism for discarding bad ideas. For example:

Badly-designed boats just don't return.

Ill-designed protection of cities means they'll be conquered.

Scientific ideas that do not corroborate, will be discarded.

etc.

Our current approach to AI doesn't have this mechanism. In the past, humanity just implemented ideas: a city was built according to some weird idea and lasted centuries. So the original idea would spread and be refined by further generations.
I guess we need to bring such a mechanism into the loop.
Really interesting kind of live roleplaying, never knew it could get so serious.

Is there any similar view on sword and sorcery larp scene? One of my projects wants to drink from that, but I have little real knowledge about it and wouldn't like to disrespect larping.
Sounds like it's time to do some Common Lisp, my friend.
OK, let's assume SSH is configured to accept one 30-character random password as an escape hatch. All normal auth is done using pre-shared keys. What are the risks, from your point of view?

From my POV, the principal risk is opsec mishaps, which may lead to leaking a public key or a password alike.
You have what I refer to as “root cause syndrome”. It happens a lot to engineers and tech adjacent people.

You see a problem and you refuse to fix it, and instead look for a root cause that should be addressed instead, that will then fix the problem itself.

The problem with that kind of thinking is that that’s not how the real world works. The problem of homelessness is that people don’t have homes. It’s not something else. Give people homes and you solve it. But people with RCS try to solve it through jobs, training, education, etc. All those things are nice but they won’t fix the problem, which is that people are homeless.

Likewise, the problem of wealth inequality can only be solved by reducing wealth inequality. There is no other solution. Just tax rich people until they’re not rich anymore.
Oh yes, no interest in AI whatsoever. I've been working on Habitat for the last 4 months. It's a self-hosted social platform for local communities. The plan is for it to be federated, but that's a while off yet.

- The idea: https://carlnewton.github.io/posts/location-based-social-net...

- A build update and plan: https://carlnewton.github.io/posts/building-habitat/

- The repository: https://github.com/carlnewton/habitat

- The project board: https://github.com/users/carlnewton/projects/2
Not true, any time there is a risk of substantial loss the tax-payers have to bail these gambling addicts out.
Thanks, now it make sense why they dropped the "core" in the name its confusing I thought that meant only the fundamentals
That is how electron.NET basically works
I wonder why Durov traveled to France, knowing that he would be arrested there. Could there be more to the story?
Its just regular intellectual curiosity.
With IB (Quantum X800) you have 72x physical OSFP ports that can do 144 ports. Each electrical lane runs at 200G-PAM4, so it's 144x(4x200G-PAM4).

With the SN5600 for Ethernet (Spectrum-X), which is 64 physical ports, you're running each port at 8x100G-PAM4).
That's just wrong. Telegram is trusted by both Ukraine and Russia. That tells a lot. Also I am living near Russian border and remember well how Durov left Russia and I am quite sure he is not puppet of Putin...
I mean I use remember the milk for remembering things, something computers are great at. Then I just make little slots in my calendar where I do one todo item. If something is unclear, I make a todo item to generate something actionable. All my meetings sync automatically with an app which creates alarms for everything. So far this system has worked great. I still use paper if I want to batch stuff and finish related items quickly.
But surely you'll have to admit that if we do a double-blind study where all the participants have parasites we would probably get a significant difference between the two groups? Then we could also say that ivermectin caused decreased morbidity. We'd probably even say "it caused a decreased morbidity in populations with parasites, as expected". You can't just pretend people without parasites don't exist, they do. There are countries where the base rate is really high. That is where the results that show ivermectin as causing better COVID outcomes are coming from.

You've misunderstood the correlation-causation complaint. We have a pretty clear theory of causation here and the results back it up. Just because causality depends on specific conditions doesn't stop it being causal. Any medical treatment that isn't 100% effective (ie, most of them) depend on specific conditions being present - otherwise they'd be perfectly effective. Of course since the chain of causality is quite clear on this one we can conclude from the base rates of parasite infections there isn't much point taking ivermectin for COVID in the west.
The only feasible solution is to have high-level players compete in physical tournaments or at verified centers, where the authenticity of the player is replaced with some authority. At a high enough level, there is no way to distinguish a really good player from a cheater.
> in charge of the communications system for one side

Telegram us being used by both sides of the conflict. It is as populat in Ukraine as it in Russia. (or other ex-USSR states for that matter)
There were other similar (ie. nasal) vaccine candidates for COVID, like the Cuban MAMBISA [0], though it seems it never got final approval
Why AI Agents Unlock Software 2.0
Not very high power usually. They're usually made of piezoceramics.

I think they're expensive because they're niche. Narrow band piezoceramics which are used in fish finders and other commercial equipment are pretty cheap. These wider band transducers are niche to underwater comms.

> Also what frequency does an acoustic modem typically use?

Usually in the 10s of kHz. The NATO JANUS standard is around the 12kHz center frequency.
> There are concerns that they paid for infrastructure in deeply democratic areas and ignored areas that were republican-leaning

Concerns without evidence are nothing. Is there any evidence at all this occurred? Why aren't Republicans attacking Musk donating 10's of millions of dollars to directly help Trump?

I mean, we know why they aren't attacking him. Because they're complete hypocrites.
> I still like my idea for a third-party reputation service that has consequences for not just one game but every multiplayer game participating in the program: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28634784

So, essentially China's Social Credit Score, just for gaming... a bad idea IMHO, a really bad one.

For one, that centralized reputation service that actually has data linked back to government-issued credentials (ID cards, passports, ...) must be ridiculously secured, because it will be among the juiciest targets on the planet - be it trolls or deranged stalkers of either gender (although most tend to be male [3]), people are willing to go to ridiculous lengths to abuse fellow gamers, especially (large) streamers. Ordering pizza, SWATting, or even cases of rape and murder [1][2], all of that has happened. Give 4chan enough incentive and they will crack open anything. Or they'll just outright infiltrate the company, someone has to run it after all, and whoever has admin access, no matter the audits and internal controls, will find a way to exfiltrate stuff.

And even assuming the reputation service doesn't get hacked, the participant games are another target - this time, not for the data that's held by the reputation service, but for reporting "cheating" by the target person. Either technical bugs or infiltrating the customer service, both can yield results - game companies largely crap on code quality, even the biggest ones (remember Rockstar's GTA JSON bug lol), and customer service jobs are low paid and have high attrition, easy targets for infiltrators.

And then gamers themselves are also valid targets. Manage to get a piece of malware onto a streamer's computer that gets detected as a cheat, boom. And that's easy to do, RCE vulnerabilities crop up every now and then for major games (Minecraft for example had BleedingPipe and log4j, GTA had one in 2024 and in 2023).

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/11/us/podcast-husband-killed...

[2] https://thelmaarose.wixsite.com/whattaweek/post/a-female-gam...

[3] https://www.businessinsider.com/twitch-streamers-are-being-s...
It's not for the government to communicate, and criminal investigations are secret in France. So prosecutors don't have to make any public statements or release any documents (and in fact they shouldn't) but in such high profile cases they are likely to make a general statement to placate the media.
Open-source runtime to visualise complex engineering flows
Aim Assist falls into a category of cheats that are more or less undetectable and unavoidable over the internet: skill assists for something a computer does better than a human. How central these are to the game depends on the game. For a game like Chess, the impact (of consulting a computer to suggest moves) is devastating, but the online community survives. I think it's typical in such communities for truly high stakes competition to happen in person, and for the online scene to be seen as more of a social / practice scene. I like this solution: prevent theft by reducing the value of what can be stolen.

Games that turn heavily on aiming have a similar central security flaw in that it is hard to prevent cheating at the game's central skill. (Though I think in the case of aimbots, sometimes webcams are substituted for LANs, with some success.)

On the other hand, some games are practically cheat-proof. A puzzle game in which you submit actual solutions doesn't require any trust of the client at all. CTF games generally run along these rules - almost anything you can do to solve the puzzle (googling, teaming up, writing tools, bringing AI assistants) is considered fair game. What might be considered a cheat in another context is just advancing the state of the art.

HUD improvements depend on the game. But as a simple example, I play a game where leading a moving target is a major skill; a HUD that gave you an aimpoint for a perfect intercept would be a pretty big cheat.

I think anti-cheat is one of those problem spaces where there is a danger of overemphasizing technical solutions to social problems. Technical solutions are nice, but there are also gaming experiences that are only practical on a private server, with friends, on the honor system. A wise friend once observed that removing griefers and jerks from a community also did a lot to address cheating. I think it is best thought of as a social problem first, though I agree it all depends on the context.
Your second sentence contradicts your first
Kinda. I'm in favor of using more nuclear power but I am concerned that the current designs (all?) require active cooling, even post power down, for extended periods of time. We saw with Fukushima how that can go wrong.

How do you deal with the situation where the electric grid goes down for multiple days or weeks for whatever reason?
I wish it was comparable. The Librem 5 is years behind flagship smartphone hardware. I want to switch, but it would be difficult to give up the stability that comes with Android. That said, maybe the Librem has improved in the last year or so.
That's really unfair comparison. IntelliJ and Chrome are more complex piece of software.
It is one of the reasons I agreed to get pets. Kids growing up in households with pets have fewer allergies.

I wasn't prepared for how much I'd fall in love with him though.

Some of my fondest memories are of my son playing with our dog. At night my dog would sleep by the feet of my son, and if he woke up he would simply turn around and use my dog as a pillow. I found them sleeping like that or spooning a couple of times a week.

Our dog made our house dirty in about the same way a two year old would, but more spread out. His fur was 10cm long and would dispense dirt, soil, bugs, small branches and so on for several hours after a walk despite us literally vacuuming him.
Networking has never been so cheap at the highest end. Look at the road we've been through in the last 8 in years, rapidly going from 40 to 100 to 400 (200 was somewhat of a dud, 400 came too early) to 800 to 1600Gbps. It's amazing.

I'm having trouble feeding things at 400GB/s (not a typo, it's gigabyte/s) per H100 box.

For 10 boxes ideally you want 4TB/s...
Algo trading requires expensive APIs that fetch almost realtime bids. There are platforms that provide UPSI as APIs, which these traders use.
Quoting the current github Readme [0]:
>And since that blog post came out, performance has increased another 10-80x (!).

[0] https://github.com/josephg/diamond-types
He did not know that he would be arrested there. The plane tried to leave Paris airspace at the last minute, but it was too late. Durov should have known that he could be arrested. Basically, arrogance and wishful thinking, complacency, believing in "democracy". Still, UAE will probably get him out.
That's a great idea - especially because photogrammetry with high quality cameras can have way higher detail than most of the common 3D sensors (realsenses, luxonis, etc). The big problems there are the computation cost and/or set up complexity of photogrammetry. You either need to do a lot of computation (a couple minutes on my RTX 4090 last time I did it for a medium sized object) to estimate keypoints and disparities or you need a really well calibrated ring of cameras, some way to feed parts through it at line rate, but could get away with less compute.

A laser scanner would probably make the mesh comparison approach easier, but it's still incredibly hard to get a really accurate and high resolution depth map in a short time span - especially if the parts are actively moving.
Oh nice, I didn't know about that. Will try that later. Thanks
I always was under assumption that these are all fake. There are ~300 people living nearby me. 5 are dealers and 10 prostitutes according to telegram.
Wow, this is amazing! Just in that file or everywhere? Why? How do they enforce this for all the contributors who might be unaware?
yeah, for me it renders on Firefox but is sluggish compared to Chrome.
Sorry but I don't think you worked for a multiplayer game in the past 15 years. Verifying damage numbers is no-brainer. The programmers won't discuss "should we verify damage numbers" at all. It's the norm today.
From telegram privacy policy:

>If Telegram receives a court order that confirms you're a terror suspect, we may disclose your IP address and phone number to the relevant authorities. So far, this has never happened. When it does, we will include it in a semiannual transparency report published at: https://t.me/transparency.
I think you've just encoded the title of the paper
You absolutely can do that and (almost) all games do that already.

This type of cheats are DECADES in the past.

Today is all about
a) enhancing normal behavior with artificial precision, not making any 'illegal' (from game perspective) actions.
b) giving player information he isn't supposed to have but that is passed to client for latency sake
Super cool! Love how nice the tree-list looks! Readability with monospace is always a bit troubling, but I think this is a great take on it :)

I made a similar thing where I take semantic HTML and render it as old RFC documents: https://vladde.net/blog/rfc-css/ (not as readable though IMO)
I am building https://www.jobkit.io - a job board platform for your community or niche.

No interest or intentions to touch anything AI.
Have you ever played a video game? This is unbelievably depressing. This is a future where games like Slay the Spire, with a unique art style and innovative gameplay simply are not being made.

Not to mention this childish nonsense about "forget they're playing a game," as if every game needs to be lifelike VR and there's no room for stylization or imagination. I am worried for the future that people think they want these things.
https://tonguee.xyz

Free version of duolingo's match madness using top 1000 most frequently used Spanish words.
I actually like the competing with others gamification, not so much streaks etc. Made it mostly for myself, as a way to procrastinate instead of actually learning spanish
Otel is nice and all but I still think you are best off going 100% all in prometheus. Prometheus is so common that it has become a de-facto standard in metrics.

At BigCo we have migrated a number of internal things to Otel but I don’t think it has been worth the effort.

So many projects come with prometheus metrics, dashboards, and alerts out of the box that it becomes hard to use anything else. When I pick some random helm chart to install you can almost guarantee that is comes with prometheus integrations.

With grafana mimir you can now scale easily to a few billion metrics streams so a lot of the issues with the old model of prometheus have been fixed.

Like you said I don’t think there is much to innovate on in this area, which is a good thing.
Delaying UI interaction until it has been verified by a server that runs at 20fps (60 is uncommon on servers unless theres no AI), with a RTT of 60 ms, means your hitmarker will take 110ms instead of 6ms if rendered locally.

Apply that to every interaction that the server has to be authoritative about, movement, reloading.

Your game will be unplayable.

And if you want to combat aimbotting: your viewport and hit point would have to be server authoritative too.

Basically: unless its Stadia or geforce now, this wont work.
OP meant "off day" as in a day when you're not at your best, not a day off.
Sure, but you'll need to do more than "read several HN articles over the years" (presumably completely unrelated to anti-cheats?) to get even a basic understanding of how anti-cheats work, as he went on to demonstrate.

I also just thought it was unintentionally funny, like a comedic setup for a stereotypically cocky HN user to comment with great confidence on something way outside of their field of expertise.
(not saying that's the case for mjevans)
Maybe it's so advanced, it knows the players' next moves, so it is a video!
+1.

Reading the article I was baffled to see all this talk about section 230 of communication and decency act. Telegram moved from Russia to Dubai and Durov was arrested in France.

Using the US hammer on a foreign nail gives vibes of Team America - World Police parody.
Should never have adopted a project name from a competitor's product name; it's bad juju.
So, another anecdote: I have COVID right now. I have had a bunch of self tests at home, and have tested myself every single time I have had any kind of cold or fever.

Despite me getting on a crammed bus every morning and afternoon to go working in the same room as about 80 other people 4 days a week I didn't get COVID (that I know of) until now.

Sometimes we are just lucky. Maybe the vaccine worked better-than-average for us. Maybe the route of infection works less well for us. Maybe we had it without noticing it at all
> It’s not as efficient sure but it’s not useless.
In the UK I've seen a system which produced 0.5kWh/day in mid-winter and 35kWh/day in summer. That kind of variation is hard to overbuild for.

> That’s why you have a blend of renewables.
Yes, we then have to build wind turbines, plenty of under-utilised transmission (because wind is in the wrong place), methane CCGT/OCGT backup (and they need to receive capacity payments to keep them in business) and perhaps eventually electrolysers to convert excess electricity to H2 (which then have to operate at low utilisation). The overall system seems quite complicated and more complex than the first step of deploying cheap solar panels so save a bit of methane.
Context for others:

Both sides in the Ukraine War are using "irregular" Starlink dishes.

* Russia is reportedly buying dishes (and the service attached to the dishes) in the Middle East.

* Ukraine has its own fleet of dishes (being paid for by the US, after Musk initially provided free service early in the war after a Ukrainian request), but also many individual dishes that were donated, and being paid for, by private individuals outside Ukraine.

US law prohibits Russia from using Starlink. The problem is, how to stop Russia from doing so? A simple location-based ban won't work, because the front line is constantly shifting. Whitelisting only Ukraine's own dishes to work within Ukrainian territory might work, but 1) what about dishes that get captured by Russia? 2) As noted, what about all the privately paid-for dishes?

Another way to think about this is that this demonstrates just how lifesaving for Ukraine Starlink has become in the past two years. Ukraine could ask Starlink to disable all dishes within its territory. On the contrary, it has decided that the benefits of Starlink to Ukrainians outweighs Russians also benefiting from it.
That math is still pretty close to right for a growing company. Let's say you're the founder of a company with a market cap that makes it to ~$100B. To get from $100M to $100B, the value of the company has to double every year for ten years. So if the tax rate is 25%, for each year the price doubles you lose 12.5% of your shares.

By the end of ten years you have barely a quarter of what you started with. If that was 51%, it's now 13% and the MBAs come to ruin your company.
As someone in same spot I'll say that .NET looks more than interesting after so many years using 6-8 languages daily. And I'm more "make it works, not shine" type.

Why .NET > Go in my opinion?
- performance-wise the gap is not big and probably even .NET can be quicker
- development time can be reduced, tooling is great for .NET and even funny-not-funny error handling is cleaner
- still much easier to find people in .NET than Go where I live and work

Now it's time to verify those assumptions - I'm going to implement next real project in .NET and see how it went. Hobby or "trials" in .NET resulted in fun and speed, but it often happens on first date :)
>Maybe some more ppl would build more nuanced understanding of how universal healthcare care works beyond “they all die in the waiting line”

You want nuance? An amazingly high portion of Canadians don't have a family doctor. <https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/despite-more-doctors-many-cana...>. It's one thing to have shortages in rural areas—that happens in the US too—but Halifax?!? I've heard the same occurs in Vancouver too, and am hearing more reports of the same in Ontario.
Fwiw, I experience the same on LinkedIn.