skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really? How certain are you about the data stored in someone's else computer, being tracked down on every HTTP and Websocket request?
If copyright law said that the price a piece of content is available for is the highest amount any provider in a region is willing to pay then you're setting up for a monopoly, as Netflix or Amazon Prime with their near infinite content budgets set the price of everything they like higher than any new competitor can afford to pay.
As a personal user, I'd give Discord more money if high-resolution streaming and higher bitrates etc. were a bit cheaper, and I could buy credit which using these features ate through, instead of having to pay an overly expensive subscription.
https://www.hackerslist.co/how-to-hack-facebook-account-is-i...
I've been working on this for a while. This engine is being developped alongside a narrative RPG made in it by someone else as a use case.

It is similar to ren'py in syntax to write dialogue, but is made for web and has a layout structure similar to games like Disco Elysium, as opposed to the standard visual novel layout of dialog boxes at the bottom of the screen.

The game it's currently being used on has 30,000 words in it and has been working fine so far so I think the engine is pretty useable in its current state. Documentation is still pretty early though.

Some of the features:

* Flexible dialog writing with branching and conditions

* Multiple script files support with labels and jumps to organise script writing

* Skill check rolls for branching or in choice options (Feature still early, needs a UI for viewing skills and creating characters)

* Multiple speaking characters support with icons and poses

* Custom variables in scripts to create flags or other data the game needs to track

* Seamless saving and reloading

* Visual game UI on the side of the dialog with buttons that can be used to trigger scripts (this effectively allows you to create game maps, or point n click style gameplay

* Sound and music support

* Delays between script lines for effect

* Electron build to turn the game into a pc/mac/linux app (the template already has it setup and ready to use)
I'd love to see figures on how many people this hits in the wild, especially since you have the "prevent this site creating more dialogs" option.
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Is funding based on annoying prospective readers really better?
The considerations that would inform such an agreement are far beyond my comprehension. I suppose we may draw the lesson from the presumptive wisdom of this decision that software defaults are very important (hobbyist developers take note!) and also that large figures ought to be nice, round numbers.
Most likely, but what culture?
Yeah that one caught me off guard too. Any idea why? The only reason I can think of is that it's very easy to confuse with `substring`.
please check https://1mb.club/

related HN thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25151773

https://10kbclub.com/

R HN T : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25556860
It means reforming our own data laws so that they're based on common sense, not box-ticking

We are so fscked
Totally. But what's the metric for good? If it is the average time spent watching or most likely to be chosen out of a slate of options, then we get the current problem.
95 % of users never touch predefined settings, so being the default almost always equates to being the "winner".

What they should do instead is to let people select a search engine based on different criteria (including privacy friendliness). Most people would then still choose Google but the effect would be way less pronounced.
Nothing caused by XP itself, mostly issues which come up that seemed (at least to me - as a non-SW guy) to be connected with the immaturity of XP. Its been some years but I remember often playing around in the TCP/IP panel to fix internet issues when setting up new wifi networks - this seems to just work in W10. I don't mean special networks with static IPs or some special configurations, I mean just moms network at home. Today its very plug and play. Concerning registry it was the same - no issues concerning XP specifically but I remember having to change a lot of things in there to get things to work how I wanted them. Seems these settings are just in a menu now in W10. Its more a user experience thing rather than specific bugs or issues.
I am aware that has happened on a couple of occasions. "might be" was probably the wrong choice of words, "have been" would probably have been better.
I like to say that peer review is what happens after a paper is published.
The Siddhachal Caves are rock-cut monuments with Jain collosi
I doubt 90% of people even have a search style. They are just searching to get to a brand’s website they might not know the exact spelling for. Or searching for a product sold by a limited amount of retailers.
The political necessity of a continual stream of headlines to give the appearance of 'doing something'.

The ratcheting up of surveillance legislation whilst the opposition are absolutely impotent.

There are no practical reasons for this that have anything to do improving life for Australian citizens as a whole.
My two cents:

Identity is a socially constructed fiction that we are bound to via continuous environmental reinforcement. We impose identities on each other as a fundamental precept of social reality. It's somewhere in the middle of our existential stack, biochemistry being the "hardware" and what one does with one's life the being the "apps".

Just like migrating a computer from one operating system to a vastly different one means you won't be able to run the same apps out of the box, changing our idea of the "self" would make a lot of the things we currently do become meaningless, and we would have to explicitly put some effort into giving them new meaning if we wanna keep them (most meaning is inherited). Just like some people are enthusiastic about fine tuning their Unix box or their muscle car, some try to remedy issues that they find in their identities and meanings. (Which is highly undesirable to the status quo, and a major purpose of all the political noise in the media is to crowd out thinking that may lead to this sort of activity.)

Since the self is self-reinforcing, reforms to our model of identity generally come from outside our rational awareness. (See e.g. Jungian "shadow self".) Historically, art and culture, being collective phenomena, have acted as such a reservoir of "awareness transcending the self". Nowadays we also have behavioral targeting - social network algorithms can be scarily accurate at precipitating self-reflection. And unlike culture, which is local, participatory, and slow, big data is global, opaque, and fast. (Just the other day, I laughed my ass off when I realized that a popular recommender algo had deduced my life situation from my "completely random" "fuck the algo" actions on the platform, and started promoting exactly the kind of content that would push my buttons, even though all I ever post on that platform is complete and utter nonsense. We humans are predictable - even from metadata if the scale is large enough.)

It is quite easy to become trapped in the self: remain high-functioning while acting out a role that you feel to be fundamentally contradictory with some sort of "more real, inner self" that you identify with more intentionally. In the general case, we don't have the cognitive tools to become aware that both selves are equally fictitious. This desperate and uninformed struggle towards a "true self" can manifest as different compensatory drives and mechanisms that can override our (self-circumscribed) willpower and make us destructive of self and others.

Worse, in many environments, a certain degree of destructiveness is necessary for others to legitimize you as a self in the first place! Shout out to everyone who never wanted anything to do with any of that but are now stuck being some random person they barely recognize. And a dose of your preferred self-medication, on the house. Stay strong friends, Skynet is coming to free us all. Any day now
>bravado about being "the best country in the world"

You mean "the lucky country"? That's an ironic, self-deprecating joke.

>The contrast between Dan Andrew's daily fear-mongering and berating of "rule-breakers" and Angela Merkel

As have the number of deaths between the two countries. 90k+ in Germany vs. <1k in Aus. (If you scale it per-capita, it's still about 25k vs 1k).

>I think a lot of Australians are on board with the border closures, the lockdowns and the like, which is astonishing to me, but I think the degree of fear there is what fundamentally explains it.

No, we're on board because it saves lives and people don't want to see their family die in the name of some abstract concept.
TLDR: It works for me which doesn't mean it works for you depending on your needs.

I use "apps" like firefox emacs mpd mpv not electron crap and it works well enough for me. I don't need anyones kludges to run well behaved native apps in their intended environment. Seems like you would be liable to experience hassle to the degree you decide to make it complicated.

Sound working on supported hardware hasn't been a problem in over a decade. Bluetooth is dicier but for example I didn't have much trouble using it for example on my thinkpad where its useful for a small portable wireless mouse to talk to the laptop. I've honestly never used it on my desktop. I still think it 99% comes down to supported hardware not distro.

Honestly although I've had working bluetooth sound I have entirely switched away from bluetooth because sound quality at least on affordable hardware is much crappier than wired. People that must have wireless especially because their phone doesn't have a port are selling Bose QC25 for $75 all day long. I bought a pair that I plan on using for the next decade. Look at the more recent competition. For $300 for the QC35 I could depending on audio codec have a differing degree of worse sound from noticeably worse to almost as good with a specialized battery that is going to crap out a few years and eventually need major surgery.

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Bose+QuietComfort+35+Battery+Re...

As bad as the difficulty to replace is the fact that its built in and not hotswappable so if you forget to charge it then its down for the count. It's dead Jim. With my qc25 I pop in a freshly charged bog standard NIMH AAA for days of use and if it dies I swap in another. When they no longer charge into the trash they go and I get a replacement from anywhere. If none are at hand it still works just sans noise cancellation.

It's also easier to switch between an always connected set of headphones and speakers instead of a script shuttling everything between pulseaudio sinks and switching the default it now just needs to toggle which alsa output is muted a trick that worked 18 years ago.

It's like a microcosm of why new isn't better.

On the topic of firefox I've noticed the run away eat all your memory issue seems to be highly correlated with having a bunch of addons but I did learn a handy thing before I realized this. Userspace oom daemons. Something like earlyoom kicks in WAY faster than the oom killer with configurable targets. This means an out of control firefox trivially meets a fiery death instead of your session.
Moderna contamination may impact vaccination drive [Japan]
Welcome to Our New Robot Nurses
Still, how "corpos and normies" can stand kids as somebody's background? which is something normal during pandemic
But now you know where you money went : in JR's pockets !
There are extremely good reasons for that:

https://www.agriculture.gov.au/pests-diseases-weeds/plant/fr...
Sorry - invalid votes aren’t counted, they are ignored.
I'm expecting to see more of such language as time goes on, as we come to terms with life itself being just another piece of technology.
True, but this is in the context of abject authoritarianism right? Under tyranny?

The US in Afghanistan, for all its successes and failures was on a nation building adventure, hoping to win hearts and minds. It was following rules of engagement, not operating an outright slaughterhouse.

In the context of abject authoritarianism, the government will just straight up execute you, or crush you with a tank like the PRC at Tiananmen Square.

This feels like a romanticized Lone Ranger against Big Brother kind of thing. The Fantasy of the Good Guy with a Gun™. I don't think it plays out that way in real life.
I didn't say anything about price.
I'm now older than by big sis :(

Unfortunately when she died of cancer, she was in complete denial. Right to the bitter end it was "I'll get better". She refused to write down anything, or records little videos for her newborn to have when he was older. It felt like communicating "from beyond the grave", as it were, and she just couldn't do it. It was an admission of her impending death. She just wanted to raise him and one day tell him about her fight with cancer.
Permanent fearmongering leads to a moral panic. How much more people today do believe in conspiracy theories than 18 months ago?
This hits home because I feel the same currently. My current work is not really challenging and I think I have a pretty easy life with a decent salary, but since a couple months ago I started feeling so tired. My work is uninteresting, I don’t feel fulfilled, I have no motivation. Worst is I stopped caring about everything. I don’t care if my performance is bad, I don’t care if progress is slow or my project suffers. I’m very detached, but I still think about work a lot.

Even in my private life I don’t want to do anything anymore.

I realized myself that I’ve been burning out a few weeks ago, but it was hard to accept because like I said, I don’t really have any crazy challenging things that eat me up. Do I “deserve” to burn out when I have an easy life and steady income during this pandemic.

Even harder is to bring it up with others because what’s the goal here? Do I want people to feel for me? Do I want special treatment? Will this damage my career?

Lots of stuff to think about.
Yes, most are. In general Australians are apolitical and only seem 'freedom loving' in nature, behaviour. Most don't care or give a damn about politics, abuses of power, etc. I'm pretty conflicted myself about the lockdowns. People are scared of getting the virus. Our federal government was incompetent at preventing the virus from entering, kept the borders open for too long because "muh economy", and the result was all these lockdowns and procedures. Protestors are looked down upon by the general public due to the lockdowns, whether protests are regarding political policy or the lockdowns themselves.

I am of course against wrongful online surveillance such as this new passed legislation, but when it comes to the lockdowns I don't know where I stand. I just hope lockdowns end as our vaccine roleouts start. One thing I know for sure though is that I will not be staying in this country for too much longer, if I can avoid it.
> After another meeting between Apple and Google senior executives, notes showed that the execs agreed: "Our vision is that we work as if we are one company."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28238317
I have a female friend with pretty bad muscle wasting from a long-term leg injury – have wondered idly if something like Anavar (or a SARM) would be a good option for her to help rebuild muscle to kick-start her recovery. Doubt anyone would prescribe it though.
That's not just Australia. You'll encounter similar rules going to Hawaii, and even to California - although I think they have a harder time due to the number of land crossings.
https://marianozamorano.com/en/6-swords

I'm going to be blunt here:

Apart from some rapier models, these look like garbage. These are slabs of iron in the shape of what vaguely looks like a sword.

Compare these to actual swords like:

https://www.albion-swords.com/

http://www.christianfletcher.com/

Or something a bit more down-to-earth like from Peter Regenyei who started out by making practice swords for HEMA practitioners:

https://regenyei.com/
Yep, in fact an Amiga 1200 with proper memory protection, would probably handle most tasks for a general slice of computing population.
Same, on the fdroid build. I just put in an obviously, nonsensical email.
Also see https://old.reddit.com/r/The_Cabal/

I also filter, using RES, all posters and commenters with over 100k karma, and it's like taking a trip back in time when the internet wasn't tuned to inane content and advertisers
And Blackhawks
Yes. The child may face penalties and disciplinary action, but if the school does that, the parents can sue and will win. It's happened many times now. It's a church/state and compelled speech issue. The ACLU loves picking up these kinds of cases because it's such a softball. IANAL
Maybe you are a bot
It's not rocket science but does require some foresight. Realistically it would take 6 months - 1 year to fully build out quarantine sites that could fully replace hotel quarantine.

If the governments had started on this in March 2020 it would have been worthwhile but these facilities are only just starting to be built now, are too small to entirely replace hotel quarantine, and will be largely redundant by the time they open if NSW and VIC continue on their current paths.
If it's alpine with glibc I don't see what's wrong with calling it that
My point was that it's inaccessible: "accessibility", "internationalization" and "localization" are clear to everyone, but "a11y", "i18n" and "l10n" are not at all obvious even to native English speakers, and especially those using screen readers.
so for the transition per se you say a standard recruiter fee would apply in this case? This seems pretty low considering its a full team that built and provides the whole "technology" of the startup.
That is a shocking amount. Consider that google purchased YouTube for less than 2 billion.

And while I know YouTube wasnt the behemoth then, I find it hard to believe that it is only worth 1 month of google being the default.

And only for macintosh users! And only macintosh users who use safari! And only macintosh users who use safari who don't change the default search engine!

I am curious what that amounts to per user per year.
Mumble is my currently choice for a F/OSS alternative to group chat. Works fine, especially for having open in the background with push to talk. No chat history or built in tools for sharing videos, code or streaming.
On the face of it seems strange why anyone would want to moderate popular subreddits, just seems like a lot of unpaid mundane and never ending work.

Younger me might of been excited to do it from the perceived status perhaps.

I do wonder how many off-site deals are done with moderators and third parties. There’s a lot of traffic these people are able to steward and influence I imagine.
You don't need docker for running Laravel. You can install via composer

https://laravel.com/docs/8.x#installation-via-composer

Just make sure you have PHP and composer installed

https://getcomposer.org/
It's also the one made by the company that doesn't want web apps to compete against their app store monopoly.
It's not really a cost issue it a logistics (better to locate them on the edge of large cities rather than remote areas) and timing (these facilities weren't seriously considered until it was already too late) issue.
Hmmm
Working from home has multiple advantages, including the flexibility of the program and the freedom to arrange your workspace, the savings generated by the lack of travel to and from work, but it can also have a less pleasant part, if you are not organized and firm. And from my floor I can see shows currently open in Vegas and here yes example https://www.westgateresorts.com/blog/las-vegas-show-guide/.. Many small businesses start from home offices and stay in the home office as long as possible, due to the fact that this is how savings are obtained, but this implies the existence of a space and time dedicated exclusively to work.
WPF and WinUI.
I don't understand why people who seek freedom from enclosed and proprietary platforms are not bigger advocates of ActivityPub and software that relies on it.
After Trump got banned from Twitter & Facebook, the right wing decided to "build" their own platforms and went to Parler or stuff like that, which wasn't a big success.
But why not using awesome tools build by the FOSS community to support their need of freedom ?
I don't share their ideas, sure, but if they used those tools, it will sure make them popular enough so other people would turn to it and start leaving Twitter, Facebook...

It looks like crypto currencies : built by geeks wanting to build a better system, and mostly used by ill intended people.
What don't we see the same thing for social networking ? Because at the end all they care about is money so they need to control everything and build their copy of Twitter or Facebook ?
Squandered is not really an appropriate take. Australia's cases are just about to leave triple digits daily and we've already got 30% of the country vaccinated, and most people have been given at least a first dose. This is an enviable position, the edge is going to be taken right off when the case numbers are get high. And the elderly have nearly finished with the vaccination campaign.

And we were struggling to lay hands on the vaccine a few months ago. Supplies were going to countries that honestly needed it more than Australia (cough India cough).
Yet another C++ header-only stream coloring library