skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
2 cents,

With so many bots, a lot of sites run a whitelist process of user agents, so every new entrant is automatically blocked in those cases, and for the rest, any large scale crawling is quite likely to get blocked.

Anecdotally it seems a relatively new search engine entrant is using Chrome user agents and follows Googlebot robots.txt directives so are impossible to block. If true, that's an absurd way for a new player to enter the market and just annoys webmasters.

A recent anti-competitive report by the UK government estimated that it would take about $20bn dollars for a new entrant to compete on Google's level.

Then there's how Google pay Mozilla/Apple very large sums of money based on their ROI/search which no one else can compete with, partly due to the invasive surveillance capitalism that Google follows. That ultimately means that anyone who wants to compete has to pay browsers and operating systems to enter the market in a substantial way.

All that said, encouraging people to find alternative sources of information is most likely the best route to diversification with or without government(s) intervention.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_(disambiguation)
Public display of Nazi flags is illegal in many European countries:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bans_on_Nazi_symbols
True, but then again Italian has regular pronunciation rules and "x" is always pronounced the same way as "cs", so even if "fuxia" is not a proper spelling it's a homophone and I wouldn't be surprised to see somebody make that spelling mistake.
I would bet money that it’s _usually_ a very difficult to reproduce software error.

edit: sure, bit flips will happen at scale, but they’re not as common as bad threaded programming.
You do not have to pay for champions, you can unlock them for free using easily-obtainable Blue Essence. Paying to unlock champions is pay-to-progress, because it gets you caught up to everyone else faster, but doesn't give you a competitive advantage.
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‘This game is so realistic it feels just like working overtime’
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Yes. I'd also recommend abstaining from forums and anything bearing even a resemblance to scroll-down variety.
> if it were true would this require a warrant?

Almost certainly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyllo_v._United_States
> At the start of the industrial revolution no one knew about global warming.

This is true, but it's been known since at least medieval times that that air pollution was pretty unhealthy; arguably a better reason to actually do something about things than climate change.

The same can be said about the usage of lead in fuel and paint; people have known it was harmful well before leaded fuel was invented.

The elephant in the room seems to me more that we, as a society, are pretty inept at long-term and "big picture" thinking and have a strong and deep bias that progress is both good and inevitable.
Not most - a lot of european countries are missing from that list

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika#Legislation_in_other_...
Perhaps the speech is free, but instead you're being prosecuted for being seen as a member of the enemy? If you displayed a "Z" in Ukraine right now, best of luck to you, even if it is only because you really like the letter "Z".
Not just that, but you can only buy beer and wine on Sundays, and only at places like grocery stores.

Liquor stores (which also sell beer/wine) are not allowed to be open on Sunday, period.

Note this pertains to off-premise (i.e., stores, not bars) only. Bars, you're free to get sloshed to your hearts desire on any type of alcohol and as early as 10AM on Sundays.
There are so many new and dufferent games being created at all times, I defy you to even point in a general direction and say "this is what video games are".

Coupled with that is the horrible viewpoint that the money for your game is now "wasted", which assumes that most everything we buy is kept, when in reality, most of what we buy is transient: food, energy, garments.
The hitboxes are the same, so to any seasoned player the visuals really don't matter gameplay wise, as long as the model isn't too out of scale with it's hitbox.
"Learn about new tech" is only one of a great many other things.

Cultivating your relationships professionally is also "work", as is talking to your customers, reviewing and discussing code, writing about and showing others what you've built, keeping your resume and interview skills sharp, staring up at the ceiling and thinking about work, etc.
I remember one case. A tourist from the US jokingly performed a nazi salute to a statue and did 6 months in prison.
The fact that all consoles charge money for "online play" irks me. I mean the internet is there for a reason.
I think more things like the Gemini Protocol will continue to be popular.

An internet that is deliberately severely bandwidth limited could make navigating between sites much faster. For example, a limit of 100K or even 1K per page for content, or something similar for web assembly applications/modules.

Possibly combine that with entirely ditching JavaScript for web assembly and entirely separating applications from content handled with markdown.

Also going 100% content-centric could be a revolution. Things like IPFS, or maybe build a sandboxed UDP or libp2p API into web assembly.
Underlining this comment — Ubisoft games, such as Division or Breakpoint, allow purchase of national camo designs.

If these had no “gameplay” effect or “competitive advantage” based on environment, why do nation states spend money developing them and equip troops differently based on biome?

And why have some games had to patch their PvP to “outline” opposing players with a visibility border in the patches that follow certain “cosmetics”?

A more subtle advantage can arise from hitboxes in both hitscan and projectile games with customizers or cosmetics that change the mesh. There’s a reason some games are predominantly female characters in close fit gear.

Finally, even games that insist no gameplay or competitive advantage, are fully aware of “the meta”.

In Fallout 76, for example, PvP players learned to hotkey the “Nuka-Cola” drinks with special benefits. In a for money store, Bethesda allows you to purchase a robot junk collector that gathers Nuka-Colas for free. Rationale is it is just a QoL (quality of life) benefit, but in reality, it allows stockpiling a combat advantage to last longer in combat than the opponent. Same store also allows you to purchase “repair kits” for weapons and “bubble gum” that suppresses the survival mechanism around eating/drinking for an hour of game play.

Again, Bethesda’s claim is QoL not pay-to-win, but weapons repairable mid-battle away from one’s base certainly affects winning, and level of hunger/thirst affects damage multipliers and action point refresh (aka ‘mana’).

Lines keep moving.
Pretty much, yes. That just sounds like better sensors or information presentation, faster computers, medical advances and maybe some genetic engineering. We've been doing all of that stuff for decades.

The way I see it brain interfaces aren't necessarily a huge game changer by themselves, in fact it's conceivable they might actually be slower than existing interfaces but more convenient for some tasks. It's more likely to be about overcoming bottlenecks that might arise in our existing technological advance trajectory, so we don't stall out.
Kinda like promising your dowsing rod can find books in the library.

Well, yeah...

(I'd bet there are surface features that give hints to the underlying hydrology, too.)
https://www.whalenlawoffice.com/legal-mythbusting-series-yel...

https://thelawdictionary.org/article/the-legalities-of-hate-...
It's not the best technical book and it's definitely not the best fiction book, but I absolutely love that a hybrid of the two exists and wish there was more in the genre.

The reason I recommend it is because of how accessible it is. If I tell my friends to read a DevOps book, their eyes will glaze over a few sentences into my pitch. But when I tell them about this crazy idea for a book, they're usually interested enough to give it a shot.
> If you're going to dismiss all economists & anthropologists that do not subscribe to your opinions, you're not going to advance your opinions very much

The idea that Varufakis is not mainstream is not even remotely controversial. I have issues with Graeber's misrepresentation of economics, not his anthropology.
> Zurich Insurance removes Z symbol after letter used to show support for Ukraine war

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/zurich-insurance-remove...
That's the second part of de-stressing. First, stop watching news. Second, stop having an opinion on everything because at the end of the day nobody's opinion matters.
Don't need to read the article just the headline I'm on it already !
You can get some for free. You certainly might be attached to a particular one and want to buy it, but the game is balanced enough that you can easily win with a champion that is easy to get.

I had a lot of luck with Sona, for instance, who I got for free right away.

(Sometimes I think it would be fun to play League again but I can't stand the thought of being tied up for 45 minutes)
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> Simple rule of thumb as a consumer: If it is not in the repo/store/steam then it does not exist. Same for iOS or android by the way: If you need to jailbreak/root for an app, for the average user it might as well not exist.

Forget all that. I am talking about gary's clipboard manager or something. This is crazy, you can't even install elasticsearch or
Mongo without adding a repo!

My whole point was this approach works om servers but on desktops, the use case is different. I want random apps by random people on their random site. Not distro accepted and approved stuff that was digested through layers of bureaucracy and one size fits all crowdpleasing. That is obviously not working.

> Er, no you don't. If the mac .dmg has those same issues you don't do that, if the windows .exe has those same issues you don't do that.

I don't have those issues on mac and windows because the gatekeeping distro maintainers aren't choosing how to build or preconfigure it. It is a direct relationship between I the consumer and the developer. No middle man! No system deps (well.. except on mac with homebrew but not dmg)
And for some extra context, this is the sort of material you see every day on Russian TV nowadays:

https://twitter.com/maria_avdv/status/1506283895771348994

> State Russian TV show in prime time discusses possible nuclear strike on Europe, Russian invasion of Poland and Lithuania and corridor to Kaliningrad, threatens Germany and Baltic states.

Yeah, tell you what, I'm very ok with banning Russian propaganda. There will be plenty of time to worry about slippery slopes if we're actually alive by the end of this.
I think a lot of people, myself included, think that Germany often goes overboard when it comes to censoring things. While I totally understand why they do this, I sense they have an incredibly high false-positive rate and people rightfully fear that the system can be abused.

Edit: This is in response to this quote "For anyone talking about the freedom of speech here..." and not a commentary about this specific instance.
Germany and most of Central Europe are quite culturally conservative. They spend a lot of effort ensuring a stable and orderly society, up to and including prosecuting inflammatory speech and support for causes against the national/public interest.

Many Americans would see this as socialism, but the motivation is not equality, its stability and continuity of the status quo: ergo conservatism.

It’s not a system I could live under because I’m not super good at fitting in with people, but I see it’s merits.
The 80s have not left us, to this day.
Sure but most engineers aren't working on anything with near that level of importance.

Like sorry but another bugfix on Youtube or the Uber app really pales in comparison to a Triple Bypass or safely landing a plane with 200 passengers during a high crosswind for example.
At the time of that statement being written, he had taken a plea deal in exchange for testifying against his son.
I had a boss who became a friend that borrowed me $30k on 24 hours notice, made me a partner at their startup, and was the best man at my wedding. n=1

Rare? Absolutely, but so is finding good people in general. Gather whatever signal you can, and keep rolling the dice, just as you would with friendships and romantic relationships.
This site is unreadable on mobile. Everything in the table has a huge font.

Reporters without Borders ranks the US behind quite a lot of European countries: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rangliste_der_Pressefreiheit (German Wikipedia because the English article ironically doesn't include data)
> boomerisms

I think we are done here, have a great day
13 countries is not "most of Europe". There are way more countries where it is legal.
Ukraine is a victim of an aging dictator that lost his marbles. A dictator that accomplished his goals within Russia without any opposition, got bored, and decided to play a rather bloody chess game geopolitically.

That said, it started with Putin gradually eliminating opposition, controlling mainstream media and blocking non-mainstream ones, beating down all organizations that had organized people working together and expressing alternative opinion (religious organizations, trucker unions, heritage funds).

The West is currently about 1-1.5 decades behind. We are silencing fringe voices instead of reasoning with them. We are canceling dissidents instead of tolerating them. We let a handful of people with their own interests decide what is "information" and what is "misinformation". If we let this process continue, it will inevitably follow the Russian curve.

The mechanics here is very simple: once you create a position of power that decides what is right and what is wrong, the person occupying this position will seek more rights and wrongs simply to justify their existence. And others will join that cause for the sake of promotion/influence. Such structures only fall in a larger turmoil (bankruptcy of a company, fall of the government, etc) that inevitably brings a lot of destruction.
I would say it has more to do with their history. It's kind of a special part of their history and it doesnt mean the rest of europe should adopt the same attitude
Console games survive perfectly fine without any sort of anticheat/etc, maybe that would be bad for PC gaming but games could sustain their player base without anticheat, and matchmaking is neither necessary (lots of multiplayer games just don't use it at all) nor is it particularly expensive to run if that's all you're doing.

Obviously that would be a problem on the PC but games would remain popular and publishers would get paid without either of those things. Games as a whole wouldn't go anywhere. They just make more money this way.
Yeah, and most of that similarly doesn't count when it's time for the chips to fall.
If you're into dead tree formats, I suggest this book: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/book.html

It's big but covers a lot of things and is pretty accessible.
This is based on §140 of the German Strafgesetzbuch which concerns rewarding or publicly condoning criminal acts. We will see if this interpretation is upheld by the courts. I'm not a lawyer, but I don't think it's obvious that this would be upheld.

This might also require additional aggravating factors to be illegal, the pagraph specifically mentions that this has to happen in a way likely to disturb the public peace.

The laws around freedom of speech are also obviously different than in the US, e.g. Nazi symbols are specifically outlawed.
My son is a fan of

https://krunker.io/

where the "trading items" aspect adds a lot of fun to the game. I am generally skeptical of "the metaverse" but Krunker shows that item trading can be fun, you just don't need a blockchain to do it.
> Freedom of speech is of the highest priority for me.

When you will be the one that is being targeted by those symbols, and by the people who adore them, you may develop a more nuanced set of priorities.
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For what it's worth I've only experienced this long term in corporations. Small companies that are actually still in the prime of producing and growth can't afford that with everyone and expect to survive. If it's systemic the startup just fails after meandering for a little bit. I derive a little satisfaction from that fact.

It starts to tilt after you've gotten a couple hundred employees and people can hide more.
Try your local municipal government first, if you live in one. I paid $11 to have my previous town pickup a mattress from the curb.
I do and I don't. First, it is an unprovoked invasion of sovereign state. As such it is unlawful, morale bankrupt and totally unacceptable. It is also utterly stupid on more levels than can be possibly covered here.

It is kind of a grey area when it come to the West in general. The West invaded Afganistan, Iraq, Syria, Lybia, intervened in the Balkans. We in the West had Vietnam and Cuba, we had Algeria and all those little known wars in Africa. All of those were framed in ways not to different from what Russia is trying in Ukraine. Now, taking in refugees is seen as a sign of how great we are. When we refugees from other countries and regions in Europe it was called refugee crisis and ended up with people living in shitty camps and illegal push backs (the guy leading FRONTEX organizing those is still in charge despite indisputable proof). Europe is treating Ukrainian refugees way different from non-Ukrainians fleeing from the same war, not to mention those refugees stuck in Belarus. Western intervention in Ukraine is more than justified, once it is over and we have some time the West should do some much needed soul searching so. Not that I think that's gonna happen.
I don't know about other places, but at least in Czech Republic, approving Russian invasion it is not treason but it falls under generic law of "publicly endorsing crimes and atrocities" or whatever is it called.

You could get prosecuted for approving terrorist acts, genocides, whatever else. Most of the time it ends in probation and fine, I think one famous case was with some asswipe celebrating the New Zealand mass shooting.

There is also law against "promoting movements that aim to attack human rights and freedom" which is the law that lands you in prison if you promote Nazi ideology, wear Nazi symbols and similar. The Russian Z would fit there as well.
Algebraic data types (ADTs) help a lot when expressing business logic. It's hard to go back once you've tried it in Haskell (or presumably in other languages).

I often try to replicate ADTs in Python at $DAYJOB, because they're so damn convenient. I end up with dataclasses which have the same interface, and I disambiguate between them using `isinstance`. It's not perfect but it's useable.
Coming from Europe, this obsession with "free speech" that Americans have is kind of weird to me. How is that more important to you than affordable education and healthcare and reasonable gun policies where every crazy person cannot have 10 guns at home? And I am not trying to be insulting here, I just really cannot understand this.

In Germany, human dignity is the highest good and free speech ends where it would impede human dignity. Hence, there is good reason to ban Nazi salutes and symbols.
"Freedom of Expression and Belief": US, 3/4. Germany, 4/4. Report invalidated.
I really hate that base64 is the best option for embedding inline assets in HTML/JS files. Have there been any proposals to add real heredoc support to HTML/JS? With the ability to choose delimiters and support for unrestricted binary data?
I read that twenty years ago, and it is still relevant.
Oh, I thought this came only with what was related to EMScripten before WASM (I forgot what the fast optimization standard is/was called). This took some years to propagate to all browsers.

As for interpreted JS, a binary operator returns a 32-bit integer value, but it would be still stored as a Number (float). (Meaning, a | 0 => int, b = a | 0 => float stored in b, there is no other primitive numeric type. – Instead of optimizing for speed, you would be adding implicit type conversions.)
Nothing drastic about that. If anything, 40/2009 Sb. § 365, § 404, and § 405 had been underused in the past.
Yes really.
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There's an existing interstate tax system called streamlined sales tax that could be used [1]. This is the system that computes and pays state sales tax on internet purchases and was implemented around 2008.

1. https://www.streamlinedsalestax.org/
Extradition,
W3C is irrelevant these days.

The "Web" is what Google decides it to be - what new APIs to add to Chrome, what protocols to use (HTTP/2, HTTP/3) to access it.
I'm starting to add type annotations to numerical code, and I wonder how to handle the disconnect between `float` (which is how floating-point literals are typed) and concrete NumPy types such as `numpy.float64` (which is the scalar type I get out of NumPy arrays).

I ended up defining an alias:

Float = Union[float, numpy.float64]

but I wonder if there is a more legitimate way to handle thiss.
I have a friend I knew from work who is severely hard of hearing (and we were actually a business phone company). I invited him to Clubhouse and asked him to try Twitter Spaces. We haven't seen captioning work on Clubhouse whereas it's available to all users on Twitter Spaces.

Also, isolated to me or a tiny subset of users - the only way to sign in is with a OTP sent via SMS. The delivery is very spotty for my carrier for some unknown reason (other services can deliver fine). So like right now, I can't log in and have to wait until they quietly restore delivery.

It's unfortunate because the stability of the Clubhouse app is far better than Twitter Spaces. A group I'm with has spent promoting events and it's embarrassing and annoying to have the Twitter Space unexpectedly end for everyone if the app of the "host" crashes.
IMO news comes in two flavors, one of which should be avoided like the plague it is, and one which you should pay somewhat close attention to (relatively). The first, national and international news. And the second being local news. We should embrace the local journalists who shine light on local politics.
I wonder how much of this is driven simply by the fact that games are often bought by young people.

I remember when I was a kid/teenager I just didn't have much money, so if I wanted a game I either had to save for it or ask my parents. But if a game was free, then no problem, right? Just download and enjoy! And the microtransaction-based content addition is much more allowance-friendly than a monthly subscription or a large (for a kid) upfront cost.
AI isn't just machine learning. Searching huge spaces (Chess, Travelling Salesman, etc.) is a paradigm in and of itself.

It's possible to model molecular binding with nothing but physics.
That's fine for you. A lot of these games are social experiences. Kids do get called names and bullied for having a default skin. Peer pressure drives a lot of the purchasing of cosmetics. That's why you'll rarely find paid cosmetics in games that don't also feature social aspects.
That’s what I’d label it. It would be a direct violation of the contracts we use since we have a clause preventing contractors from contracting out their work.