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In a true manifestation of synchronicity, I've been looking into different RPG systems to get back into playing after a long hiatus.

Having experience in PF1 and D&D, I've tried to look into alternative systems, which can be characterized as "rules light" to ease newbies' pickup stress. I was surprised by the sheer quantity of options, leading to a complete analysis paralysis. Not only there's a plethora of OSR (old-school renaissance) systems regurgitating old D&D, but also games with new and interesting mechanics.

My preliminary findings:

• Dungeon Crawl Classics: + great style + plenty of contents + lots of random tables + high-effort magic with consequences + close OSR compatibility - (huge con) weird dice

• Tiny Dungeon / Advanced Tiny Dungeon: + simple and logical mechanics (based around 2d6 -/+ 1d6 for [dis]advantage) + concise rules - bland magic - magic almost requires buying additional book (micronomicon) - not compatible with OSR/D20 contents without conversions - not many adventures/settings to choose from

• Barbarians of Lemuria: + simple system - not generic enough (strong Sword&Sorcery flavour) - not much content available

• ICRPG: + very rules light + great DM advice section of the book - disputable mechanics decisions which not all players might be on board with - low compatibility with classic contents - included setting[s] don't look flexible enough for different styles of play

• EZD6: +/- basic mechanics on the verge of being limiting +/- strong reliance on metagame mechanics - relies on DM being really skilled - low classic contents compatibility

• Microlite and variations: + super light and low crunch + great compatibility - mechanics break down with progression - may be too simple for inexperienced players/DMs

• Low Fantasy RPG: + nice mechanics - not exactly rules light

• Worlds Without Number: + free + decent compatibility with OSR/D20 content + huge set of DM tools + generic enough for different styles/settings - not rules light

• Basic Fantasy: + free + great OSR variation - Not the best presentation of the rules (lots of jumping around the book)

Other contestants: Swords & Wizards, Castles & Crusades, Lamentations of the Flame Princess, World of Dungeons

This is just scratching the surface and needs to be put into a big table of comparison to be at least minimally useful. It would be nice to crowdsource this comparison in some wiki.
Is it just me, or do the comments in this thread seem to be the exact opposite of the sentiment in the comments on similar Github Copilot threads?

I just find it a bit ironic that programmers are irate about Github Copilot using their copyrighted material to train. However, if it's an ML model training off of copyrighted artists material, clearly its a transformative work. I just find the opposing sentiments for these scenarios a bit funny.
The motivation for Graffiti was it could be recognized by a small microprocessor meaning the palm devices could be quite inexpensive.
I'm beginning to sound like a damp squib on this matter having repeated it on previous occasions but it's not a good idea to encourage people to tinker with the internals of a microwave oven. One should keep the cover on at all times and NEVER override the power interlocks.

Yes, microwave ovens are ubiquitous and are in just about every home so they seem a harmless enough appliance - and they are if one uses them as intended.

Inside however lurks great dangers. Transformers in, say, 1kW MW ovens are truly lethal devices. They supply well over 1kV at a current in excess of one amp! Given that one only needs about 70mA across one's chest to call it curtains, simple math says that these transformers have much more than ten times that capacity.

With such a high voltage one doesn't even have to contact a terminal to be electrocuted, a small arc onto one's hand is all that it takes.

I hate giving lectures like this because I sound like a lecturing PIA schoolteacher but I speak from personal experience. I've had several nasty encounters with electrons where I've definitely come off second best.

Certainly the worst was when I accidentally came in contact with the secondary winding of a transformer that supplied 850V at 125mA at full load - that's far short of what a MW oven's transformer is capable of delivering.

It was a momentary contact and my muscles recoiled rather than gripped (as they so often do in these circumstances) - had they gripped then you wouldn't be reading this now.

I was in the middle of the room and was thrown back against one wall and the transformer hit the opposite wall with sufficient force to put a dent in the brickwork. I couldn't move - essentially paralyzed - for about a half hour and no one was around to help me at the time. I was very lucky to survive.

Again, remember your microwave oven transformer is considerably bigger and more powerful than the one that zapped me.

As I've said on previous occasions, MW oven transformers would make good substitutes for those used in electric chairs, they'd be equally as effective.

Horrible, gory thought but true.
Apologizing is (unfortunately) a trap for a public figure in this modern era, it basically never helps, as its viewed as an admission of wrongdoing by your enemies,(who will bring it up at every opportunity going forward) and weakness by your allies who supported you.(who will not support you again if something new happens as they viewed the time they spent prior wasted)
ImageOptim is fantastic. You can use it via CLI, so I've added it to a few different archiving / publishing workflows in the past. One thing that some people don't realize is you can run it multiple times on the same (PNG) images and get better results. Each filter is dependent on the input from the previous filter, so running them again can give you better results even after one run. This works out because filter 3 might give you some savings or rearrange the data in a way that filter 1 can now take advantage of.

The other JPG filters are lossless, but be aware that Guetzli is lossy!

I was impressed with just how much it could losslessly compress some massive JPGs until I did a visual diff. I can't see the difference, like one-bit deltas sort of thing, but it's not 1:1 lossless as I would expect.
Just keep your data in memory in that case, if you don't need persistence.
There's also the fact if you don't print very often it will run through the whole tank "cleaning" and wreck itself after everything is jammed up with dried ink.
Oh, don't worry, I'm sure you'd consider the beans I buy "pretty junk".
It's funny how hyped up stable diffusion is on HN right now: reminds me of when style transfer first started making it's rounds in 2017. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13958366

I think as technologists we want to think that code can "solve" some of the problems in the art world... but I think we still have a really, really long way to go.
I tried to get style transfer adopted at work (worked at a creative technology firm in NY) but frankly I think deep learning methods for art generation tend to be really unpredictable, which make them pretty hard to use for professional applications. Imagine deploying production code that only worked 85% of the time... would be a nightmare. I felt, and feel similarly about deep learning approaches to art. They're just so finnicky and unpredictable, for example, add a single extra pixel to that example in this article and the output would look completely different.

Either way, cynicism aside, stable diffusion is awesome :).
You could be interested in Erich von Däniken's books. Take them with a grain of salt, though.
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Native AOT will come with .NET 7

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/performance_improvemen...

> Native AOT is different. It’s an evolution of CoreRT, which itself was an evolution of .NET Native, and it’s entirely free of a JIT. The binary that results from publishing a build is a completely standalone executable in the target platform’s platform-specific file format (e.g. COFF on Windows, ELF on Linux, Mach-O on macOS) with no external dependencies other than ones standard to that platform (e.g. libc). And it’s entirely native: no IL in sight, no JIT, no nothing. All required code is compiled and/or linked in to the executable, including the same GC that’s used with standard .NET apps and services, and a minimal runtime that provides services around threading and the like.

Of course it does have some downsides:

> It also brings limitations: no JIT means no dynamic loading of arbitrary assemblies (e.g. Assembly.LoadFile) and no reflection emit (e.g. DynamicMethod), everything compiled and linked in to the app means the more functionality that’s used (or might be used) the larger is your deployment, etc. Even with those limitations, for a certain class of application, Native AOT is an incredibly exciting and welcome addition to .NET 7.

I wonder how things like ASP .NET will run with Native AOT in the future.
>It's the opiod crisis

That's an bold statement to make. Canada is also experiencing a historic opiod crisis right now, but their life expectancy is dropping no near as fast as US. Something else is going on.

EDIT: I don't think the parent post should be flagged. The opioid crisis is real and has a noticeable effect on life expectancy. It's just not the whole story, that's all.
> My brain has been trained on even more copyrighted material

That's in fact a problem: plagiarism is considered cheating/intellectual dishonesty and can ruin a career, copyright infringement is punished by civil law (and fined), counterfeit is a crime, etc. etc.

You must retain yourself from copying too much, but only the original author (and eventually a judge) can decide if that happened.

If stable diffusion is used for counterfeiting or the result infringe the copyright, do you think the fact that the model was trained on unlicensed copyrighted material is irrelevant?
Their point is your preferences are your preferences. Not obejctive tests for power user status.
From personal experience working with the Swedish Rescue Drone initiative, sensitive data captured during SAR might fall under GDPR. Some groups coordinating SAR operations request complete control over image data captured during flights, and in some cases for good reason. For instance, if the search is for an animal, providing the caretakers of that animal with imagery data may make them rush out on location to capture the animal. For a dog, for instance, that has been missing for a few days their behaviour is very much polarized towards the flight response. It may be that the person missing may not want to be found. It may be that the person notifying authorities may want to find the missing person for reasons they dont communicate. There are all kinds of reasons for why data from SAR operations should not be made public.

That being said, drone use in the field is extremely useful in many SAR situations, and is often managed by volunteers that go out with machines of varying quality. Some show up with a DJI-platform equipped with thermal and optical cameras, others with sub 250g fpv drones. In some environments, simply having the altitude offers an effective enough leverage to use drones in the cheaper end of the spectrum. Flight time matters a lot.

With respect to sensor types, having access to thermal information is invaluable in some cases, and in others completely useless. It ofc depends on the thermal difference between the object you are searching for and its surroundings. In all cases, it is very expensive relative to optical information.

Anyone with decent electronics knowledge can put together a drone kit for around 150 bucks. Building a thermal camera without shelling out a decent sum of cash, on the other hand..
I know and agree with this sentiment.

However, you can take Rapamycin now. It is an existing drug.
$50 a month shared by a whole village. Not so bad.
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Referring to these gzipped daily (two formats) dumps I think: https://iextrading.com/trading/market-data/

API only needed for live (incl. past day) and more convenient granular access/computations it seems.
The smaller drone is awesome for me, small form factor, low enough price and good enough camera. I use a mini 2 and my best use case has been flying and having it follow me while I'm paddleboarding, great footage that I'd never thought I'd get before I got the drone.
> but they can think thousands of images in a day quite easily

thought is not a crime yet.

thought police is not a thing, yet...
I don't think the word "stolen" applies here, at least not any more-so than I stole from him when I looked at that image. I'm not sure about that website rehosting his image, but in terms of the model people are running on their computers, it's not like it literally includes the image that can be pulled back out of it. A computer looked at that image, and tweaked a very small amount of numbers within ~5GB of numbers based on it.

That said, it did get a little better at drawing like your friend from that. But so does every other person who looks at his art. The model however might be better at it than most people. It's a dilemma but it's hard to say any individual image is "stolen"

We kinda already went through this once when GitHub scanned all public codebases to build the model for Copilot. When they did that, Copilot got the ability to program a little more like me (sorry everyone). But when I publicly put my code out there, I was also giving people the opportunity to learn from my code and reproduce similar things to it as well.
> 75% drug addiction rate

Are you saying that 3 out of 4 people in the US are addicted to one drug or another, or am I misunderstanding.

> there was 70%+ opioid prescription rate

This I can completely believe. I broke a bone, and when the doctor was asking how much pain I was in out of 10. I said 0, when I don't move it. They still prescribed me opioids.
I asked if they expected the pain to increase, and they said they expected it to actually get less painful to move overtime if anything, and if it started hurting to get seen by another doctor. When asked about the painkillers then the answer was "Just in case".
I've gotten into solo roleplaying the last few years. I still play games with a group, but solo play has become an analog activity I enjoy.

You can play standard games like D&D solo, or use games designed to be played solo like Ironsworn [0]. Journaling games are another option that can be played alone or with friends, Thousand Year Vampire [1] for example. Lots of recent games have rules for a "solo mode" now.

The Mythic GM Emulator [2] is a simple way to play any game solo.

If this sounds interesting check out Me, Myself, and Die [3] to watch a high production value version of solo play!

[0] https://www.ironswornrpg.com/

[1] https://thousandyearoldvampire.com/products/thousand-year-ol...

[2] https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/20798/Mythic-Game-Maste...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9ag6U3a8eM
> There are many thongs terrorists never did, like poisoning food supply

On that you are wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_Rajneeshee_bioterror_atta...
“Cookies” is shorthand for “persistent storage” because nobody outside of web developers knows other methods exist. When people, laws, banners, etc. refer to cookies, they mean “any technology that stores information on the client side systems”.

Whatever mechanism is used is irrelevant to the meaning/concept.
> until the price was revealed to be way out of reach for yachtsmen who aren't in the super-rich bracket

To save others the googling: $5000/mo for Starlink Maritime, equipment cost $10000.
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Hello folks, few of us are planning to meet over the weekend for a in-person meetup.

Which location would you prefer?

- Indiranagar or
- HSR Layout

Join here: https://chat.whatsapp.com/KCIoKXpa7HQItbVA48LlN5
Went to a bunch of the original meetups years ago, good times! Pizza was great :)

Dmitri did a great job organising it all and kindly let me speak about our startup at one of the events. I was completely overshadowed by an amazing talk on quantum computers by a very educated and funny guy afterwards though, 10/10 best talk I've ever seen.
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The ocean captures a lot of CO2…
I've got a Laserjet from the 90's still kicking. It's wireless too with a RPi Zero W and a USB<->Parallel cable. Generic toner cartridges are cheap and available everywhere. Only issue is that the rubber on the runners need a refresh.
No, Matt Kaeberlein-- here's the transcript of the episode.

https://tim.blog/2022/07/30/matt-kaeberlein-life-extension-t...
They actually did, they got so full that they started to take ages in each single station, given the amount of passagers getting on/off.
Laser is the way to go.

We have a Brother color laser (AIO) printer from 2010 at my parents house that still gets a couple pages printed every couple of months. We replaced the toners perhaps 4-5 times in it's lifetime. The thing is built like a tank and weighs like one but works well. My only issue with it is that it doesn't AirPrint.
This is first generation tech that is dropping jaws compared to just 2 years ago. A career typically requires 40 years of job security.
Seems a bit over-engineered to involve the cloud. Put it in a file on disk instead.
I assumed the same thing and was indeed happy when it turned out to be the better thing.
I've had some middling success with taking the cartridge out, shaking it back and forth, and re-inserting it. But I agree that behavior is really frustrating
> run into a bug in a provider that really ruins your day

Most of these problems I encounter aren't even down to hashi themselves. The GCP provider consumes from google's magic modules repo, which is often out of sync with the GCP API. Or in plenty of cases, it is in sync, but the API does not expose features in the same way as the console.
This is going to be the legal challenge for the next few years: every year there are lawsuits alleging that music, drawings, etc. are too similar to someone else's work but those take time and require human judgement to decide whether something crosses the line, and the scale which tools like this offer makes that basically as feasible as it was to individually sue Napster users for sharing other people's works.

I'd expect that level of legislative response, and also would bet on lawsuits over any authorized data in their training corpus.
> it would not placate anybody if you bought a single copy of each book before incorporating it into the model.

because by buying the book you are not buying the right to distribute derivative works of that book.

I prefer straightforward movie piracy than the "hidden behind a curtain of supposedly artistic value" one.
> the medium drink exists solely to get you to buy the large drink

Not true any more - McDonald's change their drink pricing so that S, M, and L all cost $1.
Ask any psychologist with a knowledge of the military world about the number of far right militants wearing an uniform and you'll be shocked by the response. Uniforms and weapons are like sex for some people.

Extreme right wingers want to wear uniforms and carry weapons at any cost: it's the way their brain is wired that makes them so inclined to the show of strength, obsession about physical efficiency, appearing and act dominant, being combative, in constant search of enemies to fight against (including creating them if necessary); and of course that decrepit ideology, which however in many cases is not the main motivator, therefore they're not perceived as Nazis, although they're equally dangerous.

The tale about Nazis in the Ukraine army is true for pretty much every country, including mine and yours. How many soldiers or cops or paramilitary forces does your country have? Well, you can take for granted that under at least 30% of the uniforms there are Azov-like extreme right wingers. And I'm very optimistic, because according both to personal direct experience when I was in the military and speaking with someone with connections there who now teaches in police schools, the numbers are way higher, up to 70-80% in some contexts, although lots of in-betweens make the distinction quite blurred.
A lot of artists work as commercial illustrators. In fact most artists don’t have artist jobs at all cuz there’s no money in it!
If this is in response to Kiwi Farms, I would say this is very disappointing.

Love CloudFlare, think they are amazingly innovative, huge amount of respect for the people who work there.

I see where they're coming from, but I don't see how KF is defensible whilst 8chan et al aren't.
I use private keys but store them on a Yubikey. In OpenPGP format, not using Fido2 at present. I use OpenPGP for other stuff too like my password manager so I'm not ready to move to fido.

But certificates - no. I don't see the need for this in my home environment. In my opinion it only makes sense if you have a PKI, in which case you already have the whole CA scenario covered.
For some reason, I feel that name crops up very frequently in the discussion of sites keeling over to a HN death-hug.
Due to excess deaths from COVID, no doubt. Losing a few young people can reduce overall life expectancy by quite a bit.
And all 11 of those will still be in landfill when your childrens children are old and dying. It's a pity they didn't make them out of metals that could be easily recycled.
But is Canada doing better at mitigating the damage from the opioid crisis? For example safe injection sites presumably lower the fatality rate of drug addiction quite significantly.
How is a Chinese company spying on you going to affect your daily life?
Lovely story. Never knew any of my grandparents and my kids chose not to have kids, so no grandchildren to spoil.
Apple launch is set to be on Sept. 7th, in Cupertino. The new iPhone 14 and the updated Apple Watch are to be unveiled.
When I was a desktop tech, visiting a user with a problem, I carried a laser pointer with me. I could point to elements on the screen without getting my fingerprints on the glass and without invading the user's personal space. Laser pointers are pretty much useless on LCD. Not that I would ever go back; but it was a nice feature at the time.
I don't follow the .NET ecosystem closely enough, but it feels that releasing a mayor version every year feels like kind of unnecessary? Or if they intend to keep doing this, they should release LTS versions of some kind.

It feels kind of scary committing to .NET 7 right now, when in a year, it will be replaced by yet another major version promising ever increasing performance gains... Or is the difference between major versions not that big?