skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ttrpg nerd bait, my favourites:

Forbidden Lands: This is a whole old-school D&D exploration-based game. It's a big, huge setting with a lot of content to explore. Characters are simple to make, the rules are light, and it's easy to run with many groups or players dropping in-and-out without ruining the continuity of any stories.

Microlite20/Microlite70: These are super-small, cut-down, and free revisions of the old-school D&D style games. The rules fit in a couple of pages. It's all compatible with the enormous library of OSR content out there. And it's straight-forward to hack into your own setting, add your own house rules, etc.

Torchbearer: If you like the idea of down-on-their-luck mercenaries out on the edges of civilization robbing ancient tombs and hunting down relics for rich patrons in order to make a buck and scrape by; this game is great. It has the classic D&D feel of regular people picking up a sword and heading into the wilderness with plenty of story-telling hooks. Gameplay is much more structured than in Microlite* games but it's also very easy to prep for as a DM.

Burning Wheel This is the grand-pappy of Torchbearer (and other games made by the same publisher like Mouse Guard). It's a crunchier system than most as it has rule systems for debates, all kinds of combat, etc. However this game is more of a world-building toolkit kind of RPG where you are encouraged to build your game world and story at the table and pick which parts of the rules will be relevant to your game. Want a game with high political intrigue in a low-tech society with no magic but faith? You can use the rules for debating (called, Duel of Wits), skip on all the magic and creatures and limit characters to humans and faith-based paths. Want a high-magic setting with monsters lurking around every corner? You can build that too.

It's a bonus that the books are handsome and well made.

Root/Ironsworn/Powered by the Apocalypse: These are all games that use the same basic mechanics. More narrative-driven and light on the rules/mechanics. Generally pretty cheap to acquire and teach.

Wraith: The Oblivion 20th: My favourite World of Darkness setting. Very much not D&D... but still a TTRPG. I tend to play Vampire more because it's more popular. However this one is an overlooked gem of a game and setting. It's all about playing as ghosts and the afterlife. However what sets it apart from the rest of the World of Darkness setting is that it's possible to transcend from the world and have a good ending. This system, I find, is pretty rules-light and easy to get into... although it's the content of the game that's overwhelming! There are a lot of options for building characters and it will take a long time before you get a grips on all the different options. However stories here tend to be dark, dramatic, sometimes hilarious... it's worth making sure you're playing with the right group that can handle the subject matter and support one another playing through it.
Obviously there are important network effects but the behavior of some Goodreads users is often a negative at this point (as the article talks about).
So governments are supposed to let corporations run unabashed in their jurisdictions?

> You can't just go after a sector of your trade partner's economy just to compensate for your home sector's deficiencies.

Is that what the EU is doing, or is it what you yourself think they are doing?
I read all of them (lol hyperfocus) and got to 57 asking myself the same thing.

I believe the thread is still being updated. There’s a time difference of 6 hours between the initial and last tweet.
I agree that we need a new - less crufty - standard to replace HTML/CSS/JS but there's another point which I feel has been sorely missed in previous efforts.

I want a FUN standard. I want to make cool looking sites that are relatively scalable based on user hardware.

Alternatives like Gopher and Gemini never really scratched that itch due to how sterile they are.
According to your source of 3.2h a day it would be closer to 90h a month (28 days * 3.2h) for the shortest month we have.
There's 7 days in a week.
Saying Covid came from lab leak is still misinformation

The virus still shows genetic markers for natural origin. The “evidence” for lab leak is “it’s happened before. China. There was duct cleaning sometime”

Saying something over and over doesn’t magically make it more true. There is absolutely no good evidence what-so-ever for lab leak, while there is strong evidence (genetic markers) for natural origin.
Quite possibly, especially if skills from old method aren't easily transferrable to the newer methods. There could also be issues with capital concerns, both finance and tax related. Perhaps a combination of all of them.
Fireworks wasn't an original Adobe product but a Macromedia one they got during the acquisition. Adobe seems to have had some massive lack of effort for those (Flash being the prime exemple).
It's rumored Dylan Field (CEO of Figma) approached Microsoft [1] around the same time they were talking to Adobe but Microsoft declined to make a deal at the time (seemingly due to Microsoft's then in-process $69billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard).

[1]: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/11/microsoft-looked-at-figma-bu...
> created a monopoly by forcing users to switch to your product

Under what possible manipulated definition of "forced" are you using? That Apple makes a desirable product? That they don't replace their messaging app every two years? That they don't bloat the phone with garbage?

> [Apple] fostered a culture

[serious citation needed]
How does it compare to Baloosearch ? Baloo and KDE Plasma go nicely together !
You have to consent to invasive tracking cookies or pay (isn't that against the GDPR?)
1. His credentials are literally relevant to the evaluation that he is "some guy" and therefore not able to weigh in on free speech and related technology regulation. Specifically, this is his area of interest and he is capable of giving expert opinions on this.

2. The claim in question was within the EU's press release itself, however, the EU haven't made their specific evidence publicly available. It's quite likely that others also aren't allowed to divulge specifics but this doesn't mean that they haven't seen evidence or that the EU hasn't provided any evidence.
Elon Musk: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
For contracts and sales, I don't see much of a difference between a Chatbot and a simple HTML form. If a person who's able to form contacts on behalf of a company set it up, then it can offer valid contracts. If you don't want the tool to make contracts, don't use technology that can offer them or accept ones from users.
This wouldn't be if Apple had done the right thing and made iMessage a standard or worked with Google on RCS. No. Apple wants to control. Beeper wants to make a profit. Android users are tired of feeling second-class to iOS users when they have the same hardware. Lawmakers are still clueless. End-users just want to be able to send media to friends and family. You're right it's getting ridiculous. Apple has every right to deny and go after Beeper. Apple publicly will say its for the security of their users. The reality is it's all about their bottom line and making sure people on iOS, stay on iOS.
You don't need someone's social security number to send them to collections.
I'm a bit conflicted, there's some really good points mixed in with some odd-ball hurdles that I don't think anyone benefits from jumping over.

> Cheap to maintain: Most webpages should work indefinitely without falling over.

YES, holy crap this is what I find most annoying about some of the things I've made recently. Moving between computers, bringing over old projects, and of course dependancies break down and rot. Why can't I start this Gatsby 3 app? Who knows, the install fails. Aggravating.

> Cheap to leave: Opting-out of the web should be painless.

The age of total anonymity on the web is gone I think. Even if you try to be totally anonymous, it's pretty advantageous to have successful online media tied to your name. That makes it pretty hard to opt-out. It's a good ideal to have though!

> Cheap to access: Most websites should be compatible with screenreaders, etc.

Machine readable information is a shallow measure of accessibility. Just because everything is labeled doesn't mean your website is usable. It's a whole interface you need to consider. I would reword as "Most websites should be usable with only a screenreader" or "assistive technology".

> Cheap to participate: Interacting with the web should be possible on a Wii.

... what? An old, outdated, version of Opera?

> Cheap to explore: Exploring the web should be pleasant on 1W of power.

Why are we measuring power draw? Yeah your website can be intense enough to draw more power, but this just seems like an odd metric.

> Cheap to contribute: Making/hosting websites should be easier than scrapbooking.

Yeah, squarespace, wix, wordpress, etc... facebook?
I assume they lost something that's timely, like a transactional DB, where the "backup" would mean accepting the loss of some important transactions.
I hope you have a different roof in a safer location now.

It's a good reminder for everybody outside Ukraine that the war isn't just the news or the maps from the mil-vloggers; it's also lots of people who are homeless because their house has been bombed or demolished, their town occupied, and their lives disrupted in a myriad of ways.

I really hope we can start rebuilding soon.
Many states are cracking down on these practices and no longer consider “sorry you forgot to cancel” as a legal agreement binding you to a renewal. Common sense says you should have to consciously renew vs accidentally doing so via some bogus contract clause.

Of course if you’re relying on such gotchas to keep subscription numbers up you’ve already failed and are just on a slow march to irrelevance while leaving pain and destruction in your wake.
I feel like there are actually more great options out there today than back in the pre-subscription days of Adobe. It all depends on what parts of Photoshop you're actually using, but between Affinity Photo, Pixelmator, Capture One and many others, there's a good chance that you can find something for your needs.
Hat tip for the SBF VC quote. If anyone else doesn't know these (now truly meme-worthy quotes), stick the quote in Google to see VCs gushing about SBF & FTX.
New York Picture Map by Herman Bollmann, 1962
Depends on what kind of editing is needed. Most professional photographers I encounter use Lightroom, but they don't do any heavy editing like cutting out/in actual objects, but just modify color curves and whatnot.

Besides, Photoshop really isn't a competitor in any way to Figma, they have two very different use cases. Closest competitor would be Adobe Illustrator.
As someone who used to use multi-IM clients (Pidgin, Trillian, Meebo) back in the MSN/AIM/ICQ days, I have to say, it's surreal to see how the conversation has shifted to the point that this is now a reasonable-sounding comment.
There does exist a large subset of tech/crypto/ai entrepreneurs that operate as you describe. It is not the same as the definition.
Fascinating, i think you are correct. This website at least suggests that there are some other laws regarding domestic bribes: https://www.globalcompliancenews.com/anti-corruption/anti-co...

But "Domestic Bribery Act" seems to be a hallucination. I have so far only encountered fake sources or links that don't exist, this kind of hallucination is new and unexpected.

Thanks for making me aware of this, quite scary how utterly convincing chatGPT was in this instance.
> public utility

Can we stop labeling everything that people like a "public utility"? What is ridiculous phrase. At any point in time I can open 10 chat apps and talk to my friends.

There are _existing_ public utilities that have way more, _actual_ monopoly power than iMessage and federal, state and local governments do nothing - nay - support it.
Correct me if I'm wrong. But is it not the case that governments have been pressured to not be allowed to use Huawei technology in 6G and the like? Not being an expert but I think I remember things like that.

If you then own patents relating to that or similar technology and someone says "No you may not participate" simply because we so say, nothing to do with law, we just don't want you to. That maybe this sort of response can be expected ? If you kick someone long enough it's not surprising to see retaliation once in a while.
Is there a limit on speed? Can I attach a balloon, extremely long string, and parachute?
That's the worst part, the products are great. $20/month is reasonable for PS/LR considering that yearly releases were retailing for $500+ in the CS6 era. Cloud storage and generative AI credits are rolled into those costs. New features are showing up again. Regarding Photoshop, there are no real alternatives.

It's not that Adobe's depending on subscription engineering, it's creative pros 100% dependent on Adobe products being willing to put up with this shit because they have quality products with no alternatives.
Banks make money holding onto your funds. They invest those funds overnight for risk-free returns.

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

― Upton Sinclair
I'd seen 3.2h/day and $16.3/m from their earnings. Meaning $0.18/H.
The requirement also says nothing about not being allowed to raise taxes or reactivate the wealth tax so the problem isn't really that they need to "reduce the budget" just that they're not allowed to add debt and the tiniest coalition partner is threatening to jump ship if they raise taxes or cut subsidies to that party's donors (especially fossil, car manufacturers and air travel).
Those talking head vlog-style channels are more personality driven whereas big production channels are usually more content-driven. Big grain of salt here obviously, but IME the chips more or less do fall this way when you look at the bigger picture. If you're not going to put effort into standing out on the editing and production style, do you have a good enough on-screen personality to compete with the current top-dogs in whatever niche you'd enter? My guess would be that it would be much easier to stand out based on your knowledge you have to share and the effort you put into the presentation than on personality, because not everyone can be authentic and interesting enough on camera, or be a good enough actor.

Edit: on second read I realized the tone of this comment could be read as dissuasive. I wanna clarify that I mean the opposite, I do support you in trying to launch a YouTube channel, I know far too many people who I think would make for great YouTubers I'd watch! But I do feel like you're underestimating aspects of this just based on a figure estimated by a web-site which probably doesn't have fine-enough grained access to YouTube data anyway and I think it would be better to come into it with realistic expectations.
I tried the subscription for Lightroom CC and left my computer on at night to sync my meager 50-100GB to their cloud clusterfuck. Trial period ended after 2 weeks and the sync hadn’t finished – and no it wasn’t an issue with my bandwidth.

Yeah..
If you feel that way, then you literally know nothing about the characteristics of many colonial states as they actually existed. One has to wonder why you’re speaking so authoritatively on the subject of that is the case.
The ransomware group posted some evidences -> https://www.ransomlook.io/screenshots/rhysida/British%20Libr...

and the ransomware group details -> https://www.ransomlook.io/group/rhysida
Who do you think "run" France?
At the same time, however, Adobe maintains products with no clear competitors due to their quality. This is especially true for After Effects (for motion graphics in videos).
My understanding (I haven’t used a fine tuned one) is that you can use one that you fine tune yourself for narrow automation tasks. Kind of like a superpowered script. From my llama 2 7b experiments I have not gotten great results out of the non fine tuned versions of the model for coding tasks. I haven’t tried code llama yet.
> “Unilaterally” outlawed by elected governments who can be peacefully deposed, that is to say, not unilaterally at all.

Well... It took one signature on an administrative act and almost everyone in Italy, not in China, was under house arrest for 70 days with armed soldiers on the streets. No oversight, no checks and balances, no constitution, nothing. This warrants being very careful of any government activity.

And at some point someone even suggested to postpone elections.

But more on topic, the only reason the Commission is going gung-ho is because of the elections next year. They are very afraid.
Serious questions, I haven’t been paying enough attention to all of this to know the answers:

Looking at Beeper’s website, I can see

> We currently offer a 7 day free trial, afterwards there is a $1.99 per month subscription.

I can’t imagine any company being okay with another company reverse-engineering their product and then charging for it, without at least paying for the infrastructure they’re using. Why is Apple expected to accept it?

Isn’t the reverse-engineering against Apple ToS anyway? As far as I know, it’s a pretty standard clause in basically every company’s ToS. How is Beeper supposed to "win" here, short of that sort of ToS clause being declared unenforceable?
Not the OP and certainly not my case (cause I don't have a Netflix account) but I have lots of people I know who do more than 1.1 hours per day on Netlix.

I'm talking mostly middle-class millenials from an Eastern-European capital city, but I'm pretty sure the same thing is in place in other locations, too. These people have effectively stopped watching television programming and it's all video-streaming for them now, mostly Netflix but also HBO Max and maybe Disney.
But public utilities are a human right!
OK just checking.
thank you, I hadn't looked at the exact break down, just ran in to one of them a few weeks ago.

I found it surprising because I wasn't aware at the time there was any, and it's not like it isn't something I should have known.
Reminds me of the old battles with AOL Instant Messenger compatible clients like GAIM, that used the TOC protocol. Think that ended up in an extended cat and mouse game of AOL changing things to lock out GAIM and other clients while the developers found new ways around the changes. Not sure if there was much, if any, encryption being used back then for instant messaging system. If not, clear text would have been much easier to hack around.
I'm sure that I just missed it, or was ignorant: why would anyone treat Twitter as an authoritative news source? And why are we trying to regulate it as such?

Does that mean that any website can be treated by similar standards? Like if I write "Joe Biden didn't steal the election from Trump. He stole it from Michael Jackson" - am I making HN a fake-news website? If not, why not? What's the difference compared to writing the same on Twitter?

Once again, I might have missed the answer, I stopped clicking on Musk articles some time ago (not primarily because of his person).
>Even Maximo's case has been whittled down from 103 instances of infringement to just 5

That's like every ITC complaint in the history of ITC complaints. You throw everything at them and your best stuff sticks. They literally need one single complaint to stick, and they have 5. That is incredibly, overwhelmingly strong.

>Companies try to hire experts away from other companies all the time

Apple didn't just hire employees away from them. There would be nothing wrong with that (well, outside of the era of non-competes, which notably Apple was a big fan of and was a legal enforcer of, making that a humorous justification). Apple engaged in a classic "brain rape" to extract value without cost.

I'm a fan of Apple, but it is an extraordinarily greedy company. Maybe the greediest company in history. That is not a good trait, and it isn't beneficial to the industry as a whole.
Also FWIW, I'm in the UK and was likely dealing with a UK subsidiary of Adobe, so the laws would likely be different anyway.
The part of the player base that cares deeply about the lore of MtG was skeptical of having My little Pony, Warhammer 40k, Lord of the Rings, Fallout and Street Fighter cards (all real btw!).

The other thing is that there's a certain product-fatigue and format fatigue in the community. There are so many releases each year that it's increasingly impossible to give the monetary and time commitment to follow 100% of MtG. It was never a cheap hobby, but the price increases and the proliferation of products really is noticeable.

The old-school entrenched playerbase is also noticing that the formats they grew up with are becoming increasingly irrelevant. In-person standard-events in local stores are increasingly harder to find (and even if an event is planned it often fails because not enough people show up). The competitive tournament scene is almost completely dead. The big money-maker for wizards is Commander and you are thus seeing more and more cards aimed at that format, even in standard-sets.

In short: the extended universe is not aimed at the old-school base and can be seen as an unnecessary money-grab at best or as an "they killed my preferred format for this?!" outrage condensation point.

You are seeing the same thing in the MCU: it's hard to follow /all/ movies and TV shows and even worse: some of the shows are not aiming at the classically young singe male audience and thus shows aimed at female teenagers are produced. Some part of the nerd community sees that as a direct attack on their identity.
Tesla's ordering process is simpler (granted, so is their options list), but my test drive process was obnoxious. There was a very strong feeling of them only caring about people physically present with their wallet out.
Many aspects of society dictate that we use a phone. Apple forbidding interoperability of the phones so that you’re either all in or all out is anti competitive.
Ah yes, thanks for clearing it all up for me.
We do live in-studio briefings 3x/wk. These are both in-person and live-broadcast. The first thing we did was add an AI Co-Briefer who sits on the panel. The LLM latency makes it a bit hard, but it was a good experiment. The Deepgram worked brilliantly well with transcription across the entire studio, even for un-microphoned guest participants.

That live broadcast created a lot of buzz and numerous other use cases have popped up across the company. I'm working on a tech blog showcase next week to show it off on HN hopefully!
Nit-pick: automatic copyright came about in the US via the Copyright Act of 1976, which came into force in 1978. The Berne Implementation Act of 1988 finished the job of making the US compatible [1] with Berne that the 1976 Act started.

[1] There is an argument to be made that US copyright law still isn't compatible with Berne, but the rest of the world has decided having the US in Berne is important enough that as long as US law is close enough that you can make a hand wavy argument that isn't completely ridiculous everyone lets it slide.
Is the title accurate? Does anybody actually like to litter, as in if there was a garbage can right in front of them, they'd rather turn and throw it on the ground?

I assumed that they feel it's acceptable to litter, as in they're not motivated to find a trash can rather than being motivated to litter.

The article mentions "chronic litterers" but doesn't go into any detail.
Yes, and we all hope that the Missouri v. Biden case currently before the Supreme Court will add to that body of case law and further restrict government's ability to interfere with social media.

https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/4198285-missouri-v-bid...