skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Not AAA, of course, but with the definite goal of making the best game that such a setup could realisitically produce.

have a read up on Savage Game Design and the SOG Prairie Fire CDLC for Arma 3.

hands down, the best DLC ever created for Arma3. a good chunk of the original team were Unsung modders. they went down the road of CDLC, now they’re working on their own standalone game and a bunch of other stuff (look through Rob/Eggbeast’s posts on the SOG PF discord for more info).

Arma is actually a great way to hack something together for basically nothing. buy Arma, start scripting sqf to build a gamemode, create new assets in blender and stick ‘em in a mod, host a server. though the engine has lots of weird bugs/footguns, your costs are basically Arma+devtime+servers.

disclaimer: i’m a maintainer on the Mike Force multiplayer gamemode they released. do it in my spare time for kicks (although been slacking recently).
There's technology and then there's the sociopaths, and unfortunately the two are becoming increasingly conflated.

Yes the oligarchs will use this technology against the masses.
On the flipside, the masses can also use the technology against the oligarchs
I really appreciate Gnome's minimalism. It tries to do as little as possible and stays out of the way most of the time.
Yes. The work of Adrian Thompson at the University of Sussex.

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5UOUU7MAAAAJ&hl=en
Yeah, the part where clicking a non-selected card can play it is very unintuitive.

I was just remarking on the deselecting part, since I didn't have much trouble with it. Might vary per specific resolution/aspect ration.
Hexus is a big one, being UK-based and UK-centric they are just deleting 24 years of history rather than trying to geoblock around it.
there's cursor themes on linux and although you have to apply them in the usual wonky linux way, it's totally possible and it is independent of the window manager.

Of course some applications do their own cursor management so if you do it poorly your cursor hops around themes as you drag it over various windows based on the toolkit they use but then again, that's what we all signed up for.
Desktop environments are inherently very personal things and so what one person might find great, someone else might consider unusable. Themes are a good way to add room for user preference without forcing the user to change desktop environments entirely.

For example, before libadwaita screwed it all up I used to like to apply a custom theme to GNOME to cut down on the egregious padding everywhere, making the UI a much better fit for non-touch desktop OS use on a small laptop screen. There were several themes that accomplished that very well.
They would lose access to lots of tech for example top radar tech which is designed (and I think built) in Europe as well as lithography machines. We'll sell the latter to China instead of the US if they try to play those games.
Considering it used to look like this¹ it's no wonder why people (including me) were desperate to theme it. It took until the last two or so years for me to not care to do that because the default look and feel of gnome is now pretty good.

Still, I wished they offered some more adjustments rather than just a paltry selection of accent colors (you can't even select a specific color...)

[1] https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/gnome...
What sort of threat modeling would have prevented this?

There are plenty of mitigation and stonewalling going on, but mostly through the courts.

Executives must have some power, or else the process itself becomes the executive and there's no ability to respond to anything.

If there's anybody to blame, we must place the blame on the executive wielding the power, and those who have enabled this to happen by putting that particular executive in power by subverting the traditional vetting process. If a political party no longer performs basic vetting of that level then the entire party should probably be eliminated.
EM radiation, whether radio or visible light is photons, and photons only have one speed. However, electrical conduction is the movement of electrons, not photons.
A more relevant metric than admins/professor would be admin staff/scientific staff. Given that a research group under a professor will probably contain numerous associate professors, assistant professors, postdocs, PhDs, and research assistants who all generate some admin workload, 3 admins per professor does not sound outlandish.
The author of this terrible piece is Gene Marks. Some relevant background information on the writer: "Marks wrote an opinion piece discussing the trend of 'quiet quitting' and described those who engage in the practice as "not taking your job seriously" and called those who decided to just meet their obligations at their jobs, "mediocre employees" and put some of the blame of the "economic slowdown" on those who decided they didn't want to go "above and beyond" for their employees when they saw no reward for their effort." via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Marks#Career
I think macOS is a perfectly fine Unix operating system. I use it with MacPorts and it does everything I need the exact way I expect it to be.
IME, auto-vectorization is a fragile optimization that will silently fail under all sorts of conditions. I don't like to rely on it.
Gnome also made it _a lot_ harder to override the default Adwaita theme in libadwaita applications. Not impossible, just very annoying.

This happened together with a GTK UI redesign, turning it into yet another flat UI.
I check work slack a lot tbh.
Right or wrong I think many have misread the legislation or read poor coverage of it given people's reasoning.

Much of things boils down to doing a risk assessment and deciding on mitigations.

Unfortunately we live in a world where if you allow users to upload and share images, with zero checks, you are disturbingly likely to end up hosting CSAM.

Ofcom have guides, risk assessment tools and more, if you think any of this is relevant to you that's a good place to start.

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-c...
Yes, indeed, although the exact reference escapes me for the moment.

What I found absolutely amazing when reading about this, is that this is exactly how I always imagined things in nature evolving.

Biology is mostly just messy physics where everything happens at the same time across many levels of time and space, and a complex system that has evolved naturally appears to always contain these super weird specific cross-functional hacks that somehow end up working super well towards some goal
Tolerance is a social contract not a moral precept
We often weaken ourselves by thinking we have a moral duty to be tolerant, even in the face of intolerance.
That's still based on optimism (i.e., needs to be adjusted for risk), though; if the technology will massively increase productivity, the ratio should correct once those benefits start to be realized.

It seems like "many market participants are mis-estimating risk" is exactly the sort of thing that this metric is intended to measure.
Sure, but that number has been pretty consistent for almost 100 years. Almost every US Presidential election sees turnout in the mid-to-high 50% range.

I'm not contesting that people should be more engaged, but the "back in the olden days, everyone thought about things better and more than now" doesn't seem backed by data. Hell, 100 years ago we'd only just barely allowed women to vote.
Because you want the type safety of lisp with the simplicity of the jvm /s
Yes, I could do that, or I could block the only country which is imposing these burdens on me, keep my website running as it always has been, and call it a day. It’s a pretty easy choice.
Pop!_OS also has a built-in tiling window feature called "Automatic Window Tiling." It's integrated into the default desktop environment rather than being a separate tiling window manager like dwm. Nice to have something like dwm but without any fiddling.
The author doesn’t dispute that at all. The author disputes that high intelligence is necessary for genius.
Seems like an overreaction in some of these. Perhaps the people running them were close to the edge and more mental burden just pushes them over it.

It's like local US news websites blocking European users over GDPR concerns.
There are no documented cases of the UK intercepting and arresting a US citizen traveling through Europe for an act that is not a crime in the United States.

Extradition treaties, such as the UK–US Extradition Treaty of 2003, allow for extradition requests between the two countries.

They generally require that the alleged offense be a crime in both jurisdictions ("dual criminality") which ensures that individuals are not extradited for actions that are not considered crimes in their home country.
You can scroll through the lobste.rs moderation log to get in impression of how moderation on lobste.rs works:

https://lobste.rs/moderations

Also incidents like this:

https://lobste.rs/s/zp4ofg/lobster_burntsushi_has_left_site

This kind of stuff gives me hugbox vibes, i would not feel safe there. I'm somewhat sure some of the moderators use the website as personal political leverage.
You'd want to have cash on hand to cover your short position or you risk having to sell (potentially a lot of) your ETF to cover, which loses out on future whole-market upside. Still seems risky to me.

Or am I thinking about it wrong?
Park rangers and lab tech are highly skilled highly contextual roles. You can’t just go and pull someone off the street and make them experts in running assay machines or have decades of knowledge of a park and its terrain. There are plenty of people who can be churned for sure, but why are we doing this to them? There are ways of restructuring that’s thoughtful and mission enhancing, this is just wanton destruction to both our institutions and peoples lives and livelihoods - all because less than a majority voted for a single person - who is going against the will of the legislature and the majority of people. Politics aside, this is a time of sorrow and life altering trauma for a great many people. The profound lack of empathy for them and the acting like they’re somehow the “enemy” is just heartless.
There are certain terms that indicate membership in a particular set like management, sales, HR that include for a greater understanding of the particular field and a kind of othering of the rest of the human species because one's field is at odds with the rest of the population. EG only sales entertains the fantasy that it is serving the population by connecting needs and products. The rest of us recognize the cat stalking in the tall grass.

"Brand Infringement" is one of those terms. Apple ought to be worried that Samsung is copying look and feel of their iphone because they are directly attempting to entice their customers away from their most profitable market.

A theme for 0.5% of 1% of existing users of another OS to make their environment look like Mac carries none of the risk. Finding out if our judicial system actually considers it so it would probably require 2 parties and hundreds of thousands to a few mil to decide.

A threatening letter might well shut something down to no benefit to anyone and at a cost of good will.

So perhaps disengage boring business mode and enjoy nice things. After all do you really feel morally bad about theming your own desktop as if you should be respecting someone's "brand identity"
What happens when nearly everyone is suddenly addicted to something?

I remember much talk of "internet addiction" in the late 1990s, but rarely hear much of it anymore
Just food for thought... I have a hard time viewing the people who want to restrict speech as my ally. Quite the opposite. I'll take so-called (likely fictional) "trolls" over restrictions of speech any day of the week.
Me too. Not sure how it happened. The most recent is 2021 though.
I only had my teenage years before smartphone, but I always had a paperback with me.
I think you may have replied to the wrong comment or this is a very drastic non sequitur.
If companies can't pay a living wage or live up to basic requirements then they are inefficient, pointless companies that have a bad business model.

If companies are premised on the expectation that governments will fill the gap between what the company pays and what people need in order to simply live then those companies are premised on taxpayer funded government handouts.

You probably don't think of yourself as a socialist but what you're arguing for is socialism. And not only socialism but the worst kind of socialism: corporate welfare.
I think it was that or a similar test where it would not even run on another part, just the single part it was evolved on.
It's a different budgetary item. Unlike a household budget where people are given a general income and then asked to decide to spend it on housing, gas, groceries, etc. It's far more like SNAP, where the money given to you is legally bound to very specific things-- you can buy baby food but not diapers for your baby.
I agree on HN, though I think it's markedly different as it moves slow enough that you can just check it once or twice a day and get most everything you want. Whereas a lot of other social media is an unlimited feed of everything, ephemerally, and can make you feel like that if you blink, you'll have missed something.

I do check HN from my phone, typically in the mornings and night when I have downtime and don't want to watch TV or read a book. But I can't say I've ever been at a park, bar, or airport lounge and just itching to see what was going on HN this second.
I would argue that all aggregations of power are truly hostile, whether that's the US, the EU or Meta.
> If you dont have those you can’t really relate the sensation of cold / warm to the scientific concept of temperature

It doesn't make it less of a fact.

> Unless you blindly trust what someone else does

I don't have to blindly trust. I can just plainly trust. The same way I do with many things in my life.

If I limited myself to what I can perceive myself I would be limited severely. And also wrong many times because personal perceptions are sometimes flawed and misleading.
How do they handle hidden dialogue options? One of the most amazing things about the series before 3d was you just talked to people about things and often they had something to say about the topic. Like you can ask just about anyone about the avatar or blackthorn. There’s a donkey that figures out he’s inside a video game, etc.
> The current president is governing for the 3rd time already. I understand this is allowed by Brazil's constitution and he was technically elected democratically but doesn't inspire a lot of confidence regarding Brazil's democracy.

I don't understand why this doesn't inspire confidence for you. Angela Merkel was Chancellor of Germany for four terms, do you feel similarly about Germany's democracy?

I'm not saying Brazil's government is perfect or corruption free by any means, but when I ask for examples of what's wrong with it, "the president has served a number of terms less than or equal to the maximum permitted by law" doesn't seem like a good primary criticism...

Granted, Lula's approval rating is not great.
There is nothing Go-like about Dockerfiles. The file naming seems to be an offshoot of Heroku's "Procfile" convention. I have no idea where the syntax came from, but it's superficially a very simple "SHOUTYCOMMAND arguments...\n" grammar with no structure beyond sequence-of-lines. Perhaps it's the more imperative cousin of the ".env" files popular with web devs.
Because you’ll spend ages at the charging station?
By that do you mean influential with the Obama/biden administration?
That's the very article I remembered, but couldn't find, when I wrote my comment.Your google-fu is better than mine!
In a sense, Adrian Thompson kicked this off in the 90's when he applied an evolutionary algorithm to FPGA hardware. Using a "survival of the fittest" approach, he taught a board to discern the difference between a 1kHz and 10KHz tone.

The final generation of the circuit was more compact than anything a human engineer would ever come up with (reducible to a mere 37 logic gates), and utilized all kinds of physical nuances specific to the chip it evolved on - including feedback loops, EMI effects between unconnected logic units, and (if I recall) operating transistors outside their saturation region.

Article: https://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits/

Paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/2737441_An_Evolved_...

Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/2t5ozk/wha...
it's not that simple - illegal and harmful content can include things like hate speech - worth a longer read... https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/14/online_safety_act/

If I ran a small forum in the UK I would shut it down - not worth risk of jail time for getting it wrong.
tl;dr: Upper case letters can be represented in "alphanumeric" mode, which uses 11 bits per two characters (5.5 bits per character, but padded if the length is uneven). Lower case letters are not included in alphanumeric mode, so the QR code has to be represented in byte mode, which uses 8 bits per character.
Would be cool to watch a demo use case.
That's correct. You should never touch a public door handle with your bare hands. And often you don't have to. Many doors would be opened for you if you just pushed them, and some would even open themselves on their own if they saw that you wanted to get through. But, hold on, let me blow your mind even further: you should also never eat food that fell on the ground, even if it was less than 3 seconds.
I’m deuteranomolous myself, but I disagree. Color, shape, labels, and location can all combine to be useful for recognition. Using color alone is definitely a mistake, or making color the only difference between two icons. But combine distinct shapes and distinct colors (informed by color-blindness awareness) for the best results.
it's very odd that China doesn't really care about an estimated 100K of its citizens getting trafficked in this manner.

It's such an open secret that there was a $500MM box office movie about it last year, and media censorship is so heavy in China that I wonder what admitting this even means.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_More_Bets
Totally agree - I think the agents are honestly incentivized to not identify themselves
They do seem to have difficulties related to differences in work culture: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/ts...
If you want grant and VC dollars, you’ll rebrand things as “AI”.
Somebody once tried to clarify the situation with a similar stunt, but failed spectacularly. From the NOLF Wikipedia page:

In May 2014, Nightdive Studios, a publisher of classic PC titles, filed trademarks for "No One Lives Forever", "The Operative", "A Spy in H.A.R.M.'s Way", and "Contract J.A.C.K.", Nightdive had also been able to acquire the source code for the games, which would enable them to remaster them for modern computer systems. However, Nightdive had yet to comment on the situation regarding who owned the rights to the game. At this point, the rights to the series were unclear, as the property may have been owned solely or in part by 20th Century Fox (which owned Fox Interactive at the time of the game's release), Activision (which acquired and merged with Vivendi Games, which in turn was the parent to Sierra Entertainment, the publisher of No One Lives Forever 2, and had acquired Fox Interactive in 2003), and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment (which acquired Monolith Productions). Warner Bros. did file opposition to Nightdive's trademark, leading Nightdive to try to seek a license arrangement. However, Warner Bros. representatives were concerned that if either Fox or Activision had a part of the ownership, that they would also need their approval. Nightdive attempted to work with Fox and Activision to search their archives, but as these transitions pre-dated computerized records, neither company wanted to do so. Nightdive's efforts were further stalled when they were told by Warner Bros. that they had no interest in partnering or licensing the IP, leading Nightdive to abandon their efforts to acquire the rights.
A major source of administrative and non-teaching staff is that many universities have added things like 'a hostpital' on the side. This is reasonable when you're running a med school with a research component: you need patients to work on, after all. The hospital provides a high standard of care to the community that it serves, and creates both revenue and costs, far in excess of any DEI program.
Yes, essentially.

The perturbation of the electrical field causes EM radiation (radio), which moves at the speed of light.
Btw, Grok explained the point you brought up rather well. I am personally finding AI to be better at explaining concepts than writing code with imaginary API calls.

"Random Motion: Even without current, electrons are jiggling around at high speeds (~10⁶ m/s at room temperature) due to thermal energy. The electric field just adds a slight bias to this chaotic motion, resulting in the net drift."
Will not be great when China invades Taiwan and global supply of TSMC output evaporates as TSMC destroys the fabs to prevent takeover.

> Earlier this year, he said: "Disabling or destroying TSMC is table stakes if China is taking over Taiwan. Would we be so insane as to allow the world's key semiconductor company [to] fall untouched into the hands of an aggressive PRC? Taiwanese should realize that would be the least of their problems."

> Earlier this year, the US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo told the House Appropriations Committee that a hypothetical Chinese invasion of Taiwan and seizure of TSMC would be “absolutely devastating” for the United States.

> She said that “the United States buys 92 percent of its leading edge chips from TSMC in Taiwan,” meaning any disruption to that supply chain would have a significant impact on the US economy

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/trumps-undersecre...
This is just Peano arithmetic with extra steps
Thanks for your reply.

"Never stop seeking the answer"
Show HN: Cardog – AI interface for vehicle ownership
Hi HN! I wanted to share something I've been working on after an interesting pivot. Last year I built a vehicle search tool that ran into legal issues with major listing sites. That experience led me to tackle a different problem - making the entire car ownership experience more accessible and data-driven.

Ended up building an AI interface that helps research any vehicle, access documentation, and manage ownership - think having a car expert, market analyst, and personal assistant rolled into one. Core features:

- Natural language interface to research any vehicle, parse manuals, and search relevant web/YouTube content (think perplexity for cars)
- Monitor market values and listings across North America
- Track maintenance, service records, registration dates for your garage
- Store ownership documents, recall info, service bulletins

Live demo: https://cardog.ai | Example: Ask about reliability ratings for the latest SUVs or "What should I look for when buying a used Model 3?"

Would love to hear what aspects of car ownership you find most frustrating.
A big part of the problem is that Docker has insisted on there being a "registry". In a better, more open, world, a container image would just be a thing fetched over HTTPS from anywhere that can serve large-ish files.
I will host public proxied site for these websites, open for UK people, just to troll them :D
You can write/generate OpenAPI in JSON. There are also many GUIs out there
Just a reminder…

There are cloud infras (“clouds”) that are wholly independent of the large, entrenched, politically connected providers like Amazon and Microsoft.

We think of this as a monoculture wherein every single thing is somehow built on top of AWS. That’s not true.