skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read this[1] review on Steam which also raises the same point as you.

The thing that made The Talos Principle, The Witness[2] and similar games so great was that they spent a lot of time on designing the puzzles.

I'm not opposed to a Groundhog Day sort of scenario, but in that case it really needs to be done well, like The Stanley Parable, not just rely on pure RNG. If you want to use RNG you really should have some constraint system involved to ensure at least some progress could have been made by the player.

[1]: https://steamcommunity.com/id/ADHunter/recommended/1569580/

[2]: If you've played The Witness but haven't played The Looker, you've been missing out IMHO.
Saying that BlueSky resembles Facebook comments isn't exactly a glowing review.
It's actually a pretty-well documented phenomenon. (My familiarity with it stems from having served as editor in chief of one of the primary administrative law journals.) I will try to dig up some articles to provide as sources, but many are behind hard paywalls (e.g., on Westlaw subscriptions, etc.). If it's not already there, put your email in your HN profile and I'll do my best to send some to you.
The title is strange: In german news there was nothing that sounded like "super hightech ministry" not even a "superhigh tech ministry". But the ministry for "education and research" got split, assigning education to the ministry for family, leaving more room for the research part which got an additional focus on technology.
Exactly. I thought it did, just didn't want to claim too much about it. Been a couple of months since I looked at it. I wish things would coalesce around this one.
Contrarian takes without empirical evidence remain a rare occurrence however.
> To be fair...the other side was just as ferocious when someone postulated that the election was rigged, or that COVID couldn't be stopped by masks. You're essentially asking for conservatives to be the bigger person and stop the blood feud.

Did anyone have their, and their coworkers', security clearance revoked just for saying either of those? (There are other activities that could have been taken by people saying the election was rigged that could have led to a loss of security clearance, but I don't think that just the statement did it.)
I have a hypothetical. Let's say you attend a rally and give a hate speech and the entire event is live-streamed / recorded for posterity. Can you use "right to forget" laws to impel all sites hosting that video record to blur out your face in the original videos?

What's the functional difference to writing a bunch of hate speech with your username and wanting it scrubbed from the "public record" (which I would argue a popular forum such as HN would be classified) using RTBF?

Same thing if you wrote a "Letter to the Editor" to the New York Times expressing something distasteful. I don't see how anyone should be allowed to wield RTBF as a tool for suppressing information.
Isn't that too traditional of a list?

Sometimes I feel that this list is just a syncretic body of knowledge built on top of previous anti-fascistic thinkers.

A numbered list of items? Jeez, that is a very simple way of pushing an idea forward to a lot of people, isn't it?

You know, nevermind. I won't think too much about it. Let the women do it this time.
My main gripe for work laptop is that Windows 11 is dog slow. I think they have rewritten Explorer but not for the better. Word is also driving me nuts. The formatting does a ton of weird stuff that's totally unpredictable. Outlook has this weird flat UI where it's hard to tell what is a button and what isn't. Search has been broken for a long time.
Or you scan the printed form (which you filled out electronically), and send it by fax.
Enterprise can pay the rising susbcription costs without blinking, a solo business will think twice.
Dungeon of the Endless is another interesting game about essentially opening rooms/doors. The frantic rush to move the diamond thing to the last room while swarming alien creatures try to stop you is very interesting.
To explain further. I can't imagine why anyone would post about Jews on my local NextDoor or FB group. It's just not a topic that comes up outside of Jewish community events, like holidays. There are certainly no Jewish community events in Bangladesh. If they are writing posts about Jews like were posted about Rohingya, then maybe it's not just "posts on Facebook".

You are the one who seems to be uptight, bringing up the topic of bombs (?!), and scolding me to relax. Maybe you should relax.

P.S. for those wondering, my flagged comment simply asked why Jews would come up as a topic at all on a local Bangladeshi group. The irony of it being flagged in a post about censorship is piquant.
That's not true at all. You should read The Canceling of the American Mind (though get it from the library, because it's not really good enough to own imo). The authors very clearly lay out the evidence that there has in fact been an increase in the sort of online lynch mobs we call "cancel culture". It comes from both the left and the right, and the increase has been noticeable if you look at the data.

People have always tried to use social pressure to strike at people they didn't like. But there really has been a marked increase in occurrences in the last ten or so years.
> MDN disagrees. See the huge red warning here https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/EventSource

It should say "When used over HTTP/1" instead of "When not used over HTTP/2" because nowadays we also have HTTP/3, and browsers barely even use HTTP/1, so I would say it's pretty safe to ignore that warning.

> Unless you mean on HTTP2?

Any version of HTTP that supports multiplexing.

> But aren't WS connections also multiplexed over HTTP2 in that case?

There is RFC 8441 but I don't think it's actually implemented in the browsers.
> It's never as simple as the White House calling up Mark Zuckerberg and saying "hey, silence X".

The government got so comfy it really got to be that easy:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/zuckerberg-says-the-wh... (Aug 27, 2024)

> White House, “repeatedly pressured” Facebook for months to take down “certain COVID-19 content including humor and satire.”

> The officials “expressed a lot of frustration” when the company didn’t agree, he said in the letter.
One of the innovations in NT 4.0 was adding the ability for video drivers to crash the kernel. They went full circle.
Seems like a Good name
Late to the party here but we (Sentry) have been using ECharts since 2018 (https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/pull/9072) and still holding strong!
You're seeing this entirely from the perspective of people who do programming as their job. I'm seeing it from the perspective of the other 99% of society. It feels really good that they're no longer gatekept by the rigid and cryptic interfaces that prevented them from really communicating with their computer, just because it couldn't speak their native tongue.
> I did as best I could to devour the library.

You'd have to devour the library of congress, and every public scientific paper, and most of the text on the internet. Likely much more than you could read in a lifetime.

Then you'd have to be able to regenerate a realistic imitation of any book, on demand, in a minute, for a few cents.
> Async by contrast puts everything into one giant processing queue

I don't know about node but C# has async contexts you can use .
"Join our site if you're enraged" users act enraged.
Smoking kids is indeed very bad. They don't burn very well.
How is it not modular? Yes its all in one repo, but most of the parts are modular. Every distro adopts different parts of it.
It is exciting times in animal communication.

This is not just distributional information analysis in the sense that ‘tokens’ are grounded in other ‘tokens’. They’ve grounded these calls in naturalistic situational context. This is hard won data.

If I understand, the finding here is that bonobo calls are “non-trivially” compositional, e.g., the semantic embeddings of pairs of vocalizations point in different directions surrounding the base vocalization. But it seems there is no “trivial” compositionality in the sense that constructions like [good __] might point in a similar direction. I would expect this latter result. This seems like a conspicuous absence? Is this really compositionality? Not sure what to make of it.

Some interesting context: bonobos and other (non-human) great apes are believed to have more intentional and flexible control over their gestural repertoire than their vocal repertoire and that these gestural repertoires are larger. Human language likely evolved from gesture (or so some believe). So, if their vocalizations are in fact compositional, it may be a separate evolutionary prong.
> don’t believe Europe can create unicorns so it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy for their investments

There sure would like though. What I've followed in the Horizon program was a fixation of chasing "last years" technology.

Problem was , that for all those funding programmes they had quite stingent company requirements which stopped startups and small companies from having a go at it. Larger companies had no issue navigating this process and chewing the cash without actually delivering good or innovative products.
'Liberation' from What? Unbalanced Trade
While it’s not 100% perfect (no horn from the forehead of his helmet) I’d say this is far beyond 90%. I can imagine reading books from project Gutenberg on a future reader app that automatically makes pictures of each scene which are consistent with each other and faithful to the text, on the fly as you read.
"Kind" people is a shibboleth. "I'm kind to kind people" = I'm looking for an excuse to not be nice to someone.
The point of these is to signal you have money and are enough of an insider to know the high-status brands - or at least high-status enough for that particular social group, who use them to reassure each other they're not in the vulgar Rolex set.

They serve the same function as a designer handbag - although you can at least put things inside a handbag and carry them around.
The article does mention it, but I agree that the story is incomplete without a clearer idea (including examples) of what is being censored.

> "A Human Rights Watch (HRW) report investigating Meta’s moderation of pro-Palestine content post-October 7th found that, of 1,050 posts HRW documented as taken-down or suppressed on Facebook or Instagram, 1,049 involved peaceful content in support of Palestine, while just one post was content in support of Israel."
Robotic Gripper Based on Measuring Tape Is Sizing Up Fruit and Veggie Picking
I'm addressing the assertion that mean comments will scare off 'normal people'. It hasn't yet on Facebook, Reddit, Instagram etc. Brand pages get blasted everywhere, it comes with the territory.
Cue the goalpost moving.
I don't really agree with the cost argument when the subscription is more expensive in the long run. Nobody needs to upgrade Photoshop every year, they're going to go 2-3 years (if not more) between upgrades. And when you do that, it's much cheaper to buy up front.

Renting software is just plain a raw deal for the users. It's more expensive, plus you don't get to keep it after you stop paying. The only one who wins is the vendor.
> grounds for deportation,

Sadly but nobody is entitled to student visas. They never were. It's mostly at the whim of the state department and they may revoke it for a variety of reasons. Minor misdemeanors or getting caught with DUI would also lead to losing a visa. It's really a "walk on eggshells" kind of situation. Yeah, in some cases appealing and finding a lawyer may help but it's huge uphill battle.
This couldn't be more incorrect. I document German bureaucracy for a living. The hardest part of my job is that every state, city, office and case worker applies the rules differently, making it really hard to predict a specific outcome. In most cases it plays in people's favour, unless the case worker is particularly grumpy and you happen to hit one of their pet peeves. I struggle to document the variance for Berlin alone.

The biggest issue with German bureaucracy is that it's largely paper-based and has little to no automation. In many cases, digitalisation when it happens just means sending documents digitally instead of delivering them during an in-person appointment. This leads to very long processing times that are constrained by available labour.
It's all skewed, obviously. It's all about alignment.
Facebook is not the same there as it is here. It's not just a fun app you use, it's a huge part of how African and Asian countries interface with the internet. Trying to lead a group effort to leave the platform wouldn't work at any scale other than complete unanimity, and you're going to have trouble reaching that with the people benefiting from weaponizing Facebook.
I think it’s pretty apparent that to some degree there was a loosely organized effort of government employees, media, and prosecutors that exists/existed committed to derailing Trump at all costs over the last 10 year, but it’s capabilities is obviously lacking at least in regards to being successful against Trump.

I suspect that the same effort that against any other person would likely be successful. However, Trump has this crazy mix of tenacity, “don’t give a fuck”, and natural insight into grassroots political positions that cause people to be willing to overlook scandals that would destroy any other politician or public person.
So people in government claiming it was rigged should probably lose their jobs, as they were advancing harmful narratives related to their jobs. Journalists were (rightly) ridiculed, but there is a significant difference. I might not use a mechanic who is antivax; I would advocate a doctor be fired.
Poor people have an incentive to find ways to make unwanted (aka cheap/available) food taste good, this simple fact is responsible for peasant food all over the world being generally amazing and why even a lot of upper class dishes have some origin as a lower class food.

I’m in Texas and we’re pretty well known for brisket and fajitas which are sourced from fatty/undesirable cuts of beef.
I haven't looked into this but most of these have D-Bus interfaces no? Why couldn't you use them without systemd.
They want AI image generation to go away. That isn't likely to happen, but their best hope would be to make copyright claims or try to turn the public against AI companies with accusations of misappropriation. Adobe's "ethical" image generator would be immune to those claims while still doing nothing to address their primary concern, the economic consequences. It takes away their ammunition while leaving their target standing. Are they supposed to like a company doing that or does it just make them even more upset?
Yes. 31%, at least for now. The administration is...mercurial.

Although one might argue that an additional 31% on a watch that retails for six figures is not going to make a difference to the kind of buyer that spends six figures on a watch. Even if a US watchmaker existed, this kind of buyer seems unlikely to substitute a Vacherin or a Patek for something made in Cleveland.

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/workplace-switzerland/adding-up...
Facebook has size and inertia. Bluesky is small so needs high status early adopters. Such people have reputations to maintain so will avoid toxic drama like Bluesky. The sites are in different life stages.
Affinity Photo is excellent, indeed Designer (Illustrator alternative) and Publisher (InDesign alternative) are excellent as well.

Qoppa PDF Studio is a great alternative to Adobe Acrobat.

Both offer perpetual licences.
The current life + 70 year (or 95 years after publication for works for hire) copyright regime is excessive, and contrasts with the copyright clause in the constitution (limited time, promoting progress.)
So what did you do this friday?
My assumption is that it has something to do with machinery processing.
I gave up on the puzzle because it was too hard for my end of the week brain.

But, a couple of UX suggestions:

a) It shouldn't be possible to drop tiles on the grid outside of the word boundaries

b) Dropping one tile on another should swap their positions.

With both of these implemented, it'd make it easier to move all of the letters onto the grid and then try different options, without too much fiddling.
As a German coming from Mannheim, and now living on the Canadian West coast, I have to say that this is exactly the mindset that makes it so difficult to innovate in Germany. While people have a top education and know everything they need to, they don't have a "digital mindset". I think of myself now as computing process, and see myself as a cyberneticist in the German philosophical tradition of Hegel, Marx, Hilbert, Gödel and Bloch, but even I more often than necessary mistrust innovations.

Almost all the science fiction and cybernetic work of the last 75 years came either out of the Eastern block, or out of the US. There is basically no German sci fi vision, and there is extreme reluctance to speculative, big picture thinking as it is pursued in Silicon Valley. Software companies grow quickly and need a very different approach. Silicon Valley mostly understands this scaling aspect and winner take all markets really well. German investors are cheap and extremely risk averse, I tried to build a software company in Germany and it is hard.

While a lot of the current AI work was also done in Germany, e.g. by Schmidhuber, Germans are stuck in their business model. I recommend Münchau's book "Kaput" (or one of his podcast interviews) on how poorly Germans have adapted to the non-industrial aspects of a modern economy (read: "services"). I really hope that more tech founder thinking like Benz, Bosch or Siemens returns to Germany in a modern form. But I don't see it yet, and Germans are still super reactive and conservative to larger changes. The Greens tried to think a bit out of the box, and were heavily punished for it. In general there is basically no political representation for building a new successful economy. At best there is this nice little narrative about the long established "Mittelstand", which has produce almost zero software companies. The first step right now would be to own the idea of the EU, and wanting to win instead of complaining.
> the provision allows the secretary of state alone to “personally determine” whether he should remain in the country

That's how it always worked? This idea that someone is entitled to a student visa is just odd, and I am speaking as someone who had a variety of different visas, including two student visas. You're really at the whim of the state department. It just takes getting notice, a minor infraction, not submitting a renewal on time, or lying on a form and you're done. Lawyers may helps there is some way to appeal but it's an incredible uphill battle.
The same LWN article says:

> The contents, however, should still be "bit-by-bit" identical, even though that phrase does not turn up in Fedora's definition.

So, according to the literal interpretation of the article, signatures inside the payload (e.g., files that are signed using an ephemeral key during the build, NOT the overall RPM signature) are still a self-contradictory area and IMHO constitute a possibly-valid reason for not reaching 100% payload reproducibility.
The article forgot to mention websockets add state to the server! Load balancing will require sticking sessions. At scale this tends to mean separating websocket servers completely from http servers.
Everyone knows no one can beat physics. That doesn't excuse claiming you can beat physics.
So it's a totally subjective metric which measures whether anyone claims to have "had difficulty" buying food at least once during a calendar year. Not that they didn't get enough food--just that they had to exert effort to get it.

This is not evidence that people are going hungry, though it is clearly designed to give that impression.
From your keyboard to god's inbox.

You might enjoy Joshua Citarella's Doomscroll podcast.

Repeating myself: Very few people within a system will work to reform that system. Why? System justification theory? Pulling the ladder up after oneself? Mr Smith Goes to Washington? I honestly have no clue.

For example: public financing of campaigns. The painfully obvious correct solution. Initially, I naively thought every politician would be onboard. Fund raising sucks. All the players complain about it. So of course it'd be an easy sell.

(I worked on adjacent issues. Us ragtag groups would support each other's causes as able. These activist communities are very small. eg fairvote.org)

Now 20 years later, how many jurisdictions have public financing? And in the places which did adopt it, it's under constant siege.

Ditto ranked choice voting.

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I support building a Climate Cabinet style PAC for every issue. Laser focused. Money ball for campaigns, matching contributors with select candidates. So an org fairvote.org would strategically support candidates committed to RCV. (Of course, it'd have to be new org. Because it's super hard to rewire an existing org to function differently.)

I have no clue about building movements. My pathetic attempts failed utterly. I'm wide open for ideas and input.
Only if they don't have a legal pretext for it.

For instance, if a state's schools had decided to reintroduce segregation, obviously cutting off funding for them would be defensible as pursuant to executing civil rights laws.
Back to crank starting a car? We have come full circle.
>Another difference would be that you are allowed to express your opinion, whereas in russia you would be put to jail, that's true but only in a very limited way.

Although not even close in number and punishment the US government is deporting people for speaking against Israel.

I think we do have a much better system because we are aware of these cases, you can speak out about the issue, and our court system can rule against the current admin.

What makes this possible to either the level of Russia or the US is how much the supporters of the regime want it. This is regardless of morality, legality, or the precedent it sets.
I would think that anyone advocating for or cheering the death of civilians would be valid reason for removal. Criticizing Israeli policy, being supportive of Palestinians in general, or contradicting Netanyahu's talking points: not a valid reason for removal.
I would categorize that as infrastructure, not a dev tool. Terraform and terraform cloud on the other hand…
AWS most certainly is not just dev tools. AWS is a physical product (servers, drives, cables, networks, switches, cooling, monitoring, redundancy, security...) that you merely interact with remotely. You can't recreate AWS just by writing code.
I dont know about US. But in the UK there is a different between Public Servants and Civil Servants. And to the public or at least the discussion of the topic they are largely one and the same. However jumping through these jobs would technically put them out of Government employment.
So with that logic, google shouldn’t ever buy anything from anyone…

Clearly false.
Seriously what are all those doo dads attached to the rifle?

Doubt she knows. What stuck out to me was the hair. Long hair should be worn neatly pinned above the lower edge of the collar when in battle dress unless something changed.
“Bats: Bug Scourge of the Skies!“
Yes, that class / character unlock system is very common. Some purists will say that a traditional Roguelike cannot have these unlocks but I don't mind them. It definitely is a way of gating the game's complexity so that a new player doesn't have to cope with it all at once.

I think it should be optional though. There should be an option to unlock everything from the beginning for players who don't want to fiddle around with that stuff and just dive into the full experience. Players like Jorbs can feel so strongly about it that I think they're actually offended by games that try to curate their experiences to that degree.