skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, you didn't read the article?

It doesn't say that making the trees further apart prevents the movement of the beetles, it's saying that the tree density is so high that the individual trees can't draw enough water to produce the sap that protects them from the beetles.
At the very least, wouldn't an attorney be required to establish an attorney-client relationship?

BTW here's some legal advice: don't jaywalk. I think it's illegal in some places.
That's a title tweak, even as "Why Discord is Winning" would be the same interesting content.
Considering Netscape was released in December 1994 and SSL came out in February 1995, there were a lot of things still in infancy.
I've been trying to figure out if Discord is actually a competitor to Slack as I've never seen anyone use discord for anything but gaming.

That said, the experience is pretty fantastic for what I've needed it for. Slack is fantastic as well, especially the paid version. If Discord can pivot into the "professional" space, I would certainly try it out.

The problem I have is that all of my work situations are tied to MS Teams and that's likely to never change within the ORG I'm contracting for. Teams is absolute trash compared to Slack. Between downtime, the way channels are organized, the way files are organized, the way discussions are organized, the way notifications are presented, I just can't get any comfort level with it. No one at my company even uses Teams for voice/video conferencing because it's so poorly performing (I've not experienced this tho), we all have to use Zoom.

I never thought Discord was going to do more than what something like Teamspeak did, but they have really done an incredible job. They have pretty much single handedly made native game voice chat irrelevant.
Huh... that's actually faster than I expected. I figured that the normalization processing overhead would be higher than that.
Related from 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24810464
I don't mean to be dismissive, but I do have a few nitpicks:

> Complicated setup process. Any new member must also go through a setup process.

> Paid hosting. No one wanted to pay when there were free options. Especially true as servers grow.

To my group at least, the ability to self-host is a major bonus and provides peace of mind. For the record, I do use Discord for text channels. My group primarily uses and prefers Mumble for VOIP, and it is plenty cheap to host. Setting up a Mumble client as a user is not complicated, based on my experiences inviting folks to our server.

> Unclear benefits. Convincing one person was not enough, you needed to convince your whole group of the benefits of switching.

> Weird ideological reasons. Your platform was your tribal affiliation, switching means abandoning your tribe. Everyone looked down on people who didn’t use the same platform as them (even if it was jokingly).

How is Discord any different on these points? I'm really not seeing it.
Acronyms are similar to slang/jargon in that they are understandable only to a specific audience, and may have a confusing meaning for someone unfamiliar.

Which makes me wonder if the author of the article used the noun "ask" deliberately, and whether it simply means "question".

Using that word out of carelessness in an article about the clarity of communication, with a mention of non-native speakers would be ironic.
m2 connector is something we are still experimenting with. The first two nodes are exposed to mini PCI express port, the third node is exposed to 2-ports 6 Gbps SATA controller. You can use the network file system within the cluster to access hard drives from other nodes.
When I started gaming we used irc, then xfire... and eventually those led to Discord
Not sure why, but even your fixed version is showing up as binary junk for me. Firefox 78.3.1esr on Windows x86_64.
How many other chat apps have support for custom emojis that can be used cross-server. Thats half the fun of nitro.

On the other hand voice calls get me extremely frustrated thanks to random disconnects and dropping audio streams while telling me. I have a good connection. Nothing like repeating myself 3 times before my friend pings me to tell me he can't hear me and having to disconnect and reconnect a couple times before it works.
Grain State of the Union 2020
Voyager's the main character. Once it goes too far, we'll just cease to exist.
I legitimately don't know what you are considering to be a personal attack. You said the media don't care about verifying their stories. I said you don't understand journalism if you think that is true. That isn't intended to be a personal attack. Maybe there is something else I said that you took offense to. I will happily apologize if you point it out and it truly crossed a line.

You are free to ignore this since you said you have no interest in this conversation. If that is the case, I will take a cue from the upvotes I am receiving and the downvotes you are receiving that the HN community thinks I am in the right here.
This reads to me as a B2B play.

Discord's customers are those Twitch broadcasters, who give "flairs" and other digital goods to their customers ("subscribers").
>I replied to "basically every elite athlete is doping." That's definitely BS

True in Curling i never heard of doping. And trust me even your friend would not told you if he takes doping (no saying he did).

And again not every Sport profits from Doping and not everyone takes them but lots and lots of them do, and having a blind eye because of profit is the unfair thing for the honest and sportsmanship'ish peoples.
Well, you have to read past my first sentence. It's a list of things not a thesis statement. Together they make Discord notably bad compared to even other proprietary software. Especially since unlike MS Word where people pay money for the product Discord's product is the user.

But in particular the problem is that it's web crap and it pulls down it's code every time you run it. And now with the websocket backdoor it doesn't even have to do that. This is very different from a compiled program.

It's not surprising but it is also not acceptable. I chose not to use it and encourage others to avoid it.
it might be a naive approach. I just ignore that cheating even happens. I assume everyone is not a cheater. If for some reason they are a cheater, i believe they will just get discovered after a while or it will be their internal satisfaction loss. I don't pour my heart into the game, it's just a fun distraction.
But I feel for the more serious players, the paranoia must be so annoying.
Woah. Glad you figured out the cause! That reminds me of a Reddit post where someone thought they were being roofied and raped, but where bed bugs were found to be the ultimate cause of all their symptoms.
Perfwise, we have a user that previously used fail2ban to block some http botnets. He crunches 7000 IPs worth of logs in 50 mins with F2B. under a minute with CrowdSec. Another block 3000 IPs doing credit card stuffing directly at payment page, very quickly as well.
as far as i know both faceID and touchID require Secure Enclave, so that would be apple only.
Probably the same as what they did with Apple Pay, and (re)launch a comparable function with Android?
Thanks for pointing this out. This kind of stuff is why I love HTML.
Discord has so many features that make it feel like it was made by and for gamers. Like the "currently playing" statuses, or "streamer mode" that hides identifying info when you have OBS open. It also works better than anything else for large communities with its roles/notifications system. It has a good design but I don't see it as particularly playful, just really well executed
>And if you’re worried about positioning, there’s nothing saying you can’t put your <title> in your <body>

Well, the specification says you can't.

>You can just declare <html> and start spitting tags.

Strictly speaking, <html> is not required too. This is compliant HTML:

<!DOCTYPE html> <title>something</title> hello

But that's just notation thing, implicit element will be automatically opened/closed, all rules still apply. Thus

<!DOCTYPE html> hello <title>something</title>

is not valid, because 'hello' implicitly opens <body>, and <title> is not allowed to be there. Of course all of these would probably work in practice, because there's no junk that browser wouldn't happily accept. Discussed quine also violates standard, because it misses doctype and places <style> tags in body.
I think it's proven it doesn't work because the RPi CPU doesn't have enough BAR (Base Address Register) space. More details in this discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20399652
No, please don't add derision to HN threads. When someone else is wrong, it's enough to supply correct information. That enhances the thread without damaging the commons.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The time I shamefully built an AWS Lambda app and did not use AWS API Gateway
Perl and Lua have separate arithmetic and concatenation operators

1 + "2"
#3
1 - "2"
#-1
1 . "2" | 1 .. "2"
#"12"
1 . "-2" | 1 .. "-2"
#"1-2"

Python and Ruby throw exception, use explicit type conversion and string interpolation

1 + '2'
Traceback (most recent call last):
TypeError (String can't be coerced into Integer)
1 + '2'.to_i
#3
"1#{'2'}"
#"12"

Hardly any language is perfect, I have not encounter much of operator overload in ruby (nokogiri?) but I believe C++ got it bad.

One number type in Lua:

> 0 | 0xffffffff
4294967295
> 0 | 0xffffffffffffffff
-1
> 0 | 0x7fffffffffffffff
9223372036854775807

limited but better than JavaScript:

0 | 0xffffffff
//-1

BigInt is an improvement

0n | 0xffffffffn
//4294967295n
0xffffffffffffffffn
18446744073709551615n

it is strict

1n - "2"
1 + 1n
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot mix BigInt and other types, use explicit conversions

works nice with string interpolation:

`${1n}`
"1"

Numbers is a sane example. One can argue it was for good. How about `{} + []`? I believe I can disable this part in JavaScript engine and no one would notice. And misleading `object[key]` where it calls toString, sure I have not tried that in a decade but it is stupid. UTF-16:

""[1] # there were emoji
//"�"

You've said nothing about constructor oriented programming. Unique feature, I have not heard any other language adopted it yet. The post you've replied contents sketch for Ruby. Actually I've got it wrong — every JavaScript function is a closure (Ruby method is not closure) and Prototype method was a class method (not instance method), fixed but ugly:

def function(&block)
Class.prototype.new.tap do |c|
c.define_method(:initialize, block)
end.instance_method(:initialize)
end

def function_(object, name, &block)
object.class_eval do
define_method(name, &block)
end
end

Person = function { |name|
@name = name
}
function_(Person.prototype, :name_) {
@name
}

john = new.call Person, 'john'
puts john.__proto__ == Person.prototype
puts john.name_

def function__(object, name, &block)
object.singleton_class.class_eval do
define_method(name, &block)
end
end

function__(john, :name__) {
@name
}
puts john.name__

By the way, you can say "Yes, I know JavaScript has some problems". It is not a secret, everyone knows.
Yeah, Discord still impresses me with how clean the interface _feels_ to put it simply. I remember only being on the Discord web client for a long time and remarking how much I enjoyed the interactions despite not being a native app. Then I loaded up the console and was pleasantly surprised to see it was all built in React. I suddenly felt very insecure about my own skill with React :p
Another factor is the indirect effects of climate change that can cause nonlinear impacts. E.g. a single unusually warm winter could cause the population of bark beetles to swell, weakening or wiping out large swaths of trees (this has happened in Yosemite for example).

Source: https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/60/8/602/305152
Makes sense. I'd encourage you to have a good talk with your partner to see how each of you can give the other time to step away from parenting guilt-free. It's important to find that, for both of you. It might sound silly to ask them to give you three hours to play D&D, but it's not. This is actually even more important to do if you feel you have a parenting situation that neither of you can step away from, not less.

I've been in the same situation with LoL and parenting in the past, letting down a 5v5 group, so I totally understand the hesitation. My problem was that I was trying to sneak in the time instead of being honest about what I wanted from myself and my family right then. It's just about being more intentional with the time commitment. And recognizing that D&D is much more forgiving of unexpected surprises than MOBAs are--the GM can always say you're off running an errand or just roll for you if you have to leave during a combat. You'll find many groups are forgiving of being a new parent.

Also, keep in mind non-parents also have things come up. It's not just us. My D&D session Saturday night cut short by two hours because the GM thought he had recovered from a Friday night migraine, and he suddenly realized how tired he was. We had been planning the night for two weeks but it was totally okay to wait and plan a time to resume. It's all normal.
> Setting up a Mumble client as a user is not complicated,

This reads like the Show HN: Dropbox thread; UI/UX for Mumble is typical of engineer-design. Setting up a client as a user and being told to set up client certificates for mTLS and export your certificates with a strong passphrase to not lose access to your server is an insanely high bar for casual gamers, though a lot more secure.

The mumble wiki literally has the sentence "For more information about certificates, see the Wikipedia entries on Public key Certificates."; PKI is barely well understood by many engineers. The last time I used it, setup also suggested that instead of a self-signed cert, you got an email-verified mail signing certificate from an actual CA.

For comparison, Ventrilo and Teamspeak are heavily DRM encumbered, your servers go offline randomly when the licencing servers go down due to frequent attacks as they phone home and get no response, have utterly insane ToS that near totally shuts down community servers [you aren't permitted to run your own, Ventrilo will not even sell you a personal licence, TeamSpeak shut down their non profit licence thing and revoked all of them], forbid you from self hosting on your own infrastructure and tell you to buy from their 'hosting partners paying per slot', but you just get an admin password at first start of the daemon.
Critical thinking and community values do not exclude conspiracy theories. They just reduce the number of docile sheep and shoiuld allow room for discourse and investigation. That being said, critical thinking is more or less (at least in some western countries) a thought crime of sorts.
Is there any answer other than TempleOS?
>I don't understand why Twitter chose to remove it for "hacked materials" rather than saying it was fake.

Probably because they have no proof it is fake.

One of Biden's campaign surragates, Jenna Arnold, said "I don’t think anybody is saying they are inauthentic or not." It seems like the Biden campaign is not even denying it.

If they removed this for being fake and it turns out to be accurate they would be called bias for not removing fake things about Trump.
This looks cool, but the pricing is absolutely insane. I saw $10-30 per session. Dming is a lot of work, sure, but that is a steep price. I don’t know many people who would pay $120 a month to play DND.
I can’t comment on Teams vs Slack, or on its other productivity features but I’ve been using Teams on a daily basis for some fairly large meetings and it’s never faltered - way more reliable than Skype was at least.
I'm curious about "Apple Anonymous Attestation". Is Apple taking on any liability by providing this service or is this all done on hardware through private APIs?
Other platforms have supported this for a long time. https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/windows-10-says-hel...
EDIT: I'm wrong please disregard.

You can have it. You just need to do everything in cash and not use the banking system. Of course, there's a lot of advantages to the banking system... But you can still use things like safety deposit boxes for storage, gold to help protect against inflation, etc.
Intel Nears Deal to Sell NAND Memory Unit to SK Hynix
Perhaps "Specification-Driven Development" would be a better descriptor.
isn't it only money laundering if the funds themselves were illegally obtained? if I buy crypto with my wages from a legal job, put them through a tumbler, and then buy a dildo, why is that a problem?
Too Cheap to Meter
I don't know about everyone else, but I also seem to be moving to different chat ecosystems every two or three years. From Campfire to Hangouts to Slack to Discord.

I miss IRC.
That's actually how I usually practice, by section...

I think I'm finally gonna try something I've been thinking for years: Photocopy a score, then take scissors to it and come up with a condensed version with only the parts that I blank on. I might discover that in a four-page piece, I only need a half-dozen nudges.

Thanks for the thoughts, Jacques!!
That would probably mean politicians that would push for laws making your life easier. Like lower taxation / easier avoidance, support for complex blurry ownership structures etc. Those on top are the best bet.

Its interesting that neither US nor Europe does see anything wrong with direct monetary sponsorship of politicians before elections (on top of lobbyists which are seem to be proper legal bribing middlemen)
Discord has 300+ million users (based on the forbes article). Even if everyone were paying for the cheap $5/mo nitro classic (which is worst case scenario for revenue, but best case scenario for # of paying customers) subscription, that's 24 million paying subscribers, which is less than 10% of their user base. Seems pretty reasonable given that the free tier includes so much.
Hi - this looks great, but can you share what your plans are for the premium features in the futures? It feels like the big value here for you is the crowd-sourced info that you can aggregate from all users. What concerns me is investing time in a tool that builds value for you but then the features get stripped back when the premium offering lands.
Cheers.
You mean like all the higher end CPUs that don't come with one either... gasp the insanity!
I do not know anything about Calfire, but I have worked with a few other fire crews at state and federal levels in California and neighboring states, and while they have and love nice fire equipment--would you want bad eqp in an out of control wildfire?--most of it is 100% usable in prevention tactics. As another commenter mentions, fire crews are almost universally very interested in preventative methodology and more broadly in forest ecology--it's in the job description, and certainly necessary for a career path.

Whether or not a given crew is assigned to fuels or other fire prevention tasks in a given jurisdiction depends entirely on the budget priorities of that jurisdiction. In turn, that jurisdiction has to work with whatever annual budget trickles down from administrative and executive levels.

Regarding California, I know too little to speak with confidence on government spending. People I know who live there are work in land management have always said that forest (fire) management has been neglected for many years.
Looks like it's "just" another authn method for using the phone itself (or more precisely, the "secure element") as a WebAuthn/FIDO2 dongle. So the specific UX is Apple-specific (although it could of course be replicated by others), but the API is generic (and already exists).
If you're using monero correctly, no one should know you own any.
Is this really much of a problem? I have a VPS that's been online for years, serving port 22. I average about 200k attempts per year. I have it set to pubkey only, root can't login at all. If you connect without sending a pubkey, it pretty much instantly tells you to go away. I don't bother with fail2ban.

Maybe I should start logging attempted pubkeys as a side project just to see what pops up.
Mods: Subtitle is "Ultra-low interest rates have fundamentally changed the arithmetic of renewable energy". Feel free to update the article's title to something more appropriate.
Mixing and transaction obfuscation are built into good old fashioned cash, right? I wonder what the legal basis is there, and how that could be applied to a cryptocurrency with cash-like properties.
> Synthetic fertilizer yields the most pounds of produce, but the yields of nutrient-dense food, soil microbes, insects, atmospheric carbon sequestration, etc. are all abysmal.

Please explain how synthetic fertilizer reduces the yield of nutrient dense food. I can't find anything to support this in my cursory searches.
>Except the bit where he admitted it.

Let's just agree on this: responding with a troll response to a Marxist troll who accuses you of being complicit with a Bolivian coup, is not 'admitting' anything. It boggles my mind how you can possibly think otherwise.
This example is wrong since the US tax system is graduated. The tax rate for salary bands only apply to that salary band and not your entire salary.
I was diagnosed 3 years ago,A1C was 11%. Doctor gave me 2x Mitformin and other meds and said I should probably start insulin within 6months.

I never took the meds they gave me. I started a keto diet righ away and never looked back. Now my tests have been all showing I'm in pre-diabetes range.

I eat healthy and walk everyday. I don't miss sugar anymore and I do have fast food once in a while.

What I eat:
- Chicken, fish and some meat
- eggs, salad, cheese, milk, tea, coffee
- sugar free biscuits and sometimes sugar free Ice Cream
- a lot of water
- vegetables, and a special bread, no rice

I also found out that my insulin get released during lunch and later dinner, but not much during breakfast or after lunch. So I time how much I eat accordingly.

The nurse didn't believe her eyes when she saw my results and asked me about what diet I used.

I did prick my finger a LOT in the first 3 months but it was worth it, as I now know exactly what to eat and what to avoid.

I used a forum extensively (UK oriented) to follow my diet [1]. Hope this helps.

[1] https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/#diabetes-discussion.12

Edit: above is not a medical advice nor should you follow it to beat diabetes, it's only my personal experience.
Hah, at my last job, email was only used if you were talking to a lawyer. Mostly to write stuff for the record as in:

Hi Corporate Counsel,

As discussed, I am now doing the thing, description description. Thanks.

Otherwise email was just a way to write something down that you didn't want read or acted upon.

Corporate communication varies quite a bit, of course.
Actually, we ARE in Ypsilanti. Ann Arbor has worse options then us--they don't own their poles and they're a bigger city. We're small enough and have the poles to make us a better target for small time rollouts. I'm loving the fiber life style though.
One thing I don't see mentioned is marketing. All of that investment allowed discord to purchase an obscene amount of advertisement. Heavy advertisement of a 'free' product targeted toward children seems like a prerequisite for adoption, but I'll admit that this take is as light on actual analysis as the parent blog post.

I have mixed feelings. On one hand, it seems like the more toxic (to borrow the phrase) IRC users have moved over to discord, however it also breaks my heart when I find a FOSS development community that uses discord exclusively, as it's not currently possible to use it without giving them a phone number.
Multi billion dollar does not mean revenue, it means valuation, which discord has well surpassed [0].

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/30/discord-now-has-a-3-5b-val...