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My kneejerk reaction to the headline was that this might be a service to connect existing groups to vetted, high-quality GMs, like a premium service aimed at the sorts of folks who'd otherwise spend a ton of money on TTRPG tables and miniatures.

But this is more like a rideshare model, where you're looking at who's available for a given timeslot/location, then jumping into a game that's determined by the GM. With online games, you're also likely playing with strangers.

This makes the whole thing feel more like a permanent convention/event setup — you pay for a seat at a table and agree to work with whatever's handed to you. Which is great, but it also has to compete with similar free game matchmaking as well as those types of (now also virtual) events.

I'm also confused about the age tier filters — the "No Use By Minors" section of the ToS is very clear about users under 18 being prohibited from using the service, but there are game filters for games that can include players ages 9-17. That seems impossible without breaking the ToS.

The Code of Conduct is welcome, but it's stowed away in the bottom of the ToS. For a social product like this, it would benefit from being much more prominent and discoverable. It's also unclear how to report issues with or violations of the CoC; there's a contact email and URL in the ToS, but they point to a different domain of startplayinggames.com, and the Contact form URL in the ToS just plain doesn't work.

More importantly, the CoC doesn't appear to give the GM the ability to define additional conduct rules or expectations that don't necessarily delve into content sensitivities — can players be late, show up unprepared, play intoxicated? Can a GM remove a player who is following the CoC but otherwise being disruptive? I see some who state they will in their profiles — if they do, does the player get refunded, and from where does that refund come? What potential consequences are there for players or GMs who remove a player from a game?

What's the revenue split look like? I tried the "Become a GM" link from one of the GM profile pages, but it pulled up a blank profile, presumably because the footer links are all relative? https://startplaying.games/game-master/become-gm
I'm surprised by the negativity on this thread, so I just want to mention that I think this is an awesome podcast, and I get a lot of value and entertainment out of it. For this episode in particular, I thought the conversation about RISC-V and Swift were both really interesting. For people that feel the need to continually troll Lex for his voice and interviewing style, you are free to create your own podcast if you think you can do a better job.
> We have found that organic no-till practices year after year do not yield optimal results, so our organic systems utilize reduced tillage and the ground is plowed only in alternating years.

So.. by no-till they mean occasional till?

My naive thought on no-till is that, in addition to reducing erosion, the soil gains a poorly understood yet very beneficial network of information and nutrient sharing that builds over time (eg mycelium). Tilling destroys that. Also I read it works best with diverse, cooperative planting instead of mono-crop factory farming.
If the site provides a trusted certificate for gmail.com, things are fine. IP shouldn't matter, port probably will.
I have the same experience. Anyone know why we cycle around like that? Melatonin and blue-light blocking glasses have helped a lot, but it still feels like my body wants to stay up at least 1 hour past the previous day.
Sharing my horror story. Rented a flat (with 3 flatmates) in Oxford as a student. The place was 'close' to a river, for a generous definition of the word, but, certainly not right next to it, or close enough to even think about flooding when we rented the house. Two months later, the river floods. Every single house in the area was equiped with sandbags which they took out, because apparently this was a very common occurence in the area. The house basement got completely flooded, like 1.5 meters of water, (and destroyed some stuff we were storing in the process). It got to the point where we were worried it would reach the electrics and short-circuit. The agency washed its hands on the matter.
Fast forward a few months, the agency was arranging house viewings for the next tenants, and it happened to be flooding season, with the basement again having 1.5 metres of water. They deliberately chose a day when we said we would not be at home for their viewing, and said to the prospective tenants that they could not show them the basement because we had 'locked' it or something, "but there's nothing down there anyway". Apparently that group signed the same day.
U.S. Charges Russian Intelligence Officers in Major Cyberattacks
I do not, except from sporadic NPR series on the costs of wildfire fighting versus lack of attention on wildfire prevention. The governor just committed another $2B (I recall), and much of it to go to fighting I believe.

Honestly, I would be glad to see some analysis and find that my uninformed impression is incorrect.

I also find it interesting that I'm being downvoted for raising such a fundamental question. As if the money is clearly being used in the right way.

More money for planes, firefighters, modeling fire behavior:
https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/07/09/ahead-of-peak-fire-season-...

https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4172

Although some discussion of prevention: https://www.npr.org/2020/06/07/867395353/california-was-set-...
Because you cannot predict the future of your program. Coupled logic that seems correct now may need to be uncoupled in the future.

By having every sector of logic be ungrouped it leads to maximum reusability for the future.

Technical debt is at the lowest possible level in projects where every piece of logic is uncoupled. In fact the very phenomenon of Technical debt arises from logic that's hard to uncouple. By having every sector of your program be a lego brick you are preparing your program for an inevitable future where the structure must be reconfigured.

Grouping logic together is like super gluing lego bricks together because it seems like they belong together.

There's a term for this style of coding that's actually negative. It's called ravioli code. But the negativity mostly applies to when this style of coding is used in OOP.
Each farm is different - in fact within a field there is enough variation that the best management is not the same across the whole. Thus you cannot subsidies any one practice.

What the subsidies do is subsidize insurance. Buy insurance and if you have a crop failure you get paid as if you had the average yield over the past 10 years. However your average goes down as well for the next failure so better not have too many bad years in a row.

Organic despite the name is not the best thing for the environment. Some of it is, that quickly is normal farming. What is left is not using safe chemicals, instead using much more harmful - but natural - ones, or tillage to control weeds. (Note that this article is pushing no-till which is conventional farming today)
Ugh. I hope the upcoming discrete GPUs from Intel [1] and ImgTec [2] are competitive, because Nvidia desperately needs more competition. The Nvidia Linux driver situation is the single worst part of using Linux for me. I've lost count of the number of times Nvidia has rendered my machine unbootable for one reason or another.

[1] https://www.engadget.com/intel-xe-gpu-gamers-130000411.html

[2] Yes, ImgTec/PowerVR is getting back into the discrete GPU game! https://www.imgtec.com/blog/back-in-the-high-performance-gam...
I don't have it, I was just thinking about what my ideal 'to do list' type app might look like.

For personal use, as in general tasks not necessarily code for any particular project, so I haven't really envisioned any such integration.

I just get bogged down/stressed thinking of numerous things I want/need to do, there's some interdependence, a few may occur to me at a time or be particularly weighing on me on any given day, and I'd like a way to graph the dependence, actually view it as a graph, annotate some tasks with their priorities (but not all, some might be 'don't care'), and then find out which is the next thing I need to do.

Since the next thing isn't necessarily the highest priority thing, as annotated (or stressed about), it's the first thing on the path (dependency chain) to the highest priority thing. Attempting to see that clearly as a mental picture is what causes me most stress, I think.
Should we apply this same rule to the NYT's article on Trump's tax returns? They never proved authenticity other than to say that they had "an anonymous source." It seems one group of people are completely fine with accepting the NYT article on faith, but dismiss the New York Post article as obviously fabricated.
Oh The things we had to do to debug software
The Unbundling of the Venture Capital Industry (2010)
That would be an awesome field to move into. I'm so hungry for a field where I can use programming to solve problems so far away from the code itself that perhaps I could escape the cargo-cult mentalities and just focus on getting the job done. Such was life at a manufacturing firm that couldn't care in the slightest what language/pattern/framework (those questions scared management because it meant there was part of their business they didn't understand) was used as long as it gave them what they wanted.
Question everyone should be asking - where are the federal lands versus the state lands, and what is the proportion of state lands that have burned versus federal lands that have burned.

The insinuation of that statistic is that federal land management should be blamed as much or more than the state of California. That may be true. It also may be true that the actual lands that have been burning and been poorly managed are more state lands than federal lands. California is obviously a large state. That's why we need to know what percent of the burnt lands are actually state versus federal before I'd deem the statistic in question to be useful.
Good point, it could have just been a figure of speech to refer to natural fog or clouds.
This! We could have reduced our GHG footprint by 20-30% for the last 3 decades just by having gone nuclear in the 80s and 90s.

What's crazier still are all those "extinction rebellion" types who oppose it even now because "it's too late now" and "we'll have better storage tech in 5-10 years". It makes absolutely zero sense. What rational mind when faced with an impending existential threat wouldn't take a known good solution over a potentially better solution down the road? At least temporarily if not forever, but but alas we have to let perfection be the enemy of the good. And that's assuming what they want is even achievable or desirable in practice.

I swear half of the "greens" you meet are actually just malthusians in disguise. They don't care what happens to the environment as long as they have theirs, others be dammed.
This is a nice resource. Many moons ago when I first heard of Kakoune [1], I wanted to write some of my own plugins for it. Whether or not the philosophy has changed, back then it was 'just use shell scripts and make sure they're POSIX compliant'.

That's when I learned about things like named pipes, the `mkfifo` command, and that it does take quite a lot of conscious effort to not accidentally include a convenient bashism. That said, there was nothing stopping you from writing the main functionality in another language and just shelling out to it. No need for the editor's config language to include primitives to do most of what a programming language would give you.

[1] http://kakoune.org/
I look at it with the rubrik: KISS is for coding. SOLID is for system design.

There is overlap obviously but SOLID becomes even more important when you have N+2 systems that interoperate. KISS is one way to help ensure you have a SOLIDly designed system when you are coding it. But it helps to understand the principles in SOLID when you are designing a monolith or a set of microservices.
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NanoAdblocker and NanoDefender have been sold to unknown Turkish developers
Caught in the crossfire? NVIDIA has been skirting around the GPL for years with its Linux module, without ever contributing back. They've being hindering the adoption of Wayland for years due their refusal to implement GBM in their driver. I guess they kinda deserve the flak, especially since AMD and Intel have shown the world time and time again that you can have a fully open GPU driver merged with Linux without any negative downsides.
curious how much of this is BLM that is directly managed vs. permitted out to others for management
Yes, it could be served as an SVG. However, going to a medium page that just redirects you to this link without any explanation is not ideal either. A link change would still be better.
Do you have plans to support non-MacOS platforms in the future?
You can be successful on 10 acres - serving those high labor niche markets. Or you can be successful on 3000 acres. It is hard to be in the middle.
There are perhaps 5 or 6 viable parties where I'm at. Don't like any of them enough to have ever voted.

I find many of my positions represented in the American mainstream but not by any (viable) parties domestically.

Also a big reason for the fragmentation of parties is simply how rigid they are internally. Most political parties in Europe are governed like private companies. Few have primaries and when they do they tend to be fairly limited. When there's infighting between major players the simplest thing to do is often to just setup a new party. There's not much of a culture of political affiliation or involvement. Just because you might have identified with some party doesn't give you much of a platform to advocate for anything internally. If you don't like it you need to find a new one.
Nice overview! A few comments:

- homomorphic encryption is much much faster now, so the latency argument against won’t hold much longer

- with multi-key FHE, you could replace MPC, without the integration complexity and increased bandwidth cost

- Trusted Execution Environments are not about protecting user data (that’s the purpose of FHE) but rather about protecting the software itself from people having access to the physical machine. An example would be running a sensitive ML model in the cloud: you would want to use FHE to process the user data encrypted, inside an TEE that would protect your model from the cloud vendor.
The paper didn't recommend throwing money at firefighting, it recommended throwing money at forest management, for long-term forest resiliency.
The majority of the content on the site isn't specifically Maya related, though Maya is the main DCC for the studios so it's definitely a focus.

The aim of the post was more to bring visibility of Python involvement in the process, not to be an explicit deep dive
Isn't this report advocating that thinning the tree population would have blunted the effect of the bark beetle problem?
Note that this config flag specifically only applies to the roots installed in your local systems that are not trusted by Microsoft.

So "completely legitimate" these sites may be, but they aren't publicly trusted by anybody, it's just that somebody used Group Policy in your organisation to trust the issuer. So configuring your Firefox to copy other browsers and accept this is fine, but you should go into it eyes open.
It's not just an illness when it's chronic. It is part of who you are and it helps to think of it as something that defines you uniquely and differentiates you, instead of something that is just limiting your life.

It's hard. You have to go through pain, fear and disappointment but at the same time going through all that is a testament of your strength and gives you a unique perspective around life and experience in general.

That's on a more personal perspective based on how I managed to deal with the psychological effects of something similar. The current thread has some great advice on many other aspects of dealing with it.
This is partly an aside, but I often feel like homogeneity in plant (and animal, I suppose) consumption and production is a part of this that is rarely discussed. That is, I think there's a lot of unused potential in domestication of native plants for agricultural use.

I bring this up mainly because one of my first thoughts in discussing, e.g., US corn agriculture versus Subsaharan agriculture is whether or not you'd even be able to compare them well because the crops optimally suited to each would often be entirely different. I think often probably so, but at the same time I wonder if things would look different if the same volume of money and resources were put into things that assume different consumption preferences.

I'm not opposed to conventional agriculture, and don't believe in pointing fingers when it comes to food sustainability (in an ecological as well as humanistic sense). I do sometimes wonder, though, if conventional practices are often driven by assumptions or factors that are unwarranted or problematic in themselves.
If it's had changes since Adler's 1993 copy, then it doesn't matter what Adler says.

Grab the original rather than taking code out of GPLed projects if you don't want GPLed code.
We don't use voice assistants for privacy reasons. I'm OK with the tradeoff of my location being public because it's just not interesting (I alternate between work, home and the gym), but it's very important to me to not potentially have my verbal conversations leaked or recorded.

That's my tradeoff matrix, yours may be different.
I love reading these go projects. I don't use Go professionally and spent minimal time with it on side projects. Apparently that was enough for the language because I can hop right into the codebase and basically understand everything in one-shot. A big language benefit, even if it maybe it was frustrating at times for the author.
China hit $1.988 Billion, overtaking North America's $1.937 billion thus far in 2020.

In 2019 North America brought in $11.4 Billion while China brought in $9.2 Billion. For obvious reasons, 2020 is hardly representative.
There is plenty of good info in the other comments but the two things that help me are diet and meditation (I have Rheumatoid Arthritis and it also seems I have Gluten Intolerance/Celiac (cause/relationship??)).

I think with any chronic illness diet plays a big part as when your system is down the food we eat doesn't get processed as well as we like. That is, if you eat junk/processed foods your body can't deal with the 'artificial' components as well as it can real food (no or little human interference).
The side effects of poor food choices for me are lethargy and 'brain fog' along with exacerbating my body pain levels. On these days I no longer fight it and just rest. I recover much better/quicker this way rather than trying to fight through it.

Your illness can consume you at times and this can be quite depressing. Learning and practicing some type of mindful meditation can bring you back to some kind of normal, even just 10 minutes a day can make a big difference and I do notice this if I skip a day or two!

Stay well.
Bad to know that you've picked nvidia GPU
NVIDIA needs to find a way to fix their driver situation.

If they want to be #1 in AI, they must realize AI at scale takes place primarily on Linux.
A countess is properly addressed as “Lady” and title, not by last name. Her family called her Ada, so she would be introduced as Lady Ada Byron-King, Countess Lovelace.

Her father was George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron, but he’s usually referred to simply as Byron.

At some point “Ada Lovelace” stuck as the common way to refer to Lady Lovelace. I have never seen her referred to as Augusta Ada Byron-King.
If you want to spend firefighting budget, preventative measures are about as expensive as fighting the fires, and you're still going to get fires anyway. If you are thinking purely in cost of appliances and man-hours, putting crews in the middle of nowhere running controlled burns is pretty costly.

In Australia, cut funding to firefighting caused a reduction in preventative measures, which significantly worsened our 2019/2020 fire season to say the least. An outcome that was signaled to policy makers by the firefighters well in advance of the fires. Pretty much the opposite to the scenario you've described, but in my opinion an outcome that was fairly obvious.
In case it helps: https://lexfridman.com/joscha-bach/
Gore supported the war in Afghanistan
Interesting details:

> These GRU hackers and their co-conspirators engaged in computer intrusions and attacks intended to support Russian government efforts to undermine, retaliate against, or otherwise destabilize: (1) Ukraine; (2) Georgia; (3) elections in France; (4) efforts to hold Russia accountable for its use of a weapons-grade nerve agent, Novichok, on foreign soil; and (5) the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games after Russian athletes were banned from participating under their nation’s flag, as a consequence of Russian government-sponsored doping effort.
The submitted title ("State of California Knew the Fires Were Coming") was badly editorialized, which breaks the site guideline about titles [1]. We take submission privileges away from accounts that do that, so please don't do that.

All is not lost though. If you want to say what you think is important about an article, you're welcome to. Indeed, that's helpful. Just please do it as a comment in the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's [2].

The main thing we're trying to avoid is submitters using the title field to promote their interpretation of an article. Titles are by far the largest influence on threads, so it's important that they reflect the underlying content neutrally. Otherwise, simply by virtue of being the first (or luckiest) person to submit an article, one user would have the power to frame it for everyone else, and that would lead to an entirely different kind of site.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
Exploring public opinion about liability and responsibility in surgical robotics
They have the authority, but do they have the duty?

Also, "could" doesn't mean that they do. From your very own link:

"States can obtain authority to own and manage federal lands within their borders only by federal, not state, law. Congress’s broad authority over federal lands includes the authority to dispose of lands, and Congress can choose to transfer ownership of federal land to states. States have legal authority to manage federal lands within their borders to the extent Congress has given them such authority. As an example, Congress has to a large extent allowed states to exercise management authority over wildlife as a traditional area of state concern. Congress could give states authority to manage certain other activities, resources, or other aspects of federal lands. Congress also could give federal agencies authority to delegate or assign responsibility for aspects of federal land management to states or other partners."
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Is there a TL;DR of why this is so tricky?
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> The department is also grateful to Google, including its Threat Analysis Group (TAG); Cisco, including its Talos Intelligence Group; Facebook; and Twitter, for the assistance they provided in this investigation.
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