skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I don’t count this one.

It large companies there are enough “information fluctuations” that some fringe OS projects emerge. Microsoft had super-secret project Genesis, then some managed kernel project I don’t even remember codename of. They even make sense from top-level management perspective (“What if we are missing next big thing?”) and allow creative talent to chill out doing something cool without going to competition.

But at the end of the day these projects don’t amount to anything. If they ever become threat to mainline org, they are consumed in the political battle and grunts are re-orged “to integrate developed technology into the main product”.
I don't know anything about forestry practices in California, but these are record breaking years for wildfires around the world: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/16/climate/wildfires-globall...
Are there different servers for her games? Is it with friends she made in person in the past or are these friends she made via these online communities?
Pretty much. The sneering calls from checkmarked writers for some of these on Twitter for genocide of "bad places" (like where I live) is always unnerving. Some might be joking, but some of them really do believe everyone in the southeast is a tea-sipping, noose-making, dog-kicking monster. And those same people will insist they're very pro-LGBTQ and anti-racism as they call for the genocide of every person they claim to be for in those regions. Which is a lot of people.
Discord also has great communities that aren't just for gaming. Personally, I'm part of several discords that are for music, specific technology (thinkpads), etc.

To me it just seems like lots of online communities would rather have a Discord than Slack, IRC, etc. so I just used Discord instead.
> I don't personally recommend joining an instance like that I don't really see a point in that, but such servers exist.

I think the point is to make it as close to Twitter as possible.

Internally, Twitter itself must be a federation of servers, right?
Ah, thanks, that makes much more sense.
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Really unnecessary edit on an otherwise good comment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.
> Discord is a running joke on comparatively less-frequented communication protocols like IRC (possibly just out of spite, but all the same).

IRC, the famously secure communications platform? [sorry, I couldn't help it: I loved IRC growing up, but something something glass houses?]
I've done some systolic processors on Xilinx hardware. It's really dang hard, on their biggest, fanciest chips, to pump the DSPs at anything close to their advertised clock speeds. Maybe if I was smarter, I could do an asynchronous design that would somehow avoid clocking issues, but I suspect that doing async between mismatched clock regions would effectively halve the clock (and that might be optimistic).

The only consolation for me is that I/O over PCI ends up being my ultimate bottleneck. If AMD did a full-on integration with their infinity fabric, it could actually be a game changer. For me, in my weirdo niche.
Out of curiosity, if it's a policy is it in your contract? Or is it on the company intranet or something?

I've worked at places (not the movie biz) that had quite long hours but they always pretended it was 40h weeks and the extra was going "above and beyond," which everyone did who cared at all about ever getting a promotion or raise.
>>> I meant, that publishing is a filter for any seemingly correlated result.

Great, we all know what publication bias is. Sure there's a non-zero chance that this is a statistical anomaly.

But my dude, what exactly is going on in your head? Numerous flame retardants have already been found dangerous and toxic [1]. Are you seriously concerned people are going to take their health too seriously and throw away their couches because of this study?

I think the exponentially more likely, and exponentially more dangerous concern is these flame-retardant chemicals aren't taken seriously enough... particularly since it's debatable whether they were ever necessary in the first place.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flame_retardant#Health_concern...
Discord won because they found a unique purpose and focused all of their efforts on it while, making sure that all secondary features were also well crafted.

What sets them apart is their voice quality and chatroom voice features. This is something that lends itself naturally to gaming but their real success was getting the quality so high that it feels like you are carrying on a conversation in real life.

Everything else was secondary, but essential, it's like getting the toppings right on the pizza. Essential, but secondary.

Because gaming has this unique use case and the fact that there are millions of gamers, created a fantastic beachhead which continues to expand.

However, outside of the core demographic of gaming it certainly hasn't gained much exposure.
Leaking underground fuel storage near you and stuff like that. Honestly, it's a million dollars. Before I put in an offer, I'd just read the hundred pages.
No. Thank you very much.
I use Discord for mostly non-gaming interests. I'm part of a bunch of music specific discords for example. Lots of specific genre subreddits (/r/rnbheads, /r/popheads, /r/hiphopheads, etc) use Discord.
I predict logs of Face ID attestations will feature in divorce lawsuits within a year of them becoming commonplace.
My issue is more with how information is presented and data is stored. I think Teams just has too many ways to do things and obfuscates too much at times... finding old docs or old conversations can be tedious and sending messages to wrong "teams" mistakingly is an easy thing to do.
Can you be more specific? It seems to that Discord is very similar to slack.
> Discord is a running joke on comparatively less-frequented communication protocols like IRC (possibly just out of spite, but all the same).

To be fair, most of those other communication protocols are running jokes outside of tech.
... I was going to comment the exact opposite. If a session is 5 players and $20/session, and lasts 4 hours, then the GM is making $25/hr and that doesn't even include prep time!
The author missing another huge benefit: it will also help improve recall/precision when searching conversation history, especially if that search is 'smart'.
What does the 300+ million refer to? Yearly active users? Monthly active users? Those two metrics are much different.
It depends on the user. I use a mix of Windows as my primary desktop, a MacBook Pro as my main portable so that I have a good Unix handy (as well as VMs), an iPad as my tablet, and a Google Pixel 3 (soon to be 5) as my phone. It's whatever helps the user get the job done best.
I'll just leave this here since it was eye opening for me: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5377931/
Legal advice is regulated where it means applying the law to the specific facts of another person's case, because that is considered the "practice" of law.

Applying the law to a generic set of facts, or to your own facts, is fine.
The AdGuard Annoyances list, listed by default in uBlock Origin, blocks many of those cookie warnings. Another list is here: https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/
this looks incredible. i've heard so much about DnD but never had the opportunity to get into it because you have to find a GM and find time and all that jazz thats hard to do as a 30-something. thank you for making the entry level free!
That's only for one player though, if you click through then it says:

Schedule: Price is $30 per player per session for one player, $15 per player with 2 players, and $10 per player with 3 or more players. Ask me about my availability!

I don't know if there's a way to display the variable pricing, because at first glance it looks like it would be $150 for a group of 5, but if you click on the page, you find out that it would only be $50 for 5.
> The Turing Pi 2 cluster is architecturally identical to the AWS Graviton clusters.

Graviton2 uses Armv8.2-A, as opposed to the Armv8.0-A on the CM4. Graviton2's cores are "Neoverse" vs CM4's Cortex A73, which is also a significant difference. A lot of code will be portable, but these are significantly different cores.
"No one wants to think they're average..."

I think online game rankings have disabused many of us of that notion. Play a game you love, obsessed with, and have played for years, think you're pretty decent at, only to discover there are literally hundreds of thousands of people who are better than you at it, all over the world, making you wish you were average.

Online game rankings are like your own personal Total Perspective Vortex.
>For abbreviations, it's simply know your audience

I've learned to avoid abbreviations and acronyms whenever possible in writing. If it's fast back-and-forth messaging, that could be fine to save time typing. Otherwise, people are very good at seeing long names as single "symbols."

For example, I don't use "CI" for "confidence interval" in reports. I just write both words every time. No confusion, and I doubt there's a difference in reading speed.

Obviously, there are exceptions when space for text is limited (presentation slides, labels in a chart).
? The 'risk' is to their own creations - they have been threatened with cancellation time and time again, probably more so than any show in history.

Do you wonder why people on talk shows, on the news in interviews, never say anything bad about anyone, never have an opinion, never critique - unless it's political? - because they risk being ignored, losing out on the next deal, upsetting a director/producer/exec/casting agent on the creative side, or advertisers (very powerful) on the business side.

Count how many people will mock Tom Cruise, Scientology, China, Hollywood - or more poignantly almost corporate brand etc. - none really - it's to expensive to one's career.

How often has SNL mocked Google, Apple, Tesla, Ford or any major corporations (or their products) in an edgy, satirical way? Never. It doesn't happen because it's censored for obvious business reasons.

How many SNL or other comedy skits have you seen over all the massive rape allegations concerning Hollywood figures? Nobody is going to touch that because they're all in the 'same industry' - it's socially toxic.

There are zero shows on Television today which aggressively take risks for the sake of 'comedy' - it's almost sad that it's getting kind of old and there's nobody to hand the torch too.

Parker and Stone have carved out for themselves an amazing 'safe bubble' years ago - they basically took a stand and said 'we will say anything' and didn't care which bridges they burned. Weirdly it became 'accepted' for them to court controversy within the walls of their show.

Sacha Cohen does some really outrageous stuff, but it's politically very safe.

South Park as a vehicle is stale, it was 10 years ago, but that it's legit satire, and one of the only sources of it, is why it's still around.
This guy was very active during a weird campaign to bury information detrimental to WhatsApp that would have affected a US operation in Turkey (the one meant to replace Erdogan with Gulen - a friendlier theocrat).

https://www.cyberscoop.com/whatsapp-backdoor-guardian-open-l...

http://technosociology.org/?page_id=1687
The playfulness is endearing, but there's something about the way the UI is structured that always feels a bit disorienting to me, even after having used it for years now. It's generally easy to find what you're looking for, but you're always "figuring it out"; it's hard to pin things down as having a concrete, spatial location. You never quite have a stable notion of "where you are". I don't know how else to describe it.

It's worth noting that I don't feel this way about Slack (mostly). It has a clear visual hierarchy of Servers > Channels/DMs > Messages [> Threads]. Discord has things linked every-which-way; someone will start a group call and it's somehow separate from the shared server you're on, living in a whole separate subtree of the interface.

Maybe the difference is that Discord accounts are cross-server? So you have conversations that live in a server, and conversations that live outside of any particular server?
The political correctness debate reminds me of the 'Covid etiquette' debate happening around the world now.

I guess it's possible for both sides to be at fault - one side should be sensitive to others' preferences and proceed carefully perhaps by wearing a mask when they know it isn't required, perhaps by using pronouns carefully even when they don't know which are preferred. The other side needs to recognize that their preferences are not universal. People tend to want to bend all others to their particular risk assessment, and bend everyone to their usage of English to differentiate human beings from each other. Do they have a point? Sure. Is it worth the relational damage to impose this viewpoint on everyone? Maybe? Maybe not.
Feature request:

For public games, it would be nice if there was a way (similar to kickstarter) to have a minimum number of people attached to the game before it starts/gets-funded, otherwise it doesn't happen.

I would be very interested in trying this out, but do not want to end up paying for a 1 on 1 session if no one else joins.
I think Mac Chrome can support Touch ID:
https://www.iphoneincanada.ca/news/google-chrome-for-mac-fin...
My point is that they should bite the bullet and ditch Chrome OS altogether. Android already works on tablets, which are nowadays very similar to laptops. And this move will bring first-class app and store support to Chromebooks.
Interesting, I might try this.

As someone with seasonal allergies, I've often been surprised at how serenely I'd sleep with a window open.
It's hard to use utility maximization to justify creating new sentient beings
The Dutch secret service MIVD caught a couple of GRU "diplomats" who were trying to do MITM (with a Pineapple) on e.g. the organisation in The Hague who were investigating MH17. One even had a taxi receipt with him from GRU HQ to Moscow airport.

Meanwhile, the Dutch secret service AIVD had access to GRU HQ camera feeds.

Before all that happened a high ranking Russian police officer got reprimanded (IIRC send to gulag) for working together with the Dutch police on high level cyber crime.
well they are a natural acquirer for you then :)
> currently possible to use it without giving them a phone number

I haven't created a discord account in a long time, so I'm not sure what the flow is, but my recollection is that phone numbers are required iff the specific server (community) turns that on as a security feature
Looks like there's only 100+ million MAU[0], the Forbes article just said "300 million registered users".

0: https://discord.com/company#app-mount:~:text=Monthly%20activ...
I guess time will tell, but those sessions are like 3-4 hours, so is $3 an hour really too much to pay for a live DM hosting the game?
> Their playful approach makes it fun to be there

When lockdown started the huge company I am contracting for decided to try Discord. It was a hilarious clash between corporate culture and gaming culture for a month. I think they've toned down some of it now? (We ended up with teams)

https://i.imgur.com/eVwStvT.png
True that, but where else would you live where non-competes are not enforceable?
But does that identify anybody? I'm a noob here; does every bitcoin ID come with a user identifying record?
this is a cool story. is anyone on your team technical? is this a "no code" startup?
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Sorry, I've altered my edit to remove the explicit insinuation of astroturfing. I was just a little shocked when I finished my submission and saw the sameness of all the other comments.
I have a good friend who plays obsessively on chess.com who's taken a "come as it may" attitude to cheating. I wonder if there's a better, more restricted, version of chess.com that minimizes cheating.
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I'd love to hear about that! Google sent me here:

https://pypi.org/project/photoshop-python-api/

But it would be cool to hear about what someone does in real life with Photoshop and Python, and with which libraries.
PCIe switching would have been really interesting to see, even in a non-concurrent mode.

One also desperately wishes that multi-host network adapters had a low-end market. A 1 x 25Gbe connection shared between 6 hosts would be epic. Or if sharing the connection is too much, just a 4 x 2.5Gbe NIC chip would be acceptably interesting & useful to have. I forget, maybe the gbe is free on the Pi4's chip & this is more of a non-issue.
Not sure of those numbers. 3-4B board feet. 100 ft per tree? We're talking 30M trees. With the combined effort of all the equipment in every state, and usually in groomed tree farms. Not the mountains and wild places of California. And with an end result of millions of trash trees, not good lumber. It would arguably have cost more than the entire US lumber industry earns.
This appears to be Apple's implementation of WebAuthn which is a standard specification. So while this page is about the specifics of this in Safari, the WebAuthn spec in general is widely implemented. If your device has a TPM/secure enclave/etc (most modern devices do) then it works already in Chrome/FF/Safari/Edge on desktop and Chrome on Android and Safari on iOS.

If you want to see it in action you can try out a demo at https://webauthn.io
Can this approach be made more robust so it could be used in critical programs? Is there a way to formally verify performance of an approach like this?
So happy Apple decided to go with an open standard here rather than something proprietary. This is good news for the FIDO2 ecosystem and I hope this leads to far greater support for FIDO2 authenticators of all types.

There is another world in which Apple just pushed 'Sign in with Apple' and created yet another federated identity provider rather than true, 'secure element'-based FIDO2 authentication.
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I really like how the WYSIWYG editor in discord is implemented. For example, if you try to write a block using backticks, that block will be highlighted and the backticks will not disappear.

Meanwhile, I am still unable to how understand how slack's WYSIWYG works.
I just want to congratulate the folks behind this for coming up with a great idea and executing it. Makes me wish I had time to play D&D again. Total brilliance, good luck with this!
No, a preexisting attorney-client relationship isn't always required. Offering advice pertaining to the application of laws or regulations to a specific person's facts is generally considered offering legal advice.

Some states regulate this very heavily, others don't care as much. Generally, California tends to regulate this pretty heavily for lawyers (for purposes of creating an attorney-client relationships that can subject them to malpractice claims) but otherwise not at all for non-lawyers unless they specifically hold themselves out to be in the business of providing legal advice (very common with immigration issues). So, offering random advice on the internet wouldn't be an issue for a non-lawyer (but could be one for a practicing lawyer if they get too specific).
>But what about the people who will be rejected because of their genes?

That is illegal in the U.S., with the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA)

https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/policy-issues/Genetic-...

>GINA prohibits health insurers from discrimination based on the genetic information of enrollees. Specifically, health insurers may not use genetic information to determine if someone is eligible for insurance or to make coverage, underwriting or premium-setting decisions. Furthermore, health insurers may not request or require individuals or their family members to undergo genetic testing or to provide genetic information.
The Department of Justice released an enforcement memo just last week that states merely using Monero, zcash, etc. are treated as criminally suspicious :(
They are actually implementing the Credential Management API which is a W3C working draft - the underlying implementation on Safari/WebKit will allow using FaceID / TouchID as the Authenticator. Chrome 67+ and Firefox have already had WebAuthn support since some time - https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/05/webauthn, https://itnext.io/biometrics-fingerprint-auth-in-your-web-ap... - and they use fingerprint, windows hello, USB/NFC keys as the platform allows - see for e.g. https://www.xda-developers.com/google-chrome-supports-window...
This comment is very weird. For Linux users it is definitely better buying an AMD discrete graphics card than Nvidia, and it has been for an eternity. Just google "torvalds Nvidia" as an example of how the community feels about Nvidia. Is it even possible using Nvidia cards with Wayland?

Nvidia has a history of problems in Linux. I can still remember having to log out of my X session just to change monitor layout; which is something you do alot with a laptop and external displays. Took them several years to fix!

I've experienced intel boards where I had trouble getting anything but the newest fedora with custom kernel parameter to even get the installer running. But most of the time intel has very good upstream support, so it is normally a pretty safe bet.

With AMD there are sometimes delays getting full support for a new generation upstreamed (e.g. hdmi audio and such), so it is usually good to Google for Linux reviews first.

In general AMD has superb open source support for their cards, if not immediately at launch, and I recommend them for Linux users who want the least amount of hassle.

I've seen people recommending Nvidia to Linux on YouTube (and now here), and I honestly think it's a disfavor to anyone interested in Linux.
I think the sentence was saying that a brick isn't Victorian, not that a brick Victorian isn't brutalist.
What is the overlap between cryptocurrency aficionados who rail against the "corrupt banksters who launder money for cartels and need to be replaced" and people who don't like this?
'Man Bear Pig' was not a universal meme, it was just a cartoon where he was mocked. South Park is satire, it doesn't translate to universal or even popular perspective - it's just a show. Some climate skeptics obviously would mock him, but that's to be expected given their view of the world.
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BigBro: An extensible monitoring tool for user defined services and protocols
The tool is lightweight and therefore it can be used also in embedded devices, such as Raspberry Pi (zero to 4) or similar.
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Yep, it can. I don't know what logic it uses to request touchID vs. keychain password (because i occasionally see both), but, nonetheless, I definitely had Chrome TouchID pop-up quite a few times when I tried to autofill my credit card info.
I heard on the grapevine though that the PCIe aperture space was tiny for the rpi4 SoC and there simply wasn't enough physical memory space to map in the BARs of a typical GPU.