skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are (I hope) helping solve this problem at Kraken. We sponsor development of the iced library, which we're using to build https://cryptowat.ch/desktop. It's supported on Windows, Mac, and Linux and has received a ton of positive feedback about how fast and light it is. I have hope for the future, and don't expect Electron to stay dominant forever. Native GUI apps are slowly coming back.

https://github.com/hecrj/iced
> the stats aren't readily available and public to everyone

The stats have always been public and instantly available, impressively so. Here's the bot command to query the stats in question:

!lg * start>"2015-03-06 00:00:00" start<"2015-03-21 00:00:00" cv=0.16 / won

Output:

1180/39437 games for * (start>'2015-03-06 00:00:00' start<'2015-03-21 00:00:00' cv=0.16): N=1180/39437 (2.99%)

So that's a 3% winrate for the major version in question during the dates the bug existed.

Using another query to determine the all-time winrate across all versions:

!lg * / won

We see the historic winrate to be about 1%.

The listgame interface is documented at https://github.com/crawl/sequell/blob/master/docs/listgame.m... , and the bots can be found on IRC and Discord.
Want a monopoly? Hire the best hackers to destroy all your competition.
It's true. I'm sad to see how far downhill Spotify's UX has slid on all fronts, but especially native. They are also suffering significantly on the customer service end. I asked for a data dump months ago and haven't gotten anything more than an automated "we're working on it" in May.
Probably. But I'd like to think fit & finish makes an app more sticky.
Communication = context + information. There's no communication without context. So there's no reading without interpretation directly tied to the context of the reader. You can't read the same book twice without it being different.
Sort of. The local government area where the debris landed (Esperance, in Western Australia) fined NASA $400 for littering.
Also, they can lock out out overnight and good luck appealing to the legal team.
There are some in the U.S. that do this, but it still didn't stop my friend from leaving his card in the ATM and having to go through a process with the bank and wait for a new card to show. Better to just make sure you have it by stopping you from doing anything else until you have it imo.
From reading the announcement, the UI stuff for voice looks really good / well thought out - kudos! I'm looking forward to trying it out!

I wonder about IP addys and this, Element (and other clients I guess) with their apps and features..

Should I assume that if someone now uses element and intiates a call to one of my matrix/synapse users - that ip addys will be able to be discovered by the users?

I first saw this happen on a win2k box with limewire chat and zonelarm - I have seen similar techniques with some flash hacking, and am concerned this is likely a thing now with matrix / element (?)

Should I also assume this will pull a real IP past any VPN as well?

Sadly I'd like to use/abuse that to identify a particularly pesty troll - but I worry about my users being blackmailed / hacked / harassed more than anything.

I also noticed that even if I disable features on my matrix-synapse and via the element-web I installed - people who download the apps bypass those things being turned off.

Granted my current setup is out of date - I actually put a few hours in today getting prepared for another update attempt. Now that a backup has been made I may give it go - but I may need to find how to move the whole install to a new server and not sure how that goes -

So I don't know if these turn-off features have been a thing or it's just me that needs to contend with it.

Ultimately I'd like to use voice for my users, but force all webrtc to go through a turn/stun or whatever so that ips are never shared to end users.

I also need a way to limit the video ability for sure.

I read through the doc and some of the linked docs.. I'm not sure what "addresses remain in the room in candidates, " means -

but I do appreciate a note being made about security!
Eloquently put! Personal experience- wrote to bbc and asked them to address/edit/revisit their past articles making someone a victim and a 'hero' for a cause several years earlier in light of a court ruling absolving the accused and establishing holes in the 'victimhood'. They refused it flat out! Took a few seconds for BBC's reputation to go 180 degrees in my mind.
> what are they doing to secure online payments?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-D_Secure
As someone without a Facebook account: Facebook was never the "open internet". If you want everyone to be able to see something you found, wrote, or created, don't just share it on Facebook.
My Apple Card doesn't have a space for a signature but it also doesn't have a PIN. Does have a chip though, a combination I find routinely frustrating. Just let me use a PIN if the card has a chip!
Not yet, it's bottlenecking a lot of progress waiting to be made.

https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/issues/2187
https://youtu.be/4UkjGMYjPAQ?t=34

Trailer looks good, feels immersive.
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In the US, the way we do tip on receipt is a lot more natural if you're asking for a signature. Without a signature, you're just handing someone a tip option, which is awkward with our current way of doing things.

Most places I go now have a receipt option step that serves as a justification for the tip screen, rather than the signature. Tapping “No Receipt” for a $5 beer purchase is only a little faster and less ridiculous than signing for it.
Maybe try elaborating yourself? The constant criticism of Electron Apps is that they're bloated and slow, you're claiming otherwise but missed the part providing any presumption of evidence to the contrary.

I've yet to experience any Electron App that's close to the snappiness and UX of the original native Spotify client, I'd like to hear about good examples of Electron Apps comparable to it.
Online transactions can be secured by solutions like 3D Secure. In the european union for european countries such solutions are already required for dome transactions. But US companies hesitate to enforce them as they make buying less convenient but much more secure. Or the CCV printed at the back of a credit card, this is impossible for bank cards in europe. But mastercard and visa prefer the convenient approach.

It would be a nice if one of the new fintech startups added the option in the account settings to enforce 3D Secure for all online transactions.
The imperceptible becomes perceptible when you make it noticeably more perceptible. A better point would be to not even show the user what they are missing out on, because then that will be the standard. The danger of the latter is it is very likely your competitor(s) will show it to users anyway.

I’d let the guy that tinkers on performance keep tinkering.
Would you pay for a service that showed you an RSS-style feed of people you care to follow on various platforms (youtube, twitch, patreon, etc)? At this point it seems like the promise of an algo-free multi-channel feed from creators people care about could actually be a good startup, and maybe that thing could produce an RSS feed (incentives would be aligned to do so).
How to build an automated insurance customer service AI agent for voice
Teaching a (bright) kid reading at age two may be possible by my experience. At that age, with a lot of talking to grown-ups or listening to stories, kids can have a surprisingly immense vocabulary. But "teaching himself" is a little bit too much for my taste.

I have a child that started reading at 5. It was very motivated and learned the basics in a couple of weeks. It really gets much simpler once they understand the basics. But to get there, we had to invest a couple of hours (say 5-10h total) into fundamental pronunciation and character recognition. Someone has to be there for the child to tell them the difference between d and b, or l and I, or e and a, and so on.

Now here's the catch: For someone in the position of teaching a motivated, intelligent child, it may actually feel like the child is teaching itself. But that's presumably skewed by our own school/college/university experience of learning stuff we were actually not that interested in.
He now has an excellent opportunity to write another book on this topic!
If you are interested in their story how the original client and architecture came to be and then how it changed to what it is today they have a podcast you can listen to: "Spotify: A Product Story" - https://pca.st/cbo7khrm

Here's also a blog post related to the topic: https://engineering.atspotify.com/2021/08/04/four-lessons-we...
Not just US. Take for example Germany, the largest country in EU and most places are cash-only. Although due to coronavirus adoption of different payment methods (apple pay, contactless, card, etc) has been increasing.
Should You Mine Crypto?
Seems outside GoOgLe it's fine.
Phone-based polling is a challenge in poorer nations.
> Humans happen to be super cooperative, and that puts us more squarely in that space more often.

Humans also happen to be super competitive, and downright hostile. The "leveling" the article speaks about has been tried: it's strong government on social-democratic principles. It works. And it gets abandoned as soon as general wealth has risen enough. Egalitarianism and democracy are, strangely enough, not natural partners. The article doesn't even mention it. Unfortunately, there's no link to the paper, so there's no way to tell what the assumptions are. In fact, I can't even find the journal.
Running the risk of being a dirty reposter and.. reposting. My little Spotify client is for macOS only, mostly only built for my own use, and a lot more minimal, visually. It's also native Swift though, so it's got that nice macOS feel. It's also pretty much 100% keyboard-driven (Vim keys, if that's something you like) and supports regex filters. It's just an open-source thing: https://github.com/toothbrush/Spotiqueue
Can it send e-mails?
Natural immunity also blunts delta but isn’t talked about in this article. I don’t understand why both can’t be allowed to work.
Add private listening by default and I’ll forget many other features
Wonder how it compares to https://nbei.github.io/video-inpainting.html
Click the Bluetooth or Devices icon, then choose “AirPlay or Bluetooth” under “Other Devices”.

For me this presents a native popover showing all Bluetooth devices and Apple TV.
Who was saying the vaccine would last forever? I just figured it would be like the flu vaccine.
Didn't downvote, but can you name a couple of Electron apps that are sna...,hell,.. not sluggish?

People usually point to VSCode...If that is the epitome of a responsive, lag-free software then I claim Electron defenders haven't seen snappy application.

Do people even remember Winamp?
Hopefully this is just a mistake and not a real deprecation.

That being said, a little while back when controversy popped up over Chrome's handling of `alert()`, there were multiple Google engineers I saw online in various settings talking about how the web developer community needed to take some responsibility to monitor upcoming changes and discussions. I do want to bring up that a good way to encourage that is to have an easy, standardized way to subscribe to these content feeds using any client, using a technology that can be aggregated and curated by 3rd parties, that is easily parseable so that it can be searched and transformed by other programs, and that doesn't require an account to access.

Just a thought for anyone on the Chrome/Google team that is actually interested in improving communication channels with web developers. Maybe don't break @intenttoship?
Imba – The friendly full-stack language inspired by Ruby
The vast majority of RSS support seems to be an accident or it just happens to work because of the software they use. That is a pretty fragile state to be in since they are a redesign or software switch away from breaking and removing support. And they will not put in any effort to fix it since it was never intentionally a feature of the site.
"Skill with numbers predicted lower risk perceptions, but not polarization."

So, if you know how to calculate risk, you know that the risk is exaggerated.
Yea, I consider myself a rationalist because I share a similar epistemological framework to the classical rationalism, I was very disappointed to find that a 'rationalist' movement exists and takes nothing but the name from rationalism.
People renamed RDF Site Summary to Really Simple Syndication actually. :)

In ads in RSS feeds is a thing; Google AdWords supports it, as do many others. https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/9189557?hl=en
I wonder if that executable is stripped, often that saves a decent chunk of memory.
This is how I speed up grep: alias grep=rg XD.
the narrative from every health body, CDC included, was take the vaccine to achieve heard immunity and we can get back to normal. Now normal is take the vaccine every year, possibly two to stay ahead of it.

These are also the same health bodies that said only two weeks to lock yourself in your home to eradicate the virus. Or that masks don’t work, then work.

So I understand if you’re confused and keeping up with the latest information is hard giving how much they flip flop.
The most effective trick for me is simply knowing why I need to remember something.

If I don't know its utility value, I won't even be able to recall it an hour later. On the other hand, if I can see the utility, I might be able to remember it decades later after a single exposure.

If I'm using a map with GPS on my phone to find my way around a city, I won't be able to recall any of the buildings or landmarks later and I won't be able to find my way around even after many journeys. On the other hand, if I use street signs and ask around for directions, I will remember everything. In the former case, my brain knows that it can rely on the map and GPS so it doesn't waste resources trying to remember streets, buildings and landmarks.
It makes a massive difference. To the human eye, the altered sign is not really distinguishable from the normal one and the attackers don't need to approach the sign in order to alter it. It makes a remote attack scenario quite achievable (depending on signal strength required for the laser etc). Think people camped out in a hotel room over looking a freeway and causing Telsas all to crash.
> but for now stuff seems to be easy

I'm not saying it's hard. You've forgotten what the conversation started with.
Why not round everyone’s bank account up to the nearest $1,000,000,000,000,000? Wouldn’t such unprecedented “stimulus” create unprecedented growth and end poverty forever? Would our newfound quadrillions end scarcity of resources? If not, why not?
Fuck sides man what we need here is a little solidarity!
Well, he's not wrong...
It would be easier and much cheaper to go in and provide proper waste disposal services than to try to use the military. Don't just send money, send people to go in and fix it.
What about adding signed QR codes to road signs? It's practically impossible to forge those, it doesnt't require complex vision systems, and you don't have to revamp your whole road infrastucture, just gradually replace existing signs.
What were the other open source game posts?
If the interest was actually stability then there is plenty of advise. The thing is most of the actions of the US are not out of the interest of stability, it's pure economics and political influence. The US has destabilised or overthrown many stable democratic governments for a more US favourable dictator.
A key for when tablets will replace paper is when refresh rates get so fast drawing mimics ink on paper. Until the lag is eliminated it won't be replaced.
https://archive.is/3U7oI
The web is filled with bloated and slow web applications. This is nothing new. Electron is taking the fall for existing on a popular platform that lots of fast moving companies are using and unfortunately gumming up with feature creep and poor architectural design.

I don’t care to share details of my past employers but I have absolutely worked on web apps that ran 60 Hz on mobile and looked beautiful to boot.

It was a team of senior devs though, and it was a small shop. We didn’t suffer from the same organizational issues at the time but as we grew, sure enough - the web application slowed as the need to move quickly and cut corners arose.

The point is that the web offers you a vast array of performance footguns that anyone on a tight schedule is going to wind up firing off at one time or another. Electron isn’t to blame. It’s architecture and code practices.

But the web is easy to hate, and by association Electron is going to take a ton of flack.
It's really going to break our hearts when they just have a relatively peaceful and increasingly prosperous nation...
> Humans also happen to be super competitive, and downright hostile.

I'm curious, what makes you say that?
I've travelled a fair bit in the "non-west" and they use the same packaging everyone else does.
Not literally
What am I supposed to be taking away from that Wikipedia link? The words “Afghanistan” and “war” don’t appear in the article anywhere. It mentions some activity in Israel and that’s it. It feels to me like you’re mentioning a random energy company as a bogeyman, but it doesn’t actually involve any particular malicious activity.
Touche, we need some finest software equivalent of Rolls Royces. Luxury software industry doesn't exist, I wish it did. I'd gladly pay 2x for a piece of software that is well crafted.
I disagree with the assessment that an extra 10-100ms doesn’t matter.

How pleasant an app is to use does affect a user’s perception of an app and product even if they can’t articulate it. Fit, finish and polish do matter.
I've been using Spot[0], which is another Rust Spotify client using GTK.

[0]: https://github.com/xou816/spot
The dollars the US spends on medical research led to COVID-19, so maybe that’s not the best option.
It's far more likely you will end up with alternatives competing by lowering their margins until the point that they need to employ dark patterns to stay viable.

If you think the App Store is bad now I think you will be in for a surprise once it is opened out.
Rdio was great, but it could not compete with Spotify’s performance. The funny thing is, those performance advantages (p2p streaming and a native C++ desktop client) are now ancient history. Rdio was ahead of its time.
None of the competitors care about making the ui 20ms faster. Apple music just flat out didn't work for me, totally broken for the web version and not even an electron app.

Spotify is already better than the alternatives.
Will Amazon release a new Kindle soon?
Video of creating a simple counter with buttons for incrementing and decrementing using Imba

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XS5q9xhaMc
Not an expert on blockchain or anything really, so I'm just spitballing here.

It's an interesting idea in the sense that you'd have this enforced community-giving where the individual decisions about the giving are removed from the matter itself. I'm not sitting there looking at my bank account and wondering how much to give, and how. Instead I can look at it more abstractly. That's interesting.

But I think there's many problems.

The first real bulk of people to jump in will probably be those looking for a payday. However you'll be diverting coins from them, reducing their payday. You'd have to convince the self-interested that the coins they are giving up end up providing so much value to their other coins that it's worth it. This seems ripe to set up an even worse chicken-egg problem than usual.

The voting process. The only thing I can come up with is to basically run it based on coins held, unless you want to get into the business of confirming identities and all that. Again you end up with those most financially invested in the system being the ones with the control. How do you get them on-board with the idea, lest they decide to give to no non-profits?

About the only answer I've got here, which dovetails with the voting thing, is to just bake the addresses in and use hardforks to change em. This protects from attacks and also protects the community from, well, you.

However the main problems I foresee are all things that significantly reduce the thing I find most interesting about the concept - that being having the ability to remove the whole donation thing to a more abstract sort of problem. But if all the people with the power are the ones with the most financial stake, it's no longer really that abstract.
Not to mention "evaluate polynomial double precision" in assembler... that was always amazing that it could be a single instruction.
I thought it was to get you used to the idea of just mindlessly tapping yes and thus unintentionally spending money.
"western civilization"

Nice to make Nazi talking points while calling someone else Nazis.

Of course, civilization ends at American borders, and everyone else is unclean, barbaric or evil.
You are forgetting the whole part where Saddam asked/told us he was invading, and the US was silent, giving him tacit permission to invade. All to further US aims in the region. Saddam was our patsy.
Remaining in the dark and turning in circles leads to erroneous decisions
> Writing a browser from scratch (even if you have a good rendering engine for 'free') is unbelievably hard

Other than the rendering engine, what is so hard about writing a browser?
Somebody at Apple is doing this to Safari. The iOS UI inexplicably puts the URL bar at the bottom of the screen and hides a bunch of stuff. On macOS they’re doing some really insane thing where the tabs are also URL boxes. It’s absolute madness.
> Long term side effects won't be known for 5-10 years, especially as vaccinated people have kids.

Good news, then. Viral vector vaccines (like the J&J version) have been studied and tested since the 1970s, and mRNA vaccines (like Pfizer) have been studied since the 1980s[1][2].

What ingredient in Covid vaccines do you suspect will become the new thalidomide?

We know that the actual viral vector and mRNA components of the vaccines will degrade and disappear from the body in the short term[3], so it must be one of the other ingredients, right?

It's also important to weigh the completely unknown long-term effects of Covid against the well-known long-term effects of training an immune system with a vaccine.

1. https://www.muhealth.org/our-stories/how-do-we-know-covid-19...

2. https://ec.europa.eu/research-and-innovation/en/horizon-maga...

3. https://www.nebraskamed.com/COVID/where-mrna-vaccines-and-sp...