skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is saying that offline/online is like wilderness/civilization — a classification that stratifies experiences and the their availability along moral lines as opposed to pragmatic choices. She also makes the point that it divides along individualistic vs communal lines of thinking, where being alone is equated with being ‘pure’.

For instance, the comment about not wanting to have to choose between being connected to social media and feeling bad vs not being connected but feeling better is a clear reference to the influence of apps like Facebook and Instagram, where research has shown that people tend to feel worse after using them (I’m probably over-simplifying here). If you think in terms of online as “spoiled” and offline as “unspoiled”, it makes you less likely to imagine that online experiences can be improved.

I’ll also give a personal example. I love to go backpacking and I have been able to take my children with me on my last few trips. My oldest wanted to bring a Kindle, which I was fine with. Some people gave me grief about it because I was letting them bring a “screen” on a backpacking trip. This seems weird to me - within a backpacking context a Kindle is lighter and more useful than a book in almost every way (can’t be used as tinder in an emergency but that’s about the only disadvantage). If you’re not willing to bring technology into backpacking because it somehow “spoils” things, then I would like to draw your attention to all those high priced synthetic fiber clothing, dehydrated foods, and the plastic, aluminum and carbon fiber structural components that people happily use to improve their trip. My Garmin InReach does not spoil the trip for me because I can communicate with my wife, it makes it safer and more pleasant for my kids.
... except when people talk about fish, they mean "gnathostomata that aren't tetrapodomorpha".

It's still cladistically meaningful to a very informative extent.
What if my utxo is a taproot output? The page only shows base52 addresses. What if they are additionally locked with hash like Lightning channels are?

The checker is bound to be unexhaustive because even with Bitcoins limited scripting, there are too many scripts to check. And with taproot it has gotten even cheaper to use complicated locking schemes.
Sounds like he has. VCE, Visual Studio Enterprise
Not really all that troubling, all the author is saying is that he wants to get paid for their work.

Either Microsoft or other future vendors can actually honor an established bug bounty program, or the author can sell his findings to the highest bidder. Or the author can simply not spend time and energy finding bugs in the first place.
FYI: This is a blatant product pitch and it’s pushing an agenda (that is, use Stormy not Google Analytics)

In-depth product analytics is better, yes, but basic Google Analytics can go a long way to revealing user patterns and even certain basic issues.

For the most basic example: As a product manager I’ve used Google Analytics to show that most users weren’t interested in a new feature that a CxO level had been demanding, and also that a campaign to push users toward that feature had basically no effect on the numbers because they already knew they didn’t want it. Google Analytics made that demonstration dead simple and I didn’t have to use any developer time to generate those insights.

If you’re choosing between in-depth, custom product analytics or Google Analytics like the author is debating, you’ve probably ended up in a false dichotomy situation anyway. Anyone can have Google Analytics set up in hours and start seeing convenient data about how people are using your product, in a most basic sense.
The only property thieves are the people who claim to be owners of a place they don't reside in.
this!

if you want your media to be playable basically everywhere, use h264/AVC.

sure a hvec-file would be about half the size but who cares?
For those who don't get the reference:

"One of the consequences of the second law of thermodynamics is that a certain amount of energy is necessary to represent information. To record a single bit by changing the state of a system requires an amount of energy no less than kT, where T is the absolute temperature of the system and k is the Boltzman constant. (Stick with me; the physics lesson is almost over.)

Given that k = 1.38×10-16 erg/°Kelvin, and that the ambient temperature of the universe is 3.2°Kelvin, an ideal computer running at 3.2°K would consume 4.4×10-16 ergs every time it set or cleared a bit. To run a computer any colder than the cosmic background radiation would require extra energy to run a heat pump.

Now, the annual energy output of our sun is about 1.21×1041 ergs. This is enough to power about 2.7×1056 single bit changes on our ideal computer; enough state changes to put a 187-bit counter through all its values. If we built a Dyson sphere around the sun and captured all its energy for 32 years, without any loss, we could power a computer to count up to 2192. Of course, it wouldn’t have the energy left over to perform any useful calculations with this counter.

But that’s just one star, and a measly one at that. A typical supernova releases something like 1051 ergs. (About a hundred times as much energy would be released in the form of neutrinos, but let them go for now.) If all of this energy could be channeled into a single orgy of computation, a 219-bit counter could be cycled through all of its states.

These numbers have nothing to do with the technology of the devices; they are the maximums that thermodynamics will allow. And they strongly imply that brute-force attacks against 256-bit keys will be infeasible until computers are built from something other than matter and occupy something other than space."[0]

[0]https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/09/the_doghouse_...
Viva la Redblock.
> Is emulation killing the hardware?

Wine Is Not an Emulator. ;)

...well, okay, so that depends on your definition of “emulator”, but compared to a more traditional emulator like Dolphin or even Rosetta, there’s very little performance impact from Wine in most cases.
How do you folks monitor external dependencies at scale
Most software companies would have external dependencies like cloud platforms, APMs , Functional/Business integrations. How do you folks monitor these external dependencies errors , latency etc ? RSS feeds etc are there but there are days were AWS is slow to update status page, latency in CDN are not that obvious in the middle of night when you get paged. Makes me wonder what other folks are doing about this ?
> These are accepted standards worldwide, and the link is from the National Institute of Health.

That does not mean they are not up for debate, which is the thing I'm trying to raise. Global criteria are mostly there to make comparisons easy, which nebulous things like Long Covid are not. That does not mean the problem does not exist, or that it is not potentially much more severe, and you won't find anyone writing these papers argue that.

You tend to rate your results according to widely accepted standards in your scientific community, unless you're specific in discussing them. Which is why most publications with data don't go into it.
I’m only familiar with Flash as a user, not as developer. I’m curious, what did Flash have, that you can’t readily do with JS and Canvas? Be as broad or specific as you like.
Known cases, positive test results only. But even if you doubled or tripled you'd be nowhere near 45%.
The writing style put me off but I’m glad I perservered - yes its typical internet drama but its also journalists signal-boosting harrasment campaigns and a kind of crowd sourced kangaroo court where someone’s right to belong to a platform is decided by mere gossippers editing a google doc.

The article/screed focuses on a single target, but as more people spend their days in virtual space, they will have to contend with this kind of coordinated harassment.
Your axolotl could spontaneously morph into a salamander
You never miss the upvote/downvote buttons?

Quotes don't sidescroll to infinity for you?

I could go on and on...

It's okish, but it's no pinnacle for usability, that's for sure.
I have had a crappy life, abused sexually and physically when a child, but trust me whenever I re-hear about that guy losing his hard drive with BTC in it, I am like, yikes.
Explicitly clicking on a link is almost like typing it in the url bar, so that can be an exception
Also the Reality Winner incident

> She was detained even before The Intercept published the article that was based upon the leaks.
For TLS much larger keys are typically used, "The recommended minimum key length is 1024 bits, with 2048 bits preferred, but this is up to a thousand times more computationally intensive than symmetric keys of equivalent strength (e.g. a 2048-bit asymmetric key is approximately equivalent to a 112-bit symmetric key) and makes asymmetric encryption too slow for many purposes."

Source: https://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/tls/basics/
One doesn't work for the US company, just a Canadian subsidiary. Which means Canadian HR, who handle all of that stuff for you. It's a long-solved problem you're worried about.

Also: It's Canada. Health insurance isn't a big deal here because we have a first world health care system. Sure, additional health insurance is useful, but most people don't need it.
>> our programming languages are architecturally mismatched for writing GUIs.

> I'm not sure I agree this was the takeaway.

Hmmm...he says so quite explicitly. For example, Section 4:

"4 Understanding mismatches

We now propose a few reasons why architecture patterns proposed at level 3 for interactive software display incompatibilities with those offered by most programming languages."

Not sure how much more directly this could be expressed.

> ...handling of concurrency...

Concurrency is just one of a whole number of architectural issues. In the abstract, he writes: "Among these are the contra-variance of reuse and control, new scenarios of software reuse, the architecture-induced concurrency, and the multiplicity of hierarchies."

So it's not even concurrency as a stand-alone issue. It's just an artefact of the architectural mismatch.

> ... state manipulation ...

Yes, which is why the idea that FP is a good match for GUI programming is...er..."special". Which is reflected in the hoops that you have to jump through to make it work at all.

Not sure what you're trying to say with the bit about transitions. You obviously have to encapsulate the GUI and separate it from the Model. MVC, yay! And not group little bits of GUI+model together, that way madness lies. And bugs.

The core of MVC is essentially just a set of dataflow constraints, so can be expressed compactly, elegantly and correctly using a different architectural language, one that allows that type of connectors.

I had a fairly well-worked out example in my Constraints as polymorphic connectors paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2889443.2889456?cid=813164912...
Japan has an order of magnitude lower obesity, surprised that isn’t mentioned in the article. If you are exposed to the virus and are obese you are far more likely to experience covid.
What Does a Bundler Actually Do?
Somewhat interestingly, this publication is sponsored by Snap, Inc. (The company behind Snapchat).
Ask HN: what do you use for product analytics?
I think the reason we see more EPA tractors is that parents choose to pay for an EPA tractor rather than spend the time to drive their kids to sports/after-school jobs and then spend the time again to pick them up. It might also be related to the fact that both parents are more likely to be working today than in the past, thus less time available for driving the kids around.

In addition, the public transportation system has been steadily declining in the last 30 years. If I remember right, they even removed laws some time in the early 2000s that required public bus service in remote areas. I also recall that it wasn't that uncommon for lines to be usually empty or with just a handful of passengers, but this was part of the costs of having an available public mass transportation system. They also combined the then national postal service with bus service so that those mostly empty buses provided a secondary service of transporting mail.
Thank you for pointing this out.

I don't know why (maybe just years of the same pattern repeating with these types of articles) but as soon as I read the word "stormly" in the URL, despite having never heard about it before, I knew this would basically be a pitch for some other junk
Well, maybe we should! The site should be super smooth on my Amiga! :-p
> Well, he certainly doesn't have to.

Never said he did.

> But if you feel you can demand complete fairness,

Never said I did.

All I'm saying is that being pissed off that my boss was unfair doesn't make me a sociopath. Maybe immature, but even then it's, clearly, a natural response. The fact that Jeff Bezos has a net worth of $200B while people are homeless is more of an issue than how much I donate a year and also pisses me off.

Demanding that I don't have an emotional response to unfairness actually seems more sociopathic.
>I meant to say that, unlike GNOME apps, they allow me to use my own themes and don't enforce their decisions and choices on me when I use their apps.

Well you can also use any theme you want on GNOME apps, libadwaita didn't break that, or rather it's just as bad as it is with KDE themes. Some themes will work but other themes will break everything.

>It's not the uphill battle you're trying to project to make KDE apps work on non-KDE environment. Sure, some themes aren't built well but some are and all I have to do is install Kvantum+qt5ct to make the app look how I want it to.

I can't agree here, I have had qt5ct break really badly with some apps and themes. It just doesn't work if the app wasn't designed to use it. I don't even bother with KDE themes anymore and I just use Breeze, if you ask me third-party theming is a total waste of time on any platform. For me it's always broken things or caused very strange glitches.

>I meant to say that, unlike GNOME apps, they allow me to use my own themes and don't enforce their decisions and choices on me when I use their apps. This isn't possible with GNOME and elementary apps because they chose to become their own isolated silos.

Again I honestly have no idea what you're talking about here, GNOME and Elementary apps can still be themed through unofficial third party methods. Developers of apps for those platforms do tend to focus on supporting the official theme for those platforms but that's the same as KDE where developers focus on supporting Breeze.

>I'm not using Android or iOS so I don't expect to be treated like an idiot.

Funny you mention this because I used to have jailbroken Android and iOS phones that were hacked to install third-party themes. The themes were just as broken as with GNOME and KDE. They might work OK with some of the built-in apps but would break quite badly with any third-party apps or when an OS update happened. That was another reason I just stopped trying to use third-party themes altogether.

>Is it? The opinions on that article are almost always shared by all the core GNOME developers I've seen commenting on issue trackers. Even the stopthemingmyapp guys resonate those opinions.

I'm not sure what you mean by core GNOME developers. IIRC Stopthemingmy.app was signed by some independent developers that decided they don't want to support third party themes that break their apps. It's not even related to the shell or extensions. You're conflating several things here. That petition didn't change anything technically about themes, it was a public acknowledgement that themes can break apps badly and that they won't be supporting them, which they never did before anyway.

>Judging by the general disdain towards extensions by GNOME developers and many users, I doubt that's the case.

You may have a biased view, I've heard complaints but the reason they happen is because users really like extensions and want them to stay. I've also heard lots of good things from users and extension developers, it works well when extension developers can test and update their extensions in a timely manner. Besides you can already have that if you want; just don't install any extensions.
This is a shortcoming of many flash like tools that export to the web (such as unity or adobe animate). I am trying to solve this with https://moos.app
It automatically works on all screen dimensions but is not as powerful as flash (yet).
There are two separate issues with social media. Everything falls under one of these two.

1. The effect social media has on people

2. What social media gathers about you

The comparison you made with video games doesn't delve deep into issue #1. With video games you play perhaps a violent game and the argument is that it might make you violent.

With social media the effect is different. Algorithms are affecting what you see, the echo chamber they create around you and can literary change your perception. This isn't even touching psychological experiments being done by companies like Facebook to see the effects to your mood based on what you see in your feed.

Video games haven't gotten there, they don't alter their behavior based on what you look at and do. They don't present other gamers that match your video game playstyle and likes and dislikes. They don't allow advertisements that specifically target your behavior.
Because whether or not Bitcoin is silly, someone else paid their hard earned money for the coins, usually we say that makes someone the owner.

What do you usually call someone who takes a thing from its owner without permission?
500k is not an extreme outlier wage.

My wife and I both work in tech, outside of SF. We make around a 200k premium each to not work in Europe.

You can look at ‘any number of other metrics’, but one of them isn’t going to be culture. European culture is dead and ossified.
Multitenancy IoT. A lot of IoT infrastructure just serves one person or company.
Once that changes large scale IoT investments will make a lot more sense.
Very cool. Nintendo GBC era graphics fidelity and smooth animations playable instantly in browser. It's amazing how performant it is. "Wormhole" is the basis for a great "Pilotwings" flight trainer ;)
Creating Neural Search and Rescue Fly-Through Environments with Mega-NeRF
That's basically the paradox of evidence based medicine, and there's plenty of published criticism on the subject. Naturally, we haven't measured the effect of decades of Long Covid yet. Yet, we can have strong and logical suspicions that the effect is potentially much more severe than a few weeks ICU (although they probably correlate strongly). I am personally in favor of acknowledging the trap of evidence based medicine, and taking 'softer' risks into account, even without evidence. In retrospective, there are plenty of things for which some sounded early alarms, but only when the evidence was in was policy adjusted. I think we can do better.
I used to have a laptop connected to my TV that I controlled with a small wireless keyboard. It wasn't VLC but MPC, but mostly the same as you're doing.

Then someone advised me on buying a nVidia Shield on which I put Kodi. And from there it was a completely different experience. Just controlling everything from a remote with my thumb, on a unified interface, with more information (posters, synopsis, status of viewing, resuming, sync with my Trakt[1] profile...)
Then I bought a Logitech Harmony remote, so I was able to control my whole setup (TV + soundbar + nVidia Shield) with a single remote.

But I had more and more issues with Kodi, plugins failing, crashes... and with Netflix I took the habit of being able to resume somewhere (browser, smartphone) else what I started on the TV. Something not supported by Kodi because it's only a local player. So I looked at Plex and my experience improved even more.

Now with Plex I have my own "Netflix" so I can start something in a browser at work, resume it on my smartphone in the bus and finish it in my couch on my TV at home. And I can share this with friends and family! I don't have to ask them for a USB key to share files. Or setup a weird FTP access for them to download the files. They have a nice UI to do what they want : consume a media file that they know I have.
It's accessible from everywhere : browsers, smartphone, tablets, media box, smart TV... And I can even play my own music on my Sonos players!

There's a lot of things for which I like to hack stuff and all that. But I don't want to have to do that to watch a movie. I want a simple and user-friendly UX. And that's exactly what Kodi and even more Plex offers.

So to me the first and biggest game changer was to have a smartphone-like experience on my TV, with a small device in one hand I was able to switch apps and enjoy my media in a nice UI.

[1] : https://trakt.tv/
So basically the same old story like US with PGP in the mid-1990's.
Well that’s not the OPs value judgment at all is it?

Sifted goalposts
My great-great grandfather argued this exact point to my dad in the late '50s: the buildings in Switzerland (and, later, Indiana) that "stood the test of time" were built to a different (far more expensive) standard.
Four Innovative Case Studies of RFID Application in Healthcare
You'll never hear that from any news outlet or government unfortunately. One size fits all
How accessible are Lottie animations? Can they include (keyboard accessible) hotspot links? ARIA markup? How much work would it take to make sure a Lottie animation respected user preferences like prefers-reduced-motion?
This definitely took a turn toward Advertorial Land, but I will say as someone who has blogged for twenty years, and obsessed over backend analytics, the gist of the piece is pretty accurate. I've had more success with direction and approach with my writing by employing Rahul Vohra's 40% rule one time then I ever had dissecting what country my clicks were coming from.
Tor in 20202: We've succesfully killed off 90% of all actually used (as opposed to botnet) tor onion services and we're happy about it. We're protecting our end users from themselves by forcing the removal of Tor v2 protocol from the codebase. We don't care because onion services were never really something we cared about, just an add-on to trick people into thinking Tor was a real network worth building a community in. It isn't. Tor is only for people who want a pseudoanonymous clear web proxy. Forget .onion domains.

https://www.darkowl.com/blog-content/tor-v2-depreciation-shi...

https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline/

https://metrics.torproject.org/hidserv-dir-onions-seen.html
Alegria is mentioned in the third paragraph in the article you linked.
Honestly, it depends on the game. Hence I suggest checking ProtonDB[0] for the games you are planning to play. Most of the reports also have details about CPU, GPU, GPU driver etc.

Anecdotally, I remember playing Team Fortress 2's native port on Intel i7-2630qm CPU on my laptop back in 2012-2013 at 1366*768 resolution with no major performance difference. (setting up bumblebee was not an easy task for me back then.)

[0] https://www.protondb.com/
Thanks for the recommendations. I am already familiar with React, had built a web app at the start of the year. I had some unsuccessful interviews a couple of months ago for a React position and this question came up from the interviewer (it was a senior position) so I posted it here to know what are the approaches other devs are following here.

Right now i am working on a JavaScript/jQuery SPA, a huge app and a lot of bad approaches and coding conventions. I am going to resume with react ecosystem again to update myself with the current industry trends.