skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dislike cloud-only or subscription based design tools as well - you have less control.

When Adobe moved to a subscription model I didn't upgrade.

I used Sketch and other tools, but unfortunately they are not cross platform, so I switched to Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo.

I'm hoping native tools can survive.
Page <title> says "Bing Together"
Hey carapace!

Now this looks very interesting, I am going to give it a read.

If you have anything else along these lines up your sleeve, I would love to see it!
FYI if you're trying to follow along - it appears that QEMU doesn't (for some reason) run on a headless workstation. You'll have to have X installed.
Dan Bron's accepted answer is rather lengthy and surprisingly interesting, given the subject matter. I find it very persuasive.
devdocs.io is the most successful example I'm aware of. I've never "installed" it as an app, as I don't use a browser that supports that (basically Edge, Safari or Android Chrome), but I've certainly relied on its ability to load without an internet connection for train/plane journeys.
Perhaps this style of app, on iOS devices, drains more battery power than deemed reasonable?
He could, but he won't. This is Boris 'we need to leave the EU because too much government' Johnson.
Air quality has already been reported to be improving. You have 70-90% decrease in plane and vehicle traffic. Less boat traffic too, so water quality will improve. The earth is healing itself. ;-)
Yeah there's a handful of Americanized comments on social media ("Muh freedoms!") but generally a lot of approval. I'm glad we seem to be taking our cues from South Korea, Taiwan, etc, about how to deal with this.
I wouldn't group the UK and US on this, from what I've seen the response is quite different.
Not a lawyer but probably not. There’s many ways to make an App for their platforms. Just because people want to use web technologies is an implementors decision.
The current API key system is a simple and temporary solution.

We will work on a more feature-full API key system including the one you are talking about. This is on our roadmap IIRC.
Maybe, but it would only apply to a subset of PWAs. For example OP's RSS reader must access remote resources.
Namecheap won't register domain names with COVID19-related terms
At a minimum we can be thankful that Apple's rules force web developers to care about one additional browser.
Please explain how I am wrong?
While scientists (only) focus on vaccins, doctors know from experience how one can have an optimally functioning immune system. I suggest to check out Dr Eric Berg on Youtube to learn how to protect yourself.
Show HN: Specification of Derivations with Automunge
It would be interesting to see if sedentary lifestyle causes of death go up if the lockdowns are prolonged.
If you read the article, that's the issue the author was talking about: it's basically impossible to make an app that can store its data locally, instead of on some web server.

All apps that you download from App Store can live offline, where they're usable without Internet or trusting some faraway web server.

You can't make a web app that can do that, and to some people it smells like Apple trying to force developers to release through App Store.
The "hard not to call" portion takes it from the realm of objective fact and into subjective measure.
Dockerized folding home client, with Nvidia GPU support
Good luck in NZ. I'm on Day 12 in Spain. I'm passing the time by learning to cook.
Microservices: Cloud Reviews and Benchmarks
How much would you worry about your ID being leaked, if/when Clearview AI is hacked into? What can be done with the info?
There's one simple thing that Apple could do. Do not delete local data if user bookmarked page from that website (or pinned it to home screen for mobile devices). Now bookmarked website treated like an "app" with slightly less restrictions and some random website data will be eventually purged (although I believe that 7 days should be extended to few months).
What's the problem with the client having to re-download those assets if they don't play for a week? Seems long enough that I'd expect a patch download on a typical gaming platform, for example.
I also wonder what's so bad about all the simple existing designs, which are all out there, ready to be produced (and validated to work?)? I would understand if people would focus on taking these designs and adapting them for different materials/.... What I don't get is, that everyone is trying to reinvent the wheel (probably classic NIH-syndrome).
As a Kiwi living in NYC, I'm impressed by the "go hard, go early" approach the NZ government has taken, compared with the delayed response here.

NZ also has easily enforceable border control (surrounded by the Pacific ocean) which is already strict (their economy is so reliant on agriculture exports.)

They should come out of this better than most.
I prefer mu4e (mu for email) although ultimately I'm still using my gmail account just with another interface. I like the idea of ultimately just setting up a mail server but realistically its really really hard to switch everything at once when you have a lot of existing accounts so I'll probably be maintaining a gmail account forever.

I'm trying maps.me because unlike google it does offline walking directions but I haven't used it enough.

I really want to like duck duck go but it feels like google still provides better results.
An economist might make the following argument. Financial systems are like banking systems. Banking systems have two equillibria: run / no run [1]. A bank run can destroy an otherwise healthy bank, and can be a self-fulfilling prophecy. The way we stopped bank runs in the US in the 1930s is deposit insurance and the Fed discount window. 1-3 are modern extensions of those policies. They help households in the sense that they prevent full-scale depressions.

This argument is actually true imo, but it ignores the fact that the public could recapitalize the financial system (equity investment) and share in the upside. When you lend to a company near insolvency, the downside risk is identical to the downside risk of an equity investment. So, it is strange that the government favors debt rather than equity. The mental model of "no change of control" predicts this policy choice and others.

The proceeds of a public equity investment can be distributed pro-rata through e.g. investments in public health infrastructure or basic scientific research. Norway's sovereign wealth fund is a good example [2]. This very much resembles 4, although it is not a direct cash payment to households.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond%E2%80%93Dybvig_model
[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/27/norway-wealth-fund-earned-a-...
> Can anyone explain this with an example?

Note this is totally based on my reading of the GP:

>> As mentioned, the seven-day cap on script-writable storage is gated on after seven days of Safari use without user interaction on the site.”

I'm understanding this to mean: you access Site A and it stores data to your local storage on day 0. Then you use Safari for Sites B, C, and D, but not A for the next 7 days. Since Safari has been used for 7 days without using Site A, Site A's data is cleared.

>> Web applications added to the home screen are not part of Safari and thus have their own counter of days of use. Their days of use will match actual use of the web application which resets the timer.

I'm understanding this to mean there's no distinction between Safari and Site A anymore. Since you can't use Site A for 7 days without using Site A, Site A's data is never cleared.

It would make much more sense for them to just disable the counter in this case, or at least just explain it that way. It would be less confusing.
Icelanders skip the hot springs for ice baths
> To fight quarantine boredom I build a site to watch movies with friends.

I would call it "CoVid: watch videos together, remotely."
Show HN: CBVision – An accessibility camera app for the colorblind
Needs a [video] tag
I agree with that. I did investigate a number of self-hosted alternatives to Github, but Gitlab was so much easier than any of them. My only complaint about Gitlab is that it uses a lot of CPU even when completely idle. But I was able to fix that easily by throttling it via the "cpulimit" utility.

My Fossil server on the other hand, has had no problems at all. Unless your project requires Git, you could save some pain by considering Fossil instead of Git.
This is a great idea. What about also funding companies that will help the economy regain its footing in the coming months/years? Covid-19 will drastically impact even the people who never catch it.
MSDOS-32bit is like a miniboss
I don't think that web tracking must be fought at expense of user UI. It's fine to fight web tracking by introducing measures that don't break honest websites. It's not fine to fight web tracking or anything by crippling user experience with honest websites.
What's happening in NZ explained here: https://covid19.govt.nz/

And what the "State of National Emergency" means: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/412583/covid-19-state-of...
Countries Starting to Hoard Food, Threatening Global Trade
> Do one layoff, but much much deeper than seems correct.

Is this what "leadership" is all about: just transfer all the pain you're having onto the employees who have been doing all the hard work to build your vanity company?
Thanks for making this available to all!
If you add the Twitter PWA to the homescreen and don’t use it for seven days, it’s storage will be reset and you’ll have to log in again.

I think WebKit’s handling of local storage is the prime example of how optimizing for privacy to the exclusion of every other consideration is user-hostile
so, it seems like personel IS a bottleneck which is not going away by 3D-printing a million of ventilators.
Monitoring Covid-19 spread in Switzerland
The strategies are somewhat different, but the failures in leadership are quite similar.
That makes more sense. I still would not say that "No one is going to even remember Washington has an outbreak in a week's time".

It's ongoing, shelter in place has been enacted. People will still be dealing with it next week, and its impact on rural areas could also be devastating.
It's based on one single benchmark (geekbench) that has widely been discredited when comparing platforms (like x86-64 vs ARM64).

iPhones also fare much worse in sustained / multiple run benchmarks due to thermal throttling. In some test run in a loop, iPhones are as much as 1/3rd slower in their 3rd run vs their 1st run due to throttling.
A chrome extension that quantifies how much you touch your face
US Government Sites Give Bad Security Advice
For example, a Swedish company might have made an English version of an existing Swedish ball and mistakenly failed to change one image.
The issue is that you either need a strategic stockpile OR domestic production capabilities, and ideally both. You seem to be ignoring the latter entirely.

(And it was Obama that depleted the strategic stockpile of N95 masks without replenishing them - a stockpile created by Republicans, mind. If you want to point fingers, please point them in the right direction)
D'oh. Too late to edit my comment but you're correct, this should say Multi-level marketing throughout. No idea what brain short-circuit caused that.
> Now return to Ramanujan and see how the first thing that springs to the naive eye beholding the number 729 is that adding 81 = 9^2 turns it into 810

The article is bewildering.
No kidding? When did you go to school? When I went back for my master's degree in 2005, they made me take a "leveling" undergraduate x86 assembler course because my 90's-era S/360 (yes, in the 90's) was too out-of-date, but they definitely required at least one full assembler course back then.
I don't really understand this. If you want to make something local, make an app and distribute through the app store, that's what it is for. A web app on the other hand is connected by definition, no?

Apple forcing local apps to distribute through the app store is a feature.
Haha ... then their gonna take muh gunz! As an American who was preparing for this in February, I'm not surprised that the number of cases here has grown given that attitude is represented by probably 25% of the people I know. I'm in a university town and expected more. I'm also pretty dismayed that we fell behind this when we knew it was coming. Officials who heard some of the early briefings knew enough to dump their stocks but didn't argue we should start producing test kits?

So for now, we're living the dream in our house ... stay safe everyone!
Actually that seems kind of exciting: making ventilators that don't need highly trained staff to operate. But maybe I'm just weird that way.
I'm in Australia. My initial internet searches for Australian strategic food reserves / stockpiles don't seem to turn up anything.

Thinking about climate change here in Australia, and how some areas have been subject to quite persistent drought, it doesn't seem completely inconceivable that the whole continent could have a bad season.

Having said that, we do export a lot of grain, so you'd think if we'd be able to reduce / halt exports and still feed the nation maybe?
Decoherence on its own still has a basis problem. You need superselection to reduce that to one basis. However this has been shown long ago (1980s) so in essence decoherence + superselection does solve these problems.

If you're not familiar with these terms I can explain.
Installation of web app performed by bookmarking it or by pinning it to home screen. That's performed by explicit user decision and must be honored by browser if it wants to make a distinction between random website and useful website.
That works as long as the user keeps the tab open, but if they use a bookmark (or just remember the domain), the hash part will be lost.
https://appsco.pe/ has popular PWAs. They don't need to be installed, they just look and work like an app on the browser.
I'm really really skeptical on the one: "This model also allows a lot more freedom to crew members, without them letting airlines run their lives. Pilots would be less sleep deprived (which is crucial) due to more flexibility. They essentially become freelancers.". Sounds a lot like Uber, doesn't actually provide the freedom nor sleep one expected...

This looks like a startup idea that, if Softbank puts some billions in, could again fuck up an entire industry, and let people down.
this is fantastic! reminds me a little of Uplink. what hacking never was, but always should have been
This is one of the issues I have with conferences--I have to sit through hours of stuff I don't care about to find the nuggets that are useful.

This is NOT confined to software conferences. I have been to semiconductor conferences and injection molding conferences and the phenomenon is the same.
Brain fart — meant pulmonary edema, not pleural effusion. P-E something, anyway.
Kubernetes 1.18.0 is out. It's official
Loss of smell is a Covid19 symptom. That's a test. Everyone should do that test
There is strong evidence that loss of sense of smell is a common (and peculiar) symptom of Covid-19. Partial information is worth something. Everyone in the world should be testing their sense of smell, at least daily, and we should be recording the results somewhere. Otherwise we are just throwing enormous amounts of information away.

At the moment it's just: "Some people who test positive report a loss of smell. That's interesting. Maybe we should look into it."
does anyone know of a good website to do this but for music? Ideally I'd love to be able to create room where buddies can join, we can chat and take turns suggesting songs to play that we all listen to. I would literally pay money for that.
I haven't been able to use my webcam lately because the teleconferencing I use (WebEx and Slack) is having issues keeping up with bandwidth. I haven't even been able to use the On Computer audio and had to dial in.
I'm just tickled that someone can post a snippet of x86 assembly on HN and several people start pointing out perceived issues with it.
Is there anything more "substantial" to add? US Military is legendary for flushing money down the drain. Quite literally in this case.
Swift 5.3 Release Process
In contrast, it doesn't happen with a denormalized, UI-agnostic state:

Isn't it the other way around? the UI-agnostic state IS the normalized version; the UI-aware state ready to be consumed is the denormalized one.

The choice is pretty simple to me: keep the State normalized, de-normalize it in selectors for consumption in the UI. Those selectors will look pretty much the same as the reducers you'd be writing anyway.
It has less to do with management style and more to do with governmental construction. New Zealand is a unitary state. The US is a federal state. There are concrete divisions of power and certain expectations of national power from both the people and the states (which hold separate, independent political power).
Impossible to read anything on this website on mobile. How is it possible for any web designer to conceive a website where only 20% of the screen shows text?
I've been a frequent lurker since 2008 (IIRC), and saw this article for the first time.

Thanks, it was a fascinating read.
Question: is it possible to oxygenate blood via IV (similar to how toxins are removed via IV in dialysis)? When babies are in the womb they get oxygen without using their lungs.
Hello Michael, and thanks for your message! I understand what you mean and you've got a point! nice!

Regarding CQRS, it is indeed a really interesting concept, and it also allows you to easily scale up. The issue is that it's hard to convince people as they used to the RDBMS day of thinking.

> That could explain why scheduling queue messages has never been a first class citizen in any MQ so far.

Exactly! The concept of CQRS is quite old, but back in the day, it was difficult to challenge Oracle. We are getting back to the fundamentals though..

If you are interested, check this guy; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2RJQELoM6Y&feature=emb_titl...
"Walk the Board" - experienced teams should not be reporting on personal status, they should be walking the board to collectively see where help is needed to keep the work moving. I've seen huge improvements in morale and satisfaction on teams just by switching to a walk-the-board style of standup meeting.
I think NZ did the mistake to not test enough people for too long and not doing enough controls at the borders (which is a relative easy task for a fairly isolated island, with only a bunch of international airports). I'm very happy they decided to move quickly in the last week, and the PM did a very good job giving clear information of what is going to happen and what is expected from everybody. Considering that only 4 months ago I was living in Italy, I feel so lucky I moved my family here before things start to collapse back home..
The Fed has now removed bank reserve requirements
Ben Lorica blog post on enterprise applications of reinforcement learning
In the US, the State Governors are explicitly in charge of this, not the Federal government which has minimal authority in such matters. It is misleading to describe this as "taking up the slack", given that the US government is specifically structured such that it is supposed to work this way.
The key is the 'P': Progressive. A PWA is just a web app, but one that takes advantage of features you'd typically see in a locally installed application like local storage, notifications, etc. This might mean it has metadata to make it "installable" in browsers that support that, but I wouldn't say that's a requirement to be considered a PWA.
How does this make sense logically? Obviously the websites that you use the most have the biggest potential and opportunity to track you. All local storage should be deleted for the most used websites at random times, at avg. several times a week, without any extensions caused by recent website usage.

If this is done for privacy's sake, that is.
> Are you actually seeing good results from push?

Push isn’t worth it, from what I understand. I think that’s the conclusion at work.
I was looking at getting it for my kids just last week. Went through a bunch forums, reading through what people are saying and the overwhelming tone was that it's just not good. An ad-hoc collection of tutorials with no overall structure and that are more confusing than helpful. Too complicated for noobs, too trivial with those with a bit of experience.

If anyone has a firsthand experience with Unity Learn, I'd love to hear about it, and I'm sure others will find it useful too.
I'm the OP, I use a lot of PWAs. My main machine is a Surface Pro X and I don't have native apps (as in native aarch64 binaries) for many of the things I'd like to use. So, I'm using PWAs for Instagram, Twitter, Kindle, Pinafore (mastodon client), Spotify, and some of my own.

I was developing a feed reader that was supposed to be a client-side-only PWA but that's tricky.
Hi! I'm a backend engineer with 6 years of experience. I'm looking specifically for companies working on climate change or sustainability (renewable energy, conservation agriculture, environmental projects, etc). These are the problems that I'm most passionate about, and I want to spend my day job working on them.

I'm a generalist and love learning new things! My recent experience is in building cloud-based, highly scalable platforms and frameworks. I've built distributed systems for image processing and analysis, worked on a petabyte-scale storage system for n-dimensional datasets, and created tools and protocols for running algorithms over terabytes of data. I'm zealous about clean, maintainable code and solid tests.

My ideal team is collaborative, supportive, curious, and passionate. I try to foster those qualities in myself and in my company culture. If you're looking for someone like me, let's talk!

Location: San Francisco

Remote: Remote or onsite is fine (I'm experienced in remote work across time zones)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Java, Python, gRPC, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, AWS services (particularly EC2, ECS, Batch, S3, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS)

Résumé/CV: https://self.brockmuellers.com/assets/resume/resume.pdf

Email: brockmuellers@gmail.com
https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/FAQ#why-does-zig-force-m...
People keep wishing for a loophole. There isn’t one they won’t close sooner or later.
This is exactly the reason the anti-mask people in the US or so frustrating. Yes, you might still get sick but the initial viral load is likely to be greatly reduced and the speed and intensity at which you get sick is likely to be milder.
In-House Lawyers to Big Law: Enough Already with the Coronavirus Webinars
Which is strange, because they're already under scrutiny for being anti-competitive WRT their app ecosystem. Having good support for web apps could've softened that case a little bit.
Big Tech is a 21st century public utility
For some reason that froze my browser. It was fun to play though!
A feature for who?

Not for users - now there's one less avenue for developers to get them something they want.

Not for developers - now they have to jump through additional hoops to make something that works cross platform.

Who exactly does this benefit?
Very cool. I just loaded up some Half Life maps that I made when I was 15 and it ended up being a little trip down memory lane. Thanks for that!
The terrible, fantastic life of AbleGamers COO Steven Spohn
You clearly haven't even opened the article, let alone read it. It's about face shields, not respirators.
That seems weird, i tried to replicate it using a few combos was not able to, wondering what may have caused this
they really “look” like an app