skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Longform.org is a good resource for longer reads, if you get paywalled just pass them through Instapaper first.

Also Arts And Letters Daily

Naked Capitalism daily linkdumps (morning + water cooler at 2pm) have plenty of auxiliary reading material in them

Slate Star Codex comment section is always popping off, some discussions are more interesting than others depending on what you're into
For mindless browsing when you’re trying to fill a few minutes, I’m quite a fan of Mix [1]. I believe this used to be stumbleupon. You simply enter your interests and it keeps suggesting related content.

[1] https://community.mix.com/blog/2019/2/27/introducing-the-mix...
Found the below on the CollegeBoard website today [1]. Only effective for the second week of AP exams.

> Students with an unsuccessful submission will see instructions about how to email their response on the page that says, “We Did Not Receive Your Response.” The email address that appears will be unique to each student.

[1]: https://apcoronavirusupdates.collegeboard.org/faqs
I wonder if a coin collector could give an idea of when those magic number cubes came about. While they aren't necessarily of the same date, the coin might help determine why the cubes are there in the first place.
Unless you believe we should wait for a vaccine, we don't need "the end all be all of protection", we only need adequate protocols to stop the spread of the virus from overwhelming healthcare systems. If we can find low impact ways (washing hands, wearing masks) that are effective enough to allow us to curtail physical distancing, that is hugely advantageous.
Most people would be thrilled to get anything close to 25% CPU util. I guess one of the big missing pieces fro Borg that hasn't landed in k8s is node resource estimation. If you have a functional estimator, setting requests and limits becomes a bit less critical.
> MS has changed it's colors but the nature of the beast is still exactly the same

And your evidence is?

> don't forget that the current CEO was right there when all that stuff was going down.

And? Just because he was there doesn’t mean he agreed with it all.

Microsoft has provided much evidence that they actually support open source, and you all are sticking your heads in the ground and ignoring it all, while also providing no evidence to show the contrary.
Not anymore!

Games and even productivity apps are known to be moving small pieces to their servers so that you cannot run the entire application on your own...
Mainly due to them being both more tightly integrated to C++/Python than JS/TS for building desktop apps.
The 274 ms is for the sequential version of the algorithm (on my i7-9750 laptop).

On my office Xeon E5-2690 machine when using multiple threads the runtime decreases like this

840 ms for std::sort

372 ms for IPS4o sequentially

201 ms for 2 threads

104 ms for 4 threads

53 ms for 8 threads

33 ms for 16 threads
This story strikes me as off. It runs counter to every other aspect of the virus we focus on. Specifically, if it was already spreading in schools, then why don't we see scores of critical kids and parents? With how contagious this is, I find it fairly unconvincing that it was just that student.

Combined with symptoms taking about a week to present, this was in community spread for a while. Yet, here in WA, the deaths figure is still 92% over sixty years old. I don't know the percent from long term care facilities. (I would love that stat.)

Then the question is at what point did it break into long term care facilities? And could we have done something to strengthen their protection?

With a further question of what, exactly, causes it to go severe.
Suppose you do foo a lot. And sometimes you need to do either foo or bar inside of baz.

You can pass a flag to baz, to choose either foo or bar. Now you have a closed set of possibilities. If you want to extend the functionality e.g with a plug-in, or got any other reason you want to avoid committing to the choice, then you either need

1. first class functions, so that you can pass in foo or bar or whatever.

or if you don't have first-class functions, then you need a

2. FooLikeFactory to make a FooLike object based on a runtime value (e.g. read from a configuration file), and then you can call your FooLike object from baz.

I like the quote that design patterns are bug reports against a language. The factory stuff you're talking about doesn't just exist for fun. It solves an actual problem. I hate Java as much as you do, I'm sure, but I value understanding the reason the patterns exist before I decide to just use a language where I don't need to do any of that stuff.
I'm in agreement with @namdnay...I don't think it will replace enterprise packages like Siemens NX or CATIA anytime soon. I do all of my CAD design in Solidworks and I do like the out-of-the-box thinking/features of OnShape...but...their pricing model ends up being more expensive in the long run ($2100/year for Pro Version). I paid $4k for Solidworks in 2016 and it's paid itself off more than 10x times since then...all without the need for a forced upgrade! When a newer version substantiates its value for my workflow, I will upgrade. Not to mention, most of my work can easily be done in Solidworks 2008-2010 because that is the innate nature of CAD packages, regardless of the version, they will get the job done.
> the idea that once you own land, it's yours.

This idea is the problem. Taken to its logical conclusion, we get feudalism, where those who don't own land will forever pay rent the landed gentry, only because they were fortunate enough inherit land.

Property tax fixes this somewhat, but California decided to weaken that with Prop 13, and now is approaching feudalism. For example, in the apartment I lived in California, the rent paid would cover the landlord's property tax obligations in a month, and the remaining rent is the landlord's (minus whatever costs they have for maintenance).
Private consumption is only possible due to productivity gains due to capital investment.
Venezuelans can't just vote to redistribute nonexistent wealth or declare food to be a human right and magically have sufficient food appear.

Food comes from capital investment in farms, factories, etc. That is real wealth.

>There are a couple of standard answers, including government consumption / public works projects, that can address this.

These answers don't work, and are great at destroying wealth.
You're correct, this scenario is why the AGPL was written. A lot of companies allow the use of GPL software but forbid the use of AGPL software.
Are Paintings Worth Anything?
I don't use Windows, but thank you for having gone for it.
Let's say this doesn't get updated I don't see a problem. It will continue to function as it is until it gets outdated and replaceed. Let's say it changes and does something evil, hopefully Google, Microsoft will catch the issue. If they don't someone will and people will stop trusting react or whatever product pulls these changes in.

Doing it yourself I would just freeze versions.

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In this case I find it odd for someone to keep maintanier status for a company repo they no longer work for 2 years after leaving.

I would have forked and introduced new changes in my own repo if I cared about the project. Let others follow if they desire new updates or force airbrb to assign someone to update. or better get airbrb to pay you to keep updating.
I heard this same sentiment a ton when Twitter first got big. But there are things that RSS is incredibly useful for that Twitter is terrible for, and vice versa.

For RSS, I use it to follow company and engineering feeds: every web browser and every major product all have feeds. e.g., I follow the Safari, Google Chrome, and Firefox browser feeds to learn about current and upcoming updates. And the best part is I can read them only once a week, and they do not disappear from my "timeline".

OTOH, I stopped subscribing to news via RSS years ago. Trying to make sense of every single headline some news site published--usually dozens per day for most of them--is impractical. And while there's a lot of blog authors I like to read, I just can't keep up with them either. Better to just set aside some time once a week and skim their sites.

The thing about Twitter I never liked is the feeling that I had to be on it all the time, every second, or I would "miss" something. But screw that, I have things to do, and I'll catch up when I catch up.
> So it's probably logical for it to be a web app.

Ah, gotcha. Although I'd have assumed that Figma is used more to design native apps that web apps, this helps me understand where you're coming from.
When in India I was told there are even some rare families still raising their children with Sanskrit as their primary language. I think this spoken Sanskrit is however a bit different from the written version which might mirror Latin that might also have had a spoken and written version (and the former is dead).

Small remarks:

* I found the description on the 'drum' pattern difficult to understand, that might be a word understood in a particular way in your culture/region?
* The introduction mentions the verse that can mean both apology or declaration of war, would be great to have this mentioned/translated too as one of the examples.

Thanks for an interesting article!
The lines between the two have been slowly blurring for some time now. My crystal ball says that will continue as the need for cross platform support, especially desktop versus mobile, gets bigger. I think we'll see more and more emphasis on 3rd party VM type frameworks, like JVM, unity, and electron. However with Moore's law reaching an asymptote I believe that writing for performance will also become more and more important. I think these forces will result in a high demand for the skills needed to improve performance on all types of apps.

What I'm hoping for is a pendulum reaction to the recent trends of UX design, where we see a renaissance in really solid interfaces that focus on discovery and speed. But I'm not seeing signs of that yet.
Microsoft can’t open source windows. Not that they don’t want to; they can’t. There’s too much of other companies proprietary stuff in it. Microsoft didn’t write all of Windows; they’ve licensed some stuff from other companies, and they almost certainly don’t have a right to release the source code for it all.

Basically, Windows wasn’t written to be open source, so the effort involved to do so is insurmountable.
Ask HN: Most people find browser tabs confusing?
I made a visual database app and one thing a lot of my users find frustrating is that each table opens up in it's own tab. They say things like they don't know how to go back to where they opened the table from (and would do things like hit the back button on a freshly opened tab). Some were lost when I would ask them to do things like "close the current tab". And so on.

Browser tabs are so much more versatile than re-implemented tabbing within my app and I figured that since many people use Google Sheets/Docs/etc which also does this, then a tab per document/table/whatever would be familiar. Maybe I'm wrong. What does HN think?
The WebAssembly App Gap
I don’t open big files at all. There’s no point. Files exist as data made to be transformed from one form to another. It is only worth looking at a file in its final form unless you are making some kind of edit.

And even then, I make edits on large files through a series of commands, never opening the file.

By thinking of files in this way, it becomes easy to create programmable tool chains for manipulation.
They exist and thrive on what I'll call "frat bro networking." They're able to become gatekeepers to so many things by using their connections to pull strings. Once they establish themselves in a space, they use standard bullying tactics to stay the gatekeeper. That's how textbooks routinely become $1,000 paperweights each year. That's how brands like Varsity become synonymous with a sport's skill bracket. I've personally lost fights with the giants and know a textbook startup founder that was forced to do a 180 pivot by Pearson.
I remember this urge, it took me once. I wrote a physics+animation engine for the Palm Pilot(!) and wrote a couple games in it - Lexicon and Combinoid. Moving sprites, collision, physics. Fun while it lasted.

Turns out there wasn't really a market for games on the Palm Pilot. Oh well.
I was just going to ask if anyone knew of a modernized version of Stumbleupon. Thanks, had no idea this existed.
What you're describing is still technically Heat Death. I'm talking about after that. Technically, if anything can still evaporate, you're not yet at true Heat Death.

But infinity is a larger number than even the exceedingly unlikely probability of Entropy spontaneously reducing, just like there's a finite possibility of all the air deciding to move to the other side of the room without any external actions. Quantum fluctuations can produce stuff from nothing, they just never do with any appreciable probability.

But Infinity swallows up even Heat Death.
It depends on whether read rates are more likely to be limited by CPU or by disk speed. If the former, you'll probably want something like LZ4 to minimize CPU usage. If the latter, it may be better to use a more CPU intensive algorithm which provides better compression, so that there is less compressed data to read from the disk.
You can read content from Hacker News, Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, and a lot of other platforms using an RSS reader. You can even receive newsletters there.

I wrote about the process here: https://blog.mironov.live/how-to-build-your-personal-news-in...
I don't believe so. It's considered to remove distortions in land use, as compared to property taxes that include the value of structures. In other words, you get less vacant lots and more productive use of land. Which there are good arguments for.

But proposing to replace income and sales taxes with land value taxes, making it the primary tax -- which would necessarily skyrocket the land value tax to produce the same tax revenue at the end of the day -- would be extremely distortionary.
I’m shocked people will pay the surcharges for delivery. Not everything travels well. But people do, and don’t seem to care.
> that’s why some content authors, like Daring Fireball’s John Gruber, as an example, only provide their full RSS feed to paying subscribers

This is false. I am not a paying subscriber, but I still get the full content of Daring Fireball articles in my RSS reader. In fact, the RSS feed is one of the links on the site’s sidebar. https://daringfireball.net/feeds/
What's the trouble of getting it upstreamed?
Too many quick hacks that warrant a proper solution?
mymathlab is the antithesis of good UI
I don’t think you’ll find many people here who agree that “web” is ambiguous.
Ah, but that merely reduces their probability. Over an infinite timeline, anything with a small but still finite probability of happening will eventually happen (and, I think you could say, happen an infinite number of times...).
It's definitely a problem, even on CollegeBoard's current platform. Normal AP exams/SATs require photo ID validation at the exam site, and are run by school admins who will notice if someone is out of place. I work as a tutor on Wyzant and have been asked to "tutor" during the exam as well as to just do CS Principles students' portfolio assignments.

While some might argue my approach is too aggressive, I report every account that messages me asking to cheat to Wyzant as well as the appropriate organization. My goal is to make it simply not worth the attempt to cheat (obviously only if they explicitly ask; I don't report when it's a possible miscommunication). Just about all of them have had their accounts deactivated.

If technology access could be assumed, I don't think it would be unreasonable to ask students to upload a picture of themselves with their photo ID, as well as some sort of validity check, like a unique code only provided to the device they're taking the exam on. Obviously, that can't be implemented because of equity issues. Ideally, a secured assessment would be done on something similar to Pearson Vue, ProctorU, or the multitude of other online proctoring services. Unfortunately, that's not an option due to both scale and technology access (not everyone has a compatible device, I'm sure many students are taking the exam on their phones).
I think universities are necessarily going to rely more on the "soft" aspects of applications to select students. It won't be a problem for top colleges - they could probably toss out the entire admitted class twice over and still select a world-class pool of students from the application pool.

I think it might be problematic for T2-T3 schools and state schools that are generally lenient when accepting AP credit. As for graduate and professional schools... that's going to be a mess. Harvard Medical School will only consider COVID Pass/Fail grades if colleges make those grading schemes mandatory for students; otherwise, students will have to submit letter grades. That's (1) completely heartless and (2) an arbitrary advantage for students who went to schools where P/F is mandatory.
Always Wikipedia. Click a link. Any link. Click a link inside that article. Repeat 3-5x and you will be at something fascinating and obscure.
I run a native desktop app called Moneydance. Syncs files, encrypted, to dropbox, and everything runs locally on whatever machine runs Moneydance.

I use this because I don’t like the idea of financial account info being stored by a third party has has no liability for breach. And also because I have over 10 years of transactions in the ledger and running this remote can take a long time. I’m not even sure if there are any services that store for 10 years and let you do text searches.
Oooh, that's very nice. Deffo adding this to my toolkit.
That's an argument for pricing land according to market value, which we already have.

It's not an argument for why we should rely solely on a land tax in lieu of e.g. taxes on corporate profits, income taxes, or sales tax.
WinRT isn't really a framework, but more like a "shape" of API/ABI, like C calling conventions or COM. Most Windows APIs added in the last ten years or so have been WinRT based.
Anything in visual range could tell what it is rather quickly.

Any SIG/ELINT capable aircraft would also be able to tell what it is.

It also isn’t going to be flying without escort in any real use nor it’s ever intended to be used in contested or denied airspace.

This just allows POTUS to be in a secure and mobile location while a more permanent solution can be found even tho it’s capable of being refueled in flight and has supplies for days if not weeks this isn’t intended to be used as a long term solution the engines can’t run indefinitely even if it constantly gets refueled.
Well, you should scratch language there.
kotlin did manage to start with the huge ecosystem of Java without hassle
I’ve been researching and looking high and low for some kettlebells! It’s crazy how hard it is to find some hunks of cast iron right now.

Stuff like: https://helpatmyhome.com/best-kettlebells/
Indeed, AVX512 instructions can sort 16 int32 or well-behaved float values optimally, with no branches. It is a good final pass to any other algorithm.
Thanks dang! I did know the comments command
You would probably want to include some tax advantaged incentives to maintain a bit of public space, public art, parks, or just green spaces. Giving over some portion of your land for public benefit, even if limited use, should be encouraged rather than penalized. It would also encourage more interesting usage patterns and development than pure land-use maximization would do. The latter might have you end up with block after block of square high rises, which might glide us past the point of diminishing returns to density.
Show HN: WhatCanWePlay? Find games that you and your friends already own
Right, I meant the memo was contemporary with the decision.
> You opened the door to surveillance nirvana

While everyone is arguing over silly ID numbers, the true surveillance Nirvana is already here.

Facial recognition, already deployed in some areas, essentially precludes the need for an ID at all.

Once you can uniquely identify anyone with close to 100% accuracy just by looking at them, you don't need to worry about silly things like IDs
Spontaneous entropy decrease that leads to Big Bangs at least every 10^10^10^56 years.

Well after heat death and "final" energy state of the Universe.

10^10^10^56 years sounds like a long time, but it's way smaller than infinity... Imagine Graham's number, which is still finite and thus much smaller than infinity...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham%27s_number
> OSS is being destroyed by corporations^^ flooding it with money

^^ with competing interests

Microsoft's interest in all things linux is a tad worrisome IMHO.

How 'bout instead of the "keep your enemies closer" strategy, MS start releasing their products as open source and leave Linux be.