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> The reason RSS failed to reach mainstream adoption by users is because it is not user friendly at all. While I love RSS myself, no amount of tech nerd nostalgia is going to make it popular enough that your mom starts using it.

I think it is a false premise that something is only valid if "mom starts using it". That is the profit-driven mentality. eg. "how can we market this? How can we expand RSS market share into valuable demographics?" etc

Also, I actually did teach my Mom to use RSS a decade ago and she still uses it today.

These concepts are really not that hard. I told my mom it was like she was getting a newsletter from her blogs delivered to a special dedicated inbox, but without cluttering up her email. She was delighted.

I think if someone knows how to use email, and knows how to browse the web, and knows how to sign up for email newsletters, they can handle RSS. I would argue that it is in many ways more useful for less computer literate people.

> Then comes the UX nightmare of actually finding the feed on each website you visit. If the site even has one.

This UX nightmare was solved 15 years ago. Browsers displayed a little icon in the corner when RSS is detected.[1], Firefox later displayed an RSS icon prominently in the address bar[2].

The UX nightmare was then re-introduced as the RSS icon was de-emphasized[3][4] and eventually dropped completely, with a dubious justification.[5]

[1]: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/FeedAutoDiscovery.aspx

[2]: http://scripting.com/images/2011/01/15/rssicon.gif

[3]: https://decafbad.com/blog/2011/01/15/how-to-use-feed-auto-di...

[4]: http://scripting.com/stories/2011/01/15/mozillaPleaseKeepThe...

[5]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17613051
Another point I might add:
Please factor in the rate of unemployment and the limited choices for labor when measuring the happiness of these "unskilled" workers.

I agree that we can learn a lesson of efficiency from these guys, but I don't agree that we can learn a lesson of cooperative society and sharing of dividends.

Lack of exposure means we rationalize the existing situation and convince ourselves that this is good. I'm sure there are some dabbawalas thinking "It is what it is. There are no other jobs available, so I might as well."
Do you want to offer any evidence to substantiate either claim?
The only reason I agree with you is because you said "the same death rate". If we change it to "a reduced death rate" that's absolutely what we should be assuming. South Korea's measures were born of SARS - we will probably have the same measures ready after this coronavirus. Why not use the lessons learned in South Korea rather than the same ones learned in our own countries?
You need to configure Windows for using UTC when it's dual booting with Linux.
This is no place for blind nationalism or race baiting. If you don't want to see critical comments, maybe this isn't the right place for you.
>50,000 years - The length of the day used for astronomical timekeeping reaches about 86,401 SI seconds due to lunar tides decelerating the Earth's rotation. Under the present-day timekeeping system, either a leap second would need to be added to the clock every single day, or else by then, in order to compensate, the length of the day would have had to have been officially lengthened by one SI second.

I guess we have another annoying clock problem to work on once we get done fixing the Y2038 and Y10k bugs.
A newsfeed is an extremely complex and tricky product to get right, even more so when it's an aggregated one.

There are so many competing concerns to handle -- prioritization with a source, prioritization between sources, discoverability, UX flow, preview vs. full content, social content from your friends vs. institutional content, commenting, and last but not least, a business model: what is incentivizing content sources to cooperate in good faith and not ignore it or abuse it?

Fact of the matter is, RSS is just far too simplistic to handle these competing concerns in any kind of balanced or reasonable way. But it's also possible there is no single answer.

Which is why different "newsfeeds" for me (HN, Reddit, NYT, AV Club, Twitter) have drastically different interfaces and interaction models. I don't want my HN to work like Twitter, or my Twitter to work like the NYT. And I can't even imagine of any possible interface that could somehow aggregate them all.
Testing and tracing has already been tried and shown to be more or less impossible in dense cities with no immunity. It’s not for lack of trying that many cities failed to contain the outbreak in February. Granted, it’s a lot simpler when people are aware, but it’s still likely that cities will fail again as soon as people move about normally.

I suspect a reasonable middle ground strategy is to aim for just some immunity (say 15% or 25%) while not overwhelming healthcare, after which tracing and isolation has a chance of working while also allowing a somewhat functioning society (Note: I mean for dense cities. This could still mean 5% in a country, as in Spain for example).
The hard part is ensuring that as few as possible of those that are infected are in risk groups. This is something that proved difficult in many places.

There is a set of restrictions that allows the aggressive testing/tracing/isolation work for a naive population, and a different set of restrictions that is sufficient for to contain the spread in a population with 20% immunity. My feeling is that the former set of restrictions isn’t viable in democratic countries, or sustainable for the time we are talking about (1-2 years) without leading to something that costs more than is won.
Show HN: Blunt – A CSS framework without all the fluff
Introduction to Network Security
Not having a real native desktop player is why I won't subscribe to Spotify. When I'm going to use something more than lightly, I hate using applications that feel like web tech. But I realize I'm in the minority.
From one direction 99% of the world's VCR clocks blinked "12:00" for the entire lifespan of that media format. The proposal is a lot of interactivity and cognitive load to demand from most of humanity. Only a very small segment of society, mostly engineers, can utilize parametric search. Even engineers are lazy or in a hurry sometimes, in theory investing time in a parametric search would benefit me, in practice I needed a USB cable and going to amazon for a generic search of "amazonbasics usb type-c cable" works well enough.

From the other direction there's not much middle ground between the proposal and a REST API. You're asking for developer.ebay.com, I've fooled around with that a little and its fun. Sometimes I think the business people don't understand how much the devs are exposing in their APIs, which makes me worry about the staying power of public APIs. There are businesses where their business model and front-end UI could all be replaced by a very small shell script and I don't think the business people understand that weakness. Of course an API can be shut off with the flick of a switch once it eats into profits.
>AV1

I often trip on that, was similarity with AVI accidental or intentional..?
Yes, the staged combustion methalox engines under development are interesting.

Though there's value in keeping it simple too. Gas generator engines got us to the moon and back.

And if the goal is routine travel to Mars, I think we really need nuclear propulsion.

And yeah, F1 is really impressive. Heck, the entire Apollo program was an astounding achievement in so many ways.

Though the geek in me is disappointed that kerolox engines produce so much soot that you can't see the Mach diamonds..
Slack desktop app is almost 1 gig in size.

On a whim I just checked how big the copy of Adium still lingering in my Mac is: 60 megs.

And Ripcord (a native discord/slack client) is a mere 40.
The irony: the US thaught them how to handle viruses.

In times where those policies would seem effective. It's harsh to realize what lack of funding does to an entire country.

I guess you shouldn't run a country like a business, where the CEO has encountered more bankruptcies than successful businesses.

Unless you count "selling a last name" as a business, the current CEO has no successful endeavors without daddy's money.
What do IDs solve? Voter fraud is negligible. And getting an ID, even if it's free is a pain for some people. Plus the ID of paying everyone to vote is a non-starter.
That’s interesting because as an Australian who has also been living in the USA for as long as you, the USA feels to me stratified the the way you describe. Tipping, the way people treat cleaners and other low status workers feels consistent with how people are treated when I am in India (my mother’s homeland not mine).

At least one small thing is better there: I visited my cousin at work and there was a man in the lift who pushed the buttons for us. My cousin explained that he had been the lift operator before the automatic lift was installed and rather than have him lose his job they continued employing him. I’m not sure that would happen in modern America any more...or Australia for that matter.
I suspect this is overwrought. Anecdotal, but I recently got a chuckle out of this article[0] in the San Diego paper. While there was much hand wringing from business owners about how their workers wouldn't come back for their previous wages, when you investigate, workers want to return to their jobs even for less money.

Honestly, it seems like not a big deal. Business owners are fearful, perhaps because they will have to compete on wages to re-hire some workers. But it does sound like workers want to return to work, and this whole "unemployment pays more so why work?" schtick is a big nothingburger.

[0] https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/economy/story/...
From where I am standing, 1800 doesn't look anything like 1600.
We all fail eventually.

Someone has to pick favorites. Everyone loves fast travel. It enables business.

No brainer.
>Native desktop apps targeted at the average user are better done on macOS, since that platform has a higher percentage of users who will pay (compared to the percentage of users who’d just pirate it).

That was always the standard wisdom. However I have released the same software on Windows and Mac and seen significantly worse piracy for the Mac version.
Banks absolutely do have this ability and I would guess SARs from banks are what led to the Secret Service eventually uncovering this elaborate scheme. Though I imagine more SARs would have come from the outgoing transfers (from the mules’ accounts to the criminals) than from the suspicious unemployment deposits. Generally government money is considered “clean” but if a mule suddenly started receiving more money than usual it would be investigated regardless of the source.
So, GWT 3 won't happen ever. OK.
Yo, it's a joke, they literally have "won at <creating> life" ;).
Hardware has random failures, software only systematic ones.

Aging is an issue, as is EMR and power supply.
If you make $31,000 as a non-elderly single person, you’re at 250% of the FPL and there is an 89% chance you’re insured: https://www.cbpp.org/uninsured-rates-are-higher-at-lower-inc.... Under Obamacare, there really isn’t any health insurance plans that will leave you with hundreds of thousands in costs without coverage (leaving aside surprise out-of-network doctors and that’s a loophole people on both sides of the aisle are trying to fix).
My bad. I completely misread your post. I never thought of that to be honest.

My first reaction is hesitation, but it is mostly, because I am not sure how that would work in practice.
considering the costs of telescopes, that's not a bad return on a hobby
In other words, they are making a system work, doesn't mean that the system is right in the first place and is universally applicable.
Reads comment. Cocks head, curiously. Closes eyes, listens to the music coming from his computer. Opens eyes, alt-tabs to the Spotify app. Closes all web browsers. Music continues, uninterrupted except by ads. Shrugs, goes on with his day.
I like this. It's like a simpler version of Tailwind CSS.
Of course, you can. The company is the monopoly not the userbase.
> If you can represent 16 million colors in video, then you can make a video that only uses a subset of those 256 colors (exactly what gif does). If you need the high frequency information then you can tune the encoder and still get a filesize that is an order of magnitude smaller than gif.

and that's like fitting a square peg into a round hole. If you downscale to a gif you get the graphical effects for free.

https://i.imgur.com/8LdcFn5.gif
But it's fast enough. JIT compilation means algorithms run decently fast, and when it deals with the DOM it's fast enough for everyday interface tasks.

Nobody's saying it's elegant. But it's cross-platform and it's a standard that lots of people know. Wishing we move away from it seems like a lost battle at this point -- at least unless we somehow invent a brand-new computing paradigm that replaces browsers, the way browsers have replaced apps in many cases. But I can't even imagine what that might ever be.
If you develop an application that runs in the web browser, I won't use it. That's not some dogmatic principle of mine, it's just an empirical fact.

I use only one browser-based application: Gmail.

I've never used another browser-based application and I can't imagine that I ever will unless there's truly no alternative and it's forced on me by an employer.

I've happily paid for dozens of desktop applications, and I'm even semi-happily paying for around ten of them that have switched to a subscription model, but I never have and likely never will use browser-based applications even if they're free.
I guess very close alternative to Goey will be GioUI [0]. It is really simple in the implementation, so it also covers many platforms as targets [1]. However, that is also a problem - there aren't many prepared components as in Qt or SwiftUI, no "native" feel of mouse or clipboard handling. One of the example of app I have found in the Internet is GUI for the password-store [2].

[0]: https://gioui.org/

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxnL3-Sex3o

[2]: https://git.wow.st/gmp/passgo
It is true that there is a a correlation between lower level programming and better programming in general. You probably won't see someone writing asm but creating crazy O^2 algorithms that run on every frame with memory allocations that run in the inner loop.

At the same time a native win32 program can pack significant functionality into a 20KB exe. Put these together and you have a program where everything is instant, all the time on any computer. The original uTorrent was just over 100KB and installed then ran in an instant.

These two refinements together are such a massive difference from any electron program that it melts my brain when people say that it isn't a problem to have a chat program feel like using windows 95 on a 386.

People say talk about needing cross platform programs, but something like fltk has everything most people will need and also runs instantly, while adding only a few hundred kilobytes to an executable.
We are hardly the first species with sentience on this planet.

We may be the first to believe in impossible things like gods, and things that don't exist like money, and this also gives us our capabilities to invent things like science.
What business should the government be in? What is your opinion on what should happen during a pandemic, and on what do you base that opinion?
IMO desktop apps aren’t quite equivalent to native apps. Native apps look and behave in a consistent way. They have

• Familiar UI primitives:
- Controls and chrome are in the same place
- Font sizes are the same across apps
- Consistent icons and button shapes

• Support standard keyboard shortcuts (including obscure ones that developers re-implementing these UIs might not know about)
- All the Emacs-style keybindings that work in native macOS text fields but are hit-or-miss in custom web text fields
- Full keyboard access (letting me tab and use the space bar and arrow keys to interact with controls)

• And consistent, predictable responsiveness cadences
- Somewhat contrived example: In Slack (browser or Electron app), switching between channels/DMs (via ⌘K) has a lag of about 0.5–1 second. If I start typing my message for that recipient during this lag, it actually gets saved as a draft in the channel that I just left and my content in the new channel gets truncated. I don’t think that kind of behavior would happen in a native macOS app, which renders UIs completely synchronously by default/in-order (so it might block the UI, but at least interactions will be in a consistent state)
I think my point in posting this has kinda got lost. It's not about the scientific classification being abandoned because of "common use" as found in dictionaries, that's not the point. The point was that you, because of your own specialist knowledge, may in some circumstances think that you're insured against something, only to discover later that the "common definition" has it that you're not.

I guess I should have posted a comment at the time I submitted this, it's probably too late now to make the real point.

However, if you have insurance that matters to you, perhaps it's a good time to go and check every single term in it to make sure the "common sense meaning" matches your understanding.

Edit: Actually, the irony just struck me about being misunderstood in the submission, just as legal terms are misunderstood by "ordinary people" when tested in court. Oh well.

Edit 2: Guessing it won't matter now, as this has fallen off the front page, not doubt having been flagged based on the misunderstanding of its purpose. Again ... oh well.
Most people want to self regulate. Some people want to get enough political power to regulate other people.
Maybe they were using a VPN proxy?
> They’ve been trying to get this right

Company politics interfered with the work on database as file system, one of Longhorn's greater ideas. I can't remember the specifics, it's on Slashdot somewhere, can't find it anymore.

> their 16-year-old search implementation

… is Giampaolo's 22-year-old implementation.

http://enwp.org/Dominic_Giampaolo https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/the-b...
The other commenter is correct - swarms.

Also our robot is capable of spraying but will primarily use mechanical means to destroy weeds so there is no chemical use.
Yes, but they also had to add 50k of uncollectable revenue. So its not really doing anything for them for their taxes.

It's mostly a game played between insurance provider and medical provider. They ask for 50k--knowing it the insurance is going to low ball them.
I'd like to share this with other people, but the potentially-offensive language makes it so that I can't. My personal rule is that if I wouldn't say it in front of a kindergarten class, I won't put it down in print since I don't know who will be exposed to my writings.
I remember when the first "we suggest wearing a mask" came out. It was followed with a worry about masks becoming a bigger deal than they should. I remember hearing over and over during the same meeting that masks were not a replacement for keeping a 6' distance between people. Now it seems the whole country is Mask vs No-Mask when the actual experts suggest it's the 6' distance that really counts. Masks were just as an additional precaution and not meant to be front and center.
+1
The social context is what's missed in interpretation by outsiders.
Lens: The Kubernetes IDE
> for some f'n reason there is no will...

That is a euphemism. In face this is a partisan issue. Mismanaged and embarassed social services programs are seen as a feature by one party, because they allow for arguing against them on principle.
Sure. I guess that means deno is sort of providing a lot of the capabilities sysadmin have had for a while in a language.

If deno let's you design a program that acts like Qmail with all its separation of concerns and permissions but with one binary, that's a plus.
South Korea has fewer cases - and deaths - than Iowa.

I mean, I know Iowa is a really dense place where everyone uses public transportation, but maybe they could at least make an effort...
One of the reasons they are happy to cripple it.

https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2020/04/03/its...
This was the naive communism idea, that you can mold people into any shape you desire with enough education, propaganda and other forms of societal pressure.

There is science that tells us otherwise. If you're a midget, you cannot ever be successful in the NBA.

People's brain regions vary up to 10x in size and some people have regions that are completely absent in others, oops. Some people can see 10x more colors than others. Some people can do mathematics, most can't. Sorry.

Ok so we have people with vastly different abilities, people are not equal. What do we do with this information? We need to figure out who has which abilities. How do you do that? You scan their brains :) Now what happens when we find out half the billionaires have tiny worthless brains and got lucky (every Russian billionaire as one simple example)? What happens when rich people have idiot children who are only good for serving coffee?

There lies the rub - you have to want power-responsibility ratio to match ability, more than you want your offspring to have power regardless of their ability to handle responsibility. You have to fix corruption on the level of enabling idiot family members because they're yours. You have to fix enabling your friends because they're your friends. You have to understand that an idiot would be better off serving coffee more than going to a top university, cheating their way through it and being a worthless manager with a high paycheque.

You have to not be an idiot to understand these things. How do we have more non-idiots? One easy way is to monitor who has children. Ohh but freedom I can do what I want with my body?! That's your selfish idiot brain talking that doesn't take responsibility into account. See how deep this goes? Every facet of modern society ignores responsibility. The fix starts with people like me talking about it and being treated with downvotes from the idiot masses :)

ps. If you want a more thorough treatment of responsibility and how important it is, I've heard good things about Jordan Peterson.
Employee development ideas for managers and leaders
I am amazed by his work. I followed him on cloudynights forum. But let's not kid ourselves. Of course he has enabling and smart parents.
> At some point, all food was like this

At some point all food was uninspected. But this isn't about all food. Those numbers are useless. This is generally about shelf-stable goods sold in small amounts. The sales are limited in two different major ways.
I think you may be underrating the mastery required to write verses like this. Sure, Sanskrit was (and still is!) spoken as a language. But just because you can speak in Sanskrit does not mean you can come up with constrained verses like this; it requires a lot of skill. (Just as, to use the analogy above, just because you can program in C does not mean you can write a winning IOCCC entry.) The difference between "not speaking Sanskrit" and "speaking idiomatic Sanskrit" is IMO smaller the difference between "speaking idiomatic Sanskrit" and "speaking like this poem in daily life" — the former is “just” a matter of learning a language.
I definitely can, but lots of things can be abused by the government. I haven't seen anything in the United States receive quite as much pushback for quite so many irrational reasons as the idea of a national identifier, which a lot of nations already have.

This is in the context of the social security number already serving as a de facto national identifier, because in the 21st century information age it's almost impossible to make functional systems without some way of uniquely identifying individuals.