skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I felt very similarly.

If you’re interested in getting “the news” delivered to you daily, instead of having to check a reader app, I’ve built something that aggregates all your feeds (and websites without feeds) into a daily digest via email.

I don’t want to “spam” so I won’t link here, but you can check on my submissions for “News, calm”.

On the “RSS apocalypse” front, I can say that on this product I noticed that most websites “non-tech people” follow don’t offer RSS feeds, apparently over monetization concerns.

I was definitely in a filter bubble as everything I followed had RSS.
Personally I feel like webapps are really holding us back but to each their own
Controversial opinion: Yes, native desktop apps are the future.

Msft is pushing on react-native-windows and macOS has project catalyst. React-native is making cross-platforms native apps viable.

Apps are way more immersive than the browser and it allows the developer to give a gamification experience.
App from Augusta University offers streamlined Covid-19 test screening
There’s nothing to really block much on the aur. There are some guidelines in naming and no duplicates, no maliciousness etc that are enforced, but that’s it. But anyone can upload a build script (PKGBUILD) for anything.

If you want to see how it’s done search the package name and AUR and you can see the build script right on the website.
You’re thinking like an adult, not a teenager.
How did NYS figure out "Romania" (even if wrongly) and communicate that to your friend?

That's a bizarre capability for a system that is as incompetent as has been seen.
At the bottom it has hospital resource usage. It also includes what the resource usage of hospitals was, but it lags about a week behind the current date. That type of data is harder to get.
> Micropayments have been tried. They all failed. The fair market price for content is $0.

To be fair, most were aweful and never reached critical mass. And many were to early and badly placed. Today situation is different. Patreon, twitch, youtube, netflix, spotify and all the other paid services proof that people are willing to pay something for content, to their conditions.

I think a well implemented micro-payment could work out today well enough to be viable. Something build into the browsers and aggregator-sites (reddit, hackernews, google news, facebook...) first. Most users don't wanna waste their time with micromanaging their bills, so make it optional, and automate it for the rest of the time.
I can verify that driving for Uber can be very profitable if you find the right niche and only work during busy hours. My city has a huge restaurant & bar scene and when you hit the right times $20-30 profit is not very difficult. That's after maintenance, fuel, and depreciation costs. You can make even more if you are an entertaining driver and tell great stories (tips!!).

Restaurant delivery driving is a less than minimum wage endeavor in my city the last time I tried it. A lot of that has to do with growing pains: the restaurants don't have the order ready in time, and you usually have to drive across the city to do a pickup because volume is low. Regular Uber was also like this in the early days until volume picked up.

Of course, with COVID, both Uber and Uber Eats is barely worth doing. I hear grocery delivery is where it's at now.
Much of what art is, is serendipity, accident and discovery. If you’re overly deliberate your not creating high art.

Anyway I just find it funny that gifs were invented to solve the problem of over sized video and now he’s saying that videos are solving the problems of over sized gifs.
I have a slightly different take - I wrote my own CMS based on Elixir. It's a static site solution, which means it generates, static HTML files that are then uploaded to a CDN (Eg. Netlify). My UI is done in VueJS and my database is actually inside of my application. I wrote a simple electron wrapper combined with docker in the background to deliver my CMS solution to my clients and it has worked really well for me. The reason being, I don't first of all need to collect my clients' data and store them on a central server, at the same time, my clients don't need to bother finding a hosting provider to maintain the site. They can just run this thing off their desktop and publish and be done with it. What's nice is, if they need updates and new features, they got to pay, which supports me and my work as well.

In fact, the whole project started out as writing a replacement for Wordpress from scratch. At least 6 of my clients' websites got hacked and one of them had a million visits a month. Simply because of stale plugins (it's easier to accumulate them than you think). So, long story short, I absolutely believe there is a place for desktop apps even in 2020.

BTW, I plan to open source my CMS soon :)

(and I do write about my journey here - https://medium.com/build-ideas)
>All patients prescribed a controlled substance have to take it.

I was told that I "may need to" take this test at some point. I never have and have been taking adderall for many years.
Yes, Chromium.
I should really start looking at it again
REvil Publish First Trump ‘Dirty Laundry’ Emails Since Branded Cyber-Terrorists
‘In a far more sinister tone, though, the ransom note ends with the following warning seemingly to President Trump himself: "I would hurry up. In the place of your competitor, I would buy all the data and put it right at the start of the election. That would be fun. But you can get ahead of him."’

Original title lacked context and was too long. It was:

Hackers Publish First 169 Trump ‘Dirty Laundry’ Emails After Being Branded Cyber-Terrorists
Or you could purchase meth (easy to come by, as with the majority of illegal substances) and do the reverse synthesis in your kitchen? /s

https://web.archive.org/web/20120301155008/https://heterodox...
I think we can safely exclude 'collaborative web design' applications from the set of hardcore tools not gaining much from being implemented as web apps for understandable reasons.
I agree, though on the other hand reddit posters are notorious for being angry haters of anybody that has more than them, especially corporations, and greatly over-represent perceived negative aspects of them.
Cambridge International Examinations (UK based high school board for O/A levels) is giving students grades on their O/A levels based on the grades they got in their last few internal school exams [1].

Universities will pretty have to accept them if they want a reasonable intake of students.

[1] https://www.cambridgeinternational.org/covid/
Sqlite is inanely well tested, incredibly lightweight, and will be more reliable than the vast vast majority of flat file configuration systems.
I'm considering using:

- The Archive https://zettelkasten.de/the-archive/

- Connected Notes (doesn't exist yet): https://github.com/tsiki/connectednotes

- Zettlr https://www.zettlr.com/

- Zettelkasten (UI seems complex, and the app is crashing on my system) http://zettelkasten.danielluedecke.de/en/
From the research I’ve seen regarding output at given weekly hours, you cannot sustain productivity beyond 40hrs/wk for more than a month. At some point productivity lowers such that, at best, productivity matches what previously only required 40hrs/wk. At worst working tired creates more work than it solves. Further more, the research I’ve seen suggests that those most likely to be doing negative work are the least likely to recognize it. Couple this with how hard it actually is to measure productivity, and you can end up with some personalities that are convinced the only way they’re as successful as they are is because of the hours that they can easily measure, and maybe don’t realize they’d be equally effective with fewer hours.

That said. I suspect much of the research is only focusing on single work types. Like 40hrs doing thought work or 40hrs doing mindless manual labor. And I have suspicions that you can increase effectiveness by doing tasks that give breaks to you brain or you body and that might get you to 60hrs/wk without burnout. Beyond that though, I’m skeptical. People need time to rest. Bodies have recovery processes that can’t necessarily be sped up, and the brain definitely has rate limits on flushing byproducts of various processes, and muscles take time to recover due to similar rate limits.
The biggest reason technical managers fail
My personal evolution has gone from Sublime Text 3 to Atom to VS Code to Sublime Text 3. I've never been a heavy plugin user, mainly sticking to code highlighting. The thing I really like is speed. Sublime Text rarely chokes on me. I love being able to type `cat some_one_gigabyte_file | subl` and getting it to open up with little difficulty. VS Code chokes on files of non-trivial size, and that was the thing I liked about it the least.

For anyone wondering why I'd open up a 1 GB file in a text editor, I guess the answer is largely because it's convenient. Big log file? No problem. Huge CSV? No problem. Complete list of AWS pricing for every product in every region stored as JSON? No problem.
It's literally in the first paragraph of the Wikipedia link above...
Dat Protocol Renamed Hypercore Protocol
It isn't just about knowledge, but also about how much knowledge you'd need to keep in your head just to read something - the least the code requires from you before you even start reading the code, the more you can focus on understanding the code itself. And even when you know about the features shown, it still is hard to follow the flow. I mean, i do know about lambdas in C++ and have used them a lot, but i can still find it harder to follow code that uses them extensively with the flow jumping around as, e.g., calls to other functions call back to local lambdas.
From the link: "At age 14, he became a member of the working group that authored the RSS 1.0 web syndication specification."
I believe the College Board surveyed universities on whether they’d take these virtual exams for credit. Most institutions said yes.

edit: really? respond instead of downvoting.
So it sounds as if you've sort of outgrown the command line but aren't sure you want to jump in on self-managed Kubernetes. You'd have to look at the costs but maybe some sort of managed offering would work for you. It could scale up for larger sites but would be fairly simple for smaller ones--especially with standardized configurations.

You could look at the big cloud providers directly. OpenShift [I work at Red Hat] also has a few different types of managed offerings.
You were doing so well! Then you appealed to voting. Is any American happy about either of the currently proposed candidates for President? They are both confused loudmouth old men from the Northeast who grab pussies! If voting could change government, it would have done so by now.
If you are looking to try something new I launched https://taaalk.co.

It's a platform for longform online discussions between two or more people. You can read other people's or make your own.
So is Autodesk Fusion. But you won't see Autocad stop selling their desktop software. People don't buy extreme rigs to use for production, and then trade even 5% of the perf for convenience.
Google Cloud Run shell access
I agree to a certain extent on your revised assessment framework, but I’m not sure it would work very well in some of the basic sciences. As someone who has gone to college for these things and beyond, I can tell you there’s very little as a “practicum” that I could have demonstrated coming out of high school or early college. This is in contrast to CS, where if you build a program, the fact that the program exists and solves a given problem correctly is ipso facto a demonstration of understanding. Further, it’s a demonstration of fairly comprehensive understanding of the coursework (you’d have to grasp >80% to have the program work at all), which I have trouble seeing how to do that in say, chemistry.

You propose a lab report, with example data, and I actually really like that idea, but I think it would fail on that last score. Looking back, AP chem is a lot of inorganic reactions (lots of memorization, some principles), acid base work, some organic chem, some lab techniques. It’s fairly scattered. A single (or several) lab reports would not capture all of it, especially given that chemistry doesn’t work perfectly predictably even with a post-graduate understanding. There’s a reason basic science lab courses do boring experiments, it’s because those work reliably.

Anyway, I like the idea, and want to hear more on how to do it, but a lab report would have to be supplemented by something else to really evaluate understanding in the sciences.
Was you just a couple of years ago...
>The form cannot be submitted until the user fixes the error, so the server shall not receive an excessively long text or password

Seems like win/win for everyone. In-spec, less confusing for users, and doesn't change behavior for normal form submissions (JS submitters are clearly opting out of browser safety nets).
In the rare occasions I take an Uber I always ask about the economics of it. From my anecdata it seems like most have never done any modeling of depreciation or maintenance cost forecasting, even extremely basic like miles until major service required and how much it would cost. At most they factor in the monthly oil change, if they even do that.

Maybe some enterprising person on here could make a slick web app to help people estimate depreciation and maintenance costs, with a user interface that people with a high school diploma could understand.
So Bezos is, in fact, paying more taxes than him. What am I missing? He wants Bezos to pay more as a percentage of income?
Google never made an public attempt to show ads in their Reader, unlike GMail. Publisher feeds were also still prospering and widely used when Google killed the reader. It all started to die fast in years after.

Also, IIRC they specifically killed it because of Google Plus, which according to their plans should replace Google Reader and the demand for RSS.
Also from a security standpoint, it seems to me that having all apps work in the browser is creating single points of failure.
"more tenants or envs in shared cluster"

This is what I'm trying to convince my current company about. They want everything in a single cluster (prod, test, stage, qa).

Of course self hosting makes this more difficult to justify, since it is additional expenses for more machines.
Nintendo switch helped Police to solve a murder case
Unless Microsoft releases at least one of its products (ms-sql, visual studio, windows, office) under an open source license i'm calling bullshit.
I have searched something like this for backups, but have not found anything good.

But I also have conflicting wishes. I want it to store the history (so that a backup of directory A cannot be overridden by a backup of an unrelated directory B, and it can apply renames without copying large files again), and then I do not want it to store a history (so that large files that are removed from the main system can be permanently removed from the backup)
Now that this has dropped off the front page: Just food for thought for you in your relationship concerning the detail that your girlfriend desperately wants children and wants to experience pregnancy (the comment is by me, under my old handle):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8155574
> At least with Android (not Google) I have a choice on what software I install.

I'm have very negative outlook on Apple with their vendor lock-in and walled garden, but how long do you think Google will let you make this choice if they gonna have no competition at all?

Google was slowly making Android less and less open with every release. Now "security" features like SafetyNet decide whatever you're allowed to use software or not.

Think on it! Just look at what Google doing with web because of their monopoly on search and browser markets.
Perhaps Lynx?
> shipping literal malware on mainstream desktop computers

Source? None of the things you listed below are /literal malware/.
I think this is a big part of it. At work, I am coding to one platform.

For my personal projects - I set up the Linux server, I set up the MySQL/MariaDB instance, I design the database schema which follows first normal form, second normal form. I design the REST API in Python, then I get to my normal job of coding an app for one platform. Plus I do the graphics, which normally the design group does. I also do the advertisement on Google Ads etc., I pay the bills and do the accounting and so on. So it goes beyond even tech skills.

Thomas Huxley said a good liberal education is to know something about everything and everything about something. I am not an expert in creating ads on Google, Twitter etc., but I have done it and know something of it. Same with sizing or dropping graphical icons. Or designing a database schema. Or figuring out my side project cash flow, profit and loss, having my accountant help me set up an S corporation. This is all the knowing a little something about everything.

In my day job I primarily use one programming language to target one platform. In this subject I go deep and really try to learn as much as I can. This is what my main focus is on, learning the language well, and learning the platform well.

I should also point out, the smaller a company is, the more hats you will wear. I worked at a small company where I wore not only a programmer hat but a devops hat. I set up Google Cloud, Firebase Firestone, Apache web server, and wrote and modified Python scripts. At a larger company (where I am now), 99% of the time I do none of these things (actually they like I have these skills and can interact with our devops team). It doesn't take long for specialization to kick in either, by the time of the second tech hire you're already dividing up work. It is important to know your main focus well on job interviews though.
Tesla says it has health official's OK to run California plant
> If the Big Rip were to happen

That's a really big If. Since we're well into the realm of fields-on-General Relativity in this paragraph, you'd have to add one or more additional fields to provide a "fifth force" (thus, in these sorts of approaches quintessence) to overcome the other known fundamental interactions among the other fields of the Standard Model, of which there are more than three. The fourth, gravitation, is poorly modelled as a force when we are dealing with clearly relativistic gravitation, as is the case with [a] a black hole or [b] the appearance of lots of empty space around all sources of gravitation.

Nobody has yet made a consistent interacting model of quintessence, where the interactions reflect those of the Standard Model or gravitation, so nobody can really do anything but handwave about what extra interactions from "fifth force" fields would do with respect to e.g. the Higgs mechanism. Additionally, I say fields because when one gets into the weeds of formalizing a quintessence field theory one ends up with self-interactions -- additional interactions in the new parts added to the Standard Model.

Quintessence theories are interesting to probe the structure of theories (mostly quantum field theories in curved spacetime), but are really not interesting for studying the physically observed cosmos with our present level of understanding of the Hubble parameter, or the mechanisms that generate the "true" metric.

Without these extra interactions, there is good reason to believe that there won't be a big rip: at smaller scales, stars, planets, people, pocket computers, molecules, atoms, are in no danger of being locally disturbed by the metric expansion of inter-galaxy-cluster space.

> around the event horizons of black holes ("dead stars still burn") fizzing out Hawking radiation

Hawking radiation appears surprisingly far from the event horizon, rather than near it[1] and for a black hole whose near-horizon exterior is gentle enough an environment to support any sort of structure (space-stations, say, and especially ones that can support life as we know it) the Hawking radiation is virtually always going to be colder than the cosmic microwave background measured in local coordinates by a near-horizon observer. If you want to be fanciful, you are much better off erecting a very large scaffold around a very large black hole, and then "mine" it with a bucket. [2]

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[1] Unruh [2007], http://inspirehep.net/record/775859?ln=en from which the DOI link will take you to the cc-by-nc-sa pdf.

[2] Brown [2012], PRL preprint https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.3342 has a quick overview and decent bibliography notably Gibbons in [11].
Show HN: Golang Websocket Chat Room Server
Same happens in France and they are still around :)
Yes. Not sure what about this justifies the oohs and ahs.
So will they pay reparations for there atrocities?
I.e. pay back the "Windows tax" they forced on OEM for all those years now.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundling_of_Microsoft_Windows
Auto makes it harder to know the type in question, if C++'s auto is slightly more cryptic than var or let in other languages, doesn't really matter that much if what you dislike is not knowing the type in question in the first place.

But honestly i can only talk about me here, i can't guess why some imaginary other developer who dislikes a feature does dislike it.
Static compilation of JS into a binary is also being worked on (albeit slowly) with `deno compile`[0]. This is the feature I'm most looking forward to personally, goodbye JS slowness.

[0] https://github.com/denoland/deno/issues/986
OP posted an FAQ:

https://old.reddit.com/r/space/comments/frdd1d/im_17_years_o...

You can find it easily if you change the domain to old.reddit.com (as suggested by jakeogh in a sibling comment).
I am running a native desktop app Jumpshare (https://jumpshare.com), a remote working communication tool that helps you share your work and ideas through instantly shareable links. Basically, it combines video recording, screenshot capture, and file sharing - all in one app. This is not something you can build using a modern browser or Electron because it does not have tight integration with the operating systems.
TIL! Thank you :)
I still have yet to hear anyone propose a workable solution for the ultimate problem of remote assessment in CS: hiring someone to just do your work for you. Everyone keeps saying "oh just make it project-based" like I didn't have a student last fall who hired someone to do his final project. I only detected him cause the person he hired sucked and left bread-crumbs; how many students did I not detect because they hired competent people?
I mean... the objection is that it's incredibly arbitrary, greatly affecting one part of the economy and leaving others untouched.

Why not a radio spectrum tax as the primary tax instead? Or an oxygen tax proportional to your lung size? Or a clean water tax, or a tax on the weight of your grocery consumption, or a tax on the weight of the garbage you produce, or the carbon you consume?

All of those are valuable resources.

That's why it's not found in the political dialog, because it's super-arbitrary and would therefore have grossly distorting effects. Why should a low-margin supermarket which people need, occupying tons of space, pay huge taxes, while a tiny very profitable ultra-luxury boutique hotel pays only 5% of the taxes?

Taxation needs to be applied with some combination of minimizing distortion and achieving some level of progressivism. A land value tax is absolutely terrible at both of those.
I'm mixing a song in Pro Tools right now, and earlier I edited a video in VideoPad. I can't fathom doing either on a web app.
Some schools don't just accept the scores as-is. After getting a 5 on AP Chem, I had to pass another entrance exam and take a freshman organic chem class to get the AP credit
Consistency is maybe overrated?

I purposefully make my FF unlike the other apps on my system. I use a couple of workarounds to prevent OS level keybinds from working in some apps. Sometimes a completely purpose made UI is better, sometimes.

In general, consistency [in desktop UI] is good, but there are good reasons to break it.