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Here's the official Qt announcement:

https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-offering-changes-2020

"We are making this change to encourage open-source users to quickly adopt new versions. This helps maximize the feedback we can get form the community and to emphasize the commercial support available to those with longer product life cycles that rely on a specific Qt version."
For those who want something a little more mobile-friendly, we just built a similar map over the weekend: https://coronavirus.app/
> Not a bad idea, I have seen some simular but for the love of god why the docker dependancy ?

ShellHub is built using the microservices design pattern, meaning that multiple small, isolated services. Docker is an excellent tool for managing and deploying microservices.

I'm open for suggestions and other options.
The key distinction there is that there is a visual element that does still respond to taps/clicks, which means that eventually you try to click on it, overshoot to the corner, and discover that you don't need to click at all.

Gnome shell does some of this stuff well, but try using it for real work on a tablet and you start needing those arbitrary gestures again. Need to invoke the on screen keyboard? View the app overview? You're going to be searching the web for those gestures, guaranteed.
Yeah, that seems to be why the estimated R0 is so large.
I ran a hackintosh setup for most of my university days.

I loved OS X on my MacBook but I wanted more power and a larger screen, and I couldn't afford a Mac Pro.

Compared to both Windows and Linux, I preferred OS X's behavior in:

- the systemwide emacs keybindings in every textbox

- the consistent keyboard shortcuts (Cmd+C was always Copy, Ctrl+C was always Interrupt)

- the dedicated keyboard key (Option) for typing non-ASCII characters

- the general higher quality of apps that were available (Transmit was a better FTP client, TotalTerminal a better terminal, Preview a better PDF viewer, iBooks a better ebook reader, MplayerX a better video player, iTunes a better music player, Adium a better chat app, Transmission a better torrent app, Parallels a better VM, than anything for Windows or Linux)

- the consistent look-and-feel of apps

- the centralized notification system, Growl (before any OS had built-in notification support, the third-party Growl library was the de-facto standard on Mac, at a time when in other OSes, every app used their own notifications that constantly got in each other's way)

- QuickLook

Compared to Windows, I liked:

- the presence of a bash terminal underlying everything

- multiple desktops (Windows has this now, but didn't back then)

- Exposé (the thing that showed all open windows so you could click the one you wanted to easily switch to it)

Compared to Linux, I liked:

- Homebrew, a package manager which actually installed up-to-date packages instead of years-old packages (this was before Linuxbrew)

- official support for various paid apps like Photoshop and MS Word

- the ability to do many important things in a GUI (and therefore, the ability to do new things without needing to Google them)

Aside from the complications updates posed, I ran into no major problems with the hackintosh setup, other than I think the microphone didn't work? Everything else worked fine. I had overall much fewer problems than I have with Linux.
I'd probably be willing to pay $30/month for that. Of course they would have to actually have all or most of those backward and forward references available.
I agree that the iPad doesn’t have to be revolutionary. I agree with the author that hardware-wise, it just about is, but software-wise it falls short.

The article may be mainly about one issue, but it's an important one. Apple has made a horrible mess of multitasking on the iPad, which not only causes frustration with that product, but also should make us wary about the future.

I personally never (literally never) want multi-windowing on my iPad: it's only an iPad-mini, so multi-windowing isn’t very practical anyway. All I need is a single toggle to turn it off, and any gripes essentially disappear. But I have to have it, even though I actively don’t want it. So I have to, periodically, work out how to exit multi-windowed mode, because it’s very easy to accidentally enter it. And exiting it is NOT easy - pretty sure one time I just gave up, put the iPad down, and did something else instead, I was that frustrated.
Any alternative for Android?

Edit: How is this working? I'm behind double NAT and other http servers do not work.
Oh grief no, an integrated hardware keyboard would kill everything that is great about the iPad. We have compact mobile devices with keyboards already, they're called laptops.
> the multi-tasking, drag&drop, split-screen interface is very complex and confusing even for me, who have been using the iPad for ten years.

I use my iPad Pro's multitasking stuff daily and it still confuses and infuriates me. Who came up with this stuff?
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€150 is expensive? From what I remember of that thread a few weeks back, everybody on HN is pulling down $400k + 250k options.
I'm exactly in the same boat as you, I love my 2012 non retina Macbook Pro.
Upgraded the RAM a few years ago, changed the HDD for an SSD, and it still works fine.
I didn't like the newer MBP keyboard or touchbar, maybe now they're getting better.
But the price is what will push me away.
I'll probably try to find a nice model on which I can make sure Linux run fine.
It's never been tested, to my knowledge. To be clear, I'm not suggesting people tailgate and drive aggressively in the left lane. I'm literally suggesting cars
in the left lane have to legally yield to overtaking traffic from behind, just as passing on a two lane highway requires yielding to oncoming traffic.

And I would expect behavior improvement, if nothing else, on the fact that ambiguity is removed and time of conflict is reduced.

>king of the road, get out of my way" behavior.

I get that's not something people might want to "encourage" , but a certain amount of conflict and congestion is resolved by allowing the people who think they're king, be king in the left lane. If you don't want to go faster than the car behind you, you can be king in the right (or any other) lane.

It might not feel right based on principle, but in a practical sense it solves a lot.
In hindsight it feels like KDE was fighting the last war's battles, eagerly marching on on the path towards an OOP modularity promised land, still trying to one-up Microsoft's OLE and COM long after those fell out of the hype spotlight at Redmond. I'd be surprised if there wasn't even a lot of CORBA in KDE at one point.
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It seems to already be gone.
Even if the measures taken to keep the lid on the story are not too unexpected, it still is shocking how irresponsible and shortsighted and short-term focused politics (in this case in China, in lots of other cases everywhere over the world) react to arising problems.
> to spin up some websites getting 1,000,000+ unique visitors monthly

What kind of websites?
The guy who designed TPU works on RISC-V and is a fan of RISC-V. And on of the reason was his experience with TPU, he realizes that custom hardware is really great but a more generally programmable approach would have advantages.

That's exactly what the RISC-V Vector extension was designed for. When they started TPU RISC-V wasn't ready for something like that and the Vector extension was at best an idea.

Saying 'RISC-V' is bad for ML because XY product doesn't use it, is a terrible argument in general. Over the next 10 years we will have literally 1000s of different things that make AI fast. All of those come with tradeoffs.

RISC-V as a base chip for many system is clearly a great fit, even on FPGAs. The RISC-V Vector extension is an excellent for many AI problems and many companies are currently working on that.
Heat exchange, heat pumps, thermal energy. Plenty of options available. Take a trip around the Nordics and you'd have a hard time finding properties heated with direct electricity.
There was quite a large Polish population in Greenpoint Brooklyn which is still present but largely gutted by gentrification. There's also another sizable pocket in Ridgewood/Fresh Pond.
I have heard that they sell fake currency on darknet, for bitcoins. Im pretty sure the price is less than 10% of face value. You wouldnt take the risk of getting caught with fake money for a small amount.
> Personally I just don't use split-screen apps on the iPad

I think that's the problem. As somebody who uses splitscreen all the time, it's utterly painful. It's a great feature, but whoever designed it from a usability-standpoint was, quite frankly, retarded. The problem is that it could be so much better, even revolutionary, but it stumbles on the implementation of features like this.
This is incorrect.

If we assume that this virus is as infectious as the common cold, we can expect the infection rate within a household to be approximately 25% of contacts. That means that of the people you LIVE with, 25% will catch it from you.

50% infection rate in a large, distributed population like China would be very extreme.
Trust. If something happens, I know amazon got my back. Unless they betray my trust, I will continue shopping on amazon.
> I think there are plenty of reasons. You might like the OS a lot but not care about Apple's feelings.

Apple is a company. Companies do not have feelings; they have interests. Who are you (financially) hurting by running Hackintosh?
You can't develop and deploy IOS or hybrid apps on any other system, and OSX is a pain to run on a VM...
It's the Orkney interconnect that's at capacity. They really need an extra one.

Sure it's a lot of PR, but it's not just empty PR with a grid that's controlled mainland wide, and chooses sources minute to minute depending on availability, demand and price it's the best they can do. Scotland can, and does, encourage a much healthier approach to the adoption of renewables than Westminster. With more powers to the regions outside London, including Holyrood, so much more could, and would be done.

You can make the same criticism for every use of home solar panels, of green suppliers, of the whole transition to sustainable, and even of the entire markets for gas and electric considering we can't segregate individual electrons and atoms.

It's kind of hard to get Scotland figures alone because there is no separate Scottish grid, nor interconnects as such, just the mainland National Grid encompassing the three mainland countries. It's accounting, but it's not silly, it's the market we're all forced to participate in. We could have more precise regional figures with regional grids with interconnects between. We're not really large enough to need or justify that. Scottish independence, if it ever comes, might well see a Scottish grid as separate entity.
Like many other things in the Highway Code there may be no specific offence for failing to follow it but the police have enough freedom with fixed penalty notices making disregarding the rules an ill advised activity.

https://www.askthe.police.uk/content/Q891.htm
> having heard how easy Apple device are to supposed to be to use

That was a rule for very good reason, and it will take some time to erode, but it’s definitely not as true today as it once was. It’s no consolation, but the first iPad - from the era of usable Apple design - was much better. Not in terms of power or weight, of course, but the OS didn’t have all these weird mystery-meat controls, gestures, broken multi-windowing etc.
The article is partially about how bad the UX is on iPad.
Ask HN: What are the best podcasts about startups/entrepreneurship?
I haven't had great success finding educational podcasts about the startups/entrepreneurship world. I'm looking for podcasts about startups/entrepreneurship that might be interesting.
Vi(m) favors “easy to use” over “easy to learn” - which is the right tradeoff for a tool that one can use for hours a day for decades.

Though I always liked the line, “Vi is user-friendly - it’s just picky about who its friends are”.

(BTW, “ZZ” is usually the right answer to quitting/exiting - still funny to see, decades on, people teaching “:wq<return>”.)
For an old device project of the sort the OP is asking about, there must be an OS that supports the old device, otherwise the device become a members the dreaded IoT botnets.

I really hope postmarketOS grows.
I use a couple of X220s as my work laptops, as I find the keyboard far superior to the X230 and all later models (it's the last classic ThinkPad keyboard prior to the chiclet designs). The hardware is still mostly sufficient for my needs (just don't run Electron apps...) and the case and the keyboard are much better than anything I could buy new these days. Apart from the displays, it feels like laptops have mostly regressed over the last decade and continue to do so at an alarming pace (just compare the T490 series to the T480, for instance).
The ports exposed are:

80 - web ui, http api

1883 - mqtt

22 - ssh

I will add this to documentation, thanks!
Thanks for the detailed reply! I'd be interested in reading more technical details about the whole pipeline if you have written about it.

One question that sticks out in particular: how do you actually perform the reviews? Did you create a custom GUI for it or are you using an off-the-shelf software?
Do they have a 100% track record of preventing viruses from being installed on your system? Once your system is compromised, it's compromised. There's nothing the AV can do. It's the OS (and to a lesser extent user practice) that's going to limit the damage.
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I think anyone who has any engineering experience would suspect that never testing something will eventually result in it not functioning.
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The point is that developers would never have started to pay such a large share of revenue to Apple or Google if Web apps were a complete replacement for native apps.

Google doesn't make side-loading easy either. It comes with a ton of warnings, but some high profile apps and games have started using it anyway.

I didn't mean to start another debate about the obviously dysfunctional market that is mobile app stores though. My point was about the loss of freedom and privacy that results from the side-loading ban.
Why it exists ought to be explained by the existence of a test.

This isn't always possible, but it's far more possible than many developers seem to think.
If I remember rightly, one of the big differences between KDE and GNOME was that GNOME fell for CORBA in a big way whereas KDE rejected it.
> Anyone doing this should

That's backwards. Rich megacorps are the ones that should be pressured to change their behavior, not individuals.

Plus the full Apple experience is just about getting your money, it's not actually better than the full Linux experience or the full Windows experience.
Sure, and that's not ever in dispute. That's what the grid manage on a daily basis, and the reason we have a mix of sources, and need to always have a mix of renewables. We're also only using a tiny amount of the renewable potential. Not forgetting offshore alone is even less variable.

The only thing that matters is getting the right mix for the local conditions, and a grid capable of managing the rising amount of generating sources properly, and smartly. So far the grid's side of things is being done pretty well, and is pushing and promoting faster renewable adoption. The Westminster political part not so much.

Wind can provide the bulk of regional need, but clearly can't ever be 100%. The resulting mix also has to allow for keeping the lights on in once in a century conditions as well as normality -- an increasing challenge with changing climate.
My hackerspace is working on a tool to put this knowledge-in-a-computer to work.

Essentially, it's a knowledge management system that makes input almost frictionless. This is then mapped into a shareable ontology graph on which algorithms can be executed. Valuable data can be extracted from here.

For example: do you need to find a team with a specialized couple of skills? Have applicants send their verified graphs and use those relations to find the best fit.

Or, alternatively, someone who's learned a trade/skill can share their dense knowledge with a community, to direct learning more effectively.

It's on a very early stage, for now purely for the fun of it. But if there's interest or suggestions (definitely some hard problems to solve) we could focus more efforts towards that.
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This is the second "Find X on Amazon more easily" sites that I've come across in the last week or so (the last was a USB hub filtering site). Including eBay in the mix, it's the third such site[0].

I love these sites. It's just sad that it's difficult-to-near-impossible to actually use Amazon (or eBay) for the exact same purpose. The perfect example hit me, yesterday. I wanted a new A/C adapter for my Thinkpad. It's a USB-C laptop, so simple, right? Start with a search. OK, there's a lot of A/C adapters, and a lot of USB-C adapters for phones. In the mix is one or two (over-priced, non-OEM) adapters.

Let's try the A/C adapters category, maybe I can click into that and filter based on the metadata? First, find the category. A few minutes later, settle on something somewhat close. This shouldn't be too difficult; this thing can be powered by anything 60W or higher that supports USB-PD and has a USB-C end on it. Nope. Not a single filter and a few thousand results are returned[1].

Product properties/metadata are so important -- why are so many important bits of data completely missing/unavailable to me while trying to find what I need? I feel like Amazon and eBay have managed to recreate the experience of shopping at a Walmart Super Center online -- a store full of products, organized by some magician, in order to make a 2 minute purchase require 20 minutes of browsing. I guess I don't have to roll the dice picking a check-out line that might move quickly, but outside of that, the experience is so bad that I have a solid four or five things I need to buy which I've attempted to find and simply given up.

And it used to be that you could find other shops online that were more narrow in their product categories (but not selection in said categories) and offered better options for filtering and finding the precise item you were looking for. Many of those are gone, now. The ones that remain all use a handful of off-the-shelf cart software and are often worse for finding products[2] or the price is so much worse that you end up finding the product and searching for its specific part number on Amazon.

I have to say, though, I clicked this link because I have been putting off purchasing an NVMe SSD drive. So thank you to whomever is responsible for this site; that was very helpful in getting me to pull the trigger.

In a more perfect world, a site designed to make it possible to filter available products by a set of incredibly important, common properties which is directly tied to the site who's job it is to sell you the actual products wouldn't even exist. In this world, it gets over 250 upvotes and has more than 160 comments after being on HN for about 13 hours.

[0] https://labgopher.com

[1] Unless, of course, I decide to sort by anything other than "Featured" whatever-the-heck-that-means, then there's 150 or so.

[2] NewEgg does a better job than Amazon, but too often a filter will eliminate a set of products because they refer to a common property of a product by a different name; I can tolerate that, but it'd be nice if I didn't have to so frequently.
Using broken phone (nexus 5x) with nice camera for timelapsing hill for paragliding club

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Intel is patching its Zombieload CPU security flaw for the third time
My roommate is a student with full access to basically all journals. Funny enough, he still uses scihub because it is easier to use.
> No offence, but is this satire? It seems like a Silicon Valley episode to me.

As an EU citizen from a country with an average personal income of less than 1000€ / month, I don't see any problem with not working for a company that stands against what I firmly believe in. It doesn't necessarily have to be an NGO or a non-profit. If you care about climate change more than about anything else, get a job at TSLA.
I don't think there are enough cases outside China to perform that analysis yet. Of the 4474 cases, only 65 are outside China. My stats is rusty, but given that something like 2-3% of that 4474 in China have died, I think zero deaths from 65 cases outside China doesn't mean a ton.
The problem is, these leaky cache issues come from 'performant' hardware. It is the pipeline optimization that leads to the side channel.

There are cache architectures (such as pseudo random replacement) that are much more difficult to perform side channel attacks on, but have slightly lower performance.

Intel's problem has been its relentless pursuit of per clock performance, and that has led to some of these side channel attacks. Cache coherency on multi-core is hard.

My guess is that if the market share of Intel and AMD were swapped, you would see similar cache attacks on AMD.
My friend had a raspberry pi2, which he didnt want because of lack of bt and wifi, that is my plex server now.
I work with people with multiple phds. They’re smart. Technology focused professionals and they still have problems. Computer skill must be a parretto distribution. The difference between the top 1% and top 0.5%is enormous.
Well, I guess that workers demonstrating publicly against your own policies doesn't do wonders for public image.
> “It’s just a big iPhone” was the most common initial criticism

> The iPad has been a spectacular success, and to tens of millions it is a beloved part of their daily lives, but it has, to date, fallen short of revolutionary.

Yes, well it has fallen short of revolutionary, probably because it's just a big iphone, (or a laptop without keyboard). There was no new paradigm here.
That's exactly the reason why free software should never rely on the benevolence of a for-profit company - or at least not only on their benevolence, and not for too long - because that risks creating a single point-of-failure.

That's exactly the reason why I have favoured GTK-based environments over KDE, even though I acknowledge that the API provided by Qt is probably the best I've happened to work with. GTK is owned by the community, and I know that as long as there's a passionate developer out there working on it the project is alive. When it comes to a product owned by Trolltech/Nokia/Qt Company...well, I can't be that sure.

The history of computing is already full of examples of open source projects that either died or have undergone complex forks and transition periods because the company behind them decided to pull the plug, or go for a different business model, or they went from being community-owned to being business-owned. As open source software is more and more commoditised, and unlike its counterparts it's expected to just build and run anywhere, without all the business fluff and hysteria around, we can't afford to let that happen.

However, purely community-owned open source software succumbs to the tragedy of commons on the long run - but that's a comment for another post.
The iPad is a 20 BILLION dollar a year business. Let's not get crazy on "mediocre" sales, this is one of the most popular product line of all companies combined. Did not get as high as some people were expecting but this is far from mediocre.

Source:
https://sixcolors.com/post/2020/01/fun-with-charts-a-decade-...
The Tragic iPad
Well, the URL is missing www so you see the bad certificate error; Although, I agree that they should have handled automatic redirection from non-www to www.