skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have exactly opposite feeling than you. I usually spent 7-8 hours at work and then do hobbies, visit friends and family and usually spent weekends away from home and computers. Now, I am locked at home and I can't visit anyone and I work way more and spent way more time on computer (at least I live with my girlfriend, so I am not completely alone). I am also way less productive as I am not happy and I am tired all the time from not being able to really relax my brain. Also I cook at home a lot normally so cooking everyday is not that big difference.

I prefer meeting people in real life so chatting and video calls are not enough for me. Many of my friends are not good at tech too so it is sometimes difficult to connect with them. I look forward to go back to my pre-covid life.
The article is about California and NYC. I don’t think there is a comparable European city for LA
You won't get any support of the "big money" unless the library is at least LGPL so it can be used in closed source applications. GPL is primarily for the idealists, not for business.
Wave is like Internet at the beginning of it’s rave. From one side of things it’s only sending packets to different addresses, on the other side you only needed a market to get a global economy depending on it.
Not all data scientists are the same. Sure, this probably isn't useful for someone without much coding experience who ya experience with the Kerala API, but for people who want to code custom architectures to solve their problem (which is also very common), the static type checking enabled by Swift, among other things, is very appealing.
The velocity of money (a terrible name IMHO) can be described as follows: how correct is the "more money = more inflation" statement in our current environment? In particular if it's low then more money != more inflation.

And yes, we've had terrible inflation in financial markets.
ASAP: As Static As Possiblememory management [pdf]
The title is a metaphor (or, more strictly, rhetorical hyperbole.) It's not meant to be taken literally.
>asset prices are roughly proportional to (money supply / aggregate assets), so while printing money won't necessarily drive inflation, it does drive asset prices up.

Asset price inflation doesn't count as inflation?
Great job. Thanks for sharing.
Unethical PH Hunters Can Claim Your Work? Lessons Learned
Again, don't do magical thinking. Inflation is about things like tomatoes. The only way to make their prices go up is to reduce the amount of tomatoes produced per year, or increase people's willingness to eat them.
I'm curious as to what you found to be unsuitable about the Basler cameras?
Jitsi hasn't been great for my team. Our company switched to Whereby and it is worlds better than jitsi/zoom and whatever else. Only thing I'm not sure about is sharing on-screen audio.
Be hard on the article, but easier on the concept - I think there is a lot of potential for differential programming w/ Swift, but this article is not a good advocate.
If you needed more anxiety: COVID-19 can do that in rare cases:

COVID-19–associated Acute Hemorrhagic Necrotizing Encephalopathy: CT and MRI Features

https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/radiol.2020201187
If you’re interested, I found this blog post [1] a really solid introduction to what async / await are in Rust, and how they’re used.

[1] https://os.phil-opp.com/async-await/
What about SPA and serverless?
I really want to use Qt for a project but between the absurd commercial cost and them playing games with licensing i'm going with either wxWidgets or Lazarus.
Maybe we should allow a market for education rather than assuming everyone should be able to use a starship with only 5 seconds of looking at the user interface.
Yes. I know that.

There is also absolutely no way to tell that until you click into it.

"Rhetorical hyperbole" is a fancy way of saying "click bait."

Edit:

To be clear, I only read it because I was expecting a medical piece, not the usual whining about First World Problems where so many people don't know how to stop wringing their hands about our 24/7 news cycle (which isn't remotely unique to the current crisis) and then don't actually want reassurances that "It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine."

It was a waste of my time.

My father fought in WW2. My mother grew up in Germany during WW2 and its aftermath. The world has been on the brink before and come through it.

The same world that was all "Meh, not my problem" when I was homeless also doesn't want to hear "The world can, in fact, get through this." So I find it hugely personally grating to read this overwrought nonsense, frankly.
>However, I find the current screen refresh rate way too low.

Emacs does (or did) different things depending on the data rate of the terminal. If the rate was low enough, it would do stuff to avoid having to redraw the text.

* https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Te...

Added: I just tried it with the rate set to 110 baud (for sentimental reasons) and emacs started leaving half the screen to fill in every time I hit the top or bottom of the screen. The general idea seemed to be to keep the cursor vertically near the middle of the screen as much as possible. Good for adding new text on a eink display. Wouldn't help if you were overwriting existing text unless you were willing to leave the old text there for a time.
Is there a way to vectorize that and turn it into a GPU kernel using a macro?
Airbnb’s $1B Bargain Is a Sign of Things to Come
Thanks for the feedback!
It sounds like you'd be looking for platform engineering leads. I completely agree on the categorisation and will be looking to add more specific professions soon.

With the platforms, again I agree with you that the way some of them are designed makes it difficult for freelancers to be valued for the work they create. That's why we not only find leads from these platforms but also seek to find leads from sources such as LinkedIn/Facebook where you can have a much more direct relationship with the individual looking for your skillset.
Please provide a way for people to reach you without commenting here.
The Problem with Immunity Certificates
Cases, Deaths and Recovered Trendline USA
Maybe my favorite post ever on HN
Are you aware that your colleague is helping the spread of internet hoaxes?
Enter SilferBot Giveaway |Life-Time Deal Worth $7920
I really like the concept but I wonder if doing it with someone external to the company is a good idea for those of us with NDAs, confidentiality clauses and so on. Especially if it is done using a communication channel that hasn't been approved by the company.

I suppose you can keep the details vague enough if necessary, but if I was a spy, this is definitely something I would try to do with my target.
As in no name at all? Now that’s an entirely new level. Pretty forward thinking parents considering today’s surveillance... maybe they where phreakers tried to name him ' OR '1'='1 but the Government didn’t accept special characters so they resorted to naming him null.

:)
Should Companies Pay to Train Employees on Leadership?
Comfortable desk chair and desk.
Sodastream - so much easier than buying fizzy water at the store.
Spotify premium/family for working music.
The stress level even goes up if someone from your family is ill or getting ill (anything non-Covid19, like still the majority of illnesses among broad population) and may be in need of medical assistance. Also, all the folks who are working in "system-relevant" jobs are under extremely heavy load, some of them facing inconceivable situations. So yes, if you are in the lucky situation that the lockdown is giving you unprecedented possibilities of self-improvement, lucky you and make the best out of it! But I am wondering how much is the percentage of those lucky people currently?
Hack Your Tastebuds to Make Eating Healthy Easy [Video]
Bosses Stretch the Definition of Who Is ‘Essential’ – and Workers Take the Risk
> Have you tried sitting alone in a room with no music, no TV, and no phone for an hour? It's actually quite liberating.

I'd love to be able to do that. But then, instead of hearing the music, I hear the neighbours, their dogs and their kids, their TVs and their music. It's awful. I would very much like to experience silence, but the modern world denies me this possibility.
Nice article, learned a lot about Swift, love the named parameters and argument labels, makes calling functions with many parameters much more reliable and with labels reads like English, which is great for immediate comprehension. Lack of Named parameters in Javascript, is for me, a critical glaring missing capability, that should be fixed urgently.
I've used PostGIS a few times before and I'm curious why you wouldn't want to use it? It's very straightforward to install and use.

I also feel like it makes your Schema and database setup more easily extensible than if you start with the minimum and have to change it all later.
Eh, differentiable programming is a lot simpler and more specific than declarative programming, and only marginally a "paradigm". It just means you can take any (reasonably deterministic and parametrized) function specified in the programming language and calculate its partial derivative wrt some parameter.
Financial department wanted me to turn in a signed document after lockdown. I have an HP 3 in 1 but it no longer prints. So I scanned my signature, extracted it with gimp, and added it to the document. The result was excellent.
Oh, a side blow ;-)

Don't worry, I also studied law.

What The Company can or can't from this contract is not granted unless you have supreme court judgments for the points in question. Otherwise the current patent system, which is primarily based on bluff and blackmail, would not work. As long as there are companies that would rather settle than defend themselves in court, The Company will find a way to stay in the game.
> How do you give consumers money and say "Do not spend this on toilet paper. The paper products industry is a max capacity and cannot produce any more TP. It will only cause inflation"

1. Where will people actually store this very bulky commodity?

2. Staring at the wall of TP that has been collected, people will realize 'I will have to poop a lot to use up all of this'.

3. Once they realize they have a nine month supply of TP, and the space it is taking up, they will not buy TP for nine months so TP manufacturers may experience a reduction in demand in the not-too-distant future.

It is certainly possible for a spike in prices (inflation) for TP (or whatever) to occur as people 'panic buy' supplies, but that spike will subside as people realize they've stock piled enough to last them the length of the shutdown.
Unless and until 2008guy offers up his extended network of friends and family to be consumed by the disease, I think it's safe to assume moral reasoning isn't his/her forte.
No, at that time Qt was not free software. Now Qt is free software and you can fork it and do whatever you want.

The issue seems to be that there are many people that use Qt for free including companies but they won't pay with money or contributions, so if a work will happen except KDE there will be few contributors. Qt includes a version of Webkit that is used in some application, so you need someone to keep on top of webkit security issues and backport the fixes.
> I might be wrong but for C++ for example every C++ fan seems to happy about every new release (at least happy with new features, not lack of desired new features).

If anything if 10% of C++ users are happy with the new features in a release it's a great success. I see a lot of complaining about the committee, its decisions, and its decision-making process.
This is generally harder to pull off though unless you do things like force all DB access to go through stored procedures.

And then you're really still pursuing the same strategy described above, except for your stored procedures instead of your app code.
What’s wrong with having R&D in China? The talent market is attractive and assuming Zoom founder is Chinese it seems more reasonable in some point compare to opening another office in US.
Lots of big tech companies has strong R&D presence in China like MSFT, GOOGL.

Btw, I might be wrong but CCP banned Zoom about half a year ago.
Isn't the price affected also by increasing wages, transportation costs, etc too?
5K year old egg hunt: Research reveals complexity of ancient ostrich egg trade
For the IDE part they have written some cool debuggers that help you understand the differentiation part and catch bugs on it. But I'm not sure why you couldn't just use the debugger, instead of a whole new IDE, much less why you would need a new RCS
Teams and Slack have covered the collaboration market quite well (and there are others as well). What really took off are video conferencing solutions (e.g. Zoom).

Google had products here but were never able to offer a single, easy solution. If they had combined Duo and Hangouts from the start, maybe they'd have the success that Zoom now has.
What ever happened to your old gameboy?
>> ...at the fact that I get to safely work from home, taking on less risk but not actually being able to contribute anything useful to the larger situation

Please note and take comfort in the fact that by staying home and taking less risk, you ARE DEFINITELY CONTRIBUTING something very to the larger situation by that act alone -- you are actively reducing the risk for everyone else.

If we can also contribute other benefits, that would be a bonus for sure, but give yourself a break and don't add that unnecessary guilt to your burdens.

Stay well!
Wave limited new users to the point of shooting itself in the foot. If you had a small group/team of six, and only five had Wave access you couldn't use Wave because of the sixth.

You don't grow a team-centric tool by not allowing teams to use it.
They've literally just added the same feature.
The two alerts that I’ve seen on Jitsi recently that really impressed me were: no signal from your mic for a while when you’re unmuted (I had mine hardware muted so this was expected) and background noise from your mic. I use Google Meet regularly for work and I wish it had both of those.
What is the importance of Building an Employer Brand?
A lot of people think of inflation as the consumer price index. ( Gas, bread, cars, toasters, etc) if those go up it puts pressure on wages because people cannot afford to live on existing wages at a certain level.

The price of collectibles like rare art or comic books could go up or down a lot but the general economy doesn't care about those assets.
I disagree but I'm going to make my counterpoint a little indirectly:

I can name a couple of states in my lifetime where the government has collapsed in an inflationary manner and the people have suffered and starved. They are generally places people flee in large numbers.

There are no counters that I'm aware of that have suffered a deflationary collapse. If I look up the Wikipedia page for deflation I'm given hellholes like Hong Kong and Japa... no, wait, those are some of the places I'd actually prefer to live than where I am now. Pity I don't speak any Asian languages. Pretty civilised places, really. Advanced is the word I'd actually use to describe them.

There is literally one example of a deflationary collapse in the 1930s US Great Recession. Even then, that was the precursor to the modern US rather than, say, the Zimbabwe collapse through hyperinflation.

I can fathom why governments call deflation the big enemy. I can't fathom why people believe that. Even in the worst case suffering and deflation seem like a pretty good foundation for long term success. People really should stop flirting with inflation and try encouraging deflation as a response for once. Who knows, it might work. Governments keep encouraging inflation and we keep having mysterious debt-fueled collapses.
If you make your application stateless and have it in a container then there are many managed services out there that can do this for you. For example, in AWS there is fargate and EKS.
The SIGGRAPH paper on Taichi: http://taichi.graphics/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/taichi_lan...

Supplementals: http://taichi.graphics/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/taichi_lan...
> the USD's status as an international reserve currency

There are several reasons for that.

There are very few industrial powers, mainly the US, Germany, China and Japan.

The Economist calls the rest of the European countries "sick men" with a population dependent on welfare. Most had to lie their way (with help from Goldman Sachs) into the EU since they didn't meet the financial milestones for admittance.

Of the large economies, China is known for both currency manipulation and political issues.

The US is the only superpower left. It's easy to see - the US has the only operational heavy aircraft carriers. That gives the USD legitimacy that the Euro doesn't have - there is no army behind the Euro.

The advantage of being the international reserve currency is that the US gets around 1% more economic growth than others, but we pay for the military might to defend the dollar.

So do you want greenbacks or lira? :)
That was Limbo actually, and the attempt was at Java 1.0 apparently.

Despite my opinion regarding its design, Go was definitely a C replacement for F-Secure TamaGo, Google's gVisor, Android GPGPU and CoreBoot projects.
Black hole bends light back on itself
Only for reference:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet_paper_orientation

the article has yet another image of the patent:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Toilet-paper-roll-patent-...

It's over.
Mostly because embedded C isn't ISO C, rather MISRA C, TI C, Microchip C,...
What a Coronavirus Drug Will Look Like
> we all need to control ourselves in those areas, or else we end up ruining this place.

So you don’t think attitudes like what trophycase was responding to, ruins this site? I’ve known more programmers leave this site because of ugly attitudes worded civilly and so left unchecked, than because of responses like the one you’re complaining about. I think you’re threatening to ban the wrong people.
Code sucks everywhere. Unless you're working on a library or something personal, then there's no (or very few) organisations that are churning out 'academically pure' code. The UK doesn't software industry doesn't have dibs on that.
That's unnecessarily rude. Software is still the most well paid, expanding industry of the last 40 years. The parallel still holds. Times will be hard relative to the recent peak, but compared to just about every other industry we'll still be pretty fat and happy.

I know that's pretty thin consolation for people who are struggling to find jobs while their classmates from one year before were the subject of bidding wars. It's not what I wanted to hear myself when I was struggling through the tech cull ten years before dot-com. But it's still true. If anyone washes out of the industry now it's probably not because of COVID-19.

OP is supposed to be a message of hope in dark times. Most people are more resilient than they realize. Software jobs will continue to increase over any time span longer than a year or two. We'll get through this. It's sad that so many here are trying to turn a positive message into a negative one.
Get some way of reaching the real customer - email, slack channel (!), just hunt them down on linkedin. You have had people who looked at your tiny offering and went -"Yes please I'll have some of that, lovely". You want to understand their brains and their situations inside out.

Find one customer today. Just one. Call her, email her whatever. just one. Today.

As for channels, you need a channel that you can drive - product hunt is a one shot affair. Word of Mouth - you cannot control it. its great. But it is totally passive on your side. If I give you 10 million dollars to exapnd your business how do you spend even one cent on 'word of mouth'?

We love the idea of building great new products that sell themselves. And great products do - once the flywheel is spinning. But you need something where you pay x dollars and that turns into a customer paying you x+y dollars. (And those dollars paid might be your time to write evergreen articles on your website that go viral and sit at top of google page 1. But even so its your time you paid for)

(And no SEO never does that anymore)
I’ve been following the coronavirus news since mid January, spending hours a day on twitter and reddit looking at virus and financial news. There are days I take a break from it all, but overall I feel like I want to bear witness to the events as much as possible. I firmly believe the outbreak and the economic devastation are the most important events of my lifetime and it’s worth staying informed no matter how grim the news.

I don’t recommend everyone do the same, and I definitely don’t pass on all shear weight of all that’s going on to my wife, but someone’s got to try and keep up with the zeitgeist and make informed decision for the sake of my family. My hunch is we’re in for some bad socioeconomic times, worse than most are predicting, and I’m trying to do due diligence spotting trends as they start happening.

Ideally I’ll look back at this post and laugh at all the wasted energy chasing the impossibly fast news cycle...

One thing I’ve been doing is creating a list of predictions about where we are headed in order to be able to look back and evaluate whether I was able to process the firehouse of news into consequences. At least that part is fun.
Why Spend Less When You Can Spend More?
Show HN: Information Security Audit Manager (ISAM)
Check out the YouTube videos on SRE by the Seth Vargo and friends at Google.
>The name is pretentious,

If we already have useful phrases like "embedded programming", "numerical programming", "systems programming", or "CRUD programming", etc, I'm not seeing the pretentiousness of "differentiable programming". If you program embedded chips, we often call it "embedded programming"; likewise, if you write programs where differentials are a 1st-class syntax concept, I'm not seeing the harm in calling it "differentiable programming" -- because that basically describes the specialization.

>the quotes are ridiculous ("Deep Learning est mort. Vive Differentiable Programming.";

Fyi, it's a joking type of rhetorical technique called a "snowclone". Previous comment about a similar phrase: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11455219
> most of their extensions are GPLv3 [...] in practice the only way to use their extension is either to release your apps code

Which is exactly what improves and helps grow the open-source world?

GPL makes a product's code, and by infection/extension, other people's code, to be all released under a GPL license. GPL guarantees that users of open-source code won't act as leeches and will themselves contribute more open-source code. Isn't the act of choosing that license, in itself, "a huge commitment" to open-source?

Then they say: OK, seems you want to keep your code private, in order to preserve your IP and leverage over other competitors, and protect your lucrative interests... well that's fine too! You don't want our open-source license forcing you to contribute your code? Fine, we'll waive that requirement. Just pay up.
Systems Design for Advanced Beginners
Active Oberon also had co-routines in the form of active objects.

Also note that 'evolving-by-reduction-rather-than-addition' philosophy is only part of Wirth's Oberon linage.

Oberon-2 (which Go got its method syntax from), Active Oberon, Component Pascal and Zonnon, are all Oberon descendents from ETHZ as well, which go into the direction of mainstream languages, including support for generics or more low level programming capabilities.