skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I felt this way around mid-March: I was spending hours checking the news and Twitter and I felt unable to concentrate on work.

After a week of constantly feeling worried and overwhelmed by the situation, I changed some things.

I now check news online news once a day and watch the local evening news on TV.
I managed to dive again into my work routine and stopped checking twitter every 10 minutes.

I feel much better now. Of course I'm still worried, especially about the consequences of this on the economy (because it will affect a lot of people, obviously).

My CEO keeps repeating a sentence that might sound dumb but which actually helps a lot: "Focus on the things that are in your control and be thankful for the things you have".
IBM has close to no momentum behind their cloud offerings compared to the big three.

I don't see how IBM will push for Swift in the future. They already pulled out (?) of the swift server working group, and didn't have the kind of pull to begin with.

IMO the most important reasons for the slow adaptation is lacking cross platform functionality (currently no upstream windows support + poor linux tooling) and questionable API design. Both make it difficult for new developers to give swift a try. Luckily, windows supportis supposed to come with the next version in a few months.

The API design is probably very subjective, but comparing the example in the blog post I don't understand how anyone could prefer:

import Foundation
CFAbsoluteTimeGetCurrent()

over:

import time
time.time()

The python way is much more intuitive IMO.
Can you even use the app store with a company mac? Who has the login - your personal account or some corporate one?
The Generative Deep Learning Book
Inaccurate title. This person is not infected.

The post is about anxiety causing them to slip into old bad habits, not about a brain infection.

It's really more like "How a global pandemic is affecting my mind and personal habits."
I have some docs on how to drive one of those spare eBook reader eInk screens from my reverse engineering adventure of PocketBook: http://linux-sunxi.org/PocketBook_Touch_Lux_3

I've mainlined the support for this PocketBook to Linux 5.7.

Though if I was doing this project I'd re-use the PocketBook board too, instead of building new HW to drive the screen. Driving the eInk signals on larger screens requires a very fast and precise signalling, and you also have to generate around 5 different voltages for the screen. And the board can already do that and the SW (bootloader, kernel) is all open source, so there's no downside. You could drop the RPI.
Beats me, I'm certainly not dying to upgrade to Qt6. Now, it will be a nuisance if they withhold security patches for a year, though, so maybe that's what they're counting on? Holding security patches ransom?
How much intensive care capacity do you think is available? And how much intensive care load would unmitigated covid-19 progression consume? The (wild) disparity between these numbers is the entirety of current crisis, but you seem to treat it as just another factor.
Tabletopia, from XSS to RCE
How I Manage and Plan Tasks as a Remote Worker
> GPLv3+Commercial which makes them not suitable for a lot of apps.

In other words, the license is not suitable for users who are not committed to open source themselves but are not willing to pay either.

Dual licensing with GPL is IMHO the best and often only viable method from the business point of view for small and medium sized companies who sell product and not just service.

QT Company has large customers that are much bigger than it is. Many of them in software business. Turning into yet another software as a service producer for Autodesk or car manufacturers is not in their interests.
Static Python is Nim. Go is way more C-like with its structs and pointers
Almost all Microprose PC games from early 90's were structured as small .COM driver that switched between some number of separate .EXEs. IIRC there is notable exception of Civilization that used proper overlays.
FWIW, i was part of the team that was working on a similar tool back in 2009-10. Google Wave blindsided us and we thought we would be killed before launch. We launched anyway and failed to get much traction: You can see our intro video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjezWHeNOas
Wood is a simple and pleasant material to work with.

Back in the day I built a prototype of the vending machine with the wooden chassis to hold the electronic hardware. Later, the design was industrialized and mass produced in the quantity of hundreds. The industrial units came without the wooden parts, of course.

Mind you, no problems whatsoever. Wood did a great job!
I find teaching is much less effective without someone there to learn. Part of the benefit is getting asked about things you didn’t realize were important or things that are welded into your mental models. It helps me step back at least.

Writing things down and explaining them is always good practice. It’s harder to gloss over mistakes or bad assumptions when you switch modes from “thing I’m working on” to “thing in explaining”.
The future is nano, and it will revolutionize medical science
more stats/ https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/02/us/coronaviru...
Hello, fellow native Sacramentan (and the many HNers here finding this post relatable).

Addressing your items piecemeal might get things started in restoring some balance. Or, doing something more sweeping... who knows. Anyway, if I may share my take on one of those pieces:

> And of course, I’ve managed to mix in some guilt:

> 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

Understandably, one might very well be looking to do more.

In any case, may I suggest the idea that you are, in fact, diligently doing your part by trying to not unnecessarily put yourself out into public? That's already more than a start.

I'm not a particularly patriotic person. In fact, I'm also intentionally unregistered to vote. But, the whole distancing exercise thing is one of probably a few opportunities I'll ever have to feel like I am meaningfully serving my country. (Never mind for a moment that I'm running dry and have been trying to rejoin the workforce :)

There are quite a lot of informal reports out there of the healthcare sector being slammed.
All accounts look brand new.

Don't fake up votes, it doesn't really work anyway
I agree with the general sentiment, but: I have two small kids and I spend a lot of time just dealing with the chaos that results having no preschool, and then I have to work because, yes we're all in the same boat, but many people either don't have kids or have older kids, or have been in lock for a shorter period of time than where I live (schools here are closed since 23 feb).
On top of that I'm a bit workaholic too, and I'm having trouble letting go some projects dear to my heart. The net effect is that the my levels of stress have really gone up. Yes, in the evenings I do feel blessed I have a nice family and I have a general feeling of happiness resulting from it, but I think I had that before the lockdown too (I think? how can I know ... it feels like ages ago)

EDIT: I was working from home already; I now realize I was taking for granted things like lunches with the family
The usual knee-jerk reaction to money printing is "omg inflation is coming". But it is not that simple - inflation is just the trend in average prices of things/services/whatevers (and there's a great deal of disagreement about what should those things be; the US has 6 measures of inflation none of which agree with any other).

All of those things are ultimately subject to the supply/demand pricing mechanism, so if you want to proclaim inflation you should be able to answer this question: why will demand outstrip supply? I'm not saying this cannot happen, it can, but most people just forget to even consider this basic supply/mechanism framework.

Instead of trying to judge the reality of production and consumption people often rely on some "magic" properties of accounting numbers of large institutions (central banks or governments). It is so much simpler to just eyeball some trillions and say "it's too much, the currency is dead!" rather than deal with the complexities of reality.
No, and Richard Wei has left as well.
He already left...
Qt Company can't wiggle out from the contract it has with KDE. It must release Qt as open source withing 12 months. Qt stays open source.

The negotiations and uncertainty are related to all extra cooperation above that.
Perhaps I wasn't clear.

Information search. The last time you looked up how to do something, for example, you bought a product off of a Google ad?

What do you define as a "conversion?" I specifically said "sales." People in the ad biz want to define "conversion" as something else- but those of us paying for the ads want to make a sale. If somebody (or a bot) who has no intention of buying clicks on the ad it's a mistake for both of us. Yet with Google anyway, any attempt I make to keep people from mis-clicking (by putting a price in the ad, for example, to indicate up front that if you're looking for free this is not your link) earns me a penalty by reducing something deceptively labeled as my "quality score."

I would love to see the numbers you are referring to, though. Maybe something would occur to me to help me see how to navigate the mess.
> ... an open source commercial offering ...

I just looked at their license[1] and it doesn't appear to be open source at the moment.

https://github.com/MaterializeInc/materialize/blob/master/LI...
Wish it was like that in the UK. I work with some pretty talented people and we're paid what would be considered peanuts in the bay area (but fairly standard here), and even then half of us have just been furloughed. Lots of code sucks but that's often due to unrealistic deadlines as much as the talents of the developers.
Would that include things like the conditional in the image on your landing page? From the image on the landing page there are two boxes labeled action but I would think you also charge for the Requests.
You are correct. I have found that people don't seem to like reading, these days. They prefer videos. The problem is, is that videos take a lot longer to do (effectively) than writing, and I have a face that was made for radio (and a voice that was made for silent films).

Also, I have been writing (and reading voraciously) pretty much my entire life (since I was a kid), so that's the medium I use.
I don't. I assume a good CAPTCHA should reduce the size of the subset of users who must solve hard challenges as possible. The old reCAPTCHA usually requires only one click, no visual challenge for me. I don't like the fact this is because I use Chrome and logged in my Google account, but with HCAPTCHA I'm just not seeing any chance they make the experience better, no matter what browser I use, they just don't want to make my experience better, their business model is based on me suffering.
It definitely does vary by location. Within a company it may not, but that company's culture will most likely be influenced by its founders/executives background.

Here in the UK there's a really noticeable difference between London and the rest of the country. In London it is considered normal to stay at work late until 6pm/7pm or later. In the rest of the UK it's considered normal to leave at 5pm/5:30pm.

I hear talk of 70+ hour weeks in the US for tech workers in the US. That isn't too much of a thing here in the UK. Especially outside of London.
FastStone Capture?
But they deny it: https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-and-open-source
Tim Sneath: “Flutter is to apps as Unity is to games”
> the management seems to have had a good opportunity to get rid of its annoying obligations to the open source community.

Apparently you don't even read the links you provide.

Qt company can't get rid of the leagal obligations it has to release the software. What it can do is to stop extra cooperation.
I know at least slack from the App Store can’t screen share for some reason. Maybe it’s not available as a permission from the App Store.
[edit] apparently this may be old info
Just to add a little: there's some concern, including among commercial users (including yours truly), that this is a Very Bad Idea (TM).

Thing is, non-commercial and free software projects (KDE is one of the biggest ones, but not just KDE) have a significant contribution, quality-wise, to Qt. Most commercial users are on LTS releases. They rarely report bugs in current versions. With some exceptions (e.g. Wayland), they rarely test new features as they become available. They rarely put too much effort into bug reports for LTS releases, too. That's just how commercial development works. Unless it's a critical bug and you have no choice, your employer won't pay you (or you can't charge your customer) to help another company fix their code.

Qt has a large foothold in FOSS and non-commercial software, and that provides a great deal of real-world exposure to a codebase that's old enough, and complex enough, that real-world exposure is crucial. IMHO, if they lose this, Qt will stop being a useful choice for any kind of development, cross-platform or not, within a few years.

(Edit: to be clear, it's not just that the FOSS community basically provides free beta testing -- even if technically it sort of does. This is an artifact of the way FOSS, and many Linux distributions, too, work today -- e.g. most distros don't ship the LTS version, they ship the latest version, simply because it's easier to fit that into their release schedule. Whether good or bad, it means that a big chunk of Qt app users are on the latest stable version, not on LTS.)

That's all in addition to all the third-party contributions, which are a small, but not insignificant portion of the Qt code.
How are you finding time to do all of this around work? I and many WFH people I know are working more than they were pre-corona, unfortunately.
Phishers and Spammers Are Targeting You Because of Zoom
Do not use Euronet ATM’s when you travel
The Gross Margin Problem Lessons for Tech Enabled Startups
Good question, I think it should be the corporate one, and even if it might be a bit more work to setup, it's definitely in the company's interest, since then the applications that are installed can be sandboxed and be vetted/whitelisted more easily.
.NET and JVM also have Clojure, Scala, F#, C++ to choose from, metaprogramming runtimes, and AOT compilation support (although many seem to forget about this one).

So while Swift is a welcomed improvement over Objective-C, hardly brings anything worthwile to dump either the Java or .NET ecosystems.
Now seems as good a time as any to share a replica of an Antoine van Leeuwenhoek microscope that my father made. The lens he made in the same way as the original... heating up glass to a semi molten stake, then letting a drop fall through the air. By the time it had landed and cooled...voila! A spherical lens.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/in4x3vjysw1o1wc/IMG_0291.JPG?dl=0
That's the best way to support "the people" IMO. That C8 Corvette has a huge number of people feeding the supply chain, as do most consumer goods and even services. I would not normally spend anywhere near as much as I'm going to spend this year, and I urge others to do the same.
I use Swift to write for all Apple systems (iOS, Mac, Watch and TV).

The only ones that are similar are iOS and TVOS, but there's a few differences in the way that you structure apps.
Apparently, as linked by the article, Richard Wei as well.
Zoom does not do end-to-end encryption. End to end encryption means that only the end user can decrypt the message. Zoom central can decrypt the message, because they hold the keys. They mostly don't bother, but that's just an optimisation.

At any point, someone could go into Zoom's systems, get the keys to your chat, and monitor you, and you would have no way of knowing.
I can't comprehend what you're going at.

Are they to slow and doing too much design by comitee or are they at an okay speed of innovation?
I fully agree it would be great for Qt as a company to have a great business model. That being said, it's not that obvious if making Qt as a product commercial-only would be effective, as there are other options on a market that don't cost anything (or much). Maybe Qt should pivot into services instead?
What are you experimenting with? If there is any cross-platform GUI framework that comes close to Qt, I'd love to know.
Any advice for those being alone?
Oh wow, I had no idea about the unintended consequences of the DMG + App bundle installation mechanism.

Maybe the issue could be ameliorated with a self-updater built-in into the app? Not a separate daemon, but something that by running inside the app, would be able to know what's the path of the old version that should be thrown away.
That would remove the need for touch#, but the point of Entry is that it does not contain references to values that the GC has to follow. If we would add a reference to the region, then the GC will have to look into the Entry, which is what we want to avoid. :)
I find article more clickbait rather than metaphoric
It's click bait. HN guidelines suggest the title should be changed in such cases.

Your handle is plenty old enough to understand that much about HN.
Today's Cartoon: Push Notifications
CuPy Accelerates NumPy on the GPU? Hold My Cider, Here's Clojure
Artificial Intelligence: A Special Report
But Google still dominates Ad Space and Search (which is connected). And they still dominate search, growth rates for competitors don't really seem meaningful compared to Google's market volume. And unless governments step in, search market share will secure their dominance on the ads market.

So unless someone manages to offer a superior (not just comparable) search experience, Google will continue to thrive despite all other products.
We do it the other way (and I’ve always seen it done this way): database change is compatible with current code and new code. So deploy the database change, then deploy the code change. It usually allows you to rollback code changes.
I think it's particularly important to consider the velocity of money. When you consider that inflation is due to the change in (velocity of money * money supply / economic production), it's important to remember that even as economic production goes down, the velocity of money arguably goes down even faster as e.g. rent and mortgage payments are deferred, bill payments are deferred, etc.

So, the government has to expand the money supply to keep money flowing due to the decrease in velocity. One of the issues though is that asset prices are not dependent on the velocity of money - 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.
> A data scientist could use Swift in much the same way as they use Python

Is this really true? Many data scientists don't come from a development background. Low level swift code (what's likely to be in TF) can be as obscure as C++.
Will the 'industry lag' without users having to dig into the library and understand the code?
It's interesting, I had no idea this is still an issue. For the record, this is the reason a couple of folks started Gnome and GTK over 20 years ago.
Thanks for the heads ups guys! Currently fixing issues with the breefleads.com domain but in the meantime you can visit and sign up at www.leads.breef.io
I’ve seen that done just as a gesture of good will, in a "if it helps, we can spend more money"-kind of way, even though everyone involved knows it would just complicate things.
Oh, that's too easy: Something that indicates the person is willing to make a purchase. My guess is you do searched all day long, and if you saw ads (you probably block them) you wouldn't buy much.

Where do you go when you want to buy something? Google? Probably not. That's why Amazon is dominating. Google can be used for branding, I'm told, and that's important- but requires a different mindset.
Emacs got selectric mode :)
What I meant is that the new law completes the process. If Orban can rule like a dictator, that's what he is.
I read somewhere that because of the USD's status as an international reserve currency, a safe currency in times of crisis, and one in which a huge amount of debt is denominated, there's close to $20 trillion worth of demand for USD, so the Fed can afford to print up to that much without any expected inflation. Other countries, on the other hand, have much less room to print money without causing inflation.
ah yes, a nice discussion of the central bank toolkit when policy rates are at their effective lower bound

wait, what's this? Bitcoin and ethereum tickers at the top of the page? A section titled 'Helicopter Money on Blockchain'? hold on a minute...

In fairness, the article did avoid a few of the 'not even wrong' pitfalls you might expect to see written about QE and other sovereign currency monetary operations
> IMHO, if they lose this ...

If The Qt Company discontinued the FOSS
version of Qt, the Qt framework would become available under the BSD license, and there would no longer be a contributor licence agreement allowing a company to sell the work of another company.

> in addition to all the third-party contributions, which are a small, but not insignificant portion of the Qt code.

In the last years more than 50% were open source contributions. At Nokia times they were only 10 to 20%.
I have topre switches, so a bit different experience, but a friend of mine had "shown off" that indeed, you can type silently on them. It's the art of not bottoming out which is something like 90% of the noise.
Why I’m Leaving Elm
It's not gracious. They have binding contract with KDE to release the code as open source within 12 months.

They can't change that without negotiating new contract. That would require giving something to get something in return. Only thing they can do is to do just the minimum. This is the current issue. They are moving towards the bare minimum.
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"

In a free market people are going to spend money on whatever they want. Maybe you offer refunds for industries which need to be restarted?
Internship Experience: Cryptography Engineer
Related, Frances Coppola is an advocate of Helicopter money and UBI, but doesn't think it's the right medicine for these current circumstances: http://www.coppolacomment.com/2020/03/when-is-right-time-for...
In the late 70's and early 80's there were really high end CRT word processors from companies like Xerox, Wang and Burroughs. I recall managers debating buying these versus general purpose computers.

At the time, that's mostly what you did with general purpose computers...WordStar or similar. Spreadsheets hadn't really taken off yet.

Edit: Check Google for the Xerox 860. It was the Cadillac at the time. https://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=488
The FreeWrite is $550 US

https://getfreewrite.com/products/freewrite-smart-typewriter
Guy whose job is thinking about Flutter all day really likes Flutter’s chances!
The best thing about Jitsi IMHO is that it scales so well. After having problems with Nextcloud Talk, I just wrote a chat bot that returns Jitsi links (see my GitHub if you’re interested) et voilà 100+ people in one conference!
I and many WFH people I know are working more than they were pre-corona, unfortunately.

This is common when people first start to work from home. You feel you have to do more in order to prove that you're working at all.

It's also common to feel that all of the time you were out of the house before is 'work time', so whatever you spent commuting before is now time you should be working.

It's worthwhile trying to fight those feelings and define scheduled hours that you work, otherwise you will find work takes over your home life.