skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't even just spend it on crack and hookers. I wonder how many people's net worth is actually going up during the lockdown just because of reduced expenditure.
I'd start with combating the paranoia with numbers and stories that would compare realistic risks. You can even start before the acute pandemic ends, by comparing pandemic-time and post-pandemic numbers for swine flu (yes, even if it's not eventually justified for COVID).

Alas, if media circus around plane crashes in any indication, that does't pay.
So, we can only hope for lack of informed-ness, apathy and paranoia-fatigue to settle in and solve this particular aspect for us.
"Xdialog is designed to be a drop in replacement for the "dialog" or "cdialog" programs. It converts any terminal based program into a program with an X-windows interface. The dialogs are easier to see and use while adding even more functionalities (e.g. with the treeview, the file selector, the edit box, the range box, the help button/box). Because Xdialog uses GTK+, it will also match your desktop theme."

http://xdialog.free.fr/
Nearly half (2.25%) of the decline was in healthcare. "Elective" procedures on hold played a large role in that and conventional wisdom would suggest that this $ would get pulled forward into Q2. I don't think it's that simple as we have had major job losses and with healthcare being tied to employment, you may not see the rebound in this that you would think.
What you're saying matches up with the reports I've been seeing.

I think a lot of HN readers are simply unable to believe such a thing can occur; the recessions of the past thirty years were mild compared to what's happening right now. Personally, I'm absolutely terrified.
My Firefox outright freezes if I try to full screen a YouTube video, but so does Chrome so this seems to be a whole 'nother problem lol.
You mean for the potty? She is too little, she falls through the seat. (It's pretty early for potty training, but she is interested in it.) We do also have a step.
Likely for the same reason everyone tries making their own web browser, even though the other guys' are all gratis (and many of them libre): When something is a platform, you are either a landlord or a tenant.

Google and Apple have seen what happens to Microsoft's tenants, so they decided to be landlords. Microsoft knows how awful a landlord it had been (and after decades of landlord-only status, suffered abuse as a tenant at Google's gmail and youtube platforms), so it also tries to be a landlord in every way it can; It couldn't attract it's own tenants to Windows Phone, IE11 and its own Edge, so it has to offer subleases on Android, iOS and Blink(=Edgium) these days.

QUIC looks more "behind the scenes" as a platform right now, but building your own is a very cheap hedge against ceding complete control of what could become a potentially fundamental platform to your competitors. So everyone does that.

I'm no fan of Microsoft, and I believe that Microsoft has been "beaten to submission" rather than "left the dark side", so to speak. But regardless of the overall technical quality or moral/values one assigns to Microsoft - they are a smart, politically and business oriented and savvy corporation. This is a "staying relevant and in control" move.
At the risk of offending many HN'ers, I think many (most?) technical people severely underestimate the value of most "non technical" things. Sales, marketing, writing...
Process Explorer is the workarond. Use its search for handle, find the filename. You'll get a list of all handles to the file, and thus all processes with it open. You can close those (safest way) or force-close the handle (more likely to crash the process in question).
Yeah, those meatpackers really want to go back to their essential jobs right now.
Inflation has only been on a downward trend since the early 80s, despite what everyone predicted when Nixon closed the gold window.
It's just syntactic sugar for Monad functions >>= and >>
How can that be deeply misunderstood?
Show HN: vidno.online - Video Conference with No Hassle
> I don't see any fundamental reason why such functionality couldn't be brought into an imperative language at some point (but maybe I'm ignorant about PL theory).

Nim can kinda do this with its effect tracking feature (although I haven't used Nim enough yet to know if anyone is really using it), e.g.

type
AEffect = object of RootEffect
BEffect = object of RootEffect

proc callA() {.tags: [AEffect].} = echo "A"
proc callB() {.tags: [BEffect].} = echo "B"

proc somethingInBetween() = # Tags are inferred here.
callA()

proc doSomethingWithA() {.tags: [AEffect].} =
somethingInBetween()
# trying to `callB()` here would fail.

proc doSomethingWithB() {.tags: [BEffect].} =
callB()
# trying to `callA()` here would fail.

The `tags` pragma adds specific tags to the proc and the compiler ensures that it doesn't call anything with any other tags. Similar mechanism is used for exceptions too.
> Good point. Dow is also up almost as much though.

The dow is a subset of large companies in the S&P.
If you absolutely have to have Blink, use Edge. You get basically Chrome, but with Firefox's tracking prevention built-in.
I just switched a pretty huge project into TS, and I'm seeing for this team and project, probably 4 units of saved time in the PRO column, and 3 units of lost time in the CON column. Still worth it, but you'll need to learn and maintain a new thing, and sometimes doing a totally normal JavaScript thing would force you to write some pretty eldrich type signatures.
Alphabet just reported a 13% increase in revenue for Q1.
Here’s why I don’t think it was capitulation. Check out google trends for “how to trade stocks” or a variation thereof. There was massive retail interest in buying the big dip, people aren’t interested in buying when capitulation has happened.

Perhaps the Fed intervened early enough to prevent a retest of the bottom, but I wouldn’t count on it.
Well, stocks at the moment. The real value of U.S. stocks has not risen 20% in one month. What has really happened is that the U.S. dollar has lost 20% of its value relative to stocks. Inflation takes a long time to work its way into the economy at large, and it is possible that it won't happen. We managed to avoid it after 2008, but back then we had some very competent people running the show. I'm less sanguine about that this time around. My reading of the tea leaves is that the Trump administration will prop up stock prices by whatever means necessary because they believe (probably correctly) that many people will vote according to the bottom line of their 401ks.

But it is simply not possible to keep pumping currency into a shrinking economy without producing inflation. Sooner or later the law of supply and demand will catch up with you. The only question is whether it will happen before or after November.
I would give up Todoist if I could view todos on my phone as well :)
Canada is a strong counter example to your hypothesis.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_management_(Canada)
I'd much rather three different companies each have a slice of my data than one company have all of my data and be able to cross-reference it.
More proof: essentially every other developed nation has better access to healthcare than the US, and clearly people are starving because of it.
I think we are talking at cross-purposes, but I read your comment as suggesting a single account. No one calls our IRA the CPF MS, CPF always refers to the IRA and Medisave is totally separate even if it is partly administered by the CPF board.

What is the purpose of that tax? In public finance, we don't want to unnecessarily distort incentives by picking winners and losers. Taxing natural resource extraction for no good reason chases away companies in those industries and forces them to pursue other businesses, possibly leaving only the most profitable monopolies to survive. If we want to raise revenue, why not just raise VAT, corporate tax, income tax, or property tax more generally.
Indeed you're right! Plus I enjoyed looking that up :)
Using a heuristic like that is mostly unnecessary when your daemon supports socket/dbus activation. In that case it's only brought up on-demand when another program tries to send a message to it.

The programs you listed are part of evolution-data-server and are used as the backing store for your calendar, clock and address book, which the GNOME panel integrates with. You can kill them but gnome-shell will start them right back up again when you open the calendar and it does a query to see if you have any events.

If you're in a non-GNOME session (like i3) and systemd is still starting those daemons, you can turn them off with some stop and disable commands:

systemctl --user stop evolution-addressbook-factory
systemctl --user disable evolution-addressbook-factory
systemctl --user stop evolution-calendar-factory
systemctl --user disable evolution-calendar-factory
systemctl --user stop evolution-source-registry
systemctl --user disable evolution-source-registry

Or you can try your luck with removing the evolution-data-server package.
I don't think that will happen as long as Satya is driving.
Are we talking past one another?

My point is exactly that if Filecoin does get to be a place that gets "perfect competition" as you say, then there is no profit to be made. If there is no profit to be made, what is the economic incentive to spend on disks/internet/computers and be a storage seller?

Before you say "there is a market for those with excess capacity", answer me this: if the market is focused on those with excess capacity, what mechanisms are in place this "perfect competition" to remove all chance of profit and get the price of excess capacity to reach basically zero?

I get IPFS, I think. I do believe that it technically it makes sense. What I don't get is Filecoin.
Until everyone in the supply chain from mining to customers have free movement, which means 80% or more of the world have some sort of immunity (Either from opening everything up or vaccines) our economy will be depressed.

This will be many many quarters from now.

Even if today China said don't care that would be 6 months at least. And they are only part of the supply chain.

What don't we know?
That's like saying you should remove your leg when you get an infected cut because we know it'll turn into gangrene.

It's profitable to be an economic doomsayer, which is why every single week for the past 8 years someone has said that we're going to have a recession or depression. That doesn't make them right.
It's definitely on the TODO list. We're looking into it.
I doubt it will be, or least I hope not. But at some point they'll cross the line, they may have already done so and I just don't know about it.

I don't like censorship. It's dangerous. It's the tool of choice of authoritarians everywhere. Free speech, even of opinions we find distasteful or downright ugly, is still worth upholding.
> This is anecdotal and it might come across as bitter and tonedeaf as someone who is not in a STEM job and cant see the bigger picture very well. Im a diesel engine tech who repairs those big trucks carrying food and shit tickets to grocery stores. the fact that ANY market is completely detached from whats actually happening to Americans is frustrating.

Thanks for posting this comment. I know it sounds trite, but I’m sending well wishes your way, hoping you and your loved ones make it through this crisis as minimally impacted as possible.

I think you likely see the big picture better than others. The economy is absolutely crushed. That the markets go up must be especially frustrating to those not able to partake in any gains. My take on the market is that it will go up on good or bad news for the moment. Going up on good news is self explanatory, going up on bad news could be related to speculation that the Fed and Congress will pump even more money into the economy —- the wealthy expect to be propped up by the government as they were in the great financial crisis.

My cynical take on this is that the rich expect to get richer, no matter the outcome, and are investing accordingly. My question is how much, if any, social unrest this will lead to.
Public Access Is a Community Broadcasting Platform
Hi HN, the developer is here. First time on Show HN

I started this project as a way to learn more about WebRTC, and then came COVID. So every company is trying to roll into video conferencing market, and I decided to show the world my take on it.

This is a simple (JUST VIDEO. NO BULLSh) solution for video conferencing

- registration is not required

- we do not store anything except for the technical information necessary to establish a connection

It is not widely tested, so if you have problems let me know. Generally, you need a modern browser that provides access to the camera and mic (on request, right before the conference), and you are ready to go!

Enjoy! I'm ready to have your feedback :)
I think folks are underestimating how long this will go on. At least until the end of the year, minimum. There is absolutely nowhere near the amount of testing being done in the USA due to incompetence, that is needed to allow folks to feel safe, or to safely allow bars / concert venues or other large gatherings to happen. Massive amounts of businesses are never coming back from that.

We're a massively long way from that, plus the contrarian ignorance embedded in GOP politics now that are allowing / half demanding their cities open back up for business are going to all but ensure the USA has the biggest death / infection / economic hit of all of the countries in the world.
> Half the country is out of work

It is clearly not, otherwise that 4.8% would be a much bigger number. Hyperbole doesn't help here.

No one claims things are good. A global pandemic is a disaster any way you cut it. We're all affected, some much more than others, and we all have to help. But there's no magic wand we can wave where we all go back to work, either.

Even "essential" industries are affected. Very few people want to go to a crowded restaurant or theater right now, lockdown rules or no. Almost no one wants to travel on an airplane. That's just not coming back until we get the disease under control, and releasing lockdowns pushes that date farther into the future.

Remember the disease is disruptive all by itself. We have something like 25% of the nation's pork butchering capacity off line right now, not due to lockdowns (obviously they were "essential") but due to actual outbreaks. And that's what we should expect everywhere we permit commerce: random, uncontained, very disruptive outbreaks.

There's no magic. This sucks. But we have to work together to fix it, and harping about only one side of the problem hurts and doesn't help.
These four main points all point towards a looming consolidation in the hardest hit industries. As many companies go bust their assets will be auctioned for pennies and purchased by the big names in those industries, or new competitors diversifying their portfolios into an industry they otherwise couldn't afford to compete in or break into.

I'm not without hope, but I fear we're going to see a lot of otherwise great businesses (breweries, bakers, barbers, spas, bars, restaurants, etc) go under and not get replaced by businesses of the same caliber anytime soon. If my barber closes I'll keep cutting my own hair. Same with my favorite local bakeries, restaurants, breweries, etc. I certainly won't start eating Applebee's microwave dinners and sugarritas just because they're the only joint in town.

I've diverted a significant portion of my savings due to this pandemic towards my retirement, but that actually has a small deleterious effect on my local economy as it is not strongly exposed to greater market forces as I'm reducing the volatility of money in my locus. I'm sure that I am not be the only one making choices like this.
NASA will test a new spacecraft solar sail using a NanoAvionics satellite
Neat, but "instantly" is a bit much. How about quickly? :-p
Actually there is no need for gradient decent at all if you have a linear regression problem, because you can find the min/max exactly by inverting your weight-matrix (pseudo-inverse if degenerate). Additionally, second order optimisation, i.e. using the Hessian in addition to the gradient is a well studied problem in the literature. My understanding is that it is in general not worth it because calculating the Hessian is very expensive (see e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.09018).
To add to this: even within the S&P-500, the better ones seem to do much better than the average ones, so the NASDAQ-100 outperforms the S&P-500.

As an investor: Very happy with my "QQQ" (NASDAQ-100 ETF) investment, but my more diverse retirement portfolio is nowhere near as good. I have recently been buying hard hit stocks that I think will survive over the long term: Disney, Marriott..

As an employee: well, the trick is to remain employed.
All of that doesn’t seem to belong on to CLI flags. I love the possibilities this opens up, but I’d much rather write a configuration file.
Not quite. I'm saying that in this case it doesn't matter because of the way the API is used. Is it confusing for people who don't understand D ranges? Yes, it certainly can be. It was for me when ranges first came along. But once you understand how D ranges are intended to be used, then you realize you rarely ever care what the return type is. D is not Rust, or C++, or (insert language here).

When the return type actually matters, auto should be avoided unless there's no way around it. But that's why we have "Returns:" in Ddoc. The function signature itself is not the complete documentation. I mean, you're acting like all D functions are documented to return auto. They aren't. It's used where it needs to be.
If markets were truly forward looking and near-omniscient, the dip to 18k would never have happened, because the far-looking and omniscient market would know that eventually covid and its impacts would be addressed.

Reality: the market is a 48-hour sentiment guess
Why do you consider their application process a waste of time? After we get the taste of the market, I don't see any reason not to hire one of those early applicants if they're the best candidate for the position.
The payment status not available message was (still is? I don't need to check it anymore) a general error message.

Also noticed the page is running Google Analytics. Might that be a privacy issue?
This makes me think of every role Bill Murray has played in the last 20 years.
I read and reread it and I honestly don't understand how it is possible to come up with an interpretation where that is not seen as an issue by the author
In late 2015, I wondered what it would be like to spend six months learning a single "tech" instead of flittering around. The wondering occurred in my journal -- I journal -- and I started listing candidates. The list grew longer over several entries and eventually got up to 57 "techs" as candidates.

My first thought was to pick something new so I "would be ahead in the game." In one or the other order I tried Perl 6 and Elm. Perl 6 lacked a coherent set of systematic resources at the time and Elm was then so unstable that tutorials fell apart within a few minutes of the most basic 'Hello World.'

I regrouped and decided to avoid the cutting edge and started thinking about learning things that are extremely stable instead. For me, these were Emacs, Linux, and Javascript. Javascript because I had been avoiding it (hence Elm); Emacs and Linux because I was using them all the time.

It's true I don't spend a lot of time learning Javascript, Emacs, and Linux these days. What happened was I learned enough of each that it's easier to learn more if I need to for example, sometimes I start with the man page before Googling and other times I stop Googling and just read the man page.

I'm not recommending Javascript, Emacs, and Linux per se. But what they gave me was a framework for deciding what to learn. It has to be worth spending a year with. It has to be small enough to fit in one person's head from scratch -- a small head in my case. Team sized technologies are out of the running.

To put it another way, I focused on learning "techs" I could live with. And one of the ways of recognizing those "techs" was that I was already living with them and that was in part because they had long lives. Sometimes I was using them already.
That's because you still cherish the comfy illusion of not being a sheep in a carefully managed flock - which is by design btw, so all is well.
What is the difference between Apple and you as a customer paying for Google Cloud?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2...
We do work with the Everest team. We have unofficial support on top of miTLS (which they produce). We haven't looked into actually using F* for any of the QUIC code though.
Wow, that's pretty marked. I think there could be something to that theory then. I'd like to see more context around that before I'm convinced though.
> No school means poor kids roam the street like packs of feral dogs asking for money for food around here.

I think this is possibly the single biggest long term problem we're going to face as a result of all this. Economic recessions will come and go. But missing 5/8ths of a school year is going to be absolutely devastating for this generation of kids. They will be left permanently behind without a serious concerted effort by every school district to make up for lost time. The bar (which is already dismally low) will have to be lowered further for them to graduate, and how/when will it ever be raised back again?
Challenge accepted. Lost my job and have plenty of time now so 38-141 tests per day not a big deal haha
So, fortified dwellings and shooting/beating up trespassers? Sounds fun, but I think I’d prefer the state having a monopoly on violence and property rights enforcement.

Just curious, have you ever been in a fight or had a gun pointed at you?
I don’t know what it would cost to enter local markets only, but I suspect that has less utility than being national or international. I don’t want a taxi app per city, I want the same app to get me to/from LAX to get me to/from JFK, and I doubt that’s my particular quirk.

On the latter, I don’t know what would happen if they charged monopoly prices. I suspect you’re right, cabs might come back.
>Wait 'til the music starts and there's a scramble for seats.

You meant 'stops'.
I guess it isn't open source ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Strange how GitHub has apparently become the default distribution platform
blaming "Blue Checkmarks" for the fact that people are being victimized by capitalism during a pandemic makes me sick to my stomach. What a hopeless year this has been.
> Ive counted 2 furniture stores, a consignment shop, a few barber shops, and half the god damn bars

Retail like that is very underrepresented in the stock market, so those losses wouldn't be reflected.
Some events permanently change the course of history, forever. Like the second world war, or the European discovery of America.
80-90% of people who catch this disease would survive without treatment. If America won't support people who might die of starvation when stuck at home, then the individually smartest response becomes to take their chance with the virus.

I don't need to explain what a 10-20% death rate would do to society, however.
Right there in the demo, Ubuntu windows.

Edit: never mind, my apologies. It's the dark theme of Mac OS.
Penguin Diagram
6 monkeys given experimental vaccine did not catch COVID-19 after heavy exposure
That's because the economy has grown more or less apace with the money supply (or, more accurately, because the Fed has controlled the growth of the money supply to keep pace with the economy). Now we are pumping cash into a shrinking economy. You can't do that for very long without producing inflation.
Ew, TFS?