skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Position Statement on Controlled Digital Lending
What's the generally hold-up with 32GB RAM being a standard option(or even possibility) in this form factor?
But that only matters if you're chasing VC money. That's the norm in silicon valley, but (depending on your goals) it's not necessary in order to start a profitable business.

I've started and sold a handful of successful tech companies, but have never taken a dollar of VC money.
Camera's moved to the top! That addresses what's been a common complaint over the years.
This may be workable for a certain subset of projects, but programmers often have much more on their system than the end user. End users don't need a bloated IDE, an SQL server, an HTTP server, etc all running at the same time. Trying to run all of these programs on an old computer is of zero benefit to the process. Better to give programmers a new machine with remote desktop access to a slower computer/virtual machine that they can use to test out their software.
I agree.

I'd like to clarify my reply to the GP is only with regard to the UK not really being fair and progressive to all who are in its society. With regard to the other items, about the importance of reward and economy, etc., I agree.
Nit: An optometrist is usually fine if all you need is a refraction.

It's when you're dealing with something that requires medical intervention (glaucoma, pars planitis, etc.) that you need to shell out for an ophthalmologist. An optometrist can still catch that stuff, but will need to refer you for treatment.
Getting started with Isotope, an open source webmail client
> The web is a lowest common denominator.

Yes, it is, but why? HTML/JS has a LCD interface. x86 has a LCD interface. Even filesystems sort of have an LCD (some superset of MS-DOS FAT). Shouldn't the OS have one, too?

If we standardized filesystems, executables, and syscalls, I don't see how our world would be any worse, and I can think of many in which it would be better.
> The way that it still doesn't play nice with cloud services (syncing the directory and its just a matter of time until you get database corruption. It takes a lot of wonky setting up to get it to kind of work, which just shouldn't be the case

I'm using Zotero's $20/year for 2GB space membership and it was quick and easy to set up. Works great too.
The first clue was that the news was being hosted on https://cloud.google.com/
knock off the whinging about downvotes. this isn't reddit. people dislike what you're saying. move on.
If only they'd release a version of the XPS with a 16:10 or 3:2 ratio display. Getting work done on 16:9 is just so narrow and cramped.
I was shocked that glasses cost as much as the lens of a DSLR camera, and glasses dont have all the moving parts and materials a DSLR lens have. I found some cheap glasses company on the internet and now I am very happy with the results.
It's a US newspaper. Do you also ask the German media to specify Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel in every headline?
Thanks for this--science needs more writers who are able to distill complex subjects into clear and readable form.
I'm pretty sure someone said everything in physics has been discovered just before the start of the 20th Century boom in theoretical physics too.

Michelson (of Michelson-Morley fame), apparently, IIRC. I'd warrant that despite his credentials Yang (of Yang-Mills fame) is making a similar mistake.

But I do think we're likely to see a retarding of the pace of change in fundamental physics (I think we're on to a reflective phase, where science consolidates, and social change progresses; leading to more focus on higher-order sciences - biology and such).
A few years ago I found a technique on youtube to help myopia by wearing slightly lower prescription glasses. And the author recommended zennithoptical.com for cheap glasses. I was almost shocked to find their price to be that cheap. And when I bought a couple of pairs, it turns out their quality is quite decent.

I have since bought more than a dozen glasses from zennithoptical.com, at a total cost of about $300. And by using the technique, the prescription on both of my eyes dropped by 1 (from -5.75 to -4.75). Unfortunately that seems to be the limit of that technique. But I was extremely happy to find a source for cheap yet good glasses. Now I have two normal prescription pairs for daily use like driving, two more pairs for reading (1 for backup for each).

So the cheapest way to get glasses now is to get a prescription at Costco (cost about $40), then just buy your glasses online.
Not clear how this is better than a glance at the commit history.
The Hidden Cost of Cheap Hardware
Twitter is full of endless fraud phishing ads. I report and report but they pop up back again.

If we can detect fake news, why can't Twitter detect fraudulent ads?
My opinion...

That implies too much faith in tests. Tests are no better or worse than any other code. In fact, writing good tests is an art and most people cannot think about every corner case and don’t write tests that cover every code path.

So, unless you audit the tests they add no practical additional layer of trust, IMO, to just using the “package” with or without tests.
I think the thesis is that if you can spread your risk out across 100 companies then the math can work out and it can be a good bet, because you only need one of those to be a huge success and make up for all the failures. But if you are only invested in one startup, it's a horrible bet. So it can definitely make rational sense for the VC but not for the founders.

The corollary is that taking vast VC money is the best way to grow to be a $1B business (obviously there are some exceptions). Again, all these things can be true. If you're a founder and determined to have a billion dollar company, you should take VC money. But your chances of success are miniscule. If, on the other hand, you're a founder and just want to build a $20m business, don't take VC money and the odds improve dramatically.
I think it is a truely beutiful thing how the Flux and DiffEq are totally seperate, and it takes ~100lines to make them work together.
Now suddenly you don't just have 2 or 3 ODE solvers you have dozens.
The idea is that the venture capitalist's motivations aren't necessarily aligned with the company's. They're interested in creating a unicorn, because that one company will create the returns necessary to turn a profit on a huge number of attempts. So they attempt to quickly build huge companies with everything they touch, in an effort to get that one that will pay off. Many companies end up being overbuilt to a point where their sales can't sustain their size, in the interest of attempting to have the capacity for future sales.
In Belgium it largely depends.
I paid about 120 for my current glassed, but due to having bad eyesight (worse than -8.0) I almost don't pay for them at all!
Socialism at work.
That's maybe Fair given the potential rate of change.
StackOverflow 2019 Developer Survey
That is 2.2% per year on balances.

2.0% on all debits is a much larger number.
Jins is great. I only buy eyewear there.
The world would be an overall much poorer and more brutish place without all of the businesses that have ever drawn feelings of consternation from the public.
Seriously. This Dell would be perfect if we could get 32GB of ram.

fwiw: I have a System76 ubuntu laptop with 32gb of ram. It's bulky, but the performance is good. I can't imagine making space for 32gb of ram would compromise the XPS form factor much.
https://www.verticalmag.com/news/airbus-blade-see-growing-fu...
70$ for glasses in Germany? I have to pay about 200€ per glas. Maybe weaker glasses are cheap. After all you can buy glasses in the supermarket for a few bucks.

Those modern glasses get scratches after just a few years of careful handling and cleaning only with „Mikrofaser“ in my experience. No fun having weak eyes in Germany.
Maybe somebody on here knows. Is there a (mostly) Linux compatible laptop that offers the following?

- 10-11 inch (preferably the size of the 11" Macbook Air or 10.5 inch iPad)

- Good touchscreen (with Linux support)

- Good keyboard with hinged display (2-in-one would be awesome, but I doubt that's possible given the other constraints I already have)

- Solid CPU options (i.e. no Atom)

I bought a Chuwi Surbook Mini and installed Linux on it but while the Hardware works fine, the touchscreen is so-so and the attached keyboard cover is awful. I'd buy a Microsoft Surface 10" but Linux on there doesn't support hibernation and that's a must for me (and I won't go with Windows. I tried that with the Chuwi, that OS is just not for me, I loathe it). I'd also maybe go with a Pixel Slate but 12.3 inch sounds too big for me and Google doesn't sell it here so I can't even preview it.
This isn't the release per se (i.e. not on PyPi), just rc0.

What's the status on Python 3.7 support in TensorFlow? I'm surprised that wasn't in this release.
It just gives blanket credence to everything CNN publishes. That is because CNN is a controlled media. The media is actually an important part of warfare. WMD was the official propaganda for the Iraq war.
There are definitely maintenance concerns, but free flight autopilot is a much easier problem than autonomous ground vehicle piloting.

All of the proposed vehicles I've seen have a failsafe built in--typically a parachute, but you are correct that if it falls on someone's house, car, or person there is going to be a problem.
There have been islands of tech outside the valley for longer than the valley has been an island of tech. ENIAC as developed in Pennsylvania (Iowa claims they had one before then).

The valley is much larger, but it was never the only location.
I'm seeing more and more of these "smart headphones" that happen to maybe increase selective noises and cancel some others out but are not "hearing aids" due to the medical device designation.
Well it's a US site that talks mostly about US companies, US tech industry, and other US things. Talking about other countries is more of an exception to the rule than the standard (when discussing things where a country might come up). The article itself is a US newspaper with a largely US readership.
I have a pretty new one (9370 I think) and I love it. No coil whine, the build feels great, and I have no complaints about that keyboard or trackpad. My only real complaint so far is the bluetooth is flaky.
Intel Announces New Class of RealSense Stand-Alone Inside-Out Tracking Camera
Fact is might makes right and then you make up bullshit to justify it. See human rights. It's not like any of this is over, it's just convenient to talk about stuff that we've already done than talk about the stuff that we're doing so as to seem as we've progressed and are so much better than we used to be.

Most of our culture and technology is not sustainable... The way primitive people were living would allow them to live on the planet until an asteroid came and wiped them out, which could be millions of years. The way we're living will probably see us go extinct in the next 10,000 years.
They're not losers if the profits from a few big winners outweigh the losses from the losers.

That works out for VCs because they're diversified. A founder lacks the diversification, so while their average expected return is the same, their specific outcome is likely to be poor. They'd be much better off with a strategy that has lower expectation but also less variance.
Why free software evangelist Richard Stallman is haunted by Stalin’s dream
Really depends, you can easily spend hundreds on glasses if it's not something standard.
Yeah, it's pretty weird. Test and basic glasses are free or near-free for most people in Ireland (if you've got a job it's covered under PRSI, if you don't it'll be covered by the medical card). If you're covered by neither (ie fully private), ~60 euro. I'm not sure what's stopping US vendors from just importing glasses from Europe...
InfinityEdge display with top camera placement

I wonder how many human-years of effort went into this improvement?
Re: It's not that hard

Do you mean creating libraries that are flexible and partitioned well for future needs? I do find that hard and almost no library maker I know of gets it right the first time. Analysis of current needs is difficult; analysis of future needs is extra difficult. Experience helps, but is still not powerful enough. The future continues to surprise the heck of out me. Tell God to slow things down ;-)
That was probably the main reason why I recently got a Precision instead of an XPS as a daily driver.
There's tons of police on the metro -- I see them nearly every time I ride.
Launch HN: Upsolve (YC Nonprofit W19) – TurboTax for Bankruptcy
Hi HN! I’m Rohan Pavuluri, co-founder of Upsolve (https://upsolve.org/), a nonprofit in YC’s W19 batch. We provide software for low-income people in America that makes filing for bankruptcy less painful and expensive, just like what TurboTax did for filing taxes. Bankruptcy is a lifeline for low-income people in the United States who fall into debt from job loss, medical emergencies, and payday lenders. It allows them to get a fresh start. Unfortunately, it’s impossible for most people to file for bankruptcy because they cannot afford $2,000 for a bankruptcy lawyer. Our average user erases ~$40,000 in debt.

I started Upsolve when I was a law school research assistant in college. We were testing out the effectiveness of legal self-help packets for people who could not afford attorneys. I set out to turn these paper packets into a digital product. My co-founder Jonathan Petts spent ten years doing pro bono bankruptcies in his spare time as a corporate attorney. This is where he saw people turned down by brick and mortar legal nonprofits because demand for attorneys far exceeded supply. A judge introduced us in 2016 when she saw we were working on the same idea.

Here’s how it works. A user comes to our website and takes a screener to see if they’re a good fit for our service. If they are, they answer a series of questions about their personal finances, upload their tax returns/pay stubs, and take a pre-bankruptcy education course. Our software then generates their forms, and one of our in-house attorneys reviews their forms for accuracy and completeness. If there are any issues, we follow up. When the forms are ready to file, we send them to the user. We track the user’s court notices so that we can fix any issues that may arise after filing. In 2018, we erased over $16,000,000 in debt for 400+ users.

We believe that 20M Americans would benefit from filing for bankruptcy. We currently allow our users to donate what they think is fair to us after they complete the process. While we’re mostly funded by foundations and the federal government now, we hope to be sustainable through donations that we receive from our users in the future. Regulations around bankruptcy only permit attorneys providing full-representation to charge clients.

We’re looking for any feedback you have on our product or how to reach new users.

User stories: https://upsolve.org/fresh-starts/

TC: https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/16/upsolve-bankruptcy/

If interested in donating: https://upsolve.org/donate/ or email rohan@upsolve.org.
AirPods are being used as de facto hearing aids as well.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2018/06/26/a...
which System76 laptop? I've been toying with the idea of getting an Oryx during the next round of upgrades at work.
Somewhere between 100% and the woefully inadequate levels we have now --

I'm sure there's a happy medium.
Oracle robbed just about anyone who wasn't a white male of $400m, says US GOV
It's a curse inherent to capitalism. Any incentive to make what people need also works as an incentive to make people need what you make.
Knowing Germany they probably do tbh or at least it wouldn't surprise me if they did
Is there a matte display option this time?
Maybe we should start thinking for ourselves what is "fake" or not by, you know, independently thinking. Not relying on some "truth-o-meter" feeded to us by the browser by a bunch of people who we know little about.

This is not a good move and it's not the job of the web browser, as others have pointed out.
It's also interesting how much Open Source is moving to Pipelines for just build services, regardless of where their code is hosted. The Python setup on Pipelines is really cool to dig into if you get the chance. I believe Python has been using it as the primary CI for their GitHub repo for bit now, and from what I've heard they've looked into using Pipelines to support a test matrix nearly as robust as their older BuildBot config.
Okay, but it doesn't make me more productive.
Hundreds of IRS employees are skipping work. That could delay tax refunds
You only need the VC who funds you though. Chasing after one elsewhere might be better odds because everyone else is looking to CA.
Next step - acquire twitter?
Totally agree. This is why I'm going to get a T480 thinkpad with 32GB for my next linux laptop next week rather than this.
Criticisms of languages should not be taken as criticisms of their creators or users. I don't see anything wrong with saying "Language X does Y better than language Z in my use cases."

Languages are toolsets and programmers are always looking for appropriate tools for a given task. It seems crazy to demand that people not be able to talk honestly about their experiences using a given tool. Python doesn't have feelings, it won't be sad if you don't like it.
I could not disagree more with the general statement of the author.

Actually, we are now going from a boring phase of particle physics where the theory was able to predict anything we were able to measure afterwards to a phase where no theorists has a clue what might happen.

This phase is called "exploration". It consists of many "blue shots" of which many will probably have zero results but have to be done in order to find out what is really going on. Theorists had a good run with prediction, now it's the experimentalists turn to lead the way with exploration by producing new data.

When the Muon (basically a heavy version of the electron) was first discovered it 'seemed so incongruous and surprising at the time, that Nobel laureate I. I. Rabi famously quipped, "Who ordered that?"'[Wikipedia]

The new CERN collider has got to be build. To risk to miss the next great "Who ordered that?" moment would be grossly inconsequential.
If 180° opening angle is an important feature for you it might be worth it to go towards the XPS 2-in-1 series which features a 360° opening angle. In a car, on a plane or on foot that can be an awesome feature to have.
I personally can't think of the last time I wanted to open a laptop 180* or more.

Obviously both our experience is anecdotal but if it was driving purchasing decisions you'd see more laptops that can open 180 since the design trade-offs are relatively minor in the overwhelming majority of cases.
Show HN: CLI for testing Logstash grok patterns
I'm trying to build a simple Python app that authenticates against corporate Okta right now.

It's incredibly, painfully difficult. If you search for "Python Okta" you get this: https://developer.okta.com/code/python/

> At this time we do not support official API client libraries (SDKs) for Python. You may fork our legacy Python SDK or join the conversation on this thread and let us know how you’d like to use Okta from Python applications.

I have integrated both OpenID and OAuth by hand many, many times. If Okta offered a page of documentation like this one my project would already be finished: https://developer.github.com/apps/building-oauth-apps/author...

From the linked article:

> This is one of the reasons why, here at Okta, even though our entire platform is built on top of OAuth and OIDC, we spend tons of time and effort trying to build abstractions (in the form of client libraries) to hide those complexities and make securing your web applications simpler.

But this is the cause of my problem! The abstractions they are offering don't work for my use-case. The fact that they have hidden the complexity from me is actively preventing me from completing my goal.

I'm not arguing against abstractions here - what I need is BOTH. I need abstractions that can help me get my job done, combined with well documented non-hidden complexity for me to fall back on if the abstractions don't yet handle my use-case.
One of my customers had recently (past month) their credit card maxed out, and GCP/GSuite continued working for well over a week. We just kept receiving daily emails about payment issues until the card had its limit increased.

This was on the zero-support GCP/GSuite package.
No One Is Prepared for Hagfish Slime
This is an interesting idea - and sailplanes can carry a lot more than 2 people :) ex. Waco CG-4 .

That said, they were also nick named "flying coffins".

re: winch tow - when I was an Air Cadet in canada as a teen, we used to fly in schweizer 2-33's and occasionally went up on the winch - it was absolutely exhilarating!
Yes because developers who are whining about having to use a two year old laptop because their company is trying to save money seems more like a bunch of entitled brats.
That doesn't match my experience.

Both times I've dislocated my shoulder I've been sent home from the ER with percocet that I didn't need (and never took). They wouldn't even let me opt-out, and sent it home with me "just in case."
This explanation needs a couple of major caveats: The Standard Model does predict unification at ~250 GeV, but it does NOT predict unification at either 10^16 GeV or 10^19 GeV. Those predictions come from particular extensions of the Standard Model (grand unified theories or various quantum gravity models, respectively) which have been studied by particle theorists for their simplicity.

Which is to say: Those unification scales come from speculative models, not from tested physical law. We do not know with any certainty what lies beyond the energy scales we've tested. You should take with a generous grain of salt any claims that we have physical models that work across an additional 14 orders of magnitude. Consider the range of phenomena that we've discovered in moving from the ~1 cm scale of a glass of water to the 10^-14 cm scale where quantum chromodynamics kicks in.
Intel's memory controller on their -U (Ultrabook) chips had a 16GB limitation last generation (or was it the one before?) but I think that's been lifted in Whiskey Lake.

But in general if you're doing heavy processing Intel doesn't usually recommend the Ultrabook class chips. They are optimized for battery life and low thermal load, not performance.
> If you take the more radical step of slapping the marginal tax rate on dividend income and capital gains as well, you start significantly changing investment behaviour: if you don't allow writeoffs for losses

Why on Earth would you not allow write-offs for capital losses? Heck, if you are taxing capital gains as normal income, there's no reason to limit the deductibility of losses against normal income to a small amount per year with carryover the way we currently do (though for the same reason you might want to allow people to recognize gains in advance of or defer part of large ones after realization, you may not to allow deferring recognition of some portion of large losses.)
It is still "alive". Some people will never let it's tomb abandoned. It will probably never die completely. The community resides on Project Magma[1].

I think there is a need for more players; more then a need for more servers, hehe. I think(not sure) the only fully legal way to get the Game is buying the old original CD from eBay or taobao. I didn't say anything about downloads and I didn't say anything about other ways. Enjoy!

GLA!!! (good luck all! people used to shout it in the starting of the game by the chat tool, wishing luck for enemies and allies)

Ahhhh! How could I forget about Fallout 2 , the second best game ever made, after Myth, hehe.

1- http://projectmagma.net
They are referring to AirBus with that sentence, although I initially parsed it wrong as well.