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VCs want binary outcomes - either something grows 100 times or it dies. This is not because they are evil, or crazy (and don't want money from a slow growth but still money earning business) - but because this is a way to avoid principal agent problem (https://medium.com/@zby/the-problem-with-crowdfunding-81b53f...). If you don't want that - then don't take VC money. Fried is right with that, but the VC model works well in fields where there is a strong first comer advantage (like everything with network effects). Because there if you don't outgrow your competition - then you are dead.
Some Angels too. I have ran into small startups that are forced to make poor/crippling choices because their angel(s) would rather not spend anymore money before flipping the company.
> Intel's memory controller on their -U (Ultrabook) chips had a 16GB limitation

To be more specific, they don’t support LP-DDR3 with over 16gb. All laptops which support 32gb use regular DDR memory, not the low power variant. DDR4 is about the same as LP-DDR3 in power consumption under heavy load, but when not, LP-DDR3 is significantly less power usage. So while Intel is to blame for the cause of forcing a choice, ultimately the decision to prioritize battery life numbers is the reason you don’t see more 32gb laptops.
> In Germany, you pay a very reasonable (from my layman perspective) price for the lenses, maybe about 40$ plus another 30$ if you want to have non-reflective glasses or product from big name producers and stuff like that.

Uhm. Maybe this depends on the glasses you need? I'd not even come close to paying that little and my parents are paying even more.
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Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and all the other brilliant entrepreneurs that propel our society into the future are most often not motivated by money.

Elon clearly doesn't give a shit about his money. He only wants to own and control his companies. His wealth is simply a byproduct of that.

Capping billionaire wealth won't stop innovation.

If you just let them control their companies, then they probably will work just as hard if you take away their money over a billion dollars.

It will help to stop the growing inequality that will continue to destroy our society.

The government is controlled by the wealthy elite, so I don't get your point. Their job should be just to redistribute wealth with (ideally) an universal basic income.

But, the elites don't want that because it's too simple. Basic income redistribution scares the hell out of them and they will destroy the country rather than give up their beach house.

While I respect Paul Graham's career and his abilities as an entrepreneur (I mean we are doing this on Hacker News), I am always very skeptical of wealthy people talking about "How to get wealthy".

And his essay isn't bad, but it's still coming from a place of insane success, much of it not duplicatable for 99% of the people even in such a opportunistic place like Silicon Valley (I know he addresses this randomness of success in his essay).

The wealthy elite will ruin this country. Look at our president. The asshole is walking example of shitty capitalism at it's worst. He is literally the leader of our country.
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And I have been wondering if Circle-CI will be the next battle between Microsoft and Google.
>baking/insurance customers

amusing typo
Direct corporate contributions to campaigns is illegal. It's also illegal, even under Citizens United, to say "if you do X, we will run adds in favor of your election."
I get notifications with the Riot iOS app. I did take a little extra time to set up my toy matrix server with LetsEncrypt certificates, not sure if that makes a difference.
Zenni is amazing. At less than $20 a pair, I can buy new every month. Everyone in my family uses Zenni and I get compliments on my glasses all the time.
Its not bad for exporter, the opposite actually. Exporters were the people wanting expansionary monetary policy because high CHF made their products more expensive.

In fact this was great for the majority of people as nobody profits in the long run from a deflationary spiral.
It doesn't say anything about our culture. Getting a date via a dating app is trivial. You match, ask each other a couple questions, you meet. Don't ask or send nudes.

You have to be incredibly inept if you can't get at least one date by the end of the day. If it is a larger city, you could be booking them out through the weekend.

But hey, anyone that needs this service will probably be a long term customer.
O'Beirne's article is US-centric because Apple's rollout is US-centric (California, Nevada, and Hawaii only for now).
I would also like to know why it takes my HMO (Kaiser) 6 weeks to make lenses, and why their invoices don’t list what products they sold you.
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I guess lots of things distinguish rows & columns which, for complex numbers, you can think of as up & downstairs -- rows are conjugated. But otherwise everybody seems to live in flat space.

If you had reason to do so, it would be easy to bolt something onto the front of @tensor etc. which understood say A^[i]_[j] * B^[j,k] . Something similar would not be so hard to do to np.einsum either, just messing with the string... it could take exactly your "email Latex notation". In fact I'm a bit surprised that I can't find someone who's done this, in a few minutes' googling. I did find that opt-einsum has a notation in which the indices at least follow the array:

https://optimized-einsum.readthedocs.io/en/latest/input_form...
What "Russia propaganda angle"? Almost everything published about Russia in western media is wrong or outright fraudulent. Go read Glenn Greenwald's articles on the Intercept for many very clear examples.

Maybe your mother is sharing fake information, or maybe your own information is fake and the problem is the inverse (or maybe you're both wrong in different ways).
Whatever you're comfortable and already know. If you'd rather learn something new, then perhaps Elixir + Phoenix.
#1 Join a photography club and become very active in it, not much else will help you learn faster. I waited about 10 years before joining a club, and it's the one thing I wish I did from the start. The club I'm most active in also has monthly competitions with an external judge brought in (both print and digital). That also helps a lot, as you get to see what other people consider their best work and discuss it.

As far as mirrorless vs DSLR. I think the mirrorless craze is mostly over. There is a group that tracks industry trends (which I can't find right now) and the mirrorless market is on the way down.

I looked into getting a mirrorless several years ago. I think they have two advantages. 1. They weight a lot less and are smaller, so they work well for hiking and backpacking and other situations where photography isn't your main reason for going. 2. You can usually find adapters for most of them to use "normal" DSLR lenses, though usually with some limitations.

But there are a lot of downsides to mirrorless. The market is pretty fragmented, so there might be good lenses/accessories that aren't available no matter which you line choose. Most of the lenses are low end, and there isn't much competition in the high end lenses. Once you've got a few good lenses and a good tripod, the size/weight advantage of the mirrorless body becomes negligable. The market is young and fragile, so it's very likely which ever brand you choose might go out of business or become obsolete.

In the end I didn't find a mirrorless as being right for me. I wanted one for backpacking and kayaking, and to have at the ready in my car for unexpected opportunities. But I found getting some lenses for my cell phone suited me a lot better for those casual needs. And I carry my heavy DLSR and tripod on the hikes.
This is work worth doing. Wishing your team much success.

To find new users, I'd start partnering with non-profit financial counseling groups that are most likely providing this service with human effort, but are stretched thin.
I had to pay €150 for lenses in Finland. And this was at Specsavers, the "cheap" place. Frames were only €30 though. Maybe you have a very simple prescription.
To some extent, R works like this... packages are only on CRAN if they pass automatic checks and there's a pretty strong culture of testing with testthat. You can have your own package on Github or external repo, but then that's a non-standard, extra step for installing the package.
Have you tried debugging it in a throttled VM or with valgrind?
However, you can easily measure your own pupillary distance exactly down to the millimeter with a ruler and a mirror.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13092902
Fox News is a state-controlled media and WikiLeaks is not. State controlled in that when it comes to major propaganda like war motivation, Fox News does what the pentagon wants. For example "WMD" etc.
The original article too long for you to get through? ;-)

The company that basically owns the entire eyewear industry top-to-bottom is Italian. Just merged with a French company.

I know it's popular on HN to talk about how crappy the US is, but in this case you jumped to the wrong conclusion.
I have a similar problem. I measure glasses that do fit and buy ones with the same dimensions using the search tool on Goggles4U. Sometimes they still don’t fit but are good emergency pair. I also heavily bend the part that goes behind the ear so they look more like an L than a hockey stick or straight line (like glasses meant for headphones/aviation).
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If you are contending that Walmart having never existed would be a net benefit for humanity I think you would have a very hard time proving that. I am not defending their business practices, merely pointing out that it would be extremely hard to fully account for.
Here's a followup[0][1] to the OFCCP vs Google suit mentioned in the article. Google showed it would cost more to produce the data than the value of the Federal contract, so OFCCP did not get complete access.

[0]: https://www.shrm.org/ResourcesAndTools/legal-and-compliance/...

[1]: https://outsolve.com/blog/alj-rules-in-ofccp-vs-googles-deni...
I agree with the first point: wasted time will quickly stack up with old/cheap tools. I don't buy your second argument about morale. The vast majority of professionals don't get to pick their tools, they are handed work and tools based on what is available and cost-effective. If these professionals' flexibility does not include programming on a 2 year old laptop vs a brand new one, wow, that's weak grit. If your employees' morale is destroyed by not working on the latest gadget, why is that, what else about the company is insufficient to degrade their morale so far?
This is a good point and also worth pointing out (in the US at least) that most ophthalmologists will be covered under your medical insurance not your eye insurance (if any) because they are medical doctors.

I was getting my contact lens exam/fitting recently and the optometrist wanted me to get something checked later by an ophthalmologist. He said it was probably nothing to worry about but made it clear that it was outside his scope of expertise to diagnose or make medical recommendations.
That's insane.

With the interconnect being faster than the network cards by several orders of magnitude (I assume unless there is special hardware), how is it structured to utilize all of the 800Gbps?
A message probably counts every tweet a person views at a minimum.
We just use google oauth which kicks you to okta. This lets us use the x/oauth/google packages from google itself.
ITT: a lot of criticism toward NewsGuard. Though it does seem that it has some pretty glaring flaws.

I'm curious what ideas people have to combat the problem more effectively? Solutions like "people should just l2thinkcritically" don't seem practical to me.

I think crowdsourced approaches will just degenerate into partisan feuds. Relying on a central authority just paves the way for the nation-states/illuminati/"globalists"/evil-sentient-penguins to manipulate public opinion on a grand scale. So, what else is there?
with the newer XPS 13s the wireless chip is soldered on.
This is a really interesting to read as someone not from the US.

In the UK (and all the other countries I've lived) emergency service radio traffic has been encrypted for a very long time. I was always surprised (even shocked!) when I visited the US and could hear everything the Police were doing.
I've got a 9560 with killer wifi card, running 16.04 with no problems. Additionally it's not that tough to swap out the killer for an intel wifi card if you really find the need to.
> I'm curious if large amounts of memory can be hard for quick sleep/wake actions

No, because sleep mode keeps the memory powered (albeit in idle mode which with LP-DDR3 is less than 10% of the power draw normally).

Hibernate is where the ram gets flushed to disk and the ram is powered down, which could impact startup times with more RAM, but that isn’t the issue in your case I believe. I’m guessing your case is due to an app you have running.
Many times I've had the most use for a test that didn't fit into the conventional unit test format but I didn't try to get it approved because I didn't want to get into a dogmatic argument about what a test should or shouldn't be. A lot of what I worry about doesn't get tested well using unit tests.
But that's not what Firefox does!

Ctrl-P: quick print

File -> Print: Same quick print

Hamburger -> Print: Print with preview!
> A more niche gripe is that 16:9 is the wrong aspect ratio for a professional laptop.

What aspect ratio is more fitting for a professional laptop? 4:3?
I mean, Haskell does not have multiple input or output parameters, but it simulates both of those well enough.
We made a smilar decision in 2017. The reason was that our builds were stupidly slow because travis uses cheap instances. There was no option to fix that other by allowing more concurrent builds. Travis has no feature to actually allow users to have reserved instances of a particular type. Money was not the issue; the feature does not exist.

Builds were taking up to 20 minutes and with multiple team members doing prs, it was quite common to be stuck waiting for things to land to our integration environment. This slowed us down a lot and we fixed it by creating a build pipeline in amazon. In there we were able to pick one of their faster instance types and the exact same build ran in something like 5 minutes. I understand the team moved to gitlab pipelines after I left.

I was just discussing this with a guy that works at codeship, a berlin company that was acquired some time ago that creates build tools. He made the point that tools like that are getting replaced by deep pipeline integrations like provided by Gitlab.

There is a need for tight integration between build pipelines, version control systems, issue trackers, alerting, monitoring, cloud providers, kubernetes, etc. You can sort of do this partially but you typically have to deal with gazillions of SAAS solutions of varying quality that typically don't integrate that well and the devops related to that. E.g. making Jira aware of github PRs and build status in jenkins can probably be done but you are dealing with API tokens, access rights, and wonky webhooks, credit card payments, etc. The overhead of setting all of that up for every team is quite high and I've seen teams cut corners here because they have more important/interesting things to do. E.g. typical Jira setups have typically no meaningful integrations with either ci or version control systems. Even well run projects tend to have non trivial amounts of devops related time and cost to manage all this. Many projects simply start by copying whatever they did last time that wasn't completely horrible.

IMHO, this is potentially something MS could get right simply by creating deep integrations between e.g. Azure, Gitlab, and a few other things they own. IMHO, amazon is lacking a few things in their portfolio and it wouldn't surprise me to see them make a move either by launching or acquiring their own things. Google is another company that is missing a few essential things on this front.
If you look at the criteria they’re using, “fake news” isn’t one of them.
Optical or touch.
Which is a good example of the problem. So the Washington Examiner is publishing false stories about Wikileaks (as has CNN, the Guardian, etc). Which one gets the ticks and the crosses? The one the US government doesn't like gets marked as fake news despite being real news, and the ones lying about them get marked as good.

I don't know who at Microsoft thought this was a good idea but they're clearly insane. I had nothing in particular against Edge and even use it sometimes, but after this there's no way I'm going to use it. The last thing I need is some delusional crazies who probably believe Assange works for Putin telling me what is and isn't real.
It's not about the minimum wage it's about what's considered poverty. If you make below $41866/year here you are living in poverty.

> heavy and intrusive labor regulations

I'm curious as to what you consider heavy and intrusive labour regulations? All of the regulations in the industry I work in are focused on worker health and safety. Without those regulations I would be working in dangerous hell hole breathing in toxic dust constantly, where I wouldn't be paid overtime wages, be legally eligible for breaks and my shifts could be whatever the fuck my boss wanted.

>but that's not the point. It's a supplement to your existing income.

Several other posts in this comment thread alone seem to disagree and believe it's a reasonable amount of money to live on.

>will provide minimum means not to fall into abject poverty

>actually do see it as solely sustainable, in the scenario I outlined.

There's also comments on here from people talking about how it will give them time for this that or the other.

Lets see, for me at least I would need to get $1200 every month just to cover rent and i've lived in the same place for 8 years now. Rent in that time has doubled around me to the point where a one bedroom apartment is $2400/month. My internet bill is just under $100/ month, phone bill is about half that, travelling to and from work is about $200 a month, groceries and expenses and such another $200 or so if not more. Leaving whatever I have left for saving and fun.

I'm just really trying to imagine what kind ubi could be given to anyone that would really make a difference.

I understand why people want this and I understand the wanting to believe people will take this money and be alright and use the extra time they will suddenly have to better their skills still feel ok when low skilled work becomes unavailable.

The reality will be something more along the lines of an underclass living in ghettos being unable to move up. As it is even the most unskilled work around requires expensive tickets and certifications. Hell apparently even burlesque dancers here can't get work without a ticket saying they went to burlesque school.

This is going to keep happening and the barrier of entry to things will keep being raised to the point where these people won't be able to enter the workforce even if they tried. Even i'm not doing what I went to school for because I can't afford the $15,000/year fee to register as a professional. So despite my education,degrees and my work experience, I don't get hired because I can't pay to have that little R.P. appended to my name.

Having extra time and a little bit of extra money means nothing when the fees for entry are beyond what you can put together without already working.

And i'm not even going to bother going on about the reality of what happens when you give poor unmotivated people free money...but maybe look into council estates and what happens there in the UK.
My insurance fully covers annual exams, so that doesn't bother me too much. If the period between covered exams was longer than the prescription period, yeah, I'd be peeved.
Eh, the SSC example is a case about poor scoping and oversight, the arguments Hossenfelder make are more fundamental.

Still, it is a bit weird to get upset about the Future circular collider when the International Linear Collider is the next big High energy physics project.
Ah, that's too bad. But it might have some mPCIe extension slots? So you can just plug in an additional card.
I am really interested in how this progresses, as someone who has migraines it'll be great to have another option vs what's currently available.
I agree with you, but it's not any uglier than a train.
I used to be 100% remote (about a year). I had a work computer and a personal computer. Once I shutdown my work computer, I'm done with work. Now it's time for personal life.

I also don't try to install any work related stuff on my personal phone like Slack, work emails, etc.

I guess I had a way to draw a hard line in my mind once I "left for work" by closing my work computer.

During non-working hours, I would also leave home and do a lot of stuff outside of the house with other people: eat out, hang out with friends, etc. I'm pretty introverted, but being inside the house all day for several days straight increased my stress levels. It sneaks up on you.
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For people coming to this thread looking for alternatives: I'm quite happy with Scrutinizer [1], especially for the easy setup and automatic code quality analysis.

1. https://scrutinizer-ci.com/
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Care to elaborate on how your hyperbole addresses my point?
As a current R user, and former SAS user, can someone give me an elevator pitch as to why Julia is worth my time? I use a lot of the tidyverse and some more niche epidemiology/stats packages in R, I'm also pulling in datasets on the order of 1-10 million rows from MS SQL.
I tried to do that on my 9343 and pretty sure I ended up breaking one of the clips on the aluminum case. I got it back on and after reseating it a couple of times there's no longer a visible gap once I get all the screws it, but there's a spot on the back of the laptop where I can press down and here a slight clicking noise, like a latch is trying to catch somewhere but can't.

Just saying, removing some of these things can be more difficult than the Youtube videos or internet guides would have you believe.
This is only great advice if Oracle is the only one giving lower pay to minority or female employees. Google is subject to a similar probe, and Palantir had to settle with the government. And these are the cases that we know about publicly.

Given that Apple, Google, Intel, and Adobe were conspiring to limit labor competition, constant vigilance of tech companies' labor practices are totally warranted.
Probably referring to 16:10 - which I also love. Another victim of the endless march towards cost cutting & manufacturing standardization.
You mentioned the Slate - I have a Pixelbook and it meets your criteria above (although the i5-7Y57 might not be enough depending on your workload).
I enjoyed the Adam Ruins Everything segment on Luxottica... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAeHuDcy_bY
That might be possible with nteract (Javascript, not sure if pure) and the IJulia kernel.
Those are similar COGS to like, iphones, a luxury good. If they only cost $600-1000 I think that'd be significantly less egregious than $2000-3000.
Yes but the venture capitalist that manages to identify non unicorn, but still big companies has an advantage.

A fund that gets 1% unicorns might be successful, one that gets 1% unicorns and 5% big companies still has an advantage.

Which fund would you invest in?
I think he's saying we should have let the Aztecs continue sacrificing humans to their gods and viciously attacking the weaker tribes in the north and south of Tenochtitlan... because they were there first.