skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the article more or less nailed it, but the topic probably deserves journalistic attention of the kind journalists complain no longer exists.

The basic "fintech" startup theory is fairly reasonable:

(1) financial services have a lot of fat and/or profit.

(2) financial services is/should be a tech subsector. Debit/credit cards, current accounts & such are nearly commodities, one is as good as another. Apart from customer service, UX is all that differentiates them^, from a meaningful subset of customers. That's software.

(3) The competition is soft. Many banks have terrible consumer facing software, for example. Many have costly legacy structures.
I think it might be more about how much contact your keyboard has to particulates. The primary mode of failure has to do with dust/crumbs/etc getting into the mechanism. It's not impossible to imagine that people who type in more particulate-rich environments have frequent keyboard issues.

But that's still victim blaming. There are plenty of keyboard designs which are not this fragile, and you shouldn't have to dust-proof your workspace to avoid hardware failures. We're not making CPUs here.
Get the 3M E-A-Rsoft FX, code ES-01-020. These seem to have the highest attenuation I can find.
Ask HN: Experience with KubeFlow?
Has anyone here used KubeFlow or any other Kubernetes based ML pipeline management systems like Seldon.io? Did you face any issues with them?
The benefit of wind and solar is that they allow for a linear reduction in CO2 starting pretty much immediately. Nuclear otoh doesn't do anything for us until the plants are online. It's probably good to start building nuclear plants now, but one must be very careful not to advocate for them as replacements for an ambitious rollout of wind and solar.
Anyone else find open plan offices and co-working spaces different?

I quickly realised that in space that is all one company all the discussions concern my work, especially if you sit in teams. So I was always half listening to chat as it was my work and if I didn't I could easily miss things.

But in an co-working space where noone there is my colleague, none of the chat concerns me and I find it far easier to tune out.
For those who are not in a hurry to upgrade, ( If you are on 2015 MBP ), the next upgrade which should be soon, will get you WiFi 6 and Icelake, with 20%+ IPC and hopefully Apple will throw in 10 Core Config in as well.

I kind of felt Apple rushed as the problem with Keyboard were big enough and Apple had to release something to calm the market, not to mention Intel 10nm Icelake is late as usual.

And of all the thing Apple backtrack, I really wish they bring back AirPort Extreme.
Financial crime is something that is heavily enforced on an (inter)national scale.

Local transportation violations aren't enforced in quite the same way.
The Surface Laptop 3 scored a 5 at least, which was a big improvement over previous generations. I wish Apple would try to improve repairability as well.
There are build systems that use strace to find dependencies. For instance tup [1][2] and Fabricate [3]. Also see this post by Waf which discusses some issues with this approach [4]

[1] http://gittup.org/tup/
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12622671
[3] https://github.com/brushtechnology/fabricate/wiki/HowItWorks
[4] https://waf.io/blog/2015/02/using-strace-to-obtain-build.htm...
Are you talking about hard-boiled eggs?
That privacy groups stop accepting money from tech companies?

Yes; absolutely!

He who pays the piper calls the tune.

If you accept money from a company, which is actually completely contrary for what you claim to represent you're compromised. Period.
The more powerful, the less portable. It's a tradeoff.
If you just want a sensor rather than a full retail device I'd recommend the SPS30. I have one and it's very easy to work with and per that table, is very accurate, while not needing any extra software correction. It's also cheaper than that table suggests: you can buy it for ~$50USD from Mouser.
Ask HN: What programming language do you find the smartest and most efficient?
I use JavaScript and python regularly and I am willing to learn a new language that will increase my programming capabilities. What are some good suggestions and why?
A similar product is the Woboq Code Browser for C/C++: https://code.woboq.org/

It's with open source but not free software: https://github.com/woboq/woboq_codebrowser/
Second this, although perhaps not as loud. I prefer music for concentration, which has melody and harmony, rather than ‘silence’ which is usually interrupted by noise such as chatter or scruffing or chairs scraping etc.
Delaware was never the most transparent place on Earth either.
Those links, one per line:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14738010

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21237875

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18959796

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19845029

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14738010

http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/nk0/what_is_up_with_car...
Literally everyone could be a bank with Bitcoin
It's a good example of not following Postel's law:

TCP implementations should follow a general principle of robustness: be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.

As originally mentioned here in RFC 761 but credit to Wikipedia for having the citation.
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc761
I replaced the AC barrel connector on an x220, which required removing every single part from the chassis. It took me probably four hours all told, and a few gray hairs (it was my wife's laptop, and yes I had a backup of everything on it, but didn't want to need to replace it).

An Apple laptop would have been shipped off who knows where for three weeks, if fixing that part were even possible.
Thanks. Got caught exactly by what this website describes [1]. “Heaven” was logical from French.

[1] https://jakubmarian.com/is-it-tax-haven-or-tax-heaven-in-eng...
Exatly. But they still follow his bad principles.
A traditional method used was to send two very small random payments, say 0.03 and 0.09 to the card in question, then ask the caller to confirm the payment details, how much etc, once they'd arrived. If they could provide these details that is pretty much as far as they can go in terms of verification.
That should be impossible (unlikely), but it could have been a smaller black hole around the galaxy.
I am divided on using Javascript as a first language to teach to children [Or second or first-and-a-half after Scratch]

It's extremely useful, and does contain lots of good parts. But it's at times inconsistent,requires learning its quirks and may cause more frustration than other languages.

I would also worry a little about pushing the students down a road of mostly frontend web development. Not that they can't escape by learning something else, but still.

I guess it would take studies to compare the outcome of various languages and curriculi? A lot of apps and games nowadays are data driven, to optimize for onboarding, engagement and so on. I would like to see more of that in education.
>> You are implying that an article that is only two years old is too old,

> No. I’m stating that policy changed after this article was published, who knows maybe it was in response to this article, so the facts may have changed

Ok, that was a more charitable and likely interpretation of your message. A bit of bad faith unfortunately slipped in my last comment. Sorry for that.
I don’t think you’re correct. Stimulating background music (like EDM or video game OSTs) can do wonders for ADHD sufferers as it helps stimulate their brains which helps them focus (this is a similar
mechanism to ADHD drugs).
You still haven’t learned that the entire country isn’t as reddit as you?
The climate crisis has sparked a Siberian mammoth tusk gold rush
These will likely be features of the Intel product lineup, which is a lot more public than Apples roadmap but which is very intertwined for anything processor related, which likely includes WiFi.
zserge’s webview has been adopted by a bunch of maintainers who made Rust bindings for it. They have forked webview to continue maintaining it, and are now gradually rewriting it in Rust.

https://github.com/Boscop/web-view

Made on top of that is Tauri, a cross-platform webview-based app just like WebWindow. The key differentiator being that they are actually committed to continuous development as they’re trying to get established as an open source company.

https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri
> Why is everyone a bank?

Banks usually make a shitload of money, I guess.
Silicon Valley’s Biggest Foe Is Getting Even Tougher
Let's put it this way: it's difficult for me to find the time to even listen to an excellently narrated audiobook. I'm not going to listen to something narrated by a machine without intonation if I can avoid it. But I had to suffer through one book (Disciplined Entrepreneurship, if you must know) where narration was so bad I wanted to drive my car into a tree more than once. Those guys will be replaced with a machine. The rest have nothing to worry about. The people described in the article are clearly far above anything machines will be able to do in the foreseeable future. Their professional work is closer to that of a theater actor than it is to reading the book.
Show HN: Simple Task Queue Based on Redis Queue via Restful HTTP API
The initial idea was to have tunnels for cars, however since most cars on roads are ICEs, the cars on rails was brought about as an alternative. In an ideal world with 100% electric vehicles, the complete transportation can be moved underground and the cities can appear as natural as possible.
There are solutions that help you save water by requiring you to flush only when taking a dump (by preventing pee from smelling and hiding it). I don't remember the exact products.
RPA and traditional automation: same s**, different way
Modern workstations are laptops with docking stations, for example ThinkPad P50.

Those bulky desktops of yore are now clustered pizza boxes.
Virtual Reality Can Help BIM
New York State Attorney General Investigating WeWork – Sources
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A .torrent file hosted by the Internet Archive, since DDOSecret is apparently being DDOSed: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://data.ddosecrets.com/fi...
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If you're "switching wireless cards" you're using computers as a toy. Wireless just works, these days. And if it doesn't, whatever Apple decided to put in MacBook is unlikely to be the culprit.

If you consider recompiling kernels and and overclocking your caps lock LEDs to be fun that's fine, but don't delude yourself into thinking it has anything to do with productive work or professionalism.
> “I often have tender, concerned feelings for people less fortunate than me.”

Phrasing like that seems to be a common problem with these sorts of surveys. I'd like to think I'm an emphatic person, reading some of the messages from the people stuck in the siege at that hong kong university definitely gets me all of the feels, but I'd still probably answer no to that question. I certainly feel for them, I can barely imagine what it would be like to be in their position, but they aren't "tender" feelings I don't think. Sympathy makes me feel sorry for them, Empathy makes me angry at china. I'd hardly consider anger to be tender.

Another long rant without a good conclusion. I guess that I feel what's missing from these sorts of questions is a way to qualify your answers. I'd like a "yes, but" and a "no, but" option.
Errr.....no? Human waste in water is a major cause of disease. Sure, a turd or two won't be a problem. And sure, it'll decompose. But all kinds of pathogens remain. There are billions of people, and as the eponymous book says: everyone poops.
I think that it's hard to determine people's desires from voting habits. Voting is kind of a game, wouldn't you say? It's got teams and everything, almost like a spectator sport.

When asked directly, though, progressive policies (or whatever word you want to use here to mean "anti-misery") are very popular!
I guess that's where we disagree. I think the existence of such a license might be -- in some cases -- the one thing that motivates the author to create a project in the first place (its for me, anyway). And I don't think open-source has any obligation to come with 'no cost' for its users.

Reading (and respecting) its license is the least one can do when using somebody elses code. If that takes time, then one just has to factor that in when deciding whether to re-use someone elses code or not.
I use Apple's TTS to read books. It may not sound like a human, but after a few hours of listening to it the strange nature of the voice gets abstracted away by your brain. It's very functional. I knocked out Neal Stephenson's Anathem a week ago in about two days using TTS to read probably 75% of it.

What it doesn't do is the acting. In an audiobook, the voice actor will change their voice in various ways for dramatic effect, and in that respect the book becomes something like a radio drama. With TTS you're getting "just the book". I think that's the major difference and the refuge in which voice actors might hope for continued employment.
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AFAIK the current available Icelake CPUs are low power (9-15 Watt) and have only 4 cores. For the MacBook Pro Intel has to release something beefier.
Who said anything about new and risky? Credit cards are privacy nightmares and they're well established.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say the android alternative to apple pay has all the privacy costs of just using credit cards.
What's you are not talking about in your equation is BROADCAST.

Everyone is a click away from broadcasting to the planet whatever is flitting through their head.

And everyone is encouraged to broadcast thanks to Zuckerberg & Co inventing the likes/clicks/views engagement feedback loop.

In the past, if one was ignorant (lacked knowledge or access to knowledge), stupid (lacked the capacity to understand knowledge even with access to it), misguided (had access to the knowledge with errors) the cost and energy required to broadcast was much higher. And there were only finite number of people and groups who could pull it off. That put an upper limit on how much energy society had to expend in dealing with issues thanks to broadcast of free speech.

Countering the issues takes energy. And that is finite.

It's not complicated to understand the change.
Take the best, most compassionate, patient, empathetic teacher you have and put him in a classroom with 10 misbehaving kids (all incentivized to misbehave) You will still see good teachers having a positive effect on all of them. Make it 30 misbehaving kids and things get trickier. Make it 500 and you will have the building burning down. Some magic process will have to generate more teachers to counteract the increase.

Social media and the news media have given us scale to Broadcast and rigged the game to prop up whoever/whatever gets engagement, without giving us a proportionate increase to respond to all the issues that also scale up.

We haven't invented empathy at scale yet. And it doesn't make sense to try while social media/news media rewards all kinds of bullshit. Likes/clicks/views counts need to be hidden otherwise the misbehaving kid gets mixed signals even if you apply empathy.
Thomas Guenoux, a CEO Helping to See the Funny Side of Life as a Developer
The vast majority of users never even see the command line - why should they be dealing with the limitations imposed by it?
NYT op-ed claiming scientists underestimated climate change lacks evidence
The CSS saga (1999)
> They can terminate your account suddenly for opaque reasons.

This happens more often with "bank" startups than with old, boring, regular ones.
Here's why I think animated films are done like that.

The best/only way to get most of that computer-generated imagery is by huge amounts of manual labour: designing, animating, simulating, sometimes motion-capturing. It's painstaking detail work involving many people.

The best way to get the voices is with a small amount of manual labour: voice acting.

If you put as much manual effort as the imagery into controlling the nuances of a TTS engine, you might get acceptable results, but it's far easier and cheaper to use voice actors. In fact, the easiest way to tell a TTS engine exactly what you want would probably be to voice act and have it mimic you. This might be worth trying to do if remapping vocal anatomy (e.g. woman voicing man or vice versa, or monster, etc.), but for most purposes it's easier to hire appropriate voice actors and/or manipulate the vocal recording audio than to use it to drive a resynthesis by simulation.
Apple statement wouldn't make sense otherwise. The point of failure is the scissor mechanism and I never heard of a key cap breaking.
In the grand scheme of things, Warren Buffet does not spend any money on taxable products. He invests money, but investments cannot be taxed in a VAT scheme, for obvious reasons.
I've begun gradually giving my ~30-year-old childhood Legos to my son, and am impressed with how well they've held up. I haven't noticed any yellowing or fading.

I wonder if the new plant-based plastics will have the same longevity.
This may be a little broad of a question, but:
Why is this being commercialized at all?
The linked article makes a lot of noise about benefits for the developing world but making the coating tool dependent on the profit motive will naturally target those with existing money - the developed world.
I'm just having a hard time squaring this particular circle.
A 3D hologram doesn't get you 3D medical records magically.

And if you have them, I reckon a screen with a mouse is all you need to view them to technically know how to proceed.

Usual marketing scam, make the public think creating a 3D hologram device will somehow get them 3D things.
Each version presented by the VCS contains a copy of the GPL.

The GPL for Version 1 (example) would be presented if you checked it out and if you check out Version 2 it's now an Apache 2 license. The license in each case applies to the files in the VCS, a the GPL contains no special case for access to previous or future versions of the same file under it's license under the GPL license, neither does the Apache license and I doubt such a clause would hold water.
Servant. It takes a while to pick it up but it's well worth the effort. You end up with an automatically documented type safe API and you can even generate client functions for other languages using Swagger based on the spec. It has excellent documentation too, the only hard part really is figuring out the handler pattern.

As for the SQL story, that's more fragmented. I'm still trying to figure out the best next step myself. I started off with Persistent & Esqueleto but now looking at BEAM, Selda and Squeal for more control over the queries.

If you use Persistent as the persistence layer, check out Matt Parsons' blog for a nice intro:
https://www.parsonsmatt.org/2016/07/08/servant-persistent_up...

I'm actually coming from Elixir myself. I have to admit Haskell feels funny at times but admittedly a lot more robust.
Protecting their speech probably preserves it. Giving in to their demands probably not.
fair enough, thank you :)
\any Racket version released under the GPL.

If you updated your Racket to the new version it would be under the new license.
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Okay, looked at the graph: Copied it to my system clipboard, read it into an old copy of Microsoft Photodraw, magnified it by 400% and THEN could read the axis annotation!!!

The horizontal axis is time and goes from 1965 to 2017. The vertical axis is "global" natural gas volume demand in units of a billion cubic feet per day (at standard temperature and pressure, likely, hopefully).

In 1965 the volume was about 60.
In 2017 the volume was about 370. Between these two points, the graph went "up and to the right"! So, since 1965, the volume is up by a factor of about 6. Not wildly surprising.

I grew up in west Tennessee, and the winter heat was from natural gas. Recently I returned to Tennessee, east Tennessee, and again the winter heat is from natural gas. Cozy!!! Between the two, I was long in NY with winter heat from fuel oil: Messy, had to have the furnace cleaned, and the oil was from a delivery truck -- botheration.

Tennessee seems to do well on energy: There's the natural gas -- I have no idea where it comes from. There's TVA with hydropower from the Tennessee River. When demand for electric power grew, IIRC they used nuclear fission and coal. Maybe now they are using natural gas. Of course, in east Tennessee is Oak Ridge with a long history in energy generation and now supercomputers. I like Tennessee!
It's hard to tell the home page is more than the gray field; and then "get started" skips to the end, where I'm encouraged to click on the codepen link and get a completely obtuse page. I recommend fixing that first view so there's more to see right when the page opens.
Absolutely. I'm thinking of maybe charging for (optional) paid features: like arbitrage services (a 'judge' if things go wrong) or engaging in more complex contracts (like income share agreements, or company shares against deliverable)
In a democracy, we're not the ones who are making the decisions. The decisions are, by and large, out of our control. We decide who makes the decision, but the same decisions tend to get made on the majority of issues.

So is the problem that our decider selection process is flawed and puts up deciders who don't think deeply, or is it (more likely) that whoever you put into that position is likely to come up with the same answers, because they tend to answer important questions, and then to provide a different justification because it sells better?
Not available online, but my local O'Reilly store has 3 left in stock.
iFixit are not even pretending to be a neutral party here. They have a clear agenda and a clear viewpoint and that is very much the point. And there is nothing wrong with that.

While I agree with them in broad strokes I also disagree on some points but that’s not the end of the world. We just disagree and that’s alright.