skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, sorry, you don’t get to just fire that serious accusation towards everyone here.

I’ve made another comment here about what I think is behind her post. But if you want my general common sense opinion on why the post didn’t resonate with most people is because it falls under the old adage of ‘know your audience’.

People are getting laid off, there’s entire groups trying to break into the industry, there’s entire groups in inconsequential positions that are easily commoditized, and so on.

Yet here is someone being critical of what appears to be a 3-day on boarding, many of us would be lucky to have that job, and even luckier to be able to bounce from it on a whim.

Goto a third world country and complain about how Costco has long annoying lines in America.

Anyway, that’s the underlying sentiment behind the post that I think most people are reacting to.

Know your audience, or even better, get your timing right. Don’t bring this up when there’s 39 million unemployed.
A deterministic random() is good for reproducing tests. What you want is a way to use it to generate a pseudorandom output based on "more random" input, such as /dev/urandom.
During my first trip through $100 precheck (via global entry) I was directed through millimeter wave machine. I opted out. Precheck was not prepared for opt out. In the end, it took longer to get through pre-check than the normal+optout.
Casio: The innovator that time forgot
And now we have come full-circle to discover that Bootstrap was right all along.
I am an avid coffee drinker and a former cigarette smoker. While I won't deny that caffeine is addictive, the addictive power is so mild that it's mostly irrelevant. I skip having coffee on some days accidentally. The idea of accidentally going a day without smoking a cigarette is unfathomable. The times I've gone without coffee for a few days or weeks I have felt a little bit sluggish. The times I have gone days or weeks without smoking were nightmarish ordeals that consumed my every waking thought. Point being, I would be very careful to assume things about 'addiction' when it's a phenomenon comes in so many shapes and sizes.
My teeth doctor told me it's bad for my teeth, so I now use a straw to pumpjack my demon nectar

glorious feast
Of course, everyone started drawing penises, swastikas, and “Trump”...
It should be mentioned that if you find yourself in this situation and there are no other options, the best way out is to actually dive immediately close to the dam with the submerging water while you still have strength and air. You are aiming to be carried by the water at the bottom that is not circulating.

Trying to float serves no purpose and may actually bring more people in danger who will feel they need to help you.

If you try to float you will be constantly rejoining the part of the system that is recirculating. The only way to leave the system is with the water at the bottom.

There is no guarantee of safety, though. You can get banged up pretty badly at the bottom, hitting rocks, etc. Loose consciousness and drown. The best way is to recognize the danger and never let yourself find in this situation.
Yeah this is written from a pretty narrow perspective

Relevant questions: what bookclubs was the author familiar with? and what books were they reading?

The bookclubs I'm familiar with are all run by and for the sake of their members, and if the goal is either encourage regular reading or just social, they'll checkpoint at the same pace regardless of the book (eg every 2-4 weeks) and decide how much to read depending... on the book?

The idea that most bookclubs wouldn't do this seems very bizarre to me, and I just can't imagine the sampling the author had done prior to this post
Absolutely the worst. Ten years ago I encountered a bug in a wireless networking stack that would crash the whole network of nodes. It was in the worst possible location that was highly dependent on timed sending where every nanosecond mattered. This meant i could only use leds to indicate what was going on, as a print or anything the like would screw the timers enough to break the network. Can’t actually remember what caused it in the end.

It took me 6 weeks to debug and fix. I did nothing but debugging at the most primitive level. Probably could have done it more efficiently, but I was young and inexperienced.

Worst and most boring 6 weeks of my life caused by concurrent debugging.
Ask HN: Mortgage Financing for Independent Contractors?
Does anyone out there know of any lenders that work with 1099-based independent contractors?

I have a situation now where I am being rejected by lenders for a $170,000 mortgage when earning $160,000 per year. Since January I have been working as an independent contractor on 1099. I am being told that due to not having a tax history established as a 1099-based worker that they won't count it as income. I even have W-2s that reflect similar income for the previous three years.

Additionally, I currently have a mortgage with a perfect payment history, and a pending home sale that nets me a bunch of money.

I figured I would throw this out to the Hacker News community as there must be an abundance of ICs out there. Anyone know of lenders that will work with a situation like this? Anyone have a similar story?

Heck, if nothing else, this seems like an opportunity for startups?
Have you seen any convincing scientific evidence that they are effective? I mean... Do they stop terrorism? They may not give you cancer but those machines aren't free.
Not without noticing, but accidentally fat-fingering the “allow” button.

TBH, I just didn’t need root access “on the go” - so, when I’ve decided I wanted to build my own image, I just haven’t found a reason/use case to include it. I had the full flash backups, an adblocker, a patch for clipboard read permission and a few UI customizations. And ability to add more stuff. That was all I needed.

A shame I had no control over bootloader and wasn’t able to truly lock down the device to my own signing keys.
Then I guess you should go tell Glassdoor that your anecdote is better than their statistics.
Why Don’t Americans Trust Experts Anymore? [video]
Canon AE-1: the gear that changed my (photographic) life, again and again
I'm from California.
The Chiral Puzzle of Life
Check your condition- are you getting enough sleep, food, water? Are you consuming it late in the day and reducing your sleep quality? What about your dose, has it grown?

I experience the worst side effects when I've been fasting too long, or drink it late in the day.
> legally the president and anyone acting under his command are immune from prosecution if they acted according to legal guidance from the white house council

“Counsel”, and, no, they aren't (there'd be a stronger, but not ironclad because of the reasonableness proviso, case if they were acting under guidance from the Justice Department, and given the Constitutional structure of the government, from the President himself, compared to White House Counsel, due to the general principal that the only case where ignorance of the law is an excuse under criminal law is when the mistake of law results from reasonable reliance on guidance from officials responsible for enforcing the law.)
Simple WiFi Profits/Turn Spare Time into Income Time
Presumably the metals are absorbed by the grounds.
(Since no one else has answered...)

It's more fun to set on fire? (https://chem.rutgers.edu/cldf-demos/1016-cldf-demo-burning-m...)
Thinking out loud, wouldn't getting someone fired/let go actually be good for TripleByte's customers i.e. recruiters? It would be analogous to flushing birds into the air so their customers would have more targets.
You could start or join a remote bookclub / study group

Especially given current circumstances, this would possibly help you meet the analysis goal
Perhaps the diuretic effect of caffeine contributes to the flushing out of all things, some heavy metals included?
A party is the literal opposite of a bookclub. I just want to go to a cafe after work and talk to other nerds about a book we all read for an hour. If the discussion veers off topic then so be it. I don’t get this obsession to police book clubs for efficiency.
Since you just leaned all the way in, while repeatedly proving you either will not, or cannot read the posted article at all. Will you let us know what bank you support so at least I can make sure I never use that bank?

Thanks,
Those of us who care about our banking and investing data.
"How nice!" is a positive exclamation with minimal wording change from "that's nice".

You can also be explicit about who's being nice. "That's nice of you."

This really depends on what you want to mean by "nice".
This is a great idea, shoot me an email.
A Couchsurfing Alternative
That deals with immunity to civil liability, not immunity to criminal prosecution. There's no necessary relationship between them.
It is true that only recently PG has a standard way of replicating. But even then, PG is not a distributed database by default.

However, if I may suggest, Stolon, Patroni, Postgres XL or Citus Data might be interesting to you.
You're not grasping the biology. Damage repair mechanisms have a capacity limit that itself varies with exposure. In particular it's been shown that acute dosage timing of multiple exposures is different than continuous exposure with the same integrated dose.
I have seen a few at airports outside the US after we switched to millimeter wave. So yes, they are used in other countries. (And unlike the US, opting out sometimes isn’t an option.)
The beans, I'd imagine.
Superconductivity and Quantum Computing: Using Pressure to Make Liquid Magnetism
Python Open-Source Snippets Newsletter
"It fell on the floor and and they picked it back up and kept wiping down the cart with it."

Why do you think this a problem? If it is a disinfectant wipe it doesn't matter it just made the floor a little cleaner.
Suggest checking out Dynadot - they always run some promos and I typically get .com for 99 cents first year. Then they are $8.99 including proxy/privacy.

I had many of issues over the years that were flawlessly solved with Dynadot chat support. Issues I was unable to fix with NameCheap (who has all customer support team in Eastern-block of Europe, so "made in America" does not apply), and also GoDaddy gave me issues. Besides I had a small back-and-forth battle here on HN with Namecheap CEO (I won), but needless to say it showed how unprofessional and childish the CEO of such popular company can be.

Also Namesilo is gaining some traction. Reliable, worth trying, but no chat help.
GoboLinux 017 Released
The alternative Linux distribution is back with a new major release. The project, which is known for using a completely different filesystem hierarchy, comes with its own desktop extensions and even a fancy procedurally-generated wallpaper.
All the Things You're Doing Wrong
We're doing soooo many things the wrong way.
I set up a Bugzilla instance and immediately received complaints that it “wasn’t working” due to the humorous one-liner: “zaro boogs found”.

It seems that the general public, and possibly some technical people as well, have very little sense of humour regarding unexpected jokes coming from software.
1. When a team cares deeply about the product as opposed to just the tech, everyone’s goals tend to be more aligned and people tease things less personally because they realize the other person is saying or doing something to make the product better. As opposed to picking favorites or picking tech they want for their resume / career growth.

2. When a team cares deeply about each other there is less distrust and misinterpretation of statements. When people have things the care about outside of work they are less likely to get over emotional about a decision.

3. When there is a high level of skill all around, people are less likely to feel nervous about looking bad or covering up a deficiency.

All of this results in greater trust and perspective which correlates quite heavily with psychological safety.
Our Top 45 Aircraft
You know I set you up for that joke, right? :)
The official GitHub app works well. It has syntax highlighting too.
The one thing that interests me in this piece is the bit about cadmium and heavy metals and the references at the bottom don't seem to list a study pertinent to this.

I've used "search page" and I've skimmed through all the titles, but I have crap eyesight. So maybe I'm missing the reference.

But I would love to see good research relating caffeine or coffee consumption to somehow helping with heavy metal issues.
Thanks for this info. In my case, it was a renowned journal though.
A few years ago I was using Beanstream and paying $0.25 per transaction, no percentage points.
Is running your own delivery system actually cheaper?

I can see it being the case if you already have scale, but assuming deliveroo collects 1 billion in fees from 100 thousand restaurants, for an average restaurant, it's 10 thousand per year, that is not a lot of money for setting up a delivery system.

Provided, delivery being expensive is probably the reason most restaurants didn't offer that option before. And those who started off as delivery-first probably optimized their business to have the delivery cost in mind, like picking a cheaper location to save on rent (one of my favorite pizza place is in a shady back alley), reduce menu size to optimize kitchen efficiency, increase price to ensure profitability, etc.

For a dine-in focused restaurant to offer delivery option profitably, their incremental revenue needs to be greater than the incremental costs. If a restaurant is not operating at capacity, their incremental cost of more orders is low; if a restaurant needs to expand capacity to fulfill new online orders, then the math becomes more muddy, is it just hiring more kitchen staff? does it require more equipment? does it require more kitchen space or even a completely separate kitchen?
>> What groups, experiences, or attributes does it select for?

Thats the thing -- it becomes a way for admins to select whomever they want, using their own secret/opaque criteria which may well be biased, unfair, unjust.

In New York City, where I grew up, there has been a huge backlash against entrance examinations for high school. The official stance is they are discriminatory because people could prep for the exams, but a quick survey of the schools reveal "too many" poor Asians were getting in. People who could really afford prep schools were going to private schools and boarding schools. Poorer, but intensely driven students wanting to succeed, were prepping for years for the public school exams and "overrun" the schools.

The city chose only three high schools to focus for desegregation (interestingly, the three which most Asians). Original talks were to move to a "leadership based application system" -- as if people really have opportunities to demonstrate "leadership" at age 13 or 14. Leadership here is a euphemism for "being connected" or "wealthy."

To be fully frank, I admit the tests are not fair. A truly fair system would have as many good schools as students wanting to attend them. But we dont have that -- so instead we all compete for a handful of spots that poor students can afford while the truly wealthy buy their way into wherever they want. It isnt a perfect system. The test may not be perfect -- but perhaps then we should try to improve the test, or understand why some students can/cannot do well on the tests -- rather than creating a secret system where a few people get to decide which poor students get good schooling and who gets to remain stuck in the economic prison for another generation.

Disclosure: I studied for years for these exams, went to an application based NYC high school, and went from below poverty line to well into top 1% income in the span of 8yrs. The schools matter, enormously.
Critical thinking is hard work and time consuming. Majority of people won’t bother with this. Social media/media exists to exploit this unsolvable problem.
On the stretchers, of course. Not all french cleats are 10". Some of mine are 1/2" and I use two sets. Once hung, the art never gets crooked.
Have you used C#'s or Akka's or Go's?

I find 2 of those to be easier to reason about and all to be superior.
idk if it was intended, but this is a gorgeous pun – AWS uses a self-rolled deployment engine called Apollo.
Why computer science students cheat (2010)
Layers upon layers of combining diacritics.
Having stayed at that hotel last year, those elevators seriously need an upgrade.
I agree about the golfing. COVID is here to stay for quite a while. Of course we should all try to keep our sanity by relaxing - we're going to be in this for a long time. If golf helps Trump, relax, recharge and start fucking listening to the scientists he should by all means do it. It probably won't though.
This is not the first time I have seen this but it is actually quite commonly used / mistake. I wonder if 20 years from now the word premise would have a different meaning.
Aye, but I've found those generally tend to have worse engagement over time than in-person ones. Much worse, which is the problem. Though maybe I am being too pessimistic about it; might look around and see what there is to be had. I'd love one with a more academic bent.
I guess that is the default experience with no tweaks? Any success with TLP?
>a dice roll every time whether it is gonna create more sleep than focus

This is highly individual. There are people who can go to sleep after drinking a cup of coffee, who feel sleepy after drinking small amount (how small actually varies) and then people like me that can go on for 5 more hours no matter how tired, even after being awake for more than 24 hr - there is no dice roll, works 100 %.
C++ allows expressing that more concisely though :p https://twitter.com/Cor3ntin/status/1264600096869691392
I think that's simultaneously the most depressing and hilarious thing I have read on HN.
Most languages would be a stretch, there are over 7000 languages in the world.
I'm working on this with https://intrgr.com

In the current form, blog posts are recommended to others based on their reading interests.

I can add the rss feeds of any blogs you like to the global pool of articles. Just place them in a reply.
May never operate strictly in person again, was the original title. I guess I'll give the benefit of the doubt that it was an honest mistake, but it's a mistake that vastly changes the meaning of the headline.
The fact that we are not as much in control as we think can be both liberating and frustrating.

When I asked my boss (who is co-founder of the company, so has all the historic context) how the company culture got to be in the good place it is, his immediate, and most confident, answer was "luck."
I expected a downloadable font file reproducing it. Want to show my dancer daughter.
I know John Green and Rosianna Halse Rojas run https://www.lifeslibrarybookclub.com/

It's more of a broadcast style bookclub (although iiuc, you can contribute to discussion via discord), but it could meet your needs
In Europe that's actually illegal. A middle man should represent the buyer or the seller but can not represent both and charge a commission to both. Interesting. This could easily be a point where they can be hurt.
Beyond the scope of opt-outs. This is more a political question masquerading as a scientific inquiry.
>> What I'd like to see, is if you enforce this in a dysfunctional team, would that team still be dysfunctional?

Yes. All these articles start with an average or better workforce in terms of talent and innate productivity/passion. If you have 80% crap for whatever reason, the only way out is replacing them. Or leaving.
Perhaps you could develop an open-source self-hosted tool for neighbours, communities and groups to connect, share info and support each other during quarantine.

I posted this a while ago and it never received attention: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22604275
Poll: Most say they won't go to gym, restaurants despite reopening
I think in particular with coffee there is if anything the opposite cultural bias. Being German, there's a popular Canon (loosely translated)

"don't drink coffee, coffee!
The Turkish potion is not for kids,
weakens the nerves, makes you pale and sick.
Don't be a muselman (muslim, archaic),
who can't do without it"

My almost 90 year old grandmother still talks like this about coffee and many people forget nowadays how bad of a reputation coffee had in the West until it got really popular, and despite not having many obvious bad health effects, and maybe even having positive ones.
The new middle men: same as the old. Any kind of commission based service will always use its position as a wedge to either gain marketshare or increase its profits by hammering on that wedge as much as they can. As long as it moves, keep on hammering. I've yet to find an ethical one. Here in NL 'Thuisbezorgd' pulled the exact same stunts. I hate them with a passion and always search to find out if the restaurant I'm ordering from has a direct process as well, they are usually super happy about that.
Perfect, thank you very much.
Bank of America didn't work for the better part of last year. Chase Rewards are currently broken since last week. Its easy to drop small sites that don't test but my experience has been they actually bother testing and it's the major sites that actually have problems.
You forgot the USA's top major export...the dollar.
Stefan Schaeckeler wrote an excellent review of the PbP[0].
The following excerpt might be interesting to some.

The Pinebook Pro is an open laptop but also a black box at the same time. It is not possible to debug early boot problems without a serial console cable.

The cable costs $6.99 currently and is a separate product[1].

Personally, the only reason stopping me from getting this laptop is the import tax. A quick search on the Pine64 forum revealed it to be around $100 for my country. Adding all the expenses, $350 for this machine is much more than what I can spend.

[0] http://students.engr.scu.edu/~sschaeck/misc/pinebookpro.html

[1] https://store.pine64.org/?product=pinebook-serial-console
maybe another alt?
yes, goroutines are fast and easy... but this thread is about python. I love both languages, and go is fast and safe, but, I also like python (it's fast developing... )
I personally remembered it, and looked at a bookmark I had to verify.
Does this work on Redshift? I know it says PostGres but has anyone tried it on Redshift?
It's a mix of things. The biggest is that they're just enormous, so nearly every engagement is pretty much from scratch. As in: single departments of single divisions could dwarf us in headcount and revenue. It can be dispiriting for Labs consultants and I know people who quit because of it.

A lot of the time you hit what I call "veto culture". You are forever running into groups, committees, boards, bureaus, offices of the whatever etc etc who have the power to gate some change. Those folks almost always say "no". The logic is simple: if they say "yes", and something goes wrong, and they are blamed for it, then they might lose their job or at least risk a bonus or promotion. But if they say "no", there's no risk to them.

In practice it drives everything productive underground. We often relied on discovering the nomenklatura who actually did things as we went. The parallels to the USSR's experiences (as I understand them) were fascinating.

It's important to note that I don't see any of this as being a deliberate outcome. In general folks don't wake up and ask "how can I make my company less productive and pleasant today?". People do what makes sense to them, based on their experiences. But I have seen how culture can drift into a bad place that's hard to dig out. Big banks seem to have even more of this than regular megacorps.

I know some folks who worked in the Federal sector had some similar experiences, but overall it seems like a lot of the time it seemed more manageable due to different incentives. In fact a lot of the compliance / standards folks were often thrilled that someone wanted to talk to them.
Notification Duty – Memorial Day from Another Direction Revisited