skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been on the board of three community tech orgs (user group, hacker space and coop).

Each was pathologically mismanaged to the point of embezzlement (literally) using consensus rules. I managed to force Roberts rules to be adopted in two of them.

The end result was that the user group that didn't adopt them stagnated and no new members have stayed for longer than three months in the last 5 years. The other two grew to the point where they were self sustaining. The coop managed to negotiate a 50 year lease on a property from the city council at $1 a year, the hacker space ended up expelling the whole board for mismanagement and reduced the monthly fees to a quarter of what they were because we were drowning in cash.

Consensus is a way to run therapy groups, if you want to get anything done peoples feelings only get in the way.
The media considers the stock market as "the economy". They would be in tears if the stock market had lost 50% of its value, but since the Fed is buying everything, there is this crazy idea that everything is fine.
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Nevermind privacy. How are favicons so complicated that they need a special service that understands edge cases. Just do it one standard way and if a minority of websites don't work, then exclude them. We've been through this mess before with all kinds of web standards devolving into mess.
Nice site! Just from a UX perspective, I’d advise against a modal dialog within a second of landing on the page. Consider a dismissible header for the introduction instead.
Wouldn't the counterargument be "but only the government would have access, and we can trust the government"?
> #1 requires fitting another AOA sensor vane

This is baloney. There are already 2 AOA sensors on the plane, but MCAS originally only read from one of them: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/03/boein...
Robert's Rules of Order is an incredibly large number of rules that no one ever fully reads--I seriously ended up buying some physical copies of the book to bring to meetings to demonstrate to people "you didn't read this (and neither did I), would you like we both go home and read it and come back, or can realize we just stop pretending we are following these rules in the first place?"--that are largely designed for a use case of running a very very large meeting (so large that you would rather do anything than separately ask everyone for their opinion or even their vote on a matter... the "voice vote" mechanisms are thereby designed to try to shortcut real votes).

I thereby will suggest people take a look at Rosenberg's Rules of Order--which its author, Judge Dave Rosenberg, subtitles "Simple Rules of Parliamentary Procedure for the 21st Century"--which is what many smaller governments in California have been standardizing on using (and so if nothing else, maybe you now need to know both, as these are actively being used ;P).

https://www.cacities.org/Resources/Open-Government/Rosenberg...
Anyone have thoughts on nim vs rust for data centric (Scala like) applications
As an employee of a state department of health, I can honestly say we were blindsided and had no plan. At most, our plan was "Do what the CDC says." Even if the CDC had been on top of things, much more could've been done and planned.
> But the next thing that happens is that it becomes more cost effective to automate, so you start considering that.

Economically that is always the desired direction, but not because people cost too much. Changes to automation are incredibly expensive to build. The benefits to increased automation are increased output volume and improved quality control.

Any cost reductions that arise are almost always completely unintended. To the contrary increased automation actually raises costs directly proportional to changes in market pressure from the increased output volume and any supply chain changes that increase access to the product. You have to consider things like marketing, regulation, distribution, and so forth that do not benefit from the same automation efforts.
Ask HN: Tired of Leetcode style interviews. What to do?
I am EM at a FAANG like company. I have experienced that for EM roles all companies I have talked with expect LeetCode or HackerRank like crazy interviews. Frankly there is just too much to prepare on top of 10-12 hour workdays.

I do fine with system design and architecture rounds. I have not coded in last 4 year and my previous experience is heavily skewed towards data engineering and management. I am realizing that online interviews are more brutal than whiteboard interviews. You always have someone watching at you and noting down every single character or backspace!

Are there any companies hiring without leetcode? I came across a github repo but there are not many interesting companies.

Any suggestions?
The Fed made it very clear that they will put as much money as needed to prop the stock market. They are even buying ETFs, which is one step short from buying stocks directly in the open market. That's why people holding stock feels confident while the economy is burning.
Maybe do what Singapore does.

I'm sure there are other good models too.
While I agree that more both north-south and east-west transit lines are needed, the geography of the area makes subways prohibitively expensive. The soils in the area are expandable soils, and run deep. Any subway tunnels would have to be dug much deeper than is typical, down to a depth of year-round consistent humidity and temperature, so not to be destroyed by seasonal soil shifts.

An elevated line would be more feasible (and is indeed in place for some portions of the existing rail lines), but again, you still have to sink your supporting piles deep due to the soil, and that raises the costs. This is why the existing rail transit in the metro area largely follows rail corridors that existed beforehand.

Finally, botched project management has eroded public will to support more rail lines.

I want more transit rail too, but getting it is going to be an uphill battle.
> This is a subset of the 1st point, but it's extremely difficult to price the market when you're required to give (move-out) notice well in advance of the actual lease date.

In many jurisdictions that term would be void or ineffective (I don't think it's technically illegal to have such a term in California, but the landlord has an affirmative duty to attempt to mitigate damages by trying to rerent the unit and there only claim of damages would be for the actual period and amount of lost rent, so anyplace that has a hot market, especially where they can rent both quickly at an an equal or higher rate to a new tenant, there's little meaningful cost to late notice lease breaking.)

Of course, that doesn’t mean the landlord won't demand more, but you can tell them to pound sand, with relevant citations, if they do, and they’ll almost certainly back off.
When you say "people", do you mean like electronic ankle monitor bracelets, or something else?
Microsoft Access for the web.

Plot twist: The underlying framework, database connection system, and model is sane - so that when you get to the point where the walled garden doesn't let you change what you want you can dive into the underlying system to do significant changes.
This is a bad look for a company that is trying to build its brand on privacy and trust. Even though I don't use the DDG browser I hope they own up to this, rectify it quickly, and learn from it.
Key point here is that you probably fixed your sleep schedule sometime after high school. Coffee dependency is a pretty common hotfix for a poor sleep schedule. Once you take away the poor sleep schedule, coffee becomes less necessary and more a nice to have.

It'd be interesting seeing the long term effects high school sleep schedules have on people. I wouldn't be surprised if poor sleep patterns in adolescence lead to insomnia and other issues later in life. I definitely felt like my high school sleeping patterns were damaging to my mental and physical health.
Wonder how much of the crash is from coffee vs the sugar (the post mentions hazelnut lattes which should be called hazelnut-flavored coffee/sugar drinks).
You're really barking up the wrong tree here.

What this news really means is that how people are using the web is changing. When I was younger, browser games were the only real way to play games without spending money or having my parents buy me a Gameboy (which they never did). I could get on Newgrounds from any PC at school, it was a big part of my life.

These days, every one of Kongregate's users has a smartphone with free games more accessible and convenient than the old browser gaming model.

I run an internet writing forum that has also suffered over the years despite being a relatively massive forum in its hey day. What changed? I think these are just the affects of the smartphone era. And the centralization of social media, in my case.

People just don't go to Kongregate anymore, the hey day is over. And it's not because of Flash/HTML5 -- it's not like users in droves are even thinking about that. Kongregate has to somehow compete with kids playing Fortnite on their iPhone before class for free. Times are changing.
I can send you a DropBox link, but I won't publish it here. Send me an email (See my HN profile).

It's pretty damn complete. It's actually a multi-hour class.
When I supported them I referred to it as “done f’d” instead, since it was typically used to recover from something gone wrong.
Unless this bill's critics are mistaken, if your friends are using "file encryption", i.e, encrypting the contents of the communications themselves before sending, then this bill has no effect on that.

IMO, your friends, unless they are nerds, are never going to place much value on encryption when they never actually use it themselves. When some third party tech company is doing the "end-to-end encryption" for them then your friends are really not in control of the situation, let alone having any reason to understand it. It could be a sham and they might not know it.

This bill stands to hurt tech companies but according to its critics (surprise: it's the tech companies) it does not interfere with any individual's use of encryption for communications.

No one wants third parties to have potential access their communications. However there is no law preventing a tech company that provides "encrypted messaging" from decrypting people's communications. There is not even a contract with users. If they do this, their liability is zero. There are only "promises", something like, "We promise we won't do it, unless we receive a valid subpoena" or "We have made it technically impossible to see your messages." (Nevermind metadata.)

Well, what if some other third party, like the people pushing this bill, made the same promises? Would that be "good enough"?

Of course not.

For the record, I am not taking a for/against position here. I am not a tech company nor someone trying to get access to encrypted messaging services provided by tech companies. However if something came along -- not suggesting this is it -- that created the necessary evolutionary pressure to make every person, not just "bad guys", have a basic understanding of how to encrypt a file and send it over an insecure network, without relying on a third party for the encryption, then I would think that would be a good thing.
So you stopped drinking coffee because you didn't want to order a $25 coffee maker off Amazon?
I Went Viral on Hacker News – Here is what happened
Except that being a fairly homogenous place saying "China" has in all practical purposes the same effect as saying Chinese.

That being said, see my other replies on how the OP's assumptions may very likely be wrong, and attributing hackers to China has the same effect as calling the coronavirus "China virus" in that for all intents and purposes it has the effect of associating Chinese people with hackers in the same way that calling the coronavirus is an attempt to deflect blame to a particular group of people.
I love the touch of the car's reverse lights coming on when you're sliding it closer to you!
How do you find out if the alternator is working?

I would like to know if putting my Mazda in Park at a traffic light and revving the engine to 2000 rpm charges the battery. Same question for city driving in "sport" mode (2000 rpm at 30mph). I'm guessing it should work, but I could also just be wasting gas.
No, because such a scheme is not really possible. It’s only a matter of time before the governments secret key gets leaked.
Hard to call that "stalking" when you made it so blatantly out there for people to visit.
Location:
New York City/Los Angeles

Remote:
Yes

Willing to relocate:
Yes

Technologies:
Python (Tensorflow, Numpy, Matplotlib), C++, tiny bit of Neo4J

Resume:
please email for the full thing, but I’ll explain a bit of my experience below.

Email: dleviminzi@gmail.com

I am a student looking for experience. Getting paid would be awesome for me, but more than anything I need to learn. I go to UCLA and study mathematics of computation. I’ve taken all of the normal cs course load. Some of my favorite classes have been Networks(math), and Computational Medical Imaging(CS). For the former I worked on a project analyzing brain atlases (maps) of psychiatric cs healthy patients. For the latter, I examined a variety of super resolution techniques (EDSR, WDSR, RAISR). I compared performance and compute. In the end I wrote a paper that proposed a hybrid of those models that would be most realistic for a hospital setting.

I decided on this major late, so last summer I took courses to catch up. Of course I had expected that would be an okay decision because I could get experience this summer. I was meant to be doing data analysis of small businesses in different neighborhoods for a laboratory on campus. Unfortunately, the data cannot be shared remotely per contract and so I lost that opportunity. I really would like to get some experience and not just for the resume. I’ve loved coding in school and I want to make sure that I love coding in a real setting before I enter the workforce. If there is even the tiniest part of your work that you wish you could offload to some grunt, I’ll do it happily.

On an unrelated note, if anybody has any advice for me given what they’ve read, I’d really appreciate it.
For anyone that tries this, don't naively go cold turkey and expect just a headache.

It generally takes 12 days before your body resets it's relevant receptors for caffeine consumption. E.g if you drink three coffees a day and barely feel a hit, you need to go cold turkey for 12 days. After that the impact of coffee should be more significant. (1) (edit: sources state 2 weeks to 2 months in fact!)

I decided to give it a go a few years ago and fuck me. The come down sucked. The first few days were okish. Slight headache.

But from the 3rd day for about 4-5 days. I had a headache that'd compete with my past migraines. I was nauseated and was throwing up several times a day. These stopped at roughly day 8 or day 9.

I didn't consider myself a heavy coffee drinker either. Perhaps 2-3 coffees a day, these were double shot espresso's.

My colleagues hilariously wrote a medical blog to document my descent into madness. I'll try and dig it up.

(1) - https://www.caffeineinformer.com/caffeine-tolerance
Love this quote from the end,

...as COVID wraps up and things go back to normal...

People really think covid is like any other story in the news cycle and it can just go away as people get bored of it.
I think your view of the world is very naive.
You can't inject political Islam in the French secular-with-deep-Christian-roots culture for the same reason you can't inject San Francisco LGBT culture in Baghdad.

Peoples and nations have histories, cultures, roots. You can't just copy/paste people around and expect everyone to be happy. The world has never worked this way.
>> I realized that coffee was useful in technical, creative work not because it increases wakefulness, but because it increases focus.

You know what else increases focus and also wakefulness, concentration, creativity, productivity, etc, etc? A good night's sleep. Then you wake up early in the morning with your mind razor sharp and you have a good five to six hours of uninterrupted work at the top of your game. Then lunch, a little 15 minute nap and off you go, for another five or six hours. That's how you get through 12-hour working days without dosing yourself with anything that ultimately destroys your ability to think straight, even as it makes you think you're awake (when you're actually half asleep).
Do they release the source of the webservice? Seemingly not. This is extremely shady.
It looks like `mkdir -p ~/.julia/servers && echo 'telemetry = false' > ~/.julia/servers/telemetry.toml` will do it unless you have messed with `JULIA_HOME`. Still, the documentation [1] makes it clear that there is no way that I would call “easy”.

[1]: https://julialang.org/legal/data/#opting_out

As someone that has been a Julia user for more than half a decade and a part of the community I feel very uneasy about now having to opt out of this feature each time I install anything above v1.4. Not to mention that I feel that I morally would have to notify other users when I recommend Julia to them. Performing privacy workarounds for FOSS is a rarity and I would be sad if we shift towards it becoming the norm, despite seeing that it can have upsides to the community itself.
Sugar definitely induces crashes, but caffeine by itself does as well. My flirtations with coffee/sugar monstrosities were temporary; I mostly drank espresso-based drinks without sugar or sweeteners.
I sent this to several of my friends who are professional photographers and all they could say was ‘shhhh don’t give away our secrets.’

It’s all about the light. Really beautiful demonstrations.
For a couple years, I had strange heart palpitations. It became increasingly frequent and bad to the point that it'd feel like my heart stopped for 10 seconds, or it was trying to burst out of my chest for a minute, or the arteries in my neck throbbed so hard it hurt.

I quit drinking coffee, and two weeks later, these issues stopped entirely. I haven't felt them in about 3 years. I was usually only drinking two cups a day (albeit very large and very strong cups), but it seems to have been enough to really wear out my body.

On the other hand, since giving up coffee, I've basically lost my ability to focus on difficult things. Coffee never really helped me stay awake, but damn did it help me work. Sometimes I'll have a cup, but then I think that I kind of feel something in my chest and decide to quit drinking for a few more months.
I sure would love for my ability buy goods to be blocked by some badly coded ML algorithm with my only recourse being to yell about it on social media. Yeah, I'll take Amazon any day of the week.
Are you really complaining about 15% of their front page featuring their opinion section?

Your 1921 NYT example has "Broker is Slain at Bride's Door By Her Gardener", which the Times would never feature prominently today, because it's basically yellow press.

It also features some French pilot's unverified claims about a new record – something that would see HN storm the barricades today.

There's a story there, right at the top, about a group of visitors of the Capitol being disappointed. I'm not entirely sure if it's trying to make fun of the congresswoman it mentions. But it does sound a lot more like today's opinion pieces than a straight news story.
So the author was so opposed to preparing coffee at home (or anything in his kitchen, like he admitted) that he managed to kick a lifelong addiction?
This compounded by his claimed of being an addict rather than an afficianado (so he could prettiest much consume home made instant or drip coffee) makes me question the severity of his claimed addiction.

To be clear, I congratulate the authors for kicking the addiction, but the story seems a bit ludicrous.
The Federal Reserve’s unprecedented market distortions have created an asset bubble. Look at NKLA. Tesla is the gambler’s favorite stock.
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Off topic but relevant:

There are times reading the news can be one hit after another to your mental health. Do please be sensible about reading all this stuff. Read when feeling mentally robust, possibly in the morning. Don't be afraid to just take a break from news for a period of days or longer.

There's a lot happening, ensure looking after yourself is one of those things.

edit: I found those pictures of all those dead elephants unexpectedly upsetting. Unlike all the upsetting news that one is expecting to be so and is around now.
> As someone who now has a cushy tech job but grew up struggling, it’s infuriating to read a post as out of touch as yours.

Makes your blood boil. Seriously - someone posited "hey - in most of the US a bike is not a viable commuting vehicle..." to which op just replies (paraphrasing) "yes it is! I jerry-rigged a plastic basket on mine to carry things!"

Incredibly out-of-touch and from directly from a place of privilege. This is a person who may have had to ride their bike/budget carefully for a year or two to get on their feet, not someone who's actually experienced poverty.
Like most things job-related, this is different in each state. More progressive states try to be flexible, but don't count on this happening everywhere.
Good for you! Several years back my team at work used to joke about my caffeine intake... it was just a compulsion that when my cup was empty I'd get more coffee. I found that the beneficial effects plateaued around cup four every day, and beyond that it was pure habit (I'd get the crashes later in the day but more caffeine wouldn't help much).

I was down to about 2 cups a day at work, but now that I'm home all the time, I'm back up to four. It's just... comforting to have in my hand.
Perhaps a good percentage of millennials moved back in with parents? Perhaps because lots of people are buying instead of continuing to rent because interest rates are so low? Massive amounts of people dying seems like quite the claim indeed.
A few days back one of my posts got a lot of traction on HN. I'm happy to answer any questions you may have pertaining to what happened, why I think it went viral etc.
LOL, I created my account 11 years ago. I have a job I really like now.