skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spent 11 years working as a contractor for the U.S. State Department. During this time I:

- In 1996 built and deployed a system to keep track of the removal of landmines in Bosnia. In 2015 I met someone who knew my work as a child in Sarajevo, producing the maps they’d give out to schoolchildren.

- I managed a project with over 30 team members to build a system to help former Soviet Union countries manage their import/export control policies.

- I helped create a system for generating some annual reports for Poland that was a requirememnt for them to join NATO.
Elon and Zuck aren't comparable - other than earning billions from scalable enterprise.
Other reports say to bring 10 screenshots of impactful code so he can learn about the systems.... this is caricature.
Despite being in the industry a long time, I think most of what I worked on had little to no impact.

In terms of impacting other people, probably the biggest thing was blog posts and sample code. It’s funny how sample code has less “cred” than “real” code, but if you’ve ever been trying to start a new project in a new language or framework you know how invaluable sample code can be.

In terms of impact in general, what I’m working on now has been the most impactful , because it’s improved my health. Im trying to innovate on the concept of a habit tracker. Since I started working on it, I’ve lost 10 pounds, quit drinking, went from about a gram of marijuana use a day to about a gram a month, quit addictive video games, went surfing much more consistently, and been able to put in many more hours of focused work than I ever have before despite working alone and only being accountable to myself.

Generally when Ive gotten feedback about the project, I’ve gotten told it’s too complex, people want simplicity, I should focus on B2B, and I shouldn’t write any code at all unless I’ve validated a problem. I try to communicate to people that I don’t want to sacrifice my own health progress to simplify things. But I am hoping long term I can figure out how to build a bridge between what’s effective for myself and what’s appealing and understandable to everyone else. Lots of work to be done! But I think improving my own life a lot more impact than most of the stuff my employers had me doing :)
If Carvana isn't moving cars fast enough and is trying to liquidate inventory, just who is going to buy them?
>200k USD salaries instead of 2e5 USD?

You mean 2 lakh USD?

:D
How do you suggest others find people like you to work with?
>Anecdotally, when I was in the hospital (much more minor, at a much younger age), they kept waking me up at 3am to draw blood and clean and do god knows what, and the light outside my room was constantly on. It felt... at best annoying, at worst, downright jarring and disruptive. It certainly feels like the sleep and rest parts of recovery and care need to be revisited.

After ACL reconstruction surgery many (~30) years ago, I was required to stay overnight due to both the general anaesthesia and the lateness (late afternoon) of the procedure.

I had a similar experience with the nurse coming in every two (2) hours to take my vitals. I was trying to sleep, but she kept waking me up. I groused about wanting to rest, but was informed (direct quote) "this isn't a hotel!"

And it's not. Rather it's a money printing facility for the owners of the health care system that runs the hospital.
> My point is, what's not sociopolitically allowed is discussing how personal choice as well as normalized systematic issues (e.g., urban food deserts) are killing us, slowly. It's unfashionable to suggest someone's weight is (ultimately) unhealthy.

The recent push to try to re-frame obesity as healthy, fashionable and sexy seems particularly bizarre and unexplainable. It's the opposite of what happened with cigarettes, which started out as fashionable and healthy, then slowly became known as unhealthy and finally fell out of cultural fashion.
I don’t know why the haldol reaction didn’t go in his chart, but the whiteboard in the room (which is present in every high level hospital room I’ve been in) is exactly where the TV information and other patient preferences should be, and is the second best place after the chart to put a drug reaction. Cost cutting has nothing to do with “nobody wrote it on the place for writing it”.
I'm retired and I'd be looking for options like Canada's voluntary euthanasia program if I didn't have my adult children. It's surprising to me how meaningless money has become now that I am old and lacking the energy to enjoy it. I'm grateful I still have something to live for.
They should build it then, and be willing to suffer financial penalties if they can’t. Otherwise they’re making empty promises. Watch what someone does, not what they say.
My wife just gave birth and it was my first multi-night hospital stay. The midnight pokes and checks were infuriating. It also doesn’t help that dads aren’t the patient after a birth, so they aren’t fed or given a bed. Constant nurse changes were difficult too.

On the plus side, I was surprised at the decent quality of food given to my wife. Steamed vegetables and mid grade proteins with every meal.

After two nights we made the case to be discharged. Everyone, including nurses and family, thought we were crazy to leave so early. Best decision we made and my wife recovered great. With the built in iOS medication reminder app and a blood pressure monitor I was able to manage her just fine.
It’s badly done - but it is there. Text overlay in the mountain image.
Er-with-va - Snowdon
Eh-ruh-re - Snowdonia
I didn't find that, nor say it, nor imply it, nor did such a possibility ever enter my consciousness until now. I'm mystified that such an interpretation could even arise! Do you want to explain how it occurred to you?
Most things we eat are chosen because they taste good in combination with other things, and better than the sum of the individual ingredients eaten separately. Eating a stick of butter probably isn't appetizing, but neither would your examples of eating pure salt or unprocessed pepper unless you have particularly odd tastes.
Everything you said is spot-on, but, brining things full circle, the lack of “shit giving” could be due to cost cutting. People don’t have an incentive to care. The end result, vis-a-vis their personal situation, is unchanged whether or not they go the extra mile. Part of this is because they exist in a rigid corporate structure hyper-focused on value extraction and not at all focused on the development of human capital.
"If I didn't buy those slaves somebody else would. That's just the way the world works kid."
Taking money for a thing that most people would probably set to the default anyway is pretty much "free money" and I wouldn't fault them for taking it.

Is there any search engine that approaches the quality of Google search results yet, or ideally, improves on them?
Change your rules then, the title of the piece is "White Boy".

What the title of the piece means and its implications is up for discussion.

If you don't like it - don't read it.
>Musk is a free speech absolutist, by his own admission.

I don't think his concept of free speech absolutism matches yours. Given the other things I've heard (something about moderation teams with diverse voices, and this news about deboosting) it seems more likely that you're arguing against a strawman here.

>It's a contrived example, but despite that free speech absolutism allows for it.

Does the free speech absolutism you're arguing against allow for sonic cannons? Doxxing? Lighting burning crosses on people's yards? If so, again, it's pretty far away from any form of free speech I've ever heard a free speech advocate actually... advocate for. I'm asking this seriously; can you point me to anyone honestly arguing for that as a social ideal?

Edit: In fact, this topic roused some curiousity in me, so I went to look up what the actual philosophical roots of "free speech absolutism" were. The first result[0] is rather creepily relevant, discussing Elon Musk's bid on Twitter and his self-admission as a free speech absolutist. Very relevant to your arguments are the following passages:

> Free speech absolutism has its roots in philosophical theories dating back to the 17th century, but it was first discussed as a defined principle by the 20th century free speech advocate and philosopher Alexander Meiklejohn.

> His writing focused on the United States, and much of his thoughts were put forth in the context of American constitutional law. In fact, the very idea of “absolutism” – that there are certain absolute principles in political, philosophical, ethical, or religious matters – is an American idea. In theory, a free speech absolutist would be extremely hesitant (or refuse) to draw a line between free speech and hate speech in most contexts, and in all contexts where the speech could possibly be considered political speech.

> This commitment to self-rule, in Meiklejohn’s view, justified and formed the basis of the constitutional right to unfettered free speech guaranteed by the United States Constitution, and warranted its absolute nature, meaning it should not be weakened or watered down to bend to other social values.

> However, his understanding didn’t extend to private speech about issues not of public concern. So, while your right to publish your views about a social issue is safeguarded, even if others may take offense, Meiklejohn believed that you can’t rely on free speech protection to shout casual abuse at someone on the street. (emphasis added)

So yes, even the original, definitive free speech absolutist disagrees that your example is allowed by the principles of free speech.

[0]: https://www.liberties.eu/en/stories/free-speech-absolutist/4...
Alternatively, floating PV could be a lot cheaper than installing solid mounting hardware to hold panels off the ground and kept from blowing away in wind that gets under them.
widest???
Whats the most exciting medical device technology today? Red light therapy?
Ask HN: Have coding bootcamps killed the for-profit tech college?
Or were they already dying out on their own? I remember Westwood being especially controversial. It's now been closed for years. So has ITT Tech, another big one. Yes, I know bootcamps are also for profit, but maybe their "leanness" has given them some benefits to thrive and become the more attractive and (in most cases) more affordable vocational option?

On the other hand I'm surprised DeVry has held out for as long as it has, and they had opened a new local campus about two years ago.
FTX had $1.8B in funding at least with 40 different investors according to Crunchbase and that wasn't enough to make them legit in the end.
Musk's vision for Twitter has finally been realized: if you want to whistleblow or say not nice things about Tesla, SpaceX, or Musk himself, no one will see it. Nothing bad about him or his companies will trend on Twitter ever again.
Politics and religion aren't very far apart. In some parts of the world they are nearly the same thing. Elsewhere, the belief in deities is the main differentiator, and even there it can get blurry, based on how some supporters seem to worship their leaders almost as gods.
Justin Gilmer gave a constant lower bound for the union-closed sets conjecture
Does anyone outside of Twitter actually know what the criteria was for banning Tweets and Tweeters?
I would also not allow it. I'm saying the problem is that core Go developers say "Go doesn't have exceptions", which is manifestly false, but causes people to not write exception safe code.

But despite you and me, I'm saying there's a lot of broken code out there because of this doesn't-but-actually-does misinformation.

And it's very annoying that you have to tell people to do:

var i int
func() {
mu.Lock()
defer mu.Unlock()
i = foo[bar]
}()

Clean code, that is not. (even if you simplify it by having the lambda return the int)
I want to say popular isn't _necessarily_ better. Your argument is a counterexample if I had said (which I didn't) that more popular were _always_ worse.

In the world of programming (and I guess elsewhere, too), there are simply many more aspects at play when "choosing" the programming language than purely how good the language itself is. Easiest example is Javascript were it's simply widespread because it was the only language available in the browser. I recommend again that you watch the video :-).
Ask HN: What's with the black bar at the top of the page?
There's now a new row in the layout table that's just a black background column containing a 5px high gif. Has that always been there and I just never noticed it?

<tr>
<td bgcolor="#000000">
<img src="s.gif" width="0" height="5">
</td>
</tr>
What do you think makes HN comments worthy of reading after all those years
By that time we should be an interplanetary species and have a bigger time coordination fish to fry.
These threads always have lots of people jumping on doctors and their decisions/callousness/lack-of-reason/etc.etc.etc. My wife is a physician (OBGYN) at a major city hospital that primarily serves a very poor population. I'd like to share her schedule, and see if you think what kind of care you could perform under these circumstances:

Monday - Friday
- Wake up at 4:30 AM
- Get to hospital by 5AM to start rounding on patients
- Sometimes work inpatient all day sometimes clinic thrown in, but usually not done working until 7 PM, without even a 15 min break or a chance to eat a meal (15 hour day)
- Come home and do about an hour of notes
- At least once per week, wake up in the middle of the night to deliver a patient who asked for that kind of continuity of care.

Saturday:
- Wake up around 5am to be in by 6am to start the day
- Work inpatient, usually without time for a 15min break for food, until 10AM SUNDAY (28 hours shift)

Repeat 49 weeks/year (days of 24/hr shift can vary and she usually gets one weekend off/month). Her average time at the hospital last year was 96 hours/week.

How much confidence do you have that you'd be able to take care of a complicated pregnancy at the end of a 28 hour shift, having not eaten for more than 24 hours, having 10 other patients on your mind, and having had only a couple of hours sleep the night before? It's no wonder to me anymore to me birth outcomes are so bad in understaffed hospitals in poor areas...
Also, the cases are usually in desperate enough straits that “here, swallow this seagull poop!” doesn’t get hints thrown out of the hospital.
I hope she gets a couple of years. I really don’t think she’s a criminal, and what good is it to put a new mother of two in jail?
The back and forth over Paris Hilton spending time in jail comes to mind, especially give how public that tug-of-war became between the judge and the sheriff. But I guess that could be considered to be more about wealth than about beauty.
A hotel concierge that’s helped 50 million guests during their stay. The goal is to create unforgettable experiences for a billion people!

Ivy sends you a text message introducing herself as a virtual concierge when you check in. She answers FAQs in 1 second using NLP and routes anything more complex to the front desk team for resolution in 2-3 minutes. All in one simple text thread, no apps or UI needed.

Guests often come to the front desk trying to tip Ivy, rave about her in reviews, ask her out on dates, and even drop off hand written thank you notes for her.

One woman texted Ivy in a panic asking about the nearest drug store to buy Benadryl because her son was having a severe allergic reaction. A guest service agent brought Benadryl to her door in 3 minutes at a large Las Vegas property. She called Ivy a life saver.
I wrote code to generate the graphic for a decal that gets applied to units in the mobile equipment fleet for Dupont. It's a bit satisfying to drive past a Dupont site and see my work out in the real world.

Also I helped publish a Simpsons themed mod for the video game Doom 2. It's got it's own fan wiki page at this point.

I wrote a pretty popular sequential image downloader in the early 2000s. I suspect it may be the reason why websites started randomizing the filenames of their image assets.
Never worked for the federal government but my first “real” full time dev job was at a small state government agency and the work I did there had very visible positive effects for people interacting with the agency. Pay was really low though.
I really never got used to talking to my phone, even in private. But ok this is not the issue (you can always type it)

There is actually two very different questions :

What kind of dialogs do you dream of ? imagination has no limit as has already been stated in this thread.

What kind of dialogs would be both feasible and popular in the next 2-3 years ? This is the real deal (GPT-4 is around the corner)

It would be interesting (and most helpful for your project) if one of the FAANG released a detailed study on how people really used assistants in 2022, at least some kind of Top "vocal commands" list.
I'm not as foolish as I was trying to sound.

> Practical Solar’s[0] web site states that residential customers also use their heliostats for direct space heating, drying mold, melting ice dams on roofs, and melting snow.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Practical_Solar
The stick shift might survive the electric revolution
Firefox is a fantastic browser. Switched to it from Chrome about a year or 2 ago and haven't looked back. I run Nightly and it's the only browser installed on my main dev machine, a NixOS behemoth from System76 (Thelio Major).
It already didn't.
Video cards would probably be a better option.
Did we read the same article? The land usage for wind and solar is about that of golf courses and coal. Getting permits to use the land is the main obstacle.

As for resource constraints, the limiting factor is the speed on which a lithium mines can come online. The bulk of the that being environment reviews and lawsuits.

Americans are just going to have to come to terms with building or mining stuff causes localized environmental damage and other externalities for the communities that live close by. We should weight the pros and cons and move swiftly with whatever the decision is.
Indeed, any SWE manager asking 'Can you implement this?' and not expecting a wall of followup questions, conditionals, and background context is out of their depth.
Invalid inference. In fact, I pointed out that our species also has a tendency toward environmental destruction.
If some company handed out RSU’s on Jan 15 2023, that vested on January 16 2023 then it’s effectively just cash, but that’s not how they are used.

A single RSU grant normally results in multiple different taxable events across several years those dates are a major factor in what RSUs are. Both in the uncertainty around actual value and when you actually pay taxes.

But, it’s better to understand them as part of a contract. A hypothetical CEO negotiates RSU and a golden parachute that’s equivalent what they would lose in RSU grant when leaving, why? What advantages does that contract have over pure cash both from the CEO’s perspective and the companies?
People would adjust. There was a world before twitter. It was just different. Alternatives would spring up, marginal businesses that rely heavily on it will do something else, or go out of business and their people do something else.

Media outlets will foam over for a couple weeks for sure. Facebook will light up brighter.
Spot on. The terms "negativity" and "positivity" are basically tools for abuse.
Own team of what? It's not like he can reallocate developers from SpaceX or Tesla, they're already lean af. He hasn't bought any good will in the tech community either, so what cohort of people is he trying to appeal to that would work at Twitter? Whatever it is, it surely will be a polarizing one.
Sorry, I was slow to see this response.

Yes, I continue to doubt that a _user_ will be banned for using one of these words. I'm happy to believe that these words will cause that particular _comment_ to be killed, just that they won't cause a permanent ban for the user.

I think the issue is that we have a difference in terminology. I would never describe vouching as making a comment "unbanned". I think my terminology is correct, but I'll try to be sure before I continue to use it.

I appreciate the link to the list of words.
So how does this work of people are using the chronological view?
I'm an instructor at a coding bootcamp, and for my own sanity I've made teaching students to communicate clearly a priority. Honestly most of the time it's just laziness, and I can improve their communication massively by telling them to do things like formatting code snippets correctly, using the correct and precise terminology, replacing pronouns with the actual thing, and even just using complete sentences (this one kills me...).

Switching from verbal to written communication, or vice versa, can sometimes be helpful. Often when asked a complex question it's difficult to answer on the spot, not because they don't know the answer but because they need to organise their thoughts to explain it to you, or are trying think of any other information they might have forgotten, or other stuff. So a written answer they can compose might be easier.

Sometimes your simple question is not so simple, and doesn't have a clear cut answer. You do need to be open to that.

Of course sometimes people are not answering in good faith, and sometimes you're talking to a customer service drone, or even an actual AI responder, who are literally just choosing answers from a dropdown menu and not really reading what you've written.
The amounts of money we’re talking about here are sort of staggering. I know they did a pretty good job of not keeping any records of depositors, but do we have any sense of depositor demographics, total number of depositors, or average account size? Any KYC at all? Like did retail “investors” really pump close to $16B into this? Could the scam here be crypto whales used this as an off ramp to turn their crypto into fiat, and then burn the ramp and all evidence of who used it behind them?
The Center of the Earth Is as Hot as the Sun (2013)
Software developers who choose to stay at Twitter after the lack of respect and asymmetrical demand for respect that Musk has demonstrated towards them are just like Ted Cruz licking Trump's boots and kissing his ass after Trump called his wife ugly.
There's some interesting discussion in this thread about whether this is the right or wrong move for Twitter. However, after the debacle last night, I think it's a moot point, I simply don't see twitter.com still running within the next few months, possibly within the next few weeks. He's fired 50% of the company, reports seem that conservatively 50% of the remainder just quit yesterday, their subscription service had to be cancelled in the process scaring off their primary revenue source. They don't seem to be in any position to moderate, develop features, or, if some ex-employees can be believed, even keep the service running with who they have left. I honestly think within the next week or two we'll see a significant outage of the platform, and it'll never be brought back up to 100%, if at all. It's a stunning display of incompetence from the once admired richest man on Earth. So he can make all the policy changes he wishes, I don't think anyone will be around to see them happen.
Also didn't work on Android. I just got the last frame of the ad that preceded the video shown the whole time. Which is in of itself kind of an interesting bug!
Isn't show-hn for product demos not reviews?
Previous discussion yesterday referring to the same note:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33646552
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33649390
> its rotation will stay at exactly 24 hours.

The earth rotate around itself in 23 hours and 56 minutes

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidereal_time
Difference Between Business Development and Sales (2012)