skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A temporary low resource form for people in Puerto Rico to send an SMS message out to family outside of PR after Hurricane Maria.

During Hurricane Maria most of Puerto Rico was offline. Slowly but surely, some people started having access to some online services. To this day, I don't know how, but I saw frequent posts in social media (Facebook and others) of people saying they could access spotty internet but SMS and making calls wasn't working, and asking people to let their family outside of Puerto Rico know that they were okay.

So I setup a site on glitch.com with real simple 2 field form. One for a phone number and another for a message to send. It was dead simple, no framework, no CSS, just little bits of vanilla HTML and JS, and a bit of backend code connected to Twilio. Some text on the top with instructions too. I was making it intentionally small so that a spotty connection wouldn't have a problem using it.

Any time I saw someone posting in social media asking for someone to reach out to their family, I posted a link. I also shared it in a slack where many from the PR diaspora where trying to contribute ways to help. Before I knew thousands of people were using it. I did some continuous monitoring to make sure nobody was using it for abuse, and making sure it was being used as intended. It would have been EXTREMELY easy for someone to abuse it if they wanted to.

No one abused it. Thousands used it as it was intended. Left it up for weeks, and I kept monitoring it to make sure it wasn't being abused. I eventually saw it had stopped being used entirely for two weeks and spun it down.

I saw some people posting about it afterwards being thankful they were able to receive messages from their family, and I'm happy I rushed through to write very sloppy high impact code.
I think the wind turbines froze up: https://www.newsweek.com/texas-wind-turbines-frozen-power-wh...
Twitter isn’t a startup and startups CEOs generally want young people without a family who will slave endlessly for the cause. Elon tried this with Twitter but the smarter employees said Nah and left.

Work to live and not live to work. If the latter is you then reassess your priorities as you’re only young once but have a lifetime to regret your choices.
I cofounded a startup (bractlet.com) that uses IoT data, thermodynamic simulations, and other technologies to optimize building energy consumption. We've prevented around 10,000 tons of CO₂ emissions, which equates to many millions of dollars in energy savings.

Shameless plug: we're hiring :)
Hope is a dangerous thing, my friend, it can kill a man...
I am sure that's what Paul Krugman wants, but the fact is crypto is in it's infancy
Just the capitalized term EA to me reads like a scam. It’s a new term created to explain some behavior that is simply injurious to the broader population, claiming that its for their benefit. I’m just not sure I buy it.
Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to more than 11 years for Theranos fraud
I built (together with my team) an entitlement service, which makes creating new billing plans a lot easier, and reduced our time to launch in new markets down to just a few minutes.

I wrote about it here https://arnon.dk/why-you-should-separate-your-billing-from-e...
> He did do the firing whole teams bit, but not the fucking up the product bit.

He kinda did in that he slashed entire product lines, but Apple was not a single-product company.

Apple was also going very very badly, Amelio had already done a lot of cutting (reduced headcount by a third), and the company was still sinking (because it had nothing to float).
I get what you're saying, but I don't think more doctors is the answer. Hospitals will only hire the absolute minimum number of doctors they can possibly get away with, other than the ones who actually bring in new business.

This is the reason: as soon as the medical industry has established a consensus price for some procedure or other item of care, the hospital administration starts to work on figuring out how to do it for the least possible cost. The price has been set in stone, no need for further justification. Medicare or whoever WILL pay that much. The price is fixed so the only knob left to turn is cost, and cost will be reduced all the way down, until service is just above a level so poor that patients would decide to stay home.
That’s because both came from the 2022 General Conference on Weights and Measures of the BIPM.

https://www.bipm.org/documents/20126/64811223/Resolutions-20...
I’m don’t understanding the claim of Matrix being decentralised. In the end I host a server and you talk with me. I give you the choice of choosing the authentication. For that I need an account at the authentication provider like Microsoft.

So all authenticate with Microsoft.

I create a user for them at my server which is still be needed to have the at least the timeline saved.

At which point I have decentralisation here?

And because I can’t handle the traffic on my raspberry I host this on a PaaS/SaaS provider like AWS.

That would assume all web servers are decentralised web3 technologies.
You gotta get the SV nerds who run instagram stories to stop bending the knee to ads and focus on UX and make a product users actually enjoy using to be a viable competitor.

Instagram has like a 3% success rate at suggesting content from people I don't follow. Tiktok is easily over 30%.

Calling instagram a competitor to tiktok is about as naive as thinking an infomercial will pull market share from a prime time drama: it'll catch a few, but its so much worse it has no hopes of cornering the market.
My grandparents had a rotary phone and I always thought it was fun/neat to play around with (they'd unplug it first, obviously). I was about 8 years old when they got rid of it so no idea if it's still "fun" to an adult.
I think that's the only reasonable way to handle this kind of thing, though I bet that accurate time matters enough in fintech that you'd still have some cases where you'd need access to the "true" wall time in order to stamp logs for auditing or whatever.
Mozilla may have been an innovator, but the servo team was fired, and so was a security team, while the CEO's salary roared and the market share dropped further[1].

Maybe things have changed, idk.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24128865, contains all the links.
> had a far greater effect on the literacy of our state than any educator by orders of magnitude

Nice work, but check your ego mate. Seems your growth hacking would have had zero result if those kids couldn't read to start with, so you could share some credit ;-)
They're not getting rid of the old blocking API, though.
FeatureBase Community v1.3.0 is Released
> So, when it comes to prescribing (...) Giving psychiatric medicine “as needed”? Go wild.

This implies a lack of duty of care which is painfully unfair.

As a counter story to this I have a friend of mine who is a _former_ ICU nurse with a gigantic scar on her forearm.

I much later in our relation found out that the scar is from a patient who basically ripped her forearm biting down on it while she was trying to stop him from tearing out a central line in his own neck.

It's ironic that in trying to stop a patient from having a massive central line bleeding she ended up bleeding herself.

Outside hospitals we fail to realize how disoriented and irrational patients can get when coming out of anesthesia or with certain diseases.

So yeah 'as needed' is absolutely right because everyone is entitled to work in a safe environment.
Or we find out some people have dark skin and the blood flow isn't visible to the camera in these situations.
Nope, not where we live.

I have seen administration do some blatantly illegal shit around physicians with COVID, but I don't want to write that up here.
> People whose loved ones are in pain tend to use different, even more colorful, language.

The human experience varies wildly and I would not make such assumptions. Caring for somebody without the hope of improvement for years can make you bitter or even resent the person that no longer resembles the one you loved.
You are lashing out. I'm sorry you feel hurt or insulted.

My first comment did not attack you personally. It criticized your writing and reasoning.

Substantively, I disagree with about 80% of your sentences, but I don't have additional time to get into it with you, because I don't think it will be very productive, particularly with how the dynamic is going.

I do apologize if I sound condescending or mean or judgmental. I know little about you: you may well be older, more experienced, more successful, wiser, happier, or kinder. You may be having a bad day, week, month, year, decade, or life.

I'm trying to strike a balance between being direct and honest without offending you. I'm quite confident you need to hear this message whether you are ready for it or not.

I wish you (and everyone) the best. You may want to have the last word (if you wish), but I don't expect to reply further.
Obligatory: https://youtu.be/jjaqrPpdQYc?t=14
Conversation with CEO of Booking.com and the building the future of travel
> Having a kid in the US is retirement-suicide at best, if you're not rich.

Not having kids will create other problems for retirees. Retirement is fundamentally the working supporting the retired. In 1940 there were 42 workers for every retiree in the US. Today there are three and by 2030 there will be two. Three to two may not sound like a lot but that's a 50% increase.

Retirement is going to be way, way more expensive in the future.

> so a good social safety net can't be all of the solution

Total fertility(# of kids per woman) is falling basically everywhere and nobody has found a way to increase it once it starts falling.

That doesn't mean a better social safety net is a bad idea but I don't think increasing fertility is great argument for it.
A Mathematician's Guide to the World Cup
> Man the FBI acts like tik tok is used in jet planes and nuclear power plants...

That is the only information that should be protected?
Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for Theranos fraud
There are literally 0 people currently in federal prison because of marijuana ~offenses~ EDIT: possession.
Well company directors hire people to do jobs. You could call any employee underneath them a PA. They're all helping to get the job done. Everybody is providing assistance to someone else.

If you break down my o.g comment a bit more tbh lots of it is achievable if not already existing in the market it just needs to be tied together and developed a bit further.

Speech to text, Text interpretation, Systems configuration, coding & app building. I'm sure I've missed plenty but you get the gist. Definitely achievable.
I agree but the discrimination doesn't start with the trial. It starts way before, with societal expectations. Given those expectations, taking gender into consideration at the time of the ruling makes sense, because it's going to have an impact on the child.
Elizabeth Holmes is sentenced to more than 11 years for fraud
He said "I'm doing EA" - the EA community said "He is amazing he is doing the best EA"

What makes you think that he wasn't doing effective altruism
You’re right about free speech on Wikipedia but see the linked article where the co-founder declares Wikipedia to be political propaganda. Primary sources are biased against conservatives when they come from left-wing propaganda publications.

Social media however IS meant for specific people to spread their opinions and conservative opinions are censored there.
And disallowing someone to live on earth isn't a death sentence. They can always migrate to Mars.
Isn't a reverse vampire just a blood infusion doctor?
The part that sort of gets me here is that given that she wasn’t convicted of patient harm (questionable, but that’s the verdict), I don’t have any real interest in sending her to prison for defrauding investors.

The investors were wealthy morons who invested with 0 research on the technical feasibility of the company. They deserved what they got. Do some due diligence next time.
Good. She was a psychopath.
I for one can agree that lake effect snow is an amazing phenomenon.
Huh?

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-marijuana-pardons-help-t...
Still is I assume.
As a Victorian parent who moves house way too often I would like to say thank you.
I'm a Free Speech advocate. What I hoped Elon would do is stop the permanent banning of people from the platform and the removal of tweets. He appears to be at least somewhat delivering on that hope. Having a tweet 'deboosted' rather than completely removed and the tweeter also permanently removed is a substantial improvement.
Ask HN: Remote Consult App for Homeowners?
I recently became a homeowner. I needed to get an electrical outlet fixed and got quoted anywhere from $150-400. Turns it out was a job that took 10 minutes to complete and $10 worth of materials.

This made me think, could I build something like a Telehealth remote consult app for handy/trades people where we could provide:

-Remote consult: for $20-50 a homeowner get someone to weigh in on my job/issue for about 15-20-mins.
-Source leads: for $1-2 per consult a local service provider could remote consult with a homeowner and bid on a free consult.
-Directory: free directory of local service providers with reviews

I'm missing some critical defensive features for the ecosystem part of the application. But the core initial differentiating would be the remote consult.

COGS for the consult would be less than .25 per 20-min session.
It's federal so she'll do at least 85% of it tho.
No. People who wouldn't pay otherwise now have easy and relatively cheap access which reduces the friction so much, it doesn't make sense to scour the web for keygens and cracks and what not.

Now, with a gazillion streaming services we'll see piracy ruse again because of friction and cost.

Or, simply, these services brought in the otherwise non-paying crowd.

We already had this discussed and explained many times over. Why are we at it again?

There was a study commissioned by the EU in 2013 that additionally confirmed this and previous studies. But it was withheld https://consent.yahoo.com/v2/collectConsent?sessionId=3_cc-s...

Quote: "In 2013, the European Commission ordered a €360,000 ($430,000) study on how piracy affects sales of music, books, movies and games in the EU. However, it never ended up showing it to the public except for one cherry-picked section. That's possibly because the study concluded that there was no evidence that piracy affects copyrighted sales, and in the case of video games, might actually help them."

Overall the question is complex, and this is a good study: https://www.ivir.nl/publicaties/download/Global-Online-Pirac... which shows that it's not clear-cut, depends on income and availability etc. And that piracy may have both negative impacts (4% fewer visits to cinema) and positive impacts (increased visits to life concerts etc.)

However, quote, "an increase in illegal consumption over time is found to correlate with an increase in legal consumption and vice versa". The reason is: most decisions are done on the spot, and consumers chose the path of least resistance.
Wow, 10 years before document.querySelectorAll()!
Scapegoating 101.
Still doesn't do well with high DPI (most phone screens go around 500dpi), still doesn't do well with high refresh rates, etc.

Using X11 for any modern needs is an aberration.
>Safer when?

Certainly any time where the work output could potentially harm someone if it's incorrect. Arguably also any time where producing incorrect output or wasting a bunch of time could adversely impact your or a colleague's career. All in all, rather often.
Ask HN: Best managed email/calendar/contacts provider for personal use?
Are there good choices (besides Microsoft and Google) at this point? I'm currently using 365 and it's fine but not really optimal. I have tried Fastmail but I have some reservations about it, but it's marginally better. Are there other options out there?
I'm sorry but curiosity and creativity are certainly the n°1 enemy of the patient, especially in ICU settings. Curiosity and creativity are grandpa's medicine, and a total antithesis to evidence-based modern medicine, that attempts (and largely fails) to be an application of science instead of the whims of the decision-makers.

What you should want is curious and creative _researchers_, but precise and totally unimaginative clinical staff. Those are often the same person. See the problem? You want protocols applied down to the last detail. You want nothing left out of standard operating procedure. That's what kills patients in practice.

You might mean creativity in the sense of "let's have guys who think about the right things, and search for rare diagnoses and analyze stuff to see what could work, like Dr House". But that simply can't be done in practice. You can't be testing for every rare thing, because the tail of low probability diagnoses is much too long! And believe me, you _really_ don't want creative doctors around...
In this specific example, the Midwest is ideal for wind farms: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/wind/where-wind-power-is... . Wind is already the majority of the energy generated in Iowa: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_Iowa

So as far as being location-dependent, indeed it is, though that doesn't preclude other renewable solutions.
Holy shit, the judgemental attitude, and the ignorance.

So people that have been smoking for years, i.e. addicts (I am an ex nicotine addict), only do it because it looks cool? Geez, alright.

Must be nice up on that ivory tower of ignorance, and again, I mean it with no disrespect but in the purest sense of the word: you don't know what you're talking about, yet you think you're smarter than anybody else in the room because you had the fortune to live a sheltered life of strong preconceptions about the world.

Hope you enjoy the vista from up there.
A discussion about viral tweets and stock price collapse that doesn't address the topic of high frequency trading bots? And written by a PhD in bioinformatics, who gives zero evidence of his claims. Why should we pay attention to his argument?
Yeah, it's probably 60 days of not-working at Twitter, plus an actual severance payout.
https://archive.today/00Uhs
So you might as well take their money because they're a near monopoly anyways and in exchange for that money we will continue to make sure they stay a near monopoly? You don't see anything self-perpetuating in that? Why not duckduckgo or even startpage.com to least have an intermediary if they really care about these things?
Higher cost of labor and customers have more money to spend
I woke up in the ICU after getting hit on my motorcycle with a brain bleed and ton of other damage and all I can say it I’m super grateful for everything they did.
Nobody has tried actual communism.
> Mozilla is a dead weight around the neck of the internet.

How exactly are they dead weight?
So far it seems like Elon wants to turn Twitter into a less horrible version of 8chan, but the lessons in real-world moderation will come fast and hard. I wager it's going to get nastier before it gets any better.
Put it this way; your comment could be a veiled description of US politics. The typical democracy simulates a coup every 2-5 years in a winner-takes-all contest. If if you're at the bottom and have to bow to one party for a while then the other. Indeed, the description is so apt that everyone ritualistically accuses their political opponents of actually fomenting a coup (powered by Russia/China/Israel/Bill Gates/mobilising dead people/gerrymandering/the electoral college being illegitimate/whatever).

So yes, I do actually believe that. If the hold on power is weak enough it doesn't count as a dictatorship.
Doesn't play on iOS.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24128865

They did lay off Servo and a Security team not too long ago.
I feel like it might be fun, honestly. I love a good murder mystery. I wonder if they'll pay Netflix money when things start falling down.
That’s less than the 20% we get now.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_the_United_...

“ for 20% of the nation's total electric energy generation.[3] In 2018, nuclear comprised nearly 50 percent of US emission-free energy generation.”

Didn’t the United States build 100 nuclear power plants in about 25 years?
Veritasium's Derek Muller did an episode on this three years ago:

<https://yewtu.be/watch?v=uxPdPpi5W4o>
> Downloading and using TikTok is a personal choice and you’ve allowed it by doing so as an individual.

Not if it interferes with security of the country.

The same personal choice argument is what folks use to justify other choices that are bad (refusing well test vaccines, not paying taxes, etc.)
as a heavy diesel mechanic the only application i can see is heavy trucks. current slushbox automatics in the latest series of long hauler over the road rigs is absolutely useless on grade and costs triple to replace and service compared to existing manuals. you dont want an unprovoked shift in the rain or snow when youre dragging forty tons.
https://archive.today/etKv2
So you wouldn't have a single screenshot of code to show for the past year either?

So, you DO understand what we're trying to say on this thread. I don't get why you are defending this measure as a valid way to measure engineers
Look at the history of banned accounts [1] You don't need polynomial regression to figure out that nobody was being banned for traditional, non-hate and non-violence-inducing conservative or liberal speech. It's mostly harassment, threats, impersonation and disinformation.

Nobody has been banned for advocating: lower taxes, higher taxes, cuts to government spending, increased government spending, abortion rights, anti-abortion rights, etc.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_suspensions
Found a single line of byte code that cost $4M of compute per year.
Solar power also has a decades long history of only working during a day.
Cornell University’s Digital Systems Design Course Is Taught on RP2040
Lectures and course materials available here:

https://ece4760.github.io
I use Zoho and it's great.
The part that sort of gets me here is that given that she wasn’t convicted of patient harm (questionable, but that’s the verdict), I don’t have any real interest in sending her to prison for defrauding investors.
The investors were wealthy morons who invested with 0 research on the technical feasibility of the company. They deserved what they got. Do some due diligence next time.
Elizabeth Holmes tries to stop WSJ story (2015)
I find a lot of poor communication is driven by 1)“interpretation” by the receiver of the query, 2) by the fear of saying I don’t know or an answer perceived to be received negatively (e.g. “no”), 3) or by people who want to give you what they perceive to be the “answer”, when you are in fact seeking to understand intermediate facts or context.
More towards the latter because Musk seems to have some pretty crazy and awesome ideas for the future but now we seem to be going a bit off the rails, especially in a time where economic uncertainty might lend to a more conservative approach. Up until now I can see the vertical integration of Musk's ventures, being able to share tech between Tesla/Spacex/Starlink/Boring Company/etc...but the behavior at Twitter is really in left field, almost like he is going crazy.

There are a lot of people I like to whom I would not hand over $50k+ for a nice product. For that kind of expenditure I want some certainty that the future outlook and mission of a company is on solid ground.
Did the article get edited? I see no mention of "alt-right" in the archived version of the article.

https://archive.ph/PIU37
I think people expect that things could go significantly better, if the “system” were better. I disagree. In most cases, by the time they hit the ICU, you have a patient that is circling the drain from old age and chronic conditions and all you can do is manage it. No amount or quality of care is changing the outcome.