skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When the vaccines were first rolled out, my friends and I made a site that showed PA citizens hospitals and pharmacies near them that had covid vaccines available.

Every week, PA would release a spreadsheet of all places that received vaccines and we would call the places listed to see their availability. We ended up scaling the operation to ~200 volunteers.

There wasn't much on the technical side, though. We had an Airtable where volunteers would update records an a next.js site that displayed the date via Airtable API. We found the Airtable embed to be too complicated/ugly and even though wrangling Airtable API was a huge pain, it was worth
apparently the red delicious was selectively bred for appearance over taste and texture according to an article (which i cannot find) i read a few years ago (and somehow retained this information).

now the darlings are, apparently, pink lady and honeycrisp, which are both excellent apples.
New York: Visibility will drop to near 0, parts of NY was hammered with snows
> When Tether finally depegs, all the exchanges will go under

Why? Exchanges have existed before stablecoins, and you can still trade BTC et al without ever touching a stablecoin.
I designed a typeface and while small, the impact of bringing joy and productivity to people is greatly satisfying: https://berkeleygraphics.com/typefaces/berkeley-mono/
A lot of people in this thread don't seem to realize how they are starting down a path that will inevitably lead to McCarthyist fascism.
Sort of - you'd need to have some system for clock adjustment to fix for DST, clock drift and the like that would also need to be incorporated into the spin. So just a constant low powered spin counterclockwise wouldn't be quite the full solution.
Is it false? At most I think we can say it's unclear, but Eli Lilly seem to take it seriously since they pulled all their ad spend from twitter in response.

https://seekingalpha.com/news/3907399-fake-free-insulin-twee...
I had the same issue with Beepi. Had a friend who worked there -- I got the sense that complying with a bunch of interstate car sales was rather tricky and they often had issues getting through the state DMVs.
There's a weird split in the space in that regard. There's a lot of right-libertarian-esque "no gods or kings, only man" ethos in the cryptocurrency space but there's also been a lot of work trying to build the guard rails that are common to society into the systems.

People like to joke that cryptocurrency is just right-libertarians speedrunning financial legislation history but the reality is more that a lot of the tools that governments use to make finance "safe" don't have well established parallels that work on a decentralised platform. A lot of that "speedrunning" is the people who are actually building things trying to figure out how to still have reasonable safety and stability without relying on a single government or power to enforce policy.

Things like privacy preserving transactions/communication and decentralised consensus are useful and valuable features but it's taken years for game theorists and cryptographers to work out schemes that are even close to being sustainable at scale without compromising on priorities. Doubly so to build those tools for stability that are essential for a well functioning society such as the capacity for KYC, tax, and regulatory compliance without compromising on the above priorities.

So in a sense that argument that "this is good because it shakes out the bad actors before they can do too much more damage" is accurate but not in the sense that it allows the "good guys" to continue in their glorious libertarian fantasy. Rather it's a good thing because it minimizes the potential damage that can be done until researchers and engineers can develop the technology to a degree that the average person could actually use it.

It's a race against a regulatory clock and when it strikes midnight, unless there is a working example of a "good" and "safe" cryptocurrency, regulators will absolutely go for the throat. Unless the tech is sufficiently mature, they will divide the space into one that is illegal & only used by criminals and another which throws any semblance of decentralisation or privacy preservation out the window. This take is unfortunately fairly US- and Euro-centric but the reality is that those two sets of governments and regulatory bodies will be the ones to decide what form digital currency/digital assets take going forward.
Ukraine gets more for government salaries than the US gets for infrastructure.
> A problem that will not be changed or solved within our lifetimes

Honestly, I don't like opinions like this. That's just passing off the work that needs to be done to fix these problems. It wasn't even a hundred years ago when people published more in the open and the publish or perish paradigm didn't exist. The latter is a relatively tool, and collapsed because Goodhart's Law.

We can make the changes, but not with defeatist attitudes.
Working now at a bigco, the most impactful thing I do these days is in guiding projects away from building the first thing they think will solve a problem. People don't spend much time doing thought experiments of how changes will evolve in the future or with adjacent scopes. After thinking in that mode for a while you realize that there are concepts here that could and should be separated. A small tweak here and there, changing some naming/terminology goes a long way to saving tons of refactoring/cleanup down the road.

If you mean single-handedly, kinda hard to say. I also rewrote chunks of a retail FX app written in Java1/awt -> Java5+/Swing. Right now I'm enjoying using my own HN viewer (hackerer.news). I'd like to make an SQL-oriented library so people don't have to settle for JPQL/Hibernate--started but not done/promoted.

A recent stroke of luck was working on a small team building buy-online-pickup-instore for thousands/millions of merchants, that completed just before the pandemic hit.
in the world of nuclear weapons i didn't think 1.2MT was that particularly high of a yield. Wikipedia leads me to believe that the majority of nuclear weapons deployed in the US are in the 100-500KT range. Given that yields are shrinking (i assume globally as well) I wonder how that impacts fallout prediction maps that probably haven't been updated in a long time. Also, assuming the number of warheads is staying constant or going down then the total energy on tap is going down too. I guess increases in stealth, detection, and accuracy make up for the decrease in power when it comes to a nuclear deterrent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon_yield
This tool will do that for you: https://twitodon.com/
Waymo now open to everyone in San Francisco
It's less than some people got for marijuana offenses.

There really ought to be a federal death penalty for egregious white collar crime.
I don't mean to be rude, but a friend of mine used to begin a criticism with "I don't mean to be rude, but ...". He did it so much it became a meme in the office, and people would laugh whenever he opened with that.

He finally stopped :-)
News report of Aerosmith releasing the first digital only single (1994)
Your 'yelling into the void' here is every yell being recorded and kept, every person who has a link to a recording being able to hear it, every person who follows a chronological playback of your yells being able to hear them all, etc, i.e. there is no 'void'.
Migrate a responsive web app to iOS and Android store without any code changes.
clocks get used for two distinct purposes, often at odds:

- the measurement of durations.

- the presentation of some timestamp in a way that the reader has some intuition for.

that first purpose won’t be hurt by not tracking leap seconds. actually, a lot of applications will probably more accurately measure durations by eliminating leap seconds.

if leap seconds (or minutes) really are of critical importance, we’ll reintroduce them to the presentation layer. the thing is, very few people can tell the difference between 12:01 and 12:02 without being told the “real” time. so if you’re presenting a time which is “off” by a minute because there’s no leap seconds… does it really matter?
> None of the Twitter employees signed up to work for him, it’s pretty obvious from the public tweets that most of the staff has posted that they don’t have much respect for him.

I do wonder has his idea of how people think about him been skewed by a decade or so of really only working with people who are really into him. Like, this mostly felt absolutely inevitable to me (though I'm surprised how far he pushed it so quickly), but then I never thought much of him.

> I assume a lot of the engineers have the “millennial” mentality of “I work not live, I don’t live to work”.

Not sure what's _particularly_ millennial about that. Hours worked in the US per year now is pretty similar to the period from 1970 to 1990, when there were no millennials working. There was a spike peak between 1990 and the early noughties, but not a huge one; to find big increases you're going back before 1970.
What is not discussed is who decides what is negative and what is hate? (or what is parody). No one is going to disagree that hate speech has no place, but who is the watcher and who is the decider? Probably a bot.
> Well, isn't that by definition true for any system of measurements? I mean, as long as we're talking about a simple straight-line distance in some real-dimensional space, it's going to be possible to measure that distance in meters (or yards, or whatever). Yes I know about fractal lengths, coastlines and so on.

The US yard is exactly 0.9144m such a short decimal expansion is highly unlikely when selecting two random units of measurements. It is short because we defined the modern yard in terms of meters, selecting a short decimal expansion that was still "close enough" to the old definition to allow tooling to remain the same.
Sonic the Hedgehog Co-Creator Arrested for Insider Trading
Theranos Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to 11.25 years
Elizabeth Holmes Sentenced to More Than 11 Years in Prison
Ask HN: Is there currently an AWS SSO outage in us-east-1?
Elizabeth Holmes Sentenced to 11.25 Years in Prison
Presumably the hitmen were asked to kill with kindness.
Agreed - from a purely personal morality argument, I’m convinced this guy did indeed pay for contracted killings for 5 people. Yeah, some of the cops setting up the sting were corrupt, I can certainly see why it was sketchy in court and prosecutors decided to drop this angle (they had him on massive drug dealing anyways), but from my personal moral POV, dude paid for murders. I’m not shedding any tears about Ross being in jail.
Native Config Lands in ZIO 2.0
Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to 11 years in prison for Theranos fraud
I worked on an ad attribution service for a AAA games company and sold my soul in the process. It was neat maintaining a service that had 130m+ hits a day though, never had to deal with scaling like that since. Even neater was it was just two instances in production. Vertical scaling all the way!
I have spent way more time today following this story than I should have. Great courthouse reporting by Scott IMHO.

Out of curiosity, does anyone know what happened to all of the Theranos hardware / technology after the company was shut down? e.g. the edison testing machines
But was the rotary ever fun to use?
Good luck with your project. I like your GitHub README:)

There is a similar open source React framework for CRUD apps like internal tools and admin panels. It's not a drag&drop like yours but I recommend to take a look.

Repo: https://github.com/refinedev/refine
> ...are you upset at Mozilla for running a healthy balance sheet...

Charitable foundations aren't supposed to be corporations. If we've got an entity like Mozilla running a healthy balance sheet it should be a public corporation that we can all be shareholders in. So yes, I am upset by that too although that wasn't the point I was trying to make.

They've set up a situation where they are going to be corrupted. A billion dollars in assets attracts charlatans and they won't have sufficient defences to stop the money being siphoned off into pet projects and general shenanigans. There will probably turn out to be fraud involved sooner or later.

> ... Eich chose Chromium because Webkit is dominant and was in a better position in 2015...

As far as I care, their purpose is to make a good web browser. This is absolutely an indictment of Mozilla.
Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to more than 11 years in prison
The first commercial remote automated Electrocardiogram Analysis Service, receiving ECG data from hospitals throughout US and Canada, and returning English language analysis within 10 minutes. I was lead developer/architect.
Wow. You were the original querySelector. It's funny how you forget that somebody actually sat down and wrote these things into existence at some point. Thanks!
I disagree. I think he exactly calculated the kind of people at twitter, which is why he's trying so hard to get as many of them as possible to quit. He wants to make money off this purchase and to do that he needs to dramatically increase employee productivity, reduce headcounts to bare minimums to keep the current system running and then innovate something more on top of it to really make money. Work life balance people have no place in that kind of plan.
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to 11 years in prison for fraud
How is that different from people who have been affected by regular scams?
Thanks! I hate it.
Is that enough to convince you 100% that it happened?
It seems a little unfair that people who hang out in hateful places get a better UX (ie no ads). If anything, they should generate ads for anti-hate groups and therapy providers and plaster the feed with them.
OK, fine, but to what extent will it impoverish working people or reduce their wealth? It's more important to consider human happiness and wealth, rather than sacrificing the poor on the altar of carbon emissions.
Compared to most of these comments, I've not built anything impactful.

But the software I've written that seems to have gotten most use is SDL-Ball and the FinalKey password manager.

Well, I also built a "digital bulletin board" for a youth org back when PHP was in fashion, it's no longer used, but they used it, and bought minor upgrades for almost 15 years, so I like to think it had a positive impact on that org. They ended up primarily using a booking system that we designed together exactly to fit their needs.
I'm afraid it's a bit optimistic to assume he's learning anything here..
> Framework overhead is insignificant when requests delays are mostly due to the database/network

It really depends. When every part of your app is concerned with performance, it tends to hum along. When every part of your app tends to think, “the bottleneck is the database, so this doesn’t matter”, you get modern systems.
Yeah, there is a divide between what software will or will not crash. Essentially it's a combination of software using features and the features not being stable.

The best combination is either software that knows the issues for each implementation and can work with it, or software that doesn't use the features (either not using them natively or by making it unavailable to the software).

It's amazing how string-and-chewing-gum some hardware is with software working around so many issues to not crash. Sometimes there is good documentation, errata or usable flags (like MSR bits), sometimes it's just 'lower the pressure until it stops crashing' and you get a fat list of quirks.
I think for financial crimes for every $10k you should have to spend 1 day in jail.
Like a record player, if there’s demand, it’ll get built.
The Precarious Future of Sanibel Island
I am not confused, nor trying to be. It is a factual statement.
Deplatforming is simply a form of limiting reach, a twitter ban isnt an internet ban
Biggest source of conflict I've seen is when an American who thinks they're direct meets someone who actually is.
And they will ... it's just that they'll provide false numbers to audits, their board will be them and their friends, and they'll keep track of their money as it makes its way into their pockets.

I guess we need more blockchain! But what business will have 100% of their relationships, contracts and transactions publicly visible?
Following along your theory, do you expect that Twitter will achieve meteoric profit successes once this damage is patched, and that there will be an epic staffing contraction across tech afterwards? If you are correct then Twitter is about to demonstrate to the entire tech market that their staff headcounts are factors of ten beyond what is necessary to achieve equal success, and we should expect a massive course correction in the industry as a result.

>there are probably 30-40 engineers that make the most value, like billions of dollars each. From there it starts dropping off like a long tail in search results. There's value, but a lot less than others. Cutting the long tail may still break huge areas of functionality - but the rest will patch and fix it over time.

If this is true, then have companies like Microsoft, Apple, all just missed the big insight Elon has caught onto first? If the best engineers are generating a few billion in value each and can completely patch up the long tail, then Microsoft ought to be able to cut its staff down to about 200 such engineers, 300 if they want a lot of extra margin. 1.8T / 3bn per high performer. There's over 100k SWEs currently employed there, needless to say that's a big reduction in salary overhead.
The justifications in EA's long-termism are very similar to SBF's 'expected-value-reasoning', and the idea of buying out politicians to promote your cause is straight out of the EA playbook, fully justified by the philosophy. Just saying 'don't break laws while getting rich' is a band-aid, the problems exposed here run deeper.
No answer is ever fully comprehensive though. Even your complex answer is just a very shallow attempt at one, because there‘s always another layer or angle to consider. So, I don’t find it disingenuous to give a simple answer. It’s just a slightly less detailed one than the one I might have used with a technical person.
Its basically petrol heads who prefer manual transmissions, I doubt any of them have economy in mind, I have a manual transmission on my hilux EV conversion unless I'm going uphill or have a big load it stays in 3rd from start to finish
Well, its a bit tongue in cheek in that I'm not proposing anything really. My overall point is that the US government massively subsidizes foreign-owned oil and gas companies

https://www.eesi.org/papers/view/fact-sheet-fossil-fuel-subs...

Of course, those are written subsidies. There is the major subsidy of allowing them to drill for oil on the publics land.

Of course, we've massively increased the amount of drilling we've allowed do the drum beat of "energy independence", when the reality is that because the oil is privately owned, no amount of oil drilling will actually make the price of gasoline stable or cheap for consumers.

What we actually need to do is move away from a gasoline based economy, but until then the government should heavily tax exports of oil to discourage foreign-owned companies from exporting it while we have a shortage here. Oil and gas lobbyist have been using their corporate owned politicians in Congress to block moving to sustainable energy since the Carter administration. We need massive investment in sustainable energy and energy efficient transit and manufacturing.

But we wont. The price of gas will go down again. Americans will buy even bigger cars, and then cry when OPEC jacks the price up again.
Just getting accepted to a medical school is pretty hard unless you’re amazing/very good at the tests.

Had a cousin and a friend (both I would characterize as smart and hard working) take several years after undergrad and eventually “settle” for physicians assistant schools.
I think (especially considering the different needs for 6:28 PM and noon) that you'd need some orthogonal magnets set up - have one set of strong magnets around the center of the hub to keep it in place while providing a minimal amount of field interference to the magnets driving the hands. I'm not an engineer but I think any solution that starts with trying to suspend a clock using magnetic forces applied to the clock hands is going to be incredibly complex and hour-minute cross-overs would be extremely delicate maneuvers considering how much of a raw magnetic field you'd need to be projecting just to keep the clock face floating in air.
I thought shadow bans were bad ... its all very confusing.
Investigating why Steam started picking a random font
Couldn't your "fintech" company decide to halt trading 15-min before/after on its own without the agreement of the trading world?
I think for outreach, hammering on executive disfunction is the best way to go. It's the most alien to the neurotypical, and it most clearly paints ADHD as a disability, rather than a mere personality trait. And rather than talking about failing to focus on things you don't want to do, talk about failing to focus on things you want to do, but simply fail to produce incremental enough satisfaction to remain focused on. Like, before I got medicated, I would want to watch a movie. I would enjoy watching a movie. But you better bet I'd be getting up, checking my phone, going to the restroom out of sheer restlessness, etc, instead of doing the thing I wanted to be doing: watching the damn movie.
Wow, weird to think about.

Nothing. I haven’t built anything with a significant impact. I’ve made things that made a significant impact on businesses, but in the scheme of things, nothing exciting.

The thing I made which generated the most revenue was easily the most harmful, and likely the most impactful. Unfortunately. It was an ad exchange that did extremely well. The owners went from random guys with a gross idea to multimillionaires in a couple years. They both spend their days buying up startups.

I should have done better by now. I feel like I need to make up for building that exchange. I was young and had no idea what I was getting into until it was too late.
> Safari's having much more of an impact.

So what? Is there a limit to the number of browsers in the world?
... and this is how OCLC was created?
> The California Independent System Operator, which manages the state’s power grid, sent a Flex Alert asking all residents to voluntarily reduce their electricity use between 4 p.m. and 9 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday and warned that more alerts were possible through the Labor Day weekend.

> A spokeswoman for the governor, Erin Mellon, said that the request to avoid charging electrical vehicles has been misrepresented by critics of California’s efforts to curb emissions.

> “We’re not saying don’t charge them,” she said. “We’re just saying don’t charge them between 4 p.m. and 9 p.m.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/01/us/california-heat-wave-f...
Way to go stranger internet friend! Glad to see not only that you've overcome what you say you have, but also that it's a point of pride. Keep it up!
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