skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My software consultancy developed a surveying system for young people suffering with mental health issues. It was used before their sessions with medical professionals, and helped inform their clinician on their current state, along with overlaying data from previous sessions to help point out patterns and possible risks.

We met with focus groups of young people (and separately, clinicians) in developing the app, and I felt a strong affinity for the entire project. It still gets used thousands of times per day, and I'm glad I could help bring it to life.

I'd always loved building software, but this project showed me it's so much more than technology.
omg yes. state the underlying goal to achieve and detail how you intend to go about it and seek help. i dont know how many problems i helped solve only to find out the underlying problem was already solved in another way.

ive learned to ask that as my first follow up question for random requests for help: is this the real problem or are you trying to solve a different higher level problem
I used to work in a CPU/MCU IP company, dealing with embedded linux testing. The flow had been extremely manual and tedious so I created a FPGA Farm for that.

Specifically, a general run-through of a test had involved the following steps
- Choose the right type of FPGA
- Get a right bitstream from design teams
- load the bistream onto the FPGA
- Connecting the FPGA to your PC physically and then using OpenOCD
- Use gdb as the loader to load Linux image
- With a telnetd in the init script, remotely execute the test on that linux after the boot by using expect/libexpect bindings.

With the FPGA farm, many FPGAs were connected to a server, and it provides web interface and APIs so that people could login, claim a board, upload bitstream, attach openocd and expose tty through socat. In other words, the first half of the mentioned steps became remotely doable.

My team did a bit fight and advocation, and soon CXOs bought in and people shifted to use the system. Productivity got higher. Also coincidentally, COVID breaked out, this system further rooted in our culture. It changes how engineers do their work and how sales do demo.

Despite the success, I always have wanted to replace the home made architecture with something like OpenStack with modified plugins. The closest thing I know is OpenStack with Ironic, but it requires PXE, which is impossible for our embedded-case FPGAs. Any hints or suggestions?
In the case of success I think it probably just puts back into perspective that all things considered most employees are still average quality despite being made out to be situationally necessary. That there may be some overestimation of how many actually are necessary and misattributing for who is actually high quality.

The degree you would buy into this probably depends on how much you believe that Twitter is a good representation for the rest of the industry. I imagine a number of people would prefer to believe it is not in the case of success if it is their self value in question.
Try saying that when using it in real life, making many calls daily, with an exchange such as 908-.

Then, the tone dialer appears.

I was not interested in interacting with my telephone. I just wanted it to place calls.
Have you looked to see if they followed through with the paperwork with the state to ensure the state no longer thinks you own the car? One of the complaints I've seen is that they are woefully behind in areas like this so that the new "owner" isn't really the legal owner because some paperwork hadn't been completed by Carvana
Good point. There's always a lot of self-righteous judgment with these sort of things. Not trying to necessarily defend Ms. Holmes, but the objective reality is that no one knows her motivations.
> Who was questioning that? No one, thanks for noticing.

You're welcome! I'm pointing that out because apparently you haven't noticed that, hence your criticism.

> It is not, however, any protection against criticism about what they choose to do with that project. If you open source a program that actively harms any or all of the groups the Lemmy project is (ostensibly) trying to protect in its claim, would that protect you from criticism? Not in the slightest.

Yeah, I'm not debating that.

> Again, thanks for noticing.

Again, you're welcome!
Probably metric tonnes, not sure, it’s just “a lot” when it’s used colloquially. Pints are imperial for drinks, 568ml.
That's convenient. So when EA has a positive impact, it's EA.

When it has a negative impact it's definitely NOT EA. Do I have that right?
A federal 10 year sentence is a very severe punishment. There's virtually no parole federally; once you're in, you're in.
11 years is a heavy sentence. The sentences for possession are what are wrong.
I personally want my doctors to be amazing and very good. For now tests are a fair proxy, it's the 8 years that seem ridiculous, esp when looking at non US countries.
Is it normal for there to be a sentencing and then be free for 5 months before going to prison? I always assumed after a sentencing you went straight to prison. What's the rationale for waiting? To listen to appeals?
Why not just ditch the algorithms.

Go back to what twitter was in the beginning: you see the tweets of people you follow. That's it.
Heat pumps!

They work great on cold weather now, as long as you can find a competent HVAC contractor. HVAC folks tend to not like new tech, though, so it's hard to find one.
Hmmmm yeah I guess she was never actually part of the elite billionaire club of people with seemingly limitless power.
I feel really bad for her children, I can't believe she had the gall to have them given this inevitability.

I'm also of the mind that people shouldn't go to prison for non-violent crime (some extreme form of probation seems more effective to me), but that's an entirely different story.
No it doesn't since nuclear waste is not clean and as the article says: renewables are cheaper already.
I am not sure why people are so upset by the idea of solar panels on their roof, but they are.
Our local library wanted to put in an automated drop-off bin that patrons could drive up to and return books into. It was bitterly contested because the adjacent home owners association was worried about the increased noise and traffic. Keep in mind they were already living next to this library and it already had a parking lot. The city paid to construct a high wall as a compromise. It wasn't terribly expensive, but it wasn't cheap either.

I really do think there is such a thing as "over democratizing" our development process. Sometimes you really do just need to tell someone "this is getting built" and they can get bent if they don't like it.
When the big earthquake in Nepal happened in 2015, I was working with a volunteer organization called Translators Without Borders to help with translation during relief efforts. Since I was in the USA I could not contribute back physically, so this was the next best thing.

My goal was to help volunteers that were in the field in Nepal communicate in English -> Nepali and back. Even though this was somewhat effective, there was still a communication gap because most people in Nepal in remote parts could not even read in Nepali.

I looked around for solutions but couldn't find any Nepali Text To Speech solutions. The builder brain in me fired up and I decided to build a Nepali Text To Speech engine using some of the groundwork that was laid by Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya (Big Library in Nepal) which they had abandoned halfway.

I spend all night hacking along to build a web app that let the volunteers paste translated text and have it spoken. The result was https://nepalispeech.com/ and the first iteration of this was built in just 13 ish hours.

I hope the people that got affected by the earthquake are in a better situation now.
Kids have no obligation to provide elder care though, and estrangement rates are material.

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2021/05/20/how-many-...
There is absolutely a good reason for transmissions in an electric vehicle, it's just that most EVs elect to remove them for simplicity instead.

I will leave the interpretation of this graph as an exercise for the reader.

https://i.stack.imgur.com/HRUva.gif
This is not the first and won't be the last case of its kind.

The interesting thing politically is if this will be enforced or not, as I am sure there are a lot of Silicon valley founders worrying now. At best they will get some deserved extra scrutiny, at worse will be getting investigated.

I've seen talk about Holmes' political connections, but she surely is too toxic for them to get her a "free pass". She might get relief from somewhere else though?
Manual transmissions are more efficient than automatic because there is more energy lost to unproductive sloshing in the torque converter in the automatic, whereas the manual has a clutch that makes a near-lossless linkage. Nowadays, I'm sure we could software-automate a mechanically manual transmission to have the same driver experience as an automatic...
And if Americans simplify their lives and stop using so much energy.
We knew that.

What we want proof of is who did it.
OK. There have been about a dozen pieces written about FTX on the NYT in just the last few days. Most have not been soft balls like the interview-based piece. I apologize for accusing you of being driven by ideology. I didn't understand why you would choose those two links when the coverage is much broader and more critical:

https://www.nytimes.com/search?query=FTX
This is the right sentiment, but maybe a little backwards, people shouldn't be in jail for possession.
>head over to r/conservatives and see what the discussion is like. They will welcome progressives and disagreeing views

This is absolutely untrue. I generally do not engage in political discussion on hackernews so politics entirely aside, from a reddit content moderation standpoint this is just a falsehood. It is one of the most tightly moderated subreddits on the website and users are banned rapidly and constantly for posting dissenting views or sharing information contradicting the prevailing narrative for any given issue. Anyone who attempts the exercise you suggest will learn that right away. There are certainly subreddits on both sides of the political aisle moderated in that manner but you are just making an absolute fabrication to say /r/conservative is not, and I'm assuming that's why you were downvoted. That and because you bring this falsehood up instead of answering the direct questions the user you're replying to asked you, and it doesn't address their questions at all.

For what it's worth, I didn't downvote you.
What is the value of IP that doesn't work? Edison machine IP seems about as useful as those time travel or perpetual motion machine patents that come up.
He's saying the specifics have been delegated - look at "local" leaders for further guidance on the set timeline, and don't panic based on what other orgs are doing.
>That shows poor judgement and, on some level, EA is about smart people making judgements about long-term good. How can we trust them to make those judgements when they decide to hitch their wagon to FTX?

Charities in general aren't exactly known for conducting thorough due diligence on their donors. Sure, it might make sense to make sure the person you're getting money from isn't some sort of ruthless dictator or embroiled in some scandal, but "runs crypto trading firm" is a pretty plausible story.
I don't want anything in particular, I walked away from Firefox a while ago so the failures of the Mozilla corporation don't affect me. Most former Firefox users are in the same boat if the stats are accurate. They could wind the whole foundation up and almost nobody would need to notice.

But I don't think you can dispute the basic point here - there is a huge honeypot here to attract people with bad intentions, and they have failed to use it to promote any useful aims given the magnitude of the amount involved.

> Do you just want to be upset?

You've got me, I was bluffing. I'm not really upset. I just think it is bad form, philosophically. The foundation is failing at its goals, they shouldn't be trying to make a profit. If they want to make money they should start a normal company and have shareholders.
It's mainly a punishment and deterrent here. As a society I think we are better off trying to stop other people from doing a similar crime than trying to rehabilitate her.
I'm a big fan of manual transmissions, but if it adds more things that need adjusting and that can break on an EV, I wouldn't want one on my next (electric) car.
Too little too late. And, on x64 I switched to Parallels because I had problems installing the most recent macOS on several machines.

It's clear that VMware has hampered their ability to support their products (bugs and time to get this release out).

It's disappointing, because I like the UI of VMware more than Parallels (yes, probably because I used VMware for many years).
> If by NIMBYs you mean paid actors attending council meetings

Exactly, most anti-renewable objections are outright fraud by the oil companies, it is groups like 'Citizens for responsible solar' that are recieve fossil fuel donations through shell companies. Theu go and complain that a solar farm will spoint the veiw on somw derelic wasteland and robbing locals of job opportunities ities. There isnt a single local person in those groups.
>April 27, 2023

~Five months from now seems long. Is that a common delta between sentencing and prison?
And there are people in prison doing less time for murder.

We fail to reflect that 11 years in prison is a really long and miserable time.
Yeah, everything I've read about the corporate governance of Sam's enterprises seems like it should have been turned up pretty quickly under the most basic diligence.

I can see how "Main Street" investors got completely screwed over, but what I don't understand is how any sort of institutional money flowed into FTX and propped it to the massive scale it achieved. That deserves closer examination.
Where does it use it for speed limits? All our cars have speedometers in mph. I’ve never seen a speed limit sign that uses kmph
First off sorry totally missed you had replied and you took time to write a thoughtful response. I think your skepticism is completely warranted, but it sounds like a space where it’s worth a shot. If I’m wrong no biggy this is low risk, but if I’m not that’s a lot of upside.

I’ve seen copilot do some truly novel code synthesis, more than just matching up names. I’ve also seen GPT 3 generate compelling marketing copy and many other things so I’m admittedly biased in favor of potential solutions like this.
i dont think youre being fair to yourself. you have agency no matter what. until you are physically restrainted and separated from society: you can literally go ham on whatever you choose. sure, some paths are less difficult and some are more difficult. i guess all i mean to say is:"Everyone reading your post, has, in multiplicity, 'had to comprise.'" "Compromising" is what civilization is founded on. We love you, were glad ur here, think about how to be the best person you know, and youve made it. full disclosure - im trying so hard for decades to eat that dog food, im not there yet but im getting closer - i wish the same for you

EDIT: IF I WASNT CLEAR - the "best person you know" should be by your own individual standards. <3

edit 2 - im still compromising every single day
I built the first "post-play" experience for Netflix. It made it so that Netflix would automatically start playing the next episode of the show you are watching after a 15 second count down. We built it in the Silverlight player on the web because it was the fastest way to A/B test new features at the time.

Before post-play, you had to open the episode menu and click on the next episode to play it. We didn't want to do autoplay for a long time because we were afraid people would fall asleep with Netflix playing and it would break the internet. So we included the now infamous "Are you still there?" popup a few minutes into episode 3 with no interaction with the player.

Now it is everywhere - YouTube, Hulu, HBO, etc. And people watch way more TV than they should.
Seems like a nicely balanced perspective. I don't drive much, but when I do, I much prefer 'manual' (translation of 'stick' to non-US English), and take pleasure in smooth heel-and-toe changes. I'm mostly a motorcyclist and similarly enjoy getting better at smooth braking with changing down and rev-matching.

But if electric motorbikes become usable and affordable to me within my lifetime, they will offer different pleasures (ubiquitous torque, quiet). And outside of driving/riding, there will be enough pleasures to experience and skills to learn for many lifetimes.
Sometimes one just needs a direct answer to a question. In fact, it’s a common anti-pattern of effective communication, to think that “more detail (all the detail) is always better.” Sometimes we just need an answer to the question, and will ask follow-ups as needed.

I find a correlation actually where people who struggle to give clear answers/explanations, struggle in their own decision-making. They get ensnarled into ever-deepening details and can’t cut through them to make actual progress.
It’s fundamentally the same lookup.
Why is UT1 unusable? Can we approximate it with something like a polynomial that gets updated periodically?
24 months and then "house arrest"
And to be clear, Piper and Ellison go way way back. I think there is a very good chance that SBF did not know that that chat was on the record. So Piper may have failed to disclose in two directions, to both her source and her audience.
Yeah, that was the theme of Robinhood. Of course sbf is no robinhood.
That’s peak air conditioning load, and it nicely disproves the claim you’re defending: most cars charge aren’t plugged in at peak commuting time but they’ll charge just fine in the middle of the day when solar production is maximized or at night when the grid has plenty of excess capacity after AC demand has dropped significantly.
Cold; mosquitoes; lots and lots of trees.
Why did it take so long to upload?

(Works fine on Brave for iOS)
Now collectively do the same with daylight saving
The plan for Texas was never to rely on wind, and how could they, wind is not reliable!

The plan was to rely on natural gas and nuclear, which are supposed to be reliable, but which were not in Texas.

Therefore, more solar and storage is probably the best way for Texans to gain reliability. Texas had the same problem with frozen gas and nuclear plants a decade earlier, knew it was a problem, and refused to fix it.

Decentralization is the only way for people to protect themselves with grid mismanagement like that, which means home solar and storage.
If you reduce overall employees by half, it kinda makes sense to also halve the HR and payroll departments...
What's your point? The guy doesn't have a few billion to single handedly throw at the problem to test them out. There are feasible solutions to make it less expensive, whether or not they get put into practice is a different topic. The point is that nuclear is not inherently and permanently as expensive as it has been for the past few decades.

> And it didn't address the time scale issue at all.

The time scale issue is directly related to the cost issue. Costs are so high not due to material costs, but because of the engineering and construction overheads. Standardize the designs, streamline the approval processes and both construction time & costs will decrease.

And to your solar point, until there's a viable way to store the energy that solar produces it's not a solution on its own regardless of how cheap it is. Same goes for any renewable that doesn't have the on-demand characteristic of nuclear.

To be clear: I'm not saying to not use solar. I'm saying to build solar, wind, nuclear, AND whatever else. I honestly don't really care how expensive any of them are anymore because the costs of not stopping carbon emissions will be far higher than the cost of building these renewable/nuclear generating stations.
My partner was sideswiped by a Tesla engineer testing Autopilot. Tesla's insurance did pay for the damages, FWIW.
Honestly, I couldn't care less about the sentences for Holmes and Bankman-Friend.

You know who I want locked up?

- The guy who pushed someone into the tracks on the NYC subway

- The guy who poured sulfuric acid on a woman in NYC

- The guy who attacked elderly Asian women in SF

- The guy who attacked elderly Asian women in Oakland

- The guy who spit on a friend in San Francisco 2 weeks ago

- The guy who raped Chanel Miller

- The guy who raped another unnamed victim at Stanford recently

- The ones running around South Bay smashing small businesses, smashing cars, sometimes while people are in them

Unfortunately the government doesn't give a flying f about locking the people who are ACTUAL threats to the safety of me and my friends, and busy dealing with locking up some startup founders, who admittedly are disgusting, but not nearly as disgusting as the above.
I don't think this is light at all. 10 years in prison is no joke. I actually thought she would only get 3-4 years.
Definition of altruism requires selflessness. He was anything but.
Given the references to thanksgiving and the FDA in the other top articles, the site appears catered for a US audience, and the privacy policy expects users to be over 13. What percentage of Americans over 13 wouldn't get the Judas reference? Has to be under 0.1%
On why there are too few doctors:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/02/why-does-t...
He's understating, perhaps on purpose.

Datasette, Django, and Lanyrd.
They don't yet cyrofreeze convicts, you can get pregnant while in prison although I suspect you must be on work-detail or some other revenue generating activity for the prison to approve your visitations.
That's like saying that if you don't want to be seen as some digital criminal, you shouldn't be on some dodgy orange-looking site most people never heard of, where news for hackers is posted and discussed.

Most large companies have entities all over the world in places you probably never heard of, and those places are well known within the accountancy world.
This probably isn't that impactful on the grand scale, but I want to mention 2 things

On a problem meeting to get better at detecting some SMS fraud, we realized some manual labor the fraud team had to do with Excel. I made a program that automated the checks and presented a resulting ranked list, I saved that team (according to them) around 1 hour a day of boring, stupid work and let them either rest or use that time for better work

I did a small audit on webpage size on my company to see how impactful the changes would be. Approximately 30% to 40% of the page could be reduced. The calculated cost saved was low, $150 to $200 per month, but also around 100kg to 150kg of CO2 released on the atmosphere. If replicated on other pages the total cost saved on both dollars and CO2 could be tripled

While not a lot, I like to think that those small things done everywhere could ne a substantial help on global warming
> Making it compulsory up to the age of 16, to the detriment of other subjects (...)

Which subject do you believe should have a higher priority than defending the cultural identity of a nation?
Yeah. I see a fork in the road here:

1. They can band together to save the EA brand by demonstrating an unusually high commitment to accountability. The simplest way I see to do this is to contribute 2x what they received from FTX (as a group, it's impractical for them to do this on the individual level) to making the financial fraud victims whole.

2. They could "declare bankruptcy", switching to less ambitious but epistemically safer approaches to philanthropy. I wouldn't blame them for doing this, (1) is a big ask.