skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nursing was always dependent on Pinoy labor.

Because PH used to an American territory until 1946, the education system is largely the same [0].

PH is to the US Medical system as India/Pakistan/Bangladesh are to the UK NHS

[0] - https://nursing.uw.edu/article/filipinos-and-filipinos-ameri...
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I had a professor who worked on security at Amazon 12 years ago. He would always go on and on about how terrible his job was there, and how much better it was being a teacher and getting to see the sun.

Looked him up on LinkedIn 6 years later, and he was back at Amazon.
Oh yes. I wrote about that here:

https://successfulsoftware.net/2022/04/30/why-isnt-there-a-d...

And discussed at HN here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31220841
I hate to say this, but I genuinely think customers are going to find AWS become more unreliable as time goes on.

It seems to me that you can have high levels of reliability, a great working culture and high levels of staffing, but if you mess with any one of these elements you will find the wheels start falling off the train.
This “Stoßlüften” is just opening a couple of windows for several minutes to create a draft.

There’s a nice booklet about ventilation for regular Joes called “Richtiges Lüften in Wohnungen” (Proper ventilation in apartments) published by the Fraunhofer IRB (i.e. information centre for inner spaces and construction).

This booklet explains the role of material and air humidity, how ventilation became important as buildings became more airtight, how relative humidity works, etc.

A key observation is that the main purpose of such intense ventilation is refreshing the air, i.e. removing unpleasant smells and CO2.

Landlords, experts and courts of law have nevertheless settled on the idea that 2-3x intensive ventilations per day are necessary to avoid mould.

The booklet claims that dehumidification is ideally achieved through “Spaltlüften”, which is keeping a window partly open for a longer period of time: the cool outside air enters the room in small quantities which can be quickly heated, thereby drying said air and enabling it to absorb additional humidity. Due to the longer ventilation period, materials which absorb humidity such as drapes, carpets, wallpaper or plaster can release said humidity which shall be absorbed by the dry air and ultimately exchanged with outside air.
The heater must stay permanently on so that the cool air can be heated.

Some apartments have passive mechanical ventilation such as openings in the rubber seals of the windows or ventilation slots in the window frames which follow this principle.
> I was told that you couldn't write programs in Assembler for OS/2, so I had to prove otherwise. 9-)

A surprising amount of interesting software was written to prove a point :P
Could you explain how you use a shmoo plot for optimization? Do you just have a performance metric at each point in parameter space?
Amazon should reverse the changes it made to the reviews and let people respond to individual reviews again. Self-policing will improve the value of reviews as fake and biased reviews will be more easily identified by the community. When Amazon got rid of that feature (for cost savings presumably), it marked the beginning of the downfall of Amazon as a source for reliable product information and quality.
We have to import medical professionals (or hire offshored ones, for telehealth or whatever) if we don't want our healthcare system to collapse. We're gonna need to do a lot more of it as the years go on, too.

Too bad we can't import doctors. That's the worst bottleneck.

We're all gonna spend our twilight years being cared for almost exclusively by people who speak English with a heavy accent. The ball's been rolling that way for some time and it's got enough momentum that making anything else happen will take many decades.
It's usually not that simple. Not all power sources are equal. Solar and wind, which Spain is focusing on, are very variable unlike geothermal and hydro for example. Nuclear and gas are very attractive for grid stability. Inter-connectors with other countries also help. Renewable + storage is going to get very exciting going forward, assuming we get battery storage less prone to fires.
Full retraining is prohibitively expensive, especially if it has to be done for cases like this where NYT initially permitted automated processing through robots.txt at the time of training but then changed their mind upon realizing the potential market in licensing content to developers. To my knowledge there also hasn't been any successful training of capable LLMs on just public domain data.

Machine learning, including foundation models and web-scale pretraining, has widespread uncontroversially beneficial applications (defect detection, language translation, spam/DDoS filtering, agriculture/weather/logistics modelling, etc.). The federal government has invested billions in AI, and is desperately trying to prevent China from taking the lead. NYT aren't really in a position here to dig their heels in with "not our problem if our deletion demand makes training AI in the US infeasible" - they likely know that's not going to fly, and are instead using it to prompt negotiation for licensing their content.
I'm sure that's true. From a HN moderation point of view though, the question is whether two articles about the same underlying story are different enough to support substantially different conversations. If not, then the resulting thread will be largely repetitive of the original, and repetition is one of the main things we're trying to reduce here.

In the present case the answer is pretty clearly 'no', because the comments aren't reacting to the OP's specific analysis, they're just responding to the general topic. This is pretty much what we'd expect since that's mostly how internet comments work.

That doesn't invalidate your point, it just means that unfortunately the 'nuanced analysis' article that comes later is usually going to get downweighted as a follow-up on HN when the 'hot news' version of the same story already had significant attention.
I practiced my German with Duolingo for some time and it it's absolutely useless for that purpose.
Who returns books?
why silent sacking doesn't include severance package?! do you mean forcing people to quit which doesn't include severance. If there is no work, can't you start working elsewhere (or at least a side consulting job) until they fire and give severance?
Are you under the impression that company cultures don't change over time? Of course they do. "nothing has changed in the last month or last quarter" is a ridiculous statement to make, as it's demonstrably false. As just one simple example, the company culture of many companies, including Amazon, has drastically shifted from allowing remote work over the last several years to now not allowing it.
Candidates can promise many things, but they won't pass laws to ban outsourcing. Even if they do, they dilute it to an extent that these laws become impotent by creative loopholes.
I'm pretty sure there's something in HIPAA or SOC 2 that ought to be preventing people outside the US from having any access at all to US patient data, but Humana likely has more lawyers who know these things than I do....
Amazon does this with everything damaged that is returned.
It had a nice architecture for an 8 bit machine, though. You could add a ton of RAM even to an MSX1. And you could get 80 columns cards too.

The first MSX was sold in 1983. It couldn't realistically have been made much earlier. You must take into account that the 80s had an explosion of technology. As soon as something hit the market, it was already superseded by something better.
Ethiopians are the second largest Semitic group after Arabs.

The origin of modern antisemitism starts with Wilheim Marr [0] and his essay "Der Weg zum Siege des Germanenthums uber das Judenthum" [1] (1879) - in English "The Victory of Judaism over Germanism" [2]

He went on to form "The League of Antisemites" and it was this movement that brought "anti-semite" into the political lexicon.

[0] https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/wilhelm-marr

[1] https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_csUOAAAAYAAJ

[2] https://ia801408.us.archive.org/33/items/marr-wilhelm-the-vi...
That might explain why it has not crashed completely yet.
As a rule of thumb, never trust service providers that should, by all common sense, fail, but miraculously don't.
Not sure what you mean by "the database holds locks for the minimum time needed." Locks are always held until the transaction commits.
Cargo ship carrying burning lithium-ion batteries reaches Alaska
> Nothing is perfect.

I agree, and moreover, the more complex the taxonomy, the more likely you'll find people who disagree with it. So perhaps you're right that a simple tags list is the best "simple" solution, and I'm not saying your list is deficient.

One thing I had in mind is allowing an "AND" operator, like searching for "vintage" AND "eq"

> a) usually a "thing" can only belong to 1 category and b) a category often belong in a hiarchy of categories and can only be 1 place

That's why I love hierarchical tags (where tags can have multiple parents) : You can put a "thing" under more than one category/tag while a tag can belong to more than one parent. However, it's true that this is rarely implemented.
My take would be that they set out to "minimise friction", build a
user base and monetise that later, but having never seen the
"Underpants Gnomes" episode of South Park.

One could forgive that because the "build it first, squeeze it later"
model /has/ worked for other tech businesses. Twitter comes to mind.

One could build a "premium" closed ecosystem within an open ecosystem
which inducts new customers in. I don't think the design was
fundamentally structurally flawed, so much as they didn't follow up on
the opportunities created by the initial phase.

That said, I think it's a very hard transition, even if you did plan
well in advance.
> graduates from lower tier colleges

Lower tier colleges have gotten much better in quality too.

I remember Indraprashta came to recruit Indian PhD students at my Ivy League tier college to become tenure track CS/ECE/EE professors.

Plenty of lower tier IIITs and regional engineering colleges are getting Western or Top Tier IIT trained faculty, and students are higher quality now as well.

As the child of a dad who attended one of these no name RECs who ended up becoming tech leadership here in the Bay, I'm glad that this democratization has occurred. The BITS Pilani and IITian uncles were very snobby and annoying.
Is that such an important thing?
Yes and also there are many that never use the address bar, they just google names. With this mindset, any text input with a lens icon is a way to reach pages... or sites... apps, stuff, whatever.
Yes, but those games contain scripting languages, like Lua for Grim/Escape from Monkey Island. That isn't shipped with the app, so it technically violates the rule. Hope they keep it up though, or if not, hope they get their ass kicked into allowing third-party app stores soon so that you don't need to jump through massive hoops to use anything like this.
Anybody can cook the recipes in "Revolutionary Chinese Cookbook" and "The Food of Sichuan". I would caution people unfamiliar with authentic Chinese food that these are not the flavors of 99% of US Chinese restaurants. To our palette they are vastly better. Sometimes shockingly so, as for example her General Tso's chicken. You cook that correctly you'll get nauseous thinking about American/Chinese General Tso's chicken.

What you will probably have a problem with is getting the more exotic ingredients. I could not find some things in Ranch 99 markets, and now that I live in the Atlanta area it's quite a bit harder. Fortunately quite a few items are available on Amazon.
It's going to be very weird for HN but I'm learning using Tiktok + a flashcard app + a dictionary. You can probably do the same thing with YouTube Shorts.

There's a lot of high quality and very short films on basic daily subjects and subtitled on this app. It's the perfect material you need as a beginner. At the beginning I was watching one 3 minute video per hour and now I just watch it close to normal speed, progress isn't linear.

Short subtitled videos is the ideal material because you are working on your spoken and written comprehension in the same time.

I use the dictionary app on the new words I don't know about and input them into the flashcard app.

I went from close to nothing to around B1 in one year and half. Whereas with Duolingo I never even reached A2 in three years.

My take with language learning is that there's no magic method, you are going to be tired and consistency beats everything, it's a marathon, not a sprint.
Why do you want/need a PCI based card? Most audio interfaces run off USB these days and Linux supports almost all USB audio class-compliant cards.. Personally I use NI Komplete Audio 1 and Behringer UMC 1820 (yes, on Linux with pipewire and Bitwig you can use multiple cards!)
> Like tqdm (Python progressbar library) but as a Unix utility.

FYI: tqdm can be used in a shell pipeline as well. It's documented (at least) in their readme: https://github.com/tqdm/tqdm#module
This optimism pairs nicely with the next post (“can anyone recommend a sound card… I couldn’t get anything working…”)
Adapt or die. I don't understand why the landed gentry thinks they're entitled to unlimited return on their investment without some effort.
Is every NYC mayor an outright criminal, trying to transfer the wealth from Americans to their rich real estate buddies?

Adams is doing it right now. de Blasio did it. Bloomberg was a Bloomberg, and did it. Giuliani is so crooked that post-mayorship he lost his license to practice law while working for another well known long time thief and scammer in the NYC real estate scene (Trump, which they became criminal partners while Giuliani was mayor); I bet if I keep going back, I'll keep finding names associated with the real estate machine.

I'm surprised this Adams guy thinks there will be no repercussions. America is pissed and wants revenge: we, collectively, don't care who gets thrown under the bus as long as they're a politician or a businessman.

NYC made a bad bet on trying to maintain modern day slavery. The City should suffer, not the people who live there: force the real estate scammers to go bankrupt and take their skyscrapers, tear them down, replace them with something the city needs.
Manual coloring is creative. "Restoring" is a bit of an ambiguous term, but generally, it would not be original expression either. Remember, the test for originality has nothing to do with effort. Restoring something to its original state is not new creative expression, but presenting the existing creative expression.
The way this is said makes it seem like they're expecting to be paid twice for two orders, one returned.

I assume what's being left implicit is that they're actually not paid for the 'KDP printing order' if it ends up returned? So then when someone else orders and receives that one and doesn't return it, there's a printed copy that was never paid out for?
Well, definitely people who get damaged books.
> If you had put just half as much effort into articulating exactly what you did and didn't understand

That's one of the several things you don't understand. My question

> Could someone explain the problem being addressed, and the solution, please?

was clear and polite. The fact that you didn't understand it reflects poorly on you. The fact that, given that you didn't understand it, you still chose to make noise reflects even more poorly on you.
Reading code is easier than starting from scratch. Not sure how that is for a researcher though, just my SWE perspective
Appreciate the heads up! I looked it up here: https://recall.cosori.com/

Fortunately my model is not on the list of recalled products. The one I use is an older version of the `Cosori - Original Air Fryer - Silver`.
I don't know, but we probably wouldn't correct a title after it's been up for that long.
If I receive a damaged item I will return it whether it's a book or not?
Delhi NCR and Bangalore were tech hubs since the 1980s, hence why I'm calling Hyderabad (and Pune) new as they began sprouting in the early 2000s

Indore is becoming the next Hyderabad now as well. It's in the same position that Hyderabad was in the early 2000s.
I doubt google needs to use this as a feature for tracking.

Even if we argued that this was for tracking purposes, google could keep the cookie for tracking and just deny access to the services until a login flow was completed.
The LW crowd is all like that, I think it's neat that they've been able to create this echo chamber for themselves because it leads to some really wonky ideas and norms. I think the rationalists have mostly failed at their stated goals ("raise the sanity waterline"?) at least on an object level. However, I do think there's a good amount of value in the second order effects of a big group of nerds who are rich enough off tech money to eschew a great deal of societal norms and create something so fucking odd when viewed through a normie lens.

I think society's annealing could use more heat, and they provide.
> I’ve heard similar tactics being used at other companies–mostly large companies–and it’ll only continue in 2024 as they make decisions that drive short term profits over all else.

When you tie leadership incentives to short-term profits, that's the only type of decision making that will be done.
Yeah Germany is doing pretty badly they are up and now at 25% coal [0]. Back when they had 12.6% nuclear energy in the mix, it was only 29% [1] coal. Back in those days Germany used to burn much less coal...

[0] https://energy-charts.info/charts/energy_pie/chart.htm?l=en&...

[1] https://energy-charts.info/charts/energy_pie/chart.htm?l=en&...
You have an optimistic view of the legal system. Sure intent matters, but you may still get arrested, spend many nights in jail, get fired from your job, and spend thousands of dollars on legal fees and bail while the system figures out your intent.
Yes, the title's not really capturing that the complaint is about royalties.
Global trade was far more limited prior to the establishment of US hegemony. During the age of empires, merchant vessels often had to carry weapons for protection and/or travel in escorted convoys. All of that leads to higher costs, delays, and the complete closure of indefensible routes.

No one is seriously claiming that global trade will disappear. But from a historical perspective the current frictionless system that most people take for granted is an aberration and we should expect some reversion towards the mean. Whether that's a good thing or not is a matter of perspective.
Pretty sure Amazon's employment agreement / policies forbid moonlighting without manager approval. Which you're very unlikely to get if they're trying to move you out.
True, I added some more!
From Wikipedia:
> A drug is any chemical substance that when consumed causes a change in an organism's physiology, including its psychology, if applicable.

Coffee, psychedelics and alcohol are drugs just like heroin. Whether you believe they are useful to consume is a different matter.
I think this is true of any company. As things get larger, red tape increases, and the mess of spaghetti code and complexity/inter-dependencies of systems means it gets harder and harder for any one person or team to fully understand the environment and avoid/recover from issues.

I actually think that the "pizza team" model in Amazon can help mitigate this, as each individual team operates as its own entity that is discouraged from relying on other teams for uptime... but this is only effective to a point.
Show HN: Notionex – A simple API client and HTML renderer for Notion in Elixir
I'm a bit sad he doesn't have a snake crossing sign (lots of snakes breed in the coulees).

https://maps.app.goo.gl/6ZXzKGNvQBw3mbmK6
A Custom WebAssembly Compiler
> It really doesn't matter how fast you replace the air. If you let in the cold air then you need to warm it up.

Ventilating quickly is preferable to ventilating slowly.
Heat transfer through materials is comparatively slow. That means that exchanging the air in an instant retains the heat in the walls, furniture,… exchanging the air slowly allows heat from materials to „leak out“ as well.
So if I understand the sequence of events right:
1) Developers are reluctant to build in a stagnant area because it would be a risky investment
2) The government provides property tax breaks for some anchor projects in the region
3) More development (including without tax breaks) follows and the area becomes successful, charging high rents
4) Anti-tax-break people point to the high rents and the profitability of the projects without tax breaks and argue that the tax breaks were never necessary in the first place
So instead of the mathematically sound approach of sampling from the categorical output distribution (that the model parameters were fitted to with maximum likelihood) you just inject some noise in the activations, and then pick the highest probability output?
That's not true though.

I've been working there for 6 years and the scale at which layoffs have been happening since 2022 is unparalleled to what has happened in the past.

There may have been some rare team closures here and there before, but people could easily join another team and it was a rare event anyway.

Now, since 2022 it has been massive team shutdowns with hundreds of people laid off every time, while there is a hiring freeze in the whole company. And this will continue in 2024.

Amazon always had a cutthroat culture but at least if you were good (aka not PIPed) you knew you'd fine another team and weren't worried about not having a job the next day. This is not the case anymore.
I think voxel has grown to have two meanings. One is as you describe, another is systems like Minecraft.
Technically I guess "too little too late" is a way to describe it, but the MSX was a pretty big success in its home country - and at least as big a success worldwide as the Amiga was - so you might alternatively describe it as "just enough at just the right time". For your average Japanese consumer, a commodity MSX machine was dirt-cheap and had an absolute murderer's row of high-quality games available for it. The Amiga and Mac were comparatively expensive and software starved for most of the MSX architecture's life...and then the PC came along and ate everything anyway.
Sellafield produced plutonium for bombs. Spain’s reactors are only generating electricity.
Seems down, loads endlessly for me. HN hug?

Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20231230195143/https://openaiwat...
This is an insane amount of fear mongering. Chinese shops have been shamelessly ripping IP from Western companies for years, should we now throw out those laws and let it happen in the US too for the sake of competitive advantage?

Why stop there? There's a ton of child labour in China and other part of the world that yield economic advantages. Should we let that happen in the western world too?

AI is wonderful in so many ways. But we should not throw out our entire way of life to adapt to a new technology.
Well, yes, people wanted control, but also to hear the foreigners are kept out. Not, good news, on our own volition, we decided to let in more people than ever.
Company culture can change over time but that does not mean it will change for the better over time. The problems I mentioned - cutthroat culture, stack ranking, PIPs, forced cuts, high attrition - have all been a thing at Amazon for at least the last 15 years.