skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Project Healthy Minds (startupy mental health nonprofit) | Full-time | NYC | 5d/week in-office

We're looking for someone to lead our small-but-growing engineering team at our Hudson Yards office. There are about 10 full-timers in the office, with more members being added to the product and engineering teams this year. I'm leading product and the search for this role.

This is a unique opportunity – we're building a comprehensive dataset of mental health services and outcomes while prioritizing user privacy. As a nonprofit, we have no incentive to monetize user data. Instead, we're focused on two things: 1) helping people access care across the full treatment spectrum through our screening process (as developed with our clinical advisory committee), and 2) understanding outcomes by collecting anonymized outcome data to understand what actually works in mental healthcare - something that surprisingly doesn't exist yet at scale.

Our goal is to simultaneously solve the discovery problem for people seeking care while building the dataset needed to improve mental healthcare quality and accessibility.

- Lead Engineer: https://jobs.lever.co/project-healthy-minds/5f1128c7-1519-49...
Location: Mexico

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python (Django, Flask), React (TypeScript, JavaScript, GraphQL), MySQL

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-abonce-seguin/ Email: marc-abonce @ mailbox . org

GitHub: https://github.com/MarcAbonce

Hi! I've been a software engineer for about 6 years, split evenly between backend work with Python and frontend with React.

I'm happy to work on either side of the stack (or both) as well as learning new things. The most important thing to me is to create a positive experience for my users.
I find it very interesting that the Constitution doesn't say that a state cannot leave, which suggests that when the state joined the union, it did not explicitly accept this condition.

Then later, when a state wants to leave, it is the Supreme Court (representing all the states) that says "hmm so it was not written, but we now decide that we don't want you to leave".
There is nothing new here [video]
So why link me irrelevant articles instead of saying that when I asked about email?
Seems like a disclaimer more than anything.

GDPNow is a forecast.

And it's a forecast coming from the Atlanta Fed.

The fact it's not "official" means what exactly?
His cult don't matter though. It's the 5-20% of Americans that don't consistently vote for a single party that matter. They've already been convinced that inflation was Biden's fault -- keeping the blame on Biden might be possible.
Critical thinking makes baby Jesus cry.
Good point! And since we can have sub-byte entries in a lookup table, no wonder why a simplistic string interning solution using pointer-sized entries in a lookup might not work as effectively to reduce memory used.
I can imagine using this tech to take high-res landscape videos while driving through wilderness regions or places with amazing vistas in general. You'd obviously need a co-pilot to actually operate the drone, but you could get some really amazing footage on the way to a camp site and while you're camped too. Could be cool for capturing candid videos during parties or at family reunions or such.
By that argument almost everything is. Ate some food that uses single-use plastics? Can't do that! Wanted to keep the lights on at night because it's more cozy? Nope! Want to drive to work because it takes <10 minutes instead of 40 for the bus? Dirty polluter! Want to feel comfortable in winter instead of shivering while covered in blankets? Just think about all that natural gas! Selfish selfish selfish! You can go as far here as you want - there's always something, it never ends.

If you're living in an industrialized country, pretty much everything we do to exist ends up being sub-optimal environmentally.

I'm not saying people should do nothing. But taking no enjoyment in life is also not a solution.
In Turkey, Erdowan managed to win an election a couple of years ago after pursuing a policy for years of reducing interest rates to "tackle inflation" (resulting, rather predictably, in inflation topping out at 44%).
While we are focusing on business use cases, we are seeing a few invidivuals sign up for their own uses.

Email me at yonghee@cuckoo.so so I can help you out with first few months!
But redefining the numbers does effectively prevent us from noticing.
In an industrial setting, these robots would be placed behind interlocked barriers and you wouldn't be able to approach them unless they were de-energized. Collaborative robotics (where humans work in close proximity to unguarded robots) is becoming more common, but those robots are weak / not built with the power to carry their 50kg selves around, and they have other industry-accepted safeguards in place, like sensors to halt their motion if they crash into something.
This tidbit caught my eye:

> Apple runs the world's largest known number of Cassandra/ScyllaDB instances with roughly 300,000 nodes as of 2022

The Big Tech approach to web services is like everyone piling on a cruise ship to commute to work. Certainly brings some conveniences, but the complexity is insane and overall it feels absurd.

The relatively new DB-per-tenant type approaches described in this article are more like renting/leasing a car, or maybe riding the bus to work. Definitely a step in the right direction.

The future will be a mix of these solutions, and selfhosting/indiehosting. Indiehosting is like owning a car. Once the software is as reliable as cars are, many more people will do it.
Without using any elitist numbers, can you express the odds that somebody will miss this parody?
Thanks for explaining!

I think the article says that the factories are important too, and can be altered to produce these different drones much faster than if starting from zero.

And having one's own already verified and certified backdoor free electronics, rather than buying from what might turn out to be the adversary
This doesn't address the underlying problem, but if this is something you'd like to avoid as a consumer, it's worth noting that sewage sludge is not permitted for use in growing organic produce:

> A very important part of the process-based regulatory framework is the prohibition of certain methods in organic production and handling. Methods like irradiation, sewage sludge, and genetic engineering are all expressly prohibited from being used when growing or processing organic foods.

https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/blog/organic-101-what-o...
No, you just need fossil fuel energy to be relatively more expensive, not for energy to be more expensive overall. It's happened already but we're currently being held hostage by the coal burners while they scramble to extract the last bit of rent they can.
I wonder if there mioght not be an opportunity for a warmup based mask inversion: for the first few epoches, only apply the momentum agreeing with instantaneous - after that, invert it since the momentum would technically have more info?

In any case, good idea - reminds me of the "apply same gradient multiple times" trick from a few years ago. May have weird behaviours at low batch sizes though...
Turns out that one of the best things for a healthy economy is a stable economic infrastructure provided by a reliable government! Not randomly and rapidly disintegrating conditions and unclear directions.
Ah yes but you see, all that government spending was just waste. So in the mind of the administration (or at least their public statements) they have miraculously achieved the second case.
This was one of my major concerns when Elon announced Tesla Optimus. There's a real need for government regulation on the bot specs. I blogged about this a while ago.

Something like:

1. They shouldn’t be able to overpower a young adult. They should be weak.
2. They should be short.
3. They should have very limited battery power and should require human intervention to charge them.
4. They should have limited memory.
This is a GDP "nowcast," which only involves measurable numbers. The main criticism of GDP is that by focusing on the exchange of currency, it underestimates barter and social exchanges such as are prevalent in developing countries and Bethesda's Fallout series.
Don't anthropomorphize robots. They hate that.
This kind of abhorrent practice is one of the things that turns me off to a whole lot of different products. Now I know I won't be buying a Rivian, too.
Location: USA

Remote: Remote only

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies:

Python

C#/.NET

Typescript, JavaScript, next.js, node.js, React

AWS: Lambda, Glue, S3, DynamoDb, RDS, SQS, SNS, EventBridge,

CDK, Cloudformation, Redshift

CICD: Gitlab

Data Pipelines: ETL, AWS Glue, spark, pandas

ML pipeline experience

I am looking for an opportunity to build some solid cloud software.
I can gather requirements and work cross functionally.

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/slagree

Resume on request

Email: stephen.lagree@gmail.com
Yes, the Pleiades, which consists of 6 bright points of light in the sky, yet is still called the "Seven Sisters" (or "Seven Brothers", or similar). Some mythologies tell us what happened to the seventh, while others leave the discrepancy unresolved – or else, those stories do not survive.
I'd love to see a Phase One take some pics on the moon.

- 5cm x 4cm sensor

- 150 MP

- $60k
There was a single unhealthy worker that didn't get caught, we just killed it.
I think it'd be helpful to stick with just the military example. (Your comments re Oracle are well taken and I agree)

I don't think you've tackled the problem of if we're playing competition and they build nukes, we need to build nukes. It's a zero sum game and the result is nuclear holocaust.

Do you disagree with the premise and if not, what is your proposed solution?

Regarding there must be a king - I think it'd be helpful if you could summarize your political stance in a few short sentences. I'm worried that we'll be hopelessly lost discussing minutia otherwise.

ps. I've been here a while and always been a fan of your comments :)
It's a smart thing to do, because donating blood has health benefits.
That was not their point.
IME from other countries' autocracies, blaming the predecessors works wonders, but only for so long - maybe 6-12 months.

Eventually voters want cash in their pockets and if they don't have it, they get angry with whoever is at the top.
MIT IAP open education courses on diffusion and data-centric AI
Because we live in a society where the incentives are not conducive to collaboration.

Imagine if everyone had a UBI, and you contributed fixes and improvements to a project because you thought it was cool. That's how professors with tenure for centuries rushed to publish scientific articles, for instance.

In fact, in antiquity, we had the opposite problem to what you describe ... often things were credited to a certain leader of a school (e.g. Pythagoras) even if he didn't invent them.

The problem is that people are thinking about how to make a profit, and it's ubiquitous because it's wrapped up with trying to survive, at all. By the time you make millions of dollars, you still have the PTSD from trying to outrun the bear, you keep going by inertia and making billions.

Competition is far less healthy than collaboration. It's what causes the countries on earth to speed towards AI apocalypse for instance, or fossil fuel apocalypse, etc. The few times they cooperated (e.g. Montreal Protocol, or nonproliferation of chemical weapons) has been a resounding success. I doubt they'll be able to come together like that for AI, though!
Location: Oklahoma
Remote: Preferred, hybrid or onsite with relocation assistance.
Willing to relocate: Yes, but LGBTQ safe states for family.
Technologies: PHP, SQL, MSSV, MySQL, Scripting, Splunk, Bash, Linux, HRIS, server mgmt, CI/CD, operational and process development, error resolution design.
Résumé/CV:https://www.linkedin.com/in/caitlyngondolf/
Email:caitlynmgondolf@gmail.com
Are you still using a threaded interpreter main loop? That didn't really come around until the mid 90's and I've been hearing for about ten years now that it's not a clear win anymore due to predictors being able to read through two levels of indirection.
Computing with Paper (2024) [video]
These heroic officers will have to deal with malefactors that want to rock and roll all night and party every day. This is why they will need an unlimited supply of waterfalls and sandwiches.
For self-driving cars, safety is probably not taking a back seat, otherwise there wouldn't be much profit in them. We just have an unrealistic expectation that they can and must be 100 per cent harmless, which we would never extend to human drivers.

The vast majority of previous transport tech, including horses and mules, was way more gory and dangerous than self-driving cars are.

This includes quite recent developments. How many people died on a Segway?
Tangentially, this is the sort of thing that generally bothers me most about AI. Well, second most thing. The first is it being abused by humans to do terrible things. The second is it being built and maintained by humans, where a thing can easily malfunction in ways the people building and maintaining them can’t comprehend, predict, or prevent, especially when it’s built by organizations with a “move fast and break things” mentality and a willingness to cut corners for profit. The torrents of half-broken tech we are already drowning in don’t exactly inspire confidence.
Anyone looking for a similar experience to Arc, I recommend Zen Browser, based on Firefox: https://zen-browser.app/
You may be underestimating the degree of difference in performance between Ruby and Rust.

Here's comparison of Ruby with JS, and Rust is of course faster still: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

If the code runs 100 times faster, it might just offset even highly inefficient implementation.

> a LOT of programmers are happy writing a n^3

I have the same experience.

Unfortunately, and this is an issue I keep fighting with in some .NET communities, languages like C, C++ and Rust tend to select for engineers which are more likely to care about writing reasonably efficient implementation.

At the same time, higher-level languages sometimes can almost encourage the blindness to the real world model of computation, the execution implications be damned. In such languages you will encounter way more people who will write O(n^3) algorithm and will fight you tooth and nail to keep it that way because they have zero understanding of the fundamentals, wasting the heroic effort by the runtime/compiler to keep it running acceptably well.
> Sign of the times. Deny, deny, deny,

Not really a sign of the times. Innocent until proven guilty isn't a new concept. The burden of proof is on the people suing to show that PFAS both came from the fertilizer and is the cause of the issues.

The article mentions that microplastics was another theory. It's not encouraging when the leading theories appear to be plucked out of current trends for scary chemicals.
My batchmate was saying the same thing, actually.
He was trying to use only Hindi for the demo sakes and it was almost difficult for him to explain his product without referring to English.

We do our best to deal with langauge changes. For example, when talking bio, almost half of the sentence is in English terms and Cuckoo does pretty well in that context as well!
Man is savage and beastial and must be dealt with so.

Some day, there will be those who comprehend civilizing accord, without which we will only know savage power.

Btw, they’re already here and they can hear you think!
If you have a better idea, a literal Nobel prize awaits.
Many people will older brothers will recall the time when the brother had no intention of actually hurting them. They were merely swinging their hands, moving closer.. and closer.
Thanks! We used SkyPilot (an open source cloud GPU worker management tool) to help out with both our small (single node) and large (many node) training runs.
> They've already been convinced that inflation was Biden's fault

It was. Manchin was right. The MMT gang overstimulated the economy in ‘21 and then didn’t pass deflationary tax increases or spending cuts once the problem reared its head.
It's funny that this question isn't answered anywhere in the news!

The question is a bit vague, let's split it up into different options:

1. The government does exactly the same work as it does today, but with 20% fewer employees. The US spends $270B on civilian employees. So 20% of that is $54B. US GDP is 27.72T. 54B is totally irrelevant.

2. The government spends 20% less on everything it can. Most of what the government spends on cannot be cut, it's fixed. Social security, medicare, defense, healthcare, veterans benefits, interest in existing loans, etc. https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder... If you take away the parts that cannot be cut, you're left with discretionary spending. https://usafacts.org/articles/how-much-of-the-federal-budget... That's about $300B (because we need to leave out defense and things like veteran's benefits and income security which are discretionary but must be paid). What remains is education, parks, research, etc. If we cut 20% of that about $300B which is left over, we're still talking $60B.

So no, a magically 20% more efficient federal government won't do anything to GDP, because it won't do anything for government spending. Pretty much all government spending is in direct payments to help people and in defense. That's why DOGE and others cannot possibly make any difference at the large scale, they can only hurt people while providing nothing meaningful to the country.
Repairable Flatpack Toaster
Better to import it from poorer countries right? Or would you wanna make it illegal to import it too which would result in many dead people?
Liquidate sounds a tad aggressive, maybe 'retire'?
GDP itself is a mathematical model too - just a much more sophisticated one which utilizes more data.
I actually had a very similar experience!

I could modify my email address in all my important accounts, and over the years a few have prevented me from doing it (butif they don't let you change your email address, it's generally not a good service). Which is okay, because my password manager remembers which ones those are :-).
Personally I fail to see how this worry can be 'new'.

A 'new' transportation worry: many car drivers don't know where to turn or even where they are heading without GPS.
If you try to do this in a work context, you'll be told you are wasting time. Even if you aren't fired, you will not be considered for promotion: the way to do that is to have "a lot of impact". This means shipping a lot of half-baked stuff. The other piece of the puzzle you need is having good "work ethic". This is best demonstrated via late-night debugging heroics where you patch up the crud you shipped earlier while getting "impact" points. For whatever reason people who run companies believe that their customers wants "lots of crud quickly" instead of quality products.
> But what about education? That's nearly impossible to measure because we're learning different things.

At least at the college I attended, what you studied had zero correlation to the cost, every full-time student paid the “same” tuition as everyone else.
> redefining the numbers does effectively prevent us from noticing

Not really. If they started fucking with BLS statistics, that would be a problem. But DOGE hasn’t gotten there yet.
I hear the standard practice is to have the IP of the poem owned by a foreign entity(Ireland is pretty popular) and then for the US entity to pay a royalty of $50 trillion to the foreign entity so that the net revenue in the US is zero.

I believe it has it's own name - The double Irish.
Not sure you're paying attention but they wouldn't bat an eye at not certifying an election or two.
it's more like the circus hired psychotic villains because they thought it would be funny. The state of things is a direct result of a functioning democracy.
I don't think it's inability to distinguish. At least for those in the public sphere, it's a willful disregard for facts entirely, because acknowledging facts would put them in opposition to the president, thus potentially setting them up to be banished by the party.
This is not "government workers" in the sense of normal government employees trying to do their jobs with limited resources. This is "personal lackeys of the richest man on earth". Please don't imply equivalence.
This is very similar to the idea of Zooming User Interfaces (ZUI) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooming_user_interface
I think that was sarcasm... I hope that was sarcasm.
Location: Asheville, NC
Remote: Yes
Willling to relocate: No
Technologies: Python, SQL, R, Excel
Résumé: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZF0YMEFMTj7C31ZUgYK3AdFF...
Email: bjkellogg @ hey . com

0-1 data-driven PM looking for next opportunity doing growth for a B2B company.
> But alas, blood donors in Australia must be 81 years or younger, so I guess the question is academic in this case.

> Once you’re 81 you must have donated in Australia in the last 5 years to remain eligible.

https://www.lifeblood.com.au/faq/eligibility/other/age?_gl=1....

(That’s the nastiest long URL I’ve ever seen. All I did was click the “find out more” link here: https://www.lifeblood.com.au/blood/eligibility/quiz )
What percent of government spending is due to federal employee payroll?

I heard it was 3% to 5%. If so, then 20% layoffs would save < 1%.

Unless they have a "trickle down/up" effect?

Similar data downthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43246891
Snow leopard is fondly remembered but was buggy has hell when initially released. It got good, with time…
> Salaries are not set according to how much you need the money.

This is not true at all.

When I started working at Microsoft in 2007, Microsoft was one of the most profitable tech companies of all time. (They still are!)

Salaries in the Pacific Northwest were around 1/2 to 2/3rds what they were in the bay area, and total comp was a lot less, since MS's stock was flatlined at the time.

But do you know what we all told each other?

"Housing here is cheap, traffic isn't bad, it isn't worth it to move to the Bay Area."

A senior engineer is happy earning 130K a year if they can get a good house for 500 or 600k!

Once housing prices started exploding, salaries had to go up.

(The other counterpoint would be that many companies have location specific CoL adjustment to their salary bands)

> The reason US salaries are high is that US software companies can make staggering amounts of money.

SAP makes staggering amounts of money!

For knowledge workers, salaries are very disconnected from how much value the employee brings to the company.
It's consistently voting for a single party that gets us into this trouble. I wish I had sane Republicans to vote for to squelch the corrupt politicians on the other side. They've all run for the shadows and let MAGA take over the party as if Animal Farm was a howto guide.