Hacker News: harvey9

New comment by harvey9 in "The Deeply Impersonal Personalized Recruiter Mail"

harvey9 — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 20:30:00 +0000

I get ones for projects specific languages that are not on my resume. Never mind crappy models, they could rule me out with traditional keyword matching.

New comment by harvey9 in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

harvey9 — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 15:58:17 +0000

As long as you don't mind people remote working then no need to limit the pool nor pay visa fees.

New comment by harvey9 in "House with 15m underground tunnels for sale for 300k"

harvey9 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:27:55 +0000

Fans of Wind Rose (the band) maybe?

New comment by harvey9 in "What I learnt co-leading an AI Safety bootcamp for legal and governance practit"

harvey9 — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 18:23:28 +0000

In conducting his affair he was breaking the lockdown rules that he had written, which harmed their credibility. The antivax crowd (I am not a member) quite reasonably extrapolated that if the architect of lockdown was not locking himself down then he wasn't too worried about the virus, ergo vaccines were being oversold. When you are a public figure like that then the personal is political.

New comment by harvey9 in "Reasons I didn't become an EMT, ranked"

harvey9 — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 10:49:51 +0000

We already have a machine that can do CPR very well. What we don't yet have is a robot that can enter an unfamiliar environment and safely extract a patient who may have other injuries or be entrapped.

New comment by harvey9 in "DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows"

harvey9 — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 06:45:00 +0000

No jurisdiction but their operatives have global reach. For most people the more practical risk for any rented ai is IP theft.

New comment by harvey9 in "Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests"

harvey9 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:37:32 +0000

I once cracked a pretty good joke on a high-traffic thread and got about 30k upvotes for that one post. None of my serious posts in serious subreddits ever got close. I don't think Reddit karma is a useful indicator of anything.

New comment by harvey9 in "California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops"

harvey9 — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 21:26:35 +0000

'a lot' depends on how much you had to begin with.

New comment by harvey9 in "Show HN: HN.watch – Videos of all Hacker News posts"

harvey9 — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 17:36:52 +0000

Please, nobody click on the link to this hn item within hn.watch as it would be even more dangerous than typing 'google' into Google

New comment by harvey9 in "Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS"

harvey9 — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 15:25:06 +0000

In the UK, Trading Standards is done at local authority level. There is no funding scenario where your local council is going to be able to go toe-to-toe with big tech.

New comment by harvey9 in "Show HN: I built a new version of my fun spatial 3D online meeting app"

harvey9 — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:47:22 +0000

Having a birds eye view changes the dynamic of an in person event because you can more easily observe who makes a beeline for who. But as someone who gets a headache from first person games I still prefer birds eye anyway.

New comment by harvey9 in "Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes"

harvey9 — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 06:53:52 +0000

Looks like the criteria were 1. No cost to the government/taxpayer. 2. Minimal work for the civil service.

New comment by harvey9 in "How much of F-Droid is LLM generated?"

harvey9 — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:51:16 +0000

This seems tenuous. The LLM is not being exploited.

New comment by harvey9 in "Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?"

harvey9 — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 22:16:23 +0000

Not obvious to everyone.

New comment by harvey9 in "The Waymo effect: how AI is quietly making research less collaborative"

harvey9 — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:54:40 +0000

I suspect the person you replied to only happened to see that from physics grads. I have seen it in all sorts of people and I sometimes did it myself when I was young (I am not a physics grad).

New comment by harvey9 in "Young Americans have never witnessed a functioning foreign policy"

harvey9 — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 17:13:54 +0000

Popular opinion can just be at local scale. Hence Tom Lehrer's joke

"It takes a certain amount of courage to get up in a coffee house or a college auditorium and come out in favour of the things everyone else in the room is against like peace and justice and brotherhood and so on"

New comment by harvey9 in "We built our house for LAN parties (2024)"

harvey9 — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 11:15:35 +0000

I used to work for a firm that did custom homes for wealthy clients. Even when we paired them up with designers some of them just preferred a very plain appearance.

That said, I thought the games room with rows of hide-away PCs looked like a call centre or at best a 90s internet cafe.

New comment by harvey9 in "Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone"

harvey9 — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 07:17:28 +0000

People choose not to because they see no need to, but if they put some time, effort and not a lot of money then those barriers are not so high. I took the trouble to get a driving license because I saw value in that. I also took the trouble to learn to set up my own stuff on a VPS because I saw value in that too.

New comment by harvey9 in "Urban Congestion Pricing and the Response Times of Emergency Medical Services"

harvey9 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 15:57:34 +0000

I thought it was an allusion to trams.

New comment by harvey9 in "Mental Health Workers Say Algorithmic Triage Is Hurting Patients"

harvey9 — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 18:11:56 +0000

This is still ER - clinicians using AI tools. The MH triage flow is patient interacts with an AI by typing or speaking. It could work - maybe the systems in the article are just not very well set-up.