I'd be interested in analyzing ATC transcripts to quantify the frequency of communication errors like that in day-to-day operations. Express permission, followed by an explicit (and matching) read-back, to enter a runway should be easy to identify (and the opposite as well). I see liveatc.net has audio archives, and tailstrike.com has transcripts of select accidents.
Tech for good: We're a tech nonprofit building an AI Career Coach for education and workforce development customers. We are a well-funded, remote-first 501c3 that has been developing large-scale career platforms for underrepresented youth for over a decade. We've served millions of young people, and are an early mover on AI within the nonprofit space. The stack is Django, Langchain, React. AWS and GCP. Multi-LLM.
If we believed ChatGPT was the cause of an SO decline, then I'd expect it to also cause a decline in Google searches for programming queries. Here's the Google Trends data for two super-common error codes and one more conceptual programming search query:
That's not constructive. Please refrain from attacks like this on HN.
AWS Organizations is changing the name of the “master account” to “management account”. It makes sense for OP to update their docs accordingly, to remain consistent with AWS's naming system.
Objectively speaking, it may not seem constructive if you disagree with the statement. I have no skin in this game, and the change doesn't bother me. I do however, understand the sentiment from a non-western cultural and societal perspective, as I work with a veritable United Nations on a daily basis. Until AWS completely scrubs the language in question from their ecosystem, for example [1], I can see how that call out is misconstrued as being in the spirit of "political correctness" from another's perspective.
I believe you missed an opportunity to engage in good faith conversation with information that could have turned their perspective towards something more positive in nature. As such, I view your reply as not constructive.
The top level post asks to change it for political reasons not to match new aws changes which would make sense. Trying to shutdown discussion by saying this wasn't constructive is not something HN supports and I would ask you to refrain from doing that. The fact that previously neutral words are now negative words is fair game. Perhaps they were never neutral words. Let's discuss, not dismiss.
> The top level post asks to change it for political reasons not to match new aws changes which would make sense.
Not quite. I didn’t actually ask for the wording to be changed. At the very least (and primarily), it’s a term AWS is retiring, and a company like Vantage whose service is entirely based off AWS (for now) is wise to keep parity. That I alluded to companies having reasons for updating certain words is relevant and useful. And I leave it unsaid as to what the reasons are and whether they’re justified because that’s up to the Vantage CEO if there’s further merit beyond syncing docs to make the change.
How exactly does that work with the MIT license? If someone sponsors and gains access to the repo, they're permitted to fork and redistribute the code, right?
Nothing in the MIT license prevents you from doing that. But the author could disable your access to the repo any time, and once that happens, your fork would be forever out of date I'd expect.
Of course, doing so would make me question why the author released this under a permissive license to begin with.
I'm not looking to block anyone. I want this to be open. And I don't want a confusing license. The code is pretty unobscured on npm so its less convenient but the source is free for anyone who can be bothered to go that route.
My reasoning is more that this is my side project, and I have limited time, and this seems like a good experiment to see if I can make OSS sustainable for once and also allow me to target help (my free time) towards users who are most invested in the project.
In the future I would like to open the repo but it might be tied to hitting a sponsorship amount or perhaps an extra service/product on top for those that want it.
Yeah that's fine. But repo access is more a convenience upsell, you can always get the source code (or pretty close transpiled code) from the npm distribution.
FastForward is probably the largest and furthest along in organizing around Tech Nonprofits specifically, with a pretty solid base of alumni success stories(https://www.ffwd.org/).
I'd also look at Visible Connect, which is tech nonprofit focused. Full Circle Fund, if you're in the Bay Area. Since you mentioned you're in Education, you should also look at the Aspire Accelerator, which isn't exclusively tech nonprofit but includes many tech nonprofits.
You could also consider YC which has taken a few nonprofits.
It's GREAT that you're in this position! CONGRATULATIONS!!!
I went through this as well. 10 years ago I was at the peak of a career but missing purpose. I rededicated my life to serving other people. It has given me a whole new lease on existence, and I can't recommend it enough. It really feels better to give than to receive!
The short, overly simplistic answer is that all you need to do to rededicate yourself to a life of helping people is to listen and learn to what they need. Volunteering is a good way to learn about people who need help, but it's not the only way. Volunteering in person can be tough right now because of COVID, but there are some things you can do online, and if you have a bit of patience you could wait until in-person volunteering picks back up again and then establish some goals for yourself (e.g., "volunteer at least 3 days each month for 6 months")
Outside of volunteering, you could take time to listen to and learn about people who you think might need help. Depending on your geography, those might be different folks.
If the things above STILL don't work for you, you could do something that is maybe slightly more dangerous, but still can work. Flip it around and look for things to be outraged by. Things you can't stand. Mass deforestation. Racial injustice. Human trafficking. 1000 other injustices to choose from. And then get active! (Be cautious with this one -- rage alone isn't productive -- you have to mix your outrage with your proactive strengths and positive energies too!)
In my case, I ended up discovering my passion for helping low-income youth prepare for careers, which became my full-time focus and it's been a true privilege to work on.
This. There is a group of computer illiterate people who do important work for our society but they were forced to work or learn from home, a team viewer sessions once or twice a day is really refreshing to see how our IT skills are useful - and that instant gratification "thank you" and joy in the camera.
Seems good for managing yourself, but what are you all using to collaborate with your colleagues. For example I want my team to be able to assign me tasks (I'm CEO). Right now they do that in Asana.
