skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Transsexualism was a bit less common back then but I imagine this was also because the medical tech wasn't at the required level yet to really make a transition possible.”

Transsexualism/trangenderism was indeed a bit less common then (or at least more hidden from the public sphere), but that wasn’t so much due to surgical tech. Gender affirming surgery in the form of vaginoplasty was performed as early as 1922. Gender affirming hormone replacement therapy and other procedures also date back decades.

Of course, the availability of these procedures have increased over time, but I don’t think the technology has been the primary barrier to trans people’s public existence. The trans movement’s progress has had far more to do with advocacy and activism increasing cultural tolerance. And also creating a broader cultural awareness, which in turn allows even more closeted/questioning trans people to put a name to their experiences, and learn about the possibilities available to them.

For perhaps the vast majority of time prior to the mid twentieth century, most trans people had no trans role models, and often no awareness that other trans people even existed, much less that medical procedures were available to help them. That’s all, mostly, thanks to the many trans people who fought (and died) for things to improve.

Surgical tech advancements have definitely helped, but they aren’t as central to the growing numbers of trans people coming out. Our social, legal, and political changes have been hard won, and we are constantly fighting to preserve them—see Michael Knowles recent call to “eradicate transgenderism” to a crowd of applause at CPAC: https://www.rollingstone.com/t/michael-knowles/

Surgical tech does us little to no good if our public existence is outlawed and violently suppressed.
We could attempt to define the "fair" population of a country based on its land area and some other factors. Splitting up a country into parts then wouldn't grant it a larger fair population, since you would split up the area as well. The necessity of doing this is that otherwise, when one country decides to expand its population, every other country has to accept a lower allocation of the world's resources. The difficulty of doing this is that you are inflicting on the residents of a country a lower allocation of those resources on the basis of something they had no control over, namely the country of their birth.
If you audit every election after they are done, what is the danger of using electric voting machines ?
It seems obvious to me that we shouldn't draw a special distinction between chats and emails. In practice most chat clients give you lots of email-like functionality unless you go out of your way to configure them not to - timestamped history, search, archival of attached images, etc. While chat is "realtime" it's often used asynchronously just like email, and it's possible to send emails in near realtime if you have notifications turned on.

I would personally hope that if someone is obligated to retain records, turning on an 'auto-delete' for any kind of record would be strongly discouraged, regardless of whether it's chats, emails, voicemails, etc. They could always just talk in person, then there's no recording to delete.
Average user: Bank card requires 4 digits PIN, so it must be safe
Sounds like a bit of projection so
All of what I said is right and all of what you said is right. The grandparent comment stated that.

> As a rural tax payer I'm paying for some city dwellers to sit around all day doing nothing. All the benefits you enjoy as a result of living in a modern society have been paid for by someone other than you.

No part of that is right. Economically rural areas are a drain justified only by farming, votes, and a charitable desire to serve our fellow man. The idea that a handful of farmers are somehow paying for the teeming masses in the city to sit on their hands is wrong on its face.
Isn’t DHTML just 00s speak for SPA? Not much difference between an accordion and react router, except the history API.
Ask HN: A software to monitor and restrict file access on macOS (or other OS)?
I’m looking for a software that would allow me to control what process can access what files. For example, it should intercept attempts of any process to open a file and give me a prompt to allow or deny that action. Like Little Snitch, but for the filesystem.

Little Flocker is the only app I found, but it was apparently discontinued in 2017. Overall, it doesn’t look like this topic is popular. However, it seems as important as a network firewall to me.

Consider the following threat scenario:
Pretty much any program that runs on my computer (from my user) can read almost any file without me knowing it. For example, it can read my Firefox profile folder, and steal any web session. Note that FF cookies are not encrypted on disk, and the network firewall may not prevent the leakage in cases when the malware pretends to have legitimate reasons to talk to the internet.

If you are aware of anything similar for other operating systems, please share as well.
So why did investors have to loose big time on a 1.8B loss when the bank had 16B in assets?

Seems like SVB was scarified
They claimed they had made a tool to prevent plagiarism.

On closer inspection, it turns out the tool itself was plagiarized.

That was certainly a mistake.
They have been bsod & crashing in win11. Hopefully like Samsung gets fixed fast, but it's been an issue for 6 mo now.

Really quite impressed by the sn850x but also iirc it also bogs down under prolonged writes[1]. But great general speed, good price. Hoping WD can keep iterating well.

[1] https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/wd-black-sn850x-ssd-rev...
What is the answer? Let’s spend three months “fixing” the process so that we maybe can ship two days earlier? Or check upcoming classes and an in-progress book on AGILE? Bold marketing bait, probably leading to a generic advice.
> I feel like this is obvious and yet people keep making this argument for some reason.

It's because scores of people coming from non-art domains are suddenly being exposed to the art domain without much real knowledge of working in that domain, find the diffusion tech convincing enough that it entrances them, and makes them believe that their original notions of art are the most important thing that matters.

This debate has made me think, if there's some inability to automate a process, only the people that have spent months/years working in those domains will understand certain things about that process. The rest will be operating on only the beliefs they form from limited exposure. For example, I imagine for a lot of people, "art" is something that magically appears in their Twitter timeline within 5 seconds of opening the app, and years of opening Twitter and seeing new art almost instantly would probably condition some to believe that's all art really is, a thing that's plentiful and can be found near-instantly. So it's not controversial to them when they come across a piece of software that can give them thousands of new pictures near-instantly.

But obviously, prior to around October of 2022, there was nearly always a human behind the art on those timelines. To a human artist, their own work is probably not as plentiful and takes way longer to produce than to consume. Those consumers never needed to interact with the artist or understand the process to appreciate the art privately. Up to now that was usually not a problem.

Maybe that idea will undergo changes in the following years, that the tech is so advanced that a level of respect for the specific process of human artists is necessary for cordial communication of art to succeed. Otherwise it will be disparaged with the equivalent of "opinion discarded" from the nature of the thing.

It makes me wonder, what are the implications of this for domains that haven't been automated to the extent of SD yet? SD has proven that many, many people wanted this level of "art" automation from the beginning. The singular event that made this fact clear was the release of SD. There could be millions of people out there with their own preconceived notions, correct or not, just waiting for the ability to cut out the middleman in their own domains. It's like a powder keg waiting for the tiniest spark of technological progress to be ignited.

For the "respect of artists" angle, I'm reminded of this article[1] about a modern art installation from 12 years ago where people's art contest entries were trampled upon by visitors. People were upset by this.

As Marshall McLuhan once stated, "art is anything you can get away with."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixiv#Chaos_Lounge
Dish has a streaming service through Sling, which itself used to be a completely different product.
My understanding is that the actual circumvention of protections on a copyrighted work is itself a crime under the DMCA, unless your use case is covered by an exemption. It's not a specific set of prohibited uses that doesn't include ML.

In short: "Section 103 (17 U.S.C Sec. 1201(a)(1)) of the DMCA states: No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title."

So if Glaze is viewed as a protection measure, circumventing it would itself be a breach.
I've been feeling similar feelings. It's not fear technically. It's that inability to predict where the future even 5 years from now will fall. The company I've built, the tech I believe is a real advantage for my customers, I'm beginning to question it all. I know GPT-4 isn't capable of doing what I personally and my company is today. But the rate of improvement has me shocked as well. I'm not a luddite by any stretch of the world, but I'm beginning to wonder the impact this will have on the world, and by extension my corner of the world.

Excited and really really worried at the same time.
IMO, Hong Kong's number 1 problem is that its unique position as the gateway to China has faded away, both the role as an intermediary and as a key shipping port.

Everything else is just detail.
I too think the unfairness is the problem here with the acceptability of Bitcoin as reserve currency. But not in the way the parent proposes. Bitcoin as reserve currency is such a zero sum outcome, unlike stock market investment gains, because the no coiners loose everything and the maxis gain everything that the others lost.

People who held google stock early actually provided a lot of value to society. By either investing in or working for a company that radically transformed how people use the Internet. You can argue early investors into Bitcoin are the same but in a much lesser way than if you aren’t Satoshi and didn’t contribute to the core development or advocacy of Bitcoin. Most hodlers just bought it and held on and did nothing.

The unfairness of this is so rankling that it’s hard to imagine that Bitcoin as reserve currency settles into an accepted equilibrium without significant violence on a global scale.
On the other hand:

“The Problem with UChicago’s Glaze”

https://jackson.sh/posts/2023-03-glaze/

Yesterday, the SAND Lab at UChicago made Glaze available to download. It’s a tool to help artists protect against their work being used to train AI models. It got a bit of buzz last month, including a New York Times spot. However, it has some issues:

1. The authors plagiarized code from DiffusionBee, an AI art tool licensed under GPL.

2. The paper contains inflammatory and libelous language with no legal backing.

3. It doesn’t work and I was able to execute a proof-of-concept bypass in minutes!

Each of the sections below will go into further detail on these points.
I always put "stealth start-up" as whatever company I am currently at for historical reasons I won't cover here. But listed my current company as "stealth start-up" is an automatic filter for spam & bots.

"Hey Justin, love what you're doing at Stealth start-up..." or "We were looking through Stealth Start-up's web site and noticed..." or "Your work at Stealth Start-up has been amazing, would you be open..."

Let's me roundfile an awful lot of dross really fast.
SQL injections are preventable by either 1) escaping input (so that your query and the input continue to come in a single stream), or 2) sending the query out-of-band, using prepared statements with placeholders

Converting this situation to AI, perhaps 2) can be done with https://github.com/openai/openai-python/blob/main/chatml.md, but if you were stuck with an unstructured text input and had to do 1), how would you escape the untrusted user input?
No but someone else would have made it eventually. Maybe a little bit later. Tech does not happen in a vacuum, even in earlier centuries the same invention happened around the same time in different parts of the world.
Your analogies don't wash! Westerners fish legally! How about telling China to fish legally? Here is list of just a few territories, "just" eighty of them, where they have illegally fished: https://www.tibetrightscollective.in/news/new-report-shows-c....

And this is how fishing legally is done: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/seafood-commerce-tra....
> but didn’t build civilization

I don't know what this is supposed to mean.

Anyway, you avoided saying anything about third world countries, so maybe I need to repeat my question non-rhetorically.
Yeah, agreed. Per-capita and the whole social justice thinking that comes from is the worst thing to happen to environmentalism since they joined forces with the fossil fuel industry to lobby against hydro and nuclear.

The perverse incentives it creates for regimes to increase population and reduce living standards are ridiculous.
There was an episode of Loveline (the radio show) ~20-25 years ago where a young woman called in who grew up in a large mansion. Part of what she brought up was that there was a man who lived in the walls/unfinished spaces of the wing of the mansion her bedroom was in, and I believe that one of the exits from inside the walls just happened to be her bedroom closet. Basically every kid's worst nightmare.
Huh, lots of El Paso and Anchorage.
Related: "The slog / Structured Logging Proposal is Accepted" https://github.com/golang/go/issues/56345#issuecomment-14705...
This is an incredibly interesting study and brings to light some crucial points that we, as a society, need to address sooner rather than later. As GPTs become more powerful and ubiquitous, they have the potential to reshape the labor market in ways we haven't seen since the industrial revolution.
What's the incentive for the pest company to do it that way, vs just kill the current ones/make the house unattractive (and thus expect probably to get business from some neighbours soon)?
Interesting, I'm going to have to rewatch and see if that's the case.
It's so strange they didn't set the show in Bend Oregon where the last Blockbuster actually is. It's set in Michigan and filmed in Vancouver. The area surrounding Vancouver is probably a lot closer to Bend than anywhere in Michigan.
That’s a great way to collapse the banking system and screw over millions of people
I think it has less to do with the words they follow and much more to do with the fact that Brown Windows is more common word combo than Brown Widows. Also for me I have been in the process of doing some home construction so windows are much more on my mind than spiders.
This game is unplayable on iphone
From what I've read, it seems the virus jumped into the human population around mid-November 2019 at the latest, and possibly early in October.

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/first-covid-19-case-coul...

> "Another study by Australian scientists, published on Thursday in the Scientific Reports journal, used genomic data to show SARS-CoV-2 binds to human receptors far more easily than other species, suggesting it was already adapted to humans when it first emerged."

I think the evidence is steadily getting stronger for Sars-CoV-2 being the result of the accidental infection of a lab worker with a CRISPR-modified bat betacoronavirus that was being tested in human cell lines and/or genetically modified lab animals. From there it spread globally by train and airplane.
Your database IS protected with a pass phrase

When you enable the PIN, you deliberately weaken your security for convenience. However, when the database unloads, your database is still protected by your pass phrase.
This effect is distorted by our soft-money standard which enables unlimited money printing and which allows the economy to be detached from the process of value creation.

On a hard-money system, monetary rewards can only be attained by providing value to others who also provide value to others. The extent of your reward for servicing your customers is proportional to the extent of the economic value provided by those customers in aggregate (in terms of how they service their own customers). It's more profitable to service people/companies who are effective at servicing others.

In a soft-money system, there is no guarantee that a specific entity earned their money through value creation; e.g. the money could have been sourced from a loan from a now-bankrupt company which provided no economic value (just spent the money into the economy and went bankrupt soon after)... Or it could come from huge, overpaid government contracts. It could come from corrupt dictators who are laundering government-issued money between each other, etc... With money printing, it's too easy to spend money which you can just create out of thin air. There are too many weak points which can be exploited and which can undermine the entire premise of free market capitalism.

If an industry experiences productivity gains, it does not entail that they would need more workers; the opposite should be true. The entire premise of productivity gains is that you need fewer workers to provide the same amount of value. If the productivity gains within an industry were real, that industry would not need more workers and it would not be pulling workers from other industries and thus driving up the salaries of remaining workers (due to labor shortages in those unproductive industries). Specialized skills are required to deliver productivity gains; it's not like you can hire a petrol station attendant to build your AI with Tensorflow...

What's really going on (a much more powerful force) is that some unproductive industries are subsidized by money printing so they grow regardless of the value they bring to society and they just create bullshit jobs. Workers just move from industries which aren't well subsidized by money printing to industries which are. This movement of workers does drive up increases in salaries in other industries, but it has nothing to do with productivity. If anything, the fact that some industries benefit more from money printing than others may explain why there is such inequality in productivity growth across industries. Money printing creates incentives which, for example, keep tech workers out of certain industries (since they can get paid more to work a bullshit job). Why are so many tech people working for Big Tech (where they are clearly not needed given the recent rounds of mass firings) and so few working on farming, building/construction automation and robotics (for example).
We usually try to capture the ones we encounter and send them outside. If we find ourselves doing that again soon after for the same part of the house, we'll give that room an extra thorough cleaning, on the theory that the spiders have food because the spider food has food because of us.
This is the correct answer. (My org at least) routes these legal requests quite differently and they are all handled promptly
Another trick is to put an emoji into your LinkedIn name. Makes it real clear which recruiters are auto-generating mass emails.
Test in production. Fix the bugs your servers complain about, then fix the bugs your users complain about, then move on. Unless you’re building critical systems that support life or your failure mode is bankruptcy, it probably doesn’t matter. Look at Twitter right now. Things are broken left and right and it’s still more popular than anything Allen Holub has ever made.

Embrace “good enough” and collect your payment. You aren’t changing the world.
These both appear to be American businesses serving American users. 95% of the worlds population don't live there. Both copyright laws and rights holders vary significantly around the world. This is far from a solved issue.
> All these arguments defending that only HKers should determine HK culture forgets that PRC "immigrants" to HK are NEW HKers and get a voice too, even if the flows inevitably shifts them towards becoming "just another Chinese city" - as if Chinese cities are all homogeneous.

Maybe think about the "why" instead of just complain? Try to understand things instead of just saying they suck?

- Can you use Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc in China? No.

- Do you get a death sentence in China? Yes.

- If you say something against the current government can you get arrested? Yes.

- Do you know what happened to Jack Ma and many others?

- Can you move your hard earned money out of China?

And lots more...

No it's not the same. HK provided what China mainland couldn't. It was seen as a paradise at 1 point and PRC wanted to get rid of this superiority. It made more $$$, had better jobs, better lifestyle, etc. People wanted to go here like in the "gold rush". The hype train was setting foot on HK = getting rich. Of course this didn't happen. This created a huge divide.

It's not that the culture changed. It's not that things moved fast. It's that it's driven away the essence of what made HK great.

And it's not like Americans don't complain about Mexicans. Trump even wanted to build his own wall :)
I appreciate that is a full game with nice graphics. I found the controls a bit unresponsive. Had to press multiple times in order to turn a corner.
So much for that...dropping like a stone. People will be more amazed by how fast it falls than how fast it goes up. It always falls so fast just when it seems like it is going to break out. For example, in April 2022 when it was at $47k over the weekend...two months later it got as low at 19k. It has not bottomed yet from a technical analysis perspective. The bottoming out process , based on past bear markets, takes about 2-3 years. It has only been 16 months.
Yes, to an extent. But many people are reporting symptoms like anxiety, depression, or brain fog, which, while could be caused by the virus, could also be caused by the pandemic. Fear, isolation, lack of social interactions can cause detrimental damage, and this should not be overlooked.
As a teenager during US history class, I just could not wrap my mind around the viciousness with which politicians would fight about issues like central banking. I used to think the 'abolish the Fed' people were kooks.

As an adult, I totally get it. I even believe that, without the Fed, things would be more unstable. However, it seems to me that the cost of the Fed's stability is the creation of a 'super-banked' aristocracy. At the end of the day, normal people have to bear the costs, while the aristocracy is bailed out with an expediency almost unheard of from our government.
https://datastackshow.com/
Haven’t they already been rewarded for it? The magic Internet money is worth more than 20k USD, whereas it started out at 0.
Why is it any different to give an individual an unsecured loan rather than a large failed institution?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKyrni9s8Ew
A kid that can get onto monkey bars has a much worse strength/weight than a two year old.
If I'm being honest, I have no idea what's going on in this scene.
I'm already doing my part by not eating any kind of seafood.