skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You realize this is the exact opposite of what happened, right? Governments and churches were very firmly convinced at the start of the AIDS epidemic that it was exclusively a thing that happened to gay people, even though it spreads through any kind of sexual activity. In fact, the LGBT community is largely more careful about STDs than the general public--when it was claimed that monkeypox spread more easily through anal sex (a mirror of earlier bogus claims about AIDS), the LGBT community responded faster than the government did[1].

Turning this around and saying that the gay community "tried to downplay the risks of unprotected sex" is a flat-out lie. The LGBT community has been working harder to share resources about safe sex than most US state governments do, through sites like the Trevor Project. What they have 'downplayed' is the idea that AIDS is more common among gay men because it's more easily transmitted through anal sex. The actual reason that HIV incidence happens more often among gay men is that, up until very recently, getting tested for HIV meant having to tell someone about your sexuality in the 80s and 90s, a time when violence targeting gay men was on the rise[2]. Getting tested could mean getting beaten half to death--or worse--if the wrong person found out, so people avoided getting tested. Would you let someone beat you half to death for 'moral superiority'? (If the answer is 'yes', I suspect you might not understand how severe a beating that is.)

Simply put, you are spreading misinformation. I hope this post helps others recognize that misinformation for what it is.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/29/health/monkeypox-lgbtq-slow-r...
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/1986/11/23/us/violence-against-homos...
Cool to see a bunch of my old games here (one from 2003!) https://flashmuseum.org/browse/developer/danny-miller/

Shameless plug, my original Flash puzzle game Psychopath was recreated as a modern react site (with the original levels imported) and native app and many of the players who are from the original community back in 2005 are playing and creating new levels https://pathology.gg
I care far more about the availability of scientific publications than about producers putting DRM on their own products.

The thing I'm against is the government telling me that I can't strip DRM. But I think it's everybody's right to wrap their creations in a puzzle; it's just cheating to get the cops to hit me with a stick if I try to solve that puzzle, or try to tell anyone else how to solve it.
Try to imagine using a computer without any internet access to book an airline ticket. It doesn't really matter how many or which operations your computer can perform, it is not able to book an airline ticket unless there is another computer which can accept that booking and which your computer can talk to. The internet is next to useless for booking ryan air flights until ryan air puts one of their computers onto the internet and gives it authority to issue bookings.

Blockchains are like virtual computers. It is absolutely possible to imagine ryan air deploying a smart contract to ethereum and giving it sufficient authority to issue bookings but until that happens ethereum is next to useless for booking ryan air flights. This is the oracle problem.

Here I've focused on the write-path but "the oracle problem" usually refers to the read-path. Say you have some prediction market where participants can place bets on who the next US president will be. How do you resolve that market? When Congress certifies the election they do not publish that certification onto any blockchain. Maybe some day they will. But for now blockchains have to make do with various hacks which allow them to imperfectly track what is happening in the outside world.
How to make easy money with your brain chip.
Don't forget the single biggest problem of sysvinit:

Making services start in a deterministic order when the appropriate (and necessary) resources are actually available.
Looks much better than what I currently use but alas, I also want to be able to fill and view data from the desktop as well.
It is long rant that lists all griefs that author has with musk and Tesla.

I stopped reading at about 1/3 of this article because whatever this article’s title promised still doesn’t started.
That’s awesome! Nice initiative!

I got my first real tech job in a similar way. I was moving into a dorm at a state university (1999 or so) and the network was not working. No one around, so I went into the unlocked networking closet, found the IP for my floors switch, realized the ports were all disabled, got them enabled and passed out static IP information by the time the dorm networking manager got there. Was also hired on the spot!
It's good to point out that Brazil (in the largest cities) already has the concept of "flying taxis", at least for the rich:

https://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/15/world/sao-paulo-journal-r...
This was posted a week ago by @rmason as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36807723 -- but it didn't get much traction. Reposting cause I think it's an important point.
I run a service that scans and documents hidden services. I've actively contributed to the security of the Tor ecosystem by reporting vulnerabilities that would result in de-anonymization. I can say with pretty good authority that most hidden services are deserving of the 'shadowy' label. I agree that the only way to change this is to have other non-shadowy services and uses, but it's a hard sell.

How do you convince a company to intentionally stand up an onion site that provides any real value? You lose the ability to apply some defensive controls to thwart attack, you're associating your brand with something identified as 'shadowy', and most customers won't use Tor or even understand what an onion site is. If a company is unwilling to justify the effort or take the chance on standing up a hidden service, why would they be willing to take a similar risk of abuse by allowing traffic sourced from the Tor network?
I'm a communist, I don't need convincing.

The bourgeoisie in the US is the ruling class because they have state power. They use that power to exploit the proletariat of the US, but also to super-exploit the proletariat of the rest of the world.

In China, it's a bit different. The proletariat has won state power and is using it to constrain their national bourgeoisie. Part of why their bourgeoisie is tolerated for now is precisely because of western (US-led) imperialism, so China is allowed to trade with the rest of the (capitalist) world and so they don't get nuked by the US.

US war mongering hurts the proletariat of the US, but is far more dangerous for us proletarians of the rest of the world, including in China.
.....do you genuinely think that the data can be sufficiently anonymized to protect the privacy of minors?
I hope that the tech billionaires are simply blundering towards the destruction of society, rather than intentionally trying to do so with something like Effective Accelerationism. That would certainly fit with Hanlon's Razor.

I have a simple theory that tech billionaires are at least partly influenced by the sci-fi of their youth. While some of the older tech billionaires were brought up on utopian sci-fi like Star Trek, with wonderful ideas like the post-scarcity economy, some of the younger tech billionaires
were brought up on the dystopian sci-fi of the 1980s. Unfortunately what seems to be happening is that they may have mistaken dystopia as a blueprint for what to build rather as a warning of what to avoid.
I should point out that the presence of Walmart does not preclude the existence of seven other local stores. Walmart didn't drive all the moms and pops out of town with a shotgun. They competed on price, return policy, credit card choice, quality, and everything else. If the store that only employed people shorter than two meters left town, it was probably because that wasn't a priority to consumers in that town.

In the end, consumers get to choose to support Walmart exclusively or to support a variety of businesses. Walmart doesn't get to make that choice. If you are unhappy with the outcome, is it right to blame Walmart?
Even anonymous records? That would seem to preclude studying the effectiveness of the education system. And if they weren't anonymous, what possible conclusions could you draw compared to anonymous records that would warrant that access?
There is something extremely addictive about flipping channels on TV. I think it's the magic formula behind the popularity of TikTok. It's not "yet another social media app", it's TV re-invented.
Increasing levels of humidity are here to make heat waves even worse
A factor 3 doesn’t compensate a factor 1000
Now when I come across ‘competitive nerds’ I’m extra cautious to not appear to be too threatening to their assent to alpha nerd status

I agree with this approach.

Being highly competent and also un-ambitious has allowed me to build a very comfortable career. The ambitious people know they can use me without fear of me backstabbing them, and they more or less insulate me from the politics.

My kids eat and my job is low stress, perhaps at a cost of reaching my personal professional potential. I'm pretty happy with this arrangement.
There isn't a single solution to be had because there isn't a single way you interact with strangers online.

Verifying identity is necessarily completely different if you're sending someone an item in exchange for money, or looking to date them for a while, or going into long-term business with them, or maybe just having a discussion where you want to validate that they work where they claim.

We don't need blanket verification of people's identities online. If a bot is posting on a service and is indistinguishable from an interesting human, why shouldn't it stay? "On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog" used to be the Web 1.0 motto.
Congrats on the release! It must be very exciting after 10 years :)

If you don't mind the question: will there be more work on implementations for other languages in the future? I really like the idea of the format, but the main languages in our stack aren't supported in a way I'd use in a product.
Anyone interested should visit https://www.climatechange.ai/

https://www.youtube.com/@ClimateChangeAI
Almost a month of snapshots. Yikes.
Please tone down the rhetoric ("You can believe whatever pie-in-the-sky bullshit you want"). We all come to HN for discourse, not a bar fight.

As for what Bernie Sanders says, I'm sure that GP would agree with him that it is indeed wrong for the taxpayer to subsidize big companies. But consider that there are other ways for the taxpayer to stop this kind of subsidy, besides Sanders' "ponies for all" approach. We will benefit from rationally debating what the best way forward is, instead of shouting at those we disagree with.
That's right. Bally/Midway left the city for the suburbs during the boom years, with offices in Rosemont and factories in Franklin Park and Bensenville.

The Franklin Park factory is actually still in use. It now makes equipment for Life Fitness, which has a historical tie back to Bally.

Here's the factory back in 1982: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62s_BIYg5Gs

And today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UUpzCJaNrQ
Hey Peter, I want to learn more about the H1B program, why it is broken, and the bottlenecks and incentives for fixing it. Is there a resource you recommend? Something to ramp up on this corner of immigration policy?

Thanks for doing this! Apologies for the generic question
From india, written a blog about gift ideas - https://blinkn.shop/shop/gifts-for-her
100% agreed. Starting with bad French + a self-deprecating expression = much more helpful Parisians

The kids and I joked about how pleasantly lyrical all French greetings are. You have to try to make "Bonjour" not sound nice.
Both companies and applicants dance way out-of-step with each other on this.

Companies list 10 things as "requirements" but are willing to hire candidates without all of them. To me, requirement means must-have, but what do I know? Candidates know that companies are not serious about the requirements, so they ignore them and apply. But, some of the requirements are "must have" from the point of view of the company, but they never say it. And sometimes even if they say "Experience in obscure XyZ framework is a must!" they still may bend the rules if John Carmack-like talent applies. It's such a mess.
Yes, in broadcast (over the air) TV, only every other channel was allocated in a given area. That's why most devices that connected to a TV (computers, VCRs, etc.) could use either channel 3 or channel 4 because one of the two would be unused.
not sure if this is the right place to point out, I tried installing the windows store version but it seemed unavailable. I am wondering if the app is restricted to only specific regions.
I replied elsewhere - but this was my (successful - now an LPR) path.

My lawyer told me you need a 4 year degree equivalent, and 4 years of experience can convert to a year.

If you have zero university education, that would be 16 years' experience required, based on that lawyer's legal instruction.
An average car uses 50 tons of fossil fuels. An average EV uses 50kg of Lithium. It's possible to recycle the lithium, but even if you don't you're still way ahead.
I thought they were choosing stuffed sharks.
Europe is not stagnating
Software like Blender, for one, will likely be primarily chat-driven in a decade.

The chatbox *is* the UI.
Using punishments and taboos to control these things does not work. You're not incentivizing 'good behavior', you're incentivizing not getting caught--not to mention that, inevitably, the power structure that forms around these taboos starts rewarding people who punish others with the ability to do the taboo themselves.
Think BYOD, but without mixing personal and business data. So you can just open a browser on your personal mobile phone and access your work phone. Then, when you're in front of your (work) laptop, you just open a browser tab to access the same cophone instance.
While not _as_ "entirely unreasonable" as what the state is actually doing -- and I think we should be clear, that, as you say, the state is doing way worse and trying to prevent researchers from testifying on any matters at all...

I'm not totally sure it's actually reasonable for a government to withhold data from researchers because they think it might be used against them in a lawsuit either. Is that a valid reason for a government institution to withhold data?

Perhaps a court case will end up establishing that the broader thing is in fact unreasonable under the first ammendment too, perhaps this is a good "test case" being even so much more egregious, you always want an especially egregious case.
cripple beggars in calcutta, for example, earn approx 30 cents per day and organized criminals maim and manage them in order to extract this amount.

you're confident they wouldn't use a spoon to take 160 days worth of income? and comparing to non-cripple beggars, it's about a full year of income. that sounds like substantial incentive to me.
> The issue here seems to be that the school system is saying that the researchers aren't allowed to be a witness in any lawsuit against the school system regardless of whether it has to do with the data that was shared with the researchers

I think the issue isn't being a witness in the general sense, but an expert witness which is either a paid gig or one which payment is waived because of other alignment of interests. Being an expert witness against someone you are in any kind of working relationship with is a clear and obvious conflict on interest.

> If the information can safely be shared with a particular researcher then it seems like there is minimal benefit to society in letting the school system pick and choose who gets access and who doesn't.

So HIPAA-protected data that meets the standards for research sharing should instead be made public? (And if you say, “well, its different, this is the government”—government holds lots of data protected by HIPAA.
Copyrights and Patents were never intended for use by corporations.

How can I claim this?! When both copyrights and patents were invented the longest 'corporate charter' a company could hold was 6 months in total.

Patents and Copyrights were designed to aid fledgling businesses in America compete against the behemoth industrial machines of England, Spain, France, and Europe in general. Companies in those countries were expansionist and simply bought out any serious competition.

Our country's founders didn't want that system taking hold of American economics, so invented protections against such things occurring here.

Remove the copyrights and patents from ANY multinational corporation. If it's not an American-ONLY based company -where money isn't shipped wholesale overseas- then they can no longer enjoy patents or copyrights in America.

POOF... problem solved.
Is that an advantage? At the very least, what it entails is that losing your private key is game over.
> The experimental studies add to a growing body of research showing there is little evidence that key features of Meta’s platforms alone cause harmful ‘affective’ polarization, or have meaningful effects on key political attitudes, beliefs or behaviors.

I don't believe you.
Use your network, not LinkedIn, to find jobs.

But set up a LinkedIn profile. LinkedIn is the lubricant of "hey, my friend X is looking - here's his linkedin" in a way that "hey ..., here's his personal website" or "here's some word doc or PDF in some random format that is annoying."

I've hired a lot of people and there is little more irritating than highly polished, curated resumes with a lot of noise and fluff on them. There may have been a time when that mattered, but honestly I just want to see your location, education, degrees, and the jobs you've had.
This is an amazing concept!

Right now, I carry around two cell phones - work and personal. My use case for my work device is surprisingly limited. I basically need it for notifications and 2FA. For anything serious, I switch to my laptop. However, I _really_ need that work phone.

BYOD/Shared devices is a thing at many companies, but that comes with it's own host of issues. Most notably, I don't want a corporate MDM on my personal phone. I also want to be able to let my family use my personal phone without worrying about breaking.

This virtual device, effectively lets me carry a single device while having nice, clear boundaries. As long as notifications come through well, this could effectively replace my need to carry a work phone.
Ask HN: Is Pushbullet going down all the time for other people?
I've been using this service for years to send myself notifications to all my devices from their API, but suddenly the last few days I've been getting a 502 quite a bit. I have no idea how to contact them as there is no contact email anywhere, and they haven't been active on their blog or Twitter (dare I say X?) since last year.

Is there a reliable alternative I could consider that can send push notifications to Android and Chrome simultaneously?
A gift withheld from us in this video. Cruel.
‘Era of global boiling has arrived,’ says UN chief
Talk about lacking self-awareness. The author lists "cancel culture" as a good thing and says that they don't care about false positives. Almost like they're distanced from the consequences....
This is a thoughtful approach, I like it.

I take this one step further- I like to start some web prototypes with a single HTML file (Single File App). All you need is an editor and a browser.

Jsdoc and copilot make this pretty rapid now too :)
dunno what you mean, my "start) sleep 15" works fine most of the time !
That might have been the easiest i.e. transferring my numbers to voip.ms (instead of Twilio) and then not have to do the forwarding at all.

I'm a bit locked in for now (and am dreading transferring all the numbers I've accumulated) but yeah. Thanks for the perspective
There's no reason not to take both eyeballs then
Case adjudicated within X calendar days. Typically, 15 calendar days for most types of petitions.

https://www.uscis.gov/forms/all-forms/how-do-i-request-premi...
Friendly AI chatbots will be designing bioweapons for criminals 'within years'
The hard to believe part isn’t that somebody was putting this cabinet on the curb to toss it.

The hard to believe part is that this specific guy found it at this precise time/place
Ain't gonna happen unless they open up plants in the US like Kia and Hyundai did.
Yeah, the article and this whole comments thread is very intellectually dishonest.

Disclosure: I’m like, 70% optimistic about the project. I don’t believe that the team are lying. Anyway, as with many things, time will tell. I wouldn’t get worked up over it. If it fails it’s pretty inconsequential.
I came to a conclusion that most accounting trickery is just for tax purposes.
remywang you're a genius
Sometime in the late 1990s early 2000s there the website for bomb hip-hop - which was an amazing indie hip-hop production group - had this really great flash demo that I think is gone from the web forever.

Basically just a looped beat and you could play with different elements that made scratch or other hip hop sounds- might have even been what amounts to an interactive link box

If I had any money I’d pay if someone could find it again but alas I think it’s gone forever!
There were one or two cases where FSD got accidentally disabled when reselling a used Tesla. I remember the outrage about it.
> as long as individual PII is removed

https://www2.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/fpco/ferpa/index.html, "The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) (20 U.S.C. § 1232g; 34 CFR Part 99) is a Federal law that protects the privacy of student education records"

Now the question is if aggregated data with no PII is protected.
If FERPA makes it illegal to share the data with researchers, then certainly it shouldn't have been shared.

If FERPA allows sharing the data with researchers, is it right/proper/legal to share only on the condition it can't be used to harm the schools in court? Presumably that part is not in FERPA.

(And to be clear, California here didn't just say they couldn't use the data in court, they said the researchers could not testify in any court case at all against the state. But we're talking hypothetically)
I learned about the plight of Sicilian immigrants in New Orleans at that time from Annie Proulx's historical fiction book "Accordion Crimes". She was inspired in a large part by a lynching of Italian immigrants which was depicted in the book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1891_New_Orleans_lynchings
Pft, 100% this was developed by a three letter agency in the US.
I never realized that painting was at the LA county museum of art until I was standing face to face with it. It felt ironic to have one level of meta removed. I was thinking "this is "this is not a pipe""
All I'm reading is "gay people cause AIDS" in more exotic and roundabout language. This an argument older than time at this point, tired and beaten into the ground over and over again.
Key Fed inflation rate falls to lowest annual level in nearly 2 years
> conveniently meant you didn't need to address systemic issues and stone wall any attempts at grander change

Who is claiming this?
> This sexual behaviour statistically does not create STD spread, because of negative feedback...

You know that it's possible to infect someone while also impregnating them, right? In fact, this leads to more STD spread than non-procreative sex, because the child then runs the risk of infection as well. There is no 'negative feedback' here beyond "being upset that your partner infected you", which is already a factor in non-procreative sex.
I'm struggling with the language here and could do with simplification. Is this doing what langchain does? It also seems to have the ability to train models but isn't that a solved problem?