skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Read up on 1557 changes and title ix changes, which include language that specifically permits institutions to say, "we do not discriminate based on criteria X, y, z" when they discriminate against trans people.

It also affirmed that they felt they could supersede state law to protect caregivers (doctors, etc) who provide care against the law in their state (gender affirming care). They declined to exercise that authority and explicitly said they would not.

They also said they would consider provider discrimination only on a case by case basis (which they are not funded to do, and leaves poorer people more likely to suffer discrimination).

They added language stating "nothing in this rule imposes a requirement that covered entities provide gender affirming care".

They specifically struck the following language: "a providers belief that gender transition or other gender affirming care can never be beneficial for such individuals is not sufficient basis for a judgement that a health service is not clinically appropriate." Basically giving doctors the explicit right to say "I don't believe in gender affirming care and will not provide it".
I've found this to be quite ergonomic and functional for handling string enumerations (including completeness in switches and record definitions):

https://github.com/photostructure/fs-metadata/blob/main/src/...

Usage:

export const Directions = stringEnum("North", "South", "East", "West")
export type Direction = StringEnumKeys<typeof Directions>

(I haven't published this as a discrete npm package--IMHO you should copy and paste this sort of thing into your own tree).
It should be illegal based on the wishes of the people in the destination country alone, even if only to hoard the pie for themselves
Oh please. The author describes "the little life" as an absurdly posh mid-life retirement which no actual person can afford if they don't come from immense inherited wealth: their "cultural context" is Manhattan trust fund brat. In that context, trying to look like bell hooks with the all-lowercase affect is ridiculous and bordering on offensive.
Been using it since ~2006 ... it's pretty great software. Hooking it up to a cheap sub-$100 MIDI controller is amazing.

Just looked it up - I had no idea it's from 2001 - this puts it in a small group of long-active FLOSS
Thank you so much for the response! Could you share a bit more on what the preparation looks like? It’s something I’ve seen vaguely mentioned in forums but no one shared the specifics of the prep. Thanks!
Looks to be 2 Ds, so Super Duper Drive ?
There's "Suggested Apps" and recommended items, which might as well be ads. I've never logged in with a MS ID either, but I've seen them, and they're on by default (because of course they are).

https://techjourney.net/enable-or-disable-automatic-install-...
That's just business. I can't think of any business that's not set out to displace some other business, whether by competition or simply elimination.
And half the problem is not that there is one bit of software doing tracking, it's that there are fourteen different package that different people added at some point, all doing similar things.
I don't know why people are ignoring this and posting hyperbolic statements like "it's all over for OpenAI and Google".

One of the cheaper Gemini models is actually only 8B and a perfect candidate for a release as a FOSS Gemma model but the Gemini 8B model contains hints of the tricks they used to achieve long context so as business strategy they haven't released it as Gemma FOSS model yet.
> The Netherlands gets to continue purchasing F-35A fighters

Is that a benefit? I got the impression some countries are rather pressured by the US to spend their money on US military equipment (instead of alternatives) rather than the reverse.
building a business is much more than having a great idea.
Its a different skill by itself. Skills PhD's don't prepare you for.
Tangentially related - I recently got the holy grail of eSIM travel router setup:

- GLiNet Mudi v2: https://store.gl-inet.com/products/mudi-v2-portable-4g-lte-r...

- EIOT Physical eSim https://store.gl-inet.com/products/esim-experience-seamless-...

- 20GB Worldwide Airalo for 365 days ($69): https://www.airalo.com/global-esim/discover-365days-20gb

Buy the airalo esim on my iphone. Download the QR code. Upload it to the mudi router. Activate it there. Voila! I then wireguard back to my home internet in case I need a US on the router. Can also use tailscale, but if my gf wants US internet its helpful.

https://docs.gl-inet.com/router/en/4/tutorials/how_to_set_up...
That graphic towards the end is scary...
Because they are their own individuals, and they have their own life based on their own experiences. And while I can suggest, or even influence a little, their life choices -- I can't command them to change themselves 180 degrees.

Sometimes I feel like we, as society, became so detached from each other and from reality. Maybe it's because of social networks that keep pumping up the idea that everyone can be rich by investing $5 a day instead of buying Starbucks, or that the path to financial freedom is as simple as "just buy a house and rent it for $5k a month"; or that people suddenly started to call randoms in Twitter their friends. But I feel like people lost the ability to be empathetic towards others. They simply are unable to see and accept that there are different people who were born, raised, and live under different set of rules that the ones they grew up under.
I got 221g administrative processing denial for L1-B recently. I work at FAANG. From your experience is there any chance that this will clear itself soonish or that's kinda the end of the story? I know a few stuck waiting for more than a year. Is such an outcome likely for me?
> Second, are you sure your android phone takes better photos? What camera & lens do you have on your digital camera? Have you upgraded from the kit lens it came with?

That wasn't actually my statement. My statement was that it's a better camera.

My Android will actually take dramatically better photos than a u43 camera with kit lens, especially in low-light. It's not even in the same ballpark. My full frame with a Zeiss f/1.4 lens will take better photos than my cell phone. My cell phone also won't reasonably zoom (although it does have a telephoto of sorts and a wide angle, it can't compete with a 200mm let alone a 500mm on my full frame).

However, holistically, it's a better camera. If I take a photo with my cell phone, I can be editing it on my computer in a few minutes. If I'd like a different display -- for example for framing -- I switch apps. That's not to mention panoramas, photospheres, and other computational photography features. Computational stacking for low light can give pretty impressive results too. The list goes on and on. This paragraph could be an essay.

With the exception of sensor size, zoom, and clicky buttons, my cell phone does so much more. Those are important, mind you, but something like a 50 MP, f/1.7, 1/1.31" sensor on a Pixel 9 Pro is about equivalent to an APS camera with a kit lens for equivalent aperture. Under most conditions, the photo quality from a good cell phone is indistinguishable from a big camera. So all the other stuff does become more important.

I did pick a cell phone for its photography features. It's not a random Android phone.
These days celestial navigation is trivial. See my comment here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42695079
How we run daily standups for 40 engineers at Photoroom
Ford actually does this. They have something called limp mode for when sensors detect degraded conditions. They won't honor the warranty if you clear the code manually and continue operating the vehicle.

Many cars enter limp mode for when the ECU senses a possibly damaging condition. This limits the performance and capabilities until someone with a diagnostic computer can plug it in. Many times these diagnostic computers are entirely proprietary.

I'm not saying it is justified, but to pretend that other businesses don't do this is silly.
solve problem people care about, and charge from day 1
Personal attacks will get you banned here, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are, so please don't post like this to HN.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

Edit: it looks like we've had to warn you about this kind of thing more than once before, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26742673. However, the good news is that it seems to be rare in your otherwise very good commenting history (for which, thank you!) so it should be easy to avoid in the future.
Is OpenAIs ChatGPT biased politically?
Hi Peter, thank you so much for your work and for doing these AMAs! I am a PhD student on an F1 at a US university who would very much like to stay after graduation. Without going into too much details, I think I would have a strong O1 or EB-2-NIW application (top US school, multiple publications, awards, reviewing) upon graduation, but I am worried about leaving it until then to start the process as I know it can be very time consuming. What, if anything, can I do to "get the ball rolling" before I graduate? I presume starting an EB-2-NIW application would not be feasible at this point, for example, but please correct me if I'm wrong. Ideally I would enter the job market with a non-employer-specific green card, so that I don't have the additional stress of having to worry about being kicked out. Thank you all the work you do!
It is more like "outrageous things dominate the news cycle". It is not even a new thing; on a similar note, already in the 1990s, people started believing widely that child abduction from the street was a real danger in their own communities.

That said, the politicians meet the demand, sometimes to their own detriment. The Trump campaign could only deploy the "Trump is for you, Kamala is for they/them" slogan because Kamala herself, in 2020, felt the need to conform to then-prevailing winds and declare that she would fund gender-change surgeries for prisoners from taxpayers money.

Is that a thing? No, as far as we know, 0 prisoners asked for a taxpayer-funded gender change surgery before or after, and there was probably no risk for Kamala in 2020 if she brushed that question aside as marginal and irrelevant.

But she wanted to prove her progressive credentials on a thing that barely existed, and the thing that barely existed turned viciously against her four years later.

Maybe it would be better if politicians just didn't chase barely existing things in EITHER DIRECTION.
You perfectly summarized the reaction of any programmer looking at the work of a mathematician.
Sorry my mistake I meant "priggishness"
Having some problems is not dying. Also, in what way would Apple be dying? What quality of it do you see as in being in an irrecoverable decline?
It speaks volumes that this is the first and probably last time I'll hear this.
how do you verify? think about how would you do that if say you were forced to use AI for everything you do (I have friend that works in a place like this…).

of course my kid is 11 so she is learning about algebra and electro motors and logic and roman empire… “AI” is one step in that learning but an insanely patient teacher. back in a day - she did not understand cube roots… she asked, was given an answer, she still didn’t get it, was given an alternate explanation which still didn’t click (worse than original), asked again (“I still do not understand, do you have another way to try to explain it to me…”) and so on. again, it is a guide, a very knowledgeable and patient guide… it is part of the journey, not the destination. anyone using it as destination (by reading MANY HN posts this is a vast majority of people) is going to be in the world of hurt
This is great. There is still nothing like YC. Great news for batches who get in.
Anything off of the beaten track of Pharoahs -> Greece -> Rome -> GoT -> WWII is pretty under-appreciated. I've been reading more about Byzantium, the Ottomans, and the Persians and it's been fascinating. We never really scratched the surface of any of that in school.
Luckily the EU and Apple already reached an agreement for this, however it seems to be limited to payments only: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_...

> To address the Commission's competition concerns, Apple initially offered the following commitments:

> - To allow third-party wallet providers access to the NFC input on iOS devices free of charge

EU only of course. I'd be interested in seeing the EU overstep a bit and force Apple to apply EU rules worldwide, either "on all devices" or "on all devices sold in the EU, even while traveling."
Those problems are universal. Or do you honestly think that American startups don't need to hire an accountant and consult with lawyers? You either find the risk/reward proposition worthwhile or you don't. There's nothing wrong with not pursuing the riskier avenue but don't pretend the US makes it easy.
Hi Peter, I am moving to US with a L1A visa, and my family L2. I can apply for EB1-C directly after arriving to US?
> Agreed. I don't understand why so many are choosing to rally around Bluesky and its AT Protocol

I think one of the major parts that resonates with people is the focus on data portability. AFAIK, ActivityPub doesn't help with wanting to move your data somewhere, without having to manually perform a async migration.

> which is promising federation but has yet to deliver

They seem to surely but slowly make headway on the federation stuff, there are more and more successful experiments of people hooking into the network.

> it is backed by a for-profit company that has all the incentive to enshittify much like Facebook and Twitter have.

That is true, hopefully the network will be resilient enough by that point, because I'm wary of that too. I guess time will tell how that goes.

On a more optimistic note, there seems to be more and more efforts of trying to fund other non-Bluesky projects, including for core infrastructure. Example, not an endorsement: https://bsky.app/profile/freeourfeeds.com
Honestly, I literally never think about it until it comes up on Twitter or HN and I get reminded of it. It's totally ok to not to have opinions about things that are very much not relevant and have zero consequences to yourself and people around you.
Ask HN: Most boring part of your job?
Have you tried automating it? Why couldn't you?
Why does reading this make me think of the book “who moved my cheese”, that was handed out at many large 2000’s ish companies a quarter or two before layoffs started?
>> That's a decision for the markets.

> there isn't the appetite for it.

A distinct without a difference.
What has colonialism to do with the aftermath of 1970s/1980s Turkish, Pakistani, and Arab immigration to Denmark and Germany?
> The H-1B program applies to employers seeking to hire nonimmigrant aliens as workers in specialty occupations or as fashion models of distinguished merit and ability.

What do I need to become a fashion model?
Nice analysis. The point about titles is interesting: given how content spreads on the Internet, it's really an invitation to potential readers. If you take that too far, it can devolve into tacky link-bait, but it's worth thinking about how to summarize your post into a handful of compelling words.
I suspect much of the reaction is that it seems a little pretentious, like a faux optimization along the lines of "Oh I'm soooo busy, no time for caps", etc.
Chinese firm's faster, cheaper AI language model makes a splash
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73cWfFEKAfE

I have just the song to accompany the launch.
Yep, that too. Many people made measurements over the last 10-ish years and the ratio between content and marketing stuff is something like 250:1 at least. On some websites it was 10x that.
https://archive.ph/oo3Io
> These populations are more than large enough to specialize in everything.

My impression is that population size is not very relevant in the math of trade specialization profit. It's still more profitable to play on relative strengths and weaknesses. You can find other things to worry about like security (from droughts and earthquakes perhaps), or political or strategic desires. In particular, trade is likely beneficial even when local production would be cheaper than remote production - just because there are other things that can be done localy and even stronger (like phone games or advertising-oriented browser feature destruction /s).
RedNote, Flip, Clapper and Likee claim the top of App Store as TikTok comes back
“cool but somewhat flawed” is interesting way to describe a person who was balding in his 20’s and could not get laid and who now has more complexes than just about any human that ever lived…

yea, give me fucking CNN every day of the week and twice on sunday
Hold on though, that's not 1970s pebble dash, that's 1920s pebble dash, that was on the house when it was built (ish - seems that area was built up between 184 and 1914). The house is in a conservation area, which means you've got to keep it looking original. If you don't want to do that, just don't move to a conservation area!

Found a non-Mail link BTW: https://www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/article/planning-inspecto...
And dealing with boredom is something nobody learns how to do anymore. We have constant entertainment in our pockets with mobile phones, social media, and streaming.

When I go to the gym I sit in the sauna for 30 minutes just doing... nothing. Just sitting. No earbuds, no phone in hand. I'm usually the only one like this. I get asked how I can stand it. It's just normal to me. I think about stuff I need to do. I map out the next day, or the rest of the day, or next week. I reflect on last week. My mind always finds something to think about.
oh, and look, the backlash is already starting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91kfolYkRNM

I'm not saying I wouldn't love for an fully open source printer company to have the quality and velocity of development that the bambu has (AMS-compatible TPU, delicious), I'm saying people who are making "It's clearly X... You should have known Y" aren't providing useful perspective nor are they accurate. Looking at your post history shows this.
Such an excellent book. I get that it's a summary of 2,000 years in one medium sized book, but every single page was new to me.
As applied, although still high, the O-1 requirements are easier than they appear so it's always worth evaluating particularly for the founder of a business. And an O-1 can be for almost any occupation, from a hair colorist to a cancer researcher.
AI simulates 500M years of evolution to discover fluorescent protein
Community Update #32 Get Ready for the Patch 8 Stress Test
It’s not meant to say they’re the same thing, it’s meant to demonstrate clearly that venue restrictions even when content neutral can impose restrictions on speech and those restrictions must be balanced and scrutinized appropriately under our system.
You’re assuming that monitors and printers can be trusted to accurately reproduce the colour space even if there was a profile attached (which, by the way, most monitors do actually have).

This isn’t true. Particularly with monitors where people can adjust the contract and brightness.

The reason colour profiles exist is so that computers can be calibrated to support the monitor output.

You are also ignoring the fact that environmental factors can have an effect too. Ie how the room is lit.

Comparing something standardised like writing glyphs with something highly individual (monitor calibration) doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.
My main lesson from running a startup: don't. And if you do, quit when the going gets tough. Perseverance does not pay off.

Obviously it doesn't always end badly. But we get a massively skewed view from survivor bias.

My life turned out pretty damn well once I got a plain ordinary job working for someone else. But I don't kid myself: when it comes to starting a startup, I did fail. The main lesson I learned was that I was always going to.
Exactly - it works better in the real world, where there's a lot less context than a clinical benchmark, and you're just trying to get the answer without writing an essay.
Honestly at this point half-assed support would be a significant step up from their historical position. The one thing they have pioneered is new tiers of fractional assedness asymptotically approaching zero.
I am completely sure about that, yes. Because even your "many authoritative medical organizations" thing cherry picks one organization saying maybe and ignores any positive results entirely.

You do not care about which procedures were actually done nor about what it took to get them. Puberty blockers for minors are not something new or done to transgender kids only. They have been used for years for non-transgender kids and they are not the only treatment constantly under attack.

If you cared about puberty blockers safety, you would care about also about when they work, you would care about accessibility when they do work ... and you would not act as if they were so easy to get in the first place.

And that last thing gives the game away.
That’s grim.

There is a better way, but you can’t drink any of the kool aid. I wish I could tell other people how to do what I have done, but I have come to understand that it only works for me because i tend not to think things are important that other people value, and I value things that other people sacrifice to obtain those unimportant things.

It’s worked very well for me. If I have a piece of advice I think people might be able to use, it would be to own a place. It should be cheap and have little or no property taxes. A bit of land. Maybe an acre or two. In the country but not too far off a road. It’s not an investment, it’s not your home, it’s a place. Build a house there. Build it yourself. A very modest house with your own hands.

Learn how. Build a home that you can walk away from and come back in ten years and not be bothered by the inevitable decay. The absolute minimum. This is not your home. This is your refuge. Put it in a legal situation so that it can’t be taken from you (obviously this also means you don’t really own it, and can never sell it) The worst that can ever happen is that you have to go and live there while you start from zero.

Now, you will never be without a place.

For most people, this will be enough to give them courage to take some necessary risks. That is enough.

If you want to take it farther (you probably don’t) this is what I have done, and I’m not at all alone in this experience:

Once you have a place, Become unemployable. Any job is a means to a very near end. If you have to work, take a job that pays well but you hate. invest your time and resources in anything where your efforts will be rewarded disproportionally to the risks. 10:1 bets on 1000:1 odds. There are so many things that people will simply ignore because the chance of failure is 90% if done well… but there are a lot of those losing propositions that will compensate way above their risk.

The hack is you can never go bust. Only your health can stop you. you have your place. You have to always be willing to put it all on the line. You can go to zero but it doesn’t matter. Just do it again. And again. And again. You get better, you get smarter, you get wiser. Eventually you win. Is it enough? If it’s not, set half aside in durable assets, and keep going.

Most people are so risk averse that you will have these opportunities basically to yourself.

99.99 percent will find a reason that this won’t work for them, and they’ll be right.

But sometimes you’ll run into someone else in a different stage of the same game. If they’re much farther along than you, they’ll recognise you and you might have a drink, and make a mentor. This is the most valuable relationship you will ever have. Your spouse can be replaced. Your mentor probably can’t .

That’s it. Bring on the hate.
Trump proposes 50% US ownership of TikTok 'We're going to have a lot of bidders'