<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: afpx</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=afpx</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 03:59:58 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=afpx" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by afpx in "NIH is ending a key grant for budding clinical researchers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are too may bad scientists, and I don't want to fund them. When the sciences became status-oriented, group-think and profit-seeking became the norm.<p>This administration is trash, but I'm still tired of paying taxes to fund jokers.<p>If your 'science' is so important, then any other country in the world will be happy to scoop you up. gtfo<p>Just one example out of many: Today, I looked up research on EMDR treatments. Major problems in replication for things outside of PTSD. Yet, therapists are told by their boards to push the treatment for all sorts of things.<p>Have many of you actually looked at a lot of the garbage funded by NIH?</p>
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<p>They should be incentivizing researchers who have histories of publishing research that has been independently replicated. Way too much fraud going on that’s seeping into the real world.</p>
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<p>It just may be that they've been pulled from duty.<p>I haven't looked into those scientists in particular, but a few years ago I did some OSINT on others that had funerals. I was surprised to find a couple of them living in other countries with different identities.<p>The social media posts on their funerals were rich sources of data. So, I think some don't have funerals anymore because of the PII leakage.<p>If any of you were in gifted programs during the 70s and 80s, you may have experienced being scouted by intelligence agencies or at least witnessing others being scouted. I suspect the gifted program was largely created for that purpose. So, at least some exceptional scientists who grew up in that era have connections with intel.</p>
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<p>When a powerful group removes "Don't be evil" from their code of conduct it's pretty clear where things are headed.<p>Reminds me of when that one verse was removed from Psalm 145.</p>
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<p>I understand where you're coming from and can empathize because I've been asked some absurd computer science questions in interviews.<p>However, in my experience, if an interviewer can't confirm basic knowledge of data structures and algorithms, then some lead ends up having to teach computer science to explain to a developer why their code with 5 nested loops is probably not a good idea.<p>Having been that lead who has had to stay up all night trying to debug some difficult to reproduce deadlock or race condition ... I would prefer that companies spend resources on training rather than spending $5k to interview a candidate</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 11:22:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49167022</link><dc:creator>afpx</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49167022</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49167022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by afpx in "I'm 38 and I Can't Support Myself Anymore"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think that’s what they call a ‘false dilemma’.<p>Recently, I had a conversation with a bunch of people who have worked in the tech industry since the 90s. Someone asked which technologies have greatly improved our lives. Outside of some specific medical innovations, we struggled to agree on more than three.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 01:42:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49092434</link><dc:creator>afpx</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49092434</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49092434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by afpx in "Ask HN: How to deal with security implications of running/installing projects?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I assume that if it's not air-gapped, it's compromised. I keep important stuff offline.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:36:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49077091</link><dc:creator>afpx</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49077091</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49077091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by afpx in "What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Looking foward to the generated images of a CEO riding a toilet</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 10:41:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49056688</link><dc:creator>afpx</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49056688</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49056688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by afpx in "Tell HN: ChatGPT exports do not contain all conversation messages"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Also, within a few hours of posting this, I received this odd email from “ privacy@openai.com” to the gmail address connected to my chatgpt account. I made no such request to them.<p>“Hi there,<p>Thank you for your message. To protect user privacy and for security reasons, we can only act on privacy requests once we have sufficiently verified account ownership. For this reason, please contact us directly from the email address linked to your account.<p>If you no longer have access to that email address, please let us know.<p>Best regards,
John
OpenAI Privacy Team”</p>
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<p>Just FYI - if you do an export from ChatGPT, verify the export data. I requested an export from ChatGPT a few days ago and received the zip this morning, but the zip is missing messages.<p>I know this because I manually downloaded several of the conversations before requesting the export, and the manual downloads contain the messages, but the export doesn't. I actually had ChatGPT do a second verification and it confirmed the missing messages.<p>I had ChatGPT generate a report showing concrete evidence of an export-integrity problem, not just a difference in titles or formatting. I then tried to submit the report via the chat on help.openai.com, and the chat stopped responding completely.<p>For context, the missing threads were completely benign (discussions regarding the historical development of Rabbinic Judaism), so this appears to be a technical data integrity bug rather than a moderation or filtering choice. Has anyone else noticed missing data in their recent OpenAI exports?</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49037807">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49037807</a></p>
<p>Points: 6</p>
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<p>I browsed the internet yesterday after abstaining for a few months. I was pretty shocked - the rulers seem to be working overtime to lead the Christians, Jews, and Muslims to kill each other. I didn’t see much else in the headlines. Happy that I stopped paying attention to anything outside my 2 mile radiua bubble.</p>
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<p>Pittsburgh is a mess. I grew up there and came back recently to visit after 20 years. I walked a street for a few miles, and it was homeless after homeless. Heartbreaking change to see. I spoke with some missionaries who were handing out provisions, and they said the next street up was even worse.<p>Reminds me of what happened to San Francisco after the tech boom. What a loss. These people who come to these cities for the economic zone are sick - they will literally let people die on the street. I wish Pittsburgh could tax the landowners into poverty.</p>
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<p>I worked with him at CNRI. Seemed pretty dim and overrated. I think people keep him around for the DARPA connection.</p>
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<p>In 1990 I hoped my grandkids would be able to join starfleet. After watching most of the gains go to the worst, I just hope they can escape the borg.</p>
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<p>I love the USPS. I love going to the post office and seeing real people, especially people in the town I live in. It's a social gathering place in smaller towns.<p>This push toward optimization in the US, gradient descent to the LCD - seems harmful to average people.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 16:05:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48786412</link><dc:creator>afpx</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48786412</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48786412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by afpx in "What does privatization of the US Postal Service mean?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Their web site seems to suggest they have last mile delivery everywhere because they're under universal service obligation. But, when I lived rural, I remember my mom having to drive to the post office to pick up the mail.</p>
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<p>Many of my old bookmarked urls have been removed from IA. Strangely, it's only some versions. If you go back through old twitter urls, for instance.</p>
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<p>Lately, since I've pretty much blocked most media companies in /etc/hosts, I've been enjoying reading the pre-2015 from archive.org. Although, I do have some grief, I guess I'm ok with being the last analog generation; it's not my world anymore.</p>
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<p>I like how they try to frame Trump as <i>"the one man"</i>, completely ignoring his cabinet, Thiel, Kushner, Musk, the Heritage Foundation, the media empires backing him, the crypto industry, the defense industry, domestic surveillance industry - not to mention all of the Epstein accomplices</p>
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<p>hmm, ok. kind of odd to put yourself out there for so many years, then be willing to die on this issue, given the political state of things. but, you be you<p>Edit: I can't respond to your reply, but my original question was why is it so important to you, and you didn't answer. But, I guess I'll go back through your comments to find out. Us 'passive observers' are just trying to figure out who's on which team. Feel free to ignore us. No offense intended</p>
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