skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it were intentional, to conflate all Jews with all of Israel is intellectually, ethically, and morally bankrupt. If it were unintentional, then it would be extremely ignorant for a supposed "diversity head."

I hope he instead meant "instances of the Israeli military shooting unarmed civilians across an international border, led by extreme Zionist leaders who want to 'drive [Palestinians] into the sea.'" even if unable to articulate it in a professional, nuanced, and sensitive manner.

--- The larger issue that keeps getting lost ---

Zionist != Jew; Anti-Zionism != Anti-Semitism. There are plenty of anti-Zionist Jews and allies; Bernie Sanders and Noam Chomsky, IIRC, are anti-Zionists. Alan Dershowitz[0], Fox News, and Likud all peddle the same fallacy: anything anti-Zionist is exactly the same as anti-Semitic. Furthermore, Likud and its allies have repeatedly targeted American universities with overt and covert anti-BDS and anti-Zionist disruptive social/political/intelligence-gathering/free speech activities[1,2,3,4,5], which 45 got behind to condemn BDS with the weight of the US government to the extent an executive order can (an EO is an "executive wish," in many cases).[6] They hide behind the shield and sword of crybully shouting down and labeling anyone anyone who isn't with them as "anti-semitic," and in doing so, are making the term irrelevant and meaningless for actual instances of anti-semitism ("the boy who called 'wolf.'")

0. The Case Against BDS: Why Singling Out Israel for Boycott Is Anti-Semitic and Anti-Peace

1. Canary Mission

2. https://www.truthdig.com/articles/israels-war-on-american-un...

3. https://forward.com/news/israel/412206/did-this-pro-israel-s...

4. https://jewishcurrents.org/whos-trying-to-kill-bds-on-campus...

5. https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/fighting-bds-on-college-camp...

6. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-anti-semitism-jew-isr...
Also the SLS and the JSF...
Thanks, that was probably my point. Consensus is hard. Ethereum is one of the global systems that currently exists for tackling the consensus problem. Shouting at clouds is on the other hand, not tackling the consensus problem.

Someone or something has to be at the helm of the command economy. I'm definitely not saying we should "go back to communal living and producing stuff based on actual needs" but I am saying that without a rigorous system for distributed consensus, you really don't have a chance of achieving this.
Outlaw crypto. Ransomware would go away overnight, the electricity would no longer be wasted, people could afford to play videogames again. The only downside is the collapse of a no-value asset bubble.
I don't think you can't be critical of that sentiment.

I do dispute that it was a a sentiment at all, at least in grandparents' case. It wasn't ideology either. It was just a fact. They couldn't stay in europe. A right of return to a Jewish State^ was the only practical way to survive, besides conversion. My grandfather considered that route, as an atheist, but his first wife dissented. He also looked very Jewish. That was their conclusion att. You are free to disagree.

The majority of post war immigration was non ideological. There wasn't much daylight between ideological and non-ideological zionism, for the most part.

It also (in my opinion, this time) proved true for 1.5 million people who found that they could not stay in Egypt, Iraq, Yemen, etc. The new world wasn't an option for them, as it had been for many europeans.

I might agree with you that nation states, or the common form of nation state, isn't ideal. It is quite terrible in its purist form. However, I don't see why this criticism is so often leveled at Zionism exclusively. I'm also Irish, and have never heard such a criticism of Irish Republicanism. Besides that, lots of countries' have rights of return, ethnonational symbolism, etc.

Meanwhile, most Israelis supported South Sudanese and Kurdish independence for similar reasons. Me included. I think that Kurds have been screwed since the fall of the Ottomans, because they ended up without a state. Lebanon was founded on this premise. Pakistan. Lots of examples

^Zionism originally called for a homeland, not necessarily a state, and hoped to achieve this as cultural autonomy and migration rights under Ottoman sovereignty. Nation States were not the norm, when zionism was first conceived.

+The downvotes are not from me.
One of the most striking things when reading about the French Revolution is seeing some of the original key agitators for Revolution being eventually denounced as insufficiently revolutionary, and some of them even being killed for being considered counter-revolutionary.
Unfortunately, at my University the SE program was mostly building UML and ER diagrams and memorizing agile terms. Software design was a minor part of it.

I was CS, but had a lot of SE friends, and we all agree that the best SE course was the one that was mandatory for all computing majors. It covered version control and branching, testing, design process, abstraction design, etc. That class was probably one of the most daily applicable things I learned, I took it in my third semester. If my university offered more courses of that caliber, that didn't rehash and force memorization of buzzwords, then that program would've been incredible.
"Women, on average, have more: Neuroticism" was a big one I remember people having issue with back when this story was news.
I received the link months ago from another source who attended related workshops. The leak part is letting parents know that this is going on at all. After all people can't google an unknown unknown. But it's amazing how non-chalant they are about their indocrination efforts.
I never knew I was so into construction until I started watching it
he didn't even criticize white women. he employed sarcasm in a book filled with sarcasm to contrast one character against the local stereotype

it's beyond stupid, especially for a company that works with Dr Dre
Illegal smuggling of low-cost insulin is becoming a big issue, yes. Hopefully there's a crack-down on the way.

/s
And this is new? I’m sure schools weren’t political hotbeds during civil rights politics, Vietnamese war protests, etc. Some states are required to teach creationism, and many mandate students stand for a daily ritual of the pledge of allegiance. We are only a few decades removed from requiring prayer in public schools. As a government entity everything a public school does is political and it has never not been so.

I think you underestimate how often the kids are passing along political mantras and overestimate how often teachers are. Go look at GenZ TikTok and how it is massively political and in such a way that there is no chance teachers are driving it.

I assure you kids don’t care about the quietly muttered opinion of their social studies teacher but are much more informed by their siblings, peers, and parents. The opinions get shared at school and absorbed by developing minds that don’t handle politics with much nuance largely because the relevant history of politics is never taught to them in school, cutting off at Vietnam War at the latest. And why is recent history eschewed in favor of covering the 1780s in boring detail? The desire to keep politics out of schools. And to some extent, the desire of Texas purchasers of textbooks to promote a reactionary view of the country. Covering the AIDS epidemic just leads to complaints about making Reagan out to be a villain or that teachers are corrupting kids with homosexualism. If kids repeat dumb slogans, can we blame them when they don’t have a knowledge of any modern political history except what they’ve gleaned from their parents cable news of choice?
That's not true. Damore posted his document to larger and larger making lists (it was essentially ignored on the first two or three) until it finally got a reaction. He shared it with thousands of people.
I think much of our understanding of brains is biased by beginning with studying neurons before fully understanding how single cells are able to make complex decisions. Single celled organisms can do incredible things and understanding how they do that using molecular machinery is probably the key to understanding how large networks of them can produce macro scale behaviour by communicating with each other.
From reports, even if you catch it, the vaccine will attenuate the virus enough so that it's unlikely that you'll have a sufficient viral load to spread it to others.
Because companies need something that will integrate with and complement their current knowledge base and solutions, not completely replace it.
The Human Rights, urrhh, Human Resources department is not there for the benefit of the employees, but for the benefit of the corp.
Why is it naive? If you buy distressed assets, sure, but why would you necessarily want to change a working business?
Google doesn't need to track you. They've shaped and driven the web to necessitate their own continued existence. They've also slowly been turning the web into essentially a walled-garden.
That strikes me as a software design problem, you can make movement in VR 1-1 with the real world, for many non-game's it makes a lot of sense to do that.

Maybe also a latency problem (a big part of why it's in the list above).
My mistake, I assumed the thread was about the US in general, I hear what you say.
Microsoft was the very first partner in the NSA's PRISM surveillance program (the #1 used source in US intelligence reports!) that allows the US federal government access to stored communications in Microsoft servers (think Skype, Hotmail, MSN messenger) directly and without a warrant, for any user on the service. It now includes all major US providers, but MS was first, and all of the administration and planning of the surveillance programs themselves happens in Microsoft software, on Windows.

The Snowden PRISM slides are screenshots of PowerPoint.

Microsoft is as integrated in the global surveillance apparatus as anyone possibly could be.

Making products that don't advance the US global surveillance programs and national interest would be to bite the hand that feeds them.
How much do companies and governments buying back their data and secrets in these attacks push up the prices of the cryptocurrencies used for the ransoms? What % of ransomware attacks are not reported to the media?
>Imagine if all the programming documentation you worked with was at the level of a 1980's first book on BASIC.

mathematical maturity is the same as "code sense". when i started writing code a couple of years ago i would get cross-eyed reading large blocks of code i.e. i would get lost in the syntax and the abstractions and the idioms. at the same time i had pretty decent "mathematical maturity" i.e. i could read papers and textbooks pretty handily. comparing it seems obvious that formal mathematics, with its idioms, abstractions, and syntax is basically the same thing (without pushing the curry-howard isomorphism too far).
And Jewish != Israeli.

How is that hard to understand?
It also has ads. Few, limited to YC companies, but ads nonetheless.
> Some countries have democratic governments, others have illegitimate ones.

Sure, for example it’s not uncommon in the US to ignore the majority vote and choose somebody else for president because of a fundamental design error in its voting rules.
Let's end, indeed :)
The original plan was to have a transition period of about 10 years. Didn't we have almost exactly that?
What I find most absurd in all of this is the utter stupidity of beliefs in entirely man made fairytales that have been causing nonstop wars for the past few thousand years.

Maybe eventually, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Mormonism, and any other gullible belief systems in fake sky people, written by total nutcases 1k+ years ago and miraculously still followed today, will end. Believing that you're somehow superior to the other faction of people based on your beliefs in false Gods is so laughable that it borders on showing that all humanity is largely insane. I find it absolutely baffling that you can read any of these ancient texts and do much more than laugh your fucking ass off. Where is God? Why would he have you launching rockets at innocent civilians over what amounts to gang turf wars for phony belief systems.

Nothing I said here was racist before anyone even starts. Religion is fake bullshit. Abolish religion, and you free the people to the reality of the universe. God is dead. You fight for no reason other than your murderous nature to want to kill. All sides. Any nation. Religion is man made, man written, has no basis in any reality, and is cult-personality total insanity.
So now we're against indigenous peoples having autonomy in their ancestral homeland?
The religious right was also wrong. The 90s were abhorrent. But that doesn't excuse current behaviour from the left today.
I share your apprehension about its legitimacy as a news outlet.

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/menstrual-blood-magic
This is one in a grand history of parody flyers and papers on campus.

The Chapparal used to love taking the mickey out of the Stanford Daily by printing up fake papers and dropping them in the Daily’s newspaper racks around campus on one of their off days. Stories were told of the Daily staffers running madly around campus trying to remove them.

The student LGBT organization responded to an infamous two-page spread published by the Stanford Review about the evils of homosexuality with a none-too-polite two-page spread of their own.

The only thing that might have been improved in this case: a disclaimer at the bottom. I’m amused a law student didn’t think to include that.
Patch notes for new metas.
The article hits some spot on notes. The other missing piece is just how non-technical organizations can be out of their depth when it comes to the lifecycle of IT hygiene, vulnerability management and training its staff to be security minded. A mid-size school district really has two options to secure itself: get the expertise in house, which could result in easily exploitable gaps, or spend non-trivial amount of budget working with endpoint protection vendors. I can imagine it's hard to explain to a rural school board that you either do this now, or pay majorly later.

Luckily for everyone, the endpoint protection market is evolving rapidly, and these solutions do work. Big Game Hunters aren't super humans, they exploit the things that on-the-ball IT teams and endpoint security vendors can easily fix: unpatched vulnerabilities, misconfigured endpoints and mismanaged credentials. Unluckily for everyone, the threat actors, for the reasons laid out in this article, are evolving too. And on top of that there's no shortage of vulnerabilities either.

I expect things to get worse before they get better. But do I expect Big Game Hunting to be a major problem in 15 - 20 years? I don't think so, because eventually every IT device in most any organization will have some type of cloud connected security baked into its cost. Do I think there's a likelihood it will be worse in 2-3 years, most likely yes.
The alternative is not to quit the sport, I think the alternative would be to play by their rules and make less riskier and outlandish routines and get higher scores.
Yes exactly, Italian design studios peaked in the '60s. So there is still some really cool stuff in the '80s but starting from the '90s car companies start relying more on their in-house design teams and less on external design studios
He suggested that biological differences between the sexes (rather than bias/discrimination) are the reason why women are underrepresented in the tech industry.

It’s not hard to understand why many people find this offensive.

Here’s the direct quote if you need it: “I’m simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why we don’t see equal representation of women in tech and leadership.”
It's bad when bad things happen, no one will protect against bad things happening unless bad things happen, so it's good when bad things happen.
Most of the stuff I've seen recently is not criticising the "apartheid policies" (debatable) of Israel. It's actual anti jewish rhetoric.
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edit: This is mistaken.
I never said I support a genocidal Arab ethnostate, that's extremely offensive. I support no ethnostates, no colonialism, and no occupation in the region.
Doesn't stop them trying. They've already successfully managed to broaden the definition of antisemitism to include criticism of Israel. To the point where nowadays, if someone is accused of it, you have to check if it's antisemitism or "antisemitism".

It's the boy who cried wolf, but embodied in a nation state.
The impact of them was much, much smaller.
What do you mean? Ads show up as native content in Facebook, Instagram, etc.
One of those sides has power and the other does not.
> Yes, the U.S. is also a colonial state

Who is actively calling for the dismantling of the United States? No one. But Israel is fair game.

> Its colonial territories in Africa should have been, and were, transferred to Africa.

How is that enough though when comparing with the much more minor "crimes" Israel did? Israel displaced 700000 people as part of a brutal civil war where it also suffered major casualties. Belgium, Germany, France and others destroyed millions of Africans and robbed their nations. How is it enough for them to simply retreat from their colonies? If you actively call out for Israel to be dismantled I would expect for Europe to at least give away 50% of it's wealth to the people it destroyed. That sounds somehow fair to me or at least morally consistent.
If what happened 73 years ago in Palestine must not be forgiven I don't see why everybody else gets a pass.
Is CLS still broken for single page apps?
I admire your restraint.
Google Proposes Pretrained Byte-to-Byte Transformers for NLP
Ronda Rousey's annus mirabilis in 2015 made women's MMA and MMA in general explode. And you know what the biggest thing for that was? When Holly Holm figured out how to defend against her arm-bar and beat her with striking! Maybe someone will start drilling heretofore "impossible" moves and rise to the occasion.
If NFT resales take off, resales will just happen off chain via contracts. $1Million wire transfer and a concurrent $10 NFT sale. This has the added benefit of some legal enforcement.
Rare Greek Variables
Have you people ever met a Jew? They literally idolized "never again" which is what this guy's is talking about. They literally live by the principal that this guy was removed from his position over. And questioning any Jewish philosophy is labeled anti-Semitic and condemned. Write a story about being "God's chosen people" doesn't make you righteous, it just makes you last to do it.
Supposedly around $5000 for a transatlantic flight, compared to $20000 on the Concorde when adjusted for inflation.

https://www.flightglobal.com/business-aviation/dubai-boom-to...
His bigotry goes beyond anti-semitism. Kamau Bobb's blog posts were almost exclusively about White and Jewish people, as a whole, and their mistreatment of Black Americans both historically and today. He even targets progressive white people for their more unspoken racism.

There is a very obvious tone of distaste for white and Jewish people in his posts. Search for the word "white" or "Jew" in his blog [1] posts to see for yourself.

[1] http://kamaubobb.blogspot.com/

Since Google supports "cancel culture", Kamau Bobb should be fired. I don't see how he, having himself being accused of being a racist [2], can work in any diversity or HR department.

[2] http://kamaubobb.blogspot.com/2011/08/accused-of-being-racis...

Some choice excerpts...

> The cost of elite education for our children is extraordinary. I dropped my beautiful black star into a sea of white children and it hurt.

> among the increasing number of white women holding leadership roles in the academy and in the public and private sector, they surely see younger versions of themselves in the next generation of white girls. It is a natural instinct to want the very best for them.

> In a nation with a history such as ours, that imagery is connected to a much longer and darker legacy – a legacy where white men have abused black women and girls with impunity.

> I do not need to be convinced that diversity and excellence are intimately interwoven. But what of my White counterparts? I really do not know how White people learn about Black or Hispanic people in ways that are honest

> Perhaps it is time to focus the inquiry on our White counterparts. They may well feel marginalized by the shortage of academic inquiry into the complexity of their changing American citizenship alongside people of color. Their sense of self-efficacy may be undermined by their pending loss of majority status.

> I was learning about the resilient spirit of black people in America in the context of white American barbarism.

> It is still true that white people kill black people in America with impunity.

It goes on and on...
This exact thing has happened to me, and it was both a surreal and wonderful experience to realize that I had helped myself across a huge gap of time (3+ years).

It provides an even better motivation to help others with technical problems online: we can forget things that we're experts at. It underlines why it is so important to have natural language descriptions of problems that point to correct answers.
Browsing History Alone Can Give Away Your Identity
I also grew up with constant sonic booms. There is no way to mistake a loud aircraft for them. This is like mistaking a loud engine with a gun shot.

I grew up in Germany, and whatever the laws said (probably sonic booms were illegal), they didn't apply for the allied troups (mostly British and American in my region). So jet fighters going supersonic pretty close to the ground were a rather common thing, you might hear one once a week or so.

(Technically, Germany became only with the 2+4 treaty in 1990 a fully souvereign nation, formally ending the occupied state after WW2)
That seems like a pretty shallow distinction considering Google's "bring your whole self to work" policy and cultural norms. People at Google regularly expressed far more controversial opinions than Damore's using company resources on company time. Further, the explicit rationale for canning Damore was not that he was expressing himself on company time or with company resources, but rather the patently false notion that his criticisms of the company constituted a hostile work environment.

Of course he was only fired because he was criticizing popular regressive policies and that provoked the wrath of employees who identify with those kinds of policies, and management decided it was easier to give in to the authoritarians (indeed, Google's management the authoritarian employees in question are probably not distinct groups--they certainly overlapped).
Yea, the greenwashing on this thing is just ridiculous. There's nothing sustainable about flying, generally. Doing it at supersonic speed? C'moooon
Boom supersonic isn't travel industry. It's silicon valley engineering.
Well, I've seen the opposite. I suspect it's not leftists you're witnessing saying such things.
This could rescue SF tech culture
It's not about taking example from the US, it's about how popular it is to say that Israel shouldn't exist while many other countries had a much worst history. Not many of the places people live in now were empty when their ancestors arrived there.

More importantly, I keep hearing about the Israeli colony and am a truly interested to know what empire my family are representing. As far as I heard they were massacred pretty much everywhere and came to Palestine with literally nothing, some being jailed in Cyprus by the Brits to prevent them from entering the country. No one told them about the big empire that was backing them up.