skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are so, so close to that. Political parties and nation states now effectively have memetic warfare arms in the form of very advanced and soon AI augmented PR and propaganda agencies. Where there is attack there must also be defense.

Arms races tend to push innovation, which is why I now wonder about actual adversarial attacks on the brain that can bypass choice and thought entirely and even cause illness. That would be the logical endpoint, sort of like how the hydrogen bomb was the outcome of the bombing arms race. If it’s possible I predict it will be discovered in the next 25 years. We may see a video that sends people to the hospital that appears, say, right before an election and is targeted at the opposing side.
I picked the hard one to challenge reflection on because it was useful. An equivalent blood libel zombie variation is the belief that a global elite is kidnapping children for abuse rings (pizzagate, etc.), but I didn't use that one because it was too close as a proxy for the anti-semitic original. The point is this is an established pattern, where unless you reflect on how you know what you think you know, and why you believe something, you're going to be the subject of a belief, and not a holder of it with agency.

Just to add, when you hear a lie, you shift into a defensive mode where you do not act while you wait for the dissonance to resolve. A big part of this method is to produce lies that will in effect mentally paralyze those who percieve them, and by merely doing nothing as a result, they will not act or coordinate to resist the rest of the liars actions.
A minority of people needs to understand this.

People have ideas less so than it is ideas that have people, and intersectionality as an idea has collected a lot of people.
> Also, IQ is fundamentally flawed.

That's like saying that glucose levels are fundamentally flawed. What does that even mean? Flawed for what? Carpentry?

> Perhaps your innate abilities (and acquired prejudiced) aren't a substitute for following contemporary research on intelligence? https://www.webmd.com/brain/news/20121218/iq-test-really-mea...

Oh please, that reads like someone's blog post. Contemporary research on intelligence has repeatedly disproven claims of multiple intelligences. People have been trying to claim their existence many times but any form of a multiple intelligence model devised so far provided no improvement over a g-factor/single intelligence model. In case you came up with a multiple intelligence model significantly better than anything we've had so far, congratulations, you might get published.
I’d score that as “needs improvement.”
No specific, it was fun because I had a crush on her. A little bit after that I started dating a girl who went to the same school as me, and she told me she and her friends would look at the signing list at the library to see what I was reading. Back then you had to checkout a book in order to take it home with you from the library, and they used pen and paper.

I guess I was also stalked, just not digitally, haha.
I agree with you on this specific issue but may I point out it isn’t really a new thing. For instance, every police car in my town and probably yours has a phone number you can anonymously call if you have information concerning a crime investigation. There is a number to call to anonymously report unsafe conditions on building sites. Another one lets you anonymously report unsanitary conditions in restaurants (including recently if they are not following mask policy.). And so on for illegal dumping, animal cruelty etc.

The danger is that the anonymity will be used by disgruntled people to make false accusations or get revenge instead of only by civic minded citizens trying to improve society but this is a danger in all the examples above not just the abortion one.
Nothing beats Cabronator
My favorite story was from the Manhattan project. A small handful of physicists were not convinced a nuclear reaction at this scale would stop. According to their calculations - the reaction could consume a larger portion of the planet. Oh well. Let's roll the dice.
Interesting long article about the test pilot of Virgin Galactic
It seems that the mind can absorb much more than we previously thought from observation. I wonder how the human brain perceives gameplay characters vs humans in a video
> Since no amount of contrition abates the condemnation, there is an absence of forgiveness.

I agree. Wokism is protestant Christianity without foregivness: https://pontifex.substack.com/p/no-redemption-for-the-woke
This has also become a debate/problem in some segments of the aspergers/autism community where you have kids on TikTok pretending to be autistic.

Perhaps this is the end result of valorizing difference.
Now You Can Probably Afford That Device You Longed for a Decade Ago
I didn't intend to argue against communication or collaboration between silos. When a leader implores the people around them to "break down silos", they're usually not being very explicit about org design or communication design or collaboration design. I argue it's important to be explicit about the collaboration model of teams -- and that can work across silos. For example, you might have a product marketing person (from the marketing silo) who is embedded in a team or a couple of teams and work closely with them. There are many collaboration models you can choose from that effectively allow teams to coordinate their work.

My next post is going to be about the structures you can use between teams and organizations.

You make a really good point about informal and expertise networks. Do you agree that good org design is often about making the value creation networks overlap to whatever degreee possible with the org structure? I enjoyed your blog post!
They didn’t rule on freedom of association. They ruled that the commission demonstrated anti-religious bias. It was a very narrow ruling for this particular case, and not on the larger question.
Yes, I stumbled upon some of these same community discussions happening on Twitter and Tumblr. It was really interesting to read about the in-fighting about traumagenic vs endogenic DID. This discussion of real or imitated Tourette’s reminds me of that.

https://pluralpedia.org/w/Traumagenic

https://pluralpedia.org/w/Endogenic
I'm absolutely trying to reduce the scope from what it has become.

It has become, "person I don't like is intolerant, according to me, and hey paradox of tolerance, therefore I will persecute them with no quarter and no decency". Did you see some of the crazy cancellation stories last summer? One guy was ruined for saying "please don't burn down buildings, especially right next to my house": https://reason.com/2021/06/15/daniel-elder-cancel-culture-ch...

If you think you've found a loophole that enables you to be a McCarthyist rooting out evil, you're the bad guy.
I prefer what you state actually: 100% free competition. I just said that they were basically doing what to me seems like a cartel unfavoring competition.

Anyway, with more freee market this maybe would not happen though I cannot be 100% sure since the investment it takes to do an OS ecosystem is not at the reach of everyone, making fewer competitors viable.
they should have already been boycotting godaddy
The ability to avoid decrypting and mining your entire photo library in order to comply with us law. Instead performing a hash match on the device that gives their compliance team a partial key to decrypt only the images in question to confirm it wasn’t a false positive.

Mean while on a google pixel, google will just scan your entire library.
More than an card infrastructure it might be simply an infrastructure, now even between banks that support instant SEPA transfers it is not really usable to buy things with it.
I was thinking of it recently. Does it still run on modern Windows? Has anything new arrived as its alternate?
The list of protected groups is written into law by the legislature, not made up by a judge.
From the Wikipedia article, it sounds like a modified EU-compliant variant is coming to EU.

>In 2021, a Latvian-based company Dartz (known for their armoured SUVs) announced a plan to sell the Hongguang Mini EV as the Dartz FreZe Nikrob, with a starting price in certain European countries at around €9,999 and assembled in the EU by Lithuanian company, Nikrob.
The tendentious legal argument is the dispute is between two private parties, and the state's only involvement is providing the dispute-resolution mechanism (a bit hard to swallow when they've stacked the deck in favour of the claimant and not exactly hidden why). The Supreme Court's decision rests on the even thinner ground that there are no grounds for ruling on the constitutionality of the law until a case has been brought and enforcement attempted. (It's feasible they might even rule the other way if and when cases are actually brought, but we shall see. A head on challenge to Roe vs Wade would have fewer side effects)

In the mean time, a very obvious route to create chaos has been opened up for any state government of any political inclination that wants to deter any constitutionally-protected behaviour whatsoever ...
Have you visited any American school recently? No cross in sight, but plenty of rainbow flags. Not sure about the gunpoint (in both historical and contemporary sides of the argument), but mass conversion it is.
Not to be confused with the K car.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_K_platform
Not to mention "genders"
> In France it is illegal to have DNA paternity test

It is not.

https://www.francepaternite.com/est-il-legal-de-realiser-un-...
> So what is it actually trying to accomplish?

This form of question, as written is unnecessarily limiting ...

(a) there doesn't have to be one thing that Apple was trying to accomplish

(b) there doesn't have to be one motivation

... so I'm going to respond to the spirit of the question with a set of explanations, all of which may be true (to some degree) at the same time.

- parents are fearful of their kid's online activities;

- parents are open to trying new ways to give their kids freedom with some guardrails;

- yes, many people at Apple do want to protect kids out of the goodness of their hearts. This fundamental instinct is widely shared, particularly among parents.

- putting the 'why' aside, many customers perceive value and will pay for it;

- Apple executives are mostly profit-seeking (with certain constraints such as: mental models, brand constraints, regulations);

- shareholders seek profits and generally have less loyalty to any particular company's 'values' -- meaning they will 'shop around' for the best performing companies;

- as a group, shareholders see mostly upside and little downside -- don't perceive significant direct harm from these changes (at least, not until this became a public relations issue);

- generally, corporations benefit from playing nice with the U.S. government;

- Apple, in particular, has quite publicly pushed back on law enforcement's calls for decryption;

- in particular, with heightened scrutiny of the large tech companies, olive branches are particularly useful;

- some at Apple may prefer to lead with a proactive solution rather than wait for imposed regulations;

- some at Apple see this as a proactive branding opportunity;

- some Apple engineers are at the top of their field regarding encryption, security, etc and may have deemed their offering the best practical option available;

- some at Apple certainly understand the risks but assess the balance of false positives and false negatives differently than you do;

My hope is to make it a bit easier to recognize the complexity here. Though it may be true that organizations act as one entity, it is not true that they have singular intent. Attempts to claim a singular intent or goal are subjective interpretations.

Note: the list above is presented sequentially, but I am not claiming any causal ordering. They would be better presented as a network/graph connected by topics and relationships.
Aren't children in the womb a more vulnerable minority group?

You're entitled to answer "No." to that question, but please don't say it's tiring looking down from your moral high ground as if your position is the only one that cares about human rights.

This is a complex issue, and, for what it's worth, I think there are multiple problems with the Texas legislation and the court's reaction to it.
My first year at university I took over the student radio program and found such a computer had been left online for months directly connected to the internet. It was so pwned the mouse would struggle to move.

I wish to this day I’d imaged the hard drive before formatting it. It’d have been so much fun to boot up in a VM to play with today.
This belongs on shlinkedin.
That's not more anti-trans than OP is anti-Tourette's.
Mimetic disease? If by that you include Bad Ideas, then yes, absolutely there are techniques for defending yourself against them. See things like Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Demon-Haunted_World#Balone...

Or more generally, awareness of informal logical fallacies prepares you for spotting them in the wild (and they are everywhere).

I'd also include texts such as Rudyard Kipling's If in the toolbox of defensive thinking, for its advocacy of balance and humility:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If%E2%80%94

And pg's essay on small identity:

http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html

And thought-terminating clichés:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_clich%C3%A...

None of these are guides to having good ideas as such, but can help avoid falling into the traps of bad ideas.
Yes, the ability to block parts of pages is handy too.

I've not taken to blocking whole sites yet. But sites with "recommendations" attached to every page are a real distraction. I block them on stackoverflow, otherwise I end up reading about the etymology of some obscure word or advice for a dungeon master in a weird D&D scenario =)
Abortion actively causes harm to unborn children.

What this shows is that harm reduction (the principal moral foundation for “leftists”, “progressives” etc. according to Jonathan Haidt) is inadequate as the sole foundation for an ethic.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. I know I've inherited personality quirks, tics, and ways of speaking from notable figures because either I thought they were funny or simply because their tics and catch phrases have a quality much like that of an "earworm". Mimicry certainly doesn't have to indicate a psychological condition beyond perhaps having a bad habit, which everyone has every now and then. The internet is just amplifying some of these inate human characteristics at the same time that we have gotten really good at pathologizing everything and labeling ourselves.
>Solaris, HP-UX, SCO, AIX, OSF/1

Just to make the problem more clear, add:

Irix, Ultrix, SunOS, DG/UX, Pyramid OSX, NCR Unix, Xenix, A/UX, Bull DPX, EP/IX, ISC, MachTen, NeXT, Dynix, UnixWare, ConvexOS, Coherent, DomainOS and more...

See the supported platforms for something like Kermit or Pine to see this isn't just piling on. Some real and popular software had to support huge lists like this. Perl's CPANTS testing network was neat for stuff like this, you could write a module (including C code), and watch all the various ways your code would bomb on other platforms without having direct access to them.

http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/unix.html

http://www.mit.edu/afs.new/athena/astaff/source/src-9.0/thir...
The studies are about parents speaking one language but fully integrating their kids in the local language.

What you are talking about is development of communities in a language different than the local language with their own stores, schools etc... That's a different subject altogether.
We all make gestures, look left, right up or down, squint, have a narrator in one's head, sometimes clap, smack forhead when trying to get a thought formed, access memory, formulate a sentence, or express feelings.

Perhaps what we diagnose as Tourette on the low end is like above but overwhelming and more involuntary?

Perhaps people who acquire it via mimicry are in the category where movements are not entirely involuntary, but perhaps feel good and help them think or function maybe to relief stress or anxiety on subconscious level.
No one gives a fuck what you think, dimwit.
"Wokeness" is not jumping. The idea that everyone, even traditionally protected classes, should be held responsible for their actions is spreading.
> China has for the majority of it's history been a northern Mandarin Chinese oriented country.

That claim is incompatible with historic records and linguistic scrutiny. Northern Mandarin developed only in the recent ca. 500 years, so that cannot be a majority. Middle Qing until early Republican era was oriented around eastern (i.e. Nanking) Mandarin. The process of displacing eastern with northern started in ca. 1850 and was complete a hundred years later.
To say Flutter is the most popular cross-platform is naive. React Native is the most popular "mainstream" (aka HN) cross platform by a mile. Xamarin is huge especially within .net shops. Flutter is comparatively less mature and less adopted than either.
> This is why "wokeness" strikes so many as performative

I think part of the reason is many of the talking points I would call "ominous". Take for example the Civil Rights movement or Women's Suffrage. Looking back at them, they had clear goals and clear talking points, you could read their message and see where they were trying to go, what their ultimate goal was.

Wokeness on the other hand does not seem to have the same goals. Take the classic "ending systemic racism" goal. Ok fine, lets end systemic racism, how do we start? Where can we find it? On you see, if you don't know what systemic racism is then you have no hope of solving it. Oh you see, you're white so systemic racism is in you, so it's not a problem that you can solve.

I would say that unlike previous movements, the goal of Wokeness isn't to solve a problem in society, it's a "movement" you join for likes on Instagram, comments on Facebook, and upvotes on Reddit.
I think it's worth considering that this isn't just any particular customer or individual -- it's a state government.

I don't think private businesses should be obligated to work with any government for any reason.
Worth also noticing that it comes from the USA where justice is punishment and vindication for the victim. It's why victims and their families are invited to be present when a criminal is killed via the death penalty, and ex cons can't vote. Eye for an eye is very American.

Is it old protestant and puritan? Possibly, I'm not sure of the origins.

Even the Soviets thoughts that prisoners could be rehabilitated (in principle), and we can consider the Nordic prison model for a more contemporary example. Even English criminology is more about reform than punishment. Often victims feel sidelined because of this.

American justice in general doesn't have this sense of rehabilitation being more important than vindication. Justice is retribution by the victim on both right and left wings. I posit that this is why the US is struggling with the "woke", it's because the methods and tactics are seen as normal.

Explains a lot about the foreign policy too...
Can you please share any resources to understand it more in detail? With flock, I am facing issue with lock files, if cron crashes or system reboots, lock files are a big pain.
Seeing the title of post I immediately felt sentimental. It so funny to understand actually understand that so many people were socialized with the same tools. I recently found the tools compilation CDs my brother used to assemble with all those tools. Having Back Orifice on a random computer on the internet was somehow the first feeling what the internet ment without knowing actually what to do with that. I additionally remember spending hours on SoftICE (My biggest success was to discover that the only license key to the Siemens webwasher adblocker was 'Mr Nuts'.) I wonder if is there similarly innocent things today's script kiddie's do.
It's confusing that RISC-V is so often described as "open source". The specs (ISA + extensions) are open and free from patents (at least as far as we know). While there are a large number of open source implementations available, many of these, however, implement only a simple microcontroller-style RV32I core.

The cores available in "large" physical chips you can buy today (XuanTie C906 on the Allwinner D1 SoC, SiFive U54/74 e.g. on the BeagleV and HiFive Unmatched) are proprietary. I think one of the few companies that open sourced their commercially used cores is Western Digital ("swerv" cores - https://github.com/westerndigitalcorporation/swerv_eh1), but these are also RV32I microcontroller-class CPUs.
So it is... the picture "frame", it's pure CSS styling instead of some shopped image right? Well then credit to where it's deserved... bravo to that blackhat for at least having some tasteful sense of aesthetic and compositioning.
How does this apply to the OP's use case?
Wikipedia adds that there are now electric ones. The article doesn't say whether the electric ones are shitboxen though.
Does anyone else feel like it's a dream when they're coding?
It makes everything interesting. Also, you look at the codebase/business as a whole (a dream), so you don't get caught up in the details.
You may not like them, but the regulations are very clear. None of them are utilities. There was some effort to make ISPs common carriers, but the last administration nixed it.
> There are 100,000 software developers in the DoD. We are the largest software organization on the planet,

Tata Consultancy Services, India employs more than 500,000 people. They manage the IT stack of companies from Walgreens to Ferrari. I'm not the person to nitpick, But I'm particularly proud of TCS's employment figures because I've personally witnessed many move from being poor to wealthy(by Indian standards) after being employed by them(often the first degree holder in the family).

[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/15/economy/tcs-india-it-remo...
Assange is being punished by almost all western countries. Sweden had a big role in it too and so does UK. And Australia is doing absolutely nothing to prevent it from happening to their citizen.
Don't go near anyone's cloud. But the hardware is super solid.
>The actual baker situation was denying a customer based on their sexual orientation. That type of refusal is not okay and the reason why is pretty well-established in the law. Sexual orientation (like religion, race, sex, etc) is protected from such discrimination.

This is not true. They were perfectly happy to bake a cake for gay people; they objected to baking the cake specifically for a gay wedding. The cake was to have wording which the bakers disagreed with for religious reasons.
Is school the appropriate place to try to cure all society's ailments though?

Empirically it doesn't seem to have worked, even if you think it should be attempted.

But I'm skeptical that it's even wise to attempt. Education isn't the same thing as moral instruction. We want secular schools not pseudo-churches.
Just like cassettes and VCR's killed the media industry.
Is there any other way without using lock files? Using socket or something?
Sounds familiar. In the UK, young people referred for "gender treatment" has increased from 97 in 2009 to 2,510 in 2017-2018, an over 4,000 percent increase in 10 years.
Gender dysphoria =/= being trans.

Gender dysphoria is feeling uncomfortable in your gender-at-birth. Therefore, transitioning or rejecting the concept of the gender isn't the disease — it's a cure for the disease.
Where is the line? The defense production act?
I just finished reading "Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley" which has a whole section on the PayPal Mafia. I never realized how influential that group was to startup culture.