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quinnjh··on NPM package compromised by author: erases files on RU / BY computers on install
Whats painful is that in terms of cyberwarfare, allied systems maintain dominance of global grid with innovation and open source. If we had allies in russia, im sure we have fewer now. This sort of DOS attack is effective in first order effects but the second order effects could be increased resentment and new systems developed in isolation.
quinnjh··on Earn-IT threatens encryption and therefore user freedom
Poster maybe isnt trying to hide health info from state level actors, rather limiting the layers of collections identifying them as "possible customer for __ treatments"

..hopefully they posted from tor and arent about to get a ton of popups now about "do you have foxtail in your ears"

quinnjh··on My lizard brain is no match for infinite scroll
Ooh yes anecdotally im with both of u on this. Found it very hard to quit but category theory by emily riehl was a great offramp to begin "thinking more seriously"
quinnjh··on Wartime Is a Bad Time to Mess with the Internet
Ive heard three different people mention how terrible ukrain is because the people "look just like us" and it makes me sad
quinnjh··on Cybercriminals who breached Nvidia issue one of the most unusual demands ever
Couldnt be the thousands of dollars handed out, making markets discount the dollar, could it?
quinnjh··on Brains and algorithms partially converge in natural language processing
>hopefully a much better legal system around data privacy and surveillance If we avoid wireheading and obvious black mirror pits

Curious what you see as a possible incentive for this to play out? Personally stopped watching black mirror a few years ago, i dont know how much focusing the public psyche on a fantastical version of the horrors that are playing out helps us imagine or enable a better future. These days it almost feels like a keeper of the gate to STEM. If black mirror freaks you out you probably aren't going to compete in the r&d space.

quinnjh··on Amazon suspends Black Lives Matter from its charity platform
Maybe because this is text you are failing to properly interpret my words.

-The post you replied to did not contain the word racism

-The post was calling into question the exclusion of certain classes of humanoids from the framework of rights agreed on at birth of US

-No commenter said the words "you are racist"

-You failed to offer why the exclusion of black or female people is just

In “Notes on the State of Virginia,” Jefferson wrote, “I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever…” He believed that to keep slaves in bondage, with part of America in favor of abolition and part of America in favor of perpetuating slavery, would result in civil war. Jefferson’s prediction was correct: in 1861, the contest over slavery sparked a bloody civil war and the creation of two nations — Union and Confederacy — in the place of one.

Read up on natural law

quinnjh··on Open-source online SVG path editor
Excellent tool thanks!
quinnjh··on Why Peter Thiel Searches for Reality-Bending ‘Secrets’
consider that there are women and non straights who have an economic agenda, and even the furthest left mrxist nutter would understand an economic agenda
quinnjh··on Amazon suspends Black Lives Matter from its charity platform
Darling, have a tea. Poster commented with a fact. Black humans and women were not included in founders vision of democratic rights.

No one said racism or slavery until you did.

If you want to die on the hill, come up with a rebuttal, like why you think black and female humans should not have voting rights

quinnjh··on Amazon suspends Black Lives Matter from its charity platform
I live in portland and amazon suggested that i buy clippers, laser pointers, and balaclavas during the riots. Also made their banner says BLM for two or so weeks
quinnjh··on Facebook Shadow Profiles [pdf]
Would you rather have all of your activity information utilized against you for national security or for the private profit of one corporation?
quinnjh··on Confessions of a Bitcoin Widow
Well put, and as you say theres a tradeoff somewhere in what they can pay attention to. I dont deny that and i also dont really know how they "should" be handling things. Its just pretty bizarre when you and your friends have no expectation of privacy, the police have palantir, and the munitions are for defending nazis.

Strangely enough am family friends with the person likely to become chief. I doubt ill ever raise the issue because i dont think he would be able to have any positive effect without losing the position.

Entrenched.

quinnjh··on Confessions of a Bitcoin Widow
My brother who has an intellectual disability recently called the police because he was being prolifically harassed on instagram. Being sent stuff with death threats / necrophilia etc. The cop had to explain to him that they cant do anything about it and that he is worried for his daughter who is online as well.

Then i remembered the geofencing warrants and surveillance platforms they have access to. I remembered nearly going deaf when the police fired a flashbang at my head for getting too close to a group of nazis that myself and other locals wanted to shoo back to the state they came from.

I remembered the police arent here to protect the vulnerable, they are here to protect freedom of speech.

Dont worry i grew out of my juvenile delusion that i have any ability to influence or refuse to tolerate certain discourse in my city.

Nazis rallying in your city is just a sign of how well protected and safe you are i guess. Ill make sure to stay home next time.

quinnjh··on FBI used geofence warrant in Seattle after BLM protest attack, documents show
You should research the 100 mile border rights-exclusion zone that includes most major metropolitan areas, or maybe dont...
quinnjh··on Ask HN: Is accessibility worth it?
Love this comment and the connection between UX and universal design. From a reductionist standpoint theres little value, from an expansive standpoint accessibility is literally how you make your product accessible to more customers
quinnjh··on Reality by Consensus
Gaslighting works. The foundation of western culture is the greeks right? Because the greeks didnt get their knowledge from Kemet (egypt) before burning the library of alexandria right? I mean yeah the library got burnt but im sure there wasnt much in there right?

And the maya... they had their thousands of books reduced to three. But we know about their culture because of cortez's descriptions right? They were awful bloodthirsty savages right? The three books left from their culture must have perfectly summed it up right?

Reality is built on gaslighting at a point

quinnjh··on Vice Media organised $20M Saudi government festival
>journalists bending to the will of a regime willing to kill them

Yes champ, we read the article

quinnjh··on Pyflow – Visual and modular block programming in Python
Node red?
quinnjh··on Tell HN: We have a responsibility to speak out against blockchain technologies
I read a paper called "the internet bond" discussing "smart contracts" (cringey name) and how they can be used to lay out and agree to conditions for workers to be paid.

I think this is interesting when /r/antiwork has blown up and gen z is brainwashed against their bosses "opressive" leadership extracting their labor. Orgs running on good will are crumbling, corps with iron fist rules are doing okay - what if the future is in getting gen z to write out what their preferred labor -> compensation function is, and commit it to the cloud instead of scapegoating your evil bougie boss for why you hate your contract?

quinnjh··on I read the federal government’s Zero-Trust Memo so you don’t have to
No connection really but made me think of bidens tweet @POTUS 8h In 2021, we had the fastest economic growth since 1984. The Biden economic plan is working, folks.
quinnjh··on GPT-3 implicitly favor text written by authors from powerful social positions
But we want to blame the black box, not our own enlightened view of what's "good"

/s Sarcasm aside, i think GPT "did well" here in terms of picking up an average of what society deems good. This is not something comfortable, but i also dont think it is something inaccurate. Hopefully more of these ai enabled "revelations" (that back what some critical theorists have been saying for decades) will help us unpack and understand the collection of biases we each hold. Yes, the failings are societal, can it be a point of reflection? Or do we keep refiguring the model to obscure the issue?

quinnjh··on Ask HN: How to Get Addicted to Studying?
Quit tv social media and video games- read books for entertainment- only eat sugar if you finished your todo

*edit - file alongside other ideals like "eat salad" and "work out"

quinnjh··on The Rise and Fall of 'Social Bot' Research (2021)
>unreliable, why do scientific journals keep publishing auto-generated gibberish as "peer reviewed science"

>these papers are usually defining it as bots that attempt to subtly manipulate political discourse for ideological or geopolitical agendas.

Sorry but the issue smells recursive

quinnjh··on Netflix raises prices on all plans in US
LOL CANCELLED

Guess that means no more brain rot. Oh well.

quinnjh··on How We Lost the Women in Computing (2018)
People who have lived presenting as both male and female may be able to speak on contrasting experiences that cisgender people can only approach via projection.

If you dont agree please live as a woman for a year and get back to me ;p

quinnjh··on How We Lost the Women in Computing (2018)
Found the second-order-effects thinker.

Yeah this is totally at play both in entering STEM as well as women getting autism diagnoses. Regardless of which one we are talking about- if it is more of a "male thing"- women may "conform" to roles as nonprogrammers and nonautistic.

Increasing numbers of women have been getting diagnosed.

Autism may occur in even distributions but doctors have been biased for a long time to view autism as "hyper-male-ness" while girls regardless of functioning are expected to be highly sociable and emotionally aware (traditionally thought of as signs one is not autistic)

Breaking the barrier to STEM is a bit harder than changing preconceptions as you have an industry staffed with "hyper-male" people who have never been pushed to be more sociable or empathetic, and making women who have been taught a lifetime of sociability and empathy compete with them on performance metrics that are largely antisocial.

quinnjh··on Microtargeting as Information Warfare [pdf]
Username checks out.
quinnjh··on Make the “semantic web” web 3.0 again – with the help of SQLite
I enjoyed the speculative bias there as its prompting me to pick up the sqlite bundle thats been sitting in my downloads while i use post-gres-like-the-rest
quinnjh··on Tell HN: GitHub no longer supporting unauthenticated `git://`
Do you have any documentation on this?
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