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> resets the body's ability to recover this incredibly specific learnt behavior, and the person momentarily reverts to a clean sample of their own voice.

What is one's "own voice?"

Nearly all speech patterns, dialects, accents, patterns and phrasing is learned from one's social circle. Speech itself is "learnt behavior." It makes sense that those engaged in a subculture or online community may take up the way people talk in that sphere of social influence. Before hand, speech patterns evolved apart from one another due to geographic distance. In the modern era, it doesn't seem unreasonable that one would have greater influence from an online community than a local one.

I don't see any reason to privilege a specific, arbitrary way of speaking to be "normal" and one's "own voice" and others to be learnt behavior one "recovers" from.

The US has seen far worse periods of social polarization. And not even that far in the distant past: the red scare(s), the Civil Rights Movement(s) and the anti-war movement during Vietnam were periods of far worse internal strife. And to be frank, even Russia today doesn't have anything near the level of internal dissent the US had during the height of anti-Vietnam protests.

> My bet is within 20 years we'll see it as the more immediate problem than global warming.

I don't want to diminish the importance of a paradigm shift in how regulators treat various chemicals, but I don't think this will be anywhere near as severe and immediate threat as climate change.

Ultimately, if there is a substantial pool of people who's fertility is not adversely impacted by some yet to be identified chemical, then it will be those people who's genes will pass on. Within a generation we as a species will have developed resistance to at least the impact on fertility by some unregulated chemical.

It seems really hard to find grounds to sue these spyware vendors that don't equally apply to security researchers doing the kind of work that makes spyware less viable overall.

>From what I understand, memory cells literally reproduce the original brain signal just as if it were coming from outside stimulus. Like playing the brain waves off a tape recorder.

I can't recall pictures of events that happened yesterday with anything resembling what it was like to be there and experience seeing the events in person. I can construct images of what things might've looked like, but the creative process of recalling that memory feels awfully different than experiencing events in real time.

I don't know of a single embedded C++ employer who'd would turn someone who understands C fundamentals (e.g. stack/heap memory, the preprocessor, concurrency/semaphores, etc) for a junior development role. A lot of C++ features aren't used in embedded systems, like the STL.

>I would recommend getting some microprocessor/electronics kits, like the Arduino ones. If money is tight, Arduino clones are very cheap indeed. You could get going for < $20. You'll need a "bread board" some wires and a microcontroller. I remember getting a _very_ cheap oscilloscope kit too. You can make some cool stuff with sensors etc.

That stuff seems really cool, but as an embedded software engineer who never spent any time learning the ins-and-outs of hardware, it isn't strictly required. Especially if one needs a job quickly, learning C/C++ is difficult enough. Though I'm aware that excludes certain microcontroller-based embedded positions.

Just putting my experience out there, across the space/aerospace industry I've seen a lot of C++ and Ada, but not much actual "C".

Embedded means a computer is part of another product which includes satellites, spacecraft, aircraft and drones with millions of LOC. I've worked in embedded most of my career and in my experience, aside from driver developers and some middleware folks, the vast majority of embedded software engineers just work on embedded software applications.

I imagine the situation is vastly different for those working on a microcontroller, but that isn't the entirety of embedded systems.

Counterpoint: in the space/aerospace world, having embedded systems running tens of millions of lines of code is common.

These have many large software teams working together. Most software engineers on these embedded programs are just that: software engineers. I've worked in embedded for a long time and have never "physically" debugged or otherwise physically touched the hardware I work on. There's a lot to embedded systems outside of microcontrollers.

Will this law also apply to Nintendo, Xbox, and Play Station systems?

For those on work systems or in a work area with others, be advised that the link above is filled with racial slurs and hate speech. I think it's supposed to be a Twitter "free speech" alternative.

If you are worried about missing out, the TLDR version is that this is the Kiwi Farms/1776 Hosting stuff again. Evidence for the title claim is an unverified user post that talks about a Telegram message they received.

A judge's signature is a necessary but insufficient part of such raids. It is absolutely reasonable to hold an agency with a troubled past accountable, regardless of which judge rubber stamps the raids. Hold judges accountable, sure, but the spotlight should be on the agency.

This isn't the situation Copilot is in.

A more analogous situation would be if the AI model occasionally returned the entirety of "Baby One More Time" by Britney Spears. Yes, I think you'd be sued if you passed off Baby One More Time as an original work just because you got it from an open AI tool.

It's interesting, because India is also a hub for these "hacker scams" where so-called hackers on Whatsapp will promise to change your grade, see if your partner is cheating, or get you a pay raise and then run off with your money. I wonder how one is able to tell the difference between actual hacking services and scams claiming to offer the same.

>is a complete disregard for visa's rules

Visa is probably easier to deal with in the case of fraud than what it sounds like privacy.com is like.

I use a single CC for everything (that I'm willing to pay with a CC for.) It's been compromised to the point that charges went through 2-3 times over the past decade and a half. CC company caught the fraud each time, automatically charged-back each of the fraudulent transactions, and overnighted me a new card. They also moved all of my recurring charges to my new card (somehow.) From what I understand, all of the big 4 CC companies operate more or less the same in this regard.

This thread has eliminated the chance of me using Privacy.com in the future. If they can't make dealing with fraud at least as easy as a regular CC (which is quite painless, there's no reason to use them.

> They're still making good ones: Frozen, Moana, Encanto. Just watch those and pretend the rest doesn't exist.

Probably the most objective way to view this is to actually look at the list of films from any given decade and see how many flops they had [1]. There's a bias at play here: the only movies we remember Disney making a decade+ ago are the hits. We don't often remember the misses.

Apparently Disney's "Renaissance" ended with Tarzan in 1999; but here are a list of movies that have come out since the end of this golden era:

- Monsters, Inc.

- Lilo and Stitch

- Treasure Planet (a personal favorite)

- Finding Nemo

- Pirates of the Caribbean

- The Incredibles

- Ratatouille

- WALL-E

- Up

- Tangled

- Brave

- Wreck-It Ralph

- Frozen

- Inside Out

- Encanto

I'm sure there's many great ones that you might love that I'm missing. But I'd say this lineup is potentially better than the list of movies spanning The Little Mermaid to Tarzan. To the author's credit, I will say there's part of me that's nostalgic for the traditional style of 2d character animation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Walt_Disney_Pictures_f...

What exactly separates a "cult" from any other church? It seems that the word is often lobbed against minority religions that either aren't mainstream (or somehow related to mainstream religions), are recent in origin, or are viewed as eccentric or peculiar.

There are truly damaging religious groups, but this doesn't seem to be what is referenced by the word cult. It seems to be used more often to describe religions that are unconnected (or less connected) to religions considered "normal" like Christianity, Islam, etc.

Not only is there a suicide note, but their employer confirmed their passing. This defense is one that is parroted almost exclusively by the KF users responsible for Near's death to deflect blame. The burden of proof is on you to demonstrate that there is some conspiracy afoot to fake a suicide.

You mentioned that all Kiwi Farms does is "showcase the horrible activities of horrible people." Setting aside the absurdity of this statement, does this apply to Near in your opinion?

The idea that we must provide a platform for people to actively organize harassment campaigns designed to kill people in order to avoid "tyranny" is beyond absurd.

Yes. I provided a link you can click on, but you can also go to the Kiwi Farms Wikipedia page that catalogs victims killed and nearly killed by Kiwi Farms harassment campaigns.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi_Farms

It feels deeply disingenuous to claim that all KF is doing is "cataloging someone's online life" while refusing to talk about constant SWAT-ing, the cheering of their victims committing suicide, and the constant IRL harassment they organize against their victims.

After Byuu, the emulator dev of bsnes, higan and more was harassed into suicide [1], harassment almost exclusively organized on KF, I've lost patience for weak defenses of a site that causes threats to folk's lives.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27652814

They have a reputation for targeting people to intensely harass into suicide, with Byuu being a notable victim in the HN/CS sphere.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27657610

Now that it's on the front page of HN, I imagine it'll get sorted out shortly.

How do you go about doing that?

It's a valid argument in the context of the comment being replied to. If you look at the parent comment, you will see that they are specifically claiming that TikTok is different than other social media companies in its intrusion on privacy.

>No it does not apply just as well to almost any social media.

>TikTok is unique in its control of the user experience, its use of data, and its popularity.

Are you more likely to be harmed by the US collecting data or China?

If a woman is seeking an abortion, is she better off using a service that collects data for the US or China?

> TikTok is spyware. TikTok is an adversary.

In what unique ways is TikTok compromising privacy that Facebook isn't that warrants the labels of "spyware" and being "the adversary?"

> and without a dedicated Menu key [0], for any kind of serious work.

I'll bite; how useful is the Menu key really? Is there something in your workflow that is benefitted by having it? Totally agree with Home/End/Insert/Delete being required on any keyboard I use.

> Need to track who said what for libel cases.

> If Glassdoor can’t point to who said it, they’re the one who gets sued.

Why? HN doesn't have any information on me. If I say something that's alleged to be libelous, does that mean HN is responsible? That seems a bit out there.