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Uggh. Look an armchair unqualified and outrage opinion by someone on Hacker News who has no idea what they are talking about.

Look up febrile seizure. Every parent know them. The recommendation by most doctors is to only bring in your child if their fever reaches 104, which he did.

You know what almost all new parents do? They bring their kids to the doctors at the slightest sign of trouble. You know what happens the first few times you do this? The doctors tell you to stop and they tell you you are over reacting.

If you were a parent, you’d know that.

Here is an uncomfortable truth. This man is in prison because of ableism.

This is why body language “experts” are grifters and charlatans.

This is why you shouldn’t convict people on a hunch, and why as a professional you don’t say shit you are unqualified to say.

Ableism kills.

I am references the rules of society, and despite whatever legal nonsense HN wants to say they can do, the fact remains both California and the entire EU has the right to be forgotten and the right to erasure as a matter of law.

Hacker News is not entitled to break the law. Hacker News is not entitled to violate the data protection and privacy rights of its users.

That is an outcome I am hoping for. Of course, if my comments remain and they just lock my account… we’ll that’s when the real spam will start… followed not long after by a a long and lengthy conversation with folks in congress.

I hear they have their sights set on tech. I’m sure exposing the startup world’s primary forum and community center’s violation of GDPR and other data protection laws so blantantly would be rather inconvenient to YC, wouldn’t it?

But I’ll take an account ban if it means my comment history goes too. That is what I am asking for, after all. :)

Seems a bit perverse, doesn’t it?

I have a right to have my data deleted from this platform. Hacker News has repeatedly refused to delete my comment history from the site.

We have a right to erasure.

Nah. My next step is talking to senators and exposing how everyone here is training on everyone’s data without their permission.

I’m going to take away your toys.

We have the right to say no, and walk away from the algorithm. All of us have that right.

Trapping anyone against their will on a forum, when they have withdrawn consent to their data is evil. Anyone who supports that it evil.

You have a right to your data. You have a right to delete your data. You have a right to be forgotten.

I contacted them. They outright refused to delete any comments, all comments or my entire account. Hacker News by matter of policy WILL NOT delete your comments, even when requested in writing.

I do not want to change my username. I want to delete MY comments and MY account.

I don’t care if this “breaks your database” or not. It wasn’t a problem for LinkedIn to delete my account and data. It wasn’t a problem for Twitter. It wasn’t a problem for Facebook.

Why is it a problem for you?

Delete my comments, then delete my account. All of it. Not just a rename.

I was here. I contributed for a bit. Now I want to leave, and I don’t want any part of me to stay.

Delete it all, now.

I asked them to wholesale delete ALL of my comments and my account and they refused.

Maybe this is the start of a movement here to get us our own GDPR?

You know what’s way more dangerous than me spamming this site with LLM hallucinations? Me walking into Congress with a fucking bill.

How far do you want this to go HN? Delete my comments and then delete my account or maybe I start talking to Senators. It’s a nice site you have here. It would a shame to see your data go “poof”, wouldn’t it?

You don’t delete my stuff? Maybe I just burn it all down in a nice fire led by Congress and a stroke of a pen. How would you like that?

(Also thank you for the support Zuiii. You’re alright with me. :) )

If I had any power to do any harm to PG at all, I wouldn’t need to post ridiculous shit in the internet to get his attention, would I?

Leave the arm chair lawyering to the lawyers.

Rights go beyond laws my friend. You see for example, I have the right to endlessly create accounts and flood this site with LLM spam, if I wanted to. Nothing illegal about training a model to post comments online is there?

You see… when it comes to rights and impinging on the rights of others… it becomes rather easy to make enemies of people you really don’t want to be enemies with.

Hacker News can either delete my comments (not just anonymize the username) and then delete my account or I have the right to become a very very annoying problem for them.

Rights are inalienable like that.

Why the hell not? It sure would be fun. Hell, I could setup a bot net and just generate accounts and reasonable sounding spam in mass with LLMs and no one would be the wiser.

Seems like a fine way to fight back.

HN: Delete my comments, and then delete my account of face the wrath of a programmer scorned. I won’t do anything illegal but I will annoy the fuck out of you.

Actually now that I think about it, it should be relatively easy to take an LLM and just spam nonsense on my behalf. :)

Perhaps we can help skew the models the train off comments drift a bit further away from anything useful.

I do not want to disentangle my name from my comments. I want to delete my comments. They are MY comments. I have a right to have them deleted.

I’m not. I just don’t want to be on the internet anymore and I have a right to be forgotten.

I did. They refused to delete my comments.

Not a bot. I just missed the memo. Might be a good idea to go ahead and create one though, because I never would have agreed to this had I known.

Every few months is yet another news article about how Red Hat is damaging the FOSS community.

It’s an abusive relationship.

Let them go.

Paywalling FOSS code is unforgivable and should end them. So end them.

Stop using RHEL.

Just a small reminder than Blender is so amazing now that AAA studios have started to use it.

I noticed a particularly dark pattern when I used Keeps, by Thirty Madison. They tell you, that you can cancel or pause at anytime but that is a lie. They over-prescribe their medication, and if you try to pause delivery, they automatically resume it after 3 months. You cannot pause, for longer than 3 months. If you want to cancel, you have to call them where they harass you into staying.

This is not how you should do customer retention. This is fraud. You are making intentionally difficult pathways for your customers to leave you so that you can report falsely propped up retention number to your investors, Thirty Madison. If you IPOd today, I would short the shit out of you.

This is why I reported Thirty Madison to the FTC in a consumer trade complaint and it is why I notified their investors of potential fraud over LinkedIn.

Thirty Madison is committing fraud against their investors, in my opinion and you should absolutely stay away from them as a consumer.

So, I hope they show up but a couple of folks I used to know in the tech community in Columbus would travel down to Marion State Penitentiary every month or so to teach programming to the inmates there. One guy they taught even got a job right out of prison, writing code as an intern. I’m certain he’s a senior or staff engineer now. Kenny, if you’re reading this speak up because folks need to hear your story and now is the time. Guy, and Will(?) too.

Anyway, I’m pretty sure like all these Java books was because of Will(?) trying to bring them in for this program.

They had to do some insane thing like photocopy individual pages or something to get around regulations. Apparently it is next to impossible to bring in any educational materials that can help inmates when they get out.

Need more developers? Train some inmates.

There is one place where Learned Helplessness is super prevalent due to loss of control: The behavioral treatment of autism in children.

Applied Behavioral Analysis uses operant conditioning theory and techniques used to coerce behavior and compliance in autistic children. It turns out though, that this “therapy” results in Learned Helplessness and PTSD/cPTSD in 46% of autistic people who later seek further therapy for trauma resulting from the practice.

Autistic people see ABA as torture and abuse. Help me end it.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1__cTL6OryHG5Hr6vwl_s...

Until Congress passes data protection laws that result in company ending fines, no one in America is safe. How this isn’t a national security crisis is beyond me.

All this news about Hauwei but they just made something that is already easy, a little bit easier. We create our own holes everywhere, out of greed and willful neglect. We are fools to think our adversaries and competitors won’t use that against us.

The fines for this incident should be $Billions with a B, Big. End the company. Criminally prosecute company leaders and managers that ignore security, and put them in jail.

You have a responsibility and obligation, to do right by your users, customers and community. Ignoring security is inexcusable and immoral.

… Sure… if you want to avoid the “side effects” of the current obviously available treatment options. :p

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34744824/

This is a review not a study. It is designed to give you a broad view of current areas of active research. It does not validate any of the research it discusses. It just says “this is what is out there”.

Welcome to the rabbit hole.

You have these cells in your brain called Microglia. They are responsible for cleaning up neurons and plaques and other weird proteins. These Microglia are activated by the firing neurons which release 2-AG and AEA (Anadamide). AEA binds to the CB1 receptor in these Microglia. 2-AG binds to CB2. THC binds to CB1. CBD binds to CB2.

Autistic adults have significantly low blood serum levels of AEA. Autistic people’s neurons prune slower. Schizophrenic people’s neurons prune faster.

It seems the ECS system is the principal driving mechanism behind both conditions. We need a lot more research in this area, but it could be THC has a positive neurological affect on Autistic people whereas finding a blocker for AEA binding on Microglia may result in a positive neurological affect on Schizophrenic people.

The next few years will be especially interesting.

Wow. A solid quality article. Great info. Well done!

Was it the end of coding when we made COBOL? How about the OS? Or the browser? What about intellisense? Or Python? Or no code automation tools?

We are moving to a yet another higher level of abstraction. Welcome to the tech industry!

Great article. Thank you for sharing your experience.