I find that people in the HN community either can't detect sarcasm (on the spectrum) or are intentionally being dishonest. Not camp you fall in, tbh.
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Bluesky has some of the worst images and content I've ever seen on the Internet. People regularly talk about murdering government officials and threatening people, without getting banned.
It has nothing to do with the content they feel is 'offensive and harmful'.
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Farewell,
I will rule from the shadows once again.
As long as it doesn't involve just giving them money. This experiment has been done in Africa for as long as I can remember and there's only more poverty and a higher birth rate.
"without telling poorer people that they should be happy we're offering them the jobs we don't want to do ourselves"
A corrupt government is usually the reason a country doesn't prosper. There's no jobs because businesses end up just getting ripped off and move elsewhere (along with anyone smart). What's left is a broken infrastructure and abject poverty.
Until this is fixed, things will never change.
Why is the sole blame on countries other than India. We should be focusing on the government of India and why the system there creates a society with a much larger percentage of poverty than many other parts of the world.
"Similar to how the coal mining companies were happy to watch miners die in the mines from blacklung, and their services were indeed useful, and they were quite proud of it."
How is this similar? Nobody is dying from looking at terrible content.
"why aren't they using a clearly better alternative for those people?"
This article is about the better alternative. They aren't physically risking their lives every day to make a living.
You can't go anywhere without seeing someone say something bad about Trump. However, all other platforms are heavily biased toward the Left, which isn't real life either.
Even posting a hint of right-leaning ideas on Blue sky or most subreddits and you're account is instantly banned. When these bans don't happen on platforms like Twitter, the percentage of right-wing content is higher.
This tells you more about the current state of social media platforms (the Left supports banning and censorship). Sites like CNN removed their comment sections, but most left-leaning websites heavily censor them as well.
Left-wing popularity can't survive without censorship.
When software piracy destroyed my brother's small software company a decade ago, and music piracy forced all of my indy music friends out of the business, nobody cared.
Do you care now? When you are forced out of your profession and can't make a living?
In a way, I'm happy. I can now give you reasons why you should be sharing your hard-work (for free) with the world through AI training data and give you a horse-and-buggy analogy.
Funny how when the roles are reversed, copyright infringement becomes a threat that needs to be taxed, instead of 'freedom'.
Why nothing about Bill Gates? He tried to dose his now ex-wife and clearly was involved with underage girls.
Not very 'covert', now is it. The President mostly meets with people all day every day as part of their job.
They also meet with evil dictators that support the murder of their own people. This shouldn't be news or shocking to anyone.
I'm in the tech industry and have been doing this for 12+ years now. In the beginning, it was because I wanted to live overseas for a few years, without a break in my career.
Now, it's about survival. I buy my own health insurance (me and my family) in the marketplace every year (so I'm not tied to an employer), work with multiple clients (I never really have to worry about getting laid off), and make much more than a FTE.
While all my friends in tech are getting laid off or constantly in fear of getting laid off, I don't have to worry.
I also find that because I touch so many different technologies, I have to turn down work. I turned down a company last year, that wanted me in-house and one this year that would have been too demanding on my schedule.
It's also flexible and always remote.
Why hire an experienced coder to create project X, when you can just use an open source project and hire cheaper and less experienced coders to make updates? I've been part of many of these conversations with business leaders and management over the years.
Developers have been giving away their work and devaluing their profession for decades and has basically turned it into digital factory work.
It's why I stopped writing software professionally almost a decade ago.
AI is using all of this open source to train and will eventually put you out of a job.
Someone will feel slighted no matter how well you treat them. I blame all of the 'micro-aggression' nonsense we've seen in the last couple of years and subreddits like /r/antiwork. This sounds like just the kind of thing that's encouraged there.
"The study found that when managers at a national retail chain failed to deliver birthday greetings on time, it resulted in a 50% increase in absenteeism and a reduction of more than two working hours per month. "
Most people I know don't care about their birthday (or being recognized) to this extent. Years ago, I worked at a place that decided to celebrate everyone's birthday that week with a cake and a 10/15 minute meeting (usually multiple birthdays were celebrated at the same time). As the company grew, we were having these meetings 3-times per week.
My 6 year old would care if their birthday didn't get recognized and similarly pout all day and seek this type of 'revenge'.
I wouldn't want to work with anyone that did this.
She was antagonizing the agents all day and almost ran one over. The picture this is trying to paint is that she was completely innocent and was shot for no reason.
The only reason ICE had to get this involved in the first place is because cities decided to stop cooperating with them and allowing illegal immigrants to stay.
I also saw it happen with JS frameworks/front-end development.
By avoiding AI you might be out of a job one day without the ability to get another one, because employers will all reqire it.
Even when you have something fully exploitable and valid, they will many times find some way to not pay you or lower the severity to pay you very little.
The catch-all excuse is something along the lines: "although this is vulnerable, it doesn't impact the business".
I've gotten this excuse, even when I could prove it was a production server with customer information that I could access.
Sites like Hackerone can help, but in the end, it comes down to the company running the bug bounty program.
"That doesn’t apply to cURL at all"
I never said it did. My point is that companies are struggling with slop reports as much as researchers not getting paid.
On the other side of it, I've submitted reports that are valid, have the steps, and show impact. Companies will do everything in their power to not pay you, including changing the back-end code or just stating it doesn't have any impact on business.
We may eventually see all dev work shifted in this way. It will become a different job altogether.