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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2025) on Thursday April 03, 2025 @05:21AM (#43567049)
Don't bother applying to this one, as it's a ghost job posting (you can check for yourself in previous Who is Hiring posts dating all the way back to 2023)
> Prioritize diversity in image creation by adding guardrails so the AI doesn't become a tool of a minority hate spewing population

> We're talking about an image generation algorithm that adds a layer of diversity on top to prevent misuse

Huh? That's exactly the reason that caused them to withdraw Gemini in the first place

How is manipulating history "over-reaction" or wanting factual/accurate data/images "prejudiced"?

Re:TikTok Spied on Me. Why? on Friday May 05, 2023 @02:26PM (#35833269)
Instagram, Twitter and probably a lot of other companies do the same. They need to be able to track links on dark socials
Re:Spotify deletes 70 Joe Rogan episodes on Saturday February 05, 2022 @05:01AM (#30219635)
Too bad only one side of the analogy gets banned.

It's not a very well thought of equivalence when the individual can't even yell "I think there might be a fire" without being censored, because platforms think (and most of the time they're right) that consumers are too stupid.

Re:Don't Waste the Good Days on Saturday January 01, 2022 @08:36AM (#29758141)
I wish we'd stop perpetuating this myth of "the time that's right for you".

Biology unfortunately or fortunately requires women to have healthy kids until a certain age, and the more women are aware of it the better for them (that is if they plan on having any)

Re:Making Websites Small on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @05:38PM (#29410081)
>So what's the point?

Integrity. As hard/cringey as it sounds it's because of integrity that the internet is still relatively free and software like firefox exists

Can't stress this enough. One of the things that will help us slow down environment hazards the most is to consume less (even more than "recycling" and "ethical" or "environmental" purchases)
The vaccine doesn't prevent you from being asymptomatic, so we're back to square 1 tbh
Go figure, what a nice person
>So it wasn't like you could just apply to Uber and be up and running within a few days to begin with.

From the way some of the drivers manage some trips I've been on, I'd say that was definitely the case ahaha

Interesting. I wonder what consequences this will have in the british market(IIRC it being one of their major hubs in Europe). I don't think they'll pull out at this point though, but will make it marginally impossible for new drivers to be accepted (unless demand increases dramatically but I don't see that happening either due to "current events")
Re:Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @04:20AM (#25844308)
>people protesting >terrorists

Pick one

Re:Ron Paul locked out of his Facebook page on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @04:44AM (#25744474)
The USA is going on a path that is quite similar to CCP's "one party one rule" system and they're not even aware of it
Re:Stripe bans Trump campaign on Monday January 11, 2021 @02:28AM (#25725810)
Ah, yes, the famous polls which predicted a 99/1 landslide win for Hillary
Re:Google suspending Parler from the Google Play store on Sunday January 10, 2021 @09:28AM (#25714883)
Convict him of what exactly?
Re:The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours on Saturday January 09, 2021 @02:51PM (#25704002)
Or a blm protestor attacking a citizen trying to protect their livelihood. But most people will probably turn a blind eye because it doesn't fit the narrative (blm riots = peaceful protests, capitol riots = domestic terrorism)

Makes me chuckle that the result of this + the deplatforming of most of the opposition will only result in even more extremism and separation in the US.

I guess you reap what you sow

Re:An Uncommon Cold on Friday January 08, 2021 @05:24AM (#25683294)
But it's not. 55 year olds are not dropping like flies like you're implying in your previous, false, statement [0][1].

Furthermore I have contracted it and guess what, I'm fine _now_ (sure we could argue about "long term effects" but at the moment that is big unknown). I'm also quite young so that played a part of course.

It's not dismissive to say everyone has to go sometime, it's just the truth.

If you're willing to sacrifice resources to give an extra few years to an already dying or sickly subject that's fair enough but pardon me if I beg to differ and look at the other side for the argument and focus on the repercussions for those that will not be _medically_ affected as much.

[0] https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1327 [1] https://ourworldindata.org/mortality-risk-covid#case-fatalit...

Re:Facebook Indefinitely Suspends Trump on Friday January 08, 2021 @05:10AM (#25683226)
You point is irrelevant, an internet connection is becoming more and more essential in day to day living.
Re:An Uncommon Cold on Thursday January 07, 2021 @12:52PM (#25674536)
>even a 55-year-old swimmer, cyclist and marathoner can die of this

...but on average, they won't. It's way more than a pious "this exceptional case confirms an non-existing rule" thing. Let's get past the fear mongering.

Re:Facebook Indefinitely Suspends Trump on Thursday January 07, 2021 @12:46PM (#25674429)
Sure, only to have each and every company disavow services from said "own website" when _they_ feel like it.

The "build your own x" argument doesn't take into account that as technology evolves not everyone has the means/skills to "build" their digital public town square, hence why the existing once ought to be regulated by governments once they get too big.

in which universe is 0.018% a "staggeringly high number"
Let's see how things are once winter rolls over
They made so much of an impact that we're still battling with the virus 8 months later
Re:An Uncommon Cold on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @05:51AM (#25656510)
What's the median and average age of those that died? How many re-existing conditions did they have?

It may sound super cynical and all, but perhaps we've forgotten that natural conclusion to life is death

why is this on hacker news again?
Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? on Saturday December 12, 2020 @07:02AM (#25397724)
I've been profitable with this little side project of mine that connects Calendly to Slack

https://www.calenduck.co/

Re:China has passed a national security law for Hong Kong on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @05:35AM (#23688312)
>You can also search for news on when the UK government report in to Russian interference in the vote will be released but I wouldn't hold your breath...

Just like in the US, right? ;)

Re:Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown? on Monday June 22, 2020 @04:16AM (#23598205)
I feel like this thread has been posted more than a couple of times lately, or am I imagining things?

Anyways I built a quick bot to connect Calendly to Slack[1] as people in my sales team where requesting "native" integration (plus we didn't want to pay for multi-user access on Zapier)

Unfortunately it works only with Calendly Pro and Premium accounts, but looking into workarounds for free users (leveraging gCal)

[1] https://www.calenduck.co/

For https://calenduck.co (built with Django) we use:

https://dashboard.heroku.com/ for the infra

https://www.sendinblue.com for emails

https://sentry.io for error reporting

https://stripe.com for payments

https://papertrailapp.com/ for logging

https://slack.com (free) for chat

https://trello.com (free) for keeping track of things

Totaling at 14$ a month, it doesn't really get any cheaper

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