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Taurenking··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2025)
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)
Taurenking··on Google CEO calls Gemini completely unacceptable, vows to make structural changes
> 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"?

Taurenking··on Google CEO calls Gemini completely unacceptable, vows to make structural changes
Wishful thinking. The CEO of Gemini expressed openly racist views on Twitter. Those views are reflected in the tool built.

> I don't think Google sets the agenda

Soo, you're saying they did not internally test this at all, and delegated that to whoever sets their agenda?

Taurenking··on jQuery v4.0 Beta
We'll just stick with all-in-one jQuery, thanks
Taurenking··on Journalist writes about discovering she’d been surveilled by TikTok
Instagram, Twitter and probably a lot of other companies do the same. They need to be able to track links on dark socials
Taurenking··on Incompetent but Nice
Out of interest, how did you get the job in the firs place? As in, how was the interview process?
Taurenking··on ChatGPT3 Prompt Engineering
This. It's quite disrespectful to all those people who've actually put time and effort into studying proper technical subjects to earn those title (plus it's actual illegal to brand yourself as an engineer in some countries iirc)

Putting together some strings to feed to an ANI is NOT engineering.

Taurenking··on Spotify deletes 70 Joe Rogan episodes
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.

Taurenking··on Don't Waste the Good Days
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)

Taurenking··on Making Websites Small
>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

Taurenking··on 90% of Black Friday deals were the same price or cheaper six months before
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)
Taurenking··on Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S. offices
The vaccine doesn't prevent you from being asymptomatic, so we're back to square 1 tbh
Taurenking··on Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public figure and Reddit admin
Go figure, what a nice person
Taurenking··on Uber drivers are workers not self employed, Supreme Court rules
>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

Taurenking··on Uber drivers are workers not self employed, Supreme Court rules
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")
Taurenking··on Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook
>people protesting >terrorists

Pick one

Taurenking··on Ron Paul locked out of his Facebook page
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
Taurenking··on Stripe bans Trump campaign
Ah, yes, the famous polls which predicted a 99/1 landslide win for Hillary
Taurenking··on Google suspending Parler from the Google Play store
Convict him of what exactly?
Taurenking··on The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours
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

Taurenking··on An Uncommon Cold
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...

Taurenking··on Facebook Indefinitely Suspends Trump
You point is irrelevant, an internet connection is becoming more and more essential in day to day living.
Taurenking··on An Uncommon Cold
>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.

Taurenking··on Facebook Indefinitely Suspends Trump
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.

Taurenking··on London will be overwhelmed by Covid in a fortnight says leaked NHS briefing
in which universe is 0.018% a "staggeringly high number"
Taurenking··on London will be overwhelmed by Covid in a fortnight says leaked NHS briefing
Let's see how things are once winter rolls over
Taurenking··on London will be overwhelmed by Covid in a fortnight says leaked NHS briefing
They made so much of an impact that we're still battling with the virus 8 months later
Taurenking··on An Uncommon Cold
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

Taurenking··on An English ruling on transgender teens could have global repercussions
why is this on hacker news again?
Taurenking··on Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
I've been profitable with this little side project of mine that connects Calendly to Slack

https://www.calenduck.co/

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