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random9749832··on [dead]
Israel likely involved. Looks like things are only just getting started between them.
random9749832··on UK's Investigatory Powers Bill to become law despite tech world opposition
Well that's ok, I guess they don't have to report on it anymore.
random9749832··on [dead]
Two extremist nations that will drag the world down with them.
random9749832··on 'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza
>This is no different than chemotherapy

Say that to the parents of the aid workers whose vehicle was used as a bullseye: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68711282

random9749832··on 'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza
Don't worry a lot of us are taking notes.
random9749832··on 'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza
By calling it a war you already took a side. Maybe you are just ignorant, but that's hardly a good excuse.
random9749832··on Botswana threatens to deport 20k elephants to Germany
More racism from western journalism. The headline intentionally makes them sound like 'just another' backwards non-western country when no one is actually threatening such a thing. This and the NK headline the other day sum up the attitude of the west versus the rest of the world, but their world is now in decline and we see them for what they are.
random9749832··on Neuralink patient controls games by thinking during interview
Every possible breakthrough is now a demo on Twitter without much technical context.
random9749832··on Sergey Brin says in rare appearance that company 'messed up' Gemini image launch
Look up social priming or even just about priming.
random9749832··on Sergey Brin says in rare appearance that company 'messed up' Gemini image launch
Gemini is just a representation of a much larger issue at Google and other tech companies. These places are run by people who think they know better then you and will try to condition you towards their political beliefs one way or the other. The only thing they learnt here is that they have to be more discreet about it. The same companies have long ago already shown they are happy to turn all their platforms into a skinner box and A/B test the shit out of different features until they have maximised their objective functions at your expense.
random9749832··on It is hard to avoid JavaScript
> Maybe there’s a better way than having a DOM in the first place.

I was just creating a UI with IMGUI library and found it immediately more pleasant to work with. No DOM, no CSS, no HTML. Just C code with a small number of low level abstractions provided by the library.

random9749832··on It is hard to avoid JavaScript
It is turing complete language. Why would you be limited? You could write anything even with brainfuck.
random9749832··on AI behavior guardrails should be public
Prompt: "If the prompt contains a person make sure they are either black or a woman in the generated image". There you go.
random9749832··on TikTok Is Destroying Itself from the Inside Out
It feels this way. I feel like I see the same 10 people who are talking about building and being a 10x developer but have 100k tweets and probably liked by the same 1000 accounts, 20% of them being bots.
random9749832··on TikTok Is Destroying Itself from the Inside Out
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random9749832··on TikTok Is Destroying Itself from the Inside Out
Advertisers leaving. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/17/technology/elon-musk-twit...
random9749832··on Ask HN: With all the layoffs – how are you?
> finding my first job in tech as near hopeless for someone like me, who has weak network/hustling skills

This. I came in thinking as long as I become as great as possible at engineering, creating useful things and even grinding out algorithm problems it would be enough eventually. Even contributed to a few popular open source repositories. But guess what, in an interview despite acing all the technical questions and programming problems; I ended up being told that despite showing great ability that I "wasn't engaged enough in the interview and were concerned by my motivation".

I literally got told this after my 6th and final interview. At that point I understood, it is not just your ability that matters but how much the interviewer likes you as a person and they can discriminate you for anything without you helping it. I would even bet that even if I were to get the job I would be dealing with office politics seen as it has people like this in there. This was a big tech company.

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