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What happens when content from mainstream media gets flagged as a deepfake?

What kind of verification is used to ensure that there are not false positives, or misuse for nefarious purposes?

You know twitter is a company, it has a CEO, a board of directors, and is beholden to the wishes of the shareholders. What happens if shareholders want certain types of content flagged in a way itself is deceptive or is conducive to false conclusions about the status or quality of content? What happens when governments apply pressure? What kinds of safeguards in place to prevent this kind of thing?

How do you secure such a system from becoming a tool of manipulation?

At my very first coding job, I was hired to update the design of a .net webforms website. My academic background was in java. There was no on the job training. It was just me, 2 C# books, and stackoverflow.

I remember writing monolith methods/functions with 1000+ lines of code.

I remember manually generating SQL as a string for ado.net. I also remember being unaware of stringbuilder and doing tons on += on strings and wondering why the application was slow.

Looking back now at my first time, it seems funny more than embarrassing. I remember it fondly.

I agree, there is about to be a large market gap for streaming content creators. If someone had the team, the skill, and the funding they could effectively roll out a viable competitor to YouTube.

I'm not sure how it would go exactly, but their advertising could very easily be centered around dodging the wrongs of YouTube.

Nothing in your post leads me to believe you actually have a low IQ.

Actual posts from people with low IQ read more like 3+ replies deep in the comments section on a controversial political video on YouTube.

You sound like you have testing anxiety, insecurities, self-confidence issues, self-esteem issues, and self-doubt. The word choice of your post and the way you explain what is going on suggests you have sufficient intelligence. It seems like the biggest blocks to being successful in this field you have are believing in yourself and judging yourself. You keep thinking you should be further along and working at a "better" company. You keep comparing yourself to others and their path.

Stop.

Your life is your own, your path is your own. Your background is your own. Your challenges and dreams are your own. Don't expect your experience to be like everyone else's. There are a wide variety of successful developers from hugely different backgrounds. Some people could only go to a local collage or state university. Some people don't even have a CS degree and are still successful. I know some people with only high school-level education that can debug applications with with a time-travel trace looking at the assembly language level. Many of the people who created the popular frameworks and programming languages don't have the background you would expect. And honestly there are even a few positions at some really well known companies where even below average intelligence people can be successful. There are successful developers who have never worked at a FAANG company and probably never will.

Work on confidence, self-esteem, self-worth, and believing in yourself. Stop judging yourself.

Don't let getting into a FAANG company be your measuring stick of what success is, make that a goal instead. Plenty of people found that when they actually got to a FAANG company, they didn't actually like it, or didn't end up staying very long.

I would ask yourself these questions to see if you are successful:

Are you enjoying your current job?

Are you learning at your current job? / Does your current job prepare you for future jobs?

Are you being paid well at your current job?

Do the benefits of your current job meet your needs?

If you can consistently answer yes to these questions, then you are successful. These are also a good barometer of when to ask for a raise or look for a new job.

What do you feel was the difference that made this one successful vs the previous attempts?

Can you post a link to the successful one?

The hardest thing for me to come to own up for myself is not just taking responsibility for my own inner monologue, but realizing that thoughts encompass much more than my inner monologue. I have wordless thoughts are deeper, more subtle and these things are thoughts too. I have to take responsibility for these as well.

It makes sense once you think about animals, who don't have a formal language yet clearly are capable of thought.

Thank you very much!

It's important to keep in mind that the cost of living in certain cities is massively higher than others, in some cases more than 4 times higher.

It's also important to keep in mind that there are CEO's that make 275 times their average worker, some exceeding 50k per hour.

When I see a highly paid engineer salary, I consider a form of societal progress that a skilled worker can make a good living. Something that used to be reserved only for upper management.

It is an acknowledgement from society that work we do is meaningful and valuable.

The EU courts are going to have a field day with this one. I expect some fines to come out of it.

They talked about this in the reddit article that was linked,but I feel it warrants further discussion.

Why would you not consider a computer game a software project?

On a tangential note, there is r/disneyvacation/ that pokes fun aty the bad drawings on wikihow and recaptions them.

I most resonated with the "Objects in a git object tree, graphed by ants."

This felt very real or close to real for me.

This is really cool. Do you have some code that you are willing to showcase?

You're not crazy, this article is lazily written. It reads like political propaganda.

I like the concept so far.

Kind of curious about performance benchmarks vs C# and C++. Did you post that somewhere?

Looks pretty cool.

The Japanese conviction rate is the highest in the world, higher than dictatorships that coerce confessions through beatings. No one should reasonably expect a fair trial in Japan.

Sure but,

What is stopping them from discovering a cure, patenting it, and then never manufacturing it?

I'm pretty sure he's making reference to the large pharmaceutical companies that earn more by treating problems than fixing them.

The incentive is to continuously charge these people for the rest of their life. They make more money if you stay sick, so they can keep treating you.

If you are cured, then the flow of money stops until you get sick again.

It seems like he has found the problem with companies.

"Even though these companies pay a lot of money, in real terms, what software is doing in society is creating a lot more value than what they pay you. Google's pure profit per employee is actually $1.6 million per year, after all costs."

"If you're in the engineering, product, design, marketing, sort of the builder's side of that organization, you've got to know that you're creating a lot more value than that, possibly 10 times, maybe 100 times that value, and the only way you can really access that is by owning equity, and that means either being a founder or working at an early stage startup that gives significant equity. "

In other words, companies either purposefully or absentmindedly fail to pay regular employees anywhere close to their real value. This is the real problem. Not getting in a profitable startup early on isn't the problem. It's the mindset that it's somehow okay to pay employees very small fractions of what they are really worth.

My question is this.

In one scenario the world doesn't change, only my perception of it which then means I am/ I feel alienated.

But in the other scenario, my perception of the world is clear, its just the world has changed which has then shaped my perception of it. This means that the world became worse place.

Both scenarios result in an increased alienation index.

And there are an infinite number of in-between scenarios.

How do we know for sure which scenario we are in?

Aside from the obvious issue that the tech giants do not directly employee these children (E.G they are employed by a supplier), what other issues come to mind?

Makes me want to work in Norway.

Again, I wasn't saying there aren't innovations.

But I would argue that for a company like Apple, their next iPhone release takes priority and will get a significantly larger allocation of their resources than the next OS level feature.

Yes operating systems are in active development and research.

For major companies that are profit-driven such as Apple or Microsoft, operating system development takes a major backseat as these companies have already carved out a sizable market share and don't need to invest much to maintain their dominance as they have self-sustaining app ecosystems for their OS which continue to draw users reliably.

Sure there are people innovating everyday in operating system development like with Haiku and Redox. Many Linux and UNIX distros are very active as well.

But for the major players, it's low priority, as it gives low return to shareholders. Which means the overwhelming majority of users won't benefit from most of these new innovations until they become sufficiently innovative that they become incredibly enticing (likely to expand the market share of a major player) or become either a market threat to a major player by being enticing to app developers leading to a them developing their own self-sustaining ecosystem of apps which draws users away from major players thus creating meaningful competition.

"It is simply impossible to create such a backdoor for one purpose and not expect others to try and open it."

While I don't like or use Facebook. I can't agree more with this sentiment.

Not so quiet now that it's on the front page of hacker news.

Technology is mostly neutral morally*

It's good in the hands of ethical people. It's bad in the hands of unethical people.

Nothing about quantum computing changes this fundamental premise.

I would say that the scale of good or bad that can from using quantum computing is much higher than other upcoming technologies. But beyond that, nothing is particularly different than any other new technology in this regard.

*When I say technology here I am referring to over-arching technologies not specific applications. E.G. Nuclear technology in general, not nuclear power or nuclear weapons specifically.

What in your views would you say are valid grounds to seek independence?

If you are going to say Catalonia shouldn't seek independence, perhaps you can enlighten the rest of us on the ethical criteria to seek independence?