Nowadays every webpage downloads 2 megabytes of framework JS and css preprocessors and analytics trackers and then pegs the CPU for a few milliseconds to display a paragraph of text.
If the page actually does anything on top of that the problem grows quickly.
We already have troops stationed in 146 countries around the world, the thought of adding killer AI drone capabilities to the mix isn't exactly comforting.
Then of course, if gets sold to everyone labeled an "ally" by whatever administration in five years time.
You're pretending like 90% of people don't interface with the network by just using google. The few people who don't do that just search social networks instead.
I'm old enough to type in a URL, I rarely see anyone else who does that anymore.
Most of these articles have the same narrative, summarized as: We have seen how dangerous and important technology is with elections, now it's more important than ever we educate everyone about AI.
As if the two concepts follow or are related at all, it seems more like a extremely convenient way to pivot the conversation to this new area of hype in technology while not actually owning up to anything.
How about we talk about anti-trust law, privacy, and busting up Facebook and Google instead?
Why can't users comment on ads? I can see obvious reasons why corporate partners buying the ads would want to disable comments, but is it actually good for the site?
HN is one of the few places where there is honest discourse calling out much of the bullshit in startup culture, seems odd to limit the most compelling aspect of this community.
The problem is not everyone on the world stage is a rational game theory nerd that links to papers like we want them to be. Also 60 years of treating every other country as a box in a threat model to be manipulated against other boxes has been a completely unmitigated disaster, so maybe we should stop that.
Consumers are wising up to this and just turning the tables on companies, exploiting them for the first reduced month or whatever the unit of service is and then jumping ship immediately.
Hey if you want to lose money on the transaction I'm happy to help you out.
Oh no they just threatened to "end my career" if I ever talked about the interview or the company two days after I walked out. There are a lot of dirtbags in tech.
You can call it "catfishing" like you just captured a criminal mastermind, but people of color generally don't have the reference game down and are forced into doing stuff like this in order to avoid having their application thrown in the garbage.
References are more of a "how many connected white people do you know" check than anything else. If you always had references to call on before you even finished school than you probably won't even understand the world of people who did not, and the people who didn't get that first internship and have no way to break in short of fraud.
I've worked on a lot of cross browser bugs since IE5, never seen one created by any header or created by omitting http headers. Honestly your comment is just nonsense.
I once applied for a job that I thought was doing security engineering type stuff, and that's what the posting certainly described, but in the interview it quickly became a bait and switch, and they started explaining in detail about how their product monitors employees network usage in detail and the lengths they go through to make sure it is hidden on phones and workstations so employees don't know.
Nobody who worked there seemed to have a problem with it. I ended the interview early which apparently infuriated much of the company. Threats were made, but thankfully I never heard from them again.
You can say no to making bad things. Even if you work at Google, you can say no.