billy99k

I find that people in the HN community either can't detect sarcasm (on the spectrum) or are intentionally being dishonest. Not camp you fall in, tbh.

They say Twitter has 'harmful content' and then move to Bluesky????

Bluesky has some of the worst images and content I've ever seen on the Internet. People regularly talk about murdering government officials and threatening people, without getting banned.

It has nothing to do with the content they feel is 'offensive and harmful'.

*Update: I'm getting auto-downvoted by bots. Good thing I'm good at botting too :-))))))))))))))))

Farewell,

I will rule from the shadows once again.

I could also say the Linux desktop creators are the problem as well. It's so buggy, it makes it impossible for me to switch.

How is this any diffent than when Democrats put finding into liberal NGOs and charities?

"We can help tackle global income disparity "

As long as it doesn't involve just giving them money. This experiment has been done in Africa for as long as I can remember and there's only more poverty and a higher birth rate.

"without telling poorer people that they should be happy we're offering them the jobs we don't want to do ourselves"

A corrupt government is usually the reason a country doesn't prosper. There's no jobs because businesses end up just getting ripped off and move elsewhere (along with anyone smart). What's left is a broken infrastructure and abject poverty.

Until this is fixed, things will never change.

"The wealth available in the world right now is completely unfathomable, and its mostly going to ads, privacy invasion, burning massive amounts of energy to make fake videos and articles and more adware, etc. Its not wrong to think "is something wrong with having droves of poor people wading through our shit so they don't starve?""

Why is the sole blame on countries other than India. We should be focusing on the government of India and why the system there creates a society with a much larger percentage of poverty than many other parts of the world.

"Similar to how the coal mining companies were happy to watch miners die in the mines from blacklung, and their services were indeed useful, and they were quite proud of it."

How is this similar? Nobody is dying from looking at terrible content.

"why aren't they using a clearly better alternative for those people?"

This article is about the better alternative. They aren't physically risking their lives every day to make a living.

"If you’re largely getting your news from Twitter, you might not even know that Trump is unpopular, because you wouldn’t even see a lot of the backlash."

You can't go anywhere without seeing someone say something bad about Trump. However, all other platforms are heavily biased toward the Left, which isn't real life either.

Even posting a hint of right-leaning ideas on Blue sky or most subreddits and you're account is instantly banned. When these bans don't happen on platforms like Twitter, the percentage of right-wing content is higher.

This tells you more about the current state of social media platforms (the Left supports banning and censorship). Sites like CNN removed their comment sections, but most left-leaning websites heavily censor them as well.

Left-wing popularity can't survive without censorship.

This is turning into the hunt for Nazis...where they convicted a 90 year old typist that didn't reject the regime at 13 years old.

On Facebook, I've seen some artists/graphic designers railing against AI. Companies don't care if you created it or if they can use AI for 90% less money and time an create something that works.

When software piracy destroyed my brother's small software company a decade ago, and music piracy forced all of my indy music friends out of the business, nobody cared.

Do you care now? When you are forced out of your profession and can't make a living?

In a way, I'm happy. I can now give you reasons why you should be sharing your hard-work (for free) with the world through AI training data and give you a horse-and-buggy analogy.

This actually isn't that bad when you consider Amazon added 400,000 employees in 10 months.

Boo hoo. Maybe all of the piracy advocates should be forced to pay a tax too.

Funny how when the roles are reversed, copyright infringement becomes a threat that needs to be taxed, instead of 'freedom'.

A bit of a reach. Epstein knew everyone with money.

Why nothing about Bill Gates? He tried to dose his now ex-wife and clearly was involved with underage girls.

The answer isn't to force yourself to do something an LLM can do. It's to let the LLM do some of the work and you focus on things that it can't.

"The Trump administration has held covert meetings with fringe separatists from Canada’s oil-rich province of Alberta as a rift deepens between Washington and Ottawa."

Not very 'covert', now is it. The President mostly meets with people all day every day as part of their job.

They also meet with evil dictators that support the murder of their own people. This shouldn't be news or shocking to anyone.