> This is fake news. Location was not available on any gray check account at any point. Furthermore, the DHS has only shown IPs from the United States since account creation.
- head of product @x
Not to discount the impact of foreign powers over social media but maybe don't spread this misinformation.
Does this make the fact that it showed as Israel, was disabled, and is now "corrected", mean that this feature is good or bad?
Either we can trust all location data all the time, or we can trust none of it. We cannot expect Nikita Bier to swoop in on every suspicious tweet and try to educate us on IP range changes and DNS glitches or whatever.
Furthermore is it more likely that a small set of special accounts seemingly never collected location data on signup, or that for a small number of accounts X simply modified that data post-hoc?
It may have happened. There are already many users saying their "created in" locations were incorrect. Thus the rest of my comment: trust is binary. We can either be 100% certain the data is correct, or we must assume it is never correct.
Lots of threads in here saying this is just a "legal" protection move...
I'd like to believe that most actual people want to protect kids.
It's easy to write off corporations and forget that they are founded by real people and employ real people... some with kids of their own or with nieces or nephews etc, and some of them probably do really care.
Not saying character.ai is driven by that but I imagine the times they've been in the news were genuinely hard times to be working there...
I'm sure some of them care genuinly but I've interacted with corporations enough to know that the individual proclivities of the parts don't necessarily appear in the whole.
> An internal Meta policy document, seen by Reuters, showed the social media giant’s guidelines for its chatbots allowed the AI to “engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual”, generate false medical information, and assist users in arguing that Black people are “dumber than white people”
lol they business idea itself is very easy to degenerate for money so if Who created It didnt thought putting barriers to minors from the beggining the person is stupid or greedy
They (the leadership and the folks who left to Google) absolutely don’t give a shit about protecting kids. In fact most of America doesn’t give a shit about protecting kids (guns, SNAP, vaccines, the goddamn Epstein files).
Well yeah, but that's in part a problem with always-on doorbell cameras. On paper they're illegal in many countries (privacy laws, you can't just put up a camera and record anyone out in public), in practice the police asks people to put their doorbell cameras in a registry so they can request footage if needs be.
Anyway, I get wanting to see who's ringing your doorbell in e.g. apartment buildings, and that extending to a house, especially if you have a bigger one. But is there a reason those cameras need to be on all the time?
At least in the USA it’s legal to record public spaces. So recording the street and things that can be seen from it is legal, but pointing a camera over your neighbors fence is not.
And a lot of people don't share that opinion, so this isn't the law in a lot of countries. When you wanted to suggest that it is a problem, that US companies try to extend the law of there home country to other parts of the world, then I endorse that.
it isn't creepy, it's super annoying if you don't live in the woods. got a ring doorbell and turned them off a few hours after installation, it was driving me nuts.
That makes... That makes just enough sense to become nonsense, rather than mere noise.
I mean, I could imagine a person with no common sense almost making the same mistake: "I have a list of 5 notifications of a person standing on the porch, and no notifications about leaving, so there must be a 5 person group still standing outside right now. Whadya mean, 'look at the times'?"
> A biologist, a physicist and a mathematician were sitting in a street cafe watching the crowd. Across the street they saw a man and a woman entering a building. Ten minutes they reappeared together with a third person.
> - They have multiplied, said the biologist.
> - Oh no, an error in measurement, the physicist sighed.
> - If exactly one person enters the building now, it will be empty again, the mathematician concluded.
In a keyboard format? Something running a simple OS that doesn't link you or your family identity and data straight into Google?
Something a less technical parent can wire up in the family room from a trusted brand without having to do a ton of research for not only reputable brands but also vendors on amazon?
Educational mission aside this is a good alternative to a chromebook.
I wouldn't recommend at this point in your career/life. Unless you are going to a tier 1 school you're just going to set your career back.
If I was you, then I'd keep hustling with upwork and whatever else you need to while building and launching something meaningful on your own in the space you want to work.
- slap a founder title up on your linkedin (set the start date to now)
- ship something not terrible
- continue iterating on it while becoming a better engineer, product manager, designer, etc all on your own
- learn to use AI coding tools really well
- clone and enhance the features of competitors
- talk about it a lot
- go to conferences for the business sector and for the tech stack
- network a ton
Then apply for a job if you still want to in 1-2 years. You'll have met a lot of people doing that and can hit them up or apply to competitors in the space using your startup as the perfect showcase.
When they ask why you are quitting just say you are super passionate about the space but couldn't raise money or going on a solo founder was terrible and you want to join a team.
And just don't apply for jobs at FANG ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ there are so many other companies out there that need people with the type of experience you'd have after 6 months to a year of the above. They are looking for folks with FANG background, tier 1 college/other pedigree, or specific experience building the same thing.
I will not be going to any prestigious school. It's not in the cards for me.
I actually do own a SaaS along with my business partner. I'm not the founder, but we bought the platform from the founders who were looking to bail. It's a logistics company that is used by mainly bike messengers. 20+ companies around the world use it.
I would say I've shipped a few non-terrible things so far. I built an application that runs on a POS kiosk that kids scan their little IDs on when they are tardy to class. It's in a few dozen schools in the LA area.
I do have a pretty interesting resume. It has caught the eyes of people, but it takes someone who had an unconventional history like myself to appreciate it.
I haven't submitted a job application in over a year. I just haven't seen the point of it given the market. I'm also not interested in FAANG at all. This would be more of a future proofing move.
Agreed on the second part. Correcting for bias this way might average out the scores but not in a way that correctly evaluates the HN comments.
The LLM isn't performing the desired task.
It sounds possible to cancel out the comments where reversing the labels swaps the outcome because of bias. That will leave the more "extreme" HN comments that it consistently scored regardless of the label. But that may not solve for the intended task still.
> This is fake news. Location was not available on any gray check account at any point. Furthermore, the DHS has only shown IPs from the United States since account creation.
- head of product @x
Not to discount the impact of foreign powers over social media but maybe don't spread this misinformation.