Hacker News: Taurenking

New comment by Taurenking in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2025)"

Taurenking — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 09:21:15 +0000

Don't bother applying to this one, as it's a ghost job posting (you can check for yourself in previous Who is Hiring posts dating all the way back to 2023)

New comment by Taurenking in "Google CEO calls Gemini completely unacceptable, vows to make structural changes"

Taurenking — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 07:39:03 +0000

> Prioritize diversity in image creation by adding guardrails so the AI doesn't become a tool of a minority hate spewing population

> We're talking about an image generation algorithm that adds a layer of diversity on top to prevent misuse

Huh? That's exactly the reason that caused them to withdraw Gemini in the first place

How is manipulating history "over-reaction" or wanting factual/accurate data/images "prejudiced"?

New comment by Taurenking in "Google CEO calls Gemini completely unacceptable, vows to make structural changes"

Taurenking — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 07:32:44 +0000

Wishful thinking. The CEO of Gemini expressed openly racist views on Twitter. Those views are reflected in the tool built.

> I don't think Google sets the agenda

Soo, you're saying they did not internally test this at all, and delegated that to whoever sets their agenda?

New comment by Taurenking in "jQuery v4.0 Beta"

Taurenking — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 07:26:17 +0000

We'll just stick with all-in-one jQuery, thanks

New comment by Taurenking in "Journalist writes about discovering she’d been surveilled by TikTok"

Taurenking — Fri, 05 May 2023 18:26:43 +0000

Instagram, Twitter and probably a lot of other companies do the same. They need to be able to track links on dark socials

New comment by Taurenking in "Incompetent but Nice"

Taurenking — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 08:54:24 +0000

Out of interest, how did you get the job in the firs place? As in, how was the interview process?

New comment by Taurenking in "ChatGPT3 Prompt Engineering"

Taurenking — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 11:50:46 +0000

This. It's quite disrespectful to all those people who've actually put time and effort into studying proper technical subjects to earn those title (plus it's actual illegal to brand yourself as an engineer in some countries iirc)

Putting together some strings to feed to an ANI is NOT engineering.

New comment by Taurenking in "Spotify deletes 70 Joe Rogan episodes"

Taurenking — Sat, 05 Feb 2022 10:01:29 +0000

Too bad only one side of the analogy gets banned.

It's not a very well thought of equivalence when the individual can't even yell "I think there might be a fire" without being censored, because platforms think (and most of the time they're right) that consumers are too stupid.

New comment by Taurenking in "Don't Waste the Good Days"

Taurenking — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 13:36:35 +0000

I wish we'd stop perpetuating this myth of "the time that's right for you".

Biology unfortunately or fortunately requires women to have healthy kids until a certain age, and the more women are aware of it the better for them (that is if they plan on having any)

New comment by Taurenking in "Making Websites Small"

Taurenking — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 22:38:51 +0000

>So what's the point?

Integrity. As hard/cringey as it sounds it's because of integrity that the internet is still relatively free and software like firefox exists

New comment by Taurenking in "90% of Black Friday deals were the same price or cheaper six months before"

Taurenking — Fri, 26 Nov 2021 09:42:54 +0000

Can't stress this enough. One of the things that will help us slow down environment hazards the most is to consume less (even more than "recycling" and "ethical" or "environmental" purchases)

New comment by Taurenking in "Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S. offices"

Taurenking — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 09:54:17 +0000

The vaccine doesn't prevent you from being asymptomatic, so we're back to square 1 tbh

New comment by Taurenking in "Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public figure and Reddit admin"

Taurenking — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 20:11:38 +0000

Go figure, what a nice person

New comment by Taurenking in "Uber drivers are workers not self employed, Supreme Court rules"

Taurenking — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 11:28:57 +0000

>So it wasn't like you could just apply to Uber and be up and running within a few days to begin with.

From the way some of the drivers manage some trips I've been on, I'd say that was definitely the case ahaha

New comment by Taurenking in "Uber drivers are workers not self employed, Supreme Court rules"

Taurenking — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 10:41:19 +0000

Interesting. I wonder what consequences this will have in the british market(IIRC it being one of their major hubs in Europe). I don't think they'll pull out at this point though, but will make it marginally impossible for new drivers to be accepted (unless demand increases dramatically but I don't see that happening either due to "current events")

New comment by Taurenking in "Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook"

Taurenking — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 09:20:37 +0000

>people protesting >terrorists

Pick one

New comment by Taurenking in "Ron Paul locked out of his Facebook page"

Taurenking — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 09:44:28 +0000

The USA is going on a path that is quite similar to CCP's "one party one rule" system and they're not even aware of it

New comment by Taurenking in "Stripe bans Trump campaign"

Taurenking — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 07:28:00 +0000

Ah, yes, the famous polls which predicted a 99/1 landslide win for Hillary

New comment by Taurenking in "Google suspending Parler from the Google Play store"

Taurenking — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 14:28:15 +0000

Convict him of what exactly?

New comment by Taurenking in "The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours"

Taurenking — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 19:51:58 +0000

Or a blm protestor attacking a citizen trying to protect their livelihood. But most people will probably turn a blind eye because it doesn't fit the narrative (blm riots = peaceful protests, capitol riots = domestic terrorism)

Makes me chuckle that the result of this + the deplatforming of most of the opposition will only result in even more extremism and separation in the US.

I guess you reap what you sow