Because Facebook hires skilled people, not great people.
Ask HN: Why is Facebook not having a harder time hiring?
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
...and to hell with minor, uninteresting and not cutting-edge issues like impact on society.
Or, alternatively: moderation at global scale with billions of pieces of content per day is an incredibly difficult, challenging, interesting, and impactful problem to work on and requires a lot of new technology. If you can reduce abusive patterns of misinformation on Facebook by a few percent, that's a huge win for both the company and for the billions of people affected by the service - by extension, society. This…
Or, even more alternatively, these aren't problems that could, or should be solved with/by technology, as much as Facebook's techbros do not want to believe it.
And besides, this isn't about moderation. It's that it is far from obvious if "social networks" (FB), or "personalized search results" (Google), or whatever it is that Twitter peddles provide any benefit to humanity.
That these are "incredibly difficult, challenging, interesting, and impactful problem to work on and requires a lot of new technology" -- well, good for them. So was developing V-2 rockets. At least that got us into space.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think once you start thinking about the scope and scale of the problem, you'll start to realize how difficult it is even without the question of money involved at all (but yes, money does often complicate things). You have to remember that this is a global service cutting across all cultures, countries, governments, and circumstances. At some level, it becomes trying to design a system of governance that cuts acros…
Too many words for nothing. There is a simple solution: Deregulate and cut corporate taxes. If they have access to more private user data and keep more of their money from atrocious behaviour they'll be less atrocious. Oops, I meant the opposite of that.
> Too many words for nothing.
I'll spare you from my meaningless words from now on. Cheers.
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#36A lot of the issues are perceived to be overblown - and in more cases than HN would like to admit, they indeed are overblown. Quite a few double standards are being applied to Facebook by the media-industrial complex and the uninformed. On the other hand, Facebook has stumbled a lot on their own and deserve a significant portion of the criticism they get. It's a nuanced topic and isn't as simple as "FB bad, pls delet…
Nice way to appear to be even handed while minimizing responsibility:
"Facebook has stumbled a lot on their own" - stumbled as if it has no organizational will that pushed in a certain direction e.g. the growth hacks & engagement efforts that have caused a lot of these problems.
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#37When you get paid $200k/yr right out of college, who's complaining?
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#38Pay > Ethics
They will have to live with the consequenses when they are older. I hope it weights heavily on those that compromised their beliefs for a 'cool job'.
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#39A lot of the issues are perceived to be overblown - and in more cases than HN would like to admit, they indeed are overblown. Quite a few double standards are being applied to Facebook by the media-industrial complex and the uninformed. On the other hand, Facebook has stumbled a lot on their own and deserve a significant portion of the criticism they get. It's a nuanced topic and isn't as simple as "FB bad, pls delet…
Nice way to appear to be even handed while minimizing responsibility: "Facebook has stumbled a lot on their own" - stumbled as if it has no organizational will that pushed in a certain direction e.g. the growth hacks & engagement efforts that have caused a lot of these problems.
> Nice way to appear to be even handed while minimizing responsibility
You're free to nitpick my choice of words and assume bad faith/intentions on my part. Doesn't bother me. We don't know each other.
But to your point, sure let's replace the word "stumbled" with "fucked up" or whatever else you'd prefer. I don't think my larger point really changes all that much.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or, alternatively: moderation at global scale with billions of pieces of content per day is an incredibly difficult, challenging, interesting, and impactful problem to work on and requires a lot of new technology. If you can reduce abusive patterns of misinformation on Facebook by a few percent, that's a huge win for both the company and for the billions of people affected by the service - by extension, society. This…
Or, even more alternatively, these aren't problems that could, or should be solved with/by technology, as much as Facebook's techbros do not want to believe it. And besides, this isn't about moderation. It's that it is far from obvious if "social networks" (FB), or "personalized search results" (Google), or whatever it is that Twitter peddles provide any benefit to humanity. That these are "incredibly difficult, chal…
What do you mean by "Facebook's techbros?" Can you elaborate? Are you under the assumption that only men work at Facebook?